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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Potatoes in Apple Orchards.

Shade is demoralizing to the potato
beetle, and the latter preferably seeks
the sunlight to deposit its eggs on po-
tato leaves. There is a popular belief
among farmers that the potato beetle is
less destructive to potatoes planted in
apple orchards than to those in open
fields. To this extent the belief is proba-
bly, warranted. Farther than this, where
apple trees abound the lady bug is apt to
be numerous. 1t is attracted to the apple
by the plant lice, which often attack the
foliage of this tree early in the spring.
The lady bug and its larva destroys the
eggs of these plant lice, and after these
are gone they take up their home On the
potato plant, and thrive on the eggs of
the potato beetle. The lady bug makes
it's home in winter under the rough bark
of old apple trees, and in sheltered
places under their trunks. Thus they are
good supply to begin with, and in moist.
wet seasons will alone sometimes keep
the potato bug from doing much damage
to the crop on the shade of apple trees.
But as no wages are paid to these indus
trious little workers, the potato grower
must not rely upon their aid alone. IT
he does not himself keep a sharp eye on
his crop, his insect friends, however bene-
fetal as auxiliaries. will leave him in the
lurch. 1t is not safe for him to depend
on aught save his own vigilance. If he
uses this he cannot be cheated. -Ameri-
:Gn CulticGtOr.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Copperas as a Fertilizer.

Favorable reports from France re-
garding copperas as a fertilizer have
caused considerable inquiry of late.
COpperas has been recommended from
abroad as valuable dressing for different
crops. 1t is claimed that copperas pre-
vents mildew, and very weak solution
destroys moss, etc, the spores of mildew.
An explanation of the favorable effect of
copperas. IS that it increases the pow er
of the plant for assimilation; there is a
large percentage of fibre and nitrogen,
but the incl eased crops are not due to a
supply of sulphuric acid by the copperas,
as superphOsphates containing an
abundance Of the acid proved to have
less effect.
One of the Connecticut station
bulletins cites an instance where
copperas was used as an experiment in
this country on corn with good results.
The chemist of the station, while ap-
proving of more experiments in this
direction, does not believe that copperas
will be found generally helpful. H0
points out that it VII be injurious to
plants when applied in too large
quantities, but that it may be found of
advantage on rich galden land that has
had an abundance of other fertilizer
material for many years. The general
belief in this country is that copperas as
fertilizer has little if any value-Ne10
York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24

comes from the atmosphere by being
strained out in the mellow soil, or from
the subsoil by capillary attraction
Whatever may be the explanation agreed
upon by scientists, farmers are concerned
only with the practical fact that the
moisture is there if the soil is mellow,
and is not there if it is hard And,
further, it is very certain that if the
surface is often roughed up and tnrned
over by tillage, the evaporation will be
fastened. On the other hand. if the
surface is nearly level and is underlain
by six inches or more of very mellow
soil, it may lie for weeks in a severe
drouth and yet retain moisture so near
the top that a slight kick with the toe
of the boot will reveal it. If the soil Is
all run together like mortar when the
drouth sets in, it will dry out fast and
become hard, and the plants will suffer-
The prospect is gloomy at best; probably
the wisest course to pursue would be to
break the Jumps up as fine as possible as
quickly as may be. with some imple-
ment running shallow to create the
dust-mulch; then let it alone until rain
CANES"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Curing a BaIRy Horse.

All who have had any experience with
balky horses, says writer in the Farm,
Field md StOckmGq, know it is no pleasure
to deal with them. We have always held
that the habit of baking was generally
formed through the carelessness or ignor-
ance of some driver, that it was a habit
for which the horse was not wholly to
blame. Any helps to overcoming this
habit are always welcome.
My horse would pull we'll on plow or
harrow double, and on a wagon single,
but when hitoh to a wagon double, he
was quite likely to balk. l can now
work him anywhere, single or double,
and he has not baked once for a year.
After trying the horse jockey tricks with
out success, | went to work upon plan
of my own, which may be stated in a few
words I simply cultivated his forgetful-
ness
When taken out of the barn and
hitched to wagon, in the first place he
would remember his old habit. but if
worked an hour or two on harrow be-
fore hitching to a wagon, ne would in all
probability forget to balk. Again, there
were particular places where he was &C
custOmed to balk; just before getting to
one of these places / would rein him on
one side or give him an ear of corn,
which tasted SC nicely that he could
think of nothing else, and so he would
forget to balk.
That is the key to the whole bust
ness, and one thing more can be said.
Watch the ears of your horse, and when
you see that he is going to stop, say
''whoar' and when he stops he will
think he did so because you told him TO
stop, and will generally start at the
word If he refuses to start, do not
whip him nor unhitch at once, but have
some hay in your wagon, let him eat ten
minutes till he forgets the trouble, then
back up and turn around, and you will
be surprised at the progress you will
make in effectlng a permanent cure.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Keeping Sweet Coru.

