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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
The Cornstalk Disease.

Cornstalk disease among cattle has
become very prevalent. There must be
cause, and there ought to be a rem
edy. Some say it is smut; others say
ii is a scarcity of salt and water; others
that ii is too much corn. Following is
Kansas farmers opinion on the sub
ject as expressed in the Iowa Home
stead:
Now, there are two things which
have observed-one is that there was an
unusual amount of smut on the stalks
this year; the other, that it has been an
unusually dry fall and winter. The
shucks, which constitute the principal
feed that cattle eat, have been unusual
ly dry and tough. We never hear of
horses dying this way, and it will be
observed that instead of eating the
shucks and hunting the smutty nubbins
of corn that are left they will spend
their time picking up fodder. AS a rem
edy fed the cattle some other kind of
feed once day-grass, hay, straw, fod-
der or whatever was most convenient.
But what we will have TO come to, and
the sooner the better, is cutting our
corn up. Ten acres of fodder will win
ter as many cattle as 60 acres of stalks
One acre of fodder will keep yearling
steer six months at cost of so cents
per month for cutting, hauling and feed
ing. This amounts to SO in six months.
Now, is not that cheaper than paying
50 for six acres of stalks and losing 5
per cent of Your cattle, as think has
been the case in this section this winter?
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Prevention OF Potato Scab.

The best method Of treatment known
for the destruction of the germs of the
fungus Of the potato scab seems to be
the corrosive sublimate treatment en-
ployed by Bolley and others. 1t must
be borne in mind that corrosive subli-
mate is powerful poison if taken inter-
nally. and none of the solution should
be poured out near wells or where fowls.
stock, etc., can obtain any of it, nor
should the vessels be used accidentally
for any other purpose. The solution of
the strength employed will do no harm
externally on the hands, but great care
should be used not to get any Of it into
the mouth.
acknowledgements sublimate can
be bought at drug stores in the form of
crystals. Two and one-fourth ounces of
these crystals should be dissolved in a
few gallons of hot water and enough
cold water added to make Is gallons of
the solution; the whole should then be
we'll stirred. IN preparing the solutions
and treating the seed use wooden vessels
only. Two barrels, with wooden fau-
Gets, are convenient, the solution being
drawn from one to the other whenever
it is desired 10 remove the potatoes. The
potatoes may also be put into a sack and
dipped into the solution. The same solu-
ton may be used repeatedly. The whole
tubers. after first being washed, should
be placed in the solution for II hours,
then spread out TO dry and cut aud
planted as usual.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
TO DRAFT QUORUM RULE.

After a heated session of two hours and
half the democratic caucus decided by
vote of 10 To "a 20 instruct the commit
tee on rules 10 report "A new rule To ascer-
tain and record the presence of a quorum
whether voting or not. Practically all
the democratic members of the house at
tended the caucus. Mr.. Bland presented
resolution directing the sergeant at
arms To carry out the provision OF section
40, chapter 2, of the revised statutes, by
which deductions from the salaries Of
members shall be made for every days
absence, except on account of sickness.
This was in accordance with the action
OF the judiciary committee earlier in the
day. 1t was unanimously adopted.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
SUSPENSION oF PENSIONS.

The senate committee on pensions
which has been considering Senator AL
lens resolution requiring the secretary
of the Interior TO report the names Of the
pensioners which have been dropped from
the pension rolls since March L. 1893. has
reported it, but in much more compre-
hensive shape than originally prepared.
As reported the resolution requires the
secretary TO give the mum Der OF pension
ers whose pensions have been suspended
or cancelled since March 4. 1898. the num-
Der whose pensions have been restored TO
the rate 10 which they have been draw
Ing up TO the time they were suspended,
the names, the postofiice address. and the
rate of pensioners whose pensions have
been only partially restored or not re-
stored at all, and the cause Of the reduc-
ton or cancellation.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Don't Got Imposed Upon

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medicine as we'll as in everything eise.
By the universal satisfaction il Las
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Great German Blood, Liver, Stomach
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from impure blood Do not experiment.
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keep Il.
For sale by b. VanDenBe rgh
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
KYLE's REronMAronr MEASURES.

