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INDIA?
VOLUME X
I All LLQl'AI I, INDIAN TERRITORY, SATURDAY, MARC
21. I KOI I.
NUMBER 39
PKET f Y WHITE HERON.
METHODS HAVE CHANGER
PROTECT THE BIRDS.
Hew a I.(file Hird Help* llic Klt'iihtii
to HI<1 lllniMelf of an An-
noying hSnny.
A GENTLEMANLY BOY.
A K' ntle boy, a manly boy
Is th. b^y I love to
An honest boy. an upright boy,
la the boy of boy for me,
The grntle boy guards well hla lips.
Lest words that fall may grieve;
The manly boy will 11 v. r stoop
To meanness, nor deceive.
An honest boy clings to the right
Through seasons foul ar:<l fair;
An upright boy will faithful be
When trusted anywht re.
The gentle boy, the manly boy,
Upright and honest, too.
Will always find a host of friends
Among the good and true.
Hen rd in doing good,
Finds Joy In Riving joy,
And earns the r:giit to bi ar the name—
"A gentlemanly boy."
—II. L. Charles, In the Evangelist.
A BOY'S PHEASANTRY.
Kiotv n llrlubt CkleriKo YounjcMter
Makes ( i>ii iili inl l<- Money in
Unite n Novel Way,
Wallace Evans, a slender, 13-year-old
lad in knickerbockers, owns the largest
pbeasantry in the west, selling600 eggs
in a season and hatching nearly as many
birds.
Such an enterprise, conducted by a
boy is gent.aliy a makeshift, but the
Evans pheasantry is perfect in con-
struction, having about 175x200 feet
Under wire, with the latest improved
hatcher and houses. It is divided into
a network of special yards, ( very gate
closing and locking automatically, bo
there is no danger of the birds escaping.
The flock of gold pheasants is a gor-
geous sight with their brilliant yellow
heads, capes of orange and blue, lined
with vivid green, scarlet bodies, burn-
ished w inps and long graceful tails, dot-
ted with black. They arc a fad among
the fanciers, and their price is increas-
ing, as they now bring $30 a pair.
The beautifully plutnaged hen lays
30 eggs in a season, which are worth
ten dollars a dozen, lfe has a large
number of Knglish pheasants, furnish-
ing a fine contrast to the golden beau-
\Miat are these birds doing on the
elephants back? What is their object
in pecking and clawing at his hide
and seemingly trying their hardest to
annoy and distress the great brute?
'Tis rather an impudent and dangerout
proceeding, one would naturally think,
for, with one sweep of his powerful
trunk, the elephant could whisk them
all from his back and crush them to
nothingness. There tire a few curious
facts which will answer these ques-
tions.
You must all know what parasites are.
' our dictionary or encyclopedia will
tell you that they are of two great
classes those of the vegetable king-
dom and these of the animal. In the
first division, or botany, as it is other-
wise named, parasites are plants which
live directly on other plants, and
through their roots take their nourish-
ment from the larger growth, and not
from the ground. The orchids, a won-
derful spet
are several hundred varieties in the
I nited States and several thousands in
the tropics, answer this description
partially, but though they live ou trees
Woman and Her Ways i
:U:v; w:
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
Thin Woman Wonltl Solve It i>> I'po-
vltliuir Plea wini Quarters Out-
did e of (he Kitchen.
MRS. LOWE HONORED.
Georaiu I imIj Appointed in Repre-
sent llie Club Wnmrii of \nterlca
Ml tlie Purl* lOxpoaltlon.
SIMPLE WATER RAM.
How to Have Plenty of Unlet
iriuhouiie uml Cattle
a* A)I Times.
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Airs. William Hell Lowe, of Atlanta,
Cm., pre: dent ot the (ii uernl Federation
of Women's Clubs, lia> received notice
of her appointment as honorary presi-
dent for America of the woman's board
lul movement, and she is now the i
| official leader of that movement in i
; America. Although it is only a short
"Where do 1 think charity and
philanthropy ought to begin?" repeat-
ed the woman who was pouring the
tea. "Why, with one's servants. Serv-
ants' sitting-rooms; there you have
the key |f> the whole servant problem, j of the Paris exposition, and hasnotitied
i mean that next in necessity to your Mine, l'oquurd, leader of the woman's
of flower, of which there 11 drawing-room and the kitchen it-, department ojj^tbe exposition, of her
self come rooms where your servants acceptance.
