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Show BEADING FOR FARMERS. Plan for Corstnc'.irg a and Useful Harrow for the Small Homemade Sum cf One Dollar. , TO OBTAIN BEST RESULTS IN POTATO CULTURE. Value cf Coton Seed Compact the Wheat Grourd R) fee PaatL-ragThe Poor Corditon c( Ca'vts. General Farm aod Stock Nctae, .. The following is a plan for a homemade alter other harrow. It should le harrows to n.a'.ce the ground Cne and u F eet j . TB'-TH, the boards. Then they cm be driven down if denied nt any time. Iut a chain or any fastening at one corner, as the harrow should bo drawn cornel wise. Two can be hinged t igether if desired. The expense will be from 75 cents to $1 if the Implement lie made at home. There will be fifteen lurge ua.ls in eaeli cross piece sixty iu all. felierps anti Calves in CornneUls. Weeds are likely to escape ill the latter cultivation of the corn, and other weeds spring up after cultivation is ended. It is ttiese weeds which foul the land for future years. The weeds In the coin field aro neglected timing the hinry of gialn and the hay harvest, threshing, hauling manure, nml preparing the ground for wheat. Ilut even better than is the scy the are the sheep. I.ct them have the run of the corn fields during the autumn. They liko the shade of the rows. They will nibble off the lower blades of the corn, but this is in no wise an Injury to the crop. Tlio sheep will also (lud every weed and bunch of glass. Their scent Is sharp, nml they will discover weeds that would bo overlooked. There are very few weeds indeed that will not be cropped by sheep, especially of the Merino breed; they crop so close to the ground that the weeds will hardly start again. The spring calves, if not too strong, may well be put with the sheep. Unle-- s unusually large, they will not damage the corn, and will get considerable feed which would otherwise bo wasted. Iach Ir. Yellow; Stell sounds a note of warning in regard to peach yellows, which fruit growers and fanners should heed, lie says that agents from Infected districts of other states are now selling nursery stock, and advises buyers to patronise lr ui series which so far are free from the dread disense. The following article by J. J. liirckinnns in the Southern Farm will bo read with Interest: 1 regret that 1 cannot give you an article Tor publication which would prove of valuo so far as giving a preventive to tills destructive scourge. As to its eradication there appears so fur no other method suggested than the uprooting and immediate burning of all trees affected by the yellows. Vntil a few weeks since I had never seen a genuine ease of peach j el lows in Georgia, but this disea-- e has unniMakably in ado its nppearaneo in several places in (south Carolina, near the City of Augusta. From all that I can learn tlio yellows the planting of peach trees which were sold at auction iu Augusta three years ago, the trees being brought from cither the west or the north. Iwas told ly the owner of tlio affected orchaid that the disease has affected trees planted several years previous to the introduction of the auction trees, thus showing that l4 Is contagious. Tlie United States department of agriculture lias lately issued a most elaborate and practical report upon peach jellows, who was apby Mr. Ft win F. Smith, the Investigafor a agent special pointed ami who has performed tion of this bis work most.carefully. In a map accompanying the report, it apjiears that a large area iu South Carolina and Georgia is affected. r of the In South Carolina fully peach belt Is marked as affected. It begins at apoiut on the Savannah river near Augusta, mid extends to the mountains. la Georgia, the area marked upon the map as effected extends from Marshallville to Marietta ami includes all the territory west of the Oemtilgee to the Alaba nia line The affeeted part covers fully one third of the peach belt cf the state. Mr. Erwin F. Smith Is of the opinion that prompt destruction of affected trees by fere, tf practiced throughout the community, will greatly hinder the progress of disease- - fctiii vitfe tli utmost care TV. TV. o, on-ha- lf TVlLLIELliE." T illie Lee; but no of calling him TT illie fils name was one thought TT illie was poor except liia sister. end homely. His lui.r was what called a blue white, his eyes might were f e and without expression, j and ha was altogether a very plain person. He and Lis sister Mary had li, u-- td sniuotli. Take seven pieces of lx. aid four feet long, fne inches wide and one inch thick; fasten them strongly together with nails; tiien bore holes thiee inches apart in the cross pic es for the large eight inch nails, so tli it they will go through snugly and stay