f AGRICULTURAL f
The Farm liorse.
W. J. Overton, of Illinois, writes to
the Breeders' Gazette that be does not
believe the place for the draft horse
is on American farms. He has raised
some of the largest and best draft
horses in the county and sold them at
the yards at figures not reached by
any other draft horse in six months,
but be never could get the work out of
them he could got out of a good-sized
American horse with as much Morgan
blood as be could get. When they tried
to breed their small or medium sized
mares to the draft horses they thought
they wanted larger horses. They got
them larger in some parts. It might
be in the head, the legs or the body,
but usually not all in cue colt. No
one will claim that they have as good
a wearing breed of horses as they
had twenty years ago. "The farmer
who only raises colts for his own use,
with now and then one to sell, had
better stay by the good-sized, smooth,
American-bred horse," he says.
Protecting Yonng Chicks From Iln^rlcs.
Where hawks abound, young chicks
must be closely guarded. If shut up
closely in pens, growth will he greatly
retarded. A good plan under such
circumstances is shown In the accom
panying cut. Plow two furrows par
allel to each oilier and just far enough
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WIBE XETTIXG TO PUOTECT TOCXCI CHICK
apart so that tho distance from the out
side of each shall be just six feet.
Make the furrows 15 ! J feet long.
Stretch a roil of six-foot wire netting
along the furrows, fastening tho edges
down with stones. This gives a long
run on both grass ground and plowed
land for the chicks, and hawks cannot
molest them. The coop can be set at
one end. the other cud being stopped
with sod. Tlie plan is shown In the
cut.—W. D. Maine, in New England
Homestead.
Treating a Partly Drained Soil*
Drainage of a heavy, thick soil, in
clined to be liiily and uneven, is some
thing that is not always an easy mat
ter, but if one has such a farm, the
sooner he begins to make the Improve
ment tlie better. It is waste of time
and money to attempt forming on a
field that demands drainage badly, and
it is wisdom to abandon the farm en
tirely or begin to drain it. I have
succeeded so well with a home system
of drainage with stones that it may be
worth recording. The soil was at first
quite full of atones, which I at first
picked off and piled in one part of the
field. A few stones would work up
to the surface every spring, aud theso
I would also pick up. Iu tho course of
a few seasons I had a fairly good soil
without any stones to annoy me. But
the drainage was bad. The water
would settle In the soil and on the sur
face in the spring, aud the land was
always late in getting into tillable
condition. It was cold and wet when
most other soils were warm and dry.
This made plowing late, or if done
early a muddy and unpleasant task.
The laud sloped down la one general
direction, but there were numerous
depressions which collected the water
all along.
I decided to drain. I planned the
whole tlilug out on paper, noting the
general direction of the slopes. 1 could
not afford tiles or any expensive ma
terial, and so 1 decided to use the piie
of stone. I plowed deep ditches across
the land, making them all run parallel
with the main slope, and cutting cross
ditches in the opposite direction. Iu
this way the whole soil of the field was
drained so that the surplus water
would run into main ditches and thus
down to swampy levels. Then I pro
ceeded to fill In the ditches with the
stones, using the large ones first, and
placing them so that the largest possi
ble spaces would be left between. Cn
top of these I packed the smaller ones,
and on top of them placed a layer
of straw and cornstalks. Then I topped
it off with six inches of soil, bringing
the surface up to within a few inches
of the general level of the field. Now
this drainage works perfectly. The
soil is never clogged with surplus
water. Ido not plow over the drains,
but I have permitted a sod of grass
to form on them to mark their course.
The water following the line of ditches
drains off below the surface, and there
lo a steady outpour in the main ditch
in rainy weather. The cost was only
that of my own personal labor.—G. W.
Mlnners, in American Cultivator.
Kuylnc or ltentlnff a Farm.
It doesn't make any difference
whether a man has small means or
can pay ensh, tho best policy is to
buy. Every farmer Is ambitious. lie
wants to own a farm—to have some
place to call home, even if it is only
forty acres. The expenses are about
equal, buying or renting. The rent
amounts to as much, and often more,
than tho taxes, interest and repairs.
The renter has more money to put
Into stock, but his possessions must
accommodate themselves to the farm
he rents, and this is often inconvenient.
