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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

The fact that clover supplies atmos-
pheric nitrogen to the soil is one rea-
son why all grain crops do well after
clover. It does another kind thing,
however, for the farmer. The other
two remaining elements Of fertility are
potash and phosphate acid. Soils have
a great abundance of these elements,
but the greater portion of them is
locked up in forms in which the ordi-
nary grain crops cannot utilize them.
The clover plant, however, has the
faculty of getting after and using all
these forms Of fertility where other
plants fail, and as the clover hay is fed
to stock and the manure resulting is
hauled to the field, and as the roots
decay in the soil, these elements are
left in position where the other plants
can use them. Herein lies the danger
of constantly growing clover. If any
clover is used as a stimulant, or, say,
a fertilizer, and the resulting crops of
hay are sold, theroots plowed under,
grow corn, wheat, oats, and these sold,
and this process kept on from year to
year, the result will be the bankruptcy
of the land in potash and phosphoric
acid, the absolute refusal of clover to
grow, and the disease known as "clover
sickness" When land reaches this
point it is the most hopelessly barren
of all soils, and can only be reclaimed
by the liberal use of fertilizers or else
lying idle for number Of years, until
the forces of nature gradually unlock,
by freezing and thawing, the mineral
elements thatall plantsrequire. Farm,
Stock and Home.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

Prof T. L. Hacker, of the Mime
sofa Experiment Station, says: We
must first determine what we want the
animals for, and then select those which
are adapted for that particular pur-
pose. At the university we keep a
careful account of the cost of keeping
each COW of the herd, with view of
determining the cost of a pound of
butter made from the milk of each
COW. The cost varied from eight to
twelve cents pound, some animals
casting fifty per cent. more than others
in producing a pound of butter. We
divided the herd into two classes and
found that the division that cost the
most to produce butter had tendency
to put on flesh more than the others.
In order to be doubly sure that our
conclusions were correct, we made a
second test with the same result.
Now, why was this? 1 examined the
two classes individually and found
that the spare built COW, with a deep
body, was the best dairy COW. In both
divisions all breeds of cows were repre-
sented. What we wanted to find out,
if possible, was how to be able to tell
without making mistake, the animal
that would make butter the cheapest.
Careful investigation developed the
fact that it took one pound of food to
maintain 100pounds of animal weight,
so that animal that weighed 900 pounds
would digest eighteen pounds of feed
required nine pounds to support her
self and should return the remaining
nine pounds to her owner.
We must feed the COW just what she
needs to maintain and produce the
greatest possible amount of milk select
her food for her, for if you turn her out
where she has access to straw pile or
other coarse fodder she will fill her
stomach with food that she does not
need, and it will occupy the space in
the stomach that should be filled with
nutriment to produce milk. There is
another thing have noticed, and that
is, that in examining Jersey herds we
find the ANIMALS are generally advanced
in age. Large COWS are not as good
for the dairy as they have to carry toe
much weight, and it has tendency t.
wear them out and they put on bee.
and break down and wear out.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

In the opinion Of the Philadelphia
Press expert testimony of all sorts
in our courts has become disgrace
full The law in many States has
now recognized the necessity of pay
ing more than the ordinary wit
ness fees to experts, so that there is a
pecuniary recognition of its value
The three experts in the Barbieri trial
in New York received from the county
$3.50. The fees given experts yearly
in any one of our large cities would
probably pay twice over the annual
salary of permanent experts, but at
present there is nothing permanent
about an expert but his fee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

