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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

has long been hunting a missing ledge
on Bear Creek about sixty miles Dorth-
east of Fresno, recently found Il slight
stringer of gold quartz. which was fol-
lowed up few feet and DEVELOPED
two.foot ledge very rich in free gold
and sulphurets. Experts who have
examined the find say that there is at
least $40, 900 in sight.
The annual timber fires on the
lower Columbia River, Oregon, have
set in, and on the Washington side the
fires are raging furiously from points
in the interior between Kalama and
Vancouver to Calumet and Skamowa.
From the banks Of the Cowlitz about
Clifton and along the high-timbered
bluffs overlapping the river for miles
ON that side and in that vicinity the
fires are visible at night from the
river, and passengers on boats say the
spectacle Is beautiful. There is not
much destruction reported as yet, but
unless it should rain there will be ex-
tensive damage.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
MoNAsTERlEs OF METEoRA.
An Extraordinary Scene on the Macedo-
niAn Frontier.

An Extraordinary Scene the Macedo-
nian Frontier.
Between the curve of the Macedo-
nian frontier of the mountains of Khas-
sia and the open town of Kalabaka,
which terminates the long western
plain of Thessaly, lie the monasteries
of Meteora A casual glance gives the
idea of the whole space being occupied
by lines of bare hills, but ON nearer
inspection curious amphitheater is
found, carved out among the noun
tains, and this is occupied by most
extraordinary collection Of rocks, on
which are perched, like storks nests
or the turban on Turkish tombstone,
the aerial monasteries Of Meteora. In
one place huge monolith is found lit
orally crowned with buildings, as in the
case of the monastery Of All Saints,
popularity known as Haglos Barlaam; in
another group of jagged rocks will
have one point capped by monastery,
as is seen in st. Nicholas. The most
striking feature about these monster
les is the method by which they are
reached, either by loose ladders hanging
outside the perpendicular rocks or by
being wound up by means Of windlass
in net at the end of rope.
From its beautiful position, its size
and the fair preservation Of its build
ings the monastery Of Haglos Barlaam
is very good specimen of these fifteenth
century monasteries, but what makes
this one Of especial interest is that
the rope is said to be the longest used
for the purpose-840 feet. The ladders
to this monastery are not SO difficult
to climb as some, but inasmuoh as they
pull out every time you grip them and
oscillate frightfully it is pleasanter to
risk the net.
The monastery of Haglos Nikolaos
appeared to be in totally dilapidated
condition and entirely deserted when
we visited Meteora, while the ladders.
which rise from neighboring peak and
hang from the bare rock, are impractical
BILE. All these monasteries are under
the archimandrite, man of command
ing presence and sanity countenance
The village of Kastraki is jammed i'll
between the outer rocks of this curious
amphitheater, and in the slit of this
rocky wall at the back of the village
stands most peculiar hourglass look
ing monolith. The rocks ON either side
are perforated with strange holes,
which in the fourteenth century were
inhabited by the monks of st. Anthony
London illustrated News.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

On most farms a few pigs can be
profitably fed for market. There are
usually some products that are unmar.
ketable or that would fetch but little,
as skim milk. small potatoes, ETC..
which, if fed in connection with some
grain will produce good growth, and
il Judgment has been used in purchas.
ing the pigs and grain, the pork will
sell for considerable more than iIs
cash cost.
E. 7. Perkins writes to the Epito
mist that a neighbor who is a dairyman,
is making handsome side income by
feeding pigs ON dairy waste in conneo.
tion with grain, his grain bill being
quite small. Again, the manure OBJ
tanned is quite a help in increasing
the produotiveness of the soil. l buy
my pigs when four to six weeks cid
feed them till they weigh 1875 pounds
dressed, as that weight is in good de
mand.
Corn meal gives excellent result.
when fed in connection with skin
milk. but in using much carbonaceou.
food | want fully half by weight o.
protein food. A by-product known
here as mixed feed (similar to shorts
give good satisfaction. Most of tn,
corn is fed in the form of meal, fol
b1y it as cheaply ground as nm.
ground. If l raise the corn AIN doubt
full if l should have it ground. Whole
corn sould not be fed in trough, al
too much will pass through unmasti
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Tomato Gravy.

