Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1887 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 1887.

FARM, FIELD AND HOME VThtn Should Wteit la Cat Feediag Horses Caicks lor Eirly Miriet

Fertlilzlsg for Special Crops S4nt With Oats- Potato Huonehold Hints Recipes and Farm Notes. tVhen Shonld Wheat Be Cat I American Agrculturlst lor Jane. JJ The best time to cut wheat is a point of great importance to the farmer. The exceptionally high pries of Minnesota wheat in our markets is largely doe to the dry atmosphere of the section in which it grows. The most valuable constituents of a grain of wheat are gluten, starch and a email amount of phosphates. Gluten forms flesh; starch is a beat-producer and forms fat. The per cent of gin ten varies in different kinds of wheat. Ohio wheats contain 10 to 13 per cent, while starch may constitute from DO to CO per cent, of the kernel. Gluten is more nutritious than starch, its composition more nearly resembling the muscular tissue of animals. Aside from the value of gluten as food, it has valuable properties, in combination with starch, for making bread. Wheat containing a small amount of gluten is softer, and will make much whiter Hour, for the gluten imparts a yellowish shale. Hut if Hour contains too little gluten, it will not rue. even if yeast be added. Gluten (like glne) forms with water a tenacious paste, so that when fermentive action begins in the dough, the gluten forms a cell around tbe carbonic acid gas and retains it, cansiog the dough to rise. "When bkf d such bread is very liht and f weet, though cot eo white as when little gluten is present. Many farmers are indiced to cut their wheat too toon, because the kernel remains large and plump from the moisture contained in the starch. "Wheat containing a large amount of gluten will appear shrunken, because the gluten readily yields its moisture, but will be far more valuable as food. Eepeated experiments have failed to show any increase, either of starch or glaten, from day to day, after wheat has been cut. The only rule we can suggest, which may apply to all varieties, is this: Pelay cutting as long as compatible with avoiding waste in handling. When cat, secure it as promptly and perfectly as possible. To make the beast bread, a good, sound, glutinous variety of wheat mast be town on sound dry land; it must get fully ripe before it is harvested, be secured without damage, and must be properly ground. Feeding Hones. Beins and Whip, Over one-half of the fees that are paid to veteiinarif s are due to an impaired dilation in the animals they are called on to treat. Tbe functions of the stomach ire so littte known to the feeders of stock that it is ignorance of nature's law that is the primary caus9 of most diseases. Cora, oats and hay are looked on as all that a horse should need and in a majority of cages is all that he gets. It makes no difference what he wants, the average feedr. aa he shovels the usual mess into th9 man per, feels that the horse she aid be thankful that he gets even that, and can not for the life of him understand why, when the opportanity is offered, the horse will leave corn, oats or hay for the dirty and ton-expensive clay-bank. But clay is a non-nitrogenous substance, and the horse knows, if nis owner doesn't, that every bit of food that has gone Into his month for a long while is of a highly nitrogenous character, and he wants a change. Cat there is just as much Christianity in feeding a borse intelligently as in eating intelligently ourselves, and we all know how, every one in a while, oar "months water" for a change from what has been our regular diet. The very best change that can be made from corn, oats or hay 13 rich youn? grass. Its succulent juices impart a strength and vitality to tbe system that can be obtained from nothing else, and every one knows that a "season at grass'' is a sure and safe cure for nearly all the ills that horse-flesh is heir to. Bat this is expensive, and there are few who have the opportunity of eo doing, or wish to be "Without his services while his system is being so recuperated. Unusual quantities of grass are the beat for a working horse, for the laxative effects are weakening to the muscles, and, should tfee animal then be called on for extra exeiticn. some other part of his body might sailer in consequence. The manufacturers of many of the prepared foods for stoci that flood oar markets claim that their preparations have the same effects as grass, without its debilitating effect, and while it is nnt our province to push the claims of any of these loods, we have every reason to believe that a good food of the conditional character is a valuable addition to the diat of any animal, and that with it they woula be healthier, hardier and cheaper in the long ran. In the matter of feeding, too much care can cot be exercised, as on the ability of the horse to properly assimilate into his system the feed he eats depends his useful ness, lie should be given that which is the easiest digested, so that all the nutritious parts will be absorbed into his system and go to make bone, ilesh. and fiber, while the balance will pass off as excrement. During the last few years there has been more care exercised in this, and aa a consequence the avera?e horse to-day is better than ever before; but we do not think that perfection has yet been reached, and we nope that it never will be, but that there maybe always room for improvement. Chicks for Early Market. f Correspondence Journal ol agriculture.! In rai ing chicks for early market it is Tery desirable to have some breed that grow verv fast during the early period of its life, and experience Boon bLows that there is a great deal of difierence between the breeds in this regard. Some grow very fast and feather out in less than a month, which of course is a protection to them and materially assists in rapid growth at this time. If it is the object of the poultry breeder to sell broilera for early market he should use some variety of this kind that will grow fast while young so as to be desirable for table use at an early age. Good crosses are perhaps better than the pure stock when raised for market pur poses alone ; as they seem to grow faster and generally make larger birds, which point, of course, is al urays desirable to obtaia. The breeder snonla, however, be very careful to dispose of all the half bred stock at mar ket time, for if they are kept and alio red to grow up on the place there is a considerable liability of their becoming mixed with tne pure stock, as they are oftentimes very card to distinguish in looks, bat the foreign blood will most aurely show itself ooner or later and generally when it is least eipected by the breeder. To one who has not given the matter much attention it would be surprising to note the difference in the growth, of the different breeds during the earlier part of their life. For Instance, such fowla as the Houdans, or any of tbe laying breeds, will grow very fast for the first month or two and generally mature earlier than the larger breeds do, while on the other hand, tbe larger breeds of the Asiatic classes are very slow in their growth for the firat month, at least, but after that time they seen to take a jimp and then grow remarkably fast until they are fully matured. These large breeds are undoubtedly the best for market purposes when they are kept all the season and soli during the fall and winter; but my experience has been that they are cot the most profitable to raise for the earliest market! A cross between the two breeds will be ranch better for early market and will partake some of the nature cf bo;h breeds.

