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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
TIME TO DRY OFF COWS.

Most farmers dry of their cows in
time to give them rest of from one
to two months before calving. There
are some, however, who milk up to the
time of dropping the calves. The
best authorities strongly condemn this
practice, believing that impairs the
constitutional strength of both mother
and calf, and lessons the subsequent
production of both milk and butter.
The farmer who delivers milk or sup
plies butter to private customers,
needs about the same quantity of milk
throughout the year, and plans to
have mis- COWS come in at all seasons.
If he has winter dairy, or sells milk
or cream to a creamery, the COWS will
be dried off in the latter part of sum
mer, when the prices for dairy pro-
ducts are low.-American Agricultu-
rist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
Sources of the Diamond supply.

Until the early part of the eight
zenith century, the famous Golconda
and other mines of India furnished
the worlds diamonds, but after that
time for long period the mines OF
Brazil became the great producers.
Both localities are now nearly ex-
hausted. Since the discovery of d1a-
monds in South Africa in 1867, that
region has produced more diamonds
than the whole world during the two
centuries preceding, the total yield OF
these-mines~ being estimated at some
40, 900, 900 carats or about eight tons,
the aggregate value of the uncut
stones being more than $3.50, 900, 900.
In single years the African yield has
exceeded 5000, 900 carats. Not more
than eight per cent. of this product 1T
is stated can be considered of the first
water; hnout twelve per cent. is of
the second water and twenty five per
cent. is of the third water, while the
remainder is bOart which IS crushed
to powder and used for cutting hard
substances. This bOart is distinct from
the uncrystalline carbonate which Is
n cutting agent several times more
valuable a. obtained from the Brazil
ian mines Diamonds have been found
also in the Urals and In Australia
while few small crystals have been
picked up in different parts of the
United States. A locality in New
South Wales is reported to have yield
ed 1900 diamonds of which tho
largest have been cut into gems,
Weighing 81 and three carats respec-
lively Atlanta Constitution.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
Theory of American Storms.

Professor Colbert explains the origin
of great storms that move across our
country from the Rocky Mountains to
the Atlantic seaboord on this theory:
The moist air from the Pacific,
driven up the west slope of the Rock
les by the rotation of the earth, is
suddenly deprived of its moisture in
cooler altitude. This drying of the
air causes Il change in specific gravity,
and the disturbance produced at once
results i'll slight rotary current.
The revolving mass of air moves on
ward toward the east, its motion and
size constantly increased by the suck
ing IN of warm south winds on its for
ward elgc. These currents from tho
south drop their moisture from con-
tact with the colder revolving storm,
and the sudden tightening of the air
by the dropping of its moisture works
like a stream on mill wheel.
Thus the real cause of our great
storms lie in the conditions met by
these travelling whirlwinds in their
regular journey across the country.
If they are cold enough and meet with
enough moist, hot air in their course
they are set spinning with a velocity
that makes cyclonic storm. -Chicago
journal
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
A CHEAP MUSHROOM BED.

According to the Musee des Famil-
les, the following is very simple and
cheap method of preparing a mush-
room bed that will yield crop all the
year round.
In pine box about twenty inches
in depth, and three feet square, place
q four inch thick stratum of mixture
Of three parts Of dry COW manure and
one part of garden soil. Having pro-
cured some mushroom spawn, break it
up and SOW it in second stratum of
manure and earth two inches in depth.
Slightly compress the whole and cover
with an eight-inch layer of earth,
which should be kept damp by water
ing through fine hose.
In six or eight weeks the first crop
OF mushrooms will appear at the sur
face, and will continue to do so for at
least two years, provided the bed is
kept damp.
A small quantity of aqua Ammonia
added to the water with which the bed
is moistened will hasten the appear
ance of the fungi.
The box should be placed by pref
erence in place where the light is
not too bright, say in cellar in
which the temperature is moderate
and equable, or in a dark part of
stable.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
5. Milk should have particular at-

