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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
PRESERVING FODDER CORN.

Corn fodder is easily preserved by
drying it in shocks in the field. The
stalks are cut close to the ground and
set up in shocks, having about two
hundred pounds in each. The shocks
are tied at the middle and at the top
with straw or twine bands and left to
dry thoroughly, which takes two
months.
They are then stacked in small stacks
or stored in q shed. Experiments re-
Gently made go to prove that good
fodder made in this way is as good
feed as ensilage for the nutriment and
results Of eacb.--Colmsn's Rural
World.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
Breeding Blue Foxes.

On the island Of st. George, one OF
the Pribylof group in Bering Sea, the
breeding of blue foxes has become
very profitable. They generate very
rapidly, and when an island of good
size once becomes we'll stocked it is
impossible to deplete it, as the law
provides that they must not be shot,
but trapped, the restriction being inn
posed mainly to keep them tame
Chicago Herald,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES


Give your chickens q chance.
| Neglect is fatal in the poultry bust
pess.
Pullets Matched in April lay in Sep
TENDER.
The typical Carniolan is dark steel
grsy bee.
Ammonia is one of the most valuable
fertilizers.
Early pork generally commands the
best prices.
Worms are worse enemies than dogs
to the sheep.
The fat in cheese determines it's
market value.
Keep everything scrupulously clean
about the poultry yard.
It does not pax to raise q calf from
poor or ordinary COW.
, Straw and oil cake meal form q good
substitute for good hay.
Cabbage not fully ripe will winter
better than that matured.
When'moulting birds require add.
tlonal food and extra care.
Cows should be allowed as much
pure water as they will drink.
Oats and lean meat ara feather-mak-
ing foods. Corn Is fat making.
Separate the cockerels from the rest
OF the flock and fatten them for market.
Birds that are heavily feathered and
have small combs stand the cold best.
When laying freely fowls eat nearly
twice as much as they do at other
times.
1t is said that sprinkling pulrerized
salsods around will drive ants from
apiaries.
An exclusive corn diet will not allow
the chickens to make a satisfactory de-
velopment. =
A green bone-cutter is one Of the
most profitable investments the poul-
try-rsiser can make.
If you are breeding for eggs get rid
of your sluggish, indolent chickens.
There is 10 profit in them.
Honey can be ripened either in the
hive by the bees or by exposure in
warm, well-ventilated room.
1t is said chat queenless bees, ifpro-
yided with empty combs, will store
honey about as we'll as those having a
queen.
The stingless bees of Honduras arc
said to be too delicate in organization
to endure the extremes of climate in
this country.
The clustering OF bees on the outside
OF the hive is usually caused either by
the heat or by the entrance OF the hive
being too crowded.
Potato and turnip parings are ex-
cellent for poultry if boiled few
minutes and then allowed to cool be-
fore being given to the fowls.
1t is good business policy in the
of the farm to sell such
crops as will put the most money into
your pocket and at the same time
leave the most value in the soil. To
do this you must know of tho con-
stituents of the various crops.
Corn fields need careful cultivation.
Weeds can DO easily covered and de.
stroyed now which will soon be too
large for anything but the hoe. Guilt.
walton also breaks up the capillsrity
Of the soil and prevents the evapora-
ton Of moisture which the plants need
during the season.
1t is we'll to see il the binder, mower,
and hay machinery are in order, and
TO do needed repairing when time will
permit. Rainy days can often be used
in this way. Black
Yniths are not 80 busy now as they
Will be just at harvest time and can
do your work PROMPTLY.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
DE1rH CURTAINS DRAWN.

Ehe whiri OF . bitter tempest,
Tho wind that bringeth the snow.
And the last Of tho brown leaves flying
Like tho beaten before the foe.
But sweet Is the peace Of the firesIde;
And we caro- not what may hap,
While mother Is sitting and singing,
Tho baby safe in her lap.
Tho lads are droninR their lessons.
From the room beyond floats in,
Soft rs an angels whisper,
The note OF q violin.
One small bright head is bending
Over our oountry's map,
And mother is gently grooming
To baby, safe in her lap.
-Harper's Daznr.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

All tho peace and favor OF the world can not
calm troubled heart; but where the peace is
which Christ gives, all tho trouble and dis
quiet Of the world connot disturb it. All out
-:ard distress to such amjndjs but az the rat
Uinc Of the hail upon the tiles to him that sits
within the house Mt a sumptuous banquet -
Archbishop leighton.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

Martin Luther said that man had
to be converted three times-first his
head, then his heart and then his
pocketbook.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

The largest university is Oxford,
England; it las twenty-one colleges
and five halls.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

those who failed after trying-well,
we should be afraid to tell how man,.
many times. Try t. 1t is only TO
trace the figures here given without
removing the pencil from tue paper
or retracing any Of the lines. Tryit
Once a Week.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
Ono of tho Oldcst Of Pnrr1ea.

