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Show J.Z. ! The Bow of Orange Ribbon I A ROMANCE OF NEW YO&K Dy AMELIA E. BARR. Author ef Friend Olivia.- .- "I. Thou end the Other One." Etc. Copyright, 1886, by Dodd, Meed and Company. . d"M- - rnent that Katherine said one morning, at breakfast, Bram, wait one minute for me. 1 am going to Kip's store for my mother," At the store, Bram left l.er, and after selecting the goods her mother needed, Katherine was going up Pearl street, when she heard herself called in a familiar and urgent voice. At the same .moment a door vas flung open; and Mrs. Gordon, running down the few steps, put her haud upon the shoulder. Oh, my dear, this is a piece of good fortune past belief! Come into my I Oh, indeed you shall! lodgings. will have no excuse. Surely you owe Dick and me some reward after the pangs we have suffered for you. She was leading Katherine into the house as she spoke; and Katherine had not the will, and therefore not the power, to oppose her. She placed the girl by her side on the sofa; she took her hands, and, with a genuine grief and love, told her all that poor Dick had suffered and was still suffering for girls CHAPTER VII (Continued.) The word goes not with Disgrace' our name, Batavius; and what mean .you, then? In one word, speak. Well, then, Neil Semple and Capt. That Is Hyde have fought a duel. of giving way to passion, fought a duel. No one should it is a fixed principle with Week Old Cream. The buttermaking business of today is an entirely different proposition from what it was five years ago, as the hand separator has made it necessary to use many new and different methods than when nothing but whole milk was received at the In the first place, cream factory. which is a week old ought not to be accepted by any creamery, no matter whether it is a creamery or a central plant, Lut competition is so fierce that it is accepted, and this puts a premium upon old cream, because the farmer isnt going to deliver his cream any oftener than is necessary to enable him to get the same price as the farmer who delivers his cream daily. It is my opinion that it Is a mistake to mix week old cream with cream which is one or two days old, and In good condition, and I recommend that this old cream be pasteurized, heating it to as high a temperature as possible without giving the cream a cooked flavor, afel then cool It to about 65 degrees, then add a good commercial or home-mad- e starter and then cool It down to about 50 degrees. The churning temperature varies with the season of the year from 60 degrees In the winter to 52 in the summer. Care should be thou think? the Jew Cohen. He of all men, he has sat by Capt,, Hyde's side all night; and he has dressed the wound the English surgeon declared beyond mortal skill. And he said to me, Three times, in the Persian desert, I have cured wounds still worse, and the Holy One hath given me the power of healing; and, if He wills, the young man shall recover. That is Trooi- Neil! His fault, I am sure, it what he said, Katherine. was not Forever I will love the Jew. Though Joanna! Neil is nearly dead. If he fail, I will love him. So kind he is, had been in the right he would not even to those who have not spoken he nearly dead. The Lord does not well, nor done well, to him. her sake. At this moment the family returned rsake a person who is in the right Katherine covered her face, and from the way. morning service, and Bram sobbed with a hopelessness and aban, In the hall behind them, Katherine rather defiantly drew his sister to his don that equally fretted Mrs. Gordon. Btood. The pallor of her face, the side. Joris was not with them. He If I could only see Richard, only had white of to shoulders at Arms her the stopped King's hopeless droop see him for one moment! and arms, were visible in Its gloomy ask if Capt. Hyde was still alive; for, That Is exactly what I am going shadows. Softly as a spirit she in spite of everything, the young man's to propose. He will get better when heroic cheerfulness in the agony of he has seen walked, as she drew nearer to them. you. I will call a coach, the preceding night had deeply touch- and wre will go And the Englishman? Is he hurt? at once. Killed. He has at least twenty ed Joris. No one spoke to Katherine; Alas! Go I dare not. My father and even huher mother was annoyed and wounds. Till morning he will not live. my mother! It was the councillor himself who sep- miliated at the social ordeal through And Dick, what of Dick, poor which they had just passed, and she arated the men. Dick, who is dying for you? She went erit reasonable that him. the thought only ; My good Joris, It was like to the door and gave the order for a For a moment Katherines con- ring girl should be made to share the coach. Your