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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
bermuda Gruss.


There is but one grass, and one only
that will take full possession Of our
lands and hold its own through sum-
mer's heat and winters cold. wet or
dry, and that is Bermuda. 1t is peren-
nal. and If not choked out by rank
vegetation will endure for all time
Moving will prevent this 1t is a per-
manent pasture, however, that we wish
to adyocate,it Every farmer should
have n sufsiciency Of it near his house
for all his stock, and should set to
work now to prepare for It's setting
next spring by leaving implanted or
unutilized all the ground he wishes to
devote to it. 1t will feed more stock to
the acre than any known grass, and
for longer period. All kinds of stock
are fond of it. The value of an acre
If good land soddcd with it is un-
known.
1t is useless TO try new-fangled ami
NAL grasses so much Wanted in other
sections or by the agricultural press.
Get you all the bermuda your stock
require. You will never regret it.
With this grass for green pasturage.
spring, summer and fall, and COW pease
for hay in winter, a farmer has all he
needs in this line. Oats for winter
grazing fills the bill completely.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

PAINTING ON THE FARM.
AN Effective Way to Keep the Machine.
In Good Order.

AN Effective Why to Keep the Machines
In Good Order.
Inc wooden parts of all farm ma
chinery should be painted every three
or four years, and the iron parts that
are worn should have Il coat Of paint
every season, and the sooner after the
seasons work is over the better, says
X. IL. Forgrave. of Ohio. No matter
now we'll protected, the polished met
al portions will draw dampness and
corrode. Some grease the mold boards,
shares, etc, but this does more harm
than good. The proper way is to paint
them
Get five or six gallons of raw llnsecd
oil, gallon or two of white lead, Il
small box Of prussian blue, small box
or chrome yellow in paste form, and
10 to 10 lbs. of venetian red in pow
der. For the wooden parts. there is
nothing better than venetian red and
raw linSeed oil. The mixture will
make a dark red. If bright red is
preferred. mix some chrome yellow
with II in the proportion of Is parts of
venetian red to one part Of the yellow.
This makes vermillion, the brightest
red known. If blue is wanted mix
white lead parts with one of prussian
blue. This will give dark blue which
can be made as light as wanted by add
ing white. Green is made by mixing
yellow and blue. Any of these colors
will answer for the wooden portions of
the machinery. Do not use any drier
as the paint will last much longer with
out it. In winter much longer time
between coats is required for paint
to dry than in summer. But when it
has become solid it lasts much longer
than If 1t dries rapidly.
Do not use white lead to paint metal
surfaces of any kind for the acetic acid
it contains will tend to corrode them
For all this kind of work use Venitian
red and oil or get some Of the common
black paint sold especially for this pur-
pose. For the portions which are ex-
pected to scour. mold boards, pillow
shares and similar points, ETC., use a
paint made as follows: Mix yellow
Ochre with coal tar and thin to a work.
ing consistency with turpentine. This
will effectually prevent rusting but it
will rub off quite readily when the
pillow is used.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

Pennsylvania farmers do not raise as
much wheat as they used to do proper
tionally to other crops. They have
been unable to compete with the farm
ers who cultivate fertile virgin lands
in the West, whose grain is brought at
exceedingly low rates of transportation
to their very doors. But Pennsylvania
still has place among the wheat
growing states. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Edge estimates this years crop at
2O0OO.OO0 bushels; and the advance
in price will put little extra cash
where it will do a heap of good
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

