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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
PERILs OF THE NORTH SEA.
Mt OF Ocean Full Of Anxiety to Passenger
and Navigator.

Mt OF Ocean Full Of Anxiety to Passenger
and Navigator.
The passage of the North sea, or Ger
man Ocean-for it Is equally we'll known
BY both titles-is looked upon with dread
BY the navigators Who have to brave its
dangers
The sailors OF the North German Lloyd
call it the sea Of murder In allusion to the
marine disasters with which its history
bristles. The captain Of the liner, whose
destination Is Liverpool, feels that the
perils of his voyage are practically over
when he reaches Queenstown. The COM
manders of the North German Lloyd ships
ON the other hand, realize that the most
dangerous part Of their journey Is yet to
come, for ahead Of them Is the narrow and
crowded English channel and the equally
crowded and tempestuous North sea.
The unruly waters are open to thef1erce
sweep of the wind that IL 80 dreaded In
Turope, that which ia from the northeast
Only those who have experienced these
marrow chilling, pneumonia breeding
blasts can realize their anger and their
power. The gulf stream which surges up
the channel and around the northern end
Of the British isles meets the icy current
from the arctic regions. STORMS, Vaf1eo
BY dense fogs, result from this combina-
ton.
The east coast of England forms a dead
~ ice shore for the shipping caught In the
prevailing winds. In addition to these
natural dangers, the North sea Is crossed
and recrossed by dozens Of steamer
"lanes." 1t is also the seat Of the great
herring fisheries, with their thousands OF
amacks and schooners that, lying at anchor
here, there and everywhere, are by no
means the least of the dangers which men
ace the navigator. Here, too, there are
hundreds of Scotch and English coasting
craft, which stand we'll to sea to avoid the
dangers Of shore lines, and, lastly, the
mouth of the Thames spreads funnellike
into the North sea, adding to the total
perils with its fleets Of incoming and out
going vessels.-Boston Transcript
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
A Convenient Farm Gate.

The posts for this gate may be of COM
mon ones sawed fiat at the top. The one
at the right has pointed spike. The
top piece is made of 2 by material.
For the gate by material is used. A
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
SHALL W. GROW y TIMOTHY AAYs

ne Reply Of . Corrsspoudent Of Prairss
Tarms. 20 This Strange Question.
Tho question ut the head Of this
sstiole may seem rather . strange one,
but the writer has an increasingly
strong belief that the time has come
when q multitude of farmers on fer
tile, easily worked, corn growing lands
may wisely abandon the growth Of tim
othy hay, certainly so far as growing 1t
to be fed ON their own farms is con.
oerned. He is equally convinced that
ON very many farms it Is . mistake to
sow timothy alone on lands designed
for pasturage In the great corn grow
ing states no other crop will ordinarily
give so much food for live stock or 30
cheap food as will corn. This is trueqso
far as the grain is concerned. The value
Of the stalks and leaves is being the bet.
ter appreciated year BY year. Corn is
the one almost exclusive crop for ensi.
lage With all the admitted difficulties
in handling the crop it is doubtful
whether any other forage Of equal value
can be 80 cheaply produced and fed as
can corn slower. The value of oat straw
is still often underestimate. Fed in
judicious combination this may often
wisely be substituted for timothy hay ~
food for farm horses.
The clovers stand on . different basis.
Grass has much value in rotation, but
clover has much more On soils and in
climates adapted TO it clover will not
only give . larger yield Of either pas
turage or hay, but q larger food value
per acre. It is to be admitted freely that
there are greater difficulties in properly
curing clover for hay, and that it IL Of
tan seriously damaged in the process
The very great value to the soil OF tho
clover or other leguminous crop, in .
rotation, added to the special fitness Of
these crops for bsing fed in connection
with corn-either the grain or the slower
-or with the straw Of other grains,
gives clover q decided superiority over
timothy or most other true grasses as a
hay crop.
Whether it may not be wise to SOW
timothy or some other grass, perhaps
orchard grass, with clover, for either
pasture or hay, is q question which may
often be answered in the affirmative
In many cases the yield is considerably
increased by having mixture of clover
and grass. Sometimes the hay crop is
the more easily cured. and many prefer
tho mixed hay to hay Of either kind
alone.
Where there is q good market for
timothy hay it may be profitable 10 grow
it for sale, but making this a prominent
feature Of the farming system for q
series of years is bad for the fertility Of
the soil, and where the crop must be
drawn some miles to shipping point
or local market profit is doubtful
Without assuming to lay down rules
for others, it is the present expectation
Of the writer that timothy will have q
very subordinate place on his own farm,
and that pure timothy hay will have no
place in the foods used on that farm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Preparing Potato Seed.

