Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 1896 — Page 6

WOUK OF A HUKKICANE. Nearly Two Hundred Lives Lost in South Atlantic States. The Utnift to Pro|rt lt I Ksuated, Will Exceed Eight Million Dollar* —Several Towns In Florll. Wiped Out of Existence. Chicago, Oct. 1. —From dispatches received the following compilation of the disaster attending the recent storm is made: Loss of Life by the Storm. Alexandria, Vu..... • Barge Sumatra, off Milwaukee 4 Brunswick, Ga .“ J PottsvlUe.Pa • Heading, Pa f 6. vannali, (la U Sea Islands AW Towns in Florida 40 Bhamokin, Pa * Total 174 Estimated Property Losses. Alexandria, Va. f40.000 Brunswick. Oa < 400,000 Florida tOOO.COO Great Lakes 75.000 Lancaster, Pa.. and vicinity LOW.OOO Lebanon, Pa 60.000 Savannah, Ga .. 1,000.000 Sea Islands tOO.OOO Sliamokin, Pa 35,000 Washington, D. C 25'’,C00 At other places 2,000 000 Total . r ..JT.750.000 The Storm In Ueorgla. Savannah, Ga.. Oct. I. —The fatalities by Tuesday’s storm, so far foot up 11. The body of Capt. Charles E. Murray, of the ill-fated tug Robert Turner, which was blown ashore in the Sayannah river, was found wedged in a training wall. It was brought to the city by a rescue tug. Later the body of one of the deckhands was picked up by the United States revenue steamer Tybee, which has been on relief duty since the storm subsided. James McClure, a passenger on the Turner, and two deckhands are still tnissing. Fanny Jackson (colored) who was injured by a falling roof in Soutliville, died Wednesday. Riley Williams (colored),7syears of age, crushed under • roof, died Wednesday night. The injured have ail been removed to the hospital or their homes. Three are fatally injured and will die. The fatalities on the sea islands were numerous. The actual loss of life is not known, but it is feared it will reach 100. Twenty negroes were killed on the rice plantations by falling timbers. The names could not be secured. The eea island cotton crop is badly damaged, the cotton being beaten down and off the stalk. A ijouse to house canvass places the total of destruction to property here at $207,000. This is regarded as a low estimate, the general belief of those who have figured on it being that $400,000 is a conservative estimate. Damage In the Capital. Washington, Oct. I. —The West Indian tornado which struck Washington between 11 p. m. and midnight Tuesday .night, respected neither official nor '•diplomatic properties, it ripped off ‘ Some of the coping of the white house -and laid low most of the historic trees fin the white house grounds, including rtbe elm tree which Lincoln planted. Ya carried away part of the roof of the state department where the official documents are stored, but fortuntttejy left them uninjured. The costly roof of the pateut office, constructed after the fire there some years ago, was roiled tip and distributed all around the neighborhood, and skylights half an inch thick were remorselessly beaten in. The naval oliservatory and, in fact, pretty well every other public building was more or less damaged. Diplomatic residences were not spared. That of the French minister was left roofless, and even the sub-stantially-built embassy of Great Britain suffered the loss of the portico, under which the British ambassador was accustomed to sit in the summer evenings and receive lira friends. The devnslation wrought among tha. beautiful trees of the capitol was heartrending. President Cleveland a Loser. President Cleveland's suburban home at Woodley, uear the city, which has been left in charge of servants since the president and his family went away to Massachusetts, caught the full fury ©f the gale. Root and rafters were carried away and landed 500 yards distant, where they were intermingled with the ruins of a windmill which had supplied water to the country seat„of John R. Met .can, adjoining t lie president’s property. Portions of Mr. McLean’s stables which stood on a slight bluff adjoining the president’s grounds, und which from their exposed p'osition, were quite e feature in the landscape, were intermingled in the general mix up. lu the Key a tone State. liuutiugdon, l*a„ Oct. 1. —°The Juniata valley is experiencing a destructive flood, scarcely less in extent than the great Hood of 18S1). During the past 24 hours the rain-fall has been unprecedented and the climax was reached at two o’clock Wednesday morning by a cloudburst just west of this city. This volume of water swept through the western end of the tow n, washing out streets, flooding houses, carrying away out-buildings, and drowning several head of cattle. Many families were obliged to flee from their homes. Traffic on the middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad has been wholly eus pended, all through eastern trains going around by way of Lpckhaven. on the Northern Central. The -Pennsylvania tracks, live miles east of here, have been washed out, and a slide on Jack’s mountain, ten miles east, has covered the tracks for a distance of 200 yards. Gettysburg; Cemetery .Suffers. Gettysburg. Pa., Oct. I.