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Show I DAIRY AMD POULTRY. tacks of this insect. In the mature state this insect is a fly, which deposits its eggs in the pulp of the apple beneath the shin. The young maggots grow within the fruit, which they render worthless, and when mature emerge from the apple and go into the ground, lying in the pupa state beneath the surface soil among the grass roots. Samples of the earth, six inches square, were taken, and the number of maggots under the trees varied according to the size, from 1,000 to more than 12,000 under each tree, the pupae somewhat resembling kernels of wheat. Now comes the point w hieh was interesting to me. The experiment was tried as to whether poultry, if confined to a small range and encouraged to scratch, would destroy these pupae. A large movable wire fence was placed about a tree whose fruit had been destroyed by insects. One side of the fence was raised and about fifty hens were called into the The fence was let down enclosure. and they were confined to the space around the tree. As soon as they had eaten thp corn they naturally began to scratch for the pupae, and In the course of three or four days it was found that the latter had disappeared. As these insects remain in the pupae state front the fall of the apple to the following spring, when they appear, it may be expected that next year the number of flies breeding the apple maggot will he greatly diminished in the localities where this plan is followed. From personal experience, extending over many years, I can speak positively of the advantages of allowing fowls and chickens a free range in apple orchards. They not only manure the soil and destroy all Insects harboring in it, but they find, for some weeks, a considerable proportion u chtir own food the windfalls, which they devour greedily, with any grubs they may contain. The raising of poultry for sale may be much more advantageously carried on where the land is made to produce two crops namely, apples and eggs than where only one is gathered. Cattle Condltlcna fn The following letter from T. B. Rm-mean Iowa stockman, will be read with interest by many feeders In that and other states, says Live Stock Report. No doubt the conditions named therein will apply over a broad area of the feeding district. In the first place young cattle are very scarce, the scarcest in twenty-fiv- e years to my own knowledge. Everything Is on feed, from yearlings up, and there have not been nearly enough cattle to go around. I insisted strongly for the feeders of my neighborhood to feed cattle, and ccnsume this cheap corn, even if they had to go to the market for their feeders, which a good many did, and that is how we have about our usual number of cattle on feed here. But right here Is where the rub comes In. There will not be more than naif our usual number of cattle to run oat of here this fall, from the fact that from now o.--i we usually ran our grass cattle. Why, I used to buy from three to six, eight, ten or twelve cars of cattle per and half of them would be gra-icattle, hut I do not know where I would get a single load of grass cajtie in my territory now, not even feeders, let alone cattle that would do to ship. From 1S91 up until last fall eveijbody cut and slashed the cattle, especially the she stuff, calves, bulls and everything. You know yourselves how it was; and when a shortage comes you cant breed and raise cattle and get them ready for market in six moLths as you can with hogs. As I regard the situation it would seem as though there would be plenty o'. tat cattle for this summer and fall, looking at It without careful study. We are getting only forty to fifty thousand cattle per week in Chicago now all told, w bereas we used to get fifty to a few years eighty thousand per ago. We have just gone through a period of three years of hard times. Last year was presidential election. That is out of Lie way now-- and everything is tegii.uing to move along more even- ly. Times are getting better in the east, and giadually moving this way; more men going to every day, and there wii1 gradually be more demand for the products from now on unless I miss my guess. Then there will be a great demand from all quarters right along for young cattle to go on to grasr and on to corn. In short, a better consumptive demand on the one side and a better demand for feeding stock on the other. It does look to me there wont be any too many cattle for th.s summer and fall for the market to go into consumption. I could give a good many more reasons for thinking so, but think I have covered the main part of the ground. Of course we will have fluctuations, but the tendency will be for the better, especially when the cattle now on feed are out of the way. Cvtttrattoa of Orchard. If orchards are to be profitable, the) must receive as good care as othbi OUR BUDGET OF FUN. Misled bv idle - Non-Smok- er y 1 1 g h, r. d I Aw en es B ht lf w f, af first-clas- -- .. g, . -- r.pert. Every pursuit has its own body of otherwise known as technical slang, crops. FOR CHAPTERS INTERESTING SOME GOOD JOKES, ORICINAL terms, and baseball is no