x13Q8x1uB 1Us0tV 0ooOs
Professor Henry of the Wisconsin sta
tiou several seasons ago conducted q &C.
ries of experiments in the preparation of
seed potatoes The experiments included
seed Of thin pairing, one eye to piece;
thick pairing, one eye to piece; cut
ting to single eyes, whole potatoes, seed
ends and stem ends. All received the
same culture. The results with the thin
parings are interesting as showing how
good yield Of potatoes may be obtain
ed by planting parings. When potatoes
are cheap, the farmer can better afford
to plant a greater weight Of seed pota-
toes than to take the time to cut into
very small pieces.
Further experiments at the Wisconsin
station showed that as between cuttings
and whole tubers the largest market
able yield came from the heaviest cut
ting, though the increase in the yield
was by no means in proportion to the
increase of seed. The proportion of
small potatoes increased with the in
crease Of seed. The smaller whole pota-
to gave inferior results as compared with
the smaller cuttings. The hills were 88
inches apart each way. The trials with
hills as compared with drill planting
showed that no loss Of yield followed
planting in hills. The hills were three
feet apart each way, and in the last ex-
periments the hill received two two eye
cuttings Of Rose Seeding potato. The
drills were also three feet apart, single
two eye cuttings of the same variety be-
ing placed Is inches apart.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Test of Wheat Fed Hogs.

The Armour Packing company has
lately made a test at Kansas City of a
lot of 60 head Of wheat fed hogs to as
certain how hogs thus fed would kill
out, and found that they dressed out So
pounds to the hundred weight, while
the general run of hogs dressed 80 to SO
pounds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09
Combating wireworms with Poisons.

The method Of combating wireworms
by covering the seeds previous to plant
ing with some poisonous matter has re-
ceived much attention among farmers,
and for three years experiments were
conducted at the Cornell station in this
same direction. Professor Slingerland,
reporting on these experiments, says
that none q the poisons used prevented
the wireworms from eating the seeds,
and no injury resulted to the wire
worms. Paris green, tar, salt, copper
as solution, kerosene oil, turpentine
and strychnine solution were all en-
ployed without the desired effect of de-
stroying the pests.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09

American seed cleaning machinery
has reached high state Of perfection.
There is no longer any excuse for SOW
Ing foul clover Or GRASS sretiS.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-05-09

In the year 400 English horses suitable
for cavalry brought $40 apiece
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
AN ESSAY ON CLEANLINESS.
An English Youth breaches a Sermon on
the Efficacy OF soap and Water.

London magazine submits the fol-
lowing essay on Cleanliness as the
product of twelve-year-old boy in the
grammar grade:
Do not 90 and say that You are
feared of making youself clean, just be-
cose il is cold and il hurts 10 get the
dirt off, or becose the suds get in your
eye. For when you are clean people
do not edge away from you. never mind
about your clothes. but they say unto
you like our teacher that is next to
godlincss. BE thankful unto him be-
cose your mothers can afford soap, and
becose they make you use it. Also
when your mother puts her fingers
down your coat-necS afore breakfast
and peeps TO see if there is any black
there, and then sends YOU back TO the
sink to wash yourself better, say unto
her, yes mother, also smiling. On Sat
urday night say also unto her, mother,
don't forget to get my bath tub reddy
for me, and new pace of soap, for |
love 10 wash myself course of cleanli-
ness for il is next TO godliness Do not
he same as them there Blacks and
Amcrikens, and lngoos. which Just
splashes their faces with water and no
soap, and never gets inside Of "a tub,
only a paddlin about bits of rovers.
When you say TO dirty boy, Dirty
Dick wants the stick, only say il about
once, SO as he can't say as you are
wicked. Say unto him, look at the
thoteful cat, which splits on its pores
just to get a bit of lather for fair
start. and then wipes its nose, and into
its eyes, also behind its ears, not count
ing over Then say unto him as it will
actshelly lick itself when it can't get
its pores. rather than be hitching any
where's round. Tell him TO look at the
necks of the masters and superintend-
ents and preachers, and he will never
find ring, which is always sine as
you have not gone far down
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
The Great Air Whale.

