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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-09-22
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Ifcc Shall NC set oub lor every one
cut, they are not generally set il
straight orchard rows, but cultivation
! there is performed almost exclusively
by hand labor. There are no records
showing results of regular orchard
planting, hence the distances at which
trees should be planted must be de-
termined by the size and form of the
trees and the methods of cultivation
and procuring the gum. They may
be set closely in rows about 10 feet
apart, and alternate rows cut and re-
set every five years, thus producing
bush-like plants of ten years growth
They may be planted in checks 10 feet
square, and alternate trees cut every
ten or twelve years, or they may be
planted in larger checks, and all OF
the trees be cut at the age of fifteen
or twenty years.
There are not sufficient data OBJ
statements as to the best methods of
planting or the age at which the trees
may be cut with greatest profit for
the production of gum. A recent Eng
fish consular report from Japan states
that ''although hitherto the youngest
wood from which camphor was ex-
tracted was about seventy to eighty
years old, it is expected that under
the present scientific management the
trees will give equally good results
after twenty-five or thirty years.
Camphor of good quality has been
produced in Florida from the leaves
and tWigs of trees less than twenty
years old, / pound of crude gum be-
ING obtained from II pounds of leaves
and twigs.
The trees will endure severe prun-
ing with little apparent injury. One
third of the leaves and young shoots
may be removed at one time without
materially checking the growth of the
tree. The largest proportion of cam
phOr contained in the older, larger
roots; the trunk, limbs, twigs and
leaves containing successfully a de-
creasing proportion. When the cam
phor tree is killed nearly to the
ground by frost it sends up vigorous
shoots from the base. It may be eS,
pected to do the same when cut, es-
pecially if cut late in the fall. Expert
ments are needed to determine wheth-
err this growth may be depended upon,
or whether it will be more profitable
to dig out the larger roots and set out
new seedlings.
Distillation of Camphor in Japan
In the native forests of FOrmOsa, Flu
ken, and Japan camphor is distilled
almost exclusively from the wood Of
the trunks, roots, and larger branch
es. The work is performed by hand
labor, and the methods employed
seem rather crude. Different methods
Of distillation are employed in differ
ent districts, but those in use in the
province Of Tosa, in Japan, appear to
be the most skillful. The camphor
trees are felled and the trunk, larger
limbs, and sometimes the roots, are
cut into chips by hand labor with a
sharp cOncave adj.
The fresh chips are placed in q
wooden tub about 40 inches high an6
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-09-22


