| Show ) FARM these lines but certainly many retail dealers will and they should have much influence with their customers MATTERS OF INTEREST TO Hemlock has the advantage of being both strong and stiff that is it Is capAGRICULTURISTS able of bearing a heavy strain and of not yielding to it until the breaking Borne Hints About Cultivation of tha Boil and Yield Thereof— point is closely approached therefore for material it is unexcelled Horticulture Viticulture and Flori- For framing mud sills and in situations where culture it is subject to alterations of moisture AND GARDEN at Winter Protection of the Peach UMEROUS experiments in protecting i the peach agalnBt winter killing have been carried on at the Missouri Experiment Station during tho past two years The results of these trials are reported by Prof J and dryness hemlock is found extremely desirable Therefore to a large part of farm building construction it is peculiarly well adapted In sections of Iowa where it has been thoroughly tried hemlock is given the preference for barn construction It is a little late in the season to talk about corn crib material and yet the attention of the farmers should be called to the fact supported by much irrefutable evidence that rats and mice will not attack hemlock and so cribs built of it are rat and mouse proof except as the rodents may find their way through openings into cribs They will not make an opening however and this fact should commend it for this purpose to the farmers Hemlock is still a cheap timber in the West and lumber consumers should be given the advantage of this fact that they may use it wherever it is possible and economical to do so Vs TTojrft It frequently been stated that we are raising too many sheep in this country and therefore that which ought to be a source of wealth to us is frequently a source of depression the overloading of the market with hogs and hog products not leaving a fair margin either to the farmers or to the packers says National Provlsloner It is easy to state the source of the trouble but it is more difficult to suger gest a remedy In this Instance we are not entirely beyond the possibilities of a remedy and relief We have for many years advised the cultivation of mutton as a desirable meat and the raising of more sheep and less hogs The farming papers of the country have taken sides with us and have supported our views and there is no reason why the farmers should not do what is in their Interest and what will help their bank accounts A large part of the wealth of England and Australia is derived from sheep raising An increase in the number of sheep in this Man MARTIN how-ev- HUNTERlii KY LEDGER In describing the manner of taking some of the animals of the Hudson Bay territory the bear comes first by its coat being earliest prime of all other animals of the north country The Indians who since the finishing of their last year’s hunt in June have become tired of a fish diet are anxiously looking forward to the 25th of September On and after this date the bear skins have a market value with the company and the Indians go into the country would add considerably to the berry patches and swamps in quest of bruin who has for the past six weeks wealth of the nation especially of the farmers and of the packers the more so been fattening undisturbed Considerable bravery is shown by the now when wool is amply protected and ought to bring a good price Our con- Indian in hunting these strong and fetemporary Wallace’s Farmer urges the rocious animals at this time of year farmers In the same manner as we do Few of them have other than a single-barrg and speaks especially for the state of gun and if they miss a fatal spot when firing the reIowa which is now a very large sult is to them serious If not death state whatever but I cannot do better in these aeries of relates to Iowa a to relates great extent to other Western hunting stories than to follow the footwho was one of states and also to the South Of steps of our most successful course it will not do to raise hunters sheep on ground which is too flat or wet But He had a liking for the whites in general and from his kindness for me in In the bluegrass section of this country At any time when it was particular sheep would mature as well if not better than they do in the British islands convenient for me to leave the poet he welcomed my company on his shooting We have hotter summers it Ib true but and Still hunting our winters are more even than trapping tours they the bear in a flat and are in England The packers and comdry bervy patch requires the greatest care and precaumission men ought to educate the farmers to understand more the value of tion to make it a day of profit lands from his canoe on the leethe