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ABOUT POSTAL CARDS.
There are Eight Thousand Varieties
in the World.
It seems almost incredible tlmt
there should be eight I housand varie¬
ties of postal cards, and that is tin
extent claimed for a collection.
Theso, however, include various is¬
sues of tho same nation and denom¬
ination, and also ear Is issue l for
special occasions.
J’ostal cards have been in eircula
tion a little less than twenty-Iivi
years. The idea orignated with Dr.
Emanuel Harmann, a professor o'
national economy at the Imperial
Academy of Wiener, in Neustadt
Lower Austria.
His ideas, under the head of ‘ Nob
M eans of Correspondence by 1’ost,’
were published and attracted till
attention of the government officials.
The director general of posts took up
the idea and succeeded i n hnv
i ng an issue of postal cards put, in
circulation in 18(59. Tho original
name given to them was the “curie
spondonz kurto,” anil t his has been
retained ever since. This new movi
on the part of Austria quickly cxcit
oil other countries to adopt a similar
method of correspondence, and be¬
fore the close of 1870 nearly all Hie
European countries were using cards
Germany w a s reall^^J,|vc-^Stfcond
UtW, W./y-Jrf-vdfffpioy"them, \\as and a spe¬
cial series issued to the soldiers
engaged in tl Franco-German war.
These were calTb^l the field-post corre¬
spondence curds,Sand were sold un
■ 4-^ TlV0 _J^-iI*Te Jkk-VAv%--I'li’ti .
of ubont for !l half-penny. The
soldiers had tho privilege of using
(hem without paying postage.
Another series was issued for civil¬
ians. These had a place left for
a stamp, and the writer had to affix
a German postage stamp to the card
before posting. The field post cards
aro now rare, (he used ones being
scarcer than tho unused ones.
Another card of equal rarity, and
also a reminder of the same war, i>
tho balloon post card, issued b>
France during the siege of Paris.
The cards were sent up from Paris
in balloons, and the mail bags were
thrown off into the surrounding coun¬
try, where there was the least possi¬
ble opportunity of their capture by
the enemy.
They were smaller than the post
card now in use, and wore covered
with war like expressions as “Paris
defies the enemy 1” “Glory and con¬
quest signify crimes, defeat signifies
hate and a desire for revenge.”
“ Only one war is just and right—
that for independence.”
Tha Burmese.
The Burman is slow going, indeed
one may say generally quito lazy,
and when he does earn a few rupees
he suspends work until he can gamble
away or spend his earnings. It is
impossible to hurry him to or at his
work. The Burmese women and girls
are quite the contrary. They work,
some very hard. Many of the elderly
women keep a bazar or small stand,
soiling a few paltry articles or fruit
at a small gain. Like the Kaehin and
Rhans of China and Burma, they
pierce a largo hole in each car.
into which they press glass, gold or
brass short tubes. They are fond of
bright colored silk clothes. They
wrap their cloth about their waist,
letting it extend to the ground with
a fold in the front. The well to do
wear beside a little coat covering
their breast. Some of the girls look
quite handsome promenading the
streets, lighthearted and happy.
They certainly deserve, on the score
of neatness, beauty and cheerfulness,
the praise which Rudyard Kipling
makes “Tommy Atkins” bestow
upon them, and they exemplify, to
some extent, Tommy’s judgment that
“There ain’t no ten commandments”
in Mandalay; certainly one or two of
them sit lightly on the Burmese.
Life is very promiscuous between the
Burmese, Hindoos, Chinese, Mad
rasses. Euresians and Europeans. In
fact- before many years tlie full
blooded Burtnan will be a race of the
past, in cities and along the navi¬
gable rivers.
No Railroad Commission for Florida.
There will be no railroad commis¬
sion law enacted by the present Florida
legislature. Some time ago the house
passed such a measure and it went to
the senate, where it was indefinitely
postponed. A motion to take np the
measure was defeated 15 to 8, conse¬
quently there will be no commission
law for the next two years anyway.
Wages increased.
