r
Tlio California ootirts hnvo decided
thnt n Chinamnn born Id thin country
is a citizon.
Chicago business men lmvo organ
ized 5 oominittoo of 100 to stop tho
"rnpino robbery of tlia nUlermnnio
bandits."
The Arkansas Supremo Court hns
ruled tlmt makers of nativo wines can
not srll'tuem in prohibition counties.
It is "n id that this will kill tho untive
wine industry.
Some time ago, to mnko thom cheap
er, California undertook to print her
own school books. It is reported thnt
8200,000 have been lost in tho experi
ment, and tho end is not yet.
According to her new census, Gor
many hss twenty-eight cities of over
100,000 popnlation, Hamburg, Mn
nioh and Luipsio nro running close to
gether near the half million post.
.Tohn Bull's wheat ocrcago has fallen
off nearly one-hnlf in five years. His
oats and barley have barely held their
ground. In fact says tho New York
Journal, tho British farmer is iu a
melancholy plight.
A scholar of Britibh Columbia holds
that the Indians of that region nro
doxecudud from the Syrians. Ho says
that thoir language has many pure
Syrian words, and Syrian names are
common among them.
It is shown by the ofllcinl statistics
thnt in a given 1,000 of tho people ol
Massachusetts there nro now more in
dividuals possessed of moderate and
fair-sized estates than over beforc.and
that the average size of such estates is
more than doublo what it wus sixty
yenrs ago.
Missouri has beon surprised by a
man who d 'faulted in 1859 making
restitution to the amount of 810,000,
half of tho sum being interest. A
conscience that can survive after be
ing knawed that nnmber of years is a
rare articlo, oonfesses the San Fran
cisco Examiner, and some way seldom
guts into the personality of tho do
faultur. Belgium proposes to facilitate mar
riage by reducing the legal age ol
both sexes to twenty-ona years instead
of twoiity-five for tho mnnand twenty
one for the woman, as the law is now,
and by making the consent of the
father alone uccessury, instead of that
of both parents. This is tho first
break of tyrannous marriaga laws ol
couiiuuntal Europe.
Brass plates bearing appropriate
Aioriptions now inark the sites of the
fiews iu old Christ Church, Philadel
phia, once occupied by Betsy Ross,
maker of the first American flue:
Francis Hopkinson and liisson Joseph '
Hopkinson, uuthor of tho National
hym:i "Hail Columbia;" the Penn
family, Benjimin Frunklin.and George
And Martha Washington.
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j. - s-
Iu a report with the significant
title, "German Fears of American
'Computation in tho World's Market,"
William D. Warner, United Statos
Consul at Cologne, tells of the alarm
of the Gormau people at the dooline
of their foreign trade, and the manner
in which the Uuited St.ites is looming
up as Germany's principal competitor.
The vast resouroes of tho United
States and ita wonderful productive
rapacity are roforred to by tho Gor
iniitiH, says Consul Win ner, with great
anxiety. Mr. W. truer quotes somo
newspaper headlines. "Tlio threaten
ing competition of America A cry of
warning to be nnited. " And, "Amori
n thou art belter off than our old
Coutiuout, "
To Ponnsylviininns, says the Phila
delphia Inquirer, the South African
republio in brought still closer home
by the claim that President Kruger
wns in bis youth a resident of Carbon
county.aud by the fact of which there
is no doubt at all that General Jon
bert.who so suooessfully put the En
glish to rout at Mijuba Hill and
Krngerkdcirp, is a native of Uuion
town, Fayette bounty. Gen. Joti
bart's parents came to Pennsylvania
from Holland, but his name would in
dicate that he was a descendant of tho
French Huguenots, who took refuge
iu Holland when it was an asylum for
the oppressed of all lands after the
revolution of the Elictof Nantes.
Like the president of the Swiss repub
lic Geueral Joub rt did gallant, ser
vice for the Union iu the Atnoricun
Civil War, serving iu the navy itiul r
Admiral Dnpont aud as captain of a
company uuder General Godfrey
Weitzei These f.u;ts help to explain
the British defeats iu South Afrioi.
Dr. Jim hud run foul of n soldier, who
bad bud uo uul experience iu war,
both iu America aud Afiica.
Flrnsnndand.
Littlo lain, prosslng onward, Inform me I
pray,
Where sprond tho savannas ot ricasurelnnd
sny?
I'lease pnnso 'mong the flowers censo sing
ing nwhlln.
