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FARM AND GARDEN. Hay ami Harvest. Our climate i 9 so warm that the dates for cutting the grass crop and the grain will vary materially and the time will be very dieerent within localities not far separated. The maturity of grain pro ceeds very rapidly toward the end. Every experienced farmer has h s view as to the proper condition in which his wheat should he cut. While some pre fer to cut while the grain is still “in the dough,” others prefer to wait until the grain is just “out of the dough.” Where there is a broad area to be harvested, it is perhaps better to begin a few days too early than to have the last of the harvest a few days too late. If hay is to be sold, it is cut later than if to be con sumed on the farm; the pur Lasers pre fer it so.— American, Agriculturist. Remedy tor Wire Worms. The common wire worm is not readily destroyed by caustics or other appl ca tions spread upon the land. 1 hese worms will live for hours in a saturated solution of salt, also in a caustic lime moistened with water; and it is not at all probable that a hundred bushels per acre of either would seriously disturb the worms feeding six inches below the sur face. As we cannot readily destroy the worms, we should seek to make the grain planted or sown distasteful by soaking it in poisons or some strong-scented so lution, or even coating it with such of fensive substances as coal tar. The latter has been used for this purpose quite extensively, and with excellent re sults. A teacupful of soft tar is sufficient to coat a bushel of seed corn, and then byaddirga few handfuls of dry soil or wood ashes the grain is prevented from sticking .‘ogether or to the hands when planted. Crows will not pull up tarred corn, and there are few insects or worms that will molest it.— New York Sun. Fitting Bones for Fertilizer. Strong lye will rapidly disorganize bones, says a professor in a Michigan college, especially if boiled in the lye; the ossein or organic matter of bones is rapidly dissolved and they become brit tle. If wood ashes cannot be got in sufficient quantity, bones may be fitted for use as lertilizers by breaking into coarse fragments with a hammer and then boiling them with a mixture of sal soda, caustic, lime and water. The or dinary carbonate of soda or sal-soda ought not to cost more than three or four cents a pound when purchased in quantity. Three pounds of sal-soda and two pounds of caustic lime boiled up in two gallons of water will make a solu tion that will rapidly act on broken bones when boiled with them. When the bones are well softened and brittle, the whole mass may be mixed with eight or ten times its volume of ary muck, or turf mould and thoroughly mixed, when a valuable manure will be secured. The potash of woodashes, moreover, is more valuable as manure than soda. Some Friends of the Farmer. In concluding a recent bulletin from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Kev. George 1). Hulst, Ento mologist, says: It may also be an advan tage to point out some of the friends of the farmer, which, consequenntly, no farmer should destroy, or allow to be de stroyed. Among these are toads, which are, under all circumstances, the farm er's friend 1 ; moles and field mice, proba bly, do a vast deal more of good than harm ; all birds, especially robins, wrens, thrushes, orioles, cuckoos, phebes, blue birds, woodpeckers, swallows and cat birds. The destruction of all these and many others, except for scientific purposes, should be made, under very heavy penalties, illegal in every State. The house sparrow, known better as the English sparrow, is to be rated an ex ception. This bird is now universally regarded as a nuisance, first, because of its grain and vegetable destroying pro pensities; secondly, it drives away in sect destroying birds. Among insects, many wasps are friends, especially those with a more or less protruding horn or sting at the end of the abdomen. Lady bugs and lace wing fiies live entirely Upon destructive insects, especially plant lice and scale insects, and should never be destroyed. Dragon flies, or devil’s darning needles, are also useful and harmless. Removing Forest Trees., The following method of removing foifijt trees is recommended in the fmiirie Farmer, which says: “It is novel and probably better adapted to the South than the North, though there are some trees probably that it might answer for here. There are few trees more ornamental than some of those from our forests, when planted in open ground and properly cared for and pruned. There is always more or less loss connected with transplanting these trees, which has kept many from putting them out, but