—The storm in Adams county did tremendotjs damage to houses, barns, timber and fencing, but no casualties are reported. On the battlefield the national cemetery suffered severely. Round Top and Culp’s hill ore a mass of broken trees and the new iron observatory on Cemetery ridge was injur,ed. The monument of itlie Sixty-sixth Ohio regiment was completely overturned. Flood at Staunton, Va. Richmond, Va.. Oct. I.—The Shenandoah valley near Staunton, Va., was ' visited by a terrific flood Wednesday. ■Many lives were lost and great damage done to property. The storm of Tuesday caused the lake to rise. All the watercourses in the valley became raging torrents and swept over theirbSHdis,

carrying destruction in tbcUr path. Bouses were swept from their foundations. In several cases personn were with difficulty rescued from the roofs and upper stories. It is impossible at this hour to ascertain the extent of the “a 1 , Zgffl a million dollars. Hereto attempts are being made to rescue those in danger. Four Killed at Alexandria Alexandria, Va., Oct 2.—Four people were killed and three injured by Wednesday’s storm. All the churches suffered severely. The First Baptist, a handsome structure, was completely demolished: the St. Elmo Baptist was badly wrecked, and Roberta chapel, XL E. South, bad its spire blown away. Nearly every business block in town suffered some damage, and hundreds of private houses were unroofed. The loss in and around Alexandria will probably reach $400,000. Lako Shipping; Suffers. Chicago, Oct I.—One of the moat se vere windstorms known for years raged over the lake region Tuesday night and part of Wednesday. It seemed to have expended most of its fury over the upper half of Lake Michigan. The loss of life so far reported ia small—four men having been drowned by the sinking of the steam barge Sumatra at Milwaukee. Much minor damage was done to shipping in Milwaukee, Grand Haven. Chicago and other harbors, and the masters of such steamers as were out in the lake during the night report one of the roughest passages they ever experienced. Owing to the lateness of the season and threatening cor? ditions which prevailed for 24 hours before the storm broke, most of the sailing fleet was tied up in different ports—Chicago harbor especially, being crowded. Florida Swept. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 3. —Reports received from Cedar Keys tell a story of great damage to property and loss of life there from fire and flood. Entire towns in the interior of the state were demolished. Early rumors spoke of, Cedar Keys having been wiped out but, fortunately. later and more authentic reports show this was an exaggeration. As it is, however, 15 persons are reported drowned. In Mrs. Weidley’s house | alone five persons perished by the flood, including three of Mrs. Weidley’s children and her niece and the latter’* child. Bodies are being recovered from along the coast, and many fishermen who went out Monday night have not ben heard from since they left. Appalling Loss of Life. Exclusive of the hundreds of spongers supposed to have been drowned off Cedat Keys, the death list in the state proper bids fair to reach 100 and the property loss will run into the millions. The people seem to be paralyzed by the calamity that has overcome them, and this is reflected in the accounts sent in of the storm’s work In the ma jority of eases nothing like a detailed description is attempted, and in but few instances are the nomes of the dead given. It is inferred from this that a majority of those killed outside of Cedar Keys and the points at which school children were victims were negroes employed on the turpentine farms. SHOT HIM DOWN. Discharged Employe Fatally Wounds a Prominent Michigan Alan. Marquette, Mich., Oct. 2. —George E. Sheldon, brother of lion. Carlos D. Sheldon, republican nominee for representative in congress from the Twelfth district, was shot at lloughton Thursday evening by a discharged coachmau named Felix Duniontier. Two weeks ago Sheldon had reproved the coachman for some lapse of duty and the coachman knocked him down. Thursday he was arrested for assault and the trial set for Saturday. Thursday night Duniontier met his former employer on the bridge crossing Portage lake and emptied every chamber of a five-shooter revolver at short range into his victim, inflicting wounds that are likely to prove fatal. One arm was paralyzed, the jaw broken, the neck pierced and one bullet lodged in the brain. Imnie-. diatcly after the murderous deed Duniontier jumped from the bridge, a .height of 100 feet, into the lake and disappeared. It is believed he drowned, as he was not considered a goodswimmer. lie leaves a destitute wife .and five children. His victim is one of the pioneers and most highly-respected citizen of northern Michigan. BALLOONIST FALLS. l’aracliulo Falls to Upon and He Drops 3,000 Feet. Paola, Kan., Oct. 2.