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The danger of aollision between Bnssia and England is due to the de sire of yonng men of both nations to go East and grow np with the coun try- _ The Paris Exposition authorities have awarded to the United States a total of 250,000 square feet of space; j but the demands from this country , already call for 700,000 square feet, says United States Commissioner Ben- i jamin W. Woodward. The London Chronicle says: Amer- ] ica, after some hesitation, has chosen the narrow path of duty which always attracts the brave mind. She has now to show it is in her power to bestow npon her new possessions a strong, an honest, an enlightened rule. For our part, we have never for a moment doubted that she will do so in full measure. Looking back over the statistics of I 1898, the criminologist of the Chicago J Tribuno reports a gratifying decrease in the crimes of embezzlement, for gery, defaulting and bank-wrecking, the amount of last year's stealings for this country being little more than half as much as in 1897 and lower than any year since 1888. Such a decrease in crime is a pretty good measure of the improvement of the times. The great changes that have taken place in the methods of constructing big office buildings within the last few I years, since the age of steel skeletons ■ and terra-cotta oovering was ushered in, have rendered neoessary a lot of engineering knowledge, especially as regards the strength and best forms j of steel beams. Accordingly, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has modified its curriculum by intro ducing a course in architectural en gineering. This will be taken during the second term of the third year in that famons school. We are a school-going people. Of our seventy-one millions above six teen millions were in primary or superior schools in 1897. In respect to the mere matter of attendance we stand very high. Official statistics show that for every thousand inhabit ants we have 205 pupils in elementary schools. This is a higher ratio than is reached in Germany, which has 175 in a thousand, or Switzerland, which has 199. We fall in the scale, how ever, when the comparison is made on length and regularity of sohool at tendance. For the whole population this averages not above 4| years of 200 days each, whereas in Germany the average rises to 7.2 years of 200 days each. The achievements of Ensign Ward of the Secret Service during the war with Spain would form the basis for a story as full of dramatic sitnations as any that ever came from the pen of Dumas or Stevenson. Hobson did nothing that surpassed in daring the action of yonng Ward in visiting Spain in disguise in tho height of hostilities to inspect and watch Span ish vessels. Had his disguise been detected his life would not have been worth a rush. He would have furnished the nation another Nathan Hale. Happily his ingenuity saved him from euch a fate. It is by such aots, which are now being made public for the first time, that the country is learning the extent of Government efforts to defeat Spain. Something .Similar. "The expression O. K. is an Amer icanism, I am told," said the English man. "True," replied the American, "and yet that is but little different from a term ranch used in despotic countries." "Indeed?" "Yes; in Rus sia, for instance, there is the ukase." —Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Naturally I ntermted. "You feel a deep interest in the sta bility of your country, don't you?" said the patriotic young man. "Of course I do," answered Senator Sorghum. "If there wasn't any coun try, there couldn't be any government jobs, could there?" —Washington Star. CEORCE AND MARTHA. The belles and'beaux were courtly when In powdered wigs they met; The dames were prim and stately when They entertained, an J yet Theirs may to us seem curious ways— In George and Martha's courting days. The world seemed young, all nature fair, When George a-courtiug went: Yet, if wo look, perchance we'll find To gain tlie dame's consent, He sang to her love's sweetest lays— In George and Martha's courting days. For lovers loved the same as now, And maids were sly and coy; And passion burned within tiie heart And turned to grief or joy: And love's lire kindled to a blaze— In George and Martha's courting days. Imagine, if wo can, the time When George, in velvet coat. Sent perfumed notes to Martha's bower, Or love-lorn verses wrote, When Cupid sent his piercing rays— In George and Martha's courting days. And when, perchance, he went to woo, Mavliap his snowy lace At wrist and throat just brushed across His blushing lady's face. And eyes met eyes in fondest gaze- In George and Martha's courting days. So picture to yourself her smile, As thereon bended knee The lover knelt by Martha's side. And vowed his constancy; For theirs wore lovers' old, sweet ways la George and Martha's courting days. O 0 OGOOC 00 OOOOOOOOOOOOOCO CO § WASHINGTON AT HOME § o o § The Social Sble of I.ife at Mount 8 O Von,on. 5 GO'JOGOCOGGOOOOOOOOOCOOCCOS /i artiia custis fs|\/| first, met George "B X I Washington when 9 I he was a Colonel, fi Ue was on his way -lAil 1° Williamsburg to Ir&Siir! Bee Governor, ! w hen was met h ? a Mr. Chamber- layue, who owned a * I ill VI ■ I plantation along lull I n I " Ie w