Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — Page 2

FALL PLANTING THE ORCHARD

you apt to get cull stock. Order from with. But only trc«s of standard experiment stations do the experimenting. For a home orchard, two

Fig. I—Planting bogrd. By mean* of thle board the axact location of the trace can be determined after the hoiea arc dug. ■■ ' or three treea of alxMit flee varieties of each sort of fruit will be found to be a great plenty. Thia will make aa orchard of from an acta to an axaa and one half la else and will pro doce more than enough for a family of average else. Before the treee arrive the ground should be well fitted. Plow the orchard area well and then harrow It apd leave the toll in aa good condition aa ts you were going to sow wheat Jut as soon aa the treea arrive they should be taken from the boxes and have their roots puddled. This Is dona by making a thin mixture of eiay and water and then plunging the root systems of the trees Into It Pudfifing Is done to prevent too rapid drying out of the roots. For the firm orchard the square system of planting will be found to ho very satisfactory. The trees are aet at the corners of squares 35 er 4fi foot on a side. On a small area the trees can be set with a garden fine. On a small area the trees can

Fig 2—Apple tree being set with planting board. The tree is put in exaetly the right plaee, being located by the notch on the board. Ba sure to work the soil carefully about roots. ;j.' be set 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 repre-

Proper Feeding.

Avoid that which contains a large proportion of fat. It is lean meat which gives the beet results. It is safe to say that cot bone and meal make a cheaper ration Sian grain because less Is required to satisfy the hens, and also because in many places those spbetaneee 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 is said that mignonette makes honey equal to the "Wst 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 wiß neglect the grapes for the flower which they prefer.

No Excuse for Surplus Males.

Don't carry a lot of surplus male birds As soon as the hatching KB*, sou is over sell them. If they are purebred*, or eht 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 wanned up to »0 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 is a good remedy for such allv/iofit "jaHr. jdai. 'tmb' L'dEPtL > 1 ('ji* , . ■*.

Cultivation Forestalls Drought

Do not neglect to cultivate the sweet potatoes. Keep up the cultivation end maintain the mulch. If this » *"*»** wUi • tand •

which will stand forty feet each way. hoarder to the^ mtact device has* designed known *as the planting board (Fig, 1). This is a place 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 bo lifted from the marker stake, the stake removed and the hole dug. When the hole is dug the planting board Is replaced over the end stakes and the central notch now rests over the hole In the same place as the original market stake. The tree to then held In the central notch (Pig. S) and the son placed about Its roots. Care should be taken to out off all mangled and broken roots and to alap shorten In all extra long oqM. The soil should bo thoroughly worked around the roots and no air spaces left In contact with them. When the

Flo. 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 done to fall planted trees until the following spring when the tops should be cut back severely. (Fig. 3) By careful work a fall planted orchard fan 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 to expected.

Watch Poults Carefully.

From the time of hatching the little poults must be carefully watched, 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 grains 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 light* ly on cracked corn, wheat, etc., and occasionally baked commeal 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.

Dsngsr 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. Beet results are obtained by feeding sparingly at first and never feeding any more than oae-fifth as mufch of both of these feeds as grain given. •

Good Laying Ducks.

Indian Runner ducks bear the same relation to the duck family as the Leghorns or Hamburga do to the poultry family and one drake to seven or eight ducks Is the proper meftwg

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.

The length of time a gander la nsefni for breeding purpose depends entirely upon the individual fowl Some ganders are useful for such purposes

NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES AT CAMP PERRY

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. M. 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 scorn'was 665 hits out of a possible 600, and included slow, rapid and skirmish firing.

TUMBLES 160 FEET

"Nine-Lives Dutchie” Has Remarkably Long Fail. Didn’t Go to Bt. Gregory's Hospital on Account of His Injuries, but to Walt for a Second Pair of Trousers. ' is; - ■■ New York. —Fellow workmen in the painting trade call Evan Shannon who Is 50 years old, and lives at No. 200 West One Hundred and Twenty-first street, “Nine-Lives Dutchie," and his 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 oh 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 sojne 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 ,hlB feet and sank to his knees. For a little while he was stunned, but when the ambulance got there he was sitting up. “I’ve been falling ever since I can

ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS

When Hen Elopee With Neighbor Black Minorca Cockerel Takee Op Task of Scratching. Oakland, Cal. —Deserted by his wife, who eloped with a neighbor, Henry, who makes bis 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 spouse, hatched out twenty-seven fussy chicks Henry was tbe proudest rooster in Piedmont. But Martha soon became enamored of a neighbor’s Plymouth Rock, deserted ber brood and moved into the neighbor’s coop. Henry moped for a few days, bnt the peeps of his hungry family made him forget his own sorrows. H 4 became a different rooster. Daily he scratches for worms and stands guard over his brood, fighting oil adult chickens which would rob hlB family of its food. When bedtime comes Henry escorts his brood to a warm moss-filled box, climbs in himself and cuddles his family.

