To Start a Balky Horse.
Take a rope about 13 feet long, pass
round the foreleg and let drop down
below the fetlock joint. Take one end
in each hand walking ahead of the
horse while the driver starts him.
This will cause the horse to jump with
one leg on the ground, or take a step,
and when he does this he will forget to
stop again, and if the rope Is dropped
he will likely walk over it .-without
further trouble. If treated this way
a few times he will get so he will start
at sight of rope and it won't be neces
lary to use It in ease he balks.
To Keep Flies Off Stock.
In the midst of the fly season own
ers of live stock will be interested In
the method successfully pursued by
Dr. Peters, veterinarian at the Ne
braska Experiment station for com
bating the pest. He took an ordinary
oil barrel and put into it a wooden
spigot, using the barrel as a storage
tank. Two and a half gallons of
aenoleum, with five gallons of cotton
seed oil, were placed in the barrel
and enough water aided to fill it. As
required, the mixture thus formed
was drawn from the barrel and
sprayed upon cattle and horses, or
applied with a sponge or cloth aa oc
casion demanded. The control of the
flies was not only finite perfect, but
it had one marked advantage not pos
sessed by most other mixtures for
the purpose in that the solution was
not greasy and sticky, but left the
coat of the animal in fme condition.
The mixture has the further advan
tage of being a very economical on,e
a barrel of It being compounded at a
very small cost.
Successive Crops of Corn.
'The modern methods of agriculture
teach that a rotation of crops is essen
tial for the best results and especially
Is it necessary in order to keep up soil
fertility. A correspondent asks the
Indianapolis News. "How can you
recommend the rotation of crops so
strongly when experiment stations
grow corn year after year on the
same field?" Our reader evidently
refers toithe work of 'the New Jersey
--experiment station, but either forgets
to refer to their methods or else is
not familiar with them. On this fa
mous farm the soil Is kept in the
highest state of fertility by proper
methods, and while it is true that
corn follows corn, it is only because
clover is grown as well, the plan be
ing to sow crimson clover nt the last
cultivation of the corn, which is used
as green forage in the spring and
the corn stubble is plowed under,
and the same method again followed.
If it were not for the high fertility of
this soil and the growing of the
crimson clover each year. It would
not be possible to follow corn with
corn year after year with profit.
Look Well to the Poultry.
, Whether the young birds are being
raised to lay eggs later or for the
carcass market, they need good care
during the summer. It is not enough
that they be turned onto the range;
they must be carefully fed, so that
they make the proper growth. This
Is especially necessary with the stock
that is being raised for laying pur
poses. The range is essential, but
to amount of grass will furnish all
Jhe food the growing chickens need.
bet -them have a liberal feed of grain
in the morning before they are let
out of the house and another at night
when they come home to roost. This
will be all they need if they have a
good range except an abundance of
fresh clean water and shade while on
the range. If one has a large num
ber of fowls, great care must be tak
en not only to have the poultry hous
es sweet and clean, but any portion
of the grounds where they congregate
In any number ought also to be kept
elean, whith is best done by spading
up the ground after scattering lime
over it. Do this several times dur
ing the summer, and there will be lit
tle danger of disease in the flocks.
Morning Glory Vines.
Here is a description of a way of
training the morning glory when
grown for the purpose of screening
doors and windows. Whoever gives
It a trial this season will not neglect
to use it when another season comes.
Nail four pieces of lath, or any light
trips of wood, in a square large
enough across the top of the door or
window you propose to shaite. Then
nail two strips across from corner to
corner, to stiffen this frame and keep
It from getting out of shape, as it
easily would do if not braced as ad
vised. Fasten this to the top of .the
door or window frame, letting it slant
down at an angle that will give the
amount of shade needed, with stout
trips reaching from the outside cor
ners to the jground below, to pro
ride substantial support, in case a
door is being treated, or to the sill,
If a window is to be screened. (Stretch
tout strings from the ground where
tba plants are growing to the frame
work at top of door or window. The
vines will soon cover strings and
frames with luxuriant growth, and by
the middle" of July you will have a
floral awning that will be "a thing ol
beauty" for months aud a "joy as long
as It lasts."
Hired Help.
The old system of hoarding tfte
hired help is in less favor than former
ly, owing in part to Uie undesirable
average quality of modern hired help.
With the advance in wages In other
employments it has become difficult
to hire men fit to be boarded and
housed with the family. In the East
ern States the plan Is gaining ground
of hiring gangs of foreigners, who are
housed In shanties, and who do their
own cooking and housekeeping. Farm
ers who do not employ enough labor
to use this plan are in many cases put
ting up cheap tenement houses or buy
ing abandoned houses In the neighbor
hood in which they can place a hired
man and his family. A much better
class of help can be obtained by this
plan than by almost any other. The
undesirable quality of the average
hired man Is a very serious consider
ation In the employment of farm help.
