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Show setisie THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell-- . Time BY AMELIA E. BARR. -Author of Th. Bow ( Th Or.,. Mld (Copyritht. 1901. Rjbboo- by Dodd. Mead .- ,. XhovI and Ltne. Etc. Compaoy. AU ,h. Qn. . ri.ht. reserved , CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) They were not Poor "I have only been In London three Rupert! That happy apart. affliction will bring was ill de at I Wick. became him to days. and then what will unconscious at my fathers burial. You the King shore, do for money? remember Anthony Lynn, the tanner He is said now to be in great need and carrier, Jane?" of it, though Prince Rupert sent homt Yes. . a rich prize this past summer; and He has bought de Wick from the tls further said he resigned his own Parliament. He was very share of it to his cousin, Charles Stukind to me, and he knew his place; art. I on faith! but my nearly lost my Twould be most like him." senses when I saw him sitting In my This conversation had many sides chair. father's Well, then, I am now and deviations, and the night was far In London, and all roads lead from spent when Matilda was willing to London. I shall not longer spoil my And in the morning, while sleep. eyes for the Fen country. But, oh, they ate breakfast together, the subJane, the melancholy Ouse country! ject was renewed; for sorrow is selThe black, melancholy Ouse, with its fish and Matilda that she had sullen water and muddy banks. No never even asked forgot after the welfare of wonder men turned traitors In it" Janes family. And Jane only leaned close, and Jane returned to her home Boon closer to the sad, sick girl. She un- after breakfast, and her mother met derstood that Matilda must complain her with a I was goface. a little, and she was not unwilling to ing to send smiling the coach for you, she let the dreary meadows of the Ouse said, for there is to be company tobear the burden. So the short after- night, and then she looked at Jane noon wore away to Janes tender min- so intelligently that the girl underistrations without one cross word. stood at once what was meant. In her visit she had yielded to Early Is it Cluny? she asked, blushing Matildas entreaties, had sent home brightly. her carriage, and promised to remain Yes. He has asked for an interall night. She dismissed Delia and view with your father, and I suppose herself undressed her friend as tender- that it is granted, for 1 was told of a could as mother have ly done; and the matter. when the tired head was laid on the Mother, dear, will you speak in her she arms under it and our favor? put pillow kissed and drew the happy, grateful If needs be, Jane. But I am of girl to her heart, and said some of this opinion some one has spoken those sweet, foolish words which, already. alas! too often become a forgotten Do you mean the Lord General? tongue. Matilda answered them in I wouldnt wonder if he has said the same tender, broken patois Dear the two or three words that would heart! Sweet heart! Darling Jane! move your father more than any Go to the little drawer in my toilet woman's talk or tears. Keep your table and bring me a picture you will bravery, Jane; fnther likes women find there. It is in an ivory box, Jane, that stand up for themselves. and here is the key. And Jane went It was evening when Cluny came and found the miniature she had once and he was taken at once to the got a glimpse of, and she laid it in room in which Gen. Swaffham was Matilda's hand. And the girl kissed smoking his pipe. it and said, "Look here, Jane, and tell Good evening, sir, he answered to me who it is. Sit down. You Clunys greeting. Then Jane looked earnestly at the have requested speech with me; talk handsome, melancholy, haughty face; straight, out, then. I am here. General, to ask for at the black hair cut straight across the brows and flowing In curls over your daughter's band. I love her. I the laced collar and steel corselet, and have enough for our necessities and X good-nig- determination to keep her husband near him. Neither was Jane at all avers to London. Cluny was in London, and Matilda was there, and most of the girls whom she had known all her life long. And if Jane accepted willingly this change of life, Matilda took her phase of it still more enthusiastically. She was not long in discovering that it was in her power to be virtual mistress of the Jevery mansion. Her youth, her beauty and her many sorrows inclined Sir Thomas Jevery's heart to sympathy, and this prepossession grew rapidly to devoted affection. She was considering one morning a string of Orient pearls, wondering if they could be worn with her new damasse gown, when Jane entered her dressing roem. Jane Swaffham,' she cried with delight, I'll swear I was just wishing for you. Stephen is here. Will you see him? I will not, answered Jane posiI will not come to question tively Do about him if he is discovered. not ask me to put myself in such a strait, Matilda. It is far better 1 should be able to say, I have not seen him. Jane, I will tell you a piteous tale. 