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GARDEN. FARM and CROPS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE UP-TO-DATE AGRICULTURIST Shori Too Much. ?The farm horse is shod too much. Un less mych road work Is required, little shoeing Is necessary. A foot keeps In natural ccaditidn longer unshod. The trtui perform* Its natural functions better. The . horse works more easily over plowed land or in mud. A bare toot clings to a floor or other slippery places better than a smooth shoe^ ? Bos ton Cultivator. . Feed and . Fatten on the Farm. Some one has wisely observed that the farmer who aends his corn to mar ket In the shape of fat oxen, sheep and pigs' Is always sure of getting paid for his crop. The- manure pays for the cost of <feedlr?. , The . man who. sells his grain direct enriches another man's farmtat the expense of his own. The best way Is to feed on the farm as far to practicable.? New York Witness. ' ???'?* ' "f Li . . .. . . ? . i . i A Good Dairy Combination. . The cow and sow are surely a great combination when handled rlgbt. The quickest, easiest and keep-coming money maker Is a good cow, and when you ran keep Just over In the next lot a good sow with seven or eight lusty pigs, oslllnff for all the sklmmilk you oa? give them. It Is surely easy money. More farms today are making milk and pork. their main products than ever be fore. Where the milk Is skimmed at home, and th? fresh, aweet milk fed to the pigs, there is the best opportunity in the world for making cheap pork. Experiment stations claim that skim milk is worth for feeding from 20 to 26 cents per hundred. It is worth much inore Jf we take into consideration the boost it gives the pigs Just at the right time. Work the combination ? low and cow. They will pay well for you.? Indiana Farmer. Two Hindrances to Growth. ? .?They seem to come to all hogs and we should be ready to combat them. They are lice and worms. The man who never does anything to keep away lloe ;i believe, is losing money. There ls.no more effective method of gfjttlng rid. of Il<;e lo mild weather thjtn by dipping. ; But whether you have a dipping plant or. not there should be some provision for applying a. disinfectant by spraying "or sprink ling. ' , ' We use a cheap quality of kerosene and apply very lightly s but -often. Oth er liquids o^ay be. better, but. the kero sene Is uaeful for many things and it Is always ready. We have a five gallon can fOr oil for the stock and poultry. It to good to apply a few drops to the feed which serves u purpose similar to that of the exter nal application. This seems to be an - affective remedy for the coughs com mon among hogs. ; For worms we give turpentine' mixed with the feed. The proper use of theise liquids requires that they b? adminis tered frequently and in small quanti Qood Sheep Good Property. Tha Farm Stock Journal says that the sheep of the past were kept chiefly for wool, which sharply fluctuates, but in recent yearB there has developed a world-wide demand for inutton. This le in and is increasing. It will continue lo increase a? meat consumers better understand the excellent qualities of raultou. This insures for the sheep keeper, two stable market products from bis flock ? wool and mutton. Sheep keeping comes nearer being a safe and Burely profitable industry than ever before. Yet, It must be remem bered that the scrub sheep with her ac-tnty, uneven fleece, and runty lambs, vies successfully with the scrub cow In leading her owner to the gates of bankruptcy. It Is the full and half breed sheep and lambs that top the ^narkcts, the full and hplf-breed fleeces that lead the wool market quotations. They are yielding handsome divi dends. and in times of depression, will enable their owners to keep clear of the rocks of disaster. It pays t6 breed the best, whether It be sheep, swine, cattle or horses. indigestion of Fowls. For mild attacks of Indigestion oc curring when there Is no reason to sup pose the trouble Is due to the quality of food, there I* nothing better ? noth ing so good, in fact ? as fasting, letting the fowls go without food, excepting green food, for one or two days, then feeding them sparingly. In highly fed hens the digestive system Is often over worked. A system of feeding and quality of food that one hen or one fl*-k stands all right may be too much for another. The poultry keeper has to Judge of what and how to feed, not by someone else's results, but by re sults In his own yards. To get good growth and heavy egg production we must feed heavily, and In feeding heav ily we t\re always running risks of breaking down the digestive systems by overwork, 80 Ihe poultryman should wstch closely for signs of indigestion, especially Inrk of appetite or loosc nesa of the bowels, and when such ?ymptoms appear let the hens go with out grain for a feed or sereral feeds, as the rase mny seem to require. Care ful attention lo this point Is the best preventive of digestive disorders. I have found It a good plan to onflt one: feed a week as a regular thing, and for many years have made it a practice to give the fowls one less feed on Sun day. ? Farm Poultry. How to Make the Farm Pay. There are a great maay standpoints from which this subject can be taken up. In this talk I will