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found on sandy soil the only method
practicable was rain. One point OF impor-
tance could not be ascertained at that
time, viz: the effect on the land ofa heavy
body of falling water. Fortunately the
result exceeded expectations.
Water issuing from large nczzle (1%)
under heavy pressure, spreads as it ascends
and breaks in the air, falling as a heavy
shower, covering mile, and instead of
washing or cOmpacting the soil in the
finest tilth, makes it loose and leaves it
mellow. The finest raking could not equal
it. My plant consists of a boiler, duplex
pump steam cylinders ten inches, water
cylinder six inches, stroke twelve inches,
boiler twenty-five horse power, main pipe
1,20O feet long, half five inches, balance
four inches, branch three inches, spaced
400 feet, sixteen hydrants 200 feet apart.
Two sets of hose two and One-half inches,
two nOzzles two and one-half and two
inches. Each nozzle has two tips, one
seven-eights of an inch, the other one and
three-eight inches, latter generally used.
When the stream is thrown against a
heavy wind, the small tip is used to get
increased velocity. very important
part OF the machinery is the governor,
which can be set instantly at any pres
sure desired, having perfect control over
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to draw from, and distributing pipes
erywhere.-Selected.
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be equal to that OF
a column of water
forty feet high in or
der to Overco m e
friction caused by
flowing through the
pipes. If. the point
of discharges high
er the pressure, or
head as it is called,
must be increased
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IRRIGATION,
irrigation, both
for TIL e groves
and gardens. G
This alone can
give sure success
to the Florida
fa rmer. Th ere
must be arte-
sian wells, VIII ere
t here are no
lakes or rivers
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pired to a tri-
cycle. The
third w h eel
was drainage
T h e three
poi n t S Of
bearing kept
the car from
sinking deep
in the mud,
yetit was cas-
lily u p s e t
when it ran
into a dry
ditch, SO at
last a fourth
wheel was put
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A Snnnish Rnll Fight.

We arrived at Madrid on time for a
bull-fght, writes Mrs. Sherwood in the
New York World. The first sight of the
crowded circus, the grand Coliseum,
the thousands of spectators. the music,
the flags, is all very inspiring. The
entrance of two cavaliers on horseback
with their hats and collars la Velasquez
Is extremely pretty. They ride round
the ring, and crying to the Governor,
they demand of him the key to the cell
where the bull IL kept. This is sent
down by parsonage in gaudy attire.
Then the trumpets are sounded, and
the picadoges, matadorcs and torrcadors
enter, two and two, in their beautiful
dresscs-Onc Of the most picturesque
groups possible. Then come the mules,
gayly caprisoncd, who are to drag out
the bulls and dead horses. The plea
dorcs, on their sorry stccds, not unlike
}osinantc, are then placed at intervals
along the sides, while the men adj
vance with morcturi tc salutant air
and bow to the Governor. IL is all very
gladiatorial, very pretty, quite touching.
Then the trumpets sound and the gentle
man with the key advances to the cell
from which have been issuing ominous
groans and bellowings. The door is
opened; the men jump over the wall.
The bull enters.
A magnificent creature, fresh from
| Andalusian pastures, and his surprise as
he stopped and looked around was most
innocent and touching, and babylikc.
! Ny heart was for him from the first.
Then the matadorcs began to frighten
and euragc him by throwing their red
shawls at him and putting arrows in his
| back. Then the cruel sport of sending
| the picadorcs at him. He disemboweled
the poor horses; we saw three left dead
on the sand. Finally the Grand Tor
rcador arrived, and we saw him really
perform some acts of desperate courage
with the crazy, cnrgeG animal, whom
he kills with his sword. BY this time
we were too sick and faint to move, but
the populacc was in raptures, ladies
threw their handkcrchicfs to the hand
some torreador, who wrapped himself in
his cloak and smoked cigarette. Then
the mules came in and dragged out the
dead horses and the poor dead bull.
Then the doors opened agaiR, and n
bull so beautiful that he might be he
who carried off Europa-a use-colored
bull, perfectly full of anger and fight
was led into the arena. lie was destined
TO be killed by Frascuelo, the darling OF
Madrid, the prize bull-iighter, the man
who makes 500, 900 year. We did not
stay to see this; we were dragged out,
almost rs ANONYMOUSLY az the poor dead
horses and bull, and some of us have
been i'll ever since. But if you come ia
Spain to see the people, the institutions,
the local color, you must see a bull
ilght--a horrible, brutal, cowardly bust
ness; wrctched degradation of hu
manty, but throwing light on Tho
poverty, the cruelty and the lack o.
civilization Of a pcooplc who SHOULD
stand Mt the head Of Europea 6 civilia0-
ton, but who stand at the very loot of it
so far rs the lower CLASSES are concerned
am very glad / shall never sec an
| q, her
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EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.

