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Burn the Rubbish,
Old rubbish is more valuable in
the form of ashes to the gardener
than any other way. Wood ashes
make excellent garden fertilizer if
applied properly.
Kerosene Emulsion,
One-half pound soap, one gallon
water, two gallons kerosene. Dis
solve the soap in water over fire,
Remove from fire and add kerosene,
Stir violently. Use one part of emul
sion to fifteen parts water,
Name the Farm.,
Name the stock farm is the advice
glven by an exchange and we think
it s good advice. Nothing looks
better in print or sounds better when
mentioned than “Joan Smith, pro
prietor of the Maplewood farm.”
Have your printer print vour letter
heads with the name of your farm
thereon. Some few back numbers
may laugh at you, but remember that
this is the twentieth century and peo
ple who laugh are always back num-
Jers,
Dry Picked Capons.
Capons are always dry picked be
cauge it would be impossible to scald
them and leave part of the feathers
in. They are killed by the braining
process. Feathers are left on the!
neck, legs, wings, rump and tail.
If dressed as ordinary fowls they will
not bring any higher price than other
fowls. The larger the birds the more
they will bring per pound. They are
in most demand from December to
April. Many of them are dressed
as soft roasters and sold as such.
Their flesh is more tender and de
licious than the ordinary fowl.—
Farmers' Home Journal,
Early Cultivation of Corn,
This has been a season when the
ordinary steel tooth harrow has donel
good work on the corn ground.
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A Y Geew (AR METHODS OF GRAFTAGE,
Other implements have been tried *
in cleaning up the fields and keeping |
the top soil nice and mellow, But
the harrow beats all of them. Good
farmers have learned to slant the
teeth backward, so that they will
not catch hold of trash or an old stalk
and tear up the hills of corn. Those
who commenced by using the harrow
this spring just as the weeds were
starting, and then kept on using it |
until the corn was big enough to cul
tivate, have clean fields and mellow
fields. This has been with the re
“sult that those who have mneglected
their fields now find them almost as
bard as a public road. After seemg|
several fine flelds of corn this week
where the harrow was used two and’
three times over, I say stick to tho |
smoothing harrow, and you will have
to “show me' belore I will believe
there i 8 anything Dbetter.—L., C.
Brown, in Tribune I'armer. ‘
The Wyandottes, 1
Taking the country over, the two |
breeds most largely represented at
the shows are the Plymouth Rocks
and the Wyandottes. There are no
shows in which they are not repre
sented and the classes are usually
large and good. This prominence of
the two breeds is not without reason.
They combine the utility and fancy
points to as great an extent as any
breed, they have prestige and have
been bred long enough to a deanite‘
standard to give the greatest play
to the talent of the fancier, . |
Like the Plymouth Rocks the Ws'-;
- andottes are a made breed, but tae
making Is now an accomplished fact
_and while there is alwars room for
l improvement the breeder knows what
to expect and will not find more than
{the due proporuox} of culls from his
hatches,
The Shape of the Wyandotte.
There has been a tendency among
breeders to confuse Wyandotte and
Plymouth Rock form—both by breed
inz the Wyandottes too long of body
and more especially by breeding the
cocks too blocky,
The Wyandotte, as the Standard
expresses it, is a bird of cufves. The
back is short and broad, the body is
deep and round. Its shape gives the
peculiar attraction of the breed and
should be carefully preserved in all
the varieties,
The cocks should weigh about eight
and one-half pounds. "The comb is
rose, lying close to the head, corru
gated or indented with small spikes
‘at rear, curving back over the head,
The head itself is short and broad
with a short, well-curved beak.
The cocks should weigh about eight
%and one-half pounds and the hens
#lx and one-half, while cokerels and
!pullets are a pound lighter respect
ively.—B, M. I, in the Southern Cul
tivator, ;
Why Cultivate an Orchard?
For the same reason that we culti
vate a hill of corn. We plant apple
trees thirty feet apart, while we plant
corn three and a half feet apart, for
the reason that the foliage of an ap
ple tree bears the same relation to
thirty feet that the foliage of a hill of
corn bears to three and a half feet.
