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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
AROUND THE FARM,

FRESH, pure water and highly nour-
ishing food are what make the COW
pay. Farmers do not always make the
dairy profitable simply because they
do not try to.
To DETECT the adulteration of paris
green put teaspoonful in glass of
strong ammonia water. The paris green
should dissolve completely. 1t is very
simple met cd, and enables anyone to
make the test.
ABOUT the last of June is the proper
time to thin fruit, when it is about the
size of butternuts. Very thorough
thinning is advisable. Thinning of the
fruit is also great relief to the over
taxed so!G.-Seorge H. Powell.
A RECIPE for breaking up a setting
hen is as follows: Let her set for few
days and then put her in a box with
lath nailed in the bottom few inches
apart Elevate the box and the hen
will soon get tired of her setting.
SET out but few early cabbages for a
family supply. The main crop of cab
bage should be for the winter, and
should not be transplanted until quite
late. Caulihower should be trans
planted at the same time as early cab
bage.
GRASSES are conservers Of soil and
prevent washing and teaching. R5ta-
lou checks some kinds Of insect ravages
and fungi. The corn root worm does
not feed on clover roots. The clover
root borer does not bore corn roots or
roots of wheat, oats, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.

1t Should Never BE Done Until After the
Blossoms Have Fallen.
There can be no date fixed for spray
ing fruit trees as the seasons vary so
much. My experience is that the best
time is when apples or pears are about
the size of a small cherry. The codling
moth does not deposit her eggs until
the blossom is fully opened. and large
majority of them not until after the
blossom has fallen off. should not ex-
pect to receive much benefit by spray
ing while the trees were in blossom.
but l should fear injury by causing the
trees to blast, says a writer in American
Bee journal. / recommend waiting
until the fruit is as large as cherry,
because for two or three days after the
blossoms fall, the stamens and pistils
remain in the calyx. This makes it
difficult to force the spray into the
calyx where it is wanted. We want
the time as short as possible between
the spraying and the Matching out Of
the egg, because we are liable to have
heavy rains, which would make it
necessary to do the work over again.
A second spraying a week or ten days
later will very well pay for the ex-
pense. The codling moth deposits her
eggs when the tree is in blossom, or
soon after, in the calyx or elbow" end
of the fruit, where it matches out in ten
days or two weeks, and Immediately
bores and eats it's way to the center Of
the same. Our object is to spray some
of the poisoned water into the cup
shaped calyx. where it dries and re-
mains until the worm matches, that
when it eats it's first breakfast it is also
its last one. AS to whether the spray
ing of fruit trees is injurious to the
honey-bee, l think l have fully an.
swered that when l say 1t is improper
and injurious to fruit crop to spray
when trees are in blossom.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
WHAT WEEDS ARE.
4 Distinction Which Is Purely Human an
Artificial.

4 Distinction Which Is Pursly Human and
Artificial
A question often debated is what con-
stitutes weed. There is in nature no
such thing as a weed. The distinction
is purely human and artificial. We
may call any plant a weed which OBJ
trudes itself where it is not wanted.
Wheat plants in the flower garden and
Towering plants in the wheat field are
equally weeds. The plants most COM
monty called weeds are those which
with inveterate persistency force their
presence into our fields and gardens,
crowding out the useful plants whose
seeds we have sown.
The reason why the weeds of cult
waited grounds are so obtrusive is be-
cause, by the continued survival of
the fittest" in the war waged against
them by the husbandman and by other
species, these plan is have developed at
length wonderful powers of seed-pro-
duction, or contrivances for disseminate
ing and protecting their seeds. On the
other hand, our cultivated plants, hav-
ing been potted and protected from
free competition for ages, have at
length, in a great measure, lost their
natural stamina, and when the weather
or some other accident restraints hui
man aid and gives the weeds an oppor.
tunity, our cultivated plants make a
sorry fight.
One of our most notorious weeds is
chess or cheat grass, which in wet sea-
sons sometimes takes entire possession
of wheat and oat fields. Farmers often
say that under stress Of the weather
their wheat has turned to chess. The
real fact is that wheat belongs to a
particular and well-defined genus called
by botanists Triticum. Chess belongs
to a different but well-known genus
called Bromus. Wheat having for over
four thousand years been artificially
cultivated and protected has become
physically degenerate. Chess having
been allowed to shift for itself or been
ruthlessly hunted has by the continued
survival of the strongest individuals in-
creased its native stamina. Wheat is
favored by rather dry weather, chess
by wet weather; hence when wheat is
sown upon ground already infested by
self-grown chess seed, and the season
proves very moist, the chess gets the
upper hand and smothers the wheat.
But there has been no transmutation OF
genus. The chess came from chess
seeds, not from wheat seeds. 1t is just
as impossible for the weather to cause
wheat to turn to chess as it is to cause
sheep to turn to goat or horse to
a ow.-Chautauquan.
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The Republican Convention.