For scaly legs nothing is so certain {,
cure as kerosene, but it should be usec
very carefully and sparingly, as i
bleaches the skin and destroys thu
natural color.
One of the largest horse breeders il
the country is now using ensilage, ,anc
some farmers report that they have
wintered their pigs on it with very littl'
grain in addition.
Joseph Huston advises that at the birth
of pigs the mother should be given meG
of some kind, such Us cracklings ol
bacon-this as preventive against hel
devouring her pigs.
If the hen lays one egg a week she will
pay all expenses of keep. Every egs
over is profit. The greater the numbe,
of eggs secured the lower the cost o,
each egg proportionately.
Farmers who have never trained them,
selves to be methodical, exact and intel
ligent in their ways of doing farm work
might as well give up the dairy business
first as last, or adopt method.
Last year when the price Of potatoei
was very low Dundee farmer put lo'
Of them among chaif at the bottom of I
silo. When it was opened the other day
they were as fresh MS when they wer,
dug.
Prices for choice mutton, especially foi
well fattcd spring lambs, have beer
quite good during the past year, and
the prospect Of an increased consumptive
demand augurs well for the future OF the
skilfully managed flock.
What is the best breed, is question
that cannot be settled. II is a question
of soil, habits, tastes, markets and Other
circumstances, the question to be settled
by each individual for himself, and moi
for his neighbor or the public.
Corn is still king. Tests Of n number
Of new FORAGE plants last season at the
Michigan Agricultural College, led Pro.
fessor johnson to the belief that, com.
pared with Indian corn they are Of little
value, and he advises farmers to stick to
that cheap and inexpensive though lux.
uriant native of our country.
"Let any dairyman who finds it neces
sary to keep several skimmings of cream,
to collect enough for n churniug, sub.
merge it until a sufficient quantity is oh
tanned, then ripen it all at once, and my
word for It hc will find a safe, practica
and profitable solution OF the oxidation
eration, stirring bug-bear," says join
Boyd, in Country Gentleman.
Among insects that are the farmer,
friends and DO great good in killing in
sect pests, Professor A. j. Cook mention,
the yellow jackets, the large white faced
wasps and the solitary mud-wasps (usu
ally black, or black and brown, or blue
black or blue); the ground-beetles,
which are usually black, with long legs
and destroy hosts of out-worms, whit,
grubs, ETC., and the little yellow, rounde,
lady-bird beetles, which feed upon plan
lice and other insects.
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CELERY IN DEDf.

