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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
Unprincipled Dealers.

1t is serious misfortune to Califor.
MIA that she has within her borders so
many unprincipled business men, saws
the S. f. Chronicle. Doubtless we
have no more than other States, but
the newness OF our civilization makes
1t easier for them to operate. In
older communities well-known firms
have had time to establish regulations
for commercial integrity, and new
men coming i'll must compete upon the
same plane. Our own men are mostly
all unknown in distant markets, and
stand upon the same level. Some of
these sharpers, as we predicted would
be the case, have been sending bad stuff
to Germany upon orders based upon
good samples. and have seriously in.
Jured us. Some, perhaps innocently,
have sent evaporated fruits cured upon
galvanized wire, and therefore con.
tanning zinc. This evil will soon cure
itself, as all such fruit sent to Ger.
many will be confiscated and de.
stroyed, but for the evil of dishonest
packing we have no remedy but pa
thence, We have packing firms here
whose goods can be absolutely relied
ON, and these firms are we'll known to
the trade in this country. We advise
German handlers to touch no account
not fortified with first-class New York
references. which anybody can get who
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
FOREIGN NEWS.

Marquis Ito says japan doesn't
want and wouldn't have Hawaii.
Spain will increase her fleet in ex.
pectation of possible international con.
flicts
The Brazilian congress has refused
to pass Cuban belligerency resolu.
tion.
Turkey has consented to make peace
ON the terms to be arranged by the
powers.
Germany will spend this year ST..
100000 ill the purchase of impoved
tield-pieces.
An American company has OBJ tanned
concessions for 150-mile electric rail
way in Nicaragua.
The people of Toronto, Ontario.
have voted in favor of the running of
street cars on Sunday.
Arrangements are completed for a
railroad, built with American capital
between Victoria, Mexico, and Mata.
moras.
A Seoul dispatch states that the
Russian Government has refused to
permit the engagement of Russian
troops by Corea.
A Latin poem of so stanzas pointing
out the duties of frugality and the
evils of gluttony has just been com.
pleted by the Pope.
Official reports state that over 200
cases of black plague broke ont in
Japan in two of the largest towns in
Formosa during the first week in MAY.
There is evidence of demand in
Geneva. Switzerland, for American
tin plate-that is to say for the raw
material packed in boxes also for black
sheets in bundles.
The German steamer Tailee has been
wrecked on Japanese coast. No lives
were lost, the crew, consisting of
forty-cne Chinese and six Europeans
all getting ashore.
Canadians lured to Brazil as laborers
have been kept in state of practical
slavery. Some of them who have got
home say they were sold like cattle
and treated like dogs"
The annual report of the Sheffield.
England, Gambler of Commerce asserts
that 80 per cent of the razors used in
the Australian colonies are supplied by
Germany and the United States.
The Greek Government has issued a
proclamation announcing that it does
not desire any further volunteers. ex-
planning that there are already many
volunteers i'll Athens for whom it
is impossible to obtain employment.
Pletro Acciarito. the anarchist, who
On April 22d. attempted to stab King
dumbert, has been sentenced in Rome .
10 the galleys for life. On hearing the /
sentence Acciarito, who has been cyni. /
'al throughout the trial, shouted;
Today it is my turn; tomorrow it
Will bn the turn of the bourgeois gov.
,rnment; long live the revolution.
Long live anarchy.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
Rhizobius Results.

We do not hear much this year of
the rhizobius contest which last year
at this time so much exercised the
editors of Southern California, says the
S. F. Chronicle. The facts seem to be
that except in u few localities special
ly favorable to their increase the rhizo-
bus will not keep down the black
scale. But the good it can do
fully repays the expense of its intro
duction. There is no doubt there is a
tendency in all nature to prevent the
undue increase of any species by means
OF parasites which prey upon it.
When any kind of fruit trees become
specially abundant they attract the
pests which thrive upon the food they
furnish. These in turn attract another
class of parasites which prey upon
them. Should these become excessive
ly abundant doubtless their enemies
would appear and keep them down and
so on indefinitely. When pests appear
1T is wise to search for their enemies.
In this search the most skilled men
should be employed and when they
have given us their best service we
should accept the result. All these
efforts are experimental and it is
almost certain that there will be more
failures than successes. When we
introduce a parasite we do not know
whether it will thrive here or not. If
we do not try we shall never know.
An instance of failure, or only partial
success, does not Justify an attack upon
of1clals who in the exercise of their
best Judgment thought the experiment
worth trying. In the long run, the
balance of the account with the intro.
duction of beneficial insects is greatly
to the good, and the practice should be
continued. And there should be an
effective national quarantine MAIN
tanned against all injurious insects.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

has earned them. Let those who have
still TO earn them get them by fair
dealing at home for year or two.
We believe that all our real co-opera-
tive packs will be found perfectly re-
liable. But it will be necessary to
guard against takers protesting to be
cooperative. We note that one such
fellow has fed from San Jose and left
his creditors. There is but one Go
operative Fruit Agency" in Santa
Clara county and that is the associa.
ton of exchanges known as the Cali
fornia Fruit Agency, which represents
the Santa Clara Exchange and other
societies, and is thoroughly reliable
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Helpful Suggestions For the
AgricuIturiSts.
HINTS THAT ARE INTERESTING.
some Coed Advice for the RuraIists-A
Budget of knowledge That May
Prove Beneficial.
The New Olive cnterniIIar.


