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

was where acid phosphate 600 pounds
per acre) and muriate of potash $3.50
pounds per acre. were used. The yield
was also the best, and the potatoes
were more uniform in size.
Other crops fertilized with complete
fertilizers high in potash analysis did
far better than where the potash was
deficient. This was notably SO in the
case of tomato fertilizer that used.
The tomatoes came through the
drought unscathed and are today yield
ing their third crop OF tomatoes.
1t has been repeatedly said that the
genius of investigation has turned the
methods of farming upside down in the
last fifty years. No doubt this is per-
fectly true, and it is the duty Of every
progressive farmer in the land to inves-
tigate things for himself, and after he
gets at results, let others share in the
knowledge he has gained. We are all
too much oiven to keeping results Of
experiments and Investigations to our
selves.
While I am on this moisture-in-the-
soil subject, | think some of Our farm
ers ought to give us their experiences
Nitrate of soda is supposed by many
people to be moisture producer, but
my experience with it has been the
loss of few thousand cabbage plants
upon which | applied it during the
drought; | thought that [ was helping
them along, but it turned out the other
way. c. K. M'QUARRIE.
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Green Feed for Cows.

w. H. Jenkins, in Hoard's Dairy
man, says: Last winter we kept two
COWS and made only enough butter for
home USE said an acquaintance to me
recently. "Th1s winter we have only
one COW and have made more butter
than we could use. We have sold SIS
worth since cold weather began"
THAT shows the difference there is
in cows I replied quickly. Differ
ence in COWS is hobby with me.)
mo it doesn't-not this time" said
the man, for the COW we now have is
one of the two we had last winter. 1t
does show something, however, that
would have been worth a good deal to
me if had known it twenty years ago
shows the value Of feeding rightly"
But you have always fed literally"
eyes, literally enough, but not
rightly. When | was in the GARY BUSH
ness | put too much faith in grain and
other dry feed. Ground feed-a mix
ture of corn, oats and wheat bran-was
my hobby, with plenty of that and a
supply of good hay, clover and corn
fodder. thought I could do all that
was possible for the COWS. Now I've
learned differently. This winter our
COW has not had an ounce of ground
feed. Instead of grain [ have given
her garden roots, pumpkins and
squashes. l had tons of such stuff on
hand last fall that couldn't sell and
didn't know what to do with. (You
know | did some truck gardening last
year.) About that time I came across
an article in my farm paper; telling of
wonderful results from feeding roots
to cows. 1t sounded like a big yarn,
but | thought | would make a trial
anyway and get rid of the stuff on
hand. Well, I went a little slow at
first to get the cow used to the change,
but during most of the winter I have
given her twelve-quart pail full three
times day. The result | have already
told you.
''People complain of winter churning
and say the butter doesn't come," he
continued. "But our butter comes now
just as easily as it did in summer. And
the butter is extra good, too. I tell
you, man can make June butter in
md-winter if he will only feed plenty
of green stuff to his cows"
In another article we give the man
ner of making a cheap silo. A Cotton
silo would solve the question of green
feed and the question of curing COW
peas, beggar weed, velvet beans, etc.,
They all make good silage and can be
grown cheaper than corn silage.
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Mineral Versus Organic Fertilizers
in a Drought.

in a Drought.
The thoughtful and observant farmer
frequently finds himself confronted with
the question as to which soil is best
able to withstand a severe drought,
without great injury to the growing
crops-that which has been fertilized
with mineral fertilizers, or that which
had to depend on organic fertilizers.
This year the farmers of Florida have
had ample opportunity of putting this
question to the test, as we experienced
an unprecedentedly dry spell all
through the spring and early summer
months.
Sometimes our best blessings come to
us in disguise, and if we look upon
drought in this light we may learn very
valuable lessons from the effects on Our
crops, in demonstrating the value of the
various fertilizers used. The most inn
portant problem presented to the Flor
ida farmer today is the conservation of
moisture during drought. The soil
may have been put in excellent condi-
ton by previous preparation, plant
food of certain kind in the shape of
fertilizers may have been supplied, and
yet the crop yield falls far short of
what it ought to be, because this plant
food was not of the kind that helped
to conserve the natural moisture of the
soil
Organic fertilizers of all kinds, unless
thoroughly decomposed, tend to dry UP
the natural soil moisture, because they
require SO much moisture to resolve
them into their component soil par
ticleS, and unless there is sufficient
quantity of this moisture to complete
their nitrifcation and decomposition,
the roots of the growing plants will
not get the food necessary for their
support, and the consequence will be a
complete failure.
1t ought to be the aim of every
farmer and til1er of the soil to put his
land in the best shape possible, so as
to be pervious to water and afford a
reservoir for it. This. IN my opinion,
can best be done by iudicious use of
potash salts in al our farming opera
tons. We must certainly have plenty
of deCaped organic matter IN our soils
to give us good crops. This condition
may be brought about either by green
manuring, or the liberal use of barn
yard manure, or cOmpOsts specially
made up for the purpose. And it is in
the proper combination of these with
mineral fertilizers, particularly potash
salts, that we shall be able to stand a
siege of dry weather best.
This year I planted quite a tract in
Irish potatoes, and, to see for myself
the different effects of the diherent fer
tilizers, I plated them and noted re-
suits. Where I had used barn-yard
manure exclusively the vines turned
yellow when half grown, and they were
not worth harvesting. Where | had
used barn-yard manure and acid phos-
phate, the yield was little better, but
the vines all died before they were full
ly grown. Barn-yard manure and 600
pounds of kainit per acre gave me the
best looking vines, and held out until
fully ripe; but the quality of the crop
was poor. 1t should be noted, how
ever, that during all the very dry wea-
Their the soil that had the kainit in it
kept moist, and at no time was moist
soil more than half an inch from the
surface. The finest quality of potatoes
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Offere for July planting rs varieties of 2
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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-06-30

