The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 13, 1898, Image 2
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K1XGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, f
LOCIS .1. BUlsrOW, Kditor and ,
Proprietor. J {
The numbie aud much lualifrned J <
nnile has pla3'ed a gi ater j'urt in the j
----- ? >? > fiow war liurse.
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German authorities report the actors- <
ishing fact that in Germnnyaud Switz- 1
erland 2,000,000 glass eyes are an- J
nnally manufactured, while one French l
factory is turning out as many as 1
300.000. I
Porta Pico possesses miles ami miles ^
of macadamized roads said to have
cost $23,000,000. The first excursion
boat to San Juan ought to he loaded '
with American century riders eager to '
explore those smooth highways.
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Profes- >r Mnlhall's estimate oi 11
?S1.7o0,0b!>.000 as the wealth of ibis j
coautrv cives to each man, woman j
anil cbiM 100 as an average. Bat it
is useless to quote tflis to the friend <
.who is always ashing for the loan o? a
quarter. 1
It is alleged of a Canadian ollico
holder by u Canadian newspaper oi'
opposing politics that he has been
drawing .^100 for feed for his steed,
and that it has been shov. n that his
steed is a silent one a bicycle. For
a silent one it is now making considerable
noise in the world in consequence.
Californiaus are complaining about
the naming of warships. There was i
built in California the queen of the
Americau uavy, the battleship Oregon;
the queen of the protected crnis
ers, the dagship Oiympia; the hand- J
soaiest vessel iu the service, the
cruiser San Francisco, and the only
'i two monitors that ever crossed the
Racilic, the Monterey and the Monadnock,
and the swiftest torpedo bon s
are now being built there yet the
* State has not been honored by having
its name given to a battleship.
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While European Russia wi'<? need
* only forty-tive years or so, Germany
about sixty-five years, Austria-Hungary
seventy years, England eighty
years, and Italy 119 years, it will tike
France over SCO years to double its
* population! What signifies the loss
of Alsace-Lorraine's 1,500,000 souls
compared with the loss France suffers
e day? In the last five years the
v. German population has increased by
3,000,000, who are every one fully
German; Franco meanwhile has increased
her people by only 175,000,
who are not even of French natiou'
ality. The increase of a nation is of
tiia nt.most imnortnuce to the success
of its country. It has meant much
in the nineteenth century, it will
mean more in the twentieth.
Discnssiug the quietly growing but
highly important change in agricultural
communities near cities, as the
result of the invasion of the trolley,
the American Agriculturist says that
farming lands thus favored have advanced
from five to twenty-five per
eeni in value. Thus far this is due>
* the paper says, not so much to the
relative nearness of a market as to the
increased demand from city residents
who wish to enjoy country life. This
ia expected to mean much ultimately
to agriculture. The city people
* gradually stay longer at their country
summer homes, and when there are
* good schools iu the vicinity the summer
soiourners often become per- |
manent res^ents. All this enables
the eoantry town to atTord the betterments
which make life worth the living,
and this improvement, socially
and financially, may. in certain restricted
regions, restore to farming
some ox its lost favor.
The band on a British warship
played "liie Star-Spangled Banner"
when General Merritt's men marched
against the Manila trenches. It j
pounds like an echo from the Trenton's j
decks when she was tossing in the j
breakers 02 Apia in me terrmc uum-,
cane. It will be remembered that 1
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when the British cruiser Calliope, the
only ship in the harbor that had engine
power sufficient to escape, was forging
slowly through the surge to the open !
sea, the Trenton's crew, who expeoted [
to go down every minute, gave the j
Calliope three cheers of congratula- j
tiou. This was nine years ago. And 1
now a British ship salutes an Ameri
can force going into action with
similar heartiness and spoutaucity. i
These outbreaks of fellow-feeling be-'
tween the two navies whenever they |
meet in timo of stress indicates a I
warmth of sympathy that docs honor j
to both. It shows how the Angle-1
Saxon everywhere appreciates courage '
and daring.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Cleaning? I'Ihiio Keys.