These insects have now passed their
third moult, says Prof. Cook, in the
Los Angeles Herald. That is, they
have cast their skin three times and
nave become more than an inch long.
Ihey are plainly striped and still loop
a little as they walk. They are now
defoliating the trees rapidly. If the
trees are Jared they readily fall to
the ground, though some Of them are
quite slow to let go their hold ON the
twigs that it is not easy to see them
as they lie on the twigs when not eat
ing. Last night l visited the fine
Rowland orchard, which was SPRAYED
at my suggestion when these insects
INST commenced work. Although
many of the insects were destroyed, yet
there are too many left to make the
work satisfactory. 1t is probably true
that either the poison was not genuine
that is, it was more or less adulter-
ated-or else it was not kept well
stirred so that some of the trees 1e-
ceived it in too diluted form or else
the trees were not thoroughly sprayed.
One spraying, with good poison, we'll
stirred and thoroughly applied, ought
to have done the work satisfactorily.
so that it would not need doing again.
There are two ways that l suggested
to Mr.. Rowland to proceed in the pre-.
sent Juncture-either to spray again,
taking care to observe the points men.
toned above, or else to place sheets
under the trees, jar the insects on
these and then crush them. Mr.. How
land found that it cost $50 to spray
his orchard and can easily tell by lit
tie experimenting whether the EARRING
would be cheaper. think by Earring
the trees with padded mallet almost
every one of the caterpillars could be
dislodged.
In spraying trees with the arsenites
we cannot be too careful not to get the
poison on us. 1t should never be
handled with the bare hands. have
known cases where very serious harm
has come from taking the poison in
the hands where there was an abra.
sion of the skin. 1t is also we'll to
avoid the dust and spray. One of the
men that worked spraying in Mr.. How
lands orchard is now under the doc.
tors care because of arsenical poison.
The writer has worked a great deal
with this arsenical poison and has
never yet suffered the leas injury but
he has always spared no pains to re.
duce the danger to minimum
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
Rotted and Fresh Mamma


The Central Experimental Farm of
the Dominion of Canada has been for
. years testing the relative value of
rotted manure and fresh manure with
rather startling results. Each wear
the same weight Of manure was an.
piled to each plat, which were all of
equal size. The fresh manure gave
an average of 6 bushels more oats Der
acre, and ! = bushels more barley per
acre than the rotted manure. The
yield of wheat was practically the
same, being ten pound per acre in
favor of rotted manure. Mangels
also gave a slight difference in favor
OF rotted manure: while corn did bet.
ter on the fresh manure plats. and
potatoes and turnips gave decidedly
better yields on the fresh manure plats.
But this doesn't tell half the story in
favor of the fresh manure. 1t must be
remembered that equal weights of the
two kinds of manures were applied:
and an actual test showed that in rot.
ting the manure lost more than half
It's weight in four months. So, a ton
OF rotted manure represents more than
two tons of fresh manure. Therefore,
more than half the manure is wasted
and poorer results are obtained by rot.
ting the manure before applying it
than by applying it fresh. In ascer-
tanning the loss in rotting, 5000
pounds OF fresh manure, half horse
manure and half COW manure. was
piled up to rot ON March /. At the
end OF each month it was shoveled
over and weighed. At the end of th g
first month it weighed $3.50; the
second, 4,27S; the third, 3,947; the
fourth, $3.50
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
Glover and Cow Peas,

In Bulletin No. "a of the Missouri
Agricultural Experiment Station a
full discussion of the value OF clover
and COW peas is given, and practical
suggestions are made as to the best
methods of securing stand and grow
ing these crops. These plants have a
power not possessed by the other com.
mon farm crops, such as corn, wheat.
timothy and blue grass-that of gather
ing nitrogen from the air. 1t is sup
posed that with judicious care and man.
agement the nitrogen in reasonably
good soils may be maintained almost
Indefinitely by the proper use of these
crops for green manuring. The cow
pea is recommended for very poor soils
in all sections of the State, and for
all soils i'll the southern part of Mis-
sori. They should not be sown too
early in the Spring. Last season the
Station secured crop of 1 d tons of
field cured cow.pea hay per acre,
seeding on wheat stubble without
blowing after the wheat had been har.
'NooSN OuAy lou uC peas were re-
moved, and the land again sown in
wheat without being broken, Septem-
Der goth. In other words, the crop of
cow-peas was grown ON the land dur.
ing the season which in ordinary prac.
tice it would have remained entirely
idle. 1t is generally believed by the
farmers that green manure crops
should be turned when very green in
order to produce valuable manure.
and If allowed to mature or become
dry, much of the valuable fertilizing
material will be lost. This is entire.
ly incorrect. A large yield will be OBJ.
tanned by allowing the crops to be-
come mature. Experiments show that
clover when plowed under in the bios.
som had little more than one.third as
much fertilizing value as when ma.
tured. This bulletin may be produced
free of charge by addressing the Direc-
tor of the Experiment Station, Column
Dia, Missouri.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
Professor Woodwork on rhrin,


