V 7 THE COUNTRY By EDTflN Jwi little country schoolhonpe you Remember it; of course you do I Within the angle emigly set, where two long yellow highways met, lAnd eaplinga planted here ami there About the yard, and boxed with care At il to typify, in turn, 1 he youngatera caught and caged, to learn. 'Around, the rolling paMtiree spread, with woodland patches garlanded. From which the breezes gladly bora tjly invitationa to the door. Across the si lis the beet' toft hum (Vm mingled with the muttered turn, And from their covert in the vale J la plaintivt pleading piped the quail, .' O little country school I Tn rain May critics hold you in diadain. The greatest leMone that you taught Were not by chalk and pencil wrought. A oped your door on fu'lda and sky, o, likewise just aa wide and hiih, You opened to the eyea of youth The princip'.ea of love and truth. Youth a Companion. O O A Week's By EMMA JtOM, ELL, did you find out?" w-Tr y)( "Yes- nn- take week oVlTo next month. And you?" 3L3L ! can uave a week at SrOYT Boon as I like." lella Freeman and Cora Gregory Stood looking at each other In the New York elevated railroad station where the; bad met with auch utter delight In their faces that Ibe boy at the news table stared, and the man at the ticket box, as he lowered their tickets with a erk of the handle, concluded that something remarkable bad hupiieued. It was nothing very great, after all, which the two girls discussed la ani mated tones all the way up town, al most missing their station in their ab sorption, and which they were still talking over so eagerly as to forget to take off their wraps when they stood In the plainly furnished little "third floor back" they called home nothing very great, only the prospect of a week's va cation. But to two girls, who had bent over typewriter and stood at a glove coun ter for a yent without a rest; who had got tip early every morning to prepare their breakfast over the little gas stove, taken a snudwlch or two for lunch for economy's sake, and come home to get their dinner wearily, with the help of the gas stove again, and who had somehow managed to make all their dresses between them to these girls a aveek's vacation was a great event. A week's rest, a week's freedom from the toll of the glove counter, a week's forgetful noss of the purple Ink of the typewriter. ' "We'll go as far Into the country as ur money will take us, Dell," said Cora, raising her bright eyes to the face of the elder girl, as they sat por ing over a column of "country board" advertisements after dinner. "Won't Sam be lonesome, though?" she added, with a laughing glance at a pboto Eraph on a mantel the pleasant face of the young bead of the dress goods department and at the ring on Delia's tiand. "I presume he'll live through It," tclla laughed. "Oh. Cora! won't It t nice? I don't know how to wait!" . There's the buggy. Burt." said Mrs. Marsh, joining her stalwart son at the front window; '"ihey've come!" 6he spoke In an awed tone, and raced apprehensively at the two young ladles ' who stepped down from the dusty vehicle, looking about delighted ly s,t the pretty yard before them, with Its scattered maple trees and Its bloom ing flower beds. t Something of her distrust was shad owed In the face of the young man es he went ont to help bis father, wbo liafl driven the newcomers from the railroad station, to carry In the small trunk tbey had brought. I don't know but we've done a toollsh thing,". Sirs. Marsh had ob served. In troubled tones, when it bad keen fairly settled by letter that the two young Indies from New York were coming for a week. "Whatever we're going to do with eni Is more than, I know. Nothlng'll be good enough for em; nothlng'll suit 'era; they'll Just It around with their hands folded and complain ' of things between them selves. I rather guess we've under took more than we can manage." And that had come to be the general conviction of the family. Burt Marsh, however, forgot bis prejudice for a moment, as be looked Into Cora Gregory's blue eyes Dellu Freeman bad tripped up the gravel walk, and was talking pleasantly to Mrs. Marsh In the ball forgot It so far as to take her little traveling bag from her band and walk up to the door with her. Instead of helping his father with the trunk forgot It so fur as to alt next to her at the dinner table, and tarry on a lively conversation; might ve forgotten It entirely, If his mother liad not recalled hlra to himself. "Of all things, Burt Marsh!" she aid, as. she poured a dipper of hot water over the dinner dishes, "don't get to thinking too much of them girls either of 'em. Do you s'pose they'd look twice at you? And If they would, That kind of a