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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

was carried into the air and there came
in contact with horse whose tail he
seized and was thus carried along for
considerable distance and finally dropped
to the ground comparatively uninjured.
A two horse wagon with one live horse
attached to it, the other having been
killed aud torn away, was seen as
height of a hundred fees in the air. A
hog weighing 300 pounds had timber
seven feet long and six inches square
driven directly through its body. The
wheel OF wagon was carried mile,
while chickens were stripped of their
feathers and their bodies carried three
miles from home.
In jackson County, Mo-, in 1879, a
tornado carried awsy house, no part
of which wac ever found. The carpet
of part of the house, however, was
pulled from the floor and left on the
| ground uninjured. Several garments
that had been in the house Wore found
| at distance of five or six miles. A large
trunk was torn to pieces and the lock
was found half mile away driven into
the rail of fence. Two heavy quarter
inch wagon tires were twisted literally
into knots.
! In Marshall County, Kan, the same
year that the two storms already referred
to occurred, another tornado tore down
n massive iron bridge. 1t lifted the
heavy structure squarely from the piers
and dropped it into the river. The rods
and beams were twisted into all sorts OF
shapes. Rod, two and one half inches
in diameter were broken squavely off.
The structure was lifted from the abut-
ments so easily that but two stones of
the three piers that supported it were
disturbed in any way.
In April, 1879, there was q severe
tornado near Warerborough,S. c. which
was signalized by many peculiar occur.
rences. A hickory tree fifty -four inches
in circumference was lifted bodily out
of the ground and carried some distance
up steep bank. An iron chisel was
carried ninety feet and driven two inches
into log. A basket of books weighing
fifty pounds was carried two aud half
miles, and found hanging In a tree, with
the contents intact, Geraniums in pots
were carried a mile and found unin.
Jured. Letters and books were carried
six miles, and articles Of clothing were
found ten miles from their owners
houses.
At q storm in Missouri an entire rail-
road train, with the exception of the en-
CINE, was thrown from the track, the
cars being deposited in all sorts of po-
sitions at varying distances from the
track. In q recent storm in Kansas a
barn with horse inside of it was lifted
by the wind and deposited on the roof
of two-story building, while trees wer,
driven through the walls of houses ant
: many other strange occurrences were
noted. In fact volumes could be filleC
with tho bare recital of the strange
! freaks of tornadoes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
OPENING QuARRIEs ron pnor,r.

We have often urged upon farmers the
great Importance of knowing the undc.
veloped resources of their farms. Over
and over again we have known farmers
living for years on land that gave them
scanty returns, while underneath in quar-
ries of stone or of sand and gravel, law
more wealth that would flow into their
pockets almost of itself, than they have
been able to accumulate by years of hard
labor. Few realize how much these nee
essary materials for building are worth
when they are near a busy city, or where
they can easily be shipped by rail or
canal. Usually farms that have these I'm
developed advantages are purchased by
quick wittcd spectators for far less than
they are worth, while the original owner
looks on and vainly sees what might
have been his turned to the advantage of
Others who have known how to make the
most of advantages that he was too dull
to appreciate. If you don't want to take
the work of opening quarry, give your
boys the chance. 1t may keep them from
gong to the city, and mayhap give them
larger returns than most who 90 to cities
can gain and kecp.-Boston Cu!tivator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
DISEASES OF PLANTS.

