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>nffiFABMHOHOMEAMTACBE56 To Keep Files From Horees. Take two or three small handfuls of greet walnut leaves; upon which pour two or three quarts of soft, cold water; l e t ’lt stand one night, and pour the whole next morning Into a kettle, and let It boll for fifteen mlnptes. When cold. It will be fit for use. No more Is required than to wet a sponge and before a horse goes out of the stable, let those parte which are most Irritated be smeared over with the liquid.—American Cultivator. i Sheep Are Good Stock. The census report cannot give the real value of sheep. Outside of the value of sheep as producers of meat and wool, there Is a benefit conferred by them t<< land. Pastures occupied by sheep become richer every year, and thuihes, weeds and briars, which eo rapidly grow where they are not . desired, are kept down by sheep and their places occupted by grass. The poorest kind of land, if given up to sheep, even If It Is necessary to al low feed to them, will be made pro ductive In a few ydars.—American Cultivator. W h itew a s h . ^ The best whitewash for Inside or outside use Is made as follows: One- half bushel unslacked lime; slack With warm water; cover It during the process of steaming; strain the li quid; dissolve a peck of salt in warm water; boll three pounds of grov^d rice to a thin paste, add one-half pound of powdered whiting anti a pound of glue, which l^as been dis- Bodved over a slow five, and add five gallons of hot water to the mixture; stir well and let it stand forty-eight hodrs. If properly applied one pint will cover a square yard. This will stand the weather better than any mixture we know of.—Indianapolis News. Ventilating Stables. A good many expensive devices have been invented and Installed in farm stables to supply pure air to the animals confined therein. The real principle of ventilation Is a hard prob lem. W hat will ventilate one stable and keep the air In splendid condition without making It too cold in winter or two drafty at any time will prove a complete failure In another stable. The cloth curtain will stand or fall on its m erits— or lack thereof—as an independent “system\ and not as a cheap \substitute”—in the ordinary use of the expression. For years a cloth curtain has been an effective means of ventilating a sick room. The cloth curtain is a familiar means of controlling atmospheric conditions in a newly plastered ropm or house. The cloth curtain has worked well in poul try houses. The idea has been lat terly applied1 to dairy barns; and with successful results. Four years ago I built an expen sive poultry house. It was a frame building, with stone walls underneath and a matched wooden floor of two thicknesses with paper between. Two by four studding was used and the pa: per palled on the studding both Inside and cut. Over the paper were nailed , matched celling boards. The roof was sheathed with matched stuff and paper put on under the shingles. Ev- ^ery crack that could admit air was sealed up. Wooden shafts for ven tilation one foot square In diameter inside extended from four inches above the floor out through the roof. The windows on the south side were hinged at. the bottom and arranged to swing in a few inches at the top to admit fresh air. When this house was filled with poultry frost collected on the vjalls an eighth of an inch thick. Although the house was set well up from the ground p id the location was on a hill side, It was impossible to dry it out eo Ion® as the poultry occupied the house, and it was impossible to keep the fowls in good condition. As it happened, a large barn burned nearby in January and the poultry house went with it. By hard fighting we managed to save the far wing of the barn, which was built in the shape of a shed, and partitioned off into box stalls for colts. There were six of these stalls and this was the only place we bad to put the poultry. The shed was well built, being double boarded on the northwest side, the stable doors opened to the south east. There were no windows, a/id for light and ventilation we sawed holes in the doors about two feet by three and one-half feet and covered the opening with thin cotton. The next day the hens all commenced to sing in chorus and we never had so many eggs before_or since from the same number. If T liv e to be ninety years of age I shall never build an other expensive poultry house, and I shall never again worry about ventila tion.