Care of the Clothet.
We all like good clothes and the
feeling of being; well dressed. It la
not entirely a question of money; It Is
also a matter of detail and of giving
a small portion of our time to keeping
our belongings In order. No matter
how expensive or well fitting one's
dress Is, the appearance Is spoiled by
soiled stock or piece of lace or a
crushed and frayed skirt.
Just stop and think what a saving
of time and money the short skirt is
to a woman, especially the busy wo
man. No skirt braids need renewal,
bo frayed edges give her an untidy
appearance.
Take a look at your every-day skirt
and think what an Improvement a
good pressing would be to it. This
can be done very easily at home and
should be done every week or two.
Place your skirt on a covered ironing
board aDd have handy two hot irons
rather heavy in weight. Now cover
the portions to be pressed with a thor
oughly wet piece of unbleached mus
lin folded double, and when pressing
don't move the iron too quickly over
It, but press until the material stops
teaming.
Should there remain dulled or glazed
pots sponge lightly and press again
Washington Star.
The Eastern Women.
For the most part the occupants of
ft large harem (In Morocco) pass a
very miserable life, says the London
"Sketch." They have little or no ex
ercise, too much to eat, and until they
have borne a son to their owner their
position Is by no means a pleasant
one. As soon as the reproach of child
lessness is withdrawn they have a bet
ter status under Mohammedan law,
but even then the pleasure of lying
upon cushions all day and eating
sweets from Parts Is apt to pall after
a few months.
The quarters of the women are na
turally a hotbed of most varied In
trigue, and the precautions taken by
the master of the house do not always
ucceed in maintaining the privacy so
greatly sought after.
Every year the royal harem Is sub
jected to Important changes. Many
of the women are removed and giver,
to high officials of the court. This
saves a considerable expense to the
royal household, and the gift is by way
of being regarded as a compliment. It
has some drawbacks, for the newcom
er Is ofttimes a spy sent to make In
quiry concerning the loyalty of her
new master. The sultan's agents are
always on the lookout for recruits for
the harem, and many girls are brought
up with great care and attention, and
taught to play, sing and dance in the
hope that they may some day be hon
ored by the royal approval.
Shoe History.
Shoes or their equivalent are of a
certainty even more ancient than
gloves, for they were a necessity ol
locomotion, while, the other was a lux
ury. Sometimes they were made ol
kins, sometimes of papyrus, as in
Egypt. Often they were glided and
decked with jewels, and the most ex
pert artists of the day were employed
to decorate the foot coverings ol
wealthy patricians, consuls, emperors
and their favorites.
In no article have more vagaries
been shown. Today a lady who de
Ires to be considered in the height
of fashion wears shoes pointed as
much as possible, but In the time ot
Queen Mary the taste was all the
other way and It was found necessary
to Issue a royal proclamation prohibit
ing shoes with toes wider than six
Inches.
But perhaps the mcst extraordinary
development in the way of footgear
were the "chopines" introduced by the
ladles of Venice to make themselves
tallr than they really were.
The articles really were a kind of
stilts, made of wood and leather, and
sometimes reached the absurd height
of 12 inches. Even a trained acrobat
would have difficulty in walking on
such things, and ordinary women had
such trouble with them that when
they attempted a promenade they re
quired the assistance of a servant at
each side and another behind to keep
them from falling. Redfem's Royal
anl Historic Shoes.
Blue for Extremists.
Would 'you be In the extreme of
fashion? Wear blue.
That is the decree of fashion-making
Paris.
Blue, pastel blue, in all the rich
variety of curious tints that the world
stands -for, is the reigning color. It
fades into greens and often off to
gray, It reflects a tint of gold, but It
is always blue. In gowns, in hats, in
fancy waists, even In wraps It pre
vails and every advanced mode pro
phesies a tremendous vogue for it
this season.
Peacock blue, so. long banished, has
come back In its own, marine blue
holds Its own, and all blues are admit'
tedly good by reason of pastel's pre
dominance. The hats of the year are a complete
revolution in style. The two styles
most In favor are pronounced oppos
ites. One Is soft felt, with dented crown,
rolling brim amenable to madame's
finger-tips, which lends itself to a
somewhat rakish coquetry. It usual
ly rises at the back, the dented
crown and brim being low in front,
and takes nodding plumes with knots
of ribbon, the wings which are so
much used in all the autumn millinery
or flowers.
