Insurance of crops against fire, flood and tornado is a popular new wrinkle in the breeze belt of Kansas. The word mugwump has been adop ted in England. Loudon Truth had n doggerel entitled "Moan of the Mugwump." In proportion to population Ger many raises nearly ten times as many potatoes as the United States and finds them a profitable crop, Von Hartman proposes to graduate taxes,especially income taxes,so that a bachelor shall have five times as much to pay as tho father of fivo children. Professor Thomas, of the Ohio State University, advocates capital execu tions by tho use ot carbouio acid gns. Tie says that this death is entirely painless. A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bacteria in the moun tain air, and finds that not a single microbe exists above an altitude of 2000 feet, Charles Dudley Warner says that the newspapers are in danger of losing their influence, through the prevalence of fake news, worked up by unscrupu lous news gatherers. Our sardine- must come from Maine henceforth, nunounees tho New York World, Tho French fisheries have been declining for several years,owing to tho shoals going elsewhere, and at Concarneau this year the season has been a failure. Australia has a population of less thau five million, but economists de clare it could support a hundred million with eve. As a means of show ing how far the world is from being overpopulated they assert that tho en tiro population of tho United States could live comfortably in the singlo State of Texas. Trade between the Beget Sound re gion and Central nnd South America has developed very largely iu tho last year or so, and several now lines of steamships havo been put on between the two. Another new liuo to run be tween T'acoma, Wash., Panama, and South American ports, has just been established, nnd will commenco sail ing this month. Co-operative stores are making headway iu France as well as Engiaud. The value of sales of tlio 300 societies iu Franco is over 812,000,000 a year, and tho total number of members is about 300,000. In addition to these societies in Franco arc tlio farmers' syndicates, in which übout 900,000 persona uro concerned. Tho syndi cates buy fertilizers and other chemi cals for vine culture, maintain labora tories for analysis of soils, publish monthly price lists and perform other services for the general benefit. A chnrctcristically feminine n.iTair was witnessed at a German picnic in New York the other day, relates tho New Orleans Picayune. It wns during the performance of tho Japanoso acro bats. One of the performers, a five year old boy, was ou the top of a thir ty-five foot ladder, balanced by below. Tho man lost control of the ladder and tho boy bogan to fall. All thought that the hoy would meet a horrible death, but an old woman ran forward and caught the youngster, saving him from being killed. When tho audience was relieved of tho ten sion a murmur of npplause went up and the plucky woman fainted. Is steam out of date? asks Farm, Field and Fireside. Prominent rail road men say that tho days of the steam locomotive are numbered. Bo fore long tho noise, smoke and cin ders which mako a railroad journey so unpleasant will become only an un pleasant memory. Tho genie which is to accomplish this marvelous chango is one with whose works wo are all be como familiar. His name is eleotrio ity. Elcctrio locomotives run by pow erful storage batteries have been suc cessfully tested by a nuinbor of dif ferent roads, Tho steam locomotive is expensivo to build, expensive to run, and entails a largo constant cost for repairs. Tho running expensos average at least twenty-fivo cents a mile, which is many times the cost of running a locomotive with a storago battery. Tho batteries are made to carry a train about a hundred miles and can be changed in a shortor time than is necessary fot taking coal and V.uter. Tho Pennsylvania llailroad is said to bo about to make tho chango from steam to clectrioity nnd other prominent lines havo the matter under advisement. Wero it not for the vast amount of capital in locomotives the change would have boon made before now. THE BANNOCK INDIA CHARACTER OF A FIERCE OF RED MEN, Not NuineroiiH, but Cruel Fighters— Kxpert Horsemen Are Given to Gam hi lug—Wyoming's o,site Laws Conflict with United Stutex Treaty, Had Young Hacks. The Indian disturbances now taking place in the West were stirred tip by the Bannocks, a tribe living with the t Shoshones on the l'ort Hull reservn • about 500 of them and the tribe is de nocks are finer peo • j pic, physically, than r • JBt *' hP™'-'''' 1 J I,ey nre Wgfcr, xffl' ra win"' 1 lllore lust . v - and in : f <'vy fit £jL/' 