TYLLA REBEKAH LODGE, no 81, meets
u the second and fourth Wednesday In
each month Mt Odd Fellows Hall.
Visiting mem bers in good standing cor
daily Invited.
NLY5NISGo, Secretary.
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MARRIAGE OF "PERKINS."
of Matrimony in the City
of Chicago.

They called him "Perk" for short,
because they were too busy to get the
fins" to make the full name, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean. Perk never
did much in the way of support
ing himself, but he let his married sis
ter do the providing. She had done
this for so many years that he began to
think that it was her duty. In the
summer time he played cornet at the
"chutes" and flirted with the girls.
Last summer he met n young girl at
the 'chutes" and fell in love with her.
When winter came his occupation was
gone. and he was too lazy to get an
other. He spent his time calling on mis-
summer girl, who was obliged to work
in a restaurant at seven dollars per
week TO support herself.
One Sunday recently Perk thought
that life would be unbearable without
his charmer, and, borrowing 20 cents
from his sister, which was all the
she had, he came in from Bow
manville, found his inamorata, and, to
do the thing up in romantic style, they
eloped to Wisconsin. II took the girls
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and a kindly expression. .On his head
was a great sombrero-like hat, tied by
string beneath his chin. On his shoul-
gun and a canteen of water, a cane or
staff completing lis outfit. Two shep-
herd dogs which followed at his heels
were his sole companions. He was very
reticent and refused the papers offered
him, and had no desire to hear of the
world. We told him of the ending of
the war with Spain, but he did not know
there had been war. He had turned
his back on the world long ago; had two
faithful friends, his dogs, and was not
dependent upon anyone.
Sixty or more miles to the south is
the inland of San Clemente, about 90
miles in length, where lived an Irish-
man up to the present year. His name
was Observation-Disclosures, of San Gle
mente-and he, too, was at war with all
the world, though it is but fair to say
that once a year he left his island home
and repaired to Los Angeles, where
he diligently spent his money, then re-
" i've dlOHt lOl dnOtHtI
Gallagher preferred his own society
snd that of his sheep and dog. He
never was afraid of their overreaching
him, he once said. He lived on San
Clemente, so miles off the coast, for 20
years, and was finally stricken with pa
ralysis, being found by some fisher
men sitting in his chair looking out
over the sea and unable to move. They
took him TO Los Angeles, where he died.
At Santa Catalina island, 30 miles
from land, there are several men who
prefer solitude to the world and have
turned their backs upon civilization for
reasons best known TO themselves. One
Of the most isolated places of this group
S San Miguel, a small island opposite
Santa Barbara. Here a man lives alone.
Two years ago the island was shaken
by an earthquake. The cliffs fell in,
he harbor changed and small vessel
was wrecked. Twenty miles south of
this is an island known as Anacapa, the
aver-changing. 1t is about a mile long,
very narrow, with small sloping mesa
upon which all the pelicans of the Pa
.ific slope seem to have settled. There
8 no water here, so it is said, except
what is caught in winter, and the few
sheep upon it obtain what they get by
licking the dew from each others wool.
On this desolate sea-beaten spot lived a
man for many years, contented to be
left alone, resenting any intrusion
Pasadena Cor. N. Y. Sun.
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OLD TRAPPERS DYING OUT.
There Is No Longer Any Money in
Tramping the Eastern
Woods.

