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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

one set of which was sent to Washington.
Mr.. Black-It is wholly immaterial as
to how he received his information. If
he as matter of fact acted upon what he
betleyed to be correct Information that Is
ali that IS necessary. We contend that
the telegram is not direct evidence; IL is
merely hearsay. 1t is OF no benefit to this
case and this being so could not tend TO
establish the guilt Of this defendant. Be-
sides the witness needed no such tele-
gram to make his complaint.
Mr., Cormac-If you admit that he had
authority to make such complaint without
them we will not put them in.
The court-You admit tdat he Is Consul
General
Mr.. Black (peremptorily)- sir.
The court-I overrule the objection.
Mr.. Cormac-It is not admitted, I un-
derstand. that he is Consul-General. l
therefore desire him to produce his COM
mission from her Majesty and his United
States papers.
The witness Immediately did so and the
defense, upon examination OF these docu-
ments, declared itself satisfied.
Mr. Cormac-That is all, your Honor.
The defense here called Sergeant Bunner
Tor cross-examination.
Mr.. Black-I understood you to say that
you had a warrant handed to you on the
morning OF February at about o'clock.
Il said no such thing, sir. L said had
warrant in my possession
when vas that warrant issued?"
Some time in January. Idon't exactly
remember the date"
Can you tell by examining itP"
"Yes. But this is not the warrant
had. There was another issued before
this"
Where did you get that varrant?'
at was served aiterward by me in Cap
tain Lees office. The warrant under which
[ took tbs prisoner was issued in jan
uary."
Where was the prisoner at that time"
II suppose he was at sea-"
''"as he within the jurisdiction of this
court?''
mo, SIR"
And that is the warrant you took him
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09
WILL BE BURIED TODAY.
Remains of Fred HinckIey Arrive From,
Portland, Or.

Remains of Fred HinckIey Arrive From
Portland, Or.
The remains of the late Fred Hincslev
were brought to the City yesterday from
Portland, Or, by Mrs. Hincklev and
Harry Hlnckley. They were taken to the
Hinckley residence at 1921 Calitornis
street.
The funeral services, which are to be
simple in all respects, will take place to-
dav at the California-street home. DR..
Moreland officiating. The interment will
take place at Mountain View Cemetery.
the remains to rest beside the grave of his
mother.
The following named gentleman friends
of the deceased have been requested to act
as pallbearers: 81. 7. Gibbs, Albert r.
Grayson, A. NJ. Cummings, Charles.
Nichols, Charles E. Connell and James
Spiers Jr.
Cuban BARRIERS lather their patrons with
their hands from bowl made to fit under
the chin. No brush is used
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09

penitentiary were often sent to Regina
barracks to do escort duty" and the cap
tain thinks that Butler may have been
one OF these prisoners, which enabled him
to get such accurate i1formatio about the
officers and men stationed at the barracks.
There is a Dossi oilty, if this is correct,
that Butler knew Ashe, the policeman,
perhaps intimately, and had assumed his
name after regaining his liberty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-09
THE BENSON CASES.

Indictments Will Probably Be Ouashed
by the Court on Monday
Next.
1t is expected that the charges against
John A. Benson and others, accused of
land frauds, will soon be dismissed.
Reddy. Campbell & Nelson, attorneys for
the defendants, moved that the indict-
ments be quashed in the Circuit Court
yesterday on the showing of a certificate
from the Surveyor-General that the de-
fective surveys had been rectifed and of
an agree of counsel
The United States attorneys were not
ready to have the matter dropped and
asked for a continuance until Monday
next, which was granted. 1t Is expected
that at that time the motion to quash will
be granted
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
The Campbell System.

