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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-03
Base Ingratitude,

After the high tribute we paid to that
diminutive but plucky little locomotive
which runs between Hartwell and Bowers
yillo--the Nancy Hart-thc manager Of
the Hartwell road has advised us to cease
publishing the schedule OF that road. This
~ heavy blow to us. The remuneration
that we received for printing this schedule
was 4 pass over 10 miles of narrow gauge
road which we never used. 1t is true that
the space occupied by the schedule was
worth about $40 per annum but what Is
that paltry sum in comparison with the
privilege of wearing out, by carrying
around incur breeches pocket, pass over
tho Hartwell railroadY --. Toccoa Ca }
News.
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ntrOphy, otc, surely cured by INDApO. the great
HindoO Remedy With wrten guarantee 10 cure Sold by
MATTHEWS BROS, Druggists, Scranton, Pa,
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Check.

The man who tries TO take advantage Of
the ignorance Of another occasionally gets
u Roland for his Oliver. A Boston man
once in England, seeing n laborer digging
ilints out of chalk, pompously asked him
If he thought they grew.
"Sure," was the reply, "r know they
do"
"Then put some flint on table and see
how much 1t grows in year"
"ARl you, sir, said the laborer, "put
potato on the table and see how much
it grows in year, ,"-Harper's Magazine.
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E l.. BROWN. Arch b, Architect, Price
+, building. l26 " Washington Ave, Scranton.
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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
ARCHITECTS.

iIAVls " nUUtl, Architects. Rooms ~
~ 25 and 20 Commonwealth b'd'R, Scranton.
II l.. WALTER, Architect, Library build.
~. inn Wyoming avenue Scranton
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JTORTON d. SWARTS .. Wholesale
ii lumber, and Dino Bank building,
Nnnn taAnt, Dn
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NJEGARGEE BROTHERS, PRINTERs'
M supplies envelopes paper bags twine.
Warehouse 100 Washington ave. Scranton,
| pn
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EOOTE'S LIVERY, 1893 Capouse avenue.
4 Firstclass carriages. D l.. tOOTE, Agt,
Funeral Director and Embalmer.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20
FARM AND QUESTION BOX.
Various Subjects on Which the Farmers
Ask Information.


J. J. W. S, LaWrenceburg, Tenn.-Pleasn.
inform me: 1. The best time and condition
10 dig sweet potatoes.
,. The best way to save them through the
winter III the latitude of southern Tennes-
see.
l save them pretty well in cold weather.
but the warm weather we often have in
the winter has been too much for me- /
usually plant to raise frome one hundred
TO two hundred bushels for spring sale. /
have building very warm but well ven
1ilated.
There is no royal or never failing plan
FOR keeping potatoes. Sometimes they viii
rot, more or less, in spite of every ordinary
precaution. 1t is one of the questions that
has not yet been solved by the experiment
stations. But there are several points upon
which most observers are agreed. The po-
tatoes should he dug just before a killing
frost, or Immediately after a moderate
frost, and, if possible, when the ground is
dry. When the ground has been dry for
some time the tubers Will have ceased to
grow and will not be so full of sap. They
should be permitted to dry during the day
and put up in hills or banks of thirty to
forty bushels. There should be under the
potatoes a bed of dry straw. A ventilated
box should stand in the center of the HILL
around which the potatoes should be heaped
steep as they will lie Cover the hill sew
eral inches thick with dry corn stalks, or
broom sedSe, or loose straw and then
boards. regularly disposed to be prac-
tically rain proof Then cover all with
soil dug from around the base of the hills
Cover lghtly-four or five inches-at first
with the soil, but increase the thickness by
fresh soil until it is twelve inches deep be
fore winter fully sets in. The heavy COW
ering will protect them from both cold and
heat during the winter and early spring.
J. w. E., Scale Works, Cal have a
mule nine years old that seems to be weak
in his loins. eats hearty. will lie down to
roll and can get up by himself. VIII you
please give me Il remedy.
You do not describe the symptoms with
sufficient fullness to enable proper diagno-
sis. He has probably Inflammation or some
one of two three affection OF the kidneys.
Re careful that he is not overfed on highly
stimulated food. Give dose of one pint of
castor oil. Give absolute rest in a warm
stall and a dose of one drachm of Dover
powders daily to induce sweating. Keep
a blanket on him, unless the weather is
quite warm. Blankets wrung out of hot
water and persistenly applied to the loins
is a good treatment and may be followed
by rubbing into the hair thin paste of
mustard and water, and covering it with a
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20

