Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 April 1894 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOA2S"JC, 1'ubliNhm. jASl'IvB. INDIANA ICopjrlKht, Uie Authur I IT'S as good a initio an nny in Australia, is thu (.Jilt Edge, and 1 s h o u 1 d h a vu been a rich man wars ago," said Alee, ''if it hadn't boon for I Job Jones' parrot." My, what on earth did the parrot .i . . , ..i!,.i,' IU i." wit; IV ) to tlio miau? tioth.ng whatever. It that was all." 'Uuineil the mine!" 'Yi'i. it did as far Oh, nothing; only ruined it. us I was concerneil, at any rate." Hut how was that?" 'Well, I'll tell you. Hob and I hud boon out prospecting, und landed on u n all.v good thing1, and 4toh wont home t England to got up a syndicate to wi.rk the reef. He had .some friends of t'u- right sort, men with money, and the pluck to back a good tip when ttiey gnt one. Well, ho came back in three months with tho money to start with, and we very soon cot to work, and it J.i ked a . moral certainty Unit at the etui f a year or so we should bo able to h ü thelült IM iff at unwinding figure to a louipany. l!ut we reckoned without Hub's beastly parrot. For when Hob rt.-nt home he had heard a song at .some, music hall or other. It was all the rage then, with Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay for a hrus. An idiotic thing unyhow, but it as caloliy, and l!ob and 1, in our good stunts were perpetually at it All day long it wus Ta-ra-ra this und Ta-ra-ia ti.ut. and as ISob had shown me how a w.'inaniu London, Lottie something, I remember, sang it, we were always h-gh-kicking and trying to wipe the ground with our back hair, "We were a couple of young fools, r. uoubt, but it did no harm. 1 dare fay we should have got sick of it in l,n:e. liut Hob had caught a young I S'.i rot, the bush all round was simply swarming with them, and he taught it th air of Tn-ra-ra, and it was funny "tigh. when we were iu luck's way u- everything looked rosy, to hear the t'i.d whistling it, for to g.ve the devil hi-- due it used sometimes to chime in w tit it, when Kol and 1 wen talking, in t no neatest way in the world. Hut on" day the parrot was missing, it had b.tton through a bar of its cage, made by Eid out of a whisky case, and was gone. We were sorry at the time, I re-in.-itibcr, and we put the cage outside our hut with a lotfof sugar and stuff n:. nlxmt it, in tho hope of the parrot's coming back. If we had only shot it! Hut one day as we were going across t the mine we suddenly hoard the well-known refraiu from the top of a j:um. We stopped dead, and while 1 stael to watch the parrot.- movent uts, Hob ran back for the cage, which vi put on a l)it of open ground us temptingly as we could, and then stood ly. a good way oil, to watch results. Vi.ile we were waiting, we were astonished to hear Tn-ra-ra-bcom from at., it her tree behind us, undimmcdiatelv aftorwards Ta-ra-ra-boom frm another direction, and then the truth flashed on us. Uob's parrot had been t. a. hing all the others Ta-r.i-rn-boom-de nyl Ami so it was. There was not a i ltd in thu bush that did not know it, "tit there were thousands of them. We ' l.r.hed at tirst, so did the men at the iiu iu There wore twelve of them, all rv decent, well-behaved fellows. Hot . ti.- parrots kept on at it, all the uiornit Then they slacked of! about noon, vw. n they gene rally have a sleep, and e'.-nmenced again about four, ami went on tut it was dark. Ky bedtime we had got tired of the joke. Tho fun had all petered out of the thing. "I'y daybreak next morning the biids were at it again, and all the time i that we were getting breakfast ready and eating it the wretched brutes kept steadily on, Ta-ra-ra-boom : To add t" the cmsperation of it not one In a lmuurci. ever tinished the line, but ir. .( iV at the 'boom.' Conversation was impossible with this mono -on. ms obligato of Ta-ra-ras going on, ad even silting still to breakfast S'enied ditllenlU We wero all very sii'.r; ti'inpered by tho time the meal ".is liiiished, aud as wo weutoutof the but I h;iw Heb take up his gun. We' got to work, but it was just awful, 1 tell you, trying to do anything with tii..e parrots ull about. If they had id talaed at once it wouldn't have l' on so bad, or if they had kept on talking without any stoppages. Hut they used to do it one at a lime, at Ivgular intervals, and from all sorts ; o' unexpected directions. One would ' uhistiu it out loud, the next would . drop its voice to a confidential whis1'or, the third oie wheezed out the Word-tin if it had asthma, the fourth! vmiM put it as a. cjuestion in a rollick- . !"g. jocular way. It was fairly mad-, "'lung trying to do anything with parrots saying Ta-ra-ra-boom at intervals of a minute on all sides of you, 1 con id see the men pausing in their vork in nspoie, waiting for the next a- ,1-ra to com;, and as for attempt j '"g i'i tnlic, it was out of the question. "If . von opened your mouth to speak j la-ra-rit-lHKim a parrot overhead wotihl . M'r' am out, and when you got your anfcwer vuu lnut