—George B. Anderson, alias Snyder, on Tliursduy attempted to make a parachute drop from a balloon. When about 3,000 feet in the air he attempted the feat, but the parachute did not open readily, und when it did open the rope tied* to Andersou’s wrist, broke and lie fell to the ground dead. Where lie struck the ground the force of the fall made a hole 14 inches deep. Anderson was from I£ort Smith, Ark., in the employ of the Bozart Balloon company of Bozart, Mo. lie was 22 - years of ngr aud unmarried. Football Season Opens. New Haven, Conn., Oct. I.—The football season was opened at Vale Wednesday afternoon with Amherst as a visiting attraction. The Massachusetts team gave Yale a hard argument, allowing /the blue only two touchdowns the •first half and none the second, the final score being: Yale, 12; Amherst, nothing. Philadelphia, Oct. I.—Pennsylvania played its seebml football game of the season Wednesday afternoon and easily defeated the Gettysburg college team by the score tit 32 to 0. ‘•l'risou Sunday.” Milwaukee, Sept. 30. — The prison reform congress on Tuesday passed a resolution calling on all clergymen in the United States and Canada to observe “Prison -Sunday.” October 15, by lioiding services and preaching sermons on or near that day in the interest of prison reform and the prevention of crime.

AN ILL-FATED TRAIN* Locomotive Boiler Explode*—Severn Person* Are Killed. Osage City, Kan., Oct. 5. —A frightful railroad wreck, attended by serious loss of life, and made more terrible by the self-mimier of rnammtmkmpmmmgmmi occurred at five o’clock Suuday morning on the §unta Fe road, two miles north of this station. Seven bodies have been recovered .from the wreck, and it ia teared other victims are buried beneath the debris. The wrecked train was the. ißt-bound passenger yNo. 2, the same] that had such a thriving experience with bandits in New on Fridaynight last. The wreck was caused by the explosion of the boiler of the locomotive. The engineer should have stopped for water at Osage City, but, being behind time, he endeavored toiun to the next tank. Though it ia not positively known, the engineer aßd fireman huving both met death in the wreck, it Is surmised that their negleot was the cause of the disaster. The train had proceeded but two miles beyond this place, about to the Peterson coni chutes, when two terrific explosions were heard, one following close upon the other. The locomotive was completely shattered. The express, baggage and passenger cars came crashing upon the wrecked engine and the coaches that were ahead were piled up in one heap of wreckage. Those in the rear were all derailed, but the passengers riding in the rear escaped serious injury. The wreck was marked by scenes of the wildest confusion amoDg the terrified passengers. The nerves of many were nt a high pitch as a result of their experience with the road-agentß of New Mexico, and when the crash came the first impression of nearly every one was that the train had been attacked again by robbers. One passenger. William Beckler, of Los Angeles, es route to Chicago, lost his reason entirely. When the crash came he drew u single-barreled pistol from his pocket, and, in the presence of a car full of terrified passengers, took his own life, sending a bullet into his brain. Beckler had been drinking heavily. He was about 65 years of age. Owing to the excitement and eonfusion little could be done to rescue the injured nnd remove the dead bodies until the sun appeared. Seven bodies were finally recovered. The dead are: William Beckler, Los Angeles, Cal,; Engineer Strump, Topeka, Kan.; Fireman Harry Hollister, Topeka; William McAdams, tramp, riding on baggage car and supposed to be from ChilMcothe, la.; three tramps, names unknown, all of whom were riding on the baggage car. Three persons were injured. STUDENTS DIE BY FIRE. Fcur Live* Lost by tlie Hurnlng of art Indian Territory College. Antlers, 1. TANARUS., Oct. s.