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Show FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. Coma Hint l'p-to-D- About TO Caltlva-tlu-n of tli Hull and VMilt Tliarauf Horticulture, Viticulture and Flurl-sullur- IV tutor e. Protrrtlou of tho Pouch. I MEROUS experi- ments in protecting the peach against winter killing have been carried on. at the Missouri Experiment Station during the past two years. The results of these trials are reported by lYof. J. C. Whitten in bulletin thirty-eigof that station. The bulletin is illustrated with cuts showing different methods employ d, and is for free distribution among the peach growers of the Mississippi valley. In this latitude, winter killing of the fruit buds of the peach is usually due to the unfavorable effects of freezing, after they have been stimulated into growth by warm weather during winter or early Bpring. It is seldom that the temperature drops sufficiently low to Injure dormant peach liuda. Peach fruit buds may safely endure a temperature of 10 or 20 degrees below zero, provided they mature well in autumn, are entirely dormant, and Zero the cold comeB on gradually. weather may kill fruit buds that have swollen during previous warm days, or that were not properly ripened in autumn. The early swelling and growth of the buds is due to the warmth they receive from the sun on bright days, is practically independent of root action, and may take place on warm, sunny days in winter, while the roots are frozen and dormant. Shading or whitening peach trees to prevent their absorbing heat on sunny days, opposes growth of the buds, and is, consequently, a protective measure. Whitening the twigs and buds by. spraying them with lime whitewash is. on account of its cheapness and beneficial effects, the most promising method of winter protection tried at the station. These whitened buds remained practically dormant until April, while unprotected buds swelled perceptibly during warm days late in February and early in March. Eighty per cent of the whitened buds passed through the winter safely, while only 20 per cent of the buds escaped winter killing. Whitened buds blossomed three to six days later than unwhitened buds. Thermometers covered with material the color of the peach twigs registered, during bright sunny weather, from 10 to over 20 degrees higher than thermometers covered with white material of similar texture, thus indicating that whitened peach twigs might be expected to absorb much less heat than those that were not whitened. The whitewash used was four parts of water, one part of skimmed milk and enough freshly slacked lime to make as thick a wash as could conveniently be pumped through a Bordeaux Epray nozzle without clogging. This wash was sprayed on the trees by means of a bucket spray pump. The first application was made the last of December anil three subsequent sprayings were necessary to keep the trees thoroughly coated until spring. The cost for material and labor is about 10 cents per tree, when done on a small scale. Shading the trees with canvas hay covers was about as beneficial as whitening, but was more expensive. Baling, by drawing the branches together in a vertical bundle and covering them with coarse grass and corn stalks, protects the buds. Old trees with stiff branches cannot well be treated In this manner without injury to the branches. Layering," or bending down the trees In autumn and covering them with earth, baa proven beneficial. Shading the trees with broad sheds enabled peach buds to survive the winter uninjured, when 80 per cent of unprotected buds were killed'. Trees protected In this way blossomed later, remained in bloom longer, set more fruit in proportion to the number of apparently perfect flowers, and held their fruit better than any other trees on the station grounds. This is the most effective means of winter protection tried at the station, but ft is probably too expensive fur commercial orchards. ht The Fmnnrre anil llemlnrk. The Timberman says: The farmer of th United States has gotten beyond the point where he wishes the cheapest thing, simply because it is cheap, but he, like every sensible man, wants the most possible for his money, with due consideration to a reasonable profit to everyone legitimately engaged in manufacture or trade. Economy in buying depends not so much on the actual price as upon the peculiar adaptability of the thing purchased to the purpose for which it is intended. The wider acquaintance the lumber buyer or consumer