This easy way of keeping sweet corn,
recommended 10y the New ork Iri une,
Han be readily tried: When the corn is
tot too old cut it from the cob and put
INTO stone jar with one-eighth measure
Of salt, or more-it cannot be made too
salt. Cover and weigh. 1t must always
be covered with brine. But lady found
that even her cow wouldn't eat corn thus
treated. But later she learned that after
being drained out of the brine it must
and put into fresh water for short
time, repeating this the third time,
when it is excellent seasoned with but
ter, pepper and milk or cream, with
spoonful of sugar to each quart of corn.
Just scald this and then serve.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
To sweeten a Tainted Barrel.

A tainted meal barrel may be best
sweetened by charring it. 1t may be
cured by shaking some lime in il and
then we'll washing it, but it is easier to
char it. Put a small quantity of dry
shavings in the barrel and set them on
fire and let them burn out. The barrel
may then be swept out or washed and
used again at once. If lime is used, put
peck of it freshly burned into the bar
rel, and pour pailful of warm water
on it. When it is slaked down add
boiling water until it is thin enough to
stir round with broom, and thorough
iy rinse the barrel several times during
two days. Then wash it clean with
fresh water.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Recipes.

PRINCESS POTATOES. cold
mashed potatoes into balls, brush them
with melted butter, then with beaten
egg, and place them in baking pan.
Bake in a very hot oven until a golden
brown.
CHICKEN PIE.-Joint and boil until
nearly done, and season with salt and
pepper make dough with -four, baking
powder and butter as if for biscuit, roll
out about an inch thick, cut into squares
two inches in size, and drop them into
the pot while boiling, keeping the pot
covered until done, which will be in
twenty or thirty minutes; keep a kettle
of boiling water to pour some in as the
water boils away.
SQUASH. summer squashes are good
only when young, fresh and tender.
Wash and cut into quarters or small
pieces The skins and seeds need not
be removed. Cook in boiling, sailed
water twenty minutes, or until tender.
Place the squash in a strainer cloth and
mash until smooth then squeeze the
cloth until the squash i dry. Add little
cream or butter, salt and pepper and heat
again before serving.
RHUBARB JAM.-Cut the Rhubarb into
pieces about an inch long mot peeled,
put three quarters of a pound of powdered
sugar to every pound of rhubarb and
leave till morning. pour the syrup from
it and boil till it thickens, then add the
rhubarb and boil gently quarter of an
hour; tie down with tissue paper dipped
in white of egg. 1t will keep good foI
a year and is excellent. If the flavor OF
ginger is liked, you can boil some ginger
root in a muslin bag along with the
syrup.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Too Much TilIage.

A Florida correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer writes: 81 oppose emphatically
the notion of many farmers that cultiva-
ton must continue uninterruptedly
through drouth. This would cause
more injury than benefit. a dust mulch
IN order to answer the purposes of a
mulch, must be let alone; if it is stirred
all the while the dry soil is mingled with
the moist and the driving out process is
accelerated. Experience in blowing corn
during a drouth has often shown me this
forcibly. If the ground is as clean and
as mellow several inches deep as it
should be after the drouth has we'll set in,
cultivation should cease, as weeds will
not come up much until the surface is
wet again. 1 repeat, mulch fails of its
best purpose unless it is let alone. I
will not here enter into the mooted
question as to the source of the moisture
In the soil during a drouth-whether it
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Lunch Dishes.

Lunches are less formal gatherings
than parties, receptions, and the like,
says lady correspondent of the Prairie
Farmer, and the refreshments are usual
ly much simpler. Being generally given
in the middle of the day when the ma
jority of the gentlemen are engaged in
business, ladies constitute the principal
attendants. Hats are worn or not as
preferred. Some only serve chocolate
or coffee with waters, oat meal or other
thin crackers, either with or without
cakes and ice cream. A little more
elaborate lunch includes with coffee and
chocolate, thin sandwiches, or thin slices
of bread and butter, sliced chicken,
boned turkey, or some other nice cold
meat, and some kind of salad as shrimp,
lobster or chicken salad. After the
plates are removed, if in the berry sea-
son, ice cream and cake with berries are
served. No doubt in other localities
different customs prevail, but the idea of
the lunch i lot so much to bring friends
together for the display of toothsome
dishes, as for the Interchange of friendly
greetings and the renewal of pleasant
friendships.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

