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The. Fashion in Names.
Babies are the victims of fashion
like their elders. Whatever ‘happens
to be the namephase of the period in.
which the¥ ‘ade ‘their advert, to that
are they doomed. Just now Elizabeths
and Jameses are being literally chris-
tened by dozens, and Peters are alarm-
ingly prevalent.—Lady’s Pictorial.
The Era:of Woman.
«If I were a man!” is surely a very
unnecessary cry. these days. The
epoch of the man is past; - the twen-
tieth century is.the.era of woman.
There is, with a few very slight ex-
ceptions, nothing that a woman, as a
woman, cannot do, and do every bit as
well as if she were a man. r=From P.
T. O. :
Stitchery.
The buyers of fine embroideries
have been predicting a famine in hand
needlework for several seasons. A
multitude of new’ industries in France
have opened in recent years and
shown the French girls more lucrative
means of livelihood than the old pa-
tient stitchery for which they are fa-
mous.—Philadelphia Record,
Marriage Age Increased.
It is generally admitted that the
marriageable age of women has ad-
vanced considerably of recent years.
Many a bride has long felt girlhood
behind her before she exchanges her
vows at the altar, and there Seem to
be few young men nowadays who care
to assume the respousibilities of mar-
ried life until they are in the financial
position usually associated with mid-
dle age.—Philadelphia Record.
Norway's ‘Versatile Queen.
Queen Maud of Norway has innum- |
erable hobbies and recreations, many
of them being of a very useful and
practical nature. She devotes many
hours to sewing, wood carving, and
-bookbinding, and in regard to the lat-
ter work has turned out some " really
beautiful specimens of the craft. Like
Queen Alexandra, her mother; Queen
Maud is very skilful with the camera,
outdoor
sports that she is her husband’s con-
stant companion when his majesty in-
dulges in skating, skiing, motoring,
and cycling excursions. At billiards
Queen Maud can easily beat King
Haakon, while King Edward, himself
a very skilful whist player, has con-
fessed that he could not teach his
daughter much in regard to the game.
==Prom Tit-Bits.
Two-Headed Hatpihs Are Nesded,
Have you noticed it? But no, of
course you haven't. You never could
get a chance to see both sides of a
huge hat at once. Hence the hatpin
witd two heads has not impressed you
so far with the idea that you are See-
ing double. On one of the new dou-
- hatpins * the extra end
screws on and off, thus insuring abso-
lute safety in the hat’s position. These
are only for medium-sized hats, how-
‘ever. Sinve the beehive hats appear
ed, women have been at their wits-
end to find pins to keep them on.
“No hatpin has been made long
‘enough to take in both sides of the
large beehive crown,” says a London
jeweler. “Many are the devices re-
sorted to in order that the new hat
may not slip out of position. Small
pads to pass the pins through are
worn. Another device is the intrp-
duction of a narrow netting, with a
tiny pincushion suspended from the
centre of the crown. A pin from the
right and another from the left pass-
ed into this materially help to keep
the hat in place.—New York Press.
Hoods Worn in London.
Milliners in London are going in for
a new branch of business; they are
making hoods. Whether the wearing
of hoods will ever become at all gen-
eral remains to be seen, but they are
having a fair trial. The specimens
shown are very dainty and not at all
unbecoming.
The prettiest are certainly those
shaped like a frair’'s cowl, and they
are ‘also the most convenient, as they
“roll up small ard can be tucked into
the pocket of a-theatre wrap or stow-
ed away in a traveling bag.
Those run in with whalebone are |
more. cumbersome; and this setting
out from the face does not improve
their appearance much, if at all. Both
kinds are made of soft taffeta lined
with sdtin and trimmed about the
front and around the neck with rufiles
of lace. Sometimes they are bordered
with small flowers, which is a mis-
taken notion; a few knots of ribbon
and the lace are all that is necessary.
Hoods are worn only when going to
and from. the theatre or other evening
entertainment and when traveling.
me ~-women have taken to them
most kindly, and will immediately
doff their hats and put on hoods on
boarding a railway car, retaining them
even when lunching or dining in the
restaurant.—=Millinery Trade Review.
! Opposed to Cremation:
“The American people, particularly
the Anerican women, will never favor
the idea of cremation of the dead,” re-
marked Mrs. Wingate Rice, of Toledo,
to the New York Telegram.
“We are to . imp sionable and
highly strung. In this respect we are
like the French, who have never taken
kindly to the burning of their dead.
"behind"
"T'was in France. this ‘summer, and the
“French Cremation Society is very
much discouraged over the present
anti-cremation agitation. ;
“The society was organized for the
purpose of making cremation popular,
but it cannot bring the average man
;and woman to see that it is better to
sbe incinerated than placed in the
‘ground. Almost every person who is
cremated goes that way because of an
expressed desire ‘before death to be
disposed of in a crematory after the
visit of the grim monster. ‘1hose left
seldom dispose of their dead
in this way voluntarily.
“The society is doing its utmost to
induce the French people to burn
rather than to bury. their dead. Ow-
ing to its efforts the number of incin-
erations is growing from year to year,
but the increase is hardly perceptible,
“Cremation has never been popular
among the people of the South. This
may be because it is necessary to
send bodies such a great distance to
be cremated. Crematories are expen-
sive things, and they cannot be erect-
ed in a community where there is not
sufficient sentiment in favor crema-
tion to keep them busy.” :
Removal by Law.
Everything comes to him who waits,
and the Parisians—masculine—who
have groaned so long beneath the tyr-
anny of the theatre hat are now to
get their rights. Either no ladies’
hats, or a few exciting rows—but
more probably both hats and rows—
may be expected in Paris theatres
when the season opens again. The
ever thorough anl thoughtful Prefect
of Police, as the Telegraph corre-
spondent tells us, has just issued a
new draft of regulations for places of
entertainmert. In the mass of new
regulations one stands out. It says
that no person may obstruct the view
of any spectator during a perform-
ance, and if so offending may be com-
pelled to remove the obstruction, or
his or her self.
Henceforth the arm of the law may
be called in to remove the obstructing
hat. Relieved of the odium of being
rude to the ladies, one can lay all the
blame on superior authority. -
However, the taking off of a hat
from a lady’s head by the brawny arm
of a uniformed municipal guard will
not be a spectacle without incident,
crisis, and denouement. Of course,
no one expects the ladies themselves
to forestall the fiat by wearing small
hats. On the contrary, milliners, ac-
cording to our authority, are exercis-
ing an almost diabolical ingenuity in
their long-laid schemes for next win-
ter. For many years past it has beén’
impossible to see over a Parisienne’s
kat, but one could sometimes see un-
der it, and catch glimpses of the right
and left wing of the stage, the centre
being intercepted by the nape of a
neck billowing with coils and curls.
The milliners have now decided that
one shall not even see under the new
hat. © It will be as high as its prede-
cessors, but the improvement will be
that it will come down lower on both
sides. To witnéss municipal guards,
with swashbuckling ferocity, tearing
off this new hat will be a terrible
sight.—London Daily News.
Fashion Notes.
French and Italian costumers have
been.
Cedar showing reddish tones will be
a leading shade.
The tailored suit is taking the same
lines as the linen suits.
Green and blue seem to be.as popu-
lar a combination as ever.
The separate coat of velvet will be
cne of the features of the season.
Picturesque effects prevail among
evening and even daytime toilettes.
Ruffs grow higher and deeper with
each passing day; also more betrim-
med. :
Sleeves are longer and flatter, and
they closely follow the lines of the
arm.
Street skirts are but a trifle longer
than the last season’s dresses have
been.
There are lots of tur dows collars
fastened with horseshoes or rhine-
stones, 3
The linen coat costume is smarter
than ever, and will hold late in the
season.
Narrow plaited ruffles seem “to be
altaost as much a.feature of gowns ag
buttons are. Loge
The black cloth dresses are made
with flat pressed seams and without
any trimming whatsoever.