II. r. Kinney, of Worcester, read an
essay on Diseases of Plants and Their
Remedies" ut the Ploughman's Far
mers' meeting held recently in Boston,
says the Transcript. Mr.. Kinney is an
expert on vegetable pathology, aud the
result of his Investigations has been put
in the form of n lecture which is both
interesting aud Instructive:
While there are many things about
the parasites that attack vegetables and
plants that are much alike, said Mr..
Kinney, 1t is impossible to combat them
intelligently until it is known how they
live, both in summer and in winter.
This work is being done by botonists
and micologists at the experimental sta.
tions and by the division of vegetable
pathology of the Department of Agri-
Culture. 1t is the duty of all persons
interested to send to the stations speci-
mems of diseased plants which seem to
be especially destructive and those which
seem to be new. Every plant cultivated
by farmer, fruit-grower or gardener is
subject to attacks from the parasitic foes.
The grape alone has more than fifty OF
these pests, while moro than two hun.
drcd and fifty live upon the apple. 1t
is probable that fully one-third of these
are injurious. No intelligent attempt
worthy of note was made to investigate
these parasites until within ten years.
Farmers are rather obtusc, rs general
thing, in the matter of fungus, aud can.
nos understand how so insignificant q
thing can seriously injure their crops.
Fungi come like thieves in the night,
the farmer having no knowled &c of their
presence until their blight has begun.
lie should be made to understand that he
must not wait until the enemy is present
but must begin to make preparations to
repel it. 1t is sufficient to say that fully
sixty per cent. of fruits and plants can
he saveI by proper treatment. Expert
mcnts with fungicides have demonstrate
ed that vast amount Of our fruit and
plant life could be saved every year.
The Bordeaux mixture, which was the
hrst recommended by the Department of
Agriculture and Division of Vegetable
Pathology is undoubtedly the best. If
properly mixed it will not burn. II
adhercs to the plant leaves better than
any other, and is one of the best solu.
tlons with which to apply Paris green.
Persons who are thinking of using fungi.
cides, and those who may have tried
them with unsatisfactory results, are
advised to community c with the chief
of the division of vegetable pathology at
Washington Tor such works rs he dis
tributes.
The time is not far distant when more
convenient and much cheaper sprayers
will be used, and all fruit growers and
farmers will consider funglcides as 6
part of the necessary equipment of E
farm.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

winter and spring months. Taking the
whole United States together and aver
aging the dates of occurrence for n long
series of years lover 200) 1t is found
that the region of greatest frequency
embraces the States of Kansas, Illinois,
Missouri and Iowa. or all the States in
the Union Kansas and Missouri rank the
highest in regard to frequency.
The ordinary appearance of tornado
is that of a black cloud bellying down
ward toward the earth and terminating
in an elongated trunklike formation
which moves along rapidly either imme-
diately upon the surface of the ground
or ut some distance above it. Sometimes
this great trunk is driftcd and a
space of several miles intervenes be-
tween the point where it ceased
its work of destruction aud the
one where it commenced again. Some
times it just skins along at an elevation
where it removes the tops of tall trees,
the roof or cupola of house, without
distul bing the remainder of the object
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
THE VALUE OF FURs.

Where such noxious animals as
skunks, minks, weasels, opossums, ETC.,
abound it may be made profitable
business to trap them during the winter,
and thus not only make n little money,
but destroy these active and destruc-
tive enemies of poultry. They arc
caught with steel spring traps, of which
the Ncwhouse traps, made by the
shakers of New Lebanon, Penn, are
the best. The head or intestines of a
chicken make excellent bait, and this
should be tied to slender rod stuck in
the ground SO that it hangs over the
trap. The furs are valued ut So. SO for
good mink, SJ.25 for black skunk,
forty-fvc cents for striped skunk, ana
fifty cents for opossnm. Any produce
commission agent or furrier or country
store keeper will buy the furs.-New
York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

Keep the breeders at an even tempera.
ture.
brakes need not be changed for three
years.
The early Ruby tomato is smooth,
solid fruit.
Apples will keep best in cold end
moist Gel lar.
Liquid manure produces good effects
on house plants.
The medium sized breeds of poultry
are best on the farm.
Always crush egg shells before feed
ing them to the hens.
Take the chill off the water for fowls
Cd very cold mornings.
Rapid eating is one of the worst evils
in feeding young poultry.
For the gooseberry an airy and cool
location, with good moist, but not wet.
soil is preferable.
The old hen knows where to do the
most damage in the garden-the pullel
will have it all to learn.
Trees ought not to stand so near or so
close together as to keep the dwelling.
house in continual shade.
Some of the most successful of North.
ern strawberry-growers never fail to pro-
/ tect their plants in winter.
j. H. Hale is reported as advising
; farmers and fruit growers to become
! spccialists-to grow one or two varieties
and do it well.
The Devon COW is a worker. Sh,
| won't stand at the bars and below fol-
more pasture. Lots of COWS try to make
their Threats save their heels.
! Winter pears, as a general thing, re.
quire.to be brought into warm tempera.
ture one or two weeks before they are
wanted for table use, says Barry.
tbs claimed tina. moving off all the
foliage of strawberry plants Immediately
at the close of the fruitiDg season de-
velops healthier and more vigorous
plants.
It's the difference between cost and
valuation that makes profit and loss,
especially when some outside party de-
termines the valuation without q wor
from us.
Never water chrysanthemum plant
that is not dry; on the other hand, never
permit plant to wilt for want of mois-
ture, Is the general rule laid down by an
experienced grower.
One or two good cats around the farm
buildings are of great usefulness in keep
ing off rats, mice, etc., and should be
we'll treated and fed, and if trained a
little will hunt mice as we'll as q dog
will woodchucks.
Many farmer has the idea that good
roads will benefit people that live In
towns or cities much more than himself,
while, in fact, good roads benefit the
whole community, and the farmer can
readily get his share.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

