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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INtEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. STORE? O EXTTTEIi. If butter is properly kept it will not deteriorate in six months if it be per fect in quality when it is made. Everything depends on these two con ditions, for if it is not good at the first it will contain some elements of decomposition, due to milk left in it, or Ihe oversonrnesa of the cream, or other faults that will tend to further decomposition during the time it is stored. But the manner of storage too must be unobjectionable, that is, the place should" be clean, cool and dark, and the packages must be air tight and perfectly clean, too. Then the slow internal, change. in the but ter, due to the chemical alteration of whatever unavoidably impurities still exist in it, and the effect of these on the butter fat, will go on so slowly as not to injuriously affect the quality, and it may be six months before there will bo any appreciable deterioration. But as butter is a perishable substance it is always best to dispose of it while it is in good condition, and not to keep it, even in a cold storage, longer than can bo helped. As a rule, money is lost by depreciation of quality when butter is kept longer than a few weeks. New York Times. CLIlimSO VISES'. Climbing vines have many different methods of attaching themselves to their support. Some encircle a branch of the host by twining their main bodies around the support. A hop vine is a familiar illustration of this. More delicate ones cannot twist around their stakes, but have to have string or some similar material to cling to. The ordinary morning glory is an illustration of this class; but there are some which simply qliinb by twisting the leaf stalk around the support This is especially true of the different kinds of clematises, yet it is not unusual in some gardens to see stakes as thick as walking canes put for the clematis to run upon; but, as it is unable to do this, they have to bo tied to this pole by twine, while the leaves go on twisting them selves in order to find something to cling to, and as a consequence the vital powers of tho plant are exhaust ed. In many cases tho clematis, es pecially the variety known as Jack manni, will die completely and sud denly from the attack of a minute fungus ; but it is more likely that this ; occurs oftener in cases as described for want of tho proper means of sup port Thread or twine for the leaves to twist around, or even a little brush wood, 6uch as we would give to a crop of peas, is much more likely to pro duce healthy and vigorous clematises than when they are deprived of all means of using their leaf stalks as ten drils. Meehan's Monthl v. RAISING DAIRY C AX YE 3. Dairy farming in this part of Wis consin (Jefferson County) is practiced to the exclusion of almost alPother kinds, a few hogs of course being kept for the purpose of consuming the Bkimmilk, says F. E. Everson. To.be V6uccessful the farmers must have good cows, and to have good cows thy must begin with good calves. la rj J3 MTBOVED STALL FOB CALVES. We select the calves produced bv the most profitable cow?, taking into consideration not only the quantity of milk, but tho quality also as deter mined by the Babcock test. Our herd, consisting of forty-six thoroughbred cows, is headed by a full-blood bulL When a calf is born that we wish to rai;e, we allow it to run with the ciothsr one day only unless the cow's udder is in bad condition. In that case we believe it is best for the calf to sack. After the first day teach it to drink, giving the milk from the mother. Give about eight pounds night and morning for a month. The past sea son after the. first month we began giving ten pounds of skimmilk in the morning and about the' same amount oi sweet milk at night At this age also begin to feed a little fine hay. At about two months of age they are put into winter quarters, where they are. fed skimmilk entirely with a good supply of hay and grain. Begin with eight or ten pounds at a feeding, and gradually increase the amount un til it reaches fifteen pounds. Feed regularly and heat the milk to ninety degrees before giving it to them. Al ways treat them kindly. The exact amount and kind of grain feed will be governed by circumstances largely and by the capacity of tho individual animal. Our calves are given ground oats with a sprinkling of old process oilmeal; probably no two receive tho same amount. In feeding grain be careful to not overfeed at first. Begin with a light ration and gradually in crease it Some farmers in my vicin ity give calves constant access to grain feed after they havo become accus tomed to it. We stable our calves in a warm barn, each one having a separate stall, two of which are shown in the accompany ing illustration. 