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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Thinning an Orchard.

A Maine man wrote the Rural
New Yorker for advice as to caring
for an orchard whose trees had orig
inally been planted too near each
other and that had come to lock
horns" or branches, preventing the
sun from finding its way among
them. 1t is interesting to note the
various suggestions advanced by the
Rural's correspondents who under.
took to help the man out. One sug,
gested cutting out every other tree;
another every other row each way;
still another suggests selecting the
rows to be removed and cutting back
the overreaching branches, so the
trees are bearing fair crops, contin.
uing the work gradually for several
years, when the trees may be en-.
tirely removed. Edwin Hoyt's plan
appeals to the writer as both con-
venient and full of good sense. His
advice to the querist instead of re-
moving the trees to top them off the
last of March. Cut every limb of
and thin out many others. Let one
or two sprouts grew on each limb cut
off. In three years a new young top
will be formed. and be in bearing
condition, with lower smaller top
to be more easily sprayed and other
wise handled. Fruit will be finer
and more easily gathered. After
these trees get into good bearing. say
four or five years, cut the remainder
of these trees left in the same way.
In this way renew the tops and keep
them down where more easily
sprayed and fruit gathered. This
plan will be more like topping the
trees for grating, which, as expert
ence has shown, will bring a new top
on regrafted tree in four years into
full bearing. Try 1t on one or two
trees II you doubt the expediency
of this plan"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13

In the first place too much en-
phasis cannot be laid on the practice
of a dairy farmer always, as far as
possible, breeding and rearing his
own heifers, paying the greatest at
tention to selecting the calves from
the best butter-producing cows. The
productiveness of a herd can be
greatly improved in a few years by
this practice, and there is less risk of
introducing disease.
To fill up the places of old cows,
and those which prove unlucky or
Improbable, young heifers to the
number of one-third or one-fourth Of
the total herd should be available
each year. The time at which heif-
ers should bear their first calf de-
pends a good deal upon how they
have to be reared, which, needless to
say, should be as we'll done as pos
sible. Everything possible should
be done to develop the frame, as 1t
has been proved that the largest ami
mails in any particular breed are the
most economical producers of but
ter. Then, provided heifers have
been well reared, they can be put
to the bull at a year and nine
months. Some breeders like them
| to come in at year and nine
months, or two years, and then milk
them on as long as they will, and
let them have a seasons spell. Any
way, the aim should be. to develop
the frame, to give large digestive ca
pacity.
Heifers, after their first calf,
should always be MIXED for as long
a period as possible, say ten months,
even IL only stripping, and never al.
lowed to go cry about six months
after calving, as they often will II
precautions are not taken. This en-.
courages a most valuable habit, that
of persistent milking.
A cow should never be dry more
than six or eight weeks out of the
year, but she requires this time to
regain strength for the following sea,
son. A good COW will often milk III
to the time OF calving, but II allowed
to do so will not produce as good
results next year. She must be dried
off Systematically first, by milking
only once a day, and then once IN
two days, then say twice week til
perfectly dry. Great care must be
taken not to finally turn her out un.
I'll the udder is perfectly clear. OF
the loss Of q quarter may result.--W
r.. Gilbert. In Massachusetts, Plough
man.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13

series of hog feeding experiments to
demonstrate that a country not
growing corn can grow and finish
hogs prohtably Results will be
noted with much interest. Prof. Cot
trell says:
81 believe there is a great future
for the hog feeding industry in this
State and ! hope to be able through
experiments which we will conduct
at the college to show the Colorado
stock men that hogs can be raised
and fattened very successfully on Col
orado grown feeds. In the test,
which we are about to begin we shall
use nothing but feeds produced in
this State. Barley, which is raised
in abundance here, will be the chief
ration tried in the preliminary ex-
periments, and we win endeavor to
ascertain the beg supplementary
feeds to go with it. che Danish ba-
con hog. which is considered the
best in the world. is fed largely on
barley, as the producers in that coun-
try have found after years of ex-
perimenting and considerable out
lay of money in testing the different
feeds that it is the best for finishing
this type of hog. Conditions in Col
orado are ideal for producing the
bacon hog and our energies will be
devoted very largely along this line.
In my experiments at the Kansas ex.
pertinent station, where l was 10.
Gated for a number of years before
coming to Colorado, we were very
successful in producing the bacon
farming sections and special atten-
tion will be given in our work here
to feeding with the products of the
non-irrigated lands
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Cattle and Pigs.

