Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Page 3

FARMERS GORNER

Comb Sections. The most attractive way of offering honey to purchasers Is the pound sections. These are made of thin board,

POUND SECTION.

box nails. The eigbth-lnch space on each side .of the frame is to receive a sheet of glass, of which the sides are made when the sections are Aided by the bees. A small piece of comb is glued to the top of the frame, to induce the bees to begin work, as well as to secure straight combs. White glue is used for ibis. These section boxes are fitted in frames, three in each, so as to fit in the cover of the hive. Thin boards to separate the combs and keep them in the sections, are placed between the frames of sections. It is not necessary to keep these sections on the hive after

CRATE AND SECTIONS FILLED.

they are filled; It is customary to take out and put them In boxes ready for shipment, when the best time cornea for selling the honey. Fig. 2 shows a box filled with sections of which there are two rows of seven each in the box*. The boxes are closed by a lid fit In, .in one end, and fastened by hooks as shown. Feeding: Apples to Cows. We do not wonder that there is so strong prejudice against allowing cows, and especially milk cows, to eat apples. For the most part It is well grounded, says the Boston Cultivator. While it is possible to give a milking cow a few ripe apples without drying up her milk perceptibly, that is not the kind of apples she usually gets. If the cow is In an orchard where apples are falling, she runs every time she hears one drop and eats it greedily, however wormy, sour, green and bitter it may be. All apples have some malic acid in them, even including those that we call “sweet.” This malic acid, together with the tannin that is found in the apple peel, and especially in green, small apples, contracts the cow’s stomach. If she eats much of such fruit It gives her the colic. The cow’s stomach wasn’t made to digest such stuff, and so sure as It Is put Into her stomach there are iriot and rebellion. Every one knows that giving vinegar to cows and rubbing her uder with vinegar will dry her off. We believe that allowing cows to eat apples, even If they are ripe, has a bad effect on their milk production. lEprinsr Crain Amons- Winter Wheat. Wherever winter grain, either wheat or rye, follows oats and barley, there will always be some scattering seeds shelled in harvesting, and if the grain has been left till overripe the seeding with scattered seeds wHI sometimes amount to as much as is sown of the winter grain. When we sowed wheat after oats and barley we used first to go through the grain stubble and harrow the surface pretty thoroughly. There was a double advantage tn this, as it keeps the soil from drying out, and it also buried the scattered seed deeply enough to make it germinate when light rains fell. Then when plowed under the sprouted grain helped to keep the soil moist still longer, and it was not tn the way of the winter grain when sown. In some parts of the windy Wtet this spring grain is considered an advantage as helping to protect the wheat, but all Eastern winter growers regard spring- grain among their seeding as only a nuisance and injury. The Moultlnir Reason. The hens that have been laying and setting during the summer will In the tall begin to moult, putting off their old coat of feathers for a new one, and during this time they will not produce very many eggs, but do not neglect them on that account The drain on their system in the production of a new suit of feathers is the most trying one they are called-upon to endure and unless they are fed well during this time they will go into the winter in poor condition, and will not produce • eggs in any large amount during the cold months. What the hens need is nitrogenous feeds mostly. Give them corn once a day and for the remainder of their rations feed a mixture of wheat and oats with buckwheat and sunflower seeds. Give them plenty of milk, sweet or sour, to drink, and keep a supply of pure water where they can get at it at any time. Bone meal or oyster shells may be fed with profit during the moulting season.—Field, Farm and Garden. Irrigation and Flowers know the difference between

o n e - e 1 g hth inch thick Is usual, two pieces are of 5% inches long and 2 wide, the other two are a quarter inch thick, 5 inches long and l%wide. These are nailed together with %-inch cigar

