Troy weekly news., August 02, 1907, Image 2

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How to Bud Poaches.
"For a budding knife take a com
mon case knife—a broken one will do—
out blade off square about one inch
from haft, sharpen this end 1 not very
thin, but sharp. Keep the normal edge
ns keen as possible. Now, to use It
Set the end edge squarely across the
branch, or seedling, where you wish to
set your bud, and with gentle pressure
cut through the bark to the wood.
Next, act the same edge vertically Just
below where you hare made the cross
Incision and cut through the bark as
before, and before withdrawing the
knife give It a slight twist, which will
throw the bark open for the reception
of the bud. The bud la cut from the
■clou of the variety desired by start
ing the knife in the scion about one
fourth of an Inch below the bud, and
cutting upward to the same distance
above, taking off the bud with a shield
shaped piece of bark and a small shavv
Ing of the wood of the scion, insert
this In the Incision already made In
the stock and tie the bark to the stock
down over It firmly, but not too tight
ly. For tying, anything nearly will do.
I have used corn husks when other ma
terial was not handy."
Mäkln* « Ilrooiler at Home.
Here are the plans for a brooder
that can be easily made by anyone:
Make a box 6 feet 4 Inches by 3 feet
8 Inches and 2 feet high, using 2x2
Inch pieces for corner posts, and
matched boards for siding. Inside nail
strips around 11 Inches from bottom
to support the floor, which should be
made of matched lumber and left so
It could be taken out and cleaned.
Make door In end level with floor, also
glass In upper half of each side for
light. Top made to slant both'ways
and about half of each side hinged on
so ns to make feeding and cleaning
easy. Place largo piece of sheet Iron
on underside of floor with half-inch
strips between floor and Iron. Cut door
4n lower part of end ; plat* good metal
bowl lamp under sheet Iron ; bore sev
eral holes In floor over lamp, putting
tin can punched full of holes over this
to keep out dirt Place thermometer
on Inside and you will have a brooder
which will give the best of satisfac
tion.
Hard Mouthed llornei.
Here Is something of practical value
to anyone driving a horse that pulls
on the bit : Fasten a small ring to each
side of the bridle and ns near the
brow band ns possible. Pass the liner
through the bit rings and snap them
Into the rings at the brow band. This,
with a common Jointed bit, will enable
a child to hold a puller or hard mouth
ed horse with ease under almost all
circumstances. It can be used on a
fast horse In double team or on both,
ns desired. It Is cheap and easily ap
plied, and It won't make the mouth
sore. It Is better than any patent bit.
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The Illustration shows the best con
trivance for bolding slabs or other
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HANDY SAW HORSE.
refuse wood while sawing It for kin
dling or fuel.
Farm Noten.
Fanners who make money by skin
ning the farm are like companies who
pay dividends by watering their stock.
The farmer who permits his chickens
to roost In the stables does not deserve
to own a horse. It generally requires
but little effort to keep them out and
It should be done by all means.
It Is useless to attempt to keep win
ter squashes that have been Injured by
frost. Those that are uninjured are
beat kept on shelves In layers In a locu
tion where the temperature does not
fall below 40 degrees. Re careful that
they are not kept too warm.
The all around food for milk cows Is
grass. Therefore look well to the pas
tures and see that their quality Is Im
proved. t
Milk makes a splendid feed for hogs,
but !t should not be relied upon to fur
nish both food and drink. When a hog
Is thirsty It needs a drink of water.
Dry farming, as they call the meth
od of tilling the land In the West Is
nothing more nor less than cultivating
the land In a manner so that the great
est amount of moisture will be con
served- The Idea la to keep a dry dnat
mulch on the surface at all time«.
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young trees : '1 hey can be trained to
tlie desired form better
w kr T»«n» Tree« Are Bent.
Thene are the advantages of planting
than older
trees, says Farming. A 2 or 3-year-old
tree is branched and has had its head
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already formed by the nurseryman ; a !
yearling tree of the apple, pear and
sweet cherry. Is usually unbranched.
Sometimes the nurseryman has headed
the tree too high or has not been care
ful enough about starting out the scaf
fold limbs, and It is difficult to cor
rect the form of the bead after It has
been started. There I» an unmistak
able preference for low-headed trees,
due chiefly to the need of economy and
efficiency In spraying and harvesting.
