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Homemade HiiiKes. One frequently needs a groat number of small hinges In making chicken and other coops. The two sketches given herewith show homemade hinges that are better than leather and cheaper than the hardware dealer's steel butts. The one shown first is made of screw efes, inserted with a round rod of wood SCREW EYE 1IINOI5. or wire running through them. Screw eyes come In all sizes so that almost any strength of hinge can thus be made. The two eyes can be placed close to gether and wired with flue wire if de aired. Occasionally a bit of hard wood and a few screws will make a very ser viceable hinge, attached as shown in lie second picture, which tells Its own story. Have the wood stout enough so STRAP II1NGK. that the screws will not split It, and use round-headed screws for the pivot If possible. New England Homestead. Apple Pomuce as Feed. There in considerable nutriment in pomace as It comes from the mill. Stock will cat It quite readily If fed before it begins to ferment. This, however, it does very soon If exposed to the air. Consequently It is best to place the pomace in airtight barrels or hogsheads, so as to keep air from It, aud cover the pomace with something that will hold down the carbonic acid gas and prevent Its escape as It forms. This is really eusilnglng it. The pom ace Itself has not nutritive value to aiake tills worth while. Its chief value la Its succulency, aud It should be fed with grain, hay or meal, so as to give the proper proportion of nutrition. When put up in air-tight barrels and kept slightly below freezing tempera ture there will be no more fermenta tion In the pomace than there Is In the silo, and It can be used till late In the winter. Windbreak for the Driver. Drivers in winter often suffer severe ly and unnecessarily from the cold winds. Returning home without a load the wind has a chance to blow .upon them unhindered. Have two small stakes aud four holders for them, as shown In the sketch. Provide a stout piece of duck and sew rings to it as sug gested. A small glass with Its wooden frame can be Inserted, and two small openings made for the reins. If the wind Is In front, at cither side or at the driver's back, he has simply to change the stakes and his sheet of duck to es cape Its fury. When not In use the sheet can be folded, with the glass lu- niilVER'S WINDBREAK ON SLED. side, aud placed in the box used as a seat Such a contrivance will save much suffering and can be had at a very slight cost. Orange Jutld Farmer. Why Fattening tock F.at Htraw. Domestic animals like variety in feed as much as docs man himself. Possi bly they are more partial to variety than are men and women, because the taste of animals Is less vitiated. A fat tening steer or sheep which is fed highly nitrogeuous food will eat a good deal of bright grain straw, so as to sup ply the proper proportion of carbona ceous nutrition. When animals aro fed corn, less sitraw will be eaten, as the com ki Itself chiefly starch, which Is only another form of carbon. For sheep that are fed beans and bean straw, the straw of wheat or oats will be eaten almost as readily as hay. It la needed to prevent the nitrogenous ration being too concentrates. Ordering Norrj Mock. To make sure that an order can be filled It should be sent In at as early a date as possible. It Is best to order for spring delivery In the early winter. The order will be filled, and the rule in all nurseries is first come first served. In the North all nurserymen take up their A- out-of-door stock early, and hill It in so as to b able to fill orders from the South during the winter season. This is really much better than taking stock from nursery rors. When the trees are hilled In and properly protected from frost their roots will begin to start be fore winter is over, and they can be planted much more safely than stock recently dug. Corn on One Acre. How much corn will an acre of land produce? The Illinois State Board of Agriculture offered prizes for the larg est crop on one acre, and twelve per sons succeeded in raising over one hun dred bpshels each. The first prize was won by Mr. John Powers, with a yield of 1(50 bushels per acre, Mr. E. S. Furs man coming second with 100 bushels. The next ten persons produced, respec tively, 150, 144, 143, 142, 110, 110, 108, 103, and two others 100 bushels each, the average of the twelve being 128Vj bushels per acre The best fertilizer for corn was conceded to be a previous crop of clover, depending upon deep and early plowing, fine seed bed and shal low but thorough cultivation. Experiments with. Fertilizers. The New York experiment station made some experiments In the use of fertilizers on potatoes, twenty-two plots being tested, on which fertilizer was applied at the rate of from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds per acre, two plots receiv ing 1,500 pounds per acre and one plot received no fertilizer at all. The 1,000- pound application Increased the yield over the unfertilized plot 48.4 bushels per acre