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WISCONSIN briefleib: GUTTA PERCHA IN DEMAND. The Piogma of DriTior.lt or REAL RURAL READING THE HOUSEHOLD, ABunboo Stand. This Is a pretty bric-a-brac from bamboo fishing rods and palmleaf fans. The upright sticks should be thick enough to allow of the bracing sticks be WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PARTMENT. DE- Agrlcultural Prosperity Good Use for a Useless Article --How Sot to Ilavo Cholera- Dilating Fresh Allikfor Cream liaising Poultry In France Bones and Bone Meal A Bamboo stand The Kitchen.

Torn, are you going to the charity ball? Sure said spose youre going to take that Jones girl I said she; Sure, said My son, said you do it Itll cost you $25 $10 for a ticket, $10 for flowers, and $5 for a carriage. What of jt said Areyou going to marry her? said shew Guess not, said lying, of coarse. Thea I wouldnt spend $25 on her, said she. Vell, said Vpose I am thinking of asking her to have me Then I certainly shouldnt $25, said she. I kind thought things over and youre Mrs.

Smith and theres Jthe $25. Get yourself something pretty with it. Honey. Of coarse sbe protested she didnt need any money yet, bnt it ended iu ber taking the $25 aU right. But Borne way or other Honey" doesnt seem so sweet on her mother-in-law as she was.

named by this authority: "We can combine good traits. The brown Leghorn lays the smallest egg, the black Spanish the largest. Where merely a commercial egg trade is to be reached, this cross has its marked effects. We may not equal the Spanish eggs as an 1 average, but we make up a sort of middle size-just the size to sell well in market. We can combine early maturity with plump growth.

The Asiatic fowl grows slowly, but it counts in weight. It would take too long to get it to a broiler if left all alone; but if we cross a quick grower, the Leghorn, for instance, on these Asiatic hens, we get the quick growth and the body, too. This is indeed a decided advantage. Farmers, as a rule, have a collection of all kinds of fowls. Fanciers call them Showmen class them as mongrels.

But bo they what they will, if the males were killed off and pure-bred fowls substituted, there would be more eggs, more spring chickens, and better health. Bones and Bone Meal. For laying hens, bones that have been coarsely ground are excellent, as they are digested and used as food. provide the necessary phosphates and also lime for the shells to a certain extent; they also contain a proportion of nitrogen. Bones, when sharp, also serve as grit, for masticating the food in the gizzard, thus rendering a service as well as providing the materials for the production of eggs.

For very small chicks, bone meal is better, and the finer the bone meal the easier it is digested by the chicks. Some persons buy the ground bone, sift it, use the coarse part for hens and the finer parts for chicks. Fresh bones are much better than bones that are dry, as they contain a certain amount of meat and gelatine. Bones are very cheap, considering their value, as the hens will not cat a very large quantity at one time, but if fresh bones are broken or pounded to sizes that can easily be swallowed, the hens will consider them quite a treat and consume a large quantity. They can be broken much more readily when heated in an oven.

Farm and Fireside Agricultural Prospfvity. I TATJSTICJ AN DODGE, of the Department Agriculture, was in Cincinnati the other day," and had a long talk With an attache of the 'rimes newspaper, of that city during which he said many Interesting things -and gave much valuable information relating to agricultural interests and prospects. The number uf acres-under cultivation in the United States have more than doubled since the and now comprise about one-third of all the land in the entire Republic. When, a few fhonths ago. prices of farm products were low, I and there was a temporary depression! of agricultural interests, these facts were not considered.

population of the United States has not doubled since the war, but the number of acres under cultivation have, and one aero will produce more food than is requisite! for one person. The food supply was far greater than the home demand, and, ury foolishly, we were admitting I foreign food products to the value of yearly to compete with the over-production of our own arifi-ers. I The demand for sugar is steadily increasing, and, by the statisticians estimate, it will be( but a siioft time until the SUgar bill of the Nation will reach the enormous sum of $200,000,000 yearly. This should be spent with American pro-, ducers; not a1 penny of it should go from the Market. The projectors of the Gautemaljn and Pacific cables are said to be confronted with a serious problem as to What they are Zac cover their long submarine wires is almost as important a question as were the osigi-nal preliminary grants.

