Deweali ian Bellefonte, Pa., April 10, 1896. FARM NOTES. —The stagnant water of a pond is not suitable for any kind of stock. If there is no running water the use of a wind-mill should be resorted to. * —~Grow a small plot in horseradish. Sim- ply place the roots on top of the ground and turn a furrow on them. They will grow and thrive just as well as when more labor in planting is bestowed. —TFor the potato beetles it is not neces- sary to use Paris green very liberally, as the smallest quantity taken by the beetle is fatal. A mixture of one pound of Paris green with 100 pounds of land plaster is an excellent application, but the two sub- stances must be intimately mixed. —Sow a patch of oats to he cut as green food. The oats should be cut just as the seeds are in the milky stage, which arrests the nutritious matter in the stalks and rend- ers them very palatable. They are cured the same as is done with hay. Farmers who use oats in this manner run them through a fodder cutter (stalks and heads) and sprinkle a little cornmeal over them. They are highly relished by cattle and horses. —Don’t buy a bag of cheap fertilizer that you may not want. Where phosphates are the principal ingredients in a bag the fer- tilizer will sell at a low price because phos- phates or potash may be much cheaper than nitrogen. Your land may not require but a small proportion of phosphates, hence the price paid may be reasonable, but the in- vestment unwise. Farmers have much to learn in regard to buying fertilizers, and they should endeavor to hecome more fam- iliar with the substances entering into their composition. —Here is a point on asparagus. A great many persons who grow it do so with flat | culture. The proper mode for the best re- sults is to hillup the rows. Apply fertilizer on the rows now while they are flat, and then turn a furrow on the row from each side. If the row is hilled up two feet high it is all the better. But the stalks just as they are peeping out of the ground. They will then be tender from the tips to the butts. and as white as celery. If allowed to grow out of the ground the tips will be ten- der and the butts tough. —The frequent allusion to Bordeaux mix- ture, kerosene emulsion, ete., necessitates giving the formula for the preparation of cach, and as inquiries have been made for | such, this is an appropriate time for so do- ing. There is a difference between an in- secticide and a fungicide, and they cannot be substituted for one another. In their preparation the first essential is cheapness, as their use in large orchards or on crops must be within the reach of all, co-opera- | tive effort often being necessary in order to combat the ravages of some common insect enemy. No neglect must be permitted in their use, as everything depends on doing the work well and at the most appropriate times. The delay of a day may be costly, requiring weeks of labor to undo the dam- | age inflicted by the insect enemy, or, per- haps, resulting in total loss of crop. KEROSENE EMULSION. Frequent reference is made to this rem- edy. It isan insecticide, being cheap and efficaceous. Take one pound of soap (whale oil soap preferred, but not essential ) ; shave it and dissolve in one gallon of boiling wa- ter. Remove the vessel from the fire and add one gallon of kerosene. With a sprayer | formed churn the mixture briskly for ten minutes, | or until the whole is of the consistency of | thick cream. Much depends upon how well the mixture is churned or agitated, as the | kerosene and soap should be intimately in- | put again into the drying room, after corporated in a manner to avoid any free | kerosene. Now add from ten to twenty gallons of cold water, according to the de- | gree of strength required. ly, lice. For peach trees it should not he too strong or contain any free (unmixed) kerosene. If preferred, an emulsion may be made in the same manner with crude car- bolic acid instead of the kerosene, or one- half of each may he used. BORDEAUX MIXTURE. This is a fungicide, for the destruction of | fungi and to prevent diseases. To prepare it dissolve 6 pounds of sulphate of copper (blue-stone) in 16 gallons of boiling water, and allow it to cool. In another vessel slake four pounds of stoné lime in six gallons of water. Pour the lime mixture slowly into the copper solution, stirring well, and ap- ply with a sprayer. The mixture should .e prepared several days before using, but should always be stirred just before apply- ing it. For black rot of giapes, downy mildew, blight and rot of tomatoes and potatoes, fruit blight, etc., itis used ex- tensively. The ammoniacal carbonate is another excellent solution used, especially for apple scab, mildew and grape rot. It is made by first putting a quart of ammonia in a vessel and adding three ounces of car- bonate of copper, stirring rapidly. The carbonate of copper will dissolve in the ammonia, and the solution may he kept for any length of time for future use. When required for plants it may be diluted with 25 gallons