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MOVEMENTS IN MAINE.
Progress of the Cans' Wenu 8afrgt
. , In the "1'lae Tree State." ,
There is a genuine Woman Suffrage
Bevival in Maine, says H. B. Black-
well, in Woman's JournaL From Saco
to Eastport numerous petitions in its
favor, signed, it is said, by about
twenty thousand citizens, have been
sent to the Legislature. Remonstrances
have been forwarded by about one
thousand and two hundred women,'
mostly of Portland and Bangor. The
petitioners include many women of the
hisrhst f'"5-1 sHndintr. large tax
payers, an x almost wunout exception
the leaders in charities, reforms and
beneQcient publio enterprises. They
are representative of the best mental
and moral elements of the State. The
remonstrants are largely composed of
society women," influential in that
class whose men arc often most remiss
in the exercise of their political duties
and everywhere averse- to change. It
is a strong argument -for the proposed
-measure 'that women of this class re
monstrate on the .ground that if the
Tight is conferred they will regard its
exercise as a responsibility and a duty
unwelcome, but imperative. This
fact affords a well-grounded hope that
-when the women of this class vote, the
-very men who have hitherto refrained
-will vote with them, thus adding two
votes where now wo have none.
In the House ex-Ouvornor Kobio rep
resents the Grangers, 20,000 strong,
who have by resolution endorsed wo
jnan suffi age. and ho is himself an ar
dent suffragist The chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, a man of
great ability and force of character,
voted for woman suffrage two years
ago, and i3 believed to be in favor of
the bill. Senator Libby, of Portland.
is also understood to favor it Many
"fading Republicans and some Demo
tx ' among the latter Senator Looney,
of Cornish. hsv ne-Bvl their inten
tion to vote iov Uu) utouaucc
It it proposed to give women citizens,
otherwise qualified, and who or.n read
and write, a vote in town and munici
pal elections. In 1880 there were in
Jlaine mnlw citizens over twenty-one
years old 195,223. of whom 8,564 were
illiterates, and 11.776 of foreign birth.
Of women ove- twenty-one. there were
189,723, of whtMfl a similar proportion
Were probably at foreign birth, and
8,005 were illiterates. Woman suf
frage, therefore, would add to the 195.
223 male votes In town and municipal
-el ctions 181,718 women who can read
and write, ten out of cloven of whom
are of native birth. The effect, there
fore, would be to raise the standard of
education and still further to Ameri
canize the politics of the State.
Kansas has recently given municipal
suffrage to its women. There is a
striking parallelism in the character
and political condition of Maine and
Kansas. Both are largely Republican,
largely American, with a minimum of
illiteracy, and both have prohibition in
their State constitutions. Let us hope
-that Maine, liko Kansas, will grant
'municipal suffrage to women.
In Maine, two years ago, a woman
suffrage constitutional amendment re
ceived a majority vote in both Houses,
"but failed of tho needed two-thirds.
Municipal woman suffrage, for its en
actment, needs only a majority of both
Houses with the assent of the Governor.
If reason and not prejudice governed
-the omonents. we should expect a
-much larger vote for this more limited
measure than for a change of constitu
tion. If this bill pass, the Legislature
will continue to be elocted by men
alone. If the participation of women
in town and city elections prove un
"welcome to the men it will be speedily
"repealed. And its repeal would be
the greatest possible obstacle to its
further agitation. (In the other hand,
if it proved satisfactory, prejudice
would disappear, and further advances
would probably follow. Surely if the
Jriends of suffrage are willing to abide
by the experiment, its oppononts can
afford to do so. But prejudice never
discriminates, and tho remonstrants of
two years ago will oppose this bill as
vehemently as thoy opposed the con
stitutional amendment.
Meanwhile the uniform success of
full woman suffr.igo during the last
twenty years in Wyoming and Wash
ington Territories, of municipal woman
suffrage in Kansas, Canada and Great
Britain, and of school suffrage in four
teen States, can not fail to impress
every man who wilt open his eyes. And
tho fact that in the U. 8. Senate, in
December, 18S7, two-thirds or tho Sen
ators from Maino to California, north
of Mason and Dixon's, line, including
ono of the Senators from Maine, voted for
a woman suffrage constitutional amend
ment, should have great wei"ht with
lho Maine Legislature.
