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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
1t Should Never he Done Until After the
Blossoms Have Fallen.

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 small cherry. The codling
moth does not deposit her eggs until
the blossom is fully opened, and a large
majority of them not %ntil after the
blossom has fallen off. / should not ex-
pect to receive much benefit by spray
ing while the trees were in blossom,
but should fear injury by causing the
trees to blast, says 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 i:
necessary to do the work over again.
A second spraying week or ten days
later will very we'll pay for the ex-
pense. The codling moth deposits her
eggs when the tree Ia In blossom, or.
soon after, in the icalyx or "blow" end
of the fruit, where it matches out in ten
days or two weeks, ind Immediately
bores and eats its way to the center Of
the same. Our Objects to- spray some
of the poisoned water into, the cup
shaped calyx, where i. dries and re-
mains until the worm matches, that
when it eats its first breakfast. it is also
its last one AS to whether the spray
ing of fruit trees is injurious to the
honey-bee, / think l have fully an
swered that when say it is improper
and injurious to fruit crop to spray
when trees are in blossom.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08

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. 4 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 mulching, 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 the land machine,
wherever practicable,s 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. Country
Gentleman
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
VERY PARTICULAR.
Nothing Was Too Good for Her Dear
EidO.

Fido.
"Milllmau, please stop moments"
The lady came running down the
front steps i'll great haste, and the
driver of the milk-wagon stopped his
horse.
81 see you have Jersey milk painted
on your wagon" she said. rs it from
pure Jersey cows?"
"Yes'm. We make speciality of keep
in nothin but pure Jerseys"
"Do you have some cows that are bet
ter than others?"
"Yes'm."
"Some that give better milk than the
rest?"
"Yes'm"
"Do you keep their milk separator
eyes, we keep the milk from our
freshest and best cows in separate
can"
And charge more for it?"
"Why, it's like this, you know. We
have regular customers that's been
taliin' milk from us for years, and if
they want the milk from that can, why,
of course, we've let 'em have it for
about the same figure as the other
Some of them are particular, you know,
There's folks that have babies, for in
stance. They generally want"
"Yes, know. But where they have
very young baby-a very delicate
baby-don't they sometimes want the
milk from one choice COW, unmixed
with any other?"
"Y esm.'
Can you supply such milk as that?"
"Yes, but that costs considerable
more than other milk. We only do it
to accommodate. 1t makes good deal
of trouble, and we have to keep it in a
| glass jar that holds about two gallons
that we got made especially to or
| der"
II don't care how much it costs! Can
you supply me with quart of that
kind of milk every day?"
"Ycs'm but-but baby can't posi-
bly, use quart of such milk a day to
save its little" ....
81 only want it for the cream, |
| shall skim that off and throw the milk
away"
"But such rich cream as that for lit.
tie baby, ma'am--"
'It isn't for a baby, sir! I want it for
my dear little Fido, Chicago Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

Take care of the work, but do not
forget the workers. Margaret Bot
tome
Nothing makes man strong like a
cal upon him for help.-George Mac
donald.
The best method for handling bees,
for an amateur, is by proXy,-Amei'ican
Farmer.
The less man amounts to the
prouder he is of his ancestors being big
people. Rams Horn.
NO man ever offended his own con-
scicnCe but first or last it was revenged
upon hIAl for it-South.
Fine clothes are more powerful in
bringing some people out to church
than love ofreligion. N. V Press.
"A perfect stranger" is met with at
nearly every turn of life, but perfect
friend is arity-Yonkers Gazette.
There is one thing to be said for the
inveterate story-teller. He thinks a
| great deal of his relations. Boston
Transcript.
| I ask little from most men; try to
render them much and to expect moth
ing in return, and / get very well out
of the bargain.
| The trouble with the sober second
thought is that it SO often has the bust
head as the result of the first thoughts
actions, Globe.
1t is sometimes quite enough for a
man to feign ignorance of that which
he knows, to gain the reputation OF
knowing that of which he is ignorant
| --"He who takes wife takes care,
was one of Franklin's maxims, but
sometimes if he took more care he
might get better wife. e.-Philadelphi9
Press.
-Disqualifications -Snively-Aclos
mouthed statesman would make neither
barber nor tramp. Snodgrass-
Why?| Because he says nothing anC
saws wood.
There are two kinds of unhapp,
people in the world-those who are saC
because they are not known, and thos
who are miserable because they ar
known too well.
Young Saphead-Do you know
Miss Smilax, my friend, Charlie Big
head, has got brain fever. Do yo,
think I'll ever have. it? Miss Smilax-
Well, not as you are now.-Bostol
Courier.
Miss Oldgirl (gushingly)-So this
Susie's baby? ! can't realize it! JUS
hear the dear little fellow-"Mam, man
mamr Iwonder if he thinks am hi
mother? Colored Nurse (uncompromi,
ingly vcracious)-Mam, mans what h
calls his gran-ma. Harper's Bazaar.
"A little siX-year-old boy went int
the country, visiting. About the frs
thing he rot was bowl of bread an
milk. lie tasted it and then hesitate
a moment, when his mother asked hir
if he didn't like it, to which he replied
smacking his lips, Eyes, mamma;
was only wishing that our milkmen i
town would keep COW.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08

