Show A FARMERS HORSE alpha idaa bibro bensn alian como the degree to which iu be cultivated iu a horse is in the tricks performed by au ani leial now ou exhibition iu london uia ringmaster and owner claims to be only a plain lincolnshire Lincoln shire fanner who saw early iu the horae indications of extraordinary intelligence he began developing this intelligence just to see how far it would go the result is little less than elous the human horse as ho is called is named alalia he is a chestnut gelding 15 3 inches high 7 years old and has a blaze face but no white on ALPHA jilin anywhere else except just above the ilioof of his near hind leg alpha will select any letter 0 the alphabet ho is asked to from a set of cards containing them but ho evidently knows more than alie doctors do about microbes mic robes and grims for ho will not touch any card that has been fingered bys rangers and small blame to him for ho lifts the bards with his leeth he plays god savo the quan on a harmonium with his left fore ii A epenial of keyboard him to do this another one of alphas exploits is shown in the picture we have given heso illustrations of some of alpha for tho purpose 0 calling nt cution t what may bo done by h arse owners who will cultivate equine antell perce ia much more of it cud to ir nhsn most farmers and bleeders breeders bre eders acus ct alphas owner bays lo 10 has us education thua far simply through patient kindness in his training and that training is not near done yet it looks indeed as if man might in a measure hypnotize and other intelligent animals to THE WAGON snake them reflect and execute the idea in the masters mind we wish horse bleeders breeders bre eders would talk to their horsek more and patiently train them to obey words of command aliey can bo made to understand der stand almost any spoken words their value will greatly increase through such kind patient training hothouse limbs it is one thing to grow a lamb and another thing to dress and ship it prop judging from the appearance of many of the lambs many more people have solved tho problem of growing the lambs than have mastered the of preparing them for market As be latter often makes a difference of one half or even more in the price received it may at least bo consid ered as important as the raising tho market for cheso is ft courso limited as is that for any extremely laih priced product not every one cm afford to eat lamb that costs 8 to 10 and weighs but 25 to yo pounds dressed the latter weight is plenty light enough for them 85 pounds would bo better the season for those opens with the christmas market and continues through the winter prices usually being highest before christmas they should be grown as quickly HS possible to reach the required weight and should be fat and plump iu killing cut the throat making as mall an incision as possible and hang heels that the iamb may bleed thoroughly the blood must bo entirely removed to have the meat an attractive appearance open the lamb from the tail to a point about opposite the fore legs remove the entrails but leave ou the head feet and ackin skin the hind les and draw the caul over tarm and also draw it down over the fo curing it with skewers slit just enough to let the kidneys through put iu what are known as bets these are small pieces of wood abent 14 inches long for an ordinary sized and pointed at both buds cuds one end of each is inserted in the flesh about opposite tho first rib they arc crossed over the back and the other ends inserted far enough back on the carcass to draw the carcass open to present a good appearance making it as flat as belove all traces of blood and make ho carcass lock as attractive as possible in every way let it hang until perfect jy cool replace the abkin on the hind legs cover oil tho elesli with clean whito cloth aud the whole up burlap or bagging murk plainly with the names of both the consignor and tho send by express and also advise consignee by mail dont send late in the week and if prices received are not satisfactory the probability ia that it ia because some detail su the work has be a good idea for a tyro in to visit some successful grow and shipper and see the aholo opera rural now yorker of orchards Pro for bailey new york coraell elation Eta tion suggestions ou tho tillage urica hat if perfect natural drainage does not exist tile be employed ho says tho land should bo plowed deeply in the followed by frequent shallow fall plowing is discouraged aa it leaves tho ceoil in a loose condition which in winter tho roots may bo fur the first two beare hoed crops it iny should be grown iu the orchard A dewral extent reo barnyard manure and other fertilizer in nitrogen should bo cautiously ap for they are liable to produce luxuriant foliage ft the expense of the fruit Pui assli cither in the form of wood ashes ur of potash ia the most important element though ahorio icid may also be applied by means of bono fertilizers the necessary can easily bo obtained by moans of tillage and green crops of which vetch field peas and crimson clover are especially on zinc labels an ordinary pencil mark on zino is in a measure indelible thomai meehan tells in his monthly of a zinc label on which the plants name had been written with an ordinary lead pencil SO years ago and after a little of