The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, June 19, 1891, Image 4
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THE AIKEN RECORDER.
AIKEN, 8. C., JUNE 19. 1891.
IN THE APIARY.
•W
CUTTING AND CURING HAY.
Directions Given by Professor W. «T. Beul
for Making the Finest Hay.
Within a few years we have given up
the sickle for the scythe, and the scythe
for the horse mower The hay tedder
takes the place of several heavy boys in
tossing the new mown grass; the horse
rake, with a spring seat for the driver,
takes the place of the old hand rake. In
some places the hay loader is attached
to the rear of the wagon and saves much
heavy work. Implements are all the
while improving, and as instructions are
freely given in reference to their use by
those who sell them, little need here be
said in reference to them. The follow
ing directions, however, givfen by Pro
fessor W. J. Beal in his admirable work
on ‘‘The Grasses of North America,” will
be read with interest by all beginners;
If the grass is heavy the dew should
be nearly off before beginning. If the
cutting bar is at one side the driver
strikes out with the “off horse” next to
the fence. He then turns about, driving
over the swath cut last, and goes around
as much as he chooses; or if he use a
Eureka or other mower where the ma
chine follows the team immediately, he
may go back and forth on one side or
proceed in some other manner. Before
noon, and perhaps after noon also, the
hay tedder stirj the grass once or more.
Toward night it is raked and put into
cocks. If there is much clover the tedder
must not be used after the leaves have
dried, as it crumbles and wastes the
most valuable part of the hay. The
leaves of clover will dry a long time be
fore the stems.
If cut late in the afternoon or in the
evening, so it does not wilt, no harm will
come if a heavy dew falls on the hay. If
the day is a fair one it is not good prac
tice to cut grass in the middle of the
day and leave it partially cured exposed
to dew or rain. The finest hay is made
in dry, sunless weather, with little dew
and as little handling over as possible.
Burning too long in the hot sun renders
the hay brittle, and some of it will be
lost in handling.
As usually made, the best clover hay
is only fairly wilted before it is put in
the cock, where it remains from four to
seven days. In the meantime the cocks
are carefully opened once or more each
into two or three piles for an hour or
two, then put up again. If not very
well cured tho hay will keep better in a
close mow in the barn than in a loft or
in a stack, where it is much exposed to
the air. The closer the barn the better
for the hay. Early cut forage is superior
to tho late cut. Hay that has been wet
Bee Note* from The Uural Home by G. M.
Doolittle the Well Known Beekeeper.
The most essential and necessary thing
looking toward a good yield of comb
honey is a good season, combined with
having the colonies you intend to use for
this purpose strong in numbers early in
the season.
To have the bees strong early in the
season, each colony should be known to
have a good fertile queen. As the sea
son advances you can help them by in
serting an empty frame of worker comb
into the brood nest, between the brood
combs, though never more than the bees
can cover well, as this will spread the
brood and induce the queen to greater
activity.
In spreading the brood, if too many
empty combs are inserted at one time i t
will some time weaken, aye, even de
stroy a nice colony if cold, rough weath
er sets in. Bees then concentrate in or
der to keep up the necessary animal heat,
and consequently the most outside brood
will chill. Feeding them, although they
have plenty of honey in the hive, will
stimulate them much, so that they can
stand the cold snaps better, which we
often have in this climate during the
fore part of the season.
The best time to increase bees is when
there is an abundant supply of natural
forage and colonies are very strong.
Under any other circumstances it is dan
gerous. Sometimes it will work to take
a comb of bees and brood from a hivd.
about June 1. and let them work up to
a colony by winter, but it is unsafe.
Again it will sometimes work very well
to divide after the main honey crop is
over, if they have honey enough for both
colonies. However, June is the best
time for increase, and by making each
part strong we run no risk of a failure.
Cut Worms.
During cloudy and rainy days these
pests come out of the ground to feed as
well as during the night, a single worm
destroying a large number of plants in a
few hours. They feed upon nearly all
kinds of weeds as well as useful plants.
In naming remedies for the cut worm a
bulletin from the Delaware station says;
The plan of frequently going over the
infested ground, and digging out and de
stroying the worms, has been extensively
practiced with very satisfactory results.
The expense is not very great, as one
man can go over an acre in very short
time. Tho most practical method of de
stroying cut worms is by poisoning clo
ver or other green plants with a mixture
of Paris green or London purple and
water, and placing bunches of the same
upon the ground at intervals throughout
the infested field. Almost any succulent
plant, such as pig weed, lambs quarter,
mullein, etc., will answer in place of
clover.
When it is known that a field is badly
infested with cut worms, bunches of the
poisoned food should be scattered over
the ground at frequent intervals soon
after the ground has been fitted, and sev
eral days before the seed vegetables or
before the plants are set in the field.
The clover can be sprayed with the mixt
ure before it is cut, and immediately cut
and distributed over the infested ground.
