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The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
Feeding Rack.

Where the farmer has rough fodder
that he must feed out, advantage can be
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

ground the size of the building-that
is, its ground space Then remove the
soil to the depth of two feet, filling in
again with some good drainage, such as
rock or large gravel. From the bottom
of this pit lead drain to some lower
part of the ground, SO any water ac-
cumulating may be carried off.
Procure some posts by inches
across and 10 or II feet long of good
lasting wood, and put into the ground
so as to stand s feet above. Make
double row of posts opposite each other,
as shown on the ground plan at cut 2,
putting the rows at intervals of about 2
feet and the posts of each row at about
3 feet distance. Well firm the posts into
the ground and line them off squarely
at the top spiking on the top of each
row plate of wood by g. staying
these plates so as to form a double
frame. Now plank up the insides of
each line of posts with 2 inch boards,
fitting the pieces closely and carrying
the work up to the wall plates. The
space thus formed between the boards
pack with tan bark or sawdust, which
will make the sides of the house both
sunproof and airproof. Matters of prime
Importance in preserving the ice. Lay
across the inside and upon the ground
some joists, upon which put loose planks
as a floor. Cover the whole with
layer Of dry straw foot in depth and
the ice receptacle is ready.
For the roof use 3 by inch joists
and have them long enough to form
pitch of full 35 degrees and also to ex-
tend over the outer wall far enough to
carry the roof quite 4 feet beyond
the wall plate. Short struts as shown
in the first illustration may also be add
ed to better support the overhanging
roof. To the rafters, thus made secure,
nail closely fitting boards. Make su-
perstructure here 6 inches in height,
and board up as before to form a box
roof and pack sawdust into it. Cut a
doorway through the roof, through
which to put in and take out the ice.
At the top of the whole insert piece of
stovepipe to afford ventilation, covering
it by erecting four short posts feet
high, on which is to be fixed a pointed
cap. The house is now complete.
Take the ice from the purest water
possible. The blocks are best cut about
2 feet square, and while they are be-
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

For thawing out pumps that are over
looked and allowed to freeze up during
cold weather American Agriculturist
advises as follows: Take three-quarter
inch gas or other pipe 6 feet long, re-
move the top of the pump, push the pipe
down beside the lifting rod until it sets
on the ice, then insert funnel in the
end of the pipe and pour in boiling wa
ter. The pipe will drop as the ice is
melted, and when hole has been thawed
the hot water soon melts the ice, and
the pump is opened This may be done
in from 10 to 20 minutes.
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
The Milwaukee Mlscons1n rel

The Milwaukee Wisconsin reporpe,
a novel delicacy in the Milwaukee mar
ket, new potatoes, tender and in every
sense as delicious as the ordinary July
production. New potatoes in midwinter,
it is claimed, are the result of some Sc
cret process discovered and practiced by
an extensive potato grower at Genesee,
Wis.
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
Every Husband

will be in hot water and ought to be
until he attends to the Heater for this
Fall and Winter whether it's Steam
Hot Water or Hot Air. We have all
kinds.
We keep all sorts of repairs and parts of Fur
naces and Heaters. We send our men any.
where to do P umbing, Gas or Steam Fitting,
We keep Iron Pipe. Pipe Tools, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Narnishes Oil Stoves for Heating,
Mill and Electrical Supplies, Leather Betting,
Tile Facings, etc.
Vote for the best man always, and
vote for us when you need anything
above.
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
OATS AND PEAS.
Grown For Summer Ensilage by New
England Farmer.

Grown For Summer EnsiIage by . New
England Farmer.
''We have hardly come to an under
standing of a suitable rotation of soiling
crops and the methods Of handling
them before the summer silo offers it
self as rival to the soiling system.
This new method obviates some of the
objections to soiling. 1t is cheaper to
handle whole crop at once than in
fragments every day in all weathers.
The handling of the crop is concentrated
and therefore cheapened. The ground is
promptly cleared for the next crop. If
spring grown crops can be matured and
harvested into the empty corn silo in
time to meet the midsummer drought,
we are saving expense in several direc-
tions. Under our conditions this can be
done, writes a Connecticut farmer to
Rural New Yorker. Following are ad-
ditional gleanings from the same source:
The oat and pea crop here is prepared
for and sown in the same manner as oats
are alone About 1-2 bushels of each
per acre are sown. AS far as the stage for
cutting is concerned, look for the time
when the oats are going out of the milk
and the peas are pretty well podded, al
though the matter is more often decided
by the lodging of the crop. When consid-
cradle of the crop goes down, the sooner
it is cut the better.
Our silo is 15 feet square and 90 deep.
In winter we feed 20 or 23 cattle from
the top of it, and in cool weather this
Il ri, Pr1f in xK-Q
feed some half dozen less, and with the
hot weather one-half the above surface
would be plenty large enough. For
summer silo would say, therefore, get
as much depth as possible and not more
than six or seven square feet per ami
NAL of top surface. If a silo is alright
and frostproof, it will exclude warm
air as well as cold, and the only point
of attack and of resistance will be from
the top.
We have put in oat and pea ensilage
whole as it was cut i'll the field, and cut
into 1-2 inch lengths. In either case
the ensilage was as palatable as the best
corn ensilage. We lost considerable on
the outside from dry mold because we
had not sufficient pressure to pack it
tightly. If there is preponderance of
oats in the CROP it should go into the
silo very wet, as the hollow straw car
ries SO much air. If peas predominate,
not so much exterior moisture is neces-
sary. Generally speaking, the crop
should be carted as fast as cut We have
put oats and peas into our empty corn
silo four or five times, and, while there
is yet much to learn, believe that the
practice will, before many years, have
as firm hold as the corn silo
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
GROUND PLAN OF 1cEHoUsE.

