for tl )t 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: Being among the 
Cousins L read their letters every week. But 
they do not seem to tell about their suocess in 
their little gardens. One success encourages 
another greater effort. It. is always best to 
try again when wo have an opportunity to do 
better. 1 have tried ever so hard to do better 
than some others in raising large vegetables 
and so win a premium. But old people with 
warmer climates and better soil have walked 
MARVELOUS CHANGES. 
WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BE TO 
THOSE WHO REFUSE TO RELIEVE. 
Is this country unconsciously undergoing a 
wonderful change, is the change to take place 
before we are aware of the fact, and when it 
has taken plac e will we wonder why we ‘did 
not see it before it was too late' 
Those that see the changes early avail 
themselves early, and thereby receive benefit. 
The shrewd iron man sees the iron interest 
transferred from Pittsburg and Pennsylvania 
to Birmingham, Alabama, and in his far¬ 
sightedness sees the furnaces in Pennsylvania 
PERFECTION 
M Waa marked upon A» Itoilnmu’w butter by Prof. Alvord at 
the liny Mine fair, Boston, Oct., ‘sis, because It was tho only 
butter that scored LOO Point* at tho Larif«Hi Pair ever held In! 
New Xlnurlund. It was made by the cooi.RY PROCESS, 
\V. Ifronsou. Pics. Am. Jersey Cattle Club. 
'A'. J. Hiind, Kcc’y. » » ” ” 
T, Cl. Yeomnni, Pres. llolsteln-Frleidan Brooders Assoc. 
X. li. Wale*, Jr. Kcc’y. '» » ” ” 
ri, lion, W. K. <»1 tidal one at, tho “Midlands” ITawardcn, 
England, the nuk« of Snthsrlnnd at “Chlefrtcn”, England, all 
use tho COOI.EY CHEAlUElts In t heir dairies and so do a 
Very Purge Majority oft.he best dairy men In AllCountric*. 
The Cooley Creamer has more l.al»orsnvi«i|f coitv«»iti©nccR 
___than any other, Including lilevniors, L'afoinotsi witla rnfri- 
rpratorn. Rottum and S urfar.e Sklnunlug Attachments, &c.,<SC. 
g-trator*, asoiiu SEND FOB JTXrSTRATBD CIRCULARS. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE C0. s Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
off with some of the prizes. This summer 1 
tried for some of the prizes at the County Fair 
and carried off a lew—one on squash, one on 
cabbage and others on nine varieties of pota¬ 
toes. The drouth and my care and cultiva¬ 
tion proved too much for the large gardeners. 
I gave my plants something to drink every 
day, except Sunday, for two months. Any 
of the Cousius that wish to grow better vege¬ 
tables than their neighbors may do so by giv¬ 
ing their soil a good coat of barn yard ma¬ 
il are be fori' plowing in the spring, and then 
have the ground plowed the usual depth, but 
with narrow furrows so as to have the plow 
pulverize the soil. After two days it may be 
harrowed twice in a place; and when the day 
is warm and pleasant plant such seeds ns may 
be planted early. Prepare the place for the 
sepil by reducing all lumps to fine soil—seeds 
abhor lumps—and cover with the fiuestof the 
earth. Do not let a hard lump remain near 
tho seed—no, not even in the potato hills. 
When the plants are well up, destroy the weeds 
and stir the surface soil, breaking all the 
lumps. Do not let any weeds grow f?i the 
lulls of potatoes later in the season. When a 
month old begin to water every other day at 
sundown except potatoes. Do not water pota¬ 
toes but twice in the season unless very dry. 
Take a half of a kerosene barrel, fill it with wa¬ 
ter and place in it a large shovel-full of fresh 
cow manure and stir it up once. The next 
day, evening, carry a pailful to your garden 
and give each plane half a pint. The surface 
is fertilized while tho lower roots draw mois¬ 
ture from below. Hoc your garden every 
week, stirring all of the surface. This is the. 
way 1 raise the largest vegetables seen at OUT 
County Fair. 1 read the Rural and learn 
from the best farmers that; write for it. I 
have an old man that tells me many things 
and 1 love to learn. Yours to serve, 
Winning Garden, la. lewis* smith, 
Dear Uncle Mark: T would like to be¬ 
come a member of the Y. H. C, 1 live on a 
farm of 100 acres. I go to school in town. 1 
am 10 years old. Pa has taken the Rural 
for 19 years and likes it very well. We have 
four horses and one colt, we call her Molly. I 
was in Iowa last summer with my sister; I 
have a brother in Iowa also. I caught lots of 
gophers while T was out there. Did you ever 
see a pocket-gopher? It looks so funny with 
its pockets in its cheeks. Besides the pocket 
gopher there is the gray gopher and the spot¬ 
ted gopher. We have a pet squirrel, which 
wc can handle like a kitten, but he is mischie¬ 
vous when wo are out of sight. We have had 
him for five yeai’H. 