Spring is opening, and planting time will
soon be here. What and how shall We plant
are important questions. The monetary de-
preston ana consequent low prices give ad-
ditional emphasis to them. AS most of our
farmers will continue to grow cotton we
will venture q few thoughts about how to
grow it so to make it pay. We cannot
raise the price; then we must study to find
how we can cheaper the production. This
can be done by increasing the yield per
acre. There certain fixed charges that
remain the same whether the acre yields
much or little. There are other variable
charges that attend extra manuring ana
large yields. These extra expenses are
what our farmers tear. But it is in these
that the chance for larger yields and
larger profits lie. Let US look into this
matter a little, and see it we can find how
we can grow cotton cheaper.
First. we must pillow deeper and oftener
In other words We must prepare a deeper
and softer root bed for the cotton to grow
in This can be done by using two-horse
plows and subsoiling where the clay is
dry enough.
Secondly, we must more manure and
fertilizers. These furnish soluble plant
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notaSh.

when wle hit it is applied to them ,r,es
it is readily leached out by the rams. nn1
soils Of the upper half or the state sn $50
of the lower half, the clays Oh tne ~.
ter portion have been subjected TO more
washing and transportation, anu he"N0
teaching. ,. o, 70
"a common amount Of fertilizer USED ~
an acre Of ground in Georgia IS zoV poul,'n
Fertilizers average 10 per cent aValianie
phosphoric acid and 2 per cent OF potash
so this would be an application OF twenty
pounds Of available phosphorc aciu L. -
four pounds Of potash, or, IN oln'' ,5
over four times as much phosphoric acid
is put back as the watermelon takes On,
yet it would take over four years u 80 ~,
fertilization to put back the pottSh 'e'H NJ
away by the one single crop oil lneloi'S'
wonder melons do not do well thus StarHeu
to death. -,
"As potash and available phosphorlc aclo
cost about the same, chemical InahuiliiS
can be done much more advantaseousiy
and fully as cheaply by using more potash,
and less phosphoric acid. The potash shouiu
be used in the form of sulphate of potash
and not as chloride or muriate Oh potash
as the watermelon prefers the former, DIS
there was only a minute amount Oh chio-
rides found In the watermelon upon ahaly
sis, but q considerable quantity Oh sui
pilates.
1.-THE following is suggested as formula
for a watermelon fertilizer, which Will tur-
nish liberal amount of potash and other
fertilizing material per acre:
Acid phosphate. ..loO POUNDS
Sulphate of potash. 50 pouiluS
Dried blood. :. :. :. =. :. :. 50 pounds
'Of course a much larger quantity can
be used per acre if the land is we'll pre-
pared and a large crop is desired
IN. Georges Vile, the eminent agrlcul-
tural chemist of France, states as a general
proposition: Return to the soil by the aid
of manure more calcc phosphate, potash
and lif-'e than the crops have taken out OF
it; restore to the soil about so per cent OF
the nitrogen of the crops
1.-THE acid phosphate in the above formula
furnishes ample calcic phosphate and lime.
Cotton seed meal can be used in the
above formula in thu place of blood. IL
this is done, the quantity should be doubled
as cotton seed meal contains only little
over half the percentage of nitrogen found
in blood.
"rhese Investigations were undertaken in
the hope that they might be of some direct
benefit to our people
eff they should prove so, the time spent
upon them, which principally at night
after office hours, will not be regretted.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20