LISTENED TO THIS SHOWER OF ABUSE.
Sigh for his friend at having such a
wife, and two for himself for not hay
ing one.
George left our Office that week, and
saw neither Dolly nor him for over a
year. When at length we met once
more it was at the railroad depot; and
after the old-time custom held out a
handful of Havanas. "Smolle?"
"No" "No?" "No"
Refusal question and reiterated re-
fusal took exactly three seconds. had
to have an explanation of this, and as
we took our seats in the car asked him
if he was again trying to swear off and
at the same time praying the Lord that
he mightn't.
"No, old man, it is sure thing this
time, haven't drawn a Whit since last
September, and its ten months ago this
week. You remember the bluffs used
to make at it, for You struck the nail
on the head moment ago, Well
must tell you how made up nay mind
to break off for good. One afternoon |
went home Unexpectedly and found
Dolly had five o'clock tea with a half
dozen of her lady friends. They were
talking abort men, and of course didn't
know that one of the odious creatures
was listening. My Dolly, my own,
sweet little wife, actually spoke out
untl oh ItI,,ft hN1inun hal
any will power, anyway-that she, her
self, had only been married short
time, but that she knew perfectly well
that men as a rule were very weak
creatures indeed. The curious part of
it was that all the others seemed TO
agree with her, and such ral1ing over
as our sex did get was caution to
Benedicts.
"As listened to this shower of abuse
directed against us lords of creation !
swore (without mental reservation)
that madam's statements should be
given the lie circumstantial,' or even
the lie direct and on my honor, old
man, | haven't burnt even a cigarette
since. 1t is the easiest thing in the
world to stop too, find" he said, with
a superior air, whichse me to laugh.
ing outright as | thought of the success
full outcome of Dolly's and my con
spiracy.
Mrs. wilkins tea table friends still
meet at mutual admiration society,
and to this day continue to congratu'
late themselves on the successful exc
cution of Mrs. Dolly's scheme.
While IL remain a lonely, weak
willed bachelor, feeling myself a traitor
to poor wilkins as | offer incense il
hourly devotion TO my triple deity
Durham, Cavendish and Perique.
| w ERNSr
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
NUMBER 40.
WHAT WEEDS ARE.
A Distinction Which Is Purely Human and
Artificial. tft


question often debated is what con.
sttutes weed. There is in nature ne
such thing as weed. The distinction
is purely human and artificial We
may call any plant n 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 persistcncy force their
presence into our fields and gardens,
crowding out the useful plants whose
seeds we have sown.
The reason why the weeds of culti-
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 plants have developed at
length wonderful powers of seed-pro-
duction, or contrivances for disseminat.
ing and protecting their seeds On tho
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 restrains hui
man aid and gives the weeds an oppog-
tunity, our cultivated plants make q
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 p
particular and well-defned genus called
by botanists Iriticunl. Chess belongs
to different but well-known genus
called Br0mus Wheat having for over
four Thousand years been artificially
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
sclf-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 q horse to
a ow.-Chautauquan
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08

