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Farm Poultry Ifonae. For a farmer's poultry house I know of nothing that will give better sat isfaction than a moveable colony house, such as Is used at Macdonald College, Que., a photo and plan of )m&miMLwmfH .11 fair LV. VAI'.l .TV Mi',lsVHr W Ji.lH JM FRONT VIEW. which accompanies. This house is 8x 12 feet, floor built on two skids and accommodates 25 hens and 3 males in the winter and half as many more during the summer. A team of horses can draw It to any part of the 'farm that may be desired. This gives fresh ground to the hens, and feed that might otherwise go to waste, can be made use of. For farm use the stud ding need not be so high, and the house can be built of available mate rial. A loose board celling over which Is placed straw provides for the ab sorption of moisture and even In the 00 4 ivrj i blr-HH-2!l M " , " ' H T PLAN OF INTERIOR. coldest "days, hens are quite comfort able. A farmer can. add to his equip ment one house at a time, and gradu ally work up to the desired number. F. C. Elford. Cocklebur a. A good many farmers are still strug gling with the cocklebur nuisance. It is possible to rid the ranch of this pest in one year and realize a profit on the ODeratlon. Any time before the weeds have attained much height taka a dIow and harrow to the field nnri hefore the day is done sow one and one-half bushels of good kafflr corn to each acre plowed. Harrow well and the next day repeat the oper- 'ation until the cocklebur territory has hpen thnrouehlv covered. When the kafflr seed is in the dough mow or hind with a harvester and you will have one of the very best crops or roughage to be had. Remove this crop from the field as soon as convenient Two years or so of this kind of tillage will rlean out the burs and tne opera tion Is certainly worth while. Denver Field and Farm. Pnmn for the Garden. A good pump should be part of the equipment of every garden. For the small garden a good bucket, com nrpssprl air or knaDsack pump will be most satisfactory, while for larger gardens a barrel pump, with an at tachment for spraying several rows when occasion demands, or an auto matic pump geared to the wheels of the truck, will be found more economi rol nf t!m and labor. The small compressed air sprayer is handy, as it leaves both hands free for use, ana Is, therefore, useful if.it Is desired to cnrav two or three small trees, possl- bly with the use of a stepladder to reach their tops. Fertilizer. Fertilizers may be divided Into two eeneral classes direct and Indirect, or nutritive and stimulant. A direct or nutritive fertilizer is one which furnishes nourishment to the growing crop. Nourishment means simply ni trogen, phosphoric acid and potash. These are the three ingredients which must be renewed through the medium of manures and fertilizers. A stimu lant or indirect fertilizer is one which does not furnish an actual plant food to the soil, but by its stimulating ac tion renders available some plant food which previously existed In the soil in an insoluble or unavailable condl tion. Sowing Orchard Crm. If orchard grass Is not sown thickly It will not be a success. Three bush els to the acre should be used. - Or chard grass Is more vigorous than tim othy, with a stronger root system; but If a permanent meadow Is ex tracted It must be top-dressed freely. Horiei and Corn Growing. In growing corn one of the factors that is seldom rated at Its true worth is first-class motive power. Anyone who has plowed, harrowed, planted and cultivated with an Ill-matched, short-weighted, high-strung team knows how difficult it is to do good work. Ko farm hand thus handicapped can render a service that is satisfac tory to a good .farmer. Farm teams should be evenly matched as to age, size and temperament. "Weight is es sential. Teams should be big enough to keep a reserve power constantly on tap; they should draw any imple ment with ease and at a steady, lively pace. If they are of standard draft type and are shifted occasionally from one class of service to another they will go through the season with out breakdowns. This depends, how ever, to a large extent on how they are fed and managed. Much depends also on the ease and comfort which they enjoy in the collar; sore necks and galled shoulders, due to poorly fitted collars, prove serious obstacles to good, continuous work. Corn-belt farms should be equipped with heavy draft teams; , the highest type of di versified agriculture in that territory depends on this reliable, efficient mo tive power. Big horses bear a close relationship to a big corn crop. Chi cago Live Stock World. THE OPERA IN PARIS THE GRANS STAIRCASE. Dlppng stock for Lice. There are various kinds of sto-k dips, and most of them are good. The'.r use is becoming more common because their value is better known than for merly. Almost every stockman has animals that a-e not thrifty, and be don't know the reason why. It very often happens that such animals firp troubled with parasites of some kind, perhaps several kinds. They are too small to be seen with the naked eye, and the farmer tries different kinds of medicines, when an outside appli cation of some disinfectant Is the only remedy needed. When stockmen once learn the value of dipping they need no further encouragement. They keep on dipping twice a year, because they know it pays both in dollars and . in satisfaction. r We have found crude .oil one of the best and most effective louse killers and disinfectants. It makes an ex cellent dip for swine. It will remove all of the old scales and scurf and im prove the general appearance of the herd. When mixed with crude carbolic acid at the rate of one gallon' of crude carbolic