wife would one of them i snake for a burd-worklng farmer? liook at 'em!' She pointed to where , the two girls were bending over a ' clump of sweet clover In the yard, look at that flresi and that bat!" Jo- SCIIOOLHOUSE. t. MABIN. With basket and with rail equipped, Clear-eved. tan-eheeketf and herrv-linned. Athwart the pastures, down the road, Thev trudired to learnina'a nonr abodef The Pink annbonnet, bromi brimmed straw 1 ne uare crown leei mat Knew no law Of fashion 'a last ; the bundled forma That laughed aloud at cold and storms. What talea the scarred desks might relata Of triumph gained with bonk and alntel What lore the clapboards loose tioeaets Of feata at noontime and recesaf And doomed how oft the panee to tee, J lack up the road, and o'er the lea, laate boy and girl, new worlda to find. The little schoolbouse left behind. Vacation A. OPPER. aieatmging Cora'a trim form. "How long do you s'pose you could keep ber In such things as them? Don't do nothing rash, Burt!" The dress, a pretty, blue-figured lawn, had cost precisely one dollar and six cents, buttons and linings Included; the hat, a rough white straw, had been picked up at a bargain for twenty three cents and trimmed with a piece of mull and a few pink buds, carefully preserved from Inst summer. But how could Mrs. Marsh know that? And how could Burt, with his utter Inexperience of such things, do other wise than accept his mother's view, and gaze at Cora In her blue lawn as he might have gazed at a princess in her silks and velvets? "Yes, they've come," bo said, with a sigh, as he leaned over the fence to exchange a word or two with Bradley Harwood, bis friend and neighbor. "They're very nice looking." "Don't sny so?" said Bradley, smil In. "I'll be over." He was over that very evening nnd the four sat out under the maple trees, on shawls and footstools, and enjoyed the moonlight and the soft, warm breeze. Burt sat near Cora; Bradley, after one admiring look at Delia's smooth, dark head nnd sweet brunette face, sat down at her side and semeed con tent to remain there. "I don't know what I shall do." said Mrs. Marsh, anxiously, addressing her husband from the window where she sat watching the group under the trees, "if Burt goes to making a fool of himself with that girl. What kind of a fanner's wife would she make? She couldn't lift a finger. She'd set down and curl up ber hands and want a maid to wait on ber." Mrs. Marsh was almost In tears as she finished; she was quite In tears when she went tn nnrt i.. 1.1- -- - ii. urn iwuj later, and repeated ber warnings. mm uer sue needn't worry," said Burt, when ho reported this interview to Bradley Hnrm-ooil ni .in- ,.i know what I'm abont as well as the onp. i "ope. Of course, they're pretty girls, and bright, and ladvllke, and all that, but they wouldn't do for plain fellows like UR. TVtth ft lit 1ftlia to make even If they'd have us." r course not," said Bradley, promptly. But he came over that night and sat under the mnples with Delia again with Burt and Cora not far away; and he brought bis new two-seated buggy around the next a f torn ttSitt anJ alA fonr went off for a long drive through the leafy country roads. lella and Cora were quite carried away with enjoyment of their beauti ful surroundings, and Rnrr n.i ley were guiltily happy in being with It Was On ihn flilnl .In. .. I boarders arrived that Mrs. Marsh came nown witn a sharp attack of rheuma tism. Rheumntlsm was what the doe tor pronounced it; but Mrs. Marsh was firmly convinced Hint tt i. runner of a brain fever, brought on by nurry or mina. . ''It WaS ton milfh frtw ma .1.. .t.i 1.17, OUt? PJ11U to ber husband, who stood over her bed In helpless distress, "to see that boy getting more and more took up uu turn goou-ror-nothlng, helpless little critter! I couldn't with the extra work and all, it's brought me to this! If I die." she went on,' solemnly, "promise me you'll iiu your uesi to Keep Win from marry ing that clrl. that life a burden to him! I cnuM hi happy if I was easy about that." Sir. Marsh promised. "Well, then," said his wife, coming back to praetlcol subjects more cheer fully, "tell Burt to harness the horse this minute, and see If he can get a girl to come and stay a week or two, till I'm over this. The work can't be let go, with them here!" Only those unfortunates who have traveled and retravcled sparsely settled rural districts In search of a "hired girl," can appreciate the miseries Burt endured that day. Suffice to say that be returned, to ward night, thoroughly tired out and ravenously hungry and alone, having rapped at the doors of a score or so of houses which bad been supposed to contain rare treasures in- the domestic