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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

After apple trees get to bearing many
farmers seed them to grass us Il means of
Keeping the fruit from soiliug by filling
on the piowcd and wet ground. The
effect of Il sod is to check too vigorous
wood growth i'll rich soil, and thus make
the trees more fruitful. But after lit
tie the sod robs the trees of both plant
food and moisture, so that they cannot
produce anything but wood, and not
much of that. The manure applied to
the surface goes mostly to the grass, I'M
less the top-drcssing is so heavy as to
smother it. In Il wet season like the
present, grass grows luxuriantly every
where, and i'll orchards is harbor to
mice, which hurrow under the snow in
winter and girdlc apple trees by eating
the bark around them under the snow
line. Mice are very cautious about en-
posing themselves above the snow, us
they are prcycd upon by owls, weasels
qnd other vewnin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
BREEDING PIGEONS.

Counting from the laying of the sec
ond e"y the Matching period with pigeons
expires on the seventeenth or eighteenth
day. If from amy cause the youn" should
not he out of the shell in reasonable
time after the expiration OF the Matching
period, and the eggs are open you can
assist 1t by breaking loose and moisteninu
the shell ii little. When the birds have
been sitting about eight or ten DAYS en-
anime the eggs by loollin" through them
toward the light, and if they are clear
they will not hatch, and should be
thrown away, and the birds started lay
ing again, but if they look dark. that is,
you can see the light through them they
are fertile, and will in MI probability
hatch all right. After the hen has laid.
do not separate the cock from her, us YOU
notice that he will SIT upon the cgYs
equally with the hen. The hen sets from
3 O'Clock in the afternoon until 10 o'clock
i'll the morning. The cock sits the re-
mainder of the time.
As have said before, do not molcs:.
the pigeons during matching time, for in
most cases they will defend their nests
by Tapping their wings and packing at
you, and III doing this may break the
eggs or tr,,mplc on their Young. Also
avoid making any unnecessary noise by
pounding or otherwise, as this may III
iurc or kill the young in their eggs
Farm, fteW anil lStoctmqn.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
Ingenious Modes of Checking Fire.

An old story is being resurrcctcd
against usually quiet but somewhat cX-
citablc resident of the suburbs. 1t is
alleged that the gentleman in question
discovered that u fire had been started in
the attic of his house, through the heat
of one Of the chimncys. With rare
presence Of mind he rushed down stairs
and seized Il milk pitcher from the kitch-
en- table, rushed out to the cistern, threw
the milk out of the pitcher, pumped
some water into it, and rushed upstairs,
only to find that his wife had seized Il
large pitcher of water from one OF the
bedrooms i'll the upper story and cxtin-
guishcd the incipicnt conllagration. As
there were four large ewcrs of water on
the two upper stories, the progress of
mental reasoning which induced the cX-
cited resident to make such fcrocious
onslaught on the milk pitcher would be
extremely interesting to trace, if such Il
thing were possible. lie should have
had the presence of mind possessed by
another property owner, who discovered
that spark from ncighboring conila-
grafton had lit upon the slightly santin.
i'oi va MS h'"9c. anu Ii'tu sct uTc 10 the
shingles. All the buckets and tubs and
pitchers had gone for use in the big fire,
and there WAS no one to send over to
bring them back. But the owner of the
house. even i'll that moment Of peril, kept
cool-hcadcd. He rushed to the pond
which stood by the house, and deliberate
~ sat down i'll the water. 70 race up-
stairs and out upon the roof WAS the
work of II moment and then he ''sat on =
the ire, i'll more senses than one. lie
saved the house Boston idreyfiser
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
KEEPING CELERY.

