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Arizona republican., 1896-03-04
A MORAL AND NICE BOOK.
What Young Lady Thought of the New
 Testament.


 1t was once the good fortune of a Harper's Bazar writer to read, in the island of Fayal, a letter just written by a young lady of Portuguese-English birth who had been reading the New Testament for the first time. It was worth while to see such letter, for many persons must have felt, first or last, with Thoreau, that it would be a delightful thing for anyone to encoun- ter those wonderful narratives as fresh discovery, in maturer years, apart from all the too familiar associa- tions of Sunday school and sermon Such, as any rate, was this young lady's experience, and her statement of the result was at least little astonish- ing She wrote, ill her haif-foreign English, to an American friend in these words. Did you ever happen to read book called the New Testament? If not, l advise you to do so. 1 have jast been reading 1t one of these days, and l find it very moral and nice book"
Arizona republican., 1896-03-04

 Addition.

But, notwithstanding they are now in the city itself, there are few lots for sale yet at prices corresponding with the 'Sound Money Doctrine of President Cleveland and his cuckoos, which means that kind of a dollar which will buy two dollars worth of property. These lots are near the new elec- tric car line which is now in operation. The lots are in the city and their occupants do not need to ride into town, but the presence of electric street cars is popular and adds market value to the property. Inside of five years this will be business property. Buy lot now for residence and when business crowds you out the rents will SUD- port you in house outside in some addition where you can keep horse and drive into town and collect your rents. Terms, ca sh
 in one year, } in two years at 10 per cent interest.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

have been keeping poultry for the
last fourteen years, both hens and tur-
keys. have quite number of breeds,
but think there is more profit in the
Leghorn breeds than in any others.
My fowls have a warm house in the win
ter and free range in the yard all day.
I feed plenty Of corn in winter, and
when the ground is bare I throw out
some oats and wheat as change. We
always sell at home and never run risk
of shipping. We do not get as many
eggs in winter as in summer. but get
quite per cent of them during the
winter. We seldom lose fowls from lice
or disease, but lose more from hawks
than In any other way. We keep a
few Of the large breeds for the purpose
Of Matching. We generally let them
run at large after a few days as we
think they do better. I have never
tried doctering hens. but have turkeys.
I tried several remedies for dysentery,
but nothing did any good till tried
camphcr. II cured them. think there
is no fowl ever handled that will pro-
duce more eggs than the Leghorn. They
also mature very quickly. For a heavy
fowl the Plymouth Rock natures early.
l do not make poultry raising my sole
occupation. l raise what can in the
poultry line and attend to my other
business. l raise eighty to one hun
dred chickens in a year and thirty-five
turkeys. and besides I sell as many
eggs as my neighbors do.
Mrs. Robert Dining.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
Black Langshans.

In your issue of April Is Charley
Ramsey of Hardin County, Ohio. asks
If any of the readers Of the Review can
tell him anything about the BlackI.ang-
shans. Mr.. Ramsey in the latter part
Of his request for information states
that he would like to know what the
writer's on poultry subjects think Of
them. AS We do not pretend to be a
writer on poultry subjects perhaps any.
thing We might say would have no in
huence with the gentleman. However.
as we have been breeder of this splen-
did fowl for a number of years we will
give our opinion and let it 60 for what
it is worth. The Langshan is a dis
tinct breed mo make up), coming origi-
nally from Chinese Tartary. The plum
age should be black, not a dull black,
but glistening black, with reflections of
green. The legs and bottom of the feet
should show a pink color-no yellow.
The legs should be feathered, but not
so heavily as the cochins. Weight
should be. cocks, 8 to 9k lbs; hens, z
to Sk. In disposition they are very
gentle, easily confined, and so far as
my experience has gone, the best of all
winter layers. There are two distinct
types. The low, heavily bodied and the
tall. majestic appearing, which one can
not see without saying, Blood will
tell" AS sitters and mothers the hens
are first-class. AS table fowl don't
think they are excelled by any other
breed. In saying this know the con-
sensus of opinion is against me. Still
We deny that the color of the skin has
anything to do with the eating qualities
of bird.
w. A. Chatterton.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

