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"vâ€"“"-. ' The above reasons, with many others ‘ fed Ami, might be givnn. are ample proof. ten ;0 the writer's mind that they are? tha >re-eminently the farmers’ fowl as well 9 be 5; the (anciera. I {notinr positive prod is the fact '- _t they are more eagerly sought af- ‘43}! by farmers and fanciers than any 13 gifmrhty. that has: ever been before they 1 ma] 2?- v ‘ .Pnuk. I ma. a ' This Is supposed to be a strictly E practical article, but, I am sure that It, mder will bear with the writer In 3mg: 3 word for the fancy. Can We have all noliced in the dark var« ieties that when dressed the dark pin ‘eathers are very noticeable. The Buff Rocks are an exception. as skin, shanks ind feathers are, all ‘a golden :hue. When matured, they have round,â€" piump symmetrical izodies, and rich, tender flesh, which never fails to ’please the epicure. The table and market we consider their strong points. From the time” they leave the shell, with proper care, thoy are always p'lump; and we do nbt have to wait until they are fully grown before they take: on. flesh. as is the case with, many .of the heavy weights. For eggs, there is an abundance of proof, that, taking the year thrpugh. more is no variety of fowls. on ‘earth, that will outlay them i‘his has been proved beyond a doubt. 'i’hewiriter is; prepared to substantiate the above. ‘E’lzeir eggs air-e, good size, and a rich brown color, and will be chosen in- stead of a white. egg. almost. invariably if people aregiven-their choice. We have never known eggs. from any vari- My to be more fertile, as we know in- stances whore whole sitting-s have Lat-bed, after having been shipped sev- eral thousand miles. venopment n‘xead of nearly all the mid- dle weight varietiea Being vigorous, strong and healthy, they are good for- egers, getting their own living haml- ily in season if alldwed their liberty, being much better in this respect than the heavy weight! and heavy leg and toe feathered varieties, and also the light weight lrirds, as they are more easily domestimted than the lat- ter. " BI'F’F‘ PLYMOFTII‘ ROCKS. To the query “What makes the best all~round farmers’ fowl?" for eggs, laiâ€" ble and market, and, why? the writer would roswm'll'ully submit that the breed best. suited for the farmer for the purposm named, is, without doubt, the Buff Plymouth .Rocks, and will en- deavor as briefly as possible, to give )OBitiVQ pr’nof that such; is thecase. We will take them from the shell, 1nd consider them: from every practi- sal point. They. are very hardy and; sigorous, a large per cent. of eggs natching large, healthy chicks. They grow rapidly and attain their full de- velopment ahead of nearly all the midâ€" dle weight ”rims“ DAL." “Ln---“ on any soil, oven on very poor land TARE 03" HONEY- 1t will thrive with but little atten; There is no; limit tot'the time that lion, and a modicum of manure. A: honey .will feel? if not abused Thor- mnuy, soil, however. is preferred by ouzhly sealed comb honey is usually all the legnminous family, which em- in It“ highest state 0‘ P91190431“! and oraces the we, been lupin, lucerne, extracted honey 15.1““ the 881110, DIO- zlover, niches, etc \s it is in theiVidIM It has been gealed over before light or a manure that we wish toluh‘actvfi'd or left in! ‘the comb until treat this subject, we will say little it thoroughly Til/‘9“? of it“ emellent properties when used (“”1" honey usually remains in as a food for stock To show the high liquid form t,)ut in. some in (3009‘! it Pstmmte in which; this family is justâ€" granulates in the. 00m“ “16 SCI!" as ly held as a green manure, the extracted. It has been said that (ollow’ng figures are availed of: In a honey from ”"3”“ is more apt tlb Brut of'thirty bushels of beans there granulate in the comb than almostj ”'0 2.000 Pounds of grain and 2200 9’7” other