Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1887 — Page 6

THE INDIANA 6TATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MAY 18 1887.

THE FARM BUDGET.

Irscctj isl Pett3 Ranta Tiis Dürss. P,g Froit-Grow:n' for Vcmsn. Tb Value of Honey Vor &ed Shape of rigs Corn I'JaotlBg Farm and Uonte Kotes. Insects and Pests. Chicago Herald. I There will be icsecta to combat this month in parden and orchard. The onion magcot will begin to work when the young plants are large enough for hoeing, or a little later if the onions have made aa early growth. The first sign noticed will be the drooping of onion tops, and if the maggot is not stopped e&ch worm will move along the row, taking every onion for oce or two feet. As there may be more than one on the first plant, and aa the erpsiaaybe deposited very thickly over the field, they make sad work, often taking whole rows in a few days, or perhap3 so reducing the whole lld aa to make it the better way to plow it np and devo'e it to other crops. Where they are but few, the only sure way ia to take the root out aa eoon aa the top begins to wilt, and perhaps one cr two on eacn side ot it in the row, and take up the ."-oil at least an inch in depth, ltemove this from the field entirely and either devote it to the compost h?np or to such a drying aa will kill the little maggot that dees the mischief. It xany be necessary to look over the field twice a day for a week or more before all will be decoyed. Hat in no otter way can th-5 v.i'ue of the field ba preserve 1 a3 an onion field. Tue only other remedy is to devote it to grass or other crop3 for three or fonr years and graw no onions ne-rit. The cabbnge fly can be driven away by occasionally sprinkling the leaves with tine tobacco, pulverized sulphur and plaster mixed together. For the cabbage worm use a solution of siltpctre at the rata of a quarter of a pound in two gallons of water, with which shower the plants liberally. This is also useful for destroying rose bus, and if a little cl it is used in watering cabbage and tomato plantä or melon hill?, it may prevent the cat-worm from attackin? them. For the currant worm, powdered hellebore is a sura destroyer, and if used freely until after the currants blossom the worms seldom appear later. As it is poisonocs, it should not be used after the berries are crown, when it will be necessary to depend upon hand-picking. The same caution should be observed in regard to paris ereen upon tomato and etrg-plants f jr the destruction of tha Colorado beetle. One pound of the paris preen well mixed into a hundred weight of fine ground plaster is the test method of applying that poison to the potato vines, or to the above crops before the fruit forms. To destroy cioker worms, stir a tablespoon fal of paris preen into a pail of water, and with a small force pump or syriDge thoroughly shower the tree. Keep the Mangers Clean. The more high-bred and spirited the horse the more dainty he will be about his feed, and the greater care must be taken to kafp feed boxes and mangers free fromiilta. Almost any scrub would, however, refa:e tD eat out of mangers as they often are lefr. wun portions 01 tne unconsumed hay or cram to be run over and soiled bv fowls while the horse is away at work. This i3 a too common condition of many farmers' stables at this season, when increasing warmth dulls the appetite and mates solid food doubly offensive by its decay. Many a hard-worked horse gets olThis feed, a3 it is said, and grows poor from this cause alone. Mere care should be taten at this season to feed only what will be eaten clean, wnether ot hay, meal or grain. If any re mama wnea tae norte is tasen out in tue rooming to work it should be removed from the feed box and given to some of.her animal that will eat it outside the stable, Cornstalks In Manure. where cornstalks have been fed uncut their long, woody substance makes the ma nure not oniy aiincuit to handle, but reduces its value very materially. It is hard work doing good plowing wr a loose long atalks covering the surface, and when they are turned under the furrow the efTect on light, dry ground i3 to nearly neutralize the value of the manure. In a dry season such manure does even more harm than good. ua neavy ana ratner wet lantl these corn stalks may be benencial by improving its mechanical condition, especially for corn. j;ut wnere cornstaixa have been cat into short lengths the stubs uneaten serve aa excellent purpos? as a manure absorbent, ana in mis condition make cool manure or any crop. Bants Shall We liaise Them.' f American Agriculturist. I com e animals are born "runts." Does it pay to raise them? Is it not more econom ical to kill them es soon aa their runtiness ja observed 7 The runty pigs ere usually put in a pen and given to the wife or daughter. Bhe is told that if she gives it xne stops irora the house, etc., she may have what the hog bricks when it is big ana rat. ineiact that :n many caae3 she does not get the money when the hoi is sold does not deter her from giving the pig all the slops and milk it can drink. It also gets the crusts, refuse vegetables, peelings, etq., from the kitchen; and quite often the zeal of the woman makes the feed of the pig auite expensive. Kept in confinement and fed rich, sloppy food, the pig increases rapidly in size, but gains more in size than in weight. If put out vith the other swine, cn grass and exercise, i's pot belly disappears, it gets pointy arid loses in size, though not so ranch In weight. As it comes from the pen it is more gut than bone, more slop than mus--$Ie. Its flesh ia soft and flabby. When put t harder, drier food, and allowed to take some exercise, both of which are esaential to firm, sweet wholesome flaah, the fact becomes painfully apparent that its growth