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Frog S?kin? For filovos. 1
The latest in the realm of glove- ' ^
making is gloves of frog skin. This I
Bkin is said to be the finest ami tough- i
B est leather in the world. The demand I
. for them is not great, but of sufficient I
dimensions to make it -worth while to j ^
mamifacture.
Bancps at Servants' Halls.
Queen Victoria lias not danced at a j
state ball since 18G0. But she has I ^
frequently at the tenants' or servants' i
balls at Balmoral trodden a measure { ;
with some of her favorite attendants.
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Brougham of Gold and Silver. I j
The finest broupham in the world is I (
owned by the Maharajah of Ghened, I j
-f li. 111.:?L T7?0?. Tn.^'ori I +
one 01 Tue weiutuiesi <->x ?u>uu? . i
potentates. The handles of the doors |
of this brougham are of solid gold, c
while the rest of the carriage down to | 1
the tires of the wheels, is of silver. ' <
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The marquis' crown bears foui' j
strawberry leaves and four pearls. Ie t
France the strawberry leaves are re ! c
placed by leaves of parsley wrought iD ,
gold. ! 1
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What 8100 Will Buy.
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Business nnd Shorthand.Tuition,Books.Board 1
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England Uneasy Over Short Crops. I (
The failure of the crops causes genera ! f
uneasiness in England. I ^
Deafness Cannot Re Cured ?
fey local application1?, nstney onnnotreaon to" <
diseased portion of the car. There is only on> j
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu
ttonal remedies. D afnessis caused by an 11 <
named condition of the mucous liningof th> '
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper ?
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closet ?
Deafness 1' the result, and unless the inflam i .
mation can be taken out and this tube re j ?
fm iftored to its normal condition, hearing will b> I j
' destrovd for-ver. Xine cases out of ten ari J .
iL caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in *
r " flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ! j
"We will give One Hund-ed Dollars for anj i
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Senc j
for circulars, free.
F. J. Che.vey & Co., Toledo, 0. *
Sold bv Druggists, 75c. (
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Th?*re m a Class of People f
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re- j
cently there has been placed !n all the erocer; j
stores a new preparation called Grain-O, mad( !
of pure <rrain?, that takes the place of coffee j
The most delicate stomach receives it withou1 j
distress, ard but few can tell it from coffee '
It does not cost, over one-quarter as much ]
Children may dr'nk it with irreat benefit. 1! (
cts. and 25 cts- per package. Try it. Ask foi;
Grain-O.
Half the Fan
Of getting np in the morning is in washing i
or bathing with Dreydoppel's borax soap, j
Pull pound bars at <U1 kind of stores. Genuine
Dreydoppel. Genuine fun. I
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous- j
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great |
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' I believe Piso's Cure for Consumntion saved ]
my boy'slife last summer.?Mrs. Allie Doug- j J
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THE CHIEF THING
In Maintaining Good Health is Pure,
Rich, Nourishing Blood.
The blood carries nourishment and furnishes
support for the organs, nerves and i
muscles. It must be made rich and pure !
if you would have strong nerves, good I
digestion, sound sleep, or if you would j
be rid of that tired feeling, those disagreeable
pimples, eczema, or scrofula.
./ No medicine is equal to Hood's SarsapaH
rilla for purifying the blood. It is a medIcine
of genuine merit and will do you
wonderful good. Try it now.
Iljk*#!'*' Dill* are the only pills to ta!<e
11000 S rlllS With Hood's Sirsaparilla.
Sewing Machines on Men-of-War.
Visitors on board war vessels in the
Navy Yard will very likely see among
the sailors scattered about the decks :
smoking, talking, and so on, a sailor at j
rrnrlr Trifle a ofln-inre Tf ia n ,
n V1U M IkU u CV n 111^ lilUVUlUVt JL b IO U {
hand machine, and has a prejty heavy (
base, so that it cau be set down od *
deck and worked easily without shift- !
ing its position.
