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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 190S. SELLS THE SUN RECEIVERS NEED MONEY bristles of the hog you can bale and sell to the haircurling factories. DON'T SELL THE OLD HOME PREACHED 3,613 SERMONS Rev. Dr. J.

Spangler Kieffer. Celebrates Anniversary. a revenue equal to a small gold mine. The scale Is killing the farmers' apple orchards all over the State, and today it Is the "specialist" who Is spraying his trees, has apples to sell and meets the Increased demand. Select -about 10 acres of your land with southern exposure near your house.

Fence it with six-foot woven-wire fence. Manure It heavily with the hog manure from your feeding lots. Plant It in the large southern apricot and work the asparagus plant as a filler, riant the asparagus plant in rows 4 feet apart and 20 inches apart In the rows. I prefer the "Palmetto." Manure the rows heavily and plant only the single crown to the hill. Buy the best strain of Rhode Island red chicken and breed up to 2,000 hens.

Work then on the colony system, 50 hens and '3 roosters to a colony. Spray the apricot with, the treewash and spray the henhouses once a month with crude petroleum, adding to It the antiseptic wash, creolin. This combination of the fruit tree, the asparagus plant and the poultry are Nature's trinity and should always be worked together on the farm. The fowls catch the asparagus beetles and the droppings benefit the trees and plant. Turn this combination over to your wife and good ones, and some of the poor layers are very poor.

A flock can be brought up by selection, but the best kind of selection for the farmer who cannot give much time to his flock is the selection of poor layers for the kettle or the butcher. The best plan that I know for discovering these poor fowls is to employ the trap nest. This will necessitate the help of some child or other person to let the hens out of the nests and make a record of the visits of the hens. This Is a good deal of work, but it will pay in the long run. In my opinion, the man whose flock is large enough so he can afford to employ a man to help him take care of it should not delay for a day the introduction of the trap nest, as it will give him information which will enable him to select unerringly the fowls that should he disposed of.

How To Get Winter Egrgs. IGract Davis, in New York Tribune Farmer. First, get stock that have eggs in thera to lay, either early hatched pullets that mature before real cold weather sets in, or older hens which have not laid themselves cut during the summer and autumn. Any set of rules foffeeding and any advice as to feeds and methods of housing, however RETURNS AFTER 34 YEARS Mrs. Anderson Come Back To Visit Brother In Barton.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore San. Lonaconing, Jan. 19. After 34 years Mrs. Martha Anderson is visiting her brother, Mr.

James Fairgrieve, at Barton. In 1S74 Martha Fairgrieve left the home of her parents at Barton and Journeyed to Iowa. She was then 13 years old. For a year communication was kept up between the little girl and her parents and then correspondence ceased. The Fairgrieve family became alarmed and wrote to the little town In Iowa where Martha had been living, only to be informed that she had disappeared.

For 10 years efforts were made to locate her, but no tidings were received. Dong ago she was given up as dead. Last August Postmaster Matthew Long-ridge, of Barton, received a letter from Mrs. Martha Anderson, of Omaha, Inquiring about the Fairgrieve family. Mr.

Longridge informed her that Mr. James Fairgrieve was still living in Barton, and after 34 years a message came as if from the dead, for -Mrs. Anderson Is Martha Fairgrieve, who disappeared. Mrs. Anderson, who was induced to visit her brother at Barton, is accompanied by her only child.

Bertha. THREE FUXERALS IX A DAY Rev. Osborne Ingle, Of Frederick, Kept Busy At Services. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Frederick, Jan.

10. Rev. Osborne Ingle, pastor of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, officiated at three funerals Saturday. The first was that of Francis Willard Markell, which took place from the church at 11 o'clock. The pallbearers were Holmes D.

Baker, Guy K. Motter, Dr. B. Terry, Backs Mobley, George R. Dennis, Dr.

Samuel W. Hoopes. The funeral of Murray Brice took place from the home of his sister-la-law, Mrs. William Erlee. on West Patrick street, at 2 o'clock.

The pallbearers were George and Ezra Ilouck, Walter Dugan, A. Landauer, Daniel Crimmlns and Wesley Baltzell. That of Henry Virginins NIxdorff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis M.

Xixdorff, took place from All Saints Church la the afternoon. Columbia Lodge of the Masonie order attended. The active pallbearers were F. B. Sappington, Thomas A.

Chapline, Arthur D. Willard, Charles S. Howard, Oliver C. Warehime, Frank J. Newman honorary, Dr.

J. Allen Williamson, Dr. Meredith Smith. J. Francis Smith, D.

Charles WineWrener, D. John Markey and Guy D. Thomas. DANIEL DEAD Carroll Countian Owned Many Farms In I niontovrn District. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Westminster, Jan. 19. Daniel Calt-rider, a nonogenarian, died this morning at the home of his son-in-law, Harvey C. Freeman. Mr.

Caltrlder was born March 31, 1S16. He was retired farmer and had resided in this city only since last April, ne owned several farms in Union-town district, containing altogether about 600 acres, and fpent most of his life in that section. Mr. Caltrlder was a brother of Mrs. Mary Polk, of Baltimore, whose several wills were the subject of litigation in the Baltimore courts two or three years ago.

By the will finally declared valid he became a beneficiary of the estate to the amount of $10,000. He was a Republican. For about 75 years he was a member of the Lutheran Church, nis wife, who died many years ago, was a member of the German BaptistChurch and is burled in the Meadow Branch Cemetery. His body will be burled beside her Tuesday. He leaves but one child Mrsf.

Freeman. ALBERT BROOKE. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. IN PRINCESS ANNE i 1 5 Y. xf fy' 1 4 i si CHARLES SMITH AXD HIS DOG With the assistance of his canine friend Charles, now 7 years old, sells The Sex In his town every day.

Fritz is a great aid to business, and has been Charles lifelong companion. FREDERICK REALTY ACTIVE Many Sales At Auction Bring Returns For Farms. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Frederick, Jan. 19.

The following real estate in Frederick was sold at the courthouse door Saturday: A farm of 38 acres, near Jefferson, be longing to Mrs. Phoebe Stockman, to Dor- sey Culler, for $3,230. A lot of 10 acres to Benjamin E. Phebus, $921.81. Three-acre lot to H.

C. Zacharias, $271. Four-acre lot to II. C. Zacharias, $325 an acre.

Lot to Christian Lereh, $300. Lot to Dr. Thomas Williamson, $43.50. Eleven acres of mountain land to Mrs. Mary Smith at $1S an acre.

Two lots of 15 acres each to Horace Zacharias at an acre. Two lots on Broadway to Lloyd C. Culler, $350. Two-story brick residence on West All Saints' street to Charles E. Mealey, $1,130.

The residence at the corner of Market and All Saints' street was withdrawn at a bid of $3,900. Mrs. Susan R. Harrison has purchased from Christopher P. Smith the latter's property on East Fourth street for $2,050.

Mrs. Laura V. Mohler has purchased George L. Pout's Sl-acre farm near Frederick for $7,400. The Dixon farm of 219 acres, in Brunswick district, has been bought by Charles J.

