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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

AS to variety think they are all
good. l have cultivated them in
hills, matted rows and single plants
in rows and think the latter way the
best, if you want large berries.
l dig trenches twelve to eighteen
inches deep and about eighteen inch
es wide, put in bottom oftrench three
or four inches of manure, then the
same amount of earth, and continue
this to the top of ground, gradually
lessening the manure as the trench is
filled to the top. Put row of plants
in each edge of the filled trench,
which will make the rows about six
teen inches apart in the rows. After
fruihng first time l would allow only
two runners to each plant, training
them in the row; this will make the
plants six inches apart for the second
year. Keep all weeds and grass
cleaned out and give them good
working in the spring, leveling the
ground afterwards with a rake then
put your mulch back and you can ex-
pect large fine berries and plenty OF
them. Do not allow any runners this
year (the secondly The third year
after planting take up every other
row of plants and set in new plants
and do this every year after the third,
being careful to take up the rows that
were left the year before. All run
ners should be kept off until the fruit
is ripe and then only allow enough
runners to make young plants to re-
set with.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
Poisonous Dry Goods.

The British consul at Christiana
in Norway, about four months ago
forwarded letter calling the atten-
ton of the Foreign Office to the fact
that, owing to the English printed
fabrics containing arsenic, there had
been a great decline in the quantity of
such goods imported into Norway,
and the British printed cloths were
getting a bad reputation in conse-
quence of containing such large
excess of arsenic. This letter was for
warded to the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce, which procured sans
pies Of the goods in question, and
were handed over to Mr.. Lewiston,
who had the samples examined, and
they were found to contain arsenic in
large quantities.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
Fruit Evaporating.

The following paper was read by
Geo. A. Davis at a New York Farm
er's Institute:
Since the first appearance of fruit
to the present time, the process of
eyaporating it has been going on,
nor has this natural evaporation al
ways rotted and destroyed the fruit;
but in many localities, like the
South of Europe or the Italy of our
own country-Southern California
it has finished product that cannot
be equalled by the best artificial
methods.
1t will be of interest to know that
the handsomest dried fruit in Cali
fornia is dried on trays in the sun.
In certain sections the atmosphere is
perfectly dry; in others, being moist,
evaporators are used, but the results
are not as satisfactory.
1t is singular fact that in locali-
ties where Nature cures her fruits
best, she produces them in the great
est abundance. But while her ways
are worth the time spent in their
study, this paper must speak of
evaporating by artificial methods.
There are number of patents in
use, and each has its merits. 1t is
not an easy affair to operate an
evaporator, and keep everything run
ming smoothly and swiftly to the end
of the season, when we take into con-
sideration the rotting apples and the
high price paid for them. The CONS
plicated pairing machines areso easily
put out of order that they are source
of annoyance.
The gentleman from whom l
bought my evaporation informed me
that he had heard the call "machine
brokew so frequently that at night
and for months afterward the cry
rang in his ears, so that he quit the
business principally on account of
this annoyance. When finally we
get the apple pared, cored and trim-
med, it is bleached, sliced and spread
on trays to dry. In order to succeed
in producing fancy article, it is
necessary to subject the green fruit to
a swift moving current of hot air,
and as it begins to dry to gradually
remove from the heat, supplying
fresh fruit in its place. A high tenn
perature is greatly to be preferred, as
air holds more moisture when heated.
To Illustrate Air, at the freezing
point absorbs the one hundred and
siXtieth part only of its own weight
of moisture, and every 9th addition.
al degree of heat doubles its absorb.
ing power. Hence air at % degrees
+. will absorb four-fifths ofits weight,
while at 24S degrees heated air will
absorb one and three-fifths Of il
weight. Hot air alone will not do.
Fruit will cook in water at DO de
grees, or bake in an oven at 225 de.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

