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Show T .FARM GARDEN. (AND iMATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. Hint of tlio llortlrultro, About Moll nod Yield YllU'ulturo TO raltlvo-tlu- u Thoroof uud o. Flurl-euitor- taluo of Ilarajraril Manor. ILLKT1N 174, Ohio Experimental Station: In a newspa-po- r bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station (No.172) giving the a resulla of with fertilisers on the clay soil of one of Ita table was Indicated that barnyard given which nanure hud produced Increase of crop to the value of 82.50 per tou of man-us- e In the three grain rrops of a rotation, leaving the residual effect on the two grass crops yet to be ascertained. lly an unfortunate lapse of the mistake was memory, however, made of computing only half the quantity of manure actually used, as It had been used on two crops In the three years, namely, corn and wheat, at the rate of 8 tons on one plot and 4 tons on another on each crop, making a total application to the two crops of sixteen ions and eight tons respectively, and reducing the value of the increase due to the manure to about per ton. The manure used In this test had been accumulated from horses and cows In an open barnyard during the winter and summer previous to Its application, and was under, rather than above the average open yard manure In quality. A similar comparison of manure and fertilizers has been made at the central station, beginning Immediately after the relocation of the station in Wayne county, on the same cropB, corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy, grown In a rotation. Four wheat 'crops hare now been taken in this rotation, three crops each of corn and o&ts and five crops of hay, the meadows thus far being mown but once a year. Five tracts of laud are Included in the test, each tract containing thirty acre each and so plots of managed that each crop will be represented each season after the first rotation Is completed. At this stage of the work only partial results can be given, as a full rotation would Include five crops each of the cereals and ten crops of hay; but It may be useful to note the results already obtained, which are as follows, the value of the Increase being computed on the bases of 32 3 cents per bushel for corn, 25 cents for oats, 66 3 cents for wheat, 3 per ton for straw and stover and 88 for bay: The Mol. An English paper says: The professional mole catcher was quite an institution In my youth. Like poaching, bird-snari- and and wten Csh-netti- night-lin- e setting, spearing of salmon In the dose season, mole catching "ran in families, and I have known It to run through several generations. These men "went on circuit," and carried their implements of destruction with them, and undertook, for a stipulated price per dozen carcases, to clear the farm of moles. On a large farm where I was employed, a lengthy stretch of permanent grass and about thirty acres of arable land, lying between a wild moor and a large river, was "Infested with moles, and many a hard days work I have had In leveling the hillocks and. scattering the soil over the surface of the land. The farmer who employed me was greatly In advance of his times, and his theories as to the practical usefulness of moles, weasels, and almost every kind of wild bird, were the subject of much bucolic ridicule. That Is nearly forty years ago, and that farmer la dead, but not his theories. These were founded on long and close personal observations, and their absolute accuracy has long since been recognized by all Intelligent Held naturalists and agriculturalists. As far as moles were concerned, the land where they "most did congregate was naturally poor, but In course of time the moles improved it, and out of curiosity 1 visited the old steading and land last summer and found it rich. Infinitely superior in heart to that of many other holdings where the demon mole catchers were still employed In the expensive and destructive work. The chalk neutralizes an aelg-It- y, which. In most cases. Is the c arise of diarrhoea, especially In warm weather. The fermentation of the contents of the crop and gizzard is too rapid; thus It Is acetuous fermentation seta In, which causes Irritation of the Internal mucous membrane. Dry corn la very poor food for baby chickens. If they eat sufficient It causes too heavy thlrBt and Indigestion, sure precursors of this complaint. We have far too many fancy meals and foods In the market And sharps should be used with great care for the first month. During the last week the excessive heat will have had a damaging effect upon many things. I have known chlckena, ducks, geese, pigs, and even calves killed by too much heat. The