When the body of the cloud lowers and
more of It rests upon the earth the vio-
lence increases aud the path widens to
the extreme limit.
The tornado with hardly an exception
occurs in the afternoon, just after the
hottest part of the day, and generally
disappears before the going down of the
sun. Thehour of greatest frequency is
from 8 to a p. M, though they fire.
qusntly last until as late as s p. m.
Along the immediate pathway Of the
storm, even'to the shortest distances, the
smallest objects often remain undls-
turbc }, although few yards distant the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

attacked. Sometimes there appears to be
almost human intelligence guiding the
storm and discriminating between OBJ
jects to be destroyed and those which
are not to be injured.
By due attention to the appearances
which invariably precede the coming of
tornado one may, if he retain his pres
ence Of mind, be prepar ed to avoid dan :
ger to his life by seeking safety in fight.
Thus, the pathway of tornado, as al
ready stated, is always from the south
west to the northeast. If in a house or
other building from which egress is i'm
possible always seek the west side, to-
ward tho storm, and invariably avoid
! the east side. If in the open air and II
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

Tho tornado, differing from the CT.
clone, is always land storm, and it
follows path varying from few yards
to eighty rods in width. The general
direction of movement of a tornado is
invariably from the southwest to the
northeast. The tornado cloud assumes
the form of funnel, the small end
drawing near or resting upon the earth.
This cloud, or the moving air of which
it is the embodiment, revolves about a
central vertical axis with inconceivable
rapidity and always in direction from
right to left. The destructive violence
of tho storm is sometimes confined to the
immediate path of the cloud, as when
the small end Just touches the earth.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
largest and strongest buildings are crushed

largest and strongest buildings are crushed
to atoms.
Observations with the barometer are
oil little practical value in determining
the approach of tornado, no matter
how near to the point of the storms in
ccption. The tornado season is embraced
between March and October, the months
of greatest frequency being May and
July. There are exceptional instances in
long series of years when tornadoes
have bren reported in every moath of
the year. They may and sometimes do
occur in the Southern States during the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

The awful force OF tornado cannot
be realized by anyone who has not hnd
an opportunity to become personally
familiar Herewith. The history of these
disasters is rcplete with examples of the
most extraordinary character. Thus an
account OF n storm which took place in
Kansas in 1879 relates that n sulky pillow
weighing 700 pounds was carried long
distance, and one of the hxles, one and
thrce-quarter inches in diameter, was
snapped squarely off. Wagon wheels
were broken into splintcrs and the tires
twisted into all sorts of shapes. A man
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
DECLINE IN YIELD OF CEREALS.


