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Show strong in comb, kobc, color, Faadlae Cattle oa Molaaaaa. Crlary CilUN HlatpUHaS. AND POULTRY. hackle especially DAIRY undercolor dark a and saddle, At the present time, when the math-i-d In the bulletin published by the Wispreferred. To him mate bene of a of John consin Horticultural feeding cattle and sheep on straw Society with ind molasses is being widely adopted CHAPTERS FOR shade darker than standard, TO Rhodes writes as follows: This article INTERESTING MATTERS OF INTEREST small, evenly serrated standing combs; will be Interested to is Intended for the home gardener and AGRICULTURISTS. OUR RURAL READERS. a trifle brick on wings Is no objection, learn that in the fattening of not the commercial grower. Celery Germany as It will give a brighter color on wing cattle on molasses and rea which black peat mull," or Caltlva-Mo- a prefers deep loam, This Aboat the on Maw Illata IkM bows of the cockerels. Shafting liMMfil Farmers Operate on. In is moss, carried tains moisture sufficiently successfully but well, mt tha Moll aad Tlddi Department of the Farm A Few back will also help that black stripe Germany there is plenty of molasses drained to prevent saturation. As to from raised Vltlcaltare aud Hints as to the Care of Lire Stock In the saddles. The pullets obtainable at a cheap rate from the varieties, individual taste should be this pen will be too dark for exhiFoal try. aad Giant be sugar beet factories, but one of the the guide. My choice would In bition, but they will be a great help difficulties to be overcome was that Pascal or Golden Heart. Having pabreeding cockerels the next season. Tbs of finding a proper medium with tronized seedsmen to the extent of Mr.t.rioa. llara rirt. Temptations. male at the head of the pen mated to which to mix the HE Rural New finding something which suits, my admolasses. In order came to KD it pass produce the pullets should be from a to counteract the been baa seeds. Yorker vice would be to grow your own effect of the purging that about this pullet strain, and bred directly from treacle when fed to cattle in considercollecting and pub- After eating the tops, the roots may bs trifle a color is His time of the year a an exhibition hen. able quantities. It is found that the lishing experiences wintered In the cellar as easily as pocertain mau flndeth light, comb large, but evenly serrated; molasses In the German market on mysterious barn tatoes. These roots planted the followall the better; contain without if thin near the top, himself Area, among which ing spring, will bear seed abundantly, injurious salts, which are well striped, but none in saddle; hackle he and shekels, and followto the health of the beasts. prejudicial which if dried before freezing appear the casteth about that undercolor of hackle and saddle may In the course of a ing: kept dry will surely grow, and if no report on the subbows or white; wing he may have the be light gray set, the British While at a social other variety has been grown near It, consul at Stettin says: as to should show more purple than red, wherewithal The moss turf, from which the dust gathering recently, will be true to name. If more seed Is bred of being too much red shows signs or mull is obtained by being torn ufi purchase food and the question as grown than needed it can be put from a bricky hen. To him mate exhi- or teased out no flafor for raiment, used to queer by a machine for making origin through a coffee mill and bition females having light brown pen- moss lend would is man Our called a Wolf, is taken etc. plan litter, started, fires was meats, of voring soups, quietly ciled with darker brown on back and from the g on the to sow seed quite thick in drills and him mors until he first paid what was strata of upper land the free discussion shaftwings, all one shade, free from when due. of peat moors, ths and out. consists no do largely transplanting, but thin subject by those present, brought on wings. These dried but And as he gocth up and down upon ing on back and brick fibre of ths and unex- - an inch or two high, to six Inches out many startling the face of the earth, seeking how he hens should have the large comb, lying Sphagnum cuspldatum and the ;pected facts bearing on the subject apart The seed Is quite slow to gerover, but firm and strong on the head, latifollum. The following ars !The intelligent hostess related this in- minate and should be sowed shallow. might get gold without labor, he pass-et-h so it does not lie close to the eye and the advantages stated by the place of the man who aell-et- h by experimentcident : "My father was a great smok- We usually draw a line, mark along this face. The cockerels raised from ers to accrue from the use of momilk. ier. He smoked In his barn and out the line with the hoe handle, sow seed for use to breeding He atoppeth in the street, for behold mating are the birds lasses mull fodder: It Is 60 per cent iof his barn, and In all the farm aud rake It In. Thorough cultivation he of strife, and females the next year. By breeding cheaper than the best heareth sounds of the warned necessary, la Though repeatedly .through the summer