sheep as an Investment and of mutton as a desirable food Sheep need ward side of the patch he is going to reconnoitre and ascends a large mounsome care but if it is bestowed upon tain whose wooded southern side runs them there is no better investment to the farmer Five acres of land will down to the river shore from the top of this he scans the burned lands betake care of twenty-fiv- e sheep and neath him with great minuteness for their l“? summer and in several seconds At last his face '“""L during lights rmer w mlss what they eat Their fleeces will pay about $1 up with satisfaction for his eye rests on a large black bear feeding to the apiece and their lambs a year old if windward of a clump of alders Beproperly cared for are good for $3 If fore he fattened to 100 pounds weight and put notes starting to stalk the game the direction of the wind the on the present market they are good for $5 by the carload It has been fig- lay of the country and the number of of concealments between him ured out by an authority that with oats points and his quarry Ail these essentials and corn et 30 cents a bushel and oil on his memory he meal at $125 per hundred a lamb from mentally impressed loads his gun carefully and descends tho time that it is two weeks old until the mountain makes his it reaches 100 pounds which is in the swiftly from the base for about eleventh month will not consume more way a quarter of a mile after that he goes than $135 worth of grain In our opinwith greater care At last there is onion the time is not very far distant ly one stack of willows bewhen with the scarcity of beef and tween Intervening him and the bear From my with the high price which cattle compoint of view I notice all his mand we will have to resort to eating vantage movements and also that of the bear mutton There will also be a great ex- which is lazily feeding on the ripe full port demand for the article We have berries too much corn too many hogs too few d At the extrema point of the sheep rlump stands an immense rock brought there no doubt at the glacier The Ituckeye la rastare Mr H W Sutton of Derby Tows£ fur-beari- ic ic Peach-Growin- 00 Bear & Whitten in letin of that station The bulletin is illustrated with cuts showing different methods employ ed and is for free distribution among the peach growers of the Mis slssippi valley In this latitude winter killing of the fruit buds of the peach is usually due to the unfavorable effects of freezing after they have been stimmuzzle-loadinulated Into growth by warm weather is It or winter during early spring g seldom that the temperature drops sufAnent Horae ficiently low to injure dormant peach According to the department of agribuds Peach fruit buds may safely en- culture from 1889 to 1893 the number dure a temperature of 10 or 20 degrees of horses in Montana Wyoming Colobelow zero provided they mature well rado New Mexico and ranges farther In autumn are entirely dormant and west Increased from 1479768 to 1972-53- 2 the cold comes on gradually Zero about 33 3 per cent The average weather may kill fruit buds that have price of horses in the United States In swollen during previous warm days or 1866 was $5986 from 1883 to 1889 from that were not properly ripened in au- $7059 to $7464 the highest price being tumn The early swelling and growth that of $84 and by 1892 the average of the buds Is due to the warmth they value was reduced to $6501 After 1893 receive from the sun on bright days Is began the heavy decline During that practically independent of root action year the average price was $6122 In and may take place on warm sunny ’94 $4783 in ’95 $4629 in '9G $3307 days in winter while the roots are and at the beginning of '97 $3151 frozen and dormant Shading or whit- These cheap prices have checked proening peach trees to prevent their ab- duction in the South and East The desorbing heat on sunny days opposes partment has the following reasons for growth of the buds and Is consequentconsidering the outlook encouraging ly a protective measure Whitening In the West since 1893 the number of the twigs and buds by spraying them horses has fallen from 1972523 to 1 with lime whitewash is on account of 626402 or nearly 18 per cent its cheapness and beneficial effects the to Europe have grown from Exports 3000 a most promising method of winter pro- year to 28000 in 1896 The Western tection tried at the station These horse having cost so much of his value whitened buds remained practically the ranges will be devoted to more dormant until April while unprotected profitable industries The demand for buds swelled perceptibly during warm certain better classes draft and and early In horses good saddlers and driving days late in February cavalry March Eighty per cent of