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Spring Place Jimplecute.
CARTER ft HEARTSELL. Ppopriotobs.
VOLUME XI.
FALL HINTS FOR FARMERS
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING BY
THOUGHTFUL AGRICULTURISTS.
Storing Fruit* and Root*.
The large and bountiful crop of fruits
and root crops this season will keep the
farmers and fruit growers busy for
awhile harvesting, marketing, and storing
tiu- surplus, and the demand for barrels
and fruit crates on their part, as well as
on the part of those who can a large por¬
tion, will no doubt give employment to a
large number of persons. So far as pota¬
toes and apples are concerned the farmer
is not compelled to sell immediately, and
pears also require a short period in which
to ripen after they are gathered from the
trees. Many of tho root crops, such as
turnips, beets, carrots, and parsnips, are
allowed to remain in the ground until
late, |whon they are stored in mounds
outside or in bins in the cellar.
, STORING IN THE CELLAR.
When potatoes or apples are stored in
the cellar tho object should be to keep
them cool, somo point of temperature
near that of freezing being preferable,
tiut, as ail cellars are not alike, protection
against freezing bins, is resorted to. Potatoes
keep best in the bins being easily
covered, or the sides protected by a
double wail, but apples are stored in bar¬
rels in order to more easily market them
without additional handling, When
apples become frozen they are in the
greatest danger when they thaw-.
They should not be allowed to become
frozen if it can be prevented, but. if such
should happen it will be better for them
to remain in a frozen condition. If they
Login to thaw the object should be to
allow them to do so gradually. It is the
sudden thawing that causes them the
greatest Injury, and in storing them in
the cellar this should be considered. En¬
deavor to keep them at even temperature,
Loth now and in the winter.
ASSORTING THE CROP.
As only the sound and perfect apples
keep well, tho fruit should bo carefully
assorted before being placed in barrels,
and each apple should bo examined, as a
single specimen that is affected with rot,
or disease of any bind, may affect the
whole. The same rule applies to pota¬
toes. It is better to allow tho hogs to
have the inferior apples than to attempt
to save them. Fears should be well ex¬
amined, placed in a cool and dark loca¬
tion until they begin to ripen, and mar¬
keted in boxes and barrels. Send only
clean, largo, and perfect fruit to market
if the highest prices are expected.
Lime and A»h«*.
Lime is a constituent of all soils, yet it
exerts a benefloial influence oven when
applied to limestone soils, simply because
the air slacked lime is in a condition in
which it can combine with certain ele-
men ts existing in the soil more favorably
than can the insoluble limestone. It is
well known that lime and potash an
special fertilizers for dlover, tho partially
eolubie sulphate of lime (piaster) showing
quick results on some soils, yet the fact
is that though clover abounds in nitrogen
the application of nitrogenous fertilizers
is not beneficial to such a crop, due to
the clover deriving its mineral elements
principally from the soil and its nitrogen¬
ous and carbonaceous matter mostly
from the air and rains.
As ashes contain a largo proportion of
both lime and potash they serve as the
iiest fertilizer for ckjver, but the cheaper
fertilizer is lime, whjtah enables the soil
to give off more potash by chemical in¬
fluence, but as a period may arrive when
potash will bo deficient it should be ap¬
plied land in some torn everj season. When
is prepared fat clover, a heavy ap¬
plication of manure made, and lime als-
used, the possibility of wbat is known ai
“clover sickness” of the land is greatly
reduced, especially if an application of a
small proportion of wood ashes is also
made every fall. Another point to ob¬
serve is that when a clover crop is al¬
lowed to produce seed it is more or less
reduced in vitality, as the production of
seed calls for all the efforts of the plants.
Lime being a very cheap fertilizer, no
farmer who grows clover should omit it.
Clover Stckneg*.
