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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-18
OUR RURAL TOPICS.
Some Practical Suggestions for Our
Agricultural Readers


The weather during the past month has been
quite favorable to growing crops, and the
ground is thoroughly saturated with moisture
as over 700 inches of rain-more than 700 tons
of water per acre-has already fallen in July.
NO disastrous storm has occurred in this vi
emily; consequently crop prospects are again
| excellent. At this time. July 81. wheat, rye,
oats, and barley are headed out, except such as
were sown very late aud even those are well
advanced and thrifty. Wheat straw will he
shorter and less rank than last year. bat tue
heads are large and healthy. and the yield bids
fair to be good Harvest will begin about
middle August and thrashing about Sept. l.
There will be an active demand for good. reli-
able farm hands aud wages will be about 81 to
$3.50 per day and found. Considerable land
has changed hands this season, and prices are
constantly tending upward Good unimproved
prairie land now sells from $40 to So per acre.
Grass is wonderful crop, and there will not
be. any scarcity of fodder. Hay making Is now
in full operation, with splendid weather. Stock
of all kinds have done finely, and the health OF
both man and beast has been excellent. The
death rate in Ransom County during the past
year was less than five in 1000. Remarkably
low, isn't it? Mixed farming pays best, and is
being more and more adopted. The rainfall
has been large this season, which not only as
sures big crop this year, but puts the ground
in splendid condition for early Fall plowing,
and furnishes large quantity of reserve moist
ure for next years crop. Surely North Dakota
is highly favored. The State Soldiers Home
now being erected here will be ready for occu-
pancy by Oct. 1.-W. K SMITH, Lisbon, n ID.
PARIS GREEN ON TENT cATERPILLARs.
The Hatch Experiment Station has made ex
haustive experiments in the use of Paris green
in the destruction of the common tent cater
pillar, using varying proportions of Paris green,
in solution with varying quantities of water.
careful consideration OF their experiments
leads them to the following conclusions:
First the smallest proportion. say pound
of Paris green to 800 or 1000 gallons of water,
required SO long time to kill the caterpillars
that the latter might wander off, or showers
wash the Paris green from the trees, before the
pests would eat enough to kill them. Second.
the large or nearly grown caterpillars are quite
as readily killed by any of the proportions
used in these experiments as those just matched
or in early molts.
The proportion of one pound of Paris green
to 100 gallons Of water. sprayed upon apple
trees ia experiments conducted for three years
past have burned the foliage 10 such
tent as to injure the trees materially. These
experiments finally lead Us to conclude that
the most suitable proportions to be nsed OH
apple trees in this section, and, perhaps,
throughout the State, are one pound of Paris
green to 200, $50, or 800 gallons OF water.
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SETTING STRAWBERRIES.

This is good time to begin getting the land
ready for those strawberry plants you are going
to set this Fall Select some portion of the
garden where you have crop that will come
off early, and give it such thorough cultivation
that every weed will be welded as soon as it
appears. As soon as you can get the crop off
manure heavily and then spade it deeply Then
put On some more manure and spade again
about the 1st of September, and set the plants.
Unless there is sufficient rain, water them con-
stantly until we'll started, and give clean cult
Walton all the Autumn. Mulch heavily with
coarse manure at the beginning of Winter, and
you can have enough fruit next season to pay
for all the labor and cost of plants.
BETS AS sToCK-FooD
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EpITOR,S CHAT.
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PLEASANT TO THINK ABOUT
81 like your Editors Chat very much"
So writes of the brightest and best of our
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and can do possible harm TO ourselves: it may.
Indeed, help us in many ways.
And then WHO knows how much better we
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there near by 10 say. Well done
Whal constitutes nearness, someone may ask. II
is not space surely. lack of it, since those who
are by side may be farthest away. owing to a
lack of interest IN what doing while those
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What il space 10 electric Fash across The
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fragment OF second, and the message has gone
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Out in the Rockies electric messages have been
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Another Failure.