ucation / thought Il was just another
fad and would soon pass away, but 10
seems 10 get bigger aud bigger the
more they talk about it One would
think there we're no female colleges iu
the land aud that the boys were get.
ting all the education when the truth
he there are more educational facilities
for girls In this state than for boys.
j don't know what h all means. Do
the girls want 30 mix with the boys
aud improve them and be inspired 10y
them2 Then why should not the boys
claim a similar privilege and go 20 the
female colleges and 10 the girls indus
trial school at MilledgeWlle2 five are
going 10 bunch, let ne bunch ,tho
whole concern and include the agri-
cultural attachments and LET the girls
do some blowing II they want 10. But
/ reckon It's just the new woman who
is contending for the abstract right 10
50 to the university. OF course they
won't 90, for their fathers won't let
them as long as the female colleges
are open at Macon and Athens and
LaGrange and Decatur and Rome and
other places. There is plenty Of edu-
cation for them there without the CO..
The best mothers, / know, never got
higher than a high school and the best
co-education Is for the girls TO get mar
ried young and 60 to raising children
and chickens. If they do that dill
igently, they will learn enough in a
lifetime and be as happy as their coll
lege-bred daughters. I've never been
entirely satisfied that such obstruse
sciences as chemistry, astronomy,
tricgonometry, Auxions, calculus,
Greek, rhetoric and logic were of any
use to the average boy, much less to
the girls. / went 10 college and my
wife didn't, and / have to take a back
seat now sometimes. / married her
when she was only sixteen. but if she
had spent four years in college she
would have been so smart she wouldn't
have had me, and l reckon 1 wouldn't
have had her, for no prudent young
man will marry a girl who is smarter
than he is-it is dangerous. Pick ont
your girl and take her young and CO.
educate her yourself BILL ARP in
Atlanta Constitution.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

Lawns can be kept green and thick
set without the use OF stable manure.
City and village people who have a
few square rods Of grass, usually imag-
inc it necessary 10 keep the plot COW
cred for weeks with highly scented and
Ill looking manure, when the fact is
that one half the moneys worth OF
nitrate Of soda and powdered phos-
phate of lime will answer better and
create no nuisance. They furnish TO
the soil, what is most needed, an al
kali, phosphoric acid and nitrogen
both Of them are inodorous and show
their effects Immediately on their APP
plication. Andrew II. Ward.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

A French statistician has recently
drawn up a very interesting docu-
ment showing in what time certain
frontier towns at various periods could
be reached from Paris. For conven-
lent purposes the statistician has
chosen the years 1850, 1882, 1884, 1854
and 1897. In 1850 it took five days
to go from Paris to Calais One hun
,dred and thirty-seven years later,
1882, the duration of the journey had
been reduced to sixty hours. In
1884 it had fallen to twenty-eight
hours, and in 1854 to six hours and
forty minutes. To-day one of the
boat expresses takes three hours and
forty-two minutes. The journey to
Strasburg took 218 hours in 1860, los
hours in 1882, ten hours and forty
minutes in 1854, and to-day matter
eight hours and twenty minutes. The
difference for Marseilles is still more
phenomenal. From fifteen days il
1850 the duration of the journey was
reduced to eighty hours in 1884, anC
to-day it takes twelve and hal
hours. The distance from Paris tt
Bayonne two centuries ago took 38t
hours; to-day it occupies eleven hours
and eleven minutes. Brest can b,
reached in thirteen hours aud thirty
seven minutes, while in 1850 it tool
go hours. Finally for Havre, ninety
seven hours was considered quicl
travelling in 1850. It took ffteel
hours in 1882 and seven hours in 1884
To-day it is a matter of three hour
and fifteen minutes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

Ordinarily people in Canada do not
take sufficient interest in their poll
tics or politicians 10 want to kill any
Of the latter Since Thomas Darcy
McGee was assassinatod, about thirty
years ago, nobody appears TO have
cared enough about any Canadian
statesman TO expend any powder on
him, Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
therefore, who has just been fred at,
ought to feel complimented. Happy
man, exclaimed old Dr. Arbuthnot TO
a patient dyingwith a peculiar malady,
you have revived a disease which
has been dead six centuries.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