the oxide bad been rubbed off ahe bamo was as legible as if it was just written for permanency perm anancy where no illegibility is desired gothing can be more durable HENS PAY HIM bow a country storekeeper leapt pleasure and front frank H duglay of west salisbury N H rung a country store and keeps poultry for pleasure and profit he is able to devoto only about four hours a day to his poultry and as the only help ho haa is from hia two boys one 7 and the other 4 years old he does not pretend to get all there is in his hens tho stock is sold alive for 7 to 8 cents per pound just alu 11 they begin to molt be uses all ho wants in the family and during the boarder season his wife gets rid of quite a number mr dunlay began with 20 fowls in 1886 and bad room la only part of tho barn now he has echt houses and 23 pens all of which ito built from the profits the average number of hens he has kept is his net profits to nov 1 1895 were iBl out of winch ho paid 1025 for and buildings he gives the statement of last years work nov 1 to arri on hand at 60 cents c mh M h thirty alro cocken ls at ia oceta each 10 50 amount bald for the i car SO total cr nov 1 ey 13 en hand at ioanu each klco a t SO ch lj CO 28 cockels bt SO idich sio block sold aai liu aurius year ta total thia leaves a of for the year no account alsing made of hens and cockerill coc kerila bied in the family acae tho Tou lonso are the augest kind and the chinese the smallest of the domestic gueso the latter uio very hardy and productive laying from to 70 eggs in a season the and eggs are smaller by nearly alf than toulouse or the head swanlike in and the apik is short and very high up to tho lari with a knob between the ayes usual ay iy black the beak being orange alie neck is long and elegant and there is a sort of muff of feathers and slin mider the throat the color is ofin pure white but gray and white specimens are sometimes kept and both are handsome and worthy the attention of amateur owners of ornamental waters or parkland although the larger profitable very early hatched geese are the best for stock or deiy ate birds in their second year ps alie cs are not reliable for hatching purposes until the parents aie over 15 months old two and one gander is lie bist number to begin with and after aliu first year another goose may be added but not more than three gees to buo ouo gander should be kept it an time look out fur the frost should bo placed iu a yard nud from pullets and pullets separate from alie hens for hens will get ta fat on what is necessary for pullets after the liolio is made as tight as b bards anil felt till make it poultry wire or liny simply arrangement to keep straw say two feet thick piled up part or all way to roof on east north and west sides will be an excellent help to make a warm place for the poultry if for cockerell cockerels cocker els their corn us will be earn if allotted out of doors only when temperature pera ture ia above freezing it for famales a much better prospect for eggs where a airro gumbir aio together in a small great care must bo had to keep health house murii bo kept clean ind with grit and anit lath BRAVE OARSMEN THESE and will try to row acroca the atlantic george E harbo and frank G of atlantic highlands N J will leave new york early in june on a very hazardous journey they will attempt to cross the atlantic in a boat without the aid of steam bailor rudder the boat is 18 feet long C feet wide drawing less than a foot of water and weighs pounds provisions to ladt 60 days will be carried in a watertight locker the men will row the boat should they get acroca they will visit london antwerp stockholm copenhagen paris and berlin they challenge any other two men to row them a race the ocean harbo is a navigator and a steamboat Sain ulson alao is a good sailor new york world not a marflake Marr laKe tho rhode laland authorities have discovered that abo now law requiring all performing the marriage ceremony to register yearly is identical with one enacted 70 years ago which has long been a letter the authorities ties state there haa not been a legal marriage in island for BO years and will apply to the legislature to have the acts of all unlicensed clergymen made valid A good now yorks great adirondack state park is to bo by the addition of acres for which or 8 an acre will be paid the empire state adds more to its real wealth by this purchase than could be done by any other means and the benefit derived will be perpetual st louis B lobe democrat THE COAL TRUST fortunately the coal combine cannot control the weather new york preas the coal ewt is an unlawful lov member 0 which ii liable to i year lu alij the now ahe coal monopolists have made ar hiir advancing tho price of their product if ahe weather department will continue to co with tho it may yet bo possible to dia them washington star one of the consolations about the ad vanco in alie price of coal is tho fact that ho coal bins are fairly well supplied with coal at the old price and gentle spring 13 just ahead the cLance ii are that thy coal barons will not combine to lo ertho temperature a abton herald CALL fd fi CARRIAGE HORSES chunks cold pact of driving teams for years he heavy pleasure vehicles tho closed carriage for town use such as broughams brough ams landaas landaus and berlin