PLANTING THE CORK, It Should Dob o the Com- dltlona Are Fmrorable for a Quirk UermlnatloB. All reasonable care should be taken to plant the corn as soon as the condi tions are favorable for a quick germina tion of the seed. There is no advantage m punning wueii ine sou is com nun wet. Corn Is nntuarrly a tropical plant and will not thrive when the soil is wet and cold. Dut often th early-planted corn makes the best growth and gives the best yield. It is, therefore, nn item to lake ad vantage of every opportunity for plowing. With the ground well plowed with the disc and smoothing harrow it may be rapidly put into good condi tion to receive the seed, which, with a pood check rower, may be rapidly planted. It is always best to have the soil well prepared before planting. It is better to delay the planting and pre pare the soil in a fine tilth, than plant with the soil wet, rough or cloddy. Having the soil In good tilth when the seed is planted, not only makes a (Uicker and better germination of the seed, but n more vigorous start of the I hints to grow. Planted early with plenty of moisture In the soil the need should be covered shallower than if planted luter, after the soil is warmer and drier. Kather more corn cun be grown to the acre if planted in drills with the stalks stand ing 10 or 12 inches apart in the row, than in hills with two or three stalks nnd the hills three and a half or four feet npnrt. Hut it takes more work to keep corn planted in drills clean than in hills especially foul land. The cpies- tion of which is best is one of whether the increased yield will pay for the in creased cost of cultivating, nnd this thi- farmer can best determine for himself. It is important in making a good corn crop to have good seed and to plant under the most favorable conditions, in order to get a pc oil even stand. As between using plenty of seed and being, perhaps, obliged to thin, nnd using fewer kernels to the hill and hav ing to replant more or less, the first plan Is much the best, for under ordi nary conditions the replanted corn yields very little groin. St. Louis He public. FACTS FOR FARMERS. Weil seasoned wood of apple trees makes good handles for tools. Sprinkle cayenne pepper around where rats frequent, and they will leave. Hare the collar fit the horse and do not draw the hnmes too tight at the top. It is easier to "keep up" with your work than to "catch up" when once you have fallen behind. , The man who does not love a good horse should hire out to work on a good railroad or in a mine. It is far easier to keep land in a good state of cultivation than to restore soil that has been allowed to "run down." The farm horse does not need blind ers. Blinders add so much more to the cost of harness. I)o away with them. Don't let nny of us wait until the spring work begins before we get ready for it. Have tools, implements, etc., in good shape. It is best to prevent disease In your home if possible, and it is cheaper to prevent disease among your animals than to cure it. The steer or other animal that is trnmping two mouthfuls under foot while eating one is fertilizing the ground, but is doing it in an expensive manner. Feed the corn to fattening hogs and not to colts and pigs. Feed oats to colts, and pigs should have a variety of whatever is convenient and cheap. Western Plowman. SAVING LIQUID MANURE. now an Ohio Farmer Sivn Consid erable Fertility from the Barn yard All the Time. Here is my plan of annually saving considerable fertility from the barn yard, which before went down the wa ter run marked B in the cut. In heavy rains the water would follow C and bo lost. The question was how to save It YRD A I HOW TO SAVE LIQUID MANURE. and take it over to D. We plowed a deep furrow from water run B, and made a heavy bank of earth at F. Now when it rains all the water of the barn yard goes to D, also all that comes down the run B. The field Is In the pasture, and it will bo of great benefit to it. The ditch E can be lengthened at any timehen the land is fertile enough at D. Ira Graber, in Agricultural Epito niist. Deep I'lunlng Is Troll table. Land that is plowed deep endures the droughts better than shallow plowed land, as there is a greater ab sorption of moisture. In other words, the deeper the soil is plowed the greater its capacity for holding water. To pre vent loss of this moisture the top soil should be cultivated so as to simply loosen it, which prevents evaporation and at the same time keeps the weeds down. The water in. the soil escapes at the surface, and this should be pre vented by a mulch of loose dirt over the surface, yrMch is effected by cultivation. !i oryz3 i 11 V-T-NT-T 3 TUMBLING MUSTARD. j A Destructive IVml Which Will First Noticed In the t'nlted States j Twent) -One Trara Asa. We illustrate tumbling mustard,! known scientifically as Sisymbrium Al tissitnnni. This is one of the plants that have already obtained too great j a foothold in this country for us to j I hope to exterminate it. Tumbling mus- tard is called so from the fact that w hen It is ripe it breaks off and is blown! along the ground by the wind. TM rounded shape of the plant makes this characteristic of great value, as to the propagation and dissemination of the i plant, as it is said to travel even faster! 