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Show GARDEN. AND .FARM " . - t . Cp-M-l- the C1U-rati- pin. , MU fkwwl BwtlnHun fitlwltai. TrieHra. I 7 " ", oa n4 ' Many EaraA rjrm- From Farmer Review:, If I. per to call at your 'office and found, aome Illinois farmer there, when It wa learned that 1 wa from Northwestern Minnesota, oa th line of- the Northern the conversation Pacific , railroad, ana would quit likely h about crop In my and proapecU farmer' chancer aectlon of th country. Aq th Illlnol farmer rale corn with profit,, they would want to know what w are doand the ing in that line of farming, durthat them tell should I result. Inwe hat ing th last two year creased our corn are more than ten fold, nd that the result have been great satisfaction, both a to feed and fodder for the stock, and frop now on of farmers will plant about one-llft- h their land to corn. Corn haa bqpn raised In this vicinity In nmqll patches and Helds ever years ago, wine settlement, twenty-liv- e ahd showed remarkable productiveness, but as in nil new countries where wheat can be raised the farmers paid their whole attention to wheat. But inow, since two or thre year ago, they wished to go more into stock and diversified farming, they have naturally turned to corn and clover as the two" crop necessary In the new style of farming. Grain Growers and At the - 8tock Ralsera convention, held at Fargo, N. D., January 7th to 10th. Inclusive, it was not uncommon to hear m farmer talk about his 300, 300, 1,000 and 2,000 acres of corn. I, being only a small homestead fanner, can only talk about five to seven acre fields, and say that eighteen or twenty years ago I had one stalk of corn that had live ears on It. Three of them were good Tri-Stat- es size, sound and perfect, and the other two would be classed as nubbins. D. Lb Wellman, Becker County, Minne- sota. Early Gain, of Ply Prof. W. A. Henry, in his book on "Feeds and Feeding. says: At the Wisconsin station the writer kept recand also ords of the blrth-welgweekly gains of twelve litters, numbering 6 pigs in all, for a period of ten weeks, at the close of which they After weaning, the were weaned. records were continued with eight litters, containing 62 pigs in nil, for seven weeks. The dams were purePoland-China- a or bred or blgh-grad- e Th result ars Whites. Chester shown below: Before Weaning. Av. Wt. Gain. Week. ht At 1 2.3 birth.,.....,. .1.9 '.... A.. 7.0 ., 2.6 18 9.8 . ... .115,. ..a...... .17 ... .11 ...... ..15.6. j a,..., 4. 5..- . 10 .........186 .... .22.6.. .. ... ... .... .4.0 8.2 .,,.27.8 8.8 811., ., 7. .- .S8.B....... ...... .3,4 After Weaning Week. 10.- ..... Av, ........ Wt lit, Gain. 41.5 yt. ......... , ,,.46.7 12... , . . ,588. 12. . . ... . . ......64.2 14 16.. ....... (62 Pigs.) ,69.8, .... ,76.5 84,1 5.2 . .5.8 ............ . .18 5.9 ,5.6 .6.7 7.8 The heaviest pig In these Utters weighed 2.8 pounds at birth and the lightest 1.6 pounds, the average for During the the lot being 2.5 pound first weekafter birth the pigs made s gain of 1.9 pounds. Overlooking irregularities, wa may say that th plga n. weekly gala Of three pounds per bead the fifth week after birth, four pounds the seventh week, and five pounds the tenth week. and At the end of the seventh week after one-ha- lf weaning, when 119 daya old. they were gaining more than seven pounds each weekly, or over a pound n day. Kansas Corn, T. Willard, of the-- Kansu Prot-- J, Agricultural College, says: Th sta- tion Is making efforts to establish lm- -' beproved varieties of corn, selections on the percentage in part, based, ing of nitrogen, and with aa much success could reasonably be expected. In vidw of the almost total failures of the crops on account of drought the last two years. The ease with which corn makes these experiments very difficult, especially when any effort la made to obtain n considerable quantity of n given variety In n state of purity. To assist farmers tn tbs state who wish to Improve the chemical composition of their corn, the chemical department has arranged to make determinations of the percentage of nitrogen for them at cost. Although on account of the scarcity of home-grow- n corff this season, the time la not as opportune for starting the development of Improved strains of, corn as would be desirable, 4t Is hoped that some win avail themselves of the offer. Analyses of the same kind will be made of seed corn offered for sale , where desired, and th department 1 making such analyses on Its own account also. That corn would b an appreciably more valuable grain for feeding. If It were richer In nitrogen, there can be no reasonable doubt, and the farmer who will syatematlcally eet about developing a strain of an other- t wise good variety that 1 richer in nitrogen, will be a public benefactor, and