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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1896)
- f THE SIOLI COUNTY JOURNAL L i. iimon, fresh HARRISON, : NEBRASKA. It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn bis errors a his knowledge. All Is hollow where the heart bear Dot a part, and all in in peril where principle is not the guide. We don't ask that the sturup speak ers give up all their Idols, but couldn't they possibly get along without the' "ides of November" this year? It is less by strength than by good management that many of the hardest tasks of life are done. It Is less what one lifts or moves thau how one does the lifting and the moving. Young Vauderbih has married the girl of his choice, and now, notwith standing the displeasure of his rich father, he may be expected to grow himself some sidewhiskers and become extremely rich, and highly uninterest ing afterthe mannei of his kind. New York has at last found that its garbage is valuable and has made a contract with a garbage company, so that the historic garbage scows, which have so long been used for dumping the refuso into the harbor, will no longer be a feature of the city. Gotham baa been a long time in learning this simple lesson in economic science. "The sweet delirium of the cycling craxo" Is soon to set the untutored and naked savages of the South Sea islands wild, as they spin along their shelly shores on the dozen bikes which are boraa to thein by Oscar Passare, Prince of Bora Bora, in the Society group, who has recently started for home after com pleting bis education in England. There is perhaps nothing more cer tain in the universe than the fact that "it takes two to speak the truth, one to peak and another to hear;" human nature is so prone to distort, to inter pret speech according to its own preju dices, to warp the utterances of anoth er, it may be unconsciously, to suit its own views, to supply or omit a word which may change the whole complex ion of a remark, or use a punctuation which may set it all awry. People often boast of their long and varied experience, and claim, on ac count of it. the deference and acquies cence of all who are younger. The test of any such claim must be, not what they have been through, but what they have developed from it Has the re sult been a fuller, nobler, richer life? Is the mind clearer and stronger? Is the character firm and established? Is the heart pure, true and sympatciug? If so, they have accumulated experi ence in the right way, and are worthy of ail respect. But the mere passing through different phases, however ex citing or numerous they may be, the mere suffering or enjoyment caused by various events, however intense they may be, does not constitute such a claim. The "emancipation" of woman and her now unchallenged right to enter the field of gainful labor has made it no longer necessary for thousands of fe males to look to marriage as a means of support. Of the total number of per sons employed in some occupation in 1880 15 per cent were women. In 1MX) 17 per cent, of the employed were fe males. Mr. Edward Cnry, in a recent number of the Forum, concludes that men have been displaced only to a very slight extent by women, although a great many more of the latter are earn ing a living now than ever before. What the effect will be upon the marriage in stitution is an Interesting subject, and no doubt the census of 1900 will develop some significant facts. Of course, wom en who are inclined to enter upon the state of matrimony only because it af fords a livelihood will be in no hurry to "make a match" If they are self supporting and find their employment more congenial than the bonds of holy wedlock. To what extent and In what respect society will be affected by the changed conditions cannot be estimated In the early stages of this remarkable revolution. It seems that the world can never take op with a new occupation or amusement without wanting to push It to extremes. This Is particularly true of sports, and a specimen case is that of the St Louis young man who pro poses to attempt to ride one mile In a minute or less, a steam locomotive be ing used as his "pacemaker." The cen ter of a stretch of straight railway track will be smoothly boarded over. The wheelman will mount his bicycle behind the engine and chase It over the course. He runs the risk that the engine may suddenly slacken speed, and thus bring fabn Into collision, or that some accident may force him out of hit place just behind the pacemaker aad throat him Into the vortex of rush Is air currents formed by suction. It to claimed that the experiment will be serviceable as showing what speed the Wheel may attain If protected from the resistance of the air. In the expert MDt the engine ia to remove this sub- Bven granting that the test serve the purpose named, It Is 1m- fUCbh to see what useful end la to be carved. Speed on a bicycle most be atTT'sai under the restrictions and coo C i rea which btcrdln to praett. LZxSmU the element of a ' r H an aad It eeaaea to be J-J, mUtomf eflbeatrbe a fatter la btojheto the physical capacity of the rider. There has lieen too much tendency to extreme and unimportant extensions of sport of late. It would be a good thing to suppress