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The Exeter Times, 1894-3-1, Page 4lrre.3.IL,110BSOTTDElt, 152Paela6 AVQ., Santa CrUZ, Cal., Writes; " When a ghd at school, in Reading, Ohio, 1 lead a severe attacle of brain fevers Ou my recovery, I found myself perfootly bald, and, for a long time, feared I should be perx;aattently so. 'Pelmets urged zue to use Ayerss Hair Vigor, and, on doing so, my hair Began. to Grow, and IP= have as fine a head of hair tie one eould wish for, being, changed, how- ever, from, blonde to dark brown." " After a et a sickness, sny hair came out in combfulls. I used. two bottles of Ayees Hair 1gor and now my hair is over a yard long and 'very full and heavy. I have recom- mended this preparation,to others with like good effect." -Mrs. Sidney- Carr, 1460 Regina st., Harrisborg, Pa. "I have used Ayers Hair Vigor for several years and always obtained satis- factory results. I know it is the best reparation for the hair that is made." • -O. T .Arnett, Mammoth Spring, Ark. ' 9 Ayers 94 . 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Wednesday morning Onr.7013 PRINTING DEP ItTME1NT is Otte aryls lezgest and beat e iuippen in toe County o Ruron,Ali work entrusted so us wi1lrs33ta.1 nor promp tattension: Deceit:one Rea�tag NewS- . • papers. n1Ayperson.w1e takes a paperregularlyfr3 theposteottlee, whether directed in nis name or another'e,or whether he has suesoribad or net isresponsible for payment, 2 If a person orders his paper discontinued 'be inust pay all arrears or the publisher may ontinue to send it until the paymeat is made, nd then collect the whole asnotiat. whether e paper is takenfrom the ollice or not ,Ln saits.for subscriptions, the suit may b3 nstituted in the place svnere the paper is MO ithed, although the subscriber may reside hundreds of miles. away. 4. The courts have decided that refusing te aknewspspere or periodicals from t,he pun - file, or ratnavins and lea yin Vas u 'dawdle' Eepilta% facie evidena3 of inesee0alt frail. I For Sciatic ••=42=••••msesarmaaveam 434 Neuralgic .44.4.231131 ONE APPLICATION pains , OF THE . " "MENTHOL/ • o PLASTER !TWILL DISPEL THE PAIN LIKE MAGIC POWDERS Cure SICK E ADACH E and Neuralgia in zo MtNUrES aLo Coated Tongue, Dizzi- ness,Biliousuess, Vain in the Side, Constipatidn, Torpid Liver, Bad Breath. to stay cured Ow regulate the 'bowels. VERY NICE TO TARE. Pzioz 25 021773 AT Biwa SroREs. THE KEY TO HEALTM • 17n1oas allthe clogged avenues of tho towels, Kidneye and Liver, carry. • 'lug Off gradually without weakening the System, an the impurities and foul • humors of the secretions; at tho same time Correcting Acidit3r of the Eltemach, curing Biliousness,Dye. *Pala, Ileadsiehes, Zizziness, iErEt3artbu3na, Constipation, Zryness �f the Skins, Drops, Diannesa Virden, .Tearatliee, Pialt Rheum; gi-jeipelats, Serefitla, Pluttering ei the }"Eeart, Itertrothaneste, and aettp Oral Debility; all these and ruanY other ninila Complainte yield to the haepy influence a BMEEDOCS • sLopp 333.,eittats. Itmelcm COse Providers. Toro. The niillionaire Ameriean who edits the Pall Mall (ism tte ie con terriptuotisly referred teth toedon newspapt.tre as "that Amer- ican,' and in Amerman newspapera a sore Of renegade unfit to live. •Profit all tins it is apparent that Mr. Astor is getting ou t a pretty good tewepaper. TliB EXETER, TIMES • THE NORTH-WEST. It io FavourablyNetted. in the London, Times. The RaphItfitnthntitnY,--COna. -0,f-the Co nova Vatter Farming. 4eProse- • cuted-The 'Wheat Crop aeported 'Cargo e-Mtveutages (Kalil:tea Ferndale A commissioner represeuting the Loodon Titnee la making a tour of Canada. Two lettere, both dealing with, the NorthsWest, Insve appeared reoently, Ia the opening, the aommissioner dude with the infinence of Canada on British affairs. He says s- it does not seem to be an exaggeration to Bey that the course whieh affairs take in Centiela during the next few years may ha a decisive influence upon the direction of British history. The primary xeason for this impression is obvious. Canada is the first of the great colonies evhieh has formed a politioel combination that gives her a position olosely akin to that of a nation, Her territory comprises 35 per ceut. at least of the whole Empire, and covers nearly half of the North A.merieau continenb, It is only within the last few years that she has become fully oonscioas of the vast possibilities of this largely ma; developed area. Facing •upon the two greatest oceans of the globe, the country