Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 March 1899 — Page 3

SEEPAGE IRRIGATION. C«a Be Practiced to Advantage Wkerever Drought Is Apt to Iajnre Late Crops. Seepage irrigation is practiced in some sections of the west, and is applicable to many districts throughout the Mississippi valley and prairie states, where drought frequently injures late crops. The plan is best suited to low, fiat valleys, especially the river' or creek bottoms where the surface strata Is a sand}- loam or vegetable composition. .In the mountain regions where ; the water and lava made soil contains ; "■ alkaline substances the continual prac- j tice of seepage-irrigation destroys.land fertility. I have seen fields that once produced 600 bushels of potatoes tothe acre so completely mineralized from seepage irrigation as to be worth! ess, except for growing joint grass and sal-eratus-bush for early spring, pasture. While this danger exists in the west there is practically no such trouble to fear in the central and eastern states. Seepage irrigation, if properly managed, would certainly work

IRRIGATION BY SEEPAGE. wonders in fruit-growing and hay* : making inevery state, even in the great- ! est rainfall belt. The system is very'simple, consisting of a main ditch and laterals carrying water to the land, where it is impounded and left to percolate through the soil. Hams of Wood or stones are thrown across, the main to raise the t water fill the laterals, when the head-gates are closed. A good plan is to have wooden gates made by inserting boards into slots much the same as the tail gate of a Wagon box. • The seepage ditches should be deep enough to hold a good volume of water, and dug close enough together to alloAv ^ the moisture from parallel laterals to . meet- beneath the surface. On. some i soils water from ditches three feet wide i and two feet deep will percolate 20C ' feet or more in 12 hours. I have run water around a block of one and onefourth acres in two-foot ditches, and j aoaked the entire area w ith one filling ! of the laterals. * In some of the rivi& valleys throughout the northwest the farmers depend entirely on natural seepage for growing crops in the lower bottoms. This could be -.improved and;. crops made more certain by cutting trenches around and across the fields and conveying the water through as drainditches are used for carrying off surplus. But to get the. best results from seepage the water should stand as in pools or reservoirs and find its natural outlet through the soil. Sometimes these open seepage ditches are filled with logs, stones, brush or other material and plowed over the same as a perfect subirrigation system. If any reader doubts the value of seepage ditches let him visit the valleys of the Arkansas in Kansas, the drought sections of California or the river bottoms of eastern Oregon during a dry season, and he will become converted to underground irrigation, even though he resides in IVew Jersey or on. tt^ Florida coast.—Joel Shomaker, in Farm and Fireside. ---

ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Watch a sod orchard. It will begin to fail before you know it. Probably nine-tenths of the apple orchards are in sod, and many of them are meadows.. Of course they are failing. Potash may be had in wood ashes, and muriate of potash. It is most commonly used in tiie latter form. An annual application of- potash should be made upon bearing orchards, 500 pounds to the acre. Phosphoric acid is the secohd important fertilizer to be applied artificially to orchards. Of the plain superplfbsphates, from 300 to 500 pounds may be applied to the acre. Barn manures are generally more economically used, when applied to *farm crops then when applied to orchards; yet they can be used with good results, particularly when rejuvenating the old orchards. Cultivation may be stopped late in the season, and a crop can then be sown upon the land. This crop may serve as a cpver or protection to the soil and as a green manure. — Prof. Bailey, in Rural World.

w»»t High Grade Means. Farmers are now beginning see the difference between the precious and the vile. They are paying $20 and' $25 and sometimes even higher prices for a high grade calf, discriminating in favor of those to the extent of about tea dollars per head, 'in short, on- the present market in country places the difference made by intelligent feeders between a high grade calf and a common calf is from five to ten dollars. This, then, is the measure of the value of a good bull. If a man has ten Cows, t he can afford to give $100 for & good biHl, knowing that he will pay atm from $50 to $100 each year and ba worth when sold fat from $70 to $80.—Wallace’s Farmer

