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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
HARRIS OUT OF 1T.
He Is Too Busy to Serve on the Schoo
Board or in Any Office.

Board or in Any Office.
Henry F. Harris of ward will not be
a candidate for reelection to the school
board. Mr. Harris has served three
years, but now feels that he is unable
to spare the time necessitated by the
office. In addition to his legal practice,
Mr.. Harris has extensive business in
terests, which require his attention.
When asked if he aspired to other
municipal office, Mr.. Harris replied that
he was not ambitious politically, and
that if he was, his time is too much
taken up to admit of it.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
N.NICKNER CUSTOM TA!LORlNG. IS Pleasant &

81 also desire to Announce NJ.
10. tne hnest and neatest REPAIRING S ciae
ne, na, alu pressing; old clothes will look Ire
new at very reasonable prices 'ooN IKE
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14

Politics is mighty quiet" said the vet
eran colored voter. "De only thing dat
pears ter be runnin now is de river en-
hshin' in hot wedder don't pay. l got a
mortgage on my house en- mule, en- de
res, er my family Is In need; SO does
wish Dat u9iities would start up en- give a
noEts nlaA 81 2nce Ter make ltvin!"--
Atlanta CCl.Jtit ..va
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
THE END OF AN ERA

BY y JOHN 56 S. WISE. Large crown, vo.,
a., Ihe era here described is that for which
tne southern states came to an end Will
the surrender of General ,Tohnsto1w WY. =
General Sherman in 1865, 01ii'stoh 10
The book gives remarkably vivid ana
accurate acc inside view of the confedera a.,u
esting ana inter-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
Help Wanted Female.

"a Experienced girl in n far,,l,.
Oh p Two, to take full charge of p tsna,.ay
W WGGssw9 by MISE reference REQUIRED good
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
DR.. BuIl's Cough syrup Is the host

remedy for all bronchial affections. IT Is
a great mistake to allow a cough or cold
70 run on; for it may develop serious
Cough Syrup at once. -'A'i
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
WORCESTER COOPERATIVE BANK.

he 22d Annual Meeting will be held
az the office of the Bank, Walker Build
ing, MONDAY, 10Th inst, at 100 pm.
OiIleers will be elected and about
STEPHEN c. EARLE, President,
lHoS. J. HASTINGS, Secretary.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
The Supreme Novelist of the Cen
fury in his splendid solitude"
BALZAC

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DEATHS.

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Funeral services at his l.to
y Y caroline street. Monday al ) sss5,u :
t egiaeiVes and friends are invited to az AZ
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The
Man
Who
Lost
Hope

Mr.. n. N. Warner, OF Mindsn,
4 Neb., sold:
lin 1891 was attacked with para
lysis in my left side. You might
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hip and l would not feel 1t. was
unable to do any kind of work and
n had to be turned in bed. / made
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medicine and had tried many doc
A tors. was advised TO try DR.. Will
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4 and commenced their use last Sep
tender. Before / had finished my
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had used six boxes the disease
had entirely disappeared, and /
have not been so free from pain
since / was u boy. The paralysis [
also disappeared and although two
months have passed since l fin
!: ished my last box, there has been
no recurrence OF the disease" 4
From the Gazette, Mindea, Ne6.
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are never sold by the dozen or hundred,
but always In packages. at all druggists,
or direct from the Dr.. Williams Medicine
Co.. Schenectady, N. T., go cents per box.
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
MEETINGS. Erc.
Tenth Annnol n,..,, =

Tenth Annual Meeting of the
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF WORCESTER
WIN be held on Monday Evening, Octo-
Der 10, 1909, at Eight O'Clock, in Memo
rlai Hall, Y. w. G. A. Building,
HENRY L. PARKER, President.
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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.'S
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
RELIGLO PICTORIS

By HELEN BIGELow MERRIAM
author of What Shall Make Us
WholeY Artistically printed and
Mrs. Merriman's book shows from tbe
standpoint of the artist, the fundamentaI
unity between things material and spir-
ltual. IT deals with the problems of life
ing way.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14

