Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — Page 6

FARMS AND FARMERS.

«THE BATTLK WITH WEEDS. Weeds have not yet appeared, but they will be Up and get a start so early in the spring as to Completely cover the ground almost before it is "warm enough foFcFo^~""WeedsTare an enormous tax on farmers. They not only compel him to do more work than should be necessary, but they rob the soil, crowd out the plants that come from the seeds planted by the farmer and appropriate moisture that is required by crops. They seem to spring up in anight, are adapted to th ri ye up der the greatest difficulties. So many varieties of weedsexist that to exterm in ate one kind is to make room for another' Spring weeds, summer weeds;fall weeds,dry weather webds’, wet weather weeds, and weeds that stubbornly hold on at all times confront thefarmer. when his labor is the heaviest and his expenses the greatest Weeds seem to be a curse on farmers to remind - them of their own lack of management, for when the farmers make mistakes the weeds seem to see their opportunities and take possession of the farms. AVeeds come from seed and they pass through the winter safely. In fact, the farmer carefully preserves and protects them, giving them se;urity from frost, and turns them up to receive the warm rays of the Min in the first days of spring work. When the weeds are not all killed by even reaching into the fence corners and otiier harboring places for them .1 they produce seeds which are scattered in every direction. The farmer Comes along with his plow in the fall ind turns the seeds under, giving them a covering for the winter, keeping them safe from frost, and in the spring he turns them up to germ inate. Before the seeds which produce the crons can be planted the weeds get under wav and are able to destroy the crop by crowding the young plants. The farmer, therefore. protects tho weeds and keeps dis farm well stocked with a never failing supply. It is not an easy matter to kill out weeds after the regular crop, is planted. One of the best methods is to plow early, harrow the land md let the weeds grow. When they ire just appearing harrow well and wait again. By the time corn planting- arrives the weeds will have been well cleaned out. After the crop is olanted the cultivator and wheel hoe, »r even the hand hoe, may be relied apon to keep them down if the work is done when the weeds are young, Never let one weed produce seed. Some varieties produce millions of seeds from a single plant, hence every weed killed means-less labor the succeeding year. It may entail l heavy expense to endeavor to destroy all the weeds, but the expense the next season will be more than reduced correspondingly, .What should be done early is to give the weeds an opportunity to grow and then destroy them. ALL AROUND THE FARM. The milking qualities of cows are ilways injured by allowing them to suckle their calves. It is not necessary to ahow this even when the calf is to be fattened. Skim milk, if fed ilways at the warmth of new milk, ind enriched by the old process linseed oil meal, cooked and stirred in :t, will take the place of new milk. It will be no more trouble than to milk the cow by hand and feed the milk, and it will be better for the cow than to let the calf suckle her. The gain the first week on the oil meal may not be so much as by sucklingthe cow, but as the calf grows alder the oil meal and skim milk ration will have the advantage.

Ormond, “the horse of the century,” was purchased some time ago by W. O’B Macdonough,of California,for $150,000, the largest sum ever paid sot a horse. One of the first of his get in America is a filly by Fairy Rose which recently made its appearance at Palo Alto. Fairy Rose is a hall sister of the great Racine.ar.d with such a dam and such a sire as Ormonde the little filly should show great speed.

An experienced gardener recommends putting a toad in the hotbed to hold insects in-check. The man who goes on the market with any thing of “a superior q ual ity or excellence makes ready sales and a profit. The fact of feed influencing flavor and quality of meat applies especially to sheep/ It is undoubtedly true that an extensive grower of celery fed his lambs during the winter the roots and clippings, as he prepared his vegetable for the market, and gave their flesh a peculiar and delicious flavor.

