Alfalfa. One among the first requirements as to a new country is: "Does clover do well?" But clover or grasses are not the first things needed to be raised in a new country. Nature has sup plied native grasses more abundantly than the poor Bettler with his small amount of stock has demand for. So it is many years before tame grasses or clover are experimented with. Southern lowa, my former home, writes J. M. Rice, of Win view, Okla homa, is now known as a great blue grass section, yet it had been settled ten years before the first blue grass seed was sown, and that was not done by a farmer, but by a merchant in his dooryard. Clover was not grown for twenty years, but to-day its clover and tim othy fields are larger and more im portant than those devoted to any other sort of crop. With our five years' history in this newest country but little attention is yet needed for any kind of grasses, for in addition to the native, there is usu ally more straw and fodder connected with the grain crops than we have use for. For three years I have had a small plat of alfalfa in what is known as hard land or heavy soil, in distinction from the light soils, these containing more or less sand. It is part of a little valley of forty to eighty rods in width, along a very small water course, that can be almost crossed at one step. One-half is red clay underlaid with red shale. Water can usually be found in this shale at a depth of five to ten feet. The other half lays about two feet higher and the soil is of a chocolate color. The lower red soil has produoed about twice the amount of alfalfa of that of the upper darker soil and is not so much effected by dry weather. It might be said that this red soil would hardly produce corn while the other would be the best -we have, though not nearly so good for corn as lighter soil, while the red is the best for wheat, oats and sorghum. The past two years have been dry, but it takes the third year for alfalfa to reach its best. The first year it was cut twice, the cuttings being left on the ground. The second year it was cut three times perhaps aggregating at the rate of a ton and a half per acre. This year it was in full bloom and just ready to cut when the hail of May 12 cut it closer than the mower would have done. In just one month it was ready to cut again and made at least at the rate of a ton of cured hny per acre. It will have to be very reasonable if it does not yield two more crops before our usual frost time. This year will give a fair idea of its profitableness, but I am inclined to think that it will be on our red low lawns and that when we need it that one-fourth of our farms will be a magnificent alfalfa fields. Clover With Spring: Grain. It always pays to BOW clover with spring grain. In a favorable season, as the present has been, there will probably be a good seeding of the clover. In that case it will be well in September, or perhaps earlier than this if rains continue, to sow timothy so as to make with the clover a per manent seeding. But oven if the clover seeding has been a partial fail ure, enough of it will have rooted to make a growth that will much more than pay for the cost of the seed, even if it be plowed under as green ma nure. There is probably no such in crease in manurial value anywhere as from the clover seed put into the ground and the plant that comes from it. In bulk, the grain of mustard, which grows into a tree large enough for the birds to lodge in its branches, may surpass the clover. But in ma nurial value, counting the fertilizing effect of the clover roots in the sub soil, a grain of clover is worth more than the biblical grain of mustard seed. It was a good farmer from whom we learned this advice to always sow clo ver seed in the spring, even though there was a reasonable certainty that that spring grain stubble would be plowed in fall for some winter grain. In one season out of three, the farmer said, the spring grain seeding will be too good to be plowed up for any further chances. In the other two seasons there would still be enough clover to much more than repay the cost of seed, even if it were plowed under as green manure. In every case the clover growth took the place of some weed that would be worth less than itself as a fertilizer. So every time the farmer sowed clover seed it was with the result of increas ing soil fertility, which is the capital on which the farmer must rely for his profits. • The fact that to have plenty of clo ver seed in the ground is the best as surance of successful farming has only lately become known to many farmers. In this, rather than from their direct profits, is the greatest gain from the praotice of growing clover seed. It is inevitable that wherever clover seed is grown, more or less of the seed fails to be gathered. It falls to the ground. But it is not thereby lost. Usually the clover ley is plowed early next spring, or possibly in the fall, so that the seed does not have a good a chance to grow the next season. But it is not lost. Year after year as this field is plowed this volunteer clover will ap- j pear from what was thought at the time to he wasted seed. It is thus i that the farmer who grows clover seed receives a benefit that comes in the ( form likely to do him the greatest good. He always gets a better clover seeding than he is entitled to from the seed he has sown. Even if he has sown none he is reasonably sure of a partial clover seeding.