Feeeland Tribune. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS, A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET AIIOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION* KATES. One Year gl no Six Months 75 Four Months 50 ! Two Months w. Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on the labels of their papers. Ily roferring to this they can tell at a fiance how they stand on the books in this oflico. For instance: Drover Cleveland 28June95 means that Drover is paid up to June 28, M 5. ! Keep the figures in advance of the present.date. Report promptly to thisollice when your paper in not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will IK' made in the munner provided by Jaw. AT H ast one CASE of simon-pure in finity lias been taken into the Clii _\'igo courts. Mathcw McNamara, who owns "Hats," declines to collect his rents because ho desires to keep his tenants contented. Even a jury :>f medical exj erts will agree on Mac's r, use; and if they can devise a method hy which that type of insanity can be multiplied in the town, they will I)'come for tho tirst time in their professional lives benefactors of their feiiow men. IT has come to he a chief glory of the modern age to use English well. Long as the polished French held pre-eminence as the language of dip- ! loinacy, supplanting Latin in courts as English supplanted Latin in our common literature; intrenched as I French is still in even the official publication of the German Empire, Almanach dc Gotha—monument to the influence of Voltaire: rich as is German, and never mightier than to day, for music is bearing its sonorons verse to all lands that love grandiose song—the progress of English ah no Is keeping pace with advancement ol frontiers of civilization. In the far north, in the f-'outh Pacific, at the equator, it is becoming the para mount tongue. In Australia it is taking the p ace of old held by Ger man. In portions of what were originally Dutch settlements it has succeeded Dutch to a large degree. In Russia arid in Germany it, is sec ond only to the vernacular, and the next international conference will doubtless adopt it as the most expe- i client medium. What legislation cannot do commerce has done All artificial efforts to preserve old or to propagate new vocabularies have proved and must continue to be fu tile. Ancient languages have their own imperishable and reserved place 1 In the love and learning of mankind. ' All modern tongues, many of them 1 surviving civil proscription, should be cherished by those to whom they j nre cradle speech, and studied by all who can. English is the language of destiny. They to whom it is cradle speech can well afford to study it with worship. It should he their care to protect it against violation or [ Intrusions. For noble sentiment, / profound truth, broad wisdom, or 1 eloquence or tenderness, it is need- j 1 •ess to wander from it into other ' tongues, be their true accents lost in j the film music ot antiquity, or bo I their organic forms plastic in the pottery of contemporaneous life. IN commenting on "lassoing," the peculiar method San Francisco park police employ for catching runaways, the San Francisco Chronicle remarked with gentle pride: "In no other park In the world is the lariat used by the police. When the etfete cities of the East and Europe come to know what a handy thing it is, they also wbl, doubtless, arm their park officers tvilli it. The lasso was used by the Spanisli and Mexican vaqueros in California before other people ap preciated its merits, and in the ad vance 'if civilization it has not been cast aside, hut been more generally employed." It is very true that the lariat is not used "in the effete cities of the East and Europe," but it is very doubtful whether they can lie Indiu ed to see "what a handy thing It is." In Central Park, New York, and in the great pleasure-places of Europe wher driving and riding are allowed, there arc, of course, runa ways, and there arc mounted police. These tuon are daring and skillful horsemen. They are trained t > stop runaways, whether the horses are un der saddle or in harness. They ride up I- side l.lie runaway, and seize the frightened animal in tertaln pre. s.rii.ed ways which experience ha taught them f . lie most effectual. At 1110 annual horse-show in Madison S mare -.ard-n, New York, one of the sights of the show is the daring riding of the Central Park police in catching a licet horse in a light earl, representing a