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w eagerly suapped [1p at from cents a pound in the sumer to 40 cents af pound in the winter. To. "Gné. berds of dairy cows' have built pa private trade meh as $1 8 pond for their eufire it of butter tin year through.' the meay farm housewives whe engage in this brasch of busi "have mo hesitation in offering words of encouragerhent: A fair type | 'of dairy cow will esrn from. $150 to | #800 0 year in the production of batter. is practical farming, for a herd ed will keep up the fertility of "besides earning a splendid in- | for the fewnilly. Of course there 5 about #8 much to be made in selling tlie cream if one happens to secore | customers who will. pay top notch | yutes, but everybody cannot make a | pany of cream to the neglect of othier things. One of the reasons why # great many farmers can make it pay to produce butter is that it does mot . vequire the quick marketing that is mecessary 'in handling cream. With a good cellar and by using & little ice in Bot weather the butter output teed miot be. marketed more than once a | seek, 'or even once a month if the piace is just right for storing the prod- wet. This question of marketing has to be considered at the outset. Suc! or failure will turn on the skill handling 'and marketing of a va- ot of farm.supplies. Any number 'of capable farmers live several miles from their nearest' railway station, 'gpd they have 'to 'produce articles hat do not require quick selling. One of the best of these products is butier. An intelligent woman who loves her can succeed at butter income from fils ni eare with which these ank- fd a ana the close attention Naneliog of bob and gi the re DA Rotor & SYST aot But this fs not beyoud the capacity of the uvertige person. A: dozen cows can jo. maintained, together with enough young stock to keep the herd properly life ing. The pends on the number of well selected 'cows, the mals are ven to the © balanced, on g farm of thirty to fifty eres. 1 know a number of such places the Chicago district. In one case a "keeps more than thirty animals on thirty acres. Assuming that twelve cows are kept for butter production, the clear profits of the place should not Ton under $1,200 a year, and with ex- ira good cows the gmount will be lever Persons taking up the dairy business io any form will be safe in {starting with a number of cows that man can milk and care for. Twelve § about all that can be hgndied in this way. if there are acres enough for 'more animals ft may be good policy to Seep two 'milkers. who will have time h during the day to perform the frm work. Neither bere nor in 'other article that 1 write do 1 favor.a person specializing in one prog- pet. Nothing could be more ill advised cases where there Is nothing but 3 0 bring an 'income an attack eof iSease May rain the nd waste a ay the 'herd al Neither wheat nor corn can be ed on' ns an exclusive product por at least serious difficnity come to any owner who depends on mrtiote of production. Diversity is : lor of she da. And with this jo every energetic farm Tawily way | wel ar branchitig out in a num hannels. Wille miter making i ov fives reamonably efforts, 1t is so With. any single both ste on fhe Tow 80° that every weed is covered, regardless of how many potato stalks you Coyer The potatoes will all come trough this soil, but the weeds will be killed, aud usually no. hoelng is necessary, "It i= fmportant to make the, frst or second cultivation pretty deep, but, afte or that cultivate as shallow. 88 posal. ble. Our object 1s to retain g tonstant dust muleh so a8 to hoid the malsture to the soll and prevent Its pecape by evaporation, bwt-great damage can be done bere by going too deep. The pe: tato plant send¥ ite feeding, roots qut through the soil between the FOS. Very | quickly, and if we ure not extremely careful with our cuitivators we cut off ummense udmbers of feeding roots and do anor harm than good. | think it is far better not to cultivate at all 'tham to cultivate deep in the middie of the growing season. We practice u' level system of cultivation. Our potatoes are planted pretty deep. and therefore there is po tendency for them to work out of the sulL" Stretching Window Screens on Frames. The screen wire is frst fastened | along one side with tacks, 'then. this | edge of the frame is placed against some support while It lies of the bench top or table. The .scrgen 1s 00000000000060000 QO00000 & 5 ce ©0000000000000000000000000 it 1s & good plan to locate corncribs and hay stacks on bigh rolling ground, so that Water will not