3. Milk should have particular at
tention in straining it.
6. Rooms containing cream and
milk, also milk pans, require careful
attention; washing aud keeping clean
of room and milk vessels we'll attended
to !; the room also kept well ventilated |;
no bad air allowed.
7. Churns kept well cleaned; always
washed out clean previous to working
them.
g. Temperature of cream previous
to churning carefully attended to; for
the purpose have thermometer thirty
five degrees Fahrenheit in summer and
a few degrees higher in winter.
8. All dairy utensils kept perfectly
clean and also in q room for them
selves
10. No dairy utensils should be
washed inside a dairy; have a small
wooden trough outside the dairy for
this purpose.
IL Keep the floor inside the work
ing compartment perfectly clean; no
milk or other liquid allowed to remain
on it.
-. Attend to the washing of the
milk from the butter with great at
tention.
49, The hands not allowed to come
in contact with the butter while max
ing.
IA. Butter not made up for final use
after sailing, until short period of
time elapses also, butter should not
be worked too much. Use small
wooden spades for working the butter
throughout entire process.
Is. Neatness observed in making up
of butter.
Is. All dairy vessel employed for
making purposes kept strictly clean.
II. Working dairy compartments
should be we'll cleaned, floor, benches,
at end Of each week ; also exterior por-
ton of dairy well cleaned. No water
allowed to remain in channels outside
the dairy.
10. Have no ,lecayed refuse near the
dairy on any account.
-. Feeding Of milk COWS carefully
ate nded to. Food should be clean,
fresh and given at regulated periods.
90 A moderate supply of salt (rock)
very beneficial for young COWS. Place
Jumps of salt in the feeding trough.
81. The drinking water for your
COWS should be perfectly clearly, also
tho vessels. --Dairy World, London.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
NOwack'S Weather Plant,

Many plants are known to respond
to the weather, and some of them IN
dictate weather changes for few hours
in advance through tho influence Of
light, warmth moisture, or other con-
ditions. The weather plant of j.
f. Nowack is the arbus prcCatorius,
L., known in America rs 'Jcquirity,"
which is remarkably sensitive to cleo
trical Influences Mr.. Nownck'8 at-
tention was first attracted, while travel
ing i'll Holland some years ago, to
peculiar curling of the leaves of this
plant before IA violent thunder storm,
and later observations have enabled
him to predict such storms ty-CiEht
hours III advance. He has recorded
not less than sixteen different posi-.
tions of the plants leaflets, all si2nlti-
cant. A heavy thunder shower, cloud
mess, clearing weather, varying,
changeablcness, wind, rain, cloudlcas-
hess, increasing or decreasing press
ure, arc among the changes for which
there are characteristic positions. -
Atlanta Constitution.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
Aluminium Watches.

The latest fad of the Partisan swclls
is the aluminium timcpiecc. They are
very light in weight, but tritlo moro
than the works. The cases are In u
dull black color-vory effective. Some
are open faced, somo are open in a
small three-quartor-i disk in tho
center, with small gilt hands on tho
black face of the watch, but they arc
in all sorts of inlaid decoration III
colorings, and the best of it is they
are very reasonable i'll price.
It is the custom at the gay capital
for the gentry to carry this timcpirco
III the right hand trousers pocket
along with the keys, coin, matchbox
and other paraphernalia of the mnscu-
line pocket. 1t Is, moreover, the wont
of the owners to rush the hand down
in the pocket with great show Of I'M
perturbability and bring forth tho
watch, of which the material l. I'M
scratchablc, from among the other
articles, glance mt the time and care.
lessly replace it with an air of cor
tainty III its infalllbility. -Clothlcr
and Furnisher.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
Modern Ungnents and SaIres.

Various elegant preparations have
superseded the course unguents and
saIves of former times. 1t would be
impossible in our limited space to
give just idea of the wonderful i'm
provements that have been made in
this branch of pharmacy. Perhaps
3ne of the most notable improvements
IS the preparation of an animal fat.
called lanoline, which is now used as
fhe basis of large number of Olut-
ments.
Unlike lard, which has generally
been employed for this purpose, it
never turns rancid; and it has the
Valuable property Of being readily
absorbed by the skin, and penetrating
with friction to it's deeper layers;
therefore, it becomes most efficient
vehicle for conveying medicines
through the skin. When mixed with
mercury and rubbed into the pores, it
has caused the peculiar metallic taste
of the drug to be perceptible in the
mouth three minutes after its applica-
ton. In it's impure crude form, this
fat was known to the ancient Greeks,
and employed by them III medicine.
being extracted from the wool OF
sheep. The chemist has now purified
IT, and made it one of the most useful
agents that we possess for applying
medicines to the skin.-Chambers' s
journal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03

