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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
A JOBLIkE GARDENER.

There is no joy which fifty can. compare
With delving in the bosom OF the earth,
Constructing Pansy beds and trenches for
The radiantly blossoming Sweet Pea,
Besmearing tracts OF ground with un-
slaked lime.
That eats insidiously at your shoes,
And Is in turn devoured greedily
BY that sly. Shiny insect called the slug,
To poison which you spread it on your
beds.
I've planted Poppies Peonies and Pease,
Nasturtiums and Verbenas in my time.
And comprised them about with lime and
sand;
Besprinkled them with SCOT and other
Inevitably fatal to the slug; =.
And seen the slugs grow sleek as alder
Establish homes adjacent to the lime;
And needing what the Scripture strict
enjoins.
Rear families of most colossal size;
And when the lime and flowers both
were gone
Sit hungriiy upon their neither limbs
And camor that 1 furnish them with
more.
I've watched with eager eyes the tender
shoots
Put forth above the surface of the
Rejoicing in their rapid. healthy growth
And picturing ecstatically the time
When all my yard should blossom as the
With flowers like my mother used to
grow.
I've seen the dews of evening kiss the
beds
And gloried in the promise that they
gave;
And when the sun ilumed the eastern
skies
I've seen the guilty cutworms HE them
home
Distended far beyond their normal size,
With all the goodly increase of my plants
There are. 1 know, upon this smiling
verbenas, Poppies, Peonies and Pease.
and grow,
And blossom in their due. appointed
time,
Moested not, by slugs and cutworm
summed.
But / suspect. as seasons come around
And never blade of green of mine appears
Above the earth that is not seized upon
And borne away to feed some slugs foul
brood,
That those who have such gardens must
employ
Policemen to patrol their beds all night
Equipped with Mauser rifles, who will
shoot
The first base slug who dares to show
his head.
AS such a force to guard ones plants
comes high,
I still continue, as the springtime comes
To plant the seeds, contented If they
reach
In sprouting to the surface of the ground
And making garden simply for the joy
One finds In delving in the fragrant earth
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
NEGOTIATING THE SOIL.

Having proved the remarkable eff
ficacy of soil incubation in his labora-
tory and greenhouses, Professor
Noble set himself to make his dis
coveries of practical value. He gave
to his bacteria cultures the names
'Nitragen spelled with an a-and he
produced separate culture for each OF
the important crops-peas, beans,
vetch, lupin, and clover. In 1894, the
first of these were placed on the mar
ket, and they had considerable sale,
although such radical innovation as
this, so far out of the ordinary run
Of agricultural operation, and so al
most unbelievably wonderful, can not
be expected to spread very rapidly.
The cultures are now manufactured
at one of the great commercial labora-
tories on the river Main. They were
put in small glass bottles, each
marked with the crop for which it is
especially adapted. The bottle was
partly filled with the yellow genatinous
substance in which the bacteria grow.
On the surface of this there was a
mossylike gray growth resembling
mould. This consisted if innumerable
millions of the little oblong bacteria.
A bottle cost about fifty cents, and
contained enough bacteria for inocula-
ting half an acre of land. 1t must be
used within certain number OF
weeks after it is obtained, while it is
still fresh The method of application
is very simple. The contents OF the
bottle are diluted with warm water.
Then the seeds of the beans, clover,
or peas, which have previously been
mixed with a little soil, are treated
with this solution and thoroughly
mixed with the soil. After that the
mass is partially dried so that the
seeds may be readily sown. The bac-
terra at once begin to propagate in
the SOIL which is their natural home,
and by the time the beans or peas be-
gin to put out roots they are present
in vast numbers and are ready to be-
gin the active work of forming
nodules. 1t is not known exactly
how the bacteria absorb the free nitro
gen from the air, but they do it sue
cessfully, and that is the main thing.
Many German agriculturists have
tried Nitragen. One, who was skep-
teal of it's virtues wrote to Professor
Noble that he sowed the bacteria
inoculated seeds in the form of huge
letter N in the midst of his field,
planting the rest in the ordinary way.
Before month had passed that N
showed up green and big over all
the field, the plants, composing 1t
thriving so much better than those
around it,"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
HONEY AND HoNEY-DEW.