vania State Board of Agricultun has issued a circular, which says: J. ‘‘l would Report the appearance ir Pennsylvania of that very perniciou. l insect, known as the San Jose scale. I '■ ack no w ledged W be one of the most destructive.posts that the fruit grower of the United States has to contend with. Twigs infected with this scale, obtained from a Central Pennsylvania fruit [grower/Sre thus described by the grower from whom they were re I reived: ‘A serious pest, which mul- . tiplies beyond anything that I have ever before seen in insect life. It I-will "cause much ' trouble unless 1 checked; It makes pears unsaleable; J it is worse on the Bartlett pear than i on,others, and this is our most common variety.’” Professor Howard states that the i San Jcse scale belongs to the same, j group of scale insects as the common I and well-known oyster shell bark I louse of the apple family. It -differs- ! from this insect, and in fact from all other Eastern species from deciduous fruit trees, jn that the-'scale is perfectly round, or at most very slightly elongated or irregular. It is fiat, -pressed-ctostr to the bark, resemble* the bark of the twig in color, and when fully grown is about one-eighth of an inch in diameter. At or near the middle of each scale is a, small, round, slightly—elongated, blackpoint, or this point may sometimes, appear yellowish. Professor Howard recommended | that where trees have been badly [ infested, the safest and, in the long run, the most- economical course to : pursue is to cut and burn trunks and branches. Where infestation is less marked, insecticide washes arid-sprays may be used. He favors the kerosene emulsion for destroying the young lice.and a preparation Of resin and caustic soda for the older scale. The formula for the latter preparation is as follows: Resin, 20 pounds; caustic soda. 70 1 per cent: strength, 5 pounds; fish oil, 3 pints; with—sufficient—water added to make 100 gallons. This is to be applied to the trees by means of a sprayer. Prof. Howard, in continuing his experiments with spraying mixtures for the destruction of the San Jose scale, writes to me as follows: “I i have found that while kerosene emul--1 sion treatment during the summer time is good enough, so far as it ' goes, the habits of the insect present it from being very effective, ' since they sire continually hatching j throughout the entire summer, and ' two days after hatching have formed enough of a scale to be nearly imper- ' vious to the emulsion. By these, sprayings with the emulsion at intervals throughout the summer, the insect can be kept from increasing, but its numbers can not be greatly decreased. The proper Spray is a strong whale oil solution immediately after the leaves fall in the au- ■ tumn, and again just before the buds burst in the spring. Having had experience with it in botKorchard and nursery, he said its period of incubation is in June, and again in the latter part of thq summer. After the insects are hatched, a speedy application of the kerosene emulsion will destroy them, but after the hard shell has been formed, caustic potash alone will answer. Owing to the danger connected with the use of this article the hands had better be protected with rubber gloves. The road question and the school question are intimately joined, for when our roads are perfect it will be possible to have one central graded school in each township.

THE GET OF A $150,000 SIRE.

■ Washington Star’ “I hear de jedge sentenced a fel ' ler dat had witnesses ter show he 1 was a said Reginald I de Burnme. i “Served 'im good and right foi i bein’ behind de times,” replied Clar I ence Fitz Hautbeau. “He ortei have knowed dat hypnotigm is-d( J swagger thing nowadays," Soma of the ocean steamers arose constructed Ithat they can be conJ verted into armed cruisers in thirty I hours.

THE SAN JOSE SCALE.

Not Fin de Siecle.

THE FAIR SEX.

