Mower County transcript. [volume], August 10, 1887, Image 2

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BUSINESS CARDS.
H. H. BULLOCK,
W.
BARBER AND RAJR LXXBSXX,
At his new tonsorial parlors. Shower, and hot
baths. I haue two first-class bath room,
decker's old stand.
A.SHTJPE,
SEA nxaPARL0S8 AND BA
TH ROOMS.
la the basement of Dunkelmann's Block.
?irst-class work.
JJENTISTRY,
M. JP. B. PECK
Office overMcBride's store on west side of Main
street, where ho is prepared to do all kinds of
work In dentistry, and solicits a share of public
patronage.
j^YKRY JUDSON,
DENTISTS,
AUSTIN, MINN.
Office over Dorr A
Wold's drag store.
QATHER1NE WILCOX, M. D.,
GRADUATE OF HAHNEMANN COLLEGE. CHI­
CAGO. ILL.
Over two years practice in hospital clinical
work. Offloe and residence at present two
doors east of Mansfield House, on opposite
aide of street.
AUSTIN, MINN.
C.
H. JOHNSON, M. D., C. M.,
Graduate of HeGln College, Montreal, late As­
sistant Surgeon in Montreal General Hospital.
Office oyer Clemmer & Pooler's dreg store. Calls
attended day and night.
JOHNSON,%Tr.
ATTORNEYS AT LAWf
Austin, Minn. Practice in all the courts of the
state. Prompt attention given to collecting.
Office over Dunkelmana's store. jonSO
D. SHEEDY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Justice of the Peace for first ward, city of Aus­
tin, and Insurance and Collection Agent. Office
over C. W. Taylor's store.
M.
GREENMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the courts of record and the U.
8. courts. Office in Schlender's block. Main
street, Austin, Minn. 40-ly
J^YMAN D. BAIKD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,\
Seal Estate, Insurance *nd Collection Agent.
Office, front room,second floor,over Hall A West's
store, Austin, Minnesota.
J^AFAYETTE FRENCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Austin. Minn. Collections and other business
attended to carefully and promptly. Office over
First National Bank.
Jjl B.CRANE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Real Estate and Collection Agent. Taxes paid
for non-residents. ^"Office, second floor of
Dunkelmann's new blook, Main street. 19-tf
^J. M. CAMERON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid.
F. CLAUSEN,
ATTORNEY A7 LAW.
Collections promptly attended to. Austin, Minn.
j^OANS ON PROMISSORY NOTES,
Commercial Paper, Stocks, Brads.
REAL ESTATE AND SECURITIES.
Bought, sold and Exchanged. Farms leased.
Beliable correspondence wanted. Address
With stamp. O. W. FOSTER, Banker and
Broker, NEW YORK CITY, New York.
AUSTIN STATE BANK*
Austin., 2£ixixi-
(Incorporated Under tate Banking Laws.)
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000.
PAID-UP CAPITAL $25'000.
C. B. DAVIDSON, President.
B. EMERSON, Vice President.
R. E. SHEPHERD, Cashier.
1 Directors—C. H. DAVIDSON B. E. SHZPHKBD.
J. B. EMERSON, O. SCHLKNDXS, N. KIXOSLZY.
Collection# a specialty. Correspondence solicited.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits, Office hours
from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m.
1690.
O.<p></p>First
W.
SHAW, Pres. N.
F.<p></p>Nffii
CAPLTAL. I
BANFlELD, Cashier.
ML,
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.
T.
#50.000
SURPLUS UNDIVIDED PROFITS $21,000
A General Banking Business Transacted.
OOBKXSFOHDENTS:
Chemical National Bank, New York.
Centennial National Bank, Philadelphia.
Union National Bank, Chicago.
First National Bank, Milwaukee.
First National Bank, St. Paul.
Security Bank of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
J. F. Fairbanks,
Dealer in
O O .A. I_i
WOOD, LIKE, CEMENT,
fiasoline, Drain and Well filing,
Office Cor. Bridge and Chatham Sts.