A writer on honey says: Nothing
else has injured the. honey business
so much as the marketing of honey
dew" honey, under the name of
"buckwheat." by ignorant or unscru-
pulous parties. We have seen it by
the carload in the Eastern markets,
and told the merchants to whom it
was consigned that we would be will
ing to wager there was not an ounce
of "buckwheat" about 1t, and before
we finished our demonstration, they
learned a few new points about
honey.
This "honey-dew" is sweetness
exuded by tiny insects on the leaves
OF trees in our locality, principally
elms and the bees work on It morn
ings until the sun dries off the leaves.
Some years there is none. and some
years It has seemed as If there was
not much else.
1t is a particularly aggravating case
when the bees will gather just enough
of the wretched stuff to put in a few
cells in each section of nice white
honey.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
Shooting a Tiuer Wolf.

A gentleman residing at Glencon
nor took up position in the bush in
the hope Of potting a buck" and hid
himself near bush path on hillside
Suddenly he heard a rustling noise
in the bush, and raising his head a
few inches from the ground he per
ceived a dark object stealthily ap.
preaching him from the direction OF
the hill. In order to be ready for all
possible contingencies he drew and
cooked his weapon. The dark object
crept nearer and nearer, and as its
shape grew more distinct the waiting
sportsman saw that it was not that OF
a man, but of wild beast.
When within half dozen yards II
sprang straight at him. The rife
flashed, and while the brute was yet
in the air the bullet found it's mark
The marauder proved to be splendid
specimen of the tiger wolf" or spot.
ted hyena, and measured three feet
six inches without the tail.-Alice
Times
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
BURYiNG MANURE.

Does manure stay where you put
il. or does it's beneficial effects rise
and fall in the soil? That is ques-
ton that seems to call for a division
Of opinion. There are men who as
sert that manure sinks in the soil.
That is, the leading rains wash 1t
downward, and for this reason they
claim it should be applied ct or near
the surface.
Oh the other hand it is asserted that
lis volatile and most valuable parts
rise by means of fermentation and
that it is a good reason for burying
deep.
AS rule manure stays about where
you put it. If plowed under in Jumps
/; has not the power to sink nor rise
nor can it in any way intermix itself
Thorough narrowing before turning
the manure under, rewards in large
crops.
Clay has great power to absorb the
scrtilizing portions of manure, conse
quently such soils as have a medium
account Of clay or loan, generally alb
serb all the valuable parts of barn
-avd manure.
\ writer of considerable note, about
forty years ago. computed that forty
leads of manure spread on an acre
While making a heavy coating, was
caly one load 10 four square rods, con
ctituting depth after being spread
of about one-third Of an inch. In Q
case like this, when plowcd under the
volatile parts have but one-third of an
inci! 20 pass before all are absorbed
5y the soil. This shows the great i'm
portancc OF thoroughly mixing the ma
nnre through all parts of the soil in
or!er to obtain the fall benefit.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
THE IDEAL EAR OF CORN.

For the last two or three years farm.
ers in the middle corn belt have ex-
pressed their conviction that the size
score card Is too small. They claim
that the object of growing corn is to
get the greatest number of pounds OF
the biggest feeding value, and, there
fore, that the length of the ear should
not be limited to ten inches; that it
is quite possible to get an ear eleven
or twelve inches long quite as perfect
in other respects as the shorter ear;
therefore, why not in the central, and
especially in the southern districts,
encourage the growth of the larger
ear.
The whole question, of course, turns
on whether the larger ear will grow
more corn than the smaller. Long
ears usually have shallower grains,
and, therefore, a smaller proportion
of corn to the cob, and as rule have
less corn than shorter ears. We have,
seen ears above the standard length
that were quite as deep in the grain
and as small in the cob as the ears
of standard length, and the question
therefore resolved itself into this Is
it possible to lengthen the ear of corn
and still maintain the large per cent
of corn to cob?
We can readily see why corn ex-
perts have adopted the present stand
ard. When men really began to study
corn they soon discovered that the
ideal of many farmers Of the very long
ear is altogether wrong; that farmers
who are growing these long ears and
selecting for length are really growing
cobs and not corn. 1t was very easy
to demonstrate to them by simply
Smelling and weighing that they were
really growing less corn on a cob
twelve or fourteen inches long than
they were on one Of ten inches.
We have gone far enough now, how
ever, to ask the question whether the
ear might not be heightened one inch,
or even two, in the sections capable of
producing the largest crops without
diminishing, but on the other hand,
actually increasing the yield per acre.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
SAVING SEED CROP OF CLOVER.