Give the stables a good coat of
whitewash. Put a cupful of strong
coffee in the calf's skim milk; it will
cure scours.
Always put teaspoonful of bicar-
Donate of soda in the milk for the
calf or pigs. 1t is good for them,
even though the milk be fresh from
the separator.
Watch the fences between the pas
ture and the orchard. The perfume
of early apples is very tempting to
the cattle.
Sow rye for fall and winter pas
ture. Sow early so as to get as large
a growth as possible before winter.
In the spring you will have pasture
a month beforS grass is ready. -Four
bushels to the acre, drilled in, is
about right.
Flies are bad nmilch cows. They
will help reduce the flow OF milk
Feed heavier, or give fresh corn.
stalks at night
Keep the pig pen clean. Give the
pigs pusley weed. as they are very
fond of it, and it will do them good
Also sweet apples. but not sour ones
You will find plenty to keep the pigs
without any feed
Above all, keep the outbuildings
nice and clean, with plenty of air
and you will not be troubled with al
kinds of diseases. Indianapoli.
News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Limc-Wash on Fruit Trees,

1t is common belief that the white
washing of the stems and limbs of
fruit trees is one of the means of
killing parasites of various kinds
animal and vegetable, their eggs and
spores-and the action of the lime
is rendered more effective by the ad-
dition of copper sulphate, which,
however, does not make the white
wash any darker. Perhaps better
than a brush is the application of
the wash by means of the garden en-
gine or force pump, or a large sy-
ringe.
The limewash does something
more than this in preventing the Sc
we're frosts of early spring causing
Injury to the bark and the conse-
quent frost canker that admits water
and frost. In early spring the sun
warns the bark to a considerable de-
gree. and to a certain extent the
wood likewise, and the stem in
creases in bulk. In the following
night, if cold, the bark of the stem
parts with its warmth rapidly, and
is drawn together round the stem,
etc, with the result that the bark
splits and the injury has begun.
Whitewashing of the bark prevents
the warming of the same to a great
extent, and its injury by night frosts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Try This Next Season.

A New London County writer in
the Cultivator has a word to say
about fertilizing potatoes that may
well be preserved for next springs
use. He writes: "The finest looking
piece OF potatoes have seen this
summer was treated as follows: A
piece OF sward ground was selected
or fair quality of loan, but from
which the grass had completely run
out, so that 1t did not cut a quarter
OF a ton OF hay per acre. 1t was
plowed deep and thoroughly puIver-
lied, and the potatoes planted about
six inches deep. No barnyard man.
ure was used, only artificial fertilizer
at the rate of about 1900 pounds per
acre, half of it applied when the
piece was planted. and the remainder
at the first hoeing. The piece was
comparatively free from weeds, the
absence OF barnyard manure contrib.
nting TO that result. The vines were
very strong and vigorous, of a dark
green but did not cover the ground
The yield was good, though not ex.
ceptionally so; about 200 bushels
per acre. But they were fine lot
perfectly smooth and handsome, OF
good size, and almost no small pota.
toes.
Another piece, separated from the
first by few rods, and of precisely
the same kind of soil. was treated
like 1t in all respects. except thai
barnyard manure was used instead
OF artificial fertilizer The vinel
were a light green, of rank growth
completely covering the ground NOR,
than two feet deep. The yield wal
not much more than half as great
the potatoes We're not so large ant
smooth. and there were many NOR,
small ones"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
IndisDutahIe

