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Show Jt several ef th little mea and ot only tBixlng aonstltuteata. It necessary to supply tha soil therefor with nitrogen, phosphoric add and SOME GOOD STORIES FOR oil potash but organic matter will prove MATTERS OP TO INTEREST QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS beneficial aa well. It barnyard maJUNIOR READER8. AGRICULTURISTS. AND EVENTS. nure ia not available plowing under green crop will serve the result. By A Uni Cvcltt, Ulate Aheat a systematic method of rotaltOS And -- I(norl'T PetrlSe A ft 4 a Xr .1 th Boll aa 1teUls pasturage together with the us ot Aa KmberreeseA Sta4oat Story Vfcereo - HwUwlltw, VlUcallin commercial fertilizers, sandy toils can Ui la WlaMT MalUa a lUpMI awl CIiAwm as a Bog. be brought to the highest state of proA Tnw Slarjr. Ftertcwltar. fua. ductiveness. In the determination of Old Dapple was so tired when hayingwhat kind of a fertiliser and how much -time waa over that grandpa said CmwbM Mate 111 A Mystery.. Tba OHl Haatlag aaU hall be applied to a particulalr soil tha be should test a Whole week, with oats rt jxII1 and The April bulletin of the Ohio Ex- farmer must A thin ut Hit Flower from rtodv of and mud be bis . own guide he for dinner the "Youre every day. Flowers so bright, and graaa ao greet' lern, periment Station thus summarises the must make his own field faithfulest old fellow!" experiment Tell me, blade, and leaf, and bud, lolM oorHurof grandpa said, report of experiments in the treatment and profit by them from year to year. tbil iwtf it I your alt ao clean. lioo old aose of warmly stroking Dapples n& I 1 iu Uhi c cucumbers and melon diseases: rumI4 tbe Rftm. Field experiments conducted In his back and forth back and forth, lovWltfO. The encumber pickle industry conIf my finger touch the sods. am locality but on a oW "Now nuntln a have tb Yet BH'morw heavy black holiday tinues to Increase In ObiO and the you shall cilng la Bee, theyre streaked with sticky eith. ingly. oil, whereas hla might be a light a and munch hay instead of rake it roetr rln from clayey clods, you satisyields of pickles have been more aady soil, would be of . little., or no. Pure, 'and fresh, and fair from ilrta" Walt- trundle the Wg rake under factory for IS9S than Tor the previous ( 4Hlrr f tan with tfw ground nmooihly benefit to him. In a general way the so out of mow, your youll sight, btemU diswell wash Th at abundant !o year. you yourself rains, night rp-andy soils are leachy and And frtffhtii not the timM i4 forget there wa ever any such thing tributed, and the high mean temperIn a bath of diamond dew. while clay sqjla are of an enduring In the world as work. Might! tame, That you look ao fresh and bright Then grandpa atures for months have Ity diki thread He hw When th morning dawns on yout went ia to dlBBei&wUh grandma and contributed fertility, mainly because they do not to this and. , firnd waah excessively nor allow the water The Twins everybody called them Uod, perhaps, sends summer showers rntoued by the hand ot the uneeetn The doyny mildew of cucumbers and to leach The Twins, with capital t a la their from them the plant food dame When the grass grows gray for raid allied Cubens.s, has which To wh the facee of Hie flowere. voices when they said It, It was quite been piants.Issmopara contain. they de to aa th destructive wn plants a bid Utt lb fully And light Ilia flelde be green again. late In the afternoon when grandpa 1897, tliwi lu iy, in as during the season named abked The Twins to lead eut old DapTell me, blade, and leaf, and bud; Th want of burnt powder grotlnd H Outlet for the potato Crop. but to the earlier harvesting of Flowers so fair, and grass so green, doth rling, Let him stay and drink the owing ple to water. Miners who have passed the winter of reduction actual yields the crop It a motley Add (KHkeU runoMl but droning out of clay and mud, as long as he wants to, he called after one-haas great !n the Klondike refer to has bean about .How it Is oure all so clean. ,, u array . . brand of only them. "You neeont wtithe know Of pita end lolwuco. nhetls, match Gabriel Setout from this cause. evaporated potatoes sent from Canada the way back alone.. So old Dapple and mrmg which have Anthracnose of cucurbits, Colleto-trichuproved very satisfactory, as stood and drank his fill of the clear, A little Cycle a. In substitute for fresh vegetables, says Increased has Lagenarium, And mmiy a night It ha pillowed