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FOB FARM ADD GARDEN.
OI.D COWS NOT PROFITABLE.
Unless the cow has special value as
a breeder, she should not be kept past
her tenth year, If she has had a calf
every year she will then have borne
eight or nine calves, and this will be
sufficient to wear out her constitution.
Cows that arc allowed to go farrow
occasionally will be better preserved
to a later age, but they do not usually
make as good milkers, nor tend to
keep up the dairy reputation of their
progeny so well, as cows that suffer as
little interruption in breeding as pos¬
sible.—[Boston Cultivator.
BONES.
Those fanners, says tho Massachu¬
setts Ploughman, who allow animal
bones to lie about the premises, are
neither tidy nor wise. If they cannot
be broken up they should be buried
near grapevines or fruit trees, the
roots of which will gradually appro¬
priate them for food. Grape roots
will, after a little,penetrate into bones
and pulverize them. The best way,
however, is to break them into small
pieces with an ax or sledge hammer,
and then bury them; or allow fowls
to eat the finer portions, of which
(hey are very fond. Fresh bones are
especially pajatablo to fowls.
TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE.
Dr. Bang, who was authorized by
the Danish government to make an
exhaustive inquiry into the question
of tuberculosis in cattle, observes that
the disease is developed by contagion
or is hereditary, in support of this
statement lie cites numerous cascB
where the disease has beon transmitted
by fiflocted animals to healthy stock,
and instances arc given of transmis¬
sion by fodder, water, walls licked by
diseased cattle, dung, urine, and also
by the expectorations of phthisical
herdsmen. In conclusion, lie states
that tuberculosis is nearly always
transmitted to offspring jf both parents
are affected with tho disease, generally
if tho female is tuberculous, and fre.
quently when tho malo only is dis¬
eased.— [New York Witness.
A FRIEND OF TIIE TURNIP.
The best root for the farmer to
grotv is tho carrot, says Col. F. D.
Curtis. The cheapest to produce is
tho turnip. The coining farmer must
be a friend to turnips. They arc a
perfect food. Breeding sows can be
wintered and do grandly on flat tur¬
nips and clover hay, nothing else.
They will do better on other roots,
but we can grow two crops ou the
same land on which the turnips are
produced. For instance, one acre of
good clover will furnish the hay for a
score of hogs and the turnips also.
People talk about a turnip flavor to
milk and use milk with a manure fla¬
vor. There is too much senseless pre¬
judice and notion about a great many
things. Let us produce tho foods
which wc can get the cheapest, and es¬
pecially if they arc healthful.—[New
York Voice.
RULES FOR MILKERS.
Always treat cows gently. Keep
your finger nails cut short and wash
your hands thoroughly in warm water.
A cow’s teats are vory sensitive, and
the animal’s restiveness is often
owing to tho fact that she dreads
rough ways and touch.
Clean your cowshed thoroughly be¬
fore you milk. Hardly any substance
is so easily contaminated by -foul
odors as milk.
Have your utensils as clean as your
hands. If of tin, set them out in the
sunlight. If you have long tin cans
hang them up so that the open end is
near the earth. There is no better
deodorizer than the soil.
Never feed your cows when you
arc milking. One thing at a time.
Clean (ho cow’s udder well before
ycu attempt to milk. Do it with a
dry cloth or brush. Avoid water for
Miis purpose, but, if necessary, let ifc*
water be warm, and then dry the
udder perfectly.
Give a little salt in their feed; it
will keep the bowels regular, while if
you give a small quantity once a week
it is apt to act like a physic.
MELTING WAX.
There are different processes used
by bee-keepers to render the comb into
wax. The cappings as well as the
ibroken pieces of white comb in which
brood was never raised should be
melted separate from the darker
combs, for they are not only easier to
melt, but the wax obtained being
bright in color is unsurpassed for
making comb foundations, and always
commands a better price than dark
wax.
When the combs are blackened by
the dejectious of the worker bees, or
of tho drones and by the skins of the
cocoons of the law sc, it is so difficult
to render tlic wax that some bee-keep,
ers think it not worth tho trouble.