The Campbell system of soil culture
consists of complete Encouragement
and pulverizing of the top seven or eight
inches of soil, turning it as nearly bot
tom upward as is possible. The plant
food is found at the end of each season
very largely concentrated in the top four
inches. This plant food must be plowed
down into the bottom of furrow seven
or eight inches deep. From this depth it
will be placed by the action of moisture
just where the little feeders of the plant
roots want it. Immediately after plow-
ing the lower four inches of the furrow
slice must be packed as firm as possible.
After the deep blowing and subsur-
face packing the next step is to keep the
upper two inches Of the surface soil con-
stantly dry. This forms soft mulch or
dust blanket, SO as to cut off the moist
earth below from the effects of the air.
Water cannot pass through loose, dry
soil by capillary attraction. Therefore
the dust blanket protects the moisture in
the root bed from evaporation and saves
all the natural rainfall for the use Of
the plants Strong capillary attraction
is desired in the root beds, and therefore
the root bed is packed. No capillary at
traction is desired in the surface, and
therefore the dust blanket is formed.
Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
Raising Pigs nv Hand.

When by reason of any misfortune the
pigs cannot be fed in the usual manner
by the SOW, they may be reared by
hand, without any difficulty further
than the necessary attention of giving
them milk with a spoon until they
learn to drink In the cold season it is
proper to take the pigs from the SOW
and put them in basket wrapped in
flannel near warm fire, until the whole
litter is born. They are then taken to
the SOW and held to the teats to get
them to suck If this cannot be done,
they are to be fed with fresh cows milk
with teaspoon until they are two or
three days old, when they may be fed
by nursing bottle or taught to drink
Where pigs are kept in sufficient num-
bers it is desirable to have the pen
warmed by stove at the narrowing
time. This will pay, for it is quite easy
to get two filters in the year by having
pigs in the winter and again in the
summer, the first litter being fatted and
sold in the early autumn or winter
Young pigs may be fed when weeks
old, or even before then. The easiest
way is to make an opening in the pen
or divide off a part of it into which the
pigs can go, but not the sow, and give
them little fresh COW milk in shall
low pan, which they will soon learn to
drink, or they may be held to the milk
until they begin to drink it. 1t is not
advisable to give any solid food until
they are weeks old, when some oat-
meal softened in boiling water may be
added to the milk. When they are eat
ing well, feed this mixture along with
skimmilk at first sweet, but in time
it may be used sour-viz, one part of
corn. oats and buckwheat each, finely
ground. This may be fed four times
day in such quantities as will be eaten
clean and the pan licked clean. Food
should never be given to a young pig in
such quantity as to be left uneaten, as
the young animals will be more easily
and worse stunted by overlooking than
by a little spare feeding. = Montreal
Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
Live Stock Points.

Did you begin 1897 by having book
in which to set down all your expenses
and income for the year? If you did
not, then you made a serious mistake.
A farmer, no more than merchant,
can have any idea of whether he is
making money Or losing it unless he
keeps a strict account of everything.
There would not be half so many farm
ers groaning under debt or half SO many
mortgages on agricultural lands if the
ruralist maintained strict system OF
bookkeeping. You can never know
whether either live stock or dairying
pays unless you know exactly how
much it costs to raise an animal or to
feed milk COW.
If you have not already done so, be.
gin now to keep stockbook, in which
the history and facts in regard to all
the animals on your place are recorded
Register particularly the birth of an an
imal; also be particular to note down
when to look for lambs or colts OF
calves to be born
Noway has been found by which rape
may be kept for winter feed. It may,
however, be planted very early in the
spring, and at the same time oats are
sown, and it will quickly spring up and
furnish the first spring pasture for sheep
and lambs. 1t will give them such a
start that they will go ahead of sheep
not thus provided and remain larger and
finer throughout
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
DAIRY SCHOOL BUILDING.

been planned in one of the older states,
an architect who knew how to blend
sightliness with utility would have been
employed to furnish the designs for it.
Architectural attractiveness could have
been thrown in with no more cost
We hope those who hereafter plan
structures additional for this same
school, as well as those who design other
buildings in other states. will remember
that even pigpen may be pleasing to
the eye in its construction and be better
adapted to its use than the one built on
the old idea that anything which will
hold will do
Nevertheless, although the wooden
box in the picture is an excellent exam
pie of how not to make building APP
pear on the outside, yet there is some
thing about it not rnpleasing to those
who look deeper than the external ap-
pearance. 1t shows just the plain, ear
nest, determined purpose of those who
erected it. 1t is dedicated to pure, rug
ged use. That is always the first idea,
and it should be. In time grassy lawn
shaded with trees and intersectcd by
graveled or asphalt walks will surround
the square box. Great blazing beds of
flowers will shine i'll its grounds in sum-
mer and handsome annexes will break
its up and down and straight across lines.
The time will not be very long either.
The earnest. rugged purpose of which
this box is the expression will draw to
the school hundreds of young men and
women throughout the brave, resourceful
western state, Scientific dairying as
there taught will enrich the state by
millions of dollars. That wooden box is
all right.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
Restoring Grass Lands.

