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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13

ton of the body will make two or three
very rapid vibrations back and forth to
the right and left, while less percepti
bic motions are communicated to each
separate ring or segment Of the crea-
lures body. 1t has been observed that
this segmental motion is not distrib-
uted evenly among the various rings,
some of the joints seeming to dilate
considerably, while others contract to
less than half their natural size. Tho
effect OF these alternate contractions
and swellings soon becomes apparent,
for the outer skin. now rendered dry
rs parchment by the subtraction Of tho
juices by which it was previously nour-
ished, begins to split on the hack Of
the second or third segment behind the
head, the opening disclosing . portion
Of the new integument. The rent be-
Ing once commenced is easily extended
by the dilation Of the body and the va
rious other movements which are Inn
parted to it until at least three seq.
ments are open, thus leaving . consid.
cradle Of the back exposed. As soon
rs the creature is conscious that its
back = free, that portion is quickly
curved upwards, a movement which
invariably disengages the head and
leaves the whole forward half Of tho
body free from the old envelope. Tho
head is next reclincd upon the empty
case. nothing remaining to be done but
to withdraw the hinder part of the
body. This operation is performed by
contracting the segments and drawing
them towards the head until they reach
the opening. The apparent labcrious
operation is performed in . very short
space of time.-St- Louis Republic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
LET TOBACCO GET RIPE.

Too Much Haste In Harvesting the Crop
Causes Waste OF Substance.
Mr.. NJ. /. barker, one of The most ex.
perienced tobacconist in the state.
says that a majority of our farmers
make great mistake by not letting
their tobacco get fully ripe before cut.
ting it,
Il can not understand" said he,
why farmers are in such haste to cut
their crops unless it is to avoid the
worms and suckers, which as you
know. are quite trou blesome when the
plants are nearly ripe. The dews late
in the season are the making of tobac.
CO, both as to weight and worth. 1t is
then that tobacco gets it's gum, the
good color and its real character.
Tobacco has character like anything
else. If cut green, it becomes, when
the sap leaves it. thin, slazy, light. If.
regular and undesira bic in color. easy
to funk and of a bad character gen
orally.
Real ripe tobacco, on the othe.
hand, has a substantial character, it is
bright red, or red and yellow. on both
sides, weighs we'll. has the keeping
quality, chews sweet and is Away.
sought after.
why. you hardly ever see . we'll.
ripe hogshead on the breaks, but when
you do you see all the buyers gather.
ing around it; they are attracted by il
and often they themselves can hardly
tell why. The same thing is more
noticeable. though. in large nanufac-
tories. When nice, well-ripe hogs
head is opened up. the men gather
around it and are pleased with it-be-
cause it is ripe.
In letting it get good and ripe it
may sometimes spot some, but ] would
much rather have it with spots than to
have it green.
The fact is. people don't raise as
good tobacco nowadays as formerly,
and it's because they don't let it get
ripe. They needn't fear, for a real ripe
plant, even when late, will cure nicely
when an unripe plant would fail to
cure"
What do you think Of the growing
crop. Mr.. Barker:
THE general outlook is good, and in
this county the prospect is fine. The
crop has been well cultivated. too: lots
Of it has been topped; it is green and
spreading nicely. The farmers have
reason to feel encouraged. --Carrollton
(ky.) Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
MUTTON SHEEP.

A Glass Of sheep to Which Farmera Shs1l0
Pay More Atteotion.
That farmers NJ \ class should use
more mutton can hardly be disputed.
1t is palatable, cheap and nutritious,
and when sheep are kept upon the farm
affords an opportunity of having fresh
meat ut a less cost and with less risk
of loss than almost any other class of
stock. During harvest and ut thresh-
ing more or less fresh meat is neces-
sar,-. and with little planning a head
of mutton can be made to supply all
that is needed. but it is not only on
these extra occasions that mutton can
be used to a great advantage. On too
many farms TOO much dependence is
placed upon fat bacon or picked pork
for the meat During the summer
the constant use Of fat pork in this
way is at least detrimental to health
If not positively injurious, and fresh
meat would be healthier as well As
more palatable. Many farmers are SO
situated that they can not depend upon
the butcher. while in reality the NUT
ton is SO much cheaper that the aver
age farmer can better afford to kill .
good fat mutton than to purchase
fresh meat from the butcher, even
though it be brought to the door rea-
sonably regular. One advantage of
mutton over other kinds of fresh meat
is that it will keep longer than either
beef or pork.
But to have a supply when needed
and to have of a good quality it is
nearly always best to commence in
good season. Mutton to be good, should
be reasonably fat. but with plenty If
grass and water this would not be diff.
ficult to secure.
There is nearly always wethers or
ewes that have not proven good breed.
ers that should either be fattened and
marketed or butchered. and when
fresh meat is needed it will be moro
economical to butcher than to market,
as selling fat mutton and buying fresh
beef and pork is paying a good profit
for converting animals into meat while
it is very questionable, all things con-
sidered, if the quality is as good.
The average farm family will readily
eat good mutton before it will spoil,
and do this much more readily than
they would a pork or beef, and this is
quite an item.-Wool and Hide Ship
per.
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GAVE HER THE DODGE.
Uncle Snort Gives . Short HOmily q
WOman'o Rights.

