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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1901-3-14, Page 3GARDENING TOOLS. Weeding implement's What Apply La- bor to the Beet Advaatage. 4wn1g conveniencee that may be ;pude and utilized in gardening opera- tions are some weeding tools illustrated And deecribed in Obio Farmer; A more than ordinarily useful weed- '. Peg' tool is easily made. Takiegaii idld, we out hoe ot tile riveted:type, r0Inceee the Made, le.a.ving may the tri - A tresenr, emeendi lenvdegs. engular shaped handle clip shown by tete, Fig. 1. Rivet ou thisdelip a mower knife eection. B. on the side net the ,kandle socket and fit the tool with a reendle of suitable leugtia. The edges a the weeder may be ground. or Med tte sharp as required. - The tool shown by 0 Is intended Mr; eese in reraoving suckers and Weeds Vona raspberry patches and may be leeefill for other weedling purposee, It ,A le Made by reMoving the middle theee Of an old manure forte cuttiligoi 40Mewbat Sherter the two outside $ esalul flattening mai beutibeg there :late the position shown, piece a the blade of flit Old bilSh eeythe Is riveted pen the tines, and tater sharpetlipg the helpIeInent It is ready to use. We have fond what we call a "push hee" very convenient Zr entting *eeds in the garden or in gravel paths. , It is made by heating the shank or a eRtuction hoe and bending it out se that - elm hoe will stick rerward as shown in • and lie nearly Oat when the ban- • CROP, ROTATION, Beg -nits In inereassea Prot Prom ' Crops and Soil Improvement. A short rotation of crops practiced, at the Rhode Island station, has been: First year, potatoes; second year, win- ter rye; third year, clover. 1t erabraces, therefore, a root crop, a cereaJ, and a legandueris crop. A 147511 no " le ie held eo that the leg well above o knee can help the pushing,—that e upper hand holds the upper end Or o banal° against the leg. It strains ae loins and stomach less to push than to pullthe hoeand you get raore flower; else by pushing forward and paelstog up you do not tramp the Vacils, but leave them loose upon the Surface to wilt or to be raked into piles. Slot In Iraple Sugar- ' Tieing heavier than sirup, niter, or ar sand, tut It iefietriftntly-tertned, trtvtt 'the bottom a the boiling as and causes much trouble. Tide one reason why large sheet iron Without partitiona fu'e preferable. lae rapid boiling over the whole sur. 0 tends to check the precipitation, d no serious trouble Is experienced. erne evaporators aro so constructed ti at tbe pans are interchangen.ble. This a great help, as by moving the sirup ate, on -which the formation is most- , farther ahead ia the arch it can be oiled eff. Diluted mandate acid „in o proportion of one part„--.2-tneed two Of water is prenably as good as stelythieg td clean the pans. This should itte carefully applied and the pans thor- ihughly washed afterward. A Small iimount of this acid in the sap would Spoil the strap. I have tried, Several *ays of getting this substance out ef e sirup. 1 have strained through nnel, felt and sponge and have final- rettuned to gravitation as being the est practical, says an American Agri- Plturist correspondent. The sirup is t'ested with a saccharometer, drawn off, lined through two thicknesses of eesecloth and poured into small, deep filing cans holding six or seven ga- pes each. It remains in these from 12 .0 24 hours, when it is pourdd ofe care - idly into the 30 gallon canning can. the settlings are all turned into one ken, hot sap TS put in and all well ktirred. When this has settled, the 41ear portion is drawn off and the Process repeated until the sweetness veasbed out and the silica, is left ilearly as white as flour. e Rye Ground and Potato Scab. _L -Vie-difficult side of the potato scab lqaestion is ho7 to kill the germs that laFe in the soil. An Ohio man had a wee of land where dbe potatoes were &Re scabby, so he sewed rye on it imd let it grow to.,about the height of is inches, thenplowed it under, and as the result of that experinient he said be never saw a clearer crop of •potatoes. For four 'Years he has pra.c- celle-erye sowing there.