exception. Good increases availabls the OUR RURAL READERS. tillage AND SELECTED. Apropos of this fact the Baltimore food supply of the soil; it also conAmerican reports a dialogue between serves its moisture. Slow Sacrpisfnl Fariuen Operate This and Anxletiea of the an old lady and her grandson. Trees should be made to send their The Trouble Now, Henry," said the dear old Depart meut of the Farm A Few Smoker and root3 deep into the soil, in order to for-tifllatlilu; Kesort I do hope you wul never play Uinta aa to the Care of Lire &tok lady, Me themselves against drought. This She T Misled by the baseball. nd Foul try. is done by draining the soil and by Paper. Why not, grandma? Asked Henry, flowing the orchard rather deep. with natural surprise. This deep plowing should begin the A Bit of Family History. Most Important One Thine In Dairying. Because it is so very dangerous." very year the trees are set and it T the present time, Gnl. Why, grandma, it Isnt Dangerous! Ehould be continued every Fpring un OU darling Robin the most important Reubiea-t- , d any more dangerous than any other the habit of the tree is estab til item in single your mother ev er game." lished. sing. dairving, is the It is exceedingly dangerous," said Moisture is retained in the upper sob As bhe brooded you testing of cows, so bethe old lady, in a tone of deep convicwarmly very by but shallow frequent w rites Prof, tillage V. N. neath her downy tion. by means of whiih the surface of th wing. Cook in Jersey land becomes a mulch for the soil beAbout her But, grandma, yen never saw a Bulletin. This may mamand dont know anything about neath. game m s ma. ua of setm a simple matloi g ago, it. should as be soon Tillage begun just ter, but if rightly Who covered up the as the ground is dry enough in spring. Perhaps I don't, hut I know it ir bab'es with sott conducted, its inThis dangerous. Almost every day highly aa should green be leaves, you tillage repeated fluent e is far reat flknow? often as once in ten days through grow-inthe papers tell about men who have sweet. Tweet, tweet, yes, With the present ing. easy, died on the bases. season from spring until July oi and method of rapid cheap Boy. August. And darling Robin Redbreast, did your testing milk, by the Babcock ever Tillage should not exist for the pur- As fathtr The Common Failing. test, no one can afford to be ighe hurried speak. home from market, with of pose Mr. Meekton had been out several weeds. killing breakfast your in his beak. norant of the butter capacity of his Late cultivation may be injurious by About his in days minutes later than usual the night becows. First, as to the mt thod of- testof ago. a late growth. At all eventa Killed long fore and there was decided chilliness at bv inducing a a at sparrow naughty as and then to its ing, advantages. The It can be of small utility when the tre you know the breakfast table. A silence which milk of cons, whether taken separateCiieeiie, cheene, yes, dearie. had seemed much longer than it was, begins to mature and rains become fre. Mira Claike Rarsons. ly or in herds, is constantly varying in fact, was suddenly broken by the quent. This season of respite gives ths from day to day, and from milking to wife's remark: grower the opportunity of raising a Smoker and milking, these variations usually fallLook at those senators and represengreen manure, and of adding fertility' Advice may he excellent in itself and ing within an extreme range of one to his land at trifling expense and with yet come with poor grace from the per- tatives. See how they have lingered per cent. In addition, the milk is gradao harm to his trees. son who offers it. Two men of Marand talked over the tariff. ually growing richer, from the time Fall plowing may be advisable for seilles were one day walking the cow- - calves until it dries up. To Now, Henrietta, you surely cant together overcome these variations, a cow farm crops, but not for orchards. when one of them took out a cigar and think of holding me re'ponslble for 6hould be tested for at least four conthat. Only cultivated crops should be alproceeded to light it. secutive milkings, and eight milkings lowed In orchards early in the season. Not personally. But it shows a What do you call that thing? are still better. This is easily done, Grain and hay should never be grown. asked the other man. trait that is common to your kind. It by mixing samples of the different In general, level culture is best. Th shows how-- a man will grasp at anyA Londres, answered the first. milkings and making one test of the modern cultivators and harrows make thing as an excuse for not going home Expensive, I suppose? mixed sample. To get an average test, such cultivation easy. when he ought to. Washington Star. Bah! Six sous. for the whole milking period, two tests Trees, especially apples, are often Only six sous, eh? And how many can be made, one six weeks, and the trained too high, because of difficulty oi years have you smoked? st Awful. other, six months aftr calving. The working close; but modern tools permit Thirty. average of these two, pill closely apthe head 3 to be made low. Thirty