The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 03, 1896, Image 6
A GOOD POKER STORY
THE NEW MAN IN THE NEW HAR
MONY SELECT CIRCLE.
H« Was In tlio Grocery I!uslne*s nrd
Hadn't Time to Play —However, He Join
ed the Party For Two Evcnlcca and Sold
Out HU Grocery Store.
“I saw a story in u paper recently,”
taid an old Bport at Willard’s the other
day, “which told how two slick stran
gers from tlie Windy City milked a
poker game in an Indiana town and got
r.way with nil the money in it. That
reminds me of another story of the samo
order.
“In the town of New Harmony are
located a number of gentlemen of great
taste and considerable means. For
years the mainstay of this crowd was
playing euchre and whist, but this was
finally changed by the arrival of two
characters who organized and taught a
class in poker. The first ef these was
the sen of a Frenchman, who lived on
an island down the river. His father
was worth in the neighborhood of ^!200,-
000 or $300, COO, r.nd ho k( pt ins hoy
well supplied with money.
“Well, this progressive youth organ
ised a poker game in the peaceful vil
lage of New Harmony. There were
about six in the party, and it was their
custom once a week or more to meet at
the hotel and indulge in a friendly,
quiet game, but one where the only
limit was the beautiful blue sky. The
Frenchman played a game of bluff from
■tart to finish. Ho would pike along in
the pots until some one thought ho had
a fair hand and would open for a few
hundred dollars, when the Frenchman
would shove from $3,000 to $r>, 000 dol
lars into tho pot before t he draw, and
nine times out of ten the other man
would have to go to the pack.
“There was another player in the
game, the hotel keeper, who was also
after the spuds. He was tho only one
who could beat the Frenchman. Time
after time tho latter would push in his
roll and rend tho hotel keeper to tho
pack. But once in awhile the latter
would catch his antagonist napping and
would come back at him with another
raise, getting back in one pot all ho
had lost during tho remainder of tho
evening.
“One spring day a well dressed, quiet
looking man drift i d into town and put
up at tho hotel. In the course of time
ho was introduced to all the crowd
about the hotel, and they found him a
most congenial companion. He was only
a moderate drinker, hut liked to gather
a crowd around him and smoke and tell
stories. After a week of this he told tiio
boys that he intended to locate there
ami open a fancy grocery store. Ho
went away for a few days, and when ho
returned he opened up near the hotel.
Such a store as lie opened had never
been seen ia the place prior to this time.
He kept imported pickles, canned
shrimps, line cheeses and everything on
that order, supplemented with a stock
of thochoice-t wines, liquors and cigar's
Owing to his congenial habits his store
goon became tho loafing place of tho
poker playing crowd, and they often
gathered there of an evening to listen
to liis stories and to drink and smoko.
Many invitations were o.:tomled to the
quiet man of business to take a hand in
the game, but ho invariably replied that
he knew nothing about playing joker.
Ho had, ho admitted, jdayed tho game
and liked it pretty well, but ho would
say: ‘You boys have nothing to do to
morrow and can afford to stay up all
night if you want to. I hav. my busi
ness to attend to and must get around
early cp' ,i uj). ’
“One night, however, when the crowd
had been drinking more than usual and
were feeding particularly good, tiny re
fused to take any excuse and insisted
that he must go in with them. He had
been drinking himself, and he finally
consented to go to the hotel and take a
hand for awhile. In the game tho
Frenchman played his samo old tricks.
