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Dealer io FRAMES, PICTURE FITTINGS and GLASS in all sizes, Pictures copied and enlarged by home artists, Pictures of family groups, residences, 6tock or any subjects sub-jects taken on the spot. Keep yoai JWoney ot Home. SPRINGVILLE, UTAH. DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm A Few Bints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Dairy Notes. The question of salt is a live one In the large creameries, but receives far too little attention with the Individual farmer. Much of the salt is purchased of the corn?r grocery, and has been exposed ex-posed to no one knows what conditions. It has been cemonstrated that salt does absorb ba" flavors and afterwards 'xansmit it to the butter into which it is worked. This should be kept in the mind of the man that is trying to make good butter. At his home he should have the salt securely protected from odors that would prove deleterious to the butter. That is not all; he must ascertain as-certain that the salt has been thus protected pro-tected before it came into his hands. A li:tle care In this direction may prove of value. It is wise to get the salt from hou.ses that make a specialty of handling han-dling it for dairy purposes. In such cases It is about sure to have been protected pro-tected against unfavorable influences. The pure food law recently passed by the Illinois legislature is likely to be the subject of a good deal of contention con-tention when it gets into actual working work-ing ord'-r. Some of the readings In ths law are very ambiguous and indefinite. Take, foe instance, clause sixth, which Is one of those denning adulterated goods, which reads "if it contain any added substance or ingredient that is poisonous or injurious to health." Under Un-der the law as expressed in this clause the question of preservatives will certainly cer-tainly come up. It must not be forgotten forgot-ten that some of the best workers for the passage of the pure food law are either men that use preservatives in their manufactured products or advertise adver-tise the preservatives in their papers. In other words the men that fought for the law are themselves helping to send out goods that are adulterated under the reading of the clause mentioned. Peaps their hope is to prove that the different chemical preservatives are harmless, that the stomach of man is a sort of chemical laboratory, or should be made so, according to the course followed fol-lowed by Mithridates. . There seems to be no doubt that renovated butter is a perfectly lawful product, in its simple state. Certainly no one can question the right of a farmer to make over hi3 butter if it has too much color or salt or too much water in it. The line cannot be drawn against the renovating process on a larger scale, for what is moral on a small scale is moral on a large scale But when to the simple renovation is added adulteration by formaline forma-line or borax or any other chemical the question assumes a seriousness that makes it the duty of the law to see that the product is at least branded with a name that shall identify it to the buyer. Massachusetts has just passed a law defining process butter as renovated butter. A delegation of the process butter men recently waited on the governor and asked him not to sign the bill till this name had bean eliminated or changed. They suggested "sterilized" butter as an acceptable substitute. Happy thought! They would legally disguise the true character charac-ter of the renovated product by a name that has obtained great honor and pop ularity They would set it on high, far above mere first-class creamery butter. but-ter. Call it "sterilized" butter, and the sick would at once imagine that of all products of the dairy it had the best right to be considered as a part of their bill of fare. What a revenue the proc ess men would reap from the army of Invalids and still greater army of imag inary invalids! However, it is likely that renovated is the term that the dif ferent states will give it, as that is the term exactly describing its character, This term simple justice would dic tate. Poultry Notes. From Farmers' Review: Don't neg lect furnishing your poultry with an abundance of grit and green food, for this keeps them in health and the healthier your breeding stock is the better hatches you will get, and the stronger your young. Of course, you know the stronger the young the better success you will have as to the growth, and the per cent of grown fowls. Don't neglect having the breeding stock exercise, lots of exercise, they cannot have too much to give best re suits. Gather eggs every day and keep in a moderately warm place to prevent the germ becoming chilled. Turn every day and the eggs can safely be incubated after being kept three weeks Provide plenty of nests and plenty of clean nesting, straw or soft hay, this will prevent filthy eggs. Dirty eggs should never be set or marketed. One good cock is enough for 12 or 15 hens, one drake to five ducks, and one gobbler to 10 or 12 hens. It Is not necessary to have a swim ming place for the ducks, but the eggs will give a larger per cent of fertility if they are allowed to swim, then the frogs