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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
What Farmers Should DO.

Fred Lynch, of Jackson, Miss, sees
in charging the markets and tells in
Home and Farm how he makes it pay
on land so poor that his neighbors
laughed at him for undertaking to
make a living on it:
There are some farmers that can
raise three bales Of cotton to the acre,
while others take six acres to raise as
much. I think farmer that cannot
raise bale to the acre is a failure. Any
farmer that is Industrious and econom-
ical and cannot make a living on his
farm, should give it up. can and do
raise two crops of Irish potatoes from
the same land every year. If can do
it so others can. Every farmer should
have manure pen, and during the fall
and winter fill it from stall and yard,
being sure not to waste it during the
spring. To every medium size wagon
load I put 10 pounds Of cotton seed
meal [ mix it as unload, then drop
shovelful to each hill Of corn, and by
so doing make forty bushels Of corn
to the acre, and at 40 cents a bushel
get fair return for my labor. When
I bought my farm I was laughed at;
was told that it would not start cow
peas. am not laughed at now. Why?
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

The rose harvest in Bulgaria and the
distillation of oil Of roses are now
completed. The quantity obtained this
year is about two hundred thousand
grammes less than last years yield,
the decrease being due to the drouth.
Estimating the value of gramme Of
oil of roses at fifty cents, this means a
turnover of 100000. The prices are at
tar of rose has risen rapidly this year
and in all the large towns of Europe
the demand is increasing. Stocks
therefore, will soon be exhausted. In
Bulgaria the entire quantity at present
stored is estimated at only about So
600 gramme.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

In the island of Null, OH the west
coast of Scotland, there is still living a
cousin of DR.. Livingstone, the famous
African explorer. Mrs. McQueeny, or,
as she is better known, Kate Living
stone, has now reached the age of 1O2
years, and though able to go about, is
in her dotage. Her people belonged to
U1va, and she was we'll acquainted
with DR.. Livingstone, who visited her
whenever he came to Null. She still
talks of her famous cousin and sets
much store by silver brooch which
he presented to her and on which her
name is inscribed.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN
MERCURY


as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucuous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure, be sure you get
the genuine. 1t is taken internally,
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by f..
|J. Cheney & Go. Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c. per bot
tie.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

persisted away the beans and peanuts
made their appearance, the decaying
melon vines in the meanwhile keeping
the ground shaded, thus preventing the
growing of weeds and grasses.
After Colonel Miller had finished
planting the beans and peanuts he
never touched them again with either
pillow or hoe.
The growth of both has been simply
marvellous. The velvet bean has
grown like an untamed colt let loose
and has covered the face of the earth,
and wherever it has found a tree or
stump has ambitiOusly and triumph
antly mounted to the very top of the
same The vines are rich and luXu-
RANT in color and measuring from the
top downward will average more than
four feet in depth.
Colonel Miller says they will easily
feed a hundred head of cattle.
By the way, he says this is the best
cattle country he ever saw for the
reason that it is so free from annoying
insects. The gentle bovine feeds all
the day long in absolute enjoyment
rarely using it's caudal appendage and
scarcely having knowledge of it's use.
The peanut vines have not grown
quite so rank as the velvet bean, but
have matted over the entire ground,
each row overlapping the other and
completely hiding the burrows.
Colonel Miller says he never saw
anything like it in the good old State
of South Carolina. And that's a big
admission.
Just one month ago Colonel Miller
plowed two fields near his barn with
a tWo-horse pillow, breaking the ground
thoroughly, and planted the ordinary
field pea broadcast. The vines are
already four and five feet high and in
full bearing.
Colonel Miller's colts, calves and
pigs are as fat as seals and it is al alb
solute pleasure to look at them.
His barn is grooming under it's
weight of corn and hay, and on the
day of our visit the Colonel was cut
ting stacks Of beggar weed, which he
will also utilize for forage and says
there is none better.
Colonel Miller says that cassava will
grow here almost without cultivation,
and of all places in the world Ocala is
the place for a starch factory.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

WANTED Several bright and hon
est persons to represent us rs manag-
ers of this and close by counties Sal
airy $9M Il year and expenses. Straight
bona-fde, no mere, no less salary. po-
s:tiou re"ma. Cnt. Our refe "a1 :4s. any
tank in any town. 1t is manly Office
work conducted at home. Reference.
Enclose self addressed stamped enve-
lope. THE DOMINION COMPANY,
Dept. 3, Chicago.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
Florida Bacon.

