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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-10-03
FOR THE FARM AND HOME,


The experiments were made on the
apple and pear. A vigorous apple
tree, eight or ten years old, which had
scarcely made any fruit buds, has
done best when about half the roots
were cut in one season and half three
years later, by going half way round
on opposite sides in one year and fin
ishlng at the next pruning, working
TWO feet underneath to sever down.
ward roots. 1t has always answered
well also to cut from such trees all the
larger and longer roots about two and
q half feet from the stem, leaving the
small and weaker ones longer, and 60
ing half way round as already stated.
The operation was repeated three or
four years later by extending the cut
circle foot or two away from the
tree. By this operation unproductive
iruit trees become thickly studded with
frult spurs, and afterward bear fruit
proiusely' This shortening of the
roots has been continued in these exper-
'ments for 20 years with much success,
the circle of roots remaining greatly
circumscribed. The best time for the
work has been found to be in the lat
ter part of August and the beginning
OF September, when growth has nearly
ceased, and while the leaves are yet on
the tree, causing greater increase of
bloom buds the following year than
when performed after the leaves had
fallen.-LondOn garden.
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certifying that he is a good Methodist
and six cents. These are what remain
of two large fortunes.

The Denver tribune has had in.
teresting interview with an intelligent
Cowboy" on the business of cattle.
raising. According to him there is an
aristocratic and a plebean element
among the cattle men on the plains
These two classes are those who own
cowherds and those who have nothing
but steers. The former are the smaller
investors and the latter the wealthy
stockmen. The latter buy the year.
lings from the cow-herders and Craze
them until they becomes beeves, when
they sell them to the various buyers
topping out the finest for the eastern
and foreign markets and sending the
tailings in to us at the same price
This system of monopolizing the beef
cattle in the hands of the heavy capt.
tallsts is what is now keeping up the
price of beef, although some of the
stockmen do not know it themselves
and have only adopted the system to
avoid being bothered with cows. The
shipment of beef to England has be-
come a large factor. In the last three
years there has been such a heavy in
vestment of Scotch and English capital
that it is a fact that three-fourths of
the cattle interest Of Texas, Colorado
and Wyoming is now owned and con.
trolled by it. The ranges are being
gradually encroached upon, as they
were in Texas, and are becoming more
crowded every year, while the market
for the product is extending every
year. Cattle that sold in 1880 for 500
a head are now worth $50, with the
prospect that the price will 60 up
instead Of down.
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Cocoa and Chocolate.

Many drinkers of these pleasant
beverages are unaware as to the
method by which the cocoa seeds are
obtained. Cocoa, or cacao, is extract
ed from the seed of small trees of the
genus theodrOma, which, when cult
waited, grows from twelve feet to
eighteen feet high, but to higher
elevation in their wild state. The
flowers are small, and cluster on the
branches and trunk, the matured fruit
appearing as though artificially attach
ed. Out of each cluster only one pod
is allowed to mature, and this when
full grown is from seven inches to ten
inches long, by three inches to four
and half inches wide. The five cells
contain each a row of from five to ten
seeds imbedded in pink, acid pulp,
the cocoa bean. The tree is Indigenous
to Mexico, but it can be cultivated
within the twenty-ffth parallels of
latitude, and thrives at any elevation
under 200O feet, but it requires a rich
soil, warm, humid atmosphere, and
protection from cold winds. The trees
are propagated from seeds in anursery
until they attain height of from four
teen inches to eighteen inches, when
they are transplanted and carefully
sheltered by planting other trees about
them. They commence to bear about
the fifth year, but do not attain matur.
ity until the eighth, and continue
yielding fruit for nearly half century,
There is no special time for harvesting
the crop as the trees continue bearing
all the time, flowers and fruit in all
stages being curiously borne on the
same tree. But in Venezuela the
principal gatherings are in June and
December. Chocolate is generally
made from the finer varieties of cocoa
seeds, and was a favorite beverage in
Central America long before Columbus
discovered the New World. AS at
present prepared chocolate is made in
cakes, while cocoa is usually sold in
powder, flakes, or nibs. The con.
stituents Of the average cocoa seeds
are as follows: Fat, cocoa butter, 80;
heterogeneous compound, 20; starch, 90
collulose, 2; theobromine, 2; saline
substances, 4; water, 10; cocoa red,
essential oil, 10.-London Times.
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Receipts.