Arnold on private terms. Mrs. Catherine R. Frushour has pur chased from Irving J. Fisher, of Waynesboro, a farm of 10(3 acres near Loy's Station, Frederick county, for $4,650.

Harry Harner has bought the property of Tyson Lansinger on Main street, on private terms. CHASED FOR LICENSE IN AUTO Groom Didn't Want Ceremony Delayed, So He Speeded Up. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Rockville, Jan. 19.

Dr. nenry A. Donaldson, of Washington, and Mb-a Cherry Ford, daughter of Mrs. L. Ford, of Takoma Park, were married last night.

The young folk planned to have the ceremony performed earlier, but just before the hour the minister discovered, the license was procured In Washington, t-o he declined to officiate under the Wash ington license. Dr. Donaldson requested everyone to wait a little while, and jump ing into his automobile he made a record run to Rockville, where be procured another license. Doctor and Mrs. Domldson left for a Southern trip.

GOVERNOR GOES TO CHURCH His First Sunday In Annapolis Was A Quiet Day. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Annapolis, Jan. 19. Governor Croth.

ers spent today quietly at the Government House. He took his usual early morning walkand later attended services at the First Methodist Episcopal where Rev. George W. Miller preached. This was the first time that he has attended church in Annapolis since his inauguration.

Bible Society 87 Years Old. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Frederick, Jan. 19. The eighty-seventh anniversary of the Young Men's Bible Society of Frederick County was held in the Evangelical Reformed Church tonight, and no services were held in the other Protestant churches.

Rev. William E. Brown, of Middletown. delivered an address. The following board of directors was elected from among the membership of the churches for the ensuing year: All Saints Episcopal Church Ernest Helfen-stein, Charles M.

Gilpin and Ileury Trail. Evangelical Lutheran Henry M. NixdorfT, Hiram R. Heck, William G. Zimmerman and Oliver C.

Warehime. Methodist Episcopal Adolphus Fearhake, James H. Harris, R. Rush Lewis and John r. Hendrick-son.

Grace Reformed J. Traver3 Thomas, J. N'ichoU Zimmerman, Henry Abbott and Milton S. Zimmerman. Methodist Episcopal South W.

Neala Joliffe. Evangelical Reformed John 8. Ramsburg, William A. Burger, Jacob Rohrbaek and Georja M. Gittinger.

Presbyterian S. Elmer Brown, Charles W. Ely, Edward S. Eichelberger and Harry Steiner. German Baptist Dr.

Peter I. FaJircey, Dr. Harry P. Fahmey and J. Welty Fahmey.

United Brethren Reno S. Haj-p, First Baptist Dr. James M. Goodman. St.

John's German. Reformed Charles Hermann, Senior. Methodist Protestant, Buckeystown William G. Baker. Christ Reformed, Middletown Emory Zi.

Cob-lentz. Party For Two Bridal Coaplea. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Belalr, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry F. Wiley, lately married at Bechtel Presbyterian Church, Harford county, gave a reception Friday last to two bridal couples, Mr. and Mrs. David Ross Anderson and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Wiley. Those Invited were Mr. and Mrs. Rev. D.

S. Er.gle, Robert Wiley. Thomas Nelson, Ab. Slade, Dr. Turner, Samuel Streett," Dr.

Thomas Wiley, Nelson Gilbert, Richard Wiley, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Nelson, Cat. Anderson. Miss-Rebecca Lowe, Elizabeth Gilbert, Minnie Wiley, Almony, Kate Echcock, Slade.

Ethel Gilbert, Messrs. Augustus Almony, Harold Wiley, Horatio Rutledge, Wiley. Henry Nelson, Mr. J. Murray For Fire Marshal.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Elkton. Jan. 10. Thomas J.

Murray, of Cecil county, Is an applicant for the position of State Fire Marshal and yes terday forwarded his application with a strong indorsement. Mr. Murray is a director of the Union Hospital and the James F. Powers Foundry Company. Maryland Briefs.

The stockholders of the Washington and Franklin Railway Company, owning that part of the Alten-wald cut-oiT of the Western Maryland Railroad, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, elected the following officers: President, George F. Baer; directors, George F. Baer, George C. Thomas, Joseph S. Han-is, William Hunter, Edwin F.

Smith, George Ztigler, Thomas Voorhees. John H. Snavely, aged 70 years, a farmer of DownsTille, had his right hand mangled in a. fodder shredder. Edward Palmer purchased the Carl farm at War-fordsburg.

north of Hancock, for $10,000. Boon after making the deal he was offered $11,000 for the property. S. L. V.

Your.g sold for former City Councilman Lewis H. Weibel a double frame house in. Hagerstown to Frank Keefer fcr $1,100. The Hnrry Call. Noah was rushing preparation.

"Trying to get off tx-fore Kooscvelt ruts a surgeon in command." he explained. Herewith he hastily shored avray from shore. New York Sua 'tJ evC a Buy A Power Boat. Buy a power boat and put one of your boys in charge and iet him sell the hog product to the river and bay trade, and if he cannot sell for cash let him take In trade corn, turkeys, chickens, eggs and oystera or anything that you can finish on your farm and sell to your family trade. Lease from the State under the Haman act your cove and bed the oyster and when fat shuck and ship in gallon glass jars for your city family trade.

In sup plying this city family trade with this class of food, it must be the best that science and skill of man can produce. It must be prepared under modern, sanitary conditions. Your poultry must be killed, dressed and drawn in the best manner. Your celery must be bleached and nicely washed. Your lettuce must be crisp and tender.

Your cases, uniform, neat and nicely packed. This new demand for sanitary food direct from the farms 13 every year increasing. The causes for the demand are numerous. Forty years ago, before population grew so dense, the large cities had a system of market houses, where the farmer and producer came regularly to these markets and sold his product directly to the consumer from his stall in the market house. Today all of this is changed.

The farmer, if he wishes to sea Lis produce in the market, must pay a big bonus for his stall. He must pay the market license, and in the city a wagon license. These city regulations have simply run him out, and his place is taken by the small tradesmen, hucksters and arabs, many of whom are Russian Tolas, Bohemians, Italians and other Slavonic races. The food supply of the city is almost entirely in their hands. The farmers are shipping to the produce commission merchant his product, and the produce merchants sell to these small tradesmen the produce which they sell in their stalls.

Much of this produce is stale and not fit for human consumption. The stringy Western celery and the Southern lettuce and other vegetables are shipped by slow freight and are often two weeks on the road, and when received are stale and unmerchantable, and sold for enough, to pay freight and commission charges to these small dealers, who soak the celery in a copious bath of unboiled hydrant wa ter to freshen it up and restore Its crlsp- ness. Poultry-. The live poultry when received is taken by these small dealers, killed and dressed In alleys and small back yards. These people know nothing about sanitary laws, and hence the celery, lettuce, grapes, apples and other succulents that are eaten in a raw state are the great distributors of the coma bacilli of typhoid fever, and there is the young man walking around the market houses with incipient tuberculosis expectorating his sputa on the street, which quickly dries, and the first draft of wind picks up the dust, laden with all kinds of germs, and deposits them on the market-house food supply.

