Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1901 — Page 7

FARMERS CORNER

Corn Husking Device. Unless the work of husking is done by machinery and steam power it is at best a slow and tedious task, and every faeility that will shorten its duration needs to be made use of. The cut shows a convenient way of going at it when

HUSKING DEVICE.

husking. The husker has stretched two long poles from the hind axle of his wagon to a support of some kind, and after piling several shocks of corn on the poles seats himself on a board across poles and throws the corn up Into the wagon box. This plan may be made use of when husking in the barn. —Ohio Farmer. Evaporating Eggs. A carload of evaporated eggs shipped by express and valued at $14,000 left Springfield, Mo., recently for San Francisco, says an exchange, where it will be placed on a steamer bound for Cape Nome. The eggs were put In onepound screw top tin cans, sixty cans in a case, and will answer any purpose in the culinary line except boiling. The moisture being taken out of them when they are prepared leaves nothing to boil. The largest egg evaporating establishment in the world is located at Springfield. The process of evaporating is done with hot air, and it takes eight hours to thoroughly evaporate an egg. About four dozen are equal to a pound of the preparation. The Springfield factory employs seventy-five people, and its capacity is about 400 cases a day. .The goods are shipped to all foreign countries and in Europe especially is there a big demand, as the English government has placed the preparation on the hospital supply list The Klondike country is a heavy user of this brand of evaporated eggs, as no matter what the price -of fresh hen .fruit be or how scarce it is, the evaporated egg retains its old price, and is always on hand and ready for business. Farm Cattle. It is not true that the cattle business to be profitable must be conducted on the broad ranges of the Western plains. That is one profitable system of cattle raising, but there is another which yields fully as great profits for the capital invested. Raising cattle on the farm has in all countries and all ages been found profitable, and more so now than ever. By raising cattle on the farm the farmer has a good market for all the feed he can raise, saves labor and expense of transportation and avoids much loss from waste and the hocus pocus of commerce. And one of the main features of stock farming is that it can be made to continually Improve the fertility and value of the farm.—Texas Farm and Ranch. Prize Jer««ev Cow. The Jersey cow Golden Lad’s Jeannette 149153 is owned by Mr. W. W. Harrison,Glenside, Montgomery County, Pa. She took first prize at St. Mary’s in 1897 and ’9B, second in ’99. She was got by Golden Lad P. 1242 H. O. out of Melvina F. 1805. She is a long, rangy cow with lovely head, prominent eyes,

GOLDEN LAD'S JEANNETTE.

long, thin neck; straight In back, good hips, slim, long tail with splendid switch; neat In bone; sharp withers; splendid body of great depth and width; skin rich, soft and mellow; magnificent udder, running away out front, with good-sized and beautifully placed teats; and she has given, since last calving, as high as twenty-two quarts of milk daily. DiKKinR Sweet Potatoes. Sweet potatoes should not be dug before the middle of October. Before frost the vines should be cut off and the tops of the ridges covered with earth. After digging keep them in a dry, airy room for a m’onth In older to dry them out thoroughly. Then sort them, rejecting every bruised, broken or rotten tuber. Wrap the perfect ones separately in paper, put in .boxes and keep In dry rooms as for squashes. Remember they must not chill or get damp. Bee. and Clover. The amount of honey in the blossoms of the red clover, probably is equal to, If It does not exceed, that in nearly all pur other honey-producing plants, but