Much Is said, and none too much, OF
the dietetic virtues of the apple. Next
to it, perhaps, we may rate the tomato
1t has one virtue that we have never
seen mentioned; the property of emul-
styling fats. To this may be added a
singular faculty of assimilating itself
to the flavor Of meat gravy with which
Its juice may be cooked. Our house
keeping friends may try a fried steak.
for once, by cooking little tomato
Juice in the sizzling pan just after re-
moving the meat. Any melted fat, or
baked shreds and Juice adhering to the
iron, or butter applied to the meat, en-,
tirely disappear in an emulsion, max.
Ing a rich, copious, reddish brown
gravy, with the true meat flavor scarce
ly modified by slight piquant acidity
from the fruit. II the steak has been
left in vessel to save Its DRAWINGS
since 1t was cut, and this Juice be put
in with that Of the tomato, the gravy
will be by so much enriched and en-.
larged, as well as thickened, by the
coagulation Of the additional albumen
Colandered tomato pulp with this meat
juice makes a thick sauce OF like rich
,favo- Cor rnast or stew.-The SANITARY
Ezra.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
RuraIist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
New Sensible Hints to Suit the busy
AErieulturist.-Items That May
Benefit our Readers.
vine Hoppers.

Bulletin I16 Of our own Experiment
Station is by Professor G. W. Wood
worth, and is devoted to the California
vine hoppsr. We do not review it
at length for the reason that any one
of our readers can obtain the complete
bulletin free by asking for it by postal
card of the director of the Experiment
Station, Berkeley. All vineyardists
should obtain it, for the vine hopper
is one of the most annoying Of pests
an ] this bulletin contains what is now
known of possible methods Of dealing
with it. For the benefit of more dis
tant readers we will say that the vine
hopper is a small winged insect which
lives upon the leaves of most plants,
preferring the grapevine when avail
able. In California it does not hiber-
nate, but is active during the winter,
the greater part, however, perishing
during that season. Ordinarily the
numbers remaining in the spring Will
be too few to do serious damage, and
this is probably always the case in our
Coast districts. In the dry interior,
however, an open, comfortable winter,
like our last, will leave quite an
army of the pests still alive, which
rapidly multiply and do serious injury
by sheer force of numbers. 1t is a
sucking insect, and so cannot be in
jured by poisonous sprays. They can,
however, be killed by caustic sprays
like kerosene emulsion, applied in
the morning. when the hoppers are
sluggish. This, however, is very ex-
pensive after the vines get large. The
hoppers do their injury by destroying
the leaves, which ripen and drop when
seriously infested. The insects can
only be dealt with effectively when
they become abundant, and all at
tempts at prevention by any form of
winter treatment are useless. In the
opinion of Professor Woodwork by far
the cheapest and best method of deal
ing with them is to let them alone
until it is seen whether they are likely
to SO increase as to do injury, and,
when that appears likely, to make
cheese cloth nets of the form usually
employed by scientific bug-hunters,
and put men in the field to catch them.
The necessary skill in the use of the
net Is readily acquired by any one, and
there is a good deal of fun in it when
the day is not too hot. By this means
the majority can be captured and
killed, and the numbers so reduced
that no injury results. The why and
wherefore of all this is fully explained
in the bulletin.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

