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r once at the Connecticut- Agricultural » “$0541” . I . ‘ :" 3 l? R FAR *ERS 35 “_ "" i. 3%. Seasonable and Profitable 1} Hintsfor the Busy Tillers *2 of the Soil. 3, I.- I , 3?? MOLD IN BUTTER PACKAGES. â€" Avoiding moldy tubs is a very easy task, but destroying (mold already on them is not as easy. I am doubtful if it is at all possible, as We are dealing with a butter tub Where strong antiseptics cannot be employed, writes Mr. F. C. Oltrogge. It is claimed by good authorities that a strong solution of corrosive sublimate will not ell‘ace certain kinds of this fungous growth. We can then only follow one or two courses -either avoid mold entirely or reâ€" tard its growth when in its first stage. It is not at all to be won, dered at if commission men report moldy butter tubs. I find a good many. creamerles storing their sup- ply stock of butter tubs mn mmnnn ply stock of tubs in a little room adjoining the work room of a creamery, with no ventilation except a door leading into this room. The storage rooms are damp, musty and veritable llotbeds for mold and its growth. This mold in its first stage is commonly known as mildew, which is familiar to the commission trade. ' It will soon appear on the inside of a butter tub unless checked by a dry atmosphere, hot or cold temperature. The practice of soaking the tubs for a long time in a strong solution of salt....brine has been recommended. Salt being in itself a, slight antisep- tic and a fair preservative, no doubt has some effect on mold, but it is not powerful enough to retard the growth to any appreciable extent. esides, long soaking of tubs is not commendable, inasmuch as it raises havoc with the cooperage. This is not at all necessary when paper lin- ing is used. . I have of late experimented with bora’cic acid instead of salt with very good success. I only soak the tubs enough to set the hoops. I prepare a solution of bora‘cic acid, with which tubs are thoroughly rinsed, then thoroughly soak the parchment lining ill the same soluâ€" tion. We also use it on top of cloth circle instead of salt. This Will probably not look right to those who fill about half inch of salt on top of the butter with the idea to gain Weight instead of using it as a protector for the butter. Although boracic acid is not a strict mold deâ€" stroyer, it is more effective than salt, being a much better preserva- tive and a fair deodorizer. Were I to put away any butter for cold storage purposes, I should prepare every package, including lining and cloth circles, by soaking in a bor- acic acid solution, not only for prch venting mold but to add to the keeping quality by preserving that part of the butter most exposed. KEEP I-IOGS DRY AND CLEAN. The money making hog deserves better treatment than he gets on many farms. Farmers not infreâ€" quently permit hog yards and feed lots to become very muddy and filâ€" thy, saying that it is impossible to have better ones. This is too often strongly in evidence these autumn days with their rain and mud. Farm- ers allow the hogs to wadw about in slush, not even providing a dry, solid place for feeding and another for sleeping. The animals being 60n- stantly covered with mud and taking in filth with their food, become rough and unthrifty. Is it any wonâ€" der then that they succumb to di- sease. But‘there is little excuse for the unsanitary condition on, most hog lots. ' Begin by til-e draining the lot, which should he on as high and dry a spot as possible. Get off all the water which falls upon it and re- move all from the subsoil as soon as possible. ' ' Build some kind of a hog house for the animals to sleep in. It need not be expensive. A low shed with tight roof and earthen floor a foot or 18 inches above the level of the lot will usually_be dry. If a dry floor canâ€" not -'be obtained, in this Way fill ill with tile or brickbats or coarse gravel. These will pack down and make an excellent floor that will not become muddy. If material of this kind is not available it will. pay to floor a part of the Shed or house with lumber. The next thing of importance is a clean’ feeding place. The only way to be sure of this is to build one of boards. Have it large enough to accommodate