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THE CORONET PLAIT.
What a setback the low hairdressing
has suffered! The coronet plait has
carried all before it; and it is amusing
to see how the hairdressers are simply
4lling their windows with the most
tempting switches plaited into coronets
poised on the heads of beautiful beings
in wax. One may have a small tiara
pleat or a fender pleat. Most people
can manage the small tiara pleat, and
some the fender pleat, out all may
manage it with the friendly artifice
of the hairdresser. One is reminded
in this connection of the old lady who,
when some one asked her wonderingly
if the brilliant set of teeth her smile
revealed were her own, said: “I should
think they were; paid for, every one of
them.” Who can dispute that the pleat
for which we must pay so many yuin-
eas is our own?—Washington Times.
RIBBON AS TRIMMING.
One of the most suggestive features
of the hour is the employment of rib-
bon as a trimming. It ranges all the
way from the tiny comet ribbon to the
wide, soft sash ribbon. Ribbons are
much used on summer gowns, and
there are any number of striped and
shaded ribbons used for decoration.
Sashes and girdles reign supreme, belts
having gone out of date since the ap-
pearance of pointed bodices. Very nar-
row comet or baby ribbon is used
either as embroidery or in shirred de-
signs. For example, a ruffle of broad
ribbon may be trimmed with several
rows of very narrow ribbon put on in
the form of a tiny ruching. Another
trimming is made by shirring the rib-
bon on both edges and applying it
like a scant puff. Not a few of the
cashmere cloth gowns are trimmed
with shirred ribbon,
7 SUN THE BABY,
Sunning the baby is the latest thing
fn baby culture, says an exchange. No
household is too poor to possess one of
these patent adjustable sun parlors.
They are made of some kind of hard
wood and are built by the carpenter to
extend beyond the window. The top
and sides of the little platform are
covered with glass, and strips of carpet
are laid on the floor, to stop up any
cracks there may be. No matter how
fiercely the winds may blow or how
low the thermometer may sink the sun
parlor is always ready for the baby.
‘A pillow is placed on the carpeted floor,
then the baby is warmly dressed and
well covered for its morning or after-
noon nap. Mothers who have tried
this method of sunning the baby are
boasting of the gain in weight and
health, and have the proud satisfac-
tion of knowing they are strictly up to
date.—Brooklyn Eagle,
NOT POETIC, BUT PROFITABLE.
Here is a tip to the woman who is
a gardener for business reasons. She
should raise onions. For them the
farmer can get a dollar a bushel, with
a prospect of higher prices before long.
The onion crop in Europe was a failure
last year, and a great many are being
sent over the water at the present time.
Twenty thousand bushels were sent in
one consignment from Sunderland,
Mass., a few days ago. It is estimated
that there are now about 90,000 bush-
els in the Connecticut valley which can
be bought by people who have “got
the price.” They are said to be mostly
owned by four men,
There is a very good profit in raising
onions at a dollar a bushel—a good
deal more than in producing tobacco at
the present time. Indeed, it may be
doubted whether there is any other
crop which pays so handsomely as the
odoriferous vegetable which is now
commanding such a high price in this
part of the country.”
DOMESTIC SERVICE.
The aversion which working women
in this country feel to entering domes-
tic service appears to be shared by the
women of European nations. Observ-
ers in England some time ago noted
" with alarm that young girls who were
obliged to work would do almost any-
thing else sooner than become house
servants. Now, Mr. Cuneo, American
consul in Turin, reports the same of the
Italian girls in that section of the coun-
try. Mr. Cuneo says he has known
people to look for domestic help for
weeks in vain, the fact being that there
as in the United States “intelligent and
ambitious young women seek employ-
ment as teachers, as clerks in post-
offices and stores, as secretaries, sten-
ographers, typewriters, in factories—
in fact, they seem to prefer any kind
of employment to domestic work. It
seems that they even prefer to drive
teams, to pull or push carts on the
streets or to become porters to being
domestic servants.”
The industrial opportunities which
Italy opens to these women ought to
warm the cockles of the heart in any
woman suffragist whoyearns to see hg
sex competing freely with men in the
various activities of life. Mr. Cuneo
relates how, not long ago, he visited
Forno, a small Alpine village. “There
being no wagon road to within five
miles of the village, all necessaries ex-
cept a few vegetables have to be car-
ried mostly from Omegna, a distance
of ten miles. In my walk to Forno and
back I frequently met women with
Jarge baskets on their backs, strapped
to each shoulder, and I saw that the
baskets were filled with provisions and
merchandise,
“I also noticed that the ‘royal mail’
was thus carried. This carrying is
given to the lowest bidders, and as
women are willing to work cheaper
than men they have a monopoly of the
carrying business, and men have been
driven to find employment in other
lines,”—Massachusetts ’loughman,
THE WOMEN OI' INDIA.
