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FOB FABM MB GARDEN. AD Vie E FROM A SILO ENTHUSIAST. Dairymen, are you thinking about building and filling a silo next season? If not, why not? Are you considering />.» subject of winter dairying? Now the time to plan and prepare for it. Is more profitable. There is less mpetition. The products bring 'her prices. With proper grain f ll ons, and sweet clovor hay or j|ht fodder, better still • pI corn or an( i e t ensilage, yon can produce a Ba., as’ of butter cheaper in mid-winter -^rom grass in June.— [Farm and TilUide. / - * "VALUE OF VEGETABLE MOLD. The scientific name of decayed veg itable matter is humus. There has been great difference of opinion as to its value. The original popular idea is that black soil, or that filled with vegetable matter, must necessarily be rich. ’ Yet some of tlie grain crops> especially winter graius, are grown even better after the humus diminishes. In all loealities a slight addition of the neeessary mineral elements will en¬ able grain to be grown successfully. According to this, the humus is of little value* except to improve the mechanical condition of laud, making light soil more compact and heavy clays more porous. But further in¬ vestigation shows that vegetable mat¬ ter in the soil has much more than its mechanical effect. It is always de¬ composing, always throwing off car¬ bonic acid gas, and this is the best and universal solvent of minerals that might otherwise bo looked out of reach of crops. It is certain also that the decomposition of humus furnishes certain proportions of nitrogen, vary¬ ing with the materials from which it is composed. Thus the humus of clover hay is much richer than that of wheat or other grain straw. [Boston Cultivator.] MILKING COWS IN CALF. It lias been advocated at farmers' institute meetings ia Eastern Ontario that a cow should be milked right up to calving, and, provided she was not allowed to run down in condition, it was not only no injury to either cow or calf to do so, but it was of the greatest importance that a milk cow should in this way be taught her busi¬ ness. On this subject a German au¬ thority says: “With many the opin¬ ion prevails that a cow should be milked as nearly i\p to the time of calving as she will give milk. Some go even farther and maintain that it is of importance that it should be ex¬ tended right up to calving. We dis¬ sent. In a majority of cases it is ad¬ visable to quit eight or ten weeks be¬ fore calving. To milk longer is at tlie expense of the development of the calf, to the injury of the cow and her future milk yield. The belief that a young eow after her first calf should be Jnilked as long as possible, because a Hong milking luvbit can in this way bo established, is entirely erroneous. The milk from a cow gets bad accord¬ ing as calving approaches, tlie cream will not rise and the butter not come. The reason for this is the absence of lime and phosphoric acid (in combina¬ tion) which go to form the bones of the calf. Even the strongest feeding cannot counterbalance the injury done by long continued milking. Such strong feeding shortly before calving could easily have most serious conse¬ quences. With many excellent milk¬ ers, who do not go dry easily, it may become advisable to influence the milk yield by giving dry feed, and by pro¬ longing the time between milkings.” — [American Dairyman. A NEW MILKING MACHINE. After all the many labor-saving de¬ vices which have been introduced into the work of tlie dairy, the tiresome milking by hand still remains. Several milking machines have been devised aud tried, but eo far without success. None of them have performed the work in a manner consistent with the lacteal functions of the cow, and con. sequently have failed when put to a test. A more promising effort has been recently made by a sanitary en¬ gineer, a Scotchman residing in the famed dairy district of Ayrshire, which is certainly based upon reason¬ able principles, and is consistent with the natural process by which the milk Is drawn from (lie cow’s uddor by the calf. This is by suction and by at¬ mospheric pressure due to a vacuum provided by an air pump. Soft elastic rubber cups are attached to the cow’s teats, which are held by the air pressure, and these are connect¬ ed with a set of tubes and pipes, through which the milk is conveyed to a proper receptacle. Tlie principle is a scientific one, and if the obvious dif¬ ficulties in the way of applying it to practice can he overcome there is little doubt of its final success, If this can be assured, the most troublesome and costly part of the dairy work will hare been done away with, and the whole of it can be reduced to a simple method by conveying the milk directly to the separator or the butter extractor. Then there will be nothing between the cows and the final product but this mechanical agency. — [New York Tithes. , STARTING