m.i\ receive their friends. J Mrs. Lowe is one of the few southern
"A friend of mine a woman of ideas women who have become conspicuous
n well a- mean ha> fitted up a .during the past few years in the wotn-
rooin on the second floor, a pretty
! room at the side of the house, and
I given it to the servants in which to
re <ive their I'ri. n.; . It is not merely time since she became identified w.th
carpeted und furnished with six
chairs. It was made artistic at a verv
! nio<i< rate cost. A breadth of mattinj
! was run around the wall just above
i a couch covered with red denitn. The
; w ills were denim-covered and hung
with a good carbon copy or two. The
j floor was stained and laid with cheap,
j effective rugs—-one of them being
; made of coarse canvas, fringed at the
ends, lined with the same and marked
with a paint brush with blotches of
old biue and dull red Pillows were
placed on the couches; here and there
wire stained pine shelves for bi>oks,
finished at the top with ordinary pic-
ture molding. White dimity curtains
were at the windows, and a bit of pot-
tery stood on a shelf above the door.
The room was arranged at an ex|>ense
In earlier days, when farmers knew
j little concerning what is now the com-
j «uon po.-Mssion of nearly every farm
' worker, it was the practice to permit
' young calves to suck at least two tents
und sometimes three of the four, the
milkmaid or milkman taking what was
U ft. Calves in the: e day* were no bet- j
t> r tliau the\ are now, yet they re-
ceived more miik. or, at all events, rich-
ermiik. Practice*, have changed. Every I have a spring on my farm 35 feet
.-a\ ii k m ran- much in iL i- ■> • Waste it low the lex el of the house and U in feet
of \aluabh material of an\ kind must sway, and only strong enough to run a
be chicked if any profit is to be realized* , hydraulic ram about one-half of the
( ahi - in- i o loi . r given milk fresh ii'iic, and we have plenty of water for
from their dams, drawn by their own house use and from six to eight head
mouths. l'w« i t let h century calves xia ! ol horses and cattle, also hogs and poul-
r - i ed oi - \iti.mi K which conUiins all 1 try. From spring to ram I have ten
the <cii. ..f !in>taii ing food, | f' '1 °f fall, making a rise from ram to
only the buttei
moved.
Skim milk, ju
good rc.-ult ti
served in cnl^
This argues t he 1
good judgment <
er who, knowinj,
his calves to slie
the calves are t
fat having been re-
WHITE HERONS AT WORK.
and other plants which are rooted in
the ground, their roots in turn are not
fastened into the tree, but are exposed ; ^"hieli was hardly to be mentioned, and
to the air and absorb food from it
The mistletoe, the flower which, with
the holly and other evergreens, is used
for decorations at Christmas time, is,
however, a complete parasite, and in-
py lay from 50 to 75 cfgS, which IlaWts „'H, 0Bk tr'(„
i 1 \ 'villi! for ftv.a 11 < 11 I lira a c . ...
are readily sold for five dollars a set-
ting.
His covey of quails would make a
hunter's heart leap, as they fly to cover
I
ihe crotches of its great branches. The
j mistletoe brings us to the kissing bug,
which is not of botany, but of entomol-
ogy (insectology), which is a ui vision
of zoology; and now we are getting
near to the elephant and the birds.
Naturalists teil us that eVery living
creature or growing thing has its para-
site. Even the flea, they say, which is
in itself a parasite, has smaller fleas t
FEEDING THE PHEASANTS.
with a whirr of wings and warning
cries. The old birds were imported
from Tennessee, where thousands of
the luckless birds follow a trail of
grain leading into n wire-enclosed cor-
ral and are then shipped to breeders.
in the center of each yard is a neatly
stacked pile of brush and straw which
affords a native retreat for all the birds.
The English pheasants are very hardy,
and frolic in the snow and ice like
children, but the golden hover in their
houses in bitter cold weather.
Wallace also raises canaries on a large
scale, and his aviary is an ideal place,
for the songsters never dream they are
imprisoned. Their breeding cage is a
it was very artistic and comfortable.
"In this room the servants took
turns, arranging their evenings to suit |
themselves. They might entertain
your milkman, the green grocer's boy
or an honest young laborer that was
their lookout. The guests came up the
back stairway, and the room was
theirs.
