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FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
butter in parchment paper.
Tho London Dairyman strongly
recommends the use of parchment pa¬
per in which to do up butter in the
form of prints. It claims that this
paper is valuable because it prevents
evaporation of moisture from tho
butter, and keeps it from injury by
impurities in the atmosphere. And it
says, what is true in England, and is
certainly the fact in this country, that
“nobody wants to eat butter wrapped
up in your old discarded petticoats
and shirt-flaps.”
A CHEAP CUKE FOR GATES.
Nearly every poultryman is troubled
with gapes in young chicks, and vari¬
ous remedies are recommended for
same. Some are first-class and there¬
fore worthy of attention, but to
handle each chick, especially when
fifty or one hundred are to be cured,
is quite a difficult task. What people
•want is a sure remedy by which a
number can be treated at once. All
that is required is a barrel with the
head out an old bag or cloth to cover
over the top and lime. Place chicks
in the barrel, take the lime and break
it up fine and put in an old sack and
hold inside of barrel; now cover top
of barrel with the cloth and hold your
arm down inside of barrel and shake
the lime thoroughly so as to fill it with
the lime dnst. Leave chicks in for a
few minutes until they liavo inhaled
plenty of the lime, and the job is well
done.—[Farmers’ Home Journal.
NITRATE OF SODA AS A FERTILIZER.
• Experiments made at the New Jer¬
sey station in fertilizing tomatoes, as
reported in Bulletin No. 79, show a
marked increase of crop in every case
in which nitrate of soda was used,
the greatest increase arising from the
use of nitrate alone. The experi¬
ments extended over two years and
demonstrated that nitrate of soda,
while increasing the yield, did not do
so at the expense of maturity when a
small qnanity was used or when a
large qnanity was used in two appli¬
cations, but a large quanity used in
one application was at the expense of
maturity. Nitrate nitrogen proved
the ruling element in the growth of
tomatoes, with its best effects depend¬
ent upon the method of application
and the presence or absence in the
soil of a full supply of phosphoric
acid and potash. The nitrate was
spread broadcast at the rate 160 and
320 pounds to the acre, either alone or
in connection with superphosphate
and potash. It is advised not to use ni¬
trate in the hill.
Tho Ohio station reports that ex¬
periments made there leave room for
doubt whether on a strong, clay loam
tomatoes would respond so profitably
to nitrate of soda as they did in New
Jersey, but recommends tomato-grow¬
ers to try the experiment for them¬
selves.
At tho same station (Ohio) it is said
the wonderful properties of nitrate of
soda are just now being strikingly
exhibited on the plots here where
wheat is being grown under differ¬
ent methods of fertilizing. Although
the nitrate was not applied until the
middle of April, yet it lias stimulated
such a tremendous growth that the
plots which have received nitrate in
largo quantity carry nearly twice as
great a weight of vegetation as can be
found on those which have had no
nitrate.—[New York Herald.
TO RAISE LARGE ONIONS.
Chicken and horse manure are ex¬
cellent fertilizers for onions and other
garden vegetables, but they should be
mixed together at least six months be¬
fore using, and one year would be still
better. Prepare your manure now for
next season’s use, and fork over at
least once every month during the
summer and autumn. Where good,
fine swamp muck or leaf mould from
the woods can be obtained they should
be added in proportion of two to one
in bulk to the manure and thoroughly
mixed with it as an absorbent. The
object of thoroughly mixing and fork¬
ing over the compost heap is to hasten
decomposition and disintegration of all
lumps and coarse material likely to have
been incorporated in gathering the
different fertilizers of which it is com¬
posed, and at the same time expose all
parts to the air and light,thereby allow¬
ing the weed seeds it contains to sprout
and then be destroyed as the heap is
turned over, When fresh barnyard
or stable manure is used the weed
seeds it contains arc likely to give
trouble when they sprout among such
plants as onions, and the weeding of
the crop becomes an expensive opera¬
tion. New rich soils are best for
onions, and then to avoid weeds use
commercial fertilizers, wood ashes,
salt,or very old and thoroughly rotted
stable manure. Onions may be grown
on the same land for many years in
succession without deterioration.—
[New York Sun.
GRACEFUL GRASSES.
