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SACRED MONKEYS.
INDIA'S PECULIAR CHURCH
JOCKOS.
/•rcecliing of the Little Quadrupeds
Mingle With the Chanting of the
likhly Kolied Priests of Hinduism—
Oncer Ceremonies,
The sacred city of East India is Be-
nnies and the tourist who visits this
inecea of the Hindus will carry away
with him memories of as unique a place
as it is the lot of either American or
European to visit, says the Philadel-
phia Record. As the first strealt of
dawn breaks in the east the sojourner
hi Benares is awakened by the beating
of gongs and the yelling by the Hindu
populace of "Sati Ram." Opening his
bedroom window, the visitor sees be-
low him hundreds of Hindu men and
women dressed in the peculiar Indian
fashion. Some are going to the great
lioly dam to perform their morning
ablutions; others who have complet-
ed this duty are on their way to the
various Hindu temples, crying out the
name of their favorite god and beating
brass gongs. The sight witnessed ou
the streets of this city at sunrise is a
never-to-oe-forgotten one. Human be-
ings, monkeys and tame sacred hulls
make it next to an impossibility for
the stranger to pass along. At first
one imagines that a great circus .has
arrived in the city. The monkeys, sac-
red to some god or other and of every
size and description, thrust their hairy
hands into the baskets of the passers-
by and into the windows of the con-
fectioner, taking whatever they can.
Not a murmur is raised, not a protest
is offered; in fact, the Hindu believes
it to he a piece of rare good fortune
for him during that day if one of the
monkeys or bulls will only appropriate
some of the contents of his basket or
store. The bulls roam at will in the
market places, trampling vegetables
under their feet and eating the choicest
that the market can afford. Instead of
beating the bulls off his products, the
Hindu all the time sits as an Egyptian
mummy, with never a sign of disap-
proval. To object would mean the
breaking of his caste, and caste to the
Hindu is dearer than all else on earth.
After the visitor has gone a short dis-
tance from his hotel he comes to one
of the great Hindu temples, with gro-
tesque carvings of hideous-looking gods
and animals adorning the exterior,
while on the inside a perfect bedlam is
going on. At the temple, as on the
streets, are hundreds of sacred mon-
keys, who rush pell-mell over the vast
edifice, stealing whatever they can lay
their hands on, and emitting ear-split-
ting screeches at intervals. Gongs are
lieaten, Hindu priests come out and go
through clownish performances, and
the worshipers make the atmosphere
stifling with the burning of sacred
wood. For hours each day this mode
of worshiping is carried on. Woe to
the Hindu who raises his hand against
either bull or monkey, for, though
these animals viciously attack him. he
attire, religion, art, science, the Aus-
tralian ballot system and national
politics. His companion listened, but
said nothing, showing he was not
interested. In despair, the lawyer
commenced a discourse on the mete-
oric showers, "when he noticed the ag-
riculturist removed his spectacles and
wipe them 011 the corner of his hand-
kerchief. A bright idea came to him.
"I tee you wear spectacles," he said.
"It Is said there is a vast difference
in result# of wearing nose glasses and
spectacles. I suppose you have worn
both? Can you tell me what it is?"
The agriculturist had. could and
did. He talked on what was the mat-
ter with his eyes, what he did for
them, how certain lights and things
affected them, what sort of prisms to
wear, who is the best occulist, and
listened attentively and eagerly to
like remarks from the lawyer. When
mine host returned, thej wers still
discussing the subject, and were ap-
parently the best of friends. Which
goes to prove that, no matter how far
apart your everyday lives may he,
whether you are a man or a woman,
if you wear glasses there is always
a bond of fellowship and interest be-
tween you, and an open sesame to
conversation. Try it some day an 1
see. ^
What One Woman's Vanity Cost ller.
