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The SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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. Why. look who's come-Santa Claus, of
- court*.
Henceforth at Washington the fight will
bo over the tariff.
'Taft's course scored by Mexican edi
tors." By Mexican editors alone?
'
Chicago has some sun worshippers.
Elijah's example seems to do no good.
Enough time remains before the first to
make a test of those New Year resolu
| tfona. *<
Gifts for IMI reach a total of 1150.000,-
f 000. And this doesn't include Christmas
f ‘ e*r&a.
The Chinese apparently feel that their
family row is not one for outsiders to
; nettle.
J. Wylie Smith seems to be the victim
of frequent false reports of his arrest.
JB . J, - - - , , -
It will soon be time again to play ten
nis, so fast do the seasons roll around.
|'— , •
Unsettled would probably be the safest
weather forecast that could be made just
now.
The weather man did the best he could,
? all things considered, and at least there
’ wasn’t a storm. *
B ’ Marse Henry was everything in ap
pearance and speech that an eager audi
ence had expected him to be.
i A girl won the prize for cotton and
corn raising at Newnan, which is a very
effective way of being a suffragist.
Better take a final good feast of tur
key Christinas. Scientists say the bird
will be extinct in a few more years.
"Wall street feels confident.” But a
lack of nerve and shyness were really
never quite characteristic of Wall streeL
The Persian trouble hasn't reached the
distinction as yet of being shown in the
films
A‘r ; .
Madero seem* to thjnk that it is yet
too sodn’for a new crop of insurgents in
Mexico.
-
- .The rebels seem to have the upper hand
tn China, and they seem to have it in
other quarters, also.
Some of us would be contented with
Christmas fare all the year, and accept
the indigestion, too.
In Baltimore they have a mint julep as
, sedation. but it is a far cry from Balti
more to dry Georgia.
; Now let's buckle down to work again,
and make some money to pay those
t Christmas Mils on the first
* * Tb> Chinese did more damage with
their fireworks tn America than they did
in their domestic warfare at home.
A mags tine in London tn a circulation
contest offers as a prise a handsome hua-
* head. .Inddentaily, it is a ladles* maga-
t due. . «
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The Honduras loan is back on the lime
-5 Wgbt bo ft is to be expected that the
3 Balkan situation will also bob up again
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- Judging by the rampages of Georgia
- rivers, the scarcity of rainfall which was
so pronounced during the year, has about
eeased .
There has been a reduction in the cost
of blind tiger whisky, which, for some
t people, means a reduction in the cost of
at least one necessity.
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From the way things are starting off.
Jack Johnson will have no lack of offers
to fight for the heavyweight champlon-
* ship.
r It is an annual cause for wonderment,
that we ever come right side up again
after the topsy-turvy haphazards of the
holidays.
The world do change. Some of the
-*■ gentlemen who evolved from poor boys
"" • into milUonalres finally epd in the Unlt
ed'Htates pen. •
Christmas may come and Christmas
may go. but the approaching Atlanta au
tomobile show sticks by us in the news
paper columns.
* Now that Christmas is over, we can
.. * settle to the conelderat'on of the busi-
new outlook and the probabilities of a
* pennant winitng baseball team for next
* year.
Richard Croker proposes to develop the
natural resources of Ireland, but he says
. npthlng about the political resources, im
, plying that he is no longer in that sort
of activity. .
» Win the powers that be of human
nature explain why a man begrudres
W cents for a Christmas card for some
friend, and spends five times that much
for one day's cigars?
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
Acts directly and peculiarly on
Jthe Wood; purifies, enriches ami
feritalizes it, and in this way
Irailds up the whole .system.
Take it. jGet it today.
• In usual liquid form or in chocolate
■coated tablets called Baraataba.
MARYLAND’S PLAN OF HOAD BUILDING.
