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1 'VGRICULTURAI TOPICS OF IXTKKKST RELATIVE TO FAR 31 AM) GAUDL.N. GEAFTIG WAX. There are maiiy formulas for graft ing was, l'lit the best we have ever used, and one that avoids all hard lumps in it is the following: Take one pound rosin, three-quarters of a pound of beef tallow, and four ounces of beeswax. Melt the rosin slowly (it is apt to harden on exposure to the cold if the melting is too rapidly done) ; add tallow and beeswax and stir till all are well mixed ; turn into cold water, and -when it can be handled pull like candy. The wax should be carried to the lield in a pail of warm water, and the hands must be greased when using it. The old method of covering the grafts with clay made plastic by work ing in the hands when wetted and binding it over with cloth strips is also good, but tho wax is more cleanly and neater. .New YorK world. THE BORDEAUX MIXTURE. Bordeaux mixture is made by dis solving six pounds of sulphate of cop per and four pounds of quicklime in from forty to fifty gallons of water, preparing the mixture as follows: Dissolve the sulphate by .putting it in a bag of coarse cloth and hanging this in a vessel holding four or five gal- water. Use an earthern or wooden vessel. Slake the lime in an equal amount of water. Then mix the two and add enough water to make about fory gallons. It is then ready for use, but will keep a long time without losing its strength. When to be applied to plants with very smooth leaves, like those of the peach, pear, cabbage and beets, it will adher 3 bet ter if about one pound of hard soap dissolved in hot water be added to it. This solution may be applied to all plants attacked by fungus diseases. Another formula for making Bordeaux mixture has recentlv been tried in France with marked success, and it is thought to be an improvement upon the older one. It consists of equal parts of lime, sulphate of copper and common molasses. All three ingredi ents are dissolved separately, then mixed and intimately stirred together. By adding molasses a saccharate of lime is tormed on one hand and soluble saccharate of copper on the other. Saccharate of copper is formed only in presence of an exce-- of lime, and its formation is indicate I in the mixture when it assumes a v enish tinge. In euner mixture i dissolved, lime fchould be etraineu trough a coarse cloth to remove all lu "s and foreign matter usually present in lump or Btone lime. If this is not dona it will be difficult to use the mixture with an ordinary spraying apparatus. New York Sun. son, Indiana. The dibberis made of hardwood, eight or ten inches iong; the point covered with tin. Thy gauge is simply piece of wire bent with a I square angle and inserted through a hole in-. tho dibber. It cau be tet to mark different distances as desired. The wire makes the mark for the place where to set the next plant. We usually have onion plants thre9 inches apart, j The kind and amount of fertilizer to use for onions and cab bages depend on the character of the soil. For. my land I prefer old com post to anythiug else; but I also use potash (asrhuriate of potash), nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda (espe cially valuable foz cabbaaes), and per haps phosphoric acid in bonei High graded complete vegetable manures may be. used. They supply all neces sary plant foods. ; For 500 pounds you will be asked .to pay about $10 ci' more. Nebraska Farmer. in.uaru.uiMU U.lU.b A.NJJ CAJJUAliiSS. G. W. C, of West Virginia, wants to know how I transplant onions and cabbage plants. Why, it seems that is simple enough. Pull up the plants from the seedbed or cold frame, and set them Out in rows in well prepared and well manured ground. We usual ly do this with hands and fingers alone. The left Land crasns and holds the plant, while the right one makes a hole where the plant is to stand. The plant is then inserted, and the soil pressed about the roots with both hands. All this is done much quick er than I can tell it. If the soil is packed, as is some times the case when we set out onion plants, when a rain has fallen upon the land already prepared, we use a email dibber in place o the in dex ringer of the right hand for mak insr the hole. While I am on this sub ject 1 will illustrate a new styla of dibber, that may come very handy for transplanting onions. The idea -was i7cn me by Thomas Hiday, of Ander- ! i ! Mi1: the ;:ation,l came. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The time to sell is when the other fellow wants to buy. Bees can be kept m the city, where there are houses with no yards, on flat roofs. Be careful to watch out for leak3 in hive covers. Dampness is generally fatal to colonies. It is well to be . on your guard again t rodents of all kinds. They seek the hives for the warmth of the bees and their stores. They have a stench that bees do not like, and will eat the combs. , Spring is the time to cultivate bees. When the weather begins to get warm they will work hard. Anyone who is thinking of investing in bees would find it best to read up and get all the information they can. It requires good judgment to buy horses successfully, and it requires just as good to sell them. Farmers should seek to know what kind of a horse is wanted, and then if in their stock the have such a one to spare they can sellat a proht. .;- . The worst way in which brood sows can be -managed is to keep them con fined in small pens and feed them ex-1 clusively on corn, bringing them through to the spring excessively fat. Under such treatment, bath mothers and offspring are liable to disease. A beekeeper comes to the defense of sealed covers, j He has used them for thirty years, and been successful. He covers the hivie with au inch board, then puts over that straw four to six inches deep in; the upper chamber, throwing the straw away in spring. The best thing to grow m an orchard, beside: the trees, is clover or cow peas, whose roots will enrich the ground by their gathering of nitrogen. It will be bettor if the crop is left on the ground to cover the surface, pre serving the moisture, and really adding a most useful contribution of food for! the improvement of tha land. The Train Went Hunting. The crew of a freight train on the B. & A. had a tough encounter with a buck the other day. The train came' upon the animal between Boyd Lake and Milo. ' He had been chased by dogs upon the track, and, a? soon as he saw the train,' started to run ahead of it. He was soon overtaken and the engine struck him, breaking both hind legs and throwing him to one side of the track. The train was stopped and the engineer and fireman alighted to put the animal oat of his misery, but this was not an ea3y ;Yb. The deer J attacked them and drove them back upon the locomotive. Finally a'passenger appeared and shot the animal. Maine Sportsman. - An Old Saying. "The Lord helps them that help themselves" is an ancient proverb. George Herbert, who was born in 1593, in his "Jacula Prudentum" gives it thus: "Help thyself and God will help thee." At a still earlier ds.te Sir Philip Sidney, in "A Discourse Con cerning Church Government," said, "God helps them that help then selves." The Hay cold snap was very trying to tha pitchers. y Anson, of Chicago, has struck out but onee this season. Foutz deposed Griffin from the captaincy of the Brooklyns. Cincinnati is playing the best ball of the "Western clubs against the East. McCarthy s iems to be the . timely hitter of the Boston team this season as he was last. At Cincinnati, Pitcher Rbines knocked Pitcher Stein senseless with a pitehed ball. Boswell won the first full game he pitched for New York, and that too from the Pitts burgs. Carfj fielngat first base is great. He has saved the Baltimore infleiders dozens of wild throws already. Bannon is hitting like a 'house afire, and may be considered a fixture on the New York team in place of Burke. Tho cry for pitchers is one that will never die out. The supply will always coutinuu smaller that the demand. Hawley, of Pittsburg, is given credit for do inc more successful balkinj? than all tha other League pitchers combined. . Long, of Boston, leads the League in home runs up to date, and he also hasAhe lowest fielding average of any short stor Daly, who plays second base fr Brooklyn, says he would rather stand behind the bat than play any other position on the diamond. Quite a string of pitchers are using field ing gloves this year. Nichols, Stivetts, Wil son, Cuppy, Malarkey and Kennedy all wear mittens while in the box. The best pitching find of the season i. unquestionably young Wallace, of the Cleve land team. He is improving steadily and has very little to learn now. Hamilton, of Philadelphia, not only leads the League in base stealing, but he has gone to first on balls more times than any other player in the League this year. After making' an offer for Burke's release and having it accepted, Presidednt Stuekey, of the Lovisville Club called the contract oif, having secured Collins from the Bostons. Of all slow pitchers Malarkey, of -Washington, is the slowest. He seems to have noth ing but time. . Before he sends in a ball ho seems to spend several moments in silent prayer. E win? is once more a prominent figure in baseball. The success of the despised Cin cinnati team is due to him. an i the former idol of the metropolis is now the hero of Torkopolis. There is another new plaer in League ranks that will bear watching. Catcher Donahue, of tho Chicagos, is said to be an artist in Mocking oil runners at the plate on close plays. The Brooklyns are in a bad predicament. It is the case of- a good team with one ser viceable pitcher. If Stein has lost his grip and all the games in which he has thus fat pitched indicate that he has then the club's chances for a good position at the end of the season are poor.. - In the United Stales Court at Pittsburg Mark Baldwin, the baseball pitcher, was-Riven a verdict of 62500 damages against Chris Von Der Ahe. President ol the St. Louis Club. Baldwin was arrested in St. Louis in 1890 charged with conspiring to get Charley Kin;? to break his contract with the St. Louis Club. Pitcher Carter, of Yale, has struined a liga ment in his pitching arm, and this will in terfere with his, career as a pitcher. At times the weakness is not felt, but the difficulty is liable to appear at a moment's notice and in capacitate him at once. The fact that he is thus afflicted does not mean tha.t he will pitch no more. New York seems' to be taking desperate chances with its pair of eighteen-earal pitchers. Lester Germau pitched just one game on the last trip, llusie an I Meekia are both willing workers. With either liusie or Meekin played out, muscle bound or charley-horsed, New York would be lueky to get a place high up in the second division. Very few persons take. 