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Show she did not feel grateful for an affection that would not recognize its limits, and was determined to force itself beyond them. She entered Sandys with the spring all about her; her fair face rosy with the fresh wind, and her eyes full of the sunshine. Cymiin and Stephen were sitting by the fireside talking of Irish hounds and of a new bit for restive horses which Cymiin had invented. When Jane entered, Cymiin aDd Stephen both rose to meet her. Cymiin was kind with the condescension of a brother. He spoke to her as he spoke to creatures weaker than himself, and kissed her with the air of a king kissing a subject he loved to honor. Then he made an excuse to the stables and gave Stephen his opportunity. The young man had kept hts eye fixed on the beautiful face and slender form of the girl he loved. He went to her and clasped her hands and said with a passionate eagerness. Jane, dearest! I have come again to ask you to marry me. Say one good, kind word. When you were not as high as my heart, you did promise to be my wile. I vow you did! Stephen, 1 knew not then what You were as a marriage meant brother to me. I love you yet as I loved you then. I cannot be your wife. I am already plighted. To Lord Neville. You shall never marry him. I forbid it. I will hunt him to the gates of death. It is sinful to say such things.. Let my sins alone. I am not in the humor to be sorry for them. I say again, you shall not marry that scoundrelly Scot. He is not what you call him far from it. I call things by their right names. I call a Scot a Scot, and a scoundrel, a scoundrel. He threw her hands far from him and strode up and down the room, desperate and full of wrath. You shall marry no man but myself. Before earth and heaven you shall! If God wills, I shall marry Lord Neville. Oh, Jane! I shall go to total ruin if you do not marry me. Shall I marry a man who is not lord of himseli? I will not. You have made me your enemy. What follows is your own fault. 'Tis a poor love that turns to hatred; and you can do no more than you are let do. You will see. By my soul, 'tis truth! Oh, tis ten thousand pities you will not love me! It is nowise possible, Stephen." He flung himself into a chair, laid his arms upon the table and buried Go away, then, his face in them. he sobbed, I wish to see your face no more. For your sake, I will hate all women forever. (To be continued.) THE LIONS WHELP A Story of Cromwell's Time BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "The Bow of 1 (CoMriKht. tm. Onm. -- Ribbon." I. Thovl ,nd ths 0th.r Maiden Lane. Etc. Mead 4 Company. All rUhs, reserved ) hm Maid of by Dodd. CHAPTER VII. (Continued.) 'Cromwell wants only that Parliament should Know its own mind, and declare itself dissolved. God knows it is high time, but Vane, and more with him, wouid sit while life lasts. Jlartha, my heart is troubled within me. Have we got rid of one tyrant railing himself King, to give obedience to a hundred tyrants calling themselves Parliament? It shall not be so. As the Loid iiveth, verily, it si. all net! Tuere was a meeting of the Council at the Speakers house the night after Israel Swaffhams indignant protest agairst Parliament, and Cromwell, sitting among those mer. was scornfully argry at their deliberations. His passion for public and social justice burned, and in a thunderous speech, lit by flashes of blinding wrath, he spoke out of a fall and determined heart. Then he mounted his horse and rode homeward. CHAPTER VIII. Upon the Threshold. If we believe that life is worth living, our belief helps to create that fact, for faith is in matters of the spirit all that courage is in practical affairs. To Jane and Cluny this belief was not difficult, for limitation always works for happiness, and during the ensiling year life kept within the bounds of their mutual probation and of Clunys military duties, was full of' happy meetings and partings; days in which Love waited on Duty, and again, days in which Love was lord of every hour; when they wandered together in the Park like two happy children, or, if the weather was unfit, sat dreaming in the stately rooms of Sandys about the little gray house in Fifes hire, which was to be their own sweet home. So the weeks and months went by, and though they were not alike, they had that happy similitude which c . do to keep my own share of your friendship from fraying. Now. I must tell you something myconcerning self. I am goirg to France. ranee!" cried Jane in amazement, es, F ranee. I have persuaded my uncle that he ought to go there, and look after his affairs. I have persuaded my aunt that it is not safe for my uncle to go without her, and they both Know my reason for going with them, although we do not name Prince Rupert. "When do yon go, Matilda? if Stephen he ready. And let me tell you, Jane, Stephen s readiness depends on you." That is not so. it is. I hope you will he definite, Jane. You have kept poor Stephen dangling af.er jou since you were ten years old." What about Cymiin and yourself? Then Matilda laugheu. and her countenance changed, and she said seriously, Upon my word and honor, I was never nearer loving Cymiin than I was last night, yet he was never less deserving of it. Tis a