all your hogs. Build it 18 inches or two feet off the ground and of two-inch material. Clean it off before each feeding time. By these simple and inexpensive means -â€"â€"tiling, building a shed and provid~ ing a feeding floorâ€"it is possible to keep kogs in fair condition in the muddiest localities. DISEASES OF THE DAIRY COW. In order of frequency of occurrence and economic importance to the dairyman, are tuberculosis, abortion and garget. On this subject E; Lehnert, professor of veterinary sci- _Collegc, spoke to a recent field meet- ing of the; Connecticut ,Dairyman'ls Association. With» tuberculosis it was advised to use great care in looking after the animals with ref- erence to general hygiene, viz., ven- tilation. drainage, food, etc., as Well as breeding, in oracl- to obtain and ____________..___â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"--â€" keep physically strong animals.’ He also advised use of tuberculin by the individual and to take advantâ€" Notes age of the cattle commission, as it is for the dairyman’s individual good as well as the public in general. » With abortion he laid most stress and time on 'the so-‘called contagious form. He advised doing everything possible to keep things absolutely clean (aseptic), the isolation of aborting animals, the liberal use of 5 to 10 per cent. solution of sulpho napthol for external wash, for both' affected» and- pregnant coWs, supple- mented by use of lime or other dis- infectant on floor and in gutters. The affected cows should be washed out daily, as long as discharge persisted, with 3 to 5 per cent solution of sul- pho napthol, using 3 to 4 feet of one- half inch rubber hose and funnel as preferable to a pump, as it is less ir- ritating. Some stress was laid on the care of the bull. He advised use of some wash as above, and also frequent syringing of the sheath, as there is no doubt that the bull is a prolific disseminator of the disease. F0 01) FOR COWS . If several kinds of food are placed before cows they will select the kind first that is most palatable, and when satisfied, will reject a large proportion, which may be wasted. When the foods are prepared, and made more palatable by the addi- tion of ground grain to hay,straw or fodder, there will be less waste. During the winter the object should be to have the animal consume the least desirable foods as a matter of economy, and at the same time give them other foods in connection therewith that will. enable‘tlle aniâ€" mals to~gain, as it should not be satisfactory. to have .them simply to remain at the same weights. YOUNG STOCK. Poultry-keepers are gradually beâ€" coming convinced of the fact that they must loolcjfoi' profits to young stock. Thenchancesfl of profit, are greater the younger in, {life a fowl begins to lay. .. A chicken hatched at such a time that no eggs~are .. proâ€" duced until the spring that it is a year old has “already lost a sum which may be greater than the eggs which will be produced that summer. These pullets‘are Starting their ca- reer in debt, for their owner has inâ€" vested lnoré in them in food and care than they will- be likely to repay. KEEPING POTATOES. A. little airâ€"slaked lime, dusted over the potatoes as they are put in bins, barrels, boxes, or in heaps on the cellar-floor will prevent de- cay. The lime has a purifying ef- fect, absorbing~ the'moisture, and keeps them sweet, dry and fresh. Five cents’ worth of lime will be sufficient for 20 bushels. .â€"~â€"-.)~ WHY THE: HEN CACKLES. The accepted explanation of the cackling in which a hen indulges after laying an egg is that she is So pleased that she wants everyone to know it. The cock answers the cackle with a, crew, and this is taken- as further indication that both are immensely proud of the achievement. This exrlanation is not tenable ; if we consider the question fairly, We shall see that instinct Would teach the hen that to cackle is to call the attention of the enemy' to both her- self and her embryo offspring, which she would naturally avoid doing. The cackle is a relic of long bygone days, when fowls- were not domesti- cated, and ran about wild. When the hen wished to lay, she retired from the rest of the fowl community and ' performed the task. By the time she