Show Aik j PAM AND MATTERS OF GARDEN INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS TO days to haul la $1$ rent af land $10 tax of land $4 wear and tear and Interest $1245 later on tor hauling to market and other work to meadow $23 total $9195 Tbe average hay crop for 1897 was about one and tons to acre which will make the cost $615 Adding 80 cents for hone feed brings it up to $593 per ton of hay Wheat— Seed 35 bushels $35 blndtr twine $8 threshing 300 bushels at 4 cents $12 work of all kinds $11250 rent for land $75 wear tear tax 25 $4162 horse feed $30 total cost-oacres of wheat $31412 or $104 per bushel Oats— Seventy-fiv- e bushels of seed $20 twine $8 threshing a 40 bushel per acre yield 1000 bushels $20 work of all kindB $11250 rent for land $75 wear tear tax $4162 horse feed $30 total $30712 or a little over 30 cents per bushel In above figures I did not count any incidental expenses sueh as horseshoeing machine oil harness oil and the like I am one of your readers aad that is the only school I have ever had la this good America I began reading your paper ten years ago right after I began farming for myself I call myself a practical farmer which one can get to be only by actual experience and good farm journal! through which to exchange Ideas Land In my neighborhood sells for from $75 to $100 ptr acre We had a fair erop but there is not much money on account ef bad roads Wheat looks as If it was used one-ha- lf 8on Hint About Cultivates of the doll and Yield Thereof — Horticulture Viticulture and Floriculture Wood of Bcarluf Grope Tine E G Lodeman department ot agrl culture report: (5) All the fruit of tile vine In any one year Is borne upon the that fruit of year which grow from the canes produced the preceding year and since the number of clusters borne upon a single shoot Is fairly constant (varying generally from on to three) the number of buds left upon a vine when it is pruned deter mines with considerable accuracy the number of clusters which the vine will possess These facts serve as the chief guides to the operator In the vineyards when estimating the probable capacity of a vine during the next season of bearing Usually more buds are allowed to remain than would be safe if each one were sure to be perfect an excess of 10 to 20 per cent Is generally left In New York vineyards to take the places of sueh buds as are Imperfect or of those which become In- jured The position of the bearing wood a upon vine is of secondary Importance as regards the effect upon the quantity and quality of the fruit but as a frequent change or renewal of the entire top appears to be desirable the young bearing wood should be as near root of the plant as circumstances ( 6) the will allow When the Important relation of tbese essential points to successful grape growing is thoroughly considered the secondary character of the training of the vine becomes apparent A system of training may become popular In a locality simply as the not effect of some trifling cause aad as s result of extended comparisons or experiences It Is well understood and therefore used Yet there Is scarcely a system which Is not more modified by the Individual grow much so often many va- or lees r— so riations will be some found In of that well-know- method n the same locality Each vlneyardlst is a staunch supporter of his own method and the conclusion which one must necessarily reach factor the grower is the mala the system being merely a convenience capable of much variation Yet every Important grape growing district has one or more characteristic Is that methods ot training its grape vines This plainly shows that such methods are well suited to the locality and to the varieties of grapes grown there For this reason they deserve study as well ods in successful use When the vantages and disadvantages of the as comparison with other meth- adva- rious typical systems are well understood it Is a comparatively easy matter to select one which will prove successful even under In case of peculiar circumstances necessity an ennew be adopted to method may tirely BUit the requirements of a certain locality all that is essential la to adapt the system to the principals stated above and to limit all modifications in accordance with them Cmt of Raising based Grain $50 per acre one man can do will be to raise say 25 acres of wheat 40 acres of corn 25 acres of oats and 10 acres of bay altogether 100 acres In tbe first place I will have to buy an outfit that will last ten years It will consist of the following: Three horses $300 harness good figures are All that My land stock rake $10 harcultivator $18 oats corn planter $40 wheat $40 wagon row' $15 drill 50 binder $115 seeder rake on $35 deep 10 mower $45 hay $20 hay frame $10 Bmall retools $10 total $778 as you know everything will out lu ten years and the monspent will be a total loss so we pairing Now be worn ey so of the Invested on wear and capital tear for each year Then there is the Interest The annual loss for this will of be about as follows: $778 $7780 Interest on $778 at 6 per cent $4668 rent of land $300 tax on land $40 tax on horses and tools borse feed $120 wages at $150 $20 per day for 300 days $450 a total of $105448 We may figure pretty accurately and you will find it will take about half of the counted time to work the forty acres of