Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

It' Is all right to pray for “daily bread,” but one has to do some hustling to get both bread and butter. We are given the injunction to “not lay up treasures upon the earth,” but the alfalfa and clover growers are laying up treasures in the earth and It is not unscriptural, either. The owner of a gasoline engine is hoping that the oil magnate will notgive away any more millions at present, as he is paying about all he can afford for gasoline qpw. The man who will willfully plow up the roads to scmr his plow ought to be made acquainted with the mysteries of a grand jury. Keep the plow greased and escape the desire to violate the law. In catching pigs for any purpose it will be well to catch them by the hind legs or by the ears, and they will not squeal, and they are also easily handled in this manner. A squealing pig sometimes brings the head of the house upon the scene in full uniform and fully equipped for war. The best farmers in the world, the Danes, practically use no commercial fertilizers, but they rely almost wholly on stable manure. Professor Kennedy tells us how they save and apply it. They keep the solid manure in one vat and the liquid in another, the latter of which is drawn off by building the cisterns high above the place where it is to be drawn off. Every particle of the liquid manure is saved and applied to the land. The sewage of creameries and bacon factories is also saved for fertilizing purposes and applied to the land. We may not be compelled to do this, but there is a lesson here so, €•}. The feeding of oils to milch cows at the Hatch Experiment Station produced rather interesting results. The Oil had a tendency to Increase the amount of butter fat at first, but after a short time the per cent of butter fat fell to about the usual amount. When the feeding of the oils was discontinued the per cent of fat fell off, showing that uiC cows had come to depend on the oils as upon a stimulant, and -it'Wbifid'Bc Seme, time before the normal proportion of butter fat would return. The principal conclusion was that the only profitable way to increase the amount of butter fat is from good food and good care, but the natural per cent of each cow could not be changed to any great extent Almost every farmer knows that the .closer grain is sown, the greater the proportion of the straw to the grain, the only exceptions being when conditions are such that the straw is very short;, while grain is large and plump. This in paStߣoS son, but in some cases is due to there being but little nitrogen in the fertilizer to stimulate growth of straw and plenty of phosphoric acid to increase size of grain. The Main Experiment Station has ascertained another point by growing one, five and eight stalks of grain in pots of the same size, using oats and spring wheat. They found that the grain where there were five stalks in a pot contained but 80**. P er cent nitrogen and 85.42 per cent as much nutritive value as those where one stalk grew alone, while where eight plants were in the pot, there was only 70,1 per \nt nitrogen<and 70.91 per cent«-~ value as compared with t|‘s frotD stalk. | UQ . aatifl' Reducing the Loss ofg tho wi*h One of the sources of loss raising is the number of deaths at farrowing time due largely to the Inch of some important'* element in the make-up of thcrmother which probably could have been controlled by the feeding. Experiments have shown that blood meal is one of the most important feeds for both mother and young, but it must be given intelligently or it is likely to prove of little use. Of course, it is understood that the main loss of the pigs conies through the scours and this is controlled by feeding the mother blood meal. Then, too, the care of the yonng pig has much to do with its progress, particularly during the first week of its 4fe, and if there is anything that it needs more than another nt this time it is a dry, warm and clean bed. The importance of this can not be overestimated, and if one will give this point the attention it demands he will see a radical difference In .the health of the progeny.

Feed inn Cowpeas. As growers become familiar with cowpeas there seems to lie considerable difference of opinion ns to hovr both peas and vines can be used to the best advantage. It has been generally believed that the chief value of the cowpeas was plowing them under in order to give to the soil the nitrogen absorbed by the plant in the process es growing; there is no doubt but what Uds plan Is n .safe one on most poor soils, but many who have practiced it have bewme so enamored of cowpea culture that they dislike to •bandon the crop even when they have

brought their soil up so that the cowpeas are not really needed. Many such growers have found success in continuing the raising of cowpeas, but plowing under only the roots and feeding the vines and grain t<i stock and using the manure on the fields. Such men claim that they get nearly much nitrogen in the ground by plowing under the roots and that the vines and grain are too valuable as food to plow under. In other words, the combination of the roots plowed under and the feeding of the vines and grains and the use of the manure gives them a richer soil than by the other plan. This is well worth investigating by actual trial on one’s own soil.

