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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
FIGHTING THE BORERs.
Good. Clean. Cultivation LIS Better
Than All Washes and Dressings
That Can Be Applied.

There are many orchards that have
suffered a heavy and unnecessary loss
during the last summer from the at
tacks of borers. Many farmers do not
notice that there is anything wrong
with the trees until the leaves turn
yellow and begin to fall in midsummer.
After this stage has been reached there
is little hope for a tree and it dies be-
fore frost. A glance at the tree will be
sufficient TO see that the bark on the
trunk is dead and black in irregular
spots and lines. Just beneath the
dead bark is the borer's burrow filed
with worm dust. The borer is too ia
miliar to require description. He
works up and down the side of the
tree and finally burrows to the center.
When two or three burrows get into
the same tree. the trunk is girdled and
the tree is killed. In many cases the
borer works on only one side of the
tree.
If large spot of bark is killed, the
bark and woods begin to rot and are
soon filled with a mushroom growth.
This mushroom breaks through the
bark of the tree and develops the fruit
ing portion on the outside of the trunk
The fruiting part is white and resem-
bles that which is seen on rotten logs.
If the tree dies the rot is then supposed
to be the cause of its death. The rot
may hasten the death of the tree, but
a tree that is sound and free from
blemishes is very seldom if ever at
tackled by this rot.
The best thing to do is to keep the
tree free from borers and other
injuries. The Land should be kept free
| from grass and weeds and well cult.
waited. Good, clean cultivation is worth
more than all the washes and dressings
that can be applied to prevent borers.
Farmers Review.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
GREENHOUSE ON sLoP1NG GROUND

while on the opposite side earth is
banked up to about the same height
Thus the part of the house below the
glass is protected by earth on both
sides and is very easy to heat. The
roof and one end are of glass, single
thickness, 11x24 inches. At the other
end is located the building containing
the office with the hot water heater in
the basement. Hot water overhead
pipes are used.
The crop grown is cucumbers. These
are grown on benches raised from the
surface. Mr.. Haynes thinks they would
do as well on solid earth. He finds the
cucumber crop most profitable of any
returning him from $500 to $1,000 pei
year and averaging from $500 to $500
Two years ago the crop sold for 81 ,0OC
and his coal cost him $105. The house
and heating apparatus cost ST 500. Mr.
Haynes has had better success with
his cucumbers than many of his neigh.
bors. some Of them having made an en-
tire failure of the crop.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
RAISING PLANTS BY ARTIFICIAL
HEAT.

them into the spaces, one at the
front, the other at the rear. When
finished, the under side of sash should
fit close to the edges of frame, box
and fllets. Sash should be six feet
long and wide enough to cover the
plant box except ~ inches at each
end. Fit on the ends two pieces 21s
inches wide, same thickness of sash
and 5A feet long. These will leave
two inches open at each corner for
gas and smoke to escape, as shown
in figure c. Plant box should have a
tight bottom and about five inches
Of rich, mellow soil on it. An opening
must be made at the rear, as at a b,
and the soil dug out at d, to make
room for the heater. The opening
must be well closed up except a
small ventilator to supply air just be-
low the burner. Two inches below
the center of plant box hang with
wire piece of galvanized sheet iron
about three by five feet; the length
should go from front to rear. The
iron is to spread the heat, so as not
to overhead the center. Any size
wanted, either for outside or house
use, may be made from description
given. The best lettuce for forcing
is Gardeners Favorite or Grand Rap
ids. Temperature to grow good let
tuce must be low the first six weeks,
not much if any above so degrees
S. 81. Mitchell, in Farm and Home.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30

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WINTER PLANT BOX.
Plans for Making q Frame in Which
Lettuce Is Stored by Using
a Common Lamp.

