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FARM AND GARDEN. FIGHTING INSECTS WITH FUNGI. The observation that many injurious insects are kept so effectively in check by diseases has led to the idea of study¬ ing these diseases and introducing them among insects in localities where the diseases have not yet appeared. This is ably advocated by Mr. Nicholson, who states that cabbage worms are not very destructive in Europe because a fatal fungus disease does not permit their rapid increase. All such fungi should be bred and spread among our healthy insect crop .—Bural New Yorker. SHEEP POISONED BY LAMB-KILL. The narrow-leaved laurel is tbe variety known as lamb-kill, though both it and the broad-leaved laurel arc poisonous to sheep. They have a bitter taste, and after grass becomes abundant sheep learn to avoid them. The remedy for a sheep poisoned by lamb-kill is first to give some physic, to get the stuff out of the stomach as quickly as possible. Then take three heaping teaspoonfuls of common tea, boil them twenty minutes, and give the decoction to the sheep. After twelve hours repeat this dose if necessary. This is said by those who have tried it to be a certain cure, The tea itself has some poisonous properties, and should not be given unless it is cer¬ tain that lamb-kill has first been eaten, and is causing the sickness. The poison of the tea probably counteracts the poi¬ son of the laurel. TEACn THE COLTS. Colts can be taught by mind as well as children, and this is the first requisite. A colt that will obey a moderate tone in the stable will obey the ?amo outdoors, but confidence is the one thing needful. A colt should be curried until he is used to the comb and brush. Should be made acquainted with the pitchfork and convinced that a fork is harmless. Should let you poke the handle under or over him, or rub his back with the round side of the tines. If I accident¬ ally prick a colt, I at once tell him I am sorry, and rub the spot with my baud. Ropes, straps and cloths should be laid, dragged and thrown across the colt’s back carefully but persistently till he will hardly notice them. Then blankets and robes may be used. I you want to roll a barrel through the stable, don’t take the colt out, but go ahead of the barrel, never behind it, and gradually get it near enough for the colt to smell it. If he finds a few oats on the head of the barrel, he will never be so much afraid of a barrel again. Umbrellas and overcoats should be used in the same way, and then when your colt is old enough to hitch up you will have a safe horse.— [Farm, Stock and Home. BITTER ROT OF APPLES. In the experience of many orchardists one or more apple trees will occasionally be found where the decayed fruit has an exceedingly bitter taste that distin¬ guishes it from the ordinary rot of the orchard. Old trees are most liable to it, and while not confined to any one var¬ iety, some are more predisposed to it than others. The rot usually begins in the Summer and increases as the season advances. An affected apple never re¬ covers, but continues to decay until en¬ tirely destroyed. Occasionally the rot is not developed until the apple3 are fully ripe and have been harvested and stowed away, but much more commonly it begins while they are yet on the tree. When a tree is affected by it, it will usually reappear yearly, though some of the fruit may be sound. This disease, says the Chief of the Section of Vegetable Pathology, is caused by a fungus that belongs to a group the members of which are quite destructive, one species causing the so called anthracuose of the vine, while an¬ other attacks the raspberry and black¬ berry. Serious and widespread as this disease seems to be in certain parts of the United States, there does not ap¬ pear to be any record of the fungus that causes it in the works of our mycolo¬ gists. first shows The affected apple one or more brownish spots on its surface, which gradually enlarge and run to¬ gether, affecting the entire apple, with a very dark and almost black discolora¬ tion in the centre of the diseased spot, On cutting through it while the spots are small the decaying tissue will be found extendin'! quite a distance into the fruit, and finally the entire apple becomes a soft, yellowish-brown mass, As the result of some experiments made, spores from a diseased apple had no effect when sown on the uninjured sur face of a healthy one, but infection was readily imparted by a knife-blade first in a diseased, and afterward! in a healthy apple. Says the same authority: “It will be seen we have a dangerous foe to contend with, but with our present limited knowledge of its habits it is impossible to suggest means of combating it.” Notwithstanding the above a few per sons are on record claiming to have rem¬ edies that have been successful in their own cases. One is to bore a hole through the centre of