181'. their veins runs i ■' ffl ' I ' lo tlio i\! hunter and the warrior. The Bun* nocks are wiry and muscular, tall and 's&>! straight, warlike vi 4 and untamed. The LP*" braves disd a 1 n HAxxofK r.uAvi:. manual labor of any kind. They look upon it as dis graceful, and carry their antipathy to toil further than the warriors of any other tribe except the Standing Hock Sioux. Schools and civilized pursuits are alike scorned by them. Then con sider themselves superior in every way to all other tribes and to white men. In warfare they are keen. Heart lessuess and cruelty are their prime characteristics. To kill all aged per sons who have become burdensome is a custom with these Indians. As hunt ers of big game the fame of the Ban nocks is great; but even in their hunt ing the innate cruelty of the braves is shown. Instead of shooting their prey through the heart—taking the risk of missing their aim—the Bannock sends his bullet into the entrails of Ids quar ry. and then lies in wait for another victim. The first is easily tracked by the trail it leaves, as staggering and suffering from its wound tlio animal blindly tries to escape. The Bannocks are expert horsemen. They an? allied by numerous intermar riages with the Shoshone Indians, and the braves are generally distinguished in this way: If the Indian is gaudily dressed, a hater of work and ready for trouble or to make trouble at any time, then ho is a Bannock. If lie is quiet, takes kindly to labor, and tries to dress and live like the whites, then he is a Shoshone. There is not much love lost between the two tribes. Tlio Bannocks are ruled to a great extent by their "medicine men," whose words are law. About two years ago the government gave the Bannocks and Shoshones -til) cattle. The Bannocks promptly killed and ate their share in the first winter. The Shoshones kept the greater part of their gift and they now have some 400 head. The young Bannock "bloods" are I born gamblers and thieves. They are ever ready to kill any white man who opposes them ill their predatory hab its, and when intoxicated, which is of ten, make great threats of going on the warpath. In short, it can be said that tlio Ban nocks are bad Indians, and even their physical bravery cannot redeem their faults. They are loose in morals and uriscrupulous. I'fforts have been made T .M |3\ m WBH "f wpp •TIM BALLARD, Chief of tin ISamiocks. to got them ft) attend the schools at the 1 different stations, and while they did, all that they learned was soon forgot ten, and the Bannocks, braves and squaws, soon relapsed into their horn state of savagery, with thoughts of nothing hut the gratification of their appetites. There appear to have been original ly two geographically distinct bands or divisions of the Bannocks, and tc tills fact, which has not been under stood generally, is due much ol' tin confusion that lias existed regarding them. The main home of the Bannocks appears to have been in Southeastern Idaho, whence they ranged into West ern Wyoming. The country actually claimed by the chief of the Southern hands in treaty lay between the homes of the Wihinasht Slioshoni of Western Idaho and the Washaki Slioshoni of Western Wyoming. They were found In this region in ISoO, and then claimed to have always lived there. These are the only Bannocks now known. The second band found in 1833 lived some what further north. They have either perished or become incorporated with tlio remnant of tlie first tribe. The recent trouble, concerning which highly sensational and positively un true reports were sent broadcast throughout the country, was because of the recently enacted game laws of Wyoming. Iu 18<)8 the United States entered into a treaty with Uie Ban nock Indians, according the latter the privilege of hunting anywhere ou un settled lands. Recently, however, Wy oming enacted restrictive game laws that conflicted with the Bannock trea ty, and tho reds considered their rights usurped. They declared that tho trea ty with the United States was superior to the laws of the State of Wyoming, nnd they kept on hunting and slaughter ing game as had been the custom from time iipmemorlul. The authorities of Wyoming caused the arrest of a num ber of the redskins, but these escaped. More arrests followed, and when these prisoners attempted to escape, tliey were shot. Tills incensed the Ban nocks. and I lie imaginative correspond ents had it that they arose in open re bellion, which culminated in their tak ing to the mountains where they could better defend themselves against the attacks of the whites. Conservative men declare that tho Bannocks have just cause for provocation because of the