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h n AGEiCULTUKAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE IT TO FARM AND GARDEN. DOUBLE WALLS FOR BEE HTVES. "With proper protection bees will winter out of doors better than in the cellar. This is given by making the walls of their hives double. This keeps the bees at a nearly uniform temperature, whatever the weather may be outside. In a 5uu9hiny winter's day the bees are not tempted to fly, as they are when kept in hives that have only one thickness of wood. The old-fashioned straw hives were not bad ones for wintering bees. The moisture from the inside worked oil through the straw, and the bees were not prematurely started into activity. FOKETnOCGHT OK GOOD SEED. By planting poor seed farmers waste millions of dollars each year. The season of 1890 will be remarkable for this loss. Wet weather hindered ripening and successful harvesting of garden seeds. Severe cold, the earliest ever known, over a large area of the United States, found considerable of the corn crop in the 6elds in a damp condition, which doubtless injured the germ and rendered it worthless for planting. Potatoes, to a threat extent, were blighted, causing the vines to decay before skin had set on the tubers. Bad as such will be for seed, many farmers will make a bad matter worse by planting small potatoes that J were set but a few days ere blight ?rtruck the vines. Such seed will not produce three-fourths as much as fully ripened tubers.?Hew York Tribune. ^ ECONOMIZE IN FEEDING. K Many a farmer defrauds himself and wastes his substance by lack of discrimination in feeding his stock at this season. Some one has pertinently said that the average farmer cleaves to the ideas of his ' ancestors and feeds out his winter supply alike to his mixed herd, equally surprised if this one gains or that one loses. He does not feed grain "because he cannot afford it," and he will not raise it becausc he can buy it cheaper. His animals are simply machines for converting ;rops into fertilizers. Instead of keeping a few at a profit he keeps many at a loss. But whatever our calling in life, we should always be ready to lift a hand igaint this ruinous practice. With the means at our command, better things are expected of us than simply to follow the footsteps of our fathers. Economy in feeding is the great study of to-day, and if we do not contribute of our individual support in its solution, reproach will ^ fall upon our own heads and it will be deserved.?N<tic York Witnew. HOOT PRUNING. Different methods are sometimes adopted by orchardists and others to induce greater fruitfulness in shy bearing trees. Not infrequently trees are slow in coming into bearing and expend their for res, in luxuriant leaf and branch growth, rather than iu fruit. Boot j pruning acts like magic sometimes in [ bringing barren trees into a bearing state, especially when unfruitfulness is brought about by undue luxuriance. "When trees are making very stroug shoots they are B found on examination to be making roots ^'Nji^roportion, and so long as this goes on fruit prospects are very much jeopardized. It is the small fibrous roots which command the formation of fruit spurs, and in some soils there is difficulty in I maintaining a fruitful condition. In ; gardens where the surface is light and open, with a clayey subsoil, there is a tendency for the roots to go deep in search of moisture, especially if the aspect is at all open and windy. On such joils mulching is of considerable value so long as it creates and maintains moisture. By depriving a tree of a certain portion of its roots, its too rapid growth is shecked and the young branches and buds assume a more fruitful character. That excessive root pruning will injure a tree is shown by the fact that when a young tree in its early bearing season is taken up ana removea to auotner piace | it almost invariably receives a shock I from which it never fully recovers. From ! this we may learn that there is a natural balance to be observed that may not be too severely interfered with, either by root or branch pruning.?Vick?8 Magazine. UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER. How often one sees teams unmatched In size?one small, ill-fitted for heavy service, the other strong enough to haul his part of 5000 pounds on any ordinary i road, and each horse drawing an equal share of the load. If the driver is asked i why he does not give each horse an equal | share of the draft according to his weight, be may perhaps answer that the little horse is fed just as big a ration as the large one, and he must take his chance. Perhaps the small horse is getting at least one-fourth more grain than his stomach will digest, and would be far better off with less grain; while probably the ration too large for the small horse is not sufficient for the large horse. Thus wemay find teams driven for years at service which would be easily performed by the larger horse alone, if judiciously fed, while the small horse, whose lot would be hard euough under any circumstances, is made to suffer still more from overfeeding. Each horse in the team, if 60und and of age for good service, should in general be made to perforin his share ef the team's labor, according to his weight. To accomplish this iu a simple manner, the hole in the double whiffletree, or evener, by which it is attached to