AV8TIN, MINN.
Feed. Store.
WILDER & BEACH
tLonr,
selling best brands of Patent.and Straight
Ground Feed, Corn Meal, Graham,
uckwheat, Corn and Oats. Highest Price
gald for Grain. Free delivery within the olty
YT/VTTcan live at home, and make mors
11111
afc
work for us, than at any-
JL thing else in the world. Capital not
needed you are stated free. Both
•exes pll ages. Anyone can do the work. Largs
Mrnlogs sure from first start. Costly outfit
and terms free. Better not delay, (XMt yon
nothing tosendos your address and And out|
yoa are wigs jfoa wlJl do so at ones. H, Hxi*
vm CO.,
Portland,
Maine.
GEO. P. MORSE,
Fulton Market
AJSTIN,JttINN.
Fresh and Salted Meats, Lard, Sausage, Etc.
Game and Poultry In their Season.
Loin Steak (por lb) 12%c Mutton 6@lfiWc
Bound Steak 10c Veal 60t8£c
Boiling Meat......506c.
Cash paid for
HIDES, PELTS, TALLOT &LIYB STOCK.
T. W. DONOVAN,
A Full Stookof
FURNITURE
Always on Hand, at the Lowest Prices.
Special Attention Given to
UNDERTAKING.
First Door East of Oscar Ayen. South
Side of Court House Square,
WINDSOR HOUSE
AUSTIN, MINN.
G. W. SKINNER, Prop'r.
NEWLY FURNISHED
THROUGHOUT.
TERMS: $1.50 Per Day. FREE 'BUS.
BRICK!
P. C. SULLIVAN
Is now ready to furnish Brick in
any Quantities.
Also to make Contracts for the
Erection of Brick Buildings.
Yard at West end of Bridge St.,
AUSTIN, SINN.
AUSTIN DRAY LIE!
Draylng, at all times, day or night, at reason­
able ratesr Leave orders at Dalager Bros' gro
eery store or at my residence, 8 blocks north
of 0., M. St. P. depot.
A, C. MINER, Proprietor,
SADDLERY.
RAISER & GUINEY,
AXTSTUST, 14TN-1T.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
HARNESS! SADDLES!
Horse Collars,
Trunks and Whips!
Ac.. Ao., £O.| Ac., Ac*
REPAIRING neatly and cheaply dome* All
work warranto.
xsw BSIOX scon, XAor snm.
DRUGS, &C.
DORR & \V0L,D,
PRESCRIPTION
DRUGGISTS!
in ouuns ni
STATIONEET, BOOKS!
*0., AC., *0.
A.XJB1TN-, MXNT2T.
G. S
IOO
Junto
JEWELRY.
ghlrudrr
IS AUSTIN'S
PIONEER
DSAUU IN
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Silver-Plated Ware, etc.
jyCallon him and lot& over his elegant
«tock en Main street.
ADVERTISERS
can learn the exact cost
of any proposed line of
advertising in American
papers by addressing
Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,
Mswspapsr Advertising Bureau,
lO Spruo* St., New York.
Band lOota. for lOO-Paga, Pamphlet.
On$ Dollar. Hood's Sarsaparliia Is the only
niedlclne of which this can he truly said
and It Is an unanswerable argument118
40
tfy» strength and positive economy of this
griat medicine Hood's Sarsaparliia Is made
of roots, herbs, barks, etc., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood
and In: combination, proportion, and process.
Hood's Sarsaparliia is peculiar to itself.
For economy and comfort we use Hood's
Sarsaparliia." Mas. 0. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
"Hood's Sarsaparliia takes leaa time and
quantity to show Its effect than any other
preparation I ever heard of. I would not be
without it in the house." MRS. C. A. M.
