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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-09-26, Page 6• Only the Scars Remain +t,i}4eeng the maps testimonials whit* Isle in Meted to eeetatg medichree perform. in Meet 4leanstag ttal440,94. oto„ writes Theinear HVDlioli, of the James Smith Woolen lltaghlnery Co., Phliadelphla, Pit,, "Rone Impress me more than ply own case. Twenty years ago, at the age of 18 years, I had swellings come on my legs, which broke and became rune g sores. Ourfamllypbys olancould do we no good, and It was feared that the bones would be affected. At last, my good old mother nrr ,d me to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I took three bottles, the sores healed. and I have not been troubled since. Only the sears remain: and the memory of the past, to remind me of the good Ayer's Sarsaparilla has done me. I now weigh two hundred and twenty pounds, and am in the best of health. I have been on the road for the past twelve years, have noticed Ayer's Sarsaparilla advertised In all parts of the United States, and alwaysitake pleas - Pre In telling what good it did for me." For the cure of all diseases originating In impure bleed, the best remedy is AYER'S Sarsaparilla )I?'repared by Dr. J.O. Ayer & Oo., Lowell, Mass. Cures others, will cure you The Huron News-Recora 1.60 a Year -81.28 in Advance. :WEDNESDgY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 1894. CANADIAY DAIRY PROGRESS. The Dominion statistician, Mr. George Johnson, has ,prepared a special report on the dairy progress of Canada, which is appended to the report of the Minister of Agriculture, and shows the tnar•yellous advance which this indastry has made since the introduction of the factory system in 1833, In two years thereafter there were only ten factories in operation in what is now the Province of Ontario, with two in what is now Quebec. In 1868 there were 180 factories in Ontar id 17 in Quebec, the value of the output in the former Province being about. $I,200,000, and in the latter about $150,000. The following figures, based on the census returns of the different years, will serve to show the progress since The number of cheese factories increased from 353 in 1871 to 709 in 1881 and 1,565 in 1891. The capital invested increased from $400,754 in 1871 to $1,021,435 in 1881 and $2,586,659 in 1891. Persons employed increased from 098 in 1871 to .2,003 in 1881 and 3,013 in 1'11. Wages paid increased frcim $120,026 in 1871 to $382,615 in 1881 and $753,067 in 1891. Value of raw materials increased from $1,249,904 in 1871 to $4,261,708 in 1881 and $6,804,611 in 1801. Value of product increased from $1,601,738 in 1871 to $5,464,454 in 1881, and $9,784,288 in 1891. There are no statistics of creameries in the census of 1871. By 1881 they had become an important feature of the country's agriculture, and between 1881 and 1891 they rapidly extended their operations, growing in number from 46 to 170, in capital invested from $97,000 to $540,000, and in value of • output from $341,000 to $913,000. It • is a curious fact, observes the Montreal Gazette, that will no doubt surprise many in these days when so many politicians worship at, the shrine of unattainable trade relations with coo fdreign tries that n t int su independent, a body as the Montreal ioa rd of Trade should have attributed the beginning of this great industry, in its modern and most profitable shape, to the repeal of the reciprocity treaty of .1851 with the United States. In its annual report of 1868 the Council of the Board declared that the repeal of the treaty had "stimulated the erection of cheese factories, which are shutting out the products of foreign dairies from the Canadian • market and enabling the dairymen of Canada to compete successfully with their American neighbors in sending supplies to the British market." The dally trade thus affords another instance of national miscalculation on the part of the United States. The treaty was abro- gated, it was openly stated by Wash- ington statesmen, in the expectation that • the shutting out of Canadian goods from United States markets would compel Canatda to buy read- mission at the price of her connection with Great Britain.. As was the case with the McKinley experiment in 1890, these calculations were a failure. The ever open British market was resorte(i to in each case, and the start given to the Canadian dairy industry in 1866 by the imposition of a duty on foreign cheese was the beginning of an expan- sion that in 188x) enabled Canada to distance the United States, and last year put her in the front rank of all the countries of the world as an exporter of cheese. The following figures of the exports of the two countries will be found highly interest- ing Canada. U. States. ' lbs. lbs. 1800 