Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 7

He Was Sure.

♦ “Drummers”—sometimes called commercial travelers—are like ministers and doctors, fond of chaffing each other. “I’ve a great story to tell you, hoys,” * said a drummer to a group In the corridor of the Iroquois last night. “I don’t think any of*you ever heard me tell It before.” “Islt areally good story?” asked one of the party, doubtlngly. “It certainly Is.” “Then I‘m sure you never told It before.”—Buffalo Times.

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AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Best Method of Preserving: Fodder Corn—How to Relieve Choked Cattle -Late Maturing- Potatoes Are .Moat Productive. Preserving: Corn. Fodder. ( A report from the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station says for two years past experiments were conducted to determine the best method pf preserving the corn plant for winter use. Four methods were tried. First, whole ensilage was made by running the newly cut corn through a cutter, reducing it to one-half inch lengths, then putting info the silo. Second, the ears were husked, cribbed, dried, ground, cob and all, and fed in connection with the stalks,-which had beeii previously cut and made into ensilage; this was called stover ensilage and meal. Third, the fodder was preserved In large shocks, and before feeding was ruh through 0 cutter, ears and all, and cut into onehalf inch lengths. Fourth, the corn was husked from the fodder, ground with the cob and fed with the stover, after it had been run through the cutter as needed from time to time, Samples from the material preserved by the different methods were carefully analyzed, and the fodder was fed to a herd of fourteen milch cows. It was found that each of the methods preserved about four-fifths of the dry matter harvested, the loss from each being practically the same in quality and in character. The fodders kept in the shpek lost more and more dry dry matter as the winter progressed. The ears In the silo during the last test lost more of their food value than those preserved in any other pray, this being the reserve of a previous test. The relative cost of placing the same amount of dry matter in the manger was greatly in favor of whole ensilage. Time and money spent in husking and .grinding the ears were wasted, as better results were obtained when the ears were left on the stalk. The ensilages were relished much better by the cows and they do better upon them. -—Farm News. Relieving Choked Cattle. “I have never known my method of relieving choked cattle,” says a writer In an English farm paper, “to fail in giving instant relief. I cut a stick about four feet long and one-half an inch through at the large end, with prongs like fork tines about one inch long at the small end. The stick wants to be straight and smooth. I generally cut a small gray birch. Then wind the prongs with yarn until well covered, and sew over and through this a piece of cotton cloth, making a ball some Inches In diameter securely fastened to the small end of the stick. Grease the ball well with lard, insert in the animal’s throaL and push it down the length of the stifk if need be, or until the substance is forced Into the stomach. Then withdraw the stick and the creature /will be relieved. I have been called In the night to go four miles to relieve an animal that had choked for hours. I relieved her in two minutes after the stick was ready, so that she commenced eating immediately. Two or three men had tried every way they knew for hours without success. The creature was choked with a potato.”

Late Maturing Potatoes. Most of the very large growers of potatoes plant mainly of the late-matur-ing varieties. There is a good deal of loss In marketing early varieties, especially those dug while their skin is stlil tender, and is broken by being rubbed against. In hot weather such potatoes rot easily, and though the price Is higher there is not so great profit as for the more productive later crop that can usually be marketed without Injury. Early potatoes do not generally produce heavily. Hot, dry weather shortens the crop, while with late- potatoes planted late much of the growth of Hie tubers is made after the heated term has passed. Fait Destroys Seeds. Wherever salt is sown so that It comes In contact with germinating seeds it will rot and destroy them. The first germ of seeds is very tender, and as It starts out the seed gives out some moisture which dissolves the salt. The effect of very small quantities of salt Is to decompose vegetation of all kinds. A large amount might pickle it and preverft decomposition. But either small or large. It Is destructive of tin; germs of vegetable life. But if there Is a great deal of rainfall the,salt Is dissipated, and so mixed with surrounding soli that little injury to the seed Is produced. 1 An Impromptu Filter. An Impromptu filter will be found convenient. Buy 5 cents’ worth of powdered charcoal; put It In a piece of flannel, together with some small stones—fine pebbles are best—and tie it to the spigot. T.he water running through this will be quite clear. Be sure you have coarse flannel, ns the charcoal sifts through muslin. If it ,ruris too slowly put something under the spigot and let it run while you are flolng something else and dip It out afterward. The increased clearness qf the writer will repay you. The Strawberry Patch. The family strawberry natch is not usually large, and can therefore be given the best of attention. Rake the beds and clear off all the refuse, or burn the beds over. Then sprinkle Rue bonemdal and muriate of potash over the rows, or use well-rotted manure that Is* free from litter, covering the beds with straw or salt hay. and placing cornstalks or brush on the hay. Early In spring remove the mulch and sprinkle nitrate *of soda orer the rows before the plants begin to grow.