lover, Katherine. Child, sciousness reeled. The roar of the trial. have you no heart? Put on your bonAs the time went on poor Katherine ocean which girds our life round was net again. Here also are my veil and in her ears, the feeling of chill and Van Heemskirk shivered and sickened cloak. No one will perceive that it in the presence of averted eyes and up- is collapse at her heart. But with a you. It is the part of humanity, I supreme will she took possession of lifted shoulders, and in that chill at- assure you. Do so much for a poor soul herself. Weak I will not be. All I mosphere of disapproval whjch sep- who is at the grave's mouth. And arated her from the sympathy and will know. All I will suffer. While thus alternately urging and with these thoughts she went back to confidence of her old friends and ac- persuading Katherine, the coach came, the room and took her place at the quaintances. the disguise was assumed, and the two It is thy punishment, said her drove rapidly to the "King's Arms. table. In a few minutes the rest followed. Batavius had anticipated mother, bear it bravely and patiently. Hyde was lying upon a couch which madam's amazement and shock. He In a little while, it will be forgot. But had been drawn close to the window. had felt a jjst satisfaction in the suf- weeks went on, and the wounded meif He was yet too weak to stand, too fering he was bringing to Katherine. slowly fought death away from their weak to endure long the strain ct comBut nothing had happened as he ex- pillows, and Katherine did not recover pany or books or papers. place in social estimation which He heard his aunt's voice and foot-fal- l, pected. The meal, instead of being the sbe had lost through the ungovernable dreadsuch over and felt, as he always did, a vague lengthened pleasantly ful intelligence, was hurried and si- tempers of her lovers in her advent. Whatever of pleasure But nothing ill lasts forever; and in life came into his chamber of lent. suffering It was some comfort that after it three months Neil Semple was in his came through her. She brought him office wan worn and with fever again, Joanna and he could walk in the gardaily such intelligences as she thought den and talk the affair thoroughly and suffering, and wearing his sword conducive to his recovery; and it must in a sling, but still decidedly he acknowledged that it was not alover. Katherine watched them away, arm world-lik- e and It was evi- ways her humor to be truthful. For and then she fled to her room. And that public opinion was in a large oh, how she wept! She took from dent Hyde had so craved news of Katherwith him, and though in the their hiding place the few letters her measure ine, that she believed he would die lover had written her, and she Middle Kirk the affair was sure to be wanting it; and she had therefore one conscientious mourned over them as women mourn the subject of a reproof, and of a sus- fallen, without of its highest privileges, yet in such extremities. In the full tide pension scruple. Into the reporters temptawas not to difficult feel it the symwhich of her anguish, Lysbet stood at the tion, inventing the things Joor. She heara the inarticulate pathy often given to deeds publicly ought to have taken place, and did words of woe, and her heart ached for censured, but privately admired. Joris not. remarked this spirit with a little as(To be continued.) her child. She had followed her to tonishment and dissent. He could not with to her her; weep comfort, give find in his excuse for heart either WHY HE LAUGHS AT DOCTORS. any but she felt that hour that Katherine Hyde; and, when the elder enwas no more a child to be soothed Neil or with some acerbity upon the With her mothers kiss. She had be- larged Representative Livingston of Georgia, Tells Good Story. come a woman, and a womans sorrow requirements of honor among men, offended him by replying: Joris Livingstone of Georhad found her. Representative I then, elder, little think of gia, believes that he got the better of It was near ten oclock when Joris thatWell, honor which runs not with the the came home. His face was troubled, surgeons this fall and he is conlaws of God and country. As himself accordingly. his clothing disarranged and bloodgratulating Let me tell you, Joris, the voice of a result of his arduous campaign stained; and Lysbet never remembe- the is of voice a in the God, people work he became possessed of a very red to have seen him so completely exhe measure; and you may see with your bad throat. It' refused jo yield to Bram is with Neil, hausted. ain een that it mair that acquits Neil Bald, he will not be home. ordinary treatment, so he went to a o wrong-doing- . Man, Joris! would And thou? distinguished surgeon in his part of sword-figh- t wi a fair the I helped them carry