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Profit from Young Pigs.

Owing to the small proportion of
waste meat and bone on the hog it
makes cheaper flesh food than can be
produced from any other domestic an
imal If we add to this the great rap
idity with which a herd of swine will
increase it is hardly to be wondered at
that breeding sow has always been
regarded as the best stock a poor
farmer can keep. The sow may be
bred three times year, but unless she
is two years old or over twice a year is
enough. Young pigs are always sala-
BILE to those who want to grow and fat
ten them. Even the fall pigs can usu-
ally be sold for roasters when they are
from eight to ten weeks old, and this is
perhaps the best way to dispose of
them, as the fall pig is very apt to be-
come stinted if kept through the win
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FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Well seasoned wood of apple trees
makes good handles for tools.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper around
where rats frequent, and they will
leave.
Have the collar fit the horse and do
not draw the names too tight at the
top.
1t is easier to keep up" with your
work than to ''catch up when once you
have fallen behind.
The man who does not love good
horse should hire out to work on a
good railroad or in NINE
1t is far easier to keep land in a good
state OF cultivation than to restore soil
that has been allowed to run down."
The farm horse does not need blind
ers. Binders add so much more to the
cost of harness. Do away with them.
Don't let any of us wait until the
spring work begins before we get ready
for it. Have tools, implements, etc., in
good shape.
It is best to prevent disease in your
home if possible, and it is cheaper to
prevent disease among your animals
than to cure it.
The steer or other animal that is
tramping two mouthfuls under foot
while eating one is fertilizing the
ground, but is doing it in an expensive
manner.
Feed the corn to fattening hogs and
not to colts and pigs. Feed oats to
colts, and pigs should have variety
of whatever is convenient and cheap
Western Plowman.
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PLANTING THE CORN.
1t Should he Done as Soon as the Con-
ditiOnA Are Favorable for
Quick Determinations.

All reasonable care should be taken
to plant the corn as soon as the condi-
tons are favorable for quick ger1nina-
ton of the seed. There is no advantage
in planting when the soil is cold and
wet. Corn is natuarrly a tropical
plant and will not thrive when the soil
is wet and cold.
But often the early-planted corn
makes the best growth and gives the
best yield. 1t is, therefore, an item to
take advantage of every opportunity for
blowing. With the ground well plowed
with the disc and smoothing harrow it
may be rapidly put into good condi-
ton to receive the seed, which, with a
good check rover, may be rapidly
planted. It is always best to have the
soil well prepared before planting. 1t
is better to delay the planting and pre-
pare the soil in a fine filth, than plant
with the soil wet, rough or cloddy.
Having the soil in good filth when
the seed is planted, not only makes a
quicker and better termination of the
seed, but more vigorous start of the
plants to grow.
Planted early with plenty of moisture
in the soil the seed should be covered
shallower than if planted later, after
the soil is warmer and drier. Rather
more corn can be grown to the acre if
planted in drills with the stalks stand
ing 10 or ~ inches apart in the row:
than in hills with two or three stalks
and the hills three and half or four
feet apart. But it takes more work to
keep corn planted in drills clean than
in hills especially foul land. The ques-
ton of which is best is one of whether
the increased yield will pay for the in
creased cost of cultivating, and this the
farmer can best determine for himself.
1t is important in making good corn
crop to have good seed and to plant
under the most favorable conditions, in
order to get a good even stand.
AS between using plenty of seed and
being, perhaps, obliged to thin, and
using fewer kernels to the hill and hav-
ing to replant more or less, the first
plan is much the best, for under ordi-
nary conditions the replanted corn
yields very little grain.-St. Louis Re-
public.
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HOlmess HumOP

The late Mr.. John Holmes. whose rep
utation for wit was not as wide as that
of his celebrated elder brother. DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes. was yet known
among his intimates as a man of ready
repartee and characteristic humor. MIR.
Holmes never married, but lived by him
self in little house in Cambridge, and
once friend rallied him on his lonely
life. "You ought to marry, john" said
he, "and have larger house." "Why,
yes replied Mr.. Holmes, with quiet
smile. ''if 1 should take better half, T
would have to improve my quarters
Youths Companion
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ghe 4villisto,l Graphic
p q. CorKLAND, Publisher.
sslLLisToN. \. OAK
NY SHIP.

