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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-24

actually utilized by crops grown on land
fertilized with stable manure, rarely
exceeds "a per cent of the total nitrogen
thus introduced while Of Chile saltpeter,
fully &c per cent, and Of green-manure,
so per cent, were harvested in the crops.
1t is true that, theoretically, such
returns would be made to but slightly
diminished extent, if the foliage were
first fed to cattle and the manure re-
turned to the land and green-manuring
has been very loudly and confidently
condemned as a poor mode of soil-im-
provement Oh that score. But these
objections presuppose not only that
every farmer and fruit-grower raises
cattle enough to consume such offal,
but also that the whole of the manure
is utilized; both suppositions are wide
of the truth, especially In California.
Green -manuring is most especially called
for in orchards, which with us are COM
monly kept in'such clean state that their
vegetable mold, and with it the nitrogen
Of the soil, lis in the course of relatively
short time so far depleted that returns
must be made. But fruit-growers rarely
keep more stock than IS needful for the
work of cultivation, and for the house
supply of dairy products; and the labor
of growing the crop, feeding to stock,
and then curing and returning the
manure, is no part of their regular bust
ness; moreover, the perfect conservation
of what manure is produced, is an art
as yet but little understood, and even
less practiced, here. What with the
losses so incurred, and the extra invest
ments required for the production of
manure, it is safe to say that few would,
in actual practice, find more profit in
entering upon that policy than by the
direct return of the crop to the exact
point where it is most needed that is,
by growing the crop in the orchard dur
ing the winter, and blowing it in in
spring or early summer,-Californi
Experiment Station Bullion.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-24
Tap Roofing Pecan Trees.


A Mississippi correspondent of the
Southern Farm Gazette writes:
Fourteen years ago Judge Regans, of
Jasper county, gave me one dozen paper
shell pecans grown by him. planted
them in my garden, let them grow one
year, then took them up and transplanted
them In place that had been cleared
thlrty-six years; this was poor sandy
land. The trees were planted thirty
feet apart. This land has been Guilt
waited in cotton for the past eight years
and fertilized with guano every year.
L had top dressed the land with rakings
from the woodpile twice since planted.
These trees began bearing at eight
years old; not many the first year, but
some increase every year. In 1886 I
gathered seventyfive pounds from one
tree-on guess work, I weighed them.
measured the trees this morning; they
measured from fourteen to eighteen
inches through six inches above ground.
[ also measured one young trees growth
for one year, this young tree grows near
my horse lot in sandy land in pasture
with pen around il to protect it from
stock. 1t grew in height last year four
feet.
Now, dear readers, DO not be discour-
aged; peacans will grow almost anywhere
in the souh. Be sure that you get your
seed or trees from pure seedlings. Do
not plant nuts grown on grated tree,
if you do, you will be umbugged sure.
[ can sell all the pecans raise at 20 and
% Genus a pound at home. I would
advise those who expect to plant trees
to plant fifty feet apart. The pecan
makes q beautiful shade tree. The
most important to do in pecan culture
is to tap root them, and to do this sue
cessfully is to plant and transplant; cut
the tap root eight inches below the sur
face. If this is done at once and two
years old, very few Will die. Protect
from stock; cattle and sheep will eat
them. would not advise any one to
invest all Of their capital IN pecans, or
any .ther single branches of agriculture.
Raise pecans for home consum ption and
some to sell.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-24