Uncle Snort Gives . Short Homily on
Woman's Rights.
Wife has for some time past been
holding the reins in one hand and the
whip in the other. and have been do
ing the prancing act. though I did not
go of in . prance," for, rs said, she
has been holding the reins and the
whip. and every time l kicked she
struck, and guess that is one reason
that am SO much opposed to strikes.
1t may be all right, for my pastor seems
to think that if my wife did not have a
good deal of grit, pluck, push and good
sense. l would soon be hanging on to
the ragged edge of poverty and gem
eral no-accountedness. Idon't believe
that there is any such word as
that, but that is the way they
have fixed it. But there is one
thing that I am very sure of. and that is
that there arc great many other men
in this country who. if their wives held
the reins in one hand and good quirt
whip in the other, they would soon be
wiser and better men. There would
not be SO mary weeds left in their corn
and cotton fields to go to seed, nor
along the fence rows and roadsides.
No. they would spend more time ut
home and less time running to town ON
every pretext, and thus spending so
much valuable time in worse than idle
ness. Womsn's rights! Yes, 1 am in
favor of woman'srights. Every woman
should have the right to see that her
husband stays at home, attends to his
own business and makes her q good liv.
ing, and if he don't, she ought to have
the right to board him, and then Just
keep right on boarding him till she
makes = man of him.
l slipped the bride" the other day
and took a run over to Crisp. in the
southeast portion of the county, on the
Texas Midland railroad. and tell you
II made me feel like taking OF nv hat
and hollering 'Rah for Texas! The
corn crop everywhere along the line,
and in fact al over the county, is Is
good rs the most greedy farmer could
ask for. and the cotton is Is fiue rs
have ever seen At this season Of the
year. Some one has said. ''You can't
hold . good country down. and that is
about right. We have made lots OF
wheat. oats and corn. and We will
have lots Of fat hogs and fat
cattle. and we are going to
live fat and happy il the congress Of
the United States continues 70 act the
fool. The wise thing for the farmer to
do is to now begin to feed his hogs,
save his fodder, put mp his hay, break
his stu6ble land, and break il deep; cut
down every weed on the place; b rood
to your wife; tell her that she y the
PrrttiNst and sweetest womsn IL the
wcrld. II soa kaow you ~ lying. fos
Y ysu DENT tAiek = ~ ought =, geI
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13

sheathing and siding and between the
double floors E&x s.
The rubble stone wall Is to be 16
inches thick. Above grade 1t will be
broken ashlar work. Below grade the
rubble wall will be plastered with
cement. The chimneys showing above
the roof will be Of q good quality pressed
brick. capped with smooth sand stone
cap. The owner will furnish cut glass.
mantles, furnace. shelf hardware and
bathroom fixtures. The exterior of the
house will be painted as follows: Trim
mings, white: porch floors, grey; porch
ceilings, blue; main body Of house
purple, including the shingles in the
gables. The roof is to be stained . dark
Indian red.
Plastering must be two-coat work.
The roof boards are to be of fencing
surfaced, one side well nailed to every
rafter, and leave air space Of ! 4 inches
between each board. All doors on
first floor to living rooms are to be 2ex
7-0x1x; sliding doors, 4xs-2xlsl; doors
to closets on firrt story 2-ex-7xlN: all
doors to chambers c-sx6-exl =; to closets
s-8x6-sx1X. Tho entire house will be
p'ped for gas and furnace.
GEORGE A. W. KNIT.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
REL,oloUs AND EDUCATIONAL

