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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
THE ORCHARD.
Lime and Ashes for Fruit Trees.


It is we'll known that all varieties of
fruit do not flourish and mature equally
in all sections of the country. This is
mainly attributed to climate. Quite
frequently a fruit grower in one part Of
the Middle States, writes George Viii
sou in Farm and Vineyard, hearing Of
the quality Of a particular fruit as
grown in another part of the country,
has obtained and fruited it. Upon not
responding to the pains bestowed upon
it by the grower, it has been either
counted as q variety unsuited to the
climate, or the first grower has been put
down as a fraud. In many instances
such judgment is erroneous. Had an
analysis of the soil in which the par
ticular variety was grown to perfection,
accompanied the plant, and the knOWl-
edge thus obtained put to practical use,
the result would have been very differ
ent. Soil, I think, viii be found to
have more influence upon our plants
and trees than climate. The latter has
everything to do in fastening or retard-
ing the maturity Of plants; but the for
mer influences the life and success OF
/ trees by supplying or denying them the
proper food. The value of special
manures is thus manifested.
Lime and its phosphates for2l com
pOnent part of all special manures for
fruit trees, and many old, W Orn- out soils
/ have been renewed by ludiciOus appI-
cation Of lime, ashes, etc. In nine cases
out of ten, where q variety of fruit
which once dourished in a given soil,
/ has ceased to flourish and perfect fine
fruit there, the change is due to the fact
[ that the soil has become destitute OF the
/ necessary mineral manures. In nearly
/ all such cases the plentiful application
/ Of wood ashes. or wood ashes and lime,
/ Will restore the healthy condition Of
/ the composition OF soils, within the
/ last two or three years, convince many
! that much of what was attributed to
climate was simply owing to the want Of
4 the necessary inorganic or mineral ma
nures in the soil The special lesson
which this should teach us is that, in
I getting tEees, plants, and shrubs from
/ another section OF the country, they
/ should always be accompanied by an
analysis Of the soil in which the par
/ ticuler varieties reached perfection. We
] could then see that the tEees we're
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
Agricultural Notes.

KEEP out of debt.
CROWD the work-if you don't it will
crowd you.
BURDoCKs and tbistIes are best bar-
vested before they bloom.
THE grindstone is a ''cheap hand" in
the hay field. Use him often.
WHEN you have the money in hand is
the best time to count the harvest.
GOOD oil, applied often. makes easy
work, and saves the machine for next
year.
HAVE a few bolts and nuts, also a
wrench, chisel, and hammer in the tool
box of the mower.
You can't mortgage your crop or farm
and keep on good terms with your cred
itors and family.
SEE that the tires and all nuts of the
hay rake are tight, before driving into
the field. It saves time and "vexation
of spirit
THE compost heap has been termed
+the farmers gold mine" and it GER
tainly is one of the most profitable at
tachments to his premises.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
Hints to EtnnseI-eeners-

A MASS of cObWeb plnched up in a wad
and pressed to a fresh cut will stop the
flow of blood instantly.
REMOVE fruit stains from white goods
! by pouring boiling water directly from
the kettle over the stains.
AFTER buttering the tin for a boiled
pudding dust it with pounded bread
crumbs; baking pans can be treated with
-four in the same way and the cake will
never stick.
WHEN fine feathers have been streWn
over the floor dampen the carpet
slightly; you can then get the feathers
together with light sweeping and take
them up in a Wad.
To PRESERVE eggs for winter use you
will require one pint Of fresh Stacked
lime, and One-half pint common salt, to
three gallons of water, Use a ladle with
which to put them in a crock, cover with
an old plate and keep in a dry place
A GOOD cough mixture is made of half
a cup of Hnseed, half a cup of olive oil,
( half a pint of mOlasses or honey, half
an ounce of balsam of FIR, one-fourth
ounce of licOrice; mix, simmer, and take
from ten to twenty drops three times a
day.
To WASH lace or fine embroidery with
out wear, rub white soap on the sOiled
parts, then cover with soft water and
set for twelve hours in the sunshine,
EQ6n rinse IN clear WAFER pun Out 66tC4
point with the fingers, and pin upon the
pillow or sheet upon the carpet to dry.
IN cases of freezing rub the body with
snow, ice or cold water. Get up all the
friction you can with these articles.
After a while let heat be applied in the
most gentle manner. IF animation does
not return, try artificial respiration, as
in cases of drowning. Heat first applied
Is certain death.
NOTHING about house is more IN
slightly than old nail holes or broken
places in a plastered wall, and nothing
is easier to conceal. Take a nickeIs
worth of plaster Of paris, and reduce it
to the consistency of thick cream by the
adding of warm water. Then take
knife and press it into the holes,
smoothing over nicely at the last. In
few minutes you cannot ind the places.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
THE FARM
a Potato Crank.