Tw1rcHELL has bsen loaned by the Louis
villes TO tic Miwaukecs.
AFTER CITING him one trial the Eostons
have relieved Pitcher West.
The PhiIadelphias appear to be again
getting into winning form.
CATCHER EARLE, lato of Louisville, has
signed with the Brocklyns.
THE Louisvilles hnvo had over forty play
ers under contract this season.
New YORK has in Ru5ie and Meekin tho
best pair of pitchers i'll the country.
THE Brooklyns came back from their
Western trip in badly crippled condition.
HARPER, the new Philadelphia pitcher, is
said 10 have almost as much speed as RuSie.
nEEFE. the whiIom king of the pitchers,
thinks the New Yorks will win the pennant.
TINE Pittsburg Clu5 has sigrel Frank
Reit2, of the Ohio State League. as suOSti-
tute intelder.
The Brooklyn craLks are mourn'ul over
the abnOrmaIIy EGOr showing Of their team
Oh the Western tour.
THE Philadelphia management has lines
out for Pitchers Wilson, Of Fottsville ana
Hods0n, of Scranton.
The New Yorks won sixteen Of twenty
games. beginning with their Western trip.
That is championship ball.
MEEKIN, of the New YorEs, pitchc larecord
game, Il few days ago, against the Washing
tons. He struck ont ten men.
MANAGER IRWIN had Il conferences with
Taylor. his rcbellious pitcher, the result of,
which is that Taylor returned to the Phl"-
delDhia fold.
PRESIDENT YoUNG has been trying to i'm
press his umpres with Il sense of their duty
i'll enforcing the balk rule upon pitchers
more riGidly.
FARRELL accepted seventeen chances
without an error in Il late game III New
York against tho WashingtolS. This is the
catcher's record for the season.
FARRELL, of New York hls been mora
times behind tho bat this season than any
mar who wears the IL ask. II will equ ii his
last years record, and it is quite probable,
will get extra compensation.
FoR the first time in the history OF Rugby
(Engiand) School, n game of baseball was
played on its grounds few days ago. Tho
teams were called tho HOratii IN TIL. Curatii.
The game was we'll contested. The score
was IS to 10. About 300 Itu ;by u Tents wit
messed the game.
FIRST BAsENAN TICKER. o. the Bostone
had a homo in his cheek bro5en during Il dis
gushing rracas on the PhiIadelphia grounds.
In the eighth inning with the score two to
one in favor Of Boston u light rain began
falling. Aided by a wet ball the Phladel-
phias then made eleven runs The tactics of
the Bostons to delay the game caused the I'M
pire to award it to Philadelphia, nine TO
nothing. Indignant spectators assaulted
Tucker.
MANAGER BUCXENDERGER. of PttShUrg is
after Rusie no more than arr other LedguO
managers. 1t is a fact. though that Buckeu-
berger took Rusie out one night in Pitts urg
and tried 10 make the big twrler dissatisfied
with his lot. Buckenberger offered to bay
Ruses release foA $4,000 That is. he told
Rusie that he would offer that sum to tn ;
New York Club. Rusio went 10 Ward mkt
day and complained that he WAS being
pitched every day. and seemed to want TO
join the Pittsburg Club. He was raci1ei ,
and afterward Buckenbcrger. on being re-
preached for talnperiny with Rusie, said that
be had only been Joking
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
SUCCESS WITH ROSES.

The first step to success in the grow
ing of roses is to select a suitable
place for planting. This is an absolute
necessity. The best place in the gar
den is none too good for roses. Do
not plant on the north side or at a
corner of the house, as the winds
would injure the bushes, and the sun
could not properly reach them. A
warm, sunny position should be Sc
lected, on southern exposure, and
not too near a building or tree, lest
the rose be robbed of the needed
nourishment and sunshine.
1t is sufficient if the rose has the
sun in the morning and during part
of the afternoon. The best results are
had when the roses are planted in
groups or hedges, as they grow much
better and are more easily cared for.
They should not be planted in the
shade of trees or buildings. The rose
requires plenty of nourishment, water
and pure air. It should always be
kept free from dead leaves and insects.
Roses do well in almost any garden
soil, which is not too sandy; in the
latter case, much benefit will be de-
rived from mixing in clay or muck in
suitable proportions. If the soil is
too heavy, mixture of wool ashes
and air-slscked lime would make it
about right. Do not forget to fertil
ize the soil generously with COW
manure AMI bone manure. Water
should not be allowed to settle about
the bushes IN winter, as it will do
great harm to the plants.
By following these suggestions,
there will be no difficulty in raising
fine roses. Amateur Gardening.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
BIRMINGHAM'S BIG FIRE.
More Than Half a Million Dollars
Worth of Property Destroyed.