Every time tho storckecpi k would jioko
his head out of his hole tlio Fnnehman
was waiting for him with a club and
hit him hard Tho game broke up about
fi o’clock in tho morning, and it was
found that tho storekeeper was out
about $1,000. Was ho tore? Well, I
should say ho was. Ho hail told them,
ho said, that ho didn’t want to play;
that ho couldn’t play, and that ho could
not afford to lose tho money. Finally
he said: ‘I have been thinking for tome
time of putting a clerk in charge of my
store, and I am going down to Louis
ville tomorrow to get one. Then I will
have more time to play with you ljoys. ’
True to his word, he went to Louisville,
and several days later a man came up
and went to work in tho store. ‘Now,’
aaid he, ‘I um ready for a game tonight,
and I warn you I am going to bring a
pile of mossy with me. I am deter
mined to win back what I lost or lose
all that I have left, which is consider
able!. 1 Well, the gang felt sorry for him.
He was a good follow, they admitted,
but he had no business playing poker.
However, his money ,vus as good as
any one elso’s, and if it was in tlio game
they must go out after it.
“The game commenced early that
night and lasted until (i in the morning.
Again tho Fr< nchinau tried his old tac
tics. ln:t somehow they did not work.
Every time he came at the storekeeper
tho latter was loadi 1. Finally, about 0,
the game broke up, and the fancy gro-
cerynian walked down stairs, washed
his hands and face and went to the de
pot, where he took the first train out of
town. He had soaked the Frenchman
for $2.’i,U0( and had picked up $'*,000
more from tho small fry. Investigation
showed tint the supposed clerk hud
really bought, the store, and the last tho
crowd heard of their $30,000 the smooth
■jtoken storokeepiT was spending it
abroad. lie took a crimp in that jmker
game that was never ironed out.
Washington Post.
Onco tho Most MaKiilflcont Ileshtenoc In
IlnRlnnd, hut Now a Iluln.
A little to the north of tho river Avon
lies the town of Kenilworth, one of the
most famous sjiots of all Warwickshire.
It is only a straggling village, whose
rows of ancient cottages, red gabled and
built of timbers blackened by age, look
quaint and curious enough to our mod- ,
ern eyes. But the interest of Kenilworth
is not in the village itself. It is in the I
ruined castle from which the village
takes its name.
It was more than 700 years ago that
th • first massive walls of Kenilworth
who raised. Evidently it was meant
that tho castle should bo a stronghold,
capable of withstanding any sort of at
tack, for a part of these ancient walls, j
in the shape of a square tower, still bids
defiance to wind and weather. The his
tory of Kenilworth castle has been full
of change and excitement. At times it
was in tho possession of powerful nobles,
whose followers were tho scourge and |
terror of tho whole country round about 1
because of tho ferocity and recklcssm ss
with which their foraging parties plun
dered and destroyed. Then, again, it
was the jiroperty of the kings of Eng
land, and splendid tournaments were 1
hold iu its great tiltyard. Almost every
owner added to the castle, till at lust it
camo to be a magnificent residence, tho
finest in all England, as well nsa strong
fortress. It was during tho reign of
good (.^ueen Bes:, when tho castle be
longed to one of her courtiers, the Earl
of Leicester, that Kenilworth was at the |
height of its glory and splendor. Th- n,
as the old surveyors tell us, it inobrl ol i
within its walls a circuit of 1!) or *'J
miles, “in a pleasant eountrey, the like
both for strength, state and pleasure i
not being within tho realm of Eng
land.”
In 1.»7.j Queen Elizabeth visited Ken
ilworth, where she was entertained
magnificently for more than two weeks.
There is a quaint account of her visit in
an ancient letter written by one who j
wau at tho castle at the time. As she '
drew near the outer walls, tho trumpet- i
ers, who stood upon tho Walls, “being-
six in number, each 8 feet high, with
their silvery trumpets, of a 5 foot long,
sounded up a tune of welcome. ’’ Then,
as the queen and her retinue, having
passed through the outer gateway, ap- i
preached tho inner walls, a Hunting i ••
land appeared in the moat or bike that
surrounded three sides of tho castle and i
a beautiful girl, representing tlio “Lady
of the Lake” bade tho queen welcome j
to Kenilworth.
