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N FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. PROVIDING WINTER COWS. One reason whv there are fewer winter cows is that it is often difficult to get them in heat for breeding at the right season. It is easy to breed them in spring, when warmer weather and good feed combine to bring them into breeding condition. A spring milch cow, gradually growing poorer all summer, will not breed in fall, unless heavily fed with nourishing food for several weeks to bring her into heat., Oats are probably the best for this pur pose, though for cows that have grown very poor oil or cottonseed meal mixed . with bran should be added. American Cv.lthutor. A VEGETABLE GARDEN. I would urge, says a writer in VicFs Magazine, every farmer to have a vege table garden, and a good one, for, while a poor one is better then none at all, a good one is so much better that one ought never to be satisfied, with anything else. Let him make up his mind to work it at least as well as he does other portions of his farm, and he will lind, if he carries out this resolution, and keeps an account of the results, that there is no other por tion of the farm which furnishes so much of the family's living, therefore none that "pays"so well. That this isthefact, everyone who has a good garden will tell you. It is also a fact that those who have the best gardens appreciate them most. Poor gardens are only to be tol erated on the principle that "half a loaf is better than no loaf at all." Not only does a good garden represent greater quantity, but superior quality, for fine vegetables cannot be grown in a garden not properly cared for. RULES OF BREEDING. Only the possession of superior merit or the ability to produce offspring form ing such merit gives an animal or a breed a claim t the title "improved stock." The personal qualities of the animal to be used in breeding are more impor tant than those of their ancestors; the qualities of parents more important than grandparents, and vastly m"Ne important than those of any more remote ancestors. The offspring resembles the parent much more frequently than it does some re mote ancestor. Pedigree is important ; the test of its value is th merit of the animals forming it. The top crosses are more important than more remote ones. Continued selection is essential to im provement or maintaining a high degree of excellence. No breed, no family, has uniform excellence in all its members. Food, care and training are as impor tant as pedigree in developing or main taining excellence. Remarkable development in any one quality is often accompanied by compara tive or actual weakness in other direc tions, but it is easily possible to secure a good degree of excellence in several di rections. It is often Avise to breed for more than one purpose. The largest number of horse, cattle and sheep owners do not want animals fitted for only one use. The greatest good to the greatest num ber of farmers is secured by encouraging the large increase in number and general dissemination of improved stock and moderate prices. Intelligence and good judgment among breeders should be re lied on to keep up the standard of merit rather than the restrictive regulations as to registration, importation of stock, etc. It is wise to encourage the use of good cross-bred sires if pure bred ones canned I or will not be purchased. For the great mass of farmers, the cheapest, safest and best method of im proving their stock is the continued use of good sires and best females obtainable, but the present low prices of pure-bred stock makes it an especially good time in which to lay the foundation for a full bred flock or herd. The multiplication of unimportant points required in pure-bred animals is ar evil, as in all other attempts to increase or diminish the reputation of animals ol any breed or family on any other points than that of actual merit. Pi-qfemr Morrow. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. As a rule, the nearer the maturity ol the plant the greater its feeding value. There may be some exceptions, but it is most emphatically true of corn. Horses certainly resemble men in this respect no two individuals are alike, and further, in that while kindness goes a long way, sometimes force is neces sary. Care should be taken to train the young turkeys to roost in the poultry house. If soriu pains are taken when they are young they can be readily taught to do this. Every farmer ought to grow all the feed for his stock, the grain included. He therefore saves transportation and middlemen's profits, and knows precisely what he is feeding. When is there a better time to paint buildings than in the fall when' the frost has killed the flies, the rains have laid the dust, and the work on the farm h closed for the season? Hogs fed on corn alone can scarcely be altogether healthy. When farmers come to properly realize, if they ever do, that a mixed diet is necessary to health, the country may, perhaps, bid a long farewell to hog cholera and its attendant evils. In buying fruit trees with which to plant a young orchard it is cheapest to buy the best ; and be sure to buy young trees and not too large ones. Such trees are not so much injured by transplant ing, and grow and do better than older and larger trees. Most house plants .are watered too much in winter. Even in greenhouses, where a uniform and higher temperature than is possible in most living rooms is maintained, the evil is more apt to be from too much rather than too little water. Unless the plants are kept warm enough to grow rapidly, water is an in jury. It lowers the temperature of soil antil the roots barely vegetate, and if the soil has much vegetable matter, t poisons them by developing humic acid. RECIPES. Corn Meal Gems One cup granulated xieal, two teaspoonfuls flour, two tea jpoonfuls sugar, one heaping teaspoonful baking powder, one egg and sweet milk enough to make a thin batter ; bake in gem tins in a well heated oven. Crumb Omelet To one cup of bread crumbs add one cup of milk and stir in four or six eggs; season with pepper and salt and a little chopped ham, if liked; fry in a well greased skillet, fold over and serve on a warm plate. Potato omelet is made by substituting mashed potatoes for the crumbs. Baked Bean Soup Take cold baked Oeans, add twice the quantity of water and let them simmer till soft, then rub through colander and add as much strained tomato, a small onion chopped fine and simmer twenty minutes more, adding water till of right consistency. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Veal Ragout Take a breast of veal, bone it nicely, flour it and fry a nice brown, then keep it hot by the fire and nake the gravy thus: Take the bones :hat come out of the veal, and any other ?mall pieces that you do not want, and stew them in a pint of water with some onions, peppers, salt and cloves; when done strain it and add the butter the veal was fried in, a little flour that has been browned and some catsup. Stew the meat in it until done. '"" Among the Seal Catchers. Attoo, Alaska, the most westerly point of land where the American flag flies, i. an island fifteen or twenty miles in ex tent, and of volcanic origin, like all thf others of this long chain. It is inhabited by about a hundred and thirty hardy, honest-hearted Aleuts, who subsist by seal-hunting, fishing and the propagation of "blue" foxes and domestic geese. The Alents are honest, kindly people, and no explorer or visitor need have the least apprehension about going among them quite alone and unarmed. They are all Greek Christians, and better Christians in their daily life and be havior than many of our fellow -countrymen nearer the centre of government. They prosecute seal and whale fisheries to some extent as a means of livelihood, but their principal business is the pursuit and capture of the sea otter. An expert Aleutian hunter sometimes clears two thousand dollars a year from this industry alone, Aside from fish and the flesh of young seals, their food supplies comes to them mainly by the way of the traders to whom they sell their furs. They dress also for the most part in woollen clothing of the "ready made" class, which the traders bring them, and their women are said to b close and admiring imitators of Paris fashions, although the "fits" which thej obtain are not always as would win the approval of French modistes. Congressional Furniture. It takes a lot of furniture to fit out the Capitol. It is a pretty big building to furnish with tables and chairs, car pets and rugs, desks and bookcases, washstands, and what not, without tak ing into account the articles of orna mentation. There are no hnndred attics in the country that could furnish, in a combined effort, as much rubbish as is stowed away in that building, some lyins away in dark holes, and some servinc still as furniture. There are, of course, some articles of furniture that are made valuable by their age and historic asso ciation. There are the desks at which our great men of the early days wrote, and the chairs they occupied, and there are rare old pieces of mahogany that arc valuable independent of their associa tion , but what an auction .sale it would make to sellout all the ramshackle furni ture thereabout. It is proposed to recom mend to Congress this session to have such a sale, and to make Vn appropria tion to refurnish all the House side, where the furuitnie is in the worst state of dila-nilofirm 7i il.'tl-.-7 nr 7. 7 Flat-Feot. The bones of the foot are arranged from behind forward in the form of an arch, upon the top of which falls tho j weight of the body. The bones are held j together by ligaments which yield a littlo j when pressure is applied, thus forming a : sort of elastic cushion which prevents the jar of walking or jumping from being communicated to the rest of the body. Under normal circumstances the arch should sustain the weight of the body, and when a person rests his whoi weight upon one foot, there should be a space at the middle of the sole which is not brought into contact with the floor except at the outer border. i In certain people, whose tissues become lax through debility, the tissues which bind these foot-bones together lose their normal tension, becoming flaccid and easily stretched, so that the bones are not kept in their fully arched position, but tend to flatten out. Such a condition is known as flat foot. 'i may be present in varying degrees, and jS difficult of correction in proportion to the extent of the falling and the length of time it has existed. Persons whose occupation forces them to stand or walk a great deal, especially if they are very heavy, are most likely to suiier iu this manner. There is noticed ririt an aching sensa tion in the arch of the foot or under the heel. Sometimes almost the onby evi dence of the condition is the presence of pain, which may be thought to be neu ralgic or rheumatic, and may be situated at a distance from the real seat of the trouble. The patient walks with a pe culiar stumping step, as though he h id wooden feet, and generally "toes out." Recent cases arc relieved without much difficulty. Sometimes it is sufficient if the person makes an effort to walk with the toes straight forward, and to tread upon the outer border; or a similar end may be gained if the sole of the boot is built up a little thicker on the inner side. In older and more