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Show T NEWS SUMMARY, i NORTHWEST NOTES. Agoneillo declares that the war will j The Diamondville mine Las resumed not end while a single Filipino remains. its daily shipments of coal, averaging It ia now believed that eighty lives 100 tons-werA lost when the steamei'Slella went licrg was held up and relieved of down. $00 near Taeoma, Wash, lie aa on Major-GenerOtis thinks the insur- his May home from the city with thf gents can be subdued within three proceeds of a sale of property. In a fight betMeen William Kingman months. and Jaek Burns, near Monroe, Wash , the month of March 13,000 During received injuries from which Kingman were landed the in Inited Mates troops he died The'men werebrothers-in-law- . from Cuba. Tile (iold Mining and Milling comGermany is said to be concentrating a fleet at Amoy, with the intention of pany, located near le La Mar, Nev , was purchased by George C. Fetterman seizing Futsien, China. one day lat week, the consideration New of the massacre of twentv-oin- e 811,000 being farmer . by aborigines at Tty or.se tsn, Many has been range horses are dying in Casreceived Japan, At Sparta, Mich , Leon Cram, aged 18, cade and Cboteau ami Teton counties, Montana, because although better rustduring a quarrel, killed Falma Nelson, lers than cattle, they are not being fed a comrade, by a blow with his list. the worst spells during The war department is perfecting a R. II. Ford and George Kinkleman, plan to use native troops if possible in to be members of the uotori. supposed fighting Aguinaldo during the rainy ous gang, broke season. at Glenwood Springs on the 26th jail Foreign business houses lost over ult., aud are still at liberty. 11,000,000 by the destruction of Iloilo by James OConnell, better known to the the Filipinos before General Miller cap world as Binnacle Jim, was mining ured the city. shot and killed at Loomis, Wash., by . ..Mr, It.obert.P Porter, before leaving John OUerrin. claimed. Berlin, discovered that German beet The men had always been very warm sugar cannot be manufactured under friends. t cents a pound. In San Francisco, Kitty Wannen-mache- r, Dispatches from Tokio to Japanese iryears,wasaccidentally coast papers charge Americans with shot and aged killed by her foster-brdtheshooting down inen, women and child- Joseph Miller, 18 years old, while the ren in the Philippines. young man was playing that he was a The congress of Ecuador has just highwayman. enacted a law which within two yeara Governor Thomas of Colorado has prowill place the monetary system of that moted Lieutenants Charles 11. Hilton country on a gold basis. and Fred L. Perry to be captains, and The monthly statement of the treas- Sergeant Benjamin Lear to be second ury shows exceptionally heavy receipt lieutenant in the First Colorado, now and a material decrease in the expen- in the Philippines ditures for the month of March. Reports from many parts of San JoaThe Norwegian government has is- quin valley, Cal a., particularly along sued an order prohibiting Swedish Mokelumme river, itate that thousands officers from inspecting forts or wit- of acres of grain aud grass lands are nessing the drill of troops in Norway. in danger of ruin from flood water unJudges of the supreme court of Ha- less the water subsides quickly. waii in a decision declare that private The Colorado Midland railroad over corporations have not the authority to Hagerman pass, which has been block condemn government land for their aded by snow for sixty days, is now own use. clear and if na new storms interfere, Ostriches may yet be raised in Brit- through trains over the line will probish Columbia. J. M. Robinson, who has ably be resumed within a day or two. founded a little colony of Manitobiana The Boston & Montana mines at at Peachland, in the Okanagan valley, Bntte and the big smelter at Great will attempt it. Falls were shut down last week. The is said to be for the purpose Oscar Straus, the United States min- shut-dow- n ister to Turkey, had an audience with of awaiting the outcome of the prothe Sultan Saturday. The interview, ceedings over the receivership of the which was protracted, was