The machine is owned by the man *
working it. On a big ship like, foi
example, the battleship Indiana, car- *
rying a crew of 400 men or more,there j
would probably be found as many as e ^
dozen sewing machines; on a third- i ]
rate cruiser, a smaller vessel, such,' '
for illustration, as the Detroit, there!
would be apt to be four or live sewing j
machines. The machines are oftenest ,
owned by sailmakers and sailmakers' I
mates, but they may be owned by sail- i
ors; any man on the ship might have a '
Bewing machine if he wanted to.
Space is valuable on a vessel, and j .
bo only hand machines are allowed, ,
and to bring a machine aboard per- j :
mission must be got from the com- : "
manding officer. It is not to be sup- j
posed that every man in the ship ^
would want a sewing machine; as a
matter of fact, comparatively few men ;
do; and those who want to take one .
?/\ n i* /-I /-\+ 11 V- n 1 <1 i flR _ '
ft uuuaiu uxc uui naty iw txxij vxxxxxI
culty in the way.
I A sailor who has a sewing machine .
| makes anil repairs garments for him- ,
At self, and he does work for others for
ft pay. There are not so many sewing \
W " machines on the vessels of the new
Navy as there were on those of the '
old; the sailor nowadays makes up less
of his own outfit than he formerly did;
he draws more completed articles from
the Government; but there is still
plenty of work to be done aboard ship
with sewing machines, and some money
to be made with them yet.?Chicago
Tribune.
j Coat of Tunneling.
About thirty years ago the ^Iont I
Cenis tunnel, nearly eight miles long, ?
was constructed at the rate of one kilometer
per year, and each kilometer
cost SI,200,000. Nearly ten years
later the St. Gotthard tunnel, nine and <
one-fourth miles long, was constructed
at the rate of two kilometers a year,
and cost ?800,000 per kilometer. The
Simpson tunnel, which, when com
pleted, will be the third to perforate
the Alps, is to be twelve and a quarter
miles long, will advance four kilo- j
meters a year and cost but $000,000 1 i
jj per kilometer.
BUCKINGHAM'S
rDYE
For the Whiskers,
Mustache, and Eyebrows.
In one preparation. Easy to
apply at home. Colors brown
or black. The Gentlemen's j j
favorite, because satisfactory. ,
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Sold by all Druggiiu. J
LIFE IN THE KLONDIKE.
<OW THE PEOPLE KEEP HOUSE IN
THE CREAT COLD FIELD.
iViiiter anil Summer Habits an?l Customs
?All Trailing Done in Gold Dust?Tlio
Mosquitoes Are There ? Interesting
Facts About the Natives of That Kegion.
From all accounts, it would seem
bat the Klomlike region is a sort of
;arthly paradise; no fighting no shootng,
no lynching, no theft.
It's curious, too, for there are in
?orty Mile Post, Dawson, Circle City
mil other mining towns, saloons by
lozen, gambling hells, few women and
jlenty of men just like those who used
o die with their boots on in California.
No one ever locks a cabin door. You
:an leave a few thousands in gold dust
ying around loose, and no one will
steal it. mis loroearance is not so
emarkable as it seems. If a thief did
iteal when there is nothing to break
hrough he couldn't spend his money
>r leave the country unsuspected.
The upper circles of the Yukon Taley
usually dwell in commodious homes
>f boards well banked up with tailngs
to keep the cold out, and measurng
some twelve feet by fourteen. A
:ominon household ornament is a hole
n the floor, through which the owner
:an descend and dig pay dirt in the
rosty bowels of the earth when he has
ime. Cooking is done on sheet iron
;toves, very light and small, lugged
jvei the Chilkoot with other belongngs.
There isn't generally much to '
sook on the stove except the three
'Bs"?bacon, beans and bread. In
summer there is fresh fish; in winter
tlso, if a man cares to brave cold feet
)j standing on the ice to fish through
i hole chopped in it. Besides, the
lole has a way of freezing up again
apidly.
