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JBSMtpBFgKPBR* WHEAT GROWING IN ROTATION. A 8uceoMfol Farmer Cites Reasons For Its Necessity--Favorite Rotations. Notwithstanding the discouraging out­ look regarding the cultivation of wheat in all parts of our land it seems quite necessary that this product should con­ tinue to fill its important place in the work <5f rotation that has so long been deemed essential for successful farming, and especially to those engaged in grow­ ing the winter varieties. Thus writes a New York farmer from Genesee county to The American Cultivator. He says: Ad grown here in western New York the rotation oonsists of a four years' course as follows: Corn, potatoes, beans, etc., are planted^ on lands where Clover or clover ana timothy mixed were grown for hay or pasture the year previous. These planted crops are usually followed the ensuing spring by sown crops, con­ sisting mainly of barley, oats and peas, the harvesting of which begins in their order as named. If possible, the plows are started in the wbrk of preparing the ground for winter wheat immediately after the removal of these spring grains from the field, for at best there is barely time to suitably pre­ pare the soil and for the desired cultiva­ tion to subdue the foul growth of Can­ ada thistles, etc., and also that proceed­ ing from the scattered kernels of the dif­ ferent grains. The intervening time be­ tween the 1st and 15th days of Septem­ ber is here considered the most favora­ ble for sowing the seeds. The drill has •universally superseded that of hand sow­ ing in accomplishing this work, and al­ though nearly all drills are arranged for sowing grass seed (timothy) at the same time it is not generally practiced, as . many prefer sowing this seed two or three weeks later, thus avoiding a vig­ orous growth, which sometimes proves detrimental to the wheat plant. The following spring another work, the importance of which cannot be over­ estimated, is that of seeding these wheat fields to clover, on the success of which depends in a large degree the future prosperity of the farmer. Without the aid of this wonderful plant in the work of extracting from the depths of the soil the elements necessary for the growth and development of plant life onr condition as farmers would, Jt is feared, be much more depressed than it is at present. At wheat harvest, with favorable conditions, these fields are found well covered with a thick growth of clover or timothy, as the case may be, ready foi pasture or meadow purposes the coming year, thus beginning another' four years' course of rotation. From the foregoing it is readily seen why the wheat growing farmer is so re­ luctant to discontinue its cultivation, even at the seemingly ruinously low prices now prevailing. It must also be borne in mind that in addition to its value as above referred to an abundance of straw is a natural outcome, which in this lati­ tude seems almost indispensable for the growth and comfort of all farm animals during the rigors of our northern winters, and which in the end contributes so much to the required fertility of our farms. Again, wheat is th^ one product that has long been considered as the "money crop" of tljeifarmer in certain sections, always commanding a cash valuation in the markets of the world. i Summer fallowing, once considered so essential in the cultivation of this grain, is nearly or quite discontinued, and in­ stead of plowing the ground in June and working it at intervals through the summer till seeding time a spring crop ia now grown and wheat sown after its removal as above stated. As a result, the products of the farm are much in­ creased, and improbable as it may ap­ pear the yield per acre of wheat is in ex­ cess of that obtained after the old meth­ od. Next to pea, I consider barley ground the most favorable for this pur­ pose. Bean and oat ground is also suc­ cessfully used, the latter more extensive­ ly, being one the writer has almost ex­ clusively practiced for many years. " The Dnngrhlll Fowl. ,̂ Tbese views are expressed in The Ifwnciers' Journal: The dunghill fowl is of no importance or worth, as a rule, on a poultry farm There are often individual hens that have still some good blood in their veins, but take the average dunghill and all the good qualities that should be in a business hen are gone. But while the common hen is of little worth the ex­ hibition fowl is very little better, inas­ much as her "occupation" is rather