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<>*~ JMww We solicit articles for this department. The name of the writer should accom pany the letter or article, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Questions and communications relative to agricultural and horticultural subjects, if addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N, Milledgeville, Ga., will receive immediate attention. Cauliflower Culture*—Water Cress. Will you kindly inform me how to raise cauliflower? What kind of soil and the best variety? Also how to grow water cress? Does it require a running stream, or oan it be grown on moist soil? I have tried to grow It, but can never get the seed to come up. I refer to the small, short-leaf watercress. Mrs. E.'W. Darien, Ga. There are very few who suc ceed in growing cauliflower in the south, but it can be grown if one has good, rich •oil, such soil as is suitable for cabbage or Irish potatoes. It is very important to get good seeds of a good variety. The “Snowball” (or Dwarf Erfuth) is about the best. You can get the seeds of Peter Henderson & Co., New York. In your latitude you can sow seeds in October or November. Set out plants in December or January. However, as you have let that time pass, the next best time is to sow seeds now any time this month, or early In February, and set out the plants as soon as they are large enough. Make the soil very rich, but not with fresh stable manure. Set In rows three feet apart and a plant every two feet in the row. They require a great deal of water, much more than cabbage. If a drougth occurs the plants should be mulched and watered copiously every few days, if dry weather continues. If the •oil is not rich enough put a double hand ful of cotton seed meal around each plant, but not close enough to come in contact with the stem. Spread the meal in a cir cle, with a diameter of two feet. A hand ful of oak or any hardwood ashes snould be sprinkled about each plant, also. Work thia fertilizer In lightly. After the plants are half grown don’t disturb the soil, but simply apply a heavy mulch of straw and water as soon as dry weather sets in. The true watercress is grown to best lidvantage along the bank of a running stream, but the upland cress, which is Just as good, can be grown in any good soil, and once established will endure for .years withstanding the coldest winters. It comes very early in the spring, as a ■consequence. Sow early in two or three * Toot rows. Cover the seeds very lightly ■and roll or tread the seeds firmly in. Get the improved upland cress from any of the leading seedsmen. If you do not suc ceed in finding the seeds send stamped •envelop and we will put you in the way of getting the best. Growing Lettuce for Market. Mgrket gardeners near th© cities and large towns find lettuce one of the most prolitable crops they can grow. The early spring crop is eagerly sought for. In the cities and large towns the supply and de mand are more constant than it is In rural settlements, where home gardening is tnhre general and a greater variety of ear ly vegetables comes in to compete with let tuce. Still the consumption of lettuce is very great in every section, and so long as it can be had in a fresh, crisp condition, there is more or lesa demand for it up to mid summer. Some of the growers near the large cities clear as much as >I,OOO per year on growing lettuce, growing as much as four crops of it on the same land in one season. When not planted in with other crops, as is often the case, the plants are set out about a foot apart each way which allows of over 40,000 plants per acre. In growing it for market it can be grown more economically by having the plants In rows two or two and a half feet apart, and where a good cabbage variety is grown such as the “Boston Market,” the plants can be set 8 to 10 inches apart in the row, or even a little bit closer, if the soil is made as rich as It should be. In g rowing the "Cos” variety, which in a very large and desirable kind for ship ment a distance of 13 inches In the row should be given. These "Cos” variety, when grown to the highest state of perfec tion, are well worth R cents in the market, but even at 3 or 3H cents per head, can be made very profitable if a good market is at hand. To make lettuce growing give the satisfaction that it should, it must be made to produce large crisp heads and have it for use early in the season. The market gardener in the south sows the seed In cold frames in December and provides strong, stocky plants for setting out in January and February. Good stable manure compost with cot ton seed and bone dust and ashes should be used to enrich the sol), unless it is al ready very rich, wihieh usually is not. Strong unfermented manure should not be used in the furrows; is apt to “Are” the plants in dry spells. After the plants have started into active growth in February, if the color of the plant and thtf slowness of the growth in dicate a lack of nitrogenous food, there is nothing better to top dress about the plants with than nitrate of soda at the rate of 1W to 300 pounds per acre. A tablespoon of it spread about the plant in all directions to the distance of eight or ten Inches will have a prompt and marked •fleet on the growth of the crop. The best varieties of lettuce are the "Boston Market." "Henderson’s New York,” Sala- Xmamkr and "Paris White Cos.” a varle«y of the Con lettuce known as "Celery let tuce” or “Trianon” (a but an improvement of the long known and unsurpassed kinds. There are over a hundred named sorts In our American