Oh ! for u uadUcoTri^J land Vhor* BOTctlaU may •mljrata Aad with ibcir t-rtfijr i>wu to hi Th»lr trebly T»rnub»d talm t Pralrl* ud plalo H»* oat of daU ; Tka mlddl. Wwt la wearier oat :

don. up India 1 * nnrdl Midnd. n, -3d-a5w , ,^r5S' , ’““’ Oh. for a land to wrfta about!“ b “ a ' rhay r aat thalr aoaoaa lo -Beulah-Land." U U tha literary aooat That other wrtUi* etna' ate. Oh. lor a land to write about '■ 4 few are bold enough, alien ■canned Entire the gaocraphlc elate, f spook or medium to command JflS.'Sr,?*■&“'•. p.... Of *pherea our cosmos wide without. N ‘W. will ihe novel-trade abate Without new lands lo write about? luVand' wlw'^r/wonhlu weight I 'Ti» pitiful to «« him atand ^.hTt^rSiuaTPor -‘copy" ‘tls turned Inside oat Tl! n new planet emanuate.— Ob, for a land to write about:

Const of a virgin soil narrate?

1 QUITE EXCEPTIONAL }

l

"It’s a curious thing." he said, meditatively, as he put down his newspaper, "ohe of the moat curious things that ever happened to me." He Was a fenilcman of suburban residence and ttninipeachalile.character, and the most turtous incident* of his life happened lo him habituaiiy. if he took a cab from Charing Cross to the City, you might be certain that, upon his soul, one of the most curious sights he ever witnessed would be presented to him on the way. He saw his Insignificant life through a magnifying glass. His Camay were quite useu to this, and his leclaration created no excitement- His wife said languidly, because she knew

George passed a large, fat hand over tils troubled eyes. "It's a difficult thing to say. exactly." he said pgnderingiy; “I should describe it as a trick of the teemory." "You mean you've forgotten some-

thing?"

"No. no; not at all. Nothing of the kind—at least. I do appear to have forgotten something; but at the same

Ing. the

time I have remembered somethli ft's the conjunction—I might say t Simultaneous conjunction—which is

remarkable."

'•I see,” said his wife. This was, of course, totally untrue. "i iigets me rather, a thing of that uind." he said, with puckered brows. "it Is trying.” said his wife. "I suppose l couldn't help you at all?" ' You? No. Certainly not- Of course not. 1 shall get It In a minute.” But he went off to church with his family without having got it, and in in increasingly irritated frame of

mind.

"George," said his wife at luncheon, "do you know you did a very curious thing in the Litany?" she had acquired his habit of finding everything very turious. "No." snapped George. “Nothing of She kind. Absurd! What was it?" His manner, in the intimacy of his family circle was certainly bruaque, especially when his mind was much occupied, is in the present case. “But you did. It was In one of the responses, and you suddenly said Hah!’ quite out loud. I'm sure I thought everybody would have heard

kou.”

“Did I? If I did It was because I happened to think Jaat at that moment

thorch. As it turned out, 1 was mls-

•aken.”

“Well, George. If you make such a »ecret and mystery about it, of course tobody on earth can help you.*' 'There is no mystery about It at 111. The fact is simply this. Happening to meet Bodgers in the City yesterday, I stopped for a few minutes’ that, and he asked me a riddle—or, as me might say. a conundrum. I care very little for that kind of thing as a general rule, but this was without exception the finest sad cleverest thing of the kind I every heard. I meant, tn fact, to make a note of it.’' “And now you've forgotten It,” said his wife, Injudiciously. "No. Don’t Interrupt. I have partly remembered It. If I had forgotten It that would only be what has htppened to everybody. If I bsd remembered the question and forgotten the answer K would not have been very unusual. But I can remember the an•war and not the question, and I doubt «f that has happened to anybody before m*.'' The belief that he was quite .-xcepOonal seemed to comfort Urn a little. * . "Well. George, If you tell us what the answer is, very dkely we can give you the question. It seems so silly for yon to worry yourself like this, when

would know it. Bodgers gave It to ms as quite the latsat thing. Williams, who was with me at the time, had never heard it before, and it was quite new to me. However, sooner than be d any what I

he qu* "I cat

I (Wing the many insect pests and plant diseases U well established, and theti ly shown, yet there

- * It gr

lion?" There was dead silence around the mahogany table. Brows were wrinkled In deep thought- His wife re ited the words over and over again her breath with a pious but unfounded belief that this would help

her.

