I AGRIGDLTDBAL | The Farm Morse. W. J. Overton, of Illinois, writes to tile Breeders' Gazette that he does not believe the place for the draft horse m is on American forms. He has raised * some of the largest and best draft horses in the county and sold them at tile yards at figures not reached by any other draft horse in six months, but he never could get the work out of them he could get out of a good-sized American horse with as much Morgan blood as he 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 one colt. No one will claim that they have as good a wearing breed of horses as they ■] had twenty years ago. "The farmer v 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 Young Chick. Prom rtawlis. Where liawhs abound, young chicks must be closely guarded. If shut up • closely in pens, growth will be greatly retarded. A good plan under such circumstances is shown in the accom panying cut. Plow two fuiTows par allel to each other and just far enough WIRE NETTING, TO PROTECT YOUNG CHICK apart so that, the distance from the out side of eac'i shall be just six feet. Make the furrows 150 feet long. Stretch a roil of six-foot wire netting along the furrows, fastening the 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 end being stopped with sod. Tlie plan is shown in the cut.—W. D. Maine, in New England Homestead. Treating a llaUly Drained Soil. Drainage of a heavy, thick soil, in clined to be hilly and uneven, is some thing that is not always an easy mat ter, but if one has such a farm, the . sooner be begins to make the improve- L rnent the better. It is waste of time and money to attempt farming on n 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 druiuage with stones that it may be worth recording. The soil was at first quite full of stones, which I nt first picked off and piled in one patt of the field. A few stones would work up to the surfaco every spring, and these I would also pick up. In the 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, and the laud was nlways late in getting injto 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. A The laud sloped down In one general direction, but there were numerous depressions which collected the water all along. I decided to drain. I planned the whole thing out on paper, noting the general direction of the slopes. I could not afford tiles or any expensive ma terial. and so I decided to use the pile of stone. I plowed deep ditches ucross the land, making them all run purallel with the main slope, and cutting cross dittoes in the opposite direction. In 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. On top ct these I packed the smaller ones, v and on top of them plnced a layer of straw and cornstalks. Then I topped 1' J it off with six inches of soil, bringing v A 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. I do 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, nnd there in a steudy outpour in the main ditch in rainy weather. The cost was only tSat of my own personal labor.—o. W. Minners, in American Cultivator. Buying or llentlng a Farm. It doesn't make any difference whether a man has small means or can pay cash, the best policy is to buy. Every farmer is ambitious. He ▲ 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 the taxes, interest and repairs. The renter has more money to put into Btock, but his possessions must accommodate themselves to the farm he rents, nnd this is often inconvenient. Or he must build extra fence, which la 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 bank and is going to save it until he can pay cash for a farm. During the year he sees some thing that he is very anxious to own, and as the money is easy to get, it goes. Of course he is going to have a 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 mauy tilings, but he who satisfies every want will not have his labors crowned with success. Unceasing toil 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 as 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. I'erhaps he has less amusement, 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, nnd Works in a haphazard, hit or miss fashion, and it usually turns out nils*. The buyer knows just what he has to do, aud each day brings him nearer the gonl 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 Excellent 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, aud especially for home consumption. It is too ex pensive, however, to have a well ar ranged smokehouse, as generally con structed, In all' eases, and hence the reason for presenting the novel af fair shown in the accompanying' illus tration. As can be 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 three by five feet square. The meat Is Inserted through the door in the side, which should be no less than twenty inches wide, and hinged at the lower part so as to lot down from the top. Hooks should be fastened to it, and staples driven into the sides and top of the box, as indi cated, to hold the door in placo when closed. For hanging the meat bore holes through the top of the box and far enough npart so that the pieces will not touch when hung. Pieces of wire work best for the purpose, one end of which having been run through the meat should be twisted together with the other so as to form a loop, aud 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 the smoke readily conducted to It by menus of several joints oi old stovepipe. The hole for the fireplace should be about two feet deep and at leu3t six feet away from the box. The trench for the stovepipe should not be over one half 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 pipe, of course, should bo cov ered with the loose dirt thrown out, nnd the sides of the box banked up I with earth, its cracks even being calked as much as possible, for notwilhstnud | ing all the precautions, enough smoke will still escape to insure the neces sary amount of draught- When the affair is completed and the hams arc all hung a lire 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 York Tribune. The gauchos of Argentina live en tirely on roast beef, scarcely ever tast ing vegetables or Hour dishes. ENGINEERS' FALSE ALARMS. Why Things Lank Different From What They Are. "When a man's sitting in an engine cab, looking up the track with a con stant watch for danger a burden on bis 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 brnkemen out over the train setting the hand brakes as fast as they could. Finally they brought tliq 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, Jack, the engi neer, began to rip 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 bad seen that shirt and thought it was a red flag and stopped the train." "1 Jynl an experience myself not long ago," spoke up another engineer. "It was since the new electric headlights were put in. You know how they look coming up the track. They're so bright you can't see anything else, nnd 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, but I stopped to put on the brakes and reverse, nnd 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 all right. Before I started to jump I looked again. I dis covered then that the light didn't seem to be nny nearer. I investigated, and found that the other train was at a stand still waiting for me at the switch."—Salt Lake Herald. WORDS OF WISDOM. No strength without struggle. Cruelty is one of the marks of cow ardiee. 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 with which we color life. Time may be money, hut 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 light motives. Better to suffer for being ahead of your times than to be lost for being behind them.—Ram's Horn. Wouldn't Stuml 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, I con cluded that the noise was made by burglars. As I sat up in my bed lis tening I chanced to glance into the next room, the door of our bedroom being 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 firearm in the 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 u thing in the house, and you know it!' "—Detroit Fro 6 Press. Collier Than Llqnlil 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 ordinary petroleum oil a liquid absolutely un freezable at u temperature of 203 de grees below zero, thus beating the record for unfreazabllity hitherto held by liquid air. According to Dr. d'Arsonval, the new "petroleum ether" is destined to he of the greatest importance to scien tists, especially in 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 the 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 cooling the atmosphere of houses during the summer, a project which exceeding cheapness renders practicable. Longevity. The improvements in the last two centuries in surgical and medical knowledge, sanitation, hygiene and the other arts of wholesome living have naturally tended to prolong life.—Bal timore Bum How*! Till! ? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward tor any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure. F J. CHENEY A Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the understated, have known F. J.Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST A TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. 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