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Show i. t. - . V ' ABAE-TEBE- LIFE. D HA"LAKDA&b IY MAR83N than these that met the parting smile he cast up at the parljr window when he gained the pavement, whereas Mr. Withers stalked solemnly on, apparently forgetful already that he had e home and wife, now that his face was set "Shadow and sunshine! reflected the gazer. And they are not more unlike in countenance than in dispositions, aims and conduct as dissimilar as two upright men can be. Harriet's shallow treble sounded at her elbow like a repetition of ths last thought. "No one would ever take them to be relatives," she said. Yet each is excellent in his way. Dont you think so?" Yes, answered Constance, moving eyes office-war- INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) It was October befoie the family made a formal removal to town. One of the brothers, sometimes both, spent two or three days a week there in September, and, since the uncertain sunshine and cold rains of autumn the ladies, for the most part, to the house, they were ready to second the proposition to seek their winter quarters. Edward Withers was regularly Installed as one of his brothers household, and under his auspices city life also put on a new face for Constance. He had a box at the opera, and Elnathan was foremost to suggest that should accompany him Constance than any other young woman I know. Yes, I can ask no more enviable lot for our girls than one like hers. According to these Irrefragable authorities, then, our heroine had steered clear of the rock upon which so many of her age and sex have split; kept out of the current that would have stranded her, high and forlorn, upon the barren headlands of celibacy; had, virtuously eschewing crude Instinct, and heart promptings, and natural laws (fit only, in Mrs. Ilomaine's creed, for the guidance of beasts, and birds, and other irrational things), rendered just and graceful obedience to the equitable principle prescribed and practiced ly thither. the autocrats of the "best circles. That is, when you are not engaged These burning and shining to escort single ladies, added the se- cease not, night nor day, to warn oft the impetuous young from the nior, with a dry smile. rigors Which will not happen often 'f I and desolation of Scylla, and cast such can have my sisters company in3ead, illusive glare upon Charybdis as makes replied the other, cordially. "But can- its Beething rapids seem a Pacific of not we make up a family party of four delicious calm. for night? I can promise CHAPTER VII. you a treat. "Musical treats, when they are opPON as smooth a are was thrown away upon me, eratic, current were Conthe answer. "But I am anxious that stance Withers Constance shall keep up her practicconscience and prudence rocked ing, and, to this end, desire her to have to every opportunity of improving her sleep during the taste and style.k You and she can give mouths of early home concerts of the latest gems in that winter. Winthis line for Harriet's benefit and ter! Never had mine. summer been so reto the Harriet applauded the idea plete with light echo, and was careful that he should and warmth. There not regret the young peoples absence is a divine delight in the slow sweep on the evenings they spent abroad, of the outer circles of the maelstrom; playing chess with him for a couple of the half consciousness of the awakenhours, and then reading aloud mone- ing heart, like that of the babe who, tary or political articles selected by aroused from slumber by his mother's himself until he dropped into a doze. voice, smiles recognition of the dear They were left thus to themselves more music before his eyes are unsealed by and more as the season advanced. In- her kisses, or his head is nestled upon vitations to parties, concerts and din- her bosom. ners rained in upon Mrs. and the That to every human heart such Messrs. Withers, and to most of these awakening comes, sooner or later, I Constance went, attended by Edward hold and believe for certain. Deserts only. Mr. Withers had never been so- of salt and bitterness there are in the cial from inclination, and he was only spiritual as well as in the material too glad to delegate his duties in this world; but there was a time when the line to his wife, now that the protec- Creator, whose name is Love, pronounced them very good, when as tion of his brother rendered his attendance' unnecessary. yet the flood, and the rain of fire and. Constance did not confess in words brimstone had not made havoc of ail to herself how greatly her pleasure was their pleasant things, nor the soft soil augmented by the exchange of escorts. been hardened into flint and gravel by It was natural that a man of her hus- dearth and heat. And, to that garden band's age and disposition should pre- of the Lord's planting there came a day When or of what duration He knows, fer his own fireside to dancing and small talk, and a wearisome feint of and perchance He alone when