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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN DEVELOP 10T7B COWS. As the chie.f end of the cow ia to give milk and raise calves, she should be bred and reared in snch a way as Trill secure the best development in the way indicated ; this is necessary if the cows are made to return the best per cent of profit.--New York World. MTLKXNO. Under the head of milking may be comprised the cleanliness of animals and the manner and time of milking. The introduction of separators practi cally revealed the necessity for clean liness in a cow stable. At the ter 'mination of the process of separating, a peculiar slime is to be found adher ing to the sides of the separator. Its color varies from gray to green, brown and even black. When examined un der the microscope, germs, portions of plants, hair, soot, linen, have been dis covered, and when exposed to the air for a short time it putrefies rapidly. It consists in reality of dirt, and as auch must injure the quality of milk and butter. In order to keep the milk as free from the dirt as possible, the co ws ought to be rubbed down with a straw whisp on their right hindquar ters and udders before they are milked in the morning. During the. day it is necessary to currycomb and brush each animal. The best kind of brush to be used is one made rather more open than an ordinary horse brush, but of the best hog bristle. The ani mals are first scraped over with the currycomb and then brushed. In ad dition, the udders of all cows ought to be washed and dried before milking, and the milkers ought to dip their hands in cold water after milking each animal. Care must be taken to com pletely empty the udder when the cow is milked. In large establishments where several milkers are employed, itjis advisable to select one or two of the more careful persons to strip the cows after they have been milked. By this means the carelessness of some of the milkers may be corrected. Each milker should have his own stool and paii marked or numbered, and should be held responsible for the cleanliness of the same. The milk ought to be poured from the pail into the milkcan through a double hair-strainer, and the milk cans ought, if possible, to be placed outside the cowhouse. Con necticut Farmer. GARDEN TILLAGE. ... As a rule the garden is the most valuable and the most neglected por tion of the farm the most valuable because its limited space produces a comparatively larger amount of healthful and essential food than any other section, and the most neglected because the crops are sown in small patches in such a fashion that none of the after work can bo done with horse and plow or cultivator, as in a field. It is this blunder which renders garden work so unpopular. Pereons aocus- HOME-MADE HOE. tomed to horse labor find hand labor extremely irksome, and are apt to shirk it whenever possible. i . This trouble can be avoided by the exercise ot a little judgment and the adaption ox modern methods to gar den werk. Many of our vegetable crops can be grown without any hand xaDor wnaiever, wnue oiners will re quire but little. Everything should be sown in long straight rows, and plenty of room be given. The rows to be cultivated -by hand implements should be by themselves. The tools needed for garden tillage are few, and will soon pay for themselves. The Minnesota Station has made a study of them, and in its latest bulletin de scribes those found to be particularly desirable. From this report we take the following account of a home-made scuffle hoe and scuffle attachments : The scufile hoe is an old-fashioned implement for shallow cultivation, such as is needed in spring in the garden. It is not intended to take the place of the wheel hoes for large 1 ') SOUFFLE ATTACHMENTS. gardens, but is exoellent for small ones. It does not work the soil deep enough for summer cultivation. The souffle attachments are designed to be attached to the ordinary wheel culti vators, which will work olose up to young plants, so &s to cut off the weeds just under the surface of the soil. They can. be made out of tool steel, the length of the blades being adapted to the work required. These imple ments can be readily made by any 4 good blacksmith. FARM AND GARDES 270TES. Sunshine in the chicken yard is medicine for the little ohirpers. Begularity in feeding is what causes rapid growth in chioks. They can be given more of the same kind of food at long and irregular intervals, but they will not attain the vigor or size that regular feeding-time methods se cure. See that their craws give evi dence of feed at night after the last feeding. When a flock has got in the habit of egg eating, if they have never been used to them, china eggs will break it up. Put them in all the nests and scatter some around on the floor. The hens will have a picnic trying to eat the china eggs. They will, however, soon give it up and will not then try on a good egg. Keep the broods after the hen has weaned them in the coops at night. Let them make it their home until cold weather makes it necessary to take them to permanent winter quar ters. If they should outgrow their ooops, furnish them a larger one in the same place. The ooops should be oleaned and aired every day, also limed a little occasionally. . Why is it two hens set at the same time, on neste precisely alike, and from eggs from the same yard, all laid the same day, vary so in