runaway. So in Hyde Park, London—the mounted police are bohl and skillful horsemen, and have saved many lives. y 0 t, if they were to introduce into Rotten Row the whirling hulas of the South American gaucito, the rrata of the Mexican va piero, or the lariat borne by the cowboy of the wild and woolly West, we fear that most of the horses of the British nobility and gentry would take to climbing trees, while those animals who remained ou terra tlrrna would at once leave tile e.uutv of Middlesex. t ,\HPE DIEM. The things fo come are bubbles, That we liavohnd is ours: The frosts may doom Hope's dearast bloom. Put H" . *r Memory's flowers. To-morrow is a maybe, But Yesterday has been ; And '! ar To-day is here to snv, "Who uso mo well are men !" —Charles F. hummis, in Harper's Weekly. A COO!) Tlffi.Y. BY WALTER LEON SAWYER. Mr. Balcom rose early that morning, and /${ hurried off to the A Y\ (V j. J\ city as soon as he 8 wall owe '1 . krenkfast. Th at feS./ - \VV"." was not his way, aw pT"i Mrs. Balcom J wondered ; but, bc o ihga good wife, she Vft ,) v j asked no questions. •' Before she ha (1 aocommo- dated herself to the ferf, novel event, the ,i- 4 mar.- of-n 1 1-work gave her another surprise, presenting a telegram which set forth that, his sister was ill and need's I him. Of course Airs. Balcom lot him go. it did not occur to her that tin double departure left her and the chiMr.u unprotected, and if 1! had she would have smiled at the idea of danger. She did not know | that there was a burglar in town. Mr. Balcom did know. As he came up Iroin the train the evening before, his neighbor Jones had stopped him to whisper that the Hartshorne house had been entered and judiciously ran sacked. The Hartshorncs were in Europe. Their care-taker had been sojourning in that other foreign land, •i drunkard's paradise, but as soon as he came out of it he discovered the robbery and hastened to ask Jones's advice. Jones, who had a nervous mother-in-law, suggested that the mat ter be kept as quiet as possible; and he wanted to know if Mr. Balcom— "You did just right!" Mr. Balcom interrupted, when the story had gone thus far. "These country constables would frighten every woman into hy sterics, but they wouldn't catch a bur glar once in a thousand times. Profes sional, is he?" "So I suppose. He seems to have gone into the house and through it as though ho knew his business." "I'll back my burglar-alarm against him! ' Mr. Balcom chuckled, confi dently. "How about Ben Ezra?" the neigh bor asked. "No fear of him. You sec, my stable is as well protected as my house," Mr. Balcom explained. "Fact is, I'd I sooner lose half there is in the house than that horse. Little off his feed, the poor fellow is. I had a veterinary out yesterday to look at him, and I can't drive him for a week. I guess "I suppose we ought to do some thing," Mr. Jones ventured to hint. Ho knew that it allowed to go on Mr. Balcom would talk about his horse until the burglar aud the listener— I died a natural death, j "Oh, of course we must trip the fel low before he goes any further. Tell you what: I know a private de tective who was on the Boston force for years—long enough to get ac quainted with every rascal in the country. I'll bring him home with me to-morrow to look over the ground. It would be bettor to pay him a hun dred than have the thing get out and scare the women." "Yes, indeed!" said Mr. Jones, fer vently. So it was decided. And after the neighbors had exchanged the usual remarks on the dryness of the season and the need of rain, Mr. Balcom sauntered homeward, calm in that contentment which a managing man has a right to feel. He kissed his wife and children and then he wont out and caressed his horse. With the burglar's accomplishments in mind he looked carefully to the locks and the alarms. They were perfect and in order. Ho wenl to bod in peace. '1 hut night, however, ho hud a hor rid dr. inn. It seemed that Bon Ezra was stolen ; that he had expended his iortunc in seeking the horse; that, ttnallv, when lie had sunk to a beggar i outcast, he found the wreck of Ben Ezra hauling a garbage-cart! The dream so wrought upon Mr. Balcom ; that In l awoke in a cold perspiration. He rushed to the stable and proved it only a dream. But it might lo a i warning! That superstitious fancy lingered with him through the hours of dusk and dawn, and the early glare of an August sun did not dispel it. It hurried him to the city, us has been told. Looking at it in the light of his new