these extravagances on be half of sane and healthful athletics. The rescue In midocean of the Ger man sailors from their wrecked vessel by the men of the French liner La Bourgogne was one of those grand deeds that ennoble humanity. It was accidental that the rescued men were Germans, for we well know that the gallant Frenchmen would have done the same for any who were in leril of the waves, but It is none the less pleasing that this heroism was per formed by Frenchmen for Germans. Compared with the mighty deeds that influence states and nations, this act perhaps was small and Insignificant The lives of a dozen men were saved, but what are a dozen men to the des tinies of empires? The fatal war that ended at Sedan saw ten thousand times as many sacrificed to the ambition of rulers. That war left bitterness and hatred behind It, and wrathful mem ories, that a quarter of a century has not assuaged. At the moment these gallant Frenchmen were delivering their one time enemies from death other Frenchmen were denouncing their own government for having extended -j invitations to the German people to participate In the great Parisian Ex position of WOO! But how they will cheer to the who when they learn of this ocean heroism! Small, then, as this act appears to be, in a general comparison it may, after all, have great results in convincing the French and German people that humanity Is broader than empire, and that daunt less courage may be shown elsewhere than on the battlefield. The death of Bobert Garrett removes a figure which Is Inseparably connected In American history with the great ro mances of railroad building and wreck ing. When young Garrett left college and took a subordinate position in tba Baltimore awl Ohio Railroad service, of which his father was president, he had every reason to expect success of a most brilliant kind. The Baltimore and Ohio was becoming one of the greatest and richest railroad properties In the country. Its stock was regarded as the best of investments, and it was extend ing Its lines with every year. But the son w:is not of the character to carry on tbrf successes of his father. His en trance Into postR of responsibility on the road was marked by the beginning of a series of disasters, due largely to ex travagant and unwise financiering and the personal fihorteomings of the man himself. If the generally credited story is to be believed it was due to the care less utterance of a few Idle word?, spoken in a moment of exhilaration to a representative of a rival corporation which cost the Baltimore road 1H,000, 000 and considerably changed the his tory of American finance and railway operations. Garrett had perfected a deal tc secure control of the Philadel phia, Wilmington and Baltimore line, thereby securing for his road adequate terminal facilities in Philadelphia. It was bin own reckless talk In a sociable after-dinner chat which gave the In formation to the Pennsylvania mana gers, who set forth tlmt very night and beat him cut in the effort to get the road. From that time on until the Bal timore line went Into the hands of a receiver some mouths ago, the road sank deeper and deeper in trouble. An investigation of the company's affairs disclosed a woeful amount of reckless ' and worse than reckless financiering. The property which twelve years be fore had been1 said to be one of the l Ichest railway possessions In Uie world went down to failure with frightful spe.i1. Garrett and his unwise actions afford a striking Illustration to finan ciers of the Inevitable result of such business methods as he pursued. Reality of Wart-Charming. Prof. Newbold, In Popular Science Monthly: The ease with which warts can be "charmed away" by suggestion lias long been known. I will quote two caes. The patient in the first case was my wife, then a little girl, and the ac count was written for me by her moth er. "I remember It all perfectly. It was when E- was about 6 years old, just before we went to Boston to live. She had bad warts on her hands for over a year. They had spread until her hand was not only badly disfigured but very painful, as they were apt to crack and bleed. Two physicians, both rela tives of ours, had prescribed for them, and we liad followed directions without success. We were In Lawrence, at M. P. 's. A lady came to tea, noticed the warts, and offered to remove them by a 'charm.' As I had once or twice been relieved In childhood In the same way I was delighted at the offer. Sb went through some mummery, rubbing them and muttering something, I think, and then announced that they would be gone In a month. They were, every one. In a few days they began to dry up and disappear. So far as I can re member she never had another. When I was a child there was a neighbor of ours who used to remove all the wans In the neighborhood. I never heard of his falling, and I know of many success ful removals In our own family. He used a piece of thread. He would tie it around the wart If he could with great solemnity, rub it three times, and very carefuly put the piece of thread In a paper In Ms pocket book. This made a very great Impression on us. I remem ber. It seemed next to a church service, having your wart taken off." Kaflaad' Potato Crop. The estimates of