the first year and 39.0 bushels the next season. The 2,000-pound ap plication Increased the yield only 4.4 bushels over the 1,000 application of the first year and 14.1 bushels the next. The tests demonstrated that the use of over 1,000 pounds of fertilizer per acre would be at a loss. Take the Cow on Trial. When purchasing a cow always en deavor to take her on trial. No one can judge of the capacity or characteristics of a cow by appearances. Pure bred stock, however, Is more uniform than scrubs. A cow may be a hard milker, a kicker and her milk may be deficient in solids or fat. No one sells a good cow unless compelled, and the pur chaser takes risk In buying. Every cow brought on a farm should be kuown to the purchaser, an she may have dis ease or some other fault. Protector for Shrubs. A convenient method for protecting rose bushes and many small shrubs Is shown herewith. All barrels that have lost both heads are saved and used for this purpose. Two small stakes are driven down, and a string attached, as shown In the sketch, to keep the wind from blow- lug them over. Straw Is then put Inside about the bush, making very warm aud wind-tight winter quarters. A board, or a piece of burlap, can be tacked over the top to support the weight of the snow. If desired. Cottonseed Meal for Fertilizer, It Is told In the New England Home stead that a New Hampshire farmer has proved beyond doubt that cotton seed meal Is superior to phosphate as n fertilizer on light, warm soil. He uses less of the meal than of phosphate In a drill, and has raised from 2K to 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre and the heaviest crop of silo corn ever growu in his locality. Mixed with hen manure and ashes, the meal has proved excellent when seeding dowa, A Hen's Villi Production. About 150 eggs per year Is estimated as the production of a hen, If the flock Is small aud well cared for, but with large flocks an average of 100 eggs per hen for one year Is about correct, as dis ease, lice aud mismanagement cause loss. The fowls on farms give larger profits In proportion to capital repre sented than larger stock, but are more neglected, and, therefore, do not give as large profits as could be derived froui them. , Preparation for Winter. Summer farming Is but a preparation for winter. Food Is cheaper In summer, but prices are lower. While the trs ture Is a valuable aid to the dairyman, H Is sure to cheapen price at times when grass Is abundant, the market being reguluted by the supply. The best dairymen grow crops for nse on the farm In winter, preferring to feed their produce at the barn and convert It Into milk and butter In winter, when higher prices rule. Cement. If yon have a cement floor with breaks that must be mended, don't ex pect to get the new cement to adhere to the old without chipping out all loose part of the old, cleaning It all out carefully and soaking It well with wat er. Then the new work will be good and stay good in connection with the old. Potatoes to lie Higher. The average per acre of potatoes for ISO 7 Is less than seventy bushels, and prices will be much higher than for several year. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Notes Callinc the Wicked to ttepentance. WHATEVER tlie heart does none wen. i ' . .. 7 tfs Failure is the guide that often leads us to suc cess. Nothing can cheat us like our own selfishuess. You cannot give a man a good c h a r a c t er; he must make it himself. Can any good come out of Chicago! Just as much as is put into It. Honor your wife and your honey moon will last a life time. Put out a fool's eyes and h- wtJI saj that the world is blind. Heaven is not altogether like society; fewer people want to get Into It. What a world this will be when all the children are as well cared for as the cattle and pigs. The devil likes to hear the man talk In church who treats his mule better than he does his wife. Were the Golden Rule enforced by some competent authority what a wave of commotion would rock the world. "All things work together for good to them that love God." Even the devil had to work with all his might to help double Job's riches. INTERPRETED LAW. The use of the words "I hereby as sign the within note" is held In Markey vs. Corey (Mich.). 30 L. It. A. 117, in sufficient to prevent one who signs his name to such a statement on the back of a promissory note from being held liable as an indorser. On the other hand, it Is held, in Spen cer vs. Halperu (Ark.), 30 L. It. A. 120, that one is not liable as an Indorser where he places over his slguature the words "I hereby transfer my Interest in the within note." With these cases are collected the other authorities on the liability of the assignee of a prom issory note as nn indorser. The fact that a train was running at high speed in violation of law aud In breach of the promise of the engineer made to a boy who Intended to jump off is held, in Howell vs. Illinois Central Railroad Company (Miss.), 30 L. It. A. 545, Insufficient to render the railroad company liable for Injury to the boy, when he