I tree.- Fork the earth up al) around the I tree, and then cover the ground as far I out as tlie branches extend with one Inch in depth of rotted horse manure. If the weather should prove dry, water freely every evening. Poor Milkers. Timber. country cnnnot coutinue to be pop ulous nor highly civilized when its for ests, or their equivalent in coal,are lost to it. But this loss has been experi enced by many nations. The whole Eastern world was once well wooded. Roman and Greek writers assure us of this. Vast regions of Europe and Asia, by wars and wantonness and Imprudence, have been stripped of tuelr forests. A belt of woodland stretching front the Pyrenees to the Himalayas has been swept away, and that whole region, once fertile and pop ulous, now oarely sustains a people scanty in numbers. It is a significant fact that great deserts now occupy the original seat of the human race, and extend on every route of their migra tions. Humboldt is reported as saying “Men in all climates seem to bring up on future generations two calamities at once—a want of fuel and a scarcity of water.” The two come alike from the destruction of the forests. A How to Tell a Sheep** Aen. The Breeders’ Gazette, in reply to a correspondent, says that a sheep's age cannot be determined with precision from the appearance of the animal’s teeth. Periods of dentition vary a few months. In general, the lamb has bis eight small teeth for from 12 to Hi months. At the end of this time he cuts two large teeth, as at Fig. 1, when he is said to have “a yearling mouth.” At something less than 2 years (general ly) there are four large permanent in cisors. as at Fig. 2. At about 30 months there are six permanent incisors, as at Fig. 3. and the other two come at about 36 to 42 months, as at Fig. 4. when the sheep is said to “have a full mouth.” Success in dairying must depend not only on having cows able to give a lib eral mess and keep at It, but also on the kind of milkers employed. A care less, lazy milker will easily lose more than his wages during the time lie Is employed. Not only this, but lie will quickly convert a really good cow into a poor one. The milk which the careless milker leaves in the udder is always that which lias the largest amount of butter fats. If it is not drawn the fat Is reabsorbed Into the cow and helps to dry lier off. The difficulty In get ting help that can be depended on is the great drawback In running a large dairy farm. It is also no light job to milk ten, twelve or more cows twice every day. It will make any man's hands tired until he become* used to it. C.BOSS ' Cpon the etomsch and bowels are perpetrated by multitudes of injudicious |»eoi»le who, upon experiencing the annoyanc“ »»t constipation I in a slight degree, infiltrate their bowels with ' drenching evacuants, winch enfeeble the in- , tcstinal membrane to a serious extent, aorae- tirnvs, even, superinducing dysentery or piles. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters'is the true sue- I redan vim for these nostrums, since it is at once invigorating, gentle and effectual. It also j baniahes dyspepsia. malarial complaints, rheu matism and kidney troubles. The Athens check factory is to be i operated by electricity. This is the first cotton factory in Georgia to use i electricity as a motive power. There is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and Hi’, tn ¡He ms! few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years do tors pro nounced it a locat disease, ami prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure by local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires consti tutional treatment. Hail’s Catarrh Cure, man ufactured by F. J. Cheney <k Co., Toledo, O., is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a ; teaspooniul. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. ' Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY de CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Cider and Cider Vincear. Two bottles of Piso’s Cure for consump Where summer apples are plentiful tion ( tired me of a bad lung trouble.—Mrs. it is more profitable to make them into J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 26, 1895. cider, and then into vinegar. A hand Three million five hundred thousand mill can be had for $10 that will make from two to three barrels per day. Af steel pens are used throughout the ter tlie juice is pressed out mix the world every day in the week. pumace with mill-feed, and feed it to the cows when fresh. Fill tlie barrels THREE HAPPY WOMEN full of cider and set them in the sun to Relieved of Periodic Pain and Backache. ferment. Keep the barrels full. After fermentation ceases add two gallons of “Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's strong old vinegar to each barrel, and Vegetable Compound, my health was put in three strips of brown paper sat being gradually undermined. I suf urated with common molasses. Cover fered untold agony from painful men the bung-liole with gauze wire. By the struation, backache, pain on top of ray following spring excellent vinegar may ; head, and ovarian trouble. The com entirely cured me.—Mi;s. be had. Never add water to the cider, pound as it injures the strength and flavor of G eorgie W ass , 923 Bunk St., Cincin nati, O. the vinegar. “•For yaars I had suffered with pain Sheep Anionvr Growing Corn. ful menstruation every month. One It is the practice of good farmers day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham’s now to cultivate both corn and pota was thrown into my house, and I toes much longer than used to be sat right down and read it. I then thought advisable. The reason is that got some of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege the modern cultivation is shallow and table Compound and Liver Pills. I does not disturb the roots. But where can heartily say that to-day I feel like a piece of either corn or potatoes is a new woman ; my monthly suffering weedy a few sheep may be put into the is a thing of the past. I shall always field after midsummer with no dan praise the Vegetable Compound for ger whatever that they will injure the what it has done for me.