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s It r- ng a in- oi as ted • KATT nbia Co. COM]. t every roperly Coat et tannic h repaint artilsh L. nfl t han ittig anti sates. Tilting tin sa IL Fect1 nine one 1511 until makes • ague. Ito lenalt of Den 'receritie I' fano, , 1, if.4. he halt. • Dray • 1. dks. Olt It I, it, 11.1 laime. Ifare• 4 , 41 I ft la II cored non OS,. 111.1•Ite. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICU LTI.J iST S. Some Up -to -Ditto Dints About Cultiva- tion of the Solt and Tlelita Thereof — Horticulture, N'Iticulture and Flori- culture. • - NE of the first things I learned as field work was to husk corn, and my father took pains to encourage me to be a rap!d husker. As I took quite an in- terest in the mat- ter. I studied the various plans used by huskers in hand- ling fodder, and the movements of the hands, that I might be able to adopt the eattiest and most rapid way. A man that works on his knees cannot do the most rapid work, and it is very wearisome to stoop all day. Some plan must there- fore be adopted to avoid this. I want no rack to be bothered with; when 1 husk corn, I have no muscle to spare to waste lifting the corn on to such a rack. It would take quite a heavy and strong affair to holTa shock such as we mak4 here—twelve by four- teen; fourteen hills square, four- teen by sixtei, and sixteen hills square. The custom a few years ago was to cut twelve hills square, making one hundred and forty- four hills to the shock. Then they got to making them a little larger—twelve by fourteen, one hundred and sixty- eight hills to the shock. Now almost all Is cut fourteen hills square, one hun- dred and ninety-six hills to the shock. Probably a few cut fourteen by sixteen, two hundred and twenty-four hills to the shock. But one farmer that I know in this section this year put up his shocks sixteen hills square, two hun- dred and fifty-six hills to the shock. This latter I believe is the customary size on the Sciota river bottoms, below Chillicothe. When I come to think of it, it would take considerable muscle to hoist one of these shocks on to a frame two or three feet high, and re- quiring it to be ten or twelve feet long and bull strong to hold it. Talk about getting a husker to bother with such an affair while husking! Just the other day I heard a neighbor talking about - his corn cut fourteen hills square. That makes six bushels to the shock, .and would weigh, when first cut, something like a ton per shock. When it comes to handling and husking such corn as this, a man does well to plan a little to save lifting. If such a shock is palled down in two piles, and the husker gets down on his knees to work, getting up and stepping over a bundle when he has it husked, where will he have room for the fodder by the time the shock is husked? When a man works on Ms knees to husk a pile of corn, his hand is not as free to deliver the husked a ears as it should be; neither is the other hand at full liberty to pick up the next ear. For a number of years I have not husked much, but I am atrout where it is done, and sometimes husk a little, and know that the plan I adopted years ago, as the speediest, is still practical. I uSe the husking peg on the right hand. When I go to the shock. I pull down a good-sized bundle towards my left hand. Sometimes I get down on my knees to husk this first bundle. When it is husked, the fodder Is tied and the bundle turned hue -quarter around towards the left. This leaves the butts toward the corn pile. The next bunch taken from the shock is thrown with the top across this bundle of fodder. The husked bundles of fod- der makes a rest felt the bundles to be husked, and saves the husker from stooping. Now, remember that I am a right- handed man striving to get the 'ern husked with the least labor possible. The fodder and corn Ilea before me ready to husk, the tops at my left, r - st- ing on the bundled fodder, each stalk within easy reach of my left hand. With the left hand I gra% an ear; with the right, at onts stroke, tie right . de of the ear is cleared of husks. The left hand is passed over the top of -the ear to clean off the silks, and down the left side, taking the husks to the base. where they are grasped along with the shank unit the ear bresen off and delivered to the pile with the right 4 l'infl While delivering with the right 1-anil. the next car is grasped with the left hand. If the fodder was piled at the right, and the right-handed husker stood with his right side to the fodder, he could not deliver the corn with the right hand and grasp the next ear with the left hand at the same time s The right-handed man, for greatest freedom of action, must pile the fodder to his left, and the left-handed man to the right, and ter greatest ease and comfort should stand as nearly erect as possible. The man working on his s ti ve R cannot have the freedom of ac; lion that Is possible when standing.