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Show 7 ' THIS MONKETlSA PULL FLEDGED FARMER. One thing New Jersey bss which cuinot bo found elsewhere In the whole wide world, and that in a farm Ing monkey. This monkey Is a small gray beauty of the gentler tex nnd her age Is 22 Her name la Mattle Bhe lives on Samuel Fan-en's farm, near Tremlry Mattle la a trained farmhand Under direction the feeds the swine unl milks the cows, and helps to cultivate, a good slsed vegetable Rirdrn She $$jo-'v niLKin& fttr cow plants and hoes and picks tbo fruit, and even assists In packing It for shipment ship-ment to market. And when tho money comes from telling tbo produre, the result of tho sweat of an honest monkey's mon-key's brow, Mattle Is git en some of Uio coin This her owner says, alio carefully deposits In an Iron church savings bank, whero Mattle hat accumulated accu-mulated nearly (200 And Mr Knr-ren Knr-ren sats, "Wore It not tor Matlle's vanity and consequent love for fine apparel she would In tlmo own her own farm." Her cleverness nnd the things she does may bo shown In a paga from her dally life. Mattle sleeps In a small trundle bed near that of her matter. Farmer l"orren, In a picturesque, vino-covered vino-covered cottage, surrounded by tall trees and flowers and ferns. She always al-ways awakea at exactly f o'clock In the morning, and takes a long, thin stick, which she keeps for that purpose, pur-pose, pokes It Into tho cages ot the thirty rasary birds and tbe twenty wllte rats whkh nloo sleep In re-centric re-centric Samuel Karren's cozy bed-cbslnbcr bed-cbslnbcr Tbi" iury pndesla of these smaller amPIc" Intelligent pets InvarUMr arouses the sleeping farmer, and whru ho reproaches Mattle for brriklng In en i bis morning klumlxT, sho Jumps up tad down with a distressed expres tloajot countenance tapping hersjlf on tbe chest with one finger, shaking her lead from side to sldo and chat-1 terlm violently She believes In rating, does Mattle, In ftod for mtin nnd beast, and for I mantust, too, for sho likes her eiwn shareloimcnsely. Bo alio liberally fills tho btcltet for the chortlug hogs and scatters grain for the myriad chickens chick-ens all geese and for tho beautiful carrier plkeons, which she greatly admires ad-mires While tbo carriers eat Mattle wilt aland within their coop.wltb arms aklinbs and small head critically perchelon one aide, will regard them with eildent pride nnd with high approval. ap-proval. Farmer Parreu describes Mat-tie's Mat-tie's dif's work as follows "This uwa) to tho cow pen. for there old Pretty nnd nrlndle Hetty are casting wistful glances over their shoulders, wondering when they will be milked Mattle delights In milking cows. Mir milking stool It higher than that of tbe averago milkmaid, for Mat-tie Mat-tie Is tot one-third as tall and her arm are not nearly so long. Her little, lit-tle, hands are quick and strong, gentlt arid soft She cannot carry away tbe milk palls, hut this Is done by two little glrl-Mary and I ara" On her way from the milking stool to the truck pitch Farmer Fnrren says, Mnttln occasionally spies a stranger approaching through the grass covered road, and this Is so tin-1 tin-1 usual that the little least takes alarm I at once nnd, rushing to the kitchen. seizes tho dinner bell and wields It with wildly clanging effect. And If the farmer Is far nway In the fields and doe not hear tha loud alarm and tho two llttlo girls are too busy at egg flndlng Maltle takes It uron herself, with many a well-aimed stono, to chase tho Intruder away. The vegetable garden Is Msttle'a special pride and pleasure Sho loves lo till the soil and to reap tho reward of her labor. Mr Farren says she glories In her wealth, aud It you are an approved visitor at the Farren farm Mattlo will, after a careful atudy of your physiognomy, to seo whether she can trust )ou, take down tbo little lit-tle Iron church and open It 1 hen, he says, she will take out the pennies an 4 nickels and dime and quarters and pile them up In little heaps ot uniform uni-form height so thst you may mora easily see how much she really has. Then you are expected to count out tho money and express your surprise. tl era tlo It a Uer.ll Com. VTom r Ma69 A press bulletin of tbo Vermont Hx- BMW perlment station -a) a One field on BSSffll the experiment station firm has been xLttmm mowed continuously for somo twen- HMD ty J tars. They were, of course, mtny flBsBS weeds upon It, but no kale. It was jWQHf plowed and seeded with clean rats. rnflfult but early In July one wnuU rav nBRT thought at first tight Ibat It had Nen sBflu town with pure kile reed Instead. -IHsW W hero does tho kale come from? Thus flflsl question Is often asked by the lanutr IqUR when pcrploxed by developments aim- HOKE liar tu the above Such experiences uflHt es thcto bavo msdn many be'leve In itflflsl ' i pontancoua generation" at least as JtfsH concerns weeds, ttalB Hut when asked to explain It oar MsWtti experiment station botanist shakes SwH tho head and sas that every kale UEjI plant