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Ploughing aa a Great Sport, In tbe Minnesota Agricultural Col* lege they are applying the lesson that Mark Twain's hero, Tom Sawyer, had Impressed upon himself on that Sat urday morning when his aunt set him at work whitewashing the fence— that Is, that what one must do is work, and that play may be turned into work or work into play. At the college a ploughing contest was re cently held, and it has been decided to make such contests a permanent part of the held day sports. In reporting the success of the com petition in which the first prize, a sul ky plow, was won by a freshman in the school and the third prize by a senior, the Pioneer Press of St Paul, advanced the theory that if, all the energy now expended in foot ball and STOP YOUR RUNAWAY None genuine You Con Do It EVERY TIME With A PEER SAFETY REIW FREAKS IN FOOD CONSUMPTION. UNLESS, SAFETY REIN BUCKLES PRICE, COMPLETE, $5.00 Exprestage Prepaid No more Smash-ups; No more Lives Lest; Can be buckled ., on, las minute, to *nyBrld!«: WORKS INDEPENDENTLY OF THE DRIVING REINS. Write for descrintlvo circular, free on application, to THE) GBI3H MANUFACTURING CO., 47 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK. . Will Stop any Horae or Honey Refunded, GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. Consumers the world over, and not alone in the United States, as has of- ten been asserted by magazme writ- era are very fastidious In their selec- j tioii of article, of diet. Peculiar aa it. may neem, tliia selection la not. made with the idea of procuring something which will please the palate or which ia nutritious, but more with regard to the efTect upon the eye of the ol>-j Jcet sought. Sometimes, too. there It* | a hide-bound conception of bow a cor-: tain food should be and noiulug cun i break the public of this fancy. J hf Department of Agriculture, a year or so ago. found that the English peo ple would not purchase a consignment of American sweet potatoes, the sole complaint being, that while the tubers were of good color nnd satisfactory in every other respect, they were sweet in taste. The English conception of how n potato ought to taste was cer tainly a compliment to Irishm n. Butter, an article of food supposed to be purchased for food reasons alone, depends largely upon Its flavor and perhaps, still more upon Its color as to its quality when It comes to purchase. In some European countries there I* a preference for the darker-skinned chickens. A curious preference, en tirely unassocinted with taste * '* color of eggs. While in Bosto eggs sell for a cent or two p< more than white eggs, the coi true in New York, and if one dirty eggs are visible tiie prici lower. It Is said that Chicago criminating In regard to the eggs, but that San Francisco prefers meat of Agriculture. Each of them is about eighteen feet tall. In the Spring when these trees are In llower a botanist watches till the gum exudes from the stigma. This sign tells him that the ovary of the flower ia ripening for the reception of the pollen and the conception of the fruit Straightway he clips the sta mens—those delicate filaments, flno as hairs, which extend themselves from the heart of the flower. He clips them because at their end bang tiny pods— the anthers—in which the pollen, or the germinal dust, is held. Going to is the brown Sandwich Suburban Co-Operation. In Kensington, -.Maryland; one of Washington's suburbs, ilioro is a group of pretty little ost- tages inhabited mostly by gov ernment office-holders. There is no mu nicipal gasllgbtlng or water supply sys tem, ami to offset the benefit of tbe health and pleasures derived from liv ing near to natnre, there Is some dis comfort to those who are used to these city luxuries. One honsebolder, of an inventive torn of mind, however, has seemed to solve-the problem for him self and neighbors. The party who lived next door to him owned a gaso line engine, hut he had no deep well from which to obtain a supply of pure water—the government employe had. A deal was fixed np between them by which the inventive genius was to set up and install tbe engine and connect it with his pntnp, so by a system of piping, water could be had liy both parties without tbe newssitv of hand pumping or a windmill. This system of water supply has worked welMso welt Indeed that the piping has been laid to a couple of neighbors even more distant, and tbe well, .being of ample capacity, now supplies# half a dozen families with SELF rm> rot CIRCLE TWO HORSE Eggs Colored With Coffee. In England,, where brown eggs are the favorite, dealers go so far as to color the shells of white eggs with cither strong coffee or some dye stuff. New York likes a white halter but Chicago and Philadelphia a little dnrkor, while Washington demands a deep yellow butter, and New Orleans wants a color still darker than Wash ington. IIovv far Otis question of col or goes may lie taken from a little in stance in which a car-load of butter •Intended for Washington was sent on to New York, and the butter originally consigned to New Y'ork was sent to Washington. The receivers in both places remonstrated strongly, the ouc claiming tho butter to be too dark and HAY PRESS tiie orangery of tbe department he gathers the bursting anthers of tho The Baler for speed. Bales 12 to 18 tons a day. Has 40 Inch feed hole. Adapted tobank barn work. Stands up to its work—no digging holes for wheels, Self-feed Attachment Increases cap acity, lessens labor; makes better bales