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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
SUMMER FORAGE CROPS.

When extra feed is needed as early
as June there is nothing better than
clover The best time for sowing clover
is in July or the early part of August.
1t may readily follow some forage crop
fed off in midsummer. When grown
for forage the clover should be seeded
at the rate of twenty pounds to tho
acre, and will produce ten to twelve
tons of green for age, worth at least II
fourth more than timothy for feeding
purposes.
Oats and peas, sown at the rate of
one and one half bushels of oats and
two of peas per acre, will afford excel
lent forage for midsummer. The peas
should either be plowed into tho
length of four or five inches or else
the seed be well covered by use of
wheelbarrow. The oats should be
sown several days after the peas and
lightly narrowed in. BY sowing three
or four small areas one week apart,
starting rs early in tue spring as pos
sible, this CROP will supply fresh,
nutritious forage for about a month,
beginning with the last week in June !;
while if the whole is sown Mt one time
part of the fodder becomes dry and
woody before it can be utilized.
On fertile sods II second crop of
clover should be available by the first
of August and will afford the best OF
feed for ten days or two weeks at this
period of the summer.
With most farmers corn is the great
forage crop for late summer, and early
fall feeding. While it is doubtful if
there is any crop that will produce n
larger amount of food material per
acre, there are number of legumin.
Gus crops that can he grown with less
drain upon tho soil and will afford
forage of much higher nutritiye value
pound for pound. In Southern New
England and MS far north as Central
New York, the COW pea can be easily
grown on warm, light soils, while the
sofa bean affords a large amount of
excellent forage and can be grown in
nearly all parts of New England. These
crops will afford forage from about the
middle of August till the killing frosts
come.
Late in September it is sometimes
found necessary TO use rowen from the
moving field and in this case the more
clover there is in it the better. Grasses
when young and tender are more nitro
genous than in the larger stages Of
growth, and hence rowen affords a
much better food than the full grown
grasses.
For late fall feed there is no crop
yet in use equal to barley and peas.
This crop can be sown the first part of
August on the clover ground, or it
may follow the oats and peas. Two
bushels of peas and one of barley make
good mixture. Both of these plants
Withstand frosts well and make excel
lent growth in cool weather. New
England Farmer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

Sour milk is not fit food for a calf.
1t may keep the animal alive, but it
will not thrive or make healthy
growth The sour milk will quickly
curdle in the stomach and cause indi-
gestion. 1t is this way of feeding
a calf that makes SO many poor cows,
for al animal that has been stunted in
its early growth will never recover the
loss afterwarl. Skinned milk, if
sweet, is good for any calf, but it
should be warmed to eighty or ninety
degrees, as it is most digestible at
that temperature. Fat is not SO much
required for young calf. Muscular
growth is needed more than fat, and
thus makes better COW than if the
food made fat animal. tbs quite
safe to give 1t mouth-old calf light
ration of ground oats and corn meal,
a few ounces at first, gradual y increas-
ing. New York Times
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

The undeniable insecurity and de-
crepitude of many Of the large build
inSs of Chicago is subject which is
beginning to agitate and alarm build
ers and business men, declares the
New York Sun. The Postofhce and
Custom House has been settling upon
its soft clay foundation for years, and
is now generally spoken of MS "the
ruin" This is not alone because the
city wants n new building, but be-
cause the structure is absolutely un.
safe. It's floors are uneven, its walls
are crumbling, and the drainage pipes
are so broken and disconnected as to
fill the building frequently with nox.
ious gases.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

The British warship Goldinch re-
Gently returned to Sidney, New South
Wales, from five months cruise
among the Solomon Islands. She
brought back reports which show,
AYERS the San Francisco Chronicle,
that the work of missionaries among
the South Sea islands has been prac
tically without result. Cannibalism
goes on as it did before the white man
appeared, only nov the natives re.
move the skulls from their huts and
hide them when warship is sighted.
A missionary who has spent seventeen
years in the Solomon group has de
cided to abandon the field, MS the mn
tives are beyond his influence. This
group presents a striking contrast TO
other islands, where missionary work,
though slow and vexatious, accom-
plishes valuable results in few years,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