for ornamental purposes.
The wood, with it's close grain, yell
low color, and susceptibility to polish,
taking kind of satin-like finish is
exceedingly valuable in cabinetwork,
especially for making drawers, ches 5,
and cupboards proof against insects
The leaves and young branches, al
though they have but slight odor of
camphor, are packed with clothing or
scattered about unused rooms to
guard against insects.
The tree produces an abundance OF
berry-like fruits, which are used in
Japan and China to make a kind OF
tallow. The fruits are greedily eaten
by chickens and birds, especially
mocking-b birds, which often select
camphor trees for nesting places.
Conditions of successful Cultivation.
For most of the secondary purposes,
the camphor tree may well be Guilt
waited wherever it can be made to live;
but for the distillation of gum and Oil
with a commercial view, and for the
production of wood for cabinet pur-
poses, it must be grown under the
most favorable conditions. The min
imum winter temperature should not
be below 20 degrees f., and this mini
mum should be of rare occurrences.
The soil, preferably sandy and well
drained. should be irrigated unless
there are abundant rains. Fifty inch
es of water during the warm growing
season is BILE, and much more
NAV well be used where the air is very
dry.
An abundance of plant food, rich il
nitrogen, is required for rapid
growth. but the kind of fertilizer that
can be most proftably applied will
vary according to the character OF the
soil in each locality. In the
absence of definite information in
this regard the kind of fertilizer pro-
ducing most rapid growth of wood in
the orange or in other fruit trees may
be taken as an index.
Propaga tion.-Camphor trees, may
be grown either from seed or
from cuttings. They are usually
grown from seed, as the trees
fruit abundantly, and seedlings
can be grown more easily than cut
tings. The seeds are collected at ma
turity in October and November, and
after drying are packed in sharp
white sand or some similar material
to keep them fresh until the time OF
planting in spring. About the last Of
March they are sown in drills in the
seed bed.
The soil of the seed bed should be
good sandy loan mixed with about
one-third leaf mould. The seed bed
should be kept moist, but not too wet,
and should be shaded from the direct
RAYS of the sun if the weather is
warm. The best soil temperature for
terminating camphor seeds is from
70 to IS degrees F. The temperature
of the atmosphere may be ten degrees
higher. The seedlings will grow well
at higher temperatures, but are like
ly to lack vigor and hardness.
The seedlings may be grown in
pots, which will facilitate transplant
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right side up, kept about tWo-thlrds
full of water from continuous
stream which runs out of a hole in
one side The smaller one is inverted
with its edges below the water, form
ing an air-tight chamber. This air
chamber is kept cool by the water
falling on the top and running down
over the sides. The upper part Of the
air chamber is sometimes filled with
clean rice straw, on which the cam
phor crystallizes, while the oil drips
down and collects on the surface of
the water. In some cases the cam
phor gum and oil are allowed to col
lect together on the surface Of the wa
ter and are afterward separated by
filtration through rice straw or by
pressure.
About twelve hours are required for
distilling tubful by this method.
Then the chips are removed and dried
for use in the furnace, and a new
charge is put in. At the same time
the camphor and oil are removed from
the condenser. BY this method 20 to
40 pounds of chips are required for
one pound of crude camphor gum.
The principles generally held to be
essential in distilling camphor of good
quality are: CD The heat must be uni
form and not too great, producing a
steady supply of steam; (2) the steam
after liberating the camphor must not
come in contact with metal, that is,
the tub and condensing apparatus
must be of wood.
Suggested IMPROVEMENTS Many
improvements upon the methods de-
scribed can doubtless be made, tend
ing both to reduction in cost and
an increase in the proportion of crude
gum obtained. Instead of an adj
welded by hand labor machine sim
liar to the "hog" used for grinding up
waste slabs in sawmills may be used
to reduce camphor limbs to the requi-
site fineness for distillation. Better
distillng apparatus can probably be
devised. Thermometers may be in
troduced to determine the heat IN the
distilling tub, and the furnace may be
so arranged as to permit better con-
troll and greater economy in fuel.
Camphor and camphor oil are Doth
slightly soluble in water, and the con-
densing chamber should be improven
so as to recover the product that is
being constantly carried off in The
running stream which cools the cham
Der.
The tariff act approved July 81,
1897, imposes a duty of six cents per
pound on refined camphor and leaves
crude camphor on the free list, as
heretofore.
There has been an increase in inn
portations of refined camphor, due to
improved methods of refining and
packing in Japan and to changes in
the tariff, but this increase has been
much more than counterbalanced by
the decrease in importations of crude
camphor. The decrease may be at
tributed to the following causes: CD
The exhaustion of the supply Of the
available camphor trees near the ship
ping ports; (2) the governmental re-
| strictiOns on the trade in camphOr in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
LANDING AN AIR-SHIP.
A Hard Task for the Navigators of TIL

A Hard Task for the Navigators of the
Future.
There is another direction in which the
airship would be seriously defective, and
this is almost always overlooked, and
that is in the matter of making land
ings. Being a large body, it would nee
essarily be unWieldy, and it's motion in
any direction could not be arrested in a
very short space of time; therefore it
could not make a landing within linn
tied area. In dead calm it could prob
line, and thus make a landing in a con
tracted space, but if the wind were blow
ing even at a moderate velocity the case
would be different
AS the wind is always blowing more or
less, as it frequently changes its course
in a few seconds, the ship would be
tossed about quite lively before it reached
the ground. If it came down at the rate
of 800 feet per minute, which is high
velocity, and the wind were blowing at
the rate of ten miles per hour, the side
drift would be three times as great as
the vertical descent; and if this were
counteracted by imparting a velocity to
the ship equal to that of the wind and CD
posed to it, the side draught would be
doubled if the direction of the wind
should suddenly reverse. 1t must there
fore be evident that to be able to make
landing safely, without running the
risk of cOlliding with church steeples and
modern sky-scrapers, it would be neces-
Sary to have a large open Space-Apple-
tons Popular Science Monthly
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
A ElNatin0 Island,

Henry lake is a beautiful body Of wa
ter with an area of about forty-one square
miles and is situated on the dome of tie
continent in a depression in the Rocky
mountains near Targees pass, Idaho.
Henry lake is the home of a most Won
derful floating island, which is seen first
OF one side of the lake and then on the
other. The island is about 800 feet in
diameter, and has for its basis a mat of
roots and decayed vegetation sufficient to
support large trees and a dense growth
of underbrush. The edges of this fi0at-
ing island are thin, of course. but near
the center it is several feet thick and Of
sufficient strength to support a good-sized
summer hotel, if some one could be
found that would care to make such Il
venture. There is a good-sized willow
thlcket near the center of the island, ;tEd
scattered around among them are several
dwarf pines and aspens. These trees
catch the breeze which is continually
blowing over this highly situated lake.
and, acting as sails on a boat, move the
3O0-foot island hither and thither over
the forty square miles of water at their
will
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Michigan Fish Stories.