ay, and was Jilt I V asked to stop and 111 | \ v , dine with him. 11l I Washington replied 01 n 1 that hi s business % \ ' was urgent, and he ■ML was only persuaded when Chamberlyne Ntold him that he had a young widow visiting him who was rich and fail' to look upon. He finally accepted, say ing that it could be only for dinner, and that, the meal over, he must hasten on to Williamsburg by moon light. Ho then threw the reins of his horse to Bishop, his body-servant, and told him to wait for his return. Dinner being over, the Virginia Col onel was so pleased with his company that he was in no hurry to go. He forgot all about poor Bishop and his horse, and accepted an invitation to remain over night. It was, it may be said, a case of love at first sight. Washington went on to Williamsburg j next clay, and on his return he called 1 at the house of Mrs. Custis and asked | her hand in marriage. She accepted aud they were married in great style I at her home on the Pamuukey River on the (sth of January, 1759. A honey moon of several months was spent here, and then the couple took a wed ding tour to Mount Vernon. Mrs. Custis was twenty-six years old at the time, and Washington was three months her senior. Her maiden name was Martha Dandridge. She | had been married at seventeen to Colonel Daniel P. Custis, the son of John Custis, of Arlington, who was one of the grandees of early Virginia. Martha Custis had four children, two of whom were living at the time she married Wash ington. By the death of her first husband she was left wealthy, and she brought to her new husband about ono hundred thousand dollars in money and a largo amount of real estate. Martha Custis was a belle at seven teen, and at twenty-six she was a blooming widow. She was under mid dle size and had dark brown eves and hair. Washington is said to have been a homely young man and a very fine looking old one. Martha Washington was a very pretty girl, but not a very good-looking old woman. She was very proud of her husband, and they I show the little room in the second story of the home at Mount Vernon in | which she secluded herself after his I death, seeing no one for months, and allowing only a cat to enter the room through a hole which was cut under the door. General Washington stood six feet three in his slippers, and, in the prime of his life was rather slender than otherwise, but as straight as an arrow. His form was well proportioned and evenly developed, so that he carried his tallness gracefully, and looked strikingly well 011 horseback. There has never been a more active, sinewy A CORNER or THE DRAWING ROOM AT MOUNT VERNON. figure, than his when he was a young man; it was only in later lite that his movements became slow and dignified. When Washington was appointed to command the Revolutionary armies, it is plain from his letters home that one of his greatest objections to accepting the appointment was the "uneasi- WASHINGTON PRESENTING LAFAYETTE TO MARTHA WASHINGTON. [The illustration represents the presentation of young Lafayette to Mrs. Washing ton during ono of the few occasions of social enjoyment and ceremony which the vicis situdes of the war permitted to Washington and his aides during the trying campaign which followed the arrival of the gallant young Frenchman on our shores. The figure of Washington as represented by the artist is a noble and charaoterlc representation of the great soldier and patriot, nud the portrait of Mrs. Washington and her costume are I true to the traditional forms.] ness," as he termed it, that it would t cause his wife to have him absent from t home. General Washington was a very rich i man; his wife was very rich, and her 1 three children were heirs to great i wealth. He had a little principality - to govern. Besides the farms about his own residence on the Potomac, . with several hundred slaves upon them, i he possessed wild lands in most of the ] best locations then known, as well as shares in several incorporated com- ' panies. He derived an important part t of his influence from the greatness of 1 his wealth and the antiquity of his t family—things which were then held | - in much more respect than they are ! 1 now. Washington's estate was worth i three-quarters of a million dollars; but i it gave him far more personal conse- i quence in the country than twenty : times such a fortune could at present. The rich planter of that day, living as he did on a wide domain of his own, the owner of those who served him, riding about in his coaoh and six, and with no near neighbors to restrain, censure, or outshino him, was a kind of farmer-prinee. It was fortunate for Washington that he came to his wealth when his character was mature. Being a younger son, he had no expectations of wealth in his youth, and ho grew up in a very hardy, sensible manner, on an ettormons farm, not a fourth part of which was cultivated. His father dying when he was eleven years old, he came directly under the influenco of his mother, who was one of the women of whom people say, "There is no nonsense about her." j She was a plain, energetic, strong willed lady, perfectly capable of con ducting the affairs of a farm, and scorning the help of others. When she was advanced in years, her son in-law offered to manage her business for her. "Y'ou may