There are many fields in grass that
cannot well be plowed. Such are usual
ly left to get such fertilizing as they can
from animals grazing upon them and
the natural decay of some vegetation on
their surface. But sooner or later such
lands lose their mineral fertility, es-
pecially if mown and the grass made
into hay. Lack of the mineral plant
foods is shown by the dying out of the
valuable grasses and substitution for
them of MOSES which do not require
mineral manures Sometimes the surface
is merely hidebound, and running over
it with harrow will admit enough air
to give the soil new supply of plant
food by making its fertility available.
If this is done, some grass seed sown at
the same time will probably in part
grow and help supply new sod. 1t
will be great help if grass seed is
sown to follow it with a dressing of
manure. This will protect the young
grass plants, which cannot easily or
quickly get rooted in a sod whose sur
face only is narrowed. But some potash
and phosphate ought to go with barn
yard manure, as it is most likely in
these minerals that the grass land is most
deficient. If this does not run out the
MOSES, it shows that the land needs un-
derdraining. The cultivated grasses root
deeply, and stagnant water quickly kills
them. Moses adhere to the surface, and
thereby get what air they need to make
growth. American Cultivator
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
TELEPHONE No. 10.
GLOVER AND POTASH.
What q Delaware Farmer Has Accol
plished With This Combination.

What q Delaware Farmer Has Accom-
plished With This Combination.
Mr.. S. H, Derby, one of the success
full crimson clover farmers in Delaware,
is also potash crank. ;, He has insist
ed all through his farming that clover,
to do its best, must be given plenty Of
potash and that the best crop in the ro-
tation on which to use the potash is
clover. Many farmers have urged that
the chemicals should be put on the crop
that is to be sold, like tomatoes, aspar-
agus, potatoes, etc. Mr. Derby has al
ways held that the potash should go on
the clover. 1t Il not lost in that case.
The following crops get it just the same,
and the clover crop is made larger and
stronger to pay for it. This means more
humus and more nitrogen, which is just
what his light soil needs Instead of go
ing into the silo, the whole crop goes
into the soil. 1t is plowed right under
for tomatoes, corn or potatoes. That is
what it is grown for, and his farm shows
that the object has been attained.
Mr.. Derby's successful and profitable
experience has been the subject of more
than one article in The Rural New York
er, which strongly advocates clover and
chemicals on worn out soils. The au-
thority quoted says:
Mr.. Derby's experience clearly shows
the great value of crop like crimson
clover in improving the mechanical con-
dition Of his soil, aside from any addi-
ton of actual plant food His soil is
light naturally, and when he began
with it strong wind would blow clouds
Of dust away from it. Year after year Of
green manuring has changed the whole
aspect of affairs The constant addition
of organic matter and the bringing of
plant food up from the subsoil through
the clover roots have changed the whole
character of the soil and more than
doubled its capacity for retaining mois-
ture. The result is that the plants that
grow in it are able to consume plant
food enough to produce ten times the
crops of former years. The most eco
nomical way to fertilize is first to get the
soil itself into such a condition that
warmth and moisture are best under
control. Don't lose sight of the fact that
potash in this case served a double pur-
pose-it produced the crimson clover for
the needed organic matter and also fed
succeeding crops through the clover.
Without potash the farm could not have
been improved because the clover could
not have been grown.
Among the reasons given by Mr.
Derby for preferring crimson to red
clover are: The red takes too long to
mature. The crimson makes a good
growth through the hot summer and
fall. 1t is just at this time that nitrif-
cation is most active in the SOIL and I'M
less some thrifty growing crop were on
hand much of the soluble nitrogen would
be lost. The crimson clover is just the
crop to save this. 1t covers and shades
the ground, making quicker and more
profitable growth than any other plant.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
Potatoes Tn Cellars.

