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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1895)
f–W m®nmw SUMMER CARE OF MIRK. Cleanliness in all dairy operations is of first importance. Milk with dry hands. Keep tho atmosphere in which the milk must stand free from bad odors. Preserve the desirable flavors in the cream. If the milk is wanted eweet, lower the temperature as soon as the milk is drawn from the cow to just above freezing if possible. Neglect of proper care of milk by patrons is the cause of much trouble at the fac tory and results in a like reduction in net profits. It pays to be honest.— American Agriculturist. RETAINING THE BUTTER FLAVOR. Concerning cold storage of butter, tre will say that there is only method freeing its**first rosv l> flavor 1 Tintf thaMs^bv it The old method of cold storage by holding it at a temperature of thirty eight to forty degrees would keep the blitter from getting rancid, but it would soon lose its fine flavor and fihow a sort ot dead, cold storage taste. If refrigerators are constructed on a system whereby a temperature of six teen to twenty degrees can be con stantly maintained, butter can be held in a sweet, rosy condition six months. Decent experiments have indicated that it is better to go down even as low as eight degrees above zero. The but ter does not lose its flavor quickly when brought into consumption. The sixty-pound package, either in tubs or firkins, is probably the best form of package for this work.—Hoard’s Dairyman. THE CULTURE OF FLAX. Flax requires a rich, light loam soil, and, preferably, a grass sod turned un der. The lamt should be moist, but not wet, and a low-lying meadow on a river bottom is especially favorable to it. It is grown either for the seed or for the fibre, and the method of cultivation differs as the purpose for which the crop is grown. For seed, the seed sown is not more than two to three pecks per acre, as thin sowing encourages the growth of side branches, on which the fruit, called seed boils, are produced more than on the main stem. It is mostly grown for seed on this continent, as the climate is too dry and warm for the best kind of fibre. The only locality where the best fibre might be grown is in the Southern mountain region, where the Rummers are cool and the rainfall is twice as much as elsewhere on the continent. The seed is sown early in May, about the time of oat seeding. The product of seed is from ten to fifteen bushels an acre, and at the present prices prevailing, it is the most profitable of all grain crops. As the preparation of the fibre requires much hand labor, it is not a paying crop, and it is hardly possible that at pres ent wo can compete with the Russians and Bohemians in growing and pre paring it. The culture is rapidly dy ing out in Ireland on account of the competition of the Eastern European Nations, where labor is so cheap.— New York Times. A CHEAP PLANT HOUSE. I should like to tell of a cheap little house we built last fall, writes Mrs. G. D. The winter was unusually se vere, yet all my flowers except an ai tillery plant were saved, even the ten der begouias. As it may be of use to some other beginner I will give the plan of this house. Strong posts were driven into the ground at intervals of six feet. Upon each side of the posts inch planks were nailed. The space between was filledwithsawdust rammed down close. The boards on the inside were planed go as to make a smooth ceiling, but the outer ones were not dressed. Over the outside a layer of asbestos is tacked, and over this is a heavy weather boarding. The roof has a double ceiling, as well as a thick shingling. A coating of sawdust about three inches thick is placed be tween the shingles and the first ceil ing; and between the two ceilings overhead is a layer of asbestos. The dimensions of this little house are only 6x12 feet, yet it gives room for as many plants as I care to keep. Height of the front is nearly eight feet height at back is six. It lrorts gouth, anil is lighted, by sliding win dows, which come within three feet of the ground, below them being ceiled and weather-boarded like the other walls. At the east end is a glass door. I have heavy duck curtains' outside the glass. These are dropped down during the worst weather, and left down ever v night in the middle of winter, lhe flowers are placed on a set ot steps eight inches apart. The lower ones are twelve inches wide, the two upper six inches. The most ten der plants are put on top. I open the windows on every warm day in winter to make the plants hardy. The only heating apparatus is a coal oil stove. This is kept burning whenever 1 find it necessary, and it gives warmth enough for a South Ten nessee winter. I don’t know whether 01 not.