‘ = rd * AGRICULTURAL. ‘The Ball of Justice: i fe F B Hs who was w The beli of justice for the king Was bound to make the humblest prayer The sutject of his rozal care. At first men rung it every day, Rotted at last, the rop> away, And, growing ehorter by di Swayed lightly to each For many a month it ° For justice ; men had And dreaded now the bell to hear. At length a sang ones vine clung Tight to the rope that idle hung, And firmly held it, sweetly grasped, As if one hand another clasped. A s‘arving horse turned to die, C 4 I $s And@ sw the horse half starved He told the king who rung the \bell, The monaroh answered : *‘ It is well, The brute for justice doth appsal ; bes I pity feet" > The story of their cruel wror And win the justice that belongs To every creature, great and smail : For God their Maker loveth all. —Robert L. Bangt,in the Independent. Oarelessness About Utensils. Ose of the mest dangerous germs that ean infest milk is that found in old rotten in the seams, joints and corners of pails, and in and uoder the many patches of tiukered up milk fixings, O!d butter bowls and old wooden churns are as a rule cocked full of fate that for tea or thirty years have been nests for the propagation of these The only plan to pursue is to as and ps feed, and $18 for the A . ork carting that takes three months { ys $3 « month for a herse, man who boards him- H ry three months, $72. it ‘he hires the same than at $18 a months, and pays $3 for horse's feed and $4 for a fast walker, he will do in two months wha Two mon F may be put in'too late, the grass miy get the slow team may bs serious, besides the $22 loss. stated above. Water for Cows in Winter. ~ An- interesting series of experiments has been cirried out at the agricultural experi- mental station attached to the University. of Wisconsin, thess relating to the comparative value pf warm and coli water for milch cows in winter. In plan this experiment contem- plated, as ite chief object, ascertaining whether it is true, as many farmers believe, that warm water for milch cows produces a measurable increase in the yield of milk over that of cold water, and, if 20, whether the ncrease affec volume simply, or the weight of the solids contained, to an extent which would make it remunerative in gener- al practice to warm the water for cows. Oa the night of January 21, 1889, six cows were placed in stanchions tide by side, in group: of three each, and given a daily ration of 5 Ib. of bran, 2 1b. of ground oats, 6 Ib. of hay, and as much dry cut ma’z) fodder as they would eat up olean, this being continued un- til March 25. In every case the treatment one the other lot it was warmed to 70 deg. F. The time of the experiment was dividedfinto eo — of sixteen days each, ha is be th At the close of the wa 3 in order to eliminate-go far as might be in- dividual diffarences of the two groups. ‘I'he resulta, which have been volurrinously ed out in a closely-printed pamphlet of thirty pages, are in favour of warming the water. The ani on cold water ate more olsgist weuld expect. To pnt the matter shortly, it may be said that the whole ques- tion is ong whe.her it pays. The cows—five out of six—preferred the warmed water to that icy cold, so we may take it that, on the grounds of comfort to the animal, it is best to take the chill off the water. Where labour Z at bacteria. have as little patching and ding d possible i all suspicious machinery and get new. Thousands of tons of butter that now finds with more or less of these ensmies of good c2, and as soon as the butter was made commenced their destructive ferment- for food. Had this butter been made in new and well cared for apparatus ib would have reached marked a pride to the maker, Eegs in Oold Weather. he srt of feeding may well be applied to in winter, if eggs are expected. True, feeding ia un ordinary matter, but how many consider what they are trying to accomplish when feeding? There should always be some object in view, and the feeding, if properly done, should confora to the real’zation of that which is sought. We aaid the “‘arv” jor feedivg is quite an art, and has science to keev it company. What do we feed to secure? E ;z3—and in doing s> we must look into the egg. We see it well with rich, nutri:ious substance and of variety. Then we must adapt the food to the egg. Ii the hen is kept warm and comfortable, the food required to provide her with animal heat will bs corresponiiogly lessened. Kaowiog tha) the food shoald not contain an ex ess of carbonacsous, or heat-producing elemants, we look to those ce that farnish the albumen, All food contain these, bub they vary in propor- When the farmer throws down corn and