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NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
KORMAN,
O. T.
9 It LA IIOMA ANI) INDIAN TKHRITOKT
Governor Barnes has donned a straw | Okarche is soon to have another j FARM AND GARDEN,
hat and it makes him look IS years hank.
MATTERS OF INTEREST
AGRICULTURISTS.
TO
younger. Up to date Clyde Mattox has not ap-
It is reported that the Santa Fe is pcared on the horizon bearing a white
contemplating putting two feeders out liag.
from Guthrie. j Oklahoma farmers are well pleased
President Scott of the Agricultural with tho general prospects of various
college studied in Leipsie, Germany, crops.
He was a schoolmate of Fred Funston s Everything in Oklahoma has a very
Corn is looking well throughout the : in ,vansas- prosperous appearance just at the
territory. | A Garfield county cyclone recently present time. Improvements arc be-
The rains during this month t> just followed the section line for two miles, ing made everywhere. * ria,0e of For.i«n Wwd.,
what were needed to rush the crops *■probably trying to help the A new minister, just arrived in nau^VthlT count'™ the Lk would*
"1°ng. ottrseer out. Washita county, advises the pubhe as be a comparatlvcly llght one. The
Wheat in Oklahoma is in excellent 1 In a Lon?' "* >? in follows: "Now, let us rally our forces | weeds brought ln from across the
condition and promises an abundant Lincoln county, three of the daugh- and make a strong pull for God and j oceani have proved to be our greatest
Some Cp-to-Date II In tn About Cul-
fivHtlon of the Soil and Yields
Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture uil
Floriculture.
tern, the father and two sons have the church. "
died of smallpox. A1 Lucas, formerly a decent citizen
The wheat in the Chickasaw nation of Jennings, but who pot to associate
is looking fine but the corn is foul in# with cattle thieves and became
with weeds and looking bad. owing to bad, turned on Sheriff Itutter in I'aw-
the wet season. The cotton acreage nee county the other day and fired,
will be small. while the officer was pursuing him
In the cyclone near Lahoma last ^he sheriff returned the fire anil kill-
week, a boy was jerked out of the cl* ^ucaa*
house and carried through the air. In Word has been received cf the pass-
raid-air he met a sewing machine, age by the territorial legislature of
vcrsity examined the stomach of Eva which he grabbed and the machine New Mexico as law of the rules adopt- |
Evans, the young girl who died very and boy were dropped to the earth ed by the Oklahoma board for the j
yield.
The cattle round up between Taloga
and Grand will reach the latter place
about June 7.
Forest McKinley, special land agent
stationed at Guthrie, is said to be an
applicant for the position of butcher
at the Osage Indian agency at Taw-
husk a.
Prof. *Pe Ilarr of the Territorial unl-
suddcnly on a farm in Oklahoma coun
ty, and found large quantities of
strychnine. Arrests will likely follow
this investigation and the guilty one
brought to justice.
There is a young man in western
Oklahoma who may be president one
of these days. He entered the normal
school with just enough money for
one month's expenses, and without
another cent in sight. He was a hust-
ler, however, and tackled the mer-
chants for work outside school hours.
He is now making expenses, has pur-
chased a new suit of clothes and jin-
gles money in his pockets. More than
that, a merchant has promised to stake
him until he gets his education.
The sum of SI,818.53 turned over by
Oov. Barnes is the first interest on
school land funds ever paid into the
territorial treasury by any person. It
covers the period between May 2(5-
1897, and May 1. lS'i'.i, a little less than
two years. During the sitting of the
last grand jury it was rumored that
the interest received on school land
deposits amounted to about 94,00(1.
This information is supposed to have
leaked from the grand jury, but it was
nevertheless mere heresay, and the
findings of the board of education are
more exact in stating what was re-
ceived.