"After a time there may begin to
be a difference in the sort of callers
who come. Well-appearing, well-
trained servants, disciplined to sott
voices nnd silent feet, are not likely
to have very objectionable friends. But
.if they do, refined surroundings will
keep it scrat. hinp nnd annoyed, if this 1 , point out their objeetionableness
ii- a fact und the theory correet, nnd sub- ; sooner tiian anything else. Make vour
eeptilile i>f further application, then i.onie attrnetive to your servants and
pui-iiHte X.i. must fcuve his troubles, they will put up with anything rather
ami M, on. multiplied into inlinitv. | tl. in leave you." N. Y. Commercial
W'V—■
it.LIj LOWE.
he Woman'!
Exposition.)
MRS. WILLIA^
(President for Atr-yr-
Hoard of lo*j IJi
the General Federal oa of Women's
( lubs, of which she is he president,
Mrs. Lowe has been .-i . Known in the
south as a wealthy and philanthropic
woman. She has a handsnjie home in
the aristocratic quart r of Atlanta,and
there dispenses notable hospitality
amid the most luxuri. si, ridings.
First attracted to club life during
the Cotton States and International ex-
position, she became imbued with the
idea ai once, and it w as at her home that
the Woman - club of Atlanta was born.
•iously fed. gives as
to ea.vcs as are ot>-
su< king their dams,
k of 1 usiness tact and
l on th part of the farm-
is.' it. persists in allowing
• k the cow. If, hiAvever,
i• • bt raised w iihout the
cow«< how are the;, to be fed the skim-
milk 7 This<|tii tionarisesin themindof
the intelligent dnir\ farmerat tlie outset
and otters an opportunity to give a few-
general hints. After the calves are able
to stand up and gel around fairly well
they should be placed in warm, com-
fortable quarters, fully protected from
hogs and cold, and their first ration
should consist of some warmed skim-
milk. Trouble may at first be experi-
enced in inducing them to drink it and
it may be nee« sary to dose them with
a spoon, ltut this will not lost long.
Soon they will learn to drink the miik
from a clean Hough. After they have
reached this point hut little trouble will
be had with them. Increase the quan-
tity of miik as their ages advance and
their appetites seem to warrant.
To ascertain the value of the hand
method as compared with the mother
method let a cow or two raise a calf.
Compare trains in wc ight and conforma-
tion with that of the cow-raised calves.
The results will prove that after the
calf has been delivered in good shape
there is no further practical use fo.
he cow. Farmers' Voice.
BARREL FEED RACK.
house of 40 feet. While it is pumping
u brings about 20 gallons per hour to
the barn. As it is idle about half the
time, we get about 240 gallons per day.
'I'lte> % re the I'nrmrr'i ll«>*t I'rltBl
ami MmmiIiI Iti- l «-u<|<-rI \ In r «>«J
For mill llouaeiL
FARM WATER RAM FIO. 1.
It would require about all the water
that would run through a three-quar
ter-inch pipe to keep the smallest size
ran: running continually.
The reservoir at spring holds water
enough to run the hydraulic ram about
an hour, then it stops and holds the
water from running away until the
epring fills again and runs out through
a pipe at top of reservoir and operates
ft trip, Fig. 1, which I invented (no pat-
ent). as the manufacturer could not
furnish one.
Any one handy with tools can make a
I <i«p of this kind. There is quite a large
llnndy Dim
>r SIphw t <
In the I
fur I'Vedinu liny
lve .• Khec|
In yard or barn inclosure this Is a
very hai;<!\ affair for feeding hay or j
straw to sheep or calves. All that is
needed is a good crockery cask, from
Where does it stop? and w hat a terrible
case of "flea eat tlea" it must be! And
what a source of satisfaction it would
be to the poor dog to know how his tor-
mentors were being tortured! From
the flea to the elephant is a big jump,
but we will make it, to the one with the
birds on his back. The birds are there
after parasites; and that is the answer
the first question. One would think
Advert i
TREE TRUNK SPIRE.
pter*- Clinreli, at Taeoma, Wash.,
1m a (tiialnt and Simple
IIiiiinc of \\ orNliip,
is his most hated and feared enemy
Against lions and tigers against th*
great rhinoceros even, the elephant it
as well fortified as n battleship against
a rifle bali, but the tick is too small tc i
be fought. The tough, thick hide 1
which is proof against the claws of the
lion and the thorns of the jungle, ii
easy to the tick, and he just bores it
full of holes, lie gets down into th«
crevices or wrinkles of the elephant'!
building 15x20 feet, filled up with ■ back and there he stays and gnaws
branches and boughs, where they build ' iin^ chews and wriggles and scratches
their nests like wild birds and their •N*° W'ount of rubbing against rocki
play cage is 20x30 feet. A red squirrel "r tre.'s will relieve the smarting. Rut
general federation at the Denver
vention. The work of spreading the
club idea among the women of the south
fell to her lot, and few have any com-
plaint to make of the success she has
made in this somewhat stubborn field.