Jester
Mrs. Greyneck-Why, Mabel, you have been
crying.
Mabel-O mamma, am the unhappiest Of.
women nd
Mrs. Greyneck-You alarm me. Tell me,
what has happened? -
Mabel-Oh, Ja-Jack- ~
Mrs. Greyneck-it can't be possible that
your husband has beea unkind to you so soop q
Mabel-O mamma we have been married
si-six weeks, and l can't fnd out that Ja-Jacks
mas been jealous once. go
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BETS AS sToCK-FooD.

Beets are an excellent aud economical root
crop to use in stock feeding, but may be espec-
tally recommended for brood-sows and as a
means of cheap feeding when hogs are to be
carried over Winter. Sows fed upon them will
lose very few pigs, aud will suckle better than
when fed upon such heating food as corn. In
arranging to feed them in the Winter cellar
should be prepared in the barn, so that they
can be kept without freezing and be reached
with convenience in even the coolest weather.
1t is waste of labor to chop the beets, as when
fed whole both hogs and cattle will eat them up
clean and with less danger of choking than
when cut. Beets are more valuable a few
months after harvesting than they are early in
the Fall, as they undergo a ripening process
that makes them sweeter and better. Expert
ments at the Ohio Station have shown that
beets are fully equal as food to the best corn
ensiage.
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HOW TO BUILD A sILo.

Upon light foundation OF stone set up a
strong framework Of studding (2z 8 to y inch
stuff and on the outside of this frame put
layer of stock board, and on the inside two
thicknes5es of matched boards with tarred
paper between. The outside may be battened,
although this is not necessary. There should
be tight roof; hard and dry dirt roof will
answer every purpose The size of the silo
should be proportional 20 the number of cattle
to be fed, but it is better to err by having it
larger than needed, rather than tco small
cubic foot of ensilage tabout 40 pound5) an
animal day is sufficiently accurate estimate
upon which to base the size.
Thus a silo 12xl5 feet by 20 feet deep would
contain 5000 cubic feet, and would feed 20
head of cattle $50 days. When built much
larger than this the siIo should be divided into
compartments by a strong partition. The
walls should be alright, and constructed
strongly enough to resist the great lateral
pressure which results from COMPRISING tons
of material within deep box. The lateral
pressure in such sio as the foregoing, when
filled, will be about 80 pounds to the square
foot.
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WOOD CHARCOAL FOR HOGS.

Charcoal is often recommended TO be given
in occasional doses to the hogs or to be kept
constantly by them, but the reason for so doing
is not stated, and therefore many do not prac-
tice using it, and regard its use by others as
within. 1t is very easy to state its properties.
1t is one of the best absorbents of foul odors or
gases, and also of foul humors from sores and
ulcers, and also is preventive of putrefaction
Anyone who knows the character of much of
the foul and deeaying swill upon which swine
are fed can see that it is of the best aids to
digestion that can he given. The already pu-
trefying food is checked from farther decay in
the stomach during digestion, and the gases
are absorbed, while if by previous bad feeding
there has been any places made in the
stomach this is a poutice for those, which the
hog himself will apply. There is no danger
that he will eat too much of it, as hog seldom
oyereats of anything.
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CLOVER AS A sUB-souER.