and this has been my PX-g pounds of straw, which contaim nine- berience. i tv nine pounds of nitrogen sixty -sevâ€"- Granulation 0f extratted honey; ‘3 “0’ en pounds of potash, and twenty -nine detriment to it and ’3 alnays 91'0“} pounds of phosphorit acid. A (top of 01. its purity Adulteratlons SW11 as} red clover,weighing two tons, contains glucose etc ne‘er granulate, hence, MERITS (or THE cow-mm. Much ha: beehuwxitt'en in praise of the properties of. the cow-pea, both as a foddor and as a manure, but not one-half of its merits have been so far revealed. As a crap it will do well L14 - 1vnl\l lll'llflb 'm h are oapaMe. cases to exclude. dust m men, and ran-i tranted honey Ifizw N! form to the; Quantity. either in‘ open art. therefore, I 3298. Tin Pans arp m0 hotween the a very convenient and the root-nod-f is the Pommon fruit can 0. frmn which a large owning W' . V .fves its nitro-r mg the hone a nitroe usi " ' g n 3 “21g 11: m_ Hus form. ‘€1\I\n “-_L --- v ‘4‘.’ u‘l"‘€llb- 530 “1-1 agoous, helping to. plow, the stock variably ; grower in a, .‘zetter ('ondition than the ,(re. We grain grower, but, dairying carries the my vari-l work of condensation a great deal now inâ€" f further. and pub? the «lriiryman in a 3 have; uwition of comparative. indepenrlom‘e ped se\'-‘ as in Heights. Dairying never wore gout’ any many man’s. farm. Grain rousider; farming does it. Jinn“: may hold its “x, til,19'o'.s'n as a stock farm properly man- 91‘ care,- aged, but with equally good manage- (lo not ' mvnt the ‘dairy farm improves all the fully time. The necessary removal of fer- h. as is‘. lility is practically nothing in dairy- .' heavy ling, while on the other hand the dairy- ; 3 man can often profitably purchase and1 There are other advantages in’ dairying rk var i which We will mt pause toenumerate. er ping One thing, however, is to be remem- he Bufff bored, with all the advantages, that shanks : dairying possesses, poor dainmn'nmr “ uue Lmng, however, is to be remem- t" bored, with all the advantages that 5 ; dairying possesses, poor (Lairying ne‘Vor pays. It is: only witfi good cows, well .4 fed and well managed. and careful gt- * Simmonsâ€"H; is enemy tested. Just act like, a. hog when you .are in societ , and if you 1.9.3:}. genius mp1. wil 'l‘i'mmimâ€"I have never been a make up my mind whether 1 genius or not. Dairying has many advanta makes a finished prodm' ; consumer, t, ready for the “herons most. other lines on- } 1y prolluoo raw 'mats‘rial. Now it is well . nigh axiomatic that theprmluction of ’rum" material stands lowasl in remunâ€" The grain grower is, rom- 1 para tively speaking: poor; I EStOik grower, who feeds the products of the farm, th us Partying: the work 1of making the: finish-ed product. astep further, is almost invariably a step higher on the ladder of 1.)r03pex'ity. The. dairyman who makes a product lready to go at onre into (-onsump-' 'tion, ought to he still ous, and he i's'. Compare the dairy d' tricts With those where (lairying ° not married on, anl the fact will he manifest. No other. branch of farm- ing (-ondenses heights so well as; (hair‘ying. 'l‘his, when distance to mar- ket is r-onsideraMe, and freight is high, is a very important matter. The dif- ference between the freight on a the live- ~.â€"- of grain and a ton of Lutter [S (:onsid-l r _v‘. “Honey-What. remains in the. I'm: somo timfinfter 1 ° 'mng stored i4 ways the. best ari' ,' , but more pounds nrn sevured by ing it away as fast m we” sum-m -_ V...” au-Llll. Honey should ahs'ay dry place. and away oxrent the same. is vm‘ Ventilated. Heat dons honey, but toads to rip: it, but dampnem and «In agree wjth it. x A DVANTAGFIS OI“ v _ ,_ _- _... , “a.