Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1886 — Page 6

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TB B INDIANA K'I'ATB BKNTINEL WKDNlfcD.a'y JUNE bO 1E6G

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The bitter taste of tbe Quinine is completely covered, and it makes the nost palatable preparation ol (juinine for adniinixtering to delicate women and children that we arc acquainted witi. We have ued it in the cases of children extensively, ami Always to our entire satisfaction. LEONARD!? MEDICAL JOI'RNAL. Maryland Lying-in-Asylum, Baltimore. We use L1EBIG CO.'S Coca Beef Tonic rith the most gratifying results. L.S. EITTING, M. D., Physician in Chief. To children with marasmus I have given it with dedided benefit. . . . it is of great utility in dyspepsia . . . also a most powerful and agreeable stimulant to the brain and nervous system. WM. C. RICHARDSON, m. d., ll. n., President of St. Louis Clinic ol Midwifery and Diseases ol Women ana Children. Her Majesty's Favorite Cosmetic GLYCERINE. Preparod only by the Koyal British Company of Chemists and Perfumers, the LJEBIG COMPANY. Fole American Agents. New York Depot, 38 M urray street. For the complexion and toilet One Dollar Fatronixed by royalty tnd the nobility. "Ex-iui-sitc" is the verdict of the beautiful aud giited" actress, Lillie Langtry. ERADSTREET'S REPORT. Kusines-4 Men Looking to the Fall Trade With Contldence. New York, June 2.3. Special telegrams to Bradstreet'a show that the movement of general merchandise at nearly all prominent distributing centers continues of moderate proportions. New Orleans forms a note worthy exception, as the manufacturing ia terests there are busy and the crop prospect is favorable. At leading cities there ia corf siderable confidence in the prospect of fall trade, crocery, dry goods, hardware and dealers in other lines looking ahead to in creased demands after the close of the dull season. Domestic money markets are gen erally quiet w'th offerings in excess of de manda. At St. Louis. Kansas City, St. Jo seph and Milwaukee money is in more active .request from manufacturers, jobbers, and in seme instances from the wool districts. It ia noticeable that collections have improved at the Southwestern points named, indicat ire freer movement of products. The New York stock market has been less buoyant, though the control of the bull clique seems none the less strong. L alavor able events, the Chicasro switchmen's strike and extensive rate-cutting in the Not th west make tleir task difficult, and whenever left to themselves prices show a decline. Bonds are very ttross ara acute, iioiiey is pien tiful, call loans averaging 2 per cent. Com mercial paper is dull tsu aca-ce. L.xcuans is strong, and gold is shipped in limitel quantities. Wool is the only staple which has shown any marked advance from the extreme low level of prices generally. It is "t6c higher at seaboard than on Jane l Mill purchases as well as speculative baying iiave Lei pea this, although, the London sales, with a train of "J to '2ö ter cent, in prices. have had a good deal to do with it. Woolen goods are stronger inconsequence, and there has been a noticeable gain in the movement of dry goods generally from both jobbers and agents, (hi some lines ol bleache.1 ani brown cottons the advance i3 from i to IS cent per yard. 'rude petroleum, too, has advanced on a decline in the average new production daily, and hog products continue the tendency toward higher figures noted last wees. There is also some improvement in raw cotton. Jiut on the long list of re mainine staples there is no conspicuous gain. Üreadstußs continue low in pries. Wheat crop prospects continue favorable; stocks are fair and shippers are taking with modera tion. The gain in Ho. - red cash wheat at 2s'ew York on this week is M cent, and corn two cents. There is do better demand for iron at the East, and Southern pig is again pushing its way into the bands of new customers. Sagar continues depressed by intlnences which have dominated for some time -past, as does coffee. Tobacco is less active at the est Should Have Been Given a Life Sentence. Fort Wayse, Ind., Jure 2.J. Thomas Eradbury, a well known farmer of thi3 vi cinity, was convicted to-day erf attempted rape on hi 3 eleven-year-old daughter, and sentenced to eleven rears In the penitentiary The testimony was brief, conclusive and ex tremelj disgusting.

0ÜR FARM BUDGET.