and frog's eggs furnish them a good food. The first 8 or 10 eggs laid by a duck each season rarely hatch. It is not safe to set them. Furnish plenty of straw in the duck pen and their eggs will not need washing which will lower the per cent of hatching. Keep them penned until nine o'clock in order to gather their eggs, and bring the eggs in of cold mornings as soon after be- In? laid as possible. They might hatch but ths duckling would be weak. Don't neglect to furnish the old ducks char coal and green food." Iet the turkeys have free range if possible, and use turkey hens three or more years old if you can .obtain them. The gobbler doesn't matter so much, but it is better if he is not a yearling. Fppvide warm nests for the sitters, and if the weather is cold don't give more than 15 eggs to a large hen, 13 if small; of ducks eggs, 10 to 12 will be enough; 11 to 12 of turkey eggs. Let the sitters have all the green food, grit, charcoal, whole corn, water and dusting material they want. It is a good plan to sprinkle insect powder in their dust bath; the lice will be scarcer. When the hen hatches It is best to leave the young under her for 24 hours, unless she gets very restless, then quietly remove her and the babies to a clean warm coop. One hen wU easily care for the hatch of two heis if a suitable coop Is prepared. Feed sparingly for several days, and ! either drop the feed on sand and grit. or mix sharp sand in the feed for a few days; they require more grit at first than they will usually pick up. Give warm water In a drinking fountain or improvise one to keep the little chicks out of the water, by drop-Ding drop-Ding rocks in the pan. Ha?ji the rocks large so the chicks may step on them and drink. Keep free of lice. About the Poultry Yr4. Recent experiments have shown tht Bkimmilk is a very valuable food f young chicks, but becomes less va-U-abk- as the chicks get older, though there Is no doubt that skimmilk is always al-ways valuable as a food. But for young growing chicks it seems to oe more than ordinarily valuable. When adiisd to the ration for chicks it increases in-creases the consumption of other foods given. The farmer almost alwayB has a bountiful supply of skimmilk, at least so far as the demands for a ieeu w the chicks is concerned. Meat and milk as part of the ration of the chicks will cause a rapid growth and this is of great importance when we are try ing to get fall layers. In e-rnpriments made in 1897 and 189S at the Indiana Experiment Station Sta-tion 40 young chicks were divided into two equal lota both as to numocr a weight. They 'ere fed on ground food, with green grass, cabbage, rape and lettuce. Both lots were treated alike with the exception that one lot-had lot-had skimmilk and the other did not. At the end of 42 days (in 1898) me lot withmit milk. had eained 124 ounces, and the lot with milk had gained 230 ounces. In the experiment of the year before, one lot without mliK gaineu 192.5 ounces in the same time that the lot with milk gained 355.5 ounces. The cost of the total food was greater wun the milk than without it. but tnis was more than made up by the fact that the cost of one pound of grain was much less in Abe case of uie cmcits that had skimmilk. IJutter Fat. As has been pointed out before in these columns, the per cent of butter fat that milk contains is not depend ent so much on the kind of food the cow eats as on the cow herself, says Coleman's Fairal World. The butter fat content of milk is an individual and inherent characteristic and is not varied hv the character of the food eaten, except within very narrow lim its. It is a characteristic that is transmissible trans-missible by sire and dam to progeny, even through a number of generations and it is because of this fact that we have individuals, herds, families and hrperls that are noted for the large per cent of butter fat found in their milk. One expects a Jersey cow to give rich milk, although the expectation is not always met. From a Ilolstein cow we usually look for a large flow of milk, but not a high per cent of fat. If it were possible to feed fat into milk by giving rich food, it would be an easy matter to get together a herd of cowe that would average 500 pounds of butter but-ter a year by taking a lot of heavy milling Holstein cows and then feeding feed-ing such food as is supposed to add to the fat content of the milk .It is not to be understood that the "butter fat" characteristic is absolutely unchangeable, unchange-able, for such is not the case; but greater changes are made in it by other means than by the food eaten. Exposure to unaccustomed extremes of temperature, rough treatment and other causes of excitement will result iu a material reduction in the per cent of butter fat Hig Goat Ranch. What is to be the biggest goat ranch in the world has recently been started at Lamy Junction, N. M., where the Santa Fe branch leaves the main line, by Robert Foerderer, a morocco and kid manufacturer of Philadelphia, in connection with Lucius Beebe, ai leath er dealer of Boston, and several otk capitalists. They bought what is known as the old Lamy grant from the Manzanares family, at Las Vegas, and have already stocked it wih forty-five forty-five or