The Illinois Central Railroad runs
through large district of Southern
Illinois Familiarity called Egypt" out
OF Difference to it's largest town,
Cairo. When the first tracks of the
railroad were being laid through
Egypt the division superintendent of
construction went one day for q
drink of water to a we'll beside the
cabin of an old Kentucky darky, who
had had found freedom and phil.
osophy on the north side of the Ohio
River. The old man was smoking
his corncob pipe in the shade of his
sycamore tree.
We'll, Uncle Sambo," said the
railroad builder as he hung up the
gourd on the well sweep again,
don't you do any work at all?"
Me? Yass, sahr. l work six
months every winter ON fiatboat on
dat river yonder."
We'll. suppose when we get the
railroad through you will want to
come in with us, and get job on a
fiatcar." =
What for?"
ITO work. of course"
mo. sahr! Amt nevah goin to
be 'nough work on your railroad to
keep no man busy six months in the
yeah. Can't you see dat river yon.
der, fiowin'. fiowin'?"
Yes, what of it?"
We'll, sahr, de Lord He made dat
river to float things down on, and
der amt no use buildin' railroad
to enter into competition with de All.
mighty" -.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Celestial Investments.

Everyone who is so happy as TO
get to heaven will have in Gods
presence 'fullness of JOY" and at His
right hand pleasures for evermore, ."
but that does not say that they will
all have joys and pleasures alike. A
pint cup may be full to oYerfiowing.
A quart cup may be full to overflow
ing. But the quart cup holds more
The Bible makes il very plain that
there will be differences among the
redeemed. Some will be saved so
as by FIRE" II speaks of greatest"
and least" in the kingdom of heay.
en-, and of some as having an "abun-
dant entrance" and distinctly tells
us to lay up for ourselves treasures
In heaven, thereby assuring us that
Il Is both possible and worth our
while to do so.--Rey. G.. B. f. Hal
lock, ID. d.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
euLplMl.s As couMs.
Remember Napoleon's Dictum as to
the Way an Army Travels?

Perhaps the enlisted men OF the
army will rejoice at the new order
providing that all subsistence officers
shall hereafter familiarise them
selves with the practical application
OF the principles involved in the bak.
ing and brewing operations necessary
to the supplying of food and drink
(the latter limited to tea, coffee,
cocoa and chocolate) to soldiers In
the field The training of bakers
and cooks for the army has received
considerable attention from the War
Department. with the result that
there are now in the country three
military cooking schools.
1t is the purpose of the department
to provide good food, which of course
means properly prepared food, for
the men who are expected to do the
fighting when occasion requires, and
common sense. bred of an extensive
and expensive knowledge. teaches
the wisdom of thorough knowledge
in the field kitchen What is said
of cooking in the field will also APP
ply to culinary work in the garrison.
At first reading of the new order
some people may beinclined to laugh.
The spectacle purely imaginary
one-of dashing young men (their
countrymen like to consider them sol
fresh from West Point, with arms
barred to the elbow, dabbling in the
dough or vainly endeavorlng to clean
the mixing dish, is one calculated to
amuse. But the officers are not ex-
pected to engage either in kneading
bread or removing its sticky com
ponent from dishes reluctant to part
with 1t. In sense 1t will be case
of the know how'-rather than OF
the "how"-of the theory with a
knowledge of its practical possibili.
ties.
And who shall say the idea is not
commendable one? Surely 1t can
not cost more to supply correctly pre-
pared food than to provide edibles
improperly cooked. unpalatable and
destructive of health. Some of the
discomfort among the rank and file
of the army--the cause of many de-
sertions, doubtless-is intimately
connected with this very matter of
food. and therefore its Importance
should not be overlooked. Officers
thoroughly posted on the culinary
subjects should be able to exert
powerful influence in the direction of
improving the army uisine.--Provi-
dence Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER te.
Missions-A Worldwide Responsible
ity.--Luke "a. 45-47.
Daily Readings.