FertllzlBg for Special Crops. Correspondence Practical Farmer. One variety of plants derive more benefit from an application of one kind of fertilizer than another. This is al.o the eise with soils. The soil at first may contain all the elements required to feed almost all varieties of plants, but after continued cropping for a series of years ni8y largely exhaust a portion of these, and their place must be supplied by the application of fresh material that will maze up what has been used by the crops. There can hardly be any question but that

if we could rave each kind of sou on the farm analyzed. so as to determine just what is lacking, w 3 could apply the proper ma terial much more surely than we do. This course will hardly be considered practical, because il carried out aa it should be would ceceeaarily have to be repeated quite often. Very much of what is best for different crops have been learned by practical ex periments. ve know largely what quite number cf plants require to receive the best results, and by applying this we can often measurably increase the yield. Bait applied broadcast in tbe spring. while it may not in one sense be a ferti lizer, yet acts upon the soil in such a way that it aids a combination with material already in the soil to furnish a larger sup ply of plant for it than, is made available by appljing the salt. Koi is that are demcient in lime can De made fairly good wheat land by applying a dressing of lime extra full. Ashes contain considerable potash ; this, of course, is diminished by bleaching, but even then It contains a sumcient amount to make them valuable to soils that are deficient of this kind of plant food. I have found a good appiicatian ot ashes. applied after furrowing out in the hills and working wall into the soil and then planting the Beed, a good way to increase the yield of tne potato crop, mey wen are also valuable to apply after the seed is sown to onions and salsify Fruit trees, or even the majority of small fruits are especially benefited by a dressing of good wood ashes. When very early potatoes are wanted, I have found it a good plan to mark out the furrows and then throw in a small torkfai of fresh manure from the stable for each hill; have the potatoes cut three or four days ahead so as to dry out somewhat, then drop and cover well with soil, stepping upon each hill after covering so as to press the soil firmly down upon the seed. Potatoes can be planted in this way earlier with a considerable less risk than by any other plan 1 have ever tried. I.hubarb and asparagus will, perhaps, derive more benefit from an application of fresh ma nre than any other plant; next to them the cabbage will be benefited. With the majority of garden crops, well rotted fine manure only should be applied; in default cf this use ask es, commercial fertilizers or liquid manure. I prefer using liquid manure to applying coarse fresh manure to the garden crops. My experience is that with the larger proporticn of plants It Is much better to epply manure by scattering broadcast ana then thoroughly working into the soil. Of course commercial fertilizers, when ap plied to cultivated crops, are best applied in the LilL The principal point to be 88cured is to apply in such a manner as to be most accessibJe to the feeding root3 ol the plants, and to secure this it Is neces sary to make fine and then thoroughly werk well into the soil, especially around tbe roots, remembering that the roots of the majority of plants extend a considerable distance from the stem, and in apply ing manure in the hill this point is very olten overlooked. Make it a rule to make and save all the fertilizing material possible. Much that is often allowed to goto wsste could profitably be gathered no aod made into good fertilizer and applied to the land to aid to increase the yield of the crops, giving as far as possible the kind to each crop best adapted to secure the best growth and jield. Seeding With Oats. H. Stewart, of North Carolina, writes to the Country Gentleman on how to get a good crop of oats and a good stand Ot Clover at the same time. He bays: "Iremember a crop of oats I grew in Pennsylvania in 18;i; on reference to my record I find ten acres gave me 783 bushels, measured from the threshing machine. The straw was five feet tall and the grain weighed forty-seven pounds to the bushel. This was from aeed procured from Scotland, called the Angus oats. The land was well manured in February. Twenty larga sledJoed8 per acre were spread on the saow and left until April, when it was plowed under with twenty-seven-inch lap farrow, laid so that the soil and the manure laid in alternate layers, eloping forty-five degrees. A thorough harrowing mixed the manure and soil very evenly, and the eeed was sown right after the harrow, and immediately covered in, with a .second harrow following the towing. The harrowing. I remember, was very thoroughly done, lapping two-thirds every turn, bo that the ground was stirred three times. While the first harrow was getting ahead and making room for more cats, I went back and sowed the clover and grass seed on the fresh, mellow soil. I was then an advocate as I am now of liberal sowing, and used a peck of each to the acre. The oats were sown at the rate of two bushels to the acre, just twenty bushels on the ten acres. When the oats were cut the ground was covered green with clover, not a spear of timothy