the other. To you punish The surgeon took a the country. hangman? the Inflamed organ and then at the King's Arms we took him. glance A better way there is. In the out his knives and prepared for Live will he? I would stand these men of got an operation. Mr. Livingstone deHis left lung is pierced through. pillory of own who their think honor, feelings A. bad wound in the throat he has. But murred. After much pleading he was more than of. the law of God. A hours in which to granted twenty-fou- r then, youth he has, and a great spirit, quick end that punishment would very put tighten up his nerve for the ordeal. and hope. I wish not for his death, to a custom wicked and absurd. While engaged in the tightening procmy God knows. Weel, Joris, well hae no quarrel ess another Neil, what of him? patient came along, was Here anent comes the Neil question. stretched out on the operating table Unconscious he was when I left and well let the question fa to the and died before the surgeon finished lim at his home. Does Katherine ground. There are wiser men than with him. Livingston heard of this inow? either you or I on baith sides. and stood off the surgeon on one preShe knows. nodded gravely, and turned Joris text or another until he was ready to How, then? to welcome the young man. More Just before O Joris, if in her room thou could start for Washington. ever he liked him; for, apart home he came upon an old lave heard her crying! My heart than leaving fiom moral and prudential reasons, it mammy who offered a cure for for her aches, the sorrowful one! was easy for the father to an negro his throat She soaked a lump of See, then, that this lesson she miss unreasonable love for his forgive Katherine. not. It is a hard one, but learn it she Also, he was now more anxious for a sugar in turpentine. The dose did all the old mammy claimed for It must If thy love would pass it by, marriage between Neil and his daughAnd that, said Representative Livthink this, for her good it is. ter. It was indeed the best thing to is the reason I laugh every The next morning was the sabbath, restore her to the social esteem ingstone, fully time I see a doctors sign. and many painful questions suggested of her own people; for by her making themselves to Joris and Lysbet Van his wife, Neil would most emphatically THE EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING. Heemskirk. Joris felt that he must exonerate her from all blame in the not take his seat among the deacons Just this far, and no farther, until he had been fully exonerated of quarrel. Completely Strips Bark From Tree had Neils three months suffering No Trace of Fire. of the blame all by now had full ne aided his the suit, That much valuable knowledge as dominie and bis elders and deacons in of Joris, backed the to the effects . of by Tull kirk session. Madam could hard- approval lightning may be weight' of this social justification. of the the endure glances gained by a study of trees that have thought ly But, In spite of these advantages, been struck by it Is maintained by that would be thrown at her daughter, away from many A tree scientists. English and the probable slights she would he was really much farther from Bram which stood for many years on the receive, so Katherines piteous en- Katherine. She had heard of the challenge and the side of a road a few miles from Waltreaty was listened to, and she was the story fight; heard how patiently Hyde had lingford, in England, was struck by allowed to remain at home. The kirk that morning would have parried Nells attack rather than re- lightning during a violent storm a !een the pillory to her. She was un- turn it, until Neil had so passionately short time ago and utterly destroyed. less than his Mr. Percy E. Spielmann examined It a speakably grateful for the solitude of refused any satisfaction the house, for space and silence, In life; heard, also, how even at the point few hours afterward and found that which she could have the relief of of death, fainting and falling, Hyde the bark had been completely stripAbout the had tried to protect her ribbon at his ped off and flung to one side, and unrestrained weeping. middle of the morning, she heard breast. She never wearied of talking that a large branch had also been thought torn away and splintered. He looked Brams , footsteps. Bram had not with Bram on the subject; she day, dreamed of it all night for some token of fire but was unable thought of Katherines staying from of It allBhe knew much more about it to find any. He noticed, however, And kirk, and when she confronted him, than her parents or Joanna supposed. that the inner surface of the bark his and eo heart was full of pity for her. With- Bram had easily fallen into the habit was marked longitudinally with thin hours he had of calling