Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — Page 2

FALL PLANTING THE ORCHARD

W M W» MCHARDS, B»rtfaJt»r»l Dqxrt—<. ■ »iin

Fall Is, perhaps, the best time for ithe general fanner to set hla orchard At thia season of the year farm work , hi generally slacker than in the spring «M 1 the work ckn thus be given more The trees should be ordered early, tt you wait until late tn the season you apt to get cull stock. Order from some good, reliable firm that Is locat At somewhere near home. If the stock is then unsatisfactory the nurseryman hi close enough to be dealt with. But only trees of standard varieties. Let the other man or the experiment stations do the experimenting. For a home orchard, two

Fig. I—Planting board. By moans of thia board the exact location of the trees can bo determined after the holes are dug. or three trees of about five varieties of each sort of fruit will be found to be a great plenty. This will make aa orchard of from ear acre to an acre and one half in else and win produce more than enough for a family ! of average alee. Before the trees arrive the ground ahould be well fitted. Plow the orchard area well and then harrow it and leave the soil In aa good condition aa if you were going to sow wheat Just aa soon aa the trees arrive they should be taken from the boxes and have their roots puddled. This is done by making a thin mixture of day and water and then plunging the root systems of the trees into it Puddling is done to prevent too rapid drying out of the roots. For the farm orchard the square system of planting will be found to ho very satisfactory. The trees are set at the corners of squares 35 or <• feet on a side. On a small area the trees can be set with a garden line. On a small area the trees can

Fig 2—Apple tree being set with planting, board. The tree Is put in exactly the right place, being located by the notch on the board. Be cure to work the coll carefully about roots. be Mt with a garden line. Stretch the line tight and then place a stake every forty feet Now move the line over forty feet stretch again and set the stakes as before. Continue this operation until there are as many stakes located as there are trees to be planted. Each stake thus repro-

Proper Feeding.

Avoid that which contains a large proportion of fat It Is lean meat which gives the best results. It is safe to say that ent bone and meal make a cheaper ration Sian grain because less is required to satisfy the hens, and also because in many places those substances cost less per pound than grain. If the hens have a grass plot they will need but one good meal a day. If they are not now laying the probability is that they are too fat. which happens frequently when grain Is fed to liberally.

Driving Bees From Grapes.

It la said that mignonette makes honey equal to the best white clover and some take advantage of this fact where bees are likely to Injure the grapes. A row of mignonette is put In the ground near the grapes, and they will bloom at the same time as the grapes. The bees will neglect the grapes for the flower which they prefer.

No Excuse for Surplus Males.

Don't carry a lot of surplus male birds. Az soon as the hatching season is over sell them. If they are purebreds, or eat them If they are not Unmated hens lay as well as mated ones, and Infertile eggs do not spoil in summer as soon as they get warmed up to degrees, as fertile ones do.

Remedy for Bowel Trouble.

Bowel trouble is common In’ the chill days of spring and fall, when change of temperature is hard to prevent In the house. Ten drops of spirits of camphor in drinking water daily to a good remedy for such allm«nt

Cultivation Forestalls Drought.

J Do not neglect to cultivate the sweet potatoes. I Keep up the cultivation and maintain the mulch. If this Id properly done they will stand a tsrrfflc drought and develop potatoes When the late summer rains coma [

marts the exact location of the trues MSB will stand forty feet each way. In order to set the tree tn the exact place occupied by the stake, a simple device has been designed known as the planting board (Fig. 1). This Is a plebe of board about six feet long with a notch in the middle and a hole in each end. The board Is laid on the ground with the stake fitting In the central notch. Two other stakes are now placed in the end notches and driven in place. The planting board can now be lifted from the marker stake, the stake removed and the hole dug. When the hole is dug the planting board is replaced over thr end stakes and the central notch now rests over the holo in the same place as the original marker stake. The tree is then held in the central notch (Fig. 3) and the soil placed about Its roots. Care should be taken to cut off all mangled and broken roots and to also shorten in all extra long ones. The soil should bo thoroughly worked around the roots and no air spaces left in contact with them. When the

Fig. 3—Two-year-old apple tree. In the spring this fall set tree should be pruned at the black lines. This severe cutting back restores balance of top and roots. tree is planted the board is removed and the tree now occupies the exact position of the marker stake. By using the planting board on each tree, the rows of trees can be kept as straight ,as was the original line of marker stakes. No top pruning should be dons to tall planted trees until the following spring when the tops should be cut back severely. (Fig. 3) By careful work a fall planted .orchard can be brought through the winter in good shape and at least two weeks gained in growth over spring planted trees. Plant carefully and then care for the trees if a satisfactory harvest is expected.