keep the accounts, Field ing," was her reply, "for your eye- THE BANQUET lIAI.L AT MOUNT VERNON. sight is better than mine, but I can manage my affairs myself." On another occasion, General Wash ington asked her to come and live with him at Mount Vernon. "Thank you, George," said she, "but X prefer being independent." And so to the last she lived in her ' own plain farmhouse, and superin ' tended the culture of her own acres, not disdaining to labor with her own hands. When Lafayette visited her he found her at work in her garden, with her old sun-bonnet on, and she came in to see him, saying: "I would not pay you so poor a compliment, Marquis, as to stay to chauge my dress." Ileing the son of such a woman, and trained by her in a simple, ratioual manner, George Washington was pre pared to enjoy the lot that fell to him, without being spoiled by it. With all his wealth he was not exempt from labor. Cultivating a large tract of country, he spent much of his time in riding about to visit the different farms, to consult his over r seers aud superintend his improve ments. It is computed that he spent ■ about one-half of the days of his life [ on horseback. Like all out-of-door 1 men, he was exceedingly fond of a . good horße —a taste which he had in > common with 'his mother, who was 1 said to be as good a judge of horses as s any man in Virginia. Nothing was ; more common than for him to mount - his horse after breakfaßt and rid* all day, only dismounting for a few minutes at a time. On those great plantations far from any large town, and worked by negroes, the master was often obliged person ally to superintend any .operation which was out of the ordinary routine. There were balls occasionally at Alexandria, and we find Washington attending them, and entering into the humors and gayeties with much spirit. The usual course of a day at Mount Vernon was something like this: The master rose early, shaved and dressed himself, except that his queue was ar ranged by a servant. His first visit was to the stable. It is recorded of him that he once applied, with his own strong right arm, a stirrup strap to the shoulders of a groom who had ill treated a favorite horse. After n light breakfast of corn cake, honey and tea, the General would tell his guests, if he had any, and he usually had, to amuse themselves in their own way till dinner time, offering them his I WASHINGTON S BTATE COACII. j stables, his hunting and fishing ap- I paratus, his boats and his books to j their choice. Then he would mouut < : his horse and ride about his farms, re turning at half-past two, in time to j dress for dinner at ttiree. He was al- I ways dressed with care for this meal, I as on all other occasions of ceremony. I He liked plain dishes and was particu i larly fond of baked apples, hickory j nuts, and other simple products of the ! country. It was his custom to sit a i good while at the table after dinner, talking over his hunts and his adven tures while in service during the French war. His usual toast was, "All our friends." The evening was spent in the family circle round the blazing wcod fire, and by ten o'clock he was usually asleep. Such was the ordinary life of this illustrious farmer at home, before his country called him j to the field to defend her liberties; and | it was just the kind of life that was best fitted to prepare him for the coin- I mand of an army of American farmers. The Example of Washington. "Yes," observed Brown, "I have long since quit advising young men to ' follow in the footprints left by George Washington upon the sands of time." | "But," protested Smith, "you ; surely will not deny that the integrity ' and the patriotism of Washington have raised up a standard which it should be the constant effort of every American youth to reach?" "Oh, no," replied Brown; "I have no fault to find with either his integ rity or his patriotism." i "Then why do you not consider it • advisable for our young men to follow his example?" queried his friend in ; | surprise. I "Well, I arrived at that conclusion i from my own experience. You see, > ' my father always advised me to take | George Washington as the guiding 1 ; star of my ambition, and insisted that 1 I I should follow with all possible ex - ; actness iu the footsteps of that illus , | trious gentleman." 1 "Excellent advice. Did you fol k i low it?" i "To the letter. I studied the life t of Washington with unfailing diligence ! and all my actions were a refiex of his. Whatever he did, that did I." "And you have lived to regret it." j "Bitterly." ! "That is remarkable. What deed • of his did you duplicate that caused i your regret?" i "Well—er—Washington, you know, i married a widow." i i Numerous societies of women for t the disarmament of the nations have 1 been started in Holland. A Talk With Uramlpa. "No school to-day! No school to-day!'- The children shouted, wild with glee, "But, why," said Grandpa. "Tell me, Pray, Why such a thing should be? 'Tis but the middle of the week. 