Parties viii leave Boston JAN. IL, Feb.
and ~ for Three Grand Tours through tie
Southern States
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

for the hives to rest on only is used, as
a ground floor in the center is prefer
red. The objection to a much longer
house on the same plan is that it is not
convenient to move, and also that bees
become more or less confused where
so many entrances are close together
and all have the same appearance
This has always been the objection to
beehouses, but small buildings such as
these, located around at different
places, overcome this objection.
In addition to the foregoing para
graphs by A. H. Duff of Kansas, The
Farm, Field and Fireside illustrates
the latest style of hives, with the state
ment that they are no mans private
property, but about every beekeeper's
furniture, used now almost exclusive
ly by all specialists. No. / is a hive
arranged for comb honey with two
supers, each containing "a one pound
section boxes, thus saving a surplus
capacity of 4S pounds. The brood
chamber contains eight of the stand
ard frames. Hive No. is simply two
brood chambers, the upper set of
frames used for extracting honey.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
suffocation In a si1o.

The suffocation of three men by car
bonic acid gas in silo in Wisconsin is
reported. Carbonic acid gas is not in
itself a poison. but being heavier than
the air it had collected below the silo
opening to such depth that the men
entering the silo were drowned as if in
water. While this case occurred
through an unusual combination Of
circumstances, it seems to show the
desirability of starting the cutter be-
fore men enter silo that has been left
standing for some time when filling is
In progress. The stirring of the air by
the falling silage dilutes the gas and
renders it harmless. Doors should be
30 close together that the heads of the
men are always above an opening
when working. The accident appears
to have been analogous to the deaths
that occur when men descend into
wells and are overcome by accumulat-
ed gas.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

veloped and penetrates deeply into the
soil, and the plant is vigorous grower.
The seed is larger than that of red
clover, oval in shape, bright reddish
yellow when fresh, paler in the white
lowered variety, and has a highly pol
ished surface. The plants stool freely,
many stems arising from a single root
Crimson clover will not stand severe
freezing, although it is one of the so
called winter ANNALS" and under ia
vorable conditions makes much of it's
growth during the cool moist weather
of fall, winter and early spring. Its
strong growing roots enable it to Sc
cure nourishment in many soils so poor
and thin that red clover would fail en-
tirely. While requiring warm eli
mate, it will not endure severe drought.
1t thrives best Oh rich, rather sandy
loan, but when the conditions of mois-
ture and temperature are favorable it
gives good results on light, sandy soils
as we'll as on clays, if they are not too
stiff and cold.
Crimson clover has come into promi-
hence in this country within compare
lively recent years. 1t can hardly be
regarded as a successful crop outside
of the region from New Jersey west to
the Allegheny mountains and south to
eastern Tennessee and Texas. Good
crops are often obtained in other Sec
lions, but cannot be depended upon
year after year. In the middle and
south Atlantic states this clover is one
OF the best crops that can be grown for
forage and soil renovation. 1t has Civ
en- good results in many portions of the
gulf states, but many failures are also
reported. In the colder sections of the
country this clover is sometimes sue
cessfully grown as a summer crop, but
1T usually winter kills badly when
sown in the autumn. At the expert
ment stations in Rhode Island New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois. South
Dakota, Nebraska and other states in
the north and west the general results
of tests show that it is too tender for
the climate and is less valuable than
red clover. From results recently OBJ
tanned at the Alabama experiment sta
ton it seems very likely that in many
cases, especially in the south, failures
with the crop are to be attributed to
the absence from the soil of the tuber-
Gle forming organisms which are neces-
sary for the proper appropriation of
nitrogen by the plant. These organ
lsms being supplied to the soil, excel
lent crops were obtained where with
out them the result was a failure.
These facts are a contribution by Ag-
rostologist S. w. Williams in circular
No. II to the investigation of grass
ana forage plants which the depart
ment of agriculture is pursuing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10

which are in solution The method of
Qualification found preferable by A. A.
Denton in his Investigations, conducted
for the agricultural department. into
the making of sorghum sirup is to set
tie cold, lined and clayed juice, draw
off and heat the settled juice, clay and
settle it, and again draw it off, then
evaporate it. These processes are
clearly shown in the cut, the raw Juice
being lined. Glazed and settled cold in
settling tank A. the settled juice being
drawn off by the swing pipe into the
juice heater B. where it is heated to
near the boiling point and SKINNED,
then drawn off by the swing pipe Il
into the hot settling tank G, where it is
again clayed and settled and the clear
Juice drawn off by swing pipe G into
the evaporator or receiving tank d.
The clarified juice is then evaporated
to strip. BY this method most of the
solid impurities which were in suspen-
sion in the juice are removed.
In the cut the tanks A, B, C and d H.
lustrate simply the principle of trans
ferrlng the juice by gravity. In prac-
tice the tanks B, G and ID are separated
from A and are supplied with source
of heat. either steam or open fire.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
WESTERN GRASSES.
HAY and Pnsturase In the Eastern
Rocky Mountain Region.