with barrels from the hydrant, and they will at best simply hold their own. Generally they wither In the long, dry seasons, and that without regard tn the artificial wetting they may receive from the gardeners. But let a little shower, however brief, fall upon them and they brighten visibly. The difference Is that the rain brings down with it through the air or collects in the air a chemical quality that the vegetation needs. The rainwater may be as like that in the lake as two volumes of water can be, but when it has ridden the upper levels of the atmosphere, when it has traveled through the various stages of vapor and liquid, and has tumbled down through that retort of the air, it has became charged with elements that no man can give it, and the flower knows and recognizes it, as the first field flowers recognize it in the beginning. Topping Corn. Old farmers can remember when it was common practice to cut off the tops of corn two or three weeks before harvesting it to let the sun in so a» to ri pen the ears better. It was then generally thought that the sun shining on the stalk was a great help to ripening. Now It ie known that it is the sunshine on the leaves that enables them to draw carbon from the air to furnish sweetness to the stalk and starch to the grain. The stalk next the ear, which used to be left uncut until killed by freezing, is now known to be the richest in nutrition, next to that is the stalk farther down, and poorest of ail the stalk above the tassel and the tassel itself. This is only a blossom, and the male blossom at' that. It has when dried hardly any nutriment, and even when green it has tittle saccharine matter. v Cheap Way to Fatten Animali. Buy a piece of mountain land as fertile as possible; fence it up and clear out the undergrowth and sow in different kinds of grasses; also, clovers, both red and white; also, plant plum trees around in part of it very thickly; if possible have a clear, ever-running brook in the lot, and let the cattle and hogs run on all this patch. Then have a patch of corn and peas. Pull your fodder, also corn, when ripe. Pick what peas you need for seed and turn your beef cattle and hogs on this. After grazing on the pasture till fall let them eat the peas and vines, and then take them out and stall-feed them on the corn, to harden the meat. You will thus have corn, beef and fine pork and lard.—H. A. Cooley. Improve Your Cattle. It is probable that prices of beef will be higher during the winter, and if so there should be a profit in cattle. It may be that refrigerator beef will be an obstacle in the way, but the usurpation of the market by such beef has been due to the inferior cattle and the difficulty of getting a constant supply of choice beef in the Bast compared with that sent reedy dressed from the West. When Eastern farmers become prepared to supply cattle of the best quality they will posses local advantages that will give them control' of the home markets, but they must first improve their breeds.—Philadelhia Beeord.

To Keep Cider Sweet, Pure sweet cider is only obtainable from clean, sound fruit, and consequently the apples should be carefully examtoed and wiped before grinding. That made from decayed fruit will be filthy and sour in the begitantng, and nothing wdl make it sweet and fit to go into a human stomach. Good cider may be kept sweet several months by placing in each barrel immediately on making the folowing ingredients: Ground mustard, 4 ounces; salt, jl ounce; ground chalk, 1 ounce; alcohol, 1 pint Shake well and keep in a cool cellar. A ce Limit of Blackberries. Blackberry stems or canes will last about three years, but the roots, If well cultivated, will live and produce new canes and fruit for many years. A recent bulletin from the United States Agricultural Department at Washington, tells of a blackberry patch In Michigan that was planted in 1856, and is still in vigorous growth and bearing. Farm Notes. Blight Is depriving the market of the best varieties of pears. The Bartlett is giving place to the Kelfer, the latter being less liable to blight, but its fruit does not equal the Bartlett. Until some sure remedy Is discovered for pear blight the Bartletts will become scarcer every year. If there Is a poor place on the farm do not neglect it as worthless, but endeavor to Improve it It is possible that such a piece of land may require drainage or should be limed, and sometimes a green crop plowed.under may make an improvement The poorest of soils can be Improved. The land that produced potatoes this year may be infected with disease, and it will be proper to plant potatoes on some other location next year. It will be in order this fall to lime the potato plot which will greatly aid In destroying the spores of fungi and thus assist in lessening the liability of scab or some other disease in the future. All potatoes taken from the land should be carefully examined before storing them for the winter,' as any that are unsound will affect the whole. In the use of ashes on land in place of potash salts the farmer also applies considerable lime, I which is largely found in the ashes, and much of the benefit to the soil from the ashes is due to the lime. Ashes are excellent on sandy soils, and are also one of the best fertilizers that can be used on clover, beans, peas and other leguminous crops. When purchasing ashes they should be procured only from reTA < A J A--** 1 « . .

BOER WAR IS BEGUN.

