The Stock Farm Home Weekly from Wyandotte, Kansas • 2

-1 THE STOCK FAIJj-AND HOME WEEKLY. 8TO0K hftT. in madnallv in Quantity. so that each year, the hay supply ia be- 'ni. nAullmtJ That, tha lavM THE ANSAS CITY 'STOCK ABDS.

pot in the fall in a rich comjpou of equal parts of well decayed stable; manure and rich sandy loam. After potting, I water sparingly for a few days, then plaoe in a sunny window and give plenty of water, also sprinkle the foliage and once a week add a good liquid fertilizer. When the young shoots get to be a few inches long, I pineh them back. You can form your plant in any shape you -KANSAS niTY, KAS. 3i ooose.

But mind thepiuohing back; the more bloom will you have. Home ot the winter blooming varieties are Speoiosa, Lustre and Mrs. Marshall. I have a epeciosa that has made a growth of over six feet this winter, and has bloomed profusely. It was repotted Pueblo, May 13, p.

m. The Oresent Avenue resbyteriufi ohurch, Plainfiald, N. J.rhat just paid an indebtedness of $36,000. M. B.

CHUROH. Neosho Falls, Rev. Thomas S. Walker, pastor. A protracted meeting at Yates Center, resulted in thirteen accessions.

1 i Boulder, Col. The membership increased during the pant year from 77 to 108. A donation of (75 was presented to the pastor April 13. The remains of the late Rev. E.

Condo, who was killed by the cyclone at Marsh field, were buried at Springfield, Mo last week, Thursday, Mrs, Condo and the youngest child are at Marsh-field kindly oared for. Silver City, New Mexioo, Rev. E. H. Brooks, pastor.

The new church was completed April 8, and was dedicated free from debt April 4, by Superintendent Har wood. Cost $2.858. CHRISTIAN. Troy, Rev. R.

L. McHatton, reports 5 accessions. Columbia, Mo. Seven confession are reported. Canton, Mo.

Rtv. "David Sparks, a student of Christian University during area put under cultivation, and the "increasing herds that graze upon our untitled prairies during the are making forage far more costly each succeeding winter is true, and it therefore stands'our farmers in hand to devise a way whereby they can secure nutritious food with the requisite "roughness for winter feeding. Something that will fill the stomach and add to the flesh of the animal, is that which is needed. Our experience is, that nothing so nearly fills the bill as German millet. We were told as others have been, that it would not do to feed millet to horses; but we fed' it nevertheless, and nothing whatever in the shape of hramful results ocotirred, but to the contrary our horses never did so well before.

It worked the same way with cattle and hogs, so that wo were so well satisfied with tesnlts that we have never hesitated to feed it when we could get it. This season we shall plant more than ever before, and after carefully figuring on cost, we feel assured that it can be raised and put in stack or barn cheaper than common prairie hay. To this we late in the fall. The Mrs. Marshall, another tine plant, was repoted at the same time, and has reoeived the same treatment.

I think the winter months the best time for starting cuttings. I root all the pinohings, taking about four leaves at the end of the branch. I put these in soil similar to that of the grow ing plant, adding a little more sand, which maker them root easier. For summer blooming I repot, out back and cau add the great saving in corn and oats, which, makes the German millet hay not only cost less, but actually or at least one-half more value to the farmers than other sorts. If they will but keep in partial shade.

Those that are expeoted to bloom in summer may be pUoed in the cellar in the winter, and given very little water. If brought from the cellar in January or February and cut back, they make very handsome plants for summer. I use warm water for watering and sprinkling. I have good drainage to the pot, and when blooming I never let the pot become entirely dry. The fuchsia was named in honor or Leonard Fuchs, a celebrated German botanist.

mo viBiu lit i lie country, near aumcjcu, Lewis county, preached and baptized 4 persons. try live acres one season, we feel as Currjville, Mo. Rev.W. T. Solid sured that (hey will never fail to try it for all time, for they will find it the cheapest and best food for stock of all kinds that they have ever tried.

reports 14 accessions in Ralls county I. I i l. a- Are by far the most commodious and best appointed yards In the Missouri Valley, with unlimited capacity for feeding weighing and shipping cattle, hqgs, sheep, horses tndmules. No yards are better watered, and la none Is their a better system of drainage. Convenient Located As regards other markets and the grass grazing grounds ol the West and Southwest.

The trains on the 5 Kansas Pacific --5 'r-'-y' Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe R. nucit? no una uceu uuiuiug meetings. bt. James, Rev.J.J. Lane reports 13 additions at the Mattock t-ohool Prickley comfrey.

