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jj-FAM AND GARDEN, j
The Cow in the Pasture,
The distance traveled by a cow in a
pasture that does not provide a suffi¬
ciency is sometimes many miles in a
iday. This extra work done by the cow
}s at the expense of the farmer, for the
ifood consumed is partly utilized in the
Work. No pasture should be used unto
it is in good condition, and if deficient
in, grass then the cows must also be
fed. One difficulty is that, as cows will
seek green food, they will travel over
(the pasture even when fed, but not so
much so as when given extra food. A
poor pasture is consequently of no
.value, and it is better to keep the
cows in the barnyard than to turn them
out to work all day.
A Good liOcation Ncccsjary.
The first thing required in starting
In the poultry business is a location.
This ought to be near a good market,
but cannot always be—that is, without
paying too high for it. All extra ex¬
penses should be curtailed In this busi¬
ness, as the income comes in small
amounts. After a location is settled
upon a free range is a necessity. That
gives the needed exercise, and prevents
an accumulation of lice. The next
thing is an adaptability to the busi¬
ness. If one cannot be content with
small earnings, and cannot save them
as they come in. he should not under¬
take the business. The poultry should
be breeds that lay in winter, when eggs
are high, if one breeds fowls for the
eggs. This branch of the business I
like best. I prefer it to raising poul¬
try for the meat, though the latter may
be more profitable in some localities.—
Mrs. L. ,W. Osborne,in Poultry Parmer.
A Grindstone.
Some one .writes to the American
Blacksmith to tell how he used a dis¬
carded bicycle to drive a grindstone.
He removed the top brace of the frame
and stapled the front to a stout post.
The near support was constructed
from two by four inch timber, and the
frame braced below. The sprocket of
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the rear wheel was removed by cutting
its spokes, and then mounted on the
same shaft, as the grindstone. To do
this he filled the hole in the stone with
a piece of wood, and bored a hole iu
the latter of the same size as that in
(the sprocket. Of course his axle
would then fit. both. It appears that
the chain ho used was made up of two.
One was not long enough. The axles
were mounted with ball bearings, and
the stone can be driven at lightning
speed with little trouble.
Tlic Ago of Tools.
The tools and machinery of America
are capturing the world. The machine,
with its unerring accuracy, has taken
the place of human hands in every de¬
partment of industry, and has im¬
mensely increased the productive ca¬
pacity of the artisan. On the farm, too,
the same rule controls. The modern
binders have superseded the old, slow
methods of the harvest, and made the
great grain fields a possibility. To the
effective use of machinery on the farm
is due the great, exporting capacity of
the country, and in every avocation in
life it is the man behind the machine
that is moving civilization forward.
Brain p'wer is taking the place of
fcuman muscle, and the result is an ele¬
vation of tte farmer to a higher plane,
requiring the application of business
methods to agriculture. The inevita¬
ble tendency of the increased use of
machinery on the farm is the increase
in acreage in the hands of one man.
since the machines make extensive cul¬
ture possible over larger areas. The
more effective the machines are made
the wider scope they will need, and
great farms, conducted on wise busi¬
ness methods, will become more and
more common as men realize the pos¬
sibilities of such culture. Tile great
accumulations of capital will not al¬
ways be kept out of the farm, for the
capitalists will come to see what
mcnoy will do in businesslike farming.
It is the age of tools and machinery,
and the farm must keep up with‘the
secession.—Practical Farmer.
A Hons© With No Drafts.
I have always had success in poul¬
try keeping, with the exception of
being troubled more or less with roup,
which has done much damage to my
llocks from time to time. I believe this
.Stas due to bn'.neper .ventilation,
which I think I have now overcome.
The house here illustrated is perfect
in ventilation, at least I have had no
trouble with roup since the hens were
housed in it. The upper part in which
the fowls roost is made as air-tight as
possible, the wails being covered with
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VENTILATOr. FOK A HENHOUSE.
tarred paper, so, that no air can come
In from below ofiat the sides.
