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non,t Kill the Old Hens

When hens are shedding feathers they often
stop laying and grow fat. Most people consider
fat sign of health. The fattening of moult.
ing hens, however, as with some people, pro-
duces debility rather than health. Many oi
the worst cases of roup are contracted, while
the hens are moulting.
The fo,d of moulting hens, if largely vege-
tablets fat-forming and not equired for grow.
ing feathers. Therefore corn-fed hens get very
lat. They need more nitrogen and phosphate
elements in their food when moulting, which If
not supplied they stop laying, because the
growing feathers have used all, and left no nj.
trogenous matter to form eggs. AT this season.
killing old hens and relying on young pullets is
a great mistake, where people have few hens
and late pullets. Because, if properly fed, the
hens will have their new plumage and lay well
all winter; while the pu!lets unless specially
treated may not commence laying until spring,
when high prices for eggs have fallen onc-half
Again an old hens egg will hatch more Wig
orous chickens than pullct's egg.
John r Jones, Suficld, Conn.,. = breeder OF
prize winning mottled lavas, says:
II find Sheridan's Condition Powder, fed once
daily in the food, very valuable for moultinp
hens. have used it two years for exhibition
birds. It assists in growing new feathers
makes. the combs bright red, and gives rich
gloss to the plumaSe 1t will also make hens
lay and the eggs hatch well. I find when the
other egg-foods are used in quantities to force
egg production the eggs do not hatch"
The above is the experience of many people
in using Sheridan's Powder. II fed to young
pullets now as direct, d. they will begin to lay
before six months oid. Commence at once
using Sheridan's Powder. 1t helps old hens
through moulting. and gets the pullets in lay.
ing trim before the season of high prices; Eggs
will sell very high this fall and winter. There
fore be ready to get all you can.
L s. Johnson & Co., q Custom House ST.. Bos.
ton, Mass. sole makers Of Sheridan's Condition
Powder To make hens lay, will send to any ad.
full Information how to make few hens pay
well; also how TO obtain Sheridan's powder.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Don't Fight the Team.

If horse shows signs of stubbornness
or contrariness, just get mad yourself,
and you can rest assured you are fixed
for the rest of the day as long as you
want to keep it up. Horses, like men,
are generally set in their ways, and when
a horse with only moderate sense gets
into trouble with a man with only mod
crate sense the two generally have a
monkey and parrot time" from morning
till night. Well bred horses are seldom
stubborn and unruly, and in this respect
there is striking analogy between
horses and men. Horses docile, obe
dient and tractable in the hands of one
man are vicious and unruly in the hands
of another. Their reason is, the one knows
how to manage them, the other does not.
Bad dispositions are generally the result
of bad handling. a few slaps and Jerks,
accompanied by little sharp talk or a
few fierce yells, get the most gentle horse
clear beside himself and ready to worry
and fret the remainder of the day. The
more quiet and steady you keep your
horses the better it Will be for them,
yourself and all concerned.-NatioNaL
Stockman.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Pretty BedSpreadS.

Those of us who have as heirlooms old
heavy homemade linen sheets, can trans
form them into handsome counterpanes,
:ays writer in the Prairie Farmer, by
the following method: Divide them into
squares or parallelograms, by drawing
out the threads, and working the open
spaces by merely twisting three or four
threads over as many others with the
wash 6locelle, or heavy red or blue
working cotton. In each square or OBJ
long space, with one or two colors Of the
same, work little quaint designs. These
may he irregular geometrieal patterns,
or such figures as fancy may suggest. 1t
can be divided into squares by briar or
feather stitching, if preferred to the
open work. Finish the edge with coarse
linen lace. Pillow-sham to match are
easily made.
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"The defects

