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FOB FABM MB GARDEN.
AD Vie E FROM A SILO ENTHUSIAST.
Dairymen, are you thinking about
building and filling a silo next season?
If not, why not? Are you considering
/>.» subject of winter dairying? Now
the time to plan and prepare for it.
Is more profitable. There is less
mpetition. The products bring
'her prices. With proper grain
f ll ons, and sweet clovor hay or
j|ht fodder, better still •
pI corn or
an( i e t ensilage, yon can produce a
Ba., as’ of butter cheaper in mid-winter
-^rom grass in June.— [Farm and
TilUide. /
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* "VALUE OF VEGETABLE MOLD.
The scientific name of decayed veg
itable matter is humus. There has
been great difference of opinion as to
its value. The original popular idea
is that black soil, or that filled with
vegetable matter, must necessarily be
rich. ’ Yet some of tlie grain crops>
especially winter graius, are grown
even better after the humus diminishes.
In all loealities a slight addition of the
neeessary mineral elements will en¬
able grain to be grown successfully.
According to this, the humus is of
little value* except to improve the
mechanical condition of laud, making
light soil more compact and heavy
clays more porous. But further in¬
vestigation shows that vegetable mat¬
ter in the soil has much more than its
mechanical effect. It is always de¬
composing, always throwing off car¬
bonic acid gas, and this is the best and
universal solvent of minerals that
might otherwise bo looked out of
reach of crops. It is certain also that
the decomposition of humus furnishes
certain proportions of nitrogen, vary¬
ing with the materials from which it
is composed. Thus the humus of
clover hay is much richer than that of
wheat or other grain straw. [Boston
Cultivator.]
MILKING COWS IN CALF.
It lias been advocated at farmers'
institute meetings ia Eastern Ontario
that a cow should be milked right up
to calving, and, provided she was not
allowed to run down in condition, it
was not only no injury to either cow
or calf to do so, but it was of the
greatest importance that a milk cow
should in this way be taught her busi¬
ness. On this subject a German au¬
thority says: “With many the opin¬
ion prevails that a cow should be
milked as nearly i\p to the time of
calving as she will give milk. Some
go even farther and maintain that it is
of importance that it should be ex¬
tended right up to calving. We dis¬
sent. In a majority of cases it is ad¬
visable to quit eight or ten weeks be¬
fore calving. To milk longer is at tlie
expense of the development of the calf,
to the injury of the cow and her future
milk yield. The belief that a young
eow after her first calf should be
Jnilked as long as possible, because a
Hong milking luvbit can in this way bo
established, is entirely erroneous.
The milk from a cow gets bad accord¬
ing as calving approaches, tlie cream
will not rise and the butter not come.
The reason for this is the absence of
lime and phosphoric acid (in combina¬
tion) which go to form the bones of
the calf. Even the strongest feeding
cannot counterbalance the injury done
by long continued milking. Such
strong feeding shortly before calving
could easily have most serious conse¬
quences. With many excellent milk¬
ers, who do not go dry easily, it may
become advisable to influence the milk
yield by giving dry feed, and by pro¬
longing the time between milkings.”
— [American Dairyman.
A NEW MILKING MACHINE.
After all the many labor-saving de¬
vices which have been introduced into
the work of tlie dairy, the tiresome
milking by hand still remains. Several
milking machines have been devised
aud tried, but eo far without success.
None of them have performed the
work in a manner consistent with the
lacteal functions of the cow, and con.
sequently have failed when put to a
test. A more promising effort has
been recently made by a sanitary en¬
gineer, a Scotchman residing in the
famed dairy district of Ayrshire,
which is certainly based upon reason¬
able principles, and is consistent with
the natural process by which the milk
Is drawn from (lie cow’s uddor by the
calf. This is by suction and by at¬
mospheric pressure due to a vacuum
provided by an air pump.
Soft elastic rubber cups are attached
to the cow’s teats, which are held by
the air pressure, and these are connect¬
ed with a set of tubes and pipes,
through which the milk is conveyed to
a proper receptacle. Tlie principle is
a scientific one, and if the obvious dif¬
ficulties in the way of applying it to
practice can he overcome there is little
doubt of its final success, If this can
be assured, the most troublesome and
costly part of the dairy work will hare
been done away with, and the whole
of it can be reduced to a simple method
by conveying the milk directly to the
separator or the butter extractor. Then
there will be nothing between the
cows and the final product but this
mechanical agency. — [New York
Tithes. ,
STARTING SEEDS IN BOXES.
Those who lack the facilities of a
bot-bed or cold-frame may have early
plants by sowing their seeds in boxes
in the window. Long, narrow boxes
about three inches deep are the best.