The bacteriologists have ascertained that in the New York and New England towns-hips, where there are no market houses and where the people buy their food supplies direct from the farmers' wagons, there is a minmum of typhoid fever. The Health Department of the city is guarding the water supply and is requiring the people to boil their drinking water, but Is leaving unguarded that great source of contamination the open market house and the provision store, whose owner displays his stock upon the pavement in front of his premises. Then, again, the great trouble in the cities of obtaining good, reliable servants and cooks. The old Dinahs and Bridgets of the past are not to be had. The latter-day untrained, dirty negro girl, who dwells in a room at night and cooks for you during the day, carries, it may be, food enough out of the back gate to feed and support half a dozen worthless but educated negroes, and is condemned.

The thrifty and high-spirited woman at the head of the home would rather do her own work than bo continually vexed and annoyed with such worthless servants. To her the box of good, sanitary food, prepared on the farm, lightens her labors and Is always welcome. Nature has been kind to the people of the tidewater counties, and they can get everything that is good to eat out of the water and from their farms, and it requires very little exertion to live off the best. You have been bred and reared to eat the best and sell what you cannot eat. Your hospitality is proverbially generous and delightful The Southern Maryland matron has the culinary art down to the most deliberate touch.

They should put their knowledge in glass jars with their food products and gather the sheckels from the less fortunate city matrons. In making the change from the old system to the new -one you may have to go somewhat in debt and think at times that you will get in jail from debt, but have faith that 300 acres of alfalfa will bail you out and put money Into your purse by processes more mysterious than the alchemy of old. Write To 3Ir. Rayner. Write to Seuator Rayner and ask him to have the Department of Agriculture mail your address the following bulletins: No, 41.

Fowls: Care and feeding. No. 6L Asparagus culture. No. 100.

Hog-raising in the South. No. 14S. Celery culture. No.

215l Alfalfa, growing. Also write Orlando Harrison. Berlin, on "The Apple Tree," and W. F. Allen, Saulsbury, on "The Cantaloupe, Strawberries and Tomatoes." Write H.

J. Patterson, director of the Maryland Experiment Station, College Park, for any Information you may desire on the new and progressive lines of modern agriculture. He has a full staff of workers in every department, whose knowledge is at the disposal of the Maryland farmer. Send your two younger boys to the Agricultural College, and let them get some knowledge of agriculture, chemistry, mechanical engineering and mathematics, which will help them wonderfully in their future lives on the farm. Give the boys a share of the proceeds and all work together, for when a man, his wife and six children all pull together on a farm in an Intelligent manner the amount of revenue they will pull out of the land will soon fatten the bank account, and your achievement will win the applause of an admiring world.

I remain yours very truly, Charles A. Councilman. Average Production Of Eggs. John Bennett, in Michigan Farmer. Public opinion is largely in error on the average production of eggs.

The average has been almost universally overestimated. This fact has caused many a man to lose money, most people who go Into the business of raising poultry for the production of eggs make their estimates on the return in eggs they expect from each hen. Much money has been lost in this way and will continue to be lost until men awake to the realization that the commonly reported figures are not correct and that the real average is much less than the supposed average. I well remember what a disappointment It was to me when at the end of several years the receipts were found not to be what had bean expected. This Indicates a very loose method of keeping account of the receipts, and such It was.

I then resorted to a more systematic arrangement of my account and began to keep a record of the eggs received and also a list of the laying hens at different dates. To do this I ran the column of egg receipts beside the column showing the number of mature hens at each date. The entry in the hen column was made only when there was some change in the number of hens. At the end of the 12 months it was quite a task to figure up the averages. This is the reason why we have such loose statements regarding the ability of hens to produce eggs.

It takes too much effort to get at the truth and guessing is easier. I was disagreeably surprised to discover that the hens, mature enough to lay, had given me an average of less than 100 eggs per fowl. I had always figured on getting from 150 to 200 eggs per fowl per year. With that discovery some of my rosy dreams vanished. I no longer expected to get rich in a few years from my flock of poultry.

With a mixed flock I was never able to get more than 123 eggs on an average per year. This mixed flock consisted of Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns and a few fowls whose breeding it would be hard to describe. I have never experimented with a flock consisting of one breed, but have no reason to suppose that such a flock, would give me better returns. I am convinced that the average farm flock does not average over 100 eggs per year. Yet the usually quoted figures are 150 per year for Plymouth Rocks and 200 per year for Leghorns.

The people who made those figures were evidently taking the high-water mark as a standard. I know that some fowls of both breeds will lay more than 200 eggs each per year, but there are so many fowls that lay but few eggs that the average is pulled down. The fact is, there are more poor layers than Jamestown Expenses Make New Fund Necessary. LOAN OF $5,500 13 APPROVED Inability To Arrange For Insurance Commented On In Report On Exposition Affairs. Special to the Baltimore Sun.

Norfolk, Jan. 10. Declaring their Inability to arrange for Insurance oa buildings or property, that the receipts since their appointment failed to meet expenses and giving a partial Inventory, a report of Receivers Alvah II. Martin and William M. Geddes, of the Jamestown Exposition Company, has been filed In the United States Court.

It shows an overdraft on the bank ac count of $30.15, giving the receipts and disbursements from December 1 to January 9 as and respec tively. The receivers state it has beca necessary to maintain guards and a fire department. It was necessary to borrow and to pledge as collateral security 10.500 of first mortgage per cent, bonds of the Exposi tion company. The Courfs attention was called to the fact that the salaries for De cember, amounting to for em ployes actually engaged In closing up the Exposition are unpaid. The report was approved.

HUSBAND DEAD; WIFE DYING Richnrd Pollard, Of I.j-nchbnrjc Sneenmbs To Pnenmonia. Special Dispatch to the Paittmoro San. Lynchburg, Jan. lf. Richard Fol-lard.

TS years old, for many years member of the firm of Pollard Glass, general agents for the Maryland Life Insurance Company, died today after a week's Illnes-s of pneumonia. His wife, who Is also TS years old. is ill of the same disease and is not expected to recover. Mr. Pollard Is credited with Ieadlnj: more young men Into church life than any other layman here.

He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church. HOLDING TOBACCO CROP Planters, ot Maiini? Offerings, In Spite Of (iood Price. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Lynchburg, Jan. 10.

The sales of tobacco on the Lynchburg market last week aggregated an Increase of 161.000 pounds over the preceding week. The total sales for the season are 700 pounds, a decrease when compared with the same period last year of 2,973,100 pounds. The decreased sale.s, it Is believed, is due to the fact that the farmers are holding their tobacco, despite high prices. JURY'S ACT SAVES LIFE Jacol. Hill, Convicted Of Killing Indian, Will Get Life Term.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore San.l Bellngton. W. Jan. 19. Jacob mil, convicted at rhillippi, W.

of the murder of James Leho, Cherokee Indian, a Belington. last December, will not be executed, but will be sent to the penitentiary for life. The jury's recommendation for mercy precludes imposing the death penalty. Lebo was a graduate of the Carlisle School. The conviction was largely upon circumstantial evidence.

Judge Holt will sentence II ill tomorrow. "Winchester Observance Oeneral. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Winchester, Jan. 19.