The single disadvantage of low-head
ing I« greater Inconvenience In tillage.
This is much more than offset by the
advantages, In the Judgment of most
growers. Within ten years the heigh'
recommended for heading apple trees
in the East has been reduced at least
two feet The bearing of this on the
matter of yearling trees is that the
grower can head a yearling tree where
he pleases.
A iichon ii m Fenc* Poiti.
Here Is a handy way of anchoring
fence posts In draws or low places: In
stead of banging a stone to the post,
ANCHORING POSTS IN DRAWS.
take a double wire and use It In the
form of a truss, as Indicated In cut.
The plan is so simple that little descrip
tion Is necessary. If the cut Is very
deep, one can use a longer post, or
spike a 2x4 onto the post, and so put
the truss wire yet higher, and hence
that much more effective.
Conpua for Hori,
Those living where they can success
fully grow the cow pea should utilize
this valuable crop ns a cheap ration
for pigs. The pea Is rich In protein and
furnishes the needed growth, and docs
away with the necessity of mlllstuff.
Drill three or four pecks of seed per
acre the latter part of May or the first
part of June, and give the needed culti
vation till the vines cover the ground
enough to check weed growth. Turn
the pigs Into the field when the pods
begin to ripen, and they will do the
harvesting. If the old hogs are pas
tured on peas, they need corn or some
other carbonaceous feed to give proper
balance, for they cannot utilize so much
protein ns pigs. Try a patch of cow
pea pasture this year, and get your
hogs In fine shape for the corn when
It cornea
New Ment I,aw WorUIn« Well.
In addressing the convention of the
New York State Breeders' Association
upon the new meat Inspection law and
its bearing upon .the production and
handling of meata George P. McCabe,
solicitor of the department of agricul
ture at Washington, said the law ap
peared to bo working well and was
serving as a guarantee of the henlth
fulncss, purity and wholesomeuess of
our live stock and meats In the
kets of the world. He declared that,
to secure the best résulta breeders of
every state should take up vigorously
the question of the extension of
kets and should back the department
of agriculture In an Insistent demand
for an absolute efficient, vigilant, fair
and square meat inspection.
Apple Scab.
Experiments were carried on by the
Washington State Station for the pre
vention of apple scab. In which trees
were sprayed with ordinary Bordeaux
mixture, and also dust Bordeaux. On
eighty-five trees, representing fifteen
varieties, sprayed with dust Bordeaux,
the average percentage of clean fruit
was 13 per cent, while on fifty trees
representing the same number of varie
ties that were not sprayed the average
percentage of clean fruit was 6 per
cent. On the other hand, sixty trees
representing eight varieties that were
sprayed with liquid Bordeaux gave an
average of 89 per cent clean fruit,
showing the evident superiority of the
liquid Bordeaux for the prevention of
this disease.
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Vitalltr of Altai fa Seed.
Tests made at the Colorado station
seem to Indicate that "good, plump,
mature, clean alfalfa seed does not lose
Its vitality rapidly when kept with or
dinary precaution to present Injury
from moisture." The oldest sample
had a germinating power of 03 per cent
when six year old. and of 72 when ten
years old and of 63 when sixteen years
old. Professor W. P. Headden believes
that the limit for the vitality of good,
mature alfalfa seed exceeds sixteen
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FORAKER WHACKS THEM.
Gets After Roosevelt, Taft and Till
man.
Bellefontaine, Ohio.—If a public
man's head escaped a crack at Sen
ator Foraker's bands recently It was
because the senator failed to see It.
Roosevelt and his "big stick," Taft
and his presidential candidacy, Till
man and his race antipathies, and
u ur tcm and his senatorial aspirations
received especial attention,
FoHiker has refrained thus far from
Senator
any direct reference to the talk of
Taft as a presidential possibility. In
★is speech here tonight he made it
clear that he not only proposes to
fight vigorously for his own political
life, but will do all in his power to
see that Taft fails of the presidential
nomination.
"The big stick," he said, "won't
work with any free born American,
nor will it do any good to sugar it
with a postofflce Job."
Then he tufhed to Taft. "I'm not a
candidate for office," he said, "but if
I should be I would not get lockjaw.
