WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US.
There nre believed to be 1fi tons
of shells to every cubic mile of
ocean.
The shhrk holds the record for
lorp-distance swimming. A shark
has been known to cover 800 miles
in three days.
Berlin passed a law in 167i ihul all
milk should be sterilized. As a re
sult infant mortality in that city has
fallen from 30 per cent, to 23 per cent,
in 30 years.
The dandelion produces 12,000 seeds
per plant; shepherds’ pulse, 37,000;
thistle, 65,000; chamomile, 16,000; bur
dock, 43,000, and the common plan
tain, 44,000.
Prof. Pictet* of Geneva, is report
ed to have devised a plan by which
oxygen can be produced on a com
mercial scale and at a cost that will
greatly increase its use.
Many fish can produce musical
sounds. The trigla can produce long
drawn notes ranging over nearly an
octave. Others, notably two species
of ophidium, have sound-producing
apparatus, consisting of small mov
able bones, which can be made to
produce a sharp rattle. The curious
“drumming” made by the species
called umbrinas can be heard from
a depth of 30 fathoms.
MEN WELL-KNOWN ABROAD.
King Edward has reappointed Al
fred Austin poet laureate of Great
•Britain.
linn .Tcrmnn "Riescn. the nrpsirlpnt
elect "of Chili, is a relative of t lie re
tiring president, Senor Errazuriz, and
has had the support of both liberals
und radicals.
Pope Leo XIII. is still addicted to
the habit of taking" snuff. It is not
generally known that the snuff used
by the head of the Roman Catholic
church is made especially for his use
in America. This particular kind is
the highest-priced made anywhere in
the world and before being packed is
flavored with the costly attar of roses.
The late Prince llohenlohe has left
behind him a mass of autobiographical
recollections. He was recently occu
pied with preparing a selection from
bis memoirs for the press and had ad
vanced so far with his work that the
publication of a first installment may
soon be expected. It is reported that
one chapter is devoted to a generous
justification of the policy of Caprivi,
Bismarck's successor and his own
predecessor in the imperial chancellor
ship.
THE MARKETS.
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FARMER ANDPLANTER.
A PROFITABLE SIDE ISSUE.
llntKlntl H»k« On (lie Knrni, at t’ren
ent Price* of Meat, a l’rolltu
tile Side Line.
Hogs huvt always been n profitable
side issue upon every farm. They live
so cheaply and mature so quickly that
there is always a good margin of
profit. Soon after the war of the GO’S
the stealing of hogs became such a
constant source of loss to farmers
that very many gave up raising hogs
entirely. Having once fallen into the
habit of buying meat, a large part of
the farming population have contin
ued to do so. This has been partic
ularly so with the tenant class.
This was very unfortunate. Many
millions >f dollars have been paid for
western meat that should have been
kept at home.
At present prices of meat, hogs will
pay. Every farmer should at least
raise his own home supply, lie can
raise it for one-half he pays for it.
The improved breeds of hogs will
make good porkers in from nine to
eleven months.
The cost of growing them will de
pend upon the management. If a lit
tle care is taken to provide good pas
tures of Bermuda, and then arrange
ments made to supplement these with
suitable forage crops, the cost of
growing hogs will be very little.
Batches of ground-pease, cow-peas,
smvrliiim sweet liotntnes. etc. mnv bo
so arranged that Ihev will have a
constant supply of cheap food all
through the season.
The old idea of feeding hogs en
tirely upon corn has given way to
iuw and better methods. Growing a
succession of such crops as those men
tioned above and many others not
mentioned, makes it easy to have fine
hogs for killing that have cost very
lit tie.
The new and improved breeds help
to do this. The hog is no longer de
pendent. upon •Tooting” for it living.
The old adage, ‘Toot hog or die,” is
no longer applicable. It is now “eat
hog and grow.” The best hogs have
very little disposition to root. They
prefer to eat and lie down and digest,
l'lie roaming razor-back roadster has
had his day and passed away. The
compact, quick growing, easy fatten
ing. lazy hog has taken iiis place.
The chief point is to keep them
healthy by giving them plenty of wa
ter. and clean beds and a constant
change of food. The much dreaded
cholera is easily avoided by feeding
upon vegetables, such as turnips, cab
bage, potatoes, and fruits that fall
from llie trees.
Not only is it well for every
farmer to raise hogs enough to make
the meat for his own farm, but hogs
are a profitable crop to grow for sale.
There is money raising hogs as a bus
iness. Not only can money he made
selling pure breeds at fancy prices,
but selling meat.
From all we can barn the north
west will be very short on corn. That
means short on hogs. That means
high prices for meat. That means
money to the man who has hogs for
sale. We remember the old time hog
killing, and it thrills us with pleasing
emotions to this day. Our farm was
a small affair, yet we had about forty
fine fat hogs to kill every fall. I'p be
fore day, light the great log tire, heat
the rocks and with them the water.
Take the keen knife, whirl the hog
upon his back and find his heart.