Or he must build extra fence, which
Is expensive, as the fence Is useless
when he moves elsewhere. Usually the
renter exchanges crops and stock for
money when ho moves, which is every
year or two. Of course he puts the
money in the hank and is going to
save it until he can pay cash for a
farm. During the year he seeß some
thing that he is very anxious to own,
and us the money is easy to get, it goes.
Of course he is going to have n better
crop this year, and will make more
money on his hogs, and can easily re
place the money, and more, too. It is
just as easy to use it all as it is tp
use a little, and before the end of the
year it is all gone.
The buyer cannot do this. When he
sells a crop, or a bunch of hogs, and
pays the money on a farm, it is there
to stay. He must deny himself many
things, but he who satisfies every
want will not have his labors crowned
with success. Unceasing toll is the
parent of success. It only takes about
half the year to raise the crop. Dur
ing the other half the renter does not
do enough to pay his expenses. He
makes as much us any farmer while
he works, but the buyer works while
the renter is idle. The weeds need
cutting, the fences need fixing, the fer
tilizers needs scattering, the ditches
need repairing, and many other things
need to be done, so that the buyer is
busy the entire year. Perhaps he has
less nmusement, but amusement is
expensive.
A farm should have a good orchard
and a garden of shrubbery. Neither
trees nor shrubs are costly, but the
renter does not put out new ones, nor
take care of those already on the
farm. The renter leads an aimless, un
settled life. He has no definite aim in
view, and works in a haphazard, hit
or miss fashion, and it usually turns
out miss. The buyer knows just what
he has to do, and each day brings him
nearer the goal of his ambition. Half
of the secret of success lies in having
a definite aim and the other half in
unceasing toil.—G. I. Johnson, in New
York Tribune.
An lfxcollent Smokehouse*
A good smokehouse on any farm
is a desirable thing to have, the great
difference between the price of home
grown pork and store bacon making it
a paying job for every farmer to
smoke his own meat, and especially
for home consumption. It Is too ex
pensive, however, to have a well ar
ranged smokehouse, as generally con
structed, in till cases, and hence the
reason for presenting the novel af
fair shown in the accompanying' illus
tration.
As can he seen, it consists of a box
of such a size as is desired, only it
should be four feet high, and is usually
more convenient if threo by five feet
square. The meat is iusorted through
the door in the side, which should be
uo less than twenty Inches wide, and
hinged at the lower part so as to lot
down from the top. Hooks should ho
fastened to it, and staplos driven into
the sides and top of the box. as Indi
cated, to hold the door la place when
closed.
For hanging the meat bore holes
through the top of the box and far
enough apart so that the pieces will
not touch when hung. Pieces of wire
work best for the purpose, ono end of
which having been run through the
meat should be twisted together with
the other so as to form a loop, and this
inserted up through the augur hole,
where a stick then pushed through the
loop will hold the ham secure.
The device should be built on slop
ing ground, provided such Is available,
for then the fire that is to furnish the
smoke can be placed at the proper
distance from the box and yet have tho
smoke readily conducted to it by menus
of several joints ol old stovepipe. The
Jif
hole for tho fireplace should be about
two feet deep and at lca3t six feet
away from the box. The trench for
the stovepipe should not be over one
lialf as deep, and dug so that the upper
end of the stovepipe will come out un
der the box near the centre; an old
elbow Joint makes this very easy to
do. The pipo, of course, should bo cov
ered with tho loose dirt thrown out,
aud the sides of the box banked up
with earth, its cracks even being calked
as much as possible, for notwithstand
ing all the precautions, enough srnoko
will still escape to insure the neces
sary amount of draught
When the affair is completed and the
hams are all hung a fire should be
kindled in an old kettle or pan, using
corn cobs for fuel, since these make
the best material, not to mention that
they are easy to handle and will last
long. As soon as a good smoke has
been started the "furnace" should be
set in the hole prepared for It and
boards laid over the top, or, better, a
large piece of sheet iron, tin, or some
thing of that nature. By banking this
up so as to keep the smoke from escap
ing, one will be In a fair way to have
some first-class bacon. Several hun
dred pounds of meat can be smoked at
a time, and, let alone the economy of
this, the device is of Inestimable value
as a safeguard against fire. Unlike
some kinds of smokehouses, so-called,
it harbors no danger whatever, if
rightly made, of burning a single build
ing on the farm.—New Y'ork Tribune.
Tho gauchos of Argentina live en
tirely on roast beef, scarcely ever tast
ing vegetables or fiour dishes.
ENGINEERS' FALSE ALARMS.
