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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28
The Yalee Harvard Boat Race.

New London, Conn.,, June % The
{ geDty.second Varsity eight cared
race be ween the boat clubs OF
Yale and Harvard was rowed today
over the four mile course, on the
Thames. Yale won by six lengths.
10 the Freshman four Dared race be.
tween Yale and Harvard, the latter
won by four lengths.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

Mr.. MORTON, Mr.. Clevelsnd's Secre-
tary of Agriculture, says the men who
calling themselves democrats went
against their party four years ago, Can.
not afford to go with it now unless 1t
changes its policy. 1t really seems as
If the favors bestowed by Mr.. Cleve-
land have bhghted all those who re-
ceiVed them,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

MR. BAUGHMAN of Maryland says
the national democratic convention
must let ap on silver if it would gain
strength in the East. II Mr.. Baueh-
man were better informed he would
know that the object of the democratic
party now is to win next falls election,
and that his advice, If followed, would
lose the democrats great many more
votes in the West, than it could posi-
bly, gain in the East.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

THR fact that negro In Washington
was yesterday sentenced to Jail for one
year, for attempting brutal outrage
on white girl, lie not conducive to a
diminution of lynOhing for the like
crime In the adjoining counties Of vir-
9inia and Maryland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what sils you, headache to Q
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CAoCARETS help ma
ture, cure you without 3 grippe or pain, pro-
duce easy, natural Uioyements. cost you just
10 cents TO start getting Jour health back.
CASCARETS Candy Csthsrtic, the genuine,
put up In metal boxes. Every tablet has c.
@. Z. stamped on il. Beware of limitations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

Failure OF the British 10 guard their
line of communication north of Kroon-
stad has caused disaster to the Basutos,
who in an encounter with the Beers lost
twenty men killed and two hundred
taken prisoners.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28
The MarReIa.

Chicago, June 26-The market closed q,
follows: Wheat July 83s6zsa
GEORGETOWN, June 2S-Whest 75sS6.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic l0c or 25c.
II @ @ G. Tail 70 cure. druggists refund moneT
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

DeWitt's Little Early Bisers sre famous
little pills for liver and bowel troubles. New
or grippe. -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

One Minute Cough Cure ia the only harm
less remedy that produces Immediate results.
Try 1t,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

There are no better pills made than De
Wits Little Early Risers. Always prompt
and certain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

The Century Magazine for July
has been received from its pub.
fishers In New York. Its contents
are: Coles Engravings of Old Eng
lish Masters, Macaroni, The Great
or Loss. The Story of Ann Powell,
The Eclipse of Poetry, At Sleeping
Water, Sarah Porter, In One Fellow
ship, The Desire OF Ny Heart, A Pic
torisl View OF the Exposition, Dr..
North and His Friends, How to safe
guard Ones Sanity, Oliver Cromwell,
Artistic Paris, The Romance of the Ia.
stitute. The Poets Bequest, The Com
mercial Ascendsncy of the United
States, In the Panic, Fishing Scene at
Etaples, Memories of Musical Life,
The Praying. Match. Dear Heart,
Where Hast Thou VANDERBILT" Civic
Festivals and PROFESSIONS, The Garfield
Slater Addition, Topics OF the Time.
Open Letters and In Lighter Vein,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28

ADVANCE IN PRICE OF Coal All
the anthracite coal roads have given
notice of an advance in the price of coal
of twenty five cents ton, East and
West, beginning July 2. The Reading
company took the initiative in the ad.
vance. The new circular prices will be
as follows: Free on board, tidewater,
stove and chestnut, 81 per ton; egg,
1915. The Western prices will be:
Crate, S4.25 per TOP; stove and chest
nut, $3.50, on cars at Buffalo.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-28
OFFICIAL.