The white ivory keys of a piano
ihouhl never be cleaned with water,
vliich discolors them. Instead, liiev
?hould be rubbed over with a soft
lanuel or piece of silk dipped in oxygenized
water, which can be obtained
it any chemist's, and when the notes
ire stained or greasy use methylated
spirits.
Waxing; a Liulit Wooil Floor.
For waxing a light wood floor use
me pound of melted wax to me pint
>f ttirneniine. Melt the wax over the
egister or in a warm bath until as
soft as butter, tbeu beat the turpen;iue
into the soft wax, taking care to
t>e away from the fire when using the
turpentine. Apply with a soft wooieu
?loth, tlien polish with weighted brush.
This polish is equally good for furniture,
beating in one gill of alcohol.
Cleaninc Curved Furniture.
Clean carved furniture every week
by thoroughly dusting it with a new
paint brush. If the mahogany table
shows stains, drop on them a mixture
of six parts of spirits of salt, and one
of salts of lemon or a few drops of oxalic
acid and water, rubbing until the
stain disappears, and then wash with
water and polish as usual. It mahogany
ouly needs cleaning, rub it
with a flannel dipped in sweet oil or
cold drawn linseed oil. In rubbing
wood follow tlie grain, and do not rub
against it any more than you would
against people if wishing a lianpy
result.
Hot Water as a Family Medicine.
"One is never," says a physician,
"far from a pretty good 'mediciue
chest with hot water at hand. It is a
most useful assistant to the mother of
a family of small children, who is
frightened often to find herself, in the
summer wandering, confronted by a
sudden illness of one of her lloek,
wifhnnt lior usual dependence the
family doctor. If the baby has croup,
fold a .strip of flannel or a soft napkin
lengthwise, dip into very hot water,
and apply to the child's throat. liepeat
and continue the application til!
relief is had, which will be almost at
once. For toothache, or colic, or a
threatened lnug congestion, the hotwater
treatment will be found promptly
efficacious if resorted to. Nature
needs only a little assistance at the
first sign of trouble to rally quickly in
tho average healthy child, and often
hot water is all that is warned." New
York Post.
Ta Heautify Your Window.
U UiiC Lias auj iuru uv?v m uonu *
window can be made until she has
tried the following plan. Curtain the
window with rather a coarse mesh of
net the fish net is just the thing.
Then invest in an asparagus fern and
allow it to travel upward on this cartain,
weaving itself in and out and all
over at its own sweet wiil. It will
cross over to the over curtain, reach a
tendril over to a picture cord or wire,
climb over the picture hook, down on
the other side, or along the molding,
or both.
In fact, there is nothing so beautiful
as a white lace curtain of which
such a feathery mass of green is the
most important part. Of course,
either the curtaiu must remain up un
til it falls to pieces or the fern must
be sacrificed. Use u curtaiu which
need not be of such value as to make
it necessary to destroy the fern.
The festoons of this beautiful vine
cannot be equaled by any other style
of decoration, and being natural and
growing rapidly adds greatly to its
charm. New York Herald.
Recipe*.
Stewed Lobster Stir flour enough
into half a pint of milk to give it a
cream thickness, heat to boiling, and
remove from the tire, then stir in one
tablespoouful of butter; drain the
liquor from a pouud can of lobster,
chop the meat rather coarse, ami add
it to the same: season with salt aud
pepper, ami add a teaspoon fill of lemon
juice. ' Simmer teu miuutes aud serve
hot.
Batter Cakes Two eggs well beuteu
together, three cupfuls of sweet milk,
salt to taste; enough white corumeal
to make the batter the consistency ot
fresh cream. Have the hoe hot,
grease slightly, drop the batter 011 the
hoe and let it fry until brown, then
turn. Serve hot with fresh butter.
This makes s nice dish for an invalid
and can be prepared in t^nty minutes.
Tapioca Jelly To a teacnpful of instantaneous
tapioca add a quart of
boiling water and cook in a double
boiler an hour, stirring often, and add
a pinch of salt. When soft add onehalf
cupful of sugar and one teacnpful
of carraut jelly. Stir all until ilior
ougmy jin.\eu. iii'-u iu.ao ...
to individual molds or teacups that
Lave been flipped into cold water and
set away to harden. Servo with cream
and sugar.