Professor c. W. Woodwork of the
department of entomology at the State
University, who was summoned to
Fresno for the purpose of investigating
the thrips pest, has returned. He has
determined on a remedy for the ex-
| termination of the pest.
He says the grapevine hopper which
is causing so much damage in the
neighborhood of Fresno is a very small
insect, not over tenth of an inch
long. 1t has been present all winter,
flying about and feeding ON all kinds
OF plants. The reason of their present
great numbers is the very favorable
winter that has just passed.
These insects are now beginning to
lay their eggs in the leaves, and by
midsummer newbrood will be flying.
Unless something happens to check
them we will have them in immense
numbers during the latter half of the
season.
Next to the phylloxera this is the
most injurious insect attacking the
grape.
The injury done by the present
brood is not so great as many suppose.
and will only cause the dropping of the
first crop on the worst infested spots.
They have already done their worst
injury, and it will hardly pay to try
to treat them now, but when the mid
summer broods begin to fly it will be
very desirable to do something. J
The most practical plan of treat.
ment seems to be the use of an insect
net. This is made of a conical bag of
cheese cloth, fastened to a wire hoop
about one and half feet in diameter, !
attached to short handle. One can
go quite thoroughly over five or six
acres in day, so the cost will be some
10 or 20 cents per acre.
A gang of men can thus do vine.
yard III very short time. 1t will be |
profitable to go over the vineyard in
this way whenever the hoppers get
abundant.
This insect is quite different from
the wiretapper, which is sometimes in.
furious about San Jose and in Southern
California, and nothing like the grass.
hoppers which sometimes devour the
leaves in the vineyards in this State"
Professor Woodwork is about to
issue an ILLUSTRATED bulletin discussing
the whole subject, which will be dis.
tributed gratis from the experiment
station upon application.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

Lieutenant Peary has offered to take
from Colby University, in Maine, one
professor and five students with him
gu ms preliminary trip to Greenland.
should the offer be accepted the dele
CATION would consist of W. S. Bagley.
professor OF geology and mineraloey
anu anu I'VE students selected by him. The
UP mas been so arranged that the
party will have about two months IN
uleehiand and return in time to begin
'ne ooiiege work in the fall. Similar
offers have been made to Yale and
dartmouth and both have been ac.
'epted. The offer to Colby will be
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

The Yaqui Indians OF Hermosello.
Mex, have been organized into a
State militia and Juan Maldonado.
chief OF the tribe, has been appointed
military commander of the forces Mt
500 month. AS the Yaquis know the
mountainous district thoroughly it is
believed they will be great aid to
Federal troops in suppressing lawless.
ness.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

1t has been reported on reliable an.
thority to the Northwestern Improve.
ment Association of Los Angeles that
the Pasadena and Pacific Railway
company will build branch of the
electric road, running from Echo park
to the west end of Elysian park. Work
on this line will begin as soon as the
new road to Santa Monica is finished,
which will be about the LIST of An.
gust.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

LIE SoiI announces the coming be.
trothal of the Princess Clementine,
third daughter of King Leopold, of
BELGIUM, to Prince Albert Leopold
Clement, son of Count Philippe of
Flanders. The Prince is the heir pre-.
sumptive to the throne of Belgium.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

french paupers are provided for by
the fund arising from ten per cent
tax on theatre tickets. This tax aver.
ages $40, 900. 900 year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

John W. Foster, formerly Secretary
Oh state, has received and declined the
offer OF appointment as ambassador to
Spain. "
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

Inc Athens correspondent of the
LONDON Times says: 1t is believed
that communications have arisen owing
10 the advocacy by some of the powers,
including Russia, of the Turkish oc Gu.
PATTON OF Thessaly until the indem-
nifty is paid and to England's firm re.
slstance to such project. The Greek
government is preparing for proba.
BILE renewal of the war.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

Judge Grosscup of the Federal Court
OF Chicago holds that the city of Chi.
cago was liable for damages to railroad
property by reason of the strike of
1894.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17

A number of people who have been
interviewed by representative of the
daulois in Paris on the subject of En-.
peror William visiting Paris during
the exhibition of 1900 agree that his
majesty visit is inadmissible as long
as the question of Alace. Lorraine ex.
lists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
4HOLO CONTENDERE ASASTEP TO OFFICE.

