A Kansas man ha named bin baby girl Philippine Manila Hchleyotta Dewe'.ta Grimes. The polled force of the state of Hun Paulo, Brazil, in henceforth to con dint of 5150 men. Thin is quite an army, in view of the fact that the total population of the state in under 1 , BOO, 000. Perhaps it is merely n coincidence, hut Hpain sued for peace just one day after Mine Lizzie Lesdener of Okla homa announced that ahe had organ ized a company of female rough rid ers to go to war. The inventive facilities of the Amer ican girl aeem practically nnlimited. The Atchison (Kan.) Otobesays: "By tying eaudpaper about her ankles an Atchison girl produced the name effect at by buying ail expansive silk skirt. The pieces of sandpaper rub together and aound just like a $12 skirt." Pretty rough on the dressmakers, though. Travelers over the line of railway from the City of Mexico to the city of Vera Cm a are said to be greatly impressed with some of the euginei they aee in use on that route double headers aa they are termed. The Mexican railway company has already aa many as a dozen, adding them from time to time to Its stock as business has demanded. Each of these mam moth constructions weighs 103 tons, and is capable of hauliug 100 tons up a four and one-half per cent, grade. They are of Hootch manufacture, and have now been in the service of the road about ten years. The fact is mentioned as aomewhat singular that these double-headers are nsed by no other road in North America. Many of the United States senators from Houthern atates come from small towns, the policy in many parts of the South being to recognize country rather than city statesmen. Neither of the representatives of Texaa is from Galveston ; neither of the repre sentatives from Georgia is from Atlanta; neither of the senatora from North Carolina is from Raleigh; nei ther of the senators from Houth Caro lina is from Charleston; neither of the senators from Kentucky is from Louisville; neither of the senators from West Virginia is from Wheeling, and neither of the senators from Mis souri is from Ht. Louis. Home of the towns represented are Marietta, Oa. ; Bennetsville, H. C; Tyler, Tex.; Hcottsville, Va.; Marshall, N. C, and Marion, Ky. Tenuessee is the only Bon the: n atate whose two seuatora represent the trfo chief cities. There is a volume of instruction on the elements that gj to make up our volunteer array in the published report of the previous occupations of those soldiers of the Tenth Pennsyl vania regiment who were ki lid in the first land battle near Manila. One was farmer, one was a country store keeper, two were ooal-miners, one waa the son of school -teacher, one was a college student who had enlist ed on the day before the graduating exercises of his class. This ia uot an exceptional list. It ia merely a fair type and sample of the young men who in every atate of the Union came forward promptly and cheerfully to answer their country's call, comments the New York Herald. They repre sent all classea and conditions of citi zenship, dying ou a common level of military heroism as they had lived on a common level of civic patriotism. As pretty an illustration as we have yet seen of the new spirit which marks the interchange of comment between England and Amerioaappeara in the last Spectator to arrive by mail, says the New York Times. Discus sing the statemeut of the English captain at Manila, when asked by the German admiral what be would do in case the Germaus interfered with the bombardment of the city the state ment being that only the English cap- ' tain and American admiral had or - eonld get any information on that del icate topic The Spectator says; "There ia something very naive in the German admiral imagining that we abould allow him to bully Admiral Dewey though, as far a that goes, there ia no reason to think that the American sailors would want any one'a help if it came to fighting the Ger mans." The first part of this sen- teuoe ia eutirely friendly, and only a few mouths ago the possibility that it might be a little irritating to Ameri can nerves would not have worried the Spectator a bit. But now an af terthought comes, and it guts iuBtaut expression. The words as they stand are not exactly a lessou in taut, to be are, bat aren't they delightful. They irake the Atlantic ocean aeeui uuiow MY GRANDFATHER'S SCRAP-BOOK. ft was a day when oa the pans The wild wind dashed the tireless rain, And brawling grew the brook, That, In the attic, on a quest Obeying fnncjr'sodd Imfiest, I found within an nnnlent chest My grandfather's scrap-book. A gabled window dimly flung A soft light where the cobwebs hung, Within a corner nnok, And there within the shadows gray, llnnoath Imagination's sway, 1 lived. Ill thought, the vanished day Of grand father's scrap-book. I gawd on many s gay vignette And ra ti'S cut In silhouette, Willi quaint, old-fashioned look On pictured ladlns, fair and slim, Ami dainty verses faded dim, With sentiments so sweet nnd prltn In grandfathers si'rai-book. r WAR'S SUDDEN CALL. J A