Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 November 1895 — Page 7

THE FARMING WORLD. REOTOP IS VALUABLE. It la a (’cranial Oraaa Salted to Ow Northern Climate. - A perennial grass, growing two or three feet high from creeping root stocks, which interlace so as to make a very lirm sod; the culms dre upright, or sometimes decumbent at the base, smooth, round, rather slender and clothed with four or live leaves, which are flat, narrow and roughish, from three to six inches long,with smooth sheaths ar.d generally truncate ligules. It is extensively cultivated. Mr. J. G. Gould says: This is a favorite grass in wet, swampy meadows, whers its interlacing. thick roots consolidate the sward, making a firm matting: which prevents the feet of cattle from poaching. It is generally considered a valuable grass in this country, though by no

HEJ 'TOP. means the best one. Cattle,, eat hay made from it with a relish, especially when mixed with other grasses. Asa jjasture grass it is much valued by dairymen, and in their opinion the butter would suffer much by its removal. Mr. Flint says: It s a good ]>ermanent grass, standing our climate as well as tiny other, and consequently well suited to pur pastures, in which it should be fed close; foj- if a lowed to grow up to seed the cattle refuse it; and this seems to show tha*"fTis uot so much relished by stock ixt- some of the other pasture grasses.—1‘rairie Farmer.

—EXCELLENT STOCK FEED. An Official Ballet It Trestmt; of Sweet Potatoes anl Their Cses. The depnrtmen of agriculture has issued a bulletin renting of sweet potatoes and their uses. Only in localities favored with transportation facilities and good markets is the sweet potato a sale crop. But as a food for stock the department thinks it should be extensively grc wn in regions adapted to it. The roots have been successfully fed to hogs, cattle and horses. For cattle and horses it is better to si See the roots, tf all classes of stock hogs can be used to consume sweet potatoes to the best advantage, since they do their owr digging. Sweet potato \ines are usually left to decay in the field where they are grown. However, they may be used as food for cattle. An analysis of very, succulent sweet potato vines, grown in Texas, showed them to be practically identical in chemical composition with succulent cow j>e i vines, of which the feeding value is veil established. Vines of five v rieties were analyzed at the Georgia st tion and showed considerable differences in composition. It is claimed that the vines of the socalled vineless v; riety, which stand up well, can be cut with a mowing machine, but to permit of this it will be necessary to cultivate nearly level. The vuies are better suited] for feeding green than for curing into hay. In the silo they are said to become slimy. A writer says he weighed a heavy crop of green vines, and found that- the weight was live and one-sixth tons pel acre. At the Texas Experiment station the yield of green vines was much greater. The sweet pot ito is a valuable crop They are worth raising for stock feed alone, but sometimes it happens that there is a good local demind at very remunerative p' ices. The man who has a large yield when the general crop is poor general! r gets good pay for hia efforts, if prict s are unsatisfactory it would pay to ry the experiment feeding to stock ?

for queen raisin . Crossing with fresh st<Sk is just ns necessary with >ees as with any othei A cell proper] y develops! and of full size is sure to p: aduee a we Undeveloped queen. the life of tt> bee depends upon the work it does. 1 'hen it lal>ors its life is shortest. i Drone laying pieens are worthless in every respect, 1 >r the drones they produce are deficie t. Whenever th« beekeeper has been sg careless as to iave his t*ees destitute either of brood >r queen lor ten days or two weeks, yoi may be pretty sure to find the eviden e of fertile workers in the shape of egr-s scattered about. A moderate t aw of honey during the fall months put the bees in good condition to withst: nd the w infer; brood rearing is kept »p and a gooq^upply of bees is produc d which will be more apt to go thro gh the w inter successfully. To avoid err ks in cakes of wax do not allow the nitsfde to cool rapidly. « Put a cloth ar d board aver the dish while cooling, r let it stand m a stove oven while the .res dies cut over night. Care in this re pect w ill add to the appearance of the wax at least.—St. Louis stock. Bepublic.