the hearkening to harmonies that were un- south wind blew softly, and all the intelligible and without sweetness to spices thereof flowed out spikenard him. She enjoyed gay scenes with an and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, easier conscience that she did not eee with all trees of frakincense, myrrh his grave visage at every turn of the and aloes. have been but for one glad hour one moment of bewilwaltz or promenade and was not haunted by the thought of her selfishness In dering bliss, that the heart thus visited having dragged him from his beloved was transformed Into a fountain of retirement. How much this feeling of gardens, a well of living waters and streams from Lebanon. The next may relief was intensified by the circumstance that her willing cavalier was the have witnessed the rush of the deluge most delightful talker, one of the best or the bursting of the pitchy cloud; dancers, and assuredly the most grace- and behold! in place of Eden, a lair fully attentive to his fair charge in the of wild beasts, a house full of doleful cordon of beaux who frequented the creatures, meet for the dwelling of owls fashionable resorts just named, did and the dance of satja. not enter into her complacent calculaOther visions than these images of tions. She was on excellent terms with woe and terror abode with Constance; herself and all about her at this junc- formless fancies, fair as vague; speture. The acquaintances who had cious reveries in which she lived carped at her reserve and want of ani- through coming years as she was domation in the few assemblies at which ing now, surrounded by the same outsho had appeared as a bride candidly ward comforts; her steps guarded by avowed that nothing could be more the same friend, whose mere presence charming than her affability and gay meant contentment; with whom the interchange of thought and feeling left good humor, and that Bhe was far handsomer than they had supposed at first nothing to be desired from human sympathy. It was a severe shock that sight. showed her the precipice upon the a, , The more captious subjoined, that it was evident she appreci- flowery verge of which she lay dreamated (convenient word !) Mr. Edward ing. The brothers were, one morning, disWithers, and how fortunate she was in securing the services of an escort so cussing at breakfast ths merits of a pair nnexceptionable in every particular, of horses that had been offered for since her husband seemed to have re- sale to the elder. For a wonder Ednounced society just as she fairly en- ward displayed more caution in accepttered it. , ing the jockeys declaration of their But, subjoined No, 2, audibly de- fitness for family use than did his livered, "people had different ways of staid relatives. Mr. Withers was very looking at these things, and, so long as obstinate in his adherence to what ever Mr. Withers lived happily with his principle or prejudice he believed that wife, and countenanced her In all that he had seen cause to adopt, and his she did, whose business was it to hint eye bad been captivated by the showy team; his credulous hearing gained by at impropriety or misplaced confithe adroit tongue of tbe dealer. All dence? That Mr. WTthers did countenance that Edwards dlssuasiors could effect his wife in her lively career was not to was acquiescence in his proposal that be denied.' It gratified him to see her, they should try the horses before the magnificently dressed, go forth to gath- sleigh that afternoon, before deciding erings at which, as he was sure to hear upon the purchase. Harriet clapped her hands vivaciousafterward, she was the object of general admiration for her beauty and vi- ly. And then youll drive by and give vacity. It tickled his vanity to have us a turn behind the beauties. I am her do the honors of his mansion to a sure they must be heavenly from what choice company of Edward's friends Cousin Elnathan says. I am wild to and hers people in whose eyes he, the see them! "There is a look in the eye of one sedate millionaire, could never hope to he more than the respectful representa- that bespeaks the spirit of another tive of his money bags. They were glad region, said Edward, apart to Conto congregate in his stately salon stance. Dont ride after them! she ennow, to partake of his fine old wines and excellent viands, and unite in laud- treated, quickly. "Your brother will ations of the handsome woman who yield if you tell him plainly how unbore his name. Adulation did not safe you consider them. .Not unsafe for him and myself, spoil her, he was pleased to observe. She had never been more deferential perhaps; but hardly the creatures to be In her deportment to himself, more entrusted with your life and limb, he ready to consult and obey him than rejoined. "Rest assured that I shall when the star of her popularity was make a thorough test of them before highest and brightest. In this she tes- consenting to the venture. I shall drive tified her good sense and