A curious story comes from Monte
Carlo, the heroine of which has, says
the Paris correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph, lost a large sum through
excusable feminine vanity. She en-
tered the Salle while a former friend
and protector of hers was winning in
a sweeping style that seemed destin-
ed to break the bank. "I am so glad
to see you here, Prince, and in such
luck, too," she exclaimed. "Do tell
me a lucky number; it is sure to win,
for you are now in the vein. The
Prince generously placed a pile of gold
louis before the vivacious lady, whose
beauty had successfully defied the ef-
fects of thirty-six winters, and said;
"Put it all on the number of your
years and reap a golden harvest." The
iady reflected, hesitated, and then plac-
ed the pile on twenty-seven. An in-
stant later the croupier sang out,
"Thirty-six red wins." The lady mut-
tered, "Ah! mon Dieu; thirty-six is
exactly my age," and fainted on the
spot.
Wliy He Limpeii.
Calmly to put away glory thrust up-
on him by fair women is a pitch of
honest self-abnegation possible only to
a genuine hero, of the type described
by the Buffalo Express. A soldier boy
of the Fighting Thirteenth, on his re-
turn to Buffalo, walked with an engag-
ing limp, which excited the curiosity
i and sympathy of the patriotic women
who sftrrounded him at the railway sta-
| tion. "Was it done by a dreadful Mau-
j ser bullet?" asked one. "Will you be
j crippled for life?" queried another. "I
| am sure he was shot while carrying a
I wounded comrade off the field!" gushed
I a third. The crippled veteran, as mod-
est as he was brave, was visibly em-
would be ostracized from his race for- j barrassed by these tributes, and as
ever. The tourist leaves the great j soon as he could master his emotion
holy city of Benares with the feeling j he remarked quite simply: ' Ah, g wan.
that it is far better to be a bull or a I 'Taint nawthin but
monkey there than a human being.
WHERE SNAKES ABOUND. FARM
A Curious Spot Where Thousands of j
Snakes Congregate.
Save in the imagination of some
unfortunate victim of delirium, there
are few men who ever saw more than
three or four snakes together in any
place on the earth's surface. Were
you to ask naturalists they would tell
you that the tendency of snakes is
not to congregate in any one place.
Yet contrary to seeming laws of na-
ture there is a place which is infested
by them in astounding numbers, so
vast that it is the wouder of all those
who have looked upon it This land
of snakes is known bj either of the
two unsuggestive names of "LlnkviUe
or "Klamath Falls." and is situated in
an obscure corner over the California
border line in Oregon. It may be
reached in twenty-four hoiirs' travel
from San Francisco. You have only I
to take the northern-bound train for j
Ager, thence a stage line of about j
twenty miles conducts you to your
destination. It is impossible to asso-
ciate "snakes" with the beautiful and
varying scenery through which you
pass as far as Klamath Hot Springs.
Trees and streams and all the glories
of mountaiii scenery greet you 011
every hand. You drive through a lux-
urious growth of evergreens and
shrubbery; jou cross and recross nu-
merous streams; you breathe the soft
air of Shasta and Siskiyou. But when
you have left Klamath Hot Springs a
few miles behind there is an appre-
ciable difference in the landscape.
Sparsity of vegetation is the first ob-
servifble change. At every turn of
the road the aspect becomes more bar-
ren, more forlorn and more desolate.
Finally, you seek in vain for a tree
or a shrub, and at last, dust-covered
and weary, you pull up at a dry,
withered village, that produces noth-
ing on its hard, rocky soil but revolt-
ing snakes. You have reached Llnk-
viUe, the haunting retreat of serpents!
There is a bridge in Linkville that
spans Klamath river. From this
bridge, which is a vantage point as
far as view is concerned, a most ex-
traordinary sight meets the eyes.
Along the river banks, at irregular
intervals of a few yards, are seen dark
balls ranging from a foot to three feet
in diameter. They are stationary and
as passive as a boulder, which they
resemble in color. But if a stone is
hurled at any of these strange
spheres, to your horror snakes will
crawl off in every direction and the
ball will melt away as lard melts in
a frying pan. The repulsive creatures
that have thus been coiled up in a
perfect sphere glide away under rocks,
and one minute later not a snake is
to be seen in that particular spot. But
the other balls of snakes In the vicin-
ity are little disturbed by the stone.
