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. ls fed or its by-produete.has long been weil A AfililcllLlURAi. m Care of Dairy Cows in Winter. Coats should be fed in good comfortable stables and the arrangement of the feeding maugers should be such that each cow can have her food by herself so that it will not be pulled away and stolen from her by another cow, writes C. P. Goodrich. In this way the feeder can give each cow just the quantity he wishes and he will be able to know just how well she eats her food and how much she eats. The practice of l'hrowing food of any kind out on the ground at any time for cows to drive and chase one another over, is always to be condemned. I think it best to feed three times a day, and never feed at one time more than they willeatnpatonco. The feeder should watch his cows. and if one leaves at the time any of her food itshould be taken away and not Left before her, and next time feed a little less till he finds outjust her capacity for ear. lug. 0n the other hand,“ acow eatsall that is given her quickly and from her actions seems to need more, she should next time be fed more. For greatest profit cows should be fed to tlhe full extent of their ability to consume, digest. and convert into milk the proper kinds of food for milk production. They will consume more and do better if fed a variety of foods each day. They love a variety just as all other animals, man included. No man can be a good feeder and obtain the highest and best results in dairying unless he studies the art of feed- ing, and to do this he must love his cows and watch them while eating. He must feel the same kind of desire to please them and do the best he can for them by provid- ing the right kind and quantity of food as a mother feels for her children when providing food for them. The kinds of food that cows should have depends upon circumstances ~what we have on the farm and the cost of those foods we have to buyâ€"but it certainly should be palatable, and an effort should be made to have enough protein food to make, in con- nection With the cheaper and more carbon- anceous food, a fairly-balanced ration. For best results somesucculent food is necessary, such as ensilsge or roots. As good a daily ration as I ever fed was for 1,000 pound cows in full flow of milk, an average of thirty pounds of well-eared corn ensilage, ten pounds of good clover hay, what dry corn fodder and oat straw they would eat, probably eight or ten pounds. five pounds of wheat bran, and five rounds gluten meal. The protein in the l ran and gluten meal balanced the excess of carbo-hydrates in thecorn food. Clover lay is a fairly well-balanced food for milk. If the main part of the coarse fodder is clover hay, it will do to feed more com or corn meal than if the coarse fodder is Timothy hay and corn fodder. In the latter case it will not do to feed much corn. Now, what I have been writingis a sort of general rule, but when we come to practice we find that scarcely any two cows should be fed exactly alike. Here iswhere the skill of the feeder comes in. He must know each individual cow and her capacity to make profitable use of food. It is not profitable to feed dairy cows so as to make them fat beyond a good fair condition. The food that goes to produce fat is wasted as far as dairy products are concerned. Let me illustrate how I would feed : Suppose I had mixed hay and corn fodder for roughage, and plenty of corn and oats -â€"-cheap as they are this year. I would have for the grain part of the ration ground corn and oats and bran oneâ€"third each by weight. blow, row number one eats up her food readily, her grain food being ten pounds given in two feedings daily. She gives a moderate mess of milk, but is put- ting on fat. I Would reduce or entirely leave out the corn in her feed and replace it with bran, or, better still, gluten meal, or, perhaps, part cotton seed meal. This would, if she is a cow fit for the dairy,siop the tendency to lay on fat and increase the flow of milk. Cow number two I feed the regular ten pound ration, she eats it up greedily and gives a large mess of good milk. I increase the ration to twelve pounds, she eats it quickly and gives more milk; 1 increase it to fifteen pounds, she still eats it up readin and also eats alarge amount of coarse fodder. She is making good use of her food,for with every increase in food there is a corresponding increase in milk ; but. she is all the time losing flesh. What shall I do 2 This cannot long con- tinue. if she is not fed differently she will milk herself down to a skeleton and then the milk flow must of necessity drop all or she cannot live. I