Mrs. Lowe has crossed the meridian
of life, but she is still youthful in ap-
pearance, and though not a large wom-
an has an imposing appearance and i«
that the eh pliant with his wonderful t)« ' gins lir tree stump. The church, an excellent and impressive speaker,
endurance, his comparative ignorance 11 primitive structure, was built She is of rather slight stature, her eyes
of pain and with a hide that is inches in 11 *' midst of a rough lumber camp in are blue, and her brown hair is tinged
thick to protect him, would be above be- the seventies by the side of the tree, so with gray. She wears eyeglasses,
ing annoyed by little things; but he i that the latter might be used for a dresses with elegance and taste and has
isn't. steeple. ISishop Morris, who is still the charming, easy manners that pcr-
In the deep forests of Africa, where ; bishop ef Oregon, built it. | tain to the ladies of the south. How she
the elephant roams, there lives also an
insect called th* "wood-tick." and he
which two-thirds of the staves should
From this beginning the Georgia Fed- j ^ 'u1' Rbown in the illustration,
eration grew, and Mrs. Lowe was unan-
imously electcd its president. In 1898 I
she was elected presiding officer of the
Chris ■ in
Wn h., fp<
i bells tang at Tacoma,
i a peculiar church spire. It
MV'
The church was built in less than a held in estimation of the membc.
«> k, but the steeple Lad been growing the general federation may be gath
with a splendid brush is their sole com
panion.
Then there are fancy chickens. Gold-
en Polish, with dazzling feathers that
look as if they had been dipped in gor-
the elephant Ins a friend, a little biri
friend. -No rooner is the tick comfort-
ably situated than a pair of bright
piercing, yellow eyes seeks him out
End a long, slender, graceful beak
geous dyes, and black Polish white- j P,l"'ks 5 il1; forth from his hiding ind
crested fowls, whose snowy bonnets are 'ie ou nt'r those eyes and
like nodding chrysanthemums. Fear
is unknow n iu the pheasantry, even the
timid quail comes at his whistle. He
will have a large exhibit, at the fourth
annual show of the Chicago poultry
and pet stock exhibition in January,
and expects to add to his fine collection
of first prize ribbons.
Taken as n whole, the pheasantry re-
fleets unbounded credit on its boyish
proprietor, who, in addition to having
the sole care of it, is finishing the
eighth grade course in the Oak Park
school.- -St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Flume* (Miln't Tell Trntli.
One nk-lit a young man in Divinity
hall at Yale undertook, with a toy rifle,
to hit a lamp, but his aim was poor,
and the ball passed through the win-
dow of an eminent professor of sci-
ence, and hit the wall. This was an
opportunity for science, and the pro-
fessor set to work and computed the
curve, and traced the bali right back
to the room of an innocent student who
didu't even know that the rifle had
been fired. In vain the student pro-
tested his innocence. There were the
infallible figures to prove his guilt, and
it might have resulted In his suspension,
when the real culprit came forward
and confessed. He convinced the pro-
fessor that he had made a mistake of
300 feet in his figures, and the man
of science was only too glad to drop
the matter right there.
that Li 11 is a beautiful white heron
He is small of body, long of leg and
large of heart and purpose, and in
northern Africa he is said by the na
tives and hunters to be the elephant'!
guardian angel. The elephant seems
to judge him so, too, for. ugly tem-
pered as: he often is, he is never c.osi
with the heron, or ibis, as he is called
in the .Nile country. When the long,
slender bill sinks deep into his sore
flesh, as it sometimes does, he is pa*
tient with his benefactor, and. bearing
the pain without a twitch, seems to
know that it is for the bes*
In countries where there are no cle- | lisi, jNV
jered from the fact that she—a south-
erner—could find friends enough to
elect her the executive head of this tre-
mendously large body of American
women, the vast majority of whom live
in the north.
Before her marriage Mrs. Lowe was
one of the most beautiful and popular
belles in the south. She has a son and a
, married daughter.
