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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
4 Test for Potatoes,

Prof. Golf. of the Wisconsin expert
ment station, mentions a simple way
to test the comparative food value of
potatoes. In making brine for beer,
1t is an old custom to put a potato In
water and stir in salt until the potato
floats. But if several potatoes are put
in together some will come to the top
sooner than others. Starch, the valua-
BILE portion of the potato Is heavier
than water, and the tubers that con-
tain most starch are best for the table.
being mcaly when cooked. By put
ting bushel OF potatoes into barrel
nearly full of water and stirring in
salt, the tubers poorest in starch VIII
first come to the top, and may be picked
off. By stirring in more salt, more po-
tatoes will rise. Those that remain
at the bottom longest are worth the
most. The difference in the table quail
ty of the liEhtest and heaviest tubers
Is surprising. The former will be SOggy
and salvy, the later fiaky and farinace-
Gus. Prof. Golf thinks the market
value of potatoes should be based on
their specific gravity. There is no rea-
son why potatoes containing but II
Der cent of starch should sell for as
much per bushel as those containing
90 per cent. The latter are worth
nearly double the former for food. The
salt test is a cheap and easy one, and a
dozen :ubers may be tested in any yes
sci. When the potatoes are sold on
their merits as food rather than on the
amount of bulk they fill, farmers will
have some encouragement to produce
tubers that contain starch, rather than
those that contain water, because their
food value and palatability will be in
creased
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14

EraStuS Corning was president OF the
Central Railroad. He was lame man
and not very prcposSesSing in looks.
He stood one day on the platform and
was about to step onto the cars. \ con-
ductOr who did not know him, shouted:
"Come. hurry up, old man: don't be
all day about it, the train can't wait
The conductor went round to take
up the tickets. a passenger said 10
him, DO you know the gentleman You
ordered on boardT'
NO, and don't want 10 know him. y
ut may be worth while to make his
acquaintance" said the passenger. lie
is your boss, the president of the road.
and he'll take your head off"
The conductor gave low whistle,
but looked bold. However, he at once
sought the president and offered an
apology.
PERSONALLY 1 care nothing about It,
said Mr.. Corning. IF you had been so
rude to any one else | would have dis
charged you on the spot" he continued.
you saw that l was lame and that
moved with great difficulty. The fact
that you did not know who l was does
not alter the complexion of your act.
I'll keep no one in my employ who is
unciyil to strangers"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Great Snake-SWailoSycr.

A recent extraordinary cannibalistic
performance on the part of beacon
strictor in the London Geological Gar
dens has called out from n contributor
to the London Times, Mr.. Arthur T..
Whey. of Cape Colony, still more re-
markable story, which is apparently
well-authenticated.
Near the ostrich farm of Mr.. Mailer
by, in that colony, the correspondent re-
lates, large blacksnake was recently
killed. AS it appeared to be remarka-
bly, fat in proportion to its length, ii
was cut open to ascertain the reason.
Within it was found a yellow snake
almost as long as itself; and inside the
yellow snake was found Il good-sized
blacksnake, so that the original black
snake had swallowed one OF his own
kind without knowing it.
But more than this, inside the second
blacksnake were found thirty eggs,
each of which contained young snake
apparently not much the worse for its
temporary entombment
This made, therefore, total Of thir-
ty-two snakes inside Of one snake.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
Drainage Will Drive Away Crawfish
How to Te st the Comparative Food
Value of POtatoes-The Cause of
Crawfsh Land,

The only way to cure crawfiSh land
Is to drain it. With the water taken
away, the crawfish will leave or die.
The only way to do this is with under
drains. 1t is hard to keep tile
drains, as ordinarily laid, in order in
crawfish land, as the yarmintS Will
everlastingly choke them or throw them
out of lire. | have had fair success
with tiles in crawfish land by laying
the tile on q plank. But the best way
Is to drain as we'll as possible with
drains made from pine poles, and then
as the land gets dryer and the craWflSh
scarcer, run in the tiles between. In
digging the bitches for tiles in such
land you will find that the water
springs strongly out of the crawfish
holes along the bottom Of the ditch,
while between will be tight clay. Now
If you lay tile on such bottom 1t is
evident that it will not be good long,
but the drain made with three poles
will carry off, and lower the level of,
the water in the soil, so as to bring
about conditions destructive to the
crawfish, which will not stay with dry
soil above them. l once circumvented
them by wrapping the tiles with bag
ging at every joint and using an extra
large tile. But the fact is that there is
little crawfish land that is worth the
expense of the underdrainS. l would
underlay q little piece in 4 field to
make all uniform. but large tract OF
crawfish land would move away from,
rather than try to redeem it.-Practical
Farmer
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Average Yields of Corn,

