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: AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST REIj.VTIVE
TO FARM AN1> GARDEN.
drafting Wax.
IIow to make this is often asked, and
while there arc many receipts given, the
one that we like best after forty years of
experience, linseed is as follows: Use one pint
beeswax. oil, four pounds resin, one pound
Alelt all over a slow fire; stir
well and pour on water; when cool
enough to work grease the hands well
and work it like shoemaker’s wax or
taffy. for Then roll balis of convenient size
putting into the vessel used wheii
grafting. moderate fire, It should be heated over a
and put on the grafts thin,
but not too hot. This wax will not
crabk in cold weather, nor run, even if
the weather gets up to 10(4 degrees in
the shade .—Popular Gardening.
Feeding Young Pigs.
If the young pig is not getting enough
milk from its mother to push it, which
usually occurs about the fourth or fifth
week of its life, fix little troughs so that
none but the little ones can ha ve access
to them, and give the pigs two or three
small rations daily of cow’s milk. It is
not best at the start to feed whole milk,
or, if so, it should be diluted with one
third water and fed to them warm and
perfectly sweet. Half a pint at a feed
until they are six weeks old will be found
a liberal allowance, in addition to what
they get from the sow. After the
eighth whole milk, week they "the may have the
and quantity may
be increased gradually until they have
all they will consume. About the tenth
or twelfth week, if a small ration of
corn meal is added to the milk, the pigs
will quickly respond with added growth
and appearance. The milk is making
bone and muscle, and the corn meal will
interlard a streak of fat that will give to
the hams and shoulders that fine marbled
appearance that butchers and connois¬
seurs city delight in. If the feeder is near a
or large home market, where he can
supply certain butchers, it is no hard
matter by a little care and foresight to
establish a brand of butchers’ pork that
will above readily command one or two cents
the market. But there must be
real excellence in the product. It cannot
be done with any kind of a pig, by
simply making ic very fat. For this kind
of feeding the Berkshire and Essex, if
pure bred, are particularly well adapted.
By following the plan indicated above,
with grass or clover in summer, and
steamed fodder or hay in winter, it is no
trouble to turn off pigs of 200 to 250
pounds weight at seven or eight months,
and this is the most that butchers want
for the local market, while during the
summer 150 pounds suits them better if
rightly fed.
This, however, applies chiefly to small
farms and nearness to market, and no
doubt the same practice can be followed
by thousands of our largest feeders with
added profit to their present course. It
is within the observation of thinking
breeders, that if there is any hog disease
in the country certain ones seem to get
more than their share of it. This is for
the most part due either to in-breeding,
or to an exclusive corn diet. Either of
these will debilitate the constitution,
and aye especially to be guarded airainst
if one would be succes-ful in this”busi¬
ness. As to how long the milk diet can
be profitably continued, we desire to
quote an experiment made by Professor
Shelton, at the Kansas Agricultural Col¬
lege. His experiment was made with
ten pure-bred Essex pigs, whose average
age was eighty days, and the average
weight forty-one pounds and a fraction.
They were divided into lots of five
each, but each pig had a pen to it¬
self. Soon after the experiment began,
one pig had to be withdrawn
on account of sickness. One lot
was ted new milk fresh from the cow,
with shorts; the other lots shorts and
water. All feed was accurately weighed,
and several facts are deducible from the
experiment, but we wish to use it in its
relation to milk as pig food. The result
after feeding 100 days was that those
which received the milk diet weighed
141 pounds, while those that got no milk
weighed 101 pounds, a difference of just
forty pounds each in favor of the milk.
But this is not all. Professor Sholton says;
“The milk fed pigs at the end of the ex¬
periment were ripe and ready for the
butcher, w'hile those that were fed on
shorts alone were quite unsalable. The
•pigs which had received the milk were
sold to the butcher at the highest
price; the others, with possibly two ex¬
ceptions, were salable only as ‘ stoekers,’
Indeed, three of them did not weigh,
four months later, as much as the mitk
fed pigs did at the end of the experi¬
ment .”—American Agriculturist.
Farm and Garden Notes.
damp Poultry will not thrive in a wot or
place.
planted Large growing trees should not be
in small yards.
The coaling-moth has got to Nevada
and become a squatter.
Mr. Strong, of the Massachusetts Hor¬
ticultural _ Society, thinks very highly of
cloth as a substitute for glass in raising
vegetables, and expresses the opinion
that it might be used with great advan¬
tage in forwarding crops.
Air. E. S. Goff, horticulturist of the
New York Experiment Station, found,
as the result of a long series of tests, that
the productiveness of any strain of pota¬
toes can be materially increased by the
continued selection for seed of tubers
from the most productive hills.
The farmer who will succeed the best
in growing crops will be the one who
prepares the land the best. We now
have so many improved implements for
stirring the soil that there is really no
excuse for planting land that is not well
pulverized. The manure should be so
thoroughly portion mingled with the soil that no
of it shall be without fertilizer
within a few inches of it.
In working laud early it will be dumpy
and must be worked fine. W. D. Phil
brick advises, in American Cultivator,
that especially in preparing the land for
horseradish, deep-growing roots, like parsnips and
it is necessary to run the
and, plough very deep and take a nagrow slice
after harowing, plough again and
rake fine. Quick-growing crops, like
radishes and lettuce, spinach, etc., do
not require so deep working of the land,
but will usually well repay the extra ex¬
pense of two ploughings and often of
two manurings.
Large invention. pansies are comparatively a mod¬
ern In Harrison’s Flori
cultural Cabinet, in 1840-45, the first
large improvements arc painted, In ten
years development, they had advanced to their full
and no larger; a little
larger ones have been raised since. In
1850 the rust took them, as it subse¬
quently did the verbena, and the raising
of new named kinds was discontinued.
seed Seedlings instead revived their health, and pansy
of pansy plants came to be
popular. the Alodern improvements have
been in line of new races rather than
increased size.