Why Things Look Different From What
They Are.
"When n man's sitting in an engine
aab, looking lip the track with a con
stant watch for danger a burden on
his mind," said an engineer, "things
sometimes look different from what
they really are. This is especially true
if after long service his eyes begin to
be a little affected.
"I used to know an old engineer who
was one of the most careful men on the
road. In fact, he was always worried
and fear of an accident got to be al
most a mania with him. One day he
was pulling a long freight down a pret
ty fair grade when he suddenly clapped
on the air and gave the 'highball' with
the whistle, sending the brakemen out
over the train setting the hand brakes
as fast as they could, finally they
brought the train to a stop, and every
body ran up to see what was the mat
ter. Among the men who came up
was a red-shirted section man. When
the fellow got close, .Tack, the engi
neer, began to i*ip out the biggest
string of expletives I ever heard. He
dressed up and down any man who
would wear a red shirt while working
on the section, for Jack had seen that
shirt and thought it was a red flag and
stopped the train."
"1 had an experience myself not long
ago," spoke up another engineer. "It
was since the new electric headlights
were put in. Yon know how they look
coming up the track. They're so bright
you can't see anything else, and it's
hard to tell whether they are moving
or not. I was running a freight, and
had a pretty heavy train. We were
coming around a curve just before
making a siding to pass another train,
when one of those electric headlights
flashed on me. I thought it was all
over with me, hut I stopped to put on
the brakes and reverse, and hung on
just a minute in the hope of getting
the train stopped before I jumped. The
grade wasn't very heavy, and I got
the train stopped nil right. Before I
started to jump I looked again. I dis
covered then tiiat the light didn't seem
to be any nearer. I investigated, and
found that the other train was at a
stand still wailing for mo at the
switch."—Salt Lake Herald.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
No strength without struggle.
Cruelty Is one of the marks of cow
ardice.
People are not reclaimed by calling
them names.
Brave hearts break out their own
opportunities.
Breadth of outlook depends on ele
vation of life.
Policies make good tools when forged
out of principle.
The occupation of the hand helps
to garrison the heart.
It Is well to have your fuel before
you buy your kettle.
Our thoughts are the pigment
which we color life.
Time may be money, but money is
neither time nor eternity.
The truth is found only by those who
are willing to lose their theories.
The hands will not point the right
hours without the mainspring of right
motives.
Better to suffer for being ahead of
your times than to be lost for beiug
behind them.—Ram's Horn.
Wouldn't Stand For It.
"I hardly think my wife sees the
joke yet," said Brown, with a smile,
"and I am also Inclined to think that
she was deliberately trying to create
a false impression, to which I plead
guilty.
"One night last week I thought 1
heard some one prowling about the
house, and as there have been a num
ber of houses broken into lately, 1 eon
eluded that the noise was made by
burglars# As I sat up in my bed lis
tening I chanced to glance iuto the next
room, the door of our bedroom lieiug
open, and there stood a sure-enough
burglar examining our silverware.
With this startling discovery came
the chilling thought that I hadn't such
a thing as a flrearm in Uie house. But
I determined to run a bluff, so turning
to my wife I said in a loud voice:
"'Where's my revolver?'
" 'John,' she answered in a voice
equally as loud, 'there isn't such a
thing in tlie house, and you know
it!' "—Detroit Free Press.
Collier Than Liquid Air.
Dr. Arsene d'Arsonval, a member of
the French Academy of Sciences, pro
poses to announce his discovery of a
method of extracting from ordinarj
petroleum oil a liquid absolutely uu
l'reezable at u temperature of 205 de
grees below zero, thus beating the
record l'or unfreezabllity hitherto held
by liquid air.
According to Dr. d'Arsonval, the new
"petroleum ether" is destined to he
of the greatest imponuuee to scien
tists, especially iu chemical research,
permitting the construction of ther
mometers of a precision not hitherto
attained.
In his forthcoming communication
Dr. d'Arsonval will demonstrate other
valuable scientific uses of the new dis
covery. One of tlie doctor's collabora
tors says that D'Arsonval is on the
point of succeeding in experiments
which aim at the use of petroleum
ether for coollug the atmosphere of
houses during the summer, a project
which exceeding cheapness renders
practicable.
Longevity*
The improvements in the last two
centuries In surgical nud medical
knowledge, sanitation, hygiene and the
other arts of wholesome living have
naturally tended to prolong life.—Bal
timore SUIL-
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