Just as sure as hot weather comes
there will be more or less bowel COM
plant in this vicinity. Every per-
son, and especially families, ought to
have some reliable medicine at hand
for instant use in case it is needed. A
IS or 80 cent bottle Of Chamberlin's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
is just what you ought to have and
all that you would need, even for the
most severe and dangerous cases. 1t
is the best, the most reliable and
most successful treatment known and
is pleasant to take. For sale by
Ritchey & Bostick, Druggists.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
The Purest and Best

Articles known to medical science
are used in preparing Hoods Sar-
saparilla. Every ingredient is care
fully selected, personally examined,
and only the best retained. The
medicine is prepared under the SUI
pervision of thoroughly competent
pharmacists, and every step in the
process of manufacture is carefully
watched with a view to securing in
Hoods Sarsaparilla the best possible
result.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
Strawberries and How to Grow Them

W. II. Peace, in Hopkinsville Kentuckian.
Coming at time of the year when
the human appetite is in its most Ca
PRECIOUS state, when the long months
of absence of nearly all fresh fruit has
created peculiar craving for it, the
strawberry fills want which but for
it would of necessity remain unsatis-
fed. Perhaps this want makes it
more highly priced than otherwise it
would be. Still we could not believe
it would take lower place if it came
at any other season Of the year. 1t is
to fruits what the rose is to flowers,
not so conspicuous, not so hard to
grow, but still the queen. No branch
of Horticulture offers greater induces
ments than Strawberries. Thriving
more or less on any soil, still they re-
pay high culture as much or more
than any fruit grown. Strawberries
offer TO those who grow them ems
ployment pleasant, easy, refined and
profitable. No one can tell the pleas
ure there is in watching the plants
from the time they begin growing in
the spring until blooming and from
bloom to the berries, watching almost
every berry to see which will make
the largest one, except those who
grow them.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
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How to Manage Millet.

journal of Agriculture.
Allow me to call the attention of
your readers to the Importance Of a
crop which may be sown early or late
with Just as good success as any other
crop sown or planted at any time.
Such crop is millet, one of the most
important Of our annual grasses. 1t
may be s0wn any time in the spring
after the ground gets warm, until the
middle of June, and if the season is
favorable IA good crop may be secured
by sowing on wheat ground after
harvest. Iffrom any cause you have
failed to get good stand of oats, turn
the ground again and SOW millet. If,
owing to wet weather or any other
cause, you do not get all your corn
planted in time to be reasonably sure
of a good crop, few acres may be
sown to millet No crop will pro-
duce more feed to the acre. With
this, as with other crops, it is large
item to have good soil, and it in good
condition; still, if you have poor soil,
millet will do as well on it as wheat
or oats. Plow and harrow the ground
thoroughly; sow broadcast and COW
er with harrow, drag or brush, very
little covering being necessary. 1t is
better to SOW just after rain; if sown
just before rain, the ground may
run together and make it difficult, if
not impossible, for the young and
tender plant to get through. The
amount of seed to SOW will vary with
the fertility of the soil and the pur-
pose for which it is grown. One-half
bushel per acre, on medium soil, is
the amount usually sown, and ifseed
is the part desired, this is enough;
but if grown for hay, better results
will be secured by increasing the
amount to three pecks, or if the soil
is very rich, to one bushel per acre.
Ifgrown for seed, never cut till fully
ripe, but if grown for hay, cut when
it is in bloom, or very shortly after
wards, as the straw becomes woody
and decreases in nutriment, if allow
ed to ripen; the ripe seed have an UNI
favorable effect on some kinds of
stock, especially horses and mules.
In either case, care must be taken to
cure thoroughly before stacking. If
there is heavy crop, this cannot be
done in less than three days, no mat
ter how favorable the weather. Cut
in the morning after the dew goes off
and let it lay till next day; then rake
and put in small cocks and let it
stand two or more days; this is for
good weather. If the weather be-
comes unfavorable any time after
cutting, the farmer must exercise his
own judgment as to what is best to
do, as no kind of directions can be
given which will apply to all kinds
of weather. Store away in the barn,
if possible, as it is hard to keep in
good condition when stacked outside,
though not so hard as clover. Millet
is a good, rough feed for any kind of
stock; but it is not advisable to feed
it to horses, unless in very small
quantity, for any considerable length
of time.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from
practice, having had placed in his
hands by an East India missionary
the formula of Il simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and perma.
nent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma and all thr at and
Lung Affections, also Il positive and
radical cure for Nervous Debility and
all Nervous Complaints, after having
tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, has felt it his
duty to make it known to his suffer
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffer.
ing, will send free of charge, to all
who desire it, this recipe, in German,
French or English, with full direc.
tions for preparing and using. Sent
by mail by addressing with stamp
naming this paper, w. A. MOVES
$40 Powers Block, Rochester, n. Y
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

