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WATCH THE COLT'S FEET.
Keep sharp watch of the feet of the
eoits. Have them rasped or pared as
often as once a month, and be sure that
they are levelled so that the coronet on
eaoh aide of the heels will be at the same
distance from the bottom of the hoof.
See that the toes are not allowed to be¬
come too long. It pays to look after
these little things. Neglecting to do so
may result in ruining a valuable youngster
for life.—American Horse Breeder.
THE REDNESS OF BURNED SOIL.
All soil contains more or less iron.
And when new land is cleared the ground
under the lug heaps is often quite red
from the iron contained in it, and which
has been oxidized by the burning. There
are cases in which burned earth is used
as manure with benefit, and the reason is
that the burning oxidizes some of the in¬
soluble earthy matter and renders it
available for plant food. Generally these
burned patches contain so much potash
as to kill vegetation, and keep barren for
years until the potash has been washed
out by the rains. If the burned soil is
spread over the land and fresh soil put
in its place, these unsightly spots on new
land would be prevented.—New York
Times.
CROWING HENS.
As soon as a hen begins to crow,
writes Mrs. A. E. C. Maskell, she be¬
comes of no further use—gets quarrel¬
some, ceases to lay, and struts around a
laughing-stock for everybody. One tried
to crow and lay too, but the eggs she
merely dropped where she was walking;
they were soft-shelled at that, some of
them shaped most curiously; one of them
looked like a gourd with a crooked
handle. Some poultry people think crow¬
ing might never occur if good roosters
were kept and the hens fed with shell-
producing food. Lime and ground-up
oyster or clam shells should be kept
within easy access; feeding pounded
eggshells might teach them to eat their
own eggs. Soft-shelled eggs are rarely
found in the nest, but are dropped
wound in the hen-roosts at night. A
l©dy in Jersey found an egg with too
much shell; inside the first was another
smaller but perfectly-formed egg, shell
and all, containing the yolk and white,
while the outer shell was filled with
white alone sun-rounding the inner
shell.
At this time ol year if hens are well-
fed with cooked food and kept warm and
comfortable they will soon lay; and it is
the chickens hatched out in February
and march that prove so profitable. My
mother thought her bens laid better fed
on wheat screenings, but also fed out to
them potato and turnip parings, together
with scraps from the table, boiled up
and thickened with coarse cornmeal,
which she gave smoking hot. Of course
a hen must be kept comfortable if she is
expected to lay in winter—and when so
kept how her looks show it! How her
eyes glisten. How crimson her comb.
How smooth and glossy her plumage.
Be sore she is infested with no vermin,
specially the large, white head-louse,
which saps all her strength, feeding
about her head, under her ears and
ground her throat, Catch the “var-
mint” and kill it if you can; if not,
grease her on the head and around the
throat with sulphur and lard. Cleanli¬
ness averts many of the diseases that
make such fatal ravages in the poultry-
yard.—New YorkTribuue.
BUTTEKMILK.
From different parts of the world
come the common praise of buttermilk
as a beverage. In lact it is becoming
quite a fad all over the world to drink
buttermilk. The physicians recommend
it, while its price is adjusted to the
finances of the most uuwealthy. In all
hot climates it is drunk at meals and be¬
tween meals, while now the northern
cities of the United States have numerous
wagons and stands along the street where
buttermilk is sold by the glass, often as
low as three cents a pint. The material
that goes by this name, however, is not
what in warm climates would be called
the genuine article, There are several
grades of buttermilk. The real, rich
article comes from the churn that has
but half done its duty and thereby left
little lumps of butter and any quantity
of cream globules in the buttermilk. To
this is sometimes added a third of a
glass of rich cream. This makes a truly
delicious drink. The next grade of but¬
termilk is the pure article, but taken
from the churn that has done its duty
and got out all of the butter fat from the
cream. When it is fresh it is very
palatable, with e chunk of ice in it on
t hot day in summer. This is the gen¬
uine article of the farm, and makes a
good drink in the hay field or while at
ither hard work on the farm. The last
ind worst quality of buttermilk is the
wticle usually sold in large cities, where
the inhabitants do not know a butterfly
from a bumb ! L bee, and are in no sense
experts w products. This third-
&ss art!' is nothing but old sour
milk or clabbered milk worked awhile in
the churn to thoroughly mix it. This
article sells readily on the streets and in
restaurants for three cents a glass on hot
days. When sufficiently cold to numb
the sense of taste it is a good drink,
harmless and wholesome, and by some
people, not exactly cranks but peculiar,
it is though to be good.
