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yOB FARM AND GARDEN.
CLEAN QUARTERS FOR SAVING.
to their eyes in mud and
igs up won’t do good,
won’t grow, no
L will become diseased. They must
je clean quarters. If they are con-
:d in mall outside pens, it is best to
5
raised . . a
e their sleeping quarters
from the ground with a slab stone
t Use wheat
step into the house.
[ will
for bedding, as oat straw
w the bed—
duce mange, and change
often as is required. For the
B a3 old
side or run you may throw in
corn fodder or any other litter that
’, pigs clean and make
1 keep the
ure. Cleanliness is the watchword
wine raising, and it is far better to
rd against disease than to invite it.
rid and fermented swill go hand in
d with dirty quarters. Where you
find the other .—New Jer-
grass seeding with clover
Hie pea-vine clover lasts five or six
J rs and makes good hay aud pasture,
nay be mixed with timothy and or-
wj rd grass, but although timothy luns
if not treated liberally, it is by far
best grass for bay, the heaviest aud
it nutritious, Orchard-grass hay is
it, and unless cut early it is only
rod-rate hay. On the whole, it i3
re pr0 fitable to have a good meadow
S three or four years than to have a
ir one for ten. and it is an easy mat-
d to break up the sod and reseed. By
] [d£ Luds one peck of timothy and ten
of the clover there would be
but equal parts of the two in the hay.
le seed may be sown with oats with-
it risk if the proper course is taken,
us: The land should be well ma-
red or fertilized or the grass will not
d like a full growth; it should be well
DAved and thoroughly harrowed, and
o bushels of oats may be soAvn and
lea sown right after the harrowing t
d another light harrowing is given to
ver it. This harrowing is important,
it insures the germination of the seed
dry weather and the safety of the
lung plants. After the oats are har-
isted the young grass should uot be
tslured, except late in the season by
or a few cows. Under this treat-
[ent there is little danger, although
le season may be dry. — NT. Y. Times.
6TARLE MANAGEMENT OP COWS.
Cows, as a rule, are much more neg-
cted than any other class of farm ani-
als; for while they may get plenty of
iod and are well sheltered, they do not
ivc any care bestoAved upon them in
le Avay of cleansing and brushing,
any a farmer would laugh at the idea
it was suggested to him, yet they
lould have as much attention in this
ispect as the average work horse. It
seem like a waste of time to groom
e cows e\-ery morning, yet it is labor
ell spent, and adds to the general
:alth as well as to the appearance of
16 animals. No matter how well the
stables may be attended to, the ani-
will become soiled, and to permit the
to become plastered on their
quarters and there to dry and peel
* s certainly unsightly as well as an
v ^ cn cc of carelessness aud neglect.
a currycomb is used at all on the
ows > it should he a very dul 1-toothcd
>ne, and if new, the teeth should be
heel down so as not to cut or scar the
kin. A good horse brush, as well as
i stiff, long, staple stable brush is what
s required, and a few minutes’ brisk
Mercisc with this each morning, while
»he cows are feeding, will not merely
Leep their coats glossy and clean, but
piil bentle go far and towards making the animals
readily handled aud less
ble to tilt over the bucket when
them. —Farm, Field and Stock-
ought to offspring
to be looked to every
or f °ur hours by day, and
°‘ tener at night, for parturition is
more certain to take place in the latter
Females at this period are more
less feverish and uneasy, and require
• nak frequently; if the mother be cold,
° DOt faii to hare the water “dlk*
every time it is offered them; to
ewes and s °™> as well as to mares and
sometimes this is more import-
for the smaller than the larger ani-
over-
hay, but with
grass, and particularly green clover
and alfalfa, there is danger, unless moder¬
ately fed, of engendering hoven, and in
any event it is better to mix hay or
straw with these feeds. The only grain
safe to give at this time is wheat-bran,
or shorts. If oil-meal has been given,
omit this for a few days, especially cot¬
tonseed meal, for that is positively to
be dreaded unless at the South, where
animals are extensively accustomed to
it from birth up; following from gen¬
eration to generation, the same as with
corn and Indian meal, it seems to be
incorporated into their system, and
they can feed upon these two at most
times with impunity, Northern ani-
mals thus fed are subject to colic, in¬
digestion, compactness in the stomach,
with great pain, followed by a long
enervating sickness or death.— X t Y
Tribune.
SCULLION CABBAGE SEED.