A close inspection will reveal only a
moving head or twitching tail in the
mass that before looked like an im-
movable boulder. Those that were
scattered, however, may later seek the
neighboring spheres or in a few min-
utes slink out of their hiding places
and reassemble themselves in balls.
4 VT1' fJ A Tk w<is a good supply of corn In the flclds.
Mr, Augustine.—I want to warn the
men that put veneering ou the trees
and bind it on with wires, that they
remove the wires when they do the
veneering. If the wires are not re-
moved, as the trees grow the wires
will cut Into them and it will ultimate-
ly resclt in the death of the trees. I
have about 15,000 or more trees and I
am protecting them with a good qual-
ity of sheeting. I tear it in strips about
four inches wide and wind It around
the treys, taking it off in the spring.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Cp-to-Date Hints About Cal-
tlyatlon of tlie Soil and Yields
Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture aud
Floriculture.
Soluble Salts In Alkali Soils.
The electrical method of salt deter-
mination In soils has been used iu the
exploration and investigation of the
alkali soils of the Yellowstone Valley
made by the department of agricul-
ture. An examination was first made
of the general conditions in the valley
and then a very minute study of a sec-
tion of land which was just being
ruined by the rise of alkali. This ex-
amination amounted to an under-
ground survey of the field, and maps
have been made showing the distribu-
tion of alkali at different depths. A
great number of borings wero made to
a depth of 10 or 15 feet, and salt de-
terminations were made in every 6
inches or each foot in depth. Accurate
maps have been made showing the
amount and distribution of the alkali
at several of these depths. It was
found that in the original prairie soil
above the ditch there is not sufficient
alkali to be Injurious to vegetation.
The amount of alkali was greater In
the lower depths of the subsoil. As
a rule, water is used in excess on all
of these lands under irrigation, and
to such an extent that it accumulates
in the subsoil. When the depth to
standing water Is not more than
feet from the surface, alfalfa turns
yellow and dies out. In all cases the
first injury was from the accumulation
of water from excessiVe applications
through Irrigation. Where this water
remains for some time in the subsoil
the alkali leaches down through Beep-
age from higher lands, and Is brought
up from the subsoil and accumulates
at the surface In quantities sufficient
to prevent the growth of cultivated
plants. This underground survey of
the alkali lands has given the most
important information in regard to
amount and distribution of the soluble
salts and the way in which they ac-
cumulate in certain localities through
overirrigation.
Cockl".
Herewith we illustrate cockle, one
of our most troublesome weeds. This
is an annual and very smooth
throughout. It branches freely and
Krows to the height of one to two
feet. The opposite leaves grow to-
gether at the base, varying in form
from oblong in the lower to ovato in
the upper. The flowers are pink and
are arranged in open cymes; that is,
one in each fork on the branches. The
way to get rid of the pest, after it has
put in an appearance, is to cultivate
thoroughly. If the land be devoted to
hoed crops this will be easy, as the
cockle cannot stand cultivation. When
wheat or other grain is sown care
a boil on me
knee!'
KLONDIKE
THE
W A V
THE
AND
I.: t,.
r
This view is taken from near the
mouth of the famous Eldorado—the
creek which, up to the present, has
yielded more gold than any other
.•reek ill the Klondike. Almost every
hillsides, in many places, having prov-
ed as rich as the valley. There is no
known spot in the whole world that
contains so much gold in a correspond-
ing area as that shown in the above
ood
They're Only Artesian*.
