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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
A Substantial Poultry House.

built a poultry house sixty-four feet
long, twelve feet wide and seven feet
to caves. 1t was boarded up and down
with one-inch rough boards. The roof
was of boards laid from peak to caves
Cracks on roof and sides were covered
with three-inch strips. The building
faced south and one end for brooder
house, sixteen feet long, has tight
board partition between it and balance
of house. There were four compart-
ments separated by poultry netting,
and alleyway three feet wide on north
side, full length of building. Each Of
the four pens are thus nine by twelve
feet, intended for fifteen Plymouth
Rock hens or twelve Light Brahma.
Roosts are four feet from floor on
north side of pen, with platform under
roosts to catch droppings, and drop
pings can be scraped out and gathered
while a person stands in alleyway. A
boxes are under roosts. Each pen has
run twelve by fifty feet inclosed with
fOur-foot netting.
The items of expense incurred were
as follows: 3612 feet gum lumber at
$11, $3973; 100 pounds nails, $3.50; six
single window sash, 1925; hinges and
latches, sixty cents; one roll, $50 run
ming feet, four-foot wide netting, $2.7O;
carpenter work, S11; making for house
alone, $59.7S; three rolls poultry net
ting for yards, $50; eighteen fence
posts, ninety cents; labor, making
fence, SO, making total cost $71.7S-
Frank G. Hastings, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
FIghting INSECTS and Pests.

The fruit grower to-day must be a
successful fighter of insects and ali
pests of trees and vines, and unless he
carries the war on internationally he
cannot expect profit. 1t is necessary
to put aside certain amount of money
from profits every year to be expended
on poisonous sprays for the following
season. One must have n pretty fair
knowledge Of the nature of the differ
ent insects most destructive to his par
ticular fruits. This does not mean a
scientific education. There are not
more than half a dozen insects that
threaten most fruits, and these can be
studied so that one will know iust
when to look for their appearance, and
how best to prevent their destructive
work. Too many wait until it is too
late to avert losses.
The insects do not amount to much
so far as destroying the crops this year
Is concerned, but they belong to the
species which come into the world to
establish enormous broods for the next
season. Millions of cocoons, larvae OF
eggs are quietly deposited on the
ground, on leaves or twigs and under
stones and trees. By the following sea-
son the army of young ones which ap-
pear cannot be checked. They over
whelm everything. 1t is impossible to
keep them down with the most an.
proved methods.
The mistake was made when they
We're allowed to lay their eggs and
larvae. This work must be prevented
so far as possible. 1t is not probable
that in any season we will utterly de-
stroy all insects in the orchard or gar
den, but by persistent spraying we can
keep down their numbers so they will
not prove distinct menace. If we
succeed in doing this we have accom-.
plished much. Scientific spraying and
systematic hunting FOR the insects and
their larvae will in time be rewarded.
Larger and better fruit can be raised,
and the profits will be correspondence
larger. Fruit raising without insect
fighting is impossible - S. w. Cham.
bers, in American CuItivator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE.
Not Enough Attention Paid to It by
Young Men.

Secretary Wilson believes that not
enough attention is paid to scientific
agriculture By the colleges of to-day,
and he has taken up the agitation of
this matter aS hobby. Wherever he
makes a speech, he tells his hearers
that this department utilzes the SER
vices of every young man it can find
who has a thorough training in some
Sranch of scientific agriculture. There
is great demand for this kind OF SER
vice, and the department has the ut
most difficulty in holding on to it's ex-
perts because of the growing outside
calls that are being made on them
There are about 1000 people in the de-
partment of agriculture who, are en-
gagged in scientific agriculture work,
yet hardly one of them came into the
government service fully equipped.
There are some fifty agricultural col
leges in the country calling for CON-
petent teachers, and some 60 or 70
agricultural experiment stations where
there is always an opening for a
trained scientist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
WISE WORDS.