severe cases artificial supports become necessary, these Ueing plates of steel, either worn inside the shoe or built into the counter. The im mediate relief to the wearer is very great, and generally a complete cure results after a longer, or shorter time, the liga ments becoming strengthened and allow ing the artificial support to be discarded, Youth's Companion. I.razil is so vast and yet so poorly equipped a country that in remote sec tions the people did not know of Dom Pedro's deposition and the establishment of the Republic uutil some weeks after it had occurred. WHOLESALE AND KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON ililff FAMILY -AND- neluding, Oats, Bran, Hay, Ship Stuff, Corn, Meal, Flour, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, &c. -ALSO AGENT FOR THE- CeleM Dufeii Weighing His Wife. Two jolly old boys whose combined avoirdupois would reach somewhere above 500 pounds occupied two scats in a Third Avenue Elevated train. They just beamed with happiness and good nature, and exemplified the wisdom of the old exhortation: "Laugh and grow fat." They compared notes on weight. One declared that when he and his two "boys" got on the scales they tiped the beam at 850 pounds, but his wife was so thin that she formed no obstruction to the sunlight and cast no shadow. Both laughed uprozvrously at this and then the other old fogy declared that he could never get his better half to step on the scales and be weighed, because she is so ashamed of her adipose tisse. "But I got the best of her," chuckled the fat boy, wheezing asthmaticaily. "I got her in my grocery wagon the other day, and on a pretext that I wanted to talk with Pettigrew, the coal dealer, I drove un in front of his office. She didn't notice, but I stopped the horse just as the wagon was square on the plat form sales in front of the office. Then I motioned to Pettigrew and he weighed the whole shebang. Afterward I came back alone and got the wagon weighed with only myself in, and subtracting the result from the first weight I found that I had 2971-pound "wife. "But I can't have any fun with her about it, she's so mad at the trick I played on her, though I-keep a-tellin' her that I love her by the pound." Both the fat boys laughed so heartily at this that they almost choked to death in concert, to the great alarm of the guard, who called their station - out of place in order to get them off his train so that they wouldn't die on his hands. New York World. Catching Salmon by Hand. The canning of salmon is one of the greatest industries of Alaska. The can neries are situated near the mouth of some river or the outlet of a lake, up which the salmon passes in schools to deposit their spawn. As they return, the stream and the bay arc so alive with them that the- are caught by millions, and often tossed into the boat or on to the shore with the hand. The output of the can neries for Alaska alone during the past year is 500,000 cases, each case contain ing forty-eight one -pound cans, and worth at the cannery 5 a case. Mail and Express. The deepest bored hole in the world is said to be near Leipsic, Germany. Its depth is 5735 feet, and it took six years to bore it. t DETAIL DEALER IN BAND A FULL LINE OF Bull Fertilizers. GOLDSLOttO, x. C. petitors uKOOlSlll. THE SIZE OF D01 A Depends Very Much Upon YOU SPEND IT. Our Mr. Fuchtler has just returned from the North, where he the ffrand rounds of all the markets, and we can safely assure 0Cr patrons that a dollar spent with us will go farther and fare better ibaa anywhere else yoa can place it. Right here we wish to gay that xvear9 not showing any remnants of burnt or bogus bankrupt stock, but only Straight Goods' All the lay Through. Our facilities for displaying our Stock are, we are pleased to say, men excellent. Our Ladies and Gents' Departments have been seP&. rated, and this arrangement, whole affording us better opportunities lor showing goods, is a source of great convenience to our customer. We invite the attention of our lady friends to our line ol Which we believe to be, both as regards FABRIC and STYLE, 'in paralleled in the city. We have an elegant line of HENRIETTE CLOTHS, (all shades,) SEBASTuPOL SUITINGS, PRINCESS CASSIMERES, LADIES' CLOTH, DRESS FLANNELS, FALL 3ATINES, and a full line of other late novelties. S3 EL15r UR LINES Want of space forbids our particularizing in every instance, and we cm at deal in generalities. Gentlemen will find OTJDES STOCE Clothing. Hals, Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc.) to be everything that can be desired, and at prices that are astonishingly low. We invite an examination of our suits in CORKSCREW, FANCY WORSTEDS, WINTER CHEVOITS, &c, in either Frock, Sack or Cutaways. In Hats, We Have Farmers' Broad Brims iD wool or fur, and a full line suitable for all classes. IN SHOES we cannot be equalled. We carry all grades, is sizes to tit an infant to a giant. OUR Carets, Bm Oil IS SOMETHING GRAND. Our ware-rooms are on the second floor, where we are exhibiting an elegant assortment of Wilton, Tapestry, Brussels and Ingrain C&r Smyrna Rugs, Oil Cloths, Mattings, Etc., which must be seen to appreciated. Tho above is only a partial enumeration of our variad stock, bic0 comprises everything in the line of Notions, TrimmiDgs, Ladies lMer' wear, Corsets, Trunks, Satchels, Valises, Grip Sacks, Blankets, and, i short, almost anything you can ask for. SST GIVE US A CALL. Polite and attentive lady and gentlemen clerks always in attendance. We guarantee all goods to be as represented, and our PRICES L0B THAN THE LOWEST. H-VST ClTfiPv STREET, G3-n0 AND- ARE FULL STOCK OF Clollis aoi.DSBORO, G anil mm
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