How to improve the condition of its
women is one of the greatest problems
which faces India. That their lot has
been a hard one; that they have not
been given a fair chance in life; that
the natives of India can never rise to a
high position among the nations until
their women have been elevated, is
being more and more commonly ad-
mitted.
With the progress of education and
the growth of the more civilized com-
muaity, Indian women are slowly com-
ing to understand that many spheres
of activity and usefulness which hith-
erto have been closed to them are as
appropriate for them as for their hus-
bands and brothers. or the present
this community must lead in all these
movements, The Marathi Mission of
the American board, working in the
3ombay presidency, has now fairly de-
veloped several industries for girls.
The most important are weaving with
hand looms, rug-making, lace embroid-
ery and art needle work. The objec-
tions to the first and second of these
are that the profits are small, and that
they require machinery and equip-
ments which prevent their being de-
veloped except in factories. In India,
much more than in the United States,
factories are unsafe plac girls.
es for
The third and fourth industries are
most appropriate for Ind young
women. They can be deve xl in
private homes or anywhere elise; they
require only a 1 and inexpensive
outiit; they offer large scope for skill,
intelligence and and also bring
fair profits.—Southern Workinan,
taste,
WEDDING BOUQUETS.
Wedding bouquets have practically
resolved themselves into two styles—
shower and “Bernhardt” bouquets, al-
theugh an occasional sheaf of long-
stemmed roses is scen, or even more
occasional round bouquets,
For the bride herself, almost any
white flower is good, the stereotyped
bouquet (like the stereotyped gown of
white satin) being made of white roses,
relieved by little sprays of lilies of the
valley,
Lilies of the valley, in faet, play a
most important part in almost every
bridal bouquet, whether it is composed
of roses or orchids, gardenias or hya-
cinths,
Locps of misty tulle, twisted in
through the figwers, are an echo of the
wedding veil that softens the whole
effect of the bouquet, and transforms
it into something at once unusual and
exquis
“Bernhardt” bouquets are built on
the lines of a sickle with the flowers
arranged to curve away from the face
and to droop over the arm, instead of
preserving the curious stiffness so
often seen in loose clusters.
But the prettiest idea of all is a new
arrangement for the tiny maid who
serves as flower girl. A great, rough
straw garden hat is bent up into a
basket, the handle formed of wide satin
ribbon, and is piled high with blossoms
—ribbons and blossoms matching, and
both matching the ribbons on the small
girl’s dress.
For the bride's veil, orange blossoms
are the rule, but gardenias and lilies
of the valley—and at Easter, Easter
lilies—are often used either instead of
or combined with the orange blos-
soms. The only arrangement of them
is the adjusting and readjusting of a
flower or two, or tiny sprays of the
little flowers until the most becoming
effect is got.— Washington Times.
Plain white “Buster Brown” suits
are still popular.
Suspender dresses for young. misses
will be more popular tnan ever.
Coats for young girls of gray and
white fancy woolen mixtures are use-
ful for cool days.
A sailor suit of white linen for small
boys has a collar of pale blue chambray
with several rows of white braid.
A pretty chambray dress has a box-
pleated waist with a collar of white
linen,
A pretty Swiss wrapper was made
over heliotrope china silk, which gave
substance to its airy texture, and dec-
orated with quantities of valenciennes
lace.
A dress for a young girl, of pale blue
chambray, has a small yoke of fine em-
broidery, decorated on each side with
rings formed with fine feather-stitch-
ing.
A delicately lovely and becoming
gown was made of China silk of the
always charming shade of pale blue,
with a flounce headed with three rows
of spotted lace insertion and finished
at the bottom with the same.
Before Chicago established a muni-
cipal electric light plant, the city paid
$125 per annum for each arc light.
Now the cost is only $34 for each are
light.
——
DESCRIBING THEIR
SENSATIONS.
a
Emotions Excited by the Coliseum
and the Old Cider Mill, With Di
gressions Anent Dried Apples
“Yes,” sald the red-headed man, “I
spent three months in Rome, and I
never got tired of looking at the ruins
of the Coliseum. I could have gone
out there every day.”