Tie Cultivation cf Tomatoes Harvest Moths CultiTitrg Ccrn Tctrg Chickens. The Farm Ureed Mannre From the Iis-ture-The Nativity of Plants Keep the Ioor-1 aril Trimml Vp How , r.e-t to Treat the Potato lire tie Farm Notes. The Cultivation of Tomatoes. ICouutry ;ntleaaan. In the first place the ground must be well preparedthoroughly plowed or spaded and literally manured. The manure should be spread thick upon the surface before the plowing or spading is done. Whether you plant your seed in beds and afterward trans plant to rows, or sow your seed in drill and afterward thin out, you should, in either race, have your ground well manured, but deeply plowed or spaded. Spading is better for a small bed. The tomato is not as voracious as some other plants, but it will not do much without liberal "feed." Any good manure, such as stable, cow lot, fowl house, or a compost of all these, will answer, or any commercial fertilizer will doubtless do. though I have never had occasion to use the latter, always being able to get plenty tf home-made manure. Having been liberally spread upon the surface before the ground is plowed or spaded, it becomes well mixed with the soil when it is being prepared for planting. A very common error is made by young and inexperienced farmers and ic aril ners, in supposing that manure will do the most good if applied directly to the rccts of the plant. When this is done, it causes the plant to "fire" or "burn" when hot. dry weather sets in. If you stick your spade into the ground soon after a hard rain, you will lind the earth is quite moist for several inches down, lry tue same experiment on a heap of manure, and you will, in all probability, discover that the water has not moistened it an inch. Hence, the necessity of having your manure thoroughly iucorrorated with the soil before pTantinjr: because the soil most soils at least readily absorbs moisture, and when the naturally dry manure is well mixed with the soil, it, too, becomes moist, and is then available as plant food. 1 sew tomato seed both in bed's, for trans plantinp. and also in rows or drills. The reoton I sow some in beds ia to injure against a bad stand in the drills. Another reason is. that when the plants in the bed are up four or live inches, 1 pick out the mot robust and plant in my select rows. I have a bed and a select row for each variety 1 plant: generally from three to four kinds. The next largest and best plants I use in titl ing up the vacancies that may occur in my drilled plants. Not many vacancies occur usually, unless the plants are badly eaten by insects, and I have never yet been troubled to any great extent by them. In fact, the large green tomato worm is the only enemy my p ants have ever bad. ana be has never ben numerous enough to do much damage. TLe select rows above mentioned are thos? from which I pick my table tomatoes, i. e., these for slicing and eating raw. I also se leet tte very best sp-eeiniens from these roxs for feed. For various reasons which 1 can not give, I prefer saving my own tomato seed. From the other rows I gather such as we use for cooking up into stews, putting tin in jars for winter vise, picketing, etc., tnouga I sometimes gather our pickle tomatoes from the "selects" when they are abundant From the ordinary rows I gather a great many for the chickens, which they relish greatly. home tomato amateurs trim their vines down to only two or three limb?, thus fore ir,g the entire strength of the plant into those limbs. This method gives few tomatces, but verv large and luscious. I trim my select rdants a little, but not to the extent that I have seen others do. 1 cut on from one-third to one-half of the limbs, perhaps, and do not let the plants grow much over two feet high. This plan gives me very large and line fruit, though not quite so large probably as where very close pruning is followed. et the greater number of tomatoes more tha'i compensate for the slight difference in size. Tomato seed, like all small seed, should be covered with shallow, and not sown uk thick. Transplanting should be done, if possible, on the afternoon of a rainy day; the ceanr night, the better. The plaats should staud lrom two and a half to three feet apart, in rows of that width. Like most other vegetables they should be kept clear ol weeds and grass, and the ground shouli be stirred frequently with a hoe, garden plow or small horse plow. Harvest Months. I Rural Press. J It is an interesting fact that wheat-growing has now become so widely extended over the surface of the earth that the moon never fails to find a ripe field to shine upon. When the growth of this grain was largely conCned to one latitude, the regular occurrence of the "harvest moon" was considered by some a special arrangement to lengthen the day f; r the hurried reapers. As now grain is falling somewhere eyery month of the year, many must have to get alone without this helpful phenomenon. No doubt a statement of the continual harvesting, and the time when different countries accomplish their ingathering, will be of general interest. We tind the following in an exchange It is harvest in January for Australia, New Zealand, Chili and Argentine; February and March for Kast India and Upper Kgypt; April for Lower L'gypt, Syria, Cyprus, Persia, Asia Minor, India, Mexico and Cuba; May for Algeria, Central Asia, China, Japan, Morocco, Texas and Florida; June for Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, l'ortugil, South of France, California, Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Utah, Colorado and Missouri; July