knowledge, Mr. Balcom could sec . many reasons why Maple Park should | attract u burglar. Its isolated and un- I guarded location is one; the small- j I ness and sleepiness of the town that it | fringes is another. Heckonket has only two constables and one hand tire fire engine-though, to be sure, it has j four churches and the aristocratic j residents cut themselves off from all these blessings by building on the farther side of Oreenleaf's Hill. As! Maple Park holds aloof from Beckon- 1 ket, so tSoekonket keeps away from Maple Park ; and Mr. Balcom won dered, the longer he thought of it, that some frowsy Napoleon did not organize his army of tramps and ob literate Maple Park, sure that the deed would never come to light until a wandering peddler passed that way I Mrs. Balcom was not imaginative, and no such terrors ever oppressed her. If she had formulated her rule { life she might have said that un pleasant things were best let alone, to be disposed of in n bunch at the day of judgment. She was young enough to enjoy her money, and old enough to appreciate her health; and wince her daughters had not reached a mar riageable age. neither her health nor her* money seemed in danger. Of course she should have been, as she was, a happy woman. She spent her day as the truly happy must—in small activities that amuso one and make cue feel useful but not fatigued. So accustomed was she to a routine of quiet, that when Abbio the cook ap peared excitedly before her she was slow to realize that this particular day might prove an exception. "The stable's afire, Miss Balcom!" the cook proclaimed. "Is it?" the mistresß absently answered. 'Toll Henry to put it out, please. Oh, I remember; I allowed Henry to visit, his sister." She closed her writing-desk and stood consider ing. "Can't you throw so mo water on it?" she asked, presently. "It's tlio roof. I s'pose it caught with a spark from one o' them pesky ingines—bein's's everything 's dry as tinder. Ain't nothin' to git scairt about, 'cause the wind's away from the house, what little the' is. But the boss is in the stable, you recollec'." "Oh, my!" Moved beyond her wont, Mrs. Balcom swept electrically through the kitchen and out of tlie backdoor. "Oh, my!" she repeated as she came in sight of the blaze, "Ben Ezra will be burned, won't he? What will Mr. Balcom suy? What can we do?" "D' know," was the depressing answer, "I sent Jane to the corner a'ter the firemen ; but the land knows how long it'll take to git 'em here." "Ben Ezra must come out!" Mrs. Balcom asserted; but there was an accent of despair in the words, deter mined as the sentiment was. "Can't break that door down! *n* that air paytent look on—Mr. Bul com's got the key with him." ' "Mrs. Balcom stared straight, bo fore her like one fascinated into help lessness. The servant's conscience would not let her rest until she had kicked the door and thrown herself against it. It did not even tremble. She mopped her tlushed face with her apron and, shaking her head mourn , fully, drew back beyond the heat of the flames that wore layiug bare the rafters. "Ben Ezra must come out'" Mrs. Balcom said again. The horse's agon ized whinny had broken the spell that was upon her. Her eyes filled at the sound, and she ran forward aimlessly and glanced desperately about her. "Man! You man!" she cried, nil at once. "Come here and get our , horse!" I Though the stranger had seemed to spring from the ground, he showed no alacrity about coming further. He took time to survey the landscape be fore he climbed the fence. He looked past the women, not at them, as though he feared a possible somewhat behind. And when he had advanced to where they stood, though he abruptly took the manner of haste and impatience, his shifty eyes seemed to cover every point of the horizon. "Now, then," he demunded, "where's your ax?" "In the stable, I suppose," was Mr. Balcom's dejected reply. " 'N' it's a pay tent lock !" the cook chimed in, tragically. "Hey?" The stranger started and stared at them suspiciously, but the wretchedness in their faces appeared to reassure him. He turned again to scan the hill road. Then he ran up to the door. "Huhl That thing!" the women heard him say, contemptuously. Through the waveless atmosphere of the August noon the smoke floated lazily off and left the vision unob scured, and the spiteful snap of flame overruled every other noise. The I women looked and listened with an intentness that would have been pain- I lul had it long endured. From the bag he carried the stranger took a ' glittering something which he applied to the lock. Instantaneously, almost, I the door swung open. Stripping off j his blouse, the man passed through, and when he reappeared the horse, safely blinded, uninjured, was with him. Mrs. Balcom fluttered after as he led the trembling brute to a safer place. Events had shaken her nccus toined calm. For once in her life she could not meet the occusiou with graceful words. "Oh, I don't know how to thank you!" she faltered, at length. "Mr. I Balcome values Ben Ezra so! I'm I sure he'll—" Why, hero he comes!