DEEP MILKING EWES. Mnwtlom a* to the KaUln* of a Healthy Flock of Sheep. Now and then you will see nnjgmg the enumerated good qualities of a particular breed of sheep, that the ewes are deep milkers and good mothers. In looking over the floek of breeding ewes with lamb at foot, the most casual observer must have noticed that some lambs showed the effects of much better care than others; that certain ewes with twin lambs were doing better by them than many of their companions who had but a single lamb. The ewes may have been of the same age, and the lambs may have been dropped about the same date, and the feed and all other conditions may have been the same, notwithstanding the above results. What, then, is the cause of this difference in the lambs? Much, very much cf it is due to the fact that the one ewe is the better milker, and os the yielding of milk is a distinctive maternal quality, it must necessarily follow that she is a better mother. While it is a good thing and a correct practice to teach the lambs to eat grain at the earliest possible moment, the great first start and impetus to growth must come from I that most natural of all foods—milk, and for this purpose that of the mother | is superior to all others. These things being true, says Wool Markets and Sheep, it would seem the most natural thing to do to improve the i milking qualities of the breeding ewes. ! There are several ways in which this might be done, but tor the man who is in possession of the average flock of ; sheep there seems at present no better means at hand than careful selection ; and development by the feeding of foods especially adapted to the production of milk. We know that many men will feel disposed to decry such teaching, and so do many so-called dairymen, but they are not the ones who are making money, out of the business of keeping cows. Some men never pay any attention to the ewe’s udder even in weaning time, with the result that much suffering, and not unfrequentiy serious loss, follows. We wish to impress upon the minds of our readers that this is not an idle theory, and that it is perfectly plausible to increase the milking qualities of your ewes as those of your cows, and that while the profits may not be so great they are still worthy of grave consideration. If you should have a number of ewes in the flock that yearly produce and rear extra Iambs note if they are not superior milkers, and in such an event save for the breeding fioek the female lambs from all such mothers, and we prophesy that in the end the results of such selections will greatly surprise you.

CRATE FOR POTATOES. s •__ yutW an Improvement Over the Siyle Now in Common Use. The cut shows a crate with the slats all iipright, obviating the use of corner supports, since in the case here illustrated the slats lap at the corners and thus nailed give great stiffness to the \vh4le crate. The use of such crates for gathering potatoes, apples, etc., cannot be too highly commended. A lot of them can «l>e made up—enough at leapt to make a wagon load—and load after load taken from the field with a single handling of the vegetables or frijiit, which saves much in time and I J

also in the great lessening of bruises. ; This, in the ease of apples, pears, etc., Is an item of great importance, for the I keeping qualities of fruit depend very largely on preventing bruises. The crates are made perfectly rectangular, so they can be piled up in a wagon box with great ease. The making of such' crates as are here figured is a very-sim- j pie matter. Where a large number are ; ! to be made, get the material sawed to 1 the right dimensions at the mill. The j proper length even of bottoms and slats l, cun be sawed off at the mill, leaving [ only a 6it of nailing together, and the [ cutting of a place for the hand on either ! side as shown. Such crates, with care* ' ful use, should last a dozen years.—N. 1 Y. Tribune. = -

Feeding Hogs in Cold Weather. After cold weather comes the in* ci-eased amount of oxygen in the air ! which is breathed expands the lungs | and makes the appetite better. In hot ! weather the air breathed expands very ! little, if at all, in the lungs, while when j the thermometer is near to zero this exI pension of the air in the lungs invigor* | ates the system in every way. Stock I that gets considerable exercise does not j mind this difference so much. The I fattening steer or cow will, if allowed, I take a great deal of exercise and thus j keep itself in health. A fattening hog, ! on the contrary, is always lazy. When not eating he is lying down. For this reason the hog should be fed freely on corn only during very cold weather, when even the lazy animal is obliged to inhale a good deal of oxygen.—Sural World. __ Flat Nests Are the Best. Many a hen has been unjustly censured for breaking eggs in the nest while setting. Often the nests are made so deep and with sides so steep that the eggs roll to the center, and the hen cannot spread out as she should for incubation. The eggs are easily broken under such circumstances, and the hen is blamed for the shortsightedness of her keeper. A strong colony is always proof against robbers. See that all have good laying queens and young brood*in the hives. Care in this respeet in g»»d sea- **•«— &void much loss *

