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Value of Brood Mares.

A paragraph in the March number of
this Journal mentioned the fact that E.
Dillon & Co., of Normal, Illinois, had
sold four colts, the produce of one
brood mare, for S., 500; and we now al
Jude to it for the purpose of stating
that this is not, by any means, an ex-
ceptional case. On the contrary, it has
been demonstrated over and over again
that it is scarcely possible for the gen
eral farmer to keep any kind of stock
on his farm that will prove SO uniform
" profitable as a good brood mare. In
stances are numerous where a single
brood mare, we'll and fashionably bred,
and coupled for a series OF years with
popular sires, has, by her produce,
made a handsome fortune for her own
er; and in almost every neighbOrhOod
can be found mares whose produce are
uniformly of more than an average
value. The prudent, wide awake farm
er will be on the lookout for such
mares, and whenever he can purchase
them at reasonable prices he will not
fail to do so. Such an investment can
not fail to be better than money at COM
pound interest, if the mares be coupled
with the right sort of stations. Good
horses always find ready sale at high
prices-the scrubs only are a drug in
the market-apd colt can be raised as
cheaply as a steer. To make horse |
breeding profitable, you must start |
right. Horses are not sold at so much |
per pound in the market, like cattle or |
hogs; it is the quality that determines |
the price, and quality is thing of in
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Effects of Ashes and Lime.

Place a piece of iron or steel in damp
ashes, and it will soon corrode with rust.
Place the iron or steel in lime mortar,
and the rust will disappear. Sow small
grain where a brush-pile or lOg-heap
has been burned, or where a liberal
dressing of aches has been applied, and
there will be a rank growth that will
probably fall and never mature. Sow
the grain where the lime has been ap-
piled to the soil, and the grain will grow
with stout, stiff straw, and plump, hard
heads that mature we'll.
Ashes cause a rank growth of the her
baceous part of the plants, such as the
leaves, straw and grass lime induces a
growth of the woody part of plants,
and the grain or fruit. Ashes stimulate
heavy muck, and rich or virgin soils.
They appear to disintegrate or make
available what is already in the soil.
They seem to act specially on vegetable
mold and manures from the barn-yard.
Apply them to the most offensive pile of
compost and they will render it inodor-
GUS and worthless as a fertilizer, their
effect being that of releasing the am
monia from the compost. Ashes used
with a compost heap of decaying veg e.
table matter would be wasted-wOrSe
than wasted-as they render the COM
post inert as a fertilizer. Applied to an
offensive sink, sewer or cesspool, they
serve an excellent purpose as a disinfec-
tant. They promote the growth of grass
and forage especially, proving very
valuable on low lands will stimulate
trees, ETC., to vigorous growth when the
soil is strong. They exhaust strong
soils and injure poor ones.
Lime improves poor soils, especially
sandy ones, by rendering them more
compact and capable of retaining fertil
ity when applied. AS promoter of
health and vigor in apple trees it is one
of the best applications that can be
mac e to the soil. Under its influence
trees mature we'll, the fruit is finer,
and trees are freer from disease. Lime
may be applied with benefit on most
soils and many plants, bit it is of
special value to the apple tree and
plant, while ashes are valu-
able on heavy or rich soils for the gross
er feeding of plants, such as our native
plums and currant bushes.-COr. HOr-
81
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Feeding for Milk.