This the significance of the life OF
Christ. Luke 2. 30-32; Rev. 5. 9.
We are his representatives in this
work-Luke "a. As.
The Church's baptism not given for
a local. but for worldwide con-
euest-Acts l. 8.
The Missionary Program.-Acts &c.
1s.
A missionary hymn.-Psa. 96.
Prayer and promise. .-Psa. 2S.
It Is to be feared that many pro-
fessed christians read John 3. 16 thus:
For God so loved the Anglo-Saxons."
But the missionary enterprise
stands for the opposite. It's watch.
word is. "The World for Christ"
Anything short Of this is unworthy
the name of Christian, for Christ died
for the world" His last command,
given just before he left the Judean
mountain top, to be seen no more,
was Go ye into the world and preach
the gospel to every creature" There
fore, we must go or send, or be re-
creant to our trust. ours not to
reason why" but to obey. We are
not to stop to consider whether or
not the heather can be saved without
the gospel; nor are we to question
whether missions are success or
not; or demur on any account what
ever. There is the unqualified, un-
conditioned naked, go" In a GER
tain bank where this writer has done
business there is hanging over the
barrier behind which the bank Off
cials are, the picture of a masked
man who holds in his hand a pistol
which IS pointed at the customer or
visitor It matters not that he
moves TO the other end of the room,
or anywhere within the room. he will
still be looking straight into that
deadly tube and into those unrelent-
ing eyes. The Go ye" of Jesus is
fike that, only it Is full OF the urgency
of a love and yearning for lost souls
that stopped not at death itself. Let
the church shirk the obligation to
CO. and her light will go out The
missionary spirit is her light. 1t is
sad that the leaders Of the church
for so many centuries were so un-
able to realize their solemn duty.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Inspection of Live Stock.

A set of meat inspection regula-
tions has been issued by Secretary
Wilson under authority of the meat
inspection law passed during the last
session of Congress. The inspection
of animals before slaughter, desig-
mated in the regulations as ante
mortem inspection, is changed to
conform to the new law, and to give
to the Secretary of Agriculture au-
thority to require that all animals
shall be slaughtered separately and
apart from the other animals under
the careful supervision of Federal
inspectors. Heretofore the ante
mortem inspection has been made
in the stock yards, at the time the
animals arrived and has covered ami
mails which were to be slaughtered
at establishments where inspection
was maintained and those which
were slaughtered for local trade. The
new law does not authorize inspec-
tion of animals for local trade. 1t
came to the attention Of the depart
ment that the spectators were TAX
ing advantage of this form of inspec-
tion and the farmers who shipped the
animals to market were thereby los
ing several hundred thousand dollars
a year. Under the new form of in
spection the shipper will be pro-
tected absolutely and will receive
full price for all animals which pass
inspection. The regulation do not,
however, cover the subject of inter-
state transportation of meat or the
microscopic inspection of pork. Reg
ulations on these subjects will be is.
ID later.-The Epltomist. =
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
Fighting Weeds.

A writer in the Agricultural Epit-
9mist suggests the following on fight
ing weeds:
/. Practice rotation. Certain
weeds follow certain crops when the
weeds get too strong change crops.
.. Change the method of cultivat-
ing. Plow deeper or shallower, or
use different harrow or cultivator.
3. Cultivate frequently with light
surface tools
Sow clean seed.
s. Don't let weeds run to seed on
thu manure pile or anywhere else on
the farm.
C. Hogs and sheep will clean up
the weeds on foul fallow land. 1t is
said that a weed will not germinate
after a sheep has cropped it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13

Don't fall into the habit of think.
ing that the world owes you living,
The world owes You Just exactly
what you are willing TO work for.
We are all in the race--men and
women-to get the most we can out
Of life.
Some of us succeed; some of us
fall by the wayside. but as a rule the
one who tries hard comes out well to
the fore.
The way to bring Yourself under
your employers notice Is by always
being Interested In your work.
Don't be stand-oiilsh and taciturn.
A pleasant words costs nothing and
makes many friend--Home Chat.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
A PLUcKY RUsE.

A man hopelessly lost In the bush
In South Australia, after wandering
about for four days, came across the
telegraph line between Adelaide and
Port Darwin He had not the
strength TO so farther. but managed
TO climb pole and cut the wire. He
then made himself as comfortable as
possible and waited. The telegraph
repairers were sent along the line.
and they came to the wanderer just
In time to save his life.---Kansas City
independent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
To Get Rid of stumps.