acid to fifty gallons of crude oil it makes a cheap and effective dis infectant for use in the hog houses, hen houses and water holes in the hog lot where hogs are accustomed to wallow. It will, when used alone, prove a very cheap oil to use on farm machin ery when it is stored away for winter. It can be used with safety as a fly repellant on all farm animals by the use of sprayers, and will prove as well adapted to that purpose as many of the more expensive dips and mixtures. For cuts and bruises on farm animals it is excellent and can be used with safety. Use on cows' teats when sore. Agricultural Epltomlst. Testing Milk. In some sections many of the best dairymen are adapting the Holland plan of combining and hiring men to visit each herd one day in the monfh and test the milk of each cow, thus giving the owners an idea of which cows are the ones that are paying for their keep. This plan is a very sen sible one and should be encouraged The cost is comparatively small, a3 the tester boards with the family while he Is doing his work and Is car ried to the next place the day he has completed his work. This insures reg ularity in the work. In Michigan this plan has greatly Increased the average production per cow. Wisconsin, too, has taken up this matter. It Is good business and it may become popular, but some of our dairymen are hard to turn from the beaten paths of their fathers. Farmers and Drovers' Jour nal. When Orchard! Fail. The ashes from apple, pear ana peach trees contain about 70 per cent of lime, and the crops of fruit borne every year also contains lime. When orchards fall it is always profitable to apply lime, and it should be done at least once in five years. Wood ashes are preferable to lime for orchards, but the lime is much cheaper. Lime will also prove of benefit to grass that may be growing In an orchard, and It Is destructive to certain grubs and other orchard enemies. It is best ap plied by plowing the orchard land and broadcasting the lime over the sur face. Feeding Sheep. There are several points In feeding sheep that must not be overlooked. The feed lot must be dry, with plenty of clean, dry bedding; the animals must have plenty of rlc i. pure water, and he feed troughs should be kept clean. These should be. arranged so that the sheep cannot foul thera with their feet. Another point Is to keen them from becoming excited or fright ened. To this end it Is better that onu person feed them all the time. Encoorafclo Forestry. New York State has taken a prac tical way of encouraging forestry. Twin? the nast planting season more than 1,000,000 seedlings were distrib uted at cost throughout the state for planting. Where it 13 desired and Is found feasible, the services of a fore man are furnished to direct the plant ing, the state bearing a share of his expenses. The seedlings were of pine and spruce and were supplied to 143 persona. A SPECTACULAR VIEW IN THE PARIS OPERA HOUSE. Perhaps at no other point can so vivid an impression of the riches and grace of the French capital be gained as at the foot of the grand staircase leading to the interior of the opera house at Paris. The exterior of the building with its colonnade lit with blue mercury lights is familiar to everyone who has been to Paris, but until the visitor has witnessed this scene of shimmering satin and sparkling jewels he will have missed a re markable sight which only the opera can show him. felSkfcience- Arkansas leads among the states in the Droductlon of bauxite, her output being more than 60 per cent of the total last year. Holland has a new law forbidding the adulteration of butter, under pan- alty of imprisonment, which may reach one year. The brilliancy .of a limelight used In a demonstrating lantern can be in creased by slipping It over an oral- nary gas mantle. The United States government main tains fifty-seven wireless telegraph stalons and has ninety-six vessels fitted out with the apparatus. A professorship of aerostatics has been founded in Gettinge'n Universi ty, and schools for training aeronauts are, to be established in several Ger man cities. The word "tunsstoller" . has been coined to define the fixture used to hold a eroun of tungsten electric lights In proper position to give the best service. Austria limits the number of drug stores to the number of Inhabitants of a district or city, and the need of an additional one must be clearly shown before the license Is issued. The geological survey i3 erecting at Pittsbure a testing plant for structu ral material that will be able to han dle girders 65 feet long and give them a tension of 10,000,000 pounds. Government tests have shown that many coals which are too high in ash and sulphur for economical use under boilers or for cooking may be made commercially valuable by proper wash ing. Messrs. Henri and Stodel recently demonstrated to the French Academy of Sciences the practicability of steril izing milk by means of the ultraviolet rays emitted by mercury vapor lamps. Milk thus treated can be completely sterilized in the cold. At the same meeting of the , academy Mons. A. Gascard showed that milk to which potassium bichromate has been added as a preservative keeps much better in the dark. The Yana language of northern Cali fornia renresents a distinct linguistic stock, and had formerly three dialects, one of which Is now extinct. It pos sesses two forms of speech, one of which 13 employed by men speaking to men, while the other is used in all other cases. Practically, the language has only nouns and verbs, the adjecti Ives, adverbs, numerals, Interrogative pronouns and conjunctions being form ed from the verbs. In the Calaveras National Forest there are two groves of big trees. In the