VIII the fairs pay expenses in flu
turc? is question that every mana
ger OF Il fair is asking. If the weather
is pleasant there IS some prospect of
he average fair coming out even, but
S rule fairs do not make money.
I"'.eed this whole fair business has
got to have a good oyerhauling. The
day OF the o:G.Aary fair has pretty
much passed. People want sometime
different. This is shown by the prac-
teal winding up of the Hampden coun-
ty (Mass.) fair. by the sheriff's sale of
the Burlington county IN. J.) agricul-
tural society's property, and similar
cases elsewhere. How many other ag-
ricultural fairs are in debt, is best
known to the officers and members;
and how few OF these exhibitions can
succeed without some sort OF state aid
is equally well known. A far better
scheme can be perfected for advancing
agricultural and industrial interests
and for amusing and interesting the
people than the oldfashioned fair.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

l.. c. HANSBROUGH, administrator
C. t. n. OF Il. B. Moormap, deceased, COM
plainant, against The Chester Land Co.
ct ais, defendants, in chancery. in the
circuit court for the city of Roanoke, Va.
To l.. G. Hansbrough, admit uistrator C.
t. Il. of Il. b. Moolman, deceased,
complainants, aud
+. NJ. Williams. II. o. Mosher, ]. p.
Sanderson, e. A. Carpenter, r. b.
Adams, Wilson II. Stiff, S. c London,
"A. n. Pitzer, X. p. Johnson, j. d.
Price, Geo. c. McCahan, w. NJ. Dun
lap, L. l.. Hanes, w. H. Stiff, l. W.
Stultz, j. II. Daniel, a. ID. Stultz, and
II. c. Elliott, defendants.
You, and each of you, are hereby noti-
fled that pursuant to n decree in the
cult court for the city of Roanoke, Va,
wherein you are parties, entered therein
by said court on the 9th day of October,
1897, upon reference to the undersigned
rs special commissioner of said court,
have fixed upon Saturday, the 18th day
of November, 1897, at 10 o'clock n. M,
as the time, and my law office, room 3(S
of the Terry building, in the city OF Roa-
noke, Va, as the place to proceed to
make, state and report the following in
Quiries and accounts rs directed by said
decree.
First, Whether the said defendants
above named are stockholders of the
Creston Land Company.
Second, The amount of stock held ~
each of said defendants who are found to
he stockholders of said company or any
stock for which they or any of then. may
be liaple to pay the assessments thereon.
Third, The amount paid on said stock
by each of said stockholders and the
amount remaining unpaid upon said
stock by each of sail stock holders.
Fourth, An account OF any other mat
ter deemed pertinent by said commits
sioner or requested by any of the parties
affected by the decree in writing to be so
stated.
Said decree further provides that this
order of publication shall be equivalent
to personal service upon each of the de.
PENDANTS named. You are therefore
warned to be present at the time and place
above named. Given under my hand as
special commissioner, this the 18th day
of October. 1877.
EVERETT PERKINS,
10-14.1m. Special Commissioner.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
Two Acres Enough in Belgium.

What many an American farmer
rails to do on one hundred acres, the
thrifty Hollander in Belgium easily
does on two acres, namely support 4
large family and lay by something for
a rainy day. He does it by making
the most of every inch, by heavy ma
nuring, allowing no waste places. His
two acres are surrounded by a ditch Of
running water. The typical two-acre
Belginm farm contains patch of
wheat or rye and another of barley;
another fair portion grows potatoes
row of cabbage grows all around on
the sloping sides of the bitches with a
row of onions just inside, leaving bare
walking room between them and the
grain. The shade trees round the
house are pear trees. Every foot of
land is made to produce. He keeps
pigs and chickens. We refer to this as
illustrating the possibilities of land
production. In Belgium 5000, 900 peo-
pie chiefly farmers. live on a piece of
land the size of the State of Mary
land They furnish an object lesson
on successful intensive farming.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