Lee's birthday was observed this afternoon by Gen. Turner Ashby Camp of Confederate Veterans, Daughters of Confederacy and residents of Winchester In general. An appropriate address was delivered by Rev. Dr. J.

II. Lacy and prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. John P. Hyde, grand chaplain of Virginia Grand Camp.

Special Sermon In I.f nrhborg. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun, Lynchburg, Jan. 19. At St. rani's Episcopal Church this morning Dr.

William A. Barr, the rector, delivered a special sermon to Garland-Rodea Camp, Confederate Veterans. All of tho Confederate organizations of the city were represent ed and the Home Guard, under Captain Moon, attended. VIRGINIA' OBITUARY MltS. EMILY HOWELL CA3IPBELL Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Lexington, Jan. 19. Mrs. Emily nowell Campbell, wife of John L. Campbell, treasurer of Washington and Le University, died suddenly this morning.

Her husband and only son, John L. Campbell, survive. JT. J. SILE.

Special DIs-patch to the Baltimore Pun. Fredericksburg, Jan. 19. J. J.

Slle. 62 years old, a Confederate veteran of King George county, did today. He Is survived by two sons and three daughters. Virginia Briefs. J.

Chapman Brsrs is dead at Maxllnton. TV. of apoplexy, 61 y.ars. lie wu a son of tho lata Gen. James B'TB and was txm ard reared In Franklin, W.

Va. Ha serred In th Confederate ArmT. Mr. B'pi was tni married. AKie, 10-month-old danslsttT ef IWtrend and Mrs.

W. E. nicks, -was burned to death at Triers Creek, near Salt Rnck, W. Va. A sister of tis babr, 9 years old, wanned a blanket In froct rV the grata and wrapped tha baby ia if.

Tha blanket caught fire, but tha llttlo girl dii not know it. A mysterious explosion occurred In Mine Ni. 2. at Elk Garden, W. Va.

When miners fettemptfd to enter they discorered larpn rocks on the trark, preps knocked down and trapdoors splintered. Tbcy were driven back by deadly caes. nJneri are mining. The eiplosiTO orcurrl at niphL William S. Kice is dead at Elk Garden, W.

aged 55 years. Fifteen years ago be was ir-Jured In a mine, and he neTer fully reiorcre-l. While rabbit on Branch Mountain, rear Xeedmor, Hardy emmty, W. Warlney. ton of Joseph J.

Wilson, accidentally killed himse'J'. TELEGRAPHIC EEIZFS New York, Jan. 10. The phenomenon in the Gulf of Mexico of a dust shower at sea was reported by the steamer Monterey, which arrived today frnni Vera Crux. Projrreso and Havana.

Thf ofhr-ers say thnt il a premier white powder, like flour, fell. It was not a volcanic dust, there beinj; no jrrit '1 tt.o composition. The dust le ain sticky after falling on the I. Newport, R. Jan.

10. Wro-kin2 tnc from New Loudon. arrived today, and early tomorrow morning will lcin work pumping out the water from the naval tug Sioux, which sank on the rocks in Narragansett bay on Friday. The sea has remained smooth, and as the tug easy it is expected she will be raised with, out special difficulty. Boston, Jan.

10. Mrs. Rosario Valarno, aged 25 years, of 47 North Margin j-treet, was shot in bed early today, dying hours later. She said one of her loarderp, named Giuseppe Capuana, came Into her room, and when she ordered him to leave shot her. Detroit, Jan.

10. Casimir Duzickl, a Po-lander, was killed In'a street fiht at Can-field and Ilivard streets early today, whea two groups of foreigners joined battle. Duzickl was stabbed through the neck and ran half a bluck before he dropped dead. Marshall. Mo.

Jan. 10. Two building! of the Missouri Colony for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic were damaged ta the extent of X) by fire today and, 125 patients were in danger. The Same? were conquered by a bucket trlgade. Fire la the same institution a year sgo caused a loss of Paris.

Jan. 10. In an impenetrable fog which enshrouded Paris and Its suburb today, rendering all transportation dan-gprous, two electric cars collided at Vltry. Forty persons were injured, several of them iously. St.

Petersbuig. Jan. 10. Thannual ceremony of blessing the waters, at which, in ltKj5. the Emperor narrowly escaped assassination by the saluting cannon, took place at Tsarskoe-Selo today.

Instead of at the waters of the Neva. The imperial blessing was bestowed on th? waters of the lake in the palace park amid the salute of guns. A Dog Kit. A rery small from Faree Once chuckled and luijhed rrtat "Although I'm a pup. One thought cheers me up rv ratts can't be a la to tt mel" i 1'Good Advice Given Discouraged Tiller Of The Soil.

HOW TO MAKE FARMING PAY Mr. Charles A. Councilman "Writes To A Southern Marylander Other Hints On Good Husbandry. "Mr. Charles A.

Councilman, Md. "Dear Sir I am so discouraged with farming in Southern Maryland that I have about concluded to sell the farm and move to the city and try some other business. I have six children four sons and two daughters. Four of the children have about finished their education and I think the hoys can get positions in the city that will rarn something and enable them to get a profession but my wife hesitates and fears to make the change. She does not like to sell the old home, but wants me to hold on 'and try some other method.

She has read I from time to time your articles in the Bal- A I 4. 1 C'U J- bow alfalfa try stockraising. "I have about 1,200 acres in the farm, 1.000 of which is arable, but under the tenant system has become gutter washed and infested with young pines that are growing up in the abandoned portions of the arable fiplrls. The wheat crop is every year yielding less red clover will not grow on the farm, although in my father's time he grew great crops of clover on the same fields that 1 cannot get a stand on. Two of my best tenants have decided, owing to scarcity of help, to give up farming, and pood reliable tenants are hard to obtain.

The farm is poorly fenced and my adjoining neighbors will not put up their share of the line fence and their stock destroy during the growing season a great deal of what little corn and tobacco we raise. "Farm lands in Southern Maryland are sales at $10 to $15 an acre. I have the opportunity to sell the farm at the latter figure for a shooting preserve. Xow, in view of these facts, what Is your opinion? Can I hope to make a support for my with alfalfa and stockraising? I yours very truly, Mr. Councilman Replies.

Don't, don't sell that old Colonial home for a mere song. Respect your wife's (judgment. She shows good common sense. With the proceeds of your farm you would have no more show alongside of the trained merchants in the city than a fly in a molasses barrel. The price they offer you for good arable farm land Is ridiculous, we consider that it is located within miles of 3 0 millions of people.

If you stop to think, the Government paid, recording to the late Senator Hoar, $3,500 an acre for the arable land in the Philippines. This estimate does not count mountains, swamps, lagoons, the long shore line, the yellow -negroes and wild barbarians that gave as a goldbrick with the purchase, all located 0,000 miles out in the Ocean, and it takes 1G battleships thousands of men and millions of dollars to keep Japan from moving the corner ones of the new purchase. Compare the they offer you for land located in God's own country with what the paid for the Philippines. Take the boys and farm your own land. your system and let the tenant go.