-" It's only noble to be good"
Love to God is sure to bring peace
OF eonscience.
West Point Military Academy was
founded in ls0e.
Jerusalem has l35 places where
LIQUOR is sold. the license fees going to
Constantinople.
There are more Endeavors in Aus
tralia than in England and the ~
markable growth is undated.
People like to travel in cheerful
company. If you are on your way to
Heaven. show it by your manner.
All the members of the school
board in Tiverton. X. l., are women:
and the superintendent says the schools
of that town are the best conducted in
the state.
Young brother in Christ. your con-
version Is your exodus from sin. 1t is
the great era of your life. You are
now pilgrim travelling to the prom
Used land.
+. king Theodore of Abyssinia pun
ished Christian missionaries by COM
polling them to stand in the blazing
sun while his genealogy was read. y
period of four hours
The Foreign Mission Board of the
Presbyterian church. South. has re-
ceived up to the end of June $40 104,
being a gain over last year for the
same period of Sl.51s.
Francis A. Palmer, of New York
city. has given $4,000 as an cndow-
ment for the home for Aged Ministers
of the Christian denomination, to be
located at CASTLE, n. Y.
The college girl is in evidence in
Italy, too. Miss Eugenia viale. who
obtained the degree of Pm. d at Genoa
last year, has added another doctors
degree to her acquisitions this year.
There's Christian Endeavor union
in Wales-the Swansea union-that al
ready has enrolled twcnty-four socie-
ties, with LOO members. This union
was not in existence four months ago.
The Blue Cross Temperance society
of the continent has eighteen sections
Swiss, with three thousand members;
twenty-one sections German. fifteen
sections French and three sections Bel
gian.
-Tenetaro Megata. who in 1874, was
one of the first japanese students ever
at Harvard. is now superintendent of
the custom house in Yokohama, Japan.
. position as important as that of col
lector of the port of New York.
I'm Malaysia is a population of co.
600. 600. mostly Mohammmedan Malays.
The British and Foreign Bible society
has several European colporteurs at
work and twenty-five who are natives.
At Singapore alone Bibles are furnish
ed in forty-fve different languages.
Among the public requests by the
will of the late Charles Scott, of WASH
ington, d. c., are $4,000 to the Ameri-
can building fund of the Protestant
Episcopal church of New York; g. 900
to the st. Johns church of Waterbury,
Conn.,: S.. 900 to the Trinity Episcopal
church. and 5000 to the Waterbury
hospital.
Between the years of 1876 and 1890
the Methodist church in Ireland ex.
pended on primary education alone
about s1e5. 600. exclusive of large sums
spent on Wesley college, Dublin. and
on the Methodist college and Nc
Arthur hall at Belfast. This outlay
secured state grants amounting to
$4,000 as well as assistance in erect
ing schools and teachers residences
and providing school requisites and
furniture.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
FARMER AND PLANTER.
TIMBER CULTURE.

Tennessee One Of the Few States Not Yet
Stripped and Making Effort u Renewal
|. Of Her Forests.
Tennessee is one Of the few states
that have not been stripped Of their
timber without concern for future
needs and climatic conditions About
so per cent Of the land in Tennessee is
still wooded. There are 26, $50, 900 acres
in the state altogether, of which near
ly Is, Oo0, 600 are timbcred. Only three
states in the south have . greater tim
Der acreage-North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia AS the altitude
Of the forests of Tennessee varies from
zoo to 5000 feet above the seas level.
woods every kind known TO the
United States are to be found
there. In value. the oak has the
first place, but the ash, of which
there are two varieties, the white and
the blue. is hardly less important.
Even in Tennessee the forests of ash
are now found only in districts remote
from the railroads, but SO rapid is the
growth of this tree that it is being
planted as an investment. A farmer
who set out grove of ash trees, COW
ering 10 acres, IL years ago. now has
l., 900 trees inches in diameter on an
average and IS feet high. There were
no expenses of cultivating, and the 10
acres of the 1900 trees are worth
at the present time between s. 900 and
s., 600. Besides oak and ash. Tennessee
possesses three varieties of elm,
two of gum. two Of fir, three
of hickory, two of locust, three of
maple, two Of pine, three of poplar and
two of walnut. Among other trees
found in abundance are the beech.
birch, buckeye. red cedar, wild cherry,
cottonwood, cypress, dogwood. bass
wood, mulberry, tupelo. sycamore and
the sassafras. OF oaks, there are no
less than twelve varieties. Cedar. I'M
fortunately. is going very fast. Bucket
factories in the state use 1000. 600 feet
of this timber every year. Telegraph
companies use it almost exclusively for
poles. Nearly 1.OO0,OOo feet goes each
year to st. Louis. where it is made into
fence rails. The rapidity with which
the cedar is being consumed has opened
the eyes of some of the friends of the
forests in Tennessee. and a warning
has been sounded.-N.Y. Evening Post.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
HERE AND THERE.

