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I AGRICULTURAL. |
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IVriliiiK h I mi k«- Herd.
My practice In feeding milch cows
in the past has been silage in the morn- 1
lug. liny or out fodder at noon and dry
corn fodder, cut n few days ancnd, at
night. The morning and night feeds
are mixed With a grain ration of corn
meal, mixed feed and gluten, cotton
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seed meal or linseed meal. I like the
latter best, lint Ibink a change Is good.
1 am governed somewhat by the qual
ity of the coarse fodder. 1 don’t cut
much marsh liny. Have large silo ca
pacity anil have had excellent results
from feeding silage. My silos are
round, built of wood, twenty by twen
ty feet. The accompanying plan Is of
uiy new stoek barn Just linished In
which I can tie tqi 10ft head on one
floor It has eight box stalls In annex,
also calf bins and place for balls by
themselves. The barn has twenty-four
foot posts and no cellar. I feed grain
feed until cold weather, commencing
With winter rye about May 10 and end
ing with barley. It. ]•’. Smith, In New
England Homestead.
lifts PANltir<9f.
While It would not likely be n paying
venture to sow crops for no other pur
pose than fur bee pasture, there are
some crops which may be grown on
the farm which will yield paying crops
of themselves, and will also yield a
good crop of honey without injury to
the crop.
Os the crops that may be grown to
advantage as honey producers anil ns
paying crops I know nothing better
than scarlet or crimson clover and
buckwheat. 'The buckwheat should
(be sown about the, middle of
July, and about one gallon of
crimson clover seed per acre sown j
with It. The buckwheat will grow up
rupldly and protect the young clover
plants from the but sun. In a few
weeks the buckwheat will begin to
bloom, nnd It will produce a good pas
ture for Mu* bees for several weeks at
a season of the yenr that bees are most
In need of something to work upon.
By the middle of September the farm
er limy reasonably expect to reap a
paying crop of buckwheat, mu! also to
leave the ground covered with a good
stand of clover, which will grew up
bile In the fall and produce a good
pasture for young stock In early win
ter The clover will begin to bloom
by the middle of May the uext spring,
and will afford a rich pasture for the
bees for two or three weeks. The clo
ver may be eut for hay by the tenth
«f June If desired, or It nitty be turned
under and the ground be planted to
late corn, or perhaps a better plan
would be to eut the crop for hay, plow
the ground ami sow It to buck wheat
and scarlet clover again. The clover
roots will keep up the supply of nitro
gen, nml will bring up potash from the
subsoil and deposit It near tin 1 surface.
Vis a buckwheat crop takes only a
email amount of potash from the soil
the crop will need nothing but a light
application of phosphate each year to
keep up the fertility of the soil. -A, J.
Legg, In The lCpttomlst.
Planting Iho (lartt.n For Irrigation.
When 1 flrst began gardening three
years ago. particular attention was
paid to the laying out of the garden
for the purpose of irrigation. The
ground originally sloped from A to 1>
and H to C, 1> and C being about
eighteen Inches lower than A and It.
from A to B It was practically level,
while at the other end it sloped from
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UAHIIKN PI.OT FOR FLOW OF WATER.
I' to C. In laying out the garden 1
raked aiul moved the soil so as to re
verse the slope at each end. The result
.was If water is let in at A and directed
south lu the west path, which is de
pressed about three Inches, It will flow
, to B, then to l', and so along the east '
path to i>. If 1 waul to Irrigate the
plnnta of any given row, 1 put a dam !
in the west path opposite a point be- j
twecu this row and the next, and cut
open the east side of the path opposite
this row. The water will then run
tfown the path to the dam. aud so
slown the row and out of the garden at
outlet as Indicated. One advantage of
this plan is that 1 can Irrigate on a hot
slay without scalding. If 1 waut to
water a row of radishes, for Instance.
1 would lirst take the Firefly plow, set
tt down two holes, anil strike a furrow
along the north side of the row, throw
ing the soil away from the plants, then
♦urn on a gentle stream that will just
nicely soak around the plants. After
It is well wet tn, run the plow the re
verse way. throwing the soil back
against the plants. If the soil becomes
too ws.'t it is thrown back as soon as
4ry enough The tnaiu point Is to have
n gentle stream. A fast one will over
flow the furrow and run too fast and
simply set the surface. This leaves
the roots to grow near the surface and
the plants show the effect of a hot sun.
A slow stream soaks down, and I have
often saturated the ground under the
plant while the surface is yet dry.