During the recent strike of ladies'
tailors the proprietor of a well-known
uptown establishment was endeavor-
ing to explain to an interested cus-
tomer the difference between the kind
of work which Is done in an establish-
ment like his and that done by the
shambling wretches who were fighting
for "recognition" and their right to
better pay. "You see," he explained,
"men who never see a fine garment on
a. lady and who have no opportunity
to observe and learn what good style
is cannot be expected to turn out ar-
tistic work. They can never hope to
become artists; they are simply ar-
tesians."
Something Similar.
"The expression 0. K. is an Amer-
icanism, I am told," said the English-
man. "True," replied the American,
"and yet that is but little different
from a term much used in despotic
countries." "Indeed?" "Yes; in Rus-
sia, for instance, there Is the ukase."
—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
RECENT INVENTIONS.
foot of the ground shown in this pic- view. Like most of the good pay
ture contains good "pay" even the spots, it stands iu British territory.
SURE BOND IN CONVERSATION
Imo Wearers of Eyeglasses Need Never
He Uncongenial*
He i? one of those enthusiastic men
whose hobby is his friends. His chief
aim in life seems to be getting those
he most admires together in his home
or at the club, and then leaving tuem
to get acquainted while he writes a
letter or attends to some equally un-
important piece^of business. Not long
ago he cau^d to become acquainted a
man whose one desire is to thoroughl>
understand agriculture and a broau-
minded, free-thinking lawyer, who
cares no more about why things grow
than a goldfish does for a mouse. They
are both intelligent, but the only thing
similar about them is that they both
wear glasses. "Mr. Jones, this is Mr.
Brown. Now. if you will excuse me,
I'll write a letter," said mine host in
his usual way, as he withdrew. They
both lighted cigars, and the lawyer be-
gan a story of the day, but it fell flat.
Then he told a better one. but the
agriculturist merely smiled a faint,
far away smile, The lawyer
talked of a difficult case he
had just won and of numerous well-
known eases over the country, but
enlled forth 110 answering remaiks
from his companion. He discoursed
at length upon the theaters and all
the latest music hall gossip, but to
110 avail. He narrated of the virtues
xud fallings of past ard moder- '.Iter-
Woman to Woman.
From the Detroit Free Press: She
was a pleasant-faced woman, middle-
aged, aud with an air of good will to
everybody, even those of her own sex.
When she got on the street car there
was just one seat left, and she walked
toward It. But another woman had
boarded the ear right behind her. She,
too, was middle-aged, and, though still
plump, her hair had wider gray streaks
in it than the coiffure of the first lady.
The latter, seeing a woman apparently
older than herself, stepped back from
the seat she was about to take, and
said: "Won't you take this seat, ma-
dam? You probably need it more than
I." If it had been a man that offered
the courtesy, of course, that slightly
elderly lady would have accepted it
with a smile, and, perhaps, with a
"thank you." But this was a woman,
. and it was another story. She sniffed
the air disdainfully, and said: "The
idea! I'm no older than you. Take the
seat yourself." And the other passen
gers all found something outside the
car to attract their attention.
A Very Cosily ripe
Four hundred thousand dollars is
the estimated value of the pipe which
the Shah of Persia smokes in public
on state occasions. It is called "II
Kalldln," and is entirely encrusted
with diamonds, rubies, pearls and
emeralds
An improved crutch ha3 a rubber
tip at the bottom for use in ordinary
weather, with a steel point placed in-
side the rubber and attached to a knob
on the side of the shank by which it
can be pushed when the pavements
are slippery.
To prevent check reins from slip-
ping of their hooks an Iowa man has
designed a holder formed of a leather
disk from the center of which a sec-l
ond disk Is almost cut, leaving a por-
tion unsevered at the rear, with a slit
In the inner disk, which fits tightly
over the hook.
Ropes of all sizes can be automatic-
ally measured by a new machine,
which has a roller journaled in a
casing around which the ropes are
passed and then extended through
openings of different size to corre-
spond with the diameter of the rope,
the roller turning pointers 011 a dial
as it revolves.
