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the risibility, is neither beneficial nor inter¬ 
esting. Crying often affords relief. If a 
person is suffering from great grief and he 
is unable to shed teais, there is decided 
danger of trouble in his mind. Whether 
the jovial or the quiet person is apt to live 
longest is perhaps a question. Some people 
are so solemn that they have not life 
enough to die, and keep on earth to curse 
everybody they are acquainted with. One 
man may know no fear while another may 
be frightened at hts own shadow. It is a 
mental affair. The man with a good 
healthy stomach is apt to have more cour¬ 
age than the man with dyspepsia. Every 
healthy man ought to love a woman if he 
can find one worthy of his affection. There 
is a difference between love and lust. Love 
is a creation of the mind. A man must 
have a mind capable of appreciating love, 
or he has not the capacity for loving. Dis¬ 
appointment in love is injurious, as great 
grief is alwavs harmful. 
American Pine Fiber.— A correspon¬ 
dent of the Philadelphia Record, writing 
from Cronly, N. C., says that a company 
was first organized six years ago for the 
purpose of manufacturing matting from 
pine fiber; but the increase in the price of 
jute bagging, made by the Jute Trust, 
prompted the attempt to furnish a good 
substitute for that article by bagging made 
from the pine leaves. The attempt was en¬ 
tirely successful, and the works are now 
producing daily 2,000 yards—two pounds to 
the yard—of good, serviceable bagging, ful¬ 
ly equal to jute in every respect, and at a 
cheaper rate. The process by which this 
hitberto useless material is made into a 
useful commodity is as follows: The leaves 
of the long-leaf pine are gathered and 
taken to the works, where they are first 
weighed. Then they are thrown into large 
vats, where they are boiled in alkali at a 
low temperature for about 12 hours. Then, 
after being thoroughly soaked in the same 
vats, they are taken by a continuous auto¬ 
matic process through the rubbing, wring¬ 
ing, carding, drying, recarding, roving, 
winding and weaving machines, in the 
latter of which the substance becomes an 
excellent article of bagging, and, after go¬ 
ing through a calendering machine is ready 
for use and the market. The process of 
manufacture after leaving the wringer is 
very similar to that of making cotton 
goods. The company pays 15 cents per 
hundred pounds for the leaves as they are 
brought from the forest near by. At pres¬ 
ent, the company is devoting all its force 
to the manufacture of bagging, for which 
there is a constantly increasing demand as 
the value of the article becomes better 
known. 
BOILED DOWN AND SEASONED. 
Hoard’s Dairyman wishes some of the 
butter makers would take some sweet 
cream, sweet as possible, dilute it one- 
fourth with fairly strong brine, and churn 
it at 58 degrees. Then take some of the 
butter-milk, set it in water, both on the 
stove, and see if they can succeed in melt¬ 
ing any butter fats out of it. 
At a Wisconsin farmers’ institute Mr. 
Foster had samples of four kinds of corn 
silage—whole, cut, frosted and unfrosted— 
and said he didn’t rknow which was the 
best He knew it had satisfied the hunger 
of his stock, caused them to thrive well 
and left him plenty of hay. He would con¬ 
tinue to raise ensilage corn and put it in 
the silo. It furnished more food to the 
acre than he had ever got in any other way. 
As to the best kind of corn to use he was 
not positive, but was willing to keep on 
trying.' Mr. Morrison said that in the 
early days of the silo too much had been 
claimed for it. As a result the silo had to 
fight its way against unjust prejudice, but 
it was coming out all right. Many feeders, 
he believed, were making a mistake by 
feeding too much silage; it should be fed 
with a large amount of wisdom ; its chief 
mission was to take the place of green 
summer forage; though the dairyman has 
not yet so decided, he thought it possible 
too much corn was being fed in mature 
corn silage. 
Try a few plants of the Peach Tomato. 
The fruit is very distinct and excellent as 
a preserve. 