—Detroit Free Press. BOSES FOB THE GARDEN. Thousands of people who love roses, and luive plenty of room in their gardens or dooryards for a bed of roses of larger or smaller dimensions, are afraid to attempt to grow them, because they imagine it requires too much skill. A great deal of this may be laid at the door of our older-school gardeners aud florists, who, from nar row-mindedness more than anything else, have tried to envelop everything pertaining to floriculture in mystery, and to Bpread the belief that to grow even the commonest flowers required their skill and superintendence. Cer tainly no more mistaken idea regard ing the culture of the roses could pos sibly exist. The main factor required is good plain common sense, which, if rightly applied, caunot fail to make it easy to grow successfully the c Never attempt to ? row ro8es under the shade of a tree, or even where the roots of neaT ‘ h * trees can reach the rose bed, and re member that the roots of established trees will travel far beyond the spread of their branches in search of new and richly manured soil, and when once they reach it they will soon monopo lize the whole, leaving the proper oc cupants a very scant proportion of food to exist upon, No rose can thrive under such conditions. Never choose a place to plant roses that is very wet. or undrained, as extreme moisture will rot the roots, and the poor rose will soon die of rapid con sumption. Neither should a gravel or sand heap be selected, for the simple reason that such positions are so porous that all the fertilizing given will be washed away by every rain that falls upon it. These are the prin cipal extremes to avoid in selecting a place for planting roses. Preparation of the Rose Bed.—Dig up the soil to the depth of eighteen to twenty inches, thoroughly incorporat ing a liberal proportion of well de composed manure, and if the natural soil is of a heavy clayey nature the addition of three or four inches of sand will help it materially ; on the contrary, if the soil is of a light-, sandy or gravelly nature the addition of a liberal proportion of a heavier or clay so il w m be very beneficial, Where the bed has to be entirely prepared with new earth I would advise select j n g ft good, fresh, loamy soil—the sur face five or six inches deep from an old pasture is the best, First remove the natural soil altogether, to the depth given above, replacing it with the new soil, adding one load of manure to every five or six of soil, thoroughly mixing the whole, and when the bed is filled up a little higher than the original soil, to allow f or settling, it is ready for the rose plants, Planting and Care of Roses.—Place the plants about eighteen inches apart each way, aud should dry weather set in give them a liberal soaking of water once a week as loDg as dry weater con tinues. Do not give water in homeo pathic doses, for roses are like robins, they like the best there is and plenty of it. It will also very greatly help them to produce continuous bloom if they are heavily mulched with short manure or chopped straw; even a coat of coarse, dry grass is better than nothing. In the following spring, after all frost is past, go over them, shorten back any long shoots and cut out any dead tips that may appear ; keep all weeds cleared out at all times as soon as they show themselves, and renew the mulching in the spring as pruned. When the plants have started into new growth go carefully over them, and as soon as the first green worm or caterpillar is seen on the leaves, syringe the leaves both under and above with water, then dust them with hellebore powder—a large pepper box or flour dredger is a good thing for this purpose. Repeat this three or four times before the flowers open, anil these pests will all disap pear, and you will be rewarded with such a crop of beautiful flowers that you will wonder why you had never tried rose growing before. You will find it both a pleasure and a profit— pleasure in the beauty and grace it will add to your home, and profit in giving you employment and recrea tion in the open air, thereby often saving doctor’s bills and discontented minds.