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Killing Dandelions.
Many inquiries have been ad&ress*
to this department asking for advice
on how to kill dandelions in lawns.
The best means, of course, and surest,
is to dig them up, root and all. This is
tedious, however, and expensive. Try
in case the digging process is not emi
ployed, the sulphate of iron solution.
' Use a good sized handful to three gallons
of water and sprinkle this over an
\ area twenty feet square. It will not
injure the grass and will kill the
dandelions?at least some of them.
Show Birds for Egg Production.
One of the best investments the
writer ever made was a $25 cock introduced
among a flock of pullets
raised from a-dollar-a-dczen eggs.
The pullets were fairly well bred, and
from good laying stock, but the in*
troduction of the high-bred cock, a
show bird in the sense that he was
bred for perfect markings and form
according to the standard and scored
over 90, gave me chicks that were a
good many percent better from the
standpoint of egg production than
'.their mothers.
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Summer Use of Grains.
* The feeding problem in some sections
is quite formidable in the summer
as in the winter, and this is particularly
the case where the feeding
is largely done in the barn, which,
by the way, is becoming more popular
every year among dairymen. What
grains one shall use depends largely
I upon the methods which individual
feeders have found most profitable in
the past, but corn, in the summer rax*
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UOH, musi ue uocu. ^uv
stock foods or the concentrated grains,
purchased already mixed, ought also
to be handled carefully and parti cu.larly
so when little or no pasture is
V given the animals.
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N? All-Round Poultry Food.
[: A correspondent asks for some poultry
food which will answer for general
purposes?that is, a food which
% will make hens lay, which is also good
. for little chicks and which may be
used for fattening later if desired,
t. Novices in poultry raising are quite
^ likely to be more or less disturbed by
the amount of detail required to carry
on the work successfully and are generally
seeking for some short cut, especially
in the line of feeding. The
same food which will make hens lay
without fattening them wili not do
L . to fatten them on. Of course corn is
P usually a part of the variety fed hens
and will of itself fatten them, but it
' z is not used by itself as a regular diet
* for laying hens. It would be as ab
surd to feed hens cracKea corn entirely
as it would be to feed little
chicks the whole kernel.?Indianapolis
News.
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Testing for Water.
Make this test in dry weather and
in dry ground. Take a new earthern
pot?gallon will do?dig a hole in
the ground on the spot where you
4 want to dig your well, about a foot or
* so deep; put into the pot six extract
ounces of each of the following: Unslacked
lime, verdigris and white
frankincense; powder and mix, put ink
to pot, cover pot with six ounces of
sheep wool. Now weigh all and get
* exact weight and make note of it;
now put pot into hole and cover hole
up with dry earth. After 24 hours
take pot up again being careful not to
have any earth adhering to it Be
sure and get earth out of wool quickly
and weigh pot at once. Now, if
the weight has decreased, there is no
water on the spot. On the other hand
It of the weight has increased two
ounces water stands 48 feet deep; seven
ounces, 37 feet, twelve ounces 18
feet The pot and its ingredients
draw moisture even at great depth. I
do not think this method is known
by many people. It has, however,
been tested and found true?Paul
ly^Kautz. ,
Problem for Every Farmer.
It is much easier for one to be inde%
pendent of dry weather than of wet
unless the soil is naturally wet, so
that It may b9 pipe drained and thus
1 get rid of the excessive moisture and
* this is an expensive operation, but,
notwithstanding, a most desirable one
*in the end. Potato growers are per- i
haps more interested in the problem of
how to battle with dry weather than
growers of any other crop, and under
normal conditions, the secret is simL
ply_ to see that the soil is properly
|~?-^supplied with humus or vegetable
f matter.
