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TO DISTINGUISH PUBC LIKEN'.
When purchasing sheer handkerchiefs
those that are pare linen may
be readily reoognized by moistening
the tip of the finger and stretohing
the fabric over it. Linen will show
the moisture through immediately,
but cotton threads take more time to
absorb it
child's plat coat.
A little child in plum-colored burlaps
played in the park one day this
week with a small black kitten decorated
with a cream satin bow, whioh,
oddly enough, was of the same shade
as the Bedford cord hat which sbe
wore. The hat was made poke, with
ruffle around the neck. The strings
and small bow on top were of a deep
jK shade of plum taffeta, while the same
color and material was used in a
. double belt around the waist.?St
j Louis Star.
florence nightingale.
I Florence Nightingale is seventy-six
years old and so broken in health that
she can scarcely write a letter, yet she
never forgets to send some message to
the veterans of the Crimea on the an?
a tri'nfnvv Of fr> TATTlAm
Ui V OA DM J V? W f4 vtv*;, w -
. ber, at Christmas time, those who are
laboring in the institution for training
norses which she founded at St.
Thomas's Hospital soon after the olose
of the war. Surgeon-General Manifold
was <me of her warmest friends
and one or the first to promote the
employment of women nurses in the
army.
WOMEN AGITATING IN CHINA.
The women of China have gone into
j the business of agitating. They have
sot yet begun to sigh for suffrage, so
far as appears at present, but they do
want natural feet, and to this end two
societies, the International Women's
Union and the Tieu Tien Hni, or Nat
ural Feet Society, have combined.
Petitions were drawn up and numerous
signatures obtained, but it was found
impossible to get the matter before
the Emperor and Empress. The authorities
to a horn it was sent replied
that the matter oould not be regulated
? ^ by law; those who did not want to bind
their children's feet need not do so;
those who did could not be prevented;
and, therefore, it was useless to
trouble their Majesties.?New Tork
Journal
BEAUTIFUL AKMS.
One great troable many women have
is about their arms, whioh, instead of
being smooth, hare, especially in the
npper part, above the elbows, rather
what is called a goose-ossy appearance,
4 whioh gives them a ooarse, rough
look. When such is the case the skin
should be well friotioned night and
& " v morning with a lootah and good soap,
afterward rubbed in, or, if that is
t thought to be too greasy, a preparation
of glycerine and cucumber. If
this is done regularly the coarse appearance
will be done away with. Certainly
a smooth, white arm is an attrition,
and all women should try to
keep it so, so far as lies in their power.
Many women have an idea that it is a
waste of time to bestow muoh effort 01^
their personal appearanoe, but that is
?/ a mistake. It is a duty they owe to
themselves. ?San Francisco Chronicle.
MUD FACE BATHS,
The latest fad of fashionable ladies
in search of beaotifnl complexions is
mud?plfin, dirty, sticky mud. The
idea is by no means new, but it is the
first time that society has accepted it
as a skin beautifier.
Swamp mud, or the mud from the
W-'- bed of a stream, is the best. The skin
should be thoroughly cleansed and
dried until it feels warm and the perspiration
has started. Then apply the
mud thickly, taking care to keep it
* from the eye3.
It is especially necessary that oare
be taken to cover all portions of the
skin alike, as the smallest patch of uncovered
skiu is likely to stand out
with disagreeable plainness the next
morning.
The feeling of the mnd on the face
is not as unpleasant as one might at
first suppose, and its beneficial results
are very great 'tis said.?New York
Journal.
A NEW ENGAGEMENT RING.
j y
A Western gentleman has invented
an engagement ring that, while it will
. bring untold joys to the feminine soul,
will cause the same amount of anguish
to the masculiue purse. After pur
chasing one of these new engagement
rings the bank account of the victim
will wear monrning for more than
^ thirty days.
? T^is ring is actually two rings. The
golu is twisted in a manner to form
two connecting rings, destined to be
worn on the "love" and "pinkie"
fingers, respectively. The prettiest of
these two-fold rings has a diamond in
one ring and a ruby in the other.
