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Show aw fsM, Mushroom. one of the herewith llluitrate growing wild 1,. 0f mushrooms woods. This Is the mushroom fS usually mistaken for the edible 1 t a fair to look upon and has ,roell to serve as a warning, '(.white on top, but sometimes has tint so slight, ilabtly greenish that It Is not generally no-- . grow-froAvoid all mushrooms a sheath as this one shown cut. Moreover, the sheath Is moss grow-- , Loaentlf covered by the dead leaves. the or by it ibout of th,s one-(tArold ,ls0 a C0UB,n looks like It but Is yellowish Over cultivation of Orchards. oX!!l Th a ,h",K 8 cultivating Poisonous Death cup (Ataanita phal. lain), one-bal- uatural sis f has patches scattered ver top (treat. It is probably not very raion In the west, but grows d&ntly In the eastern part of this 1. It is a safe plan not to eat mushroom that is not fully n. Trying to tell a mushroom by :n descriptions is dangerous, if nushroom is to be eaten. -- the Soil Richer. Hopkins, appealing to the pers of Illinois to improve theirsays: If we do prove conclupi, that the fertility of all of the of Illinois cannot be maintained use of legumes and the manure uiefrom Illinois crops alone, and if to demonstrate absolutely that the phase of any element of plant food Mcessary and profitable, then, who-I'f- f buys plant food for use on let him not buy a tonic or a Bulant or a trivial amount of some toly manufactured and called commercial fertilizer which Mil only urge the soil to greater and result In no permanent led, but let him buy liberal amounts the real elements as near to the hv materials as possible such as fine nMd limestone from the Immense p'ural deposits of our own state, and phosphates such as bone meal Anally a farm product), or as fine rocit phosphate from the very pad fUtaalve mines of the phosphate uthern states, and, If necessary, from the abundant supplies of German potash mines; and then t him apply at least two pounds for 7 pound he removes In crops; let tupply increase and not decrease; "t the soils of Illinois not grow poorer U richer and richer for the land's for your children's sake, and for (K tools sake, if we do learn that this Possible, then let us have one coun-- I Job earth let us have one state in Inlon, whose soils shall not be pined and whose children shall not with only a memory or a tradl-1)of the bountiful harvests of form-- r Make W1 G. P i high-price- m"Ch- Iclt ,rchrd Thl8 U ,he C8Sf ,hat ba'e never been tT J'8inbenK 11 18 f,lltlvatedfultivftolon snHnl in the l00n "8 ,h( bU,,B bekin to onln and continue the cultivation un- - h t,ndJuly. will have .n - R' that time the their annual made growth, and the fruit buds will have developed fur the fruit crop of the Pillowing year. When that has been accomplished growth stops, and the es or the season the tree spends in ardening up the wood that has been developed, and In filling the fruit buds h material for the In the following spring. development If cultivation is continued during the latter part of summer and In the fall, there Is danker that a fall growth of wood will he started, and also that many of the fruit buds will expand and blossoms appear In the fall. Many a good orchard has been spoiled by over cultivation. One man in Illinois tells the story that when he was a young man, his father being away, he thought to surprise him by thoroughly cultivating an orchard of 400 plum trees. It was early fall. The trees took on new growth. When his father returned, instead of being pleased he said: You have killed all these trees. His prophecy proved true, as most of the trees died during the following winter. Watering Tree In Summer. It generally does little good to attempt to water trees in summer. Keeping the ground pulverized will generally accomplish more in supply Ing moisture to the tree than will the supplying of water by the hose. The great trouble In watering with a gar den hose is that enough water is not The man will think he has given. thrown on a great deal of water, but It will be found on investigation that the ground has not been moistened to a greater depth than one Inch. Many of the light showers in summer wet the ground only to a depth of or one-hal- f of an inch. They really do no good to the tree through the roots. Their chief benefit consists in washing the dust off the leaves. If a man is to use a garden hose on his trees, he will