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Velvet Henns.
C. E. Van Vors|t, Waresboro, Ga., writes
to procure seeds of Velvet beans. Any
of readers having the same to sell at
reasonable prices can communicate with
him. Home dealers ask fancy prices for
these seeds, but they can be procured read
ily in Florida at from $1 to 11.26 per bushel.
No one Ih warranted in asking anything
like $2.60 per bdshel.
Chapped Teats.
I have a Jersey milch cow that is troub
led with sore teats, that is, they look like
chapped hands in winter time. I have
tried salt water both hqt and cold without
any good results. Will you please sug
gost a remendy? H. C. C.
’Daily Mills, Ga.
You did the poorest thing you could have
done in using hot and cold salt water.
IJathe th© teats with tepid soap suds, us
ing turpentine soap. Dry thoroughly.
Then rub gently, but freely with glyce
rine, using a soft cloth, pr the hand. Do
this just after each milking, anyhow, once
a day. It Is well to grease the teats a
little prior to milking. A few days’ treat
ment should remove the trouble. If It
doon not, write again.
Preserving Kggi,
Editor Morning News: This is the first
time I ever wrote to a newspaper, but,
perhaps, 1 can aid some person by mj
experience. 1 have been preserving eggs
since 1894, on a small scale, of course, as
1 only had $4 to start with; but people are
glad to get a little money on any scale
days. East summer I preserved ten
whisky barrels full of eggs. They hold
1,600 dozens, and cost 6’/i cents a dozen, or
$97.50 for the lot. The preservatives cost
$13,50; total, <slll. I sold them In Decem
ber at our home stores for 18 cents a dozen;
iolalj $270: prade with the $4 I started with
•*-This Wthy receipt; Take 86 gallons water,
add ft pounds salt, 4 ounces per algretta
dissolved In two gallons of boiling water;
pour this into the cold water, making 28
gallons In all. This will preserve two bar.
rels (800 dozen eggs); put 18 gallons tn
each barrel and add your eggs as you get
them >n; let them stay covered with the
solution till you are ready to sell them.
Tell your druggist you want powdered pet
ulgretta-lt dissolves beat. Next year I
will invest my $270 In eggs, and by sell
ing and investing It all for two years. I
will have over $1,600; with that capital
1 can clear over $2,000 a year. Now, Mr.
Edltos, why can’t any one do well at this
business anywhere, as eggs are used every
where and always Sell much higher In
winter than summer, I hope many of your
readers will try this on a small scale. And
let us hear through your valuable paper
the results of their experiments. I know
they will succeed, because you cannot tell
‘‘Kgs preserved this way from fresh eggs.
’ Mrs. J. W. White.
An Inferno mi Earth.
The heat in Australia has been some
thing awful to think about. Thermome
ters In many localities registered over ISO
degrees In the sun. In the Melbourne
Observatory 100.5 degrees was recorded,
under severw shade conditions, on Jan. 11,
while at Hoort the shade register was 116
degrees. Os course this intense heat
works enormous mischief. This is what
the Australian Review of Reviews says of
their effects:
•’The earth seems to faint under the
white blinding skies. The harvests shriv
el. Thu orchards, with all their leafy
promise, are smitten as with the blast of
a furnace. The gruss turns to Oust over
the wide plains. In Adelaide many of the
animal* In the zoological gardens died.
Fish perished in shallow lakes; birds flat
tered dead out of the sun-scorched air.
The heat seemed to rob earth of its green
ness, and the air of its oxygen. How much
sick people, and old people, and little chil
dren suffered cart hardly be expressed in
figure*. The heat, indeed, turned the
crowded suburbs of great cities, and hun
dreds of tiny shadeless bush townships,
with scanty water supply, into so many
circles, little or big, of an Inferno such as
Dants hardly dreamed of.”
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Wide Tires.