of water and applied with a sprayer. = fo APPLICATION OF THE SOLUTIONS. In order to reach every portion of a tree, vine or plant the solutions should be ap- plied in the form of a fine spray, the in- troduction of sprayers for that purpose ren- dering such work not difficult. sured that the necessity for further work in that direction has passed. tage. It is sure death | to nearly all kinds of insects, and, especial- | Spraying | should begin now, and continue until as- | It will do no | harm to use the solutions on the ground | around vines, and the free use of air-slaked | lime on the ground will also he an advan- | Where blight or black rot exists it | . Preparation of Lamb and Kid Skins for | i | i Gloves. Kid gloves are made principally from lamb and kid skins imported from Brazil, France and Germany. They come to this | country packed in bales containing from 250 to 400 skins. In preparing the material for gloves, the skins have to pass through a number of processes such as washing, hair- | ing, paddling, tanning, staking, coloring, and polishing. The skins, which are about 4 feet in length and about 3 feet in width, are first placed in wooden tubs and thor- oughly soaked in cold water. From 600 to 800 skins are placed in each tub and left to soften for from one to two days, according to the season. From the soaking tubs they are placed in a circular revolving drum and washed. This drum is about 8 ft. in diameter and about 4 feet in width and re- volves at the rate of about 60 revolutions per minute. A number of wooden pins connected on the interior of the apparatus shift the skins about as it revolves, so that the stream of water which passes in at the center of the drum thoroughly saturates and trees them from dirt. After washing for a quarter of an hour, they are taken out and placed in lime pits. These pits are about 8 ft. in depth, = ft. in length, and about 5 ft. in width. ~~ From 800 to 1,000 skins are placed in each of these pits and are covered with lime and water for about two weeks. The lime acts on the pores of the skin, opening them so that the hair can be easily removed. The skins are taken from the pits by means of long handled tongs. To take off the excess of lime, the skins are paddled. This is per- { formed by placing the skins in cold water and running them back and forth over a! paddle wheel. This wheel is about three feet in diameter, about 6 feet in length, and travels at the rate of about 40 revolu- tions per minute. After paddling, the hair is removed hy spreading the skins out | over an oval-shaped wooden heam, an oper- | ator then seraping off the hair by means of | an instrument similar in shape to a car- | penter’s draw knife. A good workman can scrape off about 20 skins per hour. The next operation is fleshing. A skin is placed as before over a beam, the operator cutting | off the particles of flesh adhering to the ! skin, giving it an even thickness and also trimming off the ragged ends. The scraps are sold to glue makers, and the hair to plaster and carpet manufacturers. About 20 skins can be fleshed per hour. After | fleshing the skins are washed again in the revolving drum for half an hour, after | which the skins are spread out again on beams and slated, the process taking off | | the surplus dirt and giving them a finish. | They are then paddled and then drenched in a tub of bran and water. About 800 skins are placed in the drench tub at a time,.and paddled for 12 hours, the oper- ation removing the lime and opening the pores of the skins. The skins are then put in a revolving drum containing a tanning liquor composed of alum, salt, flour, and | the yolks of eggs. After revolving in this "drum for twelve hours at the rate of 80 , revolutions per minute, the skins are taken | jout and hung up on hooks in a drying | room in a temperature of 110° for twenty four hows. When the skins are dry, they ave damp- ened with water and put into a mill and | i softened. This mill consists of two per- | | pendicular swinging planks suspended | from the ceiling, connected to the hottom | lends of which are large wooden blocks, | | which move back and forth when the ap- paratus is in motion. The dried skins to the number of 50 or more are placed on the floor of the mill in front of the blocks, which, as they move forward, squeeze and press them together until they become soft, | after which they are staked. This is per- | by drawing the skins back and | forth over the edge of a broad steel knife, J about 18 inches in length and about XR! inches in width. After this operation, which also softens the material, they are which they ave staked again, the operation | | taking oft the dried flour, which sticks to | the material from the tanning liquid. The white skins are then packed away for a few months to ripen for working pur- poses. The skins are then selected out for coloring, being first washed in a drum of cold water for 20 minutes, after which they are placed in a revolving bath of egg yolk | for twenty-four hours, