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y *> Sheep Exterminate Thistles. In this age of experiment the reported performance of a Michigan farmer is worth trying. He was working his ^ sheep in connection with an effort to kill Canada thistles. He put some salt as near the crown of each thistle as possible. In this way the sheep were induced to eat the thistles close to the ground. It is seldom necessary to deal with the case the second year. Fertilizers. A man must use fertilizers intelliv gently or he will throw away a great deal of money upon them. It is absurd for a farmer to purchase a fertilizer and put it upon land that he does not know needs fertilizers. A Tin* cvnonH a dollar in I W<U1 bUUUlU UW (.Afvuu v. ? fertilizers till he knows what kind he #eeds. If his land is rich in a certain . lement he will but throw money away if he buys fertilizers to put on his land. Wasting money in this way is one of the penalties of not knowing.? Indianapolis News. Potato Spraying Saved $22 Per Acre. In- the efforts to make potato spraying popular among the farmers of the state, the New York Experiment station at Geneva has been carrying on co-operative tests with farmers in all parts of the state. As a result of the spraying carried on by forty-one farmers on a total of 363 acres, the aver " age gain due to spraying was fifty-eight bushels per acre, at a cost of about $5 per acre, giving a net profit of about $22 per acre, after paying the ex* - 1* . V\ I c pease 01 spraying, as a. resun, ui cmo good work it is asserted that the prac* tice/of spraying is on the increase in New^York. ? . What the Farmer Amounts To. The department of agriculture estimates "that during the past year the American farmer has produced almost six and one half billion dollars, which is more than the National debt of the United States, and would buy half the : / railroads in the country. His business that he does along dairy lines amounts 4 to more than the combined iron and steel industries and his numerous other "little" (?) extras are upon the sam? gigantic scale. Who would dare to J say that the farmer is not an important factor in the vast business done by this country??New York Witness. y. ^ Preventing Cedar Rust. The disease called cedar rust, which 1 spreads to apple trees from cedar apwioo nftmmAniv on p.edar trees. and pasture savins, has been investigated - at the Nebraska station with . the conclusion that spraying with bordeaux mixture will keep the disease in ? check, making the application when the cedar apples on cedar trees show the orange color, followed with anV other spraying ten days or two weeks later. It is also recommended to destroy cedar trees or at least to get out the cedar apples for a considerable dstance around the orchards. Where v distance is carried on for apple scab, etc., the same spraying would answer for the rust. .?v- ' ______ ^ Turnips for Summer. Turnips may be raised for summer Use if they are sown early enough. They must be grown in the cooler parts of the year, otherwise they become hitter. Sown early and on moderately fertile soil they will make quite a ' , desirable addition to the list of useful roots. But they have a still further u?e. The tops make a pot-herb and lose none of their young and shrd s lose none of their value by being cooked with the young and tender roots. The turnip is not half appreciated. It can be grown at the beginning and the end of the season, in nooks and corners suitable for a few 4 other plants, and serves as a handy crop to succeed several others, keeping down the weeds. It is surprising to find how much of the seed can be sown if it is at hand.?National Fruit Grower. rWj- .' > , jF? ???_ The Onion Maggot. Every onion grower should prepare to combat this destructive pest and begin early. The cnion maggot is the immature stage of a small fly that lays eggs in the on-ions when they are ? very small. The fly looks something like a small house fly. The maggot ? ?" f/vmnHTin/ic nrVtan the nlants arp CljJJJ^CLl O DVUUT^V A 1UW rruvu v**v %? v quite young and works directly into %he 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 commera cial fertilizers for large fields is recommended. The kerosene and sand treatment consists of placing moistened sand with kerosen^ oil alongside the young plants, but not quite touching them. It keeps the flies from laying their eggs and kills some young mag? gots out-right. 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 ihe row, then sow \ .. f . . broadcast about 600 pounds of kainit 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.?Farmers' Home Journal. What of the Horse? During the last year it is stated on authority that over 25,000 automobiles for travel and hauling have been sold and gone into use. The prediction of the manufacturers of these power wagons and carriages for several years has been "the passing of the horse," whil? in fact we really see daily the horas "passing" everywhere more frequently than ever, and the cry is there are not enough horses to supply the demand* As we have said several times before the power vehicle, like all other advancing movements, came to supply the demand for more rapid movements, just as the steam railway came to facilitate more rapid transport than the stage afforded, and like the electric roads to accellerate hourly demands for travel which steam trains two or three times a day did not supply. The stage, indeed, has "passed," but the horse supplies a place and demand neither steam nor electric roads can't, for they go with their burdens "across lots" as it were, or on roads and in fields where there are neither tracks nor other possibilities for travel. As to the automobiles they simply supplement a demand for which there are not enough horses to supply. One of the horse breeding associations says that the demand for good horses was never more urgent than now, and the supply far below the requirements, and that farmers are everywhere recognizing that the raising of good horses is as necessary as is that of other