accomplish more by washing off the foliage than by attempting to water the tree from below. The failure In the latter case Is due to a too small supply of water; and It Is extremely difficult to supply enough water through the garden hose to affect many trees. one-fourt- h and i 5th d ' K. Vanderbilt's Escalade won e Herbla) stakes and Prestige the Umulurn stakes at Malsons-Laffittr ranee, Aug. l. James Colville died at his home In Roxbury, Mass.. July 31. after a brief illness. Ht, Wlts tlle flrgt raan tQ br,ng John Sullivan before the public. Both Ixm Dillon and Major Delmar were worked out on Glenville track, August 2, the queen trotting one mile a,U ',aor P)elmar one n t, 1:18:54. In the summer carnival sports at Syrney, C. B.. Simon P. Gillis of New York threw the twelve-pounhammer 192 feet 5 inches. This, It Is claimed, beats the record by 4 feet 3 Inches, and a record will he applied for. Three firsts and a second were ridden by Maher, the American Jockey, In the first four races at Goodwood, August 2. The races won Included the Goodwood plate, in which Maher piloted Lord Derbys His Majesty to d victory. Third Baseman Burke has resigned as manager-captaiof the St. Louis cardinals. Burke was appointed this spring to succeed Nichols as manager and Brain as captain. Nichols has since gone to the Quakers of Philadelphia, and Brain to the Pittsburg Pirates. Charles Neary, Milwaukee's German lightweight, was matched with Kid Goodman at Spokane, Wash., for Sept. 8. for twenty rounds. Manager Crawford has an offer to match Neary with Eddie Hanlon at Los Angeles and will accept. He will then go after Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson. Paul Dashlel and the international tennis players, W. A. Lamed, Beals C. Wright, Holcombe Ward and W. L. Clothier, returned from their tour abroad. The team had no excuses to make for their defeat in the Davis cup tournament, and had nothing but praises for the Dohertys, who won. At Ogden. Utah, August 4, W, E. Samtielson of Provo, Utah, broke the bicycle record for two miles, at the local saucer track, riding from one-thir- -- .i a,,,gon- m,b, i' iU to hi h, . torlri, J - tppw- 'I'll amt e T ij trK,. lain rrop next year reduced. While Paris b,'lng put on the potato l,hrr P,nt used by the po-- r rood should not be ' ' 0,al0 beetles feed on to-- ! on G'tlte a variety of desirable to spray ,llantl with Paris green w 'me of fruiting, but the lrBKt on which the beetles ut l,e p.h"? brr1 - flatly . 0 tr,atel to spraying rc,' without danger. It f,,rK0tton that the six of kncxt ow Well Shaped that Tpe tree sill have 11 " frLf mft!,a la Tree. properly hap'd jnpesrauco ,fr ( summer. the summer, In should be so srrang- winter. ft enr will depend very wany are permitted to ier in good health. n to-da- be-fur- ht one-hal- National League Newa. Hammering Hans Is the new title given John Peter Wagner In New York. Tommy Iach Is mentioned as an adjunct to the Boston Nationals next season. Both the Pittsburg and Chicago teams regard Boston as their hoodoo" town. President Ebbetts of Brooklyn, Is said to be after Johnny Vowlnkel, of the Utica pitching staff. Manager Hanlon is greatly pleaseu with the all around Improvement shown by Charlie Malay, Delehanfy has developed into a polished outer garden artist and Is leading the Hub players In batting. New York players are willing to bet GEORGE playing cleverly tbls year, and he baa been tipped off to Manager Rarrow of Indianapolis. The latter Is trying to find out what claim Columbus has on the youngster. American Association. Phil Geter Is playing second base for St. Paul and doing the trick well. Pitcher White, a promising Cincinnati southpaw, has signed for the balance of the season with Toledo. Columbus, for the first time In her hlRtory, it la believed, has won three straight games on the St. Paul ground. Rarrow Is minus First Baseman Robertson, lie has gone buck East. Catcher Zalusky la now holding down the sack. Clay, secured from the League, batted .414 In thirty five games for Louisville, and led the American Association. Clay, the center fielder of the Louisville club, who was secured from the outlaw league, Is making a great reputation as a hitter. Manager George Tebeau has a Jewel in Orville Woodruff. The little fellow can play the outflelil with any of the association, and he can play a fine game at third base. Tri-Stat- Southern League. The Atlanta