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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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