the atmosphere. The different sub
stances necessary to the growth of a
plant, or the different articles of their
food are all OF equal value, that is TO say
if one out of the whole number be alb
sent, the plant will not thrive. The
soils which are proper for the cultiva-
ton of all sorts of plants contain all the
mineral constituents necessary for them.
But, of two soils containing equal guam
titles Of these mineral ingredients, one
may be considered rich and fertile, and
the other poor and barren, if, in til
former case they are present in form
soluble in water, and in the latter are
insoluble.
All soils adapted for cultivation have
the mineral food of plants in these two
states: the quality of the soluble ingre-
dients can be increased from the insolu.
BILE. In other words, the soil made more
productive by mechanical means, but
land in which the necessary mineral
constituents are not present IN any
form, cannot be rendered fertile by
blowing.
AS different plants require fer their
development In some cases the same
mineral substances but in unequal guam.
titles, soil may become barren for one
kind of plant when orlJ one Of the es-
sential constituents is Licking, as, for
example, soluble sIl Ca has been so far
removed by a crop that the remaining
quantity of it no longer is sufficient for
new crop, but it may still contain suf-
ticient mineral constituents for another
kind Of crop which does not require SOL
Ut IL silica. A third sort of plant may
thrive on the same soil after the second,
If the remaining mineral constituents
suffice for crop of it upon this fact de-
Ponds the rotation Of crops. The sub
stances necessary to the life Of plant
must act together, with given time, il
the plant is to attain it's full develop.
ment in that time. The absence OF
deficiency, or the want of available form
in one necessary constituent is indespen-
sable, but fertility is communicated If
that one substance is added in due guam
tiGy and available form.
The supply of more atmospheric food,
namely, carbonic acid, ammonia 10y
means Of ammoniacal salts) and humus,
than the air contains, increases in a
given time the efficacy of the mineral
constituents in the soil.
In soil rich in the mineral food of
plants, the produce cannot be increased
by adding more Of the same substances.
In soil rich in the atm ospherlc food Of
plants, rendered so by manuring the
prod uce cannot be increased by adding
more of the same substances
The continued fertility of soil for
all kinds of crops, depends on the CON
slant return to it Of all the mineral con
stituents removed by the different crops.
Andrew H. Ward in Farm and Fire
side
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
THE GREAT ISSUE.

When It Comes Before the People the Re-
suit VIII Not He Doubtful
But when the issue comes before the
people, what will be the result? Why
should not free silver carry Illinois,
Ohio and Indiana? The great majority
of the people in those States are agri-
culturists and industrialists. These
classes for the most part believe that
the people have a right to say what
metals they will receive and use as a
medium of exchange. They know that
it is admitted by all intelligent OBJ
servers that more money is needed to
stimulate industry and to give employ
ment to idle labor. They believe that
silver fills the bill. They see in it the
money of the people for the reason
that, if restored to its rightful func-
tion, it will expand the currency, and
in so doing increase the opportunities
and expand the activities of labor.
The prophets have fallen down once,
and they may do SO again. There is
not the same assured tone about their
utterances now that there was a few
months ago. They stammer as they
predict. There is a dropping of the
eve, and a mantling blush on the
cheek, as they read aloud the events
of the future, knowing as they do that
the past confounds them. There is a
marked impediment in the oracle's
speech, and the harp is hung upon the
weeping willow.-Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02

been restored 60 what they were be.
fore that 20 or 30 per cent. cut? Is
that carpenter out there getting as
much by IS 20 25 per cent rs he re-
ceived five years ago? Do the railroad
shop men get as much by 10 to 20 per
cent. as they did i've years ego? Do
the higher officials get the same pay
they used to receive? And which feels
it the most, the general manager or
vice president who was receiving $15.-
a06 year salary and had 81, 500 cut
OF, or the shop worker who got $500
year and was cut $50? Have wages
been restored2 II not, and If the finan-
cial depression is as bad as it was
when Mr.. Cleveland was contending
for unconditional repeal as the savior
of the country, why should we believe
that further persistence in the single
gold standard will bring return of
good times2 The predictions which
were made by the gold advocates four
years ago have failed signa1ly. Is not
that enough to destroy our faith in
their declarations now? The words
which Mr.. Carlisle uttered when he
was denouncing demonetization came
true, but the relief which he promised
when advocating the contrary policy
has never matcrialiZed." !"
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
Let England Follow, Not Lend.

A few years ago Great Britain was
vastly richer than the United States,
and her business was incomparably
greater, but that did not prove that
her form of government or her finan.
cial system was better than ours The
reason was that Great Britain had the
start of us. But we have overhauled
and passed her, and now we are the
richest nation in the world, although
by no means so rich as we would have
been If we had not gone deliberately
at work to cripple our own resources
and increase the burden of our debt
by destroying one of the money metals
with which that debt might have beer
paid, and of which metals we were the
greatest producers. So, we are a long
way in the lead of Mexico for various.
reasons with which the students OF
history are familiar, but our adoption
of the gold standard in 1878 is not one
of those reasons Bimetai
1iSt
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
FROM A MAINE MAN.