The native inhabitants OF the Fiji
islands believe thunder TO be the bell
lowing of the great air whale, myth
zeal creature which. according TO their
folk lore stories. inha bits the opposite
side Of all thunder clouds. If the reg
ulation thunder cloud appears unac-
coinpanied by the ominous rumblings
peculiar to such phenomena, they take
IL as token that the Great Spirit is
pleased with their past doing. If, how
ever, on the other hand. the detona-
tions be frequent and violent, they are
sure that the God of the elements is
displeased and Immediately engage
themselves in all sorts of ludicrous in
carnations for the purpose of arighting
matters. Lightning is 10 them the re-
suit of the air whale crashing his teeth
together and thus striking fire. An
other popularity of this primitive peo-
pie lies in the fact that they will not
partalSe of food while thunder cloud
is in sight. fearing that the air whale
will pounce upon and devour them for
such irreverence.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
THIS ATOM MAKES TROUBLE.
Microscopic Thingumbob Driving the In
habitants tn Hard Drink.

A microscopic thingulnbob in the
reservoir of the Middletown Conn
water works is making more trouble
than some persons very many thousand
times its size. Its present occupation
appears To be driving the inhabitants
of Middletown 10 drink. and although
scientists are after il hot hooks it goes
right on thriving.
Some of these same scientists, says
the New York World. gave this dunin-
utivc beast the name of uroglcna vol
voN. l'ut this mouthful Of dead
language didn't exactly I'LL the bill. so
some male person of Middletown tackled
or the adjective "odorous." Now all
folks who live i'm Middlctown call the
intruding organism the "odorous urog-
glena volvoX.' and try. as far as posi-
BILE. 20 keep it ont of their midst.
The odorous whad iecallen's partic-
ular forte is dying along all the water
mains in the Connecticut borough.
Scientists who have pried into its family
affairs say that before it gets into the
water mains il has no effect upon the
fluid But in the hurly-burly of iostliug
through the pipes with unaccountablc
millions of its kind it gets all broken
up. disintegrates and gives TO the water
the taste of fish long dead, but un-
buried.
Scientists who have brought it be-
meath the cold, INSCRIPTIONS eye of "A
miscroScope say that il is "A minute mass
of Jelly. The Middletown people say
that it may be jelly, but that it leaves
a taste darn sight larger than
minute'-some hours long, in fact. And
the whole town waits TO see what
learned biologist can do To clean the
uroglena volvox ont Of the reservoir
He says, just at present, that the atom
is washed down into the reservoir from
the hills above and that il looks as if it
has come 10 stay. Meanwhile the Mid
dletownian associates with the thing
umbob externally, and the price of hard
cider has gone up
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
TO TAX NOBLEMeN.
Ingenious Idea Whereby France Hopes tn
Pay Her National Debt.

