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[of Keeping a Horse,
bf keeping a horse by most
Wmere guess work> instead of
I figures. Mr. J. H. Andre, witha
v to enlightening the uninitiated,gave
Pecently in Rural Home the following es
timates: If one purchases a good horse
four years of age for $l5O, it is a good
bargain. A top buggy will cost $125,
cutter $25, harness S2O, robe $lO, blank
ets $3, comb and brush $2, whip $2,
which amounts figure $337. Now if we
take all into consideration, these will
last, on an average, ten years. Perhaps
the wagon might last longer, but it would
need repairing in that time; on the whole,
ten years is a long average, as a horse
might be worthless in five years,
If it costs $337 for ten years, it would
be at the rate of $33.70 per year, and
the interest on the whole outlay at 6 per
cent. would be $20.22. Add to this
at least four tons of hay, which has
averaged in the past ten years sl2 per
ton, S4B; one ton of straw for bedding,
$7; 90 bushels of oats at 35 cents per
bushel, $31.50; shoeing, ss,and it would
be a cheap job to care for a horse, wash
wagons, etc., for §1 per week, which
would bring the price to $52 per year, or
the sum total of $197.42 for the year at
moderate figures. And yet we find
thousands who keep a horse and have
no real business for it, and do not keep
a cow, when the cost of keeping a horse
will keep two cows, and yet they do not
see how they can keep a cow.
‘What Vegetables to Grow.
Now is a good time to think over what
vegetables to sow and plant the coming
year; and having decided, to get from
good, reliable seedsmen the seeds likely
to be required. If thisis left to sowing
time, the chances are the seeds will be
obtained from some grocery store, the
stock of which is put up for this partic
ular trade, and all that is not sold re
turned, and, in too many instances, re
vamped year after year. Such crops as
late potatoes, parsnips, carrots, turnips
and beets can readily be grown as among
the field crops, and be subject mainly to
the same treatment—that is, everything
about them ean be so managed as to be
done with the horse-cultivator.
Besides these crops, there should be a
spot of garden ground to grow the sum
mer vegetables, and such as will want g
tgflemare care in the way of hand-
- forgotten. arly GHU THC CADDRSCWIC
a few dozen of cauliffower, are good
changes in this line. Germans want to
add kohl-rabi, or turnip-rooted cabbage,
and when just right they are good eating
for anybody.
Tomatoes, egg-plants and peppers will
require a hot-bed to bring forward. Only
a few plants are, howcver; required,
and, if not grown, can be purchased.
For celery, a pinch of seed sown in
April will give all the plants required.
A piece of land should Dbe selected,
rather sandy if possible, for the melon
pateh; a few hills of cucumbers and half
a-dozen of the squash family. These,
with a spot still more sacred by itself
for the pot-herbs to flavor the soups and
other dishes, would make a tolerably
good supply for an ordinary farm fam
ily.—Prairie Farmer.
: The Care of Fowls,
. The raising of fowls is now so com
men by persons who are without farm
conveniences or buildings that the hen
house is a necessity and its proper con- }
strection and adaptability to the wants of
the flock, and especially as an aid to egg
production, are matters deserving of
consideration.. For amateurs or persons
keeping fowls in villages on small
plots the best results will be obtained
from limited numbers, say from a dozen
.to 25 hens with one to two males. All
the liberty should =be allowed
that the premises will admit,
The central point s the hen
house as a roosting, laying and hatching
_ place, with a small inclosed run attached
which belongs exclusively to them and
‘where they can always go when not In
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they should bo allawed toTun for. ahart
let out for only an hour just before roost
ing time, in the house yard or garden,
it will always be a benefit to them, and
a little watchfulness for a short time will
prevent them from doing mischief.