When Cromwell became tho head of
the state, no gave K nilwi rth to his
generals, who reduced the beautiful
castle to ruins in a very short space of ;
time. They stripped it of everything 1 hat
could bo turned into money and then j
left it to go to pieces, so that today it
is only an imposing pile of ruins.
As in tho days of its glory Kenil
worth was tho noblest mansion in Eng
land, so now in its decline its ruins arc
more impressive and beautiful than any i
oihers iu the country. Crumbling walls
are ail that is lift of the grand and ,
stately halls where the sovereigns of
England have been entertained, while
only broken arches remain to tell of tho I
great gateways through which brilliant
trains of knights and ladies have passed.
Over tower and doorway, ruined wall |
| and crumbling window arch, all of a
j uniform palo red tint, tho ivy throws
its drapery of living green, rounding
| and softening tho sharp edges of tjn- j
masonry and adding its fresh beauty to j
the mellow tints of tho aneieut ( tone- I
work.—San Francisco Bulletin.
matt ft?
TIjo Child’s Knowledge of Dee.tli.
Among other things, Lr. ,Stanley
Hall’s child study at Worcester talu s
j into consideration the question how ear
ly i;i life a child gets an impression eon-
; corning death and its meaning. This is
a very interesting question. Tho writt r
has always himself been a student of
child life, and ho is ef opinion that,
while children very quickly and easily
acquire through their own observation
a general notion what death is, they
connect human beings with it only when
the death of people has been talked of
in their hearing. A chance word drop
ped now and then is enough to implant
in the intelligence of a very young cbiid
tho knowledge that death may end tho
life of jK-oplo they know. The sadness
of death tiny seem instinctively tomil-
izo. R , a boy 3 years and -1 months
old, not precocious, has never personal
ly known any bereavement, but he hits
heard death mentioned. Tho other day
his parents were visited by a gent!- man
ami his wife, who have no childn u
During the visit R asked his father
if Mr. and Mrs. "had any little
boy.”
“No,” answered his father.
“Have yev got any little gir!?’’
“No.”
The little boy dropped his voice to a
low tone and asked, with a tone of gi u-
uino solemnity:
“Are yey dead?”
Tho low voice of tho child seemed to
express all tho sorrow and pathos i f the
idea of death. Yet it is quite certain
that no one had ever in any set t- inis
communicated this idea to him. Nevei-
theless, lie has seen dead bird* dead
flowers, dead trees. It is impossible to
shut out from the mind of any observ
ant child who lives in tho c ountry a
knowledge of the primal facts of life
and death.—Boston Transcript.
TU" C**-a of Chllftren's Teeth.
Tlio care of the teeth cannot be begun
too early. If a child loses those of the
first wt prematurely, the jaw contracts,
there being nothing to prevent it from
so doing. The secoml teeth have not
space to stand properly and are crowded.
1’nrtieles of food lodging U-twccn tho
teeth cause them to decay early. It is a
wise precaution to touch a child to pass
a thread of silk or dental floss hetwien
tho teeth after eating, as well as to
brush them lognlarly. b'alt ai.d water
is u good antiseptic, and answers for u
dentifrice as well as many more i-lais)-
rate and more expensive preparations.—
Ladies' Homo Journal.
AduptitMoBii of
Genius.
“Well, Jahez, what
You seem absorbed.”
“Lemmo alone. I’m inventin. ”
“Doing what?”
“Inventin, I tell you. Got the artist’s
wheel down fine. His palette is in
front, his easel’s behind, and all his
paints on tho cranks—they keep better
mixed that- way—and he just wraps his
canvas un and the njipcr bar of tho
frame. .See? And I haven’t forgotten his
umbrella. ”
“Is that nil?”
“No. 1 had to give a power of thought
to a wheel for a double lev's—kind of
unwiehlly thing. Got over it by making
tin double bass man straddle his instru
ment. Trombones, ophicleides and ket
tledrums just pack away like boxes iu
at nest, ami Sousa’s only got to say a
word and my fortune’s made in musical
wheels.”
