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CORN DRYING HOUSE.
Dfurrlplion of One Tlmt II nn Hern
I »t*il >urrr»»fnllj in Ohio for
Several *en*ona.
Some time ago an inquiry was
made about a street < * rn drying
house. 1 have for several years 1 e n
raising sweet corn, under contract,
and the accompanying illustration
will convey sotnv idea of tny drying
house. It is also tny granary, the
upper floor containing grain Inns on
one side. The lower floor and south
side of upper floor are arranged for
sweet corn. The most essential part
of drying sweet corn is to have a
IDEAL CORN DRYING HOI SE
fre- circulation of air. Therefore
1 cut doors through, as shown, 'll.esc
doors are on both sides and < n back.
They are hung on hinges and can
be opened and shut when needed.
The sweet rorn should be spread in
layers, therefore we use racks made
of 1x3 inch slnts, placed 20 inches to
two feet apart, one above the other.
If the corn is green and milky when
husked, it sloatild he put on the racks
very thin, not more than two or
three ears in depth, and turned fre
quently; but if it is more matured
and the kernels are glazed, it may
be put on thicker. I ran dry 500 or
600 bushels in this building.—D. L.
Perkins, in Ohio Farmer.
CLEANING THE EGGS.
No Other I.title .lull Thai fan lie Done
Around Ihe Farm 1 lelilu Heller
Cnah Heaiulla.
It is remarkable how many soiled
eggs may be seen in the country
sti res and elsewhere. Many make
no attempt to clean them and many
more do not know how to do it prop
erly when they make the attempt.
Stained and smeary eggs hurt the
file to a marked degree, as it is not
i i ly a mutter of tastefulness, but it
giv- the eggs a stale look.
Eggs all of one color and perfect
ly clean make an attractive appear
ance and will readily bring several
cents more per do/-n than a dirty
lot, particularly when quality goes
with appearance and the one is gen
erally an indication of the other. An
egg is improperly cleaned when it
is wet too much and not rubbed dry
with a dry cloWi. Some, when they
ste spots of dirt on eggs put them
in a pan of water and wash them
like potatoes. There is. on th fresh
ly laid egg, a mucilaginous covering
which gives it a velvety appearance
peculiar to new eggs. Water re
moves this, making the egg have an
older appearance and destroying its
keeping qualities, as this covering
makes the shell impervious to air.
An egg, then, if It is not much soiled,
should merely be moistened where
Necessary and rubbed dry. If the
blemish is in the nature of a stain, a
li-ttle powdered scouring brick will
help, and if this is not effective vine
gar may be used in addition. In this
-way any stains may lie removed from
an egg. Sometimes they have to be
put iu water, but do not do it unless
it is necessary, and then rub dry
afterwards. If tb.i- is not done they
will look soiled and dingy. l'ggs
should Vie collected twice or more
times a day.—G. Davis, in Ohio
Farmer.
Halid I |> Weal, Colonics.
Instead of allowing the b< . * to
swarm it is better to build up the
weak colonies by transferring brood
comb to the depleted hives. Now is
the time to attend to these details,
while the season is i pen for work, so
as to allow time for the bees to in
crease in number* am Jay in stock for
winter. It is folly to have the b< es of
the strong colonies swarm as long as
there are ary that are weak. If this is
Hot eonsidered the better mode then
t lie s t rot g colonies in ay he allowed to
reb the weaker. In which case the two
colonies will become as one and both
bt hentfitec, but before making t (v\
1 iv es s< e that all the hives are full at d
tip to the complement, both in l ei s
and honey, am it will be a saving of
1 me a ml bet s.
The Modern Potato Planter.
The pototo planter of to-day would
make a farmer of a generation ago
sit up and rub his eyes. It requires
that tlie potatoes be supplied, but
will do all the rest of its own initi
ative. It picks th“ potato up and
looks it o'er -or seems to cuts it
into halves, quarters or any desired
number of part-, separates the e\e.
anti removes the seed ends. It plants
whole potatoes or parts thereof, as
desired, as near together or as far
apart as the judgment of the farmer
tut the driving sea* suggests. Having
.•dropped the seed if covers it. fertil
izes it, tucks it ill like a child put
to bed, and paces off the next row
with mathematical accuracy.—Farm
ers’ Voice.
