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GREEN VERSUS DRY FEED.
A Summary . of. Expenlnieirts- Made I
tho Utah Station by Director Sanborn.
Dtu-iug the season of 1891 three lots of
steers of three each, of like weight and
ages, were fed at the Utah station one
lot m the barn and yard on green grass,
one lot in the barn and yard on dry
grass auu one lot that grazed. The ob
ject of tho trial was to ascertain first.
whether grazing steers would do better
on a given area of ground than those
soiled; and second, to ascertain whether
green food is more nutritious than dry
loou. vvitiiout entering mto particulars
as given by Director Sanborn, a brief
summary of the results drawn from the
station bulletin, No. 15, is deemed suffi
cient tor general information:
rirst inree sets of steers of three
each fed for ninety-two days, one set
giazing, one set fed on similar food in
yards in the green state and one set on
tne same tood air dried, made identical
gains.
Second The grazed lot ate the grass
from 2U. 2 per cent, more area than the
lot tnat was soiled.
Third The lot having air dried food
relished it better than the lot fed on
green grass, but required slightly more
food for a pound of gain, probably no
more, if as much, for the dry weight
gain made.
Fourth They required more dry mat
ter for a pound of gain than winter fed
steers,
Fifth The strong indications are that
green food is no more valuable than well
air dried food.
Sixth The indications were that fin
mature grass is no more valuable or not
as valuable as mature grass, and are in
agreement with former trials on this
subject.
Seventh Half dried luncerue seemed
to be dangerous, although the eviden
is very uncertain.
tiglith As the season trrew warmer
nie gain decreased, and is in accord with
tormer observations.
Xvintli It appears bv this trial that
soiling is unnecessary, dry food answer
ing mo same purpose; that winter feed
ing is quite as economical when cattle
are fed in stalls or yards aa summer
feeding in stalls or yards; that grazing
is nomewiiut wasteful, and that ereen
gras and young grass are no more ef-
tective than dry and mature grass or hay.
INSECTICIDES, FUNGICIDES, ETC.
The Prevention or Insect Injuries and
Fungus Diseases.
Some of the conclusions reached at
tne natch (Mass.) experiment station,
as the results of the work of the past
season in regard to the prevention of in
sect injuries and fungus diseases, are:
That the apple scab, pear leaf bliaht and
cracking of the fruit, the peach and
plum fruit rot, the plum leaf bliirht
and plum black wart, the grape pow
dery mildew and black rot, the rasp
berry anthracnose and the potato leaf
blight and rot may be wholly or lanrelv
prevented when the solutions of copper
are properly applied.
lhat by th combined use of the bor
deaux mixture and paris green fungi
are prevented, tent caterpillars and
canker worms are killed and the iniurv
to the apple and pear from the codling
moth and to the plum and Deach from I
the plum curculio may also be largely
prevented.
That the peach foliage is verv suscep
tible to injury from copper solutions,
and that these must be applied .at from
one-third to one-fourth the strength used
upon the apple and the pear.
That the amount of copper adhering
to apples and grapes that have been
properly sprayed with copper solution is
so small that no injury can possibly oc
cur from their free consumption,
That girdling the grapevine, as demon
strated in a vineyard during the season
of 1890, resulted in a weakened growth
and in a diminished crop in 1891.
That young trees mav be Droter-.tert
from injury by mice by painting with
Portland cement and paris green.
What Was Done with an Old Hand Saw.
A correspondent writing in American
Gardening says:
I took the handle off and presented it
to a carpenter. I then had the blacksmith
cut the blade crosswise into three parts.
Of the first and widest piece, 7 inches
long, I made a sod ax, aa seen in the
central figure. Of the second or middle
Sweet singer, that I lo'e the tnaist
O' ony, sin' wi' eager haste
I smacket bairn lips ower the taste
O hinnied sang,
I hail thee, though a blessed ghaist
In heaven langl
For, weel I ken, nae cantie phrase,
Nor courtly airs, nor lairdly ways,
Could gar me freer blame or praise.
ur proner nand
Where "Rantin Robbie" and his lays
Thegither stand.
And sae these hamely lines I send,
Wl' Jinglln words at ilka end.