TURNING THE TABLEa
A Kew View or tha Oste Pretested te the
OppoMta SMe.
In a recent address, before the Ver
mont Woman Suffrage Association,
Colonel Albert Clarke said:
- "Suppose that all the men ia Ver
mont should go out of the btate to at
.tend some presidential inauguration, or
'to search for some Hi Dorado ia the
"West or South. The women of neces--sity
would havo to assume the rem of
government Whom the prodigals
should return and demand a restitutioa
-of their old rights mad privileges, how
would thy like to wetold that the old
usurpation had abdicated aad a sew
usurpation had taken its place? Or
I how would they enjej this nraimemt:
- Tbe male, being musoalar and. strong,
-was evid.-ntly designed by Hatarefer
..liaanual labor; while she Issaale, being
sMUcmis, seasUivn,
aedof moral
em with mothiraoad. vsj obTiowrir ia-
tended for discharging the offices of
government And if they should urge
that no government is just except
what springs from the govern
ed. and that none is complete except
that which calls into action all the
varied powers of the race, how would
it please them to be answered: "This
may be, but some of you drink and
others gamble, some would li ense sa
loons and others would license brothels,
many of you areimpractible and believe
that opening your doors to foreign com
petition would makeyc u rich, and some
of you are so visionary that you think
taxation of land values only would
equalize the burdens of government;
while most of you act as though you
think an election is an auction, and a
town meeting is a Donnybrook fair; so
on the whole we are afraid of you,
afraid you will belong to the wrong
party, and, right or wrong, we think
we will keep you out?' Gentlemen,
how would you feel to be confronted
with such a condition and such a
theory? It is difficult to treat the de
generacy of the opposition with any
sort of seriousness, and some of them
must be i in to realize that the ridicule
with which they assailed this cause in
its early days is in danger of returning
to plague the inventors."
Real Womanliness.
The notions and definitions of woman
liness, if collected together from va
rious localities and ages, would form
curious reading. At one time it w. s
womanly to pronounce a hard word
incorrectly; to pronounce it properly
would make a woman like a man. At
another time it was womanly to faint
at the sight of a drop of blood or a
mouse. Now, the trouble with these
definitions and notions was, they were
not fixed upon immutable principles.
People dread the idea of a woman's do
ing something new or unusual; it may
make her unwomanly! They need not
fear. A true woman may be made less
foolish, less hysterical, less childish;
but any idea of womanliness founded
upon things temporary or artificial can
not be a true idea; it is not an essential
nor an eternal one. Real womanliness
will survive all revolutions of mind and
ma'ter, as a woman's figure has sur
vived. The old Greeks knew what
that was as well as we do. Margaret
B. Harvey, in Woman's JournaL
Not Consistent
Mrs. Wells 6ays suffrage will take
women away from their homes, and
they are overwhelmed with cares at
home, and cannot be taken away. Mrs.
Wells has recently been put on a board
of education which has been holding
meetings of three or four or five hours
per day for three or four weeks. She
is continually called away from her
home to lecture. If she should drop
all of these things, and exercise the
right of suffrage, she would not have to
be away from home so much as she is
now.
There is some inconsistency in this.
Women are frightened needlessly. As
to these remonstrants who have sent in
petitions, if they do not want to vote,
that is a very good reason why the
Legislature should exempt them. But
I want to vote. What right has any
woman, when I reach my hand up for
tho ballot to strike it down? Mary A.
Livermore.
WAIFS FOR THE WOMEN.
Two young ladies, after having taken
the course at a medical college, have
bought out and are conducting a drug
store at Albany, N. Y.
An exchange says that there are
8,000,000 women in this country who
arn their own living." WTiy limit
the number? Say rather 30.000,000,
for all women by living earn all that
they get If we had them not what a
dreary place this world would be!
Leavenwo-th Times. -.
Miss Elnora Hathaway, of Colo
rado, has pre-empted and "proved up"
on 160 acres of land near Elizabeth,
Sho has fenced in her whole claim, has
a comfortable cabin, well furnished,
and raised four tons of potatoes this
year. The money to pay for her im
provements she earned by sewing.
