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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
Bad SdOrs in Milk,

1t is a well-known fact and one
which admits no dispute, that in order
to manufacture perfect article we
must employ perfect material. This
is just as true in the manufacture of
butter and cheese as in any other arti-
Gle OF commerce. Every man of any
experience knows that the open and
avowed enemy of fine flavor in butter
and cheese are bad odors. These NAV
be of great variey but are most likely
to be those arising from something the
cows have eaten or from surroundings
in the dairy barn or dairy house. No
matter what the source, it is sure that
the best results are only possible by
the total eradication or elimination OF
such odors. No matter whether the
milk is to be made up at home, sent
to the creamery or cheese factory, sold
direct to the consumer, or shipped
directly to the city, it should be re-
lieved OF all deleterious odors. Every
time dairyman resorts to this prac-
tice he adds to his reputation for the
production OF pure and wholesome
article OF food.
The only absolute sure way to rid
milk OF foul odors is by aerating milk
and cooling it. Simple cooling will
not suffice; for the cooling of milk
without aeration thoroughly locks NJ
and holds the odors. On the other
hand, the aeration of milk destroys and
sets free the bad odors entirely. The
best possible results are obtained by
aerating and cooling the milk at one
and the same time.-Elgin Dairy Re.
mort.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11

Asparagus roots may be planted in
spring or fall, but unless the ground
is we'll drained spring is preferable.
Good strong one-year-old roots are best.
The soil should be made as rich as pos
sible. Ii very stony the stones should
be removed, as they are much in the
way OF cutting the stalks. In garden
culture it is best to dig trenches about
three or four feet apart and twelve
inches deep; then put in layer OF
manure or FIJI about half OF the trench
after it has been packed down. On
this put two or three inches OF soil,
ON which place the roots, spreading
them out in all directions, and cover
with fine soil, packing down all around.
The plant should not stand closer than
two feet in the rows, and as they start
to grow more soil should be drawn into
the trenches until the surface is level
again. All that is necessary during
the season Is to keep the ground loose
and free from weeds. To raise a first.
GLASS crop the bed has to be MANFRED
every year by scattering manure over
the plants in the fall.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
Protect the Toads.


That the toad is beneficial to the
farmer and particularly the gardener is
admitted by everyone who has observed
its habits. Additional facts have been
secured by recent observations at the
Massachusetts experiment station
which show IL per cent OF the toad's
food is composed OF insects and spiders
beneficial or indirectly helpful to man,
and 80 per cent of insects and other
animals directly injurious to cultivated
crops or in other ways obnoxious to
man, The toad feeds on worms,
snails, SOW bugs, common greenhouse
pests and the many-legged worms
which damage greenhouse and garden
lots. 1t feeds to some extent on grass
hoppers and crickets and destroys large
numbers OF ants. 1t consumes q con-
siderable number OF May beetles, rose
chasers, click beetles, cucumber bee
ties, rose chafers, click beetles or
adults. 1t is prime destroyer of cut
worms and army worms.
To all agricultursits the toad renders
conspicuous service, but gardeners and
greenhouse owners may make this ami
NAL of especial value. Every gardener
should aim to keep a colony OF toads
among his growing crops and the prae-
tice OF collecting and transferring them
to the gardens is commendable one.
While the sense OF locality is strong in
the toad and 1t will often return over
considerable distances to its original
haunts, yet it may be induced to re-
main in new quarters if there is suffi-
cient food supply. Many farmers pro-
vide toads with articfiial shelters made
by digging shallow holes in the ground
and partially covering them with bit
of board or fat stone. In such places
toads will often remain for many days,
sallying for that night to seek food.
The enemies OF the toad are hawks,
owls, and worst OF all small boys. who
stone and kill many OF them. DIR. C.
F. Hodge states that he found 200 dead
or wounded toads in single day on
the shores OF a small pond on the
grounds OF Clark Uniye, sity. The loud
cry of the toad at spawning time read.
lily betrays its presence, and small
boys, and sometimes those OF larger
growth gravitate toward the pools as
naturally as do the toads themselves
There have been excellent laws enacted
to protect insectivorous birds. Why
should there not be as stringent legis.
lation against the destruction of toads,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
RED CROSS NURSES BACK.
wife of the Presidents Secretary Tells
of the society's work.

