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FARM AND GARDEN.
DISAPPOINTMENT WITH HEN MANURE.
Many farmers over estimate the value
of hen manure. As it comes from birds,
they are misled into regarding it as
•equal to guano, which is the rotted ex¬
crement of birds fed on fishes—one of
the riches! foods in phosphoric acid. If
•common * fowls were fed fish or lean
with plenty of pounded bones,
their manure would be much more valu¬
able than it is. The most common food
■of fowls in this couutry is corn, and
from this the hen gets hardly enough
.albumen and phosphorus to make egg
and shell. In summer fowls are often
obliged to live largely upon grass, and
this makes very poor manure. — Ameri¬
can, Cultivator.
FERTILIZERS FOR STRAWBERRIE*.
A Connecticut clergyman has a new
strawberry bed—about one-third of an
acre—that he wishes to top-dress with
artificial fertilizers. He cannot get
wood ashes or stable manure. Sow ou
the bed this fall one hundred pounds of
any good complete commercial ferti¬
lizer, and next spring, as soon as the
frost is out of the ground, sow fifty
pounds of nitrate of soda broadcast on
the bed, aud in two or three weeks, or
as soon as the plants have fairly started,
it will do no harm to sow twenty-five
pounds more of nitrate of soda in the
rows, being careful not to dust it on the
tender leaves. This will, in all proba¬
bility, give a great crop of strawberries.
But be careful to keep out the weeds,
or they will “gobble up” the nitrate.—
Amer lean Agr ic nit ur tit.
CAT VES IN POOR CONDITION.
Complaint is frequently made by cor
of the Agriculturist that
their young calves do not do well,
though well-fed aud out to excellent
pasture. There are two promient rea
sous why they do not do well. If fed
milk, the milk-pail i3 rarely or never
cleansed, and the high temperature of
the season produces (he rapid genera
tion of acids pernicious to the delicate
digestive organs of young calves, pro
ducing indigestion or diarrhea. Another
course injurious, is the too-constant ex
posure to tho noonday sun. Even adult
cattle require shade in the pasture.
The milk of cows running in unshaded
pastures is abnormal. Tfc
changed in character, so that neither
healthy milk nor sound butter
can be secured. Shade and bushes in
the pasture largely protect cattle from
the annoyance of flies. Calves as well
cows and oilier cattle require a full
and free supply of good cold water all
the year round, aud especially in sum
Let him, then, who suffers from
thirst remember that his poor defense
less kitie likewise suffer, and that the
quenching of feverish thirst is alike
both grateful toman and brute.
“COvV-POX,” SO-CALLED.
The disease (if <>f sufficient import
to be called a disease), which ap¬
pears in little pustules on teats, and,
more rarely, on udders of cows, says
O. 6. Bliss in the New York Tribune ,
is known among farmers a3 “cow-pox.”
Except as an annoyance while milking
it is generally of no consequence to
man or beast. Most farmers pay
no attention to it, except to
eaTjful’y avoid getting the scales
into the milk. Others have an
idea tbit it is communicable, and take a
deal of pains to cleanse the sore3 before
daring to mlllc the cows. In some few
nscs pustule.? become so numerous
as to run into one another, when there
is a liability to cause the true skin to
and produce au annoying sore. In
c iso it may be well to rub off the
scfcbor head of each and apply somemLd
fustic. Dry air-slakel lime rubbed GU
tas good as anything else. Dry ap
Ications are preferable to liquids of
any kind. The disease is generally be¬
lieved to be contagious, and liable to
a through whole herds and neighbor
ods. Whether that is so or not is of
8© particular moment, so long as it re¬
lies entirely innocuous, as at present.
iLisnot “k:ne-pox,” as many seem
to sup,'.ose.
TRAINING HORSES.
l It is very correctly remarke I by Coi
Rural World that but few men
success fJ. traiuers of horses. ■\Ve
have sometimes thought that, like
poets, they were bom, r.ot ma.de. This
true to a very great extent for the rea
Hi that there is required a combination
f certain traits of character, the pos-
session of only one or two of which will
insure failure; hence it is that of two
colts similar in disposition and sense,
one may develop into a steady and val¬
uable horse while the other may be
vicious, treacherous and unsafe. The
general farmer who raises good colts
may, as a rule, safely abandon the idea
of training, and when he can get a
good price for them, sell, and never
after it regret doing so if they prove
fast and valuable, because iu his own
hands they might never have done so.