'Tls of our late Queen. She is so wretchedly poor, and since her son returned to their miserable little court" in the Louvre, so 'twould make you weep to hear of her. Stephen came with Sir Hugh Belward to get some money on Bat . ward. How does Sir Hugh Belward hope to get money on Belward? He Is proscribed. His younger brother joined the Parliament, and he left the estate in his care. And his brother has turned traitor to him, and would give him nothing but permission to ride away as secretly as he came. But oh, Jane! and then Mathe poor, poor Queen! tilda went into some details of the piteous straits and dependencies and insults the widowed woman had been obliged to bear. Jane listened silently, but there were tears in her eyes; and when Matilda said, I have given her the jewel the gracious King sent me by my beloved Prince Rupert, and also, what moneys I could getv from my Uncle Jevery, Jane added: , I have ten pieces of gold that are altogether my own, I will give them to her. I will send the gold by a sure messenger Matilda did not urge her to remain, and Jane was eager to get away. When Bhe reached home, her father was walking about the parlor and talking in an excited manner to his wife. He showed much discontent, and as he walked and talked he rattled his sword ominously to his words. (To be continued.) broken-hearte- HE STOPPED THE BELL. With the gallant she lifted her eyes to Matilda's, but she did not like to speak. Matilda smiled rapturously and said: "It is not Impossible, Jane, though 1 see you think so. He loves me. He has vowed to marry me, or to marry no one else. But but he cannot marry you. He will not be allowed. Half a dozen kings and queens would rise up to prevent it for I am sure I know the face. Who is it, Jane? Whisper the words to me. Who Is it, dear heart? And Jane stooped to the face on the pillow and whispered: Prince Rupert And as the name fell on her ear, Matildas face grew heavenly sweet and tender, she smiled and sighed, and softly echoed Janes last word Rupert CHAPTER VII. Two Love Affairs. Matildas confession brought on a which lasted many conversation hours. The seal of silence having been broken, the sick and sorrowful girl eagerly took the consolation her confidence procured her. She related with an impulsive frankness often with bitter, though healing tears the story of her love for the gallant Royalist leader. Jane, think of my father and mother dead of grief, and of my three brothers two slain in battle, one Rewandering, I know not where. member that with my fathers death died all my own hopes regarding my lover. And when father had been three days in his grave, and I lay at point of death, Anthony Lynn came with his Parliamentary title to our house and lands. I was at his mercy, at his charity, Jane. Well, and if so, many favors he and his have received from your family. All he is worth he owes to your father. He was kind and respectful; I am very sensible of that Then, speaking with her old pershe said suddenly, emptoriness, But for Gods sake let me ask when you heard anything of Prince Ru- pert? You know that he was made admiral of the Royalist navy; but indeed, he is said to be nothing else but a pirate, robbing all ships that he may support the Stuart family at The Ha fie. r of the King tie is the as well as nis defender. So much I knew, and 'tis well done in him. The latest news is the drowning of Prince Maurice. That is the worst of news. Rupert loved this brother of his so tenderly. bread-finde- Royalist leader. somewhat for our comfort and we are both willing to take love as security for our contentment. And though the words were such ordinary ones, the young mans heart throbbed in them, and the father felt it. Gen. Swaffham looked at Neville silently for a few moments and then said, I will not be unkind to either you or my daughter; but there must be no leap in the dark, or In a hurry. Take five years to learn how to live together fifty years. I waited six years for my wife; Jacob waited fourteen for Rachael. "Sir, we live not by 'centuries, as Jacob did if it would please you to say two years. I have said five, and verily it shall be five. Cannot you wait and serve for five years? If not, your love is but a summer fruit, and 'Jane Swaffham is worthy of something better. Sir, I fentreat. I am no coward, but I cannot bear to think of five years. There is I have said my say. nothing to add or to take from it Then Cluny perceived that entreaty would only weaken his cause, and he advanced and offered his hand, saying, I am much in your debt sir, 'Tis more than I deserve, but Love must always beg more than his desert And Gen. Swaffhams voice trembled perceptibly as he answered: "You have time and opportunity to win your way to my heart, then I will give you a son's place Go and ask Jane; she will tell you I have done kindly and wisely. And Cluny bowed and went silently to seek his betrothed. Your father says we are to wait five years, sweet Jane; and tis a hard condition. I know not how I am to endure it And Jane smiled and began to talk over with her lover the hard condition, and somehow it became an easy and reasonable one. They soon saw it through Love and Hope and Wisdom, and so at the beginning of their of probation, they rejoiced in