Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 November 1899 — Page 3

STORAGE OF APPLES. Moindtac Up and Corerlat wit* Barth, Thla Writer Sara. V* the Meat Satisfactory Method. Now that there is a generous crop of apples in some localities this year, the general query arises how to winter them in the best manner. 'We hare found no way that.answers the requirements of the majority of farmers so well as to mound them up and cover with earth. By this method the apple retains or rather secures a flavor far superior to that of apples kept in the cellar. It is therefore quite desirable , to bury them up with earth, only removing them to the cellar as they are required for pse. T|»e proper method of mounding in winter apples^better explained in the illustration. A box five feet long is

SECTIONAL VIEW OF FRUIT MOUND. <A, Apples; S, Straw; E, Earth; V, Ven- « tllatlng Box or Shaft.) nailed up from two by six-inch boards and perforated as shown in illustration \\'ith holes to permit eseape of gases and foul air. A small watershed is erected at top, leaving vents in gables for ventilation. This box is erected and apples mounded upon straw around it until a foot from the top. The mound of fruit is then incased around with old boards and covered with a heavy canting of straw and several inches of earth. This is sufficient until freezing weather,when another coating of straw and earth should be placed u^on the mound. This may be done after the weather is quite cold and frozen by throwing a litter of straw around the "heap base, in order *that the earth may not be frozen and be accessible for covering. After the last covering is in plaoe a load or two of coarse manure may be scattered over the mound. By this method the farmer may have apples in cold storage until late spring and also havfe them secure from frost in the coldest weather. The board covering is very necessary in order that the apples may. not become compacted and mashed from the weight of covering, and the pile also is much easier to use from than a mound not protected by boards, thus caving in as the fruit is used out. - Many, however, who have cellars prefer to store in them, as it is somewhat more convenient, even though the flavor and crispness be not so well retained. Very convenient crates may be made for this purpose by sawing plastering lath in two equally and nailing them up with ends prepared from inch boards 10Vj.x12 inches in dimension. These boxes will hold a bushel each, are cheaply made and can be stacked into rows or; upon tempoi*ary shelves in the cellar, where they may be easily accessible to use from, in regard to variety keeping, quality, etc. These crates are very superior to storing in barrels or bins, as no large quantity can be crushed together, necessarily making it inconvenient to sori or discard (Jbcayed fruit.—George AY Brown, in Ohio Farmer.

ORCHARD AND GARDEN. . Soil and location will change the appearance of fruit and also the quality. Mixed husbandry* in gardening and fruFt growing is necessary to the best success. fn pruning trees of any kind it is better to have one strong branch than two or three weak ones. Whenever water is given to house plants enough should be given to wet the soil thoroughly. A few apple and peach trees should be planted every year in order to keep up a good supply on the farm. Sod is a protection to an orchard in winter. It is an exceptional case when it is best to plow in the fall. The English walnut is said to be the most profitable of all nut-bearing trees. When in full bearing they will yield - aboui 300. pounds of nuts to the tree. The nut sells on an average at about eight cents per pound. If only 27 trees are planted on an acre the income would be about $675.—St. Louis Republic. Good amd Inferior Cider. Cider made from windfalls and green apples, which oontain a much less proportion of sugar than ripe apples, is consequently the poorest, being sour and watery. Where the apples are green but well matured the quality of the cider made from them will be found vastly improved by the simple process of throwing them in small piles in the orchard and allowing them to ripen. When a first-class cider is desired it is necessary to select the fruit. If you have been in the habit of throwing in half-matured, partially rotten and all sorts of fruit, try by way of experiment a press full of well-matured, solid apples, free from dirt. Filter through a clean muslin cloth, and the result will be a surprise.

HAS MANY ADVANTAGES. A Cheap, Cnpatented, Dlrt-Excludla* Milk Pall That Caa Easily Be Made a* Hume.