HUMOROUS when many I sup G Plain .ft Cut ous.—Dora—“I screamed he k sed me.” Cora—“How time* —Detroit Free Press. “W a*’a the most marked featured mei spaper officeT* “Why—er—the prool Philadelphia Bulletin, “T1 i priina donna has her fourth hnsbi id.” “How ? inappropriate!” ‘tWha i V" “For a woman to belongs to a ma • quartette.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. * “A l erman doctor says tight lacing is a < sease, but he doesn't give it a name. “Comes under the head of fits, ose.” “Or cramps.”—Cleveland lealer. Wid on—“I wonder what- induced Jumk ts to marr^ his typewriter?” Boolei —“Why, didn’t you know that he’d b »n trying for years to get a typewriter of his own?”—Roxbury Gazette. Man na—“Ethel; what do you mean by shi ; iiting in that disgraceful fashion? :;ee how quiet Willie is.” Ethel —“Of bourse he’s quiet; that’s our game. He’s papa coming home late, and I’ i you.”—Spare Moments. “Cla deal music,” said the ecstatic young woman, “leaves me in a transport.” “Well,” said the young man “that’.* the reason I naturally avoid itl I was i ll the army and I don’t feel like taking chances on transports of any kind.”- Washington Star. R0< !nr MOUNTAIN BEARS.

A Hob or Soy* It lit Hard Work Xottodaya to Briag Brain to Boy. Bear go into winter quarters when the firs heavy snows and cold weather begin, which is usually in November in the Ro kies. In the old days they would < jen up right in open country. A bear’s winter den is nearly always on a north illside, where the snow falls deepest ; and if possible they choose a place i here a drift will form. Sometimes in Hear will den up in a natural cave orj crevice, but more often will dig hit self a hole ten or twelve feet deep. Nowadays this den is almost always i the roughest country he can find, at I is generally pretty well up in the mQ intains' in heavy spruce timber. A bear nay make his den early in the 'but until cold, weather drives he roams around a lot. For k month before denning bears little, or not at all, and before they g( in for good the stomach and intestine; j are frequentlj* clean and emp-j ty. T1 is stomach is drawn up into a solid lv sap like a chicken’s gizzard, and the bet !• is a solid mass of fat, inside and ou Along in. February or March, when l 'uin comes out again, he is still hog fa and he keeps this fat until the snow is pretty well gone. When he first comes ■ ut he does not “travel much, but season, him in nearly eat ver as the off all they reather warms up he soon runs is fat, though I have seen very fet bears as late as the middle'of May, after t e trees were green. AsYegetation stu *ts, bears live almost altogether on gra> 5, roots, etc., though of course 11 often eat meat. Still, I have had bails right among the bears, with bears pissing within 50 feet of the baits every right, and. it was the middle of June before one of them touched a bait, and then they were at the baits all the time. Ever the op now bears feed a good deal in n in the spring, when they are uotjnu ested, and spridg is by far the best tin le to hunt them. But, as a usual thing, .a bear nowadays keeps pretty well ui der cover. During the day he finds ti e thickest brush or timber that he car and there he stays, slipping away uietly at the slightest suspicious noise. It used to be that if a tear ht rrd or saw anything that he di<3 not. understand, he would, stand up on his hind legs to look. And if he was suddenl y startled, he would often, after running away, stop and stand up to look bj :k. I have killed 4&veral bears in thickjbrush by gettingcloseto them, knowii g about where they were, and then speaking aloud. Bruin would nearly always stand up to investigate, thus giving me a shot at his head. But now* a tear that hears a human voice hardly ; ver stops to look, but gets away on the j limp. ^ The blacks and cinnamons also used to tree very easily. I have run a good many up trees by givingthem a sharp run on horseback for a mile or so in open timber, and have run two up trees by chas;.ng- them on foot. And twice I have mi sed bears at rather close range them tak4 to trees. Inoneinle bear went up the nearest the other the bear, a she with cubs, be ted a hundred yards or so before she ’treed. And speaking of cubs, I never jaw but one she bear that would n it bolt and leave her cubs when attackec The exception was a small cinnamc i, and I ^t^between her and her cubt and got charged. Only the other day I saw three of the dogs maul a grizzly cub until you could hear him squaN fob a mile, and the old bear all the time wasstandingin the brush not ahundre yards away, and never offered io attac . But nowadays it is almost impossit e to tree a bear or bring it to bay, eve with good dogs. It always was han to bring grizzly bears to bay with do;: s, but almost any dog would put a black or cinnamon up a tree in short or er. Now a bear will run*all day abet I of the dogs before taking to a tree or c iming to bay. About the only way to 1 rnt bears at-.present with any chance c success is in the spring after they beg; a to take bait well. By stringing out a lot of baits and still-bunting early an late fair luck may be had.and had stance t tree; in