And toll me whom tho spirit may busk In
Joy's smile,
"Ah, Plciisurclnnd spreads in the gloaming
nhnad,
Whoro tho skies ot tho Futuro, cerulean,
spread,
And tho sunimllrs aro Oodsmllos, and star-
beams nro dreams
Ol the annuls who fly 'bove the murmuring
streams."
Worn woman, who's oyw sonm with tears
sadly filled,
Yon aro aged ami who have your hopos
Iwn fill tilled?
Now nnwnr, as onward you're journeying
along
Where is I'leasurnlanri, filled with Its visions
and sons?
"Ah, world-wlo and woary and roady to din,
I'm woo;lnir, for round me but blighted hopes
lift;
Far behind me tho long-for savannas I see
There In beauty the regions of Ploasuroland
be!"
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
CADDIE'S SUITORS.
"A valentine for yo, Cad, sine's
you'ro a font high I"
Farmer Betibow camo bustling into
tho kitchen with a market-basket full
of brown paper packages on his arm,
au agricultural paper sticking out of
his pocket and a huge, tqituro white
cnvelopo in his bund, directed to
"Miss Cnddio Benbow" in sprawling,
rather awkward writiug.
An inuoceut-lookfug maid of eigh
teen years of age came out of the
pnutry, with very pink cheeks, and
received tho document iu a little flut
ter; but ber face fell as she noted tho
handwriting.
"That's from Jud Pitcher it'a bis
writing," she raid, with a tone of dis
appointment iu her voice.
"An' you nuudn'tto snurl up your
noso ef 'tis, young lady," returned
her father, with emphasis. "You
ort to be pron.l to Lev him seud you a
valontimo a feller like Jud, that's
got lots of good land j'iniu' our'n, to
say nothiu' of mules itu'sich. Now
open it, an' don't bo n-sinuniu' still
there a-studyiu' about thnt there Jim
Pugo that's alius a-hangiu' round ye."
"Yes, open it, honoy," said good
Mrs. Boubow, bustling from her
churning, while M:ss Sue Bcnbow.tbe
elder daughter, and Mrs. John B iu
bow.the duugliter-iii-liiw,ulso crowded
up to see Caddie'8t"Valentine."
With fluttering fingers, the young
lady optned the envelope, and drew
forth a wonderful combination of
hearts and arrows, Cupids aud roses,
anl somo sentimental verses, purport
ing to lay the treasures of the sender's
heart and hand at the feet of the love
ly recipient.
"An' it means something," said
Mrs. John Benbow, with solemn cou
viction. "Of course it does," said Miss Sue,
who being herself comfortably en
gaged, had plenty of time to devoto to
Caddie's tittle love affairs. "It's good
as an offer. "
"But- but I don't think I want Jud
Pitcher to make me nn offer," faltered
Caddie, her pretty mouth taking a
plaintive enrve.
"Yes, you do, miss," interrupted
her father, briskly; "im you'll tako it
too, ef that's what? it menus."
"Oh, yes, honey.dol" besought her
mother, whoso policy was always to
ooax people into any disagreeable
task, from taking a dose of quinine to
accepting an unwelcome suitor. "I
think Jad's real nice, so tall and kind
of slick I"
"You ou 'it at least to send him a
valentine in return, Caddie," said Mrs.
John.
"Ho wouldn't gut it today," mur
mured Caddie. "It's too lata now."
"That don't make any difference,"
put in Mins Sue. "You can send 'em
auy time during the month."
"An' of it's tho thing to send a Vul
tinn in answer to his'ii, that's what
you'll do Cad," said Mr. Benbow,
bluntly, "an' a alup-up one too ef it
costs a dollar!"
"I think it's nil right and proper to
send it auy tirao this month," argued
Miss Bus' wriukliug her square fore
head thoughtfully. "But to mako
sure I'll ask Miss Atherton when sho
comes tomorrow for the settiug of
guinea eggs I've been saving up for
her. Slm'il know what's what"
And Miss Atherton the village heir
ess and autocrat, w lieu the question
was submitted to ber, detected a love
story ut once, with pretty Cud lie,her
her especial subject of admiration, for
heroine, aud at onoe foil good-naturedly
nto the family views.
"Of eourse it will b all right to
send oue," she said, smiling at Cad
die, who was blushing shyly aud un
comfortably in corner, "aud I'll toil
you what I'll do; I'm going into town
this very day, and I'll pick you out
tho prettiest valentine I can find. So)
yon can go right on dreaming, you
dear little thing, and needn't worry
your protty head about it. . I'll got
ono that'll make your Adonis go wild
with delight.