in the pen has been fictitious to a certain extent. We believe the best thing to do is to kill the runt at once. If a pig or a laml, its value can be put little. The loss will hardly equal the cost to bring the animal w a self-supporting basis. In the case of a calf, a longer period of probation may be given ; and ordinarily the chances are ia fivor of bringing a colt through. Yet we are of the opinion that euch ia the inclination to keep ratter than to sacrifice the runt, that the best advice to kill without delay, provided it is not of a choice breed and wortb the cost cf the extra care necessary to bring no to a tomewhat normal condition, but this ia cot often profitable. The Improved Dorset Pig. The Dorset pig of thia day is a result of the union of the improved blood of Wiltshire and Hamj.3b.ire, and these are the product of judicious intermingling of the old Essex, the Chinese and the Neapolitan stocks with the native stock of those section J! The situation of the county, adjoining Hampshire and "Wiltshire, makes reasonable the suggestion as to the sources whence the improvement has been advanced. For bacon, Wiltshire ia, and for generations baa been, celebrated, a3 has teen Yorkshire for hams, and Dorset is a ttron? competitor of both, with its improved pigs, which are persistent winners of prizes at agricultural shows. It seems pro nable, too, that the Berkshire played a very important part in the Improvement of the Dorset pigs, for the present breed of Berkshire is a moderatesized animal, soundly built, short in the leg, with a short, arched neck, heavy cheeks, sharp ears, sn upiight forehead, while the barrel Is very good, the back broad, and the whole shape np to the buyer's standard. There are few sections of country, either

n the United States or England, into

which the Berkshire pig has not made its way, and everywhere ita excellent qualities nave made its a favorite on account of itt moderate size, small bone?, thin sain, ease of fattening, and the character of its flesh. In all directions the breed has extended lis-If, changing old races for the better, and mixing its blood advantageously witn that of all other strains and races. The iruprovtd Leicester, also, and the im proved Lsf ex have bestowed tneir gooa qualities freely upon other lines, and it is from all these combinations, so interwoven as to leave the exact source of supply indistinct, under the modern system of loterbreeding, that the valuable breed of Dorset has been derived. I'ralt Growlos for Women. A Massachusetts woman, having an hour or two each day to spire from hous3WorSr, and wishing to earn a little money, deem ed to try raising strawberries for market. Her piece of laud was Ctty-feen feet long, and averaged fifty-seveD feet wide. The plants were taken c-re of through the season, and the last of October the bed re ceived a fcnal hoeicg, and a little later tne plants were mulched about two inches deep with pine needles. Before the picking Eeason commenced she bargained with a market-man, a mile and a half distant, to take all her berries, by allowing htm, as his share, 4 cents a basket for all berries sold for 20 cents and over, and 3 cents for those bringing less. In picking, she was carefnlto put in only sound fruit, to have as large berries at tbe bottom of the basket as on top, and to have them heaped as high as the crate would allow. It being a poor year for Btrawberrie3, owing to drought, which did not eßect her low ground, the received good prices. .None were sold for less than 15 cents a basket. The entire crop sold was o"0 baskets, for Expanses were which she received $oJ SO. $21.55, leaving a net profit of $31.25. What to Save for Seed. Many make the mistake, says a writer in the Indiana Farmer, of using the first pets, beans, tomatoes, radishes, lettneeand quite a list of plants, and allow what ia left to mature for seed. It requires but a short time for the efTect of this kind of work to show itself in a lower grade of products. The better plan is to select the best, as they grow, fcr seed, not out of what is left, but the best at first, iou want to save the choice of the crop for seed instead of a choice of the leaving. In the garden a supply of lettuce, radishes,- turnips, peas. beans, melons, squashes, tomatoes, and au that class that mature seed the first year can be saved to a very good advantage. If 3 on secure strong, vigorous plants and by culuvation induce rapid growth, tbe best will five you plants that will mature seed that jou can save. "With field crops, such as corn, oats, sorghum, or potatoes, it will often p?.y to plant a small plot for the especial purpose of gro wfDg for seed, taking considerable pains to secure the best growth, and then selecting and storing the best for seed. It is a considerable expense to be obliged to purchase seed of this kind every spring, and especially so when, by making the proper ellort, you can secure fully as good as what you can purchase. But on no account save the seed unless you have a very good crop. Improve rather than allow the seed to deteriorate. If you can not do this, it will be more f conotnical to purchase seed than to raise it. Bat with proper care with quite a number of varieties it w ill pey to.raise and save your own supply oi seed. Ihe Shape of Pl;s. There is a difference, writes Colonel F. P Curtis to the Rural New Yorker, in the forms ot pigs, even in a fixed breed. 