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gether. The inner posts, A A, should
lean outward, so as to make the hori-
zontal width along the dotted line, +,
two feet more than the floor width at
H. The posts A and E are placed di-
rectly opposite each other, and braced
together as indicated at Y. The rafters
may be of the usual structure, which
would require cross ties, or joists, at f;
Or else Il truss frame may be mad. as
indicated at 3 B and c. A roof On such
a trIss frame will not spread, a1d the
hay carrier may be swung at DE-
Fig. . represents the shed ~cather-
boarded down to within six feet of the
floor. The door, A, may he hinged SO
as to swing down, Or may be made
double and open into the barn. In
either cast the space for admitting
the hay should be at least six feet
square, and, in fact, eight feet is bet
ter. oThe rail for the hay carrier would
extend out at B, if truss roof is used;
in ordinary roof, the carrier would be
at top of r~afters. If long enough posts
CA and Z, Fig. + may not be bad, use
the longest available ax6 pieces, and
spike strongly the lower ends to short
posts placed well in the ground.
a drive crosswise through this shed
would be more convenient in many
ways. If the hay is to be baled, the
bales could be conveniently stored. II
intending to bale. put the hay into the
shed in sections, ten to twelve feet long.
the entire width of The shed, as it will
be much more convenient that way for
getting out. Indeed. it will be the bet
ter way even if the hay Is to be hauled
out, in which case arrange the floor so
as to back the wagon under at K, Fig.
2. A shed of this style can be built 20
feet wide and IS feet high, at a cost of
only So to $3.50 for each ton of contents,
and it will last 20 years. The siding, S
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S S, may be of cheap material, as the
slight slant inward will prevent the
water from running in. The floor, for
economy's sake, may be of rails or
poles.
The practice Of cutting up and shred
ding the fodder is rapidly gaining
ground. A shed built built on the fore
going plan would answer admirably
for storing such feed. Stats would have
to be nailed across the lower openings,
of course. The elevator would carry the
cut FODDER in at the door, 4. Il is hard
LIZ necessary to say that when barn
r92m aCd protection for stock r to be
taken into account, in addition to econ
omy of handling, it is cheaper to so
construct the building as to give up the
entire floor space to stock, using only
the upper part for feed.-G. w. Waters,
in ST. Louis journal of Agriculture.
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Indigestion in Poultry.

Indigestion is one Of the commonest
troubles of fowls and one of the most
easily prevented. Grit takes the place
of teeth with fowls. 1t requires to
be sharp in order to grind up the food
and prepare it for digestion. Yet how
often is the supply deficient? Crushed
oyster shells or sharp gravel should be
accessible to the hens. Acidity of the
stomach is the result of Indigestion 1t
may be corrected by mixing very fine
pulverized charcoal with the food or bv
keeping a supply of broken charcoal in
the neighborhood of the fowls. On. OF
the best methods of giving it is to char
a couple of corncobs once a week in the
oven and then let the fowls have II EN-
to peck at. The feeding of charcoal is
excellent at all stages Of the hens eAis-
tence, but it is particularly desirable
when the fattening process is going on.
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Feeding bees for Profit.

Many beekeepers must change
their location, go to the flowers, OF
change their methods of management
The ~beekeeping public says at pres =nt
and perhaps always will say, that sugar.
honey must not be produced, but there
is no objection to bees living on 4 { cent
sugar instead of 15-cent honey. 1t has
been estimated, and we think fairly.
that a colony of bees consume 80 or &c
pounds of honey during the year. If
a good portion of this can be cheap
sugar instead of high-priced honey, it
may make all the difference between e
fair profit end a serious loss. A change
to a better location is preferable, if a
change can be made, as there is more
profit in plenty of honey from natura.
sources than in exchanging sugar fol
honey in a poor locality.-southerE
Cultivatcr.
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President Isaac Lewis Of Sabina, Ohio,
is hiehly respected all through that
section. He has livad in Clinton Co. IS
years, and has been president o. the
Sahina Bank &c years. He gladly -es'1-
6cs to the merit Of Hoods Sarsaparllla'
and what he says is WORTHY attention.
All brain workers find Hoods oaiesta-
cilla peculiarly adapted to their needs.
1t makes pure; rich, red blood, and
from this comes nerve, fnctitnl; bodily
and digestive strength.
81 IN glad to say that Hoods sarsapa-
rilla is a very good medicine, especially as
a blood purifier. 1t has lone me good many
times. For several years | suffered greatly
with pains Of
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GRICULTURALHINTS
DURABLE a ehED.
an inreestment Which No Progressive Man
VIII Ever Regret.