catalogues, but no better se lection than those named can be made. Borno kinds are much slower in shooting to seed than others, and for a la to crop, such kind should be chosen. t'rii»»»ou Clover. "I have a small aack of crimson clover seed. Please tell me when is the beat time to sow it. Is it a good clover for the south? Does It make good hay, or Is It better to pasture It? James V.” Marlow. Th* most appropriate time to sow crim son clover, to get the most from one •ow ing. is in the fall—October. November, or a month earlier, it the weather ia favora- INTENSE SUFFERING From Dyspepsia and Stom ach Trouble. Instantly Relieved and Permanent ly Cured by Stuart’s Dyspejisia Tablets. A New Discovery, But Not a Patent Medicine. Dr. Redwell relates an interesting ac count of what he considers a remarkable cure of acute' stomacli.trouble and chronic dyspepsia by the use Os the new discovery, Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets. He says: The patient was a man who had suffered to my knowledge for years with dyspepsia. Everything he ate seem ed to sour and create acid and gases in the stomach; he had pains like rheuma tism in the back, shoulder blades and limbs, fullness and distress after eating, hpoor appetite and loss of flesh; the heart became affected, causing palpitation and sleeplessness at night. I gave him powerful nerve tonics and blood remedies, but to no purpose. As an experiment, I finally bought a fifty-cent package of Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets at a drug store and gave them to him. Al most Immediate relief was given, and after he had used four boxes he was to all appearances fully cured. There was no more acidity or sour watery risings, no bloating after meals, the appetite was vigorous and he has gain ed between 10 and 12 pounds in weight of solid, healthy flesh. Although Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are advertised and sold in drug stores, yot I consider them a most valuable addition to ’apy physician’s line of remedies, as they are perfectly harmless and can be given to children or invalids or in any con dition of the stomach with perfect safety, being harmless and containing nothing but vegetable and fruit essences,'pure pep sin and Golden Seal. Without any question they are the saf est, most effective cure for indigestion, biliousness, constipation and all derange ments of the stomach, however slight or severe. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets are made by the Stuart Co. of Marshall, Mich., and sold by druggists everywhere at fifty cents per package. Little book on stomach diseases mailed free; address Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. ble. Still, it can be sown in the early spring or late winter to very good advan tage If sown for the prime object of improving soil, especially that of an orch ard, this clover can very properly be sown in February. For spring sowing, however, we would prefer the red clover, or Sapling. You can cut it for hay about the time it blooms, or you can pasture it (when the soil is dry). It is very wasteful to pas ture clover, as a rule, and unless one has a large area of it it is preferable to cut and cure it, at any rate most of it. This clover and the "burr,” too, should be val ued by our southern farmers for the im provement of the old run-down cotton fields. At the laying-by of cotton in Aug ust fifteen pounds of seed harrowed in would be worth a great deal to soil need ing humus. Kalnit—Hon Much to Apply. Will you please inform me how much kainit should be applied per acre—how many tons per acre on low land? Ice, Ga. M. C. P. It depends upon the nature of the soil and the character of the crop. It is very rarely the case that even as much as one ton is used on an acre. Market garden ers ox truckers sometimes may use .a ton or more on some soils that they know is lacking in potash, and when such crops as cabbage, onion, tomato or potatoes are grown. But the ordinary farmer, growing only such crops as corn, cotton, oats, peas and the like, could not afford to ap ply anything like a ton of kainit to the single acre. From two to six hundred pounds is the usual quantity applied to ordinary soil. Kainit is used only for the purpose of supplying potash, of which it contains 12 per cent, more or less, and commands from >lO to |l2 per ton, according to quality. Kainit by itself rarely increases the yield perceptibly. Where more than three hun dred pounds is applied to an acre it should be broadcasted on the soil after being plowed. A New Meat Supply. It may be considered a wild idea to ad vise farmers to raise rabbits, writes B. Holmes in American Agruciluturist. At first thought It might well be considered a small business, but it will bear investiga tion. England and Germany are the prin cipal consumers of rabbit flesh. In those countries it is a large and paying Indus try and a growing one. Eighteen tons of rabbits have been sent to the city of Lon don, in one day, from one district. Prob ably if half that quantity went into New York in a month, more than a half would spoil before it could be sold, yet we be lieve the demand could be created and the taste cultivated to use many tons daily. The best market rabbit to-day is undoubt edly the Belgian hare, which is not a hare at all, but gets its name from its resem blance to the wi.d hare, in color only. It is a ribbit with all the true rabbit charac teristics. It la a hardy and prolific animal, bearing from four to eight or nine at a litter and can be bred four or five times a year safely. It