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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

predaceOus and parasitic insects (V.
II. Lowe. Bulletin 1879, Geneva, n. Y.
experiment statiOn). In most species
the young are born alive during the
spring and summer, eggs not being pro-
duced until fall.
As plant lice suck their food, paris
green and similar poisons cannot he
depended upon when used in the or
binary manner. Some external irritant
must be used instead. Numerous in
seetieides Of this nature are recon-
mended. One of the most important
is good whale oil soap. Experiments
during the past season show that Id.
OF whale oil soap to gallons of water
will kill plum and currant lice. The
solution should be applied in fine
spray to the under surface Of the leaves.
II is important that the work be done
very thoroughly. The first applica-
tion should be made as soon as the lice
appear in the spring, which will be
soon after the leaf buds open. A second
or third application may be made as
occasion demands.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Change In the Hog Lots.

Among the important recommenda.
tions for meeting the hog cholera, in
the absence of an absolute cure, good
sanitary conditions stand very high.
Filth, bad water and surroundings that
invite disease should be guarded
against, for even though they may have
no direct effect in the causation Of
cholera, they can hardly fail to lower
the condition of the animals and thus
make them succumb more readily to
cholera when it comes. To give such
conditions as general good health de-
mands, arrangements should be made
to change the quarters where the hogs
are kept with reasonable frequency.
To keep hogs on the same ground year
after year means to keep them filthy,
even with the best care one can take,
and on general principles alone the
quarters should be changed as often as
possible and crop or two raised on
the old hog lot before hogs are put back
on it. The necessity for such change
is still greater if, as some now claim,
hog cholera is not contagious but infec-
tious-that is, the hogs do not take the
disease from each other, but from the
soil, which becomes impregnated with
cholera germs. The facts about hog
cholera are so various and often 80
apparently contradictory, that it re-
quires good deal of courage to say of
it that such and such things are abso-
lutely true in regard to it. 1t has for a
long time been regarded as contagious
disease, passing from one animal to
another by contact, inhalation, effluvia,
contact with excretions, etc. Some re-
cent inve tigators, however, now claim
that it is infectious-that soil becomes
infected with the germs and that these
may lie dormant for a long time, to
awaken again into activity when favor
able conditions occur. Some evidence
of the truth of this matter is adduced,
and while we do not accept it as abso-
lutey proved, yet it may be true. If
so, it is all the more reason why hog
lots should be changed frequently, and
the ground thoroughly cultivated for
two or three seasons before hogs are
kept on them again.
knowledge is power, and nowhere is
it shown any clearer than in xnowl-
edge Of feeds and feeding. 40 able to
feed intelligently; hundreds Of farmers
are every day wasting by feeding with
out knowledge of the effects produced
by their feeding. They may think they
know from experience good way, but
there may be better way, and IL il
their duty to be in possession of all
that is known from a scientific stand
point that is practical, useful and Geo.
nomical in feeds and feeding. 1t is
said by writers frequently that no other
business is carried ON so blindly and
unmethodically and with less system
than that OF the majority of farmers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
SPANS FAINT HOPE.
Is Seeking a Continental Alliance
or Intervention.
NEGOTIATING NOW WITH FRANCE
statement OF Policy which Declares
that the wsr viii be Prosecuted
TO the End.

