Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 April 1896 — Page 7

THE FARMING WORLD. PI-ANTING POTATOEa iHiep, Mellow Soil, Kept la Good Tilth, tilm the Beet ResutU. There are t"o advantages in planting potatoes reasonably deep. One ia they are less liable to be Injured by drought. The other is that there isino necessity for hilling up to prevent sunscald. . To grow and yield well potatoes require considerable moisture. If |he soil is stirred thoroughly and deep %nd the planting is deep they will be more certain of securing plenty of moisture than when the plowing and planting are shallow. Keeping the surface level and ip a good tilth aids in retaining moisture in the soil, A deep, mellow, loose soil kept in a good tilth gives the best results with all crops. Hun out the furrows with a single shovel plow, plant reasonably deep, cover well. If good drainage is provided and there is not too much danger of washing, it will be best not to fill up the furrows entirely, but to do this gradually as the cultivation is given. The potatoes may be planted deeper this way than would be best if all of the covering must be given at once. ' Have the soil rich, and if there is not enoygh well-rotted manure to make the necessary fertility, it will be a good plafi to use a commercial fertilizer, applying it in the hill before the seed is planted. If the soil is well-prepared before planting the cultivation cup begin with the harrow and generally the first harrowing can be given before the plants show above ground and a second very soon after. In this way the soil can be kept in a good tilth and the weeds destroyed at low cost. If the planting is shallow, more or less hilling up will be necessary in order to prevent sun-scald, and the soil will dfry out more rapidly, often to an ex tent to seriously a fleet the growth n«i yield.—St, Louis Republic. GARDEN CULTIVATOR. its Designer * Claim* That It RednCe* Work to a Minimum. To make a garden cultivator^as illustrated below, dress two pieces of hard wood two by eight inches by four feet, at: shown at a a. It should have a spread of two feet at the rear end

IH>Ut:UAl)E CARDEN CVLTl^ATOR. Cut another piece, b, to fit between the main piece* at the rear. Another piece of four by four in material should be spiked acres* the three ' pieces. Drive through the upper side 20 penny spikes, slanting1 them track well. Fill the wood, ^keeping the spikes about two inches apart. Attach to handles ■actively, a* shown *inShe cut, fasten the whifiletree hook' and the harrow is complete. Wh»le this barrow is handy for numerous crops, it is especially \uluabk* among strawberries.—J. B. Mathews, in Farm and Home. A SOUTHERN OPINION. Ib# Road IVobloui Ik AurrUa( Itself in the Cotton Mates. The subject of improved public highways is attracting a large share of public attention. In the opinion of the i*outhern Farm tiarette, of Starkville, Miss., good roads is one great need of the day in the cotton states. In order to have better roads, it is necessary to reorganise our present general plans of road working, and adopt more modern' and more effective methods. It seems that it would be a w ise plan .to utilize county convicts in connection with thio line of work. These convicts are usually a burden on t he county. They should be worked. They should be worked for profit. What better profit can the tax payers desire than the profit arising from better public roads? Better roads are indirectly , a profit to every farmer that travels over them. The better the road, the less strain upon the team and the wagon and the harness end the patience of the driver. The better the road, the greater the saving of time in going from ohe mile to an other, and the greater ease with w hich the burden of freight is transported! inexpensive Cold Storage House. A refrigerating house has been; built in Michigan, which will serve as a uscj ^ ful model for small country communities which desire the advantages jf t'oid storage at a low cost. The! walls of the house are built of cedar blocks laid up with lime mortar l:ke masonry, Save that the mortar is laid under each of the headers 18 inches long, of which 4he walk is chiefly contposed, leaving a six-inch air space in each joint. The •outside of the wall has a coat of £craeut, and the inside is heavily coated with luicktime plaster . against which Iressed sheathing was nailed while the mortar was still soft. The floor is paved with cedar blocks, and the loft , over the storage room is filled with Straw. The windows have fine sashes, • with successive four-inch air-spaces. The cost of the building, with cold room 2-1 by 30 feet, anil eight feet high, 1* given at something over $600. The buikling is cooled by natural ice, stored during the winter, and r-pc fruit* are kept in it a month without injury. Ea*jr «• Dsns. It you were a farmer and lived betweeu Two towns that .wished your trade. And on* had street* all hard and ness While the other town displayed A sorry scene of mud and trash. Which town do you think would get your cash? • -L. A. W Rnlbtia.