Trapping as a business has about
ended in the eastern states. A few boys
and improvident men still set traps
along the various woods streams of
Pennsylvania, New York and Maine,
but the old.time trapper is going. The
time was when men had lines of traps
up streams, over ridges and through
swamps for scores of miles, through
densest forest, a steel trap or dead fall,
large enough to hold mink or marten,
every quarter of a mile or so, and
bookkeeping trap at "likely" places
along the line, large enough to hold
fox. wolf. fisher or other bait thief. A
couple or three bear traps were com
monty on the line. Every 10 or l2 miles
was little shanty. with its pile of dry
hickory, frying pan, bag of salt and
stretchers for the skins, all of which
had been prepared in the fall before the
fur was prime.
The longest lines took a week or 10
days to cover. Progress was slow.
Snow had to be cleared away from the
traps after a storm, the victims had to
be skinned, the traps reset and re-
baited. Deer were shot to supply the
bait. All alone, the traP2er, with an
AK or rifle and light pack containing
food. followed his line by the blaze
marks he had cut on the trees. 1t was
life of toll and hardship. Sometimes
the men were lost, and in the spring,
or years after, their bones would be
found with the rusted ak or rifle. The
remuneration was not great. but large
enough to be tempting in the days when
prime mink brought $40 to SIP each.
The old trappers are mostly dead.
The new ones are guides, and trapping
for s1OO to $500 winter is not over
tempting to the men who get SO to IS
per day guiding.
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ALONE ON ISLANDS.
Men Who Live Hermit Lives on the
Pacific Coast.
wind Swept San Nicholas Occupied
~ = SOLITARY Frenchmnn,-
Lonely Gallagher Of San
C1emente-

fWindswept, a mass of sand shifted
at every whim of the wind, the home of
the wind gods of the Pacific. San Nico-
las island, would nc, be coEsiGe red at
4ractive as a place of residence. yet as
our Yacht rounded to off spit of sand
that reached out into the sea small
shanty could be seen on the rocky shore
and near l., a man and two dogs. The
island appeared to be about ten miles
long. perfectly fat on top, rising to
height of 200 or more feet in places and
cut and scared by the wind in mar
velous fashion
After many attempts TO land we sue
ceeded, almost at the risk of our lives,
hoping TO see the sole inhabitant OF the
dreary spot. But he had disappeared,
and we made our way to his shaniy-a
single-roomed affair under the lee OF
the hills near the beach. On the door
was the satirical notice: mo trespass-
ers allowed on this island"
The impression the island had con-
viewed was that the sea and wind were
making a combined effort TO destroy it.
Devastation was everywhere. Not a
green thing, no water was in sight
only the sand dunes shimmering in the
sunlight. The path to the summit was
over a hard sandstone in yellow, blue
and white tints strangely incrnsted
and cut by the wind and water in mar
yelous shapes; mimic busts and statues,
grand stairways. broken in by the fall
of rock from above, windows covered
with a delicate lacework, festoons and
a thousand and one strange carvings
caught the eye and fancy as we climbed
upward. When the summit was reached
the eyes rested upon a plain without
spear of grass or particle OF Negeta-
ton. 1t may have been four miles long
and its surface was covered with small
stones, arranged in wind rows, which
were picked up and blown along by the
terrific winds. On the north end the
rand was in full possession and seemed
imbued with life OF its own. 1t was
ever creeping upward, filling the can
yons and gullies, rising in clouds and
whirled aloft in spectral shapes.
Desolation could not better be il
Illustrated than by this island, about GO
miles Off Los Angeles county. Cal; yet
there lived a man who delighted in his
surroundings. He had avoided us in
the afternoon, but finally came along
the beach, appearing mysteriously. he
was Frenchman, fall of stature, with
. mabogany-colored skin, deep-set eyes
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Administrators Notice.

All persons having claims against the es'ate
Of Charles Wsrner, deceased, are hereby mott
fed to present the same 10 me for settlement
within four months from the date Of this
notice.
JOHN c. CoSSoRs,
Administrator
Silver City, Idaho. March II. 1893.
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IN ;PARLOUS TIMES.
Mansions of the Olden Days Had
to BE Built with Many
secret Passages.