can be bred oftener, but not for the best results. The young grow very quickly and at three months will dress from four to six pounds, and well roasted are a dish for an epicure. They have none of the gamy flavor of the wild rabbit, the flesh is white, firm, fine grained, tender and of delicious flavor. Up to the present time they have been bred by and in the hands of fanciers, and the demand from fanciers has absorb ed the output, and kept the market well sold up. but the time will soon be here when they will be reared for market and be found in our best meat stalls. One of the largest breeders, who has to buy everythng his rabbits eat. says that the cost of feed was only one-half a oent a, day for each old rabbit. He has been several years in the business and has brought the feeding to a science, and probably the cost will average to most breeders more than this. Here Is where comes In th* advantage of the farmer in raising these rabbits. They will eat any thing a horse or cow will—hay, straw, oats. corn, all kinds of roots, any kind of green stuff, apples—ln fact, anything on the list of farm products is "grist for their mill." even some weeds, such as plantain and purslane The only restriction is that it must be sound and not wet with rain, though some claim the latter does no harm. They are free of vermin of all kinds and not prone to disease under good care. The hutches must be well ventilated and not too warm and if a warm sleeping place be provided they will stand consider able cold, much more than hens from which eggs are wanted in winter. It will be seen from this that the farmer is in position to grow them almost without cost, except the few minutes required for care, as they do not need a range, and do well if confined to hutches. Many more can be kept in th* same space than can be of poultry. When we consider the duck market to-day and compare it with that of ten or fifteen years ago, when breeders of ducklings had to almost beg the city commission men to handle their ducks, the prospect for creating a market for thia delicious and wholesome meat is en couraging. THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-'JLTMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1897. Maintaining Fertility. It is much easier, less expensive and bet ter in every way to maintain the fertility of the farm than to suffer it to become de pleted and then be forced to turn around and effect a restoration, the Farm ers Review. Among the things necessary to maintain fertility at the lowest cost we may mention thorough, clean culture; ro tation of crops (In which clover and other legume finds place); the feeding of live stock, and the careful saving and judi cious utilization of manure. Careful at tention to these points while the land is yet new and productive will forestall the evils of poor farming—constant subtrac tion with no corresponding addition. | While the man who skins the land usually moves along, leaving some better farmer to do the recuperation act, soil robbing averages up a losing operation. Look at the abandoned—the run down—farms that are to be seen right alongside of well man aged, fertile, paying ones in nearly every neighborhood in the older states; farms producing scant crops, hence scant ma- : nure piles and scant profits. See the in- i creasing difficulty, in many places, of se curing a catch of clover, and the exten- 1 sive use of commercial fertilizers in recent years. Not that we would condemn or ’ discourage the use of commercial ma- < nures where experiments show that they < pay, for in our own experience on thin, retentive soil they have paid us twice over; first, in the direct effect of a high grade article/upon a market crop; and, second, in the residual effect uf>on the ■ growth of a renovating crop—clover— I which followed. Through the prodigious quantities of soil products consumed by our urban population, the great cities of ' our land, like great, bottomless pits, are ! swallowing up farm fertility at a fearful , rate, and we feel like commending every effort that is put forth looking toward the • adoption of measures whereby a more ex- : tensive and less expensive return will be made of city refuse, which now goes to fertilize the bottom of old ocean. It is the wanton waste of the virgin fer tility with which nature has endowed the soil that we would warn our readers, more particularly the young and inexperienced who are opening up new farms, or who have come into possession of fertile farms, against. We must profit by the experi ence of those who are struggling to build up that which cafeless greed and ignor ance has torn down, for if we follow in the footsteps of the soil robbers, we shall indeed find the school of experience a dear school in the end. Bermnda Pasture. In the more thickly settled portions of the country, where the tendency is yearly toward a reduction in the size of farms, it becomes a part of improved methods in farming to pay more regard to the es tablishing of better pastures. And when such pastures are once obtained more care is given to the proper economizing of them. The old system of southern farm ing, of which cotton was the foundation and corn the superstructure (xylth a little filigree work in the shape of some small grain), included no special attention to to provide the necessary pasturage for the cattle and hogs for two or three months at the close of the year, and the cattle were allowed the range of the cotton fields after picking was finished. After January the reliance was upon the grazing afford ed by the woods, and in