ing thrown in have man on the floor
to spread them over evenly and with
heavy hammer break enough ice to fill
in the spaces between the large blocks
The whole mass may be rendered COM
pact by throwing water over the layers
of ice. When the house is filled to the
level of the wall plates, put joists across,
resting them on the wall plates, cover
ing over by floor of loose boards, leav-
ing space for trapdoor, and upon this
floor layer Of tan bark or sawdust 6
inches in thickness
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
FEEDING.

be reached by the stock from four Sides
and the last mouthful can be reached,
as the bottom is close in to the post in
the center. With the sides spread still
more, large stock can feed from the out
side and smaller stock farther in under
the sides. These sides are made OF sep
arate pieces, four in all, and each side
is held up by ropes or chains attached to
the post The sides may hook together
at the hOttOm
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
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5GssRS4FCHRBgA
MAKING AN lCEHOUSE.

An Ornamental Structure That Meets Mod
ern Requirements-HOw to FIJI 1t.
The whole secret of keeping ice lies
in the building of suitable place for
its storage and surrounding it on all
sides, top and bottom with some dry,
nonconducting material. A writer in
American Gardening, who has had to
do with many icehouses, gives the fol-
lowing details, with illustrations, of
house that will meet all modern require
ments. He says:
An icehouse ought to be built above
ground and near two large trees. The
site should be high and dry. To insure
perfect dryness at the bottom it will be
well to first of all mark out on the
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

taken on many
sunny days of
this liking on the
part of the stock
for out of door
eating. An easily
made and con-
venient rack for
such out of door
feeding is shown
i'll the cut here
reproduced from
the New York
Trih11Da TT oop
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

In winter when you see the wild geese
flying south, according to New England
weather lore, expect cold weather. They
fly south because the ponds to the north
are frozen over. When the geese are seen
flying north, warm weather is to be ex-
pected
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

1t is estimated that about $40, 900
worth of meat and 800, 900 worth of
bread are daily consumed in New York
city, while for amusements the pull lie
spends not more than $50, 900 per day
at the theaters
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03
Fighting Off a Frost.

The idea is an old one of fighting off
late frost through orchids, etc, by
building small fires. III California
where fruit growers have met with sue
cess, the best results have been gained
by burning damp smudge Small fires
of damp straw or stable manure, it is
claimed, have saved plantations. Some
times bags of wet stable manure, weigh
ing about 80 pounds each, are distrib-
uted through the orchard. When frost
threatens, little kerosene is poured on
each sack and fired The wet manure
burns slowly, sending off large quanti-
ties of moisture in the form of vapor,
and it is this watery vapor or fog which
prevents the frost.
Different growers have different
methods for creating this artificial fog.
One of them uses frames made of chicken
yard netting mounted on wagons filled
with wet manure or straw. Under them
pots of tar or petroleum are kept burn
ing, and as the heat sends up cloud of
moisture the wagon is slowly hauled
about the orchard. Others employ sim
liar fires as stationary smudges, the
wire netting being stretched between
four stakes driven in the ground.
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

During the months of November and December will sell
high-grade, strictly frst-cas make in beautiful
quarter sawed Oak Walnut Mahogany height four feet five
inches full seven and onehrd Octave and of fine material
and workmanship throughout is used in elaborate
makes any other make of Piano produced in this country
bar none, for
The Jamesburg record., 1897-04-03

A Connecticut Forestry association
was organized at Hartford Dec 80. The
first annual meeting will be held on
Arbor day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
FEEDING FOR BEEF.