with the heads cue inch above cases will api ear from t. me to time, more some years than others, but there will be no outbreak comparable to an epidemic. From tins it is ev.deut that in order to fiee a locality fiorn the yellows every owner of a peach tree should agree to destroy any tree as soon as it shows syu.p-- 1 as by no other in ans toms of the can the spreal be prevented. Jn some states, 2ikhig.ui for inslruce, laws have been enacted for the destruct on of a dec til trees. All owners of such trees refusing to comply with the notice of the commission a; pointed by the county shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 and cosls. This act was in foice four years from 1375 to WJ. In 1370 this law was when further amended, and again in an additional penalty, a thiee mouths imprisonment, was a lded. TVe could very easily arrive at the desired results in loealties allectedby yellows to the harsh ill Georgia without i measures which aie in force in Michigan and in Ontario, if our people will unite to this end. Car of Sw eet potatoes and Onion The principal reindsite in kecidng sweet potatoes is to stoie them away absolutely free from bru ses or cuts. To aceomphh tins, plow out cue side of (lie row and throw out the bunch of tubers by plunging in at the opposite side. the spading-forl- c As soon as they are dried, sort carefully, rubbing them as fiee from dirt as possible, ami put such ns are to be iloied away at cnee Into the boxes or barrels where they are to leinan. I.ay them in by hand; do not pour them from ha .Lets. Then lift the packages into the wagon, and when arrived at destination lift them out without tumbling or rolling and set them down as carefully as if they were barrels of eggs. This Is less trouble and expenso thau to pack them in sand, shavings, or cottonseed meal, and serves the same purpose. The rea-why sweet potatoes are so difficult to keep is that they aro so rich iu sugar, containing as compared with the common potato nearly seven per cent of soluble sugar, in plaeo of a similar amount of starch, mid whenever the cuticle is broken the omnipresent spores of fungi take root ami rapidly pioluce discoloration ami dry or w et rot. The best place for stmirg is a cool, dry, room where the temperature may be kept between foity and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Last year, having one sweet potato ridge, nbout six hundred feet long, left after setting the lust plants, I opened a drill along the top and sowed carrot seeds iu it. TV lion harvest time came 1 plowed oovvu one side of tlio ridge and threw out tlio eairots eas ly with the fork, instead of seaiohing for them deep in tlio bowels of the earth. The long, smooth, roots ohta'ned determined mo to try the same mettio I for the entire crop this year, nml present indications nre that L shall not bo disappointed nt the result. In gathering the onion crop, unless the stand is much cvener than most people secure, there will be a quantity of bulbs too small for market and too large, apparently, for sets. It is sometimes a question as to what disposition shall be made of these latter. Having a quantity of them on hand last spring, I used them for planting my earliest onion bed, and almost as soon as the new growth commenced, they wer0 ready for marketing as green onions. They came in very much sooner than those giovvn from the smaller sets, and conseA neighquently biought the best prices. bor came over as we were gathering tho last fiorn tire bed of five square rods and suggested that lie guessed iu tlio long run hogs end corn would pay better than onions. So taking out my note book, I investigated the facts, and found that the five rods had yielded branches worth net $27. SO, or nt the rate of $870.40 per acre. This was as much as my neighbor could reasonably hope to secure from his sixty acres devoted to corn and hogs, and I think tlie cost of production was rather iu my favor. Janies K. Reeve. well-slmp- -- a little house in the outskirts of the city near the car barns. Ilis close proximity to tho barns doubtlesss was what led him to think he would become a car conductor. At any rate, ho did become one, and Mary, as she used to be weeding in her little garden beside the street, would look up aud see him pass and say to herself: Now, dont he just look fine with those blue clothes and brass but- tons? Ilia sisters eyes could not see that the navy blue of the clothes painfully brought out the sickly pallor of his face and made his sleeping eyes dimmer. To her he was handsome and the uniform made him hand- Mary was partial to uniThere was a policeman in that suburb for whom she had the greatest regard, and in the evening when she would go out lo