many cases farm ers were so fortunate as,to possess good cane brakes to help them out. Then there were old sedge fields discarded for some time as unfit for cotton or corn. These in favorable years afforded acjw siderable ameunt of roughness, inWWW* 1 it is true, but still very helpful in keeping stock in healthy condition, though it did not make them roll in fat. But, as remarked, it was a very rare occurrence that a farmer, large or small established, and maintained pastures with any of the valuable plants specially adapt ed to the purpose. By degrees nature forced upon him areas of Bermuda grass which he accepted rather with a curse upon it than with a grateful blessing; but as time wore on he was led to regard with some complacency the possession of a field or two of this valuable grass, and he would actually violate the traditions of the past by wishing he had more of it and could obtain it as easily as the first. Some regarded it this way, but to this day wage an unrelenting warfare upon Bermuda (God’s grass) and have never yielded a square rod to it until forced to do it. It has, however, conquered a considerable area, though the sheer force of its own valor, and, like many a good thing that has had to force its way in spite of obsta cle and malediction, many an acre is yet to be surrendered to its benign and help ful influence, and not gudgingly done, either. It will be done in the most grace ful and conciliatory manner possible. For summer and fall pasture there Is no grass superior to Bermuda for this lati tude, and when once well set on the land, no act could be more injudicious or waste ful than the one that attempts to destroy it. Instead of destroying it, it should be coaxed to do its best by top-dressings of suitable manure in the spring or early summer, and occasional harrowings or plowings as may appear to be needed. A mixture of one hundred pounds of nitrate of soda (or in lieu of it 75 or 80 pounds of I , factory was going again. That's the way with the machinery of the human body. When the stom- I ach and bowels are wrong what seems a mere trifle, blocks the whole system. Every part of the body feels the effects of a little constipation. The head aches, the mouth tastes bad; the stomach is distressed, the liver is con gested and torpid ; you feel sluggish and miserable and down-hearteti; the energies are completely paralyzed—all for want of a little help to regulate the stomach and bowels. What you want is Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They wall make you regular and you keep so; they act in a comfortable natural way, not violently but surely. Iliey give the intestines power to move nat urally; and also tone the stomach and liver. You don’t become a slave to their use. they cure you so you stay cured. If a druggist makes more money on some violent purging pill he may try to sell it to you. Don’t let him. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad viser is a tooS page book. 650.000 copies were •old for $1.50 each. The profits were devoted to publishing half-a-million free copies, to be •ent fratit to everyone who sends >1 one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing eo/v. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Butlaio, H. Y. A big factory was brought to a standstill the day for ' want of a corn union shingle- The troub le was a mystery at first. Even the boss mechan ic couldn’t tell what was the matter. They sent for a high priced expert who charged ten dollars an hour. All he said was: “Gimme a nail.” He drove it in the right place and in two min utes the whole IniPFfTiRCx Stick to the Directions, JV7 r jl if you want to get the most good out of FOR US»«sf Pearline. Otherwise, you’ll be putting in too much, and wasting the Pearline, an d ca -hing it expensive. Or you wont P ut in enough, and so you ‘ m won t getas much help from it as V'x Y ou ex P ectec l» and you’ll have to l/x 'y do more work. ' Directions on jae V every package for hot and cold water washing, with and without 1 boiling. These simple, easy directions 527 have revolutionized the work of washing. Millions Pearline Seeds to Bur- Landreths’ Seeds have been protected by our Dated Papers and our BURNING SYSTEM, which gives your Local Merchant the Privilege of Burning his Stock Left Over at the end of the season, thus assuring to his customers Fresh Seeds Every Year. D. Landreth & Sons are not Seed Mer chants depending upon others for their supplies, but are Seed Farmers and Grow their Own Stocks from the Most Perfect Types and under the experienced eye and direction of mem bers of the Firm. This work has been going on since 1784, and the business is now conducted by the Third and Fourth Generations. This in itself Is a Guarantee that the Seeds are as good as seeds can be made. Ask your local Merchant for LANDRETHS’. Observe the Date on each Packet, and if he does not keep Landreths’ on sale, send us a Postal for our CATA LOGUE which contains Truthful Descriptions and Sound Practical Information and we will fill your order direct from Headquarters. Mention this paper. Address, DAVID LANDRETH & SONS, Seed Farmers, Philadelphia, Penna* sulphate of ammonia), and 200 pounds of acid phosphate is a good application to begin with to establish a first-class pas ture. Every year or two a couplq of hun dred pounds o*f ground bone should be applied as a top dressing in the spring, giving a thorough harrowing at the same time with a sharp-tooth harrow. In a few years it is possible to make on the poorest of land as fine pasture as exists anywhere on earth. The