Keeping Clean Hogs. If one has a hog that roots, then ring him or her, and that trouble will be over. As a matter of fact, only u small proportion of hogs care to root if they are well raised, given shade in summer, plenty of variety in food, a warm bed in winter and good water to drink. The same thing applies to w allowing. Of course, if a hog makes a place In the soil in which to lie, and the rain fills the hole with water, then the animal will wallow, but what is easier than to fill in the depression with soil and break up the wallowing habit? If one expects to keep the hog grounds free from filth and stench as he does his stables, let him give them the same care, and there will be no trouble. The writer knows of a hog farm whose owner makes a most com* sortable profit yearly with young pork because he advertises in local papers and invites the public to visit the farm and see the cleanly manner in which the animals are raised. Owing to the proximity of tho farm to the town, many take advantage of the offer, visit the farm and become regular customers. This is one of the many ways of making the farm pay.

Root Crops to Cows. Those who, have fed root crops to cows, and especially have fed rutabagas, will understand their value, and those who oppose the feeding of root crops have either fed them improperly or have given them to the animal when she was already well fed with grain. While it is not intended to advocate Uie feeding of root crops as a substitute for regular rations, it is a fact that they might be more largely fed than they are with a corresponding. decrease in the feeding of hay or grain. A good plan in feeding rutabagas is to cut them up in small pieces and mix them with the grain feed, giving them the ration at night. In the morning the hay ration can be somewhat reduced as a result, and if one has sufficient of the root crops another liberal feeding could > given at noon. As to the quantity > .gas ’tero.to feed YCTw tt' >mewhat on the animal *• _ the daily ration of otb _.ugs. Generally speaking, a peek or so a day will keep the animal in good condition as to her digestive organs, though It will not be sufficient to materially decrease the regular ration. Some dairymen feed a bushel a day safely and find they can reduce the hay and grain rations in consequence and the cow be all the better for it. Root crop feeding is well worth experimenting with. Birds Save the Crops. If the army of the birds were destroyed, it has been estimated that in £he course of nine years the world mid not be inhabited by inan, and, spite of all the sprays and poisons heat could be manufactured for the de- , ” action of insects. All crops, all Iruits, everything which supports human . life, would, in a comparatively short period of time, be destroyed by slugs and insects. In some parts of the United States a bounty is placed on the head of the red shouldered hawk and a few other birds, but it Is the conclusion of those who have examined into the case that if the bounty could be SSOO fine on those who kill the bird, instead of 25 cents to the bird slayer, our laws would operate on the right side. A redstart has been known to eat 600 flies an hour, and a blackcap has destroyed 200 green flies from a rosebush in a green house in a few hours. The wren feeds her young thirty-six times an hour. A young robin kept in captivity required sixty earth worms a day, and a pair of blue jays were once fed a half a million caterpillars in one season. The stomach of a new'ly hatched Bird is merely a membraneous sac with little muscular development, ami so required soft, digestible material like plump spiders or cut-worms. As the stomach develops the diet change 1 and hard insects, such as beetles, can be used. The habits of the chipping sparrow have been closely watched, and it was found that the parent began feeding the nestlings nt a few minutes before 4 o’clock in the morning and ended at 7:27 in the evening. The longest rest taken during the day was twentyseven minutes in the afternoon. Twa hundred visits to the nest were mads by the parents during the day.

JURY FAILS TO AGREE.

Nan Patterson Murder Case Result* ia Mistrial. After deliberating for twenty hours the jury in the Nan Patterson murder case in New York reported that it could not agree and was discharged. The woman had confidently expected an acquittal. The crime with which Nan Patterson, the former show girl, was charged, was one of the most sensational in New York criminal annals. Its peculiar circumstances, the prominence of Caesar Young in sporting circles, and the glamor thrown around the central figure in the case because of her membership in one of the numerous “Florodora” sextets, all tended to lend it an interest hardly rivaled in recent years. Interest in “the murder in the hansom cab,” spread through all circles and the proceedings of the trial have been read from coast to coast and have held a place on the first page of the metropolitan press. With Miss Patterson sitting beside him in a cab June 4, Young was on his way to a steamship pier, where his wife awaited him, to sail with her for Europe. The trip avowedly was planned

