davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

from any growing corn, lay off the rows four
feet apart, and plant two grains in every
hill; shell the corn first from the butt end of
the ear, and begin TO plant as you she'll of,
and so keep on until the whole ear is planted
Thin every hill down to one stalk. BY this
process it is easy to tell what part of the ear
natures first and the part that will make the
best c0rn.p
The following experiment by Mr.. J. J.
Webster is reported in the Rural Home;
when he had plowed the ground after har.
vest he worked il fine, leaving two inches of
the top soil mellow. About the middle of
September he drilled in his wheat with $50
pounds of superphosphate and fifty pounds
OF plaster per acre. There were seventeen
acres, which yielded $50 bushels, or an aver
age of fifty bushels per acre" Mr. Webster
is inclined to attribute his success to the care
exercised in getting the seed bed in as fine
condition as possible.
prominent commission house in Mil
wauKee requested the Sentinel, of that place,
to publish the following for the benefit of
those desiring to keep their eggs in marketa-
bic condition: TO one pint of salt and one
pint of fresh lime add four gallons of boiling
water. When cold put in stone jars. Then
with dish let down your fresh eggs into it,
tipping the dish after il fills with the liquid,
so they will roll out without cracking the
shell, for If the shell is cracked the eggs will
spoil. Put the eggs in whenever you have
them fresh. Keep them covered in a cool
place"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Harvesting Butter Rec
ord of a That "Durned"
Mule.
The Seed Test-What to do With the
Potatoes Experiments With
Seed Corn.
Importance of Fewer Acres-Experiments
in Cultivating- eeding urn ps-
Household Hints-Farm Notes.
From the Fair.

Well, vile. I'm powerful weary; I've walked
about the town
From early, morning yesterday. until the sun
And at the musty tavern. early went to bed,
But could not sleep for rafting carts and noises
saw the Exhibition, quite countriied it feels,
Until you reach the building full OF whirlgigs and
wheels
Some good machinery there 1 saw aud elsewhere
some handsome cows,
While the horses were good racers, as everyone
allows.
But DIDN'T see pair of to beat our Blithe
and Bess;
They havnt old-time farmers wives to rear 'em
For you had always luck with calves. I think
they understand,
Critters well as men folk, woman's gentle
hand.
Yes went to see the apples. but CHANGED to go a:
night
And he fruit looked rather sickly. seen by the
electric light:
There's nothing like Gods sunshine for fruits or
But didn't matter to the crowd that went to laugh
and joke.
They 90 to see each other and hardly care pin
For all the fruit or pumpkins the gardeners can
Ipassed the grounds this afternoon when going to
the cars
And little boy and girl stood looking through
the bars.
And said one unto the other. Johnny. L do wish
1 had a quarter. for I'd like to go ana see the
Wife my hand went into my pocket as quick as
you could wink,
And their childish pure enjoyment-I tell you
made me think
For ! wondered why the rich men who have so
much cash to spare.
Don't buy few hundred tickets for children TO
the Ialr.
It refreshes the tired eyes that "loOk out on
the dusty street
Where is neither tree nor water nor anything cool
sweet
And OF all that grand State Fair there was nothing
pleased me so
As mo fooes ~ those children when first thav sayv
the show.
FARMER GooDALL.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