There are many dangers of injury to
potatoes kept in cellars. That Of being
frozen is, when it happens, the worst,
butit is always guarded against, SO that
no caution is needed about that. Much
greater is the likelihood that the pota-
toes are kept too warm, and especially
if they are piled in bins. Some warmth
comes always from potatoes thus mass
ed, and those in the bin will be I'M
touched by frost even when a film of
ice will form over water set in vessels
on the floor, or the potatoes left outside
the heap have been frozen. 1t is doubt
less the warmth developed by sprouting
the potato that creates the warmth that
protects the mass as it slowly rises
through it. When it is seen that potatoes
are beginning to sprout, they should be
removed and the larger sprouts be bro
ken off. Those that are meant for seed
ought never to be put in mass, unless
in a pit out of doors, and then they
should be got out and exposed to air and
light SO soon as the weather begins to
grow warm. American Cultivator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18

Now, if the baker scEds rs loaf CT
stale bread, said the cid soldier, 1--WE
send it back. But, dear me, we didn't
often do anything of that sort in the
army. We didn't get very much soft
bread anyway is, regular bread.
What we had mostly was hard bread,
sometimes called hard tack-a kind of
cracker, like soda cracker in shape, and
not unlike it i'll appearance, but thicker
And hard bread Of good quality and not
more than month old wasn't bad. In
fact. it was very good. It was only
when we got some that was very old,
and that had foreign creatures boring
in it, SO that you had to knock it against
something before eating it, that anybody
growled, and even then we rarely sent
it back. Sometimes if it was very bad
the regimental quartermaster would
send back the whole lot and draw new
if he could. But oftener we kept it, and
you could throw it away if you wanted
to, but that was all.
Still, our outdoor life was conducive
to coed appetites, and after all one could
have poorer breakfast than moldy,
hard bread and coffee Fer instance,
nothing. New York SUM-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
What Lime Does.

Lime may perform any one of three
offices in the soil. These, as presented
in Farm and Fireside, are: First, tmay
serve as a needed plant food. All plants
require some lime 1t is the rule, how
ever, that soils contain an abundance of
lime for this purpose, and the cases are
probably rare i'll which an application
of lime to serve as plant food is required
Second, it produces a mechanical effect
upon soils. In the case of clays lime
serves to render them more open and
tractable. Third, it produces chemical
effect, acting as solvent, releasing
some of the plant food in the soil that
has been resting there in an insoluble
form.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
Selecting Dairy Heifers.

While there is much good breeding to
produce general characteristics of dairy
excellence, it cannot be wholly depend
ed upon. 1t is not every heifer calf from
good or even registered stock that it will
pay to keep and rear for the dairy herd
No matter how far back his registry
goes, the breeder of cattle will some
times be surprised to find heavy, coarse
heads and the thick, bull-Iike neck,
which, to the experienced eye, shows
that the mating has been unfortunate,
breeding back to characteristics of some
long forgotten ancestor who fiourished
before the dairy excellences of cattle had
been thought Of much importance. In
such cases the sire and dam that thus
bred back ought never again to mate.
Perhaps the fault was not exclusively in
either, but in the combination Of blood,
in which the undesirable qualities of
each were represented III the offspring.
An experienced breeder can decide be-
fore the calf is even week old whether
it will be best adapted for beef or dairy
purposes. The true dairy animal will
have a somewhat thin neck, though it
should compensate for this apparent in
dication of lack of vigor by having wide
nostrils and deep chest. The dairy
animal quite as much as that for the
shambles, and, indeed, more than that,
needs to have good lungs and good di-
gestion. The calf ought not to be too
greedy for food, but it ought to be al
ways ready for what is set before it.
There is peculiar softness in the skin
of a good dairy animal that the expert
enced breeder will quickly notice. We
have always found i'll native stock that
a yellow skin around the bag was an
indication of good qualities for milk
and butter. The escutcheon also, if broad
and well marked, is a good indication.
We have seen some deep mixers that
had small escutcheons, but we never
saw a poor mixer that had one that was
well developed
A great deal depends on the way
calves are brought up. The best heifer
calf may easily be spoiled by being fed
fattening food or by semistarvation be-
fore it is year old. Neither extreme is
desirable because both are injurious to
digestion. If this is ruined in calfhood,
the COW will be poor eater, and there
fore a poor producer, as long as it lives.
Starving calves is less common than it
used to be when a run at the straw stack
with cornstalks twice day was, with
very little hay, expected to take the
calf through its first winter There is
nothing in this ration to make growth,
and the calf cannot eat enough to keep
up its condition as to fat Some kind of
heterogeneous food should be given in suf-
ficient amounts to help make the carbon
of the cornstalks digestible. That of the
grain straw will not be digested, and
not much Of it will be eaten, as its car
bon is mostly woody fiber It does not
cost much more to keep yearling well
through its first winter. and the result
is that the animal gives profit ON its
winters keep instead of being worth
even less in spring than it was when
put up in the fall, as poorly kept calf
is sura tn he-American Cultjvator
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
THE WALKING GAIT.