SEEDS IN BOXES. Those who lack the facilities of a bot-bed or cold-frame may have early plants by sowing their seeds in boxes in the window. Long, narrow boxes about three inches deep are the best. Such boxes may be placed near the glass, where the plants will enjoy the light, and their shallow depth will al¬ low them to dry out freely. Fill the boxes with fine, porous soil, the surface-soil being sifted, and the whole well firmed and made almost as smooth and level as a board by press¬ ing with a planed surface. If the seeds are very fine, sow them in rows over this smooth soil, and take great care in watering to avoid roughing the surface. Keep the soil moist, but not wet, as too much moisture de¬ stroys the germ of the seed. Tlie same care is also necessary after the plants appear, to prevent them from damping off. If the plants begin to crowd each other, remove a portion to another box. A pen-knife ean be used to pick out the plants, if very small. Plants thus removed become stronger and better rooted than those left in the box, for the cropping of the roots has the same effect as pruning the tops; namely, an abundant growth of new shoots. Many persons transplant all their young plants to iuduce the growth of an abundance of fibrous roots; and when this is done the. plants are transferred to their blooming quar¬ ters. Light, heat, air and a reasonable degree of moisture are all essential to young seedling plants. These requi¬ sites being judiciously provided, any one can succeed in starting plants from seeds; and, to have them early, a few boxes in the house will produce just as good plants as the best liot-bed that can be constructed.—[Ladies’ Home Companion. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Feeding troughs will always save feed. Young ducks need careful feeding at first. Eggs a month old will not do for hatching. Guineas will almost invariably hide their nests out. Geese and ducks need bulky food instead of so much grain. To be a master of a farm a man must be a master of himself. Keep a watch on the turkey liens or some of the eggs will be lost. Supplying good drainage will aid materially in preventing roup. The best plau of stopping feather eating is^to kill those that begin it. A number of foods may be used to good advantage in feeding poultry. Select your farm hands as you would your seed—with extra care. Generally it is the poultry for egg production that pays the farmers best. In using artificial mothers care should be taken not to keep too warm. The least thing on a farm, if once neglected, soon grows to be tlie largest. A tablespoouful of copperas in the drinking wator for younger fowls will be found healthy. Time is the farmer’s most assiduous laborer, at work night and day, but it needs a clear head to boss it. Fresh eggs are in demand these times. Are you doing your share toward supplying (he demand? White bran makes an excellent food for poultry; it should never be fed dry or raw; always scald it thoroughly. Rats are often very troublesome among young poultry, causing con¬ siderable loss; they must be guarded against. Eight average hen eggs will weigh a pound, but there is considerable difference between the largest aud smallest. After the fowls can be given a free r ange care should be taken not to overfeed; very little corn is needed from this time on. There is little in this world but what is of use to the farmer. Even the blind puppy is often a better watch than a big/ strong mastiff. No farmer is compelled to search for a market if he has a superior arti¬ cle to sell. It is the inferior articles that becomes a drug. Choice goods are always salable. Items of Interest Luos abends a wealthy San Francis¬ can. Hia age ia eighty-two, and he has just cut his third set of teeth. Last year there was spent in this country, for tea, the sum of 180,000.000; for coffee, $122,600,000; and for malt and spirituous beverages, $900,000,000. A three-year-old corpse is carried around the country in a zinc-lined case by a Chicago drummer, and shown to undertakers as an evidence of the excel¬ lent quality of the embalming fluid used to preserve it, of which he is the agent. Temptation for desperadoes exists in the secret hoards of wealth in India. An Allahabad paper estimates that coin and gems to the value of $1,860,000,000 are locked up in that country. In Amritsar City alone there are hidden jewels worth $10,000,000. incubator The hatching is of alligator’s eggs in an a new industry in Florida. The demand for the reptiles is in excess of the natural supply, and half of the little negroes in the villages- are poking in the sandbanks all day long getting eggs for the artificial hatchers. Boston is the only city in the world which preserves an exact record of the proceedings of its common council. Every motion, argument and remark, no matter how unimportant, is stenographi cally taken down. The members are therefore very careful