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^ â- â-  «iv BHKKDINO SOWS. r m il ~j FKKIilNCi STKl'.Il-S. ']"linn.' thin^B of great itnportanro I in th<> lv«iillrig of swine are ancestry, [ m<ii vi<luuli«y and form. In coiTimer- |cial pork procluction. jiurity of blood I in tliu sow i.s nut su ussuntiui us â- "^^ ! with tho lioiir, Ixit xootl performance 111 tho ancestry with roference to ff!i-din({, bruoding nnd nursing (|uuli- Jnt(T<*liii(<> facta »il)Out food ingi ties is important. Bti'ors in liiirns .uirt kIicJh htivi; beiMi i Anions Kenprul individiml <|IUnlities, roK^ntly workod out by the Pi!nn.syl- ' Kize, strun^th of bone iin<i lisnglh of vaniu ''.xporitJicn'. .station under tho j coupling arc vt-ry iiriportunt. The dirvction of I'rof. T. 1. Mairs. Tho'm/e iVhould bo niodiuiii to large for inuin poini.s considfrcd arc comparii- I the brood and the bone medium to Itive ^aina in live weight, heaitli and | fine, hut strotuj nnd liner than in the .vlg(;r of the HuiiMuis at. iiidicnted by the nmoMnt of foo<l con.siiinod and the reiaiive economy of the niothod BO fur n.s it rebiles to the amount of fer><i coiiMiinfd jm-j- puutui >j;uined. Tho Kteeis Wen; divided into two lota of 12 fu<i\ and were .select<'d from a carload lot bought for fattening pur- i JJoses. Lot 1 waK fM in n larpe pen or ; box stall in tho buseinenl of tho col- i lege barn. Lot 2 wa.s fe^l in .vard adjoining tho barn. A she<l 11x10 feet was built across one side of this yur<l to give shelter to the nnimuls. It was inclosed at both ijnds. while one side toward tho southeast was oponed. ThiB was constnictod of rough bonr<ls. A self- recoiding thermometer was placed in The bImkI and one in the. barn. Hoth male. The bod.y should bo rang.v. but it would not |)o well to have the coupling unduly long. Ill brwid'ing sows of the most de- .'drable form, the head, neck and limbs are medium to strong in size, but varying with the breed; neck broad and doe]); varying in length and d(!pth with t'ne breed, (!Von width at the Miiouklors, sides and hams; the top and bottom lines jioniUcl, ex- //' ' cept that tho top line Bhould be a little archetl in some broi,il«; the hair should b«! line, esiiecially on tho necik and withors; tho body s-hould bo deep and symmetrical in form, and the touts should lie not less than 12 in number and thoy should be well placed. The selection of tho sows for breod- ! ing use should not be made until lots of ojiimalH had plenty "of fr^h ! ^"""^ **"": '''""' A'"' P'^" '*"' weaned, wafer. Tho aim was to troat all as ! '^« they frequently change consider- nearly alike as possible, except thel^''^ '" ^"[^ arter th,s time, the fin- shelter | al choice ^nould be delaye*! na long I as po.ssible. Sows for breeding Shrodded corn stover and clover .should t)e chosen from litters of hay were fed. Tho grain ration con- j sows in full maturity, rather than fiiirted of 12 parts corn and cob aiiaal and one part cottonseed meal. This was fed to February 11, after â- which, to the close of tho experiment '•orn meal and cottonseed meal were fed In the same proportions. The steers were weighed on three consiv- cutive days at thi- beginning of the «xi>erlment and the average of this •was taken as the correct weight. ')uring tho experiment they were from young and immature sows or from thos<! of aged sows whose breed- ing (jualities havo begun to wane. They should bo chosen from large spring litters rather than autumn litters, as they will usually be of hotter development and will be the right age for breeding in the au- tumn. The age at which to breed sows is an impiortant one. Yoiilng sows ors shouM bear in mind that it doeo not hurt apples to freeze, ho long as they are buried deep enough to prt^ vent thawing before springtime. It is wise to put on a mulch of straw or litter, after the ground is frcw-oii, to prevent the fruii from thawing during a warm siiell. Generally I would sa.v a cave is more desirable than a cellar. A well-bricked cave arched over and nicoly cemented will not cost too much tor tho average farmer. The satisfaction of such a Htortige hou.se will fully repay the extra work and exfiensts. I tJootI results are obtained by siilj- jenith ventilators. In caves these are made as deep as the nature of the ground will permit, iireferably so tho top of the ventilator will not be above tho level of the ground. Tiling .should be laid from some point that is several rods from the cave; it .should enter at the