Senator Kyle introduced in the senate
bill providing for Sunday rest. Ii pro-
vides that no one shall pesform any labor
or engage In any amusement To the dis
turbance of others in any territory, dis
trict, vessel, or place subject To the ex-
elusive jurisdiction of the United States
Sunday, and prohibits the transporta-
ton of the mails on that day of the week.
lie also introduced joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
relative 10 marriage and divorce. Which
was referred 10 the committee on judi
ciary
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
SEEDING TO CLOVER.
The Popular Custom Is to Sow the Seed
Grain In the Spring.

"ruh In the spring.
As renovator of soils and for keep
ing mp their fertility clover stands pre-
eminent. The common custom is TO
sow the seed in the spring among
wheat, which, with the usual rotation
of crops, is perhaps the most available
method. Excellent results have been
produced by narrowing the wheat in the
spring as soon as the ground is suffi-
GENTLY dry TO venture on il with horse.
Sow the clover seed before or after har-
rowing. The favorable effects on both
seed and wheat generally outbalance by
far the small amount of wheat that is
destroyed by narrowing, says one sue
cessful farmer.
An Iowa farmer, writing in Hoard s
Dairyman, In reply to theQuestion, Can
clover be successfully grown by seeding
alone in the spring on freshly plowed
ground?" says; II would advise light
sowing of rye-about three-fourths
bushels per acre. My soil is a light
sandy, deep loan, with sandy subsoil,
and have never failed TO secure a good
stand of clover when sown early with
rye"
A Wisconsin farmer replies to the
foregoing query as follows: with IA
vorable spring and thorough prepare
ton of the soil good results may be
looked for, although the method is not
wholly successful and apt to result in a
light crop the first year. The ground
should not be plowed deeper than three
or four inches, and would use the disk
harrow rather than pillow. The surface
should be made fine and compact before
seed is sown. Four quarts of medium
red clover seed per acre is sufficient.
AT time of sowing apply 100 pounds OF
land plaster to the acre. The seed should
be lightly narrowed and rolled unless
on very sandy soil. In that case har-
row more thoroughly and do not roll,
thus holding the soil from blowing away
and exposing the seed. as it will often dc
on sandy soil made smooth.
81 much prefer, however, to seed to
clover with grain. The labor required
to fit a piece for clover makes fine
seed bed for grain. At the same time
the young plants are often protected Ill
early spring by the growing grain. In
my experience of II years with clover,
and | have tried all methods, | never
fail to get good stand when sown very
early in spring on rye or winter wheat.
"All clover sown in this way last
spring beat the drought, while that sown
with spring grain was all lost.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
DEBATE ON THE TARIFF BILL.

The republican steering committee Of
the senate met THURSDAY for conference
concerning the programme to be pursued
on the tariff bill. No decision was
reached, except to allow the debate TO go
on under the present arrangement as
long as possible. The opinion seemed to
be quite general that the present truce
would continue for at least another week.
The opinion was expressed by some OF
the senators present that two weeks
more Of uninterrupted debate would he
sufficient TO exhaust the speeches in gem
eral debate. If the democrats agree To-
the proposition the republicans will make
the present order Of speech making run
along smoothly for ten days when the
bill will be taken up paragraph by para
graph and the real contest will begin.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
Ottawa county has l19 schools.