The Bethlehem Pa.) iron Company
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has announced an increase ).i '111
| D f furnace men from $1.26 to $1. U
day. , .... lhe reduction , was ma , It
j per
year ago, when several furnaces *sui
j eat et v*lMt.
AT CHICAGO
MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATE
DEAD IS UNVEILED.
Federal and Confederate Veterans
Join in the Services.
The confederate monument in Oak¬
land cemetery, Chicago, was dedicated
hnrsday with probably tho most im¬
pressive, elaborate and imposing cere¬
monies among the exercises set down
for decoration day in any part of the
Union,
OX THE RITE OF CAMP DOUGLAS.
At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty
lifth street, then in tho outskirts, but
now in the heart of the city of Cbica
go, a stockade was built during the
oivil war and named Camp Douglas,
and there many thousands of confeder¬
ate prisoners were confined between
the years 18(52 and 18C5. The men
lielo there under the restraints which
befell captives of war had spent their
lives in the balmy climate of the sunny
south, and the rigors of a northern
winter told upon them severely.
As a consequence 0,000 of them were
liberated by death and were buried iu
< )akwood cemetery at Cottage Grove
avenue and Sixty-seventh street. It
was to the memory of these 0,000 who
died iu a military prison in the ene¬
my’s country that the monument was
dedicated by their comrades and oppo
nents in arms, on the spot where they
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
(Eroded to Memory of Confederate Prisoners
Who Died at Fort Douglass, Chicago.’
WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
It is the first confsd
erate dead Q jLggted j u the north am l the
t Was perhaps without a parallel
in history. It does not appear that
anywhero else on tho face of the globe,
within a period of thirty years after
the close of a bitterly fought war, the
vanquished have ever bofore orected a
monument to the memory of their
C'Amv.des iu tarns, in the~hear(nqgpgfcg
victor’s territory. Especially has the
sight never been witnessed of the vic¬
tors heartily joining the vanquished in
doing honor to the valor of the van¬
quished dead.
This dedication is the culmination
of a movement inaugurated by the
Confederate Association of Chicago.
It undertook to raise the necessary
funds for the erection of the monu¬
ment and General John C. Underwood,
a southern officer in command of the
northern divisions of the United Con¬
federate Veterans, was chosen to carry
tho work forward. The fund started
with $1,500 from a lecture given in
Chicago by General Gordon of Geor¬
gia. Citizens of Georgia also con¬
tributed $10,000 and subscriptions by
Confederate veterans and others in
the south brought the fund up to the
necessary amount, The mounment
was three years under construction.
MANY DISTINGUISHED CONFEDERATES.
The largest assemblage of distin¬
Confederate veterans ever
in the north was one of the nota¬
features of the occasion. They
Generals Gordon, Hampton,
Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Harry
S. G. French, E. C. Walthall,
C. Butler, L. L. Lomax, M. J.
F. C. Armstrong, Eppa Hun
Joseph O. Shelby, William H.
Fayette Hewitt, C. A. Evans
Joseph H. Lewis.
Nearly all these distinguished visi¬
accompanied by their wives and
together with representa¬
of the Confederate Association of
D. C., Camp Moultrie
of Veterans, of Charleston, S.C.,
representative delegations from
and other points south reach¬
the city Wednesday. They were
at the depots by comrades in arms
preceded by them and by the
reception committee, composed
Federal and Confederate veterans
the leading professional and busi¬
men of the city with a suitable
were driven to their hotels.
Later they attended a matinee per¬
at a theatre. In the evening
were welcomed to the city by
Swift, General Gordon re¬
This was followed by a
brilliant banquet at Kingsley’s
.which toasts were proposed aud
to in honor of the visiting
veterans.
LIBERTY BELL RANG IE THE DAY.
The ceremonies Thnrsday morning
with the ringing of the Colum¬
liberty bell, the firing of a
salute, then a carriage parade
renowned northern and southern
which moved under military
^iting^OT V)“ k
wood cemetery, where the dedicatory
occurred.