feeling heart. them myself, and speak out frankly To whom should she be grateful and the result of the trial. In whatever dutiful if not to her benefactor, the else we may differ, Elnathan and I are architect of her fortune and happiness? a unit in our care for your welfare. Association with him and with his So, if we show ourselves and the heavbrother had developed her finely. He enly span of quadrupeds at the door took credit to himself for the penetratoday, you need not fear to accept our tion that had detected the germs of so invitation. much that was estimable and attracThe gentle and affectionate reassurance contrasted pleasantly with Mr. tive when she was Btill in the obscurmandate. authoritative Witherss ity of her brothers bouse. "A happy family, a thoroughly "Constance! you will hold yourself in remarked readiness to drive out with us this afestablishment, Charles Romaine to his wife, at the ternoon. We shall call for you at three close of a visit they paid his sister in o clock. I wish you and Harriet to be entirely prepared for the ride when January. "Constance should be thankful to us all her days for opposing her we come. Young horses do not like to absurd transendentalism about conge- stand in the cold." An impulse she did not stay to deniality and mutual attraction and the like puerile nonsense. What a wreck fine drew Constance to the window as Bhe would have made of her happiness the two gentlemen descended the front had he been left to pursue the course steps side by side. Mr. Withers was a dictaiid by her own eaprices! I hope, trifle the taller of the two, but his Margaret, that we shall not have to figure was angular and unbending; Edward's supple and elegant, while combat the like errors in our daughexters when they grow up. scarcely a trace of family likeness "Constance had a fund of strong isted between the swarthy visage of the eyes, long upcommon sense in spite of her crudely elder, with its deep-snarrow forehead, and high, lip, extravagant theories upon certain subper jects, rejoined Mrs. Romaine. Thanks and the lively glance, clear complexion, to it, and, as you justly observe, to and spirited mouth that made Edwards our counsels, she has married better physiognomy a goodly sight to more icn-fine- d sub-ros- et LIVESTOCK t d. eciME Mixed Rations for Farm Horses. One Cause for Poor Stock. Ponda for Geese. About the Farm. H. T. Thompson, of Illinois, In an Many horse feeders regard oats as From No! Farmers Review; From Farmers Reviow: almost doubtless is address .to horticulturists, said: and it Forty necessary, As the demand for stocks increased, ears ago this summer we tors down a true that in large regions of the Unit- knowing just what is meant by the nurserymen looked about for seed to large shed about 100 feet of a circle, ed Stales the most common ration for term ponds. I will treat the subject grow stock to graft on. They sent to which my father had built about ten horses consists of oats and hay, with oft the more general term, all waters France for their seed, because it was years before on high ground. The an occasional bran mash. In the for geese, whether ponds, running cheaper; some of it they procured In manure was well cleaned up and South and West coru seems to be the streams or pools of water, We have most common feed, especially in rural raised geese for twenty or more years this country. It all came from the hauled to other parts of the away. same source, the cider mill. It is a field. The land has been farmed every districts. Many experiments have on a farm where geese have access Only their ways are so different! fact that for many years year in corn, oats, rye or timothy been reported which support tho to all of these retreats. We must not 1 like Elnathan at least only the wormy, scabby, poor meadow. No manure or fertilizer has theory that horses may be satisfac- forget that the goose is a water fowl, persisted the cousin. best; of course, but Edward Is the more apples go to the mill to make cider. been put on that part of the field dur- torily fed and reasonable combination and water seems to be her chief popular man of the two, I believe isnt Still these goor, sickly scrubs are ing these forty years, but each year of wholesome materials which supplies source of pleasure. As to the benehe? used to grow the foundation of our tue crops grow much faster and ranker the required nutrients In due propor- fits to be derived from a running I really do not know! Constance apple trees. If what 1 have referred on the spot where the shed was than tion. In other words, protein and en- stream, its chief benefit is In the left the room uttering the falsehood. to is true of the animal and vegetable any other part of the field. The clr ergy are required by the animal body early spring, when ponds and pools Harriet had a trick of making her creation, is It any wonder that we are cumferenceof the shed can bo traced rather than any special feed. Believ- are frozen. They seek these retreats, intensely