Mrs. Stopes, f Upper Norwood, an
Englishwoman, in a recent address on
tho re ation of women to, the county
council 6aid that in the past all govern
ments have been one-eyed. In the fu
ture we need governments with two
eyes the man's eye and the woman's
eye; for. by using both eyes, we shall
see things in a more just and natural
perspective.
Tiiat popular writer, Joseph How
ard. Jr., says: "One of the most' in
teresting problems since the day of
Mother Eve has been, -and still is,
'What shall be done with woman?"
In answer to that it may be said, off
hand, marry her, cherish her', make
her happy by not demanding every
thing and conceding nothing. Then
she will be cheerful and contented and
this world will become the abode of
bliss.' Albany Times.
Marion Harland is a devout advo
cate of the woman's club. "She who
establishes a woman's reading club ia
an agricultural district" writes the
well known authoress, ''does mors to
check the deadly progress of farmers1
wives to the insane asylam thaa allthe
doctors asm medical journals ia thai
land.
The book selected for social!
reading and discussion may be nothing
more dignified than a popular novel 'of
healthy tome. It will lift the telling
creature's thoughts out of the straight'
drop rat worn by plodding feet -glorify
the level stresoaes, white wU
w i n ! uaj, wauon XMByVSB)
tp wa as sry way va lass
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS.
X Salder ef Never CalacIaterest to
Fruereulre Faraaejrs.
The principal constituents of plant
food are nitrogen, potash and phos
phoric acid. Exhaustion of a soil may
be brought about either by the with
drawal of the ash ingredients con
tained in the crops that are annually
taken off without any return being
made, or by a washing of the surface
that gradually robs it of its plant food.
Complete exhaustion would require
the removal of all the mineral elements
of plant food, which never occurs. As
commonly expressed, a soil is said to
be exhausted when the crops pro
duced on it cease to be profitable. This
condition may be brought about by the
removal from it of one single neces
sary mineral element of plant food, al
though all the others may remain in
abundance. In general the essential
constituents above named, phosphoric
acid and potash of the mineral ele
ments, and nitrogen of the organic, are
all that will be required to produce re
munerative returns from worn soils,
providing a judic'ous rotation of crops
is observed by which a liberal amount
of vegetable matter is returned.
If all the vegetation yearly produced
was allowed to remain and decay and
become plant food, the soil would be
constantly improving in fertility, but
to make cultivation profitable a princi
pal part of each crop must be annually
removed and used for other purposes.
Hence it becomes necessary to return
to tho land mineral substances equiva
lent to those abstracted by the crops,
otherwise the soil will decrease in
fertility. If we had the power to de
termine exactly what particular ele
ment of plant food alone was wanting,
then the use of a single fertilizer might
be sufficient This, however, can only
be done by a chemical analysis of the
soil or exparimonts. or both conjoint
ly, and so the attempt to supply a sin
gle element usually proves a failure.
From this cause it is only safe to use
what are called complete fertilizers, or
such as in their composition contain
all the principal elements of plant
food, and as nearly as possible in the
same proportions as they exist in the
plant to be produced.
Again, while chemical analysis will
reveal approximately the ingredients
contained in a soil, it fails to show how
much of these elements can be used by
the plant in the process of its growth.
One or more of them may exist in such
a state as to be wholly unserviceable
until reduced to a soluble form by the
slow natural process of disintegration
and decomposition, or the application
of some chemical agent that shall pre- i
pare them for more immediate useful- '
ness. In this way the application of
lime to certain soils often proves sur
prisingly beneficial, although the
article itself is not considered strictly
a manure. N. Y. World.
MILK AND CREAM.
How Carelew Ds'rjrmen Can Increase the
Income of Their Farm.