communication. "The defects OF
the public roads then in existence oper.
ated most prejudicially to the farmers
who sent their produce to market. II
limited the production and prevented
the replacing, by manure, of the elements
of fertility which was distracted. The
turnpike act went into effect about 1850
or 1i65, but it was not until we'll into
the present century that good roads be-
came common enough to allow English
and Scotch agriculture to take the high
stand the middle of this century found
it. "A prize essay on the fifty years,
published in 1910, in the Farmers Mtqa-
zine, brings this out most strikingly,
how the Improvements in roads led to
progress in agriculture.
"Most countries of Continental Eu-
rope have built roads for military pur-
poses, which became great factors ip the
development and progress of the coun-
tries in times of peace. Napoleon had
the first wagon road built across the Alps,
that cannon and armies m ght move the
easier. Now that four tunnels pierce
the Alps for railroads. for peaceful
traffic, the country finds greater need
than ever for good local roads.
"Military roads have been built by
every civil ed nation on earth, l think.
and in the end the roads proved of mole
importance to the arts of peace than they
did even to war. The great National
Road built by our general government
from Baltimore westward across the
mountains to Wheeling, thence to Gin
cinnati and St. Louis, was a great aid in
building up the West, and was for
long time great route of travel and in
land traffic. So long as western out
posts were disconnected with each other
and with the outer world by roads, they
could not grow"
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Cutting Grass in the r hin.

Nearly all writers upon agricultural
topics take occasion to warn their readers
to avoid cutting grass or clover when it
is raining. In the writer's practice he
has found this advice to be of little value.
In locality where it has raincd every
afternoon for month past, and all dur
ing the hay season it is necessary to cut
the grass while it IS raining and get it
dried while the sun shines. This is the
actual philosophy of the common adage,
make hay while the sun shines. Fresh
cut herbage takes no hurt from the rain;
it is the dry hay which is in .ured. Green
grass is kept alive and fresh by the rain
if 1t IS not too long continued. We have
cut grass and clover right along through
three whole days drizzle, and one fine
day following has given time to cure and
house the whole, when the night follow
ing the rain fell again IN torrents. The
common advice referred 10 is conse-
quently not well founded, and it is better
to get the grass down when and how
one can, and when the sun shines cure
and make the hay and get it safe under
cover. Such an experience as this proved
Che value of set of hay caps, hundred
of (which, at cost of $2j, has protected
25 tons of hay, and Will do the same for
many years.-Nelo York. Times.
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Training Tomatoes.

II. P. johnson, J.eavenworth, Kan,
has found the following method of train
ing tomatoes highly successful in small
garden, producing great quantities of
very early and fine fruit; after the plant
has become firmly established and has
begun to throw out small shoots, he
writes US, the training should com
mence. Stakes five feet in length, and
of the size of stout bean poles, should
be driven one foot in the ground, few
inches from the plant. Then remove all
the small shoots that start from the main
stalk, being especially careful to leave but
one shoot at the top of the plant. The
plant is then to be secured to the stake
with any kind of coarse twine. The
shoots should be piuchcd in, and the stem
tied at intervals of foot, un:illt reaches
the height of the stake, when it should
be topped. On vines treated in this
way none of the early fruit will be lost
by rot, and in a small garden much
space will be saved, as the plants may
be set as close as three feet apart each
way it also improves the appearance of
the garden, facilitates picking and
makes the passage between the vines
very easy.-Amertcan Agriculturist.
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Hints About Kitchen Economy.

When the kitchen dish cloth begins to
"smell like dish rag" throw it in a
saucepan or tin bucket OF hot water, put
a good lump of soda in with it, and set it
on the stove to take good boil. 1t will
be sweet and clean when it comes out.
Certain of the fraudulent say that leav-
ing milk pans open until the milk gets
cold will remove the taste of onion from
milk. 1t does nothing of the sort. The
only thing that removes the taste is to
keep onions or garlic away from the
cows. Once in milk, it is there to stay.
Another fraud is the statement that
washing rancid butter IN buttermilk will
make it sweet again 1t doesn't help it
one particle! Rancid butter has under
gone certain chemical changes and can :
not be restored to its normal state. There
is German method of preparing
"strong" butter so that it can be used in
cooking, but once rancid. or even in the
edge thereof, it is past table use.
Still another imposition is the story
that when eggs are '':aat" and won't beat
up light, a pinch of soda will make them
beat. 1t doesn't do 1t. A stale egg can.
not be restored any more than sour milk
san be made new or rancid butter fresh.
Good Housekeeping.
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Lord BeresfOrd's Empty Threat.