uncomfortable whenever the growing a generation of enfeebled, in the crop and a difference seen as ing that more horses should he raised and in their sportive exercise, frolio-intalk between them turned upon the worthless and bathing, they are led to coand that an economic system of feed apple trees? Just so long far as one can r :a the field. brothers. as this is continued in propagating would be an Incentive to horse habit early in the year, so that our ing In and and oats, meadow, pastures I hate comparisons! she said to hertrees, just so long will we meet with fence rows, the yellow dock, bur- breeders, C. W. Eurkett of the New early eggs are Just as fertile as the self, when she reached her room. And disaster, and we shall deserve it. Is along dock and thistle seem to grow thicker Hampshire Station, recently studied later ones. During the long and init is forward and indelicate in her to it any wonder that so many of our tnan ever. They ought to be cut and the comparative value of a number of active winter these occasional outings institute them in my hearing. trees struggle for a f?w years killed before the seed forms to spread mixed rations with the station farm produce a healthy aud vigorous body, Convinced that the sudden heat and then die? along horses during a period of two years. this being conducive to the fertility You might as well and seed the entire farm. warming her heart and cheeks was ex- build a house and set it on a weak The rations were so planned that an of their eggs. Of course these beneCan of me readers tell how, any your cited by Harriets impertinence, she foundation, to be blown the first, to kill abundance of nutritive material was fits accrue also from the pond after away by door-yara in plantain made it her business to stop thinking first You may ask without were the season opens Were I asked that gale passes. and cultivating it; supplied by grain mixtures which plowing of the conversation and its origin so me I would do to remedy this second, how what than the whether I considered the pond of oats. Throughout cheaper to kill and surest easiest soon as she could dismiss It and turn trouble. I will answer, do the same a much value in goose culture, I would patch of Canada thistles; third, how greater part of the experimental period her attention to pleasanter things. It as the Our geese prudent herdsman does with to get rid of rats around house, barn hay was fed with the grain. During say emphatically, yes. was more innocent and agreeable work his .herd, select the very best and and other buildings, O. Dinwiddle, In- a part of the time corn fodder was (true to goose nature) seek out these for instance, to write out Edwards part used. The comparative merits of the ponds and pool retreats, And have stock he can get to breed diana. of a new duet upon a fair sheet of strongest from. The same as the thrifty farmfollowing five rations were studied in many times remained in and around which he could hold in his hand er paper select the best seed he can The experience of our correspon- the first test: Hay 10 pounds, bran 2 them for several days at a time, when as he stood by her at the piano, the find.does, I would do the same with the pounds, corn 6 pounds, and gluten feed the season is warm and wet, and have printed copy being so blurred as to try apple, select seed to grow stock to dent, as noted above, gives very val- 6 pounds; bay 10, bran 2, coru 6, oats remained several days without returnuable information. We have heard it his eyes. He was very slightly near8; hay 10, corn 8, and bran 7; hay 10, ing home, and then only to lay, and graft on from the very best and hardisighted, although a casual acquaintance est that can be found, and in the asserted that the effects of stable ma- corn 8, linseed oil meal 4: and hay 10, off again for these summer resorts of nure could be seen for would not have suspected it Sh course of time you will grow a race from the time it was twenty years But cottonseed meal 1, bran 2 and corn 8. the goose family. Aside from the applied. copied music legibly and rapidly, and of Norsemen that will outride here is a man who sees its effects forty Each of Ihe five horses Included in the healthy exercise they obtain much lately had hit upon this happy device anysturdy that comes their way. gale of making him some poor return for years from the time of its application, investigation received one of the ra- nourishment in a variety of forms. For some years a few nurserymen, and there 13 no the manifold services he had rendered good reason to doubt tions for one month, the rations being While our geese are out thus foragin Wisconsin and Minne- that its will be still evident for rotated, so that during the five months ing, some of our neighbors her. All that I can do leaves me de- principally geese, In have this way; some years to come. It is an selected seed sota, I apparent of the test each horse was fd ali the which are less fortunate, loungv plorably In his