Lid 02 A Sn Ds it : That ever is being med | Supe of fruit jos for all eiatany ot a { that is superior to his, ss he shopld . pT for shildrsn J soften the gums, redaees inflamma. wind eclie. Be. A bottle | transter from be hives to movalle the period of fruit bloom. At this bew hives, besides making some sur and thers Is nothing “fancy” about It. crease the profita. No farmer shonid | up when the share of porridge falls pendulum swings to the other side the Deeded protection. "a shown in the or rough poles and an hour's labor will do the work and the stock will be | saved much needless suffering and will i also thrive much better—~Orangs Judd rested on its way to fill out the head, | | than the straw of cats Brown fir seed, i says the Philadelphia Record, The Oats are cured in the same matiner as 5 gestible material, and he avoids the expense of threshing and cleaning the | t grain. Its an advantage to row such { oats will give good results on sandy ; | policy Which induces a farmer to sell _ at the country store or city markets in cult for the average farmer and small dairyman | frame hives, it should be done during time the bees gre aimost sure of a living and it will give them a while geason to become established in thelr pilus honey. Bees kept in box hives are unprofitable. Ck Sate Tavestment. Some farmers consider pure breeds or whut they term “fancy stock” as too costly, when, in fact. no safer forest ment ean be made than in pure breeds, To invest in pure breeds is simply to procure something better, and thus in- be satisfied with what be has as king a8 some other farmer has something alm to use the best. Hox Conservation. Now, more than ever, there will he diligent attention paid to the hogs on band—their wants will be studied and they will thrive proportionately. Tiaese spurts of high prices seldom benefit the majorliy, since their dish is bottom And it is the eccentrie, fickle minded persons that will be caught with & ixrge pamwber of hogs when the price Do not invest recklessly fu breading stock at this time of high-water valoes. | Of all domestic animals swine increase in the greatest ratio, and under the stitnulns of the present price the num- ber will be increased by reason of im Proved care. While it pays to raise hogs in conjunction with the dairy, it never has, and pever will. pay the manufactory to keep the swine quar. ered Desr a Sraamey or cheese fac: ory. — Dakota Farmer Shelter For he . Cuttia. Catile and sheep suffer greatly In treeless pastures for some shelter from the sun's best and from cold storms And showers. How easy it ix to build ; a ha rough shelter that wiil give = A out. Old bosrds, a few pieces of Joist Farmer, Onta in the Milky Stage. The main crop of vats Is usually sesd. ped is in the wilky stage. Thi nutrl tious matter in the stalks is tins ar and as the stalks will be green when | cut they will also be more digestible | bay, with the exception that the farmer: may, If preferred. use the harvester | and binder, which will bundle the oats when the crop Is cut. Al kinds of live! i stock relish oats thus cored, and the | | bundles are passed through the feed | i cutter, and the cut feed, consisting of the grain and stalks, will be in 8 more | palatable form than many other Kinds | of food. The farmer thus utilizes to. the best advantage a large mask of 4} & Top Where there seems 10 be a prob- | abliity of a short hay supply, and the solls ob which no profitable hay crop an be grown. All kinds of weeds will also be lessened, as oats grow rapidly *D weeds down, While it is not maintained that oats grown and cut in milky stage should be substituted for the matured oat crop. yet it wil] pay Any farmer who has a field to spare to Sow It to oats and try the food on bis; 8 variety in winter. The result less grain will be required will respond liberally in’ yields of milk compared with some | foods ‘which Are not produced at such Packing Dalry Butter. That 8 good deal of butter which is Bow sold in the summer (ime at cheap | | prices could be packed successfully for winter markets at much higher prices is quite evident, It is a short wighted | his surplos butter for starvation prices | Summer when the surplus is large all ver the country. It is po more dim- wan to pack his butter away for sales than it Is for the hig stor ties in the city, which have agents in the field buying np win. Bummer rates. If ane ald pro: himself with a small ice bouse, ‘which Is almost essential today r farming. the butter could be 4 wise policy to purchase second. ‘hand them to keep untll winter. When pur. | chased they shonld be soaked In cold water for at Jesst half & day. and then eesided and soaked in bolling water just before the Lutter fs put in them. When thus cleansed they should be rubbed thoroughly inside with fine salt | moistened a little with water. Then ary the inside and place A fine sifted | layer of salt in the bottom, and pack 8 {inser of batter three Inches thick on it Then sprinkle salt over the top and pack away another threainch layer of | fine butter, Fill In this way up to with- in three inches of the top, and cover the snrface layer