n rotate CRANK
A correspondent of Home and Farm
says that his neighbOrs say ne is a pO-
tatc crank, and he asks who wouldn't be
when he has 800 clear cash profit on
each acre of potatoes after paying all
expenses. He then goes on to state how
twas done. He gives his experince
thus:
My ground is heavy clay, underlaid
with limestone rock. 1t was formerly
occupied with white oak and hickory,
and is from eighty TO one hundred feet
TO water. The season was the driest
ever known inthis section. The snow
went OF while the ground was frozen,
and no rain until September rs. May
16 commenced to turn under MANN 9th
clover ten inches high, followed with a
fertilizer, then harrow and then planted
with a HON emade planter in rows three
feet apart, two rows at time as fast
as g team could walk.
The sets were from medium to large
sized tubers, cut to one eye, and dropped
from the planter into the burrows about
ten to twelve inches apart, and covered
i've inches deep. The twenty acres
were plOWed, prepared, and planted in
six days, and cost me SAT for labor.
The 28th the ground was thoroughly
narrowed, and June 4 the plants were
up so I could see the rows quite plain.
I then discovered some of the sets were
ment. Bought fifteen barrels salt, one
and one-haif tons land plaster, and a
wagon load of unlsached wood ashes,
and two loads of hen manure. They
were applied from a pail-a handful
spread on the row, from three to six
inches wide, and three to four feet long,
and followed with riding cultiYatOT,
the center shOvels turned to throw a
ridge of dirt over the row from four to
six inches deep. Four lows were left
without anything applied except dirt, as
criterion on which to base the expert
ment.
Six days after the ground was cross
narrowed to level it down and clean the
row of weeds; this was followed by
thorough level culture until the tops
were ready to fall, when the rows were
rldged as high as possible with an Iron
age cuItivatOr, and left until the last
of November, when the tubers were dug.
Results: Tops covered the ground so
the rows could not be distinguished
where the salt was applied, hardly q
miss hill. Plaster twO-thirds as good,
wood ashes One-balf; nothing, good,
hen manure poor. The ashes produced
as fine tubers as the salt, and some of
the men thought better. The tubers
where the hen manure was applied, were
not as good as where there was nothing
put on. Over nine-tenths of the tubers
where the ashes and salt were applied.
were marketable and less than one half
on the balance of the piece.
Final results were that had 1890
bushels of understandable tubers that
sold readily to my neighbors for 81
per bushel, to eat and plant. The great
est failure was that I did not have
enough bushels to supply the demand.
1 have Justhnished planting forty acres
this year, and if they are a success you
may reap a benefit. for I have planted
the choices varieties to be found grow
ing in America.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Care OF Brooms.

