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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Pigs should suckle till ten weeks old.
The flock enjoy summer as well as
winter comforts.
Have a syringe handy when the foal
puts in an appearance.
Are there vast places in the pasture?
Give them a coat of manure.
There are family traits and like.
nesses in sheep as much as "humans
No, no! Everybody can't be good
shepherd; they amt made that way"
Salt and wood ashes in reach Of hogs
are beneficial. Good for horses also.
Never refuse a good cash offer when
you have anything of the horse kind to
sell.
Many a man is a success as a wool
grower and can't tell why to save his
life.
Feed oil and cotton-seed cake. 1t is
best for sheep, for the farm and for
you.
One thing can be relied upon about
sheep manure-there are no weed seed
in it.
A few short, sharp brushes develop
speed much faster than miles of slow
work.
Have some pasture held in case you
need it further on when dry weather
comes.
The neglect given the chicks now
cannot be overcome with good care by
and by.
Make Your flock what your wife is
the best, prettiest and the envy Of
everybody.
Health, comfort, neatness are the
things to be sought when building q
poultry house.
Is your experience that cooked OF
soaked corn is better than dry, hard
corn for hogs?
Little chicks enjoy fresh water &c
drink. Give them some, even though
you provide milk for them.
Soft coal cinders and charcoal from
wood or cobs should be among the zap
petizers" kept Oh the hogs bill of fare
daily.
The aluminium sullly, weighing from
eighteen to twenty-five pounds, is saiC
to be coming along with the two-minut'
trotter
Minnesota has passed q law making
it a criminal offense TO dock a horseI
tail according to the hackney senseles
and cruel fashion.
If you are raising chicks for the egg
they will lay don't keep the eockerel
till fall, sell them as soon as larg
enough for broilers
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The temperance people of Muskegon,
Mich, are building a $4,000 temple.
The W. c. t. u, of Pittsburg Penn, have
had ''coffee wagon" made to accompany
the city fire department.
One ofthe most hopeful signs Of the steady
advance Of Prohibition sentiment is TO be
found among collegiate young men.
In the present English House of Commons
there are five Good Templars, and it is be-
leved that the number Of members who are
total abstainers is about sixty.
Mrs. Helen L. Bullock, National W. @. T..
u. Organizer, has added 500 10 the member
ship of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union during her recent series of engage
ments in the Southern States.
The w. @. T. o., of North Carolina, have
purchased a plot Of ground at Waynesville,
upon which they will erect a suitable struc-
ture for the Mary Allen West School OF
Methods. Miss Willard has contributed S25
10 the project
According to Rev. DIR. Dawson Burns, OF
London, who Is standard authority on
temperance questions, the Irish spend ell
per head, the Scotch S15.l4 per head, and
the English Sl9.16 per head for liquors
annually. This upsets some old and general
notions on the subject Of the drinking habits
Of different Nations.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
THE cows CUD.

The cows cud is o quantity of the
food that is brought up from the first
stomach after the food has been swal-
lowed and the animal is resting and
has time to remasticate it more com
pletely. Between the first and second
stomachs there is a receptacle about
five inches long and the size of the
gullet. A portion of the food is pressed
into this part of the gullet and is
brought up into the throat and mouth,
where it is chewed slowly. This food
may be seen ascending the gullet when
the COW is ruminating. The cud is not
any distinct thing, as some suppose,
that may be lost, but is simply por-
tion of the food which comes from the
stomach in the way described. When
a COW is said to lose her cud, nothing
is lost or dropped, but by reason of
indigestion the action of the stomach
is suspended, and it is restored as soon
as the trouble is removed by any
simple medicine. The most effective
is dose of pint of raw hnseed oil OF
melted lard. New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
CULTIVATION oF WILLOWS.

