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To find the horse power of an engine multiply the area of the piston in inches by the aver- age steam pressure in pounds per square inch. Multiply the product by the travel of the piston in feet per minute and divide that product by 33,000. If an engine is rated at 73- horse power it wil raisc 33,000 pounds one foot 73 times in one minute. Hall's Catarrh Cureisa liquid and is taken internally, and acts upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for ' testimonials, free. Sold by druggists, T5¢. F. J. CuexEY & Co., Props, Toledo. O. English shipbuilders get their guns and boilers in Germany. FITS permanently cured.No flts or nervonse ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRessorer. $2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr. R.H. Kring, Litd., 981 Arch 8t., Phila., Pa. The average salary of clergymen in the United States is $900 a year. Mrs. Winslow's Scothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, redncesinflamma- tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25¢. abottle The first trackless trolley in America will be run in Franklin. N. H Ido not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump- tion hasan equal for coughs and colds—Joux F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1800. It’s usually youth and not learning that makes young people so smat. SURGICAL OPERATIONS How Mrs. Bruce, a Noted Opera Singer, Escaped an Operation. Procf That Many Operations for Ovarian Troubles are Une necessary. ‘DEAR MRS. PINKHAM : Travelling for years on the road, with irregular meals and sleep and damp beds, broke down my health so completely two years ago that the physician advised a complete rest, and when I had gained sufficient vitality, an operation for ovarian troubles. Not a very cheerful prospect, to be sure. I, however, was advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s ! 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The main point is to guard against the odors in the stable during milking. Saving Nitrogen in Stables. Experiments in Europe have proven that the loss of nitrogen from tha manure in stables amounts to 63.6 per cent. where peat was used. In the sheep shed they found a loss of 50.2 per cent. where straw was used, and about half as much where peat or earth was used. Dry earth rich in hu- mus or vegetable matter is about equal to peat. A good plan for using them is to put the earth or peat over the straw where the manure drops. The Dust Mulch. Nearly all will try to keep the weeds killed in the growing crops, but there is still as much need of stirring the soil when there are no weeds. The soil kept fine and dry by frequent cultivation has as much effect in pre- venting the evaporation of the moist- ure below as would a mulch of straw, and it has also the advantage of ab- sorbing. nitrogen; if not from the at- mosphere, at least that which may be absorbed by water and brought down in the rainfall and the fogs. In a dry time, if there is three inches of firm, dry soil on the surface, very little moisture will rise through it, although it will usually be found that immedi- ately below that is damp soil, with more water content than would be found at the same depth beneath a soil baked hard on the surface. When the soil reaches this last condition, the more quickly it is stirred the better for the growing crops. — Massachusetts Ploughman. . tent cnt 4 pn. A Free Range. On most farms chickens have free range. A free range for chickens has its disadvantages, but it is unquestion- ably the place for rearing chicks with hardihood. It is on the free range where strong, vigorous breeding stock is produced. In speaking of a free range we are free to say that there is a vast difference in even a free range. Nothing will be found any- where equal to an all over the farm range for fowls. Flocks that range alk over the farm are exposed to many dangers, but these are the ones that are sought as good breeders when qual- ity is found there. 3 In addition to the varied diet secured by such fowls there is obtained that vigor that alone can come with exer- cising and rusticating about the farm. The human being will have his appe- tite wonderfully improved when he gets out and commingles with nature. One who has been running down on ac- count of sedentery habits will develop an appetite like a threshing. machine should he get out and camp, hunt and fish and take all kinds of open air exercise. This same kind of ‘develop- ment is also found in the chick that is given the same opportunities.