MEN WE HAVE ALL HEARD OP. Hoke Smith was admitted to the oar at the age of 17. When in the best of health Lord Roseliery seldom sleeps more than five hours out of the 24. The king of Portugal sent a wreath of most ex {tensive orchids to he laid on the bier of Louis Pasteur. Barney Barnato has just give 000 to the poor of London, which is | larger than any single gift ever made 1 by the Rothschilds. Mr. Labouehere, with all his attempts to play the cynic, is really one of the few men who are perfectly at home in any society, high or low. William E. Gladstone calls the sultan of Turkey “a curse God has given to mankind.” The grand old man ,*ili has perfect control of his famous vocabulary. * •_ Dr. Lapponi, physician to the po,*\ says: “If nothing unforseen happens the holy father’s eorstitut.on is so sound that he may well attain his loot!* year.” Felix Faure, president of France, is a great first-nighter at the Parisiuu theaters. He is a well-equipped critic and owns a library that is full of valuable editions of the classic French drama. Li Hung Chang, of, China, has a lire collection of pipes, but doesn’t smoke himself. Consequently, among the other jackets he changed so much in the late trouble, no mention is made of a smoking jacket. TOLD OF ROYALTY.

' The late King Menelek of Abyssinia frequently wore a stovepipe hat of American make. ^ la the privacy of his study Emperor William smokes a big china-bowled pipe 01 the typical kind. The coronation robe of the empress of Russia has been ordered from Paris at a cost of $75,000. It is to be ornamented with pearls and gold. It is said that Abdur Rahman, ameer of Afghanistan, is quite an architect and designs his own palaces, lie introduces such European gimeracks as pianos, electric lights and telephones. Foreign papers say that the engagement of King Alexander of Servia to 2 daughter of Russian Grand Duke Yladimar. despite all denials, will soon be announced. Prinee Karl of Denmark, to whom Princess Maud of England is engaged, is only a little over 25 years old; yet he is two years, seven months and eight days younger than his betrothed. PAPER POINTERS. The weight of paper is sometimes materially increased by the addition of clay and kaolin. Watermarks were originally used on bank notes as a means of preventing counterfeits. - Papier-mache shoes for horses have been recently introduced, with, it is said, gratifying results. The papal bulls of the eighth and ninth centuries were written on cotton paper of a fair quality. The cost val ue of the paper annually made in all the countries of the world exceeds $150,000,000. Sheets of paper four or five miles long arc now commonly made for the use of newspaper presses. The annual issue of books is estimated at 85,000,000 of volumes, consuming 65,000 tons of sized paper. The pulp from the grinding and cutting of the rags is bleached white by the use of chloride of lime. EXPERTS ON EDUCATION. Education should be as broad as man. —Emerson. Education is only second to nature.— II. Bnshnell. Education is the apprenticeship of life.—Willmott. Education begins its work with the first breath of the child.—Jean Paul. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.—E.Ever* ett. • r" Education ought, as a first principle, to stimulate the will to activity.—Zaehariae. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark is deluge.—Horace Mann.

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—The League of Batisbon.in 1543, was formed by the Cathalie states end princes of Germany to oppose the growing1 power of the reformation. The influence of the reformers had become widely extended, and their cause being embraced by a number of prominent princes, led the Catholic party to believe that the stability of the government in Germany was in danger, hence the formation of this league to counteract the growth of the doctrines of the reformers. —Goblets with stem and stand, like those we use to-day, .were employed in Troy nine hundred B. C. Among the valuable objects found by Dr. Schliemann was & golden goblet Vessels of this metal were commonly employed in the service of the temples. A curious goblet with three stems has been found at Pompeii. Its use U conjectural, but the supposition is that it was used to pour libations to the gods. TO GAIN WEIGHT. Pal* Thin People Usually Are Diseased. The First Thing Heeeaeary to Gala Flesh Is Health, Then Proper Food for Both Body and Kervea. From tXt Journal. KirkooUlo. Mo.

