Show f - w t f Iiiii’nii - FARM AND GARDEN IMjlK other 600 and both tell me that sheep are very profitable It is a comfort to see that diversified farming is better Trees tlon of meetings for all sorts and conaverage email boy soon learns GLADYS’ ’KERCHIEFS ditions of women Gladys had arranged a at even reasonable aguish a little parlor of her own MATTERS OF INTEREST TO than hogs cattle and corn or corn catIt was a the chestnut walnut or hlck-th(By Lida Patrick Wilson in Short quaint apartment so full of her fads tle and within AGRICULTURISTS grow range of hogs and nothing else — EdEtories) and fancies that you felt had been Venturous feet but with most ward B Heaton in Farmers’ Review HILIP WARING taken into her confidenceyou moment the ends of their 'je knowledge Some walked along Mam you entered the room Hints Abont Col Miniature garYork Ledger They street with a quick dens grew In the tlTHtlon of the Soil and Yields Illinois Dairymen windows ramlllar with trees ivy climbed that only According to announcement the Illinervous tread His Thereof — Horticulture Viticulture and adventurously toward the ceiling the to that their nois something appeals State mouth was set Dairymen’s association h0 cut glass bowl on the odd little table Floriculture or their cupidity Growing to its annual convention 11 12 appetite a was overflowing with roses and and January holly and 13 t Red Bud a quaint old town aturity with little or no interest In deep flush of red berries the beautiful of Christbadge woods and fields about them they All A round the Farm which bears many substantial evidences dyed each cheek mas was lavishly scattered every"As the day p often at their wits’ ends to decide lengthens the cold of thrift and prosperity Not far from The happy stir of where the that involve strengthens’’ This old saw gathers Kaskaskia the first capital of the trifling questions the Christmas seaA queer little Dutch clock ticked added force If we have a bunch of state it is situated in the heart Identification of certain sorts of wood son was still in the away crazily on the very A foUl set of veneers wall had calves to feed Cold and carelessness of the including In one celebrated In the hisair but Philip had never been known to tell the it time are calculated to knock a spring calf in torical country lot right a another in Cather-wooand d romances of Mary J dapmestic foreign guilty feeling that every one who and had learned to love it for the head Then when spring conies The convention was a great woodspf all sorts should be part of passed knew that his engagement With its Philip of happy faculty and they have all the grass they can success if it was held the equipment of every school room It Gladys Lawton wag broken and that only 10 o’clock when insisting it was "way down in cat they are liable to take to blackleg Southern Illinois” would be well to have each piece there reposed in his time pieces were mildly A neighbor went to hinting it was Like other meetings of its class it mounted In a small frame or on a to be returned to their ownerpocket Chicago and bought one 12 a carload of calves and brought them brought nearly d cardboard pf sufficient body to be dur- dozen little notes on heavy white patogether such a home This was early in the spring Gladys was studying Greek history d set of men and was able On theSmargln the peculiar charper monogram G L and in his right-han- d and Jovial He was quite a young man and It was conducted sculpture and the usual pictures with an absence of restraint acteristics orMhe tree should be writpocket a diamond scarf plnand In the room had been his first venture They were thin and that ten removed to give Vsoil secits habit climate size prob- six dainty handkerchiefs with flufly proved so enticing that the co at once he fed them place to her attic treasures The Parliberally They retary was fairly harassed by applica- able age and the uses to which it is borders especially designed to tickle thenon had the pdace of honor over would eat until they were satisfied and tions for best adapted a lady-llk- e membership little nose Why Philip the piano and the gods and goddesses then lie down This was kept up quite The character of the dairy discusAf ten years should be defied custom in returning these ar- were Every child a while and then nine of them died of sions has assembled on the walls in almost since the able to tell at aglance all of the dif- ticles in person the little god of love as changed materially blackleg The idea struck the young days when the relative merits of breeds ferent woods numbers as In the days of great that grow Jn the vicinity alone knows man that they needed exercise so was old when they had of gathered on Mount his subthe home A far more If to the veneer cards topic This Imposing array of gifts Olympus every day for a week or more as soon ject was so were most added at in trees and love the of the leaves generally ignored tokens was being collected at as they were through with their corn of Phil grew uneasy as a flood of assothe sessions that an ignorant at- a green and also in a dry state the the other ehd of the line in the morning for Phil was ciations rolled over him and he moved driven were they around for a couple of hours The re- tendant might reasonably have sup- study would be greatmaimplifled Very a generous soul and his ladylove most restlessly about There on the desk sult was not another died of blackleg posed that “any old cow’’ would do for few persons are awwi of the enor- - chary of her favors Letter writing was that hand The attention of the mou business that is tone in venrs she detested and Phil at an wMciToTd Van Safety is reached by commencing with dairy purposes seTto stag early a or convention was to devoted " the