Some gardeners preserve their celery for
winter by banking it up in the rows where
1t grew, throwing Il covering on each
side up to the tips. This is the leus;
trouble, but it may be frozen in just at
the time when it is most needed for
market. The better way is 10 store il in
trenches, where it may be taken out ut
any time. a trench is dug in II dry
place, Il foot wide and us deep us the
plants are tall, the length being suited to
the quantity to be stored. The celery is
set in this in rows across the trench, and
setting the plants close to one another.
AS cold weather increases the celery is
covered with leaves, or marsh hay, aud
finally with earth. The use of shor,
boards over the litter will facilitate get
ting out the celery if there is heavy fall
of snow.-Americaa Aq.icuHuria.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

'Michac J. Kelley, Of shelton, Conn,
was worthless, drunken man, who failed
to support his wife and family. Some
years ago he ram away and enlisted. Then
he came back again for little while and
then went away for SO long time that
his wife obtained 4 divorce on the ground
OF abandonment. Recently she received
a letter, which she remarked was from
"that daisy husbn' OF mine To her
surprise the letter announced that Kelley
had made SO, 900 in the West and would
be glad TO come back To her once more.
She wrote to him 10 say that she did not
want him again, but nj the same time She
consulted a lawyer with view OF getting
part of the $40, Mr.. Kelley had
better not have spoken.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
SAVING rI.owEE s-.:Epa.

4 large part of the flower loving pco-
pie probably take no account of seed saw
ing and depend each year upon the seeds
men for their supply of flowers. This is,
perhaps, jus: rs well, provided care is
taken to select only from the best. Choice
improved varieties OF almost anything
nave lost some of their seed producing
qualities by artificial growth or cuItiva-
ton, hence, the best varieties of flowers
are always the highest in price Besides,
it takes time i'll the selection, all of which
goes 10 make up the cost at which thing
IAN he put upon the market. 4 seed
raiser roots out all poor specimens from
MS beds rs they show themselves, so that
crosses from poor flowers do not occur.
If any new color, size, quality or other
peculiarly worthy of perpctlmting is OBJ
servablc, the seed is saved separately
from these. The next year, in towering
the popularity, it is perhaps more pro-
bounced. This followed fora time forms
4 new strain and some distinctive name is
given to the Improvement All free
lowering and seeding plants may by this
process be changed and improved from
their condition i'll state of nature. Some
nave the direction centered in one part,
others in another. The variation may be
that the color of the flower is satisfactory,
but the substance of the petals is too thin;
then the selection goes to such ms are
irmcr and thicker. Then, again, the
form perhaps is ragged and wants shape
Breeding from the hest looking to this
end will remedy this speedily. Both of
these points may be all right, but the
growth of the plant is too loose and I'M
| slightly; then the more compact and
iwarfcr growers are the ones to save from.
Take the case of the old zonal OF horse
jhoc geranium. For years it went by the
aamc Of the scarlet gcranium, and only
that color was known, and ragged mt that,
with single flowers only. Now we have
icarlcts, whites and pinks of the cearcst
shades, both double and single, with in
numcrablc intermediate good qualities,
shades and blendings These changes
came one at time. One year would he
white, then rose color, then double,
md so Oh. All has been brought about
by selection, and mostly a little at Il time
What has been done in one plant can be
lone in many others The field is opcn.
Very simple flowers, rs now grown, NAV
nave many hidden beauties to pay those
who pursue them. 1t is fascinating to
hose who enter the lists, and often com
Dimes pleasure with profit. -Horticultu,al
| Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

