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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
ABOUT SPOTTED FIELDS.
How to Make Every Aero on the Farm
Produce It's Best.

How to Make Every Aero on the Farm
Produce It's Best.
There are to be found on almost
very farm what may be termed
spotted fields" BY this are meant
fields which have defective places in
them, where the crops have made
poor return. In this oat field there
may be found n spot where the straw
was short and on the stalks no heads
In that cornfield is place where the
ears failed to set and where there was
scarcely any growth of stalk. Out in
the meadows are thin spots where the
grass forgot to grow, and yopder bar
rem knoll in the pasture is evidence in
itself that it is not doing as well as it
should.
1t is well to consider these significant
hints furnished by the fields and patch
up the deficient places. Some one has
said that he who farms poor land
should always go about the place with
clover seed in one pocket and gypsum
in the other. This figurative express
sion may be taken quite literally by
almost every farmer Immediately after
harvest, for the farms-particular in
the east-are few upon which no un-
productive places are to be found It
needs not the chemist to analyze the
soil to tell what these places need.
Two things may be given as the rem
sdy on nine-tenths of the farms, viz,
manure and drainage. Let the barren
spots be well covered with manure or
fertilizer of some sort, and if the opera
ton is repeated again in the spring so
much the better. Let the wet places
be drained and thus convert waste into
productive land. Tile is good invest
ment on any land that needs it, for the
land is virtually worthless without
If intensive farming is to be the most
successful farming in the future, then
every acre and part of an acre must be
made to produce its very best. Wet
places must be reclaimed, half pro-
luctive spots must be made to bear full
crops, and wide brier hedges along the
fences must fall before the bush hook
Rocks perhaps appear in patches, en-
langering plowshare, reaper and
mower. They should be picked up and
carted off. They are commonly heaped
in some corner or along the edge of a
field, where they are still in the way,
instead of being hauled on the bad ruts
and says in the road, where they are
out of the way and seful-American
Apricultl1riSt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

THE advice to supply salt where the
cows can get ut it at will is often given
but not universally adopted. But it is
good advice nevertheless.
THE man who kicks the liveliest
against the artificial coloring of butter
is about as sure to select colored but
ter for his own use as any body else.
DECEMBER, January and February
are the three months when the cows
require the best of seed and care in or
der to get the greatest profit from
them. From now till then we should
do all we can to prepare the cows for
their winters work. And now is the
time to weed out the herd and sell the
poor cows.
ALWAYS be on the lookout for an ex,
ira good COW. There is such vast diff
ference between an extra good cow and
an ordinary good one. Sometimes the
difference is one hundred per cent. but
fifty per cent gain is common. Some
cows are good for six months some for
eight and some all the year. 1t is the
all-the-year cows we want.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
THE MEXICAN WHITE HOUSE.
Compared with It tho squatty Structure
in Washington IL Nowhere.