“ vJJsu qu L’C’C“ ”I, 6‘. pernence. ' V O branulatnon of extracted honey: is no detriment to it, and is always proof Of 1t8p=urity. Adulterations, such as 21110099- 9‘20” nnvnw "an”..l-L- L_._. uetrlment to It, and is always proofi tail of its purity. Adulterations, such as' the glucose, etc., never granulate, hence‘, the «when you see honey on the markets,’ met- especially during the winter season, ition that is in] liquid form, you may look! ° upon it with suspicion. «Now most‘ people think it the reverse of and this is. the principal reason that adultwration is practiced to such an; extent. or a F Comb hpney usually remains in liquid form, but in some in tancee it granulates in the. comb the same as extracted. It has been said N that; honey from alfalfa is {nore apt to granulate in the comb than almost an», other, and this has been my ex- perience. -7... ”“7 ov’ "a.“ 1' Ill" 5" "U ““u ”.70 Elle most" geautiful domes-tic fowl yet A." Interest!!! Lecture at a? Canadian Institute, Toronto -- Canadme 100,00) ; PTOduch- . _ , Square Mile. of Gold Begum -â€" Ellwr, _ - ........... Copper, Lead and Asbestos Were Also to TAKE OE‘ HONEY. ‘ I"! Found. There is no limit. to the time that honey will. keeijc“'ilf not abused. Thor- oughlyeealed. comb honey is usually in its highest state of perfectitfil, and extracted honey is just the same, pro- Vziding it has. been §ealed over before extracted, '0!“ left “If ~th‘e comb until I the.north. Mr. Wm. Ogilvie, F.R.G.S., surveyor to the Dominion Government. who has recently returned from the Yukon dis- trict, delivered on Saturday night in the Canadian Institute at Toronto, 3 lecture on that wonderful Eldorado of The farmer desires something p336,- tical: In the Buff Plymouth Rocks he can have it, and with it be can have the most beautiful domestic fowl yet produced. you think or name a. meg-o ‘bfififlf’u’l bird than’ one: havind the can“ Bock symmetry and characteristics; "Ind which has a beautiful \rich widen-buff oolor? ‘AN EASY TEST. up has many advantageq, _ 5H, finished prod‘uvt, ready for the r, whereas most. other lines on- ?e raw material. Nowit. is we” )mativ that theproduction of uy Irom a cellar, ; very dry and we” dons not {damage 1 riymn and improve 1d darknpss will not “A3 very advant- as heen published the various routes though it was on being-1 Manufac- leasy inference that they 11 ere all three but it is nottru u.e . adulterated hyiemeedingly difficult. The history of yrups which they the gold discoveries in the distri t he 111111111, but it 1an traced from the early seventies to the zh them. ' present time. To a North of lreland ith age, and Him _ the flavor. EX” man named Harper 11:19 given the 1011 easier kent greatest 1re1lit £01 )ezu's of prospectâ€" 1tter'1s liable to ing, often amid dangers and dimour- he kept 1n tight .and insects Ex- agements. which eventuated in Jul1' e kem in any last 3enr in the diaoverv of the hid- 1enortigl1tpaekâ€"d1en treasury of the Klondyke by a mosth used, and man named Si11 ash George, 11110 lived. Id (heap package an 11l1ieh havinggwnh the Indians of the distri1t.He. admit. of remov- in accordance with the unwritten law granulation and among miners. revealed the find to ‘5 1,9 kept in a three [1rospezflt01aand soon all the from :1 cellar miners on the iukon 11ere hurrving ry 1113:1111) “ell to the scene. and 11ithin a few 11eeks s‘ not {damage hundreds of 111111115 “ere staked out! men and improve E10 (011 d O 1 nrknesq 111” not on d ral n B 11anza reeks. Those. two creeks, Mr. Ogilvie was c0nfi1lent: in the. emuhfnr would turn out 00 to 75 millions in ; stored "‘ U- placer mining. 1111 they 11ers but a 1 11l1en extruted,’ Smured l1y tak k- ’1 11113131111111 of the gold-hearing distri1t. ’ A! 119]} stored Over the 11 hole 011? an area 550 to 600;: - :milee in length ha 100 to 150 miles 1n DAIRYING lwidth, 90, 000 to 100, 000 square miles 1111131113295”. 1“ rich prospects had been found. it. 11118 pt, ready for the; the largest and N1 beet gold area in 3 t t. other lines am; the “01.1111 1 f d cheap package m, which. having; admit of remov- granulation and $°£n%“§§c°£ THE KLUHD YKES RIGHEH te risti as Ind mh gold o-nbuff m--g\.