There is one point in selling butter¬
milk at which we wish to draw the line,
and that is selling colored buttermilk.
Wc have known first-class establishments
this, and it is a great mistake, because
there certainly is a bad taste about it.
This color comes from the annato used in
coloring the butter, which always, we
believe, gives a reddish tinge to the but¬
termilk. While this sign gives assur¬
ance that the article is genuine butter¬
milk, that is all the virtue it has.—
American Dairyman.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The best layers maxe poor mothers.
Small hen turkeys bring the best prices
at this season.
Professor Bailey says that tomatoes dc
not mix m the fields.
Feather pulling is largely the result of
idleness with the hens.
Too much corn and too cold quarters
will often be the cause of no eggs.
The best way of feeding oats is to scald
well and let them stand over night.
Linseed meal added to the skim milk
makes a good ration for calves or pigs.
The willow, elm, poplar or locust
should never be planted close to wells
or drains.
In winter bens mast have materials
supplied to them to make egg shells, as
well as materials to fill them.
When the hens appear droopy it is a
good indication that they are suffering
from lice, indigestion or colds.
Ducks will begin laying when about
six months old, but, as a rule, the eggs
should not be used for hatching.
Keep the chickens in the broods grow¬
ing rapidly by supplying them with a
good variety of food and feeding regu¬
larly.
Look out for scaly legs. These are
caused by an insect that gets under the
scales. A bathing with kerosene and
milk, or rubbing with kerosene and lard,
will cure in a few days.
If after the action of subsequent frosts
the ground in the orchard is harrowed
fine and a top dressing of tnauure put on,
we may consider that we have nearly
done our part to secure a fruit crop.
A good lock on the heuhouse door,
carefully fastened nights, often has good
effect in increasing the profits of poultry
keeping. It prevents the other people
from rasing so many—off the roosts.
Henry A. Dreer says that Alphonse
Bouvier, one of the new cannas, is a
vigorous plant, but of dwarf habit. The
foliage is deep green and the flowers are
very large and of an intense crimson hue.
The French tigered and spotted and
some other good strains of floxinias come
true from seed. Defiance, scarlet and
Emperor Frederick, azure blue with
white throat, are both fine varieties that
come true from seed.
Felcb estimates that one bushel of
corn or its equivalent in other flesh-
growing foods will produce nine to elev¬
en pounds of live weight in poultry,
and one has only to weigh his fowls to
approximate their food cost, for cost of
care must be added.
A good mutton sheep will always have
a good fleece, but those that make the
most and the best w’ool are not always
the best mutton. But to get either at
its best reqires such feeding as will
keep up a steady growth, and the more
rapid the better the result.
Feather eating among chickens can
often be prevented by putting a small
quantity of salt in their soft feed, enough
to give a moderately salty taste. Three
heaping tablespoonfuls of common salt
for one hundred tens is not too much
every day. This should be tried.
There is good common sense in the
injunction to increase the feed gradually
when preparing a cow for a test. A
month is not too long for preparation.
If too rapid increase is made, it is almost
certain to cause indigestion, of which
the least bad effect is waste of food.
It is quite an item in purchasing an
incubator to get one that is, in a manner,
self-regulating. Being obliged to open
the drafts to reduce the temperature will
not answer. When the temperature gets
too low the flames of the lamp must be
controlled by the heat in the incuba-
tor.
When it is time to take the pigs away
from the sdw, stop giving sloppy food
and roots, that her milk may dry up. II
is batter to beirin this as soon as the pigs
have learned to drink milk at the
j trough. arranged that They the should have a trough it, sc
-sow cannot get to
and should be given sweet milk, rnilk-
j warm at first.
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The Japanese fever is still raging.
Very few women who can afiord it
now wear any but silk-lined gowns.
The princesse dress appears in a new
shape exclusively for tea-gown models.
Shaded chrysanthemums, yellow and
brown, are fashionable bridal bouquets.
Black henrietta is made up for little
girls’ wear with Scotch plaid surah
guimpes.
About 20,000 women in Great Brit¬
ain and Ireland earn their living as hos¬
pital nurses.
And now word comes that Rosa Bon-
heur is scornfully refusing $60,000 for
her last picture.
If there isn’t a gas-jet in the guest's
chamber there should be a candlestick
and plenty of matches.
The average pay of male teachers in
Rhode Island is $76 per month; that of
women teachers $41.89.
There are said to be 200 women in
New York City who go to Europe twice
a year to buy the* dresses.
The newest cut of skirts is either the
umbrella-shape or the make with a cross¬
way seam down the centre of the front.
