Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1887 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STAT-E fcEKTINEl, WEDNESDAY MOKNJNG DECEMBER 281887.

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WINTER FARM TALK

Yah a of Steck. Siowi Unoccupied Firm Ubreri in tha Ssaib. Celery Sheep and Money Egr in Wider Cora Fodder Wiatr Killing Farm Ilouss and Stock. L'nctrtaintisf. Macmillan's Magazine. Pirk linen bonnet. Fink cotton gown. Bones printed on it. Hands burnt brown. Oh! ilitne were all the piping birdi, and the tol len-beited beat. Ard blithe sans she oa the doorstep, with her apron lull of peas. Bound of tcythe and mowing. Where buttercups (?rew tall; Sound of red klne lowing. And ei rly milkmaid's call. Sweet she sang on the doorstep, with the young peas In her lap, And he came whistling up tha lane, with tha ribbons in his cap. 'You call me a bad penny That wouldn't be sent away But here's good bye to you, Jenny, For many and many a day. There's talk of cannon and killing Nav. never turn so white! VC And I've taken the King's shilling I took it last nigut." Oh ! merry, merry, piped the thrushes np in the cherry tree. But dumb the iat on the doorstop, and out through the crate went he. ccent of hay and Summer: Bed evening sky; Noise of iile and drummer; Men marching by. The hay will be janled presently, and the eherriea gathered all, And the corn stand yellow In the shocks, and the leaves begia to fal'. Perhaps orae t vening aTter. With no more song of thrush, The lads will ce&se their laughter. And the maids their chatter hush ; And word of blood and battle Will mix with the sound of the QUI, And lowing of the catt e And clink of the milking pail; And one will read, half ieariul, A list of names aloud ; And a few will stagger tearful Out of the little crowd: And he, rerhapi. half doubting, Half knowing why she came. Win Biand among them, pouring. And bear, perhaps, his name W 111 weep, perhaps, a little, as she wanders up 7Z the lane, And wish one Summer naming were all to do again. Value of stock SUows, There are one or two facts, says the Breeders' Gazette, which the fat stock shows demonstrate most clearly, and which are worth far more to the country than these wonderful exhibitions cost in money and labor. The farmicg population generally is ecabled to geo that all the leadtos breeds i-usrs8 merits cf the higLeet' order; that they can safely purchase for betf" prodpetion, at least, any of them which they ire able to pay for and can obtain at the best advantage, and that there is no use delaying improvement through perplexing denbts as to which is the best where all are gcod.-And the professional breeders and active friends of the various breeds are made to realize that, no matter how great tfce merit and possibilities cf their favoriter, the constant exercise of the most intelligent care and the moat skillful breedirgisneceisery to keen their stock abreast with or in advance of other breeds. So, while the results of the awards may never be so ucifcrm over a continuous period as to derronstrate the superiority of one breed over all others, great good invariably follows the exhibitions in the hont, emulation which it creates among breeders, and the facts which the general public is able to g'ean concerning the basis upon which rest the claims so warmly advanced for the various breeds by their friends and advocater. And then the contrast afforded between the msgniiicent animals brought together at these ebows, and the "lean and hungry" beasts which make np so large a proportion of the ofierlugi in the general markets who can estimate what this does in the way of encouraging farmers to improve their catUe stocks through breeeing as well as more rational management. Unoccupied Farm. A cciions and unexpected result has been biocght to light in the agricultural returrs juet published, eays a London paper. In pursuance of a promise made by tte Chancellor cf the duchy of Lancaster, in reply to a question by Mr. Barclay in Ue House of Commons on the 15th of Febrnsiy, a special return has this year been otUittdcf the unoccupied arable farms or i srts of farms cf not less than five acres which ere not in cultivation. The last occasion of any such return was in 1331, when tie deprestion in the farming indufry was far 1?b? keenly felt, The return shows teat there are now only 221 unoccupied farms and 133 uncultivated plots of arable land, making a total for England and Wales of 25.234 acres. Now, this is no less than 13,633 acts less than in 1SS1, a result so entirely di.4 rent from what was expected that ft Kemoidunj was sent by the department to the