TREATMENT OF SCOURS.
By TaLlnac Timely I'rern nt ion* Oil.
■ Itlrm l>lr I.iim Vnxinu Ihf'l’ln
tun Be Avoided.
When little J'ip> get the scours, give
a heaped tea spoonful of copperas to
the sow in ht r swill aid feed a little
lighter, says Texas Stock .1' urnal.
After the first day. if it is not cured,
g-i\e a sect i <: dose the follow ing' morn
ing. 1 hate never seen this fail where
given when pig’s begin ti scour, but
1« t the scours run on from three day*
to a week and they will likely be be
yond control. As the pig's pet old* r
provide a place where they can pet all
the shelled corn or car corn they want,
clean out all they leave every morning
and give to ( Idcr hops. (iive piggy
fresh corn. Sprinkle the floor where
little pig’s eat with air-slacked lime oc
casionally. As the pips pet a little
older and want swill mix the swill of
clear, shorts a little oil meal, with
sweet milk and water, and add a tea
spoonful of limewater f*>r each pip,
which should be increased to a table
spoonful as the pig's pet older. Fe* d
this when they pet their corn. lie
sure their troughs are kept clean. If
they are acc* ssible to the old sow they
will not leave enoug’h to sour. Con
tinue limewater until the pigs are five
or six mi nth - old. Feed nothing’ sour.
If milk should be the least lit sour or
tainted * ven. throw it away if you have
no fattening hops ti feed it to. The
pig’s will easily g** t along w ithout milk
for one feed, while the dcse of sour
milk might set the pig’ l»aok for a
monlh or two. As to the limewater. it
is easily made bx putting a piece of tin
rlackcd lime in an earthen jar fir
xvooden pail. Put a chunk about the
si/e of a f|unrt cup in a txvo-pallon jar
and fill it xxith xvater. When lime is
all slacked and xxater gets clear, dip
off xxater and threw first axvay, refill,
and xx hen this is clear dip off the scum,
when limewater xxill be ready. Don’t
use any tin or iron xesse! for limexva
ter. You can keep filling and using i nt
of this a month hefi re you need to add
any lime. Don't rile it or stir; only
use the clear xvater.
HANDLE COLTS GENTLY.
I- Ir«t 1 lilnjt to Tern-li n Younir Home
l« till* Mpnninu of the Two
M »ril« Ho noil \\ lion.
Freaking colts to harness and
work, care and patience are needed,
v- per a 11 v with those of a ncrvuus
! temperament. Fv all means avoid
overloading them or working until
very tired, as these conditions have
more to do in making balky horses
than any other one thing. When
overloaded, or worked almost to the
limit of endurance, and a colt once
stops of its own free will, it is lia
ble to do so again. This usually en
rages the driver and he often uses
the whip or other severe means be
fore the animal is rested, and trou
ble is the result.
The vt^ry first thing to teach a
young horse is the meaning of the
two words go and whoa. The word
whoa should be taught first, as most
colts will go without much urging,
lo have a colt stop instantly at the
word is of the greatest importance.
Don t Use two or three Word-, such
us stop or stop Tony, or whoa boy.
Speak out plainly and distinctly the
word whoa. In after years these
combination words can be used, or
even a quick jerk on the lines can
be taught as the signal to stop, or
even go. as von desire. With colts
use only safe nni strong harness.
Do n<*.f allow them to get awav from
you when harnessed, or even when
tied. It is a trick they do not soon
forget ami many try it again.—Or
ange Judd Framer.
COMMON SENSE HINTS.
Swap your dogs fur pigs.
Sharp tools make work easy.
Don't think you know it all. Your
neighbor may have an idea »< rth two
of yours.
buying a machine, when you haven't
the means to make shelter for it, isn't
economy.
Have ideas of your own. After hear
ing advice, if 1 wt convinced that uni
are wrong, put them into practice.
I he extension of the electric car lire
is destined to enlarge the limits of tha
city and to increase the r umber of one,
two. five ai d ten-acre farms at the i \
peuse of flats and tenement houses.
The suburban In me will bring light
and hopi to miilii tis of children. \V.
.T. Dry an.
An advisory board, to be appointed
by farmers' institutes, and to be com
posed of men if widest experience, to
whom could he referred difficult ptob
i lions ci nneeted w it h t he bush css man
agement of the farm, would prove a
iioosti.il to inefficient, inexperienced
and youthful fillers of the soil. ,1. If.