Twenty six varieties of potatoes were 
tried at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station (Center County) last sea¬ 
son. Taking the yield and general charac¬ 
ter of the tubers into consideration, the va¬ 
rieties may be recommended for that sec¬ 
tion and where climatic conditions and 
oil are similar, as follows: White Victor 
(with exception of extreme lateness), Early 
Puritan, College White, Thorburn, Bur¬ 
pee’s Superior, Hampden Beauty, Monroe 
County Prize, Polaris, Vanguard and Da¬ 
kota Red. This order of merit is the same 
whether based upon the farmers’ general 
comparison (yield and general character of 
crop) or upon the more accurate and better 
mode, that of the yield of valuable food 
material (dry matter) per acre. 
La France, the sweetest of all roses, is a 
constant bloomer and as close to perfection 
as any Tea or Hybrid Tea in cultivation... 
Mme. Gabriel Luizet is one of the best of 
the hardy class—HybridTlemontants. This 
was introduced in 1879 and grows every 
year in popular favor. 
The Red-branched Hydrangea is a new 
variety of the Hortensia type, not quite 
hardy without protection. The branches 
are red and each one produces very large 
panicles of deep rose-colored flowers. It is 
thought to be the finest of its class. The 
best way to treat it is to grow the plant in 
a pot or box and winter it in the cellar. 
The new white dahlia “ Camelliaflora” is 
described as the best of its color. The 
plants grow to a hight of two feet or over, 
and are covered with snow-white flowers 
during the entire season. 
The Striped Cucumber Beetle.—A 
writer in Garden and Forest in an experi¬ 
ence of over 80 years has never found any 
need for protectors to keep the striped bugs 
off of cucumbers, squashes or melons. 
These beetles usually attack the plants 
when in the seed-leaf state, and seldom do 
much harm afterward. As soon as the 
seed-leaves appear the bugs appear also, 
but a handful of bone flour dusted over 
each hill will keep them away. One appli¬ 
cation usually suffices, but if washed off at 
once a second dusting will be needed. Not 
only does this cause less trouble than box¬ 
ing over the hills, but the bone flour is a 
good fertilizer, and stimulates the growth 
of the plants, so that they are soon out of 
reach of the beetles. Devices to protect 
plants from the weather are useful, but 
bug protectors are unnecessary, in the 
writer’s judgment. 
The Dinsmore Rose a novelty of two or 
three years’ standing, is said to be ever- 
blooming, as hardy as an oak, with the rich 
crimson color and delicious fragrance of 
Gen. Jacq. 
The new Giant Cowslip,—Dodecatheon 
Clevelandii—was discovered in California 
two years ago Its flowering stems grow 
a foot in length bearing cyclamen-like flow¬ 
ers of violet with yellow and black centers. 
It is said to be perfectly hardy and a very 
suitable plant for shady borders. 
According to BulletinNo. 22 of the Wiscon¬ 
sin Experiment Station, trials of a series of 
years prove that Schoenen, Swedish, Im¬ 
proved White Russian and Huebner’s Hol¬ 
land Oats are uniformly "productive. The 
station recommends them in the order 
named, thus supporting the R. N.-Y. esti¬ 
mate of the Schoenen. 
Among the barleys Manshury is to be 
preferred to all others. 
In judging the value of oats, the yield of 
grain is not the only thing to be considered. 
It is also important that the grain should 
have a thin hull. The Welcome, Badger 
Queen, Clydesdale and several others which 
are the same kind are discarded by many 
Wisconsin farmers because of their heavy 
husks. 
Mr. Goff, of the Wisconsin Station, pre¬ 
sents the most important results of potato 
experiments. Of 118 kinds the following 
gave the best yields : Rose Beauty, Mon¬ 
arch, Duplex, Late B. of Hebron, Mullaly, 
Alexander’s Prolific, Seneca Red Jacket, 
White B. of Hebron, Wisconsin Beauty, 
Canada Blue, Arthur’s No. 2, Perfect 
Gem and Ben Harrison. 
With the Beauty of Hebron for seed 
in every trial whole seed yielded 139 bush¬ 
els of merchantable potatoes, half-seed 124, 
two-eyes 141, single-eyes 114. 
Again large whole potatoes for seed 
yielded 135 bushels per acre, medium whole 
potatoes 120, and small whole potatoes 98. 
An experiment designed to show whether 
we should cut off the seed-end or not re¬ 
sulted as follows: seed-end not removed 
yielded 132 bushels to the acre. Seed-end 
removed yielded 97. 