It is «imply impossible to have good milk or gilt-edged milk products while the milk is contaminated by the filth of the barnyard. Few people haffe any idea of the amount of filth they consume in a lifetime in the milk and milk products they consume. The proverbial peck of dirt is a mere trifle to that. A convenient milk pail, almost entirely proof against such elements, may be cheaply and conveniently made in the following manner: Take an ordinary tin or zinc milk pail; have a spout made on one side with a cap; make a cover to latch on. In the center of the cover make a hole six inches in diameter, and around this hole put a protecting rim about iys inches high, and flaring outward. This will greatly reduce the dirt-catching area. Next make a bag of the thickest, closest wove toweling, about eight inches in diameter and about, eight inches deep, with a draw string in the top. Suspend this in the hole in the lid, doubling the top over the protecting rim and pulling the draw string tight to hold it in place. Put inside this a similar bag of cheesecloth. Milk into the hog and the milk will filter into the pail as it is milked. When dirt falls into the bag it can be picked off and not go into the milk. When the pail is full empty through the spout, take out the cheesecloth bag with all its accumulated hairs and dirt and put in a clean one. Such a course might seem troublesome to dirty milkers, but it is a cheap and effective way to make gilt- edged milk and to increase the price and popularity of your milk products. I will enumerate some of its advantages: (1) It keeps filth, and hairs out of the milk. (2) It keeps the odors of the barnyard from the milk. (3) It makes it almost impossible for the cow to put her foot in the milk pail. This item alone would, on the average, more than pay for its cost and trouble in a year. (4) The milk need spill but little should the pail get tipped over— another item of economy. (5) People who eat your milk and its products, in eluding yourself, will have far finer flavor and eat far less dirt. (6)'WTithall these advantages your milk will keep sweet much longer, early souring being a sure sign of filth.—M. W. Gunn, in Prairie Farmer. A DAIRY OF DAIRIES. Butter Churned In Silver and on Conntera of garble and Tttlns In Rarest of Tints. Probably the most ideal dairy in existence is that of the princess of Wales, m which not only she but her various daughters have learned to make the most perfect butter. The walls are covered with tiles presented to the prince of "Wales, who placed them here as a surprise to the royal dairymaids. They were made in Bombay, and. are of a deep peacock blue, the rose, the shamrock and thistle being intertwined with the motto “Ichdien.” A white marble counter, running around the room, holds silver pans of milk f*om the Alderneys grazing without. Above this, ‘on broad bracket shelves of marble, is a collection, in every imaginable material, of cows, bullocks and calves.—Italian andPariaU marble, alabaster, porcelain, terra cotta and silver—all gifts. A long milk can, painted by Princess Louise to match the Indian tiling, stands in one corner, and opposite is the head of the princess’ pet Alderney, with a silver plate recording her virtues. Here the princess sometimes churns in a silver churn, and in the next room the butter for the family is made up and sent fresh every morning when they are in London. The day’s supply is made jup into little pats and scrolls all ready for table, and the “princess requires a special order of pats. Not a grain of salt is allowed in them, and they are made the size of a half crown and the thickness of three, with either the crown, the coat of arms or the three feather* stamped on each. SAVING STABLE WASTE. How a Michijran Farmer Makes a Compost Heap of Wonderful v Fertilising; Power. My plan is that a cistern be dug ten feet deep and wide, at the end of a prepared place, for the barnyard manure, to be dug in a sloping position from one side to a depth of three or four feet, and long enougl. and wide enough to accommodate the manure. A stone wall is built at each end and at the back to

'« c HOW TO SAVE FERTILIZERS. , keep the earth from caving in. Into this cistern, at the end of the compost heap, drains are constructed from the stables to carry the liquid, and also a drain or small sewer from the kitchen sink to convey the waste and keep it clean. Then we have it where we can utilize it to a good purpose. In the cistern is a pump, and occasionally the accumulated liquid is pumped and thrown over this compost or manure heap, is readily taken in and absorbed, and the fertilizing elements preserved, thus making one of the best compost heaps I have tried.—T. F, Collins, in Farm and Home. Right After Public Schools. After the public schools come the public highways in their effect on the public welfare and pn economic prosperity The head of the tree should always be cut bank to correspond with the roots.