Charles Dadant, probably the largest
user of wax for comb foundations in
the country, advises in cases of dark
combs “washing these combs and
keeping them under water for about
24 hours. Then the cocoons and other
refuse being thoroughly wet and part¬
ly dissolved will not adhere to the
wax. This will be lighter colored, if
tho combs are melted with clear water
and not with water already darkened
by the washing.”
As this method always leaves some
of tho wax iu the residues, a better re¬
sult is obtained by crushing the combs
before washing them. This can only
be done in the winter when the wax
is brittle.
The combs should be melted with
soft water, tho boiler being kept about
two-thirds full and heated slowly.
While melting stir carefully till all is
well dissolved, then lower into the
boiler a sieve made of wire cloth, bent
in the shape of a box, from which the
wax can be dipped as it streams into
it. If the whole is stirred while this
is being done very little wax will be
left in tho residues. Unless one has
some specially made wax extractor*
this is tho simplest and cheapest way
of rendering wax.
To prevent the cakes of wax crack¬
ing, the melted wax should be poured
into the molds when only 165 degrees
Fahr,, and they should be kept in a
warm place to cool slowly. Much
care is needed not to spoil wax in melt¬
ing it. It must not be heated too fast.
To obtain as largo au amount of
wax as possible, largo makers empty
the contents of the boiler into a bag
of horse hair or strong twine, then
place the bag, while boiling hot, under
a press.
Some bec-kccpers use a wax boiler,
in which the wax is melted by steam.
But the best wax can bo gotten by a
solar extractor wherever the heat of
the sun is sufficiently powerful. The
sun extractor requires no labor but fill,
ing it with combs and taking out the
melted wax.—[Farm, Field and Stock
man.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep the poultry house clean,espec¬
ially towards spring.
Bone meal mixed with the feed is
good for growing ducks.
Select only tho best and most prom¬
ising fowls for breeding.
Crude carbolic acid is one of the
cheapest and best disinfectants.
In using a brooder take cave that
the chicks do not crowd too much.
Give the horses plenty of exercise in
winter. It is as necessary as food.
Ensilage and bran make a good ra¬
tion for amilcli cow, and they are com¬
paratively cheap.
Ileus will not lay while their combs
arc frozen. Care should he taken to
cure as soou as possible.
Delays are always dangerous with
sick fowls; they should be taken in
hand at the first indication.
Keep a sharp lookout for rats about
the poultry building. They are very
destructive to young fowls.
A cow’s milk and butter record for
a year is worth a hundred times more
than a study of her escutcheon.
Bran is a splendid winter food for
chickens. Mix two-thirds bran and
one-third cornmeal, and scald.
Keep pure stock, not only in the
barn, but in the poultry house. Prop¬
erly cared for they will return the best
profit.
Set the plum trees close around the
poultry house; both the fowls and tho
fruit will be benefited, The comb
and wattles of a really healthy fowl
should always be a bright scarlet
color.
Exercise is an all-important factor.
If fowls are confined to small runs, so
that they do not get the proper amount
of exercise, their grain should be
buried under straw or chaff, causing
them to hunt it out for themselves.
The Perfect Han.
Tht\ following rules of measurement
were used by tbe ancient Greek sculptors
in modeling a perfect man:
From the crown to the nape of the
neck is one twelfth tbe statue of a per¬
fectly formed man. The hand from the
wrist to the end of the middle finger is
one-tenth of the total height of a man of
perfect'proportions. A good proportions is tall as
man of as
the distance between the tips of his lin¬
gers when both arms are extended to full
length) highest point of the
The face from the
forehead, where their hair begins, toth:
end of the chin, is one-tenth of the whole
stature af a man of perfect mould.
If the face from the roots of the hair to
the chin be divided into three equal place parts
the first divi-ion determines tbe
where the eyebrows should meet, the
second the opening of the nostrils, if the
man be proportions in perfect form. of the human figure
The
are six times the length of the right foot.
