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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
New Wav to Load a Hog.
A Western farmer, who claims to
know all about it, tells of this novel way
to load a pig: Back the wagon up to the
pen; end place in two planks side by side,with
one the wagon and the other on
the ground, making an inclined plane.
Then turn the hog with his tail toward
the wagon, put a basket over his head,
and as he backs up to get his head out
follow him up, taking care that he does
not step over the side, and to his sur¬
prise he will find himself in the wagon
without a struggle
Bees as Educators.
No sooner does a person become the
•wner of a colony of bees than he looks
around to see what are the prospects of
future gain. Heretofore he drove or
rode along the highways, noticing the
ruts, his vision bridges, fences and houses, but now
takes in a wider range. His
observation is quickened, and t:ees,
shrubs and plants have put on new life,
x? 1 ^ 1S .enlivened faculties,
r Z\t, i :rit °P eniD " buds in spring,
watches the opening flowers, and notes
with pleasure the busy workers roaming
over them in quest of treasure to store
in their hives.
What was to him once a useless weed,
to be cut down with the scythe, or
whacked off with a hoe, is clothed in
beauty, Whoever and becomes a priceless treasure.
watched saw for any beauty in the figwort,
or the appearance of its tiny
cupboard, looked down into their depths
for the first appearance of sparkling nec
tar, but a bee keeper. Or whoever saw
any uiility in Spanish needles, or begga”
ticks, i here is a lionet of iriendship ex
lstmg between the bee keeper and nectar
bearing plants, and they appear to spring
up to greet him wherever he goes. The
Indian cads white clover ‘’The White
Man’s Foot,” and well he may, for its
modest flower soon appears as the har¬
Farmer. binger of peace and ‘plenty.— Prairie
Durability of Farm Machinery.
Farmers are gradually learning that
the wear of farm machinery is one of the
chief expenses of running their farms.
That the machine is costly they know
the well glib-tongued enough when they buy disguises it,"though
ugly fact much agent this
poning the as day as possible by post
of payment. There is
beside an indefinite idea prevalent among
|nost farmers that the expensive machine
once bought becomes a permanent in
vestment, and that only the annual in
terest, with perhaps a little extra for re
pairs, -need be considered in determining
the real cost.
The cold actual fact puts the case in
far different light. I nder poor
halt agement or neglect machines are often
destroyed before the farmer’s notes
given for tnem have matured. It has 1
with some farmers, come to be a rule
that the first year’s u<e of a reaper,
harvester or mower is the only one that
can be had without an expensive list of
repairs. complicated, The machines are heavy and
and often become misshapen
during their disuse through winter, from
fitted own hold weight bearing on parts not
to up under this continual
etrain. This may happen when in un
skillful hands the machinery has been
carefully sheltered from storms.
It is, perhaps, to accommodate the
American love of cheapness and lack of
carefulness that many farm implements
are made weak and unsubstantial. The
dealers understand that the machine is
scarcely expe: ted to last more than two
or three years, and in the competition
for cheapness they weaken it so that it
does not do good work all through one
Beason, the though, of course, mu; h depends
upon amount of work to be done,
and more still upon the man who uses
the machine.
The more complicated kinds of farm
implements should only be used by ex
perts or those having a natural genius
for mechanics. . The ordinary farmer
who buys and uses them finds that they
save him little in iabor, care or worry
over his work, while as for expense, they
often costmore than to do without them,
The time is coming when Eastern farm
#rs, at least, will find it their interest to
Iwfc harvesting and suqji Uke werk done,
rather than to attempt to do it them-
son, make cutting grain their entii*
business.— Cultivator.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Dig deep and plant shallow.
Luxuriant growth does not insure
fruit.
A rough bark on trees invites borers;
smooth bark repels them.
but Young vines produce beautiful fruit,
old vines produce the richest.
Sweet clover is a great honey plant
wherever it can be induced to grow.
Cream should have a uniform con¬
sistency when it goes into the churn.
Egg dealers throughout the country
are again agitating the selling of eggs by
weight.
Six thousand pounds of milk is the
amount that it is claimed a good cow
should produce.
fore Cream quickly is a ready absorbent and there
injured by association with
odors of all sorts.
A raw egg broken into milk given
calves to drink, is said to be on effectual
remedy for scours,
Do not waste wood ashes. They are
sufficiently valuable to pay for saving
and applying to the soil,
Remember that one ill-tempered ot
slow-walking horse will do much harm
on a farm where colts are raised.