Some one, referring to the broom,
facetiOusly calls it the scePtre Of the
housewife, and, whatever truth there
may be in this appellation, certain it is
that the broom stands at the head Of
house excepting tools. There is nothing
viii take its place. Brushes and carpet
sweepers are good things to use in a
house, but they only do a certain part of
the sweeping, and, although good for
every day rushing, can never perform
the work as well as the broom, that
makes itself familiar with every hole
and corner Of the house. The house
wife can get along without brushes, etc,
but no matter how many of the latter she
may have in the house, the broom can
never be spared.
When buying a broom always get as
good one as possible, for a poor one is
a bad Investment. Choose one of medium
weight, for a heavy or light broom is
alike tiresOme, the one for its weight
and the other for the pressure that must
be borne upon it, if the sweeping is to
be done properly. The brush end should
be of green tinge and of medium firm
ness, that it Will require some pressure
to bend it. See that the straws cOmpos-
ing it are long, and go each one to the
handle OF the broom, where they are Sc
curely fastened. If there are short
straWs between the bottom and handle
fastened under either of the wires on
the brush, although they may look firm,
the broom Will not wear for any length
of time.
An old-fashioned way of keeping the
straws together is to sew around the
brush, from little above the center to
within four or FIVE inches of the bottom,
a flannel cloth, or the leg of an old SOCK
is still better, drawn down over the
brush. This keeps the straws in place,
and they do not break Oft as easily as if
left plain. This covering can be taken
of and washed when necessary.
Wash the kitchen broom in warm soap
suds once a week, but for the ones used
for parlOr and other rooms once a month
is usually sufficient. Aside from clean
ing the straws, the washing prevents
them becoming too dry, which is a fire.
qUent cause of breaking of. Hang the
broom up always, when it can be done,
by screwing into the top brass ring, or
boring hole through the handle at the
top with a gimlet, and running a string
through. Don't let the broom stand in
a corner with brush end down, or it viii
soon be out of shape, but if it must be
on the floor at ali, stand it with brush
end up.
Always have, at the least, two brooms
in the house, one for the bare floors
and one for the carpets. All good
housewives know that broom used for
the kitchen is not fit to be used in
sweeping the parlOr, neither is a broom
used on any bare boards fit for the car
pets. In a large house it saves many
steps is there is a broom on each land
in
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
THE POULTRY YARD.
Poultry Production.

The State of Ohio, the only State in
the Union which has anything like a re-
liable record Ofthelr poultry pro duction,
had in the year 1886, 2, 400, 600 fowls, and
these produced the year previous $780,
OOO,OO0 eggs, OF 100000 dozen, which,
if sold at 10 cents, would make the re-
spectacle sum of $1,000, 600. Add to this
the value of the poultry of the State at
that time and we viii have another half
million which equalled the combined
crop of rye and barley, more than half of
the potato crop, more than one-third of
the cheese production, one-fOurth
greater than the combined production
of sorghum, maple mOlasses, sugar and
honey of that State for that year, and
ten times greater than the sweet potato
crop. What is true Of Ohio is in a meas
ure true Of I'll other States.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

OUR naval vessels viii hereafter be
painted white. The cause of the order
has been the satisfaction arising from
painting the Boston and Yorktown
white. The new order reads in sub
stance that in future when iron and
steel vessels are to be painted, the hull
above the water-line on the outside
and all paint work on the inside shall
be painted white. The masts, yards,
head-beams, doublings of masts, and
tunnels shall be painted a straw-yellow
color, the paint for which is to be pre-
pared by the Bureau of Construction
and Repair.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

On a dropping bough of a large elm
close by a hotel, in Sunderland, Mass,
two English robins have made nest.
Strong winds caused so much swaying
as to endanger the eggs in the nest.
The birds have been equal to the emer-
gency. They have secured some Irvine
and fastened one end under the nest
and the other end to a larger branch
below, thus avoiding the danger of too
much oscillation. The instinct ex-
hibited by these birds has attracted
considerable attention.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

THERE is a familiar story of man
who decided the feeding of domestic
animals unnecessary and founded
simply upon tradition and prejudice.
He determined to demonstrate the
truth of his position by experiment
upon the body of his donkey and, not
to be too severe, began a gradual re-
duction of forage. To his great dis
gust, just as he had got the allowance
down to one straw a day, the donkey
died. Faster Woodspeed, of East
Pittstop, Ne, undertook an absolute
fast for the scriptural period of forty
days. When as near success as was the
man quoted-on the thirty-ninth day
he emulated the donkey by giving
up the ghost.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A GEORGIA physician writes to the
Constitution, of Atlanta, that the
solution used in the hand-grenades
now offered so extensively for sale, is
easily and cheaply made by taking
twenty pounds of common salt, ten
pounds of saI-ammoniac (muriate of
ammonia, to be had of any druggist,
and dissolving in seven gallons of
water. When it is dissolved it can be
bottled and kept in each room in the
house. In case of fire, one or two
bottles should be thrown with force
into the burning place, hard enough
to break them, and the fire Will Ger.
tainly be extinguished.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
Save inc NTature Rens.