— .1 M. Jamison in Country Gentleman. Michigan Illorticultrirsil Convention. ostreleessel from Farmers' Review Stenographic Report 'Mrs. M. P. True of Adder' read a paper on I - 4,1 r:t It rile', Sty. related a little of till IXI fill P n growing raepherries anti other fruits. A few ears ago It would have been thought an unusual thing for a woman to under - 'eke such a work, but now It is looked opnn In a nnare sensible manner. She sad triist various fruits, but had hell with her red ts ties. whii h tie Cutliberts the . JIM- -Idly with thee, was that they sp. mood l' 3 ' 113- • but this Ltd iteeri largely obviat- ' by wilting on , ..:111 , 111 , / Mr James Kirk the On elation on the subject of gooe,chcf floe A\Ilt thirty Years ago he hail some front England, whit it he planted am, produced a few plants Ile had born troubled first by mildew, but had final ly concluded that the best way to fight it was by thorough cultivation. uses lielibore for the worms. They should be kept free from weeds and have a good mulch through the sum- mer. He would give all gooseberries the slime treatment. Some persons get fine plants and set them out where they have the full glare of the sun, but that is not the way to get gooseberries. Discussion then followed on black- berries, raspberries and gooseberries. Mr. Willard—I have figured out that blackberry crop of Mr. Kellogg's, and find that he got a good deal out of R. As to the gooseberry, my experience is that it is one of the paying crops. One of the most profitable crops I ever raised on my farm was a crop of goose- berries. Many think that it is a hard crop to grow to perfection. but I think that with the assistance of the spray- ing pump we can succeed. They do best on a cool, low, heavy soil, and the only instance where they have suf- fered from mildew with me has been on high sandy land. Now we will have some trouble with blight as long as we use the English gooseberry, and the English is the best. Of csurse, there are new and large gooseberries coming out all the time, but all that are of a good size have more or less English blood In them. Nearly all of those En- glish gooseberries make wood too slow- ly to please ii,,' Americans, for we wftt to make money fast and want the bushes to reach maturity at an early date. Q.—What about the Red Jacket? Mr. Willard.—It is pretty good,but think the best gooseberry is the White Smith. In this country it is not so much quality that we want as quantity. The English, on the othes hand, de- mand a gooseberry of good quality. Q.—How do you like the Houghton? A.—It is too small. Q. --How is the Downing? A.—It is a good berry, but the roar- ket wants the large English gooseberry. Some of our American nurseries have tried to get a large American berry, but It has not yet been done. They have succeeded in getting large berries only by infusing the English strain, and with it the liability to mildew. I bought 20,000 White Smith gooseberry bushes from England and put them on rich, sandy soil. They cost $11 per hun— dred, and I got only one crop of berries from them. They mildewed and I had , to dig them up. I had them on the wrong kind of land. Afterwards I got _more and put theta in a clak soi:. Q.—What have you to say about the practice of picking gooseberries by stripping off the berries, leaves and all and running them through a fanning mill? A.—I would not have any picked in that manner, becates. takes away the foliage, which is needed to ripen the wood anti develop the buds for the next year. Q.—What is the quality of the Colum- bus? A.—.1 can't say, for we do not allow thcm to get ripe enough to tell what the quality would be. We pick them green. Hauling Fodder.—A writer In Homestead tells how he hauled in fodder. He . says: We took the rear stake out of the haystack, built up a high rack in the front end and then arranged a walking board with cleats nailed to it, to be used to walk up on the wagon with an armful of fodder. A piece of wire attached to the board would drag it from one shock to the other, making it unneces- sary to carry it. fodder should be hauled when It is damp or foggy. bet a good time to haul it is when you have time and are ready. If the weather is dry it Is best to keep off the load as much as possible. By w lking up the running board at the rear end, and building up the load as you work back- wards, ten to twelve shocks can be put on, and there will be no running over it to break up the blades. Be- gin unloading from the rear end of