Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1886 — Page 6

THE INDIANA BTATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1 886.

OUR FARM BUDGET.

larly Potatoes Housirg Stock Steim Spide Exhaustion of Fertility. "Worthy of Cultivation To Help a Horse Soil for firnpe Vine Vegetable GrowInjr Knewin Old Meadw Uow Out Farm Paid Household Hints Farm Notes. Karly Potatoes. Cultivator Take J arer bags that will bo!l about a quait. Fill theni full of roo1 rich soil. Then put in the potato of so:-ne early vari ety, aid fill up with soil, leaving the mouth of the bag open to admit occasional sprinkling of water, if the soil becomes dry or hard. Set the bapi m a long box in a warm place. In this way I can Hare plants of any desired height, to set out when the weather sets warm enough to do so. Setting bag and all in he ground, the dampness of the "soil toon rots the paper and allows the roots to spread. In this way I can pet new potatoes fiocu two to three weeks earlier than by the common way of planling. If the plants should be gettiDg too large before setting tin.e chance them to a cooler place. Housing Stock. 'Rural New Yorker. "We have this winter, in one barn, thirty cows that are turned out twice each diy, so that the stables may be cleaned and they can pet water. In another barn we have twentytii cows that never go ont, bein watered inside. They are all well cared for, and have all of the hay, roots, rich foods and ttraw they fiare to cat.- While those that never go our will drink the same amount of water each day, those turned out to drink will, on very cold days, not drink scarcely any, and then the next day will drink till they "are ready to burst." The result is that the cows constantly housed give the most rank, which makes the most batter, and they are looking the best and taking on flesh most rapidly. Surely there is much jet to learned in the care of stock. Steam Spade-Action Digger. A London paper says: Of late years a creat many people have come round to the opinion of Sydney Smith, that farming is all vanity and vexation of spirit, Lnornious sums have been lost during the last seven or eight years in the profitless following of ag riculture; but suddenly there is light on the path, and the farmer is being shown a more excellent way. Everything depends, it seems, upon the husbandry, some enter prising persons in Essex have purchased some of those gigantic steam spade-action diggers which are occasionally to be seen at work in that county; have hired, ac nomi nal rents, a number of vacant farms which were running to waste; have cultivated them with "Darby's elephant," as the machine is playfullv called, after its inventor; and are waxing rich in consequence. The digger is said to turn over ten acres a day; and, as it digs very deeply, it is perfectly feasible that last year's corn crops on these neglected farms should have been, as it is stated they were, phenomenal. But it is well to remem ber that this digger is of enormous size; that its effects upon the roads it traverses drive highway surveyors mad, and that its cost is somewhere about l,OUO a sum which probably not one English farmer in five hundred now possesses. Nevertheless it is a safe rule never to scoff at a new invention, and farm ers will be glad to have more particulars about this agent of the agricultural millen nium. Kihanstioa of Fertility. An interesting article bearing upon the subject of soil exhaustion is contributed by t : ? , , t . . . - ,A , . j. . cir juuii i.uwea i-u iu Agncuiiurai uazeue. He shows, by quoting from his own experiments at Rothamsted, that though the fer tility of a soil may easily be temporarily exhausted by root crops, so that it will not, without manure, yild a fresh crop of the came character, yet by grain crops the exhaustion is comparatively slow not so much on account of the lesser demands made on the soil by the corn crops, but rather on ac count of their greater power of seeking and finding the available plant food in the soil. That grain crops can actually be grown for thirty or forty years successively without manure has been proved bv the Kothamsted experiments, though of course the crops produced sre small. All this time there is a gradual loss of the fertilizing elements in the soil, and this has been traced and con firmed by chemical analysis. It is mainlr. Sir John holds, for tbis yearly "fertility." inherent in the soil itself, that the tenant pays rent rent being essentially the price paid to the landlord lor the annuel "fertility" sold to the tenant. Manures and feed ing stuffs brought onto the farm from out side sources by the tenant constitute the basis ot the tenants own "fertility ;'' and after land has been highly farmed for years it becomes a complicated ouestion. as Sir John observes, to distinguish between the two "fertilities" landlord's and tenant's which make up the crop yielding power of the soil. Stress is laid on the importance of Keeping down weeds as unprofitable con sumers oi the "lertuity." Soil for Grapevines. . Mr. Albert gaOiffe, of California, who is traveling in Southern Europe in st arch of information pertaining to iruit culture, writes to the ban Francisco Chronicle: Oas of the chief essentials of the best wine made seems to be poorness of soil. It is a fact that impresses the observer who examines the vineyards on the bare hillsides of Italy and Spain, among the rocky and feeble soils of Burgundy and tne south ot r ranee, but no where more forcibly than when he makes a critical visit to the vmelands about Bor deaux, and especially those which produce the famous red wines of the Medoc and the finest of