FARM AND GARDEN.
A Cow With a Cough
A cough may be caused by indigestion,
and this is probably the cause when
otherwise a cow appears to be in good
health. Overfeeding will cause difficulty
in breathing by adding too much fat to
the heart. Give the cow a dose of epsom
salts (one pound) dissolved rn warm thin
linseed tea, about a quart; and stop
feeding grains for a few days. Mash the
bran and add a pound of linseed meal
to it for a few days and gradually return
to the former feeding. Brewer's grains
should not be fed when warm or sour.
Jfeu) York Times.
Feeding Meat to Fowls.
Too much meat, either ground or
fre?h, is injurious, as it causes bowel
disease. It may be fed three times a
week, if the dried, ground meat be used,
and twice a week if fresh butcher's meat
is given. One pound of fre-h meat,
chopped, is ahout the proper quantity
for fifteen aens, and half a pound of the
ground meat answers for a meal, mixed
with other food, for the same number,
If preferred, the ground meat may be
given twice a week and the fresh meat
once. Ground fish is also excellent, and
makes a cheap and good egg food, if
given with ground grain. Farm and
fir aide.
the supplies may not fail to as. end freelj
to the leaves, these should be allowed
to form anywhere on the stem, the lowei
down and nearer covering and shading
it the better. A strip of cloth or papei
wrapped 3; : irally round the stem frorr
the lowest leaves to the ground will help
to keep the vessels of the stem from con
tracting by parching sun or wind, aud,
in the case of trees liable to be infested
by borers will serve a most useful pur
pose in repelling the parent beetle. ThL'
early planting is favored much by having
the holes dug during or before winter,
and the finer mold for filling rendered
all the liner and dryer by being heaped
up and exposed fully to the frost. The
trees arc always best obtained in the fall
and kept in a cool cellar with the roots
covered well with sand or fine earth, 01
some sheltered place in a dry bank out
of door, safe from mice and rabbits. A
wrapping of the stem of each will secure
this, and the wrapping will then be
ready in place for summer use as above.
N. w York Tribune.
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Soft-Soap on the Farm.
An abundance of what is called ''soft-
Grafting Wax.
There has been a good many inquiries
in rogardng how to make grafting wax.
There are many variations in the quantity
of the ingredients used by dillerent graft
ers, the essential requisite being to form
a composition that is soft and pliable
enough to be freely applied, and yet not
melt or run in the hot sun. The follow
ing ingredients and directions are given
in Thomas's American Fruit Culturi&t:
Melt together three parts of resin, three
of beeswax and two of taliow. A
cheaper composition, but more liable to
adhere to the hands, is made of four
parts of resin, two of tallow and one of
beeswax, orae grafters use linseed oil
instead of tullow, in equal parts. The
wax may be applied directly to the graft,
or it may be spread when softened by
sufficient warmth on what is termed
"grafting paper" cut into strips, and
wound around the graft when inserted.
Agricultural lievitw.
Individuality of Horses.
The individuality of horses varies as
much as that of men. Everyone has a
different mental as well as physical make
up. borne horses seem to possess sense,
are quick to understand and obey the
least sign, motion or word of their mas
ter; others are not ii aptly termed "lunk
heads," always awKward, lumbering
about, difficult to teach, and never make
anything in a horse-ological sense. It
may be true that these traits in a horse
are sometimes due to the habits of his
driver or owner, and that the horse him
self may not be so mu h to blame for his
ignorance, but however much he is ex
cused on this score, there is a surprising
difference in these mental qualities of
horses. Between a nervous, sensitive and
intelligent horse and his considerate
owner how larire a union of fellowship
and sympathy exist. In the stable, on
the road, if overtaken by an accident,
the cool, sensitive man is sure to have a
quick sympathy for his horse. He trusts
his master as his master trusts him. If
the master is quiet the horse will be
equally so, knowing everything is sale;
if the man blusters, or becomes anxious,
or exhibits fear, the horse knows it at
once, and becomes restive likewise.