the load, and it does not waste much. House. stack like grain, or set it up against f ridge pole. Th/ drowing Colts—Corn is the poor- est grain food for a growing colt, and is usually as expensive as those which are much better. Oats and bran are prob- ably the best for a growing animal, es- pecially one that is raised for work In- stead of meat. Feed good, bright corn fodder and bran and oats, ,r if these are expensive or difficult to get, feed oil meal, mixed with the corn meal to bal- ance the ration. Have a warm stable. but see that it is well ventilated, and give a clean, warm bed at night, water and salt regularly, and in all pleasant weather let them out a few hours each day for exercise: but when severely cold or stormy it in best to keep them in the staid° all day.—Ex. A Good Suggestion. --The aim of the skilled shepherd is to keep his flocks in health, but if some of them shonld lose it, in writing to a veterinarian for ad- vice he should describe not only all the symptoms of the disease and give the result of all the autopslea made, but Rhin in detail his treatment of the flock, the kind of land they run upon, whether dry upland or marshy meadow, and also how he feeds them through the a inter. The veterMarlan will want all the facts in the caste, fully and clearly stated, in order to make it correct diagnosis and prescribe the proper remedies. ---Ex. Lies On Horses.- Last winter it was noted that an unesual number of horses were troubled with vermin—in plain Hogiisla Tityy migtit. be fed twice as I. III I a ortline-y borers. and yet they ratwiiiital l ee, and wretched look- ing Mr It \V Hayes, a well-known trainer of SS'. ', In New York. gives the f o llowing re/ we for getting rid of the ivtn Ilfilf a pint f keroeene to two gallons sif water V• the horse with this twice. 1.% ith an hot rvai of two or three days liet,een apphentions. - and any lice you find after that I will give rt premium for: says Mr Ilayea. - -Ex. SPORTS ON THE ICE. SKATING IS THE GREATEST WINTER AMUSEMENT lift. Mr 01111 (.1ris of Illor North- ern I I IS.C41 Lofoy 1I,,,,ptclso, De- light fnl *Cleft_ ter anti an Ideal sport ttetterally. an ideal wittier sport, skating is pre-eminent. This, of course. has no teference to roller- skating, which bears the same re- lation to the enlen- /se, did sport, on ice that an apologetic tallow dip does ta a brilliant incan- descent light. There is an exhilaration In its enjoyment that makes the whole world seem very merry and which sends the blood tingling with pleasure through your veins. This is the case when you know how. If you don't— well, it might not seem so very merry, but your blood will tingle just the same, though, perhaps, not exactly from pleasure. • . It has been said that no exerelse ex- cept swimming gives a free motion to all the muscles simultaneously. While this, so doubt, is perfectly true, 'the same may be said in no less degree of skating. Not only this, but a very im- portant point in the latter's favor is that while skating the body is kept In Its normal position, which is not the case in savimming. When skating, even while learning the art, there is not a muscles in your entire anatomy that is not in almost constant action, and this condition obtains so long 'as the blades are fastened to your feet. When Sufficient skill is gained so as to be in repose while in lit BANK OF ENGLAND. Something About the (crceteat Institu- tion of It, hind in the World. Oh the 2'7111 of last July the Bank of England a...tatted its 200th birthday, says the Batik Register. It is the great - et bank in tile world. la its early days the bank employed fifty-fcur clerks, and the yearly salary ilst amounted to but little over $20,000, the chief ac- countant receiving $1,225 a year. At the present time the nnmber of employee is 1,500. No note of the 50,000 or so issued daily is ever issued again. Each note as it is paid in is cancelled and an account kept of its filings. One of the curiosities of the bank is a 25-pound note which was paid in after being out 111 years. In the hank album for large notes and other curiosities is a 1,000,- 000 -pound bank note which was once iesur - I for convenience in a transaction invoising a large ;mount of money. Whether lost or stolen, the bank's notes wit. always be paid. Once a clerk ran sway with $100,000 worth of notes. For six months the theft and number of notes were advertised, and at the end . of that time a Jew appeared with them and demanded that they be paid. On being refused he went to the exchange and raised such an outcry, saying that as the bank refusad to pay its own notes, it must be Insolvent, that the bank called him back and paid him the full amount of the stolen notes. An- other time one of the directors depos- ited $150,000 and took a single note. He put -the piece of paper on the man- tle piece and fell asleep. On waking he found the note gone. He thought it had fallen into the fire, and got another note, giving a guaranty that if the first note ever turned up he would be responsible for it. Thirty years later, the man having died in the meantime, the first note was presented for pay- ment at the bank, and the bank stood the loss. The man's estate had been A NIGHT motion, which paradox.