Good roads and how to maintain them Is
a problem that Is taxing the beat minds In
• thts country to-day, and u solution of
which would be a great boon to this na
tion, My* J. J. Darrow of New York, in
Practical Farmer. In this county (Madl
soai the money system is In vogue in aev
•ral towns and is giving satisfaction, in
one t«*n they are making and k«eplng
their ro*ui* tn good condition for $2 per
mile per year by contract. That it is poe
»tble to do it for that sum is not question
ed !»>• those who have used them. A reg
ular outfit of three double teams and four
iptn operating a good machine will make
an avers2 v of two mUee of dirt road per
day, leaving W turnpiked and smoothed
with <he ditches well otwned. In good con
%iUkat fur hauling toad* or pleasure driv
ing. sitKMild it remain dry these roads will
remain asrxlevable fur thv season; unfor
tunately, should It be wet and heavy loads
drawn over them with those road-deotroy
mg narrow-tired wagons, they soon become
rutted and had 1* there n remedy that is
practual to obviate this condition.’ I think
there is, by using broad tires with axle*
• 4 uneaqu.d length for heavy loading.
With • binoh tire and the hind axle
twelve inclwN longer than the frusit. $4-
mch Surf we wou d be compacted with
each load pawing over' th* road, doing aa
effectual work aa could be dore with a
etbatn roll*; of light weight, continually
iiaprovwMt the road. The earns load on a
w agon with liras ena and three-quarter
inches arowkl cover a surface of three and
our-half inches u; width, cutting daepl>
and dtetntvgratlng instead of conttxtctltig.
this perfocitng and improt.ru*. the other
ckatrojU-g <b« rvud bed. It baa been ur<-
I'wn
“How Do I Look?”
How frequently
* woman asks this question! How much
thought and study she devotes to it! It is
natural. A woman hates to think that she
is growing day by day less charming and
attractive and youthful to her husband’s
eyes than in the days of courtship.
A woman may always retain her charms
and the vivacity and freshness of youth if
she will take the proper care of her health.
A tremendous percentage of ill-health in
women is due to weakness and disease of
the distinctly feminine organism. Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is an unfail
ing remedy for all disorders of this nature.
It allays inflammation, heals ulceration,
stops debilitating drains and soothes and
tones the nerves. It preserves in a woman
all the charm of healthy youth. Thou
sands of women have testified to its mar
velous* merits.
“Favorite Prescription ” is sold by all re
spectable dealers in medicines. Deal only
where you are honestly treated. Any store
keeper who tries to give you a substitute
for what you demand is not treating you
honestly and you should take your trade
elsewhere.
“ For nine years I have suffered with falling
of internal organa,” writes Mrs. Mary Williams,
of Raleigh. Wake Co.. N. C. (Box 196). -‘ I was
troubled with bearing down pains. I had indi
festion and female weakness and nervousness.
could not sleep at night. I was constipated
and had urinal trouble. The doctor here said
that no medicine would reach my disease. Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, ‘"Golden Medi
cal Discovery ’ and ’ Pleasant ‘ Pellets ’ have
cured me.’’
An every-day necessity in the home. A
good home medical work. Send 21 one
cent stamps, to cover mailing only, to the
World’s Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y., for a paper-covered copy of
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad
viser.! Cloth binding 31 stamps. ♦
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ed as an objection to wide tires that the
draft is heavier. Possibly, under certain
conditions, though by actual test It was
found that on sod ground it was llghier.
Practical, up-to-date farmers are quite
generally relegating the narrow-tired
wheels of farm wagons to that list of
which pegged-tooth harrows and bull
plows are fair exponents. That the pub
lic will readily take to wide tires I havo
some doubt, but that this will be the final
solution reached for the average country
road I have none.
Egyptian Cotton In' Texas.
W. H. Wentworth, a prominent cotton
planter of Karney, near San Antonio, Tex.,
made an exhaustive experiment In the
raising of Egyptian cotton, under the au
spices of the United States department of
agriculture. He says;
“The yield of my Egyptian cotton, gin
ned by the roller gin furnished by the de
partment of agriculture to test the fiber
was 698 pounds per acre; my hybrid, 680
pounds. The yield of the common big boll
cotton planted at the same time, same
land, and cultivated alike, was 592 pounds
per Which wat above the average
yield of common cotton of the neighbor
hood, showing that the production was a
complete aucceas. A comparison was made
at the time of ginning of the fiber with the
Imported article, and my production was
declared the superior. To-those who obtain
poor result* the first planting, I will say
that my first effort was 75 pounds of seed
cotton from three acres. Selecting seed
from the choicest stalks, I have succeeded
in getting a larger yield than from our
common cotton, everything being equal.