Your home tells the stranger what
You are. What kind of a reputation
does it give you?
-"Well fed is half bred" is a true
saying. No man ever starved money
out of live stock.
The man who works all the week
ought not to worry on Sunday. Worry
is the hardest kind of work.
modern philosopher once said that
the man who worked for nothing and
boarded himself hardly ever earned
more than he got.
If you make companions of your
children you are laying up a store of
comfort for your old age that will re-
turn \ very large interest on the in
vestment.
When you sell cow. sell the poor
est one you have, but don't swear that
she is the best one. 1t is pretty hard
to do this, but il can be done, and you
will not be sorry for it Afterwards.
Somebody has said: "You must feed
your farm If you want it to feed you."
and this is true. II you keep taking Oh
your farm and never put anything back
you are breeding poverty for your chill
dren.
Hard times are not made any bet
ter by brooding over them and whining
about them. It is better to smile than
to sigh any time. Half our evils are
imaEinary-and most of the other half
Most Of hired men have souls, but
some employers treat them rs il they
had not Nothing pays better in the
way Of returns than to treat the hired
man Is il he were : human being. A
word Of praise now and then makes
work much easier for the man.
Some men work IS II they expected
to sleep forever when they die. These
same men are going to Be surprised
some tins when they find out how
much time II 4 possible to waste ..
work. = The Amsricsn Farmer md
fssn Eewe
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

-ForebodinR is always an enemy Of
rest.-Ram's Horn.
Go ahead when you are sure you
are right, but don't run over every one
else in the road.
Fortune never changes men. II
only brings out what is already in
them.-Ram's Horn.
-Manicures would starve il some
peoples corns troubled them rs little
as their conscienceS-
-Seasonable Advice.
Always wear your thinking cap;
Twill often save you from mishsn
Youths Companion.
No NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are the
requirements of a good cook? Fergu-
son-Judging from ours, everything in
the house.-Puck.
Fond Wife (poutiug)-You think
more of your books than you do of me.
Loving Husband-My darling, l never
have to read the same book twice.-N.
Y. Herald.
-She-What was the subject of your
last poem? He-Didn't have any. She
We'll, the central thought? He
Wondering how much I'D get for it
Inter Ocean.
She-Men are as faithless in love rs
women ever are. He-I believe You
are right. / know Miss Hull's father
has just broken off her engagement to
me.-Harlem Life.
Miss Modderne-There goes the
man I'm going to marry. Jeanette
Why. know him well: he never said
anything TO me about it. Miss Mod
dcrne-Oh. he doesn't know it yet him
self.-Tit-Bits.
These is terrible hard times, said
Wandering Mike. You bet they is"
replied Flooding Pete. "A Teller can't
go nowhere lookin' fur work nova
days without hevin' some offered him"
Washington Star.
Was well Observation-Disclosures
Ito his intoxicated valeteYou unfor-
tunate! Suppose they should pick you
up on the street in that condition?
Valet assure you I'D be taken good
care of. l always have one of your
cards in my pocket-Puck.
"A truth for these times was uttered
long ago by Harriet Beecher Stowe:
when you get into tight place and
everything goes against you. and it
seems rs if you could not hold out .
minute longer, never give up then, for
that's just the place and time that the
tide'n turn"
-"Expediency! thou false wisdom
of the blind and the weak. thou
who dost always sacrifice to . moments
fear the justice of eternity, and to .
moments rest the security of centu-
ries. Expediency, thy pathway is like
the pathway Of sin-one step upon the
CLASSY slope and there is no stopping
any more; it is Millions bridge which
leads Smooth, easy, ino6ensive, down
to hell "-Kossuth.
Baggs-I have just been reading .
remarkable story of old age. Amos
johnson was 100 years old last week,
anA- .Jagg-Oh. yes, l know; he
can walk 1--WE miles before breakfast and
read the finest print without glasses.
mot at all; h. is SO feeble that he
can't move, and Is blind and deaf AS
food has to be administered to him
hypodermically. every one wonders
that he has not died long ago."-N. Y.
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13