Prioe not mentioned.
The rings when off look like two
hoops of wire. Upon the hand they
are very becoming. They hold their
place well, not permitting the stones
to become turned inside.
Wearing this ring with a glove is
tronblesome, but as an engagement
ring it is very fine. The quality idea
is admirably told, and, as a practical
pi'
mm
point, it may be mentioned that such
a ring cannot easily slip off.?Philadelphia
Time?.
MISS WILLARD IN MARBLE.
The memory of Frances E. Willard
will be perpetuated in the Nortnwestern
University, Chicago, by a life-size
bast of white marble, which is to be
presented to that institution daring
commencement week. The bast will
be given to the college, which is Miss
Willard's alma mater, by J. C. Shafer,
a wealthy resident of Evanston. It
will be the work of Lor ado Taft. Miss
Willard has been an intimate friend ef
Mr. and Mrs. Shafer for a nnmber of
years, and while the three were crossing
the ocean in the same boat last
summer Mr. Shafer begged Miss Willard's
permission to make the gift,
which, he Baid, would keep the memory
of her work alive among the people.
Miss Willard oonsonted, and it
is to give the time requifed by Mr.
Taft for the sittings that she deoided
to oome to Best Cottage during the
early summer.
She with her Secretary, Miss Gordon,
will spend a short time in New
York, where Miss Willard will address
a meeting of the W. C. T. U. From
there they go to Washington, going
directly thenoe to Chicago. The gift
to the university, of which Miss Willard
was the first woman to be appointed
a dean, will be acoompanied
by a memorial demonstration. ?New
York Commercial Advertiser.
FASHION NOTES.
The narcissas is fashionable in millinery.
Monotony is unheard of this season
owing to the variety of materials and
colors in vogue.
Pretty evening waists are made of
lisse, laid in deep horizontal tuoks,
! over a silk or satin foundation.
The flimsy materials, such as mus'
lins, bareges, etc., and even very light
silks, for florinoed skirts, are tfle latest
innovation.
Hyacinth blue and a certain pale
rosy shade of mauve is a very fashionable
French oolor mixture, and, as a
rule, is a becoming one. Milliners
especially favor the combination.
The fancy for fabrios with blaok and
oolors of vinous kinds interwoven has
brought out many twilled goods of
different weights. These make neat
and pretty gowns for matronly women.
Chiffon and monascline-de-soie are
most frequently used as trimmings for
silk and satin, and though not so fashionable
as the other materials, entire
gowns are still sometimes made of
them.
An afternoon gown is of pale gray
oloth, with a little pointed bolero coat
made of rose velvet braided in stripes
of gray, but unoovered where it is
turned back to show a soft front of
white ohiifon and butter-colored lace.
Some of the fanoy nets have very
large holes through which ribbon of
several widths may be run to form the
deooration on both bodioe and skirt
xnifl simple trimming, nowever, is confined
usually to the danoe frooks of
misses and very young girls.
A frock of lavender China orepe has
one of the much worn aocordionplaited
skirts, with waved ruohings of
chiffon and a poached bodice draped
over a tiny white vest with a waterfall
of ohiffon and lace at one side of tbe
front The wide belt is of deeperhued
miroir velvet
Very picturesque is a gown of black
glaoe silk with fringed flounoes over
whioh oomes a pointed bodied with
the tiniest of plaitings, finished with
an Elizabeth raffle at the throat A
pale blue sash caught up on one side
of the bodioe has a pink rose tuoked
into a chou of soft silk.
Lace is pearled with jewels till it
becomes a dewy delioious maze, and
every seam or bolero or belt is an excuse
for them. The epal, with its capricious
color ohanges, is high in
favor. It ties one to no particular
grfwn, it is most amenable, and only
"the real thing" is to be had in this
most beautiful of stones. But for the
purpose of millinery there are still
countless other gems from whioh to
choose. Home jeweling is dainty
work.
Paper Underclothing.
Tbe Japanese are now making anderolothincr
of their finelv crisDed or
grained paper.