the yield of the po tato crop in Great Britain show that, oa 621.000 acres a crop of 8,Ka,0GS tons ware secured, against tn almost exactly similar quantity product) oa much larger acrea- 7UMXX) acrda4aj IMahd. , .'"' ., WW Intoxicated Bee. It is believed that bees postk-ss an im munity against the poisonous effects of certain flowers from which they obtain nectar. But while this may be so. It Is certain that bees are not proof against the narcotic and Intoxicating properties of plants, for they have fre quently been seen to fall out of gladt clus blossoms In a state of helpless In toxication. The Fenses of insects. With reference to a recent paragraph In the Nature and Science column, a correspondent writes to us that the brilliant color of a wall paper in his house attracted bees, which found that they had been fooled when they tried to get the honey from the flowers pic tured on the paper. This does not con tradict the paragraph referred to, which i nly asserted that the odor is even more powerful than the sense of color in attracting Insects. Probably both senses play their part In the case. A ft ran i:e Explosion. A singular accident, the cause of which is somewhat obscure, occurred recently In Brooklyn, New York. Two men were busy In a steam engine fac tory breaking up an old brass "plun ger" from the water cylinder of a steamship. The plunger was two feet long and six Inches In diameter, and Its walls were five-eighths of an Inch Ihtck. It was first placed In a red-hot oven to soften the nietaL Then one of the men struck it a violent blow with a sledge hammer. It exploded with a noise like the discharge of a cannon. The workmen were so badly mangled that both were compelled to 'undergo amputation, one losing both legs and the other one leg. The accident wis ascriled to the absorption of moisture in the pores of the brass, and the sub sequent turning of the moisture Into steam by the sudden heating in the oven. The blow of the hammer. It was thought released the pent-up force of the steam, and thus caused the explo sion. A New Metal in Brisk Demand. French Inventions frequently call Into use natural products which had previously possessed no practical value; This is illustrated by the rare metal, thorium, discovered by the great chem iit Berzelius, early In the present cen tury. When burned, the metal emits a bght more brilliant than that of burn ing magnesium, but until the recent In vention of Incandescent gasburuers, In which the flame Is encased In a metal lic mantle, no use was discovered for it. I'pon experimenting with various sub stances it was found that the oxide of thorium, called thoria, makes the best mantle for such burners, and a demand being thus created for it, the value of thoria suddenly sprang from almost nothing up to $250 per pound. Then a search began for new sources from which thoria could be olrtalned. and 1bls search is not yet finished. Orig inally the new metal was found only In certain rare minerals in Norway. Re cently t has been discovered that the mineral "monazlte" contains a liberal quantity of thoria, and monazlte Is found in North Carolina. Canada and Brazil. The price of thoria Is now much lower than it was at first, al though it still commands $15 or ?20, and even more, per jiound, the price fluctuating with the supply. Welcoming a Hiver. In the long coastal desert of Peru, which Is gome 2.000 miles in length, but only 120 iniles broad at Its widest part, the rivers, Major A. F. Sears says, dis appear in the dry season and begin to flow again In February or March when lain falls in the Cordilleras. One of the most Important of these rivers Is the Plura, the. return of whose waters is welcomed with great rejoicings by the Inhabitants of Its banks. About the time when "the coming of the liver" Is expected, eager Inquiries as to I be progress of the water are put to all persons who chance to come from the head of the valley, and when the water approaches the town of Piura proces sions go out to meet It and escort Its tirst trickling stream down the dry river bed with music and fireworks. At the outskirts of the city thousands of people greet Its arrival. The valley of the Plura Is said by Major Sears to pro duce excellent cotton, although Its pos sibilities In this respect are not well de veloped for lack of systematic lrtlga tlon. Once In a period of from five to seven years rain falls upon the coastal plain, whereupon, with magic quick ness, grass and flowers cover It, and cuttle browse In Its pastures, but In a few weeks everything withers, and des olation reigns once more upon the bar ren sands. "Odd, bat Rather Mce." Renders will perhaps be amused hy a bit of "society" gossip overheard at some "function," aad reported by the New York Tribune. Two young ladles were talking. N "Fancy what a shock 1 had last week," said vivacious Miss B., who bad been visiting In a large Western city; "and yet It was rather nice, you know. ,"The people I was stopping with an rsueaed kings always travel in a pri vate car, step aver to Barone; with. toss effort than New-Yorkers make In going to Brooklyn, and all thai. "Well, the day after my arrival they pave me a lea, and the prettiest girl In the room was a red-haired creature, with a ravishing figure, and a gown which lilted worlds better tlian mine. I was Immensely takeu wilb her, and we chatted, and she was Jolly ami clever and most fascinating. Finally, as we were drinking lea together, the butler offered me some cake a blow-away, melt-ln-your-moutb concoction of sugar and chocolate, utterly delicious. "1 i-ald at once 1 had never- tasted anything so delicate, whereupon the beauty calmly remarkel: " I'm giad you like it; I made it' . "I thought she w.ia Joking. 