The next convention OF the Republican
party will be held at Minneapolis, MINI,
commencing June 7th, and the following
informant in regard to rates and arrange.
ments for the transportation OF visitors will
be OF interest to our readers. :.
The North Western Line will sell excur.
sion tickets to Minneapolis and return at
the very low rate Of one fare for the round
trip, and will provide the best Of facilities
for the transportation Of delegates and Wis
ftors.
Three superbly appointed trains are run
over this line between Chicago and Mime
apolis.
The "Day Express" with luxurious par
lor cars, leaves Chicago at 6:l5 A. NJ and
arrives at Minneapolis in the evening, af-
fording delightful daylight ride through
some OF the most picturesque scenery Of
the northwest.
The North Western Limited" solid yes
tibuled train, lighted throughout by gas,
and equipped with palace sleeping cars and
dining cars, leaves Chicago daily At 8 20 p.
NJ. and arrives at Minneapolis early the FOL
lowing morning.
The might Express" leaves Chicago
daily at :l5 p. NJ. after arrival Of all
trains OF connecting lines from the Fast and
South, and is equipped with palace sleeping
cars, standard day coaches and North
Western dining cars.
Tickets via the North Western Line from
Chicago to Minneapolis will be good via
the direct line, through GAINESVILLE, Mad
ison and DEVILS Lake, or via the "Lake
Shore Roule,'i which closely follows the
shore of Lake Michigan and passes through
Milwaukee, Waukesha and Madison, or will
be good going one route and returning the
other.
Circulars giving detailed information in
regard TO rates, arrangements, etc, and
also containing map Of the city Of Mime
apolis, will be furnished on application TO
W A. Thrall, G. p. q r. 4 Chicago Il
North " estern R'y, Chicago, LII.
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are in leaf, if the object is to check or
prevent growth. Fig. represents a
hedge plant pruned early in the spring
and well cultivated. Fig. shows the
checked or stunted appearance of such
plant cut back or pruned in June or
July.
Fruit trees from the nursery may
be set out if they were dug early and
kept from growing in cool place,
even if the leaves are partly expanded,
but the shoots should never be short
ened back after the swelling of the
buds. Mulch well all small or newly
set trees, if they happen to stand
where regular cultivation cannot be
given them. Young cherry trees
specially require muiching, if the sum-
mer is dry and hot
Thinning the young fruit on over
loaded trees while yet small may be
done more easily than after becoming
larger, and with far less labor than
gathering and asserting the whole crop
at maturity, besides preventing the ex-
haustion of the tree by needless over
bearing.
Lawn moving WITH tne lanu machine,
wherever practicable, should be done
after the grass has been well washed
by rain, and the grit and dust re-
moved which so often dulls the cutting
blades. For the same reason set the
knives so as to cut rather high, avoid
ing the sand near the ground allowing
the grass stronger roots and better
growth than by close cutting.
Cent? man
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least some of the points herein outlined.
The position of the sink, etc, in the
sketch may be changed if necessary, as
it will be equally serviceable in any
other corner. Always aim to have the
cistern pump placed in the sink or at
least on a table or bench adjoining both
for convenience, and also that the drip
ping from the spout will fall into the
sink. The latter, whether of wood or
iron, should have a good outlet pipe so
arranged that it will not freeze in win
ter. If the cistern is in the cellar be-
meath the sink run the outlet pipe from
the sink into the overflow pipe from
the cistern. This entails plumbin TO
prevent the escape of gases. Do not
neglect to have a good-sized window
facing the sink, that all culinary work
may be done in a good light. The top
of the sink and all adjoining stationary
shelving should be about two feet six
inches from the foor.-American AZ.
riculturst
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
SOME SPRING HINTS.