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nnxe.1 ,, wm, lu )ob wns giving honu directions to one of the men. L.o:t lu.,. h0 ani H(U j CXpect the U UTa-ra-booiii) up here to day, and yw must have that bucket-rope in oraer. lor If ht icm it a, it 8 lie wiU Mgr

-ri-uooiHHte-avr ..,t I stopp eUhort, looked saragely up into the gum tree, and then walked to the tent ra-rn-ra.hoom, said a parrot, in a loud aside, as he disappeared within. And then Hob came out with his gun in lus hand. TiiTa-ra boom-de-ay, cried a parrot in tho heartiest jovial voice possible. Tp went the gun. and a parrot came slipping, bumping down through tho branches, it fell at my feet not quite dead, ft avo itself a sort of shake, tried to roll over on to its feet but:fell back, and then it opened one eye, looked at me, and then said, in a posi' tive emphatic kind of voice as if it was . no use my trying to argue with it or f contradict it Tn-ra-ra-boom-anddied. , Hang went the pun again, and down cntno another parrot "With the same irritating irregularity, thu same exasperating changes of , voice and direction, the pertinacious , parrots wont on. while we all set to .again, silent, dogged and had temJpered. There was no conversation. Only an oath now and again, dropping ' on tho air in a sullen, shell-fire fash1 ion, and contrasted qucerly with the j idiotic gayety of the parrots. From J angry looks to words, and so to blows, j Two of the men began to tight Ta-ra-I ra-boom: cried the nearest -parrot in a voice of delight, and the men went at , it savagely, while the birds, with tho j lucky way they have, hit in so pat ! sometimes, with a Ta-ra-ra-boon:, that ' it sounded like a 'Uravor after a wrlli placed blow. This made the men nil 1 the madder. How it ended I don't know, fur I went away to wind up the man down theshaft, who had been forgotten all this time. He came up profane und furious, and insulted inc. 1 dismissed him on the spot, anil then there was another row, and somehow tho angry spirit spread, and Hob and I at last found ourselves looking on at a general melee, Hob, with one eye only, as a 'phid' of misdirected clay had temporarily shut up the other. "In the middle of all this rumpus who should step out of the bush but the inspector, and juit as he did so a chunk of quartz knocked his hat off. Ho insisted on tho arrest of the offender, but the order was too big to execute, and the end of it was that he and his posse went otf back to towu, anil reported a state of riot at the Gilt Edge. Next day, Hob and I. the captains of the shift, with half a dozen other men, were on our way to explain to a magistrate and pay the penalty for an assault on 'the authorities.' When it was all over and wo had got buck, leaving three of our number behind us in custody for 'contempt of court.' we found the place half de serted, and the remaining men Jying about idle, playing cards and quarrel- j ing, wane tlie parrots overhead cried Ta-ra-ra-boom in response to every oath. When they heard of the men in jail, they went oil in a body to get their chums out, and Hob and I found ourselves alone in camp with the confounded parrots. After the excitement of the previous day our nerves were, perhaps, a bit shaky, but anyhow we thought Ta-ra-ra worse than ever. We stuffed our ears full of wadding, but the wretched refrain was running iu our heads, so that we found ourselves humming it at everjt turn, and when we took out the wadding to speak to each other the parrots were still ut their Ta-ra-ra-boom! Jlut we got the camp into order, aud, working like niggers all ilie time, waited for three days for the men to return, and then wn w ent into town after them. Xone of them would come back and face Ta-ra-ra-boom. So we had to get another shift, and by and by we started