corn and the other balf of the time will suffice for the wheat oats and hay so we will count lf of the $105448 for the raising of corn To That will be $52724 which we must add cost of shelling of a 40 bushel crop $16 and seed $250 making a total of $54574 This gives us 1600 bushels of corn at a total cost must count one-ten- as being th the loss One-tent- h rne-ha- $54574 or a cost of 34 cents per of Tbe average corn crop bushel 1897 was 23 bushels which would give Of a cost per bushel of 59 cents course the more bushels per acre we raise the less will be the cost of each As the same tools are used bushel all over the farm we will throw about an equal charge of the wear to each of crop f P A SUBSCRIBER BtfMllT Rm4 Lew The chief executive ef Indiana Is a strong advocate of good reeds and is determined that the road laws of that He state shall he radically revised expresses himself as follows: “I knew before I became governor that our road laws were defective and I have learned much more since I have been In office I have beea Investigating the question lately with a view to future legislation and I find the study not only Interesting but I may say appalling Ths road tax the state over will average more than II cents ea $100 We pay taxes on $1360006000 That moans that ws are euppoeed to pay about $2000000 per annum for keeping our roads up I want to say that I am wholly and thoroughly convinced that not 50 per eeat of this sum is ever expended as the law provides A great deal of It is never even collected The Indiana law allows a taxpayer to ‘work out’ his road tax The road supervisor Is sole boss aad judge of this ‘working-out- ’ business and any sort of a slipshod report of the matter he sees fit to make to his township trustee suffices As a consequence abuse is almost universal and tbe most outrageous and flagrant frauds are perpetrated There is $156000000 worth of railroad property taxed In Indiaaa but do these railroads pay their 15 cents on the hundred dollars as prescribed by law? Not at all They 'work it out’ on tbe free gravel roads according to reports but the result of the work is not apparent In some places I doubt if any of the money these railroads were supposed to pay for road tax and of which they did pay perhaps 80 per cent for the tax receipts was expended on the roads One man who has several railroads under his control told me a short time ago that none of his roads ever paid over 80 per cent for these receipts The railroads are reported on the books of nearly every county in the state as having 'worked out' their road tax and I challenge any man to cite me a single case where he has seen the employes of any railroad working on our roads paying off this tax With the amount of money Indiana is supposed to pay for road tax she ought to have the' best roads in the United States But she has not and will not have until there Is corrective legislation There ought to be no such thing as ‘working out’ road tax and the laws should be so revised as to insure the expenditure ot the tax collected for the purpose it Is designed to serve I am studying the New Jersey law and other state laws and hope to be able to present some valuable suggestions to the next leg- islature" Carbon Bisulphide for Weevil Is a colorless liquid with a strong odor It evaporates freely at ordinary temperature The gas Is heavier than air is highly Inflammable and a strong poison although a small portion is not injurious Provide sufficient blankets canvas or oilcloth to thoroughly cover the grain to be treated For every one hundred bushels of grain put In open shallow dishes on the grain one pound of using about pound In each dish and placing them at a reasonable distance Cover tbe grain dishes and all at once and let hours Examremain for twenty-fou- r ine to see If all insects rata and mice are dead It some are found to be alive apply again using more of the Ware houses mills elevators liquid store rooms and the like may be treated in a similar manner The liquid as retailed at the drug stores costs from 20 to 30 cents per pound -- Carbon-bisulphi- de one-ha- lf LIVERIES H4 Their Orlfla Daiiaf lh Belffa of Xlig Tapia of Fnh So far as ths present writer Is aware ths earliest mention of ’TlverlM’’ made la history was during ths reign of King Pepin of France who flourished bout the year 750 A D says London A form of amusement to Society which King Pepin was partial was what were termed cours plenleres These were assemblies at which upon the king’s Invitation all the lords and courtiers of France were expected to he present They were held twice each year — at Christmas and Easter— and generally lasted for about a week at each time Sometimes these gather- EBay ings took place at the king’s palace sometimes In the neighborhood of one of the larger French cities and sometimes In some rural district while the festival lasted the king took all his meals in public bishops and dukes alone being privileged to sit at the table A second table was profor abbots counts and other royal vided leading men and at both tables there was shown more profusion than both In the quality of the meats and drinks and the manner In which Flutes hautboys they were served and other musical Instruments were played before the bearers of each course as It was removed from the tables When dessert was served twenty