The average yield of corn In some of
the Western States where this is main
crop is only % bushels per acre. This
IS less than the English average for
wheat, though as every farmer knows,
it is far easier to get n large yield Of
Indian corn than of any other grain.
A crop only % bushels per acre suggests
many vacant spaces, or, what is nearly
as bad, stalks that are destitute of
ears. The large Dent corn grown at
the West has yielded n pint of grain
for a single ear when grown at its best.
If only one stalk Is grown with such
an ear in the hill it would amount to
more than 80 bushels Of grain with the
hills three by four feet apart. A hill Of
corn ought to average much more than
a pint of grain. We know many fields
of Flint corn with comparatively small
ears, where two or more would grow on
q stalk and give fully n pint of shelled
grain. The largest crop of corn we ever
grew was of an eight-rowed Flint corn
that had small stalks and was very
early. 1t was planted in hills 3X3 feet,
and three grains in hill. Every stalk
had ole or more ears, and the yield of
corn in the ear was more than 19O
bushels per acre on n field of six acres.
American CultivatOr.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
WHY THEY PAINT THEIR FACES.
Apache Legend Which Accounts for
the Red Mans Ceremonial Custom.

= why do Indians paint their facesT
| have asked that question of hundreds
of red men, and have received but one
answer. OF all the tribes that | have
visited but one has a legend account
Ing for the hideous decorations that
are to be seen on the faces of Indians
under all ceremonial circumstances
Il was sitting at a campfire in a
village of Jacarilla Apaches one night
listening to the stories and legends that
were being told, when | prOpounded
the old question again. hardly expect
ing even the usual expression of ignor-
ance that hides so many of the thoughts
of the Indians. To my surprise, how
ever, | received the answer that least
expected says Il writer in the st. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat. An old fellow who
had sat all the evening listening to the
stories without changing his attitude
grunted and Strengthened up as he
heard the question. Proceeding with
all due Solemnity, he told the following
legend:
Long ago, when men were weak
and animals were big and strong. a
chief of the red men who lived in
these mountains went out to get deer,
for his people were hungry. After walk
ing all day he saw 4 deer and shot at
it, but the arrow was turned aside and
wounded a mountain lion. which was
also after the deer. When the lion felt
the sting of the arrow he jumped up
and bounded after the man. who ran
for his life. He was almost exhausted
and, when he felt his strength give
way. he fell to the ground. calling on
the big bear. who. YOU know, is the
grandfather of men, to save him. The
big bear heard the call and saw that
to save the man he had To act quickly.
so he scratched his foot and sprinkled
his blood over the man.
"'Now. You know. no animal will eat
of the bear or taste of his blood. SO
when the lion reached the man he
smelled the blood and turned away,
but rs he did so his foot scraped the
face OF the man. leaving the marks OF
his claws on the bloody face. When
the man found that he was uninjured,
he was so thankful that he left the
blood to dry on his face and never
washed it at all, but left it until il
peeled off. Where tie claws Of the lion
scraped it off there were marks that
turned brown in the sun, and where
the blood stayed on il was lighter.
You know, all menpaint their faces that
way with blood and Scrape it off in
streaks when they hunt or go to war "
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
The Cause of Small Eggs,

The steady improvement in the grade
of poultry kept by farmers has resulted
in the increased size of the eggs. This
difference is so marked that the eggs
produced in the North always command
In the markets a higher price than those
from the South, where the improved
breeds have been more slowly intro
luced. In that section the undersize
of poultry and eggs is doubtless due
chiefly to the lack of new blood. The
facilitating effect of the heat is some
times given as the explanation, but the
true one is rather the lack of care and
proper breeding, the indirect result OF
the climate, which, by permitting the
birds to forage all the year round, re-
lieves the owner of much trouble, but
at the same time checks his interest in
their best development.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
RCquircne of Silver

To supply the annual increase in the
worlds population with ten dollars per
capita, would require Il production of
the precious metals, devoted to money
use. of from two hundred to two hun
dred and fifty million dollars each year
The production of silver in 1892 was
about $16O,0O0,000 and of gold $780,
100000, or $3.50, 600 of both metals.
But probably $S5,OOO,OOO of the gold
is used in the arts and dentistry, and
$35,OO0,00O of the silver, leaving but
$50, 100000 of gold and $125, 900 of
silver for monetary use Gf there was
no restriction on the use Of silver, or
$1G0,O0O,OOO of both metals; and as
wealth and luxury increase, more and
more gold ana silver are used for plate
and ornaments.
Thus, the supply Of the two metals
falls short of the needs of the world for
money, but when the silver stream is
shut off and the world is left with only
the insignificant supply of gold, what
must the consequences be? Are we
not facing the dark ages again, and
that, too, with mountain loads of debt
never dreamed of in the middle ages
debts to be discharged by the ever in
creaSing standard Of gold.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
PhOSDate for BARLEY.