8om? will have a lorjg body and some a short one ; some will be hteheron tbe legs and some lower; eome will have a longer snout than ethers. The last feature is tee leas-, impor tant, although riasy persons I make it of the greatest consideration, while in fict it is really about tbe last thing to wor:y ttout. If a man is goirig to keep Hops to please his eye, he can f u?s about an inch cr so of snout as much as he pleases. and make it a subject of a great deal of talk and thought ; but if he is keeping ho9 to make something out of them, and to help enrich bis farm, that is another thing For my part I like a good, strong and mod erately long snout. It gives the hog the appearance of business, something cunning, while the ntt;e piggy, stubbed-on nose lcoks as though that pig was finished, and so it ;s, so isr aa much growth is concerned Growth is whst we want in a i'g. Without it there Is no preßt. A pig with a Ions nose generally has a long body. This is a good point, but It must be the only considera tion in our selection of a male. The hams must be carefully viewed, and If they ars net well rounded out, and deep down, the pig is lacking ia a most valuable part. The shoulders too, should be broad, and the back should be the same, and well rounded. if we want lots of spare-rib. A Hat-sided hcg will mate more me33 pork in proportion, and will lack in thickness along tbe line. The legs bj ould always be short. and thia feature denotes Ian easy keeper. because snch a hog will always be a quiet one. A long-ieggea or stilted hog will al wavs be on the run, and will never be satisfied with the best of food. The male should be selected for a special purpose. If tne neru neeua to be improved in any special feature, that point should be prominent in the male, but at the same time he should not be deficient in some other parts; or while one feature ia being im proved another, perhaps equally as good, win be spoiled. Potatoes With Deep Ejes. Xo potato la likely to be popular for mar ket which hs deep eyes. Whatever lis ex cellence in other respects, this defect make) it les salable. There is not only a great less in prera'irgsuch potatoes for cooking, but it is the n.G3t valuable part of the potato, which is near the skin. A smooth, even suriace with eves not deeply sst en ables the housewife to pare the potato with little waste, and if combined with elongated shape to bake them unpeeled, which is perhaps the best way to cook thia vegetable. , . Ilre&klDg Calves to lead. It is comparatively easy to teach a young calf to be lead by tbe rope, ani if it is to be bred for a cow the advantage of having this accomplish ment will increase ita value. Even in it3 calf age docility in being easily led will give it more frequent changes of feed when tied by a rope, and thus insure greater thrift and lareer growth. It will prove an advantage so Jong as it lives, and the sooner thia docility Is learned the better for the animal and its owner. Dwarf Peas. The dwarf varieties of peas are not so popular aa they were a few years ago. People took to tbem mainly because the vines did not need the trouble and expense of staking. Bnt they do cot compare in yield with the best of the larger sorts. The little vines may be and sometimes are covered with poda, but they are not large enough to hold a foil crop, and when once picked the vine ia done for. In the larger vines there is more of a succession of bloom, giving a longer picking from the same seeding. A Study of Corn Planting-. There are the best of reasons for Baying that three feet and eight inches Is a standard for width of corn rows. The acre is tbe unit of measurement in farming. Now three feet and eight Inches apart for the rows gives exactly eighteen rows to the acre across the field from side to side, and nine rows to the acre the long way of the field. In tbe after cultivation of the crop, the modern two-horse cultivators will work to the center of the row, while at four feet or wider there will always be a strip in the center that the cultivator teeth will not disturb. If the corn be cut np nine hills f qua re each acre will have just forty ihocka; by tuskirg f our ahockj in differ

ent parts of the field the product will be one-tenth the yield of an acre. Thus accuracy can be determined, which to the thinking farmer ia worth something. The value of this distance ia perceived after the crop is gathered in, and when the field is to be plowed again. Every plowman knows how difficult it is to turn corn stubble under well, untos the lait furrow before turning the hill covers up close to the outside of it. Bows four feet apart require three siiteen-inch fnrrowa to compaa the space. Thia is too wide for ordinary plows; four inches less space permits the three furrows to turn the soil completely. The above practice on my own farm tor several 3 ears is so satisfactory that I know it will be adopted by others after a year's trial. The distance named gives 518 hills to the acre more than at four feet, and requires less seed to the hill. I aim to know that my seed will germinate before planting, and tbe rule ia to plant just two kernels to the hill and never less. If three are

cropped occasionally l do not require oie to be picked out, but I would as soon the accident of one kernsd to the hill be made as to have four planted. Too large a growth of Etr It is fatal to best results in the . pro duct of grain. ltreedius liowU Layers. It is only the poultry-keeper who makes pets of his flock, and knows the individual points of each one, who can attain success. Such a oce can do much to improve the capacity of his hens by setting eggs only from those that prove the best layers. The pro fe8sional breeders all understand this, and w hen they offer selected eggs at a higher price it ia better, if they deal honestly, to take them than eggs equally pure Dred from the common tljck. Unles3 the breeder takes this care in selecting his own stock it will deteriorate, even though the breed may not be mixed with others. Value of Honey. Dr. J. TV. Vance, cf Madison (Wis.) writes: "Although honey has a very ancient history, both sacred and profane. having teen