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acidity in the cream to determine when it 
should be churned? It will be acid enough 
for churning when it will trick’e off the end 
of a stick, like sirup. 
Mr. Monrad said that half of a litter of 
pigs were fed on sour, the other half on sweet 
milk—equal quantities—and the latter were 
by far the better lot . 
Pres. Adams said that farmers and farm¬ 
ers’ boys are fast learning they cannot work at 
farming as their fathers did, and get profit¬ 
able returns for their toil. They have found 
they must mix brains with the brawn, or the 
intelligent ones distance them in the race. It 
is brains and good wages on the one hand, an 
uneducated brawn and low wages on the other. 
This is the inevitable that all must]face in farm¬ 
ing as in everything else. 
Dr. J. B. Learned, the pig reformer, says 
that an over-fed baby feels about as any one 
does when he is over-tull of dinner, and his 
temper is affected about the same way. He is 
cross, and doesn’t smile. So it's not a Provi¬ 
dential act that makes a cross baby. Lay the 
baby in a clean crib, with no rockers and no 
rocking. Let him be by himself always. Do 
not bury him in flannels to keep him from 
catching cold: this is the way to give him a 
cold. Let his head be uncovered. A baby 
fed and cared for in this way requires compar¬ 
atively little of the mother’s time, and none 
of the grandmother’s, or aunty’s or the doc¬ 
tor’s. 
The Doctor holds that the average mother’s 
milk is not as good as that from a healthy 
well-fed cow. Besides, generally, the mother 
cannot furnish milk without great loss to her¬ 
self. Give the cow’s milk whole with no 
sugar or water. Give it every three hours 
whether awake or asleep. The baby will 
often take it and continue his nap. 
Our medical journals abound in the best 
and most approved samples of infants’ foods. 
Our chemists, our professors, and numerous 
M D s have their names attached, testifying 
to their purity and fitness. Dr. Learned 
thinks we can afford to exchange all these for 
one good cow on the hill-side, in raising 
babies. 
In ISfio Henry Stewart succeeded in feeding 
11 cows the whole year on the produce of 14 
acres of land by means of a succession of 
forage crops, grown continuously through 
the season, and a small plot, not much over 
two acres, of mangels for winter feeding with 
the surplus of the summer fodder. A large 
part of the land produced three crops in the 
year, and manure enough was made from the 
11 cows to go over the whole 14 acres. 
One-year-old asparagus roots, prepaid 
by mail 75 cents a hundred. So the seedsmen's 
catalogues tell us. Can’t you affora a little 
plot ? Such a plot will furnish enough aspara¬ 
gus for a family of two. Perhaps you do not 
care for it. 
Try pinching back a hill or so of Lima beans 
when the plants are a foot or so high . 
James Taplin says, in the London Garden, 
that the notable failure of the past few years 
among new roses, such as Her Majesty, Prin¬ 
cess Beatrice,and, with a majority of growers; 
Puritan also, has brought about a much more 
conservative temper on the part of the large 
rose growers, and in the future, it is highly 
probable that many of them will test new va¬ 
rieties by the dozen instead of by the hundred. 
The R. N.-Y. has been looking over its lit¬ 
tle lot of Monroe Co. Prize potatoes so much 
prai-ed at this time for their heavy yield. 
They have kept well—so much in their favor. 
Their shape is against them. 
Mr. Joseph Harris tells, in the American 
Agriculturist, how he would fit his land for a 
prize oat crop. He would sow half a ton of 
Mapes or Bowker potato, or corn manure—it 
doesn’t matter which. Then on separate acres 
he would sow all the way from 2C0 to 500 
pounds of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammo¬ 
nia The R. N.-Y. would not use over 200 
pounds to the acre of ammonia or nitrate in 
addition to the 1,000 pounds of “complete” fer¬ 
tilizer. If we applied the larger amount, un¬ 
less the season proved dry, wo would expect 
the oats to lodge before the grain formed_ 
However intricate and irregular in shape 
a luwn may be, says J. C. Olmsted, in Garden 
and Forest, it should, as a general rule, have 
a predominating, central, unbroken area, in 
order to give its characteristic qualities of 
breadth and repose. The element of openness 
is essential. It is not uncommon to leave 
many existing trees scattered over a lawn, or 
a single tree in the midst of it, or to plant 
trees promiscuously over it. This is usually 
done either from a love of trees as beautiful 
objects, or from the dread of a bare, un¬ 
furnished look. No greater mistake could be 
made. 
A lawn is at its best when there is no evi. 
dence of the handiwork of man—no formality 
in the grading, uoue iu the planting, no 
exotic plants, no fountain-jet or basin, no 
vase or statue, no nicely trimmed path, no 
fence or formal terrace. Such a lawn con¬ 
veys the purest impression and gives the most 
lasting satisfaction. One who cultivates a 
taste for formality and things evidencing the 
skillfulness of man is apt to tiro of anv one 
object or composition of that kind. It is true 
chat there is a certain kind of refreshment to 
be obtained from variety in such things, but 
it is a stimulating, nerve-consuming kind of 
refreshment, the opposite of that which Is 
encouraged by repose. But to one who culti¬ 
vates a taste for the beautiful and picturesque 
in Nature, a single, purely natural scene is 
never tiresome if seen again and again. The 
infinite variety in the details and in their dis¬ 
position, the difference of aspect caused by 
changes of weather, and by the seasons, by 
the growth of plants, by birds and other 
animal life—all are harmonious with the 
natural scene, are not conspicuous enough to 
injure any artistic impression which the sceno 
may give, and yet make the scene endlessly 
interesting. 
