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CORVA SEMI-WEEKL.Y. SIlSWft'sailYia.. i Consolidated Feb., 1899. CORVALLIS, BEKTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1901. VOL.!. NO. 48. GAZETTE ) I KISSED THE COOK. I kissed the cook. Ah, me! She was divine-Cheeks peachy, dark-brown eyes, lips red as wine; Long apron with a bow, A cap as white as snow, By far too tempting, so I kissed the cook. I kissed the cook, this angel from the skies, And yet I did not take her by surprise. 'Twas mean, I will allow. But if you'll make the vow To keep it, I'll tell you how I kissed the cook, I kissed the cook. Poor, helpless little lass The chance so good I could not let it pass. Her hands were in the dough, She dare not spoil, you know. My Sunday suit, and so I kissed the cook. I kissed the cook. I might have been more strong. But then I guess it wasn't very wrong, For just 'tween you and me, The cook's my wife, is she; So I'd a right, you see, to kiss the cook. Selected. NIPEY and Kipper stood In the dock, with a don't-care-a-lig-for-""" anybody air. "What's the charge against these fel lows?" inquired the magistrate. "Drunk and disorderly, your wor ship, and assaulting the police." There was no defense. "Any previous convictions?" asked his worship, with a sour look at the two youths of promise. Kipper thrust his hands deep into his pockets; Snipey, somewhat older, watched the dock-keeper with an anxious eye. There were previous con victions. "That will do!" said his worship, severely. "You are evidently Incorrigi ble. Such fellows are the weeds of so ciety.' It's a pity you can't be er plucked out. You will be removed to the house of correction for three months." A raw-footed and broken detachment of a British infantry regiment was stumbling gamely along a dreary ra- ' vine in the interior of China. The regi ment helped make up a relief force which was hurrying to the rescue of a ..missionary station. Two smart com panies had mustered in the gray light -of arly morning and had set out to reconnoiter in the hills. Through a child- iBkjesfaith in the efficiency of the in formation supplied by a so-called intel- -ilgenee department, the major com manding the detachment had got hope- lessly out of his reckoning. The intel ligence department of the Chinese had not misled them, and by the late after noon the British had fallen into an am bush. From the rock ridges flanking the ravine the Chinese showed now and then the gleam of a seimitar to their prey. Little puffs of smoke appeared more frequently still, and were some times followed by sickening little "plops," when the bullet met flesh and bone in the valley. The dead lay sprinkled in the wake of the British in dabs of scarlet, as If they were playing a weird game of hare-and-hounds with death. i.: The end of their endurance came when the shadows of the rapidly ap proaching night closed In upon them. . The word to halt was given and obeyed, . although its mellow note killed all hope. Rations of flour and water were passed round, and, with the sentries posted, the little body of British soldiers sat or lay at ease, rifle in hand, waiting for night and death. ; Two hours passed; then the com manding officer was startled from a doze by a hoarse whisper. "Majer! majer!" "Hallo!" he snapped. "Who the devil's that?" "Me, majer Privlt 'Arrison. I've bin a-talkln' the persition over with a mate friend, beggin' yer pard'n, sir o' mine, an' we thinks theers a cbarnce o' savin' the detachment." There were a few expletives in the darkness. ."Who told the privates the detach ment wanted any saving?" Then there was a sound like a sup pressed chuckle, and the whisper re asserted itself. By and by the exple tives melted Into answering whispers, then followed silence. Ten minutes after there slipped Into the silence the rustle of gently moving men. "Snipey, ole man!" "Kipper!" Two hands groped ridiculously in the Inky night until they found each other. A few answering cracks from the hills were followed by the hum of wasted ammunition. "Majer said as It was a flve-ter-one charace," replied Snipey, with some thing of importance creeping into his tone. "Wot else did 'e say, mate, when yer axed Mm ?" - "Say? . Why, a few bloomin' 'air liners at fust, as It's 'is nature to. Then says I, 'Me an' my pal, majer, reckons as these pigtails wun't want ter tackle In the darkness, a-cause they might get .cut up a bit, so they'll wait an' pot us comferable In the mornln';' 'Bight y' are, ole chap,' says 'e. Then I says, 'But If we tried to do a guy, majer, pie pal, they'd smell a rat, an' be down pn us like a lot o' winter sparrers on a midden.' 