to show the points of the breed than the utility. It would be a foolish invest­ ment to buy such birds for an egg farm or to raise meat for the table. Culls of pure breds would lay as many eggs and produce as much meat as high priced birds. The high prices charged are not based upon the ability points of the birds, but according to the fineness of the feather, of the symmetry of form. Of what use is all this to the farmer? He is after the commercial jise; he wants dollars and cents and could get no more for a prize bird in market than he could for a dunghill. Some of the fanciers will boom their respective breeds by say ing the flavor of their eggs and meat is so superior to the common fowl that on that score alone they would be the most profitable. Such talk is all bosh. There is not one person in the world who could tell a common egg from a thoroughbred. Virtue of Hops. To begin with, the vine is a hardy per­ ennial, affording an attractive shade when trained over windows, arbors or porches. Here are a few uses for the hops enumerated in The Rural New Yorker: A bag of hops steamed and ap­ plied to the seat of a pain will give speedy relief; a hop pillow is one of the best remedies for insomnia, if not the very best; hop tea is very efficient fn cases of nervousness. FARMHOUSE SURROUNDINGS. Changes Effected With Trees and Graii, Good Walks to the Outbuildings. Attention to two things alone will go far toward transforming a home from downright ugliness to beauty--namely, trees and grass. Many mistakes are made in setting out shade trees* Here ate some helpful points in the matter given by a Country Gentleman corre­ spondent. He says: "Evergreens ought never to be set near the house. They are useful as windbreaks at the north and west, at some distance from the house, where they may be set eithei in clumps or hedges, but never on a lawn. Why not? First, because grass does not do well under them, as under deciduous trees, and, second, because so many of them drop cones almost the entire year, which not only are unsightly, but great­ ly interfere with the use of the lawn mower. Mistaka No. 2 is in setting fruit trees instead of forest trees, and there are two objections to these: First, they are too short lived, and this is a serious objec­ tion, for we ought to plant shade trees for a lifetime, and it is a serious matter just when we have securedsliade to have ourtTeesdie. * Mistake No. 3 is in setting trees too near the house. It is hard to realize when planting a tree no larger than a bean pole that in time it may have a spread of branches 60 or 80 feet in diam­ eter, and so trees are set 10 or 15 feet from the house, and long before they reach their prime the branches are rest­ ing on the roof, rotting the shingles, and the leaves are choking the gutters. The correspondent quoted advises planting a row of trees in front of the house, but elsewhere plant in clumps. Leave an opening to the southeast, so that the morning sun may dry the house; then plant immediately south of the house to protect from the midday sun and have an opening to the southwest; then there should be a clump planted a little north of west to protect the house from the sun late in the day in the long days of summer when it is intensely hot until the sun goes down. The row of trees at the front of the house should, if possible, be 40 feet or more away. Not one farmhouse in ten is supplied with good walks to the outbuildings. Concrete walks are expensive, but at­ tractive and durable, and when the farm­ er can afford it this material is advised. Around the house no walks need to be more than 3 feet wide unless it is at the approach to the front door, where it may sometimes need to be wider, and a 2 foot walk answers very well to the barn and other buildings. Plank walks can be made for Sjfir 4 cents a square foot, or even less, ancHvill last for many years and give good satis­ faction. To make them place 2 by 4 scantlings on edge, with flat stone under to keep them from the ground, and nail short boards across from one to the oth­ er. The writer prefers narrow boards not more than 6 inches wide, and 4 is better. Nail them on an inch apart, as they will dry out readily and liUfet longer for i£ and will also keep cleaner, as the dirt carried on by the shoes will most of it fall through the cracks, and the walk costs less than if made with wider boards or laid solid, as with 4 inch boards 20 per cent of the lumber is saved. Bones as a Fertiliser. The Rural