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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07

The strikers on the Lake Shore road
hold out still. The roll is called daily tc
see that every man holds out in the at
tempt to drive the eight non-union men
from work.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07

Augusta had big celebration Monday
Gen. Plaisted presided and Hon. J. Man
chester Haynes delivered an Grafton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07

Two more Maine Fishing schooners
were captured last week near Sherburne,
n. S., by Canadian officials.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07

MAINE VOLUNTEER MILITIA COMPANY E
Horace NJ Weston, Captain, Armory I45 Water st.
ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WoRKMEN.-Sknw-
hogan Lodge No. 10, Stated meetings I'D and 9Th
Wednesdays.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07
|, o, OF o. r.

CARRABAssEr LODGE No. 54-Mects Wednesday
evenings 7.jo o'clock.
PARMENAs ENcAMPMENT No. IS-Mcets second
and fourth Tuesdays Of each month in Odd Fellows
b.u e, yat.r
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07

GRAND ARMY OF THE REruBLIC-Russcll Post
No. g6, Meetings and Fridays Fargreves'
Hall, u Madison Street
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-07
TEMPERANCE.

Coon Misunderstanding Friday evenings at
Nutterss Hall, 81 Water St.
YOUNG MEMS REFORM CLuB-Meetings sun
day evenings, at W. c. T. U. Hall.
WoMENs CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
Rooms in Coburn Hall Block, meetings Tuesdays
at a. p NJ
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Who Should Keep Bees?
ISt. Paul Farmer.

1t is hardly necessary to say that all per-
soDs are not capable of becoming successful
bee.keepers. Much depends upon the mat
ter of taste and also upon the qualifications
of the person. One might be eminently fit
ted for certain other duties, but make a very
poor manager of bees, and yet this would
cast no reflection to his discredit. One thing
primarily important is to become acquainted
with the natural habits and instincts of the
bee, which requires careful investigation
with an interested mind. Most bee-keepers
have fondness and sympathy
for these little workers, regard
ing them with a kindness of
feeling which is due to every living creature.
The powers of observation are enlarged, and
a person becomes more useful. able and sus-
ceptible to the highest pleasures. for having
studied some of these most valuable lessons
in nature. With certain rural industries we
may often expect fairy liberal returns, in
spite of considerable amount of neglect,
but with bee keeping it is different, and in
most cases the lack of prompt attention
means entire failure. The thoughtless, care
less person will surely fall in bee keeping.
He who is willing to give the subject his
last thoughts, and only turns his attention.
to that direction after every other duty has
been performed, will do well to leave this
work to others. Bees do not work for moth
ing and board themselves" they require a
reasonable amount OF intelligent care, Just
the same IS every thing else. 1t is certain,
however, that no department on the farm
has ever given larger returns for the outlay
than the bees; to this hundreds can testify.
We very often meet with thrifty farmers
who say that their bees bring them more
ready money than any other one thing in
connection with the farm. In almost everv
family composed of sew raj children, there
will be at least one who would make good
bee keeper if given a little encouragement
for a start. To begin the business, a person
should be moderate; very little money
should 60 into it until after carefully study
ing the subject. 1t is necessary to read a
good book on bee culture and quite import
ant to keep up with the times by taking a
good newspaper which gives reliable informa-
ton.
A single colony is sufficient for start, and
ought always by beginner to be purchased
by person regularly engaged in the bust
ness and who is not selling patent right OF
riding a hobby of his own. Simplicity in
in hives advised almost universally with
modern bee-keepers. Nearly every one in
dorsing patent hive has one for sale. and is
not a practical bee-keeper. All our standard
bee books caution beginners in regard to
this matter. The hives most generally used
in the United States is known as the Langs
troth hive, and bears no patent. No prose
cutions need be feared by any one manufac
turing or using it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Carrots as a Profitable Crop.