collectors, calling their at tention to the unlooked-for conclusion ana rfqufstirg further investigation. However, when the returi a for this year Were re-examined they were found correct, and, indeed, the general rtsult was fully confirmed. Some of the officers offered the following interesting explanation: In 1SS1, they say, owners had cot realized the necessity for either workins their lands themselves or making large reductions in rents, and were aljwing farms to stand idle until teller times. Tne permanence of the fall in agricultural values has now been seen, and as a consequence rents have been much reduced, in some cases a mere agreement to pay the tithes, while in other instances the owners are farming their own land. The last course hss been taken tot only by private owners, but even by some of the colleges at Cambritlg. Moreover, a (considerable area of heavy c!y lands which could not be made to pay has been allowed to lie fallow 80 Ions; that it is now covered with a rank pattursge of self-worn grasses and has been let for rongh grazing- parpoief. Of the total quantity of 314 acres nnder cnltivatlun this year, 57.53S.4S9 acres were returned as rented; while 4,831,439 were returned as owned by the occupiers. The 202. C'J5 acres which are thus not accounted for were in fie counties of Norfolk, Bufljlk and Lincoln, in which a large proportion ot the farmers could not be persuaded that the information rt quired was not wantea fos the purpose of taxation. laborers In the South. Ohio Farmer. I receive dozens of letters from younr men, readers of The Farmer, who want to come South, and want jobs of work. To all such I would say, this is an unpromising region for day laborers without capital. There are plenty of blacks to do the wage-work. But if a young man will come out here with a few hundred dollars, buy five or ten acres of land (that is a plenty), costing, when cleared, $25 to 100 per acre, and go into poultry growing or truckfarming, he can do so with a fair prospect of making money. Good eggi are never worth less than 20 cents a dozen; a good pait of the year they fetch 23 or :v) cents; chickens 40 cents each. Upland rice, oats and sweet potatoes can be grown cheaply and In abundance, so that their feed need not cost much, if anything, sat the labor. liens lay fiom twenty-ßve to fifty more egS in a year than thay do in the coli legions of the North. If they bare plrity of pore water, bone and broken pottery (in place of gravel, ot which there is none here) they are as healthy as In Ohio. Truck farming also pays well, if properly

managed. A young friend of mine, Mr. Al Umltb, sold $272 worth of strawberries from a quarter of an acre; and his sole outlay was $12 for commercial fertilizers and $10 50 for hired labor in mulching. All the rest of the work he did himself, besides working a great part of the time at his trade as a carpenter. Lawtey, Fia. S.Powcas,

Preserving Celery, A Connecticut market ganiaer writes: Celery will bear a temperature of twenty degrees and unblanched ten degrees, bat sit ceblanchicg is easier ts the temperature is higher, a moderation to forty de prees La found to be the best preservation. Therefore, dispose of all celery to Its keeping place in this latitude by the 20th of November. We must be governed in tus selection of the place by necessity for moisture, that it may not consume its own vitality, and jet cot sufficient to drip, which would cause decay. We are now met by a new difficulty, an ungovernable temperature by contact in a mass, and on our difpcfcition of this bangs our success. Whatever may ba oar place our aim must be to break up the mass, and as it is separated by the cooling or airable contact of maUrial, eo is the length of time that celery may be kept. The pit is used equally with the cellar and blanching bouse, and Is dug where water will not eettle, and from two to three feet deen, about the width of the spade, when the time of 8 tor age Is simply for the winter months, bat if later into the summer It must be sufficiently narrow to admit of one or two plants. The celery is then set upright, packing as closely along the pit as it can be crowded. It is then roofed over with boards, leaving a space above tne p'aoks for the circulation of air, and occnioa iUj an opening for ventilation in a manner to exclude the light and not enough to decline the temperature. The boards are well covered with earth. The same principles must be followed in the cellar and blanching house. Doard3 set on edge or held edgewise in some manner, a little np from the earth, to admit of a space for air to circulate, running acro?s the cellar