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TEAMING PIGEONS. Important Points in the Bearing of the Young- Birds. Trying Their Quality by FrelimlnarJ Fllchts That WUl Weed Out the Worthless Birdn SlrtlpK Preferred by Most Fanciers. When the season arrives for the training of young birds that are to take thei place in the loft of those lost by disease or misfortune, says the Philadelphia! Item, it is well to prepare the education with a few trial flights. The strength and formation of the wing can be told fcy observation, but sight and the devel-.

cpment of the faculties can only ba proved by actual test. Pigeons two three months from the nest are able make the flights; but it is better to war until they are five or six months old bo fore putting them on trial. It is, as i rule, the birds hatched in March, April and May that are put to these trials iij the last of August and through Septemi ber The first flight is from a distance) of from five to eight miles, doubling the distance three or four cUiys later. In this manner, in five or six trials, theTJ are loosed from a distance of 150 to miles. Such a test is sufficient.

The worthless birds will have been lost on the road, and the rest will have shown their speed and value. A bird in training that, under favorable conditions, has allowed itself to be distanced repeatedly, is not worth keeping. It sometimes happens that a bird does nothing of any note for a number of years, and then suddenly distinguishes itself; but generally a bird may bo judged from a few trials. A really good pigeon show its excellence young as well as when older. It Is not well to retain ordinary pigeons for breeders, as the strain will not be improved by so doing.

The majority of fanciers have more in male thiin in female pigeons for flying; the first ordinarily form three-fourths of the number sent not that the latter are less faithful or less rapid, btxt because they are more seldom found" in condition. For example, it is known that it is dangerous to employ a female at the apprcjaJh of the time of laying or during the two or three days that follow. If she lays her eggs in the basket during the time of transit, the weakened state will cause her to fail in the flight. Also, the female taking the greater part than the mail in the duties of hatching perceives sooner the movement of the young in the eggs, feels the time of hatching ap- proaching and consequently prepares for it; the glands of the crop swell and secret the milk which she is going to give toher young during first days ol their life. If, at this stage, she is taken from these maternal.cares, to be shut up eight or ten days in a basket, she will become ill, will cease.to ea( and in all probability never, regain the home loft.

The'same 1 condition-is alike to the male, as'he also disgorges" the same food'for ones, as in the female, disease may be engendered. It is also necessary to watch the pigeons that they do not exhaust themselves in rearing too many young. Af a general rule only one little one should be left with those parents intended for long flights. Thus during the two or three days that precede and follow laying the female must not be employed. It is equally bad to send out birds for three or four days after hatching.

I' is generally in the power of fanciers to prevent these unfavorable circumstances, as, the day of departure being known in advance, he may, by taking away the young, hasten a new laying and a day or so before hatching subsA tnte a young pigeon three or four days old for the eggs, so that the parents may disgorge the soft food in their crops. Besides these times, of which the amateur need never lose sight, the question has been greatly agitated whether it is better to fly pigeons -while they are sitting or when they have young less than eight days old. If there is a difference, it is not great and the reasons given for and are not very decisive. Duration of a I.ljjhtnlns J'Uish. Until quite recently all of the author concurred with each other in the opinion that a lightning flash was in stantaneous; late experiments show that the flash is not infinitesimal, bul that it lasts a measurable period of time This interesting fact was ascertainec "by setting a camera in rapid vibration and exposing in it a plate so as to re ceive the impression of the flash.

Upon taking out the plates it was found tha the impressions seemed widened out on the negative, showing that the negative 5iad been moved during the time th flash was in existence. bees will take care of empty brood combs in the summer sea son better than you can do it. In win ter they should be boxed up tightly after being thoroughly fumigated with salphnr, if they have any moth-gernr in G. Newman. 'he Horizontal-Ann System Cirowlnjr in Popular Favor.

This 'system of pruning grape-vines is used largely by growers and gives much satisfaction. When the vino is it is cut back to three buds and only one sprout is allowed to grow. Fig. I represents a vine two years aftor being set. The first year it was cut back to and two shoots allowed to grow from there the second summer.

At the end of the second year the two branches are cut off at A A and the vine is then ready to put on the trellis. If at the end of the first year tlie vine has not made a gjo jrowth, it is cut-back to three buds instead of to C. Fig. represents the vine at the end of the third season's growth. If it has grown strongly since irst set out it will have borne a few lusters of grapes this season.