is brought into easy commercial constraini. cation and international relation with much of the world. For nearly 4,000 miles it borders upon, and therefore has more or less intimate relations with, the United States, ,Thus, though Canada has not a nation's franahise, her people and states- men have to consider in many ways the interests of a nation. By the mere compulsion of circumstances her statesmen are fast becoming statesmen of the Empire. • Already more than once their advice has been essential to the wise conduce of the most difficalt Imperial negotiations. It is this fact whioa gives such extreme significance to her present positiou. In what direction will point the interest and aspirations of a great colony which has reached this stage of growths?. How far do thesebaterests and aspirations coincide withthoae of Britishpeople generally? These are largequestions which cannot be answered off -hand. That they must be answered sooner or later invites or almost compels the careful study of Canadian conditions, England tnust keep in touch with the thoughts and interests of her children abroad if she is to be to them still in reality a mother land; if she is to be among them a growing rather than a waning influence. T1114N0R83•W5GB roentser. Among the Canadian problems of na- tional interest I am disposed to place fore- most those connected with the growth and settlement ot • the vast provinces of the North-West. These provinces are sure, sooner or later, to be filled with a popula- tion of many millions of people, English- speaking, and for the 'most part of British blood. To emigrants from the United Kingdom they now offer the most readily accessible areas in the Empire where bonne - stead lands can still be easily acquired. Wishing to form an estimate of the pro- gress and prospects of the North-West, of its food -producing capacity, and of the conditions of settlement, I elected to visit the country at a seasonnotusuallyconsider- ed tavourable. A new and strange owe of vastness grows upon the mindasonetravels day after day over the prairies with the distant sky -line as the chief object which fixes the eye. The impiession is different from that produced by wide space at sea, for the imaginetion at once begins to fill up these enormous areas with homes and busy inhabitants. At first sight it seems only necessary to pour out population over these vast spaces in any direction. This is soon found to be a mistake. There are lands good, bad, and middling. Some districts are more subject to frost than others. There are areas where the soil is excellent, but where at someseasons water in sufficient abundance is wanting. GOOD .AND BAD LANTi. • To allosv any settler m the North-West to go upon land which is not the best avail- able is a gross -mistake. The railway com- panies and the Government are beginning to realize this too Tong -neglected truth. Lands are now carefuLly surveyed, and their characteristics noted. Skilled pioneers are invited to precede parties of emigrants and make careful choice. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company challenges inves- tigations of its lands, and gives free passes to those who wish to examine them with a view to settlement. It sends out experienced agents to assist the individual settler in making a choice.. All this is having a good • elect, and is °erecting the mistakes of ear. iier days. The trouble taken will be re- paid, for of all emigration agents the con- tented settler is by far the best. ItPis from such that the North-West is now getting its best impulse. Tin WHEAT CROP. While the rush of emigration has not been so great as the sanguine hopes of the early settlers led them to anticipate the progress made seems to the ordinary ol;serv- er very great. It is,as I have already said, only seven years and a half since the main railway across the continent Wag completed. A alance at a good railway rria.p shows how rapidly branch lines hEive been pushed for many hundred miles in various directions, as settlement jastified their construction. What the traveller sees in a journey over some of these branch lines furnishes the best proof of the progress of the country. From Winnipeg I went over the Southeen Manitoba road to Estevae, the point to which it was last winter completed, and thence back to rejom the malts line at Brandon,in all a dzstaueeof nearly 500 miles. At intervals of 10 or 12 miles over nearly all this distance prosperous little towns are springing ap,each equipped with