The championship Michigan fish story
of the season comes from Lobdelrs In Ike.
Argentine. An Ovid man was fishing in
the lake recently and hooked a pickerel
which was SO large that he could not get
it into the boat. He ran the fish into
shallow water and then jumped out and
grappled with it catch-as-ca tCh-can style.
but the fish managed to escape. How
long the fish was is not stated. but the
weight is said to have been estimated at
forty pounds.
But here's a rival: A German Iiy-
ing mile west of Galesburg, Mich,
drew log from the river, from which
projected the tail of a five-pound pickerel.
The fish was wedged in and was with
drawn with difficulty when five more
pickerel Topped out, the last one having
a partly swallowed "bait'' in it's mouth.
The presumption is that the six pickerel
were in a simultaneous pursuit of the
same bait which sought refuge in the log
and was followed by the entire number
Of its enemies, the last of which, being
much larger, became so firmly wedged in
the hollow as to make it's own escape i'm
possible, thus involving the capture of all.
The total weight of the fish was twenty
eight pounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Adulterated Tea.

Adulterated tea, which is being sold all
over the European continent, is described
in German medical paper. This prepa-
ration has long been known in Russia,
where it is sold under the name of'rog-
ogeski." 1t is made in the following
way: The manufacturers Of this adui-
terate buy in the tea houses the residue
from the tea pots-leaves which have al
ready been used-and mix these leaves
while still moist with other leaves ard
very little genuine tea. The mixture is
heated with an addition of extract of
caramel and campeche wood, in order to
improve the color and taste. The weight
is also increased by the addition of sand
or soil, and just before being dried the
leaves are rolled between the hands.
The adulteration is SO difficult to recog-
nize that a chemical test is necessary to
prove it. If tea prepared in this way is
dipped into a cold saturated solution of
copper the blue color Of this solution will
not be changed, not even if the aduIter-
ated tea is allowed to remain in it for
three or four months. If the tea is fresh
and has not previously been soaked the
solution will turn green within u short
time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
An Earthuuake Year

This will be known as an earthquake
in consequence of the terrene convul-
sions, but they have been strangely fire.
quent. We hear of them in Canada, in
the South, III Mexico. in Italy, il india
and we know that in Japan and the
East Indies the earth's surface is nor
mally agitated, so that people do not
get their nights rest if the tremor quiets
down In that case it is like the stop
ping of the screw on an ocean steamer;
it wakes everybody up. The worst dam
age that has been accomplished is in
Calcutta. This city appears to have suf-
fered as greatly. and much in the same
way, as harleston.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
A Life for Every Billiard Bail.

1t is said that for every ivory billiard
ball in the world a human life has been
lost. The ivory for their manufacture
comes from the densest jungles of Cen
trail Africa. There the hot and damp
atmosphere reeks with a hundred deadly
diseases. In the dark and tangled vege-
tatiOn also hide fierce, wild ami
mails, poisonous snakes and loathe-
some insects, whose bites are as fatal us
those of the most fearsome serpents. In
addition there is common chance of
meeting with the vengeful natives, who
do not hesitate to make way with all in
truders, and the always present danger
of being lost in the wilderness of tangled
forest, painless mountains and unpass-
able morasses. Thus nature conjurcs TO
shield the big but almost helpless ele-
plant, and they only can engage in the
trade of supplying the material for ivory
billiard balls who take their lives into
their own hands
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
REAL BLUE GRASS,
Not Found in Kentucky, but Down in
the Apache Country.

Not Found in Kentucky, but Down in
the Apache Country.
One of the standing jokes of the blue
grass region is the fact that 'blue grass"
is green. People who visit the famous
rich grazing country found in kentucky
are often the subject for jokes when they
want the ''blue grass" pointed out. But
there is blue grass, a sample of which
can be found growing at the department
of agriculture, which is as blue as a
clOudless sky on a summer day. 1t is n
native of the Apache country. 1t can
be found all through New Mexico &nd
in some of the adjoining states. It is
known as the Apache blue grass. 1t has
q broad spear and grows Il couple of feet
in height. a field covered with it looks
like a lake in which has been dumped a
barrel of indigo. 1t is said to be one of
the most beautiful sights of the South
west to view great fields of this llue
grass. dotted here and there with flowers
Especial attention has been paid to he
cultivation of a patch of this grass at
the department of agriculture, where it
grows luXuriantly, and is one of the in
teresting sights to all visitors to the
grounds of that department.-Wa
ton Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Hints to HunterS.

To get good results in any kind Of shoot
ing, uniform, reliable ammunition is alb
solutely necessary. Experience has
taught the most successful hunters that
it pays to always use ammunition made
by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,
New Haven. CT. as it is uneQualled for
accuracy, reliability. uniformity and
strong shooting qualities. Winchester
ammunition can be bought everywhere,
as it is in great demand all over the
world Like Winchester guns. it is the
standard of the world. 1t costs no more
than inferior makes. and it is a thousand
times better Send for large illustrated
catalogue free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Workman's Narrow Escape.