was to be seen, and, it was pastured off by a flock of sheep, off and on, until the winter. The next year I made twenty-five tons of hay, estimated in the bay shed at 700 cubio feet solidly packed sixteen feet high in the shed, for a ton. The timothy scarcely showed, the clover was so rank, until the third year. The rame year I sowed timothy and clover on July 12 with buckwheat, and had an excellent catch, much better than I had the year af;er on fall wheat, seeded in a late enow in April. Bince then I have frequently sown clover alone, and with timothy and orchard grae. with oats and never had a failure. Two years ago I sowed clover aod timothy with oats here in North Carolina, and the next fall Professor Roberta, of Cornell Agricultural College, waj here and saw the clover, and thought it as good as any he had seen elsewhere. Lust summer from two and one-half acres 1 cut seven loads, about half a ton each, of hay the first cuttirg, and four the second cutting, and left a Leavy af.ermath on the ground. Four years ago I sowed twenty acres of clover and timothy with buckwheat here in North Carolina, and never had a better catch. Tbe first cutting was rather light on account of an unexampled dry time; but last summer tbe yield was a full one, and this spring the field look) promising for a third excellent croo. I have just finished seeding an - eight-acre field of oats with clover and miied graues, and the yeung oata and clover both promise to turn out very satisfactorily. I have sown clover with millet In July, with turnips in August, and am cow getting about ttn acres ready to bow with millet and seed with clover, orchard grass and meadow fescue in June, and some newly-cleared land will be sown with buckwheat and seeded with clover in July. Thus I have, I think, very fully tried the possibilities of sowing clover with various crops, and am able to e ay that there Is nothing in the oat crop or any other crop itself to prevent the successful seeding of clever with it. My observation for many years has been that no other crop la to poorly managed as oals. Tbe corn stubble, exhausted by the corn crop, Is roughly plowed, poorly harrowed and the oats barely covered. One can cot justly look for oats to succeed with this treatment. I have long ago made up my mind, and so expressed myself in these columns several years ago, that oats were ao exhaustive crop. And so it is, if seventy or seventy-five bushels per acre, weighing forty t9 'pxtj-rye pound, axe

taken from the land. With such an exhaustive crop, taking more from the land

than fifty bushels of wheat per acre, the soil must be rich and thoroughly well tilled to have anything to spare for a crop of clover and grass. I have found that clover will not grow on poor soil; thai. It can not get something from nothing any more than other crops, and if a farmer expects to get a good stand of clover with oats he must treat the oats exceedingly well, and at least as well as a wheat crop is used when that is sown down with clover and grass. But with an ordinary crop cf oats, of say forty-five or fifty bushels per acre, the soil is exhausted of about the same amount of fertility as by thirty bushels of wheat. Few farmers think of manuring the land for oats. Now, another thing I Lave learned is that it pays to feed every crop In Borne way or otner, either by manure or fertilizers, or by pasturing sheep or by plowing in clover. It is a fortunate thing that we are so well supplied with fertilizers, so that every crop may get some nutriment to enable it tu live and grow profitably. Much is written and seid about the poor business of farming. No doubt much of it is true. But there is a reason for it. The farmers are not liberal enough with their land. ' The liberal soul shall be made fat," said Solomon, and modern farmers should make this a guiding and controlling principle in their work, especially when they want to seed down grass and clover with oats, or with any other crop, for clover at least requires to be fed until its large, long roots are aole to find food for itself, and in poor soil It perishes long before it has a root of any considerable size or is able to go down a foot into the soil. How t Balge n Mailmam Crop of Potatoes IThcmaa Barrett In Rural New Yorker.! In preparing ground for potatoes, if manured in the fall, then is the best time to plow, ta the manure becomes thorough ly incorporated with the soil, and will be more or less rotted by spring. Spring plowing will do, but if the manure is not rotted, it will not produce as good results as frll plowing. I find nothing In the way of fertilizers equal to barn-yard manure; if well rotted, all the better. Let It be spread on liberally say fifty to seventy-five two-horse loads per acre. Wood ashes are also good. A tablespoonful of unleached 8sb.es spread over each hill, as the stalks come through or just before, will be of great benefit, killing or driving off worms and greatly promoting growth. The drills should be three feet apart with strong-growing varieties three and one-half feet are still better. Cut the seed to drills four inches deep. Cut the seed to two eyes, and plant sixteen inches apart. If planted uniformly, as by a line, at sixteen inches apart, they can be crossworked with a hand cultivator, while the tops are small. This would be of great advantage to the crop, destroying the weeds and mellowing the soil. Medium sized potatoes