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Show leares of gross prevent the manure from v -calling, while tho roots prevent waste Jf anything through leaching. The further advantage from top-dressing grass Is that whHt fertility the soil receives re-ceives when put. into grass is retained on the farm, as a smaller proportion, of the hay crop is sold than any other farmer can grow. Farm Note. Every man's farm is his garden of Eden, but he musn't fool with sour apple ap-ple trees. If you want 500 bushels of potatoes per acre, aim at 7(10 bushels, and you. will hit the oOO mark. Bees serve as active agents in tho fertilization of plants, and it is generally gener-ally conceded that they aro not destructive de-structive to the same. Insects do not like wood ashes. Uso the ashes for the trees and vines, If you have no ashes buy some. Ashes, contain both lime and potash. Wherever potatoes are to bo grown, extensively they should he planted and harvested by improved implements. In one sense potatoes cannot bo grown successfully without a good deal of labor, but whatever lalwr is saved In planting and harvesting will bo much more productive if applied to securing more thorough cultivation. Prof. J. L. Budd argues that sugar beets can ho most profitably worked up in small factories, which will cost about 10,000 each, the crude sugar product being sent to a larger factory to be refined re-fined for market. On this plan, each county could have its own factory, and there would be no shipping of beets long distances. Tho objection is the scarcity of experts for tho muiuifaeturo of the crude sugar. Kotation of crops is always beneficial. Land that is given a different crop every year will not become exhausted as soon as when given up. year after year, to a single crop. A crop will take from the bind certain foods in excess ex-cess of others, and causes it to fail, though it may not be lacking in other element. By rotation of crops tho simply of olunt food removed is equalized, equal-ized, and the soil is bettor enabled to produce crops for a longer period of time. It is well known says the Mirror and Farmer, that linseed meal will often improve the coat of a horse. It THE FARM AND HOME. THE BEST HORSE FOR CENERAL FARM USE. Car In KeUtrting Fowls for I'rollt Kill ' the F'ai lleoa Top lreslug for rata Landa Honey Hoard The Home. The florae fur the Farm. Strength is not the sole requisite in farm horses. As a rule, the horse that plows must also draw the wagon upon the road. The average farmer cannot afford to keep road horses also in his stable. The two must be combined, and combined in such a way that the ride for business or pleasure shall not be made irksome because of dullness in the motive power, or the plow stranded in the furrow because of lack of strength to move it. It is well worth noting that ability to do good service in drawing loads, or in doing general field work, is not wholl" do-pendent do-pendent on size of body. Courage and a resolute way of taking hold of work will often make an 1,100 pound horse worth more in a team than an easily discouraged one having a bulk several hundred pounds heavier. Again, a farm horse should be a quick walker. One may as well use oxen ns some of these sluggish teams that seem to drug their feet over the the ground rather than lift them, while every motion is made with the utmost deliberation. Men and teams are less worried by active movements than by a mere creeping gait, To prove this, let a man walk a mile briskly, and at another time saunter over the same road, and note the difference in feeling at the end. Tho farm horse should be kind and fearless. He must be such that the oldest and youngest, the boys, the girls, and the mother, as well as the father, may all drive and pet him. A farm horse, ought really to be one of the family, since ho enters so largely into the everyday work, unci should also be the means of affording so many pleasures as to make his ownership a comfort to every member of the family. Farmers' wives and daughters, as a rule, would look amazed at the suggestion sugges-tion of a ride for the mere pleasure of riding, so accustomed are they to tho deprivation. "Tis true, 'tis pity, and j pity 'tis" that this should be true in will also brighten the plumage of birds, as well as correct indigestion and promote pro-mote laying. (live twice or three times a week a teaspoonful to each hen in her ground food. It answers all the purposes of medicine, as well as serving serv-ing as an agreeable chango of nutritive food. For drooping or mounting hens it is excellent and unsurpassed. To exterminate quack grass thesetf methods were suggested at tliej Owatonna farmers'' institute. By Mfi Sommerville: --Plow tho ground M the early spring then go at it aaa separate with a Disk harrow or plorJ cultivating the ground until Juae when it will all bo killed out." $t Air. Moore: "Turn the ground tut .with. a iW''-fcrr5iiTtr"or--iWrtf Tne'hM ,r as soon as the crop is off; then keen the ground stirred until frost comes,) when all roots will be dead. " r A close, compact head is a great ad-,, j vantage in aiding growers of eabbagoxt to ward off the attacks of the cabbage worm. It soft-headed varieties we i grown near by the white butterfly, I which lays the eggs will of choice de- posit them where they can be most easily protected. Most of tho very early cabbages are loose-headed and more difficult to grow where the worm abounds. The early Winningstadt is an exception to these. It forms a sugar-loaf head, which is reasonably hard, and is always a sure header. Household Hint. Use tepid water for wajhltig white silk