food ready for the roots to feed upon. Take
ten acres. break it ten inches deep, spread
ten tons of stable or lot manure per acre
upon it, pillow it in and harrow thoroughly.
Then put S00 pounds good fertilizer Broad
cast per acre and harrow that in thorough
ly. Bed the land and use 200 pounds rer
rows WIN AZ the Feet Feet IN a prt.'s' Leave
the cotton two feet in the drills.
Su Suit az, rapidly ard shallow.
Now let Us count up the cost.
Flowing and narrowing. :. :. IS 8 90
Ten tons manure. :. :. :. :. =. :. IS 90
1000 pounds fertilizer. . :. j.. :. II so
ss5 50
per acre. Now for the income with this
manuring and preDaration we ought to get
cents per pound, So leaving a clear profit
of $3.50. The seed will pay for any ex-
penses we have left out. If we get two and
half bales the profit would be $50 per acre
or 500 for ten acres. If have not the
manure then double the fertilizer and put
on $4,000 pounds broadcast except a little
with seed to give the plant a sart. Besides
the net profit thus secured we have ten
acres of land that will be good for large
crops for years to come.
Many will be ready to say these figures
are too big. Well, prove them SO by try
ing the plan on one or more acres. No
man has ever lost by trying it.
1t requires nerve TO invest so much per
acre in poor land. We must cut loose from
all our old ideas of drilling a little manure
or fertilizers along one narrow furrow and
expecting a large crop.
Only the very few roots that confne Them
selves to this narrow streak can get any
help BY broadcasting all the roots find
food in time of need. The whole plant is
nourished and fed and fourishes and fruits
Crops thus planned and MANFRED do not
suffer from drought like the ordinary way.
The sooner we wake up and try new
methods the better for and our children.
SUBSCRIBER.
eve consider the above article as on the
right line and full of good common sense
ideas-the same line of argument that we
have been pressing for years past. We do
not endorse every detail, but commend the
article as whole, to the thoughtful at
tentiOn of our readers. r. j. RD
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C0MSGDMr1 TI0M
&RaFaEag EItaaEken

To TIE ED1ToD-Pieasei inform YOU read
ers that I have positive remedy for tia
above named disease. by is timely use
thousands OF hopeless cases have been per
manently cured ] shall be glad to send
two bottles Of >ny remedy free to any Of your
leaders who have consumption if they will
send me their ex press and post office address.
I. A. sloouno, II. c., 1873 Pearl ST., Now York
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20
FARMS AND FARMERS.
SHORT TALKS WITH THE MEN WHO
GUIDE THE PLOT.
Many Questions About the Farm Answered
by the Agricultural Editor OF Inc
Weekly Constitution.

Please look ahead and send in inquiries
extraordinarily an answer may not De eA.
pected under three weeks. Never reques.
an answer by mail; the editor mas no 'lHie
to spare for writing private letters. 49,
Never ask where an article can De hau OF
the price. Editors have no petteI sources
of Information about these than otner PEI -
pie The editor has nothing for sale anu n. is
not interested in anything adVertiseo Ill
the paper. -..--o--~~~---
Questions of any character concerh1ns tno
farm will be cheerfully answered by Iii
pditor of this department. inqufeis -
DIease make their questions clear and TO tn ~
point The editor OF this department. VIII
give all questions close research an" ths
give the readers of The Constitution In
benefit of any information that can "0 Wv
tanned on all questions propoundeH: ,,,rt
Address communications tor unlS ~
ment to TIE CO>SA .,t. Ga
Darn and Farmers DeDt) Atiai'"' -
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-11
CORRUPT COUNCf4.g5Ey.
One Of New Orleans Officials Indicted
for bribery.

New Orleans. June S.-The sensation Of
today in New Orleans was the indictment Of
John T. Callahan, alderman from the first
district, for bribery. He is charged with
having received $500 from l.. S. Whitney,
president of the Pennsylvania Coal Compa-
ny, to influence his vote and obtain grant
of certain wharf privileges on the river
front. Tor the past month the streets have
been filled with charges that the city cOun-
oil was corrupt and definite assertions were
made that certain members of it have re-
ceiYed money Tor their votes for fat con-
tracts which the council has been giving
out very literally of late. Callahan was
one OF those most frequently mentioned.
lie was a poor man when he entered the
Council ana the ruillor was that he had pros
Dered since. 1t is reliably asserted that
i've councilmen will be indicted for bribery
on the strength Of investigation already
conducted. The whole matter is Indirectly
the outcome of the Illinois Central attempt
to work belt road privilege through the
council, despite the objection of the com
nullity. The council passed the BILL but it
was repealed a week later, the Illinois Cen
trail withdrawing.
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COTTON IN TEXAS.
A General Lacrosse IN Acreage ana an
enormous Yield Predicted.


