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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
The _ Frightened , Horse.
The feeling of fright is probably a sen
sation common to all animals from man
kind down to the lowest grade of life,
It ts also true, that the higher the grade
of life, the more sentient the animal,
the keener is this sense developed. The
horse is universally noted for his sagacity
and intelligence, therefore in him tright
is innate. When a horse manifests fear
lt is because he has by exercise of his
reason decided that there is danger to
himself lurking in some object, which
he accordingly endeavors to avoid,
1 hat same reason will, if properly di
reeted, undeceive him and convince the
an mal that he is mistaken. The horse
be ug unable to reason, except from his
experience, you should convince him, by
careful examination, that the object he
dreads is harmless. Bring him in direct
contact with it. It is a common saying
that if the nose is touched to the object
the animal will be satisfied; generally
this is true; the animat becomes ac
quainted with his “enemy.” It is a ter
rible mistake to use a whip on a fright
eued horse The animal is already ex
cited, and will, in all probability,
associate the wh pping with the object
of his dread, hxert your own common
sense and calm your horse.
Colts especially should receive most
considerate treatment, and above all
things leave make jour lessons thorough. To
the ob ect of his alarm before hav¬
ing made him thoroughly familiar and
careless of it, is often worse, tenfold,
than no attempt at. all to break him
of his skittishness.— National Horse
Breeder.
Making Vinegar in Small Quantities
Where families have no cider mills
and but few apples they may easily make
their own vinegar by mashing apples in
a tub with a pounder. The pomare
should then be put into a halt barrel
with holes in the bottom, and be placed
over another tub as a receiver. A
lower can be placed on the pomace aud
be pressed down by a lever or stationary
keg. weights. bung The juice should be kept in a
open, and in a warm place
until the vinegar is made. By frequently
replenishing as it is drawn out, any far
mers familv can easily keep up their
stock. A few apples mashed and Dut in
can be used for this lowVnperature. purpose Vinegar
will stand quite a but
it is better not to allow it to freeze.
times Vinegar from other substances is some
made. Wine vinegar is from
soured wines and the juice of grapes,
Wine vinegars are extensively counter
feited by chemicals. For sorghum vine
five gar, to one gallon of sorghum syrup add
or six gallons of water, with a little
yeast, or to a barrel of the strained juice
of the cane, a pint of yeast aud a little
syrup. made from Large whisky quantities of vinegar are
aud acids that have
a but good appearance and sharp acidity,
are unlit for family use. For molas¬
ses leans vinegar, take one gallon of New Or¬
molasses and five gallons of water,
put in a little old vinegar to sour it, or
Start it to fermenting with a little yeast.
Keep in a warm place and cover the
keep’out bung hole oi the keg with netting, to
the flies. Fine honey vinegar
is made in the proportions of one pound
of honey to a gallon of water, thoroughly
mixed. For healthfulness and general
utility head apple cider vinegar stands at the
of the list .—New Fork World.
The Culture of Rhubarb.
At the request of several of our sub
scribers we give the following hints on
the culture of rhubarb. The best time
to has plant rhubarb is in the fall after frost
killed the leaves, or early in spring
before it has made much growth, but it
may be set out without much risk at
any time in early summer before July 1.
The old roots should be divided so as
to have but ons or two eyes to each
piece, and should be set out about three
feet apart in the furrows of a small plow,
with four feet between the rows. Cover
two inches deep with a hoe.
Rhubarb is in no way particular about
the land it grows upon, provided it is
not a dry gravel and is well manured,
To grow it well, however, demands very
heavy manuring; ten or fifteen cords per
acre every year of strong manure, rich
in nitrogen, is what is wanted. Hog
manure plow under is best. when Spread the manure and
preparing the land,
and put some more along the furrows in
planting. (all ths dead Afterwards rake off every
leaves and rubbish About
Nov. 1. Plow a light funow from the
plants at each side, fill this with ma¬
nure, and cover with plow, ridging the
land well over the crowns. In early
spring tir cultivate across the ridges and
8 often with plow and cultivator, and
hoe until it is growing too high.
in _ The Boston best is variety the Victoria, for generafmarketin<*
its large on account of
size and very heavy yield.
