THINGS
W ORTH
KNOWING.
Only 5 Ml l)«r cent of the total area
•f the world le tillable.
The mines of Butte. Mont., have a
combined pay roll of {3,01)0,000 a year.
The Argentine Legislature Is con
sidering the construction of under
ground railways for Buenos Ayres.
It Is just being realized that the
Trans-Siberian Ilaltroad was a pour
lob from an engineering standpoint.
The observed rate for the sound of
' a " In •'great'" Is 420, and for the
sound of "a " In "ma,” 770 waves a
second.
The telephone and telegraph wires
ef the United Statea would encircle the
earth at the equator more than 600
times.
To prevent the alteration of checks
nr other valuable papers an Inventive
genius has brought out an Hectrlc ap
paratus which burns tiny holes In the
•japer as the Inscription Is written.
Electricity has at last been applied
to the Teddy bear, a Maryland man
having patented one that opens Its
jaws and flashes lights from its eyes,
nose and mouth, when a battery In
Its Interior Is pressed.
The work on the Jungfrau Railway
Is progressing so rapidly that It will
probably be opened next year to Jung
frau Joch, where a station and hotel
accommodating 200 persons have been
hewn out of the solid rock.
Though
hydrophobia
has
been
stamped out of Britain, It Is still ram
pant In Germany, where every year
over 2,600 dogs and cats afflicted with
the disease are destroyed.
A patent on a horseshoe designed to
prevent the stumbling of horses was
granted In Panama four years ago.
FIRE BLIGHT IN APPLE TREES
A Brief Description o< the
and Its Cura.
Disease
By H. S. Jsckson. Orasen Amrissltsrsl Colleen.
Corvallis.
Fire blight is the most serious o f all
the diseases which attack the pear and
apple. It is a contagious disease o f
bacterial origin which, under proper
conditions, may attack any part o f the
tree. Besides the pear and apple, the
quince, wild crab apple, hawthorna,
mountain ash, servieeberry and some
other pomaceous trees' are subject to
attacks o f this disease.
Myriads o f germs are present in all
freshly blighted portions o f the tree
and in the sticky ooze exuding from
cankers. The germs live almost en
USB FOR OBSOLETE BATTLESHIPS.
table envy, general belief that a klud Providence had
tirely in the sappy portion o f the bark,
called tbe people of this land to dwell In a pretty good
l’ LAN for the fortification of Key West,
though in some vigorous-growing vari
place. Would an English novelist visiting America now
lately presented by a naval officer in a
eties o f pears the germs have been
service puolicatlon, contains an interest so write?
known to invade the sap wood to a
Yet If Americans to-day were called on to occupy
ing suggestion tor the practical use of ob
limited exten t Fire blight occurs in
the houses that satisfied In 1850 they would deem them
solete battleships in coast defenses. It
more or leas severity in nearly all
selves 111 used. In New Haven wages are nominally
is well known that a modern battleship
parts o f the United States where
four times higher than sixty years ago, and measure
deteriorates every year by comparative
pears and apples are grown.
In purchasing power twice as high. The average Amer
loss of speed and mobility, without losing power for of
In Oregon Are blight has appeared
ican stomach Is filled with more and better food, and
fense or detense.
in two general localities — one in the
the average American back Is covered with finer rai
After from ten to twenty years ships as powerful and
Southwestern part o f the state, includ
ment.
