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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
WEEDS on THE FAEM.

The annual expenditure for labor in
keeping down weeds on the farm is n
large item, but there should really be
no weeds, says the New York World.
A large number are destroyed by cul-
tlvatlon OF crops, and a persistent war
fare is waged against them, but in
most cases the work of destruction is
not thorough, as sufficient number
OF weeds escape to reseed the land for
the next years crop. The repug-
nance OF most farmers to using the
hoe, depending on horse cultivation
entirely, is responsible to great ex-
tent for the presence of weeds, but
even when the harrow and cultivator
are used the work is not as frequent as
may be necessary.
There arc II great many kinds
of weeds, and they come up
at different times. Work must
be applied SO as to do the
most damage to the weeds at the least
cost, and this means not onlyto BEGIN
on the weeds early but often. The
work is performed to the best advan
taSe when the weeds are just coming
through the ground, as slight
scratching of the soil will then be
more effective than the cultiyator or
plow later i'll the season. As soon MS
the seeds germinate they should be
destroyed.
Every weed that grows robs the
crop of nourishment and moisture.
During period of draught weeds can
bring to the surface and evaporate as
much moisture rs other plants, being
verltable pumps, which take moisture
from the soil, and the larger they are
permitted to become the greater the
capacity of their roots to take away
from the crop the necessary plant
food. 1t is when the corn is young
that it needs the greatest care, and it
is more difficult to keep the weeds out
than when the corn plants are higher,
as they are more liable to be covered
with the cultivator
For that reason the thorough clean
ing out of the weeds gives less labor
next year. To delay the work until
the weeds are established is to increase
the labor and delay tho crop, as the
land cannot grow weeds and corn at
the same time. If all the weeds are
killed by the weeder, harrow, cult
vntor and hoe, allowing not single
one to grow, even searching the fence
corners, and the work repeated n
second year, the land can be com
pletely cleared of all weeds and kent
clean, which will lessen the labor.
benefit the crops and give greater
profits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
WEEDS BY THE wAYsIpE.

The borders along the public high
ways and country roads are too often
the seed-beds of noxious weeds. This
is often the case also along the rail
roads Along the latter the passing
freight cars are constantly jolting off
and distributing injurious weedseeds
from remote places. This evil is in
creasing every year, and the adjacent
fields show the bad effects. During
the present season in Maryland the
fields have been dotted with the COM
mon white daisies to an extent that
actually threatens the crowding out of
the grasses and clovers in the meadows
In Baltimore County there are roads
where the SOW. thistle, teazle, wild car
rot and many other noxious weeds are
annually allowed to grow i'll rank pro-
fusion. The winds and birds are
among the agencies that distribute
weedseeds over the country, and year
by year they are gaining strong foot
hold at the expense of the crops. In
some States there are county laws
which require the roadside and fence
corners to be kept clear of weeds.
Such laws are of great benefit and ma
terially assist the farmer to keep his
fields free from weeds. Home and
Farm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