The cold is not so terrible a bugbear
is many imagine. The air is very dry,
ind it causes no discomfort to work
nit of doors with the thermometer at
hirty below. General humidity makes
he cold as well as the heat worse to
jear.
Miners generally wear in winter the
lative dress of skin trousers and
>arka, with boots of seal or walrus
skin, made by the coast Indians. The
skin trousers are made of woodchurch
selts or fawn-skin trimmed with white
volfskins. Women wear the parka, or
skin coat filched from the fawn or
volverine,but they have to deny themselves
the pleasures of dress reform so
'ar as to wear light short skirts over
:heir leather breeches ami boots. In
summer one can dress as in New
fork.
Housekeeping is most primitive.
Men are in vast majority, and it is
justomary, as it was in California, for
;hem to select partners and live two in
i "shack," or cabin, to save housevork
and divide expense. In winter
here are no means of bathing without
;xtraor Jinary trouble. The snow
leldom lies more than three feet deep,
here are no thaws to make crust on
ts surface, and all winter traveling is
lone on shoeshoes.
Prices are extraordinarily high, and
rary according to circumstances, so
hat one can hardly tell what they will
?e next spring, when the new crowd
jets into. the diggings. Beef at fifty
>r seventy-live cents a pound is perlapsafair
example. Last winter, because
the preceding summer had been
i bad one for salmon, bacon had to
)e fed to the sled dogs at a cost of
wenty-tive or forty cents a pound.
Vnd there have been times when a
log was worth ?300 to kill to keep
jome miner with plenty of "dust"
jut no "grub" from starving.
There are physicians in the Klonlike
and there will be hospitals at
several points, established by the Sis
;ers of Mercy from Montreal. Last
viuter there was a benefit performmce
in Circle City, when a quarter of
jeef "snaked" into the country on a
log sled, was raffled olf for $400 for
;he hospital. Now Circle City is
pretty well deserted, and the hospital
will be needed more somewhere else,
rhere is still a post-office at Circle
Diiy, and mails come and go every
nonth in winter, by carrier to Juneani.
In summer what a change there is!
rhe thermometer rises frequently
lbove ninety. Men" work sixteen and
jighteen hours a day, slucing out the
lirt they have been digging out all
tvinter, and drop dog tired into their
bunks at night to dreamless sleep,
rhey can vary their food only a little.
Fresh salmon are usually plenty, but
Ejame is not. Hence the great bane of
the country is scurvy. It is avoided
by drinking a great deal of lime juice.
A 1.1 A- J. ? 1
lX w uj muuivi uc IU IIC31I
vegetables iuto the country, and tliere
is no doubt that they could be grown
with perfect success, not perhaps at
Circle City or Dawsoy, but four or five
hundred miles farther south, on the
ragish or Teslin Lake, aud boated
easily down stream towards autumn.
True, the season is short, but growth
is very rapid while it lasts. Many
vegetable crops require but a short
time to mature. The Danish settlements
in Greenland, quite as far north
as these lakes, have pretty fair vegetable
gardens. The men who first get
into business as market gardners, supplying
the Yukon basin with fresh
vegetables, will need no gold mines.
Surveyor Ogilvie thinks that there
may be room in the upper Yukon region
for 2000 fairly good farms. General
farming will never thrive in "this
region, in his opinion, but the special
industry of supplying fresh vegetables
and meat, under admitted ditticulties
compensated for by high prices?that's
not the same thine at all. The dav
hasn't come yet when you can get a
uice Georgia watermelon in Dawson
for twenty cents. Indeed, watermelons
can't be raised on the Yukon.
Mr. Ogilvie's thermometer showed
frost four times last August. So faij
as cattle are concerned, they cau be
driven into the mines, and kept fat on
bunch grass all the way.
Gold dust is the money of the Klondike.
It is reckoned at .$17 an ounce,
but is hardly worth so much, the samples
assayed in San Francisco running
rather lower. Nobody, seller or buyer,
minds about enough gold dust to be
worth a dollar or so. Nearly every
man carries a pair of scales.