The dedicatory ceremonies were
opened with praver bv Colonel Joseph
Desha I Pickett A chaplain of the “Ken
a i hricrftle g Confederate Confed ' rale
Th The r dedicatory i w VT „ audress i was delivered Llivnrnil
Stanton fhTl^ary of Kentucky' porfon^f was next *and
rte day ,a.
closed with an addiess bv Right Rev.
Sam Fallows, bishop of the Reformed
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The cpr«moniea of consecrating the
followed nml the exorcises closed with
the firing of the three volleys over th«
graves of the dead by the first regi¬
ment Illinois National Guard, ending
with bugle blast and “taps.”
The display of flowers on the graves
of the confederate and federal dead
was impressive and will long be re¬
membered.
THE EPWORTH LEAGUE
International Conference at Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., Beginning June 27.
The second international conference
of the Epworth League is to be held
in Chattanooga June 27-30th.
The function of the Epworth League
in Methodist churches is similar to
that of the Christian Endeavor in the
Congregational and Presbyterian
churches. It is the Young People’s
society of Methodism.
Its object is to promote and culti¬
vate the intelligence nnd piety of its
members, organize and employ them
in works of mercy and charity, and in
every possible service of usefulness in
the church and society.
The League was organized in Cleve¬
land, Ohio, May 12th, 1890.
The local organizations in the indi¬
vidual churches are called chapters.
Of these already organized and en¬
rolled, the number is nearly 15,000,
and the aggregate membership in this
one denomination is about 1,000,000
members. It has organizations in
Mexico, South America, England, Ire¬
land, Germany, Sweden, Norway and
Italy; also in Japan, China and India.
The session which will be held in
Chattanooga, will begin June 27,1895,
and continue four days, will embrace
the Leagues of all theMcthodisms of
the world.
The program is in the hands of the
general secretaries of the M. E. church,
tho M. E. church, south, and the Can¬
adian Methodist church.
The general topic is “The Methodism
of the Future.” Under this general
head will be discussed many interest¬
ing and important topics.
Thero will also be department con¬
ferences daily for the discussion of the
practical work of the League in its sev¬
eral departments.
Great leaders, with many men of
eminence, as well as a large number
of tho talented and promising young
workers of the various Metliodisms,
w ill take part, and will make the topics
of the highest interest.
Tho music will be a special feature
of the conference. It will be under
the direction of Prof, llowland D.
Williams, assisted by the Park sisters
of Boston, and a chorus of 500 v ices.
An immense chorus '■* children from
tho public schools of Chattanooga will
also participate.
The regular conference meetings
will be held in the great tent capable
of seating 10,000 people.
at extensive ar
rangementVH made,aH
been
almost eve®
Excursion®,, G||fl
points
for,
IftV] cxpecting^H
nHIRKtanooga is delegWF^^B
ance of at least 15,000
altogether the Second International
Conference at Chattanooga promises
to be a most interesting occasion and a
very gre$,t success.
SILVER’S OPPONENTS
Will Hold a Nonpartisan Meeting at
Philadelphia.
The agitation for sound money in
opposition to the demands of the silver
ites fer free silver has met with a re¬
sponsive echo in Philadelphia and on
next Tuesday evening a non-partisan
meeting of those arrayed against the
freo coinage of silver will be held in
the Academy of Music. The meeting
•will be addressed by ex-United
States Senator Edmunds, William
N. Trenbolm, comptroller of the cur
rency under Cleveland’s first adminis
tration, aud a number of other promi¬
nent gentlemen. The letters inviting
Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Trenholm to
speak were signed by fifty of the lead¬
ing business and professional men in
Philadelphia. The names of demo¬
crats are as conspicuous among the
signers of the letters as republicans,
and among the democrats are William
F. Harrity, chairman of the democrat¬
ic national committee; William M.
Singerly, proprietor of the Record ,
and Alexander K. McClure, editor of
the Times.
COTTON MANUFACTURING.
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The Manufacturers’ Record Presents
Statistics on the Industry.
