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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
rERT111zERs For POOR LANDS.

The improvement of poor land IS
best secured by any means by which
clover may be grown. With crop of
clover to be turned under the question
of the recovery of worn land is settled
affirmatively. But this is the difficult
ty. The clover must have something
to feed upon, and this is provided by
liberal dressing of lime, by which the
unavailable fertility of the land is de-
veloped and made useful for the crop.
Unless the land is exceedingly impov-
ished by wasteful culture, an applica-
ton of twenty-five bushels of air
Stacked lime will be sufficient to bring
fair yield of clover, and this plowed
under will add a large quantity of nj
trogen and organic matter to the soil.
Then by giving about 800 pounds to
the acre of mixed superphosphate and
potash salts, a good yield of wheat
may be made, and better crop of
clover grown with it than at first
This moved for hay and then planted
with some early kind of potatoes will
yield profitable crop. The best ro.
tation under these circumstances is
wheat, clover and potatoes; the next
wheat being sowed on the potato
ground. New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12


Belgium has $780, 900 'schnapps" houses,
and only 5000 schools.
Lord Randolph Churchill, it is announced.
has become strict total abstainer.
In Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms, London, 1915
persons signed the pledge during the year
The Old Colony Railroad refuses transpor-
tation to passengers under the influence of
liquor.
Chinese wine, made from liquor distilled
from rice, has been found by analysis to con-
tain 1892 per cent. Of alcohol.
In 1891, the arrests for drunkenness in Ire
land amounted TO 100, ,52s, an increase of over
26 per cent. since 1887, when the number
stood at 10000.
The total quantity OF wine exported from
the champagne districts Of Europe the first
thIee o months OF this year. amounted to a.,
OSS, ,213 bottles.
Senator Stanford, OF California, has made
arrangements for the erection Of Great
wlne-eellar and brandy bonded warehouse at
Port Costa, in that State.
The Bayarian Government leyies 81. 900, 900
year on the breWeries, while the income of
all the North German States from the same
source is only S6,0OO,OO
Ensign Frye was recently tried by court.
martial in New York City on a charge OF
drunkenness, and sentenced with the ap-
proYal OF the Secretary Of the Navy. 10 be
suspended nom rank and duty for period
OF three years on furlough pay.
Dr. b. W. Richardson, now its senior pbys.
lclan, al the recent annual public meeting ol
the London Temperance Hospital, stated tliat
during all the time OF his connection with the
place he lad never occasion 10 prescribe al.
cohol 70 a patient in any fern, no matter
how serious the cause.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

A Boston paper notes that OF all the ships
assembled at the late naval parade the Ameri-
cans were the only ones on which liquor was
not regularly served TO the sailors, On tho
British, Russian and German ships a ration
Of some distilled liquor Is served out to each
man daily, On the French and Italian YES
sells, it Is said, a cask OF light wine stands
where every man can help himself whenever
he wants IL. The foreign officers believe that
liquor helps the men withstand cold and
fatigue. The Americans do not think 80
and their position seems TO he maintained by
recent experiments on whaling vessels In the
Arctic Ocean. A writer, who has Just re-
turned from long whaling voyage, says
lone OF the curses OF life at sea has been the
use OF grog. Formerly liquor was thought
to be necessary for men in the Arctic, but ex-
perionce has proved II TO be harmful instead
OF beneficial, and only in cases OF great dis
tress is II now used. Strong coffee has taken
its place, and on every whaler, during times
OF great exposure or unusual fatigue, strong
hot coffee is always at hand, grog never,"-
picayune
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