One of the papers at the farmers'
convention held at Madison, Wis., was
read by Prof. S. M. Babcock, of the
State University. In his paper the
professor maintained that there were
in Wisconsin a hundred thousand farm
ers who owned two or more cows, and
that there were not one hundred of
them that knew which cow paid a profit
and which made him no profit or an
actual loss. The remedy urged for
this want of knowledge was to test the
milk of individual cows, to ascertain
the amount of butter fat produced by
each. The question: "Which is the
best cow?" is usually answered: "The
one which gives the most butter from
the churn." This is not really thi
truth. If the milk contained more
butter than you get out of it you do
not know how good tho milk is, with
out testing. After you have found the
amount of butler fat contained in a
given cow's milk, you want to so manip
ulate that milk that you get the largest
possible portion of that butter out If
you do not do this it is not the cow's
fault but yours. A great many men
say all they wish to know is how much
butter they get That is not enough
to know, if you are going to get the
best results from your cows. You want
to know whether you are getting the
butter your cow is giving. Test your
milk to find out
A cow should give ono pound of but
ter a day when at her best No cow is
profitable that can not do this.
Allowing the salt and water in the
butter to make up for what butter fat
is lost in churning, you should get a
pound of butter fat in your milk.
The fact is. fifty per cent is tho com
mon yield, that is half a pound a day.
Such cows should be discarded or a
change made in the manner of manipu
lation. If you are using the deep-setting
mode of creaming your milk, the milk
should be set in the cold water as soon
as drawn from the cow. After skim
ming keep the cream in a warm place
until the acid is formed. This may be
hastened by adding .a little of the
former setting. It is detrimental to
hum sweet cream.
To sum up, test your cows to find out
how much butter fat their milk
lains, then see what you churn fr.m it
If not as much, change your manner of
earing for the milk, or the care of the
cream, or the churning, or all of them,
JJo these ana you will make more from
wBusuy.-T x arn xieia ana otocjcssam. wsifht Tee strng of a bee consists of
-" r two long darts, adneriag loegitudiaal:
- Wnen farmers iec their sheen g? Jy; awl strongly protected by one prin
becanse wool was low they forgsttha, eWahs-ih. Ia stinging the sheath
aheap independemt of wool are worth fe frst inserted; then the two earls
team metr cost in wnaf theyde
the farm and in the meat theriar.
aays a writes.
HEAT WITHOUT FUEL,
Am. Asteaadlar Claim Which Sets AH Set
eaee at Naagat.
The accepted theories of heat gen
eration limit the list of materials from
which heat may be produced by arti
ficial means to the substances known
as fuels. And these fuels are almost
wholly confined to the various forms of
carbon, organic or inorganic, vegetable
or mineral. Not to enter on the ques
tion whether mineral carbons, coal and
oil are derived from organic bodies or
not we need only consider them as
mineralized fuels. And as to organic
fuels, whether vegetable, as in woody
tissues, or as carbonaceous matter in
the form of animal oils, they burn and
give heat in strict proportion to the
carbon they contain. We have, there
fore, in our wisdom, been attempting
much lately in, the way of keeping up
the stock of these organic fuels by
planting forests, and by even making
straw up into cakes, like the dried peat
of the frugal Icelanders.
But there has now come forward the
bold invention of a new source of heat;
an ever-present material, and a self
acting process of using it, almost It
is a heat generator that consumes lit
tle of any form of fuel, as we now de
fine that word. At least it requires
scarcely more than the-match that
lights a gas jet to set it going. It
does not produce or generate any im
portant quantity of the ordinary prod
ucts of combustion neither smoke,
nor carbonic acid, nor ashes. It will
not be necessary to sell the residuals
so carefully as gas works do, nor will
it be accessary to cumber the side
walks wfth ash-boxes or 'ash-carts.
Yet the heat is. as decisive and gen
uine as the heat from anthracite coal
in a blast furnace. It will warm a
house thoroughly, and even heat it to
excess if not carefully regulated. It
will melt iron or steel, and by its own
self-action, when once started, it will
heat the containing drum or fire-box,
to a red heat first and almost a white
heat next Its constant heat would
melt iron or steel if not checked by a
slight manipulation.
Is this a miracle or an overwrought
mental strain, such as might reasona
bly be inferred? It is neither. It is a
literal and absolute fact as plain and
practical as a large iron-heating drum
can bo made. In this drum a slight
coal-fire is lighted, and the ordinary
fuel door above and the draft door be
low being properly adjusted, the cumu
lative heat generation begins instant
ly. f If not stopped by readjustment of
the doois it will go on indefinitely, al
most to the full red-beating of the con
taining vessel or drum.