A series of experiments conducted
at the Mississippi Experiment Station,
in feeding steers for the production OF
beef, with especial reference to the
values of shredded corn fodder, and OF
the "Jack bean," as compared with
the rations of ordinary hays and cot
tonseed meal, seemed to result as fol.
lows:
l. Shredded corn stalks need to
have silage or some similar iced mixed
with them to make them palatable.
2. Shredded corn stalks are inferior
to either crabgrass, peavine or red
clover hay, though its less cost COM
pensates for part, or all, of the
difference in feeding value.
8. Peavine hay is superior to either
shredded corn or crab grass, but not
equal in feeding value to red clover
hay.
4. The greatest gain and the most
profitable gain was from feeding red
clover huy.
5. Jack bean meal is not eaten with
relish, and appears to be so indigesti-
Bile as to be worthless.
6. Cottonseed meal was the cheap.
est, as we'll US the most effective grain
ration used.
7. Five and one-half pounds of cot.
tonseed meal per steer per day was
fed without injury, while seven and
one half pounds YVES more than the
steers coald use to advantage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
THE HOME DAIRY.

If on every farm more attention is
paid to the home dairy better product
of butter will be turned out and a
greater yield per COW will be realized.
The better the article the more sure
the sale, and the larger the yield per
COW the greater the net profit.
Never try to do dairy work with
beef cattle. Never trust alone to the
pasture to supply the food. Be sure
to have necessary conveniences Of the
best kind for securing the full quantity
of butter fat from the milk. Every
home dairy should raise its choicest
heifer calves, in order that the supply
of good dairy cows may be kept up.
1t will pay for the trouble and ex.
rense. Beside the ready sale at all
seasons for good butter, the milk can
be utilized in many ways, and the
droppings in the barnyard will be
valuable as fertilizer. Build up the
home dairy on strong basis.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
CROPPING BEARING ORCHARDS.

It requires some extra profitable
crop, and one that will itself pay for a
good deaf of manure, to make the
cropping of bearing orchard pay.
We have seen it done with both black
berries AMI raspberries, both of which
do we'll when partially shaded, and
which will not suffer from drought,
as do most of the crops grown in or
chards. On no account should grain
crops be grown in the orchard, unless
1t be where young trees have grown
to bearing size, but without produc-
ing a crop. Even, then, the result is
better accomplished by sowing clover,
to be grown for a year or two.-
American Cultivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
PRACTICAL SHEEP HUsBANDRY.

Try some ground oats and linseed
ground together for the lambs; add a
little sugar and teach the young lambs
to take it from the hand.
We have been three years getting
rid of our focks, and now we are try
lns to get them back again, but this
di nsion should occasion neither sur
pr. s. nor comment. 1t is the Ameri-
can way of doing things.
The tame and gentle flock is always
the most successful and profitable, and
the successful shepherd is that one
whose sheep hear his voice and folio "
him, of course in the human way, for
what they can get.
The wool tariff is almost here, but
where are the 47,O00,000 sheep we
were grazing in the spring OF '93? A
third of them went to the free traders
barbecue.
If one wants early lambs next sea-
son, he must feed the ewes well just
now, and push forward the lambs fol
an early weaving. This will hasten
the coupling time for the season.
Should young lamb get separated
from its mother for some hours, be
careful to milk her out thoroughly be-
fore you let the lamb have access tc
her. The ''penned" milk is opt to xii
the lamb.
The best thing to put on lambs
tail after docking it is mixture OF
some carbolic sheep dip preparation
and common lard or grease. If the
dip is not accessible use turpentiae.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
A New Arctic Idea.

A plan is proposed for reaching the
North Pole by cutting through fields
of ice. The craft is not unlike the
whaleback in appearance, and is made
of steel, heavily riveted, braced and
strengthened to the last limit, in order
to Withstand the buffeting incident to
such a perilous undertaking. At the
bow of the boat is located what, TO,
lack of better name, is called an ice
destroyer, which is composed OF a
combination of toothed wheels not un.
like circular saws. These wheels, by
revolving rapidly, cut the ice into
fragments and open the way through
the most solid fields.
The idea would suggest itself to the
critical reader that this might be very
we'll, provided the Ice was reasonably
thin and there could be any assurance,
in case of accident, that the vessel
could be gotten out Of its rigid en-
yironment. But supposing it was
necessary to back out and the ice had
frozen solid behind it, or if it simply
cuts a passage wide enough to get
through and there were an obstacle in
the way of proceeding, how is the yes,
eel to turn around and get out? The
world is full of the most brilliant in
venticns, which are perfectly right
and satisfactory if all goes we'll, but
there must invariably be left wide
margin for accidents and incidents out
of the common. A piece of mechanism
is not complete, perfect or practical
unless it provides to certain extent
for emergencies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
Merit Wins.