Gambling is the great passion of the
miner everywhere. "Easy come, easy
!?o," says the philosophical miner who
Inuoc of tl>? tllllln flip llP (Tflt llY
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aching toil with the pick or ut the
sluice.
There are children in Klondike now,
and a school is to be ready for next
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season. There has been a school at
Circle City and another at Forty Mile.
With all its faults, with all the dirt
and privation and the sordid strife for
gold, there is something simple and
line about this mining society. There
are no snobs in it, no liveries except
the livery of toil; no very rich men
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UIIU lew CAtlCllIClJ pwui, I1U tuicvca
except those who practice the permitted
theft of the gaming table. One
man is in literal truth as good us another;
there is chivalrous regard for
women, kindness for misfortune and
ready courage for emergencies. It is
primitive society with its faults and its
virtues, which are not the faults and j
virtues of the festering towns. There
is manliness, at any rate; and there I
are genuine human women, with the
charm that comes of open air living
and plenty of exercise.
The curse of the country?as of any
gold region?is its instability. There
is no use making pleasant homes in a
mining camp. If it succeeds, theresi1?1
11 i. x- ic i__ xi. ^
cienis an expect to muse vueir jjuc
anil "mosey for the States." If it
fails, every one will be off for fresh
diggings and leave the shacks pathetically
deserted. At one time the finest
house in all Alaska was in Circle City.
IA cost $3000 to build, but its owner
was probably as ready as any one else
to desert the place when the news of
Klondike came.
There can be almost no books or J
pictures in the Klondike, or the Yukon
fields generally. Freight charges are
high on the St. Michael's route, and !
weight is eliminated as far as possible
from a man's pack when he tackles the
cbead Chilkoot pass. The dreary landscape,
the almost perpetual sunshine
of winter, which compels the resident
to use snow glasses, if he would not
be blinded, makes life weary and lacking
in variety. There is some reliei
when the magic summer brings out the
scanty veg'etation at a bound, furthei
up the Yukon, but in its middle
stretches the forms of flower and tree
are monotonous, indeed, almost beginning
and ending with moss and
scrubby little trees. Nature's pooi
attempts at landscape painting are, at
the best, soon marred by man. There
is no occupation that spoils a country _
faster than mining. The great heaps'
of "slickens" or tailings disfigure
every stream, and the face of nature
is all cut and gashed and hacked with
nrosneet holes.
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Mosquitoes are the plague of life
throughout Alaska aud the Northwest
Territory. Scliwatka says they sting
the bears so as to drive them crazy.
When the poor animals are driven bj
hunger down to the river in mosquito
time they are so bitten about the eyes
as to bepome blinded, when they die
of starvation.
The late E. J. Glave wrote of the
pests: "A liberal daubing of bacon fat
and pitch around the eyes and ears of
our animals kept those sensitive parts
free from the pests, and when my own
head grew so bumpy I could not get
my hat on I applied the remedy to my
own anatomy with a good deal of success.
When not feeding, our horses
would leave the sheltered places and
seek the open stone to avail themselves
of whatever breeze was blowing; they
would then stand in couples, so that
each would have the benefit of the
other's tail as a switch."
Cattle are so maddened by the mosquitoes
that they will gallop half a
mile at top speed against the wind in
an endeavor to shake them off, and
then graze until the mosquitoes force
them to make another dash for life.
As the miners' camps are necessarily
always iu lowlands along the creek bottoms
-the suffering from these pests is
considerable.
Slavery and human sacrifice were
common among the Chilkoot Indians a
IblJLUli UqU. xugoc i guxuiu
a savage, brutal race, and the average
miner has more direct dealings with
them going in or out over the pas.s than
he is apt to have afterwards with the
Yukon tribes.
These coast Indians are the fellows
that pack miners' outfits over the Chilkoot
Pass at twenty cents a pound.