their hatchings? One hen will come off with about twelve out of thirteen eggs, and the other will hatch three or four and have a lot of dead chicks in the shell. These tfoubles exist in the best regulated chicken farming. Converting Salt Water Into Fresh. A curious property of the trunks of trees has been discovered, that of re taining the salt of sea water which has been filtered through the trunk in the direction of the fibres. In an appar atus, specially adapted to ship use, water is pumped from the sea into a reservoir and then forced through the filter formed by the tree trunk; When the required pressure is reached, about two atmospheres, the water makes its exit at tho other extremity in a fine stream, and is said to be free from every particle of saline taste. The tree trunk used measured fifteen feet in length by six inches in diam eter. Some trees are better adapted to the purpose than others. Boston Journal of Commeroe. A yine-Year-Old Exhort er, A colored girl preacher, nine years old, is creating a sensation among the colored people of Wadeaborough. The girl is preaching nightly in the col ored Methodist Church. She claims to have been converted when eighteen months old. Raleigh (N, 0.) News and Observer. FATAL HOT I BOSTON. A Fourth of July 'Parade of Various Orde;s Put to Rout. PISTOLS DRAWN AND FIRED. A "Uttlc Bed ScH&A riouse" and the Or ange Ribbon Started the Fiffht, and After Sereral Encounters the Proces sion Wgi Broken Up A Cavalryman Rescues Distressed Women. The Fourth of July parade of tho various societies of-Boston. Mass., and vicinity at East Boston ended in a pitched battle be tween some of the paraders and the specta tors, in which sticks, stones and revolvers were used with fatal effect. The paraders represented A. P.. ledges, PatriotU Sons of America, OraugA lodges, th9 Order ef United Workmen, and other kindred socie ties. John W. Wills, a Mborer : East Boston. One of the spectators, was shot and instantly killed, and Michael Doyle, of East Boston, had his head split open with a club. A young man named Stewart had his nose cut off with a sabre in the hands of one of tho paraders; Patrick Kelly sustained a severe scalp wound, whether from a club or a bul let was not known, and Officer A. S. Bates was hit in the mouth with a brick thrown by an unknown person, and lost several teeth besides suffering from severe lacerations. It is claimed that the trouble all resulted from the persistence of those who managed the parade in introducing as a feature a float representing, ''the little red school house," which from its association as the emblem of the American Protective Association had become obnoxious to many persons. So great was the interest excited by this con troversy and the expressed determination of the paraders to display the school house that fully 30,000 visitors gathered at East Boston. The police officials, in anticipation of any hostile demonstration, had a special iquad of 350 men.under thejdireetion of Depu ty Superintendent Pierce and Captain Irish, in addition to the East Boston force, on duty, but they marched at the head of the proees 6ion. At several points the crowd hissed at the fifteen hundred paraders, and the school house, but no further demonstration was made until the rear of the parade had reached Putnam street, when the crowd tried to over turn the last carriage, in which rode several ladies, one wearing an orange costume. Word was sent to the front for police assist ance, and a squad of twenty officers was sent back. A skirmish followed between tho crowd and the officers and Michael Doyle re ceived a severe clubbing. Stewart's nose was cut off by a saber in the hands of Albert E. Andrews, of Everett, . a private in the Rosebury Horse Guards, who was in full uniform, and who went to the assistance of the occupants of the car riage. By this incident the feeling of the crowd was intensified, and when the parade broke up and those who had participated were proceeding in companies to the ferry in order to reach Boston, a group of between sixty and seventy was surrounded on Border street by a crowd, who commenced hooting and throwing stones. A dozen revolvers were drawn and in re sponse to the fusillade of stones eight or nine shots were fired. The firing of the revolvers brought a large body of police to the spot and the mob was soon dispersed. As the scene was cleared the officers found-John Willis dead in the street, with a bullet wound in his right side, and Patriek A. Kelly seri ously wounded about the head. Several other persons, slightly injured, had been taken away by their friends. It was claimed by six witnesses who were taken to the station house that Harold Brown, who was arrested, did the shooting which killed Wills and wonnded Kelly. John-Ross, also arrested, was said to have injured several ethers who were taken away by their friends. Wills was a laborer by oc cupation, and leaves.a widow and six chil dren. There is deep feeling over tho affair throughout Boston. CREAK DOWN OF A BRIDGE. A. Hundred Persons Thrown Into a River and Several Fatally Injured. At six o'clock p. m. while about 303 of the population of Bristol, Ind., a village of 500 population, were gathered on a bridge span ning the St. Joseph River, watching a tub race, 100 feet of the sidewalk went down, carrying with it about 103 persons. The dis tance was thirty feet, and the iron fell on many of those in the water. The