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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.

Referring to the keeping of sweet
potatoes, | am convinced, after two
years, that the practice have adopted
is reliable and as near perfect as any,
considering its ease of adaptation and
execution. l never dig until frost bites
the vines, for to dig earlier will be to
lose the best growth in an average
season. If the land is wet enough to
leave the tubers stuck with mud,
prefer waiting. even after frost, until
it is drier, as from dry dirt they come
out in much more slightly condition.
When digging commences drive four
boards where you wish to winter them
the height you wish the bank. in
such a way as to form a square
funnel or fue. Place around them
bed of dry pine straw the diam
eter of the proposed bank. Now
place the potatoes around the fue as
steep as they will pile. When night
comes on, cover them with thickness
of, say three inches of pine straw, and
after the sun is up in the morning re-
move the straw and "sun" again, and
continue this for several consecutive
days, when you may place the straw
upon them and cover with dirt, leav-
ing the top of the fue always open;
and if you will now place short
course of boards or broad piece of
plank on the top of the hole in such a
way as to turn off the rain and snow,
you may leave the balance to kind
Providence, feeling assured that He
will keep them for you until the fol-
lowing April, when He will call upon
you to take them out of their winter
quarters and place them in cool
place.
The especial objects to be attained
are: Use pine straw to cover them
with because they do not absorb damp
ness so readily as other materials, and
will not undergo heating or ferment-
ing. They must be aired and summed
to evaporate the dampness and dissi-
pate, as far as possible, all the foreign
matters and gases deposited with them.
The fiue must always be kept open as a
means of escape for impurities. gases
and heat that continue to generate,
especially at the bottom of the pile,
thus tending to an even temperature
within.
| regard the potato crop as one of
prime importance, notas a money crop.
The price they command will not JUS
tify the extra expense of digging and
marketing; but for almost all meat
hogs, the hogs themselves to perform
the labor OF roofing them up, lis best
to plant in two plots of ground, in
separate enclosures After one patch
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17
A Southern HuckIeberrv.

No writer ever notices our Soutbar
huckleberry, which in all the earssns
in and around Tyler, Tex. Yields nv
uries untold and unsung for the Is.
twenty-five years or more, and now &
cultivated, or rather allowed to oro,g
in the sunny hooks and corners !,
many an unkept and neglected uus-
ter. But this little bush, CROWNS.
from two to three feet high, viii aou,s
ish in the poorest and driest soil i.
Texas, for we know of its GROWING aps
yielding berries abundantly far beyond
the Abilene country and on the biob.
est and driest hills. Therefore IA
conclude that it ought to be btouehe
into notice as one of the native mn
truly Southern small fruits. Iii b..
tween the true huckleberry Of thai
North and the BURBERRY of the South
but a distinct species known by il
height and serrated leaves Il comes
in with the black and pink dewberrv
and is possessed of the finest bouquet
and sweetness imaginable. Il is one
of the fruits which all love. Farm
and Ranch.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
How to Prevent Smut in Wheat and
Oats.

