Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 December 1899 — Page 7

ABOUT SMUT IN OATS. The Plan Here Dencrtbed Has Bees Found Elective la Rlddlsg the # Bred of All Spores. We present herewith an illustration showing the contrivances used in the treatment of smut in oats. Smut, as has been explained in this publication, is a seed, spore, that lodges under the husks of the seed or oats. When the seek! is sown it germinates the same as oats or wheat and grows smut, after its kind. The plan here suggested has been found effective and completely rids the seed of smut spores. A represents a tub or large vessel which is to contain warm water into which the oats for treatment are dipped, being in a gunny sack, which is of coarse fiber and therefore becomes thoroughly saturated, as also do the contents, with water very quickly. The sack should be large enough to hffd two bushels, but it

HOW TO RID OATS OF SMUT. should not be filled to the top—put in about a bushel and a half, so that the seed will be loose. Dip them into the warm water and agitate a few minutes, getting the entire bulk soaked; take out the bag and hang on the hook (E) of lever (D) and dip into the large vessel (li), under which a live fire should be burning, the water being between 130 and 137 degrees Fahrenheit. The lever is operated so as to avoid close contact with the hot water or smoke of the fire. Let the bag of oats stay in the hot water from five to six minutes, pressing the lever up and down. Take out and place in another vessel (C) which contains co'd water; after cooling sow the seed and the smut trouble is avoided for at least three years if the work has been properly done. The hot water kills* every spore and puts the seed in good shape for quick germination. The cost of the process will be abotit 20 cents per acre. The vessels A and C may be ordinary laundry tubs or halves of barrels, being large enoxigli to immerse the bulk oats introduced into them. The hot water vessel should be strong and rigid; an iron kettle is often used for the purpose. A sheet iron vat or barrel may be purchased of tank manufacturers at a reasonable pruftp Sow the oats immediately after being treated. No serious results will follow if the water is of higher temperature, but the degrees given are about right. There is no danger of injuring the germinating power of the oats* and the treatment is easily and speedily done.—Farmers’ Voice.

PRIZE CORN CROPS. Like Other Thingii la ThU Vale of Team They Are Not Always What They Appear to Be. There are corn crops and eorn crops It is possible for two men to raise each 100 bushels of corn to the acre and yet have one man raise twice as much corn to the acre as the other. This appears paradoxical, but it is easily explained. One man may plant his corn at such a late day that it will become only well glazed at the time it has to be gathered for exhibition; while the other man may plant his corn early and thus give it time to thoroughly mature before it must be gathered. Corn gathered just after the roasting-ear period is very heavy, and will at \hat time sometimes weigh double what it will when it has been well dried. This is the secret of some of the enormous yields of corn that have been recently reported. The figures that claim yields per acre well up to the 200-bushel ma>k are based on weighed and not measured bushels. Inspect that same prize corn a few —months after it has been gathered and it will be found looking very shaky. Every kernel will be found standing by itself and with an abundance of room between it and its neighbors. Really ssueh prize corn does not fill the requirements, or should not. The water content of com should be taken into consideration, and we are not sure that it would not be a good idea to have each sample entered analyzed for its water content, and this analysis be taken into consideration when making the awards.—Farmers’ Review.

HORSES AND FARMERS No matter what your horse and team may do, never get angry. Remember the horse is the dumb beast, you the intelligent being ordained to own and control him; but not as a tyrannical master without feeling or appreciation. Be sure that every part of the horse's harness is safe to use, for one runaway may be more expensive than sets of harness; make the latter tofit him, that is, not a buckle or a part too tight or too loose, and see that no part galls him, —Farm Journal.