bottom of the cave, and be so constni/L-ted as to act as a drain in caso water should .siiep into tho cellar. Tiling should lie large (enough to allow a good inflow of air. and a good opening should be maintained for the e.xclusion of foul atniogphoro in the cavo. By tho use of this system of ventilation, out.s-ido air is cooled nnd circulated in the cave while all impurities are carried olf. If a fanner cannot see his way clear to build such a stor- age cave, his cellar should be opened in the fall, when the air is cool, and closed when the weather is yet warm. The cellar should be kept tightly closed durin^g warm and windy days of the fall. My experience has been that apples stored in a well con- structed cave may be kept with less average loss than in cold storage, and certainly at a greatly reduced cost. welgh<-d two consecutive days every i should not he bred under the age of second week, the average of which | eight to ten months; to breed them was takvn. Where there was a very earlier would tend to ari-ost dov^lop- ;great di/Terence, a third weighing ; ment in the sow and in her brood, was made the following day. All and also tend to weaken tho vitality niatfirials fed to the animals : were of both, â- weighed nnd recordi-d. The foods un- : .Sows earryinR much flesh, mode â- eaten were rei(ioV(!d iind wc'lgmrd. Tho experiment began Koveniber 26 and closed April 1. Up to l>ecember 11, \ grain was fin] three times a da,y, ' with stover at night ar«l hay in the j morning, fed twice carrying while cnnflned in small pons, will prove at best unsatisfactory breed- ers. In tho summer, exercise is eas- ily .secured by the usr> of posture, but winter conditions at the north After that the grain was i are so adverse to outdoor life of tho a day, with hay at night pig. t'.iat mucii ing«iiiuitv is called for and stover in th- morning. It was ' „„ the part of tho herdsman to nt- thought that more stover would be : tain the desired end. Sows will gain eaten by this melhoil than the other, exercise in winter when the weather with a considerable .saving of clover j.s not too cold If turned into .shel- "'^y- iterpd yanis, where horses and cattle At tho beginning of the experiment will not anno.v them. If litter from Lot 1 averaged nine pounds loss than , tho stable is thrown in the yaid, ex- Lot 2. At the do.se of the experi- i erciso will be gained while wonking ment tho avoragp of Lot 1 was ten j this over in search of was-te grains, pounds more than tfhi! other. Ixit 2 | .Some exorci.se can also be forc(>d b.v ato slightly more grain and stover ; scntterirvg gnain.s of com or oats than Ix>t 1. On the other hand. Lot i very â- thinly over tho feeding floor. i ato more clovor ha.y t han Lot 2. | » . Tho lot fed in the ojx-n shed pro- duce<l a slightly smaller gain at tho expense of a somewhat greater \ .Some years ago fruit growers amount of foorT. It is not clear that jthoug'ht that the introfluction of tho lower temperature to which Lot! cold storage would revolutionize tho 2 wos exposod was the cnuso of tho business nnd about do awav with or- BABY'S DANGEB. The summer months are a bad time for babies, and an anxious time for tnothers. Fermentation and decom- position in tha stomach and bowels are tho cause of the many summer complaints of babies nnd young child- ren. This ig the reason why the hot weather months are more fatal to little ones than any other season. Baby's Own Tablets should always be found in every homo, where there are young children and their prompt use during hot weather ma.v save a pre- cious little life The tablets cure con- stipation, diarrhoea, and stomach troubles, and are guaranteed to con- tain no opiate or harmful drug. Mrs. Walter Rollins, Sissons Ridge, N.S.. DIAUOKDS BY THE TOK. ?1B,000,000 Worth Taken From African Mines Annually. It is |>ossibljD for one to gain .some idi'a of the enormous woaltin of li'o .South African mines from the fact that Sl.l.OlKJ.OfX) worth of diamond.^ are taken yearly from the four Ing- est mines. The cost of i iitatnln;^ thos' diamonds amounts yearly to half their value, so that the annual net profit from the four .nines is es- timated at aliout $7,aOO,OiKj. I'ach ton of diamonds represents a â- value of $30.0<K),rilKp, and up to the year 1892 these four mines produc^-d ten tons of diamonds, of an .iggregati- value of S:iO0,t)0(),n0O. In ISW.-j no less than 2,l.'i.5..')'ll carats of the precious stones, weighing aliout Ii.ilf a ton. were obtained. To th.