Good to Look at, Graceful, Easy and
Rapid.
In moving away from you the feet of
the good walker leave the ground with
a sharp snap, showing in its passage the
CLINT and reflection of the whole shoe.
After leaving the ground with this Pc
culiar snap the foot swings upward and
forward, then the knee unfolds, the
pastern carries the foot gracefully for
ward, and it again comes to the ground
lightly but firmly, with the characters
tic spring and snap that identified the
first movement. The feet move straight
away, swerving neither to the left nor
to the right, nor should the folding of
the knees or the fiexing of the hooks re-
suit in an outward pitching or spread
ing, A horse that will lift and plant
his feet in the way described almost in
variably has the up headed and com
manding appearance in movement
which is so admirable in the harness
horse.
The crucial test of the balance of a
horses walk is the side view. Any vari-
alton from proper structural proportions
results i'll wabbling, hobbling or an 9th
erwise uneven walk. and all these are
readily seen from the side. The level
ness with which horse walks is one of
the best evidences that the legs work in
harmony. The most common DETECTION
from this is attributable to long, slim
coupling which gives the onlooker the
impression that the horse might break
away into two parts near the region of
the loin. In defective conformations of
this kind the stride of the hind limbs is
short, and he usually has an uneven,
choppy gait that is unsightly as well as
being Intellectual in covering distances.
On the other hand, an opposite relation
of the parts, close coupling and short
back, with long legs, is likely to give
rise to a slovenly, swinging gait. pro-
ducing clicking, stumbling or other de-
ficiencies. If there is flaw in the mech
anism of the front legs, it is usually
made evident by the movement of the
front feet, especially as they are about
to touch the ground. If the limb pro-
portions are ungainly. the feet do not
seem to reach the ground at the proper
stage, either turning too much ON the
heel or not turning enough, and precip-
itating the toe. Let me say to the lover
of beauty and gracefulness in motion
that there is much to look for and adj
mire in the elastic, graceful and deter
mined step of the horse that walks with
just enough dash and abandon to not
lessen the surety of his footing and at
the same time make his movement a
source of infinite varietv.-Professor J.
A. Craig in Horseman
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-03-18
High Grade Fertilizers.

1t will almost invariably be found
more economical to purchase high grade
fertilizing materials. In applying fer
tilizers bulk is often desirable, but in
purchasing commercial fertilizers the
object should be to secure as much nj
trogen, potash and prosphoric acid in
available forms as possible for 81, in
stead of as many pounds as possible of
fertilizer, regardless of the amount of
plant food contained in it. This is par
ticularly applicable to mixed fertilizers.
Since there is smaller bulk to handle in
mixing, smaller number of packages
for holding, and consequently less weight
and freight, it is, as a rule, more eco
nomical to purchase fertilizers in their
more concentrated forms. For illustra-
ton, it is more economical to purchase
one ton of high grade fertilizer than
three tons of low grade fertilizer, one
ton of the former containing the same
amount of plant food contained in three
tons of the latter, because in making
the latter three times as many packages
are required and three times as much
freight must be paid, all for the same
amount of plant food. Bulletin New
York Station