system becomes so relaxed, causing much fatty matter to be liberated, which passes through the bowels, causing one of the worst dysenteries. My feeding mixture to about two months of age consists of oatmeal and flour (more of the former), a trace of chalk, or whiting, sulphur, and a little ground linseed. Boiled rice Is very good for a change. Although a chemist, I advise all to keep off medicines entirely aa long aa they can, and employ simple remedies only, for with chickens you only do more harm than good. Avoid leaving milk in the sun by all means, and you boil your wheat, feed off grass. In clean vessels, and upon no occasion feed two or three days off the same boiling; it quickly turns sour; but this can be avoided by It will plunging It Into cold water. thus keep sweet much longer. I never feed upon dusty ground, whether sweet or tainted. The former will scour, the latter simply courts disease In her numerous sluggish forms. flour. DAIRY AND POULTRY. CHAPTERS FOR INTERESTING OUR RURAL READERS. fii SnecwMfal Farmer Operate This Deportment of tbe Fanil A Few Hint ae to the Care of Lire Meek and ioultrj. floating a tiuml Cow, OllNSON and Ross were two general farmers that lived side by side. Each of them kept a cov, and each endeavored, beside supply- ing the family with milk, to make somn for sale. butter Johnson was one of the farmers that hie neighbors declared had been spoiled j by reading books on agriculture and ftgrlc iltural papers, lie had got, as Rosa expressed It, Ideas on farming In general and the cow In particular. One proof of this waa j,, fj,e axrtion of Johnson when he sold eff all the cows he had and took t the price and put It Into a single cow g of great milk and capacity. Ross said that this was a piece of foolishness that could have come only from Johnson! continual reading of agricultural papers. Anyway, every farmer knew that a cow was a cow and that was all there waa to it. and the man that would go Into fancy stock of that kind was simply wasting his money. Why, If he had d only put his money Into a hunting dog, there might have been The mole, like ourselves, Is not per- some reason to 1L Err Frerveil In Clay. fect it has more than one redeeming However, Johnson continued to milk LI Hung Both Chang's commissariat carIs a cow his vice;" but, taken as a whole, it and Ross did the same. friend of the farmer. It destroys a vast sent their butter to the same market ried with it around the world a supply quantity of Injurious grubs, and In its aad got about the same price per pound, lit Chinese preserved eggs for the Amsearchings for these Insects, It cer- as the butter Johnson made was from bassadors special use, writes A. Y. Those wontainly does injury to the roots of cer- only one cow and therefore could not Mersch In Farm Poultry. said derful my friend, Mr. Doyle, eggs, eals and other plants, more particular- well be sent to a distant market or to of the steward the wife Waldorf, at which LI In Is customers. when the soil light and Johnsons ly very dry fancy kept leather account of the receipts and expendi- stopped during his. sojourn In New seasons. The destructive jacket is a great source of Its subsist- tures in a systematic manner, and Mrs. York, are not so had after all. Here ence; It destroys mice, and It even does Ross, wishing to show that a common is one of them, he said to me, knowd ing that I would be interested In it, good as a kind of subsoil drainer of cow would do aa much as a the land. I may conclude with an ex- one, also kept account on her aide, showing me what looked like a piece of tract from a letter addressed some though Mr. Rosa said that that, too, pnmmice stone, but was an egg enyears ago by a Yorkshire farmer to a was a piece of foolishness. At the end cased In clay, which was given me by naturalist, a portion of of three months Mrs. Ross confided to one of the cooks, and may be a century which appeared some years ago in a her husband that the cost of keeping old for aught I know. This Is a preserved hens egg. The process of keepwork dealing with ornithology, ento- their cow had just equalled the while tbe Johnson cow had 81T ing them Is very primitive and simple, mology and mammology In relation to agriculture. To kill molea Is to leave or thereabouts standing to her credit. yet very effective. This Is the way It the corn and turnip cropa (upon light Rosa went oat into the country and la done: First the egga are boiled hard; paid 815 for another cow, and Mrs. then while they are hot they are wraplands, such as sand and deeply-soile- d Ross hopes were accordingly raised. wold land) to the ravages of the ped in soft clay and packed away. They the grub (cockchafer) and other But the two cows cost about