The ancient town of Lewes, Del, has
not been without some historical occur
reuces, nor altogether sighted by people Of
renown. In 1912 Lord Beresford, of the
British Navy, lnid off Lewes in his flag
ship Belvcdere, Beresford demanded
forty bullocks, or he would level the
town. He had to fire, as the delnsnd was
not aceded to. With the exception of
sending solid shot through a building
then standing on the site of the Iirdcn
house and knocking a chimney from
another house, no damage was done.
His bad gunnery drew from the local
poet the couplet:
1.-The Commodore and all his men
Crippled dog and killed hen."
A battery of smooth bore thirty pouud-
ers, brought from Wilmington to protect
Lewes against Beresford's fleet, were
never fired for want of ammunition.
Nearly eaten with rust, the barrels, with
mu zles aiming seaward, now lie on tho
ground in front OF the Virdcn house,
and arc a prolific source of questions for
every newcomer. .-Bultimore Sua.
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THE Commodore and all his men
Crippled dog and killed hen."
The Death OF Cleopatra.

DR.. Viaud Grand -Marias, of Nantes,
France, has been holding an inquest cn
the sudden death of Cleopatra. lie re.
jects the theory that her death was
caused by the bite of aviper. She was
accustomed to test the effects of various
poisons on her slaves, in order to ascer-
tain which ca .sed the easiest death.
Having shown that no viper was found
in the room of the fair suicide, that he.
body pre- entcd no traces of bites, and
that her two maid servants were found
dead or dying at the foot of her bed, lie
comes to the conclusion that her death
was caused by carbopic acid.
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The Best Test OF Success Is Success.

Tested aid prov d by over twenty-five ye1rs'
use in all pa is Of the world, ALLCocK's PoR-
Gus PLAsTERs have the Endorsement of the
highest medical and chemical au horities, and
millions of grateful patients who have been
cured of distressing ailments voluntarily tes-
tify to their merits.
ALLcoCK's Porous. PLAsTERs are purely
vegetable. They are mild bu. effective sure
and quick in their action, and absolutely
harmless.
Beware Of limitations, and do not be deceived
by Misrepresentation.
Ask for ALLcoCKs, and let no explanation
atfnfe
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The Value of Good Roads.

The following extract is taken from q
paper read before the Connecticut State
Agricultural Society by Professor w. II.
Brewer on "The Carrying of Farm Pro-
ducts" and published in the annual re-
port of the State Board. "iuod roads
are one of the fir essentials for high
civilization. 1t has been so in all ages,
il is so now. There can be no great ma
tion rnless it has means of intercourse
between its parts, and the very fact that
railroads now offer easy means Of travel
and transportation for great distances
gives new importance to the local high
ways that lie between the farm and the
railway, or the fam and the town.
s'The Romans built great roads as they
extended their empire and their domin
ion. They were a military necessity, but
they had their other uses and were .
great factor in civilizing the peoples they
conquered. And when Rome. fell the
roads Eecame poorer, and this was one o:
the causes as we'll as one of the effects
of the dark ages which followed. Mac-
aulay and other historians have told US
how bad the roads were in Great Britain
. in the last and in previous centuries.
How that farm products had to be car
ried on the backs of pack horses, except
cattle which might be driven on foot, and
how slow travel was generally. When
the Highland Agricultural Society came
Into existence in liS4, it found the
great obstacle to impro ement on farms
10 be the want Of means Of internal
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"Yes, had very narrow escape" said a
prominent citizen to friend. II was con-
fined to my bed for year and my friends gave
me up for consumptive's grave, until began
using Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs, and here I am, sound and hearty"
You will find it for sale by all druggists.
Price SOC and 81. Sample Bottle Free.
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A broad land is this in which we live, dotted
80 thickly tn thrifty cities, towns and vii
lages! Amid them all. with ver-increasing
popularity and helpfulness, is DR.; Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery giving hope and
Wherever there is humanity there is suffer-
ing; wherever there is suffering there is the
best field for this greatest American Remedy.
Consumption (which is lung.scrofula), yields
sease; Chronic Nasal Ca arrh yields to IT.;
Kidney and Liver die ,ses yield to it! If you
W mt the best known remedy for all diseases
of,the blood, ask for DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, and take no other.
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SAYS Sam Jones: "Thank God it is no
crime to be ugly. When God wants q
good woman he makes her as symnctri-
cal as an angel, but when he wants a
good man he makes him as ugly as q mud
fence. never saw pretty man yet who
was worth killing"
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Old Crusty (who desires slight vari-
alton in the breakfast bill Of fare, to his
b arding house keeper)-'It seems to
nc, madame, that you arc endeavoring
20 make this table d'oat meal. !.-Lite.
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The Longest Word in the Dictionary