I'ne ordinary distances at which cclerl
is planted is in rows from three TO thre,
and "A half feet apart, with at least three
plants to the foot in the rows. At thes,
distances celery large enough for all prac
teal purposes can be raised, provided th'
soil is sufficiently rich, and proper atten
ton is given in the cultivation and earth
ing-up. As will readily be seen, row
Of twenty-five feet will give as many
stalks as will be required for an ordinary
family. But there are cases where thu
land for even this quantity cannot wei
be spared. or where the celery is not $,
much wanted for the table as for soups
stcws, and the like, where size Of stalk
is no object. In this case we have sue
ccedod well in growing part Of the croi
in beds. For example, piece of lanc
selected, say, 3x20, can easily he made tt
grow $50 celery plants Of quite sufficient
size for the purposes mentioned, and, in
deed, that will also do for the table, at 4
pinch.
First, the soil may as well sc taken on
three or four inches deep and LAID to tht
side two feet six inches wide. Ms vii
afterward be useful in furnishing sos fo
partial earthing up. Except in very riS
soil, good coating Of manure should b,
spaded into this trench, and then the beC
is ready for the plants. The planting vii
be time enough in July. Three rows ma,
he planted in this bed one foot apart, anC
the plants set four inches from each other
All that is necessary during the summe
is to keep the weeds down, and the sol
occasionally stirred.
AS it is supposed that this crop !
mainly for fall and winter use, it is no
necessary to do anything until the end o
September or October, and then only suf
ficicnt to keep the stalks well together, !
being well known that for late keeping
celery is better not to be thoroughly
bleached when put away. As part o
the crop may be wanted for first use
there is nothing to prevent one end of tn
bed from being carthed up and got read
for use first, selecting as many as are likel
to be wanted. OF course, where grea
quantity is grown, where land is 10 oil
ject, this method is not likely to be muc
followed. But among such as have onl
little land, and yet want to make the mos
of it, we commend the foregoing to thei
consideration. II will be seen that Ian
for this purpose is not wanted until som
OF the carly crops are ready to clear OIL
Prairie Farmer.
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THE soNo OF THE WIND
Who hath a. cvc TO find rc'
who hath a chain To bind mes

Who hath ~ cvc to find nc'
Who hath a chain TO bind mes
lfy haunts are ear;h's fair forests. neids and
sens
break the sunlight into dancing flakes
And BLUR the pictured dreams os sleeping
lakes
Hither and thither going where please.
Men see not. but thcy hear me,
They love me, yet they fear M.
All nature brcatEe5 and moves at my com.
mand.
Sometime daily with mGidel's t.es'es,
Or bear faint odcrs from flr w,ldorues.,es,
Then strcw with wrecks the desoGtsd land
Well may the seaman tremble
When I with smiles q .samble!
For nc'cr a spirit had such changing moods
From waiting hoaycaward the white
winged ships
Under propi,ious skies, ! seize my whips
And lash tho tc.upc,;s froH their sOhtudes
VINO hath an eye 90 find me'
Who hath a chain to bind me.
The vulTan; roamcT OF the homeless sky?
Before the hoary mountains were, lived
For ages mumuriug through their pine
have g'icvel
That alone Of all thiag, ne'cr shall die.
-. 4. Ritcr, J.;, ia Bsitord's MdJc=iEc
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oNcHAEp STARVATION.

From the orchards of single small
neighbOrhoOd the waste fruit ground for
cider yields from 200 to 800 bushels of
apple seed to the nursery trade yearly.
In good year for fruit the crop of seed
in apples and stone fruits equals or ex-
cceds the average crop of wheat in the
same locality. And then the LEAKAGE,
year by year carried away by the winds
of autumn, removes large amount OF
choice and necessary minerals extracted
from the soil by the roots. Added to
this is much of the same matter with
drawn from the soil and deposited per-
manently in the wood growth.
Most of the complaint of the un-
proftableness of orcharding comes from
ignoring the demands of the crop upon
the soil, and of the soil, thus weakened,
upon the orchardist. An underfed or
chard is apt to prove rs improbable rs
an underfed animal. The fruit is scanty
in quantity, size and quality, and such
fruit is getting less and less profitable
every year. According to my experience
orchards must receive as good culture
and as much manure as a grain field
and when they get it will pay as vel
rs, or rather better than, most Other
crops. K Orchd,u and Garden.
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ABOUT crrrINa AspAnAars.

A cultivator of this delicious vegetable
says that it is bad practice in cutting
asparagus to leave the small shoots that are
not large enough for use. The better way
is to cut all off clean, until the middle OF
June. Then all cutting should cease,
and the plants be allowed to make their
summer growth. The old practice of
planting the roots deeply below the sur
face, and cutting the shoots rs soon as
they pushed through the ground, with
barely green tip, is exploded. Green
and not bleached is the asparagus for
davor. All weeds should be KEEP: down
and tho soil stirred enough to be at all
times loose and friable on the surface.
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eat freelv Of this mixture overv tlav.

eat freely Of this mixture every day. TIC
be very particular about the food it would
be an improvement upon this plan to mis-
the ground shells and bones with corr.
meal, and cook the mess before the fire
Add little linsced meal, and feed the
chicks with it every morning. Such
diet as this supplies the chickens not sim
ply with fat, but with the elements neces
sary for the growth Of feathers, bone and
muscle. If they are not allowed to roam
about in woods and fields they should
have chopped-up fresh vegetables
Usually the tops of vegetables that art
thrown away before using on the table
will do for this. Such diet, think,
will answer all purposes, and give the
young chickens good start in life, which
is necessary for their future growth
Washington star.
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Cure for COrns.