In echo of the sangs that wend
Frae thee to me
Like simmer brooks, wl' mony a bend
O' wlmplin glee.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Chinese Women and Their Feet.
The small footed Chinese women usual
ly make their own shoes of bits of silk
embroidered in gold and colors. Very
dainty work they make of it, too, a shoe
maker simply soling these bits of em
broidery. In curio shops the globe trot
ter may sometimes pick ud a secondhand
shoe. The tiny feet must be often and
carefully washed and disinfected. Many
of them are perpetually swollen and in
flamed. There are women whose busi
ness it is to go from house to house
bathing, bandaging and treating these
maimed members. A woman of rank
lias sometimes one amah whose special
duty it is to care for her tiny but trou
blesome feet.
Chinese women who possess small feet
are, while proud of them in a way, very
shy and unwilling to exhibit them to
foreigners. I had great difficulty in
coaxing a Chinese woman of rank to
give me a glimpse of her wee foot. The
four smaller toes are pressed under the
sole, and the whole weight falls really
upon the great toe in walking. The
ankle is very large and distorted, but
the leg is thin and wasted from inad
equate exercise. The tout ensemble
from a western point of view iB far from
beautiful if not absolutely repulsive.
new lorn Tribune.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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PUBE
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Absolutely
Trouble With a Cook.
Mrs. Joshua and her family desired to
acquire the correct Parisian accent and
therefore engaged a French cook a lady
whose pot au feu had attained more than
universal reputation. But no Enu-lish
household can live on fricasses, raie au
benrre noir and asperges frappees, and
when, therefore, the French cuisiniere
was asked to supply a British breakfast
the result waB a failure. The mistress,
naturally enough, expostulated with the
cook, who replied4n the latest Parisian
Btyle. "Mille tonnerres," she cried,
"you no like my preakfast plan plan,"
and at each word she hurled a plate or
cup to the floor and danced upon the at-
vuis.
At such a game the largest supply of
china must become exhausted, and when
the Cadogan square French cook had
danced upon the last atom she was able to
manufacture, she took up a kitchen knife
and, like the famous Vatel, not only
threatened in chagrin to end her own
days, but to finish some other person's
also. It took fair or five fellow servants
to hold her down until the mistress read
the sentence of formal and immediate
dismissal. The cuisiniere now sued Mrs.
Joshua in the Westminster county court
for a month's wages in lieu of notice,
but the judge held that, no matter how
the law stood in France, her conduct
was not in consonance with English cus
tom and therefore merited dismissal.
London Telegraph.
THE MISSING LINK.
PATH CUTTER. SOD AX. PRUNER.
piece, 10 inches long, I made a straw
berry path cutter, Bhown at the left: and
the remaining niece. 7U inches lnnir
was transformed into a strawhfrrir I "8Ty tone, "Make haste, mamma, or
Slamming; a Door.
To slam a door may be an evidence of
bad temper or bad manners, but it is
also a popular superstition that Blam
ming a door is wicked. This belief is
undoubtedly due to a supposition enter
tained by many nations that the souls of
the departed hover about the place where
they departed from their bodios. Tha
Indians of this country frequently howled
and beat the air with brushwood in or
der to drive away the spirit of the pris
oner they had just killed.
The negroes ef the Congo abstain from
weeping out their huts for a vear after
a death has occurred for fear that the
dust may interfere with the spirit of the
aepartea. it is in northern Europe that
the superstition concerning the slamming
oi a uoor arose, tne tear being enter
tained that some spirit might be caught
in me siammmg. jn ew York Telegram,
De Musset's Childhood,
.Nervous irritability and a desire to
distinguish himself were plainly visible
in Aiirea ae musset at the age of 8 years.
Once he got a pair of new red shoes, and
ne went into raptures about them. He
was bo impatient to show himself in his
hew shoes that he could scarcelv wait to
oe aresseu. wmie his mother was dress
ing his hair he was treinblinir with im
patience, and at last he exclaimed in an
Spent 30,000 to Match a Color.
