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AGRICULTURAL
tropics OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Heeling-In.
Whether trees are to be planted in
the fall or in the spring it is best to
procure them in the tall and heel them
m. operation, “Heeling-in” is a most important
Moll and, according to its being
results or poorly in done, it is of great benefit
or loss. It is really a tem¬
porary for planting, almost which will preserve the
trees any desired length of
time, yet allow them to be taken out
whenever they are wanted for permanent
planting. Select a high, well-drained
place, in light soil where water will not
settle, and free from weeds that may
afford shelter to mice. The object is to
place the roots and a portion of the
stems in contact with the soil. A trench
is opened, the head toward the South,
of a width and depth governed by the
size of the tree3. The trees are laid in
at an angle of about forty-five degrees;
one layer being placed, the roots and
part of the stem are to be thoroughly
covered with fine soil. Then another
layer of trees i3 laid in, more soil, and
so on; when all are in the trench and
^*e earth so filled in that no airspaces are
left among the roots, bank the earth up
over and around them, rounding it up
well to shed water. As the trees are
heeled in, use every care, by labels,
marking the identity stakes or by record, to preserve
of the kind. When the trees
are taken out for planting, there should
be no di culty or uncertainty about
their names. This should. be kept in
mind when placing them in the trench.
The trees aie placed in a sloping position
that the branches may protect those
below them from the sun. If the weather
is very severe and there is no danger
from mice, the tops may be covered by
leaves or other mulch. If mice abound,
heel in the trees erect, and bank up the
earth well around the stems .—American
Agriculturist.
Wintering Stock.
The farmer should look well to his
store of feed, to see that he has sufficient
liav, grain and roots to feed his stock
through winter profitably. In addition
to a lull supply of feed, he should have
a supply If of clean straw, to bed his
stock. to be obtained, forest leaves
and are preferable. Gathered while dry,
stored away, they make the best
bedding; besides, they are shorter, and
not so heavy in handling. The manure
leaves also make a richer manure than
straw.
If the farmer has not sufficient feed
for his stock, it would be wise either to
buy feed or sell off a portion of the
stock. He should cull out and dispose
of all old or otherwise inferior animals;
they are kept at an expense, and with no
outcome. It is also important that the
barns be in good condition, to keep stock
comfortable really astonishing throughout how winter. It is
careless and
thoughtless this. many farmers are in regard
to Many farmers go into winter
quarters without shelter for a portion
of their stock; others with their barns
open, shackly and illy covered, with just
feed enough to carry their stock through,
as trouble though, after the expense of feed and
of of feeding through winter, they
were not any more value in the spring
than they were the fall before. The feed,
thus scantily given, was entirely lost,
with a little manure, and that of poor
quality, The object to pay of for their trouble.
the farmer in feeding
Feeding through winter should be for
peofit. stock to gain a profit
from is a nice point, and requires study
close attention. It is not enough to
a sufficient quantity, but the feed
be of such as is best for accom¬
the ob ect of- feeding, let this
for milk, butter, fat or growth. The
must first consume a certain
of food to maintain its station
condition, to keep up heat for the
and supply material waste. These
must be first provided for before the
can gain anything for the food.
An animal kept health, clean, dry and warm, is
kept in better consequently it
takes less food, and what is consumed is
more effectual, and more profit is realized
from it.
In feeding for miik and butter, such
food must be given as will best meet the
demands for milk, in addition to whatis
required to supply the wastes of tissue.
‘While young, animals require food for
formation of bone. This is yielded in
milk in larger proportion than from any
other food. A more matured animal re
such food as the grasses, roots and
grain, to produce bone, muscle, and a
certain amount of fat. If the animal is
fed for the butcher, it should be fed some
flax and cotton seed. Corn is the most
fattening Another grain.
■Winter thing in is feeding animals over
condition to a profit, while to get them in good
pleasant. early, It the weather is
will take less feed, than
to start into winter with them in a poor
condition. The manure produced by
the stock, if not secured and judiciously
usdd, will greatly diminish the profit on
the feed and care; therefore, let this be
a point of great interest to those feeding
animals through winter for profit.—
Prairie Farmer.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Near the close of a journey let the
horse walk.