The Special cotton mill edition of
The Manufacturers' Record ,of the past
week, shows that the amount of capi
tal invested in southern cotton mills
increased from $21,900,000 in 1880 and
$61,100,000 in 1890 to $107,000,000
at present, while about $12,000,000
additional will be s^ent in the con
struction of the mills now build
ing and projected. In 1880 the south
had 667,000 spindles,in 1891 1,700,000
spindles aud at the present time 3,000,
000 spindles, while the mills under
construction will add 500,000 spindles
more, or a total of 3,500,000 spindles,
thus doubling the entire cotton mill
business of the south since 1890. A
number of leading New England ex
perts give their views upon the cotton
manufacturing advantages of the south
ern states.
A NEWSPAPER SOLD.
Nashville American Changes
and Its Policy.
Messrs. John C. Burch and
E. Allison have purchased from
M. Head the controlling interest
j Xa«hcille American and
| control. The paper w, 1 remam
ocratic, the only important change
be made iQ its P olic J being on
fiaaDcial fiction. For some time
, has advocated the free
P ft P er
g Bver. It will, however, hereafter
i advocate the single gold standard.
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C onf eae r a te Monument at
A large crowd, including
southern veterans, assembled at
Kv„ Saturday to witness
ceremony of laying the corner
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the monument will be 812,000.
*he money was raUed by the
WomW* Confederate Monument
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THE REMAINS OF SECRETARY
GRESHAM LAID TO REST,
While Federals and Confederates Join
in Unveiling a Monument.
Without ostentation, as befitted his
life among his people, the remains of
Walter Quinton Gresham, general iu
the Union army, judge of the federal
courts, and secretary of state of the
United States, were temporarily laid
to rest in Oakland cemetery at Chica¬
go, Thursday afternoon, amid the flow¬
er strewn graves of his comrades iu
arms—graves decorated by the hands
of men who had fought them on the
bloody battlefield—and in the shadow
of the monument just dedicated in
memory of the valor of those who had
given their lives for the confederate
cause.
It was a most remarkable juxtaposi¬
tion. In tho earlier hours of the day,
federals and confederates had joined
in the unveiling of a monument to the
0,000 confederates who had died in
the military prison at Camp Douglas;
the ex-confederate association had
strewn upon the graves of the Union
soldiers buried there, a mass of flow¬
ers brought from the ground over
which the two had fought less than a
generation ago, and the union veterans
had placed upon the graves of their
fallen comrades in the other cemete¬
ries about the city the flowers which
grew in their own latitude. Almost
while tho echoes of the volley fired
over the confederate burying ground
by the first regiment of the state and
of the buglo blare, and “taps” were
still sounding and the smoko from
their rifles was still floating over the
field of peace, tho cortege of tho dead
secretary of state filed iu through the
gates into the cemetery.
It was remarkably fitting as a climax
to tho remarkable ceremonies which
had just closed that the remains of the
man who claimed the allegiance of
both the north and the south should
bo laid there—the keystone to the
arch of recemented friendship of which
a visible sign had just been unveiled
there. As a soldier he had won the
respect of those who fought against
him; as a jurist he had gained the
love of the common people, and as
secretary of state in a democratic ad¬
ministration, he had commanded the
support of the people of the south as
well as the north.
The burial services, conducted by
the Rev. S. J. McPherson, of tho Sec¬
ond Presbyterian church, were impres¬
sive but simple, consisting merely of
scriptural readings, a hymn by the
choir and prayer. At their conclu¬
sion, the remains were ter rmornj w f te ^d o
■gLoaited in the receivi .e
•^SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS
Chosen By the State Convention Held
in Savannah.