So numerous are the different
shades of brown that this color will
find favor during the next season.
French and Ltalian costumers have
introduced brilliant riding costumes,
but they have failed of vogue in this
country.
The under side of the wide felt
hat brim is very likely to be black
when the hat itself is of color, or it is
faced with black velvet.
An old-time plan back in fashion is
for running the ruffle about feur
inches up the sleeve, the seam of
which is slit to accommodate the quil-
ling.
Dead black and dead white are used
together to produce startling effects.
An immense hat of white silk has for
trimming a band and a large bow of
black ribbon velvet. It is bizarre, but
effective.
to establish this
THE PULPIT.
8 SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. S. EDWARD YOUNG
Subject: Mountain Taught People;
Brooklyn, N. Yimvary Soll on
main floor and in the gallery was
filled Sunday in the Bedford Presby-
terian Church, and chairs were placed
in every available space fo accommo-
date the large audiences that wished
to hear the new pastor, the Rev. Dr.
S. Edward Young. His subject was:
“Wanted—People Taught on the
Mountains of God to Toil in the Liow-
lands of Sin.” The texts were from
St. Luke 9:33, 37 and 38: “Master,
it is good for "us to be here; and: lot
us make three tabernacles.” *
When they were come down oh thoy
hill, much people met Him. “And
behold, a man of the company cried
out, saying, ‘Master, I beseech Thee,
look upon my son.’ ” Dr. Young said:
Wanted—People taught on the
mountains of God to toil in the low-
lands of sin. Our best training, -our
noblest service, is neither up there
altogether, nor down here altogether;
but consists in uniting wisely the
dreamer and the doer, the mystic and
the practical man. How many art
reprints cut Raphael’s sermon in the
middle by showing only the top half
of his “Transfiguration!” You may
well extol the composition of that
portion, its design, its expression, its
grace. Above the adoring trio of
disciples see that portraiture of
Christ beyond which human genius
probably cannot go. Yet with you
‘| ought to linger quite as persistently
the scene Raphael crowds at the foot
of the mount—the pitiable lad, the
agonized father, the eager multitude,
the mockers and the sorely harried
nine disciples—Raphael’s way of
writing underneath “The upper glory
is needed down here.” Let helpers
come from the highland country. Oft-
times off the material hills men have
dashed into earth’s valleys for daring
conquests. Their lungs had the ozone
and their limbs the litheness and
their wills the boldness born of lofty
altitudes. From Sinaitic plateau
Moses will break into low-lying Egypt
and redeem his race. From Tabor or
Olivet or some other prayer-mount
Jesus will arrive every morning in
spirit renewed. The missionary en-
terprise is never from dead level to
dead level, but always from the
heights of God to the quagmires of
men.
To be most useful in the hurry and
struggle of our twentieth century life
you require a Hermon Summit of the
mind, a spiritual sanctuary where-
unto you again and again resort. No
mortal’s steady work can be beautiful
or sublime enough to escape the need
of this heavenly retreat. Would you
not say that Charles Dickens sank
further than some of his characters
and remained merely a character-
sketcher, not a character-builder, be-
cause he lacked the relief that comes
by being away awhile from one’s task
and one’s self? He was buoyed up
by the popularity of his books, by the
thunder he made, by the money he
got, by the cheer of his friends—
these gone, his cup was empty.
Happy are those who find surcease of
the world’s clamor in reading au-
thors who uplift and so shelter in the
sanctuary of literature. Blessed are
such nature loving spirits as can at-
tain fine elevation and a serene out-
look if only they catch a glimpse of
blue sky or feast their eyes upon. the
luster of the stars. Most blessed are
they who, wheresoever placed, have
learned to meet with God, to keep
their tryst with Him, to see His face
and be filled with His vision for them.
No recent religious movement prom-
ises more, I am persuaded, than the
world-wide banding together of a few
disciples here.and there to observe
the morning watch, the first half hour
on waking from sleep each new ‘day
| being devoted to reading the Scrip-
tures, to meditation and prayer—a
sort of holy: exorcising of the evil
spirits and fleshly lusts, a washing
out of the fret and soreness of the
heart, the anointing of the inner self
with heavenly ideas. I entreat you
morning watch.