handkerchiefs. Tin cleaned with paper will shine better than when cleaned with flannel. Wash fhitirons occasionally and dry them thoroughly before putting on to heat A teaspoonful of borax water added to cold starch renders the collars and cuffs much stiffer. j When soot falls upon a carpet or rug, if covered thoroughly with salt it can be - swept up without leaving a urace. "Olive slaw'1 is something new. It is olives pitted and then chopped fine and saturated with a sharp French dressing. Bathing the face daily in hot water-removes water-removes pimples by softening tho oil in the tiny tubes, and is said to prevent pre-vent wrinkles. Select the meat of an old rather than a young animal for soups. It is more nutritious and has a more pronounced pro-nounced flavor. Our English Cook: "Now, 'ma'am,' 'ow will you 'ave the duck to-day? Will you heat it cold, or shall I 'eat for you?" Life. Five drops of oil of poppenniii. in a pint of hot water well shaken makes a peppermint water very soothing to itching surfaces where the skin is unbroken, un-broken, used with a soft sponge. A physician remarks that there is a very direct relation between tea drinking drink-ing and cold feet- and that some women experience r cold porspiration of the soles of the feet as a result of tea drinking. The Lancet says that overwork is one of the bad habits of the present age. and that the evidence of it is apt to be first seen in loss of appetite and sleep, which are warning signals that it is time to rest. so large a number of households. Farm horses should havo good lung jiower and good feet and legs. It is folly to think that unsound feet are not a serious disadvantage since their work is largely on soft and yielding footing. To do his work quickly and well, and to last as he should last on the farm, a-horse a-horse must be sound in every point. Where mares aro used it is especially important that there be perfect soundness, sound-ness, that there bo no inherited weakness weak-ness in tho progeny. A neighbor attempted at-tempted to raise a colt last season from a mare that he owned. This animal will weigh perhaps 850 pounds, and has spavine on about as many logs as she possesses. ... In addition to this she is nervous; wtdiotnd - WhyThgr ' even when there is no provocation, and travels very much like a sheep. Her owner bred her to some Berub stallion that was standing at a low fee. Now this would not be worth mentioning mention-ing if it were not a sample of a very common practice. In the case mentioned men-tioned outraged nature refused to be a party to such foolishness, and the mare proved unfruitful. Am. Agriculturist The Farmer' Fowl. What breed of fowls is the best for the average farmer? This question is often asked by young people just beginning. be-ginning. Everyone must determine for himself what brSed is best for his purpose and his immediate surroundings. surround-ings. If a farmer has no yard for his fowls, the Asiatic breeds will give the best satisfaction, with the exception of the Plymouth Rock, which is purely an American production. These fowls give less trouble in tho grain fields and gardens, for almost, any kind of fence will keep them out while the Light Brahma, if raised for eggs and broilers, cannot be beaten, as they lay a large, red egg and make good winter ' layers; the young cniekens grow fast and make good marketable broilers at four months old, but when matured and dressed for market the carcass is too large for ordinary customers, they having a uniform weight of about six and one-hulf pounds for the hens and eight pounds for the males. If one is breeding for eggs alone, the Leghorn and Minorea are excellent The Silver Spangled Hamburgs are admired ad-mired by all; they have beautiful mottled mot-tled plumage; lay a white egg equal in size to the Leghorn, will bear confinement confine-ment well; are great foragers and non-sitters; non-sitters; and a more beautiful fowl would be hard to find. Where one is breeding for eggs alone he could make no better selection than the Silver Spangled Hamburg. For an all-purpose fowl, for eggs, early broilers, beauty of plumage and a good medium-sized medium-sized market fowl, the Plymouth Rock takes the lead. The Plymouth Rock is a better sitter than the Asiatic breeds, as the medium hen will not crush the eggs like the heavier hens. But care must be taken that the nests are free from lice when the hens begin to sit, for they will soon accumulate on the little chicks as soon as they leave the shell. If the chicks trail their wings you may be sure they are infested with vermin, and a great many more are lost when small from this disease than from any other. ' Top-Dreulm Grits Lands. Both the leaves and roots of grass hold manures from wasting, and therefore there-fore manures applied as top-dressing, I for these are in less danger of wasting than applied in any other way. It used to be taught that there was waste of ammonia by exposure of manure to the atmosphere. But it is now known that 4Sere is only the slowest kind of de-; de-; nposition in manures thinly spread, ; 1 what ammonia is formed is held by ns and carried into the soil. The Steel pens are spoiled and destroyed by the acid in the ink. ' If an old nail or old steel pen is put in the ink the acid therein will exhaust itself on them, and pens in daily use will remain re-main in good condition much longer. It is necessary to the health of the feet to bathe them daily and change the stockings very frequently. Be always al-ways careful to hang the stockings which have been worn where they will . be thoroughly aired at night if they are to be worn again.. |