Inquiries are received concerning
the culture and marketing of willows
for baskets and other goods. Notwith-
standing the basket willow does well in
this country, five-sixths of the guam
tity consumed is imported from for
eign countries.
The prevailing opinion that only low
land is suitable for willow cultivation
may be the cause of so little attention
being given to it. Low land is best,
but high land is good. 1t is certainly
far better than land where there are
stagnant pools or too much water.
For the growth of willows the land
must be treated similar to that in
tended for the planting of corn. 1t
must be plowed in the fall and loosened
up in the spring. The field must be
kept free of grass and weeds.
The willow cuttings are planted in
rows twelve inches apart. The rows
should be three feet apart and culti-
GATOR and hand hoe used to keep down
the weeds.
The plants are cuttings from two to
three year old willows which are cut
one foot long, measuring three-eighths
to one-half inch in thickness. With a
stick or iron rod holes are made in the
ground and a cutting introduced so that
one or two buds remain above the
ground, The first year only few
sprouts will spring from each cutting.
Every year in March the switches are
cut close to the stem before the SAY
shoots into the plants. The switches
are tied in bundles about ten inches il
diameter and placed in two or three
inches of water, remaining there unit
the latter part of April until the saI
has risen and small leaves and sprouts
have appeared. This sap loosens the
bark which can be removed very easily
by being drawn through wooden forl
similar to clothes pin.
Willows must be dried in the opeI
air. They are then bundled to weigl
about fifty pounds per bundle. Abou
80, 900 willow cuttings are necessary t.
plant an acre. The willow reaches the
greatest production in the third year
and with proper care and good fertiliz
ing it will continue to yield good re
suits for many years.
Dry peeled willows are worth five e
eight cents pound, and green willow
with the bark on them are worth 81
to S1S per ton.-Farm, Field and Fire
side.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

current being brought from the college
laboratory by line three-quarters of
mile in length, conducted by the stu
dents themselves. A ten horse power
motor was used for ginning and press
ing cotton, thrashing grain, cutting mp
feed stuff, etc, and gave entire satis-
faction. In every community where
there is water power, electricity could
be economically generated and used not
only for the above mentioned purposes,
but also to run saws, planning machines,
pumps, lathes, grindstones, cider
presses, sorghum mills, churns, sewing
machines-in short, for everything re-
quiring power What farmer would
not welcome the exchange of smoky
lamps for electric lightsP The arc light
may also prove useful in market gar
dening, some recent experiments made
in France having shown that it has a
marked effect in stimulating plant
growth when sunlight is not to be had
Where sufficient water power is not
available, windmills might be used in
connection with q system of storage
batteries. Such utilization of the
wasted energies of nature would put of
the coming of the coal famine that
threatens future generations. --Inven-
tive Age.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
The travelling of Roots.

Nature gives a curious instance OF
the travelling of roots. While a coun-
try house was being demolished it was
noticed that large quantities of vege-
table fiber adhered to parts of some of
the walls. Further scrutiny revealed
the fnct that the root of a wistaria had
entered the dining room by a small
chink of the window near the ceiling,
and on removing the paper from the
walls the whole of the plaster around
the room was found to be covered with
a fine net work of rootlets. The most
singular part of the discovery was that
not trace of the intruding growth
was visible on the paper inside the
room, which had been constantly in.
habited. Chicago Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
oRowINa POTATOES.

To grow potatoes, select the best
soil you can get, avoiding ground that
is liable 70 overflow, clear off all the
trash, and if the ground is not very
rich apply q good dressing of well
rotted manure and then plow as deep
as you can. Then harrow until the
soil is in good condition. Then as soon
as danger of frost is past plant for
early crop. First of June plant peach
blows. When ready to plant take a
pillow and run deep burrows three and
one-half feet apart. Out your potatoes
in pieces, one or two eyes to the piece,
drop eighteen inches apart in these
burrows, one piece in a place. Then
take hoe and cover, putting an inch
of soil over each piece. Cultivate MS
soon as the plants are well up and keep
filling in the burrows, and you will not
be troubled with weeds in the rows
and will not need to do any hand
wedding. Cultivate once week till
they bloom. New York Observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
REFFnING soWs.

A SOW that is a good breeder should
be kept for several years, or until she
forms some bad habit, of which unruli-
ness and eating her young are the two
that give most trouble. When the SOW
gets her full growth her litters will be
larger, healthier and more uniform,
often without a single titman. In the
first litter, especially, if the SOW be a
young one, there will be two and
sometimes as many as three pigs that
are either dead at birth or are so un-
dersized that they are not worth rails
ing. A three or four-year-old SOW,
farrowing two itters of pigs a year,
will often give more profit than an
a7esage COW, and not cost so much to
keep nor SO much labor to care for.
Tie chief care with Il breeding SOW
after she gets her growth is not to let
her get too fat She will have an enor-
nous appetite, bit it should be salts
fed, except when she is sucking her
young, with the coarsest feed. Skim
milk is gC5d, but not too much of it.
With this Eix bran or fine middlings,
and then let The bulk of the feed be
roots, EeetG of r-angels in winter, and
a rrn il the apCIe orchard or a clover
lot in sumner, z allowed to run il
pastcre one o. two seasons old sows be,
cCme oreaciy, breaking through fences
and gates, AMI going where they please
IEa5 is the fault for which most o.
them haze t. be tattened. American
C2ltiyatc~.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
FERrrDnERs AND cow.pEAs.

