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Agricultural : BUOC$SFUL DAIRYIN G. Whatever is wocrth doing at all in dairying is worth doing well. The com- petition is so great that only the best methods pay for the outlay in time and work. Modern dairying, says Mr. Bennett, in Practical Dairyman, is a matter of machinery. The old way of using a finger for a thermometer, of setting the milk in a tin pan for the cream to rise, exposed to the effects of air and weather, is very uncertain and can not be depended upon for giv- ing“ uniform results. Cows should be milked in the barn all. the year round. The! can then be milked at the right time regardless of summer showers and winter storms. They should be milked at regular hours and by the same per- son each time. As soon as milked the milk should be run through a separa- tor. No one can afford the waste of butter fat which results from the at- tempt to get it by setting for the cream to rise. The separator will take the fat all out, and take it out inthe best possible condition, while setting the milk for the cream to rise exposes it until the milk is stale and the cream is often in poor condition. The separa- tor gives enough more butter to pay for itself, and besides it enables one to make better butter. It will add about one cow in five under good con- ditions for raising cream by setting. and one in four where the conditions are not so good. Then one should have a power churn, either a combined churn and worker, or a box churn and sep- arate worker. A tread power run by a horse is an excellent power to run the separator and churn, and the same power will pump all water needed for stock and- all other purposes, and it will pump, separate and churn all at once or any one or two ofthese things at a time. It needs no attention; sim- ply lead in a horse, colt, bull or oth- or animal, loosen the brake and the machine will start and run with a uni- form motion, as all modern powers have Speed regulators. Churning shonld be done as often as twice a week, and the cream d’hould be kept sweet until there is enough on hand for the churning; then it should be well mixed and all l‘lpened together. The best place I have found for holding cream on the farmi'is in a tank of water. Have this tank in a small building by a good well and let all the water for stock pur- poses run through this tank. The wa- ter in the tank will be cool in summer and Will not freeze in winter. This is because the water from ii deep, well is uniform in temperature all the year, and tends to equalize the temperature in the tank. If the water is too warm in the tank, run fresh water from the well through it; if it is too cold in Winter run fresh water from the well through it." To make the dairy pay host, plans must be laid for feeding all the rough forage that the farm produces to turn it into butter. But all rough feed is not. liked by the cow, so enough concentrated feed should be Riven in connection to suit the cow, and reasonable care should be taken to balance the ration; that: is, that all the food shall not be of the starchy nature, but some of it rich in nitrogen. Oats, bran, oil meal, cottonâ€"seed meal; lucose, shorts, iniddlings and clover ay are examples of nitrogenous foods, and they are all suited to be fed with corn, corn fodder and Timothy and mix- ed hay to balance the ration. It is good economy to have the cows fresh- on in the fall. Fall is the best time to start calves, and the cow can be kept domg well all winter on dry feed, and then the grass of spring. when it comes, Will keep her at it when otherwise she would be ready to dry up in whole or in the greater part. Butter should never be sold at the store in the or- dinary way. This gives no chance to get an extra price for a good article. Make nice prints and wrap them in parchment paper, or use some style of fiber package which will keep the but- ter from being niussed, and have your name printed on the parchment paper, or on the fiber package, so customers Will know whose butter they are eatâ€" ing. This has much to do with getting a good price. lincertainty breeds dis- trust, and distrust spoils good bar- gains. It may be said by some that it Will not pay to provide a separator, power churn and other conveniences for a dairy of three or four cows. This is doubtlos.c true. And it is equally true that it does not pay to bother With a dairy largo. or small that is not‘provided with those niodorn con- veniences. It is as much work to tend to a three-cow dairy in the old way as to tend to a fifteen~oow dairy in the new way. leaving the milking out of account. In other words. it is as much work to set the milk in small pans, skim it, wash the pans. care for the cream. churn it, work the butter, etc., as to do the same for fifteen or twenty cows with the help of machin- ery. This is a very conservative state~ merit, and short of the truth if anv- thing. for it takes as long. generally longer. to churn six pounds of butter in} dash churn or any other small dairy