“Anything else?”
“There’s tho literary wheel—got tho
points from a Brooklyn librarian. Tho
book or the magazine is held in place
just this side of the ram’s horn, and
• hero is an automatic concern that turns
over the leaves at the exact time. With
that arrangement the publishers will
have no further reason to complain that
books are now a drug on the market.
Then there is the sportsman’s wheel.
He slings his double barrel ri.-'ht under
him, and there’s a rest if he’s a pot
hunter, and a place for 50 rounds of
anmiunitiou, and a crib for a pointer or
t etter, as the case may be, and a game
bag and a basket for holding dog biscuit
for a week.
A little variation in the sportsman’s
Viko and you have the angler’s rig,
down to his green painted hamper with
the bait in it. The drummer’s wheel
took a lot of Babe. I don’t care what
kind of samples the man carries—tea
pots or pig iron—it’s all aranged for.
Don’t ask mo any more questions, for
I’m on the milkmaid’s wheel now. You
couldn’t catch on, I am afraid, not be
ing of an ingenious turn of mind. Well,
it’s about this, and don’t you give me
away: Hho just scorches around her
cows, and 1 he milking stool is adjust
able. A patent attachment to a cy
cloidal sprocket works the exhaust and
strips the last drop from tho cow’s ud
der. Then, when tho tin bucket that the
chain carries along is filled, all she has
to do is to zip around to ‘another cow,
and that works the churner, and so l«y
the time she is through with tho very
hot Sakie there is your butter, and tho
cyclometer tells you how much butter
you have to a pound. I’m working out
a refrigerating jirineiple now as a j)art
of t hat wliei 1 so as to keep the butter
cool and fresh. That wheel is going to
break the co-operative dairy (business.
Don’t ask me no more Billy questions.
L'i o?”—New York Times,
It I* Danfferon* IJrc-iu-io of the FokIUou of
the I’liokerlen.
The inaccessibility of the rookeries fre
quently involves seal hunters in danger,
Bays a writer in the New York Press. Tho
seals are shot from a promontory. Then
tho hunter is lowered on a rope by his
comrades 100 or 200 feet to the slippery
wave washed rocks below, where tho
dead seal lies. Ho quickly skins the an
imal. A small boat from the ship rides
outside the surf line ready to carry the
hides away. A small line is floated
ashore to the hunter, who tics tho hides
to it one by one, and the boat is loaded,
the hunter is drawn to tho top of the
cliff, and another rookery is sought for
more game. The surf about these deep
sea islands is very high and is one of
tho obstacles of the seal hunter.
The long stiff hairs from tho seal’s
muzzle arc highly prized by Chinamen,
and large quantities are exported to
China. The Chinese mount these hairs
with gold for use as toothpicks and ear-
spoons. Other parts of the animals are
dried and shipped to China for use by
the native doctors, who claim that they
effect marvi lous cures with the medicine
made from these parts.
Tho sea lions are rather cute in their
way. They enjoy a geat deal of sea fowl
occasionally. When the gulls are Hying
overhead, a lion will dive and swim
some distance under water from tho
point where he disappeared. Ho ap
proaches the surface carefully, allowing
merely the tip cf his black nose to show
above the surface. By giving his body
a rotary motion this nose tip makes cir
cles on the ocean, and, to tho eye of tho
flying gull, resembles a waterbug at
play. With a swish, tho deceived gull
rushes down from its station above like
a ball from a gun. The lion sinks a few
inches, and as the gull hits the water
with tremendous impetus tho jaws clave
mercilessly on the sea fowl, and it is
hauled below the Kurface and devoured.
PEOPLE WHO BUY ANCESTORS.
Former Slav® Market, Constunttuoplo,
Oil benches so placed us to command
a good view were the buyers, coarse
looking Turks, whose calm, Fearohing
gaze si eined to take in ( very detail.