the sweet ran The back Twin and water, the A head Rural New Yorker. We learned abundance and destructiveness. Bertram waa born and had spent 11 to their play. But It wasnt long beThat reeled In peaf 'neath a ahelter wilt of encumbers and muskmelons, that the Canadian company has varihis Lie on a Kansas prairie. He hid saw them fore toward lent tng coming referred to a species of Fusarlum, has ous factories in this country and to never watched the waves rolling th him grandpa That on wttne gtream e banka, at a scamper. Both their faces also wag apread. prevailed, besides th usual wilt Canada. One factory ia run at May-vHl- e, from the ocean, nor picked up shells were excited, and wUd they shouted in a litWhere few but Uama Nature disease. Phyllostlcta Cucurbltacearum Mich. It atarted last fall with nor dug well In the tle, breathless chorus The Twins usthe shore, along went. vreatureg a'er and Cercospora Cucurbits have also evaporated He had never listened aandy beach. In chorus apple, and then made O, grandpa! ually spoke been found spotting cucumber leaves PPle cider and apple Jelly. When the to the wind as It sighs gently through Ah. If It could speak! It would eagerly look up In the mowquick! grandpa aa well as Cercospora Cltrulllna upon apple season was tell the tops of the pine trees. Indeed, he ing field! Old Dapples up there rakln finished, they began chaw through tha Of long, breath! watermelon foliage. never seen had real evaporating potatoes and kept at it Woods ill. at any or any thick! ami thorn hay all alone, tbout any rake spraying experiments nearly all winter, through tbe very nor any high hllla; and he knew la puieutt of the elk that fought nobly hay! Hes goln back and forth and upon a commercial scale bave given an coldest Ax-lt- . and well, weather. The same company, about are so nice that freat And jng back forth like and everything! Increase of seventy-fiv- e bushels per R are But whoa antler the old hunting coat told, evaporated peaches In j0 climb upon and that make such lore- - when grandpa got on hit fur-ofand acre upon sprayed, compared with unnow adorn. Georgia earlier In the season. One of 1? caves to hide oneself under. But looked, sure enough there was faithful atsprayed cucumber pickle vines, our frlgnds In - Or perchance U would whisper of morn-tnhe knew all about how the men on old Dapple up in the mowing-fielpaMayvllle -- gives us the tacked by downy mildew. The profits chill aharp following Information about thla busiover the ride to the brtai tiently trudging up and down, making from thla treatment were not ao large range plaint boat In ome lak at And ruh-hlddness; rousd-nin the cattle a "bout!" the end turns at of neat together , every spring as would have daylight, accrued from similar How are potatoes canned? He had oflteoplayed at throv-lc- g Hr tired old legs wavered unsteadily., work in 1897, for reasons And apeak of the alienee, and een of the ' ' Bette ef pertaining to are first washed and then thrill Beptil sad VUh. "They a to lasso the stalks of the but kept on. The afternoon sunshine earl 1 ness of crop. rope put That It felt when tho canvas bark startFrom th New York Press: That tall sunflowers that blcom ao thlekly lay on his rough back and dazzled hi The practicability of saving the late Just large vat or steamer and steamed ed the night enough to loosen the skins. Then mooted question of whether a good over the western plains. He had seen old eyes on the return trips, but he crop of cucumbers from downy miley are taken out and Or yet It could speak of th favortt fires rushing madly through the never thought of stopping. Something dew, by use of Bordeaux peeled by great water snake can cope successia healthy mixture, omen and camp, girls. After this they are He had even seen suddenly dimmed grandpas fully demonstrated by tbe experiments rooked Where th brook make sweet music fully in mortal combat with a pickerel dry prairie grass. and sort breeses blow; has been decided by a battle in Lake half a dozen fires at a time far off and he took them off. Faithful old felmade. Spraying for this purpose need then rununtil thoroughly done, and '''And tho odor of Or and of Wild flowers, Pennesseewasse, of which William on the great round line In which the low! be muttered. Go lead him back, not ta begun earlier than through a machine shaped July 25 to ike a colander. witthe his supwide They come through him were shuts Itself for down oats over and children, aky cuL