At w i ork II raid.
Manure Your Lawn.
If neglected last fall, it is not yet too
late to recuperate impoverished lawns. A
thin sprinkling of manure, placed on the
grass and raked oil' just as it begins to
grow lively, will be found to put new
heart into the grass. Tiie fact of fre
quent cutting of the grass and carting
away the clippings, which should al
ways be done, will in time impoverish
the richest soil. The addition of a coat
ing of manure in the winter or spring
keeps ail supplied again. Almost any
soil, as that of the common garden, that
can be spared, or that from below where
a compost heap has been laid, or the
cleaning out of ditches by the roadside,
that is part decayed vegetable m;ittjr, is
a splendid thing to spread on the lawn.
Any of the latter class is excellent for
such lawns as have dead spots in the
grass. In this case, if the whole is left
until frost is gone out of the ground,
then spread on, raked in, sown with
grass seed on the bare spots, and well
rolled after, the lawn will very often be
as good as when first laid down.
Nothing is more attractive around
the dwelling, whether the castle or cot
tage, than a nice green sward of grass.
It is cool and pleasant to the eye in the
hottest weather, and in the most scorch
ing sunshine, and all can enjoy it, who
do not live in the pent up streets of
solid brick and mortar. Have a grass
plat around your dwelling. Prairie
Farmer.
soap" may be had at the store or from
the wagon of the venders. Real soft
soap is made, not bought. It is made
from the refuse fat of the kitchen.
Every economical housekeeper has aer
pot for "soap grease" which, instead of
trading it off with the soap man for
soap, often of a poor grade, she makes
into soft-soap. The other ingredient
necessary is lye, made from the ashes of
hard wood. A substitute for lye may
be made with the potash of commerce
dissolved in water. This solution is
used in the same manner as the lye,
being mixed with the fat, hot or cold,
according the method adopted in the
family. Soap made in this manner is
always soft, a brownish, thick, viscid,
somewhat jelly-like soft-solid, which by
no amount of standing will ever bee ome
hard. Potash and soda both combine
with fat to make soap; potash or lye,
which is the same, always makes a soft
soap, while soda in the form of salsoda,
or soda ash, always makes a hard soap,
but soda or potaah soap may be con
verted intD hard soap by adding to it
common salt, whi h supplies soda. What
is generally sold as "soft soap" is simply
common white hard soap, to which so
much water has been added that it no
longer retains its form, but becomes a
semi-solid mass. If one purchases a
quart of this stuff, he buys
at leat three half pints of water;
we are therefore justified in call
ing the stuff a "fraud." Besides it is
greatly inferior in strength for all the
purposes for which it may be used, espe
cially in horticulture, to the home-made
soft-soap we have described. If one has
an old orchard, the trunks and larger
branches covered with loose bark, on
which mosses, lie hens and still lower
forms of vegetation find a foot-hold, and
which afford a resting and hiding place
for numerous injurious insects in various
states of development, the first thing to
be done is to scrape off all the loose
scales of bark. Use a moderately dull
hoe a sharp one might injure the bark;
one with a short handle will allow the
lower branches to be reached. Use the
home-made soft-soap, dilute it with hot
water, stir it well until it is thin enough
to apply with a small white-wash brush
or a large paint brush. Put plenty of it
on the trunks and the larger branches.
One should endeavor to apply the soap
very early in spring, so that it may not
dry up at once, but be gradually washed
off by the rains that usually occur at this
season. When the trees have had a
thorough washing the bark will present
a beautifully smooth appearance that
will amply repay one for the trouble.
For removing the green growth on the
outside of flower pots, this soap is ex
cellent: it has also been recommended as
a vehicle to apply kerosene for aphides
or plant lice and other insects. One
pint of soft-soap is mixed with half a
pint of kerosene. Mix thoroughly, add
to seven or eight gallon of water, and
apply with a syringe. This has been
found destructive to the chinch bug.