—M rs . M ar crop. Almost any other stock will at garet A nderson , 363 Lisbon St., tack l>oth corn and either the potato Lewiston, Me. tops or roots. Sheep will not eat either. “Lydia E. Minkham’s Vegetable Com Usually only the ram was put in some pound has -itred me of painful men time in July, and was not taken out struation and backache. The agony until the corn was ready to harvest. I suffered during menstruation nearly After corn is cut sheep will attack the drove me wild. Now this is all over, corn ears. While it stands they seldom thanks to Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine and do this. advice.”—M rs . C arrie V. W illiams , South Mills, N. C. For lion I'lacne, The great volume of testimony The following is the prescription rec ommended for hog plague by Dr. Sal proves conclusively that Lydia E. mon, of the Bureau of Animal Industry: Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a One part wood charcoal; one part sul safe, sure, and almost infallible rem phur; two parts sodium chloride or edy in cases of irregularity, suppressed, common salt; two parts sodium bicar excessive, or painful monthly periods. bonate; two parts sodium hyposulphite: one part sodium sulphite; one part anti mony sulphite. Pulverize and mix thoroughly. Dose—One tablespoonful for each two hundred pounds weight of hog once a day. M’nsh Feed Grain. fEKTH OF SHEEP AT DIFFERENT AGES. From this date the age is guessed at by the amount of wear on the grinders. Hoerl i ropw on Pori. If one will wash a feed of oats or corn, there will be seen an amount of filth and trash that would astonish the man who thinks he feeds clean grain to his horses. Try washing, and let the grain dry or nearly so before feeding. There are evidences that soaked corn Plow and Seeder Combined. and oats are more profitable, more eas ily and thoroughly digestible than the Thoroughly works the Soil to a depth of 5 to same amount fed dry.—Western Agri S inches. Leas es no Plow Crust. Places the seed 3 to4 inches down, thoroughly culturist. CLARK’S RIGHT-LAP So far as possible the farmer ought to have sod land on which to grow all hoed crops. He cannot usually make The Horse Does This. nearly enough manure to fertilize all A good horse can travel 400 yards in that be wants to plant to corn or pota toes. If there is a sod to be rotting four and a half minutes nt o walk. 400 during the summer a nuxlerate dress yards in two minutes In a trot, and 400 ing of commercial fertilizers will in yards in one minute in . gallop. The sure as great success as lie could usual usual work of a horse is taken at 22.500 ly depend upon with a dressing of ma pounds raised one foot per minute for nure on land that has been naked eight hours per day. A horse will car through the winter. Possibly the sod ry 250 pounds twenty-five miles per day may not equal in value the plant nutri of eight hours. tion furnished by a dressing of stable Among the Poultry, manure, but the sod will be more sure Have troughs in which to feed all to rot If the season lx* dry, and thus make up in availability what it lacks soft feed. It your hens lay soft-shelled eggs in fertilizing power. If the sod be mainly of clover, the fertility it will they nets! more lime. add to the sol) will be as great as is The sitting lien now has the floor. given with the manure dressings, es Take care of her. pecially if applied just after the land Is there not room for a flock of geese Is plowed. on your farm? Study the situation. A warm feed for breakfast goes a A Poultry 'ev;c.. Where fowls are kept in confinement long way in inducing hens to lay now. whether the season be summer or win When the combs and wattles of the ter they must be furnished green fooil fowls are of a bright red color it indi in the form of cabbage, turnips, beets cates a condition of health. or cut clover. These should not be When the manure is hard and a por tion is white, it indicates a healthy con dition of the digestive organs. When the fowls are busy scratching, tlie hens laying and singing and the cocks growing, these are signs of good health. When you can enter the hen house after dark and hear no wheezing it proves there are not any roupy fowls In the flock. A generous application of lime on the chicken yard and in the sheds and runs is now in order. It may prove a cheap prevention of disease. When fowls are judiciously fed. made to take exercise, and their quarters thrown loosely into the pen to become kept clean and free from lice, there Is quickly soiled, but put Into a rack with comparatively no trouble with sick sloping sides, like that shown in the ness, except In cases of contagion. sketch. The hens reach through the slats and eat what they desire. The Thia 1« Different. top slopes so that they cannot roost “Love makes the world go round.” uipon It. If filled with cabbages, etc., The world seems to go round, but love they will come down to the hens as fast makes your head swim; that’s the ex as eaten. planation.—Boston Transcript. Dwarf Pears »nd Applea. Thin the fruit, allowing not more than forty to sixty specimens to remain on each tree. The fruit will grow to a fine size, and the strength of the tree will not be taxed. Pinch the forward branches in, keeping the tree compact and symmetrical in form. 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