'Considerable powers o' pen etration,' e says. 'Then,' says I, 'ma jer, here's our plan. Let one or two stop behind an' keep a-firln' from dif ferent places, an' they'll think we're all 'ere; then the rest o' the detachment can creep off foxy.' The majer swears, i. en' says It wos a flve-to-one cnance. Then 'e thinks a bit Then 'e says 'e'U try It. Then I volunteers for you an' me to stop, a-cause it wos us wot for merlated the invention. 'Couple of damn scamps afore you joined, eh? "e says. 'Certn'l, majer,' I says. Booth-in'-like. Then I feels summat a-foolln' about me In the darkness, an' when I grabbed it I found It wos the majer's hand." "Snipey," said Kipper, reproachful ly, "you're a bllsterin' liar!" "That's the kernel of It, mate. It's true about the hand, though, Kip." II. Crack, crack! Unceasingly the piti less rifles told the lurking Chinese that their British pigeons were safe In the nest below. "Kipper!" "Ole pal!" "We gotter remember one thing. There must be no bloomin' surrender In'." "Not a bit o' surrenderin'." There was a decided quaver In the tone now. "There wun't be no takin' prisoners! We've took a great responsibility on fer the regiment. There's a lot o' clarse about the regiment, Kip, an' we ain't a-goin' to disgrace it. See?" "Snipey!" "Kipper, ole man!" There was the same funny groping of hands In the dark, the same tight, lingering grip when the found each other. Crack, crack! "Curse this rifle!" said Snipey. "How she bumps T' It was nearly 4 o'clock when Kipper spoke again. The blackness was di luted a little over the eastern ridge. "Snipey," he said, with a weary little sob, "I'm a-gettin' 'ill!" Then after a pause: "Snipey, d'yer remember what that Crucified Chap said when 'Ke got tired when 'B was weary o' waitin', I mean?" "Don't give yer neck, mate!" "Him wot the missh'nary told us about when we wos kids," went on Kipper, pathetically. "Wot was it?" Snipey sighed. "I know, chummy. I was just a thinklng of it meself. "Ow long, O Lord, 'ow long?' " "That's It!" said Kipper, through his chattering teeth. "Ow long, O Lord The eastern sky was a golden sea. The rocky ridges and hills beneath seemed blacker than ever, and from that black smudge on the glory of the dawn came half a dozen little puffs of flame, and Kipper's rifle clattered down upon the rocks. Snipey groped about In the gloom, and found his comrade on his knees, gasping and spitting mouth fuls of warm liquid. "Wot yer doin', Kip?" he said, anxiously. He stood for a minute, still as the rocks around, then stumbled forward with a sobbing cry of rage and misery. In the dim light he saw Kipper lying on his side, trying in vain to raise him self upon his elbow. "Kipper!" he whispered softly, fall ing on his knees beside his chum. Kipper groaned, and pressed his hand to his right breast. "Through the lungs!" he said, in an awed whisper, between the fits of coughing that wrenched him. Snipey pressed his hand, with a sob. "For the regiment, Snipey!" He raised himself on his elbow, and his chum flung an arm around his neck to support him. "There's a bit 'o clarse about the reg " A fresh bit of coughing brought In tense agony; after it was over his head fell back. Snipey pulled out his .handkerchief to wipe the blood from the dead lips. It was a miniature copy of the British flag. He remembered how the hand kerchiefs had taken the fancy of the soldiers just before they left Eng land, and how the regiment had bought up the whole stock. He stared stolidly at the quiet face for a-minute, then spread the little flag over it. When Snipey turned once more to face the east the day had broken glori ously. His rifle was empty, and he slipped a fresh cartridge into the breech. Then, with a sudden thought, he fetched Kipper's rifle and loaded that, too. When the Chinese closed round in the growing light they found their pot shot prey had flown. A solitary Brit ish soldier, with hands and chin resting on the muzzle of his gun, stood await ing their vengeance. The weapon sprang to the aching shoulder," and one yellow foe lay a corpse. With the report of Kipper's gun another pressed his hand to a mor tal wound, and the affair was finished. But that morning, in the mess-tents of the rescued regiment, the story of how a couple of weeds had been pluck ed from the garden of society was told with misty eyes and glowing hearts. Sure Proof. "This won't do," exclaimed Mr. Pham liman; "here it's after, midnight and that young man and Maude are still in the parlor." "How do you know?'' Inquired Mrs. Phainliman. "Because I don't hear a sound down there." Philadelphia Press. Italian and German Navies. In fifteen years 1885 to 1900 Italy spent on her fleet $300,000,000, and yet the Italian navy does not come up to half the strength and efficiency of the German fleet, on which during the same period of years $298,000,000 was ex pended. . Don't talk at random. Make every thing you say hit the mark or save your ammunition. The widow's 'favorite novel "Put Yourself in His Place." 