Impregnable aa ever have to be withdrawn from the
ing the Rogue River valley, the other
It Is the spirit rather than that with which ths spirit
fighting line because they cannot keep up with newer
in the Northeastern part.
exercises Itself which has changed for the worse. It
models In speed or agility. Yet if these ships could
Beginning in the spring the first ap
is now almost unfashionable to praise Amerlea, as for
fight at anchor, like the French fleet at the battle of
parent damage produced by the disease
merly It was deemed unpatriotic to have any doubts.
the Nile, they would be nearly as effective as ever. The
in an infeeted orchard is the blighting
Jefferson Brick was a most ridiculous person, but n u n
suggestion
we
have
referred
to
Is
that
tbey
should
fight
o f the blossoms. Infection is brought
be disappeared something of great value tended to go
at permanent anchor. The strategic position of Key
about by insects, principally bees,
West Is so important that It should be made an Ameri out of American life.— New York Globe.
which have visited a case o f hold-over
can Gibraltar to guard the Gulf and Carrlbean sea as
blight and become covered with the
BUCKET SHOPS,
that famous rock guards tbe Mediterranean. But Key
organisms contained in the sticky ex
AINTA1NLNU a stock-gambling office— li
West
Is
a
low
coral
Island,
surrounded
by
deep
lagoons
udation, inoculating the flowers in
other words, a bucket-shop— Is an offense
and coral reefs almost awash. The defenses of the
their search for nectar. The organ
against the United States laws. A bucket-
main
Island
have
so
little
command
that
outworks
are
isms divide and multiply in the nectar
shop Is a place where men make bets that
necessary
for
complete
security.
and are able to enter the living tissues
the price of a stock will rise or fall by
It
Is
proposed
to
obtain
such
outworks
at
a
cheap
through the unprotected nectaries.
offering to buy so many shares at such a
rate by stationing the old monitors In shallcw water on
Having entered the tissues they quick
price, or offering to sell a similar amount
these
outer
reefs
and
imbedded
each
solidly
In
earth
ly blight the blossoms, pass down the
at a similar price. There Is no expectation of buying
work
protected
by
rlprapptng.
That
will
make
of
each
blossom-stem and into the fruit spur,
the stock or of selling It; but the forms of such legiti
useless war vessel a stationary fort armed with two or
killing the tissues and cutting off the
mate business transactions are observed, and Innocent
four
10
or
12-inch
guns
in
turrets.
It
Is
further
sug
leaves from water supply, causing
people who desire to invest their money are thereby
gested that when our older battleships, from the OregoD
them to shrivel and dry, thus produc
duped into doing business with such places. They usu
class down to those Just before the Dreadnought class,
ing “ fruit spur b ligh t.” The latter
ally lose all the money they invest.
become obsolete for mobile service at sea, they ran be
occurs several weeks after blossom in
The Attorney General has lately secured Indictments
made cheaply and effectively useful by Imbedding them
fection.
In very serious cases nearly
against a group of men who have maintained 250 such
In artificial Islands in shallow water off harbors of
all the fruit spurs may be blighted in
gambling offices In various parts of the country, nnd be
■low and difficult approach, like those of New York and
this way and the trees set no fruiL
has announced htg purpose to prosecute them to ths
Hampton Roads. This would give to each long life as
Usually the germs die out and do not
full extent of the law. It is confidently expected tLat
a stationary fort after It had outlived Its usefulness as a
grow into the tw ig or branch on which
he will succeed In stopping their business as his prede
mobile battleship.— Farmers' Dispatch.
the spur occurs, but occasionally the
cessors under other laws stopped tbe Louisiana lot
germs may continue into the bark o f
tery. When the power of the national government Is
the branch at the base o f the fruit spur
THE OLD AMERICA.
directed against any seich evil aa these it Is much more
and form a typical canker. Fruit spurs
effective than when a single State or a single qlty at
N THE year 1850, about the time that
on the larger branches are a fruitful
Charles Dickens was engaged In his dys tempts to purge itself of offenders against the law.
source o f body infection and many
peptic tour of America. G. P. R. James,
The extent to which the bucket-shop business has
cases o f blight canker originate in
another English novelist, was an Ameri been developed Is almost Incredible, and the machinery
this way.
can visitor, and wrote a letter, sold at auc devised for entrapping the unwary Is shrewdly con
The name “ fire blight” is given to
tion lu New York last week. It is a docu structed. Not only did the bucket-shop operators do
this disease because o f the characteris
ment of interest to those outside the glo their business, nominally as “ stock brokers,” but tbey
tic appearance of pear foliage on twigs
maintained an organized stock exchange, on which
rious company of autograph collectors. Wrote James
or branches which have been killed by
enough legitimate business was done to make a showing
when at New Haven:
the organisms. The leaves turn black
of honesty and fair dealing.