Ex-Gov. Garcelon Talks on Free Si1ver-A
Strong Sentiment for 1t In New En-
gland.
Ex-Gov. Garcelon, of Maine, was re-
Gently in Atlanta, Ga, and to a report
er he said:
There is a strong sentiment for sill
yer among the masses of the people of
New England. The papers are mostly
owned or controlled by the gold people
and the outside world has no oppor-
tunity to get at the true condition.
The political leaders are to n great ex-
tent influenced by the bankers and
capitalists. / know from contact with
the people how they feel on this ques-
ton But often the voice of the masses
is smothered by adroit politicians for a
time / have been an observer of po-
litical affairs for about seventy years
now, and never until silver was
demonetized did we hear anything
about silver dollars being dishonest.
We hear talk of dishonest dollars.
That has all sprung up within the last
ten years. But is not the silver dollar
just as honest as any other? Give sill
yer a chance and the parity will be all
right. The commercial ratio and the
coinage ratio between gold and silver
were nearly the same when silver was
surreptitiously demonetizsd. Silver
was not q dishonest dollar in 1873. If
either dollar was, it was the gold doll
lar.
''The employment of the two metals
side by side gives no financial trouble.
Baron Rothschild said that whether
gold or silver dominates for the time
being, it is always true that the two
metals concur together in forming the
monetary circulation Of the world, and
it is the general mass of the two metals
comb bined which serves as the measure
of the value of things. The suppress
sion of silver would amount to veri-
tab'e destruction of value without any
compensation
"Rothchild's words were prophetic.
Values have been destroyed and the
producers, and farmers and manufac-
turers, and the labor which they
employ, have had to stand the loss.
Our New England manufacturers are
being driven out of business because
competition is sharp and on the present
basis margins of profit are so small
that they cannot make interest on
their investment When the volume
uf redemption money is large, prices
are good and the higher prices are, the
wider is the margin which constitutes
profit, whether labor or the products
of Ia Dor. Here in the south your man
ufactures OF cotton declare that they
are losing money. And yet they were
cold in the summer and fall of 1892,
not four years ago. that If the last
vestige OF legislation favorable to sill
yer was repealed the country would
flourish, business would revive and the
distress disappear. But has it disap-
ueaaedP Has the mechanics wages
Iron County register., 1896-07-02

Who can tell how many persons are
buried alive every year? How many
cases of suspended animation are there
on record, and how many horrors that
are never known save by accident, when
once in awhile some grave is opened
and discoveries are made that shock
whole communities. There Is not, up
to date, any certain test for death, al
though there have been experiments
and trials innumerable. After exhaust
ing all of the resources of science, med
ical experts have arrived at the con-
clusion that the only certain test of
death is the condition of the body. I'm
til there are unmistakable signs Of de-
cay, death is by no means a foregone
conclusion. The sense of smell is the
very best possible guide in such mat
ters. Even the eyes are not to be trust
ed, as there are cases on record where
bodies have become almost black and
yet life was not extinct. In one in
stance burial was delayed by unavoid-
able circumstances until the friends be-
came alarmed by the color which they
mistook for modification, and, fearing
some outbreak of disease, they sent for
disinfectants and sanitary experts. Be-
fore they arrived, however, there was
marked change in the appearance OF
the body. From purplish hue like
bad bruise it gradually became lighter
and assumed Iife-like color, and with
in a few hours there were evidences of
returning animation. Although sew
eral physicians had been in attendance,
and the person was pronounced dead,
the result proved the unreliability Of
their decIsion.-N. Y. Ledger.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
Currency Contraction.