More Than Half a Million Dollars
Worth of Property Destroyed.
The most disastrous conf1agration Bir-
mingham, Ala, has witnessed started at
o'clock a. m. in four story building
occupied by the Showers Furniture Com
pany, In Twenty-second street and First
avenue.
The entire interior of the building was
ablaze before the fire was discovered. The
flames were soon communicated tothe Cald-
we'll Hotel across tho street, building six
stories high and the largest hotel in Ala
hama. All the guests were rescued but only
just in time, and saved comparatively moth
ing OF their personal effects. The hotel is
total loss.
The fire was communicated to the four
ct DRY building in Second avenue at halt past
two a. m. and threatene I the destruction OF
the entire city. The Fire Department happily
managed to check the flames.
The losses are as follows: Caldwell Ho-
tel, $3.50 900, insurance, $I75, 900: Showers
Furniture Company. $15, 009, insurance. So,
600 Perry Mason Shoe Company, $4,000,
insurance, S25. J. W. Johnson Sho3
Building. $50, 600, insurance, SO, 1000; other
losses, $50, 900, insurance, 800, 900.
The origin of the fire is mystery. When
the flames were at their worst aid was tele-
graphed for to Montgomery and Meridian,
but the order was counterman1ed before the
fire companies from these cities could arrive.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
THE LABOR WORLD.
-Hrxs has a sion Mems Union.

CHINA has Stop Mems Union
New YORK has 20 900 cigarmakers.
GERMANY has 163 bricklayers' unions.
UNCLE SAM has s., 900 custom tailers.
SOME Detroit shop girls get - week.
TORONTO, Canada, has peddlers' union.
DErRoIr colore1 stevedores have & ul on.
IN New York City 20, 900 women are idle
In Germany servant girls average S2.17 a
week.
TIE Prince of Wales is a friends of trades
unions.
TIE Detroit Plasterers' Unions initiation
fee Is els.
THE hatters' strike cost Danbuzy, Conn.
600 families.
NEW YoRK's 600, 900 workingwonen aver
age % a week.
ENGLISH clergymen are organizing WORK
ingmen's clubs
ONLY residents are employed n city works
at Salt Lake, Utah.
TIE Amalgamatei Carpenters have 1851,
600 In their treasury.
THE American Railway Union was organ
lied on June 20, 1898.
MISS MAGGIE MANLY is President o.
Louisville (Ky.) union.
ABOUT $50, 900 railroaders in the United
States are not union men.
SToNEcUTrERs will hold an internatioaal
meeting at Toronto, Canada.
In New South Wales there are thirty-eight
Labor members in the House.
An Iron Mountain (Mich.) firm has volun-
tarily increased wages twenty-five per cent.
THE Baltimore and Oaio now has all its.
shops open and is giving employment TO
over 5000 men.
PITTsBUR6 Slavs are forming co-Oparl-
tive company to engage in the coal and coke
business in West Virginia.
THE great pottery strike in New Jersey is
ended. Over twelve thousand men resumed
work A uniform reduction in wages Of 1871
per cent. was the basis of the settlement
STocKYARDs butchers, of Chicago. voted
to sever connection with the organizations
governed by Debs and Sovereign. claiming
to have been induced TO strike when defeat
was assured.
THERE are more working days in the year
of the American workman than of any other
save the Hungarian. The latter works 3l2
days in the year, and thus has almost no
holidays save Sunday.
J. w. EGAN, Chairman of the General Man.
ayers, whose roads were disturbed by the
Pullman strike, was at one time a machin-
lists apprentice in the Illinois Central shops
and rose step by step till he became Presi-
dent.
GREAT interest Is being excited smoug
maritime workers over the probable action
of the National Seamen's Union regarding
the formation of an International Union. in
Guiding the sailors organizations of Eng
land, Ireland and Australia, with total
membership of about 200 men.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
Three Dead and Five Wounded, the
Result of a Washington Blaze.