The ventilator draws out air from
below the hens, while at the top or
peak of the room I have made an open
ing in the ventiiatoi to draw out all the
foul air from thd compa.rtment in
whieli the hens rofcst. There is no
draft around hens, ayd in the morning
their roosting place smells as clean as
at night. They art very healthy, lay
well and have had no sick fowls in the
flock since I used th« system. The
house is ten by twelve ftet, with a dust
pen two by seven feet, -overed with
glass. I keep forty hens ii_ this house,
and they have a run. of about one-quar
ter acre. — I. B. Koons, in American
Agriculturist.
WISE WORDS.
Indolence is the paralysis of the soul.
—Lavater.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not
true— Buskin.
Of all vain things excuses are the
vainest.—Buxton.
Silence is a friend that will never
betray.—Confucius.
Too low they build who build be
ncath the stars.—Young.
Temper is a weapon that wo hold by
the blade.—J. M. Barrie.
Live with wolves and you will learn
to howl.—Spanish proverb.
Fortune „ , does not . change , men; it only ,
unmasks them.-Mme. Biccobom.
The first great gift we can bestow
’u, vrn».uA.v "
Ho will never have true friends who
is afraid of making enemies.—Ilazlitt.
The use of money is all the advan¬
tage there is in having it.—Franklin.
It's some compensation for great
evils that they enforce great lessons.
—Bovee.
Dogs as Scouts.
Captain Steele, cf the Sixth Infan¬
try, after an experience of the condi¬
tions of warfare in the Philippines,
strongly urges that dogs should lie at¬
tached to the army. In the Army ar.d
Navy Journal he expresses the opinion
that dogs are the only scouts that can
secure a small detachment against
ambush on the trails through these
. . . ,
M. that fiankeas
are « the question; a„d the taaila
are so crooked and over such rough
territory that the point, at one or two
hundred yards, is out of sight of the
main body. The insurgents lying in
ambush usually, or often, let the point
pass and open with a volley upon the
wagons and main body of the escort.
They open from apparently impenetra
ble jungle, and at a range from thirty
to two hundred yards. They fire one
or two volleys, then usually run away.
Sometimes never a man of them can
be seen.
The clogs, pointers or hounds, would
need little training. Their instinct for
hunting and sniffing in every hole and
corner would he sufficient to justify
their use.
Rivers Which Traverse the Ocean.
In the ocean the longest way ’round
is ofttimes the shortest way borne.
For instance: If a United States trans¬
port were to leave San Francisco for
China, . the , most „ logical . . , course would „
seem to be straight across the North
Pacific to the land of the Boxers.
But in reality the ship would bo
steered to the southwest along the
equator and past the Philippines to the
Asian coast. This course would be
seveTal hundred miles longer, yet it
would take the vessel to her destira
tion much quicker than the straight
course. In the one case she would be
going with the current; in the other
she would he going against the cur
rent.
The ocean is not a simple, pathless
expanse, over which short cuts may
be made, but a system of highways,
crossways and even blind alleyways,
which have been surveyed and laid
out by nature herself.—Ainslee’s Mag
azine.
Weight for weight, the Oriental rn
bios are valued ten to twenty fold the
price of diamonds. The best come
from Oiiina, ^Ceylon and India,
DEEP PLACES IN THE SEA.
f, Hole Move Than Five Milos ia Depth
Discovered Near Porto Kico.
p ome surprising ocean depths around
p orto r« C o have 'been discovered by
0 <g C0rs 0 f the despatch beat IJolphin
who are making soundings.
These seem to confirm the theory
held by liydrographers that the Atlan¬
tic Ocean in the vicinity of Porto Rico
and Bermuda is of the greatest known
depressed area,, except that in some
few places in the Pacific. Reports un
dor date of January 20, received at the
Navy Department from the Dolphin
state that the record of 4801 fathoms
obtained by Blake in 1882 has been
surpassed by one made about seventy
miles westward of the position of the
greatest previously discovered depth
in the North Atlantic. The Dolphin
found bottom after 4662 fathoms (over
five miles) of wire had been run out.
This is said to be the deepest spot so
far found in the entire Atlantic.