} Oh, .Tames!" she cried, as her husband -hatless, costless and visibly perspir ing- took the fence at a bound and . dashed up to the group. "Oh, James? . If it hadn't been for this—this honest workingman, Ben Ezra would have been burned." Mr. Balcom's eye was on his favor ite, but hits hand went into his pocket and brought out a roll of bills. " Lhank ye, boss,"the stranger said, sourly. "Not —enough!" Mr. Balcom found j breath to add, "Fall to-morrow at my I office—givo you as much again !" The ! thought of another duty occurred to ; him at the same instant, and it made him face toward the road. "All right, Parker!" he called. "No hurry." "All right!" The man who had just come into view moderated his pace. After the first keen, comprehensive glance in the direction of the others, ho conspicuously ignored them, and j looking at the stable delayed his ap- I proach. Mr. Balcom returned to the fondling of Ben Ezra. The horse's res cuer had been standing at the corner of the house. No one saw him slip around it "Sound as a dollar, Parker!" Mr. ' Balcom said a moment later. There was a suspicion of tears in his voice, and he blew his nose energetically be ; lore ho trustel himself to speak again. "Thanks to this worthy man— Why, whero is he?" Mr. Parker smiled serenely to him self as he began to lift Ben Ezra's leg; but lie said nothing. "GUBB ho must 'a' been in N hurry," the cook put in ; "he went off 'n' left his satchel. I s'pose I better lay it ! away, hadn't I, 'fore these ere firemen go to trampin' round." She offered the stranger's bag to Mr. Balcora, but Mr. Parker took it from his unresisting hand and coolly pulled it open. Then, while the hand-engine men yelled and fell over each other preparatory to deluging the neighbor hood, he drew Mr. Balcom to one side and bade him look in. "For," said he, "you won't often see a neater set o' burglar's tools than that is!" Mr. Balcom seemed less horrified than he should have been; but it was evident that he was puzzled. Ho looked from the bag to Parker and back again, like one who wishes but half fears to speak. "Well," he suggested at length, "he isn't likely to hang around Maple Park any more, is he?" "I guess not!" the detective made proud rejoinder. "Ho knows me— knew mo's quick's I knew him!" "Yes—well—you see—"Mr. Balcom buttonholed Parker, in his turn, and led him still further from the crowd. "Of course I'm responsible—l pay all tho bills," ho went on, with dis jointed earnestness. "J--you—don't you understand, I haven't anything more for you to do here? Why, hung it all. man, he saved Ben Ezra!" "Oh, I know how you feel," the de tective answered. He spoke as though he really did. "I like a good boss myself. See? There's a train back to town 'bout twenty minutes, ain't the'?"— Leslie's Weekly. A Monkey Farm. "The funniest thing I witnessed dur ing that brief but exciting period known as the boom, in Birmingham, Ala.," said Dr. Everett, at the Liu dell, "was the formation of a company to establish a monkey farm. About the time that excitement was at its greatest height, two bankers from a country town came with $40,000 in cash, and were very anxious to get into the little group of capitalists who were making big money. They haunt ed two or three of the leading invest ors until finally Dr. Jackson, who stood at the head of the local financial | world, told them he had u friend with a scheme in which he himself was put ; ting $20,000, and if they really want j ed to invest lie could, as a personal I favor, secure a like amount, if one half was paid down, the other half to be paid in at a meeting to be held in ! a few days. The banker wrote a check lor SIO,OOO, and felt jubilant that at last ho had been admitted into the charmed circle of financiers. "In a few days he was notified to attend a meeting of the stockholders, which he did. Then the promoter of , the enterprise explained it. His plan was to buy an island near Mobile, j Send an expedition to Africa and South America to secure monkeys. Stock the farm with 100,000 monkeys and raise them for the market. An elaborate array of statistics was given, showing the cost and market price of monkeys and figuring out immense profits, but it was necessary that the entire amount subscribed should bo paid in at ouce. The hanker jumped to his feet. 