Experiments undertaken in different
parts OF Minnesota in 1890, and reported
by the agriculturists OF the station In
le'2, to determine whether the decline
IN yield of cereals, especially OF wheat, in
that State in recent years is due to soil
exhaustion or to other causes, bring out
some facts that will be interesting to
farmers in the newer States.
One fact prominently brought to no.
uce Is that the better lands of Minnesota
are still very rich in all kinds of plant
food, even after having grown crops of
wheat Tor ten to twenty years. Neither
nitrogen, potash nor phosphoric acid,
when purchased in commercial fertilizers,
Will pay on grain crops on these rich
lands. Not even laud plaster, salt OF
lime will return their cost in in
creased crops while the lands are so ricn.
In short, the time for the general use of
commercial fertilizers necessary on the
WORKOUT farms of older States hos not
come.
Farmers who have thin, much worn
land are recommended to experiment
with land plaster. Much barnyard ma
nure, rich in all the elements of fertility,
should be made and intelligently applied
to those crops which will get the great
est benefit from them. These not only
make the soils richer, but keep them
moist.
The lessened crops of wheat and other
cereals are said to come mainly from
causes other than lack of plant food
In the soil. Rusts, unfavorsble climatic
conditions as to moisture, hot winds. hot
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
TO KEEP POTATOES.

1t is excessive warmth which causes
potatoes to rot in pits, and the warmth
is induced by the fermentation in the
potato, induced by the moisture. For
this reason potatoes should be we'll dried
when pitted and kept dry until they
have passed through this fermentation
or sweating. Any fresh fruit or vege-
table needs the best of ventilation, that
the moisture and heat may pass oil,
otherwise they will decay. 1t is we'll.
too, to keep them near the freezing
point. There is no danger OF freezing
Mt temperature which exceeds two. or
three degrees below the freezing point
Of water.-Amcrican Farmer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

tornado is seen approaching, stand facing
it as it draws near. Then II it appears
to be going to the right, run to tho left,
and vice versa. Always run to the
northward or southwark at right angle
from the storm, giving the benefit of The
doubt In favor of the north. The path
way of tornado is usually so contracted
in its width that an ordinary person can
readily put himself beyond its reach. On
level land, as on open prairies, the storm
car be seen at distance of Ave or ten
miles, and this gives sufficient time for
a self-possessed observer to get out OF
the way in full time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

sun, chinch bugs, land foul with weeds,
too loose mechanical condition of the
soil and poor seed are some of the things
which have done far more to lessen
wheat yields than lack of fertility.
The study of some of these is thought to
be OF far more present Importance than
soil analysis or fertilizer trials. New
York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31

~ /, - tne Dan francisco
~ ,EHs-s-s. Chronicle, wa
,NNN M- signalized by the
NS.ns Nj occurrence of q
s$Sy9N greater number of
ssAAEssaEt2M@E fatal and destruc-
Egs.AN. ~ tive commissions OF
nature and disasters
of various kinds than almost any other
on record. During the first six months
OF the year the total loss of life in the
United States alone from these causes
was upward of $500, while the disasters
in other parts of the world will double
or treble this appalling total. OF the
large list of casualties in this country no
less than 400 deaths were caused by tor
nadoes and thunder storms, there having
been four of the first named disasters of
unusual violence and Il large number of
less severity.
Happily for Californians, they live in
region where loss of life or property from
tornadoes is absolutely unknown and
even the most destructive win1s-the
infrequent northers--do not inflict 1.-THE
OF the damage in an entire year that is
caused by single whirlwind such as
there have been so many Of in the East
during the present season. The people
of this coast, nevertheless, take deep
interest in these direful phenomena of
nature, enhanced, undoubtedly, by the
security they feel that they are in no
danger of ever being exposed to their
fury,
1t is to the peculiar physical formation
of the great interior basin of the Miss.
issippi and Missouri valleys that this
country owes the fact that tornadoes are
more frequent and destructive than in
any other part Of the world. With no
great mountain ranges between the Rocky
Mountains and the Appalachian system,
1t follows that there is no natural
obstruction to the sweep OF the wind
across that vast territory, and hence it is
that here is found the home of the
terrible phenomenon.
In Lieutenant Finla7's inter estinc
little work upon "Tornadocs" are en-
bodied facts and deductions mado from
the examination Of over thousand of
these occurrences, from which certain
rules in regard thereto are laid down
with measurable accuracy. Ordinarily
cyclones and tornadoes are spoken of in
discriminatory, as being one and the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-31
sTORNADOES
WE'RE Very Destructive I'M
THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR.
The Causes Which Produce Them
How They Differ From Hurricanes
Remarkable Phenomena of
Their Occurrence.