It is clearly the air that is burned.
the oxygen of the common atmosphere
constituting the fuel. There can be
no exhaustion of the supply of air with
its contained oxygen, and, as no arti
ficial blast or other mechanical agency
is required to feed the air, it constitutes
a self-created flame. It is only requis
ite to check ' the supply of air so as
to avoid cumulative effects otherwise
there would clearly be a steadily-increasing
draft to feed the flame, and a
degree of heat beyond any capacity to
apply it The combustion in this case
gives an intense heat, but with little
visible flame. It forms little carbonic
acid gas. It would not deliver suffi
cient of such gases into the air of any
room to asphyxiate its occupants if ail
the products of combustion were deliv
ered in and not outward through any
outgoing flue. At the moment of orig
inal ignition the small amount of coal
or wood used to light the fire would
possibly make some smoke, but after
the lighting is effected the heat may be
kept up indefinite y by simply regulat
ing the draft of air, and during that
time the contained fuel used to light
the furnace remains without being
more than in part consumed.
This reads little like the record of
any experiment with ordinary fuels, or
any recora oi tue evqiuuon oi neat
units from weighed or measured frag
ments of coal, or of wood, or of oiL It
is in a great degree a mystery under
our accepted scientific definitions, and
its great significance is in the assur
ance that the common air may be made
the adjunct fuel, alike for domestic
heating and for metallurgic uses.
It will be a blessing to the people of
thegreat interior to be able to substi
tute the bitter north wind for the cost
ly fuel that coal is with 'them.' It will
be a grateful chance forv xetkliatiom to
burn the wind there as a fuel against
its own violence. All this is too strange
to be at once accepted, whether true
or not and the writer hereof eaters a
plea of pleasant enthusiasm to avert
too great antagonism. Yet it is true
that the commoa air is burned ia this
self-acting furnace, with evolutioa of
Intense heat Lorria Blodgett, ia
Light Heat and Power. .
Some Intsrestkts; Facts.
A queen bee lays from 10.000 to SO.
000 eggs in a year. It is estimated
that mo less than 200 different species
of caterpillars feed upon the oak. The
slower the growth of the oak the mere ,
durable the wood. Bees, beetlss
dragoii-flies. gnats, spiders, etc., mare
mlaute animalcules upon their bodies.
The roe of the perch, only half s
con-inoumd ia weight, has been foaad to
contain 280.000 errs. The larva of the
silkworm weighs, when hatched, abetit
LOOOthpartof arrain previous to its
frst asetamorphosk: it increases fS
grain, or 9.500 times its original
,i stress, and make a farther iaast ma
KaesisWtssJaeortsn twrssssthn
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PUMPKINS. FOR COWS.
Am Old-Time Food Which Is as Yalsahle
To-Day aa It Ever Was.
I am surprised so little is said about
pumpkins as an article of food for
dairy cowsC Perhaps our familiarity
.with this old-time food leads to its
neglect just as a farmer's- son goes
past the homespun beauty of a neigh
bor's daughter for the more .dashing
attractions of some city-bred miss,
only to see his error when it is too
late. Your correspondents teil us
about ensilage, hay, corn fodder, bran,
oats. corn. etc. sometimes they even
mention roots but never a word
about pumpkins; amd yet this old-time
food is one of great consequence.
It is easy of production, producing
immense returns both for the ground
occupied and for the labor expended.
