Show INDOORS AND OUT 77c I b r I The tun Orchard rn d Garden 7 and Household s 4 1 I HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL 1 at I J I i Thistles Sparrows ISeelilvo Mice Grapes SulphurTurhej a Creeping Apron Remove the runnels and f all dead eaves fiord violets I I I O v The wIse farmer will build am + icehouse ice-house and store away some ice during cold weather Set away a few pots of strawberries in your cellar and in Febinnry or March put near the kitchen stove and they wjdlnotonly make beautiful Showbut give you an early la teA te-A better catch of timothy seed with wheat will be had by sowing after the ground has been dragged or rolled This will breakdown theridges between the drill rows and prevent the bulk of the seed from falling where as soon as it starts it will come in competition with the wheat roots This plan will also be much better for the gram ropEx The r turkeys for next yearns breeding season should be selected and mated now One gobbler only need be retained as one visit to the hen renders all the eggs fertile for the spason Any number of bens may be kept with a gobbler provided he is strong and vigorous Always procure a new gobbler every year and get one as large possible Ex Two best grapes for people who want grapes easily grown of not the highest quality Concord and Yorden or of better quality Eumelan and Barry or Wilder Two white grapes Duchess and Niagara Rebecca is better than either but more dithcult to grow Two red grapes Delaware and Brighton Gartner is a superb red grape and is Quite as easily grown as any Greens Fruit Grower Look out for the mice Your beehives bee-hives make a very comfortable resting place for them but you cannot affordto let them nest there Not only will they riddle the comb in the hive but they will be very liable to cause the death of the colony before spring The less bees are disturbed the less honey will they consume and the more likely will they be to pass the winter in good condition A lithe wire gauze or a mousetrap may save you many dollars worth of bees American Rural JTome Sheep breeding is precisely like other Breeding The owner of an inferior flock need not necessarily sacrifice it and replace it with thoroughbreds He may purchase a thoroughbred ram and I breed up with if Some of the most I profitable flocks in the country are grades But a thoroughbred must beat be-at tbe head of the flock if we expect certain results With such a ram improvement im-provement goes on all the time Bat with anything but a thoroughbred at the head of the flock we do not know what to expect Ex The Indiana Legislature recently er acted that any person knowingly allow lug Canada thistles to grow and matnre upon his land or land under his charge shall be fined not less than 5 nor more than 20 and for the second and each subsequent offense double the amount of the first one Supervisors of the highways of the State who allow thistles to grow on any road in their districts are subject to like penalties as are also road masters of railway lines who allow the pests to grow aboutstations or along the right of way under tli ei r supervision This is a wise law and worthy of enactment en-actment in other StatesBr A very useful creeping apron may be I made by taking an ordinary apron sufficiently long to reach the length of the dress and then up again to the waist where it is fastened by means of a draw ingstring run into the hem This I makes a complete bag and affords ample protection for the dress and skirts so that when your baby gets tired of the floor and you wish to take him up his garments are found quite unsoiled un-soiled By choosing smallfigured calicoes cali-coes or ginghams that wash nicely the aprons will be by no means unsightly and its usefulness will appeal to those mo hers wno complain that they cannot keep baby clean The habit of eating eggs is commonly learned early inthe season and generally gener-ally from haviiigeggs freeze in the nest and then crack open The fowls soon learn to pick the meat out ot a cracked egg and then to pick into an egg that isnt cracked Use porcelain imitations for nest eggs and gather the eggs twice a day during freezing weather When any fowl is caught eating an egg utter a reproof as sharp as the edge of a hatchet swung high toward heaven and brought down on the decapitation block with all the force of your own right armeven if it eternally divorces her head from her body it will effectually effec-tually stop her eating and you can immediately im-mediately make arrangements to commence com-mence eating Ex I do not contend that in nocase will it pay to buy and feed old animals on the contrary if comparitively lean they do sometimes rapidly increase in weight for a few months and the profit is enhanced en-hanced if they can be cheaply bought in In nearly every case however it will be found more profitable to buy r young beasts since for the food consume con-sume the increase is almost invariably I more and the profits on