RECENTLY the German Bureau Of
Sanitary Inspection sent out notices
warming the people against American
dried apples, and alleging that such
fruit was found tD show traces of
zinc and other substances detriment.
al to health. The German authori-
ties while no doubt exercising com
mendable zeal have created much
ado about nothing as matter of
fact. Sometimes apples are dried by
being placed upon galvanized wire
netting and exposed to heat. In
some instances particles of the zinc
used in coating the wire may have
become detached and appeared among
the fruit: but such cases would be
rare and the amount of the metal so
found must have been exceedingly
small While all hand 'ers of fruit in
every method Of curing should eXer.
else the greatest care and cleanliness
throughout all the processes, it must
be evident to all practical people in
Germany and elsewhere that the
amount Of metallic substance that
the entire German Empire could thus
absorb while consuming American
dried fruit, would he les harmful
than a single schooner of German
beer "dosed" with aloes instead of
hops. The Germans need not fear to
eat American fruit on the score of
zinc poisoning, but may go on serene
Iy extending their waistbelts by an
unlimited consumption o. it, and we
trust the Bureau of Sanitary Inspec-
tion may have the good sense ard
fairness to relieve their unnecessary
boycott of American dried apples
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Good sweet pork can only be made
from good, sweet food.
The jars containing fruit must be
made absolutely air tight
Sow turnips now. They viii be USE
full for the stock next winter.
London milk is dyed cream color to
suit popular fancy by mixing one tea
spoonful of liquid annatto with eight
quarts of milk.
For collie in sheep give half an
ounce of Epson salts, dram ot Ja
maica ginger and sixty drops of the
essence of peppermint.
The flesh of the donkey is said to
be excellent eating, being as delicate
in texture as the finest mutton, with
the flavor of roast pork.
Much of the failure in getting rid
of weeds is due to not pulling them
up. Except Mt certain times cutting
off weeds will not destroy them.
Plenty of exercise means abundant
ability to cat and assimilate food. We
do not commonly give the occupants
of the pig pen exercise enough.
Put up the farm and garden pro.
ducts in an attractive form. 1t is not
dishonest to put the best looking on
top if all underneath is sound and
good.
France is reported to be taking an
increased interest in swine raising,
and it is thought that this will en-
hance the attention given to the pro.
duction of corn.
A farmer advises thinning early ap-
pies. Thinning is often profitable,
even if surplus is wasted, but in
this case they can be fed to swine,
some of them made into pies, etc.
If the grain shocks are allowed to
stand very long in the fields which
were sowed to clover last spring they
are liable to kill the plants they cover
and thus create bare spots i'll the fields.
When the horse is of nervous tenn
permanent great Judgment must be used
in its handling. Ii nervous horse
hears the sound of firecracker the
animal thinks that everything it sees
has powder in it. Handle gently.
As much MS half ton of fertilizer
to the acre has been applied to pota-
toes right in the drill without injury.
1t should be well mixed with the soil.
1t is found by many growers profitable
to use larger amount, but the excess
should either be sown broadcast or
spread along the drill after the plants
have come up.
Test your COWS and find the exact
value OF each one. This may be done
with little trouble, and without any
scientific work, merely by churning
the cream taken from the milk of one
COW at time, by itself, in small
churn, or in II rdit jar, even, which
will answer cdcL purpose. and thus
test the character OF each one.
In report presented to the French
Academy of Science, NJ. Genin states
that he has discovered sure and easv
means of ascertaining whether egr,
will produce cock or hen chickens
He says that, after three years expert.
ence, he. has found that eggs contain.
ing male germs are wrinkled at tn,
small md, while those containing
,emaie germs are perfectly smooth at
both ends.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
HAY RACKS FOR SHEEP.

Hay racks are now constructed Of
iron, or iron and wood, and although
slightly higher in first cost are cheap
er IN the long run than those made of
wood only. Those on wheels are
most convenient, as one man can easily
shift them about without assistance.
All racks should be provided with
''economizers. A simple and efficient
one, says the Farmers Voice, consists
of light wire railing running the
whole length of the rack on each side,
about eighteen inches in height, stand
ing about n foot from the rack, to
which it Is attached by means of cross
bars bolted on the ends of the latter.
by this means waste of hay is prevent
ed, all that is pulled ont and left un
eaten falling between the railing and
rack, III place of being trampled under
foot by the sheep, as it would be were
this precautiou not taken. Some
have troughs beside the racks, which
are useful for feeding with corn, etc
Troughs are best made of wood.
Those intended for feeding grain and
cake should be V-shaped. For tur-
nips and other bulky food the flat
bottomed pattern is preferable. Gov
cred troughs are not very extensively
used, being cumbersome and expen-
sive. One or two of them are, how
ever, useful OH every farm for hold
ing supply of rock salt for the
sheep; to allow the brine to escape a
few auger holes should be made in the
bottom.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