Kenneth 111 give Gurney August crop of pickles or And the tee ping of trout where the Gary and this In long, white strings very much nesses, The lake waters abound la wide earth. He also knew how hard per. And how The Tains hugged him cumbers Is harvested by August 15, slender weede grow- resembling long worm or shredded no while were it! across blow could the winds the la large-size- d there not great and they doing is mildew (or spraying pickerel downy Th broadcloth scorn It, tbs woolen cocoanut. After this they are Constance Hamilton. other body of water In Maine where open plains. When the spring winds ' may sneer, rated and put up In tin cansevapothe and A listin'rate they, from the water snakes are so huge. They came blowing all the Spraying of anthracnose, downy milsealed air tight mote; dew and leaf blight of muskmelons is are harmless, but if forced to a fight Gulf of Mexico or the Uladaton M a Bog. ocean, Behow Tet none of them offers tho comfort and owAbu.t many potatoes till recommended, although some failwith man or fish can put up a good rtram used to watch the great round William Ewart Gladstone, at the age cheer during the season? And happiness found hi the old taunting scrap, Tbelr bite, while not poisonous, -- tumble weeite a they ralled rapidly or 12, Was the besl looklng boy "who ure are recorded. coat. Previous recommendations as to the biiS,.yearV rUn wa8 about it exertmely painful and everyone along faster than a horse could gal- cer entered Eton, and the brightest Col or do Springs Gazette. Sometimes when the wind gree fellow who ever left 1L He was al- treatment of late tomato plants with given them a wide berth. In hot days lop. Does this make difference to they crawl to the branchea of the low fiercer than usual. It brought a thick ways proud to claim membership with Bordeaux mixture to prevent tomato the potato market forany the neighboring Arlseea's Fetrlfled forte t. bushes on the ahore of the bogs and cloud of dust to choke the breath a ad one of the old families of commerce, leaf blight, Septona LycopersicI, are farmers? sun themselves ln contentment. Many blind the sight. Then Bertram would tnd to the last declined all honors and again repeated. One of the most Interesting and ImYes, I think It does, although the ef th reptile win measure over ten run Into the house aa fast aa his legs titles offered him by th queen, preof the wonders is natural great pressive rarmers have no trouble in selling all ever covbeen and could feet few them of have eyes, sad carry him, shuthls petrified forest of ArUuua, which Stock the of for the "one Plum. people." remain Jo European potatoes they grow, to the shipferring - ara nearly IW square mile. The govcaptured,- - If a person approaches them almost fearing that the little home Hi mother traced her ancestry to tha per. The canning factory helps to In some notes on plum cullure pubernment explorers have christened it whllrtbey are apparently sleeping on would be lifted from Its foundafloss royalty of the fourteenth century. She lished In a recent bulletin Issued by raise the price. Last winter, when the f tba bushes and attempt to hit them, pnd.,bft ahakeqjq piece h. thafer w a woman of Very great accomplish., , Chalcedony Park, ProColorado factory first started, the shippers were the Station, Experiment or JUen'rwm stone fall When StfleS tor with a stick The surtsce cl the ground quickly wind of tha prairie. they and exacted obedience from her fessor Charles S. Crandall says: ments, paying only 20 to 22 cents a bushel for and miles around la covered with gi- into the water and escape harm. Ona was five years old his mother took six children. Gladstones earlier life the European plums such as potatoes. The factorys first contract For hisgrand-mothdiamIn the while tour weather this to feet visit or summer, New him three to day gantic logs England was passed under the direct care of this Green Gage, and Bradshaw was for 8,000 bushels at 25 cents. Of and some cousins thate had wise and watchful mother. Her boys Lombard, no eter, petrified to the core. Many of was extremely warm, Gary and Gurstock Is better than bourse the canners want the" highest probably them are translucent. Some are almost ney were on the lake trawling for salsever seen. Bertram though the were required to perform some manual some variety of quality of potatoes. It Is understood of seedlings were canoe. had The mon boat from most All hoiM Just a the In his rooms present