Use land in which some cultivated crop
grew last year.
Do not use coal oil or grease of any
kind on a sitting hen; it will prevent the
eggs from hatching.
It is better to think twice before you
strike a cow, than to think twice to find
out why you struck her.
Ducks may be profitably raised on
farms where there are no streams or
pounds of water for them.
The evening milk has been proven by
recent solids Knglish dairy tests to contain
more than the morning milk.
fo cure a cat of catching chickens,
cut off her tail just back of her ears, and
then top-dress her with two feet of
earth.
Mushrooms can be grown in any dark
room or cellar where the temperature
can be maintained at from fifty degrees
to sixty degrees.
It is better to keep a cow that knows
how to attend to one branch of business
thoroughly, than to have one ambitious
to excel in everything.
Happy is the man whose cows “come
ill” .. at the right time ior winter dairy
ing. has If he cannot makedairying things pay he
some important to icarn.
It is better to fill up the water trough
before it is quite empty, than to let the
cows get very thirsty and drink so much
they won’t care to cat for two hours.
No animal is more sensitiye to cold
than a milch cow, and it is very import¬
ant to observe great regularity in time of
feeding and milking. Cows keep accu¬
rate time in these matters.
The poor quality of the native wild
Masses in the West is one difficulty of
the dairyman in that section. Prairie
hay, though nominally cheap, is poor
feed, and really often not so cheap as
corn in the great corn producing States.
other Potatoes, beets, be turnips, kept parsnips and
roots can in the cellar all
in winter without wilting by storing them
airtight receptacles. placed They keep
and equally covered well if three on the cellar floor
two or inches thick
with damp leaves.
When farm implements are housed
for winter they should be painted with
crude petroleum, mixed with enough
coloring that matter to give it a substance
will hold it on. If this is done their
durability will be greatly increased, and
one of the most serious farm expenses
be correspondingly lessened.
An Odd Will.
Persons frequently illustration form strange at
tachments. An of this was
furnished the Probate Court by the pro¬
visions of the will of Maggie Watson,
which that was of probated. the After providing the
out of hearse estate and was to be paid
expense a four carriages
for the funeral, ancl that her body be
laid beside that of her husband, aud a
monument be put on her grave like that
on his, the will goes on to provide: “It
is my will that the two china dogs now
in my room he each separately put in a
box with glass fronts, both alike, and
one placed on my dear husband's gave at
Spring Grove and the other on my grave,
and ail to be paid for out of the money I
leave. ”— Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Famous Almanac.
The Liegeois is one of the most fa¬
mous almanacs in the world. It is pub¬
lished at Liege, where the first edition
was issued in 168(1, and it is distinctly
the almanac of the peasants ancl others
who cannot read. Its instructions are
followed by means of certain symbols in
cpnnection with certain dates. Thus a
pair of scissors indicates the proper time
for cutting the hair. A vial denotes the
right A pill season box the for medicine thought in liquid form.
season best to take
pills. The almanac is purchased by many
as a book of advice, dates being regarded
them as of
People Starving to Death
On account of their inability to digest food,
will find a most marvellous food and remedy
in Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil
with Hypophosphites. Very palatable and
easily digested. Dr. S. W. Uohen, of Waco,
Texas, Infantile says: *‘1 have used your Emulsion in
only wasting wasted with good results. It not
strength restores and increases the tissues, but I g‘ ives
glad such reliable appetite, am
to use a article.”
There are 3,000 Roman Catholic parochial
schools in the U. S. with 511,000 pupils.
ConveiHioual •• IHanau ” Resolutions.
Whereas. The M non Route (L. N. A. & C.
Ry large Co.) desires that it forms to make the it known to the world
at double connecting
link of Pullman tourist travel between the
winter cities of Florida a-d the summer re¬
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surpassed, Whereas, its Its elegant ’‘rapid transit" Pullman BVstem is un¬
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car service Chicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati an
equalled; Whereas, and Its
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then be it
trip 'Resolved, it That in the event of starting on a
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Dearborn for full particulars. (In
any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c.
postage.'
Patti charges more every yeah. She is
singing in Eng and for $3,500 a night.
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A clergyman, after years of suffering from
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