was ready to rejoin the commonwealth the Other members had wandered some distance, and she did not know where they were. She waited till she had gone some disâ€" tance from the egg in order not to_ endanger it, and then. she cackled, after also having taken a good look round to assure herself that no enemies were near. The cock, hear- ing the. cackle, answered it by a crew, and thus informed the hen of the whereabouts of the tribe“ This sort of thing may be seen now among the ancestors of our domestic fowl ill the Malay countries and India. Domestication has changed some of the characteristics of the strange freak of nature. #_._._â€"‘_‘ HOT STUFF. Ginger is made of matter of scientific culture in Jamaica. It is propagated by cutting up small pieces of the root, and, 'if possible, ricll, cool soil from recently-cleared woods is selected for if. It is a great illlpO‘VCl'lSllC‘l' of the soil, and grows so luxuriantly that in a short time a little piece of root will spread so as to produce nearly a pound of new roots. The sets are planted in March or April, and 'get to their full growth about September. The roots are dug usuallyin Jamaica in January washed, exposed to the sun until thoroughly_ dried, and packed in parcels of' about, a. hundred pounds each. In .order to 'dry them' more rapidly. they are first scalded ill a little copper .pot, in order to . dev stroy life, ohwhich the roots, are very tenacious, White ginger and roots, ‘the difference arising frdm methods of curing. Boots for sugar- preserving are dug while quite young, before the stems are more than five or six inches high. rooster, but the cackle survives by a‘ . specimen 'of carpenterillg work exeâ€" modem mechanimm Emery vault or February. They are. black. - ginger -_ are from the same PERSONAL POINTERS. at first as an ordinary “hand,’ and â€"â€" in those days the factory laws were of Interest- About Some in their infancy and. the conditions I’romlnent People- of labor exceedingly onerous. The hours were terribly long, and I have worked all night again and again when a boy.” When about eighteen, after being manager of the lace- mending department, he became book-keeper, and this gave him his first opportunity of getting on in the World. > can IN NURTH fllNlDl. BELT OF BITUMINOUS EXPLORv _ERS HAVE SAMPLED. ___â€". The young DucheSs of Marlborough has as trange taste in pets. At Blenheim 'she has set up a men- agerie in‘ Which-are tWOv ostriches, several eagles and vultures, and an ib-is. Baron Krupp, . the. great ironmasâ€" ter of Germany, carries evidences of , the trade with him when he goes â€"-â€"‘+â€"â€"_ visiting. His cards are made of LIVES 0N RAW FOOD ONLY' iron, rolled so thin that they are â€" .. said to be a great success for 50- man says He Eats Nothlng COOk' cial use. ed, Yet Thnves. By the death of John Hudson, in Byron Tyler, :1. telegraph operaâ€" his eighty-eighth year, there has tol‘, for Six years has existedon raw passed away the-oldest policeman in food. It is his theory that, as England. With his regiment, I the 000kng destroys the life germs in Royal English Fusiliers, he was re- fl‘lfits and Vegetables» it also de- viewed by William IV. in Windsor stroys the properties for which they Park. He joined the Leeds conâ€" are supposed to be eaten. He ar- stabulary when there were only gues that as a roasted kernel of corn eighteen members in the force. Hud- has lost. its creative power. as son had enjoyed a pension for over shown when placed in the earth, it thirty years has lost, too, its food value. v It is a very rare thing. for General .Prof. Tyler, _as the Raw Food So- Badenâ€"Powell to be at a loss for Clety 0f AIQGITICaIfierms hlm, made reputce, and his. most humorous what he believes 15 his great dis-COV- sa in s are 'enerall s oken in a ery,in 1895' He was then an in" 103;, Even “30% and}, Wfih a serious valid, helpless with rheumatism and look only belied by the twinkling of Suffering from .consumption' Finally his eyes, At a luncheon partv a he became so 111 he could not par- celebrated doctor was ohafi‘lllg hiln. take Of 30.1w food' lived for weeks on mllk and the juice of fresh “And how do you feel when you . - . ' ,, fruits. Suddenly he began to get ' ' c ' c 9 . . . have killed a man