They are tricky and dishonest, and
mane use of all sorts of devices to
cheat the traveler, and they lord it
unmercifully over the Indians just beyond
the divide.
The Indians of the middle Yukon
are a more friendly and humane, if not
more intelligent lot of people. The
miners see much of them. They will
sometimes hire out to do day labor in
the placers, but prefer fishing, and
stolidly keep on in their old ways, in
' i* at 1. _a / a.
spue 01 me rusu anu uurry ui me gum
fever. They are very superstitious
and believe that in parts of the country
distant from them dwell superhuman
monsters who eat people and are
veiy fierce and cruel. These Indians
are now generally fairly well-behaved
and contented under the Canadian
Government.
A perennial charm of Yokon society
is the fresh and youthful vigor of the
men found there. Probably the average
age is less than thirty-five. "An
old miner" does not need to be an old
man. A pioneer in the region may
have had but ten years' experience and
be but little past thirty. The few women
in the mines average even younger.
The unfortunate there are, but not the
aged, and poverty takes its ills philosophically,
having seen too many of the
nris nnd downs of life to desrmir of ft
turn in the luck.?New York World.
From Brickyard to Premiership.
The late Sir Henry Parkes, Premier
of New South Wales, was the sou of a
small farmer in Warwickshire. His
career offers encouragement of the
good, old-fashioned, rapidly disappearing
sort, to ambitious small boys.
His family moved first Jo South Wales,
and afterwards to Birmingham; and
young Parkes was sent to work
when he was only eight years old.
First he was employed on a brickfield.
Rinl afterwards as a turner:, but.
having married, lie at last decided to
better his condition by emigrating,
and landed in Sydney in 3839 with a
wife, a baby and three shillings. Fifteen
years later he entered the New
South Wales Parliament, and at last
became Premier of the Colony. As a
boy he was passionately fond of reading
Stump Denominations.
Of the 250 stamps which have been
issued the values have ranged from
one cent to ?5000. five dollars is the
highest value among postage stamps,
but newspaper stamps reach the $100
mark, while a revenue stamp may
represent$5000. ? _
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Management of Late Cabbage.
There is nothing better than frequent
cultivation of cabbage to make it grow.
Every time the soil in stirred, and
especially is such warm, wet weather
as the whole country has lately had,
there is liberation of plant food in as
large amounts as even a gross feeding
crop of cabbage can require. It is in
such seasons as this that care must be
taken to upset late cabbage and loosen
some of their roots so as to check
growth. Without this the largest cabbage
will split open and will soon spoil.
Causes of Poor Milk.
From many farm houses have come
complaints that the milk seemed unusually
poor, or, at least, the cream
failed to rise in a satisfactory manner.
In most of these cases the cause may
be found in the fact that the milk has
been set where it was so warm that it
eoured before perfect separation could
take place. In some cases, however,
dampness and poor ventilation are responsible.
Temperature of milk room
6houlcl not go much above seventy degrees,
and ventilation must be good.
Peach on Plum Stoch.
It may be -worth while to remind
fruit growers and farmers that the
peach may be often successfully
budded on plum stocks. If the trees
are intended for planting on a heavy
clay scil, they will last longer and be
more productive if budded on plum
stock than if budded on peach. The
peach naturally succeeds best in fiandy
soil, though it needs an extra amount
of mineral fertilizers there. On a
well-drained, heavy soil the peach
j succeeds well enough on its own fitoclc.
! Only if on very wet soil should it be
! budded on the plum.
Managing Swarms.
Swarming is always a sure sign of
prosperity in the apiary, and is attended
with profit if given good attention.
The first swarms that issue
are always the best bees, as they are
usually strong xn numbers, and they
contain the old queen, which in the
principal object, as she is already fertile
and will begin laying as soon as
they are ready to begin housekeeping.
First, or "Prime"-swarms, as thoyare
I termed, are the cream of the colony,
and are more valuable than the parent
stock they issue from.