has with different varieties of woods with their peculiarities of strength, durability, workable qualities, etc. the more eeonomieally he will buy. Having such knowledge, he m a will find sometimes that the more eort ly article is really the cheaper, or be may find that the cheap articles may, for certain uses, be as satisfactory as the more expensive one with which he Is acquainted. To the farmer, hemlock, which la a comparatively new material in the West, should appeal with special force because of its peculiar adaptability for certain classes of construction combined with cheapness. It is actually better for some things than white pine, and yet can be had at a much lower price. It Is better for some things than yellow pine better, in fact, for corn cribs than any other material. We do not know that many farmers will see these lines, but certainly many retail dealers will, and they should have much Influence with their customers. Hemlock lias the advantage of being both strong and stiff; that is, it is capable of bearing a heavy strain and of niit yielding :o it until the breaking point is closely approached; therefore, for framing material it Is unexcelled. For mud sills and in situations where It is subject to alterations of moisture and dryness, hemlock is found extremely desirable. Therefore, to a large part of farm building construction It is peculiarly well adapted. In sections of Iowa where it has been thoroughly tried hemlock is given the preference for barn construction. It is a little late In the season to talk about corn crib material, and yet the attention of the farmers should be called to the fact, supported by much irrefutable evidence, that rats and mice will not attack hemlock, and so cribs built of it are rat and mouse proof, except as the rodents may find their way through openings Into cribs. They will not make an opening, however, and this fact should commend It for this purpose to the farmers. Hemlock is still a cheap timber in the West, and lumber consumers should be given the advantage of this fact, that they may use it wherever it is possible and economical to IN TIIE ODD CORNER. together. leaf blossom, liy tho Indus once we srew. nil In But at last I stand heslile you. And the fate which long denied you Yields, in recompense, a dearer Incarnation then my dre:im. What I Bought to what you are, love. Was as twilight to the star, love, Aa the languor Is to summer, aa the murmur to the stream. In St. the Niivi'IiiInt Nicholas A Baby Elephant, an article mi Fit lfny Dixon. Mr. Ilixmi says: p It arrests the conversion starch into grape sugar by disease During the past twenty-livyears there and pancreatic extracts. Its action be- have lieen centennial celebrations of muuy mentation. of e bullies, and of other events cimimctcd with tho fiiundat ion of the republic; but nniie lias greater sigiiiticauco fur us, as a nation eumbln of defending our rights and of resisting pressure from without, than tho cent nary of tho launching of tho famous frigate Constitution in liostod on October 91, for she murks tlie beginning of our navy. Apropts of this iiiik,rtunt event the November Atlantic contains a highly in terr sting and timely article by Ira X.IIoliis. formerly of tlui United States Navy, narrating the brilliant exploits und s ucliicvcnieula of this frigulo ; a, T Rome Odd. Signs. tinsmith near Exeter, England, has a sign which rears, "Quart measures of all shapes and sizes sold here. At a market town In Rutlandshire, 'the following placard was affixed to the Bhutters of a watchmaker who had decamped, leaving his creditors mourning: "Wound up, and the mainspring broke." Equally apposite was one in Thomaaton, Ga. On one of the principal streets the same room was occupied by a physician and a shoemaker, the disciple of Galen in front, while he of St. Crispins trade worked in the rear. Over the door hung the sign, We repair both sole and body." On the windows of a London coffee-roothere appeared the notice: "This removed upstairs till repaired." The proprietor of the place was not an Irishman, though the framer of the notice over the entrance to a French burying ground, Only the dead who live in this parish are burled here," must have been. One may see in the windows of a confectioner in Fourth avenue. New York. Pies Open All Night." A Bowery placard reads. Home-MaDining Rooms, Family Oysters;" while a West Broadway restaurateur sells Home made Pies, Pastry and Oysters, and still another caterer, on East Broadway, retails Fresh 'Salt Oysters