at Cohens to ask after his wavy lines, very close set, of which in the last twenty-fou- r to the understand temptation patient. At first he saw Mirjam often; the crests were about a quarter of an begun Inch apart. He took several photoIn which Katherine had been; begun and, when he did, life became a heavVan Heemskirk. graphs of the ruined tree and he reto understand that love never asks, enly thing to Bram What is thy name? Of what country Katherine very soon suspected how gards them as most useful, since they and show clearly the rending effect of art thou? Who is thy father? He matters stood with toher brother, talk with him lightning on a fibrous tissue. felt that so long as he lived he must gratitude led her remember Miriam Cohen as she stood about the lovely Jewess. Youth and Happiness. But for some weeks after the duel talking to him in the shadowy store After all. It Is open to dispute And this memory of Miriam made him she could not bear to leave the house, were whether or not people are happy It was only after both men very pitiful to Katherine. Every one is angry at me, Bram, known to be recovering, that she ven- when they are young. Only one boy even my father; and Batavius will tured to kirk; and her experience in town can carry water for the elenot sit on the chair at my side; and there was not one which tempted her phant; and he is oppressed by the Joanna says a great disgrace I have to try the streets and the stores. How- thought that his father will spring argumade for her. And thou? Wilt thou ever, no interest is a living interest In the "detrimental to morals also scold me? I think I shall die of a community but politics; and far ment on him just before the big show more important events had now the opens. grief." "Scold thee, thou little one? That I public attention. During the previous Perhaps, to dim It all, there Is will not And those that are angry March, the Stamp Act and the Quar- more pleasure in seeming young when with thee may be angry with me tering Act had passed both houses of you know that you are not than In Parliament; and Virginia and Massa- being so. also. Else why the complexion remedies, Bram! my Bram! my brother! chusetts, conscious of their dangerous There is one comfort for me, if I character, had roused the fears of the wrinkle chasers, and hair retainers, knew that he still lived; if one hope other Provinces; and a convention of to say nothing of false teeth and othef their delegates was appointed to meet falseness? thou could give me! What hope there is, I will go and during October in New York. It was drew Frogskin ' Makes Tough Leather. see, and, if there Is good news, I will this important session which healed Neil Semple, with scarcely the be glad for thee. Frogskin makes toughest Not half an hour was Bram away; wounds from his chamber. The streets leather known In proportion to its the hawkers with thickness. crying and yet, to the miserable girl, how were noisy with grief and fear lengthened out the mo- detested Acts, and crowded men discussing Come of Age Early. ments! When Bram came back, it groups of In Hungary the legal age of an them. was with a word of hope on his lips. It was during this time of exclte- - individual dates only from baptism. "I have seen, he said, who dost le life-lik- taken not to overchurn the butter, then draw off the buttermilk, add the wash water, revolving the churn two or three times, being careful not to roll the butter so as to make it chunky, then drain off the wash water and work the butter until the Ealt is entirely dissolved. I have made some experiments and at the present time am Investigating several new ideas, but, as yet, hone of them have proved a success, and If it is going to be impossible to force the farmer to bring his cream oftener than once a week, It is my opinion that in the due course of time our men who are inventors in dairy apparatus and dairy preparations will discover some piece of machinery or some chemical which will be of great assistance, Lut until that time our only salvation Is to labor with the farmer and show him how it is an impossibility to make extras out of cream which is a week old.