—Boston Culti- j vator. Sheep Diseases and Their Itcmedies. Perhaps there is no other domestio animal that suiters so much from para sites as the sheep. First, of course, comes the sheep-tick. They are on almost all sheep and are so common that many people seem to regard them 1 ns unavoidable nnd as natural to sheep as the wool itself. But let even half a dozen ticks get on a thoughtless shep- j herd and bite all at once, and he will I begin to realize the agony of the young lamb with a thousand on him, as is often the case just after the sheep are sheared. They are all there for blood and they get it as long as there is enough left to pay for boring. One tick on a man, says Coleman's Rural World, will cause him to suspend all oth- j er labors until he gets it off, and if he believes that a sheep has so little sense of feeling that she can be comfortable ' with a tick gnawing at every square inch, he should have regard enough i for his pocket to stop feeding so many mouths that give no income. Sheep are often so reduced in flesh and strength by these pests alone that they are supposed to be afflicted with some strange epidemic; and they are more liable to other maladies than if they could have the benefit of all the food they eat. The next most painful nffliction is perhaps caused by grubs in the head. Any person who has dissected a sheep's head or seen their skulls lying about has noticed a long, thin, parallel plate of bone reaching from the nose upward. It is between these plates that the larva of the gadfly find lodging and food. They are where the sheep can apply I no force to expel them by either sneez- j ing or coughing, and nre a constant j source of irritation nnd pain. The pressure of these in indicated by dis charges which keep the sheep's nose filthy and by attempts to sneeze ac companied by distressing sounds. • A low condition of the blood, whether caused by ticks or intestinal worms, is often shown first in dullness of the eyes and watery swellings below the jaws. For dissecting a sheep Profes sor .Tames Law gives the following di rections: "Open up the nose and all connecting cavities in the head; all the air passages in the lungs; all the gall ducts in the liver; the stomach and the whole length of the intestines; in the latter case look carefnlly for the smallest threadlike worms from one fifth inch and upward in length. Treat ment will vary with the species of par asite and its habitat." The same authority recommends the following treatment for various troubles: For grub in the bend: If the trouble is with grubs about the pass ages of the head, the sheep may be turned on its back with the nose ex- j tended and into each nostril may be ; poured one ounce of a liquid made by mixing a tenspoonful of benzine in a quart of water. Repent this daily for a week. A more effective, though a moro dangerous, plan is to bore with a trephine or gimlet through the outer plate of bone on the rounded elevation on the forehead to tlio inner side of each eye, and with a syringe and tepid water to wash out the cavities. The water and grubs will flow out through the nose. Then finally a teaspoonful of the benzine mixture may be injected on each sido and left in the cavity. For lung worms: Shut the flock into a close room and burn Bulphur, pinch by pinch, until the air is as strongly charged with the fumes as the sheep can breathe without violent coughing or sneezing. Let them breathe this for half an hour, nnd repeat it daily for a week. It may then be stopped for a month, after which they should be subjected to a second week's treat ment, to kill the young worms that have been hatched out from the eggs in the interval. A Curious Insurance Case. Journalistic enterprise has led to a curious insurance ease in Paris. M. Henri Martin, chief editor of the Cour ier de Lyon, was found dead in his room hanging from a cord passed over | a hook in the ceiling and attached to a dog collar round his neck. His life was insured for S6OOO, which the in surance company refused to pay on the ground that he committed suicide. He had, however, been publishing articles j on the scientific side of hanging, and was preparing one describing the sen sations of a hanged man. Tho coun sel for his family will contend that he was making experiments on himself, and that his death was accidental, Dos Taxes in France. In France it is not necessary to have a license to keep a dog, but what amounts to practically the same thing, it is necessary to pay a dog tax, whioh varies according to the species—a watch dog paying less than a fancy poodle, and so forth. From the re turns of this tax it is learned that there are 2,900,000 dogs in France, which bring in an annual revenue of $1,760,000. - i AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Potaflh For I*otntocn. Potash is the mineral that is most needed for the potato crop. But it is much better distributed as a top dressing over the whole surface than