Salad DreSsing.-Beat two eggs; add
one-half teacup of vinegar, one tea
spoonful of mustard, one of sugar, one
half tea-spoonful of salt, and butter
the size of walnut. Set this in boil.
ing water until the egg is cooked;
stir constantly
Squash and Corn, Spanish Style.-
Take three small summer squashes
and three ears of corn; chop the
squashes and cut the corn from the
cobs' Put into saucepan spoonful
OF lard or butter, and when very hot;
an onion; fry little; add the corn and
squash, one tomato and one green
pepper cut small, and salt to taste.
Cover closely and stir frequently to
prevent scorching
Yeast aCithOut YeuSt.-Boil three
ounces of hops in two quarts of water
ten minutes, in tin, granite or iron
add two coffee-cups of sugar and two
OF flour, wet in enough water to get
out all the Jumps; add three table
spoonfuls of salt and three of ginger.
strain in a jar and let it stand three
days in a warm place; stir very often.
then add two pounds boiled potatoes
and wait one more day, and you will
have yeast that is good and will keep
a long time. Use one tea-cupful for
six loaves Of bread.
A Simple Susan.-Two cups of fine
dry bread crumbs, three cups of
chopped apple, one cup of sugar one tea
spoonful Of mace, and half as much
allspice, two tablespoonful of butter,
one tea-spoonful of salt. Butter a
pudding-dish and cover the bottom
with crumbs. Lay on these q thick
layer of minced apple, sprinklcd light
ly with salt and spices more heavily
with sugar. Stick bits of butter over
all. Then more crumbs, going on in
this order until all the ingredients are
used up The top layer should be
crumbs. Cover closely and bake half
an hour. Remove the cover and set
on the upper grating of the oven until
nicely Drowned. Send to table in the
dish in which it was baked
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A Burning Mine.

A correspondent of the indianapolis
journal, travelling from Bismarck to
the Little Missouri, saw a burning
mine. He says: at gives off so sui
phurous an oder that | at first thought
the heat due to the decomposition of
sulphides. But the glow is red; little
sulphurous acid is formed; you can
stand over the crevasse without fear of
either burning or suffocation. Sulphur
is volatilized and recrystalized on the
edges of the crevices. There is no
smoke; the dir quivers with the heat.
The burning area is from ten to fifteen
rods square, and has been on fire since
the first visit by white men, and no one
knows how many centuries before. 1t
is only one of a number of fires that
are known on the Bad Lands" Tn,
writer goes on to say that the Bad
Lands are probably the ashes of extinct
coal fires
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stated, the pork acquires peculiarly
rich flavor and is much esteemed,
especially for family use.
The Gardeners Chronicle relates an
instance where apples and pears were
piahted on heavy clay, which had been
trehched down to ian iron hard pam"
The trees made no growth, and moss
ana llchens grew on them. The or
chard was then thoroughly drained.
IN SIX months the lichens began to dis
appear, and the next year a fine
growth was made. The soil had been
warmed by tho drainage, and the fer
Utility had been made accessible to the
growing roots.
In a large hennery, near Paris, says
an exchange, it is said they practice
the following method for supplying
animal food: Fill q basket, box or
nail keg two-thirds full of finely
chopped fresh horse manure that has
not been exposed to the weather; stir
1t into one gallon Of shelled oats and
two gallons of we'll risen yeast. Mix
the mass fully and set it in a warm
placeto hatch. | tried my experiment
to my flower pit in the fall. do not
remember how long it was Matching.
The key looked like a mass of trashy
rice, and the pigs and chickens ate it
greedily.
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Waste In ThrashIng.