I don't have to hold office to live.
Secretary Taft is reported to have
said not longer than the day before
yesterday that he wanted tariff re
vision, Former Governor Herrick said
he wanted it, too. I don't wonder.
"Congressman Burton, who is said
to want my place in the senate, is
another Vho wants revision. I would
like to know where these men who
want to be candidates are to begin to
revise. They say Taft is going to
run for president. I understand he
has come to Ohio to make a speech at
Columbus. I hope he tells us how he
is going to revise the tariff. These
aspirants for office must take posi
tions on the nation's great problems
before I vote for them. I'm beginning
to be particular for whom I vote."
Then the senator turned to Tillman,
arguing that the 14th and 15th amend
ments to the constitution were made
necessary by the situation created by
secession. Men like Tillman and Var
daman do not voice the south's true
sentiments. Andrew Jackson, he re
marked, and here by innuendo he
rapped Roosevelt again, was one of
the presidents who believed executive
power everything, and undertook re
construction without consulting the
congress.
PLANS TO OUST BOODLE BOARD
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco
Wants Bad Ones to Resign
Singly.
San Francisco. Cal., July 29.—It is
expected that the 16 supervisors ap
pointed by Mayor Taylor will be for
mally seated soon. The present plan
Is to have one member of the boodling
board resign at a time in order that
there may be a majority to pass the
resolution of formal recognition of
each of the new members as he takes
his seat. In this manner is planned
to proceed until each of the 16 resig
nations have been formally accepted
and each of the 16 of Mayor Taylor's
list has been formally appointed and
recognized.
Former Mayor Schmitz Is preparing
at the county Jail a list of supervisors
whom he will apolnt to succeed the
old board. A test case to establish
Mayor Taylor's authority is soon to be
made by bringing mandamus proceed
ings against City Treasurer Bantel to
honor salary warrants.
Some girls like to go to the circus to
see the new styles In boas In the men- j
agerle.
When a man remains throughout an !
entertainment with his overcoat on,
It Is one sign he doesn't attend such
an entertainment very often. j
Wealth refines and so does an
agricultural college and a sugar mill.
Many a storm oould be so easily
averted If we only watched the baro
meter that hangs on the wall of the |
human hearL j
Don't stand sponsor for the opinions i
of others.
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Send Demyanovitch to Mines.
Bialystok—The district court re
cently handed down sentences In the
cases of men on trial for complicity
In the anti-jewlsh attacks here In
June, 1906. The court sentenced a
man named Demyanovitch to eight
years' hard labor in the mines, and
four other men were given life terms
of imprisonment.
Hatred Is love at low tide
A good many people who do their
duty as they see It should visit an
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cessfully resisted the frosty and al
most arctic winters because they have
been repeatedly coated with tar.
A "fashionable church" is a vest!
bule to perdition.
If God does not fit a man for the
Christlan ministry, not all the colleges
of the world can
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A man cannot raise
brains by Irrigating his stomach with
booze.
a crop of
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At an age when most men are content to sit In the easy chair and watch
the youngsters, James P. Foley, 65 years old, captain of the police force of
Logansport, Ind., will ride horseback to San Francisco on a $600 wager that
he can complete the trip In ninety days.
This will not be the first time that Capt Foley has ridden over the West
ern country. He has fought Indians in the Black Hills and was in Utah dur
ing the exciting times when the Mormons sought to exclude the Gentiles. He
has ridden over the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona, climbed the Colorado
mountain peaks and knows every mile of the great Panhandle range in West
ern Texas. The rugged life of his younger days has left the captain a strong
constitution. He is straight as an arrow, agile as a panther, and there
few fleeter runners in Indiana. Prisoners who fall Into his clutches and show
fight. Invariably get the worst of It. He keeps In training all the time. Each
morning, winter or summer, no matter how severe the weather, he takes a
gallop Into the country, astride his wiry Indian mustang.
Capt Foley has figured that he will be able to make forty-five miles a day
through Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska. Through the mountains he Is only
counting on averaging from ten to fifteen miles.
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At the International Conference on
Scientific Aeronautics, held recently In
Milan, Mons. Telsserenc de Bort pre
sented some Interesting results of the
expedition to the equatorial regions of
the Atlantic organized by himself and
Lawrence Rotch. Contrary to expec
tation, he said, they had found far
lower temperatures In the upper air
above the equator than at correspond
ing elevations In temperate latitudes.
