Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-19
Sleeping Together.

electrical changes which their nervous
systems undergo by lodging together
night after night under the same bed
clothes, than by any other disturbing
cause. THERE'S nothing says the Scien-
tific American, that will so derange the
nervous system of person who is
eliminative in nervous force than to lie
all night in bed with another person who
is absorbent in nervous force. The alb
sorber will go to sleep and rest all night:
while the eliminator will be tumbline
and tossing, restless and nervous, and
wake up in the morning fretful, peevish,
fault-fHding, and discouraged. No two
persons, no matter who they are, should
habitually sleep together. One will
thrive and the other will lose.
Chimneys.
In the year 1900 chimneys were
scarcely known in England; and one
only was allowed in religious house,
one in manor house, and one in the
great hall of q castle or lords house:
but in other houses the smoke found it's
way out as best it could. The writerso of
the fourteenth century seem to have con.
sidered them as the newest invention of
luxury. In Henry the Eighth's reign
the University of Oxford had no fire
allowed; for it is mentioned, that after
the students had supped, having no fire
IN winter, they were obliged to take a
good run for half an hour, to get heat
in their feet before retiring for the
night. Hollinshed, in the reign of
r ~
preceding generation in the arts of life:
"There were. " said he, every few CHM
neys; even in the capital towns the fire
was laid to the wall, and the smoke
issued out of the door, roof, or window.
The houses were walled and plastered
over with clay, and all the furniture and
utensils were of wood" In 1859 tax
OF two shillings was laid on chimueys.
Extracted Honey.
A very large part of the honey crop is
now taken in the form of extracted
honey. Comb honey is good and beau.
tifuI, but it has the disadvantage of the
wax, which is indigestible and which no.
body cares to eat. In the extracted
honey we have no wax; it is honey in
its purest form. Many people associate
extracted honey with strained honey;
they suppose that all honey out of the
comb is strained honey, but this is great
injustice to extracted honey. In get.
ting strained honey all the combs from
a hive, combs containing capped brood,
and growing larvae and pollen and
honey, are mixed up together and then
the liquid squeezed out. In this way
there is obtained some honey, but there
is also obtained the juice of the growing
larvB OF the young bees and the pollen,
80 that the honey has rank flavor. q
dark color, and associations by no
means appetizing. But extracted honey
is as different from this strained honey
as it is possible to be. In getting ex-
tracted honey we get no pollen, no Juices
of bees or larvae. We get simply the
pure honey without any admixture what
ever. he who on cold winter morning
has never had pure, candied, white clo-
yer honey to spread on his hot cakes, has
lived in vainl Life has lacked for him
one of its chiefeet Colorado
Farmer.
Cultivating the Hickory.
The nuts must be gathered as soon as
ripe and planted as follows: The ground
should be we'll prepared by blowing
deep the deeper the better then we'll
har' owed. Now, with a commander.
mark off both ways Zone with the run
ners four feet apart is the best). Then,
with two-horse pillow fllrrow every
other mark east and west, if the grove
is to be used for wind. break, if not,
either way will do: then drop one nut al
each crossing of the marker. Trampine
on the nut as dropped to settle it in DO
sition is good plan. Cover with hoe
as deep as potatoes are covered: tramp
on each hill. This will leave the trees
four feet in the row, with rows eigh,
feet apart. After remarking that The
cultivation should be the same as fol
corn, only continued during the season
$50 long as the weeds grow" he de.
scribes his way of counteracting the ten
dency of the seedlings to send out side
branches: my experience in cutting
them off the first, second or third winter
after planting was with grove of two
acres that we're cut eff close to the
ground the third winter after planting,
The next spring from six to a doze1
sprouts came up from each tree; these
were let grow till eight or ten inches
long, and then all were broken off but
the thriftiest one. All did not start anc
grow at first; and some of them that die
threw out more shoots. I had to q
over them three or four times before
they were in good shape. This o.
course required considerable labor. Thu
first season they grew up straight anG
nice from four to six feet, but the fol
lowing year the side branches cam.
thick and fast with that peculiar inclina
ton the walnut tree has on high prairi,
land of getting wider than its height
Pruning is the only way to make nic'
tree out of walnut. Still I think tn,
tree will pay for the labor bestowed
upon it. kansas Farmer.
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