And all tho afternoon Caddio wont
about with a dismal feeling in bor
heart, and her soft oyos nil misty with
tears. For Caddie was tho mosjj timid
of beings, and felt that she could
nover hold out against tho combined
will and efforts of her parents, sister:,
and Mr. Judson Pitcher himself,
wretched ns it would make her to re
sign her youthful lovor, Jim Pago.
Ho might have sent mo a vnlontine,
sho said to herself, "not that it would
do him any good, or me, cither, for
they are bound to marry mo to Jud
Pitcher, nud what shall I do if they
do?"
' Meantime, Miss Atherton, under
tho impression that Caddie was ns
deeply iu love with tho soudor of bor
vnleutino as he was with her, took a
benevolent dolight in selecting an ele
gant valentine, presenting a flight ot
silver-winged doves, with long, lily
stalks waving above thum, two hearts
entangled in a dainty true-lover's knot
nnd somo charming verses, the senti
ment of which was unmistaknblo.
Aud Caddie's heart sank lower than
ever, ns sho beheld tho lovely fabrica
tion ensconced that same evening in
its dainty envelope, nnd directed by
Mrs. John Benbow to Mr. Judson
Pitcher.
"'Tain's likely ho knows my hand
write," remaikodthat lady, "but ho'll
know mighty woll where it enrao from
all the same."
. "Christopher Columbus! Who'd a
thought it? If that dou't beat mo!"
Mr. Judson Pitcher's pale eyes grew
a tritlo deeper than usual with wonder
ns he surveyed the vatontiue so care
fully chosjn by Miss Atherton. He
had crumpled it somewhat in his awk
ward efforts to slip it from the en
velope, and left a "dmtid.ru" ou the
creamy edgo.
Mr. Pitcher was a slim, tall, oily-loo'.-ing
young man, with a linty-whito
fuzziuos.4 of whiskers, stiff, lute eye
lashes, nud a geueral expression of ill
humored stubbornness.
He had just returned from tho post
office with his prize, and now stood
gazing at it with his open mouth.
"Hit's a bouncer an' no mistake,"
ran his cogitations "pigeons au' rib
bons au' flowers an' things! An'
who'd ever a' diemp' of Athy Ather
ton, 'at I've nllays thought was stuck
up nu' proud as she could live, a
seudiu' me sich a Que valentine, with
all them verses a savin' how she lovos
me? Granny! I wouldn't n' b'loeved it,
nu' you couldn't a' mndo mo b'leuve sho
done it, if I hadn't a' seen her with
my own eyes a-buyiu' it nu' a-piokin
out the finest one she could find. An'
a lucky thing it wns I was a-staudin'
behind them other fellers so's she
couldn't see me, or she wouldn't a
bought it then, and I'd never knowed
whero it did come from.
"An' it says she's been a-lovlu' mo
for years, nu' darodu't mako uo sign.
Well, great guns! Cotirso I'd bo
williu' enough to hov her. She's got
tho stuff au' ain't bad lookiu' neither.
Not so purty as Caddie Benbow, an'
I'd ruther hov 0 vldie all things being
ekil. Hut take Caddie if I can get tho
lieires-.? Not much, Miry Ann!
Wiaht I hedu t a wasted my holt a
dollar on that valentine for Cud. But,
bowsomever, I'll go straight off uu'
see Althv. mi hov it nil scttleU in a
jiff. Just to think of tho heiross a
loviu' mo ho hopeless nil this tiuio, on
me in my modesty not a-suspicioning
it! She might of bed mo loug ago,"
And so absorbed was Mr. Pitcher iu
his n. flections that ho uoarly rodo
over Farmer B.nbow, who wns plod
ling down tlio luno iu search of his
cows.
'H'lo there, Pitoherl Watch aout
where you'ro u-going at! wus the
farmers greeting. Dou't bo n-ruuniiig
over vour frion'i". Comiu over to
dinner a-Suuday?"
"No-o," drawlod Mr. Pitcher;
"reckon not."
"H'ml" grunted tho furmer.
"Reckonod you would. Caddie's
kiuder expectin' of yo."
"Is, hey? ' queried Jud, with au
arrogant iudifforonco innpirod by bis
new prospects. "Dunuo cs she got
any partickler graounds, . 'Spect I'll
be a-goiu' over to Miss Atherton s.
Wouldn't wonder if her an' mo'd
murr.r 'fore harvest time gels bore.
"Hey?"