Wat si n. in Farm and Home.
LIGHT PORTABLE FENCE.
II Is simple In Construction anti n|
\ nlue on Fnrins \\ here sheep
Are Kept.
1 give following deseript ion for mak
ing 1" rtable fences, which arc used on
the farm for sheep with success. Take
r-1 r" .. ■ - » -ms
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FENCE FOR SHEER FARM.
four boards right fret long or as
long as wanted, si\ boards as high as
wanted, and put together as shown in
cut. Make as muck as vrantet ; i». j%
Is put together by slipping right end,
as shown its out. into the other part of
the fence.—Cochrun E. Brat-lay, i«
Epitomist.
GENUINE “WASH LADIES.”
How Two < hlraiio tlatrr* H hn II«<1
to Korn Tlirlr Own l.iv Ink *l»d*
Hot It Knila Jlfft.
Among ttic lucrative and very pri
vate sources of income discovered by
bread winning women none has proved
more interesting and profitable than
that of dainty laundry work. Two
women, si*ters, who occupied a tiny
apartment and found themselves sud
denly obliged to earn their own wop
port, discovered to their dismay that
their only remarkable talent "as n
profound knowledge of the high art of
clear starching, luce cleaning and fine
ironing. Even this accomplishment
didn’t look exactly valuable until a
well-to-do friend volunteered to send
them all the exceedingly fine laundry
work that their hands could do and
their kitcht n could accommodate. The
sisters agreed to make the experiment,
and the first week from her own ward
robe and that of a few interested inti
mates the helpful friend sent them five
dozen very fine handkerchiefs, a
dozen or two sets of sheer lawn and
lace cuffs and collar bands, and a set
of rarely beatriful doilies. The laun
dry ladies took the stock under con
sideration, boiled, blued, starched and
ironed the articles, and were sur
prised at the profits of the week's
w ork.
At the end of three months their
fame had spread far and flatteringly
in aristocratic circles. Not only were
they overtaxed with orders, but they
were able t<> raise their prices and em
ploy a couple of assistants to do the
heavy labor and a boy with a push
cart to gather up and deliver the or
ders. With handkerchiefs, lace collars,
cuffs, doilies and small pieces of extra
fine underwear they also admitted
babies' clothes until now their very
exclusive little establishment is
known best as the Babies’ Laundry.
No expert French or Swiss olean?rs
can starch or iron caps and bibs, pet
ticoats and fine white dresses, as do
these two American spinsters, who are
now busy training a couple of good
country girls to follow in their foot
steps and devote artistic thought and
care to the get-up of the dainty gar
ni ent s.
These genuine wash ladies have now
been practicing their new-found pro
fession for a full year. They have dis
covered that it not only suffices to
support them in comfort, but at pres
ent tempts them to expand their very
modest plant into larger quarters,
where they will be able to reap even
tually the really ample profits that are
waiting them in t his pure!\ feminine
enterprise.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
OLD MEXICAN VASE.
The Moat Mnsrnlticcnt Specimen of An
cient American Ceramics So
Fur lllacut rml,
Among the strange and valuable ob
jects which have been recently in
stalled in the Mexican hall of the
American Museum of Natural History.
New York, of which Mr. Marshall H.
Sat i lie is curator, is a wonderful terra
cotta jar, designed and decorated in
imitation of a turkey. This is con
sidered the most magnificent speci
men of ancient American ceramics so
far discovered.
Besides the striking and artistic
turkey head handle, the most extraor
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AX ANCIENT AMERICAN VASE.
dinary feature of the jar is its orna
mentation of solid gold leaf, with
which it was profusely decorated in
former times, many layers of which
si ill remain on the jar. It is consid
ered to he a priceless example, illus
trating the culture anil •wirkmanship
of that mysterious civilization which
flourished a thousand years ago in
Mexico.
The jar is thought to have been a
funeral or votive offi ring, says the
New York Herald, which was one of
the essential mortuary rites of the
people of that time. It- age cannot
be accurately statin, but it probable
reaches back for a thousand years or
more. It was found by Carl I.nn
holt/ during one of his exploring ex
peditious. It came to light while dig
ging in a private garden in ihe City
of Topic, which had evidently been
in remote times the site of some tem
ple or wealthy burial place.