TRUSTEES SALE-ON THE 5TH
DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1897, 1897, Mt 10
o'clock a. M, will offer for sale at pub
lie auction on the premises the following
property in the city of Roanoke, Va
Beginning ut II point on the north side
of Center street (now known as Second
avenue II. W. 100 feet from SiH tn street
n. w. thence west with Center strret %
feet to II point. thence north 1870 feet TO
an alley, thence with said alley east %
feet, thence south 13G feet to the place of
beginning, and known as the eastern
half of lot IA, section %, X. f. 81 II. ad-
dtion to the city Of Roanoke.
The above sale is made under n deed of
trust from G. Is. Page and j. a. Page,
her husband, dated the latin day of May,
1892, and recorded in deed hook No. II,
page go, default having been made in
the bond therein secured for more than
three months.
The above sale will be made by the
undersigned, who was substituted as
trustee in the place of Silas w. Burt by
an order of the hustings court of the city
of Roanoke. Va, entered OH the 2lst OF
March, 1898.
Terms of sale:-Cash.
Amount due under the above deed of
trust, 81 ,GS946, as of September % 1897.
r. w. GOODWIN,
100 til. Substituted Trustee.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
LEGAL NOTICES.

street, thence with the same south Is de-
grees 90 minutes 40 seconds west $40 feet
TO the place OF beginning, and designated
on the Mrlrose Land Company's hap of
the Nelrose addition to the city of Roam
oke, Va, as lot No. s, in section Z. It
being the same property conveyed by
iced recorded in the clerks office of the
musings court for the city of Roanoke,
Va, in deed book So, page 90.
Sixth. Also one undivided one half in
terest in the following property situated
in the city of Roar oke, Va, and bound
ed and described as follows: ~
Beginning at point on the north side
of Melrose avenue 102 feet east of Eff.
teenth street, thence with Nell ose avenue
south az degrees l minute 20 seconds east
on feet 10 n point, thence north - degrees
oS minutes 40 seconds east 40 feet to an
alley. thence with said alley north rs de-
grees minute 90 seconds west so
feet to point, thence south 10
degrees SIS minutes &C seconds west
lao feet to the place of begin.
ming, and known as lot No. II, in 81 ction
81, according to the map of the Melrose
Land Company. it teing the same prop
erty conveyed by deed of record in the
office of the clerk of the hustings cour.
for the city of Roanoke, Va, in deed book
SIS, page 81.
TERMS OF SALE: The property will
first be offered singly in the above
lots and then as whole and
knocked down to the highest bidder.
One-third cash will be required at time
OF sale or the property will be .resold i'm
mediately; balance upon credit of one
and two years, TO be secured by dee l of
trust on the property
EDWARD LYLE, Trustee.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
N NV Norfolk sleWesterIl
azuzzszaMana Schedule in Eject
July 4, 1897.
WESTBOUND LEAVE ROANOKE
DAILY

$40 a m. washington and Chattanooga
limitetD for Bristol, intermediate sta
tions and the South and West. Pull
man sleepers to New Orleans and Mem
phis Connects at Radford for Blue
field and Pocahontas.
AGO p. M, the Chicago Express for Rad
ford Bluefield, Pocahoutas, Kenova,
Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Columbus and Chicago.
Pullman Buffet Sleeper Roanoke to
Columbus. Also for Pulaski, Wythe-
vile, Bristol, Knoxville, CHATTANOOGA
and intermediate points
TRAINS ARRIVE AT ROANOKE.
From Norfolk 1850 a. III. 4:1O p. N.
From Hagerstown 1850 q. m 4:O5 p. IN.
From Winston 1:l5 y. M
From Bristol and the West l :35 %. M:
1870 p. III.
NORTH AND EASTBoUND. LEAVE
ROANOKE DAILY.
l:50 p N. for Petersburg, Richmond and
Norfolk.
l:45 p. m. for Washington, Hagerstown,
Philadelphia and New York.
lO:45 p. M. for Richmond and Norfolk.
Pullman sleepers Roanoke to Nocfolk
and Lynchburg to Richmond.
lO:45 p. m. Washington ard Chattanooga
limited} for Washington, Hagerstown,
Philadelphia and New York Pullman
sleepers TO Washington via Shenan-
doah Junction and Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
Durham Division-I.eave Lynchburg
Union station)odaily, except Sunday,
400 p. M. for South Boston and Dur
ham and intermediate stations.
Winston Salem Division-Leave Roanoke
(Union station) 1870 p. m. and
1889 Il. M. daily, except Sunday Camp
bell street station), for Rocky Mount,
Martinsville, Winston-Salem and inter.
mediate stations.
For all additional information apply
at ticket office or to W. b. Bevill, General
Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
NJ. +. Bragg Travelling PasssnSeI-
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
LEGAL NOTICES.