‘ VV\‘I ‘3 ‘L‘.‘ ‘pleased at the arrival of the Canaliun police. Six hundred and fifty miles ‘of the Upper Yukon, the more navil-r- 'uhle part. and the richer part of the friver, Mr. ()gilvie said, lzelonge! m 3(‘anzula. On the lower .sln;,~es ainl s'ulong the rivers the rountry was very {well wooded. but there was not any ' more than “ouldlie needed for" the (le- :veloyment of the country. and the ECanadian Government :should take im- mediate steps to insure its preserva- tion. Circle City, in Alaska, had been i built of Canadian timber. heraus'e there “was little or no timber on the lower! stretches of the river. Great herds of' l thousands of cariboo, he said, ruam-' ed the tops of the ridges. He had shotl six in ten seconds. The scenery of; the mountains. rising ridge abovei ridge, snow-clad. for thousands- of,i feet. was grand and sublime. scarce-3 ly to'be surpassed. in the world. The; silence among the hills was awful. Al man could hear his heart beating as; clearly a. m could hear the- ticking of his watch at his ear. In summer the mosquitoes were worse than anywhere else in the world. They were actual- ly maddening; fire and smoke only made them more active. Once he had hand his hand for on instant. and bar-room loafers, whose votes were cast, regardless of justice, for the man who treated oftenest. Mr. Ogilvie told some very amusing stories of the mis- carriage of; juslive in these meetings. They had finally fallen into disrepule. and the indgstrious miners were very I'h'nflton‘rl n I. f Regarding quartz mining he said he g had been shown sunmlee of ore that aqâ€" 1 gsayed $100 to 31,000 to the ton. The} ; only question was whether the mother! ,lode would be found of several large; 1‘ lodes, or a succession of small onesfi lthat it might not pay to work. Mr.1 'Ogilvie showed a little Lottie with $95 worth of free gold in it that he had washed from one shovel full of pay,t dirt. that a miner had given him. One; ,man had taken out $16,000 in eightf *hours. From one pan. whit-h was; two shovelfuls. another man had? washed $595. Speaking of the possi-i , bility of starvation in the district thial fwinter, he said there were five or six ; ' thousand miners in there, but the same I : conditions had existed last. year. andf; they had got through all right, antlij he thought they would this year, but. .1 they would have to be (’dI’BfUl. ‘ THE Ml-NERS. 9 . The men in there were of all nations; 1 under Heaven, pretty nearly; ln thee early days there had been no cliques, i a no factions, no politics, but since‘thef i saloons had been started things had . I r t been different. Affairs were manag- i S ed by miners’ meetings, and the min- 8 ers’ meetings were dominated by the n 1.“.. _ 1 n - grasp the situation and character DOMINION SURVE1OR WM. OGILVIE TELLS OF THEM. havinfi'the advantage of amap. very clearly ' LDC Old Gentleman, dictating indignant "here ; [e . tterâ€""Sir, my sheaographer. being “131" i a lady, cannot take down what I think only 5 of you. I,- being a. gentleman, cannot WM think it; but; you, being noithu, can find i easily m my. thought“ â€" f' when men are buried quivkly. and no ‘ questions are asked forms a usefuloxr ’portunity for an unfaithful wife to fget. rid of her husband by a dose of ‘arsenic' so in out-ofâ€"the-xvay villages .many a death is put down to snake- ‘ bite to amid awkward questions. Even j where the whole village knows ofthe i real farts. they hush it up to prevent lthe annoyance which an official in- ; qniry would entail on them; for In- iside the trouble and botbfl' of having .‘to give evidence, there is the burden ’ of providing for all the minions of the 5 law, who would come to the spot to .. :make 'that. preliminary investigation in . iwhich lies such a large portion of L their profit. _ _.