Compared with It the squntty Structure
in Washington Is Nowhere.
Chapultepec is the Mexican white
house. 1t is the famed hill where Mon
tezuma had his summer-house and it Is
one of the wonderful palaces of the
world. Located at the end of the Pasco,
the fashionable drive of Mexico, a park
OF a thousand acres surrounds IL; and
these thousand acres are filled with the
most wonderful of cypress trees. some
of which are over hundred feet high,
and many of them are fve or six hun
dred years old. The trunks of these
trees are massive in size and their limbs
are gnarled and they spread outward as
they go up until they intervene with
other limbs at the top and form dense
shade. They are clothed in perennial
green, and from them hang great boards
of the beautiful gray-silver Spanish
moss which you see in the forests of
Florida and Louisiana. A drive through
this park is like going through the
forests of fairy-land, and in the morn
ing and the evening when the sun casts
its beautiful shadows through the trees
and over the well-kept lawn, it's sylvan
beauties are beyond description. Out
of the center of this park rises
mighty rock, going straight up for
at least 200 feet. This rock has
top of several acres, and upon
its surface is built the mass
i've castle of Chapultepec There
is only one stairway and one road that
lead up to it, and the building is
~ ,,I, of .s-l.
architecture. 1t is. it seems to me,
bigger than any building in the United
States, and it covers as much space as
the capitol at Washington, 1t rises in
terraces, and these terraces are of white
marble, with brass balustrades, along
which you see lovely flower gardens,
which make you think of the hanging
gardens of one of the Aztec emperors.
The Mexican rulers of the past have
spent fortunes in improving and fur
nishing tl~is castle, and President Diaz
has remodeled many of the rooms for
his own use. The artists and builders
are repairing the rooms to-day, and the
palace will be finer than ever. One of
the bedrooms of the president is espe-
cially fine, and Mrs Diaz's private
reception parlor is in pink silk, with
hangings of brocade and plush. All of
the rooms are beautifully frescoed, and
the interior of the castle corresponds in
some degree to the wonderful beauties
of nature which surround it. The view
from this castle is one of the finest in
Mexico. The whole of the valley of
Mexico is spread out before you. The
capital. with it's many cathedral towers
and enameled domes, lies at your feet
Silvery lakes sparkle like floods of
diamonds amid the green in the dis
tance, and upon all sides the great
mountains of Mexico shine out like
hills of frosted silver, and away off
under the sun you see the white heads
of the two great volcanoes, Popocate-
petl and the White Woman, which are
ever clothed in perpetual snow.-Chi-
cago Her
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
FIG. =.

and the bottle shaken vigorously until
the curd is dissolved, and the contents
become hot solution of light brown
color. The neck h then nearly filed
with weak acid equal parts of strong
acid and water), the bottle placed in
the whirler and whirled for about half
a minute, or until all the fat appears
as clear yellow oil within the gradua-
tions of the neck, from which its per-
centage is read at once. The time re-
quired to make n test is about two
minutes, and the cost for chemicals
about one-fourth of cent. Cream,
slSimmilk and buttermilll are tested in
a similar way, if fair sample can be
obtained with the pipette. For cream
a pipette delivering as grains is used,
and the reading multiplied by three for
the per cent. of fat. One hundred tests
require about one-half pound of alco-
hol and five pounds of acid both of
which may be obtained from any drug
gist- The pipette costs twenty-five
cents, the bottles fifty cents each. An
accurate milk tester of some kind
should be used by every farmer who
has much milk to sell or butter to
make. Its use will enable him to form
an intelligent idea of the dairy value
of his cows.-American Agriculturist.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
G, as9.
FIG. 1.-HurToN's MILK TESTER.


work of testing milk. The method,
similar to those now in use, consists in
mixing measure of the milk tn be
tested with enough alcohol and sui
phuric acid, and rapidly whirling the
mixture to separate the fat. Fig. 1
represents only one of number of
very cheap and simple machines. which
anyone can make, and only one way of
attaching it. In this the test bottles.
while being whirled, are supported in
a piece of 2X4-inch scantling, fifteen
inches long, centered on the upper end
of the shaft This is made of FIVE
eighths-inch rod iron, eight inches
long, with upper end squared and
slightly tapered to fit into square
hole in the center of the whirler. The
shaft turns in a block at the side and
through hole with tin bearing) in
the top of the table. A small pulley on
the shaft is connected by band wit h
the wheel at the left turning on bolt
through the leg of the table. One turn
of the wheel makes about ten of the
whirler, which should make about 800
per minute while testing. The capaci-
ty of the whirler is easily increased by
making two crosspieces, and still
further by continuous wheel. The
cost of the machine is about fifty cents
The work of making a test is brief
ly as follows: Amyl alcohol is added
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
Yariationa In Butter Fat.

At the Illinois experiment station
tests have been made to determine the
constancy OF the amount of butter fat
in milk, and it appears that though the
general law, that the amount of milk
decreased and the percentage of butter
fat increased as the period of lactation
progressed held true, yet there were
surprising variations of almost daily
occurrence. The amount of butter tat
might be six per cent. more in the
morning and by night drop off three or
four per cent. From these investiga-
tions it is apparent that single test
for only day or two can give no re.
liably correct idea of cows milk and
butter -producin capacity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
Buck wheat for sheep.