F. D. Curtis, in the Country Gentle house, tkree miles north of St. James. Chariton oountv.

Mo. Rev. William man, believes prickley comfrey to be a Hancock, haS been lahnrinir'naar Kearney, Clay county, with the follow ing results: xwenty-eight accessions. Medicine Liodge, Jias. A new chapel has just been finished in that place.

rn The BMt Sngftr Indutry, prtirls Farmer, The rapid increase in the consumption of sugaf la the United States strong incentive, to persistent efforts in utilizing the fcugor beet for the production of this great staple artiole, as well as the cultivation of other products from which sugar is obtained. Ia the central and western states there is little probability that any attempts will be made to raise beets for the manufacture of sugar, because in the first place, several experiments hitherto made have heeu unfortunate, and secondly, the attention of farmers and capitalists is especially directed to the production of sugar from amber cane, with every reason to justify the expectation that this industry will prove a grand success. But in the eastern states the case is different. It is admitted that much of the crop cultivation cf those states is unprofitable, and there can be no question that a change from some of the crops and methods which obtain several of them- to the successful culture of the Sugar be'fct and a system of husbandry which that industry would necessarily inaugurate by proper rotations of crops, better cultivation, and by utilizing the pulp, after the juice is expressed, for feeding live stock, would be of great ad-' vantage in various ways. The experiments of the last two seasons at Portland, Maine, are by no means discouraging.

The results of the past season's work, as reported by Mr. Boardman, was the manufacture of 1,440,000 pounds of raw sugar (melado) which was sold for $122,0008 and one-half cents per pound. The full capacity of the manufactory is 150 tons of beets per day, and the supply of beets was worked up in seventy days. The supply, however, inadequate to render a satisfactory test possible. The company regret that the quantity of beets was not large enough to have kept the works in operation one hundred and fifty days.

With the necessary machinery and ample funds already supplied, it simply remains for the farmers to grow the beets to establish this new industry in New England and if those are supplied in sufficient quantity the company will guarantee its permanent success. From this it appears that upon the farmers of New England rests the success or failure of the enterprise. The question is not "can they grow beets in sufficient quality and quantity?" for during the past season as high as thirty-seven tons were raised to the acre, which at five dollars per ton, is one hundred and eighty-five dollars; a very large return for the use of the ground, the la-bA, seed, etc, The best yields were from twenty, to thirty-five tons per acre, but the average was but nine tons, which shows the difference between good cultivation and intelligent methods in the production of the crop, and indifferent tillage, or poor judgment in the selection and preparation of the ground, or both of these combined. The best crops were obtained by deep plowing, thorough preparation, early planting, and clean cultivation. These conditions are not only possible, but may be secured without much difficulty by the masses of New England farmers.

We have said, heretofore, in substance, that the prospects for successfully solving the beet sugar problem in this country are more favorable, in the older states along our northern Atlantic coast than of the Rocky' mountains, by reason of the greater aggregation of capital there, and the fact that this particular industry, in several of its aspects, is one which is better adapted to that, part of the country than to the west or south. That the intelligent farmers of New England can make it profitable there seems to be no room to doubt. Contracts for growing beets for the factory at Portland, have been or are The English Sparrow Ninall Finite. In a reoent number of the Prairie Farmer is the following In regard to whether these birds are a benefit or an injury, the weight of the argument thus far has gone to prove that they are mot a desirable acquisition. They are exceedingly pugnacious, driving away almost every other bird that comes within their reach, or attemps to build its nest in their vicinity.

But the most serious count in the indictment against them is the injury they do to fruit not so much to the fruit itself, but to the bushes and trees during the winter. A casein point has recently come under observation. Mr, J. Newhall, of Toronto, Canada, has hitherto been an advooate of the English sparrows, and frequently defended them in the public 'prints, but he has had an experience with them the past winter which has cooled his admiration. -CATHOLIC.

John Kelley says there are 26,050 catholic bis.ters pf charity in the wurld. M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. The Nashville Advocate says; Showers of blessing are falling almost everywhere.

Souls are btinir convert humbug. Jle says It will grow without fail and bear leaves, and if stock have nothing else to eat they will eat it. How much difference there may be in the taste of the prickley comfrey and the common variety I do not know, but I suspect not much. A patch of the common grows in one of my fields, and I have never known it to be eaten by any animal. I wish thev would eat it all up.

Sheep were in this lot last fall, and although the pasture was exceedingly close they did not touch the comfrey. I looked carefally to see, for this patch of eomfrey worries me. I wanted it eaten. I would like to try some animal which is so fond of the other sort and let it feed on this, for in spite of cutting and grubbing it increases. I am afraid it will spread all over the lot, and it surely will unless it is fought inch by inch.