club has sold lnfielder Henry Krug to Birmingham. Little Rock has released Pitcher Ayre and he has been signed by Atlanta. Lynch, who has been playing with Montgomery In left field, has been given his unconditional release. McMakln, who was released by Atlanta. has been pitching star ball for Montgomery, winning three out of the four games he has pitched. President Kavanaugh has released Umpire Black and ,wlll finish the season with four umpires McLaughlin, Pfennlnger, Carpenter and Ehret. Manager O'Brien of the Montgomery team has been released, and Ike Durrett, formerly of the Toledo club, has been appointed to succeed him. Durrett, who played with Toledo until last week. Is now playing left He played field with Montgomery. with Montgomery In the sun field during 1903 and 1904. Western Association. BU Bob Talbott, Sedallas heavy-weigpitcher has been released. Seda 11a has signed Tube Hoffman of the Pittsburg Missouri Valley League team. He Is a good catcher and outfielder. 8T0NE. d Id lr 0 be American League Notes. Manager Armour is said to be scouting In Illinois for young talent. McIntyre has Improved In his fielding and is starting his hitting movements again. Stone, of the St. Louis team, was to make a the first American hundred hits. Jimmy Collins at last has come to the conclusion that he must reconstruct his Uoston team. How the bat does ring when Huels-mameets the ball. It has the Labile sound sure enough. The veteran Catcher Charley Farrell has been released by Boston. He expects to retire permanently. Rumor has It that Comlskey and Holmes are on the outs and that "Ducky will soon receive his conge. Detroit papers eay that both Pitcher are Hughes and Catcher Klttrldge anxious to leave Washington and join Detroit. Clarke Griffith Is so well pleased with Dr. Powers work that he will endeavor to obtain the backstop permanently. President Johnson, having seen his new umpire, Connor, perform, pronounces him one of tlue best Indicator-handler- s he has ever seen. George Stone has batted safely for St. Louis in nearly every game this season. His output of safeties Includes many extra base hits. The Detroit critics say that the young first baseman, Lindsay, Is showing up better every day. If he keeps up the present clip he will make good. Since bis appointment as acting manager of the Cleveland team BUI Bradley has recovered his batting eye, and Is now swatting the leather as of yore. d Succeis With Orchards. Orchards can be successfully grown all lr. parts of the temperate their zone, but in many sections success depends on the care given out them. The man that plants make to It and expects orchard an if condiIts owu way may succeed there tions arc exceptionally good, but winthe where are very many places summers ters are too cold and the success the of to too permit are dry of an orchard without cultivation, We have sein spraying, and pruning. which orchards uncultivated many who hoped men have been planted by years. them, but of out fortunes make to them care. Such they forgot to give to be a Poisoning Potato Bugs. orchards almost always prove loss. long ns the potato crop la grow-- ' financial the potnlo bug should bo fought. most Fruit Trees Not Ornamentals. into approved method now prac-tu- t n Insect this All trees are divided naturally ornapoisoning nmis8 Paris green. Some have feared the useful and the groups, two that tt,e Paris green lest the foliage of mental. The useful trees are 'hose trimplant he severely he ? must expert-injured, but all hoar fruit. These vol- show that the Tarls green med and pruned to keep down the t V tly does not Injure the foliage, wood so that fruit productionto (line imeless that it actually Improves It. This mnv be encouraged. It Is an o.na- b said ?l of some other poisons, attempt to use a fruit tree as 1 M The arsenite of lime. Some farm-no- t wi(h rare exceptions. disfigures try to poison the bugs in Amount of pruning required Is neglected a ,, ,umor and early fall, for they ami if such pruning be the result. Will fruit Ptat'Ms have attained their of ,nd the foliage Is therefore of ThcJcfore the practice sometimes fob . Wm,'',i'H,nec. But If the war on h uLm k,pt up tlU the endof the should not hejmeouragod. !rt three-quarte- COLIGNY. light-green- three-cornere- Jiu-Jits- Sandy Ferguson, erstwhile aspirant for Jeffries championship honors, has given up fighting and shipped a& a fisherman on