watch for Willie's car going by on its last trip the policemnu used to come and hang over the gate and she would Jell him what a good boy Willie was- The men nt the barns did not know much about Willie. He never met at their gatherings in the office and stables and sung and danced and joked as the others did. Halfoftliein did not know his name, but the time keeper said his car was always on time and the nickels he turned over were always right in number. Willie's passengers did notlike him either. They said he opened and left open the door in winter and shut it He made in the heat of summer. them sit close on the sea ts, and gravest offense of nil he would make the men go inside the car when there was room instead of standing on the rear platform in a crowd. All this served to make him unpopular, still he nev. er violated a rule of the company, ond the keenest spotter could never have reported him a single missomer. forms. demeanor. Willie did not like girls. He used to say to Mary, Girlsarea nuisance. I wouldnt lit one of them get on my There was car if I could help it. no use trving to get up a flirtation with Willie, he was adamant. A Itnchel neighbor, rosy cheeked Moore, had loved Willie ever since they were children and played in the dust of the road before the city had moved down to them. Willie liked Rachel, too, after a fashion, very much as he loved Mary, but he never thought of marrying her to nny one else. Mary used to say to him, Willie, suppose I should die, what would you do for a housekeeper? Mary didnt think of dying, she was thinking of the policeman, and Willie would answer, Don't talk nbout such absurd things, Mary. That was all the satisfaction she ever received. Yet it was through a girl that Willies life was changed. Ilow these women do change our lives, some in one way and some in another! Willie was superstitious. He said he was unlucky every time he ration car No. 113. A man had shot himself in it once, and another had fallen off the front platform and broken his leg, and Willie was always having trouble when he was on it. One February day car 113 started from the barn at its usual hour with Willie Lee ns conductor. EveryHilling rotatoes. thing went on all day and Willie Many years of experiment illustrates the was flattering himself "that he was fact that with ordinary good ami well cultoescape ill luck for once, but going tivated soil tlie best crops of potatoes are she lurks around us when we are obtained by tint culture. Tho percentage least conscious of her presence. It of loss with hilling varies with tlio depth was nearly night and a rain set in, a rain that froze to everything and of tlio soil and tlio abruptness of the hilling; hut with common treatment, such as made the track very slippery. A young lady who often went don on Willie's car asked to be left off at the avenue and Willie rnngthe bell. but as fate would have it another car was coming She stepped off, we generally see through the loss by killing is about 15 country, the per cent, and sometimes more. TVith slight ridging it is less. The accompanying figure shows the way iu which this loss occurs, the cross section of tlie hill representing tho tubers as buried neodles-l- y deep underground at tlie expense of tlie smaller roots and fibres more remote fiorn tlie stem, which are laid bare and tom in hoeing nml hilling. The value of cattle in Texas Is rapidly increasing, says the El Paso Times, and it is a fact that tlie number Is rapidly deereasing. This may seem ananiolous, hut it is nevertheless true. Thou-anand tens of thousand of aattle have been shipped out of Texas fids year, and where fifty have leen shipped out hardly one has come in. But those that have teen sent into the state aro blooded animals aud have taken the place of the scrub animals that have evacuated tlie state. From now on tho standard of all kinds of cattie in Texas will bo much higher and their value greater. ds from theoppositedireetion, the track was slippery, a new driver was managing the brake, and instead of stopping, ns is the usual etiquette in such a case, tlie car came on. Willie standing on the stop took in the situation at a glance, and though he was always slow he made this the exception. He jumped from the car and almost threw the girl from the track just in time to save her, but he slipped and fell and was ground under tlie horses feet and the cruel n heels. Then the car stopped and passengers crowded out and around him. Is he dead, 0! is he dead? cried the girl whom he had saved, and she knelt down beside him, took offliis cap and brushed the damp hair back lrom his forehead. No, he is not dead, said a policeman, Mary's policeman, tvho happened for once to be where