in use from time immemorial, its praises sung Dy inspired and uninspired poet?, yet in modern times it has fallen into comparative disuse, perhaps on ac count of the competition of cane and grape sugars, and sirup3 made from them. The use of heney has almost become a lost art. It seems to be regarded by most people as a luxury only, and seldom appears on the table eicept on prent occasions. Away back in the annals of time our ancestors used it 83 a common article of food, and in cooking. Honey is a physiological sweet; in other words, its constituents are such that it is absorbed into the blood without undergoing chemical change. Such is not the fact with regard to sugar. Sugar is indigestible, or rather not as susceptible of absorption and sssimilation aa honey, but It requires the action cf the gastric juice to split or invert its elements, the muriatic acid element of the gastric juice being the chief agent in this transformation. This change produces what is termed in chemistry dextrose and hrvulose. I presume this explanation dots not cenvey a very clear or definite idea of the nature of these products, for the names applied only indicate how they affect polarized light. After this chance cccura absorption takes place, If m any way it is hindered, or. on account of any excess of sugar above the capacity of the gastric jnire to transform, there remains a residue, the result is decomposition into elements tbat irritate and intlame the mucous mtmbrfme of the intestinal canal, producing a list of ailments too numerous to mention here. Think of the legions cf little ones who have been the victims cf their universal fondness for sweets, and who so frequently suffer from gastric troubles which are. in a large degree, the result of sugar indigestion. How many, many children have perished from eating candy! Feeding Ifay From Stacks, Mauy farmers, being unable to proviue barns for storing hay, are compelled to feed from stacks, with no little waste in windy weather, and great discomfort in a blizzard. Mr. J. Omer, in the Wheatland Eagle, to obviate loss of hay and avoid exposure in feeding, makes the following suggestions: In building your barn or stable, make two doors; one for stock to pass in and out, and one for a feed-room door.S In stacking hay build two Btacks about ten feet wide, one on each side of the feed-room door, with a space of five or six feet between stacks. Iluild the stack perpendicular on the inside till about two feet above the door. Then place poles or tcantlicg across from one stack to the other and top out the stacka the same as if one stack, which will leave a hallway between the stacks to store hay in. In fair weather cut a piece from the end of the stack farthest from the door and place in the hallway. Commence feeding from hay next the door, and when your supply is nearly exhausted fill up again. Ly keeping ti e fnrthest end from the door full, your hay will be free from snow, and you can feed in the worst blizzard. A Georgia Cyclone I'd. A Savannah, Ga., paper says: Terhaps the largest, best arranged, best furnished and most costlv cyclone pit in the country is owned by Ed llrown, of Eatonton. It is situated near the back door of hia resi dence t nd is large enough to accommodate his whole family. The walls are of brick, laid in cement; the floor ia carpeted, has a firerlace and chimney, end the room 18 handsomely furnished". ' The family could spend the night there with as much CDmfcrt as in the dwelling. In preparing it Mr. Brown had an eye to its permanency and spared no expense in making It pleas ant and comfortable. To guard against the contingency of the house blowing over on it and imprisoning the inmates a large sewer pipe leads off from the pit in an opposite direction a distance of 100 yarda, through which the family could escape. This unique underground dwelling ia thoroughly protected against water rising from below or running in from above. The cost waa ever $5G0. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Coffee Cake. One cup of sweet milk, two of sugar, one of butter, three well beaten eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder worked into enough Hour to make a stiff dough. Holl out thin, and sift ground cin namon on the sheet, and roll up into a roll; cut on slices from the roll and place on tins Before baking, sprinkle rather thickly dry nunc cuai uu lopa ui tue a.itta. Apple Cheese Cakes. Pare, core and boil suflicic nt apples to mane half pound of pulp when cooked; add to thrm a quarter of a pound of sifted sugar and the same of but t er, four eggs, the rind and juice of one lemon ; melt the butter, and leave out the whites of two of the eggs; stir the mixture well; line pome patty pans with putr paste, put in the mixture and bake about twenty minutes. Bhnbarb Wine. Bruise five pounds of rhubarb, which has previously been cat into small pieces, aim place it in a bowl with a gallon of cold water. Let it Btand for about five days, stirring twice a day. Strain off" the liquor, and then add four pounds of loaf sugar. "When this is fully disolved add a half pound of isinglass and the rind of a lemon. Let tbe liquor re main for five days, or till tbe fermentation begins to subside. Draw off the wine, first skimming the crust irom the surface; put it into a cask and bung it down in two weeks. In six months it will be ready for bottling. The wine should be drawn off into another cask If it ferments after being put in tne nrst one. Poverty takes. tor tola dish take any scraps of good food you happen to have leu that are not enough to warm np by them selves. As example, I will .give a list of what was used thia morning for our break fast. A couple spoonfuls of frizzled beef and cream, the lean meat of one mutton ebon, one spoonful of minced beef, two cold hard-boiled eggs, a little cold chopped

