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V I AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. rROFIT FROM DEES. The profit from bees depends wholly on the management. A well-worked apiary will extract more value in the honey from a field of clover than a dairy of cows will make of butter from the same clover, and the bees will leave all the hay and clover seed. A field of white clover, buckwheat, or any flowering crop will make the most income in the form of honey. So that a bee farm provided with a succession of the best honey-yielding crops would be more profitable than any other kind of agriculture.?New York Times. EXPOSING TREE ROOTS TO AIR. Few persons realize how great damage results to trees from even short exposures of their roots to air. It is this which | makes even the most careful transplanting such a check to growth. When the trees are taken up and carried on wagons, with roots sticking out into the air several hours, the finer feeding roots are so withered that even moist earth will not revive them. The tree must wait until new roots can be put forth, which is best promoted by trimming back the points of the roots just before setting them in the ground. The swelling of the buds will make a demand for new supplies of sap i from below. Some of the best protected of the old roots will revive and hasten to furnish moisture to the tree. Others with clean cuts will callous over and form roots from the callous.?Boston Cultivator. MUTTON FOK THE TABLE. The same breeding, feeding and care will produce a higher quality of mutton than of beef or pork. Both beef and pork are occasionally from diseased animals, and human beings often contract scrofula and tuberculosis by partaking of them, while this appalling feature is never attributed to mutton. Mutton agrees with the digestive organs better than the other meats and can be produced cheaper. Ten lambs can be grown in six months that will dress as much meat as a steer at two years of age. They will consume no nay or grain, simpiy pasture, dui me steer has to be pastured two seasons, fed hay two winters and grain one. The lambs consume 110 more grass than the steer does in his second summer and when sold they bring more money. In case of the lambs the money is returned in six months and the steer in two years?a large gain in interest for the lambs. The first cost of the lambs is not so much as that of the steer, for their ewe mothers produce fleeces to pay their way and the steers mother has to be raised to at least two years of age without returning anything. In comparison with the cost of pork there is not so much difference, but it is in favor of the lambs.?American Agriculturist. a chicken's growth. The mysterious development of animal life from the egg, as revealed day by day during the process of incubation, is a i most interesting study. Usually on the third day after heat is applied to a fertile egg the "germ" is visible. The eye and brain first assume form. Veins radiate from this speck. By the fourth day these vessels are marked distinctly, appearing -to emanate from the eye. The head is given shape on the fifth; the body on the sixth; the heart, liver and other internal organs developing rapidly from this time. On the ninth and tenth days the bones of the chick, and the legs with small scales upon them, are discoverable. Life ap pears on the twelfth day. iieat is evolved from the atom off a creature. The circulation of blood is noticeable. Thereafter the egg throws of a certain amount of heat and the incubator needs less artificial warmth to maintain the required 102 degrees. Up to the fifteenth day the chick's eyes has been the most prominent feature, but from that time on the growth is seemingly proportionate. To the nineteenth day the chick enlarges in its several parts, with legs, incipient feathers and beak. The following day that beak is used to batter clown the lime wall that confines the bird; and during the six or twelve hours of imprisonment the little fellow's system absorbs the yolk of the egg, which furnishes the sustenance during the first day of adventure in a heartless and conspiring world.?American Poultry Journal. SEED POTATOES. There is a great difference of opinion among farmers upon the subject of planting potatoes. Some claim that by planting a piece of potato with only a single eye in each hill they will get a much larger proportion of good-sized, marketable potatoes than by seeding more heavily. There is no question that when the object is to produce the largest possible yield from a given quantity of seed, regardless of expense, it can be accomplished by cutting the tubers so that there shall be but a single eye on each piece, and then dropping but one picce in a hill. When experimenting with new varieties that come very high this course may prove most profitable. As our correspondent is in a section of country favorable for growing potatoes on a large scale, where seed potatoes