the Sauternes. These districts, as well as those of Graves, St. Emilion. and tome others, which produce good wines of less requtation, are comprised in the depart ment of the Gironde, which extends on both sides of the Garonne to a distance of 110 miles from its mouth, and has a mean width of not more than fifty miles, Bor del x is on the Garonne, about seven ty-five miles from the sea, whose tidal influ ence is felt some twenty or thirty miles fur ther inland. Most of the department is level, or composed of low hills such as the French call mamelons, which rise often to a height of only forty or fifty feet. Medoc lies on the south side of the river, between Bor deaux and the sea, the space occupted by vineyards beginning a few miles after leav ing the city and having an average length of fifty miles by an average width of six or seven. The mamelons in this region are gentle swellings of the surface, sometimes at their highest elevation no more than twenty or thirty feet above the general level of the plain. The whole district was evidently once covered with pines, of which a few of not very imposing proportions remain here and there in small groyes, some of them coming from the sowing of the seed. The soil is technically described as "silico-gravel- ' on?, and sometimes calcareous," but the v chance observer sees little of it but the -pebbles which appear in successive layers in the railroad cuttings, and so thoroughly cover the ground that in winter they give the Impression of snow. The sou woull In California be considered the poorest of the .pcor,. 0ÜUD2.can pexnltlvated on it ex"cept vines, and if these were found unprofitable ft would have to be left to return to its original condition of pine barrens or absolute nakedness ana sterility, i here were in the district marshes that have been drained. ".. but thev do not produce the best wines, and cstsidellhe . limits Jiamed. some yineyarda have been planted in sands like those of the , little time. . The land absolutely filled with

the round, smooth, white pebbles is consid

ered the best as regards quality of wine, and the Uordelais merchant will point it out to the stranger and explain its capabilities with pride, though it looks as if a potato vine planted in it would perish of inanition. However, by the use of fertilizers, the vine not only flourishes, but grass and weeds come in which require constant care to eradicate. The relaimed marsh lands and the low-lying meadows are less barren, but thpv nre also less beloved bv the vine, and the wines are not held in high esteem at Bordeaux. "Worthy ot Cultivation. The high-bush blueberry, writes a corre spondent of the Boston Journal, is another of the wild fruits that can be introduced into our gardens with advantage. Although supposed to grow only in cold, wet swamps, it is found ou trial to grow and bear well in the garden, providing it be set whare it will be partially protected from the hotnoouday sun, and the ground be well mulched with leaves or some other cooling substance, lms plant will not grow well out in an open space, even though the land be well cultivated. The sun burns the fruit and destroys it. The busbes fchould be set near enough together to completely shade the ground, or they must be set on the north side of aboard fence, or in the shade of trees: but wherever set it is a great protection to keep the ground . ....... well mulched, much better than to culti vate the ground. In the selection of bushes to set care should be taken to get good vari eties, as there is a great choice in the flavor as well as tbe size. VV hen it is found diffi cult to get good varieties take those that can be got with the most ease and craft them with the best that can be obtained: it is as easy to graft the huckleberry as it is the apple. I he time will no uoubt come when the nurseymen will keep choice varieties of blueberry bushes; certainly the time is not far distant when it will be demanded of them, lhere appears to be but one serious enemy to the blueberry, which is the birds; they seem to understand the diilerence between wild and cultivated fruit, and will always give the preference to those that grow in the garden, not even being wining to wait until tne fruit is ripe, but will eat it as soon as it begins to turn red. The remedy is to cover with netting, and the same can be used that has been used to protect tne strawberry bed. The bashes bear so abundantly that it is very easy to cover all that a family would need. By growing these berries the family not only have the fruit so near home tbat they can enjoy the luxuryj of eating them from tfce bUM.es, but they can have them freh and well ripened for a much longer season lhan they can be found in the mar ket. hen well protected tbey will some seasoDS keep in good condition on the bushes until October. A Iruit that is so valuable as tbis should receive more attention. It should not only be more generally cultivat ed, but efforts should be made to improve it fiom the seed. No doubt this could be dene if the same efforts were made that hive been made to improve the strawberry, grape and other fruits. To Ilt-lp a florae. Our Country Home. Almost any horse will do better when fed cut feed. Thisnerm means to cut the bay or straw about a fourth of an inch long and then to soak it in water for six hours, and then to mix it with the grain ration in the form of meal. When prepared in this way a horse vi ill require less hay and less grain in proportion and really . do more work. This mode cf preparing their food is specie lly beneficial to old horses and those which have the heaves or are at all affected in their