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to plant an extra strip for the bees. Becent Investigation shows plainly that alfalfa should be cut prior to com ing into full bloom to make a good hay that will be a safe feed for horses and young stock. If It Is allowed to begin to mature the hairy growth on the stalks of lhe alfalfa plant becomes hard and woody. These hairs gather into knots or balls lu the stomachs of horses. In time these balls may cause death.—A. H. Gibson, Arizona. Fertility and Mineral Manor.» There Is widespread belief among farmers that while stable manure In creases fertility the application of min eral commercial fertilizers tends to more rapidly exhaust It Really, how ever, to the extent that manure in any form makes bigger crops than what It supplies plant food for, It tends to ex haustion. Applying nothing but stable manure, which Is usually deficient in phosphate and potash, takes those min How to Parrel Apples. There are manufactured barreliug erals out of the soil faster than they presses on the market, but the home would be drawn were the manure not The loss of the mineral ele made affair shown in the picture will used. do as good work, and in some points ments is not 6o easily seen as the will do it more conveniently than the waste of vegetable matter In the soil commercial press. A blacksmith, with where only the commercial mineral a few moments’ work, will bend a fertilizers are used. Besides, the min stout Iron rod Into the shape shown, eral manure Is generally sold In a form the rod passing down one side of the to be quickly taken up by crops. It Is barrel, across under it and up the other impossible to make stable manure so side, the upper ends being bent as soluble that some of Its elements will shown. A long lever of wood Is slip not be left In lhe soil for future crops, ped into the loop and just the right crops. thickness of blocks placed beneath it to Kerosene Liu ill. tori. spring the cover down into place. Now To make the emulsion, dissolve one draw the lever under the lip of the rod half pound of hard soap in one gallon of soft water, and while still boiling hot remove from the fire and add two gallons of kerosene. Stir the mixture violently by driving through a force pump back into the vessel until It be comes a creamy mass that will not separate. The emulsion is then ready to be diluted with water and applied. For the common scale insects and hard bodied insects like the chinch bug, use one part of the emulsion to eight or ten parts of water. For soft-bodied insects like plant lice, use one part of emul sion to fifteen or twenty parts of water. As the emulsion kills by contact the application should be very thor ough. Simple Feineriy for Ants on Trees FOR BARRELING APrLES. on the other side, and the whole will remain In place until the head is nailed in. Both ends of the rod should pro ject the same distance above the up- upper edge of the barrel. The Dinner Horn. Last fall I planted a number of shade trees, says a correspondent. This spring the black ants took possession of one of them, and I soon discovered that unless I used heroic measures they would destroy tlie tree. Faris green, camphor, gasoline—all were tried without success. I discovered they deposited their egg on the stem of the leaf upon which the young feed, and In their determina tion to get up to look after their nu merous families, I found the remedies above named of no avail. As a last re sort I bought “Tanglefoot fly paper,” tied It securely around the body of the tree and in forty-eight hours every ant was gone. I love all the sounds listened to by the farmer, All speak with an eloquent voice Of rural contentment; but one Is a charmer, Oh, it is the sound of my choice! I mean the utensil that hangs in the kitchen And swings by a string to and fro. Cnre for cratchintr. That peals out its summons, men's lives My hens bothered ns some by dig to enrichen. ging in tlie garden and flower beds Three times ev’ry day as they go. until I fixed what I call a poke aud I love the cock-crow at the coming of fastened it on their leg. It is made of morning, a piece of white ash about 6 or 7 Lambs’ bleating gives pleasure to me; inches long, flattened at one end and I hear with delight the crow's “caw!” sharpened on the other. The flat end when adjourning is bent around the lien's leg and tied To where he roosts snug in a tree. There's music for me in a big wagon’s with some strong thread. It drags be- rattle; The clack of a mowing machine Will set me to dreaming, while bawling of cattle, Or whinny of colts on the green, Is sure not to jar on my peace and con tentment, And even a cackling old hen Or loud squealing porker calls up no resentment, And I'm prone to listen; but when There floats on the air from the tree- embowered dwelling, That