Every little broken bit of root will grow, and it is almost impossible to get it all out of the ground. This patch of comfrey has an interesting history. ed by hundreds and thousands, and all A 1 i mo indications give promise of another year of enlargement and real progress. The church is erowinc. not onlv in iinm'- bers, but in the grace of liberality, Kansas Uity, Ft.

Scott Gulf R. Kansas City. Lawrence Southern R. R. Missouri Pacific R'y.

Hannibal St. JosephR. Missouri, Kansas Texas Kansas City, St. Joe Council Bluffs R. R.

Wabash, St. Louis Pacific R. (Formerly Bt. Louis. Kn6as City and yi Chicago, Rock Island Pacific R.

R. I And the Chicago Alton R. Hun Into these yards givinsr easy access by short and quick all rail routes to the great markets of the North and East, and to the reat feeding grounds of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Buyers from those markets are always in attendance during the season, and It Is acknowledged by Eastern markets comparitively Higher Prices are Realized here than ia the markets East. All the road3 from the West and outh run directly through the yards, thus affording the best accommodations possible for those coming from the great grazing grounds of Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas.

The company have erected a LARGE, MODERN, BRICK EXCHANGE BflLDING. Including 24 offices for commission men, a barber-shop, saloon and and two banking offices, one of which la occupied by the Bank of Kansas City, with 'amj le capital for the trade. The third floor of the south wing la occupied by the 7 STOCK, FARM AND HOME WEEKLY: Parties wishing to lmproTO their stock will find Blooded Stock here at all times. There are two sales a yeaf of the finest blooded stock of Kentucky, from the choioest and best herds In the State. There la established at these yards the most extensive HORSE AKD MULE MARKET In the world.

The. business ot the yards Is done systeniatlcally, and with the utmost promptness, so. that there Is no delay, and no clashing. In short these varda are DllY, ROOMY AND CONVILNT in every sense of the word, and herecattle men have found and will continue to find, that they get all their cattle are worth, with the least possible delay. HORSE AND MULE MARKET.

There Is established in contraction with the yards an extensive Horse- and Mule Market, S. S. Grant, Manager, and Gorhaoh where this class of stock canalwavs be found In large numbers. i O.F.MORSE.' E. E.

General Manager. Ass't Treas'r and Aas't Sec'y. Buowing its laun Dy its worKs. Irish Missionaries In the Early Days, He has a red currant patch to which the sparrow paid great attention. Curiosity led him to investigate the matter when, to his surprise and consternation, he Bishop Spalding Irish monks founded fifteen monasteries in Bavaria, fifteen in Helvetia, 13 in Scotland, twelve in England, twelve in Armorioa, ten in Alsatia, seven in Lorraine, and seven in France.

Thov found evei-y bush entirely denuded of every fruit bud, as clean as if it had been rubbed down with leather gloved Not a bud left! Further in vest i gat ion showed that his Glass' seed' line plums were nearly stripped of ev gave to Germany one hundred and titty It is almost a century old. When set it was dedicated to the healing art. The roots are mucilaginous and excellent, when steeped for colds. An old slave woman set it out by her cabin door. All are gone long ago, but the comfrey lives.

The prickley sort is larger thin the common. There is more of it, and this fact with me would be an argument against it." ery bud also, and his Mayduki cherries saints, many ol whom were martyrs, forty-five to France, thirty to Belgium, thirteen to Italv. and t.n Vfiraii were considerably damaged. Mr. New and And while her apostles hall now thinks that if these sparrows increase in the same ratio for the next three years' that they, have the past three, it will be useless to attempt to crow small fruits in He went forth to every port of Europe to build up the Church, her Bchools at home were thrown oien to the htiknUm youth of the world." In that day when a scnoiar leit his country he as a matter of course turned his lace to Ireland.

An Irishman founded the Universitv Raising Sweet Potatoes. The sweet potato grows in a variety of soils, but to obtain the finest tubers thinks also that this matter is a fit subject for the consideration of fruit growers, associations. His suggestion is proper and timely, for these sparrows multiply prodigiously and are spreading rapidly throughout the country. Forewarned is oftentimes forearmed. Paris, and Altred, the founder of the Hinghsh monaichv.

receivdd an Irish in quality a deep, light, or rather sandy education. Tin; PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 'dtQhns florid. CONGREGATIONAL. Salt Lave City. The churoh in this city has added 13 persons to its membership, several of whom were converts PRICLUST.

from mormonism. UNITED PRISBTTERIANS, For the missions of the United Presbyterians in Egypt the viceroy has donated property valued at $40,000. EPISCOPAL. being made, and the outlook at present? During the past year the Episcopal churoh has receivod 26 ministers from Nos. 10 115 140.