'particular notice of the steady good work of Bierbauer, but just lpt him get hurt aud, lay off, and then it i3 discovered what a tower of strength ho is to Psttsburg's infield. There are more showy second basemen in tho League, but for a hard, conscientious, absenee-oi'-fuss-an J-feathe;-? pla.-?r Uicre is no one who can excel tu.ri. FOUR-LEAF CLOVER, "If cne 2nd a four-leaf clover," She said, sitting on tho grass, "He can wish whate'er he likes to, And that wish .shall come to pass.' "Do you say so?" then down kneeling 'Mong the sorrel and cropt grass, Looked I fo a four-leaf clover And my wish to come to pass. Long I searched among the sorrel, Close beside me she searched, too; Now and then some commonplaces Broke the silence bur it grew. For my heart was full 'of yearning, And my mouth of eaaer words, But I dared not give them utterance, So I hearkened to the birds; And kept looking, looking, looking, While beside me she", looked, too Two bent figures in the twilight, Green hills paling into blue. -"Ha, I have onej"1 "Yes, and wishei for?' "You, and shall it be?" I cried, Eyes cast down she asked, demurely, "Hath the clover not replied?" . George Houghton. PITH AM) POINT. SWEPT BY A MAD TORRENT. Cnrri.; Lake, 5n Nebraska, Bursts It ::.inks and Floods Medicine Valley. A despatch from Curtis, Neb., says Curtis' Lak" burst its banks. The railroad grade was torn up, freight cars were strewn across the Medicine bottom, and the fine rolling mills ruinej. Cards Lake was nearly emptied, and a flood of water ran down the Medicine Valley, carrying destruction in its mad rush. The fine alfalfa meadows just below the c:ty were ruined, and homes all alonir the ; valley destroyed. ! News from above and below Ls coming in, j r.nd only one story is told, of dire destruc . tiou. and loss of property and live stock swept away. ; . Tfr wall of water was five feet high and several hundred yards wide. Geary ct Constitutional. The Supreme Court affirmed! the constitu ionality of the Geary Chinese Kxclusioa law. What f 00I3 these mortals think other mortals bo! has all the new. The hair-dresser i kinds. --Puck. It is easier to forgive success in any one else than a relative. ' The woman who thinks before sha speaks has to be a lightning thinker. ."When a husbamd and wife fire up at the slightest provocation it doesn't follow that it's a gqod match. Phila delphia Record. . The Manayunk Philosopher rises to remark that it's a good thing for man kind that Adam was; caught nipping. - Philadelphia Eecord. Dress Reform agitation The family hurts When the household's divided As well as the skirts. . ' ' !" -Puck. i "Yes," said Charon, as he rang the bell for full-, speedi straight ahead ; "we have had to, hustle since we be gan to make connections with tho Brooklyn trolley cars." Puck. She walks those wild flowers which ard spread j On mossy bank beside the creek. ' . A slip ! A splash! lie's now in bed. But may recover ilia' week. .j-V"asaingtbn Star. She "Don't you think that ealt water is beneficial to health?" He "Not always. A man whom I ones knew was seriously injured by it." She "How so?". He "He was drowned." Tit-Bits. Wife "John, dear, what would yon do if I were to die?" Husband "Don't speak of sucha thing; I would be desperate. " ' 'Do you think you would marry again?" "Well, no; I don't think I would be as desperate a3 that." Tit-Bits. j De Bann "I :don't think the Gum bys liked that .chafing-dish we gave them for a wedding present. Mrs. De Bann "Why hot?" De Bann "I met Gumby to-day, and he invited us around to eat something they are going to cook' in it. M Brooklyn Life. "I don't like hash," remarked the musical hoarder at jbreakfast. .'tft.is not rhythmical." .May-be not," re plied the landlady, as her eyes emitted a baleful lire, "but yon wilr always find one word to rhyme with it, and that word is cash. -Xew York Tri bune. 1 Van Pullman "How can I believe that you love me better than you did yoar former husband when you say you kissed him of tener than you do me?" Mrs. Lakeside "Oh, my dear, the kisses I give you-are iusttwice as long as those I gave him." New Yori World. j Miss Latham Xowthat yoa ara so influential, I wani you to help me ,to get into society.!" Miss Penstock "You wouldn't like it. You are a home body. Why, yoa would be borel to death." Miss Lph am "I know it, my clear. But I want to have the. privilege of being . bored.' Harlea una.
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