of the most Boston A Montana. - S. V. cordial character. - Reynolds, a. cattleman of the Middle Fbrk couotry,' was In " Long is It announced that the Paris Figaro, which is publishing daily the evi- Creek, Ore., recently and returned with loaded with second dence before the .criminal chamber of two pack-horsthe court of cessation in the Dreyfus grade floor which he wiU feed to his cattle. Mr. Reynolds has over 100 head affair, will be prosecuted. The fearful ravages of the Yellow of cattle, and like many of his neighriver flood have caused terrible misery bors is out of feed for his stock. He and great discontent in the province of expects to save his band as long as there is a pound of feed of any kind. Shantung, and the native officials have The Wyoming state board of sheep been unable to maintain order. have elected E. P. Snow, commissioners The April report of the Orange-Jud- d of Cheyenne, secretary, and appointed Farmer makes the general winter William F. Hamilton inspector for Conwheat average 82.1 compared with 89 laat year. It is the lowest average verse; James Regan for Fremont, and since the beginning of service in 1894. J. G. Oliver for Johnson county. The cattle commission Sleeted Ora Haley, The Argentine government has re- of Albany county, president, and James solved to send a note to W. T. BuchanW. Hammond, of Laramie county, an, the American Minister, thanking him for his in the settleA cattle sale amounting to 150,000 ment of the Puna de Atacama question. was made at Cheyenne one day last The Hongkong authorities are press- week. Montie Blevins, a North Park ing for an extension of territory ceded stockman, sold 5,000 head of mixed catto Great Britain by the treaties of Can. tle to Becker and Digman of Omaha for ton and Nanking, on the ground that that amount. The eattle will be demore land is needed for government livered at Laramie duriug the season, as called Tor by the purchasers. Mr. buildings Official circles in'Rome say that Italy Blevins states that he will stock hit and Great Britain have arrived at an ranches with young cattle in the falL The supreme court of Montana has agreement, which will result in an Italian occupation of San Man bay, denied the writ of prohibition asked by province of Chikiang, China, before the Boston and Montana company to prevent Judge Clancy of the district April 25. court placing the recelverln charge of The marriage law of Porto Rico have the property and to prevent the reciever been modified so that authority is given .charge. If the district judge taking to ministers of all faiths to perform sees fit he can now proceed at once to marriages, and lha fees have been enforce his order aopointing a reciever. abolished where the ceremony la be- Should an attempt be made to pot the fore a oivil magistrate. receiver in charge of the property at ' Dispatches from 'ftiu jflrouUt,'on the' once, It will be met' with' resistance to Red Sea, say the Marchand expedition, the point of violence, it is stated. from Fashoda, arrived all well at The Swan Land and Cattle company, the capital of Abyssinia, on of Wyoming, branded over 9,000 bead March 31, and met with a warm recep- of cattle last year, and shipped 11,000 tion from Abyss! niaos. bead of beeves. This company bas all The London Daily Graphic announces winter kept men constantly riding its that the Marquis of Salisbury approved ranges and bringing in all weak or the draftd the convention dealing with aged stock to the respective bay feedhaving now on feed abont the British and Russian spheres of In- ing ranches, out of a total of 50,000 or head 20.000 fluence in China and that the conven90.000 head of range cattle. The wintion awaits signatures ter loss baa been merely nominal, the Davis of Arkansas saved cattle themselves Attorney-Generpaying a royal has filed 129 suits against the sixty-thre- e interest on the bay consumed in feedfire insurance companies doing' ing, to ssy nothing of the fact that business in Arkansas, and as a Conse- these same cattle will go onto the quence every foreign company has sus- spring grass in excellent initial fatten. pended business in that state. ing condition. In Bolivia, The Federalists, or