for Rramania, Bulgaria, Austro Hungary, South of Russia. Germany, Switzerland, France. South of Kngland, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York. New Kngland and Upper Canada; August, llelgium, Holland, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Lower Canada, Columbia and Manitoba; SeptemVr and October. Scotland, Sweden, Norway and North of Kussia; November, Peru and South Africa, December, Hurmah." Cultivating Corn. ("Don" In Commercial Gazette He who says that shallow cultivation or deep cultivation is always the best for corn; that the double diamond or the toothed cultivator should always be used, simply shows that while he may be able to give corn on his own land the proper cultivation, he is not always fit to instruct his neighbors. Cultivation shonld vary with the soil, the season and the stage of growth of the plant. Further, while I am thoroughly convinced that in general the toothed or shovel cultivator shonld be used, rather than the double diamonds, I am yet certain that in some seasons the use of the latter is the better. Lach person must exercise his own juigroe nt, and yet there are some general principles to aid in reaching a decision. Thus, upon heavy, clayey soils the cultivation should be deeper than upon light, sandy ones. On the former deep cultivation is necessary, because without it soils will not warm enough, and where cultivation does not reach the ground will be so solid that roots will hardly penetrate. Deep cultivation in auch soils is also essential to proper drainage, and stagnant water in the son ia always hurtful. For these uro Halle to he

too dry, and deep cultivation will break them

up until the sun and air will take away too much of their moisture. Shallow cultivation is better, for it will not resch the moisture drawn from below. For the same reason shallow cultivation is best suited to a dry season, and it should be frequent. Deep cultivation is best in a wet season, for it will tend to dry the soil. But it must be understood that deep cultivation is meant to be deeper on a heavy soil than on a light one, always. And always a heavy oil should be plowed deep, no matter what the season may be. Youoc Chirfcen. Chickens should be fed at least four times n day until thev are twelve weeks old, and for "the next few weeks three times a day. Then separate from the rest all the pallets and as many of the best cockerels as will be needed for breeders, and feed them and the old fowls twice a day. The remaining cockerels should be allowed to range only in a pood-sized yard, and should be still fed three times a day. If possible to avoid doing so, never feed cornmeal clear, but mix with It cne-balf its bulk of shorts or line feed. For chickens the finer the feed the better. If it is wet with hot water and allowed to cool before feeding, it is best. Feed corn, oats, oatmeal, cracked corn, meat, etc. Do not feed chickens wheat until they are at least live or six weeks old. In cold weather, or when fowls are confined, feed plenty of scraps, shell, ground bone and cut hay. Let the last stand in water Eeveral hours after being cut before feeding. Chopped beets, cabbage, boiled turnips and potatoes are excellent. A great many poultrymen say, "Don't get your fowls too fat." Good advice; but "lJon't let them get too lean" is as good at all times, and better duriDg molting. Do not feed young chickens on good, fresh eggs boiled, as very often advised. It will not pay. Sell the eggs; one seldom gets lets than twelve cents per pound for eggs, and he can buy good, fresh shanks for three or four cents per pound. lloil them well, use the water to wet the feed, chop the meat, give a small quantity each day for a weak or two, and it will answer the purpose as well as boiled eegs, if not better, says the Rural New Yorker. The Farm I treed. Rural New Yorker. Is the best farm cow contained in the ranks of any of the present breeds of cattle? Many farmers are asking themselves this question. Breeders who desire to sell stock for breeding purposes, thus securing a price beyond what animals would brine at the block, or milk into the pail, are quick to answer "yes." Farmers who have no desire to seil breeding stock are by no means certain. There is no use in denying tbe fact that farmers with small herds of cattle are still inclined to hunt for that much desired animal, the "general-purpose cow." The tendency is to breed for special purposes, and no pure-bred aiiimal can ever completely lill the place of a "ick of all trades." No breeder, however skiillul, can put beef on the Jersey and retain the little cow's wonderful butter record, and there will always be "a great gu'.f fixed" between excessive milk production and excessive beef production. Can the desired result be more nearly obtained through high grades or cross bred animals? For all practical purposes a good high grade Jersey i as valuable as the averige thoroughbred. Her price will be measured solely by the number of pounds of butttr she can make, and for men who have no desire to speculate in pedigrees or sell breeding stock, this basis will be satisfactory enough. Cross-breeding is being more generally practiced than ever before. There are several herds in the coantry, in which this practice ha? been followed systemactically, where the characteristics of'what may be called a new breed have been developed. Hi'; oflspring of a Jersey bull and a grade snorthorn cow has given excellent results in many instances, while calves from a Holland bull out of grade Devon or shorthorn cows are reported excellent for cheese