One Of the deadlics. enemies Of the
chiropodist is a short and simple recipe
which soon brings rolIoi and immunity
from the exasperating agony which is TOO
sadly familiar. Take equal parts OF car
bolic acid and ciycerirc and paint the
corn every night with camel's hair
brush, first bathing and carefully drying
the feet. This treatment,if patiently con
tinued, is a certain remedy. 1t also gives
great relief from soreness caused by ex-
cessive walking If the mixture is applied
TO the solcs Of the iect. Commeyc;cl AZ.
gertissr.
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thunderi1g rcverbations everything grew
black and dim.
Attracted by the pistol-shot, they
found us there half an hour later. still
locked in a close embrace. My uniform
was spa;tered with the Arabs blood.
Messengers were sent to SuakiD for
streschcrs, and while waiting the body
OF my desperate foe was buried
where he lay in the trench, and
beside him was laid my horse, whose
neck had been broken in the fall.
We marched mournfully back to Suakin,
and the next day poor Fraser was laid to
rest in the English cemetery on the shores
of the Red Sea. I've been in many skir-
msh with the Arabs since, but that night
in the trenches outside Suakin was tho
closest call ever had, and as a living re-
membrance I have kept that great two
edged sword which split Tom Fraser
nearly in half before my very eyes,
ChicagO Times
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS or INTEREST RELATIVE
20 FARM AND GARDEN.
errrF NECK IN A COLT.

Any injury to the muscles OF the neck
may cause stiffness; an injury to the
spinal cord, which passes through the
vertcbra Of the neck, will have the same
effect. BY throwing colt for an opera
ton by means OF rope around the neck,
such injury as would produce this stiff
ness can scarcely be avoided. To throw
a colt safely proceed as follows: Put
strong straps or noosed ropes around the
pasterns, gradually draw these together,
and push the colt over on thick bed of
straw; then tie the feet fast and proceed
with the opcration.-Neo York Times.
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TREATMENT OF YOUNG CHICKENS.

The young chickens should not be
stinted in their diet until after the downy
coverings have gone, and a good coat of
feathers has appeared. The moulting sea-
son is another critical time in their lives,
and if they are not generously supplied
with good wholesome food they are liable
to sickcn and die from little exposure or
change in the weather. The strong it's
sues OF the body are now being formed,
and they should be literally supplied
with cgg-shells, oystcr-shells, or bones.
Their craving for such food will manifest
Itself at once. The egg-shells should be
dried before the fire, and then ground as
finely as cora-meal. The oysterand clam
shells should be pounded and crushed in
the same way. The bones should be burnt
and crushed as far as possible, and the
whole mixed up together, II distributed
around the yard whore the chickens have
been accustomed to find food tleY will
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The Hamblc German Soldier.

We saw recently a little squad david
ling along in their uniforms through the
heat, the most ambitionlesS, hot, weary or
lazy souls, dragging one foot after the
other Us If cannon ball were attached TO
each, writes Berlin correspondent.
Poor fellows, - we thought, chow plainly
every line about them tells the oppression
and misery of the whole brutal system "
When all NJ once, to our amazcment, they
stiifened up like ramrods, flung one leg
out in front at an angle of forty five de-
grecs with force enough to kick down II
rampant, and then brought the heel of
the irouclad member down upon the
pavement like blacksmith's hammer,
the sparks flying in all directions. We
looked on in amGzement, wondering what
had happened TO them, when in the dis
tance appeared diminutiye corporal,
the occasion Of the whole excitement.
The same awe OF their supcrors runs
through the entire German army. A com
mon soldier having his boots blacked
will instantly stand aside, before the
operation is completed, us corporal
steps up. He in turn gives place TO IN
officer, and in few minutes three OF
these accommodating individuals are
standing in row, bolt upright, with
their trousers turned up, and each one
with boot backed. When the fourth
has been served he passes along with
dignity, and each of the other three takes
his turn in regular order until the com,
mon soldier is finally reached.
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REMOVING STTN1ps.

