FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
Storing Potatoes for Seed.
A successful potato grower ia Ohio
expresses the opinion tlv.it it will pay
farmers to retard tho sprouting of pota
toes in late winter and early spring ly
artificial mcaus, such as gpld storage or
refrigeration in small ice-house3. He
believes that tho seed exhausts itself by
sprouting in the cellar, and its value be
comes thereby greatly depreciated. It
is suggested that not a little of the suc
cess of the Aroostook, (Mc.,) potato
growers is duo to their naturally late
spring, which kecpi the seed from grow
ing until it is placed in the ground.
INcw York World.
Manuring Always Valuable.
Peter Henderson says: I never saw
soils of any kind that had borne a crop
of vegetables that would produce as
good a crop the next season without the
use of manure, no matter Iioav rich the
land may be thought to be. One of my
neighbors, a market gardener of twenty
years' experience, and whose ground
had always been a model of productive
ness, had it in prospect to run a sixty
foot street through his grounds. Think
ing his land sufficiently rich to carry
through a crop of cabbage without
manure, he thought it useless to waste
money by using guano on that portion
on which the street was to be, but on
each side he sowed guano at the rate of
12,000 pounds to the acre and planted
the whole with early cabbage. The ef
fect was the most marked I ever saw.
That portion on which guano had been
used sold off readily at $12 per 100, but
the portion from which guano had been
withheld hardly averaged $3 per 100.
Insect Pests.
Prof. Liotncr, the official entomolo
gist of tho State of New-York, made
some very useful remarks at the recent
meeting of the American Pomological
Society held at Boston. He said in the
course of a very interesting address upon
the subject of insect pests: "The farmer
and fruit grower should be acquainted
with all of the more common insects that
occur in his vicinity, their names, (not
necessarily the scientific ones,) their in
juries, and their habits. He should be
able to distinguish between insect foes
aud iuscct friend-t, so that in fighting
the former he will not destroy the latter.
He should bo able to refer them to each
one of the several orders to which they
may bc!o:ig, so that ho can speak or
write of them understanding', without
grouping them all uudcr the name of
'bugs.1 Ho should know the manner of
insect feeding, whether by means of bit
ing jaws or with a proboscis, so as to be
able to employ tho proper class of
.insecticides. He should experiment
with such rcmcdic? and preventives as
his own observations and experience
may suggest. He should avail himself
of tho publications in economic ento
mology relating to fruit pests, which arc
numerous and would be of great service."
Sotting Up Corn.
Most farmers still prefer to cut up
corn in the old-fashioned way, stooking
it around a standing hill. If properly
done, this is an efficient protection
against the stook falling or blowing
down. The best way is to place a few
hills around the one used as a centre,
taking care to put an equal weight as
near as may be on each side. Then
with a dried sucker bind the standing
corn around the hill about or just above
the ears. It is the weight of cars niore
thai anything elso that topples corn
stooks over. If the stook has been be
gun rightly it i3 easy to build it up after
a first small band has been put around
it. If the corn is cut when rather green,
then twenty-five hills in a stook arc bet
ter than more, to give it a chance to
dry out. If well ripened, thirty-five to
forty hills may be put in a stook. The
usual way is to take five rows and build
ihc stooks in the middle row through
the field. If the corn has been drilled
it is more difficult to build the stooks.
There is no clump of stalks with cars on
each ride as there is on a good hill.
This difficulty in stooking, and the fact
that drilled corn generally bears more
stalks to the acre than in hills, makes it
slow cutting. It is also much more
liable to get down, and should be husked
early on that account. Cultivator.
Hinti on Treatment of Poultry.
A poultry hoxise should be well venti
lated. Provisions should be made for
an outlet for tho vitiated atmosphere.
The air should be '"changed" every fair
day by opening the doors and windows
and allowing a draft to pass through the
building. During this time it will be
best to allow the fowls to have the
run of a yard and to take exercise in
runniug about, picking up scattered
grains 'and scratching the ground. All
birds are active by nature, and arc likely
to fall off in condition if they are pre
vented from taking a proper amount of
exercise.
