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Tops of Fencfpostfi; •
me tops of fenceposts should be
i glantlng, preferably with an ax,
‘‘•hat rainwater will not remain on
When they are cut with a saw
* _| tc h should be gienter, especially
p 0? ts In which there Is a marked
Hlerence in hardness between the
ring wood and the summer woodd.—
'eekly Witness. .
Cementing a Cellar.
Several years ago 1 dug a cellar, put
."drain Hie extending It across the
bottom of the cellar, then laid thin flat
k f or a floor, cementing oyer the
(0 -, with Portland cement and sund,
but for some reason it never set well.
Recently I put concrete by tamping
it-out one-inch sand then one and one-
talf in« h one sixth concrete well tamp-
«1 down, then I reinforced this with
or,e-half sand and concrete mixed to
ite consistency of thin putty and
t-mail over the top about one Inch
thick and troweled down to make it
level. Now Hie floor is as hard as a
rock. Many old cellars might he ren
ovated in tills way.—E. F. Isley, in
the Epltonilst.
To Cure White Scour.
When white scour makes its appear-
anve It will be found advisable to take
the affected calf off milk at once, and,
after giving' it one or two doses of cas
tor oil or salts mixed with a little
warm, sweetened gruel, for thoroughly
clearing the stomach, follow on with a
mixture of beaten up eggs and port
wine, made by beating up two eggs
thoroughly shells and all, and mixing
them with a glass of port wine and
giving it to the calf about three times
a day. This will be found to sustain
the calf and counteract the acidity In
the stomach and will generally effect a
cure in two or three days. The calf
should not be allowed to have any milk
until all the symptoms of scour have
disappeared.—Weekly Witness.
A Great Combination.
To the poultry yard let us add the
orchard. They work In perfect har
mony. They supplement each other
perfectly, and the orchard can be
planned to be the main thing in the
future or permitted to remain always
In second place, according to one’s pre
dilections. Poultry, besides being
money makers, arc to the orchardist
money savers. They are of great value
Inasmuch as they destroy myriads of
Insect enemies, many before they are
born into their fruit destroying stage
of development, 'they are dca'.li on
borers, hence are time savers, for
borus lot go for man only by strong
persuasion. Titey furnish much fertil
izing material and keep down weed
growth. They eat fruit failing from
insect attack and destroy the pests.
Therefore from every point of view
f ruit and poultry is a great combina
tion - H. B. Fullerton, in the Weekly
Witness.
Cut Out the Drones.
There is much talk about the cow
that doesn’t earn her board —how about
tlir hen? No one can make a mistake
in culling out the fowls which have
P aw ‘d their prime; ota liens do not
Iny o well nor old roosters insure so
good fertility as younger ones.
The fewer drones that are kept in
a flock the more profitable it is. Right
now in the time to get busy and weed
them out. Sell all the old hens that
ar ‘‘ more than three years of age unless
they are especially valuable for some
ttnson or other. Keep no more of the
old male birds tiffin necessary and get
the others out of the way as soon as
•possible. Dispose of the young cock-
CKls ns fast as they attain a market-
a lde size; more money In them at that
nge than later; don’t keep more than
just a few of the best for your own
use as breeders.
Old hens that are thin in flesh should
be cooped and fed heavily (principally
on corn) for a week or ten days and
'hey will bring enough more money to
make your labor and feed expended
Profitable. Keep the best of your pul-
k ' u especially those that were oarly-
liaiihed, and you can well afford to
"evil out the old ones, as the pullets
"ill be better winter layers.—Epitom-
1st.
A Word for the Hog.
•f hogs are to thrive In pasture shade
should be provided, borne farmers cut
away every vistage of shade. The hog
loves a cool damp shade where he can
be and snooze during the heat of the
(, ay. if left in a pasture with no shade
| le "Hi suffer. Experience of prom-
'nent breeders shows, however, that a
mud wallow Is by no means necessary.
If the hog cannot have a clean bath, no
bath Is preferable, but as she is a child
°f the soli she snould have cool moist
gi'our.’d to lie upon.
It should be added that pure water
in as essential for the hog as It Is for
an y other animal, if he Is to be kept In
good health. More of swine disease
has been traced to impure water than
t-o any other cause.