Southern Maryland would be a great deal better off if they had abandoned the tobacco crop 40 years ago. Labor conditions sire such that the crop is no longer profit-, able. On the basis of what the farmers In the Western Maryland counties are paying for would cost, me 10 cents a pound to grow tobacco, while the average price of the crop is not over 8 cents. The planter should receive liO cents a pound for his tobacco to enable him to pay the high cost of labor, support his family and build up the fertility of his land. In 1S50, when Southern Maryland "was In flower," the five counties raised and sold Sft, pounds of tobacco.

According to the Inst census, in 1809, the same counties raised and sold 23,706,420 pounds of tobacco, 12,363,500 pounds less a year than in your father's time. Wheat, corn, tattle, sheep and swine show about the same ratio of decrease. A great deal of this loss is due to your tenant system of farming. The Men ho Get Rich. In the last 40 years, under the tenant system of growing tobacco, you have made the commission merchants, transportation companies, German and Frenchiexporters and tobacco monopolies- rich.

Politicians have fought over the warehouse positions, while Hie landowners have grown poorer and their lands greatly decreased in value. Under this tenant system you have sold, with 'the tobacco, the three principal plant foods nitrogen, phosphoric acid and pot- ash that it had taken nature millions of years to store up in the first six inches of your soil. With every hogshead of tobacco that has been sold has gone (taking the average weight at 050 pounds to the hogs- head) 23 pounds of nitrogen, worth 15 cents a pound; 4 pounds of phosphoric acid, worth 0 cents a pound; 25 pounds of potash, worth 5 cents a pound, making si total value of $4.04 for each hogshead sold. Show me any county where tobacco is the main crop and grown under the tenant system and I will point to a want of rail-' roads, bad county roads, unpainted buildings, cheap lands and a general want of modern facilities that go to make life in the country worth living. The farmer of today who is making money and improving his farm in the Eastern and Middle States Is the fellow who is producing what goes to make the nitrogenous factor of man's ration and the suc-' culents that go with it, in which he can turn out a finished product that the world wants every day a production of which Nature does the work and man only assists her.

Fence your farm around with the heavy, Jour-foot-high wovon-wire fence and run two lines of barb wire on top of each side of the posts. Plant your posts every lo feet. This will give you a fence "bull strong," '-horse high" and "pig and dog tight." up 300 acres of your best land and sow it in alfalfa. Southern Maryland lands, with their marl formation, are best suited to and can grow the best crops of alfalfa in the Stale. Buy Good Hob.

a pure strain of Foland China hogs stiil breed up to 100 brood sows, and they should give you 1,200 to 1,500 hogs a year. Don't, be afraid of overstocking your farm with hogs when you have 300 acres of alfalfa. Let your sows farrow twice a year, March and September. Let them have run of alfalfa during the summer, and throw them, in addition, each two ears of corn a day and get them into your feeding lots as soon as a frost strikes your alfalfa field and finish on corn. Your September pigs will be hogs in 12 to 14 months, and should weigh in October and November 300 to 350 pounds each, and your March pigs should average 150 pounds each in October, and 'every hog you finish on the farm is estimated to void 13 pounds of nitrogen in the 'solids and urine, 10 pounds phosphoric and 10 pounds of potash, approximating $3.28 worth of plant food.

The manure adds to the land valuable organic matter that ferments, which contributes to the fertility of the soil, the value of which can- not be estimated. You should have running water in your Alfalfa pasture and a shady swamp where the hogs can lay in the mud during the hot ki the summer. Spray their mud-wholes twice a week with an antiseptic 'wash like creoline or cragen, and this will keep them healthy and the mosquito will not trouble their eyes, one great trouble ith hogs in the tidewater counties. Plant 100 acres of your highest land in "apple, trees only two varieties, the "York Imperial," and use as a filler the "Yellow "Transparent." Southern Maryland can igrow just as fine apples as the rocky hills of Western Maryland if you will spray 'them and attend to them. An apple tree Is 'like man.

it wants a bath, and should be 'sprayed twice a year In lime, salt and sul-phur and twice for coddling moth. Cowpeas And Their Advantages. Work the "New Era" cowpea in your orchard In rows four feet apart, and use freely a six-twelve fertilizer, as your land is deficient in phosphoric acid and potash. The cowpea belongs to the legume family will gather the nitrogen for you, but you must resort to the chemicals for your phosphoric acid and potash and the six-twelve mixture will make the trees grow and at the same time give you good yields of seed peas, which bring twice as much as wheat. For winter cover' follow the cow peas with the hairy vetch, long-standing kale and crimson clover.

This (will give your hogs a winter and early spring pasture. The crimson clover and the hairy vetch are legumes and the kale plant is a rank feeder and partly leguminous, and they will hold the fertility and prevent the leaching of the soil. Adhere to this rota- tion for your orchard, and in 10 years it w'U yield you Immense crops and give you IN ONE PULPIT TOR 40 YEARS Hagentown Pastor Has Baptized 647, 3Iarried G99 And Burled 821 Persons In That Time. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Hagerstown, Jan.

19. The fortieth anniversary of Rev. Dr. J. Spangler Kief-fer's pastorate of Zion Reformed Church was celebrated today.

Dr. Kleffer preached a historical and statistical sermon in the morning. He was assisted In the services, by his son, Rev. Henry L. G.

Kelffer, of Mercersburg, Pa. Zion Church is one of the oldest in Hagerstown and Dr. Kleffer is one of the oldest pastors in point of service in the city. When Dr. Kieffer took charge of the congregation the liturgical movement was sweeping through the Reformed Church.

He favored the movement and Introduced the liturgical service in the worship. The pastor spoke of Hagerstown as It was 40 years ago, when stage coaches still ran Into the town. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad had just been built to the town and the Western Maryland and Cumberland Valley roads were building He mentioned a number of prominent persons who were active In the community 40 years ago, including William T. Hamil ton, afterward Governor; Judge Jsyester, Judge Motter, Judge Weisel and Judge Al- vey. Of the persons who were members of the church when he took charge only 20 now survive.

Of the members of the consistory who signed the call which he accepted only one is now living William Gassman, a Judge of the Orphans Court. During his pastorate he has preached 3,613 sermons, baptized 647 persons, received 1,103 persons into membership, mar ried 609 couples and preached funerai sermons. The services tonight were In charge of the consistory of the church, all of the members occupying seats around the pulpit. Mr. Wilfred H.

McCardell presided. The congregations of Christ's Reformed Church and the Presbyterian Church wese also present. Addresses were made by Rev. Dr. Conrad Clever, pastor of Christ's Church; Rev.

Robert Alexander Boyle, pastor of thePres- btyerian Church; William Gassman, James P. Harter, C. Harry lveller, wmiam Hammond and David M. Hurley, of the consistory; Henry F. Wingert, of the con gregation, and Dr.

Ivieffer. Resolutions and letters of greetings from the Frederick County Reformed Ministerial Association, the Clearspring Reformed Church and Christ's Reformed and Presbyterian congregations, of Hagerstown, were read. NEW CHURCH IN CARROLL Congregation At Camber Dedicates Kew Building There. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Westminister.

Jan. 19. A hand some new brick church edifice was dedicated today for the. congregation of Providence Methodist Protestant Church, near Gamber. The building is on the Finksburg and Mechanicsvllle turnpike.