can be bought at reasonable prices, he will find heavy seeding the most profitable. Experiments in potato growing have been made at most of the agricultural colleges. The results of those at Michigan were as follows: "The yield from cuttings, one j eye to the hill, was fifty bushels; two! eyes, seventy-one; three eyes, eighty-six; j one-half potato, ninety, and whole po- ! tato, 117 bushels, showing a very large gain made by planting whole seed. "\V. J. Green, horticulturist of the Ohio Agricultural College, says on this subject: Larger yields of potatoes have invariably been obtained from planting whole than cut potatoes; but a portion, at least, of this increase has been offset by the greater cost of the seed and the larger per cent, of small potatoes in the produce."?Boston Cultivator. THE TEETII OF nOKSES. The illiterate and ignorant horse doctor is very prone to attribute every slight ailment in young horses to the presence of what are erroneously called "wolf teeth." Every man who raises horses should know, even if he does not, that a foal, when about a year old, has six temporary or front nippers, as they are termed, in the upper and lower jaws. At two years old the two centre nippers are shed, and new and permanent teeth fill their places. At three years the next two teeth, one on each side, drop out, and at four years old the permanent corner teeth appear, and usually the tushes, but sometimes the t '' " . v A/Vviii >; ><v7-v,n-:v-' r r / ? ; latter do not come in until the animal is five years old. As these first or temporary nippers become worn and are crowded upward by the growth of the permanent teeth they often turn quite black long before they drop out. It is these milk or first teeth that give the country horse doctor bo much trouble, but it is rare that they seriously trouble the animal in whose jaws they have grown. In some instances, however, there is considerable irritation and fever attending the cutting of the teeth in animals. Horses sometimes suffer from what is called detention fever, especially in the n-Vion tVioT-onf-. four front teeth I tilliU > VXti. y nuvu vuv and eiglit back ones, also in the fourth year, when the same number is cut, with the addition of four tushes. If the gums are red and highly inflamed they should be washed with tincture of myrrh, and if there is much swelling slight lancing will usually give immediate relief. Soft food at such times should also be given, as it is more readily masticated. If one of the temporary teeth should become loose and interfere with mastication, it may be drawn out or cut loose from the gums, but there should be no "knocking out" with file and hammer, as is far too often practiced with country . horse doctors. Wild horses appear to get along very well without any assistance from man at teething time, and those under domestication rarely require any assistance in getting rid of their temporary teeth. The teeth of old horses do occasionally require a little filing if worn uneven with hard and coarse food, but rarely otherwise.?New York Sun. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Never keep food before the hens continually. The secret of feeding is to avoid getting your laying hens fat. Always keep your hens at work. An idle hen is never a good layer. Do not compel a few good hens to sup port the others. Kill tne drones. Never mix wood ashes with manure of any Hind, but apply it to the land separate and alone. To throw a tree into the ground and in any sort of a location, is not the way to plant a tree. If you have not planted that bit of sweet corn yet, you need not wait any longer. Put it in. You can't produce eggs and lice at the same time?the one business is entirely separate from the other. Grain is deficient in lime and mineral matter, but bran is rich in nitrogen, carbon and mineral matter. Young trees should be cultivated during the early part of the season very much the same as a corn crop. Feed boxes should not be kept full of feed. If they are, the hens will have no inducement to work and scratch. The machine for converting food into eggs must be of the best to be had. Anything and everything will not do. If your fruit crates are getting old and looking dirty and rusty, paint them with some bright colored paint at once. Beans and peas, cooked, and thickened with bran, and fed twice a week, is an excellent food for laying hens. Do not waste time trying to cure eggbound hens, or persistent cases of roup. The labor -will be worth more than the hen. Don't pile manure up around the bodies of your old fruit trees, but scatter it over the surface as far out as limbs extend. Be careful in setting strawberry plants not to plant the roots in a bunch, but spread them out fan shaped and all will grow. The more wrinkled the pea seed the better the quality, but the kinds that are of the wrinkled varieties are not usually the earliest. : Poor, light, sandy soil will produce the earliest fruit, and old