It is an interesting and significant fact that the farther a
state goes in the building of good roads the more ardent and
generous does its spirit in this great cause become. Let a state
once appropriate a million dollars to the development of its high
ways and we may be pretty sure that other millions for the same
purpose will soon be demanded by the people
A stimulating instance of the kind is furnished by the state
of Maryland. Governor Crothers has announced that in his forth
coming message to the general assembly he will urge the creation
of a seven-and-a-half-million-dollar loan for the continuation of
highway improvements in that commonwealth. This is intended
to supplement previous funds, for, as the Baltimore Sun points
out, two road loans amounting to six million dollars have already
been made.
This is the good result of what she has already done, the
rich returns from the money she is now spending on road con
struction are keen incentives to Maryland to go father still and
to deal even more liberally in this important work. So it is with
every state and every county that once acquires the road building
habit. They will look continually to a higher standard of high
ways just as a thrifty and prosperous man seeks a continually
higher standard of living.
There is this notable feature to the Maryland .plan of road
improvements. It is under the centralized direction of a state
road commission. This, to be sure, is essential where such large
sums of money are to be expended. But every state, regardless
of the amount of its appropriations in this respect, should have
a highway commission, for thus alone ’ can it hope to perfect a
' thoroughly unified system of public roads.
That is one of the conspicuous needs of Georgia. Our own
people have done, and are still doing, magnificent work in road
building. Scores of the counties have voted liberal bond issues
for local developments and the state government, by taking its
convicts from private leases and placing them at the disposal of
the various counties, has contributed tremendously to the cause
of good roads. We have no lack of enthusiasm and industry in
this enterprise but we do lack prope* and adequate methods.
If Georgia is to have a thoroughgoing system of highways
that will net the state from corner to corner, instead of r more or
less irregular series o^excellent but unlinked roads, she must unify
these widely scattered efforts in some one board or commission.
Otherwise it will take an interminably long time to fill in the rough
gaps and to perfect a true system. \
Maryland has mapped out a state-wide plan of road improve
ments under which the counties are considered not merely as in-*
dividual communities but as sc many parts of an inclusive design,
each of them related to the other. Her millions of dollars alloted
to this work are being spent under the direction of skilled engin
eers who devote their time to studying the needs of.the
stpte as a whole. She has furthermore looked far into the future.
* The proposed seven-and-a-half-million-dollar loan is intended to
provide for activities that will extend to the summer of 1918.
In this way, larger and more lasting results will be accom
plished, for at ovary step of the undertaking the work will be
thoroughly co-ordinated, and when it is completed every mile of
the state’s principal roads will not only be in excellent condition
but every one of these roads will be linked together in an effec
tive whole.
A GREAT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY.
The trustees of the George Peabody fuml.ha.ve offered to do?
nate an additional five hundred thousand dollars to the Peabody
College for Teachers at Nashville, provided the friends of education
will contribute a million dollars to the same cause by the autumn
of 1913. This places within the reach of the southern states another
fertile and stimulating opportunity to strengthen their educational
interests at a particularly vital point. The people of the entire
southland, as well as those .of Tennessee, should respond generously
and without delay.
In their announcement, which issued yesterday, the trustees
point out the fact that since 1875 the Peabody fund has aided in
the maintenance of the Peabody Normal College at Nashville “as
the central and leading normal college for the south.” When it
was decided some months ago that the trust should be finally
closed and the remaining moneys' distributed, the sum of a million
dollars was allotted to this institution, and concurrently the city
of Nashville and Davidson county subscribed five hundre an fifty
thousand dollars, together with certain land and buildings valued
at about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The college was thus guaranteed an endowment of approxi
mately two millions and was ushered into a new and larger field
of usefulness. If it can now secure the additional million and a
half proposed in the recent offer of the trustees, it will become in
very truth, ‘‘the crown of the system of schools which the southern
states have established and are maintaining.” <
It is agreed by everyone who has thought seriously upon this
subject that the south’s imperative need is normal schools and a
really great normal school for the higher education of teachers.
The way to this achievement is now open. It is earnestly to be
hoped that our people will measure up to the opportunity before
them,,
GROPING TOWARD ‘PEACE.
The great vestival of peace and good will falls this year upon
a trubled and uncertain world. Outwardly, at least, the events
of the closing twelvemonth have been unusually discordant in so
far as they have concerned politics and international relations.