consider It ftom the standpoint of soU fertility. The one crop system has reduced yields faster than It would seem that It ought to, and especially' where the soils were rery rich to begin with, la order to get definite data in regard 1 to the effect of the one crop system as compared with a rotation, a set of fields were set apart for this purpose at the Minnesota Experiment Station. One field was grown to wheat for five years, another field to wheat, clover, wheat, oats and corn manured. A third plot to corn for five years, and a fourth field to oats for 6 years. These fields had grown the same crops and had the same | treatment before being brought Into the experiment* - * At the beginning the sbils were ana lyzed as to their nitrogen and humus content. ' Nitrogen is the most import ant plant food, and also gets away the easiest; it is also the most expensive to replace. At the. end of the five years there had been a loss of 856 pounds of nitrogen per acre, of which 98 pounds were re moved in the crops, the remaining 757 pounds being lost, at 15c per pound, $113.55. which makes it quite clear why the one cropping system is hard on the land. It was also found that the loss in humus had been 7300 pounds per acre, in the 5 years, which explains in .part why the nitrogen had escaped, ss the organic matter or humus holds the nit rogen in a way that it cannot waste. . On the field where there had been a rotation of crops, including clover and corn manured, the gain in the 5 years was 343 pounds, of which 2?6 pounds were removed in the crop, leaving a net gain of 118 poondB, which at 16c per pound amounts to $1710. There had also been a gain of 13.830 pounds of humus per acre. The difference in the results of the two fields are very mark ed; the one containing at the end of the 6 years, $180-65 worth of nitrogen more than the other and 21,180 pounds more of humus, besides having raised by far the larger crop. This one was a fertile field, In fine tilth, while the other was lacking in both fertility and tilth. At the beginning of the experi ment the soils weighed 76 pounds per cubic foot; at the end of the five years the 8 oil of the field frown to wheat weighed 77 pounds, while the soil of the rotation plot weighed only 72 pounds. There was a loss of 426 pounds of nl- . trogen per acre in the soil of the plot^ grown to corn. Of this 280 pounds were removed in the crop, leaving a net loss of 145 pounds, which, at 15c, would amount to $21.75. The loss of humus was 5532 pounds per acre. The field grown to oats for 5 years (?Offered a loss of 980 pounds of nitro gen per acre, of which 230 pounds were removed in the crop, leaving n net loss df 7F?0 pounds, which, at 15c. umounts to $112.50. The loss of humus was 6086 pounds. These figures help explain why stock raising and dairying* lare profitable. It Is not only In the returns but also in the improvement that comes to the soil through the crop rotations practiced; which keep an abundant supply of -hn mus In the soil, to retain the nitrogen and to make the soil mellow.? Address before Marion County Farmers' In stitute, by Prof. W. C. Palmer, Win ona Agricultural Institute. Farm Notes. Good stock will find quicker fcales at good prices than poor stock at any price. All profitableness begins and ends In the excellence or low grade of the fheep. Mutton sheep give the best returns, If fed for that purpose while they are young. The sheep business will be on the mfcst basis when .the fleece and car cass are both well developed and val uable. No animal will deteriorate so rapidly from neglect or show so marked an improvement for good kee;i as well bred sheep. Not all colds develop Into roup, but (olds are apt to "wind up" with roup troubles if there Is a taint of constitu tional roup In the flock. How can one expect Rood and profit able results from an industry in which he spends neither time nor energy? Poultry keeping Is an Industry. The Dabcock test registers the amount of butter fat. which is not the same as the amount of butter, be cause butter contains Trom 12 to 15 percent of water besides butter fat. Add about 12 percent to the Babcoc't indication in rec koning the product of the churn. To prevent sore shoulders of work ing horses, H. E. Cook recommend 4 perfectly fitting collars fitted to the shoulders by working the horre in them after thorough soaking of the collar*. He would avoid sweat pads under all circumstances except where they become absolutely necessary be cause of lack at properly fitting col* lers.? Americaa Cultivator. . . CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. ONCE UPON A TIME. I wish tbat I Lad lived when dajrn Were full of promise and of praise. When fields were spread with eloth-of-gold - For ladies fair and champion* bold. And minstrels ran* their praise in rimo In that bold "One* Upon a Time." If I'd lived then I might havo done The bravest things beneath the sun: I might have found the Golden Fleece. |r Or fought for Troy against all Greece; Or ridden swift to Camelot To joust with peerlass Launce!ot. Ob. think what splendid things they M! I might have captured Pirate Kidd ! ' 1 might have roamed the rreenwooo then With Robin Hood and all his men. Or sailed, perhaps, with Ulysses To find the fair lies