Forty years. observation in the
Southern States leads the writer to be-
ieve that smut in wheat and oats is on
the increase in the Sunny South.
Every farmer should regard himself
as soldier enlisted in the service of
his country to fight this bread-destroy-
ing parasite. Brother farmer. ponder
this fact If no man planted smutty
wheat or smutty oats, no man could
harvest grain affected by this enemy
of mankind. remember seeing smut
germs killed on seed-wheat and oats
more than seventy-five years ago by
soaking seed some three or four hours
In strong brine made of common salt.
Seed is dried in lime or ashes before
sowing.
The living germ in wheat or oats
may be killed by being too long in
urine. Two hours is long enough to
destroy smut life, and not hurt wheat
or oats used for seed.
There are scores of wheat growers
who never have any smut in their
staple crop, washing seed in blue
stone; water and salt have been found
quite as good a preventive as blue
stone.
1t is a curious fact that the spores of
this parasite grow small enough to
pass from seed wheat in the ground
I'M with CON m +bo baod opd o4tooIx
the starch, sugar and gluten in the
forming grain in the milk-stage of its
life. Now is the time to study the life
of all hurtful plants and of all crops
worth cultivation.
Smut on wheat and oats does not
spread and multiply in the same way
that rust does-a fact very generally
overlooked. Rust is never carried on
seed-wheat or oats, but by the wind,
or in common air. The weather APP
pears to control this blight to large
extent Smut is easily cultivated, and
is at best sinking fungus. Up TO
this time little has been done to exter-
inmate this growing evil. Smut is do
ing more harm in wheat corn and oats
than the public sees or suspects.
Parasites often diminish our harvests
one-half by sucking the blood or juices
of corn, cotton, wheat, oats and other
crops. Our daily bread is made of
wheat and corn left by smut. rust and
other parasites, the off-springs of de-
fective agriculture.
All seed-wheat, corn and oats should
be washed in brine to kill parasites.
Their microscopic germs do vastly
more harm than is thought of. To
SOW or plant foul seed is a great mis-
take in farming. Clean land, clean
seed and clean culture will give profit
able crops and a fine landed estate.
Raising rust and smut by the ten acres
or larger quantity is not likely to pay
the cultivator. He is apt to regard
these parasites not as living beings,
plant or otherwise, but as disease.
A horse is as much a disease as smut
in kernel of wheat The parasite
has parents; so has every horse. Why
breed impure life in horse, in wheat,
corn, cow or brute? Let the farmer
read, study and profit by his knowl-
edge. Daniel Lee, in Southern Guilt
vator.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17
HERE AN6 THERE.


Estimates of the Georgia melon
crop place it at 1929 carloads, an in-
crease of 1000 cars over last year
During the summers heat see that
your barns and stables are prepared
for the rains, frosts and SHOWS of win
ter.
The specific gravity of fresh milk
varies from 1.030 to 1036, according
to the amount and composition of the
solids
Five Alliances in Mecklenburg
County, Va, saved s1.245.72 by pur-
chasing their fertilizers through the
county Alliance agent
The Rowan County IN. C.) Ali
ance reduced the acreage of cotton and
tobacco one-fourth, and increased the
acreage in corn and grasses one
fourth.
Every man should have a country,
and endeavor to make that country the
grandest, greatest and most prosper
GUS region on the globe.
-Croft's Mills in South Carolina ex-
pect to turn out 100000 yards Of bag.
ging made from pine straw by 0ctUbsg
l. This will make the Jute Trust pine
Red clover sown on rich bottomin
September will furnish a good cutting
next May or June But why not mix
orehard-grass seed with the cloverR i
will give better results.
Hon. L. F. Livingston, vice-prssi-
dent of the State Alliance of Georgia.
is of the opinion that the cotton crop
will be covered with cotton bagging,
and that the cotton bagging win be
ready for them in the stores and at the
mills.
When Southern agriculture is frea
from the chains of monopolies and
trusts and Southern people unite n
that broad comprehensive patriotism
that seeks to build their own section
by their efforts, then will they be In
spired indeed, and the waste places will
be made glad.
According to analysis, corn-cobs
contain about the same nutriment PET
hundred pounds as wheat straw. but
are not so digestible. The grinding q
corn and cobs together is of doubtful
value, owing to the indigestibilitV @
the hard particles of cob. We beliess
the weight of evidence is against the
practice.
Many claim that farming doesn
pay in the South. Yet Mr. Charles 4
Dana, of the New York Sun, noticipg
the change in our agriculture, says e
describing a trip to Chattanooga
Tenn: Thrift, order, skill and
prosperity mark the whole country.
Better agriculture or more beautlfA
farms we have never witnessed.
in speaking of the action o. sns
farmers in Georgia, South Carolina
and Louisiana, pledging themselves e
take 6, 900. 600 yards of cotton bagglag'
the Boston Post observes: Were nV
other States to enter the compass sns
loss of the profit on this immea
quantity of material is deadly oo
at the Trust, in addition to the esiae
lishment of new Southern Industry
fostered and fed by material ralsee
home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17

has been exhausted the hogs NAV e
turned upon the other, allowing r..
stock bunch to CLEAN after them :
am satisfied that meat fattened n M.
way, and with the feeding Of smali
amount OF corn, is the cheapest T car
raise. The pasturage Of corn ana
pea-feld and good-sized potato patch
is the best mast for hogs I know \.
w. H. T., in Dixie Farmer
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17