breathing. An old horse actually running down on hay and whole grain will bt g;n to thrive when its food is prepared in this wav. The benehts are actually beyond the explanation of science, so far as the composition of the food is concerned. The benefits go beyond the real virtue or nutri ment furnished by the food, and are found in part in tbat which the food does not do. It is in a condensed form, but not so con densed that the condition is unfavorable for digestion; but, on the contrary, most favor able, as there is a medium and proper combination of coarse and line material, with a judicious balance of constituents, all taken into the stomach at the same time. Not so when hay and grain are fed singly. There is then no combination of food, and gen erally so much of the first is given that the action of the respective organs is impeded and the dust from the hay is drawn into the lungs, where it causes irritation and often is the beginning of the disorder called heaves. All working animals,- including oxen, will do better on cut food. Thesavine in the amount of hay will al ways pay for the extra labor. We had an old horse, years ago, which could hardly stand up when led dry hay, on account of the heaves. "When fed nothing but oats soaked twelve hours, te performed well and got fat, ab though worked m-a team every ilav. We are satisfied that farmers, as a rule, feed their horses too much hay and often too much gram. They usually feed all the horses alike. This is a mistake, assno two horses are really alike in their ability to digest food. Horses may be kept joor by overfeeding a3 well as by giving them too Jittle. Cornmeal is good for a walking horse, but not suited for one required to go on a trot. It is never good food for horses which have to exert themselves so as to get heated, nor is it good food for horses when it is ex pected that tbey will move quickly. It is the food for the slow horse, as it makes flabby muscles and sluggish action. Uats, on the contrary, strengthen the muscles and cool the blood. In winter it will do to mix a portion of corn with the oats to help keep up the animal heat. Vegetable Growing and Market iiardeulng. Boston Evening Journal. At the regular weekly meeting of the Massacbsetts Horticultural Society to-day th6 Chair was occupied by Vice President C. II. H. Breck, and the time was devoted to an essav on "Vegetable Growing" bv W. YV. Rawson, of Arlington. He said' that the growing of vegetables is an important busi ness in the vidimty of our large cities. He gave a list of the various kinds ot vegetables which can be grown with profit. Artichokes require a deep sandy loam. Asparagus will thrive in almost any sandy soil, ' even if quite light, and the lighter the soil the earlier the crop. The English or hard varities of beans are but little grown in this country, although worthy of more general cultivation. They will succeed, but in any moist, strong soil "and a cool situation. They should be planted as early as the ground can be properly fitted, in drills, three feet apart in the drills. The pole varieties of beans are less hardy than the bush sorts and are planted about two weeks later. The early beets are the Egyptian. Eclipse and Bastian. The Bastian is not a true blood beet of very good quality for all times of the year. The lJewiug is the variety most extensively grown. The cabbage is one of the largest of veget ables for market-gardening crops. The soil requisite should be a deep loam, quite moist for early and good strong land for late crops. The Early York is about as early as any. and is grown very close. Early Wakefield is one of the best, being quite large and early, and very extensively grown. The Karly Summer is the only one grown in rsew England at the present time for "second early." For corn the soil should be a well prepared sandy loam, enriched by about six cords of stable manure broadcast, and about two cords applied in the hill or drill. Carrots, require s tine sady loam, well worked and manured. The dandelion seed is sown in the early spring, and it grows all one season to acquire a large root. Lettuce ia one of the principal crops of the market garden. To have lettuce the whole season it must be sown every ten days throughout the year Watermelons require warm land and should be planted in hills eight feet each way. Onions need a well enriched, heavy loam, heavily manured, say twenty cords per acre, bplnace is fast becoming one of the leading crops of our mar ket garden, being used during the whole of the year. -In reply to a question, the speaker said

that cauliflowers grew so well last year that' everybody's were good. They require a good

oeai oi moisture, anu iuis was on oi tne principal things for which he used his steam pnmp. Ill had never known a case where cauliflowers had received too much manure or fertilizer. The snow-ball cauliflower is very desirable. The Algiers flowers are grown principally on Long Island. They grow, there for pickle lactones, ana require longer time than we are willing to give them here. One of the greatest troubles with cauliflowers is getting good plants, as there is a flea which infests them. It takes about three sprinklings a day to keep them clear of these pests. iouwill notsfe the euect of uroutn on cauliflowers until they grow to a considerable size. In sowing celery seed, he selected a spot where the sun would get at the bed about one-half the day. Renewing Old Meadows. Journal of Agriculture.! "When it is dceirable to renew an old mtadow without olowing it upandreseeding, the harrow has generally been used for the purpose; but unless it is a very heavy one, or is