pe rides. Such noble deeds were there to do The day long and the long night, too. I read and dream and wish once more That I had lived in days of yore. When chivalry was in its prime . In that fair "Once Upon a Time." ?Alice Vsn Leer Carrick, in Youth's Com panion. ADVENTURE OF THE BENT CARD. This is a talc about Mr. Pigmy and the little boy giant wbo knew more than Mr. Pigmy thought he did. It was the fnnnlest sight in the world to see Mr. Pigmy teaching Giant Jimmy new "stunts." When it happened to be with cards, Mr. Pigmy felt as if he were superintending the ' erection of a new house, for when the cards were stood on end against each other Mr. Pigmy could likewise stand up inside them ? if it were a card-house trick. But the day came when Mr. Pigmy got such a tumble that he nearly lost his life,' Just on account of one of these card tricks. Not that Giant The Card Prepared. Jimmy meant to do it at all, bat then Mr. Pigmy should have remembered that Oiant Jimmy was a bright- boy even if he was so big ? and that in such s case, where one is so small and the other gigantic, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'r in more senses than one. - It happened this way. Under Mr. Pigmy's direction, the boy giant had bent one of his father's visiting cards In the manner shown in the drawing. Each edge was turned down at the ends and the card placed on the table. Mr. Pigmy daringly stood upon it while he told Oiant Jimmy and his father (who looked on) that, big as they were, they could not blow It over. The father laughed, but was surprised to find that he failed to death of terror. He was an upright man, but one from whose busy life religion had been crowded out. One day, as he sat by the bedsldo of his daughter, she asked him to read to her. He found a magazine am} read her some bright bits of poetry and fiction. It pleased her* but she wanted something else. "Father," she asked, "will you get my Bible and read from that?" ? "Certainly, my dear," he an swered, and was rather glad than otherwise of her request. ? ? He was a strong man, with a clear ?oloe and a good degree of self-con trol. He had mastered his own feel ings in those days of patient and af fectionate administration, that he might bring to the sick room every element of cheer that was possible. And now, he began calmly and quiet ly, to read the Sermon on the Mount. He knew where to find it, and he knew that it was good, and he read it with a growing appreciation of its beauty and its sublimity. But the daughter grew more and more restless. "Don't you like it?" he asked. "Oh, father," she exclaimed, "It isn't that I want, about otir righteous ness exceeding that of the scribes and Pharisees! ' Can'l you find the place where it says. 'Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him?' His voice trembled a little, but ho said, "I will find it," and he turned to the concordance in the back of the Bible. But when he found the place ? and began to read, "Like a father," he could bear no more. I . "O my- child," he cried, "If God cares for you as I do " He bent over the bed and wept. "It is the verse we both need,**, she said, softly, after a few minutes. And he knelt beside the bed and said: "Yes, my child, that is the verse for both of ub." ? Youth's Companion. SHARING HIS BURDEN. One of the players in the American Baseball League was about to go into the field for practice before a game, says a writer in the New York Press, when his shoestring broke. "Say, boy," he called to a youth who was eyeing him admiringly, "run out and buy me a pair of shoe laces, will you? Tell the man it the gate you are going out for me, and he'll pass you back all right,'' .The boy took the coin offered and darted away like a shot, proud as king oyer the importance of the mis 'slon confided to him. Outside the grounds he met several companions, to whom he boasted, as only a small boy can, of the honor conferred upon him. A few minutes later he reappeared at the gate. With him was a boy about his own age. The messenger recalled to the guardian of the gate that he was to be permitted to pass by virtue of his errand. MR. PIGMY WAS BLOWN CLEA R OFF THE TABLE INTO THB GIANTS HAND. turn the card over, although Mr. Pig my had to hold on to the card with all his might to prevent his being carried away in the gale the giant created by his unavailing efforts. Giant' Jimmy watched hid father with *a supcrir smile on his face. "Pooh!" he said. "You don't do it the right way," and before Mr. Pigmy could stop him, suddenly bent down and blew ? not undor the card as his father had done, but. instead, sharply on the table itself, at some distance uway from the card. That card not only turned over, but It was blo%n right off the edge of the table, along with Mr. Plumy. And If Mr. Pigmy hadn't landed In one of the giant father's outstretched hands ? well, he wouldn't be whis pering his thrilling experience In my ear now! Hut try this trick with one of your visiting cards and prove for yourself that Giant Jimmy's method is th?