Houston, Tex, June 5.-Tomorrow The
Post whose crop report last season proved
10 be accurate as to acreage and Yleld, VIII
publish the first report Of the crop or 1874.
The reports are from every cotton growing
county in Texas and are full and complete.
With scarcely an exception there is general
increase in acreage aggregating, on
conserVa tive Stimate, at least IL per cent.
some of the largest Gotten producing coun-
ties in the state showing an increase OF 70
per cent In one county where no cotton
was raised last year 10000 acres are under
cultivation this year. Fabulously high
prices for cotton seed last season-Sl4 and
SIS q ton-stimulated prices SO that 7-Cent
cotton meant 10 cents pound OH old
methods where the seed wasted. Be-
sides this the immigration has been very
large, the newcomers cultivaung cotton
through necessity and adding TO the
acreage. At no time in the states history
has there been promise of sucn an enor-
nous yield. In the past few days season.
able rains have fallen over q large area
Of country. All of the reports give condi-
tons as being fair to the best ever known,
the latter being III the majority. The plant
is healthy and vigorous and the fields are
clean and in a good state of cutivati ton.
No destroying insects or worms have made
their appearance and the outlook is gen.
orally for an early crop. From present in
dica tons the yield should exceed two and
g. quarter million bales. The crop Of 1891
is between 800, 090 and 1000, 600 bales and
was grown under the most unfavorable
weather conditions, the acreage being over
100000; hence this seasons crop will be
difficult to handle by January with ar
open fall. Ten days ago boils from Fort
Bend and Brazoria county plantations were
exhibited here.
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Washington, June 9.-The returns of cor
respondents of the department OF agricul-
ture, June LIST, show over q, greater area of
the cotton belt That the weather condition
Oh the planting season has .5eerf only mod
erately favorable TO seeding, termination
and growth.
The ccld snap Of the latter part of May,
with continued GOODNESS since, has discour-
ased the growth of the plant in the states
OF Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
In addition To the cold weather, drought
in some sections has been q retariing in
nuence on both termination and develop
ment.
Planting has been delayed to a consid-
cradle extent in some sections, and owing
to dryness and cold preventing gernna-
ton IN others, replanting became neces-
sary.
Some abandonment of the crop, and sub
stltution of other crops, is noted in not
a few localities.
The best conditions are reported in TIE
states OF Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Mississippi. ranging from 81 to 81, While the
lowest conditions are reported in Tennessee
ana Georgia, being rs and rs respectively.
AS will be noticed, there has been gen
eral deficiency of rainfall in the greater
part Of the cotton belt during May, and
that rain was needed in Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and in portions of Georgia, Alabama
Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
The northeastern part of the belt seems to
have had sufficient precipitation.
The average condition of the crop in the
consolidation of the reports is 2S.3, as COM
pared with S5.6 last year and $50 in 1882.
The state avor@""s are as follows: Vir-
ginia, 81; Mo- lima, 81; South Caro-
lima, s.; Gs Florida, 81; Alabama
50; Missss .ouisiana, 95; Texas, 81;
Arkansas, ,neSSee, IS; Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, 100.
The returns show a slight general in
crease of the area planted, as compared
with last year, due entirely to increase in
the states OF Texas, Mississippi and Arkan-
sas. The average percentage is 1905. The
state percentages Of acreage, as compared
to the acreage of last year, are as follows:
Virginia, 81; North Carolina, SO; South
Carolina, 90; Georgia. %; Florida, 81; Ala
bama, 80; Mississippi, 102; Louisina, 9S; Tex
as, 1877; Arkansas, 107 Tennessee, 90; Ok
lahoma and indian Territory, 800
1t will be observed that the condition has
increased nearly three points over that OF
last year, and that the acreage has not
materially changed.
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la Ely Time.