insur- " In north Montana there will become gents, have occupied the city of Cocha- losses to stock, bnt owing to the fact bamba. capital of the department of that eattlemen are feeding and had the same name, and General Alonso, plenty of hay at the opening of the the president, has returned with the the winter, the loss will be less than 10 government troops to Ornro, his base per cent, it Is believed. In southeastern MocUna,near the Wyoming boundof operations Michael Shea died la Indianapolis, ary line, there will he heavier loss, the Xnd., last week at the advanced age of snow in that section having been much 119 yeara He was was bora in Ireland heavier. Cattlemen ssy now that every la 1871, and was a friend of Daniel day of continued cold means the losaof OConnelL Shea was married when be tbonsands of dollars, bnt that warm was 58 years old and has chi dren over weather would see them ont without serious loss. 90 years of age. I e , Self-defen- se r, es seo-retar-y. sm ww , w al MINING NOTES. ! High-grad- e April 3. 1899. copper ore containing in Glencoe di. Srr York .. . ail KrticlMO .... bite Pine county, near the lafc l.otiUuu ver has been developed, trict, REPORT MARKET .... 1 line. Rumor has it that the Valeo of I'xrk of 7oq City has iseh oie to the amount tons stored in the mine, aud that 4 shipment w ill soon be made. The Horn Silver Mining Compaq has declared its regular quarterly divi- dend of cents per share, f March 11. i Ire total amount paid it nrk Exi Imutfe Vul Nf orklrokui I New York VY ; . VI til. 14 oPPfcR. 120 Oon 01 The directors of the Utah SaUjietn company have let a evm tract for ft ikaii , to be sunk a depth of 100 feet on tbs saltpetre ledge embraced in the 4WC pany s holdings. The output foi the Cripple rMk district for March is 38,000 tons of gold ore; value, Sl04,500. This is the besl record of any month in the history of the district excepting January last. There are two mines named Superior, one in Park City and one In Tlntlc. two Gold Hills, one in Utah and on in N. vada, and two Illinois mines, one is Utah and one in Nevada, all handledoa the Salt Lake market. - The rajulsg, Surprise and the claims, in Tuts&gabet district, Washington county, formed the basis of aa incorporation organized last week, and known as the Adams Copper Mining ft Smelting company. The Copper Ranch Mining company was incorporated last week With a cap-itstock of i.MKMXM) ll.ahares, tods-velothe Carmarthen. Copper Ranch, Jewell and fifteen other lode locations, known as the Marguerite Nos. I to 15 situated in the Rock mining district, Beaver county. Miners from ail over the etate art flocking to the new copper discoveries on Antelope island. Already forty or fifty mining men are encamped on the classic shores of the lake and are making a careful examination of the mineralization of the island, while others are coming in every day. Some heavy work is being done ia the operation and development of the Deer Trail mine, between Maryevals and Bullion canyon, end a good fores is employed in opening up this old producer, which, according q all reports, is to be embelished with reduction works of its own in the near future. The Dyer copper mine, near Vernal, Is looked upon as one of the comin bonanzas of the state of Utah. A fora of thirty men are now engaged in tin development of this property, and tbs owners are satisfied that within a short time they will be able to make this tl greatest copper producer in the w The general manager of De Lautsr's mines states that there ie no truth in r, the rumor that the big mill at De Nevada, is to be closed down even temporarily, and be stated farther that evtry effort is being made to eradicate the dust difficulty which has been so obnoxious in the operation of the A boat Cal aa4 YtoUte Hortlcuitoro Yitlcaltara aa4 Holt Th Woodor KrrMiltf. miklng out a list of implements to he purchased title xprtttg put the eeder down near the head of the list If you have-n- ot one already In use on the farm, writes C. G. Williams In Kurt ka Ik.iul ' lb of In k nit wit re tivatloa wAU n H TO Tharoof Flortcnlluro. k' tit Hiatt S. AMdWe ' MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. 