NAN PATTERSON.

to break his relations with the girl. It was at an- hour in the morning when the streets were not crowded. There was a pistol shot and Young fell forward, dead with a bullet in his chest. Just what transpired in the glass-inclosed vehicle probably will never be known. For some days an absolute silence prevailed. Then a flood of alleged eye-wit-nesses turned up. Their stories, however, could not stand investigation, and one after another th 6 witnesses were cast aside as sensation seekers. Then an old man, Martin Hazleton, came forward. His probity was unquestioned. He told what he had seen on that June morning. He saw the man and woman, their hands clasped and held face high, then a flash, a puff of smoke and the report of a revolver broke the stillness of the morning. The defendant herself went to the witness chair and told the whole story of her acquaintance with Young from the day she met him up to the fatal moment in the cab.' She said her companion shot himself. He held both her wrists with one hand and as she struggled to free herself she heard a revolver’s report and Young sank back dead. This in brief is the story of a case that has been a three times nine days’ talk in New York. There were many sensational side lines to it, none of which were brought out at the trial.

COMPLETE OFFICIAL CANVASS.

President Roosevelt’s Popular Plurality la 2,547,578. The official canvass iff the popular vote in all States at the lsst election, ffllh’li h 43 now been concluded, gives Roosevelt a "p'ntrality of 2,547,578 over Parker and a majority""ovt.' nIL-Of _1.746,768> The total vote was 13,508,496, distributed as follows: Roosevelt, Republican 7,627,632 Parker, Democrat 5,080.054 Debs, Socialist 391,587 Swallow, Prohibitionist 260,303 Watson, Populist 114,637 Corregan, Socialist-I-abor 33,453 Holcomb, Continental 830 Compared with the popular vote of 1900, the figures show a decrease of 460,078, the total that year being 13,968,574.