How to Cultivate Early-Planted Crops,
Trees and Lawns.
Early planted crops, or ground that
was early worked, has become more or
less crusted on the surface. With a
good steel rake pulverize this surface,
and change it to a fnely-mellowed top
soil. This will hasten growth and any
foul seeds Just starting will be de-
stroyed.
In cultivating potatoes avoid the COM
mon practice of drawing the earth in
hills around the plants, because in doing
SO you scrape the earth away from the
roots between the rows and pile it up
needlessly high against the plants.
Fig. shows the hill, with the natural
level, and the mass of soil piled above
it. 1t is easily tested by experiment.
Cultivate ten rows level and ten in
heaps, and the level hills, when the
crop is measured, will have from ten
to twenty per cent. more potatoes.
There will be a difference between
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

slight hills and steep hills, and there
will be difference in soils. Try both
ways and compare tie results.
Take the same care in cultivating
corn, the roots of which are nearer the
surface than potato roots and more
easily injured. Both corn and potatoes
send out roots from the young plants
two or three times as long as the height
of the plants. Avoid cutting the corn
roots, therefore, near the plants. Fig.
2 represents a hilled young plant, the
dotted lines showing how the roots are
cut off when working deep and near.
Early in the season is the time for
thumb-pruning. By the time or before
the young shoots have grown an inch or
two, the owner can see very plainly
which of these shoots ought to be rub
bed off, so as to leave the right ones to
form a neat symmetrical head, or we'll
trained grapevine. This practice is i'm
measurably better than allowing all to
grow on tree till they are as large as
ones arm, and have become crooked,
crossing and crowding each other, and
when cut off with saw and AK leaving a
bad wound.
Pruning ornamental and other hedges,
or shortening them back to promote
thick growth, must always be done be-
fore the buds swell, if growth is to be
favored; but it may be done as the buds
are opening, or VIII D the plants or trees
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat Of the disease. Catarrh Is q
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and
acts directly ON the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack
medicine 1t was prescribed by one OF the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting direct
combination of the two Ingredients Is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
J. CHENEY IL Co., Props, Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, price rs cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
On the road

On the road
to health II the consumptive who
reasons and thinks. Consumption
is developed through the blood.
It's a scrofulous affection of the
lungs blood-taint. Find a per-
feet remedy for scrofula, in all its
forms something that p1ryfes the
blood, as well as claims to. That,
if it's taken in time, will cure Con-
sumption.
DR.. Pierce has found it. It's his
"Golden Medical Discovery" As
a strength -restorer, blood cleanser,
and fesh-builder, nothing like it is
known to medical science. For
every form of Scrofula, Bronchial,
Throat, and Lung affections, Weak
Lungs, Severe Coughs, and kindred
ailments, it's the only remedy so
sure that it can be guaranteed. If
it doesn't benefit or cure, in every
case, you have your money back.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
CONVENIENT KITCHEN.

Arranged to Expedite Domestic Work ia
the Farm House.
The convenient arrangement of the
kitchen and proper location relatively
with the pantry, dining room and eel
lar have much to do with expediting do
nestle work and saving steps. These
things may appear to be of minor i'm
portance to the man of the house, but
not to the woman, who is obliged to
spend half her waking hours in this
room. In houses already constructed
changes may be made embodying al
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
August
Flower

For two years suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that 1 would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of a friend I procured
a bottle of August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. l gained
strength and flesh rapidly. feel
now like new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me"
Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.9
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

plexion?
Probably not. Even were Johns eyes
not cut on the bias and his nose broad In
the beam, his tint would stamp him as the
reverse Of beautiful. Yet q white man
with the jaundice Is Of the same hue, only
more pronounced Biliousness, with its
symptoms of furred tongue, yellowish
skin and eyeballs, pains in the right side,
sick headaches, vertigo, must IL unchecked
eliminate In jaundice and congestion of the
hver. Remedy this trouble and remove Ia
attendant symptoms, dyspepsia and consti
patton, with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
which also cures malaria, rheumatic anc
kidney troubles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

"You get we'll, or you get $500"
That's what is promised, in good
faith, by the proprietors of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, to sufferers
from Catarrh. The worst cases, no
matter of how long standing, are
permanently cured by this Remedy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

First tailor-"Do you bow to your
customers when you meet them in the
streets?" Second ditto-"Well, as a
rule do, but l always cut my insists. Z"
Tit Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
A Total LoaA.