will tell you what I will do. I will feed her more corn meal in place of some of (he bran. I will change the ration gradually till I get her so that she can hold her own. Number two is a thin dairy cow such as the dairy man needs to make his business profitable. Now it will be seen why I say the feeder must become acquainted wi!h his cows in order to make the most profit from them. Whether the ground food should be fed wet or dr depends on circumstance. If cows take all the water they need for the production of milk (and it takes a good deal of it) without baVing it mixed with their food, then I any feed it dry. But if they have dry fodder and are watered hul once a day and have to drink ice water at that, then l say they do not take water enough, and Will do better to have the 1' food wet, and the wetter the bolter. The Value of Wheat Feeding for Hogs. From many parts of the west we hear of successful results of feeding wheat to domestic animals. Its value as a food for cattle and horses, whether the whole grain known, and the present experience has confirmed that knowledge. But the greates‘ good likely to result from the corn crop failure of 1894. and the consequent use of wheat in its place, will be the feeding of wheat to swine. Its value here. when the rice makes it practicable, is incalcuiable. a have led too much corn. eXclu-ive food of swine, and we have thus brought on severe punishment. I Exclusive corn feeding to bogs has given us a race of domestic animals which are debilitated at birth. No animal can be‘fed on such a highly carbonaceous food as corn without becom‘ng physically demoraiired. We no not think that first-class on such a diet. Swine thus fed, when slaughtered, always have more or less . inflamed viscera, the result of impaired health. Perhaps the greatest harm resulting from this one-sided diet is that it impairs the animal's vitality and makes it an easy prey for many contagious diseases whieha well-fed and healthy animal would readily resist. This has been a prominent factor in making hog cholera the destructive agent that it has so long been. With the range of clover pasture for the swine, and some wheat in the grain ration, this pest would soon cease to be formidable. English Methods With Poultry. The methods which prevail in England for growing poultry and their care vary so widely from those in vogue here that our readers may find something to interest them in following, gleaned from the writ- ings of C. E. Brooke. Food should be mixed fresh for every meal. and fowls should have only what they eatâ€"leaving none. Through the winter they are fed in the morning with a hot mess of middlings and barley meal. From November to March their midday meal is boiled barley and the later meal is wheat or maize. Now and then fowls in confinement should have a fresh piece of sod at which to pick. A little salt should be added to their food now and then, and occasionally a small quantity of Epsom salts. For a full day after chickens are hatched they need no food, and for the following week they should be fed chopped boiled eggs and soaked bread and milk, feeding them every two hours for the first fortnight. For the next two weeks they should have grits, boiled rice, barley or potatoes, followed later by bruised barley, wheat, or corn meal. During chickenhood four meals daily are best. The mother should have grain and meal. then melting, a slight addition of cayenne pepper to the meal, with some hemp seed now and then, and an occasional meal of minced raw onions will be found advantageous. The midday meal at all seasons should include some green food, and when winter approaches should include meat and fat, minced liver, or horseflesh. When fattening for market, the fowls must be kept sheltered. Mutton fat, chopped fine and boiled with milk, is desirable to add to the ground cats or buckwheat, and this is administered in small doses. ...._..._.__.____ TROLLEY ROADS IN ENGLAND. British Conservutlsm is YIcidlngâ€"‘l'hc City owns the Permanent Way. John Bull has at length come to the realization that there are such things as electric roads in the world, and that pos~ ioly they may be a good thing. An Ameri. an syndicate has secured the franchise for an electric road in the city of Coventry, which has aboutsixty thousand population and the work is going ahead. An experimental road of six miles was put down in the suburbs of the city of Leeds, and the city fathers of various cities and towns have been "juncketed” over to Leeds and introduced to the mysteries of the trolley system. The Coventry author- ities were the first to yield to its seduc- tions. The method of building street