Fortunately. the people of the coun
try are beginning to discover that the
gold standard means the constant con-
traction of the currency. Those who
know that the volume of retail busi-
ness depends entirely on the amount
of money in circulation are able to ex-
plain the deep depression that has fall
en- on the business interests of this
country. II the volume of currency
amounted to S22 per capita, business
would be only shade less active than
it was i've years ago. As matter of
fact, the business of the country is in
such q depressed condition that 1t Is
impossible to make any estimate OF
the tremendous losses that the gold
standard has involved. The actual
contraction of the currency is even
greater than any figures show, and it
is bound to continue as long as the
people choose to tolerate the British
system of finance in this country.-At
Ianta Constitution.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
WORLDS STOCK OF MONEY,

A False Argument as TO the Cause of the
Depreciation OF silver.
The New York Tribune says: t"The
world never had as much money as it
has now. The reason for the increase
can be found in some figures Altgeld
himself gives They show that from
1852 to 1873 the total gold production
of the world was So, 176, 900, 900 and of
silver 5000, 600, O0O From 1878 to 1894,
inclusive, it was s.. $40, OO0, 900 gold and
s., ITO. 900, 900 silver"
The stock argument of the gold
monometallists is that the increased
production of silver caused its depre-
citation. Yet the Tribune admits that
in the AZ years from 1852 to 1894 the in
crease in the worlds production of
gold was over ST., 600, 900, 600 in excess
of the increase in the product of silver
for the same period. The Tribune
says truly that the world never had so
much money as now. Never have
there been so many people in the
world to use money as now. Never
has the world done so large
a business as now. Never has the
world been so heavily in debt
as now. Never has there been
a time when an unusual call for money
would be attended with such serious
results as now. Yet we are confronted
with a proposition to deny to one-half
the worlds stock of money the power
to pay debts. The administration
proposition is to consider the silver
money as currency to be redeemed in
gold. This proposition adds about
81 600 600 600 tS the amount of currency
to be redeemed in gold and takes the
same amount from the stock of money
currency may be redeemed with. This
calculation presumes that gold mono
metallism is extended over the whole
commercial world. It will be one or
the other. Either gold will be aban-
doned as the sole money of ulti mate
redemption or it will become the
money of ultimate redemption tho
world over.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
PlTH AND polNT.

-Generalship.-.sC you give me
change for five dollars?" inquired the
usually impecunious friend. Certain
ly," was the unguarded answer. seThen
lend me three. e."-Washington Star.
-Satan-"So you were an actor. Ell.
What roles did you essay?" Soul
touched nothing but Shakespearean
tragedy" Satan Ito aid) - .sHerc.
Smoke this ham thoroughly, please. ~
N. Y. Press.
-Ambiguous.-The Bishop Ito young
widow sister, I dare say you find
comfort in the thought that you made
your husband happy while he lived"
Young Widow-s'Yes. Poor Jack was
in Heaven till he died. ."-Pick-Me-Up.
The mendicant stood before the
wayfarer with outstretched hands.
"Please, sir,''h said, ''I have seen BET
Ter days" sWell, that's no affair of
mine," said the wayfarer. snake your
complaint to the clerk of the weather il
you don't like this kind of a day. Tit
Bits.
-Schoolmaster-s Joseph. when your
father hangs up four hams to the rafters
and afterwards sends one to your
master, how many are left?" Joseph
Three, sir" Master-'Quite right,
Now, be sure you mention this example
TO your father, just to show him how
well you are getting on in your sums"
-L'Ami de la Maison.
Mrs Yeast-"I wish could think OF
something to keep my husband home at
nights" Mrs. Crimsonbeak-''Get him
a bicycle" Mrs. Yeast-"That would
take him out more than ever" Mrs.
Crimsonbeak-''O, no, it wouldn't! My
husband got one day before yesterday,
and the doctor says he won't be out for
a month. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
They had been telling fish stories
and the quiet, unobtrusive man looked
weary. The idler who spends his time
in thinking up foolish questions broke
the silence to inquire: "Iwonder what
finally became of the whale that swat
lowed Jonah?" ''I don't know" re.
piled the quiet man. "but have an
idea as to some of his movements"
''What is it?' ''I don't doubt that he
hunted up party of other whales and
bored them nearly to death telling
them how the largest man he ever
caught wriggled loose and got away"
Washington Star.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
WHITENING FOR WALLS.
directions for Preparing the Article at
Homo.