he was needed. He lives just below here. We will carry him to the house. They picked him up and carried him gently into the little cottage. Mary was overcome with fright nml would have fainted had not Teddie been there fo assure her that Willie was all right, only hurt a bit. The next day the young lady whom Willie had saved came down in her to see how lie was. She carriage Tn through Mary's little kitchswept en like a queen, and Rachel, wtio was sitting on the step of the Lack door, looked at her in amazement; nt the long sealskin cloak and thediamonds M.v, ain't she grand? in her ears. I wonder if TT ilshe said to herself. wonder if lie I before? her knew lie would have jumped right in front of two great big horses and a car if I had leen in her place? Jealous little Rachel! Of course he would have done it just the same had the person been the lowest of tlie lowly. Day after day Helen Carpenter came to inquire after the brave fellow, as she called him, and when lie began to get better she brought him flowers and hot house fruit anil all sorts of things that he could not eat, and would not have dared to had he wanted them. She brought him books too. and read to him by the hour He did stuff that he did not hear. not care for books, but he liked to look at her as she sat by Lis side reading. He liked to hear the tone of her voice and smell the perfume of the violets she always wore, and alter a while her daily visit was what he looked forward to. TVlienit grew warmer ho began to sit up by the window in an easy chairshe had sent from her own home, and she would come and sit on a stool at his feet and talk with him about herself and her daily life until she made him her abject slave and lie loved her with a love that only such people have who have never loved before. She was the light of his life and he torgot that he was pcornml homely, a thing that lie lmd never forgotten before, that she was ns high above him as the heavens are above the earth. TT'hen he held her little jewled hand in his. as she sometimes allowed him to do. ho would have been willing to have died for her a thousand times over. Rachel wasentirely forgotten. She would come in sometimes to see him, but he would always he sleepy or watching for Helen and would not talk to her. One day Mary saw her eyes filled with tears, and she put Dont cry, her arm around her. Itnchel; he will see the light by and by, she said, and Rachel broke down and sobbed, I used to think he cared for me, but lie dont now. One day Marysnid toliim, Willie, I dont think you treat Rachel just right, but he never In nrd her. Willie was a long time getting well. Another man had taken his car, but the superintendent said lie was at liberty to go back any time when he was able. The policeman, too, was in a hurry for Willie to get well. Mary had promised him that the friendship begun last year over the onion beds should terminate in a happy wedding, and he had been scanning intently the house hunters directory for a suitable place to put his bride just as soon as she would consent to become his. One day TYillie made up his mind to tell Helen when she came again just how much he loved her, and she came in and sat down at his feet and looked ot him with her liquid dark eyes, full of tender solitude, and asked him how ho was, he took her hand anil attempted to speak, but could not. You are weak yet, arent you, Mr. Lee? How angry you ought to be with me for having been tlie cause of all your trouble. But youll hurry up and get well by Easter, wont you? And shechildishlv laid her cheek against the hand she held. Do you know, I am going to be married on Easter Monday, and I want you to come to my wedding. Go to to her wedding! Go to her wedding!" He said it over to himself, then the room grew dark and everything seemed uncertain, and he fainted. It is warm and he is still so weak, and I suppose I talked him to death, she said to Mary, who came in answer to her alarmed calling. Mary was quick witted and she knew pretty nearly what had happened, and she told Teddie all about it that evening and said she loved Willie, of course, but she thoughtjhe had treated Rachel badly, and may be this would be a lesson to him. ForReveral days Willie was too weak to sit up again in the easy chair. He seemed helpless and unconcerned ns to whether he got, well or not. Helen had not been to see him since the night he tainted. She was busy with her wedding preparations and just stopped at the gate one day to ask if he was better and wondered if Mary thought he could come to her wedding. No. I do not think he can go, Mary said, and she said it coldly, and Helen did not come again. It was the day of Helens wedding. Willie heard the