OF Nno SOCIETY WoNAs
New York.-The Red Cross steamer
State OF Texas has arrived from santi-
ago. The State OF Texas has crew OF
thirty-fiye men, and brings Mrs. Porter,
wife of the Presidents secretary, who
volunteered as a Red Cross nurse;
Sister Blanche, one OF the Red Cross
STAFF OF nurses, and Red Cross Surgeons
q. r. Ball, q. B. Long, Charles
Doherty and II. X. Livingston.
Mrs. Porter said: III aided in the
landing and distribution Of the Red
Cross stores at Santiago. went
ashore and visited the hospitals and
the battle-helds, where our heroic sol
diers fought and died. cannot speak
too highly OF the magnificent work done
by the Red Cross Society at the front.
| feel that without its aid numbers Of
our brave men would have died from
lack OF medicines and other neces-
saries.
The State OF Texas had the proud
distinction OF being the first vessel to
enter the harbor OF Santiago after its
surrender to General Shafter. Admiral
Sampson and Commodore Schley
visited Miss Barton and ordered that
the State OF Texas be permitted to enter
the harbor. Miss Barton and her staff
disembarked at Santiago and proceeded
to carry out the work Of relief to the
sick and wounded and also to assist
the reconcentradss.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
Trees Close to Buildings.

While it is very desirable to have
both fruit and ornamental trees about
the house and farm buildings, yet their
too close proximity is detrimental to
health and comfort, as the trees that
extend their branches or overhang the
roof cause it to decay by preventing
rapid evaporation and the portion thus
affected will need replacing long before
the parts that have sun and air. The
falling leaves will stop the cutters,
rendering the cisterns impure, il not
filthy. The dense foliage renders the
rooms dark and damp. So many m is
takes are made in setting trees on new
plantations. When setting trees for
shade you want them near the build
ings, that you may be benefited by
them quickly. As consequence you
plant them close up to the building,
say ten or fifteen feet In few years
they have grown to good size; then
you wish you had them farther re-
moved. You commence by cutting out
every other one, in hope of undoing
your mistake.
In few years YOU find the trees are
still too close and you top to remedy
the evil. This destroys the beauty OF
the tree. We made this mistake and
have been cutting out and cutting
back, until now we almost wish there
were no trees at all.
No trees for shade should be planted
closer than forty feet of the house.
If you do, our word for it, in ten or
fifteen years you will regret it. Trees
may sometimes be crowded on the
lawn, but the buildings should have
plenty of space for sunlight and air
Western Fruit Grower.
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SOON TO BEGIN WORK.
Operations VIII Be Commenced
Early In the Fail.
CONTRACTORS WILL WASTE NO TINE
rive Hundred and Finy Men VIII BE
Employed. and Later THIS Kam-
her IL 20 he Increased.

Chicago. Work on the immense
hreakwater at San Pedro, CAL, is to
start within two months, according to
Ernest Heldmaier of the firm OF Held
maier q Neu, contractors. Mr.. Held
maier said that all stories intimating
that his firm is contemplating sur
render OF the contract and FORGETTING its
bonds emanate from disappointed COM
petitors.
1--WE will put abont 20 men at work
on the big seawall early in the fall, !"
he said. "We expect the work will
cover period OF four or five years, and
after the first season the number Of
laborers will be increased. The wall
is 10 cost 1873, 900; is to be $500 feet
long, and of pyramidal shape. The
top section will be thirty feet across
and the base l75 feet. II is TO be con-
structed OF stone, except at the exposed
ends, which will be huge monoliths OF
concrete, measuring forty by forty by
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11

New York Horatio s. Rnbens,
counsel for the Cuban Junta, in an in.
terview said that the reason Spain
made proposals at this time was that
Havana could not hold out much
longer.
a. am advised" said Mr.. Rubens,
that Havana's food supply is suffi-
cient for only about two weeks more.
There are 200, 900 civilians in the city
and from $4,000 to 10000 soldiers.
Only two steamers have succeeded in
running the blockade and their cargoes
will not go very far among $50, 900.
Madrid has been notified that Havana 4
condition Is becoping desperate, and
with that In view, and also with the
purpose OF doing something before
General Miles had invaded Porto Rico
or Manila had fallen, the peace pro-
posals were made.
They knew very well in Madrid
that Porto Rico could not effectively
resist Miles and the surrender OF Ma
Mia is only question OF days. There
fore, they thought this fitting time
to negotiate for terms Of peace, assum-
ing, OF course, that the United States
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
Ruralist
SPOKEN OF in THIS COLUMN.
A Ysw Sensible Hints to Salt the Busy
ErieuIturist.-Itsms That May
Benefit our Readers.
Health and Comfort Of Bees.