II Is no easy matter to remove green
stumps from newly cleared field, and to
do so mt once for any considerable mum
ber will be found to cost more than the
use of the land they occupy will be
worth, until they have decaycd so that
their removal by fire or otherwise will be
comparatively easy. StumpS that have
partly decayel roots can often be twisted
out out by placing the largest end of n
long and stout piece of timber against
the side Of the stump and chainng it
fast, then with a team mt the other end of
the lever pulling in the direction of a
circle around it. A method that has
been recommended is to bore Il hole rs
deep as you can down to the centre of the
stump in the fall, and put in two ounces
of saltpctre and plug it up. In the
spring remove the plug and fill with kero-
sene oil, aud afterward ignite it. This,
it is said, will cause the stump TO smoul-
der away entirely. The experiment is
one that can he easily tried. There is no
doubt that saturating seasoned stump
with oil by boring into it or otherwise
will greatly facilitate its burning. As u
general thing it will be found best to
leave green stumps to season and then
destroy them as fas. as you can with fire.
Stumps are cXpeditiously blown out with
dynamite, but few farmers care TO handle
this explosive. When expense is no OBJ
ject patent stump pullcrs may be resorted
to.-Neo York Sun.
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A Humorous TiAA'

A good-natured plant - !,
covered, one which has 'h5 J,
US Punch is supposed T., to l'''' I.
make people laugh. Inc ''i
resembling a French bean =,
shape, and have a sweet ",
somewhat like opium aDa
odor. Small doses ol ~
seeds give rise to pecullail. =.
The person laughs bo.'sil b.'i'
dances and cuts up all EinI "A
eapers. The excitemen' q. a
an hour, when the suOje''
deep sleep of an hour ~,
awakens utterly uncons''O1S. b.
ridiculous behavior. --Le'''"
al.
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crLTIvATE FRUIT TREES.

All fruit trees succeed best with culti-
vation, but there is more than one way
Of cultivation. ] have planted row of
ounces along an open ditch one-fourth
mile long, where the plow and cultivator
cannot 90. / first laid down around each
tree = mulch of potato vines, then having
many loads of stones that were picked
from the meadows and berry fields, and
no other use for them, | made stone
pile over the mulch, close about the trees
and three feet distant. These stones are
equal to cultivation rs far as they 90.
The soil under a stone pile, If always
loose and moist and free from grass OF
weeds, what better cultivation is ncedcdi
As the trees grow larger the limits of the
stone pile should he extended. con.
slider this even better that ordinary cult.
walton, for the roots Of the ounce feed
near the surface, and are injured by cul.
tivaton and severe winters if unprotected
10y such mulch Gyeoa's Fruit Gr0rT
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Improved Redskins

IIajor Baldwin, the lndl, =
the Piegan Agency, was a'A1.
dition, prospects ar' csnen. F71
the noble red men under hs or
the Major: "The Picgan lltisl
good condition; they h.n
prospects and are making iag
gress. They have quit raiSs
Not a depreciation claim ia
property has been filed aelia'
an act committed within la' \
years, although numerous 81
pending for robbcrieS prior 70 is
The Piegans have wholly ao4aa'
medicine lodge, or annual gan
of the worst institutions O.! lllH
the cause of much crime. ~
built sixty miles Of fence %, POI
homes and farms, none Of wac
two years ago. They hauled ~
freight from Port Benton l&I
were paid in cash for dolng@ 30
more honest, industrious and q
than they ever were We
meat (from twenty TO tV'l;
beef steers among them "esA9
/ took charge of the agency
steers were killed weekly h1
they are all better oil. We"
Gently ten fine Norman siaIl'a
good American mares, so "
their stock. They have D"
machinery, mowers aud naN
qualified to take care Of ln'n'
men in this country bear VIA
improved condition. MaHyu
taken up lands in scy'Hph
none has been allotted themS
wish for such allotment lslD
their tribal relations ~
(X0RtaRa) Tribune.