doable the will keep forever. They were brought Insects. I farm, and have farmed, from eoet of one, and in two months more here in baga packed In rice husk, some a thousand to fifteen hundred acrea In he found from his wifes accounts that of which you see still clings to the different parishes, and have noticed the two cows had made a profit of only clay. These eggs are almost black, find that when you try to exterminate 81.S5, while the credit to the Johnson the yolks are green. They chop them cow was 829. Roes this time bought a very fine and decorate most of their moles, rooks, sparrows, etc., you hare but at the end of another viands with them, and they enter largefar more destruction of crops. An old came to me and asked me month the profit for the three waa but ly into all their sauces. The duck eggs whether 1 would have the moles killed 82.65, while the Johnson cow had raised ate from the Pekin and Muscovy land. I said, on If the limit to 833. Ross determined to breeds. They are first boiled, then preNo; my 1 had no moles I should have no beat that cow if he had to buy a whole served In a paste of charcoal which He said, You are the first herd, so about once a month he would hardens about them. These duck eggs crops. man whom I have heard say that, but bring home a new cow, generally are opened, split in halves and served He then proceeded to bought cheap at some auction. in the shell, and aa old as the eggs you are right. At thn end of eighteen months Robs I assure you that they are desay: I was employed by a gentleman, had a herd of ten cows, all working aa are, to had a who kill off I dont perfectly understand field, licious. test large, sandy this in observed that be will It faithfully aa they could to beat the the smaller application of manure has the molea. It used to grow nice crops, Johnson cow. The product was great- the difference in preserving hens egga and ducks eggs; but 1 mean to try an been relatively the more profitable, but though It waa so full of moles. I killed Increased in even volnme, ly though field never the on them this season, and them all, and grew any- one or two of the animals this may not be borne out by subsehad run dry. experiment of afterwards. The to will there At the apeak thing report my experience. quent results. But the expense of keeping them was baa been but little difference thus far grub, wlreworm, etc., used to eat the considerable, and it seemed to Roes H.trillnea and Climate. in the apparent effectiveness per ton, roots of everything that waa sown, and that all the money he took from the the young plants died off. or at the the northern section of the United In whether used at the n grocer he paid out again to the attention Bhould be given careful States rate per acre. The results show for feed, but this was not quite of breeds, says Poultry selection an Immediate recovery of about a dolthe so. Moreover become had a it great rryslnlllsliia Fruits. not matter to the should It lar and a quarter on tbe average In Few confections are more delicious burden with the Robb family to milk Keeper. some whether increase of crop, at recent prices, for than candied farmer particular breed cows ten twiee a day and otherwise fruit, and few sweetmeats every ton of munure used. But the are more expensive, 6U cents a pound care for them. Mrs. Rosa suggested may lay a few more eggs during the long continued experiments by Lawes being the regulation price, and a pound that they had better hire a man to year than another, as his object should and Gilbert at Rolhamsted, a descrip- represents a very small amount They help, but Ross winced at the proposi- be to keep only those that are hardy tion of which Is given In bulletin 71 of can be and able to stand the cold winters. In prepared at about half the coat, tion and said that the profits would not the Ohio station, show that not more iL At the end of warrant the time making a selection, the proper course at home, if care la taken. lf to the possible however, to pursue is to visit the yards of those than Cherries, currants, pineapples, apri- specified the Rosses took an account of who have fowls that have given good Increase from barnyard manure la re- cots, found and two cows that the last pears and peaches are beat expe- stock, covered in the first crops grown from in hla section, and In purchasresults a had investment and proved losing two former can rimented upon. The aim to select the most vigorit. We may therefore safely offset the be used In bunches; the stock now waa the balance Just a trifle ing pineapple is that residual effect of the manure against sliced that have small combs Breeds ous. books. side on the of the had bewrung It acioss tbe fruit, each piece the