'I don\l vant no monkey farm. I knows nodings about dose monkey business. You can keep ray SIO,OOO if you release me from dot subscription.' This was done, and ho swallowed his chagrin and disappoint ment at the loss as best lie could. In a few weeks the monev was returned to him and it was explained that it was all a joke, but the banker had a S2OO dinuer to pay tor."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Growth of llair After Death. T. L. Ogier, an investigative writer Jof Westchester, Peuu., says: "f, for one, place no faith iu the superstition of hair growing after death. There is no growth of hair after death. There may be, however, a shrinkage of tho tissue of the face and body which will force the hair of the face through skin so as to give the corpse the appear anco of having a beard two or three weeks old; it is not a growth, it is only the result of the shrinkage." In this department of tho Republic I have givou many "notes" which sui>- port a contrary view to that given above, and have but lately added to 1113' stock of information on that point. This late addition is from Elizabeth Prisleau, and is as follows: "Lord Howe, who served in America in 1758 and was killed iu the French- Indian wars, was buried at Albany. Just prior to his death he had had his lnur cut short so that it could not be come wet from exposure and cause colds. Many years after wards, when liis remains were being removed, it was found that his hair had grown sev- j eral inches, and was smooth and glossy."—St. Louis Republic. Rat's Nest in a Clock. A resident on the liill had a some what curious experience the other day of the boldness of a rat. Coming down one morning to the dining-room ho found that the clock on the mantle piece had stopped, and. thinking it h:ul run down, he wound it up and put the hands to the proper hour. Noticing that it struck iu a peculiarly muffled way, he took it down to ex amine the works and was astonished to find the striking apparatus encumbered with petals aud stocks of flowers and bits of paper. A further examination I disclosed that these odds and ends f( rmed the nest of a rat, which was ; -still snugly ensconued among the : worki, neither the noise mude by the | dock as it was set going or the strik- j j iug of the hammer having apparently disturbed it in the least. —Kobe. - (Japan) Chronicle. THE LOW PRICE OF WHEAT. SOME INTERESTING AND VALUA BLE iar FORMATION. Increase in Wheal Contributing Coun tries—What Farmers Must Do to Meet Competition. \ TILL client over again be \/\ / a profitable crop for ex- V \- port V" a correspondent of the New York Tri bune asked n prominent official of the Agricultural Department at Washing ton. The latter answered: "In the first place, wheat is now and for many years to come will be a crop which invites competition from coun tries in which farming is poor and laud or labor abundantly cheap. It is es sentially a crop of cheap lands or in ferior tillage, or both. In India, in Egypt and some other countries the la bor is cheap; in Australasia, and here tofore in our own Northwestern terri tory, while the labor is high, the lands are cheap and the farmer, moreover, ruthlessly robs the soil. Now in South America we find cheap wheat lauds, and, compared with our own, cheap la bor. So in Southern Russia, whero there are comparatively cheap lands and positively cheap labor. "In a recent statement of the world's wheat supply issuod by the Depart ment of Agriculture are found a dozen countries contributing whose existence is probably ignored by the majority 01 American wheat raisers, and of whom little is known even to American com mercial men. Among them wo may mention especially the Caucasus, Ru mania, Bulgaria, to say nothing of European Turkey, Turkey in Asia, Sor via, Persia, Poland, Cratia and Sla vonia. and in Africa, Egypt, Tunis and Algeria. 