After the paper has been out to a
pattern, the different parts are 6ewed
together apd hemmed, and the places
where the buttonholes are to be formed
are strengthened with calico or linen.
The stuff is very strong, and at the
same time very flexible. After a garment
has been worn a few hours it will
interfere with the transpiration of the
body no more than do garments made
of fabric.
The stuff is not sized, nor is it impermeable.
After beooming wet, the
paper is difficult to tear. When ar
endeavor is made to tear it by hand it
presents almost as much resistance a ?
the thin skin used for making glove#.
?Answers.
Last year about $31,000,000 worti
of tobacoo was smoked in Spain?ar
average of $1.80 per her headL
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(THE FIELD OF A.DVENTDRE.
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I THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
| Chased by a Band of Sioux IndiansKeeper's
Nerve When a Lioness
Got Loose.
THE real "Deadwood Dick,"
otherwise Dick Clark, laughingly
repudiates most of the
deeds and adventures attributed
to him by the dollar a-mile dime
novelists, but is willing to admit that
he has been in some pretty tight places,
and is duiy thankful that he lives to
tell the tale. Clark is in the employment
of theF., E. and M. V. Railway
Company, at Whitevood, and now
goes about a daily routine, utterly devoid
of romantic features, but if properly
approached he if; not averse to
"spinning a yarn" about the days
when he was an adventurous boy,
Qom TTa m'trna f ha
DUUUblUg X ?/i vuwiouajii. uu ^ATVO ?UV i
story of his most thr.lling experience
as follows:
"The tightest pinch I was ever in
was in the spring of '73, on a ride
from Fort Pembina to Fort Stephenson,
away np North. 'Jimmy from
Cork,' a well known scout of those
days, had the ride to make, aud invited
me to go along, with the assurance,
however, that it would be at the
risk of my scalp.
"It was lovely weather when we
started, and we had a pleasant, uneventful
trip to within a couple of
days' ride of the Missouri. Jimmy
was jolly company, always telling
stories and cracking jokes, like the
happy-go-luoky Irishman he was. He
was not only good company, but he
was a good man to have with you in a
scrimmage, for, although he was a little
chap, he was strong and wiry and
was totally devoid ot fear.
"One evening, a couple of days before
we expeoted to reach the river,
we had stopped to camp, and had the
horses picketed out and the fire going
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Jo* supper, wnen Jimmy suuaeaiy iaiu
his ear to the ground, then looked up
and remarked quietly: 'Injuns, Dick!
Get th' horse, an' be quick, too, i'r
we've got t' roide f r ut!'
"We didn't have much of a start,
for by the time we got into the saddle
they were within rifle shot of us. As
soon as he was mounted Jimmy, who
was a splendid marksman, drew a bead
on the foremost red and 'got* him?
and for a moonlight shot from the
back of a nervous horse 1 thought it
was pretty good. Then we flew, with
the ballets pelting all aroand as.
"Our objective point was a place
known to Jimmy as the 'Dog's Deo,'
about sixty miles from where the reds
flushed us; and the question was
uppermost all the time, Can we make
it? Well, to make a long stoiy short,
we did make it, running right through
another bunch of Sioux to get there,
iust as we began to think ourselves
safe. Jimmy shot one red's pony, and
was hit on the leg himself; but it
wasn't much more than a scratoh. His
horse was grazed on the flank by the
same ballet.
"We were mighty glad to get into
the 'Dog's Den,' which was an excellent
place for defence. It was a
little rock strewn terrace, backed up
by a perpendicular cliff. The rocks
in front made a natural b&rrioade.
There was a little grass and a spring
of water; and, properly provisioned,a
half dozen or so of men might have
withstood an army there. As scon as
we got inside the'barricade we dismounted
and looked baok. The reds,
half a hundred or more, were swarm
ing right after us.