We should not feed the buclswhea,
alone to the sheep, but when mixed
with corn and rye it will make whole
some food. We should mix the three
grains in equal parts and feed whole
with good clover hay if possible.
BuclSwheat alone is very "heating'-a
diet of buckwheat cakes in the human
being is only advisable in the coldest
weather. Mixed with corn and rye.
you will obtain ration that is more
digestible and better balanced. AS o
rule, it is better economy to sell the
buckwheat ground into -four. and buy
bran or linseed meal with the money
thus obtained The same is often true
of rye. Rural Neav Yorker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
MONKEY JOkERS.
How an Artists Pets RegaIned Their Mas
ter's Good Favor.


ter's Good Favor.
An artist in Rome was the possessor
of two monkeys. One morning the
larger of the two monkeys freed him
self from the rope by which he was tied
and then released his smaller compan-
ion. In few minutes an excited wo-
man rushed into the artists studio to
complain that his monkeys had been
pelting her with green figs from out of
her own tree. A man was sent to ar
rest them. They ran over the wall into
an adjoining garden, and continued
their fight uutil their pursuer lost
track of them. AS evening was coming
on the artist while sitting at window
which opened into little court, heard
something which caused him to look
up. His runaway pets seated in a win
dow opposite, were trying to conciliate
their master, and then get off from pun
ishment. The artist looked at them
with grave expression though he was
struggling to keep from laughing. The
monkeys, having exhausted their re-
sources seemed to despair. Suddenly
the larger monkey had a happy thought
catching his small companion by the
tail, he began swinging him in the air
like pendulum. The absurdity of the
action, and the anxious expression with
which both monkeys watched its effect
upon their master, broke down the ar
lists selfcontrol. He burst into long
and loud laughter, and the monkeys,
seeing that they were pardoned, joined
in with a glad clatter.-"Humor in Ami.
mails" by w. III. Beard.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
SOME DAY.


When the purple shadows hover
In the twilight gray and still,
And the wing of night Is resting "a,
Softly on the distant hill;
When the bells OF sunset Ginning
Echo with eternal calm, NN
Like the last grand chord harmonious Y
OF life's closing evening psalm,
Then the toilworn millions sleep.
When the hush OF sleeping myriads
Rhymes with tho sound of spheres,
And the tread OF passing moments
Marks tho end of weary years.;
When the solemn tide is ebbing
Softly from tho pcbbly shore,
And tho ships go out OF harbor
To come back again no more,
Then we cease to sigh or weep.
When somo day we W eigh life's anchor,
Slowly drift out on the tide,
Death our pilot, and our haven
Ovor on the other side;
When the white mists leave the waters
And we hear the signal bell,
When the morning dawns before US,
Where no midnight ever fell
Then, beloved, all will be well.
-Maude Meredith, In America
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
BUTCHERING DEVICE,
A Simple, Labor-Saving Continuance Any
one Can Make.

one Can Make.
A subscriber sends to the Orange
Judd Farmer the following simple de-
vice for elevating beef, or any car
cass, when butchering. Spread apart
the hind legs of the butchered and
.ressed carcass, and keep them spread
by stick put across above the gam
brel joints. Through the gambrel
joints run a strong pole, or iron rod-a
crowbar will do-letting it extend a
foot or two on either side. Attach two
ropes to the beam overhead, branch
of a tree, or whatever forms the sup
port, as far apart as the carcass is wide,
as shown in the illustration. To the
low ends of each rope, which should
hang to within about three feet of the
ground, attach a stick two or three
feet long, at its middle point. Place
the rod, running through the gambrel
joints, on the ropes next to the short
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
FARM AND GARDEN.
SIMPLE MILK TESTER.

