St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-29
A WONDERFUL, GLOBE.

Among the many wonders of the
Paris exposition there is none that
shows more accurate or scientific
knowledge on the part of the makers
than the enormous globe on which
the earth's surface is depicted The
diameter is forty-twO feet, and the
surface is 525 feet square, and these
figures are said to represent just one
millionth of the dimensions of the
great original. The scale permits
close detail. Large cities have their
outlines and some of their principal
thoroughfares expressed, all drawn
to scale. Everything that relates to
the earth-its geography, its politi
cal divisions, all its means of commu-
nication on land or seals shown.
The globe is made of stout paste
board, in 400 pieces, covered with
plaster, fastened to a skeleton of
wrOught-iron ribs, and although it is
very heavy, SO finely adjusted is the
balance that it will turn at the light
est touch If it were rotated at the
same velocity as that of the earth its
movement would hardly be visible,
as point at the equator, where the
speed would be highest, would move
at the rate of only an inch minute.
: Boston Transcript.
CARE FOR ROTTING POTATOES.
In many places this year, wet,
warm weather has caused potatoes
to blight, which at once stops all
growth, and soon after the crop, if
left alone, begins to rot What to do
in such cases is a puzzle, even to eX-
perienced farmers. Sometimes, if the
potatoes are dug while wet and
placed even in small heaps they rot
down like so much grass filled with
moisture. Unless dry weather, at
least for a day, can be made sure of,
the loss will be less to leave the crop
in hill a few days longer.
Blighted potatoes are always inn
mature. Their skins peel when rub
bed, and it is probably this abrasion
that gives opportunity for the en-
trance of the disease If the potatoes
are dug in the forenoon and left ex-
posed to air and sun till toward
night, the skin will partially dry and
harden, so that the tubers can be
handled with less liability to injury
and as a guard against unnoticed
bruises little dry lime partly slaked,
sprinkled among the potatoes will
help to still further harden the skins.
Cover the heaps with straw, not po-
tato tops, which being blighted
might carry the germs of rot to re-
manning unaffected tubers. In fact,
as soon rs the potatoes were cleared
off, the tops should be raked together
and burned.
For a few days after putting into
heaps we should not advise covering
with earth. Straw alone is much
better, as it allows air to get to the
heap. But if rain comes it must be
kept out by covering the heap with
boards, forming a roof, removing the
boards as much as possible during
fine weather
All this involves a good deal of
trouble, but it is better than entire
loss of the potato. After all, the care
Is not long needed. After one, or at
most two weeks, the heaps should be
examined. If there are any that
show rot remove them: Cover the
heaps with straw as before, and fin
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but leaving several places at the top
where the twisted straw sticking out
through the earth gives the heaps
ventilation by connecting the pota-
toes with the outside air. Potatoes
thus cared for are much more likely
to keep than if removed to cellars.
where 1t is more difficult to give the
needed ventilation, and where their
rotting must make them an intolera-
BILE nuisance and menace to family
health. 1t is bad enough at any
time to put large amounts of pota-
toes in the cellars of houses where
farmers and their families live 1t is
only tolerable when the potatoes, by
exposure to air and hardening of
their skins have become partly pro-
tected from danger of rotting-
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