1t is reported that the French MIN
lister of War has decided that the
canned goods for the use OF the army
must hereafter be of French manufac-
ture. The cost of the change to the
Government will be, it is said, 130 per
cent. additional, and it will be neces-
sary for the department to ask for an
increase of appropriation. Hitherto
most of these goods have been pro-
cured from this country. The Ar
mours, of Chicago, whohave held large
contracts for supplying the French
army, say that they have hearl moth
ing of such decision, and are not in-
clined to believe it, 1t is said that
such an order would make very little
difference with their business, any
way. They would still continue to
supply the goods, which the French
contractor would sell ut the advance
price by changing the marks on the
packages.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

toward the latter is very manifest in
many directions in the studies of the
public schools It is always better to
teach a few things that the student
may be fully acquainted with them
rather than to overwhelm him with a
lot of useless trash that retard him in
his life work. For that reason agri-
culture should form prominent
uture in the studies OF rural public
schools. because of its future useful
ness to the average attendant at them.
American Dairyman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
THE STUDY oR AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture is the basis of our
national progress and prosperity
While this fact is widely recognized,
yet the study of this most important
of all callings is not placed i'll the
curriculum of the public schools of
the country. Generations OF chill
dren pass through life without ability
to distinguish between wheat and
barley when they see it growing. 1t
seems necessary to be born on farm
to be acquainted with even the rudi-
ments of agriculture. This is all
wrong. The stutics Of the school
room should he arranged to meet this
oversight. True, men have become
famous i'll many ways, whose sole
equipment was furnished in the COM
mon schools of the country, but these
have yet to graduate scholar who
was ever aided in his life work as
farmer by the knowledge acquired in
them. The Introduction of sound
text books on agriculture in rural pub
lie schools would remedy this defect
of the system under which they are
operated. The children of farmers
have as perfect n right to the technical
knowledge Of their prospective call
ing, as that such knowledge of things
that at best are but mere accomplish
ments shall be taught. The tendency
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
FATTENING SHEEP.

When the hog hns stopped putting
on flesh or fat he must be disposed of
no matter what the market, for after
that period all food given is practi-
cally wasted. But the case is different
with sheep. After reaching their
maximum weight and condition rs to
flesh that will eat but little, and this
is amply paid for in the increase in
quantity and quality of wool. Be
sides prices of mutton sheep are al
ways better after the weather begins
to get warm, rs mutton is more of a
hot than cold weather food. Again,
the market will pay more for nicely
shorn and well handled wool than the
butchers will and wool can be more
cheaply freighted when packed in
sacks than when on the sleeps back.
Another consideration is shorn sheep,
if well fattened, will sell for more than
unshorn, for the former can be seen
by the buyer at a glance, while the
latter must be carefully inspected, one
by one, and lastly, shorn sheep will
ship more comfortably and be in bet
ter condition when reaching market
than unshorn. These conditions make
all winter feeding most desirable. -
Farm, Stock and Home.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

The most honorable business OF
"housewifcry takes equal and recog-
nized rank with that of "husbandry"
in Colorado now. When the wife of
Ex-Governor Routt stepped up in the
front rank to register as voter at
Denver under the new equal suffrage
law recently, and was asked her occu-
patton, she replied, "Housewife. ="
And hundreds of women who had felt
some embarrassment on this point
took the cue.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There are aluminium bath tubs.