professmnally . better. Doctors sald It was Simply he asked; “Oh ‘!” said Badenâ€"Powell . . . _ H , . ., a temporary reactlon wlnch would Impclturbably’ I don't mmd 11“ be followed by a relapse. Hevstuck HOW ‘10 you feel under the same to his fruit and milk diet though C'rcumstances until be practically was-"a well man. On‘ onc'occasmn’ as Madame Melba Then he went back to cooked foods. “7‘15 coming out Of her room in if When he did the rheumatism return- New York hotel after some hours (KL Then he decided to give raw pracum’ 5’" lady» Who was Staying on food a thorough test, and it is six. th? 531139 floor» appl‘oaCth'her and years-ago last May since a bit 'of said 3 ‘Pm‘don me, madame! but 1' stuff which has been near fire has think you will be touched at hearing passed his lips. . what my little boy said just now. By experimenting he has managed He iS' lying in bed recovering from to discover several raw food com- im illneSS, and When you began to binations which not only do not Sing he held 11D his little hand and taste as though they were uncooked murmured. ‘ITush, mummie. dear, but are of delicious fiavor. Bread birdie singing !’ "_ An ingen-uous is made by crushing cereals until compliment the Australian nightinâ€" they are as thin as tissue paper and gale fully appreciated. then pressing them into a cake which The late Queen of the Belgians resembles the ordinary cracker. The used- to have a favorite parrot. addition of ground nut meal to these When it first arrived at court some biscuits makes them tempting to the two or three years ago it horrified taste, and Prof. Tyler declares they the courtiers by shrieking out such are the most healthful things a man {reasonable expressions as “Down can eat. with the Pasteboard King l” and Naturally fruits and vegetables “Viva 1a Repubugue 1“ Poor P011 form the greater part of the diet, was sentenced to death by stranguâ€" but oysters and clams are .eaten and lation by the indignant lordsâ€"inâ€" 50 is meat“ The. idea 0f eating NIPW waiting, but the Queen intervened meat is. revolting *0 mPSt P001318, and set herself to teach the. parrot but the alsco'vel'el‘ 0f thlsj Plan Of to cry “Viva ]e Roi g" and other living insxsts a raw steak is as su- loyal phrases. I-Ier lessons were soon Periorfio a rare Steak as a ram successful, and the bird became as Steak 13 to one that has been 6001‘“ entirely Iloyalist as it has-“proL until it is dry' ‘ ; viously been Republican. 'â€"â€"-'+'â€""' A Pretty story is told of the in- HOW A PERSON DROWNS. troduclion of the King of Portugal _ """_ . to his charming and clever'.wife. may Slnk and 3159 Three Tlmes One day, when the Crown Prince, as or Never 3159 at All. he- then was, was Calling on the Few popular fancies am of such French Ambassadress, his attention wide extent, as the belief that a per. was arrested by the photograph 0f son must. rise to the surface three a sweetâ€"faced, fair-haired girl On the times, no more no less», before he m’antlepiece. Taking up- the DhOtO- can possibly drown. ‘There is little graph to examine it more closely, he ground for this supposition, a1â€" said to the Amba‘ssadress : “What a though it has been almost univer- charming young lady 1” “Yes,” was sally believed in for generations. The the answer ; “and she is as charmâ€" truth is that a drowning person ing as she looks. She is the Prinâ€" may sink the first time never to cess Amelie of Orleans.” On the folâ€" rise again. , lowing day the Prince was on his It all depends upon‘the quantity way to Paris, and a fortnight later of Water he swallows when he sinks his engagement to the beautiful and the size of his lungs. The human Princess was formally announced to body in life naturally floats While the world. the lungs are inflated. As long as The father of the Shah of Persia one keeps his head above the sur- face of the water he can float face 1 r 'I. venture d esca ades . . . ’ hm mo e ‘ d S an ‘p up, Wlthout haVln-g to move a hand durlng hls llfetllne than had perhaps or foot. But as soon as a person any other monalch. Once,- when . v . . . - . , . . , . smks he gulps and 1mb1bes~ a quan- travclllng through Russla, hls tlaln tity of water. If after he has swal_ left the raids near Odessa and rolled lowed Water, he has any