> .lag- erfoiitein mines belongs the di.stiuc- tion of having produced the larg.i.st diamond ever mined in tho '.vorld. It weiv.hod (>70 carats, and in its un- cut state was I he size of a hen's egg. rKESCHIRING OUR WEST. "1 havo strenuously objected to tho easy-going wa.vs of the majority of far We.stern drug-gists," said tho commercial, â- 'but thus far I don't seem to have made much of an im- pression on them. I was in a Wy- oming town last month, and feeling aguish I went to the drug store and got some (juinine capsuls. An hour after taking them I went to bed, and it was about midnight when I was aroused by the landlord, who asked: " 'Stranger, are you feelin' all right?' â- ' â- Yea, pretty well.' I replied. 'No horrible pains nor nothin'?' " 'No. But why do you ask'?' 'I g-uess you'd better come down- stairs. The druggist says there's some mistake about them pills. I want to tell you, thouyOi, that he's a powerful good feller, and never piz- ens anybod,v on purpose.' "My hair began to curl before I was out of bed." continued the com- mercial. "I remembered that the druggist seemed to be careless in .serving me, and. while the capsules had thus far had no bad effect, it did not take nie long to imagine that I had swallowed ten grains of morphine and was good for an e.x- cursion somewhere. I made light- ning work of climbing into my clothes and glutting downstairs, and there I found the druggist as calm as an old shoe. 'I think I put u|i morphine for ^DE. GIUSEPPE LiPPO^i â- PHYSICIAN TO THE POPS I PKAiSEs DH. willia::c [ PINK PIIXS. â-  In Potir Cases of Anaemia Their I Effects Were so Satisfactory that; ; He Will Go on Using Them. I Dr. Lapponi. whose skill rrrrerved tho life of the late Pape Leo XIU to the great age of 92, and to whose , care the health of the present Pope, His Holiness Pius X.. is confided, has written tlie remarkable letter of which the following is a transla- j tion : â€" "I certify that I have tried Dr. Williams' I'ink Pills in four cases of I the simple Anaemia of development. j .\fter a few weeks of treatment, the result came fully up to my expecta- tions. For that reason I shall not fail in the future to extend the usao of this laudable prepara-tion not on- ly in tho treatment of other morbid ! forme of the calogorv of .Vnaeraia or ' Chlorosis, but also in cases of Noiu-- aslhenia and the like." DR. GIUSEPPF. LAPPONL , Dr. Giuseppe LaiHJoni. Physician the Pope, who has written a letter in praise of Dr. Vlii- liams' Pink PUls for Pale People. to says 'Before using Baby's Own iji'inine for one of three persons.' he STORR CAVES FOR FRUIT. Tablets my little one cried almost continuously with stomach troubles. I can truthfully aay I never had any medicine act so promptl3- and give ouch satisfaction as the tablets do. r do not think you make any claim for them which their umo will BUbstflntiatc." The tablets can be had from any me<llcine dealer or by mail from Tho Dr. Williams' Medi- xplainwl. 'and so 1 called round to see if you were dead. Let me look at the box.' " 'By John, man.' I yolled at him, thing of killing somebody once a not week with your old drugs^? It you have poisoned me ' " 'Those are quinine, sure cnouj»^h,' he interrupted, as he opened a cap- cino Co., BrockviUe, Ont. Pnce 25 sule and tasted. "You can go back cents a box. irtlflerituc, as the record of tho tem- perature for two weeks does not show any particular relationship be- tween temperHture and gains. On the w+iole, while the bran-fed lot ap- pear to hn.\f given slightly better results, the difference was not very marked. In view of the wide differ- ence obflervi-d lietween in<lividunl ani- mals in each lot. it po.snible that the mals and conditions other thantem-' p&ratuiv which surrounded them had qtiite as much to do with the dlfter- €jnco as the expo.siire to cold Kxperi- ments' will be conducted by several other stations along the same line %o get more definite information. dinary cellar storage, writes G. H. Van llouton. 