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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

as to be fresh and succulent all through
the season. III to cut Tor hay, we want
only one or two kinds OF grasses so that
they will ripen together. For a perma-
nent pasture, q mixture OF clover,
timothy, redtop, blue grass, foscue, or
chard grass and some others may be
used. From half bushel TO q bnshel
of seed per acre Is none too much, as the
sod must be very thick to withstand the
drouth and tramping upon IL. The best
grass for hay is timothy, as IL sells the
highest In the market. The ground may
be seeded on wheat, rye, barley or oats,
but it Is not q good plan TO sow the
grass seed alone as, II this is fol-
lowed, q crop of weeds Is sure to grow,
and a grain CROP Is much better than a
weed crop. If seeding down is the
main object, less amount of grain
! should be sown. Some practice sowing
lightly of timothy in the fall, and sowing
with timothy and clover In the spring.
From four to eight quarts OF timothy
seed per acre is used and from four TO
six quarts of clover seed. In mixing
grasses always have one kind In greater
proportion than the rest Oats make an
excellent crop to seed with, as they
shake the ground and keep out the
weeds. But they must be sown early
to do well. Barley is also good. Grass
seed should be sown after the grain, and
not narrowed in deeply, because the
seeds are so small. II the weather is
dry at harvest, cut the stubble high, so
as to keep the young grass plants still
shaded. A heavy seed for moving
lands is one bushel of red-top, one-half
bushel OF timothy and eight pounds Of
clover seed, For permanent pastures
the amount and the kind Of seed will
greatly depend upon the richness of the
soil and the amount of moisture in it,
Grass seed may be sown on the snow on
wheat or rye. 1t will settle down and
as the ground softens the seeds go in
and soon start growing. = Practical
ETl
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
m. Paner was MIsinrormad.

Surprise and indignation are expressed
in social circles at Kcokuk, Iowa, the
home OF Miss Kilbourne, over the WASH
ington dispatches containing the state
ment OF the Army and Many JOltTn1L
that 1t had authority for saying the ru-
mors of General Schofeld's marriage
are absolutely false. Mrs. and Miss
Kilbourne and their friends are natu-
rally annoyed by the matter. Arrange
ments for the coming marriage are going
on quietly, and the n1ptials Will be sol
emnized June is, as announced. the
4 rlnu and Ndry Journal TO the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
was n suicide or MURDER

At Camden, n. j.. the body of Carrie
Burroughs, a dressmaker, was taken
out of the De aware River A Mrs
Coleman stated that near midnight she
heard scream and female voice cry
out "For Gods sake, DON'T" and then
she heard a splash. The police think
the woman committed su eide
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.

Birds Pulling Corn-Pigs In Clover
Keeping sows to breeding Selling
Young Pigs-DIying Out Rubber Boots
Notes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

THE best speed OF railway train is
only little more than half the velocity
OF the golden eagle, the flight Of which
often attains to the rate Of lao miles an
hour
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
How 20 seed Down Ground.

1t depends largely, in seeding ground,
whether It is to be used for permanent
pasture or merely for hay for year or
two and then to bo plowed up again If
for permanent pasture. we want the sod
very thick, and variety Of grasses, so
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

HEN retu rn in g
from a little lectur-
ing trip in Ohio we
were delayed some
hours by an acci-
dent, and our train
"laid Off" I'm one of
the finest agricul-
Itural sections of
|that gem State.
Toward evening
the prospects of
getting TO any
town for supper
b eca IN G yer y
gloomy, and a half
dozen or more
struck across { ,e
fields for a farm
house, and were
much gratifed at
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
Notes.