heralds each holding aloft a jeweled goblet ihouted thrice “Largesse largesse from the most potent of king!" As they shouted they scattered among the crowds handfuls of gold and silver coins Then the trumpets vrtere blown while the better class of spectators shouted and the meaner sort scrambled and often fbight rigorously for the money scattered by the heralds Charles VII of Prance put a final stop to the eoure pltnlereo alleging that the expense attendant upon his wars with England mads It Impossible for him to continue these One of the severest causes of sxpease It was explained arose from the fact that beginning with King and custom Pepin’s time etiquette alike demanded that the king should upoa these occasions give an entire nit of new and gorgeous clothing not only to his own servant! and retainers bat also to those of the queen and all tho princes of the blood royal These garments were said to be llvrea --4hat Is ’’delivered" at the king’s — and from this word the English ward ’’llTery” was derived as was the eustom of providing servants with “livpracery" from the tice of certain of the French kings deli-ea- ey se above-mention- ed FOR WOMEN AND HOME ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS “The Wldder Clark” — Some New Thing to Wear — MIm Gotham' Error— Ten Dreg — Rage Gew and House Evening Gown tor “The Wldder Clark T’B gettin on to winter now the night are crisp FOR SMOKERS Kwr Smoke Before Breakfast or Whea the Stomach I Empty Gen er alar t Dr Sholer publishes in the Centralblatt xur Gesundheltspflege a collection of “Hints for Smokers" which are founded as the doctor states upon his professional observation for many years of the mouth teeth stomach lungs heart and skin of the devotee of tobacco The first and foremost rule Is never to smoke before breakfast nor as a rule when the stomach is empty this custom Is the wont possible foe of digestion Never smoke during any exertion of great physical energy as dancing running or rowing cycling mountain-climbin- g and especially If In a contest Never follow “the bad customs of the French and the Russians’’ by allowing the smoke to pass through the nose never Inhale it through the nose Keep the smoke as far as possible from the eyes and nose the longer the pipe the better the use of a short pipe during work Is to be avoided ‘A pipe is the most wholesome form of smoking a cigar the next a cigarette the worst Always throw away your cigar as soon as you have smoked four-fiftof It the last end of it is the most hurtful in cauda venenum the poison lurks In the tall All cigarettes are bad but eastern cigarettes the worst for they are almost always compounded with some degree of opium The smoker ought to rinse out his mouth not only before every meal and before going to bed at night but several times during the day The best rinse for the smoker is a glasa of water in which a teaspoonful of table salt 'has been dissolved It should be used as a gargle hs at night a few words to Miss Gotham who with a scream of mortification dived back into the cab and drove home at with & whisA pair of knee pants belonging tle sharp and once to a little brother of her hostesB had shrill The leaves by some mischance been laid on the dead rasp and ruBtle hall table and these had graced the in the corner by young woman’s pretty shoulder instead the shed And the branches of the cape Next morning in spite of cratch and rat- all her former schoolmate could do tle on the skylight overhead The cracklin' blaze is climbin’ up around or say the New York girl left for home the old black log As we set by the fire place here myself and cat and dog Tea Gowa and House Dress And as fer me I'm thinkln’ aa the lire The most noticeable thing about the burns clear and bright That It must be mighty lonesome fer the new house dresses is their drapery and Wldder Clark shape The Watteau plait will alwaw bad It’a enough fer me b'gosh 'round the place With Jest these two dumb critter her and nary human face To make the house a home agin same as It used to be While mother lived fer she was 'bout the hull wide world to me My bein' all the son she had we love each other more That's why I guess I’m what they call ht It’a a "baeh” at forty-fou- r to set alone but women folks— 'taln’t right And It must be mighty lonesome fer the Wldder Clark hard fer me ht I see her t’ether motnln’ and I swan ’twan’t later' n six And there she wuz out in the cold up the sticks To kindle (Ire for breakfast and she smiled so bright and gay By gee I simply couldn't bear to see her work that way — Well And She Ah went In and chopped I I guess enough to last a year she said “thanks!” so pretty gosh! It done me good to hear no not don’t look over twenty-fiv- e a single mite — hum! It must be lonesome fer the Wldder Clark ht I sea to her “Our breakfasts ain’t fun fer me or you leemi If two lonesome meals might he one social blushed so got sorter much make one fer two" red that I did too and 'frald That she was mad and like a fool come home— I wiah I’d stayed I'd like to know now If she thinks that Clark's a pretty name don’t and fancies mine we’ll make 'em both the same I thinkeaseI'll go and ask her 'cause 'twould my mind a sight To know 'twan’t quite so lonesome fer the Wldder Clark —Joe Lincoln Cause If she Base for Evening Gowns is perhaps due to a revival of early