fifty thousand goats, which are to be used for breeding. Mr. Foerderer is said to use an average of 40.00C skins a day in his own tannery, which he has been getting mostly from Central Cen-tral and South America, but he thinks he can raise them cheaper than It costs to import, and it is contended that the skins of goats and kids brad in that climate are softer and tougher than those from hot and moist countries. coun-tries. The best skins are said to come from the warm, dry regions of northern north-ern Africa. There are many small herds of goats in New Mexico numbering number-ing two or tliree thousand, mostly owned own-ed by native Mexicans, but this is the first time, so far as can be learned, that northern people have gone into the business to any extent. A Money-Making Horse. Hamble-tonian Hamble-tonian 10 Is a familiar name to horsemen, horse-men, but how many know the princely sum he earned for his owner? The grand old horse was twenty years in service and his earnings, beginning with ?425, in the year 1832, gradually mounted until the year 1805, when ho earned his maximum, $57,900, then gradually declined to $15,000 in 1S72. The grand total amounted to $207,200. and the number of his foals was 1,285. Who can estimate the value of a good sire? It is related of his owner that, during the earlier years of Hamble-tonian, Hamble-tonian, he was a poor man and with difficulty escaped having his farm sold to satisfy a mortgage. His friends ad vised him to sell his Abdallah colt, but his reply was "I am too poor to sell so good a colt. My wife and I believe he will some day pay our debts and save our home, but if we sell him the sheriff will sell our home." His expectations were realized and the Abdallah Ab-dallah colt not only lifted the mortgage mort-gage but earned a fortune for Mr. Rysdyk Ex. Bad Result of a Poor Policy. For two years past at least a very largt number of farmers have felt morally certain that good colts would be remunerative, re-munerative, and yet their situation was such that they were wholly unprepared un-prepared to produce them. If during the period of depression the horses on the farms of the west had been culled down so that nothing but good breeding breed-ing stock was retained, the work on the farm would have been just as well done, and even although the farmer during the period of depression might have felt unwilling to pay service fees, still with dawning of better times in the industry he would have been in a position to take advantage of the prospective pros-pective demand and begin breeding horses at once. Instead of this, how- ; ever, it was the best stock that was sold off the farms in the majority of cases and the poor stuff was retained, with the result that very few farmers i are now in a position to breed for two or three good colts in a year, even though satisfied that It would pay to do so. Ex. Exclude Foreign Insects. Massachusetts Massachu-setts has appropriated this year over $200,090 for fighting the gypsy moth. And still the government neglects the simple and inexpensive steps necessary to exclude any new pests which are liable to secure a foothold at any time through the importations of foreign plants or trees. Cows do not like noise or delay. DEWEY'S SUCCESSOR. BEAR ADMIRAL JOHN CRITTENDEN CRITTEN-DEN WATSON, Was Horn In Kentucky and Is of Good Lineage Served ou the Hartford During; the Civil War Embraced by Farragut. Since the assignment of Rear Admiral Ad-miral John Watson to succceed Admiral Dewey in the Philippines was announced an-nounced public interest has been aroused in the man whom the navy de partment considered competent to shoulder the responsibilities so long and ably borne by the nation's hero. There is not an officer in the naval service who is not keenly alive to the cares and perplexities of the situation at Manila, and realizes that there may yet be chances to win unaying glory and fame. "A thousand questions are likely to arise," said Rear Admiral Jcuett, U. S. N., retired known in the service as Fighting Jim Jouett "to ptrplex and bedevil the man who goes out to Manila Man-ila as Dewey's relief. Well, the department, depart-ment, has builded wiser than it knew in ordering Watson to the Philippines. Watson is an admirable compound in character of cool courage in the hour of danger and audacity. He will meet every trick and stratagem of the Filipinos Fil-ipinos with one a little better, and there is not a fitter man in the service for that most difficult Manila detail thaa John Crittenden Watson." John Crittenden Watson comes from good fighting stock. He was born in Frankfort, Ky., in 1S42. His father was Dr. Watson, and his mother was the daughter of ex-Attorney General of the United States and ex-Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, a union man when it required courage to be Buch in Kentucky. It may be stated here as a peculiar fact that some of the most dashing and brilliant officers of our navy came from Kentucky, 1,200 miles from blue water, but so it is. There is Jouett, chief of ADMIRAL them all, in his brilliant record of almost al-most reckless daring, whom Farragut a Tennessee man trusted as he did his good right hand, in the fierce naval eombats of 