The able editor of the dairy depart
ment in the Rural New Yorker has an
article on feeding wheat bran and oil
cake for producing milk to be sent to
butter and cheese factories from which
we cOndense the following statements ::
Bran and middliDgs make an excel
lent feed for mich cows. Bran gives
milk of good flavor, 1t increases the
flow, and is net liable to iniure the ami
NAL "a some other kinds of ground
feed, like corr meal. An ong "milk-
farmers" or I'll Ose who have been long
engaged in selling milk f,r city con-
sumption, bran is very highly esteemed
and appreciated but the ordinary
dairvman and farmer generally under
value its nutritive qualities.
The average composition of bran in
100. parts is as follows Water, 10;
gluten, 1916; fatty matter, 3; husk,
with starch, 81 ash, rs.
On some farms, long employed in
producing milk for market or in MAX
ing cheese, the soil has become so ex-
hausted of phosphates chat the grass
does not supply sufficient quantity of
bone material for stock kept upon the
premises, and hence mich cows suffer
from what Is known as "bOpe disease"
falling down and being unable to rise.
This disease prevails in certain parts of
New Hampshire, and as a remedy, bone
meat Is fed to the cows to supply this
element lacking in the food. The crass
lands in Cheshire, England, have been
SO long employed in dairy farming that
they require manuring with bones,
from time to time, to keep up their
fertility in yielding grass that is healthy
and has all the elements of nutrition for
stock. Now, bran being suitable for
food as we'll as for direct manure, that
Po ton of the substance which is
adapted for assimilation into the frame
Of the animal becomes useful as an ar
ticle of nutrition, while the remaining
portion loses none of its excellency as a
fertilizing material by having passed
through the alimentary canals o. the
auimal-but is virtually an invaluable,
indirect manure. The ash of the bran
of wheat contains in 100 parts the fol-
lowing:
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Salt as Manure.

Various experiments have been made
by M. Pelligot and others, in Europe,
to test the value of salt as a manure
The following summing up seems to
have been arrived at:
Salt should never be applied other
than in a pulvercus state, and never
employed on impervious, cold and hui
mid soils. The best manner to use it is
to, combine it with other manures, a
dose of 200 weight to the acre being
sufficient. When selected to destroy
insects, it should be applied before sun
rise. In the case of cereals, salt
strengthens the stems and causes the
ears to fill better, and favors the disso-
luton and assimilation of the phos-
pilates and s,licates. It acts vigorously
on the potatoes and can be detected in
their ashes to the extent of one-half of
one per cent.
Asparagus is a veritable glutton in
the presence of salt. A dose of 500
weight per acre acts without fail on
beet, injuring it's value for sugar pur-
poses, but enhancing it for the feeding
of cattle. Cola has as marked predi-
lection for salt as asparagus, and in
Holland, where the culture of peas is
so extensive, salt is something like a ne
cessity. Mixed with hay in the proper
ton of quarter of pound to 100
weight, the fodder is rendered more ap-
petizing; but the best way to feed it to
animals is to allow them to enjoy it in
the form of rock salt. 1t is calculated
that horse appropriates daily one-tenth
of an ounce of salt, an OK one-half that
quantity, and q sheep and pig one-half
that required by an OK.
Where there's a will there's way
and, generally lawsuit.
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Clumhs From Josh Billings.


The only way to hold our own IL to
keep advancing-no one can set still and
do it.
1t duz seem that all mankind luv lies
more than they do truth. How menny
people do you suppose thare IL in the
world who wouldn't rather listen to
fattery they knu waz false than to re-
proof they knu was just?
Wize men laff at most things in this
life-it IL only the phools who cape and
swallo.
Yu kant allwuss tell how mulch a
man is really tickled bi hearing him
laff. Thare ought to be masheen in
vented to meazzure the Joy in him, just
az thare IL to find out how much water
thare IL in milk.
Honesty il the basis ov all that IL
good or even remarkable in emmy man.
The reazon viii everybody luvs
child, and pets a puppy, is bekauze
they are so natral.
Whenever yu see a phellow who IL
forever and amen in a red hot hurry, yu
kan make up yure mind that he haint
got mulch to do, and but little kapacity
to do it.
Good breeding IL nothing more than
the art ov knowing how to wait pashunt-
ly till our turn comes. A little child
wont do this, and little pig kant.
Gossip IL more ketching than the
meazles IL.
The quickest way to take the humil-
ity out of man who IL forever blaming
himself for sumthing IL to agree with
him. This amt what he IL looking for.
Book larnin il all man needs in this
life, provided he spends hiz daze in
closet.
Next to a bad man I am allwus the
most afrade ov a cunning one.
Familiarity kan only be prakticed
with safety amung the well bred-fools
and puppys will run right over yu with
the least bit ov encouragement.
Thoze who never laff seem to kav died
before their time cum.
Every human being haz hiz own pri
vate sorrow, and thoze who whissell are
wizer than thoze who weep over it.
A conceited man IL CRATE fraud, but
he never cheats emmy boldly so much az
he duz himself.
He who don't want what he haint got
haz got all he wants and IL happy,
whether he knows it or not.
which takes in all the moisture that
Gums near it, and let's out none until it
IL squeezed.
A cunning man il seldum wize, and
not allwuzz honest.
The man who never deceives himself
IL the hardest kind ov man for others
to deceive.
If mankind had been satisfied with
the bare necessitys ov life, we should
to-day bs just about az far advanced
in the arts and sciences as Cain and Abel
WIZ.
Double skies are a good thlow with
the dice, but thare IL one better throw
than that--throw them into the fire.
Prudence is a most necessary virtew !;
it amt safe to be HAIRLESS. even with an
intimate friend.
No man has ever lived to be so old,
and so wise, that he couldn't learn sum-
thing from experience.
Thare il a crate menny ginger-pop
people after they have been unkorked
for fu minutes, they git to be dred-
phull fiat.
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Worth's Work.