settle toward them. A swamp that 1s an eyesore and ab solutely useless as it stands may be drained snd converted into a perma: nent pond. by scraping out the bottom and Mning it with clay. A: patch of stony, .mnproductive ground ean in a few years be con verted into a joy for the youngsters by planting ft to hickory. trees. Nothing adds so munch to. the com: fort of everybody on the farm as dry. solid paths or walks running from the weuse to all of the outbuildings and connecting the latter. if yon do not bave. the gpergy tC build a dipplag tank for the hogs pout some conl ofl over the pond whore they wallow, and. {t will 81d material ly in disposing of tbe lea. "Canadian fmigration' fo the last fiscal year dropped by mlmost two- thirds. The total of 'neweomers in the year was 48,637, compared 'with 144,789. By far the langest. propor- tion of immigration is shown in the number of. arrivals from the United these - were 3 A CLUSTER OF MAYES DEWBERRINS, most popular variety, is not very hardy, and hitherto its culture bas Leen con: fined to rather mild climates. Any fer- tile: soil provided with good drainage and with a good supply of humus to retain moisture is suitable for growing dewberries. Many of the large fields in North Carolina are on coarse sand. and in other sections clay loams are used for this purpose. The plants, however, should not Be set on wet soll. Under. 'such . conditions root rot has been found to kill the plants. On the other band, a sufficient supply of mois. ture is essential for the development and ripening of the berries, Dewberry plants are usually set dor ing the winter and early spring in the south and in early spring in. the north, As they occupy the soil for several years, the land should be well prepar ed beforehand. The use of cover crops fo add humus Sn the. soll in frequently # desirable preliminary, and much better results are usually secured if thie land is planted to cultivated ¢ for two years before setting ot plantation. This will result in a bet ter growth of the plants the first year, | and the plantation will yield a crop mech sooner than if no such prepara- tion is made. Two systems of planting are follow- ed--the hill system and the solid row system. With the former the plants are set five feét distant each way, with the latter three feet apart in rows which are four to six feet apart. Cul- tivation is begun as soon as the plants are in the ground and continued until the growth of the canes trailing along the ground interferes with tbe work. The following spring, just before .the buds start, the canes should be train- ed. There are a number of different ways of doing this, details of which are discussed in farmer's bulletin a new publication of the United States department of agriculiure on this sub ject. In some cases where the hill system is used stakes are set by each plant and the canes wound in the spiral around them. = With 'the solid rdw sys- tem of cujfure posts, are sometimes set betwedn every two plauts; and in oth er places a wire freilis is used. Ju'the south, where the growing sea- won 1s long, 411 the canes both old and new are usually cut off aftep the fruit has been picked: In: northern regions the season fs teo short to sectire a new growth; and 10 consequence the old ganes only are reinoved - The former method has the advantage of minimis danger from (he diseases "which 'the dewberry, Of thesé thié.two Wiost seriou nthracnosé apd dou lossom, In states where it 1s not | le {0 remove the canes after har the-erop the blossom disease is led. Py, temoving in thie. "fn tec side Fie thorough cova: rows. 'As d general rule; peach or some type of ea! "#pple can be used for this Pury fn most cases the grower wil 'moye-the filers until they tained such size as to have: with the permanent trees." | iam. Soy Beans For Fodder. The experiment station of . icut urges farmers in that and throughout New England to soy beans as a fodder crop: Theyshaye demonstrated 'the value of this + especially: when-mixed with corufin the silo. + They advise the follo g vari- eties: Hollybrook, Medium and Ito 'San. These yield well, the seed is uot expensive, and they lare well suited to the climite. . The soy besh { may be grown separately a isd with the corn at the cutter, of the seeds may be grown togel n latter case one part of soy measure will be mixed with thires party of corn and dropped ont of the plan in this proportion. It is better to the two seeds together rather than wait until the corn is up and; then the soy. beans. It is better to use Hn | with' them, although they will" grow fairly well without it. Inoculation ¥' needed when the soy beans are grows | for the Orst time, but after the crop: [1s grown two years in succession no} further fuocplation will be needeq. Cauliflower Soil. x caulifiowet is to thrive ib on mule, well: J ' : 000000000000000000000090 |e | BUYING A FARM, 60000000000000000800D 'When buying a farm rememb farming is as much of a making bricks is. and 1% closely as if you were abot. business. If you safis(y the six essential rules you eanunot wrong: hr First.