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MRM AND WARDEN’.
MIXED GRASSES.
L ,l mixture of grasses for hay
Lnothv, o0 meadow fescue,
red top,
g ! ' a "' and tall oat grass—six
of the first and ten to each of
acre. Thick sowing is
as; per that portion
for the reason a
e Halit eliafiy seeds may not grow.
growth of grass the
Jiving requisite made must be fine, provided, fresh
Good soii very
evenly sown and a final light
Ling after sowing, Seeding
early in the spring is most advis-
A dry spell following will not
Ltful L if the see(i is covered in
ijoht harrowing on fine soil.
Love-named if grasses will not run
the meadow is occasionally fer-
[l Le or manured and fall.—[New is not pastured York
late in the
p.
CAUSES OF COLIC.
Le in our horses,” says an Eng-
eterinarian, “is generally the re-
[f Itomaeli careless or the improper horse is small feeding. and
of
Id, Ll, and if the horse is hungry and
or is allowed to gulp dow-n a
led, I- colic is the result, or if musty
musty or sour feed is used, or
[sh-cut Ltily grass wet with dew or rain
eaten in large quantities,
soften the result. The earful,
htful man who feeds his horses
inly rarely lias colic to contend
, More frequent feeding of small
is better than too much feed at
See the skilful horseman on the
rithhis horses tied up without ex-
j. He cuts down his feed to keep
irses with keen appetites. A very
I overfeeding produces colie.”
much cold water when the horse
[ted and tired is a fruitful source
blic, as is also too much green
which from its succulent nature
pie to undergo fermentation.—
tern Agriculturist.
XPKKIMEKTS IX FEEDING PIGS.
i object of some experiments
at the Kentucky station was to
mine the relative values of shelled
com meal and corncob meal for
ping purposes and the length of
[these feeds would produce pork
nying figure. In this trial it was
1 that corn meal does not fatten
ill as shelled corn. Nitrogenous
produced less fieeh but a more
r development than did non-ni-
pious foods. The following is a
summary of the results:
phelled corn produces fat more
I ly than other feeds tested,
f bin produces fat at a cheaper
Ilian other feeds tested,
phelled corn produced pork at a
for Oo days. C’ornmeal produced
kit a profit for 63 days. < Corncob
produced pork at a profit for 54
The Chester Whites fattened
readily than the Tom Kinds on
line quality of food.
I lie nitrogenous foods produced
[le gain in live weight that it may
ributed to growth and not to
ling.
Cotton-seed meal could not be
rolitably.
j Much corncob meal was wasted
piling L*(l. being picked over and
on ni!rogenous
were 80 much stronger than the
r ’i‘ at they caused them serious
\ " i iei1 turned out to run together.
fi 1( “ nitrogenous foods tested,
|>f | parts corncob meal the and cheapest.—[New ship stuff in
was
World.
I EE 1 ) FOR POULTRY.
Pen feeding fowls many persons
! ° think
full
of litne. YVhy a hen’s time
* ,e thought of so much conse-
Would l>uzzle them to tell. Jf
whob corn it must be put
|eh the ^ shelter fitch and thrown out by
them as in their
they gobble their mouths
then, stretching up their
> let all go down in a heap.
the better way, if corn is to he
:dl - to then it slowly and
.
“ '* 111 "fig straw, to be scratched
before fill of it is found.
r grain, fis heat
w or oats,
better than «x>rn. and
fiUK thus scattered among
-eason ’ -i 11 ardei mea l ' is f° used it must For the be
wet to enable the chickens to eat it
faster. Young chicks are often killed
by wet food. It clogs in their little
crops, which most need just the exer-
cise that digesting whole grain would
give. An unused organ soon becomes
not only inactive, but unfit for action.
So the dyspeptic hen becomes dumpish,
and finally dies, all from the effect of
unskilful feeding, Young chicks a
week old will eat whole wheat, and
even earlier they will eat it if broken
into small, hard bits.—[Boston Culti¬
vator.
MAKING AX ASPARAGUS BEp.
That is if you have not one already.
Every owner of a garden should have
a bed large enough to afford a liberal
supply of this early, palatable and
wholesome vegetable. It is the earliest
' vegetable that can be grown in this
climate entirely in the open air, and,
if properly cooked and served, most
people are fond of it. Old gardeners
and writers on gardening made the di¬
rections for starting a bed so difficult
of execution that most farmers, who
have but little time to devote to the
garden, were frightened out of au at¬
tempt to cultivate it.