carriages roll past on the pavement and lie turned his face to the wall and the tears came into his eyes, that had been strangers for to tears years. Rachel had brought in a bouquet of Easter flowers and placed them on his table. There were violets among them; everything to remind him of her. Just in the dusk of evening Rachel herself came in. She paused a moment at the door to see if he was asleep, and as his eyes were closed she concluded that he was. She sat down on the low stool and as her face was partially turned away from him TYillie opened his eyes and looked at her slyly. He never thought Rachel pretty before. Infact, lie had never thought much about her, but now as she sat between him and the fading light he noted the roundness ol her cheek, her white throat, and the pretty curls of brown hair around her face and neck. I wondr if she would do just ns Helen did had she been in her place, Would she have he said to himself. come here and made me love her and then have cruelly she was going to be married. ies. I suppose she would, women are alike, coquettes, every one ot them. Rachel was thinking over her Ifie, some strange, and unexplainable nnsmerie sympathy TT illie s TTmind hat went back over the past too. a friend she had always been to mm and Mary, and how bravely she had lile thus fought her own battle of She is a noble little woman, far. he said to himself, and I wish I "as Then the clock worthy of her. struck, and Rachel started lip. 8iea drew a half sighing breath, paused moment, then stooped over and hers. lightly touched his lips withhe was llefore he was aware what doing he had passed his arm around her neck and pressed her head to his Do you then love me, httie breast. Rachel? Tliev say love is eloquent by whomever spoken, and TT illie was that certainly eloquent. The loveturned was shut tip in his heart all and told itself seemingly without his aid to Rachel, and when Mary came in she found them sitting hand in hand, a new sweet light in their facer,. T IMIS AX K. DAYIS. I'altH state Senator fre lies mot. Cushman K. Davis, who for tw0 years has represented the Stateof Minnesota in the United States Senate is a man of distinguished attainments, eloquent, a good lawyer and a statesman ofeonsiderableexperience His scholarship comprehends an extraordinary know ledge of the works of Shakspere. Ilis character is that ofnn upright and scrupulously honorable man i I , against whom nothing cau be said Senator Davis was born in Jeflcrsoa County, New York, about forty-iliyears ago. He attended Carroll a College, Waukesha, Wis., an institution which no longer exists, the experiment tried there not bein' found promotive of longevity in the life of a college. Carroll Collre-was a notable instance of in the United States. The giris did the cooking and the boys provided the meat and groceries. After graduating, at nineteen years of ae Mr. Davis studied law, first iu the June roses blossom there a double wedding in the little When will he illie and Teddie cottage and will both be happy. TYillie has gone hack to his car. He says he likes the road and likes the work, and blesses the da v that good fortune came to him through misfortune. Katherine Hartman in Dansville Advertiser. TT Bite of A Rattlesnake. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell contributes to the August Century a profusely illustrated article on The Ioison of Serfolpents. from which we quote the I what asked often I am lowing; would do if bitten while far from help. If the wound be at the tip ofa finger, I should like to get ridof the part by some such prompt means as a knife or a possible hot iron affords. Failing these, or while seeking help, it is wise to quarantine the poison by two ligatures drawn tight enough to stop a'l circulation. The heart weakness is made worse by emotion, and at this time a man may need stimulus to enable him to walk home. As soon as possible some one should thoroughly infiltrate the seat of the bite with permanganate or other of tlie agents above mentioned. By working and kneading the tissues the venom and the antidote may be made to come into contact, and the former be so far destroyed. At this time it becomes needful to relax the ligatures to escage gangrene. This relaxation of course letssomevenom into the but in a few moments it is possible to again tighten the ligatures, nnd again to inject If the dose of the local antidote. venom be largeandthedistancefrom help great, except tlie knife or cautery little is to be done that is of value. But it is well to bear in mind thatin this country a bite in the extremities rarely causes death. I have known of nine dogs having been bitten by ns many snakes, and of these dogs but two died. In