When the land has been long kept in
clover it happens that tho crops cease to
be remunerative, although the land has
really become richer in those elements
that largely enter into tlie composition
of clover, the reason assigned by some
for the failure being that the continued
crops of clover on the same land poison
the soil by tho plants throwing off cer¬
tain substances that have been absorbed
but which can not be used as food, the
injurious matter remaining in the soil,
only to be removed by abandoning clover
until two or more crops of grain or roots
have been it >’ n, which purify the soil
and thvi U f vain for a clover, crop.
This toco. 1 f clever sickness” of the
soil is not, i *'iev«r, accepted by many
scientists «to, vivo endeavored to solve
the problem, as a certain class maintain
that the clover does not affect the soil,
the failure being due to the soil being
deprived of its potash and lime, thus be
coming unbalanced with an excess of
nitrogen compared with its available
mineral matter.
_
The farmers are said to be more inde¬
pendent than any other class. Inde¬
pendence is not the lot of any class, in
fact, for there are obstacles to be met
with in all branches of industry, to ovor-
come which the intelligence and capacity
of each individual must be considered,
AU branches of industry have their ^d-
disadvantages.
SPRING PLACE, G-A., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1891.
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.
Be not consistent, but be simply true!
It costs more to revenge injuries than
to liear them.
Those who are greedy of praise ar»
lacking in merit.
Heath arid taxes are-sure; crops and
life are uncertain.
Men are tint to play with their health
ami their livc-s as they do with their
clothes.
When a man is as polite to men as he
is to women lie is entitled to be known as
a gentleman.
A soul inspired with the warmest as¬
pirations after celestial beatitude keeps
its powers attentive.
Happiness, in its full extent, is the ut¬
most pleasure we are capable of, and
mi.- 'iy the utmost pain.
Fortune turns faster than a mill wheel,
and those who were yesterday at the top
may find themselves at the bottom to¬
day.
The pillow is a dumb sibyl. To sleep
t,lln . at * done is better
I '’l'”" a 8 l " ls t0 K1
5 ll,:m to K> wakened up by one already
doni '
All confidence is dangerous unless it is
complete; there are few circumstances
in which i' is not best, cither to hide all,
or to tell all.
On a nun dial which stands u pon tho
pier of Brighton is inscribed this most
hopeful line: “ ’Tis always morning some¬
where in the world.”
Instead of laying down the law with
absolute certainty, the true thinker is
Letter pleased to put his convictions te
every test. Even when he is fully par-
suaded to their truth, he has no desire to
force them upon others, knowing such a
method to be utterly unavailing.
Experience keeps a dear school; but
fools will learn in no other, and scarce in
that; for it is true we may give advice,
but we can not give conduct. However,
they that, will not be counseled can not bo
liehied, and if you will not hear reason,
she will surely rap your knuckles.
I-ove is a faith, and one faith leads to
another. And this faith is happiness,
light, force. Only by it docs a man enter
into the series of the living, the awakened,
the happy, the redeemed—of those men
who know the value of existence and
who labor for the glory of God and of tho
truth.
The true life of Dante does not lie in
the series of the material facte of his ex¬
istence. The life of Dante consists in tho
sufferings and aspirations of his soul; in
its domineut impulses; in the ceaseless
development of the idea which was at
once his guide, inspiration, and consol¬
ation; in his belief os a man and an
Italian.
Culture is not a substitute for life, but
the key to it. Much as it depends on
books, life is really the greatest thing it
has to do with. It is the passions, tlie
interests, tho relations, the absurdities of
life that it fits us to see into, to taste, to
discriminate. Not only is culture essen¬
tial to good society, but good society is
essential to culture. It requires curious
natural advantages of position to look at
and overlook life in that sy mpathetic and
yet self possessed way which alone car.
give us a complete view of it.
Clock Winding Snake*.
The people of Persia are very unwilling
to have house snakes destroyed, Tlie
creatures do no harm, and what is moro
important, they are believed to be ten¬
anted by the spirit of the late master of
the house. English travelers and resi¬
dents in tlie country naturally entertain
a very different opinion, and sometimes
find the superstitions of the natives a trial
hard to bear. Dr. Wills, in his “ Land
of the Lion and the Sun," recounts one
of his own experiences.