UNIFORMITY in size, color and weight
will add To the value of lot of hogs
when they are ready to market.
RIVALRY among swine breeders Is a
good thing, so long as IL does not lead
them 10 disparage the merits of others.
OF the seven to nine months required
to feed hog for market, from five to
seven of them should be spent in good
pastures.
IN majority of cases it is the breeder
and feeder that looks after the little
things in the management that makes
the most money.
IT is to the credit Of hog breeders that
in comparison with other classes OF stock
fully as much improvement has been
made, says the IOlCd Farmer.
THE best profits not realized with the
greatest weight in swine, says an ex-
4-lAn-Ga-I II "A -,aaadiIin- lUaiQht and early
maturity that Is the most desirable.
MANY beginners get discouraged in at
tempting TO improve the quality OF their
hogs because prices get low, but this
should only be an inducement for further
Improvement, says a writer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

is about the most uncomfortable thing
one can put on his feet Mr.. Nj. III. c.
Gardner, Of Orange County, n. Y, tried
hot oats, hot sand and a hot oven, with
poor success. and was about ready to
the plan for drying shown in the illustra-
tions. A stout wire is bent as shown,
with loops large enough 10 admit the
boot legs. There Is hook at the back TO
hold the wire in place when put over the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Drying out Rubber boots.

Many farmers would wear rubber boots
more than they do il they knew how to
get them dry inside. a wet rubber boot
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
STORING TOOLS.

Illustration of the CareI-ssness which Too
Frequently Prevails.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

the devices adopted Tor storing farm
tools and rachinery. A good plow, APP
parently nearly new, had been left in
one corner of the field standing in the
furrow, just where, last fall, the plow-
man had finished his stint. Probably
the timber needed seasoning-it was GER
tainly getting 1t; or, maybe, it was left
there for accimation. Perhaps the
farmer left it there to save time in the
hurry Of spring work in dragging it from
the shed. Perhaps he covered the share
TO keep it from the elements and save IL
from rusting; or, again, perhaps he is
troubled with neighbors that borrow, and
left IL where it would be convenient for
+.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
Selling Young rigs.

There is no way of making profit from
hogs so easily and certainly as keeping
number of first-class breeding sows and
selling the pigs when from six to ten
weeks old. The price of pigs at this age
generally represent both in the eye OF
the seller and buyer considerable share
of what the pig will grow to il properly
fed. IL Is true the young pig makes
more weight from same amount OF feed
than he does when older, but generally
the man who sells the pig gets this profit,
or a good share of it, without the ex-
pense of feeding
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary of the More Inn
portant Doings or Our Neighbors-wsd-'
dings and Dsaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General Nows Notes.
CHEBoYaAN had bigger shipping
business during May than that OF any
other month In its history. Shipments
of pine and hardwood lumber were over
1000, 900 feet, lath 5000, 900, pieces OF
railroad ties "A 900. paving posts 80, 600.
Two hundred and twelve vessels, not in
cluding line steamers, entered and clear
ed, representing total tonnage OF
"a. 1T.
The excursion steamer Burch sprung
q leak soon after leaving the East Tawas
dock. The passengers behaved quietly
and the boat was beached. All were
safely landed. While at dinner some
boys were opening valves, and sea-coek
was left open.
SIXTEEN Bay City carpenters employed
by two planing-mill firms went on a
strike for ten hours Iay and nine hours
work There is no indication OF gene
raj strike.
A COMPANY Of twenty Saginaw boys
is organized as the Saginaw Marine
Worlds Fair Club 1t is the intention
to charter a schooner, lay in an adequate
stock of provisions, sail TO Chicago and
remain in that port about one month,
making their home in the boat. To
defray all expenses OF passage and
board each member OF the club will pay
into the treasury twenty-five cents pei
week.
ALMA COLLEGE gave it's retiring Presi-
dent. George +. Hunting, a banquet,
in which 100 enthusiastic students took
part A third college color will be worn
to keep alive their sentiment for him.
A COW successfully disputed the right
Of way with special train on the Sagi
nav, Tuscola and Huron Railroad, anc
ditched an engine and four cars neal
Sebewaing. No one was hurt, not ever
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18
4 GRAYLING, MICHIGAN THURspAY JUNE le 1891.

should be that IRON three 20 i've days
after dropping her litter Of pigs SOW
will mate again. II is best with large,
fully grown sows, to let them have pigs
as often as possible, as In our experience
they do better and produce more thrifty
growing pigs by this method. The ex-
planation of this paradox is that this
meth cd prevents the sow from getting
fat, so as to injure her breeding, as she
Is sure to do IL left too long without rags
sucking her. Sows thus treated not
only bear but will need liberal feeding,
as the growing f9tus and sucking pigs
are drawing on the SOW, besides the nour-
ishment required to maintain her own
existence. .-Americdn CultiUdtOr.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

