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r agrtc ultu kal TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. CAHE FOH TI1E CALVES. Every calf pasture should be provided with a shed closed ou three sides as a place of retreat from chilling wind, pelting rain or burniug sun, and a constant supply of fresh water. Calves always pay for such comforts in increased growth and general thriftiness. Other things being equal, the gentler the calf, the more rapid its growth, and the more comfortable and contented the calf, the gentler it is likely to be, especially if it associates its comforts with its keeper. A gentle keeper makts a gentle calf; a gentle calf a gentle cow. Quite young calves will learn to nibble shelled oat-s and bay, if a handful of each is placed within easy reach. Tie the hay -with a cord and hang it where the calf can pull at it without getting it under foot. Put +V?r> r?ofc In o chollna* v Pn. i ^ DUV VtIM 4U ? ?I f H1UV UVAt member that variety ia food stimulates ! the appetite and digestion, health and I growth following. At regular feeding- I time every calf should have its own feed- j ing-place, and care should be taken that the stronger do not crowd out the weak. For this purpose some sort of fastening should be provided, either stanchions or halters.?Jersey Bulletin. WATER FOi: FOWLS. Did you ever notice how often a hen will go to a vessel of water to get a drink, if it be convenient, in course of an hour? ^ If you put a fresh lot of water before fowls, did vou ever watch the eagerness ^^manifested to get there first? When ^Bsuch need of drink is so plainly seen, does it not seem a cruel thing to let hours, day9 or even weeks pass without furnishing the necessary supply? It is stated that three-fourths of the composition of the egg is water. When the hen . is-not conveniently supplied with the necessary article do you suppose she can derive enough moisture from what she can gather about the yard to manufacture an egg every day, or even every other day? All who are interested in the comfort and welfare of the creatures around them will do what they can to alleviate the suffering that may result from thirst. Those who have not the time to supply fresh water every day or two can construct a fountain in some shaded placc which will furnish a supply until the - water is exhausted. Take a ten-gallon keg with a small auger so that a row of them may be close to the bottom. Construct a cover to this, the rim of which may be an inch and a half larger in diameter than the head of the keg, and deep enough to cover the holes. Fill the fceg with water from the perforated end, place the water-tight cover on it, invert it, and the water will rise in the extra width of the cover until the holes arc covered, and there it will stand, a threequarter inch trough all around the keg, a fountain which will keep fresh in the shade, and into which the fowls cannot step, and thus befoul the water with j^their feet.?Dakota Farmtr. | jli.Vnp _CJIEE$E. The first requisite is gond^Tmiic, ifiJu1 that presupposes good feed for the cows. F If there are wild onions or other weeds ^ that flavor the milk unpleasantly it i3 uof fitted for cheese. Everything used about cheese making should be clean and fresh. The best rennet I have used is Chr. Hansen's rennet tablets. No. 2 is the mbst convenient size where there is only a small amount of milk. If you are not 1 convenient to some city it -will be best to Bend to some reliable firm for these. , Country dealers are apt to ask too much. A druggist asked me $1.50 for a box of fifty last summer. The regular price is fifty cents. A dairy thermometer is quite neces- j 1 Bary, and a wooden or tin or zinc hoop. | The size should correspond to the j i amount of milk you expect to use daily. Eight inches in height and diameter will , be large enough for seventy-live to 100 pounds of milk. If there is not milk enough in one milking to make the cheese the size you wish, the night's milk can be set away and warmed with 1 the morning's milk. It should be heated ' to aoout eighty-five degrees. One No. 2 rennet tablet dissolved in a teacupful i of cold water will coagulatc 100! pounds of milk iu less than an hour, if the milk is of the average 1 quality. When it is curdlcd cut with a knife in small chunks that the whey will separate readily. I suppose you can buy vats from which you can drain j the whey conveniently and presses that are more costly and handy than those we use on Kansas farms. But as I only made Mftheese for home use and with as little ^^xpense as possible, I will own that