burn or even become heated at the
temperature indicated by the Their.
mometer, even at 300 degrees, for
the evaporation Of water is cooling
process, The air in motion, together
with the heat, causes the fruit to dry
rapidly. The chemical changes
which belong to truly evaporated
fruit will now begin, and the al
bumen is c0aguIated precisely the
same as in an egg when boiled. All
the fruit jelly remains in the cells or
is left upon the surface by the evapo-
ration of the water in which it was
dissolved. The germs of animal or
vegetable life are destroyed by the
high heat. 1t is by these changes
and uniting part of the water al
ready contained in the fruit with the
starch that the truly evaporated pro-
ducts are rendered more wholesome,
more digestible and less perishable,
and consequently more valuable.
In regard to the magnitude of the
apple evaporating business, it is diff
cult to give exact figures. 1t amounts
to millions of dollars in the United
States, and the other evaporated fruit
to several millions more; this, too, in
a business that was unknown twenty
years ago. There is but,very little
evaporating done outside OF this
country, except in Canada, and there
the product is not large in ordinary
years, When the apple crop is small
in New York State, many take their
evaporators to Canada. This was
the case during the last season, and
was also the cause of prices n"chops
suddenly dropping in November last.
Most of the revapOratOrs in this
State are in Western New York.
Within "A radius of forty miles of
Rochester there are more than 1900
with varying capacity of from TWEEN
ty-fve bushels per day to the large
establishment drying 1000 bushels in
twenty-four hours.
The products of heapple evapora,
tor are "white stock" "Skins and
cores" and "chops." The white
stock is boxed aud is known to the
trade as evaporated apples. The
skins and cores are packed in barrels
and shipped to New York and Other
points, where they are used in the
manufacture of jellies and jams. The
sO-called chops are whole apple:
sliced and dried, packed in sugar bar
rels and exported mostly to France
for champagne cider, but they are al.
so used in this country for jelly anC
apple-butter. The process of the
manufacture of champagne cider has
never been found out III this country
Germany takes the largest amount o
evaporated apples which are export
ed; England next; but all countrie;
take more or less, and many 90 tC
Australia. Germany has issued a de-
cree that no evaporated apples be adj
mitted into the country without G
chemists certificate that they con-
tain no zinc poison. The fruit is
evaporated on galvanized iron trays
and they assert it takes poison from
them. How this will affect the fu'
ture trade with that country remains
to be seen.
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

Megrimine, the only permanent
cure for all forms of headache and
neuralgia, relieves the pain in from
10 to 20 minutes. Sample free. The
DIR. Whitehall Megrimine Co., South
Bend, Ind. Sold by w. H. Flem-
ing, Druggist, McMinnville, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
Nettrnlnic Persons

And those troubled with nervousness resulting
from care or overwork viii be relieved by taking
BFOUn'S IRON BitterS. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
DR. Hodges
Sa rsaparilla,
the Best
Blood
Medicine
Of the Age.