It is not an uncommon thing, continues Mr. 
Olmsted, to see a formal bed of scarlet gera¬ 
niums in the midst of a lawn that would 
otherwise have had much suggestion of a 
natural breadth and repose. The bed of 
flowers may be a good thing in itself. It is 
bright and gay, enlivening and stimulating, 
and it is well set off by the surrounding turf, 
but the lawn is sacrificed to it—that which 
has a permanent worth is made to give way 
to that which has but a passing value, a 
source of endless satisfaction to a pretty toy 
of which every one soon tires. Again, con¬ 
sider the case of a lawn “ decorated ” with 
statuary. A beautiful nymph splashing iu a 
fountain, were it not a very hackneyed idea, 
and where it is the work of a true artist, 
would be a most enjoyable and valuable pos¬ 
session; but a poor, cheap, painted, cast-iron 
imitation of such a piece of sculpture, placed 
so as to dominate a fine lawn, is a barbarism 
which it is hardly conceivable that any in¬ 
telligent person could be guilty of. The same 
thing might be said of almost all the usual so- 
called "decorations” of lawns. To decorate 
the face of a beautiful woman with painted 
ornaments would not be one whit more 
savage. Our civilization is spotted all over 
with the relics of barbarism; good taste is 
always striving to get rid of them, and they 
should be particularly avoided when we set 
about making a natural lawn. 
How is your hot bed progressing ? Have 
you a cold frame ? They don’t cost much and 
will greatly assist you in forwarding cabbage, 
tomato, celery plants, etc., not to speak of 
flowers. Have you a wheel hoe ? It is an in¬ 
valuable implement in any small garden that 
cannot be cultivated by horse power. 
The only objection Mr. Joseph Harris 
makes to sugar beets is t hat they will not keep 
as well late in the spring or early summer 
months as yellow mangel-wurzels, etc. The 
latter he grows principally for the ewes and 
lambs and he likes to have some for the lambs 
till June or July. Sugar beets are ripe and in 
good condition to feed earlier than mangel- 
wurzels. For feeding early in the winter he 
prefers sugar beets to maugel-wurzels, and if 
kept in pits or in a cold cellar they can be kept 
in fine condition till the middle of May. 
Weight for weight, sugar beets are more nu¬ 
tritious than mangel-wurzels. On the whole, 
however, he has not yet the necessary facts to 
determine which is the most profitable kind to 
grow. We are safe in saying that no farmer, 
and especially no sheep, cattle or pig breed¬ 
er, will regret raising a good crop of both of 
them. If he wants to commence feeding early 
in the winter,he should raise the greater pro 
portion of sugar beets. If he does not wish 
to commence feeding roots till near spring, he 
should raise more maugel-wurzels. No breed¬ 
er ever has too many r of either. 
New strains of asters, phlox, verbenas,pan¬ 
sies, zinnias and sweet peas are the most con¬ 
spicuously announced common flowers in the 
catalogues of 1889. 
The color of the new American rose Souvenir 
deWootton,issaid to be nearly that of the Jacq. 
with an exquisite odor. It is a perpetual 
bloomer. It is a vigorous grower. The flowers 
are sometimes six inches in diameter. Pity that 
any American rose of value should carry a 
French name... 
DIRECT. 
-Weekly Press: “We think that red 
clover does better for being sown wnh 
AlsiKe.” 
-Hoard’s Dairyman: “ Look at the men 
who are really making the most money in 
keeping cows. How is it with them? Aie 
they dull and indifferent about keeping post¬ 
ed iu their business?, Not much. You will 
find that they value knowledge and they are 
as willing to pay for it to feed their minds as 
to pay for bran to leed their cows. Starved 
cows are generally owned by men who have 
starved heads. They may be well posted on 
politics, but they certainly are not well posted 
dairymen. You will find that with all their 
experience they have not learned how to 
breed a profitable dairy cow. They have not 
learned how to feed a good cow- up to the 
point of profit. Tbe^ know scarcely any¬ 
thing ahout the latest and mo«t profitable 
ways of sheltering, handling and caring for 
a dairy cow. They have learned but little 
concerning the latest and most profitable 
ways of handling the milk, making the butter 
and selling the product.” 
-N. Y. Herald : “ A correspondent of the 
New England Farmer suggests a freight ex¬ 
press throughout the New England States that 
will enable farmers to ship small quantities of 
produce and truck at low rates to consuming 
centers. The project, if adopted by the rail¬ 
road companies, will undoubtedly prove bene¬ 
ficial to both parties—to the farmer by in¬ 
creased facilities for disposing of his product, 
and to the transporting companies by the in¬ 
crease in their traffic. It is needed by the 
one and should be granted by the other.” 