I' dipped the curds into a clean flour-sack and hung it?in a cool place till well drained, then put a clean cheese cloth into the hoop and the curd well incased in that; then covered with a board that I just fitted the hoop, and placed a jar that! ' also fitted the hoop ou the board aud j tilled the jar with stone ana nat-irons, etc.,about 100 pounds to each ten pounds of cheese?not all put on at once, but added gradually during the first half day, with care to keep the cheese straight. After twenty-four hours the cheese should be turned the other side up and again pressed. When taken from the press it should be kept in a cool, dry place and turned over every day. I have only made cheese two summers, and though they were in great demand (at home), yet I would like to improve, and hope some one who has had more experience will improve on my "directions.''?Farm, Field and Stockman. FEEDING FOR BOTTBR. One by one the scientific authorities aTe helping to put a quietus on the misleading and injurious statement that the | proportion of butter iu milk can not be increased by feeding. It is strange that ?nrh a horesv should have obtained CUf M rency among those to whom dairymen I look for instruction. The writer, led by I long experience to differ from the preys' alent belief, has singly fought the error H and has sustained the opposition to it Bs- alone for some years past. And now the I professors arc coming to the rcscuc, one by one, and already a powerful influence S^pfor the good of dairymen is exerted to encourage them to feed skillfully for injSj creasing the fat solids m the milk. First, ? the Wisconsin Experiment Station, in a bulletin, declared that by suitable feed jng the proportion of butter fats in milk amy be increased, then Professor Phelps, lg of the Connecticut Station, and now ProI. feasor Caldwell, of the New York Station, Hi follow in making the same statement. I (rove a detailed ; account of the effects of various foods it this direction, observed through a whol< year's experimental feeding, which ha* been reprinted in the American Dairy tuna's Manual, and which shows how various foods, rich in oil, tend to iucreast the proportionate quantity of the buttei in milk, and how they also affect the quality. This last effect has been recently noted by the chemist of the agri! cultural department at "Washington, and reported in a bulletin, and this is exceedingly noteworthy as showing the importance of choosing those foods whose fat will not deteriorate the quality of the butter. This point may be worthy of some explanation. For some years past physicians have known that fats in food or in medicinal preparations, when taken into the stomach, arc not digested, but are mixed with the digestive fluids in the form of an emulsion, precisely in a similar manner to the mixture of the fat globules in cream, and that this emulsion is absorbed without change by the villi | of the intestines, which are very fine tubes, set so closely together as to leave the appearance of the pile of velvet, and whose office is to absorb the nutriment and pass it into the thoracic duct, the large vessel wmcn is iotiuu piissiog uiuug the spinal column and close to it, and which conveys the nutriment directly into the blood, so that the minute globules of fat in the food thus pass directly into the blood, by which they are distributed to the various part? of the body, and of course to the minute glands of which the milk i3 formed. And when this glandular substance is broken down to form the milk, these same particles of fat are let loose and escapc into the milk and form the butter. Thus, tracing the fat in the food in which it exists in the form of minute drops or globules in the cells which make up the tissue ol plants or grains, we can follow it directly into the milk, without change; and thus are able to account for the effects on the milk of the various kinds of foods given. The knowledge is of fundamental importance to the buttermaker, and the whole subject is worthy of the most care- i fill cfiirltr Tf roloffio tnn tn thp vftrv A*** W?U?J . J ing ability of tho. cows to extract the fate i from the food, for cows vary very much i in this respect, and some can healthfully i dispose of twice or three times as much fat as others, and some, as in the case of 1 the Jersey cow Princess the Second, may 1 be able to actually convert seven 1 pounds of fats in the foods into butter in | one day. This is a physiological func- 1 tion and ability, and is thu3 to be inherited and conveyed by breeding, while 1 it is excited and encouraged?educated, 1 