strawberry beds will ripen the same kind earlier than young beds. A mold from the leaves and small twigs of maples mixed with one-sixth its bulk of sand makes the best soil for potting Hippeaster. If you have a first class seedling of a peach, pear or apple, sow pits or seeds from it, and as a rule you will get fruit the same or similar. Whitewash the fruit trees, getting it well in the crotches with lime. "Whitewash the limbs as far up as it can be done, as well as the bodies. Plow among the raspberries at once, throwing furrows up to them, and then run through with the cultivators up to nearly time of ripening fruit. A grape vine, no matter how large or old, may be cut down almost to tne ground. Fresh growth will be made from eyes that were dormant. It is said that rags saturated with kerosene and fastened into a split stick that has been driven into the squash, mellon and cucumber hills will keep bugs off. Condition powders cannot assist a hen to get something out of nothing. If the albumen is not in a large amount of food it will not be found in a teaspoonful of condition powder. Perfnines From Roses. In Eastern Roumelia, formerly a part of Turkey, but now joined to the new principality of Bulgaria, a very attractive business is carried on?the cultivation of roses to be manufactured into perfume known as attar of roses. The valleys lying around the famous Shipka Pass, through which the Russian troops marchcd into Turkey in 1877, are covered with fields of cultivated roses. The name Shipka itself means wild rose. It has long been supposed that a peculiar variety of white rose grew here, and yielded the delicious perfume. But specimens sent to French gardeners for identification prove to be the familiar white rose of European and American j gardens. The making of perfumes from roses has, moreover, long since ceased to be a monopoly of the far East. It is carried on to a considerable extent in this country, and notably in Florida and Georgia. Romance of Invention. Some of the pioneers in electrical application have reaped golden harvests. Professor A. G. Bell was at one timo walking about Washington anxious to sell telephone stock for ten cents on the dollar. Before that he was teaching a deaf and dumb school in Boston. The telephone brought him fame and riches, and he has now an income of hundreds of dollars a day,and a fortune of $6,000,000. C. F. Brush is said to have been working at $15 a week before he struck the electric light which made him a millionaire. I A TINY KINGDOM WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN A VISIT TO THE ISLE OF MAN. A Diversity of Beautiful Scenery in a Very Small Space?Relic of an Ancient Scandinavian Custom. i? It is snid that there is no other spot in the world where such diversity of scenery has been compressed into a small space as the Isle of man. It is a Liliputian kingdom from its miniature constitution to its tiny rivers and waterfalls; from its pigmy mountains to its little valleys. Everything is abridged and petit, writes Marion Taylor in the San Francisco Call. Manxland lies midway between the ports of Belfast and Liverpool, its rocky coast continually washed by restless waves of the Irish Sea. Douglas, the principal town and 15011:. was simply a fishing village not very many years ago, but cow it can boast of London shops, fine hotels and boardinghouses, and in the season there is such a mighty influx of visitors that many have to seek shelter in the bathing-machines for lack of better accommodation. Its beautiful bay is guarded at one extremity by Onchau Head and at the other by that majestic promontory, Douglas Head, the view from which is unsurpassed; while between the two on an islet of rock is Wordsworth's wave-washed tower of refuge. Douglas owns some beautiful walks, notably one through the woods to the nunnery grounds, and another to Kirk Braddan, where lie both Druid and Scandinavian in the graveyard consecrated by the associations of 1000 years. At Castleton, in the south of the island, is the House of Keys, where the Manx Parliament is held; it boasts also Castle Rushen, which dates from the twelfth century,and which was the prison of the heroic Countess of Derby, who, as Sir Walter Scott tells us, was detained there after the island had succumbed to Cromwell until the restoration. At the present time the castle is used as the Manx House of Detention. Port Erin is a sweet spot, and from it may be obtained a fine view of that mountain-like rock, Bradda Head. A sail round the Calf of 3Ian insures for the tourist sublime scenery, for it is there nature assumes her wildest mood. The cliffs rise to giddy heights and wear all manner of weird 1 rm? P4?1? 