With love to you and the Cousins I remain, 
Saegeitown, Pa. golimth kktner. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I would like to join 
the Y, H. C. I can skate, but my skate is 
broken. T tried to skate with it but, I slipped 
and Rat down, making what looked like tho 
middle of a glass alley in the ice. Mine are 
spring skates. We have built a new stable. 
There is a lot of hay in it, and wo can tie 
about '-17 cattle and f> horses in it. We have a 
horse-fork for unloading hay; it is my work 
to drive the horse. 1 would rather ride him 
than walk behind. I’ve been trying to whittle 
a tnoney-box out of a pine stick. 1 have it all 
done but the top, and I have 15 cents to put in 
it. TOR EtARBOR. 
Blaokhcath, Canada. 
LYou will be a banker yet. Most boys would 
rather ride than walk.— U. m.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have often read the 
letters of the cousins, and think I would like 
to read my own in print. I live on a farm 
with my father and mother, one sister and 
four brothers, one of them is a little baby, we 
call him Francis. I nurse him a good bit, and 
help mother all 1 can. We have a number of 
pigs, live horses, three colts and two mules. 
< »ue of the colts wc are trying to tame, it will 
let us pet, it already. Father grows strawber¬ 
ries and we pick them for him, but there are 
so many that others have to pick too. Rasp¬ 
berries and vegetables grow here too. Our 
farm contains U18 acres. l. s. p. 
Wawft, Pa. 
$U0«Uattf0U$ guUwtfi&iufl. 
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. 
To destroy Injurious insecls Is conceded l>.v all or 
rluu'ili.sts as necessary to secure perfect fruit, for full 
directions and outfit for hand or horse power at bottom 
cash prices address 
FI ELD FORCE PUMP CO., Lock port, N. Y, 
torn down and deserted for this new and 
prolific field. It is claimed by the irou men 
of Alabama that the low price at which iron 
can be produced there will revolutionize the 
iron interests of the world. 
Wc have seen the grain-growing centers of 
this country shifted to the West. We have 
seen the pork-packing industry flit from 
Cincinnati to Chicago, and from thence to 
Kansas City and Omaha. Southern cotton 
mills undersell New England and American 
markets, and challenge the world. 
We have seen and are seeing all this take 
place before our eyes, and know that other 
changes are taking place equally as promi¬ 
nent, and we wonder as we behold them. Ten 
years ago the insurance companies only re¬ 
quired an analysis of the fluids when they 
were taking insurance for very large amounts. 
To-day no first-class company will insure any 
amount unless they have n rigid analysis of 
the fluids passed, and it any traces of certain 
disorders are apparent, the application is re¬ 
jected. In their reports they show that the 
deaths of sixty of every 100 people in this 
country is due either directly or indirectly to 
such disorders. The Bromptnn Hospital for 
Consumptives, Loudon, England, reports that 
sixty of every 100 victims of consumption 
also ha ve serious disorders of the Kidneys. 
Among scientists for the treatment of this 
dread malady the question is being discussed: 
“Is not, this disorder the real cause of con¬ 
sumption?” 
Ten yeans ago the microscope was some¬ 
thing seldom found in a physician’s office; 
now every physician of standing has one uud 
seldom visits his patients without calling for 
a sample of fluids for examination. 
Why is all this? Is it possible that we of 
the present generation are to die of diseases 
caused by kidney disorders? Or shall we master 
the cause by Warner’s safe cure, the only 
recognized specific, and thus remove the effects ? 
It is established beyond a doubt that a very 
large percentage of deaths in this country are 
traceable to diseased kidneys. For years the 
proprietors of Warner's safe cure hove been 
insisting that there is no sound health when 
the kiilueys are diseased, and they enthusias¬ 
tically press their • specific for this terrible 
disorder upon public attention. Wo are 
continually hearing its praises sounded. 
This means wonders! 
Cannot t.lio proprietors of this great rem¬ 
edy ; who have been warning us of the danger, 
tell us how to avoid a disease that at first is so 
unimportant, and is so fatal in its termination ? 
Are we to hope against hope, and wait without 
our reward? 
The most significant of all changes, how¬ 
ever, that we of to day can note is that radi¬ 
cal change of view to which the public has 
been educated; It was formerly thought that 
the kidneys were of very small importance; 
to-day we believe, it is generally admitted 
that there can be no such thing as sound health 
in any organ if they are in the least degree 
deranged. 
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THE “COMMON SENSE” MILK PAIL. 
A*. This Is the 
Vf _ _ only perfect 
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MS/T There are no 
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LOWEI.L, MASS. 
Fleuse mention this paper. 
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:Q., Oswego. N. Y. 
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MAKER (singlet to lake charge of Moplewooa Dairy 
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