The secretary of the interior has just
rendered a decision which will inter-
est every person living in the Indian
territory, which is to the effect that
town lots, both for business and resi-
dence purposes, in towns to be laid out
and appraised in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations, should not be de-
finitely decided until the inhabitants
of the several towns, respectively,
shall have an opportunity to express
their views and wishes in the prem-
ises. The secretary recommends that
the town councils should make such
recommendations to the townsite com-
mission.
lightly and without injury. leasing of school lands. The Oldaho-
It is said that Hill Walker's real ,n" rulcswere adopted almost in en.
trouble with the commissioner of In- | tirety> only n fcw u,inor changes being
dian affairs was over u grade of Hour, made to suit local conditions. I he
The commissioner wanted one grade J)0'('u''ar Mature of this action is that
of flour brought and Hill knew it "lc Oklahoma legislature at its last
wouldn't answer as well as another assembling looked with disfavor upon
grade and insisted on buying his th® ProP°8i't<"> to enact the rules into
grade. : 'aw when a bill drawn by School Land
... ,, . ' ommissioner Charles Filson was in-
WiiliamL. Suinrow. with the Amor- . , , ...
.. ... .. troduced. It remained for another
lean armv in the rlulippincs, writes .
. , i ... 4 territory to incorporate Oklahoma's
to home people in (irecr county that , .
i , ... rules as law.
he has escaped being killed by trust- Zealaud and Au8tralla. Less than half
ing in the Lord. He nays that he was | About three weeks ago an attempt a d02en A'merican weeds have become
in a fight where the bullets were so *v«k made to destroy the railway , troublesome in Europe, which is very
thick that nothing but the Lord could hride o7cr the Canadian river. Five remarkable considering the fact of our
have saved him. and lie escaped un sticks of dynamite were exploded in 1 , constant shipments of grain to Europe,
hurt. <>* the stone abutments. The bridge | Only three or four species from west
The interior department at Wash- was shattered and the abutment was 1 the Mississippi have become dls
enemies and the most difficult to
eradicate. The change of soil and cli-
mate has seemed in many instances to
give them increased powers of living
and developing. Where at home they
receive little attention on account of
their little aggressiveness, in their new
habitat they spread and take posses-
sion of the earth to such an extent that
it sometimes seems as if man must be
vanquished in his conflict with them.
In the list of 200 weeds of the United
States published in the Year-13ook of
1895, 108 species are of foreign origin.
Of these 108, 01 are natives of Europe
and 30 have come to us through Eu-
rope, though they probably originated
in Asia. Two only of these came to us
directly from Asia. From South Amer-
ica we have received about a dozen
weeds, most of which are as yet known
only in our gulf states.
As the star of empire is said to hold
its way westward, so also weeds seem
to have a tendency to work westward
more than eastward. It is a fact that
the weeds passed from Asia to Europe
and from Europe to America and from
America across the Pacific to New
William Robb, a machinist on board
the Monadnock at Manila, says in a
letter to an Oklahoma relative: "One
day Dewey came abroad, and, pointing
to a large L-shaped house, told our
captain to 'see if he could fix it; he
(Dewey) did not like its present
shape.' The first shot struck the left
wing, the next the right wing, the
third one the right wing near the cen-
ter anil the fourth as near the center
as could be. The whole thing tum-
bled down, or at least a large part of
it did. It was built of stone and brick
ivnd was about three miles away.
Oewey smiled, said it looked good,
was sorry for the man who owned it,'
got in his launch and went away."
A ferry boat is now plying the wa-
ters of the Arkansas river between
Ralston and the Osage reservation.
From Tom Bixby, acting chairman
of the Dawes commission, it is learned
that the Creek agreement has been
ratified by a majority vote of 541. It
now only remains for congress at its
next session to ratify the agreement
to make it a law. The Curtis bill io
now in force in the Creek nation, but
should congress ratify the agreement
it becomes inoperative and the agree-
ment takes its place.
Custer county has not a single mur-
der case on its court docket, and in alfalfa,
the h'story of the county there have
been but three murders.