11l the aggregate the coun tries mentioned have contributed a yearly average of over '290,000,000 bushels to the wheat crops of the last three years. The aggregate popula tion of the first three countries named is in all about 12,000,000, and of this a large number are not users of wheat Hour, using for their own wants rye. Hence the average home consumption per capita is not more than two-thirds as much as ours, and yet these three countries produced wheat in the years given as follows: In 1891, 100,57.), 009 bushels; in 1892, 171,960.000 bushels, and in 1890, 140,529,000 bushels an average of 159,088,000 bushels, with probably a home consumption bnroJv exceeding 40,000,000 bushels. A few years ago the products of these coun tries, or at least their exportable sur plus, was too insignificant for record. "The London Miller states that tlio total figures for Russia show the ship ments from that country for January, 1894, to be 810,000 quarters, compared with 210,950 quarters in January, 1898, and 575,950 quarters in Jaimry, 1891. In 1892 they were prohibited. "Another factor, and one that promises to count more than all tho rest in the next decade, is to be fouud in the rapid increase in tho wheat crops of the Argentine Republic, au iucreaso which promises to be phe nomenal. According to the paper al ready quoted, shipments from Argen tina to tho United Kingdom were, for the six weeks ending February 10th, over 280,000 quarters, or at the rate of 2,444,000 quarters (over 19,000,000 bushels) per annum; but, adds the paper quoted • 'March and April ship ments will show a material increase. 1 Tho director of tho Department of Agriculture of Argentina, recently in this country, assured me that within ten years that country would export more wheat than is now exported by the United States. Moreover, Chile, Australasia and tho great Northwest territory of British North America seem likely ere long to show their ability to supply any deficiencies which may occur in the other countries named. "According to tho Department au thorities tho wheat supply of the world for the three years 1891, 1892 and 1898 was respectively, in round numbers, 2,860,000,000, 2,303,000,000 and 2,860,000,000 bushels, an ample supply for the world's demand, with n very considerable surplus in 1892, to say nothing of the alleged underesti mates of the Department in tho years 1891 and 1892. it is true that without a marked increase in the supply there lias been a steady diminution in price, but that is readily accounted for by tho large available increase from coun tries not formerly contributing in any marked degree, but which, by the de velopment in means of transportation, as in the case of the Caucasus, or owing to changes in their political status, as in Bulgaria, and from other causes, have now permanently joined the ranks of exporting countries, and aro able to sell at low prices. "The situation in this country can only be met by a general reduction in acreage and a considerable increase in yield per acre. Our farmers must learn to attain the yield which prevails in tho more civilized countries of Europe, instead of lagging among the more backward. Our pitiful thirteen bushels to the acre must be increased to eighteen or twenty, and our wheat acreage reduced from 36,000,000 or 37,000,000 acres to 20,000,000. At eighteen bushels to the acre, an aver age more than equalled by France and greatly exceeded by Great Britain and Belgium, the farmers on the cheap lauds of the Northwest can make M small profit with wheat at fifty or sixty cents a bushel, where a yield of thirteen bushels means an actual loss. In this reduction in wheat acreage, the older states, notably Ohio and Indiana, which together raised nearly 75,000,- 000 bushels lust year, must take the lead, their opportunities for diversifi cation boiug greater than those avail able to the farmers of Minnesota and the Dakotas and the other newer States." HEW METHOD OF PRESERVING EGGS. Tho desirability of shipping eggs from Victoria to England has led to the discovery of a new method for pre serving them. They are first rubbed with greaso and tlion placed with bran, flour, lime and pollard in small cases. When opened they are found to be perfectly sweet and fresh. —New York World. STIFFNESS IN A WORKING OX. Overworking and exposure to the weather afterward will easily produce rheumatism, and this will cause stiff ness of the limbs, with pains that move from one limb to another. The treatment in such a case should be to foment the parts with hot water, and then apply some strong liniment, giv ing thirty drops of tincture of aconite three times a day iti some acceptable drink, linseed or oatmeal gruel, for instance. The animal must rest from work, but moderate exercise will be useful. It should be kept warm and dry.