when he goeth Into the house of the Brown Leghorns in this manner we food, and yet equal in nourishment; ,the danger of entering the barn with a keeping an earth mulch on the surface have two distinct lines of blood, and it tends to lighted pipe In his mouth, he gave but to conserve moisture. When the milk dealer he hedeth that the milk keep the animal In health, little heed. One Sunday mornings as plants are eight or ten Inches high, dealer refusth to take the milk that helps the digestion and whets the apthe farmer had brought, for it was 'be was preparing the team for the This petite; it is almost equal in nourishcommenced. be blanching may ment to, and is a good substitute for, church service, he noticed a thin can be done with boards set on edge, sour, and the farmer was exceeding wroth. column of smoke Issuing from between earth four-inctile bran; it prevents colic and other sickh it. heaped around Then this man goeth ir.to his home the cracks of the barn floor, A hasty slipped over it or common butchers paness; it gives a glossy, healthy apand aalth to his wife, Eureka, which 'examination revealed a fire well startwith pearance to the skin: in consequenci tied per wrapped around it and being interpreted means, I have a soft ed In the straw and chaff that had of the large proportion of sugar it exclusion main string principle being snap, and he telleth her to go unto the sifted down through the cracks. Ot of contains it acts as a stimulant, and the leaves should be compress- physician, and get an omer of a certain course he soon put out the fire, and ed light; Increases the working capabilities and to prevent earth falling in the cen- kind of acid. Now an omer is ten was frank enough to tell us all about stamina; with proper and careful usi ter or crown of plant During the cents worth. It, and admit that. In all probability, for .milk cows, it increases the producseason the leaves should not growing ten Then man boxes and this getteth a coal of fire had rolled, unobserved be tion of milk, while improving the qualentirely buried. One of my experiwriteth on each one Sweetaline, and by him, from his pipe and fell through ments Instead two-feity; when used for fattening, it intile use was to omer of of the a he putteth tenth part the crack and Ignited the chaff. Had creases weight, and Improves the flasmall of over t, plants, his acid In each box, and goeth unto slipped he failed to discover the fire just as he vor of the meat; it lessens the exwould stalks in leaf the the that hope the land of the farmers. did, the barn and all Its contents penses of the farmer, both in respect out of the tile two feet long and And when he meeteth the farmer, would, undoubtedly, have been des- grow to fodder and as a manure, the large inblanched. After gazing beautifully whose milk had been sour, he showeth troyed, as the entire family were Just to two the tile at short intervals for him one of the boxes, and telleth him FEATHERS OF BROWN LEGHORNS. proportion of alkali in the molassei ready to start for church. As father or three being especially advantageous in th the I plants to put a tenth part of the substance in weeks, thought often smoked with his pipe nearly upBuff latter; it will keep stored for an unThe be crossed. never should to Lifting seemed be down. they growing the box Into the milk, and It will keep side down, we all believed that to be off the tile to Investigate, every plant sweet for the Leghorn is the most recent acquisition limited time." The consul advises that space of three days. the true origin of the fire." Now let some caution Is necessary In feeding Imof was died found dead. Verdict, And the farmer paid the man an to the Mediterranean class. It Is the Intelligent reader observe this fact win will one beautiful and fence that pregnant animals, the maximum quanbird, Would prefer If the fire had remained undiscovered prisonment! ephah, which Is ten omers, and he did row wherever of Its bred. tity of molasses allowed for cows in boards way set on side unto his milk as the man Baith, and edge each until they were away to church, the calf being 1 pound to those held and have some birds many pounds pel admirers, Inches or three four apart, unto was sweet the behold It third day, barn would have been mysteriously In but for the first week from a are boards. bred them who have day, in the pronounced outside stakes by man place had said. as the of 'burned," and the finger suspicion Then after three daya, cometh again their praise of their qualities. Besides third to a fourth of a pound per head 'would have been pointed at some un- Tie stakes opposite each other, at the of per day should only be given until fortunate wretch, who, though he top a foot or more above first boards, this man and sayeth unto all the farm- having the general characteristics the animals become accustomed to th the celBuff fill around the Leghorn and type, boards between the Leghorn ers, why now trouble you yourselves to jmlght have plenty of sins of his own and food. hackle rich cock leaves has the with vessels wherewith the clean ery earth, confining you keep ;to bear, yet would be entirely Innocent cinnaof this undeserved approach. And