MVrf.,""u.;v IT.. ,:. v. Air and 'unllsbt to Plant. The Illustration herewith, tnken from farm and Home, shows the consti'ii" tion of a support for raspberry bush es, tomato vines, etc. The corner punt are l'j to 2 Inches square and about 2 feet or more long, ns desired, auj sharpened so as to be easily pus'ied by hand Into the ground. Slats or cross pieces are of lath and two or mora feet long, to suit whatever Is to be trel llsed. By tine of something of this sort the vines or bushes are kept up off the ground so that light and air can freely circulate through and about the b-ise of plants, causing greater uroditctlve- A VINE OH HH81I SUPPORT. ness, better quality of fruit, and doing away with much 1or6, decay and Incon venience in gathering. With care, a score or two of frames will last for years, providing they are remoed at the close of the season and put awny under shelter. Bpraylnr Mixture. A spraying mixture, claimed to bo cheaper than purls green, is composed as follows: T'vo pounds white arsenic, eight pounds sal soda and forty pounds lime, the total cost of the spraying mix ture being 70 cents, or 3V4 cents per barrel ns a solution. The quantities mentioned will make 800 gallons of spraying mixture. Dissolve" the ar senic by boiling with carbonate of soda In two gnllous of water (ordinary wash ing soda), which mixture can be kept always ready for use. Boll in an old Iron pot for fifteen minutes, or until the arsenic Is dissolved. When wanted for use slake two pounds of lime and add forty gallons of water. Into this pour a pint of the arsenic mixture. This preparation will not burn the leaves of plants. It makes a milky-colored spray, which can easily be seen on the plants, and h not only cheaper than parts green, but more uniform In strength and fully as efficacious. For Chicken-Kntincr Ho -. A chicken catcher in a herd of hogs .Is most exasperating and expensive. One such will soon transform a whole -herd into ravenous . chicken eaters. Be ing troubled in this way I tried the following: A ' leather blind wide f enough to cover both eyes and I"itg enough to coiim down well over the face was cut BLIND FOR HOGS. from an old boot leg. The chicken thief was then caught, and pulling the ears forward, the top corners of the blind were fastened to them by means of pinchers and rings, such as are put in the snouts of pigs to prevent root ing. This blind will not prevent the hog from seeing his legitimate food, but It does prevent him seeing chick ens unless they are under his very nose, and then if he attempts pursuit the chances are that he brings bis noso in violent contact with the fence or some other obstruction. A few such lessons and he concludes that he !s no longer partial to chicken. A month of "leather specs" cured our most raven, ous thief, and by blinding only the ring leaders the whole herd was soon as docile as well behaved porkers should be. Orange Judd Farmer. Grow Medicinal Plant. Many medicinal plants can be grown with profit, as the demand for some kinds Is Increasing. Absinthe (worm wood) can be raised as far north as New England, and this country imports it from Europe. Saffron, which sells for $8 per pound, may be grown In near ly all sections. repperniint and spear mint find ready sale, and sage, which Is well-known to every farmer, is import ed, frequently selling at f 130 per ton. Then there are hoarhound, boneset, mandrake, blood root, pennyroyal, etc., which are regarded as weeds in some localities, all of which are largely used and bare a value In market. The Com ha of Fowla, It Is by closely watching the combs of fowls that the experienced poulterer can decide which are about to go into the moulting period and which there fore will require extra care and feed. It is a decided advantage to have the fowls begin moulting thus early, for such hens will be full feathered In fan and be good fall and winter layers. -1 . Such a hen has also begun laying early, so at lKth ends of the season she fur nishes eggs that bring the highest price. The liens that are laying most profusely In Juiy, especially those more than 2 years old, will moult late In the fall, and not begin laying again until eggs are extra cheap in the spring. Profit In Cowa. It requires about l.V) pounds of but ter per year to pay for the labor and feed devoted to a cow. The profit Is the amount produced nlove the propor- j tlon necessary to pay the expense. A j cow that produces 350 pounds of butter a year will give four times the profit j that will be derived from a cow pro-i duelng 200 po'inds of buiter per year.as the first 150 pounds must be charged to the cow ns an expense. It can I hi seen, j therefore, that one cow, giving 350 1 pounds of butter In