DREAD OF EUROPE Antipathy to This Country Is Not Confined to France. * The ProbaUe^PoIley ot Spain In the Present War—England Is Said to Be Vapopalar on the Continent. The lawlessness of the French government is reflected in the press. The unanimity of objurgation against England for her attitude toward Spain and the United States is now the marked feature of the French press. The Libre Parole presents to the world French opinion in miniature, when it stigmatizes England as the hypocritical accomplice of the United States. “Their alliance is,” it declares, “an ignominy; but it is just as well, perhaps, that they should work together, for the day upon which they will be called to account by international justice — the day when the British leech will be forced to disgorge, and Europe resolves to no longer tolerate the disgrace of allowing the law to be laid down by such assassins and malefactors as JohnBull and Brother Jonathan—then it'will have reason •for congratulation that they will be able to invoke no excuse for mercy. They have been brothers in infamy, and history will sooner or later chastise them altogether.” This language gives pointed, if undiplomatic, expression to continental antipathies that are by no means confined to France. In Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy peoples and governments are antipathetic to the principles represented by the stars and stripes. A dispatch from the Washington correspondent of the London Times that appeared on April 23 has attracted wide attention, because, after describing an interview with the president, the distinguished correspondent says that Mr. McKinley

! turns a somewhat “deaf ear to the ' warnings of the European continent.” j Do not let the American public make I any mistake about the facts. If Eng- | laud is unpopular on the continent it j is partly because she is strong, and | partly because she is not only free, but ; the friend of freedom in other lands, j : America is disliked among the despoti isins for the same reasons. Continental j powers know that the organized armed strength of the United States at the end of this war, let it end when it may, will make America a match for the great powers, whether in the Pacific or in the Atlantic. Foreigners perceive that the rescue of Cuba from Spanish brutality will introduce the United States into the circle of the great European powers. To her will fall the disposition of the Philippine islands, and i perhaps of Morocco — sweet morsels j hankered after by Germany, by Japan j and by France. With the direct entry j of the United States into the territorial j interests of the wide world her role in ' the drama of the next century will be a leading one. Furthermore, the policy of Spain may be to make of the war a succession ol slow campaigns, and thus to render the capture 'of Cuba but one incident in a long struggle. European nations, other than Great Britain, regard the approach to the shores of Spain of the J great western influence with feelings of abhorrence, dismay and surprise. They are beginning to see that while for Spain there are two ways out of. the trouble that besets her, for the United States there is but one. Whatever the cost, and whatever the sacrifice, the American republic cannot stay her hand until Spain has been driven out of her colonial empire in east and west. And, lastly, they know that whatever suffering may be caused to the Spaniards, and whatever steps are taken by the United States to insure victory, and however, needless the war may have been, America will command the firm friendship of England. I have taken pains-to discover the qualifications of the persons responsible for the principal attacks on America that have appeared in the London press, so far as they have come under my notice. In each case I learn that the writer has visited neither Spain nor the states. Alien influences have inspired utterances which no writer of true English blood could have penned. With regard to the working men and the middle classes there is nothing to report. Tno keenest interest is taken. Newspapers are published several times a day, including Sundays, but not a single daily paper of influence is found to break the consensus of anxious solicitude for the speedy success of American arms.— London Oor. Harper’s Weekly.

Give Him a Chance. “John,” she said, “you ought to punish that boy.” “What’s the matter with him?” he asked. “He’s altogether too dictatorial,” she replied. “He wants to rule everything.” “Ob, well,” he said, “let him enjoy himself while he may. He’ll marry some time and that’ll end it.”—Chicago Post.

German Hogshead Cheese. A Email pig’s head and pig’s feet, if you like. Clean thoroughly. Cover with cold water. Add salt and spices, one onion and a little vinegar if liked. Let it cook till tender. When cooked put on a board and slice and put in deep dishes. Take the liquor off it and strain through a cloth and pour over the meat. It is very nice when cold.

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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.—-Chesterfield. Per Week. We pay $20 per week and expenses for man with rig to introduce our Poultry Mixture. Send stamp for terms. Excelsior Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kans. •‘Why did Coit introduce an automobile in his last farce comedy?” “He was tired of hearing the critics accuse him of horseplay.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Gkove’s Tasteless Chill Toxic. Itis simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no p»v *iv\ • Self-respect is the corner stone of all virtue.—Sir John Hersehel. Piso’s Cure is the medicine to break up children’.* Coughs and Colds.—Mrs. M. U. Biunt, Sprague, Wash., March 8, ’M.