the whit- mounts has a growing improvement ened buds passed through the winter safely while only 20 per cent of the g in Georgia buds escaped winter killing H Hale the Connecticut fruitJ Whitened buds blossomed three to six grower who has the great Georgia ordays later than unwhltened buds Ther- chard of which much has been written mometers covered with material the is preparing for another increase in his color of the peach twigs registered durtrees Last winter the orchard of 100-0ing bright sunny weather from 10 to trees was Increased by 50000 and over 20 degrees higher than thermometers covered with white material of the land is being prepared this summer for the planting of 50000 more similar texture thus indicating that this fall which will be a practical Whitened peach twigs might be exof the orchard doubling says the lesB heat than pected to absorb much The Southern Planter The increased plantthose that were not whitened will be entirely of earlier variewhitewash used was four parts of ings of ties peaches than are now in the asks: water one part of skimmed milk and "Will cuttle eat buckeyes and an bearing orchard and of Japan plums enough freshly slacked lime to make The they of the nursery plant company has will ln'uiious? People tell me they as thick a wash as could conveniently kill cattle Is it so? I have a pasbeen increased and now prorecently be pumped through a Bordeaux spray ture in vhlrh there are quite a number duces about 4000000 trees annually This wash nozzle without clogging of buckeyes and would like to underFort Valley’s big orchard is the greatwas sprayed on the trees by means of stand if the buckeyes are dangerous to of its kind in America It is a litest a bucket spray pump be Toro turning on the pasture” The first appliof the central part of cattle cation was made the last of December tle southwest Prof 1 L Budd answers in Iowa and three subsequent sprayings were Georgia on the line of the Southern State Register as follows: “This is The orchard when the new necessary to keep the trees thoroughly railway publicly as it has public Interwill contain nearly est The nuts of all the buckeye famcoated until spring The cost for ma- trees are planted acres 2000 ily are not poisonous in the ordinary terial and labor is about 10 cents per sense but they are loaded with an intree when done on a small scale A New Egg Preservative tensely hitter narcotic that Shading the trees with canvas hay M Bournouf recommends in a may destroy life if eatenprinciple in considercovers was about as beneficial as whitFrench journal the following method able quantity For some reason cattU ening but was more expensive "Balof preserving eggs Dissolve In two-thirseem fond of them and no fact is bettei the branches together ing” by drawing d of warm olive oil of established than the one that cattle in a vertical buudle and covering them beeswax and cover each egg completehave frequently been killed by eating with coarse grass and corn stalks prowith a thin layer of thiB pomade nuts of the Ohio buckeye and the ly Old one trees with stiff tects the buds with the end of the finger The egg native to this state It will be safest tc branches cannot well be treated in this shell by degrees absorbs the oil and cut down the tree In the pasture and manner without injury to the branches each of the becomes filled with we know from experience that the wild ‘‘Layering” or bending down the trees wax which pores crab apples In the pasture should share hermetically seals them in autumn and covering them with M Bournouf affirms that he has eaten the same fate If milch cows have ac earth has proven beneficial Shading cess to the fruit as they will decrease the trees with broad sheds enablea eggs kept two years In this manner in the flow of milk as long as the apples not too to a exexposed place great unto survive the winter peach buds tremes of temperature He thinks also last" injured when 80 per cent of unprotected buds were killed Trees protected that the germ may in this manner be Mashes for Breakfast— A writer in preserved for a considerable time in this way blossomed later remainthe Iowa Homestead offers the followed in bloom longer set more fruit in Root Grafts— This Is not new ing very practical advice: “Mashes are Frozen to the of number apparentproportion Twenty-fou- r in our experience years a quick breakfast The crops of tho ly perfect flowers and held their fruit better than any other trees on the sta- ago a neighbor drove up with a box of fowls in the morning are empty and it is necessary that they should have tion grounds This is the most effec- root grafts frozen Bolid He said that for quick assimilation It a house for the he shut winter something up visit tive means of winter protection