Chariton Herald (Newspaper) - October 11, 1888, Chariton, Iowa OCTOBER 11. kn: sense talks about subjects pertaining to farm facts about OF ALL l of t he Iowa St .it e ivi U. Moult la. AV. tlie 1". Soon O- on the last Saturday in House in at 1 V. met s il uriner oold brine to the and the water ins leaves the Avas in the on the outside of the mav be allowed to solid if kept thus frozen until spring will be all O. K. Onion sets can be kept in the same but be sure that they do not thaw out and freeze xot be afraid to feed the milch a little corn as the becomes frosted ami the days and Keep up the How of milk as well as the of the Have her into winter charters with plenty of good solid and then see that lose it before dairying is on the crease in Xew butter factories are going up at and Shell The capital of the latter is Some of the factories are also It requires on the average about twenty-two pounds of milk to make one pound of which is nearly the average this The capital employed per factory in Australia is much more than in the United and the co-operative butter factories in our New England States operate very on the with a capital of of the with only sell butter to the value of 860.000 to 870,000 max who knows kill the bull or if you do don't grumble because the ground squirrels steal the To be sure the bull snake is a looking but he is perfectly and at this season of the year he goes into the cornfield after who are a the When he puts his eye squirrel it is all up with the rodent the snake kill more squirrels in a day than you can poison in a have at all for a but our experience in the corn has led us to believe that a man foolish tiling he goes out into his and kills the bull snake that is guarding the thousand hogs packed in Omaha in 810,000.000 paid out for men employed in packing Counting three or four to a makes quite a population supported by this packing is to hinder Chariton from packing one million worth of hogs this county is not a famous hog but Ave are where hogs can shipped in from every All that is needed is for men with to take hold of it. One such institution add to the value of every piece of property in would likely attract some other It is what a little local do to help a and all such comes back to the promoters by 311 increase of values to real and Durable of our says a correspondent of the has painted his with a paint made as and found it nearly as good as ordinary oil and vastly In fact the cost is scarcely anything except the half a bushel of unslacked slack it Avith boiling cover it during the process to keep in the and add to it ii peck of clean previously Avell dissolved in warm three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin and stirred in boiling half a pound of clean glue which has been previously dissolved by first soaking it Avell and then hanging it over a slow in a small kettle within a filled with five gallons of hot water to the stir it and let it stand a few days covered from the It should be put 011 for this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a portable It is said that about one pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a if properly more or less may be used according to the neatness of the job It answers as well as oil paint for brick or and is It retains its cy for many There is nothing of the kind that will compare with either for inside or outside Coloring matter may and made of any shade brown stirred in will make red or pink more or less according to the A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside Finely pulverized common well mixed with Spanish brown before it is stirred into the makes a lilac Lampblack in moderate quantities will make slate very suitable for outside of Lampblack and Spanish brown mixed together produce a reddish stone Yellow ochre stirred in makes a yellow but chrome further and makes a color generally esteemed In all these cases the of the shade will of course be determined by the quantity of coloring We have been told that green must not be mixed with The lime destroys the aud the an affect on the which makes it crack and says that thirty worth of. coloring matter will be enough for the bushel of Spanish brown cost six cents a the Lampblack and Princess brown ten cents a The latter gives a handsome lilac Items Concerning the Condition of the Country's tho Statistician cf National Department of season has been generally to was some delay iu the northern a failure to or destruction of seed by cutworms in many places growth in tho early season from later on suns and seasonable rains pushed the crop forward so that by 1 tlie general condition of the corn crop 95.0. great belt of the central west has improved quite The lias well maintained its Even often sutlers from lias gained a point upon its high condition in ana the crop in that state is very There has been a slight drop in due to hot winds and but the average of county reports is only reduced to 91. There has been a slight decline in New with some improvement in Pennsylvania and New In Maryland and Virginia averages have been High condition prevails in Louisiana and The high state averages 98; 08; 99; 9G; 98; 94; 91, and on the border of the proverbial 96. wheat lias fallen from its position of a month The chinch bug stands at the head of the disasters involving more or less Iowa and Dakota leads the northwest with an average of 91, a loss of 7 The reduction of the percentage in Minnesota is from 94 to 85; in from 91 to 83; in from 97 to 84; in from 95 to 84. The crop of and other and of is and fair in northern northern and in the higher latitudes or altitudes of wheat The general condition has been reduced from 95.9 to 87.3. There are no estimates of winter after threshing as voluntary remarks of reporters make the yield better than the early promise in all the states that produce much of a indicate that the oat crop Avill be one of