ffVTVVVT A Love Story In the navy, with its constant nud rapid changes, it almost limitless pos sibilities front day to day, the fates themselves seem to sit alert spinning on one's very doorstep. One uncon sciously treads lightly and whispers iu hopes of being forgotten, if only for a passing hour. Many a hasty word dies ou the lips because of the aching memory of a cruise just passed, the haunting fear of one fast approach lug. Of course there had beau misunder standings between them before, in the usual rise aud fall in the tide of all human relations, but never before any thing like this. Ensign Phelps had just returned from a long wearing cruise to Hud a condition of things political that sud denly dwarfs the proportions of thiugs feminine. Also his aeuse of humor, never rampaut, happened to be further attenuated by studying late into the night for liis approaching examination for promotion. Mra. Phelps had tried to face it all, but the two dreary years of separatiou bad left her with nerves that shivered at a breath. Then, too, she had in stantly recognized and resented that foeling in him that comes to all men at such times the sense that the deep purposes nnd ends of bin life had brushed her aside, that be wanted both arms free for once. The brute that fights to win and hits been trained 13 years for just that was awake and on Are within him. Nothing of this had been spoken between them, aud yet it was at the root of their quarrel that spring morning, when words were said back and forth that seemed to aweep up the love, devotion, patience of two lives like ashes ou the hearth where a Are has died. He strode along the gray, chill streets on his way to hit ship at the navy yard, and she stood still, wide eyed and white.and for them both the past and future were wiped out, and the present only lived iu one of those flaming agonies 0f disillusion of which one somehow survives such a surpris ing number iu the course of a life time. The baby at her feet plucked at her dress, aud the mother did not even feel it, wrapped in that overwhelming sense of finality thnt belongs to pas sionate youth. Hhe was conscious of uo particular animosity just then, only a sort of wonder and awe that this should be the end of it all. The end of a happy girlhood, when his words-of love had made a woman of her in a day, and happy years of wifehood, wheu they were lovers still, aud eveu happier motherhood, that had set her apart sanctified forever in his eyes so he had stooped and whispered to her that night when the light burned low near by, nud ahe had fallen asleep with her band in his, Hhe looked about in dull amazement at the familiar things about her that made up their simple little home. There under the lamp were bis books and a pad aud pencil where he had sat studying last night and near it her work where she had been beside him sewing in unwilling silence after her long isolntion. The indent of her head was still ou the pillow ou the lounge whereshe had at length throw u herself and lay watching him nutil she fell SHloep toward midnight. Hhe glanced abont half duzed; and then Hutu, her old colored maid, the only servaut she had ever had, came in from the kitchen and spoke to her in that low, sweet, compelling voict of hers that weut back to Mrs. Phelps' babyhood down iu Muryluud. Hhe oboyed the voice from habit and weut mechanically about ' her morniug duties, in the performance of which a certain warmth and pliability returned to her frozen mood. A sense of anger and oatrago began to burn again at his last stinging words, whose probe weut deep with the aura cruelty of long association. Hhe took her little girl and went out on her homely round of marketiug, largely trumped np by keen-witted old Ruth. Ou returning she toiled wearily np the three flights of the apartment house the elevator ao seldom ran after the men had gone for the day. Hhe auuk exhausted ou the lounge iu the tiny dining room aud let the child pull oil' her glovea, one. obstinate Au ger at a time. Her eyes shut, and a nervous reaction bad set in, when she beard a youug step bouuding up the ataira aud a sharp ring at her bell. Hho was half conscious that Ruth opened the door and that a boy'a high voice was saying: "Cau't I aee the lady herself?" Hhe sat np as he approached. "Holding telefonui corner drug iiore.iaiiy-yonse liner to unrry, be panted aud was gone again iu a Hash. Mrs. Phelps sprung after bint and called down the ataira; Amid the relics oft I spied, Houvcnlrs of family pride, That of the past partook- Home scion honored try bis land llmnembered here, or In fine hand The autograph of some one grand, In grandfather's anrnp-book. The hours, beguiling, grew space, And I forgot the time and place. And seemed to hear, oddr.ook I A-penllng through the dusk, eft soon, A merry, stiitclv. old dunce tune, And clank and t ri-ml nf high-heeled sboon, Near grandfathers scrap-book. Ho dreamed I, till, all hushed the rain Till through a tiny, dusty pane A trembling star-ray shook, And misty shadows, gathering, rose