HUBBABD, North Chili, N. Y. 100 Dose*
One Dollar
Hood's 8arsaparllla cures scrofula, salt
rheum, all humors, bolls, pimples, general de
billty, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache,
catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver com*
plaints, and all affections caused by impure
blood or low condition of the Bystem. Try It.
"I was severely afflicted with scrofula, and
for over a year had two running sores on my
neck. I took five bottles of Hood's Sarsapa*
rilla, and consider myself entirely cured."
C. £. LOVEJOY, Lowell, Mass.
"Hood's Sarsaparliia did me an immense
amount of good. My whole system has been
built up and strengthened, my digestion Im­
proved, and my head relieved of the bad feel­
ing. I consider It the best medicine I have
ever used, and should not know how to do
without it." MARY L. PEELE,Salem, Mass.
Hood's Sarsaparliia
Sold by all druggists, fl six for $5. Made
only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass
IOO Doses Ono Dollar.
RHEUMATISM AND CATARRH
CAN BE CURED.
CANANDAIGUA,
N.Y., May 28, 1886.
Pardee Medicine Co.,
GENTLEMEN:
Nearly all winter
I
was
confined to my room with inflammatory
rheumatism. I commenced using Dr.
Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy, but after
taking it for a time the pain became more
intense, and I was alarmed and feared
the remedy was making me worse, but
continued its use and soon the pain left
me, and I gradually improved, the sore­
ness leaving my arms and shoulders and
seeming to pass out at my toes. It has
completely cured me. At the time I
commenced using the remedy I had a
throat difficulty and the catarrh, which I
found to be better after taking it, and it
occurred to me to use it as a gargle,
which I did, and to my great satisfaction
I improved rapidly, and to-day am free
from both rheumatism and catarrh. I
consider it indispensable as a family
medicine. I take one teaspoonful after
breakfast and find it a splendid tonic.
I would advise you to recommend it as a
jargle for throat troubles and catarrh,
'or I know it will cure. I have seen some
remarkable cures from the use of this
remedy, and it is one I can recommend
to all.
I am, very truly yours,
E. R. McCALL.
Less than one-half the Amount
cured him.
John C. Heron, of 46, 4th street, Roch
ester, has been troubled for years with
rheumatism in the shoulders and about
the heart. He gave physician ten dol­
lars for an examination, and he merely
informed him that he had rheumatism of
the heart. He was cured by Dr. Pardee's
Rheumatic Remedy, and for less than one
half the money paid for the examination.
Ask your druggist for Dr. Pardee's
Remedy, and take no other. Price, $1 per
bottle six bottles, $5. 1
Pardee Medicine Co., Rochester, N.Y.
LTLE,
J. F. HUMEL & CO.,
Lyle, Minn.,
Ase closing oat a large stock of
Boots and Shoes
At greatly reduced prices. Farmers have an
opportunity for saving money. Special
Bargains will be given In
CLOAKS!
A large stock of
Dry Goods and Notions
At lowest living prices. Also a fall stock ol
Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Etc. Highest
prices paid for Batter and Bggs.
Working Glasses
ATTENTION
We are now
prepared to
furnish all
classes with employment at home, tho whole'of
the time, or for their spare moments. Business
new. light and profitable. Persons of either sex
easily earn from 50 cents to 95.00 per evening
and a proportional sum by devoting all their
time to the business. Boys and girls can earn
almost as much as men. That all who see this
may send their address and test the business,
we make this offer. To such as are not well
satisfied we will send one dollar to pay tor the
trouble of writing. Full particulars and out*
lit free. Addreus QEOROB HHNSON A Co., Port­
land Maine.
fMawm
Owns and operates nearly' 5,600 miles ef the*
enghly equipped road In Illinois, Wliconsla
Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota.
It Is the Best Direct Route betweea
principal points In the Morthwoat, Hostk*
west and Far West,
For maps, time tables, rates of passage and
freight, etc., apply to the neatest station age*
of the CacoAeo, MILWAUKU ST. Pisi Hi%
WAY, or to any Railroad Agent anywhere In the
World.