line, onlr ta find that thry had already been teir iml, or bad concluded not to "work out" this summer. lie put the horse Into the barn and went Into the house rather slowly. What would his mother say? And bow would they get along? It was very unfortunate. A whiff of boiling coffee and broil Ing ham floated out to him as be neared the kitehen; and n vision of his father laboring over the stove and spoiling the supper, brought a smile to his face. A moment more, and he stood In the kitchen doorway, staring In bewilder ment at the scene before Mm. Cora, with her blue lawn replaced hy a darker gown, which was half. covered by one of Mrs. Marsh's checked aprons, was turning the broiler over the coals with one hand, while she lifted off the potato kettle with the other, her fair cheeks becoming red dened by the heat. The table was carefully set; the pile of dlrly dishes which had been welting for the hired girl bad disappeared; the floor had been swept, and the stove had been polished. Mr. Marsh sat In a corner, surveying the Irreproachable kitchen, and the little person wbo had transformed It, with quiet satisfaction. He chuckled at the sight of bis son's open-mouthed astonishment. "We was a little mistaken thnt time. Burt." he observed, approaching and speaking In an undertone "your ma and all of us. If ever there was two more capable, go-ahead girls than them " The Inner donr opened gently, and Delia tiptoed In. There was an odor of camphor and liniment about her. "She's asleep!" she announced, tri umphantly. "I knew I could get her to sleep, rubbing her bend, and I did. I think she's better." "Supper's ready," said Cora, calmly, putting the Inst potato Into the dish. It might have been because Burt was so hungry, or It might have been because Cora was the cook, that he though the supper by far the best be bad ever eaten. But as Mr. Marsh, comparing notes afterward, expressed the same opinion, there must have been some foundation for it. A year or more of experience with the little gas stove at home had tnught Cora a good many things worth know ing. 'I never was so beat, I declare!" said Mrs. Marsh, when ber husband ennie to take Delia's place at her bed side that evening. (Bradley Hnrwood had come over and the quartet were on the porch.) "I never was quite so far off from the right track before. Why, that girl Is a regular born nurse. You never saw nothing like the way she done for me. And she slicked up the room In less than five minutes better than I could have done It myself. And to think of that little creetur getting supper, and all! Well, I am boat!" Mrs. Marsh concluded not to have brain fever, after all. She felt so much better the next day that she In sisted on getting up and doing the work. But she was not nllowed to do much. The young Indies from New York, hav. Ing got their bands In, nnd thoroughly enjoying the roomy kitchen, and the plentiful supply of milk nnd eggs, and cooking materials of all sorts, con tinued to "fuss," as they termed It, over the stove, and produced a great many delightful things, which Mrs, Marsh regarded with awe, and which Burt and his father grew enthusiastic over. "What do you think of 'em, now?" they were continually asking her with sly laughs nnd winks. "Well, I never was so beat!" was all Mrs. Mnrsli could say. The week flew by very pleasantly, nnd all too fast. Delia and Cora capped the climax by presenting Mrs. Marsh with a new calico dress "to remember them by," they said nnd making It themselves with a speed and skill that took her breath away, and won any small part of her heart which might have been unconquered. Bradley Harwood called several times a oy. 'Strikes me they wouldn't be so far out of the way for farmers' wives, after all?" ho remarked to Burt. AndJ'.urt laughed, light-heartedly. Their hist day was tho softest and sunniest one of their brief week; and Bradley brought his two-seated buggy around for n last drive, "It has been perfectly lovely, hasn't It. Dell 7" cried Cora gaily, when they stood in their room that night they were to start the next morning. "Yes," snld Delia, rather slowly. "What Is It?" snld Cora, regarding her thoughtful face sharply. "Well, I was obliged to tell Mr. Har wood about Sam," said Delia, reluct antly; "about our being engaged." "What a coincidence;" cried Cora, with a happy laugh, "I was obliged to tell Mr. Marsh that that I'll coma back In tho fall and stny for good. Do yon know, Dell, I don't understand It. I thought nt first that they rather disliked us or mistrusted us, or some thing, didn't you?" I think," said Delia, who bad watched the course of affairs shrewdly "I think we have overcome a ridic ulous Idea or two they had