There is no other grass which has
reputation for excellence for both sum-
mer and winter pasturage equal to
that of buffalo grass. However, not
all of the praise bestowed upon this
grass really belongs to it. for the
gralnaS are often confused with it, and
to them. particularly to blue grama,
belongs much of the credit given to
buffalo grass in many parts of the
range region. In the minds of many
ranchmen buffalo grass includes blue
grama and black grama as we'll as the
true buffalo grass (Bulbilis dacty-
loides), while in the minds Of others
grama, or 'grammer," as it is often
pronounced, includes all three.
However, there is no doubt of the
great value of the true buffalo grass
most palatable of native grasses is
shown by the fact that, with plenty of
other grasses on every hand stock will
keep 1t eaten close to the ground, and
this is probably the reason that it is
one of the first grasses to be killed out
in oyerStocked ranges. 1t is reported to
have practically disappeared from
many places where it was formerly one
of the commonest species, but while
this is no doubt true of some localities,
it is certainly not true of all. EXamina-
ton has shown that it is still quite
abundant in some of these localities,
but is easily overlooked, as it is kept
graZed SO closely that it is seldom able
to make enough development to show
its characteristic habit of growth,
much less to bloom and mature seed.
The wheat grasses usually furnish a
larger percentage of the pasturage on
the prairies than is generally supposed.
The most valuable varieties for graz
ing are provided with underground
stems or root stocks, which run along
a short distance below the surface and
at frequent intervals send up erect
branches, either bearing only tufts of
leaves or more rarely producing
"heads." When too closely grazed or
during unfavorable seasons much of
the growth of the plant is made by
these underground stems, and very
few, if any, fertile branches are devel-
oped. On this account many people
have an idea that these grasses grow
only once in every two or three years,
when as a matter of fact the actual
yield of forage may be almost as much
for an "off" year as for any other. AL
though regarded primarily as meadow
or hay grasses, the wheat grasses fur
nish large part of the pasturage
throughout the entire range region and
on the more strongly alkaline soils are
often the only grasses Of any value to
be found at ALT. A. Williams.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
sugar Beet. For stock Feedtn..

l would like to suggest-in fact. to
urge upon every farmer-the propriety
and great practical value of trying the
experiment of growing sugar beets for
stock feeding. AS sanitary measure
1t will pay it's way. believe that the
habit Of the farmer in feeding con-
densed rations of grain to stock is
largely responsible for great many
diseases of animals and that IL he
would introduce into this ration por-
ton Of sugar beets results would be a
great deal better, as far as the health
of the stock is concerned AS an aid
to digestion it has certainly wonderful
effects. to which fact every extensive
feeder of sugar beets will give testi-
mony. My attention has been called
time and time again to the fact that
cattle fed grain along with sugar beet
pulp or sugar beets are able to digest
all the grain they eat, and the refuse
shows no whole grains Taking, then,
its sanitary value along with it's real
nutritive value as a producer of flesh,
we are able to appreciate it's value as
food.-C. f. Saylor.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
Nitrogen For Grass.

The Rhode Island experiment sta
ton aftirms that two points are well
Illustrated by it's recent experiments
as to the effect of nitrogen on grass
and clover:
l. In order to secure large crops of
grass, considerable quantities of i'm
mediately assmilable nitrogen, prefer
ably in the form of nitrate. must be at
hand early in the season. The earli-
ness of the application is an important
feature in dry season like that dur
ing part of May and June in the year
1899.
2. Good crops of clover can be grown
upon lined land without an artificial
supply of nitrogen. This was also dem
onstrated here in former experiment.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
A BEE TALK.
Up to Date Houses and Hives That
Are Every MINIS Privilege


