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at long Interval It may l>e safcl
that the eggs are not of as great food
value as chicken eggs, because guinea
eggs are smaller; but the guineas
will gather more of their good if
there is a range they can run on, so
the guineas will yield a good profit
for the reason that their eggs or their
meat co-is so little, either in work
or in salable feed.—Farmers’ Home
Journal.
When Vegetables Mature.
The fallowing list will show the
gardener bow long after planting the
various common vegetables will ma¬
ture their growth i nd be ready for
use:
BiihIi beans ...... .......40 to 65 days
Pole beans ....... ....... 50 to bO days
Heels ........... ....... 60 to 80 days days
•Carrot* Early cabbage .... 100 75 to 130 100 days
........... ....... to
'■Cauliflowers....... ......100 to 1.30 days days
- Celery ........... .......120 to 150 days
Sweet corn ....... ....... 00 to 100
Cucumbers ...... . .......(VI to 80 days days
Eggplants....... Onion seed ......100 ......1,'ilt to to 140 150 days
.......
Onion sets........ ...... 90 to 120 days days
Parsley.......... ..... ......125 90 to 120 days
Parsnips .......... to 160
Peas . ......... ......40 to 80 days days
Peppers.......... White potatoes .....100 80 to to 140 140 days
.. . ......
Radishes Pumpkins ........ ......100 to 140 days
......... ...... 20 to 40 days
Spinach.......... Bush squashes .......‘I 60 1 ! to 60 80 days days
.. .. ...... to
Late squashes..... ......120 to 160 days days
Tomatoes .......... .....100 to 140
Turnips.......... ......110 to 140 days
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Dry Potatoes For Food.
Consul Frank S. Hannah sends a
report to the Department of Com¬
merce and Labor relative to some re¬
cent experiments in the drying of
potatoes under the auspices of the
German Imperial Interior Depart¬
ment which may offer a new field
for farmers. The potatoes are re¬
duced by this process to about one-
quarter of their original weight and
can be kept in a good Condition in
this compressed form for an Indefin¬
ite length of time. The military au¬
thorities have made thorough experi¬
ments with this product and have
become convinced that its nutritious
value is fully equal to that of corn,
and that the dried potatoes can take
the place of one-third of the former
ration of oats. The fact that the
potatoes are reduced to one-fourth
of their original weight brings about
a corresponding reduction in the
price of freight, so that it will pay
to grow more potatoes than has for¬
merly been the case.
Dutch Dragging Makes Convenient
Corners and is Simple.
Dragging “Dutch fashion” is noth¬
ing new. I learned it more than
twenty years ago. Still, it may be
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lengthwise nor square across the
furrows and makes easier corners
than the ordinary diagonal dragging.
Plain Dutch fashion is shown in dia¬
gram above. Commence by “striking
out” from A to B. Turn to the right
and go back on the left side oX first
track till you reach edge of field near
A. Drive across the first track and
back on the opposite side to the
other end. Cross over and back on
opposite side again.
Continue crossing over at each
end inside your last track and outside
the last track along the sides. When
half done the piece will look like
first diagram, and the next trip would
be from C to D, to E, to F, to C.
When done the last trip would be
from G to 11, and the piece will have
been dragged twice diagonally in
opposite directions. This works well
on pieces that are nearly square or
not more than twice as long as wide.
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OI late we have fouud tnat it is econ¬
omy in plowing, cultivating, etc., to
make our lands as long as(possible.
On these Dutch dragging did not work
as well, as it was too near lengthwise
the furrows, so we hit upon what we
call “crazy Dutch,” shown in second
diagram. We “strike out” zig-zag
across the piece two or three or more
times, according to its length
pared to width. The picture
three tune viz.: From A to B, to
C, to It. Turn to the right and go
back on left to first track to C and
| drive across it. Go on right side to
13, then up left side to A. Cross
over and back on left side of H.