dairies. The farmer who will drive his cows by a thoroughbred bull for the purpose of patronizing a scrub at a small price is foolish, but ho is far from wise to buy thoroughbred cows unless he ean afford extra time for rearing, advertising and selling his calves. If lie wants a "general purpose" cow he will be apt to find the best animal for his purpose in the off spring of a thoroughbred bull of one of the dairy breeds and a higt-grade beef cow. The "general purpose-' cow may be known as the "farm breed'1 aa distinct from the JerEey, Devon and the others, ßeann?; in mind the fact that each of the pure breeds represents certain fixed characteristics, a farmer can at a small cost develop a herd best suited to his farm. Manure from the Pasture. Farm, Field and Stockman. J AYhen the cattle are turned upon the pasture, and the area devoted to that purpose is considerable, there is a large amount of luanure dropped daily, although in looking over the field the quantity appears very insignificant. The question may properly be asked if farmers do not make a mistake in allowing such droppings to remain iu the field. There is quite a loss of the valuable portion ammonia in a few hours, and the supposition that the soil absorbs the valuable constituents is true only when the manure and soil are intermingled. We admit that the droppings on the pasture field enrich the soil to a certain extent, but we believe it would pay every farmer to go over his field many with a wagon and collect the droppings, hauling them to the manure heap, there to be properly composted and mixed with absorbentä. When the droppings are left in the field the manure is unevenly distributed, tbe gras having the appearance of growing in tussocks, while in many cases the giass is completely destroyed. If a calculation could be made of the quantity of manure dropped in a field by fifty cows in one year it would be probably equal to all that is produced at the barnyard, yet its effect on the pasture is not equal to that which would be produced if the whole quantity of manure at the barnyard was applied. The reason is very apparent. The manure at the barnyard is properly cared for, while that on the pasture is exposed to evaporation by dry winds and the escape of volatile matter through the influence of the heat of the sun. The Nativity of Plants. Spinach is a Persian plant. Horseradish is a native of Kngland. Melons were found originally in Asia. Filberts came from Greece. Quinces came from Corinth. Ihe turnip came from Rome. The peach came from Persia. bage is a native of the south of Europe. Sweet majoram is a native of Portugal. The bean is said to be a native of Egypt Damsons came from Damascus. The nasturtium came from Pern. The pea is a native of the Kast and West Indies. Coriander seed came originally from the East. The cucumber was originaliy a tropical vegetable. Tbe gooseberry is Indigenous to Great Britain. Apricots are indigenous to the plains of Armenia. Pears were brought from the East by the Romans. The walnut is a native of Persia, the Caucasus and China. The clove is a native of the Malacca Islands, as is also the nutmeg. Cherries were known in Asia as far hack as the seventeenth century. Garlic came from Sicily and the shores of the Mediterranean. Asparagus was o wild sea-coast plant, and is a native of Great Britain. The tomato is a native of South America. Parsley is said to have come from Egypt. Applf s were brought from the East by the Romans. The crab apple is indigenous to Great Britain. The onion was almost an object of worship with the Egyptians two thousand years before the Christian Kra, 1 1 first came from India. The cantaloupe is a native of ijaerica,

and to railed frem the name of a place rear Home, where it was first cultivated in Kuroje. Keep the Iooryarl Trimmed lp. Do not neglect to mow the dooryards, says the New England Farmer. Not every farmer needs to keep a lawn mower to be run over tbe front yard every week, but .every farm dooryard should have early and frequent cutting of the grass along the paths to the stable and the other outbuildings. Then the clothes yard needs to bekept well in hand, so that the women can hang out the clothes or spread them upon the grass to whiten without getting their skirts bedrabbled with the morning dews. Never let bad weeds run up to seed about the buildings, but kill them or keep them down by frequent mowing. One shonld also mowths roadside a.ong his own premises, and keep it in condition so it can be mowed with safety to the scythe. Never make the highway the catch-all for old rubbish, such as broken vahicles, refuse lumber and fire-wood, old tin and broken crockery. Keep all these out of the highway and mow tbe borders two or three times a year, and our streets would present less the appearance of jungles between the travel and tbe fences. Let the odd hours be spent in clearing up yards and streets. You will like your place better If kept neatly cared for; your neighbors will get an example they may be glad to follow, and if you should have occasion to sell the old homestead, it would sell quicker and bring more if it has always been managed with taste. Many farm buildings are surrounded by rank growth of the coarsest of weed?, burducks, biiers, thistle?, poison ivy and a host of annual weeds, which often shed their seeds upon the manure plli and thus get carried to tl e cultivated fields. Detter have clean grass sod in such places, such as every one may have by a little judicious care at the proper time. How liest to Trent the Potato Ueetle. IRural New Yorker.