Valuable Information from Prof j. n.
Hutton, of Connecticut.
One of the prime elements of success
in dairying at the present day is a
knowledge of the commercial value OF
the milk handled. 1t is generally con-
ceded that the value of milk for near
ly every purpose is in proportion to its
percentage of fat, and many attempts
have been made to devise satisfactory
method of testing milk on the basis of
the fat contained. To be of popular
use such method must be rapid and
simple, as well as accurate and COM
paratively Inexpensive. The principal
methods that have been tried are lack
ing in one or more of these require
ments.
The machine and method here de-
scribed are the result of an effort to
cheaper and simplify still further the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
Not the Right Kind of stream.

"Look at this beautiful river that lies
at our feet, my son" said the aged
father, as he laid his trembling hand on
his youngest sons head and sent him
out into the cold world. 'If you grow
up in the right way, my son, your life
will flow like this lovely stream"
Tie boy grew up to be confidence
man and thief, and is now in the
penitentiary. The beautiful river he
had taken as his model was q crooked
one.-Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24

sticks. Revolve the sticks about the
rod. This will wind up the ropes, and
raise the carcass from the ground. Any
boy sixteen years old can do the work
with ease. When raised high enough,
n second rod or board should be
placed between the ropes and the ends
of the sticks, as shown in the engrav-
ing, to prevent unwinding. Both ropes
should be so wound that the sticks will
tend to turn the same way.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
A Chip or tho Old Block.

"How old are you, sonny?"
Twelve years old, SIR"
"You are very small for your age.
What is your name?"
Johnny Smith. My father is baker
on Manhattan avenue"
$50 your father is baker. might
have guessed it by your size. You re-
mind me Of one of his loaves. Texas
Siftings.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24

to a test bottle
Gig. p to a
depth of one
( o u r t h of an
inch; the pip
cite Zig. 81 is
then filed with
the well-mixed
milk, and its con-
tents delivered
into the bottle.
Strong sulphuric
acid is added up
to the necl, of the
bottle, a small
cork held firmly
in the mouth
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24

WHILE we wouldn't reject COW be-
cause of the color OF her hair, yet we
would demand tbat more of the Other
good points should be there. In short
brindle is q scrub color.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24
A staggerer.

Throaty Tenor-I-ah-canno
sing the old songs.
Loud Whisper from audience. )-You
never could. Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24

"This is very wet country. Wha.
do you raise here chieHy?"
Umbrellas. Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-10-24

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in ita
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FyG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW Y0ek. nv
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

.SUMMONS-IN THE DISTRICT COURT
~ of the First Judicial District Of state OF
Montana. in and for the county OF Lewis and
Clark.
Alice NJ. Fetterolf. plaintiff. VS.. L. J. Fetterolf
defendant.
The state of Montana sends greeting to the
above named defendant:
You are hereby Sequirsd to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named plaintiff
in the district court of the First judicial district
OF the state OF Montana, in and for tho county Of
Lewis and Clarke, and to answer the complaint
filed therein. within ten days (excluslvs OF the day
OF %sarvice) after the service on you of this sum-
mons; t served within this county q, i served
twenty days, otherwise. within forty days, or
Judgment by default will be taken AGAINST you
according, to the prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to obtain a decree Of
said court dissolving tho bonds of matrimony
now existing between You and the plaintiff here
in upon the grounds Of extrene cruelty on your
part towards plaintiff while residing in the sta,
of Montana. and for the custody of the minor
child. of and Tor n more particular statement of
the cause OF action herein you are REFERRED to tho
complaint on file in said court.
And you are hereby notified that If you fail to
appear and answer the said complaint, as aboye
court for the relief demended in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal of the dis
trict court of the First judicial district of tho
state Of Montana, in and for the county of Lewis
and Clarke, this LIST day of Septern Der, in the year
of our Lord. one Thousand eight hundred and
II. H. THOMPSON, Deputy Clerk.
]. n. CLEMENTS, Attorney for plaintiff.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24
STONEWALL JACkSON'S RIDING.
If HIS Wit Had Been as Bad He Wouid
Have Been - Prisoner.