4.1,? C,, ,. T.onf SOapCS. Ilie outers, luc uu^ai u.u> Rocks and the Thousla Rock, each stand out as a picture of superb coast scenery. Spanish Head, a stupendous cliff on the mainland, with hidden rocks, sharp as knives, stretching out under the sea, is so ; named from having been destructive to Jthe -warships of the Invincible Armada in !1588. i Ramsey, the second town of importjance on the island, has many attractions, 'among others its proximity to the beautiful Sulby Glen, and many prefer it to Douglas on account of its quieter aspect. Laxey, a few miles distant from Ramsey, is noted for the largest water-wheel in the world, used for draining the lead mines of that locality, and standing as it does, a miracle of mechanism, amid the most romantic and beautiful mountain scenery, Snaefell overtopping all; it lives long in the memory. Then, how many lovely glens there are, with their wooded banks and fairy waterfalls?Glen Helen, with the music of Rhenass ravishing the eye and ear, and Dhon Glen, with its rushing waters making melody everywhere. Surely it is the land of poetry. A glance at the Isle of Man would be incomplete without a few words on the subject of what is called by the Manx people Tynwald Day, which means a festival attended by the population of the entire island. It is held on the 5th of July every year, and is the lingering relic of a Scandinavian custom, elsewhere obsolete for a great number of years. The main purpose of the gathering is to hear the public promulgation of the laws of the island from the lips of the governor-general, on Tynwald Mount, a mount hemu\ed in with hills in the hamlet of St. John, an out-of-the-way spot situate between Doucrlass and Peel. It is a quaint ceremony, in which those laws that have passed through the House of Keys during the past year and have received the imperial consent are declared to tho people. The law-giver reads the statutes first in the English language and then in the native tongue of Mona, a dreadful dialect, which is still spoken there to a considerable extent. Outside the Mount there are all the characteristics of a country fair, for the rest of the day is devoted to fun and pleasantry --the < Manx peasantry evidently agreeing with the old proverb which tells us "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and there, mingling feeling freely together, are seen the Peel fishermen, the farmers from the interior, the pretty Manx girls, attired in gaudy colors, the swarthy miners from Laxey, soldiers in their gay uniform, belonging to the detachment sent thither for the day from the military headquarters; and last, but not the least, the good-humored tourists, full of delight and enjoyment. And thus we leave this happy people, content with their own beautiful island, their humble lives and primitive ways. lYhale's Milk for Consumptives. "TVhaloid, Infallible Cure for Consumption. Dispensing hours, 8 to 10 a. m. ; 3 to 5 p. m." On turning down Oxford street my attention was attracted to this huge sign on the opposite side of the street, and also by the number of people flocking into the building. Entering the building, I was at a loss what to make of the matter, as all I could see was the crowd and a large tank in the centre of the room. This tank -was some seventy feet long, thirty feet wide and as I learned offorroarrl nViAiit. t.liirHr fpp.t. flppn h/ivinnr ??v. , " ?? j I-J a been constructed at a great expense. While waiting patiently for deve.opments I found that the liquid was being lowered or let out by some means. Soon a smooth black surface appeared to view, and as the water continued to recede I became aware that a captive whale was on exhibition. Surprised at not having to pay any ad nission fee, I was soon made aware of the reason. A framework had been constructed on which the animal rested, and soon an expert milkman was engaged in extracting for the consumptives whaloid (or whale's milk), which was greedily absorbed at five shillings per glass.? London Druggists' Bulletin. Flowers 2000 Years Old Well Preserved. P. E. Newberry, of London, has exhibited and explained a case of flowers, wreaths of narcissus, roses and amaranths predominating, which had been taken from an ancient Egyptian ceme- J tery. Though 2009 years old they were in an admirable state of preservation. ) Into the ''Black Lands" of Russia. The road stretches over silent and empty plains, where the horizon retreat incessantly before the eyes, without changing in aspect, like the waves in the open sea. It is indeed a sea?a sea of wheat with its golden ears undulating as far as the eye can see. Nothing in our thickly populated country districts can give an idea of the profound stillness of the Russian steppes. At long intervals you come across a peasant seated in his telegue, or astride of his droghi?a primitive cart made of a beam placed on two axles. A few versts further north we leave the last village of Greater Russia, with its black and low cottages built of pine trunks and wattling. As the traveler advances into Ukrania, the houses of Little Russia assume a more comfortable air, with their whitewashed walls. The I l-dpnor nf tVio inn wliprc wp stork was for- I merlyaserfof La Generate; liberated before