summons so loud and so sweet, O'er hill, dale aud woodland it echoes so swelling, So far-reaching, piercing and fleet, I welcome its message with kindly re joicing; To nil it means surcease of toil; "Refreshment and rest”” is the burden it's voicing To labor-worn tillers of soil. So, here's to the trumpet that hangs in the kitchen; It summons men home from the corn. From hayfield and fallow, life’s hour to enrichen The battered old tin dinner horn. Farm Fire Ladder. ANTl-SCRATCniNO When Company Cuniei in Country. Overestimation. Begin to enjoy vonrself when your guests begin to arrive—in fact, before they arrive. Do not try to serve such tin eleaborate dinner that the work oi g. tting it ready will draw so upon your physical powers that they will be strained to their utmost endurance. When your visitors arrive greet them with a hearty handshake, make them feel that you are ready for their com ing; speak of the pleasure that you hope the day may bring; compliment them on their good appeal ance; notice the neckwear, the dainty handkerchief; be thoroughly interested in eacti and every one. When the time comes for you to prepare the dinner and place it upon the table, leave your guests as gracefully as possible. If the dinner be not too elaborate, and the mental atmosphere be clear and bright, your friends will come again. “Eat to live,” and not “Live to eat,” should be the motto of every household. — Mrs. John B. Sims, in Ladies’ Home Journal. Father—What is the meaning of that black eye, my son? Johnny—Oh, that’s merely a mark , of esteem, father. Father — How so? Johnny—1 esteemed myself a better boxer than Tommy Jones.—Chicago Daily News. Cucumber Boats. ROITT'S The dragon fly can fly backward and I sidelong, and can alter its course on Brain Work aud ICxercia®. Three hours of brain work will destroy the instant without turning. In Germany a dock has been made Remember that you can buy Jesse Moore that is warranted to go for 6,000 years. A. A. Whiskey for the same price that is paid for ordinary whiskey. For sale by all hows Tins1: first-class dealers and druggists. We otter On. Hundred Dollars Reward tor any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J. CHENEY £ CO., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the past 15 vears. and believe him perfectly honorable In all busiu ss transactions and tln- ancitlly able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. W ist A T rvax , Wholesale Druzcrists, Toledo,O. W alding , K innan A M arvim , V» nolesale Drug ists, Toledo, O. nail's Catarrh Cure is t ken nt . rnally actins directly ou the blood and m coua surfaces ut the system Prl e 7Jc per boile. So.d by all drugrtsts Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills r< th' best. A Man of Thrift. Microbes are now understood to be necessary to human life. It is our ten dency, we believe, to regard aB neces sities today what were merely conven iences yesterday. — Detroit Journal. "Be Strong in the Battle of Life/* Hippy is he tvho is prepared by perfect health. to <u>in life's bottle. Health comes only ninth absolutely pure blood. Over 90 per cent, of humanity have taints, or hu mors in the blood, which should be re moved by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the best more tissue than a day of physical exer Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth cise. Many men and women earn their living by their brains. Hosteller's Stom ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. ach Hitters makes the mind active and vig orous. This medicine is an appetizer ami More than 4,000,000 women work for a cure tor dyspepsia. A private Stamp covers the neck of the bottle. their living in Great Britain. Peel the cucumbers, out them in two lengthwise, and scrape out the seeds. Put the pieces on ice till wanted, then fill with the following mixture: Chop tomatoes and celery, and add a few drops of onion juice, also mayonnnaise dressing. Arrange the boats on lettuce Croesus, of ancient times, possessed leaves, and garnish with thin slices of radishes with the red skin left on. about (20,000,000. Latites Can Wear Shoes Any good salad mixture will make a One size smaller after using Alien's Foot- nice filling.—American Salad Book. Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Germany publishes about 20,000 It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; books a year, France 11,000, Italy gives instant relief to corns and bunions. 9,000, England 6,000 and the United It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures swollen feet, blisters and cal States 3,000. lous spots. Allen’s Foot-Ease is a certain Every woman believes that her hus cure for ingrowing nails, sweating, smart band is a child in some respects, and ing, hot, aching feet. We have 30,000 testi monials. All druggists and shoe stores that she must be on the alert to keep sell it. 