-H. Brockway. Soil and Milk. The surprising assertion is made by an English scientist that the class of soil on which the hay or pasture grass is grown controls to a large extent the quality of the milk. Americans will be slow in accepting the statements in behalf of such a doctrine. It will do no harm, however, to note the points that the said scientist thinks he brings out. He claims, in the first place, that milk from grass grown on a limestone soil will be richer than on a clay soil, even though all treatment of the cows Is the same. But we have frequently noted that the English ctill have the idea that the richness of the milk continually varies according to the varying richness of the feed. This Idea is being constantly brought out In one way and another there, the local judges even letting off the milkmdn that sell milk Lelow the required percentage of solids, the milk producers having made the plea that the feed was poor in quality. Again, the man referred to declares that milk made on limestone soil will keep fifty per cent longer than that made on clay soils, other things being equal. He asserts that In the making of cheese the milk has to be scalded at not less than 108 degrees if it is made on clay, while if it is made on limestone soil the scalding can be done at 1(J0 degrees. He does not try to explain the cause of these remarkable differences, but guesses . s that perhaps the In the clay soil are different from the in the other soil. Unfortunately, the gentleman does not furnish verified data to prove his assertions. micro-organism- micro-organis- Feed Improves tear-staine- d stern-lookin- v?V Breeds. It has been frequently remarked that dairy breeds of cattls Improve when they come to this country. Major Alvord, on his return from a visit to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, said that we have better Jerseys and Guernseys than are to be found on those islands, they having Improved in our hands. Incidentally he mentions that the pasturage there Is high In price and the cows have to be tethered. This indiqates that they have not the abundance of food to be found in this country. Doubtless the increase in size in both Guernseys Is and Jerseys due to tneir more abundant supply of food stuffs. This indicates that we have the molding of breeds to a large extent in our own hands. One thing Is certain and that is that It does not do to starve animals in any degree. They may not show it at once, but it will appear In the course of generations. In fact, the Increase in size has been a matter of generations and not of a few years. It was not till the animals had been in this country several years that it was noticed that their size was surely inThis was more readily creasing. brought about naturally by the fact that the Jerseys and Guernseys that were first Imported fell into the hands of intensive feeders who fed them to make the most possible out of them. Had these animals been given the same scrub care that some of our animals receive they would not have shown the development that we now see In them. blood-guiltines- s The world has a good many scores of dairy breeds of cattle, few of which have as yet been imported Into this country. Without doubt this country .will yet become the battle ground of the dairy breeds. Almost every country of Europe has several breeds noted for dairy qualities. We will not possibly gain much by increasing the number of breeds; but the event is one that will occur in the course of commercial enterprise, g 1 White Plymouth Rocks. Location for Fruit Raising. The question frequently arises In In the raising of any kind of fruit mind, What advantage Is there the location cuts a large figure. It has been found that high land is best In raising the White Plymouth Rock? has for ail kinds of fruit. The cold air This breed, as developed runs off the tops of the hills and down so many good qualities that it would into the valleys, just as water does. seem that any one of them would be The old impression that valleys were sufficient reason for a mans breedwarm is not well founded. They may ing them. I believe that this breed Is be warm on a hot day because tne preferable to all others. I have been air is stagnant and the cool air from in the poultry business for thirty years and during that time I havs the open country does not so readily fan the cheek. But the winter time is bred, raised and sold many thousands of fowls, I have tried about every chiefly the time when we want a temperature that is mild. Things planted breed one could think of, yet non in the valleys are subjected to greater have given me the results that I havt obtained with the White Plymouth cold than are things on the hill tops. Rocks. One of the great advantages This, too, Is contrary to the old imin raising them is the large number Not till man had long obpression. There is ne served the effects of such planting of eggs they produce. fowl that will produce more eggs In did be come to the conclusion that twelve months than a Whit he had been mistaken in bis first conclusions. But he found that the corn Plymouth Rock. These birds mature was first frosted In the hollows and early, becoming of broiler size in six that bis fruit trees were injured in weeks, and the pullets begin to lay a five months of age. They are excel vhe valleys, while they were free from as market fowls and for the table, lent on hill him led the This injury tops. to