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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Odds and Ends,

CHEMICAL deborning is the better
way Of getting rid OF the supertiuous
horns. 1t is less painful than the
saw, and with young stock is quick
and su in its effects.
BARLEY requires stronger soil than
wheat for its best development. and
where there is room for choice pref
erence should be given TO clay soil.
In proper conditions heavier yield
an acre than Of wheat may be ex-
pected.
If you let YOUNG stock shift for it.
self you will Of course, save the ex-
pense Of providing shelter. This is
cheap at the outset, but pretty dear
in the final reckoning. 1t makes the
production OF beef. butter, milk,
wool, etc, pretty expensive.
THREE years Of experimenting at
superiority Of sour milk over sweet
milk for pg feeding in every case,
but pig feeding on skim milk, as
an adjunct TO the dairy, is pretty
sure TO be profitable, whether you
feed sweet or sour.
THERE is no other plan by which
pork can be made so cheaply as by
making it mainly from clover and
other good pasture, feeding some
grain in connection toward the close
of the season, and then finishing
quickly with grain before carrying IL
very deeply into the severely cold
weather o. midwinter
CUT oats when in the milk il you
want them to feed in the dairy or for
winteriny horses BY permitting
them to ripen and then separating
the grain from the straw you add to
the expense, but not at all TO the
value. Only by cutting and curing
as hay can you procure anything like
the iull feeding value OF the straw.
A SUCCESSFUL cultivaJor or goose
berries says that he had row OF
twenty-five bushes that had clean
culture for number OF years; they
mildewed badly. He then quit the
clean culture and the grass grew, and
To his surprise he had no more mil
dew. The yield was at the rate OF
5000 quarts to the acre, the bushes
being set five feet apart each way.
The variety was the Downing.
POULTRY is nutritious and easily
digested, and for these reasons the
farmer who grows il should reserve a
& cd supply for his own table. He
can afford the best as we'll as any
body. IL he goes wholly on the
principle OF saving by contining his
meat died to salt pork, IL l. ten to
one that he loses more through in
activity of his mind because OF this
indigcstiblc d .et than he saves by It's
decreased cost.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Making Butter In a Small Way

I Nowadays there Is so much said
and written about creamery butter
that one is apt TO forget that In
hundreds OF homes women are max
ing butter In a small way just as
their grandmothers did. Last Janu-
ary i was visiting at farm home,
and my hostess churned in the most
primitive misunderstanding the cream
in tin pail with a ladle. AS she
has Jersey cows IL does not take her
long TO bring the butter, and she
cream than TO bother with a churn.
This churning produced ten pounds
My friend has two fresh cows and
one that has been milked for some
time. From these she made from If
teen TO twenty po nds OF butter per
week, alter using what milk and
cream family OF four or five grown
people need. The method OF making
this butter is as follows:
The milk is strained into four aud
six-quart pans, the latter filled quite
as full as will be convenient for
carrying. 1t is set on the stove and
heated quite hot, but not scalding
To insure this heating without
scorching the milk the CRATE from
the oven is first placed on the stove.
During cold weather there were
about five milkings standing all the
time. In warmer weather the milk
is SKINNED much closer. The churn-
ing Is done twice a week. The but
ter is worked but twice, the salt
about teacuplul to eight pounds
being put in at the first working.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
BuiIdlng Up q Flock OF Sheen.

On farm one Of the cheapest rs
we'll as one OF the best ways OF build
ing up flock OF sheep is to select the
best Of the ewes and breed to full
blood ram Of good breed-one that
is best adapted to your locality and
the purpose for which you are keep
iEg sheep. Keep on selecting the
ewes, selecting a new ram every two
years in order to infuse new blood.
There is five times as much profit in
mutton as in fleece. A sheep may
be fed one-seventh OF the food that
an OK requires, and will make a
growth OF nearly three-quarters Of a
pound a day for the first 80 days Of
its life, when it becomes excellent
mutton. For 900 days IL will make
nearly half pound at the farm, but
such sheep Too, having large car
cass. will have large fleece in pro-
portion. -Colnan's Rural World.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