1 Little Girl that Grew Up. She was sitting up straight in a straight bucked chair. There wasn't a snarl in her shining hair. There wasn't a speck on her dainty dress, And her rosy face was full of distress. When I drew near to this maiden fair She suddenly rumpled her shining hair, And, dropping down "in a heap" on the floor. Uplifted her voice in wail most sore. "Now, what is the matter, my pretty maid '!" "I'm all grown up," she dolefully said. "And I'm lonesome, as lonesome, as lones can be. For Humpty-Dumpty and Riddle-Me-Ree. "There's Little Boy Blue, who used to creep Under our haystack and fall asleep. He isn't my friend since mother dear 'Did up' my hair in this twist so queer. "And the Dog and the Fiddle, they left me, too, When the baby into a woman grew, The Dish has hidden away with the Spoon, And the Cow has stayed at the back of the Moon! "The Little-Old-Woman-Who-Swept-the-Sky Is caught in her cobwebs high and dry. And Jack and his Beanstalk I cannot find Since I began to improve my mind. "I wouldn't be scared, not a single mite. If the Bugaboo I should meet to-night. The Bogy Man I'd be glad to see, But they'll, never no, never come back to me! "I watched in the garden last night at dark A fairy favor to find; but, hark! My mother is calling don't you hear? 'Young ladies don't sit on the floor, my dear.' " Zion Herald. Rope Making; in Spain. The art of ropemaking Is about the same all over the world, and every country has its grove of date-palm trees, where there are rope walks, or places where rope Is made. The one shown In the picture is in Elche, a little town in Spain. It is situated in a large grove of palm trees. The picture shows the Spanish boy helping his larger brother. He turns the big wheel which causes a smaller wheel to revolve very fast. This twists the fiber, which is then wound around a man's body, and so the small strand Is made. These are twisted in the same way for the larger ropes. How Bobby Treated His New Watch. When Uncle John came home from Europe, what do you think he brought to Bobby? Why, a watch, a really fine watch that would keep time. Of course, as Bobby was only 6 years old, he was rather young to take care of a nice watch like that but Uncle John showed him how to wind it and set it, and so Bobby kept his watch In first-rate or der. But. one day he noticed a speck of dirt on its face. "Ho! ho!" said Bobby to himself. I don't want my nice new watch to have a dirty face. I'll wash It." So he went up In the bathroom and put tne watch in a bowl of warm water and rubbed plenty of soap on It He even took a little brush and scrubbed the inside works, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, so there wouldn't be a speck of dirt about it anywhere. Then he wiped It dry with a clean towel and put it back in his pocket. Well, after that it didn't seem to go as well as usual, so Bobby decided it needed oiling. He got his mother's oil can from her sewing machine and care fully oiled all the wheels of his watch. But still it didn't seem to go right. Then Bobby happened to think that perhaps the weather was too cold for it, so he went out in the kitchen and put it in the oven for awhile. It got so hot he had to take it out with a' pair of tongs, and then he put it out of doors in a big snowdrift to cool off. But, do you know, eveH after all that careful treatment, that hateful old watch wouldn't go right, so Bobby gave It back to TJncle Jobn and said he didn't care much for watches, anyway. Touching; a Youns; T.ark. J. M. Barrie. the noted Scottish story writeV. tells in Scribner's Magazine how a young lark got its first lesson: ' A baby lark had got out of its nest sideways, a fall of a foot only, but a dreadful drop for a baby. SPANISH BOTS MAKINO HOPE. "You can get back this way," Ita mother said, and showed It the way. But when the baby tried to leap It fell on Its back. Then the mother marked out lines on the ground, on which It was to practice hopping, and it got along beautifully so long as the mother was there every moment to