good story, Jane. I will not pretend to keep It from you, though I would stake my last coin on Cymlins silence about the matter. He came into my presence, as he always does, ill at ease, and why, I Know not, for a man more handsome in face and figure it would not be easy to find in England. But he has had manners, Jane, confess it; he blushes and stumbles over things, and lets his kerchief fall, and w hen he tries to be a gallant, makes a fool of himself. You ate talking of my brother, Matilda, and you are making him ridiculous, a thing Cymiin is not, and never was. Wait a bit, Jane. I was kind to him, and he told me about his life in Ireland, and he spoke so well, and looked so proper, that I could not help hut show him how he pleased me. Then he went beyond his usual manner, and in leaving tried to give me a SMOKE," SAYS JOSEPH Tells How Weed Should Be Enjoyed. Joseph Kline was 103 years old yesterday, and but for a slight attack of rheumatism, which precluded his indulging in his usual birthday dance, the celebration of another anniversary was led by the centenarian, whose witticisims and jokes at the expense of the younger persons present provoked much laughter. At the home of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Goodman, at 1025 Girard avenue, Kline made merry with his children, grandchildren and last evening. The celebration suddenly terminated at 9 oclock, for at that hour Kline always retires. His habits is in a measure one of the secrets of his longvity. He is out every morning before 7 oclock. Mr. Kline bears his great age remarkably well. His mind and memory are so well preserved that he frequently corrects his daughter and grandchildren as to events and dates. If I could work I would be altogether happy, he said yesterday. But I had to give up when I wa3 98 years old, and you dont know bow hard it is to be idle. "If you smoke good tobacco and keep your pipe clean you can enjoy life without the habit doing you any harm, said he, as be displayed a sweetbriar, showing signs of constant use. He has preserved every pipe that he ever smoked. Mr. Kline was born in Roumania, He acquired a knowledge of English and German, and finally was able to speak five languages fairly well. In 1873 he came to America and worked as a tanner, and later at other occupations. Just before ceasing work entirely he assisted a son He gave up in the meat business. that position five years ago. Philadelphia North American. Centenarian wish to see your face no more." leaves little to chronicle. Janes chief bow and a leg in perfect court fashexcitements came from her visits to ion; and he made a silly appearance, Mary Cromwell and Matilda de Wick. and for the life of me I could not help The affection between Jane and a smile not a nice smile, Jane, inMatilda had the strong root of habit deed, 'twas a very scornful smile, and as well as of incltfiation. They could he caught me at it, and what do you not be happy if they were long apart. think he did? I dare say he told you plainly that Jane visited frequently at Jevery House, and Matilda quite as fre- you were behaving badly? My dear Jane, he turned back, he quently at Sandys. One morning in the spring of 1653, walked straight to me and boxed my Jane was returning from a two days ears, for a silly child that did not visit to the Cromwells. The air was know the difference between a man so fresh and balmy Bhe went to Jev- and a coxcomb.' I swear to you that I ery House, resolved to ask Matilda was struck dumb, and he had taken to drive in the Park with her. As himself out of the room in a passion she went she wondered what ere I could find a word to throw after mood she would find Matilda in, for him. Then I got up and went to a there was a certain mental pleasure mirror and looked at my ears, and in the uncertainty of her friends tem- they were scarlet, and my cheeks per. She found her lying upon a sofa matched them, and for a moment I in her chamber, her little feet, pret- was in a towering rage. I sat down, tily shod in satin, showing just below I cried, I laughed, I was amazed, I her gown; her hands clasped above was, after a little while, ashamed, and her head, her long black hair scatter- finally I came to a reasonable temper ed loosely on the pillow. She smiled and acknowledged I had been served languidly as Jane entered, and then exactly right. For I had no business to put my wicked little tongue in my said: I have been expecting you, Jane. cheek, because a brave gentleman I ooud not keep the thought of you could not crook his leg like a dancing laughing, Jane? out of my mind, and by that token I master. Are you knew you were coming. Pray, where Well, I must laugh, too. I shall laugh have you been? Or, where are you many a time when I think of Cymlins two big hands over my ears. Had he going? I have been spending two days kissed me afterward. I would have forwith the Cromwells, and the morning given him I think. I cannot help laughing a little, Mais so fair, I wondered if you would not drive an hour in the park. Do you tilda, but I assure you Cymiin is sufknow that Cymiin arrives from Ire- fering from that' discipline far more He would think the than you are. land I am not suffering at all. This Journey well taken, If he saw you at morning I