Hon. Mr. Bielbv has adopted a method of moving trees that does away with a good deal of risk and loss. On his place, two miles north of De Land, he has planted a row of magnolias, holly, oak and other trees which are doing well and certainly recommend his plan. In the case of holly and magnolia he dug up trees that were from four to six inches in diameter, and sawed them off at the crown. By doing this a great many more can be carried at one time and much more easily handled. The stumps are planted in the usual way and a stake put up to mark the place. In a short time several shoots appear and these are allowed to grow for a while and then all but the most shapely and thrifty are cut off. Mr. Bielby claims that the tree thus planted makes a much more thrifty growth, and places its shape under control and is much more satisfactory every way. Try it.” Preserving Eggs. Although there are dozens of methods for preserving eggs, yet but few of them are worthy of notice. Limed eggs have been almost unsalable {.his year, and the lime method will soon be discarded. We give below a few rules that will enable our readers to preserve eggs in a good condition for at least "three months, though eggs have been kept, as long as six months by the process. 1. Always use fresh eggs, and do not rely on those from your neighbor. You must know that every egg is fresh, as one sts’e egg may injure all. 2. 1 so eggs only from hens not in company with cocks, as such eggs will keep three times as long as those con taining germs of < hicks. 3. Keep them in a cool place—the cooler the better. Anywhere near 40 degrees above zero will answer, though 00 degrees will be cool enough for a few months. Only be careful that eggs do not free e. 4. Turn them half over three times a week, to prevent them from adhering to the shells. The turning of the egus is very important, and is one of the secrets of success. 5. No packing material is necessary. Simplv lay them on racks or shelves; though if preferred they may be packed in boxes, in dry oats, and the boxes turned. 0. Solutions, greasing the eggs, egg preserving preparations, etc., are un necessary, as s ime of them injure the ap pearance of the eggs. 7. Wash every egg clean ! efore plaeing it with the others. If the above rules are followed there will be no difference between the eggs so preserved and those that are fresh. No person can succeed in preserving eggs who buys them from all sources, and who does not know just when every egg was laid, and it is on that point so many failures occur. You cannot place any dependence on eggs except from your own hens. Even your neighbor is sometimes unable to prevent getting a stale egg in among the fresh ones. Never use stale eggs as nest eggs, or allow sit ting hens to be in a room with your lay ers. The greatest care should be exer cised, and the eggs kept always cool.— l F irm and Fireside. Farm and Garden Notes. Strong soap-suds will kill the lice in the plum trees. The sure way to break a hen from egg eating is to cut oil her head. Give plenty of pure water and green food to hogs in pea at this season of the year. The [only gain in drilling in corn is in planting quick and getting fertilizer in with the seed. Thorough tillage pays ever, better when chemical fertilizers are used than it does for stable manure. If your pigs are in a pasture where good water is not plentiful, see to it that they have a regular supply. The flower garden and the field will be the cheapest as well as the loveliest pasture for those who keep bees. Fine, stout carriage horses are always quick of sale at extra high prices, as the supply is never equal to the demand. Many farmers lose half the profit, or make none at all, from neglect to feed properly with a view to tne growth of wool and mutton. If you have any young burdocks about your farm, cut them down and give to your horses. At this time of the year it will be good for them both. I For a shady spot under the trees and shrubs, where the soil is rich and not too dry, there is nothing more satisfactory than lily-of-the-valley. To plant it once, is to have it forever in the garden. A churn should be scalded with boil | ing water, made alkaline with washing soda. Every particle of milk or cream should be removed. After being well I washed the churn should be rinsed by I again using boiling water. Odors in the stable indicate that the air therein is impure. Use of absorbents is very important in summer. Once a week the stable should be sprinkled with a solution made of one pound of copperas in two gallons of soft water. Every person keeping poultry should keep an accurate account with his stock, placing all the expenditures incurred and the amount of* the