in their utterances. A Brahama hen on a farm in Cecil county, Maryland, belonging to Wm. D. Summers, of Philadelphia, lately sur¬ prised which its owner. It laid a dark-brown egg measures seven and three-quar¬ ter inches in its long diameter, and six and a half inches in its short diameter. ' Drunkenness is the failing of the Hercules beetle, a South American insect. It sometimes attains a growth of six inches in length. It is said that it rasps the bark from the slender branches of the mammae tree until the juice flows. This it drinks until it drops to the ground in¬ toxicated. In Holland there is an original way of collecting taxes. If the taxpayer omits to promptly him, pay soldiers after notice has been good sent to two possessed of appetites are sent to his home, to be there lodged and maintained at the expense of the delinquent, until he rushes down to the tax-office and settles. John Schrimbher, of Emporia, Neb., weighs 145 pounds, and his wife weighs 404 pounds. She is thirty-one years old, and is still gaining flesh. Her father, weigh* over 500 pounds, and her mother tips the beam at 410. She has a sister, twenty-seven years old, who weighs 400 pounds, and she has four brothers whose combined weight is over 1,500 pounds. Electricity is employed in a Berlin cafe to boil coffee. A platinum wire passes in spiral form through several elass jars, the electrical current quickly boiling raising the water contained to point, and the coflee is thus the prepared in A the view of any one in room. small electric railway conveys the coffee to the several tables, so that the guests may help themselves to their liking. The Caroline Islands. It is a fact that the American mission¬ aries in the Caroline Islands are discrimi¬ nated against by the Spanish authorities. In 1852 the American Board of Foreign Misaions sent out several missionaries to christianize the islands of this unclaimed .section of the Pacific Ocean, at that time by any foreign State and but Engffil known, except to hardy New whaling sailors, who had found in th«w a source of supplies for their ships during their long cruises in hunting whales from Capo Horn to the Arctic Ocean. These missionaries, after many the strug gles against the heathenism of no tives of the islands, at last gained a foot hold and steadily advanced, until now (not civilized) as any of the countries in habited by the white race, writes a New York Times missionaries correspondent. has almost The work of the been won derful. They have built churches and schools, have reduced the native dialect to writing and instructed the children in books duced printed the natives in the live native in villages tongue; and in to respect one another’s rights and property; have raised the standard of morality and established the binding educated marriage natives cere¬ mony, and have the so that the rudimentary branches ate well known the English by the language mass of has the become people, almost and as much used as the native tongues. In return for all this the love of the natives for their missionary friends is very great. They allow themselves to be governed and directed by the mission¬ aries without comment, looking up to them as being authority always right, and missionaries acknowl¬ edging the of above all others. Many persons arc broken down from over¬ work or household cares. Brown’s Iron Bit¬ ters rebuilds the syBtem, aids digestion, re¬ moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. __ May is a name, the origin of which comes front the Romans, in honor of Main, AU-. the mother of Mercury and daughter of Good Blood Is absolutely Essential to Good Health You may have both by taking the best Blood Purifier. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, Va. The celebrated Fauquier Sulphur Springs and Baths, near Warrenton, Va. A modern and magnificently ap¬ pointed 1,000 feet. hotel; Cuisine first-class in every Hot respect. Sulphur Elevation Baths, unexcelled. Billiards, Bowling and Tennis, Music and flue Livery. A park of 235 acres. Atmosphere will be found un¬ usually mild and invigorating. Terms moderate. Dpen J^ IfithjJKO, JU MILdLS. She Bead It Borne Hartford girls, stopping tempo¬ rarily by at a country receiving town, were annoyed the delay in their mail mat¬ ter. One of them had a postal card mailed from the former city, and it contained these words: “I hope Hiss-(the poet mistress) will not take all the afternoon to read this postal card.” The friends mail were promptly slowly, at the postoffice, when and the last came as usual; but at the postmistress laid down this postal, she said with a snap in her eye, Miss-she’s “I hope, when you write, you’ll tell an impudent hussy.” * Stale pies in railroad restaurants have long Recognizing been disseminators of dispepsia. the this jact, a member of Missouri Legislature has introduced a pies. measure compelling bakers to date their Ladies needing a tonic, or children who want Bitters. building It is up, should take, take Brown’s Malaria, Iron Indigestion, Biliousness pleasant to and Li cures Complaints, Blood ver makes the rich and pure. Lotta has been on the stage since 1856. Her fortune is estimated at between $1,000,000 and $ 2 , 000 , 000 . A man who has practiced medicine for 4U what years he ought to know salt from sugar; read says: __ Messrs. F. J. Cheney Toledo, & O., Co.