Calf's Head Cheese?Cook the part
of the head not used for baking until
the bones slip out. Pour ofi the
liquor and save. Lift 011 u dish and
remove every particle of bone. When
cold, chop line; season with pepper,
salt and herbs, if liked, lay a cloth in
a colander and the meat iu a compact
roll. Fold the cloth around tight
and put a weight over. Use cold for
saudwiches or sliced meat with
mustard dressing.
Peach Salad?Pare, halve and remove
the stones of tine mellow
peaches. Set the halves in flat dish
and put a teaspoon powdered sugar
and a few drops lemon juice iu each
stone cavity. Take the kernels from
a few of the pits and boil with the rest
in a little water to get their fine
flavor. After half an hour, strain,
add four tablespoons sugar, half a
too?nnnn crnnnd mace, aud stir until
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dissolved. When the dressing is cold
add four tablespoons orange juice ant
pour over.
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HELDS'OF ADVENTDRE.T
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THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC 1
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
' Uh?*'l Stonrs On the Bear* An I^citlni;
i:nl?o<l? in the Lower Canon of the
I' Kio Grande A Maneater Chases a i
leather Oil' a Staten Island Beacli.
i They were telling stories about
bears, wlieu a niau from the West ;
chipped in with the following:
"When the Denver ami Iiio Grande
Railroad was projected," he said, "it
was the intention continue the road
through the lower canon, but it was
so narrow and its walls so precipitous
that the attempt was abandoned, for I
the engineers could not determine a
line for want of a hand hold, much j
less a foothold. It is said that no
men ever passed through the canon,
and that but one Indian was ever1
known to make the passage, and he
one unusually severe winter, when
the water froze in still pools.
"In the month of August, 1SSG, I,
with two companions, went down into
the canon, and down the stream a few '
hundred feet, where further passage i
was barred, to troll for trout. We 1
bail a camping outlit with us ami re- j
maiued one night. The next day, i
with a long string of fish, we began I
the ascent of a mountain which was
the wall of the canon. One of us carried
the string of tish and two of us
divided the camping outfit as our part
of the burden.
"We had gone up the mountain j
trail about 1000 feet when we heard a '
cry from the man in the rear, who had
the tish. I was next above him, and,
turning quickly in response to his call, ;
I saw him harrying up tho trail with
two black bears not more than 400
feet below him. The animals hud
smeiled the tish, which ho had dropped
0:1 the trail, and were making haste
to get them, for my companion had
dropped them 111 his flight. He was
an experienced frontiersman, like my- j
self, but in his hurry he had forgotten '
that he could Dot run up a mountain j
at that altitude without becoming ex- j
hausted in a few moments.
''' awa onma fn mr .
ilJ ttll lu^uuii IUCAC taiug ?.v/ j
mind the advice once given to me by
Gray Eagle, an old San Juan prospector,
when he said: 'If you ever meet
b'ar in the mountains and they go fer
yer, don't go down nor don't go up,
ier the b'ar will beat yer, but jest go
in a straight line aud the b'ar will do :
the same thing, and he, havin' no j
sense, will keep aslippin'an' a slippin' i
down sideways.' - ~
"Then I called i, the man in front t
of me, and a few ju ps down the loose
slide rock brought us to the string of
lish aud our frightened partner before j
the bears made much headway.
' Strangely enough, neither of us ,
had a gun, but we took the fish aud ,
moved cautiousiy in a straight line, |
+ Ko.iru fnllnnfinrr Atir nntirtiD until i
we came to loose boulders.
"By that time the bears were within :
200 feet of us and we could hear them
grunting. Then began a bombard- j
liient no less licree in its character and j
determination than Dewey's assault j
on Manila. We throw rocks at the i
animals and disconcerted them, mov- !
ing along slowly toward larger pro- !
jectiles until we fouud one so large ;
that the strength of two of us was
necessary to use it. We took good
aim, waited until the enemy came a
little closer, and then started the big
stone down the steep mountain side.