The manufacturer does not take his
hired man into his home or bring him
into contact with his family, but the
farmer is obliged to do so to some ex
tent by any plan. It is worth white
to pay a little more and get a man
whose intelligence and morals make his
Influence and presence satisfactory In
the farm family. American Cultivator.
Farm Dairies.
I believe !n order to have best re
sults in dairying, three things are es
sential good cows, good pastures and
pure water. The successful dairyman
must have the right kind of cows,
those that will turn their food In the
direction of producing a large supply
of rich milk. In order to do this, of
course, the dairy cow must be sup
plied with the right kind of food.
The dairyman who expects to make a
good profit from hia business should
strive to $rov plenty of feeding stuffs
for his cows, especially roughage upon
his farm, as good roughage is so much
more cheaply produced than grain the
farmer will easily see the wisdom of
furnishing a liberal supply of It. Our
farm pastures are always poor during
late, summer and early fall and the
milk supply as a rule falls off greatly.
Hence it is important that special
crops should be put in to supply the
dairy cows with plenty of sweet, suc
culent, rough feed at this season of
the year. Oats and barley sown to
gether, equal parts, will, furnish a
large amount of pasture until killed
by frost.
Give the cows plenty of balanced
feed and then you may be sure of a
good article of butter. To make a
success of dairying use a cream sepa-
rater and feed the milk while warm
to the pigs..
Sell you butter, if possible, to pri
vate customers, who are willing to
pay a good price for a first class arti
cle. Of course the best way to dis
pose of dairy products depends to a
great extent on where you are lo
cated and upon many other circum
stances. M. A. M., for the Indiana
Farmer.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Teach the colt to draw loads by
degrees.
Wearing shoes too long injures the
horsesVfeet.
The chief point in colt education Is
to treat them kindly.
Balky horses are often made by
overloading the colts.
A good feed for ducklings is made by
mixing cornmeal and bran, equal parts,
into a mush with milk.
. Every poultry keeper should have
trap nests, as they will help him pick
out the hens that are working.
A little phosphate sprinkled around
cucumber, squash, or melon vines will
effectually keep the bugs away.
One of the reasons and probably the
main reason hens steal their nests out
because the nests in the poultry
house are not kept clean and comfort
able.
Before placing eggs In the nest It is
a good thing to sprinkle insect powder.
sulphur or tobacco dust in it, as this
will keep away the lice and the young
chicks will he free to start on.
If we want to give the foal the best
possible chance, the mare should not be
worked .during the nursing season, but
many good fouls are reared while their
dams are working every day.
The great demand for high class
horses should not tempt the man who
is satisfied with scrub stallions to go
Into horse-breeding. The demand and
high prices are only fur horses of first
class breeding.
Carefully protect that nice thrifty
wood lot. Keep the live stock out of
It and cut only such trees as are ma
ture, except where It is desirable to
thin them out. Make it one of the
beauty spots of the farm.
A good horse is the most sensitive of
animals, and feels an offense to his
pride far more keenly than mere phys
ical cruelty. Women have naturally
greater' tact and delicacy In dealing
with them than even the most hu
mane and considerate of men pose ess.
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SOME SOUTHERN DELICACIES.
Southern Corn Cake Pour boiling
water over one pint of cornmeal to
make a stiff batter. Beat until very
smooth, add half a teaspoonful of
salt and two well-beaten eggs and fry
slowly on a thick griddle till very
brown, In cakes the size of muffins.
A couple of tablespoonfuls of milk
will hasten the browning process.
Hominy Hominy should boil at
least four hours, being put on to cook
In cold salted water, and cooked gent
ly till the kernels are soft. Foi
breakfast, put a tablespoonful each
of lard and butter into a skillet, and
when eery hot, add the cooked hom
iny, turning it often until the entire
quantity is sllghty browned. Serve
very hot.
Soft Ginger Cakes Beat to a cream
one-half a cupful each of brown su
gar and shortening (half butter and
lard), add two well-beaten eggs, one
cupful of molassea, two teaspoonfuls
of cinnamon, one tablespoonful of
ginger, half a cupful of sour milk and
three-cupfuls of flour with which a
teaspoonful of soda has been sifted,
Bake In muffin pans till a rich brown
In a moderate oven.
Cornmeal Muffins Half a cupful
each of cornmeal and flour, half a
teaspoonful of salt, a scant table
spoonful of sugar, one egg and suf
ficient sweet milk to make a thick
batter. Stir the ingredients together,
adding the milk last, beat steadily but
quickly for 'three minutes, pour Into
hot pans and bake for fifteen min
utes. The quaitity is only sufficient
for a dozen muffins.