ALWAYS say kind word il you can, If
only that it may come in, perhaps witt
singular opportuneness. entering some
mans darkened room like beautiful fire
fly whose happy circumlocutions he can
not but watch, forgetting his many
troubles Friends in Council
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-17

He that may hinder mischief and yst
permtta II y "a accessory, foreman
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
The Depth to Plant Beans.

In an experiment made at the Mich
;,an Agricultural Experiment station TO
4stermIne the proper depth at which to
,lort beans in sand, 10 insure most sue
cassfnI termination, the following results
we're gained: ,..
The highest per cent. of termination
pas obtained from sand planted three
g,,ierters of an inch deep, and the next
REST from those planted one inch, there
baipg a d ference between the two OF II
nor ceBt. At the time this experiment
sgas conducted the weather was cool and
.be seeds planted deeper probably did
not receive sufficient heat from the sun.
Sa.ds planteG three ana four incnes deep
gave Is per cent. less termination at the
END of twenty days than those planted
three fourths OF an inch. yet the plants
canning from this deep seeding were
rnpcb stronger than the others owing to
the fact that there was sufficient depth
of soil 30 aid in removing the tightly en-
veloping seed coats while the seed coats
adhered to the cotyledons and CONSTRUCTED
growth IN the other case. In fact at the
expiration OF twenty days, the total
Growth of plants from the three and four
inch plants was al least four times s
much as that from theree fourths inch
planting. Hence it follows that the
depth which gives greatest percentage of
domination Is not necessarily the one
which gives the most profitable results.
In tbs soll upon which this test was con-
dGct-6 the gardner would find more
profit in beans planted four inches deep
than in those planted three-fourths OF an
inCh
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
How seeds spread

Some years ago it is said that citizen
of California imported from the East the
seed of the fashioned dandellop. He
wanted something to remind him of his
early home. Like the man who imported
the sparrow, he did worse than he knew.
The sparrow is everywhere; so Is the
dandelion. The seed drifts in the wind,
like that Of the thistle; the down is built
into the nests of birds, and every seed
which gets Judgement on lawn or grass
plot will, in due time, produce a million
more. Now the solitary aendeliou is very
attractive in bloom, and hardly less so
when after the blossom the Fauze globe
appears and few days aite-ward goes
sailing of before the wind like small
balloon. But the citizen who is forced
to dig up his lawn, because a million
dandelion roots have strangled the grass,
will utter DO benediotion over this rich
golden blossom.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS EGG LORE.

The yClk Of egg alone is the better for
for inyslids, and will be freqeL thy relished
when the white would be elected.
When making frosting in warm wealth
er, set the whites of the eggs on ice for q
snort time before using.
If the eggs you have TO use for frosting
are not quite as fresh as you could desire,
a pinch OF salt will make them beat stiff
CT,
When cream cannot be procured for
coffee, the yolk OF soft boiled egg is a
Yerl good substitute.
The white of an egg, an equal quantity
~ cold water, and oonft ctioper's sugar
luple A-sufficient TO make II the requir-
20 consistency, makes q frosting which is
very nice, and ~ it requires no beating IL
very easily made.
To prevent the juice of fruit pies from
soaking INTO the bottom crust, wash the
crust over with beaten egg before put
ins in the fruit.
when beaten eggs are TO be mixed
WIZ not mix, as in making gravies or
els'ards, dip the hot milk into the beat
en- rgRs spoonful at a time, string
vel each time, until the eggs are well
'Alnusd, then add both together; this
prevents the eggs from curdling.
II Is often a question what to do with
sltoer the whites or yolks OF eggs whoa
a's sometimes left after making ffos.ing
s'c, Either will keep well Cor day OF
20 u set IN very cool piacs-the yolki
wa osatsn and the whites unbesten.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23