3 ir hxt T C ZsV l K.t TUMBLINd MI STAIID. than the RuMlBB thistle. The plhn was introduced into this country from Europe previous to 1STS, as It was first noticed in that year in. Philadelphia, It Is probable that it had been growing in out-of-the-way places for some yean. before !elng noticed. Since that time it ha spread over much of the coun try between the two oceans. It bears numerous seeds, the seed pods contain ing freouentlv 100 Heeds each. As tht plants are very numerous on each plant, the number of seeds a single plant mny bear is almost beyond calculation. Prof. Jnmes Fletcher, of Canada, by careful calculation cams to the conclu sion that one plant with which he came in contact contained not less than 1, 500.000 seeds. The pods are round nnd long and stand out almost at right an gles to the stem on which they are borne. ' The means of eradication is to plow under or cut down with a sharp hoe before the seeds have ripened enough to grow. This must be early, for seeds will sprout and grow while yet very Immature. The plant is easily killed when cut off at the roots, while its weds are yet unformed. A man can eradicate a large area of It in a single dny. Being an annual, it will not grow ugniu from the root. Farmers' Review. GOOD FARM CROPS Ther Are Those Which Save the Fer tility of the Soli and Frodnce Fnslno; Iteiults. No crop in this lection of the country takes the precedence of corn, writes a Nebraska contributor to Wallace's Fanner. It is so abundant nnd so use ful. I do not know of any other crop that can be used for so many purposes. It makes good human food and admits of being prepared in so many ways. I don't know of any other crop that will supply the wants of our domestic uni mals so completely as the corn crop. The entire plant fed to cattle or sheep makes an admirable fattening ration, supplying both grain and rough feed of the highest quality. Do not fail to have a good corn crop. Then concen trate it as much ns possible into the most marketable products, butter or meat, before It leaves the farm. Next to corn, if not equal to It, Is sorghum, drilled in with the ordinary grain drill at the rate of three peeks to one bushel of seed to the acre. No one will believe the amount of good feed for any kind of stouk this will produco until they try It for themselves.. Then comes peas and oats sown together. I differ from many in the amount of seed to be sown In this combination. I think mostly too many oats nre sown for the peas. I prefer one nnd one-half to two bsshels of peas to not more than three pecks of oats per ncre. Do not let the ueas become too ripe before cutting. My crop of peas and oats seeded in the above proportions yielded last season over four tons per acre. nack-Fnrrowlna: Fays, In plowing clay lands nearly all the advantages of under-draining can be obtained by back-furrowing into nar row beds, and by leaving a strip two or three feet wide between the beds unplowed. It practically does away with the trouble of gullying by heavy rains, ns there are two channels instead of one to carry off the water. No per ceptible difference in growth for yield or crop can be seen in the dead furrows after being put in with modern Im proved implements, nnd there is a sav ing of four furrows in plowing each land or bed two in the middle of the bed nnd two at the dead furrow. The great advantage of back-furrowing over level culture when plowing is done in the fall is that very of ten crops can be sown several weeks earlier, making a fine crop and a good catch of grass, when later sowing would fail. Prairie Farmer. I Salt sprinkled on n cloth is excellent for scouring out stationary wash bowls and other chamber vessels, making them bright and clean. I NO LCWGER ISOLATED. WIrr-Fenoe Telephone 9j (cm Pt Id 0rriitl:n hy I'mureail vo Wcnlrrn It it n c h m n . The stockmen of Southwestern Kan sas and north western Texas and Okla homa arc keeping pace with modern Improvement! a;:J are no longer to be iMblated from the rest of the world. A few months ago the ranchmen of Be ward county, Kan., met t; propose a plan of connecting their ranches by telephone facilities, utilising thebarb wire fences instead of setting poles and stringing wires. It hud been demon strated that a fence wire worked per fectly for a telephone connect ion. The scheme was favored by the Stockmen, and a local company was formed, with headquarters at Liberal, that being the nearest telegraph point. Lines have since been constructed nnd are in operation, extending from Liberal