They want gutta percha, because that is the material always used in long-distance submarine insulation, and because there is no other substance that has yet been found to take its place. Bnt the supply is so limited that an attempt to bny such a quantity as they will need would send the price from $1.75 a pound, as it is now quoted, up to $4 or $5 a pound. Gutta percha, like platinum, is a stuff that has increased in price as the use pf electricity has become more and more general; Just as platinum has almost become the king of metals, so gutta percha has become the king of insulators. It was very cheap a few years ago, bnt the increased demand has sent it up to $1.75 a pound now, with a constant tendency to increase. The Guatemalan people, it is said, have proposed the use of caoutchoue to insulate their wires, and the rubber market in consequence has been expecting a boom.

Bat experts say that while Para rubber is a good insulating material under ordinary circumstances, it cannot withstand the forces that attack it at the bed of the ocean, and it is extremely improbable that the projectors of a great cable will try any such elaborate experiments ith it as wonld be involved in a trans-ocean line. Balata, which is neither gatta percha nor rubber, but possessing many of the properties of the former, would be a good substitute for gutta percha, it is said, if it conld be found in sufficient quantities. There is also said to be a gum on the banks of the Orinoco which makes an insulating material almost as good as guttapercha, bnt it is not found in commerce. Gutta percha, which thus bids fair to be a more important article in the market than ever before, comes to ns through England from the Malay Peninsula, India and China. Gutta, or, as it ir variously written, gntah, gatta, gittah, gotta, is the Malayan term for gum, and percha is the name of the tree.

The trees attain the height of from sixty to eighty feet, with a diameter of from two to lour feet. The wood is soft, fibrous, spongy and of a pale color, marked with black lines, these being the reservoirs of gutta percha. The gutta, as it flows from the tree, is of a grayish hue, although the market product becomes almost black in its preparatory processes. The collection of gutta percha generally takes place after the rainy season, as in the dry season the gatta doe3 not flow so readily. The yield of a well-grown tree of the best variety is from two to three pounds.

The natives extract the gum by cutting down the tree at a height of fourteen or sixteen feet above the ground. Narrow strips of bark are then removed, and are beaten by the natives to accelerate the flow of milk or gutta, which is received hollow bamboos or in holes scraped in the ground. The next in the process is boiling. This is conducted in a kwali, or pan of iron, in which lime juice or cocoanut oil is mixed with the gum. When sufficiently boiled, the gutta is pressed into molds.

On arriving at the port of shipment the gutta, before exportation, undergoes examination and classification into parcels according to its quality. Nearly the whole product is tnen shipped to England, whence it reaches the United States in small quantities and generally of the poorest variety. Four-fifths of the entire product is used in making cables, and nine-tenths of it is handled in England. That which is exported to this country is oftentimes only the refuse from the British shops, boiled over and remolded. The constant diminution in the supply of gutta percha was explained by an importer yesterday in this way If a Malay or Chinese wishes to plant pepper or anything else, he burns down a portion of the lorest, and when he has raised two or three crops, he clears a new portion.

Thus finely-wooded spots become denuded of trees and covered with rank grass, rendering them unfit for farther cultivation. Again, to obtain the gam, the trees are cat down, none are planted to take fiieir places, and the result is that in districts where percha trees once abounded only one or two can now be found. A writer in an Eastern paper says that in twenty years over 90,000 piculs (of pounds each) of gutta percha were exported from Barawak alone, and that this meant the death of at least 3,000,000 trees. lt Nearly Broke Off the Match. Juit before the charity ball last winter a certain young South-Siderwas paying such assiduous attention to a certain young North Side woman that Mrs.

Grundy had it they were engaged. The yonng woman, of course, knew better, bnt sbe did think matters had progressed to the point where he was sure to asfc her to go to the ball. So she declined two invitations from other admirers. The invitation she wanted never came. Her parents were not society people and she had to stay at home.

He didnt go, The next time he called she was chilly. The threatened storm blew over, however, though nothing was said on either side about the ball, and the other day they were married. They did not take a wedding trip, bnt went at once to their modest little home. The next day the young husband greatly, surprised his bride by taking a sealed envelope from his pocket-book and throwing it in her lap. It was addressed to her.