doubtless will reap, an ample financial reward. It la probably need Impro-l- n u cross-fertiliz- es -- WILL DEVOTE TO OF INTEFEST MATTER ;;. less to stats that corn that to being tj'IMnmniiunununimmMiuin.iis thus developed should be, planted at a (3 . . considerable distance from any other. Persons dealring corn analyzed should ffmiiiwwmtmmffrmwniirfmwHimmwiniTTTiiiiiiiiwnwffTHfwwwmfTTmrok, write th station for Instructions and After before a spectacular and sensational (arms sanding sample career aa a young widow under Plclon of having poisoned two husDmlal Rw Grapes, For more than twenty years T. V. band, a a womgn of ripened, beauty Munson of Texas has given his at- and word-wid- e reputation fighting for tention to the subject of improving our oar second husband's entire estate, a a native grapes collecting the best wild determined defendant in a suit to coland cultivated varieties, testing them lect 120.600 In lawyers fees, as a poet, side by side,' and intermingling them author, social beauty, and desperate deby crossing and hybridizing for tha fender of her impeached character, Mr purpose of producing new varieties of Minnie Wallace W&lkup Ketcham will tha best possible qualities, adapted to retire from the gayetlqe, frivolities, different parts of tha country, and to troubles and storma of the world and the remainder of her life to provide the best possible resistant stocks upon which to graft the Vlnl-fa- charitable work in a hospital for crippled children, which she will build in (wine grape) varieties His work haa necessitated a careful Chicago. Her decision has Just been Study of the botany of the grape aad announced and already architects ane-a- t a thorough knowledge of every native, work on the plans. It Is stated that a number of promiIntroduced and cultivated species and variety. In his work with these, more nent Chicago philanthropist are inthan 75,000 seedlings, mostly hybrids, terested In the scheme, and that it will have been grown, and of this number be one of the largest and best appointscarcely 100 have been considered ed institutions of the kind In the coun-trworthy of introduction for market rrltli to the Whltsett Courier: "I've When it Is completed Mrs. Ketcham mad enough out of When, however. It is remembered that f my poetry the past no variety with fewer berries than will retire from, the world, will hoy a new hat and get a hair take bp Lukfata nor smaller herries than Tala-qu&- h her residence Jn a suite of apartments yearjio cut.f'Atlanta Constitution. In tha hospital, and will live there nor Inferior la quality to Concord has been considered worthy of quietly, doing what she can for the , Making Moaeea Aktrnotlvo, Introduction, some Idea will tyi obWith Plllebury playing chess and crippled inmates for th rest of her tained of the rigid system of culling life. . operating his flying and selection observed. to tha Institution Mr Ketcham machine at Monte Carlo, there seems Mr. Munson considers the results obwill put her antir fortune. After the to be plmty of attractions at Monaco tained in his experiments with native building Is completed the remainder af beside the regular gam American species most encouraging, her money will be used aa' an endowand the field of future development ment fund. OtSaat City nr Aannrlo. . 6 along this line practically unlimited. .The fir dty Incorporated In this Our native species excel In. many Money la Poo try. country atth a charter and privileges Who says there la nothing In the was Jtow fork, which was granted Its points the Old World grapes. Some have rare, delicious flavor unknown literary business?" A Georgia poet paper In U64. In the VInifera varieties; others, great size of clusters; others, very large berries; others, small and few teed; all of great vigor and resistance to disease and adaptability to our variable climate. And our experience clearly shows that all species can be Interacres, fernting to tha lake, the toad mingled at will by the Intelligent from Indiana to Erie streets is owned by the Ogden estate; from Erie to Superior street by tbe Newberry Library, Mixed Ration for Hop. General Walter I Newberry and N. K. T. J. Van Matre: George McKerrow Falrbank; from Superior etreet to Chisays that his experience has taught cago- avenue, by John V. Farwell; him that corn ration eoon trap Chicago nreane to Pearson court, damages the organa of digestion, and City of Chicago; from Pearson byh the main secret of good feeding is to tofcheetnut street, by Mr Healy, and get the animal, when Intended for the frfo Chestnut to Oak street, by Geo. market, to eat and assimilate all the xa Slmoni, the Almlndingera and H. food poesible. This can only be dona Cooper u the representative of th by feeding a proper amount of a ballie Street land Association. Eugene