This cotton withstands the drought so
much better than our cotton, because the
plant acquires a good growth, the roots
become strong and ;>en»trate to a good
depth before the plant begins to put on
fruit; consequently, it is In a condition
to support and mature its production;
whereas, our common cotton begins fruit
ing while quite young, and consequently
the plant growth Is checked, dry weather
sets in und the crop is more or less dam
aged. As I was not assured early in the
season that the gin would be furnished, 1
took no pains in gathering the cotton, and
1 um fully satisfied that I can produce fi
bers far superior to that which Is now be
ing examined.”
Plowing Under Manure.
Probably three-fourths of the barnyard
manure made is drawn out In spring, and
after being spread more or leas evenly over
the surface, is turned under by the plow.
Do farmers generally consider how little
chance ttyere is In the summer that this
manure will keep moist during droughts?
asks the American Cultivator. Only
In extremely wet seasons do the sum
mer rains penetrate so deeply as the land
is plowed. After a comparatively heavy
rainfall in June the dry, loose soil within
two or three inches of the surface absorbs
all the rainfall, leaving the soil below as
dry as before. The moisture will gradual
ly spread if the wet surface soli Is culti
vated under and mulched by bringing some
dry earth to the surface. It has doubtless
been a surprise to many farmers who go
out to cultivate corn or potatoes in June
of July, after a heavy shower, to find that
the depth of the cultivator goes below
where the rain has soaked. What chance
is there that dry, coarse manure, buried
in spring at the bottom of the furrow,
shall be so we< through that it can supply
plants above it with available nutrition?
It must be dissolved with water before it
can be available.
In all eases where grass land is plowed,
nnd especially if It has been top-dressed
with coarse manure, a heavy harrow
should closely follow the plow, not merely
to smooth the rough furrows As the plow
has left them, but to press the soil down
and keep it in Closer contact with the sod
and with the manure. The effect of both
la to hold up Ute soil, drying it out too
fast, and making the manure so dry that
only a heavy rainfall of one or two inches
will reach down to it. Close up the air
space under the furrow by harrowing the
soil over U and thus pressing it down. All
the moisture that can be retained in the
sod and the manure will be needed to help
H> ferment tb*m later in the season. So
soon at* fermentation begins, the warm air
wlHch H causes rises through the «oil, nnd
as svxxt as it comes in contact with colder
air it* moisture I* condensed, and there is
really a quite strong ammonia which gives
the plants that reach it a very rapid
growth.
Undoubtedly this way of manuring corn,
warming the soil as well as fertilising ii,is
the bert that can be devised. It is true that
corn roots mostly ’feed only two or four
Inches below the surface. Rut the ammo
nia always riven off In fermentation rises,
and la abaorbevi either by water or by dry
soil. There Is no smell of ammonia from
►oil. hewever much may be passing up
through It. Every cultivation of the soil,
especially after rains, puts more moisture
near enough to the manure to Increase its
ferment**ton. It is In this way, even
with very little moisture, that large
com crops are made on land where
manure has be<n plowed under the
aoU In apring. The effect of th* manure
is greatly inceaaaad. bowaver, if it ha*
beta di*MU out in Uig wlcier and spread
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, MAY 12. 1898.
on the surface. Then the ’ winter snows
and rains will wash much of the soluble
matter in the manure to wash among the
sod roots,’and cause them to decay as I
rapidly as if they were clover. Even a i
June grass sod will rot rapidly if plowed ,
shallow, and the surface of the plowed
land is kept well cultivated on the sui
face to save all the moisture below. It is
only with deep plowing and in a dry sea
son that nianure gets too deep for the
summer rains to make it ferment.
There are those who believe that it
stable manure is well rotted it can be
best applied the surface of land aftei
plowing cultivated in. But even
quite rich manure will harden into clods,
and these near the surface will become so
ary and hard that not even rains will af
fect them. We tried this once on a small
part of the corn field. But the corn there
was not any better, if as good, as where
the manure for it was plowed under. The
mixture of manure and soil in the sur
face soil kept both too dry, and the ma
nure was much of the time in the way of
the cultivator, and all the time being
lighter than the soil coming to the sur
face. That experiment satisfied us that
for corn even well-fermented manure was
better if plowed under in the usual way.