The members of the Oklahoma Live
Stock association are highly displeased
with the reports circulated to the of-
feet that the association intended to
W. G. Akers. special gauger in the
ington has asked the Osage agency at almost destroyed. Six men have been
Pawhuska for statistics showing the arrested It is said that the motive
number of acres under cultivation ami 's a peculiar one. These men former-
fence on the reservation, the number ' ly were employed to build the bridge,
of acres owned by each individual and one of them selling whisky to the
the number of houses, barns, sheds, j workingmen. They got hard up for
orchards, horses, cattle, mules and money and thought that by blowing
hogs. up the bridge they could secure work
George Daily, chief of police of the an'' the Peilllle1- could make a stake
Otoe Indians, will accompany a dele- by seUinP whisky. They will be tried
gation of Indians to Washington next before the United States Commission-
September to approve the allotments
and to ask the secretary of the inter-
ior to send a commission to Oklahoma
to treat with the Otoes for the pur-
pose of opening tho Otoe lands to
white settlement.
The wheat ill Oklahoma county has
grown so rapidly and is so heavy on
the ground that but for the wind,
which has' been blowing pretty stead-
ily, the wheat would probably have
rusted. The promise is for a fine crop.
No more rains needed to mature the
crop; possibly the latest migh'. be
made a little better by a rain when it
heads out.
The department having in charge
the leasing of the Cheyenne and Arap
alioe Indian allotments at Darlington
is said to be from three to live years
behind in its work. This condition of
affairs is so unsatisfactory that com-
plaints go almost daily to the depart-
ment at Washington. Even after the
lessees have made their rental pay-
ments, the Indians have much dirticul —
tributed through the eastern states, and
only one or two have entered the
country from the Pacific coast.
This may be due to a number of
causes. The greatest would seem to
be the extension westward of culti-
vated areas. The newly cultivated
lands may prove more susceptible to
seizure by the weeds than the lands
that have been tilled for centuries and
ages. Another cause may be the poor
cleaning of seed from Europe due to
their possession of poorer machinery
and the fact that in the advance line
of agriculture machinery for cleansing
same depth as it was before It was re-
moved. If the soli Is heavier, the tree
should be shallower; if lighter, it
should be placed deeper. The surface
of the soil which is over the roots
should be fine and light, because the
capilarity Is then broken up and the
moisture cannot escape.
The I.ont Crop.
From Farmers' Review: The los-
ing of this year's crop may not be an
unmitigated calamity to the fruit
grower. If he gives his orchards the
right kind of treatment, in a year
from now he will see that they will be
in better condition for further bearing
than they would have been had they
been allowed to go 011 and bear their
usual heavy crop. But this will large-
ly depend upon how the orchard is
managed, and there are a number of
things that must be attended to.
First, all the dead wood must he cut
away, and some that is not dead, in
order that the remaining parts of the
tree may be able to make a more vig-
orous start in the spring.
Second, all tho pruncd-off wood,
whether in the orchard or small fruit
plantation, should ho burned to de-
stroy any insect or disease that may
infect it.
Third, the spraying must not he
abandoned because the crop has fail-
ed. Begin In time and spray just as
faithfully as though expecting a big
crop of fruit. Spraying is likely to be
very effective this year, if the direc-
tions on pruning and burning are car-
ried out, because the parts of the tree
carrying the diseases and insects have
been largely destroyed. There will be,
consequently, fewer enemies left to
combat.
Fourth, the cultivation should be
thorough and good. This Is necessary in
order that the tree may have sufficient
food supply for the vigorous growth
which it should make.