It is well to encourage them to take
exercise during the winter by giving
them bundles of grain and cabbage-heads
to pick from. They should have shal
low boxes of fine earth, sand or ashes, in
which they can take a dust bath, and in
that way keep their feathers clean and
prevent insects from remaining on their
bodies. The water-supply of tho poultry
house should receive strict attention
during the winter if hens arc expected
to lay, as eggs arc very largely composed
of water.
Birds arc very f nd of a variety of
food, and domesticated fowls are no ex
ception to the general rule. They wi I
do vtry well if allowed no morj kinds
of food th:m horses are supplied with.
They require seeds of various sort, ve--tnblcs
fruits una" lL-sli. They need in
addition lime for forming the shells of
eggs, and sharp gravel for supplying the
crop with material for preparing the
food for digestion. Bones, reduced to
pieces about the sizo of the grains of
wheat, are excellent for both purposes.
Corn should be one of the leading kinds
of food for fowls during the winter, but
they should have some wheat, oats, rye
or barley. Cooked peas and beans are
fed to fowls in France with the best re
sults, as arc cooked potatoes, carrots
and parsnips. Boiled pumpkins and
squashes, in which Indian meal is
mixed, constitute a good morning meal.
Lean and fat meats arc very desirable.
They are needed to take the place of in
sects that arc abundant during the sum
mer. Pepper and ginger benefit fowls,
as do most of the condiments that are
used by human beings.
Horse Radish How to Raise.
Horse radish is an entirely hardy
plant, hence can be planted either in
fall or spring. The practice, however,
is to plaut in the spring; and among
those who make the most of their land,
and crop every foot as much as it will
carry, it is placed in tho ground for ex
ample, as a second crop. The method
is somewhat as follows: In the fall,
and it may be one of the last crops to
lift and harvest, as a frost does not hurt
it, all the young side shoots taken off
from the main or market roots are select
ed for tho next spring's planting. These
are cut into pieces six inches long or so,
tied in bundles, and stowed away in
boxes to keep fresh until wanted. It is
said that care should be taken that all
arc planted small end down. Hender
son recommends that the top part be
cut off square, the bottom slanting, as
there then would be no difficulty at
planting time. In the spring, where
land is no object or as we said before,
the fall will do each set should be in
serted in the ground with a dibble, so
as to be just below the surface, the hole
being made perpendicular, and the set
made fast by aback-thrust of the dibble.
If no other crop is to be taken off, they
may be set 15 inches apart each way in
a hole 10 or 12 inches deep. Ordinary
cultivation during the summer will by
fall give a solid root sometimes a half
jpound ia weight. As a second crop they
arc lined between early cabbage or any
other vegetable. The crop of cabbage
for first use is generally about two feet
apart. Line out a row every foot and
plant the cabbages every alter
nate row; when through plant
the horse-radish sets between. The
early crop will have become near
ly ready for the market before the
horse-radish makes much of a stir, and
by tho time the cabbage or other crop
comes off, and the whole land is given
up to horse-radish, the latter is ready to
take hold, and will bring nearly. as good
returns as if given the entire land to
perfect in. Of course, this double-cropping
can only bo done with good soil
and that which is -well-manured. In all
cases where ordinary field cultivation is
depended on, one crop will probably be
the better. Near large cities enormous
quantities of horse-radish arc sold in the
fall to men who make a business of put
ting up in bottles this pleasant condi
ment, and shipping to all parts. For
merly, each family cut up and grated its
own as wanted. It is now put up in
vinegar, but it will not, however, keep
very long, hence it cannot be treated as
ordinary canned goods. Maine Farmer.
Farm and Garden Notes.
It is a mistake to suppose that sour
fermented slop for hogs is better than a
fresh mixture that is sweet and clean.
The hollyhock likes a rich and cool
soil. So do lilies. Indeed, most bul
bous plants delight in such situations.
After planting, if any rich material can
uu uau wnu men 10 mu:cii tne Deo. tor
the winter, the bulbs will do all the bet
ter for it.
Fowls that are confined in yards and
kept warm in winter will give better re
sults the entire year than when they are
allowed to roam at wilL The hens that
have free range will sometimes lay more
in summer than will those that are con
fined, but the hens that are properly
cared for during the cold season will
lay at a time when the highest prices
lor eggs arc mually obtained.