enforcement of the Wyoming law that takes from them the rights grant ed by the treaty of 1808, ASH SIFTING MADE EASY. There Ie No Hunt, and You Recover Lota of Good Coal. A very large percentage of the con tents of the ash box Is good fuel, but tho task of separating It is such a dis agreeablo one that much good coal is allowed to go to waste. There has been invented a sifter of very simple and Inexpensive construction, which may be readily attached to or detach ed from an ordinary ash can or barrel, altogether preventing the escape of dust or other fiue particles while sifting the ashes. As shown In the illustration, applied to an ash can of moderate size, tho sifting may bo done at the side of tlio stove or range from which the ashes are removed. An open-ended bag of sail duck or other suitable canvas is attached by means of a draw string to tlio mouth of the can, a second draw string drawing the bag closely over and in from tlio edges of tlio can, to SIFTING • EMPTYING COAL. absolutely prevent tlio escape of any dust, nnd cause the ashes to readily fall into tlio can. The upper end of the bag is attached by means of another draw string to a circular head in which is a sieve, and a cover is adapted to bo sot in the head during the sifting opera tion, as shown in one of the views. IMPROVES COLUMBUS' TRICK. How Children, Not Explorers, May Muke Eggs Stand on End. Take two forks of equal weight and fix them in a cork, as shown in the il lustration. Hollow out the lower part of the cork with a sharp penknife, so h jp IT KEEPS ITS BALANCE. that It may fit neatly over one end ot an egg. I'oiso the other cud of the egg on tlio edge of the .nock of a bottle, being careful to see that it is In a ver tical position, and, having tested it sev eral times by gently shaking it with out releasing your hold, you may easily find when it is in a state of equilibrium. This result is obtained by your placing the center of gravity below the point of support. Indolence of Suinoans. It seems that the Samonus have de veloped a passion for the possession of large rowing boats built in European fashion. Instead of cultivating tlieir land, they now waste their time trav eling about Iu these vessels from vil lage to village, and from Island to isl and, "discussing politics." Some of these boats pull as many as thirty oars, and arc between seventy and eighty feet long, while one is being built on tlio island pf Savall to measure 100 foot in length. Our consul mentions the case of a village owning two or tlireo of these boats, for which they have doubtless paid dearly, and whore most of tlio young men are also owners ot a weedy pony or equally useless horse. The land on which their village stands is mortgaged, and is advertised for sale. Yet, instead of making any at tempt to raise money to pay olf the trilling sum required, they havo for the last four months been playing, al most weekly, cricket matches with thirty or forty players a side, for stakes consisting of pigs and kegs of salt beef, to the accompaniment of a hand of sav age music. The consul believes the amount of money expended on cricket in this village since February would have paid off. not only the interest, but a largo part of the principal of the mortgage,—Loptjon News, HOW WARSHIPS SIGNAL, AN INGENIOUS DETAIL OF MODERN NAVIGATION. Flags Used by Day and Halls of Fire, Lamps and Electric Lights at Night—t he Secret Code. THE methods of signaling from one war vessel to another while cruising or in action is ( 9 one of the most interesting and iugenious details of modern navi gation. Brains aud inventive genius have been freely expended in devising new systems and improving old ones, until a row of flags and pennants, or a swaying torch, or ball of lire can an nihilate miles of rough billows us easily as tho telegraph spans a con tinent. The systems chiefly used by the Navy Department are flags by day aud lights at night. The flag system is very simple. Ten flags stand for tho numerals from one to ten. By grouping these flags, any combination of numbers may bo ob tained, wliieli shall bo equivalent to a word, phrase or whole sentence, ac cording to a code issued by tho Navy Department. For example—26s3 may mean "Running short of c0a1399, "Tack to windward 760, "Boiler dis- j abled4s, "Wheel into line for maneuvering," and soon ad infinitum. The code books, one of which is found ou every vessel, aro thoroughly in dexed, with each combination of figures opposite tho word, phrase or sentence it stands for in signaling. Tho combinations are secret and are carefully guarded to prevent an enemy, or even a curious Jack Tar 1 from reading the dispatches from