lfarm, f1eld ana StOckman.I
Farmers should make especially of carrots
as a farm crop in preference to turnips, al
though we prefer to advise the cultivation of
both crops. The carrot is usually neglected
simply because it requires considerable work
in the beginning of Its growth, which is not
so with turnips, which terminate quickly
and soon mature. But there are advantages
in favor of the carrot which make it prefer
able in many respects to all other root crops
In the first place the carrot keeps well dur
ing winter, and a large yield can be secured
from an acre OF ground. The crop is one
that supplies q change of food ia winter for
horses and cattle, while they do not affect
the milk or lDjure its flavor, but, on the
contrary, add to the quality and color
of the butter. In regard TO the difficulty 81
cultiyating carrots the labor is only at the
start, and much of il NAV be avoided by
working the soil in very fine condition aud
using well rotted manure. The rows should
be far enough apart to admit of the horse
hoe or cultivator, and the seed should be
dropped in stools one foot apart in order
TO allow of the hoe being used. As soon as
the seeds are sprouted out of the ground it
may be necessary to clean out the grass very
carefully, but after that the hoe will do all
the work necessary between the plants. If
the seed is sprouted in moist earth, placed
in warm place before planting, much time
will be saved. Once the young plants are
under way they soon take care of themselves,
as they send down long tap roots and, there
fore, endure drought well. Their great value
as a feeding crop for horses, steers cows,
hogs and sheep should make them a necessa-
~ adjunct to all farms.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16

walking horse does to the slow goer in what
ever kind of work no may be employed. In
blowing or hauling one fast team will prob
ably do as much work as two slow ones.
Such a team is worth more than twice the
value of a slow one, because it does double
the work at far less expense than two of
such.
The capacity of horse for fastewalking is
to a far greater. extent the subject of train
Ing, than his other gaits, and if taken in
time and persevered in, it is safe to say that
almost any colt may be developed into fast
walker. This fact is almost wholly ignored.
Young horses grow up from colthood as a
general thing without any sort Of systematic
effort to get them into this most useful habit
of walking rapidly. 1t is a big mistake. 1t
is surely worth good deal of time and at
tention to develop horses greatest capacity
for walking when it may add so much to his
real worth. Nor is the horse the only ami
NAL that may be trained to do more work by
doing it more quickly. Oxen, the proven
bially slow, may be trained to do almost as
much blowing or hauling as horses by not
being allowed to fall into slow, 'poky"
ways. The writer has known a number of
OK teams that did as much work as horses
just because they had been trained to quick
movements.
People too come into the same category.
Children should be trained from the earliest
infancy to do with dispatch whatever they
have to do. Habits formed in childhood
will remain for life. When once slow ways
of doing things have become a fixed habit
the children thus trained will make that
kind of people who can never be hurried
By all means train the young, both human
and animal, to move quickly, and it will
add to their efficiency all their life.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
A Man of Undoubted Integrity.
Providence Journal


Mr.. Holman, the old Indiana watch dog
made his annual speech on the subsidy ques-
ton. 1t is always listened to with respect by
Republicans and Democrats alike for all re-
spect the Judge for his undoubted integrity
and good intentions. Mr.. Holman has not a
spark of genius in his composition, but he is
wonderfully well-developed man re-
garding the legislation of the last twenty
five years, and he makes no mistakes. The
worst thing about him is his voice, which is
weak and dismal, and as he grows older de-
generates more and more into a whine. As
he warns up, however, he regains something
OF his old time vigor, and his sentences are
enunciated with clear ring. There is no
doubt about it. Holman is an effective
speaker. He commands attention in the
House. This is great tribute, as any one
who has ever looked upon the proceedings
of that turbulent bear garden knows. There
was not man within the four walls of the
House who did not hear the old watchdog
closing words:
~ protest against this presumption OF
wealth. l protest against system of legis-
lation which imperils the integrity of Con-
gress and invites unlawful and corrupt agen-
cies. / protest against legislation for the
benefit of the few ct the expense of labor. ]
protest against this whole system of subsidy,
which in ali ages has only created great es-
tates and filed the land with poverty. Aud
/ plead for the earlier and better system,
which secured to all men the equal protec-
ton of law and exact justice to all, protect.
ing all and granting favors to none"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
FARM NOTES.