The barley crop natures very quick
1y. and its roots do not run through the
soil so far as to do those of oats and
wheat, which take a longer period to
grow. For this reason the concentrated
commercial fertilizers are especially
valuable for barley. a dressing of 80
pounds per acre drilled in with the
seed will add two to five pounds per
bushel TO the weight of the grain. On
land long cropped it is often very hard
to grow barley weighing is pounds per
bushel without some mineral fertilizer
Only very little heterogeneous manure is
needed for barley. 1t has naturally a
broad leaf, and if foliage is set to grow
Ing rapidly the straw will become too
heavy ard fall down, preventing head
Inc and filling of the grain. The min
eral manure makes the straw brighter
and stronger. This secured, the broad
leaves of the grain will take from the
air the carbonic acid to form the starch
which mainly constitutes the grain.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Debts of the World.

1t is impossible to state with even an
approximation to accuracy, the debts
of the world. Moreton Proven esti-
mates the debts of Great Britain, Of all
kinds at $20,0OO,000O0O, and of the
world at as high as $150.00O. 100000
This is almost incOnceivable. But sup
pose the worlds debts are but half
that, they would then exceed all the
wealth of every description in the Uni
ted States.
Are all these debts to be discharged
from the tiny stream of twenty or thir-
ty millions of gold a year? Who be-
lieves that there is enough of both met
ais even to ever discharge this huge
pile of debts? And ever-increasing
debts mean ever-increasing taxes. And
if the money standard is rising at the
rate of ) per cent per annum, or at half
that rate, debts and taxes are increased
at the same rate.
The official list of the London Stock
Exchange, for the beginning of 1892,
shows securities quoted on that ex-
change. of the market value of $751;
75O,OCO,O0O, of which $12,5OO, OOO, 900
were foreign securities. The increase
in the securities dealt in on this stock
exchange in the five years, from 1856
to the end of 1891, was S3,35O,OOO 600,
or at the rate of $67O.OOO,OOO year.
The interest on the foreign securities
6 lone reaches about $G0O,OOO,OO0 per
annum in gold. This is the tribute 9TH
-er nations pay to England. Every in
crease i'm the value of gold increases
pro rata these debts. Great is the pow
-er of gold!
The people of one race, the Semitic,
are the owners OF large part of the
debts of the world. TO them all Chris
tian nations pay tribute. No people
understand the power of money, or the
laws of money, as do this race Of an
.cient money lenders. They secured the
decentralization of silver In order to
increase the value Of gold. They OPP
pose the RECOMMENDATION of silver be-
cause they want the increase in the
money standard to go on, for every in
crease in the value Of the money unit
increases their holdings.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14

while other leading commercial ma tons
have the single gold standard, the sill
yer standard in Mexico encourages very
largely the increase of export of domes-
tic products. The silver standard also
stimulates the development of home
manufactures-the price of foreign
commodities being so high that 1t pays
we'll to make some of them at home.
One great advantage on which Mr..
Romero lays stress is that the low price
of silver abroad makes it Improbable
to export it. The circulation is there
fore increased so that there is now an
ample supply Of money in the banks,
which stimulates industry. maintains
prices and increases the demand for
labor
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Thinks Silver Will Win.

Wharton Barker, of philadelphia,
expresses the opinion that the Salt
Lake silver conference will be produc-
tive Of much good.
Il would open the minis to silver to-
morrow If had the power" said Mr.
Barker. 81 do not want silver mono
metallism, any more than 1 want gold
monometalsm, but if my vote could set
tie the question the doors would be
thrown open at once. without any waste
Of time consulting with England" Mr..
Barker prOphesied that majority Of
the people of Pennsylvania will vote at
the next election for men for president
and vice president who are i'm favor Of
bimetallism.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Fertilizers for Onions.

"Years of experience in raising onions
and other crops either with stable man.
ure or fertilizer have thoroughly con-
WINGED me that q liberal amount Of
plant food must be applied in order to
obtain satisfactory results, half-fed
crops being Improbable" writes w.
Donaldson, of Topsiield, Mass. He
grew onions for eleven years successive
ly on one-Quarter acre, using phos-
phate, and raised at the rate of $50
to 1,012 bushels per acre, an average Of
SO7 bushels per acre for the eleven
years. For the past three years this
land has given heavy yields.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
TurEinS for DnCkS

On the large establishments where
hundreds of ducks are raised, the prin-
cipal food for ducks is cooked turnipS,
with n small proportion Of ground
grain. Ducks and turnips are adjuncts
to each other on the duck farms, for
without turnips the ducks could not be
made to lay so well. If the hens are
confined in order to protect the garden,
they must have a daily supply Of chop
ped grass. Too much grain will cause
them to become overfat, and fewer eggs
will be obtained. The best egg prOduc-
ing food Is lean meat.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Farm and barry Instruction.