potato, a little mashed potato, a chicken

drum-stick, all the gristle and hard outtide taken from the meat. These things were well chopped, seasoned, mixed with one epe and a little llower and butter mixed and thickened with boiling water, then made into round cakes, thick, like cod-fish balls, and browned well on the griddle. I have used in these cakes scraps of hash, cold rice, rolled wheat left over from breakfast, every kind of iresh meat tbat we use, bits of salt tongue, bacon, pork and ham, bits of poultry and crumbs of bread; they must be made with care not to have them too dry tobe palatable or too moist to cook in shape. They are a favorite breakfast here, and "gather ud the fragments." Pippin Pudding.-Pare and core six large pippin apples and put them in a pudding dish with a cupful of cold water, cover and bake until a straw will pierce them. Let them stand covered until the next day when drain off the water, and put a spoonful of ielly and a few drops of. brandy in each apple. Strew with cinnamon and sugar. Scald one and a half cups of milk; stir in six ounces of macarcons crumbled, a little salt and a desert spoonful of corn-starch wet with cold milk; boil for a minute or two and take from the tire, whisk it well and let it cool before adding the whipped whites of three eggs. Four this custard over the apples and bake for half an hour, Make a sauce with the water in which the apples were cooked, sweetened and spiced, thicken with a teappoonful of rlour. wet with cold water, add a tablespoonlnl of buttc, and pour slowly over the beaten yolk of one egg. The macaroons may be omitted if they are not easily obtainable. In these days when everybody is beginning to realize the danger from intoxicants, it is well to know about any wholesome drink that can in any way become a desir able substitute for alcoholic beverages. buch a drink is koumiss. In answer to a question as to how it can he made at home the estern riowman gives the following particulars. "We prepare koumiss in this way: We take a quart-size, selfsealing, glass fruit can, and 11 it with sweet milk. Iben two or three teaspoon fnls of sugar are added, and the milk well shaken. About one-quarter of a cent's worth of yeast cake completes the prepara tion, and then the cover is ecrewed down tight. Place the jar where it will be sub ject to a temperature of about seventy de grees Fahrenheit, and shake it well at Intervals of about one hour. If you make it in the morning, let it remain until night, when it may be placed on ice or in a cool place. The next morning it will be ready for use. In opening tbe can it had better be done over a pan, as the koumiss frequently cornea out in something of a hurry. If you want it particularly effervescent, put a little sugar In the glass you pour It into. Of course, champagne bot tles are better than unit cans, but the latter are always handy and will answer the purpose. FA KM NOTES. Evergreen hedges may be trimmed and put in shape as late as this month, bat it is best not to cut back too much. The season has been very favorable to the growth of young strawberry plant, the loss in some sections being very small. Use no stable manure on your peaih trees. A mixture of some kind of mineral fertilizers is better. Experiments have shown mail to be excellent for peach trees. There are over sixty poultry associations in the United States that annually give exhibitions. They have been instrumental in greatly advancing the poultry interests. A fresh eg will sink when placed in watf r, and when boiled the skin will not peel off like that of an orange, as is the case with those not strictly fresh. Stale r gga are gli ssy and very smooth, while fresh eggs have a peculiar roughness. Soon the ecare-crow and stretched wires Will be Eeen in the fields as a protection against crows, but it is a disputed question as to whether the crow in the corn-held is an enemy or a friend. Though he be sometimes destructive to the corn, yet he destroys many insects and grubs. Young pigs will usually commence to eat when about three weeks old, and the more attractive the portion put within their reach the quicker they will learn to make a full feed. If they can have a little fresh milk at the start so much the better, but by common consent skim milk is counted sufficient to meet piggy's notion. "With milk as a starter they will soon take to slop made of mill feed. At the present price of pure-bred dairy cows few farmers feel able to buy them, unless they intend to combine with dairying the business of fine Btock raising. The dairyman will, therefore, find the plan of starting with selected grade of cows and a pure bred bull of good pedigree best adapted to a limited pnrse. A herd of threefourths or seven-eighths Holstein or Jersey grade cows can thus be built up in a few years. Erglish mutton is largely fattened on turnips, and yet it maintains its superiority. "While not themselves very nutritious, yet turnips promote good digestion, on which rapid fattening and the good, juicy quality of the meat largely depends. A merino ram at Jllddlebury, Vt, produced a weight of twenty-nine pounds and eleven ounces of fleece from 370 days' growth, although the carcass weighed only 100 pounds, the wool being nearly 33 per cent, that of the carcass.' Another ram, which was sheared of his sixth fleece, gave thirty-eight and one-half pounds of unwashed wool. Sometimes the little Jersey cow is a good milker. Fawn of St. Lambert, who was three years and nine months old at the beginning of her test, produced as much as 10,101 J pounds (about 5 000 quarts) of milk in twelve months, giving as high as fifty-four pounds per day at some periods. She also produced nearly 572 pounds ot butter for the