It is the custom of some farmers who
plan to make the most out Oftheir pCul-
try, to sell off the old hens in June or
July, when the hens are fat, through
laying and in demand at good prices.
This plan is a cOmmendable one. but
care should be taken not to sell the too
young old hens, if regard is had for the
stock of the next season. 1t is none too
early to lay the plans for next springs
crop of early birds. The reason why the
young old hens should not be sold off
now will be made apparent by the fol-
lowing from the pen of that poultry au
thority, 2. II. Jacobs. He says:
The pullet Matched in spring, say
April or May, will often begin to lay
when she is six months old Cor sooner if
of a small breed), but she will not be
fully matured until she arrives at the age
of one year. The consequence is that
while she will lay she Will be growing
at the same time, and is therefore not
competent to produce eggs that will
give satisfactory results when used for
incubation. Her powers are dOubly
taxed, and her offspring will break IN
less she is mated with q vigorous, strong
and active cock. Those who have taken
pains to secure fine, healthy pullets,
have been disappointed in raising them
on farms where incubatOrs are operated,
as they lay small eggs, and often begin
to lay so early as to produce eggs no
larger than those of a pigeon. If eggs
are desired for Matching purposes, use
hens that are in their second year lover
one year old, and mate them with a
cockereI that is at least one year old,
and the result will be that greater
proportion of eggs Will hatch, while the
chicks therefrom will be strong and easy
to raise. 1t has been said that q hen be-
comes less valuable after she is two
years old, but it is safe to assert that
She will lay well until she is four years
old, and although she may not lay quite
as many as a pullet nearly grown, yet
her eggs Will hatch better and a larger
number of chicks be secured from her.
But, it may be added, do not forget the
fact that pure bred, strong, vigorous
cocks must be used in the flock.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

The singular fact is mentioned that,
while in Great Britain building opera
tions are suspended on the slightest
approach of frost, brickIaying is car
ried on in Norway during almost the
coolest weather that prevails for any
time. Thus, in Christiania, building
during the winter months, it is stated,
has now been practiced for at least
twelve years, but more frequently dur
ing the last five, all the buildings thus
erected having stood remarkably we'll
According to the opinion of the princi
pal builders IN Christiania, bricklayers'
work, executed with due care in win
ter, is really superior to similar work
done in summer-the whole art of such
work in frosty weather consisting sim
ply IN the use of unslacked lime, the
mortar prepared with which Is to be
made in small quantities immediately
before use, the proportion of lime be-
ing increased as the thermometer falls
the only care required is to utilize the
unslacked lime so handily and quickly
as to enable the mortar to bind with
the bricks before it cools. Another
very Important condition is that the
bricks be always kept covered on the
building site.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

THEODORE URBAN, an antiquarian
and student Of Columbia, Pa, says he
has evidence that this continent was
settled about $50 years after the del
uge; that the inhabitants were highly
civilized and used tools of metal,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A YOUNG married couple in Ashta-
bula County, Ohio, have been making a
garden for the first time. When plant
ing onions they were at a loss to tell
which end to put down, so they COM
promised the matter, he putting them
in one way and she the other.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

Mr.. BRADLAUGH's motion to abolish
perpetual pensions has shown up the
peculiar history of one of them. On
the list is a small pension standing to
the credit of a Scottish peer for the
fulfllment of a sinecure Office. For
two generations not a cent has gone in
to the family Golfers. This peers
grandfather, being in need of ready
money, sold the pension to a Ports
mouth Jew, whose heirs and assigns
draw it to this day.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

planted In the same kind OF soil. and
success assured as. Nurserymen would
soon get accustomed to these orders, if
every farmer insisted upon It in his
order, and 1 think complaints about
certain first class varieties OF fruits
would not be so general.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