THERE'S constantly in all Japan an
average of two earthquake shocks
daily.
Wasps rank next to the higher
classes of ants i'll point of insect in.
telligence.
Powdered aluminium mixed with
binoxid of sodium constitutes power.
full explosive.
Electricity is now put to use in run,
ming sewing machines and turning
clothes wringers.
A singular discovery of the planet
Neptune by two astronomers working
Independently was made in 1916.
The illumination Of the summit oil
Mt. Pilatus last winter Was visible in
the whole of Northern Switzerland to
distance of hundred kilometres.
1t Is said that a man in Philadelphia
has collection of minerals second
only to one i'll the world, that of the
British Museum. 1t is valued at $780,
900.
The brain of man is the most highly
convoluted of that of any animal in
the world. The lower the animal in
the scale of intelligence the smoother
the brain.
The Bulgarian Government has
brought out the tenth number of its
collection of works on national science
and literature, which has been carried
on now for five years.
The head and face have eighty-three
muscles; the neck has forty nine: the
thorax, seventy eight; the abdomen,
thirty three; the back, seventy-eight;
the upper eXtremities, ninety-eight;
the lower, los.
Borocarbide, Il new material recent.
ly prepared i'll the electric furnace by
the French chemist Henri Moissan, is
a compound of borax and carbon, and
Is excessively hard, cutting diamonds
without difficulty.
The root bulb of every hair has five
or six small white flnments, which
are TO the bulb what the roots of an
onion are to that vegetable, tho means
of collecting and bringing to 1t the
proper nourishment.
For the last forty years the Academy
of Philadelphia has been assiduously
making collection of human skulls,
which now number we'll up into the
thousands. 1t is the finest collection
of its kind i'll the world
The muscles OF the hand reach their
highest perfection in man; no other
animal has true hand; the muscles
of the eyes, ears and nose show that
several groups, which in the lower
animals are very highly developed, in
man are in All almost rudimentary
condition.
In health and during exercises tho
average man has about twenty respir.
ations minute and forty cubic inches
are inhaled at each respiration; i'll IN
hour As, 600 cubic inches of air will be
inspired ; i'll twentyfour hours |, 1872
900 cubic inches or about the con-
tents OF seventy eight hogsheads.
The latest use for aluminium is as n
substitute for lithographic stones. Its
lightness is one OF the strong
features. On the other hanl its use
for surgeons tools is gradually dimin-
ishing, rs it bends so easily AMI can
not with any known alloy be made
hard enough for the purposes re-
uuired
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
Poisoning BY the PlatypuS.

The Australian correspondent of tho
Lancet writes: "Ihe platypus has
always been most interesting animal,
occupying, Us it does, an Intermediates
position between reptiles, BIRDS and
mammals; on the hind limb of the
male is hollow curved spur commu-
nicating with gland in the leg in
much the same way as the poison fang
of IL snake is connected with the poison
producing saivary gland. AS the last
meeting of the Victorian branch OF
the British Medical Association Or.
Lalor made II preliminary communica-
tion suggestive OF the fact that the
gland of the platypus also secretss
poison. He narrated the case OF IL
mnn who was wounded in the hand by
thisspur of the platypus and felt stung.
Cellulitus Of the arm followed, aud
acute blood poisoning, The subject
is to be further investigated, but, OF
course, it is quite possible that the
symptoms can be accounted for by tho
incubation of a single wound with the
ordinary micro-organisms of sept.
Caemia,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

THERE is no class in the com
munity to whom business education
would be of greater value than to the
sons and daughters of farmers The
practical knowledge they acquire on
the farm is too often rendered value
less for want of business knowlege.
A few months passed in high class
institution would reT edy this, and
certainly save more than the cost of
tuition by the business knowledge
acquired.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
OUR ONLY DAY,

We're this our only day,
Did not our yesterdays and morrows give
10 hope and memory their interplay,
How should we bear to live?
Not merely what W. are,
But what We were. and what we are to be
Make up our life the near days each star
The tar days nebun.
AT once would love forget
It's keen pursuits and coy delays OF bliss,
Andits delicious panSs of foni regret
Were there no day but this.
And who, 10 win friend
Would to the secrets OF his heart invite
A fellowship that should begin and cnl
Between night AMI night?
Coates Kinney, in Cincinnati Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

THE present style of alarm clocks
will soon go into disuse if there is
any truth in the story that a Swiss
ciockmaker has invented an alarm
clock with photographic attach
ment. In place of the unmeaning
clatter Of the present clock, man
can have himse f walked up by the
repetition of one Of his favorite
poems or by strains of dulcet music.
In fact, the possibilities of the things
are unbouuded.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

A CURIOUS opening, according to
the London Globe, has been found
for the artistic gifts of women. In
the great hospitals. watercolor
sketches are taken of rare forms of
disease, and in this somewhat grew
some class of work women, it seems,
have succeeded. At Guys Hospital,
woman has just been appointed for
such service for six months. the post
having previously b1en filed by her
husband, who is temporarily in
canacitatei.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

A YOUNG printer in country news
paper office fell in love with a
clergyman's daughter who did not
seem to reciprocate his affections.
The next time he went to church he
was rather taken back when the min
lister announced the text; "hy daugh-
ter is grievously tormented with a
6nvilln
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

ESTABLISH abattoirs and slaugh-
ter the horses, sending the flesh to
Continental Europe for food, while
the bones, hoofs and tallow would be
utilized at home" says the Nebraska
Trade Journal, and a most emphatic
neigh" comes up from every quar-
ter of the land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

For an economical people the
French are very lavish when it comes
to paying their president, who has
salary of two hundred and forty
thousand dollars year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
HOW TO PLrCK FRIr1rs.