With mineral fertilizers, and nitrates in
concentrated form, the best effects are
secured by keeping them close to the sur
face, where they can be dissolved by rains
and be carried downward. The whole ten.
dency of mineral fertilizers is to sink
downward. They should, therefore, al
ways be applied on or near the surface.
These mineral manures draw moisture
from the air, especially those made with
sulphuric acid. Their effect is therefore
to help fermentation of manure or sod
which has been plowed under.
Upland Rice Calturg.
A farmer with fourteen years’ experience
in planting upland rice in Florida once
told the writer that he preferred medium
poor land; that his best land produced too
much straw and too little rice, while on
the medium land the yield of grain was
heavier, says a Florida paper. Flatwoods,
or meadow land, such as can be found
abundantly in Florida, will produce a good
crop of rice. But, while the application
of nitrogenous manures is not to be rec
ommended, for the above reason, a light
sprinkle o? sulphate of potash and acid
phosphate is desirable, to make the grain
plump, heavy, and sound. Two hundred
pounds to the acre, half of each, will be
enough, and it will pay because rice, with
the same labor, will produce twice as much
weight per acre as corn,
First, clear away ail trash, since rice,
when small, is easily torn up or mashed
down; then break and harrow the land
well. Repeat the harrowing twice at in
tervals of two weeks; this clears the
ground of crabgrass before the rice is
planted, and gives it a better chance be
cause less grass wdl come up afterward.
Any time before May 1 make rows with
a 5-inch plow, two and a half feet apart,
and as straight as possible, to facilitate
tillage. Drop from six to twelve grains
every ten inches. Cover with the same
plow, two furrows.
When the rice and grass are well up
take sharp hoes and lightly cut off both
rice and grass. Or, if the land is very
smooth and free from trash, this may be
done with a sweep filed sharp and scoured
bright. The rice will be up again in a few
hours, thereby getting a start of the
grass. When another crop of grass is up,
run around the rice while small with a
5-inch plow.
After this take a 12-inch sweep or
“gopher,” and go once between each two
rows. Next time go between the rows
once with the same implement, and, with
a little hoeing, the cultivation is done.
Ab above stated, the crop, w r ith the cul
tivation here advised, will be about twice
as heavy as corn. If there is no null in
the neighborhood it will take rather more
work to harvest and clean it than corn;
but rice malls are generally coming into
vogue.
The Dnlilin lit the South.
Any warm period from the last of Feb
ruary, or well into April, will be suitable
for bedding the dahlia, says the American
Agriculturist. Tubers are frequently cut
into sections like Irish potatoes, with an
eye or incipient sprout to each, but it is
still more common to plant the whole tub
er. They are given very deep, well enrich
ed soil, as they are gross feeders and ram
pant bloomers. The best situation, even
in the South, where summer heat is In
tense, Is an exposed, sunshiny one, whether
bed or border. And the distance ought to be
three or four feet apart to give them room
to develop. Stout stake* for support are
indispensable, and It is well to remember
that the succulent stems will be cut by
wire or twine, therefore tie them to the
stakes with strips of bark, or other bands
that are strong and flat.
In the south dahlias begin to bloom in
June or July, but are more especially au
tumn bloomers. As the heavy dews of the
early fall nights refresh the plants, the
blooms Increase in numbers and perfection.
The clumps become top-heavy, with the
flowers in clusters, und in white, pink, pur
ple, red, maroon, canary, lilac, mauve and
variegated tints are as perfect as flowers
ever are. The spring and summer growth is
luxuriant and unless the shoots are thin
ned out too much room will be taken up.
From two to four or five stalks..according
to the size and strength of the tubers, will
make clumps that will shade the ground
all summer, and bloom in heavy profusion j
In Septemlwr, October and, as far south as j
New Orleans, on into November.
Os the four classes tlvat florists divide !
dahlias into, show, dwarf, pompon and
single (Including the cactus formed blooms)
perhaps the dwarf or bedding is the best, !
w here vegetation is so rank in growth.
These form medium sized clumps, and tl.e *
flowers are abundant, varied and quite i
beautiful. , Pompon* are frequently grown |
in |K>ts or tubs and set about in places i
on lawns, and the large show and tall
growing "ingle kinds are formed in lines,
between back and front grounds, and
planted out on grassy plots where no other
flowers grow. Dahlias are hardly left un
derground all winter, as far up as • the
northern l»oundary of Alabama and Mis
sissippi and multiply rapidly if given a
rich mulch in autumn.