debt, she reasoned. success. met One have with they good The of were rations. some tact around on or a manure tho meadow rest conthat barnyard following never knew what was the fullness md helps crops of me that he had done so of all kinds to reslHt drouth, as the the conclusions arrived at: siderable part of the time. I have disinterestedness of a brothers love un- for them told several years. When the hard til I met him. But all brothers are not Any food stuff or combination of also noticed that some of our neighplants stimulated by barnyard manure so considerate or devoted as is he. I winter of 1898 and 1899 came he hard root deeper and grow ranker, thus food stuffs furnishing the desirable bors geese apparently wait until a tree. a are lost that There ly many should understand that. shading the ground and preventing nutrient at least cost should be con- shower furnishes a pool in order to might be called advanced bortlcultur evaporation except TO BS CONTI VOS 0. through the plants sidered In preparing rations for horses. make it convenient for them to coIn Minnesota and ists, especially Iowa, themselves. The suggestion as to the A mixture of bran and corn, half and habit. It is certainly true that a pond to Wisconsin, who are trying produce HOW TO ESCAPE LIGHTNING. a better and hardier class of trees by cutting of the weeds is timely and half, Is a good substitute for corn conduces much to the fertility of eggs, should be acted upon at once. and oats for feeding work horses. in stimulating their sexual organisms. best and Some Practical Corn stover is a gooa substitute for We breed only the two buff varieties, Doatj for tba Protent selecting seeds from the We our readers answer will the hope hardiest apples and raising seedlings, Stormy Seaton. Canada thistles timothy hay for winter feeding ol and in keeping a careful record of queries as to Here are some seasonable donts some by hybridizing and then plant- and rats. Theplantain, editor of the Farmers' horses because of its feeding value, eggs set, I find that from 60 to 100 for use in thunderstorms. Remember ing seeds from the best of these Review has found that digging up plan- the yield per acre and commercial per cent of eggs In setting have crosses. If In this procmy opinion. that the dangers from lightning are tain is the quickest and fiiest way to value. A change from a grain mix- hatched. Of course not grain stuffed ess were for several continued genern based on of linseed until abnormally fat Had I no water, physical causes. ations we should create a race of get rid of it. With a sharp knife one ture, consisting partially Lightning is merely electricity in a or oil does not I would certainly have at least a largo can meal, off cut slowly abruptly, the the below Just plants state of explosion. Its freaks, so call- hardy stock and quality of the best, surface of the in horses tub planted level with the ground alcause a decrease of weight found He has ground. or. In the language of the herdsmen, ed, while they are seemingly unextho Canada If a proper substitute ration is fed. ways filled with water during This has probably that the only way to kill pure bloods. plainable, are really founded on physi- been thistles is to keep them cut down, The average total cost per year for early spring and during the mating than with carried further plums cal laws and conditions. These laws other fruit, and with marked suc- A sharp hoe is very good for this work, actual food supply per horse was season. I have said nothing of beneand conditions are simple, but for this any cess. I asked one of the men who has The writer was brought up on a New 274.32. The average cost Tor food per fits derived in growing geese, but for work done during two years them from the point of rapid growth very reason, probably, few persons pay worked on this line for years, If you England farm where the fight against hours was 3.4 cents. any heed to them when the heavens should I think the pond very valuable after tho Canada was and thistle a thousand perennial, pits gathered burst forth in a Titanic upheaval and from plant the gosling has grown its wing feathwhat would be can boast of having had experience in fruit, ordinary ferked arrows of Jove shoot overhead the chance There Is no short and Feeding the Brood Bow In Montana, ers, and even very young geese wo of getting really good this regard. at the nimble pace of 238,000 miles a fruit? A bulletin of the Montana station have allowed to run to these places He said, easy way by which to get rid of this Very little, second. The following rules, based on I then asked pest. Repeatedly cutting them off at says: The brood sow can forage the and they seemed to grow with that might get one or two. l.ghtnlngs probable course, are worth him, Suppose you selected from tbe the ground will destroy them in the greater part of the year. During the mushroom speed so peculiar to geese. pasting In your hat or stowing away best, what, then, would be your end. As