chiefly a poor lot of calves so gradually that expensive and (Implicated ma- in their engagement had been em- at Christmas How Jealous he had there is no suddenness in the change consideration of the comparative values chinery and processes Chat are neces- ployed as secretary The answers to been of Van for the his presof forage crops and how to preserve sary in order pleasure to produce some of the his daily notes were to his disgust ent had When they have reached full feed no He remembered how given! in them most economical the beat harm results exquisite articles of furniture which usually given by telephone As to the I myself last spring manner All cuttingly he had remarked that it was arguments for old meth- are offered for sale in our best shops handkerchiefs — thereby hangs a tale Just bought seven head of calves yearling3 like Van’s meanness to offer her or ods the sustained by'’ not principles which were so warty they looked hidT£ere are many varieties of wood for Gladys was one of those unfortun- some other fellow’s hand! eous I commenced gradually and kept recent experiments of the agricultural that are peculiarly adapted for ven- ate beings — a girl without a On the table was the novel they had it up until they ate every ear they stations were received with cynical eers and are of great value Curly and could be traced by the pocket— trail of been could The warts commenced to drop good nature and the professors in agri- maple and curly birch are growing pretty mouchoirs she left behind her his reading together Phil had used as a bookmark and it had cultural lines of whom a liberal sprink- scarce and fine ofT before Phil’s hand involuntarily tightened beenscarf pin Good pasture walnut has practically grass came left was all undisturbed at commanded ling present finished making them smooth disappeared from market A large over the packet which aroused such My From its place on" the chandelier a attention amount of opinion after noticing calves for a times the most respectful wood is cut every bitter sweet remembrances apple One lit- little more" apparent than Indeed was sprig of mistletoe suddenly nothing year number is black goodly of years and while it would bring a good tle square of linen with wide ruffies of that deon Phil’s hand the in and confidence dropped Christmas growing leg is simply paralysis of the surface price there are many people who use it lace he pilfered the day they became eve he had stood in this same spot blood vessels They fall to circulate pendence upon the work of the expert-- for firewood probably because it is too engaged and was sacred in Phil’s sight and Gladys shy reserved undemon ' the blood Exercise keeps up the cir ment stations by the progressive and much trouble to put it in order and for it had wiped two tears away rechappy Btate the who strative of farmers practical Gladys had softly stolen up culation lying down induces torpidity find a purchaser for it Croquet balls from Gladys’ big eyes Another had behind him and of the veins and paralysis v actually I am no ognize their inability as individuals to and many other articles are made from boon doctor but them’s my sentiments on conduct such tests with the scientific apple wood which is one highly prized on evening as they were going to see his hands In his accuracy attained by the stations and account of blackleg pockets and turned extreme hardness a famous tragedian its It re“Keep it for me to look at the dying embers in the are to of the themselves avail glad Cattle should not be fed on corn takes a fine polish and is really a Phil for I know IA shall cry” said grate Yes Cladys had evidently Just alone It is natural for them to chew sults beautiful wood ery Walnut which Gladys of conscious her weak- left the room— fully the' to The most valuable contribution fled the cud and roughness fed with corn used to be one of the standard woods ness supposed when It was not needed for the play she heard his voice heDrawn program was generally conceded to be for brings both up from the first compartup cozily become very proved more glad than sad and Philip making furniture in front of the fire was her favorite ment of the stomach and all is digested the address by Mr R A Pearson as- scarce fine and qualities command a added the bit of cambric to his rapidly Without roughness scarcely half the sistant secretary of agriculture who most lounging chair in which she curled extravagant figure Oak la one growing collection corn goes through the process and so exhaustively described the work which of herself comfortably like a cat the popular woods for furniture Gladys had a pretty habit of wearing It passes from them in whole grains the department has done and is doing In the depths of the chair a small is It durable a and takes a fluffy handkerchief tucked coquet-tishl- y white Hence there is waste unless hogs fol- to further the dairy and general agri- making object attracted Phil’s attention finish but is exceedingly heavy up her sleeve and another of low and in any event the corn does cultural interests of American ' farm- high from pure force of haMechanically and in large pieces quite cumber- Phil’s souvenirs had been used ’one bit he stopped to pick it up and a only a part of its office in the fattening ers We hope to give these papers and some Rosewood has been much liked happy night to bandage a finger he had discussions in detail in later issues of process wretched little specimen of moucholr for furniture but some varieties are bruised In raising a window The drouth in these ends of the earth the Farmer’s Review it was It looked as if Telemachus had He smiled to himself as he rememChief among the resolutions passed objectionable cn account of their tenwaB beneficial in making not