From Farmers Review.
The plague Of liies-for it is little less
viii soon be upon us and upon our stock,
and it beh0OVea every owner to use his best
endaavOr to lessen it's horrors. There are
some hcArtless men that do not seem to
tice the suiferingS of their stock during iiy
time; and il toiu OF it affect to count it a
subject too insignificant for notice. But
surely the poor dumb beasts deserve to be
made as comfortable as possible. The sem
<rte skin Of the horse makes him parttcti~
lary prone to suffer from the bites Of flies,
yet hundreds Of farmers never think it
necessary to put fly ncts on their horses at
work III the field or upon the road, and as
for fly screens upon the doors ana windows
of the stables, why those are out of the
question entirely. Hard working horses
deserve and pay fer nets ard screens, and
should have them by al means, while the
dairy cows, if stabbed during the summer,
must have "dy-tj tight quarters. Screens
ana doors and WinGOWs are nor sufficient,
however, to render q barn tight against
flies, for We Iud that the little pests COM
monty entoS by the Ventilarors, which,
therefore, should be covered with wire net
ting, or sauze the same as The DOORS. No
matter how securely doors, windows and
ventilatOrs arc screened, some flies win get
through, but not in numbers sufficient to
prove troublesome so long as the stable is
darkened during the day time. Flies bite
NiclOtSiV II II SltiDIe where the N4iiuOWS
are not shaded by means of saclpg, but
don't trouble under the opposite circu,n-
stances. Besides darkening the stable an
other absolutely necessary precauton is to
keep the inside ard outside of the barn free
from decomposirg manure, which breeds
flies by the million and, besides fills the
atmosphere with nO;IOus doors. If c!eanli-
ness is observed inside and out the gypsum
Nand plasteD is used to fix the ammonia
and prevent decomposition, flies viii be far
less bothersOme even when the doors, etc.,
cannot be made proof against them. The
protection of animals going at pasture is
q different and more difficult matter yet Of
equal Importance. The writer once saw O.
bull come up from pasture covered with
flies from head to foot. Not q square inch
Of skin was visible about the head, neck
and shoulders, so thickly was it covered
with flies; no wonder that the poor beast
had lost 135 pounds in weight il q months
time. This animal was speedily made COM
Portable by sponging him au over with cold
water, in which had been dissolved eight
ounces of baking soda to the gallon and 81
couple Of ounces of Oil of tar. AfterWard
he was turned out with q light sheet upon
his back and speedily began to regain his
lost flesh The COX MARBLE fly" may DE
largely prevented from troubling cattle
upon pasture by once q week smearins the
backs of the latter with fish oil and kero-
sene, kerosene emulsion, creolin in water,
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rancid butter crude carbolic ACID or Pc
froleu,n sheen do or oil of tar CT soft soap.
An occasional wash of brine is useful IN XIII
in., eggs and larvae and all cattle should be
provided with adequate shelter-either snade
or shade trees.
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OF INYEREST TO Fi4MERS
Tna CHyXEissQyyGT,

The prices that caulitloWers command
in the market at all times it would seem,
are such that their growing may be made
eXceedinly prodtable-mucn more so III TACT
than is the general case with cabbaSes.
For table use caulifioWers are becoming
mere in general use every year, and when
properly cooked are much more palatable
than cabbage. The plants first started
III hot beds ana then hardened by DenS
transferred to the cold frame. Good, ricn
soil is best to set out the plants in, but
nothing but wen rotted manure should be
used and that that contains as little odor
as possible, rs the caultioWer, like the cab.
bage, VIII show the results OF strong feed
ing when it is being cooked. y previous
seasons enrichment of the ground with
some other crop that has been heavily ma
nured is the best method of preparing
the soil for cauiifoWer growing. The
richer the ground the better. Then at the
same time the plants are growing line
crop OF radishes may be raised between
the rows, or early lettuce. The early plants
are out CT the way time enough for a tuinlp
crop, of celery may be soWn between the
rows. as they viii not be injured by the
slight slladng they viii get and when the
cauiitoWers are removed there is ample
time to work and bank up the celery. Some
plant d hill OF potatoes between each cauli-
flower in the rows. AS soon as the latter
is cut the roots are pulled up and the po-
tatoes then have the full benefit OF the
land. The pure WhjtenesS of the c&uli-
flower heads often sent to The city
markets by the truck farmers or market
gardeners is matter Of astonishment to
some farmers VINO do not understand the
matter. TO make, or rather keep the good
color of the heads bend q good-sized leaf
SO it VIII fall and lie over the head and
thereby protect il from the rays of the
sun. For q late Or second crop the seed
may be soWn in the open ground i'll Mary
land and Virginia about the 18th of May.
When the heads begin TO form, and even
before, the plants must have plenty OF
moisture which, il not provided by fire.
Quent showers, must be furnished artiiici-
ally. Should worms appear on the heads
sprinkle We'll with tar water. The cauli-
flower does baJt ct high attitudes where
the nights are cool. The same cultivation
given cabbages IS the propef one. Those
VINO have enjoyed the c&uiidoWer properly
cooked declare that boiled cabbage is but
a weed in comparison.
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Dalton, Ca, June 3.-(Special.( -Farme1s
report cotton in this section as being badly
injured by the cold nights. Some are ploW-
ing it up and replarting with corn and