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PRACTICAL FARMING,
A Portable Row of Hens' Nesta,
1Vhero but fifteen or twenty' hone aro
;kept, .and no regularly construoted heti
house le at band, a flotilla of mete so made
from light Material that they can be readily
moved abontae deairod, will be found a
valuable acq.uisiticn, The luanasr of con.
struoting theme posts ie shown in the illus,
tration, Five or six, or even as many se
eight note, may be Glue grouped, The
neat splice, re is ono foot wide at th bot
tom; the front board is six inches wide
A OVAnLE newS- NESTS.
the open space between this and the roof
board, a, is Dight inchee wide, the roof
board bong about fifteen inches in width,
An alighting or stepping board, cv, is six
inches wide, leaving an inch space between
that and the front of tine nests, for refuse
to pass through. The Imogere, s, s, may
be of any strong material, and hung upon
spikes, driven at the proper place and in a
slanting direction. The hottem, front,
back, and cover may be made from well-
seasoned half-inch stuff, the divisions being
from inch material, to better hold the nails.
file stepping board should be located about
one foot from the ground or floor, that the
hens may easily jump up to it. Thie row of
.nests may be changed from the inside to
the outside of a building, or placed where
most convenient. Whore nests are located
singly and some distance apart, the laying
hen will occupy the neat with another--
especially
nother—especially if both are in the habit of drop-
ping their eggs in that identical nest. By
this system of grouping, when they reach
the stepping board, or walk, and find one
nest occupied, they pass on to another,
without molesting the occupant. Another
point in favor of portable nests is that they
are readily taken down, and every part can
be thoroughly cleaned or whitewashed,
which i0 not practicable where the nests are
nailed in position, as a part of the build-
ing. Those who have tried this plan of
grouping nests find it extremely convenient
andpraotical.
Bedding for Farm Animals.
A. great variety of bedding -materials are
employed in different localities, and each
farmer will, of courae, soleot for his own
use suoh of these as are the cheapest and
moat mailable. ' In lumbering districts,
where saw mills abound, farmers find cheap
bedding in the sawdust and shavings that
are produced in so large quantities. Saw.
dust makes Moan, tidy bedding, but the
impression is quite strong among farmers
that its effect upon the soil is notdesirable.
Certainly it decays very slowly. The corn•
mon beach Baud near the seashore possesses,
when dry,good absorbing power, and affords
aoolnfortabie bed for stook. It is, however,
very heavy to handle,aud its application, in
the manure, to land already too sandy, as
is much of the land bordering upon the eea-
Poret, is not a good practice. Meadow and
salt hay, and the straw of our small grains,
supply excellent bedding, and by their
decay return a large amount of humus to
the soil. Their use ahould be supplemented
by the employment of some dry material,
such an loam dust, sifted coal ashes or land
plaster, so that all the gaaes and liquid
manure may be saved. It is a simple mat-
ter for every fanner to lay by a supply of
dry absorbents. By stirring the soil Ire-
quently over a small area, the earth rapidly
dries out, and becomes dust under the haat
of a summer's sun. All that is left to do
is to gather the dry material and store it in
a dry place. livery autumn our shade and
forest trees shed their Leaves, a wealth of
the best of bedding, that, having absorbed
manurial substances, decay into the beat of
manure.
The Dairymen's Year.
Professor Robertson, the Dominion Dairy
Gominiesionee, says:— "Our farmers have
been wasting their substance in riotous
farming, and dairying becomes doubly im-
portantfor the enrichment of soil. The
home production of milk and butter pro -
duets is rapidly increasing. I have no
sympathy for those who are wailing that
train farming is played out. Grain should
e grown, but only to be eold as live stock
and their products. I have no sympathy,
either, with those who are shipping half.
fat store cattle for some one else to finish
at twice the profits made by the Canadian
feeder. Canada ahould produce all its own
finished beef instead of importing the
dressed article forconeunnption, The dairy.
man's year ahould begin about October 1,
and extend to September 80. Now it com-
monly rune from May 1 to September 30.
First, milk, at a profit, then calves, and
third, beef, is the proper relation n which
to view the industry. The cow oonld not
pay her board by the product of beef only,
The live principal points of a duirycow are:
1, loug udder; 2, soft chin; 3, large barrel;
4, broad loiaa and Iona rump; 5, neck and
bead fine, with large, "Bright eyes. Cove
should begin their life work at two years
old. Private dairies should be continued
only till there are enough men in a given
district to support a oo-operative cream-
ery."