Trees in Tilled Fields. A. few years ago we wrote on the expenslveness of keeping scattered trees left for shade In pastures In fields that every, fg\y years had to te broken up and used for tilled crops. The grass may or may not,be Injured under *he tree, according to Its variety and habit of growth. But wherever the field was planted with either corn or potatoes the blighting effects of the tree sapping the spll.of moisture were to be seen as far either way as Its roots extended.

At the time our views met much'severa criticism from those who regarded the trees'"as objects of beauty, and to b* spared, whatever they cost to the Farmer. But the loss from flowing, wasting seed, and labor In cultivating crops under trees and getting nothing In return has convinced most who a few years ago were critical that they were backing a luxury that not one farmer In ten can afford. Keep the trees If you wish in lgpd that is to be always in grass, but if It is to be plowed and cultivated, clear them out so that all the labor applied may have its fullest effect.—American Cultivator. Plowing and Reseeding. Within tl),e past few years there have been more than usual complaints of grass arid clover seeds not “catching” well, and of “running. out” after an apparently good seeding had been secured. Drought, or. bard freezing in winter, are corrimonly ijiyen ns reasons for these grass failures, But in many cases we suspect that this does not explain the whole difficulty. As vegetable matter in’ the soil decreases It 11 much more Injured by drought than It' is while the soil retained Its virgin fertility. Our climate is hot a moist one, like that of England, and our winter cold is much more severe. We cannot expect permanent grass either for- pasture or meadow. ' To plow and reseed every second or third year seems to be a necessity of good farming in our Northern States. Nor is this necessity any real hardship. The»first year or two after seeding the crop is always better than after, and then, too, there is the best sward to plow under. English turf may keep thickening as the years pass by, but out - grass lands are sure to grow thin. The longer the replowing is delayed, the more difficult it is likely to be to get a good catch with the new seedjng.—Ex. 1 J Keep Live Stock in Good Condition, It is the best and safest plan jto put all the live stock on winter rations in good time and before they beeome really hungry and lose flesh by the want of, nutriment in the food gathered from the fields. As soon as a frost has taken the starch out of the herbage and lessened its ability to nourish an animal the main supply of food should be given from the winter stores. To fall off now is to keep out of condition all the winter. It is quite possible to stallfeed an animal with success in the winter, but the consumption of food will be considerably increased over and above what would be required at any other season. It Is an old saying that an animal well summered is half wintered. It is perfectly true, for once the system is In a thrifty condition it is more easily kept so than it can be recovered from a lowered state of health and vigor. Thus just now it should be the effort to prevent any falling off in the condition and put all the stock into winter quarters in as fine a state of health as is possible.—Orange Judd Farmer,