England nas au,uOiF barmaids, The peasant women of Japan do not wear any form of head dress. Tadsu Sugie is the name of a Japanese young woman- who has been studying in Wellesley college three years, and who is now teaching in Osaka in a Christian school for girls. Mrs. Scott, the widow of Judge Luciep Scott, of Leavenworth, Kas., is the manager of her ranch in Texas, where she owns ,260,1)00 acres of land, all fenced in, and browsed over by between 6,000 and 7,000 cattle. The master of an ocean steamer, who has experienced several perils at sea, asserts that during times of disaster women are more self-pos-sessed and more heroic than men. Her Serene Majesty, Wilhelmina Helene Pauline Marie. Queen of the 7 Netherlands, is now a charming young girl of fourteen, whose life so far has been as unclouded and happy as though no cares of state were hangingover her head for the future. Her life is very simple. She rises at 7, goes the first thmg-tor-feav good" morning to her mother, and then at 8 has her breakfast, after which for three ho urs sh e is b usy with he r lessons and masters. Her first governess until she was four years old was a French woman, Mrs Liotard, who was then replaced by the Queen’s English governess, Miss Winter, who has been with her ever since. Queen--Wilhelmina is very -bright and clever, and studies hard, so as to learn everything that the ruler of a kingdom should know.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ” An electric hair curler is a new thing. Roquefort cheese is made of sheep’s milk. • " ’ . \_- In Jerusalem there are 135 places where liquors are sold. The army and navy of England cost $160,000,000 a year. Lime is sometimes added to snuff, to increase its dryness and pungency. It is asserted that the dormouse is a link between the rat and the squirrel. At a distance of seven miles above the earth no human being can ; | Nearly all the glass eyes used in the worid are made in Thuringia, Germany. I A self-propelling bicycle is a Swedish invention. It'is run by a little gasoline motor. I Coal is dearer in South Africa than (n any other part of the world, and is cheapest in China. | Waves recently dashed over the lighth'Ouse at, Ttitlttnook, Washington.— This is the greatest record for the height of waves,, as the lighthouse is 136 feet above the level. i The Chinese Empire is divided into eighteen grand provinces, representing an average area each of 248,Di)o square miles. The German Empire contains 211,000 square miles, the French Republic 240,000, and the British Isles 121,000. I The terror inspired by the Japanese armies in the East is greatly enhanced by the fact that they make no noise. They march with no I bands, no drums beat reveille or I tattoo, and in action the Japanese utter no cheers. The officers have a code of signals by whistling that serves to direct the movements of the troops.

The proposed railroad bridge across the Hudson River, New York City,will besuspension structure with a clean span of3,loofeet and will co«t $23,000,000. It must be completed in four years and six railroad tracks will cross it. The New York end of the bridge will be between 59th and 69th streets.

The shipping of all nations is of the approximate value of $1,100,000,000, while the 110,000 locomotives at work represent a value of 1,000,000,000. The railways give employment to 2,394,000 people, while shipping employs only 705,000. Few of the great vocalists wqre total abstainers from intoxicants. Malibran, before singing, drank Madeira and ate sardines; Garcia stimulated herself with coffee and brandy. and Dumesnil worked himself into a high state of fervor with two or three bottles of champagne.

HorSnshoCT,Aificl TTuntfiea" dt Fagots Paid to the English Crown. Suit and service for the desirably properties known as "The Forge,” in—Sb- ClcmenF Danes, —and ”Th< Moores,” in the County of Salop, were duly paid by the City of Lon • don to the crown-, says the London Telegraph, .the rent consisting of six horseshoes, sixty-one nailsand tw<j bundles of fagots, one of which h,a4to be cut with an ax and the other with a bill hook. Mr. Crawford, the LeUy-solieUor,- aeted as wood cutter, , the Queen’s remembrancer officiated as referee, and the interesting eere-” mony took place at the law court* in the presence of a number of ladies and gentlemen. For 600 years and more the rent has neither been raised nor lowered, but has always consisted of the same number of nails and the same number of cut fagots. The Queen’s remembrancer." Master Pollock, explained to the company that, though now the idea of rent was something paid in hard cash, originally it was some service or thing rendered, and that in former days, when lands were granted by great lords and knights to tenants, it was on the promise to furnish horses, men and so on. In process of time these services come to bq exceedingly icksome and—troublesome and.-were commuted into a money payment. An ancestor oi Sir Walter Scott held certain lands by payment of one red rose per annum. The rent paid by the city in the reign of King Henry lit for the properties mentioned had never been commuted.

Wild Geose and the Weather.

London Daily News. It is often said that the unusua'ly early appearance of the autumn migrants, the fieldfares and redwings, the ducks and geese, and the waders, whose name is legion, is a portrait of a hard winter. It was the opinion of Michelet that meteorology had much to learn from the movements of birds. “Would to heaven,” he says, “that Napoleon, in September, 1811, had taken note of the premature migration of the north! From the storks and the cranes he might have secured the most trustworthy information. In their premature departure he might have divined the imminency of a severe and terrible winter. They hastened towards the south, and he — ■ he remained at Moscow.” Hot Head—Then I’m a liar? Cool Head Lr-A)n the contrary, my dear fellow, you | have just spoken the truth.

