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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
Plant More RYE.

Rye is crop that can be made to
render more service to the farmer and
dalryman than any other, yet it is more
frequently overlooked and discarded
than 1t should be. 1t is plant that not
only endures the cold of winter and the
heat of summer, but it will grow on the
richest soil or the poorest sandy land.
In some sections it is really the clover of
sandy soils, for without its aid and the
advantages of green manuring would be
unavailable, and as it can be made to i'm
part more to the soil than it takes from
1t there Is no risk in growing it under
any conditions. Even the seed is cheap.
whlle the cultivation necessary is very
little as compared with other crops. As
profitable grain crop it is behind oats,
wheat, barley and corn, but the straw is
more valuable than that of any other
crop, for which it is sometimes grown
alone.
Leaving out the value as a grain crop
entirely it still ranks high in more ways
than one. The fact that it can be sold
III the fall and made to produce a late
supply of green food after other grasses
cease growing should prompt farmers
TO devote space to rye every season, but
its usefulness extends further. The Sc
we're cOldof the hardestwinters will not in
Jure II, and early in the spring, long before
grass begins to grow, rye appears in its
green condition to afford a supply of sue
culent herbage 10 the stock at a time
when 1t Is most needed 1t allows the
stock the privilege of eating of the
early growth, aud when the gIass ap-
pears, and the grass is no longer re-
qulred, 1t will grow cut again and make
a crop OF grain. 1t can then, in early
spring, II preferred by the farmer, be
ploughed under instead of being allowed
to seed, and it will provide an excellent
manure for the corn crop.
In one respect rye is a cheap crop
because 1t requires no land for its growth,
to certain extent. That is, if the seed
IS sown in the fall on land intended for
corn In the spring, and tine rye turned
IN before planting corn, the rye simply
Eolds the land that would otherwise be
unoocupled during the winter 1t is
also excellent on land intended for pota-
toes, and as it assists in keeping down
weeds 1t saves much labor in that re.
spect.
As rye can be pastured at nearly all
stages OF growth and can be turned un-
der as a green manurial agent at any
time, the farmer who fails to SOW it will
deprive himself and his stock of a most
valuable plant, aud as it can be seeded
down at any time at this season the land
Tor that purpose should be prepared with.
out delay. OF course il thrives best on
rich land, but even The poorest sol
should be sowsd. 10 rye rather than e
leave It unoccupied. d.-MsD York Herald
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Plant cucumbers for late pickles.
Near the close of q journey let the
horse walk.
Bran will pay the milk seller, but oats
the butter-maker.
Never wash horse with cold water
when he is heated.
Use land in which some cultivated
crop grew last year.
The cropping process diminishes the
supply of plant foods.
The humble COW pea does not receive
the attention it merits.
Sheep are often injured by roaming
through tall, wet grass.
1t is inhuman to allow a sharp -spurred
rooster to run with hens.
Swedish turnips, parsnips and carrots
are all excellent for fIttening hogs.
If the hog pasture gets short this
month, roots and pumpkins can be used
TO supplement it.
Ducks may be proftably raised on
farms where there are no streams or ponds
OF water for them.
Do not use coal oil or grease of any
kind on a sitting hen; it will prevent
the eggs from Matching.
The evening milk has been proven by
recent English dairy tests to contain
more solids than the morning milk.
The net food may be taken at about
two-thrds the value of the ration. The
balance is the value of the manure
The dairyman has a good chance to
do some independent thinking on politi.
cal matters this fall. When he has
thought sufficiently let him vote intelli.
gently.
A poor COW in the dairy is like a dull
tool in a carpenters eyes 1t requires
the expenditure of large percentage of
energy TO obtain small percentage OF
result.
One OF the corner stones of success in
sheep raising is to draft out heavily but
iudiciously at least once each year. there
is no TING at which a sheep can be so
accurately sized up as when sheared.
Do not stint your horses in the use OF
salt, especially in the spring time. A
horse ought TO have pound a week OF
it, if he wants it. Throw it in the end
os his box; then he can help himself as
he wishes.
Young colts are as fond of petting as
kittens are, and little fondling every
day will do them good. By being han
died Kindly often, they soon become
gentle and docile, and are much more
easily handled when they become horses,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
An INJURY as tn Onr FInr.