"In passing through this land one sees no poverty,
as though scorched by fire and fre
But the chief patrons of these places were nothing
no squalid wretchedness, no hovels and old huta. Great
quently remain on the tree during the
good huinor, too, Is visible everywhere among the peo but gamblers. They did not want to buy or sell any
follow ing winter. It should be noted
thing, any more than does the man who bets on which
ple; each man seems to feel that by industry he can
that this color o f the foliage is charac
lump of sugar a fly will next light. The proprietors of
get on as well as another. There is little of that jealous
teristic o f the pear when it has been
the places allowed their patrons to win only enough to
rivalry, none of that Irritable envy that we see in older
killed during the growing season. If a
keep them Interested, but by a system o f secret wires
lands, where we are all struggling for that bread which
grower not familiar with the pear
secured advance Information from tbe legitimate stock
Is not sufficient for the whole.”
blight desires to known how the “ tw ig
Here is an echo of the old America. Great good hu exchanges which enabled them to prevent any customer
blight” looks let him girdle a tw ig in
from forcing them to lose.— Youth's Companion.
mor prevalent, a minimum of jealous rivalry and Irrl-
mid-summer and watch the results.
The cankers are also quite character
istic, but are very variable in appear
purchasing records from private in three or four inches of the shank or
ance.
The disease progresses most
dividuals. It. was’ ten years in the shaft.
*
rapidly in the fleshy outer layer o f the
making, consisting of 112 volumes.
How the plant Is known botanlcally,
bark and at first produces a watery
A set of 5,020 volumes in the Chi or whether It Is known at all, I am
appearance in the affected area. Later
nese department of the British mu unaware, but It bears a purple fruit,
the tissues of the bark are more or less
seum constitutes the largest book in quite the shape and about the size of
It Is not often that an author may
broken down and the cankers become
the world. It is an encyclopedia of a small olive, which I understand
listen to a perfectly sincere tribute to
dark in color.
the literature of China from 1000 B. C. is not itself poisonous.
his work, one which he may be sure
Besides the blight cankers found on
So armed, the Wanderoboo tack'e
to 1700 A. D.. a period of twenty-eight
is not Influenced either by friendship
the limbs and trunks, one frequently or courtesy. W. B. Woodgate, how centuries. The work in England was and kill anything, from the tiniest
finds in some varieties o f pears and ever, In his “ Reminiscences of an Old purchased for $6.000, being one of the buck up to elephant, their favorite tac
Spitzenberg apples a larger canker at Sportsman,” tells how he paid such a three copies in existence. It was forty tics a silent shot from a brush shelter
the surface o f the ground extending up compliment at a dinner at the Garrick years in compilation and was ordered built within five or ten yards of a
by Emperor Kang-he, who reigned much-used watering-place. Such prim
on the trunk for some distance and Club In London.
itive shooting covers one sees dally
down the large roots.
This condition
The company were all comparing from 1662 to 1722.
The smallest book in the world, not above springs and along streams In
is called “ collar rot,” and may result notes as to leading dramatic and lit
much larger than a man’s thumb nail, mountains and plains of the Wandero
from a blight canker
erary feats, and my opinion as to nov
was made in Italy, the text being a boo coutnry.
One of the prettiest models for a dainty
A pear tree when badly cankered is els was asked.