the emancipation, he has made a small fortune. Now his two sons are beginning to learn Latin, with a view to obtaining diplomas at the gymnasium of Kiev. At. the door one of these boys, in long black coat, black boots and cap, is playing on an accordion. The other is absorbed in a volume of the poems of Nekrassof. The carriages plunge once more into the corn fields or into the shade of a birch wood. This latter is rarely met with in the "black lands," which are almost entirely cleared and cultivated. Furthur on to the north you often travel for a whole day through an ancient forest, in which are stagnant marshes covered with dazzling flowers?with roses, anemones, orchids, floating islands of orris and of water-lilies. At last we arrive in front of the mill which turns on the river. The Jew farmer salutes and bows to the ground. The peasants that we meet on the road, with their familiar faces, greet La Generate with a respectful "Goodday, little mother." On the hill a flag floating from the top of the turret marks the house of the seigneur; a few more steps and the horses rush at full gallop into a' large courtyard surrounded with buildings and dependencies. Fifty or sixty persons, men, women and children, are drawn up on the steps awaiting the arrival of their mistress. These are the families of the "court," for the seigneur has his court just like the Tsar. These families, employed in his immediate service, and living on his liberality, constitute the aristocracy of the village. Serfdom has disappeared, it is true, but its manners and the obligations it has left still survive. All these people pav their tribute of grati tude by kissing the hands of the benefactress as she gets out of her carriage.? Harper's Magazine. Battle With a Boa Constrictor. One of the most perilous battles between a "woman and a large boa constrictor occurred at Grand View recently, says the Kansas City Traveler. About 7 o'clock, as Mrs. H. N. Strait,the handsome and accomplished young wife of H. N. Strait, of the Wyandotte Plumbing Company, descended into the cellar of their residence on Sixteenth street, Grand View, she was startled by a loud hiss and two fiery red eyes looking at her. Returning with a lamp, the lady discovered a large snake coiled around a piece of wood. Taking a coal shovol in her hand, Mrs. Strait prepared to do battle with the monster. The first blow seemed to infuriate the reptile, and, with a loud hiss, it sprang at the now thoroughly alarmed but brave woman. A blow from the shovel knocked the thrust aside, and with the rapidity of lightning the snake again prepared to strike. Five consecutive times did the huge monster retreat, and then plunge through the dimly lighted air at the woman who was so nobly defending herself. At last a well-directed stroke knocked the reptile to the floor and seemed ! to stun it for a moment. The glistening eyes had become two fascinating balls of flame, and the great fangs worked with awful velocity. Following up the blow, Mrs. Strait succeeded in killing the boa, and with fast-failing strength she reached the floor above, where help soon reached her. Mr. Strait is in Wyoming Territory, where he is largely interested in a newly discovered mica mine, and his wife was alone with the servants. A party of neighbors were summoned and the snake carried into the woodshed. It proved to be a boa constrictor and measured eleven feet and eight inches from the head to the tip of the tail. It is supposed to have escaped from some menagerie. Gold Plating the Hnman Body. There is a St. l^ouis gentleman engaged in the silver and gold electroplating business, who has for five years been engaged in a private laboratory upon a series of remarkable experiments, the object of which is to supplant the present art of embalming the dead by silver or gold plating the human body. The electroplating process would, of course, present a hermetic surface, and the body if prepared as now for embalming and then put through a silver or gold bath would keep forever. An egg electroplated seven years ago, when recently opened was found to be as fresh as the day when it was laid. The experimenter had progressed a long way when he succeeded in plating a chunk of cheese, and later on he succeeded in preparing successfully the human leg. His experiments are conducted with great secrecy. It is probable I .v - a ,l_ | mat u reany ucuuuim way ui jutou the bodies of the dead has been discovered. The advantages of silver-plated ancestors mounted on pedestals as statuary are at once apparent.?Star-Sayings. The Rome of America. St. Louis is called by the Catholic clergy of this country the Rome of America. Baltimore is the oldest stronghold of the Catholic faith in the United States, but with the shifting westward of the center of population she lost her position. It is the large number of church structures, the convents, asylums and academies, the vast area of valuable and centrally located