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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-09-13


Much more potash than nitrogen and
much more nitrogen than phOsphOr'c
acid is appropriated by the sweet pc
tatO. This is shown by the fertill?ing
ingredients in roots and vines of sweet
pOtatOes--an acre containing -
bounds of nitrogen Us po llIS Of LhOS-
phoric acid and 1903 pounds OF potash.
! The amount of commercial fertilizer
to supply the above amounts equals:
S03 pounds of cotton seed meal or H.
800 pounds of barnyard manure for
At pounds of nitrogen; l33 pounds su
per-phOsphate TO: 16 pounds available
phosphOric acid and 475 pounds OF cot
ton hull ashes for the 1OS pounds of
potash.
The sweet potato plant must have
nitrogen. 1t has a long growing sea-
son, extending through all the hot
months, when nitrifcation is active in
soils filled with vegetable matter,
hence it thrives on soils that contain
izers.
The farmer who places large quanti-
ties of wOods-earth, etc, in the field
he intends to plant in sweet potatoes,
will find the yield largely increased.
The most important fertilizer for
sweet potatoes is potash, but a low
grade of fertilizer called kainit can be
obtained near seaport cities.
Harvesting the sweet potato is the
most important work of all, and if
done properly there will be no trouble
in keeping them.
The usual test applied to the exact
time to dig the potato is to break sew.
eral potatoes and expose the pieces to
the air for some time. If matured so
as to keep we'll, the original color Is
!. maintained; if unripe, the broken sur
) face assumes a dark or greeniSh ap-
pearance. The potato should be dug
when the ground is dry, and before Sc
we're frost occurs. Dig in the fore
noon and after several hours exposure
gather the potatoes in baskets or box
es holding about a bushel.
Vines are a great nuisance in har-
vesting sweet potatoes and should be
cut and drawn away from the row be-
fore digging. A light turning pillow
with a rolling coulter, run once on each
side of the row has been used with
success. The third time the plOW is
run in the center of the row and the
potatoes thrown out. The assortment
of the potatoes should be made in the
field, and all bruised potatoes thrown
out, as soft rot is liable to occur and
injure some of the sound tubers.
STORING.
The Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station after making a number of ex-
periments in regard to keeping the po-
tatO, obtained the best results by let
ting the tubers remain in the ground
where they grew until wanted. Throw
ing dirt over them by turning pillow
to prevent freezing.
If the potatoes are to be stored in q
building, they should be dried out
first, and those which decay from soft
rot must be taken out frequently. In
about two weeks after dipoin0 rho SOFT
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-09-13

b1ng still goes on.
More tn an any
OF her class of
women the large
army of w m e n
clerks needs to
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
THE BEST PAYS BEST.
Farmer Who Grows Something Bet
ter Than Can BE Found in the
Market Makes Money.

The great difficulty in making farms
pay is that most farm crops cannot be
assorted into good, better and best.
They must be sold at so nearly uni
form price that there is no money in it.
In stock growing and in fruit growing
such wide differences in value can be
made that it is possible to charge the
very rich, who always want the best,
whatever the best is worth more, and
if it be not too easily produced, than
this. So long as man grows only for
the universal market, he must sell at
prices which even the poorest can pay
But let him grow something better than
can be found in the market, and he can
get enough higher prices to pay him
double for all his extra trouble. This
is the secret of getting rich in all kinds
of business. Money is to be got from
those who have it, and not from those
who have it not. Does this forget the
poor? Not at all. The struggle to i'm
prove quality is always changing its
ground. The best of one year is thus
placed within the reach of all a few
years later, and another best has taken
its place.
Barring accidents from untimely
frosts, it is the best fruit that pays the
most profit and that can be grown most
cheaply if the average of years is con-
sidered. The labor of spraying with in
secticides and with fungicides to make
the fruit fair, and the further labor of
thinning it, produces so much more
fruit every year that it can be sold with
profit at rates within the reach of all.
The very rich will still get the best
and pay for it, but the poorest will get
more and better fruit than they ever
before enjoyed Massachusetts, Plough
man.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
t4a<A~s.- seennss;Y 1ffn%'l0l0
r1aI3RtSUD.' ..4V~
GFyk,rs;d :ielllHgl1S
THE RATTLEBOX WEED.
It's Poisonous Constituent Is I'm
known, But Resides Both in Its
Leaves and Seed.