"Now, then." said her husband sharply, "you pretended that you knew

I It?” a

cant help thinking that I've beard

it." ahe said, feebly.

And then George s wrath broke forth ] ter-nmking when turned into a poor upon her. and she was asked wh *■* ' ~ ' “

't to hluiovn .

he would have settled the. whole thing

Preparing Land for Strawberrisa.

This la a prolific source of inquiry, especially among beginner*. The conditions are always different and therefore require a different prescription. It Is safe to say tl^Lmost beginners need to destroy tff^wdea that money in strawberries comes from broad acrea. Nothing is further from the truth. Profit* come from concentra-

tion of efforts all along the line.

I would never set a plant on poor

You might as well expect niake a great record In tmt-

by then. If be wanted to remember a thing he could remember it. That certain. He v.as not in his dotage, officious Interference made a dlffere

of course.

pasture. It to safe to borrow money

mre and fertilisers and It • them llbefclly. It does

to buy mani paya ‘o ^ise-

not pay to plow cogtt? tnnnure bottom of the furrow and leave it there. It does not pay to apply It early and plow twice and harrow and reharrow until every square Inch of

every squo

Then he complained of the closeness ! life soil contains fibres of the manures, of the room, tugged at the cord of hla/j lu this shape It will quickly rot and new patent ventilator, broke it. and : | become available to the plant.

I petal n then

As the Sunday wore on to its hag- j tn winter and gard close his poor, mistaken family I and sow cow requested him to give it up. Then he : the ground pulled out the heroic stop. This par- I corn and ticular riddle—though it was the most age given amusing he had ever heard in his life 1 no weed

—was nothing; but the principle of j terror here for they are all destroyed she thing was everything. To give in ; in giving the necessary Ullage to airiwould be a sign of weakness. He was fy the soli and conserve moisture, not the man to put his band to the | Stable manure cannot always be had. plow and then look back. What sue- i but commercial fertilizers are sold

plow under In spring >«as or corn to shade It may be planted to oee and thorough UUso that there will be

Weed seed

Indomitable persever-

chiefly

anee.

His wife said that it was Just the same with Napoleon. This may or may not have been true, but it was the best card she had played yet. It procured a respite of an hour. At the end of that hour he sacked the page; the boy's lot had been foi long In the balance. He accelerated the bedUme of his youngest son by one hour. He refused everybody permls sion to do anything. He said that expenses would have to be cut down all around. And then, quite suddenly, he remembered the question to that riddle. Everybody knows the ailf^ old riddle, of

BILL'S LAST RIDE. Made a Slight .Miscalculation and Then Entered the Angelic Class. “Yes. It will soon be the season for bikes again." said the farmer as he backed up to the stove In a Michigan avenue grocery, after selling six bags of potatoes, "but there wont be noly around my farm to go cantering

about."

"Haven* you any sons who ride?" asked the grocer. "No, not now. I had one last year, but he tvaa burled in September. His name was Bill, and he'd rather ride a bike than eat dinner.'' "Did some accident happen him?” "Well, rather. The railroad crossea the road a quarter of a mile below my house, and Bill nsed to ride that way and take chances. It wasn't no good talkin' to him. He had the bighead and knew It all. He crossed the tracks 20 different times ahead

tuts tn _

there be a reasonable amount of humus } In the soil It will pay a big profit to I use as high as 1500 pounds to the | acre, but great care must be used not i '.o let quantities come next to the roots or on the foliage. To cut this subject short Just do ! twice as much work in stirring the soil ; xnd use twice as much manure as you 1 really think is needed.—National Fruit

Horse Feeding, bulletin issued

value is conclusively

: orchards

le growi mixed a

i may ; meth- |

to understand how to separate the insecticides from the fungicides, and they apply the wrong remedy frequently because of a lack of knowledge of how to proceed. According to the results obtained at tha Rhode Island station the greatest loss, however, occurs from negligence, or from not spraying as frequently as necessity demands. The formulas have been given frequently and are well known, but their appll- • the m ted by all experienced fruit growers that ths sprayer is a necessary adjunct to the

prod i

Is not used there

crops, but the neighboring <

will also be endangereu. The beet re-

sult* are obtained when the In a neighborhood are organ! work In harmony., for then they only protect one another, but the perienced can advise those who ; not fully understand the proper i

ode to pursue.