There are aluminium bath tubs.
Incandescent lamps now sell for
twenty-five cents apiece.
More than 16, 900 Hindoos have been
inoculated for the prevention of
cholera.
Illinois physicians indorse the
theory that sun spots and smallpox
are connected.
The human skin is exactly like that
of fish, as it is covered with minute
scales overlapping each other.
Peach stones find ready sale to be
used in manufacturing perfumes,
iavoring extracts and prussic acid.
Illinois University is to have sum-
mer station for the natural history
laboratory and the study of aquatic
fauna.
Opticians say that the eye can de-
tect the color produced by adding but
one-millioneth of gramme of fuch.
sine to glass of water.
The projected Pan-American Rail.
way will be from six to ten Thousand
feet above sea level, and good many
long and expensive tunnels will be
necessary.
The largest passenger engine in the
United States belongs to the Cleve'
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
dianapolis Railroad. Weight, sixty.
FIVE tons.
biologists claim that the strength OF
the lion in the fore limbs is only sixty
nine per cent. of that of the tiger,
and the strength of the hind limbs
sixty-tiye per cent
The cylinder head of n Connecticut
locomotive blew out while at full
speed. The trains momentum carried
it to the station, five miles away,
without n pound of steam.
1t is said that Paris will build n
tubular railway eight miles long for
the exposition of 1900. 1t will be for
passenger service and electricity will
furnish the motive power.
Josiah Hopes, of Westchester,
Penn, has been collecting American
birds for forty years past, and now
has carefully mounted what is believed
to be one of the finest collections in
the United States. 1t numbers G001
specimens.
AS to where man first appeared it is
| beyond doubt that his earliest home
was in southern Europe, or Asia, OF
| North Africa. No earlier traces OF
him have been found than thoss
found in the area that is now England,
France and Spain.
Professor Otto Lugger, in charge o;
the Minnesota experimental station Mt
| St. Anthony Park, Mimi, has discov-
cred from numerous experiments that
if the animal is healthy no rise i'll
temperature will follow the injection
of Koch's lymph, while, if afflicted
with tuberculosis, even in its incipient
stages, there is an instant rise in tenn
peruture.
In tests last year in the German
, town of Dessau it was shown that cook.
ing by wood and coal costs little
more than twice that done with gas.
From experiments continued at Leip-
sic for several years it is estimated
that consumption of 700 cubic feet
of gas per month is sufficient for pre-
pairing the ordinary food of family
of four persons.
DIR. Koppen, of Hamburg, has COM
municated to the Cnitsd States hydro
graphic Office his method for calming
the wayes ont ship in times o:
storm. recommends the use OF
soap suds. G. w. Leutchales,
assistant United States photographer,
says that it is the particles of air uu-
derneath the water which result
in the formation of waves. He ais,
recommends soap suds for preventin;
the growth OF waves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
"rHE TINE HAS COME"

The time has come wlrn rustcs go alield
And make the lazy air resound
With load talloos;
The birds begin to sing,
The frogs to pipe, ice and the black frost
Yield
in cowsllp marshes thick with oozc,
And murmurs of the trembling ground
Breathe DER us, this is spring.
The time has come when Pleasure caps her
hands
When Love puts on her purple dress,
Her shoes OF gold,
When Fancy spreads her wing
The flower OF hope that lights new fairy
lands
Is mixed with poppies m the old,
An all the sons of men confess;
An, it is spring. spring, spring!
Dora r. Goolale, in Godeys Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
The Phantom City of Glacier Bar,

During the past eight or ten years
curious phenomenon has been regu-
larly observed at Glacier Bay, Alaska.
1t always occurs Immediately after the
full moon of June and at no other
time during the year, and is said to be
beautiful mirage OF some unknown
city suspended in the raritied air
directly over the bay. A. Juneau
(Alaska) photographer has taken pic.
lures of it on four different occasions,
bat 50 far no one has been able to
identity single one of the ghostly
buildings outlined ON his plates. ST.
Louis Republic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
BEES AND FRUIT.

The business of the horticultural
and that of the apiculturist are each a
necessary adjunct of the other, says a
lady writer. The beekeeper may pay
wonderful sum for the best bees in
the world, may have them in the best
of hives with movable frames, queen
excluding honey boards, etc, etc. /;
above the brood nest he may have the
whitest of section boxes, every one
containing foundation starter; in
fact, have everything ready to catch
the surplus honey when the honey
flow shall come-if the land be not full
OF flowers on every hand there will
he no surplus for him. Professor
Wilson has made an elaborate calcula-
luire 100000 forets like those
OF the white clover to yield one pound
of clover honey. This gives some
idea of the vast number of blossoms
necessary, as well as the amount of
labor represented in every honey
comb. The fruit grower may ransack
the earth for new and improved
varieties; he may be as skillful as
possible in planting; he may graft
and propagate and hybridize, and yet
il the winds are not favorable and the
bee does not visit the blossoms in
search of pollen or nectar the blossoms
will soon wither and fall and never
produce the fruit for which the bios
SONS lived and grew, and for which
the horticulturist had bestowed upon
the tree or plant his labor, fore
thought and fostering care. Chicago
Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