Make the box frame of good size
snd place in a sheltered sunny spot,
En the south side OF the building if
ptssible. Make of inch lumber good,
tight frame 6x12 feet outside measure
ana two feet deep at the north side
and ~ feet at south side, to give
pitch to the sash. Then make box
to grow plants in (a) the same shape
as the outside frame but two inches
smaller, SO that when placed in the
frame there will be an open space,
b, OF one inch all around the plant
box for heat to pass around. The
south side of plant box should be ten
inches deep, north side 16 inches deep.
Raise the plant box up flush with the
frame, put in two fillets II feet 10
inches long, 1 by ~ inches. Nail
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30

Following a severe attack of la grippe I
seemed to be affected badly all over.
Zone of my customers who was greatly
helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and
l procured a bottle the same day. Now my
| head is clear my nerves are steady, enjoy
food, and rest WELL Peruna has been worth
dollar dose to mel. D. Wallace.
Grip Causes Deafness.
Mrs. M. A. Sharick, chaplain G. A. r.
Womans Relief Corps, writes from Ere
mont, Wash:
when la grippe was the prevailing illness
in this Western country l was laid up the
whole winter, l partially lost my hearing,
and had a very bad case of catarrh of the
head and throat.
81 read of Peruna, tried it and had my
hearing restored and catarrh cured l can
not speak too well of Peruna. Mrs. NJ. A.
Sharck
La Grippe Cured In Its First Stage.
Lieutenant Clarice Hunt, of the Salt Lake
City Barracks of the Salvation Army, writes
from Ogden, Utah:
Two months ago was suffering with so
severe cold that l could hardly speak.
"Our captain advised me to try Peruna,
and procured bottle for me, and truly it
worked wonders. Within two weeks I was
entirely well."-Clarice Hunt
Congressman Whites Letter.
Tarboro, N. c.
GentIemen-"l am more than salts.
fled with Peruna and find it to be an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca
tarrh. have used it in my family and
they all join me in recommending it
as an excellent remedy" Geo. II.
White, Member of Congress.
Remained in Feeble Health After
Cured of La Grippe.
Mrs. T. w. Collins, Treasurer Indepen-
dent Order of Good Templars, of Everett,
Wash, writes:
After having severe attack of la grippe
l continued in feeble condition even after
the doctor called me cured. My blood
seemed poisoned. Peruna cured me."-Mrs.
T. w. Collins.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co., of
Columbus, O., for a free book on catarrh.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30

La Grippe is epidemic catarrh.-It spares
no class or nationality. The cultured and
the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pau.
per. The masses and the classes are alike
subject to la grippe. None are exempt-all
are liable.
Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the
grip got you? Grip is we'll named The
original French term, la grippe, has been
shortened by the busy American'to read
grip Without intending to do so a new
word has been coined that exactly describes
the case. As if some hdeouS giant with
awful Grip had cutched us in its fatal clasp.
Men, women, children, whole towns and
cities are caught in the baneful grip of a
terrible monster.
Pe-ru-na for Grip.
Mrs. DR.. C. D. Powell, President of Ep-
worth League, also President of Loyal Tenn
perance Legion, writes from Chehalis,
Wash:
81 have used several remedies in cases of
severe colds and la grippe, but none con-
slider of more value than Peruna Mrs. DR..
c. D. Powell.
The Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus.
After-Efects of La Grippe.
Miss Emma Jourls, President Golden Rod
Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Burling street,
Chicago, ILL.,, as follows:
"This spring suffered severely from the
after-effects of la grippe. AS the doctors did
not help me bought bottle of Peruna"-
Miss Emma Jouris.
Congressman Howard's Letter.
Fort Payne, Ala.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus,
Ohio:
Gentlemen-"I have taken Peruna
now for two weeks and find am very
much relieved. feel that my cure
will be permanent. have also taken
it for la grippe and take pleasure in
recommending Peruna as an excellent
remedy to all fellow sufferers
M. w. Howard, Member of Congress.
La Grippe Leaves the System In
Deplorable Condition.
D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the
International BARRIERS Union, writes from
Is Western Avenue, Minneapolis Mimi:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
SMALL GREENHOUSE.
Suitable for Premises Where the
Slope of Land Is Not Right for
the Ordinary House.

A profitable greenhouse for a farm
or village place where the slope of land
is not right for the ordinary sidehill
house ON south incline may be made
on the plan of the one operated by FL
lis Haynes, Middlesex county, Mass.
This house is 100 feet long by 20 feet
wide. It runs southwest and the roof
has two equal glass slopes facing the
northwest and southeast. It runs
across the slope of side hill, with a
gentle slope to the northwest. Upon
the upper or southeast side the ground
comes nearly to the foot of the glass.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
Attacking the Pear B1,-bt.

