Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-03-24
FIELD AND FARM.
Useful Hints To Farmers.

Useful Hints to Farmers.
[ In new experimental refrigerating
house, under patented progress, at
Cleveland, Ohio. cold and dryness are
said to have been so successfully com
bined that the wooden floor, the barrels
and the fruit are perfectly free from
damp, despite the temperature of "a de-
grees, which keeps apples, grapes, eggs,
and even an ample basket of summer
pears. bright and seemingly fresh as
when stored months ago.
: ~Stable-keepers are among the health
lest of men, and considered especially
free fro m respiratory affections, al
though much exposed to cold and damp.
Some attribute this to the ammonia
evolved from the manure piles, and it is
said in corrnboration that little breast
amulets of carbonase of ammonia or
spraying of the throat with dilute liquid
ammonia gives sure relief in bronchial
attacks.
In raising stock for beef it is impor-
tant the ANIMAL should develop its whole
capacity of flesh production mas short
a time as possible. 1t is claimed that a
Short-h horn will take on 1000 pounds of
flesh in three years, with favorable con-
ditions. This is vast improvement up
on the scrub which commonly takes five
years to mature and reach the same
weight. There is a saving of two years
of feed.
Father Clarkson, the veteran Iowa
farmer, and agricultural editor, advises
many farmers to hold on to their hogs
and cultivate all they cln, for there is
large shortage i'll the state. The present
winter has been disastrous to young pigs
and the incoming crop has been nearly
swept away. 1t will require two
years to recover from the present de-
ticiency under favorable circumstances,
SO that there is good assurance ofhigh
prices for hogs until the close of the
year 1914.
Lime is used for preserving timber in
the following manner: The timber is
put in tanks or pits in the ground on end
if possible, with fresh quicklime ut the
bottom and mixed in the timber. Water
is poured in to slack the lime; which
produces heat and 50 forces the lime into
the pores of the timber occupying the
spaces from which the sap has been
driven. The effect OF the lime is to fill
the timber cells with mineral matter and
to destroy the albumen and acids which
would tend to rot the timber. The
method has been in use for many years
for the preparation of bridge timber
and piles, and is well known to engin-
GERS. Amy kind oftimber may be thus
treated, but the operation is the most
successful upon green timber
Beauty Preferred to Talent.
All women, even the ugliest, feel that
beauty is a weapon on their side in the
battle of life; like to see it exert force,
md when it is great and, SO to speak, be-
yond criticism, admire it with genuine
leartiness-heartiness as real as that
nen show in their admiration for strength
in any conspicuous way. Let
my one sof the thousand cynics now
in London ask himselfwhether |
n English Prince vino made "a mesalli-
nee for money or for beauty who would |
'e sooner forgiven, or whether the love |
match of Napoleon III was not one main |
ause of that popularity with English |
yemen which outlasted everything but |
lis surrender. They thought he should |
ave performed the impossibillty OF" cut-
ing his way through"
To this very hour the deep feeling of |
English women for the French Empress,
hough founded, of course, on pity, is
realty assisted by the recollection of |
he middle aged ola triumph so conspic-
GUS and SO visibly owing to personal
harm. This kind of female interest is
Universal and extends in more languid
egree to the men, who find in any ma
lOnal appreciation of beauty not only
he charms which spring from kinship
4 taste, but an excuse for a secret i'm
ecility, a powerlessness in presence of
be attraction, which they will resent and
eel. We Wonderif, besides this, if there
any residuum of the old Greek feeling
nat beauty was clear good in itself,
harmonious something which indi-
ated that the gods of nature were es-
entially ami at heart hostile to man.
The next prince who ascends throne
nywhere will have his praises and quail
les hymned on the European wires,
ut if he were an Apollo or Jove the
ulletin makers would feel instinctively
hat to say so would be regarded not as
dulation, but as ridicule. 1t is for wo-
len to be beautiful-for men to be dig
iied-the latter credit arising from
iferent order of ideas, the idea of har-
lony between place and appearance in
be world. We should doubt if beauty
vere admired in the abstract very con-
ciously, but that the interest excited by
eautiful women rivals the interest ex-
tied by beautiful scenery, and this
mong those who have never seen
lther, except in pictures we have no
oubt whatever.-London Society.
'onnet and Hat shapes for Spring,
1888.
rom the New York Millinery Trade Re-
view.
Bonnets and hats assimilate with
ther millinery productions thus far
lown and reveal but little that is new. 9
II styles and kinds are exhibited, as
trough the manufacturers, being in
oubt, had introduced little of every.
ling, in hopes to arrive at something |
ainite. The number of shapes on the l
arket is very large, larger than for
~ previous season, and many of them 8
e very handsome in the perfection of =.
leir lines.
The newest feature is the pinched
oke, made now for the first time in
raw braid, yet seen late this last fall 6
felt and velvet materials. 1t is SIM I
y full poke-front bonnet, with the
p of brim pointed and creased or !
nched to point. 1t is pretty and has /;
piquant, saucy look when on young
lad. In addition to the various poke
'nnets, from extremes to mediums, ..
ere are various styles of brims repre-
nting the flare, the straight, the half :
oop, the broad, narrow, etc, etc. 9
owns represent no less diversity of
yles; they are high, square, ia
ring, low square medium, full square q
III, sugar-loaf. round, oval, sloping :
cks, and sloning fronts.
Milan braid is considered to be the
ader for the season, and chip ranks
'xe The latter might take first place
ID it not sold SO law last season that it