the diseased tree and fill . the hole with salt, Another has had success by boring to the centre and fill¬ ing the hole with sulphur. Still another finds the best remedy in trimming up the lower limbs, seeding down to grass aud grazing the orchard with sheep, Gen erally, however, persons with the long¬ est experience with badly diseased tree3 have found the most effectual remedy in cutting them down. TEACH YELLOWS. Bulletin No. 9 of the botanical divis¬ ion of the United States Department oi Agriculture, just issued, constitutes the most complete and valuable compendium on the subject of peach yellows ever pub¬ lished. Its author, Mr. Erwin F. Smith, who has devoted sixteen months of con¬ tinuous careful examination and pains¬ taking study to this subject, presents in a clear and interesting manner all the known facts and best-founded theories about this devastating disease; its his¬ tory and distribution; characteristics of the disease; losses due to yellows; con¬ ditions known, or supposed to favor the disease; restrictive legislation; chemical analyses; local enactments; and conclu¬ sions as to the causes of yellows. Care¬ fully prepared maps showing the extent and location of the infested district and several photo-engravings and colored plates depicting the appearance of the peach trees and fruit accompany the work. The author, while not able as yet to draw final conclusions from the facts known so far, considers it reasonably safe to conclude that yellows is not due to cul¬ tural influences, and that although tho frosts, floods and droughts may be modi¬ fying influences, they are nothing more. Neglect of cultivation and pruning, in¬ juries by quadrupeds anl borers, use of animal manures, soil exhaustion, etc., must all be included in the list of dis¬ proved theories. The only remaining probable hypothesis of the cause of yel¬ lows, the author thinks, is that of micro¬ organisms. Further investigations and experiments will bo required before a final conclusion can be reached, but so much may be safely admitted; the peach yellow is a communicable disease, and it is justifiable on the part of state legisla] fures to make statutes compelling the immediate removal and destruction by fire of all affected tree3. It is gratifying to note that the agricultural appropria¬ tions for 1890 will enable Mr. Smith to continue his researches in this field.— American Agriculturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Keep a look-out for the sows that are soon to farrow. Turn geese eggs set under hens, by hand, every other day. Sprinkle with tepid water twice a week. The colonics that raise the most brood, will, as, a rule, be strongest at the beginning of the honey season. If there is a prospect of a shortage ol honey plants in youil neighborhood this season, better sow some Japanese buck¬ wheat. C. F. Muth says: A strong colony always consumes more honey than a weak one, and a strong colony always secures the most honey. Beans or potatoes are the best crops for an orchard. Among sowed crops, peas and buckwheat are best. Fertilize the orchard well if you seed it down. Insects on orchard ttees have become so numerous in summer that the trees should be sprayed with Paris green water,or fine fruit need not be expected, The best soil for an orchard i3 a clay loam. It should be thoroughly pulver ized by frequent harrowing when a new orchard is to be set. The best means of removing lice from fowls is to make them do it themselves by having a lot of dry earth where they can dust themselves whenever they feel like it, having first sprinkled the earth with diluted carbolic acid. This acid proves too much for the lice, and they leave the premises at once. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Paris has $4000 m prizes for currcnt me ters for electric light service, After careful investigation, M. Lig ner, the Austrian meteorologist, has be¬ come assured that the moon affects the magnetic needle. In Norway the proportion dying under five is stated by Dr. Farr to be 204.5 per 1000 born; while in England it is 338 per 1000 and in Italy 567. Mineral wax is found in but two places in the world—Galiicia, in Aus tria, and out some hundred miles west of Salt Lake. Its color runs from light yellow to dark brown. It has been stated that if the sun were a hollow sphere over 1,000,000 globes tlie size of our earth would hardly fill it. This is, of course, an approximate guess at the size of the sun. To the perfumes of flowers M. Ungercr ascribes the power of protecting against, and even arresting, consumption. In the perfume-distilling town of La Grasse lung troubles are but little known. It is claimed that cable telegraphy is still open to improvement in more than I on e direction, and that the matter of the best type of cable to be used is far from being settled. Just twenty-five minutes after the gas was turned into the