14 ich-ing- I AND! GARDEN. I urk lookers Nutt Lik Miutiiff j us? hollowing Mit lire I FARM ta National Stockmkq aud Farmer. The farms are few that dq rot have a need . for this implement. 1 should hate to Undertake to care tor i ctap btc6tn ur Aic or potatoes without one. and wf course r Murion It Is useful for many other operations llet-upon the farm. It must be rememberKill ed. however, that the weeder a . . . ennui I s lit Intended for deep cultivation; it (Hn H s uer . ply scratches the surface. It consists In. 01 Mumuoth . of a series of long, flexible steel fingers v MM M n ur adapted to this sort of .work. The r Muiniiioth secret in using the weeder successfully 'rihtiu Lutfhl is to use It 4n time. It cannot dis.. ... Ontario., J'airo tinguish between the farmer's friends Su am nu . and bis enemies. It just as soon tickle 'MmOiim , Mht r King a weed as the corn plant, and whether Star otiMjliduUMl . . the weeds grow wtth renewed vigor I'Uti 44 I Jbtk qr whether they ace destroyed depend Btopnird on the timeliness of the use of the onsoliilaUHl tuiufuiolNuM weeder, I want to roll my corn ground IfcU tltOCKt Ut Autler $ once or twice after planting, and my V. Alne Bfck Tunnel potato ground as a general thing once. H'ukujff The weeder Is then leu likely to tear Bright Light Bos Tweed out or cover up the young plant It .01 Bohton & I La Mur 003 should be used within three to seven Blue IJml LxiunMoti ,, ...... days after planting, and at Intervals Odtrlatlev .01 of a week thereafter until corn is ten Central Munimolh. , .... to twelve Inches- - high, always ..remem Crown Point ,T.. CniRaUer berlng that the prevention ot weeds ts Comstock much easier than their destruction. Camp Floyd Columbia Now while we cultivate our crops Century that ws may prevent or destroy weed ballon .ct A : growth we should remember that this ie 1 HO w Blue is not the only object of cultivation, fcmeraid .W4! .HH .11 .08 Frisco,.. perhaps not the main object We culGolden Gate Lx tension tivate largely that we may conserve Go Idea bur Golden Fugle . 06 U moisture, and as well that we may set Gold Hill 03 M tree the fertility locked up In the soil Homesiske ..... Hercules We can conserve moisture better by lnitot M international OJI stirring an inch or Inch and a half of Joe Boners .18 the surface soil than we can by work Joe Bowers extension .00 Ing deeper, 1 know ot no Implement Kremlin Ls Heine that will get over as many acres with .10-Little Ilttsburir as little expense of time and labor as Monarch .Ult Midnlirht Bowers .04 q the weeder. It sometimes happens that . May Day n very heavy rain will pack some soils McKinley Martha Washington IS o that the weeder will tali to do satManhattan isfactory work. In such cases. If the North hwausea Omaha ..... .40 plant has not appeared above ground, Oak M. AM M n good barrowing is an advantage. If a Rabbit s Foot, it bas the cultivator can ba need to Silver Cloud advantage In- advance of the weeder. Swansea .00 The weeder baa other nsea than aim-pl- y Silver City Consolidated.... .0114 Sunbeam the working of the cultiSolomon s Treasure IS I 7 vated cropa. It can be used to great South Swansea...... .04 Saltpeter Showers Consolidated....... .314 advantage on wheat and oata. A heavy rain noon after aeeding will crust some Success... u?V .04 B Triumph aoil so that many of thf plants are US .... ,00 .... I.HXId IW unable to break through. The Valwo. .....a.....,.,,..-,...- . use ot .00 WestMercur..,..,,.,.., Lha wwdw ( eve time" may" mean 01 White bur .0214 US West Daisy .004 several dollars per acre when we come .on .00 West Mountain Placer. to harvest our crop. When it comes to .os 04 Wandering Jew.. OKI Yankee C M0 covering grass or other small seeds I Yellow Jacket .03 014 know of no implement quite equal to 1L It should be stated that the weedBalt lake City. .7 er does not work equally well .on nil V Cwt..$ 100 Wheav,. Corhv I Ik soils. It is more satisfactory on loamy Cracked corn 1(0 soils than on heavy clays or very I 00 Ryo t (0 Barley stony land. It is an Implement, how1 4A Oats ever, that handles very easily and can 40 Alfalfa l Mi led M be used with more or less profit on plant hay........ W almost any farm. Word from Weatherby, Or., says the Timothy fk bale Straw, per Live Turkey Gobblers It y ft Pomeroy Dredging company's plant is Live Turkey I Hens The FsrehSM ( Frail Tims 8 hen pushing to completion. They are plac- Chicken, Old rooster 6 The Ohio Experiment Station la ing dams across Burnt river above sod Broiler, each often appealed to regarding the best 10 duck below the machine so they can float it Old 11 Tame Geese place to buy trees. Such queries can as they work up the river bed. They Eggs, Utah, per ease 10003(6 seldom be answered specifically ex(6 Butter, creamery..,,.....,.....,,,.., ere making contracts with farmers Ranch butter 12K016 cept In the case ot certain varieties, along the river, agreeing to pay them Wheat Cash an Francisco. 11 00 01 Mt4 not to be found In all nurseries. 910 per day for each day worked on May As a rule, it la best to purchase 0714 1 104 ...... . trees direct from established nurseries, their land and 950 per acre for all tilla- December. New MS Barley near home; but in exceptional cases December........ ME ble land that is in any way damaged. it la safe to buy through agents, and LIVE STOCK. There was brought into Ran Bernaralso to tend orders to distant nurserdino recently a large nugget from the ; ies To give an order to an agent of Chicago. Virginia Dale district. It was discov- Fancy cattle n reliable nursery Is as aafa aa to deal 16 79 05 00 ered by-- sort) Mexicans who are work- FhoW? trtrrU44t 446 6646 6666 F ll 4 44 direct but one needs to be sure that Medium grades I bOM on the the The desert. Beef the Qtf 65 party who claims to represent the steers. 4 nugplacers ing S 60 44 86 and feeders nursery ia an agent, and not n mere get show plainly the mark of the pick Blockers 4 Buds 0 60 t 40 4 dealer, who buys where he pleases and which disturbed it in its gravel bed. Cows and heifers... 4 00 &7 00 Calves..,.. he can' get aella at whatever The valuable little find was purchased 40 05 60 Dealers are seldom price responsible and do Texas steers 4 16 06 10 HJ...., 1174. San Bernardino bank for the by Inferior to choice sheep. I 6 06 06 not hesitate to make any promise to The nugget is elongated.almostpoteto-sbaped- . Exports. (76 06 06 refill the order free ot charge la case ...... . . . . 4 65 06 10 Yearl.nxe..,. .. Isinbit i 00 W of lose In transplanting, nor to make There ie much excitement over the I any claim aa to genuineness and suKansas City, 6 16 ehowleg being made In the new 8alt Native steers 13 60 periority, In order to effect sales. j. steers.... I SO 04 16 Honeet men find It hard to com pet 6 Wash copper district, in Grand county, Texas Texas Cow. 80 04 (6 (((5-04(with the rogues In Jtbls branch of tbs and many people believe that profit- Native cow. and heifers 16 end feeder..,. (40 05 M business, while lha temptations to deable shipments will begin within a Stocker Bull end ( 60 04 stag. eh as ceit are so great and tbs restrictions 4 75 0 7 60 month. Three assays taken last week y HhtwBteee seen . are 10 tew that .reliable tree dealers it (09 06 00 gsve much encouragement to the WxTww jCVm I4 a a. levsjn jssi are rsre-- : hence this cktss .lx to be ownersTthe highest showing 62.8per Gmahm beef oteeA If n salesman claims to be avoided. (4 10 6 86 cent, copper and eight ounces silver, Native w cetera steers... 4 80 3 80 and the lowest 25.9 per cent, copper Texas suer. sa agent be should be, able to show (60-060 and seven ounces silver. ( 60 14 60 It is about Cows and belters papers to that effect, and the financial ( 60 miles from the claims to Stockers twenty-fiv- e of the firm can be learned at 4 W standing go and feeders.. ( the railroad. 6 60 4 00 bank. the o stas t 70 64 00 Max Sohr, of Salt Lake City, is cred- 51 Financial standing ls not a proof of Irani ng 4 60 tt 4 00 4 muttons ited with having discovered a subst- Stocker. honesty, but It la more or less depend(6 (00 04 ?6 ent upon business Integrity. At any itute lor gold. Of this discovery he MO4tMt tltOOt44 4 60 rate one need not be In a hurry to orAfter eight yeara' work in mr says: Denver. f trees and can easily ascertain the der 4 75 I! laboratory, I have found a process by v.?! (teem ............... .. .. .... (00 04 04 business standing of any firm, espewhich I can manufacture a metal which Feeders, freight paid to river ... ( 60t 4 76 cially the one near home. Agents very W paid to river,. 