A reader of the Indiana Farmer
"’rites that he had sows that would
Persist in eating their pigs till he he-
tan occasionally giving 1 them a piece of
fat salt, pork, and after giving them
that a few times their appetite seero-
p d to be cured, and Urey gave him no
more trouble. He says that for several
years past just after furrowing ho
gives (hem a piece of salty side meat
for two or three days, and this ends
the matter.
Another reader says that he feeds
his hogs sows and all, as near a bal
anced tation ns lie can, such as cut
clover, or alfalfa, or some linseed oil
meal, along with their corn and he has
uever had this pig-entlng trouble In his
herd. There is no doubt that there
is something lacking in the feed that
causes ihe desire, and a balanced ra
tion would meet the demand, as It
would keep them in good healthy con
dition.
Shallow Cultivation.
Well Informed men tell us l{ takes
a great amount of moisture to produce
a corn crop, much grentcr than would
he imagined. The gveater portion of
the corn-growing era, fs dependent up
on the rainfall for this moisture, there
fore, we must find some other means
of retaining It In the soil, within reach
of the growing crop. Sunshine and
wind soon cause the moisture to pass
from the soil directly into the atmos
phere, so we must find some method of
lessening this rapid evaporation. As
the moisture tieur the surface evapor
ates, it is replaced by moisture drawn
from greater depths by capillary attrac
tion.
By thoroughly pulverizing the sur
face soil the soil particles are disar
ranged and the capillary tubes are not
continuous, therefore the surface soil
becomes quite dry and acts as a mulch,
checking the evaporation and holding
the moisture beneath, within reach of
the plant roots.
During the “first cultivation” and
while the corn is very small, we use
narrow shovels, and fenders, and us
ually plow deep, loosening the soil to a
good depth. Out idea in plowing deep
at the "first cultivation” is to g'et a
good loose soil mulch for retaining
moisture. There are very few occa
sions when deep plowing is preferable
after the "first cultivation,” but if ex
cessive rains have packed the soil
deep cultivation will help dry it—and
when packed very tight, we sometimes
find it necessary to plow deep, in or
der to get u paifect soil mulch. After a
perfect soil mulch has been produced
frequent cultivation is not necessary,
unless rain should crust the ground,
and In that case the crust should be
broken and the soil mulch restored, in
order to hold the moisture beneath,
where it is used by the “feeding root3”
of the young plants. Of course It Is
necessary to cultivate often enough to
keep down the weeds, even though the
ground does not need stirring.
If the ground Is allowed to become
hard and baked, alter a rain, the cul
tivator will break up great clods, which
will allow the air to’ penetrate . the
ground to a greater depth, causing rap
id evaporation; taking the molsturo
from the "feeding roots” of the grow
ing plants.—W. S. Chansler in the Id
diana Farmer.
Notes of the Farm.
It Is all right to have all the efegs
In one basket if it Is a good basket
and you have the strength and skill to
handle it.
Grease tools and Implements, to stop
(heir rusting. It will save money and
make them easier to work with when
they are needed again.
Have pure air in the dairy buildings
and plenty of it. The blood of the
cow is purified tn the lungs and it
takes good air to do that well.
The turf formed by a pasture land
of native grasses makes an ideal grass
for all kinds ol poultry, old and young.
See that they have shade in summer
time.
Orchards will not make happy own
ers if the trees stand in poorly drained
soil. The old saying that “fruit trees
cannot stand wet feet” tells the whole
story.
Do not neglect to plow the garden
during Ihe winter to kill undesirable
worms that may be in the soil and to
make the plant food more available for
the next crop.
Produce and use wisely as much
barnyard manure as practical, and then
use green manures as necessary. Get
the soil so rich that little work will
make a big harvest.
Hens (hat are overfed, confined, or
do not. get sufficient exercise, are apt
to get in the habit of pulling feathers
or eating eggs, 'these habits are hard
to cure, hut easy to prevent If com
mon sense methods of management are
employed.
Longevity and Blindness.
Blindness, though counted among
the most pitiable of human afflictions
is evidently conducive to longevity.
According to a report by Oscar
Kuestermanri, superintendent of the
Wisconsin Workshop for the Blind,
f our out of 250 persons received at
the shops during the last year are
more than 100 years old; fifteen men
and four women are more than SO
years old; forty-two persons have at-
-I tained an age between 80 and 90
years.