Keep your Jerusalem windows open.
Believe.the presence of the Almighty
about you and hear Him say: “I
will be to them as a little sanctuary.
in the countries where they shall
come.”
Shall we not esteem our mountain
top our castle for refuge? - In olden
times in Germany or France or Eng-
land at the morning light through
the castle gates issued the people,
each to his farming or trading or
journeying. When enemies came, or
nightfall, into the castle they hied
for safety. Castle-surrounded is my
soul while I keep unprofaned a tryst-
ing place with God. :Assaults are
made—TI separate the world by haul-
ing in across the moat the drawbridge
of worldly thought. -I let the. port-
cullis call. I hide within the protec-
tion of Him who is my fortress.
Come hither, tempted men‘and wom-
en! Come, any Margaret cast off by
any Faust! Come, every Simon Peter
who falls! Make haste to the castle!
Shall we not consider our mountain
top a communion closet? Christ dis-
glgeed the first secret of prayer thus:
hen thou prayest enter into thy
closet, and when thou hast shut the
door pray.” We simply must some-
times leave the world out there.
Grant yourself a little release from
our terrible New York turmoil. Oec-
casionally shut outside your secret
prayer-door even your dearest earthly
friends. Depths of divine communion
wait in which you ean enter only
when alone. An often used prayer
cell would be the best possible feature
in a New York office building ard
would prevent many a tragedy of
character sad enough to make: an
archangel weep.
Shall we not seek our mountain
top for inspiration? Are not our na-
tures like stagnant waters needing
to be lifted in looms of light and
woven into vapors, reborn in the sky,
to descend in benedictions on the
land? What inspiration, what ex-
altation, what sense of other worldli-
ness the transfiguration brought to
Christ and the three disciples! De-
tached it seemed they were from
earth—there in exhilarance. De-
tached from time they were—eras of
Moses and Elijah and Jesus merged
— there is the atmosphere of eter-
nity.- Detached ' from en
death spoken of as an exodus, a
transit out of Egypt into Canaan—
there is fullness of joy. And what
more -shall I say?—of that Shekinah
light that clothes the Mount? Of the
Master’s raiment white from the
woofs.of God? Of His sunlike shin-
ing face? Of the voice _ethereal
trumpeting: “This is M eloved
Son?” , Of the rapture well nigh past
endurable?-
But yonder is a an afflicted boy, ‘down
in the mountain’s shadow-—pity- that
poor lad: Any moment a convulsion
takes- him,-:hurls him into fire or
‘water. His body’ now is rigid, now is
‘limp. His’ teeth chatter and—Why
Goes he not Speak? Disease has slain
his power ‘of speech. No sound hears
he.» A “demon tyrannizes over -his
Sisk. From childhood’s days, year
on year: his: malady has been to him a
living death. Take back your moun-
tain top’ words, Simon Peter, “It is
good- for us to be here—And let us
make three tabernacles.” Could ‘ye
sit and sing yourselves away to ever-
.lasting bliss up there and--let -this
tortured youth go on dying and yet
not dying?—Christ and His three
disciples descend the mountain and
behold the lad -unshackled from his
agony! -: Granted are the mountain
top experiences that all may render
the lowlands better service. “Freely
ye have received; freely give.”
Have you a kindness shown?
Pass it'on! Pass it on!
"Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another’s tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on! Pass ib on!
Have you found the heav enly light?
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Souls are groping in the night,
Daylight gone! Daylight one!
Hold - your lighted lamps on high,
Be a star in someone’s sky
He may live who else id die,
Pass it on! Pass it on!