This particular arrow-head the old
letter, before unpublished, written by
little afternoon gown of batiste, is shown easily recognized at a distance in the
As nearly as I can remember, I said.
the inventor of the pendulum clock to bull carried would plainly have gone
above.
early autumn by the general reddish "You will laugh if I mention a novel
Mme. Christine of Lorraine in 1665. It much deeper had It not struck a rib,
The wee yoke is of fine ecru lace, the
that probably none of you ever read,
batiste being of that color, and there’ s cast to the foliage
is four-tenths of an inch long, a quar for as found, the thin head was bent
On the apple the foliage o f tw ig and and by a man named Jeaffreson, whom
just a. touch of light blue in the e m
ter o f an inch wide, contains 208 pages, almost to right angles with Its shank
fruit spur blight turns brown and dry. perhaps you never heard of, but which
broidery.
each with nine lines and from ninety- by contact with bone.
to my untutored mtnd has always
That it was a very old wound was
five to one hundred letters.
Next
One o f the most fruitful sources of
Struck me as head and shoulders over
infection has been by the pruning
smallest is an edition of Dante’s "D i obvious, for not only had it entirely
•‘ A M i t e T o o r r y l n g . ”
ninety-nine out of a hundred; a book
shears or saw.
In pruning, if an
vine Comedy." a little less than an healed, except local Irritation about the
called, 'Live It Down.' The third vol
Buahby had many natural advan
active canker is cut into, the tools be
inch wide, with type so small that it head, but In places where the hard
ume especially is to my mind unsur
tages and beauties, but Mrs. Abner
come infected and serve as inoculating
takes a microscope to read the letters. black enamel-Uke coating of the poison
passed for denouement of plot and
Crane, who was a brief sojourner in
was worn away tbe shank was much
instruments to spread the disease.
sketch of character.”
the place, having been there only a
rusted.
The only method known o f control
Such was my speech, delivered slow
matter of ten years or so, never appre
ling fire blight is to cut out all cases
A D o c k I ln r il t o K i l l .
ciated it.
“ She was aching to get of cankers wherever they appear. ly and deliberately;
There was a strained silence in the
The screaming Walloon is a hard
back to Nashuy the whole enduring Spraying with fungicides is of only
duck to kill. Its hide ts very toujrh
time," said one of Mrs. Crane's Bushby supplementary value and the various room as I concluded. Then some one
asked, solemnly and pointedly.
and Is thickly covered with feathers
neighbors, "and I was glad to see her ■ blight cures are worse than useless.
The famous poisoned arrow o f the and down.
“ Is that meant for a jest. Mr. Wood-
Besides, the bird Is a
go, feeling as she did."
Experience has shown that it is o f
African savage is not always so dead great diver, one of the kind that used
"What was It she didn't like a)>out little permanent value to attempt to gate?"
"Jest! W hy? Not at all. I read the ly a weapon as it sounds. In fact. It to “ dive at the flash” when hunted
Bush by?" asked one of the summer i cut out the fruit spur and tw ig blight
After with the old arm that flashed when
book In my Oxford days, but have may be absolutely harmless.
residents, curiously.
1 as they appear.
Unless these forms
"She said she ‘didn't get the news o' o f the disease extend into thq branches never forgotten and have more than having killed an old buffalo bull near fired. It Is of very little value for
the day quick enough to suit her,’ ” on which they occur and a canker is once reread It, and hold to what I say, the N'gari Kitl swamp, says E. B. table use, being so tough. The only
quoted the neighbor, with as near an formed the disease usually becomes though I do not claim to be a judge Bronson In his recent book, “ In Closed way to manage It at all is to skin It
Territory,” he noticed a small black and parboil It Ip a big pot with plenty
Imitation of Mrs Crane's air as she naturally limited and the germs gradu- of such matters.
"Perhaps you aré not aware, then, shaft about the diameter of a slate- of water. The negroes make caps of
could manage.
i ally die.
pencil standing perpendicularly out, of Walloon skins.