lT chanced that a man arrested
for helping to loot bank that
would have been successfully looted
without any assistance from him,
met at court young burglar whose
crime mad been that OF preying upon
the property OF this banker in the
hope OF warding off starvation. The
burglar pleaded guilty, but the
banker, backed with money aud an
array OF lawyers and with bail in
plenty was as innocent as a lamb
And Justice, had any one peered be-
meath the bandage around her eyes,
might have been observed TO W nix.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

the whole work of putting the hay
into cock has TO De done any way. 1t
should always be done several hours,
and better a who.e day. before the
hay is ready 10 be drawn into the
barn. This is especially true Of
Clover hay, which has heavy stems
and will not dry out thorough
ly by exposure to the air. When
green clover is put in cock the pres
sure OF SO much green heritage In
small space gets up fermentation and
raises the temperature higher than
JUHe sunshine will do 1t brings
tue moisture out Of the stems, and
when the cock is opened to air
it will seem quite damp But after
once heating SO much OF the mois-
ture has come from the stems and
has evaporated that such hay may be
put in stack or NOW and be entirely
safe from further heating.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Probably Not.

Old Mr.. Williams was subject TO
fits OF what he called righteous
anger" on slight provocation, and at
such times, as he was naturally talk
ative, his tongue often ran away
with him.
There's Square Peters son." he
roared to his gentle little wife.
"Wuthless feller, Z be writin' books
about furrin lands Std o. stayin' T.
hum whar he b'longs The square
showed me one o. his books tother
day-all about Spain twas; bound in
red silk, an sprinkled thick with
Edition de looks, the
Square called IL; an reckon there's
more looks than sense In IL, true
enough.
IL tell ye what 'tis" concluded
Mr.. Williams, roaring still louder as
his wife remained silent, II aint got
no opinion o. sech COINS on. Eight
dollars was the price o. that book, an
l wouldn't buy it-why," said the
old man, bringing his hand dowa on
the arm OF his chair, Il wouldn't buy
that book II l was starvin', no. sir"'
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
The sNAiL.s MOUTH.
It Is Well No big wild Beast Has One
Like IL.

"lt is a fortunate thing for man
and the rest OF the animal kingdom" I"
said the naturalist to New York
Sun man, "that no large wild animal
has a mouth constructed with the
de"ouring apparatus built on the
plan OF the insignificant-loOkinR
snail's mouth. for that animal could
Out-devOur anything that lives The
snail itself is such al entirely un-
pleasant, not To say loathscme, crea-
tn TO handle that few amateur nat
uralists care TO bother with IL, but
bv neglecting the snail they miss
studying one OF the most interesting
objects that come under their obser-
vation.
"Anyone who has noticed a snail
feeding on a leaf must have wondered
how such soft fiabby, Shiny, animal
can make such sharp and clean cut
incision In the leaf, leaving an edge as
smooth and straight as If it had been
cut with a knife. That is due to the
peculiar and formidable mouth he
has The snail eats with his tongue
and the roof OF his mouth. The
tongue is a ribbon which the snail
keeps I'm coil In his mouth. This
tongue is In reality a band saw, with
the teeth on the surface instead OF on
the edge. The teeth are so small
that as many as 30. 900 OF them have
been found on one snairs tongue.
They are exceedingly sharp, and only
few OF them are In use at a time
Not exactly only few of them. but
few OF them comparatively, for
the snail will probably have 1000 or
5, 900 Of them In use at once. He
does this by means Of his coiled
tongue He can uncoil as much OF
this as he chooses, and the uncOiled
part he brings into service. The roof
OF his mouth Is as hard as bone. He
grasps the leaf between his tongue
and that hard substance, and rasping
away with his tongue saws through
the toughest Leaf with ease, always
leaving the edge smooth and
straight.
"By use the teeth wear of or be-
come dulled. When the snail finds
that this tool is becoming blunted he
uncoils another secuion and works
that out until he has come to the
end Of the coil Then he coils the
tongue up again and is ready TO start
in new, for while he has been using
the latter portions or the ribbon the
teeth have grown in again in the idle
portions-the saw has been filed and
reset so to speak-and while he Is
using them the teeth in the back
part of the coil are renewed. So i
think 1 am right in saying that If
any large beast OF prey was fitted up
with such deyouring apparatus as
the snail has it would 60 hard with
the rest of the animal kingdom
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
THE Postoffice Department is still