cut up in two, lengthwise, and the halves slit lengthwise, produce good results. We thus get in eaca seed-piece, seed-end, stem-end and middle. If cut to the eye, plant the pieces one foot apart. Flat cultivation is to be preferred nnlass, after abundant rains, the weeds come ud thickly, when it would be better to hill sufficiently to cover the weeds rather than let them appropriate the nutriment due the potatces, or, by overcrowding, roo them of sun and air. My practice is to commence hoeing as soon as the eprou's come to the surface. I make it a point to clean them thoroughly once, taking every weed that can be seen, and where the hoe can not reach them without cutting the potato tops, to pull them out with the fingers. This gives the potatoes a fair chance to grow, and tbey get so much ahead of the weeds that spring up later as to almost smother them. Keep the cultivator going until they have all been worked three or four times. For the later workln.-rs shallow cultivation is the best to preveat cutting the tubers and roots. Another point of great importance is thinning cut the 6tems when too many grow in the hill. Sometimes there will be from six to twelve, and even more, starting on each hill. If all are permitted toremain, only small potatoes will be found in such a hilL It is a good rule to thin them to three stems in a hill, leaving the strongest. For destroying the bugs I have found nothing to equal one part of paris green and fifty parts of plaster, thoroughly mixed, and sifted over the plants. If applied when the latter are wet with dew, or after a light shower, it is less liable to be blown off and wasted. A fruit can, with holes punched in the bottom, makes a good sifter. If a few pieces were rolled in the above poisonous mixture and scattered about before the potatoes come up, it would kill off most, if not all, of the old bugs, and be a great saving of after-labor. IJran for the Cow. INational Live Stock Journal. The fresh cow at this time of the year is a first-rate farm animal to use her full capacity for profit Nothing else can be fed the cow that will give such quick and gratifying returns as wheat bran made in a slop by scalding. It w doubtful whether bran is ever too high-priced to feed fresh cows for a month, when they are first turned out on grass. It will be found to be of great worth during the entire grass season in keeping np a steady and often increasing flow of milk. The calf, too, will fatten better on such milk, and will be free from interruptions In making a steady growth. Any farmer who tas practiced the kind of economy that involves extra C03t, attended by proportionately greater profit, will quick ly perceive an opening in this method fcr added gains. This applies particularly to the wheat-growing regions, bat is nowhere out of place. Even the most ordinary milk cow will respond generously when given such feed. Three cows treated tbns are qnal to five neglected ones. Only to a few will this be otherwise than a reminder. KKCIfK-J. Cold Cabbage Salad. Chop the cabbaze fine, sprinkle it with salt, pepper and sugar, cover with one-third water and two-thirds vinegar. Glass Cake. Four eggs beaten light, one glass sugar, one glass flour, two teaspoonf uls baking powder, flavor with lemon or vanilla. Cup Cake. One cud sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one cup milk, oae egg, three cups flour and one teaspoon ful baking powder. Sugar Cookies. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, four eggs. three teaspoonfuls baking powder; flavor with nutmeg. Scur Cream Cookies. Cud sour cream, cup sugar, small teaspoonf ui soda, a little salt, flour enough to make a soft dough and flavor with lemon. Meat Balls. Take cold roast beef and chop fine, season with salt, pepper and sage, put in one egg, make into little balla and fry In butter or drippings. White Cake. Whiten of six eggs, two cups sugar, three cups flour, one cup sweet milk, three-fourths cup butter, two teaspoonsfuls cream tartar, one teaspoon f al sc da. Cream Cake. Half cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups beaten in one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baxirg powder. Cream for filling: One pint milk, let com to a boil ; add half cup flour, one cup sugar, two eggs; boil a few minutes; flavor with lemon or vanilla and a lump of butter. This makes six layers. Apple Dumpling?. Sift one quart flour, add half teaapoonfal salt, and lard half the size ot an egg. Wet np with cold water to a stiff dough. This divide into eix or seven parts. Fare aj many good!zed apples, cut through the middle, removing the core; cover with the dough, pressing the edgea together till no seam remains- tb.ea when all are ready, roll

two or three times over In flour, dry, and drop into boiling water. Boil steadily half an hour, not once lifting the lid till ready to remove to tbe table. Eat with cream and sugar sprinkled with grated nutmeg. French Rolls. Of light bread dough, take as much as will make one loaf. Work into this one egg, odo heaping tablespoon-