The hospital, SO did take a cigar from
Dolly's father and broke my promise te
her" .E
Once war was declared it was evi-
dent that there was to be. no.let up un.
til one party surrendered. lie was
peuitept for the broken promise, and
sha was forgiving, so the field was still
unwon. But fortnight saw another
trial in progress. This time he held
out manfully for ten long days, but It
was his misfortune one night to board
the grip-car with brawny son of Erin's
black dudeen directly to windward.
This was too much for the ''weak flesh"
and he again succumbed. So it went
on for six months-a series of endeavors
and defeats.
One day Dolly came to the office and
finding George absent we spoke of her
trials and tribulations proceeding from
his one bad habit. 1t was almost with
tears in her eyes that Dolly recounted
the many attempts she had made to
have him reform. Now to console her,
and in sheer desperation, | proposed a
plan, thought of on the moment, and
which, knowing George pretty thor
oughly, hoped might work. My propo
sition to Dolly was that she reverse her
former tactics and, instead of flattering
him in the belief that he could accom-
plish whatever he had set his mind to
do, to allow him to accidentally over
hear her remark that men were by far
the weaker sex, and that their much.
vaunted will-power was mere delu-
sion; that she had repeatedly seen il
tried and found wanting.
She strongly protested against such
an imposition being practiced on ''poor
George" ".and it took me fully half an
hour to overcome her scruples. This I
finally succeeded in doing, and the lit
tie woman went away planning the
ambush into which the poor man was
to be decoyed, while your humble serv-
ant turned again to his work with q
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
AN OBTUSE WOMAN.
She Couldn't Sec the Necessity for Fro
Escapes.

She Couldn't Sec the Necessity for Fro
Escapes.
She had come down from Kalamazoo
and was seeking quarters in Detroit
hotel. She was about fifty and the
years had taught her great conserva-
tism and caution. .
is this a safe tavern to stop in?" she
inquired of the chivalrous clerk, who
was at that moment wearing his dia-
mond pin on his back, or rather the
coat for whose value the pin was col
lateral.
'"In what respect, MADAME he asked.
"Fire, of course" she said suspicious
'ly. 'Ain't anything else to be afeard
of, is there?"
"Oh, certainly not, madam; certainly
not" he hastened to assure her. "And
as to fire. our house is absolutely fire
proof, and even if it was not, we have
fire-escapes everywhere"
"Fire-cscapes?" she exclaimed, with
n gasp. reaching for her bundles, ''Well,
if your drafted house is fire-proof what
have you got escapes for the fire for? |
s'pose you've got burglar-escapes, too.
| guess ! don't want to sleep in no tav-
erns likc.this. Good evenin'," and away
she went. leaving the clerk in a perfect
halo of despair and Disappointment
Detroit Free Press.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

No man can be truly brave who is
not seeking to be truly good.-Ram'S
Horn. H"
between thinking wrong and doing
wrong there is not much difference
Rams Horn.
In she new catalogue of Yale's post
graduate department notice is given OF
the opening of this department to col
lege graduates of both sexes
DR. Mansfield Merriman, of Lehigh
university has been offered the chair Of
mathematics In the Chicago university
at salary of $1,000 year. He has
taken no action regarding the offer.
1t is not the man who, as Luther
says, talks about, thinks about, or
hears of righteousness" whom God
will receive into internal fellowship
with himself, but he who 'doeth right
eousness," for mot the hearers of the
law, but the doors of the law, shall be
| justified. Mid Continent.
The treasurer's report of the Bap-
tist State convention of Georgia showed
receipts aggregating $3.50, 900, of which
s63, ,O24.44 was for the various missions
fostered by the body. The state mission
work received S17,939.54. Fifty-eight
missionaries were employed, who bap-
tized 1,05S, of whom 739 were colored
converts
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist
church, chancellor of the American uni
versity which it is proposed to establish
in Washington, has issued an appeal to
the Methodists of the country for n
fund of $4,000 600, with which to es-
tablish, equip and endow the institu-
tion in manner that shall be credit
able to the denomination for which it
stands.
The contributions last year in the
Peoples church, in fremont temple,
Boston, amounted to over $25,0 900.
There were 100000 pennies, 720OO nick
els, and the average weight each Sab
bath of the different kinds of coin was
over forty pounds. DIR. Lorimer breaches
every Sabbath morning and evening to
over 5000, and hundreds go away for
lack of room.
The Young Mems Christian associa
ton of Minneapolis, Mimi, has just
completed and opened an imposing
structure in the heart of the city, of fine
architectural proportions and with am
pie provisions for all the purposes of the
association. Besides large auditorium,
lecture-rooms, class-rooms and reading
room, it has a well furnished gymna-
sum and natatorium.
The project of a Catholic Chautau-
qua meets with universal favor among
members of the faith throughout the
country, and some even write of it en-
Enthusiastically. A number of letters re-
lating to the matter appear in the cur
rent issue of the Catholic Reading Cir
Gle Review, and, while it recognized
that there are difficulties, no one re-
CARDS them as insuperable Catholic
MilTow.
by self-study, again, q man can
learn that unless he keeps open his con,
nection with the great source of supply
his power will decrease. Man by self
examination finds that he is incomplete
and that there is an ideal life for him tC
live. He also learns that there is fac
tor at work beside his own will; while
he has been doing little for himself
the power that governs the world has
been doing infinitely more for him.
Rev. Charles G.. AmeS.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
TELEPHONE STORIES.
Some Amusing Things That Came Over
the Wires.