The process of coating mirrors with |
mercury does not materially differ now
from that OF three hundred yc>rs ago.
A large stone tslne ground perfectly
smooth is so arranged as to be easily
canted little on one side by means of
screw set beneath IT, Around the
edges of the table is groove, in which
mercury may flow and drop from one
corner into bowls. The table is first
made perfectly horizontal, and then
tin foil is carefully laid over it. cover
ing greater space than the glass to be
coated. A strip of glass is placed alohg
each of the three sides of the foil TO
prevent the mercury from flowing off.
The metal is then poured from ladies
upon the foil till it is nearly quarter
Of nm inch deep, and it's tendency to
flow is checked by its affinity for the
tin foil, and the mechanical obstruc-
ton Of the slips of glass. The plate of
glass, cleaned with especial care, Is
deXterously slid on from the open side,
and its advancing edge is kept in the
mercury, SO that no air or floating ox-
idle of the metal or other impurities
Nhli Etb htNNtth Nit NihHH hAlNA hAlt Nlthu
surface of the mercury. When exactly
in it's plnce it is held till one edge OF
the table has been elevated ten OF
twelve degrees, and the superAuous
mercury has run Off Heavy weights
are placed on the glass, and it is left
for several hours. It is then turned
over and placed on frame, the side
covered with the amalgam which ad-
heres TO it being uppermost. In this
position the amalgam becomes hard
and the plate can then be set on edge ;
hut for several weeks IL is necessary to
guard against turning it over, as until
the amalgam is thoroughly dried the
coating is easily injured. The process
is attended with many serious difficult
ties. The health of workmen is affected
by the fumes of mercury; the glass
plates nre frequently broken by the
weight placed upon them, and the
coating of amalgam is frequently
spoiled by drops of mercury removing
portions of it ms they trickle down, or
by its crystallizing, or by mechanical
abrasion. -Courier-J ournal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
HOW LONG TO MILK cows.

One OF the greatest mistakes which
was ever made in the management of
milch COWS, was TO milk them little
over half the year, and allow them to
run dry the other half, writes Albert
Pringle, of Canada. There is little
profit in this. A good animal should
be fed well and kept producing all, or
nearly hll, the time. It is probable
that, in state of nature, the COW would
cease to give milk when the time came
for the calf to cease to suck. But our
domestic animals are not in state of
nature, and they are Influenced by sur
roundings. The object in view would
have something to do in this matter of
protracted milking. If the aim is the
greatest amount of butter and cheese,
then keep the COW milking nearly all
the time. IL the aim is to raise an ex-
ira calf, it would, of course, be we'll to
free the COW from the milk pail sooner.
The farmers common sense and OBJ
servation and the stockman's sagacity
must be used here, as everywhere else.
Many farmers make a great mistake,
not only in drying up the milch cows
too soon, but in the time of calving.
The cows are usually timed to calve
about the time the cheese factories
open. The cows are allowed to dry up
soon after the cheese factories close in
the fall, except, perhaps, one or two of
the best, which are milked once day.
This certainly is not the way to make
much profit out of the cows.
The vitality of the COW will certainly
afford greater results expended in
lactation. Dairymen will scarcely
have failed to notice that even the new
milch COW begins to fail in her milk
soon after service. OF course, one in
variable rule will not do for all COWS
and all breeds. Some may not be
milked to advantage more than six
months after coming in before service.
Others may be milked with advantage
for year, others longer. 1 knew n
COW to be MIXED for six consecutive
years, continuously, with profit.
Instead of having all the COWS calve
in the spring, they ought to be timed
to come in at different seasons of the
year, so that there may be continu-
GUS supply of milk. The cheese fac
tories will take the milk six months,
and the creameries the other six. Get
the right kind of cows and feed them
well, and they will milk eleven months
in the year, and sometimes longer, if
the COW is well bred. American Agri-
culturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