transparent grandmother and to take much physical ex- the species from which these va- here that the factory had a contract labor, where the tha of of beautiful shade bog blue, yellow, pink, passed the edge very large- large enough for, house, ercise, and were Instructed in wood-sawi- rieties came Prunua domestics. Rith the United States government for purple, red and gray. Some are like snakes have (heir headquarters, when be said. He waa never tlred ot runA mans treatand carving. common been use all the potatoes that were canned last These have in gigantic amethysts, soma resemble the there was a splash la the Water and a ning op and down the atalra, beeaus ment of his wife la a reflection of his for many years, but In recent year winter," the attention house some are as pure and churning that attracted he had never before lived in amoky tops, and In Gladstones have been in some degree superseded .mother whit as ulabaster. At place the chips Of Jhe men In th boat. Tbty backed where there were any atalrwaf to be beautiful memory. Aenlna Bonaa la Cuba. study, called the Temple ot by Myrobalan stocks (seedlings of 'ancle of' agate for tha trunks that have water with th oars and floated up climbed. One day Bertram A correspondent of the were three desks one for po- Prunua ceraslfera, a species of EuroPeace, Chicago Ree. trouble. was the toot They brought home from' the city t large litical and business crumbled, lie a deep upon the to see what correspondence.one pean orgln). Myrobalan stocks are in ord writes that Journal from Washground, and H la easy to obtain cross were surprised to see a huge blac.k coll box, and told Bertram and bit little for American horses do not literary work and one for Mm. common nse in European countries ington: section of trees showing every vein of shining akin writhing in ths water cousin Frank that this contained somwho was a most discreet, as and have rapidly grown In favor with thrive on our new possessions. It takes Gladstone, and even bark,. and went closer to Investigate. They ething which they would like to see. , and had not only our nurseryman, not. because better them a long time to become acclimatfound that a water snake nearly eight When they opened the box they found well as able, woman, view of the petrified forA blrda-e- y -d Of speech, but trees can be grown upon them, but ed. The heat, the malaria and Insect the gift est on n tunny day auggeata a gigantic feet long had a pickerel In his graap. In It a toy village. There eaa a reare more of a trial to beasts ih-- n occasion peet when of golden silence because It Is easier to secure good kaleidoscope. The surface of tha earth The fish must have weighed 'in the church with a ateeple, a postofics, a to men. Texas ponies qr domestics than quired. good bronchos, s. resembles an infinite variety of vicinity of three pound and a fight school house, a store and some smaller stocks. . Beads of domestics vari- however, do very well in Cuba and The geologist say this great waa on, Tha anake slowly uncoiled his houses. There were a good many litPorto Aa iladtik Rico, and 800 have been shipped Eabsnuni eties that will produce an even plain, now S.0O0 feet above the sea, was body, when tha pickerel darted out tle trees to shade the village, and a Mr. Spurgeon need to tell a good stand of stocks difficult to over to Cuba since the close of the war. is once covered by a forest, which was and quickly turned, making a swift npmber of little men and women to Three or four hundred have been about one of bis divinity stuobtain, and the Myrobalan, which la submerged tor Ages In water strongly lunge forth make, . The latter, howwalk about its street. There wat also story shipped to Porto Rico. Any man who to order la his was custom, to In less liable dents. to It and easier and bead the fish grow by ever, grabbed the charged with minerata, until the fibre a depot and a train of cars to bring will go down Into Cuba and raise moles mea for acof the the an offers young test from powers parasitic fungi, ury of the trees were thoroughly soaked held him fast. In the course of three people to and from the town. Both of as they were ceptable substitute. Some nurserymen and ponies will make a fortune, beto unthem, give speaking, anake the Into minutes stone. or eternal again four transformed and th children were delighted. They to ascend the pulpit, a text to Import the seeds and grow their own cause tbe draft animals have almost Many of the trunk