an inreestment Which No Progressive Man
VIII Ever Regret.
The yearly ,,;sses OF western farmers
in hay and fodder, through exposure
to the weather, aggregate an enormous
amount. Extensive inquiry convinces
me that nearly or quite one.fourth of
the feeding value of oil the hay and
fodder cut and PITT III stacks, ficks and
shocks is thus sacrificed. IT is nothing
uncommon to see a whole meadow Of
little misshapen stacks and ricks so
damaged and weather-beaten as not to
be worth over half what it would hare
been if properly secured in the barn,
and kept in tirst-class condition.
The best and strongest cheap hay
shed [ have seen is that shown in the
accompanying cuts. Figure ! is nn end
view of the framing. Posts A A, Of the
heigh required, say 16 to 20 feet l"ng,
are set in the grot1nd to form the franz
ing of the she'd, while other similar
posts, L Il, are set four feet oht from
the former-that is, at the bottom,
though at the top they are brought to-
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her they all started in on the pudding
with o vim that bespoke a previous
knowledge of its qualities.
The first taste had q queer effect on
the whole company. Some dropped
their spoons and raised their napkins,
some paused with perplexed faces, and
others made q brave effort to go on with
the pudding. Then Aunt Martha her.
self tasted, then she smelled, then
glancing wildly about, she cried:
sLand sakes! What is it? DO you find
anything wrong with the pudding?'
There was nc ~concealing the fact that
they did, but no one had the courage to
make reply. Their looks were enough,
however. and without further inquiry
Aunt Martini made bolt for the pantry,
from whence q moment later came the
agonizing exclamation: "Forevermorei
# I haven't gone and put machine oil ia
the u instead Of lemon extract"
The variety and intensity 81 express
sions on the faces around that table
would have furnished q funny car
toonist with inspiration sufficient to
last 4 month. Some tried to laugh and
make light ut the affair. but they were
those who had eaten the last Of the ma
chine oil sauce; some looked sorry and
sober and others ookedspositively i'll.
Then came 4 moan from the pantry
which caused = general scramble in
that direction, and poor Aunt Martha
1yas dragged forth with her face ii her
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hands and her whole manner denoting
| the deepest mental distress. She was
inconsolable and declared in the most
decided way that she would never be
able to look any of them in the face
again.
They vent III the parlor and took
A.ant Martha with them, and by all
!. scrts Of schemes tried 70 divert her
mind from the Sauce question, but
without avail. She would break out
every few moments with self-con-
demnatory interjections and bitter lam.
entations, and it was not Until her COM
pany was leaving, with the most hearty
and sincere assurances Of their enjoy
ment of her hospitality. that she could
summon even the faintest smile to her
terribly-elongated countenance. As
soon as they were all gone she lost no
time in hunting up Matilda emit giving
her a very warm ata emphatic lecture
UPON the r~eprehensible practice of leav-
Ing bottles around where they did not
pose that machine oil had been poison?
'Twould been used just Che same, and
here we'd had a lot of cold corpses on
our hands! It's just a mercy of Divine
Providence that it wasn't cafbolic acid
Or some such deadly stuff. My land!
but Iii never hear the last of It. It'll
travel from Jerusalem to Jericho, and
they'll be calling their machihe Oil
Aunt Martha's pudding sauce, see if
they don't'"
When she had finished her lecture, and
Martha had a chance, the long-suflering
servant said, in her most correct and
vigorous English:
"Aund Mazda, l didn't6vas pud das
boddle in der bandry, neider! Id vas
your own selps. dink you vas make Il
l:ddle on der knife sharper und you
didn't vas toog id oud yet"
Upon thinking the matter over care
fully, Aunt Martha found Matilda was
right, and she shouldered the whole
blame, and was further Inundated by.
having to make due acknowledgment to
the girl, who, in the depth of her sens
of wronged innocence, was saturating
her apron with tears. After fully atom
ing for her injustice Aunt Martha left
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THOUGHT HE HAD THEM.
Vision of MIR. Hayes After q Fort
nights CarousaI.