French marquiSes, counts and barons
are growing as common as asparagus in
the month of May. Every addressed
man in Paris thinks himself dishOnored
if his buttonhole is not ornamented
with a decoration of some kind, or if
on his visiting card a coronet is not en-
gravcd. Never have there been more
aristocrats i'm France than under the
third republic.
One of the remarkable things about
this is that the great majority have no
right to prefix a title 20 their names,
but as the oifcnse is a harmless one no
serious objections have been raised SO
far by the authorities. On the con
trary, il seems as if the government
were rather inclined TO countcnance
titles such is the opinion of learned
deputy, NJ. Girault, who, when parlia-
ment reaSsembles, intends to introduce
a bill 10y which all noblemen shall be
taxed
The tariff will be levied according to
the rank of nobility selected bya party
in quest of aristocratic glory. A prince
will be compelled to pay the maximum
schedule, and all the titles viii be sub
mitted to an infleXible law, which NJ.
Girault has carefully prepared, and
which is destined 10 ameliorate the
financial condition of the nation and
facilitate in years 70 come the equilib-
rum of the budget.
However evolutionary VI. Girault's
plan may appear, no one will deny that
il is most democratic resolution, for
noble title being anything but an
article Of absolute necessity, only
those with money 10 spare will have
anything 10 pay. 1t is an original
method of making the rich bear a
larger share of the burdens of taxa
ton. Without doing this by taxing
their incomes direct it taxes their titles
as an article of luxury and as some
thing which gives the possessors a GER
tain homage in the eyes of the people,
for which they ought TO be willing 10
make compensation.
M. Girault's law, notwithstanding
its originality" says French writer,
has been turned TO ridicule in France
before il has been read for the first
time in the chamber of deputies. There
are some who ask if it would not be
better to organize an immense lottery,
the grand prize of which would be
title of prince and the lesser ones titles
of lower order. The journey TO Rome
would be avoided. and all titles pos
seSSed by Frenchmen would be strictly
national"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
NO SUICIDE FOR HIM.
World Was as Full OF Luck as Could BE In
His Estimation.

He was a disconSolate looking man,
says the Detroit Free Press, and he had
been hanging about the wharf of the
Cleveland lines SO long that police
man finally accosted him with:
you don't want TO attempt any
monkey business around here, sir"
"What do you mean" asked the man.
Don't take no header into the river.
who's going 10 take a header?
guess there's no law to prevent "a man
looking at the water"
That's all right" muttered the Off
Ger, but II you contemplate suicide"
What do want to suicide for?' de-
manded the stranger.
II dunno. You seem 70 be hard up
and full of trouble"
II do, eh? That shows all you know
about it. Here's how hard up ana
roll figuring up three hundred and fifty
dollars. Here's how full of trouble
ana letter from a widow worth if
teen thousand dollars saying she IL
marry me on the 18th of next month.
I'm feeling so blamed good that | can
hardly keep from yelling, and yet You
talk about suicide! You'd better go off
and chew IA rag"
The officer drew his club and looked
at him in longing way, but finally de-
cided to spare him till another time.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
METAL PRODUCTION LAST YEAR
statistics Complied By the Engineering
and MlnIns Jonrnal


The statistics of the mineral and
metal production of the United States
in 1894. compared with the output in
1898, have been complied with care and
were published recently by the En-
gineering and Mining Journal.
The total value of the mineral and
metal production IF the United States
in 1894 and 1893 was as follows: 1893
S515. $40, 500; 1894, sos. 272 9O2; decline,
s62,513,904, or Q per cent This great
falling oil was. however, due far more
20 lower prices than to lessened quanti-
~ of the product. Thus the value Of
our coal production declined last year
S13,7s3.S2s, or per cent, while in
quantity il fell Off only 6.220,970 short
tons, or 81 per cent. This compare
lively small decline in the volume Of
coal produced is substantially meas
ure Of the whole mineral output of the
country.
The copper output increased per
cent. from 327. 255, 7ss pounds in 1893 TO
353,j0i,3l4 pounds in 1894, though in
value it declined no less than 1888, 50s,
or 4 per cent
The production Of gold increased
from $50 $50. 600 in 1893 10 $50, 76l .205 in
1894. but the commercial value of the
silver produced declined from s47.3l1,-
$50 in 1898 to S}l.493.53l in 1894. fall
OF SIS. 800 go, or - per cent. This was
partly due To a reduced production. Co.
5000 ounces IN 1893 and only 9.siG,-
SO ounces in 1894. but the price also
declined from 7s.2 cents per ounce in
1898 20 G3 cents in 1894.
Pig iron showed IA heavy decline in
quantity, from 7.O47,3s4 long tons in
1898 To 6,Gj7,3sS tons in 1894, hut the
value declined much more than the
quantity. or from SOB SIS 500 in 1898 to
1906, 1868 in 1894 falling off in values
of 90 per cent, and in quantity only
512 per cent.
The value of spelter declined 81 .0OO,-
600, though the quantity produced fell
off but $50 tons.
On the whole the mineral industry of
the United States has made highly
satisfactory record in 1894 in the guam
tity produced over such an enormous
shrinNage of values. With prices lower
than ever before thought possible, and
in the majority of cases lower than sim
liar articles are produced anywhere
else in the world the output has de-
clined but little. The low prices no
doubt maintained large consumption,
and now, with reviving prosperity and
prices. the producers will reap the
harvest for which they planted in the
hard times.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
HE QUESTIONED THE CAPTAIN.
A New York Traveller Violates salt Water
Etiquette Only Once.

