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AGRICULTURAL
IOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
XO FARM AND GARDEN.
drafting Wax.
How to make this is often asked, and
while there are many receipts given, the
one that we like best after forty years of
experience, is as follows: Use one pint
linseed oil, four pounds resin, one pound
beeswax. Melt 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
for taffy. Then roll balls of convenient size
putting into the vessel used when
grafting. It should be heated over a
moderate fire, and put on the grafts thin,
but not too hot. This wax will not
crack in cold weather, nor run, even if
the weather gets up to 100 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 have 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 week they may have the
whole milk, and the 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 qmckly 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 aud foresight to
establish a brand of butchers’ pork that
will readily command one or two cents
above the market. But there must be
real excellence in the product. It cannot
be done with any kind of a pig, by
simply of feeding making ic very fat. For this kind
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 at;e especially to be guarded against
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 They forty-one pounds and a fraction.
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 led 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 thatgot no milk
weighed forty 101 pounds, a difference of just
pounds each in favor of the milk.
But this is not all. Professor Shelton says:
“The milk fed pigs at the end of the ex¬
periment were ripe and ready for the
butcher, while 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 market
price; the others, with possibly two ex¬
ceptions, were salable only as 1 stockers.’
Indeed, four three of them did not weigh,
months later, as much as the milk
fed pigs did at the end of the experi¬
ment. ”—American Agriculturist.
Farm and Garden Notes.
damp Poultry will not thrive in a wet or
place.
Large growing frees should not be
planted in small yards.
The coS.ling-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, aud 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,
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 for the planting soil that there is really no
excuse land that is not well
pulverized. The manure should be so
thoroughly mingled with the soil that no
portion of it shall be without fertilizer
within a few inches of it.
In working land early it will be dumpy
and must be worked line. 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
plough very deep and take a narrow slice
and, 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
manurings.
Large pansies are comparatively a mod¬
invention. In Harrison’s Floii
large improvements Cabinet, in 1840-43, the first
they had advanced are painted. In ten
years to their full
development, larger have and no larger; a little
one3 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.
Seedlings instead revived their health, and pansy
seed of pansy plants came to be
popular. .Modern improvements have
been in the line of new races rather than
increased size.
The asparajus 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 poor policy, the asparagus is not
as large or as good flavor, whatever may
said to the contrary.
A Grateful Country’s Rich Grant.
There ave thousands of chairs in Hyde
Park, London, England, which can be
for a penny each, and their history
is an interesting one. It dates back to
shortly after the battle of Waterloo, when
an-English General, who had done good
service, 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
Park. of letting on hire chairs at Hyde
The General gathered his resources
and started out with a hundred chairs.
There are now over 27,000 chairs, the
income from them amounting to over
$50,000 a year .—Neio York Graphic.
A Curious Pack of Cards.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
has been asked for a photo of his phiz by
an inventor who is getting up a pack of
faces cards, forty-eight the forty-eight of which will show the
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, aud the little joker, or
fifty-third card, will bear upon its face
a picture of either Mr. Blaine or Mr.
Butler. Truly, the American inventor
leads the world in fertility of resource
and audacity of consummation.— Balti¬
more Eerald,
Centennial Exposition.
Cincinnati will be filled with visitors
until the last of October. In quick suc
cession, the May Musical Festival, the
National Encampment Knights of Pyth¬
ias, the Patriarchs Militant of the Odd
Fellows, and from all parts of the country
Canada, play their parts in that city.
Beginning Exposition 4th of July, the Centennial
holds 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 and independent states clasp
go to the aid of their sister
commonwealth, by in showing to the world,
means of a monster Exposition, wbat
marvelous changes and improvements
have taken place within their borders
within the space of one hundred years of
their history.
Rats 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 Mongo¬
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 tire 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 M. Pasteur or
some advantageous unknown enough Whittington may find
to undertake the
task of ridding the country of these
vermin.
as America Ever Discovered?
At the time when Columbus started in
search of the New World, nearly every man,
woman and child in Europe insisted that there
was no New World to discover. When he
came back, crowned with success, a large pro¬
portion theory; of these good people adhered to their
and if they were alive to-day many of
them would doubtless insist that America h ad
never been discovered at all. A man will give
up pet anything theory. in For this world more readily than a
uals who still maintain example, that look consumption at the individ¬
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 case of
consumption, if taken in time.
toboggan Keely, the that motor will mail, is hill. trying to invent a
run up
Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by
Dr. Sage’s Remedy.
There is no such word as “fail” among the
fruit prese rvers. Their motto is: “I can.”
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’sEye-water. Druggists sell at 2.5c. per bottle.
CAN’T SLEEP!
Sleeplessness and fearful dreams
are the earliest and surest signs
of brain exhaustion. In healthy
sleep brain force is being stored
up to meet the next day’s de¬
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, and work are as present
as during the df^’. Hence the
brain has not time to recu¬
perate its energies. The proper
medical remedies are sedatives,
nerve tonics, laxatives, and
regulators of the general func
tions. Coca . and celery are
the seda tives and nerve
tonics de ^ manded,
and in Paine’s
Celery //A Com
pound full ben eficial their
a
It effect alsocon is “‘V'MIJL aSpobtained. WJ tains, in
scientific the best mam r ■^proportions A. .remedies of
the ma AfiML medi*
ca andkidneyfcMf^^^P for con Wm stipation
and liver
disorders. This is a
brief des L cription
ofthemedi cine which
has sands brought tossed sweet rest in to thou¬
who 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 Celery the great nerve
Compound.
Price, $1.00.
Sold by druggists. Circulars free.
WELLS,RICHARDSOH&CO. Proprietors
BURLINGTON, VT.
B, B. B.
(Botanic Blood Balm.)
Observe the following editorial from the At*
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South:
“Tho Constitution lias 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. We 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
(he 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 1hey live, and their medi¬
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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 using 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. Mbs. C. H. Gay,
Rocky Mount, N. C.
RHEUMATISM.
Newto-y, N. C., June 25,188r.-GentIemen: I
am pleasured in saying I have been a sufferer
of rheumatism for teu years, and I have ex¬
hausted almost every known remedy without
relief. I was told to try B. B. B„ which I did
after long procrastination, and with the ex¬
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man, and take it as a part of my duty to make
known your wonderful blood purifier to suffer¬
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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 leg 3 and
shortness of breath. The urea has poisoned
my blood also. I used (B. B. B.) Botanic Blood
Balm. Am delighted with its effects.
John H. Mabtin,
Rock Creek, Ala,
TONIC.
I have for some time past used B. B. B. as
a purifier of the blood and to build up the sys¬
tem generally, and consider it without excep¬
tion the finest remedy of the kind in the mar¬
ket. Yours with best wishes,
Arthur G. Lewis,
Editor Southern Society.
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