—New York World. QUALITY OF EGGS. There is a groat difference in the original quality of eggs, and this has much to do with their capacity for keeping well. Generally, the best flavored eggs are laid early in the sea son. Then the diet is mostly grain. After tho fowls begin to find young grass growing, they will pick at and eat it, and of course consume less grain. In summer much of tho food is grass and insects. These are not good egg-producing foods, and though a large number of eggs may be laid, their quality will not bo as good as it is early in in tho season. It is not the difference caused by deterioration on account of weather, for an ogg cooked the same day it is laid in July is gen erally not so good as one that is cooked fresh in March or April. Hence there is good reason why eggs should ho dearer in early spring. They are better then, and for their price fur nish a cheaper and better food than tho same money invested in meats. The fact may also explain one reason why limed eggs are so generally unsat isfactory. They are always the cheap and poor quality summer eggs. They are interior when put up, and cannot be expected to improve by keeping five or six months, even when air is ex eluded.—Boston Cultivator. SEED WHEAT. Heavy weight seed wheat contains a larger quantity of more valuable food materials for the young plant in the form of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash than light weight wheat of the same variety. Experiments at. the Minnesota station by H. Snyder show that this additional reserve food is supplied to the young plants and pro duces a more vigorous growth. The additional fertilizer material in a bushel of heavy weight wheat is worth from three to five cents more per bushel at the market prices of com mercial fertilizers. Hellriegel in Ger many has also proved that the heavier the seed the more vigorous is the young plant, and where there was not an over-abundance of plant food in the soil the difference in vigor of the plants aro seen even up to the time of harvest. The Minnesota experiments prove that the same characteristic differences that are noted between heavy and light weight seed wheat are observed between henlthy and vig orous, and poor and sickly wheat plants, both in growth and yield. The wheat plant takes up over three fourths of its food from the soil be fore heading out. The soil should bo cultivated and mauaged in such away so as to supply the growing wheat crop with at. least three-fourths of its mineral food, and seven-eighths of its nitrogen compound before it blooms, which occurs in Juno or early iu July, according to tho lutitudc. American Agriculturist. TRAINING A HORSE. In training a horse for the saddle, savs the New York World, tho animal is made obedient and gentle, and his good qualities best developed, by pa tience, kiuduess and oncouragement, and, above all, fearlessness; punish ment should be resorted to only when absolutely necessary. No punishment should be administered to a horse in anger. Under harsh treatment he will first become timid, then sullen, and at length violent and unmanageable. AH one horse is apt to be governed by the actions of another, well-trained horses that, are indifferent to sights and sounds should bo interspersed among the new ones until they are al so accustomed to the sounds of trum pets, beating of drums, tinkling of sabres, etc. Every action of a rider should tend to induce full confidence that no harm is intended and that nothing but kind treatment is to be expected. The horse's balance and his light ness in hand depend largely on the proper carriage of his head and neck. A young horse will usually try to resist the bit, either by bending his neck to one side or by setting his jaw against the bit, or by carrying his nose too high or too low. Bendiug lessons will serve to overcome this habit and make the horse conform to the movements of the reins and yield easily to the pressure of the bit. The legitimate gaits of the saddle horse are the walk, trot, canter and gallop. The manoeuvring trot is at the rate of eight miles an hour. Slow trot is at the rate of six miles an hour. Trot out is at the rate of eight miles an hour. The canter is at the rate of eight miles an hour, ancl is generally used for individual instruction. Manoeuvring gallop is at the rate of twelve miles an hour. The full or extended gallop is at tho rate