Again some some writers are talking of the economy of hand-picking potato beetles. "II this is well attended to, there will be no eggs deposited on the leaves," they say. Do they write from experience, or do they write such stuir because it seems plausible? Years ago we diligently picked oil and killed, once every day, every potato beetle to be seen on a patch 'JIM) feet square, and yet there were. so far as could be judged, just as many eggs de(cHted and hatched as if this tedious work had never been done; while tbe soil be tween the rows was kept hard by beine walked over so often. The fact is that the beetles are to be found in every crack of the soil, under little clods and stones, about the stems and creeping everywhere. One may pick off all the beetles from the plants at 10 o clock, and at ll o clock tney will be aa thick as ever. Hand-picking destroys just so many beetles certainly, aud there are just so many less; but it is like removing a niound nf earth pebble by pebbles, or empty ing a tuD ol water drop oy drop, ihe work has no appreciable eilect. We have tried every method of killing potato beetles. For one entire seascn we tried London purple, but found that if applied the least bit too strong, it would injure the foliage. Tans green aud water is also injurious to the foliage, because the water collects wherever tie leaf will hold it, and evaporates, leaving a film of paris green. We now use pure paris green and plaster one pound to a barrel of plaster and see that it is thor oughly mixed with rake and hoe. The first application is made as soon as the plants get well out or the ground, and the second when the beetles begin to deposit their eg?s, and tbe third, when the grubs make their appearance. A fourth application is not needed lor early )otatocs. FA 1131 NOTES. Plant celery from the middle of Juae to the middle of July. Reports from the Panhandle of Texas indicate that the calf crop in that country is large. Encourage toads in your hotbed and garden. They will destroy .more than their weight in insect pests. A man may have the best known breed of fowls, and if they are not properly cared for they will not give satifaction. Now is an excellent time to push young pigs, as they grow very rapidly after the weather commences to become warm. The advice to put a cow before calvin? on short rations to prevent milk fever is bad, ice iood snouid De regular, not lorced. Dust melon vines with Paris green or Lon don purple to keep off the bugs. Dust with one Dart of the jowder to twenty-five parts of Hour. Calves kept gaining vigorously through the first year are worth at the end twice as much as others that have been retarded in growth. A second brood of currant worms usually makes its appearance just as the fruit b jgins to ripen, and Is quite as injurious to the crop aa tbe lirst H not promptly destroyed. A soil but five inches deep can not be worth as much as another that gives free scope to the roots of plants to whatever ueptn they may penetrate in search of nutn ment. Fowls that must be fed in summer should be fed regularly. If fed only twice a day feed lightly in the morning and give a full feed at night. If fed but once a day, feed at night. Dr. Sturievant, at the New York Experi ment Station, found that mulching the soil lightly between the rows of peas with straw retards the attack of mildew very percepti bly. It is the late-sown crop that suffers. By keeping land in clover, cutting the first crop and plowing under the second, a New York farmer produced luO bushels of shelled corn per acre. The fertilized used was handful of hen manu e around each hill of corn. It is stated that it costs $27,.xK) per head to make farmers in the agricultural depart ment of l ale College that is, its rund o $105,000 expended for that purpose ha placed six agricultural gradual' a before the world. Now is the time to prepare for blue-grass winter pasture. Let it grow from this tim on undisturbed, and for fall, winter and early spring pasture it will be worth more per acre than the everlasting cropping of grain. Jf a farmer makes bot little effort, and is content to drive an old scrubby team an scatter a little fodder to "old Rrindle," while ennfisn hocrs and hairy, worthless sheep complete the live stock outfit, that man is a mis erable failure. The problem of farming consists in mak ing the soil increasingly fertile. Manure is thelarmer s savings bank, and If more of them would have large heaps of it every spring to spread upon their lands, instead of money at interest, they would prosper bet ter in the end: Clover growth is helped by lime and plaster. Large quantities of nitrogen are con tained in the earth and