As with the R. N.-Y.’s trials, no advan¬ 
tage followed sprinkling the cuttings with 
plaster before planting. 
Of 20 supposed varieties of oats tried at 
the Kentucky Experiment Station, White 
Victoria, Barley Oats, Haggett’s Siesure, 
Welcome and Schoenen yielded most. But 
the straw of all but the last-named is r§» 
ported from soft to very soft. The yield 
was about 46 bushels to the acre. Early 
Dakota, Welch and Monarch yielded 43 
bushels. 
Welch Oats when drilled in (IJ^hushel 
to the acre) one, two and three inches 
yielded respectively 26, 39 and 31 bushels to 
the acre. 
Different quantities of seed drilled in 
gave the following yields per acre : 
1 bushel of seed gave 
28 bushels. 
2 “ 
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30 bushels. 
2K “ 
it ti 
It 
30 bushels. 
3 
U it 
It 
30 bushels. 
4 
U it 
It 
28 bushels. 
Four bushels to the acre gave the greatest 
weight of straw, viz., 3,066 pounds. 
Farther experiments made by the Ken¬ 
tucky Station show that 1J^ bushel of 
seed oats broadcasted and harrowed in 
gave 44 bushels to the acre; bushel 
d/rilled in gave but 27. 
WORD FOR WORD 
-Harper’s Weekly : “ Not only the 
public treasury, but the public health and 
pleasure are involved in the destruction of 
the Adirondack woods. Their security is 
a general interest and necessity.” 
-Christian Union : “The country has 
grown rich with unprecedented rapidity. 
Why ? Because of the coal in the hills, the 
oil in the subterranean reservoirs, the gold 
and silver in the mountains, the wheat and 
corn and cotton dormant in the fields ; be¬ 
cause of the water-power in the streams, 
the water-ways in the rivers, the magnifi¬ 
cent natural harbors, and the consequent 
influx of population, creating a value in 
our rocky and sterile soils. The working¬ 
man says : ‘ God put this wealth into this 
continent. It belongs to all his children. 
A few millionaires have gotten possession 
of it. Fifty millions ought to be rich, a 
few thousand are so. Result: the many 
are dependent on the few. This is not 
just.’ ” 
-Journal of Commerce : “ The only 
possible cure for a bitter memory is to 
sweeten it in the unselfish spirit that can 
return good for evil. A fountain like this 
in any human heart will quench every 
burning resentment in its overflowing 
tide.” 
-N. Y. Herald : “ A shirt-makers’ 
strike! These working women, driven by 
hard poverty, became desperate and actual¬ 
ly refused to work 16 hours a dav making 
shirts at 35 or 50 cents a dozen. Unreason¬ 
able mortals ! It is impossible to live on 
these earnings : they are merely sufficient 
to starve on. The wolf is always at the 
door, whining for entrance, and the en¬ 
feebled toilers have scarcely strength 
enough to keep him back.” 
And yet it is next to impossible to get 
good help in the country. 
-Yonkers Statesman : “ The man who 
is willing to take things as they come 
usually finds that they never come.” 
-Globe : “ The most weeds are to be 
found in the field of the man who talks the 
loudest about his field of labor.” 
Pi.srettancouss Advertising. 
That 
Tired Feeling 
Has never been wore ptevalent or more prostrating 
than now. The winter has been mild and unhealth 
ful. Influenza epidemic and fevers have visited nearly 
all our homes, leaving about everybody In a weak, 
tired-out, languid condition. The usefulness of Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla Is thus made greater than ever, for It Is 
absolutely unequalled as a building up, strengthening 
medicine. Try it. 
Hood's Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only 
bv C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
lOO Doses One Dollar. 
Highly concentrated. Dose small. In quantity costs 
leas than one-tenth cent a day per hen. Prevents and 
cures all diseases. If von can’t get it, we send by mail 
post-paid. One pack. 35c. Five $1. 2 1-4 lb. can $1.20 i 
8 cans $5. Express paid. Testimonials free. Send stamps or 
cash. Farmers’ Poultry Guide (price 35c.) free with $1.00 
orders or more I S JOHNSON ,V(vt Boston. Mass. 
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We will send this Boiler to any responsible farmer 
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pav until you have tried It on your farm. 
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