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3E . small quantity once every day or two. We know farmers who make it their practice to salt cows every $11k day morning.’ It is not breaking the hbbath to any serious extent. and the owmwf the $406k has an The best way to salt cows is to leave some rock salt under a covered place where the acct can lie}: in at will. They will then never get more than is good for them, but will go up and lick I small quantity once every day or two. “'1: know farmers who main. ;+ toes ham used large amount able. niLrogen. Applicatim rate of soda greatly benefit grown after potatoes. 6. The loss in selling ten cows amounted to five head on the average. after tap: nearly a year. while ten small cows, was twelve 4. When in thin flesh. small may produce more per thousand; gross weight than large con". 5. Large {arrow cows are mo: sistem miLkers; 9n the ache: small cows show a greater tel to fatten on the same feed, Witt crease in the milk flow. lore of fitteen cows each. according to live weight. The cows were kept under similar conditions as to feed and care during the trial. none be- ing bred after the beginning of the ex- periment. The average weight of the heavy cows was 1,22% pounds. and of light cows 579 pounds. The leading con- clusions from the experiments are: 3. small cows produce less than large cows. absolutely and latively. Prof. Brandt. of Germany. conduct- ed three experiments with light and heavy dairy cows. each lasting four weeks. the second commencing seventy days after the close of the first, and the third a year after the beginning of the first. Thirty of the heaviest mm:- as in the herd were separated into EXPERIMENTS \VITH DAIRY COWS "â€"'â€"' â€"â€"v its milk supply, temporarily at least, checked. The dairy cow is never a fat cow. The two never gd together. “'hen a dairy cow lays on fat rapidly it may be judged that there is some. thing wrong. Either the food is too fat-producing. or the animal is by na- ture a beef cow, and should never have been reared for anything else. Its presence in the dairy herd is a mistake. The mistake of feeding the calves wrong is more apparent in the dairy cows than any Others. They once get into the habit of making (at, and. it is almost impossible to break them of it. They will often continue to do so all through the nest of their lives. t and they are practically mined for the very work they were created for by na- ture. The right feeding of the calves is thus a very important work. in the Land. The dairy cow is pre- eminently a nervous animal. It hue bundles of nerves. and the food it feeds on promotes this characteris- tic. It might be noted in passing that. owing to this fact the dairy cow can stand less worrying and excitement than the beef 00w, Being a bundle pt nerves it is easily frightened. and To feed the calves prOperly one must decide beforehand. and very early. too, whether they are to be reared into dairy or beef cows. If we are going to raise beet cows the food of the calves must be quite different from that given to the dairy cows. Beef calves require food that will make muscle end tat. The animals must first get a good foundation of muscle, and then (at can be laid on that will be firm and valuable. A: the characters of these animals are determined when very young. such muscle and fat-pro- ducing food would ruin a cow for dairy purposes, no matter it her parents yere trom.the_very best dairy herd ing and on of the calves to deter- mine the future quality of the whole herd. This fact is not suffi- ciently emphasized by those who care to build up good herds. They breed good cows to excellent bulls, and presumably secure good calves. But something between the birth and maturity of the young animals seems to ruin them. They do net turn out what their beginning Promised. What is the reason for this? It may not always be pos- sibie to answer the question. but in very many instances the cause is found in the neglect of the calves dur- ing their tender age of six months or less. ‘ SALTIXG CO\VS IN ST: as twelve guilden Applications of COWS are more per. ’11 the other hand a greater tendency meb feed, with a de- Per thousand pouhd; five guilden rye crops C OVVS milk HI‘QING T0 APPLAUSE. Bissing means different things. ec- oording to where you happen to be at the time. In \Vest Africa the natives hiss when they are astonished; in the New Hebrides when they see anything beautiful. The Basutos applaud a popular orator in the assemblies by using at him The Japanese. again. show their reverence by a hiss. which has probany somewhat the force of the “hush" with which we command sil. enoe. In this country the hiss only has one meaningâ€"disapproval. , i From time immemorial there has been the inevitable collector of relics of. the great deceased. Chairs are great attractions with such talk. and when put up for sale generally bring a respeetable price. The seat used by Shakewears sold for $600. but that the "Last Days of Pompeii," only real- ized $65. An admirer of Mrs. Siddons purchased her favorite chair for 335, while 850 was the cost ofi a similar article used by Charles II. That on which Byron sat was knocked down for $12.50. while Thackeray's chair changed hands for $17.50. Ninety. five dollars was realized by the sale of ‘L- ---L Aâ€" the seat on which Tliéoâ€"(igk. while Mrs. Browning's went Aa\. 