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THE 8ANMMVILLE HERALD.
GAYNOR PRAISES SOUTH
In Speech at Jamestown—Says Gov
ernment Is Pure in This Section
of the Country.
Thrifty Scotland Farming.
In that land of thrifty farmers, Scot
land, they have a favorite rule of suc
cess which hoils down the longheaded,
foresighted methods by which land
and crops should be managed: “Clean
your land before it is foul, feed it be
fore it is hungry, and rest ii before
it is weary.” That is, rest it by
change of crops. There is a whole vol
ume on tillage, manuring and rota
tion in this old saying.
Taste and Smell.
Whenever I engage a man to work
in the dairy 1 ask him if he uses to
bacco, and if 1 can get a man who does
not use tobacco I will pay him more
wages than I would the other fellow.
I hold that a man who has his sense
of taste and smell vitiated and para
lysed by the use of tobacco cannot
judge milk and butter and cheese, and
if I had bad-flavored butter or cheese
to sell I would like to sell It to a man
who UBes tobacco.—H. H. Dean, Ameri
can Cultivator.
The Old Orchards.
A definite plan for pruning old or
chards is given by the Ohio Experi
ment Station as a result of trials with
an old run-down apple orchard on the
station farm. After, trying various
plans, it was advised that during the
first season of renewal the topmost
branches should be cut out leaving
all the healthy side branches. The
next season the horizontal branches
may be pruned so as to promote a uni
form, well-shaped bead and top, the
largo wounds caused by pruning
should bo followed up by thinning the
vent decaying. The heading back
should befollowed up by thinning the
new shoot3 and getting back those se
lected for future fruit bearing.
Birds Are Good Friends.
The latest theory put forward to ac
count for the decrease in bird life,
makes the destruction chargeable to
the poisons contained in the spraying
liquids which, applied to trees and
shrubbery, are readily reached by the
birds which subsist upon insect life.
One investigator claims that he has
examined a number of insectivorous
birds found dead in the fields and or
chards and that he discovered evi
dences of poison in'each. If this is a
fact, and not a theory, it opens up a
very serious question, for there is no
longer any doubt that we are largely
dependent on the birds to hold the in
sect pests in check, and that if we
kill off these good friends we shall
surely be in a sad plight.—Farm Jour
nal.
1 Important Dairy Rules.
1 The Iowa Agricultural college cream
ery has promulgated the following
rules, which should be' observed by
the patrons of creameries:
1. Nothing but tin pails should be
used in the milk yards, as it is impossi
ble to keep wooden pulls clean anil
sweet. ,
2. The cows udder should be care
fully washed before any milk is drawn.
3. Milk should be aired immediate
ly by pouring or dipping from pail to
pail before cooling, and then be coled
as quickly as possible to at least 00
degrees.
4. Milk should be kept where the
surrounding air is pure and free from
stale odors or taint of any kind.
5. Morning's milk should lie cooled
before mixing with evening’s milk.
0. Cows should have access to salt
readily, as milk keeps sweet longer
when the cows are salted regularly
and often.
7. Cows should not be permitted to
drink stagnant or impure water, but
should have abundance of good wa
ter.
that is worth more than she is, she is
worth kft'ping. Barns are never too
cold for sheep as long as they are dry.
Cement Floors for Hog Houses.
In reading the Farmer of July 6-07
1 noticed some reader wishes to learn
more about cement floors for a bog
house, I believe from experience of
three years, cement is the only floor
for hog houses. 1 have had bettor
success with winter pigs. l*ist sea
son, wintered thirty-six head and nev
er had them to do better. Our house is
20x30 feet, long way east to west, with
Brooklyn Day at the Jamestown ex
position Tuesday was favored with per
fect weather. The pxercises were
held in tho drawing room of the New
York building, where an oration was
delivered by Justice William J. Gay-
■ nor, who said, in part:
"We are on the soil of the south,
where government is pure, where
statesmanship is high, whore private
greed and corruption are not and n.’ver
were uppermost, where politics ant
government have never been debauch-
! nd by the use of money and the greed
COCKNEY AT THAT.
“Yes,” said Hawkins, who had re
cently bought some old silver at auc
tion, "this Is the old Hawkins family
plate.”
"Indeed?" said the observant
guest; ‘‘but surely this is an ‘A’ en
graved upon it."
"Is It? Oh—er—yes, of course. The
original llawklnsos were English, you
know."—Catholic Standard and
Times.
Canceled Stamps Pay Mortgage.
Mrs. Samuel Long, living near
Washington, Pa., shipped five and
one-half barrels of concoled stamps
yesterday to a d -aler In Worcester,
Mass., for which she will get $1,200.