Around my vldoned belles ami beaux, And told me it was time to close Sly grandfather's scrap-book. -Ellen llrnluerd Puck, In X. V. Home Journal. of the Present. "What number? Where from? .Did you bear?" "Sixty-one," he shouted, from two stories below, "The nnvy yard!" she exclaimed, a thrill of pretuuuitiou sending her heart iuto her throat. A moment Inter she stood alone in the telephone closet at the corner.and through the transmitter a soft "Hello" sped on its war. Then ahe listened. "Yes, I'm Mrs. Phelps. Who are you?" Hhe had not recognized the voice that had answered. "Oh, Guy!" she cried, softly, in sudden, illogical, overwhelming relief, as she clung tightly to the receiver. "Yes, yesI'll listen carefully," she said next, and then silence. "What? What? Hay it again, very slowly. I cau't understand. Hitrely I haven't uuderstood?" her voice was sharp, with a sudden dread. Again silence, aud then ber auswer: "Not today? At ouce? The ship ordered to Puerto Rico? Have I got it right? Oh, Guy, have I got it right?" . Hhe listened, and a low moan of pain escaped her. "But but surely you'll come home for a minute? I'll see you again?" The auswer sent a shiver through ber from head to foot, and she said, fiercely: "I cannot stand it, Guy. I cannot! To have yon go at ouce like this after this morning. Con Id I see you just see you, Guy if I went straight to the yard now?" Aud a few seconds later: "It's looterrible, too cruel." Hud deuly she started violently as a thought flashed through her head, and ahe asked, rapidly: "Guy, be holiest with me. Does this sudden order mean does it ineau war? Is there any news? Something I don't know?" and nfler an interval; "Yes, yes, I'll try. No one knows yet, of course. But, Guy, speak to me your voice is still cold aud hard and strange. Hay something to me -one word I can cling to, to help me!" "What?" A pause. "Yon are iu the paymaster's office? Clerks all about? Is 'that It? Please whisper it, and I'll try and catch it." Hhe listened painfully only a burr, a woman's laugh, a word iu an un known voice, a tantalizing, incessant vibration from the endless feverish crisscross of life going on forever, in which she had no part. "I cau't hear Oh, Guy, I can't hear a word," she punted. "Don't go yet. When can I hoar from you? lust one minute; I want to say some thing, Guy!" The telephone bell sounded with sharp impatience eveu as she spoke. Hhe rung again and again, and there was no anawer. "Come back; I must say one word. Central, give me 01, please, give me 61. Guy, dear, won't yon come for one single second? I'm I'm ao aorry for this morning. It was all my fault, every bit of it." Hhe pleaded sobbing iuto the senseless thing in her hand that no longer responded. Hhe mug again and ouce again, frantically. Then she sprung rigidly erect and whispered: "It'a too late he's gone perhaps forever." Her head fell forward, she awayed toward theeloset door.fumbled at the handle, opened it and cried in a voice faint and pitiful: "Will aome one -help me?" Her failing sight saw Ruth hnrrying toward her through the street door; ber tail ing hearing was pierced by the shrill young voice of a newsboy dashing roitud the corner: "Ex-tra,ex-tral President's message read in Cougressl War sure to " His voice was lost in the roar of the atreets,aud Mrs. Phelps sank uncon scious iuto Hutu's arms. Twenty-four hours passed. Half through the night and all day long the cries of the newsboys reached the shrinking heariug of the young wife. Her aweet face was stiff aud ashy with suffering; ber hauda so cold that her obild ahrauk from her touch and whimpered. Ruth hovered about, in and out, ou a hundred foolish loving errands. Hhe played and laughed boisterously with the baby to drown all other sounds when she caught the first far cry that wrung ber mistress' heart agaiu and again, coming uearer and nearer down the street. Aa the day drew to its close Mrs. Phelps lay once again sileut and spent on the old lounge, aud again ahe beard a quick step spring np the stairs, a ring at her bell, the low words at the door. It seemed like the con fused memory of a dream. Hhe did not even open ber eyea until Ruth aaid close beside ber: "One these yer mess'ger boys, Mies Nanuie, jes' broughten thia yer paasel fo' you. It do smell like it might be some sort tr bo'quet," ahe Added, umiliua. "Pnt It down, mammy; I'll arrangi them later," said Mrs. Phelps. Prob ably aome friend at the yard, who knew of the ship's sudden sailing, bnd re membered ber and sent a silent mes sage of sympathy in this sweet way. It was often done from one sad hearted wife to another, just to help a little in the endless pathos of theit common lives. "Land sake, Miss Nnnnie.nln't you put them poHies in the water yet?" complained Ruth, again appearing at the door, watching for some spark of interest in thnt sot, white face before ber yearning eyes. "Pat's no way to act, Miss Nannie, an' yon know dat right well. When folks takes de trouble an' de 'spense to buy yon some flowers, you'd in ter