churn as to churn sixty or seven- ty pounds in a power churn, and it is surely harder work to pound-away With n dash or turn a crank than it is to_ let it revolve by power. The working of a snill mess in a butter bowl takes as long and is harder and more disagreeable work than to work a large amount with a worker: or, .if a combined churn is used all that is necessary is to pull the lever and the whole amount, large or small is work- ed right in the churn in six minutes and only needs to be taken out in its finished condition. Banish the dash churn. Banish all wooden milk pails. Banish the butter bowl. Banish the tin pan. The wooden pail will get rank. and the butter bowl and dash churn and tin pan are womenâ€"killers and money-losers. Keep a fair-sized herd of good cows, give them good care, be kind to them, be cleanly in habits, feed sweet and palatable food, provide the needed conveniences, and study the busmess, and you will find it pleasant and profitable. It will furnish a home market right on the farm for the farm forage and grain, it will furnish steady and useful employment right at home all the year for every member of the famil that it is desirable to employ; it Wil maintain the fertility of the farm and provide for the support of the family. ' c» SEEDING DOWN PASTURES. The seeding of pastures is too diffi- cult a subject to be treated properly in a short article, says a writer. row the ground smooth, and then sow rye and Timothy, crossing with clover in the spring. The rye will furnish a great deal of pasture in a very short time, and besides it has a tendency to If rye is pas- tured close, until it begins to run up seed stems, it will grow very fine and the cattle will eat it down, so that very few stems will mature seed. My keep down the weeds. own plan is to plow: the ground in the fall, as deeply as the nature of the soil will permit, say about'five or six inches, and then in the spring work it until it is in good condition. I would first raise two or three crops of corn. Some seed a crop of small grain with the corn but I prefer to plow up the stubble and then sow winter wheat or rye. In sowing Timothy do not sow too early as there often comes ashow- er that will start the seed and. being followed by warm, dry weather, it will dry out and die. Follow this rotation With clover in the spring; cut off your crop of grain, and you should then have a good pasture. If it is desired to make the rotation shorter, omit one crop of corn and one of small grain, and sow the rye and pasture it at once. This Will furnish a good crop of feed, but should the season be wet, the cat- tle will likely tramp up the ground before it has had time to form a sod. COVERING ENSIL AGE. Prof. Robertson, in his annual report says: “ In filling a silo particular pains should be taken to spread the ensilage evenly over the surface; otherwise the leaves and lighter parts may lie in one place, and the stalks and ears in another. The ensilage at the sides and corners of the silo should be trod- den down as compactly as possible. Then immediately after the silo is fill- ed it should be covered with a layer of four or six inches of cut straw, and that by about eighteen inches or two feet of any kind of rough straw. In the feeding out of the ensilzige, it is not a‘good plan to expose a large 8111‘- face in the silo at one time. \Vhere practicable, only as much of the sur- face of the eusilage should be uncov- ered as Will cause a depth of about six inches to be removed from it by feeding every day. A half _or oneâ€" quarter of the ensilage may be un- 00vered at one time, and it may be cut down with a hay knife, leaving a perpendicular face, which will mold very slightly. Where too large asurâ€" face of ensflage is exposed to the air it_ becomes offensive to the smell and gives rise to the growth of molds. 'lhese sometimes contaminate the sta- ble and spread the belief that the feedâ€" ing of eIiSilage imparts a flavor to the milk. Such flavors get into the milk through the atmosphere, and not through the feeding of the cow." SOME POULTRY DO NOTS. Do not keep a thousand fowls in quarters built for but five hundred. Do not try to be a fancier before you are a common poultry man. Do not try to teach others until you know some- thing yourself. Do not change to a new variety until you have fully work- ed the old one. Do not study the art of cure until you have mastered the art of prevention. Do not fail to reâ€" member thai health in the hennery is brought about by cleanliness. Do not be led away by reports of other‘s good success; try to beat it yourself. Do not boost and think you know it all. Do not fail to read of the experiences of others and try to profit by their loss. Do not trust alone to hired help, but try do do some of the work yourself. CURIOUS STATISTICS. Some curious statistics about Berlin variety actresses have been collected by the Borsencourier. There are 200 of them, ranging in age from 7 to 47 years, and earning from 2 marks, 50 cents, to 20 marks, 85, an evening. Only 45 began as “chansonnette” singers; 36 had been inilliners, 2:2 seamstresses, 10 governesses. 