the tongue of the wagon, should not be midsenv hetwppn the two unds. but so far from the middle point that the distance from this hole to one end will be as much greater than the distance to the other end as one horse is heavier than the other. If, for example, one horse weighs 1200 pounds and the' other 800 pounds, then, one horse being one-third heavier, one arm of the evener should be onethird longer than the other. Then hitch the heavier horse to the shorter arm aud the lighter horse to the longer arm. It is true that horses will not always draw > in proportion to their weight; a small, wiry animal may work more easily than a large, loose-built one; and if the owner can make due allowance for this, so much ^^^the better; but even if he should lea re N this out of consideration, give up guess1 " work in equalizing the draft and do nothing more than is shown above, he will be Kurprised to find how much of an unfair J advantage he has been giving to the ' larger horse.?New York Tribune. I MISTAKEN USE 0? CLOVEB. ^ Is wheat growing localities the old fashioned practice of plowing under clover every other year and growing alternately with it a crop of wheat, was at the time thought to be the perfection of good farming. It was not considered to be an exhaustive rotation. "W&s there not every other year a clover growth, mainly secured from the atmosphere, to replace what the grain crop took from the soil? Further experience has shown the fallacy of this reasoning. Green manure necessarily cannot make additions to mineral fertility of the soil. If every atom is turned back to the soil without waste, it gives ouly the mineral elements first taken from the soil. The graiu crop | was always sold, and if the farmers kept work horses and a few cows the manure I from these, fed maiuly on hay, corn ! stalks and straw, was duly drawn upon ! the land. It was not rich manure, and was usually especially lacking in phosphates. Most of these wheat growers have for fifteen or twenty years been pur| chasing mineral manures to replace those j that were exhausted. The trouble began when even a large clover crop plowed under would not produce a large crop, while without the j clover good wheat could be grown with | a dressing of 200 pounds of phosphato drilled in with the seed. This convincing proof of the benefit of mineral manures opened the eyes of many farmers who had not before doubted that their two-year system was not keeping up their farms to the proper standard of fertility. Yet ever since, though more stock has been kept, and clover has been fed out and thus made into manure, the buying of commercial fertilizers has continued. In fact, it is easy to see that this method restores less of plant food than did the plowing under of clover under the old practice. Wheat and other grain are sold as before, so that the difference i9 that the summer fallow gave the land the entire clover growth, while the policy of feeding it to stock saved for the soil only what was left after it had passed through nimals eating it, ana nau coutnouieu 10 v rowth, muscle, milk, wool or other aniihal products. It is clear, also, that the best use of clover is to feed it at home on the farm, and with it enough of grain, oil meal or other nitrogenous food to make a rich manure pile. But if oil meal and grain are to be bought for farm use, it will require a much better class of farm stock to make it pay expenses. So that, even for securing the fullest advantages from clover growing, there must be better stock, which, in every way it can be looked at, is seen to be the basis of improved farming.?American Cultivator. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. It is a good feeder who is able to judge of the quality aud feeding value of foods at his command. It is said that vegetables put into a barrel or box and covered with earth keep crisp and nice. It makes all the difference in the world whether the man runs the farm or the form nine tho mon Don't ventilate the poultry house through cracks in the walls and floors, and holes in the roof. No system of buying and selling or swapping animals will improve the stock of the country. It must be bred up. Forest leaves are not as good absorbents as straw, but they add very much more to the value of the manure pile. There is no sense in keeping a hog up fattening after it is already as fat as it can be. It is a waste of food and time. Don't cram fifty cents worth of drugs dowa the throat of a sick chicken that wouldn't be worth over a quarter if it was well. If you cannot give your cows the best shelter, give them the best you can. Show your good will. They will appreciate it. While there is economy in co-operative dairying, there is not as much as many have been led by the boomers to ennnnoo If you cannot buy a good male to breed up your stock, hire the services of one. It will pay in the first calf that is dropped. There is no disputing the fact that corn gives the most profitable returns when converted into condensed animal products. Why should not a working animal have a working sire and dam? What use is there in keeping breeding animals in idleness the year around? When horses bolt their food, chaff and hay or clover cut fine, a handful or so mixed with the oats, will cause them to give their food better mastication. A variety of food is always relished by animals as well as by man, and is