feads his hens liberally he may secure but lew eggs, as he is then feeding for the mar- cet, and not forezgs. A fat hen will not lay, and is as unprefitable as a fat sow for breeding. What they mostly need is nitro- geaces matter, for they can, if fed any grain at all, easily provide the yolk, lime, phos- cacid, etc., but the large amount of the albumen in an egg calls for more nitrogen- ous tood than ususliy wags Some, im- properly, ascriba the failure to secure eggs to & ok of green food. While some . kind ef bu'ky food (suc as clovar-hay, choppe fine, and scalded, as well as cooked pee and turnipe) is excllent yet the great er- nd if less grain a stum is animal food, a: bs fed, gnd more meat, either raw or cooked, there Milk and curds are also isa small mat- h prices obtained It is not necessary to feed grain A morn ing meal of scalded, chopped hay, with em» kind of animal food, and wheatat night, will give more ezgs, if the hen house is kept warm, than any other method, and it will cheaper than feeding three tines a day on pan of warm water inthe morning 1 A ghould always be allowed. Fast Walking Horses Por Parmers. In purchasing or hiriog a plow horse, stake off a mile of road. Mount the horse and see how many minutes it will take bim A horse that will Zz iH = A Ht BE ft ; i i i 2 § ole goa saz BE S it Eg ui 8 and the difficulties of heating are great, it is not at ail certain that the operation will be profitable—except at peri- ods of very severe frost. The my bs injured by taking ice water, and to avoid a loss it is best to warm the water given, 7 Row to Keep Fowls, Some evening, when you have nothing to make ashallow box, gay eighteen inches long, four inches wide, and four inches deep ; divide this into three compsrt- ments; fill one with gravel, another with charcoal broken int» pieces about the siz> of a kernel of corn, and the third with crushed oyster shells. Fasten this box up in your hen house, just high enough for the fowls to reach it easily, and see that it is never empty during cold weather. Old laster or burnt bones will do instead of numbers it is a great saving o labor to buy the shells already crushed. Another ewentis! in the hennery, in winter, is a dusting box. A shallow box four feet rquare, one foot in depth, and filled two-thirds fall of dry road dus} and wooi or coal-ashe:, with a sprinkling of sulphur, makes the best arrangement that I know of fcr a dust-batb. If you can place shins on it, the hens will like it all the better. This will be all that is neces: keep your hens free from lice during cold weather, thatis, if they went into winter the bits of meat, potatoes, crumbs of bread, and all the odds and ends from the table are jast what laying hens need, and it will y better to tura the scraps into eggs than Fe with vo feed them to the hogs. Ezgs are worth something now, and twenty hens, if properly cared for, will shell out, at a erate estimate, a doz-n eggs every day. The ‘scraps,’ a half peck of oats or barley, and a peck of shelled corn will be sufficient food for these twenty fowls for a week ; do your own g. Get some china or porcelain nest Hens like to have an egg left in cheir nesta, Gather the eggs often pies. extremely cold weather ; if they freeze and crack open, the hens are apt to pick <n and wine you an egg-es! hon off ; it Breed From the Bsst. This ebould be ycur motto, brother er. Have it printed in large type, fram and hang it up in your stable until it gets the sentiment so deeply impressed in ideas of breeding that it becomes a ed rinciple in your life. Study the various treed of.all farm animals, compare care- fully the points of excellence in competing breeds, «xamine as carefally for the defecta. Don’t be carried away by some strong point. Caltivate an ideal combining the properties are ey oo ores horses. as ly for defects in the ball and boar. Ualess you are in your demands How to Build a Dairy Herd. “How shall I proceed witha herd of native cattle to build a dairy head ?” a ahead ot the plow ; and the indirect loss by | *e dairy and gave less milk—a result that any physi- | 820 the animals | th it In front of a window, where the sun will | k sepaEg 8 EY Hi fd HE i a abel Hee a f m2 § pct age 4 | 4 tr Aa tip = BERS 5 3 a Fs i 4 z fu a 3 s ; 7 ToPropasateRoses. ment is very eafily tried. Asicultural Notes. Where the nilking is done in a feeding stable the shocld bs cleaned and thor- oughly dusted with milking. geeat use to the In feeding caves skim milk dox’t forget to mske up for he butter taken ont in the seed oil-sake, catton seed meal, bran, oacs and peas are aligood. A crw should not be exposed to storms or inclement wesher, or snv conditions that will