years, three cigars a day, six proximate tl e average quality of the Harnesses with no projecting hames sous apiece. Why, if you had not milk given during the year. If but a spent nor metal turrets should be used in that money for cigars, you could have single test is to be madp, the samples bearing orchards. Those requiring no owned a house on the Cannebiere toshould be taken toward the end of the whiffietrees are also useful. day! fourth month after calving. It will be Butter Frauds. Potash is the chief fertilizer for fruil The other said nothing. The CanA few years ago I spent some time necessary to know the weight of milk trees, particularly after hearing. nebiere is the richest and most famous given, and this can be learned just as in ferreting out the black pepsin butPotash may he had in wood ashes, street in Marseilles. Presently the two accurately, by weighing the milk the ter swindle, says Milo Baldwin, In the and muriate of potash. An annual ap- promenaders came ont on the Cannefirst and fifteenth of each ronth, as by Otsego Farmer, and now, here comes plication of potash should be made biere. weighing every day. The real labor its twin brother, the electric churn, of doing all this weighing and testing, which originates its own electricity, by You dont smoke, I believe? said upon bearing orchards. Of the muriate from 500 to 700 pounds to the acre. the man with the Is much less than would be Imagined, the aid of which, you can churn in one cigar, Barn manures can be used with goof by one who has never tested cows. minute, without regard to the temperaSmoke? No! now the weights and tests, ture or condition of the cream. But Having results, particularly on old orchards. "Well, which is your house here? what use can be made of them? In the greatest saving claimed, is in the Cultivation may be stopped late !i And the abstemious man had to conevery herd, there are some cows better quantity and quality of the butter. The the season, and a crop can then bk fess that he owned no house, either on than others. Testing enables the own- descriptive circular says: sown upon the land. This crop may the Cannebiere or One hun anywhere else. er to weed out his herd successfully, to dred pounds of milk contains fourteen serve as a cover or protection to the of the unprofitable cows, and pounds of solid matter, consisting of get rid soil, and as a green manure. Prof. L She Was Me. H. Bailey In Stark Bros. Orchard Bui She "Do you suppose that little A gentleman who has a telephone in letln. his house has in his employ a faithful crab would bite me if I jumped In? He No; but you might get your but stupid German girl, who one day suit wet. Growing Blackberries. to the ringing of the teleresponded In a soil reclaimed for timber ani She Oh, how terrible! I never phone bell. affording sufficient moisture, viz: not Who is there? came over the wire. thought of that. New York Ledger. Standard Varieties of Chickens. subject to drought, blackberries will It is I, replied Katrina. Leghorns. Leghorns are the bes do well. Most people plant them too And who is I? Her Mistake. known of the varieties close in the beginning and they do Why, I am I. It is not necessary to repeat his reor Mediterranean class. They are ths not grow. Rows six feet apart are But who is I? came over the wire. marks. premiers In laying and the standard by none too wide. If the ground cannot I am me, my own self, retorted When his wife heard them imperwhich the proflicacy of other breeds is be spared one may for a year or two Katrina. How should I be any one fectly, being in the next room, she judged. Of the origin of the Leghorn cultivate corn, or better, potatoes oi but me? said: fowl there are differences of opinion, bush beans between the rows. The But who are you? Oh, do say that over again, dear. and there is but little information to greatest drawback is the red rust, I am my own self. Look here, woman, he replied, in be found anywhere concerning their which should on xo account be perWhat is your name? a concentrated voice, when a man gets a foothold. to mitted These get early history. It is generally conceded Katrina Rupper. his finger caught between a sprocket plants grow very rapidly, bul that a race of fowls bearing a close reWell, who is Katrina Rupper? and a chain it is no time for his wife semblance in many respects to the Leg- are easily pulled up. Every bit of rust She is me, I, my own self. to get funny. horn has existed In Italy and other must be burned as soon as seen. Oi And Katrina heard laughter at Oh! said she. weather Was that it? I course, very dry just before the 1' D l' parts of the Continent of Europe for a or in other end of the line she said, In- thought you were repeating one of will be disastrous. When fruiting long period. That this race of fowls those Christian Endeavor yells. Inhas been widely disseminated admits the plants are well up cultivation dignantly: :$V I vill not stay here to be made a dianapolis Journal. also of little doubt, inasmuch as at ths should be by horse or hand hoe. As shoke soon as possible after the plants are of, and she walked away from present day the breed is