The time honored process given may be the
longest, but probably the majority OF house
keepers consider it the best Choose only
gherkins, or small cucumbers as small as
your finger. Put them into an oaken tub or
a large stone jar and pour on them brine
made OF rock salt, and strong enough TO hold
up potato. Sink plate in the brine to
keep the cucumbers under the surface, and
at the end of twenty-four hours stir them up
with your hand from the brine; scald 1t, and
after you have washed the cucumbers pour
II over them. In three DAYS more repeat the
process, and at the end of the ninth day
throw away the brine, wash the cucumbers
in ice water. and if they are too salt let soak
in clear water several hours and then
drain them. After this pour cold
vinegar over the pickles, cover them
small lump of alum, the size of a walnut, to
a gallon kettle, and let the vinegar come TO a
boil. Remove from the fire at once, and at
the end of a day two drain the pickles and
cover them with cold cider vinegar, pure and
strong If you wish to add spice, put a cup
of sugar, three dozen whole black peppers,
three dozen cloves, one dozen blades of mace
and the same amount of allspice 10 each gal
Ion of vinegar. These pickles will be hand
some green, which they never Will be if they
are taken from the brine and simply put into
cold or hot vinegar. If the vinegar is scalded
in which they are put away for the winter,
half the strength passes off in steam, and the
pickles will not keep so well as those put up
in cold vinegar. If the tub or stone jar in
which they were soaked is used to keep them
in, it should be carefully washed from any
faint of the brine. These pickles will be-
ready for the table at the end of six weeks
Some would use them sooner. They are bet
ter kept in vinegar three months before they
are eaten
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
What to do With the Potatoes.
ISouthern Industries.

Instead of selling potatoes at the extreme
low price offered for them. we would advise
farmers to feed them to stock. On one occa
remuneration for production, we fed them to
advantage, The plan adopted was to erect a
furnace, and place on it large salt kettle,
upon which was fitted cask with auger holes
performing the bottom. The cask was filled
with potatoes, and a covering thrown over.
when the kettle was abaut half filed
with water anda fire started in, the furnace
which in a very brief space of time cooked
them to perfection. Before cooking they
were moderately sailed We have never seen
food better relished by stock; horses, cattle
and hogs. Don't sell potatoes at present or
unremunerative prices when they can be
utilized 20 so good an advantage by feeding
to stock.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

one deep on the surface of the plate. This
plate should then be placed in larger plate
or in shallow pan, containing about quar-
ter OF an inch in depth of water, and over all
there should be inverted another pan, suffi-
iently large TO entirely enclose the vessel con-
tanning the water. The depth of water should
mot be sufficient to allow OF its overlooking
into the plate containing the seeds. The
whole arrangement should then be set in a
moderately warm place, and thus the
seeds viii be subjected to all the
conditions favorable to germi
nation, namely, air moisture. darkness and
warmth. The air will circulate freely be-
meath the edges of the inverted pan; the at
mosphere inside the pan will be quite sat
urated with moisture. for evaporation will
continually go on from the surface of the in
closed water; light will be excluded by the
inverted pan, and the temperature Of q reg
ularly used kitchen will very well suffice to
induce germinatIon.
"A little fresh water should be poured in
now and then to replace that which evap-
CRATES, the cover pan being momentarily re-
moved for this purpose. Even in one and
the same sample some OF the seeds will al
ways terminate before others, but when the
young shoots of the first terminate have at
tanned a length of from half an inch to one
inch it may be fairly concluded that all the
seeds capable OF terminating have done so,
and then il is only necessary to count the
number of seeds which have not germi-
mated, and to estimate the percen tage of fail
ures. An exact number of seeds need not
necessarily be taken, and indeed. it is per-
haps fairer to take a spoonful haphazard out
of the sample, count these and place them
all in the terminating apparatus. Suppose
143 seeds have thus been taken, and that 102
of these are found to terminate, then out OF
143 there are forty-one failures, so that we
would infer. tina about % per cent of the
seeds in the sample would not terminate when
| sown. A more correct result is obtained by
conducting two, or even three, distinct sets
of experiments simultaneously, and striking
| a mean between the several results which
by the way, should not show much variation
"The report states that in several samples
| of seeds of Alopecarus pratensis, the common
and useful meadow foxtail grass, very small
| percentage, sometimes one or two, of the
seeds were able to terminate. This is attrib
uted to the fact that the seeds were gathered
unripe, and in many cases thesample consist
| ed only of empty glumes, so that it was like
| chaff without any grain; possibly. however
| there are still some traders who adopt tn,
| pernicious practice OF warking off their old
stock by mixing old seeds with new ones
Just as owners mix their old Barcelona nuts
| with the new seasons arrivals, and if the ole
seed have lost their vitality. the sample is o
| course seriously deprecated. If the practice
| of determining The terminating power o
/ seeds before saving were more generally fol
| lowed weshould probably hear less of plowins
| up of land on which sown seeds had failed Il
| strike
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Feeding Turnips.
THE Daryl