give her dcomfort or pain. She must have no arx'etyin regard to food or drink, which should le given st regular times and in quantity ani kind to suit her appetite If your pumpkins are not all gone here is a good way to then. Split them wh ashovel md remeve the seeds, t run them thregh a roct cutter, They are then in good gape fora cow to relish. Fed in the mange it pays by increasing the flow of milk md gt ts a deeper yellow tint to the crem, This is the sason for looking up seed sup- plies for next pring’s planting and it is of @ utmost imprtance to know that you get what you buy,and thers is but one safe- = for the farmer, and thatis to buy enough of thes: right here at home in our own country in ese are the men we should patroni:s. convéniem arrangement for scalding hogs is a box with os sheet-iron bottom placed over a firnace ; the top of the box should be on « lwel with the cleaning table, and the fire canbs regulated to keep the water at the desred temperature. The bex should be of #tisient iength,? depth and width to admit ¢ to be turned from one side to the other without throwing ouv the water. In 1889 there were 4° sales of Shorthorne- £79 571. Im 1888, 1,24 head were sold for £44 013. The average & 1889 of £32 193 is the highest eine: 1885. The Dake et-D svon- shire’s selections from ds celebrated herd at Holker, bai the best werage, viz, £101,313 The higheat price mile in the year was £535 10, atthe late dr R. Loder’s sale at Whittlebury. If it costs no more © feed blooded fowls than common, whateconomy is there in g the latter? Many imagioe that the care bestowed upn the fiser strains of ultry makes them 1uch harder to breed and keep. And this etra Irbor never pays. You make a mistake ‘ you think this way. Experience will teac you the wisdom o breeding choice bioodd etook, and why is pays best. ‘armerman do no better test this matter thorugbly and be sa hit this advice is wcth heeding. A mutual understnding between man and horse is necessar gd insure the largest per cant. of pufit to stall-owner, says a leading writer riendly word and kindly act ars sen a8 messen the and at the momeat lstexpscted are tend- erei back In most dis trous manner. study; his pecalirities of ioacuel ; his faults se skillfully and bis vices, if sny.nfortunately there be, are mitigated. An invention liket to interest all breed- ers hs just been brought out at the Vienns bilitey Veterinary Institate. Prof. Polanski sndDr. Schindelka have ted an imtrment admitting of the inspec miropf the horse’s larynx. This apparatus ii ned with a tiny electric lamp, and the emma mads, not as herstofore, through he animal’s mouth, but through its nosti’s. Only thres men have been required tohoi the horsss during the expstiments whbh Bve bsen made at the Vieana Inststutq ‘hs new method has the van of alowng the nostrils to be thoroughly exadnel at the simo time as the larynx, whia fo certain diseares is all important. The London{Em.) Farmer and Stock Breeder remarkjthst enailage proves to be gocd food for ews izlamb. List year on *! the home farntof the earl of Bactive, at 4 | Underly the ces were fed from early in till swedes ecem usry Lon a few o of onta daily. d 145 ewes receitd till March 1s) 10 cwt, wich the continued to beed till they all went to the butcher fat. It is estimate that the diamonds shown at the Paris « tion were worth from $35,000 ‘ > & | sErEate Ee: ter before .each | f Chris Itsolor abserbing quality is of dairymen. 80 m firms ofknown reputation. We hava pa England, 2 323 headin all wero sold for |. LEPROSY. hich leprosy was conveyed into Earope, sayathe ‘Fortnightly Review” but tnere is evidence to the ‘effact that in the Christ it had established often becomes warm in the sunshine, and in | 0 in other Earo a comparativelyehort time the cutti tga form | tells us that in the Frankish iom these acalius, in les: time, it is claimed, and | institutions were founded in the eighth and nineth centuries, in Ireland about the year 869, In Spain, 1007 in Eaglandin the eleventh the Netherlands in leprosy spread with ex ra and lepar hospitals weirs rapidly aitinticg po Europe. It is estimated that in the to punish mankind, indeed some have asserted that the leprosy of the middle ages was introduced for the first tims from 6 east ose returned from sades. rosy, thus became ingrafted upon the disease al- ready preva'ent throughout Earope. How to Uarry 2 Watch. A watch must b> kept in a clean place. Dist and small carticien of the pocket lining gather continually in the pockeps, and even the beat fitting case cannot protect tke movement from dirt finding its way to the w and pivots of the movement. Watch- pockets should be turned