admire him. There is not the end of It You are a little late with your another man in the world who would Manews, Jane. That Is one of your have presumed to boxtbe Lady faults. Cymiin was here last night tilda de Wicks ears; accordingly I am in love with his courage and He spent a couple of hours with me, I shall laugh and cry as long then she smiled so peculiarly, Jane . as I live, and remember Cymiin. could not help asking her: smilof What is there in your way It was too bad of Cymiin but very ing, Matilda? I am sure it means a like him. He has boxed my ears story of some kind. "I Bhall have to tell you the story, more than once. You are hia sister. That is differ-enfor you could never guess what that I will never speak to him again. smile was made of. Forst, however, what did you see and hear at the There, let the matter drop. I wish now, you would either take Stephen Cromwells." a I heard in a passing manner that or send him off forever. I am in hurry to be gone, and Sir Thomas Prince Rupert is off the seas forever with a that he is at the French court, where also. Co and send IStephen am become inYes or No to me. he is much made of. much Jane Swaffbam, have you no fresh- different which, since you are so er news? and she pulled out of her so. Many letters were promised on both bosom many sheets of paper tied toand Jane was glad to notice the I had sides, gether with a gold thread. end hope in her friends the eagerness by this yesterday, she said, her hand of Stephen, and I may as well voice and manner. Whatever was evident tell you to prepare to meet Stephen de words might assert, it forward to & great Joy. Wick, for he vows he will not leave she looked as she was with Matilda, England again until he has speech And as long same spirit animate her, Jane let this with you. was set to a Then he is forsworn; I will not see her ride home, however, more anxious key.. She was a little him. should Stephen de It will be no treason now to speak angry also. Why love his upon her? intrude Wick to' your old servant. The Amnesty told had she plainly already 1 not Twice Act will cover you. But fight suit was hopeless, and Stephens battles: I have enough to him that his I s t. Swaff-ham- t. ( KLINE. Winter Sheep Feeding What the Test Showed. Prof. E. H. Farmington, in an address at a farmers institute in Manitoba, said : It was with the hope of helping farmers and of Illustrating the condition of some dairy herds that we undertook, some four years ago, to begin testing the cows of the patrons supplying milk to the Wisconsin Dairy School. These patrons keep cows and deliver milk to the factory in the same way as Is customary at the creameries and cheese factories throughout the state. They do not have large herds and it was observed during the past year that the cows owned by one hundred of them were probably similar to the one million In the state. Only eight out of the one hundred patrons kept more than twenty cows and thirty-five owned from two to five cows only. This shows that the majority of our patrons do not pretend to be dairymen In the sense of making the production of milk a serious business and I fear that there are many farmers In dairy districts who do not allow the cows to make much of an Impression on their minds; other lines of farming crowd the cows out so that they receive only a little attention at milking time. The cows on one farm were tested for three years. The average receipts per cow in 1898, from the creamery, were 138.30; in 1900, $39.20, and In 1901, $38.92. The figures do not show much indication that the owner has profited by the tests. Two cows that did not produce milk enough to pay a profit on their feed were kept in the herd for three years, and five other cows produced less than $30 worth of butter in a year. The annual production of the mature cows during the three years shows that the poor cows did not improve from year to year, but continued to give less milk than required to pay for the feed consumed. The one good cow was equally persistent in doing well. The creamery value of her milk for three years was $200. This is $110 more than the cost of her feed when we take $30 per year as the value of a cows feed. The butter produced by the other five cows tested for three years amounted to only $114 more than the cost of their feed during the same time. The milk of one cow, therefore, paid the owner within four dollars as much profit In three years as the milk of five cows in the same herd for the same length of time. In another herd the excess of butter over cost of feed of two cows was worth $60, while that of five other cows was worth only $58. Thus the owner received at the creamery $2 less for the milk of five cows than he did for that of two In the same herd. The entire herd of twelve cows owned by one farmer only paid a profit of $75 in a year and three of the twelve cows paid $50 of this amount, leaving $25 as the combined profit of the other nine cows in the herd. Another herd of twelve cows paid a profit of $228 in a year, but In this herd there was one cow that earned only $2 profit and another that earned $31 profit, a difference of about 400 per cent In the annual butter value of these two cows to their owner. Care In Feeding Sklmmilk. Whole milk is the