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the bok expo 07 ary return for Ae nioney ard BEE one not terred from the use of fertilizing atocials even if the conditions : drachm. ring t=" ip ok ak ast ed > color ft whi 6 me rain gd a few drops of 'of perfume, often pi up on i consisting of one teuspoonful of the un- Ehearine and five drops of carbolic . acid is efficacious They usually ¥e- igestave derange. VALUE OF DEEP BREATHING. 41 Deep'. on breathing 3 is essential to a he st full chest. Open the windows for minutes at a time night and - 'breaths, using acles to control Breathing. Hold you ean without strain- muscles and exhale slowly peat until there is a sense of De 'sue you are welll: DOG'S COLLAR, $2,750. Two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars was paid by a noble: in man at the | ning o of the Sights ; h cent dog collar of oo collar of silver: with four 1 diamonds, costing about math was sold to a soc lady | bor pug og. ony Salon hion- 6 in France to pu ba Hoa and oti nok lots studded with jewels on ee fore: : loge of poodles, The plain god col 'jewelled settings cost no less wh $100, whie the jewellod lars run from $10 to $350 each, should render the application. ap- to | parently wasteful or 'a small re 'covery of the constituents applied, Drovided the jnotcase in yield will than oy the cost of the ap- plication: farmer should cal- -culate what increase in orop it ia cossary for him 'to obtain in or- "der" to make' the use of fertilizers |. 'protiable, and if only this is obs tained 'he should not condemn their use, Many persons seem to have got the impression that there is, some 'mystery. connected with fertilizers, and that their use is: a Ramble B16 at best, and are not satis- ; the returns from the io- vestmjent in them are disproportion- ately large. . We very often hear the 'statement that by the use of certain' fertilizers the crop = is doubled or tripled, as if this were a remarkable occurrence and par: took of the nature of a mystery. Buch results are not mysterious-- they can be explained; they are in accordance: with the principles in- volved. In an 'experiment on celery it was shown that the weight of cel- ery from an application of four hundred pounds an acre of nitrate of seda was two and one-half times greater than that obtained on the land upon which no ' nitrate of soda was greater than that obtained on the land upon which no nitrate was used, and that very great pro- fit followed its use. This result, while markable in a way, was not. mysterious; if all the nitrogen applied had been used by the crop there = would have been a ' still greater increase. It simply showed that where no extra nitrogen had been applied the plant was not able to obtain enough to make the crop that the conditions = of the 'season and: soil in other respects permit- In other words, the soil did ib contain a complete food. and en was necessary to sup- pl ee imcy Favorable con- ditions.are, however; not uniform, and. labor involved; still, if 3 a. of the increased crop from : its use was $10, . or even #8, should be regarded as @ profitable investment, since no more 'land but little more capital was res quired in order to obtain'the extra $5 or $3 an acre. 'It is the acou- mulation of these little extras that' oftentimes changes an unprofitable into a profitable practice. Prof. Voorhees, New Jersey Experiment Station. » POULTRY POINTERS, Barley is between corn and wheat in feeding value. The early laying pullsts are the most prolific' egg producers. The ideal art of feeding is to give enough without completely satisfy- ing the appetite. Any old hen will lay in early spring and summer, but it is the profitable hen that will lay from now on, while eggs are high. = Curtain, front houses permit ven-. tilation 'without a draft and Keep the fowls dry and healthy. If you have a special city trade for your poultry products, atérac- tively, neatly delivered goods holds and wins the trade and brings the fanoy prices. Don't close up everything tight just because cold weather is here; fresh air and sunshine are two ne- cessities for the' perfect health of fowls; and to get the best results. When. the ground is cold, damp, and frozen, biddy wants her dust bath, - This 'can be provided by placing road dust that has been stored away for this purpose or by sifted soft or bard coal ashes placed in a box near the window where the sun. rays will strike it. The droppings should: be cleaned from: the houses at least once a week, and where there are many birds twice and three times is none too often. A dry place should be provided to store them until want= ed for fertilizer. Hen manure is very valuable as a fertilizey, 'and should be considered as a part of the income from: poultry, If the by-products of many large manu-. facturing plants were wasted, there would be no dividends paid. The, manure is one of the by-products' of the poultry yard. Better Build it of Concrete oo ther sop for various structural work about the farm. "usual xveden silo, besides being expensive, i ar 3 0 dn the frst slice, 1t dosy Met sndure;