—H. A. Franklin, in the Epitom- 1st. Artificial Incubation. • Like the history of many other iim portant Inventions, artificial incuba tion, although only brought into profi table practice In civilised countries within recent years, was In operation in the early days of humanity. v In Egypt, before even the Pyramide the Inhabitants of the Del ta of the Nile employed rude but ef ficient structures in hatching eggs. The incubators were huge bvem. of earth or clay termed mamals, heated by dried oowdung, etc. To these plac es the Egyptian peasants broti?ht their eggs where they were hatched for a small fee. Mechanical contrivances for measuring ttemperatures were then unknown, the heat being completely under the control of the dusky opera tor, who by thrusting his bare hand into the egg chamber was able to de termine the heat, and it is said that an underheated or overheated egg was unknown. The incubators were insti tutions for the general public, and the success was such that it was nothing unusual for n chicken to be delivered for every egg recei/ved. Sir John Mandeville, an old Eng- gllsh traveler of over BOO years ago, in his writings gave an account of the Egyptian incubators at that time as follows: “And there is a common house in that city that is full of small furnaces, and hither bring women of the town their eyren—eggs—of hens, of geese, and of ducks for to be put into those furnaces. “And they that keep that house cover them with heat of horse-dung without heat of hen, goose, or duck, or any other fowl. “And at the end of three weeks or of a month they come again and take their chicks and nourish them and bring them forth, so that all the coun try Is full of them. And so do men there, both winter and summer.\ China, however, appears to be the mother of most all inventions, and here too, artificial incubation seems to be old as the history of that country Itself. The methods there while crude are efficient. Straw baskets are ranged along the ends and one side of a straw-thatched cottage. Th’ese baskets are plastered with clay to make them incombus tible, and a tile forms the bottom, be neath which a Umall fire burns. A straw cover is placed over each basket during the process. In the center are wide shelves over each other, to re ceive the eggs, at a certain stage of the operation. These being placed in the baskets, a fire is lighted, and a steady heat between 95 and 102 de grees, but regulated» by no better thermometer than the sensations of the attendant, is kept up. About the sixteenth day the fertile eggs are re moved from the baskets and spread on shelves covered up with cotton or some similar substance, but without fire underneath. And thus they re main until the chicks burst forth from their shSTis and in two days after wards they are sold and carried off. Those who have seen these crude operations all agree as to their ef fectiveness. The old time operators claimed immunity from failure, but whether this is so, the fact remains that without modem mechanical de vices, excellent results have been attained and in comparison with the modern machine the old-time methods do not suffer in the least. Excellent and very poor results have been ob tained with the modern Incubator, which seems to prove that after all it is not the machine which brings forth the good hatches in itself, but the operator must employ some intel ligence and extreme care.—G. E. M. in the American Cultivator. To Darn on Sewing Machine SSlp embroidery hoops over the hole to be darned, using large hoops for tablecloths and curtains and email ones for hose and small articles. Take foot off machine and etltch backward and forward over the hole until It Is neatly covered, using ordinary thread, size according to quality of goods. This is quite a labor-saving device and if one has an accurate eye the darn can scarcely be noticed. —New York World. Cleaning Wall Paper. To clean wallpaper use the follow ing recipe; Ten cento’ worth of liquid ammonia, ten' cents’ worth of oil of sassafras, one teaspoonful (even full) of soda, two. teaspoonfuls (even full) of salt and one quart of cold water. Mix the cold water with the ingredi ents, then add white flour until It is thick enough to drop from a spoon. Put in a covered pall, set in a kettle of boiling water, and cook until done, sTirring often. If it does not stick to the hands when cool, it is ddhe. Re' move from the pail and divide into ‘loaves,” working each piece a while in the hand. Take out only what is needed, leaving the rest covered in the pail, to prevent the ammonia from evaporating. Rub the wall with a loaf, working the dirt into the dough. When very dirty, exchange for a clean loaf. This removes dirt and grease magically and leaves old pa per aa> good as new when used care fully.