These attentions are all necessary
to assist the tree in its recuperation.
revenue district of Arkansas, who is j js so generally possessed that the seed
now in Oklahoma, said that Oklahoma
was wholly without moonshiners so
far .as he was able to learn. Arkan-
sas, however, is the moonshiners para-
dise. During the past fifteen months
300 illicit stills have been destroyed
and (100 moonshiners captured. For-
merly more attention was paid to de-
stroying stills than to capturing the
owners, the rough country offering
the latter very easy means of es-
cape. A new plan has been adopted,
however, and the moonshiners hunted
down, on the theory that without
moonshiners there will be no "white
mule" whisky made.
sent to Europe contains few weed
seeds. A third reason may be that
there is found less waste ground in
Europe than in America, on which the
weeds can get a foothold. We must,
however, admit that these reasons do
not entirely satisfy us as to the causes
of so general a westward movement of
weeds.
The report of the I nit^l States
weather bureau for the week ending
lay 123 says that almost perfect weath-
er prevailed during the week.
Tho average temperature. 7?.G
degrees, was 4.5 degrees daily above
normal. The rainfall was below nor-
ty in getting their money. In one in- j mat. and consisted of light local show-
stance the allottees did not get their ers, principally in Kay. Grant and
money until two years after it was Garfield counties. This absence of
paid by the lessees. \o imputation is , rain was decidedly beneficial, as the
made against the integrity of Major ground continued moist from the
A. E. Woodson, the agent, in handling hvavy rains of former weeks, but be-
the lease moneys, but he is severely i eame sufficiently dry to permit the
criticised for the unsatisfactory meth- : cultivation of corn, cotton and pota-
ods employed in making the leaser
These allotments are the cream of th
agricultural lands in western Okla
horaa.
Little Wolf, the favorite nephew of
Whirlwind, has made a request that
he be allowed to remove to Arapahoe,
where he can educate his children in
the public schools.
In one part of Custer county tjie set-
toes. the replanting of corn and the
completion of cotton planting. The
sunshine was nearly normal. Hrisk
southerly winds provai'ed.
Sheriff Cjpe'and of Oklahoma coun-
ty. has purchased two bloodhounds
from an Ohio kennel.
President Murdaugh of the territor-
ial normal school at Edmond has re-
ceived word that an Oklahoma boy
boycott the Kansas City stock yards-
They place all the blaine on a Kanso*
City paper. At the regular quarterly
meeting of the executive committee of
the association, the matter of Kansas
inspection was discussed.
An Oklahoma man was up before
tiers have rigged up over the Washita has been selected to represent the
the most romantic bridge in Oklahoma, j University of Michigan in the nest
Two trees of similar strength on eith-1 contest in debate with the University
er side of the stream enabled them to of Chicago. John Adams is the name
make a suspension foot bridge^ The of the fortunate 3'outh and he was
'ngagements resulting from its con- formerly a member of the normal
itruetion now average one a wee'e. It j class of '97. Mr. Adams is a distaat
is known as "Lover's Retreat." j relative of John Quincy Adams.
Some of the farmers arc cutting A case before the district court in
] Payne county last week which at-
Acting upon the advice of the attor- | tracted considerable attention in
ncy general, the governor has rejected ' Clayton township w as that of Graves
the application of certain citizens of j vs Johnson. Some time ago II. D.
the town of McLoud, in Pottawatomie 1 Graves died very suddenly. Before
county, for the condemnation of fort', | death he traded his farm for Mis-
acres of school land adjacent to that sollr' property, the deeds having all
town for cemetery purposes. There j i)een executed and recorded. The suit
seems to be an impression tl.at the was brought by Mrs. Graves to have
law on the statute books providing for j tlie deeds set aside, but Judge liurford
the condemnation of school lands for • dismissed the case on the grounds that
railroads and other public purposes, ! there was no cause for action in the
applies to cases similar to this.
Henry John, a farmer of Grany. has
the probate judge the other day been arrested on the charge of cnurde
charged with seduction. He stopped
the case to say he would marry the
complainant and they were married
then and there.
In conformity to the law passed by
the last legislature the new grain in-
matter.