beneficial as affording all the necessary nutritive elements to nourish the system. Butter will never grain finely in 'coming" if the fat globules have previously been injured by overheating of cream or too much violence displayed in churning. In feeding calves skim milk doa't forget to make up for the butter taken out in the shape of cream; some supplementary feed should be given with the skim milk. Linseed oil-cake, cottou seed meal, bran, oats and peas are all good. To keep the trunks of apple trees smooth and clean use a wash made by slacking one-half bushel of lime with hot water, and adding one gallon of soap and two pounds of crude carbolic acid. If applied a3 often as the acid loses its odor it will also keep oil rabbits and other vermin. "When the stock are confined, as must be the case a good part of the winter, it is quite an item in keeping them comfortable to have them clean. All kinds of stock will lie down more or less, and if care is not taken to keep their quarters clean they will soon get in a very filthy condition that will not only be uncon> fortable, but also unhealthy. His Heart in the Wrong Place. Charles Breslin, of Springfield, Ohio, has a curious displacement of his vital I organs. His heart is on the right side of I his chest. Breslin is a healthy young I man of twenty-six, and is a draughtsman [ and engineer of marked abilities. IIo experiences no ill effects from the uniquo displacement, and is actively engaged daily in his profession. The beating of the heart can be plainly felt on the right side. His circulation is regular and his pulse normal. Mr. Breslin says when he was a little hoy he was thrown from a heavy farm wagon, and two wheels passed obliquely across his chest. He was ill for some time from the injury,and believes that the heart was shoved ovei to its present position by the wheels, and that his circulation and vital organs finally accommodated themselves to the | change. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. TO PREPARE MACCARONI. Maccaroni is a preparation of the gluten of flour, almost as nourishing as meat. It can be prepared with cheese, with beef tea, with bottled tomatoes, or with fruit. Put a quarter of a pound of it on to boil in a saucepan of boiling salt water and cook for fifteen or twenty minutes. Drain it and serve hot with a a little butter. That is one way. Grate some cheese over it while it is hot, that is another. A third is to put the maccaroni into a baking dish, strew cheese through it and a few bread crumbs on the top and bake to a light brown. Serve in the dish. That is maccaroni au gratin. rri! il 11 +V.O ilitre arc iuiuc wun-nuunu ouu w w*u little hollow stalks of flour paste; the largest size is called maccaroni, another size is spehetta and the smallest of all is vermicella, used as "noodles" are for soup. Speghetti is cooked with beef tea and makes a very rick dish. Put it on with salted hot wster, alcne, and when it is half done, kalf tender, drain off the water and let it stew slowly in beef essence, which it absorbs, making a good dish. Bottled tomatoes added to either the combination or the plain maccaroni make a very appetitizing dish. Cooked as at first directed and added to stewed or canned fruits, it is also good; that is with apples, peaches or pears, but not with red fruits, such as cranberries or plumbs, as they would be too acid.? Washington Star. SOURCES OF IMPURE AIR IN WINTER. There are many sources of foul air in a house in winter, when nature's own disinfectants, the frost and snow, are purifying the outside air. Next to the plumbing, which may at any time become a source of danger to health if not continually looked after, the furnace claims es - * * rni - i > pecial attention, ine siupiuuy oi uw average workman who is set to cleaning chimneys and furnaces can hardly be exaggerated. In the majority of cases he seems to regard his duties as purely perfunctory. Tapping the stovepipe, heater pipes and different parts of the heater with a poker will soon tell whether the work has been done properly. Tbe coldair box of the heater is one of the most fruitful sources of foul air. In many cases the furnacc is set so that the cold-air box opens into the cellar or basement kitchen instead of outdoors, as it 6hould. Thus the unwholesome warm air of the lower part of the house, laden with the cooking odors of the kitchen, is forced into the upper part of the house, to be breathed over there. Not only should the turnace nave a cold-air box opening outdoors, but there should be no crack or opening through which the air of the basement can become mixed -with that from outdoors. The spot where the cold-air box opens outdoors should be as far removed as possible from the kitchen cesspool, or any source from which impure air may come. It is doubly necessary in winter, when the house cannot be so freely ventilated as in summer, to look after all parts of the premises, where debris of vegetables or refuse of the kitchen may engender source of disease. The practice of keeping the garbage pail in the kitchen under the sink, as is sometimes done in careless households, cannot be too severely censured. BEcrrES. Beef Loaf?Two pounds of raw, lean beef, one cupful of rolled crackers, half teaspoonful of salt, two eggs; chop all together, form into a long loaf, cover the top with small pieces of butter and bake one hour. Cup Cake?The whites