The congregation forms part of the Finksburg circuit, of which Rev. S. F. Cassen has been pastor four years. Rev.

F. T. Tagg, of Baltimore, preached the sermon. Another service was held this afternoon, at which Rev. J.

M. Gill, of Washington, preached, and a Christian Endeavor rally was held tonight. PREACHER AN INVENTOR Test Of Rev. C. AV.

Hutsler's Mail-catcher Called Success. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Hagerstown, Jan. 19. A device by which mail pouches are taken from and delivered to trains running at full speed, Invented by Rev.

C. W. Hutsler, of Williams-port, and in the development of which C. P. C.

Ringer, H. C. Heffner and G. H. Kershner took an Important part, was given a severe test on the Western Maryland railroad between Hagerstown and Willlamsport.

The test was attended by the inventors and railroad officials. The apparatus had been rigged up along the railroad at Salisbury Station, and a mail car was fitted up to make the test. Webb Blackwell, superintendent of motive power, was at the throttle and ran the car SO times at a speed varying from 10 miles to 5 miles an hour. It is declared there was not a single failure in the 30 times the device was put to the test. The device took mall pouches and delivered them to a cable attached to poles along the railroad without the slightest hitch.

It is said no engine can run too fast for the successful operation of the device. Xew Pastor At Laurel. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Laurel, Jan. 19.

Rev. George. W. Alexander, formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Glenside, has accepted the pastorate of the Laurel Baptist Church and preached his first sermon today. WANTS MORE FOR COLLEGE Captain Silvester Tells Farmers Of Xeeds At College Park.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Hyattsville, Jan. 19. The Vansvllle Farmers' Club met at Vandalia, the farm of Mr. L.

P. Haslup, near Annapolis Junction. Mr. Charles H. Stanley presided, and Dr.

Joseph R. Owens was secretary. The other members present were Luther Brash-ears, Samuel W. Beall, L. E.

Burke, Percy Cassard, John Snowden, John W. WTilliams and the host. The guests were President It. W. Silvester, of the Maryland Agricultural College; James P.

and Charles W. Haslup, Charles W. Haslup, Louis II. Haslup. W.

A. Melville, Frank and W. C. Shipley, County Commissioner H. A.

Penny, W. C. Phillips, Charles King. Morris Haslup, J. H.

Shertze, Carney Kelson and Rev. W. P. Painter, rector of Queen Caroline parish. Mrs.

L. P. Haslup and her niece, Mrs. L. H.

Haslup, served refreshments. President Silvester spoke of the work at the Maryland Agricultural College. He contended that the Legislature must provide more money in order to keep existing buildings in proper repair, and said a new building was required for the electrical engineering department. DOCTORS OPPOSE "SOCIETY" Prince George's Physicians To Meet In Halls, Not Homes. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Hyattsville. Jan. 19. Dr. Charles A.

Wells entertained the Prince George's County Medical Association last evening. Dr. John Cronmlller, of Laurel, presided, and Dr. H. B.

McDonnell, of College Park was secretary. Other members present were Drs. C. A. Fox.

W. Taylor, A. G. Cogglns, H. T.

Willis, Guy W. Latimer, C. W. BIrdsall, C. E.

Postley, Harry Nal- ley and A. O. Etlenne. The guests were Drs. Walter A.

Wells, of Washington; Al fred H. Wells, of Hyattsville, and Robert W. Wells, of Hyattsville. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Charles A.

and Mrs. Alfred nyatt Wells. It was determined to eliminate much of the social side of the meetings and to hold them in halls. The association Indorsed a pure-food -law advocated by the Vansvllle Farmers' Club. MR.

WARNER STARTS FIGHT Montgomery Countian Attacks Mr. Pearre In Allegany. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Cumberland, Jan. 19.

Mr. Brain- ard II. Warner, of Kensington, Montgomery county, has invaded Allegany county In his campaign for the Republican nomination for Congress. The fight in Allegany county, as it was two years ago, will be between Mr. Lloyd Lowndes and Congressman Georga A.

Pearre. The former Is in better trim than two years ago, as now he has the organization behind him. Two years ago Colonel Pearre had both the county committee and the State Central Committee. since wrested these from hir are pros pects of different 1 aj what there were two years Colonel Pearre is nls hand ac tively at Annapolis ir pertaining to the Allegany county delegation. Mr.

John J. Stump, of the delegation, is one of Colonel Pearre's lieutenants and will be expected to do Trojan work for the Congressman in the coming primary fight A request will be made for a new election district for Allegany county with the town of Ellerslle as the center. There is a population of about 700 in and around Ellerslie, which is a prosperous town, but all the voters must travel about three miles to a hamlet called Corrlgansville, where the elections are held. daughters, and when they commence to cut and ship the asparagus and apricots and the proceeds of the poultry they will surprise you with the amount of revenue from this source. For when a woman can jingle her own coin from the proceeds of her la bor the amount of commercialism she will develop will amaze you.

For An English Walnut Crop. Plant about 10 acres of the highest land in English walnuts; use the Elberta peach as a filler. Work this orchard the same as the apple orchard, in cowpeas, vetch and crimson clover and the kale plant. The English walnut trees will commence to bear crops in 15 years and give reliable income for years to come. The Elberta peach will produce crops of highly colored fruit in Southern Maryland and is a money-maker for that section.

The remainder of your arable land di vide in four fields and work on the four rotation Bystem. One field in yellow corn the first year. In September sow In the corn three pecks of hairy vetch, six quarts of crimson clover and four quarts of long standing kale. This will give the hogs additional winter and early spring pasture, and at the same time act as a cover crop. In May plow all down and work the field in New Era Cowpeas for the seed, and after yon have saved the pea crop cut the vines off and harrow the ground thoroughly, and the last of September drill two bushels of white winter barley and four quarts of alsike cloverseed, and In the spring, about the first of April, when the ground is cracked, sow six quarts of red sapling clover.

Under this four-field rotation your fields will stand every year, as follows: One field in yellow corn. One field in hairy retch, crimson cloTer and kale, followed by Era cowpeas for seed. One field in white winter barley. One field in sappling eloper. At each showing of the above crop sow to the acre 400 pounds of the six-twelve fertilizer.

Plow in the washed gutters in your field, and manure them and sow orchard grass. This is the best grass to sow to stop a washing field, and do not plow the grass in the gutters when you work the field. The white winter barley will give a fine yield in Southern Maryland, and the best stands of clover always follow Barley. Thrash a rick of the barley straw In each of your feeding lots to bed the fatting hogs, as it makes the best manure. For slop for your young pigs, grind two-thirds barley and one-third corn together and cut fine (one-eighth inch length) alfalfa hay that has been cured bright, and mix with water one-half of the mixture of fine-ground corn and barley with one-half of the fine-cut hay.

This is also the best ration to feed turkeys, chickens and ducks. The skillful feeder in the tide-water counties can pick up his corn for 7 cents less than the Baltimore market, as It costs the farmers in Southern Maryland this sum to sell a bushel of corn, which goes for commission, steamboat freight, bag hire and drayage. It is good farm management to let the other fellow raise the corn and you feed it to stock on your own land. Bacon and the hog product bring 2 cents more in the tide-water counties than In the Baltimore market. Can Heat Kansas On Alfalfa.