First swarms usually store more
' surplus honey than any other, and in
' every respect keep in the lead throughout
the season, and the only objection
to thein is that, as they ahvays con!
tain the oldest queens, sometimes the
; queen is too old to successfully carry
the colony through the following win
t.er. There is a wide difference between
first and second swarms from
; the same colony.
Second swarms are accompanied by
' a young queen, and one that is not fertile,
and she takes the chances of fertilization
after beginning housekeeping,
and as this requires her to take
; wing away from the Live, she stands
one chance out of ten of becoming lost,
| and if so, the colony will do no good
I whatever of its own account, as they
; have no brood from which to raise
i another.
Since exploring the' interior of a
: bee-hive we are no more at a loss to
know when to expect swarms. The
weather being favorable, we can tell
to a certainty the day, and almost the
hour thev are likelv to issue. Bees
begin to construct queen cells eight
I days previous to swarming, and at
; any time during this period we make
discovery of these cells, we can ascertain
their time of maturity by the adj
vancementof construction. The cells
will bo sealed over about the eighth
day, aud at this time the swarm is
due.
Second swarms will issue eight days
thereafter, at which time the young
I queens will hatch. If we desire the
| colony to swarm but once, and not
i again after the first swarm has come
; off, we can prevent it by taking out
i all but one Cell, or take all the cel?.s
! out, and introduce a queen. It will
| be seen that the cause of second
j swarms in the surplus of young queens,
| and to deprive them of these, will prej
vent further swarming.
Swarms when not interfered with,
! will usually settle and hang in a clus!
ter near their hive |for several hours
| before leaving. It is only a rare exi
ception that they ao directly away,
and it is best not to molest them, but
simply keep in sight of them until they
settle, and when well settled get them
in the swarming box and take them to
the hive. For arresting swarms a little
force pump and a pail of water is
; the best, .but it is necessary unless the
j swarm takes wing the second time, and
\ then it is but a small per cent, that
] can be induced to settle again with any
; kind of prevention.?Farm, Field and
Fireside.
The Snow Goose.
Snow geese are excedingly graceful
and beautiful birds, of about twentyi
eight inches in length. They are
sometimes known as White Brant and
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SNOW GEESE.
Blue Winged Geese. Their range is
very extensive. They Lave been noted
| in Texas, are abundant on the Cfllum
^^^^maaBgpaga ataaaa
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! : ea
bia River, and Audubon notes that be
bas seen tbem in every part of the
United States -which he has visited.
The young geese are gray. At what t0
period they become w hite is not def- m
initely known. One that had been j8
captured while young remained gray ^
for six years, when in two months' |E
time it grew to be a pure white. Every 3?
spring these birds migrate to the
North, and it is a curious fact that the
old, white birds go first, followed a _
week or two later by the young or
gray ones. Dr. Richardson is authority
for the statement that they breed
in the barren grounds of Arctic Amer- 1
ica. The young are able to fly in
August, and by the middle of September
they have departed for the South.
They mainly feed on rushes insects
and berries, and in turn are very ex- i
cellent eating themselves,' but are 1
rarely domesticated.?New England i
Homestead.
Protecting Tomatoes From Frost.
By exercising a little extra care, the
season for ripe tomatoes may be prolonged
for two or three weeks beyond
the usual period. As soon as there
are indications of frost, cover the tomatoes
in the evening with some kind of
canvass or old blanket. Between the
rows of tomatoes drive sticks about
four feet apart and nail strips of boards
on the top at the height of the tomato
COVER FOR TOMATO VINES.
vines. Place the covers over these,
letting the edges extend to the ground,
where they must be fastened so that
the wind will not blow them off. Leave
no opening or the frost will get in. I
prefer a heavy cover made of blankets,
as this will often protect the vines
when liglit canvass will fail. If the
work is carefully done the tomatoes I
will stand a great deal of cold weather, f
?Lewis O'Fallow, in American Agri- v
culturist.
Cabbage.