make more accurate observations giving a full, plump, round carcass by the help of the thermometer. In The feathers from a White Plymouth the spring time also the fruits on tbe Rock command a price of from thirty cents per pound, low lands are liable to be Injured by two to thirty-eigh- t frosts for the reasons named. The while the feathers from a land to select Is the high land, as this fowl are worth only six to eight cents gets more sun and less cold than any per pound. This is another good reason other, though the wind may have a mouthwhy one should raise White PlyRocks. During the last five clean sweep over IL When the land 0 is a dead level it is of course of a years I have raised and sold over White Plymouth Locks, having uniform temperature. better It is than the valley and not so good as shipped them to nearly every quarter the hill, but makes a good average. A of the globe. Every person that breeds them likes them and they do well in man with a level farm need not hesiVarying Gluten Content of Wheat. every climate, proving them to be to tate that fruit in of any kind put The wheat grown in Manitoba and entitled to tbe claim to be tbe best conthe Northwest Territories in tLa sea- will grow, provided the general general-purposfowl. son of 1902 was a good sample and tour of the country Is level. Of course U. R. Fisher, surif the level a in is farm valley weighed well; but the millers were Bartholomew County, Ind. unable to make a strong Hour from it rounded by hills the objection that sina on narrow to the valley The bakers claimed that the flour was applies Ocellated Honduras Turkey. weak and would not stand the proper gle farm bolds good, In the main. The Honduras turkey was originally The should man to wants fruit that raise it amount of fermentation; and yet found wild in that country. It has seemed to contain a fair amount of have the advantage of hill sides, and If he has both southern and northern been described by travelers as most gluten. Complaints were so general beautiful in color, equal to some of that we were asked to examine the Blopes so much the better. The fruit the most brilliant of the pheasants. an the southern slope will be early find if out what flour, and, possible, nd that on the northern slope will The head and neck of the wild variwas wrong with it The analysis showety are naked, and there is no tuft on ed that the gluten was poor in qual- be late, on account of the varying the breast. The ground color of ths amounts of sunshine that are rvall-ablity. The gluten of flour is made up The ripening of fruit Is largely of two nitrogenous bodies, gliadln and The gliadin, or plant glue, a matter of sunshine. glutenin. There are parts of the country as it is sometimes called, is the substance which gives tenacity to the where the valleys are preferable to the hills for fruit growing; namely, dough. It Is due to the elasticity of this gliadin that the gases produced those sections of the Southwest where the amount of heat is too great for during fermentation are retained in the dough and the dough is said to the best results. Then by choosing rise." It the amount of gliadin is valley locations the moisture and the and cool temperature may be obtained. low, the gases break through escape and the dough does not rise The The Ferm Garden, Patent" grades of properly. flour always contains more gliadin We are glad to see that the farmer's than the lower grades, "made from garden is growing in popularity. In the same wheat, and, consequently, the Western states the farms were so are stronger flours, and the dough extensively devoted at first to extenbanded plumage Is a bronze rises better. On examining the flours sive farming that there was a time with gold bronze, blue green, and red, with made from wheat grown in the West when nothing but grain find cattle here and there a band of jrlllint black. in 1902, we found that they were all seemed to be thought of. Tbe farm- This variety has not been bred sucvery low in gliadin. Ontario Station. ers wife bad a hard time of IL Sbe cessfully as a domestic Variety in the had three meals a day to prepare for. northern climates. It id doubtful If it Cold Storage Plants. That made 1,095 meals a year and bag been successfully bred outside of There has been quite a furor for she had very little on which to draw Its native country. the building of cold storage plants outside of poultry, eggs and milk. It during the iast few years. Some took a long time to get the farmers Hit or Miss In Turkey Raising. years ago men made fortunes by away from their diet of fat pork and Many years ago 1 made the stateerecting cold storage plants and buy- bacon. But on millions of our farms ment that turkeys are bard to raise. y are nicely kept gardens. Tbe After twenty years of experience I