Although it is better to start dahlias I y
bedding the tubers, as early as from the
last of February till the middle of April, I
it Is yet possible to have beautiful flowers
in August and on until late frost, from
tubers planted in June. Dahlias will grow
as rapidly and come into bloom as soon
«s sweet potatoes will make their crop of
tubers, and potato slips are planted up to
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Harsh, irritatinc; laxatives tax
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REFINEMENT
Crnnot Hide Catarrh, But Pe-ru-na
Cures Catarrh Wherever
Located.
Coughing, sneezing, hawking, spitting,
wheezing, blowing, gagging—all these dis
agreeable sounds are made more or les?;
continuously by the victim of catarrh. Shie
would not do it if she could help It. No
refinement can hide catarrh. No caution
conceals its symptoms. There is only pne
wise thing to do. Find a cure. Not a tem
aoprary relief, but a
permanent cure. Mrs.
I. W. Reynolds,Elk
ion, 0., Box 46, says
she has suffered
with congestion of
the lungs, catarrh ( of
the head and was
troubled with a bad
cough. ' She had
tried a number of
physicians, but they
all failed to cure her.
She was induced to
trj’ Pe-ru-na, and Immediately a marked
change took place. After using Pe-ru-na
the cough ceased, and in a short time her
other ailments were cured. She is now
completely restored to health and gives
all the credit to Pe-ru-na. Elizabeth
Grau, New Athens, Ills., says: “For two
years I had catarrh of the nose very bad-
Sometimes it was so bad that I could not
sleep at night. I doctored with two physi
cians, but they did not help me. I read
about Pe-ru-na in the paper and got a
bottle of it. I then wrote to Dr. Hartman
and he said I should continue to take it.
I took it until I was entirely well. Whoso
ever follows Dr. Hartman’s advice will
get well.”
Send to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio,
for his latest book on the catarrhal dis
eases of women entitled "Health an<
Beauty.”
July 15. Dahlias may be planted from the
shoots carefully taken off, or tubers. No
collection of flowers is complete without
the lovely’ pink Allie Mourey, and Mrs.
Gladstone; the red Fern Leaved Beauty,
Henry Weldon and Ruby Queen; the pur
ple and cream Mrs. Langtry; the white
tipped Prince Charming; Nymphia, like a
water-lily, finest of all; Pluton, large yel
low; Zephyr and Constancy, tipped and
shaded. This number and variety of dah
lias will make a garden of splendor for
months. And the only labor will be to d’g
places, put in some rich earth, cover the
tubers three or four inches, water the
soil thoroughly and when the stalks put
up, tie them to a stake and thin out the
extra number, which will make separate
plants.
Live at HomL
If ever in the history of this country the
advice, to “live at home,” has been to the
point it is at this time, says the News-
Register. Money is scarce and hard to
get hold of, in fact there is but one way
to get and keep cash, that is, to make the
country independent by living at home.
Just so long as we depend on the west
for our supplies of bread and meat and
forage, just so long will we be in bondage.
The road to prosperity and independence
lies through big fodder and hay stacks,
well filled barns, overflawipg corn cribs i
and smoke houses piled full qf well c.ured
home-made meat. .0
Corn, oats, ’hay, cattle, sheep,
goats, chickens, milk, but
ter and eggs in good gardens,
fruit in great variety from strawberries
up, are all in reach of any man who will
take the trouble to plant and cultivate
them. The experience of farmers all over
the state prove the truth of this as
sertion.
There is no fabulous profit in farming,
but there is a good profit and one that will
make every farmer independent, and in
time, rich. The trouble with all men is the
over-weaning desire to get rich quick-peo
ple are not content to follow the slow’ but
sure road traveled by our fathers and the
people of the old world. We see and read
of men who have made their millions al
most by the turn of a hand and in aS shbrt
a time, and the wild desire’to do something
of the same sort seizes hold of us with al
most irresistible force. The mania for
speculation runs riot in the blood, whether
it be in stocks or bonds, vegetables or
fruit, and we follow this will o’ the wisp
until the crash that wakes the victim the
miserable fact that the little he had hits
vanished, leaving nothing but the mania
for gambling belting it. This hangs on
and waits for another chance to delude its
victim, the -opportunity comes with the
first few dollars that is accumulated ,or
the chance to get into debt on a specula
tion, then the debt stays, too.