Among the inventors who received
patents last week were the following
Nebraskans: A. II. Edgren and G.
Esmen, Lincoln. improvement in bicy'
cles and L. +. Smith of Valparaiso
Nebraska, the latter receiving patent
for an improvement in car couplings.
Among the other noticeable inven'
tions is candle lamp patented to Z
Boston inventor; q burglar proof safe
in the form of a revolving cylinder; IN
improved method of making bicycle
tubing cloth. patented to . Cleveland,
Ohio, inventor: a color screen to enable
photographs being taken in colors is
sued to q brooklyn inventor; . kitchen
implement patented to A. Schlieder OF
Sioux City, Iowa; a pinless clothes
line. the creation OF a Texas inventor;
n collapsible cooking utensil made IN
the form of a telescope drinking cup.
patented to Miss Estelle J. Jennings OF
Chicago; a com bination neck and ear
warmer patented TO Mary f. Wiggin OF
Hartford Connecticut; a soft tread
horseshoe invented by James Freyne
of Philadelphia: an elevator mechanism
comprising two parallel vertical tracks
having elevator cars which pass mp
one track and arc switched over and
pass downward on the other track,
these combined elevators being in the
form of an endless chain: new fash
ion hook and eye for garments patent
ed to James }. Springer, Of Philadel.
phia; machin efor casing and flavor
ing tobacco patented to North Caro-
lima inventor.
The most curious invention issued
for some time. however. secures . fer
mcnt for ripening milk consisting of
practically pure culture or flavor pro-
ducing acid bacteria, the patent being
issued to William Storch, a Dane.
Any information relating to patents
may be obtained from Sues & Co.,
Patent Solicitors, Bee building, Omaha,
Nebraska.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

Is very light. Matters don't look as they
used to when We were sending car
loads of cheese to England every day.
and 1t seemed as If they couldn't get
enough Of it. We have killed the goose
that laid the golden egg. Filled cheese
TO kill of the foreign demand and skim
cheese to kill of home consumption
and here We are with our cows, cneese
factories. and farms on our hands ana
no market. It is to be hoped that the
cheese-makers. factory proprietors anu
particularly the patrons will build up
some solid public opinion on this ques-
tion OF making poor cheese. Stop II AZ
once. Nothing has driven cheese lac-
tories out of the business more than tue
making of skim cheese. Honest full
cream cheese factories could not hold
their own in profit with skim cheese
factories. SO they turned into cream
cries. We have killed our foreign trade
and are acting like stupid dolts about
our only and last resort, the home
trade. There is not factory in the
land but what ought to refuse to let
young. tasteless. indigestible cheese 60
ont Of its doors. Every factory should
face this question of curing cheese In
decent, eatable shape. Don't let the
factories sell the immature cheese to
still more and more discourage the con-
sumption of cheese No cheese has any
business 70 go onto the grocery counter
less than 60 to 80 days old. BY that
line it tastes somewhat cheesy. and II
il is good article 1t provokes the de-
sire fer more. The only forces that can
stop this make of bad cheese and sale
Of immature cheese are the factories
themselves. Let each factory do the
sensible thing fer itself and all will
soon have good. old-fashioned cheese,
andthc people will eat double the guam
tity of it.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

q great improvement was effected n
the condition Of the forest at very
small cost. Out OF total expenditure
of nearly ten thousand dollars the net
cost Of the improvement was somewhat
less than four hundred dollars. Dur
ing the year 1888. however, with woods
men more fully trained and the whole
force in better working order. the man
agement yielded net profit Of rather
more than twelve hundred dollars.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

It viii hardly do % after It passes that
age. 0Yung pork II not only the best
and cheapest. but brings tho highest
price In the market With a majority
Of our farmers the hog pays the grocer,
the physician, the taxes. the interest.
clothes the family and practically sup
plies the table with meat With all
young stock It Is an important item to
secure q good growth from the start.
It II easier and more economical to
keep an animal growing than to allow
1t to become stunted and then attempt
to feed uN into q good condition. 1t
Is sure way to have diseases among
the hogs when they must rely upon slop
as drinking water. They require pure
water the same as do other animals,
and when deprived of it will not thrive.
West Lake Herald.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