Gloucester mackerel catcher. B. R. Kieran, the Australian amateur champion, In a race at South-porEngland, broke the world's quarter mile swimming record, his time being 5:22 Bobby Walt hour, the speedy southern cyclist, has again won the bicycle championship. The Columbia rider captured the honors at Antwerp, covering the distance in Buffalo Tree Hopper. . The Buffalo tree hopper is a insect, abort of an Inch in length. Wlit appears to be the head, really the thorax. Is large and broad and terminates abruptly, having on either side a short, sharp spine or thorn, somewhat resembling the horn of a buffalo, and from this comes the common name of the insect. This insect feeds upon a great variety of plants. It does its chief Injury while depositing Its eggs, In August. These are deposited In the limbs of various trees, including the will apple. Clean culture of orchards insects. these down to do much keep Where many eggs are deposited on a limb, the only remedy Is to cut oft the limb and burn It, but this may be done In the late fall or early spring, at which times it Is easier than at the present time to discover the eggs. The Chicago Athletic association proved an easy w inner of the highest number of points. In the presence of 2,000 people Prof. Ono, Japanese instructor of at the Annapolis Naval academy, defeated "Rig Tom Frishee of Madison county, North Carolina, In a mixed wrestling match at the Auditorium. The men were matched for the best two out of three falls. Ono secured the first fall In one hoftr and twelve minutes and the second In thirty five seconds. Roth falls were obtained with a strangle hold. Frlsbee falling to the mat exhausted at the end of the second bout. It was brute streugth against oriental science. While on the subject of the super annuated ones I see that It la given out In all seriousness that Parson Davies Is about to take hold of Charlie Mitchell and handle the Englishman against John L. Sullivan. Until this announcement was made I had hoped that the Sullivan Mitchell fight talk had reduced Itself to Just fight talk. Parson Davies is a pretty careful sort of man, one who does not jump hastily at conclusions. I take 11 that Mitchell must have satisfied Davies that there is some fight left In him, or the Parson would never have consented to handle him. Of course, the public Is still in the dark as to Sullivan, after It is granted that Mitchell is all right again. Lou Houseman in Chicago Inter Ocean. Dan Patch was feeling his oats at the Minnesota state fair track, Aug. 3, and came near breaking's record when there was no one to cheer and no official timekeeper in the stand. He was taken out for a trial and stepped the mile in 2:04 flat, finishing the last quarter without the runner and with loose lines. Hersey sent the flyer to the quarter In 0:31, the half In 1:01, In 1:32, and the the mile in 2:04. The track is lightning fast, and Pilot Hersey said that It is the fastest track In America. M. W. Savage is certain that Dan Patch will lower his mark of 1:56 this season, and to Intimate friends says he would not be surprised if this pacer e set the mark at 1:52 or vicinity the season's campaign la ended. The fastest time ever made by any known boat of motor power was developed In a trial test of Inventor Charles P. Herreshoff's torpedo shap ed craft at Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 5 A reporter who had a watch on the boat as she sped over her course and scored a speed of forty-eigmiles an hour for a portion of the trip, and at no time did the craft speed slower than forty miles an hour. The boat Is of aluminum with steel ct. Uss cured, ket are inril the pr W' market U 8reM,er than Ml- in the This horse iv mmM 1 1 w Outfielder of the St. Loui s American League Club. that the Polo grounds are the warmest ball field on the circuit. won the $5,000 Brighton steeplechase and cup, and la perhapa the best Jumper in the Widener barn. Nichols and Gleason of the Quakers, now star In that delightful little playlet. "A Pair of Kids. Fred Clarke rises to remark that he will not quit, baseball until Pittsburg wins another big league pennant. Pitcher Flaherty of the Pittsburg before team, docs a lightning wind-u- p batter. to the ball the shooting Is Bostons mainstay Delahanty with the stick. When a hit Is needed, Del most always delivers the merchandise. It Is said that the New York club offered a big roll