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" PRUNING PEACH TREES.
How to Cu-t Back the Limbs When the
‘ _ Budding Tran ks Are First
Set Out!
There are two practical ways of cut—
ting back peach trees at time of setting
but: _
The first. one is to cut back to four or
five buds on the stock as high as it is
desired that the top shall start. I have
found from 18 to 30 inches to be about
as good as any. Then every small limb
should be cut close to the trunk of the
tree and a beautiful top .1'ill be {01 med,
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PRUNING PEACH TREE AT SET-
. TING 0U '.l‘
the bark 1n the top becoming, oert’ectly
healthy and making a strong 110111 that
‘11'ill keep the top from breaking 111 case
-of high winds.
One of the greaest mistakes in plant»
ing peach trees is to leave the old top
on. The second method is adopted
when the trees are raw large and over-
g1011n and when the othei method
would make too larrre a 11 ound to heal
over nicely; also 11 hen the limbs are
t00 large to cut close to the body. In
such a case the limbs should be cut
back to the first. two buds. as in thevil>
lustration.—American Gardening.
HOW TO CURE ACOLDfi
Simply take Otto 3 Cute. We know
of its astonishing euros and that it will
stop a cough quicker than any known
remedy. If you have Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Consumption or any disease of
the throat or lungs, a few doses of this
remedy will surpi ise y.0u If vou wish
to try, call at ou1-st01e, and we will be
pleased to furnish 1011 a sample bottle
free of cost. Large bottles 500 and 250.
Edward P. Weed, N 01 walk: hits. Scott
Williamson, Darlen.
_.’_ 2'1...
5 ~ When you awake
more tired than when you went to bed,
With an unpleaSant taste in the mouth,
.your tongue coated and dry, and having
no appetite for breakfast, you are suf-
fering from Dyspepsia.
Numbers of people are suffering ser-
iously from this complaint and its result,
when one package of U. S. ARMY &
NAVY TABLETS will bring abOut a
prompt cure. A few doses will do more
for a ll flak 0r Sour Stomach than a pro-
longed course of any other medicine.
Nothing can be used with so much cer-
tain in obstinate cases of Constipation.
Those tablets are the outcome of years
of stu :ly. and are compounded of the'
finest C111 ugs only, purely vegetable, they
do not gripe, pr odur e no reaction. Take
no 5 abstitutc. 10 CENTS PER PACK-
AGE
If you cannot get them at your drug
stOre s1 nd 10 cts. 1’01 a package of 12
to the U S. ARMY & NAVY TAB-
LET CO. 17 Ess'r 141m 81'..an YORK.
'TIM‘E'L'Y ‘DA'I’RY‘ NOTES.
A cow that can 111111111 mill: pail is 1111
right provided the milk pail is big
enough.
It takes all kinds of people to make a
werld, but it does not take all kinds of
cows to make up a dairy. Good dairy-
men select the best.
The man who believes in sheltering
pigs, calves and poultry in the same
stable with his c0Ws is only one step in
advance of the peasant, who keeps his
live stock in. a section Of his dwelling
house.
The term “good milk" signifies a great
deal. It. means. that it comes from
healthy cows and healthy, nourishing
feed. and that it is not contaminated by
' the hands of the milker, or from other
sources after it leaves the udder.
If you have a cow that coughs, and
tends towards emaciation on good feed,
regard her with suspicion. and at once
isolate her from the rest of thezherd till
he 1~'=:1':l for tuberculosis.—
American, Cultivator. -
1‘7 . .J‘V;
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urn your back
on him
59,
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n
he offers to sell you
something just as
good as”
..
vorlne
Washingr Powder
Youre the One who
will suffer if you
at the wrong
kind- not the clerk.
A cake 01" fine, white
Glycerine TOilet Soap
is given five with every
package of lvorine.”
Youp pay for the wash--
'Qut .1.’ limeIAMO CO» _
V ' " . (OUO‘I'OIIIUIV. CONN.
cm” 0' Imus-l- ”IOU. IIIVIII Ion-I.
ine' powder..th the soap.
I - not use out straw for bedding.