124,320 15,515,799 1868 6,141,572 51,097,203 1870 5,827,782 57,296,327 1880 40,368,678 127,553,907 1890 94,260,187 95,376,053 1893 133, 946,365 81, 350, 023 Ninety-nine per cent. of this tre- mendous export went to Great Britain which country in 1892 took $12,135,642 worth of Canadian cheese out of a total imported value of $26,361,682. The cheese industry has been well worthy the attention it has received frog' Parliament and governments, and has repaid many times over the grants of public money made to pro- mote it. It contributed, with the butter trade, $14,676,000, or nearly one - ninth of the total volume of exports of the year 1893. .f4 nuE. nS5 IN TO trumm, l moot ami shook his head w�rutngly„ Ilts • I Fraulein Martha, a pretty 'biue•ey 141044 sat in a secoud•clase Carriage, a trala which was hurrying toward Rhine. We had struck upan amine'anceship, as tourists so often de - rule, I don't care to have anythiug'to with my fellow-paesenglrs, but Frau' Martha had quite captl4ated mo. As ok- out ly er, ad to ch rt - of ol- a- ot iy, n- ig, Id. her 0. of c- in he of 0, od he d. he ch ver w a r- es of e, a d n 11 e s- 6 0 e 0 d c 0 1• Is aa e 0 e 0 e s s Wawa that Itoschen wee; d by kissed, foresight hall deceive);. !dr, for he had not ed 1't wde, *oreover, such a kiss 1 so 1lag- i4i rant, so resonant 1 Had he dared to the speak—which he 41I1 not, out of conelder• at- ation ter his daughter—he would have tt administered the strongest rebuke that dg, mortal ever received. So he couteated obi himself with looking reproachfully and s warpiugly at the two culprits, arid occa- utered the compartment for non•sm ere, I had taken her travelling -bag fr her hand and put It careful on the rack for her. Then I It resigned my corner seat to h and put up the window so as protect her from the draught, whi she Round too strong. As the train, sta ed we exchanged et word in prates tho weather, which had become much co or after a heavy rain, and was very pie sant for travelling; and Ave gradually g into a very interesting conversation. Fraulein Martha chatted very nice and made uo pretension to superfine ed cation. iG She could CU ld not be called y ant but when she laughed she became a chi Her laugh was clear and silvery, stud faze lost its rather serious expressio This induced me to make all kinds jukes, which evidently amused ler it 'muscly. when' a girl laughs as Fraule Martha did, the man who provokes t laughter becomes a humorest in spite himself. She was a capital listener, to 641,;1 it is a rare thing to fled a go listener among the "other sex," As s listened her face responded to all I sal Besides being so charming mentally, s bad a very pretty, elegant figure, whi thh eye of a connoisseur tmy eye) ue wearied of watching, and discovering ne traits of beauty. She was dressed in very simple traveling gown, which di played to perfection all the pretty lin of her form. She was not alone. In the next seat the compartment eat a married could and opposite them was their daughter, pretty, shy girl, who had just emerge from the bread -and -butter -miss state These people were relatives of Fraulei Martha, who, when I asked her to to me something about them, said that th man was called Fenchel, and was po sessed of the mistaken idea that he wa the wildest mum iu Christendom. H thought that lie could hoar the grafi grow if he tried to—though, as a matte of fact, ho never diel try to—and ale Viet he possessed the gift of prophesy To him coming events always consider atoly cast their shadows before. If he di not happen to have foretold au grout be fore it happened, it was simply beeaus it had slipped his memory—another tim he wouldn't forget. Frau, Feuchel admir ed her hueband's extraordinary qualities and therefore, did not care to coutrndic hien when ho assorted that the youngo man who was sitting with their daugllte was no son-in-law for him, for It wa easy to see that once married the your rascal would turn out a Don Juan, a would cause unheard-of misery in th household. The young man in question who was called Taube -Bernhard Taube did not look likely to fulfil such a prophe• cy. He with as shy as Fraulein Roselle' Fenchel, with whom he was deeply it love. Both these' facts were quite evi dent. The most daring deed he ever perpetrated, was when, Herr Fenchel, hav ing informed him that he intended to ac company his wife and daughter to th Rhine on the following Wednesday, he Taube—had said that, strange to say,h too was going to the Intimon th 'same day, and with Herr Fenchel's per mission would join them. This was not very agreeable to old Fen- cliel. In the first place, as a prophet, h ought to have foreseen the young man' intended journey; and, secondly, lie wa afraid that Taube's society would be more acceptable to Roechen than he approved of. In