say, "How wonderful you hop!" "Now teach me to hop up," said the little lark, meaning that it wanted to fly, and the mother tried to do it in vain. She could soar up, up, very brave ly, but she could not explain how she did it. "Walt till the sun comes out after the rain," she said, half -remembering. "What is sun? What Is rain?" the little bird asked. "If you cannot teach me to fly teach me to sing." "When the sun comes out after the rain," the mother replied, "then you will know how to sing." The rain came and glued the little bird's wings together. "I shall never be able to fly or sing!" It walled. Then, of a sudden, It had to blink its eyes, for a glorious light had spread over the world, catching every leaf and twig and blade of grass In tears, , and putting a smile Into every tear. The baby bird's breast swelled, It did not know why; It fluttered from the ground, it did not know why. "The sun has come out after the rain!" It trilled. "Thank you, sun! Thank you! thank you! Oh, mother! Did you hear me? I can sing!" Then It floated up, up, calling, "Thank you! thank you! thank you!" to the sun. "Oh, mother, do you see me fly? I am flying!" Boy of the Navy. He has served as a landsman in the United States Navy for nearly a year, and Joseph Home Hauler, of Newtown, Pa., a boy hero in the Philippines, is apparently by no means tired of the life he is leading on the other side of the globe, if the Interesting and cheerful letters he writes home are a true ex pression of his thoughts. Joseph is barely 15 years old, and now completes his first year's service under "Old Glory." Joe Is a landsman on the Castine, and writes that most of the fighting occurs in the interior of the islands, the insurgents being afraid to come near the -coast It takes two months for his letters to reach home. In his last letter he tells of his experi ences In firing a four-Inch gun four times at target practice. He says the noise sounds like a boiler explosion. KNOW HOW TO ADVERTISE. Chinese Tradesmen and Doctors Have Mastered the Art. The advertising columns In Chinese newspapers are characteristic of a peculiar people verbose, grandilo quent and childish. Here is how a jilted lover advertises his broken heart to the world: "I cannot control, my wrath and bit terness. My, loved one has, it is plain, been enticed away by this rascal's de ceit How, I wonder, can a mere tailor's dummy like this succeed in win ning her? Surely he has not law or jus tice before his eyes. It is on this account that I am advertising." A mother writes to a son who has run away from home: "If you delay longer and do not return I cannot cannot bear it, and shall sure ly seek an end to my life, and then you will stand in peril of death by thunder. I am now at my last gasp, and the family has suffered from insults most grievious. If you come, no matter how, everything is sure to be arranged. I have thought of a plan by which your father may still be kept in Ignorance. My life or death hangs on the issue of these few days. Only I pray that all good people everywhere will spread this message abroad, so that the right person may hear of it. ' So will they lay up for themselves a boundless store of secret merit." Quacks in China advertise In more beauteous language than their kind in America. One such "ad" runs: "One recipe has come down to us from a physician of the Ming dynasty. A certain mandarin was journeying in the hill country when he saw a woman passing southward over the mountains, as though flying. In her hand she held a stick, and she was pursuing an old fellow of 100 years. The mandarin asked: 'Why do you beat that old man?' She answered: 'He is my grand son, for I am 500 years old and he Is 114. He will not purify himself by tak ing his medicine, and so I am beating him.' The mandarin alighted from his horse and knelt down and did obeis ance to her, saying: 'Give me, I pray you, this drug, that I may hand it down to posterity for the salvation of man kind.' Hence it got its name 'Fairy Recipe for Lengthening Life.' Take it for five days and the body will feel light; take it for ten days and your spirits will become brisk; for twenty days and the voice will be strong and clear and the hands and feet supple; for one year and white hairs will be come black again and you move as though flying. Take it constantly and all troubles will vanish, and you will pass along life without growing old. Two dollars a bottle." Amending Snakspeare. Her Escort Ise awful fond ob music, specially dance music. Miss Snowflake So's I. Doan' day say dat music am de food ob lub? "It am de very chicking an' watah miUlon of lub." Puck. Ice Cream in Typhoid Fever. A scientist of New York has discover ed that ice cream may be freely eaten by typhoid-fever patients, with good results. ' A wife is sometimes known as a man's better half and sometimes as the whole thins. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Notes Calling; the Wicked to Kepentance. ONOR Is not In honors. Good morals make the best manners. Bridling sin Is like harnessing serpents. Greatness is not In being lifted up but in growing up. T h e kingllest are those who are kin to the King of Kings. A man must be greater than his work. Deeds are the only measure of our days. The superhuman in God cannot be In human. It Is mockery to wear the Cross you do not bear. The church that upholds the world cannot uplift it The devil never misses the church business meeting. God will not build His temple out of the devil's bricks. The Sunday prayer book will not hide the daily card-pack. The thinner the wine of wisdom the faster It will run out You cannot do right unless you are willing to suffer wrong. The wrath of God Is like that of the sunlight with darkness or dirt If the Gospel Is impracticable here, then Heaven is impossible there. They who live on public opinion will probably die of popular opprobrium. It is not part of the divine economy to give a dime where a dollar is due. Christ cannot be followed by leaps and bounds, but rather step by step. Christ would not shield you from storm, but he can save you from wreck. It is often impossible to both appease the conscience and to please the crowd. It is sad when we are not on good enough terms with God to call Him Father. He who resolves to be better, expect ing to fail, surely he shall not be dis appointed. He who Is crowned by his con science cares not if he is condemned by the crowd. - God often has to weaken our bodies to make us see how dependent we are upon Him. The spendthrift who is always spend ing upon himself is as selfish and means as the miser. The man who places the highest things first will be the first to get the highest place. It is always easier to obey when Christ says "come up" than when He says "come down." It is folly to ask for your pains as long as you continue to make your couch on the devil's thorn bush. God will reward some according to the sheaves they bear and some accord ing to the seed they have scattered. Second-Hand Watch. He was evidently a foreigner, and he walked into one of the big jewelry houses on F street and asked for a watch. "I would be pleased to exam ine some second-hand watches," he said to the clerk who advanced to meet him. "This isn't a pawnshop," observed the clerk, haughtily. "No?" observed the man inquiringly, "but you have watches?" and he point ed to the great showcases full of hand some watches. "Certainly," replied the clerk. "Fin est stock of watches in the city. How much do you want to pay for a watch?" "How mooch?" asked the stranger. "Mooch as he is worth so that he suits me. I have said that I desire a second hand watch, a good one that snail keep the time." "See here, sir, you are off your base. We don't keep second-hand goods. You will have to hunt elsewhere for second hand watches." The stranger's eyes opened wide, "But you have him there, and there and there!" he said, as he began to gestic ulate. "I have said s-e-c-o-n-d-h-a-n-d watches," spelling It as though to make it plainer, "and they are here, every where, yet you say you have them not I do not comprehend you." "Well, I do you," replied the clerk sheepishly, as he quickly got behind the counter. "Just a little mix up. No harm done I hope. Certainly we have watches with second hands. All our watches have second bands. We handle no others." And the stranger got his "second-hand" watch for which he laid down a fifty dollar bill. Wash ington Star. Not a Suitable Reference. "Of course you quite understand that I shall call upon Mrs. Whiffler for your character," remarked Mrs. Taggetly to the girl she has just engaged. "Certainly m'm," replied the girl, "al though I would rather yon didn't for Mrs. Whiffler is so eccentric that she is not always to be relied iipon." "In what way Is she eccentric?" ."She insists that her husband Is quite a model father and husband, and that her children have never caused her a moment's anxiety." "H'm, not much In that" "Then she says that she Is perfectly content with one new dress and one new hat each season." "H'm, she is eccentric, then!" "And, finally, she has never attended a bargain sale, and