over the whole of Seward, Stev ens and Morton counties, Kan., and have reached out Into Heaver county, (). T.i and Hansford county , Tex. Many of the ranches in this ideal grazing country are situated miles from rail road and telegraph facilities. Some of t lac owners nre compelled to travel 50 miles to reach shipping points. Thus will be quickly teen the great ad vantage to be derived from this enter prising move. It not only affords then un opportunity to transact business among themselves, but they have ar ranged to get market quotations doily from the telegraph station. This in formation is invaluable to the cattle kings. In addition to the lines now in opera tion further extensions are to be made. The success of the wire-fence tele phone first established between Liberal and Brown ranch on Sharp creek, a dis tance of ten miles, demonstrated the vuluc of the I re a, and another line will lie started to Heaver, 0, T., and one to Hnrdesty, Tex. These extensions, will require but lit tle outlay of money, nothing but the labor required where fences can lie used. When this cannot lie done the surveys follow the streams where the timlier is used for poles. This energetic move has awakened a lively interest at the markets. Wichita, which has be come n largo stock market In recent years by reason of its packing indus tries, is making an effort to have a branch of the line reach that place. This would put the ranchmen in talk ing distance with commission firms, to whom they sell stock. The plan Is one of untold advantage to stock owners, and will lie pushed tint 1 1 the complete benefits havo been derived. HOG-SCALDING SWING. With Its Aid One Man of Ordinary Ability Caa Drees a Large Aalmal Alone. This hog scalding swing almost ex plains itself. The two crotehed posts, k n, nre nine feet long, set firmly in the ground about six feet ayart. The cross piece b must be plenty strong to sup- .it HOG SCALDING MADR KABT. port lever c. A rtrjie d, will be of great assistance. Hook, e, is to slip under gambrel. After hog is scalded on one end, swing round to table, f, take hook out of gambrel and stick through low er jawandsculdtheothercnd. Parrel, g, should be kept two-thirds full of water; the one-inch pipe, h, is eight feet long, bent In middle, or two pieces fonr feet long connected by a six-inch piece with elbows which enter the barrel between the hoops, as shown. Of course the fire boils the water. By my swing 1 dressed a 300-pound hog alone. L. L. Glover, In Fnrm nnd Home. PROFIT IN SHEEP. It Exceeds by Far the Income Realised from Any Other Kind of Farm Stock. i A shepherd can make from 25 per cent, to 50 per cent, on his investment in mutton sheep, according to his skill. A good breeding ewe can produce enough wool to pay for keeping her. A ewe can be kept in thrifty condition, being fed such coarse fodders as straw, (Haiti hay and corn fodder, with one half pound of grain dally when, she re quires it, at a cost of one cent per day, during the period of most expensive feeding. To pay for her keep she needs to produce no more than ten pounds of good wool, and that a mutton ewe can do. In addition to the wool the re turns from a ewe will be at least one lamb the average of the mutton breeds is nearer one and one-half. From tile fasts derived from our experimental work it is safe to say that, charging foods at market prices, mutton can be put on the market on foot for at least three cewts per pound. Such mutton as can be furnished at that cost should weigh 150 pounds. Ilero is a profit of ll.50 from a sheep under the most mod erate circumstances. I have known ewes of mutton breeding to produce each year a clear profit of ten to fifteen dollars. Farmer's Tribune. The clay orf the big, heavy-feeding sheep seems to havo pnsscil, not to re tain, and the demand for younger mnttons Is a steadily growing one. CALIFORNIA TIMBER. It la Surprisingly l.ar.tr as t onipnred with That Cat on the Gotka Klver In s lrii. The writer, on first visiting tit: her yards in northern Europe, could not get rid of the Imprt tab : that the round timber was all culls or waste, stiys En gineering Magostne, A raft of logs in the Qotha river in Sweden was thought to consist of telegrai !i i oles. It hap pened to be a cc lection of Binall tim ber even for there, and visit to the Pacific Coast .f North America, soon after, s.;i II further emphasised the enor mous difft rence in the tlwl . r resourci of the two rountrii . Boon after ar riving in San I'm. Isco there .was en countered in the sir et a s piared beam of fir mure than !i feet in length, be ing hauled to n factory In course of erection. Following this beam to lis I destination u woolen factory then be ing built -it was n matter of astonish ment to find all the longitudinal beams, : or "stringers," of the same length. This astonishment waa increased when the contractor snid: "We never bother about