ICATARRH COLDS SORE THROAT GRIPPE CROUP HOARSE LNESS

Says of Peruna: “I Join Senators Sullivan, Roach and Me• Entry in their gooi opinion of Pervna aaan effective catarrh WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING. Lady Colin Campbell is an accona* plished fencer. Miss Helen Long, who has presided over the hoipe of the secretary of the navy for two years, has the degree of M. D. from Johns Hopkins. Miss CedKa Beaux, of Philadelphia, has been appointed as the only woman on the jury to select exhibits for the United States fine arts departments at the Paris exposition. The first Bussian woman ever admitted to practice in the United States district court of southern New York is Miss Alice Berber, who was so honored a few days ago. The first lady student to be received into the Chicago theological seminary is Miss Florence Fensham, professor of Old Testament literature in the American college for girls in Constantinople. Miss Alice De Bothschild, who was recently naturalized in England, was sincerely devoted to her brother, the late Baron Nathaniel, and inherited a large life interest in his immense fortune. The lady i^ very clever and a social success. The widow of former Gov. Atkinson* of Georgia, has created something of a sensation in business and social circles by going into the field as a general state agent for fire and life insurance companies. She-says her purpose is to make a living and educate her five children. She is already doing well and has received letters of congratulation from numerous society women.

SOME FIRST APPEARANCES. Envelopes were first used in 3839. The first, air pump was made in 1654. Anaesthesia was first discovered in 1844. The firstSballoon ascent was made in 3783. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The first horse railroad was built in The^ first matches were made at Nuremburg in 1477. The first newspaper advertisements appeared in 1652. „ The first copper coin was coined in New Haven in 1687. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. 'She first almanac was printed by George von Purback in 1460. The first chimneys were introduced Into Borne from Padua in 1368. i Glass was early discovered. Glass beads were found on mummies over 3,000 years old. , The first attempt to manufacture pins in this country wasmade soon after the war of 1812. The first national bank in the United States was incorporated,by congress, .December 31, 1783. / The first temperance, society in this country was organized \in Saratoga county, N. Y., in March, 1808. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Germany has organized a tool trust for the purpose of antagonizing the introduction of American-made tools into that country. Already half a dozen American engineering plants have been established in Europe, and some 20 more American firms have the matter of building European plants under consideration.

WOMEN AND LOVE. Kindness in women, not their bctn> teous looks, shall win my love.—Shakespeare. A fair test and measure of civilization is the influence of good women.—Emerson. Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity*— Beecher. The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.—Holmes. Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for most of our better qualities.—Charles Lemesle. - He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself.—Talleyrand. Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost iin a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.—Quarles. Women have* more good sense than men. They have fewer pretensions, are less implicated in theories, and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impressions on the mind, and, therefore, more truly and naturally.—Hazlitf. The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron-are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies decribed in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.—Goldsmith. THE MXrkETS. “ New York. Nov. CATTLE—Native Steers....; 4 40 COTTON—Middling . FLOUR-Winter Wheat.... 3 40 WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 72V* CORN—No. 2..... OATS—No. 2.......•«•••••»• «... PORK—Ne*v Mess.. 9 00 ' ST. louis. CGTTON-Middling . 7 BEEVES-Steers .,. 4 75 Cows and Heifers. 2 50 CALVES—(per 100). 5 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 © SHEEP-Fair to Choice.... 3 TO FLOUR—Patents (hew)..... 3 40 Other Grades..... 2 80 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter 71 CORN-No. 2.J. OATS-No. 2..... RYE-No. 2. TOBACCO—Lugs ;...>. 3 80 Leaf Burley_ 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy (new) 9 50 BUTTER-Choice Dairy.... 47 BACON-Clear Rib.. EGGS—Fresh . *,.« PORK-StandardMess(new) .... LARD—Prime Steam....... 5 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 4 75 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 75 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.... 3 75 FLOUR-Winter Patents... 3 60 Spring Patents... 3 40 WHEAT-No. 2 Spring. 69 No. 2 Red. 70CORN—No. 2..*. 32 OATS-No. 2. PORK—Mess (new). 8 05 @ 8 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Hative Steers..,. 4© @ 5 HOGS-All Grades.. 3 80 <S> 4 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. . @ OATS-No. 2 While.. @ CORN-No. 2. 2S%@ NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grad®. 3 50 @ 4 CORN-No. 2.. 42 OATS—Western . 30^@ HAY—Choice . 17 00 @18 PORK—Standard Mess..... 9 50 & 9 BACON—Short Rib Sides. @ COTTON—Middling . 6%@ LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red.;.. 71%@ CORN—No. 3.... 34 <ii OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 26 @ PORK—New Mess. 9 25 <§> 9 BACON—Clear Ribs. 6}g@ COTTON-Middling . 7 @