"Once, ON an ocean steamer, said a
traveller TO New York sun writer,
'we had heated shaft bearing or
something of that sort. SO that the en-
gines stopped for five or six hours. |
had often read and heard about how
the captain was the great mogul
aboard ship; how about all things per-
tanning To the affairs of the ship he
held aloOf and must not be approached
by the passengers. and that it was IA
sort of violation of the unNritten rules
of the sea for a passenger TO ask the
captain anything And there may be
some reason in all this. If one pas
senger might ask him forty might,
and surely the commander of the ship
ought not 70 be unnecessarily dis
turbed 10y useless questions. We had
been lying there three or four hours
waiting. There was no danger what
ever, but il was a delay and an incident
of interest. and. Of course, all the pas
sengers talked about nothing else. The
common information was that the de-
lay was due To a heated bearing.
Il was standing on the upper deck
by the door To the main companion
way leading to the deck below. The
captain came along the upper deck
from the after part of the ship and
went below by that companionway.
He must pass within foot of me. and,
under the circumstances it did not
seem like violently unreasonable
breach Of salt water etiquette 10 ask
him what was the matter, which did.
A passenger who stood OF the other
side of the doorway looked at me with
the amused smile Of an older traveller.
The captain said nothing; he simply
passed on, TO ali outward appearances
quite unconscious of my question or
even my presence"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
The Best Metal for Rifle BulIets.

Tungsten, which is about one and
half times heavier than lead and al
most as hard as steel. is considered the
best metal for rifle bullets, now that
the diminished calibre Of rifles has led
10 the use of a smaller bullet. 1t is de-
sirable under the circumstances 20 have
for the manufacture of rifle bullets a
metal heavier than lead, and Of greater
penetrating power. A tungsten ball
penctrates steel plate three inches i'm
thickness at "a distance of $50 yards.
while similar one of lead only pene-
trates two-and 'a-half-inch plate at
325 yards. As rule bullets are made
of perfectly pure lead. the purity Of
which is tested by chemical analysis
Any impurity tends 20 alter the weight
and to affect the expansion, and thus
TO spoil the shooting Of the arm. The
bullets are all made by compression.
the lead being just squirted into long
rods and then formed into bullets ian a
machine.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
Horses and EARTHQUAKES.

II is a well-known fact, says the Mas
cot, that horses can hear sounds that
are not perceptible TO the human ear.
For days previous TO the great earth
quake in the Riviera the horses of
that locality showed every symptom of
fear, which continued without change
OF character, unless il was in the di-
rection of greater frenzy, till the fury
of the great convulsion broke forth.
Not until few seconds, however, be-
fore the earth began 90 tremble did
human beings hear the subterranean
rumblings. One writer from the scene
says that in his opinion the horses
knew that the quake was on the way
from setenty-two 20 one hundred hours
before their masters heard or felt the
first lar
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-02
MADE UP A COFFlNED CORPSE.
CHASTITY job an Artist Undertook to Please
Indertnker hrIcnd.

a weIl-knoWn artist OF Syracuse ~
y amuses his friends with an expert
ence he had some time ago that has
tlnge OF the uncanny. 1t seems says
the Washington star that the artist
has friend who Is an undertaken, ana
who at that time was badly IN need OF
assistance. 1t seems that the under
taNer had accidentally spilled a mud
upon the face OF body he was prcpar-
ing Tor burial and on account OF ms
careleSNnesS the huld had acted upon
the skin ana turned Il black IN many
places. The undertaker realized that
something must be done and that very
soon. 1t would be out of the question
for the family - learn OF the accident.