ves- ( sol to vessel! l'he sets of numbers are | so Jmany, aud may be arbitrarily j altered so easily that there is little 1 chance of their secret leaking out by j constant repetitions, and to prevent j tkenocle book falling into tho bonds j of an enemy in time of war, its covers I are heavily weighed with lead, so that if thrown overboard it is hopelessly lost. Tlio designs of the flags standing for tho nunierals are as follows: 1, a red flag; 2, white flag; 3, blue flag; 4, a flag made of two triangles of contrast ing shades, the color in tho upper right hand corner beiug red ; 5, the •olor in tho tano corner, white; C>, blue right-hand upper corner, the shade of the other triangle being iui- ! material if contrasting. Seven is a flag with red bars at top aud bottom ; 8, whito bars at top aud bottom ; 9, blue bars at top and bottom, and zero, a flag bearing a blue cross. In addition to tho flags standing for numerals a number of penuants are used to qualify tho message or ex- pressed fixed phrases. One pennant signals the sender that the message has been received aud is understood. Another is called the "interrogatory," I audits use is ingenious. It happens that all the sentences in tho codo book are in the aflirmativc, so that if tUe Rear-Admiral on board tho flag ship Columbia wants to ask the corn maudant of the Minneapolis if ho has coal enough the nearest message he can find to the question he wants to ask will be : "Wo have coal enough," expressed by "073," lor example. This will be answering the question bo fore it is asked, so tho "interroga tory" pennant is flown above the numeral flags and tho signal is turned into a query. The commandant of the Minneapo lis hoists a pennant signaling that the message is received aud prepares to answer it. Fiuding ho lias 1100 tons of coal in tho scuppers, his answer will be: "Have 1100 tons of coal ou board." He consults the index of his code book and finds the sentence: "Have • tons of coal on board." Ho sends this message first by signal ing the combination of numbers op posite tho sentence in tho code book, and then signals 1100, the number of tons. To do this tho first method to sug gest itself would bo raising lour lings, two red, each signifying 1, and two with blue crosses, each standing for 0, and thus spell out 1100. The code calls for another method, however, at once simple and ingenious, aud much more saving of bunting. Kacli vessel is provided with a set of pennants called repeaters—first, second aud third respectively. When a repeater is raised below flags representing numbers it shows that one of the nu merals übovo it is repeated in the po sition it occupies. The first repeater means the repetition of the first num ber of the combination, tho second repeater tho second number, aud so on. Eleven hundred would bo spelled out in this way : First, a red flag lor 1, then the first repeater, showing the the first number was repeated; then a flag with a blue cross for 0, ami finally tho third repeater, showing that the third number in the combination was repeated. Tho English Navy utilizes tho rays from a powerful electric light with ex cellent results. The lamp is concealed behind adjustable shutters, which open.aud cioso rapidly at tho will of tho operator. These shutters are shifted, partially opoued or closed, and combined in such a manner as to throw out shafts of light of different dimensions, shapes, intensity and du ration. In this way a system of tele graphic signals is established. Considerable attention has recently been directod toward perfecting a system of signals by a number of elec tric lamps fastened to tho mast of a war vessel, and the Navy Department recently appointed a board which now lias tho subject under consideration. Mauy visitors to tho World's Fair will xeinember an exhibition of this system during the gorgeous illuminations aud fireworks displays upon the lake beneath in front of tho manufactures building. A row of lamps was fast ened between two cords ou the mast of the battleship Illinois, and when the display was at its height these lamps would flash out combinations of red and white light, changing order, forming and reforming, alternating and transposing positions in the twinkling of an eye. This mysterious flashing was accomplished with a key board connecting with the wires sup plying electricity to the lamps. The signal officer manipulated this very much after the fashion of a simplified typewriter, an instant's pressure caus ing the lamp to burn brightly and fade away into darkness. The idea of this system is to form combinations of lamps which will serve the same purpose at night as tho parti colored pennants do in the daytime. The system is far from complete, however, and is open to several ob jections. It is not unreasonable to believe, however, that tho time is not far distant when brains and machinery will overcome ocean distances and the evil of night as in the past contury they havo harnessed fire, water, lightning and tho air.