and Larger Beer. Boots Polish Inside," is a frequent sign In New York, and on Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, there is a Stationary he latter is really a circuLibrary; lating library, and the word Stationary adorns one window and Library" the other. Philadelphia has a sign reading Ho Made Iles! and a barber shop In the same city bears this Inscription on its window, G. Wash-to- n Smith, tonsorial abattoir." Demo-resMonthly. A I m coffee- -room world-famou- uiul ence ts Health Meter fnr lllryrBst. An ingenious Frenchman has invented a health meter that is attracting considerable attention from leading j influ- g u nation. To men (plain enri'kqie). ut . DR. G. W. SHORES. ns fit lest Speeislls la Iks West. MENlSSI DOLLAR NEED BE PAID UNTIL YOU K CURED the chirken stands erect the extra legs project at right angles to the other U. W. 8IIOHKH. always seeking From that toDU. legs to the first joint. help suffering mankind, always trying repoint they hang downward, terminating in a pair of perfectly formed feet. The possession of four feet is not the only unusual feature in which Prof. Sukhis curiosity rejoices. It also 'has two tails. ed How Bill FUh fist TlirrSi scientific and medical men abroad. A party of Philadelphians recently There are several variations of the returned from an excursion through machine, one form being much like a Wyoming are still talking of a steam-bobracelet which is fastened to the wrist. ride they eujoyed on Yellowstone There are two thin strips of metal surlake, which is one mile and a half rounding the wrist. Between them is higher above the sea lcvc than is this the mechanism, which is affected by city. The lake Is of clear cold water, changes in the patients health, and and well stocked with fish, though 7,740 thus records them on a tiny roll of feet above the Atlantic ocean. paper, which is taken out and InspectThe tiny steamer Zillah makes dally ed by the physician at his leisure. runs of 35 miles up and down the lake. Dr. Odiardy, of Paris, who has given Storms that rage with great fury are more attention to the meter than any frequently encountered, but the gorother person except the inventor, is geous sunsets on clear days are greatly using the machine to determine the admired. Big game is plentiful in that effect of riding a bicycle. He first region, and bears and antelopes can uses the meter to learn the exact state frequently be seen from the deck of of the patient's health, then instructs the steamer. Philadelphia Record. the patient to take violent exercise by riding a wheel or a stationary exerciser The official reports show that the in the form of a bicycle. When the highest temperature evpr in rider is exhausted the meter Is again California was 130 degrees, this being adjusted and its condition noted. Dr. at Mammoth Tank, in the deert ol San Diego rnunty. Clrii to it Odiardy says that he thus obtains nn Insight into the condition of the pa- was 128 degrees at Indio, In tho same tient that he sciTd get in no other way. county. ut j ciiiphusiiug their uniii our destinies its Frets lniMirtaiil Information, How after ted fruitless iloctoinig, I was fully roThey have many curious things over years' to full vigor ami robust tnaiilumd. in India aud cacaalunally some of them stered Nil C. O. D. fruud. Nn money accepted. find their way to this country. The No connection with mmllcul concerns. latest to reach Philadelphia is now In Hunt absolutely 111.free. Address. Lock Box Send Chicago, stamp If the possession of Prof. Uabu II. Sukhl, 2hK, convenient. whose birthplace was Agra, in India, but who for several years has claimed It is a Philadelphia aa his home. chicken. Seen from in front it looks like a plain, ordinary pullet of the Plymouth Rock variety. But it Isn't ordinary by any means. Aa in the case of other members of the poultry family, the chicken stands on two legs. That is, when it wants to. When it takes a notion to stand on four, however, it can do so, for it has them. Growing from the top of each of its normal legs is another leg, not so large, quite, but just as perfect. When Pour Legs to One Chirk rn. de : by F. never-faili- ing directly opposed to the process of digestion, is a reason why its use is being so general condemned. In France,' Spain, Italy, Austria and, the South American states having pure food laws, its sale has been forbidden. Its use in food is prohibited in 1'ennsyl-vuniby decision of Mr. Wells, the Tet, if fate reserves Us malice dairy and food commissioner. A large