Every one of these aged blind per
sons is earning his own living and is
entirely self-supporting. Those more
than 100 years of age are in full pos
session of their faculties and are
daily turning out baskets and other
forms of willow ware.—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
the sandersville herald.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Dreams are froth.—German.
The worst clothed go to the wind
ward.—French.
ihe foundation of every noble char
acter is sincerity.—Anon.
The office which seeks the man in
these times has a good chance to get
lost In the crowd.—Puck.
Life wouldn’t be worth living if it
"asHt for the things beyond our
reach.-New York Times.
Take heed thou bless (hat day on
which I.ove took possession of thee,
for thou oughtest so to do.—Dante.
Try to make an instantaneous net of
conformity to God’s will, at everything
which vexes you.—Edward B. Pusey.
A flirt is a rose from which every
lover plucks n leaf—the thorns being
reserved for her husband.—Manchester
Union.
If you tell the truth, you have in
finite power supporting you; but if not,
you have infinite power against you.—
Charles George Gordon.
There is hardly anything that a wo
man enjoys more tjian doing some
thing for charity that it wouldn’t be
tight to do for anything else.—New
York Press.
The sins by which God’s spirit Is or
dinarily grieved are the sins of Binall
things—laxities In keeping the temper,
slight neglects of duty, sharpness of
dealing. Horace Buihnell.
You feel in seme families as If you
were living between the glasses of a
microscope. Manner, aspect, expres
sion, all Hint goes to make up your
"personality, all that you do or leave
undone 4* eonnnonteu upon and found
fault with.—II. Bowman.
The labor of -the baking was tint
hardest, part of the sacrifice of her hos
pitality. To many it Is easy to give
what they have, but the offering of
weariness and pain Is never easy. They
are, Indeed, a true salt to salt sacrifices,
withal.—George Macdonald.
QUEER THIRST SATISFIER8.
Substitutes for Water Found In the
Deeert.
All devices for allaying the discom
fort arising from the dryness of the mu
cous mentbrances, such as carrying
bullets or pebbles In the mouth,
(hewing grass or a p.ece of rubber, are
wholly futile In meeting the serious
thirst problem, says The Outing Mag
azine. Tlie relative humidity often
lulls to 5 percent in the Southwestern
deserts, and In a temperature of over
100 degrees, the evaporation from a ves
sel of water standing in the open may
be as much as an inch a day. The
nmeunt thrown oft by the skin is cor
respondingly great, and if the loss is
not made good tnlrst ensues, ami 10
hours’ lack of water may thicken the
tongue so that speech is impossible.
Tlie Indian and the desert traveler
often seek relief in Ihe juices of plants
when water fulls. The fruits of some
of the prickly pears are slightly juicy;
the fronds of the same plant, or the
great trunks of the sagttaro, contain
much sap, but for the most part it is
bitter, and, while It would save life
In extremity, yet it is very unpleasant
to use. The barrel cactus, or bisnago
(Kchino-cactus), however, contains
within its spiny cylinders a fair sub
stitute for good water. To get at this
juice one must be armed with a stout
knife, or an ax, with which to de
capitate the plant, which is done by
cutting away a section from the top.
Next a green stake is obtained from
some shrub or tree that is free from
hitter substances, and with this or
with the ax the white pitch of the in
terior is pounded to a pulp and a cav
ity that would hold two gallons is
formed. Squeezing the pulp between
the hands into the cavity will give
from three to six pints of a drinkable
liquid that is far from unpleasant, and
is generally a few degrees cooler than
the air. Scouting Indians have long
used the bisnaga to save carrying a
heavy supply of water, and a drink
may be obtained in this manner by a
skilled operator in Hve to ten min
utes.
Fuel Oil in Italy.
The Italian state government, or at
least the powers In charge of the Ital
ian state railways, must have some
confidence In the comparative perman
ence of the fuel oil supply. It Is
stated that during tiie fiscal year of
1906-1907 the cost of coal on the Ital
ian railways was so excessive as to
attract special attention and amount
ed to 17 cents per train mile, as
against a cost in France for a similar
distance of 10 cents. The Italian gov
ernment has granted a special reduc
tion on duties on mineral oils for
the use of the state railways and the
railway management has now decided
to use fuel oil at least on some of
the mountain lines with long tun
nels where the cost of the fuel oil
hitherto has seemingly made such use
prohibitive. The concession In duties
now made will lead to the gradual
adoption of fuel oil and It is thought
that when the oil can be imported
into the country in tank steamers, its
use, at least for railway purposes will
become far more general.—Louisiana
Planter.