--Be perfectly cotfaln neighbors are -congenial,- for in an uncongenial neighb possible. Second.-- Locate petra EN church. You can met labor { if you do not use them § Third. --Be sure the country ful and the water pure. 3 Fourth.-- Look well jnto th tation facllitics-~rondes : rates. 8 o o ° © 15 be thine olen "tor thon odds" tater, "Thod dost © La 't to he n't and say it is chine." Kin Biches) question, * What Hh w ist with ancient, 7" Shakespeare makes Ghunt Fe. ola Gann Indeed aud gaunt in old. id, Within me grief bas kept & ast. And who abstains from fis not gaunt?" 118 the last poet one would - be guilty of punning. and yet wiote a punning epitaph upon pier. whe plied between Cambridge London und who died after losing on account of the plague, drrier 'was the Hobson whose « is #0 famous. "He sed to hire horses, but travelers had" {6 take borse Hobson offered' or fone, so "Hobson's cholee" came, to men: pall "lock poem, 'written on the death s enter, 1% tull of puns. One pas- Fives ail men life gave him his nich trenthing put him out of 3 % 'contradiction to affirm 'vacation hastened on his term. mide a pun which bas be- quite famous. In the poem de- the ride of John Gilpin, who } gu where his horse took him rentuslly arrived at the house of id from whom the horse "ad 'borrowed, Gilpin says: 8 becatse your horse would | come. T. well forbode, it and ig wil soon be here. arg.upon the road. 0od's humorous poefry 1s full In "The Lady's Dream" be talked together like two egotisty ion all made up of ayes Like the oogan--to cast her weeds: i «But, examples could be multiplied iu: definitely. Hood's best kiiown pun reds: jo death, which fiappened in his berth, At torty odd befell They went and told the sexton, ahd 'The sexton tolled: bell" The Three Soutaris. . By this time We nid .all know 'enough about the near est put to eohi- "ple and {be one in southern Greece. it is curlous. fiat each uame comes fom a different 'original form. The Sieesk otherwise Scatari; the Al Major Bell's sta 0 " "Thera 15 & Bn "quén: tity of nickel ore' abtain through | variots copper mines in the. United States, and this ore is refined Arie patty by the American i Refining Company. . There is a nickel ore ghtatved from Now, Cate- |: | donia; which is refined by the United States ; "Bruns | wick, N. dobs "Sompare with tonnage = bedi trom Canadian ores, but there are some hundreds of tons of. refined © nickel produced: yom ly 'from these sources'. = "Measures taken by the Govern: ment. of Canada to control the desti: nation and use 6f nickel refined from Canadian ores have the completa ap- proval of the British Government. It ph d be added that the Canadian ave always been -pre- So to ®oy further measures for this purpose, which the British Government night suggest, but the last-named Government 1§ satisfied that the precautions taken are suffi. cient 'to prevent the enemy from ceiving supplies from this source, a matter of fact, the factories in the United States which are manufaciur- ing guns, rifles, and munitions for the -allfed nations depend: for their supply of nickel almost whol He altogether, upon the Canadi duction, The munitions plants hy tho British Isles: and. in ~ other = allied countries are also supplied from dha Sanadien output? the invitation of lingh-Onnefl, the famous director of tha marvelous Bhysics Laboratory. at the Uniyersity. of Leiden, to go. ther into the oe of "iHauolying Just returned | home, ooRRE~ £0 ing to Lelden was to-detefmine more accurdtely the tempergtures at which alr liguefies and froeges, At the Lei- den University he lguefiéd and froze ts of the joint experi stat hat Profs. Onties ) Bie t there will be-& c future for liquid js that, in a few years y used in connec: adical arts. o install a liquid 'alr oy the purpose ents. Ramsgate, : Bums of Winnipes, {mit ya JJ une, 02 In a dae "form of he ory? 1d sad. hove he A €0) ications of She bead. IF If the : 5 ee person adiict with plenty of exercise "keep the bowels tendency to Bandachi vs None of the ik medicines, foc] A 'NUmerous. course is to avoid thelr