—Pouitry | Farmer. Quickly Made Cistern For Barn. Have a cistern that will supply water on rainy days, at least. This will pre- vent exposure to the storm. Three bar- rels mounted in a corner of the barn as shown in the cut will hold enough for the stock during all storms, for while the storm lasts the barrels will be replenished. A pipe from the gutter is brought inside the boarding to the first barrel, and conveyed to a number of others in the manner shown. A tub, with faucet, is placed below the last barrel. This plan is a great advance over driving stock out in the rain. A still better plan, on farms where it is possible, is to bring the water into the barn by a pipe from a spring or brook. It may also be brought into the barn by a pipe laid from a nearby well, having a pump in the barn. The com- fort and the saving of time and labor by having a supply of water thus al- ways at hand can only be appreciated by an experience with this conveni- ence.—New York Tribune farmer. Developing the Colt. The future usefulness of the colt, says J. H. Griswold, of the Canadian Experiment Station, depends upon nothing so much as the feed during the first year of its life. To be useful in any way a horse must have good bones, and, above all, good joints. Bones are built, like the rest of the body, from the feed consumed by the young animal, and if the food does not contain the elements essential to the growth of bone it is evident that there will be a weakness in this part of the organism. The milk from the dam con- tains a large proportion of the most necessary mineral substances, such as lime: but the colt seems to require much more in a short time, and may be seen trying occasional mouthfuls of soil. ; Probably no materials at the farmer's disposal contain more mineral or bone forming material than bran and oats, and the colt should have plenty of these and good clover hay from the Free. Dr. HK. KE GRERN'830US, Bex B, Ataate, és, ; Start. It is quite safe, as a rule, to Sn give as much as two quarts of these concentrates mixed per diem as soon as the colt can be taught to eat them, and this may be gradually increased. The colt's temperament and character should be closely studied, however, and the ration gauged accordingly. These concentrates and clover hay, being rich in proteine, or flesh-forming material, induce rapid development of muscle, sinew and tendon, as well as bone, and the right kind of feed and nature will do the rest, so far as bodily development is concerned.—Michigan Farmer. ‘Raising Calves by Hand. At the county council school at New- ton Rigo, England, the calf is taken away from the cow as soon as born, rubbed dry with straw, well bedded and covered with more straw, and in half an hour fed a pint of the mother’s warm milk. For the first and second ' week it is fed three times a day with its mother’s warm milk, one and a half pints at a time, increasing to two quarts the fourth day. The third week one-half separator skimmilk is substi- tuted and a half pint linseed soup add- ed to each quart skimmed. A little hay is added the next week. The quantity of milk at each feed is increased to two and a half quarts skimmilk the ! fifth week and hay is also increased gradually. Omit the linseed soup the ninth week and after the noon feed give a handful of linseed meal and a little pulped swedes or turnips (grass in summer) and hay as before. The noon meal is omitted the twelfth week and three- fourths pound linseed meal and crushed oats and two quarts pulped THE MARKETS, PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat—-No. 2 rell....ccoenins 00s 8 64 yo—Neo. 2......... 65 Corn—No. 2 yellow, ear. a 6 No. 2 yellow, shelled. ear... No. 8 white #436 35 Flour—Winter 3 4 Fancy straight winte: 3 Hay—NXNo. 1 timothy 15 Clover No. 1.................... 12 Feed—No ! white mid ton 21 od " a 2 o = - = tt ERESTILHINKIINAA quo Dairy Products. Butter—Eilgin creamery............ 8 2Mg 22 Ohjo ereamery..... ............ 19 20 Funcy countryroll.............. 14 15 Cheese—Ohio, new. ................. 1 14 New. York, new................ 11 11g Poultry, Etc. Hens—per 1b... SE 13 Chickens—dres: 2 yes . 1€ Eggs—Ya. und Ohio, fresh.. 1 20 Fruits and Vegetables. Green Beans—per bas........ceerenvuns 100 Potatoes—Fuancy white per bus...... 55 Cabbage—per bbls. . Tinian 75 Ountons--per barrel ... atwese urs 22 BALTIMORE. Flour— Winter Patent ................$310 385 Wheat—No. 2 red . 70 7044 Corn—mixed..... are 67 68 Kges oh nnn, ene 019 20 i Butter— Ohio creamery.............. 17 18 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Patent $3 50 400 Wreat—No, 2red.... ve 73 Corn—XNo, 2 mixed. 63 6855 Oats—No. 2 white......... 3914 4114 Buiter —Creamery, extra. 19° 1914 Kggs—Pennsylvania firsts 19 PY NEW YORK. Flour—FPatents.. 00 Yheat—No. 2 re 534 Corn—No. 2...... 68 Osats—No, 2 Wh 3914 40 Butter—Creamer:; 17 17% Eggs—Stateand Fennsylvania.. 20 21 swedes substituted, but the morning and evening feed of skimmilk is con- ‘tinued. The milk may be discontinued the fifth month, but if one has plenty give one or two feeds a day until the eighth or ninth month. To prepare the linseed soup put one quart flaxseed in four gallons water to soak over night. Boil and stir the next day for one-half hour and just before finishing add one-half pound flour, mixed up with cold water, to counteract the laxative tendency of the flaxseed.