Drive straight across the tirst two
tracks, turn to the left and go on
right side to C, where you will cross
the two tracks again, and go on left
side to D. Always go straight ahead
till you get to the edge of the field
before you make a turn.
When half (lone it will look like
the picture, and the next trip would
be from E to F, G, H, I, .1, K, L, K.
When done the last trip will be from
M to N, O, P. This looks compli- j I
cated, but it isn’t half as hard to
do as It. is to tell about it.. At least
it seems that way to me just now.
In striking out we never measure a
piece but guess at. the angles. How¬
ever, the truer you get It struck out i
the better it words out in finishing,
concludes “Uncle Reuben” in writing
the foregoing to the Rural New |
Yorker.
Board Culture For Onions.
Good crops of onions have been
grown on a small scale by a peculiar
system which may be called “board j
culture.” One grower tried the plan
last year on a patch of si c or eight was' j
square rods. The onion field
prepared In the usual way with two ;
rows sixteen inches apart. Onion sets f
of the large, white varieties were |
then pricked out about six inches ■
apart in the rows. Boards a foot |
wide of the length the rows 1
same as
were placed between the rows, leav- I
ing a space of four inches for the!
onions to grow. The labor of keep- ;
ing the plants clean and cultivated
was very light and a big yield was j
gathered. About 7oo feet of cheap
boards were required. No doubt if l
the rows had been only nine or ten
inches apart., with six-inch boards
between the rows, a much larger
quantlty could have been grown on ;
the same laud.—American Cultivator.
Birds Killed by Spraying.
A large amount of circumstantial
evidence seems to justify the assump-
tion that birds are killed by spraying
trees with arsenical insecticides for
the purpose of killing insects. Last |
year many birds were found dead
where trees were sprayed, and the
State ornithologist began an investi¬
gation to determine whether the birds |
were killed by spraying, The evi-
denee secured was not conclusive ■
enough to clear up the matter fully,
T t , « is now time ,, to . . begin spraying . for «.
the gyps> moth, brown-tail moth and
elm-leaf beetle. Dead birds usually
may be found within two or three
days after spraying has been done,
All who are interested in bird life
are requested to be on the watch for
dead birds under or in the vicinity of
sprayed trees, and to forward any
found to E. H. Forbush, State Orni¬
thologist,, Room 136, State House,
Boston, Mass. It is proposed to have
the birds bodies anal, zed to learn if
they have been poisoned by the spray-
ing mixture.—American Cultivator.
Average Farm Hand.
The lot of the average farm hand
is . stated . . , by , many to . . be a , haul , one. „
How does it compare with Consul
Martin’s description of the mine la-
borer in the larger mines of Mexico?
The living conditions of the workers,
Mr. Martin states, are extremely
humble. The average man and his
:......... house, ”r stone 1,1 * hut, r”;,*;*’:"’ or dugont, along
some bank. Their food consists of
dried meat, fried flour cakes, beans
and rank coffee. Stoves are found
only in the better homes, the labor-
er’s meal being cooked over a little
fire between stones. At meal times
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and sleep on blankets on the floor.
This is the living condition in every
camp; the high-priced laborers alone
have ordinary meals and sleeping
cots. The man who has a family, and
In most camps only men with families
are desired, has the habit of consum-
ing his wages the day after he earns
them. The company runs a store,
only at which he can get provisions
on credit, and to this store the ac¬
count. hook is brought and his daily
necessities charged against his wages.
Every operator has absolute control
of the sale ot all merchandise on his
ground or within his concession; he
keeps the store, he buys at wholesale
in the cheapest market, and retails,
in very small quantities, of course,
at a profit of 100 per cent.
The Reason.
The following conversation was
overheard between two boys, aged
seven and five: “Joe, why can’t
chickens talk?" “Aw, they don’t
have to. When they wants anything,
they just pull their wish-bones and
they' get their wish.”—The Delin-
eator.
Captain John Smith Second.