the latter assumption he was •quite right. Itoschen was as happy as Herr Tanbe,although the young people had only ventured to hint as much to Frau Fen- chel, who, award of her husband's aver- sion to Taube, because of his concealed Don .Tuan proclivities, had hinted in re- turn that Roscheu was too young to think of love, and Herr Taube was not old enough. Fraulein Martha told me this in a man- ner which showed that she was heartily sorry for the young folks. It was evi- dent that she was on the side of the lov- ers, and was very angry wuth Fenchel' for tyrannically trying to hold them apart. Although she was not full of that eager desire for matchmaking which is so strongly developed iu many ladies who have left youthful follies and youthful wisdom behind them, still she loved Roe- chen dearly and wanted her• to be happy. "There are some girls," she said, "to whom einglc life would mean misery and ruin, and our Itoschen is one of them. If she is not allowed to marry, her life will be spoiled." Bythis ' I time our trainad ' h approached a series of tunnels. We were occasion- ally plunged into deep darknoss,iu which nothing was heard beyond the rumbling of the carriages, and the occasional in- voluntary "Ah 1" of a passenger who was reading the newspaper or studying his guide -book, and was suddenly dis- turbed in his occupation. Fraulein Mar- tha wanted to find something in her handbag, and in the tunnel took off her silk glove, the better to accomplish her object. When we again emerged into daylight, I noticed that her ungloved hand was of surpassing whiteness. Its beauty it is beyond me to describe, for black letters are not' adapted to the des- cription of whiteness. And what an ele- gantly shaped hand It wits I I laid a bet with myself that it would quite disappear in my own hand, if Fraulein Martha would be so accommodating as to let me try the experiment. But she was not in- clined to be so accommodating, Never- theless I could not think of losiug my wager. The courageous conquer the— hnud, I said to myself, with all the ob- stinacy with which one sticks to a pet idea. And just at that very moment the whistle shrieked and the train plangred into a tunnel. "Now or never," I thought to myself. Darkness, which is 00 man's enemy. surrounded tie, and not only the idea, but with it courage, came to me. I seized it, and before its owner had time to lenow what I was doing -- "What was that?" cried Herr Fenchel. "A kiss," replied his wife. The train left the tunnel and plunged into open daylight. The passengers look- ed around as if they heard a shot rather than a kiss, and expected to see a suicide weltering in his blood. I imitated them and looked about me with equal astonish- ment and curiosity. From several' I heard giggling. On the whole the silence was really embarrassing. Fraulein Martha was rumaging in her handbag, and her head was bent over it so that I could not see whether she was angry or not. It may be that, I murmured "I beg your pardon;" it may be that; I did not, for it will be readily understood that my lips were fully employed in what I have Just described. At any rate I was glad that I harp found such a pleasure in such a short tunnel. Added to that I lead won my bet. Martha's hand had really disap- peared in mine, and I had to open my hand again, in order to imprint a kiss between two pretty dimples. Fraulein Roechen and her admirer sat as if stupe- fied, and stared solemnly at tho floor. A kiss, which sounds like a real one, Bile torero with mixed sensations—envy and approbation. Opposite them sat Herr Fenchel, who stared at them in aetonish- sional•ly turning his eyes on his wife, who was inteut ou a newspaper which she was holding upside down. The rest of the passengers gradually recovered from the shock. At the next atatiou there was a longer stop, and we got out of the train. In doing no I heard one passenger say to another, "Good gra- cious! " He was speaking of the kiss. 1'Beautifult"sold a lady to a gentleman who was accompanying, her. She, too, was speaking of it. "I know exactly what's to be done," said Herr Fenchel to his wife as they got out on the platform. ''Of course you'll understand, ud too Martha,that that kiss In the tunnel--" "I know all about it," replied Martha. "A mau of your understanding cannot fail to perceive the meaning of that kiss. And if you ignore it, heavy responsibility rests on your shoulders," continued she energetically. "It was a perfect kiss, the healing of which cannot be explained away. There are kisses which are seri• ons deeds, and that in the tunnel was one of them. How could young and inex- perienced lips produce such a Kiss? It's ringing in my ears yet." "so you noticed it, did you, Martha," said Herr b'enchel, "although you were ea far away? My wife didn't notice it, of