tried takes a number of hours for whole at the station but it is probably too and on coming home found the cellar to digest This ground grain On solid was frozen examination grain no expensive for commercial orchaids signs of uniting of root and graft was very quickly does Its work Into the He offered to sell the lot of mashes meat or condition powder or period toward this the Indian is found The Fur in era nt Hemlock The Timberman says: The fanner of 30000 grafts for $10 We did not know any tonic can be readily put and the sometimes crawling at others crouchresults are moie satisfactory We feed ing at last he Is safe in its shelter the United States has gotten beyond then that they were worth 10 cents but and we them them took planted beside mashes the entire year During the with heart beating with excitement the point where he wishes the cheapest winter we mix ground grain with boilown grafts kept in a warm cellar When he left the mountain top the thing simply because it Is cheap but our hot water during the summer we bear was feeding toward this very rock a was ing The result stand perfect of the he like every sensible man wants the use cold water In the winter we most possible for his money with due frozen grafts and a poor one of those give and had so continued With gun on the we mash in the as the supposed just carefully adand right Since morning kept consideration to a reasonable profit to grain at full cock that time we have not been afraid of noon and nigbt During the summer vances his head around the base in an everyone legitimately engaged in manwe give but two meals a day — instant it is brought back to cover for ufacture or trade Economy In buying a very cold root cellar for grafts packmorning he Ex ed and in earth— In has caught sight of bruin not thirty the sandy mashes evening too we depends not so much on the actual feet away and busy eating the luscious are able to give more of a than the as variety price upon peculiar adaptability I have fruit still toward the rock with whole grain Cure for Feather-Eatingof the thing purchased to the purpose waits five minutes considerable experienced difficulty in for which It Is intended The wider acArgenllre Live Stock — The numbers longer of the bad habit fowls hours to me as I curing effectually appears (it of live stock the Argentine Republic quaintance the lumber buyer or con- of feather-eatin- g with belt-ax- e well In and then found and folwatch) the sumer has with different varieties of cure after falling with possesses amount (says an English ex- front and gun seized firmly in his woods — with their pecul'arlties of lowing a certain change) to about 25000000 of hands steps boldly out from his hidparafhn paring the bills etc: Take a horned cittle 80000000 sheep head strength durability workable quali5000000 As usual with bears when of wire the of thickness ing place of an horses 500000 asses and mules 2000-00ties etc — the more pconom’caiiy he piece 0 close quarters the anibind mi at it round prised the hairpin ordinary will buy top goats end 500000 pigs whereas the mal Having such knowledge he erect position and at an bill near of the ppsumes tbe end will find sometimes that the nure costwhole of the country portion only the 4ime moment the gun belches forth as not to allow it to slip amountspopulation tight to Is 5030000 article ly inhabitants The Its really the chemer or he bullet and the mong oil This will not prevent the bird from majority of the cattle may find that the cheap articles may belong to the old ster falls but will or drinking prevent its creole race pierced through the heart for certain uses be as as eating Its bill sufficiently to draw That the Indian’s squaw and tight dosing night the more expensive one with which he and the bad habit is soon forin F’llthy Water— Doubtless on berry-fe- d bear meat hildren Uiuhers Danger feast is acquainted To the farmer hemlock California Poultry Keeper thousands of children die in ind the growing boys listen breathlesslannually which is a comparatively npv material gotten— city and country from the effects of y to their father's description of how in the West should appeal with special In preparing soil for setting oul milk from cowts obliged to drink water he killed “Mus-Kwa- ” fsree because of Its peculiar adaptabiltrees the whole surface of the ground contaminated with the The foregoing Is one way of hunting of disease germs an to be worked equal depth ity for certain classes of construction should hear Is and the riseuae and the other is by trapping— often traced to this combined with cheapness It is actually it only the ground where the tree Is source either or steel traps This better for some things than white pine t ) be set be worked up It will for n to the Any