"All day wo stood off the crowd
without much trouble, but when the
shadows began to lengthen we got uneasy,
for wo knew we couldn't hold
out against so many in the dark. We
had done it for the hour or so before
daylight, but we couldn't do it all
night So, just as the dusk began to
gather, Jimmy told me to go and get
the horses. I Saddled them in good
shape and joined Jimmy, and presently
he gave tho word, and the way we flew
down that hill was worth the price of
admission. I didn't see anything distinctly,
but I knew that we were going
through a lot of Indians buoohed together
; that they were shooting at us,
and we them, and the next thin<r
Jimmy and I were side by side skim*
ming over the level prairie toward the
sonroe of the Jim Biver.
"For about an hour we rode, with
the red rascals none too far behind,
and taking an occasional shot at us,
until we came suddenly to a little
stream that flowed toward the Big !
Cheyenne. It wasn't very wide, but
the banks were high and almost perpendicular,
so we did not try to cross 1
the stream, but turned and followed 1
it From the yells that followed this
movement we knew that the reds had
seen us, and thuught they had us
trapped. Then suddenly half a dozen
little fires sprang up in our rear and 1
in almost less time than it takes in the
telling these merged into one great (
wall of flame that bounded across the
prairie behind ua like a race horse.
"It looked as though we must surely
die, in one way or another, but we in- <
tended to die fighting. We found a
place where, by going down the bank
carefully, we oould get into the creek
bed. * Then we set a back fire, and 1
another on the opposite side of the
creek, after which we got into the 1
water, with nothing but our faces 1
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oat, ana wanea ior me uig ure iu cuuiu ;
along.
"It came, along with a pelting storm ;
of flying, burning missiles. It jumped :
the creek and presently petered out,
but not until the terrible heat had 1
singed off our whiskers and the hair
our hats didn't oover and the smoke
had almost suffocated us. After it was
over we got out and reconnoitred, but
there was no sigi of the Indians, and j
we decided thej must be waiting for i
the ground to cool before cpming to <
find our charred and blackened re- i
mains. i
"Pretty soon we pulled out and re- i
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ramed our trip toward the heact
waters ol the Jim, and in a few hours!
we came npon the camp of somei;
friendly half breeds?eleven of them| i
?who were hunting horses that had '
been stampeded by the Indians. They 1
took ns in, fed and sheltered us, and |
came near suffering for their hospital*, j
ity, for at daybreak the Indians, who
had struck our trail and followed it, I
AAm/k AIAMM /lomon/lml AI1W finffhn. !
muug auu u^utauuwu vu? ?W**VM
der.
"The half breeda were game, however,
and told them to stand back and
fight; they wouldn't deliver us worth
a cent. The messengers went back
and reported, and they charged on ne
in the bufialo wallows, with the result
that we emptied throe or four saddles.
"Then followed as pretty a fight as
ever I care to see. They were four to
one, at least; bat while a half dozen
of as remained entrenched and did effective
shooting at the least possible
risk to ourselves, the others got oat
and fought them Indian fashion by
riding around them, and harrassing
them, flank and rear. At the end of
a couple of hoars they got disgasted
and withdraw, with the loss of a half
dozen men and enough horses captured
by the half breeds to recoup them for
those they had lost, with several more
for interest. Of oar oatfit three of
oar four were wounded, bat none of
them seriously.
"Jimmy and I reached the post all
right, bat pretty badly scorched and
shaken up. We parted there, and I
did not see 'Jimmy from Cork* again
until 1876, when he was at Crook City,
in the Black Hills. He left there to
join General Terry, and died a little
later at Fort Buford."?St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
An Animal Keeper's Nerve.
"There was a man travelling with
as some twenty years ago, an Englishman
named Wilcox, wh o came to thii
country when quite a boy and grew
up a pretty good American. He wat
a helper around the animals, and
somehow he went to England and got
a job with the old Wombwell Menagerie,
long before it was sold to Mandera.
When the split occured he
went to the big Bellevue Garden at
Manchester with some of the animals
tho proprietors had bought He soon
rose to be head man over the lions,
tigers, ko., and had a house in a
pretty little garden just within the
great wall, near the entranoe gates.