- thy expresses the exact con- dition, It. it I, nothing that so closely approacle•s the much talked of \Poetry of motion\ as a graceful skater. It Is when swiftly gliding over the shim- mering surface of a good bit of Ice that one so keenly enjoys an indefinable exuberance of spirits. This bubbling over of good feeling is as spontaneous as it is infectious, and accounts for the irrepressible, boisterous merriment that characterizes a skating crowd. It is indeed a pity that such an in- vigorating and delightful sport as this should in any way have a touch of the freakishness of fashion. There is, when moderately indulged in. no more health-giving sport in the world than skating, and it is very gratifying to note that it is becoming more popular than ever. Never before in its history has skating been in such favor as dur- ing the present season. This does not only apply to Chicago, or the rest of the United States. but in all countries where ice is available the same condi- tion holds good. says Chicago Chron- icle. Skating 4n the open air is absolutely essential to the highest enjoyment of the sport. A skatesaf greatest delight is to have a good-sized sheet of gleam- ing ice set in the picturespie frame of n snow-covered landscape, with an or- rasional frost -bejeweled tree or (lump of deep green pines to break the mo- notony of the dazzling whiteness. Our picture shows a part \ 'if skaters on the lake at Lincoln pant Chicago. Pn f;pnrep rre(IrgP t. l,t a;I, , II itt tI I t r , in pi n plain. awkward, it the, Itt Titia makes her careei till thi W1,1111pr ful. For, ennifider, first. she sore - lure, it the respect of the philosophic weirl rl it tier papers in the Westminster Then ght. otu1iwr011 (h.` 11111111iIrROPhi , world It her novels, then V. I, no rit•Irtlia sho gained the ;I/,` an d d en ,, 0, lindef lion of one man not a 1114, , or fattninon Standing then She e..iii) , •roat Mind hoy man, but a man Of a crow., of admirers to whom she he Caine rut oraele and a prophetess see lived an ideal kind of life all as! het Ity, itixm t. dignity end helm, though -he defied the tau, she W $111,114 , 11 Plhr twfuri• her net ole t c.tcc,lto lie read Walter itessei SCENE AT A CHICAGO SKATING s-- — - divided and nothing could be recover- ed. Clerks of standing and character are selected to remain at the bank every night of the year and on Sundays and hank holidays. A guard .of soldiers Is on duty every night, and they are as- sist6tDby a body of watchmen, consist- ing of porters and workmen, fully trained to act in case of an emergency. The Supreme Political tjuestIon. At a meeting in Exeter Hall, London, Cardinal Manning eloquently said, con- cerning the liquor traMc: \What are all our wilt:es compared with this great question? We want a good helmsman at the wheel, and tve want a sober crew on board! And if there be one thing which demoralizes a people more rapbby than any other, it is that which makes the brains of men reel and their hearts to be passionate and inflamed, and the wills of men to be unsteady and weak. in the hour of temptation; and when I know that in- toxicating drink is doing all this, and that in the great centers of our in- dustry, }um there where the people are crowded together. where the national lift is intensified, as it were, into a focus— when I know that the . evil is spreading Itself with the greatest in- tensity, I ask, what are we about? How is it that men who profess to be states- men and politicians, waste their time and the time of the legislature before they take this subject in hand\ Dow to Heine. Corpulency. When you are dieting to reduce fle03 you must eat stale bread and et. , potatoes, rise, beets, corn, peas milk, cream, all sweets, cocoa I anything which even suggests starch. Dry toast without MIL , ti't without either milk or sugar, rare no• with no fat. and as far as poseible tuo vegetables at all .ihould form your diet. Take ail the exeri fse you can in the a -to of walking, go twice a week to a R11 , tilaIl bath (where possible) and In- vert:0dr go to bed hungry. Anybody brave entiligh to c op to these Ian's will seri:Wily loge flesh 'AMP'S Home Journal. Factory Faint. In a factory At New Haven a