PREVENTING PEACH ROT. j It Cun Be Accomplished by Early Spray* line, st Small Coat. Rot is oine of the worst enemies of early peaches, but it can be controlled by proper spraying, and at n cost of J less than two cents per tree for each spraying. At the Delaware experiment station, five or six sprayings increased * the yield (threefold, and of this total yield the amount of sound fruit was j increased ttom three to fourfold, mak- j ing a total increased yield of sound , fruit at least tenfold on trees sprayed, I at. a cost of 10 or 12 cents per tree, com- | pared to the unsprayed. The first apr plication was made when the fruit buds 1 began to swell; the second just be- ! fore the fruit' buds opened; the third ! when the petals had fallen; the fourth | when the fruit was the size of peas; j- the fifth when the fruit began to color, and the sixth about two weeks later. | i It is doubtful if the last two sprayings ; are really necessary in most seasons, j The best success followed the use of j : a weakened bordeaux mixture, made of j I six pounds bluestone or sulphate of I (‘copper and six pounds lime, to 45 gal- ! Jons of water. After the first and secJ ond sprayings, add three ounces parie green to this formula, as a protection - against insects. Another equally good fungicide (but the paris green should not be used with it) is copper acetate, eight ounces to 45 gallons of water. There was twice as much rot with two sprayings as with four or six. Neither ' of these formulas will injure the foliage. It is important that two of the sprayings be done before the bloom ©pens. 1 Five applications made and begun after the bloom was nearly shed; were considerably less effective than when two were made before the bloom opened Four ajiplkfalions made after fruit ! had set were less effective than two j | made before the bloom opened. Whei two application were made, better re-, suits were obtained when one of these was applied before the buds opened, and again when the fruit was abouf one-half ®ze. than when both were i made before the bloom opened.—Anjyri ican Agriculturist.

PRIVATE CREAMERY. « - Surrru of • Miry man CneaKfd in the Making of Prime Butter. “Here and there a dairyman isbneak- * ing away front the factories and trying the making of gilt-edged butter. 1 have a neighbor with an 18-cow dairy on a 130-acre farm, who made this change last winter,” writes L. B. Fierce in ! Country Gentleman. “He bought a I separator costing $120. and some other j conveniences, and proceeded to make4 a high grade of butter for customers j in our town and Akron, delivering. even- Saturday morning. Almost from ! the start his customers brought other customers, so he had to fruy t he cream of two neighbors, besides some from 1 a creamery h few miles away. I have my doubts whether that bought from , the creamery brought him any profit, but ini most cases it was a necessity in order to hold his customers through a period when, from weather or accidents to cows his own supply was insufficient. The nicest interesting feature of his experiment is the returns he gets from the Skim-milk fed to calves and swine. He kills and jretnils! his veal and pork, also making sausages and mince-meat, and 1 am inclined to believe that his by-products bring httu in nearly as much as the beautiful but* 1er his wife makes. Besides the byproducts of the dairy which he sells, including buttermilk, he sells (on his regular weekly trips) the surplus front • a tine vegetable garden, and more or less orchard produce. He also retails many bushels of potatoes. At the same time they work extremely hard, and 1 pity him when he has to go town with a blizzard in the air and the thermometer some degrees below zero, which all goes to show there is no royal road to success.** FOR MARKING PLANTS. A Label Which Is Proof Against I! cat and Stormy Weather. Where one has several varieties of tho same kind of plants, or is trying new \afictiies, it is always desirable to put a marker at the end of the rows.v A ■ , piece of lath with the name marked j