two,three, or four elevators to deal with the grain raised in the surrounding districts. Wheat was beim; shipped rapidly at the time, and these elevators were usually surrounded by teams waiting to deliver their loads. Una staelts ofstraw, soon to be burned for want of any better use showed where the grain had been thresheilin the fields vshere it was grown. In the latter part of October the deliveries of wheat at Fort William alone amounted to a thousand carloads per week, and the railroads were finding it difficultto deal with all that was offered. For 1891 the whole North-West produetion was esti. mated at between twenty-two and twenty- three million bushels. A good demi was then injured or lost through the diffieulty of dealing with an exceptionally heavy crop ID the absence of a sufficient supply of labor: .For 1802 the output) was between fifteen and sixteen million bushels, but the average quality was much higher than in 1801, and the crop was generally saved in good condition. E'er 1803a reliable report indicatee that the aggregate production shows a large inerease over 1892. • 3101TANZA VATCLIS. he pqouliar conditions of eel tive,tion On the pratrieg mase it possible to effect changes in five years Which in most aoun. tries weld require the work of a Whole generatien, On theemaede, Albano° faros, once Es part of the large 0010111040u estate iu which Lord Braseey ni chiefly interested, I sew an illuetrotiou of the speedy way in whioh the vireo prainia can lee:node reedy ha' CrOp. IA I%lay, 1S90,not a sod had been brokeu on the farm, In 1892, 1,500 eons, at least, were under crop, with 500 acres additional of summer fallowing, Be. tween Jame when the farni. :Medlin °insect, and September, when harveat began, a new bleak of 700 acmes Was ina,de perfeetly ready for the ueice spring sowing iu April. At an adtoming farm, lately set off from the same estate, 800 wee were ready for Beetling where not a sod Ivo been turned the Rreviousspring. 11 probteblyeasts between bee and six dollars per acre to prepare lancl as thoroughly ae that which I examined at Qa'Appelle. I heard of cases where, under a rougher system of farming, land was madeready et much lose coat. A man with two yoke of oxen and a gang plough breaks up a qaarter section MO aores) during five spring and sumraer months, aud the whole expense per acre is less than. three dollars. • The rapidtty and cheapness of preparation etrike the observer forcibly after he has watched the slow processes by which farms are made in the forests of Eastern Canada or British Columbia, in NewZealisnd Web, among Tasmanian, and Australian gurn treea, or by reclaiming waste lands in Eng, land or Scotland, Manifestly any ooneider- able application of capital or a large inflow of farming population might, under such i conditions, ncrease the wheat outpet very rapidly. Morn) wawa,. The North-Western farmer has his ape - dal difficulties to oontend with. Here, as elsewhere, man learns by slow degrees to wrestle successfully with the problems of nature, and be does so by Outlying them and adapting himself to new conditions. The key to successful farming in the North- West consists in knowing how. to meet the dangers of frost.. To this end the farmer must prepare during the autumn for the work of the spring. But the term "frozen wheat," which suggests to most minds the entire destruction of the crop, as a mer- chantable commodity, means nothing like this to the North-Western farmer. Slight- ly frosted wheat is reduced for flour -making purposes perhaps 30 per cent. in value, what is called frozen wheat 50 per cent. Both are freely used by millers to make a cheaper kind of ilour. But many experi- ments hare now proved that they are open to a much more profitable use. It is claimed that frozen wheat fed to pigs is worth from 60 to fin cents per bushel, and that it makes excellent feed for all kinds of stock. In this feet lies one of the chief arguments for greater attention to mixed farming than has yet been given to it in the North- West. MIXED FARMING. In the production of pork, especially, it is claimed. by geed. authorities that the opportunity is very great. The wheat -fed pork of the North-West may „yet compete with the maize -fed pork of .shicago. So, too, 'in the ease of poultry. With its abundance of refuse grain and large areas of stubble, no country ought to produce turkeys and other fowl more atm& antly and cheaply. But the North-Western farmer takes to mixed farming slowly and reluctantly. For