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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1892)
" fOR FARM AND GARDEN. COWS drinking skim-milk. The fact that cows can be taught to drink skim-milk docs not prove that is S ood or economical fee(i for it Generally when a calf is liefflt unlearns its desire for wen 3 ed it soon ilk in an ? form and this is often ID to prevent it getting the tboug ht best bibit of sucking itself. With pigs fjod poultry there ought to be demand 'enough on the farm for all 6kim-milk produced, without feeding it to the c0WSi —[Boston Cultivator. [ the farmer s shop. with- [ You might as well try to live I out a kitchen as without a shop, and could more than save the interest on the investment in one year, saying nothing about time lost in going to town to get a breakage mended, while teams and men were idle. If there had oeen a shop and a few tool 8 the same work could have been done by some one present. Build a 6hop J I according to your needs it and and buy put the )!d cook stove iuto your Iffife a new one; it is far better than a heating stove for oiling harness, [ melting glue, popping corn, and mak¬ ing molasses candy.— [Chicago Tri¬ bune. thf, farm record. Every farm should have a record book and properly keep a memoran¬ dum from day to day, and at the close f the year run up the data and nota¬ lons for use in planting the crops for tit year. T his properly done is of i much value as a well-filled purse, k fact it would tend to keep the hrse well tilled. In this record one Ithers experience as fast as the ex- (erience develops itself. It keeps in lack and white ready at any time for iference. It is the guide board for lie next year. It says in just so many [ords, Plant corn here, but manure bavily first. Sow wheat here, rye I ■ere, oats here, garden here, ami in- licates the fitness of every field for ome crop which will pay on that pecial soil. The man who has a oor memory (and it i9 a cummon isease) has in this book a chance to D aa well as the best man, if he only is a memory which will lead him to lake and use the book.—[American lomestead. PROTECTING REACH TREES. One of the great obsiacles in the ay of raising the peach in our vari- ple tiling- climate is its liability to winter of (he buds. Horticulturist t>hn \Y. Clark of the Missouri Sta- pn describes a method of protection fed by him with considerable success, pur trees, three veurs old, were llecied for the trial while the fruit nds were uninjured, The main inches were shortened about one- |ud their length, drawn closely to- fther pe and fastened w r ith strong the twine, earth was removed from roots p the 6ide opposite to that the lice ps to be inclined. Lach tree was then drawn carefully * or until it lay prostrate on the found, where it was securely fast- with twine to stakes driven into ground. Sufficient earth wa9 foivn over the exposed roots to pro- ft (hem from the weather. The pole |aw tree was then covered with to the depth of about one inch^ pich Ipie was kept in place with twine. effect of this treatment was to Ike the trees warmer in cold weather ■ in warmer weather colder than I outside atmosphere. For the rea- I that the difference between the |it I buds being killed or uninjured is 1 '* a question of only a few degrees Iteinpcrature. the plan of covering least a limited number to protect I fr uit bads is thought worthy of !. to perceptible Injury was done fo trees in laying them down. They loomed as full and set their fruit I (veil as trees not treated. They 1° held and ripened their fruit, and le as healthy a growth as other If two or three inches of cov- ig had been used the variation of inside temperature would probably e keen less.—[New York World. ure. The soil should be prepared * good a tilth as possible, plough- * 1061 ) and working fine with the harrow. It is essential with all root crops to have the soil stirred deep and worked into a good tilth. Mark out the furrows very shallow, as a very light covering of soil should be given. Make them as close together as they can well be run with the plough; as no cultivation is to be given it is a waste of land, work and straw to have the rows more than two feet apart; one and a liaif is still better, and then have the hills one foot apart in the rows. As to the seed there is considerable difference of opinion. Some prefer to cut to single eyes and then drop two cuts in each hill; others prefer to cut to two of these eyes and drop only one cut in each place; while again, others prefer to select out medium sized tubers and plant whole, and after they come up to thin out to not more than three vines to each hill. Others again pick out all the small potatoes and plant them as (hey are. There is no advantage in