In his recent address before the
English Church Congress, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury gave some ad-
vice to workingmen, speaking as a
workingman himself. He had been
left fatherless, he said, at the age Of
thirteen, and had been obliged to earn
his own living since he was seventeen.
He had known what it was to do with
out a fire, because he could not afford
it, and to wear patched clothes and
boots. He learned to pillow as straight
as furrow as any man in the parish,
and he could thrash as we'll as any
man. If, he added, the workingman
would practice self-restraint, would
never waste his wages in drink, but
find happiness in the love of home
and family, he would find little of the
burdens of life or of the inequality
which was inevitable.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24
SHE SPILLED SOME SALT.
Mrs. birmingham Knew She Would Have
a Quarrel, and Il Came.

you women" said Mr.. birmingham,
"are always making fools Of yourselves
over your superstitions. Here you are,
worrying tlst because you happened to
spill a little salt. Why, it's ridiculous!
Perfectly ridiculous!"
ooh, yes" Mrs. birmingham replied,
81 suppose it is. But I've never known
it to happen yet without making me
quarrel with somebody. I've noticed
it a thousand times.
"a thousand times, your grand
mother! What's the use of eXaggerat-
ing things like that? I'll bet you never
spilled salt twenty times in your life,
and if you quarreled after doing it, it
just happened so, that's all"
Perhaps it just happened, but that's
the very thing that worries me.
don't want it to happen. And as far
as being superstitious is concerned, I
guess you're just about as bad as the
next one. Didn't you have to spit over
your right arm and hop three times
around an imaginary circle when you
saw the new moon over your left
shoulder the other night?"
Il did that because you made such
blamed fuss about it."
ooh, yes, it's well enough to try to
blame it all on me; but l guess you
wouldn't have done it if you hadn't
been afraid yourself"
''Well, that's what fellow gets for
making a fool of himself to please his
wife"
ut seems to me that you are some
times very willing to make a fool of
yourself to please me, but are never
willing to do anything else to please
me-"
ooh, of course not! Why, I'm the
most horrible wretch that woman
ever promised to love, cherish and
obey!"
Henry birmingham, 1 want you to
understand that l didn't promise to
obey"
"You did"
mo, l didn't! When the preacher
said that l didn't repeat it."
| II all the SAINT. II . part VI INC
marriage service"
Il don't care. There is no reason
why a wife should have to obey, when
the husband isn't compelled to do So"
There isn't, Ell? Why, most women
are fools. They've"
Eyes, l know that. They prove it by
getting married"
ooh, we'll, go on! OF course you've
got to have the last word A man
might as well try to reason with a
donkey as try to get woman to take
a sensible view of anything. Con-
found it, I sometimes wish I could
throw down everything and get out
of this forever"
Then he grabbed his hat and hurried
away without kissing the sweet little
woman goodby, after which Mrs. Tur-
bingham threw herself upon the lounge,
buried her face in the pillows and
sobbed:
81 kn-knew the moment sp-spilled
the salt that l would quarrel with
some bo-body! 1t ne-never f-f-fails!
B-o-o-o-o-o!"-Cleveland Leader.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24
Protecting Tree Trunks.

After making numerous trials Of
various wraps and washes 10 protect
tree from rabbits, mice, borers aud
sunscald, / and that wrapping with
burlap is the most effective. This ma
terial will last two years.-Samuel
Edwards, Of Illinois.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

News / haven't been clamoring ID
more protection on wool, for i owl
no immense Aocks on a thousand q
even one hill, but ] do think that
made a big mistake in not keeping
least a small flock on my farm froI
the time / left my fathers house.
Sheep pay They pay irrespectiT
of the wool, and IL is time more
usare waking upto the fact. am gla
TO see that Farm News keeps hammd
ing away on the subject.
Professor Curtiss, Of our State IA
pertinent Station, has very conclJ
siyely shown our farmers the advaI
tages Of sheep raising. BY a serid
Of experiments, he has demonstrate
that lambs under one year old wi
show greater increase from a givd
amount Of feed than will cattle con
ing two years old, and there's I'll
kernel Of the mutt the mutton vi
bring n better price than the bed
You get more pounds of it aud moi
for it per pound. The clip Of wool
just 80 much extra-thrown in,
boot. And, moreover, land this is al
other important fact) the sheep who
You have sold them, have left yoI
land richer and cleaner than who
you put them of it.
1t pays to raise sheep.
An institute lecturer once summj
up the advantages of sheep in I'd
wise, and l have kept his summit
up in my scrap book, to keep up 4
courage when wool is low in prid
l. They are profitable.
2. They weaken the soil least al
strengthen it most.
3. They are enemies of weeds.
4. The care they need is requirI
when other farm operations are slad
3. The amount of investment ne
not be large.
6. The returns are quick al
many.
7. They are 'he quietest and easil
handled of all farm took.
s. Other farm prooGots are ma
more largely from cash grains, VIII
those from the sheep are made prI
cipally from pasture.
8. There is no other product of 1
farm that has fuctuated so slightly
value as good mutton.
10. By comparison wool costs no
ing, for do not the horse and COW
shedding their coats waste what 4
sheep saves?
In conclusion let me repeat: She
pay.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24
NC Advantage OF sheen.