known In Den- well started a good mulch of wet straw the telephone, grumbling: How could A Common Tie. mark and other countries as Italians. should be applied. This, when done I be anyone but me? I let em know I have just discovered that intense There seems to be good ground for the properly, need not hinder the growth Low to make a shoke of me! heat is thoroughly destructive of all statement that Leghorns were first in- of potatoes for a year or two. Subthe outward observances of aristocratic troduced into America from Italy. The sequently the bushes will have to be Saved. society. story goes that as early as 1834 a ves- cut back severally to admit of horse Slimson Someone gave my boy a What makes you think so? sel from Leghorn, Italy, brought to cultivation. drum for a birthday present, but it As I was going up our street last this country as a part of its cargo a turned out all right. small shipment of fowls, which were at evening I saw seven of my high-tone- d Water Used by Plants. Twickenham How so? onco named Leghorns. in their shirt neighbors sititng They immeWe cannot well overestimate the imI gave him a pocketknife. Detroit sleeves. Cleveland Plain Dealer. diately became popular, their prolific portance of water to the plant. All ar Free Press. laying and nonsitting qualities being acquainted the fact that green with recognized at this early date. White A Things Go. if cut and dried in the sun, lose In a Fix. and Brown Leghorns were the first va- plants, Heres another case of extremes much of their weight. They are large. rieties know-nModern breeders are ly composed of water. Thus 100 meeting. pounds SINGLE-COMresponsible for some of the What? WHI TE LEGHORN COCK. of meadow hay contains from sixty to of the breed, and, in point of color Not long ago you couldnt hire a of water; 100 pounds oi eighty pounds at least, exhibition birds of today, even red clover about eighty-si- x boy to hurry up; now, since messenger oi pounds to know which ones are paying the four pounds of oleo, found of the older varieties, vary considerthem on a bike, youve got of put pounds our while theyve water, such garden plants, best returns for their food. With this casing, four pounds of to fine him to keep him from scorchsugar, and two ably from those seen at the present as lettuce, cucumbers and cabbage, conknowledge at hand, the dairyman has pounds of varied salt North American. to ninety-eigproduction, and time in Italy. The Leghorn fowl holds tain from ninety-fiv- e ing. Philadelphia a powerful aid to correct breeding. by the old process, you only save the the same place among poultry that the pounds of water to the hundred. The The influence of the dam, and particu- oleo, or butter holds oil; but the electric Jersey among cattle. The ques- seeds of plants do not contain so much An Attainment. larly the sire, on the quality of the churn, takes up a portion of the sugar tion of profit in poultry has been de- water as the leaves and stems. When milk of the offspring, has been hut and Its untrue, said Willie Wishing-to- n, and combines it with the cided in favor of casing, breeds. well dried, wheat, oats and rye conlittle studied, and offers a fruitful field oleo, that it is impossible for a man to the quality They are lively, active, and of a rest- tain about 14 per cent each, while Infor inv estimation. The owner of a herd and thereby ofIncreasing attain perfection. the less product." But bedisposition, the best of foragers dian corn contains about 11 per cent iof cows, of his own breeding, will be fore quantity Who has reached that stage? we decide on the quality, let us and will pick up a good of water. part of their aide to traee many lines of influence, understand what this I have. Miss Cayenne informed me living during the year. Leghorns are casing" is. Acfrom parent to offspring, and to note, this that I am a perfeat bore. to Webster, casing j8 a coverirorning eaters cording and light the cost of Good Growth Stops Disease. Tht not only those that are piepotent for Washington Star. ing, or a case. That would seem a hard them to maturity is about one-ha- raising to drawback the but that great present late seagood, equally important, to deto woik into butter, but we canof the Asiatic varieties. son is that all sorts of fungous diseases termine prepotency for evil. The man thing not tell vvliat this electric churn may early, feather quickly, theThey mature have done more Mike Him Prove It. who is systematically testing his cows, do. damage than in a seapullets ofMudge What wrould you do If you soon begins to note the relation be- lie Possibly, in trying to bo scientific, ten begin laying when 4 months old son like that of 96. The curl-lea- f on uses the word in lieu of casein (milk and cockerels crow at the were me? Thomas called me a gibtween food a r.d milk flow to know his same ag peaches has been especially destructive They are the best layers, averaging be-t- notably on old trees in poor soil. A cows individually, as to which ones will curd). If so, it must bo a great imbering idiot. He IIow would a to be like you een 130 and 200 eggs per year. Their large grower said the other