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I * AGRIC0L1M, * | iZ JK ^'SfoJOKrXxv'viC o; Jterluimius; A!>an<lone<l Fiirmf. A farmer in Faxton, "Worcester County, Mass., n*bo settled upon an abandoned farn: about two jea^s ago, is reported to have raised on eigbt acres this year 7500 bushels of pota toes, 25,000 cucumbers?the latter from a single acre?S00 barrels of cabbages, 700 bushels of tomatoes, i?50 barrels of carrots, GOO bushels oi parsnips, 1100 b:jshe!s of turnips, ^00 bushels of beets and 1100 heads of cauliflower, besides squashes and some other truck ad libitum, and all the vegetables used by the family. Of course it is presumed that these products weie marketed at a profit, and, that being the case, it is easy to see why many of New England'/ abandoned farms are being reclaimed.? Doston Cultivator. Gro\v::i? Turnip?. We have never seen a crop of 10C0 bushels of turnips grown on an acre, though we saw one field that c?.me very near it, exceeding U00 bushels, if we remember rightly, but at a farmers' institute in Xcw Brunswick one speaker told how he succeeded in growing 1000 buthels per acre. He took a poor piece of ground in the fall, and after he had plowed it he put on thirty tons of manure to the acre and harrowed it in. He wants no minnrfl flowed in unless it is to be plowed up again in the spring, harrow lightly and furrowed two feet apart about two inche.0 deep. In the furrows he strewed 250 pounds of superphosphate to :he acre. He uses two pounds of specially selected turnip seed to the acre. When they are two inches high he thins them to eighteen inches apart. After this he keeps the horse cultivator running two or three times a week between the rows. As he grows them principally as a succulent winter food forthis stock, he sows early, that they may have time to grow. When we used to grow them wc gave greater distance between the rows and did not sow them until July, and most of them grew as large as dealers cared to have them for table use, while the small and the very large were saveJ for the stock. When' we could seU the best at fifty cents a hnshpl or tnnrp. ws tboncrht it was more than they were worth for stock feeding. Feed to k Finish. Never before in the history of the trade has there been so wide a margin between halt-fat and prime, ripe beeves as exists at present. The situation offers every inducement for feeders to, make their cattle fat, and on the other hand the wide range in value plainly points to the penalty that mast he paid by those who disregard the law of supply and demand and persist in \ crowding half-ripe cattle on a market already over-supplied with that claBS. Alun, of the unfinished cattle marketed du ii g the past few weeks would with six :y to ninety days' longer feed have brought seventy-five ccnts to $1 more per hundrc- pounds, which would be almost aH clear profit, as the increase in weight would nearly offset the corn and labor. While we do not anticipate any further advance, except fOt a few fancy holiday cattle, we do look r?.. l ?, )? ,i? ../i J tux U ^UUU OfVMUV UUlUttUU BUM DiAbiafactory prices for well-fattened, cattle for an indefinite period. Where a man is feeding a considerable number of cattle it is an excellent plan to kepp topping out the bunch and sendingin, a load or two of the,fattest as fasb as i they are ready. This not only diyide^! the risk and gives the' cattle, left behind a better chance to mature, but also avoids the dead loss of holding ripe cattle, as there is no profit in feeding a steer after he is ready for market. It is poor policy to hold a big drove of cattle simply because there is a light end of one or two loads that, is not finished. The feeder who carejhlly watches his drove and ships the fattest steers as fast as ripe and lueu pusues ine oiners along to xne same condition is, other things being equal, the successful one. Exhausted Soils. Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell Oniversity Experiment Station, says that impoverished soils are usually those that have been neglected. Not having been tilled they have become cloddy, fi^rdf and foul. They may lack in hitmns, which can be remedied by stable manure or plowing under green crops, or they may lack 6otue one of the three important fertilizing elements. An average of thirty-four analyses of soil shows that an acre of laud may contain in eight inches of the "surface soil 3217 pounds of nitrogen, 3936 pounds of phosphoric acid and 17,597 pounds of potash, beside what may be in stones and gravel which will not pass through messes one-fifth of un inch square. * Tins would be enough to grow abcut 200 ordinary crops if it was all available. It becomes so by action of what be calls "ii!m water," that is the water adheriugtothe smaller particles of soil, if this water mingles with the humus to develop humic acid* Bat: this water must be drained down through the surface soil to the water bed below, that the air may penetrate tho soil. If it does not, it absorbs heat, evaporates and leaves the laud cold. When the water drains ofi' and the surface is well tilled it becomes warm, and the water is drawn up by capillary attraction, thus preventing loss by drought as well as brings buck the dissolved fertilizing elemi'uU to the surface or near it, whore the phiut roots can find them. On mr.uy soils these two items of drainage and till- j age arc more r.c.dcd than fertilize!s. J though most rffrctual when t!:e soil i is made light or porous and warm by j the addition of l:n:uus or vegetable j matter. JExi'osaive F.it rte-.ente Formation. , In some way crce^iv.; i-.u uauup j the breeding power of animals, as is well known by the men that put theai iu what is caliod condition. Fat ia lite Ju-n to destroy net only the power cfelaSx-vjitiusr cjrgH, but also the power gL' the organs to eveu produce the embryo of the eggs. Kili .1 hen ti.'r.i i- not :V. p.wl, thongh she way not bu !uyii--? eggs at the time, large number- of ouibryonio c$*. ; will be found. So??i.'*t?n;es thcK'c enibrjonic eggs rem: a undeveloped for a very long time, showing ibut the organs that produce ilieia are busy a long It L time before the organs that develop the eggs Lave begun work. Evidently the latte- require periods of rest between every clutch of eggs. But a very fat hen when killed shows net the slightest trace of these embryonic eggs. The function to even produce the germs seems t? have de parted. The writer has killed hens that he did not think too fat to lay and has found them in this condition, and that, too, at a season when other hens were laying vigorously. At just wbu' stage of fatness the hen is rendered impotent to produce eggs science has not yet determined, or whether tbis stage varies in ihe hens of different ages. It is without doubt true that inauy hens are kept for years at a total loss as to cost of keeping, ! for certainly many do not lay an egg from one yer.r's ead to another. There mr.y be other elements entering into the question that we do not yet understand, and it may be thai other things beside excessive fat prevent egg formation and development. But with the limited light we non have on the subject it is probable that the beat way to keep a flock culled down to the actual layers is to keep the fat hens killed off. This leads tc the remark that some hens get fat under any system of.feeding. The writer has been surprised when feed-, ing a ration balanced against fat to lind here and there a hen laying or fat and ceasing to lay eggs,-"Evidently fowls show the same chwacteristics as breeds of larger live stock^-the ability with some to develop^?a?fibard fat at the expense of every other "function. . _" Pics For tlie l>?Iry *arni<W4fa? " ^' The best and moat profit^^Way o> disposing of skim tailk anfibuttermilk ?s to feed them to pigs. Where butv ter is made extensively, or even on^ft small soaie, mere 18 opportunity igx . kfeeping pigs a^A.yery slight cost. % the required jafimber are'"not raised, upon the farm,v'Wwy may be pnrcfiffe'60 at six weeks'ol$? or at weaniM tftbe;' For a few weel^/at least after weaning they will thrive ' b&t 011 8wq|t skim milk. Batternijji^-:^ also ggftcl, bul should not be f^d uii^ilated^ OTBCoar; may result. "With plenty of Warmed milk combined,with 'brAn, shorts 01 other ground :'ieed?of which corn should form butra- small 'portion, ii any?pasture if cdftvenient, and purt Water at all times, pige which have re ceived good care through the mothei pReviousijjg weaning them will grow tc thrifty maturity. The practice of keeping'over pigs 01 shotes ttntffcji year old or more is almost if ri<i^ttite out of date. Quick returxisl^OT^he profit in raising hogs for mari^HpXtmustbe an exceptional case wmgH v^'uld -warrant keeping. ; them ldn?Ufoan six to eight months. As fast'^fln' pigs of one lot are fattened jBpgld, .'others should be ready t^^Ki Jj^aces of those dis '' '' ^ hen 11 Farm ?nJjt Garden Note*. Skim milk acid Indian meal are the-1 very best foot! for'pi'gs. < '^81 Fiat stones where abundant are the" '5 cheapest and best material for floor-' ing pigpens. \ Probably the best lice exterminatoi for poultry is. a good<vjiu8t box filled with common road dus* Potash is the chief fertilizer to be atmlied to fruit trees, particularly af ter they come into bearing. ! A;pound o&meat scraps to twentyfive Hens iB about the right- proportion. Feed ftvery other day. Often whei&pullets are not laying, a ration of mcsj%twice a week at this time of yea^irfUj. start them at work. In mosft^casee, it is crowding thai makes hensjjjet into the feed trough. Make the trimgh long and give them plenty of joom.