ful of lard, two of white sugar. Set in a warm place to rise. When light, work down, knead egain; when very light and pnfly, roll out. Cut with biscuit cutter. When raised, bake twenty minutes In quick oven. Snow Balls. Two enps suc;ar, one and a half cupa butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups floor, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of five eges. Bake in deep Eouare pans. The following day cut in two inch squares. Cutoff the crust and leave it white. Take each piece on a fork and frcst it upon all sides and then roll in grated cocoanut. Boiled Potatoes. Cut cold, boiled pota toes in slices a third of an inch thick. Dip them in melted butter and fine bread crumbs. Place in a double broiler and broil over a fire that is not too hot. Gar nish with parsley and serve oa a hot dish; or season with aalt and pepper, toast till a delicate brown, arrange on a hot dish and season with butter. Eaw Beef Sandwiches. scrape hne a small piece of fresh, inicy, tender raw beef. Season highly with saltan! butter. Spread it on thin slices of bread, put them to gether like a sandwich and cut into small squares or diamonds. This will often tempt an invalid who could not otherwise take raw meat. The Eandwicb.es are sometimes male more palatable by toasting them slightly. Scalloped Potatoes. Cnt np cold boiled fotatces until yon have about a quart, 'ut in a pan a generous cup of milk, one teaspoonful flour and one tablespoonful butter. Set on tbe stove and let it thicxen, then put a layer of potatoes in a puldlng dish, season with salt and pepper, and pour on a little of the gravy. Continue until it is all used. Cover the top with rolled cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Fake twenty minutes. HOUSEHOLD) HINTS. Whiting or ammonia in the water is pref erable to soap far cleaning windows or paint. The lustre of morocco may be restored by varnis-hing it with the white of an egg. Apply with a spoDge. Washing the hands twice a day with cornmeal, and rubbing on a little glycerine at nigut, will aeep them soft and white. To remove grease from coat-collars and the gicssy look from tbe elbows and seams, rub with a cloth dipped In ammonia. The most effectual remedy for slimy and greasy drain pipes is copperas dissolved and left to work gradually through the pipe. Babies are much more susceptible to cold than are adults, yet a mother will go out warmly clad from head to foot, and let her child patter along beside her, with less than half of her protection. Another precaution should be to avoid exposing the babe to drafts of cold air from windows. Many a baby has bad an attack of croup from this cause. The mother should give her intuitions a freer play, obey them, and she will cave less use for doctors. The covering of a bed oaght to be light ai well as warm. Woolen blankets are far more healthful than are heavy comforters which admit ot no ventiiiation, but, in stead, absorb and retain the exhalation from the body. Beds and bed clothing should be aired frequently. Many housawive8 consider the airing or the sieepingroom all sufficient, but this is a mistake. Not only should mattrasses be turned and aired at least three times each week, but pillows and bolsters ought to ba beaten. shaken and exposed to the sun every two or three da7s. If beds and their furnish ings are not carefully cared for, the bedding soon comes to have a stuffy, disagreeable Odor, and that odor means sleepless nights, for perfect rest is gained only in bed that is fresh and clean. When yon dust your rooms, begin with the wall?. A broom well covered with cloth will be made to do this part well. The walls should be cleaned in this way at least once a week in rooms that are much used. Ficture cords or wires, the backs of picture frames and the tops of door and window frames should be wiped off with a damp cloth. Where there is danger of irjnrirg pictures use a dry cloth. Curtains have a great partiality for dust. ana as often as yon can get a good draft which will carry the dust out of the win dow, give them a shaking and beating. The window-sash, sill and glass should also receive attention. On much of the furniture a damp and dry cloth are needed to gether. If there are inside shutters these need the most tender care. FA Ii 31 OTKi. It will pay to take pains rind plant all large, flat seeds like squash, melon and .Lima beans edgewise. Marketing the produce is half the battle. A farmer should use aa much jadgmeoi on tnia point aa any otner. Potato bugs will eat egg plants if the po tato vines be not plentiful. They also sometimes eat tomato plants. Full the collars away from tbe shoulders while resting the horses in the field, so that the air can pass freely between them. Keep the plows well sharpened. This will cot only insure better work but more of it, as it will save the strength of the teams. Poor land produces milk that is deficient m fatty matters, and, therefore, better adapted for cheese than for butter-making. In using carbolic acid as an insect! .Ide, 1 part of the acid to 100 parts of water is the correct proportion. It may be freely sprin kled on all kinds of plants. A grindstone conveniently placed ready for use leaves no excuse for woiking with a dull ax or other cutting instrument that never does good work. It has been demonstrated that roup in fowls and diphtheria in children are identical; hence care should be taken when roup appears In a flock of fowls. A Vermont farmer plants a sunflower seed instead of a pole to each hill of beans. The sturdy stalk answers for a pole, and the seeds supply an excellent feed for poultry. While we are disputing in this country as to the relative merits of cotton seed and linseed meal the English farmers are sending here for all the cotton seed meal that they