the whole will be invariably larger and more certain I If cattle areto be bought fed and sold i without the elements of speculation age is a most important pint in deter I I raininc the profit or loss in feeding since the older the animal the less increase I ood consumed crease will it make for the sumed Entjlith Paper I Many good farmers keep horses in stables during the entire year except when out at work Those who do not should at least get the horses nnder I shelter at night and during stormy days A sick horse is as unfit to work as is a sick man and animals that are kept housed most of the time are easily to storms It is injured by exposure not advisable to blanket horses in stables except for a little while when brought in after working and when wet either from sweat or rains The change stable when to a horse blanketed irt the taken out in cold or stormy weather makes the animal especially liable to take cold In a barn the natural covering cover-ing of hair over a horse is sufucieni Animals exposed to the storms any changes of weather incident to farm work should not be clipped There ismo remedy gnttnssistanVSo easily and cheapjy obtained so harm less tohej fowls ands6sausttutory if tits results as sulpliur n beinu m life system of animals to a small decree there is a grpiit r I ffinity than there oherwie would be It aibeajininut = t erect to the fowls b > having it in a > uiH box so that theycan < h < Ip themselves or by mixing with their food once a week or as often as there are iidioations or vermin Penetrating as it d < e to every part of the sys etuall i ar sites are quickly destroyed also gapes are I said to be prevented in chicken Fowl need it more than most animals their feathers containing between four and dye per cent of sulphur Thiirtggs also have a small quantity which is noticed no-ticed by the discoloring of silverspoon when it comes in contactwitb boiled egg Applied externally to the fowls when on the nest to the nest itsrlf or mixed with the s il in the dustingbox it is equally efficacious in deitroj m > r vermin I Every year brings it humbugs of men I amnials seeds grains and fruits Of the fifty kinds of strawberries I au growing I will send to any of your subscribers I sub-scribers who want to try Big BobJer ev Queen Sbarptess Ulendalu and several ether kinds alL they want for onehalf cent per plant just enough to pay dig gin and postage Sharpless after ten years trial here is not worth planting Glendale is late but does not hold its size and the first two we consider humbugs hum-bugs of the first water The best rule foranyone is to look about them and on likesojl and expoRure plant thosekinds that suceed The reason for Sharpless proving a failure the blossom bud is very easily injured bv cold wet nights even when no frost and frostwill kill when the blossom is not jet open Jam J-am tearful the Vick will not prove satisfactory satis-factory It has not thus far My two best varieties for bushels of fruit the past season were Crescent and Countess but Crescent always remember is worthless unless beside some perfect flowering kindCorrespondent Wettern Rural The American ornithologists union has collected evidence from all parts of the country where the English sparrow occurs and has published a report based upon their investigations As J 3 stated in Science recently they have urged that laws be passed against it looking to its entire extermination Acting upon this advice and upon experience ex-perience with the nest several states have repealed their protective laws and the bird is nqw under the ban Everyone Every-one who has seen the bird in the east knows it drives away native birds destroys de-stroys fruit and is disagreeable in every way in regard to a means of destruction let every state offer a bounty for birds and eggs and the small boys will do tile work A bird is not at all comparable with locusts or mosquitoes Intelligence or instinct as we may call it makes the vast difference We might persecute perse-cute insects till the end of time and they would sill come back upon us each year hut birds are very quick at seeing whether or not they are wanted If they are persecuted they instinctively draw away from man as in the case of the crow We may not be able to entirely en-tirely rid ourselves of the pest but we can at least succeed in driving them nwny fom the cities and once get them into the country where they can be taught to fear the shotgun and we shall have them at least under our control con-trol They can be driven away from the cities if their nests are demolished as soon as made and if all the bird houses are removed A careful use of poison might also work with advantage and in the large parks the shotgun in the hands of comeptent men could be brought into use 1 will add that if any of the readers of Science are troubled with sparrows in ivy or other vines by sprinkling a little red pepper among the leaves they will soon be rid of the pests This has been tried with success Ex |