Whites or yolks of eggs may be used
with whole eggs in any cake or other
recipe calling for eggs, counting two
yolks or two whites as one egg.
Sort out the little eggs, and keep them
for settling coffee, using the larger ones
| for cake.
When eggs are cheap and plentiful in
summer. wash all those used in cooking
before baking. Save the shells, and
when quantity are dry, crush then
| fine, beat halt dozen eggs well and stir
then. into the shells. Spread them where
they will dry quickly, and then thorough
ly dry put III thin cotton bag and hang
| in q very dfy place. In the winter, when
| eggs are scarce and dear, Tablespoonful
OF this mixture put in cup, a little cold
water poured over it and left to stand
over night, or for half an hour or so in
! the moving before breakfast, will an
aver every purpose of whole egg IN set
Ting coffee.
Egg stains can be easily removed from
silver by rubbing with wet rag dipped
IN table salt.
To clean vinegar bottles and cruets
crushed egg shells in a little water are
as good as shot, besides being healthier
and harder.
To mend broken china, use cement
made by stirring plaster of paris into the
white of an egg.
An egg well beaten and added to a
tumblerful of milk we'll sweetened, with
two tablespoonfuls of best brandy or
whisky stirred in, is excellent for feeble
aged persons who can take little nourish-
ment.
Eggs are valuable remedies for burns,
and may be used in the following way 8:
The white of an egg simply used as a
varnish TO exclude the air; or, the white
beaten un for long time with a table
spoonful of fresh lard till a little water
separates; or, an excellent remedy Is a
mixture of the yolk of an egg with ely
cerlne, equal part; put 10 bottle and
cork tightly; shake before using; will
keep for some time in a cool place.
For infamed eyes or eyelids, use the
white of an egg beaten up to a froth
with two tables poonfuls of rose water.
Apply on fine rag, changing as it grows
dry; or, stir two draohms of pc Fdered
alum into the beaten whites of Two eggs
till coagulum is formed Place be-
tween fold of a soft linen rag aud ap-
ply.
For boil, take the skin of boiled egg,
moIsten it and apply. 1t will draw off
the matter and relieve the soreness in a
few hours.
To cleanse tae hair and promote
growth, ruo the yolk of an egg well into
the scalp, and rinse out thoroughly with
soft warm water.
The eggs of the turkey are nearly as
good as those % the hen, and that of the
goose is about as preferable for most cul
mary purposes. Ducks eggs have rich
er flavor, but are not as desirable to eat
alone; they are, however, as good for all
purposes of cookery, and for puddings
and custards superior to any. The eggs
of the guinea hen are also good for all
culinary PURPOSES.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
Fruit Raising in Texas.

You will probably recollect me as an
old fruit grower of Illinois. l have set
out seven large orchards in Illinois, but
have Cutlived them all, and little over a
year ago | told my folks | was going to
hunt place where could raise an or
chard that would outllve me. | visited a
brother IL this State, and concluded TO
try raising an orchard here, in Smith
County, Tex. ! have spent little over a
year in this State, and my health is 50
much improved that | feel fully paid,
even if fruit turned ont fsilure;s but
from all | can learn and judge, the time
is not far distant when this country will
rival California for Embarrassing. If We
have fruit trains running from Southern
Illinois you will receive there in Chicago
many carloads of peaches and melons
the coming season. | am putting SIX
acres in melons, to try and raise some
thing of more profit than cotton while
my trees are growing. it does not take
half as long to raise trees TO bearing
here as in Illinois. | have seen two year
old peach trees having over a bushel OF
peaches on them, and for plums, pears,
grapes, blackberries and early apples,
never saw the equal of what we had here
last summer. But Embarrassing here Is
in its infancy. There are but few
orchards over four years old, and probab
ly three~fourths have been set the pas
two years. G. Ii. RuGa.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
Long Tailed Saints