The following officers were elected
by the Georgia State Sunday School
Association in session at Savannah :
A. G. Candler, Atlanta, president;
vice president, J. T. Wells, of Savan¬
nah; secretary, Fred T. Lockhardt, of
Augusta; corresponding secretary,
Miss Lulie It. Pitts, of Calhoun; treas¬
urer, F. S. Etheridge, of Jackson;
executive committee: W. J. Nor
then, of Atlanta; Y. L. Stanton, of
Waycross; W. S. Witham, of At¬
lanta; R. B. Reppard, of Savannah;
J. T. Duncan, of Douglasville; Will¬
iam Shaw, of Atlanta; D. B. Sweat,
of Waycross; T. W. Dimmock, of Car¬
rollton ; J. W. Wheatley, of Americus;
P. Pelham, ofTy Ty; Thomas Moore,
of Bolton; AaronRoff,of Calhoun, J.M.
Green, of Atlanta; John W. Wallace,
of Augusta; M. A. Matthews, oi Dal¬
ton ; Alex W. Bealer, of Atlanta.
R. B. Reppard and D. B. Sweat were
appointed to redietrj|;t the state. The
matter of a place for the next meeting
and the time was left with the execu¬
tive committee.__
INJUNCTION AGAINST STRIKES.
Troubles in Pennsylvania in the Hands
of the Courts.
A temporary injunction has been
granted in court at Pittsburg, Pa.,
restraining the miners’ officials from
interfering with the miners employed
by the New Y T ork and Cleveland
Gas Coal Co., and inducing them to
leave their work and strike for the
district price. Among the officials
named in the injunction are National
President Cameron Miller, of the
United Mine Workers; District Presi
dent John Cairns, and District iSecre
tary William H. Werner, and Patrick
Doolan, of the district executive board,
SHORT ON GRAIN.
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An Elevator Company Finds Itself in
a Bad Way.
Six years ago eight of the St. Louis
grain elevators were absorbed by the
United Elevator Company, and since
then it is alleged the management has
not checked up its stocks. Recently
there has been an urgent demand for
wheat to make deliveries, and the ele¬
vator folks were surprised to find that
there was an immense shortage of
wheat in the elevators. The shortage
is attributed to mismanagement rather
than to crookedness and theft.
IN EXTRA SESSION.
The Tennessee legislature Meets at
.Nashville
lhe Iennessee general assembly met
in extra session at Nashville Monday
noon The session, which is limited
to 20 days, will be occupied in the con
j sideration of the revenue bill, the ap
. propriation bill, the bill to erect a new
i penitentiarv, the regulation of state
banks, the establishment of a levee
district in Dyer, Lake and O’Brien
counties, and the question of making
illegal registration of voters less fre
quent.
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Capital Punishment Restored.
The Michigan senate, by a vote oi
18 to 12, has passed the bill to restore
capital punishment in certain caae, la
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
GREEN FOOD FOB FOWLS.
There is nothing that your fowls
will be more grateful for at this time
of the year, and nothing is oftener
neglected, than the supply of green
vegetable matter which vou can so
easily supply from your table waste.
Bits of carrots, parsnips, salsify or
turnips, apple and potato parings,
cabbage leaves and such refuse, will
be greedily eaten by the fowls nnd
will have a most beneficial effect.—
Americnn Agriculturist.
SNAILS IN THE GARDEN.
For 6ome years snails or slugs have
given me considerable trouble. The
foliage of early peas and other plauts
was found badly eaten in tho morn¬
ing, always from tho ground up. At
first I could not imagiuo what animals
had done this damage. When I dis¬
covered that slugs were tho culprits I
soon found means to got rid of them.
Salt is the sovereign remedy for them,
but lime is just as effective, and so is
wood ashes and kaiuit and muriate of
potash. 1 would fill up my knapsack
sprayer with salt water or with lime
water, and then go to the patch where
I knew theso slugs to be at work, usu¬
ally at or after dusk, and give tho
plants a good spraying. That treat¬
ment will kill every slug touched by
the spray. Iu the morning only grease
spots are left of them.—Boston Culti¬
vator.
RIGHT TIME TO FELL TREES.