HE year 1892, says
the San Francisco
Chronicle, w a s
signalized by the
occurrence of q
greater number of
fatal and destruc-
tive commissions OF
natnrn md disnatnr.
The herald., 1893-06-29

ltON OlOth -
(All south OF city line.)
Seven acres OF land bounded
north by lot l. block ~, south
west by Norton, east by Pros
pect avenue, west by lots %
and ~, block y, .............
A halt-acre triangle in west part
OF lot 43 bounded sonth by
Pasadena avenue, west by
Santa Fe railroad, east by
Browns place ................
Halt an acre OF land, being
block %
Twenty acres of land, bounded
north by city line, southeast
by Prospect avenue, west by
Norton and lot /, block 81 80.
A triangular piece OF four acres,
bounded north and west by
Terminal Iailroad, east by Pas
adena avenue, south by Back
man & Holgate. .....
A lot 60 by 100 feet, on Cypress
avenue, commencing $50 feet
from the northwest corner of
lot 36, Hunters Highland
View tract.
Lot l, block 90 ... ..........
o10 Charles NJ Baker, in II s subdi-
vision of part OF lot s, block
80, lot q, block 2. .....,
100 htlFs VI huuulckt III hOuI
tract, lot 2, block NJ ...........
North Al feet Of lot 1, block M.
Lot g. block NJ ...,.......
5975 Martin G Marsh, in ARgelepo
Heights, lot %, block d, and
personal property ,....... -,
1919 Miss Gracinse sartiat, in West
Depot tract, lot 2, Block 2 80.
Lot &, block 2........,.......l,
Lot 4, block 2 .............-....,
In O. " Childs 20o-lot tract, lot
z, block Is .................
1891 II c Sutherland, in Rays tract,
-. 4Ob ...ss. 4.s.......t...4...s.
50O3 John Mailman, in Eysian
Heights, lot 10, block IL ......
Lot 10, block IL
Lot 20, block 11.4.4.......!.....
5O21 Geo w Burton, in Mills Il Wicks
extension y Second street, lot
~IVsssssss .s.s...s.s........
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-23
Matte vickers in "circus Queen.

Among the most prominent attractions
which will visit this city the coming sea-
son will be Miss Matte Nickers, support
ed by a splendid company, in her new
plav, "CircuS Queen.
Miss NiCkprS is great favorite through
ont the south, having been seen a number
of times in her successful plays. JAG.
quine" and "EiderweiSS." and always
giving the greatest satisfaction.
She is recognized as one of the clevereSt
soubretteS on the American stage and her
new play is said to fit her like a glove.
giving her ample scope to introduce her
many clever specialtieS.
She will be supported this season by the
strongest company she has ever mad,
which guarantees strictly firSt-caSs en-
tertainment She will be seen in THE
Circus Queen" on Sunday night and her
great play "JaCquine' on Monday night
and matinee Mon day afternoon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-23
Good Marble Business.

A reporter for the LIGHT called
at the extensive marble yards of
Mr.. Otto Zirkel, on East Houston
street near NacOgdoches, this
morning and found that gentleman
very busy, with a large force of
wOrkmen employed filling orders.
Mr.. Zirkel does the largest bust
ness in his line of any firm in the
city, as he turns out superior
class of work which is recOmmen-
datiOn for itself. Times have been
exceeding hard lately, but Mr..
Iirkel informs the reporter that
his business this year will exceed
that of any since he has been in
the marble business in this city,
which has been for the past five
years, and which speaks highly for
the class of work turned out at his
shops. He has lately received sew.
eral carloads of Italian marble and
granite, which he will sell at low
est prices consistent with good
work. Some of the finest monu-
ments in our cemeteries have been
erected by Mr.. Zirkel, and while at
his place this morning he pointed
out an elegant monument just be-
ing sent out for the late, Mr.. S. b.
Mitchell, the well known SOledad
street furrier, and also one for the
late pastor Of the Lutheran church,
Rev. Krapf, both of which are cX-
ceedingly fine pieces of marble
workmanship. Besides these, Mr..
Zirkel has number of orders for
work on hand, enough to keep his
present large force of hands busily
for many weeks.