concerning us. by a 'natural and easy process.' " Siituvdiiy Night. ftnowfthoes For Hnraea. Over the light crust that forms on the snow In the dense forests and deep gulches of Northern Idaho the horses of the winter mall carriers make their way on snowshoes, and wooden snow shoes, at that. These are made with a double thickness of Inch boards, the whole about twenty inches long andj fourteen inches wide. An Indentation to fit the horse's foot is branded in with a hot horseshoe, and an iron clamp, secured by a screw bolt, holds It to U r hoof. The Way to Happiness ty the Us v. T-iomai B, 5m LL human beings are trying to be happy. From the beggar to the millionaire every one of us knows the meaning of the poet's line: "O, happiness! our being's end and aim." But What Is happiness? There are various answers to the question, but wben put to the final test but one of them Is able to stand, nnd here It Is happiness Is peace with one's own self. You may be at war with your neighbors and still be happy. but happy you cannot be If you are at war with yourself. Teace peace with yourself Is the only real happiness. And how Is this great thing to be reached? Wishing to be happy, how re we to make the wish a reality? It Is an important question, the most Important In the w4rld nnd, because this Is so. It has been studied from many angles and answered In ninny ways. Some have tried to find happiness along the way of ambition. In power, dominion and glory these would be supremely blest. Caesar tried that way, and. In the pride of his manhood, rau up against an assassin's dagger, Han nibal tried it, and wound up by committing suicide. Napoleon tried It, and died broken hearted and miserable on a lonely rock In the sea. And thoro Is the way of beauty a way that was tried by Cleopatra and Nell Gwynne, by Alclblndes and Abelard. as well as a host of others of less fame, but history tells us that to all of them It was lit the cud the way of bitter disappointment. A very noble way would seem to be that of self-culture the development of the Instinct, the acquisition of knowledge, the grntltlcntlon of the art sense, nnd yet the most Illustrious Individual of ail those wbo have tried this way the great Goethe declared, near the close of his long life, thnt during all his eighty odd years, ho bad not had "six weeks" of happiness. Then there Is the way of wealth the broad, straight way, which from tho earliest times has been crowded. But from old King Croesus down to Andrew Carnegie tho verdict is the same, "Wealth does not satlsry." Croesus' millions could not save him from a troubled life and a miserable ileath; and the Iron master's wealth seems to be pressing down on hi in a terrible weight, and he Is unloading himself of It as fast as be can. Fame, benuty, knowledge, riches! They all fall us. Sooner or later wo lenrn that the happiness we seek Is not to be found In them. We grasp tho Imagined prize and it turns to ashes In our grasp. Fame? The more you have of It the greater becomes your loneliness. Beauty? It Is a "rainbow's form, vanishing amid the storm." Knowledge? "Behold, we know not anything." Wealth? Go see the pampered favorites lu their splendid unrest. Where, then, shall happiness be found? There Is but one answer: In the eternal sacrifice of self. This does not mean thnt one should deliberately go about It to make him self miserable. It does not mean that one Is bound to Imitate tho authorities of old and dedicate himself to the idea so well set forth In Byron's couplet: "Deep In yon cave Honorlus long did dwell. And hoped to merit Heaven by making earth a hell." Honorlus was foolish. Self-sacrlflce Is not self-torture. Self-sacrifice dors not mean thnt we shall take ourselves away from the world and be wretched, but that we shall stay with tho world and try to make It happy. To stay In the world a man among men and to work for the world's bet terment, regardless of the consequences to one's private Interests, to fling all thought of self, like a rock, into the deep sea of forgetfulness, to be willing like the soldier in the battle line, like Father Damlen among the lepers, like Faul at Koine, like the Naznrene on the cross to die for others, this Is the true self-sacrifice and the true happiness. The happiest man In tho world to-day Is the man who has the most of this spirit, who to the fullest extent of his power Is Joyfully giving himscir. body, mind, soul, to the cause of humanity to mother, father, wife, children, neighbors, everybody; wbo thinks of self last. If nt all, and who finds his happiness In the happiness be Is able to make for those uround bltu, . The Girl Who Thinks Every Man Loves Ker Dy Nixola Crce'ey Smith HE