When to hew timber that the best
results can bo secured has been a vex¬
ing question to lumbermen. “For
streugth, beauty and durability, I
have found August, September nnd
October the best, and February, March
and April the worst months to cut
wood. A red maple cut iu September
will keep iu a round log perfectly
white and sound until the next August,
while one cut in March will begin to
blacken and decay by the middle or
last of June. This is not copied from
any scientific work, but is what I have
found to be a fact by many practical
tests. Good birch cut in September
will keep in a good condition until
tho next September, if left in the
woods cat in four foot lengths, whilo
if cut in March and left in the same
way it will be nearly worthless by
August 1—at least such is the result on
my land. White pine, like red maple,
keeps much longer if cut in Septem¬
ber than if cut in March, and is not
injured by the worms so much. I
have found that wood dried slowly iu
a low, cool place is better than dried
quickly in the hot sun, even though
cut in summer. May this not, iu a
measure, accouut for wood being bet¬
ter in autumn, it having cold winter
to dry in?”—NewkYork Dispatch.
} variety.
|^B®^^^®BPrHampeliire, /y crossing
but not until 18G2 did tho breed se¬
cure recognition in the prize lists of
the loading shows, The Oxford in
intermediate as to length of wool be¬
tween the Southdown and tho long
wools. The aim of the originators of
the breed was to obtain an animal that
possessed tho weight of the long-wool
sheep with tho quality and character¬
istics of the Downs, and the best types
of the breed show how admirably they
have succeeded in producing a breed
which can hardly be surpassed in the
production of both mutton and wool.
The Oxford Down is a well-made,
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PRIZE OXFORD DOWN SHEEP.
round-bodied, short-legged sheep,
size about equal to the
The fleece is thick, but not too curly.
Its weight is estimated at about
pounds per sheep. They have
dark faces of the Southdown and
appearance closely resemble tho
shire, being, however, larger.
are very hardy, bear confinement excellent
fatten easily and produce
mutton. The Oxford Downs may be
used with great success in improving
the native stock of the country.
THE OHIO WAY OF RAISING LIMA BEANS.
This delioious and wholesome bean
is one of the pleasures and profits of
the garden. Any good garden soil
will grow them, and the varieties are
multiplying. When I select my seed
for the next season I always do it when
picking the green crop. Whenever 1
find an early, well formed and well
filled pod I mark it by tying a string
loosely around its stem and let it hang
for ripening.
1 always plant in rows three feet
aj».rt, and for my family of seven I
plant two rows twenty feet long or
four rows ten feet long. This gives
us an abundance of green picking
quite a number of messes of tho dry
beans. I make the ground nice,
and smooth. Then I draw a line and
stick the bean edgewise eye down,
four inches apart in the row, with my
thumb and forefinger, and then sift
along the row some finely pulverized
stable manure. When the beans are
up sufficiently high I cultivate
fully until they start their runners,
then I go to the lumber yard and get
three light posts 2x2 and two strips
inch plank two inches wide. It
rows are twenty feet long, I put
post equidistant between the rows
each end, and one in the middle.
Then I put the strips of board
wise on these posts as high up on
as I can conveniently reach.
strips form a ridge pole above,
between the rows. I then split
short stakes about fifteen inches
oat of apiece of board or straight
ting stove wood, and drive them
rectly iu the rows of beans in a
ing position about three feet apart
the IwiSfy l Then using ordinary ilepg
ftttt *
stakes, looping it on them so as to
keep it from slipping; and from tho
string I pass strings over the ridgo
board to each bean hill, nnd the work
is done; orly I then carefully loosen
up the soil, pull the earth from the
centro well up to tho rows, and then
lot them run along the strings till they
reach the top, which is tho signal for
pinching tho runners off. The cost
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TRELLIS FOR LIMA BEANS.
and trouble is small, and the string
and poles can be used for several sea
sons. Besides, when a little care is
taken to do the work neatl y, tho
growing beans are an ornament, in tho
garden. 1 raise all pole beans tho
same way.—American Agriculturist.
HINTS ABOUT CORN.
In planting corn the ground should
be thoroughly cultivated until finely
pulverized and then rolled until
smooth and level. After this comes
the planting, which should be followed
by ruuuing a light roller once over
the ground. This last is a great aid
in conserving the moisture.