BY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
dated the 18th day of October, 1892, and
recorded in the clerk y Office of the hust-
ings court for the city of Roanoke in Iced
book 81, page 243, from George b. Kuhns
to John K. Penn. trustee, for the purpose
of securing the Roanoke Building Asso
citation ard Investment Company the
sum of S2,205 90, evidenced by certain
notes therein set forth. and default hav.
ing been mada in the terms of said deed
of trust and being required so to do by
the beneficiary thereunder,,I, in execution
of said trust, will offer for sale at public
BOTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1897, at l2
o'clock NJ the following described par
Gel Of land xith its improvements, situa-
ted in the city of Roanoke, Virginia:
Beginning IT Il point OH the ncrtherly
line OF TaZewcll street 1871 SO feet from
the intersection of the westerly line of
Randolph street and the noItherly line of
TaZewell street, thence running in ~
northerlv direction l07 10 feet to point,
thence running in southwesteriv direction
20 ii feet to n point, thence running
southerly 1895 feet to point to the
northerly line of Tazewell street.. thence
running northeasterlv 26.22 feet to the
point Of beginning and containing 2,S20 q
square feet. more or less
TERMS OF SALE: Cash as to the
costs OF sale and the sum of $07558, with
interest thereon from the 18th day of Oc-
tober. lS92, and as to the sum of Sl65,
with interest thereon from the nth day
of October, 1892, upon credit to become
due in monthly installments OF $50, the
first of said installments To be made the
18th dav OF December, 1897, and as to the
sum Of SST.06, with interest thereon from
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
THE FARMING SCHOOLS.
A Paper Arraigning the Agricultural
College System of This Country.

system al This Country.
In a paper before the American So
cal Science Congress at Saratoga
Springs, Mr.. d. G. Porter of Water
bury, Conn.,. handled without much
ceremony the manner in which had
been carried out the Congressional act
of 1862 by which vast areas of the
: public lands were distributed among
the states for the express purpose of
establishing colleges for the education
of the industrial classes" The pur-
pose of all this, he claims, has mis-
. carried. Cheap, or even free tuition
was not sufficient. The only means
by which these colleges could have
been made available for industrial peo-
pie would have been to allow them to
earn during one part of the year what
they would need to spend at the col
lege during the other part" This has
not been done, however, and the rea-
son that Mr.. Porter assigns for the
failure is that those charged with the
organization of these colleges "natur-
ally desire to place themselves on a par
in point of dignity and privilege with
the professors in the colleges OF the
non-industrial classes, and to enjoy the
same easy hours and long vacations,
by Wllcn the whole year was Sacrlnccd
4 for less than two hundred days of
( study Thus the proposed benefits
have accrued only to the comparatively
( wealthy, and the original spirit and
Z terms of the trust have not been OBJ
I served. Here is n definite arraign-
ment Of the agricultural college sys-
stem. What have the authorities to
say about it?
THE largest class Of new students in
four history" is the tenor OF the re-
sports that are corning from many of
sthe agricultural and mechanical col
iileges throughout the country. 'Tis
well. These institutions give a kind
bf education that our young men and
women so much need. If they would
succeed in life. Those young people
who would like to go to college. bUi
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
A Good Use for Abandoned Farms.