New Yorker has often ad­ vocated the burning of bones as a cheap and easy way of reducing them to a proper condition for use as a fertilizer. There are cases where burning is advis­ able chiefly because this is about the only way some farmers can get them into a fine meal or powder. As between a whole bone and bone ash. the latter is preferable, but if the whole bone could be crushed or ground into a fine meal without burning it would be worth far more for fertilizing. It *is a fact that bone ash is very slowly soluble as compared with a su­ perphosphate of fine raw bone. Take two similar bones--burn one to ashes and grind the other to a fine meal and then apply heat in the form of steam. The steamed bone will be twice as vain- able as the bone ash for immediate use. At the same time there are cases where bone burning is economical because of the great cost of crushing bones with ordinary tools. Symptoms of Fool Brood* If yon are aware of a bad odor on opening a bee hive and then find holes in the center of the cappings over brood, and on opening a cell find the larva rotten, of a dark color and of a ropy character, so that on thrusting into it a toothpick and then withdrawing it the rotten brood will string out, then, says The American Bee Journal, you will do well to get out your bee books and study up on foul brood. The symptoms described are unmistakable^-they mean foul brood. Flotsam and Jetsam. Professor Cooke is quoted as saying that ordinary skimmilk is worth 11 cents per 100 pounds just to pour on the ground as a fertilizer. In other words, a can of skimmilk" contains all the fer­ tility there is in five pounds of the high­ est grade fertilizer. The Vermont experiment station tried mining molasses with the bordeaux mix­ ture on potatoes. It caused the mixture to stick to the vines, but the practice is condemned because the molasses at­ tracts bees to the poisonous mixture.. With the single exception of potatoes, all English crops are extremely unsatis­ factory. The hop crop is very short and the grain crops below the average in the three kingdoms. During the month of June 2,338 tons of liay were sent from this country to England against 234 tons for June, 1893. Holland did better yet, sending England 3,587 tons against 1,705 for June, 1892. At the Vermont station for two con­ secutive seasons the bordeaux mixture proved an effective remedy for the blight and rot, the tests being made both at the experiment statiotf and in the fields of several potato growers about the state. Oat smut can be entirely prevented by soaking the seed oats in..hot water. DENTAL 80NG-A PARODY. Drill, drill, drill. With thy dental machine, said abet ~$»J And I would it were seemly to utter Tl^groans that arise in me. f i { Oh, well for the laughing maid Whose teeth are pearly and waiN^' f Oh, well for the youth in whose molues ! % No cavities deep are found! And they pass the dentist's office Without a thought of fear; But. oh. that ray name need nevermore > Iu his little blank book appear! . , Drill, drill, drill. With thy cold, gray steel, said But the tender nerve of a tooth that Will never come back to me. --Mary S. Lothrop in Boston Transcript. M LOVER'S RACE. "Bat surely they left some •ddres(T "Not as I knows on." The caretaker at 10 Westphalia ter­ race leaned on the broom which she had brought up to help her to answer the door and looked at me with disfavor. "Do you think the landlord knows?? No answer. I took out half a crown. "Look here?" 1 said, "this coin shall be yours if you'll tell me how long you've been here, who the landlord is, and anything you may have heard from : the tradespeople about the family." J "I never gossip with tradesfolk nor.J nobody," was her inspiriting reply, but Bhe gave me the address of a firm in Gray's Inn and shut the door with all possible speed, leaving me on the dusty doorstep. i Imagine the situation. A young man | goes away to Switzerland to the bedside of a dying uncle and comes back on the i wings of the wind to lay his newly ac­ quired fortune at the feet of the dearest girl in the world and finds her gone-- hopelessly, utterly gone--her house deso- . late, no flowers in the windows, no fur- j niture in the place, "To Let" staring from every window. i I had only known Clara three months. ] I knew not a single one of her friends. I knew she had some few relations--her . mother's family--and I did not even ' know their name. The Vanes knew no one in Kensington, and they only knew me through