'Twas Christmas lately and Now Year's. Don't hurry off to hide-and-seek; There's soruo mistake, my dears." "No, no! There's surely no mistake. A holiday we have again. We're sure our ears were wide awake; The teacher said it plain." "But why?" "Grandpa, you ought to know! On such a February morn. More than a hundred yenrs ago, George Washington was born." "George Washington? And who was ho?" "A manly boy who told no lies. He grew to be u Goneral, 80 brave and good and wise! And first in war and first in peace, First also in a nation's heart; Ills birthday we shall never cease To love and set apart. "You just pretend; you can't forget!" Ba!d Grandpa: "Well you'vo found me outl I own I do remember yet That following him about For Freedom's sake, my grandsiro won A wooden leg!—and proudly wore The trophy when the war was done! You'vo heard the tale before." WASHINGTON RELICS. Articles of Priceless Worth Kept in the National Museum. One of the most interesting relics ia the National Museum at Washington is the camp chest used by Washington throughout the Revolution. It is a compact affair about the size of a tourist's wicker chest for cooking, of the present day, twc and one-half feet long, two feet wide, one foot high, and it contains an outfit consisting of tin der box, pepper and salt boxes, bot tles, knives, forks, gridiron and plates. 1 Every bit of the outfit save oue bottle, which is broken at the shoulder, looks 1 stroug enough to stand another cam- I paign. Nearby are the tents used by Wash ington, three [in number. One is a sleeping tent, twenty-eight feet long, with walls six feet high and a roof with a six-foot pitoh. It is made of linen. The other two are Marquee tents of smaller size, one with walls, the other a shelter tent open on the sides. That the tenting material of Revolutionary days was good stuff is proved by the excellent condition of these tents, which sheltered the great commander through all his severe campaigns. Hero also is Washington's uniform, worn by him when he gave up his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the army, at Annapolis, in 1783. It consists of a big shadbelly coat of blue broadcloth, lined and trimmed with soft buckskin and ornamented with broad, flat brass buttons; buckskin waistcoat anil breeches. The size of the garments (which are in a state of excellent preservation) testify to the big stature of the "Father of His Country" and suggest that he had an eye to a fine appearance in his dress. WiiHliliigton'B IVi-Nonal Coarage. In personal bravery, the first re quisite of a soldier, Washington was equal to any man he ever commanded. He was more courageous than Napo leon, unless weare to accept the theory that the latter was merely shamming irresolution to avoid responsibility on the memorable occasion when he tem porarily yielded the command to Aug ereau during his Italian campaign and unless we are to be very charitable to his terrors on St. Helena. The moat convincing proof Wash ington ever gave of courage was when he marched with Braddock, knowing as he did that the column was doomed to destruction by the Briton's pig headedness, and when he brought off the remnant of the beaten army under a storm of bullets. The four bullet holes in his coat, the two horses shot under him, proved that. Tradition will have it that in this light an Indian chief, astounded that this tall officer did not fall to any of the many bullets aimed at him, cried to his followers: "Fire athimno more! Can ye not see that the Great Spirit protects that chief? He cannot die in battle." Braddock's rout came near the be ginning of Washington's military career. Yorktowu was almost its close. There Washington was stand ing exposed in one of his batteries, when an aide ventured to remind him that it was a dangerous place. "If you think so, you are at liberty to step back, sir," was his rejoinder. A bullet struck a cannon by his side, and General Knox grasped his arm, crying out: "My dear General, we can't spare you yet." ' 'lt is a spent ball; no harm is done," Washington replied. Curiously enough, civil life furnishes an instance, of the first President's coolness. This when "Citizen Genet," the Minister of the French Republic, was warned by Washington to cease violations of the neutrality of the United States. Genet was fitting out privateers to war upon Great Britain, and American public sentiment, so soon after the war, was with him. Vice-President John Adams writes that "ten thousand people in the streets of Philadelphia day nfter day threatened to drag Washington out of his house aud effect j a resolution in the Government, or j else compel it to declare war in favor of the French Revolution and against I England." j But Washington was as little moved | lay yelling mobs as by whistling bul lets. Washington's Birthday. Blessed with genius, a gift so rare That none with him could then compare; Destined in the realm of fate— A mind organic, high estate To be a Washington. Behold the splendors of that night! Grund borealis shinoth bright In colors red, and white, aud blue, Blending, mingling heavenly hue, As God and Man and Bon. If character's a gift supreme, Divine is man, divine iny theme, Divine is God, divine the Son, A blending, mingling into one-- God's gifts to Washington. —Emerson. I FAEI AND GAEDEN. <{ J 5 WVWTrWTrWT?