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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 caforcon andkidnejliSfi|iKp k stipation / 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. Sold by druggists. Circulars free. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO. Proprietors BURLINGTON, VT. B. B. B. fBotanic Blood Balm.) Observe the following editorial from the At* lanta Constitution, the foremost paper of the South; “The Constitution has observed the growth of an Atlanta institution now famous well-nigh the world over. It is the Blood Balm Company who make B. B. B. IVe have watched the course of this medicine in hundreds of cases that appeared to be hopeless, and it has worked amazing cures. We take pleasure in giving our endorsement to the men who make up this company. They are truthful, accurate and conservative business men or physicians. They have the confidence of the people among whom they live, and their medi¬ cine speaks for itself. A whole library does not outweigh the heartfelt testimony of one man who, in despair from a disease, no doctors have been able to cure, and other remedies aggra¬ vated, finds that B. B. B. has restored his health, vigor and manhood. And just such tes¬ timony the Blood Balm Company have by the bushel.” No other remedy in the world can produce the number of genuine testimonials of remarkable and seeming miraculous cures as can B. B. B., made in Atlanta, Ga. Bead a few here sub¬ mitted: KIDNEY WEAKNESS. For fifteen years my liver and kidneys have been badly affected—not a day in that time without the headache. Since U3ing B. B. B.— Botanic Blood Balm—I have been entirely re¬ lieved; no pain, no trouble at all, and I feel almost like another person. I am one among the greatest advocates of B. B. B. and you are at liberty to use my name. Mas. C. H. Gay, Bocky Alount, N. O. RHEUMATISM. Newton, N. C., June 25, 188T.-Gentlemen; I am pleasured in saying I have been a sufferer of rheumatism for ten years, and I have ex¬ hausted almost every known remedy withont relief. I was told to try B. B. B., which I did after long procrastination, and with the ex¬ perience of three bottles I now feel a healthy man, and take it as a part of my duty to make known your wonderful blood purifier to suffer¬ ing humanity. Respt’ly, W. I. Morehead. BRIGHT’S DISEASE. I have been a sufferer from kidney and blad¬ der troubles for several years. I have lately had what is termed Bright's disease, and have had considerable swelling of my legs and shortness of breath. The urea has poisoned my blood also. I used (B. B. B.) 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