of sixteen miles an hour. The charge is at full speed, and is regulated by tho speed of the slower horses. The walk is a gait of four distinct beats, each foot being planted in a regular order of succession. The trot has two distinct beats; tho horse springing diagonally from one pair of feet to the other: between tho steps all the feet are in the air. SOURCE OF THE BUTTER FLAVOR. The butter aroma appears in tho butter as the result of the ripening process. Sweet-cream butter does not have this delicate llavor, and while there is a demand, in our markets, perhaps a growing demand, for a 1 sweet-cream butter, it never develops tho delicate flavor known as the but i ter aroma. During ripening certain I changes take place in tho cream, some of which we understand and others which are at present beyond the reach of chemical knowledge. The composition of cream is essentially tho same as that of milk except in tho higher proportion of fat. It is made up chiefly of butter fat in the form of globules, of casein in a partial sus pension in the liquid, of milk sugar in solution, and of a small amount of al bumen, probably partly in solution and partly in the form of an extreme , ly delicate network of fibers which we call fibrin. Cream always contains a I largo number of bacteria, yeasts and | molds, which are the active agents in ripening. The sources of these micro ; organisms are varied. They are not I present in the milk when secreted by j the cow, but find their way into it ; in a variety of ways. Some come from ' the air; some from the hairs of tho ! eow ; some from the dust of tho barn ; 1 some from the bands of the milker; I some from the milk vessels, and others from other sources of contamination. The chances of contamination are suf ficient to stock tho milk with an abundance of tlieso organisms under all circumstances. By the time the cream has reached the creamery it contains a quantity of organisms varying widely with temperature and other conditions, and it is to these that the subsequent ripening is due. During the period of ripening, the organisms are growing and producing profound changes in the cream. Bac teria are primarily destructive agents. During their growth they are pulling to pieces some of the chemical com pounds of the cream and reducing them to a condition of greater sim plicity, giving rise in this way to a great number of so-called decomposi tion products. Chemistry lias not yet explained all of these changes. A few of them we partially understand. We know that some of the organisms act upon milk sugar, converting * it into lactic acid, with the production of carbonic acid gas as a by-product. Wo know, also, that sometimes butyric acid is produced, and that sometimes ferments, similar to rennet and tryp sin, make their appearance in ripen ing cream. Alcohol is also a common product, so much so that tho butter flavor has sometimes been attributed to this product alone.—Storrs Agri cultural Expel imeut Bulletin. FARM AND GARDEN' NOTES. A safe rule with peaches is always to set thein on an elevation, tho high er the better. Good prices and increasing demands aro reported for high-class heavy | draught horses. Lameness always indicates soreness, stiffness or weakness, and demands immediate attention. Unless you are giving up breeding, do not be tempted by a good price to sell off the good mares. There is no reason to fear that elec tricity will ever be able to take tho place of good horses of any breed. A hen will eat about a bushel of grain a year. At that rate she pays a big profit on what sho eats if she does her best. When the dairyman has learned how to produce June butter at any time of the year he is getting up to the art of butter making. By keeping tho trash in the garden or orchard cleaned up a large number of pests that injure the fruits and trees may be destroyed. In nearly all cases the earlier tho fruit is thinned the better. It is not a good plan to allow the trees to ma ture too much fruit. After an orchard has come into full bearing one of the best plans of man agement. is to seed it down to clover and use it as a bog pasture. Boot pruning is done by taking a sharp spade and digging a circle around the stem of the trees deep enough to cut off a portion of the roots. If the farmer does not like poultry, let the wife have charge of it, and let her have all she can make out of it. She will soon develop the business into paying proportions.
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