girl wbo thinks every man Is In love with her Is npt to be very young. For after twenty-live even tho most self-satisfied and successful coquette has learned that there nro some men in the world to whom bur serious arts and smiling blandish ments make vain appeal. But when tho average girl Is about eighteen nnd has Just looked from schoolroom atmosphere toward a horizon -bounded by matrimony, she Is very much inclined to believe that If n man asks If be may call on her he Is only prevented by a par donable timidity from proposing the very first time he tukes advantage of the permission. When ho Invites her to go to the theatre she accepts It with all the blushing nnd significant hesitation that might accompany a reply to a proposal, and unless a school friend with whom she can talk her trousseau over with drops in, she spends the afternoon debating whether her wedding gown will bo of satin, chiffon and crepe do Chine, wondering Just what her engagement ring will be like, and deciding that under no circumstances will she allow her mother to live with them. "Yes," she confides to any one willing to listen to tier, "Cbnrley Jones was In last night and asked mo to go to the theatre with him. Ordinarily, I wouldn't have hesitated a minute, but there was something so significant about tho way bo naked me Oh, no! You don't mean It! I wish you wouldn't be so Idiotic! If I thought for a moment thnt thoro was anything but tho merest friendship in his feeling for me it would have to stop right here. I don't believe In encour aging men, Just to tbrow them down. Mother says It Isn't right" ' Later she goes with the unconscious Charley to the theatre, and wbllo be Is wondering whether the pleasure of going with a pretty girl and allowing other people to tramp on your toes between the acts outweighs that of going by your, self or with another man nnd tramping on their toes, slio remains on the keen edge of expectancy all tho evening and later accounts to ber mirror for his commonplace and utterly unsentimental utterances by saying that It is a pity the poor boy is so shy. ' And so tho days run on and Charley docs not propose. And tho girl who thinks every man is In lovo with ber wonders what she can have done to blight wliat was undoubtedly a budding infatuation. But she does not reiaember though surely, if she has any knowlcdgo of ber sex she should that Mabel Johnson told Maud Thomas tbat Ethel said Charley Jones was Just crazy about ber, and thnt Maud Thomas told Charley's sister, who related the very much varnished facts to him with the remark tbat be ought not to allow himself to be made such a fool of. She does not know anything except that Charley does not call any more. And that does not prevent ber from thinking thnt' the next Charley Is Just as much and as suddenly smitten, r.or from menus witu the same disastrous results. New York World, JZ? JZ7 & Solution of the By Miss Estells Reel, Superintendent of the Iniian Schools II EKE Is no sort of doubt of tho good progress the young gen eration of Indians Is making toward a higher civilization. Not long since I was out In South Dakota, Inspecting the day schools on tho Koscbud end 1'lne Bldgo reservations, and was gratified to sec bow well the young Sioux nre doing. The boys uro getting not only a are being taught In a practical way that oldest of occupations agiiculture. There is a garden connected with each school, and they are shown how to plant and cultivate potatoes, beans. cabbages and various other vegetables. arc shown its application. Tho young girls are instructed In ing, sewing, mending and tho like. Tbey take to these nils readily, and are much cleverer with their fingers than the girls is really beautiful. While excellent In manual dexterity, the Iudlan children are slow to comprehend abstract Ideas. They can bo tuught to cipher very well, but mental arithmetic puzzles additional reason for emphasizing their need of training along practical Hues. It Is far better to teach tho rising generation how to make a crop and keep tho house decently than to employ them In parsing sentences or studying his tory, Tbey take Interest only In tho tuugiblo and the concrete, something they can pcrccivo with the eye, and to whlcli infancy. There is no longer any opposition to schools on the part of the parents. In fact, the old folks now gladly bring their offspring to the schoolhouses and are proud of their scholastic attainments. The solution of the Indian problem may not be easy, but in time It will be ac complished. The two chief factors to tbat end is this Industrial education uud after that the dispersion of tbt Indians among the whits people throughout aver part of the UnlUd 8tates.