BURGHERS CROSS FRONTIER s AND SEIZE A TRAIN. Thia !■ Declared to Be the Outbreak of Hostilities—Diplomatic Relations Be* tween the Two Governments Broken Off—Telegraph Lines Cut. The Boer war in South Africa has begun.’ According to information from Pretoria by way of London Wednesday the understanding that a state of war already existed was given official confirmation by a proclamation issued by Sir Alfred Milner. The proclamation declares that ail persons aiding or abetting the enemy will be guilty of high treason. The limited cable service between London and South African ports was so congested with official dispatches Wednesday night that little news matter could be handled. While no word had been received up to a late hour Thursday morning that actual fighting had begun in the Transvaal, it was taken for granted that war had begun. It was known that Conyngham Greene, the British agent, had left Pretoria. The first act of war was reported in a dispatch to the London Telegraph. It told of the Boers having seized railroad property belonging to the English colony. The British patrol was stoned by the burghers between Ladysmith and the Orange Free State border. Intense excitement prevailed in Cape Town Wednesday as a result of the Boers’ move, which seemed to make war certain. Orange Free State burghers were reported to have already entered Natal, crossing the frontier thirty-seven miles below Newcastle, which the Boers, advancing from the north and west, were expected to occupy. Transvaal troops of the commanders north of the Buffalo river were reported on the move. The British first-class cruiser Powerful, Captain Lambton, arrived at Cape Town, having 500 infantry on board. Many of the Cape Dutch left to join the Boers. England’s reply to the Boers’ ultima--turn was short and dignified, merely acknowledging the receipt of the Transvaal’s note. It was delivered at Pretoria Wednesday. All London seemed to be carried away by the war spirit Patriotic airs at the theaters caused the wildest enthusiasm. Soldiers on the streets* were cheered as heroes. The staid members of the Stock Exchange unfurled the union jack and the royal standard, and sang national airs like a crowd of schoolboys. Several London papers printed New York and Washington dispatches to the effect that America’s sympathies are with Eng-

LAING’S NEK, THE PASS ON THE TRANSVAAL BORDER.

land, and also the statement that English subjects in the Transvaal are to be looked after by American consuls. It was reported in London Wednesday that a body of Orange Free State Boers had crossed th£ Natal border at Gundy Leugh Pass. This is one of the less Important passes over the Drakensberg and lies twenty-seven miles west of Glencoe and about thirty southwest of Newcastle. Also that a party of Orange Free State Boers had been detected by carbineer scouts in Natal territory, near Berg. Seeing that they had been observed they immediately retreated. Commandant Ben Viljoen, in command of the Orange Free State artillery, began a march to Albertina, the first railway station beyond Van Reenens* Pass, in the Orange Free State.

ARMY MULES KILLED.

Animals Mangled to Death on Transport S-'iaw During Typhoon. The United States transport Siam, which left San Francisco Sept. 9 with upward of 330 valuable mules, the coming of which had been anxiously awaited at Manila, as mules are in great demand for continuing the campaign, arrived Friday morning and reported that all but nineteen of the animals had been lost in two severe typhoons under peculiarly distressing conditions. The Siam, which left Honolulu thirty-one days previous, encountered the typhoons early last week. One lasted forty hours. Most of the forage, which waa on deck, was swept overboard, aU the boats were smashed and the steamer rolled tremendously in the trough of tibe sea, although the officers made every effort to bring her about The mules were hurled from side to side and frightfully mangled. Their legs and necks were broken and the wretched animals fell in such a confused mass that the attendants were unable to relieve them. In the meantime the deck load was washed off, the ship lightened and the rolling increased. When the storm abated the injured animals were killed and their carcasses thrown overboard. When the Siam arrived her propeller was high out of the water and the wrecks of her boats were hanging from the davits. The loss of the animals will be greatly felt by Gen. Otis, who needed them tor transportation of supplies to the cities and towns held by the American troops. Gen. Otis recently cabled the War Department that the animals shipped would be zufficient to meet all requirements until the animal transports could return to San Francisco for more, so that it was unnecessary to charter more freight vessels. It wfll now be necessary to procure .. ... . . f

HANDING OUT AMMUNITION TO THE BOERS.

M’KINLEY’S TRIP WEST.

Presidential Party Visits. Many States and Travels Over 5,000 Mlles. President McKinley’s visit to Chicago was a halt in his swing around the circle, which began at Washington on Oct. 4 and which ends there with his return on Oct. 19. The itinerary of this trip has taken him over several loops and through many States, and was arranged for many stops. The train left Chicago Wednesday night The first stop was at Terre Haute, Ind., then down to Evansville. He returned to Chicago Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock. Every halt was scheduled and timed from there to Savannah, 111., and thence to St. Paul, to West Superior, Duluth and Fargo. From the last named city he returned to Minnesota, then back into Dakota and to Sioux City, lowa. The train crossed lowa, making

seventeen stops. Galena, IH., was visited on Oct. 16, and the train then went whizzing into Wisconsin. Stops were made at Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Waukegan, and on Oct. 17 the President was in Chicago once more, passing on to Kalamazoo, Mich. A stop was made at Jackson the same evening, and the next stop was at Toledo, Ohio, at night At Cleveland he stopped twelve hours. His other Ohio stops were at Warren, Niles and Youngstown. He was to reach Pittsburg at 12:35 a. m. on Oct 19 and eleven hours later he would be back in the depot of the Pennsylvania road at Washington. He will have traveled 5,009 miles before finishing the trip.