Many of the worms, after partaking of
the poisoned food, will re-entei the soil
before they die from the effects of the
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Population ol Our Towns.
A Census Office bulletin issued from
Washington gi\esthe population of
twenty cities in South Carolina, in
the order of the rank, as follows, with
the increase since 1880:
Citien.
J > oj)ulation.
Increase.
Charleston. .
54,955
4,791
Columbia .
15,353
5,317
Greenville .
8,607
2.447
Spartanburg
Sumter
5,544
2.291
3,865
1,854
Beaufort ....
3,587
1,038
Camden. ...
3,533
1.753
Florence ..
3,395
1,481
Newberry. ..
3.020
678
Anderson .
3,018
1,168
Orangeburg..
2,964
824
Georgetown.
2,895
338
Rock Hill
2,744
1,935
Chester
2,703
804
Piedmont. .
2,436
1,871
Darlington.
2,389
1,449
Aiken
2.362
545
Laurens
2,245
1,496
Summerville
2,219
848
Slavery in New York.
Mr. J. D. Collins of Dalton, Ga., has
a copy’ of the Ulster County, New
York, Gazette, published January 4,
1800, in which the following adver
tisement appears:
For Sai.k.
‘‘A Stout, Healthy, Active Negro
Wench.
“Any person inclined to purchase
may know the particulars bpapplying
to John Shooumaker, juu., at Roch
ester. November 13, 1799.”
The benefit of vacation season may
be greatly enhanced, if, at the same
time, the blood is being cleansed and
vitalized by the use of Ayers Sarsapa
rilla. A good appetite, fresh vigor,
and buoyant spirits attend the use of
this wonderful medicine.
The Colorado conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in
session at Denver on Saturday, voted
to drop from membership in the
church the somewhat noted ex-evan
gelist, the Rev. Sam Small. Mr.
Small’s connection with the Metho
dist University at Ogden, Utah, as its
president, and other stories of a short
age in his accounts, are of recent
memory.
“My father, at about the age of fif
ty, lost all the hair from the top of his
head. After one mouth’s trial of Ay
ers Hair Vigor, the hair began com
ing, and, in three mouths, he had a
fine growth of hair of the natural col
or.”—P. J. Cullen, Saratoga Springs,
N. Y. _ m
The Spirit of Missions is one of the
best religious magazines published in
this country. It is an illustrated
monthly, published at 22 Bible
House, New York, at only $1 a year;
and while ostensibly issued by the
Board of Missions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, it gives the latest
intelligence of all important mis
sionary work done by all denomi
nations in all parts of the world. The
3 irt in the May numh^rjiiklhe co
latton of the varl
Presbyterian tendency
‘United church”
i
The Britif
zette of the
name of Sir
had been i
officers in t
Majesty hat
his services
that the Pri
indebted to
hardly prei
Wilson tern
vancing a
Baring’s claj
planation ofj
Wilson’s.
Army and Navy Ga-
.h announced that the
-Vm. Gordon Cumiring
loved from the list of
s British Army, as her
Yio further occasion for
ft has also transpired
» of Wales was heavily
^e Barings, and was so
1 that Mr. Arthur 8.
arily aided him by ad-
ge sum to meet the
. This is said in ex-
iw he came to be at the
The Stall
eu conespo|
tide upon
Tom Leitcl
that Mr. L
en people ii
did a numl
doesn’t pri
meucemeui
wou:d be
flood of ci
released
State recall
with this
litely awj
Leitch wa|
as received from an Aik-
ent a very scathing ar-
e methods of Evangelist
, from which it appears
fth has exasperated Aik-
The same manner as he
I* in Chester. The State
the letter. The corn-
season is upon it and it
ble to spare space for the
troversy which would be
the publication. The
the Chester incident, and
planation bows Itself po-
from a second Tom
Many lelers are received by the P
P P Co. lorn patients, saying they
had used ilcli and such a blood puri
fier and Ksarsaparilla, mentioning
their nanA* and stating they did no
good, it if 4 hey did not get well until
J* P P Im ufy Ash, Poke Root and
Potassuii'm. wa* tried. These letters
we starb.aia pchlish, when the vari
ous niauwaetnrers wrote us fearful
letters, anl we discontinued same, but
P P P (J’lekly Ash, Poke Root and
Potassiuiiff is triumphant on every
occasion,Kind has made a host of
friends injures of Syphilis, Rheuma
tism, Seiwula, Blood Poison, Dyspep
sia, Mahna and Female Complaints.
“BlaclJ
tie of on
books pi
bids fairj
visible !
repugns
horse.
19 Mill
horses
a copy.
A faJ
disease!
fail to
the bkj
P (Pr{
tassiuii
[Beauty” is the name and ti-
of the most extroordinary
,ed in this generation. It
surpass every other single
ncy in awakening popular
to the cruel abuse of the
lished by Geo. T. Angell,
t. Boston. Every lover of
ild send ten cents, and get
worth knowing is that blood
[which all other medicines
re yield slowly but surely to
cleansing properties of P P
[ly Ash, Poke Root and Po-
McElree'I/INE OF CARDUI for female diseases.