He advises the rearing of more swine,
and, replying to a question, said he would
have heifers drop their first calf at horn
two years to thirty months old, by which
any tendency to beef clevcloptnent would
more likely bo chocked.
Soap for the Trunks of Trees.
A few years ago e, shrewd fellow traveled
through the Atlantic Stabes lolling the re -
cape for a compound, tho ingredients of
which could be obtained' cheaply at any
drug store. Two ounces of the cnmpound
was to be tied up in a cloth and hung in the
crotch of apple and other fruit trees, Time
who ppurchaecd and tried the recipe were
gratified to find, at the end of the year,
that the trunks of trees so treated wore
free from loose bark, moss or scale, and
Sreaentod afiho, green, healthy appearance.
ome of the ingredients were whalO•oil
0oap, potash, and salt, Since then, others
have produr-ed nearly the Dame results by
cutting up into pieces, abogt the raze of
hon's eggs, common Bard soap and hanging
it up in the trees. The ;more alkali the
0oap contains the better will be the result,
V1a00 the Soap in .105050 Woven (101100 Clotn
as early in mho spring as possible; the rains
diemolve hbe soup elowly and it rune down
the hotly of the true, If pomeible, 00 locate
the tamp that portions will rand their way
bo all Sides of the trunk. Oue application
will last two or three yoara, and ito good
effects be shown for eevoral years there,
after,
HERE IS SOMETHING NEW.
A Konntl Dming Immo Tina Slay be Ea
larged at \WIp—lis Meehan Isom O'letar
od and DDWAerl bad.
The extension round table 10 the latest
novelty. It is fourfoebindianteter. Hidden
under the centre is a large box in which are
stowed the extra leaves necoanary in the
extension. The widening of the table
to any desired 0120 is the question of a very
ow momenta. The mechanism is simpleand
easily managed. At frequent intervals oloate
arepullod out. The cleats have bevelled edges
over which the semieirSlilar leaves are slid.
When the leaf has been pushedin it locks
itself, and is unlooked by a alight pressure
on a button. The extension cleats are
strong enough to bear the weight of a man
sitting on the edge of the table. To extend
the table to eight feet fn diameter lege un•
fold under the table for the support of
further leaves. By the pulling out of more
cleats and the addition of more legs the
table can be extended to the diameter of
twelve feet. The system of extension is so
simple and strong that Mr. Lactard
marvels that his idea was not thought of
before. .At six feet in diameter the table
will seat twelve persons; at eight feet six-
teen peregne can be acoommode ted, and at
a diameter of twelve feet twenty-four
persons can sit around the Dir cular board.
Tha inventor says the extension round
table is bound. to be a success, beoauee it
will fill such a long -felt want. Extension
oval tables are getting cub of date. It is
now the proper thing to dine at a round
table. Say the table is set for a dinner
by, and unexpieteily some additiona
meats arrive, as is often th a ease. Withou
°moving the dishes, and by simply turn
ng back the cloth, the tab le can he extend.
ed to any desired width in a few momente
PRICE OF HEADS.
Chinese :lton'arda for the Canter° of
.J paneee sachem and Spies.
The following proclamation is from the
Shen -pan, Shaughai:
" The. W o-jen, having audaciously invaded
our country, Taotai Lu Taejon, whom the
Son of Heaven has appointed to adminis
•trate the arsenal and to watch over the
safety ofithe people, will give the following
rewards:
r A. hundred teals for the capture of a
Japanese spy.
Fifty taele for tate capture of a Chinese
who serves the Wo•jen as a spy.
"Forty tools for ieformation regarding
the whereabouts of a Japanese spy.
"r Twenty taels for information leading to
the arrest of a Chinese noting as a spy for
the enemy.
" Ten thousand taole for the destruction
of a Japanese warship.
" Five hundred taels for the capture of
a Japanese merchantman.
"Fifty Laois for the head of a Japanese
killed in battle."
ROYALTY AND BICYCLES.
The Princess of (Pales and Iter Daughter
Said to have Taken to (tiding.
A. London despatch says :—An apparent.
ly authorized annouuooment that the
Princess of Wales and her daughters have
taken to ridins trieyelea is expected to give
a tremendous boom to the manufacture of
that plass of cycling nmohine, which has
been in a elate of decline for several y °era
Polite society has always professed to re-
gard cycling with eoorn as an essentially
vulgar and plebeian form of exercise and
amusement, The Princess, having now set
the fashion, fashionable dames and their
middle class imitators are belied to follow
it. Much gratification ie expressed that
the Princess did not take to the bicycle and
"rational dress," the use and abuse of which
have brought a great deal of undeserved
ridioulo upon this forst of healthy 000000 -
tion, to the benefit solely of the artiste and
writers for the comic papers. It is said
that the Princess of Wales ocmmcuces
tricyeling by the advice of l ordoolors.