live stock. Various conditions have surj rounded the horse trade in the past several years which pessimistic men , said would seriously hamper this in[ dustry. Among these so-called bad features were the electric street railways, bicycles and automobiles. The farmer who stood by the horse Is now reaping the benefits. Buyers are clamoring for his supplies at the highest prices in years, yet they are unable to secure nearly the number their orders call for. This would indicate that the demand has outgrown the supply. "There is every reason to believe that the outlet for horses will continue I broad and prices will be comparatively high, and it would seem that the farm er who raises a good class will make no mistake." Treatment to Exterminate Lice. Dr. R. A. Craig, veterinarian at tje Purdue experiment station, Lafaye.te, Ind., has issued a bulletin on the treatment of live stock for lice, and the directions if followed out will result in saving many dollars. Farm stock that has become infested with vermin during the winter months do not thrive as they should, and in the spring may show marked unthriftiness. This is especially true when stock is not well cared for and in young animals. The sucking lice are more harmful than the biting variety, as the former have mouths adapted to penetrating the skin and sucking the blood of the host. However, the symptoms may be as marked in sheep and other animals that are badly infected with biting > lice. In some cases the wool or coat becomes matted and inflamed as a result of the animal running, biting and* scratching the parts. Good care during the winter will prevent the lice from doing a great deal of harm, and the simpler remedies, such as mercu rial and sulphur ointment rubbed back of the horns or ears and along the mane or back, and Insect powder dusted into the coat may help in destroying them. A thorough treatment of the herd with dips or washes can not be practiced during the winter months unless the treated animals are prevented from catching cold. A favorable time to use this line of treatment is in the spring. A 1 or 2 percent water solution of a tar disinfectant should be used. A convenient way to apply the remedy in the larger animals is with a spray pump and in sheep and hogs by dipping. Whatever method is used the coat and skin must be thoroughly wet with the solution. Proper care should be taken in mixing the remedy, as there is danger of making it too strong and irritating the skin. After treating the herd, the stables or | sleeping quarters should be sprayed | with about a 2 percent water solution of the disinfectant or whitewash may be used instead. This is neces sary to protect the herd from the surroundings. If there is much litter about the yards the herd should be removed to other yards. The disinfectants in a 1 or 2 percent solution do not destroy the eggs or nits, hence ; it is necessary to treat the animals again in ten days or two weeks. Sulphur will help when fed to the animals. It is effective when used externally and the addition of four ounces to every gallon of the tar disinfectant solution used will greatly increase the effectiveness of the remedy. ' ' A Happy Afterthought. The story of a proposal by telephone is recorded by a writer in the Phil- j adelphia Public Ledger. Pete, a col- : ored youth, was very bashful, and , having decided, first, that he wanted | Miss Johnson for his wife, and sec- j ond, that he dared not ask her in j person, he had recourse to the tele- j phone. He rang her up at the house of her employer, and inquired: "Is dat you, Miss Johnson?" "Yaas," came the reply. "Well, Miss Johnson, I's got a mos' 1? ?*~ ? AW oelr vnn 99 important ijucstiuu iu a.o?. jv ? "Yaas." "Will you marry me, Miss Johnson?" "Yaas. Who is it, please?" FITS, St.Vitus' Dance :Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. A man's wife may be his better half, but he usually does all the betting. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething,softens thegums, reduce si nflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle A fool tries to get square with others, but the wise man spends his time in blocking the atempts of others to get square with him.?Chicago News. ITS MIRIT It PROVED RfMM (f I HUT HMflK Prominent Ctnotaaota women 10ua Mew Lydia M. Plnkheta'e Vegetable Compound Completely Ourod Her. The greet food Lvdia E. Pinkh&m's Vegetable Compound is doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading scientists, and thinking people generally. The following letter is only one of Many thousands which are on file in the Pinkham office, and 00 to prove bevond question that Lyaia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound must be a remedy of great merit, otherwise it could not produce such marvelous results among sick and ailing women. Dear Mr*. PInkham:? "About nine months ago I was a great sufferer with female trouble, which caused me severe pain, extreme nervousness and freauent headaches, from which the doctor railed to relieve me. I tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and within a short time felt better, and after taking five bottles of it I was entirely cured. I therefore heartily recommend your Compound as a splendid female tonic. It makes the monthly periods regular and without pain: and what a blessing it is to find such a remedy after so many doctors fail to help you. I am pleased to recommend it to all suffering women."? Mrs. Sara Wilson, Si East 8d Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. If you have suppressed or painful periods, weakness of the stomach, indigestion, bloating, pelvic catarrh, nervous prostration, dizziness, faintness, " don't-care " and " want-to-beleft-alone " feeling, excitability, backache or the blues, these are sure indications of female weakness, or some derangement of the orgtns. In such eases there is one tried and true remedy ?Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. b the oldest ud flnt txMMM eolaae a Vk. ? Hi b?Mflw CM. No naMt. Loin ?A fi?*g*?Book Wag, Shorthand. Pcmmb^p, Trpewntm*. TJeo.