Its rival Is stilt and severe, with
high bell crown, or round crown, and
uncompromising brim. It assumes a
deep band of velvet u'sualy held by a
buckle, with a small avalanche of
plumes at the side, or wings of min
gled color3 with high .aigrette.
What Was Behind Them.
"I wish you would look at that wo
man and her two boys, and tell me
what you think," said one traveler.
"I should say," said the other "that
she is a very happy woman, and that
nhe has two fine, manly, happy-looking
boys. I wonder why one doesn't see
more families so genuinely delighted
with one another, and so thoroughly
delightful to look upon?",
"I'll tell you," said the first woman,
with a laugh and a sigh. "It's because
there aren't more of the right kind of
men. There is a man behind those
three smiles. Look at the sheer con
tent and Joy in life In that woman's
eyes. She is so perfectly happy that
she Is dazzling. It isn't a joy in ma
terial things. It's something deeper.
What wide open brows her boys have;
what glad eyes and sweet expressions
in spite of their firm chins and lips!
"There's something back of all that,
my dear. It's a man, and It's the right
sort of man. He's a . man who has
made her happy from the day he mar
ried her. She was almost super
humanly happy when those boys came
Into the world. You can see It In
their faces. And he's made her happy
ever since. Listen to her laugh!
"I'd give a good deal to see him,
but I don't need to see him. I know
what sort he Is. He is not a plentiful
type. It he were more women oh,
my dear, why don't men realize that
every one of them could make some
woman look like that all her life. If he
only took the trouble. Such a little
trouble the tenderness and thought
fulness a woman always craves, and
which she is more than ready to give
in return. There, they get off here!
Now watch.
"I knew It! I knew it!" she cried,
3oflly, as they peered under the cur
tain to watch the happy little woman
and her two glad-eyed boys, who were
being met by the "right sort of man"
In the right sort of way. Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Fashion Notes.
Garlands and wreaths of the tiniest
roses in ribbon embroidery are the
latest fad.
Russian gold braid can be bought by
the yard and makes the most charm
ing belts.
It is a fad to match the jewels of
belt buckles, combs, hatpins, and eve n
necklaces.
Colored tailor velvets in checks and
stripes are to be In high favor for
street costumes.
Another phase of fashion In auto
mobile apparel is the use of remark
ably clever imitations In fur.
Coats of both round and cape effects
are extremely fashionable. The favor
Ite material for this season is mara
bou. Spangled . gold, silver or steel em
broidery upon white or black laces
makes up Into pretty boleros for even
ing wear.
Very beautiful are the loose coats
made in different, kinds of furs, and
they often have a touch of color in
velvet or satin, which is altogether de
sirable. Baby calf makes motor coats, so do
deer skins, and we have not disre
garded the leopard's, for it Is employed
in the automobile coat as well as for
muffs and boas.
Buckles are extensively used, and
small slide buckles in gilt, silver or
steel, slide over yard trimmings of
velvet, ribbon or braid, in a most ef
fective manner.
Elbow sleeves never seem consis
tent in such materials as velvet and
cloth, but there is something exceed
ingly Btnart about an elaborate short
sleeve which is worn with a long
black or white kid glove.
One of the most curious modes of
the moment is that feathers and furs
alike are being dyed any color to
match the fabric with which they are
made up, and every sort ot fur Is
pressed into the service for feminine
costume.
GS Burke's
Astounding Biological I
Discovery
By Dr. C
HERE has reeently been made, at the Cavendish Labora
tory, Cambridge, a .discovery so sensational, so subversive
of the orthodox scientific belief of the last thirty years, and
yet so welcome to the man of science, that it In all proba
bility murks the nnenlnir of an eooch In bloloEV as signal
T
Has that which was
of Species In 1859.
'I tual extent though
ciple, is the complement of the other. The last touch of
"sensationalism" Is added to this amazing discovery by the fact that it de
pends upon the properties of radium, which seems destined to have its say in
ail sublunary affairs without exception.
Mr. J. B. Burke, who was studying the chemical action of radium on
organic matter, at the Cavendish Laboratory, where radium has already
been studied to the signal glory of contemporary physical chemistry, found
that when a few grains of radium chloride or radium bromide were sprinkled
upon the surface of beef gelatin, the whole being subjected to the most
efficient processes of sterilization, such as no known form of living matter
can survive, there appeared in the tubes thus treated, but not in the "con
trol" tubes, similar in all respects save for the addition of the radium, a
growth which any bacteriologist would have pronounced to be due to bacteria;
this in tubes which had been subjected to a temperature of 130 degrees C. un
der high pressure for half an hour! If anything was out of the question it
was that this growth was bacterial. However, crystals grow, and this might
be a hitherto unknown kind of crystal, due to the action of radio-activity up
on beef gelatin.