__ mr_ ,._..-.. -. TOLD. IN A WHISPER. Is '-that one of your servants, mad- No. no? ‘Don’lt speak so loud. That's the¢mok. I f Ifour years, papa. Sou can tell him I think that’ ‘ enough. . 5 lm The two Wurst. 'dfstri 19 in the Pun- jab, as far as the mortality amnwgthe peoplge from snake bite is convemed, are Lahore and Gvujranfalala, with an average of 85and 1151‘esxmvtively dur- ing the last two years. In these dis- tricts about the average number of snakes appear to have been killed. nor less infested by snakes than the distrivts around them. It. would, therefore he of more than passingin- forest to disvover whether Iahore and Gujranfalla have reputations [yr 3 partiivular prevalence of poisoning wives: for just as a. cholera epidemic. E to test the whispered suspirion, that f the majority of snakes for whi‘h re- wards are claimed are carefully rear- ed for the purpose, as 2,700 and 2,600 were paid for 'in 1895 and 18M respec- ttively, at a total expense of 1,080 ru- ' pees, while the deaths from snake-bite 3were about equal in number to those :in Sialkot and Delhi during the, same fperfiod. It would be interesting to Iknow whether any suvh discovery led lthe authorfities in Hoshiarptu to cut {down the rewards given from 2.6721 Prupetes in 1895 to 214 rupees in 1896. f In that district also the death rate among human beings from snake-bite : actually decreased though only (man; 36 to 32. I I l of “LIVE AND LET LIVE." "‘ The Gurgaon authqrities shwuld l’e able Every one has heard of the story so firmly believed in by the natives, that if you kill a snake its mate. will ‘ J tenths In. Snake-Blue and other Note: cl 1’ ; Interest In Snnlu‘dom. r l " The statistics of the number of " snakes killed during the years 1895 and i 1896 afford less scope for comparison Les some districts as Delhi, Rohtak. ‘ ’ Sialkot. have apparently taken. advantage of the recent deci- .(«'sion ofthe local government that it ‘ is not obligatory on distri -t, Loards and f ' ' ' ' pay rewards on 'snakes at all. So that from 940, 279, ‘874 and 466 resper'tively they paid on 1, 28, 0 and 57 last year. It is to he remarked that the effet't of stopping payment in these distrivtsl has vaused no increase in that loss of human life. .In Delhi and Sialkot the . number hot men killed by snakes is about the same in eae-h year. In‘ Rohtak the deaths have certainly in-. creased from 13 to 40, but, on the. oth~ er hand in Multan, when 874 snakes, “refitted. 87 nyen died of snakeâ€"trite, = whereas' in the year following. when i no snakes were hing destroyed, only i 32 €er to grief. - ' “ were in Cana- dian territory, and should be utilized for the welfare of Canadian - found there. Lead. silver. and ae- pesi‘os'hwere also found. and there were Immense ' coal dep osits within ten miles of the Yukon. . . lecture Mr. Ogilvie said he had met some Canadians who had seemed to be ashamed of their country. They bed no need to be. In places where men's souls were .tried he. had ,found no, men to surpass Canadians. He did not Speak in the spirit of boasting or ego- tism. but to make a, fair, just, manlyl statement, for all-round, resourceful fl energy he knetv"’~bf no race of men t6 . excel Canadians. He urged his hear- nrfl nanny 4“ I _ -,,' 1:11le 27 an the back of. his but}: one stroke. Men had to , workd gloves on. and netting over t1 SNAKES IN INDIA. wall!!!) Gala ’18 um met as who had seemed to be ,}~eir country. They hid In places where men's rrease m 1.11? 1083 of elhi and Sialkot the killed by snakesis in ear}: year. In the bed ‘quck. he, said, etprnal 1y; Hevknows it i you next. time; -w means pf healing woun trarv, It would A board of health warning has been sent. out in regard to the dnnger of using carholir- acid, either I; a .diso infectant or as a cleansing was-h {or simple wounds. Even in" an oint- ment it, is not safe. Local gamrreno is said to’ he the penalty ,o-f too strong :12) application, or 0‘ 3 weak appurt- tion (00 long applied. , Another. point ‘ ' ° vanoed by the 1 in! is flat catholio'i acid ig used in 8111' e. 1'19 u 3 mi- cidg and disinfectant means of heafing wounds. o. H.