‘tir race has got ter rise an’ hustle
ef it ever hopes ter git dar,” said
Brother Williams. “Too many thinks
dat all dev got ter do is ter go ter
sleep in de hot sun an’ rise up an’ eat
watermelons in de shade.”—Atlanta
! Constitution.
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WORLD RECORDS HELD BY WRIGHTS.
Flight with passenger—1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds, July
27, 1909, by Orville Wright, at Fort Myer, Va.
High flight—360 feet, October 18, 1908, by Wilbur Wright, at Le
Mans, France, in which he won the Michelin prize.
Duration and distance flight—2 hours, 18 minutes and 30 seconds,
Covering about 77 miles, January 1, 1909, by Wilbur Wright, at Le
Mans, France.
Records For the Wriglits to Beat.
Cross country flights by Henry Farman, Leon Delagrange, Louis
Bleriot and Hubert Latham.
Cross Channel flight by Louis Bleriot.
NEWS ABOUT FLYING AT HOME AND ABROAQ
j n tj ie Realm of Aviation Events Are Crowding:
Thick 4 iiivk. and an East x a8i>
Washington, D. C.—Events in the
of aviation are crowding thick
fast. On the same day Orville
made a new aeroplane record
Fort Myer, Hubert Latham made
almost successful attempt to cross
English Channel.
Again the motor of the French avi-
failed, and this time at a criti-
moment, Five hundred yards
the English coast the engine
and he fell into the sea. This
failure may disappoint, but
hardly discourage, such a plucky
At Washington Mr. Wright suc-
ceeded in making a new record for
flight with a passenger. In the pres-
of President Taft and a distin-
company he flew with Lieu-
tenant Lahm almost an hour and
thlrteen mllluteSf thus fu im lln g the
erms 0 f Government contract in
to duration. During this per-
he compassed a distance fully
double that betwen Calais and Dover.
shows the meaning of this splen-
did performance,
OF WRIGHT MACHINE
The machine used by the Wrights
at Washington consists of two planes,
teel from^ip to
^ q,j ie geat f or f operator is
placed j n the cen tre of the lower
plane, off to the left of the motor.
The passenger sits on the other side
of the motor.
The motor itself is a product of the
Wright brothers—a four-cylinder,
(.^icty horsepower, water-cooled gas-
0 u ne engine. The gasoline is pumped
directly into the intake pipes, there
being no carbureters.
The tips of the planes are flexible
for the space of about twelve feet,
^ means of a lever they can he
silv.» c s^”r to n „Uiu el dt
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rec ^i ong ^ second lever controls the
twin rud ders, which are supported by
a p race ten feet from the rear of the
planes. By working the two levers
together the equilibrium of the ma-
chine is maintained.
Ten feet in front of the operator’s
xrzgtt'ssFsz'xrssi
y or con trolling the ascent and descent.
Tw0 pr0 pellers about nine feet in di¬
ame ter and revolving in opposite di-
rections are used to thrust the aero-
plane forward.
The weight of the machine, includ¬
ing both operator and passenger, is a
trifle under 1200 pounds.
M. BLERIOT’S AMBITION.
London.—Following the farewell
dinner given at the Hotel Ritz by the
Aero Club, M. Bleriot and his wife
If return mOctobe^^ attempt a
flight f r0 m London to Manchester for
a prlze of 550,000 offered by a Lon-
d on paper. The distance is 161
miles and the prize was offered in
1907. It Is open only to heavier than
air machines owned by members of a
recognized aero club.
At the dinner a letter from Lord
Roberts was read. He said: “M.
Ri er | 0 t may be leading the way to
great changes in the conduct of fu-
ture wars.”
Makes Balloon a Parachute
and Lands Perfectly.
Conway, Mass.—Parachuting his
balloon at the height of more than
two miles by loosening the appendix
cord and allowing the lower part of
■ the balloon to rise into the netting,
pjr. S. S. Stowell, of Pittsfield, in his
first trip as pilot, made a drop to
earth in the balloon Pittsfield. The
experiment was probably the first of
1 nature ever tried in this coun¬
try. A perfect lauding was effected
! without the valve cord ever being
!touched.
M. Bleriot was presented with a
gold medal similar to that given by
the Aero Club to the Wright brothers.
M. Bleriot, prior to his departure
for Paris, said in an interview on M.
Latham's ill luck: “I am too'sorry
for words. He deserved success and
will yet succeed. He has pluck—
everything—but luck failed him. He
experienced the same awkward cur-
rents of air off the Dover cliffs which
I encountered and they proved too
much for him. I was troubled by
them, but was luckier. He is a right
worthy competitor and I shall yet
have the happy chance of congratu¬
lating him.”
AN AIRSHIP WORLD’S FAIR.
Berlin, Germany.—What strides
have been made in a brief period in
the science of aerial navigation is
borne in powerfully upon us by a
world’s fair exhibiting the progress
of airship construction and manip¬
ulation, which has opened at Frank-
fort-on-the-Main and will last '100
days. In September the crowning
feature of the show will be the ar-
rival of Zeppelin II. for a series of ex¬
hibition flights.
A million and a half has been spent
on the buildings and grounds where¬
upon will be held contests between
airships, balloons and dirigibles.
Every type of flying machine will be
shown. Prizes aggregating about
$SO,000 have been offered by the In¬
ternationale Luftschiffahrt Austel-
lung, mercifully shortened to Ila,
which is the name of the latest and
most interesting of world’s fairs.
Passengers may take joy rides in
balloons and steerable vessels of the
air, and a liberal education in the art
of aviation is promised in the read¬
ing of a series of papers by the lead¬
ing experts. There are twelve groups
of exhibits: Balloons and balloon
manufacture, motor balloons, militarj
airship navigation and artillery, bal¬
loon signal service, production and
compression of gas, the science oi
aerial navigation, mechanical and
physical apparatus, equipment, mo¬
tors. art objects and toys. Various
competitions, aside from the actual
races, will bring forth the best in the
specialized phases of the art.
Germany expects fully 5,000,000
visitors to go through the gates of
the Ila in the period of the exhibition
Altogether it is a welcome variation.
CURTISS ENDS HIS FLIGHTS.
Hammondsport, N. Y.—It was an¬
nounced that Glenn H. Curtiss would
make no more flights in this country
before leaving for France August 5.
Tie is now engaged in assembling the
new machine which he will use in the
international contest at Rheims.
TO BUILD BIG DIRIGIBLE.
New York City.—Mr. Joel T. Rice
and Mr. John A. Riggs, of Hot
Springs, Ark., are in New York, ne¬
gotiating with Captain Thomas S.
Baldwin for the construction of a
large dirigible balloon, which they
plan to use for exhibition purposes,
making tours from city to city in the
big airship. They have plans for a
balloon one hundred feet long, the
largest dirigible ever built in this
country.
Passenger Airship Also Provides
For Water Propulsion.
Cleveland, Ohio.—An airship, cov-
j ered with waterproof canva« and
fitted with propellers at its bow and
stern which will work in water is
being built by a company here.
These appliances have been added to
the airship for use in case it should
fall into the water while on a cruise.
The builder of the machine says he
expects to be able to carry from six to
twenty passenger in the airship. He
will also provide an apartment for
baggage.
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Angleworms may live fully ^en
years, as has been shown by experi¬
ments made in Marburg, Germany.
The rubber output at Assam, India,
last year was not satisfactory in quan¬
tity—only 8346 pounds obtained from
642 acre3, or thirteen pounds an acre,
During 1908 19,328 foreigners
landed at Yokohama and fifteen other
open ports of Japan, 1400 fewer than
in 1907. Chinese led with 6S44, fol-
low'ed by 34 32 British.
In California the main shaft of the
North Star mine at Grass Valley is
down 54 00 feet on the vein, which
has a dip of twenty-eight degrees, so
that the maximum vertical depth is
only 2086 feet.