A writer, in speaking of Worth, the
man dressmaker, says "In his own
work-room he pans his combinations
and arranges his trimmings. The skirts
of dresses are usually decorated in this
wise One of the shop-girls puts on the
skirt in its perfectly plain and unadorn-
ed state, and mounts short step-lad-
der with broad top which is placed in
the centre of the room. NJ. Worth then
proceeds to pin on and arrange the ruff
ties, laces, founces, etc., of which the
trimmings are to be composed, and in
this way makes experiments and tries
new effects and combinations. When
the trimming is completed in accor
dance with his ideas, the young lady
descends from her elevated post ard
the skirt is sent to the sewing rooms to
be finished off,"
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Hives.

What have to say in regard to size
and shape of hives would satisfy but
very few. Whatever form we have we
should have all alike. Most or us are
fiattered with the idea that we have dis
covered new principle in beehive
merely because it is a little different
from what we have seen before, and it
requires considerable practice to con-
vince us of our mistake. We cannot
start with just the right shape, because
of the uncertainty of the statement of
others. When [ wanted a hive to throw
off swarms, store winter provisions and
some little surplus in boxes, found
that about 1000 cubic inches gave the
best results. If hive is wanted only
for increase of stocks, the cone shaped
straw hive seems better than any other
A tall hive-when extremes are avoid d
usually give the best results. The
demand for box-honey has increased
over that for swarms. We want hives
to accommodate us in that aspect. The
tall hive that was best for swarms gave
but little. A hive with large top will
take 10 more boxes than the tall small
one, and the bees will often fill them as
quickly as the smaller number. This
encouraged us to try a still larger sur
face for boxes. This was done by plac-
ing them at the side of the combs. The
depth of our boxes is five and one-half
inches one placed on the other, made
eleven inches, just the height of our
frames. Two courses can be set at the
side of the comb, and enough can be
put on both sides-when the length of
ours-to hold eighty pounds besides
those on the top.
Some bee keepers put several tiers of
boxes on smaller hives. But experience
shows us that those farthest from the
body of the hive are worked 10 very
slowly. There is a great gain in having
every box as near as possible to the
main hive I can not think of another
shape in close connection with the hive.
If the long hive stood on the end, max
ing it tall hive, the same number of
bexes might be used, but they would
have to be piled on each other, to a
greater depth, making it more trouble
to take off boxes from the lower ones,
when only those were full. The main
combs of the hive would often become
heavy, and break loose, and fall to the
bottom. If a piece to support them
were put across, it would divide the
comb so that the queen would keep the
brood in the lower part. The space
above would be filled with honey, and
the boxes on the top would be about the
same as if they were on tier or two of
boxes below them.
AS for size, I never yet saw one SO
easily adapted to the wishes of all. If
the size of swarm requires it smaller,
it is only required to take out combs till
it is diminished to suit. If wanted
larger, combs are to be added. For ex-
tracing, the larger number is required.
If a hive can be devised answering
more wants, would like to see it de-
scribed.-M. Quinby, in Bee Keeper'S
Magazine.
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THROUGH all the ages of study and in,
vestigation which have marked the path
of scientific discovery, one especially al
Turing object has tempted the inquiries
and speculations of philosophers. 1t is
what the wizards and witches of oldep
time, tho iugglers of India, soothsayers
of Arabia, Magi of Egypt, necromancers
of Turkey and the Orient and alchemists
of civilized Europe have sought, but
sought in vain-a vegetable non-poison
GUS Elixir, which, by cleansing the
blood, removing from the system all i'm
purities, strengthening the nerves, the
muscles, and the brain, and vitalizing
every fibre of the system, should bid de-
fiance to the corroding hand of disease.
DIR. Walker, of California, discovered
an herb, the properties of which, if they
do not entirely fulfill all the conditions
above mentioned, have at least proved
themselves efficacious in all of them !;
this herb Doctor Walker has made an in
gredient in his famous Vinegar Bitters,
which can be obtained of any wholesale
druggist throughout the country.
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In an article in one of the popular
science journals of London, DR.. Kim
merich ascribes the effect of beef-tea to
the potash-salts which it contains.
These salts are wholesome element III
all articles of food; but, taken in ex-
cess, they produce an injurious effect
on the organism. Ether, camphor, and
musks are eminently refreshing and in
MIGRATING restoratives, compared to
which beef-tea occupies a subordinate
position. If, however, it be necessary
to preserve an exhausted body from
protracted illness, there is no remedy
in the whole rich storehouse of medi-
cines which will render such assistance
in regenerating the diseased organism
as repeated do es of beef-tea.
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FIRE-FLIES,
lis June, and all the lowland swamps
Are rich with tufted reeds and ferns.