There are many advantages in keep
Ing bees in house. While there are
many apiarists who use beehouses ex-
clusively, the majority do not. There
are also many different kinds and va
rietieS of houses used. A beehouse
need not be an expensive one, and al
most any kind Of house will answer
the purpose. None is better than an
old dwelling house, and two or more
rooms are the more convenient, provid-
ed they have an outside face of one
end or side, or both.
Perhaps a two room house with one
partition is the best. Such a house
with two ordinary sized rooms, say IA
feet square, will give 112 feet of out
side surface, but take off - feet for
doors, ETC., and the 100 feet left will
accommodate so colonies OF bees by
setting the hives two feet apart from
center to center, which will give ample
working room The entrances are cut
through to the outside and made to cor
respond to the entrance to the hives.
The hives may be set directly on the
floor, but l would prefer them set on
the usual bottom boards. nailed to
cleats at each end, that would raise
the hive some four inches from the
floor, this for the purpose of chaff
packing in winter. Bees thus kept in
house are very easily prepared for
winter, and the extra protection thus
afforded brings them through the win
ter in prime order.
A very cheap beehouse and a very
convenient one that l have used and
which make exclusively for bees is a
small house 10 feet long, 6 feet wide
and 6 feet high. This building accom-
modates II colonies, and the expense
does not exceed 81 per colony. This
is no more than chaff hives will cost
for each colony outside. Floor space
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
The ERA OF ALFALFA.
How 1t Has Revolntionized Farming
Methods In the West

How 1t Has ReyOlutiGnized Farming
Methods In the West.
eve have in Colorado several specif-
ic lines of farming that are assuming
prominence and permanence-dairy
stock feeding, melon growing. fruit
culture and beet sugar. In speaking of
these specifically it must not be pre-
sumed that our state is confined to
them alone. All farm products do
we'll, except corn, for which the nights
are rather cool. yet in the valley of the
Arkansas corn does well. No finer po-
tatoes grow nor more prolifically than
are produced in Colorado. Wheat, oats
and barley are unexcelled. Onions,
cabbage and all garden vegetables of
the best abound, but dairying, stock
feeding, melon growing, fruit culture
and the sugar beet are presenting spe-
cial opportunities" Writing thus to
respondent recounts as follows the
changes in farming wrought by the in
PRODUCTION of alfalfa:
Dairying, in way, is something
new. 1t may seem singular to say it is
not Indigenous to Colorado but such
is the fact AT first stock raising and
grazing We're extensive and profitable
pursuits, but dairying was no part Of
the early cattle industry. A cattleman
made no butter. He MIXED no cows
Butter for the Rocky mountains was
brought across the plains and sold at
high prices. AS farming was introduce
ed and bitches for irrigation were ex-
tended along the valleys and out on
the plains the cattle kings and their
herds were driven beyond the limits of
irrigating canals.
A singular thing happened about
that time Somebody brought some al
falfa seed and sowed it, more out of
curiosity than economic intent. That
slight circumstance was of infinite inn
portance to Colorado. Dairying as an
industry came in that little sack of Gu
rions seed and has grown with the
growth of alfalfa, new and promis-
ing industry
AT first alfalfa was not regarded as
particularly valuable as nutrient. In
fact, our people knew nothing about it.
1t is but recently that it has come to
be recognized as the richest of all for
age plants in use and for dairy pur-
poses without an equal, so that the adj
vent of alfalfa was the advent of the
dairy in this state
The same is true of stock raising.
For five or six years our people have
been feeding alfalfa as an outlet for
the alfalfa crop. AS an experiment it
proved successful and remunerative till
last winter, which was so unprecedent-
eddy severe that they no more than
came out even, and yet as single item
100000 lambs were fattened for the
Chicago market.
Do not think, by the way, that alfalfa
is an arid plant. growing out on the
plains without water or culture 1t is
sown as clover is sown, irrigated as
wheat is irrigated and harvested like
any other hay, so that it's production
and use for dairy and stock feeding
purposes are strictly farm operations.
Stock feeding is in it's infancy, but
the past is suggestive of great posi-
bilities for the future. The same is
true of dailying. We do not yet pro-
duce more than half the butter we con-
sumo.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-10
News and Notes.

at the recent meeting of the Ameri-
can Pathological society the committee
on new native fruits reported as among
the most promising kinds: Apples, the
Canajoharie, Pride Of the Hudson,
Koffman's June and the Pride of Ten
nessee; peaches, the Worcester, Evans
and Dewey; grapes, Browns Seeding
and the Charlton; strawberries, the
Gibson, Seaford and Hall; the blackcap
raspberry, Evans.
Some of the authorities claim that
the apple crop is about one third of a
full crop.
Sulphur mixed with land plaster is
advocated by the scientists for onion
smut.