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. things out of his grasp that he wants, Address, Allen 8. Olmsted. I.e Roy, N. Y. but which are not good for him.— A Sickly Lot. Atchison Globe. Jennie—Herbie, it says here another After tlie Honeymoon. octogenarian's dead. What’s an octo She—You must think I’m a goose. genarian? He—Oh, nol You are wrong; en Herbie—Well, I don’t lust know tirely wrong. What I had in mind what they are, but they must be aw was a buzzard.—Chicago Times-Her fully sickly creatures. You never hear ald. of ’em but they are dying.—Tit-Bits. She—Where are you going to spend the summer? He—I’m not going to spend it at all. I’m going to save it till next winter an<l see if I can’t get the janitor of the flat to use it in the rooms 1 occupy.— Detroit Free Press. SCHOOL. Menlo Park. San Mateo Co., Cal., accred ited at the Universities. location, climate, and careful attention to Mental, Moral and Physical training, places lloitt's among I the foremost Schools for Boys ou tlie ! (Vast.—5 F. CArr>ni'<*/e. Will re-open in the lien building August 1.5th, (Utb year.) lru G. Hoitt, Ph. 1).. Principal. Mummy Photography. A Paris photographer has introduced a novel style of taking photographs, which he calls "mummy photogra phy.” The subject is swathed in mummy cerements, put into a genuine sarcophagus imported from Cairo, and pictured in an upright position. A smiling, living face looking out from embroidered grave clothes gives an odd effect. No French actress' 6alon is complete without a counterfeit present ment of her own mummy. A new home (or working girls has been opened in New York city. f|TQ Permanently Cured. No Rtsor nervousness rllw ufler first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, bend for FREE 8'4.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dit. R. H. KLINE, Lid., 900 Arch street, Philadelphia. Pa. C ARTERSINK Is what all the g'tal railways use. PORTLAND-CHICAGO SPECIAL A Gilt-Kdged Train Put on by O. K. Ns —All Modern Equipments. nnd Ruu Through Without Change. Buffet-library cars of tlie latest That sleeping or waking snakes never build have been placed in service on close their eyes is a curious fact. the O. R. & N. fast mail trains. Ths I never used so quick a cure as Pino's library car embraces a spacious smok Cure for Consumption.—J. B. Palmer, Box ing saloon, furnished with easy chairs, 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25, 1895. writing desks, a well-selected library The elephant has 4,000 muaclcs in of standard and popular books, guide his trunk alone, while a mau lias only books and current periodicals, a well- 577 in his entire body. stocked buffet, a barber shop and an apartment for baggage. Heed the Bed Flag of Danger! The Oregon Short Line have also in* Red pimples, blotches, boils, sores are dan* ger signals of torpid liver, poisoned blood. augurated a modern dining-car service, Cascarets Candy Cathartic will save you. All giving uninterrupted dining-car serv druggists. lUc, 25c, 50c. ice via tlie O. R. & N. and its oonneo- Mistaking the Operation. tions to and from the East. New chais A very short-sighted old gentleman cars of the latest pattern and new bag going into one of our large towns for gage and mail cars are to be added to the first time, and coming from the ' the present through service of new heart of the country, seeing a man dig Fullman palace anil Fullman tourist sleepers, which have recently been ging, went to him and said: “My man, for whom diggest thou [ placed in service and just out of th« builders* hands. The entire train will this long and narrow grave?” But the man took no notice. Going be vestibuled, making East and West bound trains equal if not superior to closer, he remarked again: “My man, for whom diggest thou many of the widely advertised limited this long and narrow grave?” tiains in the East. The mau looked up and said: American exports of manufactured “Go on, you silly old fossil! I’m laying gas pipes!”—London Answers. goods now average (1,000,000 a day. One of the best cosmetics for bicycle riders or persons upon the water, is fresh cuouinber juice. This will aid in keeping the skin of the face soft and smooth. To extract the juice from the cucumber, first peel it and then cut it into thick slices and press the juioeout with a lemon squeezer. A simple and harmless remedy for sunburn is to More than 6,000,000 messages are bathe the face in buttermilk. sent each year over the 150 separate Tlie oil left from sardines is an ex submarine cables which girdles the earth. The 150 cables were laid at an cellent substitute for butter in -nixing fish cakes. estimated cost of (250,000,000. British official returns of the ooal production for last year showed that ! Great