the bees do not seem to find it, that is, the honey bees, for the bumblebees are able to reach it. There are two ways that will make this-honey available to our beekeepers, one being the producing of a strain of bees with longer tongues which will reach down into the cups of the clover blossoms, and the other to grow a strain of clover that will have shorter tubes or corollas which the bees can reach down into to gather the nectar at their base. Parties are working on each of these lines, and whichever succeeds first should reap a rich reward, for they will double the honey crop of the country.—American Cultivator. Value of feign Boards. The Kansas City Journal tells of what seems a good device for farmers who have stock or other merchandise for local sale. A prosperous farmer of the neighborhood, named James Jackson, has standing at his gate a signboard on which is painted in neat letters his name, the name of his farm, “Jackson Farm,” and the direction and distance to his postofflee, Below this he has a blackboard on which he may write what he has for sale. Mr. Jackson states that he has sold one horse and two cows and calves since «the erection of his signboard and he thinks the quick sales were the results of this advertising. Everyone knows the value of signboards in towns; why are they not of equal use to farmers? Easily Made Poultry House. The little poultry house shown in the accompanying Illustration can be built for about one dollar per running foot It is 14 feet wide at bottom and the length is determined by the number of hens one may wish to house. If sawed timber is used, take one piece 2 inches thick by 6 inches wide and 14 feet long with another of like size, but only 12 feet long. Place them together at the top and 14 feet apart at the bottom on a foundation of coarse gravel or cobble stones with a flat one for the end of the timber to rest upon. Have a set of these rafters every, six feet On the south side build out the windows by nailing on 2 by 4 strips perpendicular to the surface of the ground. Hang the windows on hinges at the bottom,

EASILY MADE POULTRY HOUSE.

open toward the inside and let them rest on the main timbers while open. Cover with boards, paper and shingles. —American Agriculturist Cruelty of Docking. Time and time again has the question of docking the tails of horses been discussed, and always the question of humanity comes out on top. All the driving horses in Russia have long tails and the coachman of an ordinary Russian carriage takes no trouble to prevent the reins from dropping about his horse’s hind quarters. In spite of this, powever, the reins rarely become entangled with the tail, and even if they should do so the horses never kick. This striking fact is an eloquent answer to those who uphold the cruel practice of docking, on the grounds that otherwise the horse is liable to flap his tall over the reins. The General Purpose Farmer. The general purpose farmer who Is a good gardener gets a better living for himself and family than the special crop farmer. He raises his own dairy products, beef, pork and mutton, eggs and fowls, fruit and vegetables, and if he wants to eat them he is not obliged to stop and count the cost. He has no fear of starvation through stoppage of railroads or strikes. He is not as badly affected by a poor season, for he has several crops to depend upon, and, as he usually sells more than he buys, it is an easy matter to keep out of debt Scarcity of Range Horses. • Some two or three years ago the Nevada Legislature passed a bill making it lawful to shoot wild horses on the ranges. As a result some 6,000 horses were killed. Now there is a demand for range horses, which the supply is not sufficient to allow them to furnish, and it is said that 6,000 of them would be worth at least $250,000 now. They are bewailing their short-sighted policy of destruction.

Sheen Thr’ve on Beets. Tuscola County farmers, says the Grand Rapids Herald, have been experimenting with feeding their sheep through the winter exclusively on sugar beet pulp and pronounce It a success. Lire Stock Notea. It will help maintain health If the hogs have pure, fresh water every day. It la the steady, quiet horse that can usually be depended upon to do the biggest day’s work. The farmer oiight to be a good judge of live stock and know how to buy and sell to the best advantage. When the sheep are sheared is one of the best times to determine what sheep should be kept and what sold. In the end nothing pays so well as thoroughness in all of the details of farm management and in the care of the stock. , ( According to the official report of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain the past year shows an Increase of 396,538 head of cattle, and decreases of 680,233 sheep and 301,777 hogs. Added to these figures are others showing a considerable decrease In the number of cows, ewes, and brood sows, retained for breeding purposes. Foreign competition and an unfavorable season may be credited with the losses reported.

THE SUBSIDY BILL.