this there is at present more than one reason. Labor is often scarce and expensive, and the attention to detail required in mixed farming is, 'there- fore, rendered difficult. Feneing is neces- sary with a variety of stock, and fencing in some parts of the treeless prairie country is expensive. On the other hand, there is something of the temptation of gambling in wheat raising. With a good season, large crops, and a favourable price, the profits from a few hundred acres of wheat land are very large. As far as one could learn from rather extensive enquiry, the production varies all the way from 15 to 40 bushels per acre, according to the nature of the soil and season. The price, too, has varied in different years from 55e to $1 periebushel for the best grade of grain. In such cir- cumstances the temptation to speculate on the chances of the year is very great. As long, however, as the farmers of the North- West stake so much upon& single product, so long must they be prepared for meat fluctuations of prosperity. Wheat, in sym- pathy with prices all over the world, has never been so low as during the last two years. I found many a farmer in Manitoba who was getting only 65c a bushel for his wheat, paying at the same time high prices for pork, beef, butter, and necessary articles a food, brought from Ontario and the Unit- ed States. That this ie bad farming, for which there can be no sufficient excuse, is a lesson which is being slowly but certainly learned. When it has been thoroughly learned -when mixed farming is the rule rather than the exception -1 believe that the permanent prosperity of the North- Western farminginterest is assured. il ,PR.EtS ON S faiLLIED. Uralic lExploallon on a Gorman Ma -of - War. A Kiel special says :-A terrible boiler explosion occurred to -day, on the cruiser Brandenburg at this port. With the usual secrecy that pervades naval affairs, the officers of the ship refused to give any de- tails regarding the accident, but it was soon known thee many of the crew were killed and thet considerable damage was done to the vessel. The Brandenburg was on Her trial trip when the explosion occurred. Forty•one men were instantly killed and nine others were fatally wounded. Atnong the dead are three ohief engineers, who were on the vessel to report on the work Of the boilers, and several other officers. Most of the „bodies were badly scalded, in some instanees the faces being so swollen out of shape as to be uurecognizable. • Five steena. era went at once to the assistance of the dis- abled warship and towed her back to Kiel. Prince Henry of Prussia went aboard the Brandenburg au& helped in the work of re - Hewing the wounded. The stearntug which was the first vessel sent to the Brandenburg's assistance, returned to the quay with thirty dead bodies. The news of the accident had spread through the city and thousands haa gathered at the landing place. Four other steam tugs brought the wounded ashore, Many of the crew were injured critically, and several are likely to die in the next 48 hours. An were taken to the niilitary hospitel for treetneent, . An officer of the Brandenburg says that the main stesenpipe of the starboard engine burst. The Accident occurred between 11 and twelve o'clook yesterday morleitg. Among the victims are many dookyard ertificere. The vessel remains in the bay, and it is extremely difficult tb get details, At midnight the statement was given out that the munber of deaths woulcl not exs ceed forty. Mr. Gladstone possestea a lead pencil thirty.nine inches long, with a gold to Ile uses it as a walking -stick. AGRIOULTITUAL. The Oow Bun of -dm Entare. It le net aillieult to see that there axe to he radical changes in the near future in the plau E barns to be built or remodeled on the dairy farms of this couutry, and that WO 410411 in the future build more in aceordauce with our wants, and the eon- veuient care of QM, atook, e.nd not erect costly stracturee whit* make much show but neceasitete orowding the cattle to at the barn rather than the reverse. The improved methode of dairying and thetrend of eircumetancee that are making old ways Wholly unprofitableS' call to the dairyman to investigate and see if complienee with the new ways does not demand %loamy in the oonstruction of the barn, in the saving of unneeessery cost, specie and labor, renclerine the cows more comfortable, with stalls planned to idt the pows, and at the same time comply with the requirements of cleanliness. The rapidly increasing