- .m- l. .i '3 mm were IS every reason to leiiou‘ that. much valuable work will I)» don." | 5 during the eclipse; not only by those ' who intend to visit India for that pur- pose, but also by the Indian astronom- ers, who are interested in solar physics, ‘ i foremost among whom is Professor K. J i l). Naegamvala, who has almdy {lone lgood workat‘ Poona. ()f the British - {astronomers who intend to make ob- «- lservzuions no one. has _a Mgfllgr rank / , Speaking of the must party’s propoa-p Jed programme. to which he confinu ‘himself, he saysrâ€"‘T am one of tho“ . gwho believe. that specitmscmsic ohsonâ€" T vations (luring eclipses mult take pro- vvedence of all other»; in the minds 0‘ . a’ much more simply carried out “'llit'h are within tho competence those unanquainted with! the details the subject. One of the fortun things about. colipses graphers and amateurs can do good work as well as those mo ' ped instmmentally.” The weather prospects being and the faviiities [or travelling lent. there is every reason to that. much valuable work will I during the edipse,’ not only M who intend to visit India for th tral line of the eclipse _,. land Berar averages almt forty. do- - greets. any instruments, Inch' ”pun- [ graphic cameras. brougM from El- 'ropo or America. should he so am- gstructed that they; will withstand“. ’action of this great dryness of tho air. Furthermore, statistics show hat rain rarely falls in January in - the Konlcziir and Deccan and tint dur- include the line of totality, are un- jusually free from clouds. N UCH \VORK PLA- NNED. The Joint (.‘ommittees of the Boyd . 'and Royal Astronomical Societies of London, has decided to send out sure. 'parlies to take. observations, one OI the coast and two inland, at stations . which have not yet been selected. Th. party from the Solar Physics ()lzser- 'vutory will'occupy the coast station. ‘ and all possible; assistance will be ren- ,“ dered to it, by a. man-of-war. acting under infirm-lions from the Admirtlg, '5 ty. This con '4. station Will don-”tie“ be in or near the old fort at \‘iziadurg, as there is no letter point ~from which to take olaervations: The lgndparti which will include the astrono Q R'byill,’ Dr. (‘opel;ufd, Profexsor 'l'ur‘i ‘ or. Ur. Common, (‘aptaiu Hills, and 51?. Newall, who will represent the obser- vaitoriék of Greenasicli, Edinburg. OI- ford and Cambridge, who Win one stations on the: railwavn near H.- nan- i J a i a Everything is inc (their favor. ‘- eclipse will occur in‘ tlb middl- of cold weathnr. and at the M {1 able time oi the. year for travelling " gindia. Cyclonic storms are very nu lduring January and the ghance of t gale or stormy weather off the 00“. ’3"! Much Too Freely many scientists are preparing W “I there il'ized country in the. work} [mung-£5j ‘ -1 . . s b an. 1‘ i where tho‘ most “to earth generally at 9.53 a, m... in longi- tudae 110 degrees, levemrminutes 08"!“ and latitude 85 degrees. 38 minut.” north. >-"" Malaya-fin M Q loo 6 9.16"“ a iffépclcslul stun-um" ”Jan-WI -â€" I’m-- 1: {ugh-I- of m‘nfiko ' ‘I " 2* i» ' “" $96 of the notablo solar ecliuloa at“: _ Mmfitnryl 7W5}! jute place on Jdbgf nary 22L’1898. It will be 'visible over; ,....,,.w.-the M915.“ Asia, Atirina an! ’ EUFOpe, with" the pkeeptioq-of Spaihf‘i ' ‘ the west of France. Belgium and Hal. ‘ ‘Iand. It- begins; on" the girth generb all y J’i’huary 223116 6.219., mbngitud. 11- Wm. mgr: 1051‘ INFOR'I‘Ail’ sea: mo EVERY. 4 _â€".. ww" the raimays near the ca- prospects being good, ios for travelling excel- ‘SULER f coming to quite. 'M I." (in m (‘1!