If all men could give up the idea of
“getting rich” and settle down to secur
ing a good, comfortable living and being
independent each year, they would iu the
end get what they are so wildly and un
successfully reaching after. To get rich
by this process is slow, it takes years to
compass it, but it is sure and with this
overwhelming advantage*. It assures the
man and his family comfort, health and
ease while the end is being attained.
It is not necessary to go far for proof.
Look around. The farmer who produces
a surplus of provisions every year, who
has fat horses, hogs and cows, alway
has money, he is out of debt, fie dresses
himself and his family well, sets a good
table, and always has, time to entertain
the friends who find it pleasant to be
guests at such a home.
The low price of cotton, fruit or vege
tables has had small effect on him. He is
not obliged to sell, he is independent prac
tically of markets and prices.
To this beatific condition every farmer
can attaip if he will. He can raise bis
own supplies, everything. almost.that goes
on his table or to hiwstpek, 00 tbgt vary
few dollars will fill every want and fuA
nish many comforts, and even luxuries,
for the home.
After ail is said the best plan is to pos
sess the soul with patience, work faith
fully and accept with content our lot. re
solved to live at home, to be independent,
to do every duty cheerfully and lease the
test to Providence, with a positive assur
ance that success will, in the end, crown
every effort.
Necessity of .'itiuiu« in Soils.
Agricultural operations must be carried
on with a view to keeping the s6II in a
condition for future usefulness. Too often
the humus is allowed 10 decrease to an
extent that greatly injures the capacity
of the land to produce good crops, Espe
cially is this the case on sandy lands. An
imal and vegetable matters decompose and
in the end form But in the pro
cess there Is a half-way station in which
the work of decomposition has begun, but
is far from completion. In that state the
vegetable matter, and also the anima:
matter, goes to form what is called hum
us. When a leaf has moulded it becomes
humus, but this humus itself will in time
disappear by the processes of nature, and
nothing be left of it but an inorganic dust.
Humus is really a mixture of many vege
table compounds.
Humus is nut in itestf a plant food. Bu»
it is a receptacle of plant food, and
among all other things holds nitrogen.
This quauty is one of essential value. Nl-
K
trogen is a thing that slip? away easily,
and in sandy soils some host need be pro
vided for it. Humus acts as this
host to keep it in place till the farmei
is ready to use it for . the sustenance of
his crops. The change that is Wrought
in the humus is due to
It is the micro-organism that changes olio
humus into plant food or transforms, it
into dust. In light soils humus is valua
ble, both as a retainer of nitrogen and a
holder of .moistdre. Clay Soils 'hold
moisture largely on account of
their texture, irrespective of any hu
mus held in them, but this is not» true
of sandy soils. Therefore the humus must'
be kept in good supply; Men that have
farmed much know that a piece of sandy
soil well manured will stand th^ ; drought
better than a soil slightly manured, and
one reason for that is that the humus
holds the water. Humus makes soil more
workable. Farmers that have broken up
thin clay land know how difficult such
land is to work the first years. But if a
good supply of stable manure be put on,
the soil, in a few years, sometimes' 1 in the
second year, becomes friable. When it is
turned up by the plow or broken with the
hoe it falls to pieces and gives a good bed
for seed. Before the adding of the humus
the clay was non-friable. That is, when
it was worked it did not break to pieces,
and it remained, to a considerable extent,
impervious to the roots.
The bare fallow following long succes
sions of grain growing is particularly de
structive to the humus. It may give a
better crop for the second year, for the
reason that more of the humus has becomq
changed into'plant food or into gas, but
it not less certainly depletes the Tiumus
without replenishing * the supply. Light
soils soon become doubly subject to
drought under this system. The Oregon
experiment station made some tests to
determine the loss, and came to the con
clusion that in a single summer fallow
more of the humus is changed into oxides
than in five crops of grain. There, must
be a ( great loss of this valuable material,
both by escape of gases and by leaching.
While it is true that the next crop’s dou
ble, it is also true that a great surplus o 2
plant food is lost, never to be recovered.
