Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — Page 7

FARMERS CORNER

Painting Farm Buildings. Some one has said that “paint and putty are like charity, they cover up a multitude of sins,” or faults would have been a better word, as not all faults deserve to be called sins. When the spring rains are over, and the wood Is dry, but before the flies get plenty, is a good time to paint farm buildings, carts and tools. It is not necessary to have a skilled painter to do all this if economy' is to be studied. The ready mixed paints, properly used, will last as long, look as well, and preserve the wood as well as those mixed by the painter, and any hired man or smart boy can soon learn to spread them, not as well as the man who learned the trade, but well enough to cover the buildings. When we first tried such a job we received these directions which helped us much: “Keep the paint well mixed, do not get too much on the brush, and carry the hand steadily in a straight line.” Begin on something or some old building where looks is not very important, and a considerable improvement will be seen In the workmanship after even a day’s practice, and when a second coat is put on it should be smooth enough to hide the defects of the first attempt Most of the readymixed paints are improved by the addition of a little more oil and turpentine, at least toward the bottom of the can, as but few will keep them sufficiently well stirred. —American Cultivator. Reliable Farm Siphon. A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer describes a siphon which he made himself, of three-quarter-inch galvanized

pipe? It lifts the water, he says, 18 to 22 feet perpendicularly from a well and delivers it into a watering trough something like 100 yards from and 6% feet below the water level of the well. It works as well at 22 feet from top, but not quite as fast as at 18 feet. The one thing ] that is indispensable j r 1

A FARM SIPHON.

to siphon w'ater this height is a valve at A to close and hold water in pipe w'hile filling. This valve is similar to the low'er valve in a suction pump; just fits in a three-quarter-inch coupling, and admits a full stream when open. The ldwer end at B is handled as a feed pipe from storage tank, with a float valve. Have a plug, C, outside, to connect with a hose. At the top have a short piece of pipe bent down at either side of the tee, E, E, to insure D being the highest point in the pipe from well to trough. At the upper hole at D have a piece of pipe, G, say three feet long, with good-sized holes at F, F. Have the pipe inclosed as the core to chamber C, L; chamber made of heavy copper soldered to pipe above and below F, F. Have pipe threads protruding at H so as to connect a three-quar-ter-inch steam valve S. This is safer and more convenient than a plug. Have a bit of threaded pipe screwed into top of valve, T, w'ith enough threads, say one inch, protruding to screw on a funnel, R. Our chamber is three feet of three-inch pipe connected by graduates at H and D, but they are not kept except at the large plumbing shops and the chamber Is not as I would like. The chamber should hold three or four gallons and then the siphon will run for two w'eeks or more with one filling. To fill siphon, close valve B first, then fill funnel, R; next open valve S and w'eight of water in pipe w'tll close valve A. You cannot pump air out at valve S or B. Siphon runs about four gallons per minute with 6% feet head below w'ater level, w'ith valve B wide opeu. Milk from Farrow Cow*. The milk of cow's that have long passed the season of greatest production, which is soon after farrowing, Is much richer in buter fats than that which the same cows give soon after dropping their calves, says an exchange. If they had not been bred, the milk also usually contains more of the albuminoids also. For this reason It i* harder to digest, and, as cows’ milk Is at best unsuited to the stomach of a young infant, that from new milk cows, where procurable, is always to be preferred. The milk of the cow is too rich lu fats, causing the Ihfant to throw It up soon after taking a quantity. It may be Improved by diluting it with warm water made quite sweet with pure sugar. Even farrow cows’ milk thus prepared may be used with safety if the infant is obliged to suck It through a tube, through which it can only get a small amount at a time. Growing I opcoV.i. We used to know a mun who claimed that he found it profitable to grow popcorn every year for market. He used land that was light and warm, and we thought scarcely strong enough for a very good crop of field corn, and gave It

a fairly good dressing of manure, and he said his crop usually exceeded twenty bushels of ears to the acre, and we think he said he had grown over thirty bushels. He kept It until well dried or in condition for parching, and had a local demand for It at a higher price than was paid for that grown in the. West. We think It used to bring from $2 to $3 a bushel In the ear.—New England Homestead. Coop for Young Chicks. In raising young chicks half the battle is in keeping them well protected from damp weather, and yet giving them an abundance of air for proper ventilation. The coop illustrated has been thoroughly tested. It is built of matched boards, and raised two inches from the ground by nailing cleats two inches thick around the bottom edges.