With the money she will pay off the
mortgage on her farm.
When her husband died seven years
of private interest. Nowhere is the I ^ rB - Dong did not have anything
groat American spirit stronger and ^ arm - which was mortgaged
more patriotic than here In the new
south. The new problems before the
country it is meeting in that high
spirit, and with that high aim, which
alone in government as in religion,
in science, and in all thnt goes to
human advancement, can achieve good
for ltB full value. She was about to
give up discouraged, when she heard
that she might make some money col
lecting postage stamps. Everybody
liked her anil everybody began to
save stamps. They Interested their
friends. A regular "endless chain"
was established, and stamps began to
five sow pens on the Inside. Along results, however slowly and gradually. : P our ' n from all over the world. She
the south side with feed pens on the
out side. The rest of the Hour l use
for the shoats to sleep and feed on,
In bad weather. Upon the north side,
outside we have the boar's pen, also a
feed (lor 20x24 made of old bridge
lumber. 1 only wish it was of edment.
We intend to make it such as soon as
the lumber is gone, which will be
soon.
As to cement for sleeping floors:
Such floors are easy to clean and un
less the hogs ;ue confined In the house
the floors are dry, and sometimes get
dusty; but as with till other doors they
will get dirty if stock Is kept In the
house. I know from experience ce-
Judge Gaynor spoke of the commerce
of the country, typified in the exposi
tion, and how it has been shackled
and sbntered in monopolies by favorit
ism fn freight rates, and said:
"W» cannot too often think of this
thing. Our commerce should be abso
lutely free. Competition in it must be
free, and not destroyed by the aid of
privilege or favoritism. There is no
otli r way to prevent monopolies, and
no greater curse can come to a coun
try than monopolies. That our rail
ways, which are and wore from tho
beginning by law—by the very law'
put them In the bureau drawers and
then in the cupboard, but soon every
thing was filled. Then she started to
place them In barrels.
When she had five and one-halt
barrels filled a Worcester dealer of
ferod to buy them for $1,200. The
offer was accepted, and Mrs. Bong will
continue to live on the old homestead,
—Pittsburg dispatch to tho New York
Tribune.
Overlooking Something.
According to a magazine writer,
girls do not ent enough. Apparently
this writer ha3 never observed the
girls when they go back to the table
meat floors are much better to clean of their being—our public highways, j after the company Is gone.—Kansas
than a mud floor. should be used to create and sustain City Journal.
I have just completed a cement floor monopolies, is the greatest crime of i
our day and generation. I need not
say to you that If I can got my oil,
or my sugar, or my tobacco, or my
wheat, or my wire fence, or any com
modity, carried over the highways of
the country at one-quarter or one-
third the freight which you have to
pay, I can thereby undersell you and
for a chicken house 10x13 feet and
think cement the only thing for floors.
—J. I’. F„ In the Indiana Farmer.
Tho milk pall Is kept free from
staleness, s^miness and stickiness if
Sour Soils and Clover Sickness.
Many soils are sour or acid in char
acter and until this defect Is correct
ed it Is useless to expect satisfactory
crops. Large stuns may be spent In
the purchase and application of ma
nures, which, however useful on land
in suitable condition, gives but poor
returns on these acid soils. Some of
these manures, superphosphate for ex
ample, actually Increase the acidity
of these sour soils and its use on such
land not only produces no Increase,
but actually lessens the yield. Among
crops which have a strong objection
to sour soil, is clover and very often
what is termed “clover sickness" is
not the disease at all. The cause of
true clover sickness, is a parasite
which, Infecting tile soil, gets inside
the clover plant, feeds on its juices
and weakens It to such an extent that
it dies out. When the soil is sour,
clover refuses to grow satisfactorily,
because this condition Is unfavorable
to the existence of the nitrogen gath
it Is washed with Borax and WRter in
the following proportions—one table
spoonful to a quart of water.
BEANS AS FOOD.
all competitors that much In the mar- 1 Have Great Value—Will Figure More
ket and ruin you; and establish a mon
opoly in myself. And that Is what
has been, done for many years all ov< r
the country and is being done now.
Soni:! think that because a penal law
as Meat Figures Less.
This country raised 5,064,844 bush
els of beans In 1900 and devoted 453,-
8C7 acres to their cultivation. That
Is at tho rate of a little over eleven
bushels to the acre, or a little less
was passed against It that It was stop- •. than the average yield for wheat tho
pod. They did not know the immeas
ureable distance between the passing
of borne laws and their observance.