A hive that is painted white or OF a
light color, placed in some cool or
shady place is not only attractive in
itself, but il also tends to tighten the
labOrs OF its inmates and has de-
cided influence upon their health, is
the opinion of Ambrose L. Riley, in
the Busy Bee.
The hive should not be SO compli-
Gated that it will not admit Of an easy
access to all its parts by the bees.
II it is, all the weak colonies and some
of the strong ones will be damaged, il
not entirely ruined By those trouble
some worms, the moths.
The work in the apiary should be
done cleanly, neatly and orderly, for
by so doing the temptation given to
the bees to mar and deiace the COM
plexion Of the apairist will be pre-
vented to great extent.
have frequently visited some bee
yards where the weeds, sunflowers,
plumb sprouts and other things too
numerous to mention, surrounded the
hives so thick that it was a hard
matter to tell just where the man S
bees were, until you were in good kick
ing distance of them.
An apiary should not present such a
desolate, dismal appearance, uninyit-
ing and comfortless, lettering bees
rather than enticing them to it. The
weeds and grass should be cut down
before they ripen TO seed, thus prevent
ing them from sprouting the next sea-
son.
The hives should be repaired, and il
you have time, saw dust, coal cinders,
or much better, coarse gravel should
be placed near the entrances and
around the hive, which will save the
trouble of cutting the grass and weeds
that abound.
Always have an abundant supply of
water near your bees. This spring an
old fellow who claims to know all
about bees came where / was putting
up watering trough in place, and
said: swell, l never knew before
that bees would 60 that close for
water" | suppose he thought they
had to go eight or nine miles after it.
Again, there are those meddlesome
ants that worry the life out OF bees.
docs any one know what ants are good
for!) A cloth wrung out from coal oil
and applied to the outside of the hive
where the ants travel will soon stop
the annoyance.
A daily inspection Of the hives and
surroundings by the apiarist is essen
tial when state of health and comfort
is to continue. Remember, "A stitch
in time saves ninety-nine.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
RIGHT WORD ATThE RIGHT TIME


eAOu@ IN A1CktlMh Places
The art OF avoiding a Conversational
unpleaSantness by graceful way OF
putting things belongs. IN is highes;
perfection. TO the East. When Lord
Dufferin was NicerOy Of India he had
a ''shikarry," or sporting servant.
whose special duty was TO attend the
visitors nj the vice-regal court on their
shooting excursions. Returning OHe
Jay from one OF these expeditions. the
shikarry encountered the Niceroy. who.
! full OF courteous sOllcitude OF his
guests enjoyment. asked
We'll. what sort of sport has Lord
- hadT'
oh replied the scrupulously polite
Indian, THE Young sahib shot divinely.
but God was very merciful to the
birds"
Compare this hOneyed form Of speech
with the terms In which the English
gamekeeper would convey his opinion
Of a bad shot. and we are forced 10 adj
nit that the social superiority OF Lord
Dufferin's black man" But II We turn
from the Orient 10 the Occident. and
from our dependencies to the United
Kingdom, the art OF putting things Is
found 10 flourish better on irish than
on Scotch or English soil We all re-
member that Archbishop Whately Is
said 10 have thanked God on his dea tn
bed that he had never given penny ia
lndiscrlminate charity. successor OF
the apostles might have found more
suitable subjects OF mOribund self-cOn-
graduation. and have always rejoiced
In the mental picture OF the Archbishop
In all the frigid pOmp OF political econ
omy. waving on the Dublin beggar
With
Go away; go away. ! never give TO
anyone on the street. and receiving the
instantaneous reJ0lnder:
Then where would your reverence
have me walt on youf"
A lady of my acquaintance who Is a
proprletress in County Galway Is in the
habit of receiving her own rents. One
day, when tenant farmer had plead
ed long and unsuccessfllly for an
abatement, he exclaimed as he handed
over his money:
We'll, my lady all can say is that
II had my time over again. IT'S not a
tenant farmer Id be. I'd follow one OF
the learned professions.
The proprletress gently replied that
even In the learned professions there
We're losses as we'll Ms gains. and, per-
haps, he would have found professional
life as precarious as farming.
All my lady. but how can that be?"
replied the son OF ST. Patrick. I'll you're
lawyer-win or lose. you're paid IL
you're doctor-kill or cure. you're
paid. II you're priest-heaven or hell
you're paid
Who can imagine an English farmer
pleading his case for an abatement
with nils happy mixture of fun and
satlreI
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
MEXICAN ToBAcco CULTURE.
Great Numbers of Cubans Have Come
There and Are Raising the Plant.