practice of winter dairying, and. the success of the later sys- tems of cold storage, the tvvicequalizing she offerings of a dairy produce upon the mar- ket, has made the dairyman a student in hia profeseion. He sees that he mast dairy it 365 days in the year, end that the barn muse be in everyday use all the time, So the old 30x40 foot structure withits &amp - ed and limited stables is wholly unsuited to his wants. The yet more modern stone- walled basement barn, serinounted with its castle -like structure, is an extreme as far the other way from desirable utility. A barn to meet modern requirements must be warm in isdater stud cool in summer, light, easily kept clean, one that dries ont read - in fact, s desirable living room the year round. Not one stone basement born in ten answers.to the demand. Too little light, liability to be damp, bad ventilation, close and musty in the summer and redolent with smells in the whiter when doers must be closed, are their objections. The adyent of the silm,and its stores of food compressed into the smallest space and, of a charaoter that calls for summer renditions of life, the small demand for hay and winter feeding, and the prospect now that the summer soil- ing ration will be corn put into a special silo the auto= before, makes the huge barn to hold the bulky orops of little' use save to stand six months of the year a cav- ern of winds, bringing no profit, in fact ,a loss by depreciation of value and despair. Then how shall we build? With the entire change in, foods, there is no occasion to pitch the rations up hill, and then down again, so the low barn fills the requirements of the case. The demand for plenty of light makes it imperative that there shall be no blank walls bi the stables, so the latter needs to be a distinot affair as far is it re- lates to anything that will obstruct the Pght. This light balloon frame, boarded insideand lint, with lining of building pa- per, extending north and south, thirty-four feet wide inside and at leastnine feet in the clear, and cased windows so that each covv shall have an average of three agave feet of glass, seems to be the desirable atable of the future. The studding of this barn may be sixteen feet, which gives a large hay or straw loft, but the overhead: floor should be of matched stuff so the hay shall not be fouled with the breath of the cattle and vapors of the stable. The plank floor laid on "sleepers" has no i place n the modern cow barn. Let the floor be made on the ground, first clay thoroughly pounded down, and then cement- ed or tiled. The new paving brick laid in Portland cement makes a fine floor. No floor should be tolerated that has space under it to become a cavern of foul things, solid or liquid. The stable fittings will not be the unspaced row, but half box stalls, ate least six feet six inches, in which two cows will stand fastened with halters or some of the chain suspendedstanchions. The old rigid stanchion is a relic of the past days, when cows were only bred up nights and were fed outdoors. It .might have answer- ed a purpose, but now, when for seven months the eows are in the stables most of the time, and even the advocates of exer- cise admit that their cows are only out a "little while daily," the cows . must have more freedom nf movement than the old stanchion gave, hence the popularity of the halter and. neck chain. This cow will, be kept cleanly by a proper gutter behind her, with grating over it, not a -gutter that will hold the accumulations of two weeks, but a small trench, which will. be °leaned every day, e.nd land plaster sprinkled, horse manure or some other absorbent as good placed in it, and the stable kept clean and devoid of smells. The ventilators of this stable will not open from the top of the room so as to allow all the warm air to es- cape, but will reach within a foot of the floor, and, reaching to the cupola above, carry off the foul air and gases that lie in the lower level. The well-appointed stable will be provid- ed with a watering device in the mangers, so that at the proper time the cows can be watered and each have her portion in peace, and if not wanted at one time, can be, bad at the time wanted. At one and of this stable will be a combined silo and hay barn, provided the loft is not large enotigb to contain the little hay that the.dairy of the future will demand. This silo will be large hold the feed wanted from fall to spring, and connected with it will be a small, deep silo to hold the feed