few days ago a girl fainted and fell to the floor whereupen. out of pure symps- thefts nei vousesss. eleven other girls one after the other. ALL GODSONS OF EUGENIE, Frenchmen Boris the Same Day as trot Prince Imperial Are Lucky. Three thousand eight hundred and thiry-fur male children were born in France on March 16, 1856, the same day that the ill-fated prince imperial came Into the woril, says the New York World. His mother,' ex -Empress Eu- genie. became a godmother to them all. It is raid that the ex -empress has re- cently made lice will, and in it has be- queathed a trifling legacy to each of her godsons, whose names and ad- dresses she still preserves. The origi- nal.number, however, must have been sadly depleted by death in the nearly forty years which have elapsed, and of bearded men who will claim their be- quest when Eugenie dies there may be less than half a thousand. The contrast between that March day nearly four decades agp and the ex - empress' present fortune is striking. Then the reign of Napoleon III. was in the heyday of its power. and the na- tion, drunken with military glory, wish- ed as heartily as its ruler for an heir to the. throne. Early on the morning of the 16th the cannon boomed front I the Invalides, agmouncing the deliver- I ance of the empress. Paris bent an anxious listening ear, counting the guns. A hundred and one. It was a j boy. \Conquerer in the Crimean cam- ' paign, the arbiter chosen by Europe at -the congress of Batik\ says Andre Martinet in his history of the prince inn - penal. \Napoleon HI, felt more firmly placed on his brow by this birth the crown which had been given him by nearly 8,000,000 votes. France, radiant in her rejuvenated glory and her recoil- quered prestige, drowned with the' noise of fetes the first cries of the im- perial infant.\ More than 20,000 admiring people viewed at the Hotel de Ville, before the birth of the royal babf, 1 th cradle PARTY. • -- where he was to lie. It was in the form of a boat, made of rosewood, and at its head stood the image of a beautiful woman, personifying the City of Paris. with drawn sword, and holding aloft a protecting shield. March 15 the err - dle was taken to the Turneries. That night the soldiers waited, with lig10.- ed matches beside the cannon. At 3:la In the morning the roar of the guns awoke the city. Some time previous the emperor had issued a proclamation announcing the fetes that would be held when his child was born, and closing with these words: \The emperor has decided that he will be godfather. and the empress godmother of all the legitimate chil- dren horn in France upon the auspici- ous day.\ Napoleon If. intended that the title of Itodson\ which he thus be- stowed should be a purely decorative one, but many of the fond parents did not mei understand it, and applied to the emperor for a more substantial en- dowment. There are a few instances on record where the quest was not in vain. No end of i t oetry was written on the occasion, and one quatrain of Theophile Gautier has ,survived. In It the poet says that the royal heir is a blonde Christ child, who bears in his little hand for a globe the peace of the world and the happiness of human kind. \The Song of the Godsons\ was the title of another interesting bit of verse that was printed and gold on the bolt- levarda at that time and waft extremely popular. A Young Engineer. Georgia's youngest leromotive engin- eer is believed to be a boy but 14 years old. Ile runs an engine on a short road connecting various aawmilis 1, id their source of supplies. It Is stated, fur- thermore, that he has had charge of the same engine since he was 9 years old, and that he is regarded by the own- ers of the road as an entirely capable esig in per ltalltflog on I he 4 lytle. One flrni on the Clyde, without mak- ing the slightest fuss about it, bnilt, launched and delivered to the agents of the Spanish government within six months of re tell. lug the order, six fairly powerful gunboats ten cervice In patr4111- leg and glue cling the Cuban coast. WHAT'S IN A NAME. lato Men 1% Ito Suffer from it otnical 0 5 11,01ZIttle. There are three sensitiy ft men in town whom a great mans people know, says the New, York Recorder. Two of them have names that delight the punster. The other one's name is not peculiar. He is mentioned with the other two be- cause he has a spasm every time any- body calls him out of his name, which is Whitfield. It is on the same point that Mr. On - yon and Mr. Coffee are touchy. These three gentlemen do not know each other, but each has had the sante ex- perience and on similar matters each has the sante bent of mind. Mr. Coffee says that ever since he can remember some smart aleck at his table In a boarding house or hotel has laugh- ed heartily at this alleged witticism: \Mr. Coffee, are you fond of tea?