our cat having fortunately been killed by their dog. I But I was poor then, and poverty is proud. The Vanes' house, dress and mode of life betokened wealth. I could not tell her I loved her, and now | The charwoman opened the door again | and put out her curl papered head to . say: j "There was a funeral afore the sale; perhaps they'd tell you at the under- , taker's." * j A funeral! I hailed a passing hansom j and drove straight to Gray's Inn. • "Yes. Mr. Vane unfortunately died 1 at one of our houses--19 Westphalia ter­ race. Left no estate; had systematically overshot his income. Sorry I can't give you any further information." Not a clew. The tradesmen knew noth­ ing, the vicar knew nothing, the j>olice of course knew nothing and did nothing but pocket my money and take down things in notebooks with blunt pencils. Advertisements failed absolutely. And so Clara Vane was lost to me-- passed out of my life completely--leav­ ing me with a really respectable fortune, which it was entirely out of the ques­ tion for me to enjoy. I did see her again. I did, but not for four years--four long years. I won't go so far as to say that an hour never passed in which I did not think of her, but I'll swear that two never did. And I loved her more than ever. Well, after four years of this life--I had my own work to do and my other life to live, but that has nothing to do with this story--after four years busi­ ness took me to Tunbridge. I went by an express train. I bought the papers and got a comfortable corner in a first class carriage, where I let the papers lie on my knee and dreamed my usual dreams--Clara, Clara, Clara. As we swept into Halstead station I looked out, with a torpid curiosity as tc the gardens, and saw Clara! Whizz--zz--whirr! The train had shot past the station, the carriage win­ dows rattled, the train vibrated and pulsated with the increasing speed, and every pulse and every vibration was car­ rying me away from my heart's heart. In a flash I saw that if I went on to Sevenoaks and got a train back she, who was obviously waiting for the next up train, would have left the station long before I reached it. Probably she was only spending the day at Halstead, and any search for her there would be in vain. I broke the glass and pulled the han­ dle. The train slackened, and as it stopped the juard put his head in at my carriage window. "Why, you're all right," he said, "blest if I didn't think you was dead when I heard that bell. It's a wonder it is connected. Just my luck, too, and us 10 minutes behind already. What did yer do it for, eh?" "I stopped the train because I am go­ ing to get out," I said firmly. "Nothing wrong?" "No; but I am going to get out." He planted himself firmly in the door­ way. "No, you don't," he said. I was desperate. I took out a £5 note, . . . f. laid it on a seat and advanced toward 1 him. "And what about my trouble, sir?" he asked politely, gazing at the note; "stop­ ping the train and liable, sir, to get into I trouble." . I jumped out of the carriage. He made way for me deferentially. Our hands touched. Great is the currency, and it j will prevail. The next minute I was speeding back along the down line to- 4 ward Halstead station. My breath came • fast and with difficulty. My knees ached furiously, but I ran on. I could hear distinctly the rumble of the train in the tunnel behind me. ; If the main line up won, it would bear her away on its bosom. If I won, should B I pressed my failing legs forward; fought for freer breath; got it in a rap- ture of relief which by experts is called, I believe^ the second wind, and the main ' line up and I came in neck and neck, j But of course I landed on the down platform. I flew up the steps and over J the bridge--I reached the up platform -breathless, hatless, but radiant. Clara was just getting into a first class carriage. I stumbled in after her and sank pant­ ing in the corner. She, seated at the far window, did not turn her eyes on me till the slow throb of the train betokened de­ parture. v. Then she looked at her fellow traveler and blanched. We were alone in the car­ riage, and I fear I had a lunatic ~ir. Then she recognized me. Her face flush­ ed, and she said: I "Oh, you!" with a delightful lighten- ing of eyes and brow and a dimpling at the corner of the mouth. "I had," I exclaimed pantingly, "to run--to catch--the train!" "I suppose so," she said, leaning back in her corner and smiling. "It wasn't very wise to give yourself so little time to