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To Hake Farm Smokekonae. What I have found to be a good 'smokehouse for curing 75 to 100 hams should be about 12x14 feet Build a good, strong frame and fill the space letween the elding and ceiling with oft brick, writes A. C. Wharton in American Agriculturist This will make your house cooler In summer and will keep the temperature more ven In winter. Cover with shingles. A good solid clay floor will do very 1Z' FIRE BOX I 5 CONCRET6 FLOOR FLOOH Or SMOKEHOUSE. well, but a tight plank floor Is better, but best of all Is a good concrete floor. In the center of the floor there should be a firebox built of brick; this Is about 12x18 Inches Inside measure ment and 12 Inches deep. When cur ing build your fire in this and cover with a piece of perforated sheet iron. The house should be eight feet high at the corners and left open to the comb, the Inside of the rafters pref erably celled. Place 2x8 Joists two feet apart on the plates, and 2 feet above these put in another set of Joists on the rafters; these can be 2x6, and In both sets of Joists which will be used to hang your hams place iron meat hooks two feet apart and two Inches from the lower part of the Joists. These hooks can be made of one-quarter Inch rod iron and should be long enough to let the meat hang clear of the Joists. A window should be made In one end of the house to give light when yOliT AWP HOOKS j j j j jY n DSOR front view. reany property prepared as a seed bed for corn without the use of the disc. A. poorly prepared seed bed means a poor stand and an uneven growth. Such corn suffers from drought and in sects. needed, and this fitted with a tight hutter, as we do not want much air and sunshine to strike meat before or after curing. Culture of the Orchard. Cultivation of the orchard is mainly for conserving soli moisture. If culti vation Is begun early In the season and continued until midsummer, growth of wood will be stimulated and fruit developed. Less moisture in late summer and early fall Is desired, so that wood will properly develop- and harden to be able to stand the cold of the folowlng winter. Arrange to t cultivate the orchard early In the summer and have the soil In good fix Xor sowing to rye or other cover crop toward the last of summer. The cover crop will afford some good winter pas ture and will keep hilly land from "ashing away. JadginsT Wortk of Farm. The best time of the year to look over a farm for the purpose of buying Is in the summer, Just before the binders get to work. The good and poor places will show up then as at no other time, and, if the season prior to that time has been an average one, the crop will be a fair index of the -value of the land. The common prac tice of going farm hunting Just after the spring's work Is over has little to commend It, save the inconsiderable matter of time saved. The poorest time In the whole year to pick out a farm Is when it is covered with drifts of now. Prcparlasr Cora lead Bod. It Is a good rule In plowing never to leave the corn field either at noon or at night without first harrowing the ground that has been plowed. Spring plowing is often abused by turning the clods up to the sun and -dry wind to bake and dry, and depend ing upon a shower to mellow the ground before slant In No ground U Cora Cut for SI lace. Corn of any variety la at its best foi feeding or silage as it comes from the field when about half of the ears are Just past the age for table use com monly called roasting ear stage and the lower leaves on the stalk are be ginning to dry out, says Hoard's Dairy man. For Boiling purposes, it is im practicable to have the crop at its very best for any considerable time. Com mence to cut a few days before it reaches its maximum value and con tinue after this stage Is passed. Ex periments appear to have demonstrat ed that for fodder the largest amount of nutriment per acre Is obtained by planting in continuous rows and bo thick that the tendency to form ears will be much lessened. The yield per acre depends so much upon the varie ty and the soil and care in planting and cultivating that no satisfactory estimate of the average can be given. There is almost no limit to the amount that may be fed, provided one com mences with a limited amount and in creases gradually up to the limit of each cow's appetite, but probably thir ty to forty pounds a day is about as much as it would usually be profitable to- feed. Stiff Tons-no for Sled. TMs !s a very gr?t !mtimwmni over the old way of having the tongue mortised into a roller which would turn and when the team would try to hold back going down hill the tongue would fly up, sometimes clear over their heads, and prove to be of very little account. Many people, says a writer, do not know of any better way yet, so I will try to show you a better way, a way that takes the weight off hM,p cience vSSBivention the horses' necks and at the same time holds the tongue rigid when going down hill. First get a nice straight locust sapling for a tongue, one having a natural fork at the end for the neck yoke, as shown. Have your black smith make two loops from an old wagon tire as seen at A, with half inch holes and bolts to attach them to the two forward cross-pieces of sled, holes being bored in the cross-pieces to match holes in irons. The tongue is then notched a little to