American A gr icu Uur it.
THE LABOE WOULD.
About 3000 iron cars are in use.
Western stove foundries are nearly all on
full time.
A new forty mile ore road is to be built in
Michigan.
JThere are two hundred gold beaters in
Tv York.
Ix the South all the coke ovens are running
double time.
There is a general depression in labor con
ditions abroad.
A lady in Belfast, Me., is learning the
machinist's trade.
Mix-kapolis, Minn., has 2000 men who
are looking for work.
Montana coal miners show an out crop
twenty-two feet thick.
New Bedford, Mass.. is to have a mill for
weaving laney cashmeres.
A thousand dock workers at Marseilles,
France, have gone on strike.
The Gadsden, (Ala.) car works have an or
der for TOO cars for one road.
A good many costly hotels are being built
of concrete and artificial stone.
Starvation wages and idle workmen is
the story that comes from Berlin.
A bed plate weighing thirty-three tons
was recently cast at Steelton, Penn.
In the neglected mining district of Zacalparn
Mexico, labor is paid 614 per month.
Wages are being reduced in New England
woolen mills and new mills are starting up.
In Baltimore 5000 women and girls get the
average weekly wages of -3 for making overalls.
Points for Tree Planters.
Next to having healthy, thrifty young
bees, not overgrown and not spoiled by
wyitig or freezing, early planting is of
first importance for all sons of decidu
ous trees, so that all wounds may callous
over before the season for visible growth.
Kext secure healthy, lull-size leaves
capable of maintaining growth. This
is helped by pruning the top well, re
moving all side-branches and even short
ening the main stem if needful to re
duce the number of growing points
(buds'. When these are few they can
he adequately supplied by the weakened
roots, and the leaves will then be fully
developed and filled out to full size. To ;
assure that they continue to be supplied
throughout the growing season, the
loots that are to supply them should be I
secured from dryness before hot weather j
V a wide and liberal mulch of any sort
vegetable waste, And io oraer that 1
Farm and Garden Notes.
Look out for lice on poultry, cattle
and hogs.
Inspect drain outlets and clear out
obstructed ones.
A fiock of poultry on a farm is indis
pensable to the setting of a good table.
See that the pigs have plenty of water
to drink, even if they are fed on slops.
If you have plenty of wood ashes you
will not be compelled to buy fertilizers
rich in potash.
Cows that are to have calves in the
spring should not be fed meal now, but
bulky, juicy food.
Stock by this time are becoming tired
of winter's restraint and vermin will
badly worry them now.
Spending the crops before they are
made is working to disadvantage ; so far
as possible, pay as you go.
In saving seed make it an item to se
lect that which has ripened first; witfi
corn this is very important.
The old method of mixing up a
dough of cornmeal with cold water foi
chicks won't make them grow.
A fruit grower affirms that in the cul
tivation of peaches stable manure pro
duces too much growth of wood.
Aside from the home consumption of
egs, a small flock of poultry, when
properly handled, may be made profita
ble. Hens should lay from this date until
warm weather without ceasing, and will,
if the conditions are anythng like fa
vorable. The proper time to water horses is
just before they eat, not afterward.
Watering after eating is the cause of
more deaths of horses by colic than any
other cause. Use good common horse
sense in feeding and watering and care
for your stock.
good leather
be nailed or
till
are
A Vienna man is making
from red beechwoed. It can
sewed.
Patterson, (N. J.) silk weavers work
9 o'clock at night, and new silk mills
starting.
Delaware River shipbuilders have con
tracts enough on hand to keep them busy for
two years.
The New York Progressive Musical Union
has taken steps toward getting up a national
organization.
The 10.000 washerwomen of Paris have
formed a union. They will demand seventy
five cents per day.
In Australia 870, 4?S workmen, employed in
71,570 shops and mills, have their lives in
sured against accidents.