The Wadesboro Messenger and In
telligencer evidently expects to see Ut
Moss. who resigned as chairman OF the
hoard of commissioners of Vance county
while under Indictment for bribery, ele'
waited to some high position in the state
as the result of what he will call his
persecution. 1t points out that ). Otho
Wilson. when indicted for membership III
Gideo! ) Band, entered the plea of nolo
cor. dere, and shortly thereafter was
elected to the honorable office of Rail
road Commissioner. Was it ambition to
succeed s. Ohio, in case he is removed
by the Governor, that caused Moss to
enter the nolo contendere plea? Our
Wadesboro contemporary aptly says:
"Dr. Moss has greatly enhanced his
political prospects in North Carolina
by his course in this matter, that is
if We are to judge the future by the
past, for is it not fact that every
rascal who has been exposed in the
State in the past four years has been
made a martyr of by the fusionists
and placed in high official position?
In proof Of this it is only necessa-
ry to instance the case Of Wilson
himself"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
DAVIDSON COLLEGE NEWS.
Prof. John Douglas Elected to Succeed
Dr. EinsOn.

Dawson College. y. c., Aug. 27.-(Spe-
cial.l-In the death of DIR. w. ID. Vim
son. which the telegraph announced sew
pral days ago, the college loses one OF
its most distinguished and most gifted
professors; indeed, it is likely that the
student body regarded him as the most
intellectual member of the faculty. But
the living, though it be with saddened
heart and tear-stained eyes. must turn
from the dead to the work of the hour
and the duties that lie at hand, and so
with the opening session so near the
authorities had to look at once for man
to fill the place just made vacant Their
task was fortunately not hard one,
for all eyes were turned in one direction
Immediately. The Executive committee,
with the hearty approval of the faculty,
asked Prof John Douglas of South
Carolina, to accept the chair for the com
ing year. and he has formally accepted.
Prof. Douglas is a graduate of Davidson,
has spent three years i'll post graduate
study at the Johns Hopkins University.
He is teacher of five or SIX years eX-
perience Two of these were spent as
principal of the graded schools in Ches-
ter, S. c.. and the last as instructor IN
the Department of Science in Chatham
Academy in Savannah. 1t is not improp-
cr to say that Prof. Douglas had made
such a fine impression here as stu
dent and had so distinguished himself
as a teacher, Judging. by the reports that
came back to the college concerning
him. that the remark had been made if
ever Davidson has to have another Pro-
fessor of Mathematics, Douglas will in
all likelihood be the man. The prophecy
now sees its fulfillment.
The prospects for large attendance
this session both at Davidson and at the
North Carolina Medical College, seem
to he fattering The term begins on
September 9th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-28
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

PARK HOTEL. ID. Whitaker,
City; Geo A. Smith, Richmond; A. j.
Cormpoton, Charlotte; G. J. Rhem, Little
ton: X. f. Shore, Richmond; AL G.Field' s
Minstrels; r. l.. Gray, City; w. d.
Grone, n. c.. John Blue, Aberdeen; John
Primrose, City; w. 2. Budd, Durham;
C. NJ Bernard, Greenville; A. II. Mat
thews, Chattanooga; G. A. Mach, Earn
est Williams, Lynchburg; J. A. Duncan,
T. o. Rodwell. n. c.: G. b. Williams,
City; Rome. Biggs, Baltimore; c. c.
Page. Aberdeen; S. A. Kirkman, Green's
boro; Walter Watson, New York.
HOTEL ARRIVALS. 48s
YARBOROUGH HOUSE.--Will'-C
French, ST. Louis; NJ. S. Creighton, Rock
Hill; ID. NJ Jones, Norfolk; II. Novel;
Richmond: z. J. Hatcher, Chattanooga;
S. Ohio Wilson, County: f. E. Spencer
North Carolina: w. r. Carter, Virginia
+. NJ Mcdonald, Baltimore; John Cat
ling. City; James o. Wynn, Atlanta; DIR
j. l.. Moore Apex: Herman Wilson
Greensboro: Maj. J. w. Wilson, North
Carolina; Capt. Ellis Henderson, Ken
lucky; w. G. Petty, Carthage; NJ. III
Neff, New York; A. c. Zollicoffer, Hen
derson; J. T. Hart, Youngsville; Geo
ii. Lacy, Wilmington; J. w. Thack
ston, City; E. NJ. Uzzell, City; X. /
Cheatham, Atlanta; o. B. Bidwell, Jr.
Portsmouth; S. A. Kirkman, Greens
boro.