“ As 1 said to my Asy, what on earth
The efforts o f the grower should be that Mr. Jeaffreson is sitting beside
the animal's right loin, near the spine,
she wanted more than we have in the directed to cutting out all cases o f you?"
“ They are great ducks for diving,"
I «-ns takon nbark, and lookod at ami six Inches In front of the hip. One says a well known Tred Avon river
way o’ news spreaders here, I don’t blight canker and body canker during
o f tbe natives said, wltti a laugh, progger. “ They ran dive quicker, go
know.
the fall, winter and early spring, when my rl^hr taancf nrljjhbor.
“The other aide," I was Instructed: "Other hunters have been out Ions I down deeper, remain under water long
"When you consider that there are the cankers have become more or less
five telephones in town, a grocery wa limited in their growth and are not and I faced the left-hand guest, with before you, Bwana, but their resas er and come up farther away than
whom 1 had been having much Inter (cartridge) was not as good a3 yours; any other duck that frequents our
gon driven by Lucy Grant's boy twice actively spreading.
that Is a Wanderoboo poisoned arrow.” waters. I remember once I succeeded
a week, Lucy Grant herself to sew for
Summer cutting it intelligently ap esting conversation.
Cordy Jeaffreson smiled benignly as | It was true, as we found proved, when, in killing a Walloon, and, being short
everybody In town by the day, and all plied is frequently o f great Value,
taking milk from Jed Kimball, I don’t particularly whore thcrans only » little I stammered apologies for my person after five minutes' rutting and tugging, o f game for the table, 1 determined to
know how we could be any better Might.
In the autjfTnn before the ality in defining him as “ probably un the arrow-head was withdraw from the cook my bird I got a negro to skin it,
giving him the hide for his trouble.
fixed. I rail anybody that wants more leaves fall is a gooaVtime to do the cut known.’’ Of course I was aware that bull's tough hack muscles.
It was a remarkable example of the | After being cleaned we put It In a
news 'o the day than Buahby folks get ting, as all eases o f tw ig blight are a writer of that name had written
"The Real Lord Byron,” and had a great power of the Wanderoboo bow. great pot full of water and under It
a mite too prying myself.'*
i easily observed.
After awhile I
The trees should be particularly e x high literary status, but had no idea From Its sharply barbed point to Its kindled a hot fire.
fain (III«*il i it K I I I« l li - n r t .
amined for cases o f the collsr rot.
It that he was identical with the author base the arrow head was five and a wanted to see how the cooking o f my
•Dear papa.” wrc I f the little girl at is this form o f the diseasq that causes of the novel in question.
half Inches long, and four and a halt duck progressed and lifted the top off
the summer resort. "I have gained alx
He took the episode good-humoredly, inches of Its length had been driven the boiling pot. but there was so much
killed outright.
ounces In weight since ' e came here. many trees to
In cutting ou t cankers it is neces and vowed that it was a genuine com through the half inch hide and on into steam escaping I could not see Into
Mamma sends her love, Please writs
the pot and struck a match over It.
to us to-morrow. Send •our love and sary that ths tools be kept moist pliment to him. He had written the the heavy muscles o f the loin.
Since tt stood iierpendicularly in the The blamed Walloon, sir. dived at the
all the money you can a >nre."—Chlca- with some good disinfectant. If this novel, he said. In his youth, and then
go Tribune.
| it not done each cut will reinocúlate had settled to more serious literature loin. It must have been shot Into the flaah of the match. It disappeared and
bull while he was passing beneath a has never been seen since.”— Baltimore
; the germs into the bark at the edges
W h l l r t h e S p a r r o w t’ o p l . o o k e d O a .
INTERESTING VOLUMES.
tree, or when he was drinking directly Sun.
o f the canker and the labor may thus
Ardly Keap—W'y don't ys roll fur-
below some overhanging bank, both
l>e useless.
t h p l . : i rar«*«it, f l u * S n m l l c M
n m l Itie
I*ri»«>t l« * n l I W I r y .
der along under de tree, an' git out
method* of attack favorites of the
Corrosive sublimate in a solution of
M o a t K n t r n * l » p ll«»i»k l* u b ll« s h e « l.