1862-3-4. Then comes Phythlan Berry, William Nelson, a naval lieutenant, whom President Lincoln Lin-coln made a major general of volunteers, volun-teers, killed in 1862, and latest Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Commander Lucien Young, whose brilliant dash at Santiago is fresh in the country's memory. Rear Admiral Watson is a nephew of the late Major General Thomas L. Crittenden, who commanded the Twentieth Twen-tieth corps, who died shortly after the war. Another uncle was General George P. Crittenden, who went south in 1801 and commanded a division in the confederate con-federate army. Watson was appointed to Annapolis in 1837, in his fifteenth year, the age limit for youth then being be-ing 14 to 20. In 1S61, a passed midshipman, mid-shipman, he was on the Hartford with Farragut, and there won the friendship friend-ship of the great admiral by a feat of courage that was as necessary as it was daring. It was a fine April morning in 1S62, when Farragut's fleet ran by Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, fifty-two miles below New Orleans. The ships of Farragut's fleet were all of wood, and General Duncan, commanding the forts, with his second, Colonel Higgins, thought the Lord had delivered Farragut and his fleet into their hands, as they beheld it coming up, formed in two lines, the Hartford being easily distinguished as the flagship flag-ship by its broad blue admiral's pennant. pen-nant. The forts were admirably arranged ar-ranged for effective gu.r.nery, having a barbette battery of sixty-fours and quick guns that swept the river for miles. Had not Farragut directed his fleet to run in shore and under the gun fire not a ship would ever have got away. The forts are situated on the two banks of the river, and about a mile and a half below each other. As the Hartford passed Fort St. Philip a shower of grape from one oZ the big guns tore the foremast into matchwood, match-wood, and- seriously disabled the sail power of the ship. It was necessary to take in some sail and set others, but the blocks haa jammed and the Hartford was in danger dan-ger of swinging about and running aground. The fire of grape aloft was bo terrible that the command, "Go aloft and clear blocks and tackle on ma;n yard," was not obeyed with that promptness that follows an order given by the commander of a man-of-war. But the hesitance was momentary. "Come on, you sons of seacooks. veiled a voting voice and ud the rat- lines to the disabled rigging went a nidshipman. followed by the entire watch, shamed beyond words at their momentary hesitation. Running out lightly to the end of the yard and standing sixty feet from the deck with the grape clipping ropes and tearing great slivers of wood from mast "and spar, young Watson as calmly gave the necessary orders as if he were at a rractice drill. One after another the raen were struck by the howling storm rt grape and either fell lifeless on the fleck below or was knocked, out of the rigging Into the. river boiling with the HI MIL f0im stroke or shot and shell, but the Indian fighting blood of his heroic ancestry was up and John Crittenden Watson never looked around. When everything was taut and in working order, following follow-ing the "jackies" down, Watson saluted the admiral and reported, "All clear, sir." Grim old Farragut simply seized the daring boy in his arms, and how the crew cheered. "Had we ever got around there the confederate guns would have destroyed us in five minutes," min-utes," said . Fleet Captain Percival Drayton, of the west gulf squadron, as he told the story to Captain, afterward Rear Admiral Bryson. "Young Watson's Wat-son's ready appreciation of the danger and prompt action saved the Hartford in my opinion, and Farragut always thought so, too." There are many people still living in Kentucky who are bound to the incomparable incom-parable Dewey's succcessor by ties of , , , .JV interest ! blood, and who will watch lth interest and nr mp ill?, rai f e ill t"i - " eastern possession. Doubtless they have no fear but that their distinguished distin-guished relative will be able to cope with any and every question, and lend fresh honors and luster to the names of his ancestors. ON A COOLIE SHIP. The Captain Is Constantly Called On to Suppress Fisrltts. We were half through our lunch in the saloon when we heard some horrible horri-ble yells and cries of "Ta! ta!" (Fight! fight!) "Hullo!" the captain said, "another "an-other jolly row downstairs. You stay where you are; you'll find a loaded revolver re-volver in my room for use if any one attempts to molest you." So, lighting his nine and rallins his dog. a fieree- looking English bull, he went on deck to see what was the matter, says Cham- j I'prq' Journal. Broken basins and , lumps of firewood were flying in all directions and knives were drawn-great, drawn-great, ugly looking things. The captain cap-tain elbowed his way among the cool- lies, giving nrst one anu meu auuLuci i a dig in the ribs. One feartul looKing WATSON. coolie, whom they had just doctored, aimed a blow at him with a broken basin, but the dog was too quick for him and brought the fellow down on his back and held him there. The two principal offenders were caught, their