Purifes the blood, eliminates all poison
Gus and dangerous matter, restores the
health, builds up and strengthens the
system, aids digestion, corrects an I'M
healthy and deranged stomach. A GER
tain cure for all blood and skin diseases;
rheumatism, scrofula, old sores, pimples,
blotches,, eruptions, itching humors,
boils, swollen joints, aching bones, sore
eyes, letter, scald head, dyspepsia, gen.
eral debility, tired and sore feeling in the
body and limbs.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-11-07
Civil Appointments,

Governor Fleming has made the follow.
ing appointments:
W. W. Cleveland to be councilman for
Ward No. 7 of Jacksonville.
Nicholas Won Dohlen to be councilman
for Ward No. 8 of Jacksonville.
s. n. Johns of New River to be con-
stable in Bradford county.
Clinton johnson of Altoona to be
county commissioner in Lake county.
VIM H. Tynes of Key West to be con-
stable in Monroe county.
Columbus F. Nichols of Dellwood to
be constable in Jackson county.
VIM L. Dorr of Putnam county to be
notary public for the state at large.
W. H. Garrett of San Antonio to be
county surveyor for Pasco county.
Ernest Amos Of Milton to be notary
public for the state at large.
Martin 81. Sullivan of Pensacola, John
F. Dunn Of Ocala, E. B. Bniley Of Monti-
cello, John Cross of Arc idia, G. A. K.
Stevens of Barlow and Geo. A. DeCottes
of Jacksonville to be delegates to rep
resent Florida at the National Mining
Congress at Denver, Col, November 10
and 90
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TALLAHASSEE, FLA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER z. 1891.
Apalachicola needs foundry and ma
chine shop.

Apalachicola needs a foundry and ma
chine shop.
The Western Union have put up an ex-
ira wire between Barlow and Punta Gorda
for commercial purposes.
The phosphate mines on the place of
Capt F. Townsend at 1stachatta are prov
ing to be remarkably rich.
The work of securing the right of way
for the Withlacoochee and Gulf railroad is
progressing satisfactorily to those who have
the work in charge.
Col. W. D. Chipley, the president of
Florida's Worlds Fair commission, has
telegraphed to Secretary Hirsh tor permis-
sion to reproduce Fort Monroe at the
Worlds Fair.
Extensive preparations are being made
for Oaklands anniversary celebration,
which takes place this year on November
IA, as the 18th falls on Sunday. These tes-
tivsls bring together the largest crowds Of
peoples that usually gather together in
South Florida. Last year the committees
fed 800 people, and several basketfuls
were left over after the feast The sports
are numerous and consist of horse racing,
foot ball, base ball, jumping, running
throwing the hammer, etc.
For month or more past Sheriff Bethea
has had an eye on wandering negro who
was living at Lake City, by the name O
DanPrice, having spotted him as sus
picious character. Through Prices female
friends the sheriff managed to get hold oi
some letters from his friends in Tampa and
also in North Carolina, which disclosed
the fact that his true name was Walter
Daniel. Both places were communicated
with, and it was found that Daniel was
wanted in Oxford, N. @. for rape COM
mitted there some time in December, 1889
Saturday last a warrant Was received anG
he was captured and is awaiting the ar
rival of the officers from North Carolina.
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CALIFORNIA FIG syrup co.
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Charley Metcalfe was telling some
stories illustrative Of the box Office mans
trbulations If it weren't for some
peoples dirty thumbs" said be- I'D
wish the Lord had made me in book
form don't put in much time in the
box Office. but the few minutes ! am
there is enough for q lifetime. The
average ticket buyer asks enough inane
questions. but what do you think Of a
man who sticks his head through the
window a,,1 wants to know the name Of
. big steamer he saw going down the
East river day before yesterday? Well
my boy. that's what happened this very
morning. and that's not a marker to
the questions some people ask either.
There's the man who knows every.
thing and wants you to recognise 1t. tho
man who knows nothing and proves it.
and the woman who is nothing more or
less than perpetually animated inter
rogaeion mark Why, two days ago q
man came In and told me all about the
piece then being played in the house
After getting rid Of him had to choke
OF q lorg breath to inform a fellow
that the theater was neither q hotel nor
lodging house He said he was sorry
that he liked the location first rate Be-
fore had recovered from the 6t he gave
me, man with three baskets, four chill
drea and woman walked into the
lobby.
"'Be they a-actin or anything insidey
asked the man. No, sir said L Per
formance at 6:16.' Then what do you
suppose that man wanted2 He actually
had the stupendous gall to ask me II he
and his family couldn't go inside and
dt down for an hour or 20 while they
sss their lunchscnr'-New Yoak World.
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Monday. November 2.