B. MIIXBK, A. T. n. OABPBIMB,
General Miimr. Oeal Pass, aad TIM. Aft.
J. F. TUCKER, GKO. H. HI4TVORD,
Au't Oea'l Ifeaagcr. Asa't Oea'l Paas. Tkt. A«t.
MuiWAVLna, WMMRI,
49*For Information in reference to Land,
and Towns owned by the CHICAGO, MILWAU­
KEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY, write
to H. Or. HAUQAN, Land. CommiMioners Mil­
waukee, Wisconsin.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD*
THE ONE ARMLED WITNESS.
RED OAK (IOWA) SUN.
Rey. N.vW, Crofte, pawtor of the Council
JQlulfr
Congregational chutob, has gift of poe
'sy which he frequently u««8. The inci.lent of',
the one-armod goldlt'i- witnoss in tlie Oros? trials
of which the Sari told lost week, haa buou int In­
to verse in this gracofol manner by itov. Mr.
Crofts:
"Let the witness be sworn— hold npyonr hand 1M
And up bin loft his rlglit hand instead.
"Your right haad, sir!" came the startling com­
mand.
"I can't, a'r! it's down in Georgia,'* he said.
Through tho court those flashod an electrical
tbri 1:
Forgotten were clionte and statutes and lawe
JTor an Instant all waB breath! 1/ sti 1,
And then came the thuiidur of hearty ap­
plause.
For right he had given his precious right hand,
Upward toward heaven he had raised it for
aye
That mercy and truth might dwell in the land
And our flag ever float in splendors of day.
All hall to the witness! hall to the brave I
Let the vales echo his gallant reply
For he gave up his arm his country to save.
His cherished right arm, 'neath Georgia's blue
Bky.
God bless the man of the empty coat sleeve
God bless him, and scatter his path with llow
ors
And at the close of life's war may heaven re­
ceive
This one-armed chlvalric hero of ours.
THE RATION FOR PIGS.
In a late bulletin Professor San­
born makes some important deductions
from a great number of feeding tests
carried on for several years, one of
which is that those who feed pigs for
fourteen months throw away in unnec­
essary maintenance almost one and a
half times as much food as the actual
food of growth and this waste amounts
in Missouri alone to something more
than $13,000,000. This deduction is
based on the fact that for a pound of
grain a lai-ge hog weighing 850 pounds,
say, requires twice as much food as
one that weigs 50 pounds, and that in
general the cost of a pound of growth,
instead of being less after 150 pounds
is leached—as is generally believed in
—is always greater. Having shown
that the. simple maintenance ration of
a 120 pound shoat may be less than 2
per cent of its weight, the tests prove
that a slight advance upon this amount
of food makes a comparatively smaller
increase of weight than where sufficient
food is given to make a pound or a
little more a day. That is, it is econo­
my to feed young pigs up to that limit.
The food needed for this growth is
less than that needed for pure mainten­
ance and, therefore, the economy of
quick fattening. The daily growth in­
creases up to a weight of 150 to 200
pounds and the cost of a pound's growth
increases with size until maturity, after
which this cost increases most rapidly.
Continuous growth up to the limit of a
pound a day is better than to have
cramming periods. The sum of the
matter is that it is most profitable to
market pigs young, and that every
shoat over 8 or 9 months old should be
banished. In regard to specific foods
it appears that skim milk and meals
are the most effective rations fed that
middlings is the best single food and
that cob meal, when the cobs are finely
ground, are as efficient food as clear
corn meal.
SQUASH SEED PLANTING.
Professor Halsted in the current num­
ber of Agricultural Science has an in­
teresting study of the germination of
cucurbitaceous plants—i. e., plants of
the gourd family, including melons, cu­
cumbers, squashes, etc. The point
specially examined was the method of
removal of the tough coat from the
seed-leaves. We have not space to
describe the process by which a special
appendage called by Dax*win "a peg" is
made to hold fast to the seed coat while
the leaves are gradually withdrawn.