put up in the fall to soil the cows from the time of drying feed until the regular soiling crops are in seaso13. This barn with its windows will ,give the cows all the advantages of sunlight in the winter, the double Ivens and good doors will make it free from frost, the ventilators coming to the floor will keep the air pure without carrying off the warmth, screens and a shade at the windowe will Mike it cool in the summer and free from flies. Best of all, such a barn with all the modern improvements, convenient iti every respect, economical in every method, will only cost hundreds of dollars, where the castle -like structure with stone basement, and sue perior to it in no point ef ability, costs its thougande. IMproVeMent Of DOAN. Grain crops may, like most other planti, be improved itt varicus ways, and the im- provement often is so marked as to distin- aitish elle product as an enti rely new variety. This is especially not infrequently the case when a °toss et different varieties has taken piece, either accidently or by Widens selection of parent plante. the stigmas of the flowers of one chosen variety being fertilized with the pollen of another,ta,kieg precautfon 10 .tereveet Belf.fertiliza This method of Improving grebe, or other /Amite requires a great demi of skill, care and patieoce, add even when thole condi- tions have been dotnbined, the result will be encephala And even in the most favorable ease several generatione of cultivation, sclectime adoften repeated arid vetiona crossings are required before a new and im proved variety den be established. Hence it will be understood thet this method of iteprovernent le rather out of the way of the general farther and must be left to the ex - perish, Whci 'will be More likely to fail, the n to succeed, No wonder that very high prices are paid for new varieties of eeed and arida& • Vim is mother method of improvement wbieli may be praetised by everybody, and which will giVe certain and geed reaulte eveu iu the first crop front the properly chosen seed grain. It is well knowu that the epikelets oE cede oontain two, sometimes three, grains of seed of different sieess The larger of these ie denominated the outer grain, the smaller the inoer grain. It is owing to this oireumetence that a sharp sorting of seed oats ie of still more impor- tenets and more paying than the sorting of the other eeeeele. When we take it for granted, as it has been abundaotly proved, that the larger grains are most valuable for seed, the Importance of a sorting and a harp sorting of the seed oats will be evi- dent when we consider that one thousand outer grains ef common gets Weigh froni' foray to forty-five grams, and one thoesand inner grains from twenty- aye down to twenty grams, while the percentage of the latter in ordinary good oats is thirty-five to forty by weight or fifty to sixty by num- ber. As going to prove the respective value of large end small grains of oats for seed, the following figures, derived from the experi- ments of the Danishseed-control institution, may be- of interest. With equal cviantities by measure of seed of cemmon oats sowei per acre, the crops grown were for eats sorted to a weight of 45.6 grains per 1,000 grains, 2,398 pounds per acre', qualitative weight of grain 37.0 grams ; 36 9 grains per 1,000 grains, 2,410 pounds per acre, qual- itative weight 32.1 grams ; 23.8 grain e per 1,000 grains, 2,215 pounds per acre, qual- itative weight 30.8 grams ; 15.4 erains per 1,000 grains, 1,989 pounds per acre, qual- itative weight 29.4 grams. By sowing an equal number a grains on equal areas (1,000,000 grains per acre), the crops were from seed grain, weighing, 45.6 grains per 1,000 grains, 2,213 pounds per acre, qual• itative weight 35.3 grams; 36.9 grains per 1,000 grains'2,114 pounds per acre; qualita- tive weight32.4 grams '• 28.8 grains per 1,000 grains, 1,861 pounds per acre, qual- itative weight 31.3 grams; 15.4 grams per 1,000 grains, .1,5g8 pounds per acre, qualita- tive weight 31.8 grams. , It will appear from these figures that a sharp sorting of the seed oats is productive of increased crops,'earl a larger, heavier grain which will in turn produce heavier crops. By continuing a sharp sorting of the seed grain, it will then be evident that we have a means of increasing the immedi- ate crops of oats and at the same tires of gradually improving theluality. Doubtless the increase in straw, so important for oats, will be oorrespondtngly large after sharply sorted and selected