at every ten inches.more or ies3 as to time to be occupied. Then the cellery is packed upright and closely as in the pit. Circulation and temperature must be maintained with the exclusion of light by an air chamber from the exterior and another to the top as a ventilator, both being provided with a cut-eff for regulation. Some may deem It expedient from a local causa to remove celery from the field to the Istoras?, retaining a bail of eartb, and I am inclined to think that it retains in this way its nutly flavor, jet it is much more diflicalt to blanch. D parted Greatness. The National Grange, says a Michigan psper, which has but recently completed its annual session at Lansing, and has left behind it a few specimens of California gra'cs end pampas gras, presents a very different rpectacie from the one it presented thirteen years rgo. One who read the meagre reports of the proceedings of the Lansing meetings caa scarcely reallzs that, so sco a t,me 8i e 5Tan8wa were a great political r in b J"?l now fewer tban m COu ÄZIrlc,a tu were er rolled as Patrons of Hasaauu.,, and tbeir annual dues to the Grand Lodge amounted to $313 532 20. At that time the State Legislatures ot the West were passing laws to limit the amount of freight that mleht be charged by railroads for transporting the produce of farms, and although the grange, as a body, did not take political action, Its members were the one who secured the granger legation so called. The grange Itself, according to Charles W. Picnon, who writes in the Popular Silence Monthly, wss organized by one fruit-grower and six government clerks, in Washington, In lc'07. O. H. Kelley, then a clerk in the Agricultural Department, was the real father of the movement, and, being an ardent Meson, he organized his new order on the basis of fraternity, with ritual and secret councils. lie had the hardest kind c work In getting the farmers to take holviof his plan, and in his struggles he wss- often too poor to pay for postage Btamns to answer letters. Once the order was fairly started however, it grew with startling rapidity in lite United States and Canada, and it spread even to England, France, Germiny and Australia. Its decline came through its very suectefes. The farmers secured much of the legiilibicn they wanted, and In the United States Sopr rue Court this legislation was declared constitutional. But economic law are etroiger than those made by leghlaluies, and by the time the courts had got aiound to diclare the laws good the men who passed thesa laws amid booming 0! con were glad enough to repeal them in silence acd contrition. The Grange still lives as a society for entertainment in tcuntry communities, hut it has ceased to cemmaed the attention of the people, or even of the farmers thenselves. Immigration agents from the Pacific slope are the only outsiders deeply interested la the meetings, and the office of grand master has ceased to be an object cj contention, How Sheep Stake Money. Rural Bplrlt. A correspondent writes: "In the winter of 1SS5 a lady finding it necessary to increase her inoome appealed to me to ad rise a way. Ai she had some land it was proposed to take a Mock of sheep to double, as Las been the custom in some parts of the country. It was at once seen that to take tlnep to double in four years was giving an outrageous percentage. Finally, in Jannary of that year, a Mock of thirty-seven 'culls," which had teen thrown out of several car loads, were brought into the neighborhood for sale. A neighbor loaned her the money, and I purchased them at $1 75 a head, amounting to $04 73. Four of them died, and in the spring only ten lambs were raised, but she sold that season of sheep's wool and lambs juit enough to pay the purchase money aad interest, retalnirgber original number thirty-three after the four hid died. In Utf her sales were $93, still keeping the same number. This season her sales were $150 49, and the thirty-three sheep left are worth $1 a head, or $132. TheculiJ are now cleared out entirely, and the lady has as fine a Mock of healthy yonng aheep as can be fonndinthe country. They are all ewes, and bave been so selected that I will warrant them to raise over thirty-three lambs next f 1 ring, acd average seven pounds of wool." ttggs In Winter. I'ralrie Farmer. Bight now, at the beginning of cold weather, let me tell yon how to have eggs all winter, if you have hens cf good laying breed, or rather, I will tell you how I have them.aDd yon may do likewise. We have a comfortable but very cheap hen-house packed with straw around three aides. The south side front Is left for a clear door, and m window made by