BYRON was called Don Juan, from,
one of his characters.
HANDEL was called the Saxon Giant,
from his nationality and size:
PAGAN1NI was called the Devil Fid-
dler, from his marvellous skill.
ScARRoy was the Invalid Laureate, In
allusion to his crippled condition.
SOCRATES was the Bearded Master.
because of his long, ragged beard.
GEORGE ~. was the First Gentleman
Of Europe, from his ceremonious polite
ness
CHARLES II. was the Mutton-E Eating
King, from his fondness for spring
lamb.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS was the Bach
elor Painter and the Raphael Of Eng
land.
LORD BRcuGHAM was called Blunder-
ing Brougham, from q political mis-
take.
DANIEL O'CoNNELL was called the Big
o, Great o. Irish Agitator and Lib
orator.
BURNS was tho Ayrshire Plowman,
from his place Of residence and his vo-
cation.
PKTRo AnETySo was the Voltaire Of
his century, because of his satirical
abilities.
II is death to a lie to become lame in the
feet.-Ram's Horn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
Colors from Coal Tar

Coal tar. formerly considered . waste
snd regular nuisance to gas workers,
IS now utilized as one Of the most valu-
able color producers. Chemists have
extracted from it Is shades of blue. the
same number Of various tints Of vel
low. IL of orange, Q of violet. besides
numerous other colors, shades and
tints. A late magazine writer in sum-
ming up an article on Uses Of Coal
Tar" says: The amount of coloring
matter stored In coal is 50 great that
one pound Of the common bituminous
variety will yield sufficient magenta to
color 800 yards of flannel. aurine for
12O yards, vermillion for $50 yards and
alizarine for :s5 yards Of turkey red
cloth"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
ABOUT cAreRPiLLARs.


The Interesting Operat:oa BY which They
Change Their skin.
A day or tvrn before the actual mo
ment Of moltinS the caterpillar ceases
to eat and becomes wholly inactive as
far as locomotion is concerned. usually
remaining perfectly stationary. The
worm appears very weak and languid.
but this notwithstanding. he ccntin-
ually gives his body a series Of gyra-
tory motions, but always without shift
ing station. First the back will b
bent upwards or laterally. and mo-
ment later IL will assume its normal
condition. whercupon the head will be
elevated. only to be rs speedily drawn
drawn down again. At another time
II will be noticed that the anterior p0E.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
tef than others and enjoy life more, with
len expenditure, BY moro promptly
adapting tho worlds best products to
the needs Of physical being, will attest
the value 70 health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced N tho
remedy, Syrup Of FigA
Its excellence il due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas.
ant 70 the taste, the refreshiDg and truly
beneficial properties Of = perfect lax
ative; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feves
and permanently curing constipation.
i has given satisfaction 10 millions and
met with tho approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
ney1 Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it il perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs il for sale by all drug
gists in Soc and 81 bottles, but it il man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
and being well informed, You viii not
accept any substitute if offered
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13

first story will he feet o inches In the
clear. and the second story feet. All
shingles must be extra Star A Star,
and all glass American double thick.
The front stairs are to have . neat
newell post and balusters: the rear
and attic stairs are to be boxed.
The walls are to be sheathed with
fence flooring. The exterior will he
finished with finch 0. G. siding, laid
inches to the weather. The gables
will have round butt shingles. Tar
paper will be placed between the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-13

Dr.: Johann Antal. q Hungarian chem
r:st, says he has discovered . new chem.
zeal compound, the nitrate of cobalt,
which he says is 4 most efilcacious m.
.tdote to poisoning by cyanide Of pc.
tassium or prussic scid. He tried the
antidote first on animals and after.
wards on forty living persons who had
been accidentally poisoned with prus-
sic acid. In not q single case did the
sntidote prove failure.