directions for Preparing the Article at
Home.
1t always pays to employ a good
whitener, hut in the country it is some
times impossible to get man who can
10 this work properly. Especially is
this so since the general adoption of
papered ceilings. These ceilings are
prettier, but not so cleanly, as tn" old
fashioned whitened ceiling. Common
whitewash is a more desirable cover
ing to a cellar kitchen, cellar or aspe-
cially any wall that is liable to gather
,dampness.
The first requisite for whitening OF
Salsomining is clean walls. If the walls
have been whitened before. wash them
end let them dry. Fill in all holes or
cracks with plaster of paris. mixed with
water. Scrape off lime and wash off
grease spots. To prepare kalsomine,
mix ten pounds of zinc white to thick
cream with warm water. Add half a
pound of glue dissolved to n thin mix
ture in hot water. For side walls use a
pound of glue to insure the whitening
from not rubbing off. Even then, when
II is old, it will rub off somewhat;
therefore, whitening is only fit for
ceilings. Common whitening which
can be purchased at any paint store for
about three cents pound may be used
instead of zinc white. Lay kalsomine.
whether made of whitening or zinc
white, on the ceiling evenly with a
regular kalsomine brush. This brush
will cost aS much as two dollars, but
with care will last lifetime. Awkite-
wash brush will not spread the kalso
mine so evenly.
If you desire to tint the wall, pur-
chase five or ten cents worth OF red,
Llue. yellow or green powder from
druggist for this purpose, and add it to
the kalsomine until the proper tipt Is
reached. Zinc white takes tint bet
ter than a kalsomine made of whiten
" Tribune
Iron County register., 1896-07-02
THIEVES ARE NOT PARTICULAR.
VIII Appropriate Anything They Can
Carry Away with Them.

VIII Appropriate Anything They Can
Carry Away with Them.
Quite recently there have been two
or three cases recorded in the papers
of cab stealing; this we can quite un-
dcrstand, for horse and cab is nice
little property, wherewith one can
earn decent living. But what shall
be said of the man who stole an ele-
phant? This same elephant escaped
from circus procession and was wend-
ing its way through the streets of n
suburb of Liverpool. The great animal
wandered for many miles and eventual
ly stopped at a farm, the proprietor
whereof promptly annexed the valu-
able brute, and was foolish enough to
that chanced to be in the vicinity. The
farmers reason for getting rid of the
elephant was the prodigious quantity
of food the animal consumed. We
need hardly say that the whole silly
proceeding. ended in the conviction of
the farmer, though he got of with
three months imprisonment.
There was at least two cases on rec
ord of man stealing a house. One of
these was portable corrugated iron
structure, which ran on wheels and
belonged to a great contractor, whose.
manager used it as a pay box, while
the other was an ordinary semi-de-
tached suburban residence. How could
such a house he stolen? Well, the al
legged thief simply took possession OF
it, put himself in a state of siege, and
then set the real owner at defiance.
After a long and most exasperating
course of law proceedings the real
owner recovered his house and the
claimant was dislodged.
Horses and vans have been stolen,
of course; so have whole houses of
furniture, if we may use the term. The
latter unique robbery is worked in this
way: A householder going abroad will,
perhaps, warehouse his furniture at
come well-known repository, and the
thieves will contrive to impersonate
him, and in many cases get possession
of the whole of his household goods
n. Y. journal.
Iron County register., 1896-07-02

For more than 20 years Bowmans.
rille, Pa, has had what is knowr. az a
village bell. 1t is swung between two
high upright poles, and was paid for
by public subscription. Every day the
bell is rung three times-at 5: 30 o'clock
q. M, Ii o'clock a. m. and four O'Clock
in the afternoon. The leading object
of its ringing is to announce to farm
rrs and other working people the time
of the day. The first bell in the morn
ing at Bowmansyille in the signal for
the people to arise. and in summer most
of the residents are out that early. The
II o'clock bell announces that IL is the
time TO leave the fields and prepare for
dinner. At four o'clock in the after
noon they prepare for -Phila.
delphia Record.