The tide-water counties of Maryland and Virginia, according to the last census, consumes 21 times more of hog product than they produce. This deficiency is made up from the alfalfa field of the middle West and the far West. Southern Maryland can grow just as good If not better crops of alfalfa than Kansas. With, alfalfa as the base, you can put a hog in the market at a cost of 4 cents a a turkey at 7 cents and a chicken at 6 cents per pound. At the prices quoted that the tide-water coun ties of Maryland and Virginia pay for Western bacon and the net prices they realize for their corn, what an "opportunity" for a skillful feeder with a large alfalfa field in Southern Maryland.

You can have your hogs ready for the knife in October. Commence to kill and pack as soon as the temperature ranges about Cure your bacon by the liquid process. When dressed, cut the head off and split the hog down the back, and let the animal heat pass off. Then cut out your hams and shoulders; leave a long shank on both hams and shoulders (Southern style), as they help the weight. Cut the breakfast bacon six inches wide off the belly of each of the big sides.

Trim as little as possible and make as little lard as you can. Take the tenderloin and lean pieces for your sausage. For a ton of the hams and breakfast pieces, take 10 pounds of saltpeter, mix with 30 pounds of granulated sugar and rub a little on each piece. Lay on a perforated floor and sprinkle enough fine salt on each piece to track a rabbit in Let It remain for three days and the salt will draw the blood out of the meat. Then pack down In cement vats and make a brine strong enough to float an egg and show as much of the egg as the size of a 10 cent piece when floating.

Then boil and skim, and when cool stir in 10 gallons of New Orleans molasses and pour over the meat, which must be weighted so the brine will cover the meat. Let the meat remain in the brine for four weeks. Then hang in the smokehouse and smoke the hams continuously, night and day, for four days with hickory, dogwood or sassafras wood. I prefer the latter when it Is to be had.) When smoked wrap ma nila paper around th ham and sew up in a heavy unbleached muslin bar and diD in a barrel of thick, white wash about the consistency of thick cream. Stencil your name and year and the weight on each ham and hang it in fly-proof meathouse, right under the roof, and let it remain for 12 months, when it is ready for the market.

These old alfalfa hams are in great demand at 25 to 30 cents per pound and will keep an maenmte period of time. Smoke the breakfast bacon only three davs and wran in dairy parchment paper and sew in the muslin bag. They are then ready for the market and are worth today, wholesale, la cents per pound. Treatment Of Meat. For a ton of your shoulders, sides and jowls, mix 10 pounds of saltpeter with 10 pounds of fine salt, and rub some on each piece and sprinkle with salt like the lams, and let it remain three days and then pack down in your vats and pour over the same strength of brine In which you have stirred in 10 gallons of New Orleans molasses.

Let the meat remain in this liquid for four weeks, then hang up In the smokehouse and smoke continuously, night and day, for three days and your bacon is ready for the market. Take the faces and livers of the hogs and make them into pudding. Mold them while hot in two, three and five pound bricks and wrap them in dairy parchment paper and sell at once. Season the pudding with union pepper and salt only. In the water that the faces are boiled in, stir in cornmeal while the water is boiling and make the scrappel and mold it into blocks.

Take the pudding and wrap in the dairy parchment paper. You will find this very alable to the family trade. The tenderloin and other lean pieces of the "trimming" grind fine for your sausage. Season with saltpeter, salt, sage and pepper only. Clean the small casings inside and outside.

Soak them in salt water 24 hours and then stuff with the sausage and link in short uniform links and hang in the smokehouse and smoke only 12 hours. The green sausage for your family trade wrap in the dairy parchment paper, in two, three and five pound rolls. The remaining offall of the hog dispose of as follows: Empty the stomach, the colon and he large intestines, and with the lung 'or lights, the spleen, the kidneys, ears and noses boil in a steam kettle until thoroughly cooked and run them through your ensilage cutter and cut in one-eighth-inch lengths. Feed in cutter with them some alfalfa hay and then put back in kettle and boil again and mix your ground corn and barley and feed your laying hens. On this ration your hens will lay more eggs in winter than any prepared food you can feed them on.

The hair and excellent, are destined to failure if this first consideration is not taken into account. I once knew an amateur who had an extraordinary success in getting eggs one winter. Immediately his word on poultry matters became law in the community. His secret was sought his advice treasured. It made some of the older poultry growers feel somewhat small, but the next season and the next in succession the aforesaid amateur had only very ordinary sue cess.

He happened to have the stock that was in the "laying mood," so to speak, for tbe way hens will persist in not laying sometimes when we think they ought to lay Is apt to be ascribed to a "mood." A neighbor of mine, a city man, has about 100 hens kept yarded on his farm. They are cared for by his farmer, who, like the average farmer, -knows all about such common things as fowls. Didn't his moth er and his grandmother raise chickens, aud hasn't he run among them since he was a little boy? On this farm, during the flush months of April, May and June, they had eggs enough for the two families to use. Before that and since they have been buy ing eggs for home use. The owner would sell this flock at very low figures, but I would rather have that flock to get eggs from this winter than any that I know of.

With good housing and proper feed they would undoubtedly give results. Yet there is much that can be done In preparing for success for the winter. The close of summer often finds the houses In fested with mites, and a thorough cleaning and whitewashing Is in order The floors should be cleaned up and renewed by hauling In 6and or river gravel. If it is a dirt floor It should be raised one foot higher than the level of the surrounding soil, so that it will always be dry. There is nothing so bad as dampness in a henhouse.

I have had no experience with curtain fronts, but I am a great believer in plenty of fresh air. I think some glass in windows is good, but it is a mistake to have much glass in front. Such houses cool off very quickly at night and become very A house should be arranged so as to be closed tightly on cold nights, but have a screen door, so that the board door may be opened in daytime for the admission of fresh air. Give the scratching feed early in the morning and the warm mash later In the day. For hens to lay in winter they must have meat of some kind.

Thus far I have found it most practicable to give this in the form of meat meal or beef scraps, mixed with the wet mash. It is also essential that they have green stuff. If you have not raised a crop of cabbage for your hens this winter, perhaps you have some clover hay. It is very good for fowls, whether you have the cabbage or not. If you have neither; the best substitute is alfalfa meal.

It is more costly than clover, but it will pay to use it in the absence of any other kind of green food Cut bone should be kept before the hens in winter, and also, as a matter of course, fresh water, oyster shells and grit. Pruning Grapevines. From October till December the grape should be pruned. If the vine has run wild and is up 10 feet, cut back to the new wood near the ground. If It has been properly pruned it is an easy job.

For a general rule cut off three-fourths of all the past season's growth. Remember every bud on good, new wood is able to put forth three bunches of grapes next season. Leave only two buds on the most vigorous growth of the past season, though new woods Is the only wood that bears, and growers are likely to leave too much. Some writers say cut off nine-tenths of ail new wood, but that is a little too much. Prune, lay on the ground and cover with sods enough to hold the vines down.