day Watts I'd make him prove it, every make suitable return for increased provement on the quality of the butlighthouse-keeper- ? that, ter. I knew a man in my boyhood days, eggs aro pure white in feed. He has brought bit of it. I don't believe any one ever color, and weigh judging from his own orchards, he She Very much, name the date. knowledge to who discovered the art of making this about ID to the pound. As table fowls would say that the difference In fer- New York bear on many questions that were preheard you gibber. Indianapolis Ledger. same kind of butter, but he produced viously indefinite, and the result can the they are fairly good. By many they are tilizing could be told by the difference electricity, by dropping a little considered excellent. The not fail to be increased commercial as in curl-leaor, in other words, in one only thin She Found Ont. jennet into the cream just as it began that can he said against them where he had fertilized freely well as intellectual profit. orchard Is that Her Strong Point. A Boston lady stood on the deck of to break for butter, and it fixed it in curl-lea- f, had are no in small he size. practically but in the Altogether Mrs. Meeker, observed a friend ot bump-nose- d a minute, so that it turned out a large they are one little Ocklawaha Poultry lu OrHmr.U. orchard where another of the most profitable they fertilizing had steamer in Florida, notebook and the family, "is a very superior woman. of wliat he called extra butMr. Tegctmeier, the famous lorgbreeds of poultry that can be kept upon not been done the curl-leEngiirh quantity wa3 in nette authoiity on roultiy, in commenting ter. lie sold a quantity of it to a dealhand, Ex. asking ponderous ques- She can converse intelligently, I bethe farm, and the cheapness of their bad. on a report of the Rhode Island experilieve, on a thousand different topics." er, w ho bad him arrested for fraud, and of a darky roustabout. tions will allow the ment station regard. ng the value of when he got through and settled up, keeping for the cost raising of two eVs, sighed Mr. Meeker, and she A Century Plant. A press the Is amphibious? alligator dispatch of one Leghorns he found it the highest-price- d does. fowls to orchard.-,- , says: one of her butter They must be warmly housed inAsiatic from Washington says: a Chicago Tribune. questions. winter plant that has been in the century For many years I have advocated he ever sold. If anyone is not satisfied to The darky scratched his head; he was White well and to protect their lay pendu- House conservatories at least 60 years a bit the introduction of poultry into apple with the above expose, let him invest lous wattles from frostbite. puzzled, as there had been more BtiHlneM TaoR. is about to bloom for the first time, corn pone than dictionary in his bringorchards, maintaining that th. y do six dollars and try his hand. Have you noticed how Stubbins reis watching good sei v ice, in tw-it ing up, hut his quick wit and natural peats himself? very- distinct It does pay dairymen to raise good and GardenerHe Fister The Little Leaks. The little leaks on modes fii st, by- - manuring the expects the bloom to logic did not desert him as he replied: anxiously. s calves from Yes: it is an atrocious habit yesheifer ground cow and, secondly, l,v the destruction of in- the farm amount to a considerable sum Even the dairymen who are in the anpear in about two monhs. The cenI reckon he am, mis'; he done bite terday he tried to collect a bill of me dead was unless at are the White sects and grubs that hibernate House they tury pant carefully whirl of shipping imik to shuah ef yo monkey wid him. which he has collected fwice before. ja the every year supply the when Gardener Fister went there, yo soil. The apple m.iggot appears to be looked af'er and. stopped, says an York trade New have found Detroit Ih ee Press. that out and twenty-on- e ago, Every hill of corn missed m In he years was extending in America, at, u king the faOrange county, N Y the most pro3. Tike Hi Father. in been or had it rooted the in that Presidents up told vorite Baldwin, which isrow.n known planting cultivating ptrous dairymen now ra.se the prom.- I pay my child to be good, declared Aiih crin He hothouse forty years previously. as being imported ia-- ;y ;uto thjg reduces the crop without reducing the ing calves. Purpose. first good father. the Is of it. about Visitor A work leak in a roof ''' .picture Is seventy years thinks the plant cultivating country, and rerdermg it entirely unis That wrong, be entirely stopped in a minute may replied the ah? ih.te Tut farm machinery and implement old, and says it will die after it fit for use, but the spiaving the trees tint might trtist Im father. means of spoiling a dollar's second good ' blooms. My child has gin o le the ' 'hat. with Bord- aux mixture ami Parks green worth It is an of grain, and is a warning to in good repair before storing them"fc 1 for to he good Detroit nothing. i'lu-i n Free has appeared to prevent all serious at- - look for ether leaks. E a' Cin- winter, poem. Press. is dona. Just beyond duty Happiness cinmti Enqm-c- r rt, 1 h- |