applied with the seed potatoes in the hill. The potato roots very early in their growth fill tho soil between the rows. When mineral manures are ap plied in the hill, unless care is taken to mix them thoroughly with the soil, they may eat into the cut seed, and ef fectually destroy the germ. used broadcast on the surface ther in no danger of this. Burdock I.cavcs for Ilorxefi. It is a practice of some farmers we know to let a few burdock plants grow so as to furnish a green bite for horses during tho early summer. Tho l orses are almost crazy at this season to eat something green, and the slightly bit ter taste of the burdock leaves does not prevent them from eating them greedily. This will not interfere with eating dry feed as green grass would do. In fact, some horsemen regard the burdock leaves as a valuable tonic, and declare that horses eat more heartily and do more work after they have been fed thus.—American Culti vator. Grow Mutlicinul i'lantfl. Many medicinal plants can be grown with profit, as tho demaud for some kinds is increasing. Absinthe (worm wood) can raised as far north as New England, and this country im ports it from Europe. Saffron, which sells for $8 per pound, may be grown in nearly all sections. Peppermint and spearmint find ready sale, and sage, which is well known to every farmer, is imported, frequently selling at $l5O per ton. Then there are hoar hound, boneset, mandrake, blood root, pennyroyal, etc., which are regarded as weeds in some localities, all of which are largely used and have a value m market. Care of Milk Fans. At a convention in Minnesota, J. K. Bennett said, among other things: In the care of cans, they are to be kept clean and free from rust. They should be washed as soon as possible after being used. Itinse first with cold water,then sorub thoroughly with a brush both in side and outside, using warm water,al most hot, or better a good soap suds; use it often anyhow. Give particular attention to tho seams aud don't forget the outsides. You know tho inside is often judged by the outside. Finish with scalding water. Turn your cans upside down long enough only to allow them to drain; then leave them right side up, or 011 their sides in the fresh air, and you will have clean, sweet cans. It is a very common error to leave them over a stake, 01*011 a board. This is a serious mistake,as invariably the cans will sour thereby. The hot air or steam rises and has no escape, consequently condenses in tho cans aud sours. Much milk otherwise well cared for is often tainted from no other reason. A rusty can should not be used, as it imparts a foreign flavor to milk.—Dairy World. Snmmer Cure of Berry Bushes. All berry bushes should be protected from summer heat and drought. This may be done iu two ways. First, by frequent cultivation and hoeing, thus forming an earth mulch, which pre vents the rapid escape of moisture from the soil. Second, by covering the ground around the hill with coarse manure, straw and other material, which prevents evaporation and re tains the moisture about the roots. One of tho best and cheapest mulches for tho farmer is green clover, cut in blossom and applied same as manure. It is easily applied, retains moisture, enriches tho soil, keeps the berries clean and contains no germ of noxious weeds. A good mulch well applied is one of the great necessities in success ful fruit growing. When now canes of the blackberry and black raspberry are eighteen inches high, nip the top ofl about two inches; this will cause sev eral new laterals to grow, which should be trimmed severely in the spring. Tho pinching back of new growth is important. It largely increases the bearing surface, keeps the bush low, strong, well formed and less liable to injury from severe storms.—M. A. Thayer, in Nebraska Fanmer. Killing Roue Buss. A Greenfield (Mass.) subscriber writes: *T havo several peaclitrees which at the present time are full of fruit. While thinning them I found that many had holes in them aud oth ers were being eaten by the common rose bug. Sometimes the bugs were almost hidden in the holes they were eating. Is this unusual or is it only that I have never noticed it before? Is there anything that can be done to prevent it? This year there are so many more peaches than tho trees can bear that lam not sorry; but another year it may be different. Peaches are now about an inch long and one-half to three-fourths the other way." In years when the rose beetles are abundant in a locality it is not unusual to find them eating the fruit of peach, apple and cherry trees. They are Very destructive to bearing grapo vines, eating the blossoms as well as tho leaves. Their first choice seems to be white roses and grape blossoms, but green apples and peaches are very ac ceptable. No better method than hand-picking has yet been discovered for combating this insect. They nre most easily caught by holding a dish of water under them in the cool of the morning. On touching them with the other hand they will let go their hold and drop into the water. Hoapy water is better than clear, aud a little ker osene on top of the water is better still. Vines aiid trees are sometimes protected by covers of fly-netting, and for a few small trees this is cheap aud sure.