only thing is to appreciate the value of such a pasture, and it can be secured without any ques tion. Before many years we confidently expect to hear of many thousands of acres of Bermuda pasture and meadow in the south that will vie with anything of the kind to be seen in this country or any where else. Vegetables—Raw or Cooked. It is not always the crop that constitutes the most solid articles of food that pay the most profit. Market gardeners or truck ers near the large cities need not be told that, as a rule, those vegetables that are little more than ‘•relishes" bring in more clear profit than the more substantial ones that possess nutriment. Lettuce, celery, cucumbers and toma toes, to a certain extent, all belong to the class that may very properly be denomi nated “relishes”—green salad plants. They possess but little nutriment and natural ly are not regarded as substantial food. They, one and all, go a long ways, however, towards.,, making other and more substantial foods more palatable and more digestible. Alone though they could not sustain life many days. They are altogether unlike such vegetables as potatoes, cabbie, peas, t beans and tha-Ukc— ■ ' Nevertheless, as remarked, there are few vegetables among the two or three score grown for human consumption that pay the expert grower the heavy profits that the four first mentioned usually pay. In proportion to their means, the poor are as liberal purchasers of lettuce, celery, cu cumbers and tomatoes as are the rich. Innutritious as these relishes may be, they so act upon the system as to lend to de velopment of good health and strength as much so as those others that are es teemed more solid and substantial. With the exception of tomatoes, neither of this great quartette of “salad" plants are used in a cooked state. All can be cooked, but rarely are. The very great majority of people prefer tomatoes in their raw state. A great many abhor boiled cab bage, while being very partial to it raw, in the shape of “cold slaw.’.’ The same sentiment prevails as to onions. Among the relishes, or raw salads, we failed to enumerate radishes—perhaps the poorest of all vegetables; and yet there are thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of radishes sold every season in our large cities. If a radish is good to eat so is a raw turnip, for there is very little difference between them. The question is, does cooking Increase the digestibility of any of our common vegetables? It may increase the paya bility of some, but does it render them more digestible? Will not a given weight of raw cabbage in the form of “slaw” pro duce as much heat and strength as the same amount when boiled? A St. Louis paper recently described a family in that city that used no vegetables on their ta ble except in their raw state. Not only those we have denominated “relishes,” but all others—beets, beans, turnips, peas, all were served raw. This family, one of wealth and refinement, claimed that God did not intend that his delightful vege table gifts even to be cooked, spoiled by cooking; that it was a mere matter of cus tom. anyway; that every vegetable was better in its raw state. Experiments at the several agricultural experimental stations with the lower ani mals show that there is nothing gained in cooking the various articles on which these animals were fed. Whether it was corn or wheat or potatoes or turnips, the re sults showed that the several articles were just as available or digestible raw as cooked. It is quite likely that what ap plies to these dumb animals will be found true as to human beings. There is no question as to the great value to the phys ical system of these raw salads eaten freely in the spring time. No one should be without them. Their appetising and medicinal effects justify a valuation of them just as much as if they were in the highest degree nutritious. Green Bone for Poultry. It is an established fact that green cut bones are necessary for successful poultry keeping, says the Poultry Journal. When nature ceases to supply the insects on which poultry thrives in spring and sum mer, the poultryman who is alive to busi ness must do what nature can not do in winter, and feed fowls on green cut bone. Green bones are rich in nitrogen, and therefore serve as food. When a bone contains a large share of adhering meat it is all the more valuable. Bones serve several purposes when used for poultry. Being phosphate of lime they are capable of being digested, and they supply the birds with elements that may be lacking in the feed. They also assist in grinding the feed, and are readily accepted by all classes of poultry. In fact, it is safe to claim that there is nothing that can be used as egg producing feed which serves the purpose so well as green bone, its combination of qualities, nitrogen, lime for egg shells, cost, and adaption to all fowls and all ages, give it a place even higher than meat, which contains nitro gen, but no lime or other mineral water. Therefore in preparing a diet for poultry either with a view to increasing the vigor of the bird or developing its egg produc ing organs, such feed should be selected as science and chemistry have demon- strated to be component parts of the structure to which they are afforded as nutriment and sustenance. Fruit Gardens. While it is a mistake generally to plant fruit trees in soil intended for growing garden vegetables, it is good policy to have the various fruits in gardens by themselves. The soil will not need to Be rich for most of these, except in potash. Berries alone require the very