can get, and are willing to pay good prices for it. Our farmers should take the hint and use more of both articles. A large cumber of fowls can be raised on a very small plat of ground, but it requires extra labor to succeed in such cases. Only by constant attention and cleanliness can large flocks be kept in close quarters. With confinement to small lots comes additional filth that must be removed or disease will soon market your fowla. Professor Henry advises farmers to go slow on alfalfa. He thinks it well enough to experiment with it, but has little faith in its proving profitable except where it can be irrigated and on land having a loose, porous subsoil many feet in depth. At the Wisconsin experiment station he had never succeeded in getting it through the second winter. He thinks the common red clover far superior to it, except where the alfalfa can be Irrigated, and is further of the opinion tbat the sweet clover (Mellllotca alba) has more value as a forage plant than it has been given credit for, though not committing himself on this point till further experiments. Currying calves with a comb dipped in kerosene is recommended as a good way to cleanse them from lice. Any kind of oil will answer the same purpose, as the vermin are killed by closing the pores through which they breathe. The best of oils to destroy lice on cattle is that which comes

through their skins as the result of careful

feeding. Corn-meal ana oil-meal are ex cellent for this purpose, mating tne coat glossy and giving the sain a velvety soxtress indicative of thrift. But where animals are very poor their digestion is weakened, and strong or oily food must be given with great care. A spoonful of linseed meal mixed with bran is enongn to De gin with. This, If digested, is better than more, which would only clog the stomach and make the coat more rough and stary than before. It is a eooa plan to give all young calves a little linseed meal. It pro motes tbtilt and makes growth as well as fat. It is not safe to give cotton-seed meal to calves or any young stock, as they are liable to be killed by over-feeding with it. It is curious how little attention is given to the cultivation of those garden crops tbat require little care, and'vet that are so much appreciated when brought upon the table. Spinach is one of these crops. It is found in but comparatively few gardens, and yet la easily grown and is very relishable. It might have been sown last autumn, and if lightly mulched would have been all right. Now it may be sown in tne spring as Boon as the ground Is fit, and two weeks from the first'so wing there may be a second. There are two varieties, the prickly seeded and the round, the latter being the best. It requires but a small bed to supply a family with all the greens needed. To lime eggs, make a pickle of strictly pure stone lime, clean salt and pure water in the following proportions: Two quarts of salt, one bushel of lime and sixty gallons of water. The lime is carefully slacked with a part of the water, and the salt and remaining water afterward added, when the mass is left to deposit the lime until the solution becomes clear. A common practice is to draw off the solution at this stage into a cask or vat in which it is designed to preserve the eggs. The eggs may be placed in the pickle by means of a tin basin punched full of holes. When the vat or cask is nearly full, cover over with a factory cloth and spread on two or three inches of the lime that settles in making the pickle, and see to it that the pickle is kept continually up over the lime. The extraordinary increase in the use of potatoes as food which has occurred within tte last thirty years is not altogether due to changes in popular taste. We like potatoes better, it is true, but it is chiefly because they are better. The improve ments In quality began with the Goodrich seedlings, whose mildness of flavor commended them to many who had never been able to like the coarse, strong-flavored varie ties which preceded them. A potato cooking dry and mealy is, of course, now the kind required by the best standard of excellence, thejh some old people learned in their youth to like the ranker tasting kinds and still prefer them. Those who like a soggy, coarse potato can have it in any of the finest varieties by le tving its top to be injured by the potato bug, or otherwise. Occasionally we hear such persona praising the coarsest growing varieties as nioit in accordance with their depraved taste, but auch people are growing fewer eyery year. Grass for spring and summer p:?i fur nishes the cheapest and most wholesome ot foods, but needs to be supplemented by the use of milk, gram, etc., to both the mother and pigs. Hogs will eat nearly all kinds of grasses, and nerive much nourishment from them. Red clover, however, ranks highest of the permanent pasture plants as a food for hogs, but a mixed pasture is best, as they relish nearly all kinds, aad In the mixed pasture there is a more con tiouous supply of green, succulent food. Otner green fodder crops can often be used forjthe youDg hogj and thir mothers. Where there is much danzer of drought, it is often a matter of economy to have small patches of oats, peas and extra early corn to feed in the drytst part of summer, when the pastures do not furnish much food. To get good crops of vegetables requires in the first place a rich soil. Bat this alone will not secure