with clean new chewsecioth. The covering cloth should be an inch jarger than the fop, so the edges can be toroed under. Cover the cloth with salt and torn the edges over 1. The salt shonld come op even with ‘the surface, so that the wooden top will fit on songly. In this way butter will keep in cold storage six months to & year--8 W. Chambers, In American Caltivatar, Good But Chosp Poultry Honse. Living on a rented place I have had made & good house for fowls It is eight by sixteen feet, seven feet high In front and five feet in back. It is 4% vided by a board partition Into a roost. ing room. eight by ten fest ani a Iny. ing room. six by eight fest, as the Hine tration shows. The house has no floor and sand was scattered in the laying room, which has a window close to thes ground in the south end. A row of nests, each twelve by fourteen inches, | *xtends across the hack of the laying rovuLTRY ROUSE rox & EENTER. i a ris 1S oi aie rooms. They are covered on top and the entrance ix in front. The bosrds forming the bottom rest on the ground. | A barrel wax sawed in two and each 3 half furnished 5 nest. The sides wer sheathed with boards, the ¢racks cov ered with battens and the roof with ey. presy sinbs. The rooxis, which sre all on the same level, are strips, one by three inches, laid on supports about: twenty inches from the ground. When | { cleaning the house the roosts can be | shoved baek against the wall out of the way. In ome corner of the roosting room a place for ducks was partitions off with slats, which an be remove’ for cleaning the per. Oak leaves are used for the fucks to roost on. Mm (© G. Ford, fu American Agricnligrise, The Carada Thistle, An enemy which In dreaded more than the seventeen year locust is the great depths. In paign, which has been wo ably ia riding. bicycling and auto’ ter upon Snother stage of progress. | which will appesi with special foros ol those Interested fn things beaur? Heretofors the gillitarian view of Hive] : inaprovement has bean kept well in the Creveriheidss, ionr only too frequent foreground. bot pow several New Eng nnd communities are emphasizing the aesthetic value of beautiful road sides, | Ssdentifie road treatment must of ned congity come firet, but beantifying road- #inge of civilization. The pleasure of riding over good. firm, smooth country roads ix greatly incressed when the tren, shrubbery and general road side | Appearances are pleasant to look at, i nnd cool and Inviting to the eye. That {bere are an art 80d 8 science in road. wide treatment is made very apparent ‘by experiments made ia New England Inntend of sacrificing trees that would | | take Balf a century to replace, the road . masters devize some methods of pre. merving them. while new (ress are along roadsides can be either 3 nus ance or 8 source of grest asexihetie valve. [It all depends upon Ite locatidh and nature. Along many rosd sides the attempt is made to cut down all weeds | shrubbery and grass. Clean sweep 8 "made of everrthing and the rewuis is | ahything but artistic, nnd now is to plant trees and shrobe i mlong the road-sides to enhance theirs i hemuty. The plantings are far enough back from the roadway so that | branches will never interfere with | passing carriages. and steps sre taken to keep the ditches frea from ali ob sirocting growths, If is ssserted that if farmers would give as much atten. trees and shrubs sx they now devote ta | rathless entting down of everyihing | along the road aide in the fall of the year. they would thrive and produce | artistic effects. The selection of the | whole less &frald of the indiferantly . proper trees and shrubs for the differ. ent roads is 8 matter for local consid. | eration. but those which de nat Barbar! fosects Injorioue to fold evorm and. | which give the most striking feet to. the landscape. are recommended. These | | trees should be trimmed high so that! | surrounding views of the counter will not be shut off, and in this way cote | pont spoiling the view Rueh artistic Lireatoment of the reeds i PA Ch ot 3 manag BI. LHL Ryden : stidy urs 1 Cansda thistle, which does more injury | | every year to farms in this country | ed early, but it Is customary Jn moms #ections, where buy is not extensively | § BTOWH, 10 BOW oalx as late sw the 1st j of June, cutting the crop when the than many other catises to which great. er attention I given. It spreads slow | ly apparently, but #t sooner or Inter takes full possession of the land, and | unless erndicnted the entire farm bn euros worthless, The bsaviers seodit which are carried by winds, will germ! nate. but itd progress ix by mesns of | Wag White root stocks, which are proof | against diseume and seasons. It in! viaimed that a pleow of root stock if 2% in the well, will grow from sit th ten feet in & sesson, and from each | small plece a3 many as 2fty heads will | grow. The best season for beginning | the war on thistles tv in June. Plow the land and then plow aga every few weeks notil well into the RI the | { object being fo destroy the young Frowilh as fast sx it appears, ax any | plant must succomd if deprived of forming leaves, as plants