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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FAR3I AND GARDEX. IIOW TO FEED rHE CHICKS. To push young 'chicks along and keep them in health, there is nothing ueiier man oonea eggs mashed np, shells and all, with two or three times their bulk of stale crumbs, or cracker crumbs, thoroughly mixed- Mix not more than enough for one feed of this at a time and give them onlv -what mey wui eat readily and quickly. Feed stale bread soaked in milk,either whole, skimmed or buttermilk after the milk has been squeezed out by hand. Only one feed of this should be prepared at a time, as it will sour if left to stand any length of time. Millet seed scattered in the litter about tho brood house or the short grass; plump wheat screenings; cats and corn ground together, with an equal quantity of bran, and made in. to johnny cakes are good for the youngsters. After they get to be three weeks old cracked corn and whole wheat may form a larger part of their diet, increasing it as they grow older. Better results are attained by a judi cious alternation of all, day by day, or feed by feed ; it keep3 the appetite sharp and they are always on the look out for the new surprise at mealtime. Don't forget the pure clean water, they need that whatever the feed. If - the soil does not supply grit in proper shape and size it should be furnished them; a dish of charcoal where they can help themselves, or a handful in the soft feed four or five times a week, will prevent most of the ordinary bowel troubles. No tonic or stimu lant should be needed at this as?e, but if a brood gets .suddenly chilled, a uf i some good condition powder will help to put them on their feet again. New England Homestead. "tongue," has a piece of joist lashed beneath it. The end of the tongue, 01 pole, is then ; raised high in the air iFROST IN MANY STATES. A RnmorL-oMrt PM Cnin Plue 4ntr With Crops. THE GRAPE BELT DEVASTATED. TKAXSPAXTIXO TREES. April and May, according to the lo cality, are thej months when trans planting is chiefly done, writes Webb Dorrell. From the fact that i I ... J nouapmuieu trees either die outright or arag aiorg k miserable existence ior a year or two, it would appear iuat mere is a widespread misconcep tion as to the proper care to be exer cised m transplanting. It is . a com mon practice td tear a tree up some- wuai roughly, breaking off the fin- as the end of the joist attached to a chain that has been Dassed beneath the tree in two or more dirprtmn When the pole is brought down, the tree is raised from its nosition and rin be gently bent forward to the axle, secured there, and carried oS to its new location. M Before beinjr taken it will be well to wrap the ball of earth in old burlap to keep the earth from shaking off and disturbing the small roots. Carried awnv with after tlm fashion, the ti-PA ran b carefully dropped into the cavity pro- vmeu ior n with the least possible jarring.-, After the loose earth has been carefully packed in about all thp exposed roots, a generous coat of mulch should be applied, and some pmning of the top made, bnt nnt a severe pruning,! by any means. What ever wood rs removed should be in the me of giving the tree a well-propor-ionedhead. Transplanted in this vrnv rees ought to live and ?row thrifHv and my experience ha3 been that they will do so. New York Tribune. roots, that are mor t needel by the tree, and cutting ofl the bio- rnnt b0. cause it is too inucu work to follow them out x to their 1 ips and then to attempt to equalize raatteis by sav - agely cutting o&the branches, leaving ulB me stem ox ta tree, and - even mai usually has its top cut off! xnis seems to me considerably like taking out one of a min's lnncr hp- cause his supply of air is to be cut off presently: A judicious pruning of a transplanted tree is all right and proper, but such a slaughter as is usu ally made of limbs and the top of the trunk is, to my mind, a very foolish proceeding. A much better plan is w excise more care and effort in taking up the- tree, taking up a big uuuca oi me earth with the fine roots undisturbed. It is the fine , rootlets that Ued the tree, and it is the loss of xnese that bo often causes the tree to die alter transplanting. The forcible removal of a tree from the ground is almost sure to tear off nearly all these rootlets. It is best to begin some dis tance out from the tree, and to cut the turf carefully around it, digging viuxu wlIQ caution go as not to cut off any important roots. When mese are found, they should be care fully followed out for a considerable uisrance and loosened from the soil. The most important care, however, is m getting up a big ball of. eaith with the tree, and this is accomplished by diSgihg down about and under the tree, lhis requires some work, but u a tree is worth transplanting it is worm wnne to make some effort to give it a good start in its new loca tion. The accompanying illustration shqws a most convenient way tn handle a tree after it has been properly dug uuui. a pair oi wheels, with a TABU ASD GAEDEN XOTES. All vegetables are rank feeders. The