North Grove, In Calaveras County, there are ten trees each having a diameter of 25 feet or over, and more than seventy having a diameter rang ing between 15 and 25 feet. The tree called the "Father of the Forests," which now lies on the ground, Is esti mated to have had a height of 450 feet, and a diameter, at the ground, of more than 40 feet. The bark on these trees runs from 6 Inches to 2 feet In thickness. Besides the giant sequoias, there are hundreds of sugar pines and yellow pines from 8 to 10 feet In diameter, and ranging to 275 feet in height. After you get a dollar In your clutches the talat soon evaporates. Good at Any Station. Tough Looking Passenger (present ing ticket) Can I get a. itopoft on this? Conductor (Inspecting It) More than than; you get a kickofC (Pulls bell rope.) Thlrat for Knowledge. "I will wait a moment," said the tem perance lecturer at the close of his speech, "to answer any questions you may wish to ask." "Can a person get drunk on sauer kraut?" inquired an earnest woman in the fcudience whose husband had signed the pledge. Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnilow Boothlnff Byrup the best remedy to Use fox their children luring the teethiiig period. Horn Carelea. He There was nearly a bad fire at the theater. She How was that? He The villain lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the snow! Comic Cuts. Practical PatrlotUm. The thing for you to do now Is to get busy so that you will have an in come tax to be taxed when all the States agree to It That's true patriot Ism. Indianapolis News. Lame back and Lumbago make a young man feel old. Hamlins Wizard Oil makes an old man feel young. Ab solutely nothing like it for the relief of all pain. Print of Man. "There is such a masculine touch about the dresses she wears." "You mean that smudgy streak of finger marks along the line of buttons in the back?" Houston Post- Experience in England shows that In towns supplied with soft water the death rate is 19.2, while in towns that have a supply of hard water it is only 16.5. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! ARNOLD'S TREASON EXPECTED. Revolutionary Letter Lately Sold Tells of IIU Tory Friendship. An interesting historical letter, re lating to Benedict Arnold's treason, Gen. Gates' disastrous campaign In the Southern States and the appoint ment of Gen. Nathanael Greene to suc ceed him there, fetched ?55 at Free man's in Philadelphia a few days ago, the New York Times says. The letter was written to Greene from Philadel phia, Oct. 5, 1780, by Charle3 Petit, a member of the continental congress, who also was assistant to Greene while the latter was quartermaster general. In regards to the West Point treason Petit wrote: "I cannot say that Gen. Arnold's treason, so far as respects his turn ing tory and deserting the American cause, was any great surprise to me. The constant and uniform tenor of his conduct in this city looked strongly that way, and the court he paid to the tori'es was too plain and evident and too universal to arise from any other motive than the laying of a foundation for joining them at some day or other, but the magnitude of his treason and the extent of his plan, I must confess, startle and amaze me: I could scarcely have conceived that the pride of an ambi tious man and that sense of honor, or at least the pretension to it, which every man of station thinks himself bound to wear the appearance of, whether he really feels it or not, would have prevented a man of his situation to rush at once into a vil lainty so atrocious and degrading to human nature. But he seems to have been determined not to be a little vil lain. Nothing short of the highest rate could satisfy him, and in this he has shown his courage, though his plan has failed. I shall at present add only one reflection upon this af fair, and that Is that I consider It as a public benefit not only that the plot has been so seasonably discover ed, but that the attempt has been made." In writing about Gen. Gates' South ern campaign Petit says: "The Southern gentlemen particularly seem ed desirous that Gen. Greene should be appointed. The Southern people are strongly prejudiced against a Cale donian (Gen. St. Clair), having an ugly pest of them In their own bow els in North Carolina." Bears the Signature Worms "Cascarets are certainly fine. I trave a friend one when the doctor was treating him for cancer of the stomach. The next morning he passed lour pieces 01 a cape worm. He men got a dox and in three davs he passed a tap-worin 45 fact long. It was Mr. Matt Freck, of Millersburg, lMuphin Co., Pa. I am quite a worker for Casca rets. 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But when we bend for ward, straining every nerve to catch the actor's or preacher's muffled syl Iables, then we find ourselves coughing every little while. Build auditoriums with perfect acoustic properties, and 1 warrant that the thunderous choruses of coughs, so common now among us, will be no more heard." Test Poaalbllitlea. "I have Just had an Invitation to an electrical tea to be given by a worn an doctor," said the bachelor girl. "I'm looking forward to It and wondering what Is going to happen to us wheth er she will give us a little battery and let us entertain ourselves, make the tea on an electric stove, or just electrocute the bunch of us." Ilia Little Kick. "In this matter of quick thinking," said the base ball umpire, "all the bou quets go to the players; and yet we fel lows have to think as quick as they do, if not a little quicker. If a player works his thinker too slow all he gets is an error. If I do it I get a pop bottle." Chicnco Tribune. 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