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SEND POTATOES TO MARKET iCrop Should Bo Graded and Packed In Barrels as Soon as Possible After Dug. Potatoes, although one of the most important of our truck crops, are usually badly handled by the average grower. Instead of being sent to market In bulk by tho wagon load, potatoes should be graded and packed In barroSs. The packing should bo done as soon as poslble after they are dug, for If exposed too much to tho sun they will become soft and the skin will turn green. > If In o voxu ~ ?-1 .V *- &V7\iV4 I'UUI IU ttliu pack potatoes in the field as they ato lifted, although when very large crops are grown and it is desirable to grade them more carefully, this can ho done better by first sending them to the .packing shed, where they can be run Ihrough graders and the work done more rapidly. It is just as important tto grade potatoes as fruit or any other vegetables. Early potatoes should be shipped in barrels with holes cut in them for ^ventilation, and covered with burlap. Poorly Packed Potatoes. fThe barrels should bo frequently shaken while being packed, !n order ?o settle the contents firmly, because jbolng heavy, otherwise they will be cure to arrive at market, after longdistance hauling, in very bad condi itlon. SOIL SICKNESS IN GARDENS 11 I hrrsI ft i C-?-UIf I i "? : jv'a" ? iboiiijt uiuuiivi or^Slin b/c^hie Will Prove an > . Excellent Tonic. ' fcl ? /(By w. n. QJLiBICRT.) Comylalnts are common from coiniparatlvely small and constantly cropped gardens anent the poorness of tho (produce. Even such a thing as a cabfbage Is so fainthearted as to run Uiway on lanky legs as no well-behaved cabbage should. All this Is very annoying to those [Who inko Inflnltft nnlna u/Uh tlwili* cm * _ ;dens and go to some expense In gotjting reliable seeds. All this may >oceur, and does occur, whero ample manure of the barnyard Is applied ito keep the soil in fertile condition. It is in fact a kind of soil sickness fwhich ordinary manure cannot overcome, but actually aggravates. ! One sees far less of this in largo (gardens for the simple reason that the [larger area gives a much wider rango ?nd rotation of cropping, yet oven hero comparisons may often be drawn between the produce of tho largo areas (find vegetables under field cultivation ito tho distinct advantage of the latter. ' There Is fortunately an antidote, for |freshly ground or freshly slaked lime lis an antidote for this. In liberal (dressings it will prove a quick and Hasting tonic to tho sick soil, and not (only should this bo administered when .eprlng opens, but as far as possible {dressed through crops of cabbage and (flimilar things during a dry day and lllghtly hood In. When lime can bo readily obtained Hn tho best condition thero is really no jexcuse for the bad state of things depleted, and even If an extra price has jto bo paid It is still tho cheapest be iiiu winy auii?ijujtory tiling ior i the purpose, and whatever may bo spent In ordinary manure, if expended on time for several seasons would iwork wonders. K PROTECTING THE HAY STACK Ili?nt MethnH Ir fihn\A/n h\/ panying Illustration?Is Quito Inexpensive. A little wire fenco, as shown In the 'Illustration will save Its cost GO tlinos i Saving Hay Stack. every Reason and allow stock to run jln lncloHiiro wlu-re hay or other grain Is (stacked. Use strong wire fence netting nnd fasten to posts of 2 by 4 |and put these securely In tho ground. ! | When not In nso the fence can be rolled I ,up and put away. BLANCHING BY DRAIN TILES Most Important Part of Producing Good Celery Is to Have Plants Firm and Tender. Blanching Is a very Important part of producing good celery; because, un >?ca mo |nunm tuu wiiue, iirm ana tender, they aro not only unpalatable for the farmer's family, but are, of course, unsalable. Excluding the light induces a solid growth in the heart of the plant and this growth is very rapid. It also turns a plant from green to pure white. Some growers blanch their celery by placing over the plants a section of jj| Blanching by Drain Tiles. drain tile and covering up the top with a coarse cloth or litter. 