In my first house in Shiraz, an old and
handsome one, I was continually an-
noyed by a buzzing, as of the winding of
clockwork. This, I was told, proceeded
from tho snakes, but I never saw one,
though the buzzing was to be heard in
all parts of the house.
One morning I was attracted by an un¬
usual twittering of birds, and on looking
out saw some 30 sparrows on the top of a
wall, all jumping about in an excited
manner, screaming, chattering, and open¬
ing their beaks as if enraged.
At first I was at a loss to understand
the cause of such a commotion, but
presently I saw a pale yellow snake ad¬
vancing deliberately upon the birds from
the wooden windowframe, out of which
he hung. They appeared to bo all of
of them quite fascinated, and none at¬
tempted to fly away. The snake did not
take the nearest, but deliberately chose
one more to his liking, and swallowed it.
Glad to be rid of my buzzing annoy¬
ances, I got my gun, and notwithstand¬
ing the entreaties of the servants, somo
of whom wept, assuring me that the rep¬
tile was inhabited by the late master of
the house, I gave him a dose of duckshot.
He was a big snake, about four feet
long. I cut him open and extracted tho
sparrow. After some 10 minutes’ expos¬
ure to the sun the bird got up, and in
half an hour more flew away, apparently
unhurt.
Sortly afterward a servant of my land¬
lord came and took away the snake’s
body, and all my own servants sulked
and looked black for a week. When I
spoke to my landlord, however, an edu¬
cated man, he laughed, and simply con¬
gratulated me, saying that the clock
winding snake had annoyed him for
years. I never heard the noise again.
The new kind »f tableware Is called
“The Record.” The new servant girl
will probably break it at the first oupor-
tuuity,—Yonkers Statesman,
“TELL THE TRUTH."
BAN AND WIFE ARE TWO.
JUDGE ARNOLD SHATTERS THE OLD
MARRIAGE LAW.
(i Decision of Interest—The Man aiut
Woman Are United, but They Are Not
Welded as of Old -An American Decis¬
ion Similar to EnsliMi Procedure*
If thi' opinion of Judge Arnold, of the
court of common pleas No. 4 of Pennsyl¬
vania, is correct, the. old idea that man
and wife are one is likely to be over¬
thrown in onr jurisprudence. In an opin¬
ion just handed do *n the judge, in treat¬
ing upon the right existing between hus¬
band and wife un er the marriage law,
takes occasion to listinctly throw down
tlie old idea in the following words:
"The plaintiff claims witness’ fees for
bis wife, the defendant objects; and
lienee the appeal. The question is new,
liecause the law admitting husband and
wife to testify for but not against each
other is new. But in tho few eases in
which a party may lie excluded from
testifying his wife is also excluded. This
is not because of any supposed unity of
husband and wife, for it is manifest that
as witnesses they are two iu number,
but because of their identity of interest
and the policy of the law. A husband
joined for conformity in a suit by his
wife prior to the married person’s
property act of June 3,1887, can not re¬
cover witness’ fees, because he is a party.
No one who is a party cau have witness’
fees, whether he has an interest in tho
suit or not.
"The law now regards the unity of
husband and wife as an obsolete legal fie-
lion, and it has accommodated itself to
that fact. The old rule of law that, on a
gift to a man at <1 his wife and a third
person, the man and wife together took
only half the property, and the third
person took the other half, is abolished
by the modern legislation in regard to
married persons. Each takes a third
now. Statute laws recognize that hus¬
band and wife are two persons in sub¬
stantial matters. Theactof June 3,1887,
recognizes the customs and habits of the
people, and declares these customs to lie
lawful. The common law was the cus¬
tomary law of the people, declared by tho
judges. It was the best statesmanship,
the faculty to observe what was needed
and then to grant it.