cost of application and consider the are ten which more cows the cost to heavily feathered should and actually h keep a quarter-incthick; apricots good immediate Increase as clear profit. In ing winter than will othin after had than better in, figurthrive they brought are cut on one sine and the stone slipanother experiment at the central stashould have also feed breeds the the of such value but that money ers, ing are and while pears peaches ped out; tion, potatoes, wheat and clover are halved, and, of course, peeled. had been raised on the farm. They been bred for vigor. It la of no adrotation, and In grown in a three-cro- p vantage to buy special Make a very thick syrup, pound for learned that the Johnson cow had inthis test the Increase from manure apher net 879.37 to creased balance when the awards have been for special a during small for each pound pound, adding but the birds plied to potatoes has reached 82.50 per cup of water. Boll the sugar first, then the eighteen months. This was the points in the show-rooton, potatoes being valued at 33 straw of sent nine last with Ross. He be bred, however, should pure have having when and in the fruit, they rents per bushel. Darnyard manure Is drop dolled clear take out and drain from his cows to the butcher and gave up stout limbs, deep breasts and eyes Inrelatively deficient In phosphoric arid, the syrup. If the cherries are stoned dairying except for home use. He says dicating health. It la the hen that lays as compared with ammonia and potash, make the finest, be- there is no profit In dairying, and he every week in the year, except when red and the experiments of the Ohio sta- (the not too sweet as the white and knows it by actual experience. Being hatching chicks or undergoing the tion indicate that phosphoric acid is ing without the rank tartness of the sour asked how It waa that Johnson made process of moulting, that pays the the constituent most needed on the mared ones). It Is nice to string them on so much from one cow he replied: "Oh, most, but such hens can only be. had jority of Ohio soils, but that It only a broom splint, as they can be more that was luck. by careful selection and due consideraproduces Its full effect In the presence easily handled. tion given climatic conditions and of ammonia and potash. The price of Diarrhoea and It Can. proper management. Sprinkle liberally with powdered suacid phosphate has fallen during re- gar, lay on a sieve and set the fruit in Having seen, under the above head' cent years until It ran now be bought a warm oven. 1 used a wire dish, such Ing, a letter, Many American weeds which are J. A. L., In your for delivery anywhere In Ohio, at prices as our grandmothers kept fruit in, set paper of Maysigned now neglected, according to a botanist, 12, I may Inform him which bring its actual phosphoric add within another dish to catch the syrup. there are several causes of to eat. lire tender shoots of are good diarrhoea, below 5 cents per pound, and as the In two hours turn the fruit, sprinkle writes A. are said to resemble In taste d Hemsley lu Fanciers Gazette, sprinkling of acid phosphate or super- with sugar again. Keep this up until London. The cause, whatever It may asparagus. Pigweed Is related to beets phosphate on barnyard manure Is be- the sugar haa all dripped out. On no be, only requires to be removed, and and spinach. The nettle, too, is declarlieved to have a beneficial effect In pre- account have the oven hot, as It will diligent search should be made for be well flavored, although It la It, ed to venting the waste of ammonia from the dry the fruit and leave it like so much before any good can be accomplished somewhat coarse and stringy. manure, it would seem that tbe use of leather. And, of course, the fruit must In the first place. If your runs are kept d add phosphate in this manner might be laid In single rows when drying. Garden. The stateA and your water tint clean, perfectly When the juice has evaporated and are filled serve tbe double purpose of preserving made at a farmers club In was ment once located and dally,' kept the ammonia of the manure and in- the sugar has formed a glased surface, In a shady Britain that the Income of one place, I advise a complete Great creasing the effectiveness of both Its put away in boxes In a dry place. Wax- change of diet, and give wheaten of ten acres, covered with garden bread ammonia and potash. Experiments on ed paper should be laid between each flour and that from 1,000 acres exceeded glass, prepared chalk a tablespoonthis point are now in progress at the layer. A bureau drawer Is as good a ful of chalk land of the country. farm best of the to a of oatmeal pound j pwM as any to keep them. Oh o