—Professor Butz, Pennsylvania. Beekeeping at the Pan-American. The busy bee will he in big business • at the Pan-American exposition the coming Ammer. The Bee Journal says it has been decided to construct a spe- cial building for the proper display of • the working colonies of bees and the *mat •variety of beekeepers' supplies *Stich will constitute this exhibit. It is expected that this will be the most ex- tensive bee exhibit ever prepared in • ibis or any other part of the world. The Broadening. corn Belt., Probably the production of corn has been increased in North America by tbe development of early maturing va- rieties during the past 25 years more than it has increased in all the rest of -the world from all other „influences. n'he corn belt bas broadened hundreds of miles by this means, and the end is not vet, remarks National Stockman. SHEEP IN COW PASTURE. 1 OILY BUTTER. They evial detrt-ve on lieritaxe Tht" ill'redienAltSOJrriBaatice:1141./tit°. I" "1411 arIP;11'°o.:",rus in 13aanth"a*pparreennit°1v;car3rel7sie manner, he had placed Upon tilt! back of her ehair. Stung by tiie tones of her voice ne less than by her words, the young man flushed deeply. "X e that the greetieg you give me Aogeline Asheref t—you who pro- fessed to be so sorry when 1 went away tO the war, who wept upor my neck and said you would novel have a, moment's peece or haneinea until I returned sa,fely home again who gave lee a. photbgraph, which I have carried next to my heart iron. that day. to this!" he exclaimed "Do you remernleer how you saic you \smart be true to me, fltougt thousauels of relies of ocean might roll between us?" "Oita yes, remeruher all that." "Have you forget how you ettic at parting: "Oh, Cyrus, it breaka my heart! I cannot gel -re you up!" "I think did make some such re "I think you did. Have you fn' got how you bade me think of you in camp or on the battlefield, whet the bullets ot the enemy were dying thick and fast around me, and yet the thought that you were nraYine for roe cheer me in that dark hour?". "1 think I do recollect sayine something of the kind." "You think you do! Ea.! Ano when I was wounded you wrote tc. me to get well es soon as could and come back, to you! Do you have a., dim recollection. of doing some- thing like ehat?:' "Now that you mention it I be - neve I did." "Yon have changed, then." Ilk said ecowling derkly. "You are not the sante girl!" "You have changed mare than I have.. Mr. Barber," coldly she an- swered. "You ere not the same al'a"nio"u still insist," be went en, with exceeding bitterness, "that remove my arm?" ei doe, "So be it, then!" Calmly the young man arose, un- screwed hi wooden arm. placed it at , her feet and turned to go. Deln't Pay, "Rollo! Rollo! Rollo! CORM 4eNre.e.ill'ItvILed while the big dog eflatO bounding to him. Then they ran off the terrace together and leaped In and out of the watering -trough. You see, there was no water in it, of course. Papa kept the plug in to keep back the water while the big trough "sweetened" in the sun. What fun it was, though who would have thought so but a small boy and re big dog? In and out they hopped till they had to stop for breath. Then it was that mischief crept into NeWs brain. "I'll play a joke on Rollo." ho thought. ...Ines dreadful hiraid of water." Ile stole down the bank and pulled out the plug. •When the trough was partly full he called to Rollo again. But this time he took rare to run down sidewise, just so the Iliac ; bushes hid the trough most or the Way. And Neil didn't jump in this time—oh, no indeed! Poor unsus- pecting Iloilo did, though. and ; splashed out again, disgusted aud dripping, Ile looked reproachfully • at Neil and walked away. And not , once again that day could Neil coax a hiin to race and play. "I can't trusteyou a.ny more," Rol- i lo's big, grieved eyes said, and his ° big tail spelt out the words, one eeeeutot .aetys, the force of habit is so contact 'with the disease. Imputeivhat41 :It the floor intslow, 4,,o1 Cattle Will leet 'Porfela i A condition from which the butter While Professor Shaw says that I might be term %) "oily" may come from from 10 to 20 eheep could very• well be ! several different causes, says G. A. kept on every hundred acres on the Smith in -The Rural New Yorker, The farm without coeting the owner any= ' thieg for food ia Winter, we will go wended oils ging to make up normal further than that end say that we butter fat are Diehl, aboit 40 per cent, stearin and palmatine, about 5f) per titans from two to six could ba kept for every