If His wit Had Been as Bad He Would
Have Been - Prisoner.
Stonewall jackson was the worst rider in
both armies, says the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat. He wobblsd about in the saddle
like q man in a state of profound intoxica-
ton, and seemed every moment about to
fall off his horse. He never fell, but al
ways kept the spectators betting odds with
themselves that he would before he had
gone another 100 yards. His wonderfully
bad riding was as we'll known in the federal
as in the confederate army, and once nearly
led to his capture.
II was during his famous march to Bull
Run that Jackson and several members of
his staff undertook to do a little r%eccnnoi-
tering on their own account. The weather
was bad, and it was wet and rainy, II
they had Oh long waterproof coats that
completely concealed their uniforms. They
completed the examination of the country
they we're looking over, and turned to go
back, when they found on nearing q bridge
over q small stream that the approach to it
was guarded by a detachment of federal
troops, having q piece of artillery which
they had planted on The road in a position
from which it could rake the bridge. jack
son did not hesitate a moment Galloping
up behind his men he shouted out to the
officer in command:
"Who directed you to put that gun on
the road? Take 1t away and mount in the
woods on the hill wonder. 1 never saw such
a piece of folly. Here in the open ground
your men will be shot from the brush On
the ether side"
On he vent rs though in a terrible pas
sion, berating the officer, who colored,
apologized, and hastily gave the order for
removing the gun. jackson, with his staff
heels, galloped off to the left at his
as though to pass down the
made a sudden turn, Numbered
the bridge n escaped. The be-
fuddled officer in command of the gun had
gone afar when he saw Jackson and his
party cross the bridge toward the enemy's
and, conjecturing the the truth from
Jackson's riding, got his gun into position
and sent a shot aftor them. 1t was not.
however, till the next day that he learned
q prisoner that his guess had been
and that the officer who fell into
a passion about the gun was no other
than the confederate general.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24
WAR CORRESPONDENTS STORY.
A Wedding which Was Suddenly Inter-
rupted by the French.

ruptsd by the French.
whole French army corps, which any day
might overwhelm Saarbrueken and its
slender garrison of u single German
battalion, writes Archibald Forbes i'll the
Nineteenth Century. So we liyod, quite a
little detachment of us, in n hotel on the
outskirts, ready for Il iudioious bolt. At
this hotel there arrived one morning a
young German girl who was engaged, we
learned, to n sergeant in the regiment gar
risoning Saarbruckeu. She had omet to say
farewellto her sweetheart efore the lighting
should begin, and no should march away,
mayhap never to return. some OF the
livelier spirits among US conceived the IDEA
that tho pair should get married before the
parting should be said. Both were willinE.
The backgrounds officer gave him leave,
on condition that should the alarm sound,
he was 10 Join his battalion without q mo
ment's delay. All was i'll readiness, n
the clergyman was just about to JON tho
pair in holy matriiuony, when the sound OF
a bugls suddenly brooks in on tho stiffness.
1t was the alarm. The bridegroom hur-
riedly embraced the bride, buckled on his
secoutrements, and darted OIL. la
ten minutes more the combat was in full
swing; the French had carried tho heights
overhanging the town, and wera pouring
down upon " their artillery anu mlttall-
leuse fire. Our hotel was right i'll the limo
of fire, and soon became exceedingly dis
agreeable quarters. VS. got tho woman
down into the cellar and wnited for svahts.
A shell crashed into the kitchen. burst in
side ths cooking stove, and blew the we'd
ding breakfast, which was still being kept
hot, into what an American colleague called
Everlasting smash 1t was too hot
to stay there, and everybody strategicaliy
Unanswered to the rear, including the Ger
man battalion which had constituted the
A few days later was fought.
close to Saarbruoken, tho desperate battle
of the Spicheren, in which the bridegroom's
regiment tool u leading part. The day af-
tor the battle / was wandering about the
battlefield helping to relieve the wounded.
and gazing shudderiugly OF the heaps of
dead. Suddenly | came on our bridegroom,
his back resting against a stump. He was
stone dead, with a bullet through his