Such boxes may be placed near the
glass, where the plants will enjoy the
light, and their shallow depth will al¬
low them to dry out freely.
Fill the boxes with fine, porous soil,
the surface-soil being sifted, and the
whole well firmed and made almost as
smooth and level as a board by press¬
ing with a planed surface. If the
seeds are very fine, sow them in rows
over this smooth soil, and take great
care in watering to avoid roughing the
surface. Keep the soil moist, but
not wet, as too much moisture de¬
stroys the germ of the seed. Tlie
same care is also necessary after the
plants appear, to prevent them from
damping off.
If the plants begin to crowd each
other, remove a portion to another
box. A pen-knife ean be used to pick
out the plants, if very small. Plants
thus removed become stronger and
better rooted than those left in the
box, for the cropping of the roots has
the same effect as pruning the tops;
namely, an abundant growth of new
shoots. Many persons transplant all
their young plants to iuduce the growth
of an abundance of fibrous roots;
and when this is done the. plants
are transferred to their blooming quar¬
ters.
Light, heat, air and a reasonable
degree of moisture are all essential to
young seedling plants. These requi¬
sites being judiciously provided, any
one can succeed in starting plants from
seeds; and, to have them early, a few
boxes in the house will produce just as
good plants as the best liot-bed that
can be constructed.—[Ladies’ Home
Companion.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feeding troughs will always save
feed.
Young ducks need careful feeding
at first.
Eggs a month old will not do for
hatching.
Guineas will almost invariably hide
their nests out.
Geese and ducks need bulky food
instead of so much grain.
To be a master of a farm a man
must be a master of himself.
Keep a watch on the turkey liens or
some of the eggs will be lost.
Supplying good drainage will aid
materially in preventing roup.
The best plau of stopping feather
eating is^to kill those that begin it.
A number of foods may be used to
good advantage in feeding poultry.
Select your farm hands as you
would your seed—with extra care.
Generally it is the poultry for egg
production that pays the farmers best.
In using artificial mothers care
should be taken not to keep too
warm.
The least thing on a farm, if once
neglected, soon grows to be tlie
largest.
A tablespoouful of copperas in the
drinking wator for younger fowls
will be found healthy.
Time is the farmer’s most assiduous
laborer, at work night and day, but it
needs a clear head to boss it.
Fresh eggs are in demand these
times. Are you doing your share
toward supplying (he demand?
White bran makes an excellent food
for poultry; it should never be fed dry
or raw; always scald it thoroughly.
Rats are often very troublesome
among young poultry, causing con¬
siderable loss; they must be guarded
against.
Eight average hen eggs will weigh
a pound, but there is considerable
difference between the largest aud
smallest.
After the fowls can be given a free
r ange care should be taken not to
overfeed; very little corn is needed
from this time on.
There is little in this world but what
is of use to the farmer. Even the
blind puppy is often a better watch
than a big/ strong mastiff.
No farmer is compelled to search
for a market if he has a superior arti¬
cle to sell. It is the inferior articles
that becomes a drug. Choice goods
are always salable.
Items of Interest
Luos abends a wealthy San Francis¬
can. Hia age ia eighty-two, and he has
just cut his third set of teeth.
Last year there was spent in this
country, for tea, the sum of 180,000.000;
for coffee, $122,600,000; and for malt
and spirituous beverages, $900,000,000.
A three-year-old corpse is carried
around the country in a zinc-lined case
by a Chicago drummer, and shown to
undertakers as an evidence of the excel¬
lent quality of the embalming fluid used
to preserve it, of which he is the agent.
Temptation for desperadoes exists in
the secret hoards of wealth in India. An
Allahabad paper estimates that coin and
gems to the value of $1,860,000,000 are
locked up in that country. In Amritsar
City alone there are hidden jewels worth
$10,000,000.
incubator The hatching is of alligator’s eggs in an
a new industry in Florida.
The demand for the reptiles is in excess
of the natural supply, and half of the
little negroes in the villages- are poking
in the sandbanks all day long getting
eggs for the artificial hatchers.
Boston is the only city in the world
which preserves an exact record of the
proceedings of its common council.
Every motion, argument and remark, no
matter how unimportant, is stenographi
cally taken down. The members are
therefore very careful in their utterances.
A Brahama hen on a farm in Cecil
county, Maryland, belonging to Wm. D.
Summers, of Philadelphia, lately sur¬
prised which its owner. It laid a dark-brown
egg measures seven and three-quar¬
ter inches in its long diameter, and six
and a half inches in its short diameter. '
Drunkenness is the failing of the
Hercules beetle, a South American insect.