The light Brahmas are excellent lay
ers.
Green corn ensilage will iniure any
animal.
SunAower seed is excellent for chick
en- feed.
Cooked rice is said to be good for
the chicks.
A good dust-box is a valuable aid in
destroying lice.
The profit on hens should average 81
per head year.
In breeding the evidence is strongly
in favor of your sires.
The soft-shelled eggs are laid by the
hen which is too fat.
The best natured foal can be easily
ruined by careless and incompetent
handling.
The best milk cows will become poor
mixers if they are not properly fed
and cared for
Picking, packing and marketing are
points to be attended to in growing
berries for profit,
Charcoal is a good purifier, and
should be given to the fowls or kept
where they can get at it.
The Indian game fowl has come to
the front as a remarkable layer and an
excellent fowl for the table.
The egg of the black Spanish fowl is
generally credited with being much
richer than most other kinds.
Don't catch sheep by the wool. 1t
is not the kindest way to handle them.
1t hurts the sheep and it hurts the
wool also.
Keep the premises up and things
looking neat and tidy. The extra
amount of labor to do this will never
be felt in year.
If the mature fowls, the sitting hens
especially, are entirely freed from YER
min, there will be only half the trouble
IN raising the young chickens.
Work horses want bone, muscle and
strength, and not too much fat better
feed oats, bran, good hay and other
forage, and not so much corn.
1t is time to quit growing weeds and
paying out cash for labor to cut them
after they have gone to seed. Let the
flock at them early and no weed seed
will mature.
Tomatoes grown from Australian
seed are reported to be more uniform
and regular in shape and the plants
rather more productive than the same
varieties grown from American seed.
A general-purpose sheep has both
cred the sheep world quite long enough.
The inquiry now is for special-pur-
pose sheep, and this is in the right di-
rectiOn. What next?
The "nameless bee disease" or bee
paralysis, is disease that may become
more troublesome. When bees are SO
affected they die faster in the night
than IN the daytime 1t is said that
combs may be taken from a sick colony,
the honey extracted, and the combs be
then placed in healthy colony with
out creating the disease
Improvements are constantly going
on in the line of garden tools. Where
one has sufficient space, cultivation
and wedding may be done almost en-
tirely by horse power. By planting in
long rows so that a horse may walk
between them, and investing in good
tools, one may have "a garden by no
means secondary to other resources of
the farm.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
FATTENna oF SWINE.

Fnttening of swine is the subject
treated of in the second annual report
of Professor j. W. Robertson, Cana
dian Dairy Commissioner. In view of
the great profit secured by swine
breeders for their product last season
the Professors experiments are timely.
The experiments were carried on at
the experiment farm located at OTTAWA,
Ontario. Tho experiments covered
the following points: First, the dif-
ferent amounts of grain required to
produce a pound of increase in live
weight when fed steamed and warm in
one case and raw aud cold in another.
Second, a record of tho comparative
quantities of grain required to pro-
duce pound of increase in live weight
during the different stages of the feed
ing period. The grain was fed wet in
both instances There were TWENTY
four pigs in the experiment, sixteen
being Berkshire grades and eight be-
ing Chester White grades. Cold water
was given to the pigs to drink in ad-
dition to the wet feed already men
toned, and a mixture of wood ashes
and salt was provided for them, to
which they had free access. The Pro
fesscr's conclusions are that there is
no appreciable difference in the num-
Der of pounds of grain required to
produce II pound of increase of live
weight when fed steamed and warm as
against that fed raw and cold. He also
aseertained that there is a gradual ay-
erage increase to the quantity of feed
consumed for each pound of increase
OF live weight after the second month
Of the feeding period and after the av-
erage live weight exceeds 100 pounds.
He also states that the largest CON
sumption of feed occurred when the in
crease in live weight was smallest.
From this he concludes that it is
economical to market swine When their
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
MANAGEMENT OF TrhrPs.

Tulips may remain in the ground
several years without taking up, but it
is a far better plan to cut the flowers
as soon as they begin to fade, which
hastens the ripening of the bulbs, and
as soon as the leaves begin to turn yell
low, take the bulbs up, and put them
in some shaded place, where they may
remain for few days Then take
them up and store in a cool, dry place,
until the time comes for replanting,
which should be early in October. One
of the objections to leaving tulips in
the ground over summer is, that the
old skin of the bulbs forms q harbor
for insects that sometimes trouble the
new bulbs. Tulips grown from seed
are selfs--that is, of one color-in the
cup, crimson, scarlet, purple, white,
or yellow, the base being generally
white, or purple. These, after a few
years, break or become variegated. -
American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
Novel Way to Danish Flies.