Another advantage of this system of
Irrigation is the ease with which It is
done. I can start the water on one
side of the garden nnd go to work on
the other, only stopping occasionally
to change the water from one row to
another. I watered the row of early
cabbage more titan the others, and had
them mature and out of the way In
time for a crop of celery, while the
last heads In the adjoining rows were
not matured until a month after the
celery was set out. The greatest ad
vantage of Irrigation Is that you can
get the water when it is needed, and
do not have to wait for a rain. Moles
caused a great deal of annoyance, for
many times I have found the water
running down a mole hill instead of
following along a row of plants. By
using a blunt stick about one nnd a
half Inches in diameter to punch
down the earth the hole will soon tie
blocked tin -J. It. Reynolds, In Amer
ican Agriculturist.
The Strawberry Crop.
One of the crops that is among the
first to receive attention in early
spring is the strawberry. The plants
Hint were set out early last spring will
bear this year, and beds a year or two
old will also produce crops according
to the attention that lias been be
stowed upon them. It is not advisable
to do more than cultivate between the
rows of old beds, in order to remove
any weeds or grass that may come up,
as It may not be beneficial in some lo
calities to disturb old beds, but fertiliz
ers should now be applied on them,
scattering it on the plants in the rows,
which are usually mated. If this Is
deferred It may happen that the fertil
izer will do injury should the plants be
started In growth when fertilizer Is ap
plied. Manure should not now be used
on old beds, ns it may cause the berries
to be Injured later when they are ripe,
as much of the manure will he uude
composed and consequently prove n
hindrance to picking clean berries.
Weeds are the cause of many old beds
being unprofitable, and they will put in
an appearance as soon as the straw
berry plants start in growth. They
cannot be worked out with a hoe from
matted rows, hence must he removed
by band, the necessary labor depend
ing upon the cultivation that was given
hist year. For old beds a dressing of
fifty pounds nitrate of soda nnd 100
pounds muriate of potash per acre will
suffice If the bed received fertilizer last
summer. If not, then the quantity of
fertilizer must he increased. Wood
ashes may be used in place of the pot
ash salt, lint should be applied early
If scattered over the matted rows.
New beds must be prepared in time
to set out the young plants in April.
Wood ashes are excellent on new beds,
l’low the ground and work in fine with
a harrow. Broadcast about twenty
bushels or more per acre of wood
ashes, it ml harrow the ground once or
twice more. In place of the ashes, if
preferred, use 200 pounds of muriate
of potash. About 150 pounds of ni
trate of soda and 200 pounds of acidu
lated phosphate rock should also be ap
plied whether ashes or muriate of pot
ash be used. I'se only plants with
large roots, which should be runners
which started last year, selecting the
strongest and most promising. Some
of the best varieties are pistillate only,
hence it will be necessary to use also
a variety that is staminate in order
that nil the blossoms may tie pollin
ated. The staminate varieties, how
ever. are both staminate and pistillate,
lienee one variety of that kind will re
quire no other, though it Is better to
have two varieties that they may ex
change pollen, liut care should be ex
ercised In selecting varieties, ns any
two varieties should bloom at the same
time. The rows should be sufficiently
far apart to permit of the use of n
horse hoe or Jiand wheel hoe. and the
plants should also be set out with a
suitable space between them for use
of the hoe. Hows twenty-eight inches
apart, with the plants fourteen Inches
distant from each other, will allow of
cultivation with the wheel hoe, but for
horse cultivation the distance between
the rows should be about three and a
half or four feet.
There is no "best" variety of straw
berry for all sections. The soil and cli
mate must be considered. If the crop
is grow it for market the shipping qual
ities of the berries and their size and
appearance are very important. The
IK-st market berries may not be the
best flavored, while some varieties will
not thrive on heavy soils, others prefer
sandy localities, few runners are pro
duced by some, while certain varieties
will die out on moist land, upon which
other kinds have done well Beginners
should not attempt to select the varie
ties until havlug cousulted growers ill
their neighborhood. The best variety
in any locality is the one which has
given the ltest results under the condl
[ tions to which It is subjected, yet that
: variety might prove unprofitable else
j where. The preparation of the soil Is
j a very Important matter, and when
! the plants are lu place the weeds and
grass must be kept down. The hoe
must be used between the plants until
j ;dl weeds are obliterated, and the
spaces between the rows should be
i cultivated whenever the ground Is
i hard. lHtrlng dry seasons a loose top
soil Is very beneficial to strawberry
plants, and when the young plants are
set out all the blossom* must lie picked
i off or they will Injure the growth of
the pl-.nts. A loose soil Is also favora
tile to the rooting of the runners If the
I matted row system U used.—Bhlladel
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liNNERTAFSLE MEDICINE
NATURE P’CTUDES IT WHEN MA’I
NEEDS TONING UP
If t lie Cook Will l>o (he Rent an.l Do It
Properly the Value of Eating Sea
sonable Things in Season Will Be
Apparent—Natural Tonies.