'Why, you are not a relation, are you?" I asked. " 'No,' she said, with a little laugh; I must have looked bewildered- 'No. I am a professional cook. I make almost all the fancy desserts and cake for the swell set here.' And It was true. "She lielonged to a p,or family, good enough as to birth, the father incapable of earning much, and ns she grew up It b-came necessary to do something. She liked cooking, and began with this BUgar cake, making It occasionally for a few friends. When I met her she was on the top round, had two rooms at the liacSi of the house, with a telephone, an assistant cook and errand boy. and bought her flour and sugar and things at wholesale. 'The remarkable thing was tliat she remained the intimate friend of these rich girls with whom she had gone to school, dressed better than a good many of them, and after making the cake and creams for a big reception, would dress and go and eat her own wares. " "It used to sound very droll.' she said, 'when my hostess would call through the telephone: "0 Hetty, dear; can you send me two quarts of biscuit Tortonl for dinner to-morrow night?" And "Betty, If you are going to the dance Friday, I'll take you up In the carriage." But you know. It seemed rather nice, too.' " He Was Disappointed. She opened the door to her father's den. but hesitated on the threshold. "Well?" he growled Inquiringly. Then, as he saw her indecision, he said In a more kindly way: "Come In. What's the trouble?" She entered and stood Is -fore him with downcast eyes and cheeks suf fused with blushes. "I have a confession to make," she said slowly. "Fire away!" he returned cheerily, his whole manner having undergone a change when he saw she was perturle ed. "I guess It's nothing very serious." "Oh, but It is," she protested; "It's very serious, Indeed. You know Har old " "Well, what about Harold?" " has been coming to me for quite a long time," she continued, pay ing no attention to the Interruption, "and hist night " "Well?" "Last night he proposal that we we should run away together, and and be married." The old gentleman frowned. "And what did you say?" "I refused," site replied promptly and proudly. "I refused absolutely, and told him that he must go to you and ask for my hand properly If he wished me to le his wife." The old gentleman still frowned. "I recalled all that you said tiltout our aristocratic ancestry," she went on, "nnd Insisted " "I'm-yes," Interrupted the old gen tleman, musingly, "that's all very pret ty and very creditable, but far from business-like. It seems to me you might have given your poor old father the best of It once, and saved him Die cotst of a wedding when times are so bard.' If he brings the subject again, Just have your iKHinet handy so that you can make a quick trip to Milwaukee and let the old man down easy." Chicago Evening Post. Former Hlove Market. On ls'iiches so placed as to command a good view were the buyers, coars hxiking Turks, whose calm, searching gaze seemed to take lu every detail. The merchant conducting the sale tood before them, talking and gesticu .atiug with great vehemence. He turn ed to one of the peas, which was filled with joung Circassian women, most of whom" were very handsome. They were seated close together on the ground, in an attitude of listless de Kpondeucy, their white garments flow ing around them, and a they gazed up at me with their snd, dark eyes, I felt painfully how they must envy the free and happy stranger who came to look on them lu their Infamy and misery. The slave trader came forward, fol lowed by a phlegmatic-looking Turk, nnd, seizing one of the women by the arm, forced her to stand up before this msm, who, it appeared, wished to buy her. He proceeded to inspect her, very much In the same manner as he might nave examined a horse or a dog, and his decision was unfavorable; be turn ed with a contemptuous movement of the head, and the slave me reliant in a rage, thrunt back the unfortunate girl, who sank down trembling among her companions In activity. This scene wax as much as we could stand, and we left the place hurriedly at once; It Is well, Indoed, that such sights can bo wit nessed no mre, at least in Europe. Blackwood's Magazine. American Horses for England. The Loudon General Omnibus Com pany has entered Into a contract with an American Arm for the supply of 6,000 horses for 'bus work In the metro polis, which does not seem as though they were much afraid of the new motor car. The people who hare seen yon iu at sinbarrassing situation never die of nor out of the neighborhood. , - AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. A Oood Dairy Cow Witt Yield Nearly 0,000 Posada of JlllSr Annaelly Tbreshtng Damp Giaiu-- Have a Boom for Harness Fsrm Notes. Average Milk TIcM.' An Agricultural Department