As compared with depths ascertained
in other parts of the world these sound
; n gs indicate that the next deepest
places found in the Atlantic are in the
Caribbean Sea south of the Great. Cay
man, where the ocean's bottom was
touched at 3284 fathoms,
The deepest known spot in the South
Atlantic Ocean is a place of 4030 fath
om < 3) lying eleven miles south of the
equator off the Brazilian const. The
most depressed portion of the crust of
the earth so far recorded is in the
Xorth Pacific Ocean and was diseov
ei . ec j by Lieutenant-Commander H. IT.
Hodges, in the Nero, who measured
a . c i ep th of 5269 fathoms. This depres
s j ion j s nearly equaled in depth by an
area lying a short distance east of the
Kermadee Islands in the South Pacific
Ocean, where the British" ship Penguin
ran out 5142 fathoms of line in 1895.
The deepest place in the Indian Oc¬
ean. according to United States sur
veyg ls where about 3293 fathoms have
been found. In the Antarctic region*
the (greatest soundings taken show
1995 fathoms, and in the Arctic Ocean
a depth of 2650 fathoms has been re¬
ported.—Baltimore Sun.
Tlio Word "Oaf.”
There was protably no line in Eud
y ar j Kipling’s scathing satire, “The
Islanders,” which cut so wide a swath
among Englishmen of all classes as
that which described “The flanneled.
fools at the wicket or the muddled oafs
at the goals.” Itnct only derided theix
beloved ‘national game, but it smote
th( , ^avy-^did jk peasantry of Eng
%nd as AVell the’Bird a8 men of the leisure
class . And “oaf,” with its \
strange century
seems to have yeomeS adapt to the indignant
fury of the
And yet in the days of their great
grandfathers many an honest country
squire could have been called an oaf
with perfect truth. Take up Oliver
Goldsmith’s inimitable comedy, “She
Stoops to Conquer,” and the perfect
portrait of aD oaf will be found in the
character of Squire Tony Lumpkin.
Indeed, his over-fond, long-suffering
mother, when ehe finally turns on him
in her wrath, cries out:
“And you, you great ill-fashioned
oaf, with scarce sense enough to keep
your mouth shut, were you, too, joined
against me?”
By English writers of a much earlier
period oaf is used to denote a “change
«»SC that is. a. oBaprins ot tha faWea
h.S“^pS
dia:”
Tlio fairy left this oaf,
/ And took away the other.
From this it would seem that an oaf
originally an elfish and wayward
<*IM. who grew up into an uncouth
and ill-conditioned mau.-Philadelphia
Record.
A Geographical Novelty.
The point where Utah, Colorado, Ari¬
zona and New Mexico touch each other
is called the four corners. This fact is
not a strange one, but when we conic
to find that is the only place where
four States or Territories join we find
that this spot is in some ways a unique
one. Not only is this the only place
in the United States where such a
junction occurs, but it is the only
one of its kind in the world. This
statement seems a broad one, but a
short study of the maps of an atlas
will show that it is correct, and, more
than that that in no other place in the
United States do more than two State
corners touch each other.—Denver Post,
A Scare© Article.
’A Parisian restaurant keeper who
had the honor cf entertaining a Rus
sian grand duke felt that the opportu
nity was one not to be neglected,
When the duke came to settle his
bill lie found a charge of twenty francs
apiece, or nearly $4, for hothouse
poaches.
“What!” exclaimed the astonished
nobleman. “Are hothouse peaches so
scarce, then, even in midwinter?”
“No,” replied the host, naively, “but
grand dukes are.”
The experience in Edinburgh, Scot¬
land, is that wooden pavements, even
when made from the creosote-bearing
Australian jarrah wood, last, on busy
streets, but ten years, while granite
blocks, if reset oneo or twine, will lact
.thirty years.
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Charge of The Heavy Brigade.
A distinguished cavalry leader was
once at a dinner party to which he had
been invited as the guest of honor.
Beside him was a loquacious widow,
with hair of raven black, who rudely
interrupted the conversation by ask¬
ing the warrior why it was that his
beard was stilL black, while his hair
was turning gray.
With great politeness the old soldier
turned towards her.
“t fear I cannot give you a satis¬
factory answer,” said he, “unless, pos¬
sibly, the reason is that I have used
my brain a little more than I have mv
Jaw.”—Tit-Bits,
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