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It is more than likely that a large organi¬ 
zation with paid agents would find that in 
the end this method of distribution would 
be as expensive as the other. Where busi¬ 
ness is left to the free interplay of natural 
forces it is always done with the least fric¬ 
tion. Middlemen who are working for 
themselves and in competition with each 
other will do their work more smoothly 
and more economically than any salaried 
agent.” 
-Somerville Journal : “ The people 
who always practice what they preach seem 
somehow not to preach such disagreeable 
things as other people do.” 
-Christian Union : “ We would like to 
see all labor of children under 14, per¬ 
haps under 16 years, in mines, stores, 
railroads, and factories, prohibited, and 
abundant provision made for their educa¬ 
tion, and we would like to see all wives and 
mothers released from every form of toil 
except in the home. We believe that society 
would be richer and more prosperous, and 
life far better worth living, if this revolu¬ 
tion were accomplished.” 
-Senator Paddock : “ Portions of the 
country, like Nebraska, are reaping the 
natural result of too little diversification of 
agriculture.” 
-Journal of Commerce : “There can be 
no righteousness if man has no opportu¬ 
nity to sin.” 
- London Gardening World: “ Speak¬ 
ing at Guy’s Hospital on the 26th ult., Mr. 
Gladstone said he was not aware whether 
botany now formed a recognized branch of 
medical education. He could not help 
wishing it did, because not only was it in 
itself a most beautiful and interesting 
study, exercising the mind without fatigu¬ 
ing it, and stimulating the imagination 
without leading it astray, but it led to a 
careful observation of Nature, and to a 
habit of noticing the qualities of plants 
which were so remarkable and so powerful 
in their healing capacity. 
-Farm Journal: “‘Bind wet cooking 
soda on the sore corn until it falls out.’ 
The ordinary life is too short for such 
waiting.” 
-T. B. Terry - , who is a great advocate 
of “ absorbed ” manure, says, in the Ohio 
Farmer, that some years ago he had a 
stable with a dirt floor. The surface was 
gravel and packed very hard. He used saw¬ 
dust a foot deep on this floor, getting it in 
summer and storing in bulk and letting it 
heat until it became dry. As fast as it got 
wet in the stable he took it out and put in 
dry. When he cleaned the stable out the 
earth seemed hard and dry. Nine men out of 
10 would declare no liquid had soaked into 
it. But he became satisfied that there had, 
aud built a water-tight floor of boards and 
tar. When he tore down the old barn he 
had occasion to dig a ditch six feet deep 
through this old stable floor, and the traces 
of fertility were perfectly evident clear to 
the bottom. He has no doubt that more 
dollars lie there wasted than a cement 
floor would have cost, probably two or 
three times over. 
-C. L. Allen in American Garden: 
“ Seeds in Dated Papers,” is the subject of a 
short article in one of our valued contem¬ 
poraries, the Country Gentleman, written 
to show how much the buyer suffers at the 
hands of the merchant in the purchase of 
old seeds. It does not state the case fairly, 
or, rather, fully. In the first place, no seeds¬ 
man worthy the name, ever sends out seeds 
without sufficient vitality to germinate 
satisfactorily. Seeds may be bought at a 
country store where they have been kept 
so long as to have outlived their usefulness, 
but that is no place to buy seeds. The 
place to buy seeds is at the seedsman’s. 
But the most important query is, are seeds 
not as valuable when old, even though not 
more thau two per cent, of them germin¬ 
ate? Now, it all depends upon the seeds. 
All vine seeds are greatly to be preferred 
when several years old, as they produce 
grapes with more flesh and fewer seeds 
than perfectly fresh seeds. Of many kinds 
of florists’ flowers what are considered per¬ 
fect specimens—very double—cannot be 
produced unless the seeds are old. Many 
of our market gardeners buy a sufficient 
quantity of cabbage seed, as well as other 
sorts, to last several years, in order that 
they may know what they have, and many 
of them find that they get better vegetables 
from old than from new seed.” 