-WTfWT?)t Sheep Rataing. Any farmer in the Eastern or Mid dle States having a farm of one hun dred aores in good fence can keep a flock of fifty sheep and receive larger profits than from any other investment of the same amount, provided they will care for them in the following mauner, namely: Have a sheltered pen, with plenty of room, to protect them from the cold and storms; have an out-yard where they can be allowed to go in on nice, sunshiny daye, in which throw corn stalks, oat or wheat straw, if you have plenty of it, for what the sheep do not eat will make manure, so there will be nothing lost. Also keep the sheltered pen dry by throwing in straw as fast as it is cut up in manure. Feed them on clover hay. If you do not grow any, buy it, for one ton of clover hay is equal to two tons of any other for sheep. Try and have your lambs dropped in January or February. Build a small pen alongside of your sheep pen ; cut a email hole so the lambs can get in, but not large enough to admit the sheep. Put troughs in the lambs' pen anl feed them on ground feed. They will soon find the hole and learn to eat, and, if you have never tried it be fore, you will be surjjrised how much faster they will grow, and you will also find that the butcher will buy your lambs earlier, and pay a larger price for ttiem than ho will for your neighbor's, who does not observe the above advice. Sheep are very profit able, and every farmer should own them. They are great renovators of the soil, scattering manure evenly and pressing it in, thus improving the ground on which they feed. The months of July and August are the ones when sheep in many locali ties are subject to a most aggravating annoyance from a fly (oestrus bovis), which seems bound to deposit its larvae in the nostrils. It infects wooded dis tricts and shady places, where the sheep rosort for shelter, and by its ceaseless attempts to enter the nose makes the poor creature almost frantic. If but one fly is in a flock they all be come agitated and alarmed. They will assemble in groups, holding their heads close together and their noses to the ground. As they hear the buzz ing of the little pest going from one to another, they will crowd their muzzles into the loose dirt, made by their stamping, to protect themselves, and as the pest succeeds in entering the nose of a victim, it will start on a run, followed by the whole flock, to find a retreat from its enemy, throw ing its head from side to side, as if in the greatest agony, while the oestrus, having gained his lodging place, assid uously deposits its larvae in the inner margin of the nose. Here, aided by warmth and moisture, the eggs quickly hatch into a small maggot, which, carrying out its instincts, begins to crawl up into the nose through a crooked opening in the bone. The annoyance is fearful and maddening as it works its way up into the head j and cavities. The best known remedy j is tar, in which is mixed a small . amount of crude carbolic acid. If the ] scent of the acid does not keep the fly ( away he gets entangled in the tar, j which is kept soft by the heat of the I animal. Any kind of tar or turpen tine is useful for this purpose, and | greatly promotes the comfort of the j sheep, and prevents the ravages of the bot in the head. Profitable Milk Farming Near Cities. In March, 1894,1 came from Florida, where I had been engaged in school teaching aud'orange raising. I leased a farm near Boston and found myself with two cows, one old horse ands3oo in money. The first thing I did was to buy furniture for the house. I then bought cows enough to make ton giv ing milk, paving down all the money I had and going in debt for the re mainder. I had nine good cows paid for by May 1. I was making thirteen and fourteen cans of milk daily, at which time I rented a small farm of twenty acres with buildings about one mile from where I was living. I planted five acres of this farm to corn and two acres to oats and peas, j using the remainder of the farm for pasture. All the timo I kept adding to my stock of cows, horses, imple ments, etc., so that by January 1, 1890, I had twenty cows, making thirty cans of milk daily at thirty-three cents per can, two fair horses, having early iu the summer sold my old horse ror s'2o, two wagons, a few implements and a fairly furnished house nearly all paid for, and hay and fodder enough on hand and paid for sufficient to carry my stock through the winter. How did I get this feed? I got 'it in this way. I was right in the heart of a market garden region and very few of the gardeners kept cows, so that there was an abundance of stuff that they were glad to give away, such as pea vines, beau vines, weeds and grass, small squashes, turnip tops, small cab bages and cabbage leaves. I also bought ten acres of standing sweet corn for $5 per acre, after the ears had been picked off. I was also during this time feeding brewers' grains, to gether with corn meal. These brewers' grains I bought at an average price of about three cents per bushel during the summer and seven in winter. By the first of April, 1896, I had thirty cows and more milk being needed on May 1 I bought ten more, thus making forty cows, which number I kept until the following May, when I increased to fifty and through the following summer and fall I kept in creasing until at the beginning of win ter I had eighty cows, which lam now keeping and from which I have sold from October 1 to February 28 over S7OO worth of milk eaoh month at an average price of thirty-two cents per can of 8J quarts. In the spring of 1897 I had 1{ acres of winter wheat which I commenced to cut on June 2. In order to see what this would do I put up forty-two cows, the number that I was then milking, and fed them wholly on the green wheat, letting them out of the barn only long enough to get water. From this U acres I obtained feed enough to lsst six days and one feed for all the cows the next morning. I was better pleased with this for feed than with any kind of green stuff I have used. In addition to the eighty cows I have seven good horses and all the wagons, sleds, harnesses and all the other necessary implements tc successfully carry ou my business, be sides having a well-furnished house in which I board and lodge my six hired men.