best of natures foods, but whole milk is seldom fed. In the operation of skimming the fat is removed, which changes the character of the food very materially. Sklmmilk is rich in bone and material, but owing to the tat being removed, it is a very ration, having what is known as a narrow nutritive ratio. It has a great tendency to be constipating when fed alone to young pigs. Many farmers hare suffered much loss by feeding too much skimmed milk to young pigs when shut up in pens where they could not get to the ground or succulent food, such as grass and roots. The pigs usually look fat and well until some morning, when being fed, some of them will take what is commonly known as a fit and may die inside of an hour. If they do recover, and the food is not changed, they and their companions will show a dirty, scurvy appearance on the skin about the eyes, hack of the ear aud back of the shoulders, and the hair becomes curly, and the pig will have a tendency to go around with his back humped up. This is owing to a deranged condition of the digestive organs, which should be remedied by giving the pigs a dose of raw linseed oil, and then follow by giving plenty of succulent food, such as roots or grass, and plenty of exercise. I do not wish to be understood to condemn skimmed milk for food. It is one of the best of feeds, but it should not be fed in great quantities to young pigs. A little ground flaxseed is an excellent thing to add to it. Henry Glendenning. flesh-formin- g one-side- d Why Geese Need Ponds. From Farmers Review: It is far easier for me to raise geese than to write about them. My experience with them is that they will do better with ponds. My reasons for this statement is that if you notice a goose on a day it Is thawing you will notice she will go anywhere that a little water is on the ground and act as if she was going crazy to get into a pond to swim. Then, again, take geese that are shut in yards and only get water to drink, will they not stand about the water dish trying to wash until the water is all gone? I once saw a goose that was penned and could not have any more than enough water to drink, have what I call a fit. She would go through the motions she would if she was In a pond of water, and was unable to stop. After this the goose wa3 allowed to go to the pond and was all right, hut as soon as she was kept from it any length of time she would be as had as ever. Then again these geese that have no ponds do not lay as fertile eggs as the geese that do have ponds. If I wished to keep geese and had no ponds for them I should take large tanks and sink them in the ground where the geese could get to them and keep the tanks full of water at all times. Last winter when the ponds were frozen I would once a week put a tub of water where they could get at it and I think I enjoyed seeing them wash as much as they enjoyed it Mrs. L. D. Cary, Lake County, Illinois. Cheese at Home and Abroad. Dairy Success in Kansas. Cheese making is a branch of dairyTwenty years ago Kansas had but in which it is impossible to draw 471,548 milch cows, and ing scarcely a any close comparisons between the creamery worthy the name, and their methods and results In this country product was unsought, says F. D. Coand those abroad, says Henry E. burn. Ten years ago Kansas had of the Depcrtment of Agriculmilch cows; creameries of a betture. For the production of large ter class were being slowly establishof cheese of uniform excel- ed, but their output begged a market. quantities lence it is believed the American facKansas has 802,738 mil- - A cows, tory system, common to the United or more than at any previous time, and States and Canada, is superior to any- many creameries and thing elsewhere, and more systematicheese factories. Including the largest cally and economically conducted. The creamery in the world, hundreds of average Cheddar cheese of the Chedreceiving and skim stadar Valley itself of Somersetshire in contributory tions, and their product is not only general, and of the best producing dis- favorably known in the principal martricts of England and Scotland, are kets, but sought beyond the supply. n6 better than those of New York and Thus is marked the progress of this Wisconsin and the best of Canada. In industry in Kansas in a decade bevariety and fancy cheese this conti- come one of the most prominent of nent cannot yet attempt to compete successful dairy states. While this is with the Old World. If one would true, and within that time the aggrelearn the bottom facts about making gate annual value of our dairy prodany of the famous specialties in cheese ucts has nearly doubled, and while he must go to the locality where they our foremost dairymen, by constantly originated, and where alone, often striving to raise the standard of prowithin very narrow limits, they are duction, now have excellent still made In perfection. This applies herds, it is unquestionably a fact to the English Stilton, the French that large numbers of our cow popuand close its Roquefort kinsman, the lation aye not paying for their keep. Italian Gorgonzola, the Edam and The cause for this is to be found eithGouda of Holland, the Gruyere and er in the man or the cow, or both. Emmenthal of France and SwitzerBrains in the man