“Ruins, eh?’ queried one of the
farmers on the scat ahead.
“Ruins, sir, with a history. When
that Coliseum was erected Rome was
in her glory. She was the greatest
power on earth, She dominated all
Europe. When Rome spoke kings
trembled. When Rome sent forth her
armies nations crumbled. All these
things came to me as I stood there and
looked, and I felt, sir—I felt—-""
“Yes, I can imagine how you felt.”
“I stood there and my mind went
back hundreds of years, and I felt
“I've felt the same thing,” chipped
in the farmer, “and you needn't try
to describe it. Only last summer [
went back to the home of my boyhood,
and I stood there before the ruin of
an old cider mill where I used to swig
down the sweet stuff as it came from
the press, and the fust I knowed my
eyes was full of tears and I was
wishin’ I had been born a calf and
had no feelin’'s to be hurt. Yes, I
understand jest how you felt, but when
you got over it did you go around
askin’ if there was any market there
for dried apples? We've got about
a hundred pounds on hand, and if
there's any demand over in Rome I'll
ship ’em over there.”
The red-headed man gave him a long
look of mingled sorrow and disgust,
and instead of putting the farmer onto
the dried apple market he pulled a
newspaper from his pocket and began
reading about the riots in Russia.—-
St. Joseph News Press.
Pius X, and New Cardinals,
The nearer we draw to the time fixed
for the Consistory, which should take
place next June, the more difficult be-
comes the position of the Pope for the
choice of the new Cardinals, so many
are the recommendations which he re-
ceives. The candidates are so numer-
ous that even to please one-tenth the
Sacred College would have to be com-
posed of at least 100 Cardinals, in-
stead of seventy, which is the maxi-
mum number,
In the Anglo-Saxon countries alone
they claim a large number of red hats.
In England they would like an Arch-
bishop to be made Cardinal whose see
has been until now considered always
as a Cardinal's see, and they would
also like to have a certain Abbot raised
to the honor of the purple who occu-
pies a high position in a religious order
dear to Emperor William. Scotland
would like a representative in the Sa-
cred College, and Ireland another.
Finally, the United States are strug-
gling with five candidates, maintain-
ing that with the addition of the Phil-
ippines they have become the third
Catholic country, and have, therefore,
the right to a representative in the Sa-
cred College at least equal to Spain.
Australia alone seems content to have
no other besides Cardinal Moran.—Pall
Mall Gazette.
A Virture Which Commands Love.
Should some women still need en-
eourazement, they may learn with in-
terest that men are rather apt to be
vain, and that it is enough sometimes
to be a good ‘listener in order to be a
most successful hostess. The follow-
ing typical anecdote proves this. Gom-
berville, the old courtier, somewhat of
a poet, too, was known to be paying a
deal of attention to a certain lady of
the IHotel de Rambouillet. One day
some one had this conversation with
him:
“Yon are the ‘cavalier servant’ of
Madame — 7"
“Yes, certainly.”
“Do you love her?”
“With the ost devoted respect in
my heart.”
“Why? She is not beautiful.”
“No.”
“She is not young.”
“No.”
“She is not graceful.”
“Not very.”
“She is not witty.”
“No, not particularly.”
“Well, then, what is it?”
“She can listen admirably.”’—Prof.
Albert Schinz, in Lippincott’s.
All Invited.
A ludicrous instance of absent-mind-
edness was afforded by the pastor of a
church in a small town of Virginia.
Not long ago,” one Sunday morning,
this minister forgot to give the usual
announcement of social events for the
week, He had utered some words of
his final blessing, when a deacon, in a
whisper, invited his attention to the
omission. Whereupon the clergyman
ceased praying and said:
“Brethren, I omitted to inform you
that an oyster supper will be served
at Brother Mullin’s house next Friday
evening, the 20th instant. All are in-
vited to come, bringing their own bowls
and spoons.” Then, continuing his in-
vocation, quite unconscious of the hu-
mor of the situation, the worthy man
added:
“And may the Lord have mercy on
your souls! Amen.”—Harper's Weekly,
Curls Sold With Hats.
The wonderful way in which the
clic Parisienne builds up her coiffure
to fill the hollows and angles made by
the modish Watteau hats is finding im-
itatiom in Londom also. It’s no secret;
you put your hat on, and wherever you
think it Is wanted, you stick in a tuft
of curled hair fastened on a long pin
to secure it. Curls, knots and puff
bows in every shade of blond or dark
hair are sold with the hats.—Coming
Medes, Londen.
