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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28

Dad-You are re. rplling stone.
my son Did you know that . rolling
stone never gathers any moss?
Son-Yes. but the rolling stone would
like to raise little dust Just now. dad.
for change Boston Courier
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28
At the grange meeting. Dec. lsth. h

At the grange meeting, Dec. 18th, 1t
was voted to have an all day meeting
January /, a business meeting in the
forenoon and the installation Of officers
10 the afternoon. The following officers
were elected for IS:
Mastsr-A. T. Marshall.
Overseer-C. ; Marshall
Lecturer-Mrs- shedd.
stewari-Will stearns.
Assistant Steward-Newell Thurlow.
Chaplaip-Mrs. Augusta Beck.
Treasurer-will Lurvey.
Secretary-Mrs Carrie Dudley.
g. K.-Charies Dudley
Ceres-Mrs. Cora Luryey.
Pomona-Mrs. Cora Marshall.
fiora--Mrs. Sarah Curtis.
l. A S.-Mrs. Mile Davis.
Librarian Hattie Mooney.
Chorister-Mrs. Hanford.
IL was voted to send Msster-elect A.
E. Marshall to the State Grange at
Augusta, as q delegate. The contest
will commence at the regular meeting,
January Sth, In the evening.
X. Churchill has been quite sick with
in the head. DR.. Yates has
attended him.
w. Z. Curtis has sold his oxen to E.
Z. Field.
Merritt Damon WAS at Mrs. Diantha
Fuller's, Dec. 81.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28
Family Compliments.

You're no longer spring chicken, "
meered the angry husband.
"But you're the same old goose, "
came the answer with snap.-Detroit
Free Press
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28
SINGLE COPIES.

single Copies OF the Democrat are four cents
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single copies Of Of each Issue have been placed on
sale az the following places In the County
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wifsiy D.vosio.a.

Poor old MunnyrichI With ono leg
In the grave"
Yes but bis young wife is pulling
valiantly at the other one Indian.
apolis Journal
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28
NEWRY.

Another member Of the brigade Is
gone. Rufus Fsrrar OF Grafton passed
away last Saturday. Funeral services
were held at the house Tuesday Of this
week
Leon Allen and wife are 10 town stop
ping with j. 8. Allen.
Will Decker has come back to Orrin
Fosters.
Leroy Stoves son, a boy OF about IA,
met with quite an accident one day last
week. He was hauling wood with q
three-horse team, when the load with the
horses In some way went off steep
bank. the boy jumped from the load and
falling on the frozen ground broke his
arm. Some parts Of the wagon were
broken but the horses escaped with lit
tie injury. hear Mr.. Stowe Is claim
ing heavy damages Of the town.
SUNDAY RIVER.
DR.. Twaddle has been In town several
times to visit Richard Williamson who
Is afflicted with carbuncle.
Mrs. Trask is sick.
Mr.. Leroy Stoves boy in driving up
40 icy hill was thrown of and broke his
wrist. One horse fell down and broke
the pole to the team. Mr.. Stowe thinks
the town ought to pay damage.
Mr.. Phin Hastings lost nice horse.
1t died Of fever.
Mr.. Brown Is cutting fir for shingles.
Ceylon Russell Of Waterford IL stop
ping this winter with Mr.. YOrke.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28

Experts have come to the conclusion
that what kills trees in London il not
the SCOT fakes nor the want Of air nor
the drought, bat the sewer gas which
attacks the roots, 90 that the tree hoou
WitheSS and dieA
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-12-28
COMING EVENTS.

Dec. sl.-rramp hearing before the County
Commissioners. south Paris.
Jan. oxford Pomona Grange, Norway.
Jan. 6.-BAnvet Corcert, Norway.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Blue store.
smiley shoe Storc.
Two Items % Interest.
special sale.
Winter Footwear.
Eastern Argus
farker's Hair Ralsam.
Frcd J. Wood.
Portland Frcss.
Portland Advertiser.
Probate Notices.
Insolvency Notices.
Notice Of Appointment.
Juno Chemical Co
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Otherwise ts-o0 year. Single copies cents
ApvxKrrsKNESrs An legal Advertisements are
given three consecutive insertions for l-5c per
inch In length Of column Special contracts
made with local. transient and yearly stvertis
ers-
Jon PRINTING New type, fast presses. steam
power. experienced workmen and low price,
combine ~ make this department OF our ousi
ness complete and popular.
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EAST PERU.
BRENTWOOD.