Sixteen thousand women are now em¬
ployed in the postoffices of England, be¬
sides 8877 in the permanent staff of the
department.
A beautiful fish service lately seen is
of sea green china, picked out in gold
ind ornamented with exquisite designs
of floating seaweed.
Alice Parker, an attorney-at-law, de¬
livered an able address in Boston, Mass.,
the other night on the shameful injus¬
tice of Massachusetts laws toward women.
Mrs. Lynda A. Dent has been the first
woman to be admitted to the practice of
law in Florida, where it had heretofore
been extremely difficult to attain this
end.
Alice Jane Campbell, a London (Eng¬
land) lady, has just patented an im¬
proved measuring attachment for shears
and scissors, that promises to make her
famous.
* The short, stout woman will do well
to flee from the fur sleeves which are to
be a feature for midwinter costumes. It
takes a tali woman of commanding pres¬
ence to successfully wear them.
Trimmed silk blouses for evening wear
ire very popular; also low-necked ones
in pale shades of surah or bengaline,
trimmed with chiffon to match; these
are adapted to wear with any skirt.
A “glove tidy” is the name of a pretty
little pocket, made to hang to the look¬
ing-glass, containing a glove stretcher,
button-hook, scissors, thimble and silks
and needles,all ready lor mending gloves.
There is one vocation particu larly fit¬
ted to a woman who has deftness and
skill combined with artistic taste. This
vocation i3 to furnish floral and table
decorations for elegant entertainments.
The Comtesse Martel de Janville,
widely known to the readers of French
literature from her pen name of “Gyp,”
is a grandniece of Mirabeau, of French
Revolution fame. She is forty-two years
old.
The influential women of London,
England, who are sending clothing to
the destitute Russians have showed the
instinct of true charity in having these
garments fashioned after the national
dress.
Of 430 women graduates from a single
medical college in the United States,390
are engaged in active practice, at an
average age of twenty-seven years, with
incomes varying from $3000 to $20,000
a year.
j The Confederation of Women’s Clubs
now represents 150 clubs, some of which
contain as many as 500 members. Chi¬
cago and San Francisco have the largest
clubs, but New York claims the pioneer
—Sorosis.
Long gathered skirts of cashmere are
worn to just escape the floor on girls of
two to five years, and have very large
sleeves ’ and round waists in fine or
medium tucks, with a corselet of velvet
covering the waist so that only the upper
part shows like a yoke.
Constance Eaglestone describes the
woman of the upper class in Southern
Italy as a brilliant humming bird whose
irresponsible existence is passed in flash¬
ing her own bright hues in the sun,while
the women of the lower classes endure
with cheerfulness lives of trial and pri¬
vation.
The vagaries of bridesmaids’ favors
grow. Recently in London the eight
attendants upon the bride carried walk¬
ing-sticks of the Alpine sort with Dresden
china heads, gifts of the bride, and at
another wedding little silver whistles
, were worn by the maids because the bride
bestowed them.
Miss Kate Miner, one of the Vice-
Presidents of the Board of Managers of
the Columbian Exposition, is a success-
Louisiana sugar planter. With hei
brother, she manages the affairs of a
plantation of five thousand acres. She
is planning to exhibit an Acadian settle¬
ment and a Creole settlement at the
fair.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
OLD FASHIONED POCKETS.
A most comfortable arrangement for
the woman who wears the sheaf skirt is
that of having a flat pocket of good size
made of the same material as the dress
and tied around the waist by strings. In
the seam of the dress skirt or beneath
the pleats in the back is concealed the
opening, just long enough to allow the
entrance of the hand. It is by no means
a new idea, for our mothers or grand¬
mothers wore flat linen pockets beneath
their gowns.—New York Herald.
APRONS WITH BIBS.
The largest bib or napkin is often nol
sufficient to protect the dress of a child
at meal times, especially if the child has
some little service to perform at the table,
like passing a plate or serving the but¬
ter. The sleeves suffer from the contact
with the food which even the neatest
and most orderly cannot always prevent.
The cld fashioned, long sleeved aprons
were a boon in this respect, and while
they are not as artistic as the present
styles with low necks and no sleeves,
their usefulness was great. Such aprons
<*ight to be restored for protecting
dresses at meal times.
These aprons can bo made of 8-cent
calico—a white ground with little dots
of blue or red will not be unsightly—
or of common domestic gingham at the
same price. They can be cut sack style
in three pieces, front and two backs, or
with a plain waist and skirt, the sleeves
in either case being large enough to slip
easily over the dress sleeves. Three or
or four buttonholes in the back are suffi¬
cient to hold the apron in place, and
two yards and a half of calico are enough
for an apron for a girl of seven years.—
New York Recorder.
TO BLEACH BEESWAX.
The commercial way of bleaching bees¬
wax, writes E. Blaisdell, is as follows:
The wax is melted in a large tank, at
the end of which is a wooden cvlindei
turned by hand, while the melted wax is
running over it. The cylinder being
half in cold water, and consequently al¬
ways wet, causes the wax to flake oil
into the water; it is then put on large
cloth screens supported by legs about
half a yard high, and is put out into the
light and air to bleach- After it lias
been out about a week, the same process
is gone through again, and by another
week or so it is white.
This can be done on a smaller scale by
pouring the melted wax on the surface of
warm water to form a thin sheet, and
then putting it out on cloth to bleach;
or another way is to put wax in cold
water, let it come to boil,cool the water,
and a thin sheet is formed on the water
which is put out to bleach iu the samt
way.
There is also a way to do it chemically,
which I copy from a book which wc
have. Heat wax to about 2L2 degrees
in an iron vessel lined with lead; ado
chloride of lime, either dissolved it
water or dry, and stirred with a wooden
spatula. When these materials havt
acted on each other long enough to dis¬
charge the color from the wax, the
chloride of lime is removed by the ad¬
dition of diluted sulphuric acid, The
whole is then to be boiled until the alkali
is separated. The solution of the chloride
of lime in proportion of twenty pounds
to 112 of water, and an equal quantity
by weight of wax.
The sulphuric acid should be of the
specific gravity of 1.8 and be diluted
with twenty times its weight of water.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To clean a black silk dress use a sponge
dipped in strong black tea, cold.
To wash calico without fading, put
three gills of salt in four quarts of water;
put the calico in this while the solution
is hot and leave it in until it becomes
cold, then wash and rinse.
To clean gold jewelry, make a lather
of plain yellow soap and tepid water and
wash the ornaments in it; dry them
thoroughly and afterward brush them
with a little dry whiting, finally polish¬
ing them with a very soft leater.
It is said that a Paris laundryman has
discarded all soaps, sodas and boiling
powders. He merely uses plenty of
water and boiled potatoes, and can
cleanse, without employing any alkali,
the worst soiled linens, cottons or wool¬
ens.
Dr. Hutchinson recommends for the
treatment of bleeding at the nose the
plunging of the feet and hands of tin
patient in water as hot as can be borne.
He says that the most rebellious cases
have never resisted this mode of treat¬
ment.
Mix two ounces of spirits of wine with
four minims of extract of ambergris. If
the insides of the gloves are rubbed with
a small piece of cotton wool which has
been previously dipped in the mixture it
will give them a pleasant and lasting per¬
fume.
For a piece of dried beef weighing
two pounds allow two tours’ stead y
boiling. Remove from the fire and al¬
low the beef to stand in the water until
cold. This beef-, cut in thin slices, will
be found very nice for luncheon or light
suppprs.
To polish patent, leather take one part
linseed oil to two of cream, warm them,
shake together thoroughly and apply
with flannel. Rub well with a soft, dry
cloth. The leather must of course be as
clean as new before any attempt at pol¬
ishing is made.
A Natural Result.
Friend—“I see you are still giving
much vast suns to charity. If you keep o*
leave longer you will have nothing to
your ulat ves.”
Rich Man (*hois weary of readino
about the charities, will contests)—“They can apply tS
you know.”—New York
Weekly,
SlOD Rrwnril. SI OO,
The readers of this paper will be pleased t*
learn that there is at feast one dreaded diseass
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being aeon-
etitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in¬
ternally, surfaces acting directly upon the blood and
mucous of the system, thereby de-
Itroying the foundation of the disease, and
living the patient strength hy building up th,
constitution and assisting nature in doing it*
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Its curative powers that they offer One Hun.
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Bead for list of F. testimonials. J. Address
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Books are the best things, well read; abused
among the worst.
Lathes needing should a tonic, or children who
want Bitters, building pleasant up, take Brown’s iron
it is to take, cures Malaria,
plaints Indigestion, makes Biliousness the Blood rich and Liver Com¬
, and pure.
If yon take care of your character, your
reputation will take care of itself.
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Is highly gratified with Hood's Sarsaparilla. He w*|
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Tired ail the Time
A few bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla effected a mar
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March
April May
The blood should be thoroughly purified and the sys¬
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no good results, and was at one time obliged to
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I finally concluded *o try Hood s Sarsaparilla, an*
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla statement"
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F. J. Temflk, Ridgeway, Mieb.
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