says that the only things sold at them are the women who buy!" "Oh, the woman's mad! I shan't trouble her for yonr character; you can come In when yon like I" When and How to Plant Apples. Realizing that the apple orchard is a more or less permanent investment we must take cautious steps in laying its foundation, says Ohio Farmer. First we want suitable land on the hills, with any exposure except to the east Land free from stumps and stones and not too steep is best. New land is not best as there will be too many stumps and roots and the borers that work on forest trees are liable to work on the apple trees. Some hoed crop should be grown on the land the year before planting so that It will be In fine mellow condition. I like to have the rows as straight as a line if it can be dose, but if not, follow the curves of the hill. Dig holes large enough to plant the trees without cramping the roots. Where the land Is level or nearly so, some take the turn ing plow and plow out three or four fur rows, set the trees In line, pu!l dirt over roots and fill up furrow with plow, Plant two or three-year-old trees. I like a good, thrifty, medium-sized two-year- old tree, branched two and one-half or three feet from the ground. All bruised or broken roots should be pruned off and the top cut back about one-half. Good Pprayinir Apparatn. The barrel pump is considered by the Vermont station the most generally use ful spraying apparatus yet devised and representing the least possible outlay. Such a pump is suited to spraying all other crops and fruit trees, as well as potatoes. For work in the potato field there are two chief ways of nslng the barrel pump. The simplest consists in carrying the barrel through the field in a wagon, while one or two persons walk and direct the spray nozzles. A more elaborate and expeditious method is shown In the figure. Here the same barrel pump Is mounted on a two wheeled cart The wheels are set six feet apart so as to straddle two rows, while the horse walks between them. From two to four rows are sprayed at once by this apparatus, and Ave to ten acres a day are covered by two men and one horse. In order to protect the vines a guard rod is placed in front of each wheel. Spare the Qnal's. During the first three months of Its life the quail feeds almost entirely on insects, and it is estimated that each bird will eat its weight In insects every day until nearly full grown, and even longer than that If the fall grass hoppers are plenty. When there are no more Insects to be found they begin on the gleanings of grain and weed seeds, the latter being the ration most of the winter. Farmers should not only forbid the shooting of quail upon their lands, but should further protect them in winter by providing little heaps of brush or evergreen boughs, where they can find shelter and food during deep snows. A quart of wheat screen ings, the seeds from the barn floor, or other food that the farmer could give them without cost would save many, and another season they would pay for it in hunting bugs. Celery Culture in Brief. 4A well-known gardener, at a recent agricultural meeting, in speaking of cel ery culture, said: "I grow White Plume, Golden Self-blanching and Golden Heart varieties, and hi rows five feet apart banking only enough to keep it upright in position. Celery desired for late use I put in three rows together, cover it well, and place loose boards over it What I want to get at during the winter I put in a trench four feet wide and eighteen inches deep. 1 set a row of two by four studs four feet high along each side of the trench and set rafters over it, cover the sides and top with boards, and then throw the earth up over all, and put on straw or coarse manure, when severe cold weather comes, to keep it from freez ing. You must keep all dirt from the heart of your celery else it will speck and spoil. Saving; Fonder. One of the items of greatest waste on the farm has been the reckless way in which corn fodder has been handled. The silo has solved the problem of mak ing the most out of this valuable food, but-not one farm In 100 or perhaps 500 has a silo. Left to ripen to a degree that would make it worthless and then possibly rot In the shock, the cornstalks on most farms have fallen into disre SPBAYINO A POTATO FIELD. pute, and very few regard Its feeding value as they should. With Improved machinery for preparing It for feeding there should be more thought given to utilizing fodder, which can be made a good substitute for bay. National Stockman. Holding; Back Peach Buds. The old