cow that is turned to pasture ' • Olela is the Meter whieh tends The soil upoa evhich the rotation was aud that on most farms that we have I le make the. butter "ft' tile :lieltIng coaducted was extremely exbausted. The average yield of Lard shelled corn seen the cows would find more feed as ' Wilt being ee4siderablY belew -lb° el ' 1 Ptiormal butter, while stearin and pal- , obtained per acre upou the plots the a result. Tbey eat many Plants which • does not ear, awl jowly of ;, ma -tine are the fectom tending to make ' year before the beginning of the ex- ' the cow perhueut 0892) amounted to but 18 them are sucle weeds aud, hushes- as en- I 1 it hard, the melting point being con- i bushels yee acre. eimilar sou ire ate eroach upon the pasture uuless they ! Tsihdeerabolray.above that of normal butter. 1 c eination of the tire in the ; are kept down by band labor Ur other " - other portion of the same field„ uuder !, above groportions makes butter with a a system of eolttimieus cropping evitin . means tban the grazing of the cow. good MatUre. When from any cause i That they enrieh the land over which there ..; i an excess of either one then- = out manure, became S4 exhausted by they roam is too well known to require — . ' i the year 1800 as to produce Indian corn we have 'butter either to hard or too i any argument. The proverb that "the scarcely live inches high. , soft. When the eow comes fresh in 4 hoof of the sheep is golden" la tenth- - , . e In the course or the three year rota- ries old and is too evideutiy ark allu- milk tnere appeare -to be a eonsiderably , larger proportion of the easier liquefy- , time the yields of mercbanta,ble note- sion to their ability to improve the • in g fats, the butter being* quite soft; as toes upon tnese plots were but 00, 117 soil they travel over to need an, dx- she advances in lactation the butter and 75 busbels per acre respectively. planation. Cows have no objection to ,gradually becomes more solid, and at . In the second course of the rotation feedbag over the droppietes of the the latter end of the period becomes the yields were 233, 193 and 208 busk- sbeep. They are so One and so scatter- quite hard. Certaia Mods appear to els per acre respectively. These in- ed and so quicidy lose their odor that have a tendency to cbange the texture creased yields illustrate well the im-, the growth erhich is produced by this of the butter, clover, oilmeal and that prevenient in the condition or the soil. fertilizing element is More liable to be den of foods making it soft, while During the arst course of the rota- eaten too closely than to be ueglected„ cottonseed meal, timothy hay, corn - tion the value of the crops was Is 'When they have been *eviller a t ik , ete., havetne it 11 et. than the total expenses'in five out of short time, they will be found to keep ' ee awn, the cow freslt in milk Is put on nine instance& The average boss per very closely together, tbe sheep learn- ' the clover pasture it requires extra year amounted to $0.79 per acre (lute lug to leek to the cows as their natural ' otin to oNoia op, oily coraitioo la the Ing tile nrst course of the three year protectors and the cows as ready to de — nutter, while if she had corustalks and rotation. battle for them as for their calves. We cottoeseed meal it would • help ma - During the second course of the rota.. would not take a pasture suitable for terially in malting the butter bard, Ural there was an average Kent a 00 sheep awl add 10 cows to it, for The Way the creatn is obtained has $23,54 per acre annually. they would and short reeking*, but the . a marked effect ea the butter, other After deducting the losses during the pasture that would feed 10 Ow& must , eeueueleas being egos/. woo, the first course of the eetatiou from the ' Isave been eeceptionally well kept from . milk is drawn from the cow the at proas in the second course there re- ' weeds and hushes if there woilla 00 js liquld. If the maul is =lead in males an average net proDt of $16.75 be feed enough left that the cows had paus in a cool celler, or by submerging per acre nunually during the entire • rejected to feed from 80 to CO sheep the milk in cold water tbe usual time period of eix years. nil the pasturage they would ueed. i for gravity creaming, the fat lamina The returns la the second course of ; tliorougbly seliclified, and there la very the rotation and the tilth and general . WASTE OF CORN FODDER. ' little trouble witn ells^ butter. If, eh character of the soil at the present time e. ..e., * the other baud, the cream to secured all lead to the expectation tbat tbe fut. , vetouble .0c"I'l'hAt SUgt"' Be Turn"' Ds` USIng a centrifugal separator and tura returas ought to equal or exceed 2 ea into rrentabee meat those in the second course of the rota- , Professor Shaw renews his plea for • the cream never colon. below 58 to GO degrees 1?