The lumber industry in the far
south of Chile is in process of marked
development.
Of the $15,000,000 paid last year
by Egypt for the whole line of ma¬
chinery and metals, only $300,000
went to the United States.
Three leading European steamship
companies have combined to estab¬
lish a regular service between Ham¬
burg, Rotterdam and the Canadian
ports of St. John and New Brunswick.
The total trade of Canada with
France in 190 8 shows a value of $12 •*
000,000, which is $1,374,748 less
than Canada’s trade with Germany.
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German soil feeds nine-tenths of
her people.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1210
pounds; silver 655.
One-fifth of the country’s wealth is
represented in the New York Stock
Exchange.
Oriental dye makers secure forty
shades of yellow from the shell of
the pomegranate.
An eel forty-four inches in length
and weighing five pounds and one
ounce was caught at Roaring Spring.
Pa.
Europe has 20,000 newspapers, of
which Germany possesses the largest
number. England, however, has the
greatest number of daily newspapers.
Two $50 gold pieces, struck at the
United States Mint at Philadelphia in
1877, have been bought by William
H. Woodin, a wealthy collector of this
city. Mr. Woodin paid the record
price of $20,000.
THE FARANDOLE DANCE.
Master of the Revels, Musicians and
Boisterous Company.
The program of the Arles fetes, in
honor of Mistral, is to include the
farandole dance. An account of this
f.anee for the benefit of the unin¬
itiated was given by Victorien Sardou.
In my childhood, said Sardou, I
have often seen the farandole at
Grasse. Two tambourinists lead the
revels, beating the tambourine in
their left hand and holding in the
right a reed instrument. The master
of the revels is generally a young man
full of life and spirits. The mu¬
sicians suddenly appear from behind
the master and the lads and lassies
join, the maidens holding the jackets
of the youths and these the skirts of
the girls.
Forming a long line the dancers in
a graceful movement pass through
the village, visiting each house and
entering all the rooms, and coming
down the stairs in a boisterous man¬
ner, the excitement consisting in de¬
scending without leaving partners.
The dance lasts for hours and the
dancers are full of merriment and
happiness.
The more complicated and difficult
the route the greater is the praise be-
stowed upon the conductor. The an-
thor of “Theodora” added that more
than once he had taken part in these
junketings.—London Globe.
Had Tried All Kinds.
A noted heavyweight pugilist, who
for a time in the heyday of his fame
occupied the chair of sporting editor
of a certain journal, gloomily re¬
marked to a friend one day:
“Say, Jim, I don’t mind standin’
up in the ring an’ givin’ and’ takin’ a
few hot punches in the ribs or wher¬
ever they happen to land, but this
here pickin' up a pen an’ slingin’ off
a column or so of literatoor every
day or two is what makes me tired.
I believe I’ll hafter resign.”
“No use resigning, John, old boy,”
advised the friend. “A job like yours
isn’t picked up every day. To make
it easier for you 1 would suggest your
getting an amanuensis.”
“Oh, thunder! What’s the use?”
exclaimed the great editor, wearily.
■“I’ve tried a common steel pen, a
stylergraff, a new-fangled fountain
pen, a patent ink pencil, an’ half a
dozen other writin’ contraptions, an’
it ain’t at all likely that an amanuen¬
sis ’ll work any better’n the rest of
’em. No; I reckon I’ll hafter quit.”—
New York Times.
THE MODERN WAY.
The prodigal has returned.
•’Father," he said, “are you going
to kill the fatted calf?"
"No,” responded the old man, look¬
ing the youth over carefully, “no, I'll
let you live. But I’ll put you to
work and train some of that fat off.”
—Cleveland Leader.
i The girl at the beach has nothing
to worry about unlf.-s it he the tariff
on wool, and the fear that her rat
geos downward.
THROWING RED HOT RIVET3.
Spectacular Exhibition bv Ironwork¬
ers in an Uotown Building.