air, and clover absorbs nitrogen more than any other plant. The plant and air work together in furnishing en exhaustless supply of food for all kinds of food plants. Separated early and raised np by them selves, pullets are worth at least a quarter more for use than if allowed to run with a lot of cockerels In the large, late maturing breeds the evil is less, though even with them the practice of keeping them separate is most profitable. It is thought by some good observers tha the disease curl in the leaf of the peach tree is caused, or at least assisted, by the lack of soluble potash in the soil. In proof of this It is stated that trees unmistakably anectea with curl have been quickl.r changed to health through the application of unbleached wood ashes about the trees. Whenever rhubarb throws out a great many leaves and tbe stalks are small and woxtfiless the xoots (should, be dpg cp and

transplanted, dividing them, so that only me thrifty bud is left to each piece of root. This should be done early in the spring, as soon as the newly formed buds are ready to

push through the soil. One of tbe meanest of mean weeds is plantain. It can not be eradicated com pletely except by measures equivalent to wearing out, root, leaf and branch; then seeds are left in the soil to make repetition of the process necessary before extermina tion ox the pest is etiected. A Country Gentleman correspondent tried the experiment of hauling manure from the barn yard in winter and placing it in heaps on a steep hillside to see how much of the value would be washed out of it by rains. The result was that the increased growth of the grass from the washing did not extend five feet below the heaps. Keeping down the weeds will not be the only gain to come from thorough hoeing. By having a layer of finely pulverized sou at tbe surface evaporation of moisture will be prevented during the day, while absorption will go on through the night. After every heavy rain tbe soil of the garden should be gone over with a hoe or rake to prevent crusting. A cold, damp soil, with hard impervious subsoil, is not suitable for a garden, and hefore it can be proierly utilized should be well drained. For garden purposes, it the tile drain has been laid, the trenching sys tem is best for such sous. Any method that permits it to rid itself of surplus moisture, and allows tbe air and neat to enter, will be beneficial. Elackberries and raspberries need never to be staked if properly pruned. As soon as the spring canes reach a height of thirty xr tbirty-six inches, "snip" their tops off, when they will throw off laterals, become more stocky and hold up their load of fruit with out stakes. Mating is a useless expense and labor. Sometimes wires can be drawn by the sides of tall plants to good advantage. Bathe the horse's shoulder with cold water or brine as quick as the collar comes ofl'. before the sweat begins to dry. and rub off the collars and saddle pieces with a moist cloth. This will prevent sore shoulders. All changes of food should he gradual, but in proportion to the work. Heavily taxed muscles makes demands on the stomach; hence, increase the food after work begins. never in anticipation. A horse fed up belore he is called to work gets soft and fat. Dwarf pears should be planted on a snot that has a moist subsoil, either natural or made bo by subsoiIiDg or mixing some ma terial with the soil that will give out moist ure in dry weather. Trees already planted on a dry, gravely subsoil should have a cir cle dug out two feet deep and two or three feet from the tree. This should be rilled lip with well-enriched soil. If the dwarf pear docs not prow ireely it is a sign that some thincr is wrong. It should be severelv pruned, so as to aid in producing a vigorous growth. An apiary of öoO or 1.000 colonies is not unusual, erpecially in California, tbe land of honey, n not milk and honey, and the out loot gives the future a more promising aspect tnan ever tue past bad. ibe only ckeek to the California honey yield will be the protest or the winr-roweis who claim, and have established in one case in co irt. that the bees rob the grapes. Bees can not injure whole fruit, as they have no power of penetrating the outer covering, but they will attack nnsound fruit, . particularly grapes witn nroten sains. The farms of America equal the entire territory of the United Kingdom. France. Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Port ugal. The corn fields equal the extent of l-.cgland, Scotland and Belgium, while the gram lields generally would overlap Spain. The cotton fields cover an area larger than Holland and twice as laree as Belgium. Tbe rice fields, sugar and tobacco plantations would also form kingdoms of no lnsieuih cant size, and such is the stage of advance ment reached by American agriculturists that it is estimated that one farmer like Mr. Dalrjmple, with a field of wheat covering 100 f uuare miles, can raise as much grain with luO farm servants as 5.000 peasant pro prietors in Trance. Some bee keepers claim to be able to entice bees to cluster wherever they want them to. I have tried these bee-bobs time and again and have never been able to get tbe bees to notice them; have tied up devices resem bling small c'usters of bees and with bees strung on threads banging from them, all to no purpose. I once found a colony of bees with worker brood, but too much drone lie DMswere diminutive. 1 too It a new hive, brushed the bees off the combs and put them in it, placing it where the old one stood, with a queen and drone excluder in front, thus preventing their entering the hive. These frames contained brood only; these were put in the center of the hive with division boards each side, after shaving the heads off the drones with an uncapping knife. I pinched the heads oil the oueen and destroyed the drones as they were pre vented from entering the hive by the exclud er, ihe bees will build queen cells, and wben they are capped I will destroy them, and give them others ready to emerge, reared in good colonies. There is as much differ ence in bees as in other stock, and those who keep them for profit can not afford to keep scrubs. All inferior colonies should be weeded out, and this can be done by destroying only one bee, the queen or mother. New blood should be introduced yearly into the apiary by a few queens from reliable breeders. Prairie Farmer. HE WAS A COUNT. The 'Komanre of a Louisiana Merchant His Kevtlation. New Orleans, June 23 The elements of a romance are developed in the death of Louis Perdrizat, a native' of France, who for the past six years has been living at Carencro, a small village in Lafayette Parish, on the Louisiana and Texas Railroad, west of this city. He has been keeping a small gen eral store at that place, and lived in a style that indicated very moderate pecuniary means. On Wednesday night he took two ounces of laudanum, and this morning was found dead in his bed. He left a will bequeathing $200,000 in money and stocks to two daughters in France, and be reveals tbe fact that his real name is Count de Chatrel les of d'Ulze, which name and title are signed to tbe will. The Marquis ds Chatrelles, of France, is appointed his executor. The dead man was almost forty years of acre. educated and well bred, but reserved in his manner. Lately he has been drinking con slderably. and it is believed his death was a case of suicide. A Whole Family Foisoned. Taris, Mo., June 23. Sanford Bryan, col ored, of this place, and his family, consist ing of his wife and three children, have been poisoned by drinking water from a barrel in which had been placed some poisonous sub stance. The symptoms are those of arsenic poison. Suspicion points very strongly to a young darky with whom the Bryans had a personal difficulty on Sunday, and who was seen in the vicinity of the residence of the stricken family a short time before they were taken sick. The children not having taken so freely of the water as the parents were soon relieved, but at this time the man and woman are in a critical condition. Hemorrhage of Lungs. Will you kindly inform me through the columns of your very excellent journal, if yon consider Pond's Extract useful in hemorrhage of the lungs, as it has been recommended to me by a friend? A Subscriber. Ana, WTe have seen such gratifying results in controlling hemorrhages from nearly every other organ and part of the body, that we do not hesitate to advise its nse to control hemorrhace of the lungs during the time of its J ocepxeuce. reople'a Heajth Journal,

THE QUEEN OF ALL. Now once more do our feet fcund on the threshold sweet Of riavw that show tbe year in her fair prime. J'er blotporn ppAiigled sod SpiiDK's Mowery paths we trod And to have come again to Summer time By violets March displays, by April's prim rose ways Ey tbe freh frsgr&uoe of May's cowslipped ground. We reaoh at length the day Towarrts which Msn-b, April. May, Lead on the footsteps unto the Summer bound. Through the door now ajar, gweet, sweet the visions are Of treasures which the precincts do contain: Precincts where rces red Are Kily Rarlanded O'er dainty realms where silver lilies reign. Odaynof goliVo balm O nights oi silent calm. Eight well may ye the souls of men enthrall. Spring-tide the promise gave, Fulfillment now we hare. And royal summer is the queen of all. ."t. James Ja.ette.