: The invention OF Alabastine marked q new
era in wall coatings, and from the standpoint
of the building owner was most important
discovery. 1t has from a small beginning
branched out into every country of the civil
lized world. The name "kalsomine" has be-
come so offensive to property owners that
manufacturers Of cheap kalsomine prepara-
name, and attempting to sell on the Alabas.
tine company's reputation.
Through extensive advertising and personal
use. the merits of the durable Alabastine are
SO thoroughly known that the people insist on
getting these goods and will take no chance of
spelling their walls for possible saving OF at
the most but few cents. Thus IT Is again
demonstrated that merit wins, and that man
ufacturers Of tirst-class articles will be sup
ported bY the people.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
Did the Bird Hang Itself9 Z

A strange event happened at the Edi-
son laboratory in Orange. N. j., re-
Gently, which puzzled the great inven-
tor and left the question as much in
doubt as ever. 1t is thought by some
Orangeites that on English sparrow
committed suicide on the walls of the
laboratory; by others that merely an
accident occurred. The facts are as
follows: In the end of the loft in one
OF the laboratory buildings 10 a dla-
m.ond shaped arrangement OF holes.
These holes we're left there for ventila-
ton purposes and were made by leav-
ing out certain bricks in the end wall
of the house. They proved capital
nesting places for the sparrows, and
several of the birds were not slow to
make use of them. One day the work
men around the building noticed a
sparrow which was making great to
do over the repairing of a nest. The
little fellow flew in aad out of the hole,
collecting all kinds of shreds and
patches and Intervening them with
the old work of the nest. Finally the
bird secured long piece Of grocer's g
cord, such as is used to tie up small
packages, and flew with it to the nest.
The workmen saw the bird enter the
hole with the string trailing after it..
Then as the part of the cord still hang
ing out of the hole was submitted to
several continued jerks they concluded
that the bird was Intervening the
cord with the fabric of the nest. They
dismissed the matter for the time be-
ing and went about their work.
Later in the day the bird was seen
to be hanging dead outside the hole.
A slipnoose on the end of the string
which it had been using to build the
nest was tightly drawn around its neck
and part of the wing. A photograph
was taken on the spot and an examina-
tion made. It was evident that the
bird had drawn the string into the
hole until nothing but the slipnoose
remained outside. Then for some pur-
pose had flown quickly out and in SO
doing had passed it's head through
the moose. The force with which the
moose closed around its neck must
have strangled the bird instantly. 1t
hung limp, the Intervening of the
other end of the string in the nest
keeping it from falling to the ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31
Holland Still Growing.

Holland has determined upon a
gigantic engineering feat-reclaiming
of 7S7 square miles of land now lying
under the Zuyder Zee. Eight hundred
years ago all of Holland contained 600
square niles of land, or less than one
third of the area of the State of Della
ware. Gradually, by means of great
dikes, land has been reclaimed until
the present area is nearly 13, 900 miles.
This is more than twenty times the
original area. The new work involves
the construction of dam twenty.
seven miles in length. The line will
run from point near Heider, which ia
north of Amsterdam, to the Island OF
Wieringen. Then from the east end
of the island, which is ten miles long,
connecting at point just south of
Workum. The dixie will measure
thirty.fve feet at the base, tapering to
eight feet at the top.
The first task is the driving of two
rows of piles on either side of the pro-
posed dixie, forming passage fifty
feet wide. Against these there will be
packed bags Of sand until two parallel
embankments are raised above the sea
level. The water will then be pumped
out of this area and dry canal formed
from shore to shore. Here on the bed
Of the sea the dixie will be built of solid
masonry. Behind the wall will be q
bank of earth, bound with willow twigs
in q series of basket work. For the
drainage of this great basin colossal
windmills are to be constructed 200
feet in height, with arms seventy-fve
feet long. These will raise the water
into the network of canals which will
cover the reclaimed area. Nor is this
the end of the task. The bottom Of
the sea is sand of little fertility. Top
soil and fertilizers will he brought
from every Dutch colony, and in two
or three generations the depression
will be brought to the level of the
canals. Where once the sea flowed
unrestricted there will be green gar.
dens and farms, dotted with cottages
and towns, and canals covered with
heavily laden barges.
Holland will have spent $50, 900, 600
in completing this enterprise, but she
will have added $500, 900, 900 to her
national wealth, and will have demon
strated afresh the moral greatness of q
people who, in the face of such tre-
mendous national disadvantages, have
the patience to compel earth to yield
her treasures. es.-Literary Digest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-31

An ironclad for the Norwegian Gov
ernment was launched lately from the
shipbuilding yard OF Sir William Arm
strong & Co., England. This is the
first seagoing ironclad owned by the
Norsemen, who i'll the old days swept
the seas with their Viking ships. This
modern vessel was christened the
"Harold Haarfager," after the first
King of Norway, by Nine. StanGe, who
is herself descendant in the thirty
third generation from King Harold.
The ironclad is heavily armed and has
coming tower and two torpedo tubes,
and the armor belt is from four to
seven inches thick. The builders have
an order for second ironclad for the
Noryeoians.