GOOD COOP FOR CHICKS.

The front is hinged, and during the day is used as a feediug board for both the chicks and the mother hen. At night, and when cold and stormy, the front is closed over the slats and fastened with a button. In the top front of the coop holes are bored, which provide ample ventilation. The form of the house may be ,as the builder wills, although the shape shown is less expensive than the gable roof, and if matched boards are used, as advised, will be quite as water-tight. Care of Teams. It will soon be time to start the mowing machines at work, and possibly many have done so already, although the grass has not matured as early as it does in some seasons. It is a satisfaction to watch the grass fall before the rapidly playing knives, and to feel that the horses are doing the work so much faster and better than i.t used 1 to be done by hand labor. How we used to-sweat and swelter In haying time, and how often we used to need to quench our thirst as we came to the 'end of the swath, some with water and some with more potent beverages. Now the man on the machine does ndt perspire as much, or need to drink as often. and we fear that he sometimes forgets that the animals which .are doing trfq hard labor for him also need to quench their thirst more frequently than they would if quietly standing In well-ventilated stable. They should not be expected to keep busily at work for more than five hours at a time, and they will do that much more comfortably if they are given a half-pailful of water about twice in that time. Take a cask and bucket along to the field if the watering place is not handy, and offer them water occasionally.—Massachusetts Ploughman. The White Grub. The white grub, which often in a dry season eats off the roots of the grass and corn, and will eat almost any root which is not too hard, is the larva of what Is known as the June beetlepin and farther South ns the May beetle. It often is so abundant as to make It necessary to plow up fields where they have destroyed all the grass, and even then It is difficult to destroy the grub. But we have seen it stated that the beetle, though it flies mostly by night, is a leaf-eating insect, and where the trees are sprayed with arsenites many of them are killed. As one of their favorite foods is the leaf of the hickory tree, that should be sprayed regularly each year.—American Cultivator. , Wart* on Cnlve». Take a blunt knife and scrape the top of the wart and apply a little tercbloride of antimony to it with a feather. Repeat every third day until it Is lower than the skin. Then mix one ounce of oxide of zinc with two ounces of vaseline and rub on a little once a day. Farm Notes. Don’t begrudge robin a few cherries. No weeds are more injurious than neglect. Anybody can raise strawberries—with a spoon. Economy in youth means an easy chair in old age. An ounce of cifitivatton is worth a pound of manure. Berries well picked and packed are well received In market. Do not let the wheat and rye get dead ripe before harvesting. Even a.nice, refined girl may have a rough chap on her hands. The devil owes much of his success to the fact that he Is always on hand. Do your pears crack? The remedy is to spray with* Bordeaux mixture. Do It now. Just as like as hot your lima bean poles are too long. It makes the vines tired to climb so high. Spray the grafts Just put In; often they do not start off well on account of fungi, which Bordeaux mixture will cure. Don’t wait until your plants are badly injured by plant lice before applying the kerosene emulsion or tobacco water. To preserve raw fruits or vegetables In perfect condition, wrap in tissue paper soaked lu a solution of salicylic odd and dried.

HOW THE POPULATION OF INDIANA IS DISTRIBUTED.

According to the last census Indiana has an average density of population of 70.1 persons to each one of its 35,910 square miles. Marion County has 493, and both Floyd and Vanderburg exceed 200. Eight others —eleven in all —exceed 100, while in Illinois only five have more than 100, and only one exceeds 200. That this population is not evenly distributed is shown by the following list: Adams Allen 11° Bartholomew jjl Benton Blackford Ijjl Boone Brown - • • Carroll ? Cass , Clark t 83 -lay ? n * Clinton i” Crawford Daviess Deairborn Decatur DeKalb ™ Delaware Dubois ••• oKlkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin ■?„ Fulton Gibson .Si Greene Hamilton ‘7. Hancock ?r. Harrison Hendricks " Howard - Si Huntington lackson Si £{ lay Jefferson

LITTLE GIRLS PREVENT WRECK.

Snnbonnets Used to Flax Train Before It Reaches Burning Trestle. A freight on the 'Panhandle was saved a disastrous wreck near Aneka Junction by the prompt action of Edna Keener, aged 12 years, and Emma Turnbaugh, aged 14 years. The girls, while playing along the track, discovered that a trestle over a small creek was on fire. Hearing the train coming, they ran down the track and with their sunbonnets flagged the train just in time to save it from going into the ditch. The train crew made np a purse for the little girls and the matter has been reported to the officials, who may remember the girls for their bravery.