are still packed In coiled his body, and the pickerel, with took the little things out of the box about about on their own plan and stocks, others find It more profitable to been exterminated during the war, and discourse few faint motions, came to th top and looked at them one by one. Then a deposit of fine clay, which waa left worda. This, of course, own in their tha seedlings. They are usual- a great many are needed upon the anake Th lay air. for the of water eroslom the by th receding water, but they began to build the town. Frank was not before an audience, but simply Import received of Showed during tha winter, planted plantations as well as by tbe military ly sign of the wind has pulverised much of still, but aa the fish had often been to the city with his On the to nursery row to spring, and budded forces. The beat stock for that climate th clay and carried It off la tha air, returning life he again grabbed him by father, and thought that he knew nil among themselves for practice. beoccasion referred to, he gave to a to July and August. In tha south the is the hardy little horse that la found exposing th secrets that nature burlAl the head. Then the body of the fish about how a town should be built He man, who as yet had not tried stock! to common use are tha Marl to Texas and New Mexico." That ia a last at and under Its surface, One great tree spans gan to disappear lowly, did not think that Bertram knew young anna plnm and peach, and very diverse point we called attention to a year ago, there waa no more pickerel la sight. much about towns. So It happened the ordeal, the simple word, n deep gulch forty feet wide; It He The young man, trembling opinions as to their relative merits when the war broke out The climate where It tell centuries, perhaps ages, The next day Gurney and Gary were that almost all the things that Berto foot, said: I will divide have been expressed. Probably th dif- of Texas, and the conditions surroundago, and Is n most beautiful specimen on the shore of the bog for frog th be tram act up Frank would soon change from bead of petrified wood. The rings and th used tor bait, when they found the to another place. Bertram soon be- my subject Into three parts. First, We ferences arise from varying local con- ing horses to that state, would naturwas small of statditions, for tha testimony at hand In ally enable them to become more easily bark can be easily traced through the dead body of a big snake. They eut gan to feel that It was all Frank y read that Zacchaeus never smaller than at dies tea that on tbe felt to Cuba and Porto Rico I and half ure, translucent agate, and It Is firm enough tha reptile open and found about was light and dry soils acclimated "being he and that left out town, moment Second, We read ths than northern horses. the present while the stock and strong enough to last aa many way down th throat th body of th does best, peach of the play. He looked Very sober tor Zacchaeus climbed a tree, which la better suited to the centuries as It has already spent In Its pickerel. The anake ia swallowing tha a few minutes. Myrobalan He stopped working that A Haw Bawl Plaat. remind me of my ascent into this puheavier and more moist soils. Even at peculiar position. It la undoubtedly fish had rested for a breath of air, watqhed the little town as it grew We read that Zacchaeus ths north the Third, lpit some ' tba only bridge of agate In the world, when the fish again came to life and, and meets with The peach Agriculture Ledger of Calcutta. But uir under Franks busy finger dowm-whl- ch acsad alone is worth n long Journey to spreading hts belly flna. had choked be waa" all the time thinking how be made hast to come favor a a stock for plums oil' light India, announces the discovery for tha now Whether thla do. I will men cordingly th too tender for districts government of a plant described aa ae. Tha Indians of th southwest used the anake to death. However, could bar a ahare ta tba play himself. or oils., but it la where severe winters ara common. For similar but superior to ramie. Ramie la visit the petrified forest frequently declare that the anake won the fight, At last a new thought came to him. man ever became a great preacher to obtain agate for their arrow and but waa too anxious to celebrate tala The town was Just finished, with all not we are not told, but he certainly tha native varieties. Wolf, Weaver, De furnishes an extremely fine, strong Soto and other derivatives