—A. W. Gbeevcr. in New Eng land Farmer. WATCHWORDS' OF LIFE. Hope, While there's a hand to strike; Dare, Whllo there's a young heart brave; Toil, While there's a task unwrought; Trust, Whilo there's a God to save. Learn That thore's a work for eaeh; Feel That thore's a strength In God; Know, That thore's a orown reserved. Wait. Though 'noath the cloud and 6od; Love, Where there's a foe that wrongs; Help, When there's a brother's need; Watch, When there's a tempter near; Pray, Both in thy word and deed. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "So your son has completed liis edycation?" "Great Seott! No! Why, l\e'a just out of college!"— Detroit • News. "Has Bigmoney any poor rela tives?" "He doesn't know. lie isn't dead yeL"—Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. "Do you think capital punishment a remedy for crime?" "Well, it might be if persisted in for several generations."—Judge. She—"Talk about woman's idle cur iosity! There's no such thing." He ! —"No. I should say it worked night and day."—Detroit Journal. A proofreader has been discharged because a cowslip by the river's brim ! a simple cow's lip was to him, and nothing more.—Somerville Journal. A cab-owner had the word "Excel sior" painted on the door-panel of all his vehicles. He explained that his motto was "Hire."—London Tit-Bits. "My wife cleans house eight times a year," said the applicant for divorce. "Decree granted," said the judge, in a voico that shivered.—Detroit Free Press. The Pretty Girl—"Miss Smuther was named after her Uncle George, wasn't she?" The Bright One—"l don't know. She looks as if she was named before him."—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. Wallace—"There is nothing like matrimony to make a man appreciate the value of money." Ferry—"That's so. A dollar a man gives fo his wife does look bigger to him than any other dollar."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Typewriter—"l am rapid enough, and understand business forms all right, but I must admit that I cannot spell." Business Man—"You won't ' do, then, even at the price. I can't spell, either."—lndianapolis Journal. Mrs. Manykyds—"There is one good thing about our girls; they are always self-possessed." Papa Many kyds (grimly)—" Yes; they are too Belf-possessed. I wish they'd get some one else to possess them."— Puck. "How in the world did you get old Curmudgeon's consent to wed his daughter?" "Finesse, me boy, finesse. I told all around that he caught seven teen four-pound bass on that last fish ing expedition of his." —Detroit Free Press. "You blamed old plug," said the farmer to his balky horse, "you actually ain't worth killin' un less," he added, after second thought, "unless I could manage to get you killed by the railroad."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Nurse—"Please, mum, you must send for tlie doctor quick for little Johnnie." Mother—"Oh, dear! What is the matter?" Nurse—"l don't know, mum; but he hasn't been up to any mischief for two hours."—Lon don Tit-Bits. Bobby had been studying his dear old grandfather's wrinkled face for a long time. "Well, Bob," said the old gentleman, "do you like my face?" "Yes, grandpa," said Bobbie, "it's on awfully nice face, but why don't you have it ironed?" —Standard. Sprockets—"l was sorry not to keep my appointment with you; but, you see, my wheel broke down." Hudson—"Why didn't you come in on the train?" Sprockett—"Heav ens! And ride with those miserable non-bikers? Never!" —Philadelphia North American. M. D. (to anxious mother) —"Your son's case is very simple; we will take out his spine, lay his lungs and heart 1 bare, inject his liver with an acid, and insert a silver wire at tho base of his thorax. We will then sew him up j neatly, and you'll be surprised at the change it'll make."—Truth. "Dear," said the Senator's wife, "the papers are accusingyou of lotting tho stock market influence your vote.' "It is a lie," roared the statesman, as lio pounded the table with his fist. "All I have done in that direction was to allow my vote to influence my deal ings in the stock market." —Indian- apolis Journal. Little Harry—"You didn't preach last Sunday, did you?" The Minis ter—"No; I was ill and omitted my sermon." Little Harry—"l thought they was something happened, for when pa got homo he said ho wouldn'l mind goiu' to church every Sunday ii they always had that kind of services" Leader. They had been discussing the ad vancement of science. "I sec ii is claimed that they can get electricity direct from coal now," suggested the lawyer. "That won't do us any good," returned the railroad manager. "Ii . we could get coal direct from electric- - ity now we wouldn't have to worrj j about this strike."—Chicago Evening j Post. In a home lor sandwich men in Lon don there are said to be several uni versity graduates and medical men, 1 and a Scotchman who ran through j $250,000 in three years. A Just Claim. ! "Miss Grabbs declares her girl friends can't deny that her attachment to that gentleman with a title was u case of love at first sight." "That's very true," replied Miss Cay enne. "She saw him first."