3 school teachers, 10 bookkeepers. 18 saleswom- en, 7 maids of all work, 16 working girls, and 43 had been on the stage as actresses, chorus singers or ballet girls: Among them were 35 married women, 24 widows and 34 divorced or abandoned wives. When we have practiced good ac- tions awhile they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently: and then, by frequency of act, they grow into ahabit.-â€"'1’illotson. If pasture is wanted at once plow and har- l iii. ms VERY VLATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. as interesting items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. ‘ i '. A movement is said to be on foot to start a new bank in Ottawa. Mr. Edmund Senkler, barrister, of Nelson, has been appointed Gold Commissmner in the Yukon. The new Watkins wing of the Kings- ton General Hospital was formally opened with a. special reception. _The Fenian raid medals for the Canaâ€" dian veterans will, it is expected. be ready for distribution about May nex . Mr. A. E. Charron of Montreal has entered action to recover from Miss Marie Comte $199.70 for breach of pro- mise of marriage. Launcelot Middleton, the Woodstock bigamist, sentenced to seven years in the Kingston Ponitentiary, has been put to work in the stone shed. A laborer named Mongean was blown to - pieces by a dynamite cartridge which he accidentally exploded while working in a drain at Montreal. Commander W'akeham reports that the Maritime Provinces mackerel fishâ€" ing. which has just closed, has proved greatly above the average. The people of New \Vestniinster are asking that a strong commission, sup- ported by the city, should investigate the cause of the late disastrous fire. The Indians in the district ofGad's Lake and Oxford Lake. Northern Keeâ€" watin, are in a pitiable condition. Game is scarce, and furs are giving out rapidly. It is reported that one-half of the wheat-crop of Manitoba has been dam- ilgeld or destroyed 'by the recent ruins. Prices have taken adecidedly upward , turn. . i The Marine Department has ordered a new steamship to be built in Scot- land which will be put. upon the route betwaen Prince Edward Island and Pie- tou, N. S. The officers of the warships Renown, Talbot and Indefatigable. have present- ed the Garrison Club of Quebec with a. handsome clock, which 1108.8.11 the accessories of a well regulated time piece. A petition has been received by the Minister of Justice asking for the coin- mutation of the sentence of seven years in Kingston penitentiary of Geo. Clute, of Brockvillc, He stole harness worth $2. ‘ A writ of summons hasbeen issued in Hull against ilie"foronto Rubber Company for $35,500 for alleged non- fulfilment of agreement.“ It is alleged that the company has violated their agreement to start afactory in Bull. The Hon. Sydney 'Fisher, Minister- of Agriculture, has promised adelegatlon from the National Council of “Vernon that he will lconsider their propOSition to arranges for an exhibit of Canadian women's interests at the Paris exhi- bition in 1900. Letters carriers in London are pay- ing their fare on the'streebcars pend- ing the settlement of a (l ispute - tween the company and the Govern- ment as to whether the latter,will give more than $400 ayear for the usual letter carriers' privilege of free rides. GREAT BRITAIN. Ralph Disraeli. brother of thehlate Earl of Beaconsfield, is dead at Lon- don, aged 89. 3- ’ It is reported athbfl'don‘ that an American syndicate offers to loan the Transvaal Government $12,000,000. [Upwards of 30 persons are thought to have been drowned as a result of the storms on the east coast of Eng- land. Sir Henry Irving's physicians an- nounce that he will not be able to zip- pear on the stage for two weeks. [lie is suffering from pleurisy, and requir- es a complete rest. James B. Thompson died in Glasgow- a few days ago. He spent his own life in squalid penury, but spent vast sums annually to relieve others in dis- tress. His will disposes of a fortune of $500,000 to public charities. Hon. Arthur Stanley, Conservative. ThirdSecretai'y tothe British Agency in Egypt. has been elected to Parlia- ment for the Ormiskirk division of L'incashire, southwest, ‘made vat-ant by the death of Sir Arthur Forwood. Mr. George \Vyndhziin. Conservative M.P., for Dover. has been appointed Under Secretary for \Var, to succeed Right Hon.