Two skeletons were unearthed.
Around the neck of one were fount
26 balls of solid gold, also a large
breastplate ornament of gold.
! SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM.
—
If la n <nli|prt In Which thr ll"««»*
nhtu of Every Civilised t ouu
try Are l»ec|»l> Interested.
_
The servant girl question, while
••.-ettleu" time anti time again upon
paper, is still a ten live issue among
those who are most vitally interested
—the housewives of the country. In
America it is said that the lack of
good help at reasonable wages is the
cause for so many people liv ing in flats
and hotels, tint! there is no immediate
prospect of a change in this direction,
* as good domestic set cants are becom
ing more and more c'ifflcult to obtain.
In view of this fact, it is interesting to
look at the question as it is handled in
other lands. Great liritain claims to
be the best oountry in the world for
good servants, from both points of
view. A leading English journal states
that "England’s greatest industry is
domestic service.”
The statement sounds untrue, and
yet the returns of the board of trade
RUSSIAN MAIDS ARE HUMBLE.
vouch for 1.TOO.000 female domestic
servants in England and Wales, as
against 1.400.000 men engaged in min
ing. while farming lags far behind and
the rest of the trades are nowhere.
Anti there is no fuss. All the scrub
bing of floors, cooking of meals and
making of bet's are done without any
of the banners, processions, oratory,
strikes or lockouts of other employ
ments.
The ‘‘servant problem” vexes the
soul of many an English housewife,
but to learn the value of the British
domestic one must go abroad. In the
households of the czarina of Russia,
the Herman empress, the queen of
Sweden and Xorwav and the young
Queen Helena of Italy, the English
nursery governess j.s a pov^er behind
the throne, and pretty nearly every
reigning sovereign of Europe seems to
have been nursed and taught by an
English ntaid before he passed on to
the throne.
Hut with till the foreign demand for
English mains, there are conditions in
many countries from which the most
daring would shrink.
Even a downtrodden “stop-gap"
wrould not go to France at the French
wages of i.'a a year for the good do
mestic or the fourpenee an hour of
the visiting' maid, who corresponds in
Paris with our Saturday charwoman.
The French maid is very clever, and
if she can get permission to jtav the
weekly hills, collects five per cent,
commission from all the tradesmen.
Hut English wages would seem to her
a fortune. Only in vv i alt hy households
has she it chance to get plump.
Rural England scarcely knows •uch
tragic poverty as that which drives
women from many parts of Europe to
abandon their own children and set k
employment as nursemaids in the
cities.
The mountain women of the Pyre
nees have a uionopi lv of nursing the
children (,f • he rich in Madrid, the girls
frotn the valley of the Spree supply
the like want in lb rlin. and lireton or
Norman vvomtn are the nurses of
Paris, while Montenegrin peasants
swarm to Pome. In Paris one mav
know the nursemaid’s prosperity In
the length and splendor of her eap
ribbons, trailing to the heels, and in
the other capitals they wear beaul ifvil
peasant costumes. These “costume
nurses." however they may have suf
fered by the wrench which tore them
from their native districts, have a very
good lime in service. P.y doctor’s or
nets the "nurse" must not be crossed
or com rno ,cted. so rules both her mis
tress and the household with iron
rigor, making.Jiers. If as disagreeable
as she pleases. Site adopts the chil
dren. who are barred by etiquette
from knowing their own mother ex
cept as a visiting stranger.
The quaintest < f all dottiestie service
is in Pussia. where the peasants have
only lately been released from slavery
and for fear of starvation in winter
flock to the houses of the nobles, w lo re
they smash the crockery in grateful
return for mere board and lodging.
The Pussiun lady, always merciful to
the poor, finds her house overrun by
useless but bumble retainers with
-warms of eliil. i>on. and when she
hopes to rest there i- sure •(. be a for
lorn maid scratching the door like a
little rat because she dare not knock.
To stop the scratching she is admit
ted, then, falling on her hne,-s. kisses
the foot of the mistress, pleading w ith
tears that 'he did ft knew it wh*
wrong to boil potat.es in a silver
dish.