If seed crop Is to be saved from
clover, the first crop must be clipped
or pastured off. When the field is
pastured, clipping is still necessary
so as to insure an even start of clover
When the heads have all turned
brown and black, the cutting may be-
gin. 1t is very necessary to attach
some sort of buncher to your ma
chine, as the raking up of the clover
is sure to thresh out more or less
seed.
Let it remain in punches until suf-
ficiently rotted to thresh easily, then
haul direct to the machine. Do not
begin threshing until the dew is en-
tirely dried up of mornings, or you
will lose very large per cent OF your
seed. Nor is it advisable, unless 1t is
a very dry time, to load up wagons
and allow them to stand over night be-
fore threshing. The straw becomes
damp and tough, and the seed does
not leave the chaff readily. If it is
rainy weather, call the threshing off
until it is dry again. Some farmers
duNlSS inc oldChihS VI Sio'Si 'h"N 10 W
be threshed for seed, but in such case
let it stand until the stack has gone
through the sweat and is perfectly
dry. This will require about four
weeks. Stacks should be topped with
straw or covered with large duck
cap, as much rain will penetrate a
clover stack through and through, and
it will not dry out, but will rot down.
Anything like a good stand OF clover
will give a yield of from two to four
bushels per acre, making this very
profitable money crop for the farmer.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
Build an lcehouse.

Summer Is the time to get ready
for winter. and now is when the ice
house should be constructed. There
are few things that must be care
fully looked after in the Construction
of this house. One Of these is drain
age. Good drainage is necessary. for
IL the water rises with the melting of
the ice the loss to the ice supply will
be very great. Ice melts many times
faster in water than in air. and faster
in moving air than in air that is held
in place by the sawdust or other iso--
lating material.
The walls of the icehouse should be
firmly built, as there is danger that
they will bulge out If they are not
strong. The lateral pressure is not
as great as with silage, but is con-
siderable il the ice is not carefully
packed. Sometimes the ice falls apart
and lurches to the side of the house
and then the strain is very great. We
have seen small ice houses on farms
that were only two-thirds filled with
Ice, because the sides of the house
had bulged so the owners were afraid
to put in full supply. Sometimes
permanent props may be made. ss
with the large commercial icehouses
A double air space will help to keen
the temperature low and prevent vast.
ing the ice. The house should he as
Near the cube as possible, as this will
give the largest possible space for the
least possible material.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
DISCOUNT FOR MUCH CUSTOM.
Minister'S Good Reason for Reducing
His Fee.

A few months since Boston minis
couple in the holy bonds of matrimony
and just as they were pronounced man
and wife another couple entered the
room to be joined likewise.
The moment the young couple en-
tered they were somewhat surprised to
see the clergyman receive the splendid
ransom of a new and bright half dol
lar from the hands of the newly we'd
ded bridegroom. The minister imme-
diately thrust the money into his
pocket, and then, congratulating the
happy pair, babe them adieu, and at
once commenced upon his duties in
performing the marriage rite for the
second couple.
Being pronounced man and wife, the
gentleman pulled out the same amount.
an equally new half dollar, and hand
ed 1t to the minister, whereupon the
good man looked with profound aston
ishment and said:
my customary fee on such occa'
sions is S."
You married the last old ugly cou-
ple," said the indignant bridegroom,
"for so cents, and now you tax me ten
times that amount merely because we
are young"
The good clergyman, placing his
glasses several inches above his nose,
looked the young man full in the face,
and then said:
II have never married you but once,
while have married the former man
five times, and such occasions duty de.
mands a liberal discount"
The remaining $3.50 was immedi'
ately produced.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
INVENTOR COULD NOT WAIT.
Gen. Miles Simple Order That Got
Rid of Crank