spunk up 'nough shorely to say 'howdy' to 'em." "All right, mammy dear; please don't scold," said Mrs. Phelps,a smile breaking for an instant through the rigidity of her face. Hhe arose and began to untie the string about the pasteboard bnx. Hhe raised the lid and lifted out a great pile of pink aud yellow roses. The baby ran toward ber with a soft coo of delight. Then Mrs. Phelps gave a Ion I cry, and the roses fell all about her. Hhe stood staring wildly at ail envelope that bad slipped to the bot tom of the box, addressed to tier in her husband's handwriting. It was as if it came from a grave, that awful silence of the sea. For a second she waa afraid to touch it and atood with her hauda pressed over her heart. Then she seized the envelope, aud with one swift motion of ber trembling forefin ger ripped it open and read with eyes balf-bliuded with tears: "The pilot leaves us at Hcotlaud lightship in a few moments. He will take this back to the city. Also an order for a few flowers, which I can only hope will go straight. You should get this tomorrow or next day. I am ou my knees to you, ray wife, for this morning. I beg your pardon it was all a lie, every ngly word of it. Try and forget it if you can. Htanip it out of your me-nory, for it has no real ex istence against all the rest all the happy years. Just try and remember those, and love me a little, dear. "Do not believe the papers do not read them. Peace may come out of it all yet, and if not try and be brave. A sailor has need of a plucky wife, one drilled into the tough spirit of a 'reg ular' by long service. Aud remember: "Ours not to reason why Ours but to do " He had shied at the word with no time to rewrite. "Good bye, my love. Ah! if I could have held you just for one second and beard you whisper 'It'a all right. Guy.' But take our little one in your arms and look iuto ber eyes my eyes you've always said nud read there my endless love and honor. Kiss her aud hold her close, mid forgive me, forgive me." Mrs, Phelps fell on her knees aud throwing her arms about her baby be gan to sob like a tired child. And the lit'Je girl patted her cheek and crooned to her, the spark of motherhood al ready alive iu ber, and Ruth brooded over them both. At that moment ouce again the shout came piercingly up from the afreet below: "Ex-tra! Congress will declare war!" The young wife sprang to her feet and shook her fist iu the direction of the voice, and half laughing; half sob biug.she cried: "It is not war it is peace, thank God!" Chicago Record. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Greece bus a 110-year-old woman. The egg is currency in South Africa'a iuterior. Hiam'a king has a bodyguard of 400 female warriors. CroHsus, of aucient timet, possessed about $20,000, 000. Tobacco seeds a :e so minute that a thimbleful will furnish enough plants or an acre of grouud. Dentists in Germany are using false teeth made of paper instead of porcelain or mineral composition. Rug weaving is an art older than the Pharaohs, and the history of the first loom lies shrouded iu oblivion. Spurious coins are legally made in China. They are nsed to put in the coffins of the dead, and the supersti tion prevails that they make the dead happy. The British soldier has uot always worn a red uniform. White was the prevailing color under Henry VIII, aud dark green or russet in the time or Elizabeth. The first double-decked ship built in England was the Great Harry, con structed in 1500 by order of Henry VIII. It was 1000 tons burden and cost 800,000. On account of superstitions regard ing the plague the natives of Bombay still occasionally throw stones at for eigners moving about alone, and not long ago a physician's life was saved only by his helmet, at which a blow waa aimed. A Great Discovery. A modest obemist, living in Los Angeles, Cal., has discovered a salts which may kill all existing methods of supplying ice. A thimbleful ia her metically sealed iu a uickel-ailver re ceptacle about three-eighths of an inch in diameter aud two inches long, which the soldier may carry by the dozen in his haversack. It weigha about aa much as a cartridge. Dropped into a canteen of water it oouverta the contents iuto ice in an incredibly short time. A larger one will freeze a bucket of Santiago (or any other) water, aud a atill larger tub. Aa the salts do not ojuie iu coutaot with the water the latter remains unpolluted. New York Press. IFOR FARM AMD GARDEN The ll.e of Fnddr Kli redder. Fodder shredders have been found equal to cutters iu preparing ensilage for the silo. According to the ex perience of those who have used shred ders for the purpose mentioned the ensilage is Oner and a linger quantity can be packed In the silo. It also keeps well and is mora highly relished by stock. t.ala Fall I'lgs. The only pig that will attain size enough to safely pass the winter Is one that is born sit or seven months before cold weather is expected. We have raised pigs in the full and that too when we had the advantage of a base ment barn to provide