4 0 04 00 bears all the tests of acid effect, dura- Stockers, Bulls and freight often exceed the authority given them I... ( 00 I stags - Live etoeb rseelpts erase follow: f bility aad malleability of by the nurseryman and make claims and promises which are unknown to gold. The process is very simple. entcaea OMAHA. 14 000 Csttlr their employers. tle.. S1 .....4 Antimony differs from gold in being 30 000 7 54 H Oft lead color, lighter End not no strong. Sbeep Insist that all such claim and prom... ,..,10,000 Sheep........... M04 It is scarcer than gold. It Is found in ises be put tn writing, with the name DSMVSM. shsasciTT, , ...... s. ( 000 Cattle. J" ot the firm attached: If this la repockets in slate regions. My manufac- Kttle B l.tK-HOfl ture would eoet about as much as brass Slcp t6.fttt 088 ... fused It la not safe to buy. An order As, 000 Sheep.. .......... costa. in a eoptract and the buyer should see .Fog Lend CsveesdelBt Commhes. A recent strike in Salt Valley exthat It ia not so wordsd that the nursLondon, April 4. The Tim in ceeds all other locations and discoveryman may substitute If be wishes. ditorisl on the Samoan controversy The nurseryman often takes this liberies mads in this section of the couWe do not suppose that Eng y: hence the words, "ho substituerty, vein The in between ntry. lies contact lsnd will offer n objection to the' tion allowed should be Inserted, and quartzite and sandstone, "Alongside of joint commission ARbouX another clause might be entered In tpe prophyry dike, ten to sixty- - feet wide, Admiral Kautzs proposal. fashion of contract wblcb should specify tbat a downright and crops for 9,000 feet Assays run to Hit of such articles aa cannot be furhe means ia from 90 to $400. It is within twenty-fiv- e xying what be sent to the buyer the the susceptibilities of others, nished should miles of the railroad. Thompson's Ii8 within two weeks from the time the dispatch has the merit of raising order lr given. Keep an order of all is the nearest shipping point. Jones, direct issue. Probably the best way of treea and plants ordeied, with price Tolbert and McKee of Paradox, Colo., nonring a modus vtvendi would be a and alse or ages. made the discovery, and are making general chauge ip personnel until In selecting varieties It ia not safe to ore preparations to commence shipping at made. permanent arrangement can b Invert In any high priced novelty once. o.ov-- w luY evt L.nrk . j A 1 I G , 11 - vs e , . , ..... ... . p 1 ueu-::::- Hlchmond-Anacond- - ed ,t. La-ma- 1 6 6 6 at "40V4 Pf six-kar- -- - j Take old varieties of known merits, only, and do not be cajoled into paying fancy prices for treea propagated by special method nor because they are said to have certain merits not possessed by trees offered by other nurserymen. if tn agent makes statements which seem to be extravagant submit them to some one who Is experienced In such matters, and if the agent ts found to be lying about one thing it is sets to Infer that he may In others. Do not be deceived Into believing that the small home nursery has no assortment of varieties. Most likely It has ' just what you' want and ai' half the price asked by the agent. If the near-b- y nurseryman does not have all the cracked-u- p new aorta. It la a proof That they are untested. The home nurseryman can procure any ihjpg which. M doe not have m well, as the agent can, tor it It has merits it will be In the general trade." On the whole, It la better before buying to have a talk with some nurseryman of reputation, aa well aa with fruit grow-- " era of experience. A little caution and common sense In buying treea Will save lota of future trouble. pjvipi ' V SubAolllnc. Under all circumstances It should be the farmer's aim to conserve the moisture In the Boll in the arid regions to reduce aa much possible the labor and expense of Irrigation, and In humid regions'" to preiecV ' crop against Various means may be employed for the purpose of conserving and economising tha