railways in England greatly lessens the cost of installation to the promoting capitalist. The city puts down and owns the" tracks or permanent way. The operating company leases the track for twenty-one years, and at the expiration of the lease it may be renewed, or the city may buy the plant and rolling stock at an appraised valuation. The Coventry road has eight miles of long,r sidings. The estimated cost of rolling stock, poles, wires and power station is $250,000. Everything is to be furnished from America, even to the poles for‘ the wires. It was originally supposed that 'lnglish poles would do. But when putup they were found unequal to the strain of supporting the wires, and the necessary poles had to be ordered from Philadelphia. If the innovation takes With the Eng- lish public there will be a pot of money for the syndicate, which will probably be call- ed upon to put in similar roads innearly all the English cities. The conservatism of the English people on this subject seems to be as pronounced today as it was in the time when George Francis Train put down his first tramway in Parliament street, London, and was then compelled to take up his rails by the outraged and indignant public. The Continental cities have taken more kindly to the electric railroad system, and in fact, the first trolley road in the world was in the streets of llerlin. This road had a trolley riding on a wire at the side of the street, with flexible wire connection to the car. The upward pressure system with the familiar trolley pole of to-day was a later invention. A firm of English electricians have re- cently tackled the conduit electric road problem, and produced something in the nature of a small tunnel and motoriherein with a projection which reaches through the slot and pushes the street car along. Many Tongues. What language does our Polly speak 2 (Iur previous baby tot 2 So many languages unique We call her pciyglot ! I Her Sole Ambition. Old Hayseed gets a set of false_teeth without his wile’tknowiedge. She discov- ers it and decides to have hers pulled toget even with him. Dentistâ€"But, madame, those are good teeth; I must protest. , Mrs. Hayseedâ€"l don’t care. Pull ’emi “'e have for out. I ain't coin' to let old Hayseed git the} may years made this cereal the almost start 0' me that a-way. track, which is all single track. but with -: WEATHER nucleon. suns SIGNS THAT FORETELL THE srosn on CALM. 9°“ w” ever find“ Buy Your Coal, Put lip Your Stoves. Slop " Your “'lnrlows and Doors. For an old-Fashioned Winter 15 Coming. Hoar frost is a sign of rain. Cold autumn a short winter. If rats and mice be restless, rain. Trees grow dark before a storm. After a warm autumn a long winter. It will surely rain if moles cast p hills. The more snow the healthier the season. Bearded frost is the forerunne of snow, A clear autumn brings a wind winter. If it rains before seven it Will cease be- fore eleven. . Expect fair weather from one night’s ice- A green Christmas makes a White Easter. A fog in February indicates a frost in May. Rain is frequently augured by bearded frost. . Tulips and dandelions close up before a rain. . The note of a sand mole is a sure sign of frost. If it rains after 12 at noon it will rain next day. . If it rains before sunrise expect a fair afternoon. A green Christmas will make a full churchyard. Three white frosts will bring a storm every time. Rain long foretold, notice, soon past. ’ If gnats are plentiful in spring, expect a fine autumn. A rainbow in the morning is the shep- herd's warning. When wrens are seen in winter expect plenty of snow. If October is warm the following Febru- ary will be cold. Doors and windowa are hard to shut in damp weather. Much rain in October indicates much wind in December. If a cock crows more than usual and earlier expect rain. If it rains when the sun shines it will rain the next day. . Nests of hornets hung near the ground mean cold weather. When rain comes from the west it will not continue long. If cats back their bodies and wash their faces, expect rain. Early frosts are usually followed by a long, hard winter. ' Fluttering bats and flying beetles fore- cast finc weather. The early arrival of katydids means severe winter weather. Heavy white frost is a sign that warmer weather is coming. Black frost is a forerunner of a spell of dry, cold weather. Thunder is indicated by many falling stars on a fine night. Lookout for cold weather if the wood- pecker.disappears in the fall. If birds in autumn grow tame the winter will be too cold for game. Expect cold and hard times if squirrels lay in great supplies of ‘nuts. When wild ducks fly to the south it is sign that winter is coming. ' Scarcity of squirrels in autumn indicates the approach of cold winter. Aching corns, raging toothaches and distressing neuralgia presage rain; The first three days in January indicate that of the coming three months. No falling stars on a bright evening mean a continuance of bright weather. If ice will bear a man before Christmas it will not bear a mouse afterwards. Sept. 20. 