Pen Cumraings and Hill higgins, of
Washita county, have been indicted
by the federal grand jury of Canadian
ing his wife. In able to give $.>.000
bail, he is in jail. John is a Bohemian , county, for stealing cattle in the K
and refuses to speak to anyone. J wa nation and their bonds were fixed
Will Cnmberledge. in Lincoln coun- n( *••""" « <■'•• pressed firmly In contact with every
ty jail, charged with billing Danic; 1 lie suspicion is gaining ground | fiber, leaving no air space around them,
How to liaise Corn.
If you have a good bed of loose dirt
and cultivate right, you can raise corn,
says a contributor to Indiana Farmer.
The first thing is to break your ground
nine inches deep. Then harrow and
drag until the ground is loose as deep
as you plowed it, unless it is a heavy
eod; then you don't have to work it
eo deep. I would lay the ground off ln
rows three and one-half feet wide and
make a good furrow with the single
plow. I would plant one grain of corn
every twenty inches; then take your
steel spike-tooth harrow. Go the first
time the same way that you planted,
just as the corn comes through the
ground. Then in about a week, with
your harrow, go crosswise the piece;
then take the cultivator and plow
deeper the first time than any other;
j the second time a little shallower than
j the first. I would plow as many as
five times; once every week. I prefer
level cultivation. Then, after I am
through plowing, and when most of
our farmers have laid their corn by,
I take a drag that weighs about 100
pounds and is three feet wide and run
through every balk, every other week
until my com begins to get into hard
roasting-ear condition.
Franlng and Transplanting Young Trees
From Farmers' Review: A large
proportion of the trees that are lost
in resetting die because they have been
injured when they were taken up. Iu
digging up the trees the surface soil
should he removed to the root system,
then a trench dug around the tree out-
side the mass of roots; then by cutting
under the roots with a sharp spade
on each side, the tree may bs loosened
from the soil with a good supply of
young, growing roots. If the tree is
large, the trench must be made around
the roots to the depth of the lowest,
and the roots gradually loosened and
freed from the soil. No matter how
carefully a tree is dug, many of the
young feeding roots will be injured
or destroyed. Thus only a small
amount of sap cah be supplied to the
branches and buds, which nevertheless
continue to evaporate a large amount
of water; thus the tree often starts
very slowly, and sometimes fails en-
tirely. By removing the branches and
buds in proportion to the injury of the
roots a balance is maintained. All in-
jured roots should be cut off clean
with a knife, and the wounds of large
roots should he painted over with some
waterproof covering. When trees are
planted the roots should have a fine,
mellow bed of soil, which should be
Fox, a hermit, and robbing him of a that an attempt is being made to hav
spector, Colonel Prouty, will have a ! pot containing 8c,On ), with bix pais, the internal revenue district of Okla-
chief deputy with a salary of 8000 a | was escaping from jail the other day liotna detached from Kansaas and
year and three assistants at ?300 a y ar | when John Hock, an Indian whisky added to Arkansas. The district is
each, the salaries to be paid from the seller, cried to the guards, who fius- now under M. W. Sutton, internal
fees collected. The law is now in of- trated the game and prevented an c " revenue collector at Leavenworth
feet. , cape. 1 Kansas.
und all should be spread out In nat
ural position. The soil should be
pressed very firmly around all the
roots, so that the new roots will be
encouraged to make a rapid growth.
If the soil in which the tree is planted
is the sa?ie as the one from which it
its taken, the tree should be set the
A Fifth Font!.
From Farmers' Review:—Since the
ice has gone from my pond I have seen
a number of good-sized catfish in the
edge of the water dead. There were
also the heads of a number, the rest
of the fish being gone. The dead fish
can be accounted for by the long-con-
tinued freezing which made ice two
feet in thickness. The heads are per-
haps the remains of some mink or
turtle feast. They were eaten close up
to the barbels. These sharp thorns
would certainly be in the way of de-
vouring the head. In the fall there
were several clouds of these fish play-
ing up and down the pond, and as I
have not observed any of their size
among the dead, I suppose the pond
is yet well stocked. A fish pond is a
profitable institution. It furnishes an
excellent pastime, for there are but
few who do not delight in angling.