Five nights before Christinas the lion*
ess, a new purchase recently imported
from Africa, gave birth .to a litter
of four cubs, and the cage front was
boarded up and every cars was takon
of her. Well, Wilcox went on Christ*
mas Eve to a party with his wife,
leaving his helper to feed th9 animals
and close np. Toward midnight ho
-returned, entered the gardens, and
went to sleep in his honse. An hour
later his wife woke hhn, saying there
was a noise ontside in the garden, and
he got u p and looked oat of the win*
dow. Bight in frogt of lps honse, at
the big gate, 'was that lioness with
one of her cabs, and she was biting at
dnnr and scratching for dear life
to get under it, her idea being to got
out in the open. In that open, within
a circuit of five miles, were more than
a million people. Some one must
have fastened her cage door insecurely
or something had gone wrong.
"Wiloox slipped on his trousers and
shoes, and, despite all his wife could
do, he slipped out of the front door
of his oottage, hurried around by the
private hedge, and in the moonlight
went running down through the lines
of forcing houses for plants, keeping
thorn between him and the gate as
mciob as possible, and so vanished
from his wife's sight, in the direction
of the lions' house. In a short time
ho reappeared right in the oentre avenue
with a cub in his arms, and his
wife saw him come boldly right down
the walk until he was within twenty
yards or so of the lioness. Then ho
pioked op a stone and threw it at hsr
as she lay biting at the door. The
brute looked round, saw the man, and
jumped up with an angry growl.
The man bit one of the cub's ears and
made it ory ont just as the lioness was
about crouching for a spring. At
that sound she rose, her tail moved
softly instead of lashing her sides,
and she walked straight to the
keeper. Wilcox held the eub out to
her and said, 'Hello, Queenie,' as if it
was the most natural meeting in the
world, and,, letting her take the cub
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iruiu ilia uaiiu9 no ^aooou uct auu
pioked up the other one. She dropped
the one she held came to take the one
he pioked up, getting more friendly
every minute. So, picking up the i
cubs and giving them to her, stepping
baokward all the time, he slowly led
the brute to her cage, and then mounting
the narrow platform, pushed the
iron gate open and threw a cnb inside i
to the furthest corner. The lionose ;
bounded in after it, he threw the other ;
cub in also, banged the gate to, ahot
the bolts, and fell unoonacious from <
the platform to the ground.
"Not seeing him return his wife
sounded the alarm and brought all the <
helpers to the cottage, and they cau- (
tiously went to look for him, ana there ]
they found him with a third cub curled
up by his side. Well, the matter
was of course kept quiet, the un- <
der keeper was severely scolded for ,
carelessly shooting the bolt past the (
socket instead of into it, and as for
Wilcox they gave him a present of j
52500, and his place was solid for ,
keeps. It was a piece of good old- ,
fashioned American-raised grit just the ;
same.?New York Sun.
A Xew Soap Invention.
It is said that a French chemist has :
mado a blue soap which will render j
unnecessary the bluing in the laundry.
In ordinary soap he mcorpor- '
rates a solution of aniline green in :
strong acetic acid. The alkali of the :
soap converts the green into blue.
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GIVE THE HOG A CHANCE.
There is encouragement in the general
acquiescence in the policy of gi?
ing swine range?plenty ot grass ana
olover, and lees of the everlasting corn
diet We no longer aim at masses of
living lard The better methods are
giving ns pork which is fit for use, and
is largely increasing the demand for
tjie products of this profitable animal.
Give the hog a chance, and he will do
his best for as.
ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS.
There is a great difference of opinion
as to what trees are the most suit*
ble for ornamental planting. It is,
however, admitted that it is desirable
to plant trees in parks, abont homes,
roadsides and waste places. Among
the most beantifnl ornamental trees
are the American white elm, white ash,
and sugar maple. These are fine looking
trees, hardy and make good shade.
It costs bat little more to plant these
than the almost worthless Cottonwood,
box elder or poplar. Other trees that
are very desirable are the haokberry,
cat-leaved white birch and for OAsmental
purposes the Russian snowball.
PACKING AND 8HIPPTN0 BEES.