The merchant conducting the sale stood
be11 re them, talking and gesticulating
with great vehemence. He turned to
one (d tin- pens, which was filled with
young Circ assian women, most of whom
wc i • very handsome. They were seated
ck'.'C together on the ground in an atfi-
tud i f list less despondency, their white
garments flowing around them, and, as
tin y gazed up at me with their sad,
dark eyes, I felt painfully how they
r.ust envy the free and happy stranger
who came to look oa them iu their in
famy and misery.
'i he slave trader eamo forward, fol
lowed by a jihlegmatic looking Turk,
Uiid, : - izing one of the women by tho
grin, forced her to stand up before this
nan, who, it appeared, wished to buy
her. He proceeded to inspect her, very
much in the same manner us he might
have examined a horse ora dog, and his
deeision was unfavorable. He turned
away with a contemptuous movement
of th;' head, and the slave merchant, iu
i; rage, thrust back tho unfortunate girl,
who sank down trembling among her
companions in captivity. This scono
was as much as we could stand, and wo
left the place hurriedly at once. It is
| w 11 indeed that such sigbtsean be wit-
j ness-d no more, at least in Europe.—
: Blackwood's Magazine.
mncliburn and iilalr.
They tell a good story in Washington
; on Joe Blackburn. He had an exciting
argument iu a senatorial cloakroom at
Washington several years ago us to the
relative value of brandy and whisky as
nmu’s greatest boon. In the midst of
the argument tho stoical prohibition
Senator Blair of New Hampshire (n-
ti red the room. Forgetting the well
known total abstinence tendencies of
the New Englander, Senator Blackburn
appealed to him to settle tho dispute.
“I do not know the difference between
whisky and brandy, ” replied Senator
Jiluir, w ith n face as passive us u Jap
anese doll. After Blair had departed
Blackburn’s eyes actually moistened
with sympathy us he shook his head
sadly and said: “Poor old man! His
rtomni h must be in awful shape. ”—
Ni w York Tribune.
In Great Dci-ianri by Thonu Who Have Not
Invented Them.
“There is a regular trade done in old
portraits of men in armor and women
in modisevnl costumes,” said a large
picture dealer to tho writer. “They are
brought by persons who have made their
fortunes and want to persuade their
friends that they come of an ancient
and aristocratic lineage.
“I am frequently railed upon to sup
ply these fictitious ancestors, and I find
that the portrait of a gentleman in ar?
uior—and armor is especially favored,
such as was worn about the time of Ed
ward V—will fetch almost any price, no
matter how crude it may be, bo long us
it has the old time tone.
“Only the other week a man whoso
manner spe.led ‘fortune from jiork sau
sages’ appl. d to me for a series of an-
ecstors. I had three old portraits on
hand at the inio and offered them to
him, but he-.id not care about them be
cause tin re was no armor. Could I not
supply this deficiency? I said, ‘Y--s,’
and doubl' d I he price cf the pictures,
and he drew me a check for £250 with
avidity. Now he wants four more to
fill four vacant panels in the picture
gallery of his ancestral home.
“Many upshot Americans who come
over here buy up the ancestors to take
home and palm off upon their friends.
Indeed the demand for them has be
come ro great that there are four or five
portrait painters making comfortable
incomes turning out forefathers.
“Of course you know that large quan
tities of ancient armor are made every
year in Sheffield and bought by the
same class of people, with the enme ob
ject a; the pictures. It is a fact, amj i
have known £<i00 to he paid for a suit
of armor which probably cost less than
£10 to make.”—London Tit-Bits.
Ducki; untl
A man who wrote to Forest and Stream
i awhile ago said that 80 jur cent of
the <t.i"ks he had killed were drakes—
lour drakes to one female—anil ho
i wanti <1 to know tho reason why. Others
promptly said they had observed similar
pn p.'-jul. ranee of drakes, and also want-
d to know why. One man told how hu
had K"< n one female duck chased by
four i-r five niah s. lie had killed 45 iu
a ''jiring day’s shooting, and of them
only D were females.