1'ersons contemplating growing celery for the mnrket should not attempt to do so until they have visited one of uiu mi?u tjuin iii?ji ciiii ueu'ry f^aruuiis and learned from observation exactly how the work of seeding, transplanting, cultivating and marketing is done. Hut the farmer who simply desires to grow enough celery for his family use, may, if he follows instructions, grow good crops, always providing that his soil is very rich and well drained. LIUHININU MUDS AKE UHEAP It Is Mistaken Idea to Think That They Do Not Protect Buildings ?Wire Fence Danger. It Is a mistake to believe that lightning rod.s do not protect buildings. They do when properly put up and no farmer can afford to go without them unless lie chooses to carry mo w?u uibuiniitT. in any cubu mo coat of lightning rods is so small compared to the protection they give that it is doubtful whether it is good policy to take any risks without them. Of course wo cannot put lightning rods on hay and grain stacks hut wo can pyrfjplhn hay and grain in our barns and protect the buildings with lightning rods. Speaking of lightning, all danger of death to farm animals coming in contact with fence wires heavily charged may be avoided by attaching a wire to the strands of the fence for two or three hundred feet, running one end of it into the ground about four feet deep. This will afford an outlet for the electricity and render the wire fences as safe as any other. Shelling Beans. After beans reach the stage for shelling they mature quickly. Keep a sharp lookout that some aro not wasted before you aro aware. The little field beans are especially prone to scatter their seeds as soon as the pods become dry. 1/Ot posterity help pay for the roads. The log drag Is the best dirt road maker. For successful rotation clover should be one of the crops. Careful breeding Is the foundation of the best results in bee keeping. *On the farm, the best time to do a thiriR is just before it is needed. Letting weeds go to seed means that you are laying up trouble for next year. If dry weather sets in do not neglect to stir the boII and mulch. This is important. Curing honey simply means a proper evaporation of tho water it contains. Adjust the knives of the lawn mower to cut within two inches of the roots of the grass. Although tho watermelon is a succulent fruit, wet Is more damaging to it than drought. Half tho plants which refuse to grow for amateurs am starved to death or killed by kindness. Manure will not waste as much fertility in the field as it will in tho average farm barnyard. Cabbage and all other plants of tho cabbago family require a very fertilo and cool, moist soil for good growth. v. arrois aru hini-inim ior ioikh WHO need iron In their blood. One of tho best ways to pet it Is to eat these nlco roots. Sunshine, rainfall and temperature are threo Important factors In cantaloupe culture beyond tho control of tho grower. If your beet rows aro too thick, pull out Homo find boll thom for greens. Nothing hotter In the world for this purpose. N'evor save beans for seed from rusty or diseased pods, and do not sell them for seed. This same rule applies to some other seeds. After the ground Is plowed for wheat It Is a good time to haul out and scatter all of the manure that It Is possible to gather up. Many growers <10 not attempt to control the melon aphis, but leave It to its natural enemies, of which tho lady | boetleB are the most important. A PHYSICAL WRECK. | Health Marvelously Restored by Doan't Kidney Pills. William T Thnmno 911 St., Dullois, I'a., says: "A physician Informed mo I had Bright's disease and I was laid up for threo months. I had J terrible backaches and tlio passages of the kidney secretions I nearly klled me. 1 was ( nervous, had night sweats and could not )jQj sleep. In fact, I was ^kJg)W Don n'a' ? Kidney" Plils gave me prompt relief. Continued use cured mo." Remember tho name?Donn's. For salo by itll dealers. 