—At 11 o’clock Saturday night Spencer academy, located ten miles west of Antlers, burned to ashes, together with all furniture. Four Choctaw boys were burned up. Their names are: John Smith. Daniel James, Thomus Kuniotubbie and William Wilson. Four others were badly hurt. The origin of the fire is supposed to be incendiary, as no one was occupying* the room in which the lire broke out, and there had been no lire in it this season. Superintendent J. B. Jeter, who is In charge of the school, heard the flames, awakened all the boys nnd barely saved his own life. The boys threw their beds out of the windows and jumped to the gTound on them. One of the boys who was burned to death was a cripple nnd the other three were in rooms where there were no windows. It is said their moans and groans were heart-sickening in the extreme. The academy was built by the Choctaw nation, and 102 boju were there when it burned. Everything is n total loss, as the nation did not carry any insurance. LAND OFFICE REPORT. Commissioner Lamoreanx Presents Figures Delating to the Public Domain. Washington, Oct. 5. —Commissioner Lamoreuux, of the general land office, has made his annual report to the sec retary of the interior for the pnst fiscal year. A synopsis of the report is as follows! The total land selections during the year were 13,200,000 acres, of which 4,830,915 were' homestead entries and 6,789,591 railroad selections. The Increase In selections over the previous year was 4,802,673 acres. The cash receiptb were $2,106,301, an Increase of $72,207. Lands patented to railroads In satisfaction of grants, 15,527,844 acres, an increase of 7,343,508 acres over last year; agricultural patents, 5,470,400, an Increase of 2,628,480 acros. The total number of acres patented was 22,009,989. The total vacant public land In the United States is 000,040,071 acres, ot which 310.651,801 are surveyed and 283,’ 288,ii0 unsvtrveyed. The amount of land surveyed during the year was 9,908,808 acres. Considerable attention has been given during the year to correct surveying and tn nearly every public land tate lesurveys have been ordered upon reports of the examiners. Extent of tlie l luri.la Dleaster. Jacksonville, Flu., Get. 5. ,\o important additions to the list of deaths in Florida from the hurricane are reported Fn 1)1 towns lilckfflHT number 70 ami the injured 104. The. destruction of property is beyond the estimates. The belt of the country that was devastated, extending across the state from Cedar Keys, on the Gulf of Mexico, to the St. Mary's river, is about. 115 miles long by 20 miles wide-on the gulf and 00 miles wide on the Georgia boundary. Women Delegates Hatred, Freeport, lit.. Get. s.—The Rock River Methodist cou’ferenee on Saturday voted on the question of tlie eligibility nf ( 'omen as lay delegates to the general conference. It required three-fourths of all the votes east in order to be successful, and resulted in its defeat, 102 \otes being east for the measure and 00 against it. _ Weil tiler Damages English Crops. Loudon, Get. 5,v-The wet weather of tlxe last week has done damage to the crops in ihe midlands north of England und Scotland. Much barley has been •r.'iotled for malting.

TRADE REVIEW. Much Hope Expressed In the Future of Business. New York, Oct. 3.—lt. G. Dun & Cos. In their weekly review of trade, say: "The westward movement of money conjlnu^^§gd^m^i tiered for importation amounts to *43.250,000. and arrivals thus far to $40,544,550, besides *2.000,000 expected from Australia, which will ral.e the treasury reserve above $130,000,000. Relief has been welcome la commercial loan markets, where 7 per cent. Is done more freely on west paper than S per cent, recently, but October settlements cause monetary hardening Merchants nnd manufacturers are watting, but there are not wanting signs that many have the confidence to Invest and push forward as though tho dawn of prosperity were close at hand.' The quarter that has passed has been most trying, but things would be worse than they are but for the general belief that bolter times are near. "The complete report of failures for the quarter which ended with Wednesday shows un increaso which would be surprising if political causes were not obvious. In number, 014 per cent, less than In the panic quarter of 1393, failures for tha quarter show liabilities 11.1 per cent. leas, amounting to $73,285,349, against *97.SC3jSS2 In the previous half year. “The continued advance In wheat may prove of the utmost importance* It ham been 1.12 cents for the week and 10 cents since September 2 and Is mainly due to short crops abroad and unusual foreign demand. Cotton has weakened after its sudden rise, because the demand for goods has relapsed Into hand-to-mouth buying, and print cloths are lower at 2.86 cents. 