Tom Farrar lost a nice COW OF milk
fever one dav last week.
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rs7 Main Street,
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
FORCING Plants With Ether.

Attention is being attracted to the
use of ether and chloroform vapors as
forcing agents. 1t has been shown by a
number of investigators that the vapot
of chloroform or ether has a marked eff
feet upon the respiration of plant, in
creasing it in some cases to a marked
degree, as explained by Professor Gal
loway. Increasing the respiration sim
ply means that the plant is being made
to do more work than normal. He says:
sit must be remembered, however, that
in doing this the plant is living beyond
its MEANS and sooner or later there
must be reckoning which may prove
disastrous. The plant responds to the
ether treatment just as it would to any
other irritating influence, and the effect
in the end must be the same as when an
extra stimulus is overwhelmingly, in
creased energy for the time, followed by
collapse and death if the matter is car
ried far enough. In cases of bulbs and
woody plants, where there is more or
less stored energy in the form of food
material, etherizing might work to adj
vantage in starting growth. This seems
to nave been the line of work carried
GA hy the Danish investigator. From
the report of Consul Kirk, however, the
conclusions have not been very definite. "
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
The Value of Cow Manure.

Cow manure does not heat quickly.
1t is therefore not in favor for forcing
beds or for crops where early results are
important. For this reason it ought al
ways to be partly composted, SO as to
reduce its bulk before it is used It is
excellent to mix with manure from the
horse stable, because the latter, being
drier, is much more likely to become
sire fanged'' from the entire destruc-
ton of its vegetable fiber. Yet in actual
value the slower COW manure is more
nearly equal to horse manure than is
generally supposed.
From fattening cattle fed as horses
are on hay and oats the exorement is
quite as rich as that from horses, and
it does not differ from the latter so
much as is commonly supposed. Careful
experiments have shown that on full
ration fed to young growing cattle only
per cent of the nutrition of food went
to make growth. With milk COWS Civ
ing milk this proportion was increased
to 90 per cent. Considering the amount
Of nutrition which a COW in full flow of
milk manufactures from its food every
day this result is remarkable. In fat
tening animals the food eaten furnishes
IA flesh or fat far less nutrition than
this. Cultivator.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
The Single Shovel Plow.

A contributor to The National Stock
man says:
I have helped to pillow hundreds of
acres of potatoes with an old fashioned
single shovel pillow, and there is no
modern farm implement that does as
satisfactory work in clayey loans or
clays that have been packed by beating
rains after being planted. This old i'm
plement has been practically discarded
by growers here for many years, but
some have returned to its use this sea-
son, and the slow work with it will
pay, if any work i'll growing potatoes
pays this year. When the plants showed
above ground, the practice formerly
was to run close to the row with long
and very narrow shovel, the pillow stock
being held at such an angle that the
point Of the shovel actually went under
the hills.
The soil in the rows is solid in many
fields this year, packed by incessant
rain, and no modern cultivator can be
SO set that the earth in the rows may
be loosened so we'll as it is done with
the single shovel, taking one side of the
row at time. If the shovels of a two
horse cultivator were set at the angle
we osed to hold the single shovel, they
wouId lift the plants out. Two acres a
day was called a days work, and this
seeHas slow, but the plant started life
above ground with loose soil in the hill,
nc matter how packed rains had made
it after planting, and loose soil in the
hill is a necessity in successful potato
growing.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
THE HORN FLY.
Substances Recommended by the Stations
For Killing This Pest.