am ing quantities of butter and eggs, which were carried from the housewife has only to step out oi still of the opinion that a Ug flock of doors to get a variety of vegetables at turkeys at selling time is just as it period of the year to the period. This of course gave almost any time of year, from April happens. In the last twenty jears 1 large profits. As was certain to be to November. Where fruit trees are have raised over 2,000 bronze turkeys, the case, other men saw the same added and a grapery tbe good things and perhaps lost half bat number method of getting rich and began to are continued Into the winter. The One year I would raise nearly all build like plants. This was all right getting of a meal is not now the batched, and the next year, with ths for some years, while the number of problem that it used to be. Some of very same feed and care I would lose plants was small enough so that the our farmers have not yet awakened half. I could not see why this should goods stored would not greatly af- to the advantages of this adjunct to be. It looked as if they had rather fect the market. But the building the kitchen. The lack is still felt in die than live. I kept the lice off, fed and now the products the more northerly of our states, them on wheat bread soaked in water, continued, stored compete so strongly with each where the climatic conditions are with black pepper and onion tops other that the margin of difference of somewhat against tbe easy manage- shaved fine, wheat, corn chop and curd prices at different times of year is ment of a garden and fruit planta- made from clabbered milk; and while greatly reduced. Reports from New tion. Science, however, Is working some throve others e. emed to die Jersey tell of ' a new cold storage on the problem even there, and glass from choice. But I was never so displant at Jersey City, which was built and winter protection are doing for couraged but that when spring came last year at a cost of 1300,000. Tbe the north what the warm sunshine is I was not anxious to try again for a establishment was perfect in every doing for the milder climate. Let good flock. I have raised as high as detail and the promoters expected every farmer put In a good garden 140 In a season. Then I thought I great things. But they were unable tnd make the lives of his people would not exchange my business for a to secure business and the enterprise happy. little gold mine. But at other times, went into the hands of a receiver. when I have had only 35 or 40 to sell Yellows. The plant was offered for sale at Fighting the in tbe fall, it was not so nice. It is The yellows of peaches is a disease no trouble to sell a fine bronze auction, with the proviso that not less gobthan $190,000 would be taken. Not a that must be vigorously fought If our bler at $5, $7.50 or even $10 these districts are to be re- days. I think it pays to keep bid was received. trying. ' tained. In some of the townships of I have bred that scored as turkeys Michigan there has been great slackKilling Rose Bushes. high as 97 points, and won highest From the Farmers Review: I have ness In this regard. Inspectors have honors in many shows. I am no ex- a piece of very sandy land. For rome not been appointed that the law re- ponent of "successful turkey raising time rose bushes have been working quires, and even tbe inspectors that and still think it hit or miss." into it, so that in places they now are appointed find great difficulty In Jennie Ferry, Lincoln Co., Mo. choke out the crop. I have tried to enforcing the law. Yet there is no disease and the only way To Get Eggs. exterminate them by plowing, but cure for this I believe that the best condition they dont die out and continue to in- to deal with it is to keep It away from crease. You may know of some way the orchards. Men have complained for egg production are those that exist to kill them out. They are the com- to the writer that the inspectors conwhere the fowls have free range, ' mon wild rose bushes and grow not demn as affected with the yellows thereby getting grass, bugs, worms, by bits of grain, etc. In the winter, o much over a foot high. Please let me trees that were only affected know if there is any way to get rid of drouth or some condition that made where fowls are confined, these food the leaves look as If they were af- elements should as near as them. N. Richardson, Morrison Counpossible fected by yellows. They thought It be supplied, not forgetting ty, Minnesota. plenty ol a hardship that the trees were not grit. They should also be induced to The only way to get rid of such un- allowed to stand. But the inspectors work by having their food scattered welcome visitors is to work them out may have been right and the disease in litter. They must be kept free with farm