21 and 2'2 rule the weather for October, Novomber and December. Partridges drum only in the fall when a mild and open winter follows. Rain from the south prevents the grought, but rain from the west is always est. Chipmunks that disappear early are sure signs of cold and extremely ugly weather. Black birds flooking together in the fall indicate a cold spell of weather. When the leaves of the trees curl, with the wind from the south, it indicates rain. \Vhen the birds and badgers are fat in yetober a very cold winter may be looked or. An unusually clear atmosphere when distant objects may be easily seen means rain. If the crow flies south cold weather will follow; if north, a warm spell may be ex- pected. Turkeys perching on trees and refusing long last; short to descend indicate that snow will shortly' fall. If October brings heavy frosts and winds the followmg January and February will be mild. When rheumatic people complain of pains and aches then look out for rains and storms. If cattle leave off feeding and chase each other around the field you may safely expect rain. If All Saints’ Day will bring out the winter, St Martin’s Day will bring out the Indian Summer. If goldentod blossoms early you will need heavy clothes, for bitter cold weather will prevail. If spiders spin the filaments of their webs long the weather will be serene for ten or twelve days. (lnats flying in compact bodies in the beams of a setting sun mean that the Wea- ther will be fine. When the birds of passage arrive early in their southern passage severe winter may be looked for. A good hydrometer is a piece of hemp. Roll it into a lump,and when it is damp it prognosticates rain. Onion skins very thin, mild winter coming in ; onion skins thick and tough, coming winter cold and rough. The whiteness of the breasibone of a goose indicates the amount of snow that will fail during the winter. The twalve days between Dec. 25 and Jan. 5 are the keys to the weather for the ensuing months of that year. If birds preen their feathers and wash themselves,sflerwsrds flying to their nests, rainy weather is indicated. {q n. . When honey busy laying in a supply of food you can depend unit that the winter will be a "sorting" cold one. Frost that occurs in the dark of the moon kills fruit, buds and blossoms, but frost in the light of the moon will not kill. When potatoes mature early and buck~ wheat grows bushy branches cold weather is'uhead and not very far ahead at that. If the moon is red or has many red spo:s, expect a cold and stormy winter ; but if be mild. When muskrais build their houses tavo feet thick and begin early you can depend on it that the winter will be along and mighty cold one. If the November goose-bone be thick, so the winter weather be ; if the rNovember goose-bone be thin, so will the winter weather be. Sheep rams and goats that spring around the meadow more than usual and are given to much fighting indicate that rainy weather is at hand. ' When the ivory-billed woodpecker goes to work at the bottom of a tree and goes to the top, removing all the outer bark on his way, it is a sure indication that there will be deep snow. If a mole dig a hole two and a half feet deep a very severe winter is at hand. If the hole be two feet the winter will not be uite so severe. If the hole is only one foot deep, the winter will be a mild one. An old English authority says that the saying,“Everything is lovely and the goose hawks high"â€"not “hangs high," as is will frequently quotedâ€"is a weather proverb, meaning that when the wild geese fly high it is a sign of fair weather. NO MORE ALPINE CLIMBING. Fourteen Lives Lost Last Summer in the Treacherous Ice Fields. Alpine mountain climbing is likely to be prohibited on account of its dangers,the severity of which has recently been emphasized by the finding of the body of W. Ruth, who was lost in the summer of 1893. ‘ The finding of Ruth’s body brings the known Alp distast'ers of 1893 to the number of fifty. The yearly average of persons who lose their lives in Europe because of a reckless passion for the climbing sport is thirty-three. The last season fourteen tourists died in the Alps by falling of precipices, an unusually large number, for violent tumbles are among the less frequent