A method of getting rid of stumps
which has been highly recommended
and which, to be effective, should be
lone as follows:
Bore a hole one or two inches in
diameter and about eighteen inches
deep into the centre of the stump.
Then put into this hole one or two
ounces of saltpeter. Fill the hole
with water and plug it up. In the
spring take out the plug, pour in
about one-half gallon of kerosene oil
and light It. The stump will smolder
away to the very extremities of the
roots, leaving nothing but the ashes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
THE ELEPHANT.
He has a thick hide.

He enjoys long memory.
He is the only animal with a trunk
His size gives him precedence on
land.
In the sea he would be rivaled by
the whale.
He has five toes on each OF his
very big feet.
Instead of eye teeth he has ivory
tusks, which cause him to be hunted.
AS baby he has tiny pair of milk
tusks which are shed like human
baby's teeth.
He is connected with, the other
hoofed mammals by number OF
forms now extinct.
His trunk is but an elongated nose.
which he uses both as an organ OF
smelling, feeling and feeding.
In India baby elephant weighs
200 pounds at birth. We ahall aee
what Texas will do with her new ele-
phant ranch, which IL to start oue
nobly with 100 mother elephants.---
Philadelphia Record.
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Essential to Christian Character.

Giving is essential to the com.
pleteness of Christian character. It
Is the crowning grace because It is
the manifestation of the highest ex.
:ellence. 1t is the result of sympa-
thy, unselfshness, OF contact with
Christ, of drinking In OF His Spirit
DR. Alexander Maclaren.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORN NOTES
DECEMBER SIXTEENTH.
What Truth Has Chiefly Appealed to
You from Our Years Lessons?

Objects of the Scrlptures.-2 Tim.
3:1417.
Christ proclaimed.-John 20:26-31.
Sin rebuked-Heb. Alb.
Saints built up.-1 Cor. 14:21-28.
Lives cleansed.-Isa. 6:1-9.
The Interchangeable Word.-Rev. %:
1921.
From the shepherds of Bethlehem
we learn how heaven may glorify our
common work.
From the wise men of the East we
learn that the height of wisdom is to
bow at Jesus feet.
From the boy Jesus in the temple
we learn that the only business of our
life ought to be our Fathers busi-
ness.
From Christ's temptation we learn
that whoever has his Bible in his
heart is armed against the devil
From the calling of the disciples we
learn that the first duty of a Chris
tian-as of a soldiers to obey.
From the Beatitudes we learn that
II we seek what the world calls happi-
ness we shall never find what Christ
calls happiness.
From the parable of the two foun-
dations we learn that the most i'm
portant thing in life is to start right.
From the parable OF the sower we
learn that not even Christ can teach
us unless we listen.
From the parable of the tares we
learn that the only way to outwit the
devil is to watch by night as well as
by day.
From the healing OF the Gadarene
demoniacs we learn never to despair
Of any one.
From the death OF John the Baptist
we learn how glorious a failure may
be.
From the feeding OF the five thous-
and we learn that our success does
not depend on the size OF our gifts to
Christ, but on our giving what we
have.
From the Syro Phenician woman we
learn that Christ rejoices to be COM
PEELED by human faith.
From Peters confession we learn
not to wait to be perfect before testi-
flying for Christ.
From the TRANSPORTATION we learn
that heaven with all its glories Is
close around this earth.
From the parable of the good
Samaritan we learn to do the next
thing"
From the rich young ruler we learn
to pray to be delivered from the temp
tation OF wealth.
From Zaccheus wa learn that lofty
soul Is better than tall body.
From Christ's trial we learn to feal
the terrible power Of fanaticism anG
selishness. lest It seize upon our Owl
hearts also.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-13

There are now upward of 400
punches of grapes on the famous vine
Mt Hampton Court Palace, EpgIand.
which Is 1913 years old.