as it may be said, or led out, as the word i signifies?by feeding and training. Thus, I it may not be right to think or speak of 1 such cows as phenomenal any more than 1 wo should call the extraordinary young 1 horses Axtell or Sunol phenomenal. They I are not so at all. They are instances of 1 the result of human power skillfully ex- I erted over the domestic animals, aud 1 every one of the numerous examples of this successful exercise of man's dominion over creation should be an incentive to exertions in the same way by every intelligent dairyman in the improvement of his herd, and in his pursuit of success and profit in his business.?American cAnriculturiit. " v. FA KM AND GARDEN NOffeV ^ Clean, careful culture compensate?. a Feed hellebore to the currant worms. ,D b Bad farm hands contaminate children. Grow something to show at the fair, f If the soil is dry, cover seeds deeper t than when it is moist. t Never forget that pigs in clover enjoy themselves and grow. Large growing, trees should not be ^ planted in small yards. (l A wpll.fprl wifkinrr ni<T is worth two 01 i. *" r> 10 ? -- c\ three half-starved runts. j. The old rule is to plant corn when the li appic tree is in blossom. f A wise farmer learns from his mistakes ^ as well as from his successes. t Look over last year's bean poles, and if you need more get them ready. Having begun fruit-growing, stick to e it. It is not a business to be picked up c one day and dropped the next. Constant nagging wears away the j spirit of the best farm team, precisely as t it wears out the p?tience of men and women subjected to its painful influ- c euce. B Do not dose yourself or your stock with medicine for every little ill. Diet 8 and rest. Sleep, and a moderately empty 0 stomach are the best medicines in the t world. c "We churned sweet cream two hundred [ times and sour cream the same number, \ as an experiment, and failed to find any i regular difference in yield of butter," says ( the American Dairyman. "*" *' ' A 1?. I rruu trees, pear trees particularly, i should grow rapidly when young, and " not bear much, in order to attain size c and bear heavy crops through long < lives. Early bearing dwarfs and weak- 1 CDS. I "Buy the Best and Breed Better," ic the I heading of an editorial in the Jersey 1 Bulletin. It is axiomatic and good < enough for a motto, without comment, i The man who obeys the injunction can- i not fail to succeed. The borers or grubs may be kept out of peach trees by washing the bark with lime wash in which a few drops of carbolic acid are mixed. This should be applied at once and renewed if it is worn off by the weather until July or August, i Mercurial ointment is poisonous, and it is the cause of the slabbering or salivation of the cow. It is not the best remedy for lice, either, as a mixture of equal parts of sweet oil or linseed oil with kerosene ia more effective and is perfectly safe. The mainspring of farming is the seed. It is more iniportaut to secure good seed than to prepare for its reception in the soil. Th(> failure of seed to cerrainate may cost the farmer the loss of an entire crop. The seed is something that the farmer should carcfully examine now. Every farmer should raise pigs and cure his own bacon. There is no meat equal to that produced at home. You will at least "know what you are eating," which is a valuable point in favor of home-raised meat, as only healthy, thrifty stock will be used for home supply. A prominent poultryman in the East says: "My poultry pay all my family and farm expenses. I take as much care of my chickens as some people do of their children. In winter I keep a fire in their home quarters, and they iay every day in the year. I had gather hare hens j than cows for profit." r ?? I SPIDERS' SILK. I ! I EFFORTS MADE TO TURN COB- | WLBS INTO CLOTH. Difficulty of Utilizing the Threads on Account of Their Fragility ? Cloth of Spiders' Threads for Surgical Purposes. M. Emile Gautier, a French writer, discussed in a recent article the history of spiders from the consoler of the prisoner Pellisson down to the nutritive spider in whom the geometrician Laplace found the flavor of a nut. There arc also, it appears, spinning spiders, -whose web can be used to weave serviceable stuffs, and, according to old documents dealing with the subject, M. Bon, President of the Court of Accounts of Montpelier, sent, as early as 1709, mittens and stockiDgs made of spiders' web to the Academy of Sciences. Ua ^rt TTTft?lr % rt ATtri n rr rr?n m lie b n; nuiiv m uiauner: Having collected a large number of 6pidcrs' cocoon9, he beat them