Which is the correct form: "Star
and stripes" or "stripes and starsl"
Logically, 'stripes and stars" is tn,
correct form; the act of Congress o
April t. 1918, by which our present fla.
is authorized, dec ares that ''the flag o
the Tn ted States be thirteen hon2onta
stripes, alternate red and white, tha
the Union be twenty stars, white on
blue field and that, on the admission o
n new State into the Union, one star bt
added to the union of the flag From
this it is evident that the stripes are tn,
more important, and that therefore they
should precede. But custom has ordained
that the stars shall preccde the stripes
and as neither name is Official for the
flag it doesn't make a bit of difference
Mo- York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
The Question of Sheep Washing.

English authorities are divided as TO
the advantages Of sheep'washing. Most
OF the wool received there from France
La Plata and South Australia comes un-
washed, and packed in its natural grease.
In the latter countries the wool is of
more importance than the meat. and it
may be reasonably assumed that grow
ers know and follow the best plan of
dealing with the tlcCces. Where sheen
are kept on grass lands there is no press
ing necessity for washing, but where
they are fed on tillage lands. say the
English farmers, it is almost absolutely
essential to remove the soil and dirt. The
washing of sheep always aries away
from the skin of the animal natural
oily soap called suint, which is very
soluble In water, with the result that the
wool becomes harsh and dry and re-
duced in value for many manufacturing
purposes. Unwashed wool should be a
double advantage to the grower. as it
ought to fetch a larger price, and the
Fost of washing would be saved. In
cases where sheep must be washed, it is
advisable to perform the operation in
pond or tub, rather than in running
stream, as the suint does not flow away,
put is taken up or at least a portion Of
It--by the fleece of the animal as it
energies from the ewater.-American CRl-
't0at0r.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
swine-Breeding for Size.

The fancies of men do so vary that il
is not po sible at any given period to say
in what shape or in what condition 4
given commodity may be most salable
! The time was when cream cheese would
not sell to consumers, if under one year
old or approaching that age. Now, rich
! cream, fresh from the hands of the maker
! is esteemed luxury. IL is not long since
the center of the berry was thought best
for producing superior flour. Now, that
which is obtained from close proximity
to the hull, or bran, is counted best Of
ALL
1t is within the memory of many that
the large breed of swine, notably the
Poland Chinas and Chester Whites, rot
their "stnd-off" to quite degree through
possessing large size. The same was true
of the beef breeds of cattle, notably
short horns. We remember well when
1t was counted a serious defect in a short
horn beast not to be large--extra large
symmetry n5t being considered of first
Importance, as now. As to swine, the
ancients bred for size, and history tells
us that great weights and extraordinary
thickness of meat were bred for and at.
tanned.
Prior to the great depreciation that oc-
CURED to live-stock-growing and general
agriculture during the middle ages saw
up to the sixteenth century-preat
weights were attained to. Narro tells of
a cut of swine meat that was sent by a
peasant to Nolumnius, Senator, that
measured a 'foot and three fingers in
thickness. Another Roman historian
mentions a Lusitanian hog, whose meat
when cut up, measured one foot and
three inches in thickness.
We have accounts of great weights,
approaching the period when the i'm
provements In farm stock took place. A
specimen of the old Berkshire breed is
stated to have attained the weight of
1880 pounds. In 1774 hog was killed,
having a reported weight of 100 pounds,
with length of close to ten feet, and a
height of four feet and five inches. The
writer, when boy, was in Cincinnati.
Ohio, at the time of the exhibition of a
spotted hog, brought to the city from
Butler County, Ohio, whose weight was
said to be 1895 pounds. A small fat.
boat was built, on which this hog was
iioated down the river to New Orleans,
being exhibited on the way. This was
about 1888. This hog was doubtless of
the Poland China sort.
Size, other things being equal, was,
not many years since, to quite degree
the thing that governed the price in our
leading markets. But it is different now
at any rate, it is to quite degree.
Yet, should the eXactions of the market
change calling again for very large
hogs, swine are 50 readily nodded, and
breed 90 rapidly, that the caprices of the
markets can be met to an extent not at
tainaGle by any other class of live stock.
As is well known to breeders, there are,
in pretty much every litter, pigs that
are shaped for a greater growth than
Others in the same litter, and nothing is
more certain than that by selecting
these, breeding of like kind, not akin,
upon them, large size would be promptly
secured. Prairie Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