Every person, child or adult, when
plucking frnit of any sort, should be
taught how to separate the stems from
the twigs or spurs without damaging
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

THE inventor Of lawn tennis must
have a deep-seated grudge against
dudes and dudesses.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
AN idle man hurts any cause.

THE sky, unlike man, is most
cheerful when bluest.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13

FROM the way some men offer
prayers, it is difficult to tell whether
they are ministers or auctioneers.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
A HAM MERP0ND ROBBERY

L is a moot point
whether bur
%lary is to be
considered as n
sport, n trade, or
an art. For a
trade the tech
nlque IS scarcely
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-13
his room, the little red room next to
Lord Aveliug' suite.

The dawn found deserted easel
bearing canvas with green inscrip-
tion in the Hammerpond Park, and it
found Hnmmerpoud House i'll commo.
ton. But if the dawn found Mr.. Teddy
Watkins and the Aveling diamouds it
did not communicate the information
to the police. Pail Mall Budget.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-10

Mare, tho wargod. Ills sisns arc tie
shltii ami speaI glWhcu this planet
shown more brilliantly than usual tbs
apulcnts believed that war was comiug
and that some great king was going TO
fall la battle. ltisabout l2,OlO,OOJ OF
miles away from the sun. ~ We tak0
tue distance when the earth aud Mars
are IN conjunction, or In line WIN
the sun, we will iind that the planet
Mare viii bo i4l, 100000 u miles from
the sun. Add to this the distance be-
tween US and tho sur, $4,000 Of milefi
and we have tue distance mat lies be-
tween uH ana Mare.
Tho diameter Of Mars IL supposed to
be- 4 100 miles, little less than ouu-
seventh or one-eightn the size OF tue
earth anu u h not 90 lease, only ablut
thfeo.fourihs. B IL abUu. thruo-iourlhe
land md one.fourih water. An
ildivldual from our earth would
move about more easily on Mars. ~
would 10 easier Tor man OF about sou
pounds 10 exercise himself On that
planet than u N Tor u man OF lb0
pounds 10 move around on our EARTH
la tue year 1857 when Mafa was noar'
est the earth, the time when II was
more easily examined, au Italian
astronomer claimed that he found
markings across II, aud said that ne
ioun1 canals aud bridges, a. many
develoleI the ilca that thuto must be
people there who carried on their com.
uofcs In this way. Al the same Time
II was said TO have family OF Two
children, or moons, the one iaflhtht
away being sbou, 1900 miles aud Tue
inner one $500 miles from Mare Tue
inner onu Tuvulvus iasicr than Msiu
iistli, 30 that II fuvoiycu about three
tmto in one night aui day, Modern
astronomers are trying 10 solve tue
question Of now We are 10 tigual 70 tue
Inhabitants VI Mare.
A motion song by Str. LaEon Pfati,
assisted by his daughter, was Wen
rendered, and last was ~ organ solo
by Miss Edna Coray. Adjourned Tor
ono week. WA, ANDEIsDH,
Corresponding Secretary
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-10
Notes and Personal.

Mfs. Il. y. Taylor leaves this ovon.
ing ON q visit 10 rclativ,B In Wisconsin.
She expocio TO DO gone about a month.
John ID. Dixon, city recorder, AMI a
member Of the iifm Ot Taylor Bros.
Furniture Co. goes 10 Chicago this
evening, ON business aud pleasure com.
bined.
Tho city taxes OF Provo City Or the
present fiscal year amount to Slh-
6U0.5O.
Amos a. Brown and Emma l.. Mel.
sou, 10th Of sprlngvill,; and Benjamin
IL. C0ulH)U, Of SAu Lake CITY, anu
Sarah A, Chamber OF Provo have
taken out maria, . LICENSES.
Ia the city council, laoi evening, the
committee on Judiciary presented a
report recommending that tho mayor
and city attorney httempt 10 sell, by
agreement, with tho Provo WOODEN
Mills Go. the lattc's liability % the
city for tho dnmagUs tuaiaiuod by Dr.
w. r. Pike, on nocoun, OF driving into
the factory race one night last winter,
an Tor which no obtained a verdict
" $500 against Provo CITY. ANA Ia
case - settlement could not be arrived
nj % commence suit agaiust The Provo
Wooden Mills 20. The report was
adopted.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-10
PROVO.
Court Proceedings.