The grating doors of the temple of Janus have swung upon their
rusty hinges and in many lands the fever of social unrest has
mounted higher than ever before within a decade. In Europe
especially the year has been one of revolutions and strikes and dip
lomatic perplexities. Problems that have long been developing
in economics and government have gathered toward a crisis.
And observing all this, one might be disposed to turn Hamlet
and think “the time is out of joint.”
Yet, it is evident that behind this turbulence and discontent
is a motive which of itself must make for a peace that will be
substantial and enduring because it will rest upon justice and a
broader base of human rights. »
However crass and untimely popular demands for social and
economic reform may often appear, however ignorant and even
brutal may be the means through which they often seek expres
sion, they are nevertheless forward, though groping, steps in the
world’s progress toward better things. The social unrest of the
present is but a stage in the development of a securer social
peace.
Despite the strained relations that have arisen and which
now exist between certain world powers, it is evident that the
principles of arbitration as opposed to war have made great ad
vancement in the year 1911.
\ A dispute such as that which sprang up between France
and Germany last spring and which was terminated only last
autumn would doubtless have led to open hostilities a few decades
or a century ago.
If we could weigh the year’s ill feeling against its manifesta
tions qf good will, we would find the balance decidedly in the
latter’s' favor. Mote millions than ever before have been given
for the assuagement of human suffering and for all kinds of phil
anthrophy. The sense of brotherhood has appreciably deepened
and nations, like individuals, have been compelled to recognize
more clearly the meaning of neighborliness.
Claus, of
THE ATLANTA "MtWEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1911.
Vi COUNTRY
BY TIPS. AZH-FELTO/C
RAINY DECEMBER WEATHER.
Because I suffer with rheumatism I
must not venture out in cold, rainy
weather, so I have been a prisoner, so
far as staying in doors is concerned.
1 predicted we would have a hard
winter. November and December have
made m yprophecy good ao far, and I
am glad two of our hard winter months
are nearly departed with bleak winds, icy
weather and floods of rain in their train.
I think we will have two more hard
ones, at least, and I expect I will be
greatly relieved when I can once more
get the outside air, and drive over the
farm. My old pony has pains in her
knees, too, and I greatly fear my old
pet has almost reached her life’s limit,
and then I shall be forlorn, indeed, for
nothing can replace her patient loyalty
to her old mistress who loves her so.
We have been needing rains, because
the creeks and branches have been very
low, and except that the unpicked cot
ton in the fields is well-high ruined, the
rains have come to supply a great need
in this country.
If any of our readers ever had to haul
water to drink and for stock, they will
agree with me that plentiful water sup
ply is a great boon, no matter where
you may be.
But it is a mournful sound to hear the
steady downpour, day and night, and to
see the earth soaked and no sunshine.
The constant drip, drip has made me
more anxious to see a clear spell than
usually. But the Lord watches over His
people. He doeth all things well.
FIRE CRACKERS GALORE.
Because Christmas came on Monday
and Sunday Intervened, we have had a
double dose of firecrackers during the
present holidays.
Our-streets were so full of the
youngsters and their incessant fire crack
ers that it was a bedlam to be stlre all
day Saturday, as well as Monday.
I have seen an estimate of the amount
of money that is annually burned up in
this way, and ail that reconciles me to
this extravagance Is the fact that I had
rather see it wasted by foOliah and in
dulgent parents on such a child’s fad
than to know it went down the men’s
throats In the shape of fiery liquor.
A daily paper in one of our large
cities declared as a solid fact that it real-
HELPING CHINA MAKE UP ITS MIND.
It appears likely that unless one or both of the factions in the
peace conference at Shanghai soon unbend, they will be assisted,
willy-nilly, by foreign intervention to reach some practical agree
ment as to their country’s future form of government. The revo
lutionary* and the conservative delegates are as far apart today as
when they first assembled, and their negotiations are fast trend
ing toward a hopeless deadlock. Older statesmen of the Yuan
Shi Kai school are convinced that the nation will be secure only
under a limited monarchy. Embassies from the revolutionists insis*t
that .nothing short of a republic, patterned after that of America
will suffice.