Ornamental grasses for decorating
the lawn cannot be overvalued, writes
Josiah Hooper, especially the several
forms of eulalia, than which nothing
can he more graceful. There is a
new variety of the latter, aptly called
eulalia gracillima, owing to its pretty
grass-like foliage. It seems as hardy
as tho older kinds, but it is even more
graceful and elegant than any of
them. Tho plant is very compact in
growth, with long, slender, recurving
foliage; color, bright green, the mid¬
rib silvery-white, hence the affix
“univittata” to the name. The beauty
of this green-leaved form recalls the
usefulness of eulalia japonica in its
normal condition. It is of stronger
growth than ordinary variegated vari¬
ety, and well-grown is difficult to sur¬
pass for effectiveness in the shrub¬
bery, or even for standing alone on
the lawn. The panicles of bloom are
not so showy as those of erinnthus
ravennae, but tills is compensated for
by a remarkably pleasing habit. The
erianthus, sometimes termed the
“hardy pampas grass,” on account of
its reliability and manner of inflores¬
cence, is a plant for universal adop¬
tion. It is closely allied to the sugar¬
cane of commerce, and produces a line
effect when set in a group of shrubs,
when the tall, silvery plumes may be
seen rising above the mass of sur¬
rounding foliage. No disparagement
is intended of such valuable grasses as
the two variegated forms of eulalia;
they are simply indispensable to the
landscape garden, and their merits are
justly appreciated by planters gener¬
ally.—[New York Tribune.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
A dry lien house and a chance to
exercise promote health.
The feathers are the most important
item iu keeping geese.
If cornmeal must be fed, bake it and
crumble it into sweet milk.
Always crush the egg-shells before
feeding them to the poultry.
A hen pays in proportion to the
number of eggs she produces.
To fatten rapidly give the fowls all
the cornmeal they will eat up clean.
Raw cornmeal made into dough
with water is a poor feed for young
poultry.
The young poultry will do better if
placed on new ground away from the
okl runs.
One decided advantage with chick¬
ens hatched in an incubator is their
freedom from lice.
Properly picked an average of one
pound of feathers can be secured from
each goose each year.
The capacity of the houses depends
not entirely on the number of liens,
but also upon their size.
Cutting of the bottoms of the bulbs
when setting out the tuberose bulb
will hasten the growth as well as tho
flowering.
The honeysuckle and the trumpet
vine can be grown as shrubs by fast¬
ening them to a stake four or five feet
high and keeping the ends pinched oil
at the top of the stakes.
The clematis family is one of the
very best of the flowering vines.
They make a rapid growth and the
foliage as well as the flowers is very
beautiful. They die down to the
top of the ground every fall.
On all farms large amounts of
grain, grass seeds, and other foods
find their way into the barnyard,
there to rot. The sharp eyes of the
hens discover this loss and save it to
tho owners by producing eggs.
Shrubs which flower early should
ahvyas be pruned in the summer or
early fall, as the flower buds are on
last season’s growth of wood; while
late flowering varieties should be
pruned in the spring, as tho flowers
are on this season’s growth of wood.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Pacific coast uses English coal.
Electric buggies are announced.
Perfumery is made from coal tar.
An underground railway for Berlin 13
being discussed by German engineers.
It is estimated that at least 1,000,000
pounds of rubber are annually used for
bicycle tiers.
The telephone cables laid beneath the
streets of Berlin are estimated to meet
the requirements 30,000 subscribers, the
present number being 15,000.
Coal in the Province of Almeria, in
Spain, is so dear that there is a great re¬
joicing over the discovery of an inferior
quality in a large vein near Albanchcz.
A recent English invention is a
machine which bends tubes without tho
necessity of filling them with some yield¬
ing material to preserve an accurate sec¬
tion.
An electric wire in Pittsburg parting,
fell to the ground and within two inches
of a pedestrian, who, though not touched
by the wire, received a rather severe
shock.
An electric car in St. Paul, Minn.,
while passing the end of a bridge in a
heavy rain recently, was struck by light¬
ning. The car was set on fire and the
machinery rendered useless. Not one of
the passengers was injured.
Among the novelties is an inflatable
rubber chamber for bathers. It passes
around the bust underneath the arms,
making it possible for, a bather to float
in an erect position without fatigue. It
can be inflated when desired by means
of a tube attached to the neck.