Milk is a substitute that is complex
in its composition, says Prof. Robertson
Of Toronto. All of the ingredients. ex-
ccpt the fat, are in solution; the fat is
in suspension, and when the milk
stands for any length Of time these
little g!obules of fat rise to the surface
and form what is known as cream.
4 drop of milk contains 100000 glob-
ules of fat. Food. to be healthy, and
nutritious, must have the correct pro-
portions of flesh forming and heat-pro-
ducing material. Good nature, whole
someness, self mastery, depend on the
quality of food We eat Raise boy on
bread and milk rather than on potatoes
and bacon. Bread and milk is cheaper
and much better food. 1t is mistaken
idea that a man who works hard must
cat rich food. Three-quarters of a
pound of beef, costing 10 cents, one
quart Of milk, costing s cents. and five
ounces Of wheat, costing three-quarters
OF cent. are equal in nourishing ma
terial. One pound of cheese is equal to
two and half pounds of beef. There is
70 better diet to work hard on than
cheese and potatoes, and there is no
diet more digestible. Wheat bread is
not a well-balanced food, but bread we'll
buttered is very nutritious. Skim milk
and oatmeal are valuable foods.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

With wet or clayey roadways. sur
face drainage alone is not sufficient
Without undertakings the crown of
such roadways will dry only by the
slow process of evaporation, during
which time the topping becomes more
and more rutted by the passing traffic.
A subdrain in such soils will not prove
efficient for more than about twelve
feet on each side; hence, two lines of
longitudinal subdrains are needed on
those parts of our country roads that
pass through wet places. low-lying
lands or clayey soils. They should
have an average fall of about one in
one hundred: minimum fall. one in one
thousand. At short intervals, say from
thirty-six to one hundred feet apart,
are placed cross drains to discharge the
water into the side bitches. These
cross drains receive a greater fall, say
up to one in thirty. Generally two and
one-half to three-inch pipes are sufii-
cient. 1t is advantageous to bed these
tiles in well-rammed brick fragments
and to cover them with road metal.
Be certain that the tiles are correctly
laid and that nothing interferes with
their free discharge. AS said before
unglazed round tiles. about three inches
in diameter and. under certain condi-
tions. jointed with loose collars, are
most suitable for subdrains The bot
tom of the tiles should be laid both to
the proper grade and below the frost
line, after which the tile trench is
filled up to subgrade with clean gravel,
small field stones, road metal, or
broken bricks. The cross drains are
also made of unglazed tiles, with the
exception of their outlet sections, which
should consist of vitrified culvert pipes.
Regular branch pipes should connect
the longitudinal and cross tiles. On
level reaches the lateral roadway slopes
Tor surface drainage should not be less
than one in twenty-four, and side
bitches should be provided, II necessary,
as previously indicated. Finally, a
rapid discharge of the side bitches, If
required, through adjacent lands, is of
the utmost importance to roadway
preservation.-Gen. Roy Stone.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

well-drained sandy loan is best. I. ID.
Hatfield writes to Garden and Forest
that his location is a dry one, but he
has never known the bed to suffer even
In the driest season. In heavy soils
some artificial means must be adopted
to relieve the soil of excessive moisture.
Where asparagus is grown in the low
lands It is customary to cultivate 1t on
ridges six feet wide. three rows to
ridge. The intervening hollows. or
trenches, are filled during the summer
time with the litter gathered from the
manure which has lain on the ridges
all winter. When thoroughly decom-
posed this is thrown up again, with an
additional dressing. and the trenches
again left open during the winter. This
plan will be good one to follow IN
all heavy soil, and in such cases there
Is another advantage. that OF having
earlier asparagus than could be grown
In beds on the level. The beds being
permanent the ground must be deeply
trenched with good loam to take the
place of poorer soil. Six inches of good
manure should be worked in deeply. as
asparagus roots penetrate the ground
for fully two feet, and this also is a
safeguard against drought. 1t Is not,
however, recommended to make the
plantation Deep Mr.. Hatfield's origi-
nal bed is now 20 years old, but it is
equal in bearing and quality to planta-
ti0ns six years old. 1t is later, and this
may be accounted for by the fact that
crowns are yearly formed below, or be-
hind the main one. so that now the
original roots. once near the surface.
are from Is to IS inches deep. When
the cutting season is past. which is
usually when peas come in, he has
given an additional coat of salt with
no injury to the growing plants and
with advantage in destroying millions
of small weeds. There is an excellent
artificial manure. specially prepared
for top-dressing. In city gardens this
will be preferable to barnyard manure.
Asparagus roots are sometimes lifted
in the autumn and forced under benches
in the greenhouse during the winter.
The results are seldom satisfactory and
the shoots are at best weak stringy
and tasteless.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