a year, is equal, In the profit given by her, to four cows ' which produce 200 pounds each during the same time. .The one cow will take up less room than will four. These facts show where the profit from dairy ing Is derived. Whit Ornba ntH Strawberries. If, In plowing hind to prepare It for planting, a great ninny of the white or brown grubs are seen, there Is no use In plautlug It with strnwberries. The white gub almost always Infests a tim othy sod, the parent bug selecting such sod to lay her egg, as the bulb Just at the surface of the ground in the tim othy nlant is a favorite morsel with the grub. Many pieces of timothy are every your ruined by tills pest, but the loss of grass does uot Involve so much labor as where strnwberries are plant-t-d and cured for, only to be destroyed. Pntaeth'for Potato",, Totash Is the mineral that is most needed for the potato crop. But It is much better distributed as a top dress ing over the whole surface than applied with t.'ie seed potatoes In the hill. Tim potato toots very early in their growth till the soil between the rows. When mineral manures are applied In the hill, unless cure Is taken to mix them thor oughly with the soil, they mny eat lino the cut seed, and effectually destroy tlio germ. When used broadcast on ihu surface there is no danger of this. Gnt Hastening. Here Is a simple device for fasten ing a farm gate that can be made by anyone handy with tools. It consists of a piece of hard wood of any desired length and from two t o three Inches In width. This i s bung from one of the rails by four pieces of hoop iron, two on each GOOD GATE LATCH. side, fastened with bolts. Between them, for convenience in drawing the bolt back, is a handle. The wooden bolt works through a slot lu the post i and swings loose. It opens easily by merely pulling It back and fastens au tomatically, as the gate shuts by Its own weight, dropping Into the slot Ir the post, the opening being" beveled U allow It to enter easily. Feedin" Sheep at Pasture. The old proverb that the foot of the sheep Is golden Is scarcely true if the sheep have only the grass that grows in pasture as feed. But if fed grain ', .. 11 1 f .1 .it. tlmm .1-1, i 1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 r I Or Oil JIll'lll IU 1HILCU 11110 .....j are at pasture their excremeut will be very rich, and will increase fertility rapidly. Sheep do best on the natural grasses. They will soon ruin clover if allowed to eat it down, for they gnaw closer to the soil than any other domes tic animal can do. Farm Note. Thoroughness in cultivation Is essen tial. Bough broken lands are well adapted to sheep pasturing. Always select the largest and most growthy sows for breeders. Unless a cow Is a good breeder sho should not be kept on the farm. To meet low prices lessen the cost of production as much as possible. Mixed farming and stock raisins is best adapted to the average farmer. It Is poor economy to stack the hay or straw where tbe stock can run to It all summer. Lights in the rear of the horses is best for the eyes of the animals when in the stables. A good dairy cow will turn tb. extra feed into milk, while tbe poor one vlll convert It Into fat. A healthy, well-developed animal, male or female, may be expected to produce growthy stock. It Is not advisable with the average farmer to risk his whole dependence upon one kind of crop. To secure the best results from green manuring, turn the growth under when the plants are in full bloom. Given the run of a good pasture up plying pure water and keeping tbe quarters clean, are good preventives of bog cholera. With Improved machinery hay can be harvested and mowed at a com paratively low cost, and It makes a good winter feed. Cows that are giving milk may be greatly Injured by being driven rapid ly or chased by dogs in going to or from tlx pastures. Fanners' Union. CNTEnrmsE of orbat rim AMI MOM KMT Have, ere now, hud their current "turned wry," as Hamlet says, by mi atlack of dys liepsls. Naio)con failed to Improve hlit alvaiil age at Ausierllls in consequence, it in said, of Indigestion hroiiKht on bv some Indiscretion in eating. In order to avoid dyspepsia, l.iin from over Indulgence, mid precede the. meal by a wlncglassfiil of llniiutlur Hluinacii Hitter, more effective than any dietetic ill Improving the tone of the stomach, I.iver complaint, chills and fever, and rheumatism are annihi lated by the Bitten. In Rome there are few houses bear ing the number 13. Nearly all the bouses that should bear those figure are marked 12B or 14 A. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the cotirta our right to the exclusive line of the word "CASTOKIA," and HTCHKK'oCASTOKIA," an our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannli, Massachusetts, waalhe originator of "PirCHUR'SCAsrORIA," the aame that hat borne and doenow bear the facsimile signature of CH AS. It. FLUTCIIKR on every wrapper. This ii the original " PITCHER'S CASTOR! A " which has been used in the homes of the mothera of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that It la tkt kind you have alivays bought, and has the signature of CI1A9. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. Match $, 189J. BAMUEL PITCHKR, U.Q. The Lord Mayor's Itoba. The lord mayor of London is entitled to wear an earl's robe whenever a orowned bond visits the city. The pros, ent lord mayor had such a robe made for use at the recent jubilee festivities which cost him 500. A little thing happened down at the li-mie of Schilling's Best tea the other day that cost the firm a clean (200, md the most interesting feature of the matter is that they could have got out of paying it if they wanted to because it was a voluntary thins and no one expected them to do it. It seems that, in the earlier part of the missing word contest. A. Schilling & Co. promised $100 each to the two persons who sent in the largest number of Schilling's Best yellow tickets before June 15. It teems fair that the oonsumers of the tea should get those prizes. A grocer has a better opportunity for col lecting tickets; and then, too, lie makes a profit on the tea. But two grocers won the prizes, and A. Schilling & Co. paid the money. Now comes the funny part they wanted oonsumers to get $200, and were determined they should; - So they paid another $200 to the two consumers who had sent in the two largest numbers of tickets. ... ' That is handsome, to say the least A Botanical Clock. Among the botanical curiosities which have been found in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, lately much explored by naturalists, is a botanical clock. It is a flower which in the morning is white, at noon is red, and at night blue, and the alterations of color are so regular that the time of day oan be told from the tint of the flower. 5 It is well known that continued dark ness has caused the vision of animal to become partially destroyed. HOITT'9 SCHOOL. Nowhere are bovs better eared for and more thoroughly taught than at Holtt's School, Burl ingame, San Maieo county, :al. In charge of lrati. Hoitt, I'h. I), Reopens August luth. San Francitco Chronicle. The Bank of England was opened 203 years ago. . HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward tor any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Ha'U's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY it CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last lo years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business trasaetlnns, and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made hv their tirm. WEST A Trcax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldimo, Kinsan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tsledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act ing directly upon the Mooci ana mucous sur faces of the system. Price 7Sc. per bottle. Sold, tv all driifffflHts. Testimonials free. I Hall's family pills are the best. Football was a crime in England dur ing the reign of Henry VIII. I shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con sumption far and wide. Mrs. Mulligan, riumatead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, IH'Ji. The stargazers of the Mount Hamil ton observatory say that there are five hundred million burning suns in the milky way. TO MOTHERS OP LARGE FAMILIES In this workaday world few women are so placed that physical exertion is not constantly demanded of them In their daily life. Mrs. Pinkham makes a special appeal to mothers of large families whose work is never done, and many of whom suffer and suffer for lack of intelligent aid. To women, young r old, rich or poor, Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., extends ber invita tion of free ad vice. Oh, women I do not let your ' lives be sac- 1 fc. fi .riftfy Xrificedwhena W i.m 5k-word from Mrs. 1 W Pinkham, at the first approach of weakness, may fill your future years with healthy joy. Mrs. A. C. Buhler, 1123 North Al bany avenue, near Humboldt Park, Chicago, I1L, says: "lam fifty-one j-earsold and have had twelve children, and my youngest is eight years old. I have been suffering for some time with terrible weakness; that bearing-down feeling was dreadful, and I con Id not walk any distance. I began the nse of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash and they bare cured me. I cannot praise jnM medicine eaoturh." 