/ cannot see why it is that we have
to purchase so much Northern bacon
and hams when meat can be cured so
easily here at home, and the cost of
raising hogs is so little. l never knew
how easy it is to cure meat until two
years ago, when [ thought [ would
make enough to last for the year; and
though it was a very mild winter, and
we killed our hogs in February, we did
not lose a piece. Last winter, too,
though we had no ice worth speaking
of, but once, we cured our bacon and
hams beautifully.
The following recipe a friend gave
us, and 1 would advise your readers to
cut it out and save it. Anyone, no
matter how inexperienced, can use it
with perfect success by following in
structions: For every 100 pounds of
meat, take gallons of water, pounds
of brown sugar, 8 pounds of pure salt
crock or solar salt is safest), quart of
good molasses, 3 ounces Of saltpeter,
1 ounce of soda. Boil water and salt
first, and then add the other ingredi-
ents, and skim off all impurities. Pack
pork in a good barrel as well as posi-
BILE, and when the brine is cool pour
it over so as to cover the meat entirely
and weight it down to keep it from the
air. After three or four weeks it can
be smoked and then packed in a bar
rel with clean wood ashes to keep out
all insects.
The above recipe makes fine sugar
cured ham, and good breakfast bacon,
and the beauty of it is that you do not
have to salt your meat down. but first
put it in the pickle as soon as the meat
can be cut up and the animal heat
gotten out of it. If cold night or two
should come, the pieces are much i'm
proved by being removed from the
barrel and left all night exposed to the
air.
The receipt is equally good for corn
ing beef; only you should dip each
piece of beef into the brine while it is
boiling for three or four seconds, and
then proceed as with the pork.
Home-cured hams are helped won
derfully by adding to the brine cup
of sugar and little mustard.
Be very particular in making the
above brine not to use Western salt,
which was clarified with lime: New
York salt, clarified with blood, is bet
ter. But better still is Turks Island
or Liverpool SALT. Burdett, in Flori-
da Farmer and Fruit Grower.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

Because I get Giving at home" and
diversity my crops. I never fail in my
oat crop. When this is off I go to the
peas, and when these are ready to cut
I cut them high and turn the stubbles
under at once. I know that this brings
fertility to my land, and every farmer
should try it.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18

Some naturalists have denied that
fishes ever sleep, but in recent arti-
Gle in the Fisherei Zeitung, Dr.Theo-
dore Beer proves that they do sleep,
some in an upright position, while
others on the side. Sharks close their
eyes when asleep, but most other fishes
have theirs open, being without lids.
Sometimes a fish sleeps SO soundly
that if the hand be moved up gently
it can be seized before it wakes up.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
Do YOU KNOW?

AS the Florida Representative of the large
International Publishing Co. of Philadelphia
and Chicago am prepared to offer extra in
ducements to LADIES & GENTLEMEN
to work for them both by Offering large COM
missions and PREMIUMS also both to the
agent and the purchaser of books. Don't ap-
ply unless you mean business. a..
Isaac Morgan, State Agent,
Kissimmee, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-18
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Superior to all others
\ keep a Clear Com
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it, 15c and 25c per bottle at
Druggists or mailed. Made
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CO., Chicago. Sold by whole
sale Druggists everywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
RELIGIOUS.