It with one hand ana shoveling earth carry your milk to the city, or where- saddle, In shade from lemon to solid even color in of but with mon, keeping As the other. labor do the grows, milk Advice to Feedera. fore your celery you scrubbing would be something, too, that he could rest of the plumage; the back ,not shake off, for the whispered sus- more boards may be slipped between palls? Behold, for the sum of an ephah with the Denver Field and Farm says: Anenl bow exactly match the plum- the picion Is a dark shadow that may cling the stakes over the first boards and I will sell unto you a substance which and wing high prices now being paid foi age; tall Is of the same general tint. stockers and feeders, there to a person for life, observed by filled in with earth as before. The best will keep dirty milk clean. Is dangei ahead in the steer business. Too many everybody but himself. So much for time to eat celery is as soon as it is large enough. Not every one is born .the pipe. fellows are putting money in feedera with a celery appetite, however. My A young woman then gave this acFeeders are too high little old runt count: MA friend of mine left his lan- first attempt to eat the vegetable reTexas long horns sell for three, foul tern lighted In the bam one evening quired the fortitude which we pray for and five and sometimes as high as six when obliged to take a dose of castor cents. They will not fill out The jto aid him to put out hla horse when men who have theirs on their hands .he returned. During his absence, the oil. But public opinion, science and ibarn was burned and with it a horse, medical authority, had declared the are going to try to dump them on ths buggies, harnesses, market next fall, and there is going robes, etc. The aromatic herb to be palatable and carcass of the horse that was burned healthful, therefore should it go down to he a tumble. Do not get too many even if a ramrod be used in the profeeders on hand. Stock up your cow jwas found In a part of the barn quite distant from his stall. It was, of cess. Its taste daily grew more civilherds; they will keep year after year, course, very reasonably supposed that ised and agreeable. The rest of the and you can get something out of j .the horse got loose and, in wandering family took to it as easily as young them. It will pay better at the pres'about tha bam overturned the lantern, ducks to water. The children are now ent prices to raise calves to sell rather 'and thus set the barn on fire." A1 wide apart and have homes of their than to buy them to feed. Cattle are though there was no great mystery own, but if they come to us in autumn going to slump. Too many men have about the origin of this fire, it devel or early winter, they will have crisp paid too much for their feeders and oped food for thought, for, on further celery to remind them of joyous childthey are going to dump them at any inquiry, the fact was brought to light hood and buoyant youth. The plants price next fall. The market will be (that, though there was a considerable will not stand much freezing and for overflowing. The buyers will have 'insurance on the barn the company winter use should be carried down cel their own way. Mr. Cattleman will promptly refused to pay it on the lar and planted In boxes, with plenty get hla fingers burned. There will be of soil adhering to roots and filled beground of criminal carelessness, an auction sale, and the devil to pay Another member of the gathering tween, watering as needed through a at ten per cent, with a big cattle mortsaid: I set my lantern down upon the funnel or hose to keep tops dry. gage. You fellows think you are ibarn floor, where there was considermighty wise. Take a fools advice and able hay scattered about. A single go slow. Now is the time to buy cows Hlldaw. Gooaabarrlaa soil :stalk of the hay ran up through one and get a stool and a In Eurorule was the ago It long of the round holes in the plate bebucket that fruit gooseberries growing pean neath the globe, and touched the blase. I put it out quickly, but had could not be grown in climates suitfor the ripening of grapes, says Chlrken-Eatln- g Hogi i not noticed it as I left the barn able American Cultivator. The heat rewould doubtless have been mysteriousA chicken catcher in a herd of hogs the developed a is most exasperating and expensive, ly burned." So much for the lantern, quired forwhich grape crop the leaves of destroyed mildew, The genial host then related the most writes T. L. Irwin in Texas Farm One such will soon transform extraordinary instance that has ever gooseberries and prevented the fruit Journal. SINGLE-COM- B While rid- from perfecting. Thus England grew eome under my notice. BROWN LEGHORN COCK. a Into ravenous chicken herd whole quite a distance the gooseberry, while France, Italy eaters. ing with a friend troubled In this way 1 Being from home, said he. "a sudden and and Spain ripened crops of grapes. tried A leather blind the following: Is buff some And but of the farmers in the hearkened richer, deeper preferable, growing violent storm came up, and we drove, The American difficulty wide to cover both eyes and enough with ttye owners permission. Into a