For Killing This Pest.
The horn fly is so we'll known that it
hardly needs description. 1t congregates
in colonies about the base of the horns
of cattle, along the back and sides, at
tender points about the TANKS and on
the belly. 1t sucks blood from the ami
mails and initiates them to such degree
as to interfere with the laying on of
flesh with beef cattle and the production
of milk by milk COWS.
To prevent their depredations many
substances have been advised. The
Mississippi station recommends two
parts of cottonseed oil or fish oil and
one part of pine tar. This station ap-
piled this mixture to $50 head at to-
tai cost for material of $2.20.
Kerosene emulsion has also been used,
spraying it over the cattle with a KNAPP
sack sprayer. The flies are killed by the
emulsion if it touches them. The emul-
sion may be made by mixing at the rate
Of one pint Of soft soap Cor one-fourth
pound of hard soap dissolved in boiling
water) and a pint Of kerosene in Is
pints Of water, thoroughly whipped
and churned together.
Director Plumb of the Indiana station
at Purdue, in bulletin on the subject,
tells of different substances tried there,
none of which was effective over two
or three days. He says:
"We have tested preparation called
Shoe Fly which answered very we'll for
two days. The main objection to this is
its cost, so cents a quart or $3.50 per
gallon in three, five and ten gallon cans.
One quart will do for one application
on about so animals. We have, how
ever, secured fully as satisfactory re-
suits by using one quart of fish oil in
which was mixed about two tablespoon
fuls of crude carbolic acid. Fish oil is
60 cents per gallon in Lafayette. These
liquids are applied on the body with
flat paintbrush about four inches wide.
Fish oil is especially disagreeable to
flies, and e probably largely used in the
special preparations sold at high prices.
There is one objection to using any form
of tar, in that it makes the hair sticky,
which accumulates dirt, and so gives it
bad appearance.
"Stockmen would do we'll to break
up the manure in the pasture whenever
possible, as the flies deposit their eggs
in it, from which the young are detel-
oped. If the manure is gathered up Or
broken to pieces within day or so and
if remedies to keep off the flies are ap-
piled to cattle, the insects will disap-
pear early in the season.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Trial of Hay Caps.

The frequent and extended use Of the
three styles of hay caps-viz, the
Symmes' paper board, oiled cotton and
cotton impregnated with tannin, has
led to the following conclusions at the
Massachusetts, hatch experiment station:
/. Caps of some sort are extremely
useful, especially with such crops as
clover, millet, oats and peas and other
slow curing crops, especially those
much injured by excessive handling.
2. The Symmes' cap is most quickly
applied-an important point-and is
best liked. 1t appears to be wearing
very we'll. 8. OF the two styles Of cloth
caps in use, those impregnated with
tannin are most durable. The oiled caps
are more widowed than the others and
have become much more torn. 4. 1t
has been found that in some cases,
where clover has been cooked quite
green and covered with the three kinds
of caps and allowed to stand for some
time with frequent rains, it has kept
better under the cloth than under the
Symmes' caps. The porosity of the for
mer in such cases appears to be an ad
vantage
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Tho FalI Crops.

In considering the fall crops a south
ern exchange advises that rye be given
a prominent place, as 1t not only fur
nishes green feed for the cold weather,
but is an accumulation Of firmness in the
soil. Wheat, oats and rye he sows in
September, and considers pea stubble
an excellent preparation for both wheat
and oats.
Lawrence is not interested in wool,
but in sheep" the Chicago Tribune
(Rep. explains. "He and a score moro
Of Ohioans raise blooded rams, whioh
they sell to the ranchmen to improve
the breed of their sheep and better the
quality of their wool. This is prosaio,
useful business, but the country would
not be ruined if II vs'e-O stopped. 1t is in
order tn 30 able to sell more rams that
judge Lawrence poses as the disinterest-
ed champion Of the sheep xs&ssra-"
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Alka1i water In Colorado.

W. W. Cooke, writing from the Col
orado experiment station to Rural New
Yorker, says: For person who moves
to an alkali district and takes the water
into the system for the first time small
doses of paregorio for the first few days
are advisable. After that nature will
take the matter in hand and accommo-
date the system to the new beverage. 1t
would be difficult to claim that there
was any bad effect to either man or
beast from living on alkali soil or
drinking alkah water. We are in a
country where, within few miles, can
be found farms of all grades, from
strongly alkaline to those nearly free
from alkali. Practically all of the soil
from the Rocky mountains to western
Kansas and Nebraska has a good deal
of .alkaIi. Where it is not strong enough
to form a white crust on top it does not
seem to injure vegetation.
Some of the most successful sheep
raising done in this country has been
accomplished where the only water
available is strongly alkaline. Personal
ly the only objection 1 have to alkali
water is that it does not quench thirst.
/ require from two to three times as
much alkali water as river water. It
also tends to crack the lips and chap
the hands. Outside of these minor dis
advantages, would be just as willing
to take alkaH water as the best artesiau
81 water.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Starting Asparagus Beds.