Judge Gaynor praised President
Roosevelt for his efforts to stop tha
rebate evil, and said:
“In my part of the country, which
is under tho eaves of Wall street, and
partly debased and d bauched by the
gambling of that place, thero are many,
some wickedly and falsely, and some
stupidly, as mere parrots, denouncing
country over. New York state raises
more beans than any other state ex
cept Michigan, and California is third
In the list. Roughly speaking, New
York’s beans belt i3 the western half
of the state.
Here as in Michigan beans have
partly taken the place of wheat as a
staple crop. They have proved moro
remunerative and they have had the
additional recommendation of Improv
ing the fertility of the soil through
their ability to gather nitrogen from
cring bacteria that grow on the roots President Roosevelt for bending the 1 ^ 1G alr - a P a P er prepared by I
of the clover and to which arc due the
little warty growths thereon, which
are characteristic of all members of
the leguminous order, viz; peas, beans,
clover and alfalfa, etc. As clover
cannot flourish In the absence of these
bacteria and as acidity in the soil Is
energies of government to stop this
great evil. They call his couse ‘‘a
general attack on corporations and on
business.’ Yes, this effort to mak?
the railroad companies obey the law
and charga the same rate to every
fatal to their existence, the attempt to oue l 8 called an attack t.n corporations?
grow clover on a sour soil is merely
a waste of time and money. It Is so
easy a matter to ascertain whether or
not the soil is acid that whenever clov
er Is growing unsatisfactorily a test
should be made.
Should the test show that acidity un
doubtedly exists, this condition can bo
remedied either by the application of
a liberal dressing of marl, chalk, or
lime, or the use of seven or eight
hundred weight per acre of basic slag.
For this last mentioned substance,
which is a fertilizer as well as a soil
improver, there is every indication
that the demand will be greater in
the future, as many are speaking in
its favor, who have just given it a
trial.—W. It. Gilbert in the Epitonist,
ano on business. It is pitiful to sea
some stockholders join In this false
cry. Cannot “Sven the stupidest stock
holder see that if the rebates being
given to favorite shippers, and by them
divided up with railroad magnates and
officials were paid into the treasuries
of the railroads, the amount thus re-
C. Corbett for the Department of
Agriculture remarks, it is the bean's*
peculiar distinction to provide food
for both man and soil. That makeB It
Invaluable in a scheme of crop rota
tion.
To the average American, beans
mean string or snap beans, plucked
when green from the small garden
or canned in their green state. Thus
produced they yield largely, as much
as 200 bushels to tho acre, the price
ranging from $1 to $0 a bushel, ac
cording to the season and nearness to
a market. Yet the bean means some
thing more. Certain varieties, like
the cowpea, are valuable for grain,
received would be declared out in dlv- for hay, as good as alfalfa, and for
Early Lambs.
In the address by Joseph E, Wing,
at tho annual meeting of the Pennsyl
vania State Board of Agriculture, he
stated that the Important tiling for an
early lamb is to have constitution. As
soon as the lamb arrives he shuts ewe
and lamb or lambs together. Gradual
ly increase the ewe’s feed, which
should be fed just like a dairy cow—
to make milk. Provide a lamb creep
In which wheat bran, coarse corn meal
and about ten percent of oil meal is
placed, or corn alone and alfalfa. West
ern bran the lambs do not like, pre
ferring only tKe fresh bran from near
by mills. Rretty soon the lamb will
eat ear com and alfalfa. Keeps
lambs shut up in a small yard,
Does not turn out to grass early be
cause the early grass is simply col
ored water. Let the grass grow
awhile before putting anything on it.
Avoid parasites by getting the iambs
fat and off to market before the para
sites are troublesome, which is us
ually about the first of July. Feeds
ear corn gn pasture. Sheep do not
take parasites from alfalfa because
they graze the alfalfa too high. To
keep lambs from parasites wean them,
keep them on hay and keep them off
old pastures. He turns ewes off only
when they lose their teeth. As long
ns a ewe will living an early lamb
Notes of the Farm.
It takes about three months to grow j
a broiler.
No brooder pen should contain over I
fifty chicks.
The goose lays a score or two of
eggs in a year.
Broilers shrink about half a pound
each when dressed.
The shell of an egg contains about
50 grains of salt of lime.
Forty dressed ducklings are packed
in a barrel for shipment.
From thirty-five to forty ducks and
drakes are allowed in a pen.
The duck averages ten dozen eggs :
in about seven months’ laying.
Ten dozen eggs a year is the aver- I
age estimate given as the production i
of the hen.
About four dozen eggs are given as j
an average for the annual output of
the turkey.