NEED WHOLESOME Foonf
Those 'Who Cannot Alford to Take
Good Care of Mares and Go-l'tl
Should Sell out.
Brood mares should have all the
well- cured hay that they will eat when
fed regularly three times a day, says
the Horse Breeder. If, in addition to
this, they are fed not less than six
quarts of thebest oats, there will be but
little danger of getting them too fat.
Where there is one brood mare in the
country injured by overfeeding, there
are many that are actually suffering
from lack of nourishment. Those who
cannot afford to feed liberally had bet-
ter reduce their stock or go out of busi-
ness altogether. What has been said of
brood mares is equally true of foals of
all ages,.f,1'om weanlings to maturity.
Most farmers who raise only a few'foals
feed too sparingly. There is little dan-'
ger of colts eating too much, either of
hay or oats, provided they have plenty
of pure air and a chance to exercise in.
the lot every day. The feet of the
youngsters need particular attention
during the winter months. If not
looked after carefully and often they
are likely to suffer from thrush, which.
if not cured, will result in contracted
feet. The practice of allowing colts to
stand in filth to keep their feet soft has
ruined the feet of many a. promising
foal. The feet should be leveled and
dressed with a rasp at least every
month to keep them in proper shape.
A sharp lookout should be kept during
winter for lice and worms, either of
which will cause a promising colt to
become unthrifty in a very short. time.
The former can generally be easily'de-
tected by examining the skin 011 the
neck and around the fore shoulders.
There are several varieties, some of
which are so small that they may at
first be mistaken for small specks of
dandruff. Colts suffering from worms
are often pot-bellied, the coat looks
dead and rough and the hair points
towards the ears. When such a con-
dition exists some good worm remedy
should be tried without delay.
HOGS ON THE FARM.
They Are the Most Reliable and Prof-
itable Stock the Average Man
Can Raise.
When a partial failure in the corn
crop occurs and: the price runs up to
from 30 to 40 cents on the farm, the im~
mediate effect is to crowd the hog
stock of the country on the market and
depress the price. When a. large por-
tion of the hog stock is wiped Oil? by
cholera the immediate evfliect at the be-
ginning of the disease is to crowd: hogs
on the market and. depress the price,
the after-effect of. which is to enhance
the price by creating a scarcity in the
supply. Under these conditions far-m-
ers will go on growing hogs until they
fall a. little below three cents a pound,
when they will conclude there is no
money in it and lean over to some other
department. Of the farm. When hogs
go to about five cents on the farm every
brood w that is at all fit will be-put.
to use, and in a year the number is so
generally increased that a. fall in price
is. inevitable. It is not safe, therefore.
to figure on high~priced hogs for any
considerable length of time, nor is it.
wise to go out of business when hogs
are low, for the reason that it. may be
safely estimated that enough will go
out. of the business to increase the price
: in a reasonably short. space of time.
The man who uses only well-bred hogs,
keeps uright along raising 100 hogs a
of them, is not. likely1 to have the sher.‘
lfi’s red flag stuck on his front gate:—
Western Plowman.
COMFORrWFOR HOGS.
How to Arrange a House for: Boar,
Four Sow: and Any Number of
Little Pigs.
A hog house 15x38 feet for a. bcar,
four sows and their offspring may be
arranged as shown, herewith. The
house must be adjacent to lots on either
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GROUND PLAN OF HOG HOUSE.
side. so as to give the animals exercise
and sunshine. It should be floored with
hard wood and must be kept clean.
PrOvide plenty of bedding. The pas-
sageway between the pen for the pigs
and thdse of the older animals is two
feet wide. The house should be high
enough to furnish room above the hogs
for storing corn and other grain feeds.
This can be spouted down into the
passageway convenient for feeding.
Troughs are at a.-—Farm and Home.
LIVE STOCK POINTERS.
Try thelcurry comb onthe cow.
Keep the swine out‘Of very cold winds.
A sow less than- a. year old is too young
to breed.
The Chicago market calls for a. me-
dium size hog.
Feed. clover bay to swine. Steam it, if
you can.
Throw a. blanket over the pigs in very
cold weather.
The hog has been a mortgage raiser
and will be again.