year, her highest record for one week being fifteen pounds five and onehalf ounces. As to controlling the sex of animals, the theory new most generally believed ia that naturally animals which usually bring forth but one at a birth will produce the sexes alternately that is, the first ovum produces a male, the next ovum, if impregnated, will p o luce a female; consequently if a cow or mare, after producing a f ema'.e, is Impregnated at the first period of heat thereafter, the produce will be a male. If female offspring only is desired, one period of heat should elapse after the birth ot a female before the dam is again served by the male. Many skillful cattlemen firmly believe this rule can be relied on in most cases. The Hog very pertinently says: One of the anomalies In Western hog raising is to be found in the fact that so many farmers drive their hogs to market, and to supply their own wants turn around and pay a dealer a profit on tbe slaughtered animal. We have seen many reasons advanced for this bung-hole waste and spigot caving, but it baa often occurred to us that it may be owing to the fact that most Western farmers attempt to spread over too much ground their farms are too big to be profitable, and in attempting to cover them in a general way they neglect all matters of detail. It is the man who masters details and looks uf ter all the little things that ia most successful in farming, commercial life or in most any undertaking. QAs this is a critical season and milk fever kely to cause more or less trouble and los3, a few words on the subject will not be out of place. Cows should not be given heating or stimulating foods for several days before coming in, nor should they be in a plethoric condition or over-fat. A relaxing diet is best; but a cow should be in a thriving condition. In case of attack if the cow is robust and has a strong pulse, bleeding is recommended. But if she ia run down and weak, she needs stimulating. Jh9 following is recommendei by a dairy-

man of long experience and remarkable success as both a preventive and a remedy : Give twenty-five drops ot tincture aconite in water every six hours until four doses are given; between doses administer an ounce of pulverized charcoal in cider to the number of four dozen. This is said seldom to fall in producing the desired result The report of the secretary of the Uol-stein-Friesian Cattle Association shows that 3.0C0 breeders are connected with it, and that nearly 0,000 cattle are recorded. The association requests the Legislatures of the several States to enact laws punishing false registry cf animals. At the annual meetirg $1,U00 was appropriated as extra premiums to winning Holsteins at the dairy shows to be held in New York this month, while $2,000 was set apart to be

used at the various coming fairs. The secretary was authorized to expend $500 in furnishing the Missouri Agricultural Society ith ten calves, to be fed for experiment. PASTOR AND PEOPLE. The death Is announced of Mrs. BeckWlth, the wife of the Bishop of Georgia. The Bishop of Tennessee is to sail for Europe May 28, to be absent several months. There are now in the Presbyterian church In Ireland more than 550 congregations, with ministers and over 102,000 communicants. The Hartford Religious Herald says an old Litchfield deacon used to have this pet phrase: "When, O Lord, the clouds of the valley shall fall on this dilapidated form." Western Plowman: Just so long as the pitcher of a base ball club gets $2,000 a year, and a preacher a scant $000, just 80 long will there be good pitching and poor preaching. There are 1,000 more ministers of the gospel In London than there are ordained missionaries in all parts of the heathen and Mohammedan world, the number being 4,000 and 3,0 respectively. During the past six months the special representative of the Lutheran Board ot Church Extension haa secured warranty deeds for fifty church sitea in new and growing towns in Kansas and Nebraska. Pere Hyacinthe i3 making arrangements to preach in the Protestant church in the Avenue Alma, Paris. It is expected that the event will mark the final severance of his connection with the Roman church. Cardinal lascnereau, of Canada, wao has just returned from Rome, still adheres to his opposition the Knights of Labor. The views of Cardinal Gibbons he believes to be contrary to the doctrines of the church. The Young Men's Christian Association in the city of London recently celebrated ita forty-third anniversary. It has eighteen hundred members. There is a branch at Eziter Hall, and there are Bixty-four kin dred as.oci&tions in various parts of Lon don. Since the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) began its work, in the year 1S65. it has helped to build 5.S05 churches more than half of the entire increase of churches since this work began. It has collected and disbursed nearly $3 000,000. The Presbyterians are making active preparations for the founding of a theological seminary at Ann Arbor, Mich. A society has been organized to tbat end, and a wealthy lady has deeded them oce of the best locations in the city for a site, beside giving them in her will a fine Louse and lot adjoining. A wIl known retiil merchant was in a bad humor one Monday morning. A friend said to him: "Charley, I am afraid tbe preaching yesterday did not do you much good." "It did not," was the answer, "My pastor preached against tbe follies of fashionable dress, and most of the ladies of tbe congregation are my customers." Protestants In Russia, according to fresh and official statistics, number 1S.213.5s7 tenons, or C4.42 per cent, of the whole ropulation; the Catholics, 9.021,03 1, or 33.07 per cent.; those bslonin; to other christian denominations, s.j.ojo, or .3 per cent; Jews, 3iW,54, or 1.3 