bulletin iwys: A very good annual average yield of milk is .. pounds Instead of R,' and - to 'SS't pounds of butter per tow Instead of U'." jHiunds. Maur herds kept in a plain, practical farm fashion attain still better result. There are manifestly many cows In the country, probably some millions, that do not produce the value of their rrnual cost, lmweier cheap and waste fully poor their keeping may be. It is apparent that If but two cows were kept, of the siuz'-sted standard of pro duction, In place of every three of the existing average quality, the aggregate products of the dairy industry of th country would 1 increased more than 10 per cent, while the aggregate cot to tholr owners ought to Is: less and probably would 1k. Every possible influence should le ex erted to induce dairy farmers to weed out their herds and keep fewer cows end better oii.-s. At lcist the average quality of cows kept for dairy pur roses should be brought up to u re spectable and profitable standard. For the present the cow owner may reason nbly require something over two gal lons of milk per day for four months, then two gallons a day for the next four, and nt least two months more lu milk during the year with constantly decreasing yield. This provides for an annual yield of r..0fi0 ininds of milk, or altout 575 gallons, which is a fair Ideal standard for the dairy cow In the United States. ThrettliinK Damp Grain. It Is quite likely that much grain will be threshed while damp this year, as wet weather in harvest time caused It to le got lu before fully dry. Iu most cases the grain will take less harm In the bundle than out of It. So long as grain was threshed by hand there was no danger of the work being done while either straw or grain were damp. It made the work loo hard, and the threshing was alwajs reserved for cold weather, after frost had thoroughly dried nu both straw and grain. When horse-power threshing machines came Into use there was nearly as much care In having the grain In good condition for threshing. We have seen the thresher stalled when the grain came too fast or too dump. In the large steam threshers the bundles go through all right, but If damp more or less of the grain goes Into the stack. The evil of threshing damp grain Is not confined to the loss by waste. What Is put In the granary Is much more likely to beat and become musty than I! Is if the grain has been thoroughly dried In the straw. American Cultivator. A Speclnl Honrn for Mnrnens. A great many farmers continue the practice of hanging up the harness on the pegs behind the horses, where It Is exposed to the odors which come from their excrement, and It is quite often knocked down and trampled if) It. This wears out a good harness much faster than will use. It will pay good Inter est on the cost to have a separate room in which to keep the harness. Nothing destroys leather more quickly than dirt and the ammonia which Is always found In stables. The harness should be frequently spunged to remove the dirt, and then be oiled, allowing the oil to soak In, and then lightly rubbed with a dry cloth. Kept thus. Instead of becoming rotten after one or two years, a harness may be kept In good condi tion for from ten to twenty years. We know farmers who have kept harness for this longer time, while other farm ers, uho did no more work with their horses, had to buy a new harness every two or three years. Ontario Family Herald. Guinea Hens. The reason so many people fall in rearing guinea fowls is because they insist on keeping the heu under a coop, (iulnr a chickens are peculiarly depend ent on natural food, nnd they cannot get enough of tills uuless the old bird nmx with them. The first week they should not be let out longer than an hour at a time, and then shut them up In u nhd for .in hour and a half; then out again, and o on. Feed every two hours in addition; and as they get older Increase the time they nre out until they need only to be put hi If any of them look at all tired. Give a little meal chopped very line and mixed with meal or mashed potatoes twice a day, and oat meal made Into a dry paste for the other meals until they can pick. But they are very dlflicult to rar If the hen Is not left free, for plenty of Insects Is the great thing. The Difference. There are hundreds of farmers who are skeptical of the merits of pure-bred swine. With them a bog Is a bog, and they insist that with plenty of food and under like conditions one will gain as much weight as the other and make as much profit A careful trial will prove the contrary. Any one breeding a scrub sow to a thoroughbred male will readily sec that pigs from such sows are far more attractive and will fatten more readily, and even the first cross will mature earlier than da scrubs. A well-bred bog will make more meat In less time, and therefore with less feed. However, the fanner who breeds the Improved hog with the expectation that b will make a largs hog without attention will be aaap pointed, for good care and stteatiea art aawoasa, , With goal toad and treatment tfcv thoroughbred can be mad fit for market In f rom eight to teu months, while the scrub will require from fifteen to eighteen months to make the wime weight. We quote the above from the South ern fltoek