so as to dispel all dust. Then he washed them carefully in warm water and allowed them to boil for three hours in a pot containing water, soap, saltpetre and a little gum arabic. The cocoons, after being again washed and carefully dried, were at last carded with extremely fine combs. This was, of course, a very primitive proceeding. M. Bon obtained a gray thread with which he was able to make the articles before mentioned. .Fifty years later, in 1763, the Abbj Raymond de Termayer made experiments in America, in Spain, and in Italy. He worked on the living spiders, whose web he wound on a bobbin as fast as it came out. This Abbe was remarkably patient and tenacious, for he carried on this operation uninterruptedly for thirty-lour years (from 1782 to 1793), but apparently all his labor was in vain, for he only succeeded in obtaining 672 grammes of cobweb as a result of his thirty-four years work. The question, however, seemed sufficiently interesting to the Academy of Sciences in Paris to induce them to charge the eelebratcd Reaumur with the drawing up of a report on the invention ofM. Bon. Keaumur arrived ar conclusions very unfavorable to the development of a cobweb industry. Stuff, he said, made of so-called spider's silk, could not be employed in the manufacture of any useful article, ou account of itsfragileness. The strength of the silk thread was ninety times greater than that of the 5ther, and it required 18,000 threads of spiders' web to furnish solidity equal to that of one siiken thread. The learned entomologist demonstrated further that twice as many spiders as silk worms were needed to produce the same quantity of thread, so that to provide one pound of spider's silk 28,000 spiders would have to spin. To obtain such a number of cocoons a much larger number of spiders would have to be kept, for only the females spin web round eggs. Then, again, the product of the spider had less lustre than that of the silk worm. Reaumur added, however, that although there was i do future for the spiders of France, except to catch bluebottle and fiies, the exotic kinds might repaj the labor of study. The idea has recently be ;n taken up by n Englishman named bliUMwir*. who has aade cloth of spider's web which uus ieen employed.for the purpose of sur;ery. He only uses tropical spiders, , rom whom, thanks to a scientific cul- ( ure, he has obtained a much greater reurn than was foreseen by Reaumur. The spiders which he uses are big ones rom America and Africa. They are ilaced in octagonal cases, where a suffiiency of insects is served to them every lay. Iu the room where the cases are ;ept a constant temperature of sixty deTecs (Fahrenheit) is maintained, and n iquid composed of chloroform, ether and usel oil is allowed slowly to evaporate, rhat is to say, spiders spin best when hey are drunk. Mr. Stillbers keeps 5000 of these cases n a room forty metres long by twenty vide and five high. The spiders lay cu?s of various colors, covered with co oons. These are gathered up and pre>ared by the same mechanical and chemcal operations as the cocoon of the >ombyx. One cocoon yields 120 to 150 metres ?f thread. The weaving process is kept ibsolutely secret. The stuff obtained is of a texture reembling ordinary silk, but thick, stiff ind of a dirty gray color. It is all the nore necessary to blcach it because the :olor is by no means uniform. It is Reached by treatment with oxygenized vater. Then it is tanned and softened, t assumes a pretty yellow tint, aud be:omes brilliant and smooth. To make a thread 3250 kilometers jn ength 25,000 cocoons are requisite, rhisisagreat advantage on Reaumur's :alculations. But still 25,000 cocoons )nly supply a thread of 800 French eagucs in length. The stuff obtained mist Ik? sold at a verv hisrh price in order to obtain the merest compensation for all ;his trouble and expense. Proprietors mulberry trees and silkworms need oot be afraid of the competition of the spider yet awhile. Gnnboats for Interior Africa. The British Government has recently intrusted Messrs. Yarrow & Co., of Poplar, with the construction of two 6teel shallow draught steamers to 6erve as gunboats, of special design, for the navigation of the Zambesi and Shire. These boatB merit attention, owing to the novelty of their construction. They art of the ster.u-whcel type, ninety-nine feet in length by sixteen feet beam, and having a draught of from eighteen inches to two Jeet, ana arc 01 auout mu suluu iuuuuj^u as the passenger steamers plying between London Bridge and Chelsea. They will be shipped in pieces, and put together at their