ofstanding water exposed mode deadfall is only practiced in the of sun Is the rays where will water trapping a cavity collect dangerous and yet can be had at a much lower Let your rows have no water not fit for the spring Shortly after the bears and imperil the life of the tree price ’t Is better for some things than come out of their dens they resort to to drink— Ex you yourself — In fact for corn yellow pine better It Is also a sign of good luck to give The pathc of glory lead but to the creeks and small rivers where carp cribs than any other material We do and small trout spawn at that season pipnty of good sound food and clean grave— Gray will see water net know that many farmers fisherman and will j Bruin is an C on the great beast for a moment or two before giving him his quietus Indians can carry immense weights Suspended by a leather thong from the forehead bears weighing up to three hundred pounds they can carry in Ihla way across a portage of half a ml Las left-han- el (!! stand on the low banks and with a dash of his fore paw land out one or two fish at a stroke The Indian hunter knows these creeks and rivers and it is on their banks he sets his traps with some tempting bait such as musquash meat or corn with maple syrup mixed together neither of which is it possible for Mr Bear to pass without making a try for Wooden traps or deadfalls are made in the same shape as the n flgure-of-fotrap for marten and other small animals only many times larger and the crushing weight or load as much as two strong men could lift The bait is tied on to a loop of twisted roots and the latter is caught over the wooden trigger that supports the loaded cross-ba- r and then on the peg at back of the trap The bear after drawing in strong whiffs of the tempt- ing morsel from the entrance ventures boldly in The depth of the trap is almost equal to the length of his body so when he tugs at the bait the middle of his body Is directly under the crossbar The loop slips off the peg and the weight of the logs and stones crash down on poor old Mus-Kw- a The Indian prefers using the steel trap as It is more certain and the bear keeping alive for several days the hunter is not required to visit his traps so often During the hot spring days a bear In a deadfall very soon becomes and rotten and the meat useless and very frequently the skin also It Is In the spring of the year takes his twenty-poun- d new house trap and makes his way to a small connecting stream between two lakes It Is the spawning ground of carp Here along the bank Is a bear path Fishing bears have frequented this trail for years Here he builds an obstruction on two sides out from the trunk of a large spruce for a distance of four feet the opening in front Is about twenty inches wide A tempting bait Is placed on a forked stick at the back of the Inclosure near the base of the tree He next cuts a sound young birch seven or eight feet long diameter at small end five Inches and six or seven at the thickest end! The weight of such a stick In the sap is about seventy-fiv- e About pounds d up this drag the ring of the chain is firmly wedged and the Immense jaws of the trap Is opened A hollow In the entrance of the house Is made so that when the trap is placed the hole Is nearly on a level with th ground A bent root of small tree or well-know- fly-blo- well-trodd- one-thir- ‘ without resting But had one now even heavier than that so he opened him u and removed the paunch and entrails to lighten his load The trap was reset and the successful hunter made his way to the canoe and then to his camp to bring smiles and laughter to his wif and family Some of the poorer Indians who to make deadfalls sometimes set snares in the bear roads but this mode ol hunting Ib not successful as a rule COCKTAIL WENT WRONG Clrcmnipect Man and Supnrservlceabl Walter Pleased tlie Women There is a certain young man wh is Just at present ruminating over th truism that you can never tell aboul women says the New York Tribune He came to New York a few years age from a western city more noted for its piety than anything else and has bees of late living at an uptown hotel Oddly enough the early piety instilled is him was not laatlng he had slipped from grace at divers times and in I certain way cultivated a taste for th cup that cheers There arrived at hit hotel recently a little party from hii home city The party consisted of at old gentleman his wife and theii daughter The old man was a friend of the young man’s father and thi young man had a slight acquaintance with both father and daughter Thi elderly man asked the younger man t dine with him in the evening and th invitation was accepted When thi dinner hour rftlled around the littli party strolled into the dining-rooThey