to rats we have found that later stages of pregnancy r a little If ponds are Infested with turtles, no somewhere in a mental pigeon hole: chance of getting choice fruit? He phosphorus in some form or other is grain food should be supplied, tbe goslings will long survive if allowed Dont crawl into a feather bed; beds much better, espe- very effective. It can generally be ob- amount depending upon her condition to enter the pond. J. H. Leatherman, answered, Very have often been struck by lightning. cially if the seed is taken from the tained at drug stores under tho name of flesh; this, however, will not be Medina county, Ohio. Dont stand in a crowd; crowds at- stock that has been bred in this way of electric paste. Of course it has necessary during the time she is tract electricity. for several generations. It is the to be placed where other animals or gleaning from the grain fields. The From Lice. , Protect Fowls Dont lean against an elevated rail- same with those who are trying to children cannot get at it forage in general being leguminous From Farmers Review: road pillar, confident that the Manhatcereal the grains may be tection of fowls from lice Theoneproany one of Improve the apple in the same way, is of tan system is too slow to be struck by They always select seeds from the food. While as used supplementary Some Tame Grasses in Kansas. the litter access should al- the essential points in raising poulanything so rapid as electricity. Light- best. Many of our best and hardiest nursing In getting show birds. Prof. A. M. Ten Eyck of the Kanning has an affinity for iron. ways be given to the forage grounds try, especially have been produced in this way. sas Station, in a bulletin on meadow when possible, and a liberal grain I find by close observation during my Dont go into a high building; high recent years of experience along this fescue, says: The fact that meadow ration fed. Raspberry Came Blight Immediately after farbuildings act as targets for the bolts of line that there are two different famFrom The Farmers Review: Will fescue has proven to be a profitable of a ration feed light sloppy rowing jupiter. Dont sit by an open window; Unti- some reader of the Farmers Review crop fthen grown for seed has per- consisting of skim milk, shorts, bran ilies of these troublesome pests. The please tell me what is the matter with haps caused it to be valued more high and oats is most satisfactory; tbe small mites that are found about and ling comes in at windows. the roosts and the large lice tbat Dont wear corsets; corset steels have my red raspberry bushes? Inside of ly as a pasture and hay grass than it heavier grain foods can be gradually on two days something like a blight came really deserves. Although no good added. During the period of rest or breed on the fowls. The last menan affinity for lightning. them, which destroyed all clusters comparative tests have been recorded, early pregnancy in tbe winter months tioned are not very hard to get rid ot Dont sit in front of an open fire- on of promis'd berries. They looked as yet the general use of the grass at the brood sow can be maintained on if each fowl is dusted liberally with has a place; lightning great attraction if were but such was this station has shown it to be inferior sugar beets, carrots or mangolds with some good Insect powder occasionalburned they up; for fireplaces. not the case, as we had plenty of rain to orchard grass, both as a bay and a ration, added. ly. A convenient time to apply this grain Dont sit under a ohandelier. and favorable weather. Would you pasture grass. It does fairly well for Spring furrowing baa hitherto been is after they have gone to roost The Dont go into a cellar; lightning al- advise out tbe old brush as pasture when sown with orchard favored, but tbe climatic and food first mentioned are the ones that take ways follows the pipes leading to the soon ascutting done bearing? At what sea- grass, the two grasses making a bet- conditions are such that fall litters persistent effort to keep down. The ground. son shall I cut back the new growth? ter sod than does orchard grass alone. can be bandied almost equally well. following rules strictly adhered to are Dont stand in the street. The winds I break as good as I have been able to find: off just before they get For pasture it Is usual to sow about them whirling past the big buildings make a above the fruit branches. (2) fifteen pounds each of orchard First, clean your house thoroughly ot Raise More bearing Pigs. path for thunderbolts. At what time should cherry pits be and meadow fescue with three orgrass tour When pigs are handled in a proper droppings, litter and cobwebs, eta, Dont wear cheap jewelry brass is planted? Must they freeze before pounds of red clover per acre. Brome way they prove profitable to the farm- and burn plenty of brimstone In 1L In an easy conductor of electricity. coming up? Will the Oxheart cherry grass (Bromus lnermis) has only been er. There are