weather sets in, such rs uniting weak COL
onics, feeding, etc. The extra food must
be given so early that the bees can seal
up their stores. Unsealed comb during
winter i'll not healthful food. Whatever
variety of food is given them, the mois
turc that arises from the bees during
cold weather enters the unseaicd stores,
and produces disease. 1t is far better to
look to this important matter during the
honey season, and prepare frames of
sealed honey TO supply all colonies that
need feed. But, i'll our greed for d
heavy crop, we are apt to lose sight of
this, and when feeding-time comes, we.
buy sugar, at high prices, to supply these
wants. The fact las been demonstrated.
time and again, that it is cheaper TO de-
pend upon the honey source alone than
to use sugar ut any time. Besides, we,
arc greatly injured by the popular idea
that we feed sugar for the production OF
Surplus honey. But, though it is cheap
cr and better to depend upon the natural
honey source alone, yet, if I've have col
ohicS without honey enough TO carry
them through the winter, and no surplus;
honey at hand to give them, we must
feed them sugar or lose them. Uniting
bees, and supplying all colonies with good
fertile queens, is of primary importance.
As we have the advantage of movable
frame hives, we should thoroughly ar
range the broo,l-nest in every colony so,
that the brood shall occupy the center
of the hive or combs. If a frame oil
bees occupy the other side, and the brood
separates. After properly arranging the
hive and providinga good queen, we arc
ready 10 feed. The food will be stored
around the cluster of bees Frames OF
comb filled with pollen near the cluster
OF bees are considered injurious to bees
during winter. This has been our ex.
pcrience, and we take particular pains to
either remove such frames from the hive
or place them outside of the brood-ncst.
Bees should not cluster on frames filled
with pollen during winter. They MS,
too much pollen as food, and it has O.,
tendency to produce dyscntcry.
During this time of preparation is the
best time to change the stock of bees
Good queens of all improved stock ara
now very low i'll price, and if we intro.
duce queens now we have the full advan.
tagc of the new stock the next season, us
we should not if we put of such work
until the following spring. when queens
cost double, or even more. Bees should
have protection during winter. either by
using chat hives, or keeping the colonies
under ground. Bat we should keep in.
mind that the most important thing to
give them isa good supply OF sealed
honey, within easy access. Many colo.
mics of bees starvc to death from the fact
that the honey is all in one side of tho
hive and the bees OH the other, while the
weather is so cold that they cannot move.
to it. This is another reason for putting
the cluster of bees i'll the center of tho
hive, and the honey on each side
.!n.cyjcaa .igricultariM.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.

\ we'll built hen house is worth paying
for; it is the cheapest in the end
Keep the pigs growing; fat them early,
Small pork brings bigger prices thap-
large pork.
The Ratchet or az is the hes; remedy
for ailing chickens advanced in disease.
and the sooner it is applied the better
Late Matched chicks, while not consid,
cred as good rs early Matched, are laying
when the others arc moulting and nest
in".
n man who has no creamery, and whc
loves his wife rs man should, ought ia
carry his milk to Il factory in his vicinity,
il for no other reason than to save his
wife. =
Corn that is fresh and dry is excellent
food for growing poultry. Better give
them Il good feed OF il alone ut night; il
heats and keeps them warm these cool
nights.
Guincas are good burglar or chicken thief
house will never allow danger to lurk
about; their voice can be heard for con-
siderable distance.
When the frost has killed the tomato
and bean vines, pull up the stakes and
poles and lay away till wanted in tbs
spring. In this way they may he made tc
last for years. Throw the vines upon the
compost heap.
The folly of drawing fresh earth into the
highway i'll late autumn with the idea OF
Improvement is repeated every year, nj.
though men who pursue the practice
know very well that it is road spoiling-
not road making.
Charcoal is wonderfully useful arti.
Gle to feed to poultry. 1t acts on the
blood and tones it up, the results OF
which are readily noticeable in the bright
color of the comb and wattlcs and ac-
tivity displayed by the chicken itself.
Winter darying will gradually force
progressive dairymen into more intensive
systems; better COWS, better maintained
and on fewer acres, and possibly with the
silo, soiling i'll some of its forms wili
take the place very largely of the summer
pasture of wide range.
AS the grass decreases give hay to the
cows, thus gradually making the change
from green food to dry food. If tbs
change is made suddenly the cows will
fall off in milk. AS an assistance to the
green food (Which will soon become
scarce) give sliced turnips, bccts or car
rOts
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
Flower Worship in Persia.

In ancient times plant-worship was
universal in the East, and it seems that
even in our own times system OF flower
worship is kept up in various parts of
Persia and India. A recent traveller in
India gives the following description of
ilower-worship as practiccd by the Per-
sions in Bombay: ga true Persian in
flowing robe of blue aud on his head
shecpskin hat, black, glossy, curly-the
fleece of would sauntcr i'll and
stand and mediate over tevery
flower he saw, and always us If half in
vision; and when the vision was fulfilled
and the ideal flower he was seeking
found he would spread his mat and sit
before it until the setting of the sun, and
then pray before ii and then fold up his
mat again and go home. And the next
night, and night after night until that
particular flower faded away he would
return to sit and bring his friends in
evcr-increasing troops to it and sit and
play the guitar or lutte before it, and they
would altogether pray there, and after
prayer still sit before it slipping sherbct and
talking the most hilarious and shocking
scandal late into the moonlight, and SO
again and again every evening until the
flower died. Sometimes, by way of
grand final, the whole company would
suddenly arise before the flower and sere-
made it, together with an ode from Hafiz
and depart. "-Lippincou
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