FINDS SON DEAD IN PRISON.

Mother Hss Sad Experience in Michigan City Penitentiary. A mother called to see her young convict son in the Michigan City penitentiary the other day and found him very sick. The prison physician warned her against staying too long, as he feared the son would not stand the strain. After many a reluctant start the woman finally got up to go, asking the son if there was anything he wanted. He replied: “Some orauges.” The mother hastened to the city to get the oranges, but the boy was dead when she returned.

MURDER IN CHILD’S DEATH.

Wealthy Sawmill Owner Accused of Killings Little Girl. Charles Dunn, a wealthy sawmill owner, aged 65, was placed finder arrest at Wallen on the charge of murder. Several days ago Alice Cothrell, aged 10 years, disappeared. She lived four doors from Dunn’s home. The Huntertown Detective Association searched the cistern at Dunn’s home and found the body. The coroner thought that the remains did not look as if death resulted from drowning. After the secret inquest held all day Coroner Barnett ordered the arrest of Dunn. There is evidence of attempted strangulation and the cistern is so constructed as to preclude the theory of accident. A horse driven by Mrs. George Burton, in Princeton, balked in front of a moving train. The buggy was struck and smashed to kindling, but Mrs. Burton escaped I with a broken collar bone and the horse ! was uninjured.

Jennings 46 Johnson 63 Knox 64 Kosciusko 52 Lagrange 40 Laporte 71 Lake 73 Lawrence 56 Madison '. 112 Marlon 493 Marshall 37 Martin 40 Miami 79 Monroe * 48 Montgomery 58 Morgan 48 Newton 26 Noble 56 Ohio 52 Orange ? 42 Owen 39 Parke 52 Perry 56 Pike 66 Porter 46 Posey 56 Pulaski 32 Putnam 43 Randolph 62 Ripley 44 Rush ~ 48 St. Joseph 104 Scott 43 Shelby 66 Spencer 57 Starke 34 Steuben • • 46 Sullivan 59 Switzerland 51 Tippecanoe 77 Tipton 73 Union 40 Vanderbuirg 312 Vermilion , 56 Vigo 151 Wabash 65 Warren - §1 Warrick »4 Washington 3u Wayne 102 Wells 65 White 38 Whitley ;.••• 52

Among Our Neighbors.

J. C. Long, aged 22, of Muncie, was killed in the wreck of a gravel train near Milton. The Elwood carpenters’ strike, which lasted six weeks, is over, the men getting their demands. The passage of an automobile through Princeton nearly caused an entire suspension of business recently. Nelson Tovenette, a wealthy peppermint grower, who lives near Osceola, was struck by a train and instantly killed. Ed Lenfesty, a railroad man, committed suicide at Muncie by shooting himself through the head because his wife had left him. Mrs. Harriet Goodwin, of Greensburg, was overcome by heat while crossing a barbed wire fence. As she fell her hair was entangled in the barbs of the fence und held her until she succumbed. Angelina McCaria, 11 years old, who was injured in the Wabash Railway at Peru, a few days ago and whose mother and sister were killed at the time, died, making the total deaths fifteen. Miss Catherine Rich, Terre Haute, who was released from the asylum some time ago, was made insane again by the heat and tried to kill her 80-year-old mother. She i>eat the old, lady terribly. In Muncie, Walter Driscoll was indicted for murder in the first degree at a special session of the grand jury, and the boy was soon afterward brought into the Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty of murdering Minnie McCoy. Reports from all parts of Indiana have placed the estimated wheat crop this year at 30,000,000 bushels. Some sections have been somewhat damaged by fly, but in others, where the fly has hitherto prevailed, it has almost entirely disappeared. While the acreage is short, the quality and yield have been gopd. W’hile oiling the mncifcnory in a furniture factory at Evansville, William Meyer, 27 years old, was caught in the machinery, whirled around a revolving pulley and mangle*). One arm was torn off and his back broken. He died an hour later. Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Edward Cothrell, of Wallen, disappeared from home several days ago, and parties have been scouring the woods in search of her. The other afternoon her body was found in a cistern on tbe premises of a neighbor. It is not known whether death was accidental or not.

THE AMERICAN SHEEP.