FOR THE BRIDE-ELECT.
Linen, llook and Itimc Showers Art
Bccomlnir Popular All Over
the Country.
FARM WATER RAM—FIO. 2.
per cent, of the springs not strong
enough to run a hydraulic ram without
something of this kind. Where a hy-
draulic ram can be used 1 think it is
far ahead of a wind pump, as it is cheap-
er to begin with, will last longer, will
not blow down, ai.il requires no oiling—
all you i:t ed to do is to take care of the
water. The pipes .should not be less
than four feet under the ground or the
water will be warm in summer and too
cold in winter.
In Fig. I S is the spring; K, ram; 900
feet of pipe run up to T, a 60-gallon
tank iu pantry, wit , overflow pipe, to
H, a ten-barrel tank !n the barn. In
Fig. 2, A is a board 8x14; H, lever 20
inches long, with a quart bucket on
long end which has small holes in bot-
tom to let the water leak out, and a
weight on short end to raise bucket
w hen empty. K. plunger that puis valve
1) in motion. H is a block on the board
A. under plunger C, with pin at E, to
guide C off of valve while bucket is
BARREL FEEDING RACK.
thus making holes from which the
fodder can be obtained. The animals |
then feeding from the rack waste no j
food, and, unlike the ordinary rack or
manger, the strong cannot very easily
drive the weak away from it. If any of
the lambs or calves are disposed to fight
over their food, however, a stake driven j empty. Dotted lines show po-
a bo tit a foot from the cask and opposite
the whole staves, is pretty sure to re-
mlt in the O. akcr one* obtuininff their Ro.„ui«e rrnii
r,quMW allowance. The barr,l i, . as- ,t announced that the French ffov
il} filled, am! the fodder, hay or straw ,rnmi.,„. |„„king ,„,i (,„■ :1 M.i.rce
mav I,, fed from it with practically no ,„s
vastc at all.-ired O. Sibley, in Ohio f,„it .lM ,„lh|ie'hi h
fition of lever when bucket is foli.—
Ohio Farmer.
Farmer.
THE COW IN WINTER.
Inmienite I.ohm Ih I'iiunciI 10very
h>- t old llnnm nnd the Luck
of Warm Muter.
The bride of to-day is being made the
recipient of many social honor;-. All
hir girl friends pay her tribute by
j these pretty entertainments, and the 1
popular maid must be readv for her I _
j wedding several «,,ks before tin- event investigation made by the Kan-
transpires, for at inch .,f the func- s" <'M"•rin"•|l, Matlon of th,. creain-
! ions she is supposed to w ear one of her ' ry l,usln,!'fi "f the Meridian cre-mery
ST. i'ETKR'8 CHURCH, TACOMA.
for over 300 years. The stump is over
trousseau gowns. Most of these uf-
fi 11 s are luncheons or breakfasts, eucli
ttiih a special feature. A "linen
shower," for instance, cousists of en eh
| guest bringing a piece of linen, a doiley,
s.u n feet in diameter at the height of ce,,u'rPi"''- scarf, whntev.
the fence. On its top is the church bell °nt' chooa,,s> and u6 the P r<v leal. :
surmounted by a little roof and cross.
'1 he belfry is reached by a curious lad-
d.'r formed by slats on
from the roof to the tree trunk.
party leave
the table the pieces are thrown at the
bride-to-be.
a board leaning , 1 "r " ''bonk fcll°wei" each guest
c trunk. brings a book appropriately inscribed
Over tin- tree grows a beautiful Eng :' f^*l"1.. "'i « sentiment which
..-ill ivy. This ivy hus found its wav ! !r,u'r Of course, each kov
phants the ibis seeks other animals, jul0 the church through a crack in the ! ,le" cn" use 1" r own i<!c,"iplanning
and performs the jame service fot simple chapel. There it grows, a beau en t. it an, me., t. und in h., i^vita-
. sen and sheep which it does for the ,ifll, decoration for the interior of the tion* !'"ls "m: torm'' "hu* <'«>'h
mammoth of the jungic. and from hit It j. green even at this sea- " 10 r",tr f<"' the hon°''e<l on..