It is relished by all kinds of neat
stock and by hog. It is nourishing
and healthful for them at all seasons.
but more especially so during the
early winter months, when they first
come on to dry food. Milch cows in
particular are greatly benefited by at
least one ' mess daily. It is laxative
and aatisorbutive just the thing
needed when otherwise dry food alone
is available. Stored in a cool place
that does not freeze very hard, they
can be kept in good condition till Feb
ruary. My cows have had one good mess
dally till about that time. Sometimes
this is varied for variety by packing
a barrel full of pieces of pumpkin and
thrusting a steam hose to the bottom,
turning on the steam and boiling till
soft They will then be quite sloppy,
and enough bran or corn meal is then
stirred in to take up the water, and it
is left over night or till cool enough
to feed. This is a very rich and whole
some mess, and one that fill soon
make its presence felt id the cream
can. Most people plant their pump
kins with their corn, and sometimes
get a very fair ctod. but it Is quite un
certain, and I doubt if it is the best,
way. I usually plant one or two
acres of dwarf wa? beans, which I use
in my canning lactory. Thee are
planted in drills with a common two-ho-se
corn planter, the rows being
three feet nine inches apart and they
are very thick in the row. After
planting the benns I go crosswise ol
the rows, and with a hoe plant pump
kin seed in about every third row, and
thee rows say ten feet apart In at
tending the beans the pumpkins are
also well taken care of. As the beans
are off the ground by the time the
pumpkins begin to run, and therefore
they can have their own way, they
give a full crop. More pumpkins for
your cows, brother dairymen, and
they will "rise up and call you
blessed." A. L. Potter, in Dairy
World.
CHINCH-BUG DISEASES.
The Destrnctlon of tho Fat by the Dis
tribution of Disease Germs.
Mr. C. P. Gillette treats this subject
In an interesting manner in Bulletin
No. S of the Iowa Agricu'tural College
Experiment Station. After referring
to the comparatively recent date at
which it became known that chinch
bugs were subject to disease, Mr.
Gillette refers briefly to Dr. Shimer's
observations on an epidemic in 1867
which .carried off the bugs so com
pletely that it was impossible to find
specimens for h's collection the fol
lowing year. Then came the observa
tions of Prof. Forbes on a similar
epidemic in Illinois in 1883. This was
a truly contagious disease, and is con
ducted from bug to bug by microscopic ,
germs, as smal-pox or yellow-fever is
conducted from man to man. These
are probably the only reports on
chinch-bug diseases before the present
season.
Tn his observations in .Iowa the
present season. Mr. Gillette details the
manner 'in which the disease work. '
nd the deadly effect which it has upon '
the bugs. His observation began Au-
gust s, when the bugs were quite
abundant and by the middle of October
almost no hugs were to be found: 'Ex
periments were made to determine the
possibility of making a. practical use
of the disease-germs by exposing ap
parently healthy bugs to them, and, as
was expected, the disease soon, ap
peared and destroyed most, of them.
"No one who knows the nature of
the disease." said Mr. Gillette, "will
doubt the possibility of introducing it
into localities where it has mot pre
viously occurred, but as it has proba
bly been in most pieces where the
bug have long been present it is ex-;
tremely doubtful whether the promis
cuous scattering of the germs would
be of any use. If 'the germs ef the
disease are already present; it would
be of no use."' and if the proper. atmos
pheric conditions are not present the
genns will not grow, no matter how
numerous they are. If, however, the
bugs have continued free from the dis
ease ia any locality in the State where'
they have been numerous the past sea
son, and where the necessary atmos
pheric conditions have been present
these places may be greatly benefited
sy the introduction of the disease
when the bugs are again numerous.
ChlcagoournaL
The lawn' should be seeded down
early in the spring. More seed in
proportion to the acreage is required
for seedlag the lawn than for amy
other purpose. -If the meet satisfac
tory resulto a secured, ft uneeesssry
to have a thick, even stand; and this
enavbs dome only by amine; plenty of
', A. woman never warns half so had
ly.to learn to ride tsorseback as .she
dees when she seas how seeoaring. n
nding habit is to a woman she dossa
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Borax is said to be a protectioa
against ants om plants.
To renovate an old orchard plow;
manure, prune, clean up and get in.
what may be considered a proper shape
for an orchard.
Put the finest and best manure in
the garden. Use the coarse manure on
corn. Endeavor, however, to have
the whole heap well rotted before
using.
It is estimated that every bushel
of hardwood ashes is worth at least
twenty-five cents, and they therefore
partially- remunerate for the cost of
the wood. The ashes should be s tored
in a dry place and covered, as they
draw moisture from the atmosphere.