The puzzle that we give here has
not occupied public attention lately,
but 1t Is one OF the Oldest known. and
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
Romance of a Butterfly.

IL waltz music was
throbbing out up
on the broad hotel
piazza, where the
soft swish of silk
and muslin foated
past, rising and
falling to the sub
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07

Patsy did not grow stronger. It
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Origin OF Poultry Raising.

Blythe, Darwin, and many other natu.
ralists believed the domestic breeds OF
poultry 10 be descended from the Ban
kiya Jungle fowl of India Ii seems very
probable that the fowls were first domes-
ticated in Burmah. Chinese tradition
says they received their poultry from the
West about 400 B. c. No mention of
fowls occurs in the old Testament nor in
Homer.
Aristophanes called il the Persian bird,
which seems to indicate that il was in-
hoduced into Greece from Persia. Baby
lonisn cylinders of the sixth and ninth
centuries b. c., have figures of poultry,
but none have been found on the most
ancient Egyptian monuments.
When Europeans first visited the South
Sea Islands fowls were found there In
the domesticated state. They have been
common in Europe from the earliest ages
of European civilization, and appear TO
have been known in Britain before the
Roman invasion. -lFarm, Field and Fire
side.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Kept Her Promise.

Hengrsve Hall. near Bury street,
Edmunds, which has been sold for over
600, 900, at one time belonged TO Pene.
lope, a daughter of Earl Rivers. or
this fair aristocrat an amusing story is
told She had three suitors at the same
time, Sir George Trenchard. Sir John
Gage, and Sir William Hervey, and, TO
keep peace between the rivals, she
threatened the first aggressor with her
perpetual displeasure, telling them that
if they would wait she would have them
all in turn--a promise which she actually
performed The gentleman first favored
was Sir George rrenchard. He died
shortly aiterward, and it was not long
before she became Lady Gage. Sir John,
by whom she had nine children, lied in
the year 1888, and two years later his
widow was led to the altar by Sir Will
lam Hervey. the lady survived all her
husbands. II It'd Bits.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
WILLOW FARMING.
A New and Growing Industry In the
West.

A new industry has been established
in st. Louis county, near the little town
of Attention, thirty six miles west Of the
city of ST. Louis, on the Missouri and
Pacific and ST Louis and San Francisco
railroads, which, if successful, will fur
nish employment to thousands of unem-
ployed laborers. The enterprise is for
the cultivation, on a large scale, of will
lows suitable for the manufacture Of
willow ware.
A description of the process through
which the willow goes in its various
stages of cultivation, harvesting and
preparation for the factory, as given by
ST. Louis Globe Democrat, is interesting
The willow plant is obtained by cutting
up live willow twigs twelve inches long.
These are sharpened at one end and
planted in rows by thrusting them into
the ground TO the depth of six or eight
inches. AS soon as the plants begin to
Sprout, the work of wedding and cult
vating should begin and be Kept up un-
til the crop is laid by, the same as in the
cultivation of corn. The canes ripen in
the fall, when the frost strips them of
the leaves and turns the bark glossy
brown color. When ripe, the willows
are, under favorable circumstances,
from ten to twelve feet in length.
they are then cut and tied in
bundles like rye, carted to the
hothouses, where they are subjected to q
sweating process, which softens and
bleaches the bark, which is then easily
peeled oil, b, dragging them through a
little machine made for the purpose.
Another process is that Of steaming the
willows, which is much quicker, requir-
ing only few hours, while the former
requires a month, but is not 80 desirable
as the willows are discolored TO some
extent and thus rendered less valuable
for fine work.
The willow plants last about twelve
years, after which they are grubbed up
and the ground replanted. The plant
does not retain its full growth until the
second year, as the greatest part of its
energy is spent the first year IN making
its roots.
1t is estimated that under the most ia
vorable circumstances an acre of prop
erly cultivated willows during the first
three years will produce from 5000 to
5000 pounds of peeled willows, ready
for market, the price Of which is ten
cents per pound wholesale.
Taking the lowest estimate of the pro-
duce of one acre, 5000 pounds, at the
lowest market price, six cents, the mark.
etsble value of one acre is $3.50. The
cost of planting, including plants and
labor, is $40 per acre. The highest esti.
mated cost of cutting, hauling, steaming
and peeling is about $50 per acre, max.
ing total expense of 800 per acre, and
leaving profit of $50 per acre on the
raw materials the first year.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
A Prodiglous Family.