richest soli, and for this reason they should be in a part of the garden by themselves. But plum, peach, pear gnd cherry trees will all thrive on fairly rich soil if plenty of potash is provided. The quince trees will need winter protection by snow, and will do best next to the fences, where the snow banks will lie longest. But one of the advantages of massing the trees in a garden is that it prevents the drifting of snow, as most trees in the garden will be of dwarf habit and kept low in growth. On an acre of land thus set with var ious kinds of fruit more than an abundant supply for home use can be grown. There should be enough grape vines set of varie ties sure to ripen every year, and some also that are good winter keepers. When a farmer has an acre of fruit garden set and in bearing it is comparatively easy for him to sell the place if he wants to do so. To set out on a large farm that has been long in the market a few acre or half acre plots of choice fruits, and to care for these till they come in bearing; will be the readiest means to put the farm in shape to sell at a good profit. Every years more wealthy men in cities are look ing out for summer and fall homes in the country. It is- the places packed• with choicest fruits-that are most likely to at tract their attention. If they see such places when the fruit prospect is at its best, they will open their purses liberally to secure what they want. Ordinary farming has nothing in it to attract the city resident, but a farm well stocked with the choicest fruits will not long remain unsold, provided its owner is willing to sell. An Old Recipe for Mince Meat. Here is a famous old recipe for mince meat which a writer in the Washington Post says cannot be excelled: Meat—Five pounds juicy lean beef (boil ed) and three pounds of beef suet, both finely chopped. Fruit—Two dozen Greening apples, cored and chopped; the grated peal of six lemons and the juice of three; the grated peel of four large oranges and the juice of two; two quarts of seed less raisins and currants, mixed, measured after stoning and stemming and finely choped; half pound citron shredded. Spice—Six grated nutmegs; one even ta blespoonful cinnamon; one-half teaspoon ful of cloves; one-half teaspoonful ground mace; heaping tablespoonful of salt. Spirit—One pint good brandy; one quart sweet cider; one pint high flavored sherry wine. (These ingredients may be replac ed by boiled cider if desirable, as it no doubt will be for most of our readers.) Mix gradually, allowing one bowl of granulated sugar to each bowl of the oth er ingredients, putting them into a stone jar in alternation, one bowl, meat, suet, fruit, etc., to one of sugar, stirring steadi ly, until all the ingredients are mingled and then add the brandy, cider and wine Set In a cool place for a week before using, and stir to the bottom three times a day. Bake in puff paste and eat hot. The quantities here given make a gen erous supply for the winter's use of a large family. It can be halved or quarter ed, still keeping the same proportions. This mixture will grow more delicious the old er it is, and will keep until Easter if fre quently stirred. The question of salt and spice is subject to variation from the quality of the fruit; if it lacks zest, more may be aded, and after a month a little more brandy may be added. The recipe is an English one, with the emphatic in doresment of four generations of American descendants. Flower Beds. It is perhaps a little early to talk of spring planting, but it is not out of place now to consider what you intend to do, and lay your plans, so there will be no JHBWITTLE B^it s SICK HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A per fect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsi ness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They Regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. Small PHI. Small Dose. Small Price, delay when the time comes, says an ex change. There Is no Investment you can make that will bring a larger proportion ate return of pleasure than a small sum devoted to flower seeds. It is a good time now, while the men hUve leisure, to pre pare the beds. If the ground is poor and the subsoil compact it will pay to dig it out at least two spades deep and fill in good soil. When it is done once it is done forever, and an occasional top dress ing is all it will need while you live. The men and teams have leisure now; this work can be done wherever the ground is not frozen. If the soil is fairly good, throw out a spade deep and then take out another spade deep and haul it away, replacing with good surface soil from the woods or fields, mixing in some sand, if needed, and some old manure, or chip dirt from wood pile. A bed prepared in this way, if the water does not stand in it, will produce a vigorous growth and abun dant bloom in most garden flowers, and well repay the labor. Some few kinds do best in poor soil, or in special locations, but the great majority thrive best in a deep, rich, moist, but not wet loam. When such a bed is once prepared, it needs only an occasional top dressing to keep it in fine condition forever. Salt on Manure. There is no better way to make manure soluble and quickly fitted to give its fer tility to crops than to throw salt on it. Salt hastens decomposition when used in small quantities, and its attraction for moisture helps to keep the manure from firefanging. Applying salt and land plaster in equal proportions to manure heaps is an excellent plan. The ammonia liberated by fermentation will be absorbed by the plaster, making a sulphate of ammonia, which is a very powerful and quick-acting fertilizer.