As to the upper servants, they march
into the most private rot.ms. disdain
ing to ki < k at the ( r. and. if ,y
gm-i is dre-sing. the maid thinks
nothing of taking a short cut through
the room rather than go ’round by the
passage. If the guest is displeased
they will abjectly kiss bis hand.-, won
. ering what on earth has put him out
..f his temper.—Cincinnati Cciminercial
1 Tribune.
^nt Qnalifird.
Young lawyer—Madam, you need some
ene to take (are of your property and pro
tect your interc-ts.
>’ c Y. ung man. I've just g- t mart ed.
"Ye- I know your husband.”—Detroit
Free Press.
\ntnrnl M 1 * lug.
"I cud finish de churnin'after me break
fast, mum. Dis work gives yer an appetite
fer breakfast."
“\e-; but I'm afraid breakfast may not
give you an appetite for woik."—Puck.
A Woman's Dark.
Dublin. Midi.. June 2Htb.—To the many
Women who suffer w it it weak back and pains
and tired feelings in the small of the back,
tlie experience of Mrs. Fred Chalker of this
place will be interesting and profitable.
Mrs. Chalker had suffered1 a very great 1
deal with these back pains and although
‘he had tried many things, she could find
nothing that would relieve her. The pain
kept on in spite of all she could do.
At last she chanced to read the story of !
another lady who had suffered with the
backache, and said she had been cured bv a
remedy called Dodd’s Kidney Pill-, and Mr.-.
Chalker thought she would try the same
thing.
After the first two boxes had been taken
accenting to directions, she big.in to feel
some better, and she kept on till at last she
was cured.
Her pains are all gone, and she is very
grateful. She says: "Dodd’- Kidney Pills
helped me greatly, and I w ill always recom
mend them as a cure for Pain in the Hack.”
NV hat a good w rid tti.s would be if all
nii n uid w i,at they boast of.- t i.a ago Jour
nal .
Lndiea Can \\ ear hlniri
One -ize smaller after n-tiig Allen’s Foot
Kase. A certain cure : i -wi den, sweating.
Lot, aching feet. At all Drugg.st.*. 25c. Ac
cept i.o substitute. '11 al package FREE.
Auui t s-. .\. F. Olm-ted, Le lb y, N. V.
Experience take* dreadfully high school
wages, hut he teacae* like no ot.er.- l nr
ly le.
*Ktp*i the Conch
and works i ff the cold. Laxative Bromo
Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cents
Never advertise your troubles. If you
hate bowlegs, don't wtar stuped trousers.
—C hicago Journal.
Piso’s ( ure for Consumption i* an infalli
ble medicine for i-. ugti* and cold*.—N W.
tjamucl. Ocean drove. N .1 . Feb. IT, 1900.
College-bred is sometime* a four year*'
loaf.—Ripon College Days.
Opinm and I.Minor llahita Cored.
Book free. B. M Woolley, M U , Atlanta,Ua.
A show of daring oft conceals great cow
•rdice.—Lucan
noroia i umors Cured*
Note the result of Mrs.
Pinkham’s adv ice and medicine
“ Some time ago I wrote to voudl
bribing my symptoms and asked v,
advice. You replied, and I folMw^
all your directions carefully and .
day I am a well woman. to"
“The use of Lydia E. Pinkh »»«•.
Vegetable Compound em , ‘
pel led the tumor and strengthen^
my whole system. I can walk
now. ue*
“ Lydia E. Pinkliam’s v«r».
table Compound is worth fiveTT
lars a drop. I advise ail women w£'
arc afflicted with tumors or femai
trouble of any kind to give it a faio
trial." —(Signed) Mas. E. F H.»
2o2 Dudley St.. (Roxbury) Ro3t<JQ]
Mass. — f5000 forfeit if origin af aV ,
proving genuineness cannot be produced.
Mountains of gold could not
purchase such testimony
take the place of the health
and happiness which Lydia V
Pinkham’s Vegetable < oinnJunri
brought to Mrs. Hayes. 0
Such testimony should be accepted
by all women as convincing evident,
that Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vege
table Compound stands without a
peer as a remedy for all the distress
ing ills of women ; all ovarian troubles
tumors; inflammations; ulceration!
falling and displacement of the womb
backache; irregular, suppressed or
painful menstruation. Surelv the
volume ami character of the testimo
nial letters we are dally printing in
the newspapers can leave no room for
doubt in the minds of fair people.
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