'Hiey lbolier\-ed that early ajiiples could be kept in cold storage ihrotighout the fall season, and thus come Into competition with the winter applofl. While great suc- cess 'lias been had with refrigeretion, the average farmi'r will still have no cause to chnngo from the olri-faslhion- RULES FOa LONGEVITY. It is a Subject That Puzzles; SKany a Man. All of us when in our right minds, want to live as long as possible and if at forty we say. "I don't care to live after I am eighty," at the lat- ter ago we rub out tho eighty anil insert n huntlrod; nnd even the cen- tcnarinn is quito content to keep on though he knows his doing so does not e.vcite popular approval. Hut what contlucts to longovit.v is the is not at all im- ! od cellar method. It he uses common 'question that pumles the averaRo s<Onction of ani- ! sense and cure in preserving his afi-i"'"" '''" attempt to rea-son from plos. I know of nothing more do- siiable than first-class tJetiet apples buried in the ground and kept until spring. In a properly constructed and well-managod cellar, fruit and vege- tables should keep all winter. Farm- Children Had Skin Disease spocilic tnsTanc(« Involves him In n mn7.o of glaring contradicticms and loaves him ho[<elossly bewitderod . Here arc Oa.ssius M. Clay and Leo XIII. dying within a few da.vs of each other. and each in his 94th .vour. Could thorw he a stronger con- It Would be impossible to exagger- ate the importance of this opinion. Dr. Lapponi's high oflSciol position places his professional competence above (juestion, and it is certain that he did not write as above with- out weighing his words, or witiiout a full sense of the effect his o, iuion would have. The "simple anaemia of develop- ment" referred to by Dr. Lapponi is _ , . _,^..^„ „, °f course that tired, languid condi- "but do you make a regular i ''"" °' young girls whose develop- -•• i.Mi:-.- .- I ment to womaahood is tardy, and whose health, at the period of that development, is so often imperilled. A girl, bright and merry enough in childhood, will in her teens grow by degrees pale and languid, frequent headaches, and a sense of un«asin»69 which s&e cannot understand, mokes her miserable. Just when it is time for her to leave ofl being a girl and become a womanâ€" a change which comes to diflorent individuals at dif- ferent agesâ€" her development lingersâ€" why? Uecautte she has too little blood. TTiat is what Dr. Lapponi means when he speaks, in the seiett- tifk language natural to him. of "the anaemia of development. " Dr W-il- liams- rink Pills for Pale People have the power of making new blood. Thoj- cure anacmin Just as food euro* hunger. That is how thej- hdp growing girls. w*io. for want of this new blood, often drift Into oKronic ill-health, or "go into o deellne" â€" which means consumption, -aad <«e. Dr. William.' PllJs could save them. !*• value of Dr WlUams' Plpk Pills as a nerve tonic, referred to to bed. stranger." 'But I want to know about this thing. Why do you keep your mor- phine and quinine s-ide by .side? Why don't you have your mind ' " 'You are all right and have no cause for complaint,' ho said, as he lighted a cigar and seemed some- what relieved in his mind. j " 'But who got the morphine?' I asked. j " 'Lung Sing, the Chinaman, prob- ably, and it's all right. It was ei- ther l>tmg .Sinn „r old Bill Birdsall, nnd it don't matter which, as the bo.vs are going to hang both of 'em to-morrow!" " . * OLD FASHIONED. But Still in the Fashion. It is an ever now and interesting ly made over by change of food. For two years 1 was troubhxl trast than that betwetni the manner I with wh«t my phy.sician said was the Itchins: so Bad They Would Tear Their Fleshâ€" An Extraordinary Cure by DR. CHASE'S OINTMENT. TVio many from itching. Oint- chlldrcn are in agony so I began using Dr. Chase's bumit»g skiln disease, 'ment. Too many mothers are wi>rn out by "Wliorevor it wofl applied It did its anxiety nnd loss oY nleu|) in watching ' work well. and has entirely cured over their little onea who are tortur- \ them of this hooriblo discuso. They «d by such ailmeats. ! aunernd so they could not sleep Dr. Chases f)lntjnont is a prompt nights, and I think If it hfld lasted nod positive cure for every form of much longer I would have gone crazy itching akin disoaso, and has proven from the anxioty and loss of sleep. I its marvel logs power in thousands of cannot find words to praise Dr. ea.iea. similsr to the one described Chase's Ointment enough for tho below. good it has done my childron. and Mrs. Lois McKay, Tiverton. Dlghy hope other wifterors will try it " Cotmty. N.a.. writes - My children Dr. Chase's Ointment. 