pipes of the Dayton Natural Gas company, at the wells in Mercer county, it reached Dayton, Ohio, forty-eight mile3 distant. Experiments as to the inductive effect of electricity seem to show that tho transfer of a single spark is sufficient to disturb perceptibly the electricity of space throughout a cube of 400,000 feet capacity. The cotton-wood tree, which was once despised as lumber, is now rapidly crowding the white pine ont of market. It brings $65 a thousand in the New Orleans market now, while the pine brings but $35. A discussion as to the height of trees in the forests of Victoria has elicited from Baron von Mueller, the government botanist, the statement that lie saw one of a height of 525 feet. Tlie late chief inspector of forests measured one fallen and found that it was 485 feet long. A Philadelphia foundry recently cast a fifty-ton-fly-wheel in one piece and made four blowing engines, each weigh¬ ing 755,000 pounds, a company has just been organized at New York to con¬ struct bombs, war vessels, and defensive coast machinery. Late experiments with refuse cocoa nut fibre for automatically' closing shot holes have proved the great utility of the material. A bullet, one-half inch in diameter, was fired through a plate made of this fibre and used as one side of a water-tight box, no water issued through the hole. In fifteen cases investigated after lightning has struck building and done more or less damage, it was found that in nine cases the discharge made its way to earth through the water pipes, in two gas through gas pipes, and in only one was there any probability of the regular lightning conductor having done its duty. Chemistry had demonstrated in the time of Napoleon that beet root as well as other plants contained a solution of sugar identical with that found in the cane of the tropics and schools of in¬ struction were established and rewards offered to scientific men to produce a j beet with enough sugar to make its ex¬ traction a profitable business. According to the investigations of two authorities in the agricultural de¬ partment and the health officer for Gloucestershire, England, the notion that skim milk is a poor sort of food is a great mistake. For children whole milk is better, but for adult poor people | it is preferable to buy skim milk and | devote the difference between its price i and that of whole milk to other foods, j either in the form of cream or butter, The actual nutritive value of skim milk differs very little from that of whole milk, and it sells for half the price. Napoleon’s Opinion of Suicide. Napoleon the First said, “Sui¬ cide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest it¬ self to our understanding by which it can be justified. dYhct claim can that j man the frowns have to of courage fortune? who True trembles heroism at consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may chal lenge him to combat? Veterans' Reunion. the survivors of the 4 th geoiuia REGIMENT TO HAVE A REUNION AT AMERICUS. The 5th annual reunion of the sur¬ vivors of the 4th Georgia Regiment will be held at Americus, Ga., on the second Wednesday in August, (14th.) Arrange¬ ments have been made by which mem¬ bers will get a rate of 2 cents per mile to »nd from Americus. B ank certificates, with instructions, will be issued upon application to W. W. Hulbert, at At¬ lanta, or to R. B. Hull, at Macon. They invite all their old comrades to come. Americus is making grand preparations, W. and a pleasant reunion is nssured. VV. Hulbert, President; R. B. Hall, Cor¬ responding Secretary. A condition of weakness disorders of body of and the mind which results from many sys¬ tem linds its best and surest relief in Brown’s iron Bitters. As it enriches and strengthens the blood so tbe st mach, liver and kidneys re ce.ve powers to perform their diseased duties, and the depressing condition i nfluences from a and dis¬ turbed of these organs are remove,!. An earthly treasure—A rich husband, whom liis widow has just buried. A Piece of Her Mind. A lady correspondent piece has this mind to say: "I want to glv e a of my to a cer¬ tain class who anything—th object to advertising, won’t when it costs them s cost them a cent. with I suffered headaches, a living backache, death for injpainstond- nearly two ingor years walking, being literally dragged out was of existence,my misery increased by drugging. At last,in tised despair,I medicine, committed Dr. Plerco’s the sin of Favorite trying an adve Prescription, sound aud health. it rostored I honor me tho to the physician blessed¬ ness of who, when he knows ho can cure, has the moral courage to advertise the lact.” Tho dplica inedioine diseases montionod peculiar is guaranteed females. to euro Read thoso e to printed guarantee on bottle-wrapper. For bowels, all derangemen' b of the Pellets. liver, stomach and take Dr. Pierce s One a dose. Many a girl powders her face in the hopo of pulverizin g some ycun t man’s heart . Wiiat do vou chew ? “LUCY HINTON!” Because Why? it is the best I find. can Who makes it ? T. C. Williams Co., Richmond, Ya. Who sells it ? All dealers. How can 1 rocognize it ? Tho name Lx icy Hinton is on every plug. •‘For seven long years I struggled away farming, running a mill, &e., until I was for¬ tunately introduced to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Vn., by my brother, and 1 went to work at once, and In seven months 1 had made more clear money than I had made In the seven years before. They took me right by the band from the start and seemed to be very clad of the chance to show me how to do it.’’ This is about wbat a young man said a year or o ago of the above-mentioned firm. Since that time he has been steadily at work for them, and is now ono of the happiest men in America. If you need employment, it would be a good thing for you to follow tills young man’s example. Delicate Women. Children and delicate women should not be forced to take the vile compounds which are usually given for constipation, like piles, indiges¬ tion, etc. Hamburg Figs are known, preserved fruit, and are the best laxative io cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. Oregon, the Pnrndivo ill' Farmers. Mild, cquablo climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock countryin tho world. Full information free. Address Oreg. Im’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore. The Mother's Friend, used a few weeks be¬ fore confinement, lessens the pain and makes all labor Druggists._ queik and comparatively easy. Hold by A Pocket Cigar Case and five of “TansIll’s Punch,*’ all for 25c. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp ‘■on’s Eye-water. Druggists-ell atkfa.per hot Me Make No Mistake If you have made up your mind to buy Hood’s Sarsaparilla do not bo Induced to take any other. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a peculiar medicine, pos¬ sessing, by virtue of its peculiar combination, pro¬ portion and preparation, curative powers superior to any other article of the kind before tho people. Be sure to got Hood’s. "In one store the clerk tried to induce me to buy their own Instead of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. But he could not prevail on me to change. I told him I knew what Hood’s Sarsaparilla was, I had taken it, was perfectly satisfied with it, and did not want any other.”—Mas. EtU A. Goff, 01 Terrace Street, Boston, Moss. Sold Hood’s by all druggists. Sarsaparilla 81; six for 8®. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar Dr. Lobb After ALL others fall, oonault 329 N. 15th St. 3 PHILA., PA. Twenty years’ continuous practice in the treat¬ ment and cure of the awful effects of early vice, destroying both mind and body. Medicine anil treatment for one month, Five Dollars, sent securely sealed from observation to any address. Beok on Hpeclal Diseases free. Plantation With Self-Contained Engines RETURN FLUE BOILERS, f FOR DRIVING COTTON OINS and MILLS. fllU8lrftt«d Pamphlet Free. Addrets James leffel a. Co. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, or 110 Liberty 81. New York. ssmsf ders the blood non-rheumatic. Price refunded Send U cash, not satisfactory. $2.00. Cheaper to doctors. stamps or money order. OsHOBS say PIso’s Cure for Con¬ sumption is THE BEHT for keeping the voice clear. 26 cents. ■ MUHlC in lie wtimtt. »ocx-veeping, ArPhra-tic, Short Business hand,etc.. rorms, II thorough.y Penmanship, taught by MAIL. Circulars ir*<-. Bryant’s College, 437 Main St.. Buffalo. N. Y §25 HJMM the nL’fiifff™ is® IYN c/af O in CmmJ O f2 L U- i£i9 i($ 3 * 1 . Imagination vi. Fact. There is no doubt many well people imagine themselves sick, being led to heiiive that nat¬ ural incidents of life are s^mpto ;is of terrible diseases and foretunners of death. Alas! that such persons should be so easily deceived by tho lying advertisements of unprincipled, quacks. A blood disease, however, is not im¬ aginative. It is a tlxed fact, and troubled its symptoms with are unmistakable. When ono is pimples and eruptions on tho body, bad blood is the cause. When one is troubled with ach¬ ing bones and joints, bad blood is the cause. When one is troubled with periods of weakness, aud the functions of t e body become congested and irrognlar, without warning and seemingly without reason, the cause may be ascribed to an activity of blood poison in tho system defi¬ which aU eting the mucous linings of the cit i organs of life, imjnirs their force aud dis¬ ables their action. In all phases of ill health, brought on by an impure state of the blood, B. K B. (Botanic Blood Balm) has proven a sover¬ eign remedy. It is the pet prescription be wise of a who suc¬ cessful ph\ sician, and sufferers will give it trial. 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