receive the cross-pieces. How Often to Milk. Host farmers and dairymen milk their cows only twice a day, and that Is right Sometimes a fresh cow needs to have an excess of milk drawn be tween times in order to prevent con gestion and fever, but- not for a long period. Some cows again have leak ing teats, which waste the milk if not relieved three or four times a day, but such cows are a nuisance and should be disposed of. To milk twice a day Is enough as a general rule. To milk three times a day does not seem to bring more milk, though some people have thought so and acted on that supposition. Keeping- Cellar In Order. Very frequently the cellar Is lack ing in conveniences. ' This should not be so; there ought to be a cement floor, bins for potatoes and a rack for milk pans and such arti cles. Here Is a good rack. Take a post 6 inches square; on this nail cleats, 1 Inch thick and 1 Inches wide, In pairs, that Is, one on the north side, one on economizes bpaci the south side exact ly even, and Just above these one on east and one on west leaving 4 inches between each two pairs, and have them long enough to hold milk pans at each end. To use for plates, cans, etc., fasten some boards on for shelves. Cor. Farm and Home. For the improvement of Blyth har bor, England, a specially constructed dredger has." been employed which scoops up rocks of as much as twenty to thirty hundredweight each, and dis charges them through chutes into a barge. The machine is furnished with a chain of buckets like an' ordinary dredger, but. the buckets are of a spe cial shape, and the rims are re-enforced with hard-steel cutting edges, the boulders are embedded In mud and sand, and more than 200 tons of such rock have been removed in an hour. The apparatus works with surprising ease and certainty. 1 It has recently been discovered that the rare atmospheric gas neon readily becomes luminous under the influence of electric waves, and it is suggested that the property may afford a means of visually reading wireless telegraph messages. Prof. W. L. Dudley experi mented with a tube of neon during an Atlantic voyage in July, and found that the gas glowed beautifully In re sponse to the waves sent out from the wireless apparatus of the ship, but the received waves were apparently too weak to affect it sensibly. Further ex periment may result in the discovery af a means of utilizing this property of oon .s a detector of r'vJ htiiii. At present it is employed to measure the length of electric waves sent out The length of those tested by Professor Dudley was about 800 feet The Texas town of Rockwall, about twenty-five miles east of Dallas, de rives its name from what appear to be the remains of immense walls of ruined masonry surrounding the town, but extending in many directions. Mr. Sidney Paige has recently studied these walls, and his conclusion is that they are natural formations, consist ing of sandstone dikes, which under the influence of the weather and earth movements have been cracked and Jointed in such a way as to afford, in many cases, a striking resemblance to artificial walls. The weathered sands, stained with Iron oxide, between the Joints have been mistaken for remains of mortar. The dikes rise out of a rich; black, waxy soil composed of orig inal lime muds. They vary in thick ness from an inch to two feet, and have been traced to a depth of fifty feet or more. . . Recent experiments by eovernment experts have revealed an unexpected Bource of trouble in the process of ster ilizing wood by the injection of pre servative liquids. It is customary to remove the bark from a stick of tim ber before it is subjected to creosotlng, but It has been supposed that thin lay ers of the inner bark left unremoved would do no harm. Now it is found that such layers, no matter how thin. almost absolutely prevent the penetra tion or the liquid. In any case, the preservative usually fails to penetrate the center of the stick, but forms an exterior antiseptic zone, which answers tne purpose if there are no gaps in it. But if such gaps exist, owing to the presence of thin layers of bark tha teredo finds an entrance through them, and carries on its work of destruction in the interior of the timber supposed to have been protected. Pointers In 'Farm Maaaa-emeat. Acidity may be overcome by apply ing from 600 to 1,000 pounds of lime per acre, or by the use of floats or grounds shells. There Is much of value written these days about work on the farm which will never benefit some farmers, be cause they have the notion that they are too busy to read. No other people set so high a value on good soil as the Hollanders, and we are learning that not many acres. but rich ones, make the profitable farm. The roots of the cowpea penetrate rather deeply into the subsoil and en able the plant to fqed upon the min eral food that is not readily extracted by other eronf SHOW NOAH'S GRAVE. Native About Ararat Connect Many Spots' with Hlatorr of Flood. The region of Mount Ararat and the local traditions which still keep alive the story of the ark having rested there were described the other eTe"ning In a lecture given in London before the Royal Geographical Society by Capt. Bertram Dickson, who made a series of Journeys to the neighbor hood while British military consul at Van, a London correspondent says. The country east of the Tigris, he said, was known