A good trainer must have an innate love
for the horse, he must of an
observing mind *o as note
every phase of his character
and every action in his behavior and
conduct. He must be firm and gentle,
void of irritability and the least sem¬
blance of passion. With these, patience
must have its most perfect work. The
horse knows nothing but what he learns,
and if ho has a poor teacher, one given
to irrability or passion, void of under¬
standing for lack of perception, or who
charges viciousness and meanness where
only his own want of tact iu teaching is
exhibited, he is more than apt to make
a very poor scholar and never exhibit
his best talent. A well bred horse has
brains and intelligence—that is to say,
has apti'.ule for instruction—hence is as
clay in the hands of the potter and can
be made pretty much what'the superior
intelligence of his trainer desires. One
lacking iu firmness or decision of char¬
acter will never make a trainer, nor will
one who has more force than judgment
or is wanting in that patient tact essen¬
tial to the -wooing and .winning both the
confidence and the affection of his
horse.
WATERING STOCK.
It might be supposed that any one
w ho wants a drink of water for himself,
would think of watering his stock; but
ma n is a selfish animal, and is apt to
think of his own wants first, last, and
a u the time. These being satisfied, he
gives himself no further thought or
trouble about the rest of creation,
When the finer feelings of humanity
-will not prompt him, the more sordid
ones of self-interest may, though there
are many who will not be prompted
even by this.
Stock may have an abundance of dry
food of fhe very best quality and fed
to them at regular and proper intervals
U f umfljr but - u will not tlmvc on these,
unless it has access to water whenever
desired, to supply necessary moisture
to the system, assist digestion, and make
pure blood. Running streams of water
cannot be bad iu every pasture field,
but substitutes can be supplied by arti¬
ficial means. Wells can be put down,
and pumps introduced to bring the
water up, troughs can be placed to re¬
ceive it, and stock can be watered at
these troughs.
When stock becomes very thirsty, by
being kept from water too long a time,
there is danger of it drinking too much;
but when it lias fre
quently, there is no danger of this.
Young stock requires watering more
frequently than older ones, as it drinks
less at a time. Some farmers water
their stock once a day, some two, some
three times; this may do tolerably well
iu the winter for full-grown stock,
when the weather is very cold; but dur¬
ing the warm weather of summer, when
the days are long, thirst will be very
injurious to the stock running to pas¬
ture.
As a rule, if you want to make money
on stock, it must have the be it of care,
it must have food and water regularly,
must be kept clean, and in every way
made comfortable at all seasons of the
year, must not be frightened, scolded,
whipped, nor in any way abused. If
you cannot make up your mind to treat
stock in this manner, you had better
sell out and go into some other busi¬
ness. —Prairie Farmer.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Weeds should be kept out of sweet
potato an l squash vines, and the vines
should not be allowed to strike roots at
the joints.
Oae does not realize the full benefit
of clean culture until the crop is har¬
vested. Of no crop is this truer han
root crop..
In very many cases when plowing a
green crop under to enrich the soil,
an application of lime will increase its
value materially.
A strong, healthy fowl is worth a
j whole flock of birds that are always
i droopy or non-productive, no matter
j what the breed may be.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
It is reported that a system is being
perfected whereby common ilium mating
gas can be made by electricity.
A course in sanitary engineering ... has
been added to the other courses in tho
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to the last census of St.
Petersburg, the population of that city
was 720,318. composed j of c 424 ..j. 212 of)
males and 296,106 females. In winter
this total is increased by one quarter.
A new material called “steel pig.”
much stronger than cold blast iron, and
th,a steol, U now being
made at Sheffield, England. It is
adapted for a variety of uses for which
tho ordinary iron ,v„. n»»ti,f.ctory.
Professor G. Sormani has showu that
the flesh of animals which have died
of , tetanus , , be , eaten with ... impunity,
may
the bacillus passing through the system
without causing ° special disturbance.