town became crazed with excitement. In a short time, by almost superhuman efforts, the frightened people were all re moved from the water, physicians from sur rounding country hurried to the place, and the injured cared for as well as circumstances ,vould permit. None was killed outright, but several were fatally injured, among them Dr. C. E. Dut row. Twenty-three were seriously hurt. Twenty others received minor injuries. Ia fact, nearly every one on the bridge suff ered NEWSY) CLEANINGS. California has the bicycle craze. ' There are indications of a big corn crop. Beet culture is now extending to Africa. The South will hold an irrigation congress Chicago has 160,000 people of German birth. The trade of the seven Australian colonic declined $40,000,000 in 1834. , , The persecntiottdf foreigners in the Chines province of Szechuen has ceased. A canning factory ia about to be estab lished at Honolulu, the first in Hawaii In Brooklyn only twenty-eight per cent of the population is born of American parents. The English claim that seventy per ceat of the American sheep imported are diseased! A woman living near Silao, Mexico, gava birth to five boys, all living and doing well. A three-million-dollar gold loan of the city of Chicago has been over subscribed in Lon don. Naval bureau chiefs are undecided as to the relative merits of plain and nickel steel for structural work.! j David Oldham, a Baptist deacon, of TJkiah ' Cat, is on trial on a charge of holding up the Mendocino stage coach. The Baltic Canal was opfened to traffic July 1 to all vessels of a draught not exceeding twenty-four feet eight inches. The shortage of City Treasurer Jacobs, of Butte, Montana, is $20,519, but his bonds men will make good the loss. f An appeal has been issued to the woman', of the South for funds to build a monument to the mother of General Robert E. Lee. A great cloudburst at Bed Lake, South Dakota, the other day filled a dry lake of six square miles eight inches deep with water. j j Mary Lasher, clerk in a fruit store, ia Olneyville, R. L, was bitten by a tarantula, -and died in two days from the effects of tho poison. i Mrs. Baker, of Dickinson Court House; Va., aged sixty years,; has just been appoint ed mail rider in her i district, which is con sidered the wildest in Virginia. Mason City flowa) clergymen have de nounced Dr. Talmage because he lectured at Cedar Lake, Sunday,' for which all the rail roads advertised special excursions. j P. E. Lurton, Professor of History in West side High School at Milwaukee, Wis., who achieved notoriety by writing an article derogatory ot the American Revolution, was reduced to an assistant teacher on account of the article. 1 The Jeffersonville j(Ind.) and Louisville (Ky.) Bridge was completed. Work was be gun November 15. 1888. The total cost was $1,275,000. The length of the bridge is 10, 260 feet. Sixteen men were drowned in the caisson disaster of January 10, 1890. Two spans collapsed December 15, 1893, and about ninety more lives, were lost. Rev. John G. Gibson, pastor of the Eman uel Baptist Church, San Francisco, where the horrible girl murders took place not very long ago, addressed a throng in a public hail Sunday night, in defense of himself against his critics. A hypnotist, named Tyndall;1, challenged him to submit to a mesmeric testj of his innocence and the pastor .refused.' The incident created excitement. i A DARING ESCAPE Thiee Dangerous Criminals Break Jail in New York City. 4 Joe" Killoran, j'Charlie" Allen and! "Harry" Russell, notorious criminals await ing examination on the 'efiarge of robbing, many postofiice3, esbaped from Ludlow Street Jail, New York City on the Fourth of July. . A Uen snatched the jail keys from Keeper Schner, and while Killoran. and Russell covered th-s terrified j man with revolvers Alien unlocked the three doora which stood between them and liberty. Then the burgiars walked out, locking the doors behind them, thus shutting their jail rs in and delaying pursuit. As the men h'vi northward in Ludlow street they sepa rated, just as the crowd attracted by the t.ir.iy alarm of tho keepers began to give KUloran ran for the Second avenue "L," an 1 Alien and Russell, who had evidently siu lie I ths route, bolted into alleys in th .emsly crowded tenement district between E-wrtx and Norfolk stteets, crossed roofs, de- sud-d escapes, (plunged into cellars, s4' : OiT pursuit and C'sappeared. H v tli-j m?n got possession of the revolver-; -v.ih which they cdwed the keeper was a my.- -ry, bu: t'-iere was a strong suspicion . r.'i t: i.-iinry wa at the bottom of the jail-b---.ki i. whic t wd3 one of the most re-:u.tr.j-i:)i!i on recorJ. - a r-swurd of fio 0 each was offered by the ri authorities for. the recapture of tha iltiev taieves. j KAISER. GREETED BY KING Emperor William. Received With 3fucU Cordiality at Stockholm, Sweden. Emperor William, of Germany, arrived at Stockholm, Sweden, on board the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. the yacht and greeted embracine him and j.ne tmperor then -King Oscar boarded his Imperial visitor, kissing him twice. landed and wa.s sheered by the immense crowds assembled i .... ana received wnn military honors by the troops. ! - The Emperor and the King entered a car riage and were driven to the palace, escorted by the Horse Guards. The two monarchs took luncheon together at the palace. j I
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