A Minnesota woman has designed a
buttonhole opened for use with but-
tonholing machines, consisting of a
central handle with one end formed
with a tapered point to cut the hole
open, when the tool Is reversed and
a flat, double-edged blade Is used to
make the hole of the proper length.
A handy clothesrack for use outside
of windows is formed of a number of
bars hinged together to unfold on
either side of the window, with rods
running across the window from one
set of bars to the other, to be brought
within easy reach for hanging the
clothes and extended for drying them.
Strawberry Cultivation,
Few growers of berries are aware of
the importance of using only select
plants to obtain the best results in
raising a fine quality and large quan-
tity of fine fruit, writes H. Gugal in
Colman's Rural World. I think there
are few growers of berries but what
will admit that the best markets are
easily glutted with inferior fruit; while
there never yet was a market over-
supplied with choice fruit. In order
to avoid overstocking or glutting the
markets, during the berry season, wo
must confine ourselves to smaller acre-
age, and a better quality of fruit, espe-
cially when it can be done at a very
little extra cost.
One acre well prepared and well
planted with select plants, and well
cultivated during the growing season
will produce as much fruit and of finer
quality, as four or five acres in the old
way of full-matted rows and alley
plants. Then, when it comes to pick-
ing, they can be found without using
ipectacles—every berry will be a ber-
ry, and no make believes. In order
to grow fine berries, a liberal applica-
tion of fertilizer is necessary to pro-
duce the best results, as fertilizer—es-
pecially barn-yard manure—improves
both quality and quantity. In order to
grow fine berries It is necessary to be
gin the preparation of the soil the year
before. I plow under a good clover
sod, upon which has been broadcasted
barnyard manure at the rate of at least
twenty-five loads to the acre. Pulver-
ize well and plant to potatoes, culti-
vate thoroughly, and allow no weeds
to ripen seed. Then, when the pota-
toes are dry, sow to rye, if possible.
During the winter give another ap-
plication of manure, and about March
15th turn rye under and manure. Fol
low turn plow with subsoiler wherever
possible or necessary; then roll land
followed by a good harrow, and if ne-
cessary roll and harrow a second time,
The land should then be in a fine
condition to receive plants, but under
no circumstances should the ground be
worked while wet or sticky. As to va
rieties. the finest that has been grown
successfully in your vicinity, should be
selected. For hill system Eet, plants
fifteen inches in row, and from twenty
four to thirty inches between rows, for
half-matted rows, plant eighteen
inches in row, and tlilrty-six to forty
inches between rows.
Axle (ireaHe anil Orchard Trees.
At the- last meeting of the Central II
linois Horticultural Society the fol
lowing discussion took place:
Q.—-Is there any simple and success-
ful way to prevent rabbits from de-
stroying the orchard trees
H. M. Dunlap.—I have for 15 years
used on my commercial orchard Fraz-
er's Axle Grease, and it has been very
effective in keeping the rabbits from
gnawing the trees, I put it on in No-
vember and December. I apply it with
a brush, something as one would
whitewash, but putting on a very thin
coating. I have never had my trees
when so treated injured by the rabbits.
If a man has only a small homo or-
chard lie might use rags, as has been
suggested by some one, but if his time
Is worth anything aud if he has a large
commercial orchard, he would do bet-
ter to huy axle grease. I do not know
that any kind of axle grease will hurt
a tree, but it might be that some
would. Perhaps all would bo equally
safe and effective. Some people use
crude petroleum, but I consider that
dangerous to the trees, or at least fear
to use It. Some say that If there lo
corn In the field the rabbits will not
trouble the trees, but I have had my
trees gnawed in October when there
should bo taken that It contains no
cockle seed. The cockle becomes a
great pest only on land where it Is
neglected.
Morelos Orange Fruit Worm.