A , q annual , may swa.low unharmed Id)
000 times more than would kill if placed
beneath the skin. The germ itself is
unaffected by the digestive ju;ces. . . -
Eight hundred thousand houses in
London have 4,000,000 chimneys pour¬
ing forth the black smoko of partially
consumed bituminous coal. Add the
smoke of vessels upon tho Thames and
the countless locomotives on the rail¬
ways and a volume of smudge is raised
that darkens all the bills of mortality
and hangs over the valley of tho Thames
like a monstrous pestilence.
A practical test has been made of a
new ventilator, which, it is claimed,
will ventilate cars without letting in
dust or cinders. Fans under tho car
are operated by tho motion of the latter,
and drive air through a box containing
water, which filters and cools it, into a
central tube along the roof, and thence
through smaller, bell-mouthed tubes
into the car. Whenever the car moves,
a constant current of air is secured, even
when tho doors, windows aud all other
apertures are closed.
The manufacture of tho new six-inch
gun, of which 100 have boon ordered
for British land and sea service, has
been stopped until a cartridge case of
solid drawn metal can be devised which
will stand tho shock of discharge of
twelve pounds of smokeless powder,
and which caa bo used overuind over
again. This the authorities have not
yet been able to do, and the machinery
engaged in the manufacture of these
guns is alL standing idle, as well as the
guns already manufactured.
Dr. T. II. Bean, in charge of tho
party investigating the Alaska salmon
fisheries, reports to Colonel Marshall
McDonald, United States Fish Commis¬
sioner, that they have visited Karluk
Lake, found the spawning beds of the
red salmon and explored all the Karluk
River, except eight mile3 of rapids. O.i
the nests of the fish wore found small
miller s thumbs, a species of uranidea
resembling the one which proves so de¬
structive to eggs and young fi.li in
Eastern streams. The number of spawn¬
ing salmon was disappointing, while
tho enemies of the iisli are numerous.
Galling Lobsters.
Tho usual metod of taking lobsters
is by means of tbe pot. The pot is a
trap baited with fiffi, and which is
sunk to a certain depth. Those traps
are marked with bouys, left for a tide,
and then the lobstcrer. goes out in h's
boat, hauls up his trap, and secures his
lobsters. At times, however, off the
coast of Maine the. 3 arc
estunies, which arc of great
length. running between the
ledges of rock. Pools are many and of
considerable depth. When lobsters are
plentiful, at certain seasons, they run
in from the sea, and seek these csturrics
for food, small fish being abundant. As
tho tide recedes, the lobsters re¬
main in some of the rocky basins,
and can be gaffed, The b trail
has a stout hickory stock, and
the gaff itse . If generally three- pronged,
is
and , made , out of tho host steel. A . good ,
gaff is rarely bought ready-made, but is
turned out by th 2 village blacksmith.
Its temper must be excellent, as it must
neither be too soft nor biittle. To use
the gaff requires no small amount of
skill, for in the water the movements of
the lobster are rapid. He car back or
turn in the fraction of a second, and
then in color he assimilates to the shady
of sea- water. Many of the largest lob¬
sters are taken in this way, but are not
brought to a market, because gaffing a
lobster generally kills it, and a dead
lobster is not marketable.
Tho President’s Primeval Neighbors
^ ^t^^ne^dffiois ^j mountaineers 0 ^ l^ ^rark^Tlmy Backbone
are ie from the
mountain, who come over to the village
twiee a t ear driving a l air of stolid,
heavy sled,* eyed oxen aboriginal attached to a primitive
for the of the Backbone
can make a s.ed of logs, although he
cannot turn a wheel. Other noted
neighbors are the mighty hunters of
Meadow and Orange mountains, they
who have lived in their log cabins for
near]v one himdred years trapping, vil
hunting and fishing. Seen in the age
rare y are these mountain Nimrod?, for
they have no need of money and rarely
barter. Once in a while one of them
will come to the village, a woman often,
a bucket of eggs, If the chief magis
Irate of tho United States should wak
1'“v»y” tho Indians
primitive as that among
when white men first touched these
shores. He would see a plough sled which made
is a< . iude triangle of wood, a and
of tho untrimmed bougi s of trees,
he might have cracked a xvliip as simple
as those used in the bibl cal days, with lor
the> native's ox goad is a tree branch
the pith taken out half way down and
the bark twisted into a lash.—eh
plua 1 News.