60 cents a Wflre taken with an Itchin*. burning box. at all dealers, or Edmanson •kin disease and tore their flaah until Dates A. Company, Toronto. To pro- It was sore and their shirt* would tect you against imitationa. the por- ftomettmes be wet with blood. The | trait and slgnaturr of Dr. W. A. doctor dW not aeem to know what | Chase, the fannous receipt book ai>- »ii«d thorn and cuuld give no relief, I thor, are on ovei-* box of life of the rugged Kentuoky flrt eater and the frain and abstemious scholar of the Vatican? A mnii died in Indiana tho other day iit the agi' of 89, who was notixl for his enormous conauinption of tobacco. nnd Jacob R. Smith, of Massachti Hotts, came forth to ascribe his good lie*ilth at the age of 94 to tho fact jthat he never used tobacco in his jlife. I But out of it nil we may learn those undeniable factaâ€" The human machine is like other machines: some are built to wear out early. nnd some to last a long time, nnd though the working time of the one may bo increased by rare and nbstinencn. worry, excesses and privations short- en th<> time for which the other can lie k«|>t nrnning. evm though that period shoukl be exteiwloil over more than the number of .vears generally allotted to the life of man. Tho man who diixl from the pxce.ssive use of tobacco at R9 was as surely cut oft before his time as one who tlied at 20 from the same cause; nnd the frail life of Gioacchino Pecci was ns •Hirely prolongetl by his abstemious habits until ho dii>d as Leo XIII. at the age of 94. old fashioned dys|>eps-ia, "There was nothing I could cat but '20 or 30 minutes later I w.iuld bo spitting my food up in quantities until I would bo very faint and weak. This went on from day to day until I was terribly wasted and witihoiit any prospects of being helr>ed. "One day I was advised by an old lady to try (!rapo-Nuts and cream leaving off all fatty food. I had no conlidence that l!rap€--Nuts would do all she said for me as I had tried so many things without any help. Hut it was so simple I thought I would give it a trial, she insisted so. ^ Thev »ct on the nervce through the Mood «nd thus cure diseases like 9t Vitus lance, neuralgia, paralysis and loco- notor ataxia. When bujiag these pills It is important to see that the full name Dr. Williams" Pink PlUa for Pals People" is printed on tho wrapper around each box. Never take a substitute, as It is worse than a waste of mooej^-it Is a m«n- \ce to health. II you canno«t get the ,'enumo pills (roju your dealer write ^e Dr. Williams' Medicine Co Brockvflle, Ont . and ths pills will be aeat you post paid ut 50 cenU a >ox or six boxes for 92.59. e TROPICAL COLD MINK. There is a gohl mine in Auatnxlia which Is three thouaand feet dtMip. and the various tunnels are so hot j strong an<l well and it is due entlre- that cold water has to Iw continually Uy and only to having found the spia.vtKl over the miners working the I proper food in f!rBj>c-Nuts " Name lode. Ine temperature is usually TOO SACRKl) TO TOUCH. It is a tradition in Corea that the ImiK-rial person is sacred, so sacred .,., ,, , , that to touch it with a steel or iron Well I ate some for breakfast and weapon constitules high treason A pretty soon the lady called to see foimer Kmpcror. Tion-son-4bi-on her 'patient' ns she called me and j about the end of the eighteenth cen- asked if I had trit>d her a<lvice. tury. preferred to die from an ill- 'â-  â- Olad you did child, do you feel jness which couUl havt^ been easily soine better?" .cured by a slight oi.eration rather !Vo 1 said. I do not know as than subauit his body to such a dese- 1 do. the only difference I can sec is ;cration. I have no sour stomach and come to j think of it I haven't spit up your , The visitor was showing little Os- four teaspoons of Grnpe-Nuts yet.' wald the book of fairy-tales. "But "Nor did I ever have any trouble ; wouWn't you live to "have been the with tJrai>e-Nuts then or any other two-henderl giui.t?" asked the visi- tiiiio for this food always sta.vs | tor "He had lots of fim!" "No down and my stomach digests it | indeed!" responded Oswald. "Think perfectly: I soon got strong and well how he must have suftered when his again ami bless that old lady every inemma boxed his ears!" time I see her. "Once an invalid of 9S pounds I now weigh 125 pounds and feel about 108 d(»gre<>s, and the men hav^ to work almost nakod In oi^dur to latand the heat. given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. Cet tho little hook "The Uoad to WellvUle" in each package. DB.A.W. CHASE'S OR CATARRH CbK...ZvC. t» â€"nt dtmt to t^ it^mnj ptrtt by iIm ImproTed Blowoc. Heih Ike uJoarj, ,*„„ tSo a^ Inroae .nd piiiM Mu J. cnna Caurrh and H«T P*T«t. Mower ftT>« All dnVsra, or D>. A. W. CkM* MWWm Co.. Ta