"The first bear saw the danger and
tried to escape it, but ho could not
veer quick enough and our bomb
ct.MioL- liim mi tlia loft; Hanlr nnd sen;
him flying down the steep incline and j
iuto a gulch ten feet deep. He was
disabled, but his mate (a female, we >
supposed) stood by hira, aud we dared j
not approach. Once she made a feint!
toward us, but a fusillade of well- j
aimed shots made her wiser, and we j
were soon ou our way again toward j
camp, which we reached in safety.
"In all my experience of seveuteen j
years in tlie Eocky Mountains and 011
the frontier from Mexico to British 1
America, these were the first bears I j
ever encountered, though I had many I
times crossed their path, and could '
have found them if I had been on the
hunt."
Kuce For File With a Shark.
A man-eating shark charged a party
of bathers in Prince's Pay recently, j
relates the New York World, and !
6eized one of them l?y the thigh. He '
is Charles E. Broom, a student at
Mount Loretto, Pleasant Plains. He ;
escaped death by a miracle, and now ;
lies in the Smith Infirmary, seriously !
wounded.
For a week a school of sharks had !'
been seen in the bay. Fishermen's
nets have been ravaged frequently by
the monsters.
This afternoon Prince's Bay was
filled with bathers. In the midst of
the pleasure-seekers' gayety there!
was a sudden cry of alarm. Some ' ,
one on the beach had seen a tri- i
1 an radar tin elenvincr the water and
i gradually drawing in toward the j j
sands. The bathers, startled by the i
alarm, looked about, saw the ominous 11
signal of danger and tied to the shore, j ,
Far from the beach Broom was j .
floating when the cry reached him. :
, His head came up and he cast a starj
tied look behind him. Then furiously
l he began to beat his way ashore,
i The shark turned and Broom swam j
as he had never swam before. The ,
shark gained rapidly. It dashed !
through the water with incredible j
swiftness, and then circled around the '
1 swimmer. i
j "Help!" shrieked Broom. "Save
! me!"
, I The shark turned again. The
{ knife-like tin disappeared.
J "It's gone!" yelled the crowd.
, "Swim! Swim for your life!"
[! But the shark hud not gone. It had
[ turned on its side for the last dash
[ upon its prey Broom struggled fiercej
ly. The shore was almost within
reach, and llie shouts of the people
encouraged him.
J>ooking toward him, the people on
the beach saw a sudden commotion
beside him. With a wild shriek,
Broom was plunged beneath the surface
to reappear a moment later,
shriekiug in agony.
The shark had seized him. It had
sunk its teeth in his side and dragged
him under. The swimmer's desperate
struggles, however, alarmed the monster,
and it let go. With all his remaining
strength Broom beat the reddened
water, and plied away toward
the shore. As he reached the shallows,
a crowd of men, splashing and 2
beating the water with hands and feet, *
rushed in and grabbed him. Weak !
and trembling, he was hauled ashore, '
and laid upon the sand. *
From his thigh there came a flush
of blood. A surgeon was summoned '
--Dr. \V. B. McXicoll. He found in '
the .young mau's flesh a semi-circlo of '
deep and ragged puncture?, the iui- ]
print of the man-eater's fangs. Later '
Croom was taken to the Smith Iniirm- *
ary. He is not seriously injured.
After the commotion in the water *
the shark disappeared. Its appear- 1
ance, however, put a stop to the bath- ing,
and it will be many days before ]
the same swimmers trust themselves
in the bay. The shark was fully ten
feet long.
Caught in an Arctic Crevasse. j
On more than one occasion we i
nearly lost our pony down crevasses, 1
when toiling over the high glacier 1
I : ?ri TAAlraA? i
JiUIU, u: ? l CUCi iva \A. vuvuuvm, j
(lie Arctic; explorer, in Hnrper'a i
Magazine: '
One day last spring I was leading 1
as usual with her, and Mr. Arinitage J
was following in my tracks with the <
dog team. On the even surface of 1
the snow there is nothing whatever
to indicate the yawning dark chasms, i
hundreds of feet in depth, which lie '
concealed around us by light bridges '
of snow, only a few inches in thickness.
The snow-covered surface of
the glacier looks as lirm and stable i
as Picadilly, not even a slight de- i
pressiou in the snow marks the hideous
pitiall below, and the inexperienced
traveler would probably tramp i
on with a feeling of perfect secnrily.