course. How often have I warned her that that young Taube was a Dou Juan. But it's no use repeating that now. What is, is, and what must be, must be." Whereupon Herr Fenchel took his wife's arm, and signed to ' his daughter and young Taube to follow. The quartet went into the first-class waitiug room, which was empty. But, Frauleiu," I said to Martha, it'ho, having looked on smilingly while the four disappeared, came to niy side. "I made the best use of the kiss," said Fraulein Martha. "A hand -kiss means nothing, but I AM trying to make some- thing good out of it. 1 am encouraging Her Fenchel to his conceited idea that he foresees had understands everything. And I am getting Roechen a husband whom she loves. Is that a bad stroke of business?" said"But. that kiss was my property," I "Don't be nonsensical," she answered. "It was a simple act of politeness. I accepted it as such, and you meant it as nothing more. Do you Know my father used to call nye Mtuuitid—Little Stupid.' I was often very wild, and so he called; vie 'Little Stupid' for a pet name. I am no longer a child, but I have fits, of wildness, when I can carry an in- trigue through which hurts nobody, and does some good. One day my father ceased to call me 'Little Stupid,' and he never used the name again. Ile was ter- ribly strict, and as lie 'saw one of my boy friends kiss my hand, he called him to- account for it so roughly that the boy avoided the house ever after. As he was no' hero of romance, I was left alone aid remain alone. Now I've had my revenge Oil Fate, for through a hand -kiss two young folks have been made happy. Wasn't that a noble .revenge?" "You are an. angel, Fraeilein Martha," I cried, as loudly as it is fitting on a railway platform. "When a girl is hung to an angel, he is pretty harmless," said she laughingly. "My' father meant 'angel' when he called me 'stupid,' but -he didn't make love to me." At this point the quartet reappeared. Herr Fenchel came with his daughter. and Frani Fenchel was conducted by Taube. "Martha," said Herr Fenchel;' "didn't I always tell you that they would make a fine couple? They've been engagedfor five• minutes." Fraulein Martha embrauaed Roechen, but Herr Taube immediately appropriated his fiancee and kissed her. It wasn't the sort of thing to do on the platform; that must be acknowledged. Herr Fenchel said balr jestingly, half sternly, "You don't need to wait till you come to a tunnel now, do you?" Herr' Taube seemed to wish to protest, but(it was of no use. When we were Ml ensconced in the carriage, Frau Fenchel said to Fraulein Martha: "Believe me, Martha, those children were quite inno- cent of that kiss. You should have seen how they tried to exonerate themselves from' the suspicion, but it was of no use. Fenchel absolutely forbade thein to speak, for/ he said he knew all about it already. I am glad they aro engaged, though. "In any case," said Martha, "we don't need to trouble about that. It's all the same now. All's well tintudx � • yell, ' " e "So it is," replied Frau Fenchel, and she looked contentedly over at Itoschen, who had only ears and eyes for Taube. At the next station I left the train. I was very glad to do so (although sorry to leave Fraulein Martha), for uotbing is more tedious than to be with two lovers. I said good-bye to Martha with sincere regret, and kissed the hand which she gave me heartily. Where is she now? Perhaps she will re- member me tf these lines fall under her blue eyes.—Romance.• Barimate of it Live Ati'mnl's vt'elebs The following reales may be applied to estimate the weight of live animals: Take a string, put it around the beast, stand- ing square, just behind the shoulder blade; measure on a foot rule the feet and inches the animal is in circumference; the is called the girth; then with the string measure from the bone of the tail which plumps the line with the hinder part of the buttock; direct the line along the back to the fore part of the shoulder bhtde; take the dimensions on the foot rule as before, which is the length, and work the figures in the following man- ner: Girth of the bullock, 6 feet 4 inches; length, 5 feet 3 inches, which, multi- plied together, make 31 'Square superfi- cial feet; that multiplied by 23—the num- ber of pounds allowed to each superfi- cial foot of cattle measuring lees than 7 and more than 5 in girth—makes 713 pounds. Where the -an/Mal measures lees than 9 and more than 7 feet in girth, 81 is the number of pounds to each super- ficial foot. Again, suppose a pig or any email beast should measure 2 feet in girth and 2 feet along the back, which, multiplied together, make 4 square feet; that multiplied by 11—the number of pounds allowed for each square foot of cattle meaaureing less 8 feet in girth— makes 44 pounds. Again, suppose a calf or sheep should measure 4 feet 6 inebes in girth and 8 fent 9 inches in length, which, multiplied together, makes 16 1-2 square feet; that multiplied by 16—the number of pounds allowed to all cattld pleasuring less than 5 and more than 8 feet in girth—makes 264 pounds. Sure Sige. Mr. Smallwort—I see that a female bank robber has been operating out west and has so far escaped capture. Mrs. Smallwort—How do they know it is a woman if the robber has not been captured? Mr. Sinallwort—The combination lochia all have beeu picked with a hairpin.