One cannot turn away from Chinese
art objects porcelain particularly
without a deep impression of the dignity
and value of their "solid colors." Manv
attempts have been made by European
manuiacturers to imitate them, hut
without success. The attemnt to renm-
duce the sang de bceuf, or "bullock's
blood," cost and Englishman t'.SO.OOO be
fore he abandoned the effort in despair.
The Chinese themselves have always set
the highest value on their achievements
in this line.
For a long time tlwv refused to nart
with the choicer examples of sang de
boeuf "coral," "peachblow" and crushed
strawberry, and it is only in recent years
that the "foreign devils" have been able
to obtain them. The objects have no
other decoration than that of a single
color, ranging from darkest to lightest
shades from black, deep red, the dark
est blue ;r green, the most vivid orange,
to palest pink or violet or delicate cana
ry. It is because we ha.vo in them the
perfection of color united with au an
tique simplicity of form that their art
value is so great. Carpet and Uphol
stery Trade.
pruner, as sean at the rieht of illustrn.
tion. The last named is used for cut
ting off runners in the early part of the
season. It saves stooping and backache.
and is useful also for cutting off the
roots of large weeds sometimes found in
strawberry beds. These implements
were all made sharp on the grindstone.
Desirable Currants.
The Cherry currant is credited with
being the largest of all the red currants;
the bunches are short and the Dlant viir-
rays proline, a
new variety, is more prolific than thA
Cherry and with larger clusters. Black
Champion, an English variety, is eon-
smerea one or tne hnest of black cur
rants. The White Dutch is a well known
currant of medium size and good qual
ity. The White Grape currant is a fine
table variety on account of the large size
and excellent quality of its fruit. Bed
Dutch is an old variety of medium size
and quality. Versaillaise is a French
sort resembling the Cherry; it is pro
ductive.. Prince Albert and Victoria
are Dotn valuable on account of their
ripening late and thus extending the
season.
Lawn Mowing.
La,wn mowing with the hand machine,
whenever practicable, should be done
soon after the grass has been well
else my new shoes will get old!'
The precocious boy was pampered and
spoiled and allowed to become a despot
m me nouse. Nineteenth Century.
Old Custom Banded Down.
How many can tell the origin of the
nabit of closing the eyes m prayer? Far
back in the past the sun was the univer
sal object of worship. As it rose above
the horizon the devotee thanked it for
its return to bless the world. As it set
in the west he implored its earlv return.
His face was always toward the sun tn
prayer, and his eyes were closed to pre
vent blindness. The habit has passed
down from father to son for thousands
of years. Though the object of worship
nas oeen cnangeu, the custom survives.
Progressive Thinker.
Horsepower and Speed
Horsepower does not alwavs mean
speed, for the City of Rome very little
smaiier man the Teutonic is of 11,800
norsepower, against the Teutonic's 18,
000, while the Paris, which is only 500
feet long, as against the Great Eastern's
MO feet, is of over 20,000 horsepower.
Such comparisons show the wonderful
development in late years of ship and
engine building. Marine Journal.
Precarious Indeed.
Tourist (at Niagara) A coroner must
have a pretty good thing of it around
washed by a rain, and the grit and dust hem.
removed which so ofteii dulls thecutting Coroner-Well, it's rather precarious,
blades. For the sam- reason set the ' Yon know our income depends upon the
knives so as to cut rath-r high, avoiding floating population.-New York Evening
the sand nem- tliA trrmm, ,.nT.nn o
t wuo oun.
grass stronger roots and hetter growth
than by close cutting. This advice
is given by Country Gentleman.
One of the hottest regions of the earth's
surface is in the immediate vicinity of
the Dead sea. Experts in the science of
hydrography declare that the sea loses
not less than a million tons of water a
Floral Notes.
Polva'.lt.ha rrmea blr.m r.f,,CAK.
--j auu ...
continuously, embrace a variety of color Qay tllrauK" evaporation.
and are more or less fragrant. u. m JZTJTZIZ, ,
TT 1 r . . 1AOVAI.H va ni.17 IVACfltTO.U M.I1U BCftlD
d tions to the list of hardy herbaceous time, a day. It is said that the Individ.
PlanM- nal hairs of the scaln
The Thomas Hogg hydrangea bears by rubbing the nape of the neck with a
A reat Mistake In Rape Seed.