Keep Flour from Taint. Flour should be kept with the greatest care, (as it takes on the odor of things about it, and becomes tainted almost as easily as do milk and butter. As It also becomes heavy and moldy in a damp place, it should be kept where weather changes will not affect it. The lightness and dryness of the flour, of course, has a great deal to do with the superior quality of the bread and cake made from it. When flour Is bought l>y the barrel, a patented convenience that consists of a swinging shelf that raises the barrel a few inches from the floor, so that the air may circulate freely about it, is liked by housekeepers who have space for It. Odds and Ends. > -v An easy way to remove spo'ts of paint from glass Is to make a strong solution of soda in hot water and - wash the glass with a flannel dipped in this. Tumblers that have been used for milk should never be put into hot water until they have first been rinsed in cold water. The heat drives the milk in and gives a cloudy appearance to the glass, which cannot be removed. Clothing that has become spotted and whose color has been destroyed by acids may have the color restored by applying ammonia and afterward chloroform. Occasionally your pet canary bird should be fed with’ a hard-boiled egg, chopped fine and mixed with cracker crumbs, giving it not more than a thimbleful of the mixture at a time. Farm Notes. There Is no charm-in slipshod farming. none in weedy fields, fences, fence corriers or barns, or with buildings in a general state of disorder. Before the ground freezes see that good drainage is provided around the stables and sheds, the fruit and vegetable pits and In the orchard. Turkey raising is becoming more profitable and-popular. Like sheep, they grow and fatten In the fields on what would be otherwise lost; besides, their eating of insects by the million is a benefit to the crops. A good crop of turkeys brings a tine income for a little expense. Their long legs enable them to move more easily anywhere. The fall is the time to ditch and till the land for drainage, as the work can be then done at less cost than at Any other period of the year. Lands in the West that have been tilled have gained sriffleiently in oye year, by the increased yield per acre, to more than pay the cost of drainage. Every year that wet land is left undraiued Is a loss or Just so much time that could be gained by drainage. , <* An orehahlist says: Peach trees will not bear choice fruit when growing in sod. In fact, there are few fruit trees that will not produce better fruit and more of it if. the grass Is prevented from growing near them. Fruit trees In poultry yattfs, where the ground is kept constantly bare of all vegetation, usually bear excellentfruit. Of course, some allowance mrist be made for the fertilizing benefits received from the droppings of the fbwls. In harvesting, as well as in storage, potatoes should be exposed to light as little as possible,, says Farmers’ Bulletin No. 35 of the United States Department of Agriculture. Ih storing potatoes a low temperature Is required. The potato tuber is uninjured by a temperature of 33 degrees F., And one authority gives the freezing temperature or potatoes 30.2 degrees F. Warmth favor* sprouting, which Injures potatoes, both for planting and eating.

GOOD ROADS

Roads Mast Be Roads.

There appears to be a growing Impression to the efferit that a road is a° place of passage from one point to another, and . that if it is anything short of that the ones accountable for Its condition may be held* responsible for the trouble that may be occasioned by Its faultiness. Passengers^injured in a railroad accident, occasioned by a defective roadbed or an imperfect rail, are very sure to sue for damages and to recover liberally. Any one injured, by a defective sidewalk can usually make a town or an Individual pay smartly for It. The spirit of the law seems to be that a railroad must be a railroad and in a condition to properly carry on its work in a business-like manner. A sidewalk must be kept in a safe condition for people to walk over it. Now, what about a road over which personsin vehicles must travel? Must it be a real road? Oh, no! Most any old thing will answer. It differs from a sidewalk and a railroad. They have to be what they pretend to be, but a wagon road may be simply a streak of mud or stones or anything else. No one appears to be responsible for the condition of the public road. It is supposed to just run wild and look out for itself. If any one is Injured or his vehicle is broken, it is the result of his own folly in presuming to use a road for traveling purposes. But the times change, and we are changed with them. Folks are beginning to apply the same rules to county governments as they do to city governments and private corporations. Accidents on public roads and bridges caused by defective conditions of the same have to be paid for by, the county. It is just.’ Good roads are cheapest In the long run. The reign of King Mud should be cut short.—L. A. W. Bulletin.