per cent : 153 confessing other religions, and 3.520 mak ing no statement of their religious views. Miss Julia E. roneret was installed aa deaconess in the St. George Episcopal Church, in New York, recently by Bishop Potter. She is the first deaconess admit ted to the church in 100 years, and the first ever created in America. Mis3 Foneret is of Canadian birth, a trained nurse, and for vears has been connected with the mission work of St. George's Church. The difficulty of distributing Sandaytchcol library books in a way to cause the least interruption to the classes is nearly as vexing a problem as how to dispose of pal pit notices satisfactorily. One school in the western part of Massachusetts is trying the experiment of opening the library for two hours on Saturday afternoons for the change of books. The result of the mno vation is to be watched witk interest by Sunday-echool librarians. Little Dick Ain't those heathens funny what think elephants and cows and things Is sacred? Little Dot Yes; why don't thev fcave a sacred eagle like we have? It's a good deal nicer. "Eagles ain't sacred; they is only patriotic, like the Fourth of Jnly, that's all." "Yes, thev ia sacred, too." "They ain't" "Oh! You bad boy, you. In onr church we have a great big eagle with its wings out, and the ministers put the Bible on it; bo there, now." It bsppened in New Haven, the Con gregationallst says, on Easter Sunday. An old lady watched the services through with breatbJesa interest, and then turning to a strängt r, said: "The choir did well, didn't they?' "Excellently," was the reply; whereat the faithful observer of the pro ceedings remaiked dramatically: "There was a $5 bet up that they'd break down," Will unregenerate worulings be betting next on tbe next minister? Missionary Farrar has planted nineteen Sunday-schools in tbe Cumberland Mount ains ot Tennessee. In most of these places there has never been a Sunday-school. The people have taken hold of them with en thusiarm. One woman who is a superin tendent walks ten miles every Sunday to resell the school. Mothers carry their babes in their arms from two to four miles in order to be present The Sunday-school hour is the chief point of interest to them all in tbe week. The Y'ourg People's Society of Christian Endeavor, which was organized a iew years aeo In Portland. Me., has been attended with remarkable growth. In 1SS1 it had sixty members; in 1SSG it repoi ted 75,000 members and 1,000 organizations Ecattered through thirty-five States and Territories, and some lands beyond the sea. It claims to occupy "a middle ground between the Sunday-echool and church not independ ent of either, bnt in a wise manner com bining the two." It is a training school for young christians. The committee of the Presbyterian Church of England are preparing a revision of the Confession of Faith, to be submitted at the coming meeting of the synod. It is reported that the changes recommended will amount to a reconstruction of the creed, and will be sure to lead to profound agitation among the rresbyterians through out the woiid. A similar movement for the revision of the standards of the Free Church of Scotland has been postponed, to be resumed after the English synod has finished its deliberations upon tbe com' mittee's report. Where are the MHwaukee missionaries who labor among the young men? The local reports tell of two young business men in positions of trust who have gone wrong, and similar stories of embezzle ment have been unusually frequent in Mil waukee of late. Often the responsibility of the business wrong is not wholly upon the weak young man who commita it, but also upon the employer who. by giving an pjiwhie latitude, puts temptation la the

youn? man's vrzj. It is equally a service to employer and employe that the latter, however trustworthy, shall be afTrded no opportunity to steal. Evening Wisconsin

The Buddhist priests at Kiyote. Japan. at a recent meeting resolved that all Budd hist orations and exhortations should be kept free from any attack upon Christianity, "as all attacks upon the Christian faith are inconsistent with the doctrines of meekness and submission, as well as hin dering to the action of the Government" Just before his death Eeecher wrote: "We are going home. Men shiver at the idea that they are going to die; but this world is only a nest. We are scarcely hatched out of it h..re. We do not know ourselves. We have strange feelings that do not interpret themeelves. The mortal in us is crying for the immortal. As in the right the child, waking with some vague and nameless terror, cries out to express its fear and dread, and its cry ia interpreted in the mother's heart, who runs to the child and lays her hand upon it and quiets it to sleep again, so God hears our disturbances, trials and tribulations of life. J-o yon not suppose that he who is goodnees itself cares for you? Do you not suppose teat ne whose royal name is Love haa less sympathy for you than the mother haa for her babe? Let the world rock. If the foot of God ia on the cradle, fear not. Look up, take courage, hope and hope to the end." THE WEEKLY TRADE KEVIEW. Depression In the Iron Market Decrease of Basinets Failures. Nkw York. May 13. R. G. Dan vt Co.'s weekly review says: A great revolution In business is going on. ith radically conflicting accounts of serious losses at some localities and in some branches, and of wonderful gains at other places, or in other d?ranmenta of trade and Industry, the difficulty ot reaching just conclusions re specting tbe general tendency is much en hanced. The intcr-state act is but one of several causes which contribute to produce this revolution in commerce; expansion in the volume and change in the kind of cur rency is another, not Ies3 important. Most