Keeping sows 20 Breeding.
The fact Is not so well known as II
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02
SEEKING.

see far of a glowing, beck'ning thought.
J: Unspeakable, sublime itself, it seems
: Content to be walked up from idle dreams
And into some bright human need in
wrought
Forth from the silence OF dim spaces
brought
Caught by the tip of wing that brightly
CLEANS
Where many radiant bird through ether
beams
And is by rainbow threadings softly caught.
OH soul-ecstatic vision Of pure mind
That does transfgure all the weary past,
And all the future gid with glowing light!
For we who earnest seek shall sometime
find,
And all unto a nobler semblance cast,
AS unexpected stars CLEAN forth at night.
Elizabeth Cakes Smith, in Home Journal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02
WILLIAM L. SCOTT DEAD.
The Pennsylvania Millionaire Ex-
pires Suddenly at Newport, II. 1.


Ex-Congressman w. L. Scott, of Pennsyl-
vania, died suddenly before midnight at
Newport, R. l. He was taken there about
two weeks before from his home in Erie,
Penn, suffering with acute CASTRO
intestinal catarrh. 1t was believed that
the climate would be beneficial.
Mr. SCOTS death was sudden and unex-
pected and was due to repeated heart fall
ures, his gastric trouble being improved and
there being no organic disease. Mr.. Scott
had been ailing for some weeks. His family
were notified and all were present at the
end, which was peaceful and painless. His
body was taken to Erie, Penn, Tor burial.
Mr.. Scott was born in Washington, ID. c.,
July 2, 1923 of Virginian parentage. He was
early left an orphan and in destitute circum-
stances He began his career as a page in
the House of Representatives. General
Reed, of Erie, Penn, who then
represented that district in the House,
started him as shipping clerk in
the lakes trade. Mr.. Scott subsequently be-
came largely interested in the coal and iron
business and also in railroads. He married
the sister of Frank d. Tracy OF the New
York Stock Exchange. In politics he
member of the Forty-ninth Congress.
Mr. Scott was also a prominent patron OF
the turf and owned many good race horses.
He was Director of the Union Pacific, Lake
Shore, Northwestern and Canadian South
ern Railroads, and latterly was Spectator
on the New York Stock Exchange.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02
A LONDON BANK ROBBED.
From $3.50. 900 to $3.50, 200 Said
to Have Been Taken.

An important bank robbery has taken
place in London, England. The institution
that has suffered is the London and West
minister Bank, Limited, IL Lathbury, E. c.,
an important establishment having over
fifteen branch houses in that city.
The money stolen consisted Of large par.
eel of bills RENTED from the country banks.
The thief or thieves gained access to an
apartment near the main entrance 10 the
bank. This apartment was easy OF access
from the street
1t is currently reported that the amount
stolen is not less than $3.50, 900. and it may
amount to as mEch as 81, 250, 900.
Notice of the robbery has been sent to the
police centres throughout the British Isles
and on the Continent, and the sailing OF
every passenger vessel IS being
watched. Notice OF the robbery
has also been sent to all the banks upon
which the bills were drawn, but the police
theory is that attempt viii be made to
change the bills in that country, but that the
thieves viii have recourse TO the Continent,
where the presence OF so many wealthy
travellers from England and the United
States makes such transactions easier than
in that country.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02
Drying Potatoes.

It mi ht be profitable to dry the sur
plus potato crop of Southern California.
Of late years process of artificial drying
of potatoes has been perfected, and pc.
tatoes so treated are largely used in the
British army and navy. Not long ago
the Express mentioned the letting OF
contract by British army authorities to a
factory in Nova Scotia for many tons of
dried potatoes. 1t is probable that sale
could lie had for many carloads of South
ern California tubers worked up in this
manner. They would be in demand for
consumption at sea and in tropical eli
mates where the common potato cannot
be grown to advantage. In this way,
and by establishment of starch factories,
with increase of facilities for the prompt
shipment of new potatoes to Eastern
markets at the proper seasons, there need
never be any waste of potatoes grown in
this section.-Los Angeles (Cal.) Ez-
dress.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02

open 20 settlement Is 500 600. This. divided
into tracts Of 100 acres each, will give farms
to 5000 people. and the result Is that
not less than 5000 others win be
disappointed. When in connection with
this l. taken the fact that OF the sO0, 600 acres
ready for settlement at least one-eiShth IL
unfit for cultivation, il can readily be
seen that there viii be much suffering in the
new lands.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02