The next step was plainly to examine a portion of the growth under the
microscope. A magnification of about twelve or fifteen hundred diameters
was used, and the growth was seen to consist of exceedingly small rounded
bodies, containing a somewhat darker structure in the centre. The only
known crystal they resembled was a form in which calolum carbonate occa
sionally occurs; but these bodies were many times smaller than any such
crystals; the structure they contained looked exactly like the nucleus of a liv
ing cell, such as Is not seen In these crystals of carbonate of lime; examina
tion with the polarlscope showed that these bodies had none of the characters
which crystals display on such examination by special kinds of light. Thus
there was abundant evidence to- negative the view that they were crystals
evidence that would suffice even were there not positive evidence the most
astounding in proof of the view that they were something else. Harper's
Weekly.
Mix Cheerfulness With
Your Breakfast
By the Late Mary A. Ltvermore.
HAVE sometimes thought that breakfast should be stricken
from the list of family meals, and be served to the Individ
uals of the household In the privacy of their rooms, so fre
quently does It become a Joyless feast. Unless the greatest
care be taken, the breakfast table becomes a veritable
dump, where each one unloads the grievances of the night.
One has not "slept a wink;" another was scared by a "hor
rible" dream; a third "nearly died" from an aching tooth; a
fourth is dismal because of a depressing nightmare, and so
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on. If to these enlivening details be added a doleful disarray of dress, tousled
hair, and a sour disapproval of the weather, the news, and the food, the most
appetizing breakfast will pall on the taste, and the day will be badly begun.
More important than the matter of cooking Is it that the family gather
around the table cheerful, Joyous and in abounding good'splrlts. Good diges
tion waits on those who season their food with laughter and fun, and If we
have cares and worries. It is wise to let them wait until after the matutinal
meal.
True courtesy is only the application of the Golden Rule to our social
conduct. "A noble and attractive every-day bearing comes of goodness, un
selfishness, sincerity and refinement, and these are bred In years, not In mo
ments." -They are not the result of an instinct or an inspiration. They come
of a noble character, that cannot be reached until after many struggles and
conflicts. Success.
iJt ew National Holiday
' Suggested
vnVV B? William
.4..-.. T appears rather strange to me that not one of the forty-
J five commonwealths
date ol me naming ot
of America at Philadelphia as worth commemoration by the
enactment of a legal holiday. Some of the states observe
holidays local in significance and not recognized by their
nearest neighbors, it Is plain that Sept. 17, 1787, was sec
ond only In importance in our history to July A, 1776. If
the Declaration of Independence is the corner-stone of a
f.
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glorious republic, the Federal Constitution is the completed edifice of a mag
nificent Union. Without the Constitution the Declaration becomes of little
value. The 17th day of September should be observed with patriotlo ven
eration. The great instrument of nationality, for the preservation of which hun
dreds of thousands ot our loyal citizens gave their lives, ceased to be an ex
periment after nearly eighty years of test and . strain. It has meant far
more since 1SC5 than before the final overthrow of the doctrine of state
rights, and It will mean still more to us with each coming year. Intelligent
citizens ought to be perfectly familiar not only with Its spirit, but with every
section and clause. It certainly is well worth an hour's time on every an
niversary of its adoption by the members of the constitutional convention
to study It carefully and weigh just how near our government at Washington
cpmes to respecting Its imperative provisions. Harper's Weekly.
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of the United States . .
By Professor John Bassett Moore.
S conventionalized In
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Congress, the American people are distinguished ehlefly by
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their peaceful disposition and their freedom from territorial
ambitions. Nevertheless, in spito of ihese quiet propensi
ties, it has fallen to their lot, since they forcibly achieved
their independence, to have had four foreign wars, three
general and one limited, and the greatest civil war in his
tory, and to have acquired a territorial domain almost five
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times as great as tho respectable endowment with which
they began their national career. In reality, to the founders of the American
republic the question of territorial expansion did not present Itself as a mat
ter of speculation, or even of choice. There was not a single European power
having posssesssions in America that did not lay claim to more territory than
it had effectively occupied, nor was there a single one whose claims were not
contested by some ether power; and these contests were Interwoven with the
monopolistic struggle then In progress for colonial commerce and navigation.
Harper's Magazine.