air left in over an embankment. ’lhe Shall was his lungs, he will r15 6 again, and {313:1 (32:18ch oufiigumtffc; Will continue to sink and rise alterâ€" ] 1' ‘3 ' ' ‘ ‘ .tll til all the air is ex elled things were woundedâ€"His Majesty’s gigglyhisulfings} when he will dgowm fligmévfmd..Hm Mam? S.spc'ctaf°1§.s' In most cases the frightened vic- l‘llo chall, at the cone usmn o 19 “m of an acadean swallows enough Visithto Ri‘ssml Selma“) melnmnagefi' water when he first sinks to leave 0 U 1'31 Way a e e" m“ a snm lliln in an exhausted condition, but parcel. In the lettenhe thanked the as there is Still ail. left in his lungs manager for tllo‘trouble he had put he finds hilnself on the surface, himself to- in. “breaking the mono- again. Each time he sinks, howev_ tony of the journey ill the way he 01-, the supply of air in his lungs had done, Would the manager; as a. grows less, until ultimately there is l'Cnlombl‘a'lllfe,' accept a, small preâ€" no longiar a sufficient quantlty to sent ?" ‘10 present Was a pair support lim. of battered spectacles. The humor _â€"â€"â€"....â€"§_.4â€"â€"- was quite Western in character. GUARDING A TREASURY. Osborne having been handed over The Treasury of the United States to the nation, 11; is of some lnterest at Washington, containing an im_ to recall the fact that on the rlght mouse amount of gold and silver of its entranceâ€"gate stands the only win is guarded both by men and Can Be Mined and Transport? ed at Reasonable Rates. "There is a belt of bituminous coal in the Canadian Arctic. The surface indiCations crop up from 63 to 165 degrees west longitude, and from 69 to 81 north, running in a northeast~ erly direction, similar to the coal area in Cape Breton. The drift is about 3,000 miles long, commencing from Kotzebue Sound on the main land of Alaska and appearing next at- Corwin coal mine and Thetis coal mine, from where the gold mines at Cape Nome, Alaska, receive their coal- supplies." . So says Capt. Bernier, the next and best fitted aspirant for thc North Pole. Take a map of North America and look at the archipelago north and west of Hudson's Bay. Here is the old Franklin stamping ground, and in the mazes of these islands he lost the Northwest pas- sage. The coal dip runs from the mainland northeast through these is- lands. HE BURNED THE COAL. At Mercy Bay, 500 miles‘ north of Great Slave Lake, in the Northwesi Territories,» McClure, the Arctic ex- plorer, wintered in .1852, ' '58, and. '54-,- and- burnt Canadian coal at his winter quarters. Other explorers have reported it a1 five other places on this sane north- ville Island, Bryan, Martinvlsland, and Batllurst Island are all known to contain coal. ‘ On Grinncll Land carbon only has been reported, but on North Cornwall, 75 miles due north, coal-‘ crops out again, though here evidently of a different lay. Fol- lowing‘the' direction of this latter drift, however," we find that Sir Geo. Norl’s ship, the Discovery, found coal on Body Franklin Bay, Grout Land, in 1878â€"9, which was after- wards noted in the same neighbor- hood by Major Greely, 1881â€"83. From Grant Land it crosses to Greenland, where Peary’s new re- port, soon to be issued, possibly traces its continuation. American Whalers every'year, fit- ting out ‘ from San Fran- cisco on the Pacific and New Bed- ford on the Atlantic, fish in the Can- adian Arctic, north and east of the mouth of "the 'Mackenzie. Their crews burn coal from'the same vein. New Bedford and Gloucester fisher- men catch Canadjan halibut in the Hudson’s, Bay, and burn’ Canadian coal. New =Bedford Whalers Winter in Fox Channel, loading up with ing Canadian coal. PLENTY FOR CANADA. rence, and all around us lies wealth We know-=nothing about. We grow weak and dependent upon another country for coal, a necessity of life for half the year, while our own ter- ritory, east, west, and north, holds coal in abundance. Already for- eigners are claiming the Arctic Is- lands. Those to the north of Can- ada, though abutting directly on our main coast, are not, Captain Bernier says, on the official Do- minion maps even. The first man with, a._flag that goes up there might claim the whole archipelago, as Sverdrup did with 1,500 miles of new coast this year. It is time, it would seem, to look farther north of us than the pulpwood of the Height of Land. Coal can be mined in the Arctic a: well as gold. . It is as warm under- ground in Cape Nome as it is il Pennsylvania. Vessels navigate thl northern sounds and fi’ords in scare]: of whale and seal, and in the ser vice of the Hudson’s Bay Company Coal could be transportedin ship: to Fort Chruchill, in Hudson’s Bay, at the mouth of the Nelson. A rail- way is already, though vaguely, pro- jected to extend to Moose Factorj Lake 'Nipissing. ’_â€"â€"_- â€".