New York.-A World cable from
Madrid says: A Continental alliance
fer Spain or Intervention 10 stop the
war is now the joint aim OF Premier
Sagasta, Of ambassador Leon y Castillo
Mt Paris and of the court at Madrid.
Events will soon demonstrate this.
The new Cabinet is regarded as a
makeshift and only temporary. Madrid
papers call ii the "circumstantial Cab
met" Cabinet Of circumstances.
Only an alliance or intervention could
firmly establish it.
The Ministry announced in the
Cortes, through Premier Sagasta as
spokesman, that it is fully resolved to
carry on the war and TO employ for that
purpose every means the Cortes will
place at its disposal, confident OF the
support OF the crown and country. The
Ministry undertakes at the same time
TO crush the rebellions in Cuba and
the Philippine islands with the utmost
severity, reserving for the day of pacia-
cation the accomplishment OF the prom
ised reforms.
As for the finances, the Cabinet ex-
poets TO raise money through the assist
ance of the bankers Of France and oil
Barcelona and through railway conces-
sions. II will be almost impossible to
raise loan in Spain, even with the
guarantee of the tobacco and stamp
monopolies, and the proposed increase
in taxation had to be abandoned be-
cause il was so unpopular.
London. Madrid correspondent
OF the Times says: "A newspaper
which is officially inspired makes the
oracular announcement that Senior
Leon y Castillo, the Spanish Embassa-
dor to France, is engaged in effecting a
impeachment with the French Gov
eminent for reasons which must not
be made public.
Madrid. Ministers, in full uni
form, appeared in the Senate. Owing
TO the circumstances, the new Cabinet
is already nicknamed the "Circum-
stantial Cabinet"
The Premier, Senior Sagasta, ex-
planned the Ministerial crisis, and as
serted that the new Ministry would
continue the policy Of the former Min
istry. He related how Spain did
everything to avoid war, until America,
violating all recognized diplomacy,
attacked Spain with an injustice I'M
precedented in the annals Of civilized
history and compelled Spain to respond
srslh war to Won ~hich Spain would
ccrtinue TO the utmost until an honor
able peace is obtainable."
This" the Premier continued, lis
q strong policy, and the new Govern
ment will also theoretically conduct
negotiations with European and other
states"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

New York.-A man said to be q
Spanish spy and deserter from the
First United States Artillery is re-
ported to be prisoner on Governor &
island. According to the story told
the man was arrested by Secret Service
agents on Broadway. While being
transferred to Governors island on
board the General Hancock the prison
er is alleged to have flung packet Of
papers into the bay, but the boat put
back and the papers, which it is as
serted, comprised details of the harbor
defenses of New York, which were ad.
dressed to the Spanish Consul at Mon.
treal, were recovered.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Profitable Peaches.

The peach is one of the finest fruits
when well cared for, but of late it is
uncertain and is not SO hardy. Per.
haps this is partly due to the way thew
are propagated and cared for. Some
forty years ago, when the soil was new.
or at least the trees were set on new
land, the fruit was one of the easiest
to raise. The trees were abundant
bearers, hardy and long-lived. The
usual way was to set the trees around
the house, which seemed to be adapted
for their well-being. The buildings also
gave shelter. But orchards are neces-
sary now. The favorite soil is light,
warm, sandy loan in sunny exposure,
protected from severe, bleak winds.
The trees should be set sixteen feet
apart each way and kept we'll headed
in. This makes the tree well balanced
and net liable to break down with fruit.
The cultivation should be the same as
for the apple, but the tree requires
more manuring to make the best fruit.
When the tree comes to bearing. the
fruit should be thinned when the size
OF partridge's egg. 1t takes the
strength of the root to make the seed.
and when thinned it makes finer fruit
OF what remains. In thinning, take
on the inferior fruit first. In pruning
and heading in, make the shape of a
tree like an inverted umbrella. Do
not forget to cultivate and manure the
trees as long as they live. They must,
or should be, cultivated as well as corn
or any other farm crop to make the
nnest and most profitable YIELD
Farm and Home.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Fortifying Her Towns.

New York; dispatch to the World
from Gibraltar says: The Spanish
towns nearest to this British possession
are being strongly re- enforced. One
thousand troops have arrived at Sar
Rogue, town of 5000 inhabitants
largely smugglers, seven miles north.
west OF here, on the edge of the neutral
territory between the Kingdom of Spain
and this possession.
More troops have also gone to AL.
geciras, the dilapidated old town six
miles west, straight across the bay
from Gibraltar, and to Tariffa, the
southwest point of Spain, fifteen miles
southwest from here.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
MORE ABOUT SAN JUAN AFFAIR,
Incidents Given by One who Saw the
Bombardmsnt.