There and Are Raising the Plant.
Mexican tobacco growers have high
hopes of profit from the misfOrtunes OF
Cuba, and not from her misfortunes
alone, but from the exhaustion OF her
soil. Great numbers OF Cubans have
gone to Mexico, and In the Vale Ma
cional and the 0zumacin district they
are confident of raising the finest Ha-
vana wrappers ON margin of profit
that makes the Klondike seem like a
stone yard. The Mexican Herald says
that all the tobacco land In the Vale
Nacional and one-third of the tobacco
land In OZumacin are now planted In
tobacco. Wrappers that sell for so
cents TO 81 pound, and that some
times sell for $i.20. can be produced,
Ii Is claimed. for II cents a pound. in
Guiding interest on the capital The
paper quotes tobacco grower as figur-
Ing out that seventy-tive acres will do
for 1.0O0000 plants. Sixty-two and a
half pounds per 1000 plants and 81 u
pound. and this would make the pro-
ceeds of seventy-fve acres come To
SCI. 500, from which 1t is not neces-
sary to deduct more than $500 for ex-
penses: but II this allowance be in
creased to $4,000. the seventy-five
acres would afford net profit of $780,
600. This profit ought to satisfy the
most exacting. but the area of choice
tobacco land Is quite limited and most
of 1t is already devoted to that crop, so
that everyone should not rush imme-
diately TO Mexico TO grow tobacco. To-
bacco Is hard on the soil. and there Is
probably truth In the complaint of Gu
bans In Mexico that at home the soil Is
wearing ont and requires expensive
fertilization. which is not now needed
In Mexico.--New York Journal of Com
nprpp
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
HOOLEY STIRSLONDON
How the Traffic in Noble Names
Was Operated.
INVESTORS ROBBED OF MILLIONS
weak DeniAis by Some OF Those In
volved in the Latest Scandal Of the
Great Metropolis.

New York.-A cable 70 the Tribune
from London says. Hooley's disclosures
have justified Lord Charles Beresford's
warning against the power Of money in
English society. A more scandalous
story was never heard in a bankruptcy
court. His plan Of operations in pur-
chasing and promoting companies in
volved traffic in titled names. Some
times he purchased peers outright, but
oftener he paid brides to decoys from
three smart set, who introduced the
aoble lords or procured the use OF their
names.
When the front sheet OF prospectus
was illumined with the names OF emf
nent directors, he left his solicitors
free to explain the details OF the bust
ness, which was recapitalized, and
then he squared the city editors
with troublesome pens. The differ
ence between the present market value
of Dunlop's and the amount for which
the company was recapitalized is a
little less than 1000, 900. This
shrinkage in value measures the losses
Of crednlous investors, whose eyes We're
dazzled by the use of brilliant social
names. The names on the front sheet
of that prospectus are said by HOoley
to have cost between 500, 900 and
e100, 900. The secret press fund was
e76, 900.
Some OF the titled stool-pigeons will
find it difficult to meet the charge that
a most scandalous use has been made
of their names and social position.
After these disclosures of corruption
and immortality in the current methods
of stock promotion Parliament will be
compelled to take up the question of
reforming the companies law. Stock
promotion is a necessary and legitimate
expedient for bringing new enterprises
into the market, but stringent safe
guards need to be established against
the purchase of eminent names.
Hooleyism points, however, more
morals for smart society than for the
commercial community. Social Lon
don has indeed been thrown into a
furry of excitement by Hooley's sud-
den indictment.of many Of the smartest
people in the West End Little else
is talked about except the series of dis
chalmers which have appeared from the
Duke of Somerset, Lord Warwick, Lord
Winchelsea, Lord Albemarle and the
other titled personages implicated.
The denial which excites more ridicule
than any OF the others is Lord Albe-
marle's since it involves the confession
that large check was received and
explains it rs the result of deal in
another undertaking.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
DO Not Breed Race Horses.