lis June, and all the lowland swsmps
Are rich with tufted reeds and ferns
And hlmy with the vaporous damps
That rise when twilights' crimson burns:
AND as the deepening dusk of night
steals purpling up from vale to height
The Wanton fre-hies show their htful light,
Soft CLEANS on clover-beams they fling,
And glimmer in each shadowy dell,
VI downward with a sudden swing
FAN, as of old n Pleiad fell:
and on the fields bright gems they strew
ana up and down the meadow go,
And through the forest wander TO and fro.
They store no hive nor earthly cell
They sip no honey from the rose;
BY day unseen, unknown they dwell,
Nor aught Of their rare gift disclose;
Yet, when the night upon the swamps,
Calls out the murk and misty damps,
They pierce the shadows with their shining lamps
Now ye, who in life's garish light,
Unseen, unknown, walk 10 and fro,
When death shall bring a dreamless night,
May we not find your lamps aglow?
God works, we know not why or how,
And, one day, lights, close hidden now,
May blaze Ike gems upon an angels brow.
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heritance, derived from the sire or dam,
or from both. If the foal, when drop
ped, has not inherited those character
istics which give value to a horse, no
amount of after-care and attention can
compensate for the lack of organic quail
ity. 1t costs no more time or money to
raise good colt than a poor one, ex-
cepting, perhaps, in the original invest
brood mare and a poor one, the service
of first-class stallion and southland
herein lies the secret of success.-LiUe
To,ts,,o,J
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VECETINE
Purifes the Blood Renovates and Invigorates
the whole Sy5tem. It's Medical Prop
critics are Alternative, Tonic,
Solvent and Diuretic.

VEGETINE is made exclusively Fl ON the juices
of carefully selected banks, roots, and herbs, and
so strongly concentrated, that it will enec:uaIly
eradicate fr the system every faint of Scrofula
SCroulCus Humor, Tumors taLCer, CanCerOus
Humor. Eryspelas Salt Rheum. syphi itlc pis-
e tses, Canker, Faintness at the Stomach. and all
diseases that arise from impure bloOi. Sciatica,
nh4mmatory and Chronic rheumatism, Neural
gia, Govt and Spinal Com plants, can only be eff
feciualIy cured through the blood
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the Skin.
PLs,uIes. Pimp'es, BlOtches, BOils letter, ScalG-
head, and Ringworm, VEGETINE has never failed
tt effect permanent cure
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints,
Dropsy, Female Weakness, LeucorThpa. arising
from internal liberation, and uterine diseases and
general debility, VEGETINE acts directly upon the
causes of these complaints. II invieorates and
strengthens the whole system, acts upon the Sc
cretive organs, sllays Inflammation, cures ulcera-
tion and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspe psia, Habitual CostIveness
Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles. Ner-
vousness. and general prostration of the nervous
system, no medicine has ever given such perfect
satisfaction the VEGETINE. IT purfes the
blood, cleauses all of the organs, and possesses
controlling power over the nervous system.
The remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE
have induced many physicians and spo.hecaries
whom we know TO prescribe and it in their
own families.
In fact, NEGETISE is the best remedy yet dis
covered for the al Diseases and is the only re.
liable BLOOD PURIFIER yet paced before the
public.
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Total