How to Work Country Roads. Much has been said and written about country roads and the proper way to construct them to Insure good ones the year round. But much of It applies only where gravel or crushed stone can be obtained with which to make a road bed unaffected by rains and standing water. In many sections of the country gravel can be had by hauling it from creek and river befls, and where it can be so obtained or purchased at a low figure the best possible use of time ahd money is In securing and spreading this upon a road bed previously gf#ded into the proper forni. If the gravel Is dumped upon a perfectly flat surface It becomes mixed with the soil during wet weather and soon is lost. The first thing to be done is to grade the road. The graveling or macadamizing can then be done at leisure. The upper Illustration shows the best form of the road. The dirt from the ditches at the sides is carried to the middle and left in a rounded form, highest In the center. Care must be taken to ipake the sides slope all the way from the center to the bottom of the ditches, or the water wrll stand in the sags and percolate into the roadway, making it soft and muddy. Make good outlets for these ditches tp carry the water off and keep tlfe road dry, and also that they may serve for outlets for tile and for all other farm drains. Keep the surface of the road smooth find free from sods, for those traveling” will irou maker martyrs of themselves and bqinp over the rough places to wear them down- if the sides are smooth. Leave the sods at one side. They will decay in a year or two. \ large amount of road work can be done in a short time with comfort to man and beast, by using one improved road graders. Four men with their teams make a good force; one man and team for the plow, the others for the grader. It will pay any town handsomely to invest in the most improved machinery for road work. When grading the road, be careful not to get the grade too wide. - Make It just wide enough for teams to pass. It will flatten out with use and wet weather. Water will less easily stand ou r narrow road. A great aid in keeping the road dry Is a row of tiles on either side at ,the outer edges of the grade. These should not be laid too deep, for the surface will become packed so that the water will not readily soak through. But if the glade Is tlie*proper form the watef will run off the'surface so rapidly that comparatively little will soak in; and as the tile and laying them add largely to the cost of the road they may usually be dispensed with. In the summer when the farmers aqe busy with their crops, the roads are usually, dry and any kind is good enough. The low price for which farm lands sell Is due in a'large measure to the poor highways. With better roads the value of the lands rapidly Increases. Examples of this can bo found in every county. Farms located along good, hard roads are in constant demand at prices far Jp excess of those situated at a distance from such roads. , Wherever other work will permit, farmers can well afford to give a few days’ work on the roads Instead bf feeling It a hardship to have to work the time required by law. Work them thoroughly, each neighborhood for Itself. The labor and time spent will return'one hundred fold In the increased value of property arid in the ease and comfort of traveling.—Farm and Home.

Wouldn’t Do for America.

When ladies go to, buy. a dress In Japan they tell the shopkeeper their age and if they axe married or dot, because there are special designs fortlie single and double relations -of life, as well as for ages. The consequence of .this painful custom Is that you can tell the age of every lady you meet, and know whether she is married, precisely as though she were labeled or you were a census taker. Did you ever know times to be so hard that yon had to do without pie? Then quit kicking, v* *

CATARRH IN THE HEAD.

A Constitutional Disease, Requiring . i a Constitutional Remedy. Catagrh in the head consists of inflammation of the mucous membrane in the nasal passages, and sometimes it extends to the air cavities which cover a considerable portion of the face. Cathrrh in the head frequently destroys the senses of taste and smell, and its tendency is always debilitating. The best authorities say catarrh is just as surely a constitutional disease as is scrofula. It is caused and promoted by impure blood. The teaching of experir ence proves that the true way to cure catarrh is to purify the blood. The one true blood .purifier is Hood’s Sarsaparilla.# Thousands of such statements have been written by honest, straightforward men and women; they have been published year after year; and their genuineness is beyond any possible question. If you are suffering from catarrh, do not dally with snuffs, inhalants and useless local applications. Take the direct road to health. Cleanse the stream at the fountain head. Purify your blood with the one true blood purifier, Hood’s Sarsaparilla. In a short time you will be convinced of the wisdom of this course. Hood’s Sarsaparilla will give you an appetite, ton# and strengthen your stomach, make rich, red blood and remote all the disagreeable symptoms of catarrh by permanently eradicating the causes which produce them.

Crushing.

The comment made on Lord Beaconsfield upon the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons, that he “went up like a rocket and came down like a stick,” was not more scathing than one recently applied to a rather conceited young I Men man, reported in thrf Westminster Gazette: In a certain Irish college the student at his oral examinations has to give his answers from a pulpit, before the board of examiners. Once a-student, who had no mean opinion of his attainments, ascended the pulpit with a self-satisfied and hopeful air. ’ The examiner, determined to “lower” him a little, plied him with a series of difficult interrogations. Hardly a single correct answer was given, and when his time had expired the student descended and returned to h-is place greatly crestfallen and humiliated. “Now,” said the victorious examiner when he caught the eye of his victim again, “if you had gone up as you came down, you would have come down as you went up!” - »

Farmers Feed Boston's Poor.