SENATOR FRYE EXPLAINS BENEFITS OF THE MEASURE. , Shows Very Clearly that the Building Up of American Shipping Will Be of Direct Advantage to All the People of the United States. Washington correspondence: Senator Frye is concededly the best posted man in the Senate on maritime subjects, as it is to them, probably more than to any other national questions, that he has devoted more of his attention during his more than a quarter of a century in Congress. Being chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate these questions are constantly forcing themselves upon his attention in the most practical of ways, and it is his decision that is often decisive for or against a measure affecting these subjects. Not alone is he remarkably well versed in all of the details that appertain to our shipping upon the ocean, in the foreign trade, but he is quite as well posted concerning our vast coastwise and inland commerce. During each session of Congress, moreover, he is obliged to familiarize himself with the details of the commerce of each river and harbor of the country, in order to Intelligently decide upon items in the river and harbor Improvement bill. It is not too much to say, in these circumstances, that Senator Frye is a veritable human commercial and maritime encyclopedia. It is this, of course, that gives great weight to his expressions, and the greatest weight to his opinions. It is seldom, if ever, that he is found lacking in any of the myriad details affecting the vast commercial and maritime interests for which his position requires that he shall take the lead in legislating. And it is not remarkable, in these particular matters, that his colleagues in the Senate should repose the most implicit confidence in his judgment, and generally accept his Judgment as their own. When to this may be added the remarkable fact that he has never yet reported a bill favorably from his Commerce Committee to the Senate that has not been passed by that body, some Idea of the extent of his influence among his colleagues may be obtained. So, it was, that when Senator Frye rose to speak in the Senate, a day or two after the short session began, on the shipping bill that has been before the country, because it has been before Congress for the last three years, his colleagues gave the closest attention to all that he said. The extent of the details of the subject may be understood when it is known that the Senator consumed several hours on two successive days to say all that he wished to say concerning the recent history leading up to the shipping Jblll, and in making plain every detail of the measure. The memory of no man can go back to a time when Senator Frye delivered a more thorough, analytical, exhaustive, detailed and convincing speech on the great subject of our merchant marine than in his last great effort in the Senate.

That the people of the country are still reading and digesting hlfe speech is shown conclusively in the demands upon him for copies of it. Certain Senators and representatives have asked for several hundred copies, each, in order to place them in the hands of their influential constituents, and it is safe to say that the general knowledge the country over regarding our maritime conditions and needs will be infinitely more widespread and accurate as a result of the delivery of that speech than it has ever- been before. Feeling that the readers of these letters would like to have a word or two from the Senator on the subject of his shipping bill, I sought him out, and asked him what he could say, in a condensed form, that could be readily grasped and understood by the busy millions. To this he replied as follows: “The people will be for or against the bill, as their in|nds are satisfied upon two cardinal points, namely (1) Will it cheapen the cost of carrying our exports, and (2) Will It be a benefit to the whole nation. On the first point, lam convinced that from the very start American ships will be compelled to carry our foreign commerce more cheaply than foreign ships do now, to wrest from them any of that business. The benefit of this goes right back to the producers, whose products are worth more or less as the cost of transportation to the consumer is cheap or dear. We may be sure, then, that the producers, and by this I mean- the farmers, the men employed in the mills, in the mines and in the factories, will all receive a direct personal benefit But the advent of American ships will be sure to precipitate a war of freight rates with the foreign ships that now do our carrying, and here it is that I feel sure there will be a reduction, for years, of fully 25 per cent in our present freight rates—a reduction that will mean a saving of fully $50,000,000 a year to the American people in this one item alone. This makes the expenditure of $0,000,000 as an aid to our ships a mere bagatelle by comparison. “As to the second point: Our foreign commerce, now worth two and a half billions of dollars a year, is a nursery for seamen employed on foreign ships, the cost of which latter, and the cost of their maintenance, is paid for by the American people. Both these ships and these men may be used against the United States, if this country becomes Involved with the nations whose flags they fly. To the extent that we, by our neglect, enable our rivals to build their ships and to run them at our expense, we deprive our own people of the employment in the shipyards and on board the ships that would be of the greatest Bld to the nation whenever It might be