Terrible Vision of MIR. Hayes After a Fort
nights CarousaI.
Primrose WallingfoId Hayes, having
spent a very hectic fortnight investi-
eating the life that throbs "between
decks" as it were, in the metropolis,
went back to the quiet of his peaceful
country home at Riverhead with 4
heart full of glowing satisfaction. He
slept a long, sweet sleep and awoke in
the morning early with a desire to go
abroad and look about him. AS he
walked down the broad street he took
notice of the glorious morning. The
saln rode through the cloudless sky.
The air was crisp and fresh. Mr..
Hayes threw back his shoulders and
thrust oH his~chest. He filled his lungs
with a dep breath and let it go slowly.
holding on to the pleasant sensation
as long as he could. He patted himself
on the back, metaphosically, and said:
"Oh, this is great, this is fine, it is a
magnificent morning"
He looked about him exulting and
bis eye lighted upon a small, long
haired dog just as it came running
around the corner of the house he was
about to pass. He stopped short and
looked again. A change sudden as if
wrought by magic came over Mr.IIayes.
The ruddy color fled from his cheeks
and left his face an ashy gray. His
chest that had been SO confidently
thrust forward collapsed and fell in.
His breath came in short, quick gasps.
The day weg] dark before him, and
the broad a. was blotted out of the
sky. His eyes protrlded from their
sockets. His gaze was fixed IN the lit
tie long-haired dog, trotting peacefully
by the fence, coming toward him.
Holy smoked" CALCULATED Mr.. Hayes.
TITS blue"
"Blue, blue" he repeated to himself;
"blue as my grandmother's shawl"
Great beads of cold perspiration
out on his brow. The palms of
his hands were clammy and his fingers
grew very cold. The little dog trotted
toward him and he could not
look away to save him.
"Blue dog" he said. Great Scott!
I've got 'em. Oh, yes, I've got .,,em. I
knew I would. ] knew it, and now I've
got EN-. Blue or I'm a niger"
A boy came running along the street.
but Hayes did rot see him. His gaze
was fixed on the dog, but he heard the
BOY shout in such a shrill voice that it
penetrated the fog into which his brain
lad settled.
'Hi-yi-yi-yi, blue. dog, blue dog!
Look at the blue dog!a
The heart of Hayes leaped within
him. The mist fled from before his
yes. Once more the s&Svras clear and
he day was fair and ,.he air crisp and
nvigorating. He stoAd up like d man
again and filled his lungs and shouted: !
Boy, come here."
The young shaver walked doubtfully
lp to him. Hayes was fumbling in his
Here said Hayes, as the bow
him, take this half dollar:
saved my life"
The hoy ran off in wonderment and
inside the house one woman was saw
to another rs she rinsed out q bic
vashtub:
There, ! caught that Nate Downs
nasty white dog good this time and Just
soaked II with my blue watar.rN. Y.
;un. ssss.2
&#|# H4@a# i
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SERvlAN BEE FARMS.
they Are to ms ]eepdncted an strictls
SCIENTIFIC P%rinciples.

Scientific Principles.
A new industrial departure OF great
interest has been taken ih Scrvia. where
/ 'assoociety for bee and fruit culture"
has been established, says the ST. Louis
Globe Democeat. This society seeks to
introduce a system of b~eekeeping on
scientific principles, and of developing
the industry on d profitable basis
throughout that country; where. until
lately, the peasa,its have besh in the
habit of keeping their bees in conicai
straw skeps daubed with mud or plas'
ter. and destroying the bees to obtain
the honey. 1t is probable that the So
eiety viii provide the peasants with
cheap straw skeps with supers, as well
as bar-fram,d hives ard other desirable
agricultural appliances. The farm OF
the society contains about 200 hives.
placed in rtg'tliir rows over the ground,
six fc.i six inches from each other:
facing north. These hives art Ill on
the har=frame principle, and of the pat
tern generally known as Dzicrzon hives,
and they co1ltiih abolit so pounds Of
honey iii the comb when full. They
are made of wood. with draw sides. and
cost about 1926 each. The bees appear
to be a species of the common bee tApis
mellitica), but are rather small In size.
and unusually tractable. The Italian
bee (Apis ligustica) does not succeed
well in Servia, becoming quickly
merged into the Indigenous stock.
The BEE fhttn is provided with two
centrifugal honey ~extractors of very
simple design, but perfectlyprartical.
After extraction. the honey is pitt into
glass bottles, with neat screw tops, i'm
ported from Austria, containing re-
spectively half pound, one pound and
two pounds. The price Of the honey
is about II cents a pound, exclusive of
the bottle. for which an extra charge
is made. The wax is sold to the wax
dealers for making into church can
dies, and realizes about 30 trnts a
pound. The Importance of encourage
ing bee culture is evidently fully real
lied by the members of this society and
others interested, and the introduction
of a law is in contemplation obliging
all priests. schoolmasters and certain
others holding employment under the
government to turn their attention to
the keeping of bees.
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Flowing Under Cow Peas.