Careful Investigation of the so-
called Morelos orango fruit worm, a
species which it is feared may be acci-
dentally introduced into the orange
groves of California and Florida, has
been made by the Department of Agri-
culture. The distribution of this in-
sect in Mexico was unknown even to
Mexicans, and the fears of this coun-
try were considered by the Mexicans
to be largely imaginary. This season's
investigations, however, prove that
this destructive fruit worm is distrib-
uted throughout alt of Mexico east of
the Sierra Madre mountains, and that
it may at any time be introduced into
California in early fall oranges im-
ported from that region.
Farm Managers Wanted.—The editor
of this paper receives a great many
letters each year from wealthy gentle-
men who own extensive farms and
herds of dairy cattle, asking if we can
recommend to them a man who is com-
petent as a farm manager. Almost al-
ways we have to confess that we know
of none. The demand is great, but
alas, the supply is very limited. Why
is this? We believe it is because of tho
following reasons: Too few farmer's
boyB aro educated for that purpose.
Where does tho blame lie? First, with
the farmers themselves. They will edu-
cate a boy to be a lawyer or doctor or
banker. They know that in these lines
ha must have a well stored and well
trained mind. But they spend scarce-
ly anything on the boy who wants to
make a bright farmer of himself. Next,
the boys themselves have a foolish no-
tion that there is more for them in this
life if they are lawyers or professional
men of some sort. If we had been
asked to furnish lawyers or doctors we
could have shipped every Inquirer a
carload apiece. This is all wrong-
Hoard's Dairyman.
Soil Aeration.—-By this term we
mean the entrance of air Into the soil,
and its consequent effect. This is close-
ly connected with the benefits accru-
ing from an increase of depth. In
many of our subsoils there is a quan-
tity of inert plant food which is of no
use unless it has been decomposed by
the action of the air. When tho air
is admitted to the soil gradually from
the surface and also from the drains
direct, the oxygen of the air, in con-
nection with moisture and heat, cause
a chemical change to take place in all
vegetable matter not well decomposed
and fitted for plant food, and renders
the soil richer as well as deep.—C. G
Elliott, Drainage Engineer.
Care of Bach In Winter.
Bees should remain undisturbed
throughout the entire winter, except
that we may in safety open the hives
and examine them during a warm day
when tho bees are out on the wing
flying, but even on such occasions the
weather must of necessity be very
warm and fine, writes A. H. Duff in
Journal of Agriculture. Bees are very
easily injured by being aroused in any
way during cold weather, and on this
account they should be provided with
good protection so as to exclude stock
of any kind from wandering near tho
hives. For this reason, hives should
not be set up on high benches, nor
placed ageinst fences or trees. The
proper place to locate hives of bees—
tho lilves having boards—Is directly
011 tho ground, and each sitting o'l its
own bottom and not in any way con-
nected with any other hive.
Snow about the bee hiVcs is a good
protection to the bees in very cold
weather, and the more snow the better
It Is, but many people make a grave
mistake by removing the snow, think-
ing the bees will suffocate for air.
They thus do the bees an almost irrep-
arable injury; not only depriving
them of good protection, but disturb-
ing them and arousing them to activ-
ity at a lime they should be the most
quiet. Bee hives may be totally cov-
ered with deep snow drifts without do-
ing the least injury to the bees, but
on the contrary it affords them the
best of protection during the most se-
vere weather.
Persons who are not well informed
In bee culture frequently make a mis-
take by moving bees during the winter
from one locality to another. They
may perhaps purchase bees of their
neighbor during the summer and defer
moving them nut(l winter. Tho prop-
er time to move or Bliip bees is at any
time during tho year except in winter,
for the cause given above. The ques-
tion may be asked, why thus disturb-
ing bees during winter is injurious to
them. It is so from the fact that
when bees are aroused to activity in
cold weather they will partake of food
heavily on account of it. and if tha
weather is such as to keep them con-
fined any length thereafter, they will
become affected with dysentery from
confinement in this condition, and
only a timely flight will relieve them.
Bees may thus bo made to consume
more loan double the amount of stores
they would otherwise do with proper
treatment in this respect.