cutting a day or an hour before planting only to save time. If the potatoes are cut i will be a little betfer to place the cut side down in the dropping. Cover with soli and step on the hill after covering, in order to have the soil and tubers come in close contact. Cover with wheat sti;a\v. When fresh laid on it should average eight inches deep, but it will settle considerably, as a mulch that deep would rot the pota¬ toes before they would germinate. Always use wheat straw; oat straw usually contains too many seed that will germinate and often form a mat through which the potato plants can¬ not force their way. In a loose, loamy soil or in localities subject to drought, the plan is a good one. — [Si. Louis Republic. PEELING THE BARK FROM TREES. Everyone knows that if we take ofl the bark completely from around the trunk of a tree it will die. Strange to say, this is only true of about ten months in the year, for if the bark is peeled-a w r eek or so before midsummer the tree will immediately replace the old bark by a layer of new. There is no doubt whatever about this fact, al¬ though to this day a large number of men, eminent in botanical science, will not believe it. The conductor of this magazine has indeed known of trees in such a hide-bound condition as to be positively unhealthy, to be completely restored by stripping ofl the whole of the bark the first or sec¬ ond week in June. Nature intended that the bark of trees should be re¬ moved when it is no longer of any use and has provided eacli tree with cork cells, the development of which is the agent by which the old bark of trees is thrown off. When these cork cells are undeveloped, or something occurs to prevent their proper action, the tree becomes diseased, and it is just in these cases when the help of man comes in to aid the tree to throw off' (hat bark which nature itself de¬ sired to throw off, hut was unable to accomplish- — [Meehans' Monthly. FARM ANI) GARDEN NOTES. Feed the high-priced corn to low- priced cattle and that wilt make both corn and cattle worth more. Eggs for hatching are best if not over two weeks old and not exposed to a temperature colder than fifty de- grees. breeding fowls, If you purchase keep them to themselves several days after they arrive, to see if they are healthy. So long as the poultry must be con¬ fined the greater part of the time, (hey should be fed regularly three times each day. The breeder who neglects to make the brood sows comfortable is not only cruel hut is an enemy to his own pocketbook. A teaspoonful of carbolic acid in ■ gallon of water given regularly a few days will aid maierially in preventing poultry disease. Because there is plenty of scraps i» reason why more should be fed no fowls in than is necessary to keep the good condition. If eggs arc to be bought for hatch¬ ing this spring send in the order early so°as to be sure of getting them when you want them. Some people who give the cattle ths best of care neglect the hogs. Tho hog will repay good care as well as other kinds of stock. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Parsley is poisonous to many kinds ol birds. There are 365 electric roads in this country. Only nine per cent, of all operations in amputations are fatal. Conch shells, when ground, enter into the manufacture of porcelain. Electricity is to be applied to the flour milling interests in St. Paul, Minn. Ammonia as a motive power is coming into use on various street car lines. France’s latest torpedo boat made twenty-three knots and a naif in a bad 3ea. Good peat in Germany furnishes a cel - lulose which is valuable to paper- makers. The phonograph is now used in hospi¬ tals for the purpose of studying the auditory characteristics of pulmonary dis¬ ease. The Liverpool (England) Elevated Railway will be worked by electricity, using motor cars instead of separate locomotives. An Antwerp (Belgium) inventor ha? patented a systeiil ot ventilation the holds by com¬ and pressed air, for use in cabins of vessels. A recent English invention is a screw propeller in which the blades can be ad¬ justed fer maneuvering or can be leathered for running under sail. Four tons of grapes to tho acre are said to take from the soil three pounds of nitrogen, twelve pounds of phos¬ phoric acid and forty pounds ol potash. In calming the ocean by means of oil, it has been found that petroleum and mineral oils in general are indequate for the purpose, and tnat train oil is the most effective. The heaviest freight locomotives built nowadays weigh 115,000 pounds 64,000 and their tenders loaded weigh pounds. Passenger coaches weigh 50,- 000 pounds and the palatial Pullmans run up to 95,000. Dr. Yalentini, of Konigsberg, Prussia, who has met with phenomenal success in