Spring fever is one of tlie ailments
that every one expects more or less
certainly just as soon as the first
bluebird puts in an appearance, says
the New York Evening Sun. It comes
with the coming of the dandelions and
it lingers throughout tlie pleasant
days of early spring, and whether it
is a disease or only a balancing of
the books sort of physical correlative
of spring housecleaning, it is a mighty
uncomfortable state. Old-fashioned
doctors, who put their faith in herbs
used to pres< lbe yellow puccoon. an j
old plant whose more pretentious j
name is Hydrastic Candennis. for that i
restlessness and fever that comes j
with the last days of March. The root
of it is the thing. It is fine, almost
fringy, of a bright golden yellow, and
when fresh dug has a strongly nar
cotic smell. Drying changes all that.
The dried root is fragrant enough for
a sachet. Indeed few odors are
sweeter and more grateful to weak
nerves and stomachs. The taste is
intensely bitter—not a nauseous bit
ter, but tonic, with a clean bite, and
a most refreshing after-taste. Medi
cally, the root is at once a tonic, al
ternative, laxative and diuretic. No
wonder it was sovereign for sore
mouths—which are nothing more than
nature’s advertisements that the
whole digestive tract is sadly out of
kilter.
But it is in the spring vegetables
that the natural remedies and tonics
are most successfully disguised. You
may not know it. but when you begin
to long for crisp salads that is only
nature’s little way of getting you to
take your dose of iron and sulphur
and phosphates which she has pre
pared, ready for the demand. The
doses are pleasant, but they are ef
ficient for all that.
Since that spring fever comes with
the dandelions, it is easy to see that
there is a connection between the two.
No matter how you have lived through
the winter, whether lavishly or spar
ingly. there is certain to be much that
needs remedying, and the remedy is
sure to be at hand if only you know
how to recognize It. In dandelions
there is the cure for dyspepsia and
for that lack of appetite that proves
the system is out of order. Spring
onions, radishes and lettuce are all
great natural medicines. Watercress,
especially of the bronzed variety, is
one of the best of the list. Your
blood is out of order. You must have
a dose of iron and sulphur to correct
it, and behold the cress offers it in
beautiful disguise. You may take it
crisp and fresh as a relish with bread
and butter; you may take it as a salad,
or as a soup. Watercress soup is of
the best.
Spinach ought to put in a frequent
appearance on the table. It contains
more iron than almost any other vege
table or fruit and offers it in a most
agreeable form. Eaten frequently,
spinach is sure to improve a muddy
complexion, through its work of ton
ing up the system. But spinach, like
every other sort of greens, needs
thorough and vigorous treatment in
preparing it for cooking. There are
lev, - things more discouraging than
a dish of spinach, interlarded with
grit. The vegetable should he picked
over carefully, then washed in hot
water before it is put through the
subsequent baths in cold water. When
it is very clean and you know it is
very clean, shake it from the last
water and put it over to cook. Not one
drop of water need be added beside
that which lias clung to ihe leaves, for
the spinach will supply its own mois
ture fast enough to keep from burn
ing. The incredulous may put a table
spoonful of water in tlie bottom of the
kettle, just to ease their own minds,
but none is needed. Cover tlie kettle,
and when done, you will have a most
delicious dish of spinach.
Onions should he eaten plentifully
during the spring. Those crisp little
top onions eaten with bread and but
ter at bedtime do much toward en
couraging sound slumbers. Onions
are really a fine nerve tonic. There
is much sense in eating eggs during
the spring, for in them we have a
needed dose of sulphur.
Rhubarb is but another exhortation
to eat of the things in season. It is
an inexpensive and thoroughly whole
some article of diet that lends itself
to many delicious preparations. Rhu
barb pie. rhubarb tarts and rhubarb
jelly are among the number.
Sorrel and green mercury are two
herbs that are little appreciated, but
the one is most valuable in bilious
disorders, while the other is a good
anti-scorbutic. Both may he used
many ways in cooking.
The point of the lesson nature
strives to teach is, after all. eat of
the things in season. There is an al
most eerie sympathy between all liv
ing tilings. The old-time herbist be
lieved this most truly, and in the root
or precious inner bark of herbs lie
found those healing remedies that the
plants had stored up for maybe just
such purposes. At the time and at
the place where one particular remedy
may be in great demand, there the
herb supplying It will lie found grow
ing. You (]•> not find blackberries
ripening In April. There is 110 need
for tljcSn then, b-t in their own time
they have a most beneficial effect
upon the digestion. But in the spring.
It is the spring onion, the cress, dan
delion ami spinach that the system de
mands and they are ready to respond
to the call.
Dried eggs are exported to Alaska
and South Africa in large quantities. ;
HISTORY OF HOFPITJLS.
Those of Ancient Times, if There tfero
Any, Not Tike To-Day's.