Fire in the Knox Building and stables at
Washington resulted in the death of the
following persons Dennis Donahue, fire.
man. Michael Fenton, fireman. Samuel s.
Mastin. fireman.
The injured were Lee Bell aged twenty
eight, fireman hands and face burned.
Edward Cahill citizen; shoulder broke.
James E. Hooker, aged thirty-two, fireman
wounded in the forehead. James Kelhar,
aged thirty-six, foreman Of Engine Com
pany No. sprained back J. G.. Wilson.
assistant foreman bones ofleft leg fractured.
The loss will be nearly 800 600 and in
cludes 205 horses belonging to the Knox Com
pany, which were in the second story of the
building.
The fire broke out in Knoxs stables at B
and Second street about 80 o'clock a. IN.
Next door to the stable was storage waro-
house filled to the top with furniture books,
pictures, clothing, silverware, china, glass
and brIc-a-brac belonging to the owners
of houses and others in the city. The ware
house and stables covered over u block.
Next TO the knox stables were those of the
Adams Express Company, in which were $50
horses, but these were all saved.
Every fire company in Washington was
present The heat was simply frightful.
The f1remen were obliged to throw water Oh
each other repeatedly before they could ap-
proach within working distance of the build
of hose on the B street front OF
the KNOX Building were obliged
to lie fiat on their stomachs AMI hold their
faces to the ground, 50 awful was the heat.
Policemen who had to help drag the hose
about were Obliged to remove their outer
clothing and to be frequently drenched with
water.
About $50 n portion of the wall of the
rear of the Adams Building fell into the
alley and across the back exit. Instantly
the crowd set up a cry:
1.-The firemen are in there ~
Fire Chief Paris ordered half dozen
leads of hose turned on the white-hot mass,
and as soon as it was possible the firemen
rushed in and dragged the men out. Ten
minutes afterwards the walls of the Knox
Building fell.
With the fall of these walls the fire was
checked, and 1t was not long before the fire.
men had it under control. There were a
number of houses in the vicinity which were
DESTROYED. The origin of tn fire is unknown
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
South and West.

The wheat crop In the Northwest is below
tho average.
THE special Grand Jury In Chicago found
big batch OF indictments against those
concerned in the railroad strike. which was
supposed to inclule President Dehs and
many of the rank and file. The Federal
troops and part Of the Illinois militia left
Chicago.
THREE miners were fatally injured by the
explosion Of blast in the Sally Waters mine
near Galena, III.
FoUR HUNDRED pounds ofpowder exploded
ut Fort Pulaski, Ga. fatally injuring the
sergeant in charge, badly burning woman
and setting fire to the fort.
W11MoBE, a small town in Jessamtne
cyclone and at least dozen people were in
jured, one of them fatally. Hardly house
escaped complete wreck or damage.
SEvENrEEN-YEAR locusts have appeared at
Kalamazoo. Mich.
A BOAT in which the Misses Minnie and
Hester Hern, Thomas Shultz and Harry
McMurray were riding on Prairie River at
Mlchelrs Park, Ind, capsized and both
Indies and McMurray were drowned.
The great railroad strike in California has
come to an end. 1t was an unconditional
surrender on the part of the American Rail
way Union. This action was not surprise.
as railroads under military protection had
been getting the better of the strikers and
the latter had virtually acknowledged de-
feat.
GOVERNOR TILLMAN issued proclamation
announcing the reopening the dispensaries
in South Carolina on August I.
A LYNcHlSe took place at midday in New
Iberia, La. The victim was Vance Mcclure,
a colored hostler, who attempted to assault
young lady, the daughter of his employer.
President DEBs and his associate leaders
of the American Railway Union appeared in
court at Chicago to answer the charge of
contempt in violating the Federal injunction.
and in their answer denied having sent GER
tain kilograms, ordered a strike or made war
on railroads.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
STYLISH ANIMALS IN DEMAND.

Farmers make mistake in breed
ing when they raise horses to please
themselves. They must breed to suit
the market. The outlook for breed
ing now is better than it has been, be-
cause the knife is being more freely
used on poor stations every day, and
quality and individuality of horses
are constantly being raised in conse-
quence People who are fond of driv-
ing want stylish animals, and it will
pay the farmer to breed for that
standard. Then after they are bred it
will pay to bit them thoroughly,
match them up, accustom them to
sights and sounds in city and country
and condition them SO that they will
be ready for work as soon as sold
New York World.