warm quarters for the ii. Yet the growth during the winter, notwithstanding good feed, was never satisfactory, There Is too little sunlight dii-ing the winter months, slid if the pig is kept warm without sunlight it is usually at the expense of poor veutilation. Without good air no animal can maintain good digestion or remain healthy. Whet Chair Is looil for. All kinds of grain have chaff sur rounding the kernels. In its wild state this chaff aerves a very impor tant use, as it absorbs the moisture that would otherwise swell the grain and cause its premature generation. After long cultivation this use seems less necessary and there is less pro fusion of chaff aud husk. It is quite possible that all our Indian corn orig inally came from that curious wild variety iu whioh each grain on the ear had its separate husk. Wherever there are severe droughts during the time the grain is forming there will be less development of chaff and husk. With our self-binding grain harvest era, grain ia now often put into stack or mow before it baa dried ont as it should do. The busk in such case serves an important nse, as the straw will often rot nnder the baud where it is tightly oompressed, while the bead with still damper grain is preserved from iajury by the loose chaff with which it is surrounded, and which very rapidly dries not ouly itself but the grain in contact with it. Barley, which is most apt to be injured by raius, has a better supply of chaff and awns to keep its head open to air than has any other grain. wa as Affecting Food. Investigations, it is declared, show that animals fed on sewage farms are, nnder certain conditions, liable to have thoir flesh and secretions changed by the herbs aud grasses, produced by the sewage, upon which they feed. Thus, if the sewage ou a given fa in be so managed that no more of t be pnt iuto the soil than any given crop can adequately deal with.it is asserted that the crop will, under these con ditions, be sweet nnd natural. and that the cattle or other animals fed on it will also be of that character. On the other hand, if the soil be gorged to repletion with sewage, then the crops will be surcharged with sewage ele ments, and unfit for food the meat and milk of animals derived from such crops will also be like the crops, alike nnpleasaut to the taste aud dangerous to the health. These hospital state ments are proved l.y well-known facts; that is, if a cow is fed ou turnips, her milk will withiu twenty-four hours taste like them, the intensity of the flavor being according to the quantity of turnips taken; iu the case of hens and their eggs, a like result follows, for, if fed on decaying matter, which they alwaya eat greedily, both their eggs and flesh will be disagreeable and nnwholesome eating. Ducks, too, are still more objectionable iu these respects. New York Tribune. Alighting Bosnia. Not only in winter is the lighting board of great importance, bnt iu sum mer as well. Every convenience about the en trances of hives should be afforded the bees, and this is of equal importance the year round. The entrance to tha hive of itself should necessarily be small in winter and for this reason the surroundings should be more favor able. A good broad board, well cleat ed at each end to keep it straight, should rest on the ground at one end, and slope to the entrance to the hive at the other. This does not apply to well kopt apiaries, as other conveniences used are better, but as farm lues are usually kept. The up-to-date apiarist makes n nice little mound of earth to set the hive on and places the bottom boa'd directly ou the sa ne, and banks np iu front with aand, gravel orawdut ou a level with the entrsuce or bottom board, aud neither a spear of grass nor a weed is allowed to grow near the hives. It ia much better to have hives set directly on the grouud, but if the ground is allowed to grow up with grass and weeds until the beas are totally abut ont of the hive, then the old rule of benches two or three feet high would probably bo better. Farm, Field aud Fireside. Ilrainea fur Permanent I'a.tnrm. In order to obtaiu the greatest amonut of profit from grasses, selec tions of seed shonld be made that ou ordinary soils will give the heaviest crops of hay, the thickest aud most nourishing pasture, and last for the longest time without renewing. The tendency of the average farmer ia to pin his faith too closely to timothy and clover, or to timothy alone, or xrlth aome other one grass, and aa a reanlt be ia forced to be content with a yield of one or two tone of bay per acre. The best results are usually obtained from a mixture of several grasses as put in proper proportions by reliable aeedinen. One of the finest mixtures for a fairly productive soil consists of or chard grass, English rye grass, mead ow foxtail, Italian rye grass, sweet scented vernal, Rhode Island bent and l ed top. This mixture is sown in the fall at the rate of three bushels per sole, more on poor land, and iu the spring a mixture of clover ia sown over the Held