—New England Homestead. farm and garden notes. A1 weigh ° your butter at home, _ Don t keep the soil too , wet, as it m c ^ ne8 them to decay at the base, Don’t breed for bones, but strive to build up a dairy of butter producers, Do not leave an orchard to itself after planting. Cultivate it without ceasing. It is neoeM ary that you be able to con trol the temperature while ripen in ° „ crearu . Fure water 18 ^o . , ute , , y necessary, and Futures must be kept tree ot nox lons weedi! ’ , Lantauas, perennial phloxes and chrysanthemums will grow rapidly from cuttings put out now. Two largely common crops that should be considerably reduced—lice on hens and weeds in the garden. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. T11B BEBRy SIDE OF LIFE. ET0P.TT3S T^AT ARE TOI/D BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Co-Operation—Woman’s Way—A Lit erary Quality—Ktfects of Ambi tion—Mud a Counter Fit, Kte. The happy youth and maiden fair Rode out, the summer through, For charming runs the country o’er On a cycle built for two. They married when tho autumn came, And now they try to run A little house in Lonsomehurst On an income built for one. —Brooklyn Life. A LITERARY QUALITY. “Ts she so very literary, then?” “Ob, very. Why, she wore glasses when she was only live years old.”— Judge. woman’s m ay. Ho—‘ cr 'h the picture of health, isn’t she?’ * She—“Yes; a painted picture.” Detroit Free 1>re8a - EFFECTS OF AMBITION. Clerkly (dining out) — “What’s bo come of the star boarder?” Scribbler—“Sh ! That’s me. The old star married the landlady and now eats in the kitchen.”—Puck. NOT POPULAR. Briggs—“If monkeys are so far ad vanced I don’t see why they aro not utilized to polish shoes.” Griggs—“Few people care for mon key shines.”—Detroit Free Press. HAD A COUNTER FIT. “They say that Miser Mendel is sick. What is the trouble?” “Remorse. He gave a tramp a counterfeit dollar, and the fellow passed it at his store.”—Harper’s Ba zar. A THEOLOGICAL QUESTION. Sunday-school Teacher—“Johnnie, what do you understand by the future state ?” Johnnie—“Please, ma’am, I guess it’s a territory.”—Philadelphia Rec ord. AMPLE ACCOMMODATIONS. Student—“Several of my friends are coming to dine here, so I want a big table.” Mine Host—“Just look at this one, sir. Fifteen persons could sleep quite comfortably under it.”—Fliegende Blaetter. HIS GOLDEN WEDDING. Jonesley—“Coming around to my golden wedding next week?” Brownkins (indignantly)—“Your golden wedding ! Why, man, you’re not thirty-five.” bagged “Jonesley—“No, but I’ve an American heiress.”—Judge. TOOK THE HINT. She (about midnight, playing “Home Sweet Home”) — “Don’t you think, Mr. Brown, there is something very moving about these familiar melodies?” Brown (taking the hint anil his hat) — “Yes, that one in particular always carries me back over familiar ways.” defined. Teacher—“What isgreediness, Ted die? When is a person greedy?” Teddie (tentatively) — “A little boy?” when is little boy Teacher—“Yes; a greedy?” (promptly) “When he Teddie — wants something that you want for yourself. ”—Judge. ALTOGETHER UNGALLANT. “It takes some women a long time to say ‘good-bye’ to their friends,” said the man who disobeys the ‘don’t talk to the gripman’ sign. cynical ‘Yes,” replied the genius of the levers; “if it took Miem as long to say ‘yes’ when a man proposes to them there would be a terrible lot of old maids in the world.”—Washington Star. WANTED IT TO RAMBLE. Dedbroke—“Let me give you my note for that money I owe you.” Jumpuppe—“O, never mind.” Dedbroke--“I assure you I'd feel much more comfortable if you let me give you my note.” Jumpuppe—“But I don’t want you to feel comfortable I I want you to hurry and pay up.” — Browning’s Monthly. TnE ENTIRE GAMUT. Young Wife (sobbing)- “I will not keep still! Before we were married you said I had a charming flow of language.” it, Youug Husband—“I know dear; but since then I’ve discovered that it not only flows, but roars, dashes, leaps, bounds, aud goes over cataracts, dams and mill-sluices, with au occa sional waterspout.”—Judge. cholly’s joke. “Cholly got off a gweat joke, don cher know, a while ago.” “Ah I” “Yaas. He oamo into the club, don cher know, and I said to him, ‘Beast ly weathaw, isn’t it?’ And ho we plied, just as quick as a flush, ‘Yaas, beastly weathaw. Wsinintf cats and dogs.’ O, I toll yon, Cholly has a gwato head!”