Watch Poults Carefully.

From the time of hatching the little poults must be carefully watqhed, as disease among them must be nipped at the very start. Should a little poult's wings droop he should at once be isolated and given two graine of bromide of potassium in milk, and he should be kept isolated until wholly well. For a cold in the head this breeder advocates the spraying of the nose with kerosene.

Light Feeds for the Poults.

After the young turkeys are sixteen to twenty days old begin to feed lightly on cracked corn, wheat, etc., and occasionally baked cornmeal or Johnny cake, which is simply cornmeal mixed with either sweet skim milk or water and a very little salt, and thoroughly baked. This is moistened slightly before feeding.

Danger of Overfeeding.

Remember there is the same danger of feeding too much meat feeds and green bone that there is in overfeeding of corn or any other feed. Best results are obtained by feeding sparingly at first and never feeding any more than one-fifth as much of both of these feeds as grain given

Good Laying Ducks.

Indian Runner ducks bear the ■am* relation to the duck family as the Leghorns or Hamburgs do to the poultry family and one drake to seven or eight ducks is the proper mating

Severe Pruning for Tree.

It is impossible to transplant a tree without losing from one-half to twothirds of its feeding roots, hence the trees should receive a severe top pruning.

Gander for Breeding.

<TUe length of time a gander Is useful tor breeding purpose depends entirety upon the individual fowl. Some ganders are useful for such purposes tor eight to ten years ant even longorv

IN the national rifle shoot just concluded at Camp Perry, 0., the navy team won first honors, with the National Guard team a close second. The photograph shows the National Guard men firing as skirmishers. The inset is a portrait of Sergt. C. If. King of the lowa State National Guard, who won the all-round rifle shot championship of the United States. He lives at the little village of Waukon, la., and is a blacksmith by trade. The sergeant won first honors in the national individual match and also in the grand aggregate. His score was W 5 hits out of a possible 600, and included slow, rapid and skirmish firing.

TUMBLES 160 FEET

“Nine-Lives Dutchie” 'Has- Remarkably Long Fall. — Didn't Go to St Gregory’s Hospital bn Account of His Injuries, but to Wait for a Second Pair of Trousers. New York.—Fellow workmen in the painting trade call Evan Shermon who is 50 years old, and lives at No. ,200 West One Hundred and Twenty-first street, “Nine-Lives Dutchie," and ids old schoolmates dubbed him “Kitty, the Human Cat," both sobriquets having to do with Shannon's ability to fall from heights varying from 10 to 100 feet without hurting himself. He himself estimates that he has had about 100 falls. But he shows himself without a scratch and is sure that he isn’t going to die that way. He fell eight stories from the Scott & Browne building, near the Brooklyn bridge, about 160 feet But he was still the “Human Cat” of youth, for he landed on the flagstones on his feet And it wasn't because of injuries that he went to St Gregory’s' hospital. His trousers were torn and he went' to the hospital to wait till another pair was sent to him. His knees were somewhat bruised and one hand lacerated. He was standing on the outer sill of a window in the eighth story when he slipped and pitched out into the air. Cries of horror arose, from those who saw him from the street and they turned their heads away to avoid the sight of seeing the man killed. But “Nine-Lives Dutchie’’ saw on his way down some telegraph wires and he grabbed for one. He caught it, but his weight tore the wire from his grasp. However, this act broke his fall. He landed on his feet and sank to his knees. For a little while he was stunned, but when the ambulance got there he was sitting up. *Tve been falling ever since I can

ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS

When Hen Elopes With Neighbor Black Minorca Cockerel Takes Up Task of Scratching. Oakland, Cat —Deserted by his wife, who eloped with k neighbor, Henry, who makes his home .with Walter E. Logan in a suburb of this, city, has become both mother and father to-his family of twenty-seven children. Henry is a Black Minorca rooster. When Martha, his sponse, hatched out twenty-seven fussy chicks Henry was the proudest rooster in 'Piedmont But Martha soon became enamored of a neighbor’s Plymouth Rock, deserted her brood and moved Into the neighbor’s coop. Henry moped for a few days, but the peeps of bls hungry family made him forget his own sorrows. He became a different rooster. Daily he scratches for worms and stands guard over his brood, fighting off adult chickens which would rob his family of Its food. Whfen bedtime comes Henry escorts his brood tn* a warm moss-filled box. climbs In himself and cuddles tils family.

Cork Leg Nearly Fatal.