Also, that the roots of the tree oc
cupy the entire thirty feei of space as
well as the roots of cor noccuny the
three and a half feet of space. Cul
tivation is as absolutely necessary
for the one as for the other. Cult:-
vation will give thrift (o either and
unthrift without it. To produce a
good chop of corn, break the ground
eight inches deep and pulverize a fin?
seed bed. In cultivating the orchard
we break three inches deep only on
account of roots, and make the same
finely pulverized surface.
This bed contains moisture to the
very surface in a dry season. By
this kind of preparation and & fine,
level cultivation, we retain moisture
to the tree-tops during a drouth, and
consequently thrift of trees and large,
‘smooth apples, fit, indeed, for any
market. A hill of corn half cuiti
vated produces small ears of corn.
An apple tree uncultivated, set’ in
pasture, for” the same reason, pro
duces fruit hardly fit for worms. The
}downran ot thousands of orchards
commences when their foolish owners
lsow them to grass and turn their
stock in, and if possible tramp them
'sull harder than they were before.
yA belt of grass around a tree is about
as fatal as a rope around a crimi
nal's neck, especially if it be Timo
thy, the great robber of moisture.
@ Durable Wood,
The most durable wood of which
we have evidence is that of which
the wooden tombs discovered in
Egypt were built and which Profes
sor Petrie estimates to daté from
4777 B. C. They were most prob
ably constructed from timber yielded
by a species of palm.
Oak wood when once it has passed
& certain age becomes practically
leverlasting. Evidence of this is
found in the roofs of Westminster
Hall and of the cathedral at Kirk
wall, which have lasted almost a
‘thouund years.
TBE USE OF PALLOONS FOR THE PRE
VENTION OF HAIL.
By the Berlin correspondent of the Sclex-
TIFIC AMERICAN.
Because of the terrible damage
wrought by hail in some parts of Eu
rope, scientists have _directed their
attention to designing a means by
which the outbreak of hail could be
prevented, and some success has been
obtained by the use of hail guns,
firing a shot of either gunpowder or
acetylene against the hail cloud and
thus dispersing it.
Though a number of societies for
the installation of these guns have
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Instrumeuts,
been founded, both in Soathern
France and Italy, their usefulness is
not universally accepted. Other ex
perimenters have tried rockets, aiC
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efficient to attack the cloud as it were
from its very seat, than to act upon
it from the ground. In fact, as far
back as 1847 Arago and Dupuis-Bel
court suggested the use of a small cap
tive balloon made entirely of copper,
so as to_be impervious, and the sur
face of which would bg«eovered with
sharp points. The suggestion was
not tried. i
The same idea has now bheen taken
up by two Belgian aeromauts, Captain
Marga and Mr. Adhemar de la Hault,
who, however, use a free balloon,
carrying some powerful explosive,
such as dynamite or guncotton, which
is ignited by some attachment as soon
as the balloon has penetrated into the
hail-carrying clouds. The ballooa
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pacity. 'When filled with hydrogen
gas it has an ascensional force of
more than four pounds. Five hun
dred grammes of an explosive, with a
nitro-cellulose basis, = designed by
Captain Marga, are carried, together
with a slow match.
Experimental ascents have proved
successful, and show that in the case
of a gathering storm-ecloud, it will be
possible to so time a charge and
direct a balloon ad to obtain an ex
plosion in a favorable position for
dispersing the clouds. The explosive,
suspended ai some distance below
the balloon, does not injure it, and
the latter may be recovered and used
again. 3
Some more extensive experiments
will shortly be undertaken at the
meteorological statiop at Mogimont,
which has been recently installed by
Mr. de la Hault, especially for the
purposes of investigating the behavior
of thunder storms and hail.
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Intelligence of Bees.
Mons. G. Bonnier has informed the
French Academy of Sciences of some
experiments, recently tried by him,
which, he thinks, demonstrate that
bees possess a kind of collective in
telligence. One of his most interest
ing experiments was this: He placed
a lump of hard sugar within reach
of some bees, and near it a basin of
water. The bees, finding that their
mandibles were incapable of break
ing the sugar, organized a sort of
bucket brigade to carry water from
the basin to the sugar. Having re
duced it to a sirupy state, they had
no further difficulty. But Monsieur
Bonnier noticed, in all his experi
ments, that single bees gave no such
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indications of intelligence. Their
minds seemed to wake up only when
they were acting in company.
Cot and Bath Combined.
