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Milford chronicle., 1903-08-21
A SENSITIVE SCALE.
AZ wan Weigh Down to a Billionth
of n KuOgrRm.

AZ VIII Weigh Down to "A Hillionth
of n KHOgrRm.
What is believed to be the most SEN
sitiye weighing machine in the'world
has Just been procured by Director
etratton of the national bureau Of
standards. 1t is temporarily installed
IN the coast and geodetic survey build
sne and because of its imperfect sur
roundings the full degree of its sensi-
riyeness cannot be ascertained. Still
results have been secured, even under
these unfavorable conditions, which
warrant the statement that it is the
most delicate set of scales in the world.
II can weigh the slightest change in
temperature. A yellow fever microbe
would defect its beam so rapidly that
there would be danger of disarranging
the delicate mechanism. 1t puts the
scales that register the weight of a
hair out of the running. That test
used to be regarded as the acme Of
delicacy in the weighing line, but if
hair were placed in one pan of Pro
fessor Stratton's wonderful machine
without the other pan being carefully
counterbalanced the pan containing the
hair would drop down quickly.
So far the experts of the bureau have
been able to detect the difference of
three one-billionths of a kilOgram. a
kilogram is equivalent to 2.2O46
pounds When the machine is perma-
nently installed on an absolutely firm
base and where atmospheric and ther-
mometrlc conditions are in perfect CON
troi they expect to be able to detect
variations of weight down to one-bil-
lionth of a kilOgram.
1t will cost thousands of dollars to
suitably install these scales. They are
to be placed on a concrete foundation
sunk so deep in the ground that there
WIFI not be the least vibration. In de-
termining the weight of anything with
them the weighmaster must get within
fifteen feet of the scales. Otherwise
some Of the heat coming from his body
must get weighed and send his careful
calculations astray.
Articles to be weighed are placed on
the scales for twenty-fOur hours before
they are weighed in order that they
may have exactly the same tempera-
fure as the scales. The colder a weight
Is the heavier and vice versa. Naria-
tions in temperature are recorded more
faithfully than with the thermometer
Professor StratOn says that when d
weight is placed on the scales which
IS warmer than the scales and the at
mosphere that surrounds them there is
an upward current whose lifting pow
er is recorded by the scales. Two
platinum weights were placed on the
pan, and they balanced the weight OF
the other side exactly. One was lifted
from the pan, held in the fingers mo
ment and then restored to the scales
aud reading made. There was diff
ference of seven-billiOnths of a klo
gram in the two weights, which were
not as large as a gold dollar.
The scales are to be used in deter
mining the exactness of the standards
Of weight which are to be put out by
the bureau. They were made in vi
enna.-Washington Letter in Chicago
News.
Milford chronicle., 1903-08-21
Iive stook Markets.

East Liberty, Pa, Aug. 1S.-Cattle
were steady; choice, $5.20Q5.5G;
prime, $505.20; good, $4.90@5.1G
Hogs were steady; prime heavies,
$5.79SD5.75; mediums, $6@610; heavy
S6.2O06.25; pigs, $6.25@6.3O; roughs,
SAC 525. Sheep we're lower; best
wethers, S46420; culls and common,
S1.5002; yearlings, 1904; veal calves,
S7@7.50 per 100 pounds.
Milford chronicle., 1903-08-21
Secured.
Pensions
WAINWRIGHT

Office, No. }, West Seventh Street,
Wilmington, Del.
Soldiers, Sailors, " idOws, Children,s ana otleI 81
pensions nronptlv prosecuted. Write to me tor
full instructions and necessary papers Whicn
will be sent free Of charge ask about new Avs
and mention the Chronicle. tSept. l9 IL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16
agricultural.
Producing Pork at Least Cost.