Experiments made at the Alabama
station show that the fall is the proper
time to pillow under COW peas. An
analysis of the vines was made in the
fall and again in the spring and the
evidence was conclusive that the vines
in the fall contained eHs times as much
nitrogen as they'd in the spring. The
escape of nitrogen is, therefore, seen to
be very great. II is a question if this
be not SO with other crops that are
grown for their manurial qualities and
that sre turned under mtsst ~ecuauonly
in the spring.
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The Control Of Swarmtne.

To control swarming, remove one of
the prime factors. Brood is the only
factor we can remove and not defeat
our object-honey. The removal of
brood, instead of decreasing the honey
yield, rather increases it. We may re.
move the brood by direct confiscation,
or we a do it more gradually by the
removal of the queen. The first method
would be better where the flow is very
short and profuse, the second better
where the flows lasts 40 to 60 or more
days. The aus of swarming is in
stinct; its control, broodlessness. Other
methods at times seem effective, but the
only method of controlling swarmine
that is at all times a success, is brood.
lessness.-Southern Cu~ltivator..
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THE CITY or THE DEAD.

They do neither plight nor wed
In. the city of the dead,
On the city where they sleep away tho
hours;
But they lie, while Ger them range
Winter blight ana summer change,
And a hundred happy whisperings of
flowers.
No, they neither wed nor plight,
And the day is like the night,
For their vision is of other kind than ours.
They do neither sing nor sigh
YIN that burgh of by and by,
cool and long:
But they rest within their bed,
Leaving all their thoughts unsaid,
Deeming silence better far than sob Or
song.
Though the robin be awning,
Though the leaves Of autumn march a mil
lion strong.
y There is only rest and peace
In the City of Surcease
From the failings and the watlings meath
the sun,
And the wings Of the swift years
Beat but gently DER the biers,
Making music to the sleepers every one.
There is only peace and rest;
But to them it seemeth best,
For they lie at ease and know that life is
done.
Richard Burton. in Atlanta Constitu-
ton,
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will not continually brood them, ever
if cold, and the chicks become chilled.
The engraving shows a device for keep
ing the brood warm. It is a coop with
glass top set Oh top of a pen filed with
heating horse int 1t is, in fact,
a coop on top of a hot bed. The bot
tom of the coop is of thin boards, so
hat sufficient warmth wiz go up into
the coop to make it very cemfortables
The hen and the chicks are placed in
sideand sandand chaff given to scratch.
in. A scorsIDearly chicks can thus be
raised tbf@ will set to laying early in
the fall.-Orange Judd Farmer.
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plGSIdiHS HpIiAeS
she was particularly precise, and espe-
cially in the supervisioS of the culinary
department. The ~kind-hearted yet Sc
we're old soul kept after Matilda, the
kitchen girl, with a relentless persist
ency and q hawk-eyed vigilance which
often made the poor girl sigh for relief
from her surveillance, for anything
that was done amiss had to be careful
ly rehearsed under the direct SUPER
vision of her inspector-general. AS a
result the culinary skill Of Aunt Martha
came to be known and Dragged of
throughout her wide circle of friends
and acquaintances; and when anybody
wanted to speak in praise Of anybody
else's pies or buildings the invariable
verdict was: "Most as good as Aunt
Martha's."
One evening a small but select COM
pany of Aunt Martha's friends was in
vited to take dinner with her, i'll celebra-
tion of her brothers birthday anniver-
sary, and she had given every detail
of the coxaang thereof her personal at
tention. |he soup, meat, etc, had all
received DIR approval before being
placed bestbre her guests, but when it
rame to THE dessert, that she insisted
upon preparing with her own hands.
She made II of her famous cabinet
buildings, as a treat for. the occasion,
and there was general rejoicing among
her guests over the prospect of insert
ing their teeth in the ~much-vaunted
dainty.
The pudding had been passed ere IL
aawned upon Aunt Martha that she had
not made any sauce for it. Such an
oversight would have been almost in
cxcusable on the part Of anyone else,
and the dear old soul was honest enough
to declare that the error was ever worse.
for its commission by herself. She was
compelled to confess that in her haste
she had overlooked that important item,
but springing to her feet she exclaimed:
swat a moment! I'll make sance in a
jiffy," and darting into the pantry she
ekirmished around for hardly more than
q moment and reappeared with a look
OF triumph in her eyes and q bowl of
translucent, notwithstanding sauce
In her hands.
"There!" she said, as she proceeded
to help each dish generously. Il guess
we will have sauce if Aunt Martha is a
little forgetful. Idon't see, for the life
OF me, how I came to forget it; but law!
I'm getting old and careless"
This candid acknowledgment brought
q sly smile to the faces around the table.
and to thoroughly convince their good
hostess of their willingness to forgive
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SHELTER FOR CHICKS