For corn, stir the soil often.
Cut grain before it is too ripe.
Keep the tools sharp and clean.
Assert fruit we'll for marketing.
Sow some sweet corn for fodder.
Good field drink-Oatmeal water.
Wire makes the best fencing fol
poultry yards.
Buttermilk is a good summer drink
for both town and country.
Working teams should be given a
period of rest, and water in the mid
forenoon and mid afternoon.
A decoction of tobacco-boiled in
water and used cold the next days
said to have been found effectual against
the current worm.
Chickens and hogs kept together
won't work; you will find you have
raised very dear pork. 1t don't work tc
keep old and young stock together
keep them separate.
When bees rob one another's hives,
contract the entrance to the smallest
space possible; it compels the robbers to
pass in singiy, thus enabling the bees
inside to repel them.
The difference between poor butter and
good, as measured in the market, is al
ways great enough to pay for good
service in the dairy, where skill is the
prime factor in securing profit.
The farmer who carries a note book in
his pocket and jots down his mistakes
as well as his successes in farm work,
will have a very interesting and profit
able book for reference next season.
To make hens lay we'll give them
plenty of pure water. Water enters
largely into the composition of an egg.
and you will therefore see the need OF
giving them plenty of it-pure and
clean.
Blue-gr is the better for pasture.
Orchard grass is a little earlier in the
spring. but does not make as much feed
through the season, Sow fifteen pounds
bluegrass seed to the acre, and twenty
five pounds of orchard grass.
Pine straw, or needles" make very
good litter for stables and an absorbent
of the liquid manure. But of them
selves they are not of much Talue. They
contain six pounds of phosphate of lime
per 1000 pounds, but very little other
useful matters.
There is perhaps not nook or corner
on the average farm but what may be
used Tor some kind of crop that will pay
we'll for the raising, and the corners that
are now eye-sores and bugbears may be
sources of income that are not exceeded
by any other parts of the farm.
Attacks of the cattle gadfiy which
produce the tumors or MARBLES on the
backs of cattle that are so common, may
be avoided by applying carbolic wash
or crude petroleum to the backs OF cat
tie in July and August. Strong butter
is a useful application to keep off the fly
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24

Street Lady-"Will you spend the
summer in Washington, Mrs. Hard1p z"
Mrs HI suppose so. It's all I've
got to spend. p Washington Critic.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
Protection of Clothing from Moths.

It is doubtful if there is any known re-
liable and unobj ectionable means of pro-
tecting clothing from the moth, except
ing that of tightly inclosing it in some
material not subject to the ravages of
this insect. A correspondent of the
Manutacturer md B tiLder writes: Il
have had clothing badly moth-eaten
while kept in a bureau made wholly of
red cedar, but have never known the
moth to enter tightly tied sack of cot
ton cloth. For the preservation of an
overcoat, for example, through the sum-
mer, the following is recommended:
Take piece of unbleached cotton sheet
ing, 40 inches wide and about 10 inches
longer than the coat; fold lengthwise
and sew the side and one end, thus form
ing sack ten inches longer than the
coat and 224 inches in width. Thor
oughly brush the coat, and hang it up
by stout cord six or eight inches in
length, passed through the usual tape on
the inside of the collar. While thus sus-
pended draw the sack upward over the
coat, gather the upper end of the coat
closely around the suspending cord, and
tie tightly with another cord. Let the
coat hang until needed for use. When
taken out it will be found free not only
from the ravages Of the moth, but from
dust and wrinkles also"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
A REMARKABLE CURE
Haemony, the King Of Herbs

Los ANGELES, December 4, 1888.
G. III. Webb, Esq, 210 East First Street, Los
Angeles, Cal;
DEAR siR-I wish, for the benefit of sufferers
with Rheumatism or Stomach troubles, to sub
scribe the following. 1t has been my misfor-
tune to be sufferer with Rheumatism at differ
ent periods of my life. Two attacks lasting
nearly two years each.
About four months ago was prostrated with
an aggravated case of InlammatOry Rheuma-
tism in my knees. hands, wrists, etc. Also had
Sciatica in my right thigh and some pains in
my back. After seven weeks. in bed. with q
prospect OF as many months before me, q frien
recommended Haemony. / procured a bottle,
and after taking six teaspoonsful, or six doses,
In three days, was able to go down town on q
pair of crutches In q weeks time the crutches
were put aside, and to-day 1 am enjoying my
usual good health, with no pains or soreness.
have suffered for years with Dysr epsia,
Water lBrssh, Sour Stomach, ETC., and to my
Haemony am entirely cured, and can eat as
healthy as when q child, and am not distressed
thereby. i cannot say too much for Haemony.
Very truly yours,
E. B. BUCHER,
d6.1m 612 Beaudry avenue.
G. H. Webb Sole Agent. Send for circulars
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
BROKEN EGGS.
A Lively Scene ON Commercial
Street.