Bombardment.
Key West.-An on-looker at the
b0mbardment OF the Notifications OF
San Juan de Porto Rico on May 18th
by the feet of Rear-Admiral Sampson,
says:
The San Juan affair strengthens
the opinion that the reduction of we'll
placed Notifications is hard task for
even the strongest battle-ships. The
secondary batteries OF the ships were
not used after the line had passed be-
fore the forts. This was chiefly on ac-
count of smoke. Drifting in front of
the turrets, it made the handlers OF
the big guns liable to lose all sight OF
land.
The Admiral and his assistant chief
OF staff, Staunton, were in the super.
structure on the lee side of the coming
tower. They did not go inside the
coming tower, which will probably not
be used in action unless the fire is com.
ing from both sides. So far il has
proved rather useless institution.
when the big guns in the turret
were fred it seemed as if the ship was
almost drawn from the water in a
straining effort to follow the projectiles
as they whizzed shoreward. While the
enemy's fire was at its hottest two
jackies stood at the Iowa's bow, with
out any cover heaving the lead. They
worked just as calmly as il in New
York harbor.
" They can't hit US, George" sang
out one of the men to another in the
lee OF the turret. just then a shell
whizzed by. Rig line to that thing,
laughed the man in the chains, point
ing derisively to the water that spurted
nifty yards ahead of him."
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Damage Done by tn. Bomsardmen..

New York.--The steamer Arkadia,
plying between New York and Porto
Rico has arrived here. She was in the
harbor Oh San Juan two days after the
recent bombardment by Rear-Admiral
SIMPSONS feet. Captain Lloyd says
that from fifteen to twenty Spaniards
were killed and about sixty wounded.
Many houses were damaged, one Of
the forts was destroyed and two guns
were dismounted. The Arkadia was
not allowed to bring any Email from
Porto Rico.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Damage to the winsiow.

Washington.-Reports received here
from Key West show that the condi.
tion of the little torpedo winslow
is much worse than was supposed and
1t will be necessary, in all probability,
to have her come to Norfolk for repairs.
One shell smashed her low-pressure
starboard cylinder and another tray-
ersed one OF her boilers. 1t would be
possible to get along under one boiler
and reduce the starboard engine from
a quadruple to triple expansion, but
the efiicency of the boat would be yery
much lowered thereby.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Will Not In terfere.

London.-The Paris correspondent of
the Sunday Special reports an inter-
view with Secretary Sato Of the Japan.
csc Legation, in the course Of which
secretary Sato declared that there was
absolutely no foundation for the state
ment that Japan had protested against
american occupation Of the Philippines.
The Japanese Government, he said.
after the Chinese war, signed a con-
vention with Spain renouncing forever
all territorial rights south Of Formosa.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
A HOPELESS STRUGGLE.
Minister of the Interior Capdepon Makes
Some Striking Admissions.

Madrid.-Senor Capdepon, Minister
of the Interior, has denied in the course
of an interview that the change in the
constitution of the Ministry would in
volve any alteration in the foreign
policy of Spain, all the new ministers
being in favor of prosecuting the war
to the end with the utmost energy.
Spain" said Senior Cadepon, event
perilously near sacrificing her honor in
the interest of peace, only making a
stand when further concessions would
have involved her disgrace and efface.
ment as nation. This she will never
do, and in this resolve the new Cabinet
is as thoroughly determined as the old.
The new Cabinet entertains no illu-
sions. 1t is war in which weakness
and poverty are opposed to greatness
and strength; but Spain is in the posi-
tion of a duellist bound to defend his
honor against the gross insults OF
more powerful antagonist, who, al.
though he in convinced that the result
is almost certain death, yet feels the
force of the principle of 'noblesse
oblige.'
Spain prefers possible defeat to a
certain disgrace. The Ministers know
that the moral sympathies of the pow
ers are with Spain, and that, while
hesitating to undertake the response
billy for action which might lead to a
greater war, they may eventually in
tervene from motives of self-interest
and public policy on behalf Of Spain. :"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
OAs Cerresponden, R.rr.a m,