Tims far no explanation has been
; given of tho matter.
IfiagncMili.
“Uncle Dick, what’s a delusion?”
"W-11, Bob! y, it is thinking your ex-
| pens- next mouth will not 1m- as heavy
as th y are this mouth. ”—Detroit Froo
i Press.
Alcohol In Colil Wentber.
A scientist thus explains why it Is bij
dangerous to use alcohol in tho polar
regions: A modi rate use of alcohol
causes a deposit of fat. Alcohol iu not
turned into fuel inthe muscle and nerve
cells, hut serves as a jmre fuel inthe
organism and replaces the- combustion
cf fat. Alcohol is, therefore, dangerous
in the extreme eold because it assists
tho throwing off of heat in u'great de»
groe. Tho effect is as if a stove in a
room should be heated redhot and then
all the doors and windows thrown open.
Heat produced by muscular work in the
body is licsfc obtained from curbohy-
(Lutes in the food, but, besides this, the
indisponsible production of heat is best
obtained by fats. This explains the in
stinctive choice of tho food of men. In
tin- tropics they eat little fat and much
fruit, while the polar dweller requires
immense quantifies of fat to keep up
the bodily combustion.—New York
Ledger.
Golden Noio.
Tycho Brnltc, tho famous Danish
mathematician, was known as tho
“Wizard of the Golden Nose. ” While
at the university he lost his nose in a
duel and rojdaccd it with a nasal organ
of gold, held in place by cement and a
pair of Bjxitacles. This addition to his
coantcnunco gave him a very peculiar
appearance mhI caused him to he much
feared by th-- common people, who at
tributed to him imply supernatural
powi rs, largely on account of his re
markable nose.
pps
Hr llrct Ive.
“1 wish I could have lived in tho
days when men were brave enough to
fight duels for the smiles of women,”
said the girl with the dreamy eyes.
“But tiny couldn’t set uj> tho icij
cream soda in those days, for therg
wasn't liny, ” said the girl with the tilted
nose, and the dreamy girl concluded
that pi rhnps the modern times were
best.—(‘iuriniiuti Enquirer,
iiove is merely a uiuilness, imd I tell
you di :; rw s as well a dark bouse and
a whip as madmen do, and the reason
! why they an not m punished ami cured
J is that the lunacy is so ordinary that
the whipp- rs wo in love too.—Shakes
peare.
RACK AND MANGER.
A CambliiMtlon Contrlvnnoo That Prevents
a Waste of Hay.
Farmers who are troubled by horses
throwing hay out of their mangers will
find a remedy in the contrivance figured
here. It is thus described by a Virginia
correspondent of Country Gentleman,
who furnished tho original sketch. He
writes:
I take two poles as long as the width
of the stalls and hang one on brackets at
any convenient height. My brackets are
pieces of plank nailed to the studding.
Tho lower pole rests on tho outside of
It I)ispo*<-M of Fruits itn-l Vc-jti-lHl-lcn Ac-
(orilltii- to 81ce.
The dcsirahlity of putting on tho
mark -t fruit ( ami vegctabl i f uniform
size is ii') longrr questioned, and pro
gressive farmi ’ . now son i!;- products
into various si/. . No small <"• medium
apples, potato's, oranges, ilc., areal-
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the manger. I nail strips 5] or 4 inches
wide to the poles, leaving spaces be
tween them large enough to admit freer
Jy a la :■.'<•’« head, It is well to have the
lower pole just long enough to tit be
tween the stall partitions. If short, tho
horse will push tho rack sidewise and
perhaps wreck it.
My stalls are 7 feet wide; manger
the same length, with a feedbox at one
end, and horses not tied. When it is de
sirable to clean out the manger, the
lower polo can ho raised and kept up
by a crotchcd stick. The whole rack
swings upward on the brackets.