1 It is folly, or will be found so after
A a few years, to attempt to grow po^
tatoes on the same ground year after
year or to grow them wholly by the
aid of oommercial fertilizers. Here is
where it pays to mane every possiuxe
effort to grow clover for getting
heavy crops of clover under the soil
L will add the required humus, which, in
connection with first-class seed, care
a and cultivation, will enable one to
grow heavy crops of potatoes in normal
seasons and better than your
neighbor's in dry seasons.
This question of getting humus into
the soil is one that must be met scon
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\
er or later oy every>j&rmer and especially
bv those who pin their faith
very largely to commercial fertilizers.
The r>r?inn Manoot.
Every onion grower should prepare
to combat this destructive pest and
begin early. The onion maggot is the
immature stage of a small fly that
lays eggs in the onion when they are
very small. The fly looks something
like a small* house fly. The maggot
appears when the plants are quite
young and works directly into the
bulb entirely destroying it for use.
Of course all infested plants should
be carefully taken out and burned as
soon as discovered.
Treatment with kerosene and sand
for small patches of onions and treatment
with commercial fertilizers for
large fields is recommended. The kerosene
and sand treatment consists of
placing sand with herosene oil alongside
the young plants, but not quite
touching hem. It keeps the flies from
laying their eggs and kills some young
maggots outright. Use a cupful of oil
to a bucketful of dry sand.
The fertilizer treatment is as follows:
With hand plow turn aside the
soil from the rows of young plants,
making a little furrow on each side
of the row, then sow broadcast about
COO pounds of kanit and 200 pounds of
nitrate of soda per acre; turn back the
soil and wait for rain. When the rain
comes it will wash the salty fertilizers
into the soil and kill the maggots, besides
stimulating the plants to fresh
vigor and thus help them to overcome
the. effects of the pests.?The Epitomist.
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Earth for Hog Pen Floors.
While the cement floor may be the
ideal one for the hog pen, as claimed
by many swine breeders, our experience
has been that the floor of earth,
if it is of clay and gravel, will answer j
the purpose equally well with a small :
number of swine. If we' had large !
herds we should certainly use cement,
which can be applied at any time with
the earth floor as a foundation.
The one floor which ought not to he
used is that, of plank, and the reasons
are obvious to every one who keeps
swine. They are cold, wet and slippery.
retain odors and are expensive j
besides being bad for the feet of the j
hogs. In making the floor for the
hog pen. and we have the same sort
of floor for the yard, it is made by
taking out the soil for the depth of
three feet, filling in a foot deep with
coal ashes well packed down and then
putting on the two feet of soil about
evenly composed of clay and gravel,
using the gravel which comes from
a heavy or clayey son, n po&aiuie, n. |
sand gravel, as it is sometimes called,
is all that can be obtained, the sand is
screened out and the gravel mixed
with the clay in the proportion of two
parts of clay to one of gravel. By
giving this floor the proper slope
both in the pen and the yard, it does
not stay wet long, and is so hard that
hogs can not root in it, while being
yielding enough so that they do not
slip on it, and the under stratum of
ashes carries off the moisture which
penetrates through.
Farm Notes.
Pinch the heads of the worthless
queens.
A mulch works well around the
gooseberry bushes.
Put another window in the old,
dark poultry house.
Plow the orchard shallow, not deeper
than four inches.
The branches of the peach tree
ought to be thinned out to let in the
sun.
Poultry culture will never do for
drones. It requires live, wide-awaKe
men.
Poultry work requires the same
shrewdness that any other occupation
does.
Save your own seed, or buy the best
seed at four times the cost, if necessary.
Lard alone is a good insecticide. It
does not need kerosene to make it effective.
We have yet to hear of the- first,
poultry farm that was built up by
dunghill fowls.
Make the hens dance for their
greens by hanging the cabbage up
above the floor.
Scrubs and runts may serve their
purpose, but why allcw them to propagate
their kind?
Don't buy a let cf things you do not
need, merely because the agent's
tongue is hung in the middle and loose
at both ends.
If you wish to increase the fertility
of the farm, raise more clover, feed
' the hay to the stock and return tilt
manure to the land.