Washington.-The news bulletin is.
sued by the department has forbidden
the presence of Sylveter Scovel, a news
paper correspondent, aboard vessels of
the Navy or at any naval. station ON &C.
count Of his conduct III stow ing him.
self away on board the tug Uncas on
the recent visit of that vessel to Ha.
vana, he having been refused permits.
sion to go as a passenger.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
C.n,rolling Plant Lice.

Plant lice are among the most i'm.
portant of the injurious insects. They
may be found every year in the orchard
and garden, but seldom in such mum.
bers as during the past season. They
do not devour the tissue of the host
plant but suck the sap by means Of
their tube-like mouth parts. They
swarm upon the open leaf buds and on
the under surfaces of the leaves, caus-
ing them to curl and to become other
wise distorted. These insects multiply
with great rapidity, but are held In
check to 9 certain degree by numerous
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Gomez Said to Be N,ar,n, H.v,n.

New York.-A cable to the World
from Port Au Prince says: Maxine
Gomez, with $4,000 men, is closing in
on Havana. His advance guard, led
by the negro chief, Quinly Bandera,
while no the march met 500 Spanish
troops, who, after a skirmish, took to
flight.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

MISUNDERSTANDING here dismiss
as pure invention the story coming
rom Montreal that former Minister
foio Bernabe has secured for Spain 4
coaiing station on one of the French
islands OF St. Pierre and Miquelon, of
the newfoundland coast. At the French
embassy the report is treated with
indignant contempt.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Salt for Drying Apples.

The Virginia Experiment Station ad !.
vises that apples which are to be eva.
porated should be dipped in a solution
made by adding one ounce Of salt to a
gallon OF water. Dip when they come
from the parer, and again after thew
are sliced. It leaves no taste of salt
in the fruit, which will not be as white
as that treated with sulphur fumes but
VIII retain its natural color and be
much better in quality than sulphur
treated fruit.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

Buenos Ayres, via Galveston. is
announced here that the Spaniards of
Argentina have telegraphed another
million francs to Madrid as war SUBJ
scription, and that the collection of
money for the same purpose will be
continued.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Franco May pr.....

Berlin.-The German Foreign Office
has received reports from Paris saving
France is indignant at the American
cable cuttings, considering such action
to be contrary to international law
ana that she intends to ask the powers
to protest against It.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Japan... Change ome,.,..

Washington. -Keishir Matsul, first
secretary of the Japanese Legation, has
been transferred to London, and Mr..
Nakawaiwa has arrived from Japan to
succeed Matsul.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

Buenos Ayres.-A disaptch received
here from Rio Janeiro says that the
United States Minister there has had a
secret conference with the Brazilian
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02

Washington. The Turkish Legation
declares the report that the Turkish
authorities refuse to allow Americans
TO travel in the interior Of the empire
is without foundation.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Good Rules for the Dairy.

Never mix fresh, warm milk with
that which has been cooled.
When cans are hauled far they should
be full and carried in a spring wagon.
After cleaning, keep utensils inverted
in pure air and sun if possible, until
wanted for use.
Cans used for the return of skim
milk or whey should be emptied and
cleaned as soon as they arrive at the
farm.
In hot weather cover the cans, when
moved in wagon, with a clean, wet
blanket or canvas, or covered wagon or
covered milk box.
All milk should be in good condition
when delivered. This may make it
necessary to deliver twice day during
the hottest weather.
Under no circumstances should any,
thing be added to milk to prevent it's
souring. Cleanliness and cold are the
only preventives needed.
Milk utensils for farm or dairy use
should be made of metal and have all
joints smoothly soldered. Never allow
them to become rusty or rough inside.
Clean all dairy utensils by first
thoroughly rinsing them in warm
water. Then clean inside and out with
brush and hot water in which a
cleaning material is dissolved. Then
rinse and, lastly, sterilize by boiling
water or steam. Use pure water only.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-02
Feed for Chickens.