| advise all farmers to let the breed
ing of small, understood horses just for
racing purposes severely alone. | have
had some experience along that line,
and perhaps with as much success as
could be expected, and will say to any
farmer that he had better strap his
knapsack on his back and start some
frosty morning for trip on the Skag-
uay trail over the ChilcOOt pass and
take a slide up the Yukon, expecting to
land plumb against a mountain of solid
gold that no one else bad discovered,
or take cruise ON the raging canal"
in search OF Spanish prizes; for his
dream OF wealth would be much more
likely to be realized than il he under
took to obtain it by raising race horses.
| speak Of this because l know OF many
who have tried il and invariably met
with disaster. 1t is a business that
does not mix well with farming. The
time has passed when horse can be
sold for race purposes on his pedigree
alone; he must show speed, to do which
he must be trained, and that requires
a trainer of lifetIme's experience, all
OF which in nineteen cases out OF
twenty costs about five times as much
as is ever realized out of it. Besides,
it is a business that draws the farmer
from home a great deal. unsettles his
mind and demoralizes him generally;
therefore, ! repeat, he had best not EN-
bark in it. | want to make the state
ments that practically no horse is re-
quired to go faster than three minute
gait Except possibly when wedding
couple are ON their way to get married
and the "old man" is after them.
Anything beyond that is good or neees-
sary only for gambling purposes.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-11
BATTLESHiP TEXAS AT BROOK
LYN NAVY YARD.
The War Vessel Returns for Repairs
Deck Thmbers Loosened by the Jar
of the Guns.

New York. Back from the coast Of
Cuba, battle-scarred and powder
stained, and punctured in spots, will
her formidable guns bristling in the
sunlight and her officers and crew
laughing and cheering like schoolboys
ON holiday trip, the United States
battle-ship Texas, Captain WI. Phillip
in command, steamed slowly up the
lower bay from Sandy Hook on her way
to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Solicitations OF welcome came from all
sides. Every vessel that boosted a
steam whistle shrieked a greeting.
The piping toots of little tugboats min
gled with the deep-toned roar from the
ocean and coastwise steamers was sup
planted by veritable pandemonium.
The general outward appearance of
the war ship showed that the Texas
had rough time OF it and close in.
spection revealed the places where the
shells OF the Dons had penetrated the
port bow and starboard superstructure.
During the engagement OF July Sd.
when the Texas was chasing Cervera' s
vessels, big shell, probably from the
Almirante Oquendo pierced the star
board bulkhead underneath the bridge.
II passed through the ventilator and
after carrying away the ash hoist en-
tered ahe smoke stack where it ex-
ploded, but injured no one. Several
shots took effect on the ridge and other
parts OF the superstructure, but nearly
all traces of the damage done by them
were removed ON the homeward trim.
The firing of the port turret gun across
the upper deck shook the vessel consid.
erably, and she will need a general
overhauling as her decks and supports
have been loosened. II occasion required
the Texas could fight at moment a
notice, her batteries being in excellent
order. Dry dock No. 2 is in readiness
for the docking Of IN, Texas.
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Santiago. Major-General Shaiter is
DESTROYS that it should be known that
the United States War Department has
in no way interfered with the conduct
OF the campaign. The general adds
that he was never hampered by the
War Department, and that, if the
campaign in this vicinity had failed
the fault would have been all his own.
The departments only participation
in the operations was In ratifying the
terms OF the surrender OF the Spanish
forces. General Shafter has requested
that these statements be published In
view of the fact that the department
has been criticised for faulty manage
ment.