Professor Craig relates how an exceed
ingly annoying and costly mistake was
made by an English firm of seedsmen in
filling orders from this country for seed
of fodder rape with the seed of the com
mon bird rape. Professor Craig inti
mates that most of the seed sent out to
farmers by seedsmen has been from this
importation of bird rape seed, and it in
to be feared that nearly all who have
made a trial of rape this year will have
their trouble for nothing.
Professor Craig states the difference
between the two kinds of rape, which is
that the bird seed plant blossoms while
the other does not the first year. Before
ho left Madison (about the 25th inst.)
Borne of the rape on the college farm had
revealed its character by its blossom
and was promptly plowed under, and
this course Professor Craig recommends
with all fields of rape which are in
bloom. The error is narticnlarlv ani.
perating and may set back many years
the introduction of this valn.-ililA fr,rM.i
plant. Breeder's Gazette.
Browning's Memory.
Few people possessed the crift of uicm.
ory iu a higher degree than Mr. Brown
ing, i am reminded of this by what I
have boen recently told bv his frinnil
and mine, Mrs. Le Poer Wynne. She
tells me that in ciunnnnv with t
Prawning and Mr. Cotter Morison thev
were oneday discussing Byron, of whom
Mr. Browning was an intense admirer.
Ue spoke of Byron's extraordinary now.
ers of satire, and repeated at consider
able length a portion of the "Vision of
Judgment," beginning with the words.
'St. Peter stood at the celestial o-uro "
When he finished, Mr. Browning said.
1 have not repeated those lines f,,r
forty years, but they are graven on mv
memory." Then he burst out with the
remark, "Byron was one of the most
wonderful men ever created." and turn.
ing to Mrs. Wynne he said, nressintr hnr
arm in the way he had when much in
terested, "To think of all this cominir to
an end at thirty-seveni"
Mr. Cotter Morison agreed that as a
satirist Byron was unrivaled, but threw
out the query, "Is he a great poet?"
Mr. Browning for answer recited with
intense leelitig those well known lines
lis well that I should be unmoved "
never faltering at a word. Mrs. Wvnna
tens me mat ne asked nor if she remem
bered the dedication to "Don Jna.ii "
and proceeded to quote from it at some
lengtn. Temple Bar.
Professor Virchow Says That It Is as Re
mote From Discovery as Ever.
We know that man existed in the
quaternary epoch, that he lived through
long ages miserable and depressed, while
stone, wood, horn and ,bone constituted
the material of his arms and of his few
Instruments. We are convinced that a
long interval separated the age of stone
from the age of metals and that only in
particular places was the use of stone
immediately replaced by that of metals.
These are tho data which now make part
ef the ncwral knowledge acquired by
tivilized nations since the foundation of .
th em, cress, bnt further studieiresnect
Ingthe origin and tiie regions whenco
the different branches of civilization have
sprung have advanced relatively but very
little. We seek in vain for the "missing
link" connecting man with the monkey
or any other animal species.
There exists a definite barrier separat
ing man from the animal which has not
yet been effaced heredity, which trans
mits to children the faculties of their
parents. We have never seen a monkey
bring a man into the world, nor a man
produce a monkey. All men having a
simian appearance are simply patholog- .
ical variants. It was generally believed
a few years ago that there yet existed a
few human races which still remained
in the primitive inferior condition of
their organization. But all these races
have been objects of minute investiga
tion, and we know that they have an or
ganization like ours, often indeed supe
rior to that of supposed higher races.
Thus the Eskimo head and the head of
the Terra del Fuegians belong to the
perfected types.
Some races have the same skulls very
small, of about the same volume as the
microcephalous skulls. For example, the
inhabitants of the Andaman islands and
the Veddahs of Ceylon have been re
garded as microcephalic. A more exact
study has, however, shown a difference
between them and the real microcephalic
reces. Tho head of an Andaman islander
or of a Veddah is very regular, only all
its parts are a little smaller than anions:
men of the ordinary races. Nanicephalio
heads (dwarf), as I call them, have none
of those characteristic anomalies that
distinguish really microcephalic heads.