and blood and feed Uses for the Baby Carriage. the Parmesan of Italy, and the in the cow are essential to success In Did you ever notice the uses to land, Brie, Neufchatel, and hunKansas, as elsewhere. which baby carriages are put? asked Camembert, dred and one other small and soft look man. at observant Just the A Case of Abduction. and varieties of France those children taking those puppies and other William Louth of Areola, Illinois, is of Europe, Including, parts out for an airing. The youngest child of course, the reputed to own an old Plymouth Rock was graduated from that perambulator hen that has many motherly traits Llmburger. less than two years ago. I'll bet The and is an affectionate sort of creature. carriage is somewhat rickety now, and RecenUy after being bereft of a brood The New Born Calf. a careful mother would hardly trust After the calf is licked dry by Its of chickens she formally adoptqd a an Infant to it, but it makes a good mother it usually hag strength enough couple of kittens, and has since been plaything for the children. keeping them under the protecting I see laundresses wheeling baskets to rise and suck, says Prof. D. H. Otis. care of her wing. The kittens were not does should If it be In it assisted customof clean clothes home to their already blessed with a maternal anitB first meal. The calf securing may cestor that provided for them and beers in baby carriages. It beats walking and carrying a big basket. Only then be taken away, In which case it stowed upon them the most indulgent fed be the should colostrum milk from attention, but this fact made no differthis morning I noticed two poorly Clad girls gathering odds and ends of Its mother, or it may be left until the ence to the ben, so she walloped the for use. milk is fit Where the cows cat until she was boards thrown aside by carpenters glad to get away, who were building a house. .They put udder is in good shape it is easier to and then, clacking to the kittens, she their stock of fuel in a baby carriage. teach the calf to drink when it Is cozened them under her wings. I suppose they will take the baby out taken away before sucking at all. The Strange to say the kittaas took kindly in that same perambulator this after- recorus at the Kansas Experiment to her and will now follow her about show that when a Station calf is noon." New York Press. any place, paying little weaned from its mother at once or attention to their comparatively own mother. Crowded Out by Women. when four or five days old. It will A curious aspect of the alien ques- make good gains the first week, but Advantages of Dairying. tion has shown itself at Berne uni- when left two or three weeks, the first is profitable 4 because It Dairying of the seven days after weaning is a losing versity, where exactly one-hathe farmer the largest return brings thirteen hundred students are for- period. If the cows udder is caked, for his labor and products of his farm. eigners, principally Slavs. In the fac- however, it is well to leave the calf It enables him to get a larger gross ulty of medicine there are now three with her, as the rubbing of the calf and net income from bis farm than he hundred and fifty women students tends to reduce Inflammation and soft- can obtain without it The feed that from Russia, and they have flocked en the udder. Where the calf is sev- will make two pounds of beef will to the Swiss capital for two reasons eral days old before weaning, the make a pound of butter, and the value the lack of means of study in their moral atmosphere around the calf pen of a pound of butter is always more r vn country, and the fact that the will usually be better if the calf be than the value of two pounds of beef, conditions under which degrees can be allowed to go without eating for twenty-f- even during the last few years of relaour hours. By that time it Is hunsecured are less severe than at the tively high prices of beef and low German universities. One effect of gry enough to eat without a great deal prices of butter. 'this influx of fair Russians is the over- of coaxing. crowding of the laboratories, and the Its the toughest kind of tough luck Swiss youth so feel the encroachment Give a youth resolution and the to have your watch stolen when you are who and shall place limits to are on your way to pawn it.-- ' Chicago that they leaving Berne to pursue alphabet their studies elsewhere. Us career? News. eariy-to-be- d d 667,-35- 3 To-da- y high-grad- d lf e To make the winter feeding of a Sock of lambs profitable some principles proved by practice should be well understood by the beginner and by farmers who this year for the first time have ventured into the business. In the first place it may be said that rapid gains must be aimed for. It the feeding process is allowed to drag along the profits will diminish accordingly. Everything possible should be done to fatten the sheep oft quickly and have them go on the market in prime condition aud in uniform lots. Cheap shelter will do well enough for sheep. They do not require expensive tables and should have a great deal of fresh air, provided they are sheltered from inclement weather and cold northwest winds. It will suffice to furnish a shed giving this shelter, and the next point is to have