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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03

FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
Instructive Reading for Agriculturists.
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR "THE UNIvERsALIsT.r
AGRICULTURE

The corn crop is always better il
planted upon buried sod, and the sod
is always better if MANFRED the year
before it is buried. 1t is not unwise to
thus dispose of all the manure of the
barn. The manure is got into better
condition to feed the coming corn crop
than If applied first to it.
After manuring sod we'll add all the
potash and phosphoric acid you can af
ford. These will not get away from you.
Sod is wonderfully absorbent, and will
hold them. Notification will go on
rapidly through all the hot weather
during which the corn makes its growth.
In this way the manure can be all saved
by hauling out as fast as made.
The solubility of manure is the most
important point connected with it. 1t
can never become soluble until it has
decomposed. and when it is spread on
the fields in large, bulky masses the
farmer will have to wait until it becomes
fit for plant food before his crops derive
any benefit from it,
The market seeks the better article al
ways, and at good price. Enormous
quantities of poor fruit, vegetables, but
ter, cheese and animals are shipped an
nually, and prices fall consequently.
Offer nothing OF bad quality, and you
will be remunerated, and will establish
a market for your wares.
If farmers would use little more care
in selecting seed, and would refuse all
which was not pure, VIII olesale and re-
tail merchants would more carefully in
spect all seed they buy, and would be
forced to offer none but that which was
clean. Now weeds are annually brought
thus to every part of our country.
1t is a false idea which prevails that a
frequent change of farm seed is neces
sary to ensure good crops and to prevent
deterioration, especially with potatoes;
but potatoes will not run out if seed are
all right. Corn can be grown indefinite
ly on the same land without change of
seed, if selection is properly practiced.
Manures. with their liquids, are the
savings bank of the farm, and cemented
receptacle should be made for them.
Talk as much as we please, we do not
yet appreciate their value, and millions
of dollars are wasted every year. Save
them all as carefully as you do your
pennies.
Drain and dry up the swamps; they
are the source of many diseases which
arise from decaying vegetable matter.
Fermenting vegetable or animal matter
should not be allowed to exist anywhere
on the farm for day. Burn or bury it
all. The sanitary conditions of many
country homes are bad.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
THE BUSY WOMAN'S GARDEN.

The busy woman wants for her sum-
mer garden such flowers as will give the
largest amount of bloom throughout the
season with the least possible amount of
care.
One of the best ANIMALS is the phlox.
1t is of the very easiest culture. 1t be-
gins to bloom early in the season. If
prevented from developing seed, it
blooms all summer. 1t comes in great
variety OF colors and shades, from pure
white to deep crimson. The two finest
varieties are the white and the bright
rose. Grow these colors in bed by
themselves, and you will be more pleased
with the result than you will if you have
half dozen other colors in it.
The petunia is another easily grown
plant. 1t blooms with wonderful free.
dom, and keeps at it until frost comes.
If you go over the bed once month and
cut off the ends of the old branches, the
supply Of flowers will be greatly in
creased as new branches will be sent
out, on which great many flowers will
be produced. The colors range through
all shades of rose and violet to pure
white. Many varieties are blotched and
marked in peculiar and striking ways.
Some of the newer sorts are beautifully
fringed and very large.
The calliopsis is charming flower. 1t
gives great profusion of most snowy.
brilliaLt blossoms, some of rich golden
yellow with a maroon blotch at the base
of each petal. others all maroon. 1t is
excellent for cutting, because of its long
stems.
Every garden should have a bed of
nasturtiums. If you want many flowers
from this plant, do not give it a very
rich soil. If you do, there will be lux
uriant growth of branches and foliage,
but few blossoms. The dwarf varieties
are best. This is an excellent plant to
cut from. It's colors range from palest
yellow to dark crimson and maroon.
Balsams are beautiful plants. Their
flowers are like miniature roses in form,
and they are produced in great numbers
all along the branches. The foliage is
also profuse. and great deal of it must
be cut away in order to give the flowers
a chance to display their beauty.
OF course sweet-pease should be in
cluded in this list. So should the old
morning glory, which consider our best
Towering vine for general cultivation. 1t
is of rapid growth, Of the easiest culture.
and what can be more beautiful than
great mass of it covered with its pink,
white, crimson and blue "gloriesf" 1t is
a plant whose popular name is most
appropriate one.-Harper's Bazar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
HOW THE POOR LIVE IN PARIS.