do it in. Where have you sprung from? Have you friends down here?" t "I have sprung," I said, beginning to recover myself, "from the main line down, and am subject to a penalty not exceeding £5 for availing myself of the electric communication and stopping that train." j "Why did you stop it, if onetnay ask?" ' "You may ask, though .the guard did not. I stopped the train because I have been looking for you for four yearfa, and I saw you on that platform. I would have stopped a tiger or the march of . civilization on the same grounds." I mopped my forehead furtively before proceeding. j "I have been looking for you for four years," I said, "to ask you to marry me. Dear, I never have even thought of mar­ rying any one else, and I have been look­ ing for you all this time." j My flippancy, born of nervousness* was deserting me. I leaned forward . earnestly. j "Oh, how good it is tolsee your dear face again!" I said. "This pays for all. It is" ' "Stop!" she interrupted, still looking down. "I suppose you don*t know I was married three years ago to General Peg- lar!" | "Married!" I sank back sick at heart. The train stopped and a copy of The Fi­ nancial News got in, with a gentleman completely buried in it. | That was an awful journey. I sat up | very straight and asked questions about roses and the people who lived at Hal- 1 stead and the prospects of the hops and 1 many other things about which I did not want to hear, and Mrs. Peglar an- ! swered me. j And The Financial News and itp oocu- pant sat opposite to me. ) At Charing Cross, as I handed her out, she said in a voice that was not very steady: I "Won't you come and see me some- i times? I liv$ at the Red House, Hal- "No,w I said, "that would be too much. I hope I shall never see you again. Goodby," my sharp disappoint ment lending a vinegary flavor to my voice. "Your mother, I trust, is well?" She did not answer, and I blundered til look whiter, will be ciea.ner and wlH dene with fesa itber if SANTA CLAUS Eased. The. clothes will smdl ill last longer. . SANTA CLAUS SOAP is pure, it cleans bui does not injure t~h*. |»b£ * Millions as«. it. Do Yoi^P ! U.K. FAIR BANK KCO, Mfh. CHICA&I on: "I regret to see that you are in slight mourning. Not, I trust" "No, no, no!" she cried vehemently. "Mamma, at least, is left to me. She doesn't hate me because I tried to do the best for her when she was left penniless. She knows I thought I ought to marry General Peglar. She knows how I cried and cried and wondered why you--where you" Clara stopped short. "Goodby," she said and walked down the platform. "I'm not in mourning for my darling mamma, thank God! It's for General Peglar, of course." We went down into Charing Cross garden, where the children and the spar­ rows play and sat there in the sunshine, hand in hand.--Philadelphia Call. lit quid Oxygen. liquid oxygen when first formed is milky in appearance, owing to the pres­ ence of some impurity which may be re­ moved by passing it through ordinary filter paper. When pure, it is of a pale blue color, which, however, is not due, as some have thought, to the presence of liquid ozone, which is of a dark blue col­ or. Liquid oxygen is a nonconductor of electricity, but is strongly magnetic. It may be lifted from a cup by presenting the poles of a strong electro-magnet. It seems to have very slight chemical ac­ tivity, since it will extinguish a lighted match and has no action on a piece of phosphorus dropped into it. It is well known that the A and B lines of the ' solar spectrum are due to oxygen, and j from recent experiments on the top of j Mount Blanc, it is thought they are largely if not wholly due to the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. Professor Dewar showed that these lines come out . very strong when liquid oxygen is inter­ posed in the path of the rays from an electric lamp.--Science. ing glovei ..S-lS on I do.--Vogue. Do you need a heating or cook stove? If so, now is the time to buy. We have a large stock of the celebrated ACORN;& GARLAND STOVES, As well aa other makes. Our stoves give universal satisfaction and are worthy ot inspection. ^ " " * . . * > • - The Largest Stock of Stoves in the County. We have on hand Anti-Rusting Tinware, Table Cutlery, and everything tound in a hardware store. First class new work and Repairs in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron, Your trade is respectfully solicited. JACOB nry. The Bascom Folder. 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