tools of various kinds. The may have been yellows. If it looked from lice and mites and in the winter short ways that are sometimes given like yellows ttso trees should have must have warm quarters. Cleanliare always unsatisfactory. The hoe teen destroyed any way, for the rea- ness must be observed at all times. is probably the best weapon to use son that the disease is one that can W. L. Mills, Putnam County, I1L against them if they are not too nu- not be trifled with. It is better to demerous. Keeping them cut off below stroy a good many healthy trees un-lpure bred stock is becoming so comthe surface of the soil will accomplish mon that It is no longer high in price. suspicion than permit this dreaded disease getting a foothold In a The only birds that are high are those the work. township. of strains that have been for generaA Christmas Gift tions of their lives in the pare of exDown In Kankakee county, Illinois, In Picking Apples. pert men who have developed certain lives a farmer who haa two boys In One man suggests that a good way desirable qualities in them, either of the agricultural college. They hare to is to put a tick filled feather, meat or egg laying. become imbued with the idea that withpick apples under "a tree and drop the hay agricultural science Is the science apples Into it from the limbs. Canadian Shorthorns. He that leads all others. They have asserts that this has been his practice . The breeders of Canadian Shortlearned enough about soils and fer- and that tbe fruit is not thereby In- horns are considering the question of tilizers to know that the lands of their ' This may be all right for removing some of the restrictions now father need potassium In some form jured. some kinds of fruit, but it would not placed on the importations of Shortto make it yield good crops. Last De- be for others. There are some of our horns from Great Britain. They december they determined to make their varieties that Injure so that clare that the rules that govern the father a Christmas present and cast even the pressure of the easily thumb and about them for a suitable gift They finger must be looked out for. Be- American and Canadian herd books do not permit of some of tbe prize concluded that a ton of potassium sides, in the letting tall of apples from winning Shorthorns in Great Britain chloride would be Just the thing, and the top of the tree a deal of great entered in herd books on this proceeded to get together the money skill Is required not to hit the other being side ot the water. They declare that, and buy IL A ton of this kind of or In the tick the limbs of the as a result the cattle of the two counapples fertilizer cost them $50. The fertilizer tree when the apples are being tries are deteriorating in and was used on the land this spring and dropped. The apple basket and the that this was the cause of quality some of tbe Is giving promise of great things. apple bag will be found most advan- - recent defeats of Shorthorns by Here--' tageous for most of the work of fruit fords, especially in the fairs of WestFor hog pastures woven wire is the gathering. . ern Canada. best material. Two Effects of Clover. The work of clover is not always to get nitrogen from the air. There are some soils that are rich enough in nitrogen and ) et need the presence of the legumes. In a visit to Antioch, Illinois, the writer observed that the soil is only a little acldy and that it is also rich in nitrogen. Clover Is being grown, but its work of soil renovation is different from that it has to perform on some other soils, especially those that are deficient in nitrogen. Here the roots go deep into the soil and help to improve the physical condition of the soil. It taps the stores of potassium and phosphorus tnat are hidden away in the depths of the earth and brings them to the upper layers of soil, where they will be within the reach of the plants that do not have the deep root system11 that clover and alfalfa have. The clovers will be found to be useful on almost all soils where they will grow, either as collectors of nitrogen or as subearth cultivators. They send their roots deep into the soil and tunnel in every direction. The roots In time die, leaving a multitude of passages in the soil. These act as drains and as air channels, by which the soli is more fully aerated. As a nitrogen gatherer Hhe clover is of great use on millions of acres of our lands from which the nitrogen has been ex hausted, and on millions of other acres it acts as a carrier of fertility from the cellars to the upper storage rooms of the soil. Pasturage is one of the most Important factors connected with the dairy farm, and more attention should be paid to It. ois well-bre- d , parti-colore- d 20,-00- e e. . low-pric- high-price- d peach-growin- fencing ; |