Mr. Benbow stared with great round
eyes, aud nearly dropped the pipe he
was smoking.
"sVhutuver air you a-meauiu,
Jud W
"Jest what I say," retortod Jud,
jogging forward without another
gluiioa at the old farmer. "Don't
none of yo be s'prised if ye git invites
to the weddiu'; that's all."
Mr. Pituhor disnapoarod tip tho I
lauc, and farmer Benbow want homo
in a tempest of wrath, to communicate ,
tho nows to his family, and gront was
the general consternation thereat.
He's a base deceiver," quoth Miss '
Sue, indignantly.
He's a mean, good-for-nothing
scamp, declared Mrs. John.
"An'oh, larl whatever'll I
manned Mother Benbow. "Ycro I've
nd tnl MiH-nibbln. that Caddin
wasn-goiu'tobo married soon,
shu'll tattle it nil over tho country, nn' .
now I'll bo a laughin'-stock. Oh, I
(jeir.. I
This phnso of tho affair struck diro
dismay to nil heart.
"Only thing to fix it 'ml bo for bor ,
to marry somo ono clso right soon," ,
suggested Mrs. John.
Yes, but who?" demanded Miss .
Sue.
Whereat Caddio, gathering up her
small stock of courago stole forward
and with hor rouud fnco all flushed
made hor plea.
"I 1'vo got another valentine, '
sho murmured "from Jim Pugo; but
instead of sending it through the post
4 lllcc, ho brought it himself today,
so's I'd be sure and got it. Ho forgot
thnt Valentino's Day was tho four
teenth, nnd thought it was tho six
teenth, nud nud ho'd like mo to
marry him, ho says."
"An' I dou't enro shucks et you do
now !" snorted Farmer Benbow.
"Oh, yes, honey, do," coaxed mild
Mri. Benbow, while Miss Suo nud
Mrs. John signified their approba
tion of the plan, nil things consid
ered. As for C nddic, the blue old world
grew brilliantly rose-oolored all at
once, and she nnd ber hero sailed
away in a golden boat down lovu's en-
chuntod stream.
Au hour or so later Jud Pitcher
came ridiug sheepishly along the lane,
(Imviug gotten a very lively "bee in
his bonnet" from Miss Atherton), and
os it happened, encountered tho old
farmer nguiu at the bars.
"Hello, Uncle Nut" he greeted him
farailiurly "I'm comin' in a spell.
Ye know I wns a-fooliu', don't ye,
about me and Miss AthortouP"
"Hit don't make no difference to
me ef you wns or wasn't, "returned Mr.
Beubow, grumpily.
"Don't get buffy,"advised Jud, with
cool ussurunuc "Kin I soo Miss Cad
die?"
"No, yo cun'f," growled back tho
old gontlemuu, "fer tho very good
reii'inn that she's a-ontertiiiuin' some
one else iu tho sottiu' room, au' they
might think three's a crowd, 'cording
to tho old sayin'. "
Explanations, appeals and nngor
were alike unavailing with the obsti
nate old furmer.and Mr. Pitcher finally
realized his defeat aud rodo sourly
awnv.
'Riekou he wouldu't 'a made a very
ngieeuble son-in-law," meditated Mr.
Benbow, as he started to the bonse,
"nu' I reckon we done wroug in tryin'
fo make Caddio take bim. Anyhow,
she's a good little creeter, an' seems
like seuce. I seen bow plum happy
she is with Jim Pago, I oouldu't hov
tho heart to upset it all now, even ef
Jud had of had any good excuse for
actiu' so like time."
Origin of the Word "Canard."
What is the origin of the expression
"a canard" whon a wonderful story
that has no fouudutiou in fact it
meant ? Even Frenchmen cannot sny.
It is now claimed that the honor of
the invention belongs to M. Cornells
sen, a member of tho Academy of
Brussels. Ho had uotioud some won
derful "yarns" iu tho daily paper to
which ho subscribed, and in order tJ
sntirizo tho writers, he sent in one
himself, as a joke.
It was about a pretended exporimout
with twenty-five ducks, and tended to
show thut ducks are caunibals. n
bad, be said, killed tho ducks ono by
oue by one and fed the survivors ex
clusively on the body, and in course
of time there remaiued but oue duck
of the whole twenty-five. This last of
the ducks was suid to have bad a post
mortem examination made of its body,
wheu it was fouud to be suffering
from certain internal injuries as tho
supposed consequence of its Strang
diet.