An apiarist gives the following direoiions
for paeking and shipping
bees: The manner of packing depends
somewhat upon the kind of hive, and
to some extent on the season of the
year, 'lhey can be shipped any time
of the year when bees are flying. If
the weather is comparatively cool, as
in spring and fall, they.do not need so
much ventilation as through the warm
months. There is little danger, however,
of giving too mnch ventilation
at any ti me. Just how the ventilation
oan best be given depends npon the
hive, but with almost any hive you oan
have the entire top oovered with wire
cloth, and that makes the colony safe
against smothering. If the weather
is hot, the bees need a supply of
water on their journey, whioh may be
given by means of a sponge or a roll of
rags saturated with water and placed
on the top of the frames. If the hive
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oontaiiui loose-Hanging iramea, tnese
muf't in some way be made fast This
may be done by driving nails through
the ends of the top bars down into the
ends of the hire, bnt the nails should
not be driven in their entire depth,
leaving their ends projecting so they
can be drawn with a clawhammer.
When placed on the cars,let the frames
run parallel with the track; on a
wagon they should run crosswise,
GOOD BOADS VS. BAD BO ADS.
Tie present state of our common
roadie, ought to stimulate any publio
spirit that may still exist among our
farmers, writes Samuel Sinnett Oh,
such beds of mire, or frozen masses
like loads of stones dumped on the
roadu, are the charaoter of the roads
in n< arly every vicinity.
Last winter, owing to absenoe ot
snou enough to make good sleighing,
was ii very trying one to our farmers
who had produce to haul to market
or were obliged to coma to town to
get th'eir maiL To present a realizing
estimate of what our roads are at
present, I will give your readers a
sing',e instance of one of our "lovely"
highways. I live at the termination
of cno of the finest avenues of elm
treeii I ever saw. Dr. Weed, my next
neighbor, planted them over forty
years ago, and they have grown np
and to rmed an avenue over a mile long.
Thif, Park avenne, is one of the at*
traotions of oar city, and strangers are
alwayci taken out to adnire the ap*
proaoh to oar eity that eannot be
equaled in any of the parks of Europe.
Three months ago, when the roads
were dry and dasty, this avenue was
the favorite drive for pleasare*seekers,
and the bioyo'e riders kept it warm.
Thin avenue is a fine level surface,
and the road graders had it put in nioe
shape by rounding up the middle of
the read. About a week since a large
drove ot cattle was driven down this
avenue. That day the thaw was about
six inches in depth, but that night it
froze hard, and you can imagine the
Btate of the road next day?scarcely a
single square yard that was not
punched full of holes six inohes deep;
and, incredible as it may appear, there
is an inexhaustible supply of gravel
within half a mile of this road, and
there were idle men and teams enough
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IMC winter to nave maue turue or luur
first-class roads across the country.
I am the firm advocate of gravel
roads for our prairie country, and give
the following reasons:
First?They are the cheapest, and
when the road is in good shape and
drainage secured, the top dressing can
be applied any time, even during the
winter.
Seoond?Gravel can be obtained
within easy reach of the roads,as most
counties prodnoe it, and it requires no
engineering to apply it.
Third?When depressions occur or
boles form, gravel soon forms a smooth
surface when used in repairs, and
Boon becomes incorporated with the
roadbed.
Fourth?It is always clean, as the
rain washes off the mud and the wind
blows off the dust.
Drainage is the first consideration
in all road buildings, particularly in
gravel roads.
This road question grows so important
as I write that I will have to defer
further remarks to another le'.ter;
in the meantime the farmers rJnonld
hold meetings to consider the best
"t iii' i
^ qui1
means to secure better roads, and
county conventions should be held to
determine on fntore action.?Farm,
Field and Fireside.
rOUI/TBT RAISING.
In the first place a man mast possess
a certain amount of that carefulness
so essential in this branch of business.
It is as reasonable to expect corn ?j
planted on ground that never was
plowed, and that never received any
attention until gathering time, to
yield well, as te expect to be suocess* ^
fnl raising poultry by simply turning ?
them out to care for themselves, win- w, .?
ter and summer, to procure their food
as best they can.