— Cincinnati Tribune TRE PiAR AND UARD •-, bead butfo>g of young wood all through the head of the tree, The crop ie thus HINTS AND NEWS NOTES BOTH FO CITY AND COUNTRY. Origins# Article. and Press CUppin Which 'lave Beau Prepared Expeeiail fur Our Readers. AU farmers know that the princtp value of barnyard manure is in the am monia,,or nitrogen, it contains. T strong odor around a pile of fertuentin manure to due for the most part to th escaping of nitrogenous or• ammonium gas, and farmers geueraily use absorbent of some kind to prevent the escape of th principal value of the manure. None o the agricultural crops will yield setts faetority unless it bus had a tree suppl of nitrogen during growth. How to gge thl1 supply of nitrogen for the crops i the principal al ru I glen in farming. It 1 very seldom that a farmer has ll the barnyard manure he cau use to adval tago, and thousands of tons of "ani moniitted phosphates" aro sold and use every year, generally with profit to th user. Nitrate of sodic and sulphate o ammonia are used in large quantities, al though they are high-priced. The sol object'tu using thorn is to got the nitro gen they coutaiu for the benefit of th crops o6 which they are used, For some years Chemists have been en gaged in trying to find some cheap prat tical method of extracting the niti'oge from the air, of which it forms three fourths of the whole. There is an un limited supply of nitrogen everywhere 1 the: air, and it the farmer could only ge a little, as needed, his crops would b greatly benefited. The Drug, Paint an Oil Reporter says that a method has jus been perfected by which the nitrogeu o the air can be mostly extracted it" so simple a manner that salphate of am- monia, can be produced and sold for one- fourth the present cost. With the pre- sent machiuery. and methods the expen- diture of a ton of coal produces ot`'e r half a ton of sulphate of ammonia, and the rest of the air decomposed being for the most part •carburetted hydrogen gas can be sold for illuminating purposes for nearly the coat of the process. The cheapening of one source of nitrogen will be a great boon to all good farmers. Ir PAPS TO SPRAY. Last year at Geneva they tried the el- fects of spraying an old orchard with a diluted Bordeaux mixture, one pound of copper sulphate iu about 11 gallons of water. Spraying began on May 2, when some of the fruit balls were bursting. Another was given on May 10, taking in some trees not sprayed the first time., Another on May 19, when the first blos- soms were opening. Another on May 31, when the last blossoms were falling. At this time one ounce of Paris gree,i was added to 11 gallons of water, as it was on June 12 and June 23. Thus some of the trees had six spraying,' and the bal- ance had five. Other trees near them were left unsprayed. The fruit was pick- ed, assorted, packed and sold by an ex- perienced handler of fruit. The results show an average receipt per tree from Meckels sprayed six times of $5.48 per tree; trees standing by their side un- sprayed 08 cents per tree ; Seckels spray- ed five tithes, $5.70 per tree, itn(i those unsprayed 93 cents;White Dipy'eune spray= ed five tunes $6.55 per tree,those'uuspray- ed 45 cents per tree. Coat of material for spraying and labor, 91.2 cents per tree each treatment, or 471-2 cents for five treatments. As a heavy wind blew off many of the pearl" about three weeks before they were picked, the showing was not as favorable for the spraying as it might have been. The trees were about 35 years old, and the largest from 25 to 30 feet high, and had received but little pruning for several years, which increas- ed the cost of spraying. HORTICULTURAL NOTES tributed over the tree and no dp�uange R ie. done, I1 the tree le planted and aellow- ed to take the natural shape it assumed in t nursery, the limbs will more read- ily split oft than when formed byheading back." g ¢s PAItDM NOTES. ✓ Most farms need more potash. Give your own sons as good a chance at least as you give the hired man. al One of the moot profitable of the small special crops is onions. They have always Th • been so. g There are two taxes that every farmer o should pay cheerfully. The first is the school tax, and the second is the road s tax. Good schools makes good