Southern Fried Chicken Before
drawing the fowl wash the skin with
a vegetable brush and warm soapsuds,
rinsing thoroughly. Cut Into small
pieces, laying them In a pan of cold
water to extract the blood; after five
minutes wipe dry, dredge with salted
flour and put in very hot lard. Fry
slowly, and when both sides are
browned, remove to platter, and into
the skillet turn half a pint of milk
thickened With a teaspoonful of flour.
Garnish chicken with parsley and
serve gravy In a bowl. Dorothy Bay,
In The Pilgrim.
For our part, we do not join very
enthusiastically In any cry against the
extravagance of the Congress which
has Just adjourned, remarks the Rich
mond News Leader. The appropria
tions provided foot up an enormous
total, hut we notice that the state of
Virginia, for instance, did all she
could to make them even larger. As
to us, we got a pretty fair share
a million and a quarter for the James
town Exposition and $200,000 for the
Richmond post office Included. It
looks a little ungracious for us to be
passing up our plate for slices ol
the pie and then complaining because
go muoh pie has been given.
The Clean Chewing Tobacco
. Choice, long leaf, pressed in big
like sponge cake goes three times as
five cents' worth,
Neatly wrapped in clean wax -paper inside
done sure it's clean!
Sold Everywhere
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
British women tennis players will
come here next summer.
Countess Cassinl, it Is reported
may leave the Greek Church to be
come a Roman Catholic.
The Empress Dowager says that I
will be twelve years before Chlna'i
constitution is completed.
Leader in London's fashlo.iabh
world says that a woman cannot b(
comfortable on less than $25,000 t
year.
The Queen of Slam has the small
est foot of any titled person in the
world. She wears one and a half
Inch boots.
There is a well-known actress In
Paris who last received $9400 for
giving a single recitation of "La
Marseillaise."
Mrs. Russell Sage is learning now
how many unselfish people there are
in the world who can give advice on
how to spend fifty millions disinter
estedly.
The smallest woman now on earth
Is said to be Mile. Paulina, of Hoi
land, eighteen years old, and twenty
inches high. She weighs less than
nine pounds. -
Miss Helen Klmber, of St. Joseph
Mo., is one of the few women real
estate agents and the only one, with
the exception of her partner who
handles railroad lands.
Miss Fay Templeton, an actress,
was secretly married in Philadelphia
Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson. wife ol
the Boston financier, died at Dream-
wold, the Lawson summer home in
Massachusetts. For nine years Bhe
has been a sufferer with heart trou
ble. '
Miss Georgia A. Burns, of Okla
homa, is the youngest woman ranch
owner In this country. She owns
11,000 acres, comprising the Arrow
Heart cattle ranch, and she recently
leased for ninety-nine years 100,000
acres of oil and mineral lands.
So Kojestvensky was not guilty ol
cowardice or treason in the Battle
of the Sea of Japan. Neither was
Villeneuve thus guilty at Trafalgar,
nor Ney at Waterloo, declares the
New York Times. If there was an
appalliug difference between his
achievements and theirs, responslbll
Ity for it must bd placed on other
shoulders than his. It would be sheer
nonsense and worse to deny great
ability and courage to the commander
who safely and unhesitatingly con
veyed the Russian fleet through
strange waters all the way from
Cronstadt to Tsu Shinia. Had the
wholo Russian Admiralty been ani
mated with iM great a spirit as his,
the outcome of his enterprise might
have been far different from what It
was. It was for the Russian govern
ment to ask pardon of Rojestvensky,
rather than to censure him.
The first armored train was used
at the siege of Paris In 187L
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packages
far as the
SPORTING BREVITIES.
The Corinthian football team sailed
' from England for this country.
Record breaking crowds "of turf
enthusiasts are gathered in Saratoga
for the races.
Jarvls, of England, was victorious
In the great French swimming race
for amateurs.
Frank L. Kramer won the open
half-mile cycle race at the Vallsburg
(N. J.) track.
Although twenty-eight years old,
Jay Bird is the sire of forty-two foals
dropped this year.
Jack Palmer, the champion English
heavyweight, has challenged Phila
delphia Jack O'Brien.
James B. Brady, purchased for
$25,000 the two-year-old colt Foun
tatublue, son of Oddfellow.
The Seventy-fourth Regiment, of
Buffalo, won the State shoot for Na
tional Guardsmen at Creed moor.
W. A. Larned retained the Long
wood lawn tennis cup by defeating
Karl H. Behr, of Yale, threo sets to
one.
The kings of England aud Spain
saw Emperor William's yacht, the
Meteor, beaten in opening of the
Cowes regatta.
Dr. Thomas and Roy Knabenshue
sailed 225 miles over four States in
a balloon, landing on the eastern
coast of Massachusetts after fifteen
hours.