The chief advantages of winter ovel
summer dairying, says a writer in tho
Country Gentleman, consist in having
the greater part Of the seasons make OF
butter to sell when the price is highest
IN having less trouble to make and mar
kct good article in cool weather; in
making the milking season considerably
longer. and the quantity for the season
considerably greater; and in being able
TO raise better calves, because they will
beso much older and larger than spring
calves to eat grass in the summer and
endure the rigors of the ensuing winter
The disadvantage is in having to feed
more meal and bran to make good win
ter butter and to keep up full flow of
milk till grass comes, when the meal can
be taken away without the yield falling
OIL, though if it be continued the flow
will increase. Feeding literally with
meal and bran makes winter butter cost
more than grass butter, but the higher
prices of the winter market more than
pay the additional expense for feed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
Hons Eating Errs.

In answer to question, remarks the
fraw'e Farmer, we can simply reiteratc
what we have stated many times hereto
fore. A hen that becomes addicted to
eating eggs cannot easily be broken. II
she is not killed as soon as she is found
eating eggs, she will soon teach others
to do the same. The taste is acquired
generally by finding broken eggs in the
nest, or elsewhere. Then the fowl begins
to break the shells to get at the meat.
Thin-shelled eggs are easily broken.
The remedy for thin.shelled eggs is to
keep the fowls supplied with plenty of
lime in some form. Ground oystor-shell
are excellent for this.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

lenhNson IN his exquisite poem, dreams of n
long procession of lovely women OF ages past
lhls IS all very well, but the laureate would
nave done the world greater service il he had
oIlE toid the women Of the present how they
could improve their health and enhance their
Charlns. This he might easily have done by
recommending the use Of Or. Pierce's Favorite
ilescrlpuon, Health Is the best friend of
beauty, and the innumerable ills 10 which wo-
men are peculiarly subject, its worst enemies
long eTperlenes-hps proven that the health of
walk hand in hand, and are inseparablc IL is
tnr only medicine for women, sold by drug
glsts, under positive guarantee from the man
utacturers, that il will give satisfaction in
every. eslses=er. money will be refunded. This
ss3Sf"nteo has been printed on the bottle
Mrapper and faithfully carried out for many
years. '
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
Temperance News and Notes.

There is in East Delhi, n. Y, a temperance
school with about 20 pupils.
One hundred and sixty-fve drunkards die
every day. That was Horace GTeeley's
estimate twenty years ago.
Ten of the Baptist Associations of Penn
sylvania declared last year for prohibition by
constitutional amendment
One of the special features of the Interna-
tional Temperance Convention to DO held in
Melbourne, Australia, is an exhibition of
temperance journalistic literature from all
parts Of the world.
Mrs. Leavitt, who is now in Ceylon, writes
there has been much more temperance work
done in that country than in most places in
India. Bands of Hope are common and
there are some total abstinence societies of
adult men.
The petition being prepared by the tenn
perance women OF England, for presentation
TO the Queen, asking that the har-rooms be
closed on Sunday, already weighs several
hundred pounds, aud contains nearly mill
ion signatures.
In 1886 as many as 1854 soldiers in the
British army were fined for drunkenness,
about half Of them being fined more than
once. In addition, l4l9 men were punished
by courtmartial for being drunk on duty,
and l772 for simple drunkenness.
"The saloonkeeper is alcohol's soldier; he is
Americas danger and disgrace. Do not /
pray you, go OH into the regions Of the alb
stract and dream of the possible saloon
keeper-the law abiding citizen, engaged IN
licit bartering, honest and honorable in his
dealings with his customers. Study him ia
actual life. ~ Bishop Ireland.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
Letter From the EN-SherifGf ChautauQua
County, New York.