—\Woman’s Home Companion.” Sanitary Poultry Nest. The presefht day tendency to em ploy sanitary measures In the dairy, the stable, the doghouse, etc., has at last extended to the poultry yard. The industrious hen Is to be provided with a sanitary nest, which can be readily washed and scrubbed as occa sion demands. This recent develop ment is shown in the accompanying illustration. The nest is made of wire and Is supported In a suitable Easily Cleaned. Tea-tables up to Date. New things for the teartable are seemingly endless in their variety. The \Brown Betty”—the teapot, in a recent tittering, is of a peculiarly lus trous china, as often blue or green as brown, and overlaid with bright sil ver. Of course, the creamer and sugar-bowl match. Teacups are of generous size, low and broad, and of fragile porcelain. One never sees nowadays the rather thick, usual shap ed cups that held about a thimbleful. The spoons, to facilitate conversa tion, perhaps, have fancy bowls and handles representing everything al most in fact or fiction. If one of the designs does not remind some one of something to say when conversation lags it is indeed a dull company that partakes. Other silver accessories are jam holders, for in the English fashion jp.m or marmalade is quite necessary at the modern tea. Then there is the wafer jar, and the tea caddy, usually in old Dutch silver. An attractive shape is octagonal with a round hing ed cover. New tea-balls and strainers are se lected for their oddity or originality. One is a Chinaman’s head, and there are spoons united like the Siamese twins, only more so, as they fit closely face to face, although they open like pincers to scoop up a fresh portion of tea, and when they are put, closed, into hot water, their contents diffuses as from the regular tearball. Some of the new sugar-tongs are pro vided with a point designed to har poon a refractory bit of lemon which so many prefer to cream in their tea. And to further burden the table there are receptacles for the sliced lemon in cut or silver-mounted glass, pierced in many intricate designs, or showing a colored crystal lining.—New York Evening Post. housing, both of which can be re-J moved from the chicken house when cleaning is necessary. When thus removed they can be conveniently placed in a suitable receptacle con taining boiling water and thoroughly cleansed of all impurities and unde sirable insects. Farm Notes. Hard soap rubbed into the wounds made on trees by borers or otherwise is said to be an effectual remedy. Some of the best work on the farm is done in leisure time. Some of the poorest work is done by trying to work too much. Don’t get too busy to empty and re j fill drinking vessels with fresh water, j A drink out of the northwest corner | of the well on a hot day tastes as good | to the hens as Ti does to the human j family. Cultivation of the soil is not merely done to kill weeds, but it is a mois ture conservator; it makes the soil more peious, so that the plant roots more easily penetrate in search of ; plant food. Set a good solid stake at the end of every row of strawberries, giving ; in plain letters the name of the kind ; in that row. But don’t have the : stakes so high that they will be ! knocked over by the whiffletree when you are cultivating. Watch for the litle slugs—darkish, j slimy fellows—that are likely to be ; on pear or cherry leaves now. Fine, j dry dust, If thrown in the trees, will ' kill every slug it covers. Or almost I any ef the regulation orchard sprays will exterminate this pest. Lucerne has not been so much in jured by the winter as was clover. I have a piece th a t came through fair ly well except left for experiment where the seed was not treated wiUt culture, says a correspondent. This strip is swept. So much for science. The Maryland Experimental Station shows by repeated tests that fresh manure spread in winter did not give as much increase as the same amount rotted and plowed down in the spring. Turning the manure while rotting was better than leaving it without being turned. Commercial fertilizers plow ed under In the spring Invariably gave larger yields than when sowed on the Inst before olanting. i l Recipes. Bran Muffins.—One pint shorts, 1 pint milk, 1-2 pint flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 7 tablespoons molasses; mix well, bake in gem pans 1-2 hour. Johnny Cake.—Cream one-half cup ful of butter, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, two eggs well beaten, one cup ful of milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda disolved in a little hot water, one teaspoonful baking powder, pinch of salt, one cupful of cornmeal, one cupful of flour. To Can Strawberries.—Hull and wash 12 quarts of fresh-picked ber ries and put in a deep bowl with 1-2 cup sugar for each quart of berries; let stand over night, then drain off the juice and boil for one hour. Skim and put in the berries and cook 8 or 10 minutes. Have jars, covers and rubbers hot, and bottle. Pepper Nuts.—Beat four eggs with one pound of sugar until light and creamy. Add a teaspooinful baking powder, a teaspoonful ground cloves, a tablespoonful ground cinnamon, one grated nutmeg, two tablespoons candied lemon peel, and whip thor oughly. Add one pound sifted flour and knead together on the molding board. Cup Custard.—Four eggs, three- quarters cup white sugar, one quart milk, two teaspoonfuls extract of vanila. Beat the egg yolks and sugar until light, and mix with the nfilk. A<Jd the flavoring extract and whip in the well beaten whites. Mix well and pour into custhrd cups. Set them in a dripping pan in the oven, pour hot water into* the pan and bake slowly, Watch closely that they do not bake too long. New England Deviled Clams.—Put 2 tablespoons of butter into a sauce pan jytd fry in it a chopped onion. Add 1 cup of canned tomatoes, a pinch of powdered mace and salt and paprika to taste. Cook for 5 minutes, add a tablespoon of flour, take from the fire and add 2 eggs slightly beaten. Add a dozen prepared clame, chopped fine. Mix thoroughly, fil) buttered clam shells, cover with crumb*, dot with batter and bake brown. Care of Little Chicks. Quite an argum ent has been going the rounds as to the length of time that should elapse before giving food to newly hatched chicks, some regard^ lag twenty-four hours as time enough before feeding, others that to feed when two arid a half days old was soon enough. No doubt but th a t more chicks are killed, or stunted from feeding too soon, than are hurt by a longer fast. Note the healthiness of chicks when a hen steals her nest, and is not dis covered until the chicks are several days old. Strong, healthy chicks, hatched in dry, warm w eather, will require food sooner than puny o-nes hatched in a damp, cool time, because the first chicks will grow much faster. Make this an iron clad rule: Never feed sooner than twenty-four hours after hatching, and let the first feed by dry bread crumbs or oat meal sprinkled in sharp sand. Also- let the bulk of the first few meals be of sharp sand. Give water th a t has the chill taken! off, for several days after hatching. This Is not necessary in mid-day of the summer, but is a good rule foi^ little chicks, of a morning, no m atter what the month. Have water vessels clean, and so arranged th a t the little chicks cannot get into them. A .teacup filled with water, then inverted in a saucer, makes a fine fountain, th a t is easily kept clean, where there is a small flock of chicks. A quart can is almost as good. 11 the water does not run out fast enough, place a uail under the edge of cup or can. House the chicks in a weathei proof coop, with enough clean dry litter and a good mother. Do not pul more than two dozen chicks with one hen. If bowel trouble appears, dissolve lime In w ater, pour the w ater off sarefully, and stir corn meal in the lime water until it crumbles. The lime w ater should be strong enough to make the mass to look as if lye had been poured on it. They will not relish this, but if given no other feed will eat it. Do not allow other food intil they are recovered. Rice cooked tender and fed dry is good for bowel trouble in fowls of any age. If chicks are not allowed to get chilled or wet from rain or dew, fed wholesome food, kept a little hungry all the time, never allowed to have any but wholesome w ater and milk to drink, have sizable grit, and are kept free from lice, there will be no bowel trouble, if they are healthy when hatched.— E. C., Vermilion Co. erm n e s e H c n o iar on M a r r U g n . Sir Robert H a rt, speaking of m a r riage and death customs in the F a r East, tells a story of a great Chinese scholar and high official who said th a t our foreign way of letting the young people fall in love and choose arid the Chinese way of first m a rry ing and then m aking acquaintance reminded him of two kettles of water; the first— the foreign— was taken a t thq boiling point from the fire by m arriage and then grew cooler and cooler, whereas the second— the Chinese— was a kettle of cold w a ter put on the fire by wedlock and ever afterw a rd growing warm er and warmer. So th a t,” said his friend, \after fifty or sixty years we are madly In love with each other.”— Tit-Bits. Im r x -essions o f R o m e . In a London drawing-room recent ly the hostess said to a comfortable looking lady, the widow of a wealthy Midland m anufacturer, who had been touring during the w inter in the sun ny South: \Of course, you went to Rome, dear Mrs. R ich?” “Rom e!” replied the widow, vaguely and m editatively. “Did we go to Rome, E thel?” (to her daugh ter). “ Yes, ma; you know we did,” was the girl’s reply. \You rem em b er— that big place where I bought those lovely silk stockings.”