Many cabbage growers complain ot
the difficulty in getting cabbage tc
head. This is sometimes due to pover¬
ty of soil and mistake in allowing the
plants to grow up iu a tall, spindling
form from the first. But in iar too
many cases the fault is due to pooi
seed that grown from the stumps of
cabbage roots, many of which have
never headed, and which have always
produced more seed than the whole
cabbage with root attached, from
wbich our ^putable seed growers make
their cr0 P s * costs beavil y to P ro *
duce S ood cabba S e 3eed . but n0 other
| country is worth stores takin g as a loaded g ift * Man down y of with the
are
the poorer class of seeds, and the injury
thus done to farmers’ gardens is a seri¬
ous matter. Without good gardens the
farmer’s life loses the feature that to
many most adds to its attractiveness.
Perhaps too, the failure of his garden
may have lead the farmer to redouble
his efforts to growing grain and other
crops, now Ioav in price because pro¬
duced more largely than they should
be .—American Cultivator.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
If you aa ant a good kitchen garden
start it betimes.
Nothing on the farm pays better than
a good garden.
There is as much in planning as in
doing farm work.
An early, healthy growth of a plant
wards off many evils.
See that your horses have plenty oi
exercise—and feed, too.
Millet contains nearly 50 per cent,
more nutriment than corn does.
A little linseed meal given daily tc
the coav about to calve will be wel.
used.
To sell milk pays better than to make
it into butter and cheese and sell it as
solids.
Do you know how much it costs you
“to produce a quart of milk? If not,
why not?
Young chicks should be kept warm
at night, a chill means au early death.
Don’t neglect them.
Peonies are classed among the easiest
grown of our flowers aud yet they are
but seldom found iu our gardens.
Straw is cheap on many farms, but it
is not so cheap that you can afford to
have it the only feed your cow has.
Remember that in nine cases out of
ten failure in the germination of very
small seeds is the result of too deep
covering.
Do not have the incoming cow too
fat. A good thrifty condition is desir¬
able, but *’beef fat” may cause milk
fever. Look out for that.
Tomato-seed ought to be sown early
in a hotbed, cold frame or window
box, and transplanted to open ground
as soon as danger from frost is over.
A grape grower says that his best
success has been through the use of
green bags of the same shade as the
leaves of the vine for bagging grapes.
Will an average of 125 pounds of
butter per year pay you for the average
keep—or is your average keep so poor
that it does? Then raise the average
keep and see if the butter average does
not rise. If it does not, better raise the
average of the cows, Won’t it pay to
do that anyhow?
It is not always the best and most
elaborate poultry houses that shelter
the choicest stock. Success, however,
mainly depends on warm, dry coops
with proper care and management and
freedom from over-crowding, This
latter trouble is often the caure cf ill
success, If you wish a a healthy flock
keep few in a pen.
A Flesh-Devouring Plant.
Mr. Dunstan, a naturalist, who lias re¬
cently returned from Central America,
where he spent nearly two years in the
study of the flora and fauna of the coun¬
try, relates the finding of a singular
growth in one of the swamps which sur¬
rounds the great lake of Nicaragua.
He was engaged in hunting for botan¬
ical and eptoinological specimens, when
he heard his dog cry out, as if in agony,
from a distance. Running to the spot
from which the animal's cries came, Mr.
Dunstan found him enveloped in flue a perfect
network of what seemed to be a rope¬
like tissue of roots or fibers.
The plant or vine seemed composed en¬
tirely of bare interlacing anything stems, else, resem¬ the
bling, more than weeping-willow denuded
branches of the
of all foliage, but of a dark, nearly black
hue, and covered with a thick viscid gum
that exudes from the pores.
Drawing his knife, Mr. Dunstan en¬
deavored to cut the animal free, but it
was only with the greatest difficulty that
he succeeded in severing the fleshy mus¬
cular fiber. To his horror and amaze¬
ment the naturalist then saw that the dog’s
body was blood-stained, while his skin
appeared to have been actually sucked,
or puckered in spots, and the animal
staggered as if from exhaustion.
In cutting the vine the twigs curled
like living sinuous fingers about Mr. Dun-
stan's hand, and it required no slight
force to free the member from its clinging
clasp, which left the flesh red and blis¬
tered. The gum exuding from the vine
was of a grayish dark tinge, remarkably
adhesive, and t>f a disagreeable animal
odor, powerful and nauseating to inhale.