CASTLE is the only country in the
world where CASTLE soap is not used.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
THREE-CORNERED.
The Party Mr.. POwderly Wants
to Make Him Champion.
He Desires 1t to Be a Great
Power in Politics,

And to BE Composed of knights of Labor
Farmers Alliance Conference to Form
ulate "a political Platform Such as In
dustriaI Organizations Could Favor at
the Polls"
NEW York, Jan. ST. V. Powderly,
general master workman of the Knights
of Labor, has sent out a especial cir
cular'' to all labor organizations, calling
upon them to decide upon the date to
hold conference between representa-
tives not only Of the Knights of Labor,
but Farmers Alliance and trade unions.
to establish a third party which shall
hold the balance of power in the Ma
tional politics of the country. The cir
cular, after quoting from reports of
various committees, says, over the
signature of Mr.. Powderly:
Vigorous suggestions were offered as
to the best time of holding this confer
ence, and it was agreed that Washing
tons birthday would be the most ac-
ceptable date and Washington City the
best place to hold the conference. When
the Farmers Alliance beld its conven-
ton ut Ocala Fla. in December, a call
for a conference to organize third
party was circulated and signed by
many Of those who attended. That call
fixed upon Cincinnati as the place to
hold the session, and Feb. 30, 1891, as
the date. At the informal conference of
the officers of the order of knights of
Labor and many of those who signed
the call at OCala Fla, it was agreed to
POSTPONE the Cincinnati conference until
after the industrial conference could
meet and agree upon its platform Of
principles
"ln accordance with the action of the
general assembly, by which | was in
structed TO correspond with the presi-
dent or other chief officers of other in
dustIral and reform organizations /
place this matter before you with the re-
quest that you take action at once and
notify me of the result In view of the
fact that nearly all organizations have
recently held their annual conventions,
it may be difficult to send delegates to
another conference 30 soon, and / would
suggest that the executive officers, or as
many of them as can attend, make up
this conference.
81 suggest tn ee dates on which to
vote, and which ever receives a majority
will fix the time of the assembling Of
this gathering--Feb. 30, March 25, July
29-the date recommended by commit
tee of the general assembly. | shall vote
for Feb. % for the reason that we will
he enabled to meet and confer with the
newly elected congressman who owe
their elections to the laborers of the field
and city, This is very important mat
ter and should receive careful attention.
Every organization should take action
and be represented, for it is not intended
to be a Knight of Labor gathering or
conference Of those representing one idea
or section alone All are invited and all
should be represented. Vote ON the date,
and when they are in the call will go out
with as many names attached to it as
vote upon it,"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
SIR JOHN THOMPSON,
The Canadian Minister of Justice, Re-
plies to Mr.. blaine.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. S.-Sir John
Thompson, minister of justice, in an in
terview on the subject of Secretary
Blaines reply to Lord Salisbury, says
that in the case Of the Ceylon pearl fish
cries, which Mr.. Blaine cites, the iuris-
diction exercised by England is simply
to prohibit injurious operations to those
fisheries by British subjects. No at
tempt has been made to exclude foreign
ers from the fisheries or restrain their
operations
Regarding Mr.. Blaines contention as
regards st, Helena, the minister of JUS
tice says that it will be for Mr. Blaine
to enforce this contention in the face of
the fact that Dwight Foster. who con-
Quoted the case for the United States be-
fore the Halifax commission, made it as
a strong point that the pretensions of all
maritime countries at that time could
not be cited at the present day as dein-
ing the bounds of international law as
regards marine jurisdiction.
Great Britain had been for years
asserting sovereignty over all the seas
surrounding the British islands, and she
had claimed, with the acquiescence of
both France and Spain, all the bank
fisheries within sixty miles of the coast
of Newfoundland, and the whole Gulf of
st. Lawrence; so that if even the ques-
tion of st. Helena were not entirely ex-
ceptional, and the results of "a compact,
it belonged to period which cannot be
cited as precedent in modern inter
national law.
On being asked what he thought of
the questions which Mr.. Blaine desires
to submit TO arbitration, Sir John
Thompson replied: They are all in
volved in the reference which Lord
Salisbury proposed: What were the
rights exercised by Russia in Behring
sea? How far were they acceded by
Great Britain? Was Behring sea in
cluded in the Pacific ocean? and so on.
Mr., Blaine obviously is not sincere in
his contention, because he could have
raised any of these questions on the gen
eral reference"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
Subdued by Hunger.