the end Applicant Had Good Right to Demand a Free Seat The requests for theater favors in the small towns are very troublesome, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Every person of local standing feels that he has a right to admission at least, while the trustees and the constable feel that they are entitled to private boxes. Some of the requests are decidedly unique. Recently a company played in small Southern city. The manager was taking the tickets at the door of the theater, and the natives were struggling to get in. Suddenly, he tells, a long, thin, bushy chinned individual divided the folding doors with his shoulder, whispered confidentially: I stop the bell. I asked him I stop the bell, he said to repeat. again, in a hoarse whisper. You will have to see the opera house manager and tell him what you stop, I said, reaching for tickets. He tripped up several ladles while backing out. Soon the manager' of the house came in, saying, Hes all right, he stops the bell. I allowed him to go in, and after the people were seated I asked the local man what he meant by he stops the bell.' Well, said he, this man is the janitor of the Town Hall, right opposite, and on show nights he does not ring 9 or 10 on the town clock. You see, he said, it would disturb the performance, and so the poor people do not know what time it is until 11 o'clock when the opera house is open. If I had turned him down he wbuld have rung out 9 or 10 every half hour to get even." THE YOUNG MAN REMEMBERED. Judges Words of Caution Returned at Inopportune Time. A good story is going the rounds of the Memphis bar on Judge John T, Moss, of the criminal court, that will bear repetition, says the Memphis Scimitar. It was during the days that his honor was making the canvass before the people tor the position he now holds. Prior to that time Judge Moss had not acquired the smoking habit, and he was opposed to young men especially going around with cigars or cigar ettes in their mouths. One day he met a young man whom he knew well with a cigar in his mouth. After shaking him by the hand the judge said: My friend, dont smoke; its a very The young man desisted, bad habit as requested. During the hottest portion of the campaign last summer Judge Moss carried cigars around in his pockets with which to treat his friends. One day he met the young man before mentioned and after talking for some time, during which 'he mentioned the fact that he was a candidate for criminal court judge, he reached back into his coat pocket and pulled out a cigar. Wont you have, a smoke? he said. thank you. Judge; its a very "No, it habit bad new to the itself settled soon Life conditions of the Swaffhams. The Another Point of View. General, in spite of his wifes and After all, remarked the old bachedaughters disapproval, bought the Is but a lottery. Sandys House near Russel square lor, marriage That's where your trolley jumps and some of the most precious heirthe victim of a looms of old Swaffham were brought the wire, rejoined When a roan matrimonial trust. to adorn it London to up draws a blank in a lottery be can tear Mrs. Swaffham was well content In the end of Social by nature, fond of it up, and thats London. the stir and news of life, enjoying How He Won Her. even the shadow of her old friends ambition should Your She the and taking and splendor, power events higher. greatest Interest in all public He I dont see why. You are nearof the time, she was pleased rather as tall as I am. than otherwise at the Lord Generals ly it uasewpipwee LIVE STOCK Purifying Milk by Centrifugal Separa-toon- . In spite of every effort at cleanliness, some impurities usually find their way Into milk. These may be substances which, are more or less soluble in milk and which no means can effectually remove, says bulletin 162 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. On the other hand, the Impurities may be solids and In part or completely removable by straining, filtering, or centrifugal separation. method is claimed The bj good authority to remove practically all solid impurities from milk. In this method the milk is run through the centrifugal separator in the usual way and the cream and skim milk are then mixed, the impurities being slime. removed with the separator This use of the centrifugal separator as a purifier of milk intended for retail trade has already reached some The disadcommercial importance. vantages of the method, as pointed out by O. F. Hunziker in a recent bulletin of the New York Cornell Station, are the time and cost Involved, and especially the fact that skim milk and cream when once separated do not mix well and when reunited the cream does not rise as abundantly as in fresh milk. As the consumer judges the richness of milk largely by the amount of cream that rises on It, he naturally and unjustly regards centrifuged milk as an article poor in fat and is unwilling to pay the price it is really worth, The effect of centrifugal separation upon the bacteria in milk has lately been studied at the Iowa station. In seven experiments at different times during the year determinations were made of the number of bacteria present in whole milk and