In the cut A is feedroom or passage;
B, manger; C, stall; D, jioles; E, brack
ets; F, strip; G, feed opening.
KnKllnce Fatter*.
A large number of ensilage and feed
cutters are now on tho market. The
smaller ones can he run by tread powi r
or a small horse power. Large sizes can
be more advantageously operated by
means of steam engines. Many farmers
own stationary engines, while others
have thrasher engines. These machines
are as good for cutting hay, straw or
dry fodder as for ensilage and can thus
he used the greater part of the year.
The email ones are provided with a fly
wheel and a crank, by means of which
limit' d quantities of forage can be cut
by hand.
In this connection American Agri
culturist tells that the prices of tin so
machines range from $0 for the small
baud machines to $31)0 and over, do-
p< nding upon the capacity of the < utter
and the 1 ngth of the carrier. , Sweep
hi r e] own s co-t $30 to $00, tread
powers $100 to $175 and farm engines
$250 to $100 or more. The carrier can
be extended t-> almost any height, 32 to
40 feet being the usual limit. Tho addi
tional length costs about $2 a foot. Tho
longer the carrier the more power re
quired to run it and the more care in
placing and operating it.
Shady Flure For Rce*.
“Can there be too shady a place for
bees?” This query is answered as fol
lows by Dr. C. 0. Miller in The Ameri
can Bee Journal:
A place can be made so shady at? to
be dark', as in a cellar, but I can hardly
think any growth of trees or vines can
be so dense as to make it too dark for
the bi os. But there may bo such a dense
growth on all sides that there is too lit
tle circulation of air about the hives. I
once had combs melt down in hives up
on which the light of the sun never di-
rrctly shone. There was such a dense
growth on all sides that there was very
little stir of air, so the combs melted
down with the heat, There is no dan
ger under ordinary circumstances. For
several years I kept an out apiary in an
evergreen grove, and the dense shade
allowed no grass or weeds to grow, hut
there was no trouble from mold or any
thing else. But there was full chance
for tho air to move under the trees. It
is barely jiosRiblo that some peculiar
spot might be so close and damp as to
favor the growth of mold.
IlamlUng Fodder Corn.
At the Texas station results gained
from four methods of handling fodder
corn have been compared. First, leaving
it stand until the grain was thoroughly
mature and dry; second, cutting just
above the ear, while the blades were
still grei n and stripping off the blades
below the ear; third, cutting off above
the ear only; fourth, strijiping all the
blades and leaving tho whole stalk
stand. The blades below the car were
of little value, and the cost of stripping
the whole stalk was $7. <17 per ton of
blades gathered, while the cost of toje
ping Just above the car was only $2.13
jmt ton of dry fodder secured; hence
the topping method is recommended as
j most profitable.
Orange* Dropping From Trees.
.Some orange growers have developed
a theory that the dropping of oranges
from the trees, which lias occasioned a
great loss in the amount of the present
crop in California, may Is- prevented by
the use of more fertilizers, and some ef
the examples cited seem to Lear out the
theory. Anu-ricmi Gardening tells that
orchards which were fertilized with
smaller quantities of guano have lost
much won- heavily than those which
were fertilized more liberally.
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A SORTING COXTR1VAM K.
lowed to occupy tho crate marked first,
class, but have baskets oreratos of their
own. With a view to giving assistance
in tho easy disposition of fruits and veg
etables according to size, is hero ap
pended the illustration of a rortirg ma
chine described in American Gaidfning
as follows:
The first cut shows the constrnation
of a fruit and vegetable f-ortiT, which
h.,s, as shown, a slat bottom. ,”(•<' ? > rend
cut. This slat bottom is made with the
openings narrow at tho uj y.< r end mid
growing constantly wider until the
other end is reached. The rla's should
be well wound with strips cf burlap or
other soft cloth, to jiuvnit the fruit
from bruising.