Ducklings are marketed at five
pounds weight, which they should at
tain in ten weeks.
When possible to avoid, never give
a full draft of water within an hour
after feeding. The effee; is to carry
much undigested food into the bowels,
producing serious disorganization
thereof.—Horse Breeder.
Newly set trees are always benefit
ed by cultivation, because their roots
are all surface roots and cannot thrive
in a liot, dry compact soil. Hence
the necessity of summer surface cul
tivation of newly set trees.
tdends, and that dividends would
thereby bo largely increased? It used
to be a saying that a fool was burn
every minute, and I fear it holds
good yet. Every one should support
the president and the government In
eradicating this great evil. And we
must see to it that a successor to
President Roosevelt is elected who
will continue the work with his una-
buted energy and purpose.”
AGE LIMIT FOURTEEN YEARS.
Child Labor Recommendation of South
ern Textile Conference.
Thj committee on resolutions of the
[ Southern Textile Conference at Nash
ville., recommended that the age limit
of children who work in mills and fac
tories shall be fourteen years. It was
also rjcommended that the time limit
for women and children shall be sixty
hours a week, except where engaged
in agricultural and domestic pursuits.
OL1) SOAKERS
Get Saturated With Caffeine.
A SWATH OF DEATH
And Dire Destruction
By Explosions.
TWO-SCORE LIVES ARE LOST
Town of Fontanet, Indiana,
Obliterated in Blowing
Up of Big Dupont
Ppwder Plant,
green manuring unsurpassed. The
kidney, the marrow bean and the pea
are prime, foods in their dry state.
Like other of the ancient crops of
mankind, the bean requires more hand
labor than the more recent food
staples. In the advance of farm
science, however, satisfactory harvest
ers and thrashers have been devised.
As an item of diet in this country
beans will figure more as meat figures
less, and the annual production is
Bure to be much enlarged.—Roches
ter Democrat and Chronicle.
Trial of Pettibone Postponed.
The trial of John Pettibone, charg
ed with complicity in the murder of
former Governor Stcunenberg, was
postponed at Boise, Idaho, Tuesday,
until October 28. on account of the de
fendant’s health.
REUNION OF FOREST’S MEN.
Survivors of Noted Cavalry Company
Gather at Memphis.
Several hundred grizzled veterans
of the civil war, survivors of the caval
ry command of General Nathan Bed
ford Forerst, met in Memphis, Tenu.,
Thursday in their fifteenth annual re
union. Besides the men who served
under Forrest there were many other
veterans in attendance.
When a person has used coffee for
a number of years and gradually de
clined in health, it Is time the coffee
should be left off in order to see
whether or not that has been the
cause of the trouble.
A lady in Huntsville, Ala., says she
used coffse for about 40 years, and
for the past 20 years has had. severe
stomach trouble. *‘I have been treat
ed by many physicians but all in
vain. Everything failed to give re
lief. Was prostrated for some time,
and came near dying. When I re
covered sufficiently to partake of food
and drink I tried coffee again and it
soured on my stomach.
“I finally concluded that, coffee was
the cause of my troubles aud stopped
using it. I tried tea In its place and
then milk but neither agreed with
me;*then I commenced using Postuni,
had it properly made aud it was very
pleasing to the taste.
“I have now used it four months,
and my health is so greatly improved
that I can eat almost anything [ want
and can sleep well, whereas, before,
I suffered for years with insomnia.
“I have found the cause of ray trou
bles and a way to got rid of them.
You can depend upon it I appreciate
Postum.’’ “There’s a Reason.” Read
“The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
The small town of Fontanet, Indiana,
was practically destroyed Tuesday
morning by the explosion of the
plant of the Dupont Powder company.
The dead number from twenty-five to
forty-five. More than 600 persons were
injured and every building in the town
was wholly or partially leveled to the
ground.
Wheer stood a thriving and buny
town of 1,000 people, thero Is ruin and
scattered wreckage. The dead and
more seriously injured were taken
away. Five hundred inhabitants, all
more or less wounded, remain to gath
er their scattered household goods and
sleep under tents nnd on cots, guard
ed by soldiers of the state.
Without warning the powder mills,
seven in number, blew up at 9:15
Tuesday morning. They employ 200
men' and of these seventy-five were
at work when the first explosion oc
curred in the press mill. In quick suc
cession the glazing mill, the two coin
ing mills and th? powder magazine
blow up, followed by the cap mill. In
the magazine, situated several hundred
yards from the mills, were stored 40,-
000 kegs of powder. The concussion
when It blow up was felt marly 200
miles away.