—Philadelphia Time*. WISE Wolt!>*. An affection is a blemish. "Set a beggar on horseback," for a rich man cau afford a bicycle. Tho only medicino whicli docs wo meu more good thau harm is dress. If thou sittest among wiso men, bo more inclined to listen than to speak. Most women can whistle just well enough to like to hear themselves do it, Tho man who speaks tho truth in love will always speak to sorno pur pose. A man's women's folks aro the first to discover that he has wheels in his head. The man who knows himself woll is well acquainted with many other people. Perhaps no one has a higher appre ciation than we have for the noble and humane men. If you waut to please a man recom mend that ho do something ho has long wanted to do. If we would bo more careful whore wo step, those who follow us wouldn't | stumble so much. Somo peoplo never find out that there is joy in giving, becauso they nover give enough. ODO of tho surest signs of advancing years is tho magnifying of tho im portance of little things. Only tho wise man can profit by the experience of others. A fool has to find out for himself that fire is hot. I "A boy's will is the wind's will," but a boy's "won't" is for just as long as he can hold out against the powers. A Four-Wiiigcii Frog. The curiosity of tropical Africa is the wonderful flying frog, first de scribed by Bishoff, of Equatorial Af ricau Expedition, which returned to Europe in the fall of 1891. This od dity of tho reptile family is'about the size of a common bullfrog, and re sembles other members of the order of bactraohians in everything but its feet, each of which is webbed and enormously enlarged, so much so an to form splendid substitutes for true wings. Tho creature has fivo toes on each of the other two, which make four separate membranes on each of its hind foot and three on each fore foot, or fourteen in all. In his de scription of it Bishoff says: "Each leg terminates in a sort of fan, and with these tho little reptilo paddloa the air like a locust, or like a partially fledged bird testing its pinions for the first time." Although somewhat awkward in its flight, tho winged frog can dart through tho air at a speed of about ten yards per second, and can keep itself going forward at that rate foi from ten to fifteen seconds. Tho average distance covered by these spurts of grasshopper liko flights is from seventy-live to one hundred and twenty-live yards; but Bishoff men tions instunces where the flying frog cleared sandy stretches 200 yards in width. Mater Tight Compartments. Tho frequency of collisions at seo and their fatal results have led to many investigations aud experiments in the lino of water tight compartments. It is one thing to build a vessel with nir chambers that will float it, aud quite another to have safety appliances always in order and ready for emer gencies. It has been said that certain of our large passenger steamships have, on occasions, turned the water tight compartments into places for steerage passengers. Their greed ran away with their common humanity and re gard for the lives of those on board. It certainly is a waste of time and en ergy to prepare tho moans of safety at a great expense when proper care is not taken to keep them within avail able reach. Suggested the Art of Netting. It has been recently suggested by an English naturalist, Pocock, that tho observation of a spider's web may have given rise to tho art of netting. It appears by a letter to Nature from a learned Japanese, Minn Kutu, that a Chineso cyclopedia, published in the fourth century, A. D. stated that "Taihau made a spider his master aud knitted nets." —Now York Independ ent. Photographs of tho Ocean Bc-J. Beautiful photographs of tho bot tom of tho Mediterranean have been taken by a Frenchman, who uses a bar rel of oxygon surmounted by a glass globe, containing an alcohol lamp, a mechanical contrivance throwing mag nesium powder ou tho flame when a view is to be takec.