—Browning’s Monthly. CHOICE SOON MADE. “Can’t we get anything to eat on the cars, papa?” anxiously inquired the little four-year-old, who was get ting ready for her first long railroad journey. “Certainly, Tuss,” replied her father. “There will be a dining-car on the train.” “But we’ll get awfully hungry wait ing for dinner. Won’t there be any breakfast car?” “You don’t understand, dear. We shall get our breakfast in the dining car. ” “What’ll there be to eat?” “Well, there will be a bill of faro that will have the names of ever so many kinds of food on it. You can have beefsteak, mutton chops or fried chicken ; baked potatoes, fried pota toes or boiled potatoes ; ham and eggs, oatmeal, hot biscuit, Graham bread, raw or cooked fiuits, coffee, tea or chocolate. Now, with all that before yon, what would you choose?” “Cake.”—Chicago Tribune. Maple Sap ami Syrup. It has always been customary on re ceiving maple sugar early in the sea son to roll your eyes about and say, “Ah, that’s the real article.” As a matter of fact, you are more apt to get adulterated sugar at a grocery store during the season than after it; and that’s one thing which has made a great change in the industry. In years gone by practically all the sap was boiled down to sugar; but a dozen years ago some one in Chicago discov ered a modern and dishonorable method of making a combination of oak bark and glucose which the most expert could not tell from the genu ine stuff. Immediately afterward, when the farmers went to ship their sugar, they discovered that their mar ket was pre-empted by the product of New York aud Chicago tan yards. Since that time the farmers have put the bulk of their sap into syrup, and stored it away through the summer in their garrets, shut up in air-tight cans, by means of which another fal lacy, that new syrup can be told from old, has been exploded. As long as you keep your syrup air tight, the greatest expert cannot tell the differ ence. You want your syrup to weigh eleven pounds to the gallon to be standard, and the experience of the boiler will tell him within a few ounces of what it weighs. When the liquid rises heavily from the hot bottom of the last compartment in little mottled places, in just the right frequency, it is time to draw your syrup. It is quite a knack to do this properly, for syrup in passing from ten to eleven pounds per gallon is reduced just one half its bulk. A barrel of sap will make on an average a gallon of syrup.—Spring field (Mass.) Republican. The Skeleton Market. A professor in a New York medical college told me yesterday that just at this time there was an unusual scarcity of material in the skeleton market. As with everything else, there is a wide range in the price of skeletons. The domestic article may be had for §50, while the imported runs from that to $500, the average price for a good French skeleton being about $150. In the high priced article the nervous and circulatory systems are preserved. An ordinary skull, with cross-bones, such as are used at the feast of the ghoul clubs, may be had for $10, but a real fine article that will unhinge aud let you see what is contained inside will cost you in the neighborhood of $25. The very finest specimen of articulation is a skull that costs $75. A slight pressure on a spring is sufficient to open the cranium, and all the nervous system of the head is revealed, quivering as if it were filled with life. The illu sion is produced by attaching each part to a spiral spring or wire, which is in turn fastenened to an upright brass rod. Second-hand domestic skeletons can often be purchased as low as $15 or $20. They are first pre pared by amateurs, either medical students or janitors of hospitals, and when the students are through with the bones they are willing to let them go at almost any price. If you want a foot or a hand, you can buy them separately, but most articulators ob ject to selling arms, rib3 or collar bones unless the purchaser is willing to take the entire frame.—Chicago Mail. Jingles For Business Men. The sound that cheers the merchant Advertising with a will Is tho jingle of tho dollars As they drop into his till. I can tell you in loss than a minute Why it is that some aren’t in ute; They don’t advertise, surprise And ’tis no That the trade they don’t get is inllnute. The man who is first to fail, When a panic begins to rise, Is tho man who takes in sail, When ho ought to advertise. Tell us not with lengthened pay;” face3 “Advertising does not Ope your solid eyes anil see to-dny. its traces, Jui tho wealth —Printer’s Ink. Wanted to Close the Acoount. An office boy attended at tho collec tor s office on the last day for paying the income tax. 1 * “I’ve come to pay Mr. R--> 8 j ax .» saul the youth, putting both arms the counter. “I on tho usual two and suppose you allow a half ?” “No, my boy,” said the inspector gazing tacles benignautly through his spec at the small speciman of hu manity, “there is