Then the finny brood are a choice dish
on the table. A pond does not occupy
much room and is a blessing to the
stock when it supplies a tank where
they can drink whenever they are in-
clined. It would surprise many to
know how often stock will drink when
they have free access to a trough al-
ways supplied with water. Lack of
water will shrink a cow faster than
anything else within my knowledge.
A pond, too, can easily be made a
thing of beauty. Mine Is In a woods
pasture and down to both its margins
grow the young oaks of various
species, and the hazel. In its borders
I have planted calamus, cat-tails,
skunk-cabbage, and white hellebore;
in the deeper flood lilies. Wild fowl
of many kinds visit it, and it is full
of varied life. Had I no natural grove
in which to locate a pond, I would sur-
round with trees and shrubs the one
I would make in the open field. I
don't think I would fancy sitting in
the sun to angle. Besides, fish are fond
of shade iu the heats of summer.
Potash ln the Soil.—The farmer who
usually puts on 20 loads or tons of
stable manure to the acre may think
it would be expensive to add to that
a dressing of 2,000 pounds of acid phos-
phate and 1,000 pounds of potash salts,
but it should be remembered that in
the above estimate no allowance is
made for phosphoric acid or potash in
the soil. Very few fields arc so des-
titute of potash as to need the full
amount indicated. The fermenting or
rotting of so much manure in the soil
would liberate potash which is now
In an insoluble form, so that the
plants could take it up, and we may
leave it to future generations to sup-
ply it when we have exhausted the soil
supply.—Ex.
Sugar-Curing Pork.—Allow the hog
to thoroughly cool before cutting;
carefully trim hams and shoulders and
split the sides in two lengthwise.
Sprinkle bottom of barrel with fine
salt and rub each piece of meat with
salt. Pack in barrel with hams on
the bottom, shoulders next and sides
on top. After three days cover the
meat with brine made as follows:
Water, 8 gallons; salt, 12 pounds;
sugar, 3 pounds; saltpeter, 3 ounces;
concentrated lye, 3 teaspoonfuls. Boil
all together and skim. After cooling,
pour over the meat. Leave In brine
Co-aprratlve Creanicrie. In Ireland.
The New Zealand Dairyman says:
Students of agricultural co-operation 1
have, in the present wave of that move-
ment which U passing over Irelatd, a
most Interesting study. The way in .
which co-operative, butter factories
have extended f In strong contrast to
the complete aputh.y displayed by the
English dairy farmer in the same di-
rection. From a one-time prosperous
agricultural country the "Unhappy
Isle" had dwindled down in rural pop-
ulation to such an extent that it seemed
as if they would ultimately be a mere
handful of people, barely enough to >
tend cattle for John Bull to eat. With
the departure of so many of her best
agriculturists to America and these
colonies the quality of her produce be-
came woefully poor; In fact, things
were drifting into such straits that it *
was problematical what the end would
be. Some thoughtful Irishmen came to
the rescue, however, and, binding them-
selves together, preached co-operation >
—co-operation in every branch of the
farmer's business. Success did not at-
tend their efforts at first, and it was
not until fifty meetings had been held
that an attempt was made by the
farmers to test the new doctrine. Once
co-operation had proved itself, how- •
ever, it rapidly spread; in fact so much
so that whereas ln 1S90 there was only
one co-operative factory, the number '
had increased to 136 at the beginning
of last year.
The principal body at work is tho
Irish Agricultural Organization Socie-
ty, which was formed in 1894, and, be-
ing quite non-political in its objects,
men of all shades of opinion are on its
committee. They have sensibly laid
aside their differences In order to aid
their unfortunate countrymen. The '
society employs about a dozen organ-
izers and experts, who are kept con-
stantly at work lecturing, organizing
and instructing. As the Hon. H.