1 r,itf s Macdonnld Hoot, mon: McDonnell OI'll not! V yez take me for a doiuuvd owl r ruck. "So, Mies Smith, all Is over bc-tweon tie?" "You've hit It." "Then give me back the presents I promised you." Sketch. Mr. Ipsteln Does dot novel end up ad, orodervise? Mrs. Ipweln It ends line! Eferybody geta rich in der hwt chapter. Iuek. "I awoke to find the house full of moke." "Gracious! And you didn't lose your hend?" "No; I held my uoso." "-Detrodt Journal. "Arthur, denr, have you spoken with father about our engngVineii'tV" "I can't find him anywhere he owe me some money." Ex. Dlbman Did your wnt-h top when you dropped it on the floor? Mugley Of course It did. Did you think it would go through? TitBlts. Minor Poet Ah, how do? Did you get my book I eent you yesterday? Hostess Delightful! I couldn't sleep till' I'd read It !-Piim h. He (symiMithlzlug with his bride, who has Just been stung) How Intelligent was that bee. my dear, to know that we're on our honeymoon! Judy. Gadzooks The Greeks might have saved thenwelves by a rapid odvance. Zounds They seemed to think they could save themselves better by a rapid retreat. . Teacher (angrily) Why don't you an swer my question, Bobby? Ills Brother Tommy (answering for him) Plwise, sir, he's got a peppermint In his speech. -Tit-Bite. Reporter That fellow who wanted his name kept out of the paper called in to-day. Oh, he was mad! Editor What about? Reporter It seems we kept It out.-Tlt-BM. "How la this, count, t.ltey say the stone In this ring you gave me is Imi tation?" "Oh. like enough. L never, was very strong in mineralogy." Hu morist leche Blatter. The Wife I think we ought to have daughter's voice cultivated, John, if It doesn't cost too much. TJte Husband It can't cost too much, my dear, If It wJll Improve It any. Puck. "Half the world," sagely observed Mr. Bill us, "never known what the other half Is doing." "That's generally true," retorted Mrs. Billus, eying hlin sharp ly, "as to the better half." Chicago Tribune. Fuddy Tou caJl money "stamps." don't you? Duddy Yes. Fuddy And money Is currency. So I suppose thnt when you speak of an elastic currency you refer to rubber stamps. Boston Transcript. She How funny that you should be a Presbyterian, while your wife Is an Episcopalian! He What makes you think she is an Episcopalian? She Didn't you say she was a conllrmed In valid? New York Press. "McGlbbs to a contemptible creature." "In what particular way?" "Well, he Is the kind of man who would send anoth er mau a Sunday newspaper without marking the article he wants him .o read." Chicago Times-Herald. Good Idea. Mrs. Tenspot-Isn't It odd that the encores are always much more enjoyable than the regular num bers on" the program? Mr. TensiKst Yes, It Is. I wonder why they don't sing the encores Awt? Judge. A scientist says that every healthy boy should be able to drop off to sleep In ten minutes. This does not mean office boye, who are expected to do the same thing In one and three-quarters minutes Philadelphia Inquirer. "You want to marry my daughter, oh?" said the practical man; "we..,. what provision have you made for the future?" "Oh, as to that," replied the suitor, "I'll Join the churcb right away. Philadelphia North American. Sqwildig I thought that baseball was not played in England? McSwllHgen It isn't. Squild1g-Then what is tltls diamond Jubilee tbey are making stu-h extensive preparations for In Londou? Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "Mrs. Hlggins Is still wildly In love with her husband." "Does she put the buttons in h!s shirts for him yet?" "No; but he told her he it up all night playing poker without any stakes and the believes hlm."-Detrolt Free Press. At the Intelligence Office. "Ilivc you any cooks that weigh 200 pounds?" "Goodness! What do you want with such a big one'" "Well, we would like one that won't be always trying to ride my wife's wheel on the sly." Detroit Free Tress. "You may talk as you like," said a solid citizen, "but there was one good thing about the gladiatorial lights of olden times." "What was that?" "The loser never bad a chance to talK to the papers and explain why he lost." Bos ton Herald. "Say," remarked the war editor, "I don't see how Turkey ever got her forces transported into Greece, do youT' "Certainly," replied the political editor; "she got bold of all the pasw. Ask me something tied." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. An Interpretation. "I wonder," said Mrs. Cumrox thoughtfully, "what that nice, old-fashioned lady means by put tint T. P. C on her eard." "That miia she Is going ewey," replied her daughter. "Oh, I see, and she wants ns to know that she la going to travel to a Pullman palace oaf." Washington $1,000" , Who will get it ? Schillings Best tea is not only pure but it is f because it is fresh-roasted. What is the missing word ? Get Schilling's Best tea at your grocer's; take out the Yellow Ticket (there is one in every pack?e); send it with your guess to address below before August 31st. One word allowed for every yellow ticket. If only one person finds the word, he gets one thousand dollars. IJ several find it, the money will be divided equally among them. Every one sending a yellow ticket will get a set of cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest Those sending three or more in one envelope will receive a charming 1898 calendar, no advertisement on it. Besides this thousand dollars, we will pay $150 each to the two personi who send in the largest number of yellow tickets in one envelope between June 15 and the end of the contest August 31st. Cut this out. You won't see it again tor two weeks. Bl Address: SCHILLING'S BEST TEA SAN FRANCISCO, CHEAPEST POWER. . Prussia's Amber Monopoly. The" working of amber in Prussia is a monopoly in the hands of a firm whic't owns the two best mines, tliePttlmniok en and Kruxtopelle. For the concession it has, according to a report from the -British- consul atDantzig, to pay to the German government a royalty of 650, 000 marks a year. It is reckoned, says the London News, that this tirm hits, up to now, paid no less than1 $1,000, 000 in royalties to the German govern ment. In addition to the output from the mines in 1895, a good deul of amber was picked up on the beach at the Pil Inn, in the province of East Prussia, being washed np with the seawoud dur ing the prevalence of northwesterly gales. The shore at Pillau after a storm is sometimes covered with a layer of seaweed three feet thick, among which the amber is found entangled. Men, women and children tind easy and lu crative employment in searching for the amber along this part of tiie amber coast. The people engaged in this pre carious work often earn $0 a day or more. In 1895 about 100 tons of raw amber came to DanUig to be worked up, as compared with 140 tons in 181)4. It is nearly all melted to make lac and varnish. The larger pieces 'are also made into beads, which are sent all over the world. The beads known to the trade as the Leghorn corals, are in strong demand. HusbIhii Railroads. Russia, with over 4,871, COO square miles more than the United States, lias 158,000 miles less of railroads, says the Boston Courier. Most of the en gines burn naphtha oil for fuel, with excellent results. This oil is the ref use from the tirst refining and costs about 40 cents per barrel. This oil is also used for general lubricating pur poses. None of the engines have hells, but instead they have two whistles. The engines are finely painted, the wheels red, the frame black, jacket and cab green, witli a fine black stripe; the inside of cabs nearly white, or cream color. The speed of freight trains is limited to 20 miles an hour, and the fast express is limited to 85 miles per hour. In switching and j making np of trains all signals are' given by sound that is, the switchman has a tin horn which he blows and. the engine driver is obliged to repeat this signal by whiBtle before he goes ahead. Vhen and engine stops the en gineer is required to give three short whistles. Hlngular Effects of Cold. A bar of lead cooled to a point about 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, ac cording to the experiments of M. Pictet, gives out, when struck, a pure musical sound. Solidified mercury, at the same temperature, is also resonant, while a coil of magnesium wire vibrates like a steel spring. The Kiel canal is lighted over 82 miles by electricity, and is the longest distance in the world lighted continu ously in that way. DRUNKARDS CAN BE SAVED Theeravina lor drills: Is a nlseae. a marveliios cur lor which has been discovfcre' '-ailed "Antt J." which makes the Inrbrlst loss ail taaM for strong drink without knowing why. as It cao be given secretlr lu tea. coffee, soup and the like. tf "Anti-Jug" Is not kept by your druasist send one dollar to the Kenova Chemical Co., (St Broad way. New York, and It will be sent postpaid. In plain wrapper, with full directions bow to give secretly. Infonnatloai mailed !. The mean temperature of the earth taken as a whole, is 60 degrees F., and the average annual rainfall is SO inches. IslPTt RE and PILES cored: no pay an t til cured, send for book. ls. Mi.xsniLB PorrBRniLO, 33S Market SL, Baa Francisco. Ill HERCULES GAS ENGINE WORKS State Agricultural College.., OF OREGON SOIKXTIFIC FQVII'MRNT THK HKMT I THIS NTATK. Military training by 1'iiltcil States oflWer. Twentv-two instructors. HiirroumlltiKs healthful ami moral. 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