The Free Methodists of Eng!and have old
age pensions for their minis ers. Each min
lister pays G3 per year to the fund.
The statistics of the China mission con-
nected with the Episcopal church show that
for the year ending July, 1899, there were
iO9 combinations, 2S6l baptized church mem
brS, 9Ol communicates.
Miss Margaret b. Barnard has been in
stalled as pastor of the Unitarian church
in Chelsea, Mass Rev. Samuel \. Eliot
secretary of the American Unitarian asso-
ciation preached the installation sermon.
Amherst college used to be one of the
great feeders of the ministry but only two
members of the class OF 80 are at divinity
schools, while fifteen are teaching ten are
ness.
The wealthiest clergyman in Scotland
at least among such as have made their
money by their work in the pulpit and
not by writing. lachrrymosG stories, S Rev
James II. NutfOrd Mitchell, who has saved
93OoOCO of his salary since he entered the
! Presbyterian church.
Dime contributions in the last ten years
have built a million-dolar Roman Catholic
cathedral in Elizabeth. n, J. 1t win be
dedicated, II is expected, on the 5.h or the
l2th Of November next, and the chimes, it
Is intended, shall ring for the first time on
I New Years Eve to usher In the year 1900,
During the past decade nearly 10000 con-
versions in the schools organized by the
American Sunday union have been reported
/ to the society, and within the past eight
years over llO0 churches have been dovel-
Oped from the schools in its mission work
denominational Christian work.
Rcy. Robert Macdonald, pastor of the
Washington Avenue Bapti-t church, Brock
lyn has been appointed one of the preach
/ crs to Harvard university for the present
year to serve six weeks in residence lie is
said to be the youngest clergyman ever
thus appointed at Harvard. lie is an
aiumnus of both the college and divinity
school Of Harvard university, and had a
notably successful career as pastor Of a
church In Boston before coming u Brooke
lyn, where his present church Is prominent
in the Baptist denomination in America
While Bishop Potter admits no more than
that he Is going to Honolulu, II Is generally
believed that his estimation is the PhilD-
pines and that he goes I'm an Official capacity
as a member of the commission on In
creased Responsibilities recently created 10y
the Episcopal church i'm America. The
/ bishop will sail from san Francisco about
/ October %, He Is now pretty well es'ab-
! lshed as an anti-eNpanso bu. the COM
/ cipally, possibly solely. with missionary
work Of a religious kind.
| Rev. Sylvester Malone, the most beloved
Roman Catholic priest in Brooklyn, a.
much esteemed by Protestants as by the
( church is lying very lll and perhaps viii
! not rally. Father Malone has had this pa
! iernal title freely given him by heTetics,
! because q belongs to him. He became
noted for his patriotism IN the war for the
/ union, when he kept the stars and stripes
! flying from the spire of his church Of SITS
/ Peter and Paul. and he has been notable
| since as one Of the American Catholics.
/ lie Is also one of the regents Of the Uni
| versity OF the state OF New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15

Another great discovery has been made,
and that, too, by a lady in this country.
Disease fastened its clutches upon her and
for seven years she withstood its severest
tests, but her vital organs We're undermined
and death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed necessarily and could
not sleep She finally discovered way to
recovery by purchasing of us bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption, and
was so much relieved on taking first dose
that she slept all night, and with two
bottles has been absolutely cured. HeT name
is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes W. C.
Hamnick & Co. of Shelby. n. c. Trial
bottles free at KGhn & Co.'S drug store.
Regular size SOC and $l.0O. Every bottle
guaranteed.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
Cured of Chronic Drarrhoca After
ThirtX Nenrs of SuOerinr

II suffered for thirty years with darrhoea
and thought l was past being cured" says
John s. Halloway of French camp Miss
II had spent so much time and money
and suffered SO much that had given up all
hopes OF recovery. | was so feeble from the
effects of the diarrhoea that / could not do
any kind of labor, could not even travel,
but by accident l was permitted to find a
bottle of Chamberlains Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and after taking several
bottles l am entirely cured of that trouble.
l am so pleased with the result that | am
anxious that it be in reach OF all who
suffer as | have"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
50 = = r.