-Washlogton 1'ost Cregory confiding his Infatuation to her girl Indian Problem fair degree of book learning, but they i Wherever irrigation is feasible they all the branches of housekeeping, cook white children. The sewing of some of them sadly. This, in my opinion, Is I they have in a way been used from the children attending the Government ft aV - 1 Clean Eggs. Take a damp cloth along with you when you gather your eggs and wipe them off clean, no matter what their destiny may be, as It Is beneficial. What Is more disgusting than to see an Incubator full of dirty eggs? Even In the market they are looked upon with suspicion or sent away, and the receiver will lower his estimation of them. Strictly fresh eggs are often stamped, wrapped In tissue paper, and put up, a dozen In a box. What is this done for? To Inspire confidence and maintain profitable market prices. It Is a well known fact that appearances largely make the value and draw the customers. Feeding Cotton 8eed Meal. Recognizing the food value of cot tonseed meal, many dairymen desire to use It but are drterred because of adverse reports concerning It. It Is rich In protein, hence Its value In the ration, but being concentrated it Is likely to make trouble with the bow els. Only small quantities of it should be fed, usually about two pounds a day, and then It should be mixed with other grains, preferably with brah. The best results from the feeding of cotton seed meal has been obtained by the writer when ensilage was a part of tho winter ration, and the presumption Is that a succulent food of some kind is really needed to balance the cottonseed meal. If no succulent food ran be glv en, or at best but little, it will be the better plan to reduce tile quantity of cottonseed meal given. Indianapolis News. Temperature for Planting. It Is a common belief that the tem perature of the air and the soil Is a reliable Indication of the time for planting the different varieties of farm and garden seeds. Many farmers will not plant corn or cotton until In their Judgment the soil Is "warm enough" to germinate tho seed. That this Is not an unerring guide may be easily demonstrated by the experience of any one who has kept a diary and ob served closely. It Is quite true that neither corn, cotton, nor other seed will germinate or come up If the tem perature of the soli continues, after planting, below the proper degree of warmth for the germination and growth of the particular seed,' but or dinary observation shows that in our changeable spring climate tho tem perature of the air and soil on one day Is no guarantee of what It will be three or four days after. The con ditions of planting may be correct at the time of planting, and be all wrong at the time of germinating. In the spring corn usually requires about 12 to 14 days to come up, and cotton seed from 5 to 10 days. Hence, the weather may be all that could be desired for several days after planting the seed and then turn cold or rain. It Is more Important that the latter half of the period of germination should be favor able than the first half. The correct rule la to plant according to time the day of the month having regard oth erwise only to proper degrees of dry ness lu the soil, which should be In good condition for working. The time should be determined .by experience of past years. Philadelphia Record. The Value of Poultry, Poultry values on the farm have been variously discussed by the numer ous authorities. Among those most prominent Is Professor Gilbert of Ot tawa, Can., who gives the following reason 8: First Bccauso the farmer ought, by their means, to convert a great deal of the waste of his farm Into money In the shape of eggs and chickens for market. Second Because with Intelligent management they ought to be all-year revenue producers, with the exception of perhaps two months during the molting season. Third Because poultry will yield him a quicker return for the capital Invested than any of the other depart ments of agriculture. Fourth Because the manure from the poultry house will make a valuable compost for use In cither vegetable garden or orchard. Tho birds them selves If allowed to run in plum and apple orchard, will destroy all injuri ous insect life. Fifth Because, while cereals and fruits can only be successfully grown In certain soctlons, poultry can be raised for table use or layers of eggs In all parts of the country. Sixth Because poultry raising Is an employment In which the farmer's wife and daughters ran engage, and leave blm free to attend to other depart ments. Seventh Because It will bring him the best results In the shape of new laid eggs during the winter season, when the farmer