Farm and believe that a fair teat will satisfactorily demonstrate the truthfulness of the assertions made. Feeding Cora sad Feets. An extensive cattle-feeder of Ne braska, who feed l.i"t acres of corn of bis own raising snd 1"0 tons of beets a year, has kept careful accounts of liis oiK-ratlons for the last ten years. From that record the following facts are given: For the first nine years the cost ier head ninged from f 14 to .L'.Ttt. but In W.i Up legnll feeding Ix-ets and corn, which h.id Im-cii cut nnd cured iu the shock and then run through a shred ding machine, ear, stalk, and blade, all of which is by the machine reduced to the condition c coarse hay. The cost of harvesting, shot king, t-hreddlng and fee ling is three cents per bushel of grain and $1.S7 per ton of fishier. The l.JiKt acres averaged 4n'ti bussels of corn and a ton and a half of fodder per acre. The heels (sugar beetsi yield ed ." to .7 tons per acre, counting tops iiit all, aud were fed whole. Both cat tle and hogs nre fond of them, and It was found that after cutting them the llrxt few days cattle learn to bite them off as a boy biles an apple. Since adopt ing this ration the cost of fattening cat tle has never exceeded $10 per head. No cholera has ever occurred among hogs following the cattle while feeding beets. It is estimated that bcet-tols from lteets used In sugnr-iimkliig are worth on an average f'.i per acre tor cattle food. Wisconsin Agriculturist. KnrnltiK 1'otato Vines. Wherever rot or blight has prevailed in potatoes no time should Iw lost ufter the potatoes nre dug In burning the tops. This will prevent the spread of the fungus, with which the tops will always be found filled where disease prevails. It Is a good plan to burn the potato tops liny way. About all the mnnurlal value they contain Is I heir potash, and this Is all saved lu their ash. The old-time plan of using the vines to plow under as manure, or, worse still, taking them to the barn yard and composting with manure, Is known now lo be often a means of keeping the germs nllve. In the manure heap especially the itnto rot finds a good field for propagating. For this reason the feeding of diseased potatoes to stock In winter should never bo practiced. The worst pnrts of the po tato will be rejected, nnd these will go Into the manure pile to make trouble next year. Thi Hands of Milkmen. It requires gisx' muscles in the hands to milk eight or ten or more cows in succession. As n result a milkman will endure a good deal of handshaking without hnvlng the muscles of his hands made sore by the oierntion. as are the hands of the lawyers snd pro fessional men who secure Presidential nominations. We had a friend once who said he could select the milkmen In any crowd of men by the firmness of their grip. It Is as distinct, he said, ns that of any secret society, though of course lu a very different way. The Orchard. Apple trees that have not been spray ed may produce large crops, but aro not likely to do Ki. Those who have never fertilized their orchards or gardens should try It Ibis year and note the results. Seaweed Is a good fertilizer for most nil fruit trees, n ltd It may be obtained by the ton for the mere cost of hauling, In several of the southern counties. The Ben Davis apple, one of the uni versal favorites, originate.! In Ti lines see, and were introduced by Captain Ben Davis of Iognn (now Butler) Coun ty lu 17ir.. The grafts, however, came from Virginia, and the apples were nt first called the Virginia Pippin. Apple trees need to ie foil. They will often exist if utterly neglected, but they respond quickly to a proper sys tem of fertilization. A liberal topdii ss Ing of farmyard manure Is good. In the absence of ibis a liberal dressing of wood ashes will help. Seaweed Is also B good fertilizer for apple trees. Notes from the Garden. Whether you think it's bugs or not, give your potatoes a dose of bonb-aux. There nre ;t'W distinct varieties ol raspberries growing lu the United States, iM-sldc a number of new varie ties now on trial which have not been named. i'lii Wisconsin suitlon recommends the following mimed varieties of straw berries: Wartield No. 2, Enhance. Bo iler Wood, Parker Earle, Boynton, Yale, Park Beauty, Haverland, Lovett's Ear ly and Barton's Eclipse. The Bhode Island suit ion finds that equal parts of quicklime aud sulphata of copper, with four to eight gallon of water for each pound of the sulpliate of copper, make a good bonh-aux mix ture for use In the potato patch. It U claimed that two ounce of cnstoi oil applied to the soil near the roots of the cnlla Illy will cause the plant to bloom more freely. We fall to see any good reason for such a claim, I nit the practice Is now widespread In the East Tho Importation Into the United Rtate of plants from China and Japan Is forbidden on account of Uie preva lence of cholera in the Asiatic coun tries. Nothing holds the germs of dis ease so well as the soli In which tnt plants are shipped. The Connecticut Experimental (Ma rlon, railing the yield of potatoes on s plat that was not fertilised 100, found that the relative yield when lime was used waa 187; nitrate and add phos phate, 192: aKrnte, acid and sulphate ol potash, MB, while a "borne mixture" I. i 1 . V 1 Mi 1'