A fungus Is a plant that Is destitute of the green coloring matter of the higher plants, and as this green coloring matter, or chlorophyll, is the only subasance known through which the plant changes its crude food material to nutritive food material, it Is evident ; that fungi must feed upon onganized ! material which has been previously ! elaborated by the host plant, and which i is adapted to their wants. That por- \ tion of a fungus which causes the j damage to the boat plant of long, fine threads. "hyphae," which occur cither separate- j ly or In bundles. Taken together they form the vegetated portion or "myoorresponds to the roots and stems of ; the flowering plants. Spores are ’ organs which arc produced open the 1 mycelium, either upon the main body or upon branchoe thrown out for the : purpose. Spores take the place of seeds in the higher plants, though

a seed i

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really they

contains a young p!

being composed of one cell, does Given proper conditions, however, the i

send out a fine filament.

> the I

r:-:

proper

spore will s

which develops a plant similar to t

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States agricultural department on "Ex- original from which It came. There j periments in Horse Feeding" has this are two kinds of spores—summer and | to say; | winter. The summer spores are borne '

“It 1s confmonly said that the imount of food required by horses is proportionate to their weight; it being self-evident that a large horse

would require more material than a | mlcation are not given small horse to build and repair the tj me after maturity. The winter body and to carry on all the vital pro- ! are usually produced within the

cesses which constitute internal mus- ^ 0 f tjj e |, ost plant—commonly In the ( l cular work. | frtilt and leaves. They live through j

"Investigations have shown that the she winter, and in the requirements are more nearly proper- | favorable conditions, germinate, Uonate to the surface areas than to more fungus is again developed,

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THEODORE MUELLER.

be re stater

r bt a riddle that one of ns

knows. As a girl I wi anything of that kind.

girl I was very fond of

I, even wrote

out in a book.” • "It'S Mrtremalv unlllralv that vtjn

•.rains with only a few feet to spare, and come home to brag about it." "But he got caught at last?" queried the grocer, after filling an order for

sugar.

"He • did. One evening he started out, and a few minutes after he had gone I heard a great tooting at the crossing and went down to see what the matter was. As I reached the tracks an engine came backing up and the engineer called out: "Say, old man. bo yon lookin’ fur anybody or others?’” •“Fur my son Bill,’ I says. “ 'Young feller on a bike?'

"•Yes.'

“ TUde with his nose on the handle bars and his ears full of cotton?' *" That's my son Bill.’ " 'Well, we picked him up Jest here at the cross In'. Mcbbe ho flggered he had half an inch to spare, but he was wrong. How fur Into the next county he wan flung 1-can't say, but you ought to get his remains inside of three or

tement is Justified. The factor which has the greatest influence on the ration required is the amount of work performed, the ration increasing

with the work.

"When horses which have been consuming a large ration and performing work are compelled to rest,-even for a few days, the ytion should be diminished. Girard found that horses doing hard work were well nourished with a oaximum ration of 15 to 19 quarts sau, H pounds hay. and straw ad llbilum. If the work stopped for three lays and the ration was not diminished ihe horses were subject to paralysis,

resulting in death.