^ Root* and^iJtraw are'very, deficient in albuminbgi material, consequently where a litwtfypil cake or pea meal is added to a; 4^ o_^.Jhis kind excellent In arjfl^Sfipro^per:, give special attention eqn*iructioLi, so that \ it can bel^BSt cfipStted and supplied with fresfrbedthng. A pigpen should be cieaied-Jottt every day. There; is every reason to believe I that in order tb'lfove good layers it is \ Kora ctr\r\il 1 nvi nor afnAlr ! neceaonxjr w u.,v Bw.. ( This is the rule applied to cows, horses, sheep and hogs, bo why should it not apply to the poultry ai well. Draft hoiB.QS;Bhqitfcld rarely bo driven faster than a walk: -in taking exeroise. ? They require much less than rq^d-.' j slers or running horses, .No draft iiorsc.'i .should hare less than five or six miles a day ?nu roadsters can easily jjo to six to tea miles. '! !>.-> nn-i-1,1 is nr.i? that all I poultry biivc to go through, and at this time t'.-ey eh .uM receive a'Httle more attcr.t'on tha:; is generally given. Keep tlien: out r-f draughts end feed oily l'octl. such assuuflower seeds and !in.?eod and you will find it a {^reat help to the birds. lioosiers in the majority of eases an: of no nso to the farmer, and should he have uuy around that arc of no Taluo as breeders. e beet thing hfl can do is to tarn theiu into money. The hens will lay just as well, if not better, without them, though theegjjs uje twcloss for hatching purpose*. , Imwyork M 5a,> ? iiS |? Designs For Costu come Popular ir jp b w New York City (Special).?This city is the point where all milliners get their first selections. The new SPRING MODELS FROM PARIS. (1. Emp&e. 2. Trianon. 3. Chantilly, 4fi Boer. fl. DIrectoire.) 1 style indication already approaching is leaving on,one side toques, berets and round hats of the folded andcumbersouie order. These will be teplaoed ,bj picture hats, whichin point Or Will 'tIDbUUiOU Uuc VT V*tu ?/j time the early Beason fyegins. Marked fhvor js bestoiMf; on all' sorts of head wear apprqi^JSTng. the Directoire and First EdjOT* .etjrlc& either in shape or mo<$|Ko? adotaThe.?e will be huge straw affaire with wide brims, filled on top with magnificentJBMfa.vtiWp ferably roses. Lots strings tied under the <?fin and ing over the front of gie^wns, i$Nf fair outline description M wh|t ipst be expected in tbf4#*i ieasiflm. ? The great hate ft Neapolitan, Swiss td fancy braids willbft anythjJ?ftynt _iit looking affairs, snjDamerypift^in the sense of protection io tbp'facjjfnnd in lightness of material ana Vibrations. tt +/i Via Cvpti mota fVlltn -Li ULD Uiuiov wy wv W? V- ? ? - ? -?~? large, we may almost say huge. That f?" ~j^3mQuE1ia?i I Itfl) Box fLAIT5 six ways of d; is, of course, for the late spring and summer. Some very pretty spring and sum mer hats have their brims covered with lace, especially when the brim is undulated. It is carelessly draped around the bar-is of the crown and falls in one or two ends at the back, in some cases terminated by a chcnille fringe in self color. Hats of open-work horsehair braid will also be much worn. Of these the brim alone is of horsehair, the crown oonsisting of a net frame entirely cottred by mousseline de soie disposed folds. Jnst because all to have ^ skirt s, or thin, or fn ctUBter^r?^^^n8t be flaring out toward the foot'aid tapering in at the' belt. In the lafge engraving are 9ix of this approved ways of introducing the fullness. SINGLE. We will take a look at the Bingle box plajit first. This one is ornamented with stitched satin applique, gilicb, 'gourse, pate it in the more elegant lidt. Thie very s^me plait, ^ ais ornamentation, however, is every bit aa ^graceful and figurea on aDj number of effetStive skirts. tf invft&ed; this box plait, forms the old fftfibiooeSj side-plaited effect. l?OCBT,E. The double box plait is almost ns great a favorite, though one must ad ISmf mes That Have Be- j? i the Metropolis. M V$?ti$gS8&3SB8l | mit that there's more of it to get out ' of shape, and disorderly generally. One thing, we must lie careful in holding up the skirt thus adorned, for plaits awry cease to be ornamental. twins. To return to the single plaits?some like them in pairs. And, indeed, some figures really do seem to be better set off by twin plaits than by one. In this case the plaits are always single. three op a kind. In this case they are Bingle, too. There's really no need for explanations, since the cut tells the whole BOX. plaits all . around. Though these paragraphs deal with the arrangement of back fullness, the plaits on this graceful skirt go all the way around. ^ , STITCHED TTCES. This ia another way of taking care of the ubiquitous, back fullness, for if we have'to have said fullness at all, we want it so well anchored that it will stay where it is put. This is an attractive way of managing this part of a skirt, which isimade of- crepe de chine orlike fabrics?textures that . arc not sufficiently heavy to make a good, eolid box plajt. As