It sometimes attains a growth of six inches
in length. It is said that it rasps the
bark from the slender branches of the
mammae tree until the juice flows. This
it drinks until it drops to the ground in¬
toxicated.
In Holland there is an original way of
collecting taxes. If the taxpayer omits
to promptly him, pay soldiers after notice has been good sent
to two possessed of
appetites are sent to his home, to be there
lodged and maintained at the expense of
the delinquent, until he rushes down to
the tax-office and settles.
John Schrimbher, of Emporia, Neb.,
weighs 145 pounds, and his wife weighs
404 pounds. She is thirty-one years old,
and is still gaining flesh. Her father,
weigh* over 500 pounds, and her mother
tips the beam at 410. She has a sister,
twenty-seven years old, who weighs 400
pounds, and she has four brothers whose
combined weight is over 1,500 pounds.
Electricity is employed in a Berlin
cafe to boil coffee. A platinum wire
passes in spiral form through several
elass jars, the electrical current quickly boiling
raising the water contained to
point, and the coflee is thus the prepared in A
the view of any one in room.
small electric railway conveys the coffee
to the several tables, so that the guests
may help themselves to their liking.
The Caroline Islands.
It is a fact that the American mission¬
aries in the Caroline Islands are discrimi¬
nated against by the Spanish authorities.
In 1852 the American Board of Foreign
Misaions sent out several missionaries to
christianize the islands of this unclaimed .section of
the Pacific Ocean, at that time
by any foreign State and but Engffil
known, except to hardy New
whaling sailors, who had found in th«w
a source of supplies for their ships during
their long cruises in hunting whales from
Capo Horn to the Arctic Ocean.
These missionaries, after many the strug
gles against the heathenism of no
tives of the islands, at last gained a foot
hold and steadily advanced, until now
(not civilized) as any of the countries in
habited by the white race, writes a New
York Times missionaries correspondent. has almost The work
of the been won
derful. They have built churches and
schools, have reduced the native dialect
to writing and instructed the children in
books duced printed the natives in the live native in villages tongue; and in
to
respect one another’s rights and property;
have raised the standard of morality and
established the binding educated marriage natives cere¬
mony, and have the so
that the rudimentary branches ate well
known the English by the language mass of has the become people, almost and
as much used as the native tongues.
In return for all this the love of the
natives for their missionary friends is
very great. They allow themselves to
be governed and directed by the mission¬
aries without comment, looking up to
them as being authority always right, and missionaries acknowl¬
edging the of
above all others.
Many persons arc broken down from over¬
work or household cares. Brown’s Iron Bit¬
ters rebuilds the syBtem, aids digestion, re¬
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
__
May is a name, the origin of which comes
front the Romans, in honor of Main, AU-. the
mother of Mercury and daughter of
Good Blood
Is absolutely
Essential to
Good Health
You may have
both by taking the
best Blood Purifier.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, Va.
The celebrated Fauquier Sulphur Springs and Baths,
near Warrenton, Va. A modern and magnificently ap¬
pointed 1,000 feet. hotel; Cuisine first-class in every Hot respect. Sulphur Elevation Baths,
unexcelled.
Billiards, Bowling and Tennis, Music and flue Livery.
A park of 235 acres. Atmosphere will be found un¬
usually mild and invigorating. Terms moderate.
Dpen J^ IfithjJKO, JU MILdLS.
She Bead It
Borne Hartford girls, stopping tempo¬
rarily by at a country receiving town, were annoyed
the delay in their mail mat¬
ter. One of them had a postal card mailed
from the former city, and it contained
these words: “I hope Hiss-(the poet
mistress) will not take all the afternoon
to read this postal card.” The friends
mail were promptly slowly, at the postoffice, when and the
last came as usual; but at
the postmistress laid down this
postal, she said with a snap in her eye,
Miss-she’s “I hope, when you write, you’ll tell
an impudent hussy.” *
Stale pies in railroad restaurants have
long Recognizing been disseminators of dispepsia. the
this jact, a member of
Missouri Legislature has introduced a
pies. measure compelling bakers to date their
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want Bitters. building It is up, should take, take Brown’s Malaria, Iron
Indigestion, Biliousness pleasant to and Li cures Complaints,
Blood ver
makes the rich and pure.
Lotta has been on the stage since 1856. Her
fortune is estimated at between $1,000,000 and
$ 2 , 000 , 000 .