heads banged together until they were brought to quietness, then an explanation explana-tion asked. Of course, every one wanted to talk and explain at once, but the captain held up his hand until there was silence, then called one man after another and heard what each had to say, through an interpreter. The row was caused by one man wanting to light his pipe at an opium smoker's lamp. The most trivial things cause most violent fights. I said to the cap tain when it was over: 'Are you not afraid?" "Well," he replied, "to con fess the truth, I am; but to show the least fear among a crowd like that, or to lose your temper, would never do. But I'm getting used to it; these rows occur every time we have coolies, some worse than others." TRIED TO SUICIDE. Recent dispatches from Vienna bring the reports that Count Badeni, former prime minister of Austria, attempted at-tempted suicide several days ago on account of losses sustained on the race course. Count Badeni comes of an Italian family which migrated into Poland Po-land in the sixteenth century and succeeded suc-ceeded in obtaining large estates. COUNT BADENI. After grajuating from the Cracow university, uni-versity, Hadeni entered the service of the statu and rose rapidly in official life. Tte statement is made in the public press that Badeni was really descended de-scended from an Italian cook, and that the family became rich with the wealth of a JaniotiS actress. In any case, the Badeni nobility is of recent creation. the father of the present count having been made a noble just two years be- fnre the hirth of the nresent Counc fla- deni. The fortune of the former pre- . mjer has been estimated at $2,500,000. jn manner he is described as being a jovial and generous man. Didn't Tell It Right. "Why, Perkins, you look all done up?" "So I am; and you've made a-blooming a-blooming idiot of me." "How so, Perkins?" Per-kins?" "Why, didn't you tell me to go over and compliment the lucky plunger by calling him a dog?" "No, Perkins, you've got thirrgs mixed. I told you to go over and compliment th plvwgw oy calling him a .lucky do-" wMLi fir H FABM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some rp-to-Dr.te Hints About Cultivation Cul-tivation of the Soil and Yields Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. Dismembering the Corn riant. A good many experiments have been Made to determine if anything could be gained by cutting off portions of the corn plant during growth. Sometimes Some-times it has been tl roots, sometimes the part of the plant above the ears, and sometimes only the tassels. A part of the experiments have seemed to give fair results, but others have given decidedly bad results. A third class of experiments has been without II. IS UlUUdUIC l"-" gQod wag. oblned wa3 a mere acci- result. It is probable that wnai mite '?nt, for the reason that two plats of torn will never yield exactly the same, even though all conditions are exactly identical. But the trials have proved that at least nothing is gained, and experience would seem to teach that there must be an actual loss. A gen eration ago it was the practice in some parts of the country to cut off the whole of the corn Dlant above the ears immediately after the silk and the pollen were supposed to have done thoir or,rlr Ths farmer thus EOt a great deal of fodaer for his cattle, and imagined that his corn plant would elaborate the same weight of ears without the top as with it. No notice was taken of the fact that the foliage of a plant is needed for the elaboration of the grain of the plant. It is probable prob-able that in most cases the yield of corn was greatly decreased by this practice. The custom without douDi remains to-day, especially in the East- prrl Ktnfpc. u,h,rP the fields are so small in area that the practice of thus robbing' thV rnrn cron can be carried on naturally nnd easily. Root-pruning is another method of dismembering the corn plant that has not proved of advantage. So far as we remember, no experiment at tne sia tions has given results showing an advantage ad-vantage of any kind. In tests at the Illinois station root-pruning reduced the yield about 20 per cent. At the New York station root-pruning the corn crop reduced the yield more than nine bushels per acre in grain and more than 1,000 pounds in fodder. Fighting Fruit Insects. From Farmers' Reveiw: There seems to hn a eeneral impression that the oast hard winter has destroyed nianv of the insects destructive to veg ctatinn nnrt that We Will not b troubled with them to the usual ex tent this season. How true Wis may be generally I am not prepared to say but I find some leaf-eating insects very numerous on young apple trees in the orchards, and requiring immediate attention. at-tention. Application of the Bordeaux Mitnrp with naris ereen added, is iwnmmcniicii. but I would advise in addition to thii, on trees one to thre years planted, inspection of each tree and the removing by nana oi sucn young insects as may be detected. Jarring the trees sharply will cause some of them to fall to the ground, where they may be seen and destroyed. Among these is a large green worm that works on the leaves, and which I find very common this spring. Another