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. Utilizing Barn Koom. Barns are expensive. It therefore be hooves farmers to make the best use of all the room that they afford. If the barn has a basement, that will nat urally be used as stable room for farm stock In winter." But if the stock be confined in stalls, as k always should be, H will not prevent separate com partments for storing vegetables and roots, and etill others for storing farm implements, which may with care be made to occupy a very small Surface space by hanging up the lighter ones and laying still others over those that are too heavy to rest on anything except the floor of concrete or soil. . This room should be closely secured to prevent fowls from getting In and soiling the machinery, besides seriously damaging It with their excrement. Many a farm er who leaves half his farm Implements exposed to rains and snows can find a place In the barn basement for them If he will give some thought to making the most of the room that the barn basement affords. American Cultiva tor. -. 1 . Be Cultivation. Bees won't touch alfalfa till sweet clover has done blossoming. .1 find quite a change in the minds of some of my neighbors. They are beginning to think that sweet clover is a pretty good thing, after all. I have sold some seed to one, and two others are talking of sowing some. It will grow on our poor est land, and make a good crop, and choke out all the weeds we have in this country, Including sand burrs and cockle burrs. If It were of no other use, it would pay well as a fertilizer. But It is a splendid hay crop, and, In my opin ion, there is nothing better for honey. I have about ten acres seeded down for next year. I put several acres in the corn at the last cultivating, and have a nice stand. You see, by putting it in the corn, we have the crop the next season. If sown in the fall, It will come up early the next spring, and make a good growth that season, but not seed. I al ways sow the seed with the hull on. Bee Gleanings. ' Device for a Two-Ma Saw. A cross-cut saw or two-man saw can be adjusted so that one man can saw as much wood as two arid 'as easily as CROSS-CUT SAW DEVICE. with a man at each end. The arrange ment is a piece of board, b, 1x3 inches, with a hole in each end to fit tightly over the handles,' and a slot, a, In one end to straddle the blade. When logs are not too thick this can be readily manipulated.-Farm and Home. The Value of Iran. It is not alone for Its nutrition that wheat bran is valuable, though it con tains considerable of the nitrogenous element of the wheat. This, however, is not so large a proportion as it used to be under the old system of bolting the wheat, reserving only the stafch for flour. The best flour Is now much dark er than formerly. It contains the germ and considerable of the gluten, though some of this still goes with the bran. But wheat bran is an excellent alter native for all stock fed largely on mea dow hay. , For milch cows it should be made into a mash with warm water. It will increase the milk secretion and will make the cow poor if she does not have grain with it to supply the butter fats in which bran Is deficient. Ex. One Tear'a Poultry Returns. These fowls are kept solely for my own pleasure at my country home in Tarry town; but, I think my statement is a good showing for an amateur, and may interest your "Farmer's Daugh ter" and others who read your valuable paper The fowls number 123, includ ing cocks, cockerels, hens and pullets. The dally egg product varied from 20 to 5S, and reached, in the twenty-nine days, a .total of 1,160. During this time two hens hatched 19 chicks, and six hens were sitting. Therefore, leaving out the sitting hens, cocks and cock erels, I had from 106 laying hens 1,169 eggs' la twenty-nine days. Country Gentleman. n . Desirable Horses. There will ever be a demand for the ten-hundred-pound family horse, elec tric roads and bicycles notwithstand ing.. This is the only all-round horse equally good In the carriage 8-ad on the farm, and the cost of such in the matter of keeping till three years old is but little, if any more than the cost of one $teer, and will bring In the market three or four times as much. New England Farmer. Milking Machines. In the New York Tribune "Practical Farmer" says that the tubes of milk ing machines cannot be kept clean. The machine I was familiar with could be fitted up to milk the 200-cow dairy In five minutes, instead of over six hours, and there Is no difficulty in keeping ev erything about it sweet. It is also a complete manipulator. The calf's bunting is thoroughly Imitated. It Is so simple that a boy or girl, of 15 could work it. ' It is manufactured In Scot land, and Is a decided success. Every large dairy should have one, as It saves the cost of Itself in a short time. The milk keeps longer, as It does not get contaminated with bacteria, being In an air-tight bucket. It can be carried and cooled over the refrigerator ready for shipment inside of an hour for the whole performance. 