To get enough to eat is not the chief
difficulty, for that can always be done
with little ingenuity. For instance,
there are here 10000 soldiers continually
under arms housed in huge barracks in
different quarters of the city, for whose
support enormous supplies of provisions
are required. Naturally there is great
amount of surplus or unconsumed vict-
uals. Instead Of being destroyed or so Id,
these are given away to whoever chooses
to ask for them. All one has to do is to
faire queue (stand in line) early in the
morning at the doors of the cdsernes, to
have bountiful supply. Free soup is
distributed at the asiles de nuit Then
at the great Halles. or Central market,
where the meat received from the aba
toirs is cut up, the butchers and market
gardeners sell a soup made from the
scraps of meat and unsold vegetables
which, though not very clean, is still
palatable and wholesome; and one can
get breakfast for two sous. At night.
il man has exhausted his ticket for
three successive lodgings at the asile de
nui, he can find room in some of the
large barrack-like buildings of which
there are two or three in Paris. immense
buildings divided off into small rooms,
where nights lodging can be had for
forty or fifty confines. Or he can walk
o1t to st. Denis where these lodging,
houses are more frequent and the price
cheaper. The difficulty of finding a
place to sleep is the chief one Of those
without resources or employment who
try to live in Paris. Some cross the
river to famous zinc" or bar, SO called
from the material of which the drink
counter is made, and there take a glass
of absinthe or other liquor. which en-
titles the customer to seat at one of
the little tables with which the place is
filled. Then, occasionally slipping his
glass, he will put his forearms on the
table, lay his head down on his hands.
and sleep by fits and starts until morn
ing. For it is an unwritten law of the
cafes that a man cannot be disturbed
while taking his consomn,otion, even if
he pays only three cents for his drink
and takes all day to finish it. In the
place am speaking of they pay four
SOUS glass and thus get nights
sleep. more or less comfortable, and are
not disturbed, because this is the very
object the patron" has in view, and he
is said to derive a good revenue from it.
Up to within few years there existed
large room in Montmartre where the
dodgers slept on the floor for three sous
night-The Chautauquan.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
FAIRY UMBRELLAS.

The wet east wind had called to the rain.
Come down, little drops. to the April How
ers,"
And over the grass and the sleeping grain,
And into the street they swept in showers.
They tapped at each door and called Come
up
For the bleak cold wind and the snow are
gone
Arbutus is holding her perfumed cup.
And the grass is carpeting all the lawn"
But the fairies thai lived in the quiet WOOD
All had their new spring bonnets that day:
So they raised their umbrellas as quick as they
could,
And uISSer the tire IS went trooping away
And the people said when they saw them there'
The fairy umbrellas out in the rain:
oh. springtime has come, so sweet and SO fair.
For there are those odd little toadstools
again." c,Dpo,s
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
POULTR Y.