The conservatives doubtless realize the strategic strength of
their position. The empire’s commerce and industry have been
greatly hampered and in some provinces paralyzed by the war.
The longer hostilities continue, the more serious will be the loss
to business,- both that of the natives and of foreign investors.
Despite the progress the revolution has made thus far and the un
mistakable spread of the democratic impulse among all the people,
the radicals cannot hope to continue their campaign much longer
without inviting, or even necessitating, outside interference. A
waiting game, therefore, is the logical policy of the conservative
element,
Japan has kept notably quiet from the outset of the insur
rection, but the Japanese government has evidently been watching
the republican movement with keen interest, if not anxiety. A re
public in China would scatter the first sparks of a republic dn
Japan.
It is, therefore, not surprising to learn that Japan is planning
to exert all her influence to make China’s new government mon
archic in form. In this, it is understood, she will have England’s
moral support.
Whatever may be the outcome, it seems certain that the abso
lutism of the Manchus is doomed and that the Celestial Empire will
have a government that is at least constitutional.
RAISING THE CALVES
In order to raise cattle in the east
with any profit, or without loss, we
must have one or the other of the
beef breeds. The Shorthorns, Here
fords and Aberdeen Angus, are all
good and each has /Its admirers. I
prefer the Shorthorns because the
cows are generally the zetterb milkers.
Whatever others may think they can
do, or have done, I can’t raise gooa
calves on dishwater, milk slop and hay
tea. Young calves need milk for a
while as much ks babies and to keep
them growing right along they must
have it.
Wte prefer to have our cows oalve In
the fall, both on account of wlntei
dairying and for raising the calves,
which if kept in a warm stable during
the winter and fed milk, hay and
meal will sooner obtain the size most
profitable for their disposal to the
butcher.
Our calves, when taken form their
mothers, are each provided with a
separate pen for convenience in feed
ing so they need not fight for the food
bucket, rob each other of their mess,
or such each others’ ears and navels
when done drinking.
The latter is a vicious habit which
they soon acquire when two or more
are penned together and unless pre
vented it soon causes a blemish onsthe
belly.
Each calf is provided with a feeding
bucket in a box which is nailed fast
to the side of the pen. This prevents
the bucket from being upset and the
milk spilled by the calves’ greedy but
ting, otherwise the feeder, for safety,
would have to stand and hold it while
the calves were drinking.
As soon as we begin feeding the
calves skiinmilK, which is about ten
days after being taken from the cow,
a handful of wheat middlings is put
into the milk for each calf and the
calves are fed twice a day.
The quantity is gradually increases
until a pint or more can be fed to
advantage twice a day. After they
have become fond of the middlings
it is better to feed it to them dry in
stead of putting it into the milk se
that they will have to eat it slower in
stead of gobbling it down.
Oats, corn and rye ground together
make good feed for cvalves in addition
to milk but there «s more danger in
feeding this kind of meal than midd
lings as it is more likely to produce
diarrhoea or scours. A little flaxseecr
meal will improve the ration and sup
ply the place of fother foods.
Before they are four weeks old they
are fed a little hay, or rowen, in ad
dition to their milk and meal. Thert
is more danger of feeding too much
ly took 35 car loads of whisky to assuage
the thrist of its topers during the last
four Christmas days.
Every day a train of eight cars pulled
in from Jacksonville, all loaded with
whisky and all of it dispensed in that
middle Georgia town. Just think of the
destruction that went with that fearful
misuse of money.
Let the children burn up the fire crack
ers, If it will reduce the liquor thirst.
But will it ever strike the minds I of
such a population as ours that such silly
niquorltes should have aguardian? If it
was only the money that went astray it
would matter but little. It is death and
d—nation to those who destroy them
selves.
A SENSXBX.E YOUNG WOMAN.