~ The dimensions of Bxlo feet will fur
‘nish ample room for two dozen fowls if
fitted up with properly arranged roosting
poles (of which a part should be low for
heavy fowls) and a sufficient supply of
nest boxes. The building should be
just high enough for getting around in
comfortably, and should face the south
and that front should be of glass down
to within eighteen inches of the floor.
Here the nest boxes should be placed,
out of the direct sunlight, and should be
as secluded as they can well be. In this
way thé fowls will not only have ample
light, but will get the warmth of the
sun through the glass the good effects of
which will appear in an increased num
ber of eggs at a time of the year when
they are the most valuable.
An earthern floor is the best, but if it
is necessary to keep out rats, make it of
concrete. With a hen-house plastered
on the inside and with thick walls, the
temperature will be such as to induce
laying earlier and more liberally than in
a cold room subject to draughts through
crevices from the outside. A dust bath
is one of the hen’s necessities, and if the
dust-box is in the house the effect on
everything is disagreeable. For this
reason it should be in a small covered
annex to the house, or else should be
under cover in a corner of the run, and
should be kept well supplied with dry
road dust or fine sifted ashes. If the
house is kept clean they will
keep themselves free from vermin, but if
lice infest the house it can be quickly
cleared of them by fumigating it with
sulphur or burning the green leaves of
pine, spruce or any of the evergreens, so
as to fill the room with a dense smoke
for an hour or so. Spraying it occasion
ally with kerosene will have the same ef
fect. Gravel, ground or broken shells
and bones, and miscellaneous food with
meat scraps, when insects cannot be had,
should be furnished regularly, with a
constant supply of pure water.—2 New
York World.
Farm and Garden Notes.
" See that all colonies are in hives that
are rain proof; leaky hives cause much
f the loss in wintering bees.
Churn and cream should be at a temper
ture of fifty-six degress to fifty-eight de
reesin summer, sixty dcgrees in winter.
Four different kinds of food are es
ential to promote health and strength.
hese are flesh, grain, vegetables and
ruit.
No farmer’s family is too poor to keep
pig, unless, indeed, it be so shiftless
nd improvident as to keep instead one
r more dogs.
Tincture of assafeetida is said to keep
abbits from attacking trees. It may
e mixed up with clay and water and ap
plied with a brush.
An ingenious farmer and his boys can
put together a variety of simple tools
and conveniences for farm use in these
comparatively leisure days.
All fertilizers should be in as fine con
dition as possible, for upon the degree of
fineness depends to a great extent the
solubility of the ingredients.
The peach or plum tree, when planted
the coming spring, should be put in the
poultry yard. It will be partially pro
tected from insects and will grow
rapidly.
Some foods, like wheat bran, cotton
seed meal, etec., return a value in manure
nearly equivalent to their cost and are
often among the very best that can be
selected for stock.
Bees emit a glutinous fluid from their
feet to enable them to adhere to a
smooth surface; this is what causes the
combs to become dark if allowed to re
main on the hive long after being sealed.
The dispositionjof swine is to pile up
in cold weather, and the warmer we can
keep it underneath them the less liable
they are to do this, and unless they can
be prevented from doing it to a great ex
tent, disease is much more liable to
break out among them.
Salt is an acrid poison to pigs when
given in excsss. It causes profuse diar
rhea with blood; after death the bowels
will be found inflamed and bloody and
the stomach covered with red patches.
Drinking brine poured out of old meat
barrels will cause death in pigs in twen
ty-four hours. . ;
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It is proposed to attempt the dissipas
tion of fog by electrical discharges.
- Low-class ores are being worked
profitably by electrical appliances.
The flow of natural gas at Columbus,
Ohio, is estimated at 1,000,000 feet per
day. :
" It is ctated that the air temperature in
its fluctuations from day to day follows
the dew point. .
In France gaseous fluoride of methyl
has been lately obtained in a pure state
and its density determined.
The low pressures obtained with
brown and cocoa pawders are due to
their slow rates of combustion.
If the water of the ocean were to sud
denly cease being compressible its mean
depth would be increased by 116 feet.