There is no blessing equal to the
possession Of stout heart.-Smiles.
Where the best things are not pos.
sible, the best should be made of those
that are.-Hoober.
Let him go where he will, he can
only find so much beauty or worth as
he carries.
1t is not mere endurance, but right
endurance of aflliction that brings
blessing.-J. Fl. Evans.
There is one thing in the wide uni
verse which is really valuable, and
that is Characterization Todd.
Humanity is never so beautiful as
when praying for forgiveness; or else
when forgiving another.-Richter.
Failure, after long perseverance, is
much grander than never to have a
striving good enough to be called a
failure.-George Eliot.
Bind together your spare hours by
the cord of some definite purpose, and
you know not how much may be ac.
complished.-W. NJ. Taylor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
A Valuable Insecticide.

If good quality Of whale oil soap
can be obtained it is valuable insecti-
cide,, which may be used against the
same kinds of insects as is kerosene
emulsion. There is more danger to the
foliage of the plants if used too fire.
4uently that follows the use of kero-
Eene emulsion. There is little danger
from its use, though if the operator is
very exact in all his preparations, and
applications are made during cool,
cloudy or rainy season. For more re-
sistant plants the soapsuds may be
formed by dissolving one pound of the
soap in four gallons of water. More
tender foliage requires dilutions up to
one pound to eight gallons. Specific
tests will, in most cases, have to deter
mine the exact strength which the
plants will withstand without injury,
and at the same time prove effective
against the insect.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

I make 1t in sections of ten feet be-
tween posts, and 1 put five hives on
each side or one hive to a foot Of
length, allowing eight inches between
the hives. If all are painted white the
bees could not tell their own home, so
put six-inch figures on the hives.
using just common shoe backing with
stencils. 1 find the figures very conve-
nient in keeping record, for the bees
are just like men; some are good work
ers and some are lazy. I make a rec
ord Of the extra good and also of the
poor ones, and the next season make
divisions from the best to replace the
poor ones, so with care l can breed up
my stock instead of letting it run down
as some do.-Beekeeper, in The Epi-
tomist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Arbor Trellis For Beans.

I went into the woods and got lot
Of poles and hazel sticks. Placed poles,
previously pointed, at each end Of the
rows, pressing them into the ground
about foot or little over so that they
stood five feet out of the ground. On
these upright poles I fastened with
wire horizontal poles eight feet long.
then stuck a hazel stick close to each
plant, leaning it against the pole above.
I finished by laying hazel sticks six
inches apart on top of the poles, and
then fastened all the stocks with their
wire to the horizontal poles. The beans
could be easily trained to the thin
sticks, and after reaching the top there
was plenty of room for them to spread.
Being only five feet high, the beans
could be gathered without trouble.-C.
Gross, in New England Homestead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
FIRST AMERICAN PATENT.
Joseph Jenks, Who Was Renowned Ter
His Inventive Genius.

His Inventive Genius.
To an English machinist, Joseph
jerks, belongs the honor of having
secured the first American patent. A
blacksmith in Hammersmith, England,
In 1643, he was a man of great renown,
says the Scientific American, by reason
of his inventive skill in the art of
making machines. Emigrating to the
Colony of Massachusetts in the fall OF
1913, about the same time that Rev,
John Harvard arrived, he settled in
Lynn. This man jerks cut the dies
for the coming Of the old colonial pine
tree" money. He also invented the
first apparatus for eXtinguishing fires,
a kind Of primitive hand-pump on
wheels. His application for patent
on a water-power device for mills
and is probably the first patent on
record in America. The Court had
Jurisdiction over the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, embracing nearly all of
New England at that time. The limit
of the monopoly was fourteen years,
to forbid expectation, but also power
to prevent exorbitant charges made
upon the public. The patent was is.
sued in this form:
"At general Courte at Boston the
9th of the 3rd Mo. 164S. The cor't
considinge We necessity Of engins of
mills to go by water for speedy dis.
patch of much worke with few hands,
and being sufficiently Informed Of ye
ability of ye petition to performe such
workes grant his petition (yet no other
person shall set up or use any such
new invention, or trade for IA years
without We licence Of him the said Jo-
seph Jenkes) so farr as concerns any
such new invention, & SC it shall be
always in We power of this cote to
restrain ye expectation of such manu-
factures & We prizes of them to mod
Grafton if occasion to require"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Making Postal Cards.

