The record-union., 1894-12-11

ana meat Is we'll utilized, much of the
loss through stewing is saved. Never
tileless we prefer the raw article TO any
tnlng else In the meat line. OF course it
should be fed in moderate quantities
only two or three times a week. Never
go 10 extremes and overdo a matter.
hens that were meat hungry would
doubtless engorge themselves, ii allowed
Ilesn without restriction, to the serious
arrangement of their digestive organs.
but we nave found raw meat, reasonably
led, TO set the producing machinery
TO work better than any other one food
substance, The clover is grand for food
Tor many reasons. Ii is bulky. 1t con-
talns the heterogeneous elements and the
carbohydrates in excellent proportions
Tor the hourlshment of the animal. 1t is
rich in mineral constituents. Compounds
OF lime are abundant, such as are re-
CURED Tor shell formation. The poultry
rellsn 1t at all seasons. 1t is especially
appetlZlng to them III winter when there
is dearth of green food. Chop it finely,
steam and feed it mixed with ground
wheat. bran and corn meal.-M. Sumner
Perkins, IN the Pacific Coast Fanciers'
Monthly.
STONE CRUSHERS.
The practical operation of stone crush
ers during the recent years has made it
possible tor localities where rock is at
hand To have tirst-class roads. A good
machine can be had for 5000 10 $500, which,
driven by an ordinary thresher engine,
will crush and sort the common stones.
Ii township or road district would pur-
chase one of these and keep 1t at work
continuously the main lines would soon
be permanently improved. after which
attention could be given to the less
important thoroughfares. OF course,
where no rock is at hand grading and
proper drainage must be relied upon
chiefly for improvement, but every COM
muniIy where the stones are available,
and nuisance anyway, ought to investi-
gate this matter.-American Agriculture
lSt.
SALT FOR POULTRY.
1t is common error that salt is fatal TO
poultry. This arose from the i'll effects of
allowing poultry to get at salt when they
had not had it as part of their rations,
ana once they got access to 1T they ate
enough TO Kill them. All soft feed given
TO poultry should be salted about as much
as the same amount would be for human
use, and If this is done they will never eat
salt to excess il they are allowed 10 run
where they can get at 1t. Salt is one of
the necessary elements OF the blood. and
If it is not furnished in some shape the
health Of the fowls will be impaired and
their productiveness lowered.
FLOWER NOTES.
The Charter Oak of Connecticut was a
common white oak.
An exhibition of sea MOSES in Boston
is said to pc as beautiful as a flower
show.
Boston has purchased for park purposes
sixty acres or land next to the Arnold
Arboretum.
Nine. Regnon of Roostoen, Holland,
during the last summer had giant rose
bush weighed down with 6,UOO roses in
full bloom.
Orchids are becoming cheaper in Paris.
The cut flowers can be had now for a
franc or two apiece. They are used for
table decorations, with fruit in dishes or
strewn upon the table cloth. The orchid
is supplanting The gardenia as button
hole flower.
The fact that an English nurseryman
sends to this country and pays 500 for
small plant OF the yellow lowered variety
OF cyprlpedium lnsigne shows that the
trade still believes tnat the market for
extraordinarily rare and peculiar orchids
is likely 10 be maintained.
Meeha3fS Monthjy says: Bignonia ca
priolata is one OF The best evergreen self
attaching vines in Philadelphia, and pos
sibly much further north. On the
grounds OF one OF our subscri bers a plant
became detached from the wall anu was
cut away. In a short summer it again
covered tie whole wall surface twenty
tive feet high.
\ patriarchal lime tree, known as the
Domlinde, or cathedral tree, saws the
London NcWS, has just fallen at Bruns-
wick. 1t was 50 feet high, and its girth
was l9 feet. 1t was unique in that there
is an undoubted mention of ii in PAM
phlet written ia 1892, in which 1t is re-
corded that in 1913 summer came in so
early that ''the lime tree of Brunswick"
was i'll leaf by Easter day.
To preserve flowers fresh keen them
moist and cool. The heads of sweet
smelling flowers should not be sprinkIed,
as that causes them to lose their perfume
Those who wish to carry flowers any dis
lance should wrap them in wet paper and
pack them in q box. The heads of the
carnation pinks and delicate white flow
ers should be covered with oiled paper
Florists send flowers thousands of miles
by observing these precautions.
CIematis paniculata attracts so much at
tenliUn for the beauty OF its flowers that
Its charms in late autumn are not thor
oughly appreciated, but il has habit of
holding its thick leaves very late, and
they are just now beginning to turn to
rich coppery tints, while above them the
abundant red seeds, with their light
feathery ufts, give the final touch which
is needed to make one OF the most beau
tlfuI combinations which the season can
offer.
The windows of many of the flower
stores i'll this city have lately been Singu-
larly attractive. OF course, some win
dows are overloaded and show something
like barbaric profusion rather than true
refinement; but In one or two of them
last Saturday afternoon there appeared
blending OF colors in soft harmony. an
absence OF everything incongruous and
superfiuous. a delicacy and dainty grace
which revealed taste and skill never dis
played here in similar places half a
dozen years ago.-Garden and Forest.
New York.
Chrysanthemum Duchess of York is
the sensational new variety of Europe
this year, so far as we have yet heard, and
most of the English horticultural Journals
give large illustrations OF 1t. It is of the
narrow petaled, intertwisted Japanese or
der! with very large, deep, full flowers of
a yellow color. IL was raised in Scotland
from seed and sent to Il gentleman there
by missionary in Toxic, Japan, and
was awarded n tirst-class certificate by
the National Chrysauthemun Society of
Great Britain last month. The best Judges
praise it as decided advance III the jap
anese section. The flower is nine inches
in diameter, and as much deep, and has
not a yestige of coarseness about it. An
other curious fact in connection with it is
that il is the first Seeding ever raised in
Scotland that has received u first-class
certificate from the "National." ."-Garden-
ing.
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