— | American Agriculturist. A Durable Wagon Bed. A cheap and durable wagon bed is made as follows: Take two pieces of two by four, the length you want your bed, and .three pieces of three by one ! and a half, as long as the width you want the bed; thege are for underneath, one at each end and in the middle, Bolt together with six bolts one-half by six inches long. The side pieces may be any height you want, placed on the two by four. Put in end and bottom boards with a rod at each end; bolt two strips on bottom of bed for cleats to hold the box in place. A bed of this kind won’t cost more than $2.90, and it will save a better bed when it comes time for rough work. Durability may be secured by using good hard wood and plenty of bolts. If the burrs are loose the bolts should be cut off one- eighth of an inch from the burr and riveted so they won’t work off.—David Stader, in The Epitomist. Cost of Dairy Products. In breeding cows for any special purpose the cost of production must be carefully considered if profits are to be realized. Cows cannot be made to give a large milk flow without good feeding and a natural tendency to large yields through inherited traits. A good system of feeding may easily be adopt- ed, and the results be obtained almost immediately, but heredity is something LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. Cattle. Prime heavy, 1500 to 1600 1bs.......$ 740 760 Prime, 1200 to 1400 lbs. ..... e700» T05 Medinimn, 1200 to 1800 lbs. 6 40 6 90 ¥athelters...... .......... «. 300 5% Butcher, 900 to 1000 1s. . ..... 400 525 Common to fair... ....... 300 400 0 4 50 4 50 35 00 5000 Hogs. Prime heavy hogs................... 10 773 rime medium weights 3770. 110% Best heavy yorkers and medium 765 710 Good to choice packers 765 770 Good pigs and light yorkers. 765 790 i Pigs, common to good 708 770 Common to fair. 72% 750 600 710 575 650 Sheep. Extra, medium wethers, 400 aod 1d choice... .... 375 {i Mettum...... ........... 850 Common to fafr.................... 200 . Lambs. fambs.olipped...................... 30) 573 Lambs, good to choice, clipped. .. 525 6 00 Lambs, edmmon to. fair, clipped... 3% : 20 : ~J I Vealeztra.... .. ................. Bprfngiilambs.... - Calves. Veal, good to choice. ...... eal, common heavy... :. Veal, common to fair............... © Sgy3 BUSINESS ACTIVE. Except for Miners’ Strike and Con- gestion of Railroads Trade Is Flourishing. R., G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: ‘Gradual resumption of anthracite coal mining is encourag- ing, although the: output is not yet sufficient to have any commercial value. Business conditions are un- satisfactory at the strike center, but reports from all other sections indi- cate unusually prompt revival after the summer vacation season, with ex- ceptionally large operations among dealers in the agricultural regions. Notwithstanding some bad weather, large crops are now practically as- sured. Manufacturing plants are now fully occupied as a rule the least gratifying reports coming from fur- naces that cannot secure coke owing to railway blockades The transpor- tation problem is becoming serious, i as the factor of crop moving is about that goes back through many genera- tions and decades. ducing milk and butter fats must be considered in the light of all this. When we buy well-bred dairy cows we pay for ancestral traits and past care- fulness in breeding. This sometimes is the most expensive. part of the cost, but in the end it pays best. But in calculating the cost of produc- tion of dairy products it should be re- membered that cows are now bred for special purposes, and to use one for something she had not been bred to is wasting profits. One cow will produce a hundred pounds of milk with less than three per cent. of butter fat in it, and another seventy pounds of milk in the same time with six per cent. butter fats. Which cow will yield the great- est profit? If one is selling milk which passes muster with three per cent. butter fat, the cow which gives the heaviest yield of, milk, with a low percentage of butter fat, will prove more profitable to him. But when the farmer expects to sell his milk. to the creameries or make the butter himself, he needs the six per cent. butter fat cow, even though the milk yield is smaller in quantity. In estimating the cost of production the purpose for which the cow is designed must first be decided upon, and then heredity and environment may be able to show profits that will make the work satis- factory. Both the breeds which are enormous milkers, and those which produce milk with a great percentage of butter fats, are needed on the dairy, but not always on the same dairy.