COMPORTING WORDS TO WOMEN . — The Surgical Chair and its Tortures May be Avoided by Women Who Hoed Sirs. Pinkham’s Advice. Woman's modesty is natural; it is charming*. * To many women a foil statement o^ their troubles to a male j hysician is almost impossible. The whole truth may be told to Mrs. Pinkhi m because she is a woman, and her ndvio; is freely offered to all women sufferers. Mrs. O. E. Ladd, of loilh and N

sis., uaivesion, xexas, wnose letter is printed below, was completely discouraged when / she first wrote to Mrs. Pink- (d ham. Here is what she says: N “ Dear Mas. Piskham:—I M wrote to you some time ago, M telling you of my ills, but ([ft now I write to thank you f( for the good your remedies jr hare done me. I have used II two bottles of Lydia II. Is Finkham's Vegetable Com-pound,-three packages of Sanative Wash, and one l>ox of Liver Pills, and to-day I call myself a well woman. I suffered with backaqhe, constant headache, whites, sick stomach, no appetite, could not sleep, and was very nervous. At time of menstruation was in ter- ^ rible pain. Your medicine is

1 n fl ■worth its weight in gold, i never can say enough in praise of it.\ I have recommended it to many friends. If only all suffering women would try it, there would be more happy homes and healthy women. I thank you for the change your medicine has made in me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs. Pinkham's advice, have saved thousands of women from hospital operations. The lives of woinen are hard; whether at home with a ceaseless round of domestic duties or working at some regular employment, their daily tasks make constant war on health. I# all women understood themselves fully and knew how exactly and soothingly Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound acts on the female organs, there would be less suffering. IjjUaE.Pinkbam’sVegetaDleComponndjaWomaB'sRentedyforWomaH’sIlls

A Woman** Smile. “Strange what a little thing will turn the whole current of a man’s life." “What’s the matter now, Jones?” “Up to 30 days ago the young lady of my choice was taking my attentions seriously, and our marriage seemed a foregone conclusion. Then 1 met her on the avenue, lifted my hat, made my best bow and dropped through a coal hole. Now she can't keep her face straight a minute while we’re together.”—Detroit Free Press. Sensitive on That Head. , The illustrious senator, who still lacked a dozen or more votes of reelectiop, was in the barber’s chair. The razorial artist ran his fingers through his customer’s hair. “Seems rather dry and dead,” he said, in a deferential and suggestive manner. “Great Scott!” exclaimed the illustrious statesman; fiercely. “Can’t I go anywhere without having ray deadlocks thrown up to me?”—Chicago Tribune. Yon Can Get Allen’s Foot-Ease FREE. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Rov, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's FootEase, a powder to shake iuto your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweatiug, damp, swollen, aehiug feet. It makes tight shoes easy. Cures Corns, Bunions and ingrowing Nails. AUdruggistsand shoe stores sell it. 25 cents. Kleptomania. Molly^-Jack stole something from under my very nose while we were down at the shore looking at those fishing boats. Dolly—What was it, a little smack?— Somerville Journal.