MARKED INCREASE IN OUR DOMESTIC FLOCKS. Census for 1901 Shows a Gain Alike In Number Owned and in Average Value Per Head Over the Splendid Showing of Last Year. In view of the present low price of wool throughout the world, the lowest known for many years, and the great prostration now prevailing in the wool and sheep Industry In every country, except the United States, it is Interesting to know how the American sheep farmer fares. He fares best among all his competitors, very much the best. His industry has not been ruined; far from it. He Is infinitely better off than are the sheep and wool producers of the rest of creation. Vastly better off he is than during the disastrous free wool period of 1894-’97 and the succeeding two years of a home market overstocked with foreign wools brought here free of duty. So great was the glut of foreign wool under the Wilson tariff law that it was not until 1900 that our domestic growers began to feel the benefit of the duty on wool restored by the Dingley tariff. Even now there Is on hand, a considerable quantity of the free wool that was rushed in during the closing months of the Wilson law. A year ago the sheep census of the American Protective Tariff League showed some surprising results. Contrasted with the free-wool period of 1896 the census for 1900 showed a gain of 71.44 per cent in the total number of sheep owned and a gain of 121.59 per cent in average value per bead. But this was before the bottom dropped out of the world’s wool markets. Since then the great slump in wool values has taken place. * . Have American flocks decreased, and has their value per head declined along with the sheep of Australia, South America and other wool producing countries? Daddedly not. On the contrary, the sheep census of 1901, just completed by the American Protective Tariff League, shows: Number of States reporting 40 Number of reports received 707 Sheep owned, March, 1901 1,464,781 Sheep owned, March, 1900 1,256,738

Gain for 1901 208,043 Percentage of gain for 1900 16.55 It is found that against an average value of $3.90 per head in March, 1900, the average value for March, 1901, was $4.04, an increase of 14 cents per head, or 3.59 per cent. It would appear that the American sheep Aiser has a marked advantage over the flock masters of the rest of the world. First, he has in his favor a protective tariff which fixes an irreducible minimum of market value for his fleeces. Unless the foreign grower sells his wool for nothing, he cannot compete with the domestic grower in the American market. The Dingley tariff takes care of that. Second, the average value per head of American sheep is kept up by the enormous demand for mutton and lambs for food purposes. The American wage earner, when busily employed at high wages, as he has been for three or four years past and now is, consumes from three to thirty times more meat than the other wage earners of the world. He is fond of good mutton and juicy lamb, and he is a tremendous consumer of these meats. In fact, he is the best customer the American butcher has. It is not the rich people, but the wage earners, that keep the butcher shops going. It is no longer possible, as it was in 1896, under Wilson tariff free wool, to buy a good sheep for 50 cents. That day has passed, and will come no more as long as the tariff on wool protects the wool grower while the tariff on all lines 6t production makes times good, wages high and the consuming capacity of 76,000,000 people three to thirty times greater than the consuming capacity of the rest of the people on earth. Condensed Into a form easily read and understood, the sheep census of the American Protective Tariff League for 1901 is as follows:

Number No. of sheep owned In of March, March, State. reports. 1900. 1901. Arizona 4 37,500 32,500 Arkansas 2 265 530 California 7 27,015 30,470 Colorado 9 70,624 70,030 Connecticut 3 35 97 Idaho 6 133,100 194,300 Illinois 6 509 501 Indiana 59 8,351 7,616 Indian Ter 2 94 155 lowa 8 268 1,029 Kansas 8 3.813 4,367 Kentucky 56 1,712 1,043 Louisiana 1 10 16 Maryland 6 l.Vi 308 Michigan 49 4,309 4,102 Minnesota 4 616 933 Mississippi 1 2,000 2,300 Missouri 70 4,033 5,646 Montana 83 481,520 530,010 Nebraska 12 5,815 6,460 Nevada 1 7,000 7,000 New Mexico .... 9 82.400 52,710 New York ....... 17 1,054 1,279 North Carolina ..28 1,223 1,051 North Dakota ... 20 31,236 32,747 Ohio 29 24,929 25,735 Oklahoma ....... <5 4,9.0 6,760 Oregon 32 28,159 28,917 Pennsylvania .... 4 882 974 South Carolina .. 1 31 71 Soutfi Dakota ... 17 29,533 37,378 Tennessee 1 172 98 Texas \. 25 58.587 69,0*19 Utah 15 99.925 115,725 Vermont 4 625 655 Virginia 5 135 3*o Washington 14 24,<*27 32,715 West Virginia ... 53 3,785 3,751 Wisconsin 4 238 271 Wyoming 28 129,102 154.505 Total* 707 1.250,738 1,464,781 Numbet of States reporting 40 Number of reports received 707 Number. Value. Sheep owned In March, 1901,1,464,781 84.04 Sheep owned in March, 1900.1,256,738 3.90 Gain for March. 1901 201.043 *0.14 Percentage of gain for 1901.. 0.1655 0.0859 •• Higher than Under Free Trade. The wool sale* at Price yesterday averaged over 11 cents. This, of course, is not as high as wool raisers have got at some times, and It is l»elow the average for wool under this Republican ad-