TT given out that John L. Sulli-
van has made over $6OO,OOO by prize
fighting, and to-day is not worth dol
lar. Assuming that this is so, it is in
order to remark that what's-his-name
and his money are soon parted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

AN Australian who was hanging to
the beam Of a bridge and realized that
he must fall, made verbal Will to a
companion, disposing of about $50, 600
worth of property, and the courts have
sustained it. Once in a while the
courts do a sensible thing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

ONE of our new cruisers could al
most hang at the davits of the French
man-of-war Admiral Baudin. She IS
of II, 200 tons burden, and 319 feet
long. She carries three 75-ton guns
and sixteen machine guns.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A MAN who lives near PIatt, Sullivan
County, Pa, claims to have a scheme
whereby he can manufacture shoes with
movable soles, so that when one sole
wears out the old one can be replaced
with new one without any trouble.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A UNIQUE collection of specimens Of
the earliest printed maps has been
made by Baron NordenskjOld. It will
be reproduced in a great atlas with ac-
companying text-a Swedish and an
English edition to be issued.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

DIR. PEPPER, Provost of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, greatly wants to
resign his post, but the Trustees will
not hear of it. He gets $4,000 a year
salary, and gives the college $4,000 a
year from his own pocket. No wonder
they want him to stay.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A CERTAIN popular Cincinnati gen
tleman, who recently married a widow
with grown-up family, found him
self within three weeks a bachelor, a
husband, father, and a grandfather.
He is wondering what will happen to
him next.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

WHO would believe that the once de-
rided velocipede would within a few
years give birth to more than $4,000
bicycles, and that the League Of Amer
lean Wheelmen counts alone $4,000
members, 10000 of whom live in New
York and the surrounding suburbs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

WHAT would the hotels and railways
of the United States do without the
commercial travellers. There are 25O,-
600 of them in the United States who
are con the road, upon the average,
nine months in the year, and during
that time spend collectively 1882, O0O,-
600 for travelling expenses. Of the
400, 10000 tons of freight carried
yearly by the railways of the country
they sell 500, 100000
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

DomicaI and shrewd. Young men and
women placed under such tuition and
influences can not but be benefited
thereby, and we think these are points
worthy of the consideration Of every
parent about to send his young folks
away to college.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

RELIGIOUS differences often make
their appearance in the secular courts.
The recent split Of the United Breth-
rem denomination upon the question of
the lawfulness of membership in secret
societies cuts right through the middle
of many congregations, and will give
rise to a number of yexatious lawsuits
for the possession of existing church
buildings and other property.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
EoPICs OF IIgTE REST 10 THE FAE.az-
ER AND HOUSEWIFE

Bsms valuable Information for the PIow-
man, st0clzman. POuItsrsr, Nursery
Eaan, ana Everybody Connected With the
8Hms
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
A SHARP fakir is making a good in

A SHARP fakir is making a good in
come by advertising a sure method of
killing all insects. When you send
him 80 cents you Will receive a printed
card on which are these words: "Get
your insects to smoke cigarettes, and
they Will die within an hour. So long. 3"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

A REMARKABLE girl died recently in
Chicago. Josephine Grabski was her
name, and she was eighteen years old.
She was the eldest of a family of six
children, and had never walked a step
in her life. She had never seen the
light of day, never heard the sound of
voices and never uttered an Ineligible
syllable. She ate what was given her,
rejecting nothing, and never made a
sign that she desired more. The only
feeling that this semiiinanimate Great
ure ever betrayed was when a flower
was placed in her hand She was no
larger than an ordinary ten-year-Old
child. After death her countenance
looked like that of beautiful angel in
sweet repose, and the lips were parted
in a smile, though she had never smiled
in life.