The dahlia i3 regaining its former
popularity. For fine flowers the branches
should be thinned out a little and the
flowers should never suffer for the want
of water. Our own native asters and
golden rods are being planted in some
gardens. The improved hardy phloxes
are also being more .planted than they
were a few years ago. They do so well
in our climate that everybody should
raise them.
Some European Footwear.
In Servia, Bulgaria, and Roumania
boots made of bullock's hide or leather.
and which are simply a flat piece of
leather drawn over the foot all round
and fastened by leather thongs or birch
bark crossed over tho leg, which is
encased in cither stockings or a piece of
red cloth, arc worn by the peasantry.
1 he Slavonic peasantry in Austria also
wear boots of the same description; and
so do the Turkish soldiers, but they
make their own. The Russian peasants
make shoes of birch bark, and fasten
them in the same way over stockings,
except i:i winter, when high leather
boots are worn.
What She Would Say.
He was feeling his way. If I were
to tell you, Miss Smith," he said, in a
lww earnest tone, "that I am about to
st- rt on a long journey, even across the
sea, and that it may be months, and
I osnbly years, ere I return, what would
you say?"
If the girl dropped it wasn't percepti- '
ble. "I would say, Mr. Sampson," she '
replied, "ta, ta." Harper's Bazar.
BARK-GATHERERS.
How the Natives of Peru Collect
Cinchona for Market.
Busy Workers in the Forests
of the Andes.
A writer describ3S the gathering of
cinchona in South America as follows:
The party roam about ualil a sufficient
number of trees arc found in the vicinity
to make it practicable to settle down
and establish a camp in a suitable place.
A small houso h built for sleeping pur
poses and for covering the bark, that it
may not be exposed to an occasional
shower of rain. The party aro now ten
or twelve days' journey from tho start
ing point, and they claim the forests for
many miles around, no other bark-gath-eren
beiug allowed in the neighborhood
for the season.
When the rude shed or house is com
pleted the major domo divides the cas
carillcros and sends out little -parties in
different directions with sufficient food
for a long absence. From each emi
nence the surrounding forests are
scanned for a sight of the cinchona. Ex
perience and observation have made it
possible for the men to distingufsh the
tree at a great distance, not only from
its greater height than surrounding for
est trees, but from tha light green
smooth leaves, with hero and there a
yellow leaf. Speaking of tho bark
gatherers in Peru, a traveler says that
"standing on one side of the ravine, the
men count the cost of ascending the op
posite side, or they climb to the tops o f
loftiest trees and survey tho country
around for cinchona."
The men are judges of the proper
age at which a tree may be deprived of
its bark, and know the best trees for
this purpose. Having selected a' tree, it
is sometimes cut as near the ground as
possible and the bark taken off; at other
times the tree is made barkless while
standing. Cutting is usually considered
the better way, that the stump may put
forth more leaves and again grow up,
while a barkless tree is sure to die.
After felling, incisions are made
through the trunk-bark, up 15 or 20
inches in length by 3 or 4 inches broad,
and the pieces are removed by a knife or
other instrument. Sometimes the bark
is not separated for three or four day3
after the cutting. When taken from the
trees the pieces are placed in some spot
exposed to the rays of the sun, and aro
laid in pile, one over another, to dry,
while a weight of some kind holds the
pile in place, the bark naturally inclin
ing to roll while drying. The bark
from the smaller brauchci U allowed to
curl or become "quilled" as it dries.
When dry the cascarillero loads the
bark upon his own back, and picks his
way along; now on dizzy heights, then
through pathless woods, or up and
down the steep mountain-sides, until
the distant camping-grounds are reached.
A woodman may be able to cut two
quintals, 200 pounds, of bark per day,
which will make about one quintal after
drying and being made ready for the
market. The best bark is taken from
the trt?ak, the second quality comes
from the larger branches, and the least
valuable is peeled from the small
branches; but different kinds of bark
usually get somewhat mixed in the
packages.
Before the rainy season commences,
about the last of September, or in Octo
ber, the camp is broken up, aud the
whole party start for the ten days' jour
ney homo. The mules carry the bark,
three quintals being a lawful mule-load
in the Andes, although in descending
the steep eastern slope mules can lawfully
carry but 150 pounds each.
Fat Incomes.