- Garden and Forest : “ Hybrid Per¬ 
petual Hoses.—If I were asked to name 
20 of the best hardy roses for out-door 
planting my list would be the following: 
Jean Liabaud, Paul Neyron, Mrs. John 
Laing, Ella Gordon, General Jacqueminot, 
General Washington, Alfred Colomb, 
Compte de Paris, Beauty of Waltham, 
Gloirede Margottin, John Hopper, Madame 
Charles Wood, Marie Baumann, Madame 
Masson, [?] Mad. Joseph Desbois, [?] Queen 
of Autumn, Ulrich Brunner, Jules Mar¬ 
gottin, Lady Helen Stuart and Eugene 
Furst. These are all plants of strong con¬ 
stitution and produce magnificent blooms. 
The collection contains all the range of 
colors found in the Hybrid Perpetual class, 
from the light flesh tint of Madame Joseph 
Desbois to the velvety crimson of Jean 
Liabaud.” 
-Christian Instructor: “Economy 
should be practiced in time of youth, its re¬ 
sults to be prudently preserved for unfore¬ 
seen sickness, need, misfortune and inevit¬ 
able feeble and helpless age. Its observance 
calls for no peculiar trait of character in 
the individual; it simply requires deter 
mlnation and strength of will to resist self¬ 
ish gratification. Further, it may demand 
education, that is, that the power of extrav¬ 
agant habit must be trained to succumb 
to the power of economic education.” ' 
- 'Christian Union: “Women and 
children crying for bread in our great 
cities, and speculators creating a corner in 
wheat at the same moment !” 
-New England Farmer: “No states¬ 
man or preacher was ever less a man for 
the experience of boyhood days spent on a 
farm where his services were required.” 
-“If a boy likes pigs and chickens and 
finds real pleasure in cultivating or watch¬ 
ing the development of fruits and flowers, 
and has no special dislike for the work re¬ 
quired in stable or garden, he has the nat¬ 
ural tastes necessary for a successful 
farmer. But a year or two spent in a me¬ 
chanic shop or on the road selling goods 
would aid rather than injure him as a 
practical business farmer. So, too, a course 
of study at an agricultural college should 
be worth all it costs.” 
--Prof. S. W. Johnson:— “The mechan¬ 
ical condition of a fertilizer is an item 
whose influence cannot always be righly 
expressed or appreciated.” 
-Farm Journal :—“ The best way to 
get rid of ticks on sheep is to shear them 
and then keep them in a warm place. Our 
sheep were shorn March 10th and 11th. 
This has been our practice for a number of 
years, and we have never lost a sheep.” 
- “The strength of a chain is the 
strength of its weakest link. What is 
your weakest link ? Most likely it is, or 
will be, Mi. Dairyman, a lack of food for 
the cows. Provide for the weakness now. 
Sow oats and peas, plant corn, sow millet, 
and strengthen the chain.” 
- “What is the condition of the school- 
house well ? Are your children drinking 
pure water or disease-breeding stuff ? ” 
Poultry Yard. 
SOME EGGS TO BE HATCHED. 
[Will some of our poultrvmen please try 
to hatch the following eggs ? R. N.-Y.] 
What causes chicks to die in the shell 
just before they are hatched ? In submit¬ 
ting the above question, I desire to say that 
the eggs were placed in a “Monarch” in¬ 
cubator of 600-egg capacity ; that the tern 
perature was kept as near to 102 degrees as 
I could get it; that two pans of water 
were placed in the machine when the eggs 
were first put in, and two more, about two- 
thirds full, after the fourteenth day; that 
no one pestered the “critter” while she 
was on the nest; that the eggs were turned 
twice each day, and that not a single live 
chick came from the entire lot of 600 eggs. 
Now, brothers, what’s the matter with 
that machine ? Some claim that there are 
many causes that might bring about such 
a result, such as in-breeding, excessive fat¬ 
ness in the hens, the presence of too many 
females in the flock, confinement to small 
yards, lack of exercise, etc., etc.; but how 
does any of these causes work when 1 say 
that I had eggs from four reliable breed¬ 
ers, besides a number of eggs from my own 
flock ? That’s what’s bothering me just 
now. About SO per cent, of the eggs were 
fertile, and contained chicks that were fully 
developed aud apparently ready to break 
the shell. 