Winter is good time to attack the
pear blight. Investigations have shown
that the disease remains over in the
diseased branches, the organisms
ready to begin again their work in
the early spring. The branches that
are dead should all be cut off and
burned and any branches that have
been cast down by the wind should
also be included in the collection. In
fact, it pays to give the orchard a
thorough cleaning, either in fall or
or early spring. Burn up all rubbish.
The orchard should then be carefully
inspected to make sure that all the
infected branches nave been cut off.
Thorough work in this matter will
make it easy to keep the trouble in
check next year.-Farmers' Review.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
Cuttings of Currant Bushes.

Eary in the spring, before the sap
begins to start, is the time to secure
cuttings of currant bushes. The
bushes are propagated by bending
down the branches and covering with
soil, by cutting off the suckers at
Some distance under the surface of
the ground and removing them with
the roots. or by cutting off the wood
of this years growth. The cutting
should be done with a sharp knife and
the division made at the axis of a
bud. It is not at all difficult to Sc
cure young currant bushes, for which
reason they should be found in every
garden.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
Food for Fruit Trees.

Wood ashes, if not leached or ex-
posed to the weather. are good, but a
heavy coating should be given, not
less than barrel to the square rod.
Dissolved bone-meal and muriate of
potash in about equal proportions
make an excellent manure. An ap-
plication at the rate Of 500 pounds to
the acre is sufficient. Tobacco-stems
are very good, because they contain
potash, phosphoric acid and nitro
gen. and also make hunus, all OF
which are needful in all kinds OF
soils.Ff. E. Van. Deman, in Rural
New Yorker.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
Most Elastic Substances

Rubber. spun glass, steel and ivory
are the most elastic substances.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
rabbits Barking Fruit Trees.

I see so much on the subject of rab.
bits barking fruit trees that I will
contribute by giving my preventive
To one gallon of ready-mixed house
paint add two tablespoonful of paris
green and paint the trees. I have
painted several hundred trees and
have not lost one of them from bark
ing by rabbits. [ do not think the
paint damages the tree in the least
and the cost IS almost nothing, prob.
ably one-quarter or one-half cent pei
tree. This has been worth many dol.
lars to me, and if your readers will
pursue the same plan it will save
them thousands of dollars.-J. C.
Jones, in Prairie Farmer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
senator Wanted to visit the Cook

Representative Jones, of Virginia.
tells this story on his father: Direct
ly after the war Jones senior was sent
to the state senate. An old slave who
had belonged to him was also elected
to the senate. The two drew adjoining
seats. Senator Jones was very cour-
teous. and in addressing his former
slave always called him senator. The
old negro stood it for some time and
finally said: sMassa William, I don t
like dis senator business. KANT come
down to yo' house and visit that cook
of yourn? I suhtinly would like per-
mission to visit 20 Kitchen The re-
quest was granted. and while Senator
Jones was in his library the other SEN
ator was down in the kitchen visiting
the cook. Troy Times.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-01-30
WeieAt of Road Rollers.

If a road is built OF tough, hard
stone and if the binding material has
the same characteristic, steam roll
er is essential for speedy results. A
horse roller may be used to good
advantage if the softer varieties of
stone are employed. For general
purposes a roller weighing from eight
TO twelve tons is all that is necessary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
VESSEL WRECKED.
GyHl
Crew of Seven men Picked UP mt Sea,
Adrin on a Raft.