found the room filled to over flowing and it was impossible to ge four seats together After some delaj it was arranged that the elderly coupli should sit at one table and the younj man and the daughter sat at another This man had acquired a habit of pre facing a dinner with a cocktail Hi knew well the feeling of his host oi this subject but he wanted the cocktai badly He knew the waiter also and calling him over told him quietly t bring a cocktail in a teacup Thi waiter smiled knowingly and went off Shortly he returned with a teacup am the young man alone knew it containe a cheering mixture of whisky and bitters The waiter was in his day ant generation a wise man He had seei this particular man drink in the housi under all conditions but never bj stealth He set his gigantic brain t work and he evolved the idea that thi secrecy was for the benefit of the girl and so he set the cup down directly h front of her and smiled with a self satisfied smirk at the man The mai glowered and choked but coult say nothing The girl looked suspiciously at the cup and then picket it up and smelled it Then a great light came into her face and she fairlj beamed She raised the cup to her lips and pausing smiled across at th man and said softly “It was so kind of you! Just what I wanted No on but you would have thought of It Positively you are a genius” and whil the mellow liquid flowed down th girl’s throat the man sat and blinked and blinked Now he thinks that th younger generation of that village i not so bad after all and he is talking of making a visit tc m ed home ds Not oie-thir- ic X suf-ncieu- death-dealin- satis-factor- expert I do not possess steel traps and are too lazy a Mlanomer Dabbler— "Why do you always call a Journalist news write-u- p a ‘story?’ Spacer— “Regard for the truth my boy compels me” THIS AND THAT Gambling mania is now accepted 1 France a3 a ground for divorce Few people in India eat more than twice a day and thousands only once The greatest cape in the world ii Cape Horn a precipitous mountain feet high are in India 200000 widow over 3000 There age between ten and fourteen years and 80000 less than nine years old The relative size of the earth as compared with the sun is approximately that of a grain of sand to an orange shrub about as thick as the little finAs far as calculations can decide thi ger is placed under the palate to make temperature of comets Is believed to bi the trap harder to set off This is done 2000 times fiercer than that of red-h- o so that small animals such as marten iron fox or fisher cannot spring the trap A recent Invention is a cradle thai should they be drawn to the bait A layer of white moss or that from rocks by means of a clockwork mechanism and at the same time plays babj about a decayed stump is then placed In tunes one sheet carefully over the whole trap She Isn’t Colonel Oldbore the wor3i and pulverised rotten wood or earth is then sprinkled over the moss to take fellow for firing off old saws and sayeh away the newness and the trap is ings? He— A regular maxim-gu- n ready Four or five days have passed —Brooklyn Life during which time Notwithstanding all the efforts of has no one has been able to disbeen busy setting other traps at different points and now according to the cover a substitute for leather Foi signs it is time he visits the traps we shoes belting harness and a thousand saw him set other uses "there’s nothing like leathHe emerges from the forest on a er” small hill overlooking the trap-hous- e Toronto hotels have been bothered One look he sees the drag-lo- g is off by a man who persists in putting si Torn-u- p ground and bitten twigs and names on the register and ordering si branches mark clearly the way the rooms although no one accompanie beast has gone rams a him and he represents nobody but himbullet into his gun and follows the self signs With a twenty-poun- d “Didn’t you forget something sir" trap and a drag-lo- g almost as heavy as a man asked the waiter "Yes” can carry it Is a marvel how far a bear GImpy reaching for his hat replied "Yon will travel after being caught But In were so long bringing my dinner that this case bruin Is not far off an ob- I forgot what I had ordered”— Philastruction of some considerable strength delphia North American has caught the drag and as he hears First Passenger— Would you— ah-l- end the approach of the hunter he rattles me your spectacles a moment his chain and lets out a defiant growl S°cond Passenger— Certainly please? draws nearer and sees sir First Passenger— Ah thank you he is well caught— i e high up the now as yon can not see to read youi He is unable to do the trapper foreleg paper would you mind letting me hav any harm and the latter calmly look it please?— ic ic Tlt-BI- ts |