The first step in the production OF
pork is the selection of the breeding
stock, which in every case should be
pure-bred or nearly So Good grade
sows bred to pure males will produce
good results, as will also cross of pure
breds, but the latter should not be con-
Jinued beyond the first cross, as the
tendency is to return to the original
scrub. AS to the breed, select the one
you most fancy. But any of the lead
ing breeds are good profitable feeders
The Iowa experiment station held Sc
ries Of tests and decided that the Berk-
shires, Poland hinas aad Duroc Jer.
seys were the most profitable feeders.
breed and feed the Berkshires and
find them a good, prolific, hearty, easy
feeding and quick-maturing hog Select
from good, prolific strain It costs no
more to winter good animal than one
that is not, and if the SOW has great vi
tality there is less loss from disease
Breed from mature stock, as pigs from
matured parents are much heartier and
grow much faster than from young, i'm
mature stock. When you have done
this, you have solved half the problem
of producing cheap pork.
The other half lies in the feed and the
ability of the man who does the feeding
1t has long been an established fact that
corn is as cheap a fattening food as there
is, but should be fed for other purposes
only to a limited extent, as stock fed to
any great extent on corn soon begin to
lose vitality, succumbing easily to dis.
case pnd becoming less prolific. For our
breeding stock and young pigs, we must
look for food richer in portein, one
calculated to produce bone and muscle,
and not so much fat Wheat middlings,
when it can be purchased to advantage,
is a very desirable food. Glover is one
Of the most valuable of feeds for swine,
either as pasture or fodder during the
winter. 1t is claimed that an acre Of
clover is equal to an acre Of corn, and
from personal experiences believe this
to be true On various occasions l have
tHrned shotes on clover as soon as it wal
suitable in the spring, and at time oil
feeding green corn they would be from
80 to 100 pounds heavier. As an acr'
of clover will pasture about eight goOC
shotes, the value Of clover is easily CON
puted.
After several years experience in feed
ing the various swine feeds and study
ing how to make the margin of prof
larger, l have adopted the method o
keeping a good COW for each brood SOW
selling the butter. If have no othel
desirable food, buy middlings to mi,
with the milk taken sweet from the sep
arator, then with the spring pigs having
the sun of a good clover pasture, will
plenty Of pure water and shade to pro
tect from the heat of the sun, and fec
regularly with the middlings and mill
and q small allowance of corn, you have
a ration which will not only produce
cheap pork, but will produce it quickly
which is one of the main points of the
business. As the pigs grow older, in.
crease the corn so that by the last Of
September they are ready for Market
Ten pigs fed on this ration averaged, at
six months old, 260 pounds each %.
Cole, Hancock county, Ohio.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16
Horse Breeding.

In putting the question, "Does horse
breeding pay ?" we have in view not the
specialist who devotes himself exclu-
sively to the work, but rather what is
called the sewerage farmer" and the
reply to it must be that there never has
been time wheA the growing Of good
horses of the utility kind did not pay.
Seven or eight years ago variety Of
causes contributed to knock the bottom
out of the horse industry. and, in the
opinion of many wiseacres then, call the
doctors in the land could never make
Humpty Dumpty stand" again. But. as
we said then and as the result has proved
since, the men who kept right along
breeding few good mares each year
found that by the time the colts had
reached marketable age they we're as
good property as one could well have.
The farmers situation is especially
favorable to growing few good colts
He is oblised to keep horses to do his
work, and they may just as well be
mares as not. II he takes the trouble
10 get rid of the poor mares aud gradu-
ally makes those be keeps better and
still better, as opportunity offers, to the
extent Of his own need to keep horses,
he can raise two, three or four colts
every year with little extra expense and
on feed that will scarcely be missed.
The colts must have care, Of course, but
to the man who really likes horses this
is pleasure rather than labor
Horses raised by the farmer must be
Of the right kind They must be draft
horses or good roadsters or carriage
horses or, in short. must be bred 'or
some distinct purpose that the workaday
world wants TO accomplish. In pass
ing, we might say that the farmer ought
not to attempt to raise horses for speed
This is the rock on which many a farm
or, especially young farmer, split
Iowa Homestead.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

All animals Of the same variety are
not alike, and scarcely any two will do
equally WILL on the same feed. Each
animals wants should be supplied II
possible Cattle Of different ages should
be separated for feeding, as the weak
ones will not do well with the strong
Cows are weak and shy; II takes them
longer to eat their meals, and they
should, therefore, be put where they
cannot be dowineered by their superiors
il strength.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16
G. W. OFFUTT. J. CLINTON TRIBBY.
SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS
G. W. OFFUTT.