> right way. ? A. M. Langworthv, in Net/ York Evening Mail. "LIKE A8 A FATHER." The life of a beautiful girl was nearing its close. The busy father, active in legal and political life, made short visits to his office to perform the most necessary duties, and hur ried home again day by day to be near her in her last days. He spent every possible moment in granting every possible wish, and it was a com fort to him that his daughter was finding in her religion a source of strength that robbed approaching "That's nil right. Go ahead in. But who's thlH other fellow?" "He's helping me." said the boy. "He's got one of the shoe laces." The grim custodian tried not to smile, but he could not help It, and both boys entered. Foxes fiom* Their Scent. A correspondent of The Field throws out a curious suggestion with regard to iscent in connection with fox-hunting. He considers that when a fox gets some violent shock, as. for example, when jumping through a hedge It roines suddenly upon a la borer. L loses its scent. The hounds nre. of course, put out, and the fox has a chance of escape. It Is sug gested that very frightened animals may thus be nble to withhold their scent, and that, this may be a pro vision of narurc to enable them to es cape. In connection with this, says the London Globe, p. curious observa tion made by an e:;p3rlenced M. P. H. may be mentioned. He noticed that when the vixens are with cub they lose their scent, so that they cannot he hunted, or are hunted only with difficulty. It ha? been suggested, also, that sitting partridges and pheasants lose their scent, so that sporting dogs -pa3slng through the woods, etc., where their nests arc do not find them. Horseflesh Is growing In favor In Belgium. It sells for about half the price of beef or mutton, which are seldom handled by the butchers who sell ho/Ve meat. GIRLS GROWING LARGER. A Sun correspondent writes from London: "The head mistress of a girl's school at Tnnbrldge Wells has (ound It necessary to have the height of the school desks considerably in creased. 8he says that owing to the Influence of athletics on the modern girl desks which were high enough ten years ago are now much too low." LADY HUNT'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS The most adventurous of English women and the moat unconventional is Lady Ernestine Hunt, daughter of the Maroula of. Aylesbury. She has trained steeplechasers, and has rid den them, she was a nurse in South Africa' after the unsuccessful Jameson raid, and she has roughed the pass age from Australia In a sailing ship. DISSATISFIED WIVES. According to a writer In Harper's Bazar a wife must learn to guard against physical fatigue, to leave un done the non-essentials; to cultivate enthusiasm and a broader outlook, and, "for the rest, there's a simple prescription to enjoy what we enjoy more than we dislike what we dis like. We don't set so tired if we do that." EDEN FOR WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS. "Hooray for Finland!" cry the woman suffragists. In that country the women are most enthusiastic for the ballot ? and they are well bred and highly educated ? not at all like the aggressive "suffragettes" who sot I into trouble in Londpn. Finland is preparing to give the franchise to every adult more than twenty-five years old. .Further, it is proposed that v women shall be eligible to the popular assembly, and though it is doubtful women,. will be in the ma jority there, -'it .is likely many will find seats among the legislators. ? New York Press. CHILDREN AT;, MEALS. The table is the place to teach chil dren self-control, thoughtfulness for others, the petty sacrifices that Em erson says make good manners. The little three-year-old who is required to wait patiently her turn on pain of being lifted down, 1b learning a valu able lesson, and the comfort of the whole faaally is enhanced Incidentally while itla taught. To make this still more effective each child1 ? particular ly- the boys? should have some part In the serving to do, helping the but ter, .pouring the water, or similar tasks. In. many households this is left entirely to the glrlB. Why should the boys, who need it so much more, be exempt from this .discipline? WIDOW ZOLA'S GENEROSITY. The application of the widow of fimile Zola to the courts for permis sion to confer her husband's name on the three children of whom Mme. Roserot and Emlie Zola were the par ents, is spoken of in the Berliner Tageblatt as an act of womanly no bility on the part of the author's widow. "Mme. Zola," says the wri ter, "knew of her htiBband's intimacy ^lth Mme. Roserot for many vearB, and, having no children of her own, took the deepest interest in the boy and two little girls, for whom she has been caring since her husband's death. The boy has derided to learn a trade, in keeping with the wishes of his mother and of Mme. Zola." ? New York Tribune. MOUNTAIN CLIMBER. There 1h apparently no limit lo the pluck of women. Miss Annie S. Heck, an American, la the moat recent one to attract attention to this fact. Alone ahe wept into Peru, and gath ering a group of native men attempt ed (for the second time) to ascend the hitherto unconquered Mount Hu ascaran, reputed to be 25. (>00 feet high. She took with her varloua sclent iflc instruments and a mount ain-climbing equipment of climbing irons, ice-axus, sleeping-bags. tents, food, stores, etc., made a contract with her attendant party and pro ceeded to have more troubles and trials in a few days than