VIII break up a Cold from the first
touch to the NEST stubborn case of
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
COnCrrninm pncIa-

Here is a Georgia boys composition on
Poetry:' "A poem is thing which has
rhymes at the last end. A poem also has
feet but some poems don't stand steady
on EN-. Poets mostly has long hair be-
cause times is hard and it's cheaper to let
it grow Poets used to live in garrets. on
crust of bread-when a baker would credit
EN-. Now they live on the ground floor
where they can escape easy when the bailif1
is after EN- My father says poetry makes
the world better, but my mother says it
amt the kind he writes. Poets have a
monument when they die as people want
to weight 'cm down SOS they cant come
back"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15

That the actions of Rundell and Larrabee
were not exceptional in the South Dakota
regiment is testified to by Major Surgeon
r. j. Adams, brigade surgeon of the
FIRST brigade, who returned on the
Zealandia. THE army he said, had nc
tropical experience and did not allow for
large enough sick rate. While campaign
ing the rate ran up to so per cent. reduc-
ing the effective force very seriously, and
the generals could not understand it. They
wore inclined to believe that the sick re-
ports were padded and that many of the men
were shamming to escape the arduous labor
fatigue and danger of duty at the front
Acting under instructions | made an in
Vestigation of the South Dakota regiment
at San Fernando during the latter part of
June Just after the hard march from La
Iona. The temperature, pulse and respira-
uoa of each man in the regiment was taken,
and out of 500 men on the line | found only
nine that were fit for duty. Four other
doctors assisted me in making the examna-
ticn, and the generals could hardly credit
the report"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15

a distance. The high jump was also easily
won by an American officer and then the
Spaniards brought out their strong man.
He took a cannon ball which he raised from
the ground with both hands and poised at
the level Of his shoulder, Then with great
difficulty he raised 1t until II was at his
arms length above his head. Van Houten
then came forward. Grasping the ball with
one hand he raised it without apparent ef-
fort and held it out at arms length hori-
zontally. This was the closing feat, for the
Spaniares had played their trump card They
explained once more to the blind man the
feat OF strength, and how again the Amer
icano had excelled, and the blind man, ap-
parently believing they were trying to make
game of him. threw his stick on the ground
and chtded them for telling him such false
hoods. After that the Spanish officers is
sued no more challenges to us.
Sick Men mt the Firing Line.
Referring to instances of brave men,
recall case that may be called exceptional.
for the patriotic zeal of the man resulted in
his wearing himself out. Sergeant j l..
Rundell of Company l. was a good soldier
and not even sickness was able to keep
him away from the firing line When he
was quite i'll he was ordered to the rear
for medical treatment but he refused to 60
and by remaining endured exposure and
fatigue which was undoubtedly the cause of
his death, for he finally succumbed July 2Oth
on the Morgan City when three days from
San Francisco.
Corporal Larrahee of Company NJ was
another man who did duty when he was
not physically fit. He was suffering from
the effects Of fever and although GONZALES
cent, he was far from ht for duty. He was
ordered back from Calumpt, as he was cuff
fering from tropical ulcers, being covered
with them from his neck to his knees. The
disease is peculiar to the country and is the
result of conditions prevailing there He
was not willing to go, insisting that he
would do as well at the front as elsewhere
and he wanted to be where there was need
for men, At San Fernando l sent him to the
rear, but he refused to stay there, and was
soon on the firing line again.
Captain A. b. Sessions of Company b
was one of the youngest among the officers
Of the First, and one of the most gallant
At Calumpit | saw him during the action
bandaging wounds on the field as cool as if
the bullets had not been sweeping the field
He was always a good man in any place that
duty called him.
II do not mention these cases because
they are exceptional Almost every officer
and man in the regiment has done some
thing to render him worthy of special men
ton"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15