A strange arrival lately took place at
Barcelona, Spain. An old man OF ninety,
who had left the town in his youth to
seek his fortune in America, reappeared
with suite of over 200 persons-a very
large family. lie had been married three
times, and brought back to Barcelona
with him sixteen daughters, of whom six
were widows and nine married. twenty
three sons, some of whom were widow
ers and others married; thirty-four
granddaughters, some of whom were
married, and forty y-seven grandsons, aud
among the rest three great grandsons.
These, with their wives and husbands
and children, made up the large family.
-tChicago Herald.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Nocturnal Creatures.

Most curious in origin of all nocturnal
nsect-hunters, however, are the leathery-
winged bats. which may be regarded,
practically speaking, as very tiny mon.
keys, highly specialized for the task of
catching nocturnal fees and midges.
Few people know hox nearly they are
related to US They belong to the self
same division of the higher mammals as
man and the apes; their skeleton answers
to ours bone for bone and joint for joint,
in an extraordinary manner; only the un-
essential fact that they have very long
fingers with web between as an organ
of flight prevents us from intantly and
instinctively recognizing them as remote
cousins once removed from the gorilla.
The female bat in particular is absurd
ly human. Most Of them feed off insects
alone, but few, like the famous vam-
pire bats OF South America, take a mean
advantage of sleeping animals, and suck
their blood after the fashion of mos
quitoes, as they lie defenseless in the
forests or on the open pampas. Others,
like the flying foxes of the Malay archi-
pelago, make a frugal meal off fruits
and ves etables, but even these are per-
sistent night fliers. They hang, head
downward, from the boughs of trees
during the hot tropical daytime, but
sally forth at night, with Millions sons
of Belial, to rob the banana patches and
invade the plantain grounds of the in
dustrious native The bat is q lemur
compelled by dire need to become fly
ing night bird.-[Cornhill Magazine.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18

found. They own the world and do al
lis best work.
The man with the hard hand Of toll
can press heart as true-can lift the
babe he loves in way as soft-and at
it's smile will kiss its cheek, and at its
pain will wet il with a tear-can sing
the song that doth please as well-snd
an strike with his strong arm as quick
and sure the blow that makes men free
as Judge, or priest, or king.
"The right choice at first, in all
things, is all there is to well done at
last.
''Our words OF well done, here we
now give you, with the hope that
they may help to guard your way to the
end Of well spent life."
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
The stamp Collecting Hobby.

The expenses and eccentricities of the
stamp collecting hobby were illustrated
at the Portland, Me-, postoifce the
other day, in the receipt of registered
letter bearing postage stamp OF the
four dollar denomination. The fees due
on the letter only called for ten cents
postage, and the reason for using so
costly stamp was that cancelled 1t is
of much greater value to the collector
than an uncancelled one, and he took
this method OF attaining his end IL is
not an uncommon thing for collector
thus to use rare and costly stamp on an
ordinary letter, registering the letter as
safeguard against its going astray.-
New York Sun.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18

IL is said that foreign ambassadors to
Turkey recently complained TO the sub
lime yorte that the prisons OF Constan-
tinople were overcrowded with political
prisoners from Armenia. The govern
ment decided TO remove the cause of
the complaint and shipped 500 OF the
prisoners on board man-of-war for
transportation to Africa. The vessel
was only gone very short time, how
ever, and il was a mystery what had be-
come of the prisoners until Russian
merchant vessel in the harbor of Con
stantinople, while rnising her anchor a
few days since, brought up with il fifteen
hair-cloth sacks, such as are used by
Turkish merchants for packing goods for
shipment. At first the Russian thought
that he had found traces Of smugglers,
but when he came 10 examine the sacks
he found that they were filed with human
bodies, eighteen or twenty in sack.
The bodies were ascortainad TO be those
of Armenians. Ii is said that the grand
vizier said that he would settle the Ar.
meuan question by annihilating the Ar
menians, and he is thought TO be in fair
way To fulfill his threat The matter
has been reported to Russia, as it is
thought chat some of the murdered Ar
menians were Russian subjects. - Chi
cago Herald.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends 10 personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value TO health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant 10 the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; efrectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction 10 millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because IL acts on the Kid
neys. Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and il is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Wanted To Run with the Mach Inc.