Ought to Be Big.
Jack: "But do you think that ham
mock will hold both of us this sum
mer?”
Eva: "It ought to dear. It is called
the ’Taft.’ ”—Chicago News.
Same Old Story.
Gerald: "You are the only girl t
have ever, loved.”
Geraldine: “Do you expect me to
marry a phonograph?”—New York
press.
Fire-Kilted Timber.
Fire-killed timber is sometimes con
sidered to be practically vnlucloss,
but it has been used for some years
for railway ties and mine timbers, and
with satisfactory results. According
to investigations made in C-olorado by
the U. S. Forestry Bureau, the ties
are as durable as tb.qse <?f green tim
ber, nold spikes well and do not cut
under the tie-plates. Some of the ties
are from timber burned 35 or (50 years
ago. Red fir Is preferred; then yellow
pine, limber pine and range pine, and
even ^hlte pine is now used; spruce
resists mechanical wear but needs a
preservative treatment to make It re
sist decay. Such timber is also being
used for making crates and boxes, the
fire seasoning having driven out the
odor of the pine so that It can be used
for packing crackers. The timber ts,
of course, well seasoned, and it Is ex
pected that its utilization may be a"
source of profit to the forest reserves.
—Engineering News.
Big with the importance of a new
discovery, the London preacher says:
“Never check the flowing tide of wo
man’s talk.” We never heard of
anybody who ever did.
John It. Dlekey’s old reliable «yo wotor
euros soro eyes or granulated lids. Don’t
hurt, fools good; got tho genulno in rod box.
BEYOND HIM.
"I have just been rending a stoi?
by Henry James.”
"And what do you think of It, Sena
tor?”
“Oh, lie’s too smart for me. 1 j
knew from tho language that ho had
a Joker concealed, but I couldn’t fer
ret It out, experienced as I am."—
Pittsburg Post.
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the System
Take the Old Standard Gkovb’s Tast*-
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DIFFERENTIATION.
"Is lying ever Justifiable?"
"Never.” . .
"But I have known some very woll
respected men to promise one thing
and do another.”
"Ooodnoss, man, that Isn’t lying;
that’s business."—Nashville American.
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It is an absolute cure for eczema, tottor,
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permnnont cures. 60c. at druggists or by
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Bloodhound Tracking In England.
The most recent case of the sue
ressful official employment of th(
bloodhound In the public service was
that of the lost girl Miss Campbell
In Ayrshire, a year or so ago, when
the provost of Gatehouse Rent to Mr
George Ollphant, secretary of tht
Bloodhound Hunt Club, for thret
hounds.
These hounds were three days at
work on the scent, in most difficult
and treacherous country, and suc
ceeded in carrying the search parti
to the edge of a pool, at which they
threw up the search, and from which
on its being dragged the body of the
missing girl was recovered.
The bloodhound has the same in
stincts for guarding his master at
any dog or hound possesses, though
he does not hurt the man he hat
Shunted. —Fry's Magazine.
Capudlne Cures Indigestion Pains,
Belching, Sour Stomach, and Heartburn,
from whatever cause. It’s Liquid. Effects
immediately. Doctors prescribe it. 10c.,
26c., and 50c., at drug stores.
Postmaster Works With His feet.
New Zealand possesses a postmas
ter who, for all practical purposes, Is
armless. Owing to a physical deform
ity which renders his hand3 useless,
he is obliged to do, and actually
does, all the clerical work of his of
fice with his feet. His name Is Mr.
Earnest C. Moon, and hP Is in charge
o.' the post office at Te Uku, Auck
land. He uses an indelible penwll In
this official work, with which he
writes clearly and legibly. He Is 37
years of age, and has been In charge
of the post office at Te Uku for the
last eleven years. The official re
ports of the inspectors of the New
Zealand Postal Department show that
Mr. Moon has given every satisfaction
In the discharge of his duties. He
makes out money orders, postal notes
and the. periodical official sltate-
inents by using his feet In the
same way he applies the date stamps
to letters with wonderful rapidity.
Mr. Moon can also use a hammer, saw
and other carpenters’ tools with his
feet.—Iyondon Dally Chronicle.
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