The institution of the hospital as we
know it at the present day, with its
regulations and rules, did not exist in
the earliest times, nevertheless houses
or establishments for the reception of
the sick can be traced back to the
early Jewish period. The earliest of
these were known as Beth Ilolem. or
houses of the sick: such a Beth Ho
-Icm was Beth-Saida, famous in the
New Testament Scriptures. This in
stitution was supported by voluntary
contributions, as the word “Saida”—
charity naturally expresses These
hospitals were mostly situated round a.
pool, the waters of which were consid
ered to lie efficacious for various dis
eases, especially gout and rheumatism.
According to the writer, the attendants
in charge of these establishments were,
ns wo know from the Scriptures (John
v. 2-7), expected to help the patients
into the water. This kind of institu
tion may he looked upon as the foun
dation' of hospitals. They were, how
ever, usually of a very primitive con
struction, mostly consisting of a few
wooden huts.
In ancient Egypt hospitals were un
known, the sick being mostly attended
to in their own homes, or, in the case
of the very poor, at the various tern--
pics in tiie city to which they belonged.
The Greeks, however, appear to have
been better supplied witli institutions
of this kind. Plato says that there ex
isted in various parts of the country
shelter houses for the sick. These in
stitutions were, ns Thucydides has ob
served. supplied with attendants, who
waited upon the sick. It has been as
serted that the ancients had no such
attendants, because no pagan would
wait upon a stranger in cases of sick
ness: this, however, seems to be con
tradicted by the well-known case of
the Samaritan (Luke v. 30-35). Here
was a man who had been attacked by
thieves, left by his own countrymen,
and, moreover, priests, to die by the
wayside, who was seen by a man of a,
country with whom his own kindred
were at enmity. The foreigner seeing
the man from .Tudea in trobule. not
only attended him. but even helped
him to mount his own ass. Many in
stances of a similar kind could he
cited from ancient authorities. It is
probable that the best hospitals of an
tiquity were those established in Rome.
For some years it was doubted whether
the Romans had such institutions, but
a large tablet which was discovered
near Piacenza, dated in the reign of
Trajan, lins shown that not only did
they possess such institutions, but that
they were actually endowed. One of
the earliest hospitals on record was
probably that founded by Valens in
Caesarea between flic years 370 and
3SO. A. D.—London Physician and Sur
goon.
A Custom on tlir Wane.
One of the English customs started
in ihe later years of the nineteenth
century made itself so great a tax
upon society that it will find its proper
level with the dawn of the new cen
tury. I allude to at-home days, say*
the London Daily Mail. The popular
ity and usefulness of these reception
occasions is not to be gainsaid, but in
most houses now tl(e weekly day ha*
given place in a great measure to a.
fortnightly or monthly at home, and
visitors who call on other occasion*
are not cold-shouldered as they were
three or four years ago, when the ven
ture to pay one’s devoirs on a not-at
liome day was treated as if it were a.
breach of social etiquette.
Matters are bung compromised just
as they should i>e, for while it is very
convenient to a frieqd who lives at a
distance to feel sure she will find her
hostess at home upon a given day, it is
annoying to the nearer neighbor not to
be able to fit in her visits when she
likes, and this she may do now, say*
up-to-date etiquette.
Victoria Cross Comparatively Rare.
Taking into account the facts that
the South African war lias now lasted
for sixteen months, and that over a
quarter of a million men have been
employed on our side, thirty-nine Vic
toria Crosses, the number granted up
to the present date, is not excessive,
and it need not be feared that the
value of the decoration will not be
maintained. During the Russian war,
when the cross was instituted, some
seventy were distributed, and though
this war lasted roughly two years, the
number of British troops engaged was
much smaller than on the present oc
casion. The Indian mutiny was also
fertile in individual acts of heroism,
for which the cross was awarded. A
cross was some thirty years ago given
for an act of gallantry in rescuing
some soldiers from drowning in the
Indian Ocean. This is the only in
stance of its being earned except under
fire in the presence of the enemy, and
it is likely to remain so. London
Chronicle.
Poser For the Teacher.
A teacher in a downtown school has
been endeavoring to teach proper pro
nunciation to her pupils. Among the
words considered was “mamma.”
which she told them should always
be accentuated on the Inst syllable.
The next day, in her language lesson,
she put the following sentence on the
lioard. asking liow it should be punc
tuated: “Oh mamma see my pretty
flowers!” Immediately the bad boy
in the back of the room raised hia
hand. “Well, Samuel,” said the teach
er encouragingly. “Yer wants ter put
a eomnli after mammah.” said the
youngster, giving the broad “a” with
an emphasis which convulsed the
whole class with laughter.—Philadel
phia Record.
Only Woman'i Way.
A woman’s idea of being nice to
another woman is to kiss her and say.
“Oh. how lovely that new hat is!”
when she knows she has had it a
year—New York Press.