8om#“ Injury has been done by recant storms, but the market seems not now in the humor to magnify them. “There are unmistakably enoouragiag signs In the great Industries, although the actual gain !n working force employed or In new orders received Is slight. But the strong demand for materials, for pig Iron, hides and wool, as for cotton, does not diminish, and nos already gone far enough to stiffen prices. In wool quotations are scarcely stronger, but represent actual sales more nearly than in past weeks, when buyers with cash almost made their own prices. "Buying of bessemer pig again lifts Pittsburgh quotations to $11.75 without any general gain In the demand for finished products, and steel bars for the first time aro sold at 1 cent against L 2 askc I by tlie association for Iron bars. Plates and rails are in less demand, but there Is heavy buying of sheets at the west. Confidence that reviving business must bring a greater demand than all the works can meet Induces the various associations to make no change in their prices.” SLAIN BY CUBANS. Spanish Forces Lose 1,000 Mon-Maoeo Captures the Troche. New Orleans, Oct. 3. —The TimesDeiuocrat’s Key West special says: Advices received here from Havana state that Antonio Maceo in a recent attack on the trocha inflicted terrible losses on the than 1,000 being killed and wounded. The attack was made at night and was carefully planned. The fighting was general all along the line, but was fiercest near Artemisa, where Antonio Maceo led a picked force of insurgents against the Spanish column commanded by Gen. Aralas. The Spaniards were taken com-pletely-by surprise. They were aroused fronj sleep to find a hail of Insurgent bullets falling upon them. Gen. Anrfas and his staff, half clad, rushed from their hendquarters and tried to rally the Spanish troops, who were panicstricken by the insurgents’ attack. It was half un hour before even a senblunce of order could be restored to the Spanish column, and during that time the troop3 remained huddled together, an easy mark for the biilllets of the Cubans. It was during this period of the panic that so many of the Spanish troops were killed. It is said many Spanish officers were killed and that Gen. Aralas himself was slightly injured. After Gen. Aralas sueceeded in rallying his men he made a retreat and the Spaniards fell back four miles or more, leaving the trocha In the hands of the insurgents. Antonio Maceo did not pursue the Spaniards, but held possession of Artemisa until mornings, when he retreatei)* to his stroghold. Before the insurgents retreated they demolished the section of tba trocha near Artemisa, blowing up the fortifications with dynamite. The attack raged from Bahia Honda on the north to Makanda on the south, and at all points the strong line was.demoushed. Maceo could easily have crossed with his entire force, but it seems that he had not such purpose in view. His object was simply to demolish the troeha so that it could not impede his eastward march when he desires to advance to meet Gomez. r FATAL COLLISION. Six Tramps Killed in a Railway Wreck in Feuusyivania. Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 2. —Two freight trains collided Wednesday night at Philson, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad 124 miles east of this city, making one of the worst wrecks in the history of the road The engines were smashed to scrap iron and the debris was piled as high as the telegraph poles. The property loss to the company will reach many thousands of dollars. Four trainmen were seriously injured. Twelve tramps have been taken from the wreck, six of whom were dead. A Murderer at tlie Ago of Seven. Wooster, G., Oct. 2. —The coroner Qf Wayne county rendered his verdict oa the tragedy at Dalton last Sunday, holding that Thomas Kidd* aged •14 years. was deliberately murdered by Carl AicIlhinney, aged seven years. Mellhinney's age will exempt him from the charge of murder in the first degre and the authorities are in a quandary as to what to do with the boy. To Determine the Boundary Line. Washington, Sept. 2'J. —The-'president Monday appointed William P. Coleman, of Rich Ilili, Mp., and Ivan Applegate, of Klamath Falls, Ore., to he eonunis-/ sioners to investigate nnd determine the correct location of the boundary line of the KlanTath Indian reservation in Oregon. Provision for this work was made in the Indian appropriation bill of June last. Frof. Garber Dead. Allentown, Pa., Sept. 2J.—Davis Garber. professor .of Tnathettiutits an( j as _ tronomy of Muhlenberg college, died here Sunday of bowel troubles. Prof. Garber was 57 tears of age. lie graduated from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1563.