The yacht Coronet met but a single vessel
during it's trip, occupying 160 days, from New
York to San Diego, Cal.
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A Narrow Escape.

AGlasgow firm has finished brass wire for
the Glasgow exhibition .sixty-fve miles long
and a copper wire Ill miles long.
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Pure, Potent, Powerful! Pail People
Praise, Progressive People Purchas.! Positive
" Pierce's Plea ant Purgative Pellets, Proper
ly Partaken, Preserve Physical Powers, Pr =
duce Permanent Physical Perfect.o,. Pur-
chase, Prove!
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The electric arc lights in the Untitled States
now number nearly 10000 and the incandes-
cents number over 1,L00IO0.
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Is incompetent to communicate the inexpress-
ible satisfaction and incomprehensible CO ise-
quences resulting from judicious admins
tration of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, a
preparation designed especially for the speedy
relief and permanent cure of all enale
Weaknesses, Nervousness, and diseases pecu-
liarto the fem lie sex. The only remedy for
woman's peculiar ills, sold by druggists under
a positive guarantee to give satisfaction. See
guarantee on wrapper of b,ttle. This guaran-
tee has been faithfully carried out for many
years by the proprietors.
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Ensilage Endorsed.

Some time ago the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture appointed committee to
investigate ensilage, and report the re-
suits of such invest cation. The con-
clusions reached by the committee were
as follows:
/. That the time has arrived when the
more progressive and economic methods
of conducting the dairy and beef produc-
ing interests should command the
thoughtful consideration of Western
farmers.
2. That the method of preserving
green crops by means of silos, now COM
mon in the older States, is generally
commended as practical and profitable
by those having the largest experience in
tie business.
:. That ensi!age, if intelligently pre-
pared, is good, wholesome article Of
food for cattle, and when fed as it should
be, in connection with dry feed, will
materially increase the product and
profit of the dairy, make the PRODUCTION
OF beef more remunerative, improve the
condition of hogs, and enable the farmer
and stock grower to realize pros not
promised by the methods now common
in the West.
4. That corn is the most profitable
crop for ensilage, and for this purpose
the seed should be drilled at from eight
to ten inches, in rows three and half
feet apart. Good cultivation IS required,
and the crop should be cut Just before or
about the time the ears begin to glaze.
~. i \
cut as above indicated will average not
less than twenty tons of ensilage per
acre; that in feeding value, three tons
of corn ensilage will equal one ton Of
tame hay, or that one acre of corn, when
made into ensilage, will equal about
seven of hay; that the feeding capacity
of given amount of land can be at least
doubled by the method proposed, and
that without adding materially, if at all,
to the cost per head of the animals fed.
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1.-THE Gods give no great good without labor"
is an old proVerb, and true one; the hardest
labor is not always that which is best paid
however. To those in search of light, pleasant
and profitable employment, we say write to b.
T. Johnson & Co. Richmond. va.
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1t seems that the discovery of sure cure for
badness, claimed to have been made by II: A.
Fechter, of New Haven, Conn.,, is genuine.
Some of the results it has accomplished are
circular describing it,which he distributes free
to all who apply for it.
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HEADACHE.-The Stomach Is disorder.
ed. Cleanse and settle it with Dr.
Schenck's Mandrake Pills.
HEARTBURN.-Food fermenting, moi