inside out and cleaned at regular intervals. A watch onght to be wound up regularly at about the same hour every aan The best time to do it is in the morning, for two irs hours of rising bing o by of the movement of the owner during the day. high-grade watches are adapted to position, and will show only a few seconds difference in twenty-four hourr, while common watches may be out of time several minutes in one night. Never leave a hunting case watch open considerable length of time. A careful observer will find in the morning a layer of dust on the crystal of a watch that haa been open during the night. {he dus’ wiil find its way into the movement. The dust on the outeide of the case w consciously rubbed off by the wearer, but when the watch is closed, thedust inside of the case must remain there. ciange. Ip will become thickened dust that cannot be keps out of the best- closing case, The dust will work like emery, and grind the sarfaces of the pivots of the train, How Seals Keep House. “Just as of old the seasons come and go,” and jast as of old, year after year, as regu- larly as the globe completes its annual cir- cla, there ocsurs what is termed the “‘land- ing” of the seals, What scenes of peace or war transpire among the seal family out in ocean depths we may not know,but we know what takes place after the heads of the vari- ous families arrive, which is in the ‘merry if | month of May.” The seal army cf occupation fairly ssnore there ensue more or less dramatic, and which indicate that there is a good desl of human nature in the seal, as thére is in fact, vo more or less extent, in beneath the sun. every creature Abont the middle of May, usually, the the seals tablish the rookeries in cows that begio It seems probable that the rookeries are oc- cupied by the same bullsand cows from year to year, as they, the rookery grounds, change but little, either in s‘z> or form ; but it has been proven that the bachelors do nod return to the samp. auling grounds, or even to the same islan . ith regularity from year to year. ra Farmers. é Evidence is accumulating of greatly dim- inished prosperity, and, of serious trouble, amounting often to ectual distress, amongst the farmera of the Western States. from of State of Ohio year year wed last eighteen years the mortgage indebted- of Ohio has been ted to the ex- tlaining cf bad times, et ee Cat warm breador cake,;with a warm knife. Tne kiog of Spain has got cver his illness, but bis constitutional weakness is so grea’ that it is extremely unlikely that he will live to grow up. is now kno ks are used in the north of G: , and that ssimon of the Finish rivers must in winter to the Bultic coasts of bared of beet for Q s6eu Vicbscti'a ate. Christmas “ye weighing 300 ad the palace on Christmas day. Asake kept by a Zarich naturalist was fond of enteriug a small pond and lying in ambush for goldfish. It se'z2d its prey by ly, the fish unipjared, and if libera readily swam away. The naturalis vt hdd a hypnotic inflaence on its A Scranton man who gives his attention is a searon the bigamist wives and households, devoting just about as much attention to one as to the other. He helped raise the broods of each female, ang p Rang eho og was equal, The ou! uty b very busy, but he to take pride in having so much responsibility. Up near ord, Conn., last week a young man who had seta trap for a mink went out to examine it, could not find dian lynx, w the tips of his fore feet to ety of his hind feet when stretched out at length. would. The : “]’ve got rst pet goose you cver saw, if come around without hallooiny or strik- ing 8 rock with your stick you'll think some- 8 ouse like a ring, and every forty feet she yelps out “‘kaap quiet, kaap quiet,’ and if you don’t mind she'll be tearing off your’ pants and giving somebody a job of pa’ . She's the best watch dog I ever had, and we wouldn’st feel safe if our pet goose should die.” To ___ Russian Military Discipline. ally in the Rassian B OI will merch y army. Bu a of what occurred yd beginning of reign of the Czar Nicholas, when the discipline tn Russian army was comp1ratively lax. Av that time, betore the telegraph was discovered, the Rassians used signal stations, which were a few niles apart. The soldier made a signal which was repeated by the soldier at the mext also. nm consequence arm pext day it was diecovered that all tho i their -si stricter discipline prevails at present, “That will do,” replied the German; ‘'I give it up.”—[ Texas Siftings.} . Truffies in Epping Forest. snouts, and mounted upon long, legs, wi along, grubbing hither and thither, and flopping their ears in disdain ss fastered to the end ofa rcps-whip, which i around