“There was a time when husband and
wife were one in the eye of the law. Tho
husband on marriage took all his wife’s
horses, cattle, sheep, and oxen. He could
chastise her—moderately, say the books
—but if he floes it now he will be pun¬
ished as a wife beater. A wife was a
helpmate indeed. She spun yarn, wove
cloth, made frocks and breeches, and was
generally merged into her husband’s
pocket, if not into his person. Women
who bring out the spinning wheels of
their ancestors, or buy them if they have
them not, exhibit a badge of woman’s
bondage. Now husband and wife wear
clothes made and bought in stores. In
olden time there wore no bazaars and
grand depots anil establishments of
smaller size iu which all that is worn by
man or woman can be bought.
“Formerly married women were under
an actual disability to buy goods and
make contracts; now they arc not, except
that t lie law of thin State, in its transition
state, still puts the burden on tho store¬
keeper to prove and for judges and juries
to decide that the articles sold by him to
women were necessary for her, overlook¬
ing the fact that the best judge of what
is necessary for a woman, sound in mind,
body and estate, is herself. Her disa¬
bility in this respect is changed into a
privilege to get and keep all she can,
with an immunity from liability except
for necessaries. The next legislation will
chanr this, no doubt, as it has been
chai in England and nearly all the
tit .
.. fiiere is no policy of law violated by
(flowing witness fees to a wife in a suit
»y her husband if she is a material wit¬
ness, we think tlie allowance of her fees
by the Prothonotary is proper in this
case. Whether she was a material wit¬
ness is a question for the taxing officer
to determine. The affidavit of a party
that a witness is material is not con¬
clusive, but it .may be overcome by
proof. Tlie materiality of testimony is
always open to inquiry. Appeal dis¬
missed. ”
A Filthy Habit.
One of the vilest habits tolerated in the
United States publicly and privately is
wholly unknown in other countries. It
is obtrusive expectoration. The disgust¬
ing vice is on the decline in large cities,
but it is still too prevalent, and persons in
authority ought to insist upon its repres¬
sion. Smokers who can not smoke with¬
out making themselves offensive ought
always smoke in strict seclusion. Men
riding in public vehicles pay for trans¬
portation, but it does not include (ho
right to defile floors, soil the garments
of other persons in the vehicle, and sicken
the stomachs of tho sensitive. Tfie be¬
spattering of sidewalks, railway stations,
foyers, and other places with salivary
discharges is as foul as it is unnecessary.
Conductors, janitors, and porters ought
discreetly remind men guilty of this bar¬
barity that it must lie stopped. If a quiet
protest will not be heeded let the police¬
man be called.
Secretions of the respiratory, salivary,
or digestive organs are properly deposited
in pocket handkerchiefs if they can not
be more satisfactorily disposed of. Men
who can not afford pocket handkerchiefs
should receive gifts of them from their
friends. A vigorous and persistent effort
to stop this filthy practice in public at
least should be made and kept up.—[Chi¬
cago Herald.
A MILLIONAIRE’S RUIN.
The Messenger Waited for an Answer,
Thnt’e the Reason.
Every one hits admired the superb resi¬
dence, 999 Faralono street,. It belongs—
or rather did—to Parnell McCorken, tho
capitalist. About three months ago ho
resolved to take his family on a European
tour. When about to leave his office for
the train he sent a messenger boy out to
his residence with a note, which ho
thought might possibly reach his wife
before she left the house. The boy was
instructed to wait for an answer—bear
that in mind—“wait for an answer.”
It is supposed that the said boy reached
his destination some time early in the fol¬
lowing week. At all events, as he did
not return McCorken forgot the circum¬
stance and proceeded east with his fam¬
ily. McCorken was not a superstitious
mao, but he had hardly been insulated
into his berth by tho Pullman porter be¬
fore lie was filled with a presentiment of
evil.
In vain lie endeavored to shake off tho
foreboding of disaster that depressed him.
It followed him to London, Paris, Switz¬
erland, every where. Worn to a shadow,
he finally turned his face homeward. As
lie stepped from the ferry on his arrival
hero he sprang into a carriage and was
rapidly driven to his dwelling, which ho
approached with a feeling of inexplicable
terror.