The Latin nam, of this weed is
Crotalaria sagittalis. 1t is popularity
known as rattleweed and wild pea. A
of it: 1t is a hairy annual three to
eighteen inches high, with simple I'M
divided leaves one to two inches long
and small yellow pea-like flowers APP
pearing in July. The seed pods are
about an inch long when mature and
are nearly black. They are much in
fated, and, as the walls are stiff and
thin and very resonant, they make ex-
cellent miniature rattles when the
seeds have become detached from their
fastenings inside the pod. The rattle
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02

box is native in low sandy soils from
the Atlantic westward to Minnesota
and eastern Kansas. 1t is also found
in New Mexico. 1t is common in Con-
necticut, New Jersey and North Car
Dina, and in some years is very album
dant in bottom lands along the valley
of the Missouri, in South Dakota and
Iowa.
The poisonous constituent is I'M
known, but it resides both in the
leaves and in the seeds. Horses, and
sometimes cattle, are killed by eat
ing grass mixed with the plant. They
are not poisoned so often by eating
the plant in the fields. Public atten-
ton was first called to the poisonous
nature of the rattleboX by DR.. Stalker,
of Iowa, who, in 1884, while investi-
eating the cause among horses in Iowa,
was led to believe that it was mostly,
if not altogether, attributable to this
plant. Experiments were made that
proved the supposition to be correct.
The percentage of rattlebox in
meadow hay will be much reduced if
the fields are burned over when the
seeds mature the preceding summer.
The growth of perennial grasses will
not be materially affected thereby
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
Cheap Shelters for sheen.

One of the advantages in keeping
sheep is that they do not need an ex-
pensive building as a shelter. A shed
open on one side suits them as well as
tight barn, and even better, as they
require considerable ventilation. But
it should be SO arranged that both rain
and snow can be kept out of it, for the
sheep should not get their fleece wet in
cold weather. 1t takes too long to get
it dry again, and the whole body gets
chilled, reducing vitality, even if they
do not take colds to set them cough
ing and running at the nose. Nor should
water be allowed 10 run into the shed
from outside. A sheep will not lie down
in the mud or on wet straw. Keep the
inside of the shed dry and we'll Uttered
with clean straw and the sheep will be
healthy and thrive well, even on mod.
crate feed.-American Cultivator.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

There are 159 schools of science in the
world, with 81 1893 students.
There are 40,9S1 Protestant converts
in Japan, 24,531 Greek Catholics and So
427 Roman Catholics.
Yale has a blind law student. He is
Robert G. Dayton, of Bridgeport, who
lost his sight in an incident three years
Bridgeport high school. His lessons
are read to him.
In church at Birmingham, England,
il is the custom to disperse the choir
awoug the congregation, and to ar
range as far as possible that the congre-
CATION shall pe grouped together &C
cording to the parts they sing.
In only nine states of the union does
the reading of the Bible as a part of
school exercises rest on legal basis,
plainly written in the state constitution
or in the school law. These states are
Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi and
North and South Dakota.
The japanese papers give the follow
ing statistics of Christian schools in
that country: Protestant boarding
schools for boys, Is, with 1890 schol-
airs; for girls, schools, AZ, containing
2,527 scholars; Protestant day schools,
1O5, pupils, 6,031; Protestant Sunday
schools, s37, with 3o,624 pupils.
Last year tie London school board
began the experiment of free admission
to the evening continuation schools
The result, now officially made known.
strikingly confirms the wisdom of the
step, for there was a vast increase in
schools and scholars, the former mum.
bering 321 and the latter 100000. In
other words, the roll of pupils nearly
doubled.
The great leisure for research which
is made in German universities can be
understood by reading the figures pub
lished in Science: Twenty-Five per cent.
of the professors in the German uni
versities are engaged in lecturing or in
laboratory supervision from two to six
hours week, and 81 per cent. from
seven to twelve hours. Of the associate
professors 60 per cent. are engaged
from two to six hours per week, and of
the privat-docents SO per cent; only
four per cent. of all the privat-docents
are engaged in lecture or laboratory
supervision more than II hours week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
HORSES IN GERMANY.
Hamburg Paper DepIOres the Fact
That American Animals Are
in Growing Demand.