• m -j » I y IMPROVED I-ABEL. open the end with a lead pencil is the common plan, but before the end of the season the pencil mark is usually nearly, if not wholly, effaced. A simple plan is shown in the accompanying sketch. The lath and the name in leal penciii is used as usual, but over the name is fastened a bit of wood, as shown in the5engravmg. to protect the marking from the weather. A thin strip of wood, a -few small screws and a jackknife are,, all that are needed, and a dozen of such markers can be prepared in a few moments. — Orange Judd Farmer. glaring Berries m the Market. The com of placing berries on the1 nfcirket depends somewhat on locations and the manner in which it is done. For good berries, carefully picked, ia • dean, new boxes, well packed and honestly measured, it may be estimated by the quart as follows: Cost of growing ready for picking, two een*r; picking, f*ne and one-half cents; hows, one cent; cases, packing and delivery, one cent; freight or express charges, one and onehalf cent*; commission for selUng. one lent; actual cost on market, eitflit ceacs par quart.—Farmers Voice.

PAEALYSia From tK$ Prta, New Fork CXy. Morris Preslaner of No. 1 Pitt Street, New York, who is real estate agent and collector of rents, caught a severe cold early last sparing, which settled upon his kidneys. Boon her began to sailer severe pafh in his backbone, sides and chest. His Symptoms grew rapidly more alarming, until at last he was as helpless as a child and could scarcely move as he lay on. his bed. As Mr. Preslaner is well-known in the part of town where he resides, he bad many sympathisers, who did all they could to help him. Though a native of Berlin, Mr. Presfoier has lived in this oountry for forty years, having served tho country of his adoption bv three years’ hard service in tho civil war. He enlisted with the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, taking part in many battles and marching with Gen. Sherman to the sea. While in Georgia Mr. Preslancr was promoted to first sergeant for bravery on the field of action. Ho is now a member of Koltes Post, G. A. B., and is one of the most popular men in the Post. Mr. Preslaner told a reporter the story of his dreadful illness and the wonderful re* covery. The reporter met him as he was returning from a long walk, and, saying that be bad heard of his wonderful cure, asked him to tell the story. When Mr. Preslaner was comfortably seated in his pleasant Elor, he told tho following story, which, laid, he hoped everyone who was suffferas he had suffered would read. His Words were as follows: “To begin, with, I was taken sick just a year awl a month ago, having taken a severe cold which settled on my kidueys. At first I thought the pain I suffered would soon pass a\vay,;but, instead of doing this, it grew more Intense every day, so that in a week I could walk only with considerable difficulty. “I called in a doctor, who said I had locomotor ataxia aud began treating me for that disease. He did me no good, and all summer long I could scarcely attend to my business at all. Then I called another doctor and took his medicine for several weeks, but experienced no relief: Dr. Truman Nichols, of No. 267 East Broadway, who I at last jcalled in, helped ine more than any of the other doctors, but along towards fall 1 grew worse, despite his treatment. I think Dr. Nichols is a good doctor and understood my case, but despite this fact his medicines did me no lasting good. “Early in November the little strength I had in m v legs left me and I wAs nndble to stand. The pain iin my back and sides became almost unbearable, and nnr limbs grew cold. An electric battery I bought failed to help me, and for weeks I felt myself gradually growing weaker until all hope left me. “Some time before this I had read of a wonderful cure a man had received from Dr. Williams’Pink Pills for Pale People, but was so prejudiced against what 1 thought was a (latent medicine of the usual worthless character that I could not make up my mind to try them. As my pain increased and death seemed coming near, I thought of what 1 had read and of the svmptoms of tho man who had been cured. They were precisely the sainb as mine, and at last, with my wife’s earliest entreaty, I consented to try t he Pink Pills. “I am now convinced that these pills saved mvlife. Gradually my strength began to return, the desire to live grew stronger within me. After haring taken three boxes 1 left my bed. This was early in March. All pain had left me, and that terrible dead feeling in my legs had gone away. 1 was still very weak, but before I had taken the fourth box I was able to get down stairs for a short walk in the open air. Now I feel as if I had been born again and am as happy as a child. Every pleasant day 1 take a walk, and am sure that in a month 4I will be as well as ever.” All diseases, such as locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus’ dance, partial paralysis, sciatica, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous headache, palpitation of the heart, effects of ia grippe, pale and sallow complexions, and all forms of weakness, either in man or woman, disappear when Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are taken. Pink Pills can be bought of any dealer, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price (50 cents a box or six boxes for *3.50—they are never sold by the hundred or in bulk), by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co , Schenectady, N. Y

SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTISTS. Lord Blythstvood says that, he has ah instrument capable of measuring- down to the 60-1,000th part of an inch. Glass bricks for building- purposes j.re being manufactured in Silesia They are translucent, without its being possible to see through them, strong and cheap. Actinogram, which is Greek; radioscript. which is Latin, and ray sketch, which is English, are suggested as names for the Rontgen pictures in place of nondescripts, like shadowgram and radiograffi. In the British museum there are suip dried bricks taken from buildings in Nineveh and Babylon.^ and they show not the least sign of decay. No stone, not even granite, is more durable than well-made bricks. Rontgen’s rays have made their first appearance in court Miss Gladys Ffolliott, an actress, brought suit against the Nottingham theater for injuries -received in fwlling down the st airs from her dressing-room. At the trial she put in pictures of heT injured foot and of the other one, taken by the X rays, and got her verdict. THEMA R K ETS.3 * Nsvr York. April 13. IW CATTLE—Native steers.. . « 4 10 tl 4 OCrriXlN—MhUHIuk .. i KLOUK-Winter Wheat. 3 50 WHKAt-Mo. 1 Hard.. .... CORK—No,*......: .... Oats-No 2. .... PORK— New Mess..;.. .. 6 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Maid h ns. .... BEEVES—>• leers.. •♦*... ... Costs aad Helpers. _ CALVES .. .. 3 00 HOGS Fair to Select. 3 *) SHEEP—Fair to Choice. -2 7 , FLOUR—Patents. . 3 _ Fancy So Extra da.. WHEAT-No. 2 Red V?inter.. CWitN—No.i M.xed. OATS—No. 2 . KA E—No. 2.,.. TOUAOOO—Lugs.. i Leat Burley...... 4 #' HAY—ClearTimothy ....... BUTTER—Cteoiee l>.*irv. EGG a—Fresh. .......... Po.iK. - SundariJ Mess (Newj. U.vv; uN^-Clear Kib. LaKo—prime steaia......... CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping .. 3 6) 14 UOG s>— Fair to Choice ........ 3 65 SHEEP—Fair to Choice . 3‘25 it FLOUR—Winter Patents...,. 3 M Spr.ng Patents...... 3 L WHEAT—No. 2 pring. .... %% No.t R6d.. .0*5g a CORN—No. 2. ** OATS—No. 2. PORK-Mev, tnewi. 8M) u Kansas erry. . . CATTLE—Shipping Steers-... 3 00 a RChlS—Ail Grades............. 3dr % WHEAT-Na 2 Hard... & f«AT»-Nu-'r. 17 ,» CORN-No. 3... a NEW ORLEANS FLOUR-High Grade. 1C (| CUUN-Xo. *. % OATS— Westera.-. .... HAY—Ctaoiee...... 17 hi Ay PORK-Old Mew.-. ft Bacon—Sides... « UOfTON—Mlddiin*.i„;. «. LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No. * Red.. 7* OORN-No. 3 Mixed. 32 OATS—No..* Mixed... 88 PORK -New Mess.. 8 7o BACON -Clear Rlh. COTTON—Middling.