Baltimore, April 10.-The steam.
ship State of Texas, which arrived
here Tuesday, had on board Capt.
Berry and the crew of six men of the
wrecked Schooner Erie, picked up at
sea last Sunday. The Erie was
wrecked the day before on the Fry
ing Pan shoals and her crew were
drifting almost exhausted on raft
when rescued by the State of Texas.
Capt. Berry, of the Erie, which be-
longs to Jacksonville, Fla, said the
vessel was bound with lumber from
Savannah to Nova Scotia. On April
she encountered heavy seas and
dense fogs. In "A fierce fog she was
driven on the shoals.
The Erie began to go to pieces. AS
wave after wave swept the lumber of
her decks, it also carried away the
masts, and then Capt. Berry and his
men lashed themselves to the after
house. All through the night the
seven men were buffeted about by
the rough seas which continued to
break over them. Even when they
were taken Off by the State of Texas
the men were up to their knees IN
water. When rescued some OF them
were so weak that they had to be as
sisted aboard. The men had drifted
| 167 miles in a northeasterly direction
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
A GIGANTIC SCHEME.
Plan of John Clafin to Consolidate
Large Retail Dry Goods stores
About Complete.

New York, April 9.-The Journal OF
Commerce says: 1t may be stated on
authority that the plan to consolidate
large retail dry goods companies on
which Mr.. John Clafiin has been at
work for some time, has now been def
initely completed and syndicate has
been organized to finance it. This
would seem to indicate that the securi-
ties of the new company will be offered
for public subscription. j. p. Morgan
& Co. are the head of the syndicate
and will, it is understood, underwrite
the issue. The capital of the new con-
Germ will be about $20.O00,000, including
the common and preferred shares and
bonds.
The names of the companies which
will be taken into the new company
have not yet been officially stated, but
friends of Mr.. Clafiin feel confident
that his two New York stores, namely
the Adams Dry Goods company and
McCreery's Twenty-third street store
will be included, while there is some
Tx that Lord & Taylor's two New
,ork stores and also the Joseph ii
Bauland & Co.. of Brooklyn, may be in
vited into the new concern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
A BRAVE GIRL.
with n shotgun She Saves Her Father
from Being Robbed.

Chicago, April 1o.-Flourishing
shotgun, Fredericka Ramsair, an 49,
year-old girl, pursued two robbers
Tuesday night in this city and saved
her father from being robbed. She
was reading in the library of her
home when she heard her father cry
for help. Selling the shotgun she
burst through the front door in time
to see masked man kneeling on her
fathers chest, while a second was
searching the victims pockets. Miss
Ramsaier was raising the gun to her
shoulder when one of the robbers
looked up attracted by the noise the
girl had made in opening the front
door.
"Look out, Bill, she's going to
shoot" he cried in warning to his
comrade, and dropped the watch he
had just taken from Mr.. Ramsaier
vaulted the fence into tie street. The
second robber followed him. Miss
Ramsaier started in pursuit, but the
men escaped. Christopher Ramsaier
the father of the girl, is well Enowr
contractor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
WINTER WHEAT.
Condition Better mt This Tlmc Than
in the Past Ten Years.

New York, April 1o.-The forthcom-
ing number of the American Agri-
culturist will say: Local reports
from American Agriculturist's corps
of county observers, carefully CONSOLE
dated into state averages, show
condition of wheat higher than has
been noted at this time in the past
ten years, with the exception of 1891.
The general average as reported Tor
the whole belt is 95.5, figure which
represents a practically perfect pros
pect over the greater part OF the WIN
ter wheat area.
At the date at which correspon-
dents of American Agriculturist
made the observance there had been
no period of warm growing weather
sufficient to induce spring growth,
demonstrating absolutely the extent
to which the Hessian fly is present
The returns therefore must be quail
fed with the statement that the dls-
count shown from a perfect condi-
ton may not entirely represent the
actual damage from this cause.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
s,ened ,he Peace ManIfesto.

Manila, April 1o.-Although the Of
ficials are uncommunicative it is
nevertheless said that Aguinaldo
signed the peace manifesto Tuesday.
Chief Justice Arellano drafted the
document. Aguinaldo strongly OBJ
iected to two clauses of the manifes-
to and considerable argument was re-
auired to overcome his objections.
Col. Aba, the insurgent leader OF
Zambales province, With 10 officers, SO
men and 92 rifles, surrendered to Col
Mancil G. Goodrell, commanding the
marines stationed at Olongapo on SUI
big bay.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
WANT LAW REPEALED.
Canadians are Growing Tired OF the
Iron and Steel Bounties.