The paragraph, which the writer
never expected to see in print, was
published uud sont the round. It got
to America, wheuco it wus constantly
coming buck, aud the phrase "It is
another canard," or duok, beoame
common in newspaper offices. Lon
don News.
He'd Examined Carefully.
"Do you uotiao any change in Dum
ley ?" usked the tall man.
"No,' I don't," snapped tho other
man sourly.
It was Dnmloy's tailor. Rjokland
Tribune.
FOR FARM ASH HAflDF.3.
rtAxisrio MEAt. von calvm.
Linseed-oil moul as now made has
moHt of 1U oi! l'"0'1 0,,t ot n,,l
is a less fattening food than it used to
bo. Wo like better flaxseed than is
merely ground, or whero this is not
possible boiled nutil it has swelled nil
it will. If it is then mixed in
very
8maU """ w"U ho ordinary dry
liny or straw w hich the calf
W- ' "1 "nko an enormous and
rU difference in its growth,
Tho rough, stnring coat so common
w,,u 0",VM n"'1 ynng during thoir
,ui"' uo "" """gemcr
"? Bmu l"pra "' "
l'onts tho consttpation which is
moro oftun thfl eanH0 of lo'm tl"m
,U,DB .se.-oHion umvaior.
PRIVATE DAIRY.
The croamery is nil right in its
plnco, but tho private dairy is nt homo
or can be mndo so on sny well man
aged farm. Private dairying for mar
ket purposes hns a raugo of adaptabil
ity far beyond that of tho cronmery,
and tho output of privnto dnirios is in
creasing faster thau that of creameries
ever did. Those who declare thnt
dairy farming is doomed aro awuy off
in their conclusions. They nro multi
plying ns they never did before. Tho
Southwest is developing this branch
of agriculture rnpidly, aud as people
learn its requirements and merits it
will grow in importance and in favor.
When a man can control his own
products, and learns the bost methods
of production, dairying will become
more popular. Texas B iuch.
ALFALFA AH A HOSET TLAMT.
The cultivation of alfalfa lias added
considerably to the honey crop of the
United Statos. No other honey plaut
has givon such n "boom" to beekeep
ing, especially in the western states.
This plaut stauds the drouth, and
whou well rooted seldom fails to pro
duce heavy crops of hay and seeds
wheu almost everything else fails, as
its roots penotrato very deep iu the
grouud, in many cusos renchiug water
nt 15 foct deep. I have seen a con
tinuous flow of honey from this plaut,
commencing the middle of May nud
lusting until the first of September,
for several years, without any regard
to drouth or season. Alfalfa honey
differs but little from white clover. It
is iu every respect as good, ami is
quoted In tho markets at the highest
price. Amerio in Agriculturist,
cosr op coos.
Estimates huve placed the cc.it of
one dozeu eggs at as high a figure as
twelve cents, but soma eipariuieutors
find the cost to bo six cents. At the
dxporiment stations, where every
pound of food is woighod, nud but lit
tlo waste material can be used, the
cost is greater thuu the average ou the
farms.
It bus long been aeoapted amoug
poultrymeu that five pecks of corn or
wheat, or the equivalent thereof, will
muintiiin a laying hen one yonr. At
present prices this would bo about
sixty-llvo cents a year. We do not be
liove thnt the cost is so much when
hens are ou rauges, ns thoy nood little
or no feed in tho summer.
Tho prices of all kinds of grain of
course regulate the cost of eggs, but
in our experience the cost of a dozeu
eggs at the present prions for feed
provided (and that is tho main point)
tho hens nro good layers, bIiouM not
exoeed six ceuts. This does not in
clude shelter or labor in curing for the
flock. If tho hens are indifferent
layers aud the egg production is
small, tho cost may reach as mucin as
fifteen cents a dozen but suoh is a
seldom ocourrouco. Hartford Times.
FACKIXO BUTTER.
Good butter may be safely paokod
to koop six mouths or more if tho
right way is tukeu. It used to be
dono years ago, whon it was tho cus
tom to keep the surplus product for
sale then, tbire bjing no winter dairy
ing to supply the demand. The butter
must be uatnrally good and sweet aud
worked quite free from the buttermilk
bv tbornucrh washiuz. There need be
no fear that this will hurt the butter,
for it canuot take anythtug from it,
the fat being wholly insoluble iu
water, aud only the buttermilk will
bo washed out of it. which it must be,
or it will be a dotrimeut to thu butter,
as producing ohunges of the fut into
volatile acids, by which the butter is
made strong and finally rancid.