"a venerable man, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, "who deserves we'll
of his country and is honorel the
world over for his achievements, has
been quietly walking these streets for
three months, almost without recog-
milton. His name is Thoolors r
Timby, and your memory is so short
that the name will not enlighten Won
as to its claims to paragraph in this
letter. As long ago as 1915 MIR. Tim
by exhibited to army officers his plans
for the revolving tower which is now
in use in tine nayies Of nearly ell ma
tions. In 1862 he patented this de-
sign, and i'll that year contracted with
the builders OF the Monitor for the
use OF the revolving tower upon that
vessel for consideration of 5000.
He also invented think what it means
to all who go to war AMI whom armies
and navies protect the system of
firing guns by electrisity aud the
American pattern of the turbine water
wheel. Mr.. Timby is seyenty.two
years old, but is as vigorous as Glad
stone was at that age, and his mind is
MS fertile in invention as ever. Last
week General Miles an | some meuber4
of his staff honored themselves by
calling upon this crranl oil man"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
The Delicious Maracujas.

Have you ever eaten maracujas? II
not, l advise you to make the exper.-
ment as soon rs may be. | had never
seen them till the other night, when
| was dining out, and noticed what at
first thought were oranges nesting
on the dish beneath glorious bunches
of purple and green grapes, The fruit
was arranged on low silver epergnes
and mingled with flowers as is now
often the case. / soon, however, dis.
covered that the skin of the fruit as
well rs the shape were quite dis.
similar to that of an orange, the ex.
terror being shiny and "papery," and
the size and shape resembling that OF
a very large Victoria plum.
| found that maracuja was another
name for the fruit of the passion
flower, and as soon as l had been told
this | recollected that even in England
the shape and color of our own
passion flower fruit is exactly similar.
though it becomes no larger than a
good-sized damsou Those to which
{ was introduced the other evening
came from Jamaica and the south OF
Madeira, and were obtained at West
End fruiterer's. 1t requires little
pluck to eat them, as the interior is
rather shock.
The fruit is like collection OF
dark gray seeds in silver rcolored
gelatinous syrup, and does not look
appetizing, but the flavor is delicious,
resembling most beautiful dollhouse
melon. If maracuias were better
known, l am sure they would be
favorite addition to our dessert
London Gentlewoman.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
coppERAs FOR GRApEvINEs.

Copperas has been tried in France
on grapeviues which are suffering
from IN absence of the proper green
color. The results are reported to
have been most satisfactory. Early
spring is the best time for the expert
meut. In making the application the
surface soil above the roots should be
removed to depth of several inches
and the copperas water then poured
over the space and the soil afterwards
restored. New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

As there were just thirteen mar
riases in Henniker, n. H., last year,
the brides are all the objects of super
stititious solictude.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14
TIE IRON BRACELETS,
BY FRANK BARRETT.

lNTON took h c
tickets as the train
was running into tie
station ; i'll hastily
snatching up Ii e
change a half sover-
eign slipped from
his fingers. 1t took
us a couple of min
utes to find it, ard
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-05-14

Subscribers are requested to observe the date
following the name on the labels of their
papers. BY referring to this they can tell at a
glance how they stand on the books in this
Office. For instance:
Grover Cleveland 2SJunea5
means that Grover Is paid up to June 2S, 1895.
Keep the figures in advance Of the present date.
REPORT promptly to this Office when your paper
is not received. All arrearages must 10 paid
when paper Is discontinued, or collection will
be made in the manner provided by law.
The advocate., 1894-02-28

Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison, Of Chicago, is sentenced to be
hanged March %.
GalushS A. Grow was elected con-
gressman.Rtlargs In Pennsylvania on
the 9th. His majority Ia about $4,000,
and it is looked upon as a rsbuke to the
tariff tinkerSrs. Protection is q religious
principle with the average PennsYlvRn-
ian.
Here ia cruelty to animals. Fifty.one
OF the imported miners convicted OF riot.
ing near Pittsburg were sent to prison
ON Friday, and their families left to the
mercy Of charitably disposed people.
They are Polish, Hungarian, French and
Italian.
Senator Martin read WRshington's
farwell address in the senate chamber
on Washington's birthday, while most Of
the senator's went out to get lunch or
to ''see q man." The custom of reading
the address on this holiday was estab-
lished three years ago, and Senator In
gals was the first to officiste as reader
At Lansing, the capital Of Michigan,
a grand jury has indicted the attorney
general, secretary Of state, state treas
urer and land commissioners, together
with several clerks, charging them all
with participating in frauds in counting
the election returns on an amendment
to increase state officers salaries. Such
corruption carries the memory back to
the early republican days Of Kansas.
There seems to be about sixteen
woman suffraRists in the United States
senate, including the three POpuliEta
The advocate., 1894-02-28
UNCLE-Your dicked all rghd, you got more dan
dickeds you pud your pledge in hook.
REDEEMING KANSAS.

PETER, Allen and Kyle. The others are
all republicans, counting Senator Stew.
art q republican. Fifteen Of them voted
for PETERS amendment to strike out
the word "male" from the Oklahoma
election bill, and Senator WolOott, who
is suffrsgist, was absent. 1t looks 40
il democratic statesmen hate women,
Pr esident A. j. Warner, Of the Amer
lean Bimetsllic league, while in Denver
last week, said: "The National Bimetallic
league will take an active part in the
next campaign, and it is our hope to send
q free silver majority to the next con
gress. The fact that the repeal Of the
Sherman law did not bring better times
has opened the eyes Of the people in the
east on the financial question. The bond
issue will help people out only in slight
degree and temporarily. 7 he tariff is
sue will no doubt play an important part
in the coming campaign, but the silver
issue need not and will not stand aside
for it."
Five thousand unemployed men, the
press report describes them as "hungry,
ragged and ugly" assembled on Boston
Common February 20, and the police
we're called out to prevent riot. There
was no danger OF that, however, 90 the
men were only assembled to demand Of
the governor and Legislature, which was
in session, some means Of relief from
their suffering. The house Of represent
atives &C first refused to receive their
committee, but fearing trouble they
The advocate., 1894-02-28
Calls Them Anarchists.

WASHINGTON, February 23.-Mr. Bland
this afternoon denounced the New York
delegation in heated words in the house.
He was several times called to order by
Representative Coombs, Of New York,
and the house In consequence 10 in
another uprosr.
Mr.. BlRnd's speech was sensational in
it's criticism OF the disorder which
reigned in the house yesterday. He de-
clsrsd that the men who are ObstruCting
legislation and defying the house were
anarchists and revolutionists. They were
worse than the criminal who would
throw dynamite bombs from the gal
leries.
There were Kisses at this statement,
which grew louder and louder. and Cul-
minated in cries Of shame" Mr.. Bland
proceeded in his lmpassioned uttersnce.
He said mobocraOy had taken possession
Of the house. The mob is Of anarchy,
and should be given an object lesson.
The anarchist was being invited to
parade the streets and commit his deeds
OF violence.
Mr.. Bland proceeded with frequent
Characterization Of those members who
had obstructed legislation q" sS"anarchists," ,"
'revolutionists."
AS Mr.. Bland spoke there were alter.
nate scenes Of extreme confusion and
silent astonishment. Seldom, or never,
in the memory Of veteran members, had
such violent characterization Of the
house been heard. Mr.. Bland was fre-
quently called to order and he was COM
PEELED to take his seat and then allowed
to proceed in order.
While he spoke the aisles Of the house
were choked with members, and the gal
lsries were filed to overAoWing. Mr..
Bland was frequently spplSuded in his
milder criticisms, but their was silence
&c his more violent uttsrsnces.