5 —•«* 1 1 aS that
taken flom mllk tllat has soured,
patience For breaking and heifers to be milked,
gentleness are the only
requisit es. If the udder is handled
occasionally from a calf up to cowdom,
the heifer is already broken,
feme people don’t like wooden floors
in fowl houses, hut they don’t know
whereof they speak. Cover them with
cut straw, hay, sawdust or sand, and you
avoid dampness, rats and other vermin,
Any farmer who lives on a farm
situated one-quarter of a mile or more
from neighbors, may keep a flock of
„ eese with profit. If he has a tight
fence they will not bother near neigh
i )0is .
One of the troul le3 which cheese
makers liave to contend with is a float¬
ing card. There are numerous ways oi
treating floating curds, but the main
points to be observed are: Draining the
whey early, of the developing curd the an aeid, ex
long posure time and griuding to in atmosphere curd-mill. a
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Vegetable Lore.
According to the Toronto Glohr, the
word pea comes from the Greek city, Pisa,
in Fills, where The they were grown in large
quantities. which sold mess of pottage foi
Fsau his birthright was a
dish of peas. They were called lentills
then, and it is said that in Middlesex
and Oxfordshire, England, the common
people still call them “tills,” dropping
the “len.” In the reign of Mary they
were called “peason,” and in the reign
of Charles I. “pease.”
The uses of beans were anciently rather
more sacred than culinary. Among the
Egyptians it was held to be some sort of
a crime to look at them, and Pythagoras
forbade them to be eaten. In Athens a
judicial as well as a sacred character is
attached to them, and they were used in
gathering the votes of the people in
electing magistrates and in drawing lots,
Ik England they were unknown until
1500.
Elizabeth’s Asparagus, reign, brought to England in
was cultivated so as
siduously by the Romans that Plinv says
in his time three heads weighed one
pound. It was in cooked by rapid boiling,
and Augustus, requiring haste on any
business, is' reported assaying: “Let
that be done quicker than you would
boil asparagus.”
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Effect of Peacock Domestication,
The effect of domestication has pro
duced some remarkable changes in the
color of plumage in the peacock. There
are not only “pied,” but pure white
varieties. These off-colored birds, how
ever, normal are not so highly prized as those of
types, as they are wanting in the
gorgeous beautv of their plumage. As
the white peacock has long been a fa
miliar bird in Europe, it may have been
imported into this country, but we do
not call to mind any breeder of this
variety at the present time. Hybrids
between the different species found wild
in India are now are. but we do not
think that they are highly prized, al
though it is said that they are as fertile
and as easily raised as the original species.,
Y#rb Sun.'
Chance for Inventors.
The fibre of the ramie plant exceeds in
strength that of cotton, flax or other
vegetable substances used in the textile
industries. It is also of a lustre nearly
equaling silk. The difficulty of sepa¬
rating the fibre from the woody substance
of the plant, and from the resinous mat¬
ter in which it is imbedded, has hereto¬
fore prevented the use of ramie for the
purposes to which it is adapted. A ma¬
chine has been invented by a gentleman
for the purpose of preparing flax for the
spinners, as likely to be of equal use in
separating the fibre of the ramie plant
from adhering substances. The French
government has offered a prize of 6,000
francs for any process that may produce quality
the fibre in quantity of proper
for commercial use, and the Indian gov¬
ernment has a standing offer of $25,000
for a machine that may accomplish the
same purpose.
The ancient proverb says; “You can¬
not get more out of a bottle than you
put in it.” That’s un error. Besides
what he puts in, he can get a headache,
a sick stomach, and perhaps ten days in
the lock-up.
Wliat Next?
If this sort of thing keeps on they will be
giving away houses and lots soon! We now
learn that W. Jennings Demorest runs an im¬
mense Pattern Manufactory, and yet does not
sell a single pattern. What nonsense? Not
at all! They are all given away to the pur¬
chasers and subscribers to that Wonderful
Family Magazine Magazine, contains Demorest’s Monthly. entitling Each
an order the
holder to any pattern they manufacture. Wo
do not see how they can afford it, for their
editions are immense, and it seems incredible
that order each Magazine (Price, 30 cents), contains,
an for a pattern worth from 30 to 30
cents. This will certainly hurt the pattern
trade, their, for ladies will soon learn that they can
get pat terns free by simply buying or
subscribing Published for 15 Demorcst’s East Monthly Magazine.
at 14th Street, New York
City.
Send 10 cents for a sample copy- containing
“Order” for pattern worth 30 cents.
There are 493 mountain peaks in the United
States more than 10,000 feet in height.