“It was, therefore, recommended that

id holidays the ration

consist of 5.7 quarts oats at noon, and

of bran mash night and

m Sundays tonsist of 5.7

V7 quarts of bri ■norning, with the

e apring. with j

e useless, as it le

MANUFAC7 URERS C

i to r

the plant, but the spores should be destroyed before or at the time of germination, all treatment being largely preventive rather than curative. In the destruction of Insect ppsts the remedies are designed to act in one or two ways. In one way the poison is taken Into the digestive tract of ths insect, and causes death. This is dons by simply coating the plant with some poisonous substance (such as parts green), which Is taken by the insect with the food. By the other method the food is not poisoned, £s the material (such as kerosene emulsion) is applied directly to the Insect and causes death either by penetraflng the body directly or by closing the breathing pores. Many insects cannot bo poisoned, as they feed upon

„„„ nm^rnTof hav ' 016 of P laa “ (by Peking), and «<wumg. “ e ' do not eat the external covering, ' *nd straw as before. The facte brought . , . . . .... ... «w,^i T «i t,v n > aa > r 01 ,hcra havo 8011

four days.'

"And did you?" asked the grocer. „ “Yes, sir," replied the farmer, "Yei wo found the remains of Bill and tin

“And were they badly mangled?" “Well, no. They was sort o' drlv together, and all mixed up, and If It hadn't been fur the expression on Bill's face, it would her bln hard to tell one from 'tother. BUI was a smilin'. He was figgertn' that bis hind wheel would clear that cowcatcher by a hair's breadth, but'he miscalculated. Poor Bill. He’s got wings now and don't hev to pump up tires and fool with chains and wrenches and oil cans, and there to no railroads In heaven to knock him sky high and across lots.”—Detroit Free Press.

A Timely Remittance.

Before a West Australian police court recently the *%cion of an old Engltoh family” waa charged with having insufficient means of support. He was remanded, and while he was tn the lockup 1500 was cabled him from the old country- When the case was next called accused explained wearily that tha money waa a first instalment of several thousand dollars which had Just been left him by an uncle. He waa

n by a Iner S

re quite'generally recognized by (arge feeders and it is a common custom to diminish the rations on Sun-

iays and holidays."

Experiments are summarized which discuss the comparative value of the ilfferent feeding stuffs and special attention is paid to som^ like molasses, which are becoming more important than formerly. The cofcpirative merfts of different ways of preparing feed are also treated as well as the proper time of watering and the amount of water required. 'Something is also said of the energy expended for different kinds of externa] work and its measurement. the energy required for chewing and digesting food and other forms of internal muscular work, and similar

topics.

Data are summarized in the form of a table, which shows the nutrients and energy furnished per 1000 pounds, live weight, by the rations fed to American and foreign army homes, cab and ’bus horses, etc., as well as those supplied to the horses of express companies, fire companies, packing houues. breweries, etc., and the farm horses employed at the different experiment stations, such data haring been especially compiled for this bulletin. Average values were calculated, showing the amount of nutrients furnished to horses performing different amounts of work, which it to bclleyed may serve as a guide In fixing upon suitable

Saving ths Fruit Crop. Now that warfare on insects and fungi must be kept up it is important that farmers and fruit growers perfopn their work at the right time and use ths proper remedies for accomplishing the objects desired. So many mistakes are made in combating the enemies'of plants that the agricultural department

lany of

that they succumb to treatment if the poison comes in contact with their bodies—kerosene emulsion usually proving fatal to them. All of the aphides, or Hoc, feed by sucking, a» do also the true bugs, of which the squash bug is an example. For the chewing insects, such as canker worms, the poison should be evenly distributed over their feeding places, and may

be applied before they are present, in spraying for the codling moth before the insect Is hatched. For sucking insects it Is useless to spray the plant before the insect appears. The chief remedy as a fungicide is the “Bor deaux mixture.” made by dissolving six ponnds of copper sulphate in 1C gallons of hot water. In another vessel dissolve four pounds of lime in six gallons of water. Pour the lime water into the copper solution slowly, stirring well, and then add 20 gallont of cold water, and spray. For biting Insect* use parts green. In the usual manner. For sucking Insects use the kerosene emulsion, made by ehaving a pound of hard soap and dissolving In a gallon of bollfng water. Remove from tho fire, and add a gallon of kerosene, agitating or chnrning for U minutes with the sprayer until s creamy substancp Is formed. Then adrf -15 or 20 gallons of cold water. Kero sene will not mix with water, but will form an emulsion with eoap and water.

—Philadelphia Record.

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