But to break the lifted ehaliee, number of the preservatives on sale, Let me mingle with the elements where claimed to be harmless, contain saliouen whs a part; cylic acid as the chief ingredient. If Then, on some supernal morning Which your Is adorning. pure fruits and vegetables are sterilizAs a dewdrop in a Illy, I fnqy nestle In ed by heat and canned properly, the your heart. careful housekeeper need not use any Charles J. Bayne, In Cosmopolitan. of these compounds. j there is p And since age on age has perished But to bring the soul I cherished. Wherein thought and feeling, blended, are as iietal and perfume; Let us linger here furiVi-rWhere the pride of all endeavor Is a fervor which to passion Is as glamor unto gloom. In preparing soil for setting oin trees, the whole surface of the ground should be worked to an equal depth. If only the ground where the tree is, be set be worked up, it will form a cavity where the water will collect aud imperil the life of the tree. tion for every other mind which loves truth honestly. Thomas Carlyle. ed The wonderful power uf tho trunk wans to in. Its extreme Kiicpi-isi- ' sensitiveness, un.l yet its great strctrrtli, showed how well siq piieii it uuist have been with nerves. It was ulways moving, always feeling nr Kiuclliiit- - nr rnrrying something, and the littlo sort of tiugcr-tiwould! the center of sensibility. 1 well Unit she would never ullow unto touch it, and guarded it with great call', folding it up if sin; thought it was in uuy danger, it is said by tlie naA Prohibited Ingredient. tives t lint an elephant depci veil of Ids Salicylic acid, as is well known. Is trunk-tiis like a man deprived of his a powerful antiseptic. In hinders fersight, so li el pi ess does it become. Was I stream when you were willow? Was I shell when you were billow? For your voice has ever echoed through the hushes of my heart; And It seems, as 1 behold you. That the very air foretold you By tlie fragrance which, in welcome, all the budding bouglia impart. rd I have always found that the honest truth of one mind' has a certain attrac- A 's en-ov- ed some half remembered measure which bus fa It false or Is It real That In ages more Ideal I was song and you were Sappho, you were a sunbeam, I the dew? For I long have felt the burgeon Of a passion vague and virgin Which you quicken to remembrance of a former life we knew. New Egg Preservative. - aroma rhymed me to youT M. t- llaflx came, or Orinar, To Impriaou the 00 one-thi- that And in Georgia. Bournouf recommends in a French Journal the following method of preserving eggs; Dissolve in two- of thirds of warm olive oil, beeswax and cover each egg complete- ly with a thin layer of this pomade with the end 'of the finger. The egg shell by degrees absorbs the oil and each of the pores becomes filled with wax. which hermetically seals them. M. Dournouf affirms that he has eaten eggs kept two years in this manner in a place not exposed to too great ex-- ! tremes of temperature. He thinks also that the germ may in this manner be preserved for a considerable time. but the idle 1 That J. II. Hale, the Connecticut fruitgrower, who has the great Georgia orchard of which much has been written, is preparing for another increase in his trees. Lust winter the orchard of 100,-0trees was increased by 50,000, and the land 1b being prepared this summer for the planting of 50,000 more this fall, which will be a practical doubling of the orchard, saye the Southern Planter. The increased plantings will be entirely of earlier varieties of peaches than are now In the bearing orchard and of Japan plums. The nursery plant of the company has recently been Increased, and now produces about 4,000,000 trees annually. Fort Valleys big orchard Is the greatest of its kind in America. It is a little southwest of the central part of Georgia, on the line of the Southern railway. The orchard, when the new trees are planted, will contain nearly 2,000 acres. A Various fancy Of mocking 2, g In Ui T 1-- Iesrh-Growin- FuubiI Trovuto. Horses, According to the department of agriculture from 1889 to 1893 the number of hprses In Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and ranges farther west, Increased from 1,479,798 to 1,972,-53about 33 3 per cent. The average price of horses in the United States In 1SG6 was $59.86, from 1S83 to 1889 from 870.59 to 874.64. the highest price being that of 8S4; and by 1892 the average value waB reduced to 895.01. After 1893 began the heavy decline. During that year the average