Monday, November Z.
Ninety deaths from cholera have taken
place at Damascus.
Two hundred more convicts were lib
Grated by the miners at Briceville, Tenn.
The debt statement shows that the in
terest ard non-interest bearing debt de-
creased during October $4,O25, ,527, this
being brought about by reduction of
4,918, 600 in the debt on bonds, interest
on which has ceased, and 81, 109,647 in
the debt bearing 20 interest The interest
bearing debt has actually increased
50, 600. The total interest bearing debt
outstanding is 1886, ,026, 720.
Ex-President r. B. Hayes is making a
tour of the South.
Great interest is manifested everywhere
in the elections to take place tomorrow.
Lorillard's tobacco factory at Jersey
City was burned; loss $45, 600.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE DOINGS' OF THE DAY TOLD IN
PARA AGRAPHS.
TOPICS OF INTEREST.
HAPs AND MISHAPs-CAsCALTIEs AND ODD
INCIDENTS TOLD BY THE TICKING OF
THE TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENTS.
Saturday, October 81

Saturday. October 81.
The release of 100 convicts by the
Briceville, Tenn, miners caused consider
able excitement.
There is no material change in the
United States-Chili diplomatic situation.
Ex-President Cleveland spoke to an
immense audience at Boston.
Destructive prairie fires raging in Ili-
nois.
Seven thousand lives were lost and
$4,000 houses destroyed by earthquake
shocks in Japan.
An epidemic of la grippe has attacked
the people of Central America.
Sixty-six negroes sailed from New York
for Liberia.
Turkey has prohibited Russian Jews from
entering her ports.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie
arrived at Richmond.
La grippe is raging in Roumania.
Toledo, Ohio, had $500, 900 fire.
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excellence with that of any county in this
or any other state.

excellence with that of any county in this
or any other state.
The writer has grown tobacco for sew
eral years in Gadsden county, and while
he believes that as good quality of Cuba
tobacco can be grown in this county as
anywhere in the United States, he is not
prepared to concede to it monopoly of
excellence in that particular industry.
Tobacco partakes of the nature of the
soil upon which it grows, together with
the fertilizer used, and have seen va
riety of colors, of texture and of flavor
grown in the same field, from the
same seed, of the same age and fertilized
with the same fertilizer, cut the same day
and cured in the same barn, which, of
course, can only be accounted for by the
difference existing in the nature of the
soil. Some portions of our lands are red
clay subsoil, some pipe or blue clay, some
yellow sandy subsoil, some light sandy
hummock, some snuff colored, some
black and some "pepper and salt -
hummock. All of these varieties are
liable to produce tobacco of different
grades from the same seed with the same
kind Of fertilizers, and more especially
are they liable to produce different grades
by the use of different kinds of fertilizers.
And again the same lands, fertilizers and
cultivation are liable to produce differen,
grades of tobaccos by different manage.
ment in the process Of curing. l am Of
the opinion that if the farmers of Leon
county will lay hold of the industry
with both hands, having confidence
in themselves, and grow good
article of Cuba tobacco, under intelligent
and judicious management, that they can
and will realize from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty per cent above the cos,
of growing it, and that (according to the
area grown beats merchandising banking
going TO the United States senate, either
as contestant or contestee, or almost any
thing else, except being millionaire
jim OWL.
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Sunday, November /.

Sunday. November /.
The Maverick National Bank failed.
Scenes around the Briceville, Tenn,
mines are still exciting. 1t is hinted that
all the convicts will be released.
It is reported that British and Portu
guese soldiers have had fight in Africa.
II. A. P. Carter, United States minister
to Hawaii died this morning.
The residence of the Prince of Wales was
destroyed by fire. Loss S75, 900.
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