Rid of Crank.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles," said an in
ventor, used to be continually be.
sieged by cranks with pneumatic
rapid-fire guns, subterranean rifles, di
rigible war balloons and such like
martial inventions. The general would
weed these cranks out with admirable
speed
Il sat in his Office with him one day
when a servant brought in a card.
"'Oh, send him in said Gen. Miles
His business won't take more than a
minute or two
$50 in came wild-eyed, long-haired
man. twisting his soft hat nervously
in both hands.
General he said, 81 have here
and he took out a small parcel-'a bull
let proof army coat. If the govern
ment would adopt this
Put it on. Put it on said Gen
Miles, as he rang the bell. The serv
ant appeared as the inventor was get
ting in to coat.
Jones, said the general tell the
captain Of the guard to order one OF
his men to load his rifle with ball car
fridge and
Excuse me, general, forgot some
thing interrupted the inventor, and
with hunted look he disappeared"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
A Great ADVANTAGE.

satchel stopped at the cabin OF an ole
colored minister.
Let me sell you an alarm clock,
began the young man. Automatic
double-action guaranteed timepiece.'
The old man lit his corncob.
dat all sounds very good" he
drawled, "but de only kind OBJ an
alarm clock dat All want am a rooster
Den when yo' gifts tired risin' early
yo' kin turn aroun' en- hab de alarm
clock for dinnah. Beats all de auto
matte clocks on earf. "--Chicago Daily
News
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
PuqiIist Now a Policeman.

Dominick Mccartney, at one time a
pugilist. of some renovn, is now a po-
liceman in Edgewood, a suburb of
Pittsburg. His pay as a guardian of
the peace is the smaller part of his
earnings, for in his leisure hours he
teaches a boxing class composed of
young men and boys resident in the
rather aristocratic village named. In
his time Mccartney met such fam
Gus fighters as John L. Sullivan and
Charlie Mitchell.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
LET THE FoREToP ALONE.

How often one sees the foretop of
horses clipped off. Did the one who
clipped this appendage ever stop to
think of the cruelty he was inflicting
on his horse, or how it will injure the
sale of the horse when he is put upon
the market? When at the interna-
tional show a horse dealer remarked
as clipped horse was led into the
ring; Horses are offered in the
wholesale market with foretops trim
med short, clipped and otherwise dis
figured, are looked upon by buyers
with disfavor. and usually sell at low
prices. Foreign buyers will not pur-
chase a horse with its foretop cut off,
as they cannot handle such animals to
advantage and home dealers always
discriminate against such offerings"
When asked the reason for this he
said: "In summer time when flies are
numerous, horses whose foretops have
been clipped often get sore eyes be-
cause they cannot keep the flies away
from their heads and out of their eyes.
If the foretop be permitted to grow,
the hair will chase away the flies
every time the horse shakes his head
and you often see teamsters whose
horses have been clipped, tie rags to
top Of their bride to take the place of
the foretop." Thoughtless people Of
ten clip their horses foretop not real.
izing the cruelty they are inflicting
upon their faithful friends. The check
rein and the clipped foretop should
never be seen on a horse and the time
will soon come when they will not.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Economy is always in order but the
farmer who economies by failing to
renew his subscription to the farm
paper that publishes information APP
plying to his specific conditions is
economizing at the wrong end. The
wick will not burn long without oil
in the lantern
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

A buttermaker must needs be a
magician to make fine grade of but
ter out of some of the cream and milk
furnished him by some pretty respec-
table patrons. 1t is terrible thing to
charge a nice people with being dirty,
and if the buttermaker has any re-
gard for his reputation he must do it
not infreQuently.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Farmers In the west were unable to
obtain enough help last season. AS a
result thousands of acres Of grain
were lost in the wheat belt. To pro.
tect the farmers against another such
sacrifice, an organization of the labor
commissioners of several states has
been effected The end desired is tc
furnish the needed help to the farm
ers of the different sections as rquired.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
Cupid's Prank.