There is an old rule about cooking
corn which holds good with regard to
'hominy: "Cook until it is done, and
then cook as long again.1' Hominy,
such as is now bought in tho market
put into plenty of salted boiling water
in a double boiler and cooked for one
hour, will perhaps approach to the
old-fashioned article.
The crops on the farm should be
grown to suit the market If wheat
does not pay, some other crop should
take its place. The crops that bring
the highest prices in proportion to
cost of productions should be grown,
and to do this every farmer should be
familiar with the market reports. By
comparing prices for a year much val
uable information can be de ived.
A paste that will adhere to white
washed and all plastered surfaces is
made as follows: Soften e ghteen
pounds' of finely-powdered bole in wa
ter; next boil one and a quarter
pounds of glue, adding to it the above
with two pounds of gypsum. The
whole is to be diluted to a thin paste.
When putting fine paper on old walls
it is well to coat them with a ground
paper, using this paste.
In domestic life there are faithful
and intelligent women who discrimi
nate between the beneficent purposes of
the home and its mere trivialities, and
who devote their lives to the fotmer,
and only their odd moments to the
latter; there are others so wrapped up
in showy furnishing, luxuriant sur
roundings and general appearances
that they lose sight of the truth that
the home exists for the welfare and
happiness of the inmates. Once a
Week.
VALUE OF SHEEP.
The Best Agency for the Renovation e
Worn-Oat Land.
Day by day it is manifest jthat a flock
of sheep is of very great value to a
farm and its occupant A late in
stance is that of a man who owns 120
acres, originally of medium fertility or
under. A few years ago he changed
from grain-raising to the sheep-business,
keeping between" 103 and 200.
His soil gradually improved until it
has reached a very high point Last
season he raised over fifty tons of ex
cellent clover hay. about 800 "bushels
each Of oats and ba ley. 1.200 bushels
ears of corn and 2,000 bushels of tur
nips and beets. His orchard increased
largely in productiveness and quality
of fruit and he gathered several hun
dred barrels of apples. He grows hot
house lambs, and from the wool and
Iambs of 100 ewes he realizes f 1,000.
besides the increase of a considerable
flock of keeping sheep. Last season
he added pig-raising, having as many
as eighty-five on hand at a time, which
he sold to his neighbors or fattened.
Ho grows only wheat enough for his
own use, keeps three horses, and' of
bovine kind only two cows.
He raises flat turnips on clover sod,
and some of them are nearly as large
around as a dinner plate. Turnip seed
is. sown with a grain drill, three
fourths of a pound of seed being mixed
with one hundred Dounds of commer-
cial fertilizer, and the drill set to sow
one hundred pounds to the acre.
Sheep are at the bottom of these ex
cellent results, and he has two neigh
bors farming on about the same line
and with gratifying success. His
sheep-fold is in the basement of a
barn, whe-e there is a pump, root-cutter,
and every desired convenlance for
supplying the sheep with water, roots,
hay and grain. The root cellar opens
into the sheep-fold, without s parti
tftion, and the warmth of the sheep
keeps the roots from freezing. Veg
etables designed for farai'y use are
also stored here, thus obviating all
malodors Tom decaying vegetables in
the dwslliag-honse cellar. The sur
face of the farm is very undulating,
but the kr oils produce as great crops
as the valleys and depressions. Galen
Wilson, UN. Y. Tribune."
Profitable Use of Apples.
Some of us are feediag our apples to
stock. I feed them to horses, pigs and
poultry. For the general purpose
horse of the farmer I know from ex
perience that apples are a valuable
food. I have had ho sea that were in
a very low" condition from worms en
tirely freed from this trouble by the
use oi appies, and my horses always
improve in the fall when running
among apple tree, where they ate all
they want I believe that a horse not
at hard work would do as well on 4
quarts of oaU-aad a peck of apples as
on a peck of oats. If this wsre so, it
would give apples a feeding value of
about 24 cenu per busheL How. if the
windfa'l and refuse apples are ef amy
value, wby-shoatt not good sound
fruit be. of still greater food value?
My pigs est apples when they don't
eatmeal. To ahewt 10 mens I feed 3 or
9 quarto of aeptss daily.
a little with the food. The hens
to fairly revel in thesm,E. H, Hntoh
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