in the mixed skim milk and cream which had The passed through the separator. reduction in the number of bacteria in the different experiments due to centrifugal separation varied from 15 to 51 per cent At the end of twenty-fouhours milk which had been separated and afterwards mixed contained on an average considerably less acid than nonseparated milk. The keeping qualities of the milk, however, were considered as improved but lttle, if any, by separation. In eight other experiments at the same station it was found that the skim milk contained on an average about 29 per cent of the number of germs present in the whole milk, the cream 24 per cent, and the separator slime 47 per cent The results of these experiments with those obagree substantially Centained by other investigators. trifugal separation removes a good many germs from milk, but does not insure the complete removal of bacteria, and it does not, according to the Iowa station, improve to any great extent the keeping qualities of the milk. Its chief advantage lies in the removal of solid I mpuritles. disease- -producing Feeding the Skimmilk Calf. In nature, the calf gets its milk often but in small quantities and always at blood temperature. In this espect we should imitate nature as far as possible. At first the calf should not be fed over ten pounds daily (one quart equals about two pounds), divided into three messes lour pounds in the morning, two pounds at noon, and tour pounds at night. This quantity may be increased gradually to twelve pounds per day. After two weeks the milk may be fed only twice daily. Since the calf is a very greedy animal, there is often a great temptation to give it more milk than it can properly handle, thus causing scours. Over feeding is undoubtedly one of the main reasons why so many farmers fall in raising good calves on skim milk. The quantity of milk should be weighed or measured at each feed. Calves from tree to five weeks of age will consume from ten to twelve pounds daily; when from seven to eight weeks old fourteen to sixteen pounds dally; and when three or four months old from eighteen to twenty pounds. Calf milk should always be fed warm and sweet. If Impossible to have the milk sweet all the time, then it should be fed sour every time. It is possible to raise good calves on sour milk, but it is impossible to raise good calves and have sweet milk one meal and sour the next. D. H. Otis. The Milkers Responsibility, When a man is milking he should bear in mind that he is handling food product which will undoubtedly be placed on the tables of many people in essentially the same condition that it is obtained from him, says Prof. E. H. Farrington. He should be just as particular and as careful when milking to supply his customers or for a factory as he is when filling the glass pitcher which his wife or child brings him when milking and asks to have it filled for bis own supper table, Milk and its products are, as a rule, used raw with all the impurities that may have gotten into them on the way from the cow to the table and the consumer does not like to be reminded of these possibilities of contamination by the appearance of the milk when he gets It. Milk is sometimes a source of positive danger to a community, as it has been demonstrated that diseases may be spread by this food product from one farm to many households. When such contagious diseases as typhoid feer, diphtheria, scarlet fever, etc., occur in a family selling milk, the fact should at once be made known to the proper authorities and the milk produced on that farm should be disposed of as rected by them. If a young mans parents are able and willing to have him take a full agricultural course in a college or university, he should go by all means. T. B. Terry. A Boss Estimate. Do you think you are giving your asked the city a good government? earnest man. "Well, answered Mr. De Graft after some deliberation; its as good is money can buy. AGmetfETCPE Discomfort Stock, to do their best, need to be comfortable as well as warm. The two do not always go together, although they ought to. Stock may be warmly sheltered, and still be uncomfortable. If they are, they will not thrive, as every good farmer knows. Extra feed may make up for lack of shelter, and keep the animals warm, the only loss being to the farmer who furnishes three dollars worth of corn meal to do what one dollars worth of battens would have done; but no amount of extra feed will make up directly for loss of comfort. Animals will. In time, get used to almost any treatment, I know; but wouldnt it be better and more profitable to make them comfortable from the first? There Is very little money in the wintering of stock, at the best; and can we afford to have cows give less milk, or steers take on less flesh, than they ought to, simply because they are not comfortable? Some years ago I wintered a score of steers coming three years old. They had evidently never been in Btan chions, but had always run loose. I used stanchions in my barn, and with great deal of trouble and coaxing we got these wild fellows all fastened in. Then I gave them the best of feed In abundance; but they wove so uucomfortable