I am not exactly a sheep crank,
says d. S. Young, Of Iowa, in Farm
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24

Keep abreast Of the times and en-
courage home enterprises by keeping
up your subscription TO this paper. If
you are not on our books now, send us
your name at once.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-12-24
Chemical Reason why Fall Flowing
Better Than Spring Flowing.

Better Than Spring Flowing.
To prepare the ground for the 81
it should be deeply plowed in
autumn and cross-plowed, as the Ia
cannot be plowed in the spring wi
out exposing a large surface to
strong drying effects of the spr.
winds and thus occasioning the l.
from the soil by evaporation of qu'
tity of water proportional to the
crease of surface exposed. By
reciprocal action of the atmosph
and the soil the latter keeps up
store of available nutritive matte
The silicates soluble with dificu
slowly yield alkalies, lime and m
nesia in soluble forms; the sulphi
are slowly converted into sulpha
and generally the minerals of the &
are disintegrated and mixed under
influence of the oxygen, the water,
carbonie acid and the nitric acid of
air. Again, the atmospheric nitroe
is assimilable by the soil in the sht
of ammonia, nitrates and the ami
like matters of humus.
The rate of disintegration, as v
as that of nutrifcation, depends
part upon the chemical and phys
character of the soil, and partly W
the temperature and meteorolog
conditions.
Moreover, the soil lying in ro'
interfurrows has been subjected to
action of frost; it is in its upper J
ers so broken up and divided IN
directions by the powerful expans
of the water, when converted into I
as to be reduced to the condition.
the greatest possible fineness-rec
nized and so much desired by the 4
mer under the term mellowness. n
1t has consequently attained /
degree of pulverization and porol
which, with an adequate degree
moisture, affords a solid standi
ground for the young plant, Will
the same time enough air for the
velopment of the germ can penet
the surface of the soil, and in the
per layers nutritive material for f
young plant dissolved by the moist
of the winter is always present. 2
therefore in accordance with res
not to pillow the land at all in
spring, but to put in the seeds W
out further preparation than p
ious narrowing.
The vigorous development of pls
depends far less upon the weight
size of the seed than upon the dc
to which 1t is covered with the ca
and upon the stores of nourisht
which it finds in its first period Of
Andrew Il. Ward.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
Large New Barn l..

Mr. +. A. Kohhaas is erecting a large
barn in the rear OF his meat market in
place of the old one which will be torn
down. The new barn will be 4 6 feet long
by % feet in width and will have room
for eight horses on the lower floor, beside
buggy and sleigh room and harness
room. The second floor will have an
oat bin connecting with each of the
stalls, by patent oat cleaning and feed
ing machine. The frame work OF the
barn is already mp and the structure will
be completed in few weeks. 1t will be
fitted with all modern stable convienences
and will be one of the neatest barns in
the city. Contractor John Blomquist is
doing the work.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

Calumet is having more than it's share
OF distinguished visitors lately. United
States Senator Julius Cesar Burrows
came out on the morning train accom-
panied by Lieutenant Governor Dunstan,
Congressman Carlos ID. Sheldon and Mr.,
j. R. Dee. The party was met by Supts.
Duncan and Parnall and the day was
spent about the city. Senator Burrows
is looking for reelection to his seat at
Washington and is here looking after his
political interests.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