The native servants who accompanied
Mr. Dunstan manifested the greatest hor¬
ror of the vine,Avhich they call the devil’s
snare. He was able to discover very lit¬
tle about the nature of the plant, owing
to the difficulty of handling it, for its
grasp can only be torn away w ith loss of
skin and even of flesh, but, as near as
Mr. Dunstan could ascertain, its pow er of
suction is contained in a number of in¬
finitesimal mouths or little suckers,
which, ordinarily closed, open for the re¬
ception of food.
If thesubstance is animal, the blood is
drawn off, and the carcase or refuse then
dropped. A lump of raw meat being
thrown it, in the short time of five min¬
utes the blood will be thoroughly drunk
offaad the mass be thrown aside. Its
voracity is almost beyond belief, it de¬
vouring at one time over deprived ten pounds all of
aieat, though it may be of
food for weeks without any apparent loss
of vitality.
Buried Gold.
French statisticians are making a curi¬
ous calculation of the amount of gold
which is annually buried in the United
States. M. Victor Meunier asserts, after
careful inquiries, that the American den¬
tists insert in American teeth the enor¬
mous amount of eight hundred kilogram¬
mes (about eighteen hundred which pounds) of
the precious metal, represents
nearly four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. This gold is never recovered, of
course, but is buried with the persons in
whose mouth it is rapid placed. increase Making the al-
knvance for the of
population of the United States and for
the continued deterioration of American
teeth, it appears that in less than a hun¬
dred years American cemeteries Avill con¬
tain a larger amount of gold than now
exists in France. This is no fancy sketch
as the pockets of every dentist, and es¬
pecially every dentist's patient,will attest.
Insulating Wires.
A neAv method of insulating electric
wires has recently been adopted in Ger¬
many. Paper is ammonieeal first of all prepared solution by
soaking in an of
copper, a process which confers upon the
paper durability, and makes it imper¬
vious to water. The pasty mass so pre¬
pared is now applied to the wires to be
insulated by means of a special machine,
after which treatment the coated
wires are dried,and finally passed through
a bath of boiling linseed oil. The im¬
portance of effective insulation of electric
Avires is every day becoming more evident.
Recent fatal accidents through contact
with electric-lighting wires indicate that
currents Avhich were believed to be harm¬
less can kill.
Disadvantage of Tallness.
Tall men, as a rule, have bodies out of
proportion to their lower limbs—that is,
smaller than they ought to be—with the
natural result that they are unable to bear
fatigue or to compete in the harmoniously struggles of
life with lesser men more
proportioned. Army experience and bears fatigu¬ out
these observations. In a long fall
ing march the tall men usually out
first or succumb to campaigning, unless, well
as is very rarely the case, they have
knit and symmetrical frames. A soldier
between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 8 or l)
inches is usually the roan most capable wf
bearing the strain of life.
Freshly-cut flowers may be preserved
for a long time by placing which them little in a
glass with fresh water, in a
charcoal has been steeped, or a small
piece of camphor dissolved.
Confidence Begot of Sirceu.
So successful proved has Dr. in Pierce’s curing chronic Golden Medi- nasal | j
cal Discovery bronchial and throat diseases, that
catarrh, sell it through drug¬
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gists under a positive guarantee of
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or money paid for it will be refunded. Con¬
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taken in time, is also cu^ed by this wonderful
medicine.____
For Constipation or Sick Vegetable. Headache, use Dr.
Pierce's Pellets; Purely One a dose.
They are not always thirsty souls who are ;
looking for a “drop in the market.”
Bradfield’s Female Regulator will cure all
irregularities or derangements should peculiar to
woman. Those suffering use it. Sold
by all Druggists.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaae Thomp¬
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“You scoundrel,’’ neighbor. yelled young; Jacob Green
At his good Brown,—
“ You kissed my wife upon the street,—
I ought to knock you down.”
“ That’s where you’re wrong,” good Brown replied.
In accents mild and meek;
“I kissed her; that I’ve not denied.
But I kissed her on the cheek—
and I did it because she looked so hand
some — the very picture of beauty and
health. What is the secret of it ?”
“Well,” I will replied Green, “since you ask Fa-
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vorite Prescription. I accept your apology,
Good night.”
An unhealthy woman is rarely, if ever,
beautiful. The peculiar diseases to which
so many of of pale, the sallow sex are subject, blotched are prolific with
causes unsightly pimples, faces, and
dull, lustreless eyes
emaciated forms. Women so afflicted,
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which, combined with good qualities of head
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“ Favorite Prescription ” is the only medi-
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case, or money will be refunded. This
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