Exports of horses to Germany con-
tinue to attract attention both at home
and abroad. Regarding American
horses in German, the Hamburger
Nachrichten, in a recent article, says:
Corporations from American have
caused the horse-raisers of Holstein tc
suffer much of late. A stock company
has just been formed in Berlin for the
express purpose of importing horses
from the United States. The Ameri-
cans have succeeded in breeding
horse which compares very favorably
in every way with the Holstein animal,
especially in those points so highly
priced in work horse, namely, broad
hips and large build generally. Tie
best markets for Holstein horses have
always been the provinces of Saxony,
Thuringia and Brunswick. The de-
mand is created by the large sugar
factories. This market has been de-
creasing of late, owing to American
horses being purchased in Berlin. A
few days ago this Berlin company
shipped drove of so through Ham
burg en- route for Milan, Italy, where
they are to be used on the tramways
Almost every week long freight train
filled with American horses leave the
Berliner Bahnhof for various parts of
Germany. In spite of expensive freight
and tariff of seven dollars per head,
the Americans have built up very re-
spectacle competition in the German
market"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
HEAVY CORN FEEDING.
Turnips, Pumpkins and Damp MIL
Feed should Be Given in Con-
nectiOn with 1t.

There is no economy in stinting the
ration given to growing and fattening
pigs. The aim should always be to in
duce as heavy feeding as possible. AL
ways much care should be given to Sc
cure perfect digestion, as heavy feed
ing sometimes causes trouble with the
digestive organs. After green corn
commences there is always a desire to
hurry the pigs to market, and corn is
fed to the utmost limit.
1t must be remembered that the mod
ern, quickly-developed pig is soft
creature as compared with his ances-
tors of 60 years ago, that the four to
six months old pig will not corn and di-
gest it like the yearling or 1s-months-
old hogs of the past. Something must
be done to keep up the appetite of this
young thing.
A range over a grass sward will give
exercise, if it is clover sod that they run
over they will get much to keep their
systems in tone.
Heavy feeding by some may be
thought to consist in having corn al
ways by them. This is not correct, as
they will consume more if fed at stated
intervals and only fed enough to keep
their appetites sharp. When once start
ed to fatten the feeding should be
heavy to the finish, as limited feed
ing is always attended with loss.
1t will be found an advantage to give
variety IN feeding. While corn is the
main ration, a good grass ration is a
help-or an occasional feed of pump
kins. Turnips they learn to eat in time
as other succulent foods fail them.
Mangels they take to at once, and while
they may not add much weight they
help the appetite. A ration of mill feed
is always acceptable if fed damp and in
proper quantity.
We do not regard these things as a
cutoff on the amount of corn fed, but
rather as an aid to heavy corn feeding,
and also an aid in prolonging the time
corn may be fed without the hogs STALL
ing on it and getting entirely of feed.
John M. Jamison, in American Guilt
vator.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
TROUGH FOR FEEDING PIGS.

lengthwise of the trough and dividing it
into two parts, they are also prevented
from getting into it and fouling their
food. Strips four inches wide are nailed
to the edges of the trough at requisite
distances, separating the trough into
proper space for each pig, and thus pre-
vents crowding. In order to avoid fight
ing among the animals, there should
always be more spaces provided than
there are pigs to feed.-Fred o. Sibley.
in Ohio Farmer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
President Mckinley at the Battle Of
Manila.

