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Address THE BARRON CORRE- SPONDENCE SCHOOL - ing this. ‘AKRON, 0. *'I have used FSH valuable Cascarets and find them perfect. Couldn't do without them. I have weed them for some time for indigestion and bil- fousness snd am now completely, cured. Recoms- mend them to everyone. Once tried. you wiil mever be without them in the family.” 5 Edward A. Marx, Albany, N. 7. Best For The Bowels Potent. Taste Good. Do Good Pleasant, Palatable, Wevor Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. 10c, 25c, 50c, Never gold in bulk. The genuine tablet stamped CC C. Guaranteed to cure or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. Gos ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES SY NEW DISCOVERY; gives y quick relief and cures worst eaves. 1ipok of tertimonials snd 10 daye’ treatment Dr. ¥. BE. GREEN £SO¥E. Bex B. Atlanta. Ga. P. N. U. 37. 1904. ed Money in Growing Beef. Many of the agricultural papers are urging farmers to raise beef for mar- ket, claiming that the demand exceeds the supply. This"may be so to a cer- tain extent, but there are several oth- er conditions to be met before this jn- dustry can be made profitable to farm- ers generally. As a matter of fact, the farm and. its adaptability has every- thing to do with success.” There are many farms, even in dairying sections not at all suited to dairying, but emi- nently fitted to raising cattle for beef, and with such a farm and a proper knowledge of the work the results would probably be successful. The question is but one of many which should be decided entirely on local con- ditions and by each man for himself. It is folly to generalize on some things, and this is one of them. Look Out For This. In several sections of the country agents are offering what they claim to be trees budded on four-year-old seedlings. If they deliver what they claim, the trees are likely to be nearly worthless, declares the Indianapolis News, for a seedling four years old is too old to bud and make a good trec. It could be grafted, of course, but even then would =ot be superior in any way to the regulation root-grafted @ trees generally sold by nurservmen. There are so; many reliable nurserymen in the comuntry that it seems ineredible any oue should be victimized by any such absurd claims, much less a farm- er who is more or less familiar with fruit growing. 3e on the safe side, and if aa agent comes to you with an offer of trees grown in some manner out of the ordinary, refer the offer to your State experiment station before closing it. Nine times out of ten you will find you have saved money by do- em se cr a A Leghorn “Exz Machine.” 3 The above illustration, taken from the Feather, shows a proud and pre- cocious puliet of the true egg produc ing type of conformation. The Bee Colony. ; It should be as far away from public highways as possible, and, if{conven- ient, in a quiet place, sheltered from high winds, where the bees are not likely to be interfered with by men or animals. The hives must be secure- ly fenced off, if situated on land where cattle are accustomed to feed. They should also be not so far away as to prevent those engaged about the dwelling house from seeing when swarms are in he aly. Tf the hives can be so placed as to afford a free bee flight toward the open coun- try, while the beekeeper has room to work at the side or in rear of them without interfering with the flight of the bees, it is mutually advantageous to them and to the beekeeper. One of the most reliable arguments in favor of combining agriculture with small farming lies in the facet that the beekeeper can time his work so as not to interfere unduly with the attention needed for harvesting his ordinary ag- ricultural produce. Moreover, much valuable help can be rendered by a farmer’s wife who is so disposed, and many instances are recorded in which women make most successful Dbee- keepers.—Massachusetts Ploughman. One Farmer’s Method. One of the best farmers wé ever knew kept a slate hanging up in the barn and on this slate made’ entries something like these: : Weak place in the west field fence; Joe repair it at once. Take cultivator shovels to shop next time buggy goes. Repair Jack’s harness and Bob's bri- dle first wet day. * Frank, see Smith and tell him to bring log chain home. Two sows due to farrow keep sharp lookout. Bunch of red sorrel in south field near shade; for self. Wood pile must be some first chance. . When any job like the one: noted was done, the rule was to erase the memorandum about it, and the man who kept the slate told us that there was always a friendly rivalry between himself, his son and the hired man in May 16. watched; haul The rule was to scan the slate when: ever any one came to the barn, and if he was calle away and there was some work of his own to be done, in- stead of telling his wife. “to tell the boy,” a simple entry was made cover- ing the work to be done and all went “well, ‘Forcing Fowls to Moult. Many poultrymen have tried the so- called Van Dresser plan of forcing fowls to moult early and have met with varying degrees of success. ‘The plan consists of placing the fowls in a run of rather limited dimensions and giving them as little food as possible. and yet sustaining life for two weeks. the way of keeping the slate ‘clean. The writer tried the plan for the sec- ond season last year and with satis- factory results in the case of Leghorns, but only fair results with Plymouth Rocks. The plan of