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BUILDING CULVERTS.
WhereIFlat Stones Are Not Obtain-
able. Rough Ones Can Be Em-
ployed to Advantage.
Where flat stones for building cul-
verts are not at. hand, any rough stones
.-an be used by the plan shown in the
cut. If for a footbridge a single barrel
.5 placed in the ditch and rough stones
ROUGH STONE cthrnnr.
heaped. at the sides as shoWn. Those
next? to the barrel are cemented, so
that when the work is completed there
is a'solid arch through which the water
can run. Make the arch that is cement-
ed thick enough so that the weight
ibove may not crush it in. The rest of
HOW TO CEMENT THE BARREL.
the “bridge” is laid up with loose
stones and the top is sodded over. For
.1. wider bridge, place two or more bar—
rels end to end and build the cement
arch over them. Where a culvert is
laid up without cementing. the stones
settle into the opening and thus soon
begin to fill up the culvert—Orange
Judd Farmer.
Method in 11151111111110.1111.
A son-in-law of the sultan of Tur
key has turned reformer and wants.
his country released from tyranny.
Papa-in-law has evidently refused,
comments the Chicago Times—Herald,
to settle the grocery bills.
Accounting for Heart Disease.
The human heart is of almost uni-
‘form size in all adult- subjects, which
accounts for the prevalence of heart
trouble among large people.~~Chicago
Chronicle.
WEEKLY
EXTRACT-ED HONEY.
In 01-1. C 11111: r:1s1::nces It Brings
Rica-e Satisfac 11:12. Retains Than
Con-.1) Hone-3.
In;‘.r:v
It is no doubt a fact that extracted
hone\ is most piotitable for a la1gema-
jo1ity oi the bee- l; eepeis ot' the country
because they are in a measme at the
mercy of dealers 1.110 will not pas the
price that e.\11:1 line comb honey is
W'011h. being obliged to pay a nea: ly
low] price for all that comes to them,
because the: have. neithei time nOr in-
clination to seek'i a market for the best,
preferring to sell 111 lump lots. .For the
bee- keeper who is neat a large town 01'
city there is a place to dispose of extra
white comb honey at a price that will
make it an object to sell' 1n sections.
The ordinary sect-ion contains about
14 ounces of honey, worth, when ex;
tracted, not more than seven cents. If
the comb is nice and white and the sec-
tions neatly filled they may be sold for
anywhere from 20 to 30 cents a section.
\V herever there are people who can af-
l'ord to indulge their taste for the best
and finest-looking products for their
table, there will be found a market for
all the first-class c‘omb honey that is of-
fered at a price that will make extract-
ing a losing operation. Where comb
honey must be sold for ten cents a
pound and extracted brings seven or
eight cents, the bee—keeper cannot af-
ford to sell the comb, as it costs too
much time to make it, every pound of
comb taking as much time to make as
ten pounds of honey—Farmers’ Voice.
THE BIBLE FOR‘ STYLE.
Author of. “Cruise of the Cachelot”
Tells Where He Learned
to Write.
Frank T. Bullen, whose stories. of the
sea. have won him great fame, never
had proper education. He was a poor
boy, and his youth was spent in toil.
Asked to what source he owed his pow-
er of writing, he answered: “The
source of my ‘style,’ as you are pleased
to term it, is the Bible. I began read-
ing that earlier than I can remember;
I am 43 yearsof age, 15 years of which
I spent. at sea, climbing up from cabin
boy to chief mate, and I have read the
Bible through from cover to cover 25
times. You cannot quote me the first
half of any verse but what I will be
able to give you the second half. Noth-
ing has taken hold of my heart and soul
like the Bible. I used to preach in the
open air, and sometimes, when I felt
I had no words of my own, I would re-
cite a whole chapter by memory from
Isaiah or Job or one of the Gospels.
formed my style But then there’s the
sky and water! Dip your pen in those,
.and you can’t fail to be picturesque:
and interesting.”
inspiration of the sea! What. colors in z
2 10,000 beeves, and the buyer took as
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The Bible and John Bunyon have really ‘
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WHEN DRESSING 1'0st.
How to Pick the Feathers 111111 Keep
Them Perfectly Clean in the
Laborious Operation.