no discount here ” “Very Well,” replied the small boy then I 11 pay it this time, but my in. structions are to close the account.” Advice-Not Gratis. I. —(At the doctor’s)—Victim of hay fever—Can you suggest any mode of relieving my persistent inclination to sneeze? Doctor—Oh! yes—sneeze. II. —(At the lawyer’s)—Client—My neighbor has got a big ilog that fright ens us all oat of our wits. What do you advise me to do? Lawyer—Get a bigger one; $5, please. It Kficketh Closer limn a Rrotlirr, Does the rheumatism. Cut off ail relaiion .ship with it by the aid of Host-tter’s Stomach Bitters, which severs the bond without loss of tim-\ it' you u-e it prompt y and persistently. No testimony is more positive and concurrent ob-tinate that; 'hat d>ea-p. which establishes U-e with its efficacy in this >t assurance of g°od results for malarial, dyspeptic and ner vous trouble, constipation and biliousness. Drinking whiskey to drown trouble is as absurd as it is impossible. To Cleanse the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to per manently cure habitual constipation, to awak en the kidneys and liver to ahealthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, to dis pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs. _ Life is not worth living unless we live it for somebody e:se. Dr. Kilmer's S w a m p- Hoot cures ail Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet Laboratory and Binghamton. Consultation N. free. Y. A rig'd self r examination often brings about a genuine repentance. Adjust Family Differences. Bad temper is often merely bad digestion. sitions Many quarrels attributed to perverse dispo are due to disordered livers. Ripans would Tabules adjust family differences, and prevent them, which is better, if taken in time. and Ripans Tabules, taken after m°als, morning and evening, for a while, regulate the system sweeten the temper, Hrogdon, s. C. I have used 4 boxes of Tetterine, for Tetter on my thick feet, of 12 years’ etanding. My nails were and rotten, since using Tetterine they are growing out new and healthy. Please send me two more boxes to use in case it should show- any lign of returning. C. M. Best. Sent by mail lor 50’. in stamps. J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. After Dinner. After the heartiest dinner adoseof Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy will remove all unpleas ant feelings, aid digestion, and build up your hea th. As an after dinner drink it is Is ar su perior to all other remedies, as it never disap points, and leaves an appetite for the next meal. For sale by Druggists. Manufactured by Chas. O. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga. Tobacco Destroys Vitality, Nervous system paralyzed by nicotine means lost manhood, weak eyes, and a general all gone look and feeling that robs life of its pleasure. Tobacco is the root of many an impotent symptom, and No-To-Bao a guaranteed cure that will make you strong, vigorous and happy in more ways than one, No-To-Bao guaranteed and sold by Drug gists everywhere. Book, titled “Don’t To bacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away.” Ad. Sterling Remedy Co.. New York or Chicago. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for tes timonials, free. Manufactured by O. F. J. Cheney – Co., Toledo, Many InfliipncesCombine to Reduce Ilenltb to the danger limit. The reviving properties these ills. of Parker’s Ginger Tonic overcome I could not get along without Piso’s Cure for Consumption, it always cures.—Mrs. E. C. Moulton, Needham, Mass., Oct- 22, ’94. Mrs. Winslow’sSoothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a oottle Wife used “ Mothers’ Friend” before first child—was quickly relieved; suffered but little; recovery rapid. E. E. Johnston, Eufnnla. Ala. If You are Tired AH the time, without special exertion, as tired in the morning as when you retire at night, you may depend upon it, your blood is impure and is lacking in vitality. That is why it does not supply strength to nerves and muscles. You need Hood’s Sarsaparilla few bot To purify and enrich your blood. A tles of this great medicine will give you strength and vitality because it will make pure blood. Get Hood’s. Hood’s Pills euro habitual constipa tion. Price 25 cents ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR wm * THE BEST ★ POOD FOR Dyspeptic,Delicate,Infirm and AGED PERSONS ★ JOHN CARLE – SONS. New York. * ?_LW 17-. ?‘m‘; I wrnmmm CURES WHERE AU. tlbi: FAILS Rest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, Uae in time. Sold by druggists.