placing four sashes containing six lights of ei;at by ten glass in a row The perches are opposite the windows and nests underneath. For feed I give the hens plenty of milk, and in treezlng weather heat It before giving it to them. I keep a large stove kettle especially tor the purpose and cook all the turnip and potato pealings and throw Into it all the table scraps and scraping of the pots and kettles. Once a day, early in the mcrning, I fill the kettle nearly full ot milk, and after heating it hot thicken it w!'h meal or bran, whichever I have, and two or three times a week I stir into it a heaping teaspoonfulof black pepper. If I did cot have milk I ahould use water and mix scraps of meat and lard "cracklings" with it. The hens gather round me when I take this steaming kettle of food to them so I can scarcely eet room to pour It into their feed pans. I feed oats a good deal, but never dry. I pour over a bucket half full of oati, enocgh milk to swell them,

and let them soak several hours, generally from one feed to the next. The milk will be absorbed and there will be no danger of the oats swelling in the crop. At butchering time. I boil the livers, lights and any other scraps which are left, In a large kettle out door, silting slightly and throwing in a red pepper or two, and feed it out aa I need it, two or three times a week. Of course my hens get more or less corn, but I make it my special basicese to see to the milk all the time, and a warm feed once a day. I have fresh eggs all winter, and when they brin 25 cents a dozen one feels well repaid for the trouble. We do cot keep the hens shut up ail the time, only In cold, stormy weather, and on bright days they range on the farm, Dow to Feed Corn-Fodder, As the season Is upon us for feeding shock fodder of which there is an unusual amount to be fed this winter the question naturally presents Itself how it caa best be taken from the field, atored away and fed to the best advantage. The follswing is the plan recommended by W. C. Ilvatt, of Johnson county, Missouri, in the Journal of Agriculture: Before beginning to draw from the field we erect a shed by setting nine forks, eight feet long, firmly in the ground (not less

than thirty inches; ana eet taree in eacn row seven feet each way. This done, lay in fork stringers twenty feet long and cross with rails. With your spade diu a trench eight or ten inches deep on west, north and half of east from north; in this set rails thickly, being careful to break joints when they do not fit close and snug, and lean tops of them sgainst the stringers above. The rails when set should stand at an anple of say thirty to forty degrees. Th shed is now ready to receive its covering, which is done by first throwing on a load or so of old straw, slough gm, weeds or old stalks, say eight or ten inches thick. Oyer this lay your fodder, beginning at the outside and laying shingle fatr.ion (butts In) untfl completed in the center, which Bhould be kept full while putting cn the roof by laying a bunch now and then croc-swise. Your roof is cow ccmplete. with the exceptions of a few weight-poles or rails. Against the rails on the west, north and half of east set your fodder to be used, leaving the south and half of east open into a lot of convenient size, with plenty of water, and so constructed as to be convenient to throw the fodder oer the fence into the long mangers, made the same way as a post and rail fence, save that your manger is only thirty inches high. You now have a good, wirm she' ter that will accommodate twenty-five two-year-old cattle, or forty yearling9, or fifty calve, and save as much feed as does the curry-comb. As spring approaches, if short of feed, use your siding first and the roof otherwise, by adding a little next year, and so on, yen will soon have a good rain and snow-proof shed, which, once bad, will never be dispensed with. Oar shed was erected, ready for stock, in ooe day by myself and a hired hand, and coit just seventy-five cents in cash. Now for our mode of hauling from the field. We us a truck made of the wheels of an old corn planter. The frame is made of two pieces, fourteen fest, 3x4 inches. These are firmly fastened together by three pieces cross ties of proper length, so that wben completed, from outside of spindles of truck will correspond In width to s"" of your ?on- To tte center crots t7e"alUcn a ZZ??