too we feed anced ration, for, if much Flahbura'of Ogden, Sheldon k Co., we not only lose a part carbohydrate Iced 125,009 an acre as a fair value-b- n of. tha food, but overload the organs on the property claimed by Streetwith useless work. er 14,000,000 for tbs tract As a food for young pigs we have I The contest over the possession of found a mixed ration of 50 per cent Vl land hat caused the murder of one middlings, 25 per cent corn meal, 15 saa and th Inception of apparently per cent bran and 10 per cent oilmen!, cdlese litigation, , wet up to a creamy consistency and The Chicago land to which. Capt fed three times dally In such quanti-ties as they will eat np clean and at Streeter lays claim extends from the Gen.Only Isa Comanadnn Left. Oliver O. Howard, In a remlnla-eriver north to Chicago avenue Galcago tha same time appear to be satisfied, eaat of St. Clair street and 'north and mood, says that of the twenty-leve- n u In result best addition the gives commanders of union armies to this a few whole oats on a dean of Chicago avenue from the west line of the Lake Shore drive east to thaJfcjpin the esU war only two survive roots a and few floor In their plank It comprises approximately 160 As season, make valuable adjunct corn-meal, they grow older we Increase the until at five to seven months old 50 per cent corn, 25 per cent middling al 15 per cent bran, and 10 per cent form their rations. Believing that a hogs stomach needs a fibrous Galueha A. Grow, who announce his food as a division, we aim to give them pasture in summer and roots la intention of retiring from public life winter. Ton may question the profit at the end of his present term, has been In using some of these foods and ask, a member of congress at large since Why do you feed bran, clover, roots, 1894, and la one of tha most distinetc.? Because, first,, they act as a guished statesmen of Pennsylvaal He lives at Glenwood. Jn Susquehanna divisor for the more concentrated foods and allow the gastric Juices a county, and la descended from ConnecH was first elected better chance of penetrating the whole ticut ancestor mass; and, second, they are all nitrog- to Congress as long ago as 1850, and at that time served twelve years as repenous food resentative. In 1851 hs had ths disTraaa Depth tinction of being the youngest member From Farmers Review: In a re- of Congress Mr. Grow will be 78 years cent Issue of the Fanners Review I old next August see that some one, referring to the transplanting of apple tree advisee , - VS SnstMt of Iroa Dsan. , setting them one Inch deeper than they The great dome of the capital at were la the nursery. This ay do for Washington is the only considerable southern or middlejlllnola, trat for all dome of Iron in the World. It is a vaet this great country north and west of hollow sphere weighing 8,000,300 Phlcago it will not do at alL Nearly, pounds more than 4,000 tons, or alIf not all, of our oldest and most suc- most the weight of 70,000 full grown cessful orchsrdlsts In the Northwest persons, orabout equal to 1,000 ladened ars setting their apple trees ' fro coal cars of four tons each, which, if tion toould be at least S year old beseven to fourteen inches deeper In the out one behind the would fore public libraries buy It. In other strung orchard khan they stood In the nur- occupy a mile and a half ofother, On word it should mot be buried with Intrack. sery. In very low, cold, heavy soils the very top of the dome the "allegoridecent haste, as so much "Immortal unfit for trees It might be advisable to cal figure of current fiction i , America, weighing set them three inches deeper than they Its proud hea4 high In Jlfta pounds, stood In the nursery. Edson Gaylord the air. of Railway Trains. ' Floyd county, Iowa. Thirty to forty miles ad hour Is Xert Fiction. the rule for railroad trains In Russia; The superiority of our present varieMr. Carnegie haa well said that fic in Siberia, fifteen to twenty. ties of plant over those grown even within the meory of those of us In middle life, is very great In many Instance Tha results achieved with soma are indications of those that are possible with many, perhaps alL In the case of staple crops the Improvement poesible, even if it should prove Since time Immemorial the Russians a trolley road was on the ice, and to be but in small degree, may la the have used the River Nev at St Pe- has forzished no endlaid of pleasure to tha mobe of economic aggregate great tersburg, as their most popular winter peopl of the Russian capital. The tleq ment. street The broad stream la covered are eet into the ice, and after the ratW for .months with Ic ten or twenty feet are p!ied to them are made fast by So many a deed of wrong for right Is meant, 8o many a right one don with 111 In- LHI to CHARITY ,..6.' ra