the result. Not weed should be allowed to show its head many days before the hoe is at work to ex terminate them. The best of land can not bring forth at the same time a good crop oi weecs ana cultivated plants. The till age, however, with the hoe, besides de Etroying the weeds, is beneficial to the crop At 1 B . . . in sersung me soil, any iana constantly stirred on the surface withstands drought better than such as is allowed to bake in the hard crust. Dews are also absorbed by a iriaDie soil nence, noe, noe, should be the order of t'ie day while the crop is young. As the crop approaches maturity mis burring 1 not oi suca importance, in deed very often not desirable, though weeds should be excluded at all times. Allow cone to seed for next year's crop. Why Am I a Jew? North American Review.l In less than one year my people will enter the thirty-third century of Its separate existence as a cation, and now yon ask me why I am a Jew! Certcs. the reason must be strong, since the same reason has ani mated my ancestors all theoe centuries. Why am I a Jew? Because in the spring month of the year 2-US a. m. my fathers went forth from Egypt as a cation des tined to march In the van of human nrozresB, called into existence only for the mere Eurpose of leading, as the first-born of God, is other children of earth to him, tbe father of all. I am a Jew because I believe that the Jew is a necessity to the world. I am a Jew because I recognize the role of my na tion to De that oi the servant of God in ministering to mankind's greatest wants. I am a Jew because I understand and ac knowledge that my people has no other logical reason for its existence on the stage oi nistory, in the race of tempests, chang mg Bcenes, "wars, alarums and excur sions" in the face of all ethnological law and historic experience except as that conservative principle without which prog rrss becomes unreal and evanescent, and civilization unstable. Consnmptlon Cored. , An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed m his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for Neivoua Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it.knownto hissuf-. fering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suflenng, i will sesd free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe In German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using Bent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this -upaper, W. A. Noyes, 149 Power's Block, KfchUr. N. Y. As to the Fre ldent's Western Trip. "WASHiKGTeir, Jnne 3. Postmaster General Vilas said to-day tbat he did not desire to be quoted with regard to the publication in a Philadelphia paper purporting to give the President's plans for an extended western trip, as it concerred the President alene, but that h e would deny the truth of the article so fail as it said that he (the Post-master-General)! jras congnizant of such a Erogramme. II e was not aware, nor had e any intimation, that the President had any plans or contemplated an extended western trip, and he was of the opinion that the President had no such intention. The Ameer In a Critical Position. St. Fltessbcrq, May 4. News received from Herat states that the Ameer of Afghanistan is in a critical position. He has withdrawn the garrisons of Herat and Balkh for the purpose of reinforcing the troops defeated in the recent encounter with the GhUzals. "One Hundred Dosei II" Is true only of Hood's Sarsaparilla,and it is an unanswerable argument i to strength and economy,

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The number of Baptists in the United States is 2,732,570. A preacher should wind up bis discourse when he breaks the thread of it. SL Andrew's parish, Jacksonville, Fla., is about to erect a church as a memorial of the late Bishop Young. There Are 500 places of religious worship in New York, with 400.000 church Bitting?. representing twenty-eight denominations. The Presbyterian college at Dodge City, Kas., receives a gift of $50,000 from Hon. A. T. ooule, a millionaire resident ot Rochester, N. Y. The receipts of the American COHgregational Union for the year which closed with April were 1120,597, a gain of 40 per cent, over the previous year. Bey. John Alabaster, of Trinity Meth odist Church, Chicago, formerly of Indianapolis, sailed for Europe recently, and will be absent several months. Trinity Church, Davenport, Iowa, ia to commemmorate on the 15th of July the semi-centennial of the first church service held within the limits of that diocese. U is Btated that out tf the 27,000 inhab itants of the Samoan islands 7,000 are church members and 3,000 are candidates for membership. There are 203 native pastors. Tbe only man who conld meet the re quirements held aloft by Plymouth's com mittee preached some years since in Jeru salem and was crucified for his work. Denver News. An old colored preacher, alter exhaust ing himself on an attempt to describe heaven, wound up thus: "I tell you. brethren, It is a very Kentucky of a place." Richmond Religious Herald. In heaven there will be no avoiding the negro. Washed in the blood of the lamb, he will be of the same color as the fastidious churchmfn of South Carolina. He will not smell in heaven." Memphis Appeal. Eev. Dr. J. M. Worrall, formerly pastor ot the Eighth Presbyterian Church. Chicago, has been elected president of Center College, at Danv;lle, Ky. Dr. Worrall is now pastor ol the