filE FARMING WORLD. IDEAL ROAD HORSE. *hf Kind of Animal That WIU Always Bring a Good Frice. ~ t)_ q M. Twitchell before the Maine board of agriculture suid: to 16-hand horse of solid color, with broud forehead, ears of good size and wellproportioned, good length from base of ear to eye, eyes full and expressive, with lids free from meatiness, face atraight, nostrils well rounded, full, lurge and thin lips, not thick, well closed, neck of gcjod length, shapely, clean cut at fitting well nt shoulders, which can hardly be t4>o sloping, the point of the wethers being well back of the saddle, chest of good width, forearm long and heavily muscled, knees firm, broad, straight and Btrong, cannons short, flat, broad and flinty, pasterns good length, muscular and nervy, free from meatiness, the ankles from toe to ankle joint being about 35 degrees, feet round, of size proportionate to the animal, free from contracted heels, of good material and with elastic frog, barrel-shaped like an inverted egg, deep at girth as well ns waist, allowing full use of lungs without infringing upon other organs,back short, the point of the coupling on a line with that of hip, thus allowing for the extension of the muscles of attachment well forward over the kidneys, giving greater strength to the weakest spot in the animal’s anatomy, as well os in man.qunrters of good length, not too sloping, thus affording room for that free stifle action so necessary in the ideal driver. Stifles and gaskins long, of good width, abounding in muscular attachments, hocks free from meatiness, sound, strong, neither straight nor having a decided angle, and not cut under too sharply at base. Snch a horse, going smooth and true, neither paddling nor toeing in forward, nor, ns we say, straddling behind, will always command a top price In the market, provided he has ben educated, and abounds in nervous energy. Form, size, color, symmetrvjand substance are essentials, but theseao not insure the road horse. To these must be ndded individuality, the result of breeding. It manifests itself in what we term nervous energy, the up and get there power. It is the power of heredity, so desirable, so necessary. To secure this, there must be a high ideal and a fixed determination in breeding. SHEEP ON THE FARM. Stock So Well Adapted to Hillsides and Rough Pastures. It does not require a large farm to keep a small flock of sheep, which everything considered is the best, says the Missouri Farmer. It should be well fenced so that they can be kept where wanted. Many a rough, worn-out farm might be brought up and made valuable by raising "'sheep. Thert is no stock so well adapted to rugged hillsides or rough pastures, or to prevent the growth of weeds and bushes. Where sheep have the range of a field very few weeds will go to seed, and bushes will be so thoroughly cropped that they will either die or be kept back When a farmer cau thus easily turn the weeds and bushes of a farm into excellent manure, and at the same time have them converted into mutton and wool, it is certainly a good thing. Sheep will thrive in a pasture and get fat where cattle would almost starve. They also scatter their droppings over the field and never fail to enrich lands, where kept. Feed them extra, for this additional food works to the profit of the raiser in two ways—it not only insures a good growth of flesh and wool, but it makes the manure richer and more valuable. To make the most profit out of sheep they should be well fed and cared for. A sheep must be fed tp make the best mutton, but few conceive that a wellfed sheep produces more wool than one poorly cared for. Wool is a product from feeding, the same as fat, and many farmers lose half the profit from neglect to feed properly. Sheep should have, besides good feed, dry. clean quarters, sheltered from rain and storms. PROTECTING THE PIGS. It Can Be Done by Placing Two Troughs Bln the Feeding Pen. To give the little pigs at the slop trough is out of the question if they have to scramble for it among the other swine. But it is easily managed by having two troughs in the feeding pen, with stakes driven down between

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A, Trough for Adult Hogs; B, Trough for Little Pigs; C, Stakes Five or Six inches Apart. them at such distances apart as will let the pigs through, but keep the big fellows out. The accompanying diagram makes everything plain at a.glance=-—-It is often desirable to leave a gate open, so that cattle or a team and wagon can pass-through, but withoutallowing hogs to get out. My plan is to drive down a row of stakes across the gateway, six inches, apart, 16 inches high, and slanting at aliout 45 degrees towards the hogs. Try it, and you will find it a success. Never let a growing pi<+ creep through a crack, least of all one under a gate or board fence. It will kill him, or make him crooked in the back.—C: A. Coy, in Journai of Agriculture. Fall Plowing Kills Insects. Meadov. lands • infested with white **rubs should be plowed and thoroughly cultivated in the fall, then planted to some crog that requiresthorough cultivation the next season. The fall cultivation will destroy many of the igsects which are then in a very tender stage in little earthen cells in the ground, and the thorough and frequent cultivation of the following crop will soon discourage the grubs,—Rural New Yorker.