The benevolent generosity of the farmers enables the kind people of Boston to make a free distribution of fruit among that portion of the city population who would otherwise be denied even a taste of it during the season of ripening. The farmers as a class are not privileged'to bestow their gifts in money, but when they bring forward their offerings it is done in good measure and with a contagious heartiness. The poor people of the North and South Ends and in the city outskirts have reason to return their gladdest thanks both to the farmers and those who interested themselves in their substantial pleasure. Acts of this character perform a truer service in bringing about the conditions of social fraternity than the repetition of any number of precepts, without the support of practical illustrations.—Boston Courier.

The Modern Mother

Has found that her little ones are improved more by the pleasant Syrup of Figs, when in need of the laxative effect of a gentle remedy than by any other, and that it is more acceptable to them. Children enjoy it and it benefits them. The true remedy, Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only.

Let Home Stand First.

Let home stand first. No matter how high your :uuhition T 'nomatter bow far your talents or your influence may reach, before everything else build up a true home! Be not its slave; be its minister. Let it not be enough that it is swept and garnished, that its silver is brilliant, its food is delicious, but feed the love in it. Then from Its walls shall come forth the true woman and the true man. What honor can be greater than to find such a home? What dignity higher than to reign its honored mistress? Wliat is the ability to speak from a public platform, or the, wisdom that can command a seat on the Judge’s bench, compared to that which can insure and preside over a true home? To be the guiding star, the ruling spirit in such a home is higher than To rule an empire. ■ ! ■ - -

Bow's This!

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Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle tree. Large bottles, 50 cents and 81.00. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A slgQ in a restaurant reads: “Try our Electric pie. It Is full of currents.” To speculate In its original sense wgs to look out of the window. Like a touch of nature, which makes the world akin, the use of Glenn’s Sulphur Soap beautifies the complexion of young ladies in every part of the juniverse. Nobody works harder and gets less for It than ’“the hypocrite. .

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A New One.

"They say Brown Is married to a new Woman.” “Yes. I believe this is wla fifth.”— Cleveland Leader.

False Witnesses.

There are khaVes *ow and then Bet with who represent certain local bitter* and poisonous stimuli as Identical with or possessing properties akin to those of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. These scsmps only succeed In foisting their trashy compounds upon people unacquainted with the genuine article, which Is as much their opposite as day la to night. Ask and take no substitute for the grand remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism and kidney trouble. Sharks grow a new row of teeth for every year of their age until they reach maturity. The Jaws of a fullgrown specimen can be extended about eighteen Inches. Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers is the best, handiest, safest, surest, cleanest, most economical and satisfactory dye ever Invented. It is the gentlemen’s favorite. It disgusts us to see others doing the foolish things we do.—L. A. W. Bulletin. My doctor said I would die, bnt Piso’s Core for Consumption cured me.—Amos Kelner, Cherry Valley, 111., Nov. 23, ’95. Some floating soaps turn yellow and rancid. Dobbins’ Floatlng-Bo rai Soap does neither. The Borax In It bleaches It with age, and the odor is delightful. Try It once, use It always. Order a trial lot of your grocer. Insist on red wrappers.

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To California in 72 Honrs.

The California Limited, via Santa F«| Route, leaves Chicago 6 p. m., Wednea* days and Saturdays, reaching Los Aten geles tn 72 honrs and San Diego in 7« hoipi. Returns Mondays and Thurth days. Connecting train for San Franj cisco via Mojave. Through veatibuled equipment of saJ perb Pullman palace sleepers, buffet; smoking car and dining car. Moat lu*n urlous service via any line. T:j| Dally California express, carrying both palace and tourist sleepers, lea veal Chicago 10:25 p. m. For descriptive literature address On T. Nicholson, G. P. A., A. T. A S. F. By, Chicago. Agitation la the marshaling of th« conscience of a nation to monld Its laws.

Lane’s Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache; Price 25 and 50c, Tinware was first made In this country in 1770. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothiso Rrsuv for CUtecsa teething; softens the sums, reduces Inflammation, sUavs ssin, cures wind colic. X cents s bottle.