The National tribune., 1892-05-12
NOTES.

The story is going the rounds of the press oil
man who lives near Butte, Mont, who made
q unique use of his poultry. He killed a chicken
one day for his dinner, and was surprised to
find quantity of gold nuggets in the chickens
crop and gizzard. He had 80 more chickens,
all of which he killed, and in each of them he
found gold nuggets, the total am onnt gathered
from the 30 hens being S3875O, an average of
$3.50 head. The gold was pronounced by ex-
perts to be Is karats fine. The man, deIig hted
with the success, bought 80 more chickens and
gave them free range. After four days he
killed one as an experiment, and as a result ne
found 81. so in gold in the chickens body.
DR.. James Leicester, of Bristol England, has
been investigating the termination and growth
of seeds in electrified earth--that is, the seeds
were raised in sort of earth battery box
containing mould, and having a copper plate
at one end and a zinc plate at the other. con-
nected together by wire The action of the
mould on the zinc sets up current, and it was
found that in the case of many seeds the plants
grew moro quickly than those from similar
seeds in boxes which were not converted into
votaic cells. In the case of hemp seed, it
was fully an inch above the surface before there
was any sign of it in the ordinary vessels"
The experiments were made in several ways
in glasses, pots and boxes, with soil from the
same heap-but in each case termination and
growth were fastened when the metal plates
were added.
Fruit trees should not be sprayed while
in blossom. The right time is Immediately
after the blooms have fallen. Paris green and
London purple must both be deposited on the
fruit to have any effect, and as the petals cover
the fruit this cannot be done until they have
wthered and fallen from the trees. Then, too,
if the blossoms are sprayed, bees will gather
honey from such poisonous flowers taking in
enough poision to faint the honey, if not to kill
themselves.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
says he finds the following to be the best
remedy he has ever tried for relieving ehok ed
cattle: Loop piece of wire place one hand
below the obstruction on the outside run the
wire down the throat below the obstacle and
draw it out.
sowing CELERY OR OTHER SMALL SEEDS.
One Spring my father brought home a dol.
lars worth of celery seed, which he proceeded
to SOW. / watched the operation, and, when it
was finished, remarked that / would buy a
five-cent paper OF seed and from it would raise
more plants than he would raise from the seed
bed just made.
He told me to go ahead"
The seed purchased, / selected an old, unused
hotbed to SOW it in. 1t was too late in the sea-
sou for using glass, but / knew the soil would
be good. After digging it over and raking it
light and fine, l took ont painful of the earth
and with piece of board leveled and smoothed
the surface of the bed. With piece of lath for
marker / made straight, shallow burrows by
pressing its edge lightly into the soil. In these
the seed was sown, and scarcely covered by sift-
ing on the painful of earth saved for the pur-
pose.
The bed was next thoroughly dampened with
quite warm water applied with a whisk broom,
so as not to disturb seeds or soil, after which
the whole surface was covered with old boards.
A few days later, on lifting the boards the
seeds were found to have terminated. The
bed was again moistened with warm water as
before and the boards replaced, though they
were now raised about half an inch from the
surface. As the plants increased in vgor the
boards were raised higher until their protec-
ton being no longer needed, they were removed
entirely.
/ raised all the celery plants that grew on
our place that year, my fathers seed bed prov
ing total failure AS l was sure it would.
have used the same method since with un.