The new city of Johannesburg, in tho
South African gold region, Is attracting
attention, and there are those who pre-
diet for ii phenomenal future. They
promise n million inhabitants i'll five
years, an output OF gold which shall gid
the whole world, Il commercial import
ancc threatening the established trade
centres of the Old World, and Il political
and social position second 10 no city il
Africa, north or south.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

One of the strangest facts OF its kim
is the almost total extinction Of the
American buffalo. Only twenty years ago,
1t is estimated, nearly 5000, 900 of these
animals roamcd the fields and mountains
OF the West. The Smithsonian Institu-
ton at Washington has lately been collect
ing statistics regarding the survivors.
Its figures show that the bufraloes have
almost entirely disappeared. Less than 500
now exist. Most Of these are in captivity.
nearly 200 being under the protection Of
the Government i'll Yellowstone Park.
and eighty-iivc are known to be wild.
Indians and hunters have dccimatcd the
species with fearful rapidity, and many
have probably persisted from the pressure
of civilization upon their natural haunts.
With the opening Of western lands they
were pushed farther west into the deserts
and mountain wastes, where many died
from want OF food. Doubtless their
bones in countless heaps are bleaching In
regions not yet penetrated by the pioneer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

An important step has recently been
taken by Ii Hung Chang, Grand Secrc-
tary Of State Of China. He has decided
to establish medical service for the
Chinese army and navy on the basis OF
the best Western models, and has asked
the cooperation of our State Department
in carrying out his purpose The pro-
posed service is to be under a foreign
gcon-General with an adequate staff
of assistants. 1t will include hospitals
and dispensarics at various places, Il
medical school, and native surgeons fol
the feet and the military stations of Nortl
China. a start will be made with .
number of young men educated in til,
United States several years ago under tn,
Chinese Educational Mission, and VIII,
have studied medicine under foreign
teachers since their return to China.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
low, that wars among civilized people

Now, that wars among civilized people
are so few, aud that science has reduced
the death rate below any before recorded,
while it is even limited thai elixirs, gcrm
cidcs and micrcbe killers will YET ami
hilatc disease, the Detroit Fro Pros,
would like 10 know what is TO prevcu,
that rapid and unchecked increase OF
population which led Nautilus to fear that
this little earth would soon be too small
% give clbow room to lis population.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
incubation for the prevention OF dlseas,

incubation for the prevention OF disease
Is being gradually extended 10 cover
more and more diseases. Experiments
have been recently made in Prussia on the
prevention oi plcuro-pneumonia i'll cattle
by inoculatlng healthy animals from dis
cascd ones. These experiments were in
every way satisfactory, and were made by
Professor Schuciz and DR.. StclIcn, two
thoroughly competent men. 1t may now
be regarded as proved that healthy cattle
inocuiatcd from diseased ones are pro
tectcd against plcuro- pneumonia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
4 Relic of the War.

Extreme low water in the Mississippi
recently unearthed a historical relic nj
the ferry landing at Columbus, Ky, in
the shape OF Il huge, old fashioned col
umbiad, which did duty during the late
war in the hands OF the Confcdcratcs.
Those familiar with the history of the
formidable weapon state that it played :.
conspicuous part in the battle of Bel
mont, Mo-, in the fall of 1861, and that
from its lofty perch on the bluffs above
Columbus it sent many huge shell
screaming across the river into Grants
army, and that it had more to do with
Keeping the gunboats at bay than all
others at the fort. The gun is the only
remaining relic of the Confederate for;i
ications erected at Columbus, KY.
thirty years ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
SELECT SETTINGS.