Did He Do It 4
Mother (sternly)—"Kitty,didn't Charley
Leo try to kiss you last night 0t the front
door 1"
Daughter (blushing)—"Not very hard
lllam,0 a,
TUSSLE WITH TIGERS,
ANOLD L BRITISH SOLDIER RELATES
AN EXCITING ADYEN't'URE,
!lontUed en an llleahant, !Io 410000
iNttgo ee Tiee Tigers with Unly ,t lltopt.
Jug Knife for a Weapon—A Close (MIL
Some twenty years ago, said a battlo.soar.
red veteran of the British army the other
day, my regiment was stationed at one of
the British posts in the interior of India.
There was no fighting to do, and as We
were right at the edge of an immense jun-
gle where there was an abundance of big
game we spent all our spare time hunting.
One morning mime native runners came to
oar camp and reported that two immense
bigera had Poeta out of the heart of the
jungle and were killing all the children in
a village some ton miles away. They
wanted us to rid them of the pests, and I
volunteered my eervieee, The villagers,
brought out an undersized elephant, which
had time good quality of being very tame
and gentle, and in loss than an hour after
my arrival at the viliago I was beading for
the jungle on the trail of the tigers,
Hot as it was, we went along at a fair
rate of speed and in a little more than an
hour atter leaving the outskirts of the
village we approached a large patch of
.louse underbrush and tall grass, the whole
well shaded by some tall trees. Knowing
something of the habits of the tiger, I at
once decided that this was just the place
where the brutes we wore after would seek
refuge from the hot sun. 1 moved around
to the left until I Dante to an opening among
the trees at the edge of the jungle, and
where I took my stand in a shaded spot.
Keeping the elephant driver with me to
manage that animal, I sent bhe two guides
and the other villagers around to the other
side of the jungle, with orders to beat up
the brush and drive out the game to my
side.
THE GAME APTEARs.
There was no long wait this time. In half
an hour after the natives leftoeIheard their
peculiar cries ou the other side of the jun.
gle ae they started in to drive out the game.
My elephant had evidently been tiger hunt-
ing before, as he pricked up his ears as soon
as he heard the shouts and kept his eyes
sharply on the open space in the jungle di-
rectly in front of us. His eyesight was no
better than mine, but his eenae of smell
was keener, and in five minutes I knew by
his actions that he had scented our game.
I held my tifle in readiness and kept my
eyes on the open spot at the edge of the
jungle, I did not have long to wait. In
about three minutes I saw two long, shag-
gy, striped bodies leaping up and down in
the tall grace like cats at play, and I knew
that the tigers wore coming straight toward
me. Ivry elephant and his keeper saw them
at the same time, The latter, with a howl
of terror, loft Ilia post and started to run
away. But he was too badly frightened
to run, and, falling down, tried to hide his
face in the ground.
The elephant was frightened enough to
run away, but he knew, probably from ex-
perionoe, that if there was going to be a
fight is would be better for him to keep his
face to the foe.
THE UEATII STRUGGLE.
My men is the jungle were now making
an awful din, and the tigers came straight
ahead, leaping along at a good pace, They
were a male and a female, and the finest
specimens I ever saw.
,Teat as they cleared the end of the jun•
gle I fired at the tiger in front. But the
elephant, now thoroughly soared, swerved
to one side a little and I missed. At the
sound of the shot the two big oats stopped
for a second, and then as the noise made by
the natives in the jungle increased they
bounded forward towards toe.
Then just as I was ready for a second
shot, with the 001100ls not more than 100
feet away, my elephant lost his nerve com-
pletely, and turned tail to run. I was
standing up to get a butter aim, and his
quick turn almost threw me to the ground.
As it was, I only saved myself from fall-
ing by dropping my rifle and clutching
the canopy over my head. With a bellow
of terror the elephant was now running
away as fast as he could. ley only weapons
now were an army pistol and a long -bladed
hunting knife. By the time I recovered
my balance and was able to loch around
the tigers were upon us. With a single
bound the tigress landed on the haunches
of the elephant, and began to tear up the
flesh with tooth and nail. I fired a shot at
her with my pistol, but close as she was
my aim was bad, and the ball struck her
on the shoulder, makinga flesh wound that.
simply
MADE ILEI5 FIG/TIN(1 MAD.