Open it, honey," he said, itbeldhgs to yon." Honey" opened it and found the following memorandum: Ticket 1 10 Carriage. 5 Total $25 Why, Tom," said she, what on earth does this mean Perhaps you will remember that you didnt go to the charity ball last winter? Perhaps." Well, just as I was getting ready' to write you my mother came to me and: of ITEMS Gathered from vagi-ous SOURCES. What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters General and Local Interest Marriagwe and Deaths Accidents and Crimos Personal Pointers. At La Crosse, Herbert Gould, aged 35, drowned while bathing, Bein'? an expert swimmer his companions thought he was joking and he sank before their eyes. Rose Zolposkt, the murderess, has been sentenced, to prison lor life.

A new trial was refused. Leo NECGEBArEF, a Menasha merchant, caught a burglar in his house. Another escaped. N. S.

Trouts team ran away at Neenah, and his wife was made crazy by Dr. Knox and F. McGuire two prominent business men of Chippewa Falls, who filed on claims at the recent opening of lands of Wisconsin land grants, have received notice that the Ashland courts have decided in their favor against the claims of squatters who hd settled upon the land before date of' filing. Miss Hughes runs a restaurant In tHer little village of Plainfield. gang of young men stand in front of the store making insulting remarks.

Miss Hughes fired four shots at her tormentors. She did not hit any gf them, but was fined $3-and costs. Society of the Second. Ward of Chippewa Falls is considerably stirred up over a sensational battle which occurred between two young scdTely ladies while attending a part given at the residence of a near neighbor. ijMiss Mary E.

Lunney is a school teacher, bo- i witching in style and manner, and has many admirers, the charged Miss B. A. McGuirk, a yonng trimmer of hats and bonnets, with referring! to her actions in a manner incompatible with decency. Miss McGuirk supported the charges in genuine oratorical style. Miss Lunney replied by charging her antagonist with being an excessive lover of beer, and concluded her remarks by breaking her silk parasol over the shoulders of her adversary.

A regular hair-pulling scene was prevented by the young people present interfering. Both young ladies are universally censured for their conduct. i Pensions have been granted to the following Wisconsin people: Original Timothy Vantyle, Edward Fitzgerald. Jos. Sieberlish, John Snyder, John Gunther, Florente ambers, Chas.

Bucka-low, Herbert L. Kellogg, Geo. Welder-hold, John Siefried Thos Wells, Benjamin Rastall, Henry Wick, James Green, 'Geo. Miller, Albert Schmiel, Stukely Sherman, Hiram J. Prescott, Ezra Tattle, Jacob Sunda, Wm.

J. Bird, Henry Waffenschmidt, James H. Patrick Griffin, Peter Gebhard, John B. Farrington, Levi M. Wines, John.

rightmyre Edward $wale, Wm. fete-, phenson John Vanderbilt, Irving J. Sanderson, Benoni W. Bradway, Dr. J-Johnson, Abner Wright, Jas.

E. Smith, Geo, Wallermann, James Zimmerman. Additional John Smith. I Increase Walter Palmer, Original Jno. A.

Ward, Jane CL Van Antwerp, Newton S. Chapin, James H. Field, Richard Corcoran, Anthony W. Galloway, Ephraim W. Crackill, John Cronk, Silas H.

Cole. Samuel Carlson, William D. Ferry, William Demit3. Additional William Bal-ebam, Robert Hadley, John Toriialty. Restoration and increase Benjamin F.

Parber. Original. Dorotha Pollett, Julia Tripp, James Morrison, Andrew D. Haynes, Robert S. Rowe, Emil E.

B. Hager, Charles' Poole, Francis Pennyi-cook, 'Selden Pratt, Wilder M. Howard, Jasper Rapley, James G. -Knight, Frederick Leimann, Henry Ilener, Patrick McNamee, Newton John V. Hcrriman, Plondon H.

Huggins, Wal-iaca E. Ladd, Charles 1 Guggett, Henry Hausmann, Julius Kaiser, William Margaret Judd, Amos B. Colby, Bernard R. innick. W.