ün b7 martlse so shaped that the cn CI coupling to receive the king holt will stand, say inches below frame. Iolt Cd your axles, attach to front wheels of wegoa, put in standards six feet long in rear and four feet in front, bow over wheels and nail a plank in bottom to walk on in loading, and you have a truck that will easily haul four shocks of fodder that will make four boshels each, and one man can do it. We have been nsirg ours in ploughed ground, which was muddy, and attached the scrapers as in planting corn to good advantage. Wloter Killing. St. Louis Republican. My observation is, that it is not the coldest weather in winter, as indicated by the thermometer, which kills or injures fruit trees, raspberry and blackberry canes, etc., bnt that it ia the drying out of the sap by the very dry winds when the ground is frozen. When these continue for some time (lam not prepared to say how long), many plants and trees that ara perfectly hardy in a very low, bnt moist temperature, Will be killed or badly injured. The severest winter we have ever noticed was accompanied by dry weather, so that plants and trees could scarcely draw sufficient moisture from the soil to prevent tbeir tops from drying out in a cold, dry wind. Bow can the stem of a tree that is frozen convey moisture or sip to the branches above, when the thermometer stands at about zero, and a dry wind is blowing? Uow long will a branch or a cutting that is cut off and exposed to such a wind retain vitality enough to grow when used for grafting, or when planted as a cut ting? How much longer will the small branches keep alive when a frozen stem and frozen larger branches shut oft the supply of moisture? May not the circulation of the sap in the spring and summer through branches that have been bdly iqjured in that way so poison the sap as to cause peach yellows, pear blight, etc? We would suggest that experiments be tried by spraying some trees and some berry canes with cold water, so as to form a coating of ice, which we think would prevent further drying, repeating the operation aa often as may be necorsary, when the ice has been removed by evaporation, so long as the dry cold weather continues; then cote the result. We thick that oar experiment stations could cot do better work than to thoroughly investigate and make careful experiments in this line. I have simply called attention to this subject, hoping that it will be taken np by others that have the advantage of greater facilities. Lkvi Bkll. TTbeat Uran as Stock Food. The fourteenth bulletin of the Ontario (Canada) Agricultural Experiment station, after fall test and analysis of foods, says in conclusion of wheat bran: 1. Bran is a concentrated food, which, though valuable in composition, possesses high nutritive value. 2. Roller-process bran Is, on tha average, richer than old process bran. 3. Its excess of ash or mineral matters eminently fits it for bone-building in growing animals and for supplementing the lack of mineral matters in roots. 4. Its chemical composition points to the conclusion that it is somewhat better adapted to the formation of fat and production of heat tbaa to the formation of muscle or milk. 5. Both its chemical composition and ita physical form adapt it admirably as a supplementary food tobe used In connection with poor and bulky fodder, such as straw and roots, . G. Its msnurlal or fertilizing value alone repays its cost. Two Lavbi la One. An English paper has the following; In the days of our grandfathers it was always a disputed point whether the slightest benefit could be gained by causing ewes to rear two lambs instead of one. Nowadays the utility is held to be unquestionable, very much In consequence of the ewes and lambs being subjected to more liberal feeding. In the old days farmers employed auxiliary feeding substances only spar, ingly. If the lambs had been fattened off early the advantage of giving a little special food was seen, but, as a rule, was res'rictf d to fattening sheep, hence the almost universal opinion that it was better to have one strong, lusty Iamb than two weakly ones. They also held that a penny saved is as good ai a penny won, and by

strictly following a false system of economy, cot only refraining from high feeding, but irom cropping the land too much, lest like a jaded horse it should get weary. The creed of the present generation Is the other way, and it is only natural that a desire to increase the fecundity of flocks should accompany their higher management in respect to liberal feeding As a rule, if a ewe be never stinted in ordinary diet, and have in addition a trifle of cake or corn daily, she will rear two lambs and make them at weaning time more lusty and thriving than the ewe3 of our forefathers could possibly turn out single lambs when they had to pick up a scanty living on the common and seldom had their stomachs full of anything.