century styles that the evening dress la so much worn and by "evening” is meant tbe gown that Is short-sleeve- d and low in the neck For all It the present taken Its place This consists of a front laid across In folds draped from one side to the other To form this the front is laid in side each Under plaits plait there Is attached a big hook When the dress la put on these hooks fasten Into eyea that are sewed upon the left side of the waist This is the secret of the draped fronts which are neither difficult not Intricate when once understood Rose color Is going to be the popular color for a house dress as the shades of green were last year The trimming for a rose cashmere Is black velvet put on In tiny hands around skirt sleeves Soft lace makes an exceland yoke lent finish for a draped front Gather for tbe lace and sew it’ on holding When on it gathers close into jabot shape naturally this except strictly house occasions dress Is seen low cut and short-sleev- will the fall ed many are the pretty modes for making It up Taffeta and chiffon are still the favorite materials the former and Gets Old Lover’s Fortune Though death prevented Mrs Lucille Morris of Omaha from marrying late in life the man of her early love she hag been somewhat solaced by the gift of his fortune A few days ago she received word that the efforts of the heirs of C E Allison to break his will bequeathing his property valued at $150-0- 0 to her has been defeated and that she will obtain the fortune in a few for skirt material and the latter for trimming purposes Silk muslin takls the place of chiffon sometimes but It is thicker and much less adaptable It Is however very soft and graceful A rather noticeable evening gown had a skirt of blush rose taffeta The waist was of the same with silk muslin thickly gathered over It A pink rib- weeks bon was gathered around the neck as Mrs Morris Is known as a writer on a finish and the same ribbon was tied reform topics having published a theIn bows on the shoulder and at the sis on society reform and several other books While in her teens she met C E Allison in Butler Mo and they fell in love She was then engaged to L Morris a Sedalia Mo professor In spite of her love for Allison she kept faith with the professor and married him Morris and his wife did not live happily and Mrs Morris obtained a divorce three years ago’ Allison had in the meantime grown rich from mining investments in He met Mrs Morris in KanMexico sas City last summer and it was arranged that they should be married in the fall Before the time set AlliA few hours previous to his son died death he willed all of his property to the woman who was to have become his wife An Unique Wedding: and care should be taken that Gift recent bride had one among her many presents which will serve the double purpose of reminding her of A every cavity In the teeth is well washed with It The pipe’s proper place is in the hand and only occasionally In the Ups or teeth Shot the Shutea Because they seriously objected to the attentions he was paying to their daughter Mr and Mrs Sbute of Brooklyn were shot by William Smith who escaped to Chicago And now he is to be arrested for shooting the the curtain to rise when aha finally tripped downstairs radiantly and pretty as could be Apologizing sweetly for her delay she went with the young man Into the hall where stood a little table on which she had placed her cape Without looking at the table she hurriedly snatched up what she supposed was her cape and In a few seconds was seated in the waiting cab The young man did not notice anything wrong until they alighted at the door of the theater when he almost exploded with Other playgoers seemed laughter amused As soon aa he could equally recover himself the escort whispered and chill comes The wind down the chlm-bl- y ht HINTS carbon-b- isulphide Hay — Working carefully It will take man two days to cut his ten acres of meadow which will make the labor $3 a day to rake it up $150 four The ammonia of hen manure Is one days to shake up $6 two men four of the most valuable parts a SERVANTS belt The ends hung to the floor The only trimming upon the skirt was ar shirring of ribbon MIm Gotham’s Not Awful Error the home she has left and also will be of great practical use to her One of her friends armed herself with a blank book and went about in the town where both lived to all their mutual acquaintances asking for cooking reThese she copied In the book cipes appending In each case the name of the giver and classifying them carefully for future reference One could scarcely Imagine a more thoughtful gift a New York girl went to Washington expecting to pay a long Her Gratitude visit to a recently married schoolmate He'll Know Better Next Time never have another offer like “You’ll was to four limited Her He— Darling I dream of you night stay just days as the maiden spurned said cut he short this” most a embarrassI’m She— being by and day sorry but your she made She had accepted him dreams will avail you naught He— ing error man’s to attend a “Thank you" she replied “I wag a invitation young Why what do you mean? She— I took a long afraid you were going to say somemean that he man I marry must be theater and woman-lik- e no dreamers need apply while to dress It was almost time for thing disagreeable" Shutes wide-awa- ke long ago |