Leonard Coates of Napa is one of the
pest fruit authorities on the Pacific
Coast and is giving California horti-
culturists some good advice weekly
through sthe columns of the Cslifor-
mia Frnit Grower. On the subject
of prunes he writes as follows:
There are two varieties of prunes
which may be absolutely relied upon
Il should say three, with some quail
fications-and they are Splendor, I'm
perisle d'Epineuse and Robe de Ser
gent, or d'Agen. The first has all the
good qualities Of the Petite or French
prune, with much more size and stur-
der habit of growth. The second is
equal in size and weight, but of the
habits of the trees | cannot say more
until they have been longer tested on
the same ground. Robe de Sergent,
still believe, is superior in quality to
any other, but rather more difficult to
handle owing to its tender skin, the
wood uniting only with the plum and
the tree being an uncertain or shy
bearer unless planted close to other
plums that bloom with it. If this
is done, experience has shown me for a
number of years that it is an enormous
bearer.
Now for the application: Plant
these three varieties only, land and
location being suitable, or if they can
not be had in sufficient quantities,
plant few, using seedlings for the
remainder which may be budded over
the following year. Those who have
prune orchards in bearing should
every year graft over few hundred
trees to these improved varieties.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
eAsooN A SOUTH AFRICAN PEsI
Prey on Valuable Stock and Delight
IA Mischievous Deeds.

IA Mischievous Deeds.
The South African colonists have got
lid of their lions and elephants, but
they have not yet been able to get the
better of the balloons. A babOon. al
though somewhat like a dog, has all
the mischievousness of a man. 1t is
the ugliest animal in all creation. The
Beers call him Adonis, and never des-
ignate him under the official name that
has been given to him by science.
Now this creature is the curse of the
Cape colony. He commits depredations
for the love of the thing. Any impru-
dent tomcat that ventures too far away
from home is sure to be captured and
strangled for fun by a baboon. Nearly
all the Angoras, the choices and most
costly animals imported by the colon
lists, have been destroyed by these huge
monkeys. Even the dogs share the
same fate. The bravest and most pug
nacious of the English canine breeds
are unable to cope with adversaries,
armed with just as powerful jaws, and
with the immense advantage Of having
four hands instead of four paws. With
a dexterity that conspicuously exhibits
his surgical aptitudes, the baboon
bleeds his enemy in the throat, and In
less than a minute the duel ends in the
death Of the dog.
When the shepherd is away and the
dog has been disposed of the flock is
loft Htrith
balloon generally feeds upon lizards
and beetles, he does not despise few
mOuthfuls of mutton, which he de-
yours seated on the back of his living
victim. Unfortunate are the goats and
! sheep that are attacked by these cyno-
cephali. When Adonis finds his appe-
| tite fully satisfied he enjoys at a little
distance the contortions of his victim.
He frequently attacks cows, but never
Attempts to get into close quarters with
Il bull. The ostrich, thanks to its extra
ordinary speed, can easily get away
from the baboon, but 1t Is very much
afraid of him, and Immediately runs
off on hearing his bark. 1t Is note
worthy that nature has given the ba-
boon not only the head of a dog, but
also the voice of dog. All birds that
are not remarkable for their intelli-
gence have an insurmountable dread
of the cynOcephalus.
One of the principal amusements OF
these big monkeys is to gambol around
the wire fences that protect the tame
ostriches just to terrify them. The pan
ic among them is SO great that they
often break their legs in their wild
PUSHES. This is a pastime which the
monkeys seem to enjoy hugely. 1t IL
known that broken leg for an ostrich
means death sentence.-Paris Figaro
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Points on Berry Culture.

All berry bushes should be protected
from summer heat and drought. This
may be done in two ways, viz: First,
by frequent cultivation and hoeing.
thus forming an earth mulch, which
prevents the rapid escape of moisture
from the soil; second, by covering the
ground around the hill with coarse
manure. straw and other material,
which prevents evaporation and retains
the moisture about the roots. A good
mulch we'll applied is one of the great
necessities in fruit growing.
When new canes of the blackberry
and black raspberry are Is inches high,
nip the top off about two inches; this
will cause several new latersls to
grow, which should be trimmed
severely in the spring. The pinchinS
back Of new growth is important. 1t
largely increases the bearing surface,
keeps the bush low, strong, we'll formed
and less liable to injury by storms.
Frequent cultivation makes plant
food more available and is especially
necessary after an irrigation. The
ground must be kept mellow through
out the growing season.
Allow no fruit to grow on straw.
berry plants the first season; pick off
all buds and blossoms.
The matted row with clean paths
between is best for most varieties and
most growers. Avoid having the
plants too thick in the row and you
will have large and better berries.
With strong growing varieties remove
first runners. The ideal method would
be to allow first runners to make plants
until matted row is formed. give
each plant five or six inches square
space in which to grow and removing
all runners thereafter. This is seldom
accomplished in practical berry grow
ing.
Clean cultivation is the great safe
guard against fungus diseases and in
sect pests. These enemies are coward.
ly, they always attack the weak and
unprotected plants first. Look for
them closely and apply remedies at
once.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Bees and Alfalfa.