accidents peculiar to Alp climbing, the devotees of which are more often threatened high winds, snow-storms, intense cold and exhaustion followed by deathly sleep and famine. The relatives of these fourteen unfortun- ates are clambering for special laws prohib ting or atleast restricting this DANGEROUS SPORT which counts among its enthusiastic supporters many distinguished persons, notably the Empress of Austria, the Queen of Italy, the Crown Princess Stephany and her young daughter. It was reported from the Tyrol town of Valcomannica that parts of the body of Ruth, who two summers ago failed to return from a tour ovor the Presena pass in the Adamello Alps, South Tyrol, had been recovered in a mountain crevice at the foot of the l’izgana Glacier. Ruth had been a well-known character among the. Alp climbers in that neighborhood. He was last seen in August, 1393, at the-vil- lage of l’inzola. He then informed the di Legno, the mountain mentioned above. Several guides offered their services, but Mr. Ruth declined on the plea that he knew the way, as indeed he did, being familiar with every pass and precipice in South Tyrol. He started in fine weather, but soon afterwards it became foggy. As he had not arrived at'll’onte di Legno two days many of the expert of the district went out of him, dead or alive. unsuccessful, and the probable fate of the man, who Was well liked among the people, was discussed, not only in the neighborhood where he' was supposed to have died, but later ALL OVER EUROPE. Alp climbing had been a mania with him for years and he had the reputation of a fearless and well-experienced tourist. A few days ago, says a dispatch from Valcomannica, a chainois hunter shot a buck on the Pizgana Glucien, and the body of the animal happened to fall into a deep crevice. The old of some herdsincn was invoked to recover it and one of their. lot himself down into the crevice on ropes. He found the carcass at the bottom of the rent at the side of what appeared to be a human skeleton. Some remnants of clothing he gathered up and brought to light. The head had been well preserved in its icy inclosure and “as recognized as that of Ruth, the likeness being: reinforced by the identity of the clothing which he was known to have worn. The supposiiion is that the tourist lost lal-er, guides in search They were the dangerous paths of Lagoscuro, leading to the ice fields of Pizgana, instead of the pass of Products. From there he was pre- cipitated into ihe deadly depths below. Bricks Outlast Stone. Many persons think that bricks are not so durable as other building materials. This impression is the very reiterse of the truth. bricks. Bricks in the museum in London, taken from buildings in Nineveh and Babylon, show no signs of decay or disin- tegration, although the ancients did not burn or bake them, but dried them in the sun. The baths of Caracalia, the baths of Titus, and the thermae of Diocletian,have, withstood the injuries of time far better than the stone of the Coliseum or the mar- ble of the Forum . The bricks oi the baths of Caracaila did not very favorably impress the mine of an heiress from the crest. West who exclaimed when she beheld them. “Good gracious, old bricks, and all falling down, too! ‘Why. I thought it would he as fine as any marble building in Chicago: If this is the baths of Caracalla, i don’t care to see 1 Let’s go look at somethingl else i" Only a few spots are visible,the winter will I by lightning, avalanches, rain of one innkeeper that he meant to travel to PonteI : - , ., candle or open fire. The flame spreads his way in the for: and happened to strhel rapidly over the whme surface, generally No material is so durable as well made! '1' . PUISUNS 11i_ on “ anus. :DBADLY Dvss BY WHICH max FABRICS ass comuasn. ‘â€" (‘elluiold is a (‘ompouud of (‘nmphor and Gun Cotton. and Is nixth Innan‘ luahleâ€"Lurklug banners to “Watch the Woman of Fashion is nowadays Subjected. . The microbe has been taking up so much of the public attention recently that people are beginning to forget that there are other poisons besides those manufactured in the private laboratory of this ingenious little worker. Yet arsenic can kill as well as tuberculosis. and lead is as fatal as diph~ theria; and if We put the former on our clothes and rub the latter on our faces we shall one day repent it. According to a, Parisian physician who has been taking acensus of the dangers that lurk in the boudoir of a fashionable woman,she is fortunate ifshe escapes being poisoned, and even if she does she runs great risk of being burned to death. In the first place, a great number of coloured fabrics are more or