•* de sunshine?
"Pa, here's a piece of poetry that
light-armed
Wanderoboo.
Solon Uoddey—Too Mams much like ; one part to one thousand o f water has
The largest bound book ever made
says something about a ‘moated
! l-een found to be the most satisfactory was owned by Queen Victoria, says
While the Wanderoboo poison Is grange.' What is a ‘moated grange,’
work.
j disinfectant. The solution is a violent the New York Sun. It weighs sixty deadly to b.
within
five
to
twenty
.XiHhlnv New.
poison. It must be kept in glass.
three pounds and la eighteen inches minutes whi rn it is fresh, applied to ar-
“ Lemme look at It. I guess that
“ Has your wife foun.l a house yet?"
row-heads tn thii dry climate. It cakes
thick.
must be a misprint for "garage.’ A
“ No. I ou see, w ere nio'cil so efien
Information Free to Orchardiste. i
For the Hebraic blble In the Vatican to the hardness of enamel In a few moated garage Is one that's designed
¡ n <tl' n V f ''"her tn'fln' t' a nlaeo with
The Department o f Entomology and In 1612 the Jews offered Pope Julius weeks and beciui os harmless. Luckily
That's It.— Cleveland
Impossible or her o * * ■
Plant Pathology o f the Agricultural IT. Its w eight In gold—*100.000; but for the old bull, it was evidently such for motors.
Plain Dealer.
some Improvement that we na/en t nail n ..
.
J ...
^
*
... ,
an old dlsenvcix tned arrow that had.
*t one time or a n other."-D etrolt F re.
at C orv.ll.z, Oregon will be the pope would not part with It.
I glnd to answer inquiries relating to
F r o l lir a s .
More expensive even. If not more perhaps by mist :ak*w or as the last In
—-------------------------- insect pests or plant disease« at any
Little W illie— Pa, wbat does this pa
valuable. Is the official history of the the quiver, been driven into him.
Otojeciiiin
¡tim e. Always include with your in- war of the rebellion Issued by the
Th« i>oUon
nade from the bark of per mean by saying It was a fruitless
Judge—Tha witness told all that quiries as full a description o f the United 8iates government at a roet o f a bush much like a laurel, which is search?
happened on th« second floor.
trouble as possible and send apeelmena nearly 13,000.000. Nearly one-half of boiled down and down until It be
Father— It probably applies, my son,
why do you ohjeet to hla telling what , f or examination. Address'Department
this amount was paid for printing comes a thick, gummy, concentrated to the quest of some man who was
happened on **• *h,f*'* door?
1 - —
~ Y
j Entomoh.gy and Plant-Pathology
•nd binding and the rest for salaries, extract. So prepared. It la thickly looking for pineapples on a pine tree.
Counsel— - B e « ú . r 'í f It "pícase your 1 n
New
honor, that 1 . another s to r y .- B r o o * . O ***»" A gricu ltu ral - College, Corval- rent, stationery and such expenses as smeared over the barbed
1 is. Oregon.
lyn Eagle.
FASHION HINTS
KM
A
|M |
¡Ü g
A U t - n r r .1 P ia r ir o r e P o n l t r r l l i . e a e .
This building U 14 feet wide, and
can be as long as desired, adding an
other set or sets of rooms and sheds
at 6ne or both ends. The construc
tion la simple, but durable. Outside
walls are covered on outside and In
side with light weight prepared roof
ing. placed on cheap lumber. Plaster
board may be substituted for the In
side. Studs are 2x2, and there are
two sets; waterproof paper being
placed between them. Thus a double
air apace Is secured. Rafters are of
; 2x4, and may be stripped beneath
■ and practically the same construction
used aa for the sides: using thicker
roofing. So constructed, the building
will be very warm.