‘ \Villiam St. John Brod- erick, newly appointed Under Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs, for- merly held by Lord Curzon. the new Viceroy to India. UNITED STATES. An English syndicate is about to purchase all the breweries in Cincinâ€" nati. Twenty~five pupils of a Public school in Scranton, Pa., have died within the post two weeks. Defective sewer pipes. \V. F. Murray, of Clinton, Iowa, at Flint, Mich, on Tuesday shot his wife dead and then committed suicide. Both were under treatment for insanity. The l‘niied States Shipping Register on June 30, showed 22,705 vessels, of -l,7t9,738 gross ions. The total steam tonnage amounts to 0.712 vessels, of 2,- 37l.923 tons. It is reported from Columbus, Ohio, that a gigantic trust, is about to be formed of the diIfPrcnl collar and shin industries of ii" l’niied States, to have a capital of 31(0000000. H. D. Fulton. a prominent coal man, was held up in Chicago. Saturday ev- ening by three negroes. He was heat- un into insensibility and robbed of $400. lie was then put into a closet and lock- t’d in. During the Peace Jubilee procession at Chicago, there was a terrible crush in which police, marines, and specta- tors were all mixed up together. For- [unater the crowd was dispersed with- out any loss of life. Mr. McCook, United States Consul at Dawson City, reports to “'ashington that there will be no scarcity of food there this winter. Prices of provisions are falling rapidly, but hotel prices remain high, about $12 a day. The wife of the late Prof. Beard, who went to Alaska in the interests of the North Star Mining Company of Philaâ€" phia, is going north herself to try and find the body of her husband. It was repoted that he lost his life in asnowâ€" slide, but she believes he was murder- ed by his companions. The mystery surrounding the murder of sixteenâ€"year-old Daisy Smith, whose body was found near her home at Se- lin'is Grove, P:i., by her father, riddled with shot and with a gaping knife wound in her neck, has been cleared by the confession of Edward Krissinger, who was arrested on suspicion soon after the discovery of the body. Kris- singer says that the girl had jilted him and that he had killed her. GENERAL. M. Brisson. {Premier again talks of resigning. The postâ€"office at San Juan, under American auspices. is being establish- ed wilh all possible haste. The recent great storm in Japan is said to have washed away 5,000 houses and inundated 26,000 more. The majority of the Spanish officials in Porto Rico have decided to become naturalized American citizens. Over seven hundred Japanese labor- ers were recently landed at Honolulu and 1,200 more are on their way. An employs in the bacteriological department of Professor Nothuagel’s establishment in Vienna is dead of the plague. The Japanese customs tariff, it has been definitely announced, will go in- to effecl on January 1. The export duties will be entirely abolished. The President of the Swiss Confed- eration, M. Eugene Buffy, has receiv- ed threatening letters from Anarch~ ists. Precautions are being taken by the police to prevent an attempt on his life. ' A despatch to the London Times from Pretoria sayslhat a Mr. Hope. representing an American syndicate. offers to loan the Transvaal Governâ€" ment £2,500,000 at 5 per cent. and 2 1â€"2 per cent. commission. of France. Herr Grueneuthall, superintendent of the Imperial Printing Office, at Berlin. has committed suicide. He was charged with the theft and the forgery of bank notes to the amount- of over 400.000 marks, $18,000. The Japanese Home Department has begun to besiir itself in the direction of prison and judicial reform. It is asserted that alai'go percentage of the prisoners have been confined for sev- eral years. without trial. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, while on board a train for Calais, bound for London. lost a. satchel con- baining jewellery worth £80,000. Her Grace left. the train at Amicns and re- turned to Paris to report her loss to the police. u Hâ€"â€" NO TARDINESS IN HEAVEN. - l’nthctlc Incident «(the Death ofa Little School Girl. This pathetic incident comes from Chicago public school cirles, where it is talked of in hushed tones. A child lay sick unto death in a. populous part of the big city, and every sound made her start from sleep, or alarmed her when awake. The motto on her pil- low, embroidered by loving hands, "Schlafen sie wohl," lost its power to soothe, and the whistle of the cars, the rumble of street traffic and the ring- ing of bells was torture to her failing nerves. One bell in particular caused her the keenest anxietyâ€"the bell that every morning summoned her to her beloved school, and for which she had always listened with happy expectation. Now that she could no longer obey it, she was unhappy when it rung, and her parentsthought of a. .scheme to restore her health and give her the rest and quiet she needed. They took her to friends living on a farm in Nebraskaâ€"beyond the reach of railroad whistles and SChOOl bells, where the silence of nature was proâ€" found, and in that gracious atiiio-i- [)ilt'l‘e the child improved so rapidly ihat all danger was believed to be past. .But it was not. One morning she awakened at sunrise and called the family about her. "Listen," she said, raising one thin hand to command attention. "the bell â€"-the dear bell! Hear it ring! llurry! hurry! I will be late for school!" And while they listened for that dear remembered boll which she alonc heard her eyes closed and all the lessons were said. A MEAN ORCHESTRA. Uncle Wayback (at