0(th UL H90}: sat, for $25. Wearing mourning for a cousin isi rarely seen here, but where there has: been an unusual affection the English: of black for three months is quite in; good form, and excuses you from social I life in which you may take little in-5 tereSt. The Queen, voicing the senti-§ ment of English people, declares, “Youé should wear mourning for your bus-3 band’s relations. as for your own." i _0_-' The granddaughter‘s mourning for a grandparent is widely discussed, the Lady’s Pictorial deciding that the per- iod of mourning dress shall be nine monthsâ€"that is, crepe for three, black without crepe three, and half mourning three months. The Queen advises crepe for three months as sufficient. A nLecé’s mourning {or an uncle or aunt is black for mo months, half mourning for one month, and in these points all English anthorities agree. A mother’s mourning for a son or daughter is about a year, that period differently divided according to per- sonal inclination. The Queen says, “Deep crepe three months, slightly less six months, black for three months," but the Lady has it “Crepe for six months, black for three months, half mourning for three months.” A sister’s mourning for a. bronze-r or sister is, crepe for three months, plain black for two months and half mourn- mg for one month. A daughter. in honor of a parent deed. wears deep crepe for the first three months, lessened crepe for the next three, full black for the remain- ing year. In many of the details of social and formal life we follow the usages of our English sisters, and in the matter of mourning cur customs are almost iden- tical with theirs. Of course, no one can lay down an absolute rule as to the length of time one will wear crape or full black. Health and climate have much to do with that, and the advice of friends and physicians often materially shortens it or makes the somber robes much less the reminder of our loss than Strict observance of custom would have it. The heaviest mourning worn is the widow's. It. remains pracucally un- altered for a year and a day, and then she can give up crepe. but as a rule women wear it six months longer. “Ah! is that the reason?" calmly res- plied the pig-tailed Celestial. “The fact is. Ionly lately set up in prac- tice, and have had but three patients." “I presume you are the best practi- tioner in this city?" he said to his com- panion as they went along. “\Vhat makes you think w?" “Because you have only three lan- terns hung over your door, while all Your colleagues have dozens displayed on their house fronts." i A somewhat vexations law in China compels every doctor. after dark. to hang up in front of his house as many lighted lamps as he has sent patients into the next world. One evening a European. who was staying in Peking on business. set out in search of a doctor for his wife. who had been sud- denly taken ill. He called at the houses of a good many, but was deter- red by the large number of lamps ex- hibited before each. At length. after tramping about for several hours. he came to the house of a doctor where only three lamps shed a melancholy light over the entrance. Our happy European dashed into the house of this excellent man. wake-nod him, and took him off to his lodgings. But They Turned On: to Be mendanou After All. ing by throwing tine salt thinly over the grass. while it was covered with dew. Some of the salt might be lost. but we thought from the way the grass was eaten that not much would be wasted that way. When we salted sheep by throwing salt on wet grass they ate the grass down to the roots. pleasure of noting its oonditiog and â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" In :1. fhn ymusv V8 ‘5va -v- _ whether there are any animals in the 10: that appear nnthrifty. We have often salted the Gays on Sunday morn- ETIQUETTE 0F MOURNING. FAMOUS CHAIRS THREE LAMPS. No ,u --Iu.x;u..uental decoration All the 01d V81‘19UBS of peppers were fiery qualzty after they had ripen er. Add an even tablespoonful of salt, a scant teaspoonful of pepper, 3 tea- 51). 