1t is great mistake to suppose, be-
cause the chicken is small, that it
needs to be fed wholly, or even mainly,
with soft food. The plate of wet corn
meal, left where the young chicks can
get into it, trampling the food with
their dirty feet, and then leaving most
Of it to ferment, as it is sure to do in
the warm sunshine, is the cause of
more mortality among very young
chicks than any other one thing. The
food even of little chickens should be
as nearly dry as it can be to be fed con-
veniently. If corn meal is fed, mix it
with milk curd until the curd becomes
"crumbly." So soon as they will eat,
give them hard-boiled eggs chopped
very fine. Follow this with cracked
wheat or rye. When a week or ten
days old the chicks will eat either rye
or wheat whole, and be all the better
for it. The digestion of the chicken is
naturally strong, if not weakened by
feeding exclusively on soft food. Some
sand or very fine gravel should be
placed where they can get it. They
will only eat what they need. But
with this gravel there is all the greater
necessity for some hard grain for it to
work on in the gizzard. Whole corn
should not be given to young chicks.
1t is too large grain for them to
digest we'll, and its heating nature
makes it apt to ferment in their gizzard,
as indeed corn meal NOV do IL aatan
freely when digestion is impaired.
Some whole small grain should always
be fed to chicks while growing, and
there is nothing better than whole
wheat. The small, shrunken grains
that go out with the screenings in
cleaning wheat are even better for
chickens than the plump grains. They
are harder, have less starch and a
greater proportion of the nutrition that
is required to promote growth and
make athers.-American Cultivator.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-05-12

tion has nearly expired. Then he has
gone to Canada and secured for himself
and q man named Melville the option oi
the mine when John Kenyon $ time is up
That is to say, at twelve o'clock to-mor-
row, when Kenyon's option expires,
your cousin will pay the money and will
own the mine; after which, of course,
Kenyon and myself will be out Of it. l
don't mind the loss at all. / would
gladly give Kenyon my share; but for
John 1t is terrible blow. He had
counted on the money to pay debts of
honor which he owes to his father for his
education. He calls them debts of
honor; they are debts of honor in the
ordinary sense of the word. There.
fore, it seems to me terrible thing that
that" here he paused and did not go
on. He saw there were tears in the eyes
OF the girl to whom he was talking.
1T Is brutal" he said, 'to tell you
all this. You are not to blame for it,
and neither is your father, although
spoke to him in heated manner yes
terday."
"When did you say the option cx-
pires"
"At twelve o'clock tomorrow"
"How much money is required to buy
the mine?"
Twenty thousand pounds"
"Can money be sent to Canada by
cable?"
"Yes, think So"
"Aren't you quite sure?"
"No, am not. 1t can be sent by
telegraph in this country and in Amer.
ica."
"How long will it take you to find
out?"
"Only few moments"
Every we'll; where is Mr.. Kenyon
now2"
kenyon is in Ottawa. 1 had cable
gram from him yesterday"
"Then will you write cablegram
that can be sent away at once asking
him to wait at the telegraph Office un-
til he gets a further message from
your"
"Yes, I can do that; but what good
will 1t do?"
"Never mind what good it will do;
perhaps it will do no good. am going
to try to make it of some good. Mean
while, remember, If l succeed, John
Kenyon must never know the particu-
lars of this transaction"
HE never will; if you say So"
II say so. Now it is six hours earlier
here than it is in Canada, is it not?"
"About that length Of time, | think"
"Very well, lose no time in getting
the cable message sent to him, and tell
him to answer, so that we shall be sure
he is at the other end of the wire.
Then find out about the cabling of the
money. l shall be back here, think.
about the same time you are"
fro DE Continued