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A residence in
these troubles,
aye ox g rest andl iver from
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many
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A HISTORIC FLAG.
more's Little Party. 4
relic of Lieutenant GIF
tivity and rescue in the
nis was shown hy Genera! Eu
riffin at the ricent dinner of
officers of the First regiment of
engineers. Spanish War vet.
This was the American fing
Giimore's party out of
“and strips of thelr clothing
- > pasty. commanded
ofr arms ee - the trite
est part of Luzon among
Ber. where thats ata
nw tet sabstitute
summer, but it wifl pay In the end
fruit. : The farmer may not cate to
his son, and instruct him how to go
thrifty plants from some neighbor who
will suggest best varieties for certain
| localities, and will also give advice
_ | thelr subsequent care. A little ‘work
1 amd a good deal of patient waiting, but |
- | accompanying Mustration, It is nde
: : : = { first pole aod allow it to extend slight
The One Made and Carried by Git. . ——
the drag wien not in use, The drag
i may be drawn by a short ehaln at.
§ chains from each end of the first pole.
| Homestead,
| slways the clieapest and easiest to get,
and in a great many cases they hardly
{pay for the cost of wintering the lay-
{dozen eggs In the former season ure
{ ronsecjuently worth from six to tine
"1 dozen lald in the spring aod summer.
1 Our profits consequesily must largely
come from the eggs ald out of sedson,
lof a poultry flock who could pot get
| plenty of eggs in the spring and sum-
mier, but 1 have great respect for those
41 Who can get two eggs in the fall and
winter where another manages to get
1s | OD€ OF one and a half, This may not
| fall apd winter laying, but If you will
stop to think a mement you will fod
laying plans for the fail months It
miaske a success of it. If sony coe
thinks it Is an easy matter to let hens
go ahead and lay right along, and then
when fall comes expect them to keep
winter and fall should now be selected
Every spring the small boy on the
plot of ground, that he may raise
something--he is not a: all particular
_abont the crop. A good way to unillize
this bit of ground Is In putting out a
strawberry bed. It will not Tung
_Yery quick resulta, as there will be
little or no fruit ontil the following
Certainly it ix worth trying. if the
farmer lacks this important small
thout the work. After the boy has
bis groond prepared, he can secure
about the setting out of the plants and
Hastiation, Then T aanied a piers | pits ha re
{Interest In the Boer war than Ey if
f lath across the tops of the three
| cornered plecer, A piece of clapboard,
d, three feet long, was sharpened near
Iy to a point on the thin side and
nailed diagonally to the side of the
eight-foot board, thin edge down. so
tun has A longing for his own Mirtle that the point of the clapboard would
be about tweaty inches above the cen
tre of the lath. Sums
ath. If the Jower edge of the board
i is straight and placed in a level posi:
tion, the line will hang at right angles
with ft. Have the edge of the lath
planed. Take a sharp pencil and mark
each side of the line and ent a noted
on the lath. To fHostrate the nse of
the device, when the board is level
if a twoinch block Is put under oue
end and 8 notch cut behind the lie,
the plamb line will indicate the grade
and the operator will get a two-inch
he next season will bring good res 1
1f the bed is large enough and the boy | '
who every summer walk miles In
grareh of a wild strawberry bed, will}
try raising their own beryl en. M.
Palmer Sweet, In The Epliomist
Homemade Pole Deng.
For many uses 1 have found a pole
drag 8 very serviceable implement;
twtter than a roller becanse jt will
level and pulverize without packing
the soil. The one I use is shown In the
af three bardsosd poles six inches In
diameter and seven and one-half feet
lang. The poles are fastened together
about one foot apart by means of
short pieces of chains. For a seat holt
8 piece of board to the middie of tha
THE FOLE DRAM,
ty besond the last ons On this fasten
an old mowing machine seat’ This
arrapgensent win bold the seat in place
snd dllow the poles to work inde.
pendently. The seat can be enslly ree
moved, makiog It mach easier to store
tached to the evolre of the Gnst pole or
the doubleires aay be counected with
~John Jackson, in New Eagland |
Concerning Chickens.