MY ship is.coming in at last,
Ny ship that sailed afar;
With spreading sail and favoring gale
She's sailing DER the bar
2 She's coming in,
She's coming in,
K Over the harbor bar!
She's coming in.
She's coming in,
My ship that sailed afar.
4 With Ice bound hull and storm-rent sail,
All battered by the sea.
4 With wind-swept deck, almost wreck.
She's coming back to me.
She's coming in. etc.
She bringeth not the cargo now
Y For which she sailed lang syne.
4 But treasures greater far, trow.
May yet perchance, be mine.
She's coming in. etc.
And when she's anchored safe in port,
58 With all her sails unbent.
Ended the long uncertainty,
d Then shall be content.
She's coming in, etc.
4 o sweet content! o vision fair!
Rest from the lifelong strife:
The peace Of God, the Lords well done,
The joy of endless life.
She's coming in, etc.
Run up the colors to the peak
And fire the signal gun! ~.
My ship Is coming into port,
Her voyage is almost done!
She's coming in.
She's coming in,
Oyer the harbor bar!
She's coming in,
-, She's coming In,
My Ship that sailed afar!
Harriet E. Banning, in N. Y. Observer.
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The Best Breeding Animals

In selecting breeding animals get
ewes and bucks of the kind that pro-
auce early maturity mutton, so as to
get into market early with lambs and
matured sheep. A noted authority
says: ''The sheep industry of this coun-
try has not yet arrived at a point where
it becomes necessary to breed princi-
pally for wool, but producers should
first get the best mutton producing
qualities thoroughly bred into their
fiocks or bands, bringing the standard
up to a half or three-quarter grade, aft
er which it will be safe to breed for wool
without materially disturing the band
IS mutton producing animals"
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PARSNIP COMPLEXION.

A majority of the ills affecting people
to-day can be traced to kidney trouble.
It pervades all classes of society, in all
climates, regardless of age, sex or con-
dition. .-
The sallow, Notwithstanding people
you often meet are afflicted with kid
ney complexion" Their kidneys are
turning to parsnip color, so is their
complexion. They may suffer from in
digestion, bloating, sleeplessness, uric
acid, gravel, dropsy, rheumatism, ca
tarrh of the bladder, or irregular heart.
You may depend upon it, the cause is
weak, unhealthy kidneys.
Women as we'll as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble
and both need the same remedy. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kid
ney. liver, and bladder remedy, will
build up and strengthen weak and I'M
healthy kidneys, purify the diseased,
kidney-poisoned blood, clear the COM
plexion and soon help the sufferer to
better health.
The mild and the extraordinary effect
of Swamp+Root is soon realized. It
stands the highest for it's wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases, such
as weak kidneys. catarrh of the bladder,
gravel, rheumatism and Bright's Dis
ease, which is the worst form of kidney
trouble. 1t is sold by druggists, in fifty
cent and dollar sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail free, also pamph-
let telling all about it. Address DR.. Kill
mer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
When writing be sure and mention
reading this generous offer in this pa.
per.
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A Happy Miss.

Buffalo Commercial, April 4. 1899.
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Crane Vines EARLY Renrer.