theory of mulching in winter with snow and Ice to delay blooming In spring has been thoroughly exploded, says Farm and Field. Inside of lumber camps built hi winter of certain kinds of logs sprouts of considerable length are stimulated Into growth by the warmth of the camp Are, while the out er sides of the logs are still frozen. Florists force lilacs Into growth In win ter by drawing branches of dormant lilacs Into forcing houses through the wall. All parts of the twigs that re ceive warmth begin growth, while the rest of the plant is frozen. Twigs, of early flowering plants like the peach may be forced irfto bloom in winter by cutting them and putting them in a vase of water in a warm, sunny room. These facts corroborated by other in vestigations indicate that the starting of dormant buds into growth is due to the warmth they receive and is prac tically independent of root action. The twigs contain sufficient stored-up food material to promote considerable growth before the roots and developing leaves are called into use. Poultry and Potatoes. Last spring, as an experiment I planted my poultry yard, containing one-fourth of an acre, to potatoes. I have just dug fifty bushels of fine pota toes from this quarter acre. I did noth ing but plant and dig the potatoes; the hens did the rest kept off the bugs, kept the ground free from weeds, fertil ized the crop and kept the ground in fine condition, so that I didn't need to cultivate. The yield Is double that on land adjoining, and the potatoes are entirely free from scab. Seventy-five hens occupied the quarter acre. When the potatoes were planted, a few whole potatoes were thrown Into the yard for the fowls, so that they had no need to dig out the seed potatoes. I think 100 hens could care for an acre of potatoes to their mutual benefit F. N. Clark, in Farm Poultry. Xice on Tonng Animals. Years ago we heard a farmer ask an other what he should use to kill the lice on his calves. "Well," said the old man, "a little grease will drive them, off." "How shall I use It?" was the next query. "If you can put It under the skin It will be the best way," was the answer, and as the calves were very lean the reply was as good as could have been made. It is a fact that fat calves or other young animals are sel dom lousy, and if they get so the ver min do not seem to be very long lived. We have not seen lice on anything but poultry for many years, and hope the time may come when they will be ban ished from the poultry yard. But re member that good feed, good care and cleanliness are the things that those pests will not thrive upon. American Cultivator. Worms in Horses. Give two ounces of tuipentine In one half pint of raw linseed oil at a dose three times a day before feeding for two days, then give one quart of raw linseed oil at a dose as a physic. Feed four quarts of oats at a feed three times a day and fifteen pounds of good hay hi twenty-four hours. Put on a muzzle to keep him from eating his bedding. The Broadening; Corn Belt. Probably the production of corn has been increased in North America by the development of early maturing va rieties during the past twenty-five years more than it has increased in all the rest of the world from all other influ ences. The corn belt has broadened hundreds of miles by this means, and the end is not yet Packing; Butter for Family Use, In packing butter for family use work into rolls, lay In large stone Jar, cover with brine strong enough to float an egg, put a level teaspoonful of saltpeter and a pound of white sugar to each two gallons of brine; then put a weight on butter to keep it under brine. Milk Vessels. Milk vessels should, as far as possi ble, be made without seams, and all soldered joints be made as smooth as possible. Poultry Notes. Don't let your drinking fountains freeze up. Keep plenty of fresh water where your fowls can get it Shut up your hen houses on these cold nights. Now is the time to buy your cockerels for spring. Feed plenty of meat scraps if you want to get lots of eggs. It is a good plan to whitewash yonr hen house early In the spring. Keep the lice off your fowls and they will keep healthy. Don't let the roup get the start of you. Whenever your fowls begin to sneeze you should give them some olive oil and kerosene oil, or burn pine tar in rour houses. Roup is often caused by the birds taking cold. . , When yonr fowls have frosted combs you should take one pint sweet oil, onei pint crude oil and one pint camphor and rub this on night and morning for two or three mornings and they will be well. A J