grows from a kale teed. Ho 993 ", no plum, tjocut ot msny puiu aM9 may lie dormant In ths ground for jstarSl years especially It burled rather HH deeply, I)r Ileal ot tho Michigan ex- lHI perlment station has made an Inter- H eating lest ot tho matter In 1879 bs BH raized seeds of various klnJs In damp H sand, placed the mixture In bottles H and burled the bottles twenty Inches jH beneath the surface In snndy soil. At H Ihe end of five years, at the end of ten H years, at the end nt fifteen years, sod B Anally In 1893 at the end of twenty H years ho dug up some ot these bottles H snd tested the viability ot the seeds. H Of tho twenty-two kinds ot seed bur- fl led, e'even, or Just one-half, failed ts fl i H Some of tbe others germinated as j H follows' black muttsrd 18 per cent, H peppergrass 42 per cent, shepherd's H pinse 48 per cent, purslane 14 per cent, H mullein 32 per cent. No true kals , H seed was used In tho experiment, but H Ihe black mustard It so closely relat- H cd that It probably represents what M will occur with kale, The eradication B of kale hinges then upon destroying It Vfl before It seeds This Is easily dona t ISfl In hoed crops, ot course, but bow ears . BJ It bo done In grsln fields other than ' H by bind pulling Iterent trials In Ku- rops suggest that It Is possible to do- tltoy kuto and similar weeds by spray Ing tho field with a solution ot blus BJ vitriol (cupper sulphate) In water BJ which may be so weak as not to In- H Jure tho grain Tho tests bavo ueoa repeated at somo of tho experiment H stations In thlt country and It has fl been found that solutions ot from 1 fl to 2 per cent (1 pound In 4 to 12 gal- ,1 Ions) may bo used and If applied as a M flno spray 40 gallons to an aero will I destroy tho ka'e, with llttlo or no In- 1 Jury to the grain The spraying should I bo dons when Ihe plintt are young. I While Its practicability la not fully es- ,1 tsblishcd It Is at least worthy of furth- , ,1 er trial. il To tbo Farmers' Itevlewt ICiery per- son engaged In farming should keep , from two to six cows. Tbey should bene be-ne near pure-bred Shorthorn, Hereford A or Pollrd-Angus stock as possible, and tbey should always be bred to a regis- " tered bull Ws let our calves suck ths cows, allowing Ihem to take about -', two-thirds of the milk from their j mother twice a day, morning and A evening, until they are flvo or sis c months old Wo glvo them the run ot .1 tbe grass lot at tho same time. We J have our cows come fresh about March vflj or April and aim lo keep them milking j ten or cloven months, thinking It ' better for the cows nnd tbo calves tbey carry, that tho cows be ultowed to go dry for about two months. In '4 tbo spring we feed our cows fodder In boxes placed In the barn lot. Ths ... feeding la done In tho day time. Dur- Ing bad days and always at night ws .v tlo tbe cows In tho barn In their stalls 'A and feed Ihem clover bay with nbout jy ten ears ot corn each If our corn Is jsj dry and hard, we grl-'l It cob and alt OT and feed the meal with a. one-third tM the bulk of wheat bran mixed with It. ,$ Wo glvo our rows nt all times ths run 'gjl of a bluo grass pasture, and when tbs JM grasa geta good and plentiful ws ;j ehorten up on tbo meal and bay, Ws - i tow a patch of corn to feed In Augutt u nnd September, wblto tho pasture oca dried up. Wo put our ground in or der for this patch of feed Just tho same ' as If we wero going to sow wheat or ' oats. Wo sow It with tbo wheat drill, ., tbo same as we sow oats. It makes mors and better feed to the acre than : anything else wo have tried Ws cut and feed It as needed As tbe stalks are small tbo cow a cat It with a relish. To get tbo best results from your caws and calvis they should never bs permitted to go hungry. S, Oarlnger, Fayctto County, Ohio nroom-Corn Millets Theso are derived de-rived from Pnnlcum mllaceum This , ' species has been cultivated for I centuries In Hurope, where It Is ' tbo "Common Millet" It Is not extensively grown In tho Unltod States but Is offered In tho tradu under tha naraa of Ilroom-corn Millet and Hog; Millet The seeds nro borns In looso, drooping clttcrs, the branches of ths cluster being long nnd Blender, some-what some-what resembling tho seed cluster ot Ilroom-corn, whenco tho natno Tbs seeds ars from whllo to yellow and dark rod, and like the preceding torts nro flat on one sldo and rouvex on ths other and resemble the Harnyard Millet Mil-let In size and nbseuco of wrinkles. According tn tha Mark Lane Express Ex-press tbo average yields ot wheat j for tho principal countries ot th ,vv world nro Unltod Kingdom, 32.78 "'. bushels; Herman. 22 bushels; Canada, Can-ada, 18 bushels, Itoumanla, 14 bush- Kl tit; Austria-Hungary, 13J bushels; a1 United States, 12.50 bushels, llussla, '' 10 bushels; India, 9 30 bushels, Australasia, Aus-tralasia, 7 38 bushels. .. Promising men are so numerous, that It Is a great pleasure to meet man who has actually done aometbtns- ' 1 Every one Is bilious enough at times, to bs romantic. . v-".-r iiwfflsflT'sWflll |