receipts on the proper sides of the sheet. The losses should, of course, be charged to the ex pense account. To prevent bees from 1 eing poisoned by arsenical solutions applied to orchard trees, such application should be deferred until just after the blossoms have dropped, at which time it is also the most effective in preventing injury from the codling worm. Professor H. Muller, an eminent bot anists. says that the best time to prune vines is while the grapes are ripening, and that the shoots should be selected for this purpose, as they require for their development a large quantity of sugar, to the detriment of the ripening fruit. The brownish bunches which appear on red cedars are not the fruit, but a common fungus, a parasite, which grows on these trees, but no others. It does no harm, and is thought ornamental by some. It is not worth while taking any pains to prevent them, as the trees do not suffer. Plum trees will thrive well in a poul try yard, and be less subject to the at tack of the curculio. The trees will re quire the usual jarring, but the insects will be destroyed by poultry, lessening the liability of damage the succeeding year. All plum trees should be in poul try yards, but do not allow them to act as a roost. It is useless to look for a harvest of honey from weak colonies, and as the heavy flow occurs generally in June, if the bee-keeper does not bestir himself he will be caught with many weak stocks. Daily stimulative feeding will secure colonies strong in numbers, with a pow erful force of willing laborers, ready to gather the honey harvest at any moment it presents itself. Many farmers claim that if a large po tato with all eyes cut out but one be planted, a larger per cent, of early mar ketable potatoes will be produced than if the seed were cut or small potatoes planted whole. A study of this subject was made at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment. Station last season with four varieties, the result in each case being in favor of the large prepared seed. Ex periments at this station also showed that results are best when fresh cut seed is used. It is a good plan, just before haying and harvesting, to get a supply of car riage bolts of the most common lengths —two, three, four and six inches by three-eighths, one half and five-eighths of an inch, a few of each sire in e*ch length, also a few of the shortest ones possible, just for the nuts. You can get them this way at the store much cheaper than you can to have the blacksmith make them. These bolts will cost but a cent or two each, and the saving of time and hay when you need one in the field is beyond calculation. SHOOTING THE CASCADES. The Perilous Rim of a Steam boat on the Columbia River. All "was now in reaJiness, and a hush of breathless expectancy hung over the greet crowds that lined both sides of the river and blackened every available point of lookout. Not a word was spoken, and nothing was heard but the loud roaring of the angry, seething, tumbling mass of waters, tearing ever the roek ribbed channel. Six loud, sharp whistles were given from the locomotive as a signal to the iliis.-alo that all was ready. These vig orous, shrill notes were heard above the tinauk-r of the crashing waters. Capt. James W.Troup was not slow in respond ing to the signal. He gave six whistles and tapped the engineer’s gong. A moment later the Hassalo’s wheel was seen beating the water into foam. She moved gracefully from the wharf, swung round deliberately, just as if she was going to make a smooth, quiet, httle trip. Interest now became intense, and thousands of eyes were bent with a strained tension on the steamboat. Now she backed behind the little island mid way of fhe channel, swung clear, aud steadied herself for the fearful plunge. For a moment the boat seemed to halt, like an eagle poising for a long and lofty flight, then, with her sharp and glistening prow aimed at the great roar ing breach, she shot toward the green, rolling masses. From shore to shore the first line of the rapids stretched like a cordon of breakers, and thundered like the tumultuous surf. With a fuli head of steam, the Hassalo entered the upper break in the waters, and here receiving the first impulse of the mighty current, made a plunge that thrilled the crowd as if touched by an electric shock. “There she goes,” exclaimed a thous and voices, in low, subdued tones. Crossing the break the steamboat rose pointing her bow upward at a sharp angle, and then blindly plunged down ward as if going to the bottom, but she came up with the buoyany of a cork, and now having committed herself to the mercy of the rapids, flew with the speed of an arrow through and over the surg ing, boiling