The Duke of St. Albans draws a net
emolument of nearly $6000 a year, tho
gross payment to the holder of this
hereditary sinccu e being nearly $7000.
This'oflice is in the royal hunt depart
ment of the queen's household, of which
the master of the horse is the head. The
duke also enjoys several perquisites, in
cluding six fat bucks every year from tho
royal herd at Bushey. The office of
grand falconer has been held by the
dukes of St. Albans since the reign of
James II., and they were likewise hered
itary registrars of the court of chancery
uu til that sinecure was abolished, its
holder, of course, receiving adequate (i.
c. preposterously large) compensation.
The present duke is said to have a salary
of $4825 to compensate him for the loss
of the chancery office. "Don't let poor
Nelly starve," was the exhortation of
Charles II. on his death bed regarding
Nell Gwynne, from whom and himself
the dukes of St. Albans descend, and the
injunction has not been forgotten, as the
country has been kind enough to pro
vide liberally for the descendants of
"poor Nelly" for more than 200 years.
The duke draws first a salary for doing
nothing, second an allowance for falconers
who he docs not employ, third an allow
ance for hawks which he docs not keep,
and fourth an allowance for victualling
hawks having no existence. These are
the legal divisions of his sinecure.
Pa Nowhere. J
Minister Which do you love best, '
Bobby, your papa and mama or your
two rabbits? !
Bobby (after some consideration) !
Well, I think I love ma and the jack- '
rabbit the best. New York Sun.
A Bnrst of Generosity.
"Ma," said Bobby, "if you'll give me
another piece of pie do you know what
I will do?"
"What will you do, Bobby?"
. "I'll give my little sister half of it,"
aid the generous boy. New York Sun.
CLIPPINUS FOB THE CURIOUS.
. Europe's population is 337,000,000, ac
cording to reports prepared for the In
ternational statistical congress.
An average ljuman pulse at infancy is
140 per minute ; at 2 years, 100, from lfl
to 19, 80; at manhood, 76; old age, 60.
An Oil City man claims the prize foi
sunflowers, having one in his garden that
measures fifty-four inches in circumfer
ence. Thirty-six thousand two hundred -and
nine persons died in London of the
plague which, visited the English me
tropolis in 1603.
The English guinea was first coined
in 1673, and derived its name from the
fact that the gold of which it was at first
composed came from Guinea.
The highest denomination of United
States legal-tender notes is $10,000,
No bills of the value of $100,000 have
ever been issued in this country.
As early as 1505 adventurous French
fishermen of Normandy and other coast
provinces of France plied their vocation
off the shores of Newfoundland.
Tobacco was discovered in San Do
mingo in 1496; afterward by the Span
iards in Yucatan in 1520. It was intro
duced into France ia 1560, and England
1583.
The first step3 looking toward the
foundation of the present city of New
Orleans were taken by the French gov
ernor, Bienville, in 1718, when a party of
convicts were sent out to clear up tho
swamp that was chosen as its site.
A large flock of "chimney sweeps'
took to roosting in a chimney of the
house of John A. Butts of Thomaston,
Ga. One night he covered the chimney
with a board, and early next morning
replaced the board with a bag. When
he removed the bag it contained 567 im
prisoned birds.
Mules and horses in the far West fre
quently die of a peculiar trouble. The
beard of wild oats or barley becomes
fixed in the animal's jaw, encysts, and
grows there, assisted by the tartar of the
teeth. A calcareous formation of this
sort, oval in shape and weighing a
pound, was recently taken from the
mouth of an Oregon horse.
Just in front of the spot where Presi
dent Cleveland stood in the room of the
board of commissioners in tho City Hall
of Philadelphia when he received the
public at the recent centennial, there is
a threadbare spot in the carpet. It was
formed by the people marching up to
him, shaking hands and then turning
towards the exit. Many thousand feet
shuffling in that turn wore the carpets
to threads ia a few hour.
A Novel Idea.
There was a church festival in Hen
sonvale, and this is the way in which
Miss Belle Abbott introduced a new fea
ture into the well-worn list of such en
tertainments. A placard was prominently displayed
at the festival reading:
4 'something new. don't fail to see it. "
All were kept in mystery until the ap
pointed time, when the manager, step
ping before the curtain, spoke of the
statue of Memnon in Egypt, which was
accustomed to greet the rising" sun with
song.