Britain produced 202,130,100 tons, the United States 178,769,000 and Germany 91,055,000. The values by the ton at the pit’s mouth were re spectively 5s lid, 6s 7j^<l and 7s 1 }i'd. spoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Good For Little Folks Children are particularly liable to-bowel troubles in the summer time. The best preventive of summer complaint, diarrhoea, dysentery, is to keep the bowels open gently. The delicate tissues of a child’s intestines should never be abused by the use of violent purges. The only liver and bowel regulator fit to be used by children is the ideal laxative and intestinal tonic, CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. -■ I «HU UK g*. •— K on voice—Worcester Gazette. I > lean I shall never be without CASCARETS. My dr st of children are always delighted when I give them an B of a tablet, and cry for more. They *he a are portion the most pleasant medicine I have ever sir, » X>at tried. They have found a permanent place in fish M bs . J ohn F lag bl it a my home. Box 680. Michigan City, Ind. tryik mip” The architec* and his friend the J«' A up b-'M.r we- '-inp b.-k tn ♦he DEVICE. hind when they walk, but when they go to scratch, they sit down, and seem quite surprised. Heavy wire would furnish good ones and are more easily made.—C. W. Shorter, in American Agriculturist. The Toad in the Garden To most people a toad is nothing but an unsightly reptile which is to be shunned. The toad is a reptile, to be sure, but It is one that Is not only harm less, but Is of great use to the garden er, as every worm or Insect that comes within reach Is devoured greedily. Centipedes, caterpillars, blister beetles and bugs of every kind are equally welcomed by the toad. He uses them all alike. Half a dozen toads in the garden will keep it free from most of the ordinary garden pests. They are easily tamed and spend the day in some shaded nook along the fence or under a cabbage leaf, coming sedately forth at night to find their food.— Farmers’ Voice. The constant danger that farm build ings may take fire and have no ade quate attention, owing to the lack of fire apparatus and of men, makes it Important that all possible precautions Tnrrinsr the Sheep1« Xnne*. After the sheep are shorn, their noses be taken that incipient fires may promptly be put out. A ladder for the should be rubbed with some tar. to repel the fly which lays the egg that batches into a grub and enters the bead. It is very little trouble to tar all the sheep's noses in a flock If you only know how. rut a little salt over the tar, and In their anxiety to get at the salt the sheep will tar their own noses effectually, and will very likely rub their tarred noses on the sides and shoulders of other sheep. Thia Is why It Is best to shear the sheep before'tar- ring them. How to Give a How Medicine. roof is of the greatest Importance. The Loop a rope Va inch or % inch on cut shows one that can quickly be put In place. It is in the form of a fruit upper jaw; tie other end of rope to post ladder at the top, and has a small orleam up to six or eight feet; then wheel at the end. as shown. It can you have your own way. Put the thus be shoved up over the roof with medicine in long-necked bottle aud out catching on the shingles. A hook pour it In the hog's mouth. He will is placed in the position shown, so that do the rest. The same method can be the ladder, when shoved up to the used to ring hogs, as It enables one ridge, can be turned over, when the man to do two men's work aud do It book will hold it firmly in place. Make easily.—Jos. E. Fischler. the ladder long enough for any roof From a 1 mall Beginning. you have, nnd hare another that will Admiral Sampson says that the best reach any roof edge. training for a naval life Is "hard work from the very start.” This was his Alfalfa a« a Hoier Plant. Here in Arizona alfalfa is an excel- own lot, for his father was a day la ent honey producer. But to be a truly borer, who sawed wood from house to food Honey plant it should be allowed house near Talmyra. N. T., and the eon o rest is full bloom. If. however, you began life by splitting and piling th* raat the al'alfa for the bay. It Is best wood h-s father sawed. THIS IS 10c. 25 c. 50c. WHILE YOU DRUGGISTS CASCARETS are absolutely harmlese, ft partly vegetable compound. Wo mereurUl or other mineral pill pot eon In Cascarete. Cascarete promptly, effectively and permanently euse every disorder of the 8tomach, Liver and Intestines. They not only cure constipation, hvt correct any and every form of inegularity of the bowels, including dianhcea and dysentery. Pleasant, palatable, potent. Taste good, do good. Never sicken, weaken or gripe. Be sure yon get the genuine I Beware of imitations and substitutes ! 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