The ordinary directions for the pre¬
parations of garden soil for vegeta¬
bles are applicable to asparagus,
namely: Make the soil deep, fine and
rich. It is perhaps advisable to spade
the bed rather deeper ‘
up asparagus
than would be necessary for most,
other vegetables, as the crown of the
roots should be planted about four
inches beneath the surface and the
roots will penetrate to a great depth in
search of appropriate food and mois¬
ture. If you follow the old direc¬
tions and trench a plot for the aspara¬
gus, throwing out from eight to twelve
inches of the surface soil and then
breaking up the subsoil a spade in
depth, the soil will be deep enough.
As you turn the surface soil carefully
break up all lumps with the hack of
the spade. A plot equal to a rod
square will afford a liberal supply for
an ordinary family when it gets well
started. It is well to dig in a good
dressing of tine stable manure with
the surface soil, but it is not essential,
for you can top dres9 the surface every
au umn if you wish.
After breaking up the earth for a
bed make the surface fine with the
steel garden rake. Then dig drills
about six inches in depth, lengthwise
of the bed about three feet apart.
Then plant good, strong one year old
plants eighteen inches apart in the
rows, placing their budded crowns
whence the young stalks start, about
four inches below the surface level,
spreading the roots out in the trench.
Now cover the crowns two inches and
leave the remainder of the trenches
unfilled until later. The soil around
the young plants will warm up much
quicker and the shoots start sooner
than if the trench should be filled to
the surface. As the stalks grow the
soil can be drawn around them until
the trench is filled. Some would plant
the rc s closer than three feet by
eighteen inches, but au asparagus bed
may stand half a century, and it will,
in a few years, become a mass of roots
if planted at the distances named.
For the first two years you want to
keep the tops growing until they attain
full growth, but if seeds form cut
them off, as they unnecessarily exhaust
the soil. Before the ground freezes
for winter cut down the tops, rake
them oft'and cover the surface with
rich stable manure, which may be dug
in lightly in the spring, Sometimes
in the second year, when occasional
stalks start of good size for cooking,
we have used them, but generally we
do not expect much for the table until
the third year. Then the larger sprouts
may be cut freely when from four to
eight inches high. We cut just below
the surface so that ail may be tender,
and we like them cooked and served
with cream and butter the same as
green peas. The asparagus bed may
be made just as early as the ground
will do to work.— [New York Herald.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Don’t depend on one crop.
A fast walker is better than a fast
trotter on a farm.
Don't deprive yourself and family
of fruits aud vegetables.
At this season of the year feed the
cows all that they can take care of.
Much spring sickness is produced by
the hearty winter diet being continued
into warm weather.
The Smallest American Railway.
The most diminutive railroad in all
Down East, according to a newspaper ex¬
change, is that owned and operated by
the Monson. 3Iainc, Slate Company, run¬
ning from Junction, the company’s quarries and to
Monson on the Bangor
Piscataquis. This little road has a two
foot gauge, is about six miles in length,
and is thoroughly equipped with a lo¬
comotives, passenger, baggage and
freight cars, has several stations, regular
superintendent time tables and a superintendent. conductor, hag- The
is also
gage master, mail agent, passenger
and freight brakeman, news agent
and director—a regular Pooh Bah—
and for performing all these otljces he
gets $900 a year. Ten men constitute
the entire force of the road. The trains
average about 50 miles a day in summer
and 35 miles in winter. The road is all
down hill one way, so that a car will run
from the quarries to the junction without
the assistance of a locomotive. If a pas-
senger misses the regular train. $5 will
secure a special to carry him over the
line. Last year this toy road carried 9,-
000 tons of the company’s freight to Mon¬
son Junction (6 tons to a car) for trans¬
shipment over the Bangor and Piscata
quis to Bangor and points west, and 4,200
passengers, who paid $12,000 in fares,
were transported at a cost of $9,000. This
little road has been in operation six years,
and in all 'that time no accident of any
kind has occurred on its line. We jud^e
it to be the smallest independent line
running regular trains for both freight
and passengers in Ameriea.
Punctuality.
This is a virtue, and certainly one upon
which much of the comfort of the house
dc.cn,1 iir, q ‘
Where any members , of . the , lannly . ., , have
to go to office, or w-ork, or school, the
chances are that necessity compels punctuality. a cer¬
tain amount of attention to
The breakfast time should be fixed at an
hour that amply allows for that meal to
be eaten quietly. It is veryAiad for the
digestive organs to swallow food in great
haste, and this is made inevitable if the
meal is not ready in time, or that those
for whom it is intended do not respond
to the sound of the bell. It is a bad thing
in every wav.
The breakfast table should be bright
and pretty, and the members of the fam¬
ily 7 should assemble at it punctually. those
Nothing is more dreary than for
who have to leave immediately after the
meal, to have to sit down before several
empty places, and for the rest to drop in,
in detachments. It breaks the harmony
of family life to begin the day in this un¬
satisfactory way, and the result is so
pleasant if punctuality is attended to,
that it is worth the effort to attain to it.