Home Sheep I)lp«.
The Colorado Experiment Station
publishes the following formula for ths
making of sheep dips:
Australian Dip — Sulphur, 160
pounds; lime, 100 pounds, to 100 gal-
lons of water. The lime and Bulphut
wero mixed with a small amount ol
water first and heated until all becama
a bright red liquid and then diluted to
100 gallons.
Copperas Dip — Copperas, thirty
pounds; water, 100 gallons.
Flour of Sulphur—The dry powdef
used pure.
Flour of Sulphur in Water—Used in
the proportion of ten pounds of sul-
phur to 100 gallons of water.
Curtice Dip—Tobacco leaves, flftj
pounds; sulphur, ten pounds, to 10C
gallons of water. The tobacco was
first thoroughly steeped, after which
the leaves wero removed and the sul-
phur put in the decoction and boiled
for a half hour.
Milk of Lime—I.ump lime, 15<
pounds; water, 100 gallons. Lime slak-
ed in the water and used at once.
Tobacco Decoction—Tobacco dust
200 pounds; water, 100 gallons. Th(
tobacco was steeped in the water and
then the leaves squeezed and thl
strong decoction used in full and one-
half, one-fourth and one-eighth full
strength.
Arsenite of Soda Dip White arsenic
one ounce; carbonate of soda, oni
ounce; water, one gallon. Tho arsenic
and carbonate of soda were first put ll
a small amount of water together, and
boiled until the arsenic became entire-
ly dissolved, and then tho remalndei
of tho water was added. Also used lo
weaker solutions.
Carbolic Acid and Corrosive Subli-
mate— Carbolic acid, eight parts* cor-
rosive sublimate, one part; water, 1,60)
parts. (Suggested and prepared by Dr
Hadden.)
Carbolic Acid—Pure carbolic acid ii
water in proportions varying from oni
part in 100 to one part in 2,000.
Kerosene Emulsion — Soap, on<
pound; water, ono gallon; kerosene
two gallons. After making the emul-
sion in these proportions In the, usual
manner tho whole was diluted to six-
teen gallons. Also used in one-hall
this strength.
Pure Kerosene—Used without dilu-
tion.
Alcohol—Used 95 per cent pure.
Whale-Oil Soap—Used in the propor-
tion of one pound to two gallons ol
wator.
Winter Grown Pie Plant.—Growing
pie plant in winter haB passed the ex-
perimental stage and become a profit
able industry. Thousands of dollars
are paid tho gardeners each winter for
tho product, which is bought at high
prices, both for home consumption and
for shipment. Any cellar or outbuild-
ing which can be made absolutely
frost proof and light proof will answer
tho purpose. There is no objection to
the house cellar, as no manure and
very little water are required, so no
odor or dampness will arise. Tho labor
of growing Is so little and the profits
so large that tho most greedy ought to
be satisfied with the results.—Ex.
Two or three-year-old turkeys are
hetter for breeding stock than young
birds. It is a mistake to sell off all
the old stock-every"fafl. •
Actton is the right outlet of emotion.
Squabs and Capons for Market.—II
squabs are killed before they cun flj
the flesh Is white, but after that il
darkens, reducing the value from on*
to two dollars per dozen. Those rais-
ing them for market should keep the
old ones well supplied with food so
that the young may become plump and
fat. Always dry pick them, and re-
move all of the down. Leave on tha
heads, and leave the entrails in. Have
them thoroughly cooled before pack-
ing, then ship by express. The rules
for picking and shipping squabs app'!'
to broilers. Capons should always be
dry picked. Leave on the lieadp aud
leave entrails in. Also leave all tha
feathers on the neck and the large ones
on the wings and tall. Slips arc dress-
ed the same way. They aro readily
selected from capons by the growth of
their combs and swelling of the spurs.
These usually sell for several cents per
pound loss than capons.—Mirror and
Farmer.
Use land plaster in the manure gut-
ters ti ii iy.
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