Then the pulling off the hair, and
frying the melts on the hot rocks and
I I fci l lllclo.
It was a jolly good time, feasting on
spare ribs, sausage and crackling
bread and brains. We can not help
feeling a sort of pity for the boy who
never took part in old time hog kill
ing.
If it paid to raise hogs in those
days, when meal was cheap, it will
pay better now, when it is high.
A small family can raise a few hogs
from the household and kitchen slops.
These will often make a year’s sup
I>1 y of meat and cost nothing but a
little forethought.
We urge our readers to try hogs, at
least a home supply.—Dixie Farmer.
IMPORTANCE OF FALL CROPS.
A Matter the Importance of Which
is Jot Folly Appreciated l»y
Southern Farmers.
The importance of all kinds of fall
crops has not been properly weighed
by southern farmers. But the long
continued heated spell out west
makes it certain that every kind of
food crop will be more important
this fall than ever before.
It is not too late to sow turnips,
(let the yellow Aberdeen, Rutabaga,
Yellow Globe or any variety of yel
low fleshed'turnips. Prepare the soil
by breaking very deep. Sub-soil if
you can. Then harrow until the top
is very line. Xo chance to get- it too
fine. Then pack it well with a roller.
Make the rows about thirty inches.
Do not make the beds too high. You
can not cultivate the turnip crop too
much before planting. Our experi
ence along this line lias been uni
form. The more we have worked the
soil before planting the larger crop
we have made. Cabbage seed sowed
now and transplanted as soon as
large enough will make nice, tender
heads, far better than those sown ai
any other season.
Oats may be sown in cotton the lat
ter part of August. Put in with shal
low running scrapes or cultivators,
followed by dust board; they will not
is./ 'ie, bid rather benefit t^pj,yotion.
if the fail should prove late abnl the
oats get too large, they cau be pas
tured. The turf oat is well adapted
to this purpose.
The new idea of making hay from
wheat is of great value to the south.
In many sections, rust so often ruins
the wheat that it is not a safe crop.
But the wheat may be cut just about
the time the rust makes its appear
ance; just as the full milk stage is
reached in the grain. This makes one
of the very best foods for all kinds
of farm stock. This wheat hay is
very easy to cure,and is almost equiv
alent to corn and fodded both. Horses
will plow right along and keep in
good condition with this as the only
food.
If a cutting knife is used there will
be no waste at all. The straw an
swers the purpose of fodder and the
grain takes the place of corn. The
value of the hay used in this way is
nearly or quite double the value of
the same crop if suffered to ripen and
the grain threshed and the straw lost
as is generally the case.
Every farmer should sow some
wheat for hay. We should not be
prejudiced against this because it is
money and this is one way of making
it. This crop can be made to come in
before any other spring food is ready.
Again and again we urge our
friends to sow alfalfa. This in the
long run is the best paying that can
be grown. It needs to be sown only
once in a lifetime. Hence it will pay
to take pains and give it a good
chance to get hold and start off well.
Every farm should have an acre of
alfalfa for each horse and cow.
Food crops for this fall, winter and
spring1 use will be found very profit
able.—Southern Cultivator.
Value of the Walking Horae.
There can be no question of tha
value of a horse that is able to walk
three or four miles an hour. Soma
people who are unable to look at but
one side of a question, object to such
horses, because it is impossible for a
man to plow at that gait for ten
hours a day. lint this is no objection.
If a horse can go four miles an hour,
he can go three in the same length
of time, and this is none too fast for
good plowing. A slow team, going
at the rate of two miles an hour, does
not turn a furrow well, for the fur
row slice will often fall back, when
slowly turned, especially in stiff land
or sod. The quicker movement gives
sufficient velocity to throw the fur
row slice completely over and break
it loose from the subsoil. Besides, it
is better to plow one or two acres a
day of six hours than the same
amount in one of ten, and the quicker
way is not only more effective in
quality of work, but is easier on the
man who is driving. In harrowing,
rolling or any of the multifarious
duties that a horse is called upon to
do on a farm, a quick movement is
indispensable to good work; and
when on the road the saving of one
fourth to one-third the time is a
great aid to expedition in work, and
is consequently economical. A draft,
horse that has been trained to walk
four miles an hour is worth in money
fidly twice as much as one that
makes 2'/, to I! miles an hour.
This is a rapid age, and crops must
be planted rapidly, harvested in a
hurry and gotten to market before
preies go down, and slow horses have
no place in it.—Farmers’ Home Jour
nal.
A single crop ol hay is harvested
annually from the goiernment lands
syrrounding the various department
buildings in Washington. These lands
comprise about 150 acres in the heart
of Washington. The army of laborers
in i he employ of the government har
vest the crop which is used to feed
the horses used by the various de
partments. The inferior grades of
hay, after the horses have been sup
plied, are given to the departments
for packing purposes. Every year the
finest hay stack produced is presented
to the president as a gift from the
department of public buildings and
grounds to the executive’s horses.—.
American drain Trade.
HERE AND THERE.