the treatment of typhoid fever, gives his patients all the water, milk, etc., they can drink. He says the fluids eliminate the poisons in the system. The first ingot of nickle steel to be used for the manufacture of armor for the United States Navy was cast in a mold weighing fifty-six tons. The ingot weighed 60,000 pounds. This armor plate will be used on the Maine. A snake moves by means of the ribs and the scales on the abdomen, to which each rib is attached by a set of short muscles. These scales take hold of the surface over which the serpent may be passing, and in that manner aid the creature to glide, often very rapidly, around the trunks of trees and along the smaller branches. Machinery is now made for the manu¬ facture of all kinds of casks and tubs, so that no handwork is required, Flour barrels are made in this way for six cents each, and other kinds in proportion. If butter firkins sell for forty cents each, it seems as if the business of making them, where lumber is cheap, might be profitable, if the cost of shipment was paid by the purchaser. A Norwegian farmer has invented a curious lock in which the bolt is released by a stroke from a pendulum bob. The pendulum, invisible from the outside, is moved sufficiently by blowing sharply several times through a hole in the door, but the puffs of air can be given at the proper time only by swinging a key pen¬ dulum, previously adjusted, to vibrate in unison with the lock pendulum. Air plows, V-shaped contrivances, to be placed on the front of engines of fast express trains, are the latest scacme to get more speed by overcoming much of the natural resistance of the air to the front of the locomotive. Tne plow ex¬ tends from a few inches above the track to the top of the smokestack, the sharp edge, of course, in front. “Shoveling fog” is a common expression amoDg rail¬ road men, but piowing wind is a new thing in railroad agriculture. Saved From Suicide by II is Dog. An intelligent pet dog owned by Louis Schmidt, of Cauidem, N. J., has prevented him from committing suicide. Schmidt is just recovering from a serious attack of typhoid fever, which left him very nervous and subject to fits of mel¬ ancholia. He was seized with one of those spells .Monday night, and while his wife was asleep stole to the kitchen. Here he procured a rope, and, making a noose, tied one end to ao iron hook in the wall. Then procuring a chair lie adjusted the rope, and kicking away the chair swung himself off, as he thought, into into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt, his faithful dog had iollowei him, and instinctively knowing some¬ thing was wrong the intelligent animal wen” back into the bedroom Schmidt whining pitifully. Finally he awoke Mrs. by tugging at the bed clothing and rub¬ bing his cold nose in her face, and she followed the dog down stairs as soon as she missed her hushaud. There she found him hanging lrom the hook. She managed to cut him down in time to save his life.—Philadelphia Times. The writer who taxed his ingenuity never knew what a low valuation the editor would put upon the property assessed. —Truth. Did Not Fill the Bill. Old Lady—“There is one thing I no¬ tice particularly about that young man who calls to see me. He seems to have an unborn, instinctive respect for woman. He treats every woman as though she were a being from a higher sphere, to be approached only with the utmost deli¬ cacy and deference.” Granddaughter (sweet eighteen)— York “Yes, he's horridly bashful.”—New Weekly. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, use Brown's iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Biood and strengthens weak debilitated the muscles. A splendid ton¬ ic lot and persona Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Deafness Can’t be Cured By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu¬ tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in- fiiUueu condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in¬ flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper¬ fect hearing, is and result, when it is entirely closed, deafness the and unless the inflam¬ mation can bj taken out and this tube re¬ stored destroyed to its forever; normal condition, nine hearing out out of will ten ten be cases or are are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in¬ flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by takiug Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney <& Co., Toledo. Q. Sold by D ruggists, 7&c. The Only One Ever Printed. CAN YOU FIND THE WORD? The#eisa3 inch display adveri isement In this paper, this week, which has no two words Alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” lish. 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