Almost every body if asked what fruit
comes earliest into bearing would an
swer strawberry, which is correct. But
close second to it is the grape vine,
which may also be made to bear one or
two punches the year after planting.
The difference in favor of the grape
vine is that each year the vine becomes
more productive, while the strawberry
bed has to be plowed out and replanted
after the second or possibly the third
year. The strawberry plant makes its
owner keep up constant fight with
weeds to get much good fruit. 1t is
hardly strange that one of the Bible
writer's makes sitting down under his
own vine and fig tree the best illustra-
ton of rural happiness and content
ment.
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tended by her twin sisters, Pauline ane
Polly, who showered the happy coupl.
with rice as they started away on a car
rage trip.
'Mr. and Mrs. Bingham are popular
young people, and the Clipper joins thei:
host of friends in extending congratula
lions and good wishes
"Those wretched children" breatheo
Mrs. Peters, starting to her feet, while
Pauline and Polly covered their guilty
heads with the bed clothes.
''Don't faint, mother. don't. His es.
teemed fellow-citizen is going right
down to interview Editor Dodge, and
while I'm gone you can write up his
obituary. I'll guarantee that it will be
founded on fact at least. Where's my
hat?'
But Mrs. Peters was dissolved in
tears, and before her husband sue
ceeded in finding his head covering,
alone and unaided, Susie and young
Bingham returned from their ride in a
state Of satisfaction that even the Clip
per was powerless to disturb. After
they had read the Clippers account of
their wedding Mr.. Bingham plucked up
courage to propose that they regard it
as a prophecy and proceeded inn
mediately to fulfill it.
Mrs. Peters, in the awkward circum-
stances in which they were placed, ap-
proved of the idea, and Mr.. Peters, after
a time, was persuaded to tip his hat at q
less murderous looking angle. and de-
parted in search of Parson Hildreth in
stead of the moving spirit of the press,
while Mr.. Bingham sought the town
clerk to procure the license.
At the intercession of their sister, the
term of Imprisonment was shortened
for the twins, and they emerged from
their temporary confinement in state
of subdued joyousness that found ex-
preston in a remark from Polly to the
effect that they would play nothing
but funerals after this.
But Editor Dodge never really under
stood why Mr.. Bingham subscribed for
the Clipper and paid down ten years i'll
advance, with the remark that he liked
to encourage genius; or why Mr.. Peters
at the same time stopped his subscrip-
ton and tried for a whole year to exist
by borrowing his neighbours papers,
Atlanta Constitution.
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take ont half column Of plate matter;
/ / will be back in a few minutes with
something to fill ir.'
| So saying, he rushed out, and striding
up street met by chance the lady who
had been visiting Mrs. Herrick that
afternoon.
Heard about the wedding?" she
asked him, as he drew near.
mo; but was just going to find out
about it, ne answered. "Young Bing-
ham and Susie Peters, wasn't it?''
Eyes; I was next door during the
ceremony, and it was the quietest thing
in the way of a wedding ever heard
Of
"Who married them?"
"Parson Hildreth, and he was the only
/! person there outside the family. I
don't believe their nearest neighbors
would have known any thing about it if
it hadn't been for the twins. They were
on hand with the rice and old shoes and
gave the couple good sendoff."
''What was her dress?" queried
Dodge, jotting down the points as fast
as his garrulous informant brought
them out
white duck skirt, pink shirt waist,
and plain white sailor hat. She looked
real sweet, but no one would suspect
from her dress"
Mr.. Peters was among the first that
afternoon to get the paper, but without
stopping to look at its contents he
wendell his way home and tossed the
sheet into his wife's lap
Here, mother, is the illumination, y
his favorite name for. the Clipper;
"where are the twins?''
Il put them to bed,'' said Mrs. Peters,
unfolding the paper, that they might
realize how naughty they were this
afternoon, but o! what is this?-
'Dingham-Peters, :" and with wide, dis
tended eyes horror, indignation, and
alnazement in her whole attitude, she
began to read the sews while it was
news and decidedly fresh.
"A pretty home wedding took place
this AFTERNOONS at the residence of our
esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr.. John E.
Peters, whose eldest daughter, Miss
Susan Amelia, was united in marriage
to Mr.. Charles Gerold Bingham, a ris-
ing young lawyer of Snowsyille.
"The wedding was quiet affair, in
deed, only the immediate members of
the BRIDES family being present at the
ceremony, which was performed by
Rev. DR.. Hildreth, pastor of the First
church.
"The bride, one of Snowsville's fair
est daughters, was plainly but most be-
comingly gowned in a white duck skirt
and pink shirt waist, and she was at
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Deep Flowing Is Prof table.

Land that is plowed deep endures
the droughts better than shallow
plowed land, as there is a greater alb
sorption of moisture. In other words,
the deeper the soil is plowed the greater
its capacity for holding water. To pre-
vent loss of this moisture the top soil
should be cultivated so as to simply
loosen it, which prevents evaporation
and at the same time keeps the weeds
down. The water in, the soil escapes
at the surface, and this should be pre-
vented by a mulch of loose dirt over
the surface, which is effected by cultiva-
ton.
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sHEEP-FEED1NG BARN.
How to Fit Up Old Structures So That
They Can Accommodate
Large Flock.