BUILD 62,950 CARS IN 1904

Work of the Several American Plants for the Year Just Closing. Returns received from the car-build-ing plants of Anierica show that in the past year approximately 62,950 cars have been built, including cars for use on elevated railroads, but exclusive of street and other electric cars. These figures do not include cars built by the railroads at their own shops. During the year 3,441 looomotives wore built nt' the various plants, against 5,152 last year. The number for the current year includes ninety-five electric locomotives, but does not include locomotives built by railroads at their own shops.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The Servian Cabinet has resigned. The Spanish cabinet has resigned. All classes of Parisians nre suffering from a wild mania for gambling in sugar. King Edward and a number of others are raising a big fund for the London poor. Paris milliners are to reap a harvest with a new theater hat, which is to be built so as to leave the view unobstructed. A wonderful cave that may rival that in Kentucky has been discovered at Vancouver Islaiid. •"* 1 The recent victory for the Government insures the separation of church and state in France. The Cuban House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting religious processions in the streets. The French Cabinet escaped defeat in the Chamber of Deputies by the narrow margin of two votes. Two policemen and several revolutionary conspirators were killed in a riot at Odessa, Russia.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. State Labor Commissioner Says Public Never Approved of Boycott Farmer Who Was His Own Banker Loses Money—Minor State News. Tn the introduction to h'is biennial report State Labor Commissioner McCormick deplores the fact that the weekly wage law of 1898-99 was declared unconstitutional. Speaking of the boycott, Mr. McCormick says: “It is gradually losing its effectiveness, owing to the fact that sentiment has largely crystallized against it.” He says that public opinion never approved of it as a method of warfare and that it is gradually passing into welcome decadence. “Blacklisting, on the other hand, seems to be growing in favor in some industries,” the report continues. “The railroads themselves which originated tho present form of blacklisting, have largely given it up, but other employers have begun to use it as a weapon of industrial warfare.” Concluding, Mr. McCormick says: “While the effectiveness of the method has not been wholly harmful to labor, the animus it has excited has been disconcerting to those who are striving for better relations between industrial force.” Hurt in Boiler Explosion. An explosion of a 300-horse power boiler in Brower & Love Brothers’ cotton mills in Indianapolis scalded W. A. Watts, Curtis Boyd and John Perkins, stokers. Two batteries of nine boilers were wrecked and tho walls of the boiler house and also of the adjoining building used as storage room were blown down. Hundreds of windows-were broken in the neighborhood of the factory. Five hundred persons arc thrown out of employment temporarily by the partial destruction of the large plant, which makes bagging for the flour mills of the Northwest. Work in Convict Schools. Prof. George B. Asbury, the new superintendent of instruction at the Jeffersonville reformatory, is reorganizing and extending the scope of the schools. More than one hundred convicts now attend the (Schools and it is expected the number will be increased 50 per cent when the contract labor system is abolished. Seventy convicts attend tho day school and about thirty are in school at night. Nearly all the convicts in the schools are able to read and write, but few of them have any idea of the study of arithmetic or of language. Forty Years Between Marriages. Henry Moore, 65 years old, and Mrs. Mary Pittman, 73, met by appointment in Columbus and were married. It was the first meeting of the principals. Both live in Brown county, ami their acquaintance, culminating in marriage, began through correspondence. Before the ceremony Mr. Moore remarked that it had been forty years since either had assumed marital vows. Wheels of City Stopped. At Muncie in obedience to an official proclamation of Mayor Charles, W. Sherritt, every factory in the city and every business house ceased business for ten minutes, out of respect to the memory of the late John C. Johnson, president of the Delaware County National Bank, and a capitalist of prominence who had done much to upbuild the city. * Joy Over Slaver's Release. Abraham Mullen, who shot and killed Charles Haines of Stark County, has been released from jail, Justice Rogers at La Porte holding that the shooting was justifiable homicide. The decision caused an unusual scene, Mullen being tendered an ovation which continued until its partic’>V”nts were exhausted. Want *.'feT Water Rates. In order to force the Muncie Water Works Company to drill wells and lower the rates for city use, the Muncie City Council presented a petition to the Citnpany officials threatening to accept ihe terms of a Chicago firm and erect a nfl plant in ease the matter was not givfl favorable consideration. fl Farmer His Own Banker. BB John 11. Asher was arrested, with stealing over $1,900 from Pixley, a Lagrange county farmer whom AsliFr had worked. Since the son bank failure Pixley has kept money at home and Asher slept itBB spare room white it was hid. He tests innocence. Dies from Diptheria. Quarantined in her hi.me nt Jeffersfl ville because her grandson find Mrs. Charles E. Thomas died of ria. Absent members of the family not allowed to visit the house, and fl body was taken to the cemetery by undertaker and placed in a vault. fl Within Onr Borders. Shelbyville high school has an orchestra. fl Thomas W. Chambers of township owns an ox yoke used by fl grandfather a hundred years ago. fl Ninety-nine years ago Vincennes qfl versify was founded and the anniversifl was observed with elaborate cxercisesfl At Marion burglars entered the pfl senger station of the C., C. & L. way and robbed the cash drawer of sfl Mrs. Charles Brizius. wife of a wfl known miller of Newburg, died frfl eating impure cheese at a neighborhefl social. fl George Kelley. 50. a well-known isl korno grocer, shot his wife in the h<fl and then turned his revolver on himsfl His wife may live. fl Lee Adams, formerly nn actor, arresfl nt Richmond for petit larceny, witfl twenty-four hours had been commitfl under the indeterminate sentence act. fl By a premature blast explosion nfl Versailles. John Russ was killed afl Charles Francis and John Alley wfl fatally injured. H Fire at Oolitic burned over almost fl entire business district of that town fl 1,509 jieople, and caused a property isl of $30,000. The fire started in a clofl ing store, the cause being the exploafl of a hanging gasoline tank used fl supplying the lamps which provided tfl building with light. The burning flifl was thrown over the entire contents ■ • the storeroom, and in less than two mil I utgs the entire building was in flames. B

PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR.