"More obliging than Memnon," he
said, "certain stately American sun
flowers have been found ready and will
ing to sing whenever called upon.
Ladies and gentlemen,'' he added, "I
have been fortunate enough to secure
for our festival a cluster of these remark
able additions to our native flora, and
have the honor of presenting to you our
Sunflower Chorus."
The slowly drawn curtain revealed
upon a dark background thirteen largt ,
yellow sunflowers, with leaves and stalks
complete, and in the centre of each a
human face. Music came from the piano
near the stage, and to its accompani
ment the cluster of human sunflowers
sang numerous selections from familiar
operas, popular songs and melodies, and
college glees.
The Sunflower Chorus was voted a
great success, and those not in the se
cret begged Miss Abbott to tell them
how it was done. And this was her ex
planation: One foot behind the stage curtain,
hang another curtain of dark brown
cambric, ten feet square ; attach this by
rings to a wire stretched nine feet from
the floor; tie cords to the first and last
rings and, drawing the curtain tightly,
fasten these rings to tho wall on each
side. Tho top being now secured, let
the curtain hang naturally; wrap the
surplus cloth about a strip of wood
twelve feet long, two inches wide, and
one inch thick ; fasten this to the floor
by two large screws, and the flower
screen will be tightly stretched.
Group tho singers in a picturesque
cluster behind the screen, with their
faces pressed against the cloth, and at
distances from the floor varying from
one to eight feet; make the position of
each face and cut, in tho screen, a hola
into which the face will closely fit. Go
ing now to the front of the screan, ar
range the flower and leaves, which
should be fully 'prepared beforehand.
The rays of the sunflowers may bo
cut from yellow paper, and the leaves
and stalks from green paper. Paste the
the rays around the openings, then ar
range tho stalks and leaves in proper
position.
When the paste is dry, remove the
strip of wood from the bottom of the
screen, unfasten one of the cords at the
top and slide it back until needed for
use, when it may be easily put into po
sition. In summer the natural stalks and
leaves of the sunflower may be used in
stead of those made from paper. St.
Nicholas.
Common Myths
Ignorant folk, wonder-mongers and
even scientific observers have dissem
inated many erroneous and, exaggera
ted notions which are not readily erad
icated. We are still told, for instance
of the Norwegian maelstrom, a fright
fnl whirling chasm in the sea capable
of sucking down the largest ships,
though in reality this fearful "whirl
pool" is simply a run of the tide
through a sloping channel, is rarely
dangerous, and then chiefly on account
of the rocks on which it may draw ves
sels. Sir John Herschel gave his in
dorsement to the statement that stars
may be seen in the daytime from the
bottom of a well, but this has been
proven to be an error by tests from a
shaft nearly half a mi'o deep. Mr.
John Murdock has rocontly shown that
the Eskimos do not, as text-books of
physiology affirm, doze through their
long winter nights, keeping up their
bodily heat by enormous meals of raw
blubber and lamp-oil, but that their
winter life is active, their food mostly
cooked and their consumption of oil
not excessive. A still widely accepted
belief is that the hair-snako is a won
derful transformation of n horse's hair
when kept in water, though these odd
creatures (known tos -ience as Gordius
auaticus) really grow from eggs, and
in early stages inhabit tho bodies of
insects. A very old idea, without
foundation in fact, is that crocodiles
shed mournful tears, while stories of
toads imprisoned in solid rock are nu
merous and supported by much evi
dence, b.it have probably resulted
from imperfect observation. Accounts
of tho germination of grain from tho
mummy-pits of Fgypt havo arisen from
deception practiced by the Arabs in
placing fresh seeds with the belong
ings of the mummies. Though now
known to be incorrect, tho inference
that the moon influences the weather
is a very natural one to untrained ob
servers, and is far le ;s absurd than a
thousand vagaries that gain credence,
such as the dropping of live reptiles
from the clouds, the ejection of live
snakes and other creatures from the
human stomach, the localization of
water by a forked stick, the extin
guishment of .fire by sunshine, etc.
Arkansaw Travder.
The World's Largest Cities.