When put on the trellis the two arms are spread apart and tied on the lower wire which is or 8 ft. from the ground and the second wire is 2 or 2Ja above it. At, the end of the third year the branches are pruned at A A A and during the coming season a good crop of fruit may be expected. By this system of pruning it requires at least one-third less vines to the acre are usually planted, and a saving of labor is made in the spring in tying the vines to the wires. As the growing Darts of the vines are above the first wire, there is a free circulation of air underneath, which is a great help in GRAPE-VINE CULTURE.

keeping the fruit and vines free from mildew. As the fruit grows just above the lower wire, it is, as a rule, uniform in size and quality and also in ripening, and very convenient in picking. There is rocrm for the vine to grow and develop fts wood, fruit and foliage, and as the vines grow along the top wire they serve as a protection to the fruit from storms, sun and heavy dews, thus obviating the necessity of the use of paper bags to prevent and mildew. and Home. SIMPLE SHEEP RACK.

Any Farmer Can Make It If He Follows Directions. The practice of feeding hay and corn- fodder to sheep by scattering it on the ground is very wasteful, to say the least. The sheep is very particular about its-food, refusing all soiled particles, and I have found that by feeding on the ground we lose about one-hall the feeding value. We have tried various kinds of racks, but have settled down'to a simple slatted rack that any farmer can make, which I will describe for the benefit of your readers. Four pieces of scantling three feet for corner posts, two boards one foot wide and sixteen feet long for the bottom, and two six inches wide anc sixteen feet long for top, with six-inch boards two and one-half feet long, placed eight inches apart, perpendicular; the space between the top and bottom boards on each side is 'eighteen inches; the width of two and one-half feet.

When the hay is properly put in this rack the sheep corner post, three teet; 6, bottom board twelve inches; top six Inches; eight-inch spaces; six inch uprights. eats from the top of it, avoiding the falling of dirt into the wool on the neck. The upright strips keep the sheep from crowding, and knowing this a sheep 'takes her position an( keeps it until through feeding. Thr following rude draft may aid the read er in 'getting a correct idea of this simple rack. It will answer for a partition fence and can be raised daily as the litter and manure accumulate.

We have been the suited with separate grain troughs made with on eig'ht and one nine-inch hoard put to gether in a shape, with legs sufB ciently long- to keep them a foot abovi ground. These can be turned ove after feeding- and thus kept George McKerrow, in Breeder's Gazette. rover of the Press, The Connecticut girl who was hie coughing herself to death was cured not "by the physicians, but by a news paper man. Abuses.in official.depart- ments are discovered, not by their by newspaper men. Mys teries.of crime baffling the keenest detectives are solved by -newspaper men.

Highstate officials are ignorant of the duties, of their office till'taught them by newspaper men. Judges-'know. nothing of tampering' with official records ant grave court frauds till called their attention by newspaper men. Truly i the press a power in modern civiliza tion. A LION'S REVENGE.

The Kinc of BoRKtu Sits on Man, But Does Injure Him. A party of Boers, near the Cape of Good Hope, went to hunt a lion which lad carried off much cattle from the eighborhood. They discovered him in a thicket, or jungle, such as abound in hat part of the colony, and sent in a numerous pack of fierce hounds to drive lim out. The lion kept his den and his temper or a long time, only striking clown the dogs with his mighty paw, or snapping- iff a head or leg when the brawling THE LIOSJ'S REVENGE. rabble came within his reach.

But the hunters, continuing- in the meanwhile to pepper the "bush at random with slugs and bullets, at length wounded him slightly. Then rose the royal beast in wrath, and with a dreadr ful roar burst forth upon his foes. Regardless of a shower of balls, he bounded forward, and in an instant turned the chase upon them. All took to their horses or their heels. One huge fellow, of greater size than alacrity, not having- time fit- mount his horse, was left in the rear, and was speedily run down "by the rampant lion.

He as Lochiel, "with his back to the field, and his face to the foe," but the reverse he had the prudence to lie Eat and quiet as a log. The victorious pursuer sniffed at him, scratched him with his paw, and then quietly sat down upon his body. His routed companions, collecting in a band, took courage at length to face about: and, seeing the posture of affairs, they imagined that their comrade was killed, and began to concert measures for avenging him. After a short however, the lion resigned of his own accord his scat of triumph, relieving his panting captive, and retreated toward the mountains. The party on coming up found their frieod shaking his ears, unharmed.

A PROMINENT FARMER. TV. T. Stlllvcl', President of the General Assembly F. M.