—Gentlemen: January 10,1887. I . have been in the general practice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice preparation and that experience I could have never seen a prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall’s Ca¬ tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre¬ scribed It a great many times and its effect is wonderful, have and find would say in conclusion that I not yet to U they a would case of catarrh that it would cure, take it according to di¬ rections. Tours truly, L. L. ---R8T7CH, Go M. D., will give $100 for Office, 215 Summit catarrh St. that We any case of cannot be cured with Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Taken internally F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., ,. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 76e. _____ Personal—Free— 1 To all persons who are rnw a^uxnriant suit o?what humbug, the cause or how long standing; no Pior. For particulars and testimonials write Logan & Co. Box 566, Lexington, K j. FITS slopped free by Da, Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. kettle Marvelous free. Dr. Kline. cures. 031 Treatise Arch St., and Phila., $3 trial Pa. cular Portable C. B- Hay Curlee, Presses Rienzi, $60. Miss. Address for cir¬ If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaao Thomp¬ son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c per bottle. Beecbham’s Pills cure Sick-Headache. • 5 - 'M ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup and refreshing of Figs is taken; the it is and pleasant gently promptly to taste, acts yet on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys s ®. fevers Aft and cures ““t habitual constipation. remedy £tyrup klnd of Figs is the <« lte ever pro uucftdj pleasing to the taste and ac ccptable its action to and the truly stomach, beneficial prompt ffi its in effects, healthy prepared only from the most its excellent ana agreeable qualities substances, commend it many to aU aud have made it most Don P j reme dv known mdVlxttU.'U fan all leading dr.. gists. Any have reliable it hand druggist Will who may not on pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept 8HJ substitute. LALIrUnNIA rib r ,« oTHUr ovdiiB U* M SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. H.Y tt August Flower” Dyspepsia. TJiere is a gentle man at Malden-on the-Hudson, N. Y., named Captain A. G. Pareis, who has written us a letter in which it is evident that he has made up his mind concerning some things, and this is what he says: ‘ ‘ I have August used Flower your in preparation family called my for seven Or eight years. It is Con¬ stantly . in my house, and A we consider it the best remedy for Indigestion, and Constipation we Indigestion, have ever used or known. My wife is troubled with Dyspepsia, and at times suffers very much after eating. The August Flower, however, re¬ lieves the difficulty. My wife fre¬ quently says to me when I am going to town, ‘We are out Constipation of August Flower, and I think you had better get another bottle. 1 I am also troubled with Indigestion, and when¬ ever I am, I take one or two tea spoonfuls before eating, for a day or two, and all trouble is removed.” @ KING COTTON Buy or sell your Cotton 00 JONES A5*Ton Gotton Scale. I not cheapest but best. If For term* address NT JONES OF BINGHAMTON, BINGHAMTON. N. Y. MHul fiSfa HUE If ■■ and cured Whiskey Habits HrlllW « m W at home with seasaas wST Atlanta, Go. Office UI1J4 Whitehall St Beecher s Successor. The Rev. Lyman Abbott, the successor Church, of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth small-limbed Brooklyn, is a thin, delicate, his man. Humor is npt in line, and he rarely makes his congrega¬ tion smile. Not long ago, however, he involuntarily subject made them titter. The of his sermon was the obligation resting their shells upon Christians to get out of and do something for the good derful of body mankind. “What is this won¬ of ours given us for?” Dr. Abbott exclaimed. “Look at it. Look at these muscles.” Dr. Abbott stretched out his thin arms. “Look at this strength, this adaptability, this God sion given of vigor.” Something in the expres¬ the faces of the members of the congregation and a rustling like a faint titter recalled the preacher to hinlseif, and with a faint smile he passed to an¬ other phase of his sermon. Saved by Heavy Clothes. Presence of mind saved John Adams, of Tacoma, from a frightful death. He is employed in a smelting works in