023.1? of chopped parsley, and a scant teaspoom‘ul of summer savory. Mix a baking pan, and bake them thor- oughly for about twenty five or thir- ty minutes, and serve with a rich browusauoe around them. A simple and satisfactory way to prepare these pickles as a vegetable, is to plunge them in hot water and let them simmer for about ten min- utes. Drain them, cut off the stems, cut a slice out of the stem end, and scoop out the seeds and inside of the peppers. Stuff the peppers with good sausage meat, or prepare a forcemeat of lean veal and fat pork, in about the proportion of one-quarter pound of fat salt pork and three-quarters of a pound of lean veal all ground togeth- \ ABOUT GREEN PEPPERS. There are two ways of preparing green peppers for the table as avege- table. Select for this purpose sweet Spanish peppers. This is a pepper similar to the old-fashioned, bull-nos- ed pepper, but it is larger and milder in flavor. It is 'used green, both to serve as a stuffed vegetable and for stuffed pickles or “ mangoes." qu For ‘ pickling pears, apples and PeaChes- make a kyrup of one quart of vinegar and three pints of brown sug- ar: season to the taste with cinna- mon and cloves. When the syrup boils add the lrnit and cook until ten- der. allow plenty of syrup to a can of fruit and seal tightly. If quinces are scarce. the parings and COWS 0f quinces with good tart apples make an excellent jelly and the quxnces may be used for preserves. '1‘g‘a‘bw @5er hiékewthe Bream of all Jeihes prepared in the same way. . Jelly mad: of apples is delicious. Take ripe tart apples and cut into pieces; put into a preserving kettle with water en3ugh to cover. Cook un- til very tender and strain. To a Pint of juice add a pint of sugar and boil until it jellies. Put: in glasses. cover and put in a cool dark place. . In pr 658" ing‘ folioxv the same direc- and allow half, a pint of water to one Pound of sugar. \Veigh fruit and sugar accurately and cook until trans- parent. CANNING. PRESERVING AND PICKLING. It is time to prepare 13h) appEe, peach and pear for winter 1198.111 canning these larger fruits me only what is ripe and sound: pa“ core and throw into cold water to prevent discoloration For every four pounds of fruit add. one pound of sugar and a. quart of water, game «ike the addition of lemon juice. B3i1 until clear; Pu» in the cans; cover well with the boil- ing syrup and seal In canning pears “59 a Pint of water [03 pound of sugar to make the syrup, ‘ empire has more f w . . o 13 than an o " ' \aruc Y [her hme persons out 01 ....n, 1” hi1! mun-3 In the wor . "‘*â€"* 1d. womm want a 5011111343211; chilfim .. . . ‘ 15 they are fmmg a shoe, and It ei can g Star ' ~ - ' tedir msgggrsphy Is one of the most ! them to stand for a 16W mi when "13 ra I - - - ~ ,~ T n. ons known. In someiaiter the shoe IS Hawk 3?: 'vondef the exposure of the plate musttthey begm walking moat. Zorhfortlbl' hat for 807 . - t so -» era! hours Dmr’ Why the ahoes are n0 . all this time both the mg as they were at firs: trial. - hon sb' scope must be ‘ plate am. teleâ€" foot is considerably smaller W “ image of the t ”We“ 30 that the sits in a chair man when 3 e lad“ on the plate 8%; mu be Stationary about. Exercise brmgs f‘ot and Of the Sixéeenthe ”me for a star Quantity of blood ingo we '. 1e. ' balm. and only fit Pasmtude is two they swell apprecia‘my. T in 1: time mn-'u.wur:dm:§ 0‘ one at a also refluire cerzain 31:310366 bar it h 'n' ‘- v. _ v, 088 tm this ~ on xmgmmhe’ot them siz:.d- Shoes fa“ 5h some peculiarities which the poultry farmer must take into account. The chicken must be sent to market with cut off. The idea is that chickens that are mutilated may possibly have been killed by some animal. It. is also im- portant that the chicken should have white or at least light yellow legs, as the poultry buyers object to black legs. There is no good ground for this objection, but consumers will have their way and their whims must he gratified. If chickens \Vith mm}: ference was a trip to Baynards in Surrey, where the delegates were con:- ducted over the great poultry-fatten- ing establishment of Mr. C. E. Brooke. who annually sends 86,000 fowl: to Lhe London .market. This market has man and child in the United Kingdom. and every one of these eggs might just as well be raised. at home. He would do all he could to facilitate this de- sirable result. Some of the delegates said that the poultry farmer might reasonably eXpeet a profit of five shillings a year from the eggs of each hen, and there was no reason why the home production should nor be largely increased. Various ways of encourag- mg the induszry were approved. ‘- Among the diversions of the con- Mr. \Valter Long, President of the British Board of Agriculture, told the delegates that forty-three eggs, were imported each year for every man, wo- Reading to talk the matter over. make up the deficiency in the home supply. Nobody wonders more than the British do themselves why they A Conference In England to improve the Poultry-Raising Industry. Great Britain is the largest egg- importing country. No breakfast ta- ble is well furnished without eggs, and British hens would give up in despair if it. were intimated to them that they ought to supply all the eggs the pOpu- lation can consume. In fact, the num- ber of hens is so very'inadequate that over 1,339,000,000 of eggs. worth 820.