Thirty tons per acre is not unusual, and
even I-inmeus forty tons have been grown. The
by variety is earlier and preferred
it does some buyers for its milder acid, but
the not yield much more than half
crop which the Victoria will pro
duce.
To grow rhubard profitably one should
be near his market, for the bulk of the
crop sells at less than $15 per ton, and
often for $10. The expense of market
mg is mostly at long distances is considerable. It
grown within six or eight miles
of market.
The bed should be replanted after
about five years bearing, as the roots
spread about and crowd, making a large
amount of small stalks, involving double
the labor in cutting and bunching for
market, and making an inferior product
to that grown on a young bed. A new
plantation should not be cropped at all
the first year, and will not produce a
full crop the second, but after that for
five years is in its prime,
The price of rhubard is always high
early in the season, and some growers
grow a little of the Linnams variety in
sandy land on the south side of a fence,
so as to get it early. — Cultivator.
Farm ami Garden Notes.
Keep tools handy.
Cut corn fodder from which the sweet
corn has been picked.
A window facing south in the poultry
house this winter will pay in increased
e SS s -
Every time you worry your horses
- vou sl:l0rten their lives and days of use
I’d n e ss -
nri S’heep are better scavengers for small,
: ? riaimed. P. e ’ w «rmy apples than swine are, it
1 * s
The English rarely drive their draught
horses faster than a walk. Trotting a
cart-horse would seem barbarous to a
j cockney,
The longer you put off transplanting
strawberry plants the less they will grasp
the soil and the more danger there will
be of wiuter-killing.
French farmers report very beneficial
f a manUie °‘ l strawb f ne3 ’ P ea «, let
tUC ^ ^ a9 , beans Ca " 0ts and vme f‘
Wash dal l utensils, ’ and
T pans, pans
y a t s carefully with cold water, in which
a 1,t tIe saI ‘;° r sod fi then rinse, and
then thoroughly , scald with hot water.
Professor E. W. Steward advocates
flaxseed as a medicine for pigs. It is
soothing and it is also to the rich stomach in food and intestines,
for muscle and
bone,
To have fowls moult quickly they
should be well fed, in good health, young
and vigorous, and, according to the
Poultry Yard, a little extra stimulation
just before and during moulting can be
defended.
Hovr to Reduce Fat.
For the reduction of adipose tissue,
Banting has, in Germany at least, been
superseded by pedestrianism, and the
but walking up-hill. is not This to be upon fad level will ground,
be adopted new indolent certainly
not by persons, and
most fleshy people are more or less dis¬
inclined to exertion. In fact, laziness is
responsible for much of the accumula¬
tion of fat. The new relief from obesity
has been experimented with by the re
nowned Bismarck, who has in this man
ner reduced his weight from two hun
dred and seventy-four pounds to one
hundred and ninety. The principle of
the new system is to strengthen the
; muscle of the heart, which is best done
by climbing heights. hill The patient is in
structed to walk up at a slow pace
until palpitation comes sit down, on, when and then he is
to stop, but not to to
goon. He must walk several hours a
day, and climb more or less. Slowly
walking up stairs is recommended. Pro
fessor uertel, of Munich, is the investor
of this new “obesity and heart cure,”
and he advocates mountain climbing for
i valvular defects of the heart as well as
for all diseases associated with corpu¬
lency .—Boston Beacon.
Old Mr. Bently the King (reading Spain the paper)— ill.”
“I see that of is
Old Mrs. Bently—“Goodness, Joshua, I
hope he hasn’t got a cant cer, too 1” Old
Mr. Bently—“No, he’s teething.”—
Philips. Welch.
The Sound of Thunder.
One of the most terse and succinot
that descriptions recently of a natural phenomenon is
he given by M. Hirn, in wjiich
says that the sound which is known
as the thunder air traversed is due simply by to electric the fact that
that flash of lightning, an is spark,
is, a suddenly
raised has to volume, a very high temperature, and
its moreover, considerably
increased. The column of gas thus
suddenly heated and expanded is some¬
times several miles long, and as the
duration of the flash is not even a mil¬
lionth of a second, it follows that the
noise bursts forth at once from the whole
column, though for an observer in any
one place it commences where the light¬
ning is at the least distance.
