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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
MANY USELESS MODELS.
Thousands Are Being Moved to Give
Room for Patent Office Clerks.

Thousands Are Being Moved to Give
Room for Patent Office Clerks.
In the big model room of the patent o..
fee, where the early genius of man was
depicted in rude models, busy clerks are
now working to keep up the largely in
creasing business of the patent office.
Many of the models are slowed away on
two floors of the Union building awaiting
disposition. Thousands of them are use.
less and have no value whatever, and
long ago it became serious problem
what to do with them. Prior to 1850 ono
OF the rules of the patent office required
an inventor to file with his application for
a few years there were many thousands,
and it became necessary to assign the
entire top floor of the building for this
display.
1t soon became one of the attractive
features of the city for visitors, and the
record of those who called is still faith
fully kept. Many volumes attest the Wis
its and contain the names of some who
have obtained distinction in the many
walks of life. While the big fire of 1877
was universally deplored, it partially
solved the problem which was growing in
Importance every day as to how to take
care of the models. Thousands were de-
SSAOy GU LII lAdl LIZ lever ItpllCcO.
Three years later the models had in
creased at such a rate that the depart
ment concluded to repeal the order re-
During them. Instead, the inventor is
now required to furnish set of working
drawings, showing the invention from
several points of view. In some special
cases. however, models are required
About three months ago the question
OF providing more room for the increased
force of clerks came up and then it was
decided to move the models. Gradually
they had been forced from place to place,
crowded in galleries and obscure places.
Two floors were rented in the Union
building and most of the models moved.
There are still some cases remaining the
ones showing the development of indus
trial implements being the most complete,
The display WAS arranged for the
Worlds fair and has never been dis
turbed. The cases remaining are to hc
found in the north and south halls
Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
i FOR THE FARMER.
When to Cut Corn for Fodder.

~ "ncn 10 NuC AOFN I0r EoOuers
When corn is at it's best, the glazing
stage, it has value Of say 100 per cent
.-45 per cent. of this will be in the ear
and So per cent. will be in the stalk and
leaves. OF the So per cent. in the stalk
and leaves, GO per cent. will be in the
stalk below the ear, which will be 80
per cent. Of the whole value. The feed
ing value Of the ear is mostly in starch,
in the stalk it is in the form of sugar.
From the glazing stage to full curing
the changes In the stalk are all against
the feeder, for while the sugar is all d.
,gestible, in the ripening and curing
process it gradually changes to starch
and woody fiber and becomes less and
less digestible and thus loses much of it's
feeding value. While the stalk at it's
best was filled with sweet juice, that
fully cured, found in the rick or shock.
has not trace of sweetness left, but
mas changed to wood or been washed out !:
hence we see how important it is that
corn fodder be cut at the proper time and
handled i'll the proper way to secure the
very best returns. Upon this point ex-
perlments conducted Mt the Oklahoma
station showed that corn fodder left in
the fields until required for feeding pur-
poses loses much of it's feeding value, but
how large Il proportion is not often con-
Sidered by large number of farmers
The results of these tests showed con-
siderable reduction in the feeding value
OF the corn stover, equal in the opinion
or those who conducted the tests to fully
one-fourth Of it's original worth, with n
corresponding increase in the crude fiber
which is the least valuable part of the
corn-Prairie Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Piute Astronomy.

Inc Piute Indian myth of the sun.
moon and stars is as crudely anthropo-
morphic as can be found in any savage
belief. The moon is the suns wife. The
stars are his children. When he appears
the children skedaddle-as they say in,
the states; They live in terror of him.
IS e. eats them-when he can catch them.
lis stomach-the only part of him one
can see-is stuffed with stars. When he
goes to bed, the children emerge again
from their hiding places in the blue. The
moon is fond of her children, who smile
as as sn a.el moves among them. Every month
she goes into mourning because her eau
nibal husband has eaten one Of them
me Piute Indians account for the ap.
pearance OF 4 comet by stating that tho
sun often snaps at one of the stars. his
children, and does not get hold of it-he
only tears a piece out-and the star, get
ting wild with pain, goes flying across the
SKY with a great spout of blood flowing
from it.. It is then very much afraid.
and as it flies it always keeps it's mead
turned to watch the sun, it's father. and
never turns its face away from him un-
II it is far out of his reach.-London
Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11