But down there waits a father, dis-
tressed. His very soul groans itself
out for this, his only son. He has
tried everything and everybody. He
despairs. Stay forever up in those
radiant heights and permit this
broken-hearted father to perish in his
heroic struggle? Not you who are
touched with celestial fire! Christ
and the three~go down—soeon that
father’s happiness mounts on eagle's
wings. Dear church people, by what
right call we ourselves Christians, if
we desire Jesus Christ and the sane-
tuary and spiritual seasons all to
ourselves with never a ‘thought of
sharing with the yet unblessed? »
do not know where that wretched bo
of the lowlands is; but I know he is
somewhere and that he needs you.
I know not the whereabouts of that
suffering father yearning for your as-
sistance. I know he is somewhere.
But down there are a multitude of
people . tossed by doubts, willing to
believe on due evidence, ready to re-
ceive the real living illustration of
the Christ spirit incarnate again; still
weak and worried till one come with
the breath of mountain top to hearten
and lead upward. Oh, the thousands
here at hand so waiting! .Yes—and
rise your chivalry now! Down there
are nine disciples doing their utmost
to keep the boy and his father and
the people; and these nine are
scorned, jeered, taunted by hateful
bystanders who more than hint that
the disciples and the Master, too, are
fakirs and deceive the unwary. Show
me the coward shirker who would
everlastingly hang around up. here
on the mountain top while those
brave valley heroes battle against
such odds. Remain exactly long
enough on your mOuntain top to fix
in your mind the ideal from God and
in your heart the resolve to go down
and made the ideal glorious fact. As
| Moses saw the tabernacle on Sinai’s
summit, tabernacle built of mist tim-
bers ‘away in the dreamy haze, to be
reproduced thereafter by solid tim-
bers on the flat ground fer the peo-
ple’s salvation. The sin country can
be bettered only by a life a little
elevated above “itself in purpose and
purity. Be with God some and then
go.
Sufficient the number of men who
look out upon humanity with entire
indifference; sufficient the few who
see mankind but to despise them;
sufficient the abominable many whose
ruling interest in their fellows is to
use them for ‘private advantage—Be
thou, O, larger souled believer, one
to hold thyself apd all thou hast in
faithful trusteeship for the rest of
our brother humankind to slave for
them, if you choose to call it slaving.
Our chiefest pleasure should be to
serve with loftiest gifts the lowliest
needs of the wretchedest mortals for
whom the God-Man came to earth,
went to Gethsemane and Golgotha.
Ample recompense is found in the
mere doing thereof, ample in our
Lord’s approval, ample in the long
hereafter. “Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus; who,
being in the form of God, thought it
not a prize to be snatched to be equal
with God; but made Himself of no
reputation and took upon Him the
form .of a servant. * ‘* * Where-
fore, God also hath, highly exalted
Him and given Him a name which is
above every name.” * Wanted—Peo-
ple taught on the mountains of God
to toil in the lowlands of sin.
Take Time.
Let us take time to be pleasant,
The small courtesies, which we often
omit because they are small, will
some day look larger to us than the
wealth which we covet or the fame
for which we struggled.
Let us take time to get acquainted
with our families. The wealth you
are accumulating, burdened father,
busy mother, can never be a home to
the daughter whom you have no time
to caress.
Let us take time to get acquainted
with Christ. The hour is coming
swiftly for us all when one touch of
His hand in the darkness will mean
more than all that is written in the
day-book and ledger or in the records
of our little social world.
Since we must all take time to die,
why should we not take time to live
—to live in the large sense of a life
begun here for eternity?—Pittsburg
Advocate.
Mind Your Own Business.
There is no promise of a crown of
righteousness for proficiency in regu-
lating your neighbors.
1f you hav
give up.
| again.
Blackberry Enemies. =
Blackberries are affected by borers,
and diseases such as crown gall of: the
roots, and “orange rust. e “only
thing for these is to dig out and burn
the affected plants. The leaf spot can
be- controlled by the spraying with
Bordeaux mixture, -and if this is regu-
larly used it will probably prevent the
appearance ‘of the orange rust, but it
is of no use after the rust shows. —
Indianapolis News.
Rice a Good Pculitry Food.