of four eggs well beaten, one cupful of white sugar, half a cupful of butter, half a cupful of #1 / n sweet millc, two cupiuis 01 nour, one tablespoonfal of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of soda. Wheat Bread?Sift two quarts of flour and four teaspoonfuls of baking-power and a teaspoonful of salt; stir up to a soft dough, with cold sweet milk or water; knead but little, mold and bake immediately. This bread is easily digested. Seed Cookies?One cupful of butter, three cupfuls of sugar, two egg3, one cupful of cream, eight cupfuls of flour, two and one-half teaspooufuls of bakingpowder, one teaspoonful of caraway seed; roll out, cut, and sift with sugar; bake in a quick oven. Eggs and Cream?Hard boil ten eggs, slice them in rings in the bottom of a baking dish, sprinkle in some cracker crumb3, then place a thick layer of the egg, add pieces of butter, salt and pep J rtl.au pUI~} illlll ?|>riu&.ic UiUiU ^lucivgi vi uuimo thinly over them; continue this until all the egg is used; sprinkle cracker crumbs last, add pieces of butter, and pour over the whole half a pint of cream; place in the oven to brown; serve with any kind of cold meat for lunch. English Rolled Pudding?Boiled pastry should be prepared with chopped atid sifted suet instead of lard or butter, but otherwise in the same manner as pie pastry. Roll jam or preserved fruit into a thin sheet; spread over a thick layer of fruit, and then, commencing at one side, roll carefully until all the fruit is inclosed within the paste; pinch together at the ends and tic up in a strong cotton cloth, then drop into a pot of boiliag water. Serve with sweet saucc. Cottage Pudding?One cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of flour, or enough to make tolerably stiff batter, one half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar sifted with the flour, one teaspoonful of salt. Hub the butter ana sugar together, beat in the yolks, then the milk and soda, the salt and the beaten whites, alternately with the flour. Bake in a buttered mold; turn oat upon a dish; cut in slices and eat with liquid sauce. What Interested an Inventor. Inventor Edison went to that great dinner, to the 15,000 Mayors of France, but he cannot tell you who presided or the name of a single dish that was 3erved there. It struck him that he would not know how to seat 15,000 persons, each in his own particular place, so when he went to the banquet he devoted himself solely to discovering how this was accomplished. The problem appealed to his inventive bent. He says he found that each table was marked by the initials of the arrondissements of France, in their alphabetical order, and at each table the seats were marked by the initials of the towns within the arrondissemeut in question. The consequence is that the Mayor of A in the arrondissement of E?went straight to a seat without asking a question or pausing a minute. As Boon as Edison saw how this was done, the banquet ceased to interest him,?Chatter. A Catechism of the States. Question?Which is the best State foi fresh pork? Answer?New ham, sure. Q.?Which is the best for an earlj Bummer hotel? A.?May inn. Q.?In which should surgeons dwell? A.?Connect-a-cut. Q.?Which furnishes the best writers? A.?Pencil-vania. Q.?In which should laundrymen prosper? A.?Washing done. Q.?la which do impudent people 3 well? A,?rCan sass. Q.?Which is the best for deer hunting? A.?Collar a doe. Q.?Which is the best to steal a walking stick in? A.?Cane took, eh! Q.?Which is the best for lockjmiths? A.?New brass key. A T? rrnn In/Vlr fnr Q J. LI ?lill/U nvum jvu iwu u morning attire? A.?Day coat, eh! Q.?In which is one likely to fail in getting a drink? A.?Miss a sip. Q.?In which can you find a red letter? A.?Florid A. Q.?In which does the bustle make one lick? A.?III o' noise. Q.?In which is one likely to lose his farming implements? A.?I'd a hoe. Q.?In which can one acquire an estate by marriage? A.?Mary land. Q.?What would be the most useful in the event of another deluge? A.?New (Y) ark, of course. Q.?In which is the one letter of the alphabet taller than the others? A.?O higher. Q.?In which are bodies of land surrounded by water given a ride? A.?Rhode Island. Q.?"Which is called to your mind by beholding two $5 bills? A.?Ten I see. Q.?Which would & woman rather have if she can't get a new sealskin 3acoue? A.?New Jersey. Q.?Which does the farmer's wife mention when she asks you to partake of apple sauce? A.?Take sass.?Pittsburg Vhronicu. The Cholera at Bagdad. For several months past a violent cholera epidemic has raged in and around Bagdad, Arabia. Herr Somekh, headmaster of the school of the Israelite Alliance in that city, describes the frightful state of thiDgs there in a report to the Alliance thos: "As soon as it became known that the terrible disease was the cholera everybody tried to escape from the infection as quickly as possible. The panic was indescribable. Within two days two-thirds of the Hebrews had left the city, fleeing at random and settling in the first village they could find. The j Christians did the same, and the Mahom| medans, despite their well-known fatalj ism, could not escape the general panic, j sought safety in flight. The city prej sents a disconsolate aspect; the streets are empty, one dares not venture out; the only thing to be seen is the endless row of hearses, which the paid drivers accompanv to the cemetery. One sees neither tears nor other signs of grief. Cruel, inexorable death has quenched the source of tears; the people have lost almost all feeling. Our fellow-believers have suffered proportionately more kthan the rest of the population. Death has pursued them everywhere, and has raged terribly among them. TTiere is not a family that has not to lament the death of one of its members. The rich, as well as fVn ?