insect, sometimes very injurious to newly planted trees, is a large slate-colored slate-colored beetle, nearly an inch in length, with a wicked-looking snout, which works at the base of the young shoots and sometimes strips young trees of all their foliage. If the trees are jarred the beetle will fall to the ground and "play possum." Jarring will also cause many of the canker worms to spin down by their long threads, when they may be seen and killed. Leaf rollers may be found at the ends of the shoots, and should be removed and destroyed, as they arc so well protected by the leaves In which they are wrapped that they may not be affected by spraying. For the currant cur-rant worm on currants and gooseberries, gooseber-ries, spray with arsenites, preferably with Bordeaux Mixture with paris green added, if the fruit is not too near maturity, ma-turity, In which case use pyrethrum. Revival of Horse Breeding. E. E. Chester, in an address to horsemen, said: The few farmers who improved their opportunities during dull times to build up a good breeding herd, and went on raising horses regardless of priceg are now reaping a golden har vest not only in the sale of stock in the market, but in the demand there is for brood mares from other farmers. During the past year there has been an increased interest on the farm, in horse production, and I predict a greater great-er demand the present than for many years in the use of valuable sires. The late M. W. Dunham said only a few weeks ago: "I feel that better times have come for every man in the horse business who grows good ones." In my mind this is the key note to the situation. My neighbor sold three four year old geldings for $100. Another sold three for $900. Each received all his stock were worth. A part of the difference between the two sales represents repre-sents the difference between good sense and bad judgment in a business trans action about five years age. A few, alas very few, farmers read the live stock and farm papers and are keeping posted as to market demands and are furnishing stock of a credit able type, and not one of them has ever been known to express regret when using or selling, that they had taken unusual care in selecting foundation stock, and in keeping posted in vftiat professional horsemen were doing. These are pleased that they were not frightened when it was echoed from every hill side in all the land, back to the valley between the hills, "the day of the horse is pasL" The horse that is best suited to the conditions of the western farm is the draft horse. With fairly good judgment in selection there need be few blanks. The colts and their dams are useful in all the heavy work of tLe farm. They are easily broken to work, and when well fattened are as easily ma:eted a3 a bunch or steers. l ley command ! always good prices, and the : market has never yet been over-' over-' stocked with good ones. The shrewd ; horseman needs not to be told that in the revival of the horse indus- try there is a great field ot usefulness and profit in supplying again these i farmers with stock. All the breeds and classes of horses have their friends on the farms, hence there Is room for all to aid in supplying the demand for horses great and small, fast and Blow, that are best fitted to serve the varied wants of his master man. Sow Some Rape. Many sheep breeders will find It advisable ad-visable to grow rape for their flocks. The plant Is coming more and more favorably into the notice of stockmen, particularly of sheepmen. A visit to the Wisconsin Experiment Station and an inspection of the farms of the sur- rounding country will not fail to con vince one that rape is a good f.ing when properly grown and fed. It has the advantage that it can be grown at almost any time of the summer and prove valuable before frost coraes. With a plant that has to ripen its seed or even its stalk before being usable there is the necessity of considering the length of the growing season. But rae, like the turnip, is not particular. Rape is as easily grown as the turnip. being similar in nature. The fact that it is grown for the top and not for the root makes it available a few weeks after sowing. It will grow on any kind- of soil that has fair treatment, and responds re-sponds quickly to good culture. It is best to sow it not all at one time, but so that a rotation may be obtained Dojrs anri the Price of Mutton. There would seem, at first sight, to be no connection between dogs and the price of mutton, but that there is such a connection is well known tu every man that keeps sheep. In the Western states particularly sheep raising has been abandoned in many localities for the reason that so many big dogs were kept that sheep raising was rendered unprofitable. Were it not for dogs, sheep raising would be common in even our most thickly populated farm sections. Every farmer and even every agricultural specialist would have a little bunch of sheep. This would greatly increase the supplx or our sheep end would correspondingly reduce re-duce the cost of mutton. The increased in-creased price of mutton is the tax the people pay for keeping dogs. Many dog owners object to a dog tax, not realizing that the want of a dog tax is a still heavier