the bed dry at all times. Sheep cannot stand damp and wet. They should never be allowed to lie upon wet ground or damp, dirty, decomposing manure. Such beds give rise to irritating gases which cause sheep to cough and continual coughing means loss of time, loss of appetite and suspended Sheep to do well should be kept quiet, dry and comfortable. They will not make money for their owner if they are allowed to range over large areas such as cornstalk fields, and will not put on flesh from such food. Their drinking water should he abundant and pure, and all food of first class quality and free from taint or mold. Grain fed twice dally pays better than rations given more frequently. Hay by preference should be well made clover with nice, bright com stover for a change, or better still, field peas and oats sown together cut green aud put up as hay. In addition some succulent food such as silage or rootB should be fed. A good plan of feeding Is to Blart at 6 a. in. and give each sheep that has previously been fed grain, one-hapound of a mixture of equal parts whole oats, shelled corn and bran. After this has been cleaned up the silage should follow and one pound per sheep should be enough. Roots may take the place of silage, and it has been found that an adult sheep will require as high as tweuty-fou- r pounds in a day. The grain and succulent food having been eaten, the hay la next to be fed and the amount should be Just that which the sheep will eat up clean. What they leave is best used for bedding purposes. When the hay has been eaten the lambs will He down to rest and ruminate, and this is what we Bhould encourage. There should be nothing to disturb the sheep and lead them to stop chewing the cud if they are to make rapid galna. At four o'clock the same grain ration may be fed, to he followed by the hay, so that all of the second feed will be cleaned up by 7 o'clock, after which sheep do not like to eat and should not be jna.de to do so. They should lie down and commence chewing the cud at dusk and have a long quiet sleep, during which time the fat and flesh are being put on. If on the contrary they are constantly required to be up and eating or running here and there over the farm, they will consume the food nutrients for work rather than gain production. At the start cut the flock Into several small lots to be fed separately. Put all of the best lambs in one bunch and grade the balance into lota according to their size and condition. increase the Gradually grain ration as the sheep become accustomed to it and always increase with the cheapest of the foods used. Where lambs have not been accustomed to grain feeding they should be started on not over a quarter of a pound of a mixture of one part whole oats and two parts bran and then may be gradually accustomed ' to large amounts until they may be put onto full rations. A iamb doing well ahould make at least three pounds of gain per week on the above feeding, and if four pounds or a little over can be obtained the work Is proceeding very favorably, and at the end of six weeks from the start it should be possible to select a bunch of ripe lambs and send it forward to market where it will command good figures if the sheep composing it have been selected of one typo and standard of quality and condition. Do not send mixed lots to market. The poor lambs injure the price of the lot. Farmers' Review. lf rounding air, moisture will be deposited on the outride, and this induce rot. This condition of difference in temperature may be brought about by a suddon rise in the temperature of the room in which the potatoes are kept. This explains why sweet potatoes packed in dry sand will sometimes keep exceptionally well, the sand preventing a circulation of air and therefore also preventing any sudden change of temperature. Moisture aud temperature are the two chief factors in the keeping of sweet potatoes. While white potatoes may be kept at the freezing point or a little below, sweet potatoes must be kept comparatively warm and enUrely dry. To get this latter condition, it has become a quite common practice with those that have large quantities of sweet potatoes to keep over winter to have thorn before they are partly packed away. , To do this the potatoes are put in a room where the temperature la kept at from 100 to 130 degrees for eight days, at the end of which time they are stored in a place where they will be thoroughly dry at all times and in which the temperature never goes below 66 degrees nor higher than 60. This matter is one of the hardest things to handle, and is practically possible only on a commercial scale. Attempts have been made to treat the tubers before storing and without first drying them out The Arkansas station tried thirteen different ways of The percentage unsuccessfully. sound tubers after ten weeks from digging were as follows: Not treated, 61; packed In dry sand, 64; packed in wood ashes, 14; packed in road dust, 38; packed in lime, 68; rolled in flowers of sulphur, 64; rolled in powdered sulphate of copper, 68; rolled in lime, 60; immersed 30 minutes in Bordeaux mixture, 44; immersed 30 minutes in copper sulphate solution, 68; immersed 30 mlntues In formalin, (1 pint to 80 gallons water), 66; immersed 30 minutes in formalin (1 pint to 40 gallons), 62; immersed SO minutes in formalin (1 pint to 60 gallons water), 68; immersed 30 minutes lu ammonia and sulphate of copper, 72. It will thus be seen that none of the methods gave even fair results, the best showing 2S per cent of rotten tubers at the end of ten weeks. From the principles elucidated, it is evident that it la a mistake to put sweet potatoes into our ordinary cellars, which are altogether too damp for such storage. Where the cellar is well cemented and a furnace Is used for heating the dwelling, the tubers may be stored there. Otherwise it would ha better to store them in dry t or chaff. In some warm, sand, dry upper room. But in all cases they should be well dried out before being ; thus stored. kiln-drie- d saw-dus- Correctives for Swine Prof. W. H. Henry, in his book on feeds and feeding, says: Every stock-ma- n that has kept pigs In confinement has observed their strange cravsubing for seemingly unnatural stances sand rock, soft brick, mortar, rotten wood, charcoal, soft coal, ashes, soap suds and many other articles being greedily devoured when offered. Such objects lie outside the range of nutritive substances, and we are puzzled to know why they should be so eagerly consumed. In the wild state the hog ranges through the woods and open tracts, living upon small animals, larvae and vegetation generally. This material is of such character and Is gathered in such manner that some of the soil is swallowed with it. With rings in its nose to prevent rooting while in the pasture, confined on board floors during the fattening period and given feeds containing little ash, the pigs life is passed under unnatural conditions. Another cause for this craving may be the intestinal worms, which are checked or destroyed by some of the substances consumed. Unsatisfactory or incomplete as such explanations may be, the fact remains that the pig seeks out these unnatural substances and greedily consumes them. Th feeder would best supply what the pig rraves in this direction and search for explanations later If be wishes. Ashes either from wood or coal will always be in place in the feeding pen and even in the feed lot It is surprising how much of these will be consumed by a bunch of pigs. Feeding trials Bhow that pigs when confined to an exclusive corn diet are greatly benefited by ashes, this substance causing the feed to be more effective and adding to the strength of the bone? the latter result probably being due t. the lime in the ashes. Bon meal is another substance useful for strengthening (he hones of pigs. By saving the droppings, substantially all e the value of this fertilizer Every farmer that raises sweet potatoes realizes how difficult it is to may be secured for field and garden after it has served its purpose with keep them for a few months in winter. The percentage? of loss from rotting is the pigs. so great that the grower generally Wisconsin Butter Maker. gets rid of them as fast as possible. Wisconsin Butter Makers conThj Yet in many instances early sales are vention is to be held at Eau Clair made at a disadvantage, and it be- on February 2 to 4. Secretary F. B. comes advisable to hold the crop for Fulmer writes us that a convenbetter prices. Most farmers also de- tion Is expected, as the great people seem sire to retain enough sweet potatoes generally interested and enthusiastic. in their cellars to last the family The city In which the convention is to through the winter. The problem of be held is located on three lines of keeping them is therefore one of conrailway, which means that it is readsiderable moment to the grower as ily accessible. The citizens have alwell as to the farmer that wishes to ready raised a purse of $300, which buy his sweet potatoes by the barrel will be used in swelling the prizes to rather than by the peck. It may be be awarded for good butter. The sessaid that as yet no general method of sions are to be held in the Knights of keeping has been discovered that Pythias Hall, newly erected, and gives entire satisfaction. Some of the which has a seating capacity of 600. best recommended methods have at j. good exhibit of matimes utterly failed to jceep the tubers chinery is also being arranged for. for even (en weeks without an enorFind Lon.ost Rtfig. mous percentage of loss in rotten ones. The deceased wife of Joseph G. CanCold storage does not seem to be suited to this farm product; as the air non, speaker of the tiouse of Repreof cold storage houses is altogether sentatives, lost her wedding ring thirty-one years ago. Workmen excavattoo low in temperature. Men that have bad long experience ing in the rear of the opera house at !u keeping sweet potatoes declare that Tuscola, 111., have just dug it up. the temperature must not be less than The average tonnage of imports and 50 degrees nor more than 60 degrees and that this temperature must be exports of the six leading porta of the world is now: London, 17,564,108; kept about uniform. The uniformity la necessary to keep the tuber and the New York. 17.398,058; Antwerp; 16, air at IhP same temperature. If the 721,009: Hamburg, 15,863.489; Hongtuber becomes colder than the sur kong, 14,724,269; Liverpool, 13,157,714. Keeping Sweet Potatoes high-grad- butter-makin- g ' ' f' |