Biltmore Forest is the first practical
application of forest management in
the United States. Biltmore Estate, of
which the forest is part, lies near
Asheville in the western part of North
Carolina. Before its purchase by Mr..
Vanderbilt the small farmers to whom
the land belonged had pastured their
cattle in the forest. had burned 4 over
TO improve the pasturage, and hid cut
large proportion of the trees which
could be used or sold for fencing, fuel
or sawloss. At the time when its
management was undertaken compare
lively few large. sound trees of white,
black, and scarlet oak and short-leaf
pine. which are the more important
species, were still standing in the for
est. and the condition of a large part
OF 1t was depiorable in the extreme.
Ine prime object of the management
al Blltmore is to pay the owner while
improving the forest. To this end i'm
provement cuttings" were begun in
some parts Of the forest, to remove old
trees which had reached a merchant
able size and were standing over and
in1uring good young growth. In other
places the only measures required were
to exclude cattle and fire, and give the
forest absolute rest. In the process of
telling the timber the trees to fall were
hrst carefully selected and marked,
then sawed down and reduced at once
TO cordwood or sawlogs or both. Great
care was used in selecting the place for
each tree to fall and in throwing it so
that the top might not crush the young
trees among which it fell. The result
was gain Of probably IS per cent in
the condition of the young growth over
tnat which usually follows ordinary
numbering. while the increase in cost
was not more than or per cent. The
output OF the forest was sold at market
prices IN open competition, but most of
1t was consumed by the other depart
ments of the estate simply because the
prices charged made it worth while for
them to purchase of the forest rather
than eiswhere. During the first year
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
Chickens and ruPkeys


For five years I have been engaged
in raising poultry. During that time I
have handled the Barred Plymouth
Rocks. Light Brahmas. and mixed COM
mon breeds. prefer the Barred Plym-
outh Rocks to any other, as they are
early maturers, good layers. good moth
ers, and Of good size for table use. My
hen-house Is double boarded with
tarred paper between the boards. 1t is,
however, not warm enough for this
climate, and l intend to build a new
house and fill in between the boards
with cinders or with sawdust. In sum-
mer feed very little as the fowls have
the free run of the farm. In winter
feed oats, scattered in chaR and cut
straw, all they will eat. I also feed
corn meal or bran mashed with boiled
potatoes at noon. We have no market
nearer than thirty miles, and prices are
very low, as we cannot get our fowls
ready for market early enough. We get
scarcely any eggs from Nov. to March
l, but this year they began laying Feb.
l. They have averaged twelve eggs per
day from twenty-five hens ever since
that time. We have lost few birds from
any cause. but on one occasion a mink
got into the hen-house and killed ten
OF them. raise my chicks by setting
the hens. and have generally had good
luck. 1t is poor hatch that does not
give us Is per cent, and from that up
to 100 per cent. do not believe in doc
toring fowls, but when I see them sick
l cut their heads of, except when a
valuable fowl gets hurt try to save 1t.
| had four turkeys last year, two of
which laid between fifty and sixty eggs
each, and the other two laid very close
to seventy each. l had only six hen tur-
keys together that year. This is a
splendid place in which to raise tur-
keys. They can be Matched out about
the first week in June. 1t does not cost
much to raise them, and you can sell
them at Thanksgiving time at 81 each,
or even 10 to II cents a pound, IL you
want to dress them. 1 am going to try
turkeys on larger scale. The winters
are so long and severe here that very
few people get any eggs, but it is all be-
cause the houses are not warm enough,
as our hens are always in splendid
health. but you cannot feed them
enough to overcome the cold, until we
build warmer houses.
Joseph Murphy.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
A lsaeeball Critic.

.'Spike" Brady, who was q we'll
known baseball player in the Missis-
sippi valley a few years ago, once at
tended church in Dubuque, Iowa. with
his club. which went on special invita-
tion. The preacher made q special
effort, that consumed much time.
Spike" was asked what he thought of
the preacher. ''lic got around the
third all right. but say. he was an ice
wagon in getting home, the ball play
sr andswered.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
Enem,es af the Straxharrx.