Big Rapids boasts of a population of
1000,
1t cost Flint 5000 to care for her poor
last winter.
INLAY City has a school fight on
hand, 1t is the principal and school
board against the rest of the village.
A. vanDyke, well-to-do farmer OF
Oakfeld township, was badly injured
while loading logs on cars at Evans.
His recovery is doubtful.
John Sandison of Allis township.
Cheboygan county, took carbolic acid
with suicidal intent, but is alive yet,
though in a precarious condition.
Owing to the apathy that business
men have toward making an exhibit,
the Genesee County Agricultural Society
have decided not to hold their annual
fair this year.
The Stoltz gold medal offered to the
debaters of the Saginaw (west side)
high school lyceum was won for the
first time on Friday night by Ernest
Snow, son of Prosecuting Attorney +
A.Snow.
Kalamazoo college is in hard luck.
The Third National bank of Detroit
went into liquidation. The college
owned $4,000 in stock. Not only was
that wiped out, but the college is called
on to stand an assessment of $4,000
more.
Freaks are becoming numerous in
this section of late. If some ambitious
speculator would get the headless
rooster at Wilmont, capture the whis-
kered serpent in Huron counte,
and buy Russ Kings cow that breathes
| through her horns, we are inclined to
think there would be more money in it
than selling wheat at fifty cents per
bushel or eggs ut eight cents per
dezen.-[Kingston Correspondence in
| North Branch Gazette.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

Over twelve ears | was ain 'ct-ti with
a very serious female q tiicVty aud for
the last sixteen mupta~ WAS "udtf the
treatment of three of the Yer. l. est
physicians that money Cood rmp oy.
Under their skl.if1l trrata +ut L
gradually grew W0i ~ ubill they de-
clded they could reuder IN ltU perma-
uent help. One of IA frirnds per-
suaded me to try b0ttl" at Dull.m's
Great German Uterine Touic aud after
taking three bottles, can say an in
better health than have been for
twenty years and am nov sixty years
old, out feel as young AS thirty.
June 2, 80. Mrs ) L CARPENTER.
Laperr. Mich.
For sale by B. VanDenBergh. 4.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
How Many Hens For Bone Cutter?

How many hens must one keep in or
der to make bone cutter profitable?
That is question good many men are
asking before deciding about the pur-
chase of cutter. 1t is important
enough TO warrant a good discussion.
Rural New Yorker says in reply 100
hens and the necessary young stock TO
keep up that number of layers. Less
than that number, the authority quoted
thinks, would fail to get good interest
out of a bone cutter, and therefore
animal meal would pay better for a
small flock.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
COST OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.

The bill making appropriations for the
Indian service for the fiscal year 1895
prepared by the subcommittee was laid
before the full committee on Indian af-
fairs of the house. The total amount
carried by the bill is So 455, $50. as against
estimates submitted by the secretary of
the interior aggregating II. 93l, T56 and an
appropriation for the current fiscal year
of 81, l25, 306. The bill aboishes the office
of superintendent of Indian schools, re-
duces the special agents from five 20
three and the inspectors from five to two.
Attached TO the bill is provision for
ratifying, with certain notifications, the
agreement with the Yankton tribe of
Sioux Indians in South Dakota.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
CHANGES IN TIE PATENT LAWS.

The bill amending the patent laws In
various particulars agreed on by a sub
committee of the house committee on
patents will be laid before the full com
mittee at its next meeting, and speedy
action is hoped for. The measure con-
tains provisions for the protection OF in
nocent purchasers Of patents and limits
TO one year the time within which appli
cations for patents on articles already
patented abroad must be made in this
country. Whenever patent is alleged
To be infringed the patentee shall seek
his remedy by bringing suit, in the first
instance, against the mapufacture OF
vendor of the article alleged 10 infringe
said patent. An important amendment
reduces from two years TO six months the
time in which applications for patents
filed shall be completed and prepared for
examination.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
PROPOSED RADICAL TREASURY REFORMS.