While corn may bo grown continu¬
ously on the same field with fair re¬
sults, yet it is not good practice.
Theio should bo a rotatiou. The most
common is tho five years’ rotation, in
which corn is grown for two years,
some small grain for the third year,
followed by two years in grass or
clover before returning to tho corn.
By very early planting, if a good
stand is secured and tho corn kept
equally free from weeds, as largo
yields may bo obtained as from later
planting. The question each one must
determine is whether the risk and tho
extra labor will justify early planting.
As a rule it does not. But much de¬
pends upon the lay of the land and
tho naturo of tho soil. A southern
slope warms up tho most readily, and
it is on such that tho earliest planting
should be made. A well-drained, dark
soil will warm up and bo lit for plant¬
ing long before a wet, light or porous
scil.
As regards the thickness of planting,
experiments show that thero is less
danger of getting too many plants
than of getting too few. Whether tho
corn is planted in hills or drills makes
little difference, ns far as yields nro
concerned, but it is generally best to
plant in hills, as it is easier to culti¬
vate tho corn exclusively with the
plow when it is planted in checks
than when in drills.
Thero is no advantage in cultivating
corn more frequently than is neces¬
sary to destroy weeds and keep the
ground tolerably porous, Shallow
cultivation is to be preferred to deep.
regarding tho best ma
imrefor corn go to show that much
depends upon the different natures of
soils. Of the three elements requisite
—nitrogen, potash and phosphate, tire
last is most generally lacking in soils,
and tho beBt results aro usually ob¬
tained from its application. Practice
varies in the methods of distributing
tho manure, aud it would seem as if
there were not much difference in the
results.—New York World.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Cut up your old turnips, cabbage,
etc., for the liens.
Don’t blame the horso for balking
if his collar docs not lit or if ho in
overloaded.
The hen that is weary with chasing
grasshoppers the “live long summei
day” will enjoy a handful of corn foi
her evening meal.
Push the pigs and market there
when six to eight months old. If ol
good stock and properly handled thoj
should exceed 200 pounds at that ago.
The farmer xvho plants several cropt
this year, not too much of any oua
thing, manures and cultivates thor¬
oughly, will he independent next fall.
Solitary confinement in a dark sta¬
ble has a tendency to make a hors<
vicious. It affects tho brain, as it doei
the brain of a human being in sucli
confinement.
The late Hiram Smith declared that
he believed he could reach the point
whert.- he could keep a cow on every
acre of tillable land. lie succeeded
in keeping half that number.
Orchards and the dairy go well to¬
gether. Cows like apples, and fed
judiciously they make a desirable
change ; and there is always enough to
fall to the ground to furnish the sup
p’*y. declared
New England farmers have
that by the administration of tubercu¬
lin their cows have been ruined. They
say that tho compulsory use of the
remedy in Massachusetts is an out¬
rageous injustice.
Rotation in crops must be, but it is
not all. Every crop takes out of the
land certain properties, leaving the
farm and the farmer just that much
poorer. These must be supplied; there
can be no other way.
A silo twenty-two feet deep and
twelve feet square should feed a herd
of ten cows for six months. The corn
should not be cut so green that it will
lose much of its feeding value, nor so
late that its succulence will have
turned into dry fiber.
What is the sense of putting the
profitless field again to the plow? We
see fields every day which could be
turred into meadows or pastures xvith
great promise, which now returns noth¬
ing but loss. Give them to the stock;
to rest and recuperation.
Curious History ot the Tomato.
The tomato has a curious history.
After the revolution of St. Domingo
many French families came from there
to Philadelphia, where they intro¬
duced their favorite “porsme d’amour”
or “love apples.” Although intro¬
duced from South America as early as
1596 into England, it was looked upon
with suspicion, aud its specific name,
lycopersicum, derived from lykos
(wolf) and persikon (a peach, refer
ring to the beautiful but deceptive ap
pearance of its fruit, intimates pretty
closely the kind of estimation in which
it was held, It is how* however, ah
but ib F-ugla&iL
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