The profits in growing alfalfa may
be doubled by keeping bees in connec-
ton with the same. Alfalfa is the best
honey plant now known, not only in
quantity, but quality. The products
in honey gathered by bees from alfalfa
may reach from 200 to 800 pounds an
acre. This alone, at the present prices
Of honey, would be worth more, or at
least as much, as the crop itself.
Denver Field and Farm says that IL is
true that much depends upon the
management of the crop as to its value
in honey production, and also the same
as to its crop value. II handled so as
to produce the best results as seed
crop, it is always in the best condition
to furnish honey. If it is cut before it
blossoms it is of no value Ms honey
crop. The harvesting may be done to
get the best results in either by cut
ting portion at time, just as it be-
comes ready, thereby having fresh
bloom almost constantly, which
would, Of course, be necessary to get
the best result in honey. Alfalfa will
furnish money during dry and
droughty weather, when all other
blossoms, with the exception of the
cleome plant, are entirely dried up
as to their nectar producing qualities,
and will continue right through a
severe drought.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Irrigated Wheat.

The fact that the irrigated wheat
farm has a fine crop to sell this year
when prices are up and the lack of
spring rains cut the rainfall-crops so
short, suggests that we do not give at
tention enough to the subject of irri-
eating for wheat. Wheat has been SO
low of late that it hardly seemed worth
enterprise of any kind but it is not so
now, nor is it likely to be so in future.
1t is more than likely that wheat
will not go as low again in genera
ton. And then if it is low enough
more weight can be had by irrigation
to make a good margin. The Fresno
Expositor tells of Levi Goodell who
has one Of the finest places on the West
Side. He raises wheat on an irrigated
quarter section, on the Slough, and
got 5000 sacks off it this year, weigh
ing about 145 pounds to the sack.
This is over twenty-five bushels to the
acre and it certainly cost him less TO
irrigate than 1t did his dry land neigh
bors to sow and reap nothing. The irri-
gated grain land on the West Side
covers an area about twenty. five miles
long and three miles wide. 1t is heavy :,
black tule land and wheat does we'll
on it. We ought to have much more
irrigated wheat land.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

Gated; il should be fed on floor or on
the ground and always in certain
place.
In summer I fence in a piece Of
rough, bushy pasture land and let the
pigs run there. They enrich the
ground and get il in better condition
70 pillow. / think also that exercise
and pure air are good for them, and !
much prefer the pork grown in such
a pasture to that produced in a small,
filthy pen. Whenever ] cannot Keep
my pigs in clean, healthful quarters, |
shall quit feeding pigs.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Lie of Raea.

A bees life depends entirely upon
the amount of work there is in it.
The little frail boy can only do just SO
much and then it is worn out. Bees
Matched late in the fall will live the
longest, for they do not work at all and
only get a few fights before they are
shut MP for the winter. Those Matched
early in the spring live nearly as long,
if they are in prosperous colony, for
there are many days when they can
not work.
During the busiest season the honey
bee lives only about six weeks, and if
the flow is heavy it will gather tea
spoonful of honey. When you are
tempted to waste a piece of comb
honey or little of the extract left in
the bottom Of dish, think how many
weary little fights there were before
that could be gathered and how preo.
ious every drop of it was to some poor
little worker.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

The peace negotiations between the
ambassadors of the powers and Tewfk
Pasha, the Turkish Foreign Minister,
are at oomlpete standstill. This is
due to the refusal of Lord Salisbury to
allow Turkish occupation of Thessaly
pending a partial payment of the in.
demnity agreed upon. Lord Sails
bury's objection is based upon fear
that an occupation thus begun might
become permanent.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

Prince Henri of Orleans, the royalist
heir to the French throne, and the
Count of Turin, nephew of King Hum
bert of Italy. fought duel near Paris.
Prince Henri was wounded twice and
was declared the loser. The trouble
grew out Of disparaging remarks
against the Italian officers in the re.
cent Abyssinian campaign, made by
Prince Henri in the Paris Figaro. His
physicians consider his condition salts
factory.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
Dry. Loose. Soil.