The Nevada Journal, relates this
incident: Miss Bradford has boy
in her school who combines keen per-
cepti9u with ready speech. The other
da-, while snjcavOring to explain the
difference in waterfalls-not the kind
that makes the ladies round-shouldered,
but TIE waterfalls of natu e-she gave
the class to understand that a large
waterfall was a cataract. "Now," said
she. What is a lidie waterfall -
Sc kittyract, blmted ont a tow-headed
yOungster, who sat chewing the corner
Of his primer on the front seat.
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THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
m 9

Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup is the prsscrip-
ton of one of the best female physicians and
nurses in the United States and has been used fsT
thirty years with never falling safety and success
by millions Of mothers and children, from the fec
BILE infant OF week old to the adult 1t corrscta
Acidity Of the stomach relieves wind collie, rsGa-
Iatss the bowels, and gives rest health and comfort
to mother and child. We believe 1t TO be the best
and surest remedy in the world in all Of dys
EMERY and disrrhea In children, whether Il arises
from teething or from any othe- cause Full d.
rections for using will accompany each bottle
None genuine unless the fac-simile OF CURTIS q
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
Ssld by all medicine dealers
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HUDSON, Wis, May :, Is73.


Messrs. G. G. DIN n c.:
Dear SirS-'n testimony Of the great value OF
Mineral Rock Spring Water. Tor those suffering
with disease Of the kid news wO ID state that had
been suticrins for months With diabetes. passing
large quantities Of urine, heavy with sugar. and
tOrmenIei with distressing thirst. gradual JOS
ing flesh aud strength and finally the use Of INV
lover limbs, which became almost devO Of feel.
ing. Ny physicians gave me up aud said that
had but a short time u live. I had lost all hope
of recovery. when was induced to use Mineral
ROCK spring Water, and since then have gTadu-
ally .aiued the use of my iimbs aud also gained
strength and fle h. II has done for me wha med
I, al skill cOuil not do am thank ful for return
ing health. aud my pray Is !hat II may prove to
others EtiiiCtei'with kidney affections as great "A
blessing II has been TO myself.
Yours truly, MRS. JANE SANBERs
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CINCINNArI. June ii,Isa.

c c. OLIS 4 Co.. Waukesha, wis Haviag
used your water from the Nj eTal Rock Spring
Waukesha. VS., for the diabetes ] have TO Nd
commenced using this water my physician re
ported TO me "A 9 specific gravity Of my urine was
a. and at or using It FOR twenty days the specific
gravity Of the urine was TtduC To y, ia owing "A
great improvement, and finding great IeIlef in
not befn compel et to ufirate so freq emily.
had other waters tut give it as my opinion that
the Mineral Rock spring Is preferable Aud / do
earnestly recommend II to all who ara Htli cited
with the dis eas- commonly known As Diabetes.
Respectfully yours ALFRFD WILSON.
Dept Coll. Int Rev. No. West Third street, Gin
ci ma /, Ohio.
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OUR readers should remember that it
costs something to press soap into fancy
shapes and wrap it in bright colored wrappers,
neither of which are of any service. Proctor
& CANDLES Extra Oil Q Soap is neither press
ed nor wrapped, but Is of convenient shape
and size It relies upon its superior quality to
recommend it.
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"A good little Bangor boy refused to
spell cider, because he had signed the
pledge. That excuse hadn't the requi-
site thickness, and the boy wassDlt
his seat to learn his lesson.
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"A marriage between the Grand
Duke Alexis and the Princess Beatrice
is being talked of. Queen Victoria is
an admirable match maker, and if she
succeeds in this she will clearly have
achieved the great ambition of her life.
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THROUGH the length and breadth of
the land the celebrated SILVER TIPPED
Boots and Shoes are sold by the million, for
parents know they last twice as long as those
without Tips. Try them. For sale by all