The accompanying illustration shows
one of the cleanest and most conven-
ient ways to pick the feathers from- a
fowl and keep them clean in the opera-
tion. A barrel has a hole made in one
side, as shown, and below it is tacked
a leather lip 01 spout. The dotted line
shovvs the position inside of two sup-
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HOW TO SAVE THE FEATHERS.
ports, between which the fowl is laid
while being picked. The head projects
from the opening. and all blood drains
into the pail outsulc the barrel. As the
feathers are plucked they fall into the
bottom of the barrel, and are thus
entirely unstained. The picker sits on
'a box or stool at one side of the bar-
rel. If more room is desired within
the barrel, saw off the top down near-
ly to the middle, thus giving a larger
opening, Men’s feathers do not bring
a large sum, but they should always
be saved, either for home use 01 for
the sum which they will bring, w hich 1s
1eally clear gain. —N. Y. Tribune.
The Right Kind of Beef.
In regard to the kinds of beef which
the. killer and cater demand a writer in
. the Southern Planter says: “Give spe-
cial attention to well-developed loins,
backs and hips, for it is upon these of
a fat steer the buyer puts the value of
the steer when he stands in the mar-
ket as beef. It is not, simply the fat—
ness of a steer that puts the highest
price upon him in the market, but it. is
the steer that is fat at the right places
on his carcass that makes him top the
market. I once sold a car load of Short-
horn grades in the Philadelphia market
which topped the market that day of
much pains in examining those cattle
a many people would do in buying a
lone.”
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NORWALK
FARMERS WAKING UP.
in All Parts of the Country They Are
Beginning to Take Interest in
Road Improvement.
The progress in road building is
commendable, and we are gratified to
learn that. our farmers aretaking such
in interest, in road building science.
The steel track is being given a thor-
ough test and the. reports are quite
favorable 011 it. ‘What, seemed a mere
dream two years ago is now brought
within the realm of possibility. The
idea. that. it would pay to lay steel
rails for the use of ordinary wagons
seemed a Iwild one, but now promises
to be of great. value, at least in our
more thickly populated communities.
In the. cities the wagons use the car
tracks extensively and horseflesh is
saved thereby. 0n the country roads
the steel rails that are used for ordi-
nary traffic are wider than are the car
tracks in the cities, and their sides are.
lower, making it easy to cross them
with a wagon. Their use prevents rut-
ting of. the road in good or bad weath-
er and makes it possible to have a road
so narrow that the cost of construc-
tion and keeping in repair is greatly
reduced. The use of oil between the
tracks is being experimented with. At.
the Iowa. experimental station crude oil
is being used on some of the. college
roads, and has thus far proved to be
effective in keeping moisture out of
the soil that forms the roadbed. Of
course the action. of frost will have to
be experienced and the action of snows
and ice. But, whatever happens in
this particular instance, there is no
doubt that the farming communities
are about to be brought nearer to—
gether by better roads.——Farmers’ Re-
view.
‘Po’tash fo’! sugar [Ice-ts.
In several foreign experiments with
the culture of sugar beets noted by the
department of agriculture it was found
that whereas nitrogenous fertilizers in-
creased the yield of beets per acre,
they also decreased the sugar content
and purity of the juice, but that the
application of potash and phosphoric
acid fertilizers improved the quality of
the beets. The greatest increase in
sugar was due to potash fertilizing.
Beets grown from large seeds gave bet;
ter yields and were richer in sugar
than those grown from small seeds. It
was concluded that 14 inches was a
good depth for plowing.“
Drawing a Fine Distincuon.
Laurence Gronlund, the socialistic
writer who died a. few weeks ago in
New York, was a thorough pessimist.
One evening, after he had denounced
the modern industrial system in sav-
age terms, africnd remraked: “It is
not so bad as Russian despotism, is
it?” “Not quite; the former is the
worst possible: the latter the worst
conceivable.”
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SELF-FEEDING BOX.
gt Labor-Saving Contrivmce “'hero
Pigis of Durex-en! Size- and
Ages Run Together.
I give a rough sketch and description -
of self-feeding box for pigs. It is 12
feet long, and each side is divided into
13 little "stalls about nine inches. wide.