POULTRY IN THE ORCHARD,
The orchard may well serve two pus
poses—one the production of fruit and
the other as a range or feeding ground
for poultry. The fowls will destroy
many Insects which would injure the
trees and the fruit, and they are no
mean factor toward enriching the land,
TRUMPET VINES.
The trumpet creeper, with its showy
trumpet blossoms of orange and scare
let, and its vigorous stem and leaves,
always wins favor as a hardy, climbing
vine. It has been used with admirable
effect on many twu-storied houses,
notable on one fine old farm house with
a wide veranda and an upper balcony,
—Garden Magazine,
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INJURED PEACH TREES.
Where peach buds have been killed
by the cold it is advisable to cut back
into the two or three year old wood.
If the tree was cut back last year make
the new cut below the old oue, taking
off the top growth. This will induce a
new growth, which will be in shape for
bearing next year. This will result in
a new head being formed. The more
the wood is discolored the further back
should be the cutting.
GARDEN FRUITS,
When you come to the point of choos-
Ing varieties of fruit trees and shrubs,
go slow, says a writer in the Garden
Magazine. Do not make your deci-
sions from the nurseryman’s catalogue
or the agent's advice. Seek out neigh-
bors who have grown large and small
fruit successfully for several years.
Their advice is worth a great deal to
you, and it is usually freely given;
contact with the soil and nature's
bounty usually makes a man generous
in this respect, though he be an Old
Scrooge otherwise,
FLOWERS ON BUSHES.
“We want shrubs in every home place
in America, because they furnish more
flowers for less money and care, and
for a longer period of years, than any
other plant, says the Garden Magazine.
True, some trees have big flowers, and
lots of them, but they are higher up in
the air, while a bush is just where you
can see it and smell it. Shrubs are
more permenant than “perennials,” and
they are nothing like the bother an-
nuals are. You plant trees for poste-
ity, but shrubs for yourself also. You
get flowers the second year, if you pay
a decent price, and if you go away for
a summer the place does not look like
an abandoned home. The plain truth
is that a home without shrubbery is all
wrong. Shrubbery is just as necessary
to a place as clothing to a man. Nine
times out of ten the straight line
where a building meets the ground
should be hidden by shrubs,
HAVE A HOTBED.
Every year demonstrates more and
more the importance of the hotbed in
scientific gardening. Even on a small
scale, early vegetables cannot be suc-
cessfully raised without it. Its cost. in
truth, is out of all proportion to the
good it does. Though occupying a
space only ten feet square, it will pro-
sduce wonders. Several thousand of to-
mato or cabbage plants can then be
started for early transplanting. With
the addition of a few cold frame sashes
one is therefore able to defy the fickle
cold of late winter or early spring. In-
deed, it is pretty safe to say that the
use of the cold frame is more desira-
ble than that of the hotbed. It re-
duces the cost of raising vegetables
to a minimum, and even the snows of
late March cannot injure plants that
are protected by a properly constructed
cold frame, while all through April
and May it renders them perfectly se-
cure. No one, not having them, how-
ever, should make an extensive outlay
in cold frames and hotbeds at the out-
set. Rather, a few feet of one or the
other should be constructed each year.
The cost is then divided up, and even-
tually no more are built than there is
actual need for.—Fred O. Sibley, in
The Epitomist.
BLACKBERRIES, '
The Eldorado is of good quality and
quite productive. The Snyder occu-
pies about the same that Ben
Davis holds among apples, but by good
culture and careful pruning to avoid
too heavy a set of fruit the quality can
be much improved. There is good de-
mand for nice blackberries, and plenty
of room for the man who will take
pains to produce fruit of good quality.
The seashore resorts are crowded at
the time this fruit ripens, and much
can be disposed of there at fancy
prices if one is so situated as to take
advantage of this trade. Often, how-
ever, a few quarts of berries that have
wilted a trifle and turned a little stale
will give a retail dealer all that he
can sell through the afternoon and
stock to commence on the next morn-
ing; the same man could dispose of
several crates if those stale berries
were out of the way and some perfect:
ly fresh fruit given him in their place.