The practical application of the matter
is, however, that from its structural
peculiarity this relief is not so readily
effectod when the seed is placed edge­
wise in the ground. Gardeners often
prepare the hills for planting melons
and the like by smoothing them down
and then insert the seed edgewise—
which is the proper position for many
flat seeds. In this instance, however,
the reverse is true. The best condition
for "the peg" performance is when the
seed is lying on its flat side, just as it
would naturally fall. As the seeds are
large, and as an early removal of this
coat is an advantage, planters should
toko the hint and lay the seed flat on
the leveled surface, and cover them
later with the required depth of earth.
RICHEST COMES LAST.
While in the number and arrange­
ment of its cavities a sponge somewhat
resembles the interior of the udder, in
one respect it is quite different. The walls
of the oavaties in the sponge are always
distended, whether filled or not, and if
oompressed, at once spring back upon
being released from the pressure. The
walls of the milk tubes and reservoirs,
and the follioles or sacs at the extrem­
ities of their branohes, are always col­
lapsed and in contact, except when
kept apart by having milk in them.
With this oonstant inclination in their
walls to be in contact, it must be evi­
dent that a liquid would work its way
through them more easily than a solid.
Milk, it must be remembered, is a mix­
ture of liquid and solid matter, as mueh
softs a mixture of brine and meal would
be. The serum or liquid part of milk
is water, holding sugar and cheesy
matter In solution, just as the water in
brine holds salt in solution, and the
cream globules are particles of fat in a
solid condition, and sustain the same re­
lation to the liquid part of milk that
meal does to brine, especially when
mixed with a brine just strong enough
to incline the meal to float.
If it was attempted to pass either of
these mixtures of liquid and solid
through the milk tubes, beginning at
the follicles, tlie liquids in either case
would-work along through more readily
than the solids Tho meal in one case,
and the fat globules in the other, would
meet with^irnjjediment from friction
with the collapsing wall? of the slender
tubes, and :'would fa^- Whind^in the
journey, and be dripping out in tho last
running of the liquid, and this is just
what happens in the udder to make the
last part of a milking richer in cream
than the first. The larger the globules
of cream, the more friction they meet
with in moving along the tubes and the
more gets left behind. It is for this rea­
son that in milk having very large
globulus, like that of the Channel Island
cows, the difference between the first
and last of a milking is greater than
when they are small, as ii\ the milk
of the famous Dutch cows.—Live Stock
Journal.
TURF PERFORMERS.
Many of the celebrated turf perform­
ers in the past have been animals which
possessed remarkably strong wills with
fast records. Flora Temple, the first
trotter to trot in public in 2.19J, was'
one of that kind. Goldsmith Maid, win
ner of 332 heats in 2.30 or better, 114
of which were trotted in 2,20 or faster?
was another of the same sort, and her
most successful rival, Lady Thorne (2.
18J), gained considerable notoriety on
account of having a mind of her own.
The famous trotting mare Princess,
dam of Happy Medium, must be classed
in the same category, judging from a
testimonial given by Robert Bonner to
the well known horse trainer,D.Magner,
in 1872, from which the following is an
extract: "I have myself handled Prin­
cess. the famous old competitor of Flora
Temple, on your system, and, although
she was at one time so vicious as to be
almost unmanageable, my youngest boy,
a lad of 12, has during the past week
been driving her daily in Central
Park."
LATE WEEDS IN POTATOES.