Justice John M. Harlan, pf the su
preme court of the United States, and
who died a few weeks ago, after nearly
40 years of service on the bench, has a
daughter named Laura. On finding that
the family fortune was much reduced
after her father’s death, she turned ner
atttention toward getting a situation,
where she might make her own living
and not tax the family purse for her
own support and keep.
It would seem that SIO,OOO a year would
be salary enough to keep agoing snd
save part of it. but Washingtonians lead
a fast life and spend as they so.
There are thousands of employes in
the departments, and we are told they
live up to their salaries and death
catches tnem unawares.
Miss Laura Harlan has a fine mother.
My acquaintance was not extensive, but
I have been acquainted with Mrs. Har
lan ever since her husband became a
justice of the supreme court. We might
expect her daughter to be both sane and
sensible in a crisis like this, and i hope
the daughter will enjoy very abundant
success in her wage-earning endeavor.
How much better to do so than to
mourn and mope over past glories or
fine living that has gone and cannot
come again!
I have great respect for young women
who can do things and stand erect un
der reverses of fortune. And after all, it
is what we really are that counts. If
a young woman plays the clinging ivy
she is more than likely to be miserable
sooner or later.
skimmilk than too little, as too liberal
feeding of it is apt to bring on <he
scours.
Some calves can stand more than
others, but about five quarts at a mesa
twice a day is enough for any calf if
it is supplied with hay, meal and wa.
ter. »
We provide our calves with water
after they have drunk their milk ana
give them all they want. Skimmilk
should be warmed to blood heat be
fore feeding to young ealvts.
Fed to calves, the milk makes then,
grow faster and pays as well as when
fed to pigs. They are provided with a
shelter in the pasture to go under
when it storms or the sun is hot ana
they appreciate it highly. .
BLAMES THE MIDDLEMAN.
Dr. Harvey Wiley, vindicated chief
of the bureau of chemistry, thinks that
by eliminating the needless middle man
the cost of living will be reduced.
Admitting the grave seriousness of
the increasing cost of livnig, Dr. Wiley
says the problem must be solved by
bringing the producer and consumer
closer together.
Dr. Wiley advocates the purchasing
of supplies from public storehouses to
give relief.
“Every city has a supply bureau, and
there is no question that this could be
broadened into a depot of supply,” he
said. "Now, of course, this idea will
be jumyed on by every wholesaler and
every retailer. But that is not the
question. The question is, how are we
going to get at this problem in a sensi
ble way to solve it?”
When it comes to meats. Dr. Wiley
says the product passes through five
hands. The little broker who goes
about the country buying cattle, the
big broker, the butcher, the wholesaler,
and the retailer. The public has to pay
five profits.
Alluding to the cost of milk. Dr. Wi
ley said it was about four times what
it should be to the public, because of
lack of proper system of distribution. I
“A dealer told me not long ago that '
he delivered 800 gallons of milk a day
and that he had 12 teams to do it. He
said he had 12 drivers, and every one
stole from him. Eight hundred gallons
of'milk ought to be hauled by one dou
ble team. The milkman delivers milk :
at one residence, then has to drive a '
long way to some other residence and |
the expense is needless.”
It requires grain as well as rough
ness to produce butter fat, and butter
fat at present prices is what pays.
THE
RIGHT Id VI NG VERSUS WRONG
LIVING.
It should be remembered in the home,
that every individual in the family has
some rights that every other member of
the household is bound to respect.
The husband and father should be
made comfortable and to feel —at h»s
wishes are to be considered and home
a place in which to rest from the daily
grind whether it be the wresting of a
living from the soil or labor in any
other walk of life.
These thoughts were suggested by a
neighborly call not long since which
showed the thoughtlessness of a wife.
The husband, by the way, the provid
er, be it remembered, came in from uie
field in working clothes and comfort
ably seated himself on the couch made
attractive with cushions of various sizes
and descriptions supposed to be for use.
The tired man had no sooner sunk
into the downy depths of the support
ing pillows than the wife exclaimed,
"John, you ought not to lean against
those pillows in your working clothes,
you will soil them.”
The man was not to blame when he
quickly pulled them away from his
doubtless wearied body and threw them
across the room. One naturally blush
ed for the thoughtless wue.