Nashua (N. H.) tool makers have had to
reduce wages five to thirty -five per cent, to
meet Western competition.
Building in the City of Mexico is said to
be so active that some of the work has to be
suspended for want of bricklayers.
The strike outbreak in Germany is so
general that it would appeal to be an organ
ized co-operation of the trade centers.
The Standard Oil Company think they
now have a process to turn lime into gas. and
have just bought up 40,000 acres of territory.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker is
the pioneer in Philadelphia in employing col
ored people for responsible positions in his
business.
A Union of Manchester (England) Tailor
esses has been formed. Miss Harkness stated
that there were 25,000 tailoresses in London,
working sixteen hours a day, at two cents an
horn, when they can get work.
Albert Raymond, a Jersey City (N. J.)
painter, is out with an offer to paint 100 6 to
8 inch letters, six colors to a letter, against
any man, the painting to be dotte on glass, in
water colors. He has a 6. 22 record for the
job.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Russia has 138 vessels.
An ice trust is the latest.
Florida has fresh pineapples.
Profound peace reigns in Samoa.
In America there are 500,000 Jews.
Louisville is to have natural gaa
Frogs' legs cost fifty cents a pound.
Boston eats fifty tons of candy a day.
Chicago receipts of hogs are increasing.
The United States has ninety-eight vessels.
European crop prospects continue favor
able.
The number of priests in this country ia
8118.
Murders are decidedly on the increase in
Paris.
In Germany there are one million surplus
women.
A foreign steel rail syndicate is being
formed.
A strong current of emigration to Chile
is noted.
In all there are 7000 miles of pipe lines in
the world.
Louisiana strawberries are in the New
York market.
Cincinnati is paving its streets with
Georgia granite.
The zouave uniform is to be abandoned in
the French arniy.
The brewery combination in this country
has not succeeded.
Maud S., queen of the trotting turf , is now
fifteen years of age.
The annual production of mineral oil ii
2000 million gallons.
The Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
crop in central Illinois.
Gas wells are being struck along the
Rocky Mountains' slope.
No Russian liable to military service
permitted to leave that country now.
Florida has sent 2,000,000 young orange
trees to California since last September.
The Indiana Legislature refuses to allow
aatural gas to be piped out of the State.
An Australian experiment of shipping
oranges to London proved very successful.
There will be about ninety vacancies this
year at the United States Naval Academy.
During the last seven years Atlanta, Ga.,
has put nearly $1,000,000 in her streets and
sewers.
The Spiritualists of Boston recently cele
brated the forty-first anniversary of modern
spiritualism.
Nearly two hundred thousand barrels of
apples are lying unsold in the northern part
of Newr York.
Alabama got the first Postmaster ap
pointed in the Southern States under the new
administration.
Trotting begins to be recognized in Eng
land. A track for it is to be established just
out of Liverpool.
A newspaper trust is being organized in
England. Newspaper men are ordering sup
plies from abroad.
The Chinese are getting ready to build 650
miles of railroad. 571 locomotives, 150 coaches
and 650 cars. All American make.
A meat syndicate, to be known as the
American Meat Company, has been organ
ized in Philadelphia with a capital of $J5,-000,000.
MIRACULOUS RESTuKJL
That dainty tely tripping by.
How fight her step, how brijjut her eye.
How fresh her cheek with healthful glow.
Like roses that in Maytime blow'
And yet few weeks have passed away
Since she was fading, day by day.
The doctor's skill could naught avail;
Weaker she gTew, and thin and pale.
At last, whiie in a hopeV M fn
One day she said. "There is a nai
I've often seen a remedy
Perhaps 'twill help: 1 can but try."
And so, according to direction.
She took T)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
And every baleful symptom lied.
And she was raised as from the dead.
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Mv little hov. 5 vears old w. sidf
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middle joint. For 3 years he suffered
dreadfully; is now getting well, and I
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