The section Of Massachusetts where
Mr.. William c. Whitney has acquired
some twelve thousand acres for park
and other purposes is that In which
lies the greater part Of the abandoned
farms which the state has for several
years been aiding the owners in dis
posing or. In certain way. then.
MI. whitney appears as q public ben
efactor. In serving his own luxury he
puts to use large domain which in the
hands OF its separate owners has been
mostly given up as useless. And this
is good employment for wealth. It
does not take land from the people
which the people want. but it promises
Il better development under individual
control OF land many owners have Civ
en- up as Improbable Boston Press.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

BY VIRTUE OF \ DECREE OF
the corporation court of the city of Roam
Oke, Va, entered on the lst day of July,
1897, in the chancery suit of Josiah
Friends administ ratriN and ais. VS.. A.
p. Staples, trustee, and ais, the under
signed us special commissioners appoint
ed by said decree will offer for sale in
front of the courthouse at public auction
TO the highest bidder ut 10 O'Clock noon
on the 10TH DAY OF NOVEMBER,
1897. the following property situated in
the city OF Roanoke, Va, to-wit:
First. Beginning at point on the
southwest corner of Campbell and Ran
dolph streets, thence south , degrees -
minutes west 100 feet to point. thence
north 81 degrees 45 minutes west 100 feet
TO y point. thence north = degrees Is min
utes east 100 feet to point, thence south
81 degrees 40 minutes east l0C feet to the
place of beginning.
Second. Beginning at point on tie
northwest corner of Campbell and Ran
dolph streets, thence with Campbell street
north SO degrees west 100 feet to point,
thence north degrees east 100 feet to a
point. thence south So degrees east lG0
feet to Randolph street, thence with Nan
dolph street :. degrees west 100 feet TO
the place of beginning and known as lois
40, i'll, liz and 1l3 in ward .. according
to the map of the Roanoke Land and I'M
provement Company.
TERMS OF SALE cash.
NJ ]. COLEMAN,
Special Commi ssoners.
], S. S. Brooke, clerk of the corporation
court OF Roanoke city. Virginia, do hereby
certify that the bond required in above
case ms been executed
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
a New Forage Plant.

The Agricultural Department is pre-
pairing to make experiments with a
new forage plant. which is thought to
be adapted to semi-arid regions of the
West. 1t is the Bromus Incrmis. a
grass that is Indigenous to the Rus
sian steppes. 1t is Il tall, nutritious
plant that it is hoped will be adapted
to the plains along the base OF the
Rocky Mountains
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
A New Food for Cattle.

foreign inventor has been expert
menting in food for animals. in
which blood is an important item.
Blood and molasse.s are mixed and to
this compound is added cut fodder of
various sorts. This is made into large
cakes or may he left in coarse frag-
ments. 1t is said that animals will
fatten and thrive more quickly upon
this than upon the ordinary sorts of
food.-New York Ledger.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
Rural FREQ Delivery.

The desirability and the popularity
of extending q free delivery of the
mails TO the rural districts is again
demonstrated by experiments during
the past year in several parts OF the
country 1t is the impracticability OF
the plan that is likely to cause delay in
its adoption for some time to come
and this impracticability is purely of a
financial character
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

a Japanese correspondent of Gar
den and Forest. says that the burdock
which the Japanese call "gobo," is a
valuable food in Japan. The tender
shoots are boiled with beans, the roots
are put in soup, and the young leaves
are eaten as greens. The plant has
been cultivated for centuries. and the
annual value of the crop is about $780,
000
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
Vanoos 1ney slip down through the
corn degrees, and into the tobacco
When to Market.

large and successful grower OF
market produce says it is his invaria-
BILE custom to market produce when
it is in the best condition, without the
slightest regard ft market reports, adj
vice of commission men or sayings of
the prophets.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
Militia aud Arriculturists.

A Lexington, (Mass.) farmer COM
plains that he cannot get men to work
for him because the bullets fired by
the poor marksmen at the local militia
targets so over their heads.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04

nave not yet made up their minds 10
do so, should at once send to the ag-
ricultural college in their state for it's
catalog, and take the entrance exam
nations. Or some other institution
may be preferred.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-04
a Mighty Thorumometer

The Missouri valley is a gigantic
thermometer, and the tramps are the
mercury-or spirits when they can get
it. During the wheat weather they are
up at the top. ard as the season nd