A we'll bred fowl will lay more eggs
and grow to marketable size sooner.
Therefore, there is more profit from it,
and it is the fowl for you to have.
Grade up your stock with good males,
at least, and have better lot of chick
ems in the next generation.
Sharp grit. meat scraps and green food
must be included in the diet of all poul-
try confined to runs. Without these ar
ticles hens cannot make eggs. Feed all
scraps to the fowls while they are strict
ly fresh; nothing will more quickly cause
disease than decomposing food.
The best poultry keeper is the woman;
she has more patience and better
knack for the details Of the business;
but when this duty is left to the wife
lend hand at the hard work, for there
is hard work about it.
What further proof do we need that
poultry raising is a profitable industry
than that we find such great numbers,
both in town and country engaged in it?
We are certainly within bounds when
we say that this business is followed
more universally than any other in this
country.
Though it may be upon a small scale.
few dollars spent in good poultry and
few more in providing comfortable ac-
commodations will return about the
largest interest of all your investments.
1t adds to the income in a substantial
and constant way which is most graft
flying.
The diet of fowls must be frequently
changed, or they will take on an over fat
condition and stop laying. While dur
ing cold weather heating foods should
be given, they should be as studiously
avoided when the warm season comes on.
Disease and disaster are reasonably
sure to follow when foods, particularly
soft stuffs, are thrown down among the
dirt and filth of the floor. 1t soon sours.
and it absorbs portion of the surroud-
ing filth; on general principles it is a
bad practice.
When hen becomes broody, due prep
arations for the event should be made.
A setting hen is an ideal breeding place
for lice, and the invitation is most read
lily accepted il war is not made against
their advance. Be sure to give them
places for dust baths, and add little
sulphur now and then.
During the rapid growth of wing
feathers and other plumage when about
two or three weeks old is dangerous
period for wee chickens; but more
risky time comes four or five months
later, when the young fowls are chang
ing their coats. A great draught seems
to be made upon the constitution. and
this must be met with nourishing foods.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03

arise. When the spores are ripe, the lit
tie cases, in which they have grown,
open, and then the fine spore dust falls
out and is carried here and there by
every breeze. 1t may be that when you
have gathered ferns in midsummer you
have seen brown powder sift over your
hands. This was shower of the ripened
spores, shaken out as you pulled the
fronds.
There is very old saying that if fern
seed fall upon you it will make you in
visible-that is, in some magic way hide
you from sight. By fern seed the spores
must be meant. as ferns do not have real
seeds. 1t would be 80 easy for people to
find out that there is no sense or truth
in the saying; and yet do you know that
many of the peasants in Russia and in
some other countries still believe this
queer fancy?
There are great many kinds of ferns,
and they grow in almost all parts of the
world. except where the soil and air are
very dry. You know that with us they
grow most plentifully in damp, shaded
places. In the Sandwich Islands and in
some other countries, where the climate
is very moist and mild, there are tree
ferns which grow twenty, thirty, and
even forty feet high. Ages ago, ever SO
long before men lived upon the earth,
there was a time when ferns were very
abundant. and many of them grew SO
large as to form part of the forests of
those days Glimpses at the Plant
World.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
A|IlH5E|' r. EEk {,i7','III l0N[E
DISSATISFIED.

My roses in the Sunshine gleam-
Yellow and red and pink and white;
Their days pass in golden dream
Ofwarm and passionate delight,
But, ah-my lilies long in vain
To feel the kisses of the rain.
So can your smile, my love. my bride,
In rose-sofr dreams my senses steep;
Yet is my soul unsatisfied-
For have never seen you weep
Nor clasped you in twilight gray
OF tears my lips might kiss away.
Life is no masque of frolic mirth:
Ever the smile forebodes the tear;
Can all the woes of all the earth
Knock at your heart, and you not hear?
Weep: smiles but keep our souls apart
And kill the lily in my heart.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
STOCK.