moisture supply ot soils Subsoiilng Is one of the most Important of these means. Several of the stations have made careful studies of the influence of subsoiilng on soil moisture. The Wisconsin station'' de cribes this influence substantially follows! "Subsoiilng (1) 'increases the capacity of the soil for moist- ure, and (2) Increase the rate at which water will sink into the soil, but (S) decreases the rate at which It may be brought back to the surface, Subsoiilng also Increase the amount of moisture available to crops, jlnce plants are capable of utilising a large proportion of the moisture present tn loose and coarse-graine- d soils than of that in and compact soils A regards the beat method ot subsoiilng, a report ot tho Wisconsin station states: "Subsoiling to be most effective should bo done tn aucb n way aa.to leav tha soil loose, much aa the stubble plow leaves it. To accomplish this much will depend upon the character of the tool and more upon the condition of the toll when the work ic dons If the soil Is to be 0 wet as to be plastic when the plowing la done, then the effect of the subsoil plow will be to wedge tba portions of the soil, which are heavily pressed. Into an even more compact and close texture than before, and thus develop a condition the ot that sought. To simply form groove or channel lo tlie subsoil by wedging t!.e dirt abide give lltUe, klftn tnetHrectlon "sou,Ht. buu& work, then. If done at all, should be done when the subsoil itself Is dry enough, and this Is most likely to occur In the tall after the crop of tho lesson has withdrawn tha moisture from it, Subsoiilng late, too, leaves no time tor tba soil to lose lta open texture before the rains to be stored reach It , u a. fine-grain- op-(ft- lte Ayrshire Broaden Aawwlsltao. Tha twenty-fourt- h annual meeting of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association was held at the Fifth Avenue hotel, Feb. lit, 1899, with about thirty breeders present The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President L. 8. Drew, South BurObadlah lington, Vt; Brown, Providence, R. L, H. R. O. C. Sears, BloomWatson, New York, ing Grovo, N. Y and John Stewart Elburn, HL; secretary and editor. C. M. Winslow, Brandon, Vt; treasurer. Henry El Smith, Enfield, R. L; executive committee for three years, Charles H. Hayes, Portsmouth, N. H J. Andrew Css ter 11 n. Dover, N. J.; executive committee to fill out the un-- v. expired terra ot John Bratten, deceased, -John W. Scott Austin, Minn. The report of the treasurer showed ft balance In the treasury of $3,421.51. The general report of all the breeders was of an increased demand for Ayrshire. Tho association voted to expend $400 in prises for largest yields ot batter during the coming year. C.'M. Winslow, Secretary, Brandon, Vt ts, a Soil for Asparagus. Asparagus thrive! best on n combination ot good soil with perfect drainage. If the good drainage is absent heavy, com- pact soil ts tha worst place to try to grow It The plant Is frequently grown In sandy land and ls thought by some to do well la no other, for the reason that the drainage requirement la not fully appreciated. Asparagus begins to grow very early in the spring' before ordinary land Is dry enough to go on; therefore, U requires land la which water does not stand. Asparagus growth, however. Is mostly water so that heavy soil which will retain a certain amount of water and not leach Itself dry Is really deslrabla to secure a long bearing season. Ex. A Cash Business. Work on the dal- - . ry farm, when conducted as It ought to be, ls confining and everlasting. The dairyman must be at horn night and morning every day In the week. ' The -cowa must be attended to just right Clou attention must be given to every detail of the buslneu. But the pay la commensurate with the work. The dairy districts are tha prosperous districts. Where dairying la general you find good houses and good barns. Tho dairyman gets his cash every month Instead of twice a year. He is able to pay cash for what be buys, and consequently la able to buy where he can buy the cheapest and. gets the lowest prices. He Is a desirable customer to , v have. Wallaces Farmer. -- |