called upon for ships and for men. We now pay to foreigners $175,000,000 each year, and to that extent we enrich and strengthen them, while we to the same extent impoverish and weaken ourselves. If this does not prove that the building up of American ships will be a direct benefit to all of the people of the United States, in strengthening them where they are weak, as a nation, and in affording additional employment to all of the people by keeping the vast sum of $175,000,000 a year in the United States that is now sent abroad to pay foreigners for doing our carrying each year, then the argument is with the other side.” I asked the Senator to say why it Is necessary for the government to aid its ships, and to this he briefly replied: “Because they wil,’ have to compete with ships that receive huge subsidies and bounties from their governments, because the competing foreign ships are built more cheaply than are American ships, and because foreign ships cost less to run than do American ships. These are advantages that foreign ships now possess over our own. But a few years of operation under this bill will enable us to build ships as cheaply and to run them as cheaply as our rivals do, but until this is accomplished, national safety and sound economics justify the annual expenditure of $9,000,000 in order to thereby save $50,000,000 in ocean freight rates on our exports and imports.” There is much food for serious reflection in the foregoing statements—-state-ments, by the way, that come from the very highest source of reliable information in the United States, and from a man whose whole public career has shown him to be a man of fearless courage, of commanding ability and of unimpeachable integrity. It was for these possessions that he was elevated by his colleagues to the position of president pro tempore of the Senate, a position that makes him, now, acting 1 ice President of the United States. A Good Thing to Remember. The Secretary of Agriculture in his annual report draws attention to the fact that our total sales of domestic farm products to foreign countries during the four fiscal years 1897-1900 aggregated the enormous sum of $3,186,000,00(1, or close to $800,000,000 in excess of the export value for the preceding four-year period. In other words, we received on an average during 1897-1900 for products of domestic agriculture marketed abroad nearly $200,000,000 a year above the annual amount paid us for such products during 1893-1896. This is all very gratifying, as it shows how dependent the nations of the Eastern Hemisphere are upon the United States for bread and meat. These markets will always take our food purplus at a price, but it will be a price that we cannot control. After all, the best market for American foodstuffs is right here in America. The more we consume here the less will be left for export, and the less left for export, the greater will be prices paid for the exported surplus. The main thing in agriculture, as in manufacturing, is the big home market; and the way to make the home market take the largest possible share of what the farmer has to sell and pay a good price for it is to keep the largest possible percentage of our population at work in the mills and factories. The American farmer understands this better thai. he used to. Protectionists have been preaching to him for forty years and the vote cast in the farming districts at the last election shows that the idea has at last foiind permanent lodgmett. It is a good thing to remembel.

The Real Motive. It is characteristic of a certain class of writers to assume that the purpose of protectionists is to injure the people of other nations. Thus we find an Englishman alluding to the proposal to pass a ship subsidy bill as a piece of “legislation designed to cripple England on the sea.” That may be the effect of such a measure if enacted, but it is hardly ftlr to say that its purpose is to “cripple England.” It is Just possible the real motive for passing such a measure might be the desire to strengthen the United States on the sea and to save money by engaging American people in a pursuit which is supposed to be profitable. British critics ought not to talk of efforts such as this as though they thought that Great Britain bad been marked out by Providence monopolize the world’s carrying trifle, and that to attempt to break in was little short of a crime.— San Francisco Chronicle. Darn of tbe Twentieth C ntury.

How the Miners Voted. The throe counties of Pennsylvania which were the arena of the anthracite coal strike gave large majorities for McKinley at the late election. Cue county, which gave 1,600 Democratic majority two years ago, gave McKinley nearly as large a majority this year.— Minneapolis Journal.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Wealthy Young Indianapolis Man Cannot Be Found —Martinsville Dry Goods Store Damaged by Fire and Water— Mallady Convicted—Parker Is Back. .¶ Kenneth Lawrence, a wealthy and reliable Indianapolis young man, is mysteriously missing. About a year ago young Lawrence came into possession of quite a fortune left him by his grandfather, Judge William Lawrence of Bellefontaine, Ohio, one of the best known politicians in Ohio, who was comptroller of the United States treasury during Garfield’s administration. A part of the fortune consisted of a 600acre stock farm in Illinois. Aug. 3 Lawrence left Indianapolis to go to this farm, intending to spend considerable money on improvements. He took with him $2,200 in cash. He has not been seen since. The last heard of him was in September at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. . Peculiar Trio of Accidents. .¶ Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover, Poplar Grove, fell and broke her thigh, Amos Sence, her nephew, Ervin township, had his arm broken, and Benjamin Tucker, New London, another nephew, fell and broke four ribs. Both were preparing to go to /heir aunt, when they were hurt, and the three accidents happened within an hour. Supposed Dead Man Returns, .¶ Capt. James M. Parker returned to Jeffersonville, after three years’ absence. He was supposed to be dead. He said he had been in the Klondike. He has been almost a year reaching home, as the vessel on which he took passage was lost and drifted into the Arctic ocean. Fire Loss at Martinsville. .¶ Fire broke out in the dry goods store of A. Wallenstein at Martinsville a fewminutes after the store closed for the day. The firm carried a stock valued at S10,000, with $7,200 insurance. Loss from fire and water will be about $5,000. Mallady Convicted of Murder. .¶ In the criminal court at Indianapolis William Mallady was /convicted of murder in the first degree and the jury fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. Malladay killed a Mrs. Wilhelm several months ago. Within Our Borders. .¶ Kokomo citizens have decided to use their own electricity and have organized to put in an independent plant. .¶ Harry P. Rogers, a well-known hotel man, committed suicide in. his room at the Leland Hotel at Shelbyville, by shooting.