loaded, it does not loosen trie sou sufficiently to give a good cover to the seed. I have been working for several years to get permanent crass meadows by reseeding tuen when necessary, harrowing the ground and loosening up the sunace, but 1 never succeeded until I used the Acme pulverizing barrow. I first used this about seven years ago. on a hillside meadow, which I considered might as well be wholly destroyed as Dot, as it was badly run out and had become thin and mossv. I run the Acme harrow over it several times and found it to work a great deal better than I expected and much better than any other barrow 1 had pre viously used. It did not tear up the grass excepting where it . was so tum as to be scarcely visible, and In these spots itmade a mellow loose surface well fitted for seeding down. The grassy spots were stirred up no more man was sufficient to freshen the soil between the Stools and not injured in the least, but improved very much, not a root being torn up? The new seeding grew ouite as well as if it had been made upon plowed ground, and with a dressisgof plaster on it was large enough to be pastured early in the lall, and gave a good crop of hay the next year. It is now in good condition and needs no repair. This experience led meto manage other meadows in the same way, and I am intend ing to go over a ten-acre held this spring with the Acme as the best method I know of for renewing it ann putting it in good condttion again, l nave also tried the method of running the Acme over my clover and grass meadow after top-drc3sing them, spre adirg the manure and working it down to the roots, and with very satisfactory re sults. The small quantity of soil which is worked up greatly freshens the grass, and the manure is mixed with it, with much benefit to the crop. About twenty years ago I had an experi ence with harrowing grain which bears very strongly upon this question of harrowing gras. A harrow had been left in a field sow u to wheat the fall previously, and stood ac;nst the fence in the far corner. I wanted to use this harrow in the spring and had either to bring it over the wheat or take a wagon ovei lt. 1 choose to draw the harrow over the wheat against the urgent re monstrance ot a skillful hired man, who said the wheat would be ruined. I thought differently and the harrow was drawn across the corner of the field, making a dark streak through it, but stearing up only a very few plants. Tbis strip soon shot ahead of the rest of the wheat, and yielded a much larger quantity of grain. This experience Jed me to harrow naif a field the next spring with similar good results. The facts were published in an agricultural journal and started the now quite common and very useful prac-' tice of harrowing fall grain in the spring, especially when the land is sown down to grass, and clover, which gets a good start in the fiesh mellow soil while the grain is greatly benefited. This applies very usefully to tfce practice of harrowing meadows, and shows that the fears sometimes expressed that the grass may be injured are groundless. The Acme harrow may be used for the improvement of grass lands quite as safely as any other implement, and with much better effect, es I have foup.d by frequent experience with it. Too little attention is civen to this method of improving meadows, which serves to make the gras a permanent crop, when accompanied by some fresh seed every few yejr. and an occasional top dressing with m. i::e or fertilizer. How One Farm Iai1. American Farmer. I send herewith a statement of my farm operations for the past year, hile it is not specially creditable, it shows a small balance on the right side, which may possibly encourage some of the despondent, if you see lit tc publish it. My dairy yielded really more than here state d, as we get a somewhat fancy price for print butter. A he pork also counted considerably more than credited, as we work up a portion into sausage, scrapple, etc. Ly economy we manage to live on the bal ance shown, and have the $!J0 interest to re invest, and good years considerably more: STATES! EST OF FARM OPERATIONS FOR 1S85. Receipts TOO bushels of wheat sold, less freight $ C51 00 2,i00 bushel potatoes (not all sold) estimatea........... i,4uu uu Surplus cattle and calves sold &'0 00 3.K1G pounds butler sold......... 1272 00 7,1'tiO pound! pork sold 4.) 00 11,123 00 Kxpenies I-abor S110 00 rertili.erf coo oo Feed purchased 3.V) 00 Shop aud repair aceonnt 200 00 interekt on estimated capital invebted at 6 per cent 900 oo Taxes! 105 00 -S.-1.095 00 f 1,025 00 The sale of fruits, - vegetables, poultry, eggs, etc., will aggregate more than paid out . m . a ior provisions noi raisea on ine larin. ana as the farm is ctfarged with the interest on investment, we have our house rent, garden and orchard tree, besides keep for carriage horses and some other luxuries that can not be indulged in by people of like means in the city. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Cheese Omelet. Beat up three eggs and add to them a tablespoonful of milk and a tablespoonful of grated cheese; add a little more cheese before folding; turn it out on a hot dish ; grate a little cheese over it before serving. Ihe Cook. Scalloted Tomatoes. 