only wept abundantly upon it and Niobe to a dency exude sort" bered how of gum that many times he had heard added her ceaseless tears sound corn but in maturing the young by the convention was one condemnIt was as free distribution of causes roughness and takes away the her agonized whisper “Please lend me wood on the fruit trees It is true that ing the as a cobweb out damp left over fine night is polish This numbers of trees and plants set out in seeds which the Farmer’s Review has especially true of your handkerchief Phil I can’t think in the dew veneers this and has led has become of what the experts mine” This comthe spring have perished Especially for many years so aggressively opA great light came into Phil’s eyes is this the case with cherry trees which posed Another of the resolutions to regard with disfavor all articles mon occurrence had caused Phil in Gladys made of unhappy ! Raprosewool 'It is out of the making his toilet to invariably add turous crying! Gladys seem more susceptible to drouth than passed was addressed to the Illinois she care for him must thought— any other sort Plums are all right and legislature and petitioned that body to question to detect the imperfections an extra one for Gladys' and her emer- after all! drew a Philip beforehand and when they appear gencies long breath so are the young peach trees Pears so amend the present oleothat like a sounded sob with a then there no is ’a redress Phil heaved usually have stood It well Apples not so well margarine law as to provide for the sigh that would have boyish toward he walked laugh happy a been to credit nothe of ornamental commissioner shrubs lover a dairy Many and the stagiest appointment perished An Estimate — Waldo F Brown says his honest heart door There was a light step on tably the hardy hydrangea and the cle- and for an appropriation for the that thumped hard as he the from 3100 to 200 can be made on stair a rustle of drapery in the matis Among evergreens the Siber- maintenance of such an office the ashall and she entered “Gladys” said ian arbor vitae is the most susceptible sociation pledging itself to work by almost any farm from the poultry alone one and the treasure that hour a Philip is to drouth The hydrangea and the undividual vote and personal influence pocketing day ampls time to look after them Now allowing “I came to tell you— how much I lov evergreen must be watered liberally or for such legislation to you” they will certainly perish On many The following officers were elected this 365 be true one hour a day will be but more drouth is destructive than for the ensuing year: President George more hours or gbout five weeks One plants week’s work would easily put in cold weather H Gurler of DeKalb The Florida Indians and harvest three acres of grain We is gaining ground John Newman Elgin secretary J H will The Indian question says a correone acre of barley one of corn say among farmers Near me a creamery of Monrad of Winnetka directors Jno New York Evening the of spondent this sort has been running now over a Stewart Elburn R R Murphy Gar- and one of oats and wheat sown hall Post associated is so In most minds and half If we allow that all the mala year and so well has it prospered that den Plain S G Soverhill Tiskilwa with few west the that birds persons recall old etc hens a 13 per cent dividend has been declar- R G Wilford Red Bud and A G killeq off to give the fact that we have a good many red place for young pullets will pay for ed This and the fact they get the milk Judd Dixon men still in the east living in characseed and use of land we have the back minus the cream has given cows After the reading of the scores on total grain income teristic Indian fashion and their prog100 from offegg to hens a boom Properly and honestly man- the butter exhibit and announcement ress in civilization subject to the same set the six of and weejes is there light not the doubt least always but of awards Mr F W aged addrawbacks as that of their western Now our Leghorns pleasant work that It is a good thing for the farming dressed the convention Brockway on the “Debrethren 165 The most interesting of 200 to about average and eggs for per year' the mands of the St Louis Market” which community especially these are the Florida Seminoles of stockholders Another creamery run he summarized in the statement: “St and until very recently these eggs have whom there are between four hundred averaged us one cent apiece at least on the same plan a few miles farther Louis demands good butter” Mr $165 per 100 hens and six hundred scattered through the but $150 Allowing away has done as well as the above Brockway was one of the judges of and we have $100 a month for the time and one year it did better for the past the butter exhibit and Everglades Until within a little while the consumed — Ex explained no one thought of disturbing them six years of the score card He considMen are hauling up to the house points there for they were living on land beLand Poor — It is an easy matter to a of secondary Imcolor ered great piles of logs which before long portance and point become longing to the United States and In a land This repoor condition said that the tendency will be sawed by horse or steam power district which no one else cared to ocsults from grasping at everything In of the trade is towards a lighter shade Half a day’s sawing will last a round Various speculative schemes cupy soon The farmti finds himself that the Chicago and New York de- sight 'IN THE LIBRARY SIR” for redeeming the Everglades have year To cut the wood for that length mand is for a burdened more acres with than hued he can butter than paler walked the steps of Mrs Lawton’s been of time as it is needed with the axe is to the front of late