A careful German farmer, writes +.
ID. Curtis, of Kirby Homestead, n. Y.
IN the New York Tribune, has tested
The waste rubber, as it is called, which
takes in the bundle sideways, 50 as to
admit of its being rebound. lie ran
the chaff, which was supposed to be
free from grain, through a tanning
mill, and obtained twenty-five bushels
OF rye. This was twenty-five per cent.
OF his crop. 1t proves what l have
urged before that in the hurry and
helter-skelter, and 'hurrah boys" con-
nected with Neutrality-suspicious., es-
pecia,ly the itinerant ones, there is al
WAS Il considerable waste. When |
spread buck heat straw to mulch the
strawberry beds the buckwheat came
UP last spring thick enough to seed the
ground. An economical manager of
par2r-mill once told me that they OBJ
tanned fifteen per cent. of the cost of
the rye-straw in the rye that was in it.
They always thrashed the straw over
before using it in the mill, and in this
way reduced its cost. The lesson to
be learned from these facts is obvious.
There should be less hurry about the
tlTashing, and the feeding of the ma
chnery should be slower, in order to
insure Il more perfect Smelling of the
grain. The owner should see that the
c!eaning-mill is in good order, and that
the sieves are kept clean, otherwise the
grain will run over and 60 out with
the chaff. If there were any of the
old-tiihe thrashers with fails one of
them would be sure to get steady job
at Kirby Homestead. 1t did not cost
as much to thrash grain in this way in
old times as it does now with the fast
working machines.
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Household Hints,

1t is hard on a carving-knife to
sharpen it on the window-sill.
Never remove a cork from a bottle
with the prong of a carving fork.
To remove varnish from the piano
legs let the children play in the parlor
A small spoonful of molasses added
to the buckwheat batter each morn
ing, will make the cakes temptingly
brown.
An excellent garnish for corned
beef or boiled ham is made by boiling
some fresh eggs ten minutes, then cut
them in thick slices, dip each in beaten
egg and fine cracker Or bread crumbs,
and fry brown in hot lard. A little
parsley chopped and mixed with raw
egg is a decided gain.
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Rhode Island and Delaware togeth,
er are smaller than the Yellowstone
national park.
All nations use the grindstone, and
1t is perhaps the one piece of mechan,
ism that has the same form and is the
same in principle everywhere.
1t is said that ferrets are rapidly
dying off in America. They are af.
ilicted with mysterious disease SINH,
lar to that which was so fatal to horses
a few years ago.
A novelty in books has been intro,
duced by a Dutch publishing firm,
They print all their publications in
blue ink on a light green paper, stat,
ing that this method does not fatigue
the readers eye.
A very curious book, "The Passion
of Christ" belongs to the family of
the Prince de Ligne. Every letter of
the text is cut out of a leaf, and the
book being interleaved with blue pa
per is as legible as the best print
Rudolph III of Germany once offered
for it some 1000 ducats, equal to
about five times the amount in our
day. The book bears the royal arms
of England, but it is not known when
it was in England, or by whom it was
owned. 1t must have required an i'm.
mensity of patience to cut out the mi.
mute letters, and the work is admira-
bly, done.
In one of the mountainous districts
OF Bavaria there is a town called Nit
tenwald, shut in by snow-clad peaks
and dense forests, in which every yard
is crossed by labyrinth of ropes and
poles, on which hundreds of violins
are hung to dry. For couple of cen
turies the entire industry of the town
has been violin-making, for which the
surrounding forests produce the best
materials. Men, women and children
all have their allotted share of the
work, and violins, 'cellos, bass viols
or zithers, and every stringed instru-
ment, from copy of some old and
priceless Stredivarius, perfect in form,
color and tone, down to the cheapest
banjo, are exported in great quanti-
ties, all handmade, to every quarter of
the globe.
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Barley fattens young geese.
Charcoal prevents disease in hogs.
Salt sown under fruit trees kills the
codling moth.
Gas lime sown in the fields in win
ter, drives away moths and moles.
Plant the quick-growing Virginia
creeper around trellisses and out
houses
Keep chickens on clean runs and
away from manure heaps if you want
them to be free from gapes.
When forked trees threaten to split,
Irvine and tie twigs from opposite
limbs together They will unite.
Muslin full of stifrening matter
beaches butter. Wash in clean water
before laying cloths on the butter.
An English gardener says that hoe
ing is far better than wedding. Child
rem, thank your stars and tell it to your
father.
Grease is said to be sure remedy
for apple tree bark lice 1t should be
applied cautiously, however, for it in
jures the twigs.
Pomologist.' You should know
that cherry trees will not bear much
manure, and it is probably their prox-
unity to the cowyard and pigpen that
have proved fatal to yours.
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips
and especially mangel wuzel will all fat.
ten pigs. These roots ought not to be
given in a raw state, but always cook
cd, and mixed with beans, peas, Indian
corn, oats or barley, all of which must
be ground into meal. When pigs are
fed upon such cooked food as we have
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The Police of Mexico.