The United States is regarded as
the leader in the matter of inven
tions, but occasionally we get some
very striking novelties from the coun
| tries over the sea. The cne shown
herewith comes from England. It
is called the bahfkot, because it com
bines the nursery bed and bath. It is
designed especially to meet the de
| mands of the summer-time, when it
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phernalia of the nursery. When not
in use it packs in a flat package, and
it is made at a convenient height, so
that there is not the backache which
mother or nurse finds incidental to
the ordinary method of bathing an in
fant.—Philadelphia Record.
5 The average annual cost for each
pupil for public school education in
{ Germany is $12.86.
“Gluten” Bread and
Cracker Frauds
By CHARLES CHRISTADORO.
When starch must be eliminated
from a sick man’'s diet, white bread
is the first thing tabooed, and then
‘ follow potatoes and other over
charged starchy cereals. It is a ser.
jous matter for the patient to be de
nied bread, and so the pathway i 3
smoothed out and the doctor pre,
scribes ‘“‘gluten’”” bread, becausa
gluten {s not a carbohydrate, and
“gluten” bread is supposed to be free
from starch.
What is gluten? Well, spend ten
minutes and find out—not all about
it, but something about it. Obtain §
heaping tablespoontul of white flour:
Add a little water to it, in a saucer,
and dough it into a eompact ball.
Turn on the tap in the sink, and let
the water drip upon your hands as
you roll the ball between your palms.
The ball will grow less and less, and
the water will be white with starch
cells held in suspension. In ten min.
utes, more or less, the water will
run clean and clear, and you appear
to have a nodule of yellow, firm,
vegetable gum, which you are tempt
ed to call “pure” gluten. Become a
gum chewer for once, and keep a
chewing for a couple of hours. At
the end of this time the quantity of
gluten is less than when you took it
from the hydrant. What has hap
pened? You have simply mechani
cally crushed and broken the gummy
mass, exposing the infinitesimally fine
starch cells to the moisture of the
mouth, and the washings out of the
raw insoluble starch has continued,
just an extension of the sink-washing
process, with greater mechanical
elaboration to expose the entangled
starch cell. Now take the piece of
gluten to an analytic chemist. When
his report comes in, you read starch
fifteen or eighteen, or maybe twenty
per cent.; gluten, eighty-five, eighty
two or eighty per cent., and begin to
appreciate for the first time what real
gluten is.
Where a case is a desperate one,
and starch or no starch will turn the
balance of life, it is very easy to pro
cure and analyze a sample of the
flour or cracker of ‘‘gluten’” the pa
tient is to use. Such a course would
save a physician many a perpleting
hour, and maybe an esteemed patient
now and then.
Gluten is a word to conjure with.
There*is for sale in London and Paris
a gluten bread that is much like
baked horn or glue, but it is a step
toward gluten, although it may con
tain twenty to twenty-five per cent.
of starch.
The fact is, nothing short of an in
tricate installation will produce pure
gluten, and that at a price which is
quite prohibitive. Some of the glu
ten breads on the market®may have
a portion of their starch eliminated,
while others have little claim to any
use of the name.—Scientific Ameri
can. ' L e
Buck Fever.
— The saying, “A fool for luck,” was
never more clearly illustrated than in
a little anecdote told by Colonel Ev
ans in his book on California. The
author speaks of “buck fever” as be
ing one of the most violent diseases
which ever attacked the human sys
tem. It has been the undoing of
many an experienced hunter, but in
the case cited by Colonel Evans it
proved to be the making of a reputa
tion. A farmer in Illinois named
Wheeler had never fired a gun. One
winter, however, he heard so much
talk about the sport of hunting that
his ambition became exeited, and bor
rowing a gun he started out. When
he came back he brought a mag
nificent buck, shot by himself square
in the middle of the forehead. He
said little about his achievement, but
got the credit of being a crack shot,
a reputation which, although he went
hunting no more, he held for several
vears. Then one day he told his story
.and lost his name as a sportsman. He
had seen a doe drinking out of a
creek at the foot of a bluff about
iwenty feet high., With wild excite
ment he got his gun to his shoulder,
shut his eyes, set his teeth and pulled
the trigger. To his astonishment he
saw the doe bound away unhurt,
while at the same time a glorious
buck pitched headlong from the bluff
into the creek, stone dead.