In Diamonds, Watches JeWclry, SilVcrWafc, Clocks.
IT'S MORE THAN CAR FARE that by buying here West End
Buying Nothing
demands Good
supply and the fact supply
COMPARISONS always invie
there are dainty pretty Gems first excellence set in Rings
WATCHES umpeces in
on o keepthe hourw wit u wing precion
JEWELRY me- hncycau
In SLvERW ARE Plated and Sterling
Tableware,
wall for good solid service and
We know WELL We know
your First Call when Jewelry Buying,
WATCHES IN GOLD AND SLY ERIadie
Men, solid kara gold watches $ Solid ladies'
ed % Sold silver gen1emsns watches heavy warranted s.
DIAMONDS JEWELRY AND THE LIK ELe solid gold long chains
gold
Ladies' solid gold pendants
ladies'
in beautifully
JEWELRY
81 Solid silver long chain for bracelet 81 Solid silver Shells
$40 Solid silver forks half dozen Solid
ROGERS tepopo half doa
81 4O ladies' $3 90 81 kue ~ beautiful
CLOCKS THAT WARRANT clocks with genuine Ansa
warranted ESQ., beautiful
strike $4 hanome stock of ladies' fine dressing q
Repairing Experts do
RePainghe precious
OE,FUTT ex, TRIBBx.
with street
o'h-o'"y West Washington d.. G.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

Fruit trees should be fed during the
summer, not only to protect the fruit
upon them, but to develop new wood
and buds for the crop next year In the
State Of Georgia it has been found by
experiment that a mixture Of pounds
acid phosphate aud ] pound muriate Of
potash per tree has given very satisfac.
tory results
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

W. Hicks, Rockville, lie sales agent for the
Blue Flame Goal Oil Stoves. Call al his stor
and examine them,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

Liberal feeding of stock means land
Improvement. Some lands are consid-
erably improved by the application Of
lime, either in the limestone marls, or,
the burned limestone. slaked. Glover is
great aid in restoring or retaining fer
tility. Undertaking. is often the first
step to be taken in renovatiug a field.
When one is undecided as to whether a
field needs undertaking or not, it is
always safe to give the field the her eft
Of the doubt. aud underdraiu it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

West Washington ID. G.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

To delay milking at the proper time
will do more to cause a COW 10 go dry
before her period than anything else.
She should also be MIXED to the last
drop, il possible, for the last portion of
She milk is the richest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16
CABINET-MAKING
AND
H H r "A L H Il NJ q,
IN ALL IT'S BRANCHES.

THE undersigned, having suitable shop,
Il is prepared to do the following work Ia
a thoroughly practical manner Making new
parts and otherwise repairing, scraping, pol
ishing aud upholstering all kinds and grades
Of Furniture. Baby Carriages, Trunks, vi
ohns aad Bows and all kinds Of Musical In
struments repaired. Gaming Chairs aud re-
pairing all kinds Of Cane Furniture Mat
tresses made over in sections. Ticks renewed
and new ones made to order. Enameling
Iron or Wood Furniture; Ebonizing, Gid
ing, BronEing, &c.
Samples of Upholstery goods always on
hand, aud cost given before work lie DONE
Old Mahogany Furniture specially.
! can give best Of reference from those for
whom have done work, Satisfaction in all
cases or no charge. Terms moderate
Place OF business, W K. Ricketts, Build
ing, Rockville, Md
Thankful for past patronage, | respectfully
solicit continuance of the same
oct l3-ly q. Q. GRIFFIN
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

INVITE the attention OF Teachers, Schol-
4 ars, and the general public, to a full line
Of fresh goods.
TABLETS, for Pen and Pencil, 10 variety;
Copy, Composition aud Exercise Books;
Lead, Slate and Colored Crayon Pencils;
Inks, IN all sizes and colors;
Wards, Writings, Cranes and Hurd's
fine Correspondence Paper aud Envelopes;
Legal, Foolscap and Bill Paper;
Blank Books 10 variety,
At WILSON'S DRUG STORE,
Opposite the Court House,
sep S7-'t Rockville, Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-01-16

Pure water is as essential to fowls as
clean grass.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
PRESENTED BY CORRELL
And Cornell Wanted Pay for Intro
auctions to COnEressmen.