The spring ang samumer eZEs are
ers. Eggs sell for two or three times
as much in the late fall and winter
as they do from the first of April to
the first of October. Two or three
I would not give much for the cwner
be the time of the year to conshler
that it Is just the right time to begin
Is only by carefully rearing and select.
g & Bock of birds which will lay In
the fall and winter season that we
t up, be is bound to disappointment.
The first essential for next fall and
inter laying is to select our floek of
{rds this spring. The best layers last
next year's work, They should
orm the breeding stock to rear ng
layers for the cold season. They
should be selected carefully, and te
be kept in pens or yards by them.
elves, crossing them with the best
toales on the farm. Half the hattle
18 fought out by selecting from known
good layers. Some chickens show a
tendency to lay in the cold weather,
ind others cannot be induced to do ir
1 “any circumstances. It Is pos
ble by carrying this method of selec:
tion and careful breeding for several
years to obtain a flock of winter lay-
ers which will nearly double the ordi-
pary number of eggs. All the feeding
methods In the world will fall short
unless we have the right birds to be
gio with, ‘and this summer !s the time
0 select them.—Annie C. Webster, in
American Cultivator,
: Te Grad Ditenee and Drains,
has dope his work well, he may not LL.
only sapply Biz own family with
strawberries, but may have some for
fmarket as well Ruppose the boys,
"APPABATUS FOR PROPER GRADE.
being the length of the board ~Amerk
ean Agricaliuralist
A Plea For the Plustered Silo.
I am afraid that the zeal of the prov |
fessional silo builder has been allowed |
16 befog the lasue a8 to the claims of
the plastered silo, and this, with a
failure or two that have heen accepted
as the rule of conduct of thin structure,
has caused its general rejection. Stil),
I ami sure that there In merit fo i,
even if It cannot be sold on the market
ready made,
On the old farm where my boyhood
Was spent, there is ome of the first
{ silos that was built In that neighbor- |
hood. The barn bad been moved and |
set into the hillside, so that the stables | |
had been given room in the basement, |
and the size of the barn was much
Aoereased. This gave a e¢hance for an
inside silo through what had been the
horse stable, and in those primitive
days of dalry farming when the merits
and structure of the silo were pot well | |
| understood. the plastered form was |
chosen, 1 shall have to admit that this |
is the only one of #12 kind that I know
of directly, bat 1 have no doubt that
it Is due to “professiopalisin™ that it is
$80 generally rejected.
It Bas done its work well. This last
filling has been its seventh, and it is
as sound and airtight as it ever wae, ©
keeping the enstlage as few others will, |
for plaster fx surely morg Impervious
jo sir than wood. We taed to be told
so positively that the acid developéd
bay the ensilage would eat up the plas
ter that we bad to belleve it. and so |
the cheapest, and al least ia macy
other places not immediately cone
cerned. This is evidently the case,|
since the leading journal. the Prehsa,
bas seen fit to make special arrange |
ments by means of which the public}
is Informed at a moment's notice of
any ptable event In tha fortunes of |
the armies. A high tower Ia part
of the edifice In which the Prensa is
A plumb line snd bob Js suspended | or
from the point above the centre of the
ted and published, and the top
In the tower is used as a lighthouse
whence ents are flashed upon the
world by means of colored fires
Thiis & British victory is at once pro |
claimed by the appearance of a yel
jow light and a Boer success may be
read In & brilliant green flame.
Pneumatic postal tubes will be put
in service again July 1 In New York,
Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia
‘Their construction is Suthiorized in six
other cities
Ask Your Dealer Yor Allen's Foot-Kase,
Hweating Foot and 1
Foot. Fase makes now or tight shoes envy. At
1 26D and Shon stores. 35 conte. Ane |
sept ne substitute, Sample
tmsted,
mailed
ress Allon 5. Olmsted. LaRoy, N.Y.
The baid-headed man sooner or later
: comes to the scrteh.
Hails Catarrh Cures a Yeutd and is taken |
internally. and acts apon the blood aad
mudaus surfaces of the systems. Rend for |
estimanial: rea. Sa by drogglets, 150.
HEXRY § Co. . Props, Toledo. 0.