Santo-Dumo- Capt. nt f amsus Claim. Streeters re nt 1 oil-me- IM A .WBSTfeRN ROMANCE, - t i . A daughter of old Geronlmo, th most bloodthirsty and relentless foe that has been raised up In the path of the white man In tha settlement of the West, la to marry on of th palefaces against whom her father battled so long. She won the love and lifelong devotion of her future husband by the manner In which she fearlessly offered her own life in order to save him, Lola, the "Red Rose of the Forest, as her people call her, will marry Houston A Ward, one of the wealthiest and most accomplished young men in southern Texas. And this happy culmination grows out of a romance, one singularly beautiful scene of which Is and exciting enough to form the nucleiA of a highly successful melodrsm Jt was whllt flying for life from a prairie fire and a herd of stampeded steer that the love of the young couple was Art revealed, and in such dangerous surroundings was their troth plighted. Houston A. Ward, who to certainly of one eager to become the of the most notorious Indian chiefs that ever shed blood on the borders of Arizona, to the son of old Shanghai Ward, a famous mustang king of the Rio Grande country. The old man died a few yean ago, leaving his only son a splendid fortune la land mustangs and cattle Young Ward's boyhood was divided between Texas and Illlnol H usually spent the summers on hi father's ranch and the wlnten In the north,, where he attended school A a result of this simple career he possesses a fine educattou and he to rather proud of certain trophies won oa tha playground and a diploma won la tha classroom of the college at Champaign, ill Last summer the grass was scares la tha Rio Gnnde calley and Houston Ward shipped some 400 or 500 head of cattle to the Indian territory. Finding abundant pasture land tha young man remained tor some time la the vicinity of Fort Sill, where be made tne acquaintance of the pretty Indian girl who will joon become hla wlf The gallant Texan frequently sought the company of the dusky belle of the border, often dancing and nding with her, but he now eay that he did not know that he loved her until one even-- J lng he found her finger In his hair, and upon opening hla eye In flame and amok he felt the earth trembling beneath hla feet, while hla ear were filled with the noise of a cyclone. Houston Ward had been riding about over the prairie looking at his cattl and becoming tired, be dismounted and lay down on the grass in the shade of a tree, leaving his pony to graze at wllL lie soon fell asleep and his pony wandered off to mingle with a large herd of cattle and a big drove of horses that were not far away. The grass was very tall and most of it wa dead and dry. Dither some care- -, less cowboy had dropped a match or a spark from a hunters gun set the praiA strong breeze was blowrie on fir ing from the north and, as usual in such case it looked as if the flames Increased the commotion in the air until a windstorm was driving the rapidly spreading fire before It, The great herd at Texas steers stampeded the instant they scented danger and started south, bellowing with terror. Th horses caught the contagion and mingled with tha flying steers, snorting aa if a pack of panthers were at their heel There were about 500 Texas steers in the herd and seventy-o- r eighty head of hones. This moving man of frightened anlmato started straight toward tha tree under which the sleeping Texan was lying, unconscious of danger. " Old Geronlmoa daughter, mounted on a magnificent hone, was riding across th pnlria when the fin broke out, aad she saw the anlmato stamped No one knew why she happened to be there of how she knsw that the hand--om- e young Texan was lying under th lone tree asleep. She saw the maddened herd, driven blood-curdli- son-in-la- w full-gro- TROLLEY ROAD OVER ICE. m A poultry raiser says that poultry in confinement do not fatten as well or as quickly on grain as on a mash. This Is probably true, as the birds require exercise to help assist In grinding the whole grain. In Franc wher birds are fattened In dose confine thick, and here not only the skater meat, only soft food la used. and sleigh riders go for pleasure, but a diverted, Because of unwillingness to wear great proportion of traffic is etc., fuel, loads of merchandise, great glasses, women suffer more from their being hauled in mammoth sledge ' ' ayes than do men. 