As he ascended his stops lie behold
calmly slumbering before the door a mes¬
senger boy—MeOorken’s note of three
months hack still protruding from his
pocket. He had been provided with a
couple of blankets by the company,
which also furnished him with three cof¬
fee and doughnut rations per diem,
He was waiting for an answer! With
a loud shriek tho once happy capitalist
fell to the earth a ruined man.
Hut why linger upon the sad facts?
Any clever school boy can in a few hours
figuri ho amount of the District Messen¬
ger Company’s bill against McCorken, in¬
cluding “car fare both ways. ” That mis¬
erable victim’s estate is now in the hands
of the sheriff, and according to a compu¬
tation made by that gentleman with a
piece of chalk on the almshouse fence ho
is still $1,600,042.23 in debt to the com-
puny, although there is some talk of the
superintendent throwing off the odd 23
cents.—[Sun Francisco Examiner.
Here In « Sensible Woman*
There is a sensible woman up town—
there may be more who aro sensible in
this respect, but this one stands out, in
the writer’s acquaintance, as a rarity—
who instructs her two daughters as regu¬
larly in the science of shopping as she
toadies them cooking and healthful liv¬
ing. “I consider shoppinga science,"she
says, “and an important one in tho house¬
hold economy. IIow one respects a clear
headed, sensible woman who knows how
to shop rapidly, economically, and well,
and bow few such one meets. I take my
girls with me in my rounds of buying,
teach them the different fabrics and dis¬
crimination in the choice as regards the
use required. Nobody taught me this;
I acquired my knowledge by a, long lino
of mortifying and expensive experiences,
which I have determined my daughters
shall be saved from.
“1 have taught them to avoid bargain
counters as they would a plague and
never to lie drawn into the pushing, jam¬
ming crowd which strives to buy a pair
of gloves for 98 cents at an expense of 25
cents worth of vital force and self re¬
spect., to say nothing of time wasted and
the possibility, after all, that they have
paid 98 cents for a 75 cent pair. I have
taught them, too, that the best is tho
cheapest, which does not imply always
the most fashionable nor the most expen¬
sive. Flimsy, ill made articles I consider
almost immoral—the influence of a pair
of honest shoes or a yard of first quality
clot h 1 think outranks many a sermon.
“My girls have lmd their personal al¬
lowance since they were 15, and they
have learned to use it most judiciously.
And I am never afraid they will drive to
the dry goods shop for ‘a paper of darn¬
ing needles,’ as tlie girl in the story did. ”
—[New York Times-
TUrful Poultry Feeding Bain.
The common practice of feeding poul¬
try is to scatter tho feed upon the ground.
This is a wasteful way of feeding, espe¬
cially ifMhe food be soft or of a semi¬
liquid na. re. If one wants to keep a
r.
A 9
FIG. 1. BOX WITH niNGED COVER.
supply before them at all times a trough
of some kind should be used. The two
plans herewith illustrated will fill the bill
in all respects. The one shown in Fig. 1
is two feet or more long, four inches high,
and eight inches, wide. It is provided
w ith a hinged lid, C,. leaving a three inch
open space in front. The bottom slants
toward tho front, as indicated by the
dotted lines at A. The plan in Fig. 2 is
wmmmsm
■ro-
FIG. 2. BOX WITH SLATTED COVER,
elaborate and is enough better to
for the increased labor of construc¬
'Die ends.M, are 8 inches wide,
inches high in front, and 10 inches at
rear. This box may be made as long
one likes. The slatted top explains
It is readily raised up to throw in
feed, and is intended for the use of
grown fowls.—American Agricult¬
BiTfi OB INFORMATION,
Missouri is an Indian word, meaning
“muddy. ”
The sun never sets on the possessions
of the United States.
It has been discovered that almanacs
date back to the year 100 A. D.
The G. A. It. was formed at Decatur,
Ill., on April li, 1800, with 12 members.
The population of the United States
could stand on a plot nine miles square.
A Tunisian girl has no chance of mar¬
riage unless she weighs over 200 pounds.
The thickness of human hair varies
from the 250th to the 600th part of an
inch.
