Show t IINDbORSl r4ND i ouT TlI > F rmC i h l Garden r and I Hbusellold Y I IT 1 11 + d HINTS AND NOT S TOE ALL 1 Grape VinciCeleryGraftsSweet ney Klcliliic Cow betting Hens Baby Palace Car s yourdishesmus be wasted in ban water add alittle milk totke water and do without soap Try this and see if you dont liUe it j If you forgot to plant your lily bulbs last fall they may be put jn the ground at the first favorable opportunity r them five to six inches deep In soil In making a selection of the hive toe to-e adopted you should do during dur-ing the leisure season as well as to get them ready consult your own fancies less than practical utiity as proven by successful beekeepers Es If you have an old grape Lviuethat yields poorly andhas eenrits best days II cut it entirely off close to the crown manure heavily and let it throw up two new leaders and lhe following yea YOU will see that its aa good as vouiig1 5 No garden should be witliout a bed of parsley Sow in rows fifteen inches apart as early as possible in the spring The land cannot be too rich The seed germinates slpwly and care must betaken taken that the weeds do not smother the young plants In making the asparagus bed if it h i possible to get the plow down deep enough there is no necessity for using the spade The rows are planted four feet apart and the plants fromjiftcen inches to two feet apart in the row If a crop is wanted quickly it is planted closer but the bed does not last so long It will take all the manure you can af ford o give it and the liner it is the better In planting early potatoes some days may be gained by cutting the seed and spreading it in a warm room until it callouses ani the bud begins to start and to avoid danger of freezingthe seed should be crowded down into the bottom bot-tom of the furrow by stepping on itand covered with two inches ot partly rot ted manure before the earth h put on Planted in this way mercury may fall to ten degrees for a single night without with-out injuring them Vicks Magazine Says correspondent I have seen two or three articles about Licking cows I send you the following remedy which I nave tried and found succeesful Take a strong cord or small rope make a slip noose in one end and draw tight around the cow just in front of the udder ud-der I was told this by an old man I had a large heifer that kicked badlv 1 applied the rope as above and sat right down and milked without any further trouble I only applied it three tse rnlli rfJit times and she never kicked afterward The cultivations of beets is a simple matter requiring only rich land thorough thor-ough tillage and absolute freedom from weeds bow as early in the spring as the ground can be got in good working order and again every few weeks for succession Make the rows fifteen inches apart and drop the seed an inch apart in the row If sown very early and especially if the soil is heavy and cold it is very desirable to sow the seed thick say a half inch apart Thin the plants before they begin to crowd each other letting the plants stand from three to five inches apart in the row Bordering highways with shade trees has pecuniary as well as aesthetic pro fits Real est te is always more valua bls along neatlyshaded roads than elsewhere else-where I other things being equal Set a tree wherever one can grow without interfering terfering with travel or crops Our forests for-ests are being constantly destroyed and the good of the country demands the rowing of trees Set them along walls and permanent fences where they will be out of the way Plant them m all rocky and sterile places and especially about the sources of creeks and along their banks One species of forest tree should not invariably selected Select those of different habits and sizes Try to mix them so that they will present a pleasing appearance A lady writes to Babyhood I should lIke to suggest a plan I have tried lor protecting babies from draughts while on the floor consisting of a box two feet by three feet and just high enough to allow baby to look over the top as she sits on the bottom of the box fasten strong cleats to each end and into these put good casters Pad the sides and cover with pretty calico Put several layers of newspaper on the bottom I bot-tom and coyer with carpet In such a warm box my little girl spent most of the winter Her playthings were within with-in reach In it she learned to creep ando and-o stand the sides being so soft a bump did not hurt her Her little brothers mused her by rolling about the floor It didnt take as m1Jch room as baby and tier scattered playthings It deserves the name the children bestowed upon it the Palace car Sweeny is the popular name for trophy or shrinkage of the large muse mus-e of the shoulder It is not a disease but is the result of a lameness which may exist in the lo tleg or shoulder joint The lameness causes the animal to avoid using this shoulder and as the growth of the muscle fibres depends upon the action of the muscle when this is inactive it stops growing and wastes away The seat of the lameness must be found by careful examination and proper treatment given to the trouble in the locality where it exists This treatment of course dependsupon the nature of the particular trouble A collar that is too large may easily produce pro-duce the disturbance which results in the wasting of the muscle by injuring the po tits of the shoulder and produc fug inflammation it Rest from work and brisk rubbing over the shoulder muscle with some simple liniment will gradually restore thepart to its original fl illness Ex How to