=
Feeding turnips to milcking cows is OBJ
iected TO on account of the i'll flavor CON-
municated to the milk, and which spoils it
for any good use. But it is not necessary that
this i'll flavor should be given TO the milk. 1t
is caused by the very volatile odor of the
roots, which is absorbed by the stomach. and
then by the blood, and lastly by the milk. A
large part of it is carried off by the perspira-
ton through the skin and large part through
the kidneys. The reason of the rapidity of
this effect of feeding turnips is the large pro-
portion of water which they contain, and
that water is very quickly absorbed by the
blood and dispersed through the system, and
as quickly got rid of through the skin and
the kidneys. 1t is precisely the same with
onions, garlic and other strong favored
weeds, and also with impure water. But
this very rapid Transportation of the water
gives a clue TO ready means of avoiding
the Objectionable effect referred to.
If turnips are fed Immediately after
milking, night and morning. the
odor passes off and does not effect the next
morning. 1t is not safe to feed them before
milking, unless it is done Immediately be-
fore il, as water is absorbed from the stomach
into the blood with great rapidity, and the
odor would begin to reach the milk in a few
minutes. The OdOr of garlic may be pre-
vented, ii is said. in somewhat the same
manner, but we have not personally tried
the effect Tor want of the garlic. But it is so
reported by a dairyman who says he was
troubled with the smell of garlic or wild
onion in his milk To obyiate this he put
the cows in the stable at about 3 O'clock each
afternoon, and fed on hay and gave them
grain as usual The result was all he antic-
ipated result of three hours allowed this
scent to pass off in the other secretions
though previously i very strongly favored
both milk and butter. The same course, he
suggests, would probably be an advantage
when the milk tastes of other foul weeds in
the pasture, and he is probably right.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
The Importance of Fewer Acres.
Pacific Rural Spirit

If ten acres of land cost 500, and if they
produce $40 worth of crops they are paying
10 per cent. on the investment, Just as much
as If 500 had been loaned at the rate of 10
per cent interest Now, there is no man
who would think of living on the interest of
500 loaned at even this high rate, but in
stances are not rare of men making a good
living Tor themselves and their families from
the careful culture of ten acres OF land. We
mention this fact to prove that the too fire.
quent expression that farming does not
pay" is not in accordance with fact There
is no other business in which man would
attempt with 500 to support a family Yet
still there is truth in the remark, so far as it
~ applicable 10 farmiDg as it is carried on
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

in some sections of the country If a man
invests 81 600 in 100 acres OF land and makes
only ten of them, or 500 worth, available,
he cannot expect to deriTe profit from the
other ninety acres, any more than he could
expect an interest upon 81 900 when he had
only slOO of ii invested. Our position is that
land actually cultivated pays better interest
on the money invested than any other ven
ture. The farmer cannot expect idle acres TO
Weld him a revenue any more than he can
idle dollars. Unfortunately, the farmer of
the Northwest has. as general thing, nine
acres of idle land where he has one produc-
tive one. and the one productive acre is ex-
pected to pay the interest on the price of the
whole ten. Extraordinary management
would be necessary TO make this kind OF
farming pay.
Experiments i'm CuItivatin
w. w. Higbee, of Vermont, writes to the
Practical Farmer, giving some OF the results
of his experiments in culivating orchards.
which. although according with the expert
ments of others, may be useful if briefly
stated in enforcing their teaching. Sowing
wheat in an orchard always checks the
growth of the trees, even ii the ground is
MANFRED. Oats are exhausting, but less so
than wheat. Corn and potatoes both answer
well. and the cultivation they receive bene-
fits the trees. In one instance half of an or
chard was sown with wheat and the conse-
quence was il was put back two years as
compared with the other half. Wheat in a
thrifty Young plum orchard ruined it. To
these statements we may add the following:
A neighbor set out q hundred peach trees,
cultivating part of the ground in potatoes,
and the remainder was put in wheat. None
of the trees in the potatoes grew less than q
foot and half, and some sent up shoots two
feet high. None of those which stood in the
wheat ground grew more than three inches.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Loss and Gain.
Il was taken sick a year ago
ANifh lilinnnc fnr.nri