Live Stock Notes. The Pclled-Angus cattle have made a great record at all the fat stock shows this year. At Kansas City and Chicago they distinguished themselves, and at Birmingham, England, an Angus cow was the champion. Chemical analysis prove that the cactus of southwest Texas is equal to green-corn fodder or beets as a cattle feed. The latter is raised on land renting for $5 per acre per annum, and fed to beeves at a profit. The cactus grows ot itself, on land renting for G cents per acre per annum, and still some men in this country say that there is no money In feeding. Texas Live Stock Journal. Three litters of pigs reached I. Blickenstafl'a farm from March 15 to 30, 1SS7. These were well cared for, had the run of the üe)d of clover and some corn daily till new corn was in shape to feed, when they were pushed, and about the lOihcr 15th of October thi3 was changed to steamed corn. November 23d, these pigs, nineteen in number, were sold. Weight of the nineteen 5,050 pounds, near 300 each. The above were Berk shires. A stockman and farmer living in an adjoining county tells us that most of his land yielded him four tons of Johnson grass bay per acre the past year. He will put in more Johnson grass next year. He says he expects to have his farm Bolidly set in grass in a few years. He says he would cot accept $25 per acre for his farm to-day, and this is largely due to the Johnson grass he has on his place and which he expects to have. Southern L. S. Journal. The two-year old grade West Highland steer from T. W. Harvey's Nebraska Btock farm, weighed 1,000 pounds, and sold at fG 50 per 100 weight, the highest price of the season for a model for the fit stock barn, reminds us that it was a two year old West Highland and Hereford cross-bred sietr that took the block at the American Fat Stock show thi3 fall. It was from the fine stock farm of L, II, Hsfi'lngs & Son, Eteex, Iowa, Where is located the largest and best bred herd of pure West Highlander&lin this country. It Is claimed that the Jersey-Daroc hogs have proved to be the most productive and hardiest hog in the hands of the general farmer thrughout the Northwest. Mr. C. H. Holmes, of Grinnell, Iowa, one of the pioteer Duroc Jersey breeders In the West, eays the demand is largely Increasing every year. They have no equal as foragers, and their good coat of hair prepares them to stand the severe changes of our winter cllma'e. It also protects. AtZ'm from ules mosquitoes and the scorching summer sun. No br?ed withstand3 disease better. Household Hints. Fried Eges. To fry egss tender, put one epoonul of mt dripping in the pan.break acd drop in the eggs, Sil .an1 cor close with a lid until they get white on top. Boiled Icing. Three cups of white grauulated soger, one cup of water, boil to a clear syrup, beat the whites of three eggs to a still froth, pour in the hot syrup, stir frequently while cooling. The cake Bhould be cold before icitg. Sago Pudding Boil five tablespsonf als ot &sgo, well picked and washed, in one quart of milk till quite soft, with a stick of cinnamon; stir in one teacup of batter and two of white sugar; when cold add six eggs well beaten and nutmeg to taste. Mix all well together and bake in a butter dish three-quarters of an hour. . Cream Cake. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, whites of two eggs, three and a half cups of (lour, one cup of sweet milk, one teaepoonful of soda, one teaspoonfal of cream of tartar. For the cream One pint of sweet milk, sweetened to taste, yelks of three eggs, thicken with dour to the consistency of custard, flavor with lemon. This amount makes two goodsized cakes. Chocolate Custard One-fourth of a cake of chocolate, one pint of boiling water, six eggs, one quart of milk, one-half cup of white sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla. Dissolve the chocolate in a very little milk, stir into the boiling water and boil three minutes. When nearly cold add the beaten eggs, ttir Into the milk, flavor and pour In cupa; set in boiling water and bake. Oyster Croquettes. Scald and chop fine the hard part of the oyters (leaving the other part and liquor for soup); add an equal weight of mashed potatoes; to one pound of this add a lump of butter the size of an e?. a teaspoon of salt, half tea spoon of pepper and a quarter of a teacup of cream. Aiaae in amau cites, aip in egg and then in breadcrumbs and fry like dou&hcute. Baked Omelet. Take alx eggs, three even spoonfuls flour, a little salt, aad beat them well together the more it Is beaten the lighter it will be then add one pint of hat milk acd keep on beating. Have a hot dish with some melted butter the size of an egg, and put into oven. Bake twenty minutes, and eat it when it comes from oven, for it will fall soon. This is very nice for breakfast. Woodford Paddio?. -Three eggs, one teacup sugar, one-batf teacup butter, one-half teacup floor, one teacup j am or preserves, scant teaspoon soda disolv )d In three teaspoons sour milk, mix well and bake slowly. Sauce: one egg, one large cup augar, one small cup butter, mix well and put on stove atd stir until melted, add teaspoon wine, brandy or whisky, and pour on im mediately. Bread Pudding?. Ooe quart of grated bread crumbs, one quart milk, yolks of four eggs, beaten well, butter size of an egg, OCeCDpOfleuTO two teaipooBS baking powder, and two teaspoons extract Of lemon ; mix all well together and bake; beat the whites ot the eggs with a cap o powdered sugar, flavor with one teaspoonfnl extract of lemon or orange, cover the tudding with it and bake until browned a ittle. Fßrni Kotes. Wann barns to save food were never before to highly appreciated as this winter. Hoard's Dairyman contends that though dehorning a cow may not lessen the flow of milk, it does lessen the secretion of butter fat, acd the same quantity of milk will give smaller quantity of butter. The New York assistant dairy commissioner, having visited all the creameries ot the State and most of the farms, has not found a single instance where oleomargarine has been used to adulterate butter. Dehorning cattle seems to be fast approaching a craze in certain parts of thi West. It seems singular that so fewcaeei are reported in which any sort of serious consequences have followed Rural New Yorker. During the winter the relative value o bran, oilmeal and other by-fodders to bud plemsnt coarse feeds, are being necessarily learred. Farmers are acquiring the many recently developed principles of feeding, how to construct food rations, the injury and loss by one-sided foods, etc. A wash designated to prevent the depredations of mice and rabbits is made by

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watei to make it moderately thick whitewash. Dissolue with glue and add one pound of coperas, dissolved, and stir all together. Apply with a whitewash broah to the trunks of the trees late in autumn. The drought 6truck the farmers' Institutes opportunely. In Wisconsin tho3e who learned the lessons of corn fodder and BiJos well a year or two ago are now enthusiastically telling the attendants of the institutes how fodder corn they planted laved them. Farmers' institutes have been placed on a permanent and broad basis, and the drought lias helped to do this. The Colorado potato beetle has appeared in large numbers upon the po'ato fields of Mailt zscb, a village near Domraitzsch, in Saxony. It is believed from the asundacce of the beetles that the species must have been introduced into that locality several years ego. The Frussian government is taking vigorous measures to exterminate the pest. American Naturalist. J. W. Beem, Kane County, Illinois, writes to the Prairie Farmer: I have practiced a good and convenient way of smobirg meat for some years. I take aa old stove, one which can ba bought for the price of old iron, and set it outdoors, connecting it by means of two or more joints of pipe to a large box. The meat can be hung in the box or may be laid on slats. My whole outfit is worth $1. Cobs make good smoke. The drought has taught many lessons of economy, also fatth in our country and in its various agricultnrol industries, which will be worth many millions of dollars to the farmers. Such stupendous