Somebody has computed that if 32
000,000 people should clasp hands they
could reacn around tho earth.
The area of Egypt is put at 10,693
square miles, English measurement, and
its population is about 7,000,000.
The violin, it is said, was invented by
Ravena, King of Ceylon, 5,000 B. C. It
was then called the Ravanastron.
The smallest church in the world is at
St. Lawrence, near Ventnor, Isle of
W ight. It has a seating capacity of 12
people.
Henry VIII was the first British sover¬
eign to he called “your majesty," and
he was ns big a “ tough ” as ever sat on
the English throne.
A bar of aluminium in its natural state
is worth $5. Made into jewelry it is
worth $500; made into balance springs
for watches it is worth $250,000.
Tho average rainfall in the United
States is 29.6 inches. The larger number
of inhabitants occupy the region in which
the annual rainfall is between 30 and 50
inches.
When Shakespeare and Milton wrote,
only 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 spoke their
language. One hundred years ago 40,»
000,000 of people spoke German, 30,000,-
000 French, and 15,000,000 English.
John Jacob Astor was perhaps the first
man in the United States whose wealth
passed the $1,000,000 mark, and this
happened, as nearly as can be learned,
about 1805 or 1806.
It. is a curious little fact that on tho
same day, April 23, 1610, that William
Shakespeare died in England, Miguel
Cervantes, the celebrated Spanish author
of “Don Quixote,” died in Spain.
One of the mummies of the Egyptian
kings is provided with a set of upper
false teeth, tho plate being made of carved
wood, closely fitted to the mouth, tho
teth represented by brass bosses or studs.
The most northern people of the world
to-day are the handful of Esquimaux,
supposed to be about 100 in number,
called the Etah natives, who live upon
the west coast of Greenland, between 70
degrees and 79 degrees north.
The microbe theory is almost 2,000
years old, for Terentius Varro wrote, 37
B. C., that there are invisible animalcules
growing in swampy regions which get
into the body by way of the mouth and
the lungs, and cause serious disease.
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Beg not a long life, but a good one.
A vacant mind is an invitation to vice.
Custom is the plague of wise men, and
the idol of fools.
Make your best thought into action.—
Madame Necker.
Men of character are the conscience of
the society to which they belong.
Temptations are a file that rubs off th*
rust of self confidence.—Fenelon.
Whoever teaches false moral principles
is an aggressor on the welfare of society.
—Chateaubeiand.
Women who aro confident that they
know their own minds are not so suro
that they know their own hearts,
Love looks through spectacles that
make copper appear like gold, poverty
like riches, and foul tears like pearls.
Thlngi She Won't Confen To.
That she laces tight.
That her shoeB are too small for her.
That she is ever tired at a ball.
That she paints.
That she is os old as she looks.
That she has been more than five min¬
utes dressing.
That she has kept you waiting.
That she blushes when a certain per¬
son’s name is mentioned.
That she ever says a thing she dosen’i
mean.
That she is fond of scandal.
That she—she of all persons in the
world—is in love.
The Spoiling of • Gening.
Rural Host—That’s a real purty pictur’.
Tainted it yerself, didn’t ye?
Artist—Yes.
Host—Been paintin’ pictur’s all y’r
life?
Artist—Well, n—o. The fact is, that
when a young man I first handled a brush
as a sign painter.
Host—Wall, it’s too bad you got dis¬
couraged so soon. Judgin’ by that
pictur’ you’d made a fust class sign
painter if y’d only kep’ at it.—Good
News.
To Fair Managers.
Complaint is made that county fairs
offer $5 as a prize on a basket of cabbages
and only $2 on a pair of choice fowls, yet
the fowls must be sent to tho fairs by ex¬
press, the cost of which being sometimes
greater than the premium offered. As
the poultry department is usually one of
the most attractive at fairs, jthe attention
of fair managers to giving more encour¬
agement to poultry would probably re-
eult advgqtag^giHjy.
One Dollar a Year,
NO 45.
GRASS AND GRAIN.