The manner of properly treating and
applying fertilizers is yearly receiving
more consideration among farmers.
On this subject the Georgia Expert
ment Station tells Southern farmers
that the best results can only be OBJ
tanned from concentrated fertilizers by
using them on the best lands, and not
by scattering them at the rate of 100
or 200 pounds to the acre over large,
worn-out plantation. Nor should the
mistake be made of applying large
amounts of concentrated fertilizers on
worn-out land. The larger the appli-
cation the more important it becomes
that the land should be in the best pos
sible condition, such as it would have
been left in by good crop of small
grain, with thorough and deep plow-
ing and narrowing.
The practice of sowing cow-peas is
strongly urged for renovating the soil
and for hay. Nitrogen is the most i'm
portant element of plant food because
it is indispensable to the plant and is
deficient in all worn or partially ex.
uhu5leu sOllS. IL ls lnS ulosb uhllOIuliO
effective element of fertilizer for al
grains, grasses and cotton. While the
most expensive, if bought in the mar
ket, it may be drawn from the air by
cultivating such plants as clover, pea
nuts, vetches, burrclover, lucerne ant
especially the cow-pea, which, if prop
erly utilized, will be more valuable t.
the Southern farmer than red clover
has been to the farmers of the Nortl
and West. New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
WINE Is A MooKra.

Tho drink habit is often quickly and easily
formed. How insidiously Il grows upon men.
II steals In upon men as slyly as the fox, and
when it gets q man In It's full power It
tosses him about like q strong lion. We once
read of n young rabbit that slipped into a
garden of cabbages. The garden was inclosed
with wire fence. The young rabbit had q
good and Jolly time in that garden as he
feasted daily on the luscious cabbage. He
had heard Of the danger OF traps and wire
fences, but he did not>seem to see any i'm
mediate danger around him, so he concluded
to. remain all summer In that delightful place.
The more he ate Of the cabbage the larger he
grew. He never dreamed that he might grow
too large to get out through the hole he came
in at. But that was gust precisely the danger
that was soon to overtake him. He fattened
daily upon the delicious food. He soon be-
came as large as q grown rabbit, but the only
hole of escape didn't grow Ut larger. One
day he heard tho football of a Ifian coming into
his garden, and be concluded he would slip
out and disappear in the bushy swamp. So
he ran to the hole he came in at, and 10 and
behold, his body had grown entirely too
large TO squeeze out through it. Now what2
All, he is so surrounded by the wire net as to
fall an easy prey to the owner Of the garden.
He was caught and killed.
The application to the dram drinker Is easy.
Every dram ne drinks is putting up the wire
fence of the confirmed habit OF drunkenness.
His appetite is growing insensibly. Like the
rabbit, he has Jolly time for awhile and
sees no sign of danger. After q while some-
thing occurs which alarms him about his
safety. He resolves TO get out OF his wire
fence of dram drinking, but 10 he finds that
his liquor appetite has grown from babe to
| a giant, holding him firmly in the grasp,
| This simple parable tells the story OF thou.
sands who are to-day passive slaves to the
wine cup. "Wine isn mockor," and q cun-
ming deceiver.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
conrorNprp on srnAronr wu1sKY.

One of the special features OF the report OF
the Congressional Committee ON the Whisky
Trust is that portion OF it in which the adul-
teration of whisky by means Of compounds Is
denounced, and insistance is made upon
furnishing only the straight article 10 the
trade Just as n that article was perfectly
harmless. OF course adulterated liquors are
bad and ought to be prohibited. but eminent
scientific authority says that pure alcoholic
liquor taken rs a beverage, Is even worse.
AT q conference held some years ago I'm New
York, the late DR.. Willard Parker, in an nd
dress on alcoholism, speaking OF alcohol,
said 1T is neither food nor beverage, but
is q poison as much as arsenic or any other
poison and produces its deadly effects on
those who use II, and added; "The purer
the alcohol, the purer the poison He
further said he would prefer TO drink the
adulterated II obliged TO take either. - -Tray-
eler
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
A I,nrre Frult Farm,

One of the largest fruit farms this
side of the Rocky Mountains, accord
ing TO a recent bulletin of the West
Virginia Experimental Station, is to
be found on the foothills Of the Blue
Ridge in jefferson County, of that
State. In 1887 Becker Brothers set
out $4,000 peach trees, since which
time eight adjoining tracts have been
hdded, until the fruit farm comprises
2400 acres in one body. The planters
have not stopped with peaches alone,
but they have a large area in grapes,
ounces and cherries, besides American
and Japanese plums, apricots, Japan
persimmons, nectarine, English wal
nuts, Italian chestnuts and paper shell
almonds Chicago Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
LATE cARRAaR PLANTS.