station. with two or three tablespoonaful ol1 Ex. experl-ment- five-cr- op hlgh-ker-flut- ln ! butter-producin- high-bre- ELEPHANT AND BABY. Faithful Caatura Wuald Nat It Ita Clinrgo. We had three elephanta for out tents and baggage; and one dear creature used to feed from my hands eVery Aay and seemed as gentle aa any pet log or cat, saya a writer in Si. Nicholas. One of our government chaprasis waa particularly devoted to her and Invariably shared his meal of fruit or dour cakes with his dumb friend. On a particularly hot day, the chaprasi, to my surprise, placed his tiny child of 6 months at the elephants feet, warning her expressively that the infant was In her charge, and was to be cared for till hla return. I myself was an of her wonderful sagacity. Large banana trp'u and fig trees grew around, and, to my surprise, the elephant broke off one of the formers spreading leaves, held It like a fan In her trunk and from time to time gracefully, waved it over the slumbering shlld, whether to temper the heat of the atmosphere or to keep off the files I am unable to say. The gentle way In which she moved her feet over the child and across to each side astounded me. I sent for a white loaf and some oranges, and, calling her by name (she was never chained), tried In vain to tempt her to my side on the low veranda. Nothing would induce her to leave her eharge. The warm air and monotonous wave of the swinging fan overpowered me with drowsiness, to which I yielded, and, after a sleep of some duration, I was awakened by quiet, subdued snorts beside me. To my surprise, I found that the chaprasi had Just returned to his offspring and the elephant atood near the veranda beside me, patiently waiting and gently asking for the tempting dainties so bravely withstood for over two hours tf eye-witne- ss TWO ODD THINGS. Long Teetb ol Kabhlt, aad Vnlqne Weed. In accompanying picture la shown the head of a rabbit which waa found Widow' five-ye- ar one-ten- high-bre- well-kno- th lts, wire-wor- m, 1-- 2-- 820-co- w, mole-catch- er sub-stati- on on feed-ma- one-ha- two-thir- ds prize-winne- rs 1-- 3 ox-hea- bull-head- ed milk-wee- Well-Fille- ; WIDOWS WEEDS, AND RABBITS HEAD. dead near Stonehaven, In Scotland. Owing to the enormous overgrowth of the two lower Incisor teeth, the unfortunate animal had evidently perished from sheer inability to nourish Itself. A curious object is the "widow's weeds of an Australian aboriginal. It la the custom In one part of Australia, near the northeast bend of the Murray river, for widows to attend upon the tombs of their dead husbands. Then, after shaving their heads, they cover them with plpeclap, kneaded into a paste. The head la first covered with a net, to prevent the clay from sticking too tightly to the skin a misfortune which is partly averted by the amount of grease with which every Australian native la anointed. A layer of this day, several Inches in thickness, is plastered over the head, and, when dry, forms a sort of skull cap exactly fitting the head on which it was molded. Aa it weighs several pounds, the widows cap cannot be comfortable. These badges of mourning may he found lying about near the tombs, and until their real use was discovered, they were very mysterious objects to travelers. Convict May Tilt tha Soil. The convicts In the state prison at Michigan City, Ind., may be put to raising potatoes and cabbages. Warden Harley proposes that the state lease from Chicago men 1,000 acres of swamp land near the prison, on which shall be cultivated potatoes, celery, and othei vegetables in quantity sufficient to supply all the state benevolent and penal Institutions. Under the new labor law the 900 convicts will soon be Idle, and the warden believei the land would afford profitable employment. He has ascertained that the land can be leased for the Improvements the state would have to make on it anti-contra- ct Dor Sold by tho Fontid. There are In Dawson dogs of every kind and breed to the number of at least 1,000, and are considered valuable property. Singularly enough, they are old by weight, the ruling price being 81 a pound for all under seventy-fiv- e per pound pounds In weight, and for all weighing over seventy-fiv- e pounds. These dogs are all used for dragging loaded sleds in winter. One of the miners ventures the prediction that when spring opens there will not be a single dog left In Dawson, and that they will bring higher prices dead than they do now alive. Tima by tha Forelock, Murphy Domn It! I never can folnd a thing whin I'm lookin' for It. Mulligan Shure; that's always the case, an' I suppose the way to do would be for a mon to hunt up the things he don't want, when he ain't lookin' for 'em, an' have em ready. 81-5- |