When times improve the horse mar-
ket will improve.
Why not cut the shaggy hair on the
horse that. has it.
’ Some of the best swine breeders do
Swine that are kept. in lots of a dozen
1, out of the winds and well bedded will
' , not pile up.—Western1 Plowman.
year on the farm, and takes good care
11-111 EVFNING GAZETTE '--
can’t Be Disproiven.
Norwalk People Are Face-
to Face With Facts.
When a. local citizen comes f01wa1~d
and makes a public statement, unhesi-
tatingly endorsing the workings of
“The Little Conqueier” no better
proof can be had. The timid and doubt-
ful, the scotfer and the skeptic are
bzought face to face with facts which
cannot be disproven. The testimony
of blends and neighbors, cheerfully
given by them, and told heie in their
own words, is the positive evidence of
melit that backs every box of Doan s
Kiidnney Pills. Read this, a case in
p01 Mrs. John Grace, of 32 Pl wsville
Ave" says:
"I am 11: ell up in yea1s and for quite
along while I suffered with my back
and kidneys. The pain often extended
down into my limbs and was frequently
so seveie that I supposed that. I had
iheumatism. I was advised to use
Doan’s Kidney Pills and proculed a
box at Hale’s Drug Stme (now Glen-
dening & Co. ’5) and began taking
them. I think the pills 11115 a good
thing. They curedme.’
Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale bv all
dealers; price 50 cents a. box.‘1\lailed
on teceipt of price b1 Foste1-\lilb111'11
(30., -Bul‘f.110,1 N. Y. , sole agents f'm the
U. S.
Remember
take no other.
the 1111.1ne—Doau’s-—and
' THE ROTTING PEACHES.
Spraying Should Be Begun Early;
Long Before the Disease Makes
Its Appearance.
The loss to the peach crop by rot the
past season was a great drawback in
not a few cases, and if there is any way
to avoid it in the future it. should be
adopted without delay. Limit ed ex-
periments in spraying with Bordeaux
mixture seem favorable. But the spray-
ing should be begun early enough, be-
fore 'the disease makes its appearance.
And, considering the danger from leaf
curl also, the time to begin would seem
to be before the buds expand, at which
time the. solution should be stronger
than in subsequent applications when
the leaves are unfolded.
Then again. in setting out orchards,
the varieties that. are liable to rot
should be discarded. Some of these
would be valuable butfor this constitu-
tional fault. Champion, an excellent
11Lriet-y otherwise, will not sustain it»
self on this account. So with Alexan-
der, Amsden, Rivers and quite a num-
ber of others. But. their loss need
cause no regret, for there is a large list.
of choice varieties that have good re-
sisting power to the malady, and that.
will more than fill their places.
But. the planter who goes athis work
haphazard and buys cheap trees—most
likely from some one he knows nothing
about—will be left. “Serves him
right l” was the remark made years ago
by Mr. Colman. first United States see-
retary of agriculture, not very compli-
mentary, but perfectly in place.
As in any other business, the peach:
growers who are successful are care:
iful, painstaking men. who keepclear of
.all unnecessary risks. That peach rot
can be controlled by such persons—'2
just as black knot is—there can be no
doubt. And every point must-be looked.
after. Just now one of the things to be
done is to gather and'bu-rn the diseased
peaches sticking on the trees or lying
under them. These dried-up peaches
contain the seeds of another crOp of
rot, and everyoneburned now lessens
the danger.—National Stockman.
LIGHT 0N SPRAYING.
A Recent 'Dlscovery That \Vlll Add
to the Hope of the Average
.0 Fruit Grower.
At a recent farmers’ convention. Prof.
Burrill, of the University of Illinois,
gave to his hearers a. piece of informa-
tion that he said had not yet got into
the books. It has relative to the first
spraying of fruit, and trees for fungous
diseases. It has been believed. that in
the case of most of these pests the
.spores lived over on the twigs of the
trees. It was advised to spray before
the blossoms were open, for the pUI‘
pose of killing these colonies Of spores.