A man who has practiced medicine for 4U
what years he ought to know salt from sugar; read
says:
__ Messrs. F. J. Cheney Toledo, & O., Co.—Gentlemen: January 10,1887. I .
have been in the general practice of medicine
for most 40 years, and would say that in all my
practice preparation and that experience I could have never seen a
prescribe with as
much confidence of success as I can Hall’s Ca¬
tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre¬
scribed It a great many times and its effect is
wonderful, have and find would say in conclusion that I
not yet to U they a would case of catarrh that it would
cure, take it according to di¬
rections.
Tours truly,
L. L. ---R8T7CH, Go M. D.,
will give $100 for Office, 215 Summit catarrh St.
that We any case of
cannot be cured with Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., ,. Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 76e.
_____
Personal—Free— 1 To all persons who are
rnw a^uxnriant suit o?what humbug,
the cause or how long standing; no Pior.
For particulars and testimonials write
Logan & Co. Box 566, Lexington, K j.
FITS slopped free by Da, Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. kettle Marvelous free. Dr. Kline. cures. 031 Treatise Arch St., and Phila., $3 trial Pa.
cular Portable C. B- Hay Curlee, Presses Rienzi, $60. Miss. Address for cir¬
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaao Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c per bottle.
Beecbham’s Pills cure Sick-Headache.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup and refreshing of Figs is taken; the it is and pleasant
gently promptly to taste, acts
yet on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
s ®. fevers Aft and cures ““t habitual
constipation. remedy £tyrup klnd of Figs is the
<« lte ever pro
uucftdj pleasing to the taste and ac
ccptable its action to and the truly stomach, beneficial prompt ffi its in
effects, healthy prepared only from the most its
excellent ana agreeable qualities substances, commend it
many
to aU aud have made it most
Don P j reme dv known
mdVlxttU.'U fan
all leading dr..
gists. Any have reliable it hand druggist Will who
may not on pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept 8HJ
substitute.
LALIrUnNIA rib r ,« oTHUr ovdiiB U* M
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. H.Y
tt August Flower”
Dyspepsia. TJiere is a gentle
man at Malden-on
the-Hudson, N. Y.,
named Captain A. G. Pareis, who
has written us a letter in which it
is evident that he has made up his
mind concerning some things, and
this is what he says:
‘ ‘ I have August used Flower your in preparation family
called my
for seven Or eight years. It is Con¬
stantly . in my house, and A we consider
it the best remedy for Indigestion,
and Constipation we
Indigestion, have ever used or
known. My wife is
troubled with Dyspepsia, and at
times suffers very much after eating.
The August Flower, however, re¬
lieves the difficulty. My wife fre¬
quently says to me when I am going
to town, ‘We are out
Constipation of August Flower,
and I think you had
better get another bottle. 1 I am also
troubled with Indigestion, and when¬
ever I am, I take one or two tea
spoonfuls before eating, for a day or
two, and all trouble is removed.” @
KING COTTON
Buy or sell your Cotton 00 JONES
A5*Ton Gotton Scale.
I not cheapest but best.
If For term* address
NT JONES OF BINGHAMTON,
BINGHAMTON. N. Y.
MHul fiSfa HUE If ■■ and cured Whiskey Habits
HrlllW « m W at home with
seasaas
wST Atlanta, Go. Office UI1J4 Whitehall St
Beecher s Successor.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, the successor
Church, of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth
small-limbed Brooklyn, is a thin, delicate, his
man. Humor is npt in
line, and he rarely makes his congrega¬
tion smile. Not long ago, however, he
involuntarily subject made them titter. The
of his sermon was the obligation
resting their shells upon Christians to get out of
and do something for the
good derful of body mankind. “What is this won¬
of ours given us for?” Dr.
Abbott exclaimed. “Look at it. Look
at these muscles.” Dr. Abbott stretched
out his thin arms. “Look at this
strength, this adaptability, this God
sion given of vigor.” Something in the expres¬
the faces of the members of the
congregation and a rustling like a faint
titter recalled the preacher to hinlseif,
and with a faint smile he passed to an¬
other phase of his sermon.
Saved by Heavy Clothes.
Presence of mind saved John Adams,
of Tacoma, from a frightful death. He
is employed in a smelting works in that
city. The other day a misstep caused
him to fall into a pot of boiling metal,
and in an instant he was immersed to his
armpits. the As he fell he clutched the rim
of pot, and was thus enabled to
quickly plunged into draw himself adjoining out. He of then cold
His hands an badly pot burned,
water. were
but otherwise he had hardly a scar on
him. The secret of his escape was that
he had on heavy wollen underware and
outer clothing, Adams and before it had burned
through was in the pot of cold
water.
The girls who attend the college at
Columbia, Mo., think a fine should be
imposed gentlemen when whom they accept the escort of
g^d and to have they are not en
agreed to pay a fine
twenty-five cents every time they do so.