unexpected results are produced. The in ter-state act clearly helps some who bitterly opposed it, and as clearly injures others who expected great benents from its operation. Thus, the river business of the West is expanding under the intluence of the law, ana the railroads are at the same timegettiEg large earniogs from the part of the traflic they retain, wbile not a few Cities find, as Cincinnati does, that trade in many lines is greatly embarrassed. One general tendency is disclosed by the urgent demands ior suspension or change of the law, especially from those who most favored its enactment. Ssrioas diversions of trade from Western cities, which have been chief centers of distribution, is in progress, and a multitude of smaller towns are reaping the benefit. Western products do not, as a rule, gain anything in Eastern markets. If wheat has advanced 5Js ctnt3 since the act went into effect. cou and oats have declined a fraction, pork is about the same in price, lard :t cent Joer, togs ?; cent lower, and beef sells at the same price. Cotton has been advanced 1 cent, but this charge, Use the rise in wheat, is clearly speculative, and therefore threatens reaction through curtailment of demand. Railroad building is not checked by the act as yet, and there is a probability t"iat, by encouraging traffic at maiy ins ead of few centers of trade, the law may t?nd to the building of nomer jus loc il roa is and parallel rival lines. The output of pig iron aga n increases, reachingabout 139,300 tons liace May 1. Bat this is probably hih-water mark for the time, many furnacjs in tbe Pittsbirg re gion having since heen banked beciue of the coke strike, while other Lastern farnaces discontinue production on account of rail rates. Enormou3 rmpcrts alsi tend to depression. The lockout of stove-motors has in creased in importance, and suspicions are growing that the manufacturei a desire, through a general suspension of work, to rtaoh a higher range of prices for products. Exports of wheat In April were 0,51: 1 wl bushels, sgainst 5 252 072 last week, with 955,200 barrels of Hour, against 703,123 last year. Exports of breadstuSa reached $12,531,439 in value, against $11,959,948 last year, showing that the comparatively quiet market in that month favored large shipments. But prices have since climbed rapidly, with saiea of nearly 80,000,000 bushels in a week and exports are checked, while accounts of seeding show a great increase in acreage in Dakota and Minnesota. Cotton exports In Apml were reduced 3S per cent, compared with last year, the price having risen 16 per cent, while good3 advanced only 3 per cent. Receipts are now barely a quarter those of last year, but tbe crop prospects are more favorable. The lumber trade shows an increase ot demand, with scarcity in sonae lines. The business failures for the last seven days number: . For the United States, 135; for Canada. 32; total. 1G7, against 1S2 last week and 170 the corresponding week last year. Failures are decreasing in all parts of the country, except perhaps Canada and the provinces. JEFFERSON DAVIS. He 19 Given a l'abtlc Reception by the Citizens of Meridian, Miss. Meripian, MIf s., May 13. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning a public reception was given to Mr. Jefferson Davia at the resi dence of Colonel R. j. Mcintosh, where ne is stopping. For two hours a perfect stream of people passed through the parlors and shock hands with tbe ex-chieftain and his beautiful daughter. Mr. Davis was in his best humor and had a pleasant word for each one that shook hia hand. At 5 o'clock last evening a banquet and reception was given in the court-house grounds. Mr. Davis made a short address, in which he tbanked the people of Meridian for their most cordial reception. At this point members of the Press Association ascended the platform in a body and presented their respecta to mm. At the banqnet theie were 300 plates, and seated at the tables were the most distinguished men of tbe State. A floral wreath was brought in ani E. II. Dial presented it to Mr. Davis in the name of the women of Meridian. Mr. Davis, in accepting it, said : "God has graced the South with beautiful flowers and lovely women. The most blessed of women are those of our own southland. With such feeling expressions the beautiful flowers which were arranged so artistically by loving hands are more beautiful than anything that has been given to meV A Family Cremated. riTTSEVK, May 13. A horrible accident occurred last evening at Coal Valley, a few miles from McKeesport, which resulted in the burning to death of Mrs. Cook and her two little children, and the total destruction of the house. She was using petroleum oil to kindle a lire when the contents of the can were ignited and an explosion followed. Tbe woman rushed out of the house with her clothing in flames and perished In the yard. The house took fire and was consumed, and two little children who were in it perished ia the flames. A third child only escaped a similar fate by following her mother out of the house. The husband is a miner. Wool Growers Asaectatlon. St Louis, May 13. The National Wool Growers' and Sheep Shearers' Association met at the Cotton Exchange this morning, and, after listening to speeches and passing resolutions of thanks to the committees of the organization and the citizens of St. Louis, recommended the appointment of a committee of five to be appointed by the president of the association. The duty of this board shall be to watch all State and national legislation, and to formulate measures for the good of the Jrade, and to oppose all measure that tend to injure the production or the manufacture of woolen goods. The convention adjourned pine die.

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