The big plant of the Kelly Ax Company, burned some time ago at Alexandria, will resume the first of the year with about 1,000 men. Kaatz & Goldstein, clothiers at Goshen and Elkhart, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Liabilities $50,000, assets $27,000. Three-year-old child of Alfred Thorpe, Lake Station, burned to death. Two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Chas. Brock, Brownstown, suffered the same fate. John W. Mitchell, connected with the Interstate Stockyards, attempted to stop a runaway team in Indianapolis and was instantly killed. He was a man of ilyF. A. Walker has been appointed receiver for the Northwestern Sctaper Company at Anderson. The liabilities are placed at $40,000 and the assets at SSO, 000. Bishop Charard. of Indianapolis, who suffered a stroke of paralysis some time ago, has so far recovered his health that he has reconsidered his Intention to resign. Harry Lester, Washington, fell through thin ice on a skating pond. His little comrades former a life line, grasping each other by the heels, and pulled him safely to shore. Frank Edmonds, a stylish appearing young man, arrested at Terre Haute on suspicion of horse stealing, has confessed to seven thefts. He told his victims where he had disposed of their property. All seven eases were in Illinois towns. These deaths resulted from fire: John Siglin, Van Buren, went into burning house to rescue property; 4-year-old child of Edward Price, Windfall, turned on the gas and then applied a match; 4-year-old daughter of William Wampler, Stinesville, stood too near the stove. James Osborne, Crawfordsville, serving a sentence for killing Howard Ellis in a saloon brawl, is suing the saloonist, Chas. Annibal, for $2,000 damages. Mrs. Osborne will prosecute tire publican and his better half for alleged perjury. Ellis’ mother is suing Annibal for $5,000. Fred Ruffle and George McClure, 12-year-old sons of merchants of North Manchester, left home on a freight train to “see the country.” Twenty minutes later Ruffle fell under the wheels at South Whitley and was ground to pieces, and McClure is almost at the point of death from injuries received. D. P. Bolds, ex-treasurer of Adams County, was acquitted of the charge of embezzlement. There is a .doubt as to whether he owes the county or the county owes him. When he took office he was a prosperous merchant, but now is poor. It is said the litigation has cost SIO,OOC When acquitted he wept for joy. Before the recent performance of “Spartacus, the Gladiator,” in New Albany there was a fight behind thameurtains. Actor John Fay Palmer was beating his wife, it is said, when John Griffith, the tragedian, interfered. Palmer attacked him wiah a sword scabbard. Griffith knocked him down and disarmed him. Greenfield Gas Company has turned another well into the mains. Northwestern Scraper Company,' An derson, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The Hamilton County grand jury wa< Instructed to inquire into alleged election frauds. - t American Car and Foundry Company Jeffersonville, shipped fifteen coaches tc New Zealand. Mias Emma E. Newbern sued Feeder ick J. Bloom, at Richmond, for breach e< promise. \