again. "Hut almost the same things hap pencil, though worse. For the men after two days of it were so infuriated by the parrots that they would not work. They loafed about the bush all day with revolvers ai'd lumps of stone. A passionate longing for the blood of the parrots possessed them. So overwhelming vas the mastery of this ferocious thirst for gore that, not content "ix runv to Timow with perpetual fisticuffs, they pro cceded to duelling with revolvers, and from this to 'husting-up the machinery of the mine, setting fire to our hut, and. most astonishing of all. an old Scotchman was actually seen in his ungovorable fury to throw a lnittle three n:irts full of wluskv at a narrot! It was now our turn to seek assistance from the authorities. Hut so exasperated was the neighborhood for Ta-ra-ra-boom had by this time spread from our camp over the whole of the district that when it was known we were in town to prosecute our men at the mine, popular feeling ran so high against ns that the police advised us to make a, hull, for it Which we did, and atonee. Nor did we dare to go back. We should probably have been lynched if we had. :-o there was nothing for it but to sell the mine with the plant on it as a goiug concern. It -was put up without reserve, and, amid jeers and cries of Ta-ra-ra-booiii-dc-ay, the (Jilt Edge was knocked down to our own braceman for a hundred pounds! So we were thrown on the world again, and from that day to this I have never chanced on a bit of luck again. "Hob? Oh, Hob is In the Varra Yarra asylum down in Melbourne. He went clean off Iiis ehum, poor chap. He was a right good fellow, was Hob, hut ho made an awful mistake in tcachiug tnat parrot 'Ta-ra-ra-bootn-de-ay.' " The idea of the balloon first occurred to the Montgolficr brother from seeing a large piece of paper fall over the lire, become inllated with smoke and hot air, rise and sail away, Silas was of Latin origin, xncaainff a country ni ab.

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AN NCOME TAX.

R-oi. In ,,- I xtr.ru froiu Con B'--n ii Hull. AM Irl. The following are extracts from nol & Hall's article in the .Mi.rch rorum: "Tlie wealthy classes of the eastern states, who are now opposing us in the enactment of this bill, are embarrassing tho best friends of a jHjacofiil government Tho principle that tho wealth of this country should help to bear the burden of national taxation is too well settled by logic, by authority and by exiK.Tlenee to justify extended argument now. Too often already have memWrs of this congress Wn warned that, whenever Hie richer class should be asked to share the burdens of government, they, prompted by avarice, would denounce the suggestion. It is their position, not mine, that needs de-fi'nse-"In a recent scech in the house of representatives. I said: " 'Were I called upon to frame a law that would keep down demagogy, that would take the last grain of justice from the conglomerate mass of ponulistie heresies, it would lie an income tax law.' I sincerely feel that every word I fald was true. Tudor our tariff system its burdens are put upon consumption itlie necessaries of life that the poor must have or perish!, and n ooor man with a wife and live children ls forced to pay out of his small income larger sum for the support of the gov;rnment than is tlie average man of ireat wealth with a small family. "All the greatest authorities on taxation say that tho subject of a nation Miould be taxed to support that nation .iccording to their ability, not according to the section in which they live: recognizing that wa should all be common bearers and common supporter- of common country, ignoring sectionalism. "Senator .lohn Sherman, in a speech delivered in the L'nited States senate, March 15, 1S1, used tlie following language: " 'The public mind is not yet prepared to apply the key of a genuine revenue reform. A few years of further experience will convince the whole body of our people that a system of national taxes which rests the whole burden of taxation on consumption, and not one cent on property or income, is intrinsically unjust " 'While the expenses of the national government are largely caused by the protection of property, it is hut right to call property to contribute to its payment. It will not do to say that each p?rson consumes in proportion to ids means That is not true. Everyone must see that the consumption of the rich