the Wires.
Some of the replies which come over
telephone wire at times make one
feel cheerful, despite the natural melan-
choly which is associated with familiar
.ity with the instrument. A quick Office
eboy whose zeal sometimes leads him
Into amazing pathn, answered call the
other day. After exchanging n few
questions and answers he turned with
perfectly serious face and said:
"She wants to know; is that you,
dear?. Is he here?" vp VI
A newspaper man, who sometimes
talks like. streak of lightning, after
getting his connections, volleyed off in
one long sentence string Of words as
long as the Brooklyn bridge, ending
with: ''Can you?"
"Wait a minute" came back the an
swer in a long drawl, until we get an
other instrument put in. That light
ming burned this out.
Here is one which may or may not
have pleased one of the speakers:
SIS Mr.. K IMP" asked man after
he had got the other man-only it
was an Office boy.
mo, he isn't in, Mr.. W." was the
answer in a thin but clear voice.
"How do you know it is Mr.. W."
asked the other, who may have been
pleased to think that he had such good
telephone voice" that even an Office
boy could recognize it.
"'Cause you're the one what nobody
can. ever understand, came back the
promptlreply
Another office boy, after 'tackling"
the telephone, turned and said: "Now
he wants you, Mr.. u"
Tell him that I'm busy rs the devil"
said Mr.. Y, not knowing just what
he said, but knowing that he was very
busy.
"He says" now called back the boy in
the telephone, that he's busy-busy
as the'-now, you know"
Now one more:
'Have you any X, It. & OF" shouted
a broker through the telephone to a
friend, another broker.
"What?' was the answer.
"K., 4. & o."
"What's that?'
Stock, man." naming it in full.
"What do You think it is?'
Say, but this is grocery here" was
the answer.
sob, sugar!" cried the broker, dis
gusted at getting the wrong conncc-
| ton.
"Why, yes yelled the other man.
Lots of it. What kind do you want?"
N Y. Tribune.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08

slight hills and steep hills, and there
will be Il 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.
represents 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 neat symmetrical head, ora we'll
trained grapevine. This practice is inn
measurably better than allowing all to
grow M tree till they are as large as
one 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 when the plants or trees
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
SOME SPRING HINTS.
How to Cultivate Early-Planted Crops
Trees and Lawns.

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 II finely-mellowed top
soil. This will hasten growth and any
foul seeds Just starting will be de-
stroyed. 2 .',
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 difference between
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-07-08
KITCHEN CoNvENIENCEs.

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 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 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 plumbing to
prevent the escape of gases. Do not
neglect to have a good-sized window
facing the sink, that all culinary worl
may be done in good light. The top
of the sink and all adjoining stationary
shelving should be about iSyo feet six
inches from the hoor.--Anerican Ag'
| rieulturist