ways of handling and Then whitewash it, using plenty ot no wear metalUs to apis it safest fact, grow to bear in this country. F. L. grown at this station in a field way feeding that will make them unprofitcarbolic acid in the mixture. Then, pendages. Gage, Fond du Lac County. Wla. after scalding roosts with hot water, for four has It been are cut able for there years. and of ways handling facts go to show that The queries were submitted to Prof. hay and seed and is being used for that will make them profitable. Tho paint them with lice paint, and yon certain drees materials have some in- E. P. Sandstdn, of the Wisconsin Stapasture the present season. As far variety to be kept will often deter- have a clean house. Keep dropping fluence in augmenting or decreasing tion, who as it has been tried, It is far superior mine tbe results. Vhen there is little boards clean every day and have replies as follows: the dangers of lightning. The Romans (1) It is difficult to tell what the to meadow fescue both as a hay and pasture for them the number kept roosts painted over every two or wore sealskin as a precaution, and were trouble is with your subscribers raspis more productive, It pasture grass. should be small, as pigs fed a ration three weeks, and the victory is alsealbelief in so positive their that berry canes. There are several dis- more hardy, a better drought-resister- , of grain only cannot generally yield most if not entirely won. If one uses e skin tents were built where timid peo-pi- eases which Infest them, but Judging thrives in wet a It is possible to have so an incubator he need not be bothered makes weather, too, profit. could take refuge during storms. from the description I should say a better sod, stock eat it tbat they will be unprofit- with lice on young chickens, but with and many pigs readily, Silk is also claimed to be a that it was raspberry cane blight It is practically equal in value able; but the trouble is generally the hens the battle is on. These are my When lightning struck the is supposed to be a fungous disease. to the meadow fescue. feeding I have little other way. Not enough pigs are be- plans, which I find are very successchurch of It generally attacks the bearing canes, hesitation In it for ing raised on American farms. Tbe ful : Dust the hen when set thoroughrecommending Two who were three priests officiating. causing them to turn black at about a planting for all parts of the state as farmers are all too generally depend- ly with insect powder, then again the outwere killed wore cotton vestments f time when tbe fruit is ripe. far west as Ellis county. It will ing on one crop of pigs a year to third week, and then again when done right, while the third, whose robe was The disease appears during all kinds doubtless thrive best in the northern give them a profit Tbe high cost of batching, also all the little fellows, of seasons, and it in many instances counties of the state. At the Fort winter feed has stimulated this move- and put in a coop that you feel sure silk, was uninjured. It Is the custom of the Indians to tbe causes considerable damage. The Hays Branch Station, Superintendent ment; but tbe process should be re- Is free of lice. Cleanliness, first, last present day to take shelter under a young canes are, as a rule, not Haney reports a poor catch and crop versed. We must have more fail pigs and all the time, Is the prevention In a peotree soon As as blighted canes ap- from sowings made last fall. beech fact, during storm; The and use our wits in getting cheap feed which is worth several pounds of cure. P. B. Harshman, ple in the state of Tennessee consider pear they should be carefully cut off spring sowings are much better. At for tbem. Moultrie this an absolute refuge of safety. No and burned. It will not make any this station both fall and spring sowcounty, Illinois. difference whether the ings have succeeded well. Bromus instance has been recorded of a beech particular Fruit Displays. tree being struck by lightning. New canes are pruned back or not Prun- lnermis may be sown broadcast, on The time of year is near when disThe Guinea Hen and Hawke. ing, or pinching, as it is called, has land prepared as described above, at plays of fruit are looked for at fairs York Journal. Is a superstition that a few guiIt not proven to be of any particular ben- the rate of 18 to 20 pounds of Already tbe hortigood ana conventions. efit to the fruiting capacity of ths seed per acre. cultural societies are sending out cir- nea hens In a flock of fowls will keep Yacht Pillows. canes. Spraying has not proven efculars urging fruit growers to be pres- away hawks, and some farmers purA dozen handsome pillows lately alfective disease. this is It against ent at their meetings with displays. chase the Guinea fowls for this purcovNational a canoe were and Buttermakers. made for a yacht to cut advisable out old ways the We can but exhort in the same di- pose. But it is doubtful if they have h awning-clotand