it comes to be called the "cattle her- ion ^ "Teaspoons," "cups and sau'ert '
on."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Thc bdl wa, iven fc (he Sun(, >' «•" d '" °fa I "lows" are .11 ac-
B.i. r Uor.r. Well Trained. school of old St. Peter'a church, of I'hii- furnishing ihenh*nU'l0I,!' *i° '°"
The Doer horses are remarkably well "delphia, nnd the chutcli is known ns i •',u " V',W
trained animal., and when the Trans- ; St. I'eter's Episcopal church. Mr" 1 "• her girlhood datsnnd
v.i .icrs desire to form an ambush or Cheal is the rector.
firing line, their horses are taught to
remain stationary as soon ns tlirv fee' i.ini. iihyme for lirlilen.
the reins dipped over their necks. '
Spider Placns In Japaa. | Marr^a''1(ln black• ,ou wlU *i,h >our[e"
Spider, are a serious plague in Japan Mar '. *.i In red, you will wish yourself dead-
l hey sjiin their webs on the telegraph Marrlod In green, ashamed to bes.-tn
ti the fact that there was one
jnau that sheltered his cows in winter
by two wire fences, another by a *\ood
I't, and still ithera by wind breaks.
Out of S2 patrons there were 18, or 22
per vent, that compelled their cowh to
drink ice water from a creek or pond
in winter.
When we stop to think that the
dairy cow unlike the steer, has a thin
hide, with little or 110 fat beneath the
skin and .1 poor surface circulation, we
can understand one of the
roads of France. The French are
law-abiding pople, but the announce-
ment. one. imagines, will carry joy to
I the heart of the French boy. The tide
I of the public road is hardly the most
| prudent place in which to plant the
| cholceft Hibstons and Blenheim or-
anges On the other hand, fruit trees
inhjht he planted to the great advan-
tage of the farmer in this country.
Without the smallest desire to dis-
place the elm. the oak and the ash.
which adorn the land-cape ami make
p od timber when they are felled, ap-
j it s and pears in the place of much
timber which is to be found along the
country roads would be welcome.
lias been a great increase in
tl> ii -eet pe.-t> iu field}, and orchard*
of late ,\ • ;irs. I he fanner or fruit
grower finds himself confronted with
the problem of how to successfully
combat tlie-e little tyrants of the field
and trees. Much has been done by
spra\ing aid much will doubtless be
done iu the future, but as in most sjch
eases nature will doubtless supply the
antidote. She has already given us
many little helpers, but alas! wc
recognize them not. Chief among these
are bird*. Sitting near a nest in the
season when the parent birds have from
three to a half dozen hungry moutlu
to liII, one will soon be convinced, by
counting the number of insect* brought
iu an hour, and estimating the number
the liest full of young will consume in
a week's time, of the benefit the pair
of littli' songsters are to him. Then
let him consider that thc good work
steadily increases as the young bird
grow in size and numbers, and multiply
this family by the number of nests in
his orchard and vicinity, and he will
hardly fail to realize the great benefit
the birtls are to him. He will not be*
grudge the few cherries, strawberries,
etc., that the birds appropriate to vaiy
their diet, and furnish a balanced ra-
tion. That man, unless he is lacking in
forethought, will hardly allow the boy
with the gun to raid his premises. He
will hardly keep a drove of useless cats,
nominally to catch rats and mice, but
in reality to roam about the orchards
and fields, robbing nesta and slaying
parent birds. On he contrary, he will
encourage his little Iriends in every
w ay to make their homes near him. He
^ill put up neat little houses in seclud*
ed nooks, for such as do not build in
the trees. He will leave nothing un-
done to encourage the birds to come tc
his place.
The birds are nature's own remedy
for the foes of the trees and fruit, li
we make of ourselves, through ig-
noranec or worse, an ally of the pests
we can only expect w hat we deserve—
to suffer the penalty. It may be a great
accomplishment to be able to bring
down a bird on the wing, but it ii the
act of a fool nevertheless, If he who does
it happens to be a farmer or fruit raie
er.—J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer.
GARDEN AND ORCHARD.
Starvation and neglect arc common
causes of unproductiveness in the or
chard.
One of the best ways of protecting
full-grown peach trees is to mulcfc
heavily under the tree as far out as the
branches extend.
drafts for spring setting may be cut
at any time when the weatheris mild
Label them correctly and pack them ir
sawdust until ready for use.
Undesirable fruits or those proved
unfitted to the climate may be changed
to good ones by grafts, which spread
over the heads will soon form bearing
trees.
The longer an orchard i6 kept in cul-
tivation and a crop taken off the greater
becomes the necessity for liberal ma-
nuring. Now is a good time to apply
the manure.