The old method, and it is a good
method, is to dig deep trenches and ma
nure them heavily, but Rural New
Yorker does not regard it as the most
economical way, but suggests blowing
the land foot deep and then harrow
ing it. Next broadcast manure, more or
less in quantity as desired, and pillow q
trench by running the pillow both ways.
Now set the asparagus roots not less
than two feet by four feet apart. After
this, annual dressings Of manure or fer
tilizer will serve every purpose, and the
yield will be as large as if deep trenches
were, according to the old way, filed
With manure.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
SENT FREE TO MEN.
INDIANA MAN DISCOVERS A RE-
MARKABLE REMEDY FOR
LOST VTGOR.
Write For 1t.

Jas. P. Johnston, of ct, Wayne, Ind,
after battling for years against the
mental and physical suffering of lost
manhood has found the exact remedy
that cures the trouble.
He is guarding the secret carefully
but is willing to send a sample of the
medicine to all men who suffer with
any form of sexual weakness resulting
from youthful ignorance, premature
loss of memory and strength, weak
back, varicocele and emaciation. The
remedy has a peculiarly grateful effect
of warmth and seems to act directly
giving needed strength and develop
ment wherever needed. The remedy
cured Mr.. Johnston completely of all
the ills and troubles that come from
years of misuse of the naturally or
dained functions and is said to be alb
solutely reliable in every case.
A request to Mr.. Jas. P. Johnston,
Box 1862, Fit. Wayne, Ind, stating that
you would like a sample of his remedy
for men, will be complied with prompt
ly and no charge whatever will be
asked by him. He is very much inter
ested in spreading the news of this
great remedy and he is careful to send
fSYes sample securely sealed in per-
fectR plain package SO that it's re-
cipienT need have no fear of embarass-
mani ~. ggaublicity.
Readers yare requested to write with
out DELAY.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Experiment with Nitrogen.

The editor of The Rural New Yorker
is experimenting with the new bottled
bacteria of leguminous plants. He Sc
cured bottle of the special bacteria Of
red clover, and the plan is to work
poor, sandy field well and add a good
dressing of basic Stag and kainit. The
clover seed will then be soaked in So
luton of the nitrogen and sowed in the
usual manner. The theory is that these
bacteria will at once begin their work
on the clover plants and enable them to
absorb nitrogen from the air. If this is
what really happens, such seed ought to
produce a good crop without any nj
trogenous fertilizer. 1t is an interesting
experiment, and will be watched with
interest,
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.
Things Farmers Ought to Know Before
Applying Them.

Things Farmers Ought to Know Before
Applying Them.
The principal featurs of farmers
bulletin on commercial fertilizers by E.
B. Voorhees, are brought out in the fol-
lowing summary:
Commercial fertilizers are mainly
valuable because they furnish the ele-
enents-nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash-which serve as food, not as
stimulants. The kind of farming in the
past and the demands for special prod
ucts in the present make their use neces-
sary in profitable farming.
In order to use these commercial fer
tilizers proftably the farmer should
knol H-st, that nitrogen, phosphoric
aoid ss1d potash are the essential ma
nurial constituents; second, that the
agricultural vaIpe Of these constituents
depends largely upon their chemical
form; third, that these forms are con-
tanned in specific products Of a well de-
fined character and com position, and
may be purchased as such from dealers
and manufacturers, and may be mixed
successfully on the farm.
The agricultural value of fertilizer
bears no strict relation to the CONNER
DIAL value. The one is determined by
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Mere Mention.

An Arkansas farmer who has grown
all of the forage plants claims that
sorghum has no rival, although red
Kaffir corn and cowpeas are excellent.
At meeting of the Texas coast hor.
ticulturists in Brazoria county was Or
ganized the Gulf Coast horticultural
association. B. f. johnson of Arcadia
was elected president and W. e. Davis
of Alvin secretary.
At Holly Springs, Miss, the largest
and most profitable cotton crops report
ed from the station were produced
where both acid phosphate and cotton
seed meal were applied.
1t is claimed that oanaigre, the tan
ming plant, is particularly adapted to
west and south Texas.
Southern Cultivator tells that steam
drainage pump with an estimated me-
dunn capacity Of throwing out 10, 000,
900 gallons of water every "a hours has
been placed on the. rice plantation Of
Mr.. George W. Egan in South Carolina.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
CURE CATARRH IN SUMMER.