SENTINELS. Kotes and Items Captured on the SkirmUh Lice. The four most important towns of Aus tralia are now Melbourne, population 22,J47; Sydney, 221,211; Adelaide, lUJ.bCl, and Auckland, X),CM). Mrs. John Balfour, o Chicago, is reported to have inherited $000,ox by the death of an old sweetheart who took to China instead of to drink after his rejection. It is unnecessary to add to the half million tbe information that the lady is handsome a:id charming. Mr. Boyd Winchester, champion Kentucky poker player and Consul General of the United States to Switzerland, thinks that he has discovered some cheeses in that country that are 200 years old. That is impossible. When cheeses have advanced to that age they have become chestnuts. Munday, the Georgia revivalist, who is trying to convert Nashville, is a reformed gambler, circus juggler, and variety actor. He is thirty years old, straight as an arrow, and good looking. At a recent meeting in Nashville it is reported that "two grayhaired sinners, with both of whom the preacher had previously played poker, professed conversion and wept bitterly at the memory of their errors." Affable traveler to neighbor in railway car: "Your came is very familiar to me. Mr. er ah ." iaiet stranger: -Iy name is Moctzousctskiest Koroczoctoctber. I am a Pole." Affable traveler: 'Yes; er it isn't your name so much as your face; 1 wasa'jut to say your face was very familiar to ma." Quiet stranger: '"Yes; I have been in fcing Sng prison for fourteen 3 ears. I was discharged this morning." Affable traveler keeps on traveling, b'lt quits affabling. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. Twenty-six years ago Joseph Loth, of New York City, was an invited guest when the Putnam Phalanx, of llartfort, visited the grave of General Pntnam. At that time a subscription paper was circulated to secure a fund to erect a monument over "Put's'? grave, and Mr. loth put down his name for J10. He heard no more about the monument until last week, when he read that it was about to be erected. Thereupon he made good his subscription by sending $10 to Adjutant Tyler of the Putnam Phalanx. The civilization of the East is rapidly penetrating this country. Nowhere is it mire noticeable than in a certain Dakota town near the Montana line, in which the leading hotel has the following posted conspicuously on the head of the bedsietd in each rooai: j Guests are requested" to j j REMOVE THEIR .SPURS FEror.E nrnp.ixG. nstelline (Dak.) Bell. It was announced that the Thomas Paine Society of Frederick County. Md., would celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Tom Paine' s death at the house of Aaron Davis, near Frederick ; but not a celebrater appeared. Mr. Davis himself objervedthe day by not working, lie said that while there were only about a dozen members of the society there were 300 or 400 believers of the Paine doctrines in the county, but fear of social ostracism or injury to their business caused them to make a secret of their views. Fred and "Willie Gerstner, aged nine and eleven, tired of their home in Cincinnati, so they packed a big basket with provisions,stele $3 and a pistol from their father, and started out to see the world. And they saw it, for three weeks, sleep.ng in barns, selling news papers and blacking boats in Dayton and To ledo, and were in a fair way to become per feet tramps when the advertisements of their frantic father lent to their apprehension and return to the parental roof. They say that they have had all the tramping they want Daniel It. Arnold is the station agent at Pawtucket. Recently the clerks and freight hands went to his office in a body, and the spokesman began a speech about the strike out West and the relations of employers and employed, and was going on when Mr. Arn old very sternly and impatiently said "State your grievance." The next moment he felt the cheapest of any man in New England, for the spokesman said the boys had come to make him a present on his fifty-seventh birthday. It was a nice r res ent, but Mr. Arnold could hardly say "thank jou," he was so surprised. "Cousin Ben" Folsoni is in Omaha looking after the Folsom estate in that city, which is worth from $350,000 to $.300,000. The Omaha Bee reports him as intensely tickled with his notoriety, and he is thinking of hiring a Secretary and keeping a scrap-book "Some of these paragraphs are very funny," said Mr. Folsom, "but the one that accuses me of wearing a scarf-pin as big as a half dollar with a red rooster with green feathers is a monstrous exaggeration. 1 ou can say 'officially' that I have too much taste to wear a scarf-pin of that size. Here is the pin. 1 ou will see that it is no larcer than a ten cent piece and is simply a Florentine mo saic. Purify your blood, tone up the sv-stera, an regulate the digestive organs by taking Hood's Earsaparilla. Sold by all druggis An Expert Opinion of Mrs. Cleveland. Philadelphia Tress. J A Blue Grass statesman a widower, by the way said blu illy, "What do 1 think of her? Well, now, may be you remember what some one savs to somebody else in 'The Colleen Bawn:' 'When you die leave your money to the poor, but leave your widow to me.' Bo say l to u rover." An Important Function Stimulated. The kidneys exercise most important functions, which are so weaisome that they tax to the utmost the strength and endurance of these busy little organs. Every breath, every pulsation of the heart, every movement of the limb, every thought, makes waste and necessitates the develop ment of new atoms. The used up particles in the blocd are slf tel from it and dissolved in a watery fluid by the kidneys, which then dischargo this fluid Into the bladder. A train of disasters to the a-8tf m would follow if these "ashes, so to speak Cere not thorouEhly strained off and discharged This L the cae when the kidneys become inactive, llostcttcr's Stomach Bitters, by restoring their activity, not only keeps open a most im porta nt outlet for Impurities, but prevent dis eases of the kidneys themselves, which when inert become liable to fall a prey to diabetes, Bright's disease, mtpbitla, albnmenuria, ana other maia dies specially rapid in their progression, are par ticulaiiy eittiaate and JaHd,

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