Bradfields Female Regulator
As a Tonic
For Females, nothing letter can be found; and we advise all delicate or
debilitated women, whether suffering from any irregularity or not, to take
it. Every ingredient possesses superb tonic properties and exerts a wonderful
influence in toning up and strengthening her frame. Its effect is almost
magical, driving and soon it causes the blood to course healthily through her veins,
and strength through the proper channels all impurities of her system. Health
always result from its continued use.
“My wife has suffered for six years from suppressed menstruation, Has been
treated by the best physicians without benefit. Two bottles of Bradfield’s Fe¬
male Regulator relieved her, a thing I thought impossible. Her health is much
improved. I believe your remedy has no equal. TV. A. Simmons, McNutt’s, S. C .’
“Have suffered periodically for years—been treated by the best physicians
without relief— Bradfield’s Female Regulator did me more good than all the
other remedies. Mrs. Eliza Davis, Charlotte, N. C.”
“Have used Bradfield’s Female Regulator and can recommend it to all my
friends. Miss C. S. TViemeyeu, Denver, Col.”
Sold by all Druggists. Price $1.00 per bottle. Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
TEES
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OF ALL
COUGH CURES:
DOCTOR
ENGLISH
SOLD IN
ENGLAND
for Is. IHcL, and in
AMERICA
for 85 cents a bottle.
IT TASTES COOP,
Every Fartnerhis own Roofer
CHEAPER than Shingles, Tin or Slate.
Reduces Tour INSURANCE, and Perfectly
Fire, Water and Wind Proof.
11.:-.wm CORRUGATED*
ft -^5EHD FOR OUR ikW •;
CATALOGUE & PRICES
CtOfrE IRON 'ROWING,Hi.
^1 , ' ' . ' . : f. C-.
Onr Roofing la ready formed for the Do Building, not buy
and can be applied by any one.
nmnvi/lirrc BUGGY KHfctb positively remedied
Gresly Pant Stretcher
where. GREELY. If not for sale Washington in your town send Boston. 25c, to
B. J. 715 Street
SICK Buffalo. N. Y.
tree. Dr, J .11. DYE. Mitor,
PATENTS
CARRIAGES.
$
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FOR THE
GIVE IT TO
TEETHING CHILDREN,
IT WILL SAVE THEIR LIVES.
DON’T let your druggist or merchant per¬
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ns well, for It WON’T.
£ P ^Cheapest. ISO'S REMEDY ^lielief FOlt is immediate. CATARRH.—Best. A cure is Easiest certain. to use. For
no equal.
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nostrils. it 1? an Price, Ointment, of which a small particle Is applied to th o
SOc.^^Sold by drupjdst^or sent by mall. ^
Talk’s cheap, but when it’s
backed up by a pledge of the
hard cash of a financially re¬
sponsible world-wide firm, reputation or company, for fair of
and honorable dealing, it
means business /
Now, there are scores of
sarsaparillas purifiers, and other blood
all cracked up to be
the best, purest, most peculiar
and wonderful, but bear in
mind (for your own sake),
there’s only one guaranteed
blood-purifier and remedy for
torpid liver and all diseases
that come from bad blood.
and That alone—sold one —standing trials solitary is
on
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬
ical Discovery.
If it don’t do good in skin,
scalp and scrofulous diseases
—and pulmonary consumption
is only lung-scrofula—just let
its makers know and get your
money back.
Talk’s cheap, but to back a
poor medicine, or a common
one, by selling it on trial, as
“Golden Medical Discovery”
is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune.
Talk’s cheap, but only “Dis¬
covery ’’ is guaranteed.
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We are forced bearing prices the market of watches on Watches; down
we huve the this at
least 20 per cent.; as a result of we ars
making immense sales.
The “Stevens Watch” is extensively known
as tmequalcd the hest for time-keeper and in the durability. market—ft Rind is
about accuracy improved watch before
out our pur¬
chasing. J. P. Stevens & Bro., 47 Whitehall St.,
Atlanta. Ga. Send for catalogue.
Aov.ebtised: .U734SPAPERS
with Whore active we have merchant.— no Agent, will arrange
any Is. & T.
Smith’s
Worm Oil
For Worms
IS A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold Everywhere. 88 Cents.
r LSYollmu isPassel^^ wnd Fathers are en¬
SBSilAi. 8 lasWi” ici&E KMUSSSt
T J F yon are sick regain spend your summer In the Becky
Mountains and your health. For Information
wrlte(wlth stamp) to W.C.Ksiobt.B.S.,L aramie, Wyo.
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