name, but, for good reasons tbat will appear to 
all, it is better not to announce the name until 
the premiums are awarded. We have chosen 
this m preference to flower seeds, because in 
the raising of melons we are sure every boy 
and girl m the Rural family will be inter¬ 
ested. Sometimes boys do not give the proper 
attention to tUe culture of flowers, but 1 have 
never seen the boy or girl wbo disliked to cul¬ 
tivate a vegetable like the melon which, both 
in growing and in eating, gives such general 
satisfaction. 
But to udd to the interest of cultivating the 
melon seed, I propose, as 1 said last week, to 
oiler live premiums to be competed for only 
by those whose names are enrolled on the 
Horticultural Club list. As we have pub¬ 
lished the names received at the end of each 
week there will be no misunderstanding as to 
who are entitled to receive the seeds. 
The First Fkkmium will be awarded for 
the largest weight of entire crop of melons, 
and for the heaviest single melon raised from 
the seed sent. 
The Second Premium will be awarded for 
the largest total weight of entire crop, irre¬ 
spective of largest single melon. 
The Third Premium will be awarded for 
the largest and heaviest single melon, irre¬ 
spective of weight of entire crop. 
The Fourth Premium will be awarded for 
the second largest and heaviest single melon. 
The Fifth Premium will be awarded for the 
third largest and heaviest single melon. 
Six seeds will be sent to euch member of the 
Club, which may be planted in any way the 
competitors choose, the only conditions being 
that we shall reserve the rigut to send an 
agent to examine the prize crops, aud that 
such crops shall be subject to our order to be 
sent to this oflice at our expense, if we so de¬ 
sire. The prizes are not yet determined upon, 
but will be duly announced. TJ ncle Mark. 
Implement# and |ftarhinerg 
FARMING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 
No. 45. 
Delivered and Set in Satisfactory Order. 
Manufacturers of Iron-lever Scales say ' Osgood's wood levers are humbugs, not worth buying or trying. 
HENRY STEWART, 
Experiments in Feeding. 
There is nothing that may be made so 
pleasant aud interesting as experimenting— 
that is, trying different things and watching 
how they turn out. A boy or a girl plants 
some corn or some peas, aud in a day or two 
digs tnern up to sec if they are are growing, 
aud how they are growing. The older folks 
may laugh at it, but it is a very reasonable, 
and, imietd, a creditable thing to do, because 
it shows a thoughtful aud inquiring mind; 
aud a boy who does this will make a good 
farmer, because he will always want to know 
all of the ins aud outs of everything, and that 
is how people become wise and leant what 
they know. Now we cannot know things 
from being told them. We believe them, 
but that is all. If we want to know we 
must verify them by experimenting. Now 
we know that a hen or a cow eats food; we 
see that, and we kuow tbat from tbat food 
one hen will produce a good many more 
eggs, and will grow larger tnuu another one, 
aud we also know, or may easily know, that 
one cow will produce mucU more mdk and 
butter from the same quantity of food than 
another cow will. That we can also see any 
day. But we cannot know these facts with¬ 
out making trials, and there is nothing, posi¬ 
tively nothing, in the whole business of tann¬ 
ing that can be learned and known lor the 
first time without teats and experiments. 
All agricultural knowledge and science con¬ 
sists o£' facts which have been or are gath¬ 
ered slowly by actual practical work, and not 
one laet has been learned by thinking or 
reasoning about it. 
Now in regal’d to feeding animals we may 
kuow what other people have done, it is not 
sate to depend upon mat in our own work; in 
fact our knowledge of what others have found 
out and learned, only shows us how needful it 
is that every farmer should liud out himself 
what his auimais are able to do iu the way of 
turning their food to good account so that 
profit may be made from it. For instance, 
we take a brood of young clucks aud we begin 
to Iced them as soon us they are able to eat 
grain, aud keep an account of what they con¬ 
sume until they are 12 mouths old, aud then 
weigh the fowls, it will then be a very simple 
metier of figuring to kuow fiow muefi llesb. 
