The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-10
WEATHER FORECASTS.
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copyrighted, 1896, by w. T. Foster.)

DoN''V
ST.. JosEpH, Mo-, Jan. 10.-My last
bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave 10 cross the continent from Jan.
1ith to 18th, and the next will
reach the Pacific coast about January
Is, cross the west OF Rockies country by
close of 10Th, great central valleys Goth
eastern states 23d.
This wil! bring severe weather, &C,
compabied by a large amount Of rain
or snow, and followed by one of the
coolest cold waves of the winter.
The warm wave will cross tho west
Of Rockies country about 18th, great
central valleys goth, and eastern
states 22d. Cold waye will cross the
west Of Rockies country about 21st,
great central valleys 23d, and eastern
states 25th.
THE IRON FERTILIZER.
Il. G. Mathews, Of Worcester, Mas
sachusetts, in reply to queries, writes:
Thirty. five years ago ia H%illsborough,
New Hampshire, | used my black.
smith shop sweepiDgs on a lot of
WORKOUT and rundown grass land. |
did not use 1t IN account of the iron
1t contained, but for the other proper
ties aud to get rid Of it. | found
that it made the grass grew better
than | expected.
"ln North Dana, Massachusetts,, |
usad the same material for fourteen
years, mostly on garden vegetables,
and the results convinced me tn at il
was a wonderful fertilizer, the best in
the world.
"My neighbors always said that no
matter how l planted, everything
would grow abundantly. None of US
knew why this material caused the
increased growth Of vegetables. Soil
cannot be injured by il aud the vege-
table are always Of a dark, thrifty
color.
81 have used it on dry, sandy soil,
on heavy loan. in wet and dry seas.
ons, and its effects are always the
same. ] used il on corn, potatoes,
tomatoes, s%ucumbers, and on all gar
den vegetables, bat not so much on
field products, because | had not
enough to go that far. | used it on
and in the soil, hoed around the
plants aud cultivated in all the usual
modes, always with success where the
iron dust was used.
It's effects are not lost in the FIRST
year on light soils, as is the case with
ommon fertilizers | did not use it
on the small soils every year, and
there is no danger OF using too much.
| have dumped IA bushel in one place,
planted cucumbers and squashcs in il,
hoed It a little aud gathered a big
crop.
"Have used il all times of the
year. For convenience, in winter !
dump it around my fruit trees, and
for ten years have used It around ap-
pie, pear, cherry and plum trees.
''One Of my neighbors, "a machinist,
put iron turuings around n plum tree
that did not bear; it has been loaded
ever since and is IA fine tree. Anoth-
er ncighbor put iron around apple
trees aud says that it complet ely des-
troyed tree borers."
DR.. j.. A, Livingston, Woortham,
northeastern Texas, SAYS: "ln a
large portion of the black loan soil
OF this state the cotton plant dies out
in patches of half an acre, more or
less, causinS a very considerable loss.
The peach, pesr, apple, potato, etc
are similarly affected.
81 applied a solution of iron to the
to a part Of the cotton plants around
n of these dead patches and they
revived while the others died The
plants treated with the iron solution
developed three weeks in advance of
other parts Of the country not SO
treated.
81 cut through the bark and strip.
ed off of several cotton plants, and
those around which the iron solution
was applied healed and the bark grew
ever the wounds, while those plants to
which the iron solution was not ap-
Piled did not heal"
The iron fertilizer is enc Of the
most important 1;scoyar;os oe Aha