We are firm believer in the value of clover
as farm crop. A few years ago the principal
forage crop grown on our farm was timothy.
Clover was sown, but was not considered re-
liable crop, on account of lifting so badly by
the action of the frost, says correspondent of
the Practical Farmer.
The land being what is termed white oak,
the lower parts having au occasional burr oak
and walnut, this latter being the best soil
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5. Analysis.
L. pata. Acts, 1880; S:14.
2 Time. Say, A. ID. 80.
g. Place of trial. Council House. 6: IL, 10.
a. Court Sanhcdrim.
5. Prisoner. st. Stephen.
G. Accusing witnesses. 6: IL; 1:55.
Z. Charge. Blaspbemy. 8: IL.
8. Defense. 1898.
l. On Court.
I a. Cut to heart. 81.
b. Crashed teeth. 81.
C. Cried out. 81.
q. Stopped ears. 81.
| c. Dragged him from city.
50.
f. Stoned him. 3d. 80.
2. On prisoner.
a. Full of Holy Ghost.
3d.
| b. Had look into Heaven.
%.
c. Saw Jesus as Helper.
Sc
o. Effects. : d. Committed soul 10 God
So
e. kneeled. co.
f. Cried out in prayer.
go.
O. Begged enemies be for
given. CO.
h. Died by stonng, GO.
!. Buried. So.
3. On Christians then.
u. Prosecuted. l.
b. Scattered. 1,3.
4. On Saul. Havoc. s:3.
5. On Apostles. Preached
everywhere. S:4.
6. On us. Courage.
10. Lessons. See below
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GOING TO THE REUNION.

DEAR c. C.: Las. August it was my pleasure TO
go 10 Detroit to the q. A. X. Encampment Arriving
near dark, after lunch made my report Depart
inent Mt the Cardiilac Hstei. Taesfiav I paytic-
ipated IN the grand parade which of course took
up the day Having read in The T.;IBUA 4 that the
e. Z. Guards were 10 meet AT the Home Of the
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-18

Stew and season with butter. pepper ana SAT-.
the firtnest tomatoes you can find. III sloppy when
done stir in n few fine bread cracker crumbs but
not enough TO make the tomatoes stiff. Cut the
tons off sweet green peppers. take out the seeds
and fiji with tomatoes. Serve very hot. Exceiieht
with all kinds of meats.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
sl,ot. b. skillfnl Areher.

In the days when the buffalo was
found in vast herds on the western plains.
there were Indians who. while riding al
a gallon, could send an arrow through a
buffalo's body. Remarkable AZ this
shooting was, yet il did not equal that
reached by the archers of ancient times.
Alr. Dixon, in his history OF Gairleck,
Scotland, says That the Maciiaes OF that
district were such skilifni arehers TINT
they could hit a man at the distance of
40O and even 800 yards. lie instances
the killing of serving man at 600 yards
and Of two men killing several aToLeods
at 400.
Lest the reader should discount the
distance Of the range. the author men,
tinns several wonderful shots made by
Turks. In ifO4 the Turkish ambassador
shot an arrow. IN Il field near London,
4l5 yards against the wind and ls2 yards
with the wind.
The secretary of the ambassador. on
hearing the expressions Of surprise from
the English gentlemen present. said the
sultan had shot 300 yards. This was the
greatest performance Of modern DAYS.
but pillar. standing on a plain near
Constantinople recorded shots ranging
up 10 500 yards.
Sir Robert Ainslie. British ambassador
30 the sublime porte. records that in l7gs
he was present when the sultan shot al
arrow 972 yards. - Youth Companion.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
A Wei Trained r.rannl,n.

! Dave Reed, ayoung llalfbreed ranch
man near the Mexican border of New
Mexico, has IA trained cayuse that would
delight the henri oftlie true sportsman.
The writer took ride over the ranch
a few weeks ago, accompanied by young
Reed, who was mounted on his pet caa-
ynse. Toward noon, as we were about
to strike camp. our attention was at.
tracted by the wild believing of a calf.
Putting the spurs To our animals we
hurried forward to ascertain the carse.
We soon came up To the scene Of the
disturbance. 4 yearling calf was strug
Cling in the clutches Of large Mexican
eagle The calf was evidently getting
flie worst of the fight
After watching the struggle for a brief
moment Reed gave peculiar sort OF
whistle. and his eayuse threw mp his head
and stood as quietly rs marble statue.
Reed brought his rifle To his shoulder.
placed the barrel between the ears of
his cayuse aud fired. The shot was Il
good one. the bullet passing through
the eagles head, killing him instantly.
Tie bird was splendid specimen.
measuring more than ten feet from tip
to tip Detroit Free Press.
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Under italian skies.