THE MARKETS. New York, Dee. 23. CATTLE—Native Steers—$ 4 40 6 2o COTTON—Middling . W* 7->a FLUUK-W inter Wheat.... 2 60 n U 2u WHEAT—No. 2 Red..... 72%to VI CORN—No. 2.. .... (y 4it^4 OATS—No. 2. to i'-J FORK—New Mess.. 10 00 to 10 75 t>r. Louis. COTTON—Middling . 7Vi@ ■ 7% bi.nv ;> . 4 00 44 0 in * Cows and Heifers. 3 25 to 4 55 CALVES—(per 100). 5 00 i-< 7 50 HOGS—Fair to Cnoiee7..... 3 65 to i to SHEER—Fair to Choice.... 3 25 <u too FLOUR—Fatems (new)_ a 45 w Other Grades..... 2 75 ty< WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter 60 to CORN-No. 2. it OATS—No. 2. frit YE—No. 2. TOBACCO—Lugs . 3 SO Leaf Biirley.... 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy (.new) lo oo BUTTER—Choice Dairy_ 20 BACON—Clear Rib.. .... ECGS—Fiesh ................ ..... FORK—StandardMess(new) .... LARD— Frune Steam.. .... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers.... 4 75 tu HOGS—Fair to Choice. 3 00 'a SliKEF— rail' to Choice— 3 50 to FLOUR— Winter Patents... 3 40 ty, Spring Patents... 3 20 (y, WHEAT—No. 3 Spring. 61 ® No. 2 Red ......... 6S <u CORN-No. 2. SOH-fi. OATS—No. 2. 24VPOItK—Mess... 8 .e fa KANSAS CITY 00 ‘.0 1 -3 12 to 8 ,>0 It 12 00 H4 12 vo M 2? to 17 to n oo to 5* 4 L> 4 50 3 -.'0 65 2-4 L CO 5 Si? 4 70 CATTLE—Native Steers.. HOGS—AH Grades. 3 75 WHEAT—No. i Red OATS—No. 2 White.. CORN—No. 2. NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade....— 3 30 CORN-No. 2. OATS—Western .. ..i. HAY—Choice .. 16 50 FORK—Standard Mess.— 10 00 BACON—Short Rib Sides... COTTON-Middling . LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. 71 CORN—No. 2. 33 OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 26 FORK—New Mess. 10 50 (it 11 c i ' BACON--Clear Ribs......... O'j COTTON—Middling .. 7*® 4 50 © to 60 to 24V* to Tys@ 2o’4 3 85 43 L at) 10 25 *3* *!4 72 Vj

’ CALENDAR FOR 1900.

JANUARY 8 X T W T F 8 30 81 19 20 2627 FEBRUARY 6 6 8 10 17 22123 24 29 80:81 2 9 1516 APRIL 7 1314^ 20:21 22 27 28 29 JUNE 5 11 1218 18 IS 20 25 26 27 22 28 29180

JULY 15 2 8 9 16 22 2S 29 30 I ♦ T f 3 10 17 24 31 25 18 19 26 AVGUST tt\ 19 20 21 26 27 28 2 9 15] 16 10 17 23 24 3031 SEPTEMBER 8 4 1011 12 171819 2425:26 13 14 20 2122 27 28 29 OCTOBER 1; 2! 3 8; 910 14 15,16|l7 21 22128 24 28|29 30j31 4 6 6 11 1213 18;19l20 25 26 27 NOVEMBER 1819 2526 2T28 1 2| 3 8 9 10 15 16 17 22|2824 29 30.. DECEMBER 8 91011 6; 7 1314 16117 18 19 20121 23)24 25 26 27|28 29 80S81j.I

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Her Modest Hint. He—Were you ever caught beneath the mistletoe? She—Perhaps you had better come around on Christmas and see if I ac# like one who has had experience.—Chicago Times-Herald. To Coro m Cold lo On* Soy Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. An old bachelor says that some women are born foolish, some achieve folly and the rest marry fools.—Chicago Daily News. Actors, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. After all, the question which disturbs men most, is how to earn more and work iess.—Atchison. Globe.

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