ministration, bnt It Is so much higher than the average under the Democrat!®administration that preceded It that it takes the cheek of a mump sufferer for a Democrat to speak of low prices for wool.—Salt Lake City Tribune. Commercial Isolation. In an article deprecating the growing conviction in the South that the same kind of protection which has built np the manufactures and wealth of the world would be also good for that section of our country, the New York Times warns them that they “in so doing lose sight of the fact that the logical result of protection would be commercial isolation.” Logic is defined as the science of the distinction of true from false reasoning. If the result of the Dingley tariff has effected the commercial Isolation of this country the logical result of developing the manufactures and wealth of the South might be its commercial isolation. But the article in question is headed “Increasing Exports from the South,” but the increase as shown has occurred since the Dingley tariff went into effect, and we all have been assured that if we don’t buy we can’t sell. The fact is there is no logic in, about, nor anywhere near the assertion that protection leads to commercial Isolation. The editor of the Times has apparently mistaken Mr. Gladstone’s advice that we grow more cheap cotton and wheat for logic. Products of Protection. In spit.e of the immense increase in trolley lines in every city and suburb often paralleling the steam ralroads, the latter are doing more business than ever before. The increased business le In freight. Freight is the product of manufacture and agriculture. Manufacture and agriculture are the products of protection, with labor and wages all along the line. Greatest Contnmlna: Nation. The population of the world Is about 1,600,000,000; of the United States, 77,000,000, or about one-twentieth. Yet we consume about one-third of the whole world’s products. Why? Because we do forty-nine fiftieths of our own work, make big money and live like lords. They Mean Business. In 1804 we were producing 128,000 tons of pig Iron per week. Now we are producing, *find using, over 300,000 ton* per week. Protection and pig iron are great friends, and both mean business, and tfre farmer Is Just as much Interested as the manufacturer and laborer. Sect Every Flax bnt His Own.

The Odd Shillings.

There is very little difference between a pound and a guinea; only a shilling, and yet a keen business mau insists that the shilling shall be considered. After Thackeray’s series of lectures on the “Four Georges” had been delivered in London, Wlllert Beale says that he called upon the novelist, In Onslow square, with a check for two hundred and fifty pounds. “What’s this, W. B.V” cried Thackeray, reading the check. "Pounds? Our agreement says guineas, and guineas it must be.” “You are aware that the lectures so far have involved very heavy losses,” said Beale, apologetically. “That’s not my affair,” said Thackeray. “I don't know what occult means you have to protect yourself from loss. Guineas, W. B.! Guineas it must be, and nothing less. I must have the shillings.” And the shillings were sent him immediately.

Occidental.

The Emperor Kwang Hsu frowned darkly. ‘The West, forsooth!” sneered he. “How do I know that there is any West?” “Well, Occidents will happen, you know!” exclaimed the Viceroy, LI Hung Chang. Fortunately his majesty, by recourse to his Ollendorf, was able to gather substantially the full import of this clever jest, else the aged courtier might then and there have been divested of the shrimp pink golf stockings of a mandarin of the first rank—Detroit Journal.

A Noveity in Alarm Clocks.

A noiseless alarm clock would prove a boon to a host of sufferers from unseasonable din. The suggestion is made that a silent alarm can be given by focusing an electric lamp upon the head of thp person to be awakened, and arranging a switch so that the current to light the lamp would be turned on by the clock at the desired time. It is claimed that the flash of light would invariably arouse the sleeper.

His Principal Duty.

Tommy—Pa, an usher is a man in tho theater who shows you where to alt, isn't be? • > Pa—Xo;lte’s the fellow who puts In most of his time toiling you where not to alj.—Philadelphia Record.