feeding was to scatter in the runs some small grain like wheat, mixing it with a small quantity of oil meal. The quantity was sufficient to give each fowl about the equivalent of a teaspoonful of grain, provided she got her share. At the end of two weeks the hens were again fed liberally and on the usual variety of rations. The experi- ment was made in August and in four weeks most of the Leghorns had their new stock of feathers and were be- ginning to lay. The Plymouth Rocks dragged along for from six to ten weeks before all of them were laying again. There is enough in the plan. to warrant trying it, and if the results obtained with the Leghorns could be generally brought about it would give poultrymen eggs much earlier in the fall than now. . Good Milking. Tests at the Storr’s Experiment Sia- tion show conclusively that the amount of milk given by the cows and the purity of the product both depend greatly upon the method adopted by the milker. One young man, who said he could milk, was given charge of the milking of six cows. At the end of a week the quantity given showed a shrinkage of twelve per cent. In an- other experiment, in which five boys, previously taught as to proper meth- ods, were tested as milkers, four in- creased the flow seven, ten and five per cent., respectively. The following instructions in regard to milking are in use at the station. The milker should milk regularly, thoroughly and quietly. He should wear clean clothes, wash his hands before beginning to milk, and never wet them while milking. The cow should be brushed before being milked, and her flank and udder wiped with a damp cloth in -order to minimize, as far as possible, the number of bacteria floating about in. the wvieinity of the pajl, and likely to get into the milk. To the same end the foremilk should be rejected, and the milking done into covered’ pails, with strainers arranged for the milk to pass through. Reject- ing the first few spurts of milk from the teat removes the milk ‘containing objectionable germs. The cleaner the milking is done, the fewer the germs.— American Cultivator. rresor . Care of the Horse. Our farm horses should have the very best of care that the farmer can give them. “They are faithful animals and deserve to be kept right. They should have plenty of good hay, corn, oats, bran, etc., the year around. We should strive to give them a variety of food, as they like it better and will thrive better upon it. In beginning the spring work do not work the team too much at the start. Their muscles are soft und will blister easily, for they have been idle much of the time during the winter. Go a trifle slow at the start, and then, after getting used to it gradually, the farmer will have a team with tough, hard shoulders, capable of standing the heavy work of the entire season. The team should be thoroughly brushed and cleaned every day. 'This will help in keeping them in the proper condition. Give them a good dry stable in the winter and do not be afraid of turning them out at night during the summer when the pasture is good. Our Grivin_: horses should be treated with the same consideration as the work team. Give him good care and do not overwork him by driving him too fast. Be kind to all the animals, and quiet when working with them. Make their duties as light as possible, never requiring them to do more than their strength will admit. Horses well cared for and treated in a humane manner will prove themselves the best servants a man can have about the farm.—Cor. Farmers’ Guide, Carry Life to the Soil. A recent observation of importance to the agriculturist would seem to in- dicate that the enrichment of soil which is observed in forest-covered lands is not altogether due to a con- servation of the moisture and the ad- dition to the soil of needed elements by the decomposition of ike fallen leaves. Of probable greater import- ance is the fixation of atmospheric ni- trogen by dead forest leaves when these rest on a moist substratum of soil. In effect this phenomenon is sim- ilar to that which is produced by the tubercle growths on the roots of the legumes and allied plant families. ' A similar observation has been made in regard to the mountain pine, which, if verified, will account for the hardi- ness of this tree and the ease with which it maintains itself in soils ‘that contain comparatively few nutrients. It has been found by the Danish Heather Improvement Society, svhich is interested in planting trees on bar ren sandy stretches on the western coast of Jutland, that spruce and mountain’ pine, when planted togeth- er in pairs, mutually help each other to thrive, the valuable nitrogen-fixing functions of the pine serving to pro- vide nourishment for both trees. Ii has been repeatedly observed that where such trees are planted in prox imity on barren lands, if the pine is cut down while the spruce is still young, the latter will die, or else make a sickly growth. On the contrary, cu riously enough, if the pine is not cut down until after the spruce gets 3 good start, the latter will make better lowed to live.