A Boston workman was sent to a fash
lonable residence to make some repairs,
and Immediately after he left the build
ing a valuable watch and chain were
missed from q room which only he and
the mistress of the house had entered
He was charged with the theft, arrested
and locked up, when the watch was
found. having been removed by the wom-
ans little daughter. Every effort WAS
made to repair the wrong to the unjustly
imprisoned man, but he declined all
apologies and offers of remuneration, and
insisted that, as he might have been con-
vlcted and ruined by the charge, he must
go into court and receive his acquiJtal
there, which was done, thus rescuing linn
from situation of peculiar difficulty and
peril.-NeW York Tribune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Cheyenne Pesrered with Lizards.

A recent number of the Cheyenne Sun
Leader had the following: probably the
largest number of lizards ever observed
on the streets and sidewalks Of Chey-
enne can be seen atthe present time. After
yesterdays rain in the vicinity OF Lake
Minnehaha it was next 20 impossible to
cross the street without walking over the
disa greeable pests. Even in the arch
way of the depot lizards were very nu-
merous. Many ladies on the streets were
badly frightened While walking to their
homes, and for this reason carriages
were much in demand.'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
There was once q bore.

There was once 2 bore.
Other bores have lived and died and
troubled the scenery with their presence,
but his associate voted unanimously that
this particular bore was the biggest one
that ever happened and e1celled all Of
his predecessors and contemporaries.
He would borrow money and never
pay it back. He would slap innocent
people on the shoulders and relate TO
them pointless stories punctuated with
his own outlaws. Everyone despised
him.
One day he disappeared and no one
troubled to ask whether the bore had
fallen off the earth or dropped into the
river.
Strolling down the street one day came
a bright and glittering diamond Be
hind it was a man. 1t was the bore,
but everyone was glad to see him. Peo-
pie shook hands with him and said:
Hello, dear boy" They told stories of
former times Of which the bore was the
hero and these stories seemed to exalt
his character. What was the secret of
the change?
He had been to Alaska and found a
gold mine.
The above recipe is free and is guaran-
teed. Any bore who suspects that his
friends have grown weary of him can
give it a thorough trial for the price of
a ticket to Alaska.-Chicago Record.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Try Grain-O. Try Grafn-O,

Ask your grocer to-day to show you n
package of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee. The
children may drink it without injury
as we'll as the adllt All who try it.
like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal
brown of Mocha or Java. but it IS made
from pure grains, and the most deli
cate stomach receives it without dis
tress. a the price Of coffee 15c and 25c.
per package. Sold by all grocers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Could Stand IU.

not afraid of a temperature of ten de-
giees below zero the late Tolman Wiley
of Boston said: where | was born, sir,
my father one Sunday took me into d
meeting house which sat on four stone
posts with no other underpinning. l sat
III that church and listened to a sermon
on hell for sixty minutes, with the wind
bowling underneath the church and
blowing forty miles a minute, with no
lire in the stove and the mercury forty
degrees below zero. Do you think l was
born in sugar-bOX and nursed on hello
trOpeS !'-NeW York Tribune
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-EaSe, q powder for the
feet 1t cures painful, swollen, smart
ing feet, and instantly takes the sting
out Of corns and buniCus. It's the
greatest comfort discovery Of the age.
Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight-itting
or new shoes feel easy. It is certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot,
tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores. By
mail for % cents, in stamps. Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen 8.
OlmSted LIE ROY n Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Woman Veterinary Surgeon.

A woman having passed an examina-
ton in veterinary surgery in England
the Royal college of veterinary surgeons
refuses to grant her a certificate until
the courts have decided that it is legal
for women to be horse doctors. She is
q Scotch woman, and graduate of a
Scotch college,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
Use GentlenesS.

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys,
otherwise you will excite and weaken them.
The happiest results follow the of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to overcome renal
inactivity. Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
StImulantS of commerce. The kidneys have
a delicate membrane easily irritated, and
upon this the action of such excitants is
perniciOus. Malarial complaints indigeS-
ton, rheumatism, neuralgia and biliousness
succumb to the corrective influence of the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
There Is a Glass of Peonle

Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores new preparation
called GRA1N-O, made of pure grains
that takes the place of coffee The ,'roSt
deli ate stomach receives it without dis
tress, and but few can tell It from cof-
fee, 1t does not cost over one-fourth as
much. Children may drink it with great
benefit. 15c and DC per package
Try it Ask for GRAIN-O
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28
There Is a Glass of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee Re
Gently there has been placed in all the gro
Gerry stores 4 new preparation called
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains. that
takes the place of coffee. The most deli
cate stomach receives it without distress,
and but few can tell it from coffee 1t
does not cost over one-fourth as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit.
15c and DC per package