The manufacture of postal cards is
an interesting process. From the paper
mill millions of sheets, 30x50 inches in
size, are brought to the pressroom and
printed upon presses having a capacity
of 1900 impressions per hour. . The
sheets, each containing ninety cards,
makes the capacity of the presses 1O0,-
900 an hour or 100000 day. The
new forms will, however, contain ITO
plates. and the presses, which are to
be put up in Maine, will have greater
hourly capacity; hence the daily output
can be increased. The Sitter, which
cuts the cards into strips Of ten cards
each, is operated by one man. After
the large cards are slitted into strips of
ten cards each they are taken to the
cutting machines, which are operated
by women. Here they are fed through
the cutting machines, three strips at a
time, for eight times, and then one
strip, making in all twenty-five cards
which are dropped in bundles and
banded by two girls, who occupy seats
near the machines. Twenty Of these
packages Of twenty-five cards are
placed in pasteboard box; these boxes
next go to three young men. whose
duty 1t is to put them in wooden boxes;
the cards are stored away in the large
fireproof vault to await shipment to
the various postoffices.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
CANADA'S GAME FIELDS.
They Are in No Danger of Ever Be-
coming Game-Barren.

To one who knows what the vast
solitude of Northern Canada really
mean the dread of game extermina-
ton seems rather uncalled for. The
latest census of Labrador gives it a
population of one man to every 35
square miles. This can Hardly be
called inconyenient crowding. There
are almost as many persons in sin
gle East Side New York block as there
are in the whole of Labrador. Why
should game become extinct in this
region? The numbers killed by man
must surely be quite Insignificant. The
same conditions obtain in Northern
Ontario, the greater part of the north
west territories, and a very large part
of British Columbia The date is not
far distant when there will not be
sufficient game and to spare for the
sportsman who is content to take the
bitter with the sweet and to leave be-
hind the luxuriousness OF the fashion
ess oof the fashionable resort.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
The Place For Nests.

Nests belong in quiet, retired places.
and should always be situated to avoid
draught, especially is this true Of
nests on the floor. Many poultrymen
cannot understand why it is that their
pullets should start in laying nicely in
late fall or early winter only to con-
tract a cold and then stop. Draughty
nests are at the bottom Of this, for
nothing in chickendom more readily
contracts a cold than chicken in the
first flush of laying.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Birds We're Quito Fearless.

When the white man first visited
some of the island of the Southern
Hemisphere, he found that many of
the animals, especially the birds, were
absolutely fearless. Penguins, albat-
rosses and others paid no attention to
the men as they walked along. and
when it was desired to photograph a
nest and eggs it was frequently neces-
sary to push the nesting albatross from
the nest, the bird merely pecking at
the intruder. Darwin describes doves
at. one island he visited as apparently
unable to comprehend that man was an
enemy. The birds could be showed
from the limbs before they moved, and
even attempted to alight upon the
heads of the men. In Kerguelen Land
the birds in some of the extensive
rookeries refused to move as the men
strobe along, holding their ground and
pecking so violently at the invaders
that they were forced to beat retreat.
These birds had never seen a man be.
fore, and failed to recognize him as an
enemy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
PASSING OF THE SALMON.
The Fish Traps of tho West Have
Guaranteed Its Doom.