CHATTANOOGA, Jan. S.-Twenty-seve
of the worst prisoners in the county Jail,
who had revolted and refused to enter
their cells from the corridor, have been
starved into submission At II o'clock
Tuesday morning twelve submitted, and
at ) o'clock in the afternoon the other
fifteen, hungry and cold, gave in, and
the jailer and his assistants, armed with
Winchesters, had been on duty mean
time at commanding posts, but force or
bloodshed was not needed. The gang
was headed by Bud Gordon, in for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Gordon, and
several Of them would stop at nothing to
gain their liberty.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
The United States Sued for the Payment
of Southern Bonds.

OF sOuthefn BOndS.
BALTIMORE, Jan. s. Jacques Van
Raalte, native of Rotterdam, Holland,
but who resides and does business in
Glasgow, where he is also consul for the
Netherlands instituted suit yesterday
against Hon. James G. Blaine, as secre-
tary of state of the United States. Prior
to July 2S, 1868, the plaintiff bought at
their full value $125,00O negotiable
coupon bonds issued by the southern
states. On that day Hon. William H.
Seward, then secretary of state, issued a
proclamation which recited, among
other things, that neither the United
States nor any state shall pay any debt
of obligation incurred in aid of insurrec-
ton or rebellion against the United
States, but all such debts and obligations
shall be illegal and void"
The plaintiff contends that the procla-
nation contained an implied admission
that without such prohibition the debt
or obligation would be good and valid.
He alleges that the proclamation of the
secretary of state was an illegal inter
ference with the rights of the plaintiff,
as a citizen of Great Britain and Hol-
land, by reason Of treaty stipulations be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and Holland. The case presents
many curious POINTS, The principal
point that will be contended for, is that
the United States has always held that
none of the southern states were ever out
of the Union, that the secretary of state
in his official capacity, had no authority
to issue any proclamation tending to i'm
pair the obligations of any state, and
that such obligations in the way of
bonds are binding on, and are bound to
be paid by the state issuing such bonds.
The bonds in question are state bonds
and Confederate state bonds jointly.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
Death of an OLD war Hor,e.

WINCHESTER, KY, Jan. s.-The last
of the horses in this part of the state
that participated in the late war is
dead, at the age Of 33 years. She was a
bay mare, and was captured from a
Federal officer in Georgia in 1860 by
John d. Hunt member Of John Nor
gan's cavalry during one of that com
mander's fa4 aous raids Mr. Hunt rode
her through the remaining years of the
war and has owned her ever since. She
raised colt after she was % years old,
a circumstance rarely occurring.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.

poaching on the Russian coast Up there?
Certainly not You never will. Yet
Russia has the other side of the same
waters On the Siberian coast she has
as extensive seal fisheries as we have on
the coast of Alaska, but she protects
them. 1t is well understood that any
vessel, no difference what flag she flies,
found poaching in Russian waters will
be seized. tell you, if the right thing
is done, either the poachers will keep
out Of those waters or there will be
powder burned"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
Ther Wnnt Rood, Not Gums.

DEVILS LAKE, N. Oak, Jan. S.-No
apprehension whatever exists here of the
Indians at Fort Totten breaking out.
Numbers of them are in this city daily
selling hay and wood. They are in poor
circumstances, and are not looking for
Winchesters or ammunition. What
they want is pork and flour. They are
getting less than half their usual rations,
and the next issue, Feb. 1, will exhaust
the supplies, after which they will be
without food or clothing until new ap-
preparation is made.