This may be all well enough at car- j
tain seasons of the year when insects
and green food are abundant; bnt fa
during the remainder of the year they
need the proper amount of care ana'
attention or the profitable part of the
business will come up missing when . ?
we square up our accounts at the end
of the year. Cholera, roup, and the
thousand and one ills that ohicken
flesh is heir to, will sweep -.them off
like gnats before the summer ^torm. Jj
One_wiU tell v^u th^t his success de;,
pemfs upon this very essential thing;
another will tell yon that certain other
things are the very ones npon which ' j
he depends, and that other things are g
entirely superfluous, and so the amateur
reads this one's views and that
one's views ou the matter, all differing ,
very widely, until he is like the mariner
without his compass?lost at sea. i
No fixed and unalterable lawoanbe J
laid down as a guide to suooess in the ' f
poultry business, but eaeh one must
have a little snap about him, watching ; ;SM
carefully the varied wants of each
flock. |
While a qertain kind o( fowl may
do well kept in a certain way on a certain
kind of feed, another kind will
not seem to thrive at all kept in this
way, bnt should be supplied with some* ^
thing different. For example, the
Leghorn requires fat forming food to
put them in good laying ooaditioa,
while the Cochin needs to be oarefully
fed, less they become too fat, and not ,
lay at all. *
Exercise is an all important faotor
that must not be lost sight of. If
your, fowls are confined to small runs .-Jw
so that they do not get the proper . t
amount of exercise their grain food
should be traded tinder straw and . ,,,|
chaff, causing them to hunt it oat for :<
themselves; plenty of gravel, ground :M
bone, dust baths, and fresh water, and / Ja
the last and most important of the list
is cleanliness. The ntmoet oleanlinaa .ffl
must be adopted in all thingi connected
with your fowls,' firm the % -f
roosts to the feed troughs and tho - y
coops for the young. Onoe in shape
and then striotly attended to each day
will save tenfold the amount ol! labor
required to clean np after things have f
onoe become filthy. Watoh every
point in connection with the matter
and in the end snooees will be yours.
?Farm and Bench. . j
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It costs just as much to grow, psck ^
and market poor fruit m good, and
sometimes more. . ? m -. J
A sure oure for pear tree blight?
for every one that dies set out two. A
pretty good remedy for poach yelloWa,
also.
From the fact that tobaooo stems
contain a no small per oent of niteo> . /<
gen, phosphorio acid and phosphorous^
they make an excellent plant food,
especially for garden and fruit crops.
Their prioe is but nominal. It is a
good plan to mix arid compost them
with horse manure.
It is olaimed that a pair of old birds
with a nest of young will, in -iho pro*
cess of a day's feeding, destroy nearly
1000 insects. Multiply this by the ?
great number of insectivorous birds in
our fields and forests, and we eaa get j
an approximate idea of the helpful
protection afforded our agricultural 4
interests.
A large number of orchards hart . '^
never naid. and never wilL The most
common cause is starvation, for the - Xig
average farmer who plants an orohard
or buys one goes on treating the land ' '-rJHj
as if sneh a thing did not exist He
crops the ground, in rotation or out *
of it until it is a wonder that hit ^
orchard lives at all. i -!
Why does any one advocate thai ap- / pie
orchards should be set to grass!
Why are they not cultivated and fertilized
just as orange and lemon orchards?
Farmers go to great trouble
and expense to plant apple orchards,
and willingly cultivate them until they
begin to bear, and then expect nature
to keep them producing bountifully.
Apple trees are slow in comihg into
bearing, and a crop of peach tree*
planted between the rows will live
their shorter life, hearing several 'i
crops of fruit, and be oat of the way
before the apples crowd them greatly.' JJ
The latter will protect the peach trees,
while the peaches will cheok growth f
in the apple3 and induce earlier fruit*
age.
Do not forget that to make a success
of fruit growing or anything elaet ' J
for that matter, requires that clow ^
attention be given to detail, and that
lots of intelligent, well (iiredfted labor
be expended. Trees and plants wil
not take care of themselves, and th?
man who is the best posted will be th<
one to win. To get posted and kee{
posted, read the horticultural matter;
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