—Ex. Preventing Smut in Oats. Last spring I tested a method of pre venting smut in oats which gave such good results that I think some of your readers will be pleased with it. In a large barrel I made a strong brine. The oats were put into this barrel and stirred around. They were dipped out with a large pan, the bo topi of which was full of holes. They were then spread on the barn floor and shoveled about with air-slaked lime. What was not sown the first day, were stirred until they were needed for use. Os course, oats treated in this manner must be sowed by hand, but there was scarcely a smutty head in my field this season. I shall con tinue this treatment, as it costs but a trifle.—J. R. Snyder, Allegan county, Mich. Fertilizing the Rye Crop. Rye takes up nitrogen rapidly in spring and continues the process until nearly ripe. It is not necessary to supply nitro genous fertilizers to rye in the fall, but early in spring a topdressing for this pur pose should be made on poor soils. Nit rate of soda is especially good, and one of the cheapest forms. Many soils re quire a liberal amount of potash to pro duce the best crops of rye. The plant assimilates phosphoric acid during the whole period of growth and that element may well be applied in the fall. A top dressing of bone and ashes to supply pot ash and phosphoric acid may well be ap plied to winter rye in the fall, the nitrate following in early spring. Nitrate v». Salphate. The vav fertiUttn^Sul phate of ammonia and nitrate of soda has been hotly debated abroad and has been the subject of numerous experiments in this and other countries. Wagner be lieves that for most crops it will require 100 pounds of actual nitrogen in the form of the sulphate to produce as good results as ninety pounds in the form of nitrate. In other words, nitrogen in nitrate of soda he considers one-tenth more effective than in the other form. These results seem to be confirmed by other Investigations, es pecially if lime is added with the nitrate. The sulphate seems to retard or destroy germination of seed if they come in con tact with it, but there is much less dan ger from the nitrate. ‘Liquid manure has tens the germination of most seeds and has a permanent good effect upon the young plant. Mixed farming and stock raising is be coming more popular. The exclusive grain grower, like the cotton grower, has gone to seed. The success of the French farmer is in marketing some products ev ery week. He produces poultry and eggs, vegetables, fruits and a variety of grain crops in season. The hay and grass is consumed on the farm. There are lambs and sheep, calves and pigs, with an occa sional beef animal, and a good horse than brings in money all the year round. This is the way the Southern Cultivator very correctly sums the situation. ARE YOU “ALL BROKEN UP.” Tnke Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It steadies the nerves, clears the brain and promotes digestion. Makes a pleas ant and wholesome beverage.—ad. AGENT MOORE DEAD. Fate of the Man Who Had the Seeley Dinner Raided. New York, Jan. 17.—William 8. Moore, the theatrical agent, who was the cause of Capt. Chapman of the Tenderloin sta tion, raiding the famous Seeley dinner at Sherry's, by representing that his step-daughter, Annabelle, the dancer, had been asked to do an immodest dance, died at his residence in this city this afternoon of pneumonia. Moore was 52 years of age, and was born in Philadelphia. He was at one time the manager of the Little Tycoon Opera Company, and also acted as manager of jnany of H. R. Jacobs’ theaters and of Harry Miner’s Eighth Avenue theater tn this city. He was also manager of the Imperial Opera Company. Since the Seeley dinner Moore has been greatly worried over the publicity that came to him and his family over the af fair. Mrs. Moore thinks her husband’s death was hastened by this worry. She also says that Moore received many threatening letters from some of the guests at the dinner, who threatened to “knock him out” for what he testified *>t the hearings before Commissioner Grant at the trial. Danger Environs U« If we live in a region where malaria is prevalent. It is useless to hope to escape it if unprovided with a medicinal safe guard. Wherever the endemic is most prevalent and malignant—in South and Central America, the West Indies and cer tain portions of Mexico and the Ithmus of Panama, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters has proved a remedy for and preventive of the disease in every form. Not less effective is it in curing rheumatism, liver and kid ney complaints, dyspepsia, biliousness and nervousness.—ad. For Over Fifty Years Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It 'soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pains, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. MAD FOR BLOOD. A Drunken Western Cowboy Shoots a Score of Men. Rides Down Women and Babes* A drunken cowboy recently terrorized st Western town. Infuriated by liquor he dashed through the streets of the village shooting down men right and left, and cruelly riding his broncho over women and children. The frightened inhabitants oil the village fled to their homes and barri caded the doors and windows. Few if anyt were so reckless as to remain in the streets. Those who did, were ruthlessly shot down. Nearly twenty people were killed. The infuriated brute knew nd mercy, and men and women alike fell tha victims to his death-dealing weapons. Men and women fear and dread an open foe like the drunken cowboy and at hia ap proach will flee to a place of safety.