The other day I found in one of the nests 
an egg that was about the size of a Pekin 
duck egg, having a soft shell about the 
thickness of a piece of ordinary wrapping 
paper, and containing another egg inside of 
it. The inside egg was perfectly formed, 
and had a good, thick shell. What I want 
to know is, will that egg (the smaller one) 
hatch ? 
Why is it that the incubator experts tell 
us that the eggs in incubators should be 
turned twice each day? Wouldn’t once 
per day answer just as will ? I have tried 
the experiment with one incubator, and 
have had just as good results, apparently, as 
if I had turned them according to instruc¬ 
tions from the incubator makers and ex¬ 
perts. Try it, gentlemen, and report. 
Will Mr. Rankin please inform us how 
he manages to turn the eggs in the trays 
of his largest machines ? Does he turn 
them by hand as I do, or does he “ flip ” 
the trays ? 
Will a duck egg that has been in the 
water for 24 hours, hatch ? J. D. H. 
A GOOD HATCH. 
“ What temperature is the best for an in¬ 
cubator ?” I would advise that the ther¬ 
mometer be kept as near 102 degrees as pos¬ 
sible throughout the entire hatch, believ¬ 
ing that better results will be obtained 
than by having it higher or lower. The 
editor of one of the poultry papers recently 
stated that 99 degrees was the best, but I 
beg to differ from him on that point. I 
have tried both, and prefer a temperature 
of 102 degrees. 
“ What causes an egg to break inside the 
hen ?” I am of opinion that the trouble 
is caused by the hen jumping down from 
a high nest, and striking too heavily on the 
ground, having been scared off the roost 
and hurting herself by flying against the 
side of the house or windows, or otherwise. 
“ Will pure-bred White Leghorns sit?” 
Tes, they certainly will, and they make as 
good mothers as I want. I do not claim 
that all Leghorns will sit; but I have had 
quite a number that did, and now I have a 
number covering eggs. I have heard that 
a Leghorn could not be depended upon to 
sit steadily, but I have yet to find one that 
has gone back on me. They make the best 
of mothers, being ever ready to defend their 
young from the attacks of hawks, etc., and 
teaching the little things to “rustle” as 
soon as they are strong enough to leave the 
nest. 
“ Are small-combed Leghorns usually as 
good layers as those with big combs ? ” 
Give me the hens with the large combs 
every time. I do not know that they will lay 
more eggs in a year than the ones with 
the small combs, but I think they will, 
and I know they will sell better when I 
wish to dispose of them. Who ever saw a 
hen with a dried-up, shriveled comb, that 
was worth her food as a layer ? and how 
many in selecting 10 hens out of 100 would 
pick such a hen as one to be taken home. 
Orange Co., N. Y. John D. howe. 
$U.$'reUatteauss §idvmi.$ing. 
Always name R. N.-Y. in writing to ad¬ 
vertisers. 
In the Spring 
Nearly everybody needs a good medicine. The Im¬ 
purities which have accumulated in the blood dur¬ 
ing the cold mouths must ibe expelled, or when the 
mild days come, and the effect ot bracing air is. 
lost, the body is liable to be overcome by debility or 
some serious disease. The remarkable success achieved 
by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and the many words of praise 
It has received, make It worthy your confidence. It is 
the “ ideal ” Spring Medicine. 
N. B. If you decide to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla do 
not be induced to buy any other. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only 
by C. i. HOOD * CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
For Internal and External Use. 
</> PISO’S CURE FOR to 
4. 
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. 
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use 
>. Sold" 
in time. 
Id by druggists. 
CONSUMPTION 
and Pathiimg. 
CONTINENTAL. 
DISK* ftPULVERISER. 
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. 
Your land will be hard and need thorough culti¬ 
vation for the next crop. You will orepare for seed 
ing with less labor if you use our Pulverizer. 
LABOR SAVED IS MONEY. 
You can get larger returns by using the Continental. 
Larger crops mean morn cash. Send for prices and 
circular, " How to Buy Direct.” 
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