Where they are building the larg-
I j est apartment hotel in the world, at
Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh
streets. Amsterdam avenue and
Broadway, there is a daily exhibition
olf the skill with which ironworkers
handle redhot rivets.
Not only do the slinger3 have to
throw the redhot rivets almost half
the length of the building but they
also have to pitch them up through
the framework for two or three stor-
ies.
From the street below you can see
the bright fires burning in the port¬
able furnaces. The slinger is armed
with a long pair of tongs. About
fifty feet away stands another man
with a little wooden keg. He Is sit¬
uated so that he can conveniently
keep the Ironworkers supplied with
rivets. He has four or five sets of
ironworkers to watch, and to keep
them supplied all the time keeps the
man with the keg on the jump.
When a rivet reaches the required
heat the slinger removes it from rh«
bellows with ,the tongs. He draws
^' s arm ^ ac k as ^ ar as can ail d
with an underhand slink sends the
redhot rivet forward. The man with
the ke E watche s the rivet and hs 9
the keg placed in such a position that
the rivet flies into it and hits the
bottom with a bang Then he re-
moves the riv§t with tongs and
Passes It to a waiting ironworker,
The most spectacular feature of all
is to see a slinger send one of the
redhot rivets up through the building,
from one floor below to another. This
■requires special accuracy because
the man with the keg above can
on, y move a certain distance to either
side. In most cases he is sitting
astride a steel beam. From constant
Practice the men who do the slinging
are so accurate that they never waste
a rivet.—New York Sun.
King Menelik’s Collection.
The mania for collecting seems -To
attack most people at some period or
other. An odd collection of curios is
that 'amassed by the Abyssinian mon¬
arch, Menel'ik II., who is said to have
in his possession more than 2,000
locks of human hair of every shade
of color and texture; each of these
Is carefully labelled with the date
and other particulars.
The same monarch has also a pret¬
ty and more comprehensible taste la
emeralds and is reported to posses*
one of those stones which is of
unique size and lustre.—London
Globe
GOT HIS BEARINGS.
“But,” asked the young, doctor,
‘‘why do you always order cham¬
pagne for every new patient that
comes to you?”
‘‘Because, my boy,” replied the old
practitioner. “I can judge by what
the patient says whether or net he
can afford It. That helps me when
1 come to make out my bill.”—Phila¬
delphia Press.
THE NEW WOMAN
Made Over by Quitting Coffee.
Coffee probably wrecks a greater
P_ erc entage of Southerners than of
Northern people, for Southerners use
it more freely.
The work it does is distressing
enough in some instances; as an il¬
lustration, a woman of Richmond,
Va., writes:
“I was a coffee drinker for years,
and for about six years my health
was completely shattered. I suffered
fearfully with headaches and nerv-
ousness, also palpitation of the heart
and loss of appetite.
“My sight gradually began to fail,
and finally I lost the sight of one eye
altogether. The eye was operated
f, s ' gk *- partially re-
ore ’ len * became totally blind in
?,„° My r doctor _ e / e ’ used to urge me to give
«P coffee, but I was wilful, and con¬
tinued to drink it until finally In a
c f s e of severe illness the doctor in-
s 'sted that I must give up coffee, so I
began using Postum, and in a month
I felt like a new creature.
“I steadily gained in health and
strength. About a month ago I be¬
gan using Grape-Nuts food, and the
effect has been wonderful, I really
feel like a new woman, and have
gained about 25 pounds.
‘ I ana quite an elderly lady, and
before using Postum and Grape-Nuts
I could not walk a square without
exceeding fatigue; now I walk ten or
twelve without feeling it. Formerly
in reading I could remember but lit¬
tle, but now my memory holds fast
what I read.
‘Several friends who have seen the
remarkable effects of Postum and
Grape-Nuts on me have urged that I
give the facts to the public for the
sake of suffering humanity, so, al¬
though I dislike publicity, you can
publish this letter if you like.”
Read “The Road to Wellville;” in
pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.