The reddish of the Idaho lakes will
BOON be thing of the past. It's num-
bers now are as nothing when COM
pared with the vast runs of 20 years
ago. And the reasons for this deplor-
able depletion are apparent and easily
understood. In the lower Columbia
there are miles and miles Of gill-nets
and hundred of pound-nets and weirs;
great seins are hauled in all suitable
places, and the banks are lined with
destructive salmon wheels. The lower
river is literally filled with these and
other apparatus destructive to the mi
grating salmon. They begin at the
rivers mouth and extend up the river
as far as the catch renders their op-
GRAFTON profitable. Fortunate, indeed,
the fish which Is able to steer clear of
this multitude of traps set to ensnare
him, to pass them all safely by, to
ascend the rapids and leap the water
falls, and, finally, to reach the spawn
Ing grounds a thousand miles from
the sea. And fortunate indeed would
khe be were the enemies all left be-
hind; but they are not. The prospec-
tor, the miner, the rancher and the
people in the villages have learned
Iwhere the Reddish spawn, and they
know when to expect their coming.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Grit For Setting Hens.

Chickens at large can supply them
selves with all the grit they require.
Setting hens, especially those which
refuse to stay away from the nest
more than a few minutes at a time,
may run out Of grinding material,
especially where suitable material is
not abundant. In such cases it would
be we'll to furnish them convenient
supply, but not pounded glass nor
crockery ware, which is dangerous
Farm and Ranch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Awnless bronze grass (bromus iner-
mis- will be found excellent for use on
drifting sands. 1t is perennial, looks
somewhat like blue grass and is suit
able for light, dry, poor soils and re-
sists dry weather. About fifteen
1t spreads by creeping underground
stems or root stocks. 1t will not thrive
On wet soils. While not as valuable as
many other varieties, yet it serves well
On light sandy soils upon which no
other grass will grow.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Manufactures Artificial Marble.

A new process for the manufacture
of artificial farble has been patented
In Berlin, Germany. Asbestos dyeing
materials, shellac and ashes are pound
cd into a stiff mass and subjected to
high pressure. The product is sur
prisingly rich and tough, not brittle, is
easily worked by means of tools. can
be given fine polish, and in appear
ance cannot be distinguished from the
genuine marble,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

way out Of the difficulty put in some
grain chutes to run from the bins above
as shown in the accompanying cut In
some cases the chute could be allowed
ITO drop directly from the bin above
without any joints. Under few circum-
stances will chute with less than half
pitch be satisfactory. Oats will run
through such a pitch with little diff
Guilty. Wheat or rye will follow even
a less slant, but with bulky stuff like
ground feed there is considerable dan
ger Of clogging.
The interior of the chute ought not
to be much less than six inches square;
six by eight would be even better. The
interior should befree from all obstruc-
tions. The hopper-shaped device just
under the bin is quite necessary with
oats and ground feed to give greater
headway. The cutoff, a, is an ordinary
draw supported by two cleats on either
side. An extension is also made to the
rear board Of the chute so that it pro-
jects about half an inch outward, thus
giving chance for holding a bag if
necessary.-C. p. Reynolds, in Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Ask Your Dealer For Aliens Foot-Ease,
A powder. 1t rests the feet. Cures Corns
Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching,
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens
Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy AT
all Druggists and Shoe stores, rs cents. Ac-
cept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Three-tenths of the earnings of a
Belgian convict are given to him on the
expiration Of his term Of Imprisonment.
Some of them thus save more money
in Jail than they have ever saved be-
fore.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

hinged front and back, and is easily
folded and lifted over any stump. 1t is
necessary to have the hinges extra
work. The same precaution is neces-
sary in regard to the timbers and the
teeth, as they are liable to catch and
receive the whole strength of the team.
John Jackson, in The Epitomist
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
81 SUFFERED TERRIBLY
,~ WITH female WEAKNESS; :"
MRS. ESTHER M. MILNER.
81 Had the Headache Con-
tinuaIIy--CouId Not Do My
Work--Pe-ru-na Cured"