P. Morton and J. W. Patterson, well-known citizens of La Crosse, got into a fight, and Patterson was slashed! in the throat, while Morton carries a. pair of black eyes Many Fau Claire women have beem badly torn ou barbed-wire fences while-climbing to get away from a half-clad, wild man who roams in the woods.

Trempealeatt County is rapidly coming to the front as a dairy county, hav-f ing eight creameries do(ng a successful and increasing business. The Elk Creelr creamerys daily product is about 2,000 pounds, 52,250 pounds being the amount of butter manufactured', during the-month of June. The largest daily output of the present month is 3,700 pounds, which it is safe to say surpasses that of any other creamery in the State. Four ounces of water were takens from the head of an infant chifd of CL Voss, of Eau Claire The child had beeir a sufferer from hydrocephalus or a similar disease since birth. James Whitley, a 14-year old Oshkosh boy, was struck in thejaw 'thrown bat, while watching a game ofT base-balL The boys jaw was broken, and three teeth w3re knocked out.

W. L. Houser is acting postmaster at. Mondovi, as Inspector Pulcifer removed. CL H.

Halverson, postmaster at that, place, and placed the authority in the-nands of his sureties, who appointed! Houser as acting postmaster. The Inspector claims there is dne the Government over $2,200 on money orders and postal notes by Halverson, The Appleton horse stealing-case has been settled Joseph Captain, the man who found the hoise astray and took it. was discharged upon the payment of costs. Phelps Perrin, of Hurley bank fame, is not In love with the 'Wanpnn prison, fare. He says only two meals a week are served that are in any way palatable, barring the bread, which, he says, is-always good i Farmers in Trempealeau County alt report fine crops.

Ashland is laying a large number of sewer mains. Ashland has 2,795 school children. W. S. Merger, of La Crosse, has a mirror that is oyer 200 years old and once belonged to.

Qneen Elizabeth of England. j1 Frank Claud, of La Crosse, was bit- ten by a spider. He nearly died. Many cattle were killed by the recent storm in Outagamie County. Alrert Landreth, of Manitowoc, had 70Q persons at work picking peas duriqg one day.

i Among other improvements a grand stand will be built on the grounds of tho Oshkosh Fair Association. Her Old Charge in Danger. There is a well-to-do young Southern man in this city who lives in a handsome residence not far from Central Park, and he has among other valued possessions a family of seven children. He had been brought up" by an old negro mammy" somewhere near Alexandria, and when his wife recently suggested that another nurse be secured for the children his thoughts reverted to Aunt Maria. He decided to bring the old negress here, and in a few weeks she was comfortably installed in the nursery, mnch to the awe of the Northern born young Sonthrons, who were not familiar with the institntions of a bygone age and who did not quite understand Aunt Marias authority.

The yonng man has a telephone in his house, and as the old negress hsd never heard of that invention she looked upon it at first with wonder and then with The jingling bell, receiver and other necessary adjuncts were more than Aunt Marias mind conld Master. She wonld never go near dat debbils ting nohow." Finally oue day last week S. rang np from his office, and after a brief conversation requested his wife to send the old woman to the telephone. A great deal of persuasion was required to make her consent, bnt she was finally induced to place the receiver at her ear and listen. Is that yon.

Aunt Maria?" inquired S. over the wife. An expression of astonishment spread over the old womans countenance, quickly followed by one of awe and another of fear. For several minutes she stood bewildered, and then shouted L-L-Lawd a massa. Mars Bandolp I How you done git down in dar?" Then she decided that he could not but be in clanger.

Come outen it! sbe cried. Youse up to some more dem pranks like when vo was a chile. Come outen it 1 Youll git hurt. Fse cornin den arter you," and with that she started for the street door. Mrs.

S. had hard work to keep Aunt Maria at home until Mars Bandolp" arrived. She refused to have matters explained, and abjured him by everything not to go down in dar again. She has never gone near the telephone since. New York Herald.

Polonlug by Narcotics. The principal narcotic poisons are laudanum, morphine, and opium. Of landannm the fatal dose is at least two drams, two grains and a half of the extract are said by Tanner to be equal to four grains of the crude De Quincy conld take sixteen ounces of the tincture of opium daily; infants have been killed by a single drop oi laudanum, which is equal to about the twelfth of a grain of opinm. No one should use laudanum, opium, or mor- phine without the express orders and daily watchful care of a physician, for all these drugs have an entirely different action in health and sickness, as will be shown in an article devoted to the so-called opium habit. When an excessive dose of any of these narcotics is suspected, a physician should be immediately called, and pending his arrival every effort should be made to keep the patient awake.