Herr Bombel, an apothecary and chem¬
ist of Neuenhaus, Germany, claims to
have discovered a process by which the
lymph which Dr. Koch invented may be
purged of its dangerous qualities. Ex¬
periments with lymph so purged are
said to have met with great success.
Some of the single plates of armor foi
the armored cruiser Maine, building at
the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard, will
weigh fifty tons. A special crane is in
construction at Alliance, Ohio, to handle
the Maine’s armor. The crane will be
mounted on a railway running around
the edge of the stone dry dock.
The rate of growth of corals is diffi¬
cult to estimate. At the meeting of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Phila¬
delphia, Professor Heilprin exhibited a
specimen of Porites astrceoides which
had been taken from an anchor cast in
the autumn of 1885. He estimated that
the annual amount of increase was
scarcely one-twentieth of an inch.
An attempt is to be made by Dr. H.
Koplik at the Eastern Dispensary, situ¬
ated in the tenement district of New
York City, to furnish to the poor at a
low price sterilized milk. It is hoped
by this means to prevent the appalling
mortality among the children of this
class. The plan was initiated on a small
scale last summer by Dr. Koplik, who
reports favorable results in the majority
of cases.
A machine has recently been invented
by a Philadelphia man by which electric
power can be introduced into a dwelling
house, or, in fact, any building, with
but slight expense. The basis of the in¬
vention is a practical use of the power
of atmospheric gravity. The gravity, or
weight of the atmosphere at sea level,
will raise water in a vacuum thirty-three
feet. The invention consists of a pro¬
cess of forcing water out of a vacuum
placed on the roof of a building and
keeping the air out at the same time.
The water is forced to the vacuum, is
then driven into a tank, and in descend¬
ing has sufficient power to drive a wheel.
Below the wheel the water can be col¬
lected into a shallow tank and led back
into the tank from which it first came,
forming a continuous stream.
Fishing With a Club.
Here is a fish story that is absolutely
true. On last Friday E. M. Terrill and
Zadoc Bethards, two farmers living a
short distance east of this place, went
down on the creek bottom where the
water had overflowed to catch or kill
fish. There is a deep ravine running
from the creek up in the bottom, dug
there to drain the water off, and beside
this deep ravine furrows had been plowed
in many directions up the bottom to at¬
tract the water to the ravine. The water
was all over this bottom on Thursday
and large fish from the creek went up
this ravine and many of them went out
in the plow furrows in quest, we sup¬
pose, of something to eat. On Friday
the waters began falling, and of course
the fish began drifting back to the creek
so as not to be left out in the bottom.
Mr. Terrill and Mr. Bethards situated
themselves along the furrows and watched
for the fish to pass by. The first one
killed was a large German carp, weigh¬
ing eight pounds. They killed in all
seven fish—four German carp and three
buffalo, all of them together weighing
thirty pounds. We believe there are
" creek this
more large fish in the near
place than in any other stream in the
county. It has overflowed its banks per¬
haps half a dozen times during the spring
when other streams would only bo filled
half bank full and high water attracts
fish upstream. Many more large fish
were seen by Messrs. Terrill and Beth¬
ards that they were unable to kill. They
used sticks or clubs in killing them,
striking them across the back.—
ville ( Mo .) Herald.
Merely a species of pitchfork—A tun¬
ing fork. —Boston Post.
Money in Circulation,
A statement has been prepared Washington at the in
treasury department at in circu¬
regard to the amount of money the
lation on the 1st day of July of years
1860. 1865, 1885, 1889 and 1891, fiorn
which it appears that the assertion that
there has been since the war a great re¬
duction of the amount of money in cir¬
culation is without foundation. The
amount of money in circulation in I860
was about $435,000,000, and the amount
per capita was $13.85. In 1865 there
were $723,000,000 in circulation, and
the per capita amount was $20.82.
Twenty years later the circulation was
over $1,292,000,000, and the per capita
over $23.02, while on the 1st of January
last the amount was nearly $1,529,000,-
000. with $24.10 as the per capita allow¬
ance, the highest in the history of the
United States. Nickels and pennies of the are
left out of the report because
diversity in estimating the amount of
them in use. Owing to the shipment of
gold to foreign countries there has been
a decline since January 1, 1891, not only
in the per capita amount, but the total,
also, but the total circulation on the 1st
instant, notwithstanding the outflow' of
gold, was about $1,500,000,000, and the
amount per capita was $23.37,
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