—New York Tele gram. OBEEN FOOD FOB FOWLS. Green food is essential to the well being of fowls, and every poultry raiser should make due provision for it. If hitherto neglected there is still time to sow rye or crimson clover. The latter is to be preferred as being 'the more nutritious. If seeded now it will muke good progress and provide a sup ply of green food late in the fall and early spring,—New York World. TEXTURE OF BUTTER. The texture of butter depends partly on the animal, partly on feed, and partly upon tho temperature of the cream when churned. Cows that givo the richest milk make the most solid butter. In such cows what should go to make suet-or boef fat is turnod into tho milk glands. The same result comes from feeding very rich food like cotton-seed meal. A small quantity of this mixed with wheat bran should be fed to cows; it will make butter much firmer during hot weather in summer, but it will need iu addition that tho milk and cream bo kept in a cool place. TOO NARROW BARNS. Most of the old-fashioned barns were built with a view to economy, and were made as unrrow nnd cramped as possible. The standard width seemod to bo enough for a wagon loaded with gruin in the straw to be driven in and for the barn door to bo closed behind it. The floor was also narrow, so that the team had to bo driven out at tho door opposite that they went in at. It is rather curious that farmers tried to economize so much in lumber when tho woods wero full of it, and larger framed buildings might bo made with scarcely any more expense. When far mers began to build barns with base ments, and having only one entrance, tho barn was necessarily made wider and its floors broader, so that a loaded wagon could be driveu in and tho team bo driven out beside it. A roomy barn floor is very convenient for storing many kinds of farm tools, but wagons should always bo stored iu tho base ment where the wheels will come in contact with the soil.—Boston Culti vator. WATERING HORSES. Prejudice dies hard, but the hardest of all to die in the minds of grooms is that it is injurious to givo a horse a drink of cold water when ho is heated from exercise. Years ago, when I used to train horses for racing in India, 1 grappled with this prejudice, and clung to it with such tenacity that I used constantly to have my horses "off" their feed after a strong gallop. One day I returned to the messhouse very hot and very tired after a long run, and suddenly thought tit to mentally put myself in the place of a rnce horse. "Shall I have," I asked myself, "a better appetite for breakfast if I re frain from drinking till I have cooled off or if I have a drink right off?" Knowing that I could not cat heartily unless I had, first of all, a drink, 1 took it, and thoreupon felt so fit to cat, and went so strong over a course of beefsteaks, ham and eggs, quail, muffins, etc., that J resolved to try the same treatment on my horses. My lead was attained with such success that nowadays all tho trainers in India give thoir race horses about half a bucket of cold water to drink im mediately after a gallop, and with the best results as regards their appetite and health. I have not alone never seen, but have never even heard or read of, i.jy harm to a horso from drinking cold water when ho was heated. I have, however, seen hun dreds of eases of colic occur in horses from drinking water after being fed on occasions when they had, previous to eating, been deprived of water for some time. Were all grooms to fol low my advice as to watering, I am afraid that many an honest and hard working veterinary surgeon would find his income from colic cases seriously diminished.—London Live Stock Journal. THE PROFITABLE I'EBDINO WEIGHT. A large per cent, of farmers graze and feed hogs, and tho belief that holds with many is that some future month will bring better prices, which can at best be only u matter of guess ing. Would it not be better to adopt tho rule of getting to market asquick ly as possible, taking the price at which thev can liesold where the limit of the most profitable feeding weight is reached, say 175 to 200 pounds? This would cut off' unprofitable feeding, or in other words, stop the feeding when it takes too much food to make a pound of gain, and yet in a series of years give the farmer as good average prices as ho will securo by trying to feed to catch the high price all the time. It is a very low price that will not give a good profit on a pig that has been made to do his best up to 175 pounds, while a slight drop in price on a 300-pound hog will lose a man "plenty of money." Will not some farmer of an experi mental turn tost this matter of com mon belief among farmers, that there is more profit in one-halt" grain feed ing on clover than there is in full grain ration in connection with clo ver? Take two lots of hogs of equal quality, weigh hogs and feed ÜBed, give treatment indicated above. Don't jump at conclusions by giving one lot one style of treatment one year, and another lot the next. Conduct both experiments at the same time. For best summer growth there must be an abundance of shade, unlimited quantities of pure water. To secure this the brook must liavo a gravel bottom. Fresh, quiok growing grass; clover or other grasses should be fur nished. If these nre lacking, foods must be supplied that are chemically as near like grass as possible. Tho grain ration must not be lacking; it takes too long "to get there" on grass alone.