broadcast at the ralo of ten pounds to the acre. The bay crops from this sowing frequently amount to more thau threw limes that from timothy and clover or other two-grass mixtures,leaving after cutting a pasture of value until late in the fall. Another J oint in favor of a mixture of sevetal grasses is the long life of the mesdow. If cared for by occasional fertilizing such a mead ow will scarcely need renewing under ten or a dozen years. Drying Wheat for Reed. After every damp harvest as I lie present has been in most localities, the grain goes into the barn with its straw not so thoroughly dry as it should be. There is also considerable dampness in the grain itsolf, and this will probably cause heating of the grain in the mow. With spring grain this does not matter much for the grain will be pretty sure to dry out when freezing cold weather comes. But whenever winter grain is grown the seed for next harvest has to be selected from the present year'a crop, and this often means the prematura threshing of the winter grain and ns iug it while still damp as seed. To this fact is probably to be at tributed the common belief among farmers that old wheat and rye are better for seed than new. In the old grain the freezing of winter aud tbe subsequent thawing has made the seed nearly wholly free of moisture. Yet all these experiences are not ab solutely necessary. If the grsin is thoroughly dried iu the fall that it ia grown, it is not only as fit but more fit for seed than it is aftar being dried out by winter freezing wherein its germinating powers are more apt to be injured than they are by being thoroughly dried ont the previous fall. We have heretofore advised the greatest care in drying seed grain for fall aowing. Bnt it is far better, we believe to thoroughly dry the seed even by artificial means. We have over and over again dried seed grain in fruit evaporators such as are used for drying api la , and always with, the best results iu a large proportion grown of the seed that was sown. We believe that it is best to dry all grain used as seed by the beat of fire. It nay be by braiding the seed corn and hanging it beside the chimney, so aa to secure t ho heat of the kitchen Are. But however it is dried, the seed that has fire heat to dry it is sure . to pro duce the most vigorous growth and the largest crop of grain. American Cultivator. Soil Kslianetlon. In Bulletin 91 of the New York state agricultural experiment stutiou attention is called to the dangers of e continued free nse of farmyard man ures. Referring especially to cereal crops, the bulletiu shows that such manures are doticiont iu pota-di aud phosphoric acid, and thut when nsed continuously for a considerable period they wilt hasten soil exhaustion. It is nudoubt 'dly true that all soils receive more or lest accessions of am monia from the atmosphere, through rainfall and the action of leguminous plants of vol lous kinds, but potash and phosphoric acid cannot possibly be obtained by such means. Conse quently, while the supply of ammouia may be obtained within reasonable limits the mineral fertilizers suffer a rapid depletion aud crops begin to fall off. ' Farmyard manure tends to exhaust the phosphorio acid and potash of the soil, simply because it coutains less mineral fertilizer thau ammonia - in proportion to the needs of the crop. Tlu effect ou the soil is a kind of stimulation, for the supplies of phos phoric acid and potash naturally ex isting iu tha soil are drawn upon to make np the balance. While the amount for any one year may uot be large, after years of cropping the loss becomes serious. Kven iu those cases where no man ures were usd at all the same result is reached. A very considerable quantity of ammouia reaches the soil every yea" through the aid of legumes, . w hile every pound of uiiu. ral fertil izers takeu off in crops is just so much dead loss to the soil. This is shown very clearly by the fact thut the sim pi j application of phosphorio acid aud potash will very frequently give heavy crops. The lurge fertilizer manufac turers of the east make up their mix tures from actual farm tests, and it is a striking fact that the aumonia in such g. toils is very low as compared with the phosphorio acid and potash. If farmyard manure is used, or if no manure at all ia used, dress the field with phosphorio acid and potash. When these fail it is time to look after a further ammonia supply. It ia not wise to run the soil down to the verge of exhau-tion by using the most ex pensive ingredient of fertilizers. For potash, potash salts are all that can be desired, aud ordinary bone pro ducts will supply the needful phos phorio acid. Cereal farmers will Aud that the normal fertility of their soils . may be ni"iutuiued for many years yet, by the simple application of the mineral fertilizers. Kara Botf-rowtMiloa. Drowning Man Help! Help! Rescuer (yelling to amateur photog rapher ou bauk) Wait a second. I've nearly reached him. Now! Chicago Tribune.
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