The following information is often
inquired for, and, 'as it may be useful
in many caso3 for reference, wo have
compiled a table of tho largest cities
of the world, with their populations
as stated by the latest authorities. Jn
the absence of any official census, the
Chinese cities have simply to be esti
mated, and of course must be accepted
as an approximation only. We nave
not given any city whose population is
below 500,000, though there are many
we could enumerate which closely ap
proach that figure. It will be seen
that in the thirty-five cities tabulated
below there are 32,510,: 1 J souls, or
nearly the population of the Brit'sh
Isle.?, a fact which cannot be grasped
in a moment by any ordinary intellect:
Aitchi, Japan.. 1,232,050 Madrid, Spain.. 500,100
Bangkok, Ham. 500,000 Moscow,Kus4ia G11.974
Brooklyn, N. Y. T71, 00 New York, N. Y 1,400,00 J
Berlin, Pru83ia.l,li2,J0 Paris. France.. 2,249,023
Calcutta, India. im.VOH Pe akn 2ft. Java 505,2)4
Canton, China. 1.5CO.0JO Pekin, China.. 8)0,00 1
Chancchoofoo, Philadelp i Pa SoO.000
-ha 1.0fX),C0) St. Peter burg,
Chicago, 111 715 O0 ltussia 766,161
Constantinople, Snrtami, Joi n 8Gil7
lurkey 700,033 Bian, China. ...l.COO.000
Foo-Ghoo,China 630,000 St. Louis, Mo... 6U0.0O0
CilasRow.f-cotl d 514,018 Tat-Keen-Lop,
Haiig-Chow-foo, j china 500,000
China GCO.COO Tien-Tsin. Cli'o 950,(0)
H a n R-Tcheon, Tokio. Japan... 987,837
China 8J0.000 Tschautcha ifu,
Han-Row.Ch'na 600,000 China 1.0C0.030
K i ng-te-Chiang, Tsln-Tchoc,
, China 5 0,000 China KOO.fiO)
Liverpool, Eng. 57-1,000 Vienna Austria 7v!0.105
London, Eng...3,955,819,Voochung,C'na 800.00J
Caught by a Clam.
A traveler among the South Sea
islands gives an account of huge clams
so big that a single shell makes an
admirable bath for a child the ver
touching of which i sometimes attend
ed with fatal consequences. Diving
for clams generally falls to the share
of the women, and many a one ha3 met
her doom from getting 'nipped bv the
ponderous dentated shell and so'held
a prisoner in the depths, nevrr to rise
again. Quite recently a poor fellow
fishing on one of the Paumotu atolls
dived to tho bottom of tho lagoon, feel
ing for pearl oysters, when ho unlucki
ly slipped the fingers of his left hind
into a gaping clam-shell, which closed
and held him in a vise. The shell lay
in a hole in the coral, so that it was
impossible to reach the byssus by
which it is moored in that safe harbor.
The wretched man, in agony of mind
and body, severed his own fingers with
his knife and rose to the surface, hav
ing, indeed, escaped drowning, but be
ing maimed for life. There have been
other cases where a diver thus impris
oned has, with greater deliberation,
contrived to insert his knife into the
shell and so force it open sufficiently to
release his other hand. The Argo
nau'. Postoffices wero first established
in 'Paris inllG2; inEng'and, 15Sl;in
Germany, 1GA1 ; in Turkey, 1710.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor: Please inform your readers
that 1 have a positive remedy for the above
named d isease. By it s timely use 1 housands of
hopeless eases- have lieen permanently cured. I
shall be glad to send two bottles of mv remedy
free to any of your readers who liave con
sumption if they will send me their Express
and P. O. address. Respectfully,
T. A. !SLOCUM,M.C., 1K1 Pearl St., N. Y.
Sumatra has a flower which grows to nine
feet in circumference, and weighs 11 teen
pounds.
If you are bothered with "hard times" and
want to learn how to turn your time into money
quickly and pleasantly, write to li. F. Johnson
& Co., Richmond, Va. They have a plan on
foot that you ought carefully to consider.
Curiously enough the man who is always in
a pickle doesn't p serve his temper worth a
cent.
Purity and Strength
The former In the blood and the latter throughout
the system, aro- necessary to the enjoyment of per
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