We, however, had been on glaciers
many times before. Suddenly, without
a moment's warning, "Brownie"
dropped down through the snow crust
with all four legs, and hung suspended
by a light bridge of snow over a
gaping abyss, the black depths of 1
which the eye could net fathom.
Fortunately she was too much frightened
and too much exhausted to move
a muscle, otherwise she would have
disappeared at once, taking her
sledges with her. My companion,
seeing what had happened, at once
came to my help, bat unwisely stepped
off his ski which are a great protection
in such cases and at once
dropped through into the crevasse up
to his arms. I must confess that the ,
next few seconds were anxious ones |
as I endeavored to hold up the pony
with one hand, and to render assis- ,
tance to Mr. Ariuitage with tho other.
However, he fortunately managed to i
scramble out into safety, and by passing
a line round the pony's neck we
succeeded in extricating her from her
perilous position.
Did It Like an American.
When the attack was mcde on
Sidon, in the war with Syria, it became
necessary for the British iroops
to advance across a long, unprotected
bridge in the face of a battery of six
guns, which completely commanded
the approach. The men were unwilling
to expose themselves to certain
death, when Arthur Cummiug, carefully
dressed in full uniform, stepped
forward, to the middle of the bridge.
It was immediately swept by the tire
of the battery. When the smoke had
rolled away there stood Curaming intact,
carefully brushing the dust from
ln'a hnnts after which ho stood erect,
fixed a single glass in his eye, and
looked bank to the men. This was too
much, and they captured that bridge
and battery with a whoop.
Rode Unhurt Into an Engine.
Mrs. L. E. Blount, of Wilmette,
Til., narrowly escaped death while
crossing the Northwestern tracks on
her bicycle in front of a mail train. ]
She was riding parallel with the tracks
on Bidge avenue on her way south, and ,
had turned to cross the tracks, when (
?':io nritif/wl tlin train onlv a few rods
from the crossing running at fail r
speed. In her excitement Mrs. ]
Blount, turned her wheel down the i
Irnck toward the engine. The pilot f
caught the front wheel of the bicycle, ^
rolling it up to the number plate 0:1 ]
the boiler, and theD threw the wheel j
aud rider aside. Mrs. Blount escaped j
with a few scratches, and the bicycle (
was unbroken. She rode it home.
Ingenious Woman.
No one is more prolific of clever j
ideas iu aiding the escape of prisoners (
thau an ingenious woman. The story ,
is told of some criminals who were ,
Liandcuficd and with their escorts stood (
waiting for the train to convey them .
to jail. Suddenly a woman rushed ,
through the crowd and looking through j
lieavy tears, cried out: "Kiss me good- (
bye, Ned!" The escort good-naturedly ]
allowed the "nrocess of osculation" .<? \
bo performed, and the sheriff smilr I j
feelingly. The 'rain had not gone far <
when the favored prisoner unlocked <
his bracelets and escaped. The woman \
had passed a small key from her month ,
to his during the fond farewell. De- ,
troit Free Press.
When Japanese Cables Are Born.
At the birth of a Japanese baby a \
tree is planted, which must remain 1
untouched until the marriage day of 1
the child. Then the tree is cut down ^
and a skilled cabinet maker transforms '
the wood into furniture, which is con- 1
sidered by the young couple as the ^
most beautiful of all ornaments of the
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nouse.
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in Orchards. ! {;i
jernaps as goou a crop as any iu in
;row in the orchard is buckwheat. j hi
ts seed is so cheap, and the raitlch ' di
ts growth makes it so elective, that m
t more than offsets the poverty of j tl
r.ickwheat in fertilizing material. F
iVhere buckwheat is sown in orchards, . d<
he land will be made extreme!}* light j si
uul moist, especially if the last crop ,>1
>f bnckwheat in the season is plowed J\
inder. The only drawback to this is , }]
hat growing buckwheat leaves the w
101I bare, and in a severe winter frost j tc
nay penetrate deeply enough to in- j
ure the roots of fruit trees. The ?,
>eaeh tree is especially apt to be in- fa
ured by winter freezing of the soil tl
lear the free.