1 A Safety Ladder. Ladders in use about the farm year after year are likely to become worn and loosened from wear, and to make this fact known in conveniently when some one Is ascend ing or descending them. A "round" breaks, or slips out of Its socket, or the whole ladder " spreads." More over, farm ladders are usually so heavy as to be very 1 n c o n venlent to use. An Improved ladder Is shown In the sketch. It has three uprights, each small in width and thickness, because the three pieces give great strength and stiffness. The "rounds," being suDDorted in the SAFETY LADDER. middle, can be made somewhat lighter than is usually done. To keep the lad der from spreading at the ends and in the middle, a light iron, rod is put through the ladder and fastened with a nut, as shown in the diagram. A ladder should have an iron brad fastened to each upright, at the base, to keep it from slipping, as this Is one of the most common dangers to be feared in the use of ladders. American Agriculturist. 1 Feeding; Grain to Hens. , Some hens are greedy, and seize the food to prevent other bens from secur ing their share. It is such hens that become overfat and finally cease to lay. When feed is given in a way to allow the hens to eat it without being com pelled to scratch or work for it, the re sult will always be an unequal distribu tion of the food among the members of the flock. The proper mode is to scatter the grain over a large surface, as then each hen will be compelled to work, and all will fare alike. Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph. , Shade for the Dwelling. Shade trees are essential, only don't let them shade the house. Farmers to enjoy life must have their surroundings pleasant, commodious, convenient and healthy. These conditions can only ba obtained by attention to details, by hav ing a place for everything and every thing in its place. Once get started along these lines and Improved methods follow, and if we persevere we shall have our reward. New York Farmer. Odds and Ends. A tablespoonful of ( turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. ; To prevent hair falling out, wet it thoroughly once or twice a week with a weak solution of salt water. Polished oak furniture may be beauti fully cleaned with a soft woolen rag dipped in turpentine. It must then be rubbed off with a dry cloth. A good broom holder may be made by putting two large screws nails will answer into the wall about two Inches apart. Drop the broom between them, handle downward. . Any woman doing her own work may so systematize it that it will be the easi est possible for her. She need not fol low any other person's methods, unless they are the very best for her own con ditions. Always make coffee out of fresh wat er, and use it as soon as it is made. The coffee pot should be kept scrupulously clean. If jou use the French pot every part of It should be thoroughly washed and dried after using. The sticky fly paper which is com monly sold during the summer season makes an excellent mouse trap. A sheet of it laid in front of a hole from which mice emerge is sufficient to hold them fast until they are ctptured and de stroyed. The same paper may be used over and over again. It is said that when ink is spilled up on a carpet or anything made of wool the spot should Immediately be covered with common salt.. When this has ab sorbed all the ink it will carefully take it off with an old knife or spoon and apply more salt. Keep doing this until the ink is all takes up. Knowledge saves worry In many ways. A writer in the Chicago Record professes to know a man not Chi cago man, but an Englishman whose well-known constitutional tardiness nca saved his wife from hours of the most terrible anxiety-. At the time of the fair there was a ter rible fire in one of the buildings I think it was the cold storage. On the after noon of the fire the man he was an Englishman had an appointment on the top floor of the doomed building. The fire broke out, if I'm not mistaken, about 2' o'clock. In a short time the building was partially destroyed and several lives had been lost.' Some friends of the Englishman came to his wife at the Victoria Hotel and broke gently to her the fact that the cold-storage place was in ruins, and that Harry had an appointment on the top floor that afternoon. : "What time did the fire break out?" he asked. They told her at 2 o'clock. "And for what hour was Harry's, ap pointment?" Two o'clock, also. "Oh, then I'm not in the least alarm ed!" she said, and serenely continued to knit. , ' ' 1 About 5 o'clock Harry turned up, having been delayed by tne difficulty of getting transportation. ' He looked a little white. "By Jove, Dora," he re marked, "I had a narrow shave this afternoon." She kissed his placidly. "You were to have been in the cold-storage build ing at '2 o'clock, dear, and you didn't get there till nearly 3. Wasn't that it?" He gave a wondering assent. . "What a comfort it is, Harry, that you're always late!" Then she resumed her knitting. ; Father's Domestic Headship. '. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurat, D. D., in the Ladles' Home Journal writes con cerning "The Father's Domestic Head ship:" While, perforce of ordinary cir cumstances, the father's duties will bold him considerably apart from the con tacts of home life, yet whatever suc cesses he may achieve outside will not atone for any failure on his part to re gard his home as the prime sphere of his obligation and the point around which his devotementa will cluster in distinguished earnestness and constan cy. .'Whatever he may have achieved in his art, trade, profession or other en gagement, the man who stands at the head of a household has been in the broad sense of the term a failure if ha has not been a true husband and a wise, strong and devoted father. It canaot be a successful home where the mother looks after the children and the father looks after his business. The most productive services rendered are al ways personal, and any amount of ex ertion expended outside in providing for the aecessitles of the home will not take the place of that tuitienal minis try which comes only by the direct and continuous contact of father with child. However complete a woman may be as a mother there are qualities of charac ter which the father will communicate to his children that the mother will be less able to do as well as loss Intended to do. ' TARIFF AND TAXES. Whatever the new order , of things may be in tariff arid taxes, business is already better, and there are sure signs of its being rapidly improved. Infirmities and ail ments are the tariff and taxes on physical strength. Lumbago is a complaint that taxes our best endurance. It cripples and unfits one for anything like active exer tion. It is a sudden Tmckache, but no matter how sudden, St- Jacobs Oil is quick and sure enough in its prompt cure to break it up and restore strength. In pay ing the faxes on our health the best cur rency is the best' remedy for pain, and its prompt use the surest way of getting back to business. All true internal parasites are blind, being very safe and without necessity for eyes. TO PAY A PENALTY FOR DINING Is rather hard, Isn't it? Yet how many are compelled to do this after every meal. Dys pepsia, that inexorable persecutor, never ceases to torment of its own volition, and rarely vields to ordinary medication. But tranquility of the stomach is in store for those who pursue a course of Hostetter's Btomach Bitters. This fl ne oorrective also remedies ma larial and kidney complaints, rheumatism, constipation, biliousness and nervousness. A codfish recently caught off Flam borough Head, England, had inside it fifty-nine fish hooks. CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and 1b a regular prescrip tion. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful effects in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O, Sold by druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A street railroad operated by gas en gines is being experimented with in London. ; Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a family medicine with us since 1865. J. R. Madison, 2409 42d ave., Chicago, 111. . Three copies of the Bible, written on leaves of the fan palm, are in the Brit ish museum. ; . Schilling's Best tea gro cer gives your money back V you don't like it. 1 It's one thing to say money back, and another thing to do money back.- We say it, and your gro cer does it; and we pay him, A Schilling & Company eaa FmncUc9 400 WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins A Co.'s Review oi Trade. ' i -.k Wheat on Friday of last week had lost 5c from the highest point, though a portion of the loss was recovered be fore the close on Saturday, and the to tal loss for the week was 4c. Taking the news of the week as a whole there was nothing to suggest a reason for th decline unless it be the further banh troubles reported from the Northwest That, however, is not a good reason tc assign, as banks at Chicago are anxioui to lend money on wheat securities and have .plenty of it for all applicants hav ing a 10 per cent margin. The tru reason was the taking of profits, which to some big traders were sufficiently en ticing at the opening advance on Mon day 85c for May delivery. The de cline throughout the week was steady, until on Friday, when the tide wai turned by the bringing into line of large buying orders for export. Corn and oats suffered losses of 7-8c and 5-8c re spectively in sympathy with wheat. The trade has generally become con vinced that the Argentine surplus will be lighter than heretofore figured on, and those who estimated it at 20,000,- 000 bushels ten days ago, have reduced their figures to 12,000,000 bushels. This is the result of bad weather, there being too much rain at harvest, the same as