MAfNlLLE, y. v, Dec. . 1885.
am glad to say, from a long personal ex-
perience with ALLcoCR's PoRoUs PLAsTERs,
that ! am able to endorse all the good things
that have ever been said about them, and sup
plement these by saying that frankly believe
their value cannot be estimated. Their breadth
OF usefulness is unlimited, and for prompt and
sure relief 10 almost every ache aud pain that
flesh is heir to, no other remedy. in my opinion,
either external or Internal, equals them in GER
tainty and rapidly. / have used them at one
time for rheumatism, another for backache,
again for bronchitis, always with the same re-
sult-a speedy cure, L. T. HARRINGTON.
Fires on the stock ranges in Northwestern
Montana and Idaho have done an immense
amount of damage
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

The richest mine in Australia, If not
IN the world, is the Mount Morgan, Of
Queensland. One of the Roths,hilds
once offered ei9, 900, 600 for it, and the
offer was refused. Its value is variously
estimated at from 500, 600, 900 to $780,
600, 0JO.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

Bishop Crowther, Of the Niger Mission, has
received from the Mohammedan Emir of
Nupe, West Africa, this message. 1t is not
a long matter; it is about barasa trum
Barasa, barasa, barasa 1t has ruined our
country II bas ruined our people very much
Malam klpo, don't forget this writing, be-
cause We ali beg that they shoIld beg the
Engllsh Queen 10 prevent bringing barasa
into this land p
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

Woe unto him that gireth his neighboy
drink, that putteSt thv bottle 10 him, and
mdkeSt him drunken diSo.-Hab. II, 10.
The wicked worketh deceitful work: but
to him that soweth righteousness shall be
true reward.--Rev. II, is.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
To-Night aud To-lIorrow Niqbt

Anu eaeh day and night during the week you
can get AT all druggists Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, acknowledged to be the
most successful remedy ever sold for the cure
OF Coughs, Group, Bronchitis, Whooping
Cough, Asthma, and Consumption. Get a bot
tie to-day and keep it always in the house, so
you can check your cold at once. Price SOC
and 81. Sample bottles free.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

~, Au1t VINO enter herCl
. 80 ran the dire warning which Dante read on
the portals Of the Inferno So runs Tho crnei
verdict of your friends if You are overtakcn by
the hrst SYMPTOMS Of that terrible disease CON
sumption; EeaNe hope behind Your DAYS are
numbercdM" Aud the suggestion against death
Is SNNcn up in despair. But while there is life,
lhcfc Is hope! DIR. licrCe's Golden Medical Dis
toNcrN has cured hundreds Of cases worse than
yours; and i VIII cure YOU, ii taken in time.
but uSi4y Is dangerous. No power can restore
RWRsted lung; the Golden Medical niscnv-
cry however, can aud will arrest the disease.
Forests are springing up on the abandoned
mines ana mining towns in California.
lfafflicted with sore eyes use Or. Isaac Thomp.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

everyone thinks paid from S. to $40 for
it, when the TACT is it cost me nothing
for | consider my magazine worth four
or five times what pay for it. l used
to buy at least S3 worth Of patterns a
year, but now each one of my magazines
contains an order emitting me to any
pattern OF any size l want l therefore
get my pictures free, my patterns free,
and magazine, besides, that my whole
family anxiously watch for So we are
all pleased. If you send 10 cents to the
publisher, w. Jennings Demorest, IS
East llth street, New York, you will re-
ceive a specimen number. You will
certainly lose nothing, for in it you will
find "Pattern Order worth 30 cents,
which if you do not care to use you can
pass over to me, and / will give you the
10 cents you paid for the specimen copy
for it.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Conducted 90 the Tionesta Union.

The w. G. T. U. meets the Cd and 4th
Tuesday of each month, at p. m.
President-Mrs Eli Holeman.
Vice Presidents-Mrs. J. G. Dale, Mrs.
w. J. Roberts.
Recording Sec'y-Mrs. L. A. Howe.
Cor. Sec. and Treas. s. ID. Irwin.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
Whisky in the Woods.