50 cents a box. Fostor-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. I PROMISED A LIVELY TIME Mark Twain's Outline of Editorial Policy He Had Made Up Hia Mind to Adopt. Mark Twain took tho editorial chair on tho Buffalo Express In August, lKfiO nnrl tllla {a nnrocrrnnh 4 r* which ho niado tho renders acquainted with his now responsibility: "I only wish to assure parties having a friend ly Interest In tho prosperity of this , journal that I am not going to hurt tho paper deliberatoly nnd intention- j ally at any tinio. I am not going to introduce any startling reform or in j any wny attempt to make trouble. I ; am simply going to do my plain, un juvLt*iiuiiij^ uuiy?wnnn 1 cannot gel out of It. I shall work diligently nnd i honestly and faithfully at all times 1 and upon all occasions?when priva tlon ni\d want shall compel me to do i so. In writing I shall confine myself to tho truth, except when it is attended with Inconvenience. 1 shall wltlierlngly robuko all forms of crime and inmconauci, except when committed by the party inhabiting my own vest. I shall not make use of slang or vul-_ garity upon any occasion or in any circumstances and shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, 1 will not even then, for it is inelegant, un-Chrlstian and degrading. 1 shall not often meddle with politics, becauso we have a political editor who Is already excellent and only needs a term in the penitentiary to bo perfect. I shall not write anv noetrv inildsn t conceive a spite against the subscribers." Unfair. Senator John H. Bankhoad, discussing a political move, said with a smile: "Oh, it's too coldly calculated. It's almost unfair. In fact, it's liko Mrs Blank. "Mrs. Blank is a lender of Bar Harbor society. Her husband said to her, one afternoon, as she made a very elaborate toilet for a Harden party that she was giving to some members of the British legation: " 'Why did you write to all our guests that this party was to be absolutely Informal ?' "Mrs. Blank laughed. " 'So as to he the hest-dresaed woman present, of course,' she said." "Tho Wish Is Father to the Thought." Dr. Robert L. Waggoner, tho president of Baldwin unlversltv ?nlrf in the course of an address on pedagogy at Herea, O.: "And one of the most remarkable changes In the last SO years of teaching Is the abolition of corporal punishment. A hoy of this generation is never whipped. Hut a boy, of the last generation?well!" Doctor Waggoner smiled. "The boyB of the Inst generation," he Raid, "must have believed that their Instructors all had for motto: " 'The swish Is father to the taught.' " Worth Remembering. "One of the delegates to the convention of the Negro Business Men's league In New York was worth $1,000,000." "Here's a pointer for the colored brother." "Let's have II." "That <lolegato didn't niako his money shooting craps." A Fallen Idol. "What makes you^so sure the Amer- j Iran public Is fickle?" "The reception a plnyer who used to bo oti the home team K?'ts when lie j ciiinoa visiting." TO I> 1C C\ i; OI'T MAI,A IlIA AN!) Ill II.I) IT Till: SYSTEM Tnkn tin- Old Muiiilar.l iiiloVhM TA.i'l Kl.ltti* i ( nil,I. IVN'IC You know whul von nr?> i,iktn?. Tlio lormnliv W |> lit In) t nrlntixl oil out y IioIIIk, U.oirti.u II 18 sinmly Onimiix mul Iron in u tnsloIom form. The t'ulniim Urivos out Mm uinliiria and lno Iron bullit* up t hit hjtMpiii fcoltl by ull ooulors for 14) >rark. I'rlco 00 coiiIh. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love and desire lo keep in. and in<t 1<f? no effort to escape from. Cleorge Kllot. We reduce llfo to the pettiness m our dally living; we should exact om Ihing to <he grandeur of life. Phillips Krooks. _ Faith Is not a blind, Irrational i*set, but an Intelligent reception of the j truth on adequate grounds. Charles ITodge. Booauso of thos< NOT THE TIME FOR THAT Scotsmen Objected to Mixture of Good Whisky and Religious Conversation. Owen Seaman, editor of Punch, was uie principal guest at a dinner of the London Authors' club recently, which waa followed by a discussion on "Humor." Mr. Seaman began with a story deprecating the spoiling of good dinners by any discussion at all. There were three characters in tho atory?a bluebottle and two Scotsmen. The story at once struck a note of probability by showing the Scotsmen drinking whisky. The bluebottle buzzed on tho pane; otherwise silence reigned. This was broken by ono of the 1 Scotsrnon trying to locate the blue- ] bottlo with zoological exactitude. Said the Scotsman: "Sandy, I'm thinking