The variation in the inclination of
Neptune's satellite is said to be due to
the fluttened condition of Neptune at its
poles.
It is estimated that 50 per cent. of gas
used in the Pittsburg mills is lost through
ineffective methods | and bad manage
ment. ;
Professor Bell says that deafness oc
curring in childhood is capable of com
plete removal by suitable instruction in
special schools.
Experiments carried on at Astrakhan
show that the culture of the silk worm
could be carried on as far north as the
mouth of the Volga.
The vegetable matter in the sea to the
westward of the Azores has been found
to contain a large amount of fish and
other life-sustaining substances.
A new method of discharging coal has
gone into operation at New York. The
principle is practically that of the grain
elevator. A steamer can be coaled while
coming up from Sandy Hook.
The danger from gases only in con
nection with house drainage are said to
be comparatively easy to avoid, the main
consideration being a continuous
thorough ventilation of the pipes.
To the changed condition of a vessel’s
magnetism by induction during a
lengthy voyage may be attributed the
loss of moere vessels than is wusually
thought'to be the case among maritime
men.
Dr. Rutgers of England, after an ex
tensive series of dietetic experiments, de
clares that a vegetable diet can easily be
lived on, and that vegetable albumen is,
weight for weight, equal to animal albu
men,
Professor Geddes calls attention to
two tendencies in organic evolution—the
vegetable and the reproductive—and as
serts that evolution is theresult of the
universal subordination of the former to
the latter.
One of the chief features of the use of
paper fabric for building purposes is the
ease with which it can be worked into
sheets of any required width or thickness
that will not be affected by changes of
temperature or humidity.
In the new process of metal plating
the inventor does away with batteries
and dynamos and depends upon a double
electrical composition; in copper plating
cast iron an alkaline bath is used in
place of an acidulated one.
In the new system of direct pneumatic
propulsion the action i 3 not unlike the
rush of the submarine recket torpedo.
The object of this system is to obtain
propulsion direct from the fuel and with
out the intervention of moving ma
chinery. ¢ '
Some remarkable tunnelling was done
in London last year in the construction
of the City of London and Southwark
Subway. Three miles of tunnel were
built in the heart of London without
either temporary shafts or openings in
the streets.
At a recent meeting of the Academy
of Sciences the Prince of Monaco read a
paper demonstrating the possibility of
shipwrecked people, who have taken to
the boats and are without provisions, be
ing able to sustain life with what they
could catch in a drag net trailing over
board over night. -
He Was Used to Solitude.
There is said to be a man in the peni
tentiary of a neighboring State upon
whom solitary confinement makes not
the slightest impression. It is believed
that before getting in the clutches of the
law he was.the proprietor of a store and
did not advertise, thus acquiring the
familiarity with solitude which now
stands him to such good purpose.
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If you are run down, or have that tired feeling
as & result of overwork or the effect of the chang
ing season, you should take that best of all tonics
and blood purifiers, Hood's Sarsaparilla. It purl
fies and emriches the hlood, tones the stomach,
rouses ‘the torpid liver and kidneys, creates an
appetite and builds uwp the system, Thousands
who have taken it with benefit, testify thas
Hood's Sarsaparilla * makes the weak strong.”
“Hood's Saraaparilla cured me of blood potson,
gave me a noble appetite, overcame headachs and
Adizziness, 80 that now I am able to work again.”
Lurmen Nasow, 63 Church St., Lowell, Mass,
Hood’s Sars P illa
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Brown—* Fie, fie, my good friend, don’t give way to your ailments so easily,
and settle down into such gloom and despondency. There’s no excuse for such
conduct, when it’s a well-known fact that all your bad feelings, terrible head
aches, poor appetite, sense of fatigue, and lassitude, low-spirits, and hypochon=
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Through gay coral bowers,
And frisk with the mermaids
It shall, by the Powers!”
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