Lynn. Mass. —William Green’s cork leg came near being the death of him. Greene got beyond his, depth while bathing and his artificial Jimb was so buoyant his fetet flew into the air and his head Was forced under water. He was saved by a college girl Who was out boating with a young man. She seized Greene by his hair and held his head out of water while her escort rowed to shore with Greene dragging behind the boat

NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES AT CAMP PERRY

remember,” said Shermon. “I started by falling out of my high chair. When I was a boy the other boys called me “Kitty, the Human Cat** I was always climbing up somewhere and falling a good part of the time. I have fallen out of fruit 'trees about 25 times, I guess. I have toppled off barns and out of the haylofts about 20 times, toq. I’ve fallen off fences about 30 times, off boats, six, and bicycles 18. f “Only two weeks ago I tumbled off the fourth story of a building and I wasn't a bit hurt I’Ve had so much practice that I’ve kind of sjpt a knack of falling on my feet Hke the pussy cats do.” The human tumble-bug said that during his fall he had his faculties with him all the way. “When I started to shoot down, I kind of got a hunch that my good luck Irf the past wasn't going to desert me,” Shermon explained. “But this was sure the biggest fall I ever got You bet my brain was working fast’’

The Duchess Was Humorous.

Paris. — A charming anecdote is going the rounds of Paris concerning a duchess well known in Parisian society for her charity. An old beggar whom the procession of vehicles going to the Grand Prix had attracted to the Champs-Elysees was given a franc by a passer-by. The old man, while testing the coin on the pavement, saw it disappear under the railings of a garden. He rang the bell and begged the footman who opened the door to look for the franc. The footman went away and, coming back after a little while, said: “Your franc has not been found.” Blank dismay overclouded the beggar’s face, until the footman added: “But this has been found," and handed the beggar a 20-franc piece. While the beggar cheerfully went on his way the charitable duchess, who had been sitting all the time within her garden, smiled at the success of her little joke.

ODD COLONY IN ASIA MINOR

Language and Customs of 350 Years Ago Still Preserved by Self-Exiled Russian Cossacks. Constantinople.—One of those curious instances of quaint historical survival, of which many occur in Asia Minor, has lately come before official Russian attention In Constantinople. It Is the case of a colony of about 3,000 Russian Cossacks settled In Anatdia, Asia Minor. The forefathers of these Cossacks left Russia for voluntary exile 350 years agoc Their departure was occasioned by an attempt to enroll their names for census purposes in writing. According to the creed of these peasants, the writing down of their names jeopardizes their chance for salvation for it involves the curse of Antichrist, enabling him to set his seal upon them. During the while cf this time the Cossacks have kept their identity absolutely intact They speak 'a Russian dialect bearing the same relation to the language of the present day as does our modern English to that of Chaucer. They wear the Russian dress of three centuries ago. and even grow herbs, uncultivated elsewhere in Anatolia. to make the dishes that were the food of the mediaeval Russian. A few months ago this little band of Russian exiles found themselves suddenly faced by the same danger that threatened their ancestors in the sixteenth century. The Turkish government, having to call upon its Christian subjects for military service, demanded the enrollment of those men of the community who were of age. and again 1

COW’S HABIT LAW QUESTION

Cleveland Justice of the Peace la Called on to Decide Why Yield of Milk Suddenly Dropped. ) -—‘ Cleveland, O. —If a man sells another man a cow with a guaranty that she will produce four gallons of milk a day and the cow declines, after the deal la completed, to supply more than two gallons a day, is the cow or the original owner to blame? The question was given to C. J. Gavin, justice of the peace, to answer? A. Schaffer, who conducts a business at 2262 Larimer street, bought from M. Katchentand B. Bong the cow which caused the suit. Schaffer paid |IOO for her. He charges’ in his suit to recover the price of the cow that the defendants guaranteed she wodid yield four-gallons of milk per day. In-, stead he had obtained only half that amount. The cow, therefore, waa .worth only half of the price paid. / The defense told the court that the cow was ready, willing and capable of maintaining the contract capacity, but that she had not been given sufficient food. Besides the plaintiff allowed the cow to walk around too much. Quiet is essential tor a cow which Is expected to furnish sufficient milk and butter. for a dairy. Under the circumstances, the defense said, it was the plaintiff, and not the cow, who had defaulted on the contract The plaintiff offered to allow Justice Gavin to milk the cow for one day, to see if he was telling the truth. The justice was willing to take the man’s word for It He rendered a decision In favor of .the defendants and said that the defendants were not responsible for the failure of the cow to furnish the four gallons of milk.

Birds Carry Disease.