47over the bottom of a buttered pie plate with fine crumbs, salted and peppered; drain the juice from a can of tomatoes, season them with butter, salt. nenner. a little sugar and half a teasnoonful of onion minced very finely. Tour this into the pie dish and cover with a thick coat of crumbs. Stic k dots of butter on this, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover and bake for half an hour, then brown. Linen Work. The Art Amateur gives the following directions for making linen work smooth and even when it is finished "Dampen it all over at the back with a sponge, and then stretch it tightly and evenly, face downward on a beard, or pin it out on a nailed carpet with a clean cloth underneath it. When the work, as well as the linen, is quite dry, it may be taken up, and if the edges show the pin marks they can be smoothed with the fingers. When linen work is washed it must be treated in the same way." Fish. In choosing fish one has a chance to show considerable judgment. Fish should be fresh to be at their. best should be just from the water; but this is not always possible. The freshness of fish is indicated by its being firm and stiff; in a prime condition, if held out in the hand horizontally it will remain rigid; any drooping of the tail shows It is not quite right, and the extent of this drooping is a fair guide in judging of its condition. I have noticed that the fish hawked

about the streets are often very limp and past being good; the poor and ignorant thus buy them. Poisonous qualities begin to develop in fish as soon as any decay, however slight, lakes place. Stewed Duck. Joint neatly,;cover the bottom of a saucepan with thin slices of salt pork ; pepper and lav in the pieces of duck, another layer of salt pork on the top, and strew with sliced onion; fit on a close lid, set at the back of the range and cook slowly until tender. An old duck will require four hour?, but will be good when conquered. Take up the meat and keep hot Strain the gravy; add a little powdered sage, parsley, a teaspoonf ul of current jelly and a tablespoonful cf browned flour. Boil up sharply and pour over the duck. Mocking-bird food. A Reading (Pa. ) fancier recommends the following as the best food for mocking birds: Take the yolk of a

hard-boiled egg and about the same amount of a boiled potato, and mix. Then add as much prepared mocking-bird food as will equal the egg and potato. ..Mix the whole thoroughly, and feed m a small dish. Give plenty of clean water and strew the cage with gravel, vash the cups daily. A meal worm or grasshopper once a day, with a little fresh beef occasionally, is good. He also states that if the bird becomes droopy feed it a spider. For Baby. The elaborate and easily in jured cradle and crib spreads of satin and lace, while elegant and showy, are less nselui for everyday service than the pretty and inexpensive durets cf cheese cloth. These may be made the width of the goods one yard and a yard and a quarter long. A single layer of cotton batting placed be tween two thicknesses of the cheese cloth, secures warmth without sacrificing light ness. The edges of the cloth are joined by a feather stitching of bright wosted, and the little quilt is tufted with the same. The cost of all the materials need not exceed 50 cents. Mutton Cakes. The remains of a cold roast or boiled leg of mutton that has been rarely cooked will be most delicious if prepared as follows: Chop the meat as fine as nossible and mix it with half as mnr.h fine bread crumbs and a quarteras much beef Euet, also chopped very fine and freed from strings. But these ingredients into a bowl, with a cupful of minced oysters (fresh ones of coune are best, but the canned ones may be used), add a seasoning of thyme, marjo ram, pepper, salt, and a little powdered mace; mix with two well beaten eggs for a pound of the cold mutton: stir until it forms a stiff paste: form into balls or saus ages and lry. Table Cover. Get a square of peacock blue plush, er of felt, if something cheaper is required, x or the border tase a piece of brown linen. Cut it about eight inches deep. Match the corners together: then have a pattern stamped upon it consisting of a running vine of leaves and flowers. .Follow this with tinsel and a chain stitching of gay colored embroidery silks. The pattern should be quite broad and heavy, r inish the edge with an upholstery i ringe, or, if the center is of felt, a narrow pmked edge of the felt may be allowed to show the linen band. which should be hemmed down and the hem concealed with fancy stitches. Curtains. The newest designs in curtains for the window is made of the most sheer and fine cream-colored batiste. Painted flowers, resembling conventionalized bach elors' buttons, are scattered irregularly over the cm tain. They are painted Hat, without any attempt at shading, in dull reds and blues. Around each flower is run silk of the same color. On account of the thinness of the material, the coloring, when seen against the light, is as distinct on one side as on the otherr The flowers are large and not very close together, making a most exquisite cur tain, aRd not a diflicult one to make. Ihe edges are finished with little fluffy tassels. FARM NOTKS. Without manure no good ground, with it no poor ground. Kalnit, cr nitrate of potash, should be kahnit, but by force of custom has dropped a letter. Pacific ports have lately been furnishing from one-half to three-fourths of the wheat for Liverpool, in spite of distanceIt is believed that there are more fowls in the country than at any period in its his tory. The supply of poultry and eggs is very large in most cities. The use of the steam plow is said to be di minishing in Oreat liritam, not because it does not give good satisfaction, but because the large farms are being divided, and the steam plow can not be employed advantage ously in small fields. A couple of Kansas men lately got into a lawsuit oyer the killiag of a $2 hog. After a long litigation a verdict was rendered in favor of the owner of the hog. His