Clover hay should always be put in the
hay mow, and never stacked. It will not
endure exposure in winter.
All seed com should be thoroughly
dried before storing it away for next
year's planting. When tho seed is dry it
is less liable to being injured by severe
cold, and the moro thorough the drying
of the corn the better it will keep.
The best time to cut Hungarian is
when it is in full bloom; if left till the
seeds ripen, the stems are worthless anil
the seed is thought by some to bo in¬
jurious to cattle. However this may be,
there is no doubt that the crop is in its
best condition for fodder when in full
bloom.
Kust in wheat may be prevented by
destroying the spores hi the seed. Dis¬
solve a pound of sulphate of copper iu
ten gallons of water and soak the seed
in the solution for 24 hours, and then
dry tho seed by dusting or rolling in land
plaster, sowing the seed as soon as it is
dry.
No portion of the grain crop need bo
lost. The broken grains and screenings
of all kinds are excellent for poultry. A
flock of hens will find a large portion of
their subsistence around the barnyard,
while all stubble fields should be given
to turkeys and geese until seeded dowu
with another crop.
An acre of rye contains not only green
food for late fall and early spring, but it
is estimated that it should produce from
15 to 20 bushels of grain and a ton of
straw. With the price of rye placed at
75 cents per bushel for grain, and $10 for
tho straw, the total value is over $30,
which should make rye a profitable crop.
By increasing the yield of wheat per
acre, through the agency of fertilizers,
the land is also left in better condition
than before, as it is often the case that but
a single ingredient of the soil is necessary
to induce a larger yield, and by supply¬
ing it to tho plants the fertility of the
soil is balanced by the excess of the in¬
gredient.
If the pastures are short sow a plot of
Hungarian grass and turn the stock on
it as soon as it is high enough, in order
to give the pasture time to recuperate.
Any kind of green crop will answer for
a change. When cattle are changed
from the regular pasture, however, give
clover hay at night, as sudden changes
will cause a falling off in milk.
A Perfect Cellar Window.
To secure health in the home the cellar
must be thoroughly ventilated. Nineteen
out of 20 times the cellar is a damp,
musty, foul smelling place unfit for a
family to live over. The reason for this
is often because there is no convenient
way of airing it. If hung on hinges, the
windows can be opened frequently and
will be, for what good housekeeper going
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into the cellar daily and knowing a catch
and hinges are placed at every window
will not let out, the gases and let in the
air? The catch is easily made of wood
and fastened by one screw to the floor
joist. It need not be more than an inch
thick, and must be hung so near the
window that when swung up it will push
back the catch, which will immediately
return to its place and hold the window
so that no wind can blow it down. With¬
out these attachments a window removed
is likely to get broken. Covered outside
with poultry net, no animal can enter or
leaves blow in. Easy to clean, such win¬
dows let in light, so filth in the cellar is
seen and removed. A wood screen or
thick curtain to each window is necessary
to keep out light where vegetables are
stored.
Dairy Interests at th« World's Fair.
There are many interesting features in
connection with the present outlook of
the dairy at the World’s Columbian Fair.
A year ago considerable interest in this
subject was manifested by the different
dairy associations throughout the coun¬
try. Then came the Holstein-Friesian
Cattle Club, with an appropriation of
$10,000. This was followed by the
American Jersey Cattle Club, also with
an appropriation of $10,000. Here the
matter seems to rest so far as the dairy
organizations and the Holstein-Friesian
Club are concerned, while the Jersey
breeders are taking the field in force.
Everybody wants to see a grand display
of dairy products and dairy cattle at
Chicago, and it is time for ail to begin to
take action in this direction.
Fruit and Soil.
The Horticultural Times says, very
truly, that 10, 20, or 30 bushels of apples
can not be taken from a tree and the soil
around it be none the worse for the for¬
aging of the roots which supported the
crop. Yet often this process is repeated
every second year, with often a smaller
crop intervening, for 20 years in succes¬
sion with no effort to supply the loss and
sustain the tree in its labors.