The symptoms of poi-ioning are gradually increasing giddiness, drowsiness, stupor, slow, heavy breathing, weak pulse, pallor, and final coma. There may be nausea, and even convulsions. The first remedial action is to free tbe stomach by means of emetics or the stomach pump; then rouse the patient by slapping the chest and neck with a wet towel, dashing cold water about the head and face, walking up and down out of doors if that is necessary giving electric shocks, and even artificial respiration when other means fail to rouse from the stupor which precedes death. Strong coffee may be useful as an adjunct. The case should be in the hands of a competent physician, in a word, keep the patient awake until the doctor arrives, loosen the clothing, and keep the head cool.

The treatment for suffocation by illuminating gas is the same, applied with utmost vigor. Harper's Bazar. Average Lire of a Crow. Do you know that the average life of a crow is 1(X) years? said an Atlan tian who poses as a naturalist. It is so.

One was killed down in Dougherty County a few weeks ago with 37 branded on his back. He was well feathered everywhere except just between the wings on his back, where the figures 37 could be distinctly seen branded in the flesh. I can see but one meaning to that, and that is that someone caught him in 1837, branded the figures on his back and released him. But it is tbe first case of branding a bird I have ever known. Terrapins live even longer than crows.

One is said to have been caught down in the Savannah Biver recently with tbe figures 177 cut in its shell.1 And fish. There are fish alive to-day that are known to hare been in existence more than 100 years ago. In the Boval Aquarium at St. Petersburg are fish pnt in there 150 years ago." Atlanta Constitution. Old-F a a humect Clocks.

Bich 1 New Yorkers with country homes cheerfully pay from $350 to $1,000 for tall, old-fashioned clocks of rich wood and fine workmanship. Some of the most beautiful of these clocks are fitted with long tabes of bell metal, upon whicn cathedral chimes are rung at each quarter of the hour. One of these clocks is valued at $3,000. Ing thrust entirely through the others and held in place by little wooden bolts. These braces should beput through the supports at unequal heights, so as to allow of each one passing entirely through; and the knife should be exceedingly sharp to avoid splitting.

The fans, with their handles cut off, are laid on little wooden supports to which they are firmly screwed in the center. The material for this stand costs but a trifle and it is a light and graceful bit of furniture for a summer room. Farm and Home. Household Bints. Salt water, borax, and carbolic are aids in the battle with vermin.

Tby keeping cranberries fresh by putting them in cold water containing a piece of charcoal. Change the water occasionally. Pouk vinegar over fresh fish, and the scales will come off easily. The luster of morocco leather is restored by varnishing with white of am Carbots and turnips should boil for forty-five minutes when young; one hour, in winter. When your sifter becomes clogged with flour or meal, sift some hot ashes through it; you will be surprised to see how nicely it is cleaned.

wash flannel garments, souse them in hot water, and put them repeatedly through a wringer. The garments should never be wrung with the hands, or put in cold water. To remove paint from silk goods, saturate the part with equal parts of turpentine and ammonia, then wash in soap-suds and let it dry between blotting paper, under a heavy weight. Jewelry can be made to look like-new by washing with ammonia and water, or alcohol, then rubbing dry and polishing with prepared chalk, applied with flannel or chamois skin. PRACTICAL RECIPES.

Family Plum Padding. One-half pound beef suet, pound currants, one-half pound raisins, three eggs, half a nutmeg, bread and flour to mix. Boil for the usual time, and serve hot. Beef Tea, One pound of lean beef cut into small bits, with every particle of fat removed. Put in a wide-mouthed bottle, cork tightly, and set in a kettle of cold water.

Boil three hours. There will be asmall cupful of the juice; season with a salt spoonful of salt, and give a few spoonfuls at a time. Tapioca Puildlng, Dissolve a teacupful of tapioca in a quart of water over night. In the morn ing, pour off the water, and boil it in a quart of milk with two teacupfuls of sugar. Pare and core eight apples, filling the opening with a lump of sugar and a bit of cignamon; put in a baking-dish, and pour the tapioca over them.