Henry Gehrke Is a thrifty usd prosperous German Farmer living four miles south of Bullion, in this (Adair) county, Mo. Mr. Gehrke has a valuable farm and he has been a resident of the county for years. He is very well known hereabouts and well respected wherever he is known. Last week a reporter of the Journal stopped at Mr. Gehrke's'and while there became much interested in Mrs. Gehrke’s account of the benefit she had not long since experienced from the use of Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills for Pale People. She said she wanted everybody to know what a great medicine these Sills are, but as so many people are praising lem now-a-days, she modestly doubted whether her testimony could add anything to what others had already said of them. Her only reason for talking for publication about rink Pills was that the people of Adair and neighboring counties might be convinced, if any doubted, that oft-published testimonials concerning Pink Puls were genuine statements from the lips of persons who have been benefited by the use of them. Speaking of her own interesting experience, Mrs. Gehrke said: “A little over a year ago 1 was completely broken down. I had been taking medicine from a doctor but grew worse and worse untill could scarcely go about at all. The least exertion or the mere bending of my body would cause me to have smothering spells, and the suffering was terrible. I thought it was caused by my heart. When everything else had failed to relieve me and I had given up all hopes of ever being anything but a helpless invalid, 1 chanced to read some testimonials in the Farm, Field ami Fireside, also in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and the sufferings of the people who made the statements were so nearly like the suffering I had endured that when I read that they were so greatly benefited by the use of Dr. Williams” Pink Pills for Pale People 1 did not hesitate to go at once and purchase two boxes. I took them according to directions and before the first box was used I felt a good hit better. Really the first dose convinced me that it was a great remedy. Before the two boxes were used up I sent my husband for three more boxes, so that I would not be without them. When I had used these three boxes I felt like a different woman and thought 1 was almost ‘Since that time I have been taking them tenever I began to feel badly. When I began taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, I weighed only 113 pounds and after I had been using the medicine for about six months I weighed 123 pounds. 1 have had a good appetite ever since 1 commenced taking Pink Pills and instead of mincing along, picking such food us I could eat even with an effort, I eat most anything that comes on the table. 1 am not the invalid I.was. Ido not have to be waited upon now as if 1 was a helpless child, but I work all the time, doing the housework and ironing and working in the garden without that dreadful feeling which comes over a person when they are afraid they are going to have one of those spells that I used to have. * ,, “Work don’t hurt me any more. I honestly believe that had it not been for Dr. William** Pink Pills I would now be in my Save. I still have what the doctor calls lious colic but the Pink Pills have made me much better and the spells &re not so frequent and are nothing like as painful as before I began to use them. I would not be without the Pink Pills for that disease alone under any circumstances, to say nothing of the other diseases for which they are especially recommended. I take pleasure in telling my neighbors the benefits I have received from Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and know of several who have been great,Iv benefited by them.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are considered an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration ; ail diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and ail forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry , overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by ail dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box or six boxes for 33.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, li. Y. MA pki’dk.nt man,” says a witty Frenchman, “is like a pin. Hishead prevents him from going too far.”

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Ships sad Djaaalt*. The powerlessness of an ordinary nary is apparent from recent experiments in explosives. It is stated that dynamite cartridges can be thrown in such a way that no warship could hold out against them. While this is undoubtedly true, the question arises: How can we get along without a navy of some sort? It is not to be supposed that having guns of such tremendous power will tend to demoralize naval armament It will, however, make this portion of our defenses less useful and effective than heretofore. It will probably do away with the enormously heavy and unwieldly ironclad and favor the introduction of faster and lighter craft Ships of war will carry smaller guns and lighter equipment generally, and depend more on quickness of movement and strategy than on the great bulk and resistive power of the ordinary monitor. It is a great pity that intelligent Christian lands can not find some other way to settle their differences than by such terrific slaughter.— N. Y. Ledger. —The Sainte union of 1576, or Holy league, was projected by the leaders of the Roman church to counteract the encroachments of the reformers. Although its objects, as set down in the articles of agreement and bond of union, were numerous, the principal purposes proposed were three: First, to exterminate root and branch the Calvinists of Germany and Switzerland; second, to shut up Henri III. in a monastery, he being judged inimicable, or at best indifferent to the cause; third, to place the duke of Guise upon the French throne and thus beyond all doub%to establish the power of the Catholic party in the heart of Europe. When Traveling Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly aud effectively on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50 cents and tl bottles by all leading druggists. “What can I do to prove the sincerity of my love!” said young Mr. Spiffing to his Boston sweetheart. “Promise me that you will learn to like Browning,” replied the intellectual creature.—Pittsburgh ChronicleTelegraph. From Mow Until Spring Overcoats and winter wraps will be in fashion. They can be discarded, temporarily, while traveling in the steam heated trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. For solid comfort, for speed and for safety, no other line can compare with this great railway of the West. “Tom has proposed, and asks me to glue him "his answer in a letter.” “Shall you do it!” “No; I will be more liberal and gfce him his answer in two letters. Harper’s Tub opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very positive basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence or the worthlessness of alL—Bovee. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75a Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for a good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.—Froude. Self interest is always at the rate of 100 | per cent.—Young Men’s Era.

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