Hn|^£. H. Wallop is to be the
manner and treasurer of Tattersal’s
Chicago. He is a younger son of Lord
Portlnouth, is about 30 years of age,
and Is said to be a good judge of a
honl Trotting is very fashionable
armAd Chicago, and good horses are
dealiu the pork city.
Je best and surest dye to color the
besjfd brown or black, as may be de-
siijl, is Buckingham’s Di’e for the
uskers.’ It never fails.
^he New York World says: “It is
Jcough to make a hayseed swell up as
[rge as a pumpkin to see how the
|overnor of South Carolina is giving
lie sub-treasury two post-elections
ficks for each one of his many ante-
Frtftdion caresses.
According to the.recent British cen-
. ,is the population of Ireland is set
I AWiCat 4,706,162 uucluding both Par-
Young Wives ! JESSE THOM PS( )N&CO
Who are for the first time to un
dergo woman’s severest trial we offer
FRIEND j MANUFACTURERS OF
a remedy which if used as directed for
a few weeks before confinement, robs
it of its Pain. Horror and Risk to Ufa
of both motner and child, as thou
sands who haye used it testify.
A Blessing to Expectant Mothers.
Mother’s Prieto 1« worth its weight
in gold. My wife suffered mere in ten min
utes with either of her first two children
than she did altogether with her last, hav
ing previously used fottr bottles of Moth
er’s Prieto. It is a blessing to mothers.
Carmi. 111., Jan., 1890£G. P. Locewood.
Sent by express, charges prepaid, on re
ceipt of price, $1.50 per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Book to Mothers mailed free.
Bradbteld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
YE£.L.OW Plft E 1,111 It IMS
, SASH, BLINDS AND
-DEALERS 1N-
Augusta & Asheville Short Line.
Port Royal & Western Carolina
Railway.
O N and after May 31st, 1891,
passenger trains will run as fol
lows, bv 75th meridian lime:
North * *
Leave Aiken 10:22 p m 10:58 a in
Lv Augusta 7:20 a m 4:20 p in
Ar McCormick.. . 9:33 a m 6:50 pm
“ Anderson .... 10:00pm
“ Greenwood .. .10:45 a in
“ Laurens 11’55 a in
“ Greenville ... .*1:45 p m
“ Spartanburg.. .1:50 pm
“ Hendersonville4:20 pm
“ Asheville 5:17 pm
Ar Hot Springs .. .6:45 p m
South * *
Lv Hot Springs. ..
Lv Asheville 11:30am
“ Henderso’ville 12:36 pm
“ Spartanbuig .. .-3:20 p m
“Greenville 3*00 pm
“ Laurens 5:15 pm
“ Greenwood . .6:25 pm
“ Anderson 2: p m 7:00 am
“ McCormick 7:40 p m 10:20 a m
Ar Augusta 10:00 pm 12:40 pm
Port Royal & Augusta Railway.
Time—90th Meridian.
South * t
Lv Augusta 11:45am 8:00 pm
Ar Yemassee .... 3:35 p m 2:10 a in
Ar Charleston ..
Ar Savannah. ..
Ar Jacksonville.
. .6:50 pm
. .6.20 p m
.7:35 a in
Ar Beaufort
.5:20 p*m
Ar Port Royal..
.5:40 p m
North
Daily
Lv Port Royal ..
.7:30 a m
Lv Beaufort
..7:45 a m
Lv Jacksonville.
..6:30 p m
Lv Savannah .. .
Lv Charleston...
..8:10 am
Lv Yemassee 9:40 am 3:00 a m
Ar Augusta 1:30 pm 8:40 am
*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.
Through Palace Sleeper runs be
tween Spartanburg and Savannah.
Connection made at Greenwood with
C. &G. Road; at Anderson with the
Blue Ridge Road; at Spartanburg
with R. & D. Roads.
For further information apply to
R. W. HUNT, T. P. A.
W. J. CRAIG. P. A. *
_ Augusta, Ga.
South Carolina Railway.
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Bureaus from $5.50 up: Wardrobes; Book Cases; Extension, Parlor and
Kitchen Tables; Fancy and Plain Rockers; a Large lot of Chairs from 50c.
up; Bedsteads from $2.00 up; Refi igerators; Ice Boxes, as low as $4.00; Mat
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Kitchen Safes, wire and tin; Looking Glasses; Clocks; Mosquito Nets aud
Frames; Wall and Corner Brackets; Hat Racks; Curtain Poles. Mattresses
renovated in short notice. Pine Fibre Pillows and Mattresses a specialty.
Upholstering and Repairing Furniture is best of style. —■
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Fine Wines, Brandies, Whiskies,
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