The beast seemed to notice my presence
then for the first time, and tried to spring
at me. Her fore feet caught in the rudely
constructed elephant saddle, and with her
weight pulling it to one Mae, and the fran-
tic ebrugglee of the elephant to shako her
off,the saddle was twisted over to one side,
With a desperate effort I got out of it in
time and somehow managed to land astride
the bare back of the elephant. I dropped
my pistol and only the knife in my belt
was left me.
The tigress was now clinging to the
side of the elephant, and digging her claws
into his flesh in order to hold ou. All the
time she was making frantic efforts to get
at nee, and 1 wield feel her hot breath in my
face ae I ley down on the back of the
eleplmnt, and held on for dear life.
Somehow, I never knew just how I
Managed it, I got hold of my knife, and
striking out blindly at the Ihir 1 stroke I
sent the blade to the hilt in the body of the
tigress, just book of her lef 0 shoulder. I
fortunately mailed a vital spot, and in a
few moments her hold on the elephant
relaxed, and she dropped to the ground.
Then for the drat time slime the conflict
began I got a chance to look amend to see
what became of the tiger. My elephant
had all the time been turning around in a
chole, and when I related my head I saw
that the tiger was circling around him,
waiting for a chance to spring on his
batik or neck,
When the tigress dropped from his side
the elephant, who wee bellowing with pain
and fright, got a charm to use his trunk.
Ho struok the tiger several blows with it,
but they were not hs rd enough to do nay
damage, Holding my kni 0 in my teeth,
and clinging to the meek of the elephant
with both hands, 1 raised my head in time
to 000 the tiger crouch for a spring.
11.03016ANT VERSOS 300ER.
Then the elephant, Considering how bad,
ly he Woe frl'htoued, did a 35001 remark,
mile thing. With trunk uplifted he charged
straight at the tiger, The latter bounded
into elle air like it huge bail, and, jot
bruehing the .descending trunk, landed
squarely on top of the elephant's slivul.
dela.
Ilia long knife.like claws sank deep into
the Bosh, and the blood of my poor elephant
epatrered all over me,
Looking up I could see the eyes of the
great oat glaring down at me like two belle
of fire, and his hot breath was in my face.
My head Wes almost within reach of his
open jaws, and one blow of his powerful
paw would seed me to the ground to he
trampled to death,
But the elephant was by Ole time fight-
ing for his own life, and fighting hard.
With a quick awing around in a half olrele
Ire'broughtthie trunk down across the back
of the tiger, and getting a powerful grip on
the long yellow body he held on. The tiger
was driving his olawe deeper and deeper
into the elephant's thrill in a desperate
struggle to free hineeif.
I saw that my chance to lend a helping
hand in the fight had Dome. Steadying my-
self as well as I could, I took my knife in
my right hand, and, leaning forward, I
drove I0 to the hilt three times in the body
of the tiger.. Then I saw the bloodstained
Wawa relax, the yellow body grew limp, and
dropped to the ground, where it was quick-
ly trampled into a shapeless mass by the
maddened elephant.
I had just enough strength left to slip
down to the ground, and stagger away out
of reach of the hoofs of the elephant, and
then I fell over in a feint. The battle had
been too muoh for my nerves.
FOX HUNTING T00 EXPENSIVE,
English FR roars 110 Longer An ow Tres-
passing in l'tnsnit of Iternard.
Tha change that is taking place in the
sociel condition of England is strikingly
brought out by oft cumstences which seem
to threaten the extinction of fox hunting.
When the time comes that the English
gentleman is no longer permitted to ride
after the hounds, to take the highest fences
and widest ditches without flinching, a
sport which Englishmen have looked upon
as peculiarly national and productive of
not a little of their national character, will
have passed away. This decline and ball is
not due to lack of interest, says the Boston
Herald, for it seems to be admitted that
the Englishman of the present generation
is quite as fond of foe hunting as his pre-
decessor of one, two or three centuries ago.
But whathe would term the mercenary spirit
of the age intervenes and bide fair to make
the sport altogebher too costly, both directly
and indirectly, to be engaged in by anyone
other than a multimillionaire. In the old
days the Bunt used to sweep across the
fields of the farmers, with hounds baying
and bugles sounding, while the farmer and
his men stood aside in open-eyed and open.
mouthed astonishment,olapping their hands
at the fine sight and quite indifferent to
broken fences, demoralized plowed fields
and possibly damage done eo cattle and live
stock of all kinds. The dwellers of the
country aide were Duly too well pleased to
have Buffered something in order to afro d
pleasure to the great folk. But that time
has gone by.