Feeding experiments at the Massa-
chusetts station included rice, a feed
which has very little fibre, compared
with wheat or oats. It resulted in a
larger production of egzs, but was not
advised for feeding purposes on ac-
count of the cost. However, it is of-
ten possible to buy slightly damaged
rice at less even than the cost of corn
and wheat, and in such cases it is a
desirable food for variety for either
the laying hens or the young stock.—
. {
American Cultivator, »
Keep Salt for Cows.
A supply of salt available whenev-
ever the cow wants it is necessary to
maintain a high milk yield. Salt stim-
ulates the appetite and assists diges-
tion and assimilation, which increase
the flow of the fluids of the body. Salt-
ing feeds for dairy cows once a week
is not sufficient. It is a good plan to
keep rock salt under shelter where the
cows can get it at will and then fed
loose salt once a week in such quanti-
ties as the cows will eat. Loose salt
may be used exclusively if it can be
sheltered from rain. Do not mix salt
with feed, for frequently cows get
more salt than they need, which wil
reduce the flow of milk. Cows having
separate compartments will not eat
too much.—Indianapolis -News.
Nut Growing.
Walnut growing in the far wnerth-
west has passed the experimental
stage and the acreage is being rapidly
increased.
A great advantage of nut growing
is in the keeping quality of the pro-
duct, which permits its being held till
market conditions are favorable as
well as admitting of its being sent to
foreign lands, thus greatly enlarging
the field for distribution.
The choice varieties of pecans which
are now being propogated by budding
and grafting and are being planted so
largely in up-to-date orchards- are
rarely seen in the general market.
Many people have never seen then
and fewer still have tested them in
comparison with the nut from the com-
mon’ seedling. They need to be seen,
cracked and eaten in order to appre-
ciate their superiority.—Indiana Farm-
er.
The Cow and Her Products.
A good many farmers do not real-
ize how valuable cows are on the farm
not only for milk and cream and but-
ter, but for the fertility turned back to
the soil. This is referred to in a very
pointed way -by Prof. E. B. Voorhees
in his reference to the facts obtained
by careful analysis. He says farmers
should be made to realize that a well
fed dairy cow will, on the average pro-
duce 12 3-4 tons of manure per year,
and that this product will contain cn
the average 117 pounds of nitrogen,
77 pounds of phosphoric acid, 89
pounds of potash, enough, if all the
constituents in it are used to grow
nearly 70 bushels of wheat with the
accompanying straw. These have come
from the farm somewhere; if they are
not returned the power of the soil is
lessened.
If the farmer wishes to return these
in the form of commercial fertilizers,
he would have to pay out $30 at pres-
ent prices—20 cents per pound for
the nitrogen and four and a half cents
each for the phosphoric acid and. pot-
ash. The State Experiment stations
are doing wonders in collecting such
facts for the farmer.
Horse Breeding.
Many a man has fallen short of
success in breeding by depending upon
lood alone to improve his stock. He
has forgotten that all of our improved
breeds of horses are the product of
adequate nutrition as well as intelli-
gent breeding, suitable environment,
sufficient shelter and kindly care. The
use of a sire so produced endows the
progeny with the propensity to devel-
op character and qualities akin to his
own and of the breed he represents.
But these desirable qualities will not
perfectly develop unless the progeny
is given food, care and shelter such
as had their effect in the production,
of the pure breed and its high-class
representative. In all pure breeds,
the original “scrub” blood, as is the
foundation, is ever seeking to reinstate
itself. In short, there is a tendency
in- all pure-bred animals to degener-
ate or retrogress towards original and
less perfect types and nothing will
more surely and speedily stimulate
: this tendency than lack of nutritious
food. In the absence of sufficient nu-
trition, the possibilities of perfection
nheniis d from pure-bred sires or dams
i or w holly Ey)
salt kept before them at all times in.
on’ the f other hand, if
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native-animal.
the dam “is “adequatély nourished on
complete rations, during pregnancy
and when nursing, and the colt, from
weaning time forward, iseas perfectly
cand “fully fed, it will, in all probabili-
ty, develop to the high standard of
size, power, quality and character
made possible by its breeding.