that they did not do it justice. By being very quiet and patient with them we got them broken so they would go Into the stanchions without much trouble, after a while, but they did not get thoroughly used to them, so as to be perfectly comfortable, In all winter. They were very much more comfortable along toward spring than when first put in. but not thoroughly so. I never worked harder over a lot of cattle and never succeeded so poorly. They were not comfortable, and no amount of warm shelter and good care and I am feed would make up for it perfectly satisfied that, could they have been tied up they would have been easy almost from the first start, and that the result would nave been far more satisfactory. T. B. Terry. Our Foreign Trade In Apples. Shrinkage in Cured Hay. The United States is the greatest The variations in weight of hay are perhaps more marked than in most apple exporting country in the world, farm products, says Farmers Bulletin and Indications point to a still greater 149 A considerable difference in development along this line. As yet shrinkage occurs between hay cured no country exports very heavily of In dry weather and hay cured when apples, and our exports of 1,655,247 the atmosphere is more or less moist. barrels during the fiscal year ending For this reason the shrinkage in hay June 30, 1903, broke the worlds recIn a dry climate Is usually smaller ord. As there are three bushels of than in the more humid regions. At apples in a standard barrel, this exthe Kansas station small quantities portation amounts to almost five milof thirteen different kinds of hay lion bushels. Most of the trade in exburled in the mow from four to six port apples is transacted between months shrunk 4.5 per cent on an September and January, though some average, ranging from a 14 per cent exporting is done in every month of loss to a 3 per cent gain. Five tons the year except May and June. .This of very dry timothy hay stored in a year a few shipments of apples were mow for six months at the Michigan made in July and August, largely station lost nearly 7 per cent, and in as an experiment The exportation of another test 5,600 pounds of the same summer apples is never likely to be kind of hay in a good condition placed much of a factor in our foreign trade, In the mow July 6 had lost 776 pounds for two reasons: one, because the earor 13.3 per cent by February 18 fol- ly fruit will never keep well for a long lowing. Practical men estimate that time, even in cold storage; and, two, hay put in the mow when in good because this kind of fruit comes into condition usually shrinks about 20 per competition with European apples, cent by the time It is baled. The which consist principally of summer Utah station has reported a loss of a and fall varieties. Our advantage over Europe in the apple market rests little over 15 per cent in a ton of timothy bay after it had been kept in on our ability to produce winter apthe barn for nine months. A stack ples while they cannot of timothy hay containing a little over By the end of December the Eutwo tons and built in the open had ropean apple is out of the race, and gained a little over 1 per cent during the American and Canadian apples the same time. The results with have the field to themselves. The clover bay at the same station show apples that arrive in England and on a loss of 3.75 per cent during nine the Continent in January are our best months when kept in the bam and a winter keepers and are in good degain of 10 per cent for the same pe- mand after that time. A few years riod when stacked out of doors. At ago nearly all of the apples sent over the Missouri station timothy hay in were sold by December, but Improved the stack lost about 12.5 per cent by cold storage facilities have made it spring, and when stored in the mow possible to extend the time of sale, about 7 per cent A stack of second-growt- much to the advantage of the Amerclover put up at this same ican fruit shipper. While the bulk of station in July had shrunk about 80 our apples are now disposed of by th per cent in weight by tne following end of January, thousands of barrels are not sent over till late winter and March. The results of experiments conearly spring, when they bring a still ducted by different stations show that better price. It may be interesting the degree of maturity at which hay is to note that even in May and Jana of 1903 months in which no apples cut influences very largely the shrinkage during curing. At the Pennsyl- are generally exported the exportavania station early cut bay lost on an tions amounted to over 20.000 barrels. The apples exported are mostly average of 29 per cent in weight, while late cut hay lost only 21.5 per raised in Northern United States, and the Testing cent Timothy cut when jurt begin- are shipped mainly from Boston, New At the Illinois Experiment Station ning to head lost 75 per cent of water York and Portland. Boston and New Professor Mumford has been testing in curing; when cut at the York handle over 80 per cent of the beginning r as against of the blossoming the value of a 66 per cent; entire trade. San Francisco is, howperiod, of steers, as to