does not bear the. same relation to the consumption of the poor, as the income of the rich does the wages of tho poor. As wealth accumulates, this injustice in the fundamental ba.si-, of our system will be felt and forced upon the attention of congress.' "Thorold Rogers says: 'Taxation in proportion to benefits received is sufficiently near the truth for the practical operations of government' Uoussean and Minibeau. J. It. Say and Garnier, have approved of this system, while Sismon.ii, in laying down his canons of taxation, declares that 'every tax should fall on revenue, not capital. and that 'taxation should never touch what is necessary for the existence of the contributor.' do in Stuart Mill declares that "equality of taxation, as a maxim of politics, means equality of sacrifice-' "If this income tax bill is defeated one will I. passed in the near future that will 1 far wider-reaching and involving far greater danger of injustice toward wealth." THE TRUST AT WORK. I'lie Suxar Sjmllrntr lloiinil to llno It I'miint I Fl-li A small map of this large country is distributed gratuitously where it is expected to serve its purpose best, with the ompliiuents of Delgao .t Co it is instructive in various ways, besides being in some respects picturesque. It shows how all roads lead to the sugarcane fields of Louisiana. An explanatory remark in manuscript states that it shows how "other sections" will be "effected" by tlie murder of the sugar industry "by the Wilson bill as it now stands." I'pon its face are depicted numerous trains of cars said to le loaded, some with fruit from California, others with meat from the wild west others with oil and coal from rennsylvania, others with grain from various section, others with manufactures of different kinds from the cas, others with cow peas from the Carol'nas. and so on. all destined to the carie-tields of Louisiana. Hesides the trains there are vessels on the exaggerated bosom of the Mississippi, on the gulf and on the Atlantic careering majestically1 toward the same destination. The inference suggested isthat if the ca no-grow ing industry skoubi be slain by the Wilson bill all this commerce would cease, mil all sections of tho country would le involved in the Louisiana ruin, even as the riiilistines perished with Samson when that mighty man pulled down the pillars of the temple. A summary statement in tho margin conveys tlie information that the total value af the commodites shipped annually to the cane fields from all parts of the country is ?it.tI.0iH). and that those fields yield S'i.VWO.O.M worth of products It follow, that tho fields do not produce enough to pay for what thev get from other parts of the country! the deficit being ?.!IO,io annually! This is an instructive exhibit It would U more so if accompanied by an explanation of the way in which this deficit is made good, l'erhaps it is not made good. In that case the losi must fall upon the jieoplo of other sections who supply the beef, wheat, oil, mules, cows, peas and other things, aud the trade might better bo destroyed than not The further information is imparted that the f i.V000,0Oü wortli of cane products support 000,000 people. That gives each of then f 11.00 annually for support This also I instructive. It shows nt once how unprofitable the mne growing industry Is, and how Utr

tie it taken to support a person in southern Louisiana. The point of it all is that a bounty of Z cents a pound must ho kept up or the market for i'i'J, 01 0,000 worth of products from all parts of the country will bo destroyed. Culling t!5 per cent of that sum profits, which is a liberal allowance, tho entire profit of tills trado would be fT, tTT.r.oo. Hut the bounty last year exceeded $ 10.000,000 a year for trade yielding a profit of loss than ?7, aoo.OOX The people would be better off to let the trade go and keep in their pockets what they pay us bounty to tho cane growers. Hut there is no danger of losing the trade- 'I he people of Louisiana may produce less sugar if they get no bounty, but they will produce more cotton, more rice and more of various other things. They are not obliged to stop producing if the bounty is stopped. They will pnxluce nbout as much as ever sind will I able to buy atout as lunch from the people of other .sections. There will be about the same trade and the same profit, and the bounty will he saved to taxpayers. Chicago Herald.

