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I AGRICULTURAL. | * * 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 | |n* .'-ee r,f p:. rrq o u % J .0“ ts-st, mi*, smith's new stock matin. 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 I - Lp] .. r ... ■ » . t ■ 1 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 j pit!a Record. The deepest coal mine In Great Britain is ;i474 feet; In France, 2640 feet; In Germany, llbl feet, and in j Belgium. J77J Get. , Rack pA/iiugfn n{ I’cTiur Final,*** Drs rotor* tauta good* thin any other dy« in] oolor* th«ia b*U«r too. Bold by ail dnigguti. Th« British Government will be asked fork 43.000,000 to *t«rt the oou»U-ucl»oa of Uierty three tew war vessel*. The rnaji who write* the prettiest love letter* seldom make* the beet husband. A Benth's Teat Free, If yon hare nhenmatism, write Dr. Khoop, Itaoioc, Wis., lioi 14S, for six bottle* of hie RhounnOie Cure, exp. paid, fiend no money. J’ay *4.00 if cured. Visitor* to Mount Vernon, the home of the Father of lit* Country, have the rhoice of two route* from Waiuiiagton— electric car or steamboat. New Have an Abiding Faith in Lydia E. 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Pinkham’* Vegetable Com- SgET .m.d.cin* an earth, . pound, and it helped me. 1 hare now tPw-- J*nd hare advised 1 taken three bottle* of it, and lam \ J* I”** 1 * • uf ‘ entirely cured. It in a God-send to J V /Ts *| sering with female any woman, and 1 would recommend it i W /«T troubles to take it. toauyone suffering a* I wa». 1 think, j fij /V. ** / Vi tell people I wish if most of the women would take j could go on the more of your medicine instead of \ \\j platform and lec going to the doctors, they would be j JV ture on it. better off. The Compound ha» also O'T'ljX Vp *’ My trouble was cured my husband of kidney trouble.” painful menstrua- Mhi Mabki. Gookin. ation. The suffering I endured pen Box 100. Mechanic Fall*, Maine. cannot describe. 1 was treated by , a onactli (Ttaiu one of our most prominent physicians NERVOUS PROSTRATION. here for flve mon th*. and found myself “ For two years 1 suffered from getting worte instead of better. At nervous prostration, the result of the end of the fifth month he told mo female weakness 1 had leucorrhoea be had done nil he could for me, and very badly, and at time of menstrua- that 1 had better go to the hospital, tion would be obliged to go to bed. ** My sister advised me to try your Also suffered with headaches, pain Vegetable Compound, as it cured her across back, and in lower part of of backache. I did so. and took it abdomen. I was so discouraged. I faithfully, and am now cured of my had read of Lydia E. l’inkham's Com- trouble, and in perfect health, many pound, aud concluded to give it a trial. thunks to your medicine. I cannot 1 wrote to M rs. Pinkham, and received praise it enough, anil would recom a very nice letter in return. I began mend it to all who suffer from any at once t.he use of her Vegetable Com- female weakness.”— Mrs. H. S. Ball, pound and Blood Purifier, and am now 4*51 Orchard St., New Haven, Conn. feeling splendid. I have no more pain 1 ■.. - —— at monthly periods, can do inv own eCflflfl PFWJfin —W* bsvedeposlted I work, and have gained ten pounds. I dOUUU , 7, lth lh * I would not be without jour \ t *etat le w jh to any i>er »«-n who can find that g Compound. It is a splendid medicine. the above testimonial letters are not genu- | I am very thankful for what it has done in®, or sere j.iiblinhwi l sf ore obtaining ihe I , ..... 1 it? T w*. *-*„ „ _ writer's special permission. *•* I for me. MRB. .T, W. J., <6 Carolina Lydia E. Pinkham Mkdiuihk Co. I A?e., Jamaica Plain, Mass. I ■ If Lydia E. Pinkham'* Vegetable Compound will cure these women why not you —you cannot tell until you try it. If you are ill, and really want to j get well, commence its use at once, ani} do not let any drug elerk persuade you that he has something of his own whieh is better, for that is absurd. Ask him to produce the evidence we do. W. L. 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Protection in what our »ea porta require, and fortifications will not ade quately eupplv this. Liefeoae agalntt all dis order* of the (SigeetiTe organs, euoh ae dyspep sia, constipation, biliousness, rheumatism and nerroasnees, is adequately afforded by thai efficient remedy, Iloatctter’a Stomach hitters. Try It. Don’t worry. A gnat of trouble may evolute into a camel of calamity or an ele phant of woe. I PRICE. isc. HD ADCV SEW DISCOVERY; * »- \J f\ ■ J.ck r* - »nd cure* '* »ra ctM .. hoot o( t«ft inoait • 10d«>»* ► r«*f Dr H R OUIK ••OPR Ro* B Mluil.<»4 USE CERTAIN SECURE.;: Meatioi this Paper iK l2t«*MU«iu. 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.