A stick fattened at the end will be found
q help in planting flower seeds. Make a
shallow hole with the fat end of stick and
scatter the seeds into it, covering lightly.
The trees can be protected from field mice
by banking the trees up foot or so with soil,
and borers and rabbits can be kept away by
wrapping the turunk for foot above this
with tarred paper.
Cultivation has so affected the tomato that
the seeds are fast disappearing and bid fair
to pass out of existence entirely, as in case
of the banana, leaving the propagation of
the plants dependent on cuttings,
Permanent pasture lands are the main
anchor of agriculture, and the farmers of
this will find this out after a while, as they
already have in England, and will COM
mence seeding their land with permanent
grasses.
A number of European botanists have bad
reasons to believe that the seeds of many
New Zealand plants will not terminate units
they have been frozen. The same curious OBJ
servation has been made in relation to Him.
alayaD seeds.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
says that COW which at home viii test mp
to fourteen pounds Of butter week standard,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
MAILING A LIE.
The Mean Attempt of a Party Organ to Mis-
represent Postmaster Jones.

The following, credited to the New York
Tribune, appeared without comment in the
News of yesterday:
Reports of the queer doings of AquiIla Jones,
the Indianapolis Postmaster nave reached Wash
ington. Even Mr.. Villas is believed to regret now
that he yielded readily TO the solicitation of the
late Vice President Hendricks in this appoint
ment. The Grand Army men are lodging CON-
plants against Jones for the wholesale discharge
of crippled Union soldiers in the indianapolis
PostOfhee. Jones has been in Office now for lit
tie more than a year. In this time he has dis
charged ABOUT twenty Union soldiers. some OF
them BADLY wounded and disabled. Their places
have been filed By ward heeers of the worst sort.
Mr.. Jones, and not a single Republican has OBJ
tanned employment in his Office under the civil
service examinations had from time to time.
When Mr.. Jones took charge of the Office
there were ninety-two employees in the Post
office and Government building. OF these
twenty-eight were Union soldiers. In all
the changes made by him as Postmaster and
custodian so far, he has removed eighteen
old soldiers and appointed fourteen other
old soldiers in their places. There are ten
remaining of the old soldiers Mr.. Jones
found in Office, which, with the fourteen he
has appointed, makes twenty-folr now hold
ing positions, against twenty-eight when he
took the Office. When we reflect that the
Republicans have appointed but twenty
eight Union soldiers in twenty years, and
that Mr.. Jones has appointed four
think the Republicans have much to boast
Of The man who wrote this special from
Washington TO the New York Tribune may
have been only fool, writing of things he
knew nothing about; but the man who
copied it into the indianapolis News knew
it was lie, and could have no motive TO de-
fame the Postoffice and Mr.. Jones except
that he is a Democrat. And this is a paper
published at home where Mr.. Jones lives. a
paper that pretends to be non-partisan. and
mouths loudly for fair play and descent jour
nalism.
Anyone who doubts the statements here
made can see the names of those removed
and those appointed by calling at the Post
Office.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Losses from Soluble Fertilizers.
Harm Eield end stoekuoaD