From these things it is evident that the
rotation must be such as to constantly
keep the land supplied with humtigl This
would be in the course of years a great
saving. The losses by leachings and rains
are undeniably great, but we have been,
in the past, too ignorant to know that it
was even going on.
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POPE’S DAY OF PRAYER.
Denies Himself to Visitors After Bat
tle of Manila.
London. May 9—The Rome correspond
ent of the Standard says: "During the
whole of the past week the Pope ? was Jn
constant correspondence with, the Queen
Regent and Emperor Francis Joseph.
Upon receiving news of the defeat at Ca
vite, his holiness countermanded the au
dience which had been fixed forth next
morning and telegraphed the Queen Re
gent that he should dedicate the day to
prayer for her and Spain.”
FRANCE Not exulting.
Press Hoped Our Fleet Was Locked
l’l> in Manila Bay.
London, May 9—According to a dis
patch from Paris, Commodore Dewey’s
dispatches and the completeness of the
American victory have greatly chagrined
the French press, which has been assur
ing France that the American fleet was
locked up in Manila bay. }
The Russian papers are full of criticisms
of the Spanish fighting. They accuse the
'Spanish officers of closing the hrsenal at
Cavite through cowardice.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ CASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
/, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has- borne and does now —on every
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
, This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA” which has been
used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought, on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President.
March 8,1897. •
Do Not Be Deceived.
1 Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
■ a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he doss not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
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CHICKAMAUGA’S BIG CAMP.
FORTY THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS TO
BE SENT THEBE.
Every Section of the Country to Send
One or More Rejsinients—Even Men
From Illinois and Wisconsin and
Massachusetts to Come to the
Southern Rendezvous —Maj. Gen.
Wheeler and Ffizhmtlt Lee to Be
Two of the Command ?rs.
ChipJcamapgji National Park, Ga., May
B.—lt was .given out officially to-day that
40,000, men of the volunteer army would,bp .
mobilized here just as soon as they have,
been mustered into the government ser
vice. With the ten regiments of regulars
now here filled to war strength, the army
at this point will number 50,000 men. It
is announced that Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
and Maj. Gen. Joe Wheeler and Maj. Gen.
James H. Wilson will be in command. The
purpose being to form the volunteer men
into three army corps.
The first installment of equipments for
recruits is flowing in rapidly. One hun
dred arrived here to-day and information
of the recruiting officers is to the effect
all the recruits required will be ob
tained in a comparativly short time,
f t ,
Boston, May B.—Gov. Wolcott to-day re
ceived a telegram from Adjt. Gen. Corbin
announcing the intention of the war de
partment to order a regiment of Massa
chusetts infantry to Chickamauga prepar
atory to going to Cuba.
Springfield, 111., May B.—Gov. Tanner re
ceived worjl from the war department that
two regiments of infantry and one regi
nnent of cavalry, I. N. G., now in camp
here, will be sent to Chickamauga as soon
as they can be equipped.
Boston, May 8. —Gov. Wolcott received a
telegram from the war department to-day
asking how soon troops would be ready to
move to Chickamauga. The Governor re
jplied that one infantry regiment would be
mustered in on Monday and would be
ready to move Tuesday, fully equipped.
Madison, May B.—Gov. Schofield received
a dispatch from the war department late
i last night to send the First Regiment that
is mustered into the United States army
from Wisconsin to Chickamauga Park.
Charleston, W. Va., May B.—Gov. Atkin,
son received a telegram to-day from the
Secretary of War stating that a West
Virginia regirqent, as soon as it was re
cruited and mustered into service, would
be ordered to Chickamauga Park. The
< Governor replied that the regiment would
be ready next Thursday.
Richmond. Va., May B.—Gov. Tyler re
j ceived this afternoon a telegram from the
I Secretary of War, requesting him to mo- !
, bi’.ize the Virginia troops as rapidly as
possible, and as soon as a regiment is or
ganized, to send it to Chickamauga. It is
expected that the movement of Virginia
troops to Richmond this week will be rap-
| id, as companies in various parts of the |
,| state are reported as simply awaiting or- .
I ders..