lawyers charged $300 for services rendered. lie lost his hog and $300, but had satisfaction. A nurseryman of Union County, Tennsyl vania, claims to be able to grow apple i without cores. His theory is to bend the twig when the size of a small elder an; insert the top in the ground. When the tcp takes root sufficiently cut it off near the butt and stake it up perpendicularly. A farmer's garden, planted in rows clear across the patch, and cultivated as far as possible by horse power and -given as good cultivation as the best farmers give their corn fields, will require only half an acre to supply half of the living of the averaze family and add largely to the health of the members. Cheshires will outweigh t any breed atnine months; hence they are especially the farmer's bog, for the only profitable pork is that which is made at an early age. For making cheap pork, use a thoroughbred Cheshire upon good-sixed healthy sows of any breed, and every pig win be white, no matter what the color of me sow. It is a notable fact that fruit-growers who cultivate but a few acres usually reap the largest rewards, as compart with the extent of their efforts. This is owing to the fact that they can select the choicest ground, make it exceedingly rich, and give it the best cultivation ; whereas, large cultivators are compelled to take average land, usually fertilize it sparingly, and cultivate it as they may be able. A goose farm is one of the curiosities of agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia. Within an area of 3,000 acres live 5,000 gee3e. of several varieties, attended by herders and regularly fed with corn, etc. The object is the collecting of down for quilts and pillows, and once in about six weeks a pluck ing takes place. Onlv the breast and the sides under the wings are plucked, and it requires the yield of nearly 100 geese to weigh a pound. The raw feathers are sent to Philadelphia for cleaning and sorting. A lady at Nyack, N. Y., is keeping a large number of Angora goats, some of which cost $200 each to import. An attempt is also being made to revive the interest in the An: gora goat business in California, one en thusiastic breeder "ventures the prediction" tbat Angora fleeces will be worth $t a pound in a few years. It is safe to say, however. that there is scarcely any market for the fleeces of Angora goats at any price, and that the prospect for high price is very poor. At a meeting of a Scottish agricultural so ciety Colonel Innes said that in order to en courage the economical working of crofts (or small holdings) he would give a prize of $5 for the best pair of cows that had been used in the cultivation of the land; it being a recommendation that they had been worked In a cart or wagon. From remarks made by some members it appeared to a small extent cows were still employed in the district to do the work of horses. Nevertheless, a sug gestion that they should be shown in harness elicited "gTeat laughter." M. Kuinat suggests in The Times of Ceylon the introduction into that country of a plant known in Tong King as "Hoang-nan." fie eays this plant is a certain cure for hydrophobia, as it has been used with ereat success in France since i882 by Dr. Bartneieray ana Dr. Viand. Out of iwenty persons bitten by

mad dogs, and who have been treated by the

above-named doctors with the help oi tne 'hoany-ncn," only one has been attacked with hydrophobia. M. Kuinat says that hoang-nan," a creeping plant, has been cul tivated in France since 1875. Chickens often get forked pieces of bone fast in the throat, nearly starving with plenty of feed before them; and no matter how tame the nocks usually are, when a hen is affected this way she will scarcely allow herself to be caught, but in running and dodging about to elude you, she may herself dislodge the obstruction, H it is only slight. WThen chicken bones are thrown out with the table refuse, it is perDaP9 best to have the children chop them up with an old hatchet, as the hens are so fond of them that in their eagerness they swallow them haphazard. France has 5,000,000, thrifty agriculturists, in absolute ownership of their small holdings, while we have only 3.000,000. On the contrary, there are .1,250,000 tenant farmers in "free America," or more by a fourth than in England, bcotland, Ireland and Wales. Illinois is the champion State of "landlord ism" with over 80.000,000 tenants and a recent thoughtful writer on this subject says 4,He land law is made altogether for landlords and by landlords, without a single One of its thirty-odd clauses that can be construed as othe than a device to secure that the tenant shall bleed to the full nomination of his bond." Moreover, "things are going the same way in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri." When hot-beds are desired for only a few flowers and yegetables for home use, the frame may be made movable. Dig a bed six feet wide, two feet or more deep, and of any length desired. Level off the bottom of this bed and drive down a strong stake in each corner, to which nail cheap boards. Make the frames twelve feet in length by five feet ten inches in width, so that a sash three feet by six may be used. The manure used for the hot-beds should be fresh and well worked, removing all coarse litter. If a small hot-bed, and the owner do not care to go to the expeneof sas u bleached cotton cloth, oiled, will u.