The English farmers aro no doubt as will-
ing to permit of fox hunting as they were
of old, if it is carried on without a loss to
them, but they realize they cannot afford,
when brought in keen competition with
the agriculturists of the United States and
elsewhere, to have their profits out down
through the destruction caused by the
pleasure -seeking hunters. A ease was tried
in Nottingham, England, a short time ago
where a harmer brought aotfon against the
master of the Quern hounds and certain
members of the hunt for trespassing and
crossing his farm in pursuit of a fox,
also for eonsequeetial damages. The
total claim was placed at 32,500, but the
award of d;unagee was 3250, a sum con-
siderably lees than dernanded,but much too
large for the master of the hounds to run
the risk of having to pay to any or all
farmers whose field he might cross. It na
possible that some arrangement may be
made as has beau made by Myopia Hunt
atHamilton,by means of which thefarnters
do not consider the passage over their land
as trespass. But in England the bunts
have neither been paper hunts nor anise
seed haute, but fox hunts, and there has
been no knowinng what direction the fox
will take, so that unless the right of way
was obtained from somas of farmers the
possibility of a snit for trespass would
always stare the master of the hounds and
his huntsman ie the face.
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It has often lien contended by
physiologists and men of science gen-
erally, that nervous energy or nerv-
ous impulses which pass along the
nerve fibres, were only other names
for electricity. This seemingly plaus-
ible statement was accepted for a
time, but has been completely aban-
doned since it has been proved that
the nerves aro not good conductors of
electricity, auil that the velooity of a
nervous impulse is but 100 feet per
second --which is very mach slower
than that of electricity. It is now
generally agreed that nervous energy,
or what we are pleased to call nerve
fluid, is a wondrous, a mysterious
force, ,be whish dwells Life itself.
A very eminent specialist, who
has studied profoundly the workings
of the nervous system for the last
twenty-five years, has lately demon-
strated that two-thirds of all our
ailments and chronic diseases are
due to deranged nerve centres within
or we the baso of the brain.
All know that an injury to the
spinal cord will cause paralysis to the
body below the injured point. The
reason for this is, that the nerve
force is prevented by the injury from
iteaching the paralyzed portion.
Again, when food is taken into the
'stomoob, it comes in contaot with.
numberless nerve fibres in the walls
lef this organ, which at once send a
;nervous impulse to the nerve centres
which control the stomach, notifying
them of the presence of food; where-
upon the nerve centres send down a
supply of nerve force or nerve fluid,
to at once begin the operation of
digestion. But let the nerve centres
which control the stomach be de-
ranged and they will not bo able to
respond with a sufficient supply of
nerve force, to properly digest the
food, and, as a result, indigestion and
dyspepsia make their appearance.
So it is with the other organs of the
body, if the nerve centres which con-
trol them and supply them with
nerve force become deranged, they
are also deranged.
The wonderful success of the
remedy known as the Great South
American Nervine Tonic is due to
the fact that ib prepared by one of
the most eminent physicians and
specialists of the age, and is based
on the foregoing scientific discovery.
It possesses marvellous powers for
the cure of Nervousness, Nervous
Prostration , Ilea mile, Sleoplessnessa
Restlessness, St, Vitus's Dance, Men..
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Disease, Nervousness of Females,
Hot Flashes, Sick Headache. It is
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Rosewater and Romance.
Rosewater and ro111ano0 are generally
supposed to be already pretty closely re-
lated, but an ingenious mind has contrived
to twat there in yet another bond which is
as novel as it is audacious. Italian littera.
tones were recently invited by a German
perfumer, who,d000 a largo business in Italy,
to supply him with a number of short
stories, the most important condition being
that the writers should introduce, "in the
most delicate manner possible," the essential
merits of the Genion perfumes, Over a
thousand manuscripts have been sent in,
and Bone of them aro reported to bo from
the pens of wall -known literary anon, arch
as Signork4antegezva.
Age of Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls are about 81,000 yearaoil1,
according to the conclusions of Professor
Spencer and other geologists. Surveys
made at clifietent times during the last fifty
years are taken as the basis of Professor
Spencer's calculations, and lead him to
oonolude that for about 11,000 years a
email stream, falling abort 200 feet, made
a fall nearly litre the present A:aerieau fall,
but not so high. Then the height was
slowly Moralised and the stream enlarged,
and the three cascades that formerly fel-
lowed each other in the river beeline
merged into one groat cataract much
greater than the present one. The second
process took about 17,000 yoara, and for
the last 3,000 years or s0 the falls bay e
been roaohing their preeont dimonsionea