The following messages were transmitted BY
George L. Simpson. Mayor, to the Common
Council of the city of Alexandra, on Tues.
day night, June 20. 1900, expressing his
disapproval Of resolutions. which originated
In that body, sppropristing money for re.
paving Of Cameron street, between Colum.
bus and Alfred, and for repaylng Duke
street, between Columbus and Alfred:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

Charles Black says: Many trees
have every care but pruning, and this
is a great mistake. Trim while the
tree is young, as if left till late the
limbs become large and it is great
check to the tree. The growth and
habit of each variety must be consid-
cred when pruning. March and April
are the best months. If trimmed in
winter, cut with long stubs, and cut
them close in May or June, and they
will heal over quickly. Pruning while
the tree is dormant induces wood
growth, but in summer induces fruit
growth. In pruning Kieffer pears, trim
the first year to 10 or IL inches, sec
ond year cut out all surplus branches
and head in all limbs foot If they
have made much growth; in this way
the fruit will set in center of tree and
not break the limbs. Other slow grow
ing trees will not need such severe
pruning as the Kieffer The ounce
needs severe annual pruning, leaving
the young wood on the main branches.
The apple should not be so severely
pruned as the pear and ounce, but
should be trimmed annually, commenc-
ing with the young tree. There is nc
fruit that needs more thinning-out in
the head than the apple, giving the
light an opportunity to get in and
color the fruit The inside wood of the
peach that is not needed should be cut
out in June, and in some cases thin
the fruit in this way. The plum needs
little if any pruning after it gets to
bearing, as it makes li.tle if any wood
after that time III -mall fruits cut
out the old and dead bearing wood in
winter, but do not cut back the bear
ing canes till the growing season.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
The New-Born Calf.

II II shameful to let a young cali
founder on a slippery floor for hours,
trying to stand up and get its supper
Throw no salt, no nothing, on the calf;
keep it clean, that's what the mother
would request il she could talk. Starr
the milk without delay from every
teat. An obstruction will milk out now
that won't tomorrow morning. Bring
on that mess" thinned to a cruel
made fully blood-warm-and milk
three or four quarts of milk from her
into it, and see her suck it down. 1t
helps to fill the great vacuum and
keeps away the chills. See that the
calf has found the ration. Give the
COW some nice hay now, and it may
be best to put blanket on her, and
then, If you need sleep, go to bed and
sleep like Christian, says contribu-
tor to Home, Field and Forum.
l may have some credit marks at
the day Of judgment for more than 500
cows that l have lost sleep over to
make sure they did not suffer need
lessly when bearing young. If in good
health, and fed and cared for right,
not one cow in 100 will fail to clean
within six hours. If one does fail, re-
move it without delay. My dairyman's
father had all of his boys do the job
before they were q years. With his
fifty cows, the case of retention Of
the afterbirth did not happen more
than two or three times year. l we'll
my first attempt. 1t seemed
that l would kill the COW, but l did
not, and l never have even injured
one since. / don't do it for my neigh
bors any more. just order them to
roll up their sleeves and go to bust
ness.
Don't increase the feed of COW for,
say, nine days after she calves. Treat
her a great deal as though she was
human. A COW can be petted and
brushed and rubbed at that time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
Hauling Sheen or Corn.

A movement is on foot to stop the
custom of hauling sheep to the corn,
obviating the shrinkage of the stock
in transit, says the Denver Post. Wy
oming stockmen with large interests
have made application to the Union
Pacific for a special 30cent rate on
corn from Nebraska to all Wyoming
points. Under the present custom,
which is decidedly unsatisfactory,
sheep are taken to the feeding grounds
where corn is procurable at a cheap
figure. The sheep shrink several
pounds in weight while in transit, the
cost of moving is considerable, and the
sheep do not do as well as on their
native grass. A year ago firm at
Fort Steele, Wyo., experimental upon
feeding corn to sheep on the open
range. The fiocks were gazed as usu-
al, but corn was fed through the
agency of teams that hauled it at reg
ular intervals during the day. Corn
scattered broadcast on the ground on on
snow will be picked up clean by sheep,
and the time taken in picking it up,
grain by grain, causes them to masti-
cate and digest 1t thoroughly The re-
suits attained were so satisfactory that
It will probably become common on the
ranges
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
worn-out Grass Fields.