Probably no other measure except the
tariff bill will be longer debated during
the present session than the bill now
pending TO reorganiZe the accounting sys-
tenn in the treasury department. The
bill is SO radical in the changes that it
proposes that it will meet with "A great
deal Of opposition. The experts who ar
ranged the details are: j. w. RenharL
president OF the Santa Fe system OF rail-
roads and now receiver OF that corpora
ton; c. W. HaskinS, receiver Of two
southern roads and auditor OF two large
corporations in New York, and L. w.
Sells, who has been auditor OF two or
three western railroads and is an expe-
rlenced business man.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

ing the time Of actual hostilities small
schooner laden with silk. wines and
brandy, and belonging in Stonington,
Conn, was hailed on her homeward
passage by British armed brig, when
a conversation something like this took
place between the commanding officer
of the brig and the captain of the
schooner:
Schooner ahoy!' called the officer.
'Hallor responded the Yankee.
(" Who commands that schooner
" Brother jonathan used tn, but
due neaow.'
Brother Jonathan-who the devil
is hep
why, you must be darned fool
not to know Brother Jonathan-every.
body in taown knows him.
- Send your boat abroad
f" Don't know whether / shall or not,
for the boats all soggy, and hain't
got no new clothes. Brother iona
than's got new coat, and if he's mind
to 60 he may, but am sure | sban't
Striker shouted the Britisher.
/" Strike? Why, l haven't nobody
here to strike but dad. He's cooking,
and he's crazy, and if strike him he'll
strike back again, so it's no use.
What are you loaded WITH?
Bale goods and hens and hens
husbands and hobgoblins and long
faced gentry
Where are you bound tog
:. 'Stoningtaown.
'By this time Brother Jonathan had
boarded the brig. where he was COM
pelled TO remain until the schooner was
examined by the British officer. The
officer, who had gone aboard the
schooner, kept on with his examination.
g" Where's your bale goods?'
" There they be, said the Yankee
skipper, pointing to some bundles Of
clapboards and shingles which he had
taken with him on his outward passage
as a covering for his cargo.
You fool, do you call them bale
goods?'
why, sartin. Don't you?
Where's your hens and hens hus-
hands?'
There they be, in that ar coop
there
" Where's your hobgoblins?
d" There they be, in that ar tother
great large coop there
Where's your long faced gentryP
"There they be, in that ar pigstye.
Have you got anything to drink
on board|
Z" We had some rum when we came
away, but the Gags way down under
the load, and if you try you can't get
it. SO it's no use.
1.-The British officer, having received
but little satisfaction and having no
doubt become Disguised at the seeming
ignorance of the Yankee, returned on
board his brig in no good humor Then,
after ordering Brother Jonathan doz-
en- stripes with the ropes end, to teach
him wisdom, mayhap, he left the poor
simple creatures to take care of them
selves. That they could do so was
evidenced by the fact that the schooner
arrived at Boston with cargo valued
at 800, 900. Boston Herald.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
FAIR CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT.


The condition of winter wheat on the
first day Of April. as reported by tho sta
tistician Of the department Of agriculture,
averages S6.7 per cent for the entire coun-
try, last year the average being IA In
1892 it was SIP and 06.9 for the year Of
1891. The corresponding average for rye
is ga per cent. The average of wheat
for the principal states are as follows:
Kentucky. 50; OHIO. 90; Michigan, 80;
Indiana, %; Illinois. 81; Missouri, 50;
Kansas, 70: Nebraska, s.; Iowa, 81. The
average date Of seeding in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys was late. owing TO the
dry weather. In general, however, the
conditions of soil were not unfavorable
TO planting and termination. Very little
damage is reported from the Hessian fly
and that only in sections OF Ohio, Michi-
gan, Illinois. Missouri and Kansas.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
NEW JERSEY AND MINNESOTA.