OPPOSING FREE COAL. Wliy CVrt.iln ScinKir-i ,r to Tutor of h Tux. The objections raised by a few senators against certain impnrt-int parts of the Wilson bill's five list have a very flimsy foundation or no foundation wha ever. There is not tho slightest warrant, for example, for an argument against the removal of tho duty on bituminous coal, in behalf a nroducers of such coal in the interior., the country and west of the Alleghanies. We received yesterday from Knoxville. Tenn.. a copy of certain resolutions signed by twenty-five coal companies whose mines are situated in Tennessee or Kentucky. These resolutions urgo the senate "to retain tho tariff" on coal, in order that the mining and manufacturing industres of our respective r.tates may continue their prosperity and be further developed, instead of being sacrificed for the special lnefit of foreign coal and iron producers. Wo further protest." say tiiese coal companies, "against the destruction of an investment of at least $10.000,000, and the reducing of our labor to the impoverished standard of that of other countries." it is upon such protests as this that a part of the opposition to the free-listing of coal is b.ise.1, an 1 yet the removal of the duty would not have the slightest injurious effect upon the industry in Kentucky and Tennessee. It would not reduce the value ofthat investment of SIO.000,000. nor would it out down the wages of the miners. This talk about labor in the resolutions, by the way. is rather amusing in view of the fact that the attention of the whole country has repeatedly been drawn by bloody riots to the employment of convict labo- in the mines of that region. The only offset of th" removal of the duty would he to relieve manufacturers on the Pacific coast of the tax which they now pay on coal which they are obliged to import from lkitish Columbia and Australia, and to enable New England manufacturers to procure a part of their supply from Nova Scotia. These results of the change would not affect the producers of coal in Kentucky and Tennessee. They would not even affect the producers of coal in the region lying between these states and the Canadian boundary, for there were exp irted last year from tho coal mines of Indiana. Illinois and Ohio into Canada yss.00. tons of bituminous coal, in spite of the Canadian duty of 00 cents a short ton. Even with this protection Nova Scotia cannot compote in the central provinces of Canada with coal imported from the states we have mentioned. We are not sure that a part of this coal exported into Canada was not shipped from the mines of some of these very companies in Kentucky and Tennessee that address this silly protest to the senate. The only opposition to free coal for which there is the slightest excuse of any kind is that of one or two senators who aro pecuniarily interested, or who are associated with capitalists who are so interested, in two or three railroad and minim companies which are now ongaged in shinning coal from We..t Virginia und Maryland to Now l'ngland, and the manufacturers of Now England and the Pacific coast ought not to be taxed heavily for the benefit of their pockets. N.Y. Times. Tli- ItH-om? Tiur. The senate will bring itsulf much nearer to the people by u prompt majority for the income tax. St Louis Post Dispatch. The proposed assessment on incomes for raising revenue for the government would be a rich man's tax. Toledo News The eastern democrats will have a larger responsibility in defeating the tariff bill with the nicoino-t ix iiie.ismi attached than they would have in opjKising the income tax as a separate measure. Atlanta Constitution. The question lias been raised as to how the imposition of an income tax will affect the conduct of impecunious foreigners seeking the hands an 1 fortunes of American heiressis. This is a matter worthy of congressional investigation Detroit Free Press A fairly laid income tax Is the most just tax that can i levied by the government. Who has a greater interest in the execution of laws for the protection of property than the rich man with a big income, and who is bettor able to pay for the protection lie gets than such a man'.' Fort Collins Courier. The jwoplu are becoming very tirod of seeing nil the national revenues raised by taxes on consumption, so that an income of f 1,000.00.) a year pays Its percentage only on what one man oats and drinks and wears, while n thousand incomes of ? 1,000 each pays on all that a thousand families eat and drink and wear. San Francisco Examiner. It will be noticed that the manu facturers who reduce the pay of their employes "on account of the Wilson bill" always forget to reduco tho prices of their products. This Is tho McKinley idea of protection to American labor. World.