"Hornblast," made under tn Govern.
ment veterinary formula, is practical
answer to those who are enquiring for
chemical dehorner. Applied when the
calf is only few days old, it kills the
budding horns quite effectually.
The loss of stock upon the ranches
during the last cold winter should lead
to better winter protection and feeding.
The elements must be provided against
if stock is to be raised with any profit.
Fortunately the ranching system itself
is freezing out, and better methods are
being extended in feeding and care.
The experiment stations are aiding
the new order of things in the science
of breeding throughout all our Western
States. Improved breeds are supplant-
ing the worthless; this, with intelligent
feeding and management. will soon
cause this-great and fertile land to enjoy
the greatest prosperity.
The markets of the world are now
open to us, and are taking ship loads Of
our beef, mutton and pork daily. They
also want ship loads of our poultry, but
ter, fruits, vegetables and grain, and
also our horses; scores of horse buyers
are here looking eagerly over our mil
lions of little scrubs-peradventure they
may find few of such as they want.
Other countries can produce wool and
wheat, and can just now sell cheaper
than can we. but in everything else the
American farmer leads the way, and can
supply the market of the world. We
can hasten prosperity by promptly breed
ing that which will command the best
prices. Why not do SO?
Is it not true that one half the farm
ers feed and care for their stock in such
a way as to make themselves poor in
few years? One can hardly think they
are trying stock raising for profit, and it
is not possible for such to keep long out
of debt. Let the ,follies we see be our
lessons.
In feeding stock much OF the result
depends upon the feeder and the subject
fed; but, although much of the surplus
food given above actual demand is not
always all profit. an animal or plant
must be full fed to obtain the best re-
suits.
Honey costs nothing and is valuable
product, considering the price it usually
brings, in comparison with the small
outlay in care. and the expense of the
first introduction. There is no reason
why every farmer should not keep bees
A little oil meal with the chopped
straw or fodder will enrich it. and will
increase the appetite and improve the
health and vigor of all classes Of stock.
Cotton seed cake is better unhulled be
cause it has a medicinal value, which
aids digestion also. and then it is cheaper.
1t is still true that good beef cattle
are not plentiful, and farmers who have
had courage and foresight to breed up
will be rewarded with better prices when
they mature. When it is reported that
there is an over production, rest assured
that it is Of an inferior kind, not suited
to the market.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
DAIRY.