if yon fly 1b a birdie or a beastie." The other replied: "Man, don't spoil gooc' whisky with religious conversation." TINY BABY'S PITIFUL CASE "Our baby when tvo months old teas suffering with terrible eczema from head to foot, all over her body. The baby looked just like a skinned rabbit. Wo were unable to put clothes on her. At first it seemed to bo a fow mattered pimples. They would break the skin and peel off leaving tho underneath skin red as though it were scalds. Then a few more pimples would appear and spread all over the body, leaving tho babv all raw without Kkln from head to foot. On top of her head thero appeared a heavy scab a quarter of an inch thick. It was awful to seo bo email a baby look as she did. Imagine! Tho doctor was afraid to put his hands to tho child. We tried several doctors' remedies but all failed. "Then wo decided to try Cirtieura. Py using tho Cuticura Ointment wo softened tho scab and it came off. Under this, where tho real matter was. i by washing with the Cutlcura Soap and applying tho Cutlcura Ointment, a new skin soon appeared. Wo also j gave baby four drops of tho Cutlcura Resolvent three times dally. After three days yuu could see tho baby gaining a little skin which would peel off and heal underneath. Now the baby Is four months old. Sho Is a flno picture of a fat little baby and all is well. Wo only used one cake of Cutlcura Soap, two boxes of Cutlcura Ointment and one bottle of Cutlcura Resolvent. If people would know what Cutlcura Is there would be few suffer ..jf, mui * v_tcuiii. niia. josppn ivossmann. 7 St. John's I'laco, Rldgewood Heights, N. Y., Apr. 30 and May 4, '09." INDEED, THEY DO. "I always try to be a gentleman." "Some peoplo have pretty hard trials, don't tboy?" i Outlining Treatment. "I want you to tako caro of my practise while I ain away." "But, doctor, I have Just graduated. Have hud little experience." "You don't need it with my fashion nhlo patients. Find out what they have been eating and stop it. Find out where they have been summering and send 'em somewhere else." Few Marriages In London. The marriages Iri London last year represent the lowest percentage of which there is any record. . . I Generosity does not consist In piv iiik money or iikhu'.v'h worth. We owe to man higher succours than food and fire. We owe to man, man. Emerson. , For IIRADACHK-lllcka* ('AI'I I)IM: Whellicr from {'olds, Ileal, Htomneh or NVrviiiiH Troubles, Oapiidlne will relievo yon. It's ll<|iii<l pleasant to take nets Immediately. Try It. 10o., 21>e., and ?0 cents at driiff HtoreH. The gentleman exists to help; In* has no other vocation. T. T. Mnnger. PUTNAM Color more oaodi brighter and faster colors then a You cen dye any oirment without rioolni apart. Write I Your truly gr< at are notoriously not happy.- J. ('. Snalth. Mrn. WlnfrfM's Soothing ft j-nip for Children (retlilnK. soften* tlic kuiiih, reduce# Innnmina'Ion. Allays pain, ohim-h wind colli-, 2C>o n hottlo. I would say to all: Uso your gent l<*st voice at home.?Elihu Hurrltt. o ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Uso "LA SURE. The Maiden?Dolls are mado for girls to play with. The Bachelor?And a good many | men marry them. English In London. Senator Do pew, on the deck of the l.usitania, talked about "English as she is spoken in London." It is very difficult to understand Uiut London Rhiglteh," ho said. "1 know a man who had lodgings all July in Itloomsbury, near tho British museum. "On his return from tho museum one afternoon, mj? fr'.end said to his landlady: * mii i nave a cup en ion, 11 you i) loose'." " 'Certainly, sir; at once," the landlady replied. 'Tho kettle 'as been bi'lln' for 'ours.' " 'But?er I prefer freshly boiled water, if you don't mind," stammered my friend. "Tho landlady reddened with anger. " 'Look 'ere,' she said, 'if 1 'ad meant wot you mean I'd 'ave said h ours.' " Vermont Thrift. Robert Lincoln O'Tirien, editor of tho Boston Transcript, is a great admirer of tho thrift of th? Vermont ers. but thinks sometimes they carry it too far. O'TV. ien whs up in Vermont last summer and went to dinner with a friend who had some political aspirations. 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