IV. Saleeby,
marked by the publication of the Origin
And the one piece of work, small In ac-
it may be, and totally distinct In princt-
F- Weick. jt--scQ
in our republic has ever considered the
me uonsuuiuon oi me unuea oiaies
the annual messages of presidents to
ON THE ENGINEER'S LAST RUN
His 8tory of How Ha Lived His Life
All Over In a Flash.
"Drowning is not the only experi
ence that causes a man to read his
own biography In the flash of a sec
ond," said F. C.'Roberts, a locomotive
engineer.
"I was running on the passenger
trains between Atlanta and Macon
several rears ago, and I was to meet
the north-bound train at a certain sta
tion on the road. Well, it was all
my fault, t hadn't slept any for five
nights, and the only rest I bad was
In my cab. The last stop that we
made before this experience of which
I speak the fireman bad to wake me
up when the signal to go ahead was
received. I had gone to sleep In my
cab.
"As we approached the next station
the conductor may have signaled me,
as he claimed he did, but we dashed
through the town at about forty miles
an hour before I heard the down
brakes signal. The minute I heard
It I saw the headlight of the north
bound train, less than 300 yards away,
coming around a curve. I threw on
the air brakes and reversed, but It
all looked too late. The fireman
Jumped, but I was paralyzed. The
two great engines, one bearing a
special train, rushed together ' like
angry bulls, and I was frozen thene,
and while those trains rushed to
gether, I saw every 'incident of my
life Just as plainly as the day it hap
pened. That's all I know about it.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Frankness of Spanish Walter.
E. B. Dewhurst, the Australian ten
nls champion, said at a dinner party in
New York:
"American waiters are much supe
rior to those of Spain. Traveling If
cheap and comfortable In Spain; liv
ing is cheap and comfortable there,
but Spanish waiters are often rude.
"They are particularly rude to Amer
icans and to those whom they mistake
for Americans. The old wound, you
see, still rankles.
"In Madrid one day I entered a res
taurant and ordered a cut of beef. The
waiter, after a long delay, brought
the beef to me a miserable, tough
and grisly cut.
" 'Walter, said I, 'is this beef from
the black bull they killed at the bull
fight yesterday?'
"The waiter looked at me with a
sneer.
" 'No, monsieur,' he said. 'It is from
one of the horses that they killed at
the bull fight.'"
Tyler Cobb Told Him a Way.
Some years ago, when Tyler Cobb
ran a general store at the corner of
Main and High streets, In Brockton,
Mass., In what is now the Metropoli
tan hotel, his store was the gathering
place for the wits and story tellers ot
the vicinity. Some of them are now
wealthy merchants of Brockton, and
one of them tells this story:
"The stories told of Tyler's queer
sayings are legion. This one Illustrates
his shrewdness as well as his wit. He
had a man working for him whom he
several times caught taking home meal
which he kept for his horses. The
hired man, who was unaware that he
had been detected, one day asked
Tyler for a raise In pay. Upon being
asked why he should receive more, he
answered that he could not support
his family and buy food for them with
what he got.
"Lord a'mlghty, man," said Tyler,
"take more meal, take more meal."
How the Woodchuck Took Water.
One of the best story tellers of his
time was my uncle, "Han" Thompson
(if Auburn, Me. The following Is what
"Han" told of what he and his brothei
John tried to do in the way of catch
ing a woodchuck.
They had tried quite a number of
times to capture the animal, but unsuc
cessfully. At last they decided to
drown him out. So, procuring four
palls, each took two, and they carried
water for two solid hours and poured
It Into the hole In the ground in which
the said "chuck" bad taken up his
abode.
Getting tired, they sat down. After
about half an hour the woodchuck cau
tiously left the hole and deliberately
walked down to the brook and took a
long drink of water, and then scooted,
much tothe disgust of the two boys.
Boston Herald.
- Ted's Beginning.
The new assistant rector was trying
to Impress upon the mind of his young
son the difference between his own po
sition and that of his superior. "Now,
Ted," he ended, "I want you to re-'
member to be very polite to the rector.
We are strangers, and I am only the
assistant; it becomes us to be ex
tremely courteous. Some day, perhaps.
I shall be rector myself."
The next day the boy was walking
with his father when they met the dig
nified rector.
"Hello!" promptly began Tedd.
"Pop's been tellin me 'bout you
how you're the real thing, an' he's
Just the hired man an' we got to
knuckle under. But some day he may
be It himself, an' then you'll see!"
Woman's Home Companion.
Followed McClintock's Orders.