One Of the most important aids of
modern agriculture is the capillary
action Of the soils in drawing water
from deep down in the earth to feed
our crops.
As simple illustration, dip piece
OF cloth IN some water and the water
will Immediately begin to creep slowly
up the cloth in direct opposition to the
law of gravitation. This water is
forced upward by capillary attraction,
and it is practically the same process
that goes on in our fields in dry
weather. To get the full advantage
from this force we must keep the
ground well stirred to form mulch
that will prevent the soil where the
roots are from drying too fast.
II the top soil is allowed to become
too hard and baked from any cause,
the suns rays seem to penetrate very
readily and exact so much of the mois-
ture that the plants begin to suffer in a
comparatively short time after rain.
A mulch of almost any material would
answer the purpose of keeping the soil
moist, but there is no other that is so
available as two inches of dry, loose
soil, and this is obtainable everywhere
by frequent cultivation with the right
kind of implements.
J. 81. Carpenter. founder of the
Carpenter Steel Works of Reading,
Pa. of which he was formerly general
manager. has prepared statement
showing that steel armor plate can be
furnished to the Government at tri-
fling figure compared with what is
now being paid. Mr.. Carpenter claims
that by new pneumatic processes steel
OF the best physical properties and
chemical conditions can be uniformly
made and much waste avoided. A
plant can be built for less than half
the money. and the steel can be made
and cast in quarter of the time now
required.
The striking miners at Pittsburp saw
that if free speech is denied them and
Leader Gompers is arrested. the whole
federation Of labor will be called out.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

The Ordnance Bureau of the War
Department has awarded the contract
for building five disappearing gun
carriages to the Bethlehem Iron Com.
pany Of Bethlehem. Pa, at $2s. $50
each. The first carriage is to be ready
in four months. and one is to be CON-
pleted every five weeks thereafter.
These carriages are to be not only dis
appearing. but they are to he set on q
swivel for all-around firing. They
will mount i2-inch guns.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

The greater part of Silesia. Ger
many, has been visited by severe
storms, and several persons have been
killed by lightning. Typbus fever is
rampant at Rogan in consequence of
the water used for drinking there hav-
ing become infected by the refuse &C.
cumulated by the floods.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
The Shooting of "a Judge.

Woodstock, Vt.-Thomas o. Seaver,
Judge of the Probate Court. was shot
through the right lung by William
Lawrence because the Judge had issued
restraining order against Lawrence
involving the custody of the latter's
child. The wound is dangerous.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16

A cloudburst in Normanskill valley,
New York. washed away ten bridges
and ruined crops besides doing other
damage.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-06
More ArtiIlerymen Needle d.

The Philadelphia Press says: Gen.
Miles puts his finger on the crying
need of national defense when he calls
for two mo regiments of arlillerymen.
This country has now spent SO, QUO, 900
on new coast guns: 1t IS about 20 speud
in the next ten years so, 900, 900 more.
1t has not yet provided a single man
to fire these new guns. Our new forts
are without garrissons. La the event
of war every artilleryman now in the
regular army will be needed in the
field. " ithout using all the artillery
regiments now in existence, it will be
impossible to give the infantry CT the
pational guard the requisite gun sup
port IN active operations. No gunners
would be left in the forts. A gunner
cannot b mao in day. The modern
be avy gun calls for lor & ana arduous
training. Today We have gun-plant
ia our forts and no gunners. This is
wanton waste of the worst order. With.
out two new regiments of heavy artil
lery our new forts are today practically
useless and lack defenders for their
costly defenses.