has been made from the bushel of corn which 
each fowl lias eaten iu the 1 2 months. If the 
bird is a good Light Brahma rooster, it will 
very likely weigh IU pounds when it is dressed 
if it has been well cared for. We may say 
then that till pounds of corn has made HI 
pounds of flesh. If we feed a little pig a 
year until it weighs 800 pounds, we shall 
find tbat it has euten corn at just aboUL the 
same rate; viz : six pounds for every pound 
of flesh it has gained. But if we take a 
Brahma hen a year old, that has been laying 
eggs, she will only weigh about eigat pounds, 
and she will probably have laid several dozens 
of eggs before she is a year old, and it will be 
easy to figure up fiow much corn it has taken 
to produce these eggs. Duiing her second 
year a hen will produce about loti eggs per¬ 
haps and these will weigh about 20 pounds; if 
a bushel of corn has been eousumed, we shall 
find mat three pouuds of corn have produced 
one pound of eggs. The same sort of result 
can ,.e gained from feeding a calf or a cow or 
a lamb or a theep; and it will be found that 
animals vary very much in the way in which 
they dispose of tht ir food, some eating a good 
deal and producing very little; using tne most 
of it in mere living and making no profit for 
their owner. The more stock of that kind a 
farmer snould have the poorer man he would 
be; they would in fact, to use a common say¬ 
ing “eat their own heads oil ” and their owners’ 
as well. And this is just why every one who 
owns an animal and keeps it for profit, should 
know precisely what it consumes; and what 
it gives back to its owner iu return for a part 
of the food; and how much it wastes in living; 
so that he can get rid of those which are not 
profitable and keep only those that are. And 
if we look very closely into this thing how 
many auimais we should find that never yet 
paid for theu' feed and never can, and have to 
be supported by the better ones, j ust as indus¬ 
trious, sober, careful people are compelled to 
support the idle, drunken and vicious persons 
who spend their time in poorhouses and 
prisons. 
IN 32 STATES, have proved them during the past five years, and say 
“THE OSGOOD WOOD-LEVER SCALE GIVES ENTIRE SATISFACTION 
WE NEED NOTHING BETTER.” 
Where we have no Agents our Scales are SENT ON TRIAL, FREIGHT PAID, and 
tW FOR ILLUSTRATED CIRCULARS AND REFERENCES Address 
OSGOOD Sc CO 
Invented and patented by 
E. G. MATTHEWS. 
Price $12, Boxed, 
With patent Combination Metal 
Dial that will not cor¬ 
rode or rust. 
SEND FOR FULL DESCRIP¬ 
TIVE CIRCULAR. 
Manufactured solely by 
THE IHlihANUM M F C CORPORATION, Higganum, Conn., U. S. A 
New Members of the Club for Week 
Ending March 18. 
Mollie Goodrich, Johnnie Goodrich, Geo. 
B. Fox, Lizzie T, Albrecht, Millie Freeman, 
Sidney E. Johnson, Carrie Bingham, Mabel 
Farrington, Belle Mathews, S. Mathews, May 
Longwell, Clarence Fleming, J. Hubert Flem¬ 
ing, Gertie Herdman, Efiie Herdman. 
EMPIRE GRAIN DRILL, 
WITH 
FORCE FEEO FERTILIZER 
ATTACHMENT. 
Distributes all kinds of grain Evenly & Accurately, 
Drills Corn evenly Tor JCield Crop. 
Sows Phosphates without pasting or clogging. Amoun 
sown regulated by gear. 
WO GrUESS-WORK I 
Send for Circular lo K.1II’lllE Oltll,I, CO., 
liox It. sliort^ville, N. Y. 
ImpUttUM# and i&achtn-mj 
SIMPSON & GAULT 
(STRAUB MILL CO.) 
Makers of 
Flour Mill Machinery 
of Every Description. 
Portable Mills for Corn, Wheat 
Rye , and all kinds of Grain. 
Write for prices, 
N. W. oor FRONT & JOHN Sts 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
I E NEW REVERSIBLE PLOW! 