The Kind of Miatgsy Did Not Matter. Though more' Dublin stories ere “well found” than strictly true., still the following harmless tale is believed to have at least some foundation in fact. A well-known lady, en route to the last drawing room, found herself hopelessly blocked in a line of carriages containing those unimportant people who had not the entree to which she herself was entitled. Much annoyed that the policeman on duty would not allow her to take the law into her own hands and break through the crowd of vehicles around her, she leaned out of the carriage window and said to him in somewhat imperious tones: “Perhaps you don’t know that I am the wife of a cabinet minister?” “If you were the wife of a Presbyterian minister,” was the answer, “I couldn’t letvou pass!”—London World. Homeseeker’s Excursion* to Kansas and Nebraska. - On April 7th, 21st and May 5th, 14596, Homesoeker’s Excursions will be ruu from Missouri River points, and territory West of Chicago, Peoria and 8t. Louis, to stations in Kansas and Nebraska, at one fare, plus 92.00. for the round trip. All who can should take advantage of thp cheap rates and inspect the most productive com lands in the United States, which are for'sale, by the Union Facile Railway Company, at from 93.50 to 910.<H) per acre, on ten years’ time, only 1-10'down.. Remember that the Kansas corn crop for iS05, with 8,000,000 acres in cultivation, yielded over 301,000,000 bushels, the estimated value of which is over 946,000,000, being 97,000,0X5 more than annual output of gold in the United States. Those taking advantage of the excursions, should take receipts for all railroad fare, and the portion paid over Union Pacific lines, will be refunded upon purchase of o£X) acres. Information regarding rates can be ascertained from the nearest railroad ageut. For maps aud pamphlets descriptive of the lands, write to B. A. McAllister, Land Commissioner, Omaha, Neb. A Timid Housekeeper.— Mrs. Newed— “\Ye will have to have a speaking lubefrom the dining-room to the kiicaen.” Mr. Newed—"Why?" Mrs. Newed—"Well, 1 must get some way of taikmg to the cook without having her throw dishes at tug.”— Truth

A Spring Trip South. On April 7 arid 21. and May 5, tickets will be sold from principal cities, towns and villages of the north, to all points on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Tennessee. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one single fare for the round trip. Tickets will do rood to Return within twenty-oue days, ou pavment of $2 to agent at destination, and will allow stop-over at any point on the south bound trip. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., or Geo. B. Horner;; 1). P A., St. Louis,' Mo “This is leap year, I know,"’ said the maid; but I do not think I could so far forget my maidenly modesty as to propose to g man. Yet—” “Yet what?" asked the J’outh, seeing she hesitated. “1 mightjump at an offer if it were made to me.’—N. Y. Herald. * Whtso—“This physiognomist says that aggressive, impulsive people generally have black eyes.” Knowso—“if not at first, they get them later.”—Truth. Fair and Fruitful As the West is, it is often malarious. But it is pleasant to know that a competent safegiard in the shape of Hostetler's Stomach itters exists, w hich absolutely .nullifies the poison of miasma. Western bound emigrants should bear this in miud. Norslmuld it be forgotten, the Bitters is a sterling remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, kidney 'and nervous complaints and rheumatism. Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us vvhea we are suffering tinder affliction only i serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.—Rousseau. When kings make wear bo law betwixt two sovereigns eon decide but that of arms, where fortune is the judge, soldiers the lawyers‘and the bar the field. Dry den. Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and Sb‘ trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa i ----— ■ Mrs. Gummy (with deep curiosity)—“O Mrs. Glanders! T>o tell lue about Mrs. Ten ■ spot'sscandal, won’t you?” Mrs Glanders —-My dear, it is not nearly so dread fulas you hope.”—Judge. For Whooping Cough, Piso's Cure is a successful remedy.—M. P. ■» Diktek, 67 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. y., Nov. 14, *iM. Oik dangers and delights are near allies, from the -an.e stem the rose and prickle rise—Shakespeare. —

Gladness Comes \A/ith a better understanding of the VV transient nature of the. many physical i'ls, which vanish before proper effort*—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are, not due to any actual disease. but siyiplv to a const ipated condition of the system, which the pleasant family laxative. Syrup of Figs, promptly removes. That is why it is the only remedy wit! millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all whovalue good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness* without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to iyet its beneficial effects, to note when yon purchase, that yon have the genuine article. which is* manufactured by the California Big Syrup Co. only and sold tjr all reputable druggists. If la the enjoyment of .good health, and the sys'Uem is regular; laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely ased and gives most general satisfaction.

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