—National Stockman. STORING CABBAGE. Some weeks since I noticed an articlo in the Tribune, writes J. E. Gordell, of Bentonville, Ark., asking for a good plan for keeping cabbage in large quantities. Last winter I visited an old friend in Missouri and saw for the first time a plan that com mended itself to my mind, and my friend, who was then trying it for the second year, was highly pleased with the results. If I can explain it to the satisfaction of your correspondent, I think he, and perhaps many other readers of this department of the Tribune, may find it equally satisfac tory to them. The plan consists of a succession of ranks, depending for number and length upon the amount of cabbage to bo stored. My friend had about an aero of good cabbago and had about three ranks some fifty feet long. The whole stalk is pulled up and all are ranked up to a height of about two feet, reversiug ends of alternate stalks, which, of course, kept tho ranks level. A space is left be tween the ranks, which exposes every head of cabbage to view tho moment tho covering is removed at the end. Now for tho covering. Forks were driveu into tho ground, say two feet high, or just a little higher than tho ranks of cabbage, and stout enough to boar up the covering, and so driven as to take a pole along both sides of each rank, and 011 these nro laid cross poles, which hold the covering up. Straw or spoiled hay was piled along tho outside ranks and then over tho poles, and so rounded up like a stack to turn water, the ends being closed up in like manner, and the work was done. It was the last of January, 1891, that I was there, and they had been having cold weather—twenty degrees below zero. My friend had an order from his merchant for a load of cabbages, and he asked mo to go with him and see how they looked. A prettier pic ture could not have been made from tho same material than was presented. The alleys being open, we had a clear view; the frost shone along on the Bolid wall of heads, but not one was injured. Of the thousands of heads in those ranks, every one was ready for market. When a load was taken out, the ond was closed up again; tho top covering remained intact.—New York Tribune. L'ABM AND GARDEN NOTES. It takes about threo months to grow a broiler. Heavy salting will destroy the flavor of good butter. The goose lays a score or two of eggs in a year. No brooding pen should contain over fifty chicks. Broilers shrink about a half pound each when dressed. Eipeu the cream uniformly; sour ing is not ripening. Forty dressed ducklings are packed in a barrel for shipment. From thirty-five to forty ducks and drakes aro allowed in a pen. The longor a cow goes in milk the smaller and richer the milk. The duck averages ten dozen eggs iu about soven months' laying. Build the house ten by ten feet for ten fowls, and tho yard ten times larger. Ten dozen eggs a year is tho average cstimato given us the production ol tho hen. Ducklings are marketed at five pounds weight, which thoy attain in ten weeks. About eight dozen oggs are given as an average for the uuuual output of tho turkey. A novel saw for felling trees con sists of a series of platinum wires made whito hot by electric currents, A sod orchard should be closely watched, as it may begin to fail sud denly. Barn manure may be applied to old orchards with good results. Permanent sod, without fertilizing, is an injury to the orchar 1. This has been proved in tho experience of nearly every successful orchardist. The best preventive of black knot on plum trees is spraying with Bor deaux mixture. The only cure is to cut it off and burn it, and then paint the wound with linseed oil. California fruit growers feel encour aged at the success of tho yellow scala killer introduced two years ago. It is a minute insect, known as the Chalcid fly, which destroys the larva of the yellow scale. The Embden, with its white feathers, and the Toulouse, with its gray, are perhaps the best breeds of geese. The former will often dress at from twelve to fourteen pounds, while a pair of the Toulouse have now and then reached the enormous weight of sixty pounds. These are rather too heavy for market.
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