The material to be sorted i- poured
carefully into the hopper, and ar. it
moves slowly down the l- nglh of ilie
sorter tho fruit or vegetables fall
through the slats, the nnalkst first,
then tlio next size, and so on.
Tho arrangement of tho cloth spouts
underneath is such as to catch each size
iif.d of sorting m.wtiim:.
by itself and convey them into separate
baskets. The hopper ia not a iu eessary
adjunct un'ess the sorter’ i: made very
narrow at thenppirend. It will permit
faster work, however, iu any ease.
Dl.itanre Experiment.
It has been made to *nppi ar at iho
Georgia ( xj): riment station farm that
on land capable of producing lb, bah 3
cotton ]:< r acre tho yield v ill be greatir
when the plants stand 3 by 2 than
when the plants stands <> by 1 and pno
poitionally greater than at 5 feet by 1-1.4
inches and 4 feet by lb, Let. Thisc-uidu-
sion, however, is not final In general
the product will be greater in j-ropor-
! tion ns the sjiace appropriated to each
plant appr-iachi s a ja-ii'i ct square.
It does net follow as a practical ap
plication that it, would be expedient to
reduce the width of the row* and in
crease the distance between plants with?
] out consult ring fho i ;q acitv of th ) soil.
, There i.i a limit in narrowing tho rows
! b< low which the mcrea>. d co. t ( ? eul-
‘ tivation, !,it!i plowing und hoeing and
! seeding, would be greater than the val-
' uc of tho possible increased yield. On the
! station farm four foot rows is the rule,
■ and this is probably ab; at the light dis
tance for land that will produc e from
one to two bales per acre. On land of
less capacity than one bale per aero it
would probably bo well to reduce tho
width of rows to 3 1 . 2 or even 3 fi t. It
may be safely urged that land Uni will
not produce the maximum crop of which
it is capable with rows net less than 3
f- i t wide cannot be profitably cultivat
ed in cotton.
Crcalin und tho Artry Worm.
Crealin, or krealin, said to be death
| to the army worm, is a jreduct i volved
iu the distillation i f coal tar und con
tains soda, fatty* acids and < lilminc. It
| can he saponified, dor a not di-sclvo in
water, but shaken with water y ields a
milky emulsion. It is nonpeisonous and
a germicide. It is used by physicians as
an antiseptic. A teasjioonful to a pint
of water is the dose given tho army
worms. We shall have to hear from
some of tho experiment station workers
as to the use of this mat- rial as an in
secticide. From the source of it, it
would not seem to m i d to be expensive.
Fly PrctoctoM.
Hero is what Hoard's Dairyman says
on tho subject:
The only fly remedy we have given
personal trial was compound! •! from
the formula given last year by Mr. H.
S. Mattcrsou, as follows: Train oil, 3
quarts; crude petroleum, 1 quart; car
bolic acid, 1 ounce. Apply with sponge,
and one application suffices for from
live to seven days. We Lilirvc that
common axle grease, thinned with a lit
tle kerosene and tinctured with carbolic
acid, us above, would prove cffictiro.
Hero and There.
At the Georgia station no better Va
riety of oats has been found than the Ap-
jiler oat, a strain of the Texas Rust-
jinxif, but the latter is nearly as good.
The only objection to the Appier, us
well as the Texas, is the fact that it is
not distinctively a winter oat; it is
liable to be killed by very severe freezes.
The w inter turf is more haidy in this
rer.pect, but not so proof against rust.
A correspondent of Southern Cultiva-' -
tor says that ho believes such aline has
every property claimed for it und w ill
plant more this autumn.
It has been demonstrated that tho
tots! yield of a crop of cotton will be
materially increased by applying the
whole before planting und “bidding
on it. ”
At the Texas station it has boon
found that bur clover is a good winter
! gl ass. Johnson grass also nmki s a Ireq
yield of rich, nutritious hay if cut
before blooming.