Tho best paokages for this use are
glazed eartbeu jura or sweet, clean
white ouk or fpruee tubs, paiuted or
varnishod ou the outside. The tubs
are soaked in brine, then scalded, then
washed iu two or three waters, thfn
tabbed with fine suit iusido, aud while
vet the butter is puoked in them, being
firmly preyed down so ns to loave n
vacancies iu the mass.
When tho package is filled to within
alf nn inch of tho top, a clean cloth.
r, better, somo parchment puper, is
fitted closely over the butter and halt
nu inch up the edgo of the tinckasro.
lino dry snlt is thon nut in sraoothlv
to the top, thou a dry cloth well
washed, is tied down firmly, then
pnrchmcnt pnpor and then ono more
loth. Tho uir is thus exclndod, and
tlio butter will bo ns good or a littlo
ettor than whon it was packed, as it
udergoes a ripening process by which
the flue flavor of the best butter is
levelonod. New York World.
nnr.KDiNo Shetland ponies.
The smallest perfectly shaped, ma
ture Shetland pony is owned by G.
Watkins of Michigan. Ho proba
bly owns the four smallest Ho owns
wo registered Shetland, each twenty-
Iglit inches in height, one thirty
nches, two thirty-one inches, and
three thirty-two inches. They are all
t-blnok, nnd were imported from the
stud of Lord Londonderry. Their
ires aud dams are uutracod. It is
certain thnt they are from ancestors
under forty inches in height.
Tho smaller the pony iu hoight tha
moro it is cstecmod in tho Shetland
stands nnd in Scotland. The Scotch
stud book admits of no pony over
orty-two inches. Iu America pony-
brccders differ widely ns to tho size of
tho pony best adapted for usefulness
nnd tho market, somo preferring
ponies of forty-fonrto forty-six inches
nnd weighing COO to C50 pounds, and
others the smallest type possible
thirty-six inches and under, and
weighing 2 )0 to 20 pounds.
It is generally conceded that the
smallest ponios soli at the top prices.
am reminded of a buyor saying,
whon considering tha purchase of a
ittle 84 inch stnllion at 500: "If be
wns just a little bigger I would take
him ;" and the owner replied : "If he
was just a littlo smnller, I should ask
you 31,000 for him." Shetland ponies
are used chiefly in this country as pets
nnd companions for small children.
What does n pony mean to a child?
it menus a tiny horse, and the "littler"
it is tho moro tho child admires aud
loves it.
Breeders should remember that the
Shetland is the only breed considered
safe aud fit to trust in the bands of
ttlo children. Thoy never bite, kick
or run away, and are never tirea ou
or sick from caroless feeding or water-
ng; they stay hitahed or unhitched
wherever you put them. Thoy are tha
ougest-lived of the equine family.
Somo are known to have lived sixty to
eighty years. They may be used by a
dozen different sets of children. As
oue set grows too large to nse them,
they nre transferred to a younger one,
and this repeated again and again.
My advice is to breed small ponies.
3G to 40 inches, and let thosa who
want large ones for park show breed
hackney ponies. (Mortimer Lever-
ng, secretary American Shetland
Club, in Breeders' Gazette,
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
It is safest to grow several varieties.
having something to grow at all sea
sons. Complete failure in a single variety
of berries may come ofton ; ontir
failure of many varietios como very
seldom.
Au iucreaso in the sizi of market
fowls is demanded by. consumers.
There are too mauy farmers who wunl
prolific laying aud largo market birds
from the sumo breed. Market fowls
aro murket fowls, and the best for thu
purpose are not tho bost for eggs.
Either or both csu be bud, but not is
one breed, nud farmers are generally
not prepared to keep mors thau on
brood pure. Many ouunot do even
that well from luok of care.
Growing and marketing berries suc
cessfully, require business tact, good
tsste, industry, honesty, determina
tion, and a natural love for the work.
Business taot, in growing best fruit
at lowest cost, and in placing same on
good markets, in best condition.
Taste, in produoing attractive fruits,
clean, neat packages and arranged to
please the eye and invite tha taste.
Industry, in doing that which ought
to be done, at the right time and in
the beat possible manner. Houesty,
in quality, measure and paoking, on
which reputation and suooess depend.
Determination, to overcome bug
blight, frosts, drouth, short crops,
low prices and olosa competition.
Htndy quality of soil, looation mad
adaptation to your wants. It must ba
well drained. It suouldbe made rich,
and fertility muiutuiuod with bast for
tiliasrs, at moderate oosL Noue bet
ter than barnyard uunura and wood
asbe.
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