has tho niott time on his hands. Eighth Because to start pooKry raislng on the farm requires, little or no capital. By Rood management poul try can be made with little cost a val uable adjunct to the farm. Farm andl Ranch. , 8eedlng Clover. Now Is the time for the early spring; seeding of clover on the wheat crop. Among the hundreds of hay crops that are well known none commands such high estimation aa clover, and espe cially the red variety. It fills si place on the farm that cannot be estimated,, for not only as food for stock It Is val ued, but as an almost certain reno vator of all soils on which It la crown.. There Is scarcely a portion of the civ ilized world tn which It Is not known,, and It Is truly the king of the farm, crops. It belongs to the leguminous; or bean family. The seeds, when, viewed with a magnifier, are perfect little beans, handsome In appearance and easily germinated. Clover la adapted to all soils, for It is grown on both light and heavy land, tint light, soils do not suit It as well aa a soli that Is medium or heavy. In some parts of New Jersey it Is often seen in luxu rious bloom on sandy soils that are white as snow, and In Pennsylvania. It Is a certain crop on the heaviest, kind of land. Farmers often complains that It Is hard to get a good "catch" of ' clover, but such Is not tho caao when-, proper care is taken to peed It well. Double, or at least, one-half more seed) should be used than Is the custom at. present, and the seed should tie rolled' with a heavy roller. At present the practice Is to sow It very early in the spring, and allow It to remain out of " the earth until it Is carried down by the melting snows or rains, or eaten hy birds, in which cases much of the seed Is lost, owing to remaining en tirely out of the soil, and when the young points are up the field seems as; If It were uneven, the failure being as cribed to the earth and seed, when ln reality the fault Is with tho farmer.. Then there Is the necessary Inocula tion of the soil with the clover bacterid, if tho crop has never been grown on. the land. The Garden. The garden pays better than any- other land of equal area on the farm,, and for this reason great care should be exercised In selecting the plat of ground for this purpose and prepar ing it for the best results. Market- gardening Is more profitable than farming, whllo growing vegetables for family use will be quite a saving to the farally purse. In gardening three- things must be considered as of sit prime Importance; first tho right se lection for a location, second the prop er drainage, and third the preparation of the soli for planting and success-1 fully growing the vegetables. Thecare of the garden is frequently left to the,' luiujers wiits. Him merciure ine loca- tion should be chosen with reference to the kitchen's convenience, and also with reference to the sun and wind. A;. surface. If possible, should ha rhwn that slopes gently southward, and it this slope Incline slightly eastward IB will be the better. A hill, hedge or rock wall to serve as a wind break on the north is advisable. The uizi oF the garden plat should be governed by the size of the family, if vegetables -are to be grown for home use; but it" for market, the facilities should deter mine the area. When the area and lo cation of the garden have been deter mined, the next step will be to look suT ter the drainage. In order to get rid.' of an excess ot water. The water, if allowed to remain, will deprive the roots of tho vegetables of a supply of air, and this will retard their growth. If the plat is a little Inclined, the drainage will take care of Itsolf, other wise trenching, ditching, or some sys tem of underground drainage must txv used. The preparation of the soil con sists In plowing, harrowing aud fer tilizing the ground. Some prefer spad ing to plowing, especially If the garden be small; but when the cpace lu not. too small for convenient plowing. It 1st ' much easier to use the plow. It In nec essary to have the soil broken to a,, depth that the roots ot the vegetables to be planted may have a looue, mellow earth that they can grow through free ly. The fall Is the best time fur plow ing, so that the clods aro left exposed to the frost aud freezes; but It will,, of course, be necessary tn plow again. In the spring, as the soil, no matter bow loose the earth may be, will set tle again, so that It will need stirring periodically. For fertilizing, titable manure Is the most available on the farm. This manure should be hauled? out from the stable and spread evenly over the ground before plowing. Frank M. Beverly, is Tho. Epltomiat.
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