Rev. j. w. Blosser, M. D., who has
devoted twenty-one years to the study
of Catarrh, says that summer is the
best time to make speedy and thor
ough cure He has discovered rem
edy which is :smoked in pipe, bu,
contains no tobacco, and cures the
worst cases permanently. He will
mail a three days trial treatment free
to any sufferer who will address, DR..
J. w, Blosser & Son., II, IL and Is
Grant Building, Atlanta, Ga.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Rea.sdy For the Melon nouss.

The only known remedy for the mel
on louise, SO destructive last season, is
bisulphide of carbon. Farm Journal
tells how to use it: Fastsn a piece of
rag, sponge or cotton batting to stick,
dip it in the liquid and push the oIile1
end Of the stick into the center Of the
hill. Place over this at once tent of
paper or oiled muslin and let it remain
two hours. The liquid is volatile and
it's fumes heavy. They will fill the tent
with a deadly gas and destroy every
louise.
These pests usually appear at first on
hills here and there over field, and
from these spread in circle outward,
finally involving the whole patch. By
keeping sharp watch and treating
these few hills the whole crop may be
saved. The presence of the lice may be
detected by the inward curl of the leaves
and their dirty, dark green color. The
lice being on the underside and shield
ed by the curl of the leaves, it is almost
impossible to reach them by any form
of spray.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Middle of the Road Fight in Indiana.

A Middle of the Road Fight In Indiana.
We call attention to the letter below,
and trust it may meet with favorable
response from some of our readers.
Mr. Browder made a great fight in
Texas last year, and he has our hearth
est sympathies.
ALERT, IND, June "a, 1897.
Hon THos. E. WATSON,
Dear Sir and Rro:-The Populists Of
this district are making a clean cut
Populist fight against the two old
twins. Our candidate is DR.. U. M.
Browder who measured swords with
Joe Baxley in the 5th District of Texas
in 1894. We propose to set the pace for
'98 and appeal to the loyal Populists
everywhere to send us a small con-
ttribution towards paying unavoidable
expenses. Every cent will be account
ed for and judiciously expended. An
aggressive, clean campaign here will
cheer our brethren throughout the en-
tire country.
Fraternally Yours,
o. P. MCLAIN,
Sec. Dist. Com.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09

The next meeting Of the Association
Of American Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations will be held at
Minneapolis, July 1915.
The farmers national congress meets
at ST. Paul, Aug. 81 to Sept. Q.
Cutting timothy with the binderl
The arguments on the subject are con-
vincing, says Rural New Yorker.
II you could cover a potato plant with
thin coating of bordeaux mixture, it
would be impossible for the blight fun
gus to start its work. The plant could
not blight That is what you aim to do
in spraying.
According to one authority, barley is
the best hot weather grain for soiling.
The beet sugar industry in the United
States has been practically developed in
che last six years.
To keep hen manure use enough land
plaster to keep the manure perfectly dry
and store it under 0oya&
The Grasses.
Kentucky, while famous for her blue
grass, is hardly less famous abroad for
her orchard grass. Yearly large guam
titles Of the seed Of this grass cross the
Atlantic from Kentucky, and the part
of the state that raises it in the highest
perfection is not first class for blue
grass, but, on the contrary, is rather
poor for it,
Orchard grass is in every way one Of
our best grasses, and it marks the i'm
portanoe of looking at this matter broad
ly and also the Importance of steadily
experimenting, says The Home and
Farm.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Grand Populist Rally.

The Populists of Dooley and sur
rounding counties will hold grand
Populist rally at Cordele on July 10.
A mammoth barbecue sufficient to feed
ten thousand people will be prepared
for the occasion and the fellow who
thinks populism is dead in Georgia be-
cause he read it in the Constitution is
invited along with others to be present,
No one who can arrange to be present
should fail to go to Cordele Saturday,
July 10th.