The Mexican police, says CORES.
pondent, are striking figures, clad in
scanty linen and much "brief authori.
ty," with rusty, Old-fashioned cavalry
sabres dangling at their heels, and
equally antique looking pistols pendant
from their belts. OF course they are
ubiquitous, mostly too much so, and
after the manner of the species else,
where, are generally on the spot when
not wanted, but seldom when their
presence is actually needed. For eX'
ample, the other evening about {
o'clock, while many people were in the
street, a young man stood on the pave,
ment talking to lady of undoubted
responsibility, who sat inside her win
dow. During that perfectly decorous
conversation of perhaps ten minutes
no less than three policemen tapped
the gentleman upon the shoulder and
warned him, like little 10, to "move
ONT being against the law to talk
on the street to persons inside! The
same evening at nearly the same hour
the house of the American consul (who
CHANGED to be out of town. on the
populous Gale de Campo, was entered
by thieves. A young man who sleeps
in the house came home while they
were in the midst of their work, and,
notwithstanding his loud cries,
police, police" was beaten insensible.
The enterprising burglars quietly
finished their "burgling" and departed
in peace with their booty. However,
to the credit of the government be it
said that Monterey is a model city in
many respects. There are never any
riots upon the Streets and fewer mlr-
ders and robberies are committed
within the corporate limits than in
most northern cities of equal popula.
ton. During my five months resi-,
dence here have never seen but one
drunken man, and he was being con.
Quoted between two policemen, uproar.
iously happy, to prison. On the prin.
ciple "that it takes a rogue to catch
rogues" this Mexican force ought to be
the best in the world, for its ranks are
recruited from the army, who are
mostly criminals.
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The Profession a Unit.

Mr. Q. ii. DRAPER, of No. 223 Main Street,
Worcester, Mass, volunteers the following
g. Having occasion recently to use remedy
Mr.. d. B, Williams, of Lincoln Square, this
city, and requested him to furnish me the
best kidney medicine that he knew of, and he
handed me bottle of Hunts Remedy, stat
ing that it was considered the best because
he had sold many bottles of it to his Gus.
toners in Worcester, and they all speak of it
in the highest terms, and pronounce it always
reliable. | took the bottle home and com
menced taking it, and find that it does the
work elfectually; and am pleased to recon-
mend to all who have kidney or liver disease
the use of Hunts Remedy, the sure cure"
ADTil H. 1893
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Java, with its sixteen active and in
Vulnerable quiescent volcanoes, is used
to eruptions, some of which have been
even more destructive than the Ischia
earthquake. Some of the Java vol-
canoes rise to height of $1,000 feet
and, as we have said, in past time their
eruptions have been enormously de-
structive. In 1772, for example, the
volcano of Papandayang, in the south
west part of the island, threw out such
an immense quantity of scorin and
ashes in a single night that an area
having a radius of seven miles was
covered with layer fifty feet thick,
Forty native villages were buried
beneath it, and three thousand persons
are supposed to have persisted in this
one night. Still more terribly destruc-
tive was the eruption of Mount Galung.
gong, few miles east of the former,
on Oct 8, 1922. AT midday, under a
cloudless sky, with not Il breath stir
ring, dark, dense mass rose from the
old volcano and spread itself out with
such appalling rapidity that in a few
moments the whole landscape was
shrouded in the darkness of night.
Bright flashes occasionally pierced the
darkness; deluge of hot water and
mud shot up from the crater, and
poured down the mountain sides,
sweeping away trees and beasts and
human bodies in its seething mass
Nearly everything was destroyed for a
radius of twenty miles round. A
second eruption four days after COM
pleted the catastrophe. This was &C.
companied by an earthquake. The
summit of the mountain was broken
down; one side, covered with forest,
became a semi-circular gulf; new hills
and valleys are said to have been form
ed, and rivers had their courses
changed, as many as ia villages were
destroyed, and 1000 people killed. The
remarkable thing is that no record
existed of any previous eruption of the
mountain, which was situated in one
of the most fertile valleys of Java. In
lS43 it is estimated that Mount Guntuo
flung forth ashes and sand to the ex-
tent of 20,000,000 tons; in 1877 an
earthquake caused the death of 1000
in the town of .Jokgokarta alone; in
1872 one of the most active volcanoes,
Merapi, brought death to many of the
dwellers around; while the damage to
be feared from the ashes thrown out
by the same mountain interferes with
the planting of coffee in the neighbor-
ing districts Earthquakes destructive
to life are of frequent occurrence; the
most celebrated is that of January 5
1899, when 20S shocks were felt, and
many houses in Batavia destroyed
Mud volcanoes, gas fountains, and hot
springs are common over the island.
From Java to Kamschatka seismical
phenomena in the shape of volcanoes
and earthquakes are of constant occur
renee, though the accompanying tida
wave is not so common as we find it on
the other side of the Pacific or the coast
of South America. -London Times.
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Why the public preference is. and should be- gwen TO
Hoods Sarsaparilla.