—F. M. Chute, in the Orange Judd Farmer. Grasaes For Pastnres. In growing grasses for pasturage entirely different conditions arise from those which exist where grasses are to be grown for hay. A fresh vigorous growth is needed throughout the en tire season. This cannot be obtained where one or two kinds are grown. Some grasses start into growth muoh earlier than others. Some will with stand the effects of the heat of summer and some will make a luxuriant growth in autumn. A variety of forage is also importaut for our herds during the grazing season. What has been said with regard to growing a number oi kinds together, which will blossom in side of a short period of time, does not apply to the growth of grasses for pas ture. Then, again, varieties which are best adapted for meadows are sometimes not well suited for pastures because they will not withstand close cropping nor the continuous tramping of animals. Timothy, although one of the best of our meadow grasses, is amoug the poorest for use in pastures. When closely fed down by animals, it dies out and soon becomes replaced by the finer varieties. Grasses which will make a close turf, such as Ken tucky blue grass and the fine red top, are the best for use in pastures, and should make up the greater part in such mixtures. There is also a choice in the clovers for pasture mixtures. The common red clover will not long endure close feeding by animals, but the small white clover makes allorw r mat-like growth, which is quite per manent, and wliiqfc furnishes a most nutritious From five to eight pounds of the seed of this clover should always be used when seeding for pasturage. One of tbe most common errors is in allowing the hay crop to become overripe. This not only reduces the digestibility of the crop, but also great ly lessens its palatability, a fact too often overlooked in the feeding of dairy stock. It would be economy, in case a large amount of hay is to be harvested, to cut part of it even before the crop is fully grown, rather than to allow any considerable portion of it to become tough and woody by standing until the seed is formed. Late cut grass is not only less digestible and less palatable than that cut while in bloom, but also requires a large amount of labor on the part of the animal to make the food nutriments available, The difference in favor of early cut is thirteen per cent, for the protein, five and a half per cent, for the fat, seven per cent, for the nitrogen free extract and eleven and a half per cent, for the fibre. In other words, early cut grass averages about ten per cent, more di gestible matter than late cut.—New England Homestead. Kent Proportion of Fertilizer. It has been demonstrated in Georgia that the application of 468 pounds of good phosphate, thirty-four of muriate of potash and 386 of cottonseed meal per acre gave better financial results than any other proportions. Drilling the fertilizer was more profitable than applying broadcast. Farm and fiarden Notes. Barley meal is a very desirable dairy food in every respect. The amount of food consumed by fattening animals is not necessarily ais index of its economic use. Feeding, watering and grooming reg ularly [will aid materially in keeping the horses in a good, thrifty condition. Timothy hay, taKing price into con sideration, is one of the most unpro fitable rough feeds for fattening cattle. Recent tests at the Georgia experi ment station indicate that subsoiling produces no appreciable effect upon the crops. Sorghum silage keeps well but owing to the woody stems which it usually contains it is not relished by stock and is often found unprofitable. Milk is the best food for all young animals, but as the young animal that is fed on milk grows rapidly -its de mands for a larger quantity at each meal increases. Transplanting can only be success fully performed ou well tilled ground. The soil must be thoroughly and deeply plowed and harrowed until all the clods have disappeared. Nut growing is profitable, but it re quires years to bring a nut tree to a stage of growth where it will pay well, hence only young farmers are induced to devote land in that direction. Happy Chance. "Your money or your life!" cried the robber. "Ha, ha!" laughed the artist, and he drew a pistol. The artist had no money, and ac cording to the critics, not much life, but that was not why he iaughed. He laughed because he belonged to the school which draws rapidly and boldly, rather than the school which draws laboriously, with great atten tion to detail,"—Detroit Journal.
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