1 Each stall is two and one-half feet high, two feet wide and four feet long from manger to drop. In front of the calf is a manger for hay two feet high; one and one half feet long, and just as wide as tha stall. In cne corner, a a, is a little box in which to place grain feed. At the back end of each stall parition is a two by two inch timber running from the ground to the ceiling, for support. At the front every four or five feet is a two by four answering the same purpose. A strap on which is placed an iron ring is fastened around each calf's neck. A rope with a snap at one end is tied $o the mang er and by it the calf is secured. In spring when the grass is started the calves are turned out to pasture and not again taken up until they are yearlings. American Agriculturist FARM AND GAED2N N0TE3. Brown Leghorns seem to hold their" own; against all comers, and anybody who has once kept the pure stock, hankers after them forever after. If you have no pigs slop should be given to cows or horses. Either can be taught to drink it if you will be ua- tient But always keep some pigs. This is a busy month on the farm. Planting should begin in a small way. However it is better to wait until the ground becomes warmer before you plant much seed. It is a waste of time and money tc undertake to grow profitable crops on lands which have been impoverished, without putting into the ground some thing to enrich it. Cruelty to Gold Fish. Sir Herbert Maxwell has written a a letter to the. London Times protest ing against the cruelty of illuminating bowls of gold fish with electric lamps. Fish, he explains, are so sensitive to light that some of them (trout, for in stance) can alter their coloring, ac cording to the ground on which they 6wim. But the peculiarity that ren ders exposure to stronsr lisrlit intoler- , able to fish, is that they have no eye j lids, so that to confine them in the I neighborhood of a brilliant lamp is to ; infiict upon them indescribable tor- mce. umcago Aimes-uerald. A Bog Coaimiis Suicide. Peter Snyder, of Demarest, X. J., met with a painful accident two weeks ago and was confined to his bed. His faithful water epahiel, missing his master's company, became despondent, end on Friday was found drowned in the village lake near the depot. It is believed the dog committed suicide. No other reason can be given for his death, a3 he was an expert s Trimmer. -New Ynrk Becortr. A'S BAIIEBS DOWN. Other Countries Profi by the Terms of Peace Exacted! by Japan. TREATY SIGNED BY ALL ENVOYS. Anybody May Introduce Into China Fac tories or Machinery and May Lease "Warehouses In the Interior Intima tion That European rowers Will At tempt to Revise the Concessions. The treaty of peace between Japan and China was signed at Shijnonoseki by the Peace Commissioners , of both countries. The provisions of this treaty of most conse quence to outside countries are these: China agrees to no longer impose upon foreigners the odiou3 taxi known as likin, lavied upon goods and sales. A uniform standard tael is to. be adopted by China for her currency. Much confusion is caused in money calculations, because there are the Haikwan Jor customs tael (usually meant when Government computa tions are made), worth about seventy-five cents; the Tientsin taeP, worth about seventy three cents, and the Shanghai tael, worth about sixty-nine cents. j . All foreigners are to be permitted to intro duce into China factories and machinery, and to lease warehouses iajthe interior. Japan takes Formosa, the Pescadores Isl ands and Manchuria fromj Yingkow, on the Leao Eiver, to Anping, on the Yaln, includ ing the Leatong peninsula No other part of China is to be occupied by Japan, even as a temporary guarantee that China shall abide by the provisions of the peace treaty, except possibly Wel-hai-wei. The indemnity which China Is to pay to Japan is fixed at 200,000.000 taels in silver (equivalent to about $150,000,000 in American gold). The important commercial concessions made by China are to be shared by all Na tions. The autonomy of Korea is recognized. No pressure from Western Powers was brought to bear upon Japan during the peace negotiations. A dispatch from Shimonoseki says that Li Hung Chang, China's peace envoy, has started for home, having conceded all of Japan's demands. A despatch from Tientsin, China, says an imperial proclamation has been issued au thorizing Li Hung Chang o sign a treaty of peace with Japan guaranteeing the payment of 200,000,000 taels indemnity. By the proc lamation Li Hung Chang is impowered to cede to the Japanese the island of For mosa and the peninsula of Liao Tung to the fortieth degree of latitude, to sanction the opening of five new commercial ports, includ ing Pekin, and to give Japan the power to open cotton factories and other industries in China. Germany objects to the conditions of peace only so far as they encroach upon German commercial interests, and) regards the whole question as cne to Ibe 6e.ttled between China and Japan as long as European Interests are not affected. I The French and Russian! Governments are about to convoke a meeting of the Powers for the purpose oi revising the terms of peace agreed upon by the Chinese and Japanese representatives. The Pall Mali Gazette, a leading British paper, commenting on the terms of peace be tween China and Japan, asi defined by the im perial edict just issued in Pekin, says the cession of Formosa will surelv displease England, while the cession of Port Arthur will be objected to by Russia. "Our Gov ernment," the Gazette says," mav safely be depended upon to do nothing, however, un less the other Powers take action." me bt. James s Gazette savs: "Tf .Tar.an IS DR. NANSEN AUVE? Rumors