Why the public preference is and should BE-, gwen 10
Hoods Sarsapara.
Because the superior strength Of well chosen ngred.
tents in combination peculiar to itself and possessed
by no other preparation, with the skilled pharmacy used
in its manufacture, make Hoods Sarsaparlla the best
medicine in the market for purifying the blood
Because Hoods Sarsaparilla has, in numerous well
known and verified instances, eradcaed Scr Jfula,
cleansd the blood of Humors, and restored weakened
nvaids to health, in which condition they remain.
Ifccause Hoods Sarsaparln has really and truly
cured cases Of Dyspepsia, long standing and chronic,
of Indigestion of General Debility, of Salt Rheum,
CHtarrh and all Humors which riot in the blood and
break the skin in testers, pustules, pmples and bos
Because Hoods Sarsaparila has been found to be
the best medicine for ailments pro luced by the
or climate wonderfully sharpening the appetite and
markedly toning up the system against debility and
hervou ness.
Because Hoods Sarsaparla il eveybody's med
cine. No is poor that he cannot pay for bottle
of Hoods Sarsaparlla-1OO doses-or cent each dose
andnone are rich and lofty to beyond its benefit.
Hoods SarsnpnrilIn
Sold by Druggists. 81; six for s.. Prepared only by
G. /. HOOD CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass.
FoRSrEcIALRtrEs Tor advertising in this paper apply
to the publisher. n II 10
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CArARRr.- Nlcssrs. Hood & Co., of Lowell
believe that the best way to treat Catanh
md The only way to get permanent relief, is
through the blood. A constitutional disease
requires II constitutional remedy. Hoods
SHrsupnrilln Is blood purifier and constitu-
tional medicine that can be relied upon, and
has cured numerous cases of Catar.h. We
think this claim reasonable one and gladly
give il room in our columns.
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Mr. GEORGE A. BURDETT, No. l65 Front
Street, Worcester, Mass, has Just sent us the
following, directly to the point:
Being afflicted with ailments to which all
humanity is subject sooner or later, read
carefully the advertisement regarding the re-
markable curativepowers of Hunts Remedy
and as it seemed to apply to my case exactly,
purchased bottle Of the medicine at Jan
nery's drug store, in this city, and having
used it with most beneficial results in my own
case, my wife and son also commenced its
USE and it has most decidedly improved their
health, and we shall continue its use in our
family under such favorable results"
April II, 1883.
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FLORENCE, Ga.--Dr. W. b. Prather says:
Browns Iron Bitters have given satisfac-
ton in every instance have known it used"
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WALcoTT, the gentleman who ate thirty
brace of quails in thirty days, was relieved
from any disagreeablo stomach troubles by
using GAsTRINE and took nothing else dur
ing the task. Sold by druggists.
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The paper mills of the world num-
Der about 1000, and produce yearly
$4,000 tons of paper, giving employ
ment to $4,000 persons,
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One or The Elect.

CLEVELAND, Omo,-The Plain Dealer
reports that Hon. Martina Foran, congress-
man elect from the Cleveland, Ohio, district,
has used st. Jacobs Oil in his family and
has always found it safe and reliable, and it
afforded him great relief to q lame knee.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-10-03

An old gentleman of Wcthersfcld
Conn, aged ninety, will not drink well
water He had the roof of his house
slated and for years has used rain
water only.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-10-03

Sheep and wool growing has increas-
ed more rapidly with the past few
years than any other industry of the
country