destination. The most remarkable feature of Messrs. Yarrow's contract is thai they have undertaken to put them together at the mouth of the river and have them ready for steaming within twenty-four hours after arrival without going ashore or having any resource to the land on either side of the river. At the same works there arc being built, side by side with the English boats, six boats for the Portugese Government, for scrvice in the same district. These were contracted for immediately after the recent expedition up the Zambesi in three steamers also built by Messrs. Yarrow, ot which Major Serpa Pinto woa in command. The Portuguese will, therefore, before long, have a small fleet, consisting of nine gunboats on the Zambesi entific American. t HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. MAKING CROW'S WINGS USEFUL. Odd and pretty card racks can be made of crow, blue jay and partridge wings. Cut the wing at its second joint from the body of the bird. Spread it wide apart, or as you wish the wing when dry, and tack upon a thin board until thoroughly dried. Mount and join the wings on an invisible bit of card board, and finish with a knot of fine ribbon at the centre of the base. A pair of glossy crow wings that I recently mounted in this way measure thirty inches from tip to tip,and the wide-spread, glittering wings of a beautiful blue heron, that one of the men shot in the swamp, must have measured nearly twice as much.?American Agriculturist. COOKING A TOUGH HEN. "W. M. "Williams,who wrote the Chemistry of Cookery in the Popular Science Monthly some time ago, related an interesting experience in cooking an old hen. His specimen was six years old, but in good condition. He had her stewed very gently for four hours, then left in the water to cool; the next day the hen was roasted in an oven anu "me result, ne 6ays, "was excellent; as tender as a fullgrown chicken roasted in the ordinary way, and of quite equal flavor, in spite ' of the very good broth obtained by the preliminary stewing." Probably with a more careful attention to the effects and methods of cooking meats, much poultry, beef, etc., might be made eatable and palatable that jp now commonly regarded as hopelessly tough and useless. LAMPWICE8 FOR EMERGENCIES. Those who live at a distance from town and its supplies, sometimes find that, among the multiplicity of wants that must be attended to during a visit to "the store," memory has proved treacherous, and wicks?the very things they cannot do without?have been omitted from the purchases. When such an event occurs, resort to your roll of cotton flannel remnants. Take for a guide the bit of wick that you know to be of the right size, cut a strip of cotton flannel ten or twelve inches long and wide enough to double smoothly into a band matching the guide in width and thickness (three thicknesses usually, or a little more, the downy side folded in), and run three or four parallel rows of lengthwise machine stitching through it. It is then ready to do duty as a substitute till a better one can be obtained, which will be better only because it may not need trimming quite so soon. A plain strip of felt from an old soft hat will do for the same purpose, but is not nearly as good as the cotton flannel. A thoughtful housekeeper, who tries to be prepared for all emergencies, hearing of this, sat down at her'machine, with a roll of pieces and wicks of three sizes, nnd in a short time had an assortment of nice home-made wicks, of lengths varying from six to twelve inches?just as the pieces happened to come?some stitched with white and some with red. She 6oaked them in strong salt and water, dried them, and stowed them in an empty cocoa can, labeled "lamwicks," which 6he olaced on a shelf by the side of the lamp filler, saying, energetically: "There! Forgotten i lamp wicks xrill not send us borrowing again."?American Agriculturist. HECTPES. Light Cake.? iTOutcs of eight eggs, two cups of powdered suguv.