In the New York Observer, Augustus. ~
writing from Among the Lakes and Of
Whisky in the Woods says:
"Some come to the woods for other
purposes than those of health or sport. 1t is
sad fact that many parties seek the
sec usions of nature for the sake Of dissipa-
ton, and that many party whose professed
ann Is TO shoot, seldom hit anything except a
bottle during their stay in the woods, and
come out more shaky than they went in.
Such men do much to demoralize all Of our
pleasure resorts, but their influence here is
most unfortunate upon young sportsmen, and
especially upon the guides. Upon the in
telllgence self-contrOl and sobriety of these
guides not only the pleasure of the traveller,
but often his life depends. Sudden gusts of
wind come down upon the lakes requiring
the watchfulness and prompt action on the
part OF the man who manages the frail canoe
IN which you travel; in the wilder districts a
man needs to have all his senses
wide awake to avoid losing the
trail or to meet unexpected emer-
gencies, and the guide who is ABDUCTED
to the whisky bottle as some of them are.
is most unsafe pilot or woodsman. There
sion growing out of this habit of drinking
A guide, who deliberately shot a man in a
quarrel this summer, is now roaming about
in Hamilton and Franklin Counties, while a
reward OF one thousand dollars for his cap-
ture is posted in the holes and public places
Since the murder he has come into some of
the inns with his gun cooked, demanded
food, received it, and been allowed to depart
In general the guides are trusty, good-tem
pered, and laborious: but the tendency of as
soclatlon in large hotels with a dissipated
crowd. or in camps with those who have
come here to avoid social restrictions. is
most injurious TO these simple and easily in
huenced woodsmen.b
Thus it will be seen that the whisky,
which causes such havoc in large cities, is
not less peril even in the wilderness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

The Bank of England has Just finished
a series of experiments with electric
light and likes it so well that it has de-
cided 10 adopt it permanently instead Of
gas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

Offensive breath vanishes with the use of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

New York 5 largest free library, the Appren
tees, often circulates 100 volumes day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14
In China girls are not obliged to 90 to
sseeel q t-atls'e4 4EAsiE nasltiepsJR, the en-
is made for their education.

/
Mrs. f. L. Knowles, of Montana, who
Is studying law, has been appointed
notary pnbic-the only woman in the
territory holding that Office.
The Empress of Japan is rapidly be-
coming the best, Informed woman of her
time. She is a hard student of,German,
Russian, French and Italian.
Cancels hair cheviots, soft vet fine,
come in cloth shades bordered with a
deeper tone, and are among the most de-
sirable of all the seasons Offering.
Jet black birds arc worn with straw
or felt hats. The black and suede
straws are faced with black velvet, a
plating OF lace lying next the face.
Elbow rufiles of sheer muslin, simply
hemmed, and standing frills, with long
fichu ends, or else coming down tho
front of the bodice, are quantity pretty.
In England women are ag lin taking tc
wearing CATERS. The are made to
measure and are of almost any kind OF
cloth. The favorite, however, is the or
dinary drab.
The fashionable hat should look as
though it had been put7on wrong side
foremost. All nat trimmings are placed
far at the back, and the front is quito
bare OF any ornament.
The wife of Senator Sherman is one OF
the leading horticulturists of this coun.
try. She not only knows all of the at
fractions of the garden but understands
how to make them thrive.
Mrs. Harvey, of Shauklin, Isle OF
Wight has founded an institution there
which is doubly philanthropic. 1t is
home for old ladies and training -schooi
for servants at the same time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

The weather vane in the shape of 0
large grasshopper, which adorns Faneuil
Hall in Boston, is said to have been
placed there by the owner of the hall,
who was also a wholesale grocer, as 0
sign of his occupation The grasshoppel
was the sign OF the Wholesale Grocers
Association Of Boston. Mr.. Faneuil was
prominent member of this association.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

Cure Waranted-asth bronchitis, cough,
Group. Use tontaipe's Cure and Liniment.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

A. young girl al Racine, Wis, dislocated her
neck whiA getting Out of bed
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-14

In Peru there is a station on the
Andes IA, 500 feet above the sea.