„ the at is not as thorougb- then in which ease the profits. even greater economy upon the evestern after allowing for interest on the lo- farm. Of that most palpable and use. by soildided, and the result Is oily hot. ter, Oily butter may come from the veStment, wear and tear of tools, ma,„ less extravagance witueseed in rtilletY, action of bacteria, but it Is not usual, eliluery. etc., ougbt to be good. Aille out of every hundred cornfields be It atonal be remarked that the crops , 8n.ls: Milk and Disease Cereal'. (potatoes. winter rye and clover) grown 1- The waste of core fodder in the Itis- professor W. /.1. coon of comaeou. in this rotation are not all such as niasilipi valley is a grievous waste,. In cut, writing in Tim American Agrlcul- would be expected to yield large fine*. the aggregate the uncut corn must cial returns per acre, though they are • amount to tulllions and million& of twist, says: One class of bacteria pro- ducing human disease passes directly such as are usually or often grown be acres. And one acre in those states from sick cows Int0 the, milk. Tuber- oue es, more or tile rotations upon a wbere the season is long grows so i °Lir :tut eraeLtuleetxi:laviemly, tutiniscieVne:rs-j general farms ' much food; In a recent rlde from It Is mit expected that the three yeat Omaha to Nanstis City for more titan Min eircumstances, contaminate ber rotatlan would be practiced exclusively half a (lay the train steamed along ; milk with tbe tubercle bacillus; but upon a general farm exeept possibly in through cornfields nearly all of whieb , this seldom occurs unless the disease rare instances, but that it might be i were oneut ha,s attacked tho udder. or unless it has employed either as one of several rota, i Otero was enough of uncut corn in readied its lest stages. These bacilli tions to be conducted upon the various ! tbis one part of the Missouri valley to may give rise to ta disease in a hu - portions of the farm or in alteruatiou I feed huuclreds of thousands of cattle man being ir tbe mill: is used. It may with soma other desirable rotation, through all the winter. All tbis vela- , occasionally happeu that scarlet fever each of Ny'lliOlt Would run its Course ' able rood. will waste, and ! fragmentary portloa of tbe waste that. It Is only a ' and diphtheria arise from milk con - successively, ' taminated with tbe germs of these die - I will take place all up and down the , eases. ... : Mississippi and. many of its tributaries. i IreIgating Devicee. A. water wheel for liftiug water for i Tito day will come when all this will Ia anotber class ot diseases the irrigation, illustrated in Ohio Farmer, 1 cbange. The day will come when it from some outside source. Typhoid MD's find their way bate the milk Is plauned to utilize tbe current of a • must change. At one Uwe the greatest ' fever is a most common example of nearby stream without the expense of prat rutty thus have been obtained by this class. The germ. grows wIth great a dam. The wbeel is six feet In diem- large holders of land. 4 may be so readiness in milk, and If a few of them eter, with 14 paddles one foot wide by still. But surely in those days of high get into a milk supply they may rind- fourfeet long,and is suspended between priced meat and of sbredders more two boats which rise and fall with. the raoney could be made by using more of tiply so rapidly as to distribute.the dis- ease over a whole conlmunity and pro- ' this valuable food. The people in those I duce an epidemic. The milk may be areas where tbis practice prevails will ' , contaminitted by bandling tbe milk or be l'erd butee.Ut: ere ..,;..,,,,,,,A,* iiiz ,2.1a...:17.7, -1.'7 .i1Z,M ••••110 l`nv0 .:, T., In WATIM WHEEL FOR IRRIGATION. stream, thereby keeping the paddle of ! the wheel and the elevator buckets at the proper