Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

fruit trees in vineyards, accompanied
BY sentence of immediate death against
all that had already been thus planted.
unless they were over fifty years of
age. when they might be preserved UNI
til their time of bearing should be over.
In 1928 money reward was offered for
the destruction of wasps' nests
Until the end of the last century
there were no nurseries of fruit-trees in
Nuremberg The first was founded
by Duke Charles Eugene when he estab-
lished the Karls Academic on his estate
LA Solitude" and decided that horti-
culture should be among the branches
taught The father of the poet Schil-
Ter was, after his retirement from the
army, for many years director of this
horticultural school
Wine is, of course, mentioned very
early in this series of public documents,
but only in 1914 does one read of inns
where beer as well as wine is sold, and
drinks made from other fruits than the
grape are not mentioned until 1850.
The preparation on a large scale of all
such drinks is then forbidden on &C
count of the practice of using them to
adulterate wine. 1t is only permitted
to each farmer to prepare certain
stipulated small quantity for the con-
sumption of his own household Other
wise, it is declared, it would soon be
impossible for the poor, and especially
for women, to get their necdful draught
of pure wine, to say nothing of the ruin
that might come on the country at
large were this capital industry to
deteriorate. A little later even the fab
rication of small amounts of cider is for
hidden; but it seems to have been i'm
possible to enforce SO radical a measure,
and there is soon return to laws which
do not prohibit, but strictly control and
limit its making. Not until 11S5, how
ever, was the sale of cider allowed, and
even then the warning against its ad-
mixture with wine was reiterated.
Sometimes the two beverages could not
even be sold at the same time, though
cider might be alone. The use of GER
tain inferior kinds of fruit for brewing
drinks is also often forbidden even at
this late date. Much fruit seems to
have been used in those days for cook
ing purposes, even more, proportion
ately, than at present, although the
Germans are remarkable to-day for
their love of this kind of food Ye
cooked preparations of fresh fruit seem
to have been almost exclusively en-
ployed, for references to dried fruits
are few, and the prices named for them
in 1922 are so high that they appear to
have been then luxury. These care
full and strict regulations, of which we
have here quoted only a few among
many, prove that the government of
that time took a truly paternal interest
In the affairs of private cuItivators as
well as of the commune as such But
there can be no doubt that such regula-
lions did much to encourage the devel-
opment of local industries, or, at least,
to keep them in the best path that the
wisdom of the time could discover
Moreover, they were sometimes in the
direction of charging, not restricting,
the liberty of poor farmers, as is pro-
vided by a law of 1867, which gave them
the right to transplant young wild fruit
trees from the forests without any pay
ment therefor. This privilege was a
greater one than it may seem to modern
readers, for there We're vastly greater
numbers of such trees in the forests
then than now; and it was also more of
concession than we can easily realize,
for hunting was then the one great
amusement of the rich, and not only
beasts of the chase were carefully pre-
served, but likewise the woods wherein
they found their food. 1t should be
noted, however, that the permission
is given for personal use only; no trans
planted tree to be sold, and it seems rs
though each peasant were allowed to
take but a single tree-Garien and
Forest.