of cash for 81 Seymour when the Reds were la New York. mny rigs, and has tank capacity for fifty gallons of gasoline. Her designer refuses to discuss her speed limit, hut It Is conceded she is good for fifty miles an hour In a race, and for the short distance Is capable of from fifty of Augustus Tost, champion American five to sixty miles an hour speed. She the of committee touring o feet long, less than five Automobile association, has resigned.n ls thirty-twfeet and has an engine capable a of beam, quarrel This Is the result e horsepower. the touring and racing factions of seventy-fivA On the considDetroit Post Mr. dispatch says: of the association. was getting strength of her performance at Crosse ered that his department Polnte, when Sadie Mac, 2:06, trot the worst of it and consequently ted a mile In 2:06, an offer of $30, Three-I- . League. round fight at Col-m- 000 has been made for the sensational The twenty-fivhas released Catcher Haute Terre Tur- trotting mare. The offer was made at Rufe 4. between Cal., Aug. or the GrosRe Polnte track to Harry Stln Curtla, who has gone to Cambridge ner of Stockton and Jimmy Gardner son, the successful trainer of the City. King tried at shortstop, has In the part ended early I owell, MasB., right-han- d mare. While I am not at liberty to been succeeded by Dome, who forclean with of the eleventh round mention which merly was with Massillon. names, said Trainer StinRon knockout for the body, It Is true that I have been offered Manager Frank Donnelly, of Spring-field- , been had he as though felled Turner has released Pitchers Swink and On mare. two for all occa the $30,000 The fight hit with a baseball bat. and replaced them by Pitchtwro slons this year 125.000 has been reCrangle, first the except the way through from Chattanooga and ers sevMiss Wilks to In Spencer the fused, refusing part rounds and a short rally the Washington Amerifrom little Miss with Kennedy trotter.' the great enth was all Gardner's. In Galt, Ont., Is cans. resides who in was broken Wilks, record One world's Manager McConnell of Rock Island, meet at the owner, purchasing the mere from the Amateur Athletic union Dos-to- n E. E. Smathers for $13,500. It Is re- has added Twirlera Jones from Terre of Coe W. W. Portland. Oregon. Koh-le- y shot 49 feet ported that the offer was made by Haute (who was exchanged for put the sixteen pound to be reinstated latter the Mr. Miller, for Smath George Spear, acting e Inches, the best previous distance In this event ers, who Is said to he contemplating a after a two months' suspension), Eads being 48 feet 7 Inches. As return to the trotting turf, which Is and Ronln from Deadwood, S. D., infl Rose. he easily defeated Ralph borne out by the fact that he has en Eckstone from Cairo. easterners the be expected, was to Third Baseman Billy Purtell of the Califor-ST- , Lord Derby at Buffalo, and has tered with events, most of the Three-EyDecatur League team, is all his sold out third. thoroughbreds. fair second and Portland lap handicap scratch. In a did the distance he race professional of a This Is in 3:48 second better than any previous rectwo-mll- four-fifth- s a. e Bennett, for a time third base-miand captain of the Guthrie Senators, Is managing the Tusla team la the Missouri Valley league. Ogee Is the name of Oklahoma City's new Indian lnfielder. He will probably be used at short, and Dud Rlsley may go Into the outfield. John Fillman, for three years Joplin's shortstop and captain, recently released to the Kansas Clty.Rloos and then cast off by them, has signed with Wichita. Leavenworth will get Harry Corbin, one of Its last year's stars, back Into the fold. The big player has been working at Winfield, though all the time on a Woodpecker conDad ni tract. Western League. The Sioux City fans believe Jarrott and Newiln have gone stale and have pitched themselves out. The wonder of the Western League just at present Is Frank Shugart at second base for Dcs Moines. Tbls old pal Is playing just as he did In the good old days of '89 and '96. Catcher Babe Towne of Dei Moines, has been exchanged for Tltcher McKay and Catcher Wolfe of Milwaukee. Towne Is a backstop and Is one of the best catchers In the league. Bills and Kostal, the Sioux City Pitchers, are pitching for Keokuk In the Iowa league, and have placed that club well up In the race. Manager Carney still retains a string to these hard-hittin- g |