In precise terms, according to M.
Hirn, the beginning of the thunder clap
rives us the minimum distance of the
lightning, clap and the length length of the thunder
He gives us the of the column.
also remarks that when a flash of
lightning strikes the ground, it is not
necessarily from the place struck that
the first noise is heard. Again, he
points out that a bullet whistles in
traversing the air, so that we can to a
certain extent follow its flight, the same
thing also just happening with a falling
meteorite before striking the earth.
The noise actually heard has been com¬
pared to the sound produced when one
tears linen. It is due, really, to the
fact that the air rapidly pushed on one
side in front of the projeotile, whether
bullet or meteorite, quickly rushes back
to fill the gap left in the rear.
“Is the editor-in-chief in?” asked a
stranger, as be sauntered into the city
reporter’s room at eight o’clock in the
morning. “No, sir,” replied the janitor,
kindly; “he does not come down so
early. Is there anything I can do for
you?” “Perhaps so. Are you con¬
nected with .the poetical department of
the paper?” “I am, sir.” “O, what do
you do?” “I empty the waste-baskets,
sir.”
Diving on the Reputation of Others.
“Take everything that I have hut my good
name; leave me that and I am content.” So
said the philosopher. So say all manufactur¬
ers of genuine articles to that horde of imita¬
tors which thrives upon the reputation of oth¬
ers. The good name of Allcock’s Porous
Plasters has induced many adventurers to
put in the market imitations that are not only
lacking in the best elements of the genuine ar¬
ticle, but kre often harmful in their effects.
The public should be on their guard against
these frauds, and, when an external remedy is
needed.be sure to insist upon having Allcock’s
Porous Plaster.
A man may be great by chance, but never
Wise nor good without taking pains.
A “Put and Call.”
This is a funny phrase to the uninitiated.but
all the brokers understand it. They use it
when a person gives a certain per cent, for the
option of buying or selling stock on a fixed
day, at a price stated on the day the option is
given. It is often a serious operation to the
dealer, but there is a more serious “put and
call” than this: when you are “put to bed with
a severe cold and your friends “call” the a physi¬ house
cian. Dr. Pierce’s Avoid Golden all this Medical by keeping Discovery. in The
great cure for pulmonary and blood disea es.
Its action is marvelous. It curses the worst
cough, whether acute, lingering, or chronic.
For Weak Lungs, Spiting of Blood, Short kin¬
Breath, Consumption, Night-Sweats, all other and medi¬
dred affections, it surpasses
cines.
The Empress of Japan has established a fe¬
male college whiclj is ruled by foreign ladies.
Many men of many minds; kinds.
Many pills of various
Bn for a mild, effective, vegetable purgative, Pur¬
you had better get Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
gative Pellets. They cure sick headache, bil¬
ious headache, dizziness, constipation, 25 cents indices- vial, by
tion, and bilious attacks; a
druggists.
He Evangelist finds San Moody Francisco Is on hard the place. Pacific coast.
a
Conventional “ Monnn ” Resolutions.
Whereas, The M non Route (L. N. A. & fi.
Ry Co.)desires to make It known to the world
link at large Pullman that it forms tourist the double between connecting
of travel the
winter cities of Florida aqd the summer re¬
sorts of the Northwest; and
Whereas, sed, its Its its elegant “rapid “rapid transit” transit” Pullman system is un¬
and surpa- Buffet Sleeper
d Chair Ohai car service between Chicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati un¬
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, rates are as low as the lowest;
then be it
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event send for Tourist Guide, (In
any a enclose 4c.
Postage.'
Keep them in the Nursery.
Hamburg Figs should he kept in the nursery,
where they are particularly useful in case of
constipation or indigestion, as they are liked by
children, and are prompt and efficacious in ac¬
tion. ascents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co.,
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