At the equator the temperature goes on
decreasing up to the greatest elevations
attained by kites and balloona At the
height of eight to eight and one-half
miles temperatures were recorded as
low as minus 80 degrees Centigrade, or
112 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
The Heroult electric process for the
production of steel Is now In practical
operation at Remscheid Hasten In Ger
many, and It Is reported that the steel
produced Is much superior In many
ways to that made by older methods.
Steel of great purity and homogeneous
quality Is made from ordinary scrap
iron rubbish, melted, and then subject
ed to the action of an electric oven, In
which the necessary carbon,
nese, nickel and other substances
Quired to produce steel of various qual
Itles ar ® added to the liquid metal. The
one-half to two tons, and Is heated by
a current of 100 volts. The new steel
Is said to be stronger and more re
slstant to wear and tear than the old
fashioned crucible steel
Bou dy. a French engineer, has made
a sensational discovery In the direction
of aerial navigation. The inventor calls
hls discovery an aerial torpedo boat,
and It Is proposed to make use of It In
warfare.
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oven has a capacity of from one and
The Petit Parisien states that M.
M. Boudy claims that with
the aid of the new machine he will be
able to remain for several days In the
alr and to rise to such a height that
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nnv i„ nfB ' gainst the wind, to
a g e Perfectly, and. In addition,
to CR ^ ry sh |L 8 or grenades for use in
WÄr öme ' The mtnlster <* *ar Is glv
' ng attention to the claims of M.
Boudy, and experiments will shortly
ma< * e In connection with the Inven
tlon,
Examination of a photograph of the
spectrum of the brilliant star Arcturus.
made by Professor Hale and Mr. Ad
ams at the Carnegie Solar Observatory
on Mount Wilson. California, thowa
very striking correspondence betweef
many of the spectral lines In the light
of that star and those observed In spots
on the sun. The conclusion seems to
be unavoidable, says Mr. Adams, that
the physical conditions existing In sun
spots and In the atmosphere of Arc
turns are nearly Identical. A similar
study of the spectrum of the bright
star Betelgeuse, or Alpha Orlonls,
shows that sun-spot lines
present there, but even more Intense
than In Arcturus. It Is Inferred that
Arcturus Is probably cooler than the
sun, and Betelgeuse cooler than Arc
turus.
An explanation of a curious optical
phenomenon sometimes witnessed on
frosty nights, which Is called the "pseu
do-aurora," le offered by an official of
the weather bureau. The phenomenon
takes the form of beautiful columns of
silvery light standing over electric arc
lamps and other bright lights and
sometimes appearing almost to reach
the zenith,
the evening star has a bright shaft be
low as well as above, while the rising
moon stands In a broad column of light
These appearances are due to floating
frost crystals, which keep their reflect
ing faces horizontal. On examination
It has been found that the crystals con
cerned In the exhibition were thin, six
sided plates of lee, never more than
one millimeter In diameter. When tba
wind blows these little plates were up
set, and the columns of light caused by
the reflection from their surfaces dl*
appear.
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Good Enough for L*oni«s
The officials of the Privy Chamber,
It appears, showed plainly that It an
noyed them to be obliged to eat at the
same table with Möllere; bo Louis,
hearing of their rudeness, said to the
actor during the petit-lever;
"I hear you are badly entertained,
M. de Möllere, and that my people
don't find you good enough to eat with
them. Perhaps you are hungry. Sit
down here and try my en cas de nult"
(a provision made In the evening In
case the royal appetite should suddenly
require satisfaction during the night).
Then, cutting a chicken and ordering
Möllere to be seated, the King helped
him to a wing, took one himself, and
gave orders that the most favored per
sonages of the court be admitted.
"You see, I am making Möllere eat
something," said Louis, "for my valet*
de chambre don't find him good enough
company for them.''—H. Chatfleld-Tay
lot's Moliere.
Not a "Thank Ton."
"I never knew a woman who wasn't
bound to have the last word with yon
"Unless it was In s street car andyoo
were to say, "Take my seat, madam.
—Philadelphia Ledger.