THE Postoffice Department is still
furnishing Columbian stamps OF the
large denominations to those who
wish to complete their collections.
Com mparatively few OF the two, three,
four, an hve-dollar stamps were used
in mailing. The great pr portion OF
them were bought to preserve But
the cole tors make complaint thai
the issue since Columbian year went
out OF date are not properly per.
forated, and are therefore not so val.
liable to preserve The Department
will not exchange stamps when they
have once been purchased. holding
that So long as the stamps will paw
postage other defects do not matter.
1t Is believed that the Columbian
issue has added million dollars to
the postal revenues OF 1893, that sum
being paid by collectors to purchase
stamps that the Government never
was required to perform any service
for
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

AN alliance OF the Knights OF
Labor and American Railway Union
will make an organization OF almost
irresistible strength for the purposes
OF self-prote tion. The knights are
still strong in The East, the Ameri-
can Railway Union is new but pow
erful society in the West. Each has
been crippled by lack OF ALLAN es
outside OF It's own territory; this new
union remedies that detect Some
credit must be allowed TO Grand
Master Sovereign, who found his
order in SO badly shaken condition
and has been able, against great
odds, so efIectually to rehabilitate IL.
He has chosen his time appropriately
for this new coalition.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
SOME funny incidents happened in

SOME funny incidents happened In
the run on the St Joe banks. One
woman scratched everybody with her
elbows in her rush to the front OF the
crowd, and all she had on deposit
was 81 45. Another man drew 81
he had deposited, and said
iumphantly when he got out OF the
crowd: mo one is going to get
ahead OF me. You bet got my
money" He put his hand in his
vesu pocket to show it, and found he
had been robbed OF 1t in the crowd.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Green Manure sourInR Land.

There is belief that prevails
among many farmers that many green
manures are sometimes injurious TO
crops, causing the soil to turn sour
instead o. making it mellow and
light This can only happen when
the soil is full OF stagnant water. II
there are underdrains the surplus
water will filter through the soil and
warm air from the surface will fol-
low, which will stimulate fermenta-
tion OF the green manure still more.
Something depends on the kind OF
green heritage plowed under. A
growth OF clover has a large proper
tion Of nitrogen in it causing it to
give of much heat when it decays,
while growth OF sorrel rots more
slowly. and may be said TO sour the
land, not because it is itself sour, but
because it has too little nitrogen TO
get up much heat A d essing OF
Quicklime sOwn on the field after any
green manure has been plowed under
greatly adds TO its effectiveness
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Weil-Treated Horse

Horses many times are abused un :
consciously by their owners. There
are more ways Of be ng cruel to a
horse than overlooking or beating
him Are the horses always watered
in town before starting back over the
hot, dusty road? Doubtless the
driver never fails to quench his
thirst Are the feet cleaned out
every day? Is it too much to 60 to
the blacksmith's about every three
weeks to have the shoe, reset? When
your horses are very warm do you
stand them In a draft and not cover
them with light blanket to prevent
chilling by absOrbipg the perspira-
tion? Do you use the overhead
check? Ii you do, throw 1t away.
II things do not go to suit you when
on the road, do you jerk your horse?
Do the collars always fit? Is the
stable cleaned regularly and often?
Not once month, whether it needs
it or not, but every day. If the har-
ness chaffs, is it attended to at once,
or Is it put off till some other day?
Are the horses always blanketed
when left standing on a cold dayy
II you have TO leave your team
hitched in a storm, do you always see
that it is not obi ged TO face II? BY
answering these questions TO yourself
you can see whether or not your
horses are well treated.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

A careful article in the New York
Tribune shows the enormous strides
made by the orange industry in lit
tie over twenty years. 1t was only in
1873 that Florida oranges were first
sent to the New York market, but in
ten years the industry had increased
80 rapidly that it had seriously cut
into the Mediterranean trade. In
1885 1,79S,000 boxes of Sicilian
oranges we're imported, while in 1891
this number had fallen to 6s2, 900
boxes. The California orange crop
is now an important factor in the
trade, as no less than $500, 900 boxes
were shipped from this State to the
East last year. II will not be long,
with new orange groves coming into
bearing every year, before California
will come up to the 5000, ,ooo boxes
now produced by Florida.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
The Suez Canal Company has given