While it may not pay to grow rasp-
berries and blackberries in the whole-
sale way that strawberries, peaches
and apples are being prodnced, a great
deal of good fruit can be marketed at
good prices if placed before customers
in a fresh condition; no need of men-
tioning the advantage of clean, new
baskets, for surely no one uses any-
thing else now when baskets can be
had for one-third of a cent—J. T.
Molumphy, in American Cultivator.
DEVILLED MUSHROOMS,
Chop one quart of peeled mushrooms,
Season with salt, pepper and lemon
Julce. Mix the yolks of two hard-
boiled eggs and two raw eggs together,
and stir in with one pint of bread-
crumbs and one large tablesponful of
butter. Fill little shells with the mix-
ture, cover with grated crackers and
bits of butter. Set in the oven to
brown,
FRIED CELERY,
Cut stalks of celery into three or four
inch lengths. Even if it is not well
blanched it can be used for this pur
pose. Beat together one egg and a
tablespoonful of cold water; roll your
celery first in this and then in, fine
crumbs; sprinkle with a little salt and
pepper; roll again in the egg, and fry
in olive oil. Strew grated cheese over
the stalks after taking them from the
oil and before sending to table,
HARICOT OF OX TAIL,
Divide an ox tail into pieces about |
three inches long, dip them in seasoned |
flour and fry in hot fat until brown.
Drain them and put them into a stew-
pan~with a sliced and fried onion and
a pint of hot stock. Dring to the boil
and then add a turnip and a carrot cut
Into small dice, Simmer the whole very
gently for two hours, then lay the
pleces of ox tail round a hot dish, put
the vegetables in the centre, and strain
the thickened gravy over.
EGG TIMBALES,
Butter small tin moulds and dust
Nhem with powdered parsley; then an
egg is dropped in each, and they are
put in a pan of hot water and cooked
in the oven for about ten minutes,
when they may be turned out on a
round platter, and a sauce made of a
cup of thickened cream with chopped
mushrooms in it, or a tomato-sauce
with the mushrooms may be poured
around them. These timbales may be
altered by lining the moulds with finely
minced ham instead of the parsley,
but it must be moistened with cream or
( to make it adhere to the tin. The
g is put in and the sauce used as be-
fore.
BANANA SALAD,
A strip of the peel of a large and
perfect banana may be turned back,
and most of the pulp carefully scooped
out. The short, thick variety of ban-
ana, in either red or yellow, is the best
for this purpose, To all the space left
by the removal of the pulp, prepare a
mixture of thinly sliced banana, shred-
ded orange or grape-fruit, seeded and
peeled white grapes, and a few kernels
of English walnuts or pecans in small
pieces. In their season, stoned cher-
ries may be added. All must first be
mixed in a bowl with a generous sup-
ply of dressing, and after the yellow
cases are filled with the salad each
must be laid on lettuce leaves. These
must be prepared a short time before
using. Either a mayonnaise or a good
boiled dressing may be used.
EAI RAE 2
[HINTS FOR, THE
HOUSEKEEPER.
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For quick baking with a small fire,
the sheetiron oven such as is used for
gasoline stoves is very convenient set
over the two hottest griddles of the
range.
In testing a piece of cloth to see if it
fs a cotton mixture, if you cut a small
piece off and put a match to it, if it is
all wool it will only singe, but if cotton
is there it will flare up.
Prepared paste for paperhanging can
now be bought dry. It is ready for use
as soon as stirred into cold water, and
does away with the trouble of boiling
flour paste, which so often is lumpy,
There is no nicer breakfast than a
sliced green pepper cut very small and
cooked for ten minutes with two peeled
and diced tomatoes in a little butter;
add four eggs lightly beaten and stir
as for a scramble,
A coat of prepared, black varnish or
spar varnish given to the screens will
keep them looking bright and fresh,
and make them last longer. Apply
with a good paint brush, rubbing well
into the mesh on both sides.
An oculist suggests that glasses
should be washed every night in warm
soapsuds, well rinsed and dried on a
bit of old, soft linen. Few people,
though otherwise neat and fastidious,
cleanse their glasses frequently
enough.
It is not generally known that eggg
rovered with boiling water and allowed
to stand for five minutes are more
nourishing and more easily digested
than eggs placed in boiling water and
allowed to boil furiously for three and
a half minutes,
Make a delicious violet perfume by
putting half an ounce of small pieces
of orris root into two ounces of alcohol,
Add to this a bunch of newly-picked
violets, cork and bottle tightly and
shake well, After it has been standing
four or five days a few drops on the
handkerchiefs will leave the scent of
fresh violets.