Excellent Device for Keeping the Brood
Warm and Comfortable.
1t is not a difficult matter to hatch
out chicks early with hens. 1t is a
live and grow when Matched in cold
weather. They must S tay under the
hen almost constantly in order to keep
warm, but after a few days the ben
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Neuralgia

IN one eye and about my temples, espe
cially at night when I had been having a
hard day Of physical and mental labor. !
took many remedies, but found help only in
Hoods Sarsaparilla which cured me OF
rheumatism, neuralgia and headache.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has proved itself a true
friend. I also take Hoods Pills to keep
nv bowels regular, and like the pills very
mnch." ISAAC LEWIS, Sabina, Ohio,
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I'D A YOUR OWN sELFsSe
the kitchen to Matilda, with the assur-
ance that she would trust everything to
her in the future.
The soothing hand of time gradually
healed over the terrible wound to Aunt
Martha's self-esteeln, but she never
forgot her awful mistake, and regarded
the slightest allusion to it with severe
ly silent disapproval.-Chicago Satur-
day Evening Herald.
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Actual Potash.

A SHINING EXAMPLE of what
may be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion to a single purpose is
seen in the history of the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For IS years they have simply been
building grain and g~rass-cutting ma
chinery, and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it is
safe to say that the Mccormick
Company builds one-third of all
the binders, reapers and mowers used
throughout the entire world.
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AUNT MARTHA'S MISTAKE.
y By FRANZ b. WEIGH.

n oil things Aunt
Martha was very
exact and partic-
ular but in the af-
fairs of her wild
0 w e d brothers
h o u S e h o d, Of
which she was the
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THE snEnlrF-"You say that fcllow who
broke iail left a message beaind!' Ihe
KgcAai-tycs, sir. here it is on this papes
-.Excuse the liberty / taker "-TrutlAs
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CONSOLATION indiscreetly pressed upon
US when we are suffering under atf1iction
only serves to increase our pain, and to
render our grief more poignant Rousseau.
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FOR SALE.
ID. BLOs,MFIHLD

B. BLOs ,N1E,IELD.
commissioner U. S. Circuit Court for tbs West.
crn District Of Louisiana.
Commissioner U. S: Court of Claims throughout
the United States.
Rotary Public in and for the Parish of a. Ian.
dry. Ohlce with Hon. John N. Ogden.
Particular attention given to Land Cases And
e Final Proofs. Collections in the Parishes Of
e. Landry and Acadia promptly attended To.
EEnaicns secuEed; Patents, Caveats. TfAde
Marks, ETC., procured without delay. ~
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An agricultural exchange asks: Row
,,n 1.a nIevent, cider from working" You
might ret it a government position.-Texas
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WH7so-'1his physiognomist says that
aggressive, impulslve people generally have
black eyes" Knowso-"If Pat at first, they
get them later. Truth.
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"YoU fairly take my breath away mur.
INJURED the ~red-noscd man, as he awalloWtd
a clote.-PhilaIelphia Record.