Bake two hours; serve cold. Roly-Poly Padding. Make a rich suet crust, roll rather thin, spread jam (or any kind of fruit), leaving a margin of paste where the pudding joins, roll it round, tie in a cloth that has been sprinkled with flour, drop in boiling water, keep cooking two hours, take off the cloth, lay on a flat dish, and serve while hot with lemon sauce. Spanish One cap brown sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk four tablespoons melted butter, one egg and yolks of two (save the whites of two for frosting,) one teaspoon soda, one and one-half cups of flour, one tablespoon cinnamon, the same of cloves if desired. Use brown sugar for the frosting, stirring until quite white.

Sweat Potato Croquettes. Boil six large sweet potatoes until they are just tender, then remove the skins and mash the. potatoes through a colander or a vegetable press; add a tablespoonful of butter, a tablespoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and a tablespoonful qf sugar. Mix thoroughly, form into croquettes, dip first in egg and then in bread crumbs and fry in smoking-hot fat. Celery ou Toast.

If not used in soap celery may be creamed and served on toast. The following recipe is well worth trying: Cut the stalks of celery into inch pieces, cover them with milk and let them boil until tender. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and liberally with batter, pour over squares of hot toast and serve at once. The milk may be omitted and the vegetable stewed in water till tender, seasoned to taste with salt, pepper and buttear In this recipe it is not to be served on toast. A pinch of soda should be added while it is cooking.

Buckwheat Cakes. Nice buckwheat cakes are made of four caps of buckwheat flour, one scant cup of yellow Indian meal, a tablespoonful of salt mixed up with hree cups hot water and one cup of cold milk, making the mixture about blood warm. Beat this batter vigorously, and add a cup of liquid yeast or a yea3t cake dissolved in a cup of luke-warm water. Buckwheat cakes, after the first rising, should be raised with some of the batter. For this purpose there should always be made at least a pint more than is used each time, and this should be set away in a cool place to serve as yeast for the next batch of cakes.

These cakes raised with buckwheat batter will be better than the first raised with yeast. The golden moments in the stream of life rash past ns and we see nothing bnt sand the angels come 'to visit ns and we only know them when they aTa -cone. George ElioL THE PIGGERY. How Not to Hare Cholera. Dont leave a well hog in a place where a sick one is or has beeu a moment longer than can be helped.

Dont fall to examine such seperated well hogs twice a day, and to remove any that may become ill. Dont allow the same- person to take care of the affected and well hogs. Don't allow any intercourse of men, dogs or hens between the pens of either lot of hogs. Dont puka new lot of healthy hogs in pen, or upon land, where swine plague has been for less than three years, unless the same has been thoroughly cleansed of all refuse, plowed or dug up several times, and exposed to the air for an entire summer season. Dont forget that closed pens, sheds, straw stacks and accumulated litter are more dangerous than open country, when swine plasue has prevailed in such places.

water hogs from running Dont streams. Dont so that streams. Dont should be well as possible. your can hog pens, drain into or runs running forget that all such places drained and kept as dry Dont bury dead hogs when' you can burn them up. Dont sell or buy sick hogs.

Dont visit your neighbors, hogs when sicktor allow him to visit yours if well. Dont forget that watchfulness, care-, fulness and diligence will do more to prevent swine plague than ail medicines. Dont forget that without these things being adhered to, the most practical vaccine will ever prove next to useless. Ham and Eggs. THE DAIRY.

Diluting Fresh Milk for Cream Raising. Perhaps the most, valuable lessons learned in the dairy world during 1890, were taught by the failure of the ice crop. Creameries and many large dairies had become so accustomed to a plentiful supply of ice that they had come to think they could not get along without it. But experiment and experience have discovered that by diluting fresh milk 25 per cenL with either warm or cold water the time of cream raising may be so much reduced as practically to do away with the necessity of using ice for creaming milk. The lesson is of great value and has already been the means of saving many dollars; and, rightly used, may be the means of saving more.