The worst enemy Of the strawberry
is dry spell. In warm wet weather
the fruit and leaf stalks are affected by
mildew and the leaves are attacked
by a rust. AS this makes its appear
ance late in the season. 1t causes but
little injury. Insects are more intur-
ious to the strawberry than are
diseases, and among the most destruc-
tive Of these are the various species Of
May beetles Uachn0sterna). One or
more species of these insects abound
everywhere and the larva or grubs.
commonly known as white grubs. with
out regard to species, are all destruc-
tive to the roots of various plants. es-
pecially those of the strawberry. The
grubs are usually more numerous in
old dry pastures or meadows. II the
ground is thoroughly cultivated for a
few years previous to planting it to
strawberries, the grubs are not likely
to be troublesome. All May beetles ny
in the night and may be taken by q
light placed over tub Of water. Birds
and domestic fowls are the strawberry
growers most efficient helpers in de-
stroying these insects. The strawberry
leaf-roller, the larva of a small reddish
brown moth, is a small worm which
feeds on the leaves of the strawberry
and causes them to roll up. There are
two broods during the year, the first
in June, the second in September. The
remedy is to cut and burn the vines
after harvest. There are many other
insects which attack the strawberry.
but II the vines are always burned after
harvest and thorough rotation of crops
is practiced, diseases and insects will
Ten Eyck.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
BrOinuS InsrmlS,

The annual report of the Colorado
Agricultural College says:
This grass has been growing on the
station land since 1891. Spring sowings
each year have been made. One plat,
where the snow was blown away, yield
ed 211 pounds of seed and 5000 pounds
of hay per acre; another plat, upon
which the sand drifted to a depth of
from six to eight inches, yielded 2,O6S
pounds, per acre, of excellent hay. The
latter plat is the oldest one on the
grounds. Still another plat has been
pastured two seasons. In an exposed
position, this plat has shown that bro
mus inermis grass can be pastured
without injury to the sod. This grass
grows from four to six inches the first
year, producing very few seed stalks.
At the end of the first season each seed
will make stool from two to six inches
square. One seed produced plant that
in three seasons covered between 700
and 800 square inches Of surface. This
grass is of high value for COW feeding.
as but little grain is used in connection
with it.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

A Snowman had an announcement
stating Come and see the great sawed
6sh." A learned gentleman read il
and informed the Snowman that he had
made . mistake in the word sawed" /"
that it ought to be ''sword." "Yer'd
better come in an see fer yourself; the
hadmission is only tuppence," said the
Snowman. So the learned gentleman
paid his ''tuppence." went in and was
shown . large Goldfish sawed in half
Eyer amt the fust genelmsn wot has
tried to teach me 'ow to spell, grinned
the show man Household Words.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24
Age without cheerfuiness is a Iaplan
winter without a sun.-COltOn.

Mr.. y. +. Cosrrovc Of the c. B. & Q. r.
r.. Bu.,a, ILL.,. writes May 2lst. 1896: Il
have been sick for eight years with kidney
and liver trouble and malaria. Ihave been
taking Patent Medicines and Doctor Med
icipes for eight years and spent S3.OOO and
got no help until 4 took DR.. kay's Reno
vator. 1 had poor appetite, Indigestion,
sour stomach. constipation. yellow Il kin and
eyes. tired feeling, pain in back and side,
nervous and waktful. headache and diZZi-
ness. hlcatinS of bowels and limbs. short
dry cough chiils and fever. Dr. Rays Rem
ova!or has removed these symtOms and
feel new acail. God bless DIR. kays Rem
.ovatOr.'' ii is sold by druggists a 225cts. and
sIOo or seat by mail by Dr. B. J. Kay
Medical Co. maha. Neb. Send stamp for
large sample and booklet.
The Columbus journal., 1896-06-24

The July number of Harper's Maga-
zine will open with a paper on General
Washington and the period of the Rev
olution. by Woodrow Wilson. Rarely
has historic parsonage been made SD
real and human as Washington appears
tthanks to the art of this sllilful writer)
in camp and on the battlefield no less
than in the Virginia House of Burgess
ses or at his Mount Vernon plantation.
Mr.. Pvlc's sillnstration of historic scenes
worthily accompany Professor Wilson's
admirable studies of colonial life and
politics