that city. The other day a misstep caused him to fall into a pot of boiling metal, and in an instant he was immersed to his armpits. the As he fell he clutched the rim of pot, and was thus enabled to quickly plunged into draw himself adjoining out. He of then cold His hands an badly pot burned, water. were but otherwise he had hardly a scar on him. The secret of his escape was that he had on heavy wollen underware and outer clothing, Adams and before it had burned through was in the pot of cold water. The girls who attend the college at Columbia, Mo., think a fine should be imposed gentlemen when whom they accept the escort of g^d and to have they are not en agreed to pay a fine twenty-five cents every time they do so. Bradfields Female Regulator As a Tonic For Females, nothing letter can be found; and we advise all delicate or debilitated women, whether suffering from any irregularity or not, to take it. Every ingredient possesses superb tonic properties and exerts a wonderful influence in toning up and strengthening her frame. Its effect is almost magical, driving and soon it causes the blood to course healthily through her veins, and strength through the proper channels all impurities of her system. Health always result from its continued use. “My wife has suffered for six years from suppressed menstruation, Has been treated by the best physicians without benefit. Two bottles of Bradfield’s Fe¬ male Regulator relieved her, a thing I thought impossible. Her health is much improved. I believe your remedy has no equal. TV. A. Simmons, McNutt’s, S. C .’ “Have suffered periodically for years—been treated by the best physicians without relief— Bradfield’s Female Regulator did me more good than all the other remedies. Mrs. Eliza Davis, Charlotte, N. C.” “Have used Bradfield’s Female Regulator and can recommend it to all my friends. Miss C. S. TViemeyeu, Denver, Col.” Sold by all Druggists. Price $1.00 per bottle. Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. TEES KING OF ALL COUGH CURES: DOCTOR ENGLISH SOLD IN ENGLAND for Is. IHcL, and in AMERICA for 85 cents a bottle. IT TASTES COOP, Every Fartnerhis own Roofer CHEAPER than Shingles, Tin or Slate. Reduces Tour INSURANCE, and Perfectly Fire, Water and Wind Proof. 11.:-.wm CORRUGATED* ft -^5EHD FOR OUR ikW •; CATALOGUE & PRICES CtOfrE IRON 'ROWING,Hi. ^1 , ' ' . ' . : f. C-. Onr Roofing la ready formed for the Do Building, not buy and can be applied by any one. nmnvi/lirrc BUGGY KHfctb positively remedied Gresly Pant Stretcher where. GREELY. If not for sale Washington in your town send Boston. 25c, to B. J. 715 Street SICK Buffalo. N. Y. tree. Dr, J .11. DYE. Mitor, PATENTS CARRIAGES. $ * % FOR THE GIVE IT TO TEETHING CHILDREN, IT WILL SAVE THEIR LIVES. DON’T let your druggist or merchant per¬ suade yon that something else will do ns well, for It WON’T. £ P ^Cheapest. ISO'S REMEDY ^lielief FOlt is immediate. CATARRH.—Best. A cure is Easiest certain. to use. For no equal. QATAR R H nostrils. it 1? an Price, Ointment, of which a small particle Is applied to th o SOc.^^Sold by drupjdst^or sent by mall. ^ Talk’s cheap, but when it’s backed up by a pledge of the hard cash of a financially re¬ sponsible world-wide firm, reputation or company, for fair of and honorable dealing, it means business / Now, there are scores of sarsaparillas purifiers, and other blood all cracked up to be the best, purest, most peculiar and wonderful, but bear in mind (for your own sake), there’s only one guaranteed blood-purifier and remedy for torpid liver and all diseases that come from bad blood. and That alone—sold one —standing trials solitary is on Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ ical Discovery. If it don’t do good in skin, scalp and scrofulous diseases —and pulmonary consumption is only lung-scrofula—just let its makers know and get your money back. Talk’s cheap, but to back a poor medicine, or a common one, by selling it on trial, as “Golden Medical Discovery” is sold, would bankrupt the largest fortune. Talk’s cheap, but only “Dis¬ covery ’’ is guaranteed. m f/l m ■* <C !W m W i We are forced bearing prices the market of watches on Watches; down we huve the this at least 20 per cent.; as a result of we ars making immense sales. The “Stevens Watch” is extensively known as tmequalcd the hest for time-keeper and in the durability. market—ft Rind is about accuracy improved watch before out our pur¬ chasing. J. P. Stevens & Bro., 47 Whitehall St., Atlanta. Ga. Send for catalogue. Aov.ebtised: .U734SPAPERS with Whore active we have merchant.— no Agent, will arrange any Is. & T. Smith’s Worm Oil For Worms IS A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY. Sold Everywhere. 88 Cents. r LSYollmu isPassel^^ wnd Fathers are en¬ SBSilAi. 8 lasWi” ici&E KMUSSSt T J F yon are sick regain spend your summer In the Becky Mountains and your health. 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