dining-room door, and yet we found time
to say nothing about anyone but our
selves. AS we seated ourselves at the
table l saw Mrs. Knapp's vacant place
(for she was a little late) and realized
that l had not mentioned her presence in
our household.
why, we have boarder, Tom,"
began, in answer to his look of inquiry at
the empty place. Just as | spoke she
glided in.
why, who on earth would have
thought of finding you hcre!" and he
shook her hand in a grasp so hearty that
L could see it was painful to her.
She colored family, and said little
unsteadlly, This is, indeed, a surprise,
MIR. Dixon and read between the lines
that the surprise was not an altogether
agreeable one.
But Tom didn't seem to notice any,
thing (most men are dumb about such
things, you know, so l kept my ewes and
ears open, and waited for developments.
At last they came and in the most
startling manner.
:Se | hear poor Jim is gone at last ?"
said Tom, turning to Mrs. Knapp as he
buttered his seventh biscuit (Tom al
ways was rather greedy youth. and en-
joyed most heartily the good things of
this life, mothers cooking among them).
"Oh, Mr.. Dixon. how can you speak of
him in that way? exclaimed the widow.
hurrying from the room, in fit of sob
bling.
Tom stared.
''Well. I'll be darned. What under the
sun is the matter with the woman, any
Way!' he exclaimed.
You ought to be ashamed of YOUR
SELF replied l, severely. "No wonder
the poor woman is shocked to hear YOU
speak of her husband in that way after
he's dead and gone"
Tom stared again. And then he broke
into such spasms of laughter that
thought he had suddenly lost his mind.
| had heard of such things, but l had
fortunately been spared the sight of them
so far.
Her husband!" he exclaimed, when he
could catch his breath, us he wiped the
tears from his eyes. Her husband! She
hadn't any husband. She never was
married Jim was her old black cat!'
and then he went off again into spasms.
No wonder the hard-hearted relatives
had objected to having all that was NOR
tai Of the late Nr. Knapp laid in the
family lot!
Mother and I looked at each other and
said nothing. What was there to say?
But we thought things. I don't know
whether they were the same things or
not, but we certainly thought things
Chicago Times Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
An Antiseptic Broom.

a broom which will contain in itself
the means for destroying moths and dis
ease germs is evidently an article which
will be of no little value in the house
hold. Such broom has been invented
by Oscar S. Kulman of Savannah, Ga.
The antiseptic substances are con-
tanned within the broom straws in bag
held in place by the initial wrap of steel
wire and trapsyerse rows of stitching,
says the Scientific American. The penc-
tration Of the bag by these rows Of
stitching opens up numerous outlets for
the antiseptic material, in addition to
the meshes of the cloth. The action of
sweeping causes the antiseptic material
to be distributed in limited but sufficient
quantities for the thorough deodorizing
and disinfecting of the carpet and of the
room. The broom itself, ordinarily a
fertile breeding-placc for bacteria, is con
stantly kept in a sterilized condition by
reason of it's antiseptic properties.
The bag is so perfectly inclosed and
covered by the outside wrapping of
straws that the broom presents the ap-
pearanc of an ordinary broom without
any hard external projections to scratch
and mar the furniture of an apartment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
TO BLEACH THE NEGRO.
Electricity May BE Used to Destroy
Colorin. Matter of the Skin.