citizen(' o —good roads help to depopulate Hades, and, well, they save our borers, our - waggons and our temper. y, Many farmers hereabouts say that the t crimson clover does not come up to their s expectations. Probably one of the rea- so s n for theirdisappointment s clover was cut wie in bl om, that A. crop being expected later in the season, and the crop was not raised, Those die- d appointed farmers overlooked one import- s ant fact when sewing crimson clover, and not a biennial plant. Sow crimson clover in the fall—not in the spring. o Turnips may be sown any time now before August 10, and under favorable e conditions make a good crop. They should be sown ou very well-prepared ground, and if sown just after a rain they will come up and make a good rapid n growth. The flea beetle is very deatruc- _ tive some years, and the only remedy egems to he to sow them pretty thick, n thinning them out later when the in- t sects have disappeared,On shall patches e in gardens soot is sometimes efficacious d in driving them off. t Turnips make their growth after the f- cool night comes and should be allowed to remaia in the ground until after hard frosts have appeared. On many farms this root is never grown, but there ar few farms on which it might not be grown with fair profit. In bulletin No. 21 of the Iowa station the question of shrinkage in wool is dis- cussed. Twenty-four high-grade Shrop- shire fleeces were divided into several lots and stored away by three different methods recommended for keeping wool. One lot was packed away in a dry, clean box and a closely -fitting cover nailed over it. The second lot was sacked and suspended from the ceiling. The third lot was stored away on a shelf and closely covered to keep away the dust. These lots were all clipped shortly after the middle of April, and the fourth lot, clipped the middle of June, was sacked the same as the second lot. All of these dif- ferent lots were stored in the same place, where the air could circulate freely through them, and in the middle of June a year later they were unpacked and weighed separately. The 'first three spring clippings were about the same in weight, having changed very little on account of the various methods of pack- ing ; but the June -clipped wool showed a loss of about six per cent. The conclu- sion from the experiment is that the spring -clipped wool that is free from dirt and properly packed away will not shrink to any appreciable extent the first year, but that June -clipped wool will lose at least six per cent. of its original weight if so kept. Raspberry canes should be kept pinch- ed off when three feet high. They will then branch out and the latterals will bear next year. Dewberry vines should be lifted up and the ground under them mulched with straw. Blackberry bushes should be kept thinned. All berries shoule be grown 00 well fertilized soil. In trimming or clipping hedges of hem- lock, spruce or arbor vitae into formal shape, they should be cut with the sides sloping up to the apex, so as to bewider at the bottoin than the top. Thus the lower branches will get more light and air than they would if the sides of the hedge were perpendicular and they will not be so likely to lose their leaves and die. Currant bushes otteu seem to have a much weaker growth than should be na- tural to them. When such weakened .branches are cut across they will often beou f ud hollow from the work of the currant stein borer. Before the winter comes the larva crawls out and goes into the earth to undergge its tranefornuttion. If the affected branches be cut away and burned early in the autumn the larvae are destroyed. The puncture on the stem where the egg was deposited can easily be detected. it saves labor to destroy the ant colony when this can be done• For this purpose invert an air -tight vexsel over the ant hill with bi-sulphate of carbon under it. This is a deadly poison to all animal life, and as it is heavier than the air it will settle into the hill and destroy all it comes in contact with. Care must Lk taken net to expose the carbon bieml- phide to the fire in any wily, either by lighting a match or bringing a lighted lamp or candle near it the bi-sulphide of carbon is very inflammable and ex - ',lodes with great violence when brought near fire. It is orches to attempt to !Mee small fruits and poultry on the same piece of ground, because the two are incompatible and the amateur may just aq well know it first as last. From the time plants are set out until the fruit is ripe they will constantly work injury to it. Chicks weighing leas than -a pound may be per- mitted to run at large among raspber- ries, blackberries 111111 grapes after the fruit is gathered up to blossoming time again, and they will be of considerable benefit by destroying insects