--r t ho parpose, and if the bed is built iu a warm locaticn is nearly as effective as glass. Buv un bleached cott on cloth and oil with linseed oil on one side. Tack to a light frame with the oiled side up. These frames are much lighter than glass sash, and will be found very desirable in small gardens. Many farmers have suflerred losses among their calves by putting them too early upon a non-milk diet of an unsuitable nature. The stomach of a calf but a few weeks old is very tender and delicate, and will not stand irrit? tion such as is produced by many feeding stuffs that are readily digested at a more advanced age. It is necessary to remove from such foods all particles of husk or fibre; and whatever may be the materials used m the mixture whether bean-meal, pa-meal, wheat, linseed, or a variety of others it is important not merely to grind finely, but to carefully separate through a silk or fine cloth sieve all particles of husk. If these are not removed tbey are, however finely ground, likely to cause serious irritation. The judicious use of gruels made from properly prepared foods, at first in partial and finally in total substitution for milk, from an early age, effects a considerable ecoRoaiy on a large dairy farm. In consequence of the drop in prices, and the agricultural depression generally, Mr. Gladstone has reduced the rent of one farm on the Hawarden estate from fifty shillings to thirty-two shillings per acre; a second, from forty-two shillings to thirty-two shillings per acre: a third has been lowered nine shillings, and a fourth seven shillings per acre. Mr. Gladstone has also intimated that he thinks it more satisfactory gradually to bring the rents on the estate to a moderate scale, conformable to the somewhat clouded prospects of agriculture, than to resort to repeated remissions, which seem to him more properly adapted to occasions amounting to calamity. A good deal has already been done to this end on the Hawarden es tate, and Mr. Gladstone adds that more remains which he hopes it may be possible to do. The game on the estate, which was originally let to a game tenant, is now let to the tenant farmers at the nominal rate of 4?4 pence per acre. Ingersoir Startling Criticism. Some years ago, before either Ingersoll or Tope were known to fame, the latter was playing a round of heavy roles at a Jl'eoria, 111., theatre, and as Peoria was lngersoll's home the two men got acquainted. I he ac quaintance did not continue very long, how-w ever, beiore the tide of events drilled the two men apart, and it was only recently that a convenient opportunity occurred for a re' newal of tbeirold-time friendship. Tope was in ew lork, and, hearing that Ingcrfoll was stopping at the Brunswick, he called around and sent up his card. Bob recognized the name, and told the bell-boy to "Bring that man up, and bring him up d d quick," and when Charley made his appear ance at the door Bob slapped him on the shoulder, shook him vigorously by the hand, and immediately began to rattle away about the old Peoria days. All went along well until Pope was seized with a suspicion that Ingersoli did not really recollect him. after all, so said he, at last: "I don't th.nk you really recollect me, colonel. Now, to settle the question, what did I play : "What did you play?" repeated the col one!, in his usual lolly manner, but with a twinkle in his eyes, "why, you used to play a cood many things, but m my opinion there was only one thing that you really played well. ' "Ana wnat was tnatr' "Billiards Head for Jim and Tail for Bob. . r Albany Journal.! Roscoe Conkling told a group of lawyers the other day of having just been tempted to take up a divorce case, although he had eschewed that branch oi practice, because the fair litigant had interested him in the recital of her wrongs, by disclosing the man ner in which she had chosen her husband 'I had two suitors," she narrated, "and thev were iust about equal in good looks, aereeableness, social position and outlook for fortune. They popped the Question within two days of each other. I really had no preference. I suppose I didn't care much for either. The day came on which I was to give answers. I couldn't make un my mind, so I flipped up a cent, head for Jim and tail for Bob, and that was how I decided." She took the chances, and they went against her, for she got a husband who ill-treated her and became a worthless scamp, while the rejected suitor is a posses sor of riches and fame. Uahcock and the Little Girl. ICarlisle (ra. Volunteer. The bravest are the tenderest. On the day after General Hancock was defeated for President, a little girl named Virgie Wentz, lettorfof condolence. This letter be an swered, and letter followed letter until the correspondence numbered upwards ot nity by the time the General died, upon one oc casion when he was passing through Lan caster she neard of his coming and hurried to the depot to see the hero and if possible meet him. She did meet him, and the meeting was an affectionate one. A large crowd had gathered at the train, and distinguished peorle nressed forward for a shake ot his hand, and while he was corteous and agreeable to all. he had more attention for that child than he had for any one else, and when the train.was abort to start and he lifted her little form in his strong arms and kissed her good-by the people cheered, Jorthey saw how tender-hearted a brave man is. Tond's Extract is an unrivalled remedy, This great curative has been in existence for over forty years, and has steadily worked its way into popular favor, until it has won for itseir an undying lame, it relieves an pains and subdues inflammations of all kinds. No family should be without it. Try it once and you will always use it. Pond's Extract is sold by druggists everywhere. Avoid imitations.

HOT SHOT FROM JONES, The Evangelist Rakes the Chicago Sinners Fore and Aft.