1t does not pay to keep fields in grass
long after they have ceased to be
profitable. One has but to ride through
almost any part of our country in June,
even in the good years for grass to see
some meadows that utterly fail to pro-
duce the crops they should. If the
meadows could make themselves IN
derstood they would tell us that they
have been run down by constant CROP
ping without putting anything back,
and have been also further sinned
against by being trodden hard by
horses. sheep and cattle. With half
way proper care and treatment from
year to year such lands would still
be giving good results.
AS soon as a meadow begins to run
out it begins to get weedy. 1t is then
OF little use to try to recover the form
er conditions by manuring. 1t is far
easier to pillow the ground and put it
into some crop that will require work.
ing Of the ground. In some localities
such meadows are turned over and re-
seeded at once with grass seed, but
this requires a good deal Of work with
the plows. cultivators and harrows.
The soil that has not been turned over
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
Exhausted Vitality of Plants.

We hear a great deal about plants
running out" but we believe this to
be an unnecessary fate Of any variety
of plants. Some of our best scientists
notably Professors Burrll and Goff,
declare that plants do not run out in
the sense meant. Plants may lose their
vitality through wrong methods of
handling them, and this loss of vital
ity is what some people denominate
running out. The popular idea is that
ties Of potatoes, strawberries and so
on have certain amount OF force
stored up in them, and that the more
they are propagated the more is this
force drawn upon, till in few years
it has been exhausted, and the planter
has to look about him for a new and
vigorous variety.
The whole assumption is wrong.
Plants do not have a certain amount
of energy to last them for just so
much growth. With proper handling,
plants will not run out. 1t is bad man
agement, and that alone, that brings
the result mentioned Vitality once
exhausted can be restored by good
management and good feeding OF
plants. 1t need not be exhausted at
all if care is taken to properly select
and care for plants or seed or tubers.
Some of the varieties of potatoes that
were growing a generation ago are still
found growing as vigorously as they
ever did.
However, the exhaustion of the vi
tally of plants is common, and it is
frequently cheaper to purchase new
variety than to attempt to restore the
vitality of the old. The time will come
when we will so fully understand the
needs of the plants we grow that they
will not run out"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
Sowing Grass Seed with Grain.

The sowing OF grass seed with grain
Ia an old practice that still survives.
1t has some things in its favor and
some things against it. 1t used to be
thought that the grain helped the grass
seed to 'catch," and that the young
grass was helped by the protection It
received from the grain. This, how
ever, is not regarded as a reason to be
given consideration in the growing Of
grass crop. So far as best growth is
concerned there is little doubt that the
grass that is given the entire field will
do the best. 1t will get the sunlight
and moisture from the first and will
make far better growth than whom
dwarfed and shaded by grain.
The only point to receive attention
should be that Of economy. Which is
most profitable, to grow the grass alone
or with grain? If the grass is grown
alone there is the expense of blowing,
narrowing, seeding and the rent of the
land for a year. If it is sown with
grain the grain crop must bear the ex-
pense of the tillage and sowing. When
the grain is cut off the grass is still
growing and will make a good sod be-
fore winter sets in. There has been
something lost in the grass crop for
the first year, but there is a saving in
the expense. This is the course still
being followed by good many of our
farmers and it is yet to be demon
strated that it is not as good a course
as the other. 1t is true that the grass
being shaded is not as strong as if it
had grown in the open sun and air
from the first. But when the grain is
cut, if it be spring-sown grain, the heat
of the summer will be past and the cool
days Of autumn at hand. The grass will
receive the autumn rains and will COW
er the ground with its leaves and fill
the ground with its interlacing roots
before snow falls. In the spring there
is meadow ready at hand. If the
farmer can only resist the temptation
to keep his stock off the grass in the
fall he will be doing well.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
Many Mllllon. for peanuta.