The European residents of British In
dia are often Rstounded at the ahsurdities
of idol worship which the Brahmins con
tinue to enforce even upon the more III
telligent classes of the natives; but the
most preposterous of these superstitions
certainly seem the worship of three or
four dozen varieties of mischievous apes.
Some of these long tailed demigods are
revered merely rs distant relatives of the
monkey saint Hdnuman, while Others
(the Entellus ape, for instance, anc The
Rhesus Macacus) are considered so inef
fable holy that their murder would be
worse than homicide; and in the con
scioupess of their inviolabe sanctity the
objects of that worship consequently
recognize no human rights which four.
handed saint is Obliged TO respect. They
enter storehouses in broad daytime, and
must be tolerated in Difference to the pre-
jndices of the natives though IT Their
movements are not constantly watched
they are sure to utilize their business
opportunities with the celebrity OF New
York alderman. In orchards their depre-
dations are limited only by the capacity
of their paunches; bat no orthodox Hin
doc aver expels them by direct force
and he seems to consider it fair com
prou.iss If he can manage TO gather y
per cent share of his own crop. There
are special infirmares devoted TO the re-
lief of decrepit four handers, and the ties
timony OF hundreds of intelligent foreign
ers has established tic fact that during
various fsmines, that almost depopuiatee
the villages of the afflicted districts, fhos'
monkey hospitals were supplied with az
abundance of food; aud starving true
believer would mitigate his DISTRESS b!
robbing a temple as soon as by touching
the stores collected for the support OF hi
sacred long tails.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23

Discipline on shipboard Ia of necessity
strict, but in some respects lees 80 than
formerly, for many improvements which
add TO the comfort of the sailors have
been introduced upon modern vessels.
in Illustration of this change, Gen Du-
mont, marine inspector for the United
States government was recently enter
tanning group of passengers on board
Lake Superior steamship with certain
Incidents from his own experience in the
merchant service. The general, though
now nearly 60 years OF age, is genial
gentleman of commanding presence, and
whithal charming raoonteur.
A. one time, when lad OF l6, he was
on sailing vessel rounding Cape Horn.
The weather was entensly cold, gate was
blowing, and everything on the deck WAS
coated over with ioe.
The sailors suffered severely from chill.
ed fingers; their hands were 40 benumb-
ed that they could with difficulty haul tho
coriage. Our youns mariner thought
shat he would improve his own condition
a little by putting on pair of Mexican
gloves which he had purchased at Vera
Cruz. lie had scarcely done 80 when the
GA plain, coming forward, fastened con
temptious glance on his hand gear and
said, sharply.
Here, you, of with those glovesl Do
you think you can be sailor and baby
yourself like thatr'
The gloves came off, and never went
on again.
On another occasion, during q period
of unusually bitter weather, when there
was mass Of Toe, and every line frozen
stiff ~ iron, young DumOnt ventured to
ask the mate, with whom he CHANGED TO
bs on good terms, il his feet never got
cold
with look OF Spartan indifference to
be opurely personal consideration, the
old sailor replied:
"Oh, well, yes, | suppose they do get
cold sonetimes, but that's none OF my
bDsinesslh
When pilot houses we're frat talked OF
one Of these sturdy, "old time" captains
said:
"a pilot house! NoDsense You baby
'em an give 'em a pilot house an the
next thing they'll want ia stove il itl
| There ant no use IN making pilots 40
tender. 'Tan't pilOt's bueiuess 10
| think OF the coid'
| Yet it is just through such stern dis
oipliue in their youthf1l years that msny
OF the best officials whom the govern
ment has eve, had have came into the
| public service.