best position for the poultry house is facing the southeast. . Lime should be broadcasted on a newly plowed held so as to ratain it near the surface! Early grafting is usually tho ht way to deal with trees and worthless varieties. Breeding from vouna' and immafnTa parents is sure to result in rapid de terioration oi any kind of stock. A firm hand, a cool h'par? nrl scrxthing word will do far punishment with; a frightened horse. The secret of crettino- WAT to o T-T"ior yellow color is to let it . cord slnuH If you have a large quantity you can a large quantity of water with it. xhe pneumatic tire not nnlv imir.: . , v " J isnes the weight to does away with that vibration which, carried alonsr the shafts to th Hndv f the horse, wearies him and impedes uia movement. I Arctic Weather in the 'ort Invest Grain Thought to E Safe "Western XeW York apd Pennsylvania Vineyards Snf fer Severely Fruit Blossoms Frozen Heavy Snow In Michigan. Tack Frost suddenly dropped down on the Middle States, the West and Northwest and destroyed fruit. orn and vegetables in teii or more States. The devastation was wide spread. Reoorts have poured in showing that in many sections the grape, apple, plum and strawberry crops were almost ruined, while corn and vegetables were cut to the ground. Com can be replanted, butthe loss in many of the vegetables will be permanent. Telegrams from the following points will convey an idea of the widespread damage in flated.. Dunkirk- N. T.r Sunday night's freeze has -..aii n.r: vyurtuinuuua Rrape neir. me vineyards antiear black as if firp had passed ovpt them. Farmers report all small fruits badly damaged. Cherries are pntirely rte3troye, also strawberries and earlv gar den stuff. Grape-srrowers are greatly dis eourasred. as the croD will be a total failure in this vicinity. Ice formed three-eighths of an inch thick on stilL water and vegetation was frozen stiff. Poughkeepsip. N. T.: The thermometer propped from seypntv decrees to below th freezing roint in-this locality, andiee formed m several places. " Utica N. Y. : At ClayvOle. Oneida County, snow fell for two hours. The thermometer remstered thirty-six desTees. Pittsbnrg. Penn.: Western Peimsvlvania, Eastern Obio and Western Virginia have been visited by a hpavy white frost.' The mercury drcnnpcl tn hiT-c-ttrrw Aama i in PxposPd places ice formed a quarter of an ! inch thicV fiar.len L- o.l , : iium ouu Ktiiptrs were ul11011 Pel-: Keports from down tfcp State are to the effect that the cold snap of last night did not injur th fruit. The the thermometer registered as low fis thirty eight, but the clouded skv and stiff breeze prevented th frost from doing any harm to thp oeach and bprry crops. Grpen Bay, Wis.: A severe blizzard prp vaued here from mirinio'Vi q n inches of snow fell, accompanied by a wind blowing forty railes an hour. Great damage resulted to fruits, market gardens and grow ing grains. Cincinnati. Ohio: The United State Weather Bureau reports a killing frost at Pittsburg. Cleveland, Columbus. Parkers r.urg. w. Va.. and Chattanooga. Term, ieiegrams from numerous points throughout Jorthern Ohio show that the frost wa most disastrous in its effect upon fruit and earlv eetaoies. In many sections pearly all the ! grapes, apples, peaches, cherries and earlj t ,J7n v , , UOMUCU' Anerenipera ture feU below the freezing point and ice jedon still water. The damage done if C llcagO. II 1 r r.Pnnrtc f-, i' x . 1 0rfhwestaretothe effe?t that con- ! siderabie damage was done to -small fruits i ad vegetable crops In many sections by the .' irosts. Corn in manv tilaj k v. ji i , , j ucu mc-cxi uauiv r 1 1 1 . n. n .A 1 , PROMINENT PEOPLE. A colossal statue of Queen Victoria is to erected at Rangoon, Burmah. Campbell Bannerman 13 - supposed to the richest man on the English ministerisj KTtl ! Hill Sardou's income from royalties on hu plays in France and other countries is i vUU a year. Carl Yogt, the famous German naturahv died in Geneva.! Switzerland. He was in hi. Mrs. 3Iary A. iLivermore and the Key T) P. Livtrmore celebrated their golden wed' ding on the 6th of May. Bismarck toM a deputation from Austria that the Triple Alliance Is the modern form of the ancient German Empire. Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, has near ly completed her memoirs, which are not ta be published tilj after her death. The Earl of Jersey owns a margarine fac tory, near London, which turns out 175 m pounds of butter substitute per day. Charles B. Lewis, better . known as "H. Quad." resumed on May 1st hi3 editorial connection with the Detroit Free Press. The Austrian Emperor created a sensation in Vienna the other evening by appearing at a theatre. It is the first time he has Seen seen at a playhouse since the tragic death of his son. . i ; "Dan" Rice, the veteran circus clown, who is now over seventy years old, lives quietly in a cottage at Long Branch; N. J. He still a ruuuy iace, a strong voice and a hearty manner. j J The King of Italy is credited with dispens ing more charity than any other of th crowned heads of Europe. And he has prob ably a larger percentage of subjects