1t is known throughout the world Of
acteristic action on the tissues and liquids
of the organism. What is the exact ma
ture of this action? What is it's exact
mechanism? Is it exclusively mechani-
cal or exclusively chemical; or is it al
ternately chemical and mechanical? Does
it act by electrolysis or by vibratory
massage? Over all these delicate ques-
tions hangs still pail of mystery. But
this does not prevent psychologists and
therapeutists from making common use
of electricity in all it's forms, and in par
ticular by the method of electro-puncture,
by which they sometimes obtain results
both curious and encouraging.
The method is used mot only for destroy
ing undesirable growths of hair, eradicat-
ing birthmarks, warts, etc, but also with
success for erasing tattoo monks that
had been supposed to be indelible. Elec
tricity, therefore, modifies the tissue and
liquids of the living body when it trav-
crses them, either by provoking certain
chemical reaction or certain changes of
state, or by suspending or disturbing the
nutrition of the blood vessels and nerves.
These facts are, perhaps, not easily ex-
planned, but they are undeniable, and,
although the laws that govern them re-
main hidden in obscurity, they none the
less manifest themselves by visible and
tangible effects, one of the most common
of which is discoloration.
1t is extremely rare that in the cases
noted above of the surgical use of cleo
tricity it does not leave a scar 50 distinct
that it alters the color of the skin, on
which appears a white spot of considera
BILE size. it is probable that it exerts
peculiar selective action on the coloring
LATTER or pigment of the epidermis.
T. The epidermis consists of three
distinct layers of cells, one above the 9TH
or. In the deepest layer, the so-called
mucous layer of Malpighi,' is found the
coloring matter to which the skin owes
its hue, and which is known as pig
ment.' The pigment exists in all races
IN the form of brown granulations, min
gled with the cells of the mucous layer"
The only difference in this regard be-
tween negro and white man is that
in the negro these granulations are more
numerous and larger. If we could, by
any. process whatever destroy or disor-
ganize these pigmentary infltrations,
which are, as it were, natural tattoo
marks, the skin would present in the
spots so treated, even if it were the
skin of negro, the chara cteristics of an
albino's skin, whose popularity is that it
lacks pigment altogether. Now, it is
neither impossible nor even improbable
that electricity acts on the pigment. We
have a right to suppose that it does,
c0lOred scars. Hence, if you wish to
bleach a KafHr or Zulu, Yalof or an
Abyssinian, instead Of running yourself
by buying soap and rice-powder, set to
work to depigmentize him electrically
Science Franchise.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
HOLSTERS Becoming Scarce.

Fifteen years ago the annual catch of
Holsters along the New England coast ex-
ceeded 100, 900, 600. and over Il, 1000 men
were employed IN the industry. OF this
business Maine furnished more than one
half, but today over 80 per cent. of the
canned Holsters are brought from the
British provinces. An old lobster fisher
man in Maine who for years has fol-
lowed the business, said the other day
were regarded as a nuisance, because of
their interference with fish bait, and Of
crabs are today The farmers rs aone ths
coast would drive down to the waters
edge at low tide and fork them up on
their wagons in great numbers. They
were then shipped to market and sold
at ridiculously low price, cents a
pound at wholesale in New York. To-
day Holsters are becoming so scarce that
ere many years pass they will be as ex-
pensive as terrapin, if the government
cannot devise some way of increasing and
protecting them. The canning factory is
largely RESPONSIBLE for this.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
PHILIPPINE FORESTS.
Timber In Great Variety and of Ex-
cellent Quality.


But it is to the forests Of the Philip
pines that we are wholly unable to do
justice. Timber exists in great variety
and of most excellent quality. There
are to be found kinds of wood suitable to
every purpose. Many are of dense and
Iough hber susceptible of the highest pol
ism; -Four kinds are SO heavy that water
VIII not float them, nor can they be cut
with ordinary saws. One variety is OF a
hright emerald green, and another rich
yellow, and they retain those coIors when
poiished. Another, "narra," perhaps the
pfettiest, and much used in fine furni-
lure, varies in color from light straw to
deep red: 1t is strong and hard and
takes high polish. Perhaps the best
known is 'molave," very heavy dark
Drown wood, used for finishing in the in
terror OF the Jesuit church at Manila.
where, it is said, the carvings are by
master hands and Of SURPRISING beauty.
Ebony is abundant. There are the ca
Gao tree. the cocoanut palm, and the
bamboo, all invaluable to the natives
ana also tree which yields kind o.
"A pitcher plant is found with recepta-
cles that hold as much as a quart of wa
itei: Anere Is very curious plant with
.ous pendant feelers that hang near the
siould and have remarkable DrehcnsiIc
prope!:tles, taking the strongest hold on
a; tuihg that happens to touch them. If
~ win the greatest difficulty that PASS
eioy can extricate himself from one of
Culture. 'oe'i-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Patents TO Inventors.