breaths through the agency of the leaves, Af. other plan is to allow them to grow un. | 1 the plants are just Ligh enough to mow and then ran the mower gyver the feld, repeating the work as fast as the | plants appear, Ax the farmer may prefer to utilise the land he can plow the land and pliant it to potatoes, If be will then give the potato crop frequent cultivation he will destroy many of the thisties and the potatoes will pay for the labor. It may not be possible to subdue the thistien | the first year, but If the work is well done the thisilex may be completely de- | strosed the second wear, when the ground should be plowed in the sprog and a crop of carly cablages grown, re- moving the cabbage crop and hroad- casting the land, after plowing and bh - harrowing with Hungarian grass seed, { As the Hungarian grass grows rapidly i and may be mowed once 8 month it i gives the thistles but little chance while the previous cultivation of the cabbage crop will have greatly reduced the thisties in number. The point is 10 Keep the thisties cut down from In iy to frost, after which they will be under control, The roadsides must also be earef: nity attended to, for it is on the uwpoulti- rated roadside that weeds are Deglest. ed and hence are protected. Neighbors should also work harmoniously in the destruction of weeds, as frequently some negligent farmer injures the en- tire community by producing the seeds of weeds which are carried by the winds over a large grea. Weeds may also be carried long distances on the tops of railroad cars or by water: In fact, there are so many modes of dis: tribution that it is almost impossible for any farmer to escape the nuisance ; of weeds, but all farmers can prevent their spread. and in protecting his neighbor be also protects himself The i! Canada thistle Is not so great a nuls. 8nce as wWANY suppose If farmers will determine to combat its Spread pity. ; depnle Retord hat pe Ler two A deri will be noticed diane the feading roan fry highways Upsightiy hedges and eye 2% be rides ay drives through the country Harper's Weekly, § Ss A Dasstion One of Comfsrt, TORR, Jaya thet can be made on tye snd te noe. The carth reads in the Irivie porilon of Illlsox are cusually exXorilent Sight, some years fot rohit of the pweive, amd ave ably zood for ten Gr twelve my the your, but there are times i spring when the frost Ix gol {the ground that they are pracy toad I¥ Hee passalie for loads. Hewevey, throngh the noderdrainage of the sail on) tiie and through a betler care of the sur face, the perind of hnpassabilily is com ints in recent years, bur there fy still roots Tor discriminating improvement” This abort paragraph explains the pe eculiarity of the author's views He considers A rowd ressonably good even HE as practically impassable for loads when the frost is going aut of ithe ground; while people who want roads that are frog and bard all the year around, witbour clouds of doer In dry weather consider such a road poreas onabiy bad for a Jistriet that can al ford something Letter, Al the bLegin ning of the twentieth century the gies tian at issue 8 ane of comfort as well ax age of ton mile costs. The farmers bore and cart and load of hay bave been fa the glare of the footlighn long enough to sidestep for a time and ist us hear from his wife apd chillren They may like to see their naighbors ar they may wish to five Ike human De ings instead of caged animals It at all: # is Bot & matter of mousey The Gulans Dinsmend Fieids. stream full of rapids and cataracts, the British Guiana are attracting a good deal of attention, The United Stat Consul at Demerara reports that stones House. The fields sre situated on the Essequibe River. the Polat ot rendes- | vous being Batis. HE oud - Smprovement am conducted by those interested | mbiling in recent years, is about toen- | pianted at favorable pisces Shrabbery tion to trimming and caring for these of : tex + require Re fap. 4 a now haing ERY tor the better | & cioge-etnpped roadsides, With a gene p eral air of negloer and untidines:, way | then dissppenr ent nd the trav. | eler will 8nd constant Temes far the Professor Baker, Io a piper on good *1 belleve (hat the ropds in the corn helt al iinnia ATTY BE rg Lhe Tovar iN {the COURLIy, and thst with a Bade ine paratively short. There hss been a very great improvement ln these direc weather and withour mud in wer! rived at Pow ge to school when the roads are impas sable. they may lke to keen clean when they drive or walk shour aud Bot a matter of broken stode or gravel smonsting to a Isrge sum have already | been exported through the Custom ; tn Great Britain the coal en at very Ametics & shalt of} iy deep, while shallow pi it. and hme few workings! are Bearly 4.050 feet deep The result of this is that ihe cost of hauling the cori out and the pumaing of large enantitien of water fron Fd dete | make coal minicg very expensive ia Great Britain A #ift mine is mare cheaply ventilated than a shalt one end the mises are much more fery inl : England Than they are io Anerica {Tha presence of fra damp In British ‘mines greatly mpedes the rapidity of working and adds to