A young man who afterward be
came a successful reporter on a Bos
ton dally relates one of his first ex
periences in endeavoring to get work
as follows:
"I walked Into the office of John
N. McCHntock, editor and publlshei
of the Granite Monthly, a New Hamp
shire magazine, and asked for an op
iortunlty to show what I could do. I
was asked what I could write about,
and with a John L. Sullivan con
fidence replied: 'Ob, I can write about
anything.' Like a shot came the re
sponse: 'Well, right about face, then.'
That settled me. I did."
Clean the Eggs.
Before placing the eggs In the bas
ket after dally collections, wash them
In cold water. This is to guard
against lice, and also the small mites,
which are not readily detected. They
are also nicer tJ handle. To get the
highest prices for eggs they should
be clean in every respect. . Buyers
Judge-to a great extent, of the fresh
ness of eggs by their appearance, and
It therefore pays to have them as
clean and as attractive as possible.
8eed Corn,
Seed corn can be selected In the
winter or when the corn Ib being
husked. A box should be placed near
the point of operation, and every per
fect ear (selecting only the best)
should be thrown into It while husk
ing. It Is possible that but few ears
may be selected from among large
number, but if care is used In select
ing, and the seed corn Is put in a dry
place, It will be found next Bprlng that
more grains will germinate and a
larger yield result.
Pigs and Buttermilk.
Buttermilk, provided no water is
added, Is practically of the same vul
ue for feeding pigs as separator milk.
But it must be borne in mind that
buttermilk from factories almost nl
ways ha.s mixed with It a considerable
amount of added water, sometimes as
much as fifty percent, and, consequent
ly, by Itself is not a suitable food for
pigs. Many instances can be given of
great mortality among pigs fed solely
on buttermilk, practically from star
vation, because they were not able to
consume enough buttermilk plus water
to derive sufficient nutriment to sup
ply the demand of nature. But when
the deficiency In solids is made up by
adding meal, or even grass, roots or
other fodder, pigs are found to thrive
on the buttermilk. R. T. Archer,
In the Massachusetts Ploughman.
The Waste and Expenses.
Talk to almost any good business
man and he will tell you that one of
the most Important points to be con
sidered in conducting a business of
any kind successfully Is to keep down
the expenses and wastes. That's just
the thing that the farmer wants to
look Into. There are so many things
on the farm that this little piece of ad
vice could be applied to that It would
take more than this page to tell of
them all. The manure pile on many
farms Is probably being drained of
the equivalent of good hard cash every
day that it stands. Many a cow in the
stables of some dairy Is eating her al
lotment of food every day and return
ing only fifty or seventy-five percent
of Its cost. Farmers should go around
and keep their eyes open and look Into
these matters and they would be
money In pocket. And making money
by merely keeping your eyes opened
and using a little thought comes much
easier than by hoeing corn or pota
toes. Weekly Witness.
Space In the Quarters.
Has It ever occurred to poultrymen
that It may be better to keep small
hens, If eggs are the object, than to
devote the space to birds of larger
breeds? The object of most farmers
and others Is to keep as many hens
In a poultry house as possible and that
Is where the majority of mistakes Is
made. Judging from the weight and
size of the bird It requires a certain
portion of the roost upon which it can
comfortably rest. Two Brahma or
Cochin hens, weighing nine pounds
each (eighteen pounds for the pair),
will require fully as much room on
the roost as three small hens weighing
six pounds each, and if the tables of
food equivalents and amounts to sus
tain life, according to live weights,
are correct the three hens will con
sume no more food than two large
ones. But they may do more, how
ever, as they can lay three eggs, while
only two can be secured from the large
hens. Here, then, Is at gain of forty
percent In eggs in favor of small
breeds because they cost no more than
the same weight of large fowls, but
being more . numerous they conse
quently produce more eggs.
Exercise for the Cows.
The best dairymen believe Implicitly
In exercise for their cows, but they
also realize that they are delicate ani
mals and that to permit them to re
main out of doors long on a cold or
windy day during the winter does
them more Injury than good. While
the feeding shed referred to In this de
partment Is an Ideal place for' exer
cise, It is not In the open air, so the
cows lose the benefits of breathing
fresh air. An excellent way to ar
range a yard for exercise Is to build a
deep shed in the portion of the yard
where the wind Is less likely to enter
It. Then, with boards or corn fodder,
erect wind-breuks all around the yard,
running them up six feet or more
high. See that the yard Is well drained
and that it is cleaned of the excrement
each day before the cows are permit
ted to enter It.