Plunkett, writing on the subject in the
Mark Lane Express Almanac, says:
"They preach the doctrine of self-help
and show the farmers how they can
practically help themselves, and the *"
manly spirit of the people has wel-
comed it in a wholesome reaction from
the other doctrine which lays all their
sins of impecuniosity upon the govern-
ment."
Numerically the most important of
the societies are the co-operative
creameries. The establi-hment of these
has led to an enormous improvement
in the quality of Irish butter, and the
suppliers have, as a result, obtained
fully 30 per cent more profit from their /,
cows than formerly. Then, of course,
the profits of the undertaking have
been also secured to the members, who
utilize their societies in many ways,
such, for instance, as the wholesale
purchase of feeding stuffs, fertilizers '
and Implements; also for the combined
sale of cattle, pigs, poultry and eggs.
A few of them are establishing credit
societies and libraries as adjuncts. ,
Then a number of the creameries
formed a federation In 1893 to enable -
them to more effectually control the ^
markets in their own interests and to
establish a national brand of Irish
creamery butter.
Top Dressing Kye to Plow ruder.
The plan of top dressing rye with
manure is a good one, providing the
manure can be spread. The rye will
be benefited by the manure as a mu ch
as well as by its fertilizing properties.
There will still be considerable virtues
left in the manure for the corn crop
that is to follow. The amount of the
same will be in proportion to the rain-
fall and to the condition of the manure
when it was applied. The more rain"
and the finer the manure when applied '
the more will its enriching properties
be worked down into the soil. But
spreading the manure on the rye, and
when it grows up in the spring plow-
ing under both manure and rye the
influence on the corn would he very
beneficial. The aim in applying ma-,'
nure in our climate should be to make*'
it act as a mulch as well as a fertilizer. '
—Farm, Stock and Home.
Beauty a§ Well as Profit.—I think,
many people fail to obtain pleasure in
cultivating their gardens because
they regard their plants only from a
business standpoint, a d do not appre-
ciate them as objects of beauty. As
lo'ng as it costs but little, lot u3 culti-
vate the love for the beautiful, or the '
aesthetic side of our nature. While
perhaps the most of us must work our
farms and gardens for the pecuniary
profit, yet we may often, when plant-
ing for profit, so plan that It will be
ornamental in appearance. W'e shall
get more enjoyment from our work,
and our life will be better for having
cultivated a taste for the beautif'ul and
attractive in nature.—Michigan Farm-
er.
Dry Apple Seeds.—These should be
packcd in sand, set out to get the
rains and frost, and be planted early
in the spring. If kept dry until spring
they are likely to fail to sprout. When
raising my own apple roots the seeds
were always drilled in in the fall.
Now it is customary with nurserymen
to buy their stocks from those who
make the raising of seedlings a spe-
cialty. They can be bought so cheap-
ly that I would not bother myself rais-
ing them.—Sam'l Miller in Rural
World.
I
from four to six weeks, then smoke as
desired. The brine should be strong | Sugar Beet Seed for Illinois Far-
enough to bear up an egg.—Wallaces' mers.—The Agricultural Experiment
Farmer. Station, University of Illinois, Urbana,
111., proposes to furnish seed of sugar
beet together with instructions for
growing, free of charge so long as the
supply lasts, to residents of the state
who desire to become acquainted with
the nature of the crop, and who will
return samples of beets to us for an-
alysis, samples to be taken according
to directions and sent to the experi-
ment station, all charges prepaid ~
University Press Notice.
Killing Mealy Bugs.—I have the city
water, and I put it on with a good
deal of force, and that kills mealy
bugs. It was a very bad Insect years
ago until we discovered that we could
use kerosene emulsion, and since then
I hate discovered that water, put on
with considerable force, will kill it.—
W. F. Parkin,
Arrangements should be made for
savins all the poultry manure.
Cows do not like noise or delay.
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