%/\rt?. Viotto Koon turrihlv t.riprl and IUC uu? V> UOVU ? many of the dead had to lie for days unburied in the fields because there was nobody to bury them. At this moment 20,000 Hebrews are camping out in a mere desert some hours' walk from the city, scorched by a tropical sun, in want of the means of life, harassed by robbers, boys and girls stolen from them?never, in short, has an already very unhappy population suffered such misery before. In the city the sick die for want of care, and numerous families have gone for whole days without food. The poor, who no longer knew to whom to turn, have died literally of hunger." This heart-rending report has been completely confirmed in answer to inquiries in the most competent quarter, with the addition that the epidemic, which had abated a little toward the end of October, was raging again with renewed fury.?London Lancet. _ After a man has been married fourteen years he seldom gets up more than three times in one night to light a ?--j i?i. J j.1. ? , liittiuu tiuu iuua ttruuuu ine room dgcause his wife thinks she heard a noise. ON? BJVJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and act? gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the t?6te ana acceptable to the stomach. Drompt jd its action and truly beneficial runfc3 effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Svrup of Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug* gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wiaheB to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8AM FSAMOI8CO. CAL, 1 There is a plague of rata in Lincolnshire, England, and the more there are killed the more there are to be killed, apparently. The cause of this redundancy of rodents is said to be the large shipment of weasels to New Zealand, where they were wanted to dispatch the rabbits. Depletion of the Chesapeake oyster beds is cutting short the supply of the packers, and several of the largest firms in Baltimore have begun cultivating the bivalve in Southern waters, and establishing packing houses in those localities. The Excitement Not Over. Thft rriqh nn the druovlstfi atill continues and dally scores of people call for a bo'.tle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for the cure of Conghs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy, Is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 60c. and Jl. Trial size tree. Senator Stantobd has given to Susan B. Anthony $600 to help along woman suffrage. State or Ohio. City of Toledo, i? Lucas Codntt. 1 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney 6b Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 8th day of December, A. D., 1888. I?1?1 A W. Gleason, jseal > Kotary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ox the system. Send for testimonials, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. fST Sold by Druggists, 75c. The Czar gets about 3600 pounds of pure gold every j ear from his gold mines in Siberia. The Old, Old Story. A little cough; a feeling ill: A headacae oft; a daily chul^ .a. Slower wiu&i u uuiuuiiicu ui caiu, A frequent talk or coming death. No strength tc rise lrom day to day; From loving eye3 he fades away. Now lifts no m jre the weary head. The struggle's o'er; the man is dead. Snch is tbe iatal progress of consumption. How often is repeated the same old. old ttory. Yet not half so often as it was before tbe knowledge came to mankind that there was a discovery in medical science by which the drea 1 disease c .uld be arrested in its early stages and the patient restored to health. This wonderful remedy is. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Thousands of cures follow the use of Dr. Safe's Catarrh Remedy. GO cents. TnE annual orchid show In New York city will open at the Eden Musee February 18. Dobhins's Electric Soap does not chap the hands, beiag perfectly pure. Many people afflicted with Salt Rheum have bee:i cure by its use. Preserves and whitens clothes. Have your grocer order it and trv it now. Mrs. Maynk Reid, wife of the dead novelist, is writing a life of her husbind. 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This is a most Valuable Book lor the Household, teaching; as It does the easily-distlng^iished Symptoms of different Diseases, the Causes and ! Means of Preventing; such Diseases,aud the Simplest Remedies which will alleviate or cure. 598 Pages, Pro The Book is written in plain e the technical terms which render i the generality of readers. This 1 of Service in tlie Family understood by all. OHIiY 60 CEN (The low price only being made possi Not only does this Book conta Disease, but very properly gives pertaining to Courtship, Ma tion and Rearing ol H TOGETI Valuable Recipes and Pre Botanical Practice, Corre New Edition, Revised & Enl; With this Book in the house there is n emergency. Don't wait until you have il tend at once for this vaJuable volume. 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