Rasa lan Secret Service Men Claim to Have Discovered Such. Russian secret service agents claim to have discovered a new and alarmingly formidable plot to assassinate the Czar. The discovery, coming at the same tima with the frantic anti-war demonstration in front of the Governor’s palace at Moscow, has claused great excitement. The secret service lias discovered that the plot to assassinate the Czar and other Russian leaders was laid in England, and hurried requests were sent to the police of London, Manchester and Liverpool to seize the plotters. It is now known that many, perhaps all, of tha plotters fled England before the warning reached tha secret police there, and tfiey are believed to have reached Russia on their errand of murder. The wild unrest, following the students' riots and anti-war riots in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities will, it is feared, serve to hide the plotters until they can make their attempt on the life of the Czar and his ministers. The plot, it is declared, was discovered through the seizure of incriminating correspondence between plotters in Moscow and in Manchester, England, and the two men wanted at Manchester had fled before they could be apprehended. Four persons were killed and sixty wounded during the battles between the troops and the 3,000 students assembled in front of the Governor's palace in Moscow. Three hundred have been arrested. More than 3,000 students participated in the riots and they were not dispersed until after the police had made _ savage attacks with drawn sabers and’ had fired several volleys into the crowd. The authorities knew in advance that trouble was impending, and several squadrons of mounted gendarmerie were concealed in the court yards of houses, ready for an emergency.

RELIGIOUS SECTS GROWING.

Episcopal Church Leads, but Nearly All Show Gains. Nearly all religious sects, as their figures of growth for last year are announced, show a larger peiyentage of increase than in previous years, says the New York Herald. In several denominations the ratio of growth exceeds the usual "ratio of increase in the population. This is notably the case in the Episcopal church, which last year gained 3 per cent on its membership of the previous year, while the population growth is estimated at about 2 per cent. The Episcopal church has added 25,915 to its 807,351. In the Presbyterian church the increase in membership last year was at the rate of 2% per cent, the gain in members being 27,431 and the total number 1,094,908. Last year’s gain was 2 1-5 per cent. The Southern Presbyterian church, a smaller body than the Northern, having but 239,888 members, gained 2 per cent last year. The ratio of gain by the Methodist membership is not so large as in the other bodies, named, but was 14-5 per cent, or almost, as much as the estimated ratio of population growth. For the previous year the Methodist ratio was only 1 per cent, The body has now 3,064,735 members, of whom about 200,000 are connected with foreign conferences and missions. It is stated in the Presbyterian handbook for 1905 that the religions of the world have 1,430,000.000 adherents, divided as follows: Christianity, 477,080,158; Confucianism, 256,000,000; Hinduism, 1V),000,000; Mohammedanism, 176,834,372; Buddhism, 147,900,000; Taoism and Shintoism', 57.000.090; Judaism, 7,056,000, and various heathen faiths, 118,129,479.

DR. ABBOTT DISCARDS BIBLE.

Hia Religion Founded on Science and Needs of Human Heart. Dr. Lyman Abbott,, in a sermon to Harvard students, has announced his belief in a religion founded not on the Bible but on science and the outreachings of tho human heart, says a World dispa from Cambridge, Mass. jfl “I wonder,” he said, “if you will ur stand me when I say that I no lonjfl

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. A Paris paper published a statement of the expenses of the coronation of Napoleon, making them $930,000. The British consul at Honduras ordered that mahogany should not be exported in any American or foreign vessel. A new quarantine order in Holland required all American vessels to entCT the port of Helvoetsluis. Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton were unanimously chosen President and Vice President of the United States. " ’ Congress appointed a committee of five to <■ msider the project of erecting a permanent bridge across the Potomac river at Washington. .Seventy-five Years Ago. A treaty of peace and alliance was ratified between Buenos Ayres and Santa Fe. Gold and silver were discovered near Devonshire, England. France, Russia and England could not come to an agreement as to what title the new ruler of Greece was to assume. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands was appointed by the King admiral of the navy and colonel general of the land forces. Fifty Years Ago. Kamehameha 111., King of the Sandwich Islands, died, and was succeeded by Prince Alexander Lihollho. The St. Lawrence river was opened to American vessels. Rufus Choate joined the political party called the “Know Nothings” and became a candidate for the Senate. The steamboat Westmoreland was sunk in Lake Michigan and seventeen lives were lost. Kansas was being settled by New England emigrants, who were resolved to fight against slavery in the Hew territory. Forty Years Ago. Communication south of Cairo, 111., was shut off by the freezing of the river. Several steamboats were sunk and many others injured at St. Louis by the breaking up of the ice in the river. Major Gen. Thomas attacked and routed Hood and his Confederate forces before Nashville, Tenn. A Unibn expedition along the Roanoke river was reporigdto have destroy