There is heavy loss annually in this
country in improperly applying fertilizers
to the soil. Farmers do not consider that
the ingredients of the best and most availa-
bic fertilizers are soluble in water, and while
some are readily soluble, others are only
sIaringly so. For instance, nearly all the
forms of lime are insoluble, especially those
used for agricultural purposes, but plaster
(sulphate of ime) may be dissolved in q
large quantity of water. That is, it is only
very sparIngly soluble and does not quickly
pass off by leeching or washing and for that
reason single application of plaster during
the season will afford a constant supply of
that kind of plant food till the crop to
which it has been applied natures, as each
shower dissolves portion, and affords addi-
tiOnal prepared food for the plants but nj
trate of soda (saltpeter) dissolves very readi-
ly, and in small quantity of water, the re-
suit being that it is quickly and EASILY taken
up by the crop. The lime compounds not
being readily soluble are in direct contrast
with the salts of potash, all of which are
soluble. Superphosphate, which contains
free phOsphoric acid, is soluble but this SOL
utility Is partially arrested by the revision
the soil, but pure ground bone only gives off
its particles as it is decomposed.
To prevent loss of fertilizing material the
applications should be made in a manner so
as TO present them for dissolution in accord
ance with the texture of the soil and the re-
quirements of the plants. Ground bone, on
clay soils, may be applied in full quantity at
one operation, but of light, sandy soil the
amount should be reduced, and the bone APP
piled more frequently. Might, sandy soils
all kinds of soluble fertilizers do best when
they are applied at intervals. IL the desire
IS to apply mixed fertilizer of 800 pounds
per acre, better results will be obtained ii
80 pounds are applied early in the spring
and $50 pounds just before the seed is formed,
and if the soil is very sandy the 800 pounds
may be divided into three parts and applied
at three different times and the consequence
will be larger crop and more benefit from
the fertilizer than when the whole amount is
applied at one operation. Labor is bns q
small item in the application of artificial
fertilizers, as the amounts used are small and
they are applied broadcast, while the fire.
quent use keeps the plant food always near
the surface and always ready for the coming
rain, which dissolves it and gives the crop
! an abundant supply OF food.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
POULTRY.
White Plymouth Rocks, White WyandOttes
and Dirigos.

Professional poultrymen are continually
seeking Tor some new feature with which to
tempt persons attacked with the hen fever.
Their greatest success Just now is with White
Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks, snowy
plumage combined with the other fine char
acteristiCs of these noted breeds, making
them unusually persuasive agents in coaxing
dollars out of the pockets of customers. Both
have sprung from sports" term applied
to freaks of nature in poultry. Sometimes
one or more chickens in a brood will differ
distinctly from their mates in color, while
possessing all their other characteristics Sew
eral years ago breeder of Plymouth Rocks
was surprised to find white chicken in
brood Matched from supposedly pure Plym-
outh eggs,
As it grew to cockerelhood it developed
al the characteristics of its breed, bat re-
tanned its snowy plumage. In similar
Plymouth Rock pullet. The two were
mated, and the result has been the white va
riety. The origin of the white Wyandottes
was much the same, and while neither OF
these varieties have yet found place IN the
Standard, their trends claim they have as
much right there as the white Leghprns,
white DOrkings or white Games. Another
clear white breed of com paratively recent
origin is the Dirigo, possessing characters
tics of the Plymouth Rock, light Brahma
and Canada Game from which it is derived.
The average weight of the cocks is ten
pounds and of tn hens eight; the legs are
bright yellow and free from feathers; the
combs are erect and of medium size, and the
eggs are large and brown. The Dirigos are
said to be line table fowls and good layers
all the year round.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
A Political Parrot.

A well-known centennaran has Just died
in Paris. His name was Lenoir, and he was
1913 years old. Lenoir was a parrot, and a
parrot gifted with remarkable talent. 1t was
born in the reign OF Louis Seize, and has con-
sequently witnessed the rise and fall of a
large number of governments. 1t has never
quilted the house where it first saw the light,
having been handed down by will to no less
than ten different owners of the house. 1t be-
longed to no less than ten different families,
and its political notions were consequently
somewhat mixed. Lenoir was a capital
talker, and knew a number of phrases,
which it often brought out very NAL propos.
Since the reign of Charles Y. there was a
good deal Of difficulty in getting the bird to
learn anything new. However, a servant
with Radical sympathies taught him in a
few weeks TO say "Vive Gambettai" This il
occasionally varied with "a bas Robes
pierrep' which it had been accustomed &c
say during the Reign of Terror. The last
words of this remarkable bird were, it ap
pears, "Grace pour Marie Antoinette." 1t il
certainly wonderful, under the circum
stances, how Lenoir succeeded in escaping
the guillOtine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Thinning Fruit.
Michigan Horticulturist. ]