India there would have been probably nine dead dogs. auto-surgic- blood-roun- .r y.'i ' ' . ,V V s fm v I Yam ; .1 'Jf: m'hi'i office and afterward at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where lie received his diploma in 1837. He has been successful ns a lawyer, nnd possesses considerable wealth. Mr. Davis was a friend of the late Matt Carpenter. TThen lie was the Library of a clerk in the Supreme Court, at Madison, TYis., he used to let Mr. Carpenter, who was then practicing at Beloit, read up his cases in the Library nights nnd Sundays, when only the favored had access to its shelves. It is stated that Mr. Davis resembles his illustrious friend in mental characteristics, but is a scholar of a wider range of reading and finish. In 1808 he was appointed United States District Attorney. Ilis residence was then in tlie State of Minnesota, citizens of which nominated him for Governor in 1873. He was elected by Bepuldican votes, and improved his record by an excellent administration. The Senator has a lovely wife, who is said to be the most beautiful woman in the Northwest. A Case of Mind Core. A correspondent of The Fairfield Life on a Cuban Plantation, Journal gives the following in(Me.) In Dakota and Manitoba the emstance ofmind cure in the early days ployment on single wheat estates of of that town: Dr. Thayer, who lived a hundred reapers and an aggregate Back Meeof three hundred laborers for a sea- near what was called the son has been regarded as something ting House, was one of the best phyhis skill unprecedented in agricultural indus- sicians in the county, but his wife, of on one in case Cuba but estate no in was avail the try; sugar El Balboa from fifteen hundred who two more than her bed for kept to two thousand hands, invariably One day there was no grown years. negroes, are employed, who work un- person about the house and her little der severe discipline, in watches or cut boy came running in with a bad relays d uring the grind ing season, by on his finger or hand, bleeding proday and night, the same as in the fusely. TVith true motherly lorget-fulneand furnaces of the large iron-mi- ll of self, she sprung up, found United States and Europe. At the and properly dressed the bandages same time there are few village com- wound; then, sitting down to rest, munities where a like number of 3he looked around; everything seemthesamecare and sur- ed so so nicely, pleasant and she feltbed The male workers occupy she decided veillance. take her again, notto quarters walled nnd barricaded from and she did not. She lived several the women, and the women from the in the enjoyment of comfortamen. There are in every village an years ble health. n ss infirmary, a lyincr-i- hospital, a phyan apothecary, a chapel, and a priest. At night and morning mass is said in chapel, and the crowds nre always large. There is of a Sunday sician, less restraint, though ceaseless espionage is never remitted. On these days nnd in parts of holidays there are rude mirth, ruder music, and much dancing. This picture is given somewhat in detail, because it illustrates how and tremendous nre the lorces that are modifying society everywhere, in civilized, partially civilized, and even barbarous countries, conjointly with the new conditions of production and consumption. From Recent Economic Changes, by Hon. David A. TYells, in the Popular Science Monthly for September. Yellow Shoes. Dr. VYeyl also described the case of a young man in Munich who had been poisoned by the yellow dyeing matter used in coloring russet shoes. After wearing these shoes for one week the woung mans feet were covered with small yellow blisters, which in the middle of the second week, hfr D gan to spread to his ankles. sh doctor had him give up the and cured the eruptions in ten day The yellow leather was subsequent y examined at the Munich instttu and was found to be saturated ?. dangerous yellow die. Dr. 9.. advice to his colleagues was: wear russet shoes. Chicago I w-- a T une. TIutnal Deceit, Howdid Saysit Anyhowe youever come to marry Mrs. B An Aged Autograph Turtle. ? TT csteriy Grinand Barrett (frankly) I marA. S. Maines dog at ried her for her money, she said she'd caught a veteran box turtle be worth a million on her wedding week, while the dog was following day estimated mo at that figure, the hired man, who was mowing you know. a meadow. On the turtle s Saysit Anyhow YYhy, she deceived inscribed in deep letters: Vccoyou shamefully! 1830. rick, 1803; Grinand Barrett YYell, I was deMaine added his name an ceived, thats a fact, but Great Scottl date to the turtle's back loai man, just think how she got left! then let it go. Norwich (i.onnj A - Epoch. Pittsburg Dispatch. |