Show sas S as i 1 sa X rr jj yf 0 ya Z 7 7 ESI 4 liAA T 3 0 14 1 4 k I 1 6 t A vegetable porcine bouc A good plan for securing a 1 maximum of carml ant a t the ica least t possible ture of internal internal heat Is ii shown below such lucli a gioie house Is moreover cheaply built wherever loo loose e stones are abundant whether the tones stones lie be irregularly faced or simply rounded A cut Is made into the bank and the wall niall laid up lip lit in cement or cement and lime the rear and end will wall Is should havo have a tile hie drain laid just outside of their base tt T t aw rd v A 24 J jer X aff f sS P BANK I 1 FORCING dolse coming ou upon the surface at the front the roar rear wall should risea little above neove the gro ground unil which should bu be graded a trifle higher in the middle at the rear than at the lie ends to turn aside the die surface water the tile drain will take care of all water that soaks down I 1 through brough the ground the m wall in front Is extended a little bei beaud ond of cither olid of the building to retain a full bank of earth against the on end walls tho interior bior arrangement will of course bo be similar to any sing single l roofed forcing house fa farm and home biome richt ani wrong wrone way of rec reci dinK ling the summer feeding of pigs is an important matter under present conditions doubtless pasture Is the most healthful and profitable basis for the feadin feeding but as time is an element to lie considered it is adai advisable ickle to feed grain amin with it to push on oil the growth as fas fast t as possible there is everything in good cloi or cr pasture needed for the sustenance of the pigs pig gs but we want something more than this tor for the most gro growth th made in fit the least time Is the indispensable requirement for profit but whole grain is not a de desirable Arable food A considerable portion of it Is swallowed without mastication and is aided whole when waste milk is to be had it will pay more value as food for pigs on pasture than llian used in ili any other way and with this some mixed finely ground meal coi cum if and buckwheat x will III produce more growth of a perfectly healthful character thin than any other kind of grain food hens la in the orchard hanl mady farmers full and would like to have liens in tile orchard for the good their pre presence ence would mould do top the trees m were ere it nut but that the fowls must tit br kept confined because of the damage they would do the adjacent garden and tower lower beds the beetch shows a way to keep keel one or more flocks of liens hens in an orchard A light low house made of half inch matched stuff has a wire run attacked to the end as shown in the illustration the house has no floor the eggs are gathered by opening the hinged board in the end low trucks ire fire attached to the corners comers so that the whole can call be moved occasionally to a new location it can thus bo be moved up to 11 POULTRY HOUSE and down beside the rows of trees stopping for a day or two under each tree irce scratching fertilizing the ground and destroying insects the fowls nil ilo do well under ruder such conditions aud and their presence will nill be of great value to the orchard the lower sill of the miles i of the house should continue out find and form the base of the alie sides of the run tonic em it to farming fanning Is not a business abere diore the failure of one adds to the success of mother another on oil the contrary the success ot of each individual is 6 largely dependent upon the prosperity of all the product from poorly farmed f farms arms Is of an inferior quality for which it Is difficult to find buyers the best it Is cheap enough anil and auY anything thIng of an inferior quality Is 13 not only a drug on the marlet market but interferes with the sale of better goods when buyers are looking for farm produce they go where they know they off can n get the best the better beffer the quality of the lie goods produced the ille more buyers you will have for your product and the competition upon the part of buyers will enable you to got get good prices within easy distance of your own doors every help willell which lend lendi i in an economical manner to improve the quality of our productions bould be eagerly sought A well conducted institute rece receiving lying support from ti alie je farming community in which it li 11 held will furnish more practical anfor matlou from the practical of other others and which practical farmer can make use of than perhaps any other oilier method yot yet adopted it Is unfortunate that farmers as a class t ake so little interest in them education n la is jut just as essential for the farmer as tor for the lawyer lawver doctor or business man gool farming fanning does docs not consist wholly of manual labor it requires the exercise of cf good intellectual powers there le e 1150 a vast difference between scion inc fifick and theoretical farming the theorist rit Is in luck when lie he can pay the nl crot on his mortgage dut practical il farming backed fir by good judgment PYs pays well when prices are fair and ways will use ure good seed many failers make the mistake of arguing this way 1 I have some good gra grain in that tha t will w III bring a good price on the market I 1 will sell that I 1 have some poor floor shriveled grain that grew down on low ground round I 1 will keep that for beed this Is a great mistake it Is a very true principle in both animal and beg getable ege tible growth that like begets llo and if we sow poor seed we ire may expect a poor crop in selecting our seede seed we e should strive to select it from a field that lias has been uniform in both quality and quantity then it should bo be iro roughly cleaned many of us used to think when hen we were boys that our rat fathers aers kept us busier than was really Y pleasant in ili cleaning grain but this ia i a matter difficult to overdo clean good seed Is the one important thing A pretty lawn law n ta table ble stamps of old trees that have bare outlived their usefulness and been relegated to the wood pile are not uncommonly seen upon lawns and many attempts are made to turn them to artistic and useful account the simplicity of the plan illustrated in farm and home commends itself the stump Is dist sawed to a flat surface and then fitted with inith a top of thick boards of the desired dimensions four rustic supports or brackets are placed underneath at the four corners these should be as much as possible in their natural state with any little crookedness or knots allowed to show as they add much to the pretty effect on the VIA I 1 m K V lit pa 1 pl 4 1 RUSTIC itt PL PLANT STAND whole the edges too of the top board may be given a rustic tone by lucking to them strips of wood with the hark on off them when the little table Is and set with its dishes arld and pots of plants the owner of it Is bulte eure to stand a little way off and admire it audibly poultry notes scrub chickens are arc out of date they dont pay persons who do not take a natural pleasure in fancy poultry are not likely to succeed with them the possibility of profit in ir raising alsing turkeys comes from their ability to pick up ul a good part of their living rubbing tile the heads and thighs of fowls with a rag dipped in oil Is an excellent Cel lerit thing to keep off vermin from froin five geese can be picked a pound of feathers every six weeks these will sell fur for 10 40 cents or more when the cockerels cockerell cocker els begin to pull pul the pullets about and worry them the 6 exes should at one lie be separated when incubator chicks are put with a hen always be sure that she haa bas no hota little lard and sulphur applied under the wings and about the bead will get away with any louse in two 0 or r three days any attempt through the use of stimulants or any unnatural methods to increase arca se the number or fertility ot of the egg always brings disastrous rebukes to the breeder whether fancler fancier or marret market man horticultural ionta cultivate a home town market there Is a form of blight working upon eppli cherry and quince trees which Is quite destructive are UK tile young trees la in the orchard starting lu in the light position leaning a little to the southwest the cultivation of the growing crops should be the principal occupation of the horticulturist in mill summer do you assort and grade your produce as w ell as j ou know liow how 7 you maybe may be luring losing money because you dont do so it if weeds have boon been kept down in the early part of the summer it Is usually sufficient clent to go over garden and flower beds once a week after the of august |