The onward march of building prog
ress has unearthed many secrets con-
nected with the old-time mansions of
this city. The latest to yield up its Sc
crets to the world is the old Hamilton
mansion, which has buffeted the storms
of a century and half in Woodlands
cemetery, says the Philadelphia Record.
In tearing down some of the side walls
the destroyers discovered several in
geniously concealed stairways. These
led from secret panels on the ground
floor to rooms in the second and third
stories. Another secret stairway leads
to blind rooms, which also has secret
existence. Why these rooms were
built there is much doubt. 1t is pretty
we'll settled that William Hamilton,
who bought the grounds and mansion
in 1747, had these secret passages ar
ranged so that he could escape il it be-
came necessary. He was at one time
resting under the charge of high trea-
son, and the times about the beginning
of the revolution were anything but
quiet. The Hamilton mansion is by no
means the only house with these odd
retreats. The old Penn house in the
Geological gardens is full of secret pas
sages and stairways. There are pas
sageways in that old house that no one
living to-day can tell the one time util-
ity of. If people passed through them
it must have been done by lying down
and crawling along, for it would admit
of progress in no other way.
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weeks wages to pay the railroad fare
across the state line. They might
have had the knot tied here at less ex-
pense, but that would have taken out
all the romance. Nobody would have
prevented their marrying, as no one
cared. After Perk had been married,
he wrote to his sister, saying: "Will
be home Monday night. hope every
thing will be all right"
1t was all wrong. For when Perk and
his bride returned to Bowmanville the
door was shut and they were told that
there was no room for them there.
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NELAMAR MINERS UNION. WESTERN
t0Federstion Of Miners.
II. w.-wARRES, PreI.
J. II. NoKcuN. Sec.
Meet every Monday night.
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- Robert Gamble, Plaintiff,
VS..
The Old Glory Gold Mining and
Smelling Company, Ia corpor-
ation,) Defendants.
The State of Idaho Sends Greeting:
To the Old Glory Mining and Smelling Com
pany, corporation,) Defendant: You are
hereby summoned to appear before me, at my
office in DeLamar, in the County OF owyhee
within ten days, exclusive OF the day of ser
vice,( if served within this county; or Il outside
OF this county but within this Judicial District
within twenty days; otherwise within forty
days to answer the complaint OF said plaintiff.
The said action is brought TO recover from
you the sum of two handred and sixty-nine
dollars and ninety-one cents, claimed to be due
the said plaintiff from you, for services rendered
You and money paid out for you while plain
tiff was in your employ, at the Big l mine, in
Owyhee county, Idaho
Or judgment will by taken against you ior the
said sum OF two hundred and siXty-nine dollars
and ninety-one cents toge her with the costs of
this suit, ii you fail to appear and answer.
Given under my hand and Seal this 10th day
Of June, 1899.
John Lamb,
Justice of the Peace of DeLamar Precinct, in
said County.
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W. II. TOWNSEND.
UNDERTAKEN
SILVER CITY, IDAHO.
A full supply OfBurial Cases of
air sizes and in great variety of
styles, constantly on hand.
Alias Summons.

In the Justices Court, DeLamar Precinct,
Owyhee County, State OF Idaho. Be ore John
Lamb, Justice OF the Peace.
: Robert Gamble, Plaintiff,
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-06-30

A Portland (Me,) man who put sui
phur in his shoes TO prevent grippe
found that he exhales sulphurous
fumes. and that the silver change in his
pocket turned quite black. He says
that the silver watch of the mate of a
vessel which brought a cargo of sui
phur to Portland last week was thor
oughly blackened from the same cause.
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We will order any magazine, paper.
or other periodical you may want, at
list price, thus saving you the price of
money order, postage, etc. When in
need of anything in this line, leave
your orders at this office.
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The Canadian government, in order
to have the movements of its artillery
made quick and effective, has mounted
many cannon on sleds so that they may
be swiftly drawn over the snowy wastes
of the country.
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oWYHEE co UNITY DIRECTORY


COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
Pirst District--Tim Shea.
second District-Henry Scott.
Third Distriet-John McVan.
Clerk of District Court-E. L. Ballard,
SEarif-0scar Brunzell.
Assessor-Chris Olsen.
g.. ,Trevsurer-John C. Connors.
Probate Judge-Geo. IL. Handy.
supt. of Edtica ion-F. S. Heer.
DELAMAR PRECINCT.
No.. ! John ID. Harris.
Justice OF feace John Lamb.
Constablezyemesw W. Pascoe.
LEGISLATURE
p.a,t.,irss G. I. Bixby.
sAepresen'A'lses C. H. Arbuckle.
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SOCIETY CARDS.

CYRUS CHAPTER NO. 2, r. A. Nm
~ every Saturday sfter full moon Sojourn-
ing companions Cordially invited to attend
julius 1sAY, NJ. Il. Ii. P
8. Hairs, Secretary.