"AaN = NNNf"n's
The firht caae called In the First dis.
triui court yesterday afternoon was the
Fret National Bank OF Nsphi VI Chas.
Footr, w. A. O.. Bryan, q. 5. Tingey
and Alma Hague. Default was
catered In the case OF defendants
ringey ami Hague. The suit Is made
10 collect 81 900 on n ptomi1sofy note,
aud plaintiffs allege that the nole was
endorsed by Hague for tho purpose OF
obtaining money anu credit from the
plaintiff corporation. Defendants make
lengthy answer, amounting In sub.
stance that Hague had misfeprrsented
tho circumstances under which the
mole wGB given. The principal qutl.
ton oflgw involved was 10 what extent
the bank was bound by the ac,s Of the
cashier Hague, anu numerous aU-
thoritics anu decisions btariny on the
case were presented. judge 5 uish in-
siruoted tho Jury 10 give n verdict for
plniutil for $1,000, there being 40 iAcIs
for the jury ~ consider.
In tue case VI tho Fish Sprlngb
Mining Go. W Cbas. Cflsm0u OF al,
motion for new trial, tho court ruled
that plant n should remit Judgment
10 g.. 800 and interest from the time OF
its rendition within three days or do
fendants' motion Tor new trial TO be
granted, The case was tried last fall
aud verdict given In favor OF plain.
tits for the amount OF Sl2,O00.
Martin Allfei, OF fAirview, was
sentenced 10 ono day'o imprisonment
In the penitentlary for the oilense 0f
adultery. The oliense ~ charged 90
have been committed on July let, 1897,
aud he was indicted In that year; no
was not arrested, however, aud tnig
year he came In ami pleaded guilty.
His attorney, Mr.. King, htaiBd that
defendant had 0beyed the law tince
the time charged ia the indictment,
and argued that he was not liable 10
punishment, by reason Of the amnesly
ptoclamutious VI Presidents Harrison
anu Cleveland, Judge Smith was Ia
doubt Us To now this question should
DO brought before the cOurlP, and i'm
ohed the lightest sentence as above
noted,
Llewellyn ThomaB aud John g..
Ihomas, both Of spanish Fork, weTo
admitted 10 citizenship. They have
exercised tue rig ltsl OF citizens over
since they became Old enough; but tho
election oaufed their reoOrda 10 be In
yefligaled, and the gentlemen found
that they would DO challenged, be-
cause " claim that their iathet's
naturalization papers were not valid.
Tho Mtssrs. Thomas, upon looking up
the paptrs, found that they had been
ltsuud by the county court OF this
county IN 1904. They took no chances
ON being challenged; but took out their
own papers anu viii vote next time.
The accounts Of the u. 5. Marshal,
amounting ~ sg22.60 were approved.
rus amount represents the expenses
Incurred IN the execution Of Enooh
Davis.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-10
TIE STUDENTS SOCIETY.


The program Of the regular sesslou Of
the StudonI'a society last night was rs
follows.
Flrst tho society was iavoTel with q
recitation by Miss josie Morris.
Then came lecture by Prof. Joseph
Mellon, his subject being The Planet
Mars. He said he did not believe there
Ii any older science on the earth than
astronomy. Man had studied toe
maps Of the bodies OF tho heavens, be-
lore he knew anything OF his own ere
alton. He had learned that some Oi
the planets moved, and TO these he
gave the names OF wanderers. They
were fifst supposed 10 be- openings Into
the heavenly places where the gods
dwell.
Wa can hardly oomptehondlhe die.
lance ktO the moon. ~ We were
TO undertake a Journey through space
aud travel on Hu express car, wa
would die on the way and our genera.
lions alter ", until about thoeloventh,
before they would reach any Of the
heavenly bodies. Ia starting out on
an imaginary Journey from the suu
the iifHt planet We would roach would
be Mercury, the fioelest Of the planets.
Next, we would meet one OF the most
brilliant ladits, Venus, the goddess ul
beauty. Then tho earth would he
next and after that We would come 10