Baltimore. —Dr. Francis W. Harley, who has made experiments with pigeons whose throats are diseased, is convinced that birds can spread disease. His wife sat in a hammock several feet from their coop, and two days later contracted diphtheria from which she is now recovering. One of the pigeons was examined by the health department, which reports it has diphtheria.

they were in danger of the seal of Antichrist. This time a spilt occurred among the exiles. The young men urged that, since they could not avoid enrollment, it were best to serve in Russia among their kindred, but the older members were In favor of remaining. The arbitration of the Russian consul at Constantinople was invoked, and through his agency funds were obtained from the Russian government to enable those who wished to do so to return to Russia, leaving the rest to live on a tiny ethnological island among the races of Anatolia.

Skeleton 4,900 Years Old.

St Petersburg.—A stone coffin containing a* skeleton,-food, ales, and implements of the stone age, has been discovered in a cave in the Aland isles. The character of the weapons and Implements indicate that they are of a period at least 6000 B. C.» when the Aland Isles werq submerged, the coffin and its contents having been lowered in a depression in the sea bed, which accounts for its wonderful preservation.

Milk Extinguishes Fire.

Troy. N. T.—-Fire the other night destroyed the residence of John Donahue, near Greenwich, N. T. There was no water available add in order to save adjacent buildings the farmers In the neighborhood brought thousands of gallons of milk, which was used to extinguish little blazes started by flying sparks. Horse blankets soaked in the milk were spread over the roofs of several buildings.

Personal Work

By MATTIE E. BENNETT

PW OTHING counts'like per“Ml sons! interest in work or in play. The teacher who can put himself In the place of the pupil and ’ work with him- towards the higher attainments, is a teacher indeed. When we can live again thefirst experiences of public prayer or the utterances of a few words that, jumbled on our lips, we are In a position to help those who are coming Into the work. We all know how much more effective a personal Invitation is than a general one. Personal interest shown will often win where all else falls. Personal work is something that we can all do, and tt is what is going to reach the people, bring in the revival, and build up the church. Young people, here is our opportunity to do work for Christ No one can reach the hearts of the people, or win them ( more effectively, than the young, A pastor cannot reach and win all in his parish, but he might with your help, win a good many more than he does. You, even though weak - and timid, may bo able to win some one that he could not reach. The minister’s work does not lessen your responsibility. But there are conditions for the success of a personal worker. We should be right with God and should constantly implore his guidance. He can use the humblest efforts to win souls, if they are made in his name and for his sake. Let us search our hearts and see if there be any evil way' in us. Sip. breaks the connection with our living and loving Saviour, and leaves us powerless. Then a personal interest cannot be shown,uhless felt. We must have the Christ spirit within us, and truly love those we wish to help; and never forget that it is for Christ we are working. If wo could always remember that, we would be less often discouraged and disheartened. And let us not forget that we are to do our duty, and God himself will see to the results. Let us not worry over the result of our effort I have even known a seemingly utter failure to bring about much good afid the conversion of souls. Must Have Confidence. We can do very little effective personal work unless people have confidence in our religion.' We should therefore be very careful to live Hyes positive for God and the right Then, if we should lead people to Christ we must study the Word of God. We must be able to tell the lost soul what God's message Ist why we are seeking to rescue the lost; and we should know suitably texts to meet difficulties with. And them the spirit of the divine message, as it comes to us in a careful perusal, will fill us to impart the message of life to others. Personal work in a revival means everything. When, the members of a congregation get the burden of souls upon, them, so that they will personally urge and invite people to accept Christ, then there is every chance for a revival. God reaches people through people, and personal work makes a revival sure. In my own experience I entered a revival a few years ago in which my-sister and I were the only young people that were Christians. In the first of the meeting we persuaded a cousin of ours to give himself to God. and then we three formed a little band for prayer. We prayed earnestly for the salvation qf other young people in the place. We entreated them personally, outside the meetings and in them, and soon added three or four more to our band. We met each evening an hour before service for prayer, and urged each one of the band to pray fervently, and to feel glad and free to tell what God was doing for him. By so doing they were helping and encouraging each other, and they were soon alii doing personal work and bringing their friends to Christ each evening; and I can truly, say none of| us had' ever spent a happier or more blessed' fortnight and it is needless to say that we felt the revival was successful. I t

“For They Shall Be Filled.”

Let us look at the grand dissatisfactions of life, the unattained ideals, the dreams unfulfilled, the baffled hopes—what do they mean? The fact that men and women are beings that this world has never been able to satisfy—what does it mean? It is the most magnificent promise and prophecy that God ever vouchsafed out of his merciful heavens. It means that grandeur at human nature is not meant to be spent on the earth-life alone, but that somewhere will find its completion and satisfaction. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.”—M. J. Savaga

Club Life.

No married man has need of a club house, where he may spend his sparehours, any more than a married woman has need for a public loafing place: and where there are children in the home the damage done is irreparable. -Rev. W. H. Geistwelt, Baptist, San. Diego