My doctor pronounced me cured. but
got sick again. with terrible pains in my back
and Sides and got so bad
Could not move
j shrunki
From DDS lbs to 1901 had been doctoring
for my liver, but it did me no good. 1 did
not expect to live more than three months.
/ began to use Hop Bitters Directly my ap-
petite returned, my pains left me. my entire
system seemed renewed, as if by magic, and
after using several bottles am not only as
sound as a sovereign, but weigh more than
did before. To Hop Bitters L owe my lite.'
Dublin, June 6, Isl. r. FITZPATRICK.
How TO GET SIcK.-ExDose yourself da
and night eat too much without exercise
work too hard without rest; doctor all the
time; take all the vile nostrums advertised
and then you will want to know how to get
well, which is answered in three words-Take
Hop Bittersl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

"Why, Mr.. Smithm exclaimed the young
lady, whats that on your ip?' That
oh, thath a muthtache. 1t hathn't been
growing long 1t ithn't long enough to bite"
And Mr.. Smith made desperate effort to
twist one end of it into his mouth. "Ah,
then. there's no necessity of being afraid of
it?'' said the young lady. drawing closer. Mr..
Smith didn't know what she meant.-Oil
City Blizzard.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

The reason why DIR. Prices Flavoring Elk.
tracts, lemon, vanilla, etc are superior to
all others is because they are prepared from
choice selected fruits and aromatics, without
coloring or poisonous oils; that all the flavor
ing principles are retained unchanged by
chemical action, highly concentrated, requir-
ing less to flavor; that they are perfect.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Question Your Druggist,

and he will tell you that there is a greater
demand for Sozodont than for any other
preparation for the teeth. Then ask yourself
whether an article for which the demand is
general and constant must not possess genu-
inc merit. The mental response will be that
it does, since the conclusion is irresistible
that if it did not really polish and preserve
the teeth a discerning public would long
since have discovered the fact. 1t advertises
itself
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Murderer Arrested.

Special 10 the Sentinel:
GREENCAsTIE- Ind, Oct 4-william Grimes the
man who murdered Milo Smith at Cloverdale on
sunday last, was arrested today by Deputy Sheriff
John Brandon at Clinton. Ind.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

A Detroit man was mean enough to drop
hair switch in a car loaded with women.
He said each one of them put their hands 10
their heads to see if it were theirs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Skepticism was routed when the people
knew the virtues of Samaritan Neryine. No
cure. no pay.
MY child is rosy-cheeked and cured; Sa-
marian Nervine did it," Mrs. William
Schelpeper, Nichols, Iowa. $3.50, at drug.
gstS'.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
The Testimony of n Physician.

James Beecher, VI. D., OF Sigourney. Iowa, says:
"For several years have been using a cough Bal
sam, called DR.. William Halls Balsam for the
Lungs, and in almost every case throughout my
practice have had entire success. have used
and prescribed hundreds OF bottles since the
days of my Army practice 1S63). when 1 was Sur
geon of Hospital No. Z, Louisville, KY
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Are you Bilious? Try the remedy that
cured Mrs. Clement, of Franklin, n. H
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
That "Durnedy Mule.

ance, diminish their value, and render them
liable To decay.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
The Soa, Test-