-' There is a more dangerous and morel deadly enemy that daily ridea the sstreets of every city, vil-* lage and hamlet, and yet men anjj women seem not to heed its approach. Ita name is consumption. One-seventh of alf: the deaths in all the world are due to thisr fell destroyer. Consumption neither rank nor station, wealth nor power# It deals out death with an impartial hand# No city is too great, no hamlet is toot small, for its terrible mission. All tha drunken cowboys of the West if turneef loose without a hindrance in the most pop-* ulous city could not kill in one year one tenth of the human beings that consump tion kills in a day. And yet, men and wo men do not stem to fear this relentless monster. They do not anticipate coming. They appear to be utterly heed less of its approach. They seem in thd majority of cases to count its coming# They do not flee, they do not even takel measures to protect themselves. Tha tombstones of the victims of this utter dis regard of death crowd the cemeteries ot every land. Consumption like all wasting diseased has its inception in a disordered digestiorf and consequent iMMjMMßil&lood*Ahirat¥cowbovr i&b .ao J*" proach is not heralded by menacing shoutf# and a display of death-dealing weapons. It creeps upon its victims softly, silently, surely. It comes step by step. A Httla over-work—a little disregard of the laws of health—a few irregularities of habit—a little too much hurry and worry—Too lit tle time given to eating and resting and sleeping—a trifling disorder of the diges tion; a slight failing off in the appetite ;tha trouble is unimportant. The victim feels that it would be a waste of time to stofl for a minute in the headlong race of mod ern life to remedy these little troubles.Tha situation grows a bit worse. The appe tite becomes less and less. The food thatl is hurriedly eaten is no longer properlyi digested. The organs of secretion no lon ger perform their proper functions. The* gastric juices that aid digestion cease to flow into the stomach and large intestines. Assimilation of the life-giving propertied of the food ceases. The blood is not prop erly nourished. Instead of the life-build ing elements of nutrition, it takes up thet poisonous effusions of indigestion. These! are carried to and deposited in every tis sue and organ of the body. The organ! that is inherently weakest receives tha largest proportion. Disease like a skilled pugilist always strikes at the weak point. Most frequently the lungs are that point. The tissues and the cell-walls of the lunga do not receive the right amount of life giving nutriment. Inert, half-dead tis sues are not torn down and excreted and replaced by new, firm and healthy tissues. The victim soon has a pair of lungs that are made of inert almost lifeless material devoid of nervous or muscular activity. The heedless and reckless victim has now, provided the proper soil in his lungs for the invasion and infinite multiplication of the deadly germs of consumption. Ths microbes of consumption are scavengers and feast and flourish upon improperly; nourished tissues. The sufferer has un knowingly provided for them a rich pas ture land. There is a sure, speedy, and safe cura for consumption, and all conditions that! lead to it. This deadly disease has been frequently pronounced incurable. It is not. Thousands have testified to their rapid and permanent recovery from thia most deadly disease, after they had been given up by the doctors, and all hope gone, by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of consumption. It is a prompt and never-failing remedy for weak lungs, spit ting of blood, shortness of breath, severs cough, bronchitis, asthma, and all kindred! affections. It is a cure for all wasting dis eases due to indigestion and imperfect nu trition. It corrects all disorders of the di gestion, makes the, appetite keen and hearty, invigorates the organs of secretion, makes assimilation perfect, purifies the blood and fills it with the elements that bulled hearty flesh and muscle. It acts di rectly upon the lungs, driving out all dis ease germs, carrying off inert matter and replacing it by new and healthy tissues. It is the great blood maker and flesh build er. Those who wish to know more of it should write to Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief con sulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. All druggists sell it. There is positively nothing else “just as good.” Every home should have an “‘Emergen cy Book;” a book that makes the wife end mother a competent phyfcician and a capable nurse for the ordinary ills and ac dents of life. Such a book will save in a life-time, hundreds and may be thousands of dollars in doctors’ bills. It will fre quently save a life. There is just one such book published. Just one that covers the field completely and is written in plain everyday English that any wife or mother can understand. No tchnlcal terms. It is Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It contains 1,008 pages and 300 illustrations. It covers every possible emergency . Over 680,000 copies have been sold at the original price of >1.50 each. A new edition is now ready and will be given away absolutely free. If you want a copy in heavy manilia covers, send 31 one-cent stamps, to cover cost of mailing only, to the World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y. If you prefer a copy in fine French cloth binding, send 10 cent* extra, or 31 cents in aiL 3