The buck had been looking down
at the doe, and Wheeler had not seen
him at all, but his shaking gun sent
its shot on a fatal although unintend
ed errand.—Youth’s Companion.
Gulls and Clams. *
The discussion continues between
those who think that all the acts of
the lower animals are satisfactorily
explained by the hypothesis of in
herited instinct, and those who hold
that there is an element of: intelli
gence, if not of reasoning in these
things. Mr. W. L. Finley, in a re
cept work on American birds, men
tions an observation of his which
may, perhaps, be explained either
way, but which in any case is inter
esting. A gull seized upon a clam,
and rising to a height of about fif
teen feet, allowed it to fall upon hard
gfound. The clam kept its mouth
shut. Again the gull rose with it to
the same height and dropped it once
more, with the same result. This
operation was repeated fifteen times,
when at last the shock had the de
sired effect, the shell was opened, and
the gull.enjoyed its dainty.—Youth's
Companion. :
et e e e )
His Yearning.
“I hope,”” said the young orator,
“that my speeches make people yearn
for better things.”” “They do,” anp
swered the relentless critic. ‘‘They
make me yearn to be at home asleep.”
A SURGICAL
OPERATION
U
Sk
If there is any one thing that a
woman dreads more than another it
is a surgical operation.
We can state without fear of a
contradiction that there are hun
dreds, yes, thousands, of operations
performed’ upon women in our hos
pitals which are entirely unneces
sary and many have been avoided by
LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
For proof of this statement read
the following letters.
Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman,
Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
“ For eight years I suffered from the
most severe form cf female troubles and
was told that an operation was my only
hope of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham
for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, and it has saved
my life and made me a ‘well woman.”
Mrs. Arthur R. Hpuse, of Church
Road, Moorestown. N. J., writes:
I feel it is my duty to let people
know what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound has done for me. I
suffered from female troubles, and last
March my physician decided that an
operation was necessary. My husband
objected, and urged me to try Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
and to-day I am well and strong.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, and backache.
; Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Aadress, Lynn, Mass.
Blunt language is often used in
making sharp retorts.
Hicks’ Cnpudine Cures Headache,
Whether from Cold, Heat, Stomach, or
Mental Strain. No Acetanilid or dangerous
drugs. It’s Liquid. Effects immediately.
10¢., 25¢., and 53(:., at drug stores 2
~ An Arctic Fomance. Vet
" A pathetic tale of Esquimau love is
told by Lieut. Shackleton, the leader
of an Arctic expedition.
A young Esquimau loved an Esqui
mau ]ass, but as he had not the neces
sary number of sealskins to provide
the marriage portion required by her
father he met with no encouragement
from the stern. parent. A yawning
chasm separated the respective dwells
ings of the ardent lover and his be
loved, which could be crossed only
by a snow bridge. The youth conm
ceived a plan. He would cross the
snow bridge in the night, ‘abduct the
girl and after recrossing destroy the
bridge and so prevent pursuit. He
carried the plan into effect.
One night he crossed the bridge,
invaded the hut of his idol, seized
a sleeping bag and departed, destroy
ing the bridge after he had crossed.
- Then he opened the sleeping bag and
discovered that he had abducted—
not the girl but the old man!—Glas.
gow Herald.
The Troubles of the Sincere,
“Why didn’t you congratulate
Brown on his marriage?”
“I couldn’t conscientiously; I don't
know his bride well enough.”
“Then why didn’t you congratulate
her on her choice?”
“I canldn’t do that conscientiously,
either; I know Brown too well.”—
Boston ‘*l'ranscript.
HEALTH AND INCOME.
" Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.
Good sturdy Lealth helps one a lot
to make money.
With the loss of health one's in
come is liable to shrink, if not en
tirely dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make
her own living,,good health is her
best asset,
“I am alone in the world,” writes a
Chicago girl, “dependent on my own
efforts for my living. lama clerk, and
about two years ago through close ap
plication to work and a boardi g
house diet, I became a nervous ‘fix
valid, and got so bad off it was almost
impossible for me to stay in the office
a half day at a time.
“A friend suggested to me the idea
of trying Grape-Nuts, which I did,
making this food a large part of at
least two meals a day.
“To-day I am free from brain-tire,
dyspepsia and all the ills of an over
worked and Improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts I
owe the recovery of my health, and
the ability to retain my position and
income.” “There’s a Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of hma
interest. s