* ? ggfH&Xi. p??W~i.v? CAPUDINE I | MPA It acta iaa?4Ut?lyCURES BsrerM INDIGESTION and .."I ACniTY 2S?>lAc4'U??iiXi?? tmBOTtef tha mom. M miU, Life After Death. A German biologist has been investigating the question of the activity of animal bodies after death, and has published some suggestive conclusions. It appears that death is not instantaneous through the physical organism, for it has been observed that many of the different tissues continue active for a considerable period after the time when the animal is assumed to be dead, particularly in the case of the lower animals. Cells from the brain of a frog, for example, have been kept alive for over a week when held in certain solutions, and the heart of A frog has been known to beat for many hours after being removed from the dead body. The hearts of turtles and snakes will beat for days, or even a week, after death. William Shakespeare has just died at Stratford-on-Avon. He was seventy-five years old, and it is not known that he ever put pen to paper, in the way of writing plays. mm WMi lactuN of the 5 A ' *- ' ' ^ *1 . Ideal food for children. D? PUCE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD I I makes the children plump and strong and prevents sour stomach and constipation. The best food for growing children, ini valids and the aged. lf 10 cents a package. For sale by all Grocers i /fry -. . ?BT Cc AAA BANK DEPOSIT R?R? Fire Paid, Notes Tikea ^00 FREK COURSES Dk oardat Cost. Write Quick BE0N6IA-ALABHIA BUttfcw 'SCOLLEflE, Mieoft. Ga. The Final Touch. It was known that Anabelle Hobhs had made a good match, from a worldly point of view; just how good, however, nobody in Hillville fully realized until the return of Anabelle's mother from a visit to the new home. "I guess there's nothing Anabelle can't have if she takes the notion," said Mrs. Hobbs, with a sigh of satisfaction. "I tell her she'd ought to show reason, for of course, Henry will get kind of wonted to her after a while, and not be quite so ready; but now he takes up with all her whims. What do you suppose his I last gift was?" I The listener dared not venture a supposition. "I didn't imagine you would," said Mrs. Hobbs, with satisfaction. "Anabelle's always been set on onions ever since she was a child, but her pa and I never encouraged her in it, first because they smell so, and then, too, they cost considerable unless you raise them yourself. "Well, Henry found out how fond she is of 'em, and he ordered a halfbushel to be there when they got back from the trip; and then when she told him my objections, and he knew I was coming he bought a pint bottle of that new hyacinth perfumery and put it in the guest-room for me. "When I got that on, why, Anabelle might have eaten the whole o' that half-bushel of onions and I should never have known it. Here, you smell o' that handkerchief and you'll see I'm not speaking a word beyond the truth." Grim Destroyer Did Not Appear. About two weeks ago an Indian L'rom one of the nearby reservations came to town to buy a coffin. He went to the Mohn & Driscoll establishment, where he bought and paid for a $30 casket. He explained that no one was dead, but a daughter of his was expecting to die, and he wanted to be ready for business if the Great Chief decided to call her. However, he wanted a provision that he could return the coffin and get his money back if death failed to enter his home. This morning he came back to town with the coffin, and went around to get his money back. After waiting around several days for the visit of the Grim Destroyer to come, the old redman became convinced that he was not going to get to use that coffin. The girl got better, and is now as j well as ever, and the father was put ; to all of his extra pains for nothing. The next time any of ftis people take a notion to die he is going to let them go ahead and shuffle off before he gets a casket, for he does not propose to be disappointed in this manner again.?Phoenix Gazette. I Chicago's New Court House. i ha* never had much luck, i of the good sort at least, with her j public buildinjps. Hence her especial ? joy and pride in her new court house. It is to cost $5,000,000, will have a frontage of 374 feet on Clark street f and of 157 feet on Washington and . Randolph streets. Its foundation piers, j says the World Today, go down to bed j rock at from 115 to }2? feet below the j street level. It will tower 205 feet ! above the street. On the main front the most con- j spicuous feature will be ten monster : columns, each 94 feet in height. The | building will contain thirty court- j rooms, ventilated by the blast system, which, by introducing washed air, j does away with open windows. Barring accident, it will be com- j pleted by May 1, 1907. DIFFERENT. She had said "yes" and he was ! taking the measure for the solitaire. j "Darling," he said, "you are the only j woman I ever proposed to." "I'm afraid you have a poor memory, dear," she rejoined. "You once j told me you had been engaged to a widow.' "True," he replied, "but that was j. during leap year."?Chicago News. | >66 ugly, grizzly, gray hair*. Use " LI ,\S . -' Ji. ? *' * * -v i. Limitation* "Madam," said the young man who had called at the dack door on May- , day, "I have the pleasure of intro- i ducing to you our new, automatic j nousecleanlng machine?a simple little j thing which does the whole work of j housecleaning, leaving to you merely j the general supervision." The New ! Orleans Picayunne records the con-1 versation. "Does it all, hey?" demanded the woman of the house. "Will it wash the outside of the up-stair windows?" ? W iJ v, uu, rnauaui, uui? "Will it take down, wash, stretch ! to dry, iron and hang up the parlor j curtains?" "Well, of course?this machine?" j "Will it gild the chandeliers, paint j the kitchen, make my daughter help ! with the dishes, persuade my hus- j band to be contented with cold din- j ners, get out the screens and paten them up?" "Oh madam, this machine?" 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