less'poisunous. Many dyes are toxic. As is well known, arsenic is chiefly to be blamed for this fact, though the law forbids the use of arsenical salts in dyes. Some persons are apt to think that the quantity of person in a wall paper or a fabric is, after, all, very small, but this is by no means the case. (i‘ertain stuffs cou- taiu more than two grammes of arsenious acid to the yard â€"-particularly the gauzy green fabrics. Many accidents are caused by aniline colors. and above all by fuchsia and coralin, which are made by treating rosalic acid with ammonia. Fuchsia is not poisonous in itself, but rosanilln, of which this and many other coloring matters are salts, are obtained by treating nnilins with oxidizers, of which two are as dangerous as they are commonâ€"namely, nitrate of mercury and arsenic 'acid : and it is rare to find fuchsin that does not contain MORE- OR LESS POISON. The observations of French physicians have shown that articles of clothing colored with this substance and placed in contact with the skin cause not only local eruptions but symptoms of disease throughout the system. For instanco,cascs of arythema and serious inflammation of the skin have been caused by wearing red merino stockings colored by the markers with rosanilin containing arsenic as an impurity. This is only one of many examples of products, harmless in themselves, that be- come actively poisonous 'by reason of impurities due to some procass of prepara- tion. But .the unfortunate modern woman not only runs risk of poisoning herself with every article of clothing she dons, she may also be seriously burned by the explosives that she uses daily in the toilet. First, there are the articles made of celluloid-â€" now found on every toilet table, though often masquerading as born or ivory. Celluloid is a compound of cuinphor and gun cotton, and is highlyinflammable, but, in spite of this, its cheapness and the ease with which it may be shaped have made it a favorite material for combs, hairpins and all sorts of small fancy toilet articles, ever: for artificial teeth, whose wearers probably do not realize that they are transformin their mouths into animated bombs charged with guncotton. Among all these celluloid toilet articles, however, combs are the only ones that have hitherto caused accidents. The MOST ssmous ACCIDENT of this kind, or, at all events, the one that madefihc greatest impression on the public, was one that occurred in France. A little girl on her return from school was set to Work at ironing near a stove. During her work she leaned constantly towards the hot stove so that her head was almost directly over it, and after she had been in this attitude for about an hour her imitation tortoise-shell comb, made of celluloid, caught fire all at once and her head was in an instant enveloped in flames. Her mother hastened to her aid and put out the fire as soon as she could, but not before a large part of the child’s hair had been burned offaudher scalp had sustained a serious burn about four inches square which was long in healing. Less serious burns have resulted from wearing the long double celluloid hairpins With which women so often transfix their hair. When they bend over a lamp, or even a candle, the projecting part often comes in contact with the flame and takes fire like a match, but it is usually easy to extinguish it before it reaches the hair. There are fabrics, too, that are little better than explosive. Not to speak of the light, easily inflammable stuffs that abound, thcie. is a nor. of cheap flannel called pilou, largely used for women's yar- nients, especially wrapp‘rs and night- dresses. Tire surface is of \ariegated hue and covereJ with long, silky hairs forming auort of down, and taking fire him ful- minating cotton v; hcu brought near a lamp, going out of itself, but often taking hold of the body of the fabric, giving rise to very serious burns. In December, 1580, a servant was burned in this way, and the French sanitary authorities condemned pilnu as a dungvrous fabric for use in making garments With flowing skirts. “._____..~. - Eas y. Client-Y on have saved my How can I ever recompense you 2 Lawyerâ€"l am duposui to make it early for you, with several payments, you know. I am willing to take the estate as the first payment. estate. A Universal Falling. Friendâ€"Your son, I understand, has literary aspirations? Does he write for moor-y? Father (feelinglylâ€"Unceasingly. Taking No Chanhoz. Raggsy, for a tramp, you-ais do best behavod feiler I ever met. It's business. Dusty. I ain't anxious to "go: him no not water. Fact is, I hate» mull! of Ill kinda . 1r ,.»n-nvy.~m-.~._N. .. , r‘.‘