injurious to these fruits, but from the time the fruit begins to form until they are ,gathered they mist be kept out if the crop isdesir- ed. And there is no season or time when chickens of any age or size will do a strawberry plantation any good, W. F. Massey of the North Carolina station says : "Peach trees usually break down because of neglect in pruning and shaping the young tree. The peach bears its fruit upon last year's shoots, If the growth is neglected the fruit -bear- ing wood gradually gets further and further out on the end of the 11101)s, and the weight of the crop has a tremendous leverage and spllts the limb off. When we Slant a young peach tree of one year's growth from the bud (the only age at which they should be planted) we cut the stern back to about 18 or 20 inches from the ground. When growth bearing in the epring we rub off all the shoots except three or four at the top, which form the limbs for the future head. These are again shortened hack in the fall one- third, and when the shoots are too thick in the interior of the head and Interfere with each other, they aro trimmed out. Every fall the young growth of the sea- son Is shortened back one -third, and care ie taken to maintain an even distrl - lure„tial Ventures of Preserving Vag's. When preserving eggs use only strictly fresh eggs and in• packing, the eggs should 'not touch each other, as one bad egg will spoil the whole. Eggge collected at neighbors or at stores will not an- swer, as even the most obliging neighbor may unintentionally impose a stale egg on you. Eggs from hens not in company with cocks will keep three times as long as will those from hens mated with cocks. Hence, after hatching is over, remove the males, as the hens will lay fully as well without them. Keep the eggs as near 60 deg. as possible, but 70 deg. is not too high. Keep them in a cool place in summer and do u•yt let them freeze in winter. Be sure and turn the eggs at least twice a week, or the yolks will adhere to the shell. no matter how they may be preserved. This may be • done by putting the eggs in a lox and turuiug the box or by placing the eggs on a rack or turning tray. The cut shown above, and taken from Poultry Keeper, is the best method for turning eggs/ No. 1 is the tray ready for the eggs. No,. 2 is a V-shaped wood trough as long as the tray is wide,3-4 in. square and planed down to the V shape. No. 3 is a, roller 3-4 or 7-8 in. in diame- ter (window curtain rollers may be used) a 1- and as long as the V-shaped sticks. tlse stout wire at the end, cut it off about MD inch long and drive it into the center of the roller. Use wood 1 3-4 in. wide and 1-4 in. thick for pulleys in front, using 1 8-1. in. screws and over the screws drive wire brads such 301 the manufacturers of blinds use simoigghtening them out and then heading them so ns to fit the screw and go into the cut 111 the screw so it will not turn in the pulley. Set the pulleys 2 in. apart from centre to centre. Fifteen rollers may be put in one tray and eight eggs on one roller. Take ,mold of the middle roller with thumb and finger, the top ami bottom of the roller, and every egg will turn. It must be made to turn easily. ].meets of Deep -Sen Pressure. It is not nntsttal for bottles of chnrn- pagne to be dipped and trolled ill salt water, when there is no ice on shipbon rd, in order to get the wine to a pallatablo temperature, but never lung enough to case coutact between the salt water and the wine. We can hardly tell what the effect upon the wine would be if the bot- tle was immersed at a great depth for any considerable timo. It is a fact, how- ever, that if an ordinary Maga bottle tightly corked and sealed, be placed in, any, 50 fathoms of snit water and left there for about 10 minutes, it may, when brought to the surface, be found partly full of water. We say "may,” because the pressure of the superincnmbent mass of water will either force the water through the porous glass, force the cork into the bottle or break the bottle. By a law of hydrostatics the pressure of water is in proportion to its vertical height and its area at the base. It is reckoned that the pressure of water on any body plunged into it is about one pound to the square inch for every two feet of the depth. Bottles filled with fresh water, tightly corked and sealed, have been sunk to groat depthq in the ocenn, and where the enormous pressure has not burnt the bottles+ it has driven in the cork and distilnce(1 the fresh water with salt water. Piece.' of wood have been weighted' and sunk in the sea, with the result that the tissues have become so condensed that the wood has lost Its buoyancy and will never float again. It could not even be burned when apparent- ly dry.