160 2'20 30O 3j7 Chapel 302 310 345 -410 -420 is one ot much nope and promise. The problem now appears to be one simply of intelligence and pluck on the part of farmers. The timid and the careless need not expect to suoceed, but those who know what is neoessary for success and engage in the enterprise with a determination to make the most out of the other denominations; 9 from the con-gregationalists; 6 from the Methodists; 4 from the baptists and 3 from the rresbytenans. BAPTIST. business probably have no cause for There will convene at Newton, a Ministers' Institute, May 25, 10 A.

Drilling Corn. Indiana Farmer. In a late iRftnn. NAAanrrm nrlvinA trnm The institute is arranged by authority of the ministers' conference of central soil is required, and a dry sub-soil. Stiff tenacious clays are not adopted to it.

In all cases the ground should be plowed deep and rendered mellow. New ground wilLbe improved for this plant by the use of a harrow whioh will pulverize it well. In case the soil is not rich, well-rotted stable manure should be thoroughly incorporated with it. This may be done either by spreading it over the ground previous to plowing or afterwards in making the ground ready for the plants. The rows are marked out four feet apart, and by plowing a deep double furrow, (after the ground has been treated as indicated), the manure may be spread evenly there in.

It is covered by turning the earth back with the plow, thus throwing up a high ridge. This is then smoothed down with the hoe, and the bed is ready for the plants. Sweet potatoes (as all who are famil iarwith their cultivation understand) are grown from plants or sprouts. Where these can be had from growers who make a specialty of furnishing them, it is better to buy than topropogatethem, unless the intention is to put in a large crop. To start plants from the tubers, a hot-bed or cold-frame is needed.

These have been so often described that it is unnecessary to report the method of making them. In using a cold frame the soil should be covered two inohes deep with sand. The seed potatoes are cut lengthwise, and placed upon the sand, the cut side down, and not far apart, then covered three or four inches deep with sand, Keep the bed moist, and give air during the day of the temperature is not too low, and when the sprouts are large enough say from three to five inches high remove them with the thumb and finger very carefully, so as not to disturb the potatoes, and another batch of sprouts will grew. -After all danger of frost is past, set the plants in the previously prepared beds, from fifteen to eighteen inches; keep the weeds down, and occasionally run a light cultivator between the rows, being careful to keep the ridge intact. The vines should not be permitted to root down at the joints, as that will take from the parent stem just so much vitality, and injure the maturing ot-the tubers.

and southwestern Kansas association. M. to J. J. in reference to drilling Half of the baptists in the world are in the South, and their chief strength corn, as j.

nave naa a good deal ot experience in drilline corn. I thoueht I These organs are erven Ai premiums to churches, -benevolent societies and agents for subscriptions. For 100 subscribers and $150, we will give sn organ valued at $150 frte. This unparelleded offer is made by the company in view of our extensively is in the country. would give my mode.

In the first place Rev. F. M. Ellis, of Denver, has accepted the call of the Tremont Tern pie ohurch, Boston. I advertising for them.

"The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of his mercy." Sibbs. "How often we have occasion to repent of our attempts to justify our-sel vs. Turtullian, "Heaven pay for any loss we may suffer to gain it but nothing can pay for the lots of heaven." Baxter. Get out of your heads the infinite delusion that you can do as you like ana escape the operation of divine law. Deliver yourselves from the cruel delusion that you con-tow tares and reap wheat.

sf We must give according to our means and according to our outlays upon ourselves. A twenty-five cent donation by the side of a twenty-iive dollar shawl would present a painful contrast. Mary Lyon. It is interesting to notice how largely the bible influences the literatuie of the day. Its phrases are so telling that they pass current everywhere.

The most secular of the newspapers are liberally sprinkled with them. What the world most needs is a revival of integrity, measured by the gospel standard of "rendering to Caesar the things which are Caesar's," while professing to render to God the things which are God's. Golden Rule. The bill for taxing churches in New York State failed to pass the Senate, Invisible Christianity. Th Evangelist.

Invisible Christianity seems te be a favorite doctrine with many people. The doctrine, it would appear, is this: that you may be saved and nobedy know of it. You may get to heaven nicely without any "ado" so quietly, in short, that nobody will Buspect where you are going. Such is a fair statement of the doctrine so many people like. By all means get to heaven, they say, but dont alarm anybody about it.