The fellow » who | has nothing ts do can |
| generally be depended upon. to do it well,
fall for every eight feet, eight fest | . >
FIisy orm asently on
ress after frst day's ase of Br. Kline's Groat |
| NerveBastorer 8 rial bottle and treatistlrons |
be BBL Krewe Lad. 951 Arch St, Phila Pa |
The moantain shiner evidently hejiaves
83d there's plenty of room at the fon
SS
Mrs. Winston # Soothing Syrap for ehiid
test Nine soTton the rams, er
topalinys pois, cies wind colle. 35¢. a bottle |
RR i ae
Always mks a wish on the first star |
Fou ste at Bight.
OR
14s not battove Pie's Cars for Conmmp-
thon ae an sgnal 197 soughe and sold Jomw |
¥. Borss, Trmity y Bprings, Jad, Fob. 15, 1900,
ca¥ss the best, of all the siloes, was RB
driven ont, There is plaster and plas. :
ter of course, and It may be 8 fact that |
such as is generally used for honse- |
building, wale of sand and lime, wil}
Yield to the epallage achd. Bot this |
gio was plastered with a mortar made |
of half-and-half Portisnd cement and
sand, and if there Ix any lauld that
attacks it, sach Hguid # certainly not :
Bt for an animal's stomach.
Of course this silo Ia an inside one,
which takes up roots that cannot al
ways be spared, bat when it can it is |
a very convenient arrangement. Let
us reflect on the ease of bullding one
of this sort. A basement adds to the
height so much that it will all go into |
a Varn nicely, and the hoisting of the
ensilage Js then a wuinor alter,
Chosslng & corner of the barn, If pos- © |
silde, only two sides have to be laid © |
out; the work is all quite possible to
anyone wlio ean lay plaster. and even
that ean be undertaken safely by a
novice. The corners can be rounded |
out easily by a wood backing or they |
can De left eqoare, as io the case of
this slo. There is no complaint from
that source. The base of thix silo is
right at one side of the feeding floor,
and everything ia as handy as possible.
Add to this arrapgement a chute or
two from mows above, and the ques
tion of concentration ls settled,
I find that the hill country farmer in
New York state, is becoming more and
of the land does not seem to follow
this style of farming. It la found
that in such sections the land is not!
- | always patarally adapted to the mals
Ing of corn, apd practically all the
tnanure made has to be used to perfect
that crop This unfavorable featur
is now one of the problems of the poor.
er parts of the State. 2t I» complained
that the oll erups of oats, for ia.
stance, which used to be a feature
with vs, cannot be ralsed now as they
tsed to be, which means that artificial
fertilization bas pot been sufficient t
make good the exhaustion from cro
paiig the land so long.
I suspect that one cause of this ait.
ficulty is a lack of a rotation of crops,
such as the soil demands. Oats apd
then grass ar. sure to use up the fer
tility in time, and neither furnishes
much humus. I an sure that we owe
ult about t ,
: iow his 4d view
we wil Dio sa rietieil.
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Migwey fir stele, somfory, §
ard waar hae sxesilal wil
wther makes They wre
worn by mors Dek in Ail
stata of lite than any EF 1
other make, because (ley
’ Are Mos cule Shoes that 6
A very ww kd onal |
sm 1 Hu Bau :
wandard of the world
This is the reason WW.
Peagiae makes and sells
te man’s $5.08 and 1340
AE aboes than Ay sther twa
-misnalsstarses, A toad
~ will sanvines you they ars | |
{ more convinced that his best profit |
comes from the dalry cow and the
silo, but I am somewhat surprised to |
find that in some cases Improvement |
SoM bey #3 Duagias stares in ran k
Cities ant bees shoe dealers ever; where
SATTION. The pntee bare Wipe. |
gies same So bolas.
Bava 4 ims
to the sowing of shallow rooted grasses Pe 8
and grains much of the extras dry.| 3
hard soll that prevails in these later
| days. The clovers end root crops are
| | expert crops to 8 considerable extent; {
i 80 we cling to shallow farming—-|
John Coasaberiain, 5: 1 The Sonnun)
aan
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