The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-27
RURAL TOPICS.

The fumes of birthstone match will
remove berry stains from flesh or paper.
No good tools, no good horses, no energy
and no cheerful disposition, no good work
and no satisfactory results.
Avoid horse or COW with fore legs set
close together. They lack lung capacity.
Select the well-expanded chest
Flower pots should be thoroughly
cleaned and scalded before using a second
time-at least. so all florists say.
The earlier that grass is cut the better
the price it usually brings and the better
it is for the second and third crops.
Good planning is just as essential as
good planting and good cultivation-it is
better-it is the essence of economy.
The poultry yard. to be profitable. should
contain only business hens. Idlers and
Migrants should be early disposed of.
California will exhibit at the Worlds
fair a 100-year-old bearing orange tree.
This must be the first tree planted in the
state.
A well-kept yard, neat buildings and
tasty surroundings betoken a cultivated
mind and indexes the genial and gentle
character.
To know how to economic time, labor
and general expenses is the possession of
a science, to practice which is the short
cut to wealth.
Sometimes COW of low breed will do
fairly well in the dairy, but she cannot be
depended upon to transmit her good quail
ties 10 her calves.
Improvements and care in dairying that
reduces cost of production or improves
quality. is equivalent to or increases the
market price OF the product
The girl and boy solicitous for mother,
welfare and who are always ready to assist
her in her long hours of toll, will aiways
be at the head OF the procession.
The COW that does not make a profitable
showing when she mothers her second
calf, is usually an expensive luxury and
can be afforded only by the rich.
Cows must be hearty feeders to insure a
liberal flow OF milk. All animals like +.
variety, and it is often necessary to chancs
a cows fodder to stimulate her appetite.
If producers would always remember
that the value of produce or stock de-
pended upon its quality, there would be
less wasted effort, fewer GROWERS and mora
Christians.
To successfully carry on any line of hps;.
ness one must be equipped with KNOWLEDGE
of the details thereof; must have eneryv
perseverance and a stock of good cheer and
hopefulness to tide him over many a SEEM
ing disaster, or rough and turbulent sea
Farming is no exception to this rule.
Please show your neighbor the week,x
Posr-ISTELLIsENcER and call his attention.
to the campaign rates. Nothing mo,s
should be necessary to secure hi, nar.
and active cooperation in the good work
Give the horses their heads whits a,
work. If you must torture them hy oys-.
checking do II only when on dress na-,5.
in some sequestered hamlet, remote from
the gaze and sympathy Of a humane peo-
pie.
Encourage the boys and girl, i, al
healthful sports by allowing them ,;c,.
and by providing means therefor. li,,Is
closer relationship between parent and Of.
spring is necessary reform in manv
households.
The boy that is kicked and epF.5
and continually growled at will leavs
the farm at the first opportunity. and
ten TO one will drift into the Sums 81 -.
cities and end his days in the poorhor,ss
or penitentiary. Who is to blamep
1t surely is enough to give one the b,p..
to see bus crops destroyed by frost. hau