Washington, April 1o.-The iron
and steel bounties offered by the Do
minion of Canada have grown to such
proportions as to create much discus
sion, and there is a growing disposi-
ton to demand from parliament re-
peal of the law. Information to this
effect has reached the state depart
ment through report from Consul
Gen. Bittinger, at Montreal.
The report says: Last year the
total bounties paid on iron and steel
amounted to S312,77+. So many iron
and steel plants are being started in
the Dominion that it is feared the
bounties offered will shortly become
burden more than the country can
stand. The bounty paid , S3 ton
on pig iron from Canadian ore and
50 on pig from foreign ore; S3 tor
on puddled bar from pig iron mad1
in Canada and SO a ton for steel in
gots from Canadian pig IRON"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12

the neck of peon woman or child.
These baskets contain about ten or
fifteen pounds, and the filing of one
is worth about 12 cents in our money.
The first year the tree yields from
two to four ounces, twice that
amount the second year and at the
third is in full bearing, producing
about one and half pounds. A
pound per tree is considered an
average crop. In tropical states the
yield often runs 10 five pounds per
tree. After the picking the coffee
is dried and hulled. Where shipping
facilities are good many foreign
owned plantations are supplied with
machinery for cleansing and hulling.
But in regions remote from rail-
roads and steamboat lines the
freight by burros and pack-mules is
so high that old-fashioned processes
only are employed.
Petates, or straw mats, receive
each days gathering of berries.
which are spread out in thin layers.
Next day, in the full sunshine, they
are removed to the patio, or drying
ground, where they are again spread
out, being constantly stirred and
turned over until perfectly dry, after
which poems thresh them out by
treading on them with bare feet,
separating the husks. The berries
are then pounded in stone mortar.
or course, this process bruises them
somewhat and they are less regular
il. appearance than those prepared
on the plantations where machinery
is used. After being pounded they
are raised above the head of the
cleaner and allowed to drop on 8
mat, the chaff being famed away
The coffee is now put up in sack:
containing from $50 to 200 pounds
Large amounts are shipped all owe,
the world from Vera Cruz. While
waiting for their coffee crop, man.
planters cultivate tropical fruits
sugar cane and tobacco, for whicl
there is an increasingly good market
Many of these products may be raise'
: along with the coffee.
Except China, Mexico probably ha
, the cheapest labor in the world, bu
q the poems are lazy, with exaggerate
. ideas of their own Importance, an
: the importation of Chinese labo
bids fair to crowd them into tn
. background, for although the peon
a compare favorably enough with tn
;. blacks of our southern states an
;. the West Indies, their work marks
:. poor showing beside that of the il
. dustrious Chinaman, who never ask
;. for u day off and works for sma
.s remuneration. A Mexican peon woul
!. rather half starve in the warm SUI
;s Shine on feast day than work. On
~ coffee imports from Mexico are il
"A creasing largely each year, wit
r. prices firm. EDWARD JULIAN
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12
whole Family wiped Out.

Cripple Creek, Col, April 1o.-The
family of James Smith, including the
father, mother and four children,
were instantly killed in their home
Tuesday night by the sliding of the
huge dump of the granite mine. The
Smith residence was located just be-
low the base of the dump. The recent
SHOWS had softened the dump so that
the top suddenly slid down, crushing
the house and burying its inmates
Hundreds of men are now digging
away the dirt and rock, but it is not
thought possible that any of the vic
tins will be found alive.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-04-12

when cultivated it's top is cut back
The white flowers resemble those of
the jessamine. The ripe berry is red,
like a great cherry. Squirrels, rats
and monkeys are dreaded enemies of
the coffee planter. The berries are
transported by rail from the interior
to the seaports of the countries men
toned, thence shipped to the United
States, while the product reaches us
by the railroad direct from many
parts of Mexico. That wonderland,
living so near us, which holds the relics
of an advanced civilization, old when
the nations of Europe were just
emerging from barbarism, has proved
very alluring to coffee planters. To
visit this most grand and beautiful,
rich and fertile land one should not
confine himself to the railways or
most frequently Travelled routes. To
fully appreciate Mexico one must