tlie largest ever small reduction is apparent in the condition of cotton in the Alabama and and an advance in Arkansas and The averages of Georgia and Mississippi are The general average is 87.3. potato crop is generally averaging 92 for tho whole In the New England and middle states the condition is above this general average except in New Of the southern states only South Kentucky and West Virginia rate below 90, most of the others have nearly a full which in many localities has been harvested and Among the and Pacific states and Kansas and Colorado are the only ones that average less than 90 in condition of while Nebraska and California are the only others that fall the general average of the returns on the condition of the apple crop leave the averages of condition comparatively high in most of the leading though from local causes the prospect is poor in New York and Excepting in these last mentioned condition is higher than last condition of the peach crop remains high in the region of commercial except in New where the reports throughout the season have indicated a comparatively small New York and Pennsylvania give small while tho states north of the Ohio with tho exception of promise a crop larger than the Delaware and Maryland have maintained their high and the crop now being picked is pronounced by correspondents one of the largest ever The Virginia while better last are so small a3 to be of little importance outside of the localities which are favored by tial and independent fairs have announced to open during the month of October as state fair at 22-27. New York 8-Dec. 8. Oct. 4-11. Oct. 2-0. Augusta 10-Nov. 17; state Oct. 16-49. Oct. 16-19. Oct. 8-18. St. Louis Oct. 1-6. Oct. 11-81. Oct. 3-Nor. 21; tobacco Oct. 8-Nov. 21. _ World's Harvest of Wheat and to tho official report of tho estimated harvest of recently issued by the Vienna Russia appears to be the only European nation with a surplus of According to the report alluded the wheat crop of the United Kingdom shows a deficiency of 25 per that of France 25 per and that of Italy 20 per cent. It is estimated that the European wheat crop will ho 1,066,000,000 bushels as compared with 1,261,000,000 lost Tho rye crop is reported to be the shortest in several farmers May Prevent Soro whose occupation keeps them on their feet a great deal are troubled with Bore or blistered especially iu hot no matter how comfortably their shoes may Finely pulverized soapstone sifted into the shoes or stockings is a simple and good but a powder used by the German army is This consists of three parts ten parts starch and eighty-seven parts pulverized It keeps the feet prevents chafing and rapidly heals sore for the Wheat experience in the matter advises those who are troubled with weevil in their granaries to sift a little salt over the bottom of the bin or whatever the wheat is put and it would kill the weevil in a zew Then the out and is ready Information to Everybody Who Eats This Luscious orange is at present tho most important fruit of the loAver It is cultivated with more or less success along the gulf and Atlantic coasts from tho Rio Grande to tho sea islands of South Louisiana and Florida are tho only states that have raised more than enough for homo great freeze of 18SG, was probably the greatest shock to the orange industry ever experienced in the gulf and did away with tho idea that orange culture is au easy and agreeable way to make an fortune in an incredibly short By the freeze of 18S6 tho orange trees iu every part of tho except those middle suffered In Louisiana they Avere mostly killed to tlie and no crop of any amount can be expected ior several This was also the case in parts of southern Mississippi and in extreme north and along tho coast of Georgia and South a few trees Avere occasionally Last though did not result in serious damage to bearing trees in Tho crop last year for the gulf except a very little fruit in Avas confined to the yield was unusually the crop marketed reaching about 1,000,000 crop of oranges this it is will be lighter even than that of last considering the increased number of trees that come into It is believed that not over 1,000,000 boxes may be expected from a full crop for this year would havo been 3,000,000 The in trees is increasing very But comparatively a small amount of the choicest hammock lauds yet remain though there are many thousands of acres of high pino suited to the orange and yet in a state of nature over the The above facts havo been recently reported by tho chief of division of pomology to Commissioner ana is ready for wheat Bones for is in substance Professor W. C. of the Louisiana Experiment has to say about dissolving bones to be used as a following method of treatment of bones has been successful in my and is so easy to perform and the chemicals needed are to every that I recommend its use to every farmer lias a few hundred pounds of bones on Break 100 pounds of bones into small fragments and pack them in a light with 100 pounds of good wood ashes which have been previously mixed with pounds of dry water slacked lime and twelve pounds of powdered Twenty gallons of water will saturate the and more may be added as In two or three the bones will be soft enough to be turned out on a floor and mixed with two bushels of good to Make a Cistern common and very good plan for a cistern filter is to filter through a four inch unplastered brick Avail soft enough to let the water soak through the Wall off one-third of the cistern as high as the is to leaving an opening at the top for cleaning it out when Let the water into tho smaller apartment and pump out of the larger another and even a better plan for a large cistern is to build a circular brick filter in the center of say three feet in diameter and as high as you want it. The water that is let into the main cistern then presses equally on all parts of this