the winter wheat crop here suffered last year, taking off probably 20,000,000 bushels from the yield. This makes the second year that the Argentine crop has been damaged by unseasonable weather at harvest time, but this year it has been somewhat damaged by locusts. The latest esti mates make a reduction of 8,000,000 bushels from what the bulls figured on. To make the situation more bullish is the prospect of a scarce crop, snow and cold weather following two days oi rain over the winter wheat country, which is hot a good thing for the crop. This may start buying by the country, and when they get in there is no tell ing where the price will go. The much talked of $1 would be realized within s short time. Market Quotations. , Portland, Or., Jan. 12, 1897. 1 Flour Portland, Salem, Cascadia and Dayton, $4.60; Benton county and White Lily, $4.50; graham, f3.75; su perfine, $2. 50 per barrel. Wheat Walla Walla, 8485o; Val ley, 8687o per bushel. Oats Choice white, -40 42o per bushel; choice gray, 88 40c. Hay Timothy, $ 13.00 per ton; clover, $8.009.00; oat, $8.0010; wheat, 8. 00 10 per ton. Barley Feed barley, $18.00 per ton; brewing, $20. Millstuffs Bran, $15.00; shorts, $16.50; middlings, $23. Butter Creamery, 8540c; Tilla mook, 40c; dairy, 22J30o. : Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 60 70c; Early Kose, 8090o per sack; Cali fornia river Burbanks, 55o per cental; sweets, $2. 00 2. 50 per cental for Mer ced; Jersey Ked, $2. 50. Onions 85c per sack. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.00 2.50; geese, $6.00; turkeys, live, 10c; ducks, $44.50 per dozen. " Eggs Oregon, 17 per dozen. .-. , Cheese Oregon, llo; Young Ameri ca, 12c per pound, u , , Wool Valley, 10c per pound; East ern Oregon, 6 8c. - . Hops 9 10c per pound. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.252.75; cows, $2.002.25; dressed beef, 4 5o per pound. ' . Mutton Gross, best sheep, wetheri and ewes, $2.502.75; dressed mut ton, 4 J5o per pound. Hogs Gross, choice, heavy, $3.25(3 3.50; light and feeders, $2. 50 3.00; dressed, $3. 50 4. 2 5 per cwt Seattle, Wash., Jan. 12, 1897. ' Flour (Jobbing) Patent excellent, $5.25; Novelty A, $4.75; California brands, $5.60; Dakota, $5.50; patent, $6.25. Wheat Chicken feed, $27 per ton. Oats Choice, $24 25 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, $22 pel ton. Corn Whole, $22 per ton; cracked, $28; feed meal, $28. Millstuffs Bran, $16.00 per ton; shorts, $19. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middlings, $24; oilcake meal, $28. Hay Puget sound, per ton, $9.00 10.00; Eastern Washington, $13. v Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 24c; select, 23c; tubs, 22c; ranch, 18c. Cheese Native Washington, 10 12o Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $14 18; parsnips, per sack, 75c; beets, pel sack, 75c; turnips, per sack, 60c; ruta bagas, per sack, 75c; carrots, per sack, 3545o; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.25; onions, per 100 lbs, 90c$l. Sweet potatoes Per 100 lbs, $1.75. Poultry Chickens, livej per pound, hens, 8 9c; dressed, 10 12c; ducks, $2.003.50; dressed turkeys, 1315c. Eggs Fresh ranch, , 19c; Eastern, 19o per dozen. r Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 5c; cows, 5c; mutton, sheep, ho per pound; lamb, 5c; pork, 5o pel pound; veal, small, 6c. Fresh Fish Halibut, 5 6; salmon, 5 6; salmon trout, 710; flounden and soles, 8 4o. Provisions Hams, large, 12c; hams, small, 12c; breakfast bacon, ' 10o dry salt sides, 6o per pound. ' San Francisco, Jan. 12, 1897. . Potatoes Salinas Burbanks, 60 75o; Early Rose, 7075o; River Bur banks, 40 50o; sweets, $1.5O1.60 per cental. . Onions 50 65c per cental. Eggs Store, 2825c; ranch, 2629. Butter Fancy creamery,; 21c; d seconds, 1820o; fancy, dairy, 17o; seconds, 1617o. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 11 lljc; fair to good, 8 10c; Young America, 1 1 12c; Eastern, 18614a A pappy Couple. 'Squire Moore and His Estimable Wife Interest a Reporter. From Tribune, Greeley, Colorado. . Among the many good people resid ing in Greeley, Colorado, 'Squire Moore and his amiable wife are the best known and the most respected. This happy couple were born in West Riding, of York, England, in 1820. In 1848 they, emigrated to this country and settled in Derby, Conn, .where they resided for a number of years. While there Mr.. Moore, who was highly respected by his neighbors, was elected a member of the state legislature in 1867. ,.