How Mrs. Pinkham HELPED MRS. GOODEN. [UTTER TO MRS. PINE HAM HO. 12,733] “I am very grateful to you for your kindness and ihe interest you have taken In me, and truly believe your medicines and advice are worth more to a woman than all the doctors in the world. For years I had female troubles and did nothing for them. Of course I became no better and finally broke down entirely. My troubles began with inflammation and hemorrhages from the kidneys, then inflammation, congestion and falling of the womb and inflammation of ovaries. *' I underwent local treatment every day for some time; then after nearly two months the doctor gave me permission to go back to work. I went back, but in less than a week was compelled to give up and go to bed. On breaking down the second time, I decided to let doctors and their medicine alone and try your remedies. Before the first bottle was gone I felt the effects of it Three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and a package of her Sanative Wash did me more good than all the doctors’ treatments and medicine. M The first remark that greets me now is ‘Howmuch betteryou look!’ and you may be sure I never hesitate to tell the cause of my health.”—Mbs. E. J. Goodes, Ackley, Ia. DcBnlXs Cough Syrup + ■ ness. . The best remedy for Consumption. Cores Colds, Grippe, tis, Hoarseness, Asthma, Whooping* Small doses.; quick, sure results. curt Constipation, 7V*a/, zofarsc. Used by millions, Sore proof of its qaslity.

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ia only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling round or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine esses of of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, nee. . „ , a . F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledtfc O. Sold by Druggists, 75e. Hall s FamilyPiHs are the best. Cast Miss the Place. Stranger—Where does that new dentist have his office? Policeman—You mean the one who pulli teeth without pain? “Yes.” V,‘Go right around the corner. You will nfve no trouble finding his office. You can hear his patients yell naif a block away.”— Ohio State Journal. Winter in the South. The season approaches- when one't thoughts turn toward a place where the inconveniences of a Northern winter may b« escaped. No section of this country offen such ideal spots as the Gulf Coast on th< line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad between Mobile and New Orleans. It possesses a mild climate, pure air, even temper ature and facilities lor hunting and fishing enjoyed by no other section. Accommoda tions for visitors are first-class, and can b< secured at moderate prices. The L. & N R. R. is the only line by which it can b< reached in through cars from Northern cities. Through car schedules to all pointi in Florida by this line are also perfect, Write for folders, etc., to- Geo. B. Horner, D. P. A., St. Louis. Mt* Masculine Idea of a Tea. Empty two quarts of dried peas into a bass drum and trim up the outside with pink baby ribbon and you have the average man’s idea of his wife a five o’clock teas.— I Atchison Globe.

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Croup, SlMpICMMM, KcmuHCH, Kerron* and Neuralgic Headaekei. SwmIm, Tuutfcsche, Heart Weakun, Sropey, Malaria, Creeping Muubaeu, <te„ etc. \ OO nAV6 to •MkW* anffarers to *!▼« “5 DROPS” at leaata trtnl. wo will send a SSe sample bottle, «W prepaid by mall, for Mete. A sample bottle will convince yon. Also, large bottles (9tt doses) 11.00, • bottles for •& Sold by «• and agents. ASKXTS WASTE* la Sew Territory. WRITS t'8 W>MT, ■WAMSOK RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 1M to 1W Lake M., CHICA60, ILL A DOLLAR STRETCHER °ne lady writes that the greatest “Dollar Stretcher” she has ever found is the new and original method by which J. C. Hubinger is introducing his latest invention, “Red Cross’* and ** Hubinger’s Best” starch. She says: With your Endless Chain Starch Book, I received front my grocer one large package of “ Red Cross” starch, one large package of ‘‘Hubinger’s Best” starch, and two beautiful Shakespeare panels, all for Sc. How far my dollar will go, I am unable to figure out. Ask your grocer for this starch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free.

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A. PRlESMEYEBiggii EVERT PAIR 6UARARTEE0. SOLDIERS ftj&*»!S5rS5!SSJ »lsss than lM seres before J ano a, 1374, writs to B> ITIT0S * Ctt., ttY 14th at., WMhiagto*, D. C. PIT© r*r»a»*»tly Carat. Vo fits or hcptr ■ *,W outness after arst day's use of Dr.KlIne's Great Nerve Restorer. SB trial bottle and treatise free. Dh. K. H. KUSB. Ltd.. 1181 Ant St., Phi la.. i>a. A. N. K.-B 4780 whew warm please state ■seat la thU ITIX« TO A1 that Ms saw paper. TO ABTXjfcTXSJUUI • >;p.