II not because of, concidentally with,
the free-trade pronunciamento Of the
Minnesota Democrats New Jersey cast
off the Democratic yoke, rehounced the
free-trade heresy, put the Wilson bin
beneath its feet. spat upon il, and rang
ed itself in the Republican column.
And we believe that, as the reviyalists'
hymn says,
Yet there's more to follow.
The mourners' bench is full; CONVEX
sions cannot but be plentiful.
The Minnesota Democratic platform,
and certain Democratic editorials in
laudation of low tariffs as producers of
low wages-said by the Democratic
journalists who spoke of workmen as
starving" on the high wages of 1892
to be satisfactory" to those whose
wages are cut down-are the best cam
paign literature that the Republican
committees can circulate. They are
an evidence as to the inherent Inability
of the Democratic party to adapt itself
TO modern ideas of political economy.
They stand as irrefragable proof that
the Democratic party of today is, as it
always was, the great party of the has
been. The same old party of which
McDuffie was the spokesman in 1882,
when in open Senate he told "the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts, that elf
God gives tie people of the South the
spirit of their ancestors his constituents
will have TO compete with just such Ia
Dor as they 1.-THE Southern slaveholdersl
choose to employ, and on terms, too, Of
perfect equality"
Since then slavery has been abolish
ed, in spite of Democratic resistance,
but the Southern States, now as then
the backbone of Democracy, still de-
mand ''cheap goods and cheap labor"
and now, as then, the Northern Demo
cracy supports the demands of the
South. though the Northerner has learn
ed to suppress the ''cheap labor clause
upon which the more candid and cour-
ageous Southerner still insists.
Cheap goods and cheap labor are in
separable. The capitalist must have
profit on his capital if the laborer is TO
have profit on his labor. If English
goods are cheaper than American il is
because English labor is cheaper than
American. And English labor is
cheaper in proportion to the price of
English goods than American labor is
to that of American goods. The Amer
lean workmen buys-or used TO buy
more clothing, and of better quality,
than any other workman, and indeed
better than that of the so-called middle
class of Europe. He was in every way
better off than the workmen of every
country. In an evil moment he listen
ed to the voice of the Northern servants
OF the Southern cheap-labor politicians
and believe that his employer could
compete in the American market with
goods made by English workmen and
still pay old-time American prices TO
American workmen.
He has found out his mistake and is
voting accordingly. Hence it is the
duty of the Republican committees to
circulate all such platforms as that of
the Minnesota Democracy, and all such
editorials as the sappy Democratic
theorists delight to produce, for by
them is the now-awakened American
wage-earner convinced of the un-
changeableness of Democratic folly. r
Inter Ocean.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
PLAYED FOUL TO SOME PURPOSE
How Yankee Skipper Saved a Valuable
Cargo From the British

Zone of the neatest things which ]
remember is the sharp trick played up.
on an English naval officer by a Yam.
kce skipper during the last war with
England" said the old timer. "Dur.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

The greatest worm destroyer ON
earth is Dullam's Great German Worm
Losepges, only IS cents per bcx. Fur
sale by VanD BEECH.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

Ninety per cent. of the peach buds
in Allegan county are uninjured.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20

Buy Dullam's. Great German Is cent
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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-19
Obituary.

Death having invaded our ranks
and taken from US our beloved friend
aud brother, George l.. Branscom. Ii
in q duty that we oWe to his memory
te say something of hIs life and vir-
tues.
Brother G. L. Branscom was fifty
two years Of age, had been . citizen
Of this community for about forty
years, and was a member of the M.
T.. church, South. He was member
of The Knights OF Honor, and c. ar
ter me bar or the Knights Of PythiaE
L. DE No. 1O2. Saul, bury, Tenn.
A kind and devoted husband and
father has been taken awav. We eAA
tend our hearts of love and sympathy
20 the bereaved ones la this hour u
30. M and sadness, aud may tue q d
OF all grace aud peace he their stay
and support.
1t having pleased s.fmishty CID u
rS ;nove from US our brother, there
fore be it
Resolved, first That in The death OF
our beloved brother thIs lodge has
list one al its best members.
That @e cast the veil of traternal
charity and love over his tau Is anu
strive To euIuIate his virtues.
That this lOice be drapcd iii the
usual form OF mourning and that tne
memuers wear the usual badge OF
mourning tor thirty days.
That . copy of these resolutions
be spread on the minutes of thls lodgf
and copy of the same be FURNISHED
to the family of our departed brother
also a copy be furnished the Bollval
Hulletin for publication.
JOHN 7. Low,
S. A. GoDsEY,
E. j. Jerry,
COMMITTEES