During the three months of January,
February and March Of the past four
years the courses in agriculture and
dairying have been given at the State
College, and in spite Of the inadequate
equipment have been highly successful.
The number of students in these
courses has increased from four in 1892
to fifty-one in 1895, and Il still more
rapid growth is fOreshadOwed for the
future. AS an evidence of the wide
spread interest in its work and Of the
great scope which it is destined, if
properly encouraged, to eventually en-
JOY, it may be mentioned that in the
class of 1895 there were represented
twenty-One counties of Pennsylvania,
besides four other States. Three courses
are now offered-one in creamery man.
agement, one in private dairying and
one In general agriculture. \ Chautau-
qua course of home reading in agricul-
ture is also maintained, and now in
cludcs nearly $40 members. The eXper-
iment station is engaged, too, in valu-
able Investigations into agricultural
problems. The State should foster this
work as BELTS its resources. and the
farmers and dairymen of the State
should avail themselves of the benefits
of the college courses.-Philadelp
Record.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
Now Death-Dealer.

A new magazine rifle invented Ivy
an Italian officer, Captain Gel, fires
twenty cartridges automatically, with
out requiring any change In position
on the part of the soldier; the firing
may be intermittent or continuous at
will. At recent trial in the Cascine
in Florence before the Prince of Naples
the twenty shots were fired i'll two sec
onds, and all hit the target.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
way to deepen soil than to SOW clover

way to deepen soil than to SOW clover
and every third or fourth year use the
subsoil plow as deeply as it can be run.
This will enable the clover roots to
penetrate the soil to n greater depth.
Whenever Il clover sod is plowed q
considerable part of its lower roots are
left in the soil as they grew. These
roots rapidly decay, and they enable
roots OF grain and other crops to go
down deeply in search of moisture.
This is one reason why hoed crops on
clover ley withstand droughts better
than if planted On timothy sod, whose
roots are all near the surface. To make
tho clover grow as large as possible is
all important. The larger the growth
the deeper the clover roots run and the
more the subsoil is benefited.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-14
The Crime of 1883.

And now the Chicago Tribune starts
in to babble of 1.-The crime of 1893.
Under this head it devotes half col
umn of its editorial space to what
might with more propriety bear the
heading. What | don't know about sill
yer coinage. The basic statement of the
article is, TO quote the exact language
of one of the two or three statements
to the same effect. that 1.-The coinage act
of February. 1853, abolisheS the privi-
lcge previously accorded to holders of
silver to have their metal coined into
halves, quarters, dimes, and half
dimes
This is not true The free coinage
of subsidiary money had not been en-
jOyed by the silver owners of this coun-
try for about nineteen years. when the
act of 1858 was passed. Whether our
contemporary Numbered through ignOr-
ance. or was guilty of a deliberate mis-
representation it is not worth while to
inquire.
About ten years ago John Jay Knox.
ex-Comptroller of the Currency, one of
Gates. published book on the money
of this country. One of the index lines
runs thus. "Silver coinage, acts regu-
lating." Not one of the references I'M
der this head contains so much as an
allusiOn to the act of 1888. The idea
that that act can be twisted into an
anti-bimetallic argument is one of the
latest fads of the gold bugs.
The fact is the act of 1893 was simply
n seigniorage law. On this point we
quote Laughlin's History of Bimetal-
lism in the United States, an author
who will surely not be accused of lean
ing to silver's side. Says Laughlin:
1.-THE act of 1873 also made change
in the charge for seigniorage. Until
1858 the expense of changing bullion
into coin was borne by the government,
but the act of 1858 inserted a charge
Of One-half of | per cent. on all but sub
sidiary silver coins. No seigni0rage. Of
course, was charged for subsidiary
coins, because there was no free coin
age of them by individuals. The act
of 1873 never reduced the charge from
One-half to One-fifth of 1 per cent The
charge for seigniorage, however. was
repealed by the resumption act in 1919,
So that, like England, the United States
now makes no charge for manufacture
ing its coin"
Here we have clear and simply
statement. made by one who certainly
had lis temptation to belittle the act of
1853. The free coinage OF subsidiary
silver was stopped by the act of 1894
incidental to the reduction in the
amount of silver put into those coins
1t was found impossible to keep any
considerable amount Of orr own silver
pieces in circulation, because the in
trinsic value of them was proportion
ately greater than the intrinsic value
of our gold coin, so Congress in 1884,
without disturbing the silver in the
dollar piece reduced the amount in the
smaller pieces so that they could not be
melted down without loss. AS there
was profit in their coinage the govern
ment mOnOpOlized it. 1t is now sixty
one years since that was done, and it
has never had any bearing, one way or
the other, on the silver dollar question.
Chicago Inter Ocean.