coaches and such open vehicles as victorias cans mail phaetons phae tons and four in hand coaches havo been horsed from our native stocks and for the most part poorly horsed what more could be expected behold a nation gazing intently not on a horsa but a stop watch that was the arbiter of A horse that could win was worth money A speedy roadster brought thousands harness racing was the great american sport but with the augmented wealth and consequent ostentation in our cities came an increase in the demand for comfortable family carriages and tho fashionable english and continental traps and the problem was to hordo them those who went abroad became familiar with the magnificent to be seen pulling such vehicles in parks and boulevards especially in britain france and germany and on returning they were unable to find among our light and speedy horses those which were suitable in their size substance bone and action for heavy leather hence arose the movement for the importation of tho foreign breed of coach horses and ho hackney it is idle to say we had no need of such horses if bleeders breeders bre eders of had by selection training and bret aing evolved a distinct type of heavy carriage horse as they did tho light harness horse wo might not have required the blood of the foreign bipeds but energies wore bent in a different direction and the demand for a hearit r lionso with finish style and high action led to the resort to foreign studs where for years they had been perfecting breeds for alie especial purpose of horsing chete heavy alie first introduction of the foreigners was viewed with some indifference by trotting borso bleeders breeders bre eders as their eyes were on the race track but as the im stallions gan to come iu competition for indies and as the racing game lessened in profit and prices for horses dropped lower and lower the rotting horse advocates came lo 10 imagine that their territory was being invaded by n foreign foe and a cry went up that has finally swelled to the grand roar that now resounds against the foreign harness breeds men who heretofore knew nothing of the trotter except as a race track borso now swear to heaven that he is the best race horse the best road borso the best carriage horse the best coach horse the best high stepper the best farm horse and oven the best draft horse they make frantic appeals to the ehg farmers and on that ground urge his adherence to he true blue yankee horse as though it not merely a question of the market place in trotting borso bleeders breeders bre eders have finally awakened to the fact that there is a demand for heavy carriage horses at first they denied it then they ridiculed it sneered at the heavy vehicles and denounced their adoption as an offensive boim of and scoffed at the doch tailed hackneys ack but w stern facts of the horse exchange finally brought hem inta line and now they aro only ano wiling to steal the ahery of the hackney and coach horse for their trotters to dock heir tails and pull their manes and manner them bof heavy harness in short those who came to scoff at he dudes horse at glo maniacs at the agh acting ackney now remain to pray to pray for some of these big prices for their made over trotters it is well some of these daniola have finally come to judgment if they had divested themselves of this prejudice five years ago they would be just that much nearer the goal of supplying heavy harness horses from the trotters it can be done in time but they aro at present hard to find it is a fact however that canada has bent us some of tho finest of our carriage horses seen nt the new york show so far as can bo learned they are bred from an admixture of thoroughbred trotting and foreign blood bleeders breeders Bre eders gazette live stock points never keep horses and cows in the same stable if however they must have temporary quarters under the same roof sometimes lot there bo between them for air circulation in a hoise stable thero is always a strong odor of ammonia and general horsiness which cannot fall to contaminate milk it is interest of tho producers of meat food to mako good bc of and mutton as cheap ns they can people of the middle and poor classes always consume all tho meat they ann cnn afford to when beef and consequently mutton pork and poultry roso so high in price two yeara ago of the scarcity of cattle the small retail meat dealers had their trade in many cases broken up and forced to go out of business for the lea sou that alio poor coald longer afford to buy their goods poor people had to civo up eating meat even now the best parts of a beef aro so high in anco that amny people cannot afford to have them halt a dozen times n year let hero bo n study made of tho cheapest ways to anale good beef this will react to the advantage advant agu of both producer and consumer here is another cure very highly commended for in calves equal parts of laudanum camphor and tincture rhubarb give at a dose from two ten spoonfuls koono tablespoonful of tho mixture according to tho fco verity of abo attack tho doses may be repeated when necessary as often as every half hour when a calf gets tha stop giving it milk except a deiy little and feed it or four raw ega a day at intervals tho fsr y sa with just bough nough milk to i ehg aln go down aay continue till the |