It is the almost universal practice to
hill up and lay by potatoes before the
busy labors of the hay and harvest field
begin. This is too early for late growing
varieties, as they become very weedy,
and the crop is seriously injured there­
by. Even early potatoes often have
their yields decreased and their drying
up hastened by weeds. Where large
weeds appear in the middle of the hill
it is impossible to pull them without
disturbing the potato roots. The only
way is to cut the weeds out close to the
ground, or a little under if possible, with
a knife. This is tedious work and not
nearly so good as keeping the hill clean
when alight brush with the hoe would
destroy small weeds without injuring
the potato plant. In my experience
the stirring of the surface of the hill
with a hoe sufficient and often enough
to keep the weeds from starting is not
injuring the crop. Deeper cultivation
would without doubt be hurtful and pro­
bably worse than the common method
of letting weeds and potatoes grow to­
gether. In rich land, as in gardens,
the potatoes thus managed are often
eovered with weeds when it is time to
harvestjthem.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF INSECTS.
Since general attention was first
called to these diseases a few years ago
by Professor Forbes' studies of the epi­
demic among cabbage worms, it has
been found that many similiar pests
are also subject to contagious diseases,
which destroy them by the thousands.
Such epidemics among forest tent cat­
erpillars, yellow-necked apple worms
and one or two other species have
already been elaborately studied, and
more or less successful ex^%Kments
have been made in artificially spread­
ing the disease among them. Dr.
Forbes has discovered a frightfully
contagious disease among cut worms
and army worms in Southern Illinois. In
many parts of that region cut worms
have this year been extraordinarily
abundant, taking nearly every green
thing. Whole fields of oats were eaten
so clean that the ground was left per
perfectly bare. Com was planted
twioe or thrice, and garden vegetables
were generally destroyed. In the
midst of their pernicious work, how­
ever, the destroyers were themselves
attaoked by a rapidly spreading bacte­
rial disease. In some oat fields the cut­
worms were left by the dozen, lying
on the surface of the ground in every
stage of disease and decay.
These insect plagues are commonly
due to either bacteria or fungi. To the
first mentioned is due the cabbage-worm
plague above noticed and the "foul
brood" of the honey bee and to the lat­
ter is due the fatal muscardine of the
silk worm and the disease among clo­
ver-leaf beetles, desoribed not long ago
by Professor J. C. Arthur. Of the de
structiveness of these maladies Profess­
or Forbes writes: "No diseases known
to men are more violent or frightfully
destructive than some of the plagues
which infest the insect world, where
they have, indeed, a fixed place in the
economy of insect life, suddenly erect­
ing perfeotly impassable barriers against
great irruptions: of the more prolific
species. Whenever any species becomes
so abundant as to throaten the sources
es of its own food supply and so endan­
ger its own continuance, it is a com­
mon event that a contagious disease
breaks out among them and ravages
like a devouring flame until almost the
last individual has succumbed."
WATERING PLANTS AND TREES.
Muoh of the watoringdono to plants
and trees is an injury instead of a bene­
fit No watering should be done when
the sunshines. And the dry dirt should
be scraped away from around trees and
plants before watering, and when the
water thoroughly settles, sortpe the dry
dirt back again for a mulcni K^Ot, it
this is not done, so soon as the surface
dries after watering, the surface should
be stirred and pulverized. This is the
fipal month, (August) to settle the fate
of the large setting last spring of fruit
and forest trees. Watering cannot and
should not be done. Thorough cultiva­
tion and mulching, in dry seasons, are
the only salvation. A farmer told us
the other day, that in digging for fence
posts last week through his meadow,
to turn part of it into pasture, the
ground was as dry as dust for the entire
two and a half feet. But when he run
the same fence through a part of his
corn field, the soil was quite damp to 1
within two inches of the surface. This
was the result of cultivating and pulver­
izing the surface pf the soil. That is
the way to save crops, plants and trees.
CARE OF NEW SEEDING.
15 ow that the grain is harvested, the
new seeding, especially clover, should
be left unpastured to give it abetter
chance to grow, Years ago farmers
used to reckon on the greater amount
of pasture that the new seeding would
furnish after harvest, but tbey have Is*
learned that every mouthful of seed 1
eaten from Spring sown clover seed is
more expensive than its weight in
grain. In fact there is very little feed
at this time, even in a seeding that ap­
pears fairly vigorous. A very few days'
pasture will leave it bare as the road­
way and permanently injure the clover
plants. About a month from now, or
near the first of September some of the
young clover will begin to head.