circular and percolates through it fast enough to furnish a supply of clear water to do pumped out of the filter instead of out of the main The suction pipe of the pump should go near the bottom of the As a new Scotland is advisea | to gather A shoemaker at St. has constructed air which he claims Avill run all kinds of street Mormons have recently sent a missionary from Salt Lako to the Samoan i Islands to preach the Gospel apd drum up recruits among the the moment when the Avar ship S Warrior rescued a party of French they were casting lots as to I should himself out to lighten tho The Medical and Surgical Reporter announces that it Avill publish the names of religious papers which print improper | medical advertisements after due | they persist in printing ' People on Pall Mall were recently to see the j and all the employes of the Army and Navy to the number of 1100 or pour out on the steps and They were | Leading English report j that they have had a remarkably largo j number of orders from ladies for fine j Shooting during the season is said i to bo the latest notion of tho English man of although some prefer H. G. Vogt said that if ships could j be towed instead of propelled by the an average of 40 per in coal and power could be The propeller at the stern sucks the sustaining water from the causing resistance j to be increased in that | Engine 310, of the Union Pacific j that is 110AV employed in transferring j cars across the Omaha has a j record of having run 1,140,625 It lias been in use for j and was one of the first locomotives used I west of Missouri The agricultural department is izing five new experimental stations for I rhe study of sorghum and its manipulation in ono in Jersey j and one in The tion for this work this year is larger than it has ever been Jerusalem is rapidly as a trade One hundred thousand | worth of objects of devotion in mother-of-pearl and olive wood are exported to America and Europe every Vino cultivation is being and tho price of land has risen six fold within a teAv the receiving ship Wabash has been lying off Boston there have been several curious applications from men who to One man said i he'd enlist if he could do work to he Avas He wasn't for he Avas a paper Another wanted to enlist to take care of the captain's A gardener enlist if if he could find and another candidate wanted to be the ship's man near built a fire one cool morning recently and iu a little while saw a pair of black feet drop down the A search revealed a colored neighbor of bad reputation stuck fast in it. Upon being released negro said tho householder 10 he had come to pay and finding the doors and chose this mode of But as his shoes and an ax were left outside his tale Avas not which have gained considerable popularity in are attracting some attention The are a variety of the Spanish family of and are They resemble in all the their plumage is mottled black and The admirers of this breed of fowls claim that the birds are quite free from hardy and easy to The leading appears to he their egg producing The eggs are white in large in size and produced in great the Merino is the sheep to begin above all others he the greatest vigor of constitution and adaptability to and by crossing on the Cots wold or Southdown you have both wool and the latter preferable for but for all purposes I prefer the I feed my sheep in two or three months on cotton seed and a littlo keeping them always I try to have a good bite of rye for the ewes and lambs from about January to when lambs should The earlier the lambs appear the I assure readers in my humble a January lamb is worth two March The above represented the sentiments of a as expressed in The Southern soil produces useful permanently saturated with out with knife or wire is still the stand by remedy for the borer in H. Hale recommends washing with stong soapsuds to keep down moss on pear remedy for curculio has as yet quite taken the place of tho old fashioned one of jarring the slaked limekiln ashes and various other kinds of lime refuse are considered valuable on grass plenty of green fodder to pigs kept in a Gould advocates unplucked corn for the sheep feed new sweet grasses flourish and weeds are says Western If farmers how great a benefit to and they would raise more of a remedy for white specks in the butter try stirring the cream every morning before colts are fond of Kind handling makes them gentle and mora easy to manage later weeds have grown up in to such a height that they cannot or spaded cut then down and let them they have been well dried apply fire and bom and the Meat amount of the duty on wool collected by the government is about five millions If it is conceded that this duty falls upon the as urged by free we still hold that it would be wretched economy to admit wool free of The inevitable result of such a policy would be to largely diminish our flocks and thus curtail our This would be absolutely suicidal in the face of a rapidly increasing population of as it would certainly enhance the price of all sorts of meat to It is not out of the bounds of reasonable assertion to say that the five millions saved by getting cheaper wool would be offset by a loss of twenty or thirty millions annually to which would be brought about by the reduction of the mutton Francisco 'Em or We'll Send 'Em to the Harrison says the Mills is a step toward free of is reported from Washington as we win it will mean that the Mills as a preliminary step to free trade is all It is a victory or Waterloo for the It's a victory or a twenty set back for the Democrats attack Gen. they had better put a muzzle on the mouth of some of their own Workingman Is workingmen do not need to be informed by pictures that the English factory operative has a hard Most of our working people read the They read both sides and form their own The 1 * it pays best of Wlute Ant a fragment of earth has been