This naturally involves rising in time.
Strange Sounds.
In the desert of Gobi, which divides
the mountainous snow-clad plateau of
Thibet from the milder regions of Asia,
travelers assert that they have heard
sounds high up in the sky as of the clash
of arms or of musical martial instruments.
If travelers fall to the rear or get sep¬
arated from the caravan, they hear them¬
selves called by name. If they go after
the voice that summons them they lose
themselves in the desert.
they hear the tramp of horses, and, taking
it for that of their caravan, are drawn
away and wander from the ri<jht
course and become hopelessly lost. The
Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, mentions
these mysterious sounds, and says that
they are produced by the spirits however, that
haunt the desert. They are, plain
otherwise explicable. On a vast
the ear loses the faculty of judging direc¬
tion and distance of sounds; it fails to
possess, so to speak, acoustic perspective.
When a man dropped away from the car-
avim his comrades cal! to him; but he
cannot distinguish the direction whence
their voices come, and lie goes astray
after them.
^yrttp of Fig*)
Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California fi^s, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to be most
beneficial to the human system, acts gently,
on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effectually
cleansing the system, dispelling colds and
headaches, and curing habitual constipation.
The wife of a Massachusett’s minister always
wears a blue dress on ^loncla^ to ni&tcb liei
husband’s mood.
___
J. C. SIMPSON, Marquess, W. Va., says :
“ Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c.
Emmeline—“Don’t you think young I)e Jones
is sweet ?” Maude—“Suite 7 Yes, a perfect
flat!” _
I bad calls for twelve bottles of Smith’s Tonic
Svrup one day before noon, There is no chill
and fever medicine that gives such good satis¬
faction.—J. A. Harwood. Corinth. Minn.
Muffled voices must be very uncomfortable
in hot weather.
____
Poor little child! She don’t cat well,
don't sleep well, she don't look well. She needs
Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers. Papa, get her a
box. ______
A man in narrow circumstances can not con-
sistently expect a wide appreciation.
Hood^s
Sarsaparilla -
Is prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandtake
D. ck, Juniper Berries and other well known vegeta¬
ble remedies. in such a peculiar manner as to derive
the fn 11 »edi« : nsl value of each. It will cure, when in
the power of medicine. Scrofula. Salt Rheum. Sores,
Boils, Pimples, all Humors, Dyspepsia, Biliousness,
Sick Headache. Indigestion, General Debility. Ca¬
tarrh. Rheumatism. Kidney and Liver Complaints.
It overcomes that Tired Feeling caused by change of
e imate, season or life.
IOO Doses One Dollar.
Turpentine.
After a housekeeper fully realizes the
worth of turpentine in the household, she
is never willingi to relief be without a supply of
it. It gives quick to burns; it is an
excellent application for corns; it is good
for rheumatism and sore throats. Then
it is a sure preventive tv'fle against moths; by-
just dropping cupboards a in the drawers, the
chests and it will render
garments secure from injury du 3. ng
the summer. It will keep ants t» nd
bugs from closets and storerooms by ,
putting a few drops in the corners and
upon the shelves. It is sure destructior
to bedbugs, and will effectually drive
them away from their haunts if thor
oughly applied to all the joints of thi
bedstead, and injures neither furniture
nor clothing. A spoonful of this added
to a pail of warm water is excellent fo!
cleaning paint. A small piece of paper
or linen moistened with turpentine, drawers, for and
put into the wardrobe or a
... 8^ d*y two three , times .
Slu e or a year, is a
Preventive agamst moths,
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A tourist climbing up a mountain side doesn’t
want a small, limber or rotten stick. Xo.be
wants a stout staff that will bear bis whole
weight, one that he can lean on in confidence,
one that is worthy of trust and that will up¬
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in search of health. They dislike to fall into
the hands of a doctor and he experimented remedy for
with. They waut to use the proper will¬
ing their ailment take medicine in the start. condition They are that only it will
to on remedy
make them well. Now there is one
whose effect is a certainty. It has been tried
and tested in thousands of instances and has
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Syrup. Its principle was discovered by the
eminent Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky. good It
is pleasant to take, and possesses all the
medicinal qualities of quinine, but is fl ee from
all its objectionable qualities. It will cure
chills and fever when quinine fails. It will
also prevent and cure colds,influenza,la and grippe,
etc. Its influence is positive, it is a
remedy worthy of trust.
The only person w-ho is safe in Ireland is the
Cove of Cork.
Eric Railway.
This popular Eastern Line is running solid
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between Cincinnati, Chicago, New
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Use the SMALL SIZE (40 little beans to the bot¬
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