The spontaneous outburst of patriotism
by the president during his visit to Chicago
to the Autumn festival. He expressed a
desire to see Dewey's victory as presented
at the Cyclorama Bldg, Wabash Ave. &
Hubbard CT, and at precisely 1925 A. NJ,
Tuesday, Oct 10th, the presidents car
riage, leading about twenty others contain
ing members of his cabinet and other nota-
bes, and preceded by a cavalry guard of
honor, escorted him to the observation deck
of the Olympia. About a dozen sailors
from Manila were lined up on the gangway
and saluted the president. Pointing to the
American vessels, he said: There they are
all in line. This is wonderfully impress
sive scene every American should see it."
The Battle of Manila has earned ma
tional reputation. It's merits as an educa-
tional feature, and the wonderfully realistic
scenic effects, have earned the Endorsement of
the president and the people The first year
it has been on exhibition 49,, 29l people have
witnessed the great scene
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
From Potatoe to Rye.

The land that was devoted TO potatoes
this year should be seeded to rye, lined
An the spring and ~orn grown on the
came land next year. Such plan gives
the land two weddings and cleans it
thoroughly. 1t is al so an advantage not
to grow potatoes on the same land
oftener than one year in four as pre-
caution against disease. Rye should
cover all land that is plowed in the
fall. as if prevents loss of fertility, and
when turned under in spring il will add
fertilizing material TO the soil, the lime
being used to Teutsalize any aGidity
that may exist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
HE HAD NOT "ZAT HONOUR. I"
An Extremely Polite Frenchman GREE
ates Much Amusement ON
Street Car.

The car was crowded with typical
lot of II o'clock passengers. 1t was
the one warm evening which the wealth
err man had sandwiched in between his
showers and frosts. 1t was rather close
inside, and the young man, who looked
as though he might have been working
overtime checking stock at the silk
counter, had yawned two or three times
and been promptly followed in kind by
all the passengers within sight of him.
The ventilators were open; so was the
rear door, through which the conductor
monotonously called the streets.
"Congress,"
Among the seven people who climbed
aboard at this stop were two men with
opera coats and crush hats. They
had been making adieus at carriage
door as the car came up. They stepped
inside and half unconsciously obeyed
the request to move up front, please"
until at Harrison street they found
themselves just in front of the stove.
One of them appeared to be a visitor
to the city. The younger man, who
called him uncle" was saying some
very initiated things about the perform
ance just witnessed, to which the other
man responded with decided Partisan
accent. Before many minutes they had
secured the attention of almost the en-
tire car and were earnestly discussing
the outlook for the coming opera sea-
son, commenting upon the Wagnerian
virtues of the lamented Klafsky, when
a sudden lurch threw the older man vio-
lently forward. He preserved his
equilibrium and his good nature grace
fully, and when the car stopped at
Michigan avenue and Twentysecond
street a lady and gentleman alighted
from the rear platform, leaving va
cant seat Observing this, the young
man urged his companion to be seated.
mon, non; am not weariee," and as
he cast quick glance around to see
if any ladies were standing he added,
with an emphasis on ''some one" ''Let
some one occupy re plaice."
His manner and speech were so easy
and deferential that the eyes of every
woman in the car were cast admiringly
upon him and the men regarded his Vi
cinity with something like curiosity in
their faces.
However, the seat was destined to be
occupied, and by parsonage upon
whom no one had counted. A bulky col
ored woman bearing basket which
smelled suggestively of cold victuals
had entered from the front platform,
where she had evidently been standing
at the time the two fares got out at
Michigan avenue. She wore immense
soft-soled felt shoes and stepped in
noiselessly just as the young man asked
the elder to be seated. Although the
latter had not seen her at all, the dame
took his courteous remark to herself
as she rolled into the seat and eiacu
lated:
Lands sake, honey, but Use obleeged
to yeh! It's easy seem you don't stick
no hogs nor weigh in at de stock ya'd
At sound of the voice and feeling
the nudge the woman gave him the gem
tleman turned, taking in the situation
at glance. Doffing his hat very grave
ly, he replied, in most polite tone that
was evidently sincere:
"Ah, madame-non, / have not Eat
honour. Chicago Chronicle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02

