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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, A Martyr to Duty. Mother (suspiciously)—“if you haven’t been in swimming, how did your hair get so wet?” nin’ Little Dick—“That’s bad perspiration wanted run- away from boys wot me to disobey you an’ go in swimming’!”— Street and Smith's Good Newt. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma¬ laria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves— Nursing creates appetite. The best tonic for Mothers, weak women and children. Money made with chance will go with cer- tainty. Is Your Child Sick. s. s. s. gives strength health and vigor to weak and delicate children. Books on Blood and skin diseases free, 'lhe Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. 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