Keep it all to yourself the quieter you go to heaven the better. This is the doctrine of invisible Christianity. I wonder what the world would think if some man told them he had invented invisible gas? Why, they would say the man's mad the very thing gas is for is to give light; it must be visible. And, strange to tell, this is just what God says of the Christian that is, of the soul that's saved. "Ye are the light of the world," he says.

What could be plainer? But is the light to be seen? Hear what Cod says: "A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid" (Matt, 14). "Cannot be That's what God says about the man or the woman that's saved, invisible Christianity is not in the Bible. Quite the opposite, if you are saved, your light will be as easily seen by the world as a city built on a bill. Independence, Mo. Rev.

J. E. Dixon, pastor. During a series of meetings in which the pastor and Rav. M.

H. Evans labored there have been 31 accessions j. maae my arms north ana south if I can, that the sun can reach the roots of the corn better. I like to harrow my ground pretty well before I plant. I then use a marker that makes six furrows at a round.

I like steel runners on the marker with; the wings thrown out considerably, so the marks will be sufficiently large for a horse to Bee. When I start the marker, I start the drills, and when I have planted that field, I put a harrow on and harrow it just as soon as I can, harrowing with the drills, and before the corn oomes up. I harrow crosswise. I then continue to harrow once a week until the corn is larsre enoueh to stand thn dirt Haunt. to the church.

PRESBYTERIAN. Waukeeny, Rev. D. K. Camp bell, pastor.

April 18th, twenty-two new members were received into the church. Oaborne, Kansas. A committee of the Soloman Presbytery organized a German Presbyterian church of thirty members, April 11th, ten miles south east of Osborne. The new society is ly harrow until the corn is eight inches high, and in this way I get the ground well pulverized, and keep the corn entirely clear of weeds. The implement that I use is the Thomas smoothing called the "Salem Presbyterian Church Rev.

Roser's labors resulted in this or ganization. harrow. It has three sections and 72 Cheever, Rev. W. R.

Smith, pastor. The new parsenage is now so The age, standing, experience and resources of the Smith American Organ Company afford a strong guaranty of the excellence of its work, and of the just and liberal principles on which its business is conducted. 1 The Company has been established twenty-six years, and is the oldest Keed Organ Company in New England. The instruments number over eighty-one thousand. The chief constructor was the first to make reed organs on the plan now generally followed.

All the members of the Company are actively engaged in the business, and are interested in the improvement of the instrument. Its ample capital, and the large property of its members, give the Company practically unlimited resources. The reputation of the Company for honorable dealing has never been called in question. Its oldest patrons are to-day its firmest friends. It has two large factories, fully supplied with all modern machinery and facilities of every description.

Its immense stock of lumber and other materials is purchased for cash on delivery, and comprises only the highest grades of every article required. The tone of the American Organs is distinguished from that of all others by its superior sweetness, fullness, and voice-like quality. The cases are new and artistio designs, harmonizing with the best modern furniture, and durable as well as beautiful. 1 -The American Oboah has received a great number of medals and other awards, and has never been judged inferior in any fair competition. The sales have steadily increased until the full capacity of the factories has been reached.

-t The prices are as low as those of any first-class instruments. THE SMITH iKIERICAN ORGAN COJIPJNf, BOSTON, MA 8 Branch House, Kansas City, Ho. cast steel teeth set in the. frame at an angle of 45 degrees, and spreads ten feet. I can harrow 20 acres per day with nearly completed that the pastor is oo cupying it.

Leavenworth, Eas. The Westminis Cultivation of the ruousia. At a late meeting of the Richmond corn only to keep the horses from step ter churoh has recently lifted the heavy debt caused, by the erection of their Horticultural Sooiety, Martha ping on h. a doj can Keep 1UU acres neifectiv alear of waaa. until it i Bond read the following treatise on the elegant church edifice.

Rev. A. H. Lackey, of Peabody, Eas, eight inches high. I would like to have cultivation the fuchsia.

Mrs Bond is; iux. ana w. try my plan. J.T. has been called by the united request of the Presbyteries of Emporia and Lamed to do the work ot the Presbyte rian Board of Publication in their Kmim Ajtrloulture.

bounds. a successful amateur florist Henry T. Williams says, in his book Window Gardening: "Fmohsias do not require a high temperature, but they need light and air, and a really beautiful plant of handsome shape is obtained only by eare." My own plan of treatment of this plant, which I will give, is for winter blooming. I re Our farmers are beginning to realize the fact that the oountry is being settled up and that the heretofore large body of unoccupied lands, that in the past furnished large yields of nutritioss The Colorado1 Presbytery will con-Tens at Pneblo, Colorado, May 11th, at i The Synod of Colorado will meet at.