Guy Bingen. by trotting the first
heat of the three-year-old sweep
stakes in 2.12 at Cleveland, Ohio,
promises to be one of the sensations
of the light harness world.
At the Ardmore Driving Club races
on the Eagle track, near Phlladel
phla, Ed. Bryan, a bay gelding, broke
the world's trotting record for two
mues on a nait-miie tracK. ine
horse covered the distance in 4.59
The best previous record wa3 5.14,
held by Tcmole Bar.
EGO 8TA1..
in washing table linen, or any
Cloth stained with egg, avoid putting
It In boiling water, which will set
the stain.. Put the cloth in cold wa
ter, and the stain can be very easily
removed. The same rule applies to
egg-cups and any dishes stained with
egg. If they are set with otner china
into hot dish water, the stain will
harden and It requires considerable
patience to remove It. E;jg stains
come out easily in cold water.
Lutheran.
One finds oneself next to some kind
of food reformer every time cne dines
out, ' laments the Sphere. Bat the
fact remains that if you want to
find men in good health you have
only to go to the restaurants where
eating and drinking go on to excess.
How eldom does an actor have to dis
appoint his patrons through illness!
and vet actors are notoriously un
healthy livers late hours, stimulants.
lobsters, tobacco, hoi air.
Sc.
average
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MARKETS.
PITT8BURQ.
Qriln, Flour and Feed.
Wheat No. I red f m n
Rye No. 2 7j 73
Corn No. 2 yellow, ear.. ff ay
No. 8 yellow, abolled 60 64
' Mixed ear f,o (11
Oats No. S while 44 , 45
No. 3 white 4D 44
Flour Winter patent 4 10 4 jr.
Fancy etralKht winters 4 00 410
Hay No. 1 Timothy.... 1500 1535
Clover No. 1 0 7i 1 1 5
Feed No, 1 white mid. ton ti lifl wop
Brown middlings 19 50 80 01
Bran, bulk -a 00 2150
St raw Wheat 7 50 7 )
Oat 7i) 80 J
Dairy Products.
Butter Elgin creamery S3 21
Ohio creamery 20 tfl
Fancy country roll 1!) 20
Cheese Ohio, new la 13
New York, new. u m
Poultry, Etc.
Hens per lb S 11 19
fhlokons dressed 10 M
Eggs fa. and Ohio, fresh 19 4Q
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes Fancy white per bu..'.. 35 90,
Cabbage per ton H m lsj
Onions per barret 4 2 2a
BALTIMORE.
Flour Winter Patent S i.m j ft
Wheat No. i red
Corn Mixed
Kgijs id a)
Hatter Ohio creamery
PHILADELPHIA.
Vlour Winter Patent S 9 oj 9
Wheat No. I! red , ill . g6
Corn No. 2 mixed g9 54
Oats No. white jjj
Butter Creamery 29 '61
Eggs Pennsylvania firsts 10 20
NEW YORK.
Flour Patents t S 00 St5
Wheat No. 8 red W
Corn No. 87 W
Oats No. white W &
Butter-Creamery 8 . 2.1
Eggs State and Pennsylvania.... 10 ID
LIVE 8TOCK.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. -Cattle.
Extra, 1,480 to 1,600 lbs to 75 IS 00
Prime, l.too tol,4o lbs, .... 6 60 t 70
Oood, 1,-rtlO to 1,300 lbs 5 li 6 50
Tidy. 1,060 to MM) lbs 4 75 6 10
Fair, you to 1,100 lbs 3 m 4 60
Common, 700 to I0U lbs 3 00 8 75
Common to good lat oxen 7S 4 00
Common to good fat bulla i 60 4 00
Common to good fat cows 150 sn
Hellers, 7w) tol, luilhs a 50 4 3;
Fresh cows and eprlngers It) 00 45 JJ
Sheep.
irlme wethers...' $ 5 60 575
tood mixed 5 a) 5 40
Fair mixed ewes and wethers.... 4 60 9 00
lullsand common 2 60 4 (ft)
Culls to choice lambs 5 00 7 7j
Hogs..
1 tlmehenvy hogs I si s 40
i rime medium weights 6 50 7 00
Hi st heavy Yorkers ., a 50 7 0-i
fiood light Y orkers (41)
PlgJ, as to quality 7 ou 7 10
Couiuien to good roughs. 5 40 5 no
B"ll 4 00 4 75
Calves.
Veal Calves $300 r a
Ueavy and thin calves 3 uj 4 jj
Oil Markets.
The following are the quotations for credit
balances In the dllTerent fields:
Pennsylvania, fl 61; Tlona, fl 71: Second
Band, tl nl; North Lima. 6:Jtouth Lima 91a
Indiana. VOc: Somerset, Wo; Hagland, t)o; Can-