That the intrepid Explorer rri Found the North Pole. A Paris paper publishes a rumor that r Frtdtjof Nansen, the Norwegian entoS who was reported lost, is aUve and hi d?J covered the North Pole, - Dr. Nansen sallS from Christiania, Sweden, on the o, g June, 1893, in a small steamer the SL c. with the intention of boldly entering??'1 pack in the vicinity of the New 81? ands expecting to be carried by thednST previously ascertained to be towardi?" northwest, over or near the North Pol southward again by the current that comes: lown between Spitsbergen and Greenland If Dr. Nansen should come back anceSSni from his novel and wonderful voyS savs Rassia would may come better not declines to be frierhtenea to the conclusion that she try force. Meanwhile England is benevolent and has no feeling of anger toward Japan. The opening of factories in China by Japan does not mean that she will have a monopoly Of such industries, as England could also open a factory if she ehcseV' The Russian journals are more vigorous in their utterances than the English papers, and sound the warning that the signing of such a treaty of peace will be bnly a prelude to a wider though unnecessary armed conflict. Japan will place in England at once or ders for several warships, ;to be built on the unes suggested by her experience in the war. .aaespatcn irom Tolud. Japan, savs that peace ratifications will be tnree weeks, and that the extended to midnight on Slay 8 exchanged" within armistice has been Ustlmafe of (heT"ricome Tax Returns. Commissioner Miller, of the Internal Revenue Bureau nas sent a letter to Secre tary Carlisle in which he estimates the re turns from the income tax at about $14 -365,000. The total expenditures on account of the work, including necessary salaries and al lowances to the end of the present fiscal year, will not exceed s 135.000. . Tile best judgment of th Treasury officials is that but for the adverse decision of the Su preme Court the amount carried by the re turns would have been about 30,000,000 the first estimates of the department, i ' DK. FBIDTJOF S ASSES. Dne can doubt that he will be the most famous man of the century. Dr. Nansen is quite a remarkable man in many respects. At the age of twenty-one he was appointed curatdr of the Museum atBer ren. Six years later he headed a party of, ?ix young men. which, landing on the east coast of Greenland, wa3 the first to cross that1 continent over the . great m.er-de-glace that had baffled many older and more experienced explorers. He is now but thirty-four years Did. - ' The prestige derived from this brilliant achievement enabled him to secure friends and funds for putting his present expedition in the field. The Norwegian Parliament ap propriated about $52,000 toward the expenses Df the expedition and many private contribu tions were mademong them $5000 from the King. ' The Fram is so designed that it was be lieved she would force all the ice she met to pass under her boWs and lift her up, instead Df crushing her, a3 often occurs to other vessels. - The entire crew of twelve persons, care fully selected from' the many volunteers ready to risk their lives in this enterprise, occupy. the cabin with the commander. This ?abin is heated by a petroleum stove and is lighted by electricity generated by the turn ing of a capstan, around which the members Df the crew are required to march a certain dumber of times each day for exercise, while the vessel is imbedded in the ice. and all ordinary labor 13 suspended. CENERAL ift'COOK RETIRED. The Last or the "Fighting McCdoIcs" Re - turns toj Private Life. After having been: continuously in the sar vice of the United States for forty-three years, Major-Gsneral Alexander McDowell McCook has been retired from the army, a step made necessary by the' law. a3 he has reached the age of sixty-four years. For the first time in nearly half a century the army is without a McCook on it3 active rolls, and with the retirement of Major-General Mc Cook the last of the4flghting McCooks" goes into private life. . . McCook was a iiajor-General in the war times, and before hi3 thirtieth birthday was commanding a brigade, had fought in Shiloh. and won the highest praises from General W. T. Sherman. McCook's war record was an enviable one, and that it was not a magnificent one was due to lack of op portunity. In every engagement in which General McCook took part he came out with the highest honors of the day, from his campaign aiainst the Muscaian Indians in 1855 in New Mexico, when he was only a brevet Second Lieutenant, all through the war and up to 1SW when, without flrintra gun or charging a bayonet, he opened 10,000 miles of railroad during a labor strike of Na tional importance. I Dull Season in Muskrat. The season just ended has been a dull one for the muskrat catchers on the Delaware marshes. The catch is a valuable one in good seasons, and marshes are rented for the muskrat catching privilege. All cross-roadi storekeepers deal in the pelts, and. the Dela ware Legislature was once asked'to enact a law for the protection of the muskrat, so that the species might not become extinct. The meat of the creature is sold in the Wil mington street market and served as marh rabbit.
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