Nevada City is said to be so quiet that
| ilocks of quail are seen on the main
streets every day.
During the glacial period Europe was
covered by sheets of ice, often thousands
of feet in thickness, us far south rs the
Riviera.
Mrs. Sarah Hill, of Mercer County,
Penn, is the mother of eighteen children,
eleven Of whom are living. She is now
eighty years old.
A Tilted Mexican girl gathered her
rccrcant lovers letters in q heap, fired
them, and stoically burned to death upon
this unique funeral pyre.
Ten men with drills operated by cicc.
tricity can take out us much ore ana
tunnel as far as 100 men with picks,
shovcs and blasting material.
Time and wedlock wait for no man.
A Alauch Chunk O'cnn.) juryman was
excused that he might go and get mar
ried, the lawyers agreeing to continue
their case before eleven good men and
true.
In lIoul;on, Me, lives lady who
never wore an article of jcwclry, Il piece
of lace nor n collar, even in the days of
courtship, which experience she has
passed through more than once, having
married twice.
People in West Gloucester, Me-, say
that the spirit OF IL hermit who lived on
the shores of Sabbath Day Pond thirty
years ago, and was drowned in its waters,
still fingers about the lake, where its
hoarsc laugh may occasionally he heard.
a hair thief is the greatest Paris nov
city. lie was caught by the police in
the act Of cu,tin" off young lady's
"pigtair' while she was waiting for nh
omnibus. On searching his rooms they
found Il large quantity OF hair of all hucs.
Carrier pigeons are being used in Rus
sia to convey negatives Of photographs
taken in II balloon. In town i'll the
South of England they are made to CON
vcy kilograms from the Postollicc to
gentleman country scat five miles dis
tnnt.
Quill toothpicks come from France.
The largest factory in the world is near
Paris, where there is an ANIMAL product
of 10000, 900 quilts. The factory was
started TO make quill pens, but when
these went out of general use il was CON
verified into IL toothpicR mill.
A Maine girl put Il note and her adj
dress i'll Il box of toothpicks, requesting
the finder to write to her Kansas
City man got the box, opened II CORE
spondcnce, and a few days ago started
East TO see if the young lady WIS the
sort of woman he wanted for wife.
In Naples there exists Il race OF cats
who live in the churches. They are kept
and fed by the authorities on purpose to
eat the mice which infest all old build
ings there. The animals may often be
seen walking about among the congrcga-
ton or sittin. .ravcly before the altar
during time of mass.
The town Of I.eipsic, Germany, ha-
produced "a boy whose prccocity i'll Grim,
has led him, II, the age of thirteen, to
kill his mother with an IN while she Law
i'll bed asleep, because She had boxed his
ears. a girl of fourteen has also been
arrested 10y the police for administering
pins and needles and oil paint To the in
iant in her charge in order to yet rid
of"it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
Inheritance of Acquired Habit.

In illustration of the hereditary trans.
mission of characteristics acquired by
habit Professor NJ. NJ. lIartog relates in
Nature the case OLA person who is I'M
equally myopic in his eyes and very
astigmatic in the left one. On account
oil the bad images given by this eye for
near objects he was compelled i'll child
hood to mask it, and acquired the habit
when writing of leaning his head on his
left arm, so as to blind il, or of resting
his left temple and eye on the table.
After putting on spcctnclcs, when fifteen
years old, he lost the habit Of leaning.
His two children, while they have not
inherited the consenial defect, being
emmesropic i'll boil, eyes, have received
his acquired habit, and have to be
watched to keep them from hiding tho
left eye when writing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13

Probably the largest returns, every,
ching considered, that come to writers
are those which arc received in royalties
for text books for schools. The late
Professor LOOMS, of Yale, was supposed
to he comparatively poor man. yet his
estate on probate the other day, re-
vcalcd wealth that is pretty near $500,
600. This represents the returns he re-
ccivcd i'll royalties for his text books.
which have always been popular.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-13
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
METHODS OF STORING CABBAGE.


The easiest way of wintering cabbage
is rs follows: On dry day pull up by
the roots, wrap the outside leaves care
fully and snugly round the heads and
place them i'll a row, roots up; thea
cover with soil, lightly at first, adding
more as the season advances. In order
to secure free access to the supply i'll mid
winter the ridges may be projected from
freezing solid by some litter being thrown
over them.
Another good way is to sink an empty
barrel into the ground and fill with the
cabbage, properly trimmed. Put leaves
and straw on top of them aud keep the
rain and snow out by Il suitable covering
In this way the cabbage are accessible mt
any time during the cold winter. Farm.
rs CdU.