—Brooklyn Eagle. n78 Gna'r CGIIGli pronip d y-eiM' where all others fail Coughs, Cropp lora Throat, Hoaraeneaa, WhoQpif& Court and asthma. For Consumption it ,rap no livait has cured theueends,and will Cunt yo17 lt takenin time. Sold by Druggists on a aver! antee. For a Le mo Pack or Cheat, use sHILOH'8 BEpLLADONNA PLASTEI{.t;Jo, l�®Eay � i I t .,I 4T'A rl M 1lw Y e ou t:a�taxr i t Thf ve sre tend to cure you. Pico, Moto. �I j000 Sold by J. H. COMBE. 41111MIIMMININIIIMIWCr "Send me $5 worth Williams' Royal Crown Remedy and Pills to Winnipeg. I used several bottles when in Sea - forth, and know the good of it." P. KLINKHAMMER. Manager Northwest Catholic Review, 816 hes, Adam Dy.ment, a Sydenham farmer, met with a fatal accident while running a cultivator on his farm. RIIEUMATIxx CURED IN A DAY.—South America ahenmatic Calle, for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 8 days. Its action upon the system Is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the clause and the disease immediately die appears. The aret dose greatly benefice. 75 vents Sold by Watts & Co. and Allen & Wilson, Duggiest. The latest despatches fully confirm the first reports of the overwhelming defeat of the Chinese at Ping Yang. DYSPEPSIA arises from wrong action of the stomach, liver, and bowels, Burdock Blood Bitter s cures Dyspepsia and all diseases arising rrom it, 90 times in 100. .A New York despatch says Hon. Edward Blake will deliver an address under the auspices. of the Irish Nation- al Federation there on October 17. The same despatch says he will sail for Europe on October 27. (2) SHILon's CURE is sold on a guaran tee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is the best Cough Cure. Only one cent a dose ; 25 cts., 50 cts. and $1.00 per bottle. Sold byJ. H. Combe. The Colorado and Utah express on the Santa Fe railroad was held up by robbers near Gorin, •Mo. The robbers were expected, and were met by a hail of buckshot and. bullets. They were Neaten off, but they shot Engineer Prescott, not fatally. SHILOH'S VITALIZER. 1) Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga Tenn., says : "Shiloh's Vitalizsr. 'SAVED MY LIFE.' I consider it the best remedy for a debilitated system I crer used."or Dyspepsia, Liver or Kidney troune it excels. Price 75 cts. Sold by J. Hg Combe Joshua Maloney, a Pasquas reserve Indian, was shot and killed by Tom Thwack, another blood. The alleged Murderer has escaped. RELIEr Ia Sar Horns.—Distressing Kidney en Bladder diseases relieved in si hours , by the ' NE GREAT SOU'111 AMEIRIOAN KIDNEY CURL" Thi1 ne remedy is it great surprise and delight to physic ian von account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost im mediately. 1f you want quick relief and cure this is our remedy. Sold by Watts & Co. and Allen & Wilson Druggists. Fredericton, N. B., has decided by popular vote to elect its Aldermen in future from the city at large, and thus do away with the ward system. I3 Fon CHOLERA MORBUS, Cholera In- fanLulu Cramps, Colic, oe Diarrha p Dysentery, and Summer Complaint Dr. Fo wler's Extract of Wild Straw- berry is et prompt, safe and sure cure that has been a popular favorite for over 40 years. The remains of the late Prof. Wright were interred at Picton last week with Masonic honors. The obsequies were largely attended. DYSPEPSIA causes Dizziness, Head ache, Constipation, Variable Appetite, Rising and Souring of Food, Palpita- tion of the Heat't•, Distress after Eating. Burdock Blood Bitters is guaranteed to cure Dyspepsia if faithfully used ac- cording to directions. James Giles, the alleged pool room man whose establishment was closed up at Port Credit, has surrendered his bail, and been locked up at Brampton. Dr. Fowlers Extract of Wild SAAi,v- berry cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Chol- era Infantum, and all looseness of the bowels. Never travel without it. Price 35c. Arthur Mullins, 3.3 years old, who was lightweight champion pugilist be- fore Jack McAuliffe, has died at the home for inebriates at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. TO BEAUTIFY THE COMPLEXION —do not take the cosmetics, paints and powders which injure the skin, but take the easiest way to gain a beauti- ful color and a whoesome skin. Health is the greatest beautifier. The means of beauty, comfort and health for women is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Dull eyes, sallow or wrinkled face, and those "feelings of weakness," have their rise in tbgr- angements peculiar to women. "Favorite Peascription" will build up, strengthen, and invigorate, every "run-down" or delicate woman by regulating and assisting all the natur- al functions. To cure constipation, hilliousness, indigestion, sick headache, take Dr. Pierce's Pelletts. One a dose. Mrs. Maria Hartley, who is awaiting trial in Brantford Gaol for the murder of her husband, is ill.