New York, June 19.-The federal
grand jury in Brooklyn adjourned to-
day until Monday. The day was spent,
it is understood, in the investigation of
matters pertaining to the Brandt cash
register concern.
Bruno Correll of Canton. o.. an as
sistant doorkeeper of the House at
Washington, was at the federal build
ing, and it was understood, was sub
poenaed as a witness against the COM
pany. 1t was reported that Correll in
trcduced former Congressman briggs
of Brooklyn to George F. Miller, as the
representative of the Brandt company,
and that he also introduced Miller to
other members of Congress. Correil
was formerly in the law office of Will
liGm Mckinley at Canton.
The following statement purporting
to come from Correll was published to-
day:
"Correll says that representative of
the fraudulent Company approached
hin, in Washington, and asked to be
introduced to some of the influential
congressman, intimating that it mig
be made worth his while. He did so,
but the perquisite was never forthcom-
ing After a fruitless demand of the
fraudulent Company for compensa-
ton he instructed his attorney to bring
suit at WATERFOWL, Wis, for $500 for
services. In this way the postal in
spectors heard of the matter, and he
was brought here as witness. He
says the fraudulent people now say
they never saw him, much less had
anything to do with him"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
LORD GREY REGRETS
LOSING WASHINGTON.
He Wanted Booker for the south
African Work.

He Wanted Booker for the South
African Work.
London, June 19.-Lord Grey director
of the British South Africa Company,
informed a representative of the As
ISOLATED Press to-day that he had re-
ceived with regret the defamation Of
Booker T. Washington, principal of
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, to ac-
cept the company's invitation to visit
South Africa and make a study Of
racial conditions in British territory
and report to the company his plans for
lettering the Industrial, educational
and moral conditions of the people. He
added that Washington's gospel of ex-
cellence in labor was the only true So
luton of the negro problem, and that
preached by colored man 1t would
have had a great effect on the South
African natives.
Had Washington accepted Lord
Grey's invitations. il was hoped it
might have been possible to establish
in Rhodesia an institution somewhat
similar to the Tuskegee Institute.
In conclusion Lord Grey remarked:
II intend, myself. advocating the es-
tablishment of a model Kraal, where
the natives can see how they should
live and work.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
SERVIA is ON TERMS
WITH THE RUSSIANS.
Provisional Government Finds It
self short of Funds.

Provisional Government Finds It
self Short of Funds.
Belgrade, June 19.-The following no
tification was gazetted to-day:
The Russian minister here has in
formed the Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs that he will enter into relations
with the Servian government to-day.
as the Gar had been pleased to recog-
nize Prince Peter Karageorgevitch as
King of Servia."
AS Foreign Minister Kaleivics Off
cially visited the Russian legation to-
day, the formal relations appear to
have been already resumed.
The position of the regicides under
the new King is freely discussed, and
it is generally expected that they will
be promoted and pensioned and then
gradually removed.
The provisional government is very
short of funds, and has been unable
thus far to raise money in consequence
of it's status not being legalized. The
government found the treasury prac-
tically empty and has no means of
obtaining money, the banks having re-
fused to float even a small loan.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
CASSINI WELL PLEASED
BY n Change of Sentiment Regard
ing Russia.