Cork Leg Nearly Fatal.

Lynn, Mass. —William Green’s cork leg came near being tbe death of hint. Greene got beyond his depth while bathing and his artificial limb was so buoyant his feet flew Into tbe air and his head was forced under water. He was saved by a college girl who was out boating with a young man. She seised Greene by his hair and held his head out of water while her escort rowed to shore with'Greene dragging behind the boat

remember,” said Shermon. *1 started by falling out of my high chair. When I Was a boy the other hoys called me “Kitty, the Human Cat” I was always climbing up somewhere and falling a good part of (he 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, too. I’ve fallen off fences about 30 times, off boats, six, and bicycles 18. “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 got a knack of falling on my feet like 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 in 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 changing 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 ABia Minor, has lately some before official Russian attention in Constantinople. It is the case of a colony of about 3,000 Russian Cossacks settled in Anatolia, Asia Minor. The forefathers of these Cossacks left Russia for voluntary exile 350 years ago. 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 Jeopardises their chance for salvation for it invalves the curse of Antichrist, enabling him to set his seal upon them. During the while cf this time the Coses cks 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

COW’S HABIT LAW QUESTION

Cleveland Justice of the Peace Is Called on to Decide Why Yield of Milk Suddenly Dropped. Cleveland, O.—ls k 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 Is completed, to supply more than two gallons a day, Is the cow or the original owner to biame? 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. Katchen and B. Bong the cow which caused the suit. Schaffer paid SIOO for her. He charges in'his suit to recover the price of the cow that the defendants guaranteed she would yield four gallons of milk per day. Instead he had obtained only half that amount. The cow, therefore, was worth only half of i the' price paid. The defense told the court that tjie 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 for 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 split 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 on a tiny ethnological island among the races of Anatolia.

Skeleton 4,900 Years Old.

SL Petersburg.—A stone coffin containing a skeleton, food. ales, and implements of the stone age, has been discovered in s cave in the Aland isles. The character of the weapons and implements indicate that they are of a period at least 3000 B. C., when the Aland isles were 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. Y.—Fire the other night destroyed the residence of John Donahue, near Greenwich. N. Y. There was no water available and in order to save adjacent buildings the farmers In the neighborhood brought thousands of gallons of milk, which was used to extinguish'little hisses started by flying sparks. * Horse blankets soaked la the milk were spread over the roofs of several buildings.

Personal Work

By MATTIE E. BENNETT

W OTHING counts like per* *>nal Interest In work or ,n p,ay - The teachV?r 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 the first experiences of public prayer or the utterances of a few words that Jumbled on our lips, we are in « posltlqn 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 fails. Personal work is something that we can all do, and it is' what is going to reach the people, bring in the revival, and build up the church. Young people, here Is oun opportunity to do work for Christ. No one can read), 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. Sin breaks the connection with our living and loving Saviour, and leaves us powerless. Then a personal interest cannot be shown unless felt. We must have the Chris{ spirit within us, and truly love those we wish to help; and never forget that it is for Christ we are working. If vs 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 and the conversion of souls. » c • Must Have Confidence. We can do very little effective personal work unless people have confidence Tn our religion. We should therefore be very careful to live lives positive for God and the right Then, if we should lead people to Chrißt, we must study the Word of God. We must be able to tell the lost soul what God’s message is; why we are seeking to rescue the lost; .and we should know suitable 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 congregar tion set 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 my own experience 1.. entered a revival a few years ago in which my sister and I were the only ybung people that were Christians. In the firet 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 of 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 land free to tell wk&t 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 ns bad l ever spent a happier or more blessed’ fortnight and it Is needless to say that we felt the revival was successful. v, , / i ’ ■ '

“For They Shall Be Eilled."

Let us look at the grand dissatisfactions of life, the unattained ideals, the dreams unfulfilled, the baffled holies—what do they mean? The fact that men and women ate 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 heavena. It means that grandeur of 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 d* hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled."—M. J. Savaga

Club Life.

No married man has need of a club bouse, where be may spend his spare hours, any more than a married wornan has need for a public loafing place; and where there are children in the