the cost in many sways. There are many stringent re BiRlons to be carried ont with a vie to Lhe prevention of exnivslans wh! Ww. and whet they do they ars asus} of a very serious nature, causing lange Pose of life and property. Frequently severs] mbmths slaps befors the mi : : b are in completed working order azn sides represents even a more sdvanced after such aa accident The cost of this Jows of life and propesty vaturaily ix Centenary of Trousers. Mozt people will be surprizged to hear that trousers, as at present worn by the male portion of humanity, hive | Joel celebrated thelr centsmary hot | according to fashion, such is undoubt. (edly the case They “rame In” on ac corint of the Nigh living prevalent in England a Bundred years age. This is England is bat al produced A good deal of gout. whose | with twinings the tiaht-ftting costume in) wes at that period meade unbearable Henece the invention of the wideri] |} form of garment. which $300. became prpular, and was adopted ty many L rival personagin 82 hows and abroad Among the “dandies” of the period buwayer the sew style was regavied ith contempt, and when Almack’s rt was once refased admission bed | sort the great Drike of Wellington Bim | The movement started in Now Eng kell was ones refused admission ba cause Ne presented Limaelf in trousers instead of the (For that tine) orificioy neiber garments. Bo far bas their EWAY now extanded (hat they thrastes ta supplant even the Senttish kilt The Bolo and the Bayonet 2 The chief of ardnancs has orders 169 bolos az a tentative substitute To the regiigtion army bavonet The dnl of the Philippines and {he machete of Cuba ars essentially the same un save been used with such deadly offic that troops operating against guersil) ress armed with them were, on th handled rifles with which a part of ths enemy were supplied. The lances is a most ont of date as a cavalry weapon, the saber ix in disfavor and pow the bayonet is ander investigation. The bolo is a cutting as well as & thrust 6g weapon i lx serviceable for trons in seach of kindling asd is Handy in the camp kitchen; It is usefol for fis irenching. The Ghurkas acd ot'uire £ gp ti * I will get the hemes ot the shade wi a Pele ns roy Ae armed with » sine Berlin's Horsefiesh Steaks Popular. The consumption of horseflesh aming the poorer classes of Berlin Las hiss | stead iY Rowing from year fo vesr Ce honte SXiElX 8 private extabilab mont fn the Greifswalder street where 15.000 Tees. 108 he value of R135000, wire a Isat rear (or the purple of being turned isto steaks and san Jo RPE, ha Berlin Towa Council is £ additional bulldings at the Place where the pu shite smughter sitnated, They will provide rion for many handreds of : tie which sre destined ro imgiorions Seats &t the hands : PE A I A AA BOT SAN An Owiish Beiligerent, Last year a palr of large brown owls | Bad a nest in > wood, odose down fo the shore on Milford Haven, with a ! road passing throngh ft On several COPRSIQNN the cowk Bird vialy nti AL. tacked dogs paging iough the wobd Pais penr the male bird hos Das mot attacked dogs. bur has several! JE down Sowa mast viciously in 1 Garyiigat at people walking along the oad. Ha tore & boy's sar and his | Last performance was {0 knoek a mas has since been shot Titled Clergymen. By the accession of the new Farl of | Chlehester § British secular peeraites | Are row held by tergymen They ure the Marquis of Normanhy. the Faris oo Chichester, Devon and Straord Baron Forsonby, who ta ale Irish Earl wo Pessborough, and Baron Scarsdale the at of Lord Carron, Viceroy of India Aspther Irish peer, Vieesunt Moles worth, i8 alse a clergyman. The Bar of Devon, 57 years of age, is the second f oldest peer in England Found in Arctic tee. The pi Centennial, which ar Townsend, Wash Sam Nome, a. Pe pore that on June: 17 a whaling ship had sighted in the ice pack 80 mss ports sf OC ‘are Prince of Wales the stiamer Po etiand, whioh was blown into the Arctic ocean with | 144 persons on hoard The revenue | cutter Thetis was standing by the Port lend and would bring her fa safely alone, but coe of comfort ss weil - ; New York Tribune Fsrmer. Though dificult of access. up a recently discovered diamond felis ofl Ww | fonsidering the Mlyisa tity of 2 DwWn wilh the suddenness of bis swap | and 4 injure his face so badly that 11 in feared Re will nee his eve. The bird | i oy IL. i somines ave temporary, vot, rab § off and scale, AL ABASTINE is | a pure, permanent and artistic wall coating, ready for the brush by mixiog in cold water. For | sale by aint dexiers ¢ Buy in hd Un Br worthless Smitatic ALABASTINE COMPANY, i Bl 3 ¥ I At drggists, The Five-Ourt packet ia gh for an; I use Ripans Tabules for} periodic headaches, always with quick relief. Only last evening a lady asked me what I thought good { tor painin the} stomach from eating rich food, and | gave her a Ripans | Tabule. To-day she tells me she has bought a package, the one | gave her helped her so much. hm— . occasion, The | «0 mate, contains a WTODIY Tor A YORE, oval relied SRERN BONS. Bes NB aAtiewas. Su. : SY rr oicovmar eve
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