Every reader of this paper should give
special heed to the offers which are appear
ing from week to week by the John M
Smyth Co., the mammoth mail order house
of Chicago. In this issue will be found their
ingly low price of $l425 Coming as this of
fer and other offers do from house with a
commercial rating of over one million dol
lars, and of the highest character, they mark
an opportunity that the shrewd buyer viii
not be slow to take advantage of. The John
M. Smyth Co., $50 to l66 West Madison
street, will send their mammoth catalogue,
in which is listed at wholesale prices every
thing to eat, wear and use, on receipt of
only 10 cents to partly pay postage or ex-
lressage, and even this 10 cents is allowed on
first purchase amounting to one dollar.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
Thorough bred.

= A New York society dame, who is an ar
dent upholder of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, owns little
fox terrier of which she is exceedingly fond.
A man who called on her the other day was
admiring the dog and asked her mistress
how she, with all her humane theories, could
have allowed the cruel dog fancier to cut off
Snaps tail and ears to the fashionable de-
gree of brevity. The dame drew herself up
and replied, with some hauteur:
My dear sir, Snap expected it. Every
thoroughbred fox terrier expects to have
his tail and ears Shortened And that
humbled man went away saying to himself:
That's the first time | ever thought of
'noblesse oblige,' as applying to fox ter
riers. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
HOw's Thisy

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, O..
Walding, Kinnan g. Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
Try Grnin-O! Try Grafn-O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as the
adult. 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 delicate stomachs receive it without
distress. Ia the price of coffee. Is cts. and
% cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
The I.thmu. of Panama.

Its engineers believe that they lave solved
the problem of the successful completion of
this great enterprise. If so, it will prove a
great benefit to humanity, no more, truthful
y speaking, than has Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the remedy which never fails to cure
Affections of the stomach-for of what use is
prosperity without health? The Bitters inva-
riabiy strengthens weak stomachs and torpid
hvers, and IS one Of the blessings OF the age.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
dn's Area.

Canada lacks only $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole conti-
nent of Europe; it is nearly 30 times
as large as Great Britain and Ireland
and is 100000 square miles larger thar
the United States.-N. Y. Sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
She Enjoyed 1t.

They had been sitting together for half
an hour.
81 have enjoyed our conversation so
much!" she exclaimed, as she rose to go.
at is so restful to talk with you"
And after she had left him he remembered
that he hadn't been able to get in ten words
edgewise throughout the whole conversa-
tion.-Somerville Journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
His Last Fling.

AS they bent solcitously over him, the
man who had been kicked by horse opened
his eyes. Have you any last wish?" they
asked him.
eyes," he murmured. ''Have an auto
mobile hearse at the funeral"
Revenge, it seemed, was strong even in
death.-N. Y. Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
EXCELLENT PIG TROUGH.
Fred o. SibIey Describes One Tint In
Very Convenient, Durable
and Easy to Make.

The illustration shows a kind of
trough for feeding pigs which is very
convenient, durable and easy to make.
The end boards are long enough so that
the pigs cannot turn the affair over, and
owing to the upright board running
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
Among the Breakers.

Long-Family troubles, Ell? What rocl
did your domestic ship split on?
Short-It was the absence of rocks" that
caused the split.-Chicago Evening News.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02

cause. IT that cause IS not removed It's
influence reaches out and overshadows a
whole life. The reason Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been SO uni
formly successful for over a quarter of a
century in overcoming the suffering of
women, is that it is thorough and goes
directly to the cause. 1t is a woman's
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-11-02
The Fuel Problem.

II suppose you had money to burn in the
Klondike?"
NO" answered the man who had been
lying by the hour, eve didn't have anything
but chunks of chilly, incombustible gold.
We'd have paid big price for few scuttle
fuls of dollar bills. Chicago Chronicle.