Foundation la of stone, brick or
grout. Floors are of cement, covered
with dry sand.
Broken stone, well
tamped as for macadam road la
cheaper than cement, and makes a
fair substitute.
The ventilators, be
ing placed In the warmest parts of
rooms will draw. Windows have sash
lio o n
fu
llu r a e a .
If horse« had means of expressing
their thanks they would probably unite
and send a resolution of gratitude to
the Pennsylvania man
who
invented
tb e
horseshoe s h o w n in
the sketch. The horse
shoe has a series of
parallel ridges on its
heel aud toe portions.
The ridges on the toe
portion run parallel to
the longitudinal axis of the shoe
and those on the heel portion run
transversely. These ridges form a se
ries o f recesses adapted to receive and
retain snow or dirt; thus forming a
bearing surface for the shoe and mak
ing the horse surer of his footing.
Running In opposite directions as they
do the corrugations act as a sort of
brake In whichever way the animal’s
feet may happen to slip and the whole
effect Is to prevent snow or dirt "cak*
ing" oil the flat of the shoe.
I lr a n
w it h
A lfa lfa
fu r
C ow «.
At the Massachusetts station, with
new milch cows, a supplementary ra
tion of bran gave slightly superior re
sults to one of alfalfa meal. With the
bran ration the cows gave 1.6 per cent
more milk and 3.1 per cent more but
ter. The several feedstuffs were fig
e x l e k i o s v i e w or p o u l t r y h o u s e .
ured at the same price per pound, ex
with some glass, but mostly filled with cepting the wheat bran and alfalfa;
heavy muslin. This lets In a fair the former cost $22 and the latter $30
amount of light, and air enough to a ton In the market. On this basis
prevent dampness.
By using two the alfalfa ration would increase the
courses of cloth It will be fully as cost of inllk and butter some 9 per
warm as one of glass, and Insure a cent. If the bran and alfalfa were
| dry building.
figured at the same price per ton the
One room has a double row of food cost of the product would vary
nests, with wire partition above. very slightly. Owing to the excess of
When a hen wants to Bet, her nest fertilizer ingredients, especially nitro
ts pushed through tnto small room, and gen. In the wheat bran, the bran ra-
SECURING PROPER GRADE.
To obtain an even grade In trenches where tiles are to be laid, stretch
lines across the ditch five feet above the bed. The lines are tied securely
to stakes on either aide of the ditch. White cotton rope one-fourth Inch In
diameter Is the best kind to make easy sighting. The proper hitch on the
stakes Is Bhown tn the lower Illustrations. In practice a mark can be mads
on the long handle of the shovel five feet from the point and the sighting
done without delay as the work goes on.
replaced by the one opposite; the door
being closed.
A small door leads to
an exercise yard.
Partition door Is
open, except when raising Chickens.
Scratching sheds have earth floors, and
are enclosed by wire fencing, with
doors. In winter muslin can be added,
making the sheds warm, and not ex
cluding the sun.
The brooder room has a wood floor.
Beneath Is a basement for Incubator.
By a stove In room above and tbe
double flue chimney both can be kept
at any desired temperature, and the
air pure. A trap door covers stair
way. Basement has windows on both
sides. Entrance Is from north, while
south side Is taken up by yards,—
"farm, Stock and Home.
tlon would furnish a somewhat richer
manure. This fact should not be en
tirely lost sight of In comparing tbe
merits of the two feeds.
F e llln ir T r e e «
by
K le c tr lc lty .
According to a statement Issued by
the Slemens-Schuckert Company of
Berlin, the felling of trees by means
of wires heated by electric currents,
which has been described In various
newspapers, cannot be accomplished in
a practical and economical manner, for
the follow ing reasons: The wire, to
cut effectively, must be very tightly
stretched and It Is therefore very li
able to rupture, In consequence of Its
high temperature. The redhot wire
carnonlzea the wood, and the charcoal.