The Boston Transcript tells of a sum-
mer resort landlord who will get rid OF
the flies in his house in novel way.
He will offer prizes to tho boarders
who shall catch the most flies There
will be first prize, consisting, say, OF
some such rare object as lithograph
of Bishop Brooks; II second prize, \
beautifully illustrated souvenir circu-
lar advertising the hotel, and SO on.
The effect of these prizes will be to set
all the boarders to catching flies, and
the dining-room will be regularly
cleared of them by the same persons
who have been accustomed to COM
plain of the insects.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
Interesting Scenes in Tangier.

Tangier's beauty lies in so many
different things-in the monklike garb
of the men and in the white muffied
figures of the women in the brilliancy
of its sky, and of the sea dashing upon
the rocks and tossing the feluccas with
their three-cornered sails from side to
side; and in the green towers of the
mosques, and the listless leaves of the
palms rising from the centre of a mass
of white roofs; and, above ali, in the
color and movement of the bazars aud
streets. The streets represent absolute
equality. They are at the widest but
three yards across, and every one
pushes, and apparently every one has
something to sell, or at least something
to say, for they all talk and shout at
once and cry at their donkeys or
abuse whoever touches them. A water
carrier, with his goat-skin bag on his
back and his finger on the tube through
which the water comes, jostles you on
one side, and n slave as black and
shiny as II patent-leather boot shoves
you on the other as he makes way for
his master ON fine white Arabian
horse with brilliant trappings and
huge contempt for the donkeys in his
way. 1t is worth going to Tangier if
for no other reason than to see slave,
and to grasp the fact that he costs any
where from hundred to five hundred
dollars. To the older generation this
may not seem worth while, but to the
present generation-those of it who
were born after Richmond was taken
it is new and momentous sensation
to look at man as fine and stalwart
and human as one of your own people,
and feel that he cannot strike for
higher wages, or even serve as psrlor
car porter or own a barber shop, but
must work out for life the 5000 his
owner paid for him at Fee. Harper's
Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
WORKING noRsEs WITHOUT GRAIN.

IT. B. Terry, of Ohio, who is an ex-
cellent farmer, has made his boast that
ne can, and does, feed his working
team on clover hay without grain. The
hny is cut at the right time and is as
GOOD feed ms can be made of hay alone.
After all, the more practical question
is not whether horses cannot do a fair
days work and keep in good condition
without grain, but whether a little
grain and less clover would not enable
the horses to do enough more 10 make
the grain an economical feed. We
have, when farming, plowed with horses
without grain, but it was slow work,
and we thought then that if high
priced man worked that team, It's
owner, who was our father, could not
afford not to grain them. Boston Cul-
tivator.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
ruRNs own A NEW 1rAr.

w. Drox Bankston. editor OF the Rincgold
lGa. New South, published the following as
his leading editorial in a recent issue.
Another milepost has been reached in nv
hts and with its passage l have entered upon
new one. The future hope will be as null
OF pleasures as the past, but they must be OF
different kind. Ii must be n life into which
the falling sunlight from heaven will awaken
responsive feeling OF conscientious satis-
faction. What my past lie may have been
ask my friends to throw over il a mantle of
charity. What my future may reveal and be
ikened unto. leave in the hands OF an all
wise providence. My reformation is not
neeting shadow, neither is it the result of the
Kelley cure, but u calm determination on nv
part to live and lead different life. NY re-
formation may be the result of n woman's
bright promise, or meditating over the
words of minister be that as it may, il il
decisive. have withdrawn from all clubs
oil which have been a member for years,
and the money formerly spent in that way
VIII be spent for sweet charity. Notwith.
standing my patronage in advertising has
been large from the saloons in nearby cities,
with this issue they cease. All contracts
with those hyways are void from this date.
II they want patronage they must seek it by
other sources than through the columns of
the New South. | have no ilword to say OF
the barkeepers, but to the foolish patrons
would repeat this: AT last it bteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder. | do
not expect to enter the lecture field neither
do expect TO bc'Cme a minister, but simply
q humble worker in the cause of what be-
lieve is right l shall continue to edit tho
New South and make Ringgold my perma-
nent home"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
TEMPERANCE.