Messrs Benedict & Morsell. solicitors
Of patents, Old Insurance building, Mil
waukee, report patents issued to West
ern inventors July 25, as follows:
c. A. Beckstrom, Sioux City, Ia, wagon.
brake; J. M. Germanson, Milwaukee, re.
yolving chair; c. c. Hansen, Random Lake,
Wis, garment supporter; J. Huebner, Nil.
tongue support; Geo. Kelly, Mineral Point
Wis, rocking or lounging chair: e. Meri.
deth, Emporia. Kas, train order holding de.
vice; 8. J. Meyerpeter, ,Janesyille, Wis,
Wis, drawer equalizer; w. II. StilwelI. 10.
peka, Kas:. electric signal; II. swalley, Mil
waukee, WIS.,, ledger balance sheet; A,
ing; H. B. Moore, Port Scott, Kas.. ribbon
spool rack design; Pabst Brewing Co.,
Milwaukee, lager beer trade mark; Wis
consin Condensed Milk Co., Burlington
Wis, (2) condensed milk Grade marksl.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
CMltiVatinx Slrawhl rries.

One of the best ways of managing tho
strawberry patch after the plants are
done fruiting is to carefully remove the
mulch. 1t not too badly decayed, it may
be used again. A thorough cultivation
between the rows can then be given with
the cultivator. II the bed is an old one
and the plants in the rows are badly mat
TED together, it will often be a good plan
to use a one-horse team and pillow, to
which may be attached a sharp cutter.
Inc ploW can be run on each side of the
rows with the bed and cutter next to
the plants, throwing the dirt into the CEN
oughly as possible; let it remain three or
four days and harrow down. The plants
ought not to be allowed to grow too
thickly in the rows or there will be
light yieldnin fruit and the fruit will
be small. If the bed has been neglected.
so that the plants are closely matted to-
gether, it will often be better plan to
set out an entirely new bed than to at
tempt to renovate the old one. 1t is quite
an item to secure strong, vigorous
growth Of the plants during the summer
and early fall, as this is essential to the
growing and maturing of a prime crop
of fruit next season. Generally it will
be best to cultivate at least three times,
taking pains when the last cultivation is
given to leave the soil level, hne and in
good litter, and as clear of weeds as
possible.
Strawberries do not require a great
deal of wedding to keep the soil in
mellow condition. The runners are kept
off by reversing the wings on our Plan
ct, Jr., at every other cultivation, which
cuts and turns to or from the row as de-
sired. By winter we have as fine stand
of plants as we could possibly get by re-
setting, and at a great deal less expense.
Another advantage of the old beds is
that the fruit is somewhat earlier, and
anything that will hasten maturity with
out increasing the cost is quite an ad
vantage to the progressive fruit grower.
B. A. Wood.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Ensilage for Fall Feeding.

The silo has come into use, not simply
as means of storing winter feed for
stock, but for summer and fall feeding
as we'll and we can see no reason why it
will not soon supersede the former prac-
tlce of soiling. It requires considerable
labor to feed cattle from the field with
corn COZ or other forage crop and often UNI
able task. With the feed all in the silo
where it can be stored at far less expense
than that of daily cutting and hauling
from the field the farmer is in position to
feed his animals upon one of the best of
feeds with the minimum expense in ham
ding it. Prof. T. l.. Hacker discusses
this matter of fall feeding in the Farm,
have concluded that the simplest and
most economical way to provide both
summer and winter feed for our dairy
COWS Is to store enough silage to supply
them for ten months, and to this end we
will plant about so per cent. more fodder
corn than has been our custom heretofore
Inc pasture at the state farm was never
better than it is this year. We turned
out the cows on the first day Of May, and
notwithstanding the fact that the grass
is luxuriant, when the cows come to the
barn in the. evening, they take a good
mess of ensilage with q relish. Before
the cows are brought up some ensilage
ana little meal is put in the managers,
and we notice that if the meal is not
thrown on the ensilage they will eat the
ensilage first. An acre will produce from
twelve to fifteen tons Of ensilage, and a
COW will take from twenty to forty
pounds per day, according to the condi-
tion Of the pasture, so it will not be diff.
cult to estimate the amount of corn that
should be planted broadcast or in drills.
This year we will turn under ten acres
Of either pasture or meadow and SOW to
fodder corn. In the fall it will be put
into silo, which will not be opened until
about the first of July. Fodder corn will
be fed from the first of November until
about the first of February, when silo
will be opened which holds enough en-.
silage to last until the middle of May.
AS rule farmers are too busy to putter
with little plots OF this and that to help
out u spring and summer pasture, and
SO we propose to set an example In sup
plying feed Tor our dairy cows by pracfi,
cal business met n. V s,s5i
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Preventing Insect Propagating.