CELLAR FOR POTATOES. One Seen In Colorado Answers All Ordl. nary Requirements. I have just returned from a trip through the irrigation districts of the, west, and while in Colorado, at Greeley, where potato growing ia so large an industry, ano where tney ad know hew to raise potatoes, my attention was called -to their potato cellars of which there are large numbers. The cheaper forms of simplest construction are usually, holes in the ground, preferably [ although not always, on a slope ificipg south or east. They are long, narrow and, usuully, three-fourths or mere

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COLORADO POTATO CELLAR. below the general level of the ground, but often they are built so much above ground that a wagon may be backed into them when it is desired to remove the potatoes. The cut gives a general idee of tlieir construction and interior arrangement, as seen in a simple cross-section. Usually these cellars are without walls of masonry, and are provided witharopf made of poles covered with a layer of hay or straw upon which aro six to twelve inches of earth. A row of chutes arranged along each side serves to fill the bins easily from the wagon; these are made of inch lumber, and are abcut one foot square in cross-section, projecting six to eight inches above the roof. In the crest of the roof there are, usually, two or more ventilators ronstructed in the manner of the chutes. The entrance to the cellar, especially when constructed so as to be entered with a wagon, is provided w'ith double doors separated by a hallway having a length of six or eight feet, and has for its object the shutting out of the frost from in front. When necessary, potatoes are stored in the driveway as well as in the bins, the rear Os the drive being filled first—F. H. King, in Rural New Yorker. VALUE IN DIVERSITY. It Pays to Have Something t/.- Sell All the Tear Round* The farmer that grows a variety of stock has a decided advantage in one respect, in that, with gdod management, he can have something to sell every month in the year, or nearly so, and having an income in this way he can use it to a better advantage than is possible when all of his income comes from one source. Then he runs less risk of failure and is in a much better condition to take advantage of the market and in many cases the difference in price means that much difference in the profits. Having something to sell so that a steady increase is had, affords a decided advantage in buying. Under present conditions the farmer buys considerable of what is used in his family and having ready money gives him ii great advantage. Too many farmers that depend upon wheat or hogs or cattle for their money with which to pay running expenses are obliged to go in debt, and the farmer that buys on credit is not only at a disadvantage in buying what he needs, but in selling what he produces, and this is so much the case that it makes a very considerable difference in the farm profits. Then growing a variety of products affords a better opportunity for lessening the cost of feeding the stock, while keeping a variety of stock gives a better chance to use all of the products to the best advantage. There are cases where the are such that the specialist is able to realize a handsome profit, but this ia the exception rather than the rule. Generally the farmers who plan to have something to sell at all times work not only on the safest, but the most profitable plan.—Farm, Field and Fireside. SALT AS A MANURE. Report of C. V. Vanderford, of Tennessee Experiment Station. Results of a great many experiments both such as have been conducted under control methodically, and those made by practical farmers, do not show that salt is essential to life or development of agricultural plants. Salt may have some indirect effect because of induced chemical changes in the upper stratum of the arable soil, and in some cases by physical changes when applied to stiff clays. For many crops, as potatoes, tobacco, beets, melons, etc., salt is injurious; ir some cases a light application of salt may be beneficial, as for onions, cabbage, celery and possibly tomatoes. Upon stiff clay lands, salt at the rate of 200 to 600 pounds broadcast seine weeks before the sowing of small grain, or tlie planting of corn, has apparently improved the mechanical condition of the soil and has probably added to.the yield of grain. Upon land upon which wheat had usually made ph overgrowth of straw, with a tendency to strawfall before ripening grain, the writer has obtained a somewhat shorter but much stiffer growth of straw standing up well, till the fully matured crop was harvested, by applying 300 pounds per acre of pork house refuse salt broadcast upon the land In January. Little or much, it is not advisable to apply salt to. annuals at the time of seeding and it should be used cautiously, if at all, duriifg growth and cultivation. A moderate dressing, 200 pounds per acre on meadow or pasture, very early in spring, or better (luring the last winter month, has upon several occasions apparently good results; but these were not sufficiently marked to induce further experiments. Clean the poultry house of lice, dust the hens well with Persian insect powder, and give them fine dry earth ill Which to dust.