—Indianapolis News. progress than if the pine had been al | POPULAR IENCE The windmill has been put to work in Germany driving dynamos. Argon, the recently discovered ele- ment of air, is, as was expected from its existence in the chromosphere, very light and apparently monatimie, - A Swiss scientist has made a discov- ery of prehistoric remains in the Jura Mountains which is so important that extensive excavations are being made. For several years a record has been kept of the wear of locomotive wheels on the Danish State railways. The sin- gle drivers are found to wear better than four coupled, the latter better than six coupled, and in all cases wear is increased by flimsiness of road. A remarkable luminous meteor trail seen at Madrid has been reported by J. A. Perez. It continued visible from about 10 p. m. until midnight, and the shape gradually changing from an al- most closed curve with a loop in it to an enlarged loop with a very faint de- tached portion of the primary curve. A ‘local study of rural depopulation near Paris has been made by Dr. A, F. Plicque. He finds that the causes include sanitary ignorance leading to high infant mortality, migration of young people to towns, effects of con- scription, and alcoholism. His sug- gested remegdy—one that promises suc- cess in Belgium—is improved primary and technical education, with special efforts to cultivate a love for farm life. Old age is an infectious. disease, which we may expeet soon to be treat- ed by a preventive serum, prolonging life. Such was the view expressed in the late Paris lecture of Dr. .Menchni- koff., Senility, he explained, is pro. duced by certain physiological states, which cause the “macrophages,” which are a beneficent species of microbes, to increase too rapidly, when they "be- come injurious, ish ih the large intestine, which is pos- sessed by mammals, ‘but is almost lack- ing in birds. ., Fhe result: was illus- trated by the doctor's own dog and parrot, the former being decrepit at eighteen, while the latter was hale and lively at seventy. While the se- rum is being ‘awaited, we are advised to eat curdled milk. “SENSATION” IN VILLA ART Wonderful Effect Gained by a Caged Mountain Torrent. Just across the’ lake, in the deep shade of the wooded cliffs beneath the Pizzo di Torno, lies another villa still more steeped in the Italian garden magic. This is the Villa Pliniana, built in 1570 by the Count Anguissola. of Piacenza, and now the property of the Trotti family, of Milan, The place takes its name from an intermittent spring in the court, which is supposed to be the one described by Pliny in one of his letters, and it is further cele: brated as being the coolest villa on Como. It lies on a small bay on the east side of the lake, and faces due north, so that, while the villas of Cer- nobbio are bathed in suniight a deep green shade envelops it. The house stands on a narrow ledge, its founda- tions projecting into the lake, and its back built against the almost vertical wooded cliff which protects it from the southern sun. Down this cliff pours a foaming mountain torrent from the Val di Calore, just beneath the peak of Torno, and this torrent the architect of the Viila Pliniana has captured in its descent to the lake and carried through the central apartment of the villa. The effect preduced is unlike any- thing clse, even in the wonderland of Italian gardens. The two wings of the house, a plain and somewhat melan- choly looking structure, are joined by an open arcaded room, against the back wall of which the torrent pours down, over stcae work tremulous with moss and ferns, gusliing out again be- ncath the balustrade of the loggia, where it makes a great semicircle of rlittering whiteness in the dark green ~vaters of the lake. The old house is aterated with the freshness and Irerched with the flying spray of the ‘aged torrent. The bare vaulted rooms ‘everberate with it, the stone floors we greca with its Gampness, the air juivers’ with its cool ivcessant rush. The contrast of this dusky dripping oggia, on its perpetualiy shaded bay, wvita the blazing, blue waters of the {ake and’ their sun-steeped western shores, iS ‘one of the most wonderful that the Itaiian eficets in sensation villa art has ever devised. The architeet, not satisiied with di- verting a part of the terrent to cool bis Louse, has led the rest in a fall cowa the cliff immediately adjoining the willa, and has designed winding paths through the woods from which cine may look Cown on the bright rush of the waters.. Oa the other side of the house lics a lorg balusiraded terrace, between the lake and the hanging weeds. and here, on: the only bit of cpen and level ground near ‘the hose; are the old formal gardens, now much neglected, but still full of .a melan- choly charm.—From Edith Wharton's “Lombard Villas,” in the Century. A Korean Palace Burned. Tle Cestruction of the Korean Im- pcrial Palace, at: Seoul, is said to have been largely due to ‘the fact that na- | tives who saw the blaze early did not | raise an alarm. This was because one ,0f tae customs of the country, ob- | served at court, has been to charge i with incendiarism and behead anybody } : who gave an alarm of fire. These parasites flour-1"* In fac oo*® £0 esas 00s ree 0g pos \ ” ——— 00s oen . rey nares ie astees Miss M. Cartledge gives some helpful advice to young girls. Her letter is but one of thousands which prove that nothing is so! helpful to young girls who are just arriving at the period of womanhood as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Drpar Mrs. PinguAM;—1 cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkam’s Vegetable Compound too highly, for it is the only medicine I ever tried which cured me. I suffered much from my first menstrual period, I felt so weak and @izzy at times I could not pursue my studies with the usual interest. 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