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Fall Flaatins; of Fruit Trees. F^.*
The majority of fruit trees can be ^
;et out in the fall with good results. '.
\fter the summer's work is clone the c]
soil intended for the orchard should (j
be put in the best possible couditicn c]
for trees by careful and thorough ^
plowing, harrowing, fertilizing and, if j.
necessary, draining. Every hour
spent in preparation of the soil before
the trees are set will connt so much c<
more toward future success of the Q
orchard. In the selection of varieties w
the planter should be largely guided j C(
L>v successes of other planters on I
similar soils in the same climate, as j
well as on the demands of the market! *
that lie intends to supply. As a rnle, [
it is not safe to set largely of new ,
varieties unless they have been tested
under conditions similar to those sur-1 />
rounding you and found valuable.
As an illustration of the loss that, h
may follow from setting largely of new ?!
sorts of any kind of fruit without a i ~
test, there have been tested at Edge-, ?
wood, X. J., during tue past fiyo!
years, under held culture, over sixty | a
new varieties of strawberries, all of ^
them highly lauded and of that miniher
but a half dozen were fouud of
value for general plautiug iu that locality.
It is but fair to say, however, 1
that on other soils many that were al- j "
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most wonuiess ut j^u^uwuuu nave
been founil decided acquisitions. Depend
upon the best of the varieties f
that have been found of value and you
will find the orchard a profitable por- "
tion of the farm when it has reason- 0
ably good care.?Atlanta Journal. I "
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A Fmlt-Gathering IJox.
The ordinary basket is not a convent- j,
out receptacle into which to pick fruit
From a ladder. Too little of the open- 0
ing is presented between the rounds, ^
owing to the round form of the has- ^
ket's top. The round form also keeps ^
the basket from being stable, as it is jj
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lonstautly swinging abont on the ore ^
liook supporting it. A fruit-gatherng
box is shown in the cut which ob- R
nates both of these defects. Its han1
e is made from a flat hoop soaked in !
water and bent iuto the proper shape, j n,
rhis handle can be supported by two ^
aooks, keeping the box very firm. w
With a box the full opening from one ,
iide to the other is afforded for pile- j ^
:iug in fruit. If the box is carefully j *2
irtMil with !? double thickness of bur- :
ap there will be less likelihood of J 1!
iruising tho fruit, even iu the smallest
lcgree. New York Tribune.
Car? of Milk in Autumn. j t(
I have seen a great ileal of good tn
lailk spoiled in the fall, because the J
lairy rooms in which it was kept over j m
light were closed as soon as the milk i si
vas set away at evening. Shutting 1
jtTventilation now, while it will not ! 0]
ipoil the milk as quickly as in hot j
veather, results in the impairment of j j)(
ts quality. Milk designed for the i
theese factory or creamery is better j
eft outside in the free cool air, than I ^
n any building where the circulation |
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a siiui ou or is imperieci. yiein- / ,^
leal of secoml grade butter and cheese
)f autumn manufacture is duo to the
;eudency of dairymen to leave their
milk cans in the barn at night as soon ^
is frosty iveather appears. : s<
Milk kept on the farm for twelve ^
hours before delivery should be serat I ^
?d as thoroughly now as in July. It j
!? ln'rrli tamnflvofuvn + ft fl f flltVflVR I
IB nui a ui^u iguj/wtavutv VUMV m?.. ,
plays havoc with it, bnt the retained p'
heat when it stands in bulk. This tl
danger can be obviated by making j ti
the summer care of milk a criterion oi
for the whole year. gi
On the cheese factory patron who ei
delivers milk once a day, an impor- g<
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nt responsibility rests. The reputaon
of the factory is largely in his
mils. aiul also the amount of his ownv \
liry returns. He is only ear7iinj?^^
oney for bis own pocket by taking
te most scrupulous care of his milk,
irst. being aerated, if it stands in the
iiivery can over night, the cream
ioald be separated from the edges
: the vessel in. the morning and gent'
reincorporated with the milk.
Joining's milk should not be mixed
ith the night, but should be carried
? the factory in a separate can.