Manly bosom,
Lassie's head.
Silence golden.
Nothing said.
Twinkling starlets,
Signing breeze,
Swinging hammocks,
Whispering trees.
Fragrant cigar.
Peace complete.
Darkened shadows,
Lovers greet.
Happy couple,
Heaving sigh,
Threatened trouble
lowered nigh.
Hammock busted.
Contents spilled.
Smothered laughter
Quickly stilled.
Worried voices.
Neighboring lawn,
Private Waterman
Looking on.
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribul
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

An octogenarian who has just died
in New York is said to have drunk
heavily all his life. except nine
months, during which he thought the
city would be bombarded by a Span
ish feet He evidently was reason
able in his demands for excitement.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

"The English are not considered a
pleasure-loving people," says the Lon
don Speaker. If they had been pleas
ure-loving people, they would never
have got mixed up in that Boer war.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

1t is announced in London journals
that the Princess Anna de Karenga
Esterhazy desires to sell her titles.
We would advise her to advertise in
the Pittsburg papers.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

1t must be annoying to the czar to
have to go poking around the cellar
every time when he moves into a new
palace to see how much dynamite the
energetic revolutionists have slowed
away
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Word comes from New York that a
woman who married a man there be-
cause she thought. he was a genius
has had him put in an insane asylum.
She isn't the first one. however. who
has had trouble in discovering the
difference.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

asked the Legislature to change his
name. If he will promise to quit cack-
ling his customers will doubtless
warmly support the petition.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Secretary Taft says he was not
angry when he wrote that letter to
Wallace. Then 1t is difficult to see
how the secretary could fully express
himself when angry without plagiariz-
ing Admiral Evans.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Nicola Tesla hints that he has about
solved the problem Of aerial naviga-
ton. This may account for the fact
that he has not recently been in COM
munication with Mars.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

The New York Post refers to Scotty
of Death Valley as a golden calf. The
editor of the Post must have reasons
for believing that Scotty has pawned
his gun.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Philadelphia is certainly getting
rapid, with fifty-four divorces granted
there in one hour this week. And
the recent raid had nothing at all to
do with it, either.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19

Try using cured, shredded corn fod-
der for the farm horses in place of
timothy hay. 1t can be run through
a silage cutter, or be shredded l pre-
fer the latter. Farm horses can be
wintered in this way at about half
the cost as when using timothy hay.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-08-19
Steam to Put Out Creamery Fires.


w. S. Furnas, secretary of the
Dairymen's Mutual Insurance COM
pany, sends out circular Of advice to
creamery operators in which he says:
Arrange your factory so that you can
turn steam into all the rooms, and if
your factory has an attic be sure and
run one pipe up through the ceiling,
so you can turn live steam in that part
in case the roof catches fire. Fix it
SO you can turn it on with a valve
from below. In case the factory is
discovered on fire, keep all the doors
and windows closed and do not try
to get anything out. 1t cannot burn,
for the steam will keep out all the
oxygen and the fire will go out. IL
the fire is on the roof, fill the rooms
just the same and turn the valve so as
to let the live steam into the upper
part. You should have a ladder so
that you can get upon the roof after
turning on the steam and closing up
all the doors and windows. Arrange
so all of the windows can be closed
from the outside if necessary.
OF course the fire on the roof needs
attention and few buckets of water
handled carefully will soon get the fire
under control If used in time. The
best way is to have one or two steam
pipes on the outside of the building so
that you can at any time attach a
steam hose long enough to reach any
roof on the creamery. The end of the
hose needs a nozzle on it so you can
turn the steam on as needed. Take
the end of the hose, get upon the roof
and use the steam the same as a,
stream of water. The small expense
this involves will be worth many times
its cost on account of the great pro.
lection it will throw around your fac.
tory.