of Prunua and valuable fiber, suitable for spear heads, and the mstertsl was scat victory, and thereby loet hl own Ufa. th tree and house set up Id beautiful showed that he possessed ready wit making high-clatc red over the entire continent by ex Inference fine, that tha natural Americana, textile goods, and th order and th little men aud women Bm Dim, Americana stocks would be beat seems only thing which has operated to prechange betwee th different tribe gwrgtewt OprwUn. Vj walking quietly - around th street; Extiwacdtaary A Here la from the Isthmus of Panama to th 'olsy, "Jolly game. hag to be borne out by experience, but the vent ha culture extensively in this In May, 180, ona of th most re- - Then Bertram erled out, Here comes of bean ia brought In aid every one Behring Straits. The great deposits country is the fact that it has to b his degree of success may depend to llttl and a filling record on alyeone! iSQgs surgical operation his or her hand In It and measure upon the seed used. The spe- degummed. which la always a puu ..here explain, where all th arrow- markable out a be blew present with wtad la air, great of Dr. Lavelangu costly heads of mos agate came from, and was performed by takes a few beans, which are held In cies ta extremely variable In general process. Thla new kind of ramie, if Hospital at Pari. It breath. In two seconds half of the All served. are Then until hand can of as and it well other weapon and Implement of atm tha Children's habit be so the growth rapidity called, la free from gum, aa ldlot child.. Ill town lay In a heap, with the frightened count-t- h and therefore does not, to its producbeans, and all as to tha fruit produced. liar material that are found In th In was tha case ot since It was little men and women buried under the they are to growing head bad stopped have odd number to form la Un dlan mounds and graves of th central tion, present that difficulty. Th deof age, and waa only one-thi- overturned houses. Frank looked up, who a tad SA Boll. aud western states, la the atone age four years normal of agriculture la Investigaton the right, and alt with even num-- half partment But angry. Bertama that feeling alae. Believing the on the left. In line form the and" ia arranging to to the agate of the petrified forest waa the ing ber He was subject, wer ot economical not the For of cross shining, eye application th Idiocy waa due to compression .very best material that could be ob- the akull or naughty; be only wanted to hare a Then the first person on the right line fertilizers it Is necessary to make procure seed for trial and distribution. the divlde doctor the bratfi left aide and gives over to tained for both the Implements of war of a study of the solL Clay Hr. Jared G. Smith of the department and kept th edgea ot part la th play. Franks eye began start In that line the a bean aa long aa they something aud peace of the aborglnea A scalp- longitudinally, I to ahlne. too, on was a This new a as rule contain sufficient potr tatea that a ramie- - which does .not Fresh tolls kind deposit the bone from uniting. or down. she alts he then Th and ing knife could be made very easily So s&ld. That wss be fun. last, z bits ash but they are likely to need either require degu naming would. In all proband the akull grad- of from one of the chips of agate and of bone took place, almost lu proper aard. sure enough! Now all the men earn time the first one on the left beor phosphoric acid and are ability, prove a highly valuable acquito beans he or she nitrogen benefited what ont could be ground to a very fiat edge. ually expanded sition, and Its Introduction might be to give work to to have and will build gins facUlCea, Intellectual go the by both. Complete usually size. Then tha Many crystal wer used for Jewelry which hid hitherto' been those of aa town over again. Then with a good baa. on the. right line and when they fertilizers should not be applied by the the means of starting a new line of to and or na menu also. boyi set tqwork are all gone, he or she alts Iowa. -- Tha fanner without reservation. They are industryhe th United SUtes. Such a laagh both of-tInfant, grew stronger and stronger .ao on plant, aad do says, might to some extent th waa next couple child and toon a the tha with will, tows as last was fse, only complete they meet the every day, till at replace out. are hemp. bean The the How Mtlnth Un ta Wteten, all given aa as aa until other ever. built up again good any