Blondes aud Brunettes.
A French scientisthns been mak'ng a
statistical inquiry into the colors of the
eves and hair in France, and from his
180,000 observations he deduces many
interesting results, one of the most cur
ions being that where the race is formed
from a mixture of b'ondes and brunettes
the hereditary blond© coloring comes
out in the eyes, and tho brunette ele¬
ment reappears in tho ba r. To this
tendency probably is to be attributed
flio rarity of a "combination of light
hair with dark eyes. Several observers
Lave asserted that the American people,
who are pre-eminently a mixed race, are
becoming a dnrk-lia;red and blue-eyed
nation, and if this bo true, such a devel¬
opment must bo owing to the working
of this law.
Good Rules.
Learn your business thoroughly. Keep Al¬
at one thing; iu no wise change. hurry.
ways be in haste, but never in a
Observe system in nil you do and under¬
take. Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well. One to-day is worth
two to-morrows. Be self-reliant; do
not take too much i dv ce, but rather
depend upon yourself. Never fail to
keep your appointments or to be punct¬
ual to' the minute. Never be idle, but
keep your mind or hands usefully em¬
ployed. except when sleeping.
A Chicago woman recently married a
Chinese iaundryman, and in three days
thereafter the unhappy Celestial ap¬
peared at a barber shop and ordered his
pigtail cut off, saying in explanation,
“Too muchee Yank! Too muehec
Yank !”—Chicago Sunday Rational.
When there is nothing left of the win¬
ter snow but ridges behind the stone
walls, and a dingy drift here and tl ere
in a hollow or in the woods, winter has
virtually resigned the icicle, which is his
sceptre.
n Don’t Pay.
To experiment with uncertain remedies, when
afflicted with any of the ailments for which
Ur. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery fs rcc
ommended, as it is so positively certain in Us
curative effects as to warrant its manufactur¬
ers in guaranteeing it to belietli It, or warranted cure, or
money paid blood, for it skin is returned. diseases, is salt
to cure all and scalp
rheum, tetter, and all scrofti oils sores and
swellings, as well as con-umption (which is
scrofula of the lungs) if taken m time and
given a fair trial.
Don’t hawk, hawk, blow, ivebreath, spit and disgust
everybody with your offen but use
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and end it.
Powder and liber y are like heat and moist¬
ure; where they are well mixed everything
prospers, where they are single they are de
strui tivo.
A man who luis practic’d medicine for 40
years ought to know salt from sugar; read
what he says:
Cheney Toledo, O., Jan. 10,1887.
Messrs. F. in J. the general & t practice 'o,--Gentlemen: of medi¬
I have been
cine for most40 years, and would say that in
all my practice and experience, have never
seen a preparation that 1 co tld prescribe with
as much confidence of suc<-> s - as 1 can Halt’s
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have
prescribed it a great many times audit H (•[ .
that feci is I have wonderful, yet to and find would case savin of Catarrh conclusion that [ |
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it would not cure, if they would take it ac j
cording to directions,
Yours trul v,
L. L. Gonsrcn. M. D.
Office, gr> Summit St.
We will give $100 for hiiv case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured with Hail'd < atarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. < hf.nev A Co., Props., Toledo, O.
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Catarrh in the Head
Originates In scrofulous taint iu the blood. Hence
the proper method by which to cure catarrh is to
purify the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms
and tho danger of developing Into bronchitis or that
terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely re¬
moved by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which cures catarrh
by purifying the blood; It also tones up the system
and greatly Improves the general health. Try the
“peculiar medicine."
“I have used flood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh with
very satisfactory results. I received more perma¬
nent beneat from It than from any other remedy I
ever tried.”—M. E. read, or A. Read ft Son,
Wauseon, Ohio.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for *5. Prepared only
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