THE HOUSEHOLD

Rapid Fruit Stem Clipper. In sections of the country wherelarge crops of fruit are harvested every year it is a tiresome task to pull each

B. McChee, of Orange, Cal., has designed the fruit clipper which is illustrated herewith. It comprises a pair of blades pivoted together at one end and provided with rings to attach the clipper to the thumtj and forefinger. A slight pressure with the thumb and finger is sufficient to close the knives and sever the stem. It wilt be noticed that the clipper allows the use of the hand to catch the fruit the moment the stem is severed, thus enabling it to be gathered rapidly with one hand, while the other fs used for drawing In the boughs of trees or for bolding a,receptacle. The clipper could also probably be used to advantage by florists in gathering their flowers for market. By adjusting the position of the two Tings the leverage of the clipper can be increased at will for severing large add small stemmed fruits. Polishing Floors. Floors may be easily varnished and waxed by a delicate woman in this way: Take a very low chair or stool, so low that a brush held in the hand can easily reach the floor without stooping, and, by moving the chair along, the entire surface of titffloor can be easily covered first varnish and afterward, w-hen dry, with the wax. Where a heavy weighted floor brush is not available, the, old French way may be substituted—U-e., wrapping up the feet in flannel <%d shuffling over the floor or skating on a brush. It is funny to see a servant who has been trained to wax floors 1* this way In Europe at his work, performing a sort of shuffling dance over the floor, with his feet looking like puddini bags and his eyes fixed on vacancy, solemnly dances to and fro, quite unconscious of the laughable spectacle he presents. Little Conveniences. To misplace a kitchen fork or spoon may burn to a cinder the most carefully prepared dish. The convenient holder lost from its naif may burn the cake or burn the pie, and Incense the cook. A cook table, full of drawers, where flour, spices, roling pins and cake cutters are kept, with bake pans hanging over it, will save you miles of travel and hours of time. A small shelf near the stove, kept for extra salt and pepper, will save you fifty miles of travel in ten, years. Only for one day, count how many times you go from eook table to stove, seasoning variodLujlshes, and you will see what this moans. lu finding places for kitchen utensils study every time to place them where it wilL take the fewest steps to reach them. —~ ■!, . - Pumpkin Pie* Stew the pumpkin in as little water as possible until tender. Press through a colander; To every half-pint of pumpkin add butter the size of a walnut and a quarter teaspoonful of salt. Let stand until cold. Take one pint of pumpkin, one pint of milk, half teaspoinful of ground mace, the same of cinnamon and one teaspoonful ginger. Sweeten to taste. Add four eggs well beaten { This will make four pies. J Bake in a quick oven»about thirty minutes. Curry of Turkey. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in the chafing dish, with goo/f-sized onion chopped fine, eight or ten pepper corns, a dish of mace and two or three bay leaves. Stir until the onion is nicely browned, then add two tablespoonfuls of flour, one tablespoouful of curry powder, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper and one pint of good stock. Let simmer for ten minutes, strain, and add one pint of cold boiled turkey cut into dice. Any kind of cold meat may be substituted for the turkey.

Cream Sauce for Ontonp. Thicken one cup of hot milk with one tablespoonful of butter and flour rubbed together, and season with salt and white pepper. J ■ Household Hints. £. . Do not put salt into soup until you are done skimming it, as salt will stop the rising of the scum. < When baking bread, have the oven quite hot when the loaves are first put ( in, and let the heat diminish. Don’t fail to add a drop or tiro of vanilla flavoring to a pot of ehofolate, as it is a great improvement. When grating a nutmeg, alwaMMfrt from the blossom end. Why? cause it will grate more Scald out and air bread and cakeboxes twice a week. Bread molds j quickly, and extra care is r To have a custard pie of aw eve', ’ nice brown when baked, sprinkle * _ tie'' sugar over the top just before *** ting into the oven. /*’' When stoning raisins, rub butter on the fingers and kni r relieve the task of raisin-se stickiness and discomfort

individual apple, pear or peach from the tree with the hands, and yet this is necessary in order to preserve the fruit to the best advantage, As an aid in a c c o mplishlog this work Nicholas