- ’ . COBRA \VAS “INCONVENIENT.’ lndian station» masters have theil peculiar trials. Most of us haw heard of the agitated telegrams soul by one of this class in the early days of railway construction to'the traf~ fic 'manager at Bombay: “Tigel dancing on- platform, pointsman rur. away, please arrange.” Quite re cently, a Madras station mastel wrote to his district superintende that an aloe fence opposite his posl was tenanted by a “fearful cobra," of which he besought the removal, as its presence was exceedingly ilr convenient at train times. N0 TURKISH NAVY. Under pressure from the Powers the Sultan recently gave orders f0l piracy in the ;Red Sea to be suppress cuted by the King in his youthful is connected with an emctric alarm days When Prince Of Waleso It: is a so sensitive that the slightest touch large tool house erected by hiln and of the hand Win sound a warning at his brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, the office of the guards and in 'the under the supervision of their fathâ€" pence stations of the city of wash- er, the Prince Consort. It was sub- ington. False alarms have ‘occa- stan'tially built in a workmanlike sionally sent armed men hurrying to manner, the gables of the roof being the Treasury. A signal allowed to lnortised in true form. Both the continue would bring out the troops tool-house itself and the barrows and at Fort Meyer, three miles away. garden tools were, up till very reâ€" Besides these mechanical safeguards, celztly, in capital preservation, and seventyâ€"tWO men, under a captain, kept exactly as they were when in are engaged in WatChing the Treas- actual use by the Prince and his “I'Y- 0f “19%. one-fifth are detailed brothers and Sisters. Each child had for day seerce, and two-fifths for a complete set of tools with barrow 9231311 0f the two “'atChes Of the and Waggon. The initials of each of might- the royal children were painted ' on " h the back of the implements. A MITâ€"KING RECORD. .Dr. John Clifford, the famous-Bap. The milking record for New Zea_ tlst preacher, is a good example of land has been put up by a Plains a self-made man. His parents were settler and his wife, -who, without' working people, and he received but any help except what could be given a very scanty share of education at by a twenty-mont11_oid .jnfant,.- milk. the village school. “I‘ began life,” ed seventy-nine cows twice daily. It, the doctor once said, "in a lace fac- is a fact, and can be vouched for, tory when I was eleven years old, that he delivered on an average of and I may say that I know the lace 2,000 pints of milk a. day at the trade from top to bottomâ€"at least, factory, and not a penny was spent as it, was fifty years ago. I worked in Wages last year. Turkish navy, which still exists on paper, does not possess a single War- ship, large or small, capable of go ing, to sea. TWO merchant steam- ships used in the coasting trade were hired andiitted out with an arma- ment. These v-two improvised rwar- ships in..miniatureâ€"-n.eitller of their has a displacement of more than 20( tonsâ€"constitute in effect the entir: simplest "kindle! seafgoing service. ._____+___._ The moose-deer has the larges horns of any animal. They ofte) weigh from 50' to 60 pounds. west trend through the islands. Mel- ’ Canadian whale blubber, andâ€"burnâ€"-- We dwell here at the head [of-,ther: lakes" in the basin-of the St. Law-‘- , «A,» _.â€"~, â€"’-4/. .,...â€" MVggufl , A ._,, V'jn.- 1' - Janles'13ay, from’North Bay, or ed. It then , transpired that the Turkish-navy available for ‘even thv.“ ‘ »‘--«’As“-<-'ZMM‘W‘ _ mwmth-‘rm , .‘ “swans: .: «v ‘ ~' ’ ..L~.¢.~4Ww. , , ~ . “ ‘505 vw ... ... ~re-... x; ‘.‘w«;â€" ;‘_..;‘.;â€".â€".s.. . V -4 .. - Q ‘1' _\.._ ."V'