When the handies of steel knives and
forks come off they can be easily mend-
ed with resin. Pour a little powdered
resin into the cavity in the handle.
Heat the part of the knife that fits into
the handle until it is red hot, and thrust
Into the handle. It will become firmly
fixed by the resin when it becemes cool,
Protect the blade from the heat,
| to raise as sometimes imagined.
I
FARM TOPICS.
CORN FERTILIZER.
The following formula for corn is
récommended by J. B. Sanborn, New
Hampshire's intensive farmer: For an
acre, two pounds nitrate of soda, 300
pounds tankage, 150 pounds murlate of
potash, 400 pounds ground phosphate
of rock. This is a liberal dressing in-
tended for unmanured soll.—American
Cultivator.
—_ p—
RAISE A VARIETY,
Apples and hay are ordinarily a prof-
itable erop to raise, yet we know that
sometimes we do not get much pay for
our labor. If the farmer who lives
within ten to fifteen miles of a market
will take time, while waiting for his
grass or apples to grow—will raise
some other crops, so as to have a va~
riety for the market, he will not have
so much occasion to mourn over his
small income. The farmer should con-
sider his location, his soil and oppor-
tunity for intelligent and wise farming.
=T. D, Little, in the American Culti-
vator.
a ———
LARLY CHICKS,
Early chickens are really not so hard
It is
fully as easy to fight dampness and
occasional spells of severe weather as
to protect them against the lice which
cause so much trouble in the chickens
hatched late in the summer. The per
cent. of early chickens which live is
likely to be as great as those hatched
in July. The profits on the March
chickens properly raised and marketed
are three times that of the July chicks
ens, while the March to May pullets
of the medium and large breeds are
the main reliance for winter laying.
If the stock is good and vigorous, the
chicks will stand a good deal of cold.
Moisture and ‘cold combined are the
severe trial, but there is no reason why,
they cannot be provided with dry
runs covered with coarse gravel.
Scratching for their feed among the
gravel, they get plenty of exercise to
keep them warm. Lice will give not
much trouble if the old hens are thor-
oughly free from the pests before the
chickens are hatched. They should
not be kept indoors too long, but should
have access to the open air on fairly
good days. For the first week or so
they will do all right kept wholly in-
doors. In fact, they can be raised to
the broiler age indoors if given all
needed care, but are not likely to be
attended to on this plan on the average
fare
CLEAN AND DIRTY COW TEST.
A writer in Farm Stock Journal has
been experimenting in order to demon-
strate how well it pays to keep cows
cleaned. A neighbor, he says, believes
it does not pay so we traded cows, for
the time being, in the following man-
ner: One of our cows that had been
cleaned daily for five years was turned
over to our neighbor and we took one
of his cows which during the same five
vears had rarely been cleaned. The
cows were sisters, with a year between
them. It was agreed that each of us
should milk his ewn cow, and that the
test should not begin until the cows
had been in their new quarters for ten
days. The clean cow was not to be
cleaned during the test, while the dirty
cow was to have the same groomin
given the rest of the cows in our ba
At the end of the ten days a record 8
the milk was kept and the experime
lasted a month. By actual weight the
dirty cow which had become the lean
cow gained twelve per cent. in the milk
fiow, while the clean cow which was
now dirty fell off nearly nineteen pe
cent. Our neighbor now believes in
cleaning cows,
It may be true that this
really a fair test inasmuch
might have been some other elements
entering into the results, but even ad-
mitting this it is certain that a large
per cent. of the change in each case
was due to the treatment. Try a little
experiment of this kind with your own
herd and see how it works,
was not
as there
A GOOD OUT DOOR CELLAR.
There are many localities where it
is impracticable to build a cellar un-
derneath the house and for those who
are so situmted we give a description
of an out door cellar that answers
every purpose, frost proof and cool in
the summer.
This cellar is sixteen feet long and
twelve feet wide, with walls six feet
high.
As the drainage is poor, the cellar
floor is but eighteen inches below the
surface. The walls are four and one-
half feet stone, and the remainder
hollow brick, and earth is built up to
within one foot of the eaves.
with one inch
is double,
floor space between the boards, and
The door
the windows are also double. The
space between the ceiling and the
rafters is packed full of straw.
This cellar has been used three
years and has proven in every way sat-
isfactory.
A cellar of this kind should be built
early in the sedson in order to have
it well dried out before cold weather
sets in.—National Fruit Grower,