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T HE HOG LOUSE.—Ill Bulletin No, 7 
of the Iowa Station, (Ames, Iowa) 
Prof, Gillette gives some facts concerning 
the above named insect. Hogs are fre¬ 
quently infested with this pest. Some 
farmers do not seem to realize that hogs 
are ever troubled in this way. The writer 
has seen hogs that were supposed to have 
died of cholera, literally alive with lice 
which had almost eaten the poor things up. 
The hog louse is a terrible nuisance and 
many of the remedies heretofore proposed 
fail because they involve tedious operations 
which tire the average farmer before the 
work is half done. Prof. Gillette used the 
kerosene emulsion, so often described in the 
R. N.-Y. Thirteen pigs were crowded into 
one end of the pen, where there was only 
comfortable standing room for them. Two 
gallons of the emulsion were sprayed upon 
the pigs, special pains being taken to wet 
the fore-quarters and the inside of the ears 
whens the lice are most abundant. One 
man worked a force pump while another 
held the nozzle. The time required was 11 
minutes, while the entire cost for 40 pigs 
was IB cents. 
Digestibility of Corn Fodder and 
Silage. —In Bulletin No. 9 of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Station, those who are interested in 
silage, and those who believe that good 
corn-fodder, well cured in the field, is as 
good as when preserved in a silo, will be 
greatly interested in these experiments. 
They will be particularly glad to read the 
bulletin, when it is known that these ex¬ 
periments seemed to show that the field- 
cured fodder proved more digestible than 
the silage. 
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MAGAZINE REVIEWS. 
T HE HOME-MAKER, also, in the 
same line with Dress, speaks of New 
Year’s resolutions, but in sharp contrast to 
the former, it asserts editorially that New 
Year’s resolutions are a by-word and a 
hissing in the mouths of sensible people. 
That our journey is taken step by step, is 
the key-note of this earnest editorial. 
“ To-day’s stick will not be heavier than 
we can carry. It is when we add to this 
to-morrow’s load, and even those of many 
days to come, that we are crushed * * * it 
is not the actual pressure of what the day 
has to do and bear that wears the nerves 
to the quick. It is the fearful looking for¬ 
ward ; the pernicious folly of sighting 
trouble at long range. * * * But to fight 
sins and foibles in detail is feasible. * * * 
One and all. we are day laborers.” “Is 
Woman Woman’s Worst Enemy ? ” is an¬ 
swered with an emphatic negative by Kate 
Tannatt Woods, who says that the old re¬ 
proach that women are hard on each other, 
will never exhaust itself till women 
slaughter it and give it burial, and brings 
many vigorous arguments to buttress her 
position. The serial by Marion Harland, 
“With the Best Intentions” still goes 
smoothly on, though there are signs of 
a rupture in the near future, and we are 
none of us much in love with Clara; while 
another by Elizabeth Bacon Custer begins 
with almost breathless interest. No. 7 of 
the “ In Wonderland ” series tells of being 
with the vintagers. There are also some 
good short stories, a poem about Father 
Damien, the leper priest, with a fine clear 
portrait, an interesting article on Wedge- 
wood ware, and almost as much more mat¬ 
ter in the various departments as has al¬ 
ready been especially noted. Taken alto¬ 
gether, it is nearly an ideal number. The 
Home-Maker Company, New York. 
D RESS begins the new year as a 
monthly, under the name of “The 
Jenness-Miller Magazine.” It gives first a 
full-page New Year engraving, then an 
editorial plea for good resolutions, with the 
thought that, even if not fully kept, yet 
every quickening of the better impulses 
and every spontaneous enthusiasm have 
their effect upon the permanent growth of 
what is felt in our common human nature. 
The Physical Exercises are continued. 
Social Etiquette takes up for Part I. 
“ Chaperons and Balls;” a thoughtful 
paper on “ College Education for Women,” 
by Laura Gedding, closes with a plea for 
co-education. “New Year’s Customs in 
Washington” gives brief touches of the 
Presidential New Year’s Receptions, from 
the first in 1790, of which George Washing¬ 
ton’s Journal records: “All the respect¬ 
able citizens came between the hours of 12 
and three o’clock to pay the compliments 
of the season to me; and in the afternoon a 
great number of ladies and gentlemen 
visited Mrs. Washington on the same oc¬ 
casion,” to the present time. There is a 
New Year’s story, “What Befell Little 
Bobbins,” and a bright, illustrated one, 
“A Man’s Story of a Bicycle Gown,” be¬ 
sides the serial “ The Philosopher of Drift¬ 
wood,” by Mrs. Jenness-Miller, which be¬ 
gins with this number. The regular de¬ 
partments, “ Fashion and Fancy,” Talks 
About Books,” etc., are well kept up, and 
the magazine in its monthly form bids fair 
to be better and more popular than ever be¬ 
fore. The Jenness-Miller Publishing Com¬ 
pany, New York. 
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S T. NICHOLAS contains a great deal of 
interesting and valuable information, 
as well as much pleasant reading. “An 
Ostrich Ranch in the United States ” tells 
about the first importation of these birds to 
California, their habits, methods of hatch¬ 
ing and rearing their young, and numer¬ 
ous interesting facts in connection with the 
business. There are now about 300 birds 
on the California ranch,and after an ostrich 
reaches his highest productiveness, his 
feathers are worth about $100 per year. 
“ The Routine of the Republic ” is the sev¬ 
enth paper in a series dealing with the or¬ 
ganization of the different departments of 
the Federal Government. The present pa¬ 
per deals with that part of the government 
through which intercourse is had with 
foreign nations. It contains a great deal 
that many of the older boys (and girls) 
would do well to read, and, withal, is writ- 
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charming story “ Crowded Out o’ Crofield” 
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January contains the new depart¬ 
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characteristic style. He pays a glowing 
tribute to the memory of his sainted 
mother, and the Christian home in which 
he was reared, and draws from his personal 
experience some excellent counsel to those 
who are parents, as well as to the young. 
There is also a change in the editorial 
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