yon see, this tucked arrangement -is habit back, as to shape/ > . , Black doth-fekJrtS/WW^*,vWita blacl tacked yoke jetted .collar anc j ^l^^lai^^^^^ite satiDyj^ok par I w^^^e sa^^Sbft fur'tf' that-^hich covers the revers. Ail Innovation In Girdle". *r:'^Tte' unprecedented vogue of ]et nas led to its use in forms in feminine dress hitherto "unheard of. The last new arrival' to make its appearance among us, straight from La Belle France, is shown by our illustration. This is an ornamental jet girdle, made of fine quality cut black jet beads, on a silk foundation, with its ends fin ished -with tassels to match. Some fasten simply with a hook and eye, while others fasten with a slide. Thej ^555tiDTC^" J3 0 goyFUAiT&P Kco^af^J V rating a skirt. oulyeume in oue size, aijltbey will fit any figure, because thej^arc not intended to bo worn tight, ' The continued demand for jet for costumes, millihery, cbatelaine bags, JWT ^Gill WE. 3 ? %cHs?in fact, for tdffios: every pur. po.*e ludcr the sua?uo doubt bespeaks for this jet girdlo n warn welI come on \bis tide of the water. i The people in London have more success with wooden pavements thac we do over here. Consequently, two more streets, North Exeter road and Hampden street, which were lately torn up, are now being repaved with wooden pavements, wood having gained the preference over granite and asDhalt. This selection by the London City Engineer of wood over the more common paving materials in use in other large cities has caused some surprise over here, as our own experiments with wood as a paving material have by no means given satisfaction. The chief objection to it is its liability to speedy decay. A number of streets were paved with wood in this city, chiefly in the shopping district, within the last two or three years, but the majority of them had to be torn up again and replaced with a more durable paving material. The report of the City Engineer of London gives some interesting facts about Traffic over various pavements. According to his report, a horse traveling on a granite pavement may be expected to fall once for every 132 miles traveled, on asphalt once in 191 miles, and on wood once in 446 miles. The injury sustained by the animal is also far iesr; serious from a fall upon wood than upon asphalt or upon gran% ite,?New York Herald. Familiar Dreams ClaaalOed. A writer in Longman's Magazine gives the following classifications of familiar dreams: (1.) The falling dream?you are falling over a precipice or down the staifs. (2.) The flying dream?the dream that yon can fly. (3.) The dream of more or less in adequate toilet?that you are not properly clothed. (1.) The dream of not being able to get away from some beast, or injurious person or thing, that is pursuing you. (5.) The dream of being drawn irresistibly to some dangerous place, such as a fire. (6.) The dream that some darling wish ha^ been gratified. i (7.) The dream of being about to go on a journey, and being unable to get your things into your trunk, etc. "It scarcely needs to be observed," he continues, "that the great majority of the classes in which we have put dreams are of the kind that would be described as bad dreams rather than goocL" Dnt TitUM Spit and Smote loir Lin Awtj. 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No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, ecalp. and hair of infants and children. cuticcra Soap combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cuticuka, the great skin cure, with the --z onil thn mn:t rflfrpi:hin(rnf flnwpr rvlnre_ "Vo purest 01 ClCUUSIMg lUglCUItUU, CIUH V.iV. luva. ivuvw-g .. other medicated soap evei compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. Xo other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines, in One Soap at One Price, viz., Twenty-five Cents, the best Btin and complexion soap, the best toilet and best baby soap in the world. All that has heen said of Cuticura Soap may be said with even greater emphasis of Cuticura Ointment, the most delicate, and yet most effective of emollients, and greatest of skin cures. Its use in connection with Cuticuba Soap (as per directions around each package), in the "One Night Curb for Sorb Hands," in the " Instant Relief Treatment for Disfiguring Itchings and Irritations," and in many uses too numerous to meution, is sufficient to prove its superiority over all other preparations for the skin. /?a4i<r>i]Z7*<* Complete Dfemal and internal Treatment for eierfHumor, w I 2&JK.F E O consisting of CUTICUBA Scap to cleanse the skiu of crusts and ^ scales und eofti-a the ibickw.iNl cuticle, Crnci'RA Ointment (50c.), _ e ^to instantly allay Itihlug, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and I nlO b0tj heal, and Ot'TlCUKA 1'KSOLfEXT (50c. J, to cool and cleanse ;be blood. 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