Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-06-23
GRANGER'S DEPARTMENT.
.,,.o Grange Headquarters.

rbc Grange Headquarters
The California Patron gives It's reau eau.
ers this month view oil Inc Gr.ngers'
recently purchased by tne Assoeia.
Rsnk the Changers Business AssoU.a
,ion and the Cal. Farmers insuralloe
T ,lO situated at San Francisco
C Som' whieh we CLEAN the following
HUH ",;cn,ars: The building is substan-
pal one and one of considerable archi-
, , pretensions. 1t is OF brick,
,Sren stories high, with basement
Gsx45 feet in ground area, and located
AZ central and convenient location for
the purposes for which it is intended,
as can we'll be found in the city. The
building i. now in complete order for
the various departments of business
which are centered there. A large
brick and iron vault, burglar and fire
proof, was constructed in the centre OF
the lower floor, divided into three COM
partments, each with its separate open
ing into the three different business de-
partments. which occupy that moor.
Tue second and third stories have their
entrance in the centre OF the Caiiior''a
street front, which, as well as 'he s'a't
WAYS and halls, are large, ro0ny ana
well lighted.
The banking room is fitted up IN
manner appropriate for such a business
with suitable rooms for the direc'ois'
o,c The counters are large and con-
ron;ant The entrance is on the corner
and is approached by openings from
both streets. The bank, as already
uo,iced. occupies the corner room; the
california Farmers Mutual Insurance
Association the room fronting on Call
f,rnia street aud the Changers Business
Association that fronting on Davis
street. aud including, also, the new
two-story wooden building adjoining
The Secretary of the State Grange Is III
occupancy OF the front corner room on
the third floor. The Country Real r. S
tate Associates occupy the room on the
same floor fronting Davis street, and
other organizations have their quarters
in the building.
EeuIycrizaeion Of SOIL.
Some farmers ale in the habit OF
allowing their lands when in an lmpro-
ner condition, and the soil bakes III
hard Jumps which no harrow can put
yerize, and often the blowing is badly
done, when the land is in good con
ditiou to plow, and the narrowing is not
,horourh: and the result is that the
growing crops find no room among inc
clods 10 take root, and is poor yicid,
while in the next field, perhaps, a
mcighbor has splendid crop on the
same kind of soil. If we could have
cur suils pulycrized just as they shoaid
be TO produce the greatest possible
crops, they should be as fine as meal;
and it is very important that Lands
should be well plowed and we'll harrow
ed, as a good crop may often be grown
ON poor land, merely from having put
it in the best possible condition Tor
CROP. The beneficial effects OF pu'vor-
izaiion are attributable 10 the Increased
pcrmeabiliry OF the soil TO ram and AIR;
the oxygen. cArbonic acid and ammonia
Of the air have 4 grea; effect in decom-
rosIng the organic aud in disintegrat-
inc the inorganic matter OF the soil and
r,ndcijn" them available as food ioI
plants, while it allows the ram water TO
act on greater surface.
How TO Preserve Eggs.
Amonr all the discoveries OF the
present century there is nothing new IN
preserving eggs. The Old method
ct packing them on their small ends in
a vessle and then filing 1t with lime
water is still praeticed. The llme-wa-
Ter shu.Id be saltcd. as quart OF salt
10 pailul Of limc-watsr, which is made
hy Stacking some lime, then add water
enough to have it sufficiently thin to
run among the eggs freely, aud when
il has settled turn off the clear liquid,
add the salt, and it is ready for use.
Eggs preserved in this way six months
or longer are not as good as fresh eggs,
and there is 40 way to keep them that
time and be as good az those that are
freshly laid. But a better way tor
preserving eggs in small quantities, as
for family use, is to take fine salt and
pack the eggs in it in layers, ths small
ends down, filing up the spaces be
tween the eggs with salt. Keep the
vessel in a dry place, or the salt will
become moist. Eggs may be thus kept
from six to nine months, and they will
he as good as it is possible for them to
be by any known preservation.
Value ofRoot Crops.
For many years the farmers OF the
United States have been told OF the I'M
portance Of growing more root crops TO
feed to their stock in winter, rs man
COLDS, carrots and turniEs. They have
been told that in England, no larger
than the State of New York, that more
roots are grown than in the whole of
the United States, yet our farmers are
slow 10 learn their value. Probably
is in not knowing what to do with two
or three Thousand bushels of these roots
in the fab, having no cellar to put them
Az Ill IucIs, "lSu uullNillS DdlIS.
should always have warm, irost-proof
cellars under them 10 store roots in;
but as the cellars were not built, do the
next thing, and build a root house near
your barn, four or five feet below the
surface of the gourd. Call it ''root
cellar" if you please, roof ii, bank it up,
and make it troSt-proof; and here put
Your roots. Another way is to bury
1hem in the field in rows about ten feet