Washington, June 19.-Count Cassini,
the Russian ambassador, in conversa-
ton to-day with an Associated Press
representative, seemed especially graf
flied that the popular disposition in this
country to hold the Russian govern
ment responsible for the deplorable
events at Kishineff arising out of the
quick sympathy of the American peo-
pie following the first report of the af-
fair, had been succeeded by a Gained
and more reasonable view. The prompt
and energetic measures taken by his
government, he pointed out, demon
strated conclusively that not only were
the limitations that the Russian gov
eminent had connived at what occur
red at Kishneff, which were insisted
upon in certain quarters of this coun-
try, preposterous, but that everything
which the government had done since
showed not only that II had no sym
pathy with the affair, but that it
deprecated it as much as any foreign
country could.
The feeling of my government and
Of governments people toward the
United States said the ambassador,
lis, and has been for years, most
friendly toward America and the
American people, and the relations be-
tween the two governments have been
most cordial. To disturb those relations
owing to false Impressions conceived
in hostile quarters, would be most de-
olorable."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
SHORT COTTON SUIT
HAS BEEN BROUGHT.
Alabama Great Southern Is Sued at
birmingham.

Birmingham, Ala. June 10.-The Cos
mos Cotton Company of Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, has filed suit in the Unit
ed States Court against the Alabama
Great Southern Railway. demanding
1000 damages.
1t is alleged by the complainant that
April A. last, the defendant issued a
bill of lading, dated Birmingham, Ala,
to Smith and Coughlan for 100 bales of
cotton, weight $1,000 freight prepaid;
consigned to the order of Smith and
Coughlan, Yarmouth.
One count in the complaint alleged
loss on the cotton to the amount of
$3,175.
The final count in the bill says:
plaintiff AYERS that when said de-
PENDANT issued and delivered said bill
of lading as aforesaid, instead of re-
ceiving 100 bales of cotton Of the US
ual size and weight, approXimating the
weight described in said bill of lading,
it received half or split bales, weigh
ing only 26,3S1 pounds. instead of ST.,
061 pounds, as described in the bill of
lading."
This is the first case growing out of
the recent alleged cotton frauds, in
which it is said over 100000 was lost.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
BRIDE WAS CHARGED
WITH HUSBANDS MURDER.

Knoxville, Tenn. June l9.--James
Lovely. young man OF LaFOellette,
Tenn. died a few days ago. Some sp-
DrehensiOn was caused a. 70 his death,
and an post nOrtem examination was
ordered by the coroner. fits young
wife. "a IL said objected 20 such an ex-
animation. but 10 no effect The ply
siciane reported to-day and the jury
died ~ poison. Mrs. Lovely was ar
rested The case via be- taken 40 BY
me Campbell county grand jury noW
in session. Lovely bad been married
buf fhree weeks and three days when
be- died
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-20
RELIANCE HAD A RUB
CONSTITUTION GAVE THE NEW
BOAT A CLOSE RACE.
BY LESS THAN TWO MINUTES
RELIANCE WON IN A RACE OF
TWENTY-FIVE MILES.

with "A Time Allowance in a Thirty
That the Constitution Gould Win
From the Reliance Race Was
Sailed in Light Winds and smooth
Water-'Fhe Columbia Was Out
CIassed From the Start-She Lost
out in LuilinE.
New York, June 19.-If the Consttu-
ton did not defeat the Reliance on time
allowance in a twenty-five-mile race
over the course of the Indian Harbor
Yacht Club in Long Island Sound to-
day, she gave the admirers of the new
boat a bad scare.
In more than four hours of sailing the
Reliance outsailed the Constitution by
only one minute and fifty seconds,
elapsed time. 1t Is estimated that the
new boat will have to allow the Con-
stitution two to three minutes in a
thirty-mile race, which, If true, would
give to-days race to the older boat
and might give her one of the earlier
races as well, when Reliance beat her
by two minutes and a fraction.
Columbia was outclassed from the
start. Her gain of about twelve min
utes on the second leg was time lost in
a luffing match. Between the leaders
the race was holly contested first one
and then the other getting the better
of it by sudden shifts of wind, which
when 1t began to blow steadily, left the
Reliance about one minute ahead.
The Constitutions fast sailing to-day
was all the more remarkable and makes
her all the more formidable from the
fact that the race was sailed in light
winds and smooth water, under which
conditions the Reliance has often beat
en- her.