— T it-Bits. FREE!FREEH E GREENE'S LiHM F o r H E A D A C H E , B I U O U S N E E S . O A S E S , F L A T U L E N C Y , H E A I W ; BU R N , V O M ITIN G , IN D IG E S T IO N , D Y S P E P S IA , C O N S T IPA T IO N , an d All T r o u b les of -the STOMACH, LIVER and BOWELS FULL BOTTLE MAILED FREE S y - W rite Today for YOUR Free Bottle DR. GREENE’S Treatment for Nervous and Chronic Diseases Bears the stamp of Absolute and Genuine Worth, founded <m the true system of cure. A W o n d roup B lesslna: t o th e SICK and AILING. Dr. Greene Is giving to the world a surer means of cure than has ever heretofore been placed before the d'ecour&ged victims of chronic complaints. DR. GREENE is the proprietor of that most marvelous of all remedies for the Nerves and blood. DR. GREENE'S NERVURA All are privileged to consult Dr. Greene by mall, entirely tree. 9 West I4tii St., New York City WRITE TODAY Well, W h at if He D idn't? J For many years Dr. Francis L. P a t ton, ex-president of Princeton Uni versity, wore side whiskers. W hen ever he suggested shaving them there was a division of opinion in the fam ily. One m orning he came into his wife’s room, razor in hand, w ith his right cheek shaved smooth. “How do you like it, my d e a r ? ” he asked. “If you think It looks well, I will shave the other side, too.”— E v erybody’s Magazinp. Dad Gives Advice. According to the Nantucket In quirer and M irror, the following was sent by a coutitryman to his son in college, not many years ago: “My Dear Son-—I write to send you two pair of old breeches, that you may have a new coat made of them. Also some new socks, which your m o ther knit by cutting down some of mine. Yom; m o ther sends you, $10 w ithout my knowledge and for fear you will not spend It wisely I have kept back half and only send five. Your m o ther and I are well, except your sister Annie has got the mea sles, which we think would spread among other girls, if Tom had not had them before, and he is the only one left. I hope you are well and will do honor to my teachings. If you do not you are an ass, and your m o ther and myself are your affection ate parents.” Sore throat is no trifling ailment. I t will . -YS .. This and That. It isn’t at all necessary to have a fine and fancy poultry house. Com fort Is all a laying hen cares for. The best fowls are none too good. The medium fowls are only tolerable. The inferior fowls are a snare- and a delusion. Poultry should have access to green food it possible, and when they can not, should be furnished with cabbage leaves or a vegetable of some kind. Keep the fowls away from thd barns, stables and carriage houses. In such places they are nuisances. Besides, they are more comfortable in a place by themselves. Carelessness and laziness go hand in hand, and together are a fruitful source of failure. Notes of the Poultry Yard. The older the egg the less is that sweet, rich flavor noticeable. Remove at once from flock any chick showing signs of sickness. A woman who makes a success of poultry raising has the laugh on the man, who makes a failure at farming. Hens th a t are expected to lay dur ing the w lpter must be provided with a warm roosting place, warm enough to avoid danger of frost to comb and. wattles, but well ventilat Nearly every Japanese son follows the profession or trade of his father. Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion , al lays pain, cures wind colic, 25c. a bottle. Tourist Bromidioms. A statistician who recently re turned from a trip to British Colum bia is willing to affirm th a t he heard people ask: “How cold does It get here In the w inter?” 2133 times. “W h at is the height of th a t moun tain?” 796 times. “ How far away do you suppose that glacier is?” 921 times. “Is this the Medicine H at where the w eather comes from ? ” 1142 times. “ How far do you suppose it is over to where that man is plowing?” 1231 times. “Are there any trout in th a t stream ? ” 4 621 times. “ Do the bears ever come down to the railroad?” 944 timse. “W here do we change time again?” 6989 times. \W hy is It that it doesn’t get dark here until nearly 10 o’clock?” 3108 times. “Has anybody ever climbed to the top of that m o u n tain?” 2243 times. “Are these the Rockies or the Sel kirks?” 9712 times. “W o uldn’t it be great if we could have one of those m o u n tains set down on the prairie back of Chicago?” 562 times.— Chicago Record-Herald. The King of Siam does not confine his relationship to m o ther earth. He claims to be “ B rother of the Moon, Half B rother of the Sun,” as well as “Sovereign A rbitrator of the Flux the Reflux.” N. Y.— 32. Every package of Post T o a sties Contains a little book— “Tid-Bits made with Toasties.” A couple of dozen recipes Of fascinating dishes, A help in entertaining Home folks or company. Pkg^. 10 c and J 5 c— • , E l $ l Not Applicable. Bleeker— “W h a t’s the m atter, old man? You look like an illu s tr a tim of a hard-luck story.” Meeker— “ Domestic troubles. Had a scrap with my wife this morning.\ Bleeker — “Oh, don’t let a little thing like that worry you. A thun derstorm clears the atmosphere, you know .” Meeker — “Yes, but th a t doesn’t help a man who has been struck by, lightning.”— Chicago News. PA L A T A L t S s r a l SX 'C.” K K S S S S S .\- c\ ' ~ I . A r t n — I R R I G A T E D — L A ISI>. Perpetual w a ter rights, flue w a ter, productive sort, crop failures unknown. 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