attempted to get off, knowing the danger. Negligence in pointing a gun at an-, other and pulling the trigger is held, In Bahel vs. Manning (Mich.), 30 L. R. A. 523. to be unaffected by the fact that the person doing It had used the ordi nary means himself of unloading the gun and satisfied himself that It was unloaded. But the fact that the person Injured failed to protest or get out of the way when he saw that the gun was about to be snapped and had time to do so was held to constitute such contribu tory negligence as would preclude his recovery of damages from the other. An aged woman riding in a funeral procession in a carriage driven by her daughter-in-law, when it was struck by a street car at a crossing. Is held, In Johnson vs. St. Paul City Railway Company (Minn.), 30 L. R. A. 580, to bo not chargeable with negllgeuce, al though she did not. look or listen for approaching cars, but relied entirely upon the driver. A conveyance to a railroad company, releasing all damages sustained or which shall be sustained by reason of the "construction, building or use" of the railnytd Is held. In Fremont, E. & M. V. Ry. Co. vs. Harllu (Neb.), 3(1 L. R. A. 417, Insufficient to preclude the grantor from recovering damages for the negligent maintenance and opera tion of the road; but the release Is treat ed as equivalent In this respect to a judgment of condemnation. An Ugly Missile. Lord Salisbury still keeps as a sou venir in a cabinet at Hatfield an ugly looking stone of over a pound in weight, with which the window of a carriage In which he was seated with his two daughters was smashed at Dumfries on the evening of Oct. 21, 1884. His lordship had been delivering a series of political speeches In Scot land, and in the streets there was an attempt at rioting. The occupants of the carriage were, fortunately, unhurt, but the ladle took the missile homo with them. Wouldn't Ho Insulted. "That Is a curious custom they have In gome of the South boa Islands," said Mr. Wallace, "of marrying a girl to a tree or some Inanimate object, which Is supposed to act as a sort of scapegoat for the shortcomings of the real, live husband." "It Is not absolutely unique," said Mrs. Wallace, "for a woman In this country to be married to a stick." But Mr. Wallace, with the cairn su periority of the masculine mind, ro fused to deem It a personal matter. The Sunflower. City farmers should give attention to the possibilities of the sunflower. A man In Brooklyn who owned a sub urban tract planted It In sunflowers and obtained 100 bushels of seed to the acre. Ho expects to get from each bushel two and one-half gallons of oil, worth $1.25 a gallon, or over $.100 an acre. The pressed seeds and fiber also have a value. Sea Life. The forms of sea life In the npper por tion of the ocean waters may descend to a depth of 1,200 feet or so from the surface; but there then succeeds a bar ren zone, which continues to within 800 to 300 feet feet from the bottom, where the deep sea animal begin to appear. KNOCKED OCT. It knocks out all calculations of attend ing to business in the right way for a day when we wake up in the morning sore and stiff. The disappointment lies in going to bed all right and waking up all wron. There is a short and sure wav out of it. Go to bed after a good rub with St. Jacobs OH and you wake up all right; soreness and stitlnoss all gone. So sure is this, that men much exposed in changeful weather keep a bottle of it on the mantel for use at night to make sure of going to work in good nx. Long Diatanoe Signaling. The Greenwich observatory has been put into telegraph communication with that of the McQill college, Montreal, and the signals can be flashed between the two places, a distance of 8,800 miles, in three-quarters of a second. THK LAST MAN ON EARTH To recklessly experiment upon himself with hope of relief ia the dyspeptic. Yet the nos trums for this malady are as the sands of the sea, anil, presumably, about as efliacious. In digestion, lliat obstinate malady, even if of long perpetuity, is eventually overcome with llosletter'a Stomach Bitters, an appetizing tonic and alterative, which cures constipation, fever and ague, bilious remittent, rheumatism, kidney complaint and feeblenen. An even cubio foot of average soil k&s weighed and analyzed at Cornell University. It was found that the soil in one acre one foot deep weighed a, 082)4 tons. , AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word " CASTORIA," and "mCHEK'SCASTORlA," as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the iac-siiuile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER oa every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'3 CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Compauy of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. Match S, 1807. SAMUEL PITCHER, M.D. Lightning rods may be valuable if large enough and insulated sufficiently j to carry a ay a bolt of lightning. The I common lightning rod is not of much ase. HOME ntODUCTS AND PUKE FOOD. 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