THE Suez Canal Company has given
a pension OF $l2, 900 per year TO the
family OF Ferdinand Dc Lesseps the
great engineer. 1t can we'll afford TO
do so, as its revenues for 1893 were
76,519.992 francs. This leaves a
profit OF little less than 81, 900, 900
a year These shares in the Suez
Canal are the most profitable invest
ment English capitalists have made.
At one time great part OF them be.
longed to the Khedive OF Egypt but
he was frightened Into selling them
at much less than their real value.
All he received was $40, 600, 600, but
the shares to-day are worth $S5, 600, :
900 and pay an interest OF $1S per
share. Sometime when the Near
aqua Canal Is finished it will be found
a more profitable enterprise than the
Zuez Canal is There ought not to
be any delay in beginning work on
this, and keeping the Nicaragua
Canal wholly under American con.
troll. English capitalists would be
only too glad to get hold Of this high
way OF commerce, as they have Sc
cured that through Egypt
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Why do not some farmers who

Why do not some farmers who find
no money in their present style of
crops try raising sunaower seed? asks
Che Courier-Journal. The North Caro-
lima Station found in experimenting
with sunAowers as farm crop that
they paid well. Though new thing
in this country it is not altogether
new, for Russia has raised this crop
for years. At the North Carolina Sta
tion, the average yield was sixty-fve
bushels. There is really no waste to
the plants. Oil is expressed from the
seeds, and hulls or shells used for
fuel. The stalks and seeicups are fed
to sheep. t..
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
One of the documents submitted L

One of the documents submitted by
Erastus Wiman's s counsel in the Cana
dams trial for forgery was state
ment showing the enormous profits of
the mercantile agency business. Ac-
cording to this statement the Dun con-
Germ earned $345, 730 in 1895, and the
profits steadily increased until, in
1892, they reached $525,000 making
the total for eight years of fS3, ,3l3, 500.
"This enormous sum being the net
profit of only one concern in the busi-
ness, remarks the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, "we are only left to conjecture
how much money the business men of
America spend to learn the finaucial
standing of their Brothers, and in
ferentially how enormous must be
the original transactions upon which
the agency business is merely a para
site 49,. ...t-.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

PROF. BELL Is very sanguine or the
early success OF his experiments In
the transmission of light waves by
wire I'm manner similar to that In
which the telephone now transmits
sound waves. The problem will pre-
sent no insurmountable difficulty IL
diaphragm can be constructed that
shall prove as sensitive to the vibra-
tions OF light as are the diaphragms
In the transmitter and receiver of the
telephone to the vibrations Of sound.
Inasmuch as the undulations oflight
waves are enormously swifter than
those OF sound waves, however, the
difficulty OF finding sufficiently sen.
sitive material Is not small one.
But the inventor expects very soon 10
perfect an instrument which will
transmit images over great distances.
The transmitting wire will receive
the vibrations OF light communicated
to IL by the rec living diaphragm at
the other end of the line where they
will produce the effect necessary to
convey the impressions OF the human
vision. The ability TO 'see through
a milestone" was once upon time
considered a remarkable accomplish
ment; but IL will be reckoned as OF
small account when in addition tC
hearing and writing by wire, as We
now do by the phone and the elec
trio telegraph, W. shall also be able
to see by wire through acres OF
hpuses
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
The Tail OF n Peacock.

AS a matter OF fact, the tail proper
OF the peacock has no beauty, being
merely an a d TO IL. The feathers
which form the par. We thus name
are not really tsil-feathers but an
swer TO the much smaller ones that
cover the base OF the ordinary tall
feathers in most birds. They are
THAT are technically callei tail
Joverts." The real tail Gathers Of a
peacock are the short and strong ones
that stand up and support the mag
niticent plumes OF the peace X In
his pride"
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Objections to Open bitches.