Then it is a good plan to pasture light­
ly. I have seen pasture so forward
that it would apparently seed the first
year when warm weather continued late,
if not eaten down. In such cases pas­
turing becomes neccessary,but it should
be delayed until the clover plant has
made what growth it will. The larger
top the clover has, the larger and deep­
er are its roots. Thus excessive past tir­
ing prevents it from penetrating the
subsoil and bringing the plant food to
the surface, which is one of the most
important functions.
FARM SCRAPS.
Bulletins from experiment stations
are now carried postage free.
Better dig your potatoes as soon as
the vines begin to die.
"Nothing," said Sir Humphrey Davy,
"is more wanted in agriculture than
experiments in whieh all the circum­
stances are minutely and scientifically
detailed.
A correspondent of the Husbandman
seems to think that commercial fertil­
izers are in some way responsible for
abortion in dairy herds, and a wise ag­
ricultural editor, who disbelieves in
veterinary science, quotes this pre­
cious opinion as a part of the gospel
of animal hygiene.
A correspondent of the Agriculturist^
declares that the balmia, the beautiful
broad-leaved evergreen shrub, or small
tree known as the laurel or calico bush,
can be transplanted safely from the
the woods if at the time it is cut back
so as to remove every leaf and leave
nothing but the naked stem.
Plant a row or two of snap beans
and some earlv beets in the vacant I
spaces of your garden. Frost will not
be here in weeks yet—indeed it is
hard to conceive of the possibility of
freezing in such weather as this. Beet
seed planted a month later will make
excellent greens—better than spinach.
A correspondent who has tried Mr.
Carman's perscription of pyrethrum
for rose bugs did not find it success­
ful. It was "fresh," too, and he paid
$1 per pound for it. He adds that it
would need to be applied every day or
so at all events and the expense and
labor of treating 10,000 grape vines
in this way would make it impractic­
able as a remedy.
A correspondant of the Rural New
Yorker states that the farmers of Morris
County, .N. J., disgusted with the low
price of dairy products, have begun to
sell timothy hay as a money crop. To
keep up the soil's fertility sheep are
bought in the Fall, fed on grain, oil
meal and rough fodder, and the manure
is spread on the meadows and root
fields. More profit is realized fro#
the mutton and hay than from milk
and butter.
Sir John Bennet Lawes notes in Eng­
land,as observers here have noted, that
there is less demand for very fat pork
and bacon. Sir John adds, however,
that this is not because people have a
diminished desire and need for fats in
their food, but bwiause the average man
is better off and prefers to take his fat'
in a more costly and palatable form.
Formerly the potatoes were fried in the
pan with the fat chop, now mutton suet
is not good enough and the potatoes are
cooked in butter.
At the meeting of the Forestry Con­
gress in Springfield in September the fat
owing are among the principal topicss
suggested far discussion: a. Necessity ol
a change of policy on the part of the
general Government in regard to its
timber domain, b. Effects and results of
forest legislation in the different states,
c. Suggestions in regard to desirable
forest legislation, d. Status of artificial
forest planting in the prairie states, and"
suggestions in regard to the same. e.
Methods of enlarging the effectiveness
of the work of the Forestry Congress.
Sir John B. Lawes evidently believe^
with Professor Sanborn, that the Ger
mans place too high a value upon pro­
tein as a food element, and do not git^.
sufficient credit to the fats. He com
bats the assertion that skim m»lr is
better food after the cream has beet
taken off does not sympathise wit)
those who try to show the laborto$
mjm that he is fool because he doe*
not prefer :b«Dwn bread: .to white, ami
objeots to th£ statement of the linseQt_
oake makers, who assert that the eale"
is more valuable as food than it was
I
W1M|
it oontained a large portion ol oiJL