I If the orchard is to be plowed,
spring is the best time. The more
j that can be added to the soil and the
less removed, except as fruit, the better.
If you would get the best retarns
from your investment in your horse,
treat him right, and be sure to clip s
him in the early spring.?Horse Re- '
| view.
"MOUNTAINS" OF SALTPETRE.
Useless Treasure in Death Valley it
California.
Most of the saltpetre, or nitre,
which the world consumes comes
from a limited region in Chili. These
deposits have long been famous. They
are not the only ones in existence,
though. A writer for "The Technical
World Magazine" declares that there
are immense quantities in Southern
California. Off to the north and east
tAneroids: hp savs?two hundred
Ui _ and
fifty miles or so away?is a vast jj
region known as Death Valley. A J#
few veins of gold and silver have been jl
found there, but they cannot be min- |
ed. Nothing is seen but sand and bor- ;'
ax. To the southeast of the valley, I
this writer asserts,, there are thousands
of acres of crude nitre.
The region is devoid of all vegetation.
The desert is as yellow as corn .
and smooth as a floor. Under foot ;
the earth crumbles into dust as fine j
as flour. Here and there rise hil- i
locks, none of them more than two
hundred feet high. On these the ye!- ,
lowish covering is often a foot or two
thick. Elsewhere it thins out to two
or three inches. Below the powder is
what is called a "bed rock," which is
really no harder than dried clay. In
both the dust and the rock there is
nitre. Though there is next to no rain
there, much of the nitre in the sand
has been leached out. That in the
bedrock is more abundant.
To the taste this bedrock is of a :
fiery bitterness, so strong, indeed, j
that to hold it to the tongue for more i
than an instant is to invite a blister.
Kow pure this is may be judged from
he fact that hurried and necessarily
incomplete field assays credited it
with more than 14 per cent., the valley
deposits giving about 1 per cent.,
and the "blanket" which covers the
hills some 10 per cent. Nitre of this
degree of purity can, of course, be
worked at an immense profit when
j that desideratum of all desert mineral
workings?water?can be had. The
! land beneath the nitre beds?which
j latter are merely superficial deposits
j and do not extend down into the earth
at all?must of necessity be so soaked
with the leachings from these hills
| that it, too, can be worked to advant[
age when the 10,000 or 15,000 acres of
i yellow granules of rock have been
converted into an article of commerce.
When the magazine writer here
quoted has presented his picture of
! possible wealth, he points out that it
| is not now available. The deposits
i cannot be worked without water, and
in the few places where water is
| found there is no railroad to carry
away the commodity. This is a tantalizing
statement to make, but it is
conceivable that some day the situation
may improve.
Not His Property.
Antoine Rivaroi, the French epigrammatist
of the eigtheenth century,
was so brilliant that something good
was expected of him every minute.
Once when he had been invited to
dinner, at which.the hostess especially
wished him to shine, he sat quite
silent.
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The attituae 01 aisappunn.eu ca^wi.
I ancy in the 'company nettled him, and
I at last Rivarol made a stupfd remark.
| Everybody uttered an exclamation,
j "There," said Rivarol, "I cannot say
' a stupid thing without every one's
crying, 'Thief!' "
At a dinner in the house of some
Germans he make a joke. His hosts
put their heads together inquiringly.
Rivarol said to his neighbor, a French-1
man:
"Look at the Germans pooling their
wits to understand a joke."
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A steel chimney 260 feet high was recently
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens thegums. reducesinflammation,
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France has 7000 miles of State owned
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UNABLE TO WALK.
Terrible Sore on Ankle Caused Awful Snf.
ferinjj?Could Not Sleep?Cured
by Cuticura in Six Weeks. .1
"I had a terrible sore on my ankle, and
had not walked any for eleven months: I
tried nearly everything without any benefit
and had a doctor, but he didn't seem
to do any good. He said I would have
to have my limb taken off, and that I
would never walk again. I suffered awful,
and at night I could not sleep at all.