as intelligent and healthy qulrement of hla soil. On clay soils bn has all time this the bona meal la usually a very elective It one aska a hundred school chll in France, Bom of th moat remark- jt waa finished the second tim Frank last couple by French Government 8Ullions.The a burnt fertiliser. dren and grown people, as vreUt able surgical operations have been per-- 1 rtn to bis grandmother and whispered beans, and lf .one la dropped- 'mark It acid French supplies phosphoric government keep stallions for la nd cork to brought and a little for that matter bow squirrel aub-fcl- st formed in connection with the brain I something In her ear. Grtndaam potash and also lime, which usual the use of the farmers, charging only and when each one, of face the ia winter, nine out of ten will which la now ao accurately mapped out amiled, went up to the attic, and put on ly exerts a beneficial mechanical effect a nominal fee of )2 or 3 per service. one having the on clay. Acid phosphatea or South By this method the French are surgeon can tell exactly where 1 brought down un old pair of bellows the total Is counted the reply that they cat th nut they gath that black marks rapidly er in the summer and fall. This is th seat of mischief In tha brain Ilea, that ued to blow np the Urea la tae odd number la to have the Carolina rock acts to the same way Improving their horses, for these govon the brain, (reat kitchen chimney a hundred on for every bean In excess of the except that It contains no tumor a Tbelr be food not true, there but Should put wholly year nitrogen ernment stallions are carefully inpartly, havone The other and now the ha. be can located, Bertram looked ' number In course 1 of varied on situation exset the Its ago, The average sandy soil Is always de- spected before being approved for widely with curiosity while Frank took the ing th odd number at the end of the ficient In all of the e principal fer servUe. Mr. lhompson. tally la the spring ami sum then the ka!l la opened and the mofyear, ' Me bachelor," maid 1 U orrold bellows, anf ta&de a a ted that blew game mar. Indian corn In the milk auffera ,t Id growth removed. IK THE ODD COMER. rfl Mnul .: 11 Jr !' g' FOE "BOYS AND G1BIS racgiort from equlrrela tbtn from coons or muskrat, which r prover-blall- y o fond of It, In place m th wester frontier an extensive system of watching has had to be maintained at timaa against thl peat. On dainty hr late summe 1 the mushroom, of several varieties of 'which they are fond, and tbla reminds me of a bit of unexpected sagacity In one of ths western chipmunks U'ely spoken of In my healing by tha artlai and author. Ernest Set on Thompson- - Jt appear that this chipmunk depends for It ordinary fall and winter far upon tb seeds of tha plnon pine, which it preserve by storage in Us holes In decayed It happened tump or underground. lately, however, that In a certain area of the north weat the plnon crop waa a a complete failure, and the ground squlr-relwere cbmpclled to And aomethlng else for their subsistence and winter stores. In this extremity they turned to the mushroom, everywhere abundant, and were busy during all the late autumn la gathering them. They were too wise, however, to store them underground, where they would soon have rotted, but instead deposited them in notches and crotches of the lower branches of the forest trees, where they dried In the open air and so kept in Their good condition to be eaten. the of and the shaking up shriveling branches by the wind caused many to fall.and these the squirrel industriously picked up and tried to fasten more securely to the branches. This method of providing themselves with winter food Implied the necessity of their coming forth from tbelr underground retreats, no matter how cold and anowy the weather, whenever they wanted something to eat. Instead of their larder Indoors, as Is usual with them, and it would be Interesting to know whether they actually did so or whether they failed to profit, after all. by their seemingly sagacious prudence. women across the dialog room carpet. After this, whenever Frank and Bertram set up th toy village, the very beet part of the play was the lime when the cyeloae came fend trees and house and mea aad women, tum.-ble- d down together la a Neap of ihlns. Mary Hall Leonard, half-wa- M1b Jw y FARM AND GARDEN. u Hr )t nr , - lf m g fs d, fur-off- a. dew-dam- p. -- s.iqjC . jy Par er silver-tongue- rata-bow- Zac-chae- ss -- rd , he i - grt |