There are many old farms about the
country that are being utilized as sheep
farms, sheep now being increasingly
profitable as stock and exceptionally
well fitted to bring up an old rundown
farm. On most of these old farms there
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Journal.
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The Mango In Fixs,

Mango in pigs is usually the result
of allowing the pigs to sleep on manure
heaps or in old, partially rotten straw
piles. tits caused by a very small insect
that burrows itself under the skin and
makes a sore over which a scab forms.
To cure, one of the best plans is to
wash the animal thoroughly with cas-
tile soap and warm soft water, and then
rub with salve of lard and coal oil in
equal parts. This may need repeating
in week or ten days in severe cases.
The bedding should be changed and
clean, dry straw be given.-Farmers'
Voice.
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Aay&Ga%,
GROUND PLAN.

runs. The main barn is used for the
storage of hay, fodder and grain. The
buildings form sheltered yard in
front, which will be especially useful
in winter. OF course, if desired, the
wings could be attached at right angles
to the barn, but this would not afford
the excellent sheltered yard. In Fig.
1 is shown a perspective view of such
barn, and in Fig. 2 the ground PLAN
Orange Judd Farmer.
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He WINS Posted.

'Now, Harry" asked the teacher of
the juvenile class, what is the meal we
eat in the morning called?" "Oat-
meal" was the little fellows prompt
reply.-Current Literature.
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

IS now small barn-too small to be
used for any serious sheep farming en-
terprise. The accompanying plans
show how such old barns can be fitted
up cheaply to accommodate, a large
flock of sheep. Side wings are built at
an angle as shown, an alley-way being
left for a track on which the feed car
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HOW TO SAVE LIQUID MANURE.

and take it over to D. We plowed a
deep furrow from water run B. and
made heavy bank of earth at F. Now
when it rains all tho water of the barn
yard goes to D, also all that comes down
the run B. The field is in the pasture.
and it will be of great benefit 10 it.
The ditch Z can be heightened at any
time when the land is fertile enough at
D.-Ira GRADER, in Agricultural Epito-
mist.
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MIGHT Have known 1t.
Very Likely.

She-I see an eminent German ply
stefan has found that women require
more sleep than men.
He-Yes, and I'll bet he's been bribed
by somebody who wants to furnish
some reason why her husband should
get up and build the fire in the morn.
ings:" Chicago Daily News.
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SAVING LIQUID MANURE.
cradle Fertility from the Barn
yard All the Time.

Here is my plan of annually Swing
considerable fertility from the barn
yard, which before went down the wa
ter run marked 3 in the cut. In heavy
rains the water would follow C and be
lost. The question was how to save it
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Same Thing.

Mrs. Hyde Park-Haye you fed the
chickens to-day?
Mr.. Hyde Park-Not exactly! plant
cd some flower seed, though
City Independent.
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A Reversed Philosophy.

''To see ourselves as others see u.s.
From many a foolish thought might
free us,
But the same end might be reached, my
brothers,
BY seeing ourselves as we see others
Il. A. W. Bulletin
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Complying with His Request.

BURY me-" pleaded the dying sailor,
ION American soil.''
"All right" said the ships COM
mander There's an island in the
ofing. Well just bear down and ex-
pand a little more."- Philadelphia
North American.
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Simple Addition.

A teacher at Garden City said to her
primary class the other day: IF your ia
Their gave your mother seven dollars to-day
and eight dollars tomorrow, what would
corner replied: "She would have ft."-
Kansas City journal,
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1t Was Diluted.

Doctor-Can you get pure water ut
your boarding house.
Patient-No, not always; frequent
ly detect just a flavor of coffee in it,
Detroit Free Press.
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Losing Interest.

Dorothy has given up all expecta.
tons of getting married"
'Has she quit crimping her hair?"
"No; but she doesn't save cooking
recipes any more. "-Chicago Record.
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where bullets have tendency to fly, chron.
icles an office accident" thus:
"The bullet passed entirely through the
chest of our foreman, Mr.. Jones. but fortu-
nately missed pate-glass window, which
cost considerable money" - Minneapolis
Journal.
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Who's to Blame.