depth in the water at all times without attention. The boats are each one by three by ten feet. The ele- vator buckets, of which there are 82, each hold one quart and make one com- plete circuit every 70 seconds. The ele- vation that the water is raised is 18 feet. Agricultural Bre;v Wen. • • The establishment of large electrical works to supply power for use to farm- ers is reported from Bavaria. The cur- rent is generated partly by water pow- er and is sent a distance of seven miles to be utilized by means of simple mo- tors in, running thrashing machines, cutters, etc. • ' Interest in varieties of wheat among New York farmers seems to have in- creased of late. The depredations of the Slessian fly and losses from winter killing bring to the front the question of the resistant powers of the various -varieties. The barnyard millets are cultivated forms of our comrinon barnyard grass. Healtby treci planted lie spring ought to succeed, and the usual counsel giv- en by the authorities Is to plant in , spring. American Cultivator thinks the high prices apples arm bringing compared to those at picking time holds a plaia moral for the apple grower. Vermont - apples especially are godcl keepers and January, February and 'March the-I/est months to sell. ,Name your farm. It adas dignity to it, increases your appreciatien of the importance of farming and„ your pride in yonr vocation and in the end will really mate you -a better farmer," ad- vises Country Gentleman. The little green pea louse makes good prices for those who manage to krow a crop of peas. to be, brought about. ter is a inert) common source of con- titling", '1"t7E'lr-nrirts-t-41.7e --Yr> powerful,but it is a change that ought tamination. On milk farms where there has been a case of typboid fever CARE OF WEAK LAM BS. boiled water only should be used for ; rinsing the milk cans. How to Treat Those That Are Citable In summer It sometimes happens to Snek the Ewe. that bowel diseases are produced by There are many times when lambs abundance of bacteria in milk. The are dropped that are too weak to get preventives are cleinliness and low up and suck the ewe. If it cbances to temperature. Beyond much doubt a be one of twins. it may be that before considerable part of the bowel diS- it Is found tbe other and stronger one eases, especially -of children, is directly will have taken all the milk from the traceable to milk coming from cows ewe, or the lamb may be so chilled as with inflamed or diseased udders. not to have the power to suck. We have saved such a iamb when it scarce- ly had life enough to swallow by giving warm milk a little warmer than it came from the cow, and if we had it In the house we would add about a tea- spoonful of spirit or a little warm gin- ger tea to the half cup of milk, says an expert grower. It will take but one or two teaspoonfuls of milk at a time un- til 2 or 3 days old. Wben fresh milk Is not at hand, use condensed milk, about a teaspoonful of It to ten spoonfuls of hot water. 13e sure to beets it at least blood warm. When it Is able to stand alone, the lamb may sometimes be put back on the ewe if she will own it and has milk enough for both. If not, it can be brought up on a bottle and will usually., outgrow the one on the ewe if given all It will drink of good milk. After the first feeaing rub it dry and wrap it in a warn; ket, then place it where it will k. warm. Witb a flock large enough iJ keep a man to watch them at lambing time this may not be necessary, but weere they are visited two or three times in a nigbt In general, if the dairyman wishes to avoid danger a distributing disease in his milk, he must adopt four rules: , Never allow milk to enter the milk supply if it comes from an animal suf- 2 fering from any kind of it diseased ud- der; never allow any person having any contact with or recovering from , typhoid fever, scarlet fever or diph- theria to have anything to do with the dairy; always insist upon cleanliness In dairy matters and the application ! of cold to the milk to prevent bacterial growtherinse the cans 7from reliable sources or w1thwater ith boil„eed I a_ ' water. •-• • ' A Self Sucking Cow. Being for some time puzzled at the "variation of the quantity of milk o one of my cows, I came to the conclu- sion that she was holding the same or The Pope that sbe had acquired the habit