digesting. Correct the Stomach by
using Dr.Schenck's Mandrake Pills.
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Mandrake Pills.
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JAUNDlCE.-Blood poisoned by bile.
Correct the Liver by using DR..
Schenck's Mandrake Pills.
LOSS Of APPETlTE.-The Stomach
is failing. First cleanse it; then
tone with DR.. Schencks Seaweed
Tonic.
NAUSEA.-Reaction of bile. Correct
Stomach and Liver with DR..
Schenck's Mandrake Pills.
PALPlTATI0N-Dyspeptic condition.
Cure by using DR.. Schenck's Man
drake Pills as directed.
ToRPIDITY.-1naction of Liver. Start
it up with DR.. schenck's Mandrake
Pills.
DR.. Schencks new work on the Lungs,
Stomach and Liver sent free to any address.
Address DR.. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
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Seaweed is now made into paper which can
not be torn, and which takes the place Of win
6nu, u,aco
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Mlsys. P,1etey {, Gamble:
The sample of Ivory Soap received from is excellent"
Laundry Soap of than average cleansing The
also very we'll made greasy fats being left in it, while the
aka is thoroughly combined that will nue the most
delicate fabrics Very respectfully yours -.
H. B. CORNWALL Professor Of Chemistry.
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A Large Estate.

California expects q wine crop of 100000
gallons this year, an increase Of 100000 over
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A WORD OF WARNING,

A WORD OF WARNING
There many white each represented be Just good the
like all comtee lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
If the genuine Ask for "voy" Soap and insist upon getting it,
proctr& &Gamble
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-15
S
90 West.

No portion Of the United States 10
day offers as many opportunities for
making money as can be found at
Great Falls, Mont, and on the reser
walton just opened, in business,
mining. stock raising or farming
Rates, maps and particulars will be
furnished by c. H. Warren, Gen.
Pass. Agent, St. P. Nj. & M. Ry, ST.
Paul, MINI.
For sick headache, Hibbards'
Rheumatic Syrup is miraculous in its
cures, regulating to healthy con.
dition the stomach and digestive
organs.
Two articles are promised in
"The Popular Science Monthly" fol
July that are especially worthy Of
attention. They are fully illustrated
paper on "Safety in House Drainage
by William E. Hoyt, S. B., in which
the belief that plumbing fixtures in
our houses are inevitable sources OF
danger is controverted, and ways are
shown for making them wholly safe
and the concluding of the remarkable
series on "Darwinism and the Christ.
ian Faith"
For all diseases arising from
impure blood, Hibbard's Rheumatic
Syrup is invaluable, as it is sworn
enemy to all poisons in the blood
The Fenton Normal School, after
many ups and downs, principally
downs, has finally laid down for good
and all.
The Kalamazoo paper mill has
been putting in new boilers and ma.
chinery and making other improve
ments, rendering it one of the best
mills in the west.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-06-15
DO Flying Fish Fly?

1t has long been a question with
scientists whether flying fish actually fly,
or are only carried forward through the
air by the impulse which they gave to
their bodies while still in the water. Pro-
fessor Mobins expresses an authoritative
opinion, and claims that they are totally
unable to fly, for the reason that the
muscles which move the pectoral fins are
not sufficiently large to bear the weight
of their bodies in the air. In birds the
average weight of the muscles which are
concerned in the movement of the wings
is one-sixth that of the entire body; in
bats one-thirteenth, while in the flying
fish it is only one-thirty-fifth. He af-
firms, therefore, that the impulse to the
propulsion of the fish in the air is deliv-
cred while they are still in the water
Globe Democrat.