One of Saratoga Fire Department
horses, known as the "Frenchman,
having been on constont duty for the
past six years, was put out 20 pasture in
the open fields about n mile from town
for needed rest and recreation. On
Friday last, when the two-blow fire
alarm was struck on the town hall bell,
"Frenchman, who was quietly grazing
in the fields, heard the alarm and started
on a frantic run and made dash for the
highway leading to town. When the
horse found barriers in his way he mani
tested almost human excitement and in
telIigence in his efforts to escape from
the pasture and report for duty. Was it
intelligence, instinct, or the force Of
habitI- New York Sun.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Two Miles a Minute by Rail

Engineers are always, like the great
Alexander, seeking new worlds 10 con-
quer. r. b. Behr, associate Of the In
stitution of Civil Engineers, finds steam
locomotion on the surface Of this planet
TOO slow at more or less dangerous
maximum of sixty miles an hour and he
proposes 10 whirl the man of the twen-
tieth century at the rate OF two miles per
minute. Under the title Of Lightning
Express Railway Service" he publishes a
full statement OF his plans with all the
necessary technical details. The motive
power proposed is electricity and the
method that which is known as the Lar.
tigue single-rail system, which, in a
rudimentary form, is now at work on q
short line OF nine miles and a half from
Listowel to Ballybunion, in ireland, and
from Feurs to Panissieres, in the depart
ment OF the Loire, France. There are
many advantages claimed for this idea,
including the absolute impossibility OF
a train leaving the metals, its cheapness
of construction as well as a speed that
brings Edinburgh within three hours OF
London. The King Of the Belgisns has
accepted the dedication of Mr.. Behr's in
teres,ing little work.-fLondon Tele-
graph.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
August
Flower

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism,
but did me no good. could not
speak aloud. Everything that | took
into the Stomrch distressed me.
could not sleep. / had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through a
neighbor got one of your books.
l procured a bottle of Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. l am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gave me my health.
Mrs. Sarah J Cox, Defiance, o. "
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Widest River I'm the World.

Were il not for a decided difference in
the color of the water you would never
know when the Atlantic is left and the
Rio de la Plata entered. The high-roll-
ing, white capped pillows are the same,
and no land is visible, for the great river
which Jane Diaz dc Soils discovered is
1875 miles wide at its mouth, though
with an average depth Of only fifty feet.
Sebastian Cabot, who came in the year
1920, soon after the natives had mur
dered poor Don Soils, dubbed it River
Silver, not on account of its color, which
might have won for il the more appro.
pirate name of Gold River or River OF
Chocolate, but because he had wrested
quantities Of silver from the Indians who
swarmed its banks, and naturally imag.
ined that an abundance Of precious metal
remained in the vicinity.
In point Of fact the terms of Argentina
and Rio de la Plata (both meaning the
same thing with reference 10 silver are
misnomers, says the Philadelphia Record,
for no metals Of any sort, precious or
otherwise, are found along the banks OF
the mighty stream, or anywhere near il,
and the scanty argentiferous deposits in
the hills OF the interior have never been
worked.
The Indians aforesaid probably OBJ.
tanned the silver which so excited Span
ish cupijity from Peru and Bolivia, by
some primitive system Of internal com
merce known only TO themselves To
this day metals do not figure in the ex-
ports OF the ad jacent countries-Uruguay,
Paraguay and Argentina-but such pro.
sale articles as hides and tallow, horns,
wools, preserved and refrigerated meat,
etc, for their wealth lies solely in graz.
ing facilities and fertile soil.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18

At Roquette, France, there was an ex-
ecution the other morning, "a horrible
young scoundrel had his head chopped
off. A little before the magistrates en-
tered his cell the spokesman announced
that the petition for official clemency
had been rejected. At the moment AS is
the custom, every one raised his hat,
"Bravol" cried the prisoner. "For
once in my life | have been spoken to
politely"
What morallist is there to whom that
exclamation would not bring food for
thought. Once Week | ~
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18

Maud-And, pa. what did Professor
Crotchet say Of my piano playingr
praise. He said you possessed an orig
inality in execution that was truly re-
markable. lie said he Rad heard some
Of your pieces performed by the greatest
masters, and not one Of them played
them as you did. i Boston Transcript
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18
Bullet Waves.

One Of the interesting results Of the re
cent experiments in England in photo
graphing flying bullets has been to show
that the disturbance in the air travelled
faster than the bullet itself The photo
graphs exhibit air waves in advance Of
the bullets, even when the latter are
moving faster than the velocity Of sound.
In one case whsrc the bullet was moving
considerably faster than sound travels
in the air it was preceded by an atmos-
phcric disturbance which, at the moment
the photograph was taken, was half an
inch 10 advance Of the point OF the bull
let Even when the bullets were travel
ing four times as fast as sound, the at
mospheric disturbance kept ahead Of
them. New York Dispatch.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-18

The Young Housewife-IIave you any
canvas back duckl
Butcher Yes, ma, am.
The Young Housewife-W Well. wish
you'd send me one. And wish you'd
have il taken out OF its canvas, il you
please. = Chicago Record.