- A reporter called on them recently and was received cordially and in re sponse to his inquiries," Mrs. Moore said: "For four years I was miserable, hardly a week passed during that time but what I suffered from extreme lassi tude. The least exertion fatigued me. At times when I was sewing or read ing, I would be troubled with tingling sensations, like the pricking of pins in hands, feet, arms and legs. Occasion ally I would suffer from profuse per spiration, the water fairly 1 running from my face and hands. Then for days it would seem impossible for me I to enjoy a minute of warmth. I would , sit in a rocking chair alongside a roar ing fire in the . stove wrapped np in , blankets, yet while my face would be , scrorched, the rest of my body would be chilled. I ''Finally, despite my opposition, my husband called in a physician, who attributed my ailment to rheumatism and prescribed for that complaint. A day or two afterwards he changed his opinion, saying I was attacked with la grippe; also changed his medicine, but ! to no purpose. I was going from bad to worse, i The tingling sensations were resumed. At times I would be incapable of doing anything with my hands and my husband was fearful that ! I was suffering from partial parafysis. "One evening, while reading the New York Triubne, he read ' to me a statement of a wonderful cure perfected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. - He and I had at times read similar testimoni als describing the great powers and virtue of these pills. But this night in particular, I was impressed with what he read and told him it wouldn't do any harm to try a box. The next morning he purchased a box of the Pink Pills and I commenced taking them 1 according to directions, three times a day. Within a week I felt better, and when I had finished that box I asked my husband to get me another BLACKWELL'S I Yon will find one eonpoat Inside eaeh two ounce bag, and two coupons Inside each four ounce bag of Black well's Durham. Bar m bag of this celebrated tobaeeo and read the coupon which gives a list of valuable pres ents and bow to get them. REASONS Walter Baker & Co.'s Breakfast Cocoa. 1. . Because it is absolutely pure. 2. Because it is not made by the so-called Dutch Trocess in i which chemicals are used. - 1 111 a cup. . . i Be sure thst you get the genuine article made by WALTER J BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. , Established 1780. 4- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaa aaaaAAaAaaAAJ sasnassaasassaBaBssBss ss ssss ss sa W f f Vs;b;b;bjb;bj sssafS7wws7vafS7ias Cheapest Power j Rebuilt Gas and 1 K ftARANTEED ORDER.. 405-7 Sansome Street San Francisco, Cal... WHEAT. Make money by suc cessful speculation in Chicago. We buy and sell wheat there on margins. 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Co, rhila, Pa. and lie laughingly complied, saying, 'conceit is as bad as consumption, but even it you think ' they are doing you some 'good there is a great relief ex perienced." -After that he purchased for me. about a dozen more boxes, and for nearly two years I continued taking them. The result was I regained my strength, the tingling in arms and legs, hands ajid feet ceased and the frequent sweats Svhich I had been subject to left me. (In all truth, I am forced to state thatthe Pink Pills made a new woman of me. That is," she laughing ly remarked, "as new as you can make a woman who is now in her 76th year. " And in truth, Mrs. Moore's closing re marks are well founded, for she is as hale and healthy looking as any woman could be who has lived her great age. (Signed) ANNA MOORE. Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, this 23d day of May, 1896. . ' My commission expires May 14th, 1900. ' . .:: Milton A. Lyons, Notary Public. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in bulk, or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec tady, N. Y. : '-'' - Water in Wood. It has commonly been estimated tht green wood, when cut down, contain about 45 per cent of its weight In ax ture, but in the forest of central ff rope wood cut down In winter Is said hold more than 40 per cent of water . the end of the following summer. Kept for several years In a dry place, wood retains from 15 to 20 per cent of water, while that which has been thoroughly desiccated will, when exposed to air under ordinary circumstances, absorb 5 per cent of water in the first three days, and will continue to absorb It un til it reaches from 14 to 16 per cent as a normal standard the amount fluctu ating above and below this standard according to the state of the" atmos phere. It has been found that, by ex posing green wood to a temperature of 212 degrees, F., the loss of weight equal- I ed 45 per cent; and, further, on expos- Ing small prisms of wood one-half Inch square and eight Inches long, cut out of billets that had been stored for two years, to the , action of superheated steam for two hours, their loss of weight 1 was found to be from 15 to 45 per cent, ' according to the temperature of the. toam- ' . SURE CURE for PILES ItohinK and Blind. Bleed In or Protrndlnr Pllu vliid art DR. BO-fiAM-KO'ft CHI DEMFftV. Bios i mm tm Btopa Ilea fresi. PrlosV. 1&C, svbswrM tuuivn. A positive cure. Circular! -nt free. Pries I0e Vruuiiu or mall. Dft.BOSAJ.liO, PkUtvFa. WANT NO OTHER. 3 FOR USING brSifiDURHJlM Because beans of the finest quality are used. 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