Whether the form is slender or plump the
rule holds good ou an average. Any
deviation from the rule is a departure
from the beauty of proportion. It is
claimed tgat the Greeks made all their
statues according to this rule.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cure* Dyspepsia, Ma¬
laria, Biliousness and General Debility. the Gives
Strength, aides Digestion, tones tonic for nerves— Nursing
creates Mothers, appetite. weak The best and children.
women
On July 6th the earth is farther away from
the sun than at any other time.
A Chance to Make Money.
I feel it my duty to inform others of my suc¬
cess plating spoons, castors, $27.50, and jewelry, in three etc. weeks The
first week 1 cleared
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months I you poor,I can get have nice home
ago was now a
and bank account all the product of $3 in¬
vested in a Plater. _ A^Readkr.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c per bottle.
MOTHERS’ FRIEND
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WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN
If a price can be placed on pain, “ Mother’s Friend ” Is worth Its weight ln
gold. My wife suffered more In ten minutes with either of her other two
children than she did altogether with her last, having previously used tour
bottles of “Mother’s Friend.” It Is a blessing to any one expecting to be¬
come a mother. Geo. F. Lockwood, Carmi. Ill.
Write The Uradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars. Sent by express, charges
paiti^on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists.
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coming there How are of who winter many regard as people a con¬ the Ege
stant state of siege. It seems as if the elements sat down
outside the walls of health and now and again, led by the
north wind and his attendant blasts, broke over the
ramparts, spreading colds, pneumonia and death. 1 Who
knows when the next storm may come and what its
effects upon your constitution may be ? The fortifica¬
tions of health must be made strong. SCOTT'S
EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and
Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda will aid you to hold
out against Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula,
General Debility, and all Atlantic and Wasting
Diseases, until the siege is raised. It prevents wasting
in children. Palatable as Milk.
SPECIAL.—Scott’s Emulsion is non-secrct; and is prescribed by the Medical Pro¬
fession all over the world, because its ingredients are scientifically combined in such a
Planner as to greatly increase their remedial value.
* CAUTION.—Scott’s Emulsion is put up in salmon-colored wrappers. Be sure and
get the genuine. Prepared only by Scott & Bowne, Manufacturing Chemists, New York.
Sold by all Druggists.
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The brusque and fussy im¬
pulse of these days of false
impression would rate down
all as worthless because one
is unworthy.
As if there were no motes
in sunbeams!
Or comets among stars!
Or cataracts in peaceful
rivers!
Because one what remedy it pro¬
fesses to do never
was adapted to do, are all
remedies worthless?
Because one doctor lets his
patient die, are all humbugs? and
It requires a fine eye
a finer brain to discriminate
—to draw the differential line.
“ They say ” that Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery and
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬
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“ They say ” for a weak sys¬
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Try one or both. If they
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171 “1,10"st Friend" is the greatest.
Dmve 991115: ever ofl’ered cth-beanng woman.
been a mid-wife for many years, and
m wok case where “ Mother‘s Friend”
had been used it. hrs accomplished wonda‘rs
an-i relieved much sufl’erlng. It is th': best
rcmeJy womb the for rising of the breast known, and
M. price for that alone.
Mns. M. BBUSTEB. Montgomery, Ala.
“August Flower”
How does he feel ?—He feels
blue, a deep, dark, unfading, dyed
in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he
makes everybody feel the same way
—August Flower the Remedy.
1
How does he feel? —He feels a
headache, generally dull and con¬
stant, but sometimes excruciating—
August Flower the Remedy.
:
How does he feel? —He feels a
violent hiccoughing or jumping of
the stomach after a meal, raising
bitter-tasting drunk— matter or what Flower he has
eaten or August
the Remedy.
How does he feel ?—He feels
the gradual decay of vital power;
he feels miserable, melancholy,
hopeless, and longs for death and
peace— August Flower the Rem¬
edy.
How does he feel ?—He feels so
full after eating a meal that he can
hardly walk— August Flower the
Remedy. ®
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A.
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