- 000,000, are imported every year to The snapdragon will grow readily from cuttings, treated like geranium slips, and thus, when any exceptionalâ€" 1y fine color is grown from seed it is possible to reproduce it. \Ve see no reason why the snapdragon should not make a good bloomer for the window garden. The seed of the snapdragon is fine and requires only a slight covering of soil. The germination requires ten days or two weeks. Once started well, they grow robustly and throw out many side branches that terminate in spikes of bloom. The coloring is espec- ially rich in this plant. Rich and vel- vety reds and yellows, cream, white, crimson and scarlet, with white throat, for the antirrhinum, is always in two colors or two shades of the same color, are among the colors it makes its own. The plants grow eight to twelve and fifteen inches in height and as they are branching in habit make abrave show in the garden. There is adwarf varietyâ€"the Tom Thumb, growing six inches high. The foliage is clean, dark, glossy green, somewhat like the myr- tle leaf, and the flowers need no other setting than their own leaves. They are very lasting, also. The vaseful mentioned above was in the flor- ist’s window for more than a week, Y6? in good condition. V 'fhe snapdragon is usually ranked as an annualâ€"though if the plants are not allowed to exhaust themselves by blooming too freely the first year they will endure the winter and bloom a sec- ond summer. The flowers of plants meant to endure the winter should be cut freely and not allowed to form seed. A good method to employ is to short- en in the branches about midsummer; cut away half or two-thirds and new shoots will start that will bloom the second summer. mother's gardens, in the window of a city florist attracted a good deal of. attention when first placed in posiâ€" tion, and was much admired, for the size of the stems and the numerous individual flowers. Many of the stalks were covered with flowers for a length of six and a half inches, even ten in- ches in some cases. “ \Vhat is it 2" was a query often put. THE BRITISH HEN. chickens with black V'.‘ V\' unwell-lac“. ,39‘Picznber is the best month N vuit the island. because then W §P~>vrtsman can vary his caribo . ‘ With other sport, such as 21931an {01‘ trout or salmon. No fee 15 ex; “tad by the colony for any form 0 Sport except deer hunting: the 00; and salmon rivers are free to 8113‘“ the game binds can be shot. b. 1 Few possessing the requisne f0“ mgpiece. The guides enga _ bl canixiu showing are equaily “#113 ' f9? the angling and bird shqofing'nd “Show. therefore, with the lemma!1 ‘ equipment can claim his fill of any)! meat than within a. munth. " "' "' “"“V”! ‘J “4. .......vv.. â€"â€"â€" - , . The best time for sportsmen to v13“ the island is the month of Septeqlbfl The best mum is that by r311 to MM Sydney. Cape Breton, where the sgeam- or Bruce is taken across (hf? {111103 miles of Water separadng this 1513 from the. continent. Lahding atPorO wax-Basques in five or 51: hours. Ca hunter boards a train. ahd a mn'dal twelve hours places him 111 the m1 of tbb deer country. At Bay 0‘ 9' lands, about two-thirds of the W8: guides, canoes and all the oghef a. cessories to a successful hunting W can be obtained. .. .. The deer-stalking season Opens on 'July 15 and continues umil Oct.1, 'M'hen there is an interval of twenty days. Shooting is resumed on Oct. w and continued until Feb. 1. from which time until the middle of July: close season is observed. The caribou ere to be found in the vast traots of interior forest and. the uplands known as “bhrrens,” untrodden except by the occasional hunter. The deer are in countless herds. and those in the col- 011?. Who have most closely observed their habits say that with proper safe- guards against wanton killing there il no reason why they should not con‘ tinned to provide the finest sport {0! the hunters of EurOpe and Americl when every other accessible huntin1 STORM has been depleted. It mus be remembered that the 203,000 9901)“ who inhabit Newfoundland live rouni its coasdine and that three miles from 111811 Water mark there is not a set tlement. The rest of the 42,000 Squa“ Hides of the island is given up t0 W Wild animals, which include bears wglyes, foxes, lynx, caribou and hang