shrinkage of crops, and without serious results, only furnishes us a measure with which to sizs tip the greatness of this Western country. The idea that farmers are a pack of grumblers is entirely refuted. No class ot men ever bore loss with greater fortitude. Orchards are never safe from mice, yet trees are cheaply protected by tying laths, staves, or any similar material around the trunks. So Dr. Hoskins tells the Country Home. He protects over 1.000 trees ia this way every fall, at an annual expense of not over one cent a tree, acd he has not averaped the loss of ons tree a year in a quarter of a century. Press the ends of the strips a little into the ground and tie, with one turn of white cotton twine, near the top. All kinds of insects can be destroyed by using hot alum wate. Take two pounds of alam and dissolve In three of four quarts of boiling water ; let it stand on the tire till the alum disappears; then apply it with a brush while nearly boiling hot to evtry joint and crevice in your closets, pantry, 6helve, bedsteadj and the like. Brush the crevices in the skirting or mop beards if you suspect that they harbor vermin. If, in whitewashing the ceiling, plenty of alum is used in the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at a distance, Safe, permanent and complete are the cures of bilious acd intermittent diseases made by Prickly Ash Bitters, Dyspepsia, general debility, habitual constipation, liver and kidney complaints are speedily eradicated from the system. It disinfects, cleanses and eliminates all malaria, pifilth and vigor are obned möri'raoliy' ani S!S! b? the use. of this great nltaral uan by any other remedy heretofore known. As a blood purifier and tonic It brings health, renewed energy and vitality to a wem and diseased body. Got Used to Ulm, New York 8uu. Happy Man (to widow of three husbands) Whom shall I ask to perform the ceremony, darling? That matter, of course, x edbji leave 10 you. Widow (hesitatirglyJ-Well, dear, I haven't any very particular preference, although I've always had the P.9V. Mr. Goodman. It is not always convenient, or even de sirablf, to call a physician tor every little ailment, and In many cases it is not only inconvenient but Impossible to reach one promptly. Having Pond's Extract in the home, you have a physician always at hand. It Is easy of application, safe and reliable. For Sore Throat and ungs, Chapped Hands and Face, it is of inestimable value. Frosted Limbs and Chilblains are promptly relieved by Pond's Extract, For sale everywhere. Be sure to get the genuine. Sold only in bottles. 'Best cure for Cough and Colds is the old Boston Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam." Dr. Hawkes, a leading professor in one of the great colleges of Chicago, admits that he has used Moxie a year; he believes it to be a "nerve food" because it brought weakly, nervous, tired-out women to their feet at once, without any apparent stimu lation, drug action or action like a tonic, and produced no reaction. Moxie has accomplished, nnder his prescription, all it is advertised to do. Orange Blossoms. Miss Susie Baker, of Carpentersvllle, Indiana, was married in this city, December 21st, at the residence of Mrs. Mary Baker, to Mr. James Moxley, of Indianapolis, The Key. Mr. Mitchell, of the Fifth v t a a x? - a J 4 I rre&Dyierian cnurco, omciateu on tne happy occasion. ECZEMA And Every species of Itching and Burning Diseases Cured by Cuticura Kc 7ema or 8lt Rheum, with Its sgon'zing itching and burning instantly relieved by a warm bath with tiTH iKA Boat, ani a single application of U'Tktra, the great Skin Cure. This, repeated dally, with twoor three doses of Citu vka KKfOLVENT. the New Blood Purifier, to keep the blood ceol. the perspiration puse aud unirritatirg, the bowels open, the liver and kidneys active, will speedily cure Eczema, Tetter. King worm, Psoriasis, Lichen, l'ruritus, Eical) Ued, Dam'ruffand every pecies of Icthnz Ecaly and Fimply Humors of the scalp and Etin, when the best physicians and all known reu. edles fall. ECZEMA. 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