effect on and cut a little later, or about the ever, developing 4nto quite an export the steers. Ten steers were fed by usual time, 57 per cent The Michi- lng center for apples, between 20,000 After gan station found a shrinkage of about and 85,000 barrels going out every hand and ten by a keeping the animals on full feed for 60 per cent in curing clover. At tbs year to Australia, China and Japan. days, they were last week sold at New York state station meadow About 400 car loads of apples mostly the Chicago stockyards, bringing 5.40 fescue mixed with a little red clover Newton pippins are now annually per 100 weight About a year ago lost in one lot 62.68 per cent and in shipped from California eastward they were bought for $4.85 per 100 another 58.25 per cent during curing. across the continent and sent to Eng. weight The resuts of the test are as The moisture retained in cured fodder land, where they are very popular. follows: varies with different kinds. Atwater The English market wants a green or . r ates that for New England timothy yellow apple, while the Germans pro (lbs.) hay retains on an average 12 per cent fer red and the French russet A re2510.00 Total gain of moisture, clover hay 14 per cent, cent report of the department of staAverage gain .... 251.00 tistics of the United States shows that and corn fodder 25 per cenL 2.561 Av. daily gain we are exporting apples to 61 nations eaten Grain or dependencies; but that our great per Feeding Alfalfa to 8tock. 2194.30 steer Alfalfa should not be pastured until market is Great Britain, which takes Grain eaten dally It has matured a goodly hardy crown annually over 80 per cent of our en22.00 per steer and root system to enable it to with - , tire exports. Germany takes about r It will be seen that the year. but France as stand the trampling of stock, says a 40000 barrel I cattle gained each .235 more per day bulletin of the Texas station. y0t uke only bout 1,000 barrels. At than toe hand-festeers, but used 2.4 ( jeaat two years should be allowed the During the last fiscal year Europe crop for this purpose, and even more paid American fruit growers over four would be conducive to a hardy crop. million dollars for apples. The apple If green feed is desired the alfalfa contains about 84 per cent of water can be cut and fed as a soiling crop and six per cent of sugar, which this time. Spring pasturing of means that 90 per cent of this fruit would be worth 1.2 cents, or about during Produced from water and air. Thia alfaIta u responsible for the disap- toe same as the value of the grain. , makes a profitable combination to sell ance of m gtand8 So far as the effects on the catUe are thlg Ume of lg juBt re. abroad. It pleases the Europeans and concerned It would appear that self; covering from the effeVctg of Iow tem. keeps the fertility in our farms. It are and feeding perature and needB a of ltB ene rglea. isn't every nation that can change equal It is impossible to feeu any u cut durl , , alckl9 water and blue sky into steers bunches two and have the . of , Jr earl vil.- t.- vthe apples. Farmers' Review. .' results exactly the same, even if both 1)0 not turn a or anl' hunf5ry bunches be fed the same way. Inclmal Into an alfalfa field. By observing The 8trawberry. be dental variation must always this rule and further accustoming The growing of strawberries is a counted on and unless there is quits them to increasing question that should Interest every a wide difference in tbe results, the their time itof by gradually feeding, little or no in- man who has a farm of garden. A experiment must be regarded as effect will accompany the pas-- few years ago the average farmer This appears to be the jurious turing of horses and hogs. Cattle are had the idea that strawberry growcase in tbe experiment reported. more liable to bloat, and even with ing was something of a specialty, and toe best of care and attention fatal quite beyond the reach of the ordiBetter Farming. cases will occur. Soiling cattle is the nary, every-dafanner or Among the different topics discussed safest method of feeding them alfalfa. This erroneous impression, I am at the Farmers Institute meetings, The Kansas station estimated tbe pleased to say, is fast passing away, perhaps none has received so little value of green alfalfa fed for seventy-fou- r and a good many farmers are now attention as this subject, and yet it days to dairy cattle at 825.26 growing their own berries. But still is one of great importance. Many per acre. Profitable results have been there are many who do not, and I farmers have not even thought of it; secured by feeding alfalfa to steers, claim that at the present time there some have given it considerable study care being exercised to prevent scour- Is no excuse for a man who holds and attention, and have learned to ing, by gradually increasing toe even a small bit of land in falling to know the value of it, says A. C. Hall- amount to the maximum quantity. provide a sufficient supply of fresh man in an Ontario repprt Pigs thrive on alfalfa pasture twelve berries for his own table, and enough Not More Land, but Better Farm- to fifteen head of pigs may be turned for