The people of the United States con-
sumo 1000, 900 bushels of peanuts an
nually, at cost of about $40 1000.
The growing of the peanut in this
country is gradually increasing, but
much of the product consumed is still
brought from abroad, notably from
Spain, Egypt and japan. Yet the South
Atlantic seabosrd and the lower Mis-
sissippi valley, as well as other parts
of the United States have been shown
to be abundantly responsive to the cul-
tivation of this ground nut, the aver
age yield being about sixty bushels per
acre.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

for some years has strong tendency
to remain in Jumps and clods, espe-
cially II the sod is still quite thick.
The most simple way to renew the
land is to put it into some crop other
than grass and keep it so for a num-
Der Of years. II it can be put into
some crop that is to be heavily ma
nured so much the better for the sub
sequent grass crops. Rotation. how
ever, is not a necessity to the meadow.
in Europe meadows are kept perma-
nently in grass and it is said that the
Oldest ones are the best. This result.
however, is obtained by systematic ma
nuring, and the keeping off of all ami
mails. No attempt is made to make the
meadow produce both hay crop and
serve as pasture.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

The farmer that wants a clean farm
must be on his guard against the in
PRODUCTION of noXious weeds. There is
no one way in which weeds invade the
farm easier than through the admix-
ture of weed seeds with clover and
grass seeds. 1t therefore does not pay
to purchase the low grades of seeds
just because few dollars per hundred
weight can be saved. The weeds that
spring out of such seeds occupy the
ground to the exclusion of the desired
plants, and the curtailment of the crop
from this cause far more than offsets
the saving in the cost of the seed. In
addition there is the expense of fight
ing the weeds, and that expense is fire.
quently so great that it is about as
cheap to forego the harvesting of tho
crop in the manner at first intended.
We have seen fields that had been
sown to grass, in hopes of making q
good meadow, yellow with mustard.
1t is not an uncommon thing to see
clover fields white with oXeye daisies.
If farmers were wise the producers OF
such seed would not be able to sell it
at any price, and would have to be
more careful in its production.
But clover and grass seeds are not
the only kinds that need to be looked
after. All of the smaller seeds that
are purchased in bulk are often mixed
with weed seeds. Were it not so our
farms today would be measurably
clean. To insure fairly clean seed the
farmer must instruct himself as to the
characteristics of the various weed
seeds enough to be able to recognize
them at sight.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

The American Trotter.-An English
man who attended the late horse show
in New York city had this to say of
the American trotter: THE more
see Of the trotting horse the better
like the breed. The best Of the trot-
tiers are pretty near the perfection OF
symmetry, beauty and grace, and they
are the most useful and versatile breed
of horses ever known to man. HeTs
we saw one Of them out-hackney the
hackneys at the housekeeping bust
ness in heavy harness only a few min
utes ago. and now We have other rep
resentatives Of the same family doing
their turn in faultless style as gentle
mems roadsters Of the kind you see up
at Speedway Park"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
About Peach Growing.

Fertilize well. Do not use lime on
young trees. Crimson clover has been
very successful in giving the trees a
strong, vigorous growth and its effects
have been visible for several years.
After the trees are in bearing, fertilize
literally. You cannot afford not 20
do so, as you will lose your crop and
in some cases your trees also if neg
lected-250 lbs. bone and 25O lbs, pot
ash per acre each year. To ask an
orchard to produce tons per acre
without food is folly. The speakers
orchard gave this yield the past year
and the price of one ton paid all the
cost of fertilizer and labor, but remem-
Der to do this the trees must be fed
besides when the trees are in such a
healthy condition they will resist the
cold of spring and winter much better.
Pack your fruit honestly, putting Just
as good fruit on top of the basket as
the bottom, but no better. The speak
er marketed the past year 1910 baskets
which sold for $500, and in the past
9 years 46,445 baskets, which sold for
S25, 100. The average cost of picking,
marketing, ETC., has been % cents per
basket, leaving 90 cents per basket net
S. S. voorhees,.
Rape for Cow Pasture. - Rape
makes excellent COW pasture, but
you must be careful about letting
the COWS eat too much at first, and es-
pecially when the rape is wet, writes
a contributor to Michigan Farmer. 1t
is as bad, IL not worse, than rank clo-
yer. 1t will cause hoven or bloat. II
the COWS are turned in for short time
only at first, until they become accus-
toned to the feed, there is usually but
little danger. But l would not turn
them in when the rape is wet with dew
or rain, even though they were accus-
toned to IL, unless the plant is fed
down so close that they cannot fill
themselves quickly.
Southdown mutton Is of high quail
ity, and the lambs mature early.
Hampshire sheep are vigorous ana
preDotent
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
A Moman.s Meariness.