"hey, whether sour or sweet, should
ot be carried from the factory to the
trm in cans that have just conveyed
in milk.
Dairymen who patronize creameris
should observe just as much canon
in not using their milk cans for
will barrels. If the skimmed milk
as always stored in a clean receptale
at the creamery the case would be
ifferent, but like the whey vat at the
liee3e factory it is more often filthy,
he only safe and proper way is to
eep milk cans, and milk utensils
enerally, for nothing but milk. I
tijoin thus earnestly about the fall
ire of milk, because, through a lack
f vigilance, due to the advent of cool
eather, I have as a manulacturer enountered
a vast amount of unnecesiry
poor milk in autumn. George E.
'ewell, in New England Homestead.
Low Grntle Fertilizer!.
In bnying fertilizers it is always
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oou poucy to gm [ub uesi oiui u?u
c had rather than to pay a lower
rico for what is so deficient that it
an bo sold at that price witlf a profit,
'he cheaper fertilizer, as it is called,
onsists very largely of material that
as no value whatever, and of course
11 the labor required to apply it is
asted, and so also is that needed to /
ansport the worthless material from
lie fertilizer factory to the farm. If
lie mineral fertilizer is too concenratcd
to be applied economically,
hat inert material it required to
lake greater bulk can be better ap
lied on the farm than anywhere else.
But to say that the highest priced
jrtilizer is always best for every crop
ould be a great mistake. The dear*
st of all kinds of fertilizers, available
itrogen, is not adopted to some
rops, even in small amounts, and if
sed might do injury rather than
ood. Of the minerals, phosphate
* next dearest, and potash closely
sllowiug it. If the crop needs either
r both of tliC3e, economy is to be
jund in gettiug each iuH^-ccncgn-W^,
rated form as pcssibtg. The lowrade,
cheap phosphate, that nas a
ittle of each ingredient in it, is
sually a delusion. It is sure'to run
lostly to the least expensive ma
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eeded or not, and to have too little of
ho more expeusive ingredients to do
ny good whatever.
When fertilizers are to be mixed
or the purpose of making there go
arther, it is important that what is
sod as a divisor shall not be sornehing
that will neutralize the mineral
r at least make it insoluble. This
lost often done in mixing superphoshate
with land plaster, which is snlhate
of lime. The result of this is
hat the excess of lime converts still
lore of the lime into a sulphate, and
reatly lessens the effect of the phoshate.
If the season alter be dry, so
s to bavo little fermentation in the
oil, the phosphate will revert to an
utirely insoluble condition. No
lore lime in any form should be aplied
to land where superphosphate
as been used. Its only effect is to
ndo what the sulphuric acid has
one to make the phosphate availble.
If nitrogenous manure is needed
ith potash or phosphate, it can be
est used in the form of poultry exrement
that has been thoroughly ferleuted
and sifted. Only a small ropnrtion
of the hen manure should e
mixed with the fertilizer, as it will
lake it too light to go well through
le ami tunes, ism u win mane
hatever it is applied to grow rapiar,
aud it will also greatly increase
le effectiveness of any mineral fertil:er
tliat is applied with it.?Aineriru
Agricnl lurist.
Farm and Ganlrn Notes.
If yonr stock does not have access
> running water seo to it that their
mk is kept full.
The milk cow and the growing heifer
mst be supplied with a ration that is
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litabie to rue neecis 01 eacix.
Never give the cows reason to let up
i their milk-giving for a single day,
id then they will always be at their
est.
Corn contains nearly sixty-three per
int. of starch and oats about fortyvo
per cent. Having more than prosin
than corn and less starch, oats are
lerefore more suitable for horses.
Scab in the heads of wheat cannot
3 controlled when it once appears in
le held. The only way to avoid it
?ems to be by sowing early varieties,
le work being done as early as pos3jle
and followed by thorough cultiv^^l
Oil. I ^
"Make bay while the sna shines and
low while 'tis cool,'' is an old saying
lat should be observed. If the culvator
is kept going while the dew is
a* the grass in the mornings and no
ras3 cut until it is dry, it is much
isier to core it evenly and make a
ood quality of hay.
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