dimensions, and jusl order what we want." A section eight feet in di ameter, cm from a redwood tree, com pleted a new Impression of American forest timber. Then Tnua Smiled. Old ("rusty You ask for my daugh ter? Why, young man, Bt your present salary you could not even dress her. Suitor Oh, yes, sir! I could keep her in gloves. Old ( rusty Gloves! Do you mean to Insinuate thut my daughter would only wear gloves? Suitor Pardon ine, sir; I only asked for her hand. Brooklyn Life. W lim,iiiu t'Otlfth, I had n little buy who wan nearly dead from an attack "f wboopitiK cough. My neighbor recommended Chamberlain's Couub Remedy, 1 did not think thai nny medicine would In lp biui, but lifter giving him a lew doses of ilnil remedy I noticed an improvement, nud one bottle cured biui entiiely, It in the best cough medicine I ever bud in the bouse, J, L. MooM, bouth Bur gettatown, l'u. For sale by all Drug gists. i, m ; Why She I II. I It. "Why Is it," they asked, "that you let your husband have his own way in everything?" "Because," she replied, "I like to have 1 some one to blame when things go wrong." Chicago l'ost. Stlamiileralood Ana In. Mr. Hanks Don't you think my wife paints very nicely? Miss Milburn Charming! It mokes her look so much younger, I think. N. Y. World. rik Urain-tl after you have concluded that you ought not to drink coffee. It in not a medicine but doctors order it be cause it is healthful, invigorating and appetising, it is made from pure grains and has that rich seal brown color and taates like the finest grade of coffee and costs about an much, Children like it and thrive on it. be cause it in the genuine food drink containing nothing but nourishment. Ask your irroeer for Grain O, the new food drink. 1" and "5c. Labor Lost. Young Hardhead I don't see why I am not invited to parties oftener. I wn sure I always behave like a gentleman. Young Light head That's the trouble. You ore so very gentlemanly that the girls think you stupid. N. X, Weekly. A Kew Departure. Margie's futher was accustomed to wear a tall silk hat. One afternoon, however, he ennic home with a soft felt one on. "Oh, mammal" cried -Margie, as she turned from the window, "here comes papa with a soft-shelled hat on." Doest'ollee Agree With You T If not, drink Grnin-0 made from pure grains. A lady writes : "The first time I make Gruin-O I did not like it but after using it for one week nothing would induce me to go back to coffee." U nourishes nnd feeds the system. The children can drink it freely with great benefit. It is the strengthening substance of pure grams. Get a package today from your grocer, follow the directions in making it and you will hive a delici ous and healthful table beverage for old and young. 15c. and 25c. An Estreat Case. Mrs. Hendricks See here, Dinah, I gave you four flannel undershirts in the wash this week and you have only brought back three. How is that? Dinah Deed, I dunno, ma'am, 'less'n dey shrinked. Flannen does shrink somethin' awful, ma'am. Brooklyn Life. Many old soldiers now feel the ef fects of the bard service they en dured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson of RogBville, York'county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at the front, is now frequent ly troubled with rheumatism. "I had a Revere attack lately," he ears, "and frocured a bottle of Chamberlain's 'u in Balm. It did so much good that I would like to know what you would charge me for one dozen bot tles." Mr. Anderson wanted it both for his own use and to supply it to his friends and neighbors, as every family should have a bottle of it in their home, not only for rheuma tism, but lame back, sprains, swell ings, cuts, bruises and burns, for which it is unequalled. For sale by all Druggists. ss- rick too often. women are compelled a r i wrien tpcy are unable to attend to, social or business duties. Their appearance plainly Vin dicates their condition and they are reluctant' to be seen, even by their friends. Read what a business woman says to such sufferers; Mrs. c. vv. Mansfield, f" Farrar ntroet, Petralt, Mloh.. sayti A complication of tsinals allinsBls kpt me awake nights nnd wore tne ouu i- . irimi rwu'ffroia msdlotne and bops wum niip liln away from nie, A yuuntiludy in my employ (SVS mo u liox of lr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pals People, 1 took them ud was kMo loroM ui nutit for iiio iirm u:uu in months, I bought mors sod they cured mo us they also cumi isversl other people to ray knowledge, I think Unit If vim nlumld ii.k anv of the dre;e;M f litnlt, who srn the best buyers "f ir. Williams' Pink Pills they would say the rmmii woman. Theo plllsosrtainly utiiM up tho usrvous system and many a young worasn owes her life to them, MAsa business woman I sm pleased toreoommend them nattily did ni'im fur ma than nny physician ud 1 run ri v,- tir. 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