Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — A RISE IN PROVISIONS. [ARTICLE]

A RISE IN PROVISIONS.

The advance of all kinds of clothing and wearing materials, cigars and other manufactured articles affected by the McKinley bill has been followed during the past few days at Chicago by a decided rise in the price of provisions. Nobody has attempted to allege that eggs, beet and mutton, butterand vegetables and other necessities of the daily table had been affected by the latest tariff law, but all tbe same the provision doalers seem to have got it into their heads that as every other branch of retail industry is marking up its prices they have a right to be in fashipn. Many of the leading restaurants have increased their rates on their bills of fare, and those that retain their old prices have either re duced the quantity served or attached prices to the side dishes hitherto served without extra cost with the regular order. Altogether should prices continue it will cost both rich and poor fully 20 per cent more this winter for the necessaries of their tables than it did a year ago. Tratnffig Grapes' oh Trees, M. Crawfort). well-known Ohio nurseryman, says the natural support of the grape vine is the treo. He would er farmers to grow grapes on trees fcr their own use, if they have not time to grow them in any better way. Grapes rot less on trees than in vine yards. There is a right and & wrong way of even getting a vine into a tree. It will be a slow process to plant a vino at the root of an established tree and train it up the body. The proper way is to plant it at some distance from the tree, and grow it on a stalk u til the erd of the second year, By this time one should have a ripe cane six or eight feet high. It may then be trained into the branches, after which it will take care of itself. It will grow very rapidly until it reaches the top While growing fast it will develop few fruit buds, but when it can go no higher, and must grow horizontally, if at all, will bear abundantly-