waters. Less than thirty seconds elapsed from the time the Hassalo entered the crest of the rapids until she had passed from view around the abrupt bend in the river, going with a tremendous rate of speed. So quick were the rapids shot that. the feat was accomplished almost before the crowds could realise it. After pass ing from view the steamboat flew down the shining course at locomotive speed, and never paused in her wild career un til the Lower Cascades were reached. This distance was made in less than seven minutes. Capt. Troup deserves great credit for the cool, steady and courageous manner in which he made the perilous run. We say perilous, for the passage was made at the lowest stage ever made by any other boat, ex cept the Okanogan, many years ago. Curious Statistics. A recent speaker, says the Christian Advocate, says that the negroes in this country have multiplied eight times in a century. As they have 7,000,000 now, in 1980 they will amount to 192,000,000. If they maintain the same relative rate of increase they will. The whites in ten years, by births and immigration, have increased 30 per cent. At this rate there will be 800,000,000 whites and over 200,- 000,000 negroes—in all 1,000,000,000 —in the United States in 1088. Who believes either of these statements? By that method one can prove that the Methodist Episcopal Church will soon have more communicants than the world will con tain people. Last year it gained 5 per cent net. This rate will double its mem bership every fourteen years. Hence, in 1902 it will have 4,000,000; in 1916, 8,000,000; in 1930, 16,000,000; in 1844, 32,000,000; in 1958, 64,000,000; in 1972, 127,000,000; and so, doubling every four teen years, in the year 2084, less than 2,000 years from the prrsent date, there will be 32,767,000,000 of members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States alone! Toil on, then, brethren. Do not let the fact that, ac cording to the figures of the speaker quoted above, there will be only 6,400,- 000,000 negroes and 13,200,900 whites in all 19,600,000,000 —of people in the United States at that time disturb you! Who cares for a little deficit of 3,168,- 0000,000? Great is statistics! Of course, other denominations are deluding them selves. They think that they are in creasing, but, as we are going to in clude the whole population, and sev eral thousand millions more, they must cease to exist! The only trou ble is, that if some of them continue to grow, as at present, the multiplica tion table will wipe us out in the same way. Baron Reuter, the telegraph king of Europe, keeps a secretary whose sole business it is to investigate aud relieve cases of distress. Tlip Agon'es of Lumbago. East River National Rank, 1 Ntw York, Mai ch 10, 1886. | It gives me great pleasure to add my testi mony in favor of Ai.lcock’s Porous Pias ters. List Oivtober I had a very severe attack of lumbag > and suffered untold agony; could not turn in bed orget in any position without ass stance, and with pains almost unbeat able; the folks su_*gested Allcock’s Porous PusTtRS. As soon as possible I had one ap plied to the small of my back,and to my groat surprise lex; erienced almost instant relief; I continued wearing it until entirely cured, and am hap yto say that I have not had the sligh'est symptoms of Lumbago since. They are a wonderful and valuable Plaster f r Lumbago, and I take much plea-ure in recom mending them. W. S. Phillips. Mormons are flocking ■ nto Wyoming in great numbers, and will corn rol the local elections. A Yoiinj (fill's (trieT At seeing her ch Tins of face and form de parting, and her nealth irnper led by func tional irregularit es, at her critical period of life, was turned to joy an i gratitude after a brief self treatment with Dr. Pierce’s Favor ite Prescription. It purified and enriched her blood, gave a he ilthy ac ivity to the kidneys, stomach, bowels, and other organs.and her re turn to robust he dth speedily followed. It is the only medicine for women, sold by drug gists. under a positive guarantee from the man ufacturers that it will give satisfaction in every c ise, or money will be refund d. This gua antee has been printed on the bottie wrapper, and faithfully carried out for many years. Three hundred charitable institutions in New York city, disburse $4,000,000 annually. On rising in the morning, use Long's Pearl Tooth Soap. Your druggist, has it. If afflicted with <ore eyes use Or. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye'water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle. BuTulo’s Negro Ball Flayer. Grunt, the colored second baseman of the Buffalos, is the only negro playing professionally with any club in the dif ferent associations. He is a fine ball tosser, all the same, and hasn’t many superiors among players either white or black. I think he gets S6OO a year for his services, while, if lie had a white skin, he could easily demand $2,000. Graut is very popular in Buffalo, and for that reason the management is forced to hold him, although the players of the club are said to feel keenly having to play with a colored man. In the East Graut goes with the other members of the elub, stops at the same hotels, eats at the same table and possibly occupies the same room. While in this city lie is registered at the Gulf House, but is roomed with the colored help and takes his meals with them. In this club is found two of the oldest ball-tossers be fore the public. Nelson, who lias been playing ball for thirty years, is holding down short field, while Jack Renison, at one time the great centre fielder of the old Mutuals of New York, of which Bobby Matthews was the star pitcher, is playing the same position for the Buf falos.—Louisville Pod Better llinn u Hern. “What a e iward that Major Smith is,” said Jones to Robinson, “why. the very sight of gun powder wo Id make him ill. How did he ever manage to become an officer in the army?” “Don't say anything against Smith,” an swered Robinson, “he once saved mylifa” “Saved your life! Nonsense, impossible! hit do you mean?” “I m an that 1 was in tii * first stages of consumption; 1 was losing strength and vi ality every day with the ter rible disease, when Smith advised tne to take ir. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. I had tried all kinds of medicines without success, and my physician had givt n me no hope; yet here I am, as well as ever a man was, and I owe my life to Smith, and to the wonderful remedy he recommended.” There are 138,885 churches, 94,457 ministers, and 19,790,323 members in the United States. Messrs. Brown & King will move into their new quarters, corner South Broad and Hunter Streets. Atlanta, Ga„ on tlie Ist of September, and wilj be glad to see ail their old friends. They will carry a large and complete line of supplies, and if you are in need of anything pertaining to cotton, woolen, oil, saw, or gen eral mill goods, iron pipe, brass goods or fit tings, write them before buying. Dißgnstiiig Drugs. Rlue-mass for torpid liver, castor oil for con stipation, other disgusting drugs for piles, dys pepsia, and sick-headache, are being surely banished from use by the sweet, fruit-like Hamburg Figs. 35 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. V. William II is the first Russian-speaking king of Prussia. Bismarck speaks Russian fluently’. Don’t hawk, end blow, and spit, but use Dr. Sage’s Catarrli Remedy. Mrs. Stowe still receives $1,500 a >’ear from royalties on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” A Fair Trial Of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will convince any reasonable person that it does possess great medicinal merit We do not claim that every bottle will accomplish a miracle, but we do know that nearly every bottle, taken according to directions, does produce positive benefit. Its peculiar curative power is shown by many remarkable cures. “I was run down from close application to work, but was told I had malaria and ivas dosed with qui nine, etc., which was useless. I decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and am now feeling strong and cheerful. I feel satisfied it will benefit any who give it a fair trial."—W. B. Beamish, 261 Spring Street, New York City. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1: six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD k CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar BROWN & KING Have two 50-saw Rftilburn Gins, complete, with Feeders and Condensers, for sale cheap, for cash or appropaper due Nov. Ist, 1888. o*l on or ad dress, BROWN & KING, 75 & 77 South Broad St„ ATLANTA, GA. Aiax Engine on Cormsn $ up. ciill'V. Saw stud /$* , Grist Mills, Thro shin* Machines, v.£*t etfl.. a pneclaity. Send f Illustrated ’•%, nOV- I. * York, Pena. 11 * I3l«Sw9«Dil]* Great English Gout anil □ Bill!9 snilsa Rheumatic RemeJy, Oval Hoxi3li round, 14 Pill*. • T. !»•{«• IftiE’S 19 4 liL for boy* R'gl young 4 St. George's, Md. Prof. J C. KINEAR, A. M., Priiu J*elect, thorough, safe. si£so&nd S 30() subscribers already ? Why not MAKE IT A MILLION? vJ'jVVV To introduce it into a million families we offer the PHILADELPHIA I EfflßH BBs S Miwiliiffl W A ttius Hi la AND PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPER FROM NOW to JANUARY, 1889 % Four Month,—balance of this year, n ON RECEIPT OF ONLY 10CENTS fj Stamps. 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