price was 801.22; in '94, 847.83; in '95, 846.29; in 96, 833.07, qnd at the beginning of 97, 831.51. These cheap prices have checked production in the South snd EasL The department has the following reasons for considering the outlook encouraging. In the West since 1893 the number of horses Lbs fallen from 1,972.523 to or nearly 18 per cent. Exports to Europe have grown from 3,000 a year to 28,000 In 1896. The Western horse having cost so much of his value the ranges will be devoted to more profitable industries. The demand for certain better classes, draft and driving horses, good saddlers and cavalry mounts has a growing improvement. Blgae Place A Clilckea With Pour Health Meter for Bicycles Strange Place for Flab. do so. intnt Dam-roach- QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Rome Odd His Loriu-h- l spirit, young woman whose life was full of lofty ambitions found herself oocu-piday after day with disagreeable household tasks. As the future seemed to shut down hopelessly around these homely duties, the girl grew complaining and hitler. One day her fklher, who waa the village doctor, said to her: "Do you see those vials? They are cheap, worthless things in themselves, but in nap I put u deadly poison, in another a sweet perfume, tn another a healing inediciue. Nobody cares for the vials themselves, but for what they rarry. So with our duties, insignificant and worthless in themaolves, but the patience or anger or high thinking or bitterness which we put in them, that is the Important thing, the Immortal thing. A celebrated Frenchman said. "Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with a extraordinary spirit. Itssrd Manic Far A war. During the continuance of concerts at Willow Grove park during the summer season, which closed two weeks ago, a considerable number of people listened to the music regularly every afternoon and evening without being obliged to go out to the park at all. This was accomplished by the means of the private telephone system operated by the Union Traction company, says the Philadelphia Record, which spreads all over the city. Electricians filled up receivers in the band shell, eonueeted by a special wire with the telephone exchange at Ninth anil Dauphin streets. Then this wire was connected with other wires centering on the switchboard aud the music distributed as freely as possible. All the important officials of the company have private telephones in their residences, so the concerts were by the members of their families whenever they desired. In addition the operators at the electrical bureau, by connections wllh the traction telephone exchange, could listen to the music and give It to any of the city hall officials. and in the same manner the girl operators at the Bell Telephone exchange caught occasional strains of the music between hello calls" during the slack hours of the evening. All told, perhaps 200 people at one time could listen over the 'phone to the concerts being delivered by the orchestra at Willow Grove, twelve or fifteen miles away. re'-orde- ic-gl- on , I to con vines pcpls that ha gives value ceived tor every dollar paid him, has decided to give quackery, fraud and Improtect tho position Its ileaili blow, and suffering clauses freiu I ho despicable morholM of quacks and charlatans, liivcry sufferer from MAN HOOD LOST Ruminal VarliMoels, Ilyilrocfls S'Ph:IM. Gonorrhoea. Stricture, suuiil or shrunken oi'Kam. premature old ase snd ail other pnviitc whether caused by Ignorance, excess or conls-fo- n. no mutter how sevrre. you ran cinsult I'll. 9. V. KIH'KKK, tlie uhnsi-cis- n who lius given his life to curing rhmnlc disease? and lie examined, treated snd cured without paying Mm one dollar until the cure Is effected. 'I ne doctor reserv-- s the right, however, tu rcfi.e any ineiirubie case If fie can't rare you lie don't w.int your fiuuey. ch an offer was nsver before made by a respons.tile ph :in. Hr.d Ir. Cl. XV. Hhoree is only able to make It lwiusi he positively cures these dlseas-- s. Don't waste anutln-- r cent on auestlnnsbls doctors. but consult the "old Doctor" and be cured. Hllil.NErtJ RACKKDIA CONWt-ikne-ss, deu-tu-a- , hI, K-- FIDENTIAL. Dr- - G. W. SHORES. Salt fake GU:E Box 1585, City, Utah. YOURSELF! I riiM'hMiKt' fr HdimturM ItidBintimi taint, or ulTuUn iift Ilf III U C U U B ttll'llll r!lcH, J'flllllvM. Mid llo fcjtlrill- - irrilaturua THtEuiCHisiuiCa K'"i of pi'iHini'u.. Mold by llruirlik, 'or sent In plain esitr-nrali. tur ft nu, nr A Isitt Circular seat vs rvuucd r I, |