of sucking herself, So I set to work to devise means to cbeck the latter should that be the case, having failed in one or two devices to detect the failing. Necessity being still the mother of in- vention, and especially so in Manitoba, there may some come in the interval where the needful is not always to Each, of the numerous dresses has, that will need attention. Then lie Felt Better. In a certain skirmish a Co (general he came to cell leinest a slight scratch on •the ieg, wound wee o. matter of great to him and he nursed it t after days, growing 1 every year, that the me bravery might ever be One day late in his nursing his leg and glorious past a yo the family for tI preached and a marked: "1„aree, ,General • "Yes," after A „ expressible select "Been riding, s "NoVa with r have not been , "Ala slipped I "No sirl" w ! ''Perhaps, your ankle, With pain lifted his p it carefully from „ale e need' the 1.1 mingled pity $ in the sublim s'flo read the try. you puppy WHAT HAPPINES515- we lin ybeeries, Bnew fettle abowt 11. Really, in our present state of be- ing, where flesh. ad spirit are so tenderly united to each other that not the attest reach of scienee can even gitess at the point that divecles hem, the legitimate things -amt zniu- ister to bodily comfort and bodily 'needs are essential to human. lin" piness, and whosoever saes they are not says what ia everhts; iegly not so, Says a. wrtier in the Si. Louis Globe -Democrat. About the only book that tells the naked truth as 1.0 poverity is the and that de- clares that it is worse than tlit plague. And 'it is for shutting one out from all human joy, sweetness or opportunity. The poet who tells us that eiron love, the strongest spir- it force that can be brought to bear upon it, flies out of the evintlow when poverty comes in at the door, covere the whole ground. Love cannot mas- ter it, and if love cannot nothing else can. Religion may console :IS by pointing to something better be- yond, but if you want to know how mueli happiness and grace it instills into the situation here just consider the Position of the poor 10 any of the aristocratic church circles or conutrunities that you knew of. Even Christ Himself, though BO said: Illeseed be ye poor„ for yours is the kingdom of heaven, did not promise much for the kingdom of earth. The woefulness of Lairtrus az the gate of Dives he fully recognized, and does not invite him to be happy over it. Neither did lie tell :.'siertiet and Mary to rejoice, when they stood at the grave of that other Lazarus. btic wept with hint over the eternal sor- row of dea,th, though Ile knew that Ile was to reveal to them the vic- tory over it. Indeed, the limitations and blind- ness that bar the way to perfect happiness here were never more fully recognized titan by tho Lord and Master of all spirit, ends and forces. And certainly this rr.ight be a point Lar the psychic teachers to consider who are trying, to introduce us to the "aappinessina.de-easy process along their lines. The most, per- haps. that we may to compelled to grant them is that man was meant far happiness, since he certainly does eiseteee capacities awl aspirations in that direction that would argue some end or aim for it in his creation. Moreover, all nature. with, her "many - colored, thousand -tongued" ap- peals to every inner and outer sense of joy and beauty, whispers cease- lessiy of some lost key to hart..my and happiness somewhere. But. af- ter all. this only shifts the matter back to that rather irritating phil- osophy which tells us that we were meant to be good, meant to he lov- ing, meant to be fair, when we know that wo aro dark, crooked and cross- grained in all our nature and an- atomy. Who has blundered that we are not what We were meant to be. Is the rather troublesome question that, from Omar down, this adlniS- SLOB. of the intended good and joy has been forcing upon its advocates everywhere; so that we are only get- ting ourselves into deep water striking out for the eternal pu In the case. To tell the truth and ly that we do not kn happiness, but ha the ?right an tinuf."