The cabbage docs not rank high in :
nutritive food value, consisting as it
does almost wholly of woody fiber and
water. Yet it has an important place
among the vegetables handled by the
grocers and in the home vegetable garden,
for the housewife would hardly
know how to arrange her winter menus
without including it. Moreover, it is
to the interest of tbe farmer to give a
space in the garden or cornfield to
cabbage, for any surplus not made U3e
of in the house is very acceptable to
the stock, and greedily eaten by it. It
does not really pay to raise cabbage
for feeding purposes, but a little extra
supply needn't be wasted.
The most inexpensive way of raising
cabbage for the home demand, and
one that is at the same time the least
troublesome, is to take it out of the
garden and plant among the potatoes j in
the cornfield. Simply sow the seed |
wliore til A i<5 tn rrrmr ami I
avoid all the trouble of transplanting,
wateriug, etc., wliicb are important
factors in farm work and apt to prevent
the cabbage patch from attaining
adequate dimensions. The average
man dislikes to break his back over a
few cabbage plants, and the task is
apt to devolve on the women, who, of ;
course, haven't backs to break. The j
crop will not be as early, but there I
will likely be plenty of it, which is a 1
compensation.
The seed maybe sown when the corn
is planted, or earlier if desirable; later
also if more convenient. Sow in hills,
same as corn or potatoes.
Eighteen inches or two feet is the j
proper distance in the garden, where j
space is to be economized. The cab- j
baste will of course receive the same ,
cultivation as the other crop, and very j
little hand work will be necessary as
the cultivator will keep the weeds .
down.
For the ordinary grower, or the man j
who merely grows a home supply, it is ;
not necessary to bother about early
and late varieties. A quick-growing j
.variety may be sown the last of June
or even, with a little coaxing, the first
cf July, and make good heads. Or J
seed of au early sort sown late answers |
1 every purpose of a late variety.
The cabbage worm and the flea
beetle are the chief insect pests of the j
cabbage, though aphides or plant lice I
sometimes attack the heads and prove |
1 troublesome. For the flea beetle, |
1 which works on the young plants, o I
dusting of line road dust, or Scotch
suuff, is effective. The worm is a more E
troublesome foe, and years when it j
abounds one might as well surrender i '
the cabbage paten, me best remeaj ;
is sprinkling (spraying) with pari? j I
green in solution before heading be- | I
gins. Afterwards, of course, it should ?
not be employed. Sometimes the' I
I butterflies can be trapped enrly in the j |
season, thus diminishing the supply. J
The cabbage prefers a rich soil, J
generously supplied with manure. By gratifying
its preference we get mam
moth heads, but invoke a danger. It d
is awfully aggravating to have the heads
fill up and keep on growing till j
tbey burst and turn themselves inside out,
being then of no earthly use. i
The usual remedy advised for this is
twisting or loosening the roots, the
idea being that the plant devotes itself
to repairing the damage done to its J i
root system, and the head stops en- j -
larging. But in actual practice this j i
often fails, and I have come to the ; ,
conclusion that when the bursting has
once begun there is no use trying to c
stop it, and the only way to save the 11
head is to pull it up and feed it to the *
liens, cows or sheep. The safest and ^
surest way is to take the heads in 0
charge before the bursting .begins, anil ?
as soon as they are solid and full tip i pi
them to one side, or loosen the roots | to
by twisting the roots a little. This ; lE
will stop growth and hasten maturity, t li
and the heads will remain firm and I ^
I solid all winter. ' ^
Cat# and Kat In Happy Famllyj
Shn.ll the dove follow the eagle's
ght? inquires the poet rhetorically,
e expects a negative answer of course." w,
erhaps some day he will not receive
for stranger cases of animal intermrse
have been observed. In a to
nrlrmo^'a rnnm of "PorlrVincir? frlftR
>w, in November of last year,. might tl
tve been seen a cat nursing a young
,t with three of her own kittens. How
le came to adopt the rat, deponent ti'
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Sandow'g Royal Woman Ki?al>
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raining.
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