The asparagus bed should be well
manured and dug over early in the
season; if there be any grass in it, it
should be all carefully cleaned out, for
it is not half as much labor to keep an
asparagus bed entirely clean of grass and
weeds as it is to keep it half cleaned out.
It is not good policy to manure with
barn manure, because of the weed and
grass seeds. Ground bone and muriate
of potash applied a few years will enable a
good farmer to be rid of his load of weeds
and to be able to neglect cultivation
during the period of cutting. Some
neglect cultivation and keep the weeds
down by the liberal use of salt, but this
is very large poor policy, good the asparagus is not
be as said or the as flavor, whatever may
to contrary.
A Grateful Country’s Rich Grant.
There are thousands of chairs in Hyde
Park, London, England, which can be
hired for a penny each, and their history
is an interesting one. It dates back to
shortly after the battle of Waterloo, when
an-English service, General, who had done good
found himself reduced to ex¬
treme poverty. The Government of that
day acknowledged his past services by
gr right anting him and his heirs forever the
of letting on hire chairs at Hyde
Park. The General gathered his resources
and started out with a hundred chairs.
There ave now over 27,000 chairs, the
income from them amounting to over
$50,000 a year .—New York Graphic.
A Curious Pack of Cards.
Governor Fitzhugli Lee, of Virginia,
has been asked for a photo of his phiz by
an inventor who is getting up a pack of
cards,forty-eight the forty-eight of which will show the
faces of Governors of the
States and Territories. Four more will
have the pictures of the Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates of the two
leading parties, and the little joker, or
fifty-third card, will bear upon its face
a Butler. picture of either Mr. Blaine or Mr.
leads the Truly, world the American inventor
in fertility of resource
and audacity of consummation.— Balti¬
more Herald.
Centennial Exposition.
Cincinnati will be filled with visitors
until the last of October. In quick suc¬
cession, the Alay Alusical Festival, the
National Encampment Knights of Pyth¬
ias, the Patriarchs Militant of the Odd
Fellows, from all parts of the country
and Canada, play their parts in that city.
Beginning Exposition holds 4th of July, the Centennial
a hundred days’ jubi¬
lee in honor of the 100th anniversary of
the settlement of the Northwest Territory.
Not only Cincinnati and Ohio are inter¬
ested in this celebration, but ten other
hands sovereign and independent states clas]>
and go to the aid of their sister
commonwealth, by in showing to the world,
means of a monster Exposition, what
marvelous changes and improvements
have taken place within their borders
within the space of one hundred years of
their history.
ltats in China.
A plague of rats is reported in China,
which recalls the German legend of the
rats of Hamelin. Certain postal routes
have had to be changed in Outer Alongo
lia on account of the honey-combing of
the whole country by myriads of rats,
who have burrowed and eaten up the
pasturage so extensively that the supply
of food for camels and horses is greatly
diminished, and the burrows are danger¬
ous to all mounted travelers and couriers.
The prize offered by the Australian Gov¬
ernment for a riddance of the rabbits
which infest that country may afford a
suggestion to the authorities in China to
offer inducements which AI. Pasteur or
some advantageous unknown Whittington may find
task enough to undertake the
of ridding the country of these
vermin.
as America Ever Discovered?
At the time when Columbus started in
search of and the child New in World, Europe nearly every that there man,
woman insisted
was no New World to discover. When he
portion came back, crowned with success, a large pro¬
of these good people adhered to their
theory; them and if they were alive to-day many had of
would doubtless insist that America
never been discovered at all. A man will give
up anything theory. in this world move readily than a
pet uals For example, look at the individ¬
who still maintain that consumption is
incurable. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis¬
covery lias cured thousands upon thousands
of cases and will cure thousands more, but
these people can’t give up their point. Never¬
theless the “Discovery” will cure any ease of
consumption, if taken in time.
Keely, the motor man, is hill. trying to invent a
toboggan that will run up
Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by
Dr. Sage’s Remedy.
There is no such word as “fail” among the
fruit prese rvers. Tleir motto is: “I can.”
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye’water. Druggists sell at 2.5c. per bottle.
CAN’T SLEEP!
Sleeplessness the earliest and and fearful dreams signs
are surest
of brain exhaustion. In healthy
sleep brain force the is being day’s stored de¬
up to meet next
mands. But nowadays the ner¬
vous system has been so over¬
tasked that it is unable to control
the mind, and at night the worries,
troubles, during and work are as present
as the d#y. Hence the
brain lias not time to recu¬
perate its energies. The proper
medical remedies are sedatives,
nerve tonics, of eJ. the laxatives, general func¬ and
regulators
tions. Coca and celery are
theseda «*> lives and nerve
tonics and de in vy /Jtex m a Paine’s tided,
.
Celery IL Com¬
pound their
fullben eficial
effect Italsocon is wrw'^a 5i tains, ohtained. in
scientific, | sam ■^proportions
the best mm 4 remedies of
the ma teria medi
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/ and liver
disorders. tagg/l This is a
brief des “ I eription
ofthemedi cine which
has brought sweet rest to thou¬
sands who tossed in sleepless¬
ness from night to morning, or
whose morbid dreams caused them
to awake more tired than ever.
All nervous, sleepless, debilitated,
or aged people will find vigor and
perfect tonic, Paine’s health in the great nerve
Celery Compound.
Price, $1.00.
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BURLINGTON, VT.
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For fifteen years my liver and kidneys have
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RHEUMATISM.
Newton, N. C., June 25, 188T.-Gentlemen; I
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BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
I have been a sufferer from kidney and blad¬
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John H. Martin,
Rock Creek, Ala.
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