FASHION LETTER. Ab RmbarrmiHifnt of Klrtiri Dainty an4 Ksqulaite Array of Mltl-uiiiHier Atttr MntrrUla for Drr-. Htc. (Social Now York Correspondcnco.l The shops aro glowing wdth an embarrassment of fashion riches, including a dainty and exquisite array of midsummer attire. Organdies, Mario Antoinette muslins of tho finest texture sprinkled with tiny bouquets of loveliest llowers. French batistes, India lawns, zephyr fabrics, etc A season of cottons is already ussurcd, judging by the largo advance sales of theso beautiful textiles. Moreover the summer fashions, as well as thoso now adopted, can bo most charmingly and effectively enrried out in these soft sheer materials. Tho full round waists, the distended sleeves, flowing skirts, shoulder frills, bretelles, plastrons, collarettes, jacket-fronts, guimpes and all tho other taking llttlo et cetoras of the summer toilet will bo seen at their very best in the airy goods, and semi-diaphanous fabrics of the hot weather season. Dainty tints that look cool will bo tho most used in making up now toilets of cotton. Their favored trimmings aro insertions and edgings of lace, lace, lace, ad infinitum, varied only by colored embroideries, and white embroideries that resemble open-patterned luce in

their design. Un toilets that are intended to be worn the summer throug h, withou t w ashing, ribbon garnitures will be added to those of lace. Dresses of creamw h i t e ground with uniniy coi-i ll Lit it L terns will be trimmed with satin or moire ribbons the color of the design, while pretty contrasts of color will be used in silk or velvet, as a lilac creped gingham with reseda stock collar and girdle, or n sago green cotton crepon with cicl blue stock and belt i Some of tho dressy skirts for summer nre accordion plaited; others show a simple gathered round skirt, with deep hem turned q on the outside. Triple flounces of dotted Swiss muslin, plain or flowered, are set upon narrowly gored skirls of undotted, unpatterned Swiss muslin, the flounces edged with lace insertion. Added basques and panier effects, jackets with shirt waists beneath, also panels and overskirts bot h long aud short arc the height of fashion. Cream, ecru, black und buttercolored laces iu scores of lovely patterns and styles, also Irish linen edgings, insertions, borderings, shoulder, neck and sleeve pieces will bo used to trim uvery sort of summer gown excepting those which emanate from the tailor for strict utility uses or those of linen and duck in white, tan and ecru. The new models have much shorter coats than have been worn for months past, and have open straight fronts and rovers, the back fitted closely to tho waist line, and very full below. A shirt waist invariably completes the costume. Just now serge aud sacking skirts, with capo en suite for street wear, ure worn with serpentine waists of changeabie silk or striped or dotted satin. Short jackets arc made w i th revers that widen to for m a deep collar across tho back, which is deeper 3et over the sleeve tops. i.J.'.W.,;,,', i.'l f n il .rc AY.t ?.., y.'Mt.'.S " "t y rM-&&,?2$j0lr finished wit ith rows ot silk atitching and rely upon the silk shirt waist for the only bit of brightness abcut the dress. Draped skirts are being developed in the most graceful manner possible, though many women who lind the plain skirt more becoming Mill elect for it, und while the gored skirt is an ideal one for a short, stout figure, the modiste can greatly reliuve the monotony of this Fovere skirt for her tall, slender patrons by the addition of flounce, overdrapery, tunics, basques, etc. Matrons cling to tlie longer skirted coats, while younger women and girls profe- for next season the shorter jacket effects, which afford nn opportunity for wearing the very natty shirt waists and blouses that aro to rage more gencralby than ever. Hathcr wide milliners' folds, pipings and gimps of every color and effect, plain, jotted, beaded, spangled, iridescent, etc., are used on stylish spring gowns. Taffetas take the lead among the popular silks for this and the coming season. The variety Is simply endless, but the shot, dotted, flowered und Kutiu-stripctlpatturus find immense sale. Hlack and white mixtures in dress have lost none of thu great favor extended to them Inst year, for they appear among the very highly-favored color melnnges of the season. Honnets are mere baby head coverings, but hats uro largo and showy. Luce mid rarest French llowers aro tho chosen trimmings for "dress" headcoverings, but on toques, tuvbans and tiny Princess Maud bonucis for traveling, shopping and the like, ribbon loops, rosettes and spreading Alsatian bows, made of beautiful fancy ribbons in satin, niolro, grosgrain and sho. nnnure, avu tbu "leaders.'

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ROTATION OF CROPS.