It is not necessary for a crop of late
cabbage TO start the plants in hotbed.
Make o place out doors as rich and
mellow as possible, SOW the seed in
drills rather thinly, and cover nights
to keep in the heat It is very i'm
portant TO make rapid but stocky
growth. This may be done by putting
nitrate of soda in the drill row and
transplanting each plant once if not
more times before finally setting it out
where IL is TO make head. Plants
thus treated are worth double those
grown closely crowded in the matted
bed.-Boston Cultivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
whntthe monograph VIM DO for Music.

c nccdi rs power Of musical re-
production means Of wax cylinders,
which are boon cheap and lasting, the
imagination may run riot without ex-
hausting the field opened before one.
Besides giving musical pleasure past
computation to the million, il will do
wonders for the musician. First, it
will offer the composer means of in
dicating his wishes concerning time
and expression compared with which
the mentronome and all printed direc-
tions and expression marks of the pres
ent are but the clumsiest of make
shifts. Secondly, it will become a
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
Dangerous Game,

Ralph J. de Mayne, the English
hunter of big game in Africa, when in
San Francisco recently on his way home
from India said that he thought the
American grizzly and an infuriated ele
phant were more dangerous than .
lion, but that the charge of rhinoo
eros was the most dangerous of all
Chicago Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
ELECTRICITY IN AGRICULTURE.

Attention has recently been directed
to tle application of electricity to farm
ing operations, and the designing and
introduction of suitable dynamo-elec-
trio machinery for this purpose would
no doubt be profitable both to the
manufacturers and the farmers. EARLY
n 1892, an electric power system was
installed at The farm Of the Agricultural
Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala, the
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
TEMPERANCE.


At last it biteth like sen pent and stingoth
like an adder Alcoholic Poison.
The gIeat gorgon Of misery and incubus on
our civilization-A Alcoholic Poison.
The great destroyer of mutual confidence,
and corrupter OF judicial ntegrity--Alcoholio
Poison.
The extinguisher Of beauty and destroyer
OF mnnly vigor--Alcoholic Poison.
The prolific enemy Of Affection ana blight
Of happy homes-Alcoholic poison.-Dem-
orest'si
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

great teacher of music, Ms even the
photographic echo of the piano, of
singing, or of orchestral work will be
sufficient to furnish pupils with pre-
ciso models. In the third place, it
offers means for solving tone prob
lens too delicate for the powers Of
the human ear, and heretofore beyond
solution. Century.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

RECEIVER MCLEOD, Of the Read
ing, rides in private car that cost
$50, 900. Some railroads do not afford
such luxuries as $780, cars; but
then these railroads do not have fe-
ceiYers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

/ Clarence Smith, private secretary &c
Collector Hendricks, of the Port OF
New York, proposes to organize 6
society TO be composed of men who are
or have been conspicuous Ms private
secretaries to leading officials of the
Government. Among those who have
been asked to join are Secretary oi
War Lamont and General Horace
Porter,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

" The latest record-breaking time be
tween Bombay, India, and London !
thirteen days.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

No man can join the Chinese army
unless he can jump ditch six feet
wide
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

Blood will tell, even in an orange,
and many say the cardinal enes are
the best.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to 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.
n Its excellence is due TO its presenting
IN the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs il 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 we'll informed, you will moi
accept any substitute if offered.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

Halls Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Write for tes-
timonials, free. Manufactured by
F. !. CHENEY a Co, Toledo, q.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

London devours every year 400, 900
oxen, 1900, 600 sheep, 900, 900 calves,
200, 900 hogs, fowls innumerable and
$500, 900 gallons of milk.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

Beecham's Pills instead Of sloshy mineral
waters. Beecham's-no others, 25 cts. box
8 Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup is Positive
cure for Group. p cents at druggists.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14
August
Flower

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism,
but did me ne good. 1 could not
speak aloud. Everything that took
Into the Stomrch distressed me. I
could not sleep. 1 had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through a
neighbor I got one Of your books.
I procured a bottle Of Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. / am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved mylife and gave me my health.
Mrs. Sarah ] Cox. Defiance, o. .
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-06-14

1000 HOME for each applicant; rich, heathful
TeKaa. Ed. AKnERsoN lCo. Ireaal Austin. Te1as.
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INVENTORS OF anything made OF wood assisted
Idnanciaily or otherwise TO patent place
ket. Address WIN. Mattson, z, Q, Box Slls, MO
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Do You Bleep Peacefully