and does not increase draft. TIIE CONSUMER'S FANCY Warrants the Shipper in Packing Extra Fruit in Expensive Baskets plows, there would scarcely remain space for cities to flourish on un- pioughed land. it appears that the ploughing con test was introduced this year ns a new feature of the fle'.d day sports. Preliminaries were held nnd the best E lowers in the school were .selected. Inch contestant was given a strong team and a plow. Ho was required to lay out a "land" about twenty feet wide anil finish ids "land.” The con- SANDWICH MFC. CO„ 124 Main Street, Sandwich, III Well Drilling Machines EXPERIMENTAL-ORANGE TREE. 1 ><-pari merit of Agriculture. sweet oranges and sprinkles the sweet orange pollen on the stigma of tho bitter orange. Tiie 'pollenntlon of these trees has been made for about ten seasons and each year the fruit of the little bit ter orange has improved till this sea son the oranges will bo fairly good Over 70 rises and styles for drilling either deep or shallow wells in any kind of soil or rock. Mounted on wheels or sills. With engines or horse powers. 1—, j #— An y me- A HARDY ORAXCE. chanic can operate them easily. SER11 TOR CATALOGUE WILLIAM BROS,, Ithaca^H. V Crossing the Florida Variety on the Sturdy Japanese Species, Botanists in tho employ of tho United Slates Department of Agricul ture hope to bring Into being an orange tree which will bo ns sturdy ns the ap ple tree; an orange tree that will not perish in the chill of northern winter, which In December will bear - its wreaths of snow nnd In May Its gnr- lnnds of bloom, and which when sum mer comes will yield fruit as good as that sweetened and gilded In tho south sun. This may seem to bo an un- Kirk’s An Adopted English Knight. An Englishman who visited New York' City a short time Mo had oc casion to ask an Irishman the direc tion of n certain business house. This son of Erin happened to bo going that way. and offered to guide his Inquired "Tell me. honestly, dearie, how could these doughnuts be/improved?" "By making the holes a little larger.” AMERICAN CROWN How to Hake a Home for Ten Gents a Year The Britisher drew himself up with dignity and replied: "I nm the Honorable John Ken neth Edgerton of London, Knight of the Garter. Knight of the Bath, Knight of St. John. Knight of the OoMen Fleece. Knight of the Royal Legion and of the Iron Cross. And « an effort to make tiie citrus om which Is obtained the sweet table orange, as hardy and insensitive to cold as tho orange tree from which Is obtained tho bitter unedible orange. By crossing a citrus treo which grows In the north and which bears an un- *# a green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect cleanser for sntomobllo mschinery end oil vehicles; will not lojon the most highly polished surface. Made from" pure vegetable oils. If your dealer does not csrry American Crown Hoop In stock, sad ns his tun tad address and Vs will too that your waatt (re supplied. Put up in 1IK K and E0 lb palls. James S. Kirk & Company CHICAGO, ILU COOKING SEWING ENTERTAINING MUSIC HEALTH and how to Build a house to do it in MAXWELL’S which will bo combined the good traits of each. Government botanists are confident that tbe result of this citrus marriage will be a scion that will grow and fruit at a latitude midway between tho northern limits of the sweet orange and tho northern limits of the lino of growth of the unodlbllc orange. If "Ol am Patbrlck Timothy Flnnnt- gan of Hoboken, to-nolght lnbst noight, nolght befonr Inhst,' nolght be- foor thnht, to-morrow nolght, tho nolght following and Iwenr other bloody nolght of the wake, Including Sunday nolght bo gorrn!" OYSTER BLEACHING IN FBE31I WATER AND FANCY CONDENSED J1ILK CANS go and beautiful, arc, If anything, the other too light, nnd that no' custo erior In flavor to tho wild ones mer could bo found for either. Tho mil along tho roadside. Ited apples matter was adjusted only through tho tlio loading favorites of tlds sort reshlpraent of tho consignments to tho fruit. An Instance of tills Is the proper places. l Davis, one of the bent seller# and Consumers, of course, are nppcaied tnlnly the poorest eater' toln tho selection of some foods through tho quantity of advertising Artificially Colored Meats given to a particular product Instance# lent dealers have found that corn “braa'ktost “ and 8 heSith 0 ?^ f, cured hnm nnd some salt meats Jfjft iSmS* l a much more ready sals where, in ‘‘i"* ” r „° ®,° process of curing, some saltpoter P a . I ’ n c 1 r ,J!“? aJJIJME nnd ir e0 Sa\mgra t0 nnd P ot r hcr forms It °r ,t b 7 them merely for tho sick; in rod meat Iro frequently colored by *2$ jk'iJXL*"** EXCAVATION WOR«pM With Greatest Economy ' - ^ use the ; 0 Western Elevating Grader jfa tills should bo there might bo orange groves In central Virginia, mlddlo Ken tucky, southern Indiana, southern Illi nois, central Missouri and central Kansas. Think of orange gardens around tho homo In Norfolk, Rich mond, Lyochbnrg, Lexington, Louis ville, Cairo and perhaps In Cincin nati, St. Lonls, Jefferson City nnd Kansas City. 1 ' and Ditcher. It I# understood thst the Kentucky crope promise on unusual largo output of pun Cuban tobacco this year.- The most original, practical and entertaining illustrated monthly ma gazine ever published , "• SUBSCRIBE FOR IT NOW One Whole Year for MOTOR .SftOVW ROAD CONSTRUCTION. TEN CENTS THE PASSING OP THE HORSE. /SO FURTtHE-R. -USE. FOR /-ilAV ^ ste. ouu. 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Hodgin# considers the Investment a good one. r