preserving for the winter months. ing. Tbe farmer has many hard prob- on an acre of alfalfa with the best re- - The strawberry has many good points lems to solve at the present time, and suits. In combination with a finishing to recommend it It is the first fruit especially the young farmer or begin- ration of grain it is most effective. to ripen in the spring, after a long ner. On many farms tbe soil is de- Experiments in feedng alfalfa to winter without fresh fruit It will pleted of its vegetable deposits or hu- horses indicate that toe cost of main- produce more fruit per acre or for mus through the old system of farm- tenance is reduced. space planted than any other fruit we ing. Our produce from the exhausted have. It comes to maturity and into In term Is. Bromus has to compete with the products soil full bearing in a shorter space of time Bromus lnermls (smooth, awnless, than of the new countries with their virgin any other fruit, yielding a full is a very soil, and with the West, where the or Hungarian Brome-grass- ) crop about thirteen months from the land is cheap and fertile. We are all hardy perennial grass, with smooth, time of setting out the bed. It clamoring after more acres, when the upright stems from 18 indies to 3ft on almost all soils and under object in many cases should be bet- feet high, and with open panicles or almost all conditions, and will grow seed heads 4 to 8 inches long. It has and ripen over a wider range of territer and more intensive farming. Very few of us are so fortunately sit- a very heavy system of roots and un- tory, and under a greater variation of which after it la temperature than most fruits. On uated that we can add more acres, derground but nearly all of us can increase toe well established makes a very tough of its creeping habit of growth, producing capacity of our land by im- sod and gives it great it is easily protected during the winproved and advanced methods of farm- qualities. It is a native of Europe and ter months in very cold climates by a ing, thereby enriching the soil so Asia, and has been known for over a covering of straw or other mulch.- that in some cases double the hundred years, but was not cultivated F. A. Shepperd. amount of crops can be grown until a few years ago, because it was from the same farm. This is worth a thought It would become a pest simi, Forests Make Home. great deal more than additional land. lar to quack grass if cultivated. DurYou can never afford to forget for can the come that has the many last decade, it things Among very one moment what is the object of our help ing us are catch crops." There is no rapidly into prominence In this coun- forest policy. That object is not to definite time for sowing them. They try. It has been grown in most of preserve the forests because they are sown at any time, or with the Western and Northwestern states beautiful, though that is good in itself, may be other crops in the summer season. and has been reported on by the nor because they are refuges for the Nor is there any particular kind of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, wild creatures of the wilderness, crop. Any crop that is suited to Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Ida- though that, too, is good in Itself; but the particular time of sowing ho experiment stations. These re- the primary object of our forest polwill be satisfactory. Where toe ports have been favorable to the grass. icy, as of the land policy of toe United land is in good heart, clean and Because of Its great States, is the making of prosperous plenty of vegetable deposit (humus) qualities. Bromus inermls Is especial- homes. It is part of the traditional mixed with grass, ranks very ly adapted to the drier portions of the policy of home making of our country. clover, high. If the season is favorable it state and will grow in places where Every other consideration comes as will give an abundance of fall pas- none of the other tame grasses will secondary. The whole effort of th ture, and in many cases with the roots urvive. It is also well adapted to government in dealing with the forand tops, will put as much back into practically every other portion of the ests must be directed to this end, the ground as the grain crop takes out tate, as it is able to thrive under keeping in view the fact that it is of the land. In nearly all cases the vet conditions as well as dry. It also not only necessary to start the homes fertilizing value of the stalks is worth nakes a good growth In shady places, as prosperous, but to keep them so. much more than the seed cost 'here most other grasses will not do That is why the forest! have got to It will produce most abundant-- v be kept You can start a prosperous veil ,,n rich heavy soils, but will grow home by destroying the forests, but The beauty of waiting on a family table is that you never have time to p -- th n soil better than most of you cannot keep it prosperous that mtie- frame Kansas Report. way. President Roosevelt. get hungry yourself. What to Eat hand-feedin- Self-fed- j I I hand-feedin- g , .... 1 y stock-raise- suo-cee- root-stalk- drouth-resistin- drouth-resistin- pi-- - g g ' |