Repotting of plants becomes nece*
sary at intervals from two considerar
tions, namely: The plant uses up the
fertility in the soil und fills the pot
with roots.
House plants should have as much
sun and light in winter as possible.
\dniit air whenever the temperature
is not too cold, say 40 degrees in the
oprn air.
The leaves of house plants should be
kept clean and frequently uprlnkled
with water or washed with plant
syringe in order to keep the breathing
pores open.
It is not the severe freezing that In-
jures the strawberry plants so much
as the repeated thawing and freezing.
By proper mulching in good season thic
injury may be avoided.
While the quality of the Ben Davie
apple is not the best, yet, because of its
large size, bright-red color, productive-
nesa and good keeping qualities, it ia
one of the most profitable to grow.—
St. Louis Republic.
SHOVELING DIRT.
I'vei« Thl* Humble l.nlior Mttr De
Made Lighter i,v the K\erelae
of 11 Little T'louulit.
Here is a new w rin&l? about so simple
a matter as shoveling dirt into a ditch.
You thought you knew all about that
: b before, but yoi didn't know this
idea. The scheme is to turn the shovel
over, having a man on one side of the
ditch to push the shovel and on the
wires, and arc so numerous as to cause i In blu<. he will a!\\ ,iya he true;
a serious loss of insulation. Swceninc >! 11 ! l" yo" wl11 llve 1 whirl:
,, , „ j ' "teP1D« Married In yellow, ashamed of your fellow
the w.ir. r. >es litt.e good, as the spidere Married In brown, you will live out of town;
ia all over again.
Married In pink, your spirit will sick.
frit nds. The "rose shower" should bt
left for the last affair before the wed-
ding, and as the bride departs an im-
mense bag filled with rose petals is
burst over her head, and each maid*
throws a handful of the fragrant blos-
soms, signifying the hope that her fu-
ture may be rose-strewn. The bag is
made of tissue paper, and the girls will
all have been saving their rose petals
fur weeks for thik occasion.—Chicago
Timet Herald.
Tin* \ 111 ni« of tin Ion n.
"Onions," says an authority on sani-
1 ion. "put you to sleep naturally.
Bromides don't. There are fi w doctors
who know enough to know that th«
011s | Lord put th" best kind of a sedative into
why the yield oj ome herds is so low. the ground when He made onions. The\ |
Th" dairy cow is a very sensitive ani- build you up and then let you down
mal, and when she forced to 1.. i-p in are ;. < alinii • ns music b\ moon
up animal heat and to stand shivering i light. (Jen. tirnnt teh graphed the war
while having her till of ice water she | flepartim nt in the summer of 1864: *
certainly cannot be expected to make j not move iny army without onions,
a very good showing at the milk pail. ! *"ii'. the next day three trainloads of
Very few people realize the loss sub- j onions were started to the front.
tained from cold barns. In an expert
ment carried on in New England it
was found that with a herd of 20
cows thc profit was three pounds or
about $13 per week more when the
temperature of th- barn was kept at
('.3 degrees than when at 52 degrees.
At this rate it would not take long
I>,\ -entery was raging and Grant was
as thorough commissariat as he was
general. He knew onions was a specific
for dysentery and other ills of hot cli-
mates. .Napoleon. Wellington, (irnnt-—
all thrt e knew ti- value of onions."
Small fruit culture will always be
fo. a herd of aornl .lairy row to pav j I"'"*' "sr,U °,n the H«n.
for a linn.. Tlir barn should I..- tiKii't "r,'n ul " ti,,u' aIul
enough so that the animal heat of the
tuns will alway- keep the manure
from 1 ret zing.— I), ii. Otis, in KuraJ
Wmlu.
give it the best possible culture.
I.ef t'ic I'.nhcrick, I he scales and thf-
ps pcr end pencil sit iu judgment 011
Jour cow a
IB
tffl
v.>~
SHOVELING DIRT MADE EAST.
other side of the ditch to pull the shovel
by means of a pole fastened by a wire
to the base of the shovel handle. The
picture makes it very plain. The old
ditcher who got up this idea is un Illi-
nois man and finds it a great help, es-
pecially where the soil is heavy. He ia
man who does ditching by contract,
and who therefore knows what he is
talking about. He says that two men
working in this way will accomplish s
much as three men working with shov-
els in the ordinary manner.—Uraagf
Judd Farmer.
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