When girl graduates she has an ambition
to show the world what noble woman,
with high purpose in life, can do; but she
meets a man and marries him, and soon be-
gins to get that funny look in her eyes,
Atchison Globe.
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Jackson-No, but he doesn't insist
on reading them aloud to his friends
N. Y. World.
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Her Fate.

No matter how pious an old maid may be
And happy, she cannot prevent
The neighbors from saying-indeed, it's the
truth
That her life has been always miss-spent.
Harlem Life
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Slow Pay.

Debtor (warmly)-That is gratuit-
Gus insult, sir!
Creditor-I suppose so! couldn't
collect anything for it, if tried!-De-
troit Journal.
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Refuting a Rumor.

''They tell me that you are Philis-
tine. Mr.. Snaggs," said Mrs. Bellefield
Nothing of the sort, assure you,'
replied Mr.. Snaggs.. Il am an American,
born and bred. "-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
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The Real Thing

The hand that rocks the cradle
May rule the world, but still,
The hand that keeps things going
Is the hand that pays the bill.
Il. A. w. Bulletin.
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NEW YORK CENTRAL.
Controlled Lines, Excel the Penn.
sylvania-A Stupendous Showing.

The passenger department of the
New York Central system, including
lines leased, operated and controlled,
east from ST. Louis and Chicago, is the
largest paying institution of it's kind
| in the world. 1t beats the Pennsylvania
! system with its leased and operated
lines in the territory named by 81, $780,
75S, and is so far ahead of any other
system that comparison, to say the
least, is odious. Poor's Manual, which
is an authority on railway statistics,
in it's last yearly edition showed the
passenger earnings of thirty-six of the
leading railways, as follows:
Pennsylvania .s21, 200, 900
ford Gncluding New England
Ns ;; YORK Central & Hudson ''''''''''
River Qeased and operated
lines) 49,; ...................... 15,214ooo
southern Railway System. ....:.... 100000
burg ..::................... $500, 900
Boston & Maine System. ............ S,5OO,O0O
Chicago & Northwestern. ......... 100000
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 6,500,00o
Canadian Pacific. ................. 5,800,0OO
Erie Observation-Disclosures. 5,70OOOO
AAtehison: Topeka & Santa Fen. 5,sS99SSS
Baltimore & Ohio. ................... 5,O590OO
Southern Railway System. ....... 4,SOO, 900
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifc.. 43OO 900
Louisville & Nashville. ......... $4,000
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 4,2OO, 900
Missouri Pacific System. ......... 100000
Boston & Albany. 1000, 900
Big Four. ..:..................... 100000
Delaware, Lackawanna g. West
Michigan Central. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Northern Pacific. Observation-Disclosures. 1850, 900
Wabash Observation-Disclosures. $500, 600
Lehigh Valley. Observation-Disclosures. 200, 900
Central Railroad of New jersey. 27OO,0OO
Union Pacific. ....................... 2,4S0, 900
Great Northern. Observation-Disclosures. 2074,0O0
Chicago & AltOn..... 1861 1897
Chesapeake & Ohio. 1857, 300
Plant System. ;;.....;................ 1,275,lA
Denver & Rio Grande. ............. 1,24S,00O
New York, Chicago & st. Louis.... S76.97
New York, Ontario & Western. 63S,0O0
Pittsburg & Lake Erie. 544,781
Two of the great systems show earnings
from passenger traffic, as folloWs:s
New York Central lines:
New York Central. SIS, 214,0 900
Michigan Central. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Lake Shore Michigan Southern. 100000
B B1s r. Albanv Observation-Disclosures. sS S9S 40
Pittsburg & Lake Erie. ............. 544,7S1
New York, Chicago & St. Louis.... S76,9T
81, 5,75s
Pennsylvania lines:
Pennsylvania Railroad. .$21 ,200, 900
Penn. lines west Of Pittsburg. ...... S,S00,0OO
s3O,oOo,o0O
Buffalo Commercial April 4. 1899
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A Stranger Present.

Struggling Minister-There was .
stranger in church to-day.
Wife-What did he look like?
II did not see him.
"Then how do you know there was .
stranger among the congregations"
II found good quarter in the contri-
button box."-N. Y. Weekly.