B. A T. StillweU, General Assembly TV. T. STILLTVELL.

president of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, was born in Gibson County, and lived on a farm in Posey Cotm-fey until he was twenty-one years of age. His early advantages securing an. education, says the Western a 1, were very limited, was almost twenty-one before he was through with his arithmetic. After that he went to school anc passed through college, -working al the time to support himself. He has served his county as county surveyor anc as superintendent of schools.

During the war he. raised a company for tjhe Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteers, and for three years was a Captain in the army After leaving the service he returned to his farm and has been engaged in farming ever since. He "became a member Of the F. M. B.

A. in 1888, and was elected president in Gibson County The same year he was instrumental in forming a co-operative 'board of trade in Gibson and adjoining counties Ultimately this board of trade was organized with a piovisionai State assembly, of which Aft! Stillwell was elected president in 1890. This was in time changed to a State assembly, anc he was elected its president also November 18, 1890, he was elected presi dent of the General Assembly. He is the author of the constitution for State assemblies. He is now sixty-four years old but looks much younger.

Mr Stillwell is a man of intellectual strength, of purity of purpose. Such men as he are an honor to any cause Mr. StillweU is a resident of Fort Branch, Ind. W'onde'rful, If True. A Colorado rancher relates the fol lowing story, which, by the way, is a little bit too far-fetched to be implicitly believed.

The story is given for whai it is "As most people know black wool brings from five to ten cents less per pound than the corresponding grade of -white wooL In order to in sure the separation of the inferior prod net, as our shearing operations pro gressed, we once-placed the black sheej in a pen by themselves. 1 There were sixty-three of the black sheep thus isolated in the corral on the night I speak of. Some time during the darkness a wolf, as we call it, entered thi and killed a ewe and two lambs On the following morning we were greatly surprised to. -find-that the woo on the remaining sixty had turned per feetly white from terror." It is reported that the author of this story is a church member in good standing. are as apt to catch cold on wmdy days if exposed, as they are whe: it is rainy.

Plan to" protect from bot. as much as possible. A BRIGHT YOUNG MAN. 1 v. Mr.

it is un- Richard Harding Davis, Associate Editor of Weekly." Richard Harding Davis has entered upon his duties a.s associate editor ol Harper's Weekly. George William Curtis has always been an i a i gable worker and has supplied nearly, if not quite, all of the pungent editorial articles. that have app ed in the RICHARD HARDING DiVlS. Davi derstood, will relieve him of much oi this detail of editorship and thereby add to the character oi the journal. The career of Mr.

Davis has been brief bul brilliant. He is but twenty-six 3'ears ol and the son of L. Clarke Davis, managing editor (A the Philadelphia Ledger, and Kebecca Harding Davis, the novelist. He is a graduate of the Lehigh University and studied at Johna Hopkins at Baltimore. For three years he was connected with the Press at Philadelphia and afterward went to Europe for the Telegraph of the same city.

Upon Ms return he became a special writer on the New York Evening Sun and did some admirable work for that bright papar. His first appearance in a magazine was as the author of an article on foot-ball, which appeared in St. Nicholas. He afterward contributed several well-planned character studies to Scribners, the best oi them being "A Walk Up the Avenue" and "My Disreputable Friend Mr. Eaegan." Mr.

Davis is a pleasant companion and a good worker. He is very popular with his associates of the press. PRESENT TO VICTORIA. Her Mujesty Mailc tlie Itecipitnt of An African Linn Cull. The Queen of England bus just received a royal gift.

1 1 Arrived in Liverpool from "the regions of Central Africa by the steamer M.andiago last month. It was a lion cub, which the sultan of Sokoto requested the Royal Niger Company to present to her Majesty. The cub was allowed much liberty on board, and was greatly putted by both passengers and crew. Mr. Bartlett went down to Liverpool to brhvr it to the Zoological Gardens, whore it is now safely lodged.

The Element of Beauty in Horses. The element of beauty can not be dispensed with in our horses, but we should not try to apply the same ideas of beauty to all breeds. We must learn that those qualities which constitute a standard of beauty for a coach Korse do not hold in case of drafters, and conversely. There arc, or should be, as many ideals as there are purposes to be served, and when these are in view we shall have better horses. As long as there are "scrub" this country, so long is there room for any thing that is an improvement thereon.

But we want our "improved" breeds to -be improved in truth, and as there are plenty which answer.this description there is no need of an inferior stallion doing service in any part of this country. Good stock horses were never so'plenty-and so reasonable in price as Stockman. a.re men who consider it cheaper to raise the barn every few years than to draw out manure. They raise less crops each year. THE SKIN.

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