— E. P, Smith, in American Cultivator. Yet the cost of pro- to be added, and, moreover, much coal must be moved by rail that usu- ally goes to consumers by lake and canal. Iron furnaces are suspending production hecause coke cannot be secured, and it is evident that the rate of output at the opening of the new month will show a serious loss. This scarcity of fuel was expected at the few plants using anthracite coal, but has come as a shock to the coke furnaces, for the Connellsville ovens have steadily maintained a weekly productions of 250,000 tons. Inade- quate railway facilities are respon- sible, and the situation is critical. As the stocks of pig iron were very low at the opening of August, consumers are in an embarrassing position, and there is a growing disposition to re- fuse contracts. Imports are increas- ing, and numerous plans are reported whereby the finished product may be exported to secure the tariff draw- back. The dry goods jobbing trade reports a liberal distribution, and supplies are only moderate in the primary market. Changed conditions in the raw material have accelerated inquiries for cotton goods, buyers seeking figures on forward contracts and placing a fair amount of orders. Slightly less activity is seen in men’s woolen and worsted fabrics, but fancy worsteds are in better request. At last footwear makers have been able to secure a moderate advance in prices in response to the recent sharp rise in materials. Leather is strong and active, while hides made higher record prices, but the market has quieted down. Failures for the week numbered 173 in the United States, against 202 last year, and 14 in Can- ada, against 21 a year ago. Bradstreet’s says: Wheat, includ- ing flour, exports for the week ending August 28, aggregate 5,436,530 bush- els, against 5,054,759 bushels last week and 6,607,611 bushels in this week last year. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 38,381,297 bushels, against 57,286,598 bushels last sea- son... Corn exports aggregate 115,150 bushels, against 51,649 bushels last week, and 441,918 bushels last year. For the fiscal year corn exports are 818,643 bushels, against 10,192,969 bushels last vear. i | | Competition for Standard Oil. Consul F, W. Mahin writes from Reichenhberg, June 16, 1902: “The Austrian refiners of petroleum have effected an organization for export purposes. It is announced that they intend to invade France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and wrest those countnies, if possible, from the Amer- ican company which mow supplies their demands for petroleum, and that they also propose contesting certain markets with Russia.” Rents are falling in Buenos Ayres. The Okapi. The okapi, the strange animal a short time ago discovered in Central Africa by Sir Henry Johnstone, is now thought to have been known to the ancient Egyptians. The old monu- ments show a socalled “animal of set,” a desert quadruped variously supposed to have been a fox, e& musk-1 rat, a dog, a camel and even a fabul- ous animal. “A study of the pictures convinces Prof. Weideman that this creature was the okapi, which early hunters exterminated in Egypt. In Humbolt and Mendocino coun- ties, California, there are 36 sawmills at work upon the famous redwood for- ests, which are gradually disappear- ing, the value of the output of the year 1900 being nearly $5,000,000. Half- Sick ¢“I first used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood - purifying and nerve- strengthening medicine.” S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. If you feel run down, | are easily tired, if your § nerves are weak and your § blood is thin, then begin § to take the good old stand- § ard family medicine, § Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. ? It’s a regular nerve § lifter, a perfect blood builder. Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand §& old family medicine. Follow his adviceand §# we will be satisfied. J. C. AYER Co., Lowell, Mass. Cross? Poor man! He can’t help i. It’s his liver. He needs a liver pill. Ayers Pills. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. 8 beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye 50cts.of druggistsor R. P. Hall & Co., Nashua, N.H. Want your moustache or beard a King Edward VIL is to establish & new order, it is said, which will con- fer honor on distinguished women. Since the Baroness Burdett Coutts re- ceived her title no woman has been elevated to the peerage because of her philanthrcpic benefactions. Concessions have just been granted to construct and run 27 branch lines of the Swedish railways. The new lines will cover a distance of 250 miles in all, and it means that Sweden will again have occasion to purchase a large quantity of rolling stock. . THE BEST WATERPROOF CLOTHING IN THE WORLD BEARS THIS TRADE MARK U4 5% 7H y MADE IN BLACK OR YELLOW 7, : TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE x AN @. 7 | OA / SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS A.JTOWER CO.BOSTON, MASS. +s. i H BS Eo / SE W. L. DOUGLAS $3 &$3:50 SHOES IY? W. L. Douglas shoes are the standard of the werld. W. L. Douglas made and sold more men’s Good- year Welt (Hand Sewed Process) shoes in the first six months of 1902 than any other manufacturer. REWARD will be paid to anyone who can disprove this statement. J Ww. Gv! 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