Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — HIS LITTLE RASPBERRY PATCH. [ARTICLE]

HIS LITTLE RASPBERRY PATCH.

Marsh. Snyder, of Crawfordsville, a former Jasper county boy, is visiting friends and acquaintances in this locality. A deep red heifer calf, some white under the bedy, about five months old, lias strayed away from the premises of T. P. Wright.— He will pay a reward for its recovery. Prohibition County Convention. —The Prohibitionists of Jasper county are requested to meet at the Court House, in Rensselaer, August 28th, 1886, at 1 o,clock p. m., for the purpose of reorganizing, and to transact any other business that may come before the meeting. S. Erwin, Chairman Central Committee. By the falling of a tree on tire new railroad east of Fair Oaks Thursday of last w -ek, Wm. H. King had his right arm badly hurt. Ex-Sheriff John W. Powell ha leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Sgtableand respectfully solicits a are shar eof the public patronage. Social Amusements. - The Passe n° ger Department of the Motion Route iutve just issued a handsome book of over one hundred pages with the above title, containing a choico collection of par’or games, trieks. cha rades, tableaux, parlor theatricals, figures and calls for dancing etc., especially arranged and adapted for home amusement. Write to Wm. S. Balfl'vln. General Passenger Agent Monon Route, Chicago, 111., enclosing three cents in postage stamps, and a copy will be sent you b" r eturn mail, • Summer Resorts of the Northwest —Tourist tickets at lowest excursion rates via the Monon Route, are now on sale at the Company’s offices and at all principal points in the South, to Clr'cago, Milwaukee, Ashland, Waukestni, Madison, Ocanoraowoc Lake Gogebic, S idt Lake, Lake Minnetonka, Si. Paul, Minneapolis, and other delightful resoris in the cool N\ rthwest. Tourists are given choice of routes either via Louisville or Cincinnn'i, and are able to make the trip Between these cities and Chi ougo ok solid fast express trains in Pullman’s Fine it Buffet Sleeping Cars. Full information regarding this fa« vorite route for summer travel will be promptly furnished on application to any agent of the Company, or the following ronieseutatives of the Passenger Department: A. B. Robertson. Southern Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.; H A. Hathaway, District Passenger Agent, No. 227 Fourth Avenue, Louisville. Ky.; I. D. Baldwin District Passeneer Agont, No. 26 South Ilhnois street, Indianapolis, Ind,; T D. Campbell, Ticket Agent No. 129 Vine street, Cincinnati, Ohio, oi Wrn. S. Baldwin, General Passengei Agent, Chicago, 111. LIVE stock. The man who feeds best is the man who makes the most money. Many farmers think they make money when they allow animals to get bone poor in winter, but they are greatly mistaken. The only profit ever made in fattened animals is what is put on daily over and above the daily waste. The daily waste is a constant integer, an unavoidable one, and amounts to about what the animal will consume in winter of fairly well cured hay if kept in comfortable quarters. In severe weather when cattle are kept out of doors the loss, even when fed good hay, will often average a pound ■a day, and for the four winter months of severe weather this would show a loss of 120 pounds. All this must be mad* up the next summer. If this thinning down could be prevented the cow or steer would have so much to start in on when grass comes. Why not keep the animal growing right along from calfhood, or colthood, or swinehood, or lambhood, as the case may be? Those who make money out of stock do so. Did you ever figure on this integer of daily bodily waste in the feeding of animals? If so, you probably believe that the only way to make money in feeding stock is to feed fully from birth to the butcher’s block. It is the only way to reduce daily waste to a minimum and insure the largest profit for the food given. This waste is partly in keeping up bodily heat. Another cause of waste arises from exercise, and still another from the fact that the animal does not assimilate all the food eaten. But this latter waste —the manure—is not dead loss. If taken care of it keeps the land in condition to raise crops again to be fed out. The manure, therefore, is all the farmer gets for the food given an animal where it is so fed as simply daily waste. The gain in flesh represents his profit from the grain fed. If beef is worth five cents a pound and he gets five pounds of flesh to the bushel of corn, he receives 75 cents per bushel for his com. If the bushel of corn makes eight pounds the value of the corn fed is 40 cents. In the one case the farmer might come out about even; in the other the profit on each bushel of corn fed would be 15 cents. Jt is a matter worth figuring on. It is said that out of 15,000 cigarJRi'w : r fork Cry •"•'v. l .re -..0f., i ..se IUO-ei. The moM*d cigar is infer!-.*?.

Thinking that his little experiment in propagating and cultivating a patch of raspberries would interest many who are fond of the berry, Mr. Cooley, of Apple*x>n, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, has Jotted clown his experiences for their benefit; .’’Having a small plat in my garden, a space 120 feet in length by 60 :n width, I concluded to devote it to raspberries. Having thoroughly prepared the ground, 1 procured good, healthy roots and staked each cml of the plat, so as to have rows six feet apart. I stretched a line from end to end of the first line of stakes, and commenced setting the roots, planting them one yard apart in the row, which gave me about forty plants to the row. I planted nine rows in the whole, aggregating SCO plants,.and by eutlin : ;.A the tops I got the full strength of the r >st for the first year’s growth, which 1 <• n der essential to the full development of the plant. After the plants got well started I mulched heavily with coarse litter to smother out everything between the hills and rows, thus rendering it an easy matter to keep the ground clean. I haven’t plowed or cultivated the ground since the first setting. My first work after the picking season is over is to go through and cut out all the old bearing wood, thus giving the young plants all the chance possible for next year’s crop. I coniine my bushes by trellising, to prevent prostration by storms and wind. My crop last year marketed over 800 boxes, besides what was used in the family and by the pickers, or an average of IJJ boxes to the row. My bushes suffered but little by the seventy' of last winter’s extreme cold, which I attribute to my cutting oft'the tops about Sept. 1, thus rendering them hardy enough to winter well.