A single race, that of the Orang-Sima-ings
and the Orang-Cekai of the peninsula
of Malacca, still remains unstudied. The
single traveler who has penetrated into
the mountainous country inhabited by
them, the bold Hussion Miklukho Maklai,
hat ascertained that certain isolated in
dividuals among Simaiugs are small and
have curled hair. A new expedition has
been sent into that country to study the
anthropology of the Orang-Cekai, from
which I liave received a skull and n few
locks of hair. Tho stock is really a black
race with curly hair, the brachycepha
lous head of which is distinguished by
very moderate interior volume, but it
docs not offer the most trifling sign of
oesuai development.
Thus we are repulsed at every line of
the assault upon the human question.
All the researches undertaken with the
aim of finding continuity in progressive
development have been without result.
There exists no proanthropos, no man
monkey, and tho "connecting link" re
mains a phantom. Professor Rudolph
Virchow's Lecture.
Why Snow Falls In Flakes.
Snow falls to the earth in flakes be
cause it is water solidified in starliko
crystals, each snowflake being usually
made up of several crystals, which are
xcesslvely light on account of the larire
quantity of air among the frozen riarti-
cles. The snow crystals arise from the
slow passage of the water vapor of
clouds, when the temperature fulls be
low freezing point, into the solid
tion.the fairy like transformation taking
place by the molecule or smaltess inde
pendent particles of the water grouping
themselves with the utmost mathemat
ical regularity around different centers.
Each crystal of snow, as of anvthW
else, is therefore a more or less nerfeot
geometrical solid. The most complete
snow crystals are formed in a clear at-
.hould be regularly exercised several ZTZZZ . ?:!?"
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white flowers.
Aluminium Plating.
Much interest has been aroused bv tlia
electroplating of the iron work of the
Philadelphia city hall tower with alumi
nium. It is expected that three years
will be occupied in completing the work,
as the process of aluminium nlatimr is
very tedions, and there is a surface of 50,
000 square feet to lie covered. The iron is
first given baths of caustic soda, of dilute
sulphuric acid and of copper solution in
immense tanks 28 feet lonir. 4 feet wida
and 5 feet deep. The alumi ninm tanV
holds about 7,000 gallons and receives the
work after it has been dipjied. Nearly 10
tons of aluminium will be required k
coat the whole surface. New York Toly-gram.
coarsely woven glove.
Even if we have only a dinner of herbs
to offer to our guest, if it be served in
the spirit of true hospitality it will he
better than a stalled ox where pride and
envy are, and with them the spirit of
contention.
It is stated that the daily supply of
milk for the New York market amounts
to about 19,000 cans of milk, over 170
cans of condensed milk and upward of
400 cans of cream.
It is an old story that the slow modes
of travel of, say, 70 years since gave per
haps only too favorable opportunities fur
studying the natural features of a country.
Hon or molecular construction. Rain.
on the other hand, being a liquid, falls in
drops. London Tit-Bits.
Government Printing.
Some prodigiously large volumes have
been printed at the government print
ing office in a wonderfully short time.
For instance, the Revised Statutes, which
constitute a volume of 1,038 closely
printed pages, were set up, proof read
throe times, printed and delivered in
bound form to the house of representa
tives tietween oclock, p. m., on a
Wednesday and 12 o'clock, noon, on the
following Saturday an interval of only
67 hours. Perhaps the greatest work of
printing over undertaken anywhere was
the publication of 10,000 copies of tho
records of the war of the rebellion in 120
royal octavo volumes of 800 pages each,
at a total cost of 1,260,000 for printing
and binding.
This single publication will require
over 75,000 printers' reams of white pa
per to print it, and the composition will
probably exceed 81X1,000,000,000 ems.
There will be when the work is finished
not less than 1,200,000 actual books of
800 pages each. These figures dwarf
thoso of the largest encyclopedia ever
published in any country or in any lan
guage. Washington Star.
Dairying in Nevada.
Wherever water has been obtained fir
Nevada's deserts the dairy interests are
looming up. Many creameries have
been built lately aud more ar being
built. Irrigation makes dairying safe
and profitable.
An organization whose object is to rid
tha country of hursethieves has been
formed at Albuquerque.
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