-^ere unt ASI CS fIli A pets It ,cough first 'lend, for it 7ves warn - g of the AP,' roach of 'a qeadly ene- . ',feed the warning before it s te$0.' tate, be- fore' your lungs be- COtne in- flamed, be- fore the ‘ 7, doctor says, 'ConstunP- 410n." When the danger signal Arst appears, help tIatttre with delzly until your , lungs are sore and your cold settled down deep in your chest, Kill the enemy before the deadly blow kills you. Cure your cough today. One dose brings relief. A few doses make the ure complete. thretsixey. 2$1' stor se ortileary Wit On Woo: herder colds; 31.00 She meet eceeoteket for eider cases. , consider your Chem Fectoral the best remedy for colds And cengigi and all teroet aftectioes. theve useait ler actyens awl it eensiely beats tbent all: Deo, 20, lass. I). 11"' Yaud eQebir4itrb:Ntlierst';44ramnetrgertircarattl'ilicterryg e4culbutiltily reeelYsorrite the (lector enter. 'Vanua recelre wevidltzc• rite !Aimee; eset. /teems 4=14I.owei, Nam, Norman Howahl. tbe 1.k -wive -year,. old Sell of B. Ilowald, formerly of Hay township!: died in Stratford beg week. His mutants were taken to Ilenhall for interment. Ur. Howaki recet.15y re- mavcd to Stratford and is prowl of the Arlington hotel 'there. Geller It is little know, ecclesiastical shine°, s employs perhaps a grea chambermaids and seams any royal or imperial prhe this is the case in the Vett& the wardrobe of the holy father !quires constant attention and care. Breeding ltlules. We are of opinion that mule breed- ing has been too much neglected in the soutb and perhaps elsewhere.' The mule is really the most useful draft animal on the farm and by far the most economical. -aloe real rough farm work mules ares better than horses. They are not quite so speedy as borses, but there is much plowing on every farm that cannot be done both rapidly'. earls well, and for steady pulling at a uniform speed the mule has no equal. • They are hardier and more easily kept and more cheaply fecrthan horses, atid ! when grown' for market they are ,ah I ways ready sale at higher prices than ! farm horses. Large mares and well bred jacks are needed to produce mules that will bring $200 at 2 years old. -- Farm and Ranch. ' hand, I again set to work to improvise after having been worn for a few a contrivance out of existing materials. and othd urss,m to be moo:eta 'caagraeifitil.11Y As lIleaTleids Holiness wears arways white dresses Made of very sensitive stuffs, it not surprise that after a few hours of use they need a cleaning. Men's Mulcts could not be entrusted to handle these prectous stuffs, land thus It was necessary to employ women for this purpose. The chambermaids of the Pope have .also to care • for the prompt replacement of lite Holi- ness' wardrobe. Generally, thA Pope xppen.rs in an ordinary white dress, which during ,the summer- months mnsists of silk `and during the, win- ter of nine white cloth. It is held mein(' the waist by a white sash em- broicIored with gold. Securing two lengtbs of small cord, also six pieces of rountl, light Wood about 12 inches long and 11/4 inches in diameter, I bored three-eighths of an Inch holes at each end of the sticks; then, having tied a knot at one end of elle rope, I threaded on the sticks. I bored lengthwise through -the center of the ishorter stick.s to thread between the longer sticks. I knotted the cord on either side of the sticks, then throw- ing the same across the cow's neck (having regulated the knots and sticks to stut he small of, t ch ....id also the shoidder), °I tied tire end of the cords around the first knot. This device !prevents the cow front reaching '‘Iter flanks, and in my case has stepped the failing and will save quite a few pounds of beiter.—A. Pass- more in NOrthwest Fernier. 1 Wt tests garb the dat Aro Switzerland ha During the last were 10,92a requests in a witteriand, of which granted, A landslide occurred recently Switzerland. An inn and its garden and outbuildings slide down a, hill- side a. distance of 35 feet without being in the least inhircd. Two stately elm trees in the garden were also moved without injury. Switzerland is the oldest republic on record, and has existed as such surrounded by forms of government entirely different. It has ma:intain- A peach tree in Kent county de its osition not by extent of ti cl p Is 26 inches in diameter at the ritory, population or military pow - ground and has, borne fruit foe 2 er, but by the jealousy of the nes sears. , tions surrounding it. — Al good, B.B.B. was gon a change better and time I had fin two bottlee my was perfectly hea ed and my health greatly improved.