Professor w. Carruthers. Consulting BOtan-
list TO the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng
land. gives, in the Mark Lane Express. the
following plan for determining the germinat-
ing power of seeds:
let 200, or 100 or so, as may be thought
best, Of the seeds be counted out and placed
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Browns IRON BITTERs
has been thoroughly tested
for dyspepsia, Indigestion,
biliousneSS, weakness, debil-
ity, overwork, rheumatism,
neuralgia, consumption,
liver complaints, kidney
troubles, &C., and it never
fails to render speedy and
permanent relief.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Durno's Catarrh Snuff cures all affections Of tn
mucous membrane, OF the head and throat.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10
Henry,s CarboIic salve

1t is the best salye for cuts, bruises sores ulcers
salt rheum, letter. chapped hands, ehilblains,
eorns, and all kinds OF skin eruptions freckles and
pimples.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Red Horse Powders cure diseases inIanimals.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

No Miskey!
Browns IRON BITTERs

is one of the very few tonic
medicines that are not COM
posed mostly of alcohol or
whiSkey, thus becoming a
fruitful source Of intemper-
ance by promoting a desire
for rum.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

Rev. CIV. RICE, editor Of
the american Christian Re
7Te70, says of Browns Iron
BitterS:
Gin, o., Nov. Is, 1881.
Gents The foolish vast
ing OF vital force IN business,
pleasure, and vicious indul-
gence of our people, makes
your preparation 2 necessity.
and if applied, viii save hun.
dTeds who resort to saloons
for temporary recuperahon-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-10

BROWNS IRON BITTERS
is guaranteed to be a nom
Intoxicating stimulant, and
i will, in nearly every case.
take the place of all liquor,
and at the same time abso-
lutely kill the desire for
whiskey and other intoxi-
eating beverages.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-15

manufacturing small quantities of pro-
duet. 1t is argued by some that producers
of hogs are taking advantage of an album
dance of low grade feed in the country,
and are holding their hogs back and feed
ing them freely, as they can in this way
get better price for their corn, and they
can make more money by feeding freely,
say for sixty days, than they can by send
ing their hogs to market now even though
prices should be lower two months hence.
Per contra of this, however, there are
those who argue that the hogs are not in
the country, and they point to prices cur
rent 1880 per pound gross, and urge
the opinion that these prices are sufficient
to induce shippers TO send their hogs for
ward now rather than to wait and sell at
lower prices. After all, however, the grain
markets seem to be the thermometer of the
provision market. At any rate, for sever
Ell days prices of provisions went up or
down with wheat and corn, there not being
apparently sufficient trade in provisions to
hold prices steady when the grain markets
were fuctuating. It's generally believed
that the country IS long on pork, and that
a prominent party Of capitalists and nervy
operators have strong hold on lard.
Only $500 hogs arrived to-day, not
enough to make market. Their quality
was poor, the feeling weak, and sales were
made generally 5@10c lower than yester-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-15
GERMANY.

BERLIN, April 14.-In the reichstag the
minister of finance read an imperial mes
sage. The emperor says he always be-
lieved it his duty to devote some solicitude
for the condition of the working classes,
as displayed by Prussian kings. When
the socialist law was promulgated, the en-
peror expressed a conviction that
legislation would not be restricted to
police and penal measures, but should
benefit the working men. The abolition
of the class tax was the first step towards
benefting them. The emperor is anx-
ious in regard to the passage of the incur
ance bill, as its failure, he thinks, would
hopelessly destroy any chance of passing
sick poor bill at the next session. The
budget for 1884 and 1885, would, there
fore, be now submitted to give the next
session an opportunity to consider the So
cial condition of the people. The German,
Austrian and Italian governments are
about to consider the unlawful use of ex-
ploslves and plots for destruction of life
ard property. Generally, Italy has in
formed Germany that henceforth no sub
stance capable of being easily exploded
will be conveyed over any Italian railway
in quantities weighing over 100 pounds.