I
Island Lake, Mich., May B.—Notification ■
was given to Gov. Pingree to-day by Sec- ]
retary Alger that as fast as the First and I
Second Regiments of Michigan volunteers i
could be mustered to their full quota they
will be sent to Chickamauga Park.
SPAIN'S CABINET TO STICK.
■ 1
Ministers Deiermined to Push the i
Campaign Energetically.
Madrid, May 8, 4 p. m.—The upshot of
the cabinet council held to-day is under
stood to he that there will be no change ,
in the ministry for the present and that j
Ihe cabinet has resolved to "energetical- i
ly push the campaign, especially in the
Philippines.”
Premier Sagasta is now conferring with
the Queen Regent, who summoned him to
her presence.
In the Cortes all the measures, pending i
a solution, will, it is said, be rapidiy vot- I
ed, thus leaving the government a full I
, hand to cope with national probit ©s.
Otwin Boyer, the Englishman who was
arrested at Cadiz on Friday evening un
der suspicion that he was a spy, because
he attempted to telegraph details of the
movemen is of the Spanish warships, has
been given up to the British consul there.
The man is reported to be insane, and
Will be sent to Gibraltar.
Madrid, May 8, 10 p. m.—According ta
the newspapers, a cabinet crisis, provoked
by Admiral Bermejo, minister of marine,
is imminent, involving the whole cabinet.
If charged to reconstruct the ministry,
it is believed that Senor Sagasta. would
pfffr a, portfolio to 'Senor Gamazo, wh,o
represents a very important section of thd
Liberals,
London, May 9, 4 a. m.—The Madrid cor-~
respondent of the Daily Mail says: "It is
believed that cabinet matters may con
tinue as they are for another week, but
a crisis is regarded as inevitable.
"Senor Sagasta and Senor Montero Rios,
president of the Senate, visited the Queen
Regent to-night (Sunday), and the latter
subsequently visited Senor Gamazo, who
is regarded as the coming man.”
London, May 9, 6 a. m.—The Madrid cor
respondent gs the Times says: "There is
reason to believe that the reconstruction
of the cabinet foreshadowed by Senor Mo
rel in his • speech last-Friday is about to
occur."
WOODFORD AT WASHINGTON.
I be Minister tins n long Conference!
With she PreKident.
Washington, May B.—Gen. Stewart L,
V* oodford, United States minister to
Spain, arrived in Washington from Newt
York this evening shortly before &
o’clock. ' .
He went almost directly to the White
House, Where he was given a most cordial
reception by the President.
He remained in conference with thfl
President until a lute hour, the entire
Hispano-American situation being infor
mally and thoroughly discussed.
Gen. Woodford declined to be interview
ed upon the subject. The President assur
ed Gen. Woodford that his work through,
out the delicate crisis met his entire ap
proval.
It was learned to-night that the adminis
tration had a purpose in transmitting to
Gen. Woodford the ultimatum of the
United States to Spain i,n open English, in
stead of in the state department cipher,
which is usually employed in cable corre
spondence with diplomatic reports.
It was expected by the President thAB
the message to Minister Woodford would
be laid before the Sagasta ministry before
it was delivered to Gen. Woodford, anA
in this he was not incorrect, as events
proved.
The message was delayed many hours in
delivery, and minister Woodford afterward
| learned that the ultimatum had been m
I the hands of Premier Sagasta and had
been considered by the cabinet long be
fore he learned that It had arrived. /
Thus it was the Spanish government was
enabled to give him his passports before
he had an opportunity to deliver the ui-
I timatum formally to the Madrid govern
■ meat.
The fact that the ultimatum was nob
I presented to the Spanish government was
i entirety satisfactory to the administration,
as it was in accordance with the ex pec
tntion of the President.
Consul General Bowen, whose head
quarters were at Barcelona, arrived here i
to-night, in company with Gen. Woodford.
He, too, declined to make any statement
for publication.
Urahlng Off Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, May 8.-All day long the con
verted steel yacht Geralda has been cruis
ing in the Straits of Gibraltar with a
large torpedo boat.
The Spanish steamer Pielago, now con
verted into a cruiser. Is stationed at Al.
gectrasT l< i
Only Smaller Vcmkcln Left Off Cuba,
Madrid, May B.—An official dispatch from
Havana says that most of the principal
vesse.s constituting the American blockad
ing squadron have gone to Porto Rico.
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