Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-07-26

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 ROCK MAPLE THANKED sHAD. Maine Recipe That Is Far Ahead of the
 Chesapeake Idea.
 The man who discovered that a green rock maple slab was far ahead of the green ash plank used along Chesa- peake bay for cooking p1anked shad is State Senator Henry P. Sharp of Mon- ticello. The secret was revealed by ae- cident. Years ago, when he was woods foreman, he had great trouble in finding cant dog handles that would not bend. Ash and oak made excel lent handles. but as soon as they be- came wet the men who piled the logs bent them into fantastic shapes. After ten years of trial with all kinds of wood Mir Sharp learned that rock ma pie was the only material that would remain stiff after it was Water-soaked. As result of this every cant dog now has rock maple handle. Two years ago this spring Senator Sharp went down the river and bought dozen shad fresh from the weirs. On his way home he stopped at Orono to visit the cant dog factory and have planked shad for dinner. As no green ash could be had for the planking, a fresh and sappy slab was sawed off fro" the ct dog stock at the mill, and to this the shad was begged, after which it was upholstered with thin strips of fat salt pork and placed upon the cOals to cook. The heat of the fire started the maple sap in the slab and made it sizzle about the shad, and by the time the fish was cooked it was surrounded with crystal wall of maple sugar Men who helped eat the first shad ever cooked in maple syrup say it was something to remember for lifetime. They finished the entire fish in short order and then cooked an- other and another, using a fresh slab every time Then they went and told their friends about the wonderful dish. ] At present no one thinks about using white ash when green rock maple can be procured for cooking shad. The men who are fond of planked shad cooked by the Sharp process are about to give the senator a dinner at a Ban- gor hotel in order to convince him how thoroughly they appreciate his discovery York Sun.
 Cultivation of tae Roman campagna.
 Last spring disorders took place at 9astel Gandolfo, village OH the AL oan hills, provoked by peasants agi- ating for bread or for land on which 0 cultivate grain. Prince Barberfni. proprietor of much land in the neigh oorhood portioned out a part of it. which had for the last 100 years been ct for pasture, between IA peasants. The terms offered to the peasants were imple. They were given three years, ease of the land on condition that hey should cultivate it with maize or wheat, and that one-third of the crops hould belong to Prince Barberini and he other two-thirds to the peasants. Che first harvest of maize has now 'een reaped, and the results are most ncouraging. The value of the croD is calculated at $500 lire and third, lqual to about 80 pounds, goes into he pockets of Prince Barberini. The wheat has just been sown, and it is .xpected that it will produce 12.60O ire of which 4,20O lire, or 16O pounds will belong to Prince Barberini. who gill thus have 240 pounds year out of and which has yielded him less than Q pounds year. In addition. he has sssured good livelihood to IA stary- as families.-London Post.