gooseberries comes from our hot, dry unto the man, and bought of him, but standard giving for tall a rich, deep long enough to come well over the face buff others or for do said: will not We bronze. The remain so, copperlsh wayside barn, which afforded conven summers, which are just what are behold we have from an old boot leg. The read that this substance der of the plumage Is of a slightly was cut thief lent shelter from the roplous rainfall needed for the vine. We have had va was then caught, and chicken Is that to sell of children. varieties you lighter shade, but even in color poison gooseberries followed. While there, the rloua new which ears the forward, the top corpulling But there were enough farmers, who throughout, with no semblance to horse fell to eating hay from the side claimed to be mildew proof, but wt were blind ners of the fastened to them cared not for of other peo- patchy or mottled plumage. White and the children of the mow, and pulled considerable have little faith that any will prove means' of pinchers and rings, such by to of of boxes numbers conditions when so ple, buy black favor in feathers large feet. mil plumage are objec- as are put in the snouts of Suddenly we entirely litter beneath his pigs to preheard something pop. and on looking dew. This, however, does not matter sweetaline, and the man got gold, yea tionable; solid white or solid black vent rooting. This blind will not premuch fine selleth his stuff he for the since Bordeaux gold, feathers so will disqualify the bird. The much, mixture, toward the horse's head we saw him vent the hog from seeing his legitimate unto this day. National Stockman. so a is hen same of proved which the has his for good color match from as cock. remedy the mouth, a drop biasing food, but It does prevent him seeing on the grape, la equally good pit fell into the litter at his feet and mildew unless they are under hla chickens Where shade cannot be secured from Standard Yarletlaa of Thickens. straightway began to blase up in the to protect the gooseberry plant from and then If he attempts nose, very enemy. same trees for your fowls, try planting In mating Brown Leghorns opposites dry stuff. Of course we quickly put It the chances are that he brings the pursuit out. It Is the unexpected that hapmust be considered. Should the male patch of sunflowers. Very soon the his violent contact with the in nose To Break a Kicker. If you have a be fine In all points except comb or leg ground will be completely shaded and fence or some other pens. Here was a source of fire so obstruction, strangely anomalous that, had it oc- horse that Is in the habit of klrklng select females strong in this point to it will be noticed that chickens prefer few such lessons and he concludes a that curred when no one was near, its true put him In a narrow stall that has both mate with him. The most successful sunflower seed to any other. he Is no longer partial to chicken, a origin could hardly have been guessed sides thickly padded. Suspend a sack breeders use a double mating, one pen Dont be afraid to let your poultry mouth of "leather specs cured oui at, and very likely It would have been filled with hay or straw so that it will to produce exhibition birds of each sex. hunt for their food. They enjoy the most ravenous thief, and by blinding of an incendiary strike his heels, and let the horse and Fine birds, both cockerels and pullets, called the work and it is healthier for them. only the ring leaders the whole herd with the sure result of accusing some sack fight It ouL Be sure to have can be bred from the same pen by using job was soon as docile as. well behaved so a with heinous crime, things arranged that the horse can- slightly different types of females. The Innocent person Wanteff To learn of some one whe porkers should be. Yet it really happened. The heavy not hurt himself. The sack will be same male often will breed the finest has invented a hen's nest one but that Incisors of the horse, closing sharply victorious every time, and in the end of both exhibition cockerels and pul- hen can get on at a time. will matchhead when refuse ignited absolutely the it, to kick lets. but it is s rare case to hare a feupon the horse Clean out the feet of every horse he quickly dropped It In the litter at the sack or anything else. Ex. male breed both sexes of a remarkable will make a better sale for eggs when the days work is done; brush It his. feet Bo much for the match. quality. Whei two pens are used, at if you will wipe all dirty ones with a the necks and breasts thoroughly, and After the garden crops are harvested the head of the pen mated to produce cloth before marketing them. if they are inclined to be at all' tenIn buying trees good roots are the plow up the garden and apply a good the cockerels place a fully developed Give the horses a few potatoes now der or sore, bathe with some cooline most important item to look after. cock with no serious fault, standard and then. dressing of well rotted manure. lotion. IFARM ANI) GARDEN. itock-owne- rs at Tharaaf--HortlrnUar- a, ! high-lyin- Erio-phoru- bulld-jing- s. reg-jul- ar et one-foo- Buff-color- buff-color- ed ed f three-legg- ed m |