Tree-Wound Salve. The following mixture Is recommended for wounds of any kind on trees: Melt rosin and warm a little crude petroleum in separate vessels, pouring into a third vessel three parts of rosin to one of petroleum. This seals the wound very effectively until grown over. It is said to not run In warm weather nor crack in cold, and cuts covered with it will not fail to heal satisfactorily. It Is much cheaper than paint.

If a limb is broken it should be cut back smoothly to its parent trunk or branch, and the cut should be covered with this preparation. It is also good to apply to wounds of the bark or trunk of trees by rodents. Cures For Mange. A swlne-grower says that any of the following simple remedies will cure mange in hogs: Creosote, 1 ounces; lard, 2 pounds. Mix well and apply to the affected parts of the body.

Or sulphur, pound, and lard, 2 pounds. Mix and apply as suggested above. Turpentine and sulphur at the rate of ten parts of the former to one of the latter is another effective remedy. Salt And Ashes. Hogs should have free access to salt and ashes at all times.

This one Item of feed is often neglected, even by the most careful pork feeders. Wood ashes can generally be secured, and hogs should have all they will eat. When not convenient to give ashes, charcoal is a good substitute, and even soft coal will be eaten for want of something better. Hogs are never injured by eating all the ashes they want, but it is not safe to give large amounts of salt to animals not accustomed to Its use. The salt-and-ashes mixture should be kept in a low box under a shed where it will be protected from rain, and should consist of about two quarts of salt for each bushel of ashes.

Many feeders prefer. to add a few ounces of copperas to the mixture. Free access to such a mixture will do much to preserve the health of hogs, and sows which have an abundance of such food rarely eat their young. Cause Of Scabies. Dr.

Salmon, In Agricultural Department Report. A disease known as scabies and caused by a depluming mite affects both pigeons and fowl, differeing somewhat on the pigeons from that affecting fowl. The skin between the feathers is normal in this disease, and one may be sure of its character by plucking the feathers and looking for a mass of scales dead skin which lies around the root of the feathers and which powders easily. An ointment from material usually at hand consists of one part of carbolic acid and ten parts of lard or vaseline. There is danger of poisoning if too large a surface is covered with ointment of this strength.

There is also a fungus disease which attacks the skin of birds, usually beginning on the comb or head and extending to the other parts of the body. This may be distinguished from the scabies caused by the feather mite by the fact that there are gray or white spots or scales on the skin Itself. Sometimes it Increases to cup-shaped deposits running into a thick crust In time, dirty-looking and rough. In treatment the crusts must be removed gently, but as thoroughly as possible, as the cure depends on getting the applications down to the skin. Soft soap, well mixed with carbolic acid, will be effectual in cases not too far advanced.

One part of the acid in 20 parts of soap are the proportions, and care should be taken not to cover too large a surface at one application. More dangerous ointments are needed in the worst cases, but as the disease is contagious to a considerable degree through abraded surfaces and seems to be communi cable also to human beings the advisability of treatment of "such cases is question. The ax is then probably the best remedy. Young birds show more susceptibility to this disease than old ones, and birds of Asiatic blood are more often affected than are others. In this, as In all diseases suspected of being contagious, quarantine and disinfection of quarters are only ordinary precautions.

Benning, D. Jan. 19. The death of Mr. Albert Brooke Saturday last was sudden.

He was C6 years old. A widow and one brother survive him. They are Mrs. M. E.

Brooke and Mr. Eugene Brooke. He was educated at Georgetown College, and read law In Upper Marlboro with his brother, the late. Judge John B. Brooke, ne held positions of trust in the Treasury Department at Washington.

Mr. Brooke served through the war in the Confederate army. He was on his farm in Arkansas at the beginning of the war. He enlisted in Captain Fletcher's company. the Arkansas Brigade, and was wounded Mr.

Brooke was buried at Forestville, Maryland. 3IRS. MELISSA CETZEXDAXXER. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Middletown.

Jan. 13. Mrs. Me lissa Getzendanner, 70 years old, wlfj of Dr. John W.

Getzendanner, died today from cancer. MISS RACHEL. Tt. COOKE. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Boyds, Jan. 19. Miss Rachel D. Cooke, 70 years old, daughter of the late Nathan and Elizabeth Cooke, of Galthers-burg, died last night. Death Of Old Canal Man.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Cumberland, Jan. 19. John Leary died yesterday at his home In South Cumberland, aged 68 years. In his early days he was employed In different capacities on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and was well known by old canal men all along the waterway.

Laurel Men Want Sewers. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Laurel, Jan. 19. The Laurel Im provement Association has recommended to the Mayor and City Council of Laurel that the Legislature be asked to authorize a bond Issue for $33,000 for sewers.

BAD BLAZE IN WILMINGTON Dry Goods Store Of E. R. Riley Rnrned Oat. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Wilmington, Jan.

19. The Interior of the dry goods store of E. B. Riley, 228 and 230 King street, was burned early this morning, with a loss of 10.000. Properties adjoining, oecupiedby Jacob Berg, millinery and fancy goods, and Harry Saltz-man, women's wTear, were damaged by water to the extent of $5,000.

The loss Is Insured. Mr. Riley had gone to Rohoboth, to spend Sunday. George High, of the Washington Fire Company, fell through a skylight and was cut on the head. He was lost sight of in the dense smoke and would have been overcome had not a fellow-fireman rescued him.

FIRE IN CATHOLIC CHURCH One Priext Iinrn Hi Hand, Another Overcome R- Smoke. Evanston. 111., Jan. 19. One priest was injured and another overcome by smoke in a fire today which caused S10.0O0 damage to St.

Mary's Catholic Church. Rev. Thomas Egan's hand was severely burned when he tried to remove a chalice from the altar. Rev. Patrick Hennessy was twice overcome while endeavoring to carry to safety vestments and other valuables.

The fire started near the altar, sujipos-edly from a candle. FIRE RENDERS 200 IDLE Greenubnrg Pa.) Glawn Plant Destroyed, With $105,000 Loss. Greensburg, Jan. 19. Fire last night destroyed the plant of the Stahl Glass Company here, causing a loss estimated at $103,000.

The stock house was the only building saved. Two hundred persons are thrown out of work. The flames were discovered in the packing room by employes of a nearby factory, but the origin of the fire is unknown. BOUND TO KEEP PLEDGES Memphis Police Commlnsioner Pats The Lid On Tleht. Memphis, Jan.

19. Seventy-one prisoners, practically all of them negroes, will answer tomorrow to charges of gaming or conducting a gaming house, the result of several raids last night and early today cocducted by Police Commissioner Edward II. Crump without the knowledge of the department. Mr. Crump was recently elected as a member of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners on an independent ticket, and he' had pledged the enforcement of the antl-gambl'ng and Sunday-closing laws.

Chief of Police O'llavre had issued positive Instructions to close all places, but Mr. Crump got information that the order was not being carried out. With a force of special deputies h2 made the raids. ew Orleans Has $100,000 Fire. New Orleans, Jan.

19. Fire which started here early today In the wholesale millinery establishment of Hoehn Dieth. at Iberville and Chartres streets, swept that building and badly damaged the adjoining one. occupied by I. KoblAan, wholesale shoe dealer.

The loss will approximate covered by Insurance. I.