Cta petit Ion ef Null and Way to MtW Ulii Their rtllltjr. As the result of the analyses of ISO samples of soils, the Minnesota vtation. has issued a bulletin of which the folj lowing is a summary: " 1. The eoatiaaed cropping of soils to grain crops oaly without any system ofj rotation or other treatment is telling severely upon the original stock of halfj decomposed animal and vegetable matters, and nitrogen. Soils which havaj produced grain crops exclusively for ten; or fifteen years contain from a third toa half less humus and nitrogen than adjoining sods that have never been1 plowed. a. Soils which have been cropped until tho organic matters and humus have been materially decreased retain less water and- dry out moro rapidly than when there is a largo amount of organic matter present in the soil. a. Soils which arc rich in humus contain a larger amount of phosphates associated with them in available, forms than tho soils that are poor in humus. 4. Soils which are rich in humus and organic matters produce a larger amount of carbon dioxidu that acts as a solvent upon tho soil particles and aids the roots in procuring food. 5. One-half of a sandy knoll, heavily manured with well-rotted manure, contained nearly a quarter moro water during a six weeks' drought than tho other half that received no manure. 0. Tho supply of organic matter in the soil must be kept up, because it takes such an important part, indirectly, in keeping up the fertility of. the soil. A good system of rotation, including sod crops and well-prepared farm manures, will do this, and will avoid the introduction and use of commercial fertilizers, which are now costing the farmers of the United States over 135,000,000 annually. It will not do to wait until this question forces itself upon us. 7. A rotation of crops will soon be necessary on account of the peculiar composition of some of the soils and the corresponding sub-soils, especially those in which the surface soils aro richer in phosphates and nitrogen while the sub-soils are richer iu potash and lime. Hy means of rotation, tho full benefits of the strong points of both the top soils and the sub-soil will be secured. FOR HAULING HAY. A. Cheitp and Simple Hack and Home of Ita AriTantngr. The hayrack shown in the Illustration Is one which I used last summer. It Is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide. Twoinch lumber is used or the sills and cross pieces, the former being 8 inches and the latter Ü inches in width. Three boards are nailed or bolted on top of the cross pieces on each side of the rack. A -x4 scantling long enough to reach from the outer edge of tho rack to the inside of the boards is bolted edgewise on top of the two hiad cross pieces. An inch strip must be placed upon the hind cross piece tobriag it up to a level with the one in front of the hind wheel. The cross pieces are now high enough so that when tho boards are placed upon them they will lie out of the way of the wheel. This makes a rack which is nearly level, being only 4 inches higher behind than in front This rack is advantageous in that the distance between the sills is smaller at the front end than at the rear end of the rack, thus allowing shorter turns .hau when they are made parallel. In in 1L 3E

A HAYRACK. order to keep the rack in placo a fals bolster is bolted to it which fits on to the front bolster of the wagon. The false bolster is made of hard wood. In front the sills are ItHj inches apart from outside to outside, the distance at the other end being IK) inches A A represent the roller upon which the front ladder is erected; H 11 the rear ends of the sills; a the false bolster and b is simply the hind bolster of tho wagon. T he lower figure to the right represents tue front ladder. Thu lower figure to the left represents the hind ladder which should not be more than :i feet high in case a hay loader is to lie used. It Is simply bolted to the sills. Orange Judd Farmer. An Inii..rtniit (Juration. The most searching question fop ever3 fnrnier to ask himself is what proportion of good land on his farm goes to waste. It only needs more capital per acre to bring up the productiveness of these waste places so that they will equal the best There is always profit in good land well cared for. Tin failuies In 'fanning invariably result from trying to cultivate land that has not been brought into condition for profitable cropping, or elso from trying to cultivate more land than could be kept well tilled. Them is no profit from halfway work on th farm. Ilowtn ICil llojfl I.I p. These troublesome parasites laay be destroyed by tho use of the kwrosenu. emulsions applied freely to tho animal mid brushed well luto the skin with a stiff brush. This emulsion is thasmade: A pint of kerosene oil. is added to a ho solution of common or soft soap, in hot water, in the proportion of half a pound of the soap to a pint of water. ThU mixture is kept for use in a liottle. For use take out pari of it and dilute with three of water, cold or warm. This may be applied to any animal without stny ill results, and Is aspeciflo for llco and other skia vevtnin. Türe kerosone must not be apoHed to skia m it will cause bllstera. i f

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