cut away by one of these soft little it is so mixed and worked up Avith a glutinous which it that it becomes like an exceedingly tenacious turns into a substance as compact and strong as stone Out of this substance the whole of that portion of the dwelling that lies above the ground is built up bit by each bit being hardly larger than a mustard There are often many tons of this stone like stuff in a single ant and it is not only so strong as to resist the terrible fury of tropical but it Avill support without disaster the of wild have a trick of climbing upon the ant partially as desirable points from which to survey the surrounding In the white ant earth has been quarried and used by the missionaries in some places on Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika as material for building their and in South Africa the natives pave their floors with it and use it to build their talked or Gossip Gleaned from the Various empress of J is said to bo learning the pianoforte under a German the author of pretty is Frances C. Fisher in home Duchess of Marlborough has begun the restoration of Blenheim and the roof alone at 23, has compiled a dictionary of scientific terms and a history of mathematical discoveries in well remembered as Kate one of tho once famous spiritualist sisters of is giving seances in Comtesse de Paris has ordered fifteen hundred small gold roses to present to some of the most faithful adherents of her husband's Gould pays pays his Dr. William a and his services for or until the time of Mr. Gould's is composed of buy and sell real estate and invest money for They have a capital of building in China is the latest chimerical project of the Marquis de the eccentric Frenchman who lost trying to the people of Montana how to run the cattle vOn Karolina tlie first Swedish lady has been engaged by the Life Insurance for the examination of ladies want to insure their the number of is rapidly as a memorial to his late has devoted 1,000,000 roubles and an estate roubles a year to the foundation and maintenance of an institution for the blind at St. to be called the Elizabeth Farsan recently elected principal of largest public school in Chicago over a number of male She is a very popular and the people living in the Avard in which the school richest and most populous in the delighted by the astronomer at and Miss the astronomer at Smith are now engaged iu establishing the longitude of the Smith college Tlie tAvo Smith and are connected by and apparatus has been arranged at each end of the line to register the time of the tAvo Woman's Charity and Industrial of New York is an organization of colored recently formed for the purpose of extending aid and support to their sisters in They a four story house called the for Friendless Colored where free hoard and lodging are given to all such until are able to care for is a and his name is Dan aged 10. He managed to make his way from St. Paul to and going up to the house asked for Congressman The congressman came out and the boy Dan a bootblack from and I want you to give me the privilege of blacking boots here in the Nelson took the boy to Architect gave him tho and the lad is making Mrs. Mary E. G. Dow was made president of the Dover Horse Railroad in 1888, the stock of tho concern Avas worth only or a and the road Avas heavily in The directors have just declared a 20 per dividend and shares are worth more than The dividend is paid from the earnings of the road and there is a surplus in the All this has been accomplished by the energy and executive ability of Mrs. When she was elected president many people thought that a mistake had been They were greatly at Victoria has begun to develop a great fondness for the game of She is not satisfied to let a day go by without having her She is not a brilliant but she tries conscientiously to satisfy her Those about her are beginning to be bored by her incessant longing to indulge in the She can stand a long siege at the table and often those who are playing Avith her by her disinclination to It is said that she hates to lose her money as much as though she were poor she plays the good old English game of a guinea a Delicacy and long ago got over the idea that is deficient in the matter of but it is a comparatively recent discovery that she is also gifted Avith hands are quite as apt and quick as her head is The influx of feminine labor into the mechanical trades the last years is simply Of course much of this class of work calls for brawn and and probably it will always be done by the muscular but many branches of mechanical work call for the exertion 110 more strength than is possessed by every healthy combined Avith the delicacy and deftness which are common makes lier presence in some of the artisan trades in high by a colored in it is Avas bitten by a ground one of the most poisonous of the rattlesnake and was in tremendous A so called madstone was applied to the after being plunged in hot It attached itself firmly to the and adhered like a leech for nearly five It then fell and being placed in warm threw Off a greasy grayish in with here and there a trace of It was tut upon the and clung mt a By this time the woman was asleep and apparently free from and at last reports she was tub recovering from the effects of the York Sore Caked Bd Sold by * HAMLIN'S BLOOD in the Tri song book m 4 Address out of y ou desire to purchase nsk our at your pined If you cannot find ol direct to nearest address to HOME SEWING MACHINE - 28 UNION a check for we will In One Million Issues otl can Newspapers and complete thai This fa at rate of only ol for 1,000 Till appear In but a single Issue ol consequently will be placed bell different newspaper purchasers If It b as Is every newspaper U looked at by | an Ten lines will Address with copy of Adi 30 cents for Book of 256 F. 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