The old adage, can ounce of proven
ton is worth more than pound of
cure" might even be changed to greater
proportions in favor of the prevention.
Too late! Too late is an ejaculation
many farmers despairingly utter when
crops are being destroyed by some insect,
that had care been exercised, this de-
struction, if it might not have been Who'll
" ayerted, it might at least have been
lessened. How often in fence corners
there is an accumulation of trash that is
xa veritable hotbed for breeding many Of
| the insect pests. There is probably no
one general method by which the farmer
can do more to protect his crops from in
sect injury than by clean culture.
If rubbish is not allowed to accumu-
late these injurious insects will have less
chance to find suitable quarters, and will
be more likely to perish from the effects
matter reduces the opportunity of feed
ing and breeding, and enables one with
greater certainty Of success to apply in
secticides or other methods of destruc-
ton.
''It is safe rule" writes Prof. j. B.
Smith, whenever a crop is gathered, to
clear off the remnants and destroy them
as completely as possible. This is con-
trary to the general practice, which is to
care of themselves, until the land is pre-
pared for something else. Melon, citron,
squash, cucumbers and other similar
vines are simply left in the fields after
the crop is gathered, and there many
borer and many striped beetle come to
maturity long after the farmer is done
with the plants. The rule should be to
gather and burn, either by fire or in the
manure pit with lime.
I'm orchards, this recommendation is
of especial Importance. In dead wood,
on the tree or on the ground, many spe-
ccies hide or complete their development.
Every dead branch and twig should be
cut off, and with the other rubbish hauled
out and burned. The ashes will make
a good fertilizer. Loose bark does not
help tree much, while it does afford
shelter to many alternating species. New
er leave an old woodpile in or near an
orchard, especially if the wood is of the
same kind as the orchard trees. Many
insects breed preferably in dead wood;
but when it becomes too dry or too rotten
they have sharp instinct that enables
them to discover weak or sickly tree,
and they attack this at once and ruin
it, where otherwise it might recover
Fallen fruit should always be destroyed.
Were this Systematically done, there,
curculio, and less Of codling moth. The
fruit should be fed to hogs, buried deeply,
burned with quick-lime or disposed of
i'll some other way that will prevent it's
maturing the contained insects. Field
|. and orchard should contain, as nearly as
possible, nothing save the crop, and when
no crop is on the ground there should be
nothing else-certainly neither rubbish
nor remnants Rural World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
THE CRY OF RACHEL,

When Flora makes soft music,
And all the lights are low,
And dark winds down their alleys
Among the roses blow,
l wander in Il country
Where once l used to so,
A land of vague and sweet delights
That only lovers know.
Oyer her fingers dropping
l see her shadowy hair.
So from some dim old canvas
Might steal on twilight air
The grace that was SO lovely,
The face That was so fair,
That the painter lost his cunning,
And the priest forgot his prayer!
I wcnder If this life Of ours
Repeats its sweetest woe;
II under other stars we met
The ancient evenings so,
IL Flora and her listener
Only old raptures know.
And In that land Of strange delights
Were lovers long ago!
Harriet Prescott Spofford in Womun's
Home Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Reindeer Meat.

Reindeer meat as an ordinary and in.
expensive feature of the menu in Eu-
rope is about to become an accomplished
fact. Some enterprising Norwegians
have undertaken und very favorable
circumstances, to raise the animals in
large numbers for Strengthening purposes.
They expect to find profitable markets in
deavor to induce the beef-eating Britons
to purchase it. If it should be shown
that the reindeer may be extensively and
profitably bred for food purposes in Nor
way it ought to be possible to make a
success of q similar enterprise in Alaska.