THIS MARKETS. New York, Feb. 27. 1S99. CATTLE—Native Steers.. 4 4 6U ©$ 5 50 COTTON— Middling... FLOUR—Winter Wheat.... 3 23 WHUX-lvo. 2 Red. Corn—No. 2. OATS—No. i£.........«• © 2 SO FORK—New Mess sT. LOUiS. COTTON-Miduang . 6 BEE\ ES—Steers . 3 50 Cows and Heifers. 2 50 CALVES—tper i(WL ... » 00 HOOS—Fair to Choice...... 3 40 SHEEP—*air to Choice.... 3 40 ProUR—Patents (new).... 3 00 Clear and straight. WHEA'i-WO.2 Red Winter CORN—No. 2.. OA’i S-No. 2. KlE-iNo. 2. Tobacco—Lugs . 3 oo Leaf Burley.... 4 50 HAY—Clear mnouiy.’...... t ao BUTTER—Choice Dairy.... 16 EuOS—i> resn . 32 PORK—StandaruMess(new) BACON—Clear Kit>. LARD—Prime Steam.... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers... 3 75 liOGS—v air to Choice. ji 55 SHEEP—Pair to Choice_ '2 50 iLutit-Winter Patents... 3 50 tiering Patents... 3 *0 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. No. 2 Red 6tfc • 4 00 &5% 454* 35 10 00 © 10 25 © © © © © © © © .. © 33 Ms© 51 %© “ © 6% 5 30 4 00 6 U0 3 90 4 25 3 70 3 35 <4$fc 34 20 50 8 30 © 12 00 * © » w» 18 33 5% © ©' © © © © 68 © 72%© CORN—No. 2 Mixed..... 34%© 5 SO 3 00 4 65 3 00 '10, 71% 75>s 34% -< ‘-a 9 50 5 50 3 85 74 * 32 58% OATS—No. 2 PORK—Mess (new)..... 9 45 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers... 4 50 HOGS—All Grades.. 3 40 WHEAT—No. 2 Red (.new). 73 OATS—No. 2 White.. 30 CORN—No. 2..s.. 30 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.. 3 55 CORN—No. 2. 43 OATS—Western .. HAY-Choice . 13 W PORK—Standard Mess ..... 0 50 Bacon—Sides .. .... COTTON—Middling .. LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 75 (iV CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 34 © OATS—No. 2 Mixed... 2S%© PORK—New Mess. 10 00 © 10 25 BACON—Clear Ribs.? 5*4© 6 COTTON—Middling . 6 © 6% @ 4 30 ,. © 43% ©■ 34 © 13 50 © 0 75 © • 6% 9 6 76% 35% 29%

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ALABASTIN

WHAT ALABASTINB IS. Alabastine Is the original and only durableFWall coating on the market. It is entirely different from all kalsomine preparations. Alabastine is made ready for use in white or twelve beautiful tints by the addition of cold water, it is put up in dry powdered form, in fivepound packages, with full directions on every package. It takes the place of scaling kalsomines, wall paper and paint for walls. Alabastine can be used on plaster, brick, wood or canvas, and a child can brush it on.

WHAT “KAliSOMlJIES** AllB. Kalsomines are cheap and temporary preparations, manufactured from whitins, chalks, clays/etc. They are stuck on the walls with.decay ins animal slue. Alt - bastine is not a kalsomine. It is a rockbase cement, which sets, and it hardens with ase. It can be re-coated and redecorated without having to wash and scrape off its old coats. Beware of a larse four-pound packase of light kalsomine, sold to dealers for four pounds and offered to customers as a five-pound package* •

CHURCHES AND SCHOOLHOl'SES. The Interior walls of churches, school houses and 'all public halls should never be coated with anything but the durable and pure Alabastine. So evident has this fact become, that hundreds of tons are used annually for this work. The genuine Alabastine does not rub or scale off. It is cleanly during the long period of its usefulness. Every owner of a building should use ft. Ask your paint dealer or druggist for card of tints, and write for free copy of our paper, Alabastine Era. to Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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