Women's sensitiveness makes them
subject to more intense WEAKNESS
than men. The melancholy, depres-
sion and exhaustion they suffer are due
to sluggish action of their organs,
which loads the system with impuri-
ties. poisons the blood and skaters
their nerves. Morley's Sarsaparilla
and Iron will cleanse the system, re-
vitalize the nerves and give strength
and energy. Sold by agent in every
town. q
When a small boy is quiet he's eithSl
asleep or planning some new mischief.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
About tho Sahara Desert.

The Sahara is not barren waste,
as is popularity supposed. Not long
ago there were 100000 sheep, 2,O0O.-
900 goats, and 100000 camels in the
Algerian Sahara alone; and the GASES
furnish a million and half of date
Mains
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06

Southdown mutton is Of high quail
ity, and the lambs mature early.
Hampshire sheep are vigorous ana
preDotent
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TC
A0RICULTURlSTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
tlvation of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures vitIculture and
Horticulture.


Every family in the country should
have a supply of celery for home use
and this supply should become avail
able in the early summer. 1t is none
too early now to plant celery seed Tor
the early garden crop. A 10-cent pack
age CT the seed will give all the plants
that can be used by a good-sized fam
| lily. They should be sown at once In
| box in the house and be kept covered
with paper for few days. If the
| air of the room Is fairly warm and the
| ground moist, in the course OF eight
or ten days they Will have sprouted.
The paper should be removed in hve
or six days from time of planting the
seeds. OF course the soil for the seed
must be good loan, fairly rich.
Care must be taken to secure the
right degree of moisture for the little
plants, as their rootlets are at nrst
very near the top of the soil, ana Will
quickly dry up under the double n
fiuence of air and heat. Enough water
should be applied to render the ground
moist, but not enough to keep 1t wet
When the plants begin to develop new
leaves is when they should be "prlcked
out"-that is, transplanted into other
and larger boxes or hot bed. AS few
have hot beds, boxes will be the nat
ural receptacles. 1t may take num-
Der of boxes to accommodate the TWO
or three hundred plants that the lam
lily will require, In setting them our
anew do not give each plant too much
room, for they have yet to be trans
planted into the open ground, and the
tall-growing, deep-rooting plants are
preferable to the stocky, wide-rooting
Cnes.
The transplanting into the open
ground comes at time when some Of
the early crops, such as radishes, let
tuce and peas, are near the end of their
usefulness, and the celery plants may
be set out between rows OF these. The
ground should, however, be rich, SO
that the development of the celery
plant may De RAPID, which mas much W
do with its crispness. The old trench
system need not be followed, but the
bleaching can be accomplished by
means of boards placed against the
growing plants. This is now the prac-
tice of some of the largest commercial
growers. Others heap up dirt around
the plants as they grow. If the seed
be sown now and both transplantings
be early, the plants sholld be large
enough to bleach by the middle OF
July, and by the middle of August
should be suitable to go onto the ia
BILE of the grower. Celery is not hard
to grow, and there is no good reason
why every farm home should not have
an abundant supply.
The Delawarean., 1900-05-30
RISING SUN.

Miss Eva Todd of Wilmington, who
has been visiting her mother and who
has been on the sick list, is CO. palesc-
ing.
nehemiah KINNEY of near Peters
burg, recently killed hen chat was
afterwards found I'D contain in her
stomach four duck eggs with the shells
on them.
DR.. johnson on Saturday had so
bushels of corn put in the crib at his
residence here and on Sunday morning
when he went to the crib to get some
of the corn to feed his horses, it was
gone. The watch dog was also lying
near the corn crib dead
Howard Johnson and Miss Ida
Wright were the guests of Miss Eva
Todd on Sunday evening.
Mr.. Tilghman of Smyrna, was the
guest of Miss Leah Durborough and
Miss Emma Saxton on Sunday.