to the anolent Aa- Syrians as the mountains of Nairl and at other times the Nlphates and the mountains at Urartu, from which comes the name Ararat The" Bible historian took the account of the ark resting on Ararat from the Chaldean legend, which made it rest on the mountains of Urartu; while local tra ditlons, Christian, moslem and yezldl (or devil worshipers)' ajlke make Its resting place Jebel Judl, a striking sheer rocky wall of 7,000 feet which frown over Mesopotamia. Common sense also suggested that with a subsiding flood in the plains a boat would more probably run aground on the high ridge at the edge of the plain rather than on a solitary peak miles from the plains, with many high ridges intervening. The lecturer thought himself that the. local tradition had the greater element of truth. There is a large zlarat (zljgurat or sanctuary) at the top of Jebel Judl, where every eve In August is held a great fete, attended by thousands of energetic moslems, Christians and resldls. who climb the steeoest of trails for Y,000 feet in the terrific sum mer's heat to do homage to Noah. This mountain seems to have been held sacred at all times, and certainly it has a wonderful fascination about it with its high precipices and Jagged, tangled crags watching over the vast Mesopotamian plain. The local villagers can show one the exact spot where Noah descended, while in one village,- Hassana, they showed his grave and the vineyard where he is reputed to have indulged overfreely in the juice of the grape, the owner declaring that the vines have been passed from father to son ever since. Capt. Dickson recounted some curi ous stories of the inhabitants of these regions, particularly the Kurds. These people, he said, claim to be the de scendants of Solomon by his concu bines, and though nominally one race they are split up into numerous hos tile clans, with little In common but their religion, their language and their love of a gun and cartridges. RULING A SAVAGE TKIBE. tMftttttltlffirltttttttltS i i The author of "Heroes of Modera Crusades," the Rev. Edward Gilllat M. A., at one time master of Harrow School, says in his most Interesting book that he had a few years ago tho privilege of meeting the king of the Quiah country, Tetty Agamasong, at IIuiiow. Tiio Quiali king hail tcoa educated at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, and was able to lecture to the Harrovians in good English, tn his lecture he told a quaint story which brings one nearer to the weird lives of the Qulahs, a small agricul tural and trading trlde of inoffensive character on the west coast of Africa. "In my country," said the king, "we have no prisons; therefore if a cul prit is brought to me I must chop off something an ear or two, a hand or a foot and he goes home a sadder and a wiser man. Just before I left for England a chief came to my hut, bringing a prisoner. " 'What has he done, friend?' I ask ed. " 'He is a dangerous witch, O king; he can turn himself- into an alligator.' " 'Pooh! nonsense! I don't believe that old-fashioned stuff.' " 'Oh, but we saw him do it, down by the big river. "'Indeed! Well, chief, tell aae all about It. You saw him yourself?' " 'I did. We were hunting by the banks of the-river with our rifles when all at once we saw a big alligator lying on a rock In the river. The witch man was lying asleep in a hammock some fifty yards away. O the dangerous creature he Is! " 'Well, king, do not laugh with your eyes like that, for I am speaking the truth. I put up my rifle to shoot the alligator, but to our great fear, as soon as I fired, this fellow rolled out of his hammock and fell on the ground, and rubbed his back, and swore he was hurt. "Now, O king, If this witch had not been inside the alligator, how could he have been hurt when I flred?" "Gentlemen," concluded the king, "I see you are laughing with your eyes; but -it is very difficult to rule over a people untaught and given over to su perstition. "What did I do? Why, If I had left him free they would have killed him as soon as I had gone on my ship, so I saved his life by chopping off his left ear." Camel a Delicate Beaat.. Contrary to the widespread but ei roneous opinion, the camel Is a very delicate animal. - A camel that has worked fifteen days in succession needs a month's pasturage to recuper ate. It is liable to a host of allnieifci and accidents. When a caravan crosses aWbkha, or dry salt lake, it is rare that some of the animals do not break a leg. If the fracture is in the upper part of the limb there is nothing for It but to slaughter the animal and retail its flesh as butcher's meat. If the lower part of the limb has been Injured the bone Is set and held In position by means of splints made of palm branches, which are bound with small cords. If no complications ensue at the end of a month the frac ture Is reduced. When it is a case of simple dislocation the injured part Is cauterized with a redhot Iron, then coated with clay and bandaged with a strip of cloth. Fifteen days afterward the animal is generally cured. Vulga risation Sclentlflque. It Depend! "How do you pronounce s-t-l-n-g-yr the teacher asked the young gentle man nearest the foot of the class. And the smart boy stood up and said it de pended a great deal whether the word applied to a man or a bee. London News. 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