seed. The effect of a thorough or sharp sorting of the seed oats beeornes still more apparent from the results of experiments in Sweden, under the auspices of Mellersta Sveriges Utsadesforeningen, in which experiments the crops were from seed sorted so as to contain fifteen per cent. inner grain 0,816 pounds of grain per acre.; thirty per cent. inner grain 2,352 pounds per acre : forty- five per cent. inner grain 2,240 pounds per acre. It is not only in the power of the farmer to materially improve the strain or variety of oats he may be growing and increase his own annual crops, but he may make an income by furnishing his less enterprising neighborsawith seed oats, sorted, tor in- stance, to a definite average weight per 1,000 grains, which would hare a much increased value above ordinary oats. And at, the same time be is not only advancing his own income, but he will deserve the thanks of his. fellow farmers, who will irris mediately learn the importance of sowing only the best grain obtainable. Winter Rations for Poultry. A bushel of wheat, judiciouely fed to a' good flock of hens, will yield far more than • if sold in the market at seventy-five cents, or if fed to any other stock, and the same may be said with regard to corn,buckwheat, oats, or potatoes. Corn is injurious when fed exclusively to fowl. It is deficient in egg material, while it makes the birds so fat that they cannot lay eggs. No farmer would think pf feeding a brood sow heavily on corn before pigging,or soon after either, and yet the same farmer will stuff his hens with corn twice a day and then grumble if they do not lay. Corn may be feclat nIght in cold weather, but it must be remembered that an egg is a complete food. in itself, and that.ib requires a variety of inibstatices totsroduce -itln summer the hens are en- abled to flnda good variety for themselves, but not so in winter. An excellent morning feed is olover leavee and seeds; such as are found on the floor where hay is thrown down for the horses, mixed aboat one -halt clover and one-half feed. This should be scalded well, and then bran or middlings and ground oats or buckwheat, equal parts, be thoroughly mixed in, using only enough water to make the mess stiff and crumbly. A little salt should be added and, if possible some ground meat and bone, say rine-eighth of the whole, Feed while warm, and only what the fowls will eat up quickly. On alternate mornings small potatoes, boiled and mashed, should be used in place of the olover. At eleven o'clock scatter wheat or any kind of small seeds in the litter on the floor, haying the litter five or six inches deep. This will give the hens the neces- sary exercide. Feed. the lot meal about one hour before sundown, scattering it on the floor ; this will give bite fowls time to dig is out before dark. If the farmerwould rather chop wood than trouble himself with fixing the warm morningeness, I would re - Commend that small grains sitch as wheat, oats, buckwheat and barley' be used for breakfast, on alternate mornings and at eleven o'clock, with whole or sifted oracked corn in the litter at night. Cracked ed corn is better than whole corm a it willgive the fowls niore exercise in getting it. In feeding, one thing must not be overlooked if success is to fol- low, and that is the danger Of getting the fowls overfa.t by over -feeding. Oven-fatnees might be classed as a disease. The fowls should always be kept in fair condition, neither too fat nor too poor. It is the well built, oompact, active fowl to which we must look for eggs, while the over -fat, slug- gish bird wilt not •pay for her keep. When sorting ou t the winter atook, keep only those birde together that are nearly alike in activ- ity and size. The small eddy° Leghorn or cross should not be in the same house with the larger and more sluggish Brahma or its erose. Careful attention to the habits of the young fowle and their diet will he well repaid, by their growth in flesh and the increase in eggs. Parson Johnson-" What yo' 'tinkin' 'bout, 'Miele Rafe ?.' Uncle Rule-' Doan disturb mei pabsoe ; doan' disturb I'se tilikin"bout all de einge (let I done fergot." A ropier old stick- in -the -mud -An an- chor. IThikken Cry for Pitcher's Costori4 Stttt voi.,,,:x•Avk No:AA ,•• "11 00.* 4/.11"A'kk4s‘Wkl,\is'474,\ for Infants and Children. ',caste:leis Bewail etlisptecito childrenthat recorcinend it as superior to any prescription Emewn to me." U. A. Ancona, It D., 111 So. 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