These stalls are simply. L‘boards‘ 'five
inches wide and 12 inches‘.10ng, fiailed
against the side of the boxfimd reach-
ing down into the feed-trough to keep
the pigs out of the trough and from
wasting the feed, and at the same time
keep them from crowding and fighting.
There is no waste'of feed, and each pig
can have a stall and will eat very quiet-
ly. A is sill 3 feet long; feed-troughs
5 inches wide, 21/; inchesdee‘p; side-
SELF-FEEDING BOX FOR PIGS.
boards 21/2 inches from floor to let feed
through; B, bottom-boards 12 or 16
inches wide, and- so placed as to let feed
slide down into trough. One end is re-
moved to show interior. Ties to keep
from spreading can be placed any-
where, as indicated by dotted lines.
Stalls should reach down to floor and
be nailed thereto and also nailed to
side-boards. This stiifens side-boards.
This box is my own invention, having
never seen one before. I think this
will he plain and will need no further
explanation.
I find this box sufficient to feed 90
pigs, with no trouble. Of course only
20 can eat at a time, but they soon fall
back and others take their places. 1
find this very good where pigs of diifer-
ent sizes run together. They all have
all the chance they want to eat, andthe
food is nev c1 musscd over, but. always
f1esh,for it tee-(ls down only as fast as
it is eaten 1111111.
“e do not till the box full and then
go off on a. vacation, but are with the
pigs several times :1 day. “'e also have
a self-feeder made out of a. salt barrel,
with a hole out near the bottom. ’This
is to iced salt and ashes mixed, one of
salt to two of ashes. ll’chave notaself—
drinker yet, but would like to have one:
'We have to carry water and let them
drink from a. trough. This is the only:
reason we cannot go on a- vacation trip;
Now I would not advise feeding clear
corn from the feeder, for one would
certainly overdo the thing and bad re-
sults would follow. But I have seen-
only good results from middlings and.
bran, and see no reason yet for abandon-
ing the self-feeder.
My neighbor 3made one of these
boxes, and he tells me he is confident
it added $25 to the value of his hogs, be-
sides lessening" the work. I think I
stated that I did-,not know whether this
was the best way, but I knew it was the
easier way. Do not condemn this until
you try it. We made ours in halfaday. .
——Country Gentleman.
DiSten-sion and Rupture.
. , .Distension and rupture of the stom-
. och usually arise from too much fetid.
imperfectly?'masticated, or from the
horse being put to collar work imme-
diately after a heavy meal. The symp-
toms are abdominal pain, eructations of
gas and food, fetid breath, profuse per-
spiratiOn, cold legs and ears and great
prostration. The animal sits On its
haunches like a dog. The treatment \flf
the former disease) consists in difius—
able stimulants, such as ether, ammo-
nia, oil of turpentine, whichever is near-
est at hand, always given in linseed oil,
accompanied with brisk rubbing with
a brush or wisp of straw over the ab-
domen and enemas of warm water and
soap by the rectum. If the latter dis-
ease no treatment is of any avail.—Prai-
rie Farmer.
HorMund.
The bicycle and the automobile
haven’t quite possessed the earth yet.
The Portland Oregonian says: With
horse buyers from Wisconsin, Minne-
sota and the Dakotas scouring the
ranges of Oregon and Washington and
paying from $15 up for animals which‘
1 two or three years ago were considered}
fit only for the abattoir, where they
sold for $1.50 to $2 per head, it is 21p;
parent the advent of the horseless age
has been postponed. so great 15 the de¢
mand for heavy work horses and ani-
mals suitable for the cavalry service.
that it is impossible to meet it with the;
classof animals required, and buyer
are filling out ordeis in some cases witli
unbroken range horses, for which as
high as $40 per head has been paid.
A Convert.
Jack -—I thought you were going to
study medicine.
To m—I did intend to, but I found out
that the medicos have no time to play
football, and I swi ched to theolom. ——
N9} . Journal.
There Is Lying Sonic Micro
“Figures ” -said the bookkeeper,
“never lie.’
“No” replied the expert accountant
“but the people who use them do.’
Then he returned to his task of 1111-1
covering shortages .—Chicago Post. i
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