In order that the animals may be
more contented while In the yard, sup
ply them with Just enough roughage
so that each one of them can make a
good cud. Have the shed and the yard
large enough so that there will be no
crowding, hence no disposition to)
quarrel. With such a yard the ani
mals may be turned out nearly every
day during the winter, provided some
care- Is taken to remove the snow In
sections where the snow fall Is heavy.
Do not permit the cows to remain out
too long. Err on the side of a short
time and dally rather than for several
hours two or three times weekly. In
dianapolis News. .
The Large Corn Crop,
Despite the fact that the corn crop
Is very large, market reports Indicate
that it will not be sold at extremely
low prices as was feared some time
back, when It was seen the crop would
likely be heavy. The intelligent and
up-to-date farmer, with a heavy crop
of Al corn can malte.lt yield him good
returns by selecting the best of the
crop and putting it on the market at
the highest rates quoted arid using the
proceeds to buy other grains which
will give him the needed balanced ra
tion for his stock. This U departing
somewhat from the general plan of
feeding whatever grain one has In
abundance, but It will pay. Moreover
It will pay even to the point of re
ducing the herd to Just the number
that can be properly fed on well bal
anced rations. It Is not hard to uses
the corn crop for feeding so that the
value of the milk produced U really
loss than the value of the corn und the
manure, thus giving one a lot of hard
work and no profit.
On the other band, If one feeds Just
the number of cows he can feed on a
balanced ration, disposing of both the
surplus cows and corn, he is money
ahead at the end of the season. We
farmers are much given to priding
ourselves on the number of animals
we own, regardless of whether we are
keeping them at a profit or at a loss,
and it is such lack of calculation that
makes some , men say farming has
ceased to be a profitable business.
Think It over, friend. Indianapolis
News.
The Next Fruit Crop.
While there are as many as thirteen
natural elements that enter into the
structure of about everything that
grows there are four that seem to be
more easily exhausted from the soil
than the rest. These are nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash and lime.
They naturally exist in soils in sucfl
varying quantities that It Is often very
difficult to tell what is or not present
in abundance and In available forms.
In most cases only the actual test of
a ii! I sin t ( n a will tall n a at la naarl.
ed. But we may be sure that good ,
manures wisely applied are almost
never amiss.
Nitrogen is sucn a volatile ana eas
ily exhausted manure and sometimes
an Injurious one, that it requires the
most careful and timely application
of all. When the trees are pale in fol
iage and the growth is feeble, It is al
most a sure Indication that It is not
present in the soil In sufficient quan
tity. But fruits are not so likely to
need it as the foliage crops. In case
they do need it there Is no form in
which it Is more economically applied
than as nitrate of soda. Animal ref
use, such as dried blood also contains
It. Owing to the rapid solubility of
these materials spring is the prefera
ble time to apply them to the soil.
Phosphoric acid plays an important
part in the production of fruit as it
forms a considerable proportion of the
seeds and also helps to give vigor to
the tree or vine. It should not be for-v
gotten that it is found largely in ani
mal bones and from this we can get it
quite cheaply. Phosphate rock Is Part
lir ttrrvxnnaai rtt tnaatl luinai HTKa
give the phosphoric acid up slowly
even when well dissolved and this is
why we , should apply early in the
spring or better yet in the fall. This
will allow time for the further dnenm-
position in the soil and the chemical
changes to take place that are neces
sary before the roots can absorb the
fertility. Five hundred pounds per
acre is a good application.
Potash is perhaps the most impor
tant for fruits of all the manures. It
causes healthfulness and - vigor of
tree or plant and makes the "fruit rich
and highly colored. Wood ashes con
tains it but the proportions are usual
ly quite small. Muriate of potash
contains fully one-half of its weight
of available potash and sulphate of
potash about the same. Both are ex
cellent and cheap forms in which to
apply potash. The sooner either of
them are put in or on the soil the
more completely they will become pre
pared for the use of the coming fruit
crop. If it Is not possible to apply
them to the ground this fall do It early
In the spring. But above all be sure
to do it, for In most soils potash will
pay a good return. One ' hundred
pounds per acre annually is a fair ap
plication ot either muriate or sulphate
of potash.
Lime has a very beneficial effect,
aside from being a plsu food in help
ing to dissolve the elements of fertil
ity in the soil naturally. This is espe
cially true of heavy clay soils, and
where humus Is in excess It "sweet
ens" its acidity. About twenty-five
bushels of quick lime per acre is suffi
cient for some three years. H. E.
Van Deman.