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AMnilninn . „ . w Large! _
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He is a well-known citizen, and his nearest
and dearest friends do not suspect his insanity. Listen:
How do we happen to know about it?
his appetite js gone, he is low-spirited, he don’1
sleep well, he has night-sweats, These he is annoyed the
by a hacking of cough. consumption and symptoms death,and are yet
forerunners
he neglects them. Is it any wonder that w€
call him a madman? If you are his friend.tell
him to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery without delay. It will cure him
if he takes it in time. It will old not miraculouslj nearly
create now it lungs when the diseased ones are
gone, but will restore ones to a
healthy condition. Tell him about it, and warn
him that in his case delay means death.
New Yo k City 1 as ten reformatories foi*
rescue and he p of fallen women.
Use the great specific for “cold in the head”
and catarrh—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
Short a counts make loner friends. Use not
credit too often without oiling with currency.
Dangerous Regligence.
It is as unwise to neglect a case of constipa¬
tion or indigestion as a case of fever or other
more serious disease, life for, if result. allowed A to few progress Ham¬
as great Figs danger will to the may bowels in healthy
burg which put they be kept a by occasional con¬
dition,in of this medicine. may 25 cents. Dose Fig.
use one
Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
Diseases Peculiar to Women, especially
monthly disorders, are mired by the timely
use of Bradfield’s Female Regulator.
If a fflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye i water. Druggists sell at Sic. per hot t le.
% The true American has
ft/i a warm place in his heart
iortheoldLoo Cabin.I t's
W/ not but “English you know, ”
from the Log Cabins
V of America have sprung
men in every respect
greater than any from the grand castles
of Europe. Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsa
parillais the best in the world.
DIBll SrilISfl 6reat English Gout and
Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Boxi 34i round, 14 1’ilU.
Ml aUaUl Wk Live at home nnd make more money working for ur thnn
nt anythini;else in the world Either pex CoRtlyomfit
New and Second-Hand Machinery.
We are Headquarters for Engines, Jioilers, Saiv Millstones. Mills , Shingle and Lath
Mill Outfits, Portable Corn and Wheat Mill", Pol ling Cloths,
Lott on >eed Pullers and Grinders, Pelting, Sa us, Piping, i tc.
In addition to New Machinery, we have a large btock of Second-Hand Engines, Boilers, SShiugle Machines,
Planers,£itc., etc^, Ml sizes,^at Astonishingly gly Low Low Prices. Prices. Terms Terms easy. easy. Wo We canSSave_You can Save Yt Money! Write us.
( U.,ti7S. Broad ami S. Forsytn Streets, ATLANTA, GA.
ik *1* V* ^ 4 V ^ ^
. w., We oiler ««%•..- the man ...... who wants service
to live dollars in a Rubber Coat, and „ (not style) a garmen nt t hat will keep
at his first half hour's experience m » m n mSMB ■BaI him dny in the hardest st storm. si It is
a storm finds to his sorrow that it is nlllt L called TOWER’S FISH FISi BRAND
hardiy a better protection than a-mos- m w ™ B ■ “ FLICKER," a name famili---------- familiar to every
t quito feel^!f netting,, not 1 onlv feels chagrined 9j C Cow-boy all over the land. With them
g hl?does' no’t a iook exactly Eke Bkl ohl^perfectTVind and Waterproof
does Ask for the 4 * FISH BRAND ” Slicker I 8 Eb IH and take no other. If ycur storek ;eep er
not have the fish bf, and, send for descriptive catalogue. A. J. Tower, 20 Simmons St., Boston, Mass. Mas
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B I believe Piso’s Cure
for Consumption saved
■ mv life.—A. H. Dowell.,
Editor Enquirer, Eden
ton, N. C., April 23, 1887.
PI SO
The best Cough Medi¬
cine is Piso’s Cuke for
Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
By all druggists. 25c.
:25 crs.
EVERY
FARMER’S
WIFE
Sees bo •me of her Poultry j
die each year without!
kno wing what the matter
was or how to effect a
remedy if she does recog
KZtfanfflir. j’linaHL nize the Disease. This If
XwMlM'ii I ii rlZhva (Mu not right, of 25 as at cents an %
TOju&Ji? f Hww pense stamps) she cau proeugf
KB a 100-tnue BOOH
giving the experience of a practical Poultry Raiser
(not an amateur, but a man working for dollars ana
cents) during a period of 25 years.. It tenches yott
howto Detect and Cure Disi ases? bow tlr
Feed lor Fugs and also lor * aliening!
which Fouls to .save lor Breeding Pur¬
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know OH .l.iH ,SeHt ro.tpo.a mr i5“.
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Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. . OKS
in time. Sold by druggists.
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in time. Sold by druggists.
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