There should be nothing in a home too
good for use, especially in the living
room, or by the man of the house whose
bodily strength is given freely that his
loved ones may be made happy and com
fortable. •
It is not well thus to confound val
ues. Surely the man who labors con
stantly for others and must have the wel
fare of his family at heart should be
valued iabove any sofa pillow no mat
ter how dainty or expensive.
Then there are the rights of the wife
and mother to be always respected.
Her especial domain should be arrang
ed with care and a regard for conveni
ence- Work in the ordinary ill-con
structed kitchen requires more expend
iture of strength and nerve power than
is needed for the successful carrying
out of a large business, that is thor
oughly systematized.
The ceaseless traveling from one end
of the room to the other for articles
that should be confined within a small
compass, wear out more women than
the work.—Mrs. T- L. Andrews.
The greqt advantage of feeding lambs
is the fact that the home-grown forage
and fodders together with the otherwise
waste products of the farm may be
turned to profit. This may be done with
a minimum expense for the purchase of
highly concentrated by-product foods and
mill-feeds that are required to make
a satisfactory fattening ration for other
kinds of stock.
Feeding range lambs like other branch
es of sheep feeding is sure to become
more popular as farmers appreciate the
necessity of cutting out the purchase
of large amounts of' grain food and feed
ing a class of live stock that are capable
of turning their grain food and forage
that is grown on their own farms to a
profit.
Practically every line of feeding that
is conducted outside of the corn belt
states has been developed upon a basis
of cheap grain foods and now that every
kind of grain foods have reached a price
that makes their use almost out of the
question, the average feeder is finding his
profits growing smaller.
The men who have been feeding sheep
have not felt the rise in grain prices as
severely as other feeders because sheep
can be put in good condition with a
smaller quantity of grain and concen
trates. In feeding range lambs the
feeder not only makes a profit on the
original cost of the lambs, but as well dn
the cost of the food which is grown on
their farms, and in addition there is a
large return of fertility to the soil, when
the manure is carefully handled.
In England this Mranch of feeding
has been conducted for many years And it
has been found a very profitable way
to increase the fertility of the soil
well as a profitable way to utilize grain,
grass and root crops. Many of the
English feeders buy our corn, oilmeals
and even hay and derive a substantial
profit from their feeding. Is it not fully
practicable and possible for the farmers
of this country to conduct thb same line
of feeding when they have every requisite
from 3,000 to 4,000 miles closer to the base
of supply?
There are excellent inducements to feed
range lambs, especlaly for the man who
does not desire to keep live stock on his
farm during the whole of the year; and
many farmers are fixed so they could
profitably conduct winter stock feeding
at a profit, but who have too much other
labor on their farms during the crop
growing season.
There is money to be made by feeding
range lambs if a man understands the
fundamental principles of the business
and grows a wide variety of forage, fod
ders and grain crops.—W. M. Kelley.
QUEEN'S GOLDEN POPCORN . |
With me this has proven the best of .
all the popcorns. It grows large and ten
der stalks and the ears are large, both
in grain and cob.
Its popping quality is excellent, leaving
no hard center, but large, tender and
very palatable kernels, while the large
yellow grain reminds one of some of the
yellow field corns, yet we are happily
disappointed when we pop and eat it.
This corn readily brings $2 per bushel
on the ear in the home market and is a
profitable corn to grow, needing only
the same amount of fertilization and cul
tivation as common field corn. The
stalks are also good to use for ensilage.—
S. Van Aken.
Mr. Farmer and Homeseeker
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HAWKINSVILLE, GA.
THE EVERGREENS.
To tell something really new about
the evergreen would be a difficult task
indeed, since the reader has doubtless
been familiar with their principal traits
and characteristics since boyhood, and
knows them all, root and branch. But
a few facts relative to them may never
theless prove convenient for reference,
and interesting and suggestive.
First of all, then, they are distinctly
desirable as shade and ornamental trees;
though many fail to recognize their val
ue as such. In time, however, thejf
will surely come to receive the place
as such which is due- them.