howhandle But interest and house up “Ah no fool of a Job which I know by sad St Louis In the discussion which properly well Gladys is the only ever pushed crown all the United to and taxes on the go same Mr Wilford expressed The merrily just the girl in the world for me but our first States government has decided to make experience Cutting wood at the wood-pil- e followed is does We it question are the state pay? various that dairy asin July and August is a watery opinion quarrel is to be our last for she does a gift of this tract to the state of Florthat the tendency In this not glad to care for me that’s evident fool ida Job A man at the woodpile then sociations should unite to adopt a direction say With the prospect that the land has had a setback in recent seems to be the subject of “continual standard color for butter and urge its I was” And he pulled the bell that From this time years forward farmoccupied by the Indians might become dissolution and thaw" I prefer the general adoption ers will be inclined to keep smaller so savagely that Polly the maid fairly valuable there arose a local demand would One three think that of steam power in the winter days flew to the door Phil’s eyes dropped for their removal to some spot where How cheerful the evergreens look three sessions each would have ex- holdings of lands looking more closely as he met the beaming gaze of to Polly the methods which each would be out of the way of white acre by zeal the of hausted they even may debating such around the house when all the ground made to produce an income that will the maid Polly who had opened the development of the country and a is covered with snow They are the enthusiastic dairy farmers as these be door so sympathlzingly through all the ideal windbreak I have a good many but no at the parting of the ways as leave something over for a rainy day stages of his codrtship— she at least board of trustees appointed by the wheh the expense bills have all been state government to select a site for a of various kinds but prefer for the the trains bore them north south east would be sorry there was to be no wedrank and file the white pine It grows and west wherever two or three were paid When the popular disposition Is ding and Phil’s voice faltered a trifle permanent reservation has reported to once well set in this the governor rapidly and with room very shapely gathered togther the discussions went far better for the channel it will be as he asked for MIsb Lawson farming interests of on and butter cream ensilage corn There should be two rows twenty-fou- r 'She is In the library sir” Polly eet apart The outer row should break and all the other terms in the “bright the country— Nebraska Farmer HIM Knowledge of Mnitlc in her usual encouraging tones said Joints with the inner row By that lexicon” of the Illinois dairyman While Meade’s army was marching hesitated The Phil Future Prices for Horses — Chicago library was the floated out upon the night air and means a solid shelter is made of out sanctum Wilderness a drum corps the where are received dealers about unanimous in the private Gladys Any quantity of men don’t seem tc doubtless mingled in their dreams as conviction In Grant’s her intimate friends headquarters caught passing felt that horses only Waring good will be care a copper whether their half of the they sped across the rolling prairies much be a hard matter to end sight of the chief and at once struck would it that a from now year higher than beloved at of our state line fence is kept up or not Bad fences his engagement In that room the present time Foreign buyers comup a then popular negro make as a rule bad neighbors After I will wait In here” he said of air Everyone began to laugh limited “I think the number plain of The of cheese the quality is not dethe fence is first made ordinary care horses now ceding to market going toward the drawing room "Oh “What’s the fun?” Inquired the genwill keep it in working order I often termined by the percentage of fat in and the fact that but few colts have sir Mrs Lawton has a mother’s meeteral “Why” was the reply “they wonder why it is that farmers don’t see the milk The fat is but one factor been raised during the past three years ing In there” said Polly and led tb® are playing 'Ain’t I Glad to Get Oul in the problem is to on be Experiments that it much easier the best indithe prediction that way to the sacred precincts so familiar ob de Wilderness!’” The general of terms with their neighbors than to cate that an excess of fat is of no ad- only emphasizes drivers good drafters and ex- to him of late No one was there smiled at the ready wit of the musiheavy to the cheese To make cheese be otherwise Years ago when'l comvantage are sure to command better and Waring sat down In a remote cor- cians and said: “Well with me a mumenced farming on this prairie I re- from milk containing over 4 per cent pressesin the near future —Drover's ner feeling ill at ease with these sur- sical joke always requires explanation solved that my stock should never trou- of fat we advise cooking to about 100 prices Journal roundings When Mrs Lawson had I know only two tunes— one Is ‘Yankef ble my neighbors and they never have deg and salting from to become such a club woman that her DoodlV and the other Isn’t” — Roche Don’t bet that the dog with the The sheep Industry is looking up A half pound extra to Improve body and drawing room was In constant requisi- - tsr Democrat nd Chronicle 1000 near neighbor has now head An texture collar will win the fight at for-Ne- w te I® een well-regulat- ’ left-han- ed d clean-hearte- keen-witte- I 'ZZ I I I j 1 ’ i ' hs anti-col- or ‘ tell-ta- le nt camp-meeti- first-cla- ss one-quart- er hand-jome- st "1 1 J ng iifrirt hiffl |