- J H Hale: “ About 1,000 plants equally 
divided between five best varieties, two earlv- 
ripening, one medium, and two late-ripening 
varieties, will make a grand family fruit patch 
that will supply a very hungry family of six 
or eight persons, and during the higbt of the 
season furnish a surplus for canning, and to 
give to theri’amily of the busy neighbor who 
‘has no time to fuss with little things.’ A 
fine family fruit garden that wculd cost on 
most farms from 815 to 820 a year in manure, 
labor and plants, would furnish plenty of 
fruit, fresh and canned, the whole year round, 
that would be worth at low prices not less 
than 8100. Surely here is a ‘home market’ 
worth considering.” 
- Hartford Courant : “ Strawberries 
should yield 4,000 quarts per acre, raspberries 
3,000, blackberries a little more than rasp 
berries, and currants should yield 1,500 to 
2,000 quarts per acre.” 
-“ How is it that I dislike the things I dis¬ 
like so much more than 1 like the things I 
like ?” 
- Terre Haute Express: “Disgusted 
Husband— 1 Is there no way to stop you from 
kissing that nasty little pug dog V 
Wife—‘You might teach him to chew to¬ 
bacco.’ ” 
-American Garden : “Some one asked an 
old florist a question about plants. He frank¬ 
ly answered : ‘ 1 don't know,’ and added, * The 
most experienced of us always find something 
to learn.’ It is impossible for a woman to 
have ‘ nerves’ or ‘tautrums’if she turns her 
attention seriously to plants.” 
For Malaria 
l'»e llorstord’s Acid Phosphate. 
Dr. E. G. Davies, De Smet, Dak., says: “I 
have used it in slow convalescence and pre¬ 
vention from malarial diseases, where the 
drinking water was bad. I believe it to be 
beneficial in preventing summer complaints; 
also one of the best agents we have to rectify 
the bad effects ot the drinking water upon the 
kidneys and bowels —*4dc. 
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We do not claim that Hood's Sarsaparilla is the 
only medicine deserving public confidence, but 
we believe that to purify the blood, to restore and 
renovate the whole system, it is absolutely 
unequalled. The influence of tho blood upon 
the health cannot be over-estimated. If it be¬ 
comes contaminated, the train of consequences 
by which the health is undermined is immeasur¬ 
able. Loss of Appetite. Low Spirits, Headache, 
Dyspepsia, Debility, Nervousness and other 
“little (?) ailments” are the premonitions of 
more serious and often fatal results. Try 
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“SWEET HOME.” 
“ There is no place like home” runs the old 
song, and we know bow true it is. 
Go where we will—encounter men in what¬ 
ever circumstances we may—we shall be apt 
to find a reference to their homes will immedi¬ 
ately secure their attention, and will give you 
favor in their eyes. 
The impressions made in the home are last¬ 
ing. A mother’s words never pass from the 
mind. A father’s counsel remains fresh so 
long as life lasts. The last benediction of par 
ental love and solicituie—with what tenacity 
it clings to the memory when almost all else 
has gone. 
How important therefore, that the home be 
maintained intact a? long as possible—a haven 
of loving counsel of peace and joy to the 
growing children. How sad when death in¬ 
vades, when the fire goes out oil the hearth¬ 
stone and the family is scattered. What the 
children lose by death of a parent only those 
realize who have grown up without that 
love and advice which a parent alone can 
bestow. 
No doubt, tens of thousands of parents have 
found premature graves, who might have 
lived years of usefulness, had they but known 
wbat was sapping th»ir strength, and slowly 
but surely pushing them into the grave. 
There are tens of thousands of parents to¬ 
day in agony of mind through fear of death 
from kidney disease, who do not know they 
are doctoring only symptoms—such as wake¬ 
fulness, nervousness, a splendid feeling one 
day and au all-gone one another, dropsy, weak 
heart action, pneumonia, neuralgia, fickle ap¬ 
petite, etc., while the real trouble is poisoned 
blood caused by diseased kidneys. Unless 
purified with Warner’s Safe Cure they will 
just as surely die, as though poisoned with 
arsenic. 
if you are suffering as described, and have 
been for a length of time, you are, unless you 
get relief right speedily, stricken with death, 
whether you know it or not. 
Doctors publicly admit that they cannot 
cure advanced kidney disease; they are too 
bigoted to use Warner’s Safe Cure because it 
is an advertised remedy; consequently, unless 
you use your own good judgment, secure and 
use Warner’s Safe Cure, a specific, which has 
proved itself in tens of thousands of cases to 
be all it is represented, your home, through 
your death, will be broken up and your loved 
ones deprived of that which money caunot 
purchase or friends supply. 
Already too many loving parents, noble, 
kind and true, have gone down to premature 
graves through ignorance of their condition, 
and the bigotry of physicians. It is time to 
cry halt, and we beg of you, for the love you 
bear your home and the duty you owe your¬ 
self, to give this matter your careful and con¬ 
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