The dairyman can no more afford to
keep four footed than two footed board.
ers who pay barely the cost of their food
and care. and if they are really dead
heads, living upon the earnings of 9TH
ers, their wedding out is matter OF i'm
portance-of self preservation, in fact.
Wedding out is the first duty of every
dairyman who has not done SO. He can
become an exact investigator on his own
hook, with modern appliances, but he
must not rely upon the test of one or
two days milking. His calculations
must be based upon both the quantity
and quality of milk, and should extend
over considerable of the milk giving pe-
Rod.
Cut the herd down until every COW in
it earns good living, and then buy or
raise more of the same kind. Do not
keep a boarding farm for poor cattle.
Let not your pride be in large herd,
but in a herd which pays large profit.
Now that the cows have been running
on pasture for some time they are be-
ginning to flesh up. Take advantage of
this condition of things to test them,
and let the butcher have those which
do not promise to be profitable in the
future. A three dollar tester will be a
paying investment.
That the yield OF milk be rich in quail
lily, the stock be kept in good condition,
and the pasture kept up at the same
time, feed little oil cake and corn while
pasturipg. Grass only will not create
the best yield of milk.
Performance at the pail" is all right,
but this theory is being rubbed in so
hard that there is danger of loosing
sight of the fact that good breeding is
the thing after all. The offspring of
this good COW may be of no avail. In
the next generation there can be no "as-
surance of hope" whatever.
If you are in the dairy business you
have but little use for the general pur-
pose COW. She is generally kept to no
purpose. Her butter will not pay for
her keeping, and she will surely bring
you no profit at the butchers. The
specialist is the success now days.
To raise skim milk calves to tn 9 best
advantage the separator must be
brought into requisition. The great adj
vantage in using the farm separator is
that it may be used just as the milk is
brought fresh and warm from the COW.
knowledge is money. as we'll as power.
Guessing at the value of COW from the
amount of milk she gives if you are
making butter. will not do. Do not fail
to procure and make use of a Babcock
tester if you desire to become intimately
acquainted with the character of each
individual of your herd.
The strap leaved varieties of turnips
are said to keep brittle and nice all
through the winter when properly
housed, and make a dainty and nutri.
tious feed for the COWS. The latter part
of this month, as we know, is favorable
time for sowing turnip seed.
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ion. 1t will be only for night or
two, and we all know what is prom
sed to those who receive the angel
unawaresp'
And Mr.. Dibble rubbed his hands
and looked smilingly around upon
the members of the Young Ladies
Aid Association, while perceptible
murmur of assent arose. Not dam
sci in the number but would gladly
have extended her hospitality to
Rev. Felix Amory, who was to preach
sermon in aid of ''Home Helps and
Missions at the village church upon
he coming Sunday evening.
"I'm sure," said Miss Lydia Lark
spur, promptly anticipating the
crisis, papa would be most happy to
receive the gentleman"
Most kind of you to propose it, |
am sure" said Mr.. Dibble, and so the
matter was settled.
Lydia Larkspur went home and
issued orders that the parlor curtains
should be washed and ironed, and
pound cake of the richest nature
concocted; while Kate Duer, the
doctors sister, who was as fond OF
young clergymen as Lydia herself,
and would in no wise have objected
to varying the monotony of her home
life with spice of ecclesiastical nov
city, returned to her crochet work.
eve are to have young lecturer
from the city in the church on Sunday
evening"" she said to her brother,
when he hustled in to dinner.
"Ehw said DIR. Duer, swallowing
his scalding soup; "are WEI By the
way, Kate, there's new case of
smallpox reported among those hands
on the railway embankment."
"Dear mew said Kate, who was
compounding refreshing salad in a
carved wooden bowl; Il hope you
keep we'll vaccinated, Hugh"
"Oh, there's no trouble about that"
said the doctor; 'only the other pa
tients in the hospital objected to such
a case.
81 should think it very likely" said
Kate.
81 shall have to isolate him some
where" said DIR. Duer, thoughtfully.
I'm one of those stone houses by the
river, perhaps. Old Mrs. Viggers has
had it, | know"
And then DIR. Duer tasted the salad
and pronounced it first rate.
Pitcherville was all on the Quie
that day, when the double shotted
piece of tidings flew on the tongue of
popular rumor through the town. An
actual smallpox case in their midst,
and young minister coming all the
way from New York to appeal to their
sympathies on behalf of home mis-
sions.
II wonder if it is contagious" said
old Mrs. McAdams, looking very
round eyed through her spectacles.
Contagious" said Mrs. Emmons;
"it ought to find its way into every
house in our village"
What cried Mrs. McAdams; "the
smallpox"
mo, certainly not" said Mrs. Sim
mons; "the sympathetic movement in
favor of home missions"
And then everyone laughed. Mrs.
McAdsms looked puzzled, and Mrs.
Emmons drew herself up and re-
marked that sit was very irreyerent to
laugh at sacred things"
But Miss Lydia Larkspur, who had
a mortal horror of the disease, was
much troubled in her mind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03

the rocks. and refused the comfort Of
fered by her gentle sister nymphs.
Clytie stayed so long on the rocks
that her feet became rooted in the sand.
and her golden hair was changed into
the yellow rays of the sunflower, which
still turns toward the bright chariot of
Helios. Stories of Old Greece.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-03
FROM THE HOSPITAL.

ELL" said the Rev. Mr..
Dibble, 81 knew [ could
depend upon the hospi-
tality of my flock to en-
terrain this excellent
young divine, seeing that
my own household is in
so disorganized a condi-
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-01-15

Some idea Of what Baroda, India,
was in times comparatively recent
may be gathered from the following:
A hundred elephants were kept at
the expense Of the state, and Grim
inals were executed in q most horri-
bic manner. The poor wretch. tied
hand and foot, was fastened by O
long rope round tho waist to the Gle
phrnt's hind leg. Then the animal
was made to trot through the city,
and the man, at almost every step
rebounding against stones and oksta-
cles, soon became a mass of bFdises
and wounds and a CHASTITY spectacle.
If he survived this, his head was
placed on a block. and thSRlephant
crushed it with his foot hanae-