—The more intelligent an animal
the better he can be controlled and
trained.
—Generally the same breed of cat
lie do not make beef and milk. The
Jerseys excel in butter, the Ilolsteins
in milk, and the Shorthorns, Gallo
ways and llerefords in beef produc
ing qualities.
—Sometime, sowing rye in the eorr
at the last cultivation, will afford a
great deal of feed in the shape of late
fall and early spring pasture. The
stock that pastures it will at the
same time fertilize the land more oi
less.
—A splendid remedy for foot rol
in cattle is a saturated solution ol
alcohol and logwood. Dissolve the
logwood in a little water and then add
the alcohol. Tour it in the affected
parts. It is also good for cuts and
bruises.
— -Maryland is soon to have an An
gora goat farm. A tract of 400 acres
of farm land near Cedarville, Md., has
been purchased by several wealth.-y
men of that state with the intention
of raising Angora goats on an exten
sile scale.
—Hens deprived of green feed will
not lay well. A test was made at the
North Carolina experiment station,
wherein a pen of white Leghorns
having plenty of green food laid 114
eggs, while a similar pen without
green feed laid only 90.
—The turkey is not yet sufficiently
removed from its wild state to bear
i ne confinement given hens, even dur
ing the cold weath I, and the person
who would be succefeful with them
must uork on the p'an of wide ru-ge
and little or no shelter. ,
OF FOREIGN INTEREST.
Gold pens were first made in 1840.
Their sale to-day is a million and a half
a year.
Graves average 5 feet deep in Eng
land, 5 feet 6 inches in France, and 6
feel 10 inches in Russia.
Every British i>arish with a popula
tion of 300 or over is compelled by law
to erect a parish council.
Norway, Servia, Greece and Bulgaria
are the only European nations which
have but one house of parliament.
In many of the perfume factories of
south Europe only the purest olive oil
is used in fixing the perfumes of flow
ers.
As late as 1770 the journey from Liv
erpool to London was dangerous on ac
count of the bad condition of the
roads.
The total daily circulation of news
papers in the United Kingdom was only
60,000 in 1801; 700,000 in 1851; and is
now 8,750,000.
Great Britain now spends £ 3,300.000
a year on imported vegetables. Near
ly half this is spent on potatoes, and
£780,000 on onions.
Seventeen hundred and twenty-six
dies were used in the English mint last
year. On an average 75,244 pieces were
made with each die. _
A SON’S DEVOTION.
Wallace, Mich., August 26tli:—A
striking example of a man’s dutiful
and attentive care of his mother is
seen in Mr. Oscar Swanson of this
place.
Mr. Swanson’s mother has suffered
much with Kidney and Urinal Trouble
and Female Weakness. Her son has
sought out and procured for her
everything that he thought could pos
sibly benefit her.
She did not improve, till at last, he
bought her a box of Dodd’s Kidney
Pills. In a few days, she was com
pletely cured, and her faithful son
has the reward for his loving efforts,
in the knowledge that she is now
strong and well.
Ask Tour Dealer for Allen’s Foot-Ease,
A powder to shake Into’your shoes. It rests
the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous,
Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails,
Corns, Bunions. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes
new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all drug
gists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample mailed
fkeb. Address Allen 8. Olmsted,LeRoy,N.Y.
Another Record Smashed.
Finding undigested food in the stomach of
a Siberian mammoth that had been dead
50.000 years breaks the record for chronic
dyspepsia.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
A bachelor enjoys a magnificent morning,
a fair afternoon, but in most cases a miser
able evening.—Ally Sloper.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infalli
ble medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W,
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. ,T., Feb. 17,1900.
A grocer offered a taster a peach this
morning. “No, thank you,” said the taster,
“1 would rather steal it.”—Atchison Globe.
Chock Coughs, Colds snd Croup
With Hoxsie’s Croup Cure. Noopium. 50eta.
The young crab as they pulled off his leg:
"That's a soft snap!”—Judge.
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one. No person is really alive whose
liver is c ead. During the winter
most people spend nearly all their time
in warm, stuffy houses or offices or
workshops. Many don't get as much
exercise as they ought, an3 everybody
knows that people gain weight in
winter. As a rule it is not sound
weight, but means a lot of flabby fat
and useless, rotting matter staying in
the body when it ought to have been
driven out. But the liver was over
burdened, deadened—stopped work. There
you are, with a dead liver, and spring is the
time for resurrection. Wake up the dead!
„ r ,« ♦ . , , . Get alf the filth out of your system, and get
ready for the summer s trials with clean, clear blood, body, brain free from bile. Force
is dangerous and destructive unless used in a gentle persuasive way, and the right plan
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Bold the first season In Texas by the
well-known drug firm of Heaton Bros,
of Victoria and Cuero. The reason
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Is pleasant to the tasto and does not
upset tho stomach like tho so-called
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has it, or can get It for you from his
Jobber. Insist on Yucatan Chill Tonic
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Trice 60 cents a bottle. Made only
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