Metropolitan mn- cart)â€"I can't make head er tail out o' that tune the fiddlers is pluyin'. City Niece (whisperingiâ€"lt's a sym- phony. It don't seem funny :1 bit. Who writ it Beethoven. ‘ \Vho's be? A great German composer. uncle. Oh! No wonder I can't understand it. But mneiderin' the price they charge for tickets, I think they might play it in English. I l l -Mâ€"q impinging \VHAT lS GOING ON 10! THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New “'orld Events of Interest Chron- lclcd Brieflyâ€"interesting happenings of Recent Date; In France it frogs at night. The residents of Vienna last year ate 18,207 horses. EV“? year London consumes fifty thousand tons of oysters. Nearly £520.000 worth of are pawned in London weekly. The washing, of the Queen's house- hold linen costs £8,014 per nnnum. Land in England is 800 times as val- unble now as it was 200 years ago. Married couples in Norway are pri- vileged to tmvel on railways at a fare and a half. The total number of medical stuâ€" dents in the twenty German univer- sities during 1892 were 8.888. The Hottentots.now one of the low- est species of mankind. were ages ago one of the most highly civilised. England has the greatest number of lighthouses and lighlshipsâ€"one for every fourteen miles of its coastline. Louis XIV. of France drank the first cup of coffee made in Western Europe. Coffee was then worth £5 163 a pound. The largest proportion of single per- sons is found in Ireland and Scotland, and the smallest in the United States. The 450 woollen mills of European Russia employ 50,000 workmen. and produce goods valued at 45,000,000 rou- bies. A Japanese bride gives her wedding presents to her parents as somesilight recompense for their trouble in rear- ing her. In Germany a p81‘0Vlll0 of hydrogen is said to be mixed with various drinks in order to give them the mellow flaâ€" vour of age. Nearly every man. woman and child in Egypt. is a smoker of cigarettes. and a pipe is hardly ever seen in the mouth of a native. Superstition is so common in Paris that cards tastefully oinbolli~=hcd and containing a list of "hours tobe avoid- ed" are extensively sold. In the Serviun army the big drum is fixed on o. two-wheeled (-zii'l. which is drawn by a large illlillt‘tl dog. This drummer walks beside the curl. 'l‘hc Forth goods station, vai-zisllo- on-Tyne, is the largest in Grout lril- uin. On :in average 2,50) trucks are loaded and unloaded lllt‘l‘e daily. A train of gillll‘oliull rout-hing fioiii Edinburgh to London could bu fired in two minutes, so rapid is the iron-unis- sion of detonation from one purl to another. A crooked too will prevent ii is illegal to capture articles liizill II from being enlisted in tho .iiiiiv. has been demonstrated lliii “it‘ll \iilli crooked. toes cannot i-iizliiic long marches. The largest and oldest ('ll‘llll lni lire inlhc world is said lo be lll.ll of l'illltf- lung, in China, whore il {wins :1 perâ€" fecl' road from the top of on" iiioiiii- tain to another. The Arabs show when meeting, by- sinking ll-‘lni'is‘ -i~«: lilt‘ll' fr'iuiiiliiiic»2:a. or eight limos. Arabs of «listini-iiuii go bvyonii iiiistlili'y viiilii‘JU'enlll lilih‘ ouch other several limos. In France the oxen tho: work in tho fields tire regularly sung in as on i-ii- couragcinonl. to exertion. :.iil no pi-zis- onl iris the slightest doubt llllll liH'. animals listen to him will) l)l(':l.‘;lll‘v. In Munslei‘, \Voslpli.ili'i, than: is :1 public school. the St. Paul’s (lym- n-iisium, which has colobruli-d tho I,- 100111 anniversary of its {Ullllllfilll‘llL It was established in lilo. your 700, as a convent school. Parrots are being pol. lo a [Il'llr'iii‘tli use in Germany. 'l‘lr-y hivc bm-ii in- troduccd into the railway slnli ni,:!ll'i trained to call out the, name wliilo Ibo train stonls lhorc. illllH savingr [ample the trouble of making ('Illlui.il',5. 'l‘he streets in (‘hint-sc higher in the centre llllll :it the sides. The pedestrians. Ill‘c, therefore, sub- jected to tho rliscoiiifoi't of wading through puddles in rainy wcrillivr. :m the water lodgl-s on the footpaths. Shortli'inil is one of the arts that have never been lost. It is bellowed that it was practiced in l'iim-nicia Im- foi'e the Greeks existed as 1| pmple, and possibly also a! linbylon. The“, is no trace of it in (.‘llln‘l or Japan. (‘I' ins are The mines in Mont-hurls. according to the report of :i (‘liinysc official. are situated in a counlry severed 12 feet deep with snow in winter, and infested in summer “[14 autumn with on insect which makes life unbear- able. The favorite moans of transporta- tion in Havana is by one-horse Victo- rins, of which there are thousands. 'l'wo persons are enabled to go to any point wizliin the city limits for a po- sem. which is equal to about cuvcn- pence. The tolainmounl of money coined by all the Queen‘s predecessors on the throne was £205,000” sterling. Dur- ing the presrni reign the mint has turned out £450.0J0.0:i0 sterling, in- cluding £158,000.000 In Indiaâ€"a record for all time. My