A teamster named Berg, driving one OF
the Vienna Bakery wagons. was quite
seriously injured this morning by falling
from his seat. He ran into a cow with
the wagon and was thrown out on the
road, striking his head on sharp stone
He was taken to the Osceola Hospital
where 1t was found be suffered conclusion
OF the brain by the fall.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

record. This was his first camp IA
colonel, but he succeeded in having the
Fifth recognized a. the best all round
regiment in camp. The regimental band
also came in for its share of praise and
q vernon Pingree is quoted as saving it
was the best in the State.
Many of the Company ID boys stayed
in Detroit three days and will be home
Saturday
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
Registration Of Deaths.
no UNDsRrAKExS AN0OruRHs

4
4 Public Act No. 2l7 OF 1897, entitled IAN
act to provide for the registration of deaths in
Michigan, and requiring certificates of death
viii take effect on August 90, 1897.
|. Under its provisions, underwriters and all
persons experimenting the burial OF the dead
are required TO have a certificate of death
filled out and certified To by the attending
physician, any, as 10 the cause of death; on
presentation OF such certificate To the under
signed. the local regiSt ar OF deaths for Calu
met township excluding. however, the villages
OF Red Jacket ana LauTium, burial or re-
moval permit will be issu, d, which permit
must be obtained in all ordinary cases BEFORE
the interment or other disposition OF the body.
obtained from the undersigned.
Any undertaken or person violating any Of
the provisions OF the said act will, upon con-
viction thereof, be punished 10y a fine of not
less than five collars and not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the coun-
~ jail not exceeding thirty days, or suffer
both fine and imprisonment at the discretion
OF the court. FRED MACKENZIE.
Township Clerk
Calumet, Mich, August 10. 1897.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
Business Chances.

Inducements offered to men with CAPT
tai and experience to build and operate
-four mills, oatmeal mills, feed mills. fax
mills, paper mills, starch factories and
creameries in new town on the Great
Northern Railway in the Northwest.
Address A. A. WHITE, 1920 Pioneer Press
Building, st. Paul, MINI.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

ROUTEN I'D s. p. Bay; T.
Toronto; C. p r. Hamilton; X to Nc R
Buffalo, alroad from North ay
n.
re NO. I'D, B.
Owen ?. to T. H. B. to Wland: M GRR
eroute
ROUTE 70 ui
norr,, w.. NJ e. K r. TO Buffalo Return eroute,
eruute
Meals and berthsa ud-di Wac p 6 =
Meals and berths ia ID. x 5. NC steamers
TENDER ~ 'e 0'p
For further particulars apply
George w. Hibbard
Gen. Passenger Agent
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

A steel ceiling is being put in the addi.
ton to Mr.. John F. Schroeder's restau-
rant, which is now nearly completed.
The additional room makes the restau-
rant more convenient than 1t was before.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

There will be u regular meeting OF
George Washingt on Lodge, No 1. Junior
Sons of st. George Saturday, August 81
at 5 o'clock sharp. All members are re-
quested TO be present as there is instala-
ton of officers. -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

There will be special meeting of Circle
Star OF Red Jacket, No. 234, companions
of the Forest, Foresters If America, Sat.
urday, the 21st inst, a 2:30. All mem
bers are asked to be present, as business
of Importance is to b. transacted.
A. MOORE, Secretary.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19

Mrs. Joseph Ester went to Milwaukee
on Monday last to visit her daughters,
Sisters Joseph and Alice of the Notre
Dame convent.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
JOSEPH r. JAMES. Secretary.

The regular meeting az Willing Wort :
ers Tent, No. 20, | D. II will be held in
their hall on Thursday eyeninv, August
10, at 7:30 O'Clock All members are re-
quested TO be present IA business Of i'm
portance ia TO be Transacted.
A. BIsCoMBE, r. S.