In" addition to proper feeding it is
likewise™ necessary to protect .the
young developing animal against every
possible cause of debility, -discomfort
and unhealth that would tend to re-
tard its growth. Shelter must there-
fore be sufficient, disease must be
fought against, vermin must be pre-
vented from sapping the constitution,
and fresh air, sunlight, adequate exer-
cise and kindly care must take a full
part in perfecting the development of
the animal—Dr. A. S. Alexander, in
the Indiana Farmer.
Feeding For Eggs.
If the hens are too fat then feed less
fattening food; cut out the corn or
meal from the ration, feed oats, buck-
wheat, wheat screenings, or try feed-
ing a ‘dry mash”; mix bran, middlings,
ground oats and beef scraps—about
eight parts of the grain to one part
of scraps—and put it where the hens
can get it at any time; they will not
eat too much of it. To make a really
good ration for hens not to fat, I
would add to above about 20 percent,
or one-fifth cornmeal, but if whole or
cracked corn is fed at night it would
not be necessary to add the meal.
As to how much to feed it would be
impossible to say; it would depend
upon what kind of fowls he keeps,
how old they are, whether they are
confined or have free range, ete. In
one of my big yards, an acre in extent,
are nine houses of old hens, many of
them “too fat.”
Feeding wheat screenings, oats and
cracked corn, 1 1 find one coop will eat
all the corn and feave a farge part of
the wheat, cals in the trough, while
another coop will just reverse that,
leaving all the corn. Now, in my
judgment, it is safe to say that the
hen takes that which she most needs;
and while oid hens will get “too fat,”
especially in the fall, that fat is their
protection against the cold of winter,
and except in extreme cases, is no
great hindrance to good laying. I have
often seen my hens go on the nests
and lay when they were so fat and
heavy that they could not get up in
the high nests, but after trying to get
up, would be obliged to lay in the
nests on the ground. In nine cases out
of ten, poor laying is not occasioned
by hens being too fat, so much as it
‘is by their not having enough to eat
and of sufficient variety. As a gen-
eral thing, a handful to a hen, if they
are fed three times a day, is plenty;
as a matter of faet, I have never fed
my fowls by measurement, always be-
ing governed by the actions of the
fowls, as to the quantity fed. A laying
hen needs and will eat nearly double
the quantity of food that she will when
not laying. So a rigid rule of so much
food per hen is not a good working
practice. Judgement must be used,
and good feeding is a matter to be
learned only by observation and prac-
tice.—Cor. Rural New Yorker.
Notes For the Farmer.
The dairy cow is of three-fold val-
ue. She produces a constant income,
valuable offspring and improves the
quality of the farm.
One acre of land well fitted wiil
vield more feed in an ordinary season
through August and September than
the average pasture on most farms
of today.
Fruit keeps best in a basement room
that is about half above the ground.
The temperaiure never goes below the
freezing point and the room never
becomes too warm.
It is doubtful if any good results
are obtained from feeding pepper in
the poultry ration. A better stimu-
lant is meat scraps, which is at’ the
same time a prime egg food.
The digestive apparatus of the pig
should be developed to its utmost ca-
pacity. This is the machine that pro-
duces our pork, and the better it is
cared for, the better our profits.
When breeding with a view of sell-
ing small pigs, always reserve the
large and most thrifty ones for home
growing. It is poor policy to allow a
buyer to select the choice pigs from
a litter and grow and fatten the runts
on your own farm.
After comparing the merits of whole
corn or cracked corn for laying hens
the Maine experiment station con-
cludes ‘there is nothing in the results
to suggest that it is necessary or advis-
able to crack the corn for the hens
kept for laying eggs.
In fencing a yard for pigs, whether
with boards or woven wire, it is an ex-
cellent plan to.run a barb wire around
the vard close to the ground to pre-
vent the pigs from rooting under. The
additional expense is small and: the
pigs are quite certain to remain in the
yard, that is providing the fencing is
of a reasonable height.
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