Little Beggar-Please, sir, I've lost me
mother.
Capitalist = Sorry, my little fellow,
but I've not found her.-Texas Siftings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

do you know what Jack Senior is
going to do when he graduates?"
YES, he's going to give spread" -
Harvard Lampoon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

LADIES, ladies, think of the engagements
you have broken and the disappointments
consequent to others and perhaps also to
yourselves, all on account of headache
Bradycrotine will cure you in fifteen min
utes. All druggists. 50 cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

VINO WOULD be free from earthly ills
must buy box Of Beecham's Pills. rs
cents box. Worth guinea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

In the flutter Of excitement the fight O
time IL UNDECIDED.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

TIE girl who will not chew gum has
some gum shun about her.-Boston Trans
cript
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

NAN is not merely the architect of his
own fortune, but he must lay the bricks
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

GLENN's Sulphur Soap Is q genuine rem
edy for Skin Diseases.
Hills Hair and Whisker DYE, 30 cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

"A RAFTING good fellow" is often ont
who shakes dice Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

The toddy is the stirring event Of tn
toper's existence.-Dalas News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

TIE RAMS Horn is published Ut Indian
apolis, Indiana, at so per year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

IT is cold day when young lady keeps
boa about her neck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

A PULL is something to be desired, pro-
vided there is not an officer at the other end
of it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

LIFE is short, and most people are short
all through life.-Somerville journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
The Only One Ever PrInted-Can You Fine
the Word?

There is 8 inch display advertisement
In this paper, this week, which has no two
true of each new one appearing each week,
from The DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This
house places "Crescent' on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name Of the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
samples frae.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10

ONE ENJOYS
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-
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy Of it's kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
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 RIO syrup co.
LOUISVILLE. Ky: "0' xfW iosx. Mx
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-05-26
LIBBY Island, Nh
March 20. 1892
Ny delr Nr. Editor

March 20, 1892
ny dear Mr. Editor:
wish to say few words through the
columns Of the AMERICAS on the temper
ancc question. and when know | am ask
, Ing this favor Of an editor whom | know
to be a true friend and worker in tile cau.,
OF temperance feel more free To express
my views. Free rum means ruin to all
that Is grand about our government, also
our private homes, and while know that
SO many far more able writers and speaker,
have written and spoken upon this quc-.
tion, | almost decide 10 not attempt To
write, but then | am one OF the parent.
who have children and Of whom | am
going TO express my own views as to what
think Is the duty of every true christian
man or woman as regard, this question of
temperance
| know this question will be handled
politically and lawfully. etc, but ask a
question now for every parent, every man
and woman Of our land l. it not about
time that we talked Of this matter little
differently from what we have been in the
habit of doing? Ny views are these: 1t
becomes my duty TO no longer speak If
this matter IN a laughable manner; but
speak when talk Of horrid murder
having been committed; and as We know
the little ones who listen 10 what father
and mother say are going to believe, and
so shape course which will be sailing
chart for lfc's voyage. when do we ever
hear fathers and mothers jcstiug and
laughing about any horrid murder cases q:
but how very often we are hearing them
laugh and joke about some drunken time,
the funny acts in the scene etc. Well
now you see what effect, what influence
the talk has on our children Why,
| remember we'll the first murder case |
ever heard OF. was about seven or eight
years old Il guess 1t was that case in
Massachusetts where professor murdered
doctor, Webster and Parkman, think.
were their names; why remember Of see
! ing the expression Of the Older ones faces
as they talked the matter over | came to
the conclusion then, and never have
changed my mind, that to murder was
wrong; 50 say we, as good law abiding
citizens, ought to always be on our guard,
and treat the run questions always as We
would speak Of murder or something con
nected with murder before the little ones
for we are surely going to leave an ever
lasting influence on those little minds,
when they hear us talk. either for their
happiness or misery.
Now, | believe we have any amount Of
law and more than We can use. Until there
are more of our men of business aud high
in political as well as social life, | say,
until such men are willing to make some
great sacrifice in different ways to this
cause, we must wait on for years for sll
our laws to do half what they were in
tended to do for the good Of mankind
Now, l have lots Of faith in the right
kind of Influence of the children when all
the parents do their duty towards the
| children (on this temperance question:
for the next seventy years, and after that
very little law will do to handle the rum
matters. Let US hear from others and oblise
one who desires to see intoxication driven
from among mankind all over the world
JoHN.