thirteenth eireet rresby tenan Church, New York. The First Church of Christ (Congregational), of Springfield, Mass , began the celebration of its 250th anniversary last Sunday week. Of the eighty-nine churches established in the colonies during the sev enteenth century this church was the sixteenth. The settlement of the town aitedates the establishment of the church by a single year. The Raleigh News says that the lady ordained recently by Bishop Totter in New York is cot the only deaconess in tne Episcopal Church in America. In Franklin County, North Carolina, is a lady who was ordained by Bishop Atkinson and is now known as Sister Cecelia, and has devoted her life to good works in the church. She is not alone a member of a sisterhood, but a regular ordained deaconess. After looking broadly over the religious field .the Christian Union concludes that "in spite of much apithy and some bitter hostility, the tendency toward more definite and cordial relations between the evangelical churches, which has hitherto shown itself in local and sporadic manifestations, appears to be growing 'into the dimensions of a national movement, with a deepening and broadening current" There is a decided revolt in Holland against the rationalistic tendencies of the state church. Six pastors and 15,003 people recently withdrew from the old Datih synod becaase that body would not discountenance ministers who deny tbe deity of Christ and the inspiration of the scriptures. The kirk session at Rotterdam is taking the same course, and the movement is spreading under the eloquent leadership of Leen Cachet. Showy dressing among church-goer3 come? in for a shsrp rebuke by the Baptist Weekly. It says: "Aside from the unseemly vanity it suggests, and which does not accord with the spirit of worship, it not only tends to detract the attention of others, but to excite feelings of envy and emulation under circumstances the most criminal and cruel. To a greater or le3S extent all gay and extravagant dressing is prompted by one or the other of these personal considerations. To indulge such feelings under any circumstances is a manifest impropriety, but to do so in connection with religious services is shockingly sinful." The Charleston News and Courier is printing columns cf letters and interviews about the recent seceesion from the Protestant Episcopal Convention of Soutn Caro lina. "There can scarcely be a doubt,' reports its interviewer, "that the opinion among the members of the Episcopal Church is largely against the admission of the celored man into the convention, and expre3ions are freely made of approval at the course of the seceders. As a general thing the sentiment is tersely expressed in this fashion: 'We don't want the nigger in the church, and we won't have him. This, however, is cot as tersely stated by the seceders, many of whom are guarded in the expression ci their views." A minister in Massachusetts, ssys the Boston Traveler, was talking with hi five or six year-old daughter. He said : "What would you do if Jesus should comengut inhere?" She said: "We would all take hold of hands and march around him and say: 'Thank you, thank you, thank you!' " The same minister's little boy of eight or ten, at the time of the canvass for Mr. Lincoln as President, one evening, in the sitting-room, formed his sister into a company, and, with sticks bearing paper banners, marched around the room. The father told him that people always had a speech on such occasions, and as the procession came around him, said: "Halt! Now for the speech." "When the little Captain said: '"Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come.' Hurrah for Abraham Lincoln." Blarder aod Suicide. Brace villi, 111., June 3. John Connelly, a miner of this place, this morning Bhot Mrs. John Stoddard through the heart, killing her instantly, and then shot himself. lie was arrested and placed in jail. While tbe Marehal was yet in the cell with the prisoner he quickly drew a re zor and before the Marshal could prevent him cut his own throat. No caaw for the tragedy is assigned. Connelly had, however, been drinking heavily. A Little Deaf. Youth's Companion. I A gentleman, who is so aie what deaf, Is the owner of a dog which has become the terror of the neighborhood. The other day be was accosted by a friend, who said: "Good morning, Mr. 8 . Your wife made ca a very pleasant call last even'ng." '1 m very sorry," came tbe startling re"1 11 see that it doesn t occur again, or i intend to keep ner cnamea up aiter this." t The Saloons Mast Go. CorKciL Blcffs, Iowa, June 3. All the hotel-keepers in the city have been summoned to show why injunctions should cot be granted against them. All the owners of property, where enjoined saloons are still running, are being arrested and placed under bonds of f 700 each to appear in the District Court for contempt. Several saloon-keepers are closing up. The petitio: s for injunctions include all saloons, wholesale houses and breweries in the city. The general feeling among; them is that they must all go. i A HOST LIBEKAX OfTEB, The Voltaic Belt Co Harsnan, Mich., offar te lend their celebrated VoUalo gtelta and Eiectrio Appliances on thirty days' trial to any man amlcted with Kervous Debility. Losa of Vitality, Manhood, etc. Illustrated pamphlet in sealed enTelope with full paniSlilall, Bailed fcvt. Wlf l&eatt we

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