&nd one cup Df butter beaten to a cream; adld one cup of water, three cups of flour and one ^nd one-half teaspoons of baking powdery Bavor with almond. Creamed Cabbage?Boil firm, white cabbage till tender. Let drain till cold, then chop fine, add two beaten eggs, half a cup of cream or milk, one tablespoon of butter, salt and pepper to taste. Bake in a pudding dish, or fry and stir till hot and serve. Tomato Soup.?To one pint can of tomatoes add one pint of boiling water and boil ten miuutes. Strain through a colander or vegetable strainer and return to the stove, 6ea8on with butter, pepper and salt, add one teacup of sweet milk and four tablespoonfuls of finely powdered cracker crumbs. /"Vo/^lre* 'Pii/Minrr firn+A o Invpr flf crackers in a pudding dish, over which lay sliced apples, bits of butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Proceed in this manner till the dish is full; pour over all one cup or more of water with the juice of one lemon, or one cup of cream or milk. A Nice Dish for the Sick.?Half teaspoonful of granum dissolved in a very little cold water. Let it soak for a few minutes, then add an egg and a pinch of salt, and beat all well together. Put in half a teaspoonful of beef extract, mix an_d jet in a dish of boiHng water, and stir tilf ofa proper consistence. Sandwich Dressing.?One-half pound of butter, two tablespoonfuls of mixed mustard, three tablespoonfuls of salad oil, a little red or white pepper, a little 6alt, yolk of one egg; rub the butter to a cream, add the other ingredients, set away to cool, spread the bread with this mixture and put in the ham, chopped fine. fiitrmle Arml/> PnrJrKncrfl Mnbfl n nirp ??r*~ ? ri" ? biscuit crust raised with yeast and roll out thiD, cut in squares, put a cored apple in each square and bake them in the oven until nearly done. Make a syrup of a cup of sugar and a pint of water, and put it boiling hot in the drippingpan and baste the dumpliDgs till they are done. Serve them with rich, sweetened cream. Veaf and Macaroni Pate.?Chop two cupfuls of cold boiled macaroni fine. Mix with it a beaten egg, and lino a buttered mold?a plain one?with the macaroni. Inside this place the remains of cold veal chooDed small, well seasoned and moist encd with gravy. Spread the macaroni over the top of the meat, cover the mold tightly, plunge it in a pot of boiling water and boil an hour and a half. Turn out in a platter and pour gravy or drawn butter over it. Brain Croquettes?Put two ounces of butter or beef drippings into a saucepan and set on the stove. When the butter is melted, add one small onion chopped fine, let it browD, then add calf's brains cut iu pieces, a small slice of bread first 6oaked in cold water aDd squeezed dry, a little thyme, minced parsely, half a nutmeg grated, a little cayenne pepper and salt; heat these all well, then remove from the stove and add half a cupful of mirk and an egg well beaten, Mix all thoroughly together and set aside to cool. When cold form into croquettes, dip them in beaten egg, roll in . cracker crumbs and /ry brown in hot lar<?* A Story of Bismarck. The following curious 'Bismarck story" is just now current in political and social circles in Berlin. It will be remembered that General von Stosch was removed iron: his post as chief of the German Admiralty after Prince Bismarck had accused him before the Ernperor William I., of intriguing with the Iiadical Liberal Party against the Chancellor, of being an intimate friend of the then Crown Prince Frederick, of speculating upon the old Emperor's death, and of aspiring to the post of Imperial Chancellor. The charges were pressed by Prince Bismarck with a vindictiveness which to the general public seemed inexplicable. Now it is explained that it was due to superstition. When Prince Bismarck, then plain Count, was at St. Petersburg, ope of several clairvoyants who were then the rage in the Russian capital told him, professedly without being aware of his identity, that he would one day be the mightiest man in a great empire,but would eventually be supplanted "by a man conn/i/i^A/1 in i U nnn f n 01 n r? " Qnor\A/)f ln/V ui'isicu tvibii scaianug. 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Physicians of every school have recognized its power, and recommended its use in their practise. Truly it can be said of this peerless remedy that "it has been tried and not found wanting," for it has always been warranted to give pcrfect. satisfaction or the money refunded.yet 6uch a demand has never been made. A record indeed the proprietor may justly be proud of. Dr. Tobias's Venetian Horse Liniment and Derby Condition Powders for veterinary purposes are also declared to be unsurpassed lor efficiency and beneficial effect. We advise our readers to give Dr. Tobias's remedies a trial, and satisfy themselves as to their superiority. Creates An Appetite There la nothing for which we recommend Hool'i Sarsaparllla with greater oonfldeace than for loas it appetite, indigestion, slcx headache and other troij. bios of dyspeptic nature. In the most natural way this medicine gently tones the stomach, assists digestion, and makes one feel "real bun pry." 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