No tree can add more to the land
scape than one of these, and especially l
in the winter season, when so many
others are leafless and forlorn. Thd
wonder is that we do not see more of
the evergreens in the streets of cities;
and about fine country places.
Again, they are of prime value aS
timber. The price of soft wood lum
ber is steadily Increasing, yearly, When
this country was first discovered, and
grants of land were given by the
in most cases great care was taken to
reserve the pine thereon to the crown;
Its value was recognized then. Shall
we fail to appreciate it today?
The evergreens are all of them hardy,
and easily grown, and adaptable to al
most any climate and condition of soil
and surroundings. You will find thq
spruce growing on the exposed and chiN
ly upper slopes of mountains, and again
equally well along the muddy banks of
a river, or in the depths of wet and
gloomy swampland, or out upon the
sandy plain. Only give them a fair
chance and the evergreens will look out
for themselves. There is no portion of
our nation in, which they cannot be
grown with success and to advantage.
The present is always propitious witU
them. They care not whether times
are good or bad, or what political sac-i
tion is in the ascendency. They ars i
ready to launch out with you on a ven-i
--ture in the lumber business at any time,
and they make pretty td
tie up with. too.
The several varieies of the evergreend
have their peculiarities, traits and hab
its, by means of which they can be se
lected to conform to one's individual
circumstances. Thus, the hemlock and
the larch seem to be able to enduro al
most any amount of moisture in ths
soil, whereas the pine is best qonstltut
ed to thrvie in the most barren sands,
and to endure long continued drouths.
The spruce is the most successful of
them all in doing without sunshine, sur
viving dense shade, and making itself
at hOmd on northern mountain slopes,
where the sow lingers far into the
spring, and the sun makes out to shins
but a little time each day.
Almost any condition of soil and sit
uation can be met by these hardy grow
ers, and they seldom . fail to return al
good profit to the man who is willing
to loan them the use of his land.
If the large leaved tress retained their
foliage throughout the year it is diffi
cult to Imagine what havoc wind anu
sleet and snow would not occasiod
among them; but the foliage of the ever
greens is so Shaped that though retain
ed throughout the year, no damage re
sults in the fiercest gales. What would
be the destruction of other trees, but
makes music among the evergreens.
Long may their lyres be attuned
throughout tiie hills and valleys of ouf
country! • i \ j
MOGS SUFFEB FROM COX.D.
No animals enjoy freedom more in the
summer than hogs, but their desires are
altogether different in winter. The nat
ural instinct is for cozy quarters, which
may be accepted aa altogether suitable
for them.
No one need ever look for the pigs on
windy hill-tops when winter sets in,’
but if any disappear they are almost
surs to be found in the best protected
and snug spot within their reach.
Warning words are often given not to
have the sows farrowing in the short
est days, when cold weather prevails*
as they can mage no progress against
low temperatures. , >•<
In summer pigs at large pick up a
great deal of their food in the fields* •
but little is available now that will do
them ans good, and although those hi
store condition may still be allowed a
run out daily, they should all be housed
at night and some altogether..
All being fattened for pork or bacosj
should be kept in constantly. And sowg
suckling little pigs should never be al
lowed to take them out and aropnd aS
absolute shelter and constant comfort]
assist their development, while chilis
hinder or are indeed dangerous.
Some have a fashion of letting the pigs
run about the yard in winter, some
times shutting them in at night, and iff
other cases letting them find their own
accommodations, but this is a bad way.
They certainly make themselves moslj
comfortable at times, but the exposure
which is equally, freely indulged in has
the reverse of a satisfactory result, and
it is much better to confine them all to
their proper quarters.
These should be in good order, with
absolute waterproof roofs and sur
roundings that will prevent draughts.
There should be no holes in the floors,
as these make the bedding muck very
quickly, and comfort is thereby reduced
and progress impeded.—W. R. G.
is no sentiment in a hen. Her
only object in life is to get enough to
eat. If she is given that and a warm,
well-ventilated house to sleep in at
night, a dry, sheltered place in winter, 1
she will do the rest.