—-Washing- Ro Star. Corpses on a Ship. j When dead bodies are entered ns cargo on a ship, they are recorded on the invoices as "statuary" or "natural history specimens," to allay the super stitious fears of the crew. Camphor is now exclusively a product of Japan, since the annexation >f Formosa to that country. The cam phor tree thrives only in particular lo calities, where the average yearly tern • perature is above 15 degrees C. It is found in Slilkoku, KinahJu and a i>or tion of Izu and Kit provinces. A cam phor tree grows at the rate of about Dne and a half inches a year and at • tains a great size, forty feot in clrcum. ference not Indng unusual. The quau< I tity of camphor produced by a tree in jrea&es as the tree grows older, and is much as eight pounds of camphor lias been obtained at one time from • trees l>etween 50 and 350 years old. Crude camphor is made by steaming the thin chips of the wood in a wooden .'ask set over an iron pot. the camphor in a gaseous state being conveyed through a bamboo pipe to a set of twe rectangular wooden receptacles placed 3ue within the other. In these the stream is condensed and the camplioi i solidified. The chips are steamed for | twenty-four hours and then replaced j by fresh chips, this process continuing 1 for from ten to fifteen days. When : the receptacles become thoroughly j cooled the solid camphor deposited In tlie lower compartments of the upper receptacle is scraped off and put lntc a dripping tub, whore It is left for three ! lays to separate water and oils from the crude camphor. According to informa tion gathered by the National Assocla tion of American Manufacturers, the cultivation of camphor trees is con sidered very profitable In Japan.-. New York Times. Twenty-five years ago scientists pre dicted that abundant coal fields would be found on both sides of the British channel, and the predictions have beeD fulfilled. Besides the great Kentish fields discovered several years ago and yielding bountifully ever since im mense tracts of coal have been recently found between Calais and Cape Gris nez. The French discoveries wore the result of those in England, geologists being sure that the same belt of coal 1 extended under the water from one country to the other. This last discov ery Ls of the greatest importance to iu- I dust rial France. Every one believes he does not "get the credit" he deserves. New Rails for the B. & 0. The new 85-pound steel rails that the receivers of the B. & O. purchased several months ago, at an exceedingly low figure, are now being delivered at | | the rate of 5,000 tons a month. As j fast as it comes it is being laid, and it the weather continues good at least : 20,000 tons of it will be In tho track by Christmas. Nearly a million cross ties have been bought in the last year and placed in the track ready for the new rail. Ballast trains have been kept busy up and down the line, and the work has progressed with such rapidity that when the new rail is down the tracks will be practically new from Wheeling to Baltimore. I There are lots of good rail in the old tracks, not heavy enough for the new motive power, which will be taken up and laid on divisions where traffic is not as groat as it is on the main line. About ten thousand tons of new steel will be laid on the lines west of the j Ohio river this fall, if weather permits. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re cently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called Broadway, N. Y. Full information (In plain wrapper) mailed freo. UO FOR KLONDIKE. 11 iL, Write for prospectus. LONDON ANl> KLON DIKE GOLD MINING CO., Charleston. W. Vu. fIARfftCDCUREDATHOMEi ean.i .tamp for UAraU C IF R Dr. ii J- B. HARRIB ( & CO., I'NU 35 '97. : |pgK| Cheering Indication. The fact tliat $14,225, the largest amount ever paid at one time into the "conscience fund" of the United States Government, has been received within the last year, is a cheering indication that some men are growing better in stead of worse. No Inducement. Castleton—llow few girls go in bath- ' lug here this season! 1 Dillback —Yes. The grand stand back of the bathing beach has been washed away.—Judge. The 13. O. officials are very much pleased with certain statistics that have recently been prepared of the performance of freight trains on the Second division, which handles all the east and west-bound trafllc between Baltimore and Cumberland. Before the new freight engines were pur chased, and the improvements made in the track, in the way of straighten ing curves and reducing grades, the I average number of cars to the train ' was 28ifc. Now, with more powerful ' and modern motive power and a better ; track, the average.is 40 ears per train, j an increase of 41 per cent. The ave- i age east-bound movement per day for j the first ten days of August was 1,123 j loaded cars. On the Third division, | Cumberland to Grafton, where there I are grades of 125 feet to the mile, the > engines used haul 19% loads to the train. Now the average is 25% loads per train, an increase of 31 per cent. It would certainly appear that the ; money spent in improvements on the B. 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