Every house In the town was de
stroyed. Farm houses two miles away
and school houses equally distant
were torn to pieces and their occu
pants injured. A passenger train on
the Big Four railroad four miles away
had every coach window broken and
several passengers were injured by
flying glass.
The mills went up with three dis
tinct explosions, followed twenty min
utes later by n fourth even more se
rious than the others, when the maga
zine went up. Immediately following
the explosions tho wreckage took fire
and the inhabitants of the town who
rushed to tho rescue of the mill em
ployees found themselves powerless to
aid those burning in the ruins. They
worked frantically, in constant dan
ger from possible succeeding explo
sions, unmindful of their ruined
homes.
Dead and (lying were picked up and
collected. Eighteen bodies horribly
burned and mangled were carted to a
protected spot to await identification,
while the badly injured, numbering up
wards of fifty, were put on a special
train and taken to Terre Haute for
hospital accommodations. Scarcely one
of the 1,000 Inhabitants of the town
but carried blood on hands and face
from his own wounds or those of peo
ple who had required aid.
The mills were located one mile
south of the town. With the first ex
plosion, tha employees ran for safety,
but most of them were killed or wound
ed by the quick-following explosions
In the other mills. When the heat
from the burning mills exploded the
giant powder magazine, destroying tha
town by the concussion, many of those
engaged in relief work were badly in
jured and several killed.
Among the buildings totally destroy
ed in the town were the Methodist
and Christian churches, two school
buildings, the depot, all business
blocks including a large block just
completed, a larg? warehouse and 500
homes.
Over five thousand people from cit
ies and towns within a radius of fifty
miles visited the 'scene of desolation
Tuesday night.
Governor J. Frank Ilanly of Indiana
arrived at 7:30 p. m., and immediately
took charge of tho situation, and later
In the night proclaimed martial law.
The governor issued an order that all
places where liquor or intoxicating
drinks of any kind are sold shall ha
closed tight.
The town is practically wiped out.
Not a building stands intact, and
throughout the day fires kindled in
the ruins cost the lives of the maimed
pinned in the wreckage, and added to
the terrifying scenes of destruction.
PEACE CONGRESS ENDED.
Hall of Knights at The Hague Present
ed an Imposing Spectacle.
The Kail of Knights presented an
imposing spectacle Friday at th > clos
Ing session of the International peace
conference at The Hague. Tho boxes
specially erected for the occasion were
crowded with cabinet ministers, diplo
mats and other statesmen and their
wives.
stvk months in hospital-
Discharged Because Doctors Vnn J
Not Cure.
LovI P. Brockway. s. Second Av»
Anoka, Minn., says: “After i yln ''
— for five months l n t
hospital I was (lls
charged as | ncilra .
hie, and given only
six months to ]| Ve
My heart was afreet
cd, I had smother
ing spells and some
times feu „ ncon .
scions, i got H0 ,
couldn’t use my
arms, my eyesight
.. , ., was Impaired and
the kidney secretions were badly d ,
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began usln*
Doan’s Kidney Pills, but they
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have
feeling well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box
Fostor-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y
WILL POWER.
“I wish they wouldn’t leave reading i
wills until ufter the funeral."
"How so?”
“One would know so much bettsr!
what flowers to send.’’—Lippincott’s
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Cures Constipation, Diarrhoea, Convulsion,
Colic. Sour Stomach, etc. li De.strovs Worm,’
Allays Feverishness and Colds. It Aids nigral
tion. it MakesTkkthino ltnsv, Promotes Cheer-
fiilnes, and Produces Natural Sleep.
QL-AO. BUSINESS COLlEliE
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“NNJBLACK”
Loaded Black Powder
Shotgun Shells
“Nublacks” are as per
fect as brains and in
genuity, coupled with
first-class materials and
modern methods of
manufacture, can make
them. They are sure
fire, make even pat
terns, shoot hard and
strong and will stand
reloading. Ask f° r
“Nublacks” next time.
THEY HELP MAKE BIG BAGS
Help the Horse K"
No article is more useful
about the stuble than Mica
Axle Grease. Put a little on
the spin (lien before you ‘ hook
up"—it will help the horse, and
bring the load borne quicker.
wears well— better than an?
other grease. Coats the axle
with a hard, smooth surface of
I powdered mica which reduces
| friction. Ask the dealer for
Mica Axle Grease.
STMDAMOUCeUPAtn
.CONSTIPATION
is so distressing, yet so
Easily Cured
if you use regularly
Parsons 3
Mild but sure In effect.
Put up In glass vials.
28 cents. Sold by all d** 1 " 8 ’
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