who need charitable aid. The Emperor William has decided that he will unveil the monument of the late Em peror Frederick on the battlefield of Worth on the anniversary of his father's birthday the 18th of October.. y' Captain John Brown, Jr., died at his home on the island of Put-in-Bay, in Lake Erie He was seventy-four years old, and the son of John Brown, Vof Harper's Ferry." Cap tain Brown was a fruit raiser on the island,- William Deemer, the soldier who saved thousands of livee in the Mexican War by preventing the explosion of a powder-mine at Chapultepec, is living In Bethlehem, Penn. where he washes window and polishes door knobs for a living. He receives a small pen sion, j 1 The late Don ficmpl TnT a , Ballmacargy, Ireland, who died at Buenos Ayres. was one of the wealthiest ranchmen in the Argentine Republic, owning 550 000 sheep, 200,000 cattle and 50,000 horses. The estate he left i3 estimated to be worth 530 -C00,000. j . Dr. Simens, the,Berlin electrician, resem bles our own Edison in many ways. He dwells in a house known throughout Ger many as the "Winder of Wansee." It is fitted from roof td cellar with -electrical ap pliances and the dining room, kitchen and wine cellar are connected by means of a small electric railway. Edward land Morse, youngest son of Pro fessor Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was a guest of the Telegraphic Historical Society at its late meeting in Wash ington. He had with him a number of in teresting relics, letters, and note-books from his father s collection, which cast new light on several mooted questions. ' A STATE SENATOR KILLED, The Toys We Import. Last year we imDorted 32. 14.9 nan worth of toys into the TTnitpd sfD which was a considerable falling off irom previous years. In 1892 th. i. ports were 32.46 4.50S. and in irqs 82,827,044. 'Nearly all our toys come wrmany- last year mor.ethan ninety five per cent. Strange to say, France furnished only 93,000 worth, and that represented; French dolls and doll heads. We cot somfi 11 tm Austria, also, and 314. 000 dolls and other toys from Japan. A few came from Chirm fom Ecuador and a few from Mexico, with" S4 worth from Brazil. Thfti v,in of dolls imported last year wa3 $794, 269, which is about the the last five or six vprt; a; Eecord. i " She Was a Coalederate Soldier The Biar Sandy fKrl that Polly Price, a shantyboat tenant, who was fined at Louisa tho was a Confederate j soldier during the wax. She put on man's rdnthir onA joined the army early in the conflict and terved nntil the end. A uart of the time she drove! a team. injured, but may yet be replanted. Other T- iu uave suirered much i Kansas escaped th9 frosts excent in th southern part of the State and the lowlands KanP- aln- ?e Arkansas,. Walnutnl Kansas Eivers and tributaries. Minneapolis, Minn: Minnesota. Wiscon- frwx-l Kora ail suffered from the lu L butort5 kota escaped with but lit t& Tl??- SQ0W- feI1 at Ely, Tower and JwP0 Garden truck and' , --.wauucicu uaujy ana grain in a balSn- ?OSt & "PortSTS hav? oeen a not unmixed damage in sn-r pmur Eus-sian thistle. Wheat is renorteddamaled cSSS! &ad badIy quarteS SJwti nd strawberries and other small frozen.solid. oassed 7rVA- , , with snow trllJ- AH jrdens and many frui and shade trees are rained. and thf13'1 iDehofsilUheref ana tne thermnmvtr .1- . . ' FrSft bfrrTi dam,a"e has doe to early ! I- Vinter wheat ! siderahlA "Vl . suirere-i to a con acreage wid have to ba replanted. He Was Mardered by a Woman While Agleep In ed at St. Louis. State Senator Peter R. Morrissey, one of the best known Democratic pohticians in Missouri, as well as one of the wealthiest, was shot and killed while asleep in a dis- w1 t56' !n St' Louisi'- murderess was Maud Lewis, proprietress of the house, and jealousy inspired the act. tnVn?ente!adj6u,,,iedoutof Pt mirtS4me aad aPPointeJ am- SikS lL&ena. his funeraL Hi3 death Hou2 i- btat a Ue Pohticaliy. The tin RePub"c and thus for the first JS'Jd Democrats have fS"7 8 death aIso def?ats the end c Jiel Ch prfeat Cltra 86831011 wa3 Bismarck to American Friend. Prince Bismarck has written a letter to the Hamburg Xaehrichten, saying that, unable to answer the multitude of congratulations he has received from all parts of German? from Germans abroad and from foreigner particularly from citizens of the Uniii btates, he begs lusfriends to aceehS cS IShda occasion of his eiSth nooker Reunion at Hadley, Mass. The Hooker reunion was held at Hadlev, 3Iass..in the big canvas tent on the green 2rfs wthe fann ousa where General Jo S? &ker 7?f The military parade Zh?S by 4000 PS and the tent ed tnlt, f tlie exercises were held was crowd fiJlS St? P?tr. The platform was tilled with disUnguished men. rerisdied in a Leaky Uoat. Five persons were! drowned in Carsrude's Lake, Colorado. The dead are Ray Badger. -r-Se?ST,'ased Krt Crai?, of &JZ son and-two I ne prty went out &hin in a ieaky old A. dl J 7 Drowned With I1U Sister. In attempting to cross the Clinch Kiver at Clinton. Tezin., Thdmas MeGuire. a jeweler S?1' sifterwere vA. worth of jewelry were lost.
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