We do not know of any carefully conducted experiments bearing upon the point, but from the few observations made ourselves, we are inclined to think that those who have made really good butter without the use of ice will find that it keeps sweet longer and stands up better when exposed jo the air, than butter made with ice. When ice is abundant it is apt to be used too freely, and the milk, cream and butter be made tooold. Whether or not diluting the milk has any influence on thechnrna-biity of the cream, remains to be tested, so far as we know. The Jersey Bulletin. Dairy Moter.

A comfortable cow stable need not be costly, but a stable will be costly if not comfortable. 'A stack of straw will make more warmth for more cows if used as bedding in a warm barn instead of out of doors. One in position to know says that no product of equal value is handled so carelessly as Is butter, by the butter-makers of Iowa. This wrong ought to oe righted at once. If cow is well treated she will do better than if roughly treated, and if you buy a cow that Is not used to treatment you have got to overcome her distrust before you can get her to do her best.

When you go to buy a cow note how the owner goes up to her and how she accepts the approach. If she receives a pat or a stroke as though she was accustomed to it well and good, but if she looks afraid of surprised, look out for her to be some time in getting acquainted. Agoob creamery man remarked the other day that he would give $200 to have his patrons together for two hours, so he could talk to them. He knew it would be monev in his pockets to df so, as it would be money in tbeir pockets, and what puts money in their pockets is money In' his. No creamery man, no farmer can afford tomiss attending every dairymens meeting that comes anywhere near him.

In fact, he cannot afford to miss them, even if he has to go out of his way to attend them. abroad. The Grand Island, works will enc and within the 000 a year, at 1( for beet sugar, Western As to Cottop, one-half of all eminent success of the Nebraska, beet sugar ourage new enterprises next five years are likely to be paid grown and made in the we are producing about fiber used in the world and wo are likely to sustain our supremacy. And as to tobacco, we are likely to become independent of Cuba or Sumatra for the finest growths; of good and me dium kinds we already grow enough for home use. J- A Good Um for a Useless Article.

What is more provoking than a wooden button that gets tight on the screw and pulls out, because you forget to turn- it always the one way? What is more abundant and more useless than a broken hinge? Did you ever substitute the latter for the former? Just try it and see how nice it is to have a button that is always there, works Easily, is strong, never gets tight, although it may not look very neat. Practical Farmer. Walks! Between Farm Buildings. Tho.grolund about most farm-houses are poorly supplied with walks. Sometimes there is no way to approach the house from thestr.eetor to go from the house to the well or farm buildings, except to travel over ground that is not covered with turf.

During a large portion of the year, and especially in the winter, it is necessary to pass through mud or snow. As la consequence damp feet are among the penalties attached to passing out of the house during unpleasant weather. Of course, it is very difficult to keep the floors of a dwelling clean when the occupants are obliged to walk through mud every time they go out. There should be good walks leading from the Street to the entrances to the house, and to out-baildings. the well and the various They not only comfort bjut save a large amount of work in takinsr care of the house.

Very good and serviceable walks may he made by nailing plank to scantlings placed on edge. The walks may be from two to three feet wide, according to the width of the Walks constructed in this manner are easily kept free from snow, as they may be swept off as often as is necessary. The only objection to them is the difficulty in driving across them. This difficulty may be obviated by raising the drive-way for teams or by placing inclined planks or timbers against the sides bf the walks. Good walks may also be made of flat stone or gravel confined between! pieces of timber.

To prevent the timbers from spreading they should be fastened together at suitable distances by, meags of cross-pieces. The gravel should! be clean and the. surface of the walk should be slightly rounded so as to carry off water. THE IjOULTRY YARD. Poultry In Fnnva.

In France the fattening of geese for market is the business of men, who do nothing else, They contract with the dealers to get their stock in marketable condition at -a certain time for a price agreed upon. I France Is considered the largest poultry market in the world, the keeping of poultry being done in a manner that makes it pay. It is not uncommon to seo the French peasant driving Into market a flock of several hundred geese, selling them as we would so many sheep or hogs. There are also many who go among the farmers, plnck the geese feathers, and market them on percentage; this gives employment and a living to many poor people. American Agriculturist Cross-Bred Fowls.

There are many who agree with the Germantown Tcleqraphr in its statement that cross-bred fowls are far better and more hardy from the shell than the purebred. Following are some of the benefits a.