\ It is a joke that makes Mr. Coffee tear his hale lie says he never gets into a boarding house or out of it with- out having it sprung on him. If it is not found in that form it comes this way: \Do you take coffee?\ In countless other ways Mr. Coffee hears chestnuts roasted as brown as the coffee bean on his name every hour of his life. laming the rage for punning ' a few years ago, when some people , really thought it witty. Mr. Coffee was i nearly driven to suicide. As it is, he I acknowledges that his teniner has !testi ruined anti that a large portion of 1:1- manity fills him with disgust. Mr. Onyon 'cu etes to take any jests about his name calmly, lie usually cuts pleasantries by telling the man who asks him if he likes them, or says something about their pungency, that he is a fool, and at such times Mr On - yon is always ready to fight. Nobody who knows M. Onion ever ventures to take liberties with his name. It in- creases Mn. Onyon's anger to reflect that his father's name was De La On - yen; lint ie old gentleman dropped the \De La\ to be more American, and that the Americans ehanged the pro- nunciation of the final word from on- yone to plain onyon. Whitfield has just b6 - cotted a well meaning but. as. Whitfield says, a whol- ly brainless than who first addressed him as \Vhitlosk, next as \Val - lock, and finalls wrote him a letter which was actually addressed ,to Mr. Warpath. These three cases typify a class of men, whose names area constant source of irritation to them: and. as for their tormentors, they are of a class that bores every sensible person on earth. Sources of ivory. African ivory :is now conceded to be the finest. The first quality of thia comes from near the equator and It has been iemarked with regard to this fact that the nearer the equator the smaller is the elephant, but the larger the tusks. The ivory from equatorial Africa is closer in the grain and has less tendency to become yellow by ex- posure than Indian ivory. The 'finest transparent AfriZin ivory Is collected along the west coast, s.. II latitudes 10 degrees north and mu degrees south, and this is believed to deteriorate In quality and to be mole liable to damage with increase of lati- tude in either direction. The whitest Ivory comes from the east coast. It is considered to be in best condition when recently vet. It has then a mellow, warm, transparent Lint, as if soaked in oil, and very little appearance of grain or texture. Indian ivory has a nopaque white color and a tendency to become dis- colored. Of the Asian varieties Siam is considered to be the finest, being much superior in appearance and den- sity. :The ivory of the 4aammoth tusks is not very much esteemiel. particularly in England. It is considered too dry and brittle for elaborate work, besides which it is very liable to turn yellow. As a matter of fact, the largest tusks very rarely leave Asiatis Russia. being too rotten for industrial purposes.-- Chtynbers' Journal. An I'mbrells Cane. Cane umbrellas are not a novelty on paper but as a illicceseful reality they are. A Bavarian named Kroeger has realized man's dream of being provided •Isith a cane and umbrella at the same time. The article is simple enough in It construction. The cane part is of the ordinary size. The metal handle is ad- justable and works on a thread. The interior of the cane contains the silk umbrella o'er a thin but durable frame. To make use of it the handle most lie removed, the umbrella pulled out snit mounted on the cane, which now :-•et as an umbrella stick, It is tut -I- through the bell and 5.-1 , sed fast at is,. top. The work of just half .1 minute wilt accomplish the change Lout ite- public. Malt, pit -ti St. Lottiti. Attention has been frequently called' to the fact that Missouri ranks first in the number of mules owned and sold. If St. Louis is the largest mule mat ket in the country Saline is the greatest source of *empty. Ten thoosand mules in one year Rounds like a Munehausen story, but that is the number whicat one firm in Msrshall hula handled There Is a mule now on the Spark:, farm near the city which breaks all the records. It Is twent hands high and weighs 2.300 pound. Republic Itaphl Tran•ii tat f ,a it TI1P committee on trss , isetatten of the chamber of cOfl;tti,'ltt-t, Ist teed, Minns huts been directed it th .1 he,,t, to inquire late the dp,sira)ti tin Owl prat.- ticability of it rapid tranait electric line between St rout \Mint -11)011i that s h a ll make ft , •.' opt , a itti ttilit II run from the center of one t it hi the center of the other in not more than thirty min- utes. 96. ,