I thought there was no rest for me, but
as soon as I began to use Cuticura Soap
and Ointment it commenced healing nicely.
I bathed the ankle with warm water and
Cuticura Soap, and then applied Cuticura
Ointment to the affected part, and laid a j
cloth over the sore to hold it in place.
After two weeks I could walk around in
my room real good, and in :-;ix weeks' time ;
my ankle was entirely cured, and i was i
walking around out of doors. Mrs. Mary i
Dickerson, Louisa C. II., Va., April 22, :
1905."
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Many a woman has talked herself
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Jive Weeks in Bed With Intensely
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Mrs. Mary Wagner, of 1367 Kos- j
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sediment and odor. I don't
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an improvement from the first box,
and five boxes brought a final cure."
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Large For Its Age.
Old Jacob Wyckoff, a farmer whose
place was just outside of town, had
made a present of his largest yellow
pumpkin to the editor of the village
paper, and the editor wrote an item
acknowledging the gift. But unfortunately
the office boy who put it in
type got it mixed with an item announcing
the birth of a baby in the
family of another subscriber. This
is the way it appeared in print:
Our old friend, Harry Townsend, is
celebrating the arrival of a fine boy
at his house. The new-comer is the
very image of its father. It is one of
the large corn-field variety, with huge
bumps all over it, and weighs fiftysix
pounds. There isn't a flaw in it
anywhere, except a dent made by our
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fool office boy; and tnat aoesu i master,
as we are going , to cut it up at
cnce.
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RACE PREJUDICE.
Muggins (reading paper)?Another
Instance of race prejudice in Ohio!
Jorkins?How terrible? Where was
It this time?
Muggins?In Toledo. An attack was
made late yesterday afternoon on the
poolrooms.?American Spectator.
je ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use " L,
MJTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOREST
TREE.
iasy to Read if You Take Borings
and Know How to Interpret Them.
The forester reads the history of a
:ree in great detail. After taking;
)ut a few "borings" to the center of ]
he tree at different heights and countng
the rings on them he may spin
rou such a yarn as this:
"This tree is 150 years old?(150
rings at the base) During its first
5ve years it grew only seven inches
(145 rings seven inches from the
base). Evidently it then began to
touch crowns with other saplings, for
It took a spurt and put on fifteen
inches a year steadily till it was 40 i
years old (40 rings 44 1-2 feet above j
ground).
"It was not growing as fast as its i
neighbors however, for at this point 1
it began to be overshadowed, and its j
growth declined for the next ten years j
to as little as four inches a year (45 ,
rings at 48 feet and 50 at 50 feet), j
"Just in time to save its life, some- j
thing happened to its big neighbors, j
presumably a wind-storm?iei s see, i
that would be in 1806?and it resum-1
ed a steady growth of about six inches
a year, having passed its fastest
growing time.
'Its growth in thickness doesn't
seem to have varied much; about an
inch every three years; but it grew
faster and faster in volume, of course,
at its hegiht increased; a little over
a cubic foot a year in its prime of
life, I should judge.
"About thirty years ago it reached
i. aturity and stopped growing in
height (30 rings at the top of the
main stem), and now it is approaching
old age (the last rings are pretty
thin). Hold on a minute; here's a
false ring?twenty?forty?forty-six
years bacK. two very mm nu5a?
see? instead of one thick one. Means
that something interrupted the growing
season?probably a late frost. Let
us ask the oldest inhabitant."
And the chances are ten to one the
oldest inhabitant remembers the hard
spring of I860 and has heard tales of
the great wind in 1806.?American
Magazine.
BOSTON SCENTS A JOKE.
"If you marry that girl it will put
you in bad cdor with your family."
"Oh, the bad odor part doesn't
worry me. You see we come of old
colognial stock."?Boston Transcript.
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