Retreat was never sounded in the South
Dakota regiment" proudly said Dr. Thomp-
son, who. himself, hardly ever left the firing
line. 1t was hoped that the Hotchkiss bat
terry of the Nebraska regiment that had been
sent around on the left would open fire and
distract the attention of the FilipinOs, but
it was not heard and after very few min
utes the First battalion was ordered to
charge. Lieutenant Sidney e. Morrison of
company was killed here and several
others were wounded. Adjutant and First
Lieutenant Jonas II. Lien a brother OF the
mayor of Sioux Falls, fell mortally wounded
between the first and second lines of
trenches which the Filipnos had abandoned,
firing as they retreated. AS the second line
of trenches was reached Lieutenant F. H.
Adams was killed instantly and others were
also killed or wounded there. The Filipinos
had by that time crossed the river and, hav-
ing reformed, were making for the main
body of their troops, which was heavily en-
trenched on the north bank of the river. At
this juncture Colonel Frost took Companies
and e TO the bridge on our left to see if
they could cross His purpose was to get a
raking fire in on the enemys flank. The
bridge had been dismantled, all the ties
having been removed, but the stringers were
in place and the men got across under heavy
fire. Tho rest Of the regiment had moved
up to the river on the right. Lieutenant
Huntington, who had left the hospital to
participate in the attack, was the first Off
Ger to get across and in a few minutes there
were forty or fifty men who had waded in
the water to their armpits and joined his
little band, all Of whom were nearly ex-
hausted by their eXertions They did not
fail, however, to improve every opportunity
to make mark on the Filipinos who eX-
posed themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
Fents of Strength.

mot only Van Houghten, but others of our
officers surprised the Filipinos and Spanish
by their feats of skill and strength. While
at San Felipe we fraternzed with some
Spanish prisoners who were on parole ami
building which we occupied, the upper story
being tho more desirable, having been re-
served for ourselves At night these Span
sh officers were accustomed to amuse them
selves with feats of strength and skill
They invited us one evening to join with
them and several of the young officers who
had recently left college and were trained to
athletic sports entered the games. The
first thing they tried was a high kick. One
OF the Spanish officers held a hat, which an
other kicked. After he had done his best
Captain McGregor kicked it, The spaniards
were much surprised and gesticulated and
chattered at great rate, Then one of them
went over to where a blind officer stood and
taking the blind mans stick explained the
kick by showing how many times the leng h
of the stick It took to measure the height
OF the hat from the ground. The blind man
listened, and then shook his head, saying
that II was Incredible he declined 10 be-
lievo 1t, Then one of the Spaniards made a
standing broad jump, and one Of our officers
jumped four feet further. Again the blind
man was told with much excited gesticula-
tion how many lengths Of his stick II would
take 70 measure the distance covered by the
jump, and again Indignantly repudiated the
possibility OF any American outleaping a
Spanish officer and gentleman by SO great
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
DAkOTANSON THEFIRING LINE
Instances Of Conspicuous Gallantry in the
Lu8on Campaigns.
CAPTAIN LEADS WITH A BIG GUN
How the Nebraska HotchLiss Got Over
BrIdge-Fcnts of Strength
DcbiIitntinE Eject OF
n Hard March.

Acts Of gallantry by the volunteers in
the PHILIPPINES were so numerous that many
Of them escaped the vigilance of corre-
spondents. South Dakota troops rivaled
other regiments in that respect, but their
deeds did not receive the measure OF
praise they were entitled to. A few OF
them, recounted by officers OF the regt-
ment, are given prominence in the san
Francisco Chronicle:
at is a delicate matter" said Colonel
Frost, when questioned, 'to discriminate
among the men who showed conspicuous
bravery-there we're so many of them
There was one instance, however, that
stands out prominently, and no man of ordi-
nary bravery or physique could have fitted
so we'll into the emergency. l refer to the
gallant feat of Captain Clayton p. Van
Houghten of Company d, First South Da-
kota United States volunteers, who car
ried a Hotchkss gun across dismantlel
bridge at the battle of Mariao river under
heavy fire.
The act referred to by Colonel Frost is
familiar to every man in the regiment. ana
the following account is written from the
statements made by Colonel Frost, Chaplain
Daley and Assistant Surgeon Thompson:
The South Dakota regiment started from
Meycauyan March 27, one battalion formed
in skirimsh line, the second held in reserve
and the third advancing at right angles to
the first toward the river, The Filpinos
occupied two lines of intrenchments on the
opposite side of the river, and with their
Mausers opened a severe fire before the
South Dakota men could return the vol
leys with their Springields, so they had
to advance and take the fire poured in on
them. When they had got pretty close they
fpin IN lin ,nl
equally perilous whether they advanced or
retreated, and the men of the regiment have
the reputation of not knowing how to show
their backs