near a ford. on the northwest coast and after removing the heads and antlers from the finest stags left all the meat to rot unburied. with the re- sult that the deer have completely abandoned 'r'ilat rx-giun. The new re- gulation prevents the possibility of: repetition of such unsporismanlika ingspcrtsman. In any hunting party all deer killed by the employees counts as if killed by the principals, and ev. ery licensee on receiving his permit pledges 11le to ‘endeavor to remove the camass or flesh of any deer he may kill and no: use for food into some town or settbsment within ten days. The reason for this is that a fewyears ago a party of Britisu- naval officers from the warships on the station slaughtered dent guides, bearers or L' prohibited except under a s These are in brief: No: out of season; 1101 to have '\.‘ son . i more deer than ornvmpa Pu moderate means and rate macro an act 821 t isfactiwn OVER 100 CARIBOU E competent local ' _ m attendants can be headd: f wages thzs should 110% A L-\_J““’. the wh: Served as a framework to tuners t .lch were united to them in squares. 1.938183 the f 9 roeaces. and other geozm- h orm- Worked over with butxmv ole s ' Point ncue, forming in ced the old conventunl WING- v-â€"~ . Ancient Greek writers refer to a gst deal of attention being paid to I11“ sort of work, but nations far no- civilization were by no he discovery of gold needles and 01h- “ working implements in the Scandin- Niall tumli can testify -â€" mysteries of ”East brought over by Odin and his bllowers -â€" or may be by captive “‘0- gen torn from their Southern homo-s 93 wild and reckless Vikings. Of these works little now exists, even in the Northern museums. Early Angloâ€"Saxon women excelled in this womanly accomplishment. and gorgeous are the accounts of gold- Itaired and scarlet embroidered tunivs md violet sacks worked by the nuns, who seem to have devoted lives of so. lulled seclusion to the adornmvn: of their persons, rather than to the at:- jects of devozion. Be that as it nu}; the "opus Anglicanum" was sought {or by foreign prelates, and made 1%,» subject of papal correspondenm‘. Ni: lid the Anglo-Saxon kings ever fail. in their pilgrimages to Rome. to Lil-sum; an the sovereign pontiff gazm n: richly embroidered in gold and prerCL-‘gz: “ones. CONCOMITANT OF THE CLOlS‘fiiii. Again, the robe of the (3})th ked with “pomegranates of rple and scarlet,” gouge. ' hem thereof. “'6 have memzog m be. of women’s "sauls,’ of "nets. :4 k" in Solomon’s temp“; egranates, and numerous . ,_ _.....¢u;nnr rhn antinnifx' Q â€" -_- ucuvurx “was gummrd 7; Place of fine cloth, called quintafi'. from the WW!) in Brittany wm‘re‘ a w“ made, Then with a needle}. I?" 1 was to cut away the; 'nperfluons cloth, hence the name 0‘ Wtwork. Needlework has always been 12.9 daily employment of the convent. As early as the fourteenth century I: w». termed‘mun’s work," and even nmv l1, secluded parts of Europe ancient r isatyled by that name. Nor due: 2,. work appear to have been solely (m.â€" fined to women. Vv’e find monks mu.- mended for their skill in embroider). N vuLWOI'K was made in several crossing and i Gus complicated patterns heath the ( h ‘ '1 pane of . netWOI‘k was gumm‘d ‘ first consisted in arranging of threads upon a small nterlacing them “33's. .11 ne‘â€" fram“. info Bu. must derive the origin of iace. '12} .‘ thOJgh comprising a wet? “may 0f decoration, went by the gel}- eral name of cutwork. . . me the Renaissance. a period . 30 close a union existed betwevn fine arts and manufactures; whvn ”“1 most trifling object of luxury. instvaa 9: being consigned to the vulgar Izisw 9‘ {he mechanic, received from artists the? mOSt graceful inspiration. Em- bro‘del'y profited by the gem-.31 1m- W158. and books of designs were com- 903061 for that species, which, under the ”“31”“ name of cutwork. formed the treat employment for the women of the day, mcugwdrk was m1“ in cavavn‘ ‘1 n V’s; ust deal of attention b‘ his sort of work, but na noved from civilization 1' 1-1.2- 1 From the middle of the last cen: u ' however, or rather, apparently frwzn the French Revolution, the more aris- tic style of needlework and embroidery fell into decadence. The needle now became replaced by more trunn'vf fancy Works, which the better lash ' f the last few years had happily upwi- ed. We may look upon the. an of hand embroidery and hand-made :av» as almost at an end. The introdm- “on Of mcmnery into these Eavrvd realms has cheapened labor :0 that ”my the real conniaseur Ur ariist ‘~\i.: ”Premate the genuine arm-1e. of. We have mention 1n {en's $30.15, " Of "nets ' of I" in Solomon's 16mph; anates, and numerous s verifying the antiquity or embroidery in orna-z IMO Work In Orna - .Auglo-Saxons llvcollod lune Costly I’onltflml: II \V ne CU