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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. "m,_,,.'.q.qw.‘“ i i / / £ & ¢ 3\ i) . ¥ 3. ‘ e 1 B AN\ B : e = ‘ ! l . A .\ ( l s 3 i ¥ n i kI ! <« 30 } ‘ ' ] ! :() -’- h 7 J[l »“‘ A' » ’ \ g : ( ’ < & ’ { g ! K i : B p ! v 1y ! B Loenal o y U ‘*l‘ ) i‘ J ! “&. L) D s dhws . L 4 . r o 1 gLI ‘\\.‘) LN - i . R il | SJi ™ : - v e f 5 ; f“' i e 511 | ; ;".l" s ; !,, ’.l ) |‘ } :', A 9 ! p-MR|: " Y I ! | 't,‘f,:i Ry ' o B i N F i - sy | ! oS CO IN Rls | B o e | . ] e - m'o N A Bl C! 91‘,9"“’ g Bark Graft || Saddle Graff, }f Splice Graft .“!"‘ '::" ’\ v. ‘ ; ‘., “:J, : ’,; '\T i -_' J \ 5 R\ NS . , ol ’ glN\ R |il i |W"%- i 1 @ h | e y A i -.l : . | i : . n i | “# it ‘ ;‘ . E\ ‘: ¢ " N / al ‘ ,’:,3 . !! t | ‘e R i 1 (R e R A Rk i’ 1\ [, ‘ \i. L‘ ;'? h ‘ & ‘ ‘ ' i « 1 oL ‘3 oy B | iy ' N S i",":‘” .' R \ k. . Y ) " i . e | i Side Graft { Wedge Graft | ¢ S \_U ST o 4 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 P s - b > s e i ‘v : 2 3 e e Ge % 2 8 88, ey % R e T AT 5 e = ) 35 %, R £ i I e 2 ¥ 1?4?; cg oR2 RN % % b ¥ e i : B Fan, R R 3 = R e z g 4 geG A s 2 i o 0 et ; g‘%fi-»“'&;{;&; YA 3 A 5 X :o Er e. - 7 SR ik ? 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Other ex perimenters have tried rockets, aiC these have been adopted at some places. g Now, it would prebably be more 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 used by the e‘xntzmfi%#g ~pear 'shaped and of three cubic metres eca 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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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 Dispatching an Experimental Ballocp Leaded With a Nitro-Cellulose Explosive, s 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 N \ 1’- 'oé : 5 i X SPTR e A 5 ra RS ] K 1 \ § NS/ ooy AW 8 Ut £= K il B 2 wOWe ¥, 2= \}‘ , ' \\‘, ! ; o ¥ TS g\ : hE s&\l '% = ‘ ,/i : Ifl/ /’C’ : . i =" CNSFA P ; Y ' Ingenious Nursery Device. !is desired to take the baby to the ' country or shore without all the para 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