Fruit raisers have been religiously car-
ry-ing out instructions in this regard,
and the experiment. stations have been
sending out; spraying calendars year by
year in which the fruit raiser isadvised
to spray bef ore the Openingiof the blos-
soms. But. now it has been. found that
the theory of the spores living over on
the twigs is erroneous. The spores live
over in. the leaves that fall to the
ground and lie there- t-ill spring. With
the first. breath of spring these spores
ripen. sufficiently to float in the air, and
as soon as the young leaf begins to ex-
pand they find a lodgment' there: and be-
gin their life work. It. is, therefore,
useless to spray at the earliest time in;-
dicated' in' most of our bOOks on spray-
ing. This discovery will add. much to
the comfort of the orchardist, for it
will decrease his times of spraying. It
also adds greatly» to his hopes. for if
the spores live over on the dead leaves
the proper way to get rid of them is to
destroy the leaves. This may be done
by clean cultivation, plowing under the
leaves that escape the burning..-—Prai-
rie Farmer,
flOSTETTER’s ”13,121.31?“
lzLEBRATED Poor blood means 1
- poor food.
' weakness and
disease.
" ". Hostetter' s Bitters
-« enrich the blood,
food for the
body. Strength
and health resutl
Poor food means .
and make rich-
w‘v ' ' -
.
1/11 1111
OF NEW' you K.
‘ RIF HARD A. McC'U'RDY, Pijeudent ;.
8111111111 in the Year Ending Dec. 31:98.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
INCOME.
Received for Premiums . . . ’ . .
E rum all other Sources . . . . .
Lt
$42,318,748 51
12,687,880 92
$55,006,629 43
nrsnuusnmuums.
To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . . $13,265,908 00
To Poncyaholders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 11,485,751 35
For all other Accounts . . . . . 10,493,379 53
$35,245,038 88
.- ' - assume.
United States Bonds and'Other Securities . .
First Lien Loans 0n Bond and Mortgage . . .
Loans 0n Bonds and Other Securities,
Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents
$160,956.14! 33
at $23,534,826. 88: Book Value . . . 20,604,649 61
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,621,377 36
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . . 6,434,957 10
gm
LIABILITIES,
Policiy Reserves, etc., 1 . . . . 233,058, 640 68
Contingent Guarantee Fund, , .- . 1 . . . 4:. 238,684 68
' Divisible Surplus . . . . ‘ . . , $2,220,000 00
,517.32 36
Insurance and Annuities in Force . . . $971,711,997 79
Ihave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor
From theSurplus a dividend will be apportioned as none
Board Of Trustees-
HENRY H. ROGERS
3110. W AUCHINOLOSS
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM Bncocx
S'rurvusmr FISH
AUGUSTUS; D. J UILLIABD -
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
ADRIAN IsELm J R
GEORGES. Bownom
WILLIAM C. Wnitrnm ,3:
WILLIAM ROCKEEELLER
Janus N. JAR'vIE
CHAS D. Dream! JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
JAMES Spares;
FBEDEBIO CROMWELL
J ULIEN T. Dames
A. N. WATERHOUSE
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
SAMUEL D. 3111300011 3
Burns W. PEOKHAM :
!
RICHARD A MoCunnrf
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON P031
WILLIAM J. SEWELL
OLIVER. HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPHANT
GEORGE F. BAKER
DUDLEY Omorr ,
J. HOBART HEBRICK
WM. 1’. DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISs
GEOEaE G. HAVLR
ROBERT A. GRANTS 8, Vice- President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, Generm Manager. ’
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President DUEN du—I’. BRECK, Gotrespon ing Secretary
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMrtOTl-I, Assistaa Secretary
' FBEDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMESON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier. ' EDWARD P. flOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
8" EMORY MoCLlNTOCK, Actuary. '
JOHN TATLOCK, JR. ., Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. ' WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
' . C. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER Assistant AuditOI'. HENRY 5. BROWN, Assistant Comptrollel , M1.
JOHN C. ELLIQI‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. '
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor. r
MEDICAL DIRECTORS:
ELIAS J. MARSH, M D GRANVILLE 11 WHITE. M I)
U. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting.
sinuous a stunner, @eneral Agenege
an n. mun, Least 11....
68,503,580 90 '
9,396,619 00
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