We pass in sight of three seasons.
Around us is the crisp air aud golden
sunshine Of autumn. Beneath us hun
dretls of feet the rills of spring murmur
their way toward the sea- Above US the
frosts and snow 81 winter keep their cold
and beautiful silence, except when they
speak with the white tongue of an ava
lanche. Sometimes the delicate ever
green trees Of an entire mountain side
have been covered with rain that froze
as IL fell and the whole gigantic hill
flashes in corrugated cloak Of silver.s
Away beyond and above this a higher
mountain will hold up its mighty drifts
% fIaternize with the white clouds. We
are rushing along among mansions fit
for the gotis.
The people that we see at stations and
In the coaches ara becoming more and
more stubhy and swarthy. The guard of
the train--a kind of conductor and brake
man IN one-looks exactly like the tourist
! from Italy who wanders along our street
at home In the early morning and ex-
piores the ash barrel with an iron hook.
Women doing their washing in the road
side streams are small and ill-favnred.
! These mountains seem to have borne
/ dwarfs. A few soldiers in shabby uni-
forms look too small to participate in a
/ grown up battle, and make US wonder at
Magenta and Solferino. Beggars spring
up out of tue earth. undressed in the
carefully arraved rags of professional
poverty. An old gray haired woman is
plowing IN a barren looking field with
pair OF cows--the yoke twintd about
their horns. People talk 10 each other in
queer dialect Of French and Italian
broken and ground together. VIII
Carleton.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30

A series of articles on different nation
alities in the United States forms one uf
the unique features If the current vul.
ume Of The Chautauquan. In a late
number Albert Shaw discusses the Scam
dinavians, and gives the following IN his
valuable computation Of statistics: More
people have left Norway, Sweden and
Denmark during the last seven years 10
make their homes in the Jnited States
than during the entire previous existence
Of our country. With one.fnrtieth of
the whole population Of Europe the
Scandinavian countries furnish nearly
one twenty-fourth Of the aggregate
European emigration of the United
States during the six decades from 1870
To 1880 Since 1850 we have admitted
In round nnmtars 1 ,n0o. .00n European
recruits 10 our sharss, of whom about
600. 900 have heen ssandinaxiaus. That
Is to say, we aTe during the current de-
cade drawing T. i-a per cont. Of our new
foreign population from group If kin
dred nations which llase only IL per
cent. of the population of Europe.
lie Opinion.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
NO. 40.


Shortly after his first election TO tho
presidency he received n pleasant letter
from little girl living in a. small town.
I'm the state Of New York. The child
told him that she had seen his picture,
and II was her opinion, rs the expressed
II ia her artless way that he would be
q better looking man ii he would let his
beard grow Mr. Lincoln passed that
New York town on his way 20 Washing
ton. and his first Thought ON reaching
the place was about his little corresponds
ent In his brief speech 10 the people he
made a pleasing reference 10 the child
and her charming note .srhis little
Lady, . said he, ''sssw from the first that
great improvement might he made in my
personal appearance. You all see that
am not "a very handsome man, and 10 be
honest with You, neither nor any Of
my. friends ever hoasted very much about
my personal beauty" lie then PASSED
his hand over his face and continued:
''But | intend 10 follow that little girls
advice, and il size is present would like
to speak To- her. The child came for
ward timidly, and was warmly greeted
by the president elect He took her In
his arms and kissed her affectionately,
expressing the hope that he might have
the pleasure Of seeing his little friend
again sometime.
Shortly after mis- Mr.. Lincoln. for the
first time in his life. allowed his beard to
grow all over his face. with the excep-
tion Of the upper lip; and this fashion
he continued as long as he lived. In
speaking Of the incident which led hun
TO sport full beard he afterward -e-
marked, refiectively: How small q
thing will sometimes change the whole
aspect of our lives. Ward ii. Lamon.