When planted in good soil, good thrifty
fruits will nearly always overload them
selves, and in order to secure the best smoth-
est and largest fruit, considerable thinning
must be done this is especially the case with
grapes and tree fruits.
Choice apples, peaches, pears. ounces; in
fact, the best of all kinds of fruit command
the best prices and always sell. Outlines the
market becomes glutted with poor fruits,
and the prices realized are really below what
it costs to produce them and sometimes they
can not be sold at any price, while at the
same time the choicest and best are selling at
a profitable price.
Too many fall into the error of thinking
that by thinning they lessen the quantity so
much that they prefer to let the fruit all re-
main. This is a mistake, as well as to think
that by thinning they lessen the profit on the
fruit. When a tree is heavily loaded the fruit
must necessarily be small and this will lessen
the quantity then the fruit being small Will
sell Tor a less price, and really cost more to
sell, and you really lose rather than make by
not thinning. Then in addition, when tree
or vine is allowedto overload and mature the
fruit it is a strain upon the vitality of the
tree, so much that a rest must be had and
the next year the tree will fail to bear.
Whenever tried judiciously, thinning fruit
always pays; but it requires considerable
courage when the trees are laden with young
fruit 10 go over and pull off and throw away
a considerable portion of the fruit To one
who has never tried it, at first it would seem
like a waste; yet it has been tested sufficient
| ly TO prove lis value.
The work, of course, should be done early,
as soon after the fruit has set as possible
The longer the fruit grows after setting, the
more waste Of vitality of the tree, that should
go TO the other fruit that il left upon the
tree to mature. 1t should be done as evenly
as possible all over the tree, thin so as 10
| give each specimen left as much room a.
| possible. Close crowding is what often makes
| ill-shaped fruit. If you have never been r
| the habit of thinning try afew trees first t.
| see the effect, aud in q majority of cases yor
| will conclude that IL is beneficial.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
Balled Bees.
[Parairie Farmer.I

In walking among the hives / noticed in
front OF one Of them ball of bees as large
as a walnut. / conjectured that queen was
the center of this nucleus and poking of
the bees and thereby getting several stings,
found ! was correct. | caught the queen,
held her in my enclosed hand, and procur-
ing queen cage to put her in, went into a
closed room before a win low, so if she got
away, she could be caught upon the glass.
L did not discover the colony to which she
belonged, as all the bees | offered her to re-
jected her; so introduced her into a queen.
less colony.
To save queen when balled, throw the
entire mass into water; then self-preserva-
ton will occupy the attention of each bee,
and she can be picked out without danger
from stings or of inluring the queen. 1t is
risky to pick off the bees from balled
queen, as they in the excitement are liable
to sting her. Queens do not sting, but the
sensation of holding one in the closed hand
is peculiar.
The first swarm of this year issued May %
There would probably have been earlier ones
if brood had not been taken from the strong
to build MP the weaker. This swarm issued
about n and clustered upon small peach
tree. ook hive full of frames of comb
and put it near the cluster, with broad
cover in front Of it, and scraped off some o!
the cluster with my hands upon the cover
in front of the hive, and drove them in with
a little smoke. When they had all entered
the hive, placed it upon its summer stand
Some bee-keepers recommend putting
frame of unsealed brood into the hive of {
swarm to prevent its leaving, as bees do mo-
desert uncapped brood. l have never found
it necessary, as bees will seldom desert
clean, cool hive placed in the shade as soor
as put in it. If old hives are used, they have
heretofore been thoroughly cleansed; if new
one, rinsed with cold water to remove dus
and freshen them.