PRESIDENT M’KINLEY’S TRIP. 5,009 MILES LONG.

Ten thousand veterans of the blue and gray and visitors were crowded about the railroad station at Evansville in spite of a heavy rain, to welcome the President and his party upon their arrival from Chicago. The Presidential salute was fired, whistles were sounded and all the bells in the city rang. The President was driven at once to the Tri-State fair grounds, escorted by the Cleveland Grays. At the ceremonies there Mayor Akin presided. Gov. Monnt, tor the State of Indiana, and C. A. De Bruler, for the city, made addresses of welcome, after which the President spoke.

Army and Navy Notes.

Naval officers prefer Chinese and Japanese as servants. The marine hospital service employs about 250 physicians. Improvements are to be made in the gjjTimwmif’s jiiTf— factory at Indian Hoad.

GENERAL ADVANCE BEGUN.

Troops of Lawton and Mac Arthur Ara Pushing Northward. A special from Washington says that a general advance along the American lines in Luzon has been begun, and War Department officials expect reports of some heavy fighting soon. Official dispatches received and not made public show that both Gen. Lawton and Gen. MacArthur are moving northward with their forces, the purpose being to get control of the railroad and the important towns as far north as possible. Eventually it is Intended to send an expedition by water to Lingayen, near the northern terminus of the railway, so as to flank the enemy. This expedition, however, will not start until additional troops have arrived. Meanwhile the divisions under both Lawton and MacArthur will push to the north as far as they can. According to statements made at the War Department this advance is to be made permanent. There are to be no more towns taken and then abandoned. With the additional troops which have arrived during the rainy season, and others to follow, Gen.’ Corbin says there will be a sufficient number of- troops availaide to garrison towns as fast as they are taken, and still leave a formidable force for continuing the onward movement. Gen. Schwan’s column occupied San Francisco de Malabon Tuesday without encountering any opposition. In the advance from Rosario, the Americans met with small bodies of insurgents, who, however, quickly fell back. The activity of the rebels on the south seems to have received a quietus in the sharp fighting about Novaleta. The natives about Manila made an attack near La Loma Church and on the railroad and telegraph lines.

TO SUPPLANT OUR PORK.

Powerful Foreign Company to Compete with American Exporters. A powerful company composed of French, German and Russian capitalists, with a capital of over <50,000,000, has been formed for the purpose of competing with the American pork exporters in Europe, particularly in England, Germany and Scandinavia. The plan is to raise hobgs on a large scale in Siberia. It is claimed that this can be done cheaper than in the United States. The hogs will be shipped alive over the Siberian Railroad to the northwestern frontiers of Russia, where immense slaughter houses, on the American plan, will be established. Thence the pork will be sent by water to English ports and by rail to Germany and Scandinavia. In spite of the enormous dis* tance, it Is asserted that such Siberian pork can be brought to Europe cheaper than American pork. This, it is pointed

out, is due to the low cost of production in Siberia and the cheapness of transportation on the railroads.

ENORMOUS RAILWAY EARNINGS.