ONE AND TWO-HORSE, MADE FROM GRAY IRON, CARBON AND STEEL 
HODGE’S PATENT— The best side-hill and practical flat-land Plow In use. 
Feed your Stock 
WITH THE 
Waste on Your Farm. 
PRINDLE STEAMER 
FOR COOKING FOOD FOR STOCK 
Just tbe thing. 
PRICES REDUCED. 
BARROWS, SAVERY & CO., Limited 
Philadklphia Pa. 
The largest Stump Machine Works 
IN THE WORLD. 
The Chamberlin Screw Stump Machlne.after 
12 years’ u-st, has proved y Us superiority over 
all others bv Its great ex I! hlbltlon of strength 
ami durability, combined H with cheapness and 
ease la pulling all ls| * classes of slumps. We 
now furnish Mu- chines with wrought 
iron screws when JSfFBch, desired. Also build 
small machines ,yL/'for pulling small 
At f/i stumps, snags, etc. 
fit IS We manufacture 
REMINGTON AGRICULTURAL CO., [lien, Milter Co., N. Y. 
1 Co., 57 RoadeSt., N. Y.; A. & A. G. Allord, 21 & 23 S. Howard, Baltimore, Md 
Warranted for 8 Years, and satisfaction guaranteed or 
monev refunded. The Jtest, most Efficient, and most 
Durable Was er in the world. It has no rival, and is 
the only machine that will tcash perfectly clean without 
nibbing , It can be used in any sized tub, or shifted from 
one tub to another in a moment. Is so simple and easy 
to oja-rate tbat the most delicate lady or child 10 years 
old cun do the work. It is made of Galvanize I Iron, and 
is the only Washer in the world that, has the Rubber 
Bands on the Boilers, which prevent tho breaking of 
buttons and injury toclotheu. 
r. Retail price 8k00. Agents’ sample, $3.50, Also the 
ne Wringers at Manufacturers’ lowest price. Circulars 
i KlUK WASHER CO.. Erio.l’u. 
eleven different sizes. Forreduced prices, etc, address 
THE CHAMBERLAIN M’F’U CO., Glean. N. Y. 
free, ltef or to editor of this paper. 
TEN DOLLARS PER TON SAVED 
BY USING 
BAUGH’S TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR PHOSPHATE 
Price 825 Per Ton ot 2,000 Pounds, 
on cars or boat In Philadelphia or Baltlmor • 
This is not an Acid Phosphate, or dissolved S. C. Rtck, but is a regular 
Raw Bone Ammoniated Supe-Phosphate. 
SEND FOR CIRCULAR SHOWING GUARANTEED ANALYSIS. 
Address BAUCH & SONS, Sole Manufacturers 
PailiADEIiE* HIA, r* 
THRESHERSlSsf 
fre«. THIS AULTMAN tt TAYLOR CO.. MansueULO. 
THE HORTICULTURAL CLUB, 
Seed Distribution. 
PLOW SULKY 
Adapted to all kinds of plows and every condition of 
tne soil. The perfection of Fluioiny Machine*. Saves 
draft, labor, and in easily managed. Has been in suc- 
ce-sful operation for tue past eleveu years. Every 
machine warranted. Send for Illustrated Circulars. 
Address UUKIlUAf O Sole Manufacturers, 
Truuuinsburg, N. Y. 
AIbo Manufacturers of Lawn Mowers. Plows, Ato. 
As we announced last week we shall dis¬ 
tribute among tbe members of the Horticul¬ 
tural Club some seed of a choice variety of wa¬ 
termelon. This melon, though new, has a 
BMW rUnsiugonr HARROW. OurPUIi- 
■ fclfcr VICKiZERcoulaiueVUsliarpsteel 
^ blades in three frames covering 10 feet Warranted 
the most pou-erfvl Pulverizer known. For Illustrated 
Pamphlets address TromabHabrow Co.. Geneva.!*. X- 
SAMPLE CARD8, ALL New, name on 10c. Agfa 
Outfit *0. CARD WOttli.8 Birmingham, Ct 