If allowed to accumulate, protects the
Interior parts from the heat of the
T h e J oe S tra w b erry .
The Joe strawberry has had quite ex wire. In order to remove the char
tensive trail and everywhere made coal, the wire must be roughened and
a good record.
It la a
mid moved to and fro lengthwise, so that
season to late berry, and under the operation Is still a sort of sawing,
favorable conditions grows to the and the motion and roughening in
crease the liability to rupture.
T r a p n e a tn a n d
H ry
Fred.
Prof. Chambers, referred to In oui
last Issue, ascribes his success to In
telligent feeding, good care and trap
nesting. His hens receive dry feed
entirely.
He gives a light feed o f
whole wheat and corn three times a
day, scattering the grain in the litter.
He keeps before his hens all the time
In self-feeding hoppers, a dry mash
made of the following mixture:
Pounds.
Bran ....................................................... 200
Alfalfa meal ......................................... 200
Corn meal ............................................. 100
Shorts ......................
100
Linseed meal ....................................... 100
Meat, bone and blood....................... lob
All these are mixed with a little
salt and cayenne pepper.
largest size. One berry Is recorded
as weighing more than two ounces.
The plant Is large and very vigorous
and healthy In growth. The berry ts
regular In shape and among the most
beautiful In general appearance. It la
l -l m l ll n ic th e F lo rlc .
also of high flavor. If you have a
Where the farmer himself work«
heavy, rich soil and will mulch the with poultry as he does with hogs or
plants well, you can raise some prize- cattle, 200 hens should be the mini
winning berries from the Joe.—Orange mum limit o f the flock, and more than
l u d d Farmer.
this number can be handled with profit
If the farmer understands the buel-
ffow lnar C o ir p e a « .
ness and has some hired help. Both
The caw pea is sometimes sown In eggs and market poultry are very high
combination with other crops, such aa and any farmer can make as much or
corn. Kaffir corn and sorghum, for hay. more from poultry as he can with any
When planted In these combinations other farm animals. If he puts thought
there Is danger o f the eowpeas becom and work Into the business.
ing stunted In growth If the crop with
which it Is combined Is planted too
M ilk fo r P o n ltr y .
thick. Sown broadcast, eowpeas often
Poultry and dairy farming go well
make little growth with these crops, together. Milk fed to poultry In all
but when planted In rows with corn forms, produces good results. How
and cultivated the growth la quite sat- ever, care should be taken to keep th*
■sfactory.
dishes clean and aweet.
A xrrn gr
Y i e l d o f O a ts .
According to the Crop Reporter, Is
sued by the United Statea Department
of Agriculture, the average oat yields
per acre for ten year« were as follows;
Russia, 18.4 bushels: France, 28.1; Aus
tria, 28.6; United States, 29.1; United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
44.7; and Germany, 47.2. Tbe three
great crops o f wheat last year were:
United State«, 807,156,000 bushels: Ger
many, 530,121.000 bushels; and Russia,
834.502 bushels. The world'« crop wee
2,600,524.000 bushels, and In axceas of
, either corn or wheal
X V e la h t
of
Freds
by
Q u a rt«,
Dairymen especially will be Inter
ested In knowing the weight of the
several feeds by quarts. Inasmuch as
In compounding dairy rations, ths
terms are expressed in pounds: Cot
tonseed oil, 1.5 pounds; linseed meal,
old process, 1.1 pounds; gluten meal,
1.7 pounds; gluten feed, 1.2 pounds;
wheat bran, coarse, 6-laths pound;
wheat
middlings,
coarse,
8-lOths
pound; wheat middlings, line, 1.1
pounds; mixed wheat feed, 1-lOthf
pound; corn meal, 1.5 pounds; Data
1.2 pounds; rye bran, 2-10the pound.