Mrs. Esther NJ. Miner, DeGraff,
Ohio, writes:
"I tDGs q terrible sufferer
from female tCea krtess and had
the headache continuaLtU
aUus not abte to do my house
1Corlc tor my husband and mn
self. I 1crote yon and described
ftU condition as near as pos
Sfbie. Y0tt recommended Pc
StIna. took tour bottles and
acds completely cured. L fhink
Per1tf,a q aOOndertuI medicine
and haze recon- tmended tt to
9ty friends Uitb best results, ,,
Mrs.. Il. NJ. Mitner.
Miss Mamie Groth, Platteville,
Wis, writes: Accept a CRATE
full girls thanks for the wonderful
full help l have received through
the use of Peruna. Although l look,
and strong ! have for several yea
fered with frequent backache, and
for several days have splitting hea,
! did not wish to fill my system wit
onous drugs, and SO when several
friends advised me to take Peruna,
my physician what he thought of
recommended it, and so l took it G
entirely without pain of any kind n
Miss Mamie Groth.
DR.. S. B. Hartman, President
Hartman Sanitarium, has had owe
years experience in the treatment
male catarrhal diseases. He advises
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
A Harrow For Stumpy Ground.

stumps to work around, and every
good farmer is going to get rid of them
as soon as he can, but meanwhile a
hinged harrow might be some comfort
The advantage of this one is that it is
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
A Cheaply Made Grain Chute.

In great many farm barns the feed
ing grain is kept on the upper floor,
and all that is fed out is carried down
in one way or another. My barn is so
arranged and in the basement there is
no suitable space for grain bin. AS a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

him description of your symptoms and he
will give you the benefit OF his experience
in the treatment of womens diseases.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving
full statement Of your case and he will be
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. 0.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29
Farm Topics

H111111HTN%

Do not keep cream too long before
churning Those who mix old and new
cream (as is done where only one cow
IS kept may expect inferior butter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

FITS permanently cured. No flts or nervous
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
EerveIiestorer. S2trial bottle and trentlsefree
DR.. III. KLINE, Ltd, s81 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Fl. a. GnEENs SoNs, of Atlanta, Ga, are
the only successful Dropsy Socialists in the
world. See their liberal o1I' I In advertise
: ment in another column of Ills paper.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

The mosquito eggs are. it is said,
hatched in from four to seven days. ac-
cording to the warmth of the weather.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

In ancient times the addition of cross
to signature did not indica te 'his mark" :"
hut was added as an attestation of good
faith.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

The man who has made a fortune has
profound contempt for the man who has IN
herited one, and vice versa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Mrs. Winslow's Sc othing Sy mp for children
teething, soften the gums, red ces lnfamma-
ton ,allays pain cures wind co lie. 25c. abottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infellible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N: W.
sAMuEL. Ocean Grove, N j., Feb II, 1900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

A German specialist estimates that ii
his country one out of eve.y ten person:
has gallstones
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Alber. Burch, Wes Toledo, Ohio, says
"Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life" Write
him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Women are to be employed to work the
signals on the Southern Railway in Aus
fr,a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

For quarter OF century no new houses
have been built in the Sussex (England)
village of Slindon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

The only heroes whose regulations arc
safe are the dead ones
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-29

Every Girl has her good points, and
that's Why f'''1w gets stuck on her
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-12
Murderers Captured.

Washington, Nov. 1o.-A cablegram
has been received at the war. depart
ment, from Gov. Taft saying that the
ladrones who murdered D. c.. Mont
gomery, Observation-Disclosures Of
schools, in Manila, have been captured.
The murder was committed several
days ago while Montgomery was pass
ing through one Of the country prov
inceS - = .s r. i
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-12

WANTED-A trustworthy gentleman or
lady in each county to manage business
for an old established house of solid fl
nanciai standing. "A straight, bona fde
weekly salary of $18 90 paid by check each
Wednesday witt, all expenses direct from
headquarters. Money advanced for ex-
penses. Manger, $40 Caxton Bldg, Chica-
go, 80 2-& 30