THE RiaHT SHALL ~REvAff.
10 n clouds about TO vanish
From the day,
And brazen wrong 10 crumble
Into clay,
10 the rights about to conquer
Clear The way.
with the fight shall many more
Enter smiling at the door
with this giant wrong shall fall
Many others, great and small.
That for ages long have held us for
Their prey.
Men Of thought, and meE Of action
Clear the way,
Robert MaoknY.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

The forests of Germany cover abou I
"a, $50, 900 acres, or one-fourth Of the
whole area of the empire, of which
about 10, 900, 900 acres are crown prop
erty, $3.50, 600 acres belong TO COM
munities and corporations and II, 600, =
900 acres are owned by private per-
sons
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

When foot and mouth disease made
its appearance in Barcelona, Spain, at
the end of last year, such n thorough
system of inspection was put into
operation that the disease was soon
brought under control.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

weight is 1s0 to 800 pounds alive per
head. In these experiments the ins
crease of live weight per pound re-
quired Ala pounds of mixture of
ground peas, barley and rye to pro-
duce it. t.-American Dairyman.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

Florida shipped her first phosphate
in 1889 and in 1891 mined 1S1, ,54S
tons. Algiers and Tunis have newly
found phosphate deposits away from
rail or water communication estimated
at 1000, 600 tons, and Nelson County,
Virginia, has small area of high grade
phosphate ten miles from rail.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
Do You Wish
the Finest Bread
and Cake?

1t IS conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is
the purest and strongest of all the baking powders
The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet.
est most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
der makes the lightest food.
That baking powder which is both purest and
strongest makes the most dioestble and wholesome
food.
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with the least trouble?
Avoid all baking powders sold with gift
or prize, or at lower price than the Royal,
as they invariably contain alum, lime sui
phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome.
Certain protection from alum baking powders
be had by declining to accept any substitute for the
Royal, which is absolutely pure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
To cIeanse the sys,em

Ehectually yet gently, when costive or biliOus,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish, TO per-
manently cure habltual constipation, to awsk-
en- the kidneys and liver TO healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them, to dis
pei headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup OF
Figs
A. NJ, Priest, Druggist, Shelhyville, Ind,
says; "HRll's Catarrh Cure gives the best OF
satisfaction. Can get plenty OF testimonials,
as Il cures every one who takes IT," Druggists
sell it, Toe.
Impaired digestion cured by Beccham's
Pills. Beccham's-no others. % cents box
Why 50 hoarseY Use Hatch's Universal
Cough Syrup, 20 cents AZ druggists.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12

Inventors OF any; hing made OF wood assisted
financially or Otherwise TO patent or place on
market VIM. Mattison, Box 3l7g, New York
II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
Buy stock in the Bassick Gold Mine. See adv.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
German
Syrup

JUDGE J, B. HILL, of the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough Of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily strong letter
endorsing it. When men Of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the public.
1t is above suspicion. II have used
your German Syrup" he says, "for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. l can recommend it for
them as a hrst-class medicine. =
Take no substitute. a
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
NO NO s saySss snS sSfsa Breat sISSss O
IHf BASSlCK COLO MlNE. ClL0RAln.

Solid body OF ore 80 II. wide; average value si2gi
per tom shaft GOJ It. deep the other 400 It. deep;
engines giving 1900 horse power also electric light
pant machinery on the surface cost $4,000; the
mine paid s2,2bO,OO In three years; have for sale
1000 shares OF this stock at 81 20 per SHARE fun paid
tpar value g per shares have personally inspect
ed this mine, and think the stock win bring Iar
within mouths besides dividends; order once II
you wish stock send for prospectus. w, Il.
WATERMAN, 40 Kirk Block Syracuse, ~ y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-07-12
NN. t<Et,nIER,s

and given up TO die. FatheT bought me a
bottle of DIR. Kilmer's SWAMP ROOT, and
before had used all of the second bottle felt
better, and to-day l am just as well as ever. A
year has passed and not n trace of the Grippe
is left. SWAMP-ROOT saved my life"
D. H. BILGER, Hulmeville, Pa. Jan. 10th, 1893.