set a hen Have whatever yon wish to set a hen in large enough to hold the eggs nicely and have rOm for the hen to step before covering the eggs for slit is too small she is liable to brea the eggs by stepping heavily on them Chaff or sawdust is very good material for the nest but there should mixed with it a little insect powder so that verminwill beat a hasty retreat Pack the nest quite hard and leave it hollowing enough to prevent the eggs from rolling away from the hen out not so much so as to allow of their pil fug upon each other Now put your nest in a somewhat dark and quiet place and put a fer china eggs into it This being doneget the hen and nlace her gently on the nest and let her sit until wanted then take her gently oft and put into the nest the eggs you wish to set The hgn if left near the nest will go on herself generally but if she showy nu inclina tion to desert try the china eggs once moreEx The grafting period is usually upon the approach of spring Whip or Tongue grafting is most generally practiced when the stock and cion are nearly of an equal size The whole gist 1 of it i lies in so forming the graft and stock that the two outer surfaces ofal bumen meet one wi h the other The tongue is a notch cut in tie stock cor responding with the one cut in the graft each having h lip fo meet the I other Splice grafting is sini a except that no slit is made in either ttok or graft Side gralting A notch or slit of about I one inch long is cut in the side of the stockparing the outer portion then splitting the graft and paring both 1 the inner and outer portions so that whfl nseried there will be a union of the bark and wood The graft should be wrapped with grafting clay or wax This is well adapted to the grafting of the cherry peach plum grape magno ha chestnut etc Grafting wax is made in several ways following has credit of value four parts rosin three parts beeswax and three parts lardThe The cutleaved Weeping birch is a variety of the European white birch Betula populifolia introduced we be bare from Scotland many years ago It is now justly esteemed one of the handsomest of prnamental trees and is an attractive addition to the home rQunds whether in city village or country It 1 < < nnp of tlo forftrana dropping its leaves in autumn which are attractive in winter Its white trunk contrasts well with the dark limbs and the general dull aspect of its surroundings In earl spring the blossom tassels tell of the good time coming when all nature will be awak ened and the tro will possess a mass of bright clearcut foliage through which one can get occasional glimpses of the central white trunk For small grounds this birch is much to be pre ferred to the large elms oaks or maples whichare apt to present a crow ded for space appearance not at all pleasing Ihis variety is also very striking when planted on the lawn among groups of other treesEr Celery seed is cheap An ounce of good seed costing say twentyfive cents will produce 2500 plants lf you want some early celery for use in Sep tember and October try the following plan Select a rich piece of ground ands and-s soon as the frost is out of the surface mark out rows fifteen to twentvune inches apart Drill in two rows of radishes or lettuceor beets or cabbage or cauliflower Or turnips or early red onions or any crop which will be off the ground in June or July Sow thethird row to celery hen sow two more rows with the crops that are to be transplanted trans-planted or removed early then sow the third row with celery and so on till you have sown so much celery as you desire Sow the celery seed thick say a dozen or more seeds to each inch of row Its It-s not necessary to cover the seed If you sow as early as is desirable we shall have rain and snow find frost sufficient to wash it into the ground and cover it It will be three or four weeks before the plants come up The momen they appear ap-pear and when the ground is dry hoe on each side of the row andpull out any weeds you may see In doing this if you pull out a few celery plants no matter you have plenty of them K ep the ground well hoed and as soon as the plants begin to crowd dash the hoe through them as you do in hoeing turnips leaving a bunch of celery plants sixor eight inches apart in the row Later go over the piece and thin out the plants leaving only one plant six or eight inches apart Nothing more is heeded for several weeks except to keep the ground well hoed or cultivated and entirely free from weeds The sooner theother two rows of plants can be removed re-moved the better and as soon as they are removed keep the whole ground between be-tween the rows of celery well hoed or cultivated and begin to work the soil up towards the celery plants Handle and blanch the celery in the ordinary way The advantages of this plan are First It saves the labor of transplanting Second It saves the labor of starting me plants in a hotbed Third You will get earlier and larger plants and with tarn Inhnr The only risk you run is that someof the plants may run up to seed This cane can be avoided in a great measure by getting northern grown seed This methodcan also be adopted for the maID crop but many celery growers set out celery on lowmucky land which is not dry anough to work before June or July and on such soil this method could not be adopted The plants must be grown elsewhere and transplanted I grow celery plants literally by the milllon The real secret of growing them is to sow very early on the richest rich-est of rich land One hundred tons of rich well rotted manure per acre is none too much |