Receipts on Many Roads Exceed All Expectations. The budget of railway earnings which was announced in Wall street, New York, Wednesday, tells of enormous railway receipts. The expenditures which have been made upon the important systems have caused substantial reductions in operating expenses, which are reflected in all of the recent reports. One of the most astonishing statements was that of the Southern Pacific Company. During the month of August its gross earnings increased <894,055 and its net earning* increased <423,453. For two months ending Aug. 31 the gross increased <1,583,796 and net increased <670,263. Rock Island Increesed for Aurast. com f 609, and net <115,055.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELyJ told. —— - - JStarke County Preacher Predicts World*. End Soon Natural Gas| ply at Peru Deficient—Woman FOUIhM Htuband Wa» Kmbalaed AHVS,| The Rev. Dr. J. T. Boyd, a Stzrjl County preacher, predicts that | will come to an end soon, and, to be BtHlB specific, he has fixed upon Nov. 11, 189|| J as the date for the earth’s dissolttpafli I He bases his prophecy upon science Biblical facts. The Rev. Mr. Boyd'. S*y«W that the earth passes through a stre*w|| of meteors in different places evsoH thirty-three years, and that on the datjg® above mentioned the world will come ianS contact with the solid bodies that the head of this meteoric stream. SIM® thus cause the extinction of the hnauMM race. ® Gas Shortage at Peru. The Peru branch of the Dietrich nral gas syndicate announced that gM||j will be turned off at all factories, publie® buildings, gas engines and other piaCM||| where much gas is used. It is claimed! the pressure is so low that gas cannot W \ supplied without pumping, and the confr*® pany will not put in a station unless thm® city will compromise its suit for a one*® third reduction of rates which is now? pending in the United States Supremg§| Court. Oil drillers and pumpers will btSi greatly affected by the cutting off ots®; their engines. j Sensation at Summitville. Summitville is excited over the an-® nouncement of Mrs. Edward Hunter flMrijflj; her husband was embalmed before he|| was dead. She said that after the undctj! taker left, she held a mirror to his noa-i s trite, and the surface was soon cover*aflL with moisture. She became The doctor and undertaker say the mad® was dead. | j Within Our Border*. i j Miss Nellie Etchison, 18, Elwood, missing. ] Mrs. Earl Parks, Martinsville, has gone® to New York to ring in a series of con-'’l; certs. Howard Satterfield, DeSoto, accideraHj ally shot and killed hie brother, 20, a shotgun. 1 Mrs. Edna Matthews, took “rough on rats” successfully. Causa®! unknown. * | Ezra Woodring, Muncie, arrested friF:|| keeping his grocery open on Sunday, w«i9 fined <21.35. 1 It is proposed to build a telephone IfnKu along the Ohio river from Madison w® New Albany. 1 A fine two-story brick house in was torn down the other day because it | was “ha’nted.” | Logansport high school football teaa*||; has challenged anything within a radtos?| of fifty miles. • | Time lock in the Citizens’ State Hartford City, got out of whack an<f' <75,000 was tied up. 1 Willard Brown, the Marion boy on trials® for killing Mendal Knapoff, pawnbrokeßjll said he did it in self-defenee. 1 Terre Haute hunters are grumbling be-1 cause they will have to pay <lO licen**M to shoot in Illinois this winter. .MS 1 John F. Staley, Martinsville, stumhl«Bi with a gun while hunting and shot him<l self in the breast. Died instantly. | Plans are being arranged for the enter- i tainment of the Indiana delegation to tbgh'fl C. E. convention in London in 1900. | Rev. 11. A. Percival, chaplain of the I 161st, has been made pastor of Broad<fl way Presbyterian Church, Logansport; || | Robbers stole <SO from the familyof 1 Nehemiah Ellis, Windfall. The money, | had been saved to buy winter clothing. J | There is a good thing in lumber at pres-1 ent, and several companies in have been organized, with prospects for® more. fl Explosion in a gas regulator statioiß near Union City injured Ed Goodriti®| Millard Woodbury, J. C. Hirscb and jjjjfl B. Gares. fl At Upland, the 15-months-old child of® S. R. Penrod, a farmer, died from stran-fl gulation, a chicken bone having lodged in ■ its throat. * fl Additions being made to the Eaton® lamp black factory, near Mancie, wgj® make it the largest plant of the kind in s the United States. fl Thomas Bowers, Seattle, Wash., capijflfl talist, who has been negotiating for a foe- fl tory in Pendleton, was found dead wfl bed in an Anderson hotel 1 Prof. Dan McDougal has presented Dafl Pauw University with a very fine coilebj® tion of plants, which he gathered in zona while working for the Governmes®® there. ,® Morris Gustin, Anderson, threw a shot-® gun across a fence he was climbing, and I both barrels were discharged. One® charge tore off his right arm and the® other lodged in his heart. fl Moses Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and I Miss Dora Thuman of Evansville were® married the other day nnder circumstances. The wedding was to have ® taken place the previous night and t&® bride was overcome when the groom £aJf®| ed to appear. Smith was delayed Terre Haute. The bride did not regaWM consciousness until Smith entered '-heri® room and touched her hand. ® Articles of incorporation of the Indian-S apolis and Fort Wayne Railroad been filed. The capital stock is fixed at® <IOO,OOO. with the understanding thaM this may be increased. The road. It announced, is to be built through the foLs® lowing counties: Marion, Hamilton, Mad-1 ; ' ison. Grant, Huntington and Allen. f|fl| is proposed to make it a direct route frOt®! ' Indianapolis to Fort Wayne. An dance of capital is behind the enterprise. 1 Ed Speicher, 15, Logansport, west| ■ crazy studying flying machines. Window glass combine is takings Hartford City plants. |g Labor organizations in Brazil are all members who trade at store» f not recognize the clerks’ union and at 7 p - m - ■ 0 There is a man in Goshen who, wh<® he was 18, was of medium statnre. the last nine yeans be baa I