Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-28

A correspondent of the Prairie Far
mer writes that tbs advice given last
week about growing corn fodder re-
minds him of the practice Of Hon.
George +. Lord, of Elgin ILL.,, as relat-
ed by President w. D. Hoard, of the
Northwestern Dairymen's Association
"Mr. Lord keeps loo cows on 500 acres
of land, and has not raised a pound of
hay for years. The corn is sowed in
drills three and half feet apart, and
about the time it blossoms, it 10 cut
with a self-raking reaper, cutting one
row at time, the machine throwing it
off in gravels When sufficiently wiltsd,
It is bound and set in large stacks and
allowed to cure, standing on the ground
until winter sets in, when it is hauled
to the barn He secures a yield of a.
bout seven tons Of cured fodder per
acre, worth as much as the best hay,
and is thus enabled to devote a large
amount Of his land to pasture. He Is
one of the successful dsirymen of Illi-
nols."
The hail storm that passed over this
place last Friday cane from a southerly
direction. At Centre its direction was
from the northwest. The hail, at Cen
tire, was about as large as hulled wall
nuts. The destruction to wheat was
discouraglng sight to witness, 1t was
beaten down fat 10 the ground and the
belief Is entertained that 1t cannot
fill. Leaves and fruit were knocked
from trees, vegetables in gardens were
beaten into the ground The oats
fields presented about as beggarly a
sight as the gardens, aud many of the
windows in the storm side of the houses
we're broken in by the hail. The farm
of Daniel Kless, N. h. Beashore. Sam
'uel Funk, j. F. Smith, G. C. Kloss,
Nelson Lukens, the Mertz farms, and the
farm Of l.. Z. Atkinson, suffered severely,
the hail broke 43 panes ofglass in Atkin-
sons house. VanDyke's windows were
broken, and the windows of many 9TH
ers, too numerous to mention.
The Philadelphia Times, of last Sat-
urday, published the following despatch
from Reading; Since the suspension of
so many railroad hands and other works |
here some of their wives have beer
working in stone quarry in the east
ern part of the city. A few days ago
about half dozen women were noticed |
20 have small spall hammers with them,
and inquiry to nj ght elected the fact
that they have been employed by a
contractor, with their husbands, to
break spalls for the city. They say
they are compelled to do this to earn a
living. They receive somewhat lower
wages than the men, but it is said they
accomplish more in days work. The
novelty is creating considerable COM
ment. Many people 60 to the quarry
during the day to see the women crack
stones. They are principally used in
repairing the city streets. Since the
hot weather, however, several have de-
serted the rank, and will probably NO,
return to work.
A writer on horse wolf teeth. saws.
the so called wolf teeth in the horse IS
a small rudImentary tooth, situated i'm
medlately in front of the grinders or
molar teeth, aud IN line with these
Ordinarily this supernumersry tooth is
shed simultaneously with the milk
teeth, but sometimes it is retained ;
longer. Accidental or constitutional
diseases of the eyes are not uufrequent-
ly by horseman attributed 10 the pres
ence OF VOLTS teeth This is an error.
The only inconvenience caused BY these
teeth occur when they happen to d.
verge from their usual straight position;
then the point of this tooth, is sharp,
may cause soreness of the check or ths
tongue. Eventually the VOLTS teeth
would by natural action. become quite
absorbed. Should, however, any incor-
occur from their presence
they should be removed. This can cas-
lily be done by pair of small forceps.
The usual methods of punching them
out with q chisel and hammer not only
causes unnecessary pain to the animal, !
but the gums and neighboring teeth are
apt to be injured thereby.
Last week. John Stoner had a large
force Of citizens of Fermanagh town j
ship at pikeing a piece of road short
distance east of this place. His idea
If road making is tho right one. He
covers the bed of the road to the width
If two wagons with foot of stone. and
.fter the stone have been broken, be
covers 1t all with a coat of dirt of suffi.
,ient thickness to fill the s'cracks'' be-
ween the stones. HIS idea of road
making is the one that was put into
practice by pike companies, years ago..
md there Is never a mistake in it un-
ess the making of the road is missed a
title in not having the stones broken
inc enough The old way of blowing
ng ground from the side of the road
% throw into the middle is about done
With, for the reason that the rains have :
washed away all the ground that was
brown into the road and there is no
onger bank at the sides. to use from.
Rain on roads that have been plowed
very year or two for the period of al
most century, has lowered the road
'ed in many places to such a depth
bat some kind of a filling is needed
'toner's system of filling or pikeing tie
Dad, will, in the period of years, in
'rove the road and make it a more per
nanent highway, as each year goes by.
5y piking a piece of road every year,
he whole may be piked BY aud by.