Draining on the surface is we are
glad to say, going out OF fashion. IL
units land for the profitable using OF
the best harvesting machinery, most
OF the breakages coming from going
through the depressions left TO re-
move surplus water IL there be
retentiye subsoil the surface drain
docs very little good, for water will.
he stagnant up TO the point where
the ditch carries it away. The sur
face draining washes away'particles OF
the soil which are always the richest
in the field. Hence the open ditch
is always filling up with the richest
kind OF mud. and when cleaned out
this deposit makes the best possible
top dressing. But in the underdrain
xll this labor Is saved The water as
IL filters through the soil en- -iches IL
with all the PARTICLES OF fert lity that
IL contains Warm air follows as the
water sinks TO the underdrain, and
this still further increases the effect
OF all the fert lity that the drained
soil possesses
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Milk Preserved bY Oxygen.

The New York Herald's European
edition reports new method Of keep.
ing milk by means OF oxygen which
has been adopted in France with
very marked success. 1t has been
found that when taken fresh from
the cow and placed in receptacle
with compressed oXl gen, and finally
stored in twenty-five gallon cans at
a pressure OF two woatmospheres, II will
travel for months in perfect condi-
tion. 1t is said that milk thus
treated and sent from Lyons to Lon
don developes neither germs nor fer
ments, while it will stand tenn
perature almost up TO the boiling
point without coagulat.ng. 1t is
claimed by NJ. Viilon, who has ex-
perimented in this way with milk on
a large scale, that when so treated IL
is freed from germs OF tuberculosis.
But this has yet TO be conclusiveiy
proved. 1t is probable that oxygen
will destroy all bacterial germs; but
will it not also Immediately sour the
milk TO which it is exposed? The
souring OF milk is due TO chem cal
changes caused by the p essence OF
OK gen in the air. Yet this oxygen
must be diluted TO produce these ef-
fectS Pure oxygen burns, and thus
destroys what 1T is applied to, es-
pecially if it be injurious AS the
compressed oxygen must necessarily
lie kept from contact with common
air, it may we'll keep milk In the
same vessel with itself, free from all
changes
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

Robert Louis Stevenson's estate in
Samoa includes 400 acres of forest
land, and is situated at an elevation
ranging from 600 to 1900 feet. Among
the products of his plantation are
bread fruit, pineapples, bannas, cocoa,
india rubber, sugar cane, ginger
kava, taro, grenadillas, oranges, lines,
citrons. cocoanuts, mapgoes, vanilla,
coffee, cinnamon and guava.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
Often the Case.

The young man who played by ear
had lust finished several numbers at
the piano =.
IL notice you play without music, "
said n musician.
"Oh," responded the youth with
evident pride, II don't know one
nute from another"
If thought So" commented the
musician, and the silence vas ex.
tremely pianissimo
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
A WILD man OF gigantic stat

A WILD man OF gigantic stature,
bewhiskered, unkempt, and ferocious
has been captured in Claremont
Park, on the outskirts Of New York
City. 1t is believed that he is mem
ber Of the Grant monument fund
committee who took TO the woods in
shame and despair several years ago.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07
METHODS for the repression OF Chi.

METHODS for the repression OF Chi
cago bicyclers appear to be increas ny
In severityyhi Not long ago persons
who objected to the wheelmen found
objurgatiohs and shaking Of fists a
sufficient relief to their feelings.
Then came Mr.. Van Cleavc, who ex-
pressed. his disapproval OF cycling py
projecting brickbats at the cyclers.
Mr.. Burt of Rush street came next
with scheme to extesminate the
tribe by .fellipg trees upon them, and
now We have Mcssrs Kelly aud
Welsh, who empty revolvers at the
votaties ofethe whirring wheel This
seems to be carrying the cam aipn a
little TOO far. Capital punishment Is
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

THEpE Is a storm in the sun that
is big enough TO wrap itself three
times around the earth and have
II, 900 miles left TO belt the paid
moon. Inhabitants OF this sphere
ought not to fret about an occasional
cycInna
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

That one effect of the panic has been
to broaden the market for American
goods is shown, maintains the Chicago
Herald, by the exports for eleven
months, which have exceeded imports
by 1921, ,613,359.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-07-07

A NOVEL table decoration consists
of transparent jelly Ia which is i'm
bedded an incandescent light, and
IL is said to look the way it feels
during the night after one has par
taken OF IL.