ered with We have received a communication canes as soon as they have fruited, any value at all for this purpose. A from E. Sudendorf, secretary of the rection. Much good has been done by duck. The colors were those not easily the younger ones which are to National tbe fruit exhibitions of the past; still poultryman that breeds them says affected by tbe sun or water, and when giving Buttermakers AsCreamery fruit the next season a chance to demore Bhould be done in the future. that it is a mistake, and that hawks sociation, announcing that the execupiled together were decidedly effective. velop. care nothing for them. This is probMore people should contest for the one white and committee of of the scarlet tive was One association has stripe, (2) Cherry stones or pits should be ably the case. Thus another popular The a are school in displays colprizes. come to some the conclusion and of green and white plain as follows: The whole cherries vention should be held that no con- which the intelligent farmer takes up belief is shattered. The Guinea hen kept ors were used. The pillowe were each or barrel until next convention will bethis year. The and keeps up the study of varieties of is also credited with being a good 'may be left in a held at SL marked with the name of the owner, they become soft pall wateb-dog- , and decay so that setting up a great clatter fruit One of the great weaknesses of on 1904. The committee in artistic letters, which were placed the pits will separate and wash out Louis Oct. the approach of midnight maraudso our far has been the small displays one below the other with a little space easily. They should then be placed In recognizes the liberality of the offer of ers.. The facts in the case seem to be Sioux Falls to entertain the delegates number of persons participating. that the Guinea hen between each one. As the letters were boxes as follows: First a layer of this frequently takes Often fruit will be growers leading and feel that one were year, of the of good size they quite decorative. moist sand in the bottom of the box, it into her bead to set up a clatter lound the entire conventions constituting group earliest should go to that They were worked with marking cot- then a thin layer of pits, another layer of showers of fruit. Some of them whether there are marauders or not. ton warranted not to fade, and filled of sand and so on until the box is full, city. We understand that the Califorwill have their exhibits in nearly all This Is, however, nothing against Guiare to nians endeavoring get the conwith curled hair. New York Evening The box should then be buried in tho vention for 1905, San Francisco being classes. Not infrequently a very large nea hens, as they are producers of ' Post. ground about four inches below the the As all the prepart of the aggregate display is made very edible flesh and are very profitadesignated. surface in a place well drained, and viouscity Not. Coal" Of conventions have been held east by one man. As a result, a consider- ble to raise. Doubtless they will releft to remain until the following Y. alts "That is a pretty good story able amount of only common fruit is ceive more attention from breeders cf the Rockies and the eastern butterWeary spring. This would , give . the pits a makers would like to see tbe Pacific shown, though some of the product in the future than they have received you tell, but it wont work. to freeze and thaw during the Course It wont Watkins the chances of the Californians Dyou chance may be exceptionally fine. The show- in the past. thus making It possible for slope, s'pose Id be travelin around with it winter, obtaining what they are after are man is not to be blamed, but rs".sr to break the young plants through pits doubtless good. announce London correspondents if it did? Indianapolis Journal. commended, as he has simply occuafter they are planted. The pits are vacant space. What we want Is that It is the policy of the British govpied Difference of Opinion. in rows three feet generally planted Trans-al- l The permanence of effect is one of a great number of people showing ernment to hereafter govern the Ted "Whats the name of that sub- apart and about one to two inches as a crown colony in the strictest and Tho peo- apart in the rows. They should be the most valuable characteristics of only their very best product urb Tom moved to? Ned sense of the term, that is, by officials farmyard manure, as, if once applied metbods. ple who live there say it Is Paradise given frequent cultivation throughout from England and backed appointed It benefits in The while a all the else calls Beason. the Oxheart the it rotation, everybody Park, cherry has crops No man can hope to be happily mar- by a large aud permanent military not a in success, In Wisconsin. rotation. the jumping-of- f proven place. ried unless he is a good listener. - well-know- - g d -- 1 well-know- one-thir- d Well-attest- Chauteau-neuf-le-Moutie- rs one-hal- sail-clot- h, 20-2- |