'With the advent of King Trolley, the Small men have big opinions of river haa been put to a new themselvesuse. As eoon as winter eat, this ' pouring water aroi Thu they are c practift:jjr made i surface. Cp and down thi whizz at trernendc Ice-bou- nd . roadbed that haa j hending the situation at a glance, he first thought of ascending th tree, but doubting whether ha could perform the feat, he yielded to th glrl'a hand and quickly sprang upon th horaa behind her. Aa tha noble animal turned, ' th horna of the steers crashed against th tree and several of the big brutes fell headlong, rolling over tha vary spot where tha rescued man had been lying. Their carcasses wer trampled to Jelly by the sharp hoofs of tha flying herd. Ths sure-footborsa.bor tha In dlau girl and tha Texan away at tha top of his speed, but more than 600 head of furious bra it were close to his heels, and it was four mile to a ' i place of safety. Rida straight to the river." shouted Ward, as soon as he was able to command bis vole "I know; I know, replied th girl "Maybe we can turn out of tha way -pretty soon, she Added. The earth seemed to tremble as U convulsed by an earthquake and th air wet filled with a roar more appall I Ward ing than tha noise of a eyclon turned hla head and ha was surprised to ae tha rad eyes of the mad brutes - -horse's tall Striking tha foaming flank of th horaa with hla hat ha shouted: On, on, Lola, or we are lost! y Eh turned her head and looked Into hie eye "Let me alip off, ah whispered.. "Tha horaa could save you; I am too - -many. Tha Texan comprehended her meaning and In that moment of peril be realized that the Indian girl loved him. Fearing that she might execute her suggestion and sacrifice hereelf to save him, he instantly grasped her In hi arms, and 'It was In that moment of rcrll that thpfr trtth was pl ' fel. luD t U, i 4 and In a short time ha bean to farther away from the herd. "Right there, says the Texan, "I mad up my mind to 'love that little Indian girl forever and I resolved that If we escaped the danger that pursued ui I would do everything In my power during life to make her happy. The noble horse continued to increase the distance between his heels and (he sharp horns of bto pursuers until h again encountered . rough ground. Ward at thto moment for th flrat time thought of hto pistol, and hurriedly drawing the weapon be poured ft stream of lead Into the faces of tha cattl - Ward turned hto head, and with a shout of exhultation he threw hto hat Into the faces of the leaden of th stampeded herd as Abe horse plunged Into water that the fiamee could not crosa The Texan knew that th hot steers would atop to cool their parched iongue afir When The horB had crossed the river he pressed a kiss on the Indian glrl'a cheek and whispered to her: "You have saved my life, and it belongs to you. And be will keep bto word, , . A Costly Thimblo. r4 tent . Cowboy Millionaire Who Won the Love of a Daughter of Geronlmo 13,-9- We cannot judge then why not kindness give As on the just and unjust rain la dentT Isaac Bassett Choate. -- - Lola, "Bed Bom of the Forest by a sea of flame, rushing furiously onward toward the place where young Ward was lying, and, knowing that hit bone had strayed away and that no earthly power could turn th living wave of terror aside, she struck her horse with her whip and rode straight towarcFtbe rapidly approschlnghariL -When she reached the tree the front rank of the mad steers was not twenty steps away. The flames were leaping In the air over tha backs of tha anlmato in the rear and the wind was blowing a cloud of amok and dust above them. Horns were cracking and horses were neighing. Ward was Just beginning to move when the Indian girl "bent over the side of her quivering horse and seized his hair. she shrieked..- - "Th "Dp quick! world to on fire! He sprang to his feet and, compre Think of it, ft thimble which cost 185,000 In American money! And think of ft husband who presents hto wife with such a gift! It belongs to tha queen of Slam. Tblmblea were not In use in Slam until a comparatively recent date. The king, seeing that English and American women visiting hto court used thimbles, had one made for hto wife. The thimble to of gold, enriched with It to shaped like a precious atone partially opened lotus flower, each petal bearing the interlaced initials of the aovereign and hto wife In amethyst rubles, emeralds and topazes. Around the rim of the thimble can ba read tha date of the marriage of tha royal pair according to the Siamese and European calendars, each number and each letter being of alternate diamonds and pearl FmbIomi ta State. The state in which there to the least number of government pensioners to Nevada, in which they number only 275. There are 800 In Wyoming and. 850 la Utah, Ohio and Pennsylvania together have 210,000 only 10,000 less than the total number of persons engaged In the federal service of tha United States at home and abroad. Snppre In FlanUh Fipm, Three local papers have been permanently Suspended by the Russian authorities la Finland, while the publication of seven other journals ha been topped for period varying from three to five month |