ßam Jones had a big congregation Tuesday. It inclnded young and old, male and female, aud was composed very largely of people from the lower clas-ses. A good many people had their children with thein from infants in arms to halfgrowa boys. The house was crowded. A Chicago News reporter gives the follow ing as a sample of the evangelist's talk: lhese fellows say: "I never saw anything wrong about cards. It's not a sinful game; it s a seien ti nc game. ' I hey alius ring in that word scientific somewhere along the line. I'm sorry for a man that's got time to play cards or dance. When I look 'round and see a sinkin' world God knows I tell the truth when I say I've not seen the time in thirteen years when I had a minute to spare for those things, and you wouldn't either if yon were of any account. You'd just as wen be at that star s you re concerned, though, as anything else, for if you vias'nt at that you'd be asleep. The only difference between a moral sinner and an immoral sinner is the difference between the typhoid fever and smallpox. One's internal and the other's external, an" both'll kill nine times out of ten if they ain't tended to. These moral fellows are white sepulchers. ion scraicn ou me whitewash and they're terribly deformed objects. Did you ever see it scale off? Ain't you seen it? All I want to know about any man is if he is a member of a city club. If he is it's only a question of time w hen he will be drowned. Mr. Jones came down on this word diowned with terrible emphasis, dwelling on it in his lowest tone. He continued: I have preached in many cities and seen thousands of people converted, but I never have yet, as God is my judge, known ot any member of a city club ever being converted to God and that is the saddest commentary that God or man could pronounce on those institutions. A man is almost certainly doomed when he goes into those institution. I don't care if I was as pious a3 Job, and joined one of those clubs, I would swap chances with Judas lscariot for a hope of heaven. I knew a fellow down in Georgia who lied so much tbat after three square trials at telling the truth he couldn't do it George Washington, you know, couldn't tell a lie, and he was the father of his country. He never begot many offsprings in his own likeness. Sometimes I've asked everybody that never told a lie to stand up. Every fellow was looking around to see if anybody was goin' to get up. it anybody had a got up l'd-a given him the floor and set down. If you'd all stop lying you'd starve the lawyers to death. I like a grand lawyer who defends the good roan from the assaults of the wicked. But these mean little. $5 lawyers! They do some mean! thing, and then say: "I did that as a lawyer, not as a man." When they drop down in hell, I suppose they'll go about saying, "I'm here as a lawyer.' - Now, look out, modesty; you're going to get a slap. Naked truth. Do you know how that phrase about naked truth started? Truth and Error went in swimmin' together. I never understood what business Truth had in such awful bad company. But they went swimmin' together. After they flopped about in the water for awhile. Error sneaked out, hauled on Truth's clothes, and ran off as tight as he could cut When Truth came out, there wasn't anything for him but Error's old clothes, and rather than wear them he chased off naked. He's been runnin' naked ever since. It was a Beaulifnl Blow. Chicogo News. "One day in 1807" says Mr. Ed Johnson of the Boston Ideals, 'I was standing in front of the old Logan House at Altoona, I 'a., admiring a superb-looking man who was pacing up and down the walk, meditating, presumably, as the rest of us were, on the length of minutes when one is waiting for. a delayed train. Presently a big, broad-shouldered moulder, who seemed to recognize the superb gentleman, shambled up near him and muttered something which was evidently intended to offend him. The superb gentleman, however, paid no more attention to it than to look rather sharply at the moulder and pass on. Soon the mouider repeated the performance, with about the same result, and the lookers-on began to wonder what it all meant. By and by the moulder, evidently mistaking the superb gentleman's indifference for cowardice, stopped squrely before him and said something which would not look well in print about 'the d d Yankee General "1 never saw a. handsomer blow in my life. It landed squarly on the jaw of the moulder, and seemed to raise him neatly and gracefully into the air and then stretch him tidily at full length on the platform several feet awav. The superb gentleman looked at the back of his hand with an expression of disgust, as if condemning the hand for what it had done, and then resumed his promenade as if nothing had happened The last I saw of the moulder his friends were helping him away, but I frequently saw General Hancock after that, and came to know that he was always the same kind of a man slow to take offence, but wonderfully effective in punishing one who did succeed in offending." Why He Didn't Go Skating. Small Boy I say. Jimmy, ma's just got a new churn, one dem boss two-minute churns what brings de butter in no time. Jimmy Is it painted blue? Small Boy Yep. Jimmy Stands up high like, with four legs? Small Boy Yep. Jimmy Cog wheels on the outside an a crank? Small Boy That's it. Jimmy Did the feller wat sold it to yer ma have warts on his neck? Small Boy Yep. Jimmy (earnestly-Scotty, I feels sorry for you. Ma got one jest like it last week. Dy'e know wh7 1 wasn't skatin' allday Saturday? Small Boy No. Jimmy I was a churnin'. "Tbat tired feeling" from which you suffer so much, particularly in the morning, is entirely thrown off by Hood's Sarsaparilla. rartieaand President Minneapolis Evening Journal. A New York paper has announced very solemnly that "parties are stronger than Presidents." There is a party that we know of, and a President, and'of these it may be said that the President has won every fall so far. Decidedly Galling. AlU California. What a pity that the Bell Telephone folks have no gall 1 They nave advanced rents in New York on telephones from $ a month to $12. The original cost of each instrument is about f3.O0. We call Bismarck's attention to this American hog. The Beginnings of Sickness Never trifle with what are called small all ments. A disorder easy of control at first, if neglected for a few weeks may become a mortal disease. Ee especially careful not to let debility gain upon you, for it is the door through which all maladies enter the aygtem. If you feel lan guid, inert, aid to use a common expression, "as if there was no life left in you," resort at once to Hosteltcrs Stomach Bitten. That great vege table touic will supply the vitalltv you to nrgmtlvTippd. It is nerve food. Bv its tonic action the stomach is so invigorated that digestion becornea regular, easy, perfectwhile ita mild, cathartic properties relieve the bowels from obstructions and its alterative operation beneficially affects all the secretive organ s. For the miseries of dvspepsta. nd they include almost every unpleasant feeling that belong to phveical dlsnase and mental wretchedness, this potent tonic ia a certain and tpecdy bainv

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