THE HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE.

When a rain-storm is impending, swallows fly close to the earth. This is because the insects they pursuS are then near the ground, to escape the moisture of the upper air. □ Two young men found the sermon rather dull in a church at Belle Grove, Pa., and became interested in a revolver which one of them had drawn from his pocket. The pistol accidentally exploded and the sermon suddenly’ceased. As a punish ment the two young men had to sit for threq Sundays on the rostrum with the minister.

QUEER KIND OF RENT.

TWO OF A KIND.

Transplanting a Big Tree.

Lowell (Mass.) Mail ‘ Just bef6're ; rifidnight" one night in' themiddle of February last a cherry thee with earth attachfed.weighing twelve and three-quarters tons, began the passage from the Jefferson Fletcher streets, to the grounds of* ex-Mayor Field’s residence in Middlesex street. The tree was on a sled, and the way it got off there is an interesting stoty. During the cold snap a trench was dug around the tree, which is an old one and grown on the grounds. The trench described a circle six feet from the tree. It was several feet deep.. The tree was up so that it could not fall, and then the earth was dug from under the roots until the tree stood free except that a platformofear th two feet deep and twelve feet in diameter clung to it. The roots and the frost held the earth in tact. Then the tree was tipped over gently with jacks to measure its length on the ground, so that the twelve-foot circle of horizontal earth was made perpendicular. More jackscrews were used to raise the circle of frozen earth so that the sled wa's slipped under it, and then it was lowered, and the horses pulled the combination out of the. orchard. Wooden shears braced the reeling tfeee on the sled. All this was done a couple of weeks ago. The earth cracked during the work, and the cracks were plastered with mud and allowed to freeze tight. An English journalist says that President Faure, of France, is showing much more tact than CasimirPerier displayed. The latter expected more from his office than the French people were willing to grant him. He thought the Presidency meant power when it really meant posing. *‘M. Faure,” however, says the English writer, “may live in peace so long as he confines himself to the' role of master of ceremonies of the French Republic.’’ An inmate of the House of Refuge for Women at Rondout, N. Y.,had an instiable thirst for red ink and drank it on all possible occasions. She wasted until sfavbecame almost a skeleton and thendied.

One Box Did the Business.

Harrison Thurston, of North Conway, N. H., writing under date of Nov. 21, 1893, to the Sterling Remedy Co., of Chicago, says that his brother was completely cured of smoking and chewing tobacco by using one box of No-to-bac, and is now recommending No-to-bac to tobacco users. The bluebird is tho bird of spring, but the buck-beer connections of that seasbn Would seem to make the swallow more appropriate. No Tunnel! No Dirt! No Smoke! On and after April Ist, 1895, all through trains Of IffirCrg* 1-Vrar Route -win arrive ahtt- departfrom st. Louis, via the New Merchants’ Bridge and Elevated Railway. A “daylight ride’’ into St. Louis! No smoky and dirty tunnel! A beautiful ride of four miles along the river front! All trains enter New Union Station. E O. McCormick, Passenger Traffic Manager; D. B. Martin, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Take the QUEEN & CRESCENT to Florida The only line running Parlor, Cate and Obser ration Cars South.

That Tired Feeling

Is a certain Indication of impure and impoverished blood. If your blood could always be rich and pure, full of the red corpuscles upon which its vitality depends, you would never be weak, or Nervous! Bpils, pimples, scrofula, salt rheum.would never trouble yoir.But our mode of living, shut in all winter in poorly ventilated homes and shops, depletes the blood, and there is loss of appetite.and weakness. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the standard remedy for this condition. It purilies, (vitalizes and enriches the blood, overcomes that tired feeling, builds up the nerves and gives perfect health. Read this: “Our daughter, Blanche, when four years of age had a humor break out on her hands and face, which our physician pronounced eczema. If the cold air reached her face or hands they would swell up. look almost purple, and headed blisters would form and break,

Hood’s Sarsaparilla is file Only True Blood Purifier

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A WAR ECHO.

EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN DESERVES HIS PENSION. And the Lone Limb Is Not the Ont* Reason for a Government Rewacg Either. l/rom Journal, Lewiston. Ife.) Samuel R. Jordan has just given th| Journal an account of his life, which i» view of his extremely hard lot for the pas) few years will be read with interest. “1 am 48 years old and have alwayi lived in New-Portland. I enlisted in th< army in 1862 as a private im-Companj A, Twenty-eighth Maine Volunteers. Mj army experience injured my health It some.extent, although I worked at blacksmithing some part of-the.time, when s.ud-.. denly, several years ago, I was prostrated with what able physicians pro nounced Locomotor Ataxia. At first 1 could get around somewhat yet the disease progressed quite rapidly until I had hardly any feeling in my legs and feet, they felt like sticks of wood and I grew so much worse that I could not move foi three years without help, as my neighbors and friends could testify. - I employed several' physicians in my vicinity, and elsewhere, and they all told me that medicines would not help me, that they could do nothing to effect a cure and that in time I should become entirely helpless. 1 became discouraged. I was a great cars to my wife and friends. Shortly after 1 met an old army comrade, Mr. All. Par* lin, a resident of Madison, Maine, and b« incidentally mentioned how he had tried Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for a severe cas« of rheumatism and a spinal and malarial troublje, that he had suffered with consequent of his army life, and had been greatly benefited by their use. By his earnest recommendation I was induced to try the pills. After taking them for a time I began to feel prickly sensations in my legs and a return of strength so 1 could move them a little. After a few weeks L began to feel a marked improvement in my condition. I soon was enabled to walk around a little with the help of crutches. After taking for some tima I can now walk without crutches, my general health is much improved and I have regained my old-time vigor. I can walk about and enjoy life once more, for which I feel very thankful, and this happy result is due to the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy; that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now; manufactured by the Dr. Williams’-Medi'-cine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., amj are sold in boxes (never in loose form bjj the dozen or hundred, and the public arq cautioned against numerous imitation* sold in this shape)' at 50 cents a box, on six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr, Williams’ Medicine Company. Fall fashions can never be popular with an aeronaut.

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY.

Frank J. Ciikney makes oath that he Is th< senior partner of the firm of F. J.C hbney & Co., doing business in the City of Toled j County and State aforesaid, and that said ma I will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLt LARS for each and every case of CATABKij that cannot be cured by the use of Hai.l’s Ca; TARRHCurk. FRANK J. CHENEY ' Sworn to before tne and subscribed in ml presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 188<| A. W. GLEASON, J I —> Notary Publte. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testlmonirls, tree. F. J. CHENEY AGO., Toledo, O, OST 7Sc. Sold by Dr.ig<j«.t3. 75c. , Nine belles of BeaVer Dam, Wis., have had a wood-sawing match. The sawing was easy, but the effort to sfty nothing must have been a strain.

Pennsylvania Lines.

On Tuesday, May 7, will sell home seeker’s excursion tickets to points in Miciiigan. at on< fare for the round trip. Call on agents, No. 41 West Washington street. No. 46 Jaokson Uaoflj Union station, Indianapolis, Ind.

Discharging a watery fluid, and the burning and itching would drive her nearly wild. Unless wo incased her little hands she would tear patches of skin from her face and hands. We tried many doctors and many remedies and at last gave the case up as hopeless, But our daughter Cora tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla, to cure a scrofulous lump near the left breast which caused hei much pain and after taking 4 bottles 11 disappeared. Blanche, who is now eleven, had spent seven years of suffering, so I concluded to give her Hood’s Sarsaparilla. She took fivf, bottles and hor face is smooth and soft as a baby’s, the color of arose petal. H' r hands are soft and white, when four months ago they were blue and red and calloused nearly like leather. I cannot express my gratitude by pen or mouth. It seems a miracle and out friends are surprised.’’ Mrs. Anna L. Clabk, 401 E, Fourth St., Duluth, Minn.

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