tax on their own purees in their mutton bill for the year. Dog taxes should be made so heavy that people could afford to keep only valuable val-uable dogs. American and Kuropran Hay. We are in the habit of supposing that the same plant grown in different differ-ent localities is still the same plant in all essential qualities. But that this is not the case is demonstrated in many things and in many ways. Grass seed produced in England and sown in this country may not in a single season sea-son produce a grass or hay differing very widely from the original, but if the process goes on for a number of years the differences begin to appear and establish themselves as qualities. It was probably in this way all kinds and vareties of plants have been produced pro-duced in the lapse of ages, from a few primeval forms. Central and Northern Europe have a moister climate than has the United States, and this may have much to do in establishing certain cer-tain habits in the plants. Certain it is that the hay produced in Europe contains con-tains less nitrogenous matter and more of the carbo-hydrates. There is also less celiu-ose in the American hay. t ult K at irijr Sulfur Ilocts. In ihc tariy cultivation the ground sk-.u.d -e stirred as deeply as p .-s;hl . To cCi; jmplih this without covering the- plants the ideal implement would be a tuitiva'.or with numerous long. hooked tteih. not more than an inch wide, one which might be culled a cross btt'.scen a harrow and a cultivator. Su.-h cultivators are now on the market. mar-ket. After the beets have become larg er a cultivator with broader shovel3 may be used in order to cut the weeds more effectually, but deep working of the soil should be carefully avoided after it has become filled with the feeding feed-ing roots of the crop. The after cultivation culti-vation should consist in keeping the ground free of weeds and keeping the surface loose, both points being necessary neces-sary to the preservation of the soil moisture. Sowing Tree Seeds. Birch, pine, larch and spruce seed should be sown either in drills or broadcast in beds the latter rart of April. Bed should be raised a trifle and soil raked fine and level before planting. It is very ecsentlal that the seedlings receive partial shade the first year or two, which may be given by placing some brush on top of a framework of poles. The seed of the locust is planted In drills, in the spring, in any good soil. It is scalded before planting, and aa seeds swell they are removed and operation op-eration repeated until all react. Locust Lo-cust seedlings grow very rapidly. Locust beans wll not do very well in such a location, especially if ground is heavy or poorly drained. The added danger from frost vrould also be an objection. ob-jection. Farm, Stock and Home. Sheep Losses on the Ranges. Some of the stack journals are publishing harrowing tales of sheep losses on the range. While it is true that a few sections sec-tions suffered some heavy losses, the range flockmasters as a whole report very light losses indeed. Some of the statements made are so grossly exaggerated ex-aggerated as to merit no attention whatever. Most of the range wool growers have been taught by bitter expeiience what it costs to enter the winter season unprepared. Intelligent flockmasters are now laying in a sufil-cient sufil-cient supply of hay to meet any and all contingencies. American Sheep Breeder. Yolk of the Egg. The yolk situated in the center of the egg as far as possible, pos-sible, is of a very valuable character, being composed of albuminous substances, sub-stances, fat and has also contained a small proportion of mineral salts. It is doubtless known by the keen observer observ-er that the odoriferous aroma given off froai a rotten egg owes its origin chiefly chief-ly to the decay of the yolk, which, containing, con-taining, as it does sulphur, gives off sulphuretted hydrogen, also noticeable in decaying vegetables. Altogether the albuminoids from 13 per cent, fat3 11 per cent, and salts or mineral matter 1 per tent. Ex. Tamworth Association Officers. The newly elected officers of the American Tamworth Swine Record Association are as follows: President, Edwin O. Wood, Flint, Mich.; secretary, E. N. Ball, Hamburg, Mich.; directors (in addition ad-dition to the president and secretary), T. L. Endsley, Charleston, 111.; John Fulton, Jr., Brownsville, Ont.; F. H. Rankin, Jr., Flint, Mich. The association asso-ciation is in a splendid and prosperous condition, and the Tamworth is gaining gain-ing in favor among breeders In the corn belt and throughout the United States and Canada. E. N. 6ah, secretary. sec-retary. The Ives Grape. Sylvester Johnson of Indiana says that the Ives grape is one of the best, as it will always bear. It is not yet popular, but one reason for that 13 that it turns black long before be-fore it is ripe and people begin to, eat it too soon, thinking it ripe. Let it hang for three weeks after it gets black and it will be found to be a very good grape for eating. Nitrates furnish the most readily available forms of nitrogen. The most common are nitrate of soda and nitrate ni-trate of potash (saltpeter). Bacillus (plural. Bacilli) Is a or kind, o: Bacterium. genu. |