property, the large attendance at the churchcs and the numbei and sacrcdness of the possessions of the various parishes that have combined to t give St. Louis the pseudonym mentioned. ?St. Louis Star-Sayings. In 1885 the beet-sugar product of France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Holland, and Russia amounted to 2,546,000 tons; and in the same year the entire cane-sugar production of the world was only 2,260,000 tons. In this country there are crematories for the incineration of the dead at Washington, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; New York, Buffalo, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati. !, Feod for Reflection. The New York World of February 9tb says: "The question as to how much of what they pretend to know doctors really know is a very interesting one. "They possess exceptionally great facilities for humbugging, ana the presumption is that thev are not proof in most cases, at all times at least, against temptation to make use of them. Their profession comes as near being an esoteric one as any that is acknowledged to be resp<?ctable. But the revelation as to their views in the Robinson arsenical poisoning cases in Boston is startling. "There were five deaths from the drug, and the doctors in their certificates attributed them respectively to pneumonia, typhoid fever, menigitis, bowel disease and Bnght's disease of the kidneys. The truth would nave never been known but for suspicions with which the doctors had nothing to do. There is food here for reflection?ana for doctors." The above criticism is fully warranted bv the start! ing ignorance shown by the attending physicians in the Somerville cases. It can be aptly said that human life is too often sacrificed to the ignorance and bigotry of the profession. Too often it happens that fatal results follow an improper course of treatment?the physician treats the patient for consumption, general debility or for nervous disorders, whilst the real disease, which is slowly destroying the kidneys and filling the system with a poison quite as deadly as arsenic, is altogether overlooked or does not attract attention until too late. Physicians too often treat the symptoms of disease instead of the disease itself. It is well established that four-fifths of the ordinary ills which beset humanity are the results of disease in the kidneys which will Sield to the curative properties of Warner's afe Cure if timely used, and to it alone. What is apparantly a disease in the other organs is more oftentimes a mere symptom of kidney disease, which should be quickly eradicated by Warner's Safe Cure before it secures too firm a hold on those organs. Country and City Lnngs. A few days ago a New York specialist in pathology showed the writer two bottles. One contained a section of a healthy lung of a man who had lived in the country, and the other the lung of a man who had lived and died in New York. The country lung showed a clear pink color; the city lung was almost black, and it was impossible to trace tt.e veins through the smut and dirt. Thu experiment proved, of course, that the air in New York is so impregnated with dust and dirt that the lungs become in as much need of a bath as if they were laid in a bed of charcoal.?Hartford Courant. There is a great deal of typhoid fever in the City of Mexico. What is sweeter than roses That bloom in the beauty of June? Or the stately and fragrant lilies Whose bells ring a summer tune? Ah, sweeter the roses blowing On the cheeks of those we love, And the lily of health that's glowing The cheeks' red rose above. But how soon the lily and the rose wither in the faces of our American women. Why is it? Simply because so many of them are victims of weaknesses, irregularities and functional derangements incidental to the sex. If they would use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription all these beauty and health-destroying ailments might be warded off, and we would hear less about women "growing old before their time." Brazil sends tis sixty-nine per cent, of the total amount of coffee imported, and the cost per pound is six-tenths of "a cent cheaper than any other. To regulate the stomach, liver and bowels, Dr. Pierce's Pellets excel. One a dose. It is estimated that the annual money value of the fruit consumed in Great Britain is $50,000.000, of which about $16,000,000 worth is imported. 100 Ladies Wanted, And 100 men to call daily on any druggist for a free trial package o? Lane's Family Medicine, the great root and herb remedy, discovered by Dr. Silas Lano while in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys it is a positive cure. For constipation and clearing up the complexion it does wonders. Children like it. Everyone praises it. Large-size package, 50 cents. At all druggists'. Three captive English millionaires in East Africa have been released on payment of 1000 pounds ransom. 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