average peo ple meet in months. She writes her adventures In Harper's Magazine. Her men guides proved comparatively worthless, one of them turned out to be mentally unsound, und In order to reach a high point of the mountain she had to overcome Incredible diffi culties with the mutinous men. CALMLY ADMIT DYED HAIR. Once, the woman who dyed her hair would have died rather than confess the fact, and her true friends never mentioned it ? at. least, when she was wlihin hearing, Liui that day of secret shauis has gone, and women talk about their hair dye as calmly as they do about their favorite dinner dishes. At an afternoon tea for Olga. the youngdaughter of Rear Admiral Converse, two women were chatting about the coloring of their tresses, to the edification of several men who. of course, should have been in their offices instead of at tea. One woman threatened to sue a popular hairdresser. He had guaranteed red dish-brown tresses, but lo! her hair turned gray. Bhe was Indignant, and became stilj angrier *hen the "art lal" asrfured her thai be would "make it all right" at an additlonO coat of only $100. And as the worn, an was too young to dream of having silver locks, her hundred had to go before she could leave the shop.?* New York Press. WOMEN A8 BANKERS. When women began, a few decade* ago, to invade the professions of law; and medicine, the new departure was widely and anxiously debated, and doubts were expressed in many higlt, quarters whether the body politic could stand the shock of such inno vations upon established customs. But the wdrld has gone on revolving just as it did before, and society now, refuses to admit that it has been un dermined by the woman doctor or the woman lawyer. In nearly every line of business save finance women have also been distinguishing themselves for some years. But while thousands of women are managing their private fortunes tvith sound business judg ment, and thousands of others suc cessfully engaging In commercial ventures, the number of. professional llnanciers of the feminine gender, the Hetty GreenB of the broker's office, and the banking concern, is still small, and the woman who man ages other folks' capital as a business is so rare as to cause comment when ever she makes a public appearance. But women are not long to be kept out of finance. Here and there iho newspapers tell of a woman bank president or cashier who Is loyally, supported and kept In office by thn male trustees because of her proved* competency and fidelity. ? Tacoms Ledger. HER MOTHERLY ADViCr:. In the dormitory of a small board ing school, a few years ago. a group of young girls gathered to discuss some matter, important to them selves, trivial In the eyes of the out side world. "Sophie will write home, and get her mother to tell her what she thinks." one girl remarked, with a note of wletfullneas in her voice ;| "there's where she has the advantage over the rest of ut, whose mothers think our things are silly." "You may all write to my mother, and ask her what she thinks," So phie volunteered generously. "Every body asks her about everything, and she always knows. She'd love to hear from you." The offer was made and accepted with 'the sublimely enthusiastic ffcith of childhood, and the next morning "mother's" mall was unusually large, even for her, but she contrived to answer every letter satisfactorily be fore the week was over. Most women ? twentieth ceniur$ women as well as Mother Eve and her Immediate descendants ? are sup posed to be creatures of sentiment rather than sense; of Intuition rather than scientific knowledge; of head rather than heart. It is easier for a woman to feel than to think ? most of them feel when they are thinking ? and love, alas, doesn't al ways teach wisdom. ? New Haven Register. ? One rarely seen nowadays elaborate creations In which crope plays a lead* Ing part. A velvet stripe is seen on some ot the latest designs among the Roman striped ribbons. Perforated leather tips and edges are found on some of the exclusive shoe models for 1907. A reinstatement of the cape Into popular favor always mean* a re entry of quaint styles. Printed chiffon is lovely for even* ing gowns with trimmings of prin cess lace und spangles. Beautiful striped effects are ob tained by skilful manipulation of many of the fur boleros, stoles and' m tiffs. i Those long bar brooches that have been put aside for years are now. brought out and used to pin \ells in back. Trimmings of black caracu.l aro useful when one wished to tone down somewhat the high color of the bril liant plaids. Now and then an up-to-date young woman gathers her automobile veil in rosettes to the sides of her straight brimmed turban. Graceful garments made in (ho style of the Arabian burnoose are having quite a run among the fanci ful evening wrap*. Original ideas are constant n fol lowing one another In sleeves, thin being especially noticeabK* on iho short jacket of velvet and fur. gome of the loveliest ornaments of the season are of pearls, and they aro quite costly enough to pleats the most extravagant of fortune's favor ites. So diverse arc the opinions of sen sible pejsous on the subject that each family has come to be more or less of a law to itself when it coincs to outward embl?us of sorrow.