A Lively Scene ON Commercial
street.
Yesterday morning L. A. Dabney, who
lives at the Palmer House, drove in a
buggy with an acquaintance of his to the
White House, on Commercial and Los
Angeles street, where they expected to
find frankie Dale, against whom they
had bill to collect. Dabney staid out
side in the carriage, while his friend,
who, it ought to be remarked, had been
drinking pretty freely, went upstairs to
ask frankie for the money. What the
conversation was, Dabney did not know,
but few minutes later his friend came
flying downstairs, three steps at time,
closely followed by two or three eggs,
one Of which overlook him just as he
reached the buggy.
"Look OUT" he yelled, as he climbed
into the vehicle, "she's laying for us
with a basket of eggs" Before the
horse started, however, the front window
in the second story went up with crash
and female form appeared. 1t was
frankie, and she was evidently
in an unamiable frame of
mind. Dabney grabbed the reins and
was trying to get under way, when zip!
came another egg. 1t took him in tt e
back and frescoed his coat in an erratic
but effective manner. Before they were
out OF range several others with unerripg
aim had followed them up, and wht n
they presented themselves to a deputy
constable few minutes later and told
the story they looked like two sections Of
an unfried omelet.
Dabnev proceeded tc Justice Kings
Office and promptly swore out warrant
for Miss Frankie's arrest on the ground
that she had disturbed his peace. In
these days when eggs are forty-five cents
q dozen it would seem that the woman's
reckless extravaganza was certainly de-
serving of some punishment.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
LOWERING OF RENTS.
A Meeting Of the Retail Merchanta
Yesterday to Secure This Result.

A Meeting Of the Retail Merchants
Yesterday to secure This Result.
A meeting was called for Yesterday af-
noon at the G.. A. r. Hall, on North
Main street, for the purpose of discuss
ing the question of the best method to
secure lower rents. The call was issued
in behalf of the retail merchants OF the
city. and between 100 and 200 of them
put in an appearance at the time desig-
mated. The way that they expressed
themselves on the matter under discus
sion showed that they were very much
in earnest, and it is probably due to the
fact that the meeting was not well ad-
vertised that larger meeting was not
secured.
M. +. Tarbell called the meeting to
order and was elected chairman. He
stated the objects, which were: To con-
slider the question of reduction of rents
and to agitate the matter of the assess
ment of q double tax in the form of a
monthly license in addition to the tax on
property. An additional cause for action
lay in the universal prevalence of thiev-
ing and burglary, which it was to the in
terest of the retail dealers to have
stopped as promptly as the police could
bring it about. "Not one merchant in
five," said Mr.. Tarbell, atleast of those
below First street, have leases, and
changes of location are quite possible to
most of us. Permanent organization and
united action is what is needed"
Jesse H. Butler was chosen to act as
Secretary and committee of five, con-
sisting Of N. N. Kilgore, J. H. Richard.
son, w. H. Juenger, Niles Pease and
Evan E. Evans, with the Chairman as
an ex-officio member, was appointed to
report on permanent organization. The
committee left the room and those pres
ent enrolled their names.
After temporary recess the committee
reported that it had plan which it
would require some time to mature and
that another meeting would be called for
Wednesday afternoon, the same time
and place, when the full report would
be made.
A collection was taken up to defray
the expenses of the hall and the meeting
adjourned to assemble again tomorrow
afternoon and 60 at the business in hand
with a little more definite plan in
view. One Of those present suggested
that others besides retail merchants
were interested in the movement to have
rents lowered and it was decided that
they would also be received as.members
OF the organization.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
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RIBBONS! RIBBONS !

No. % Ribbon sells
everywhere at SOC. !;
No, 16 at 35c.; No. -
at 25c. Every lady
is familiar with these
prices. We have just
received direct from
the agent 400 pieces
of Satin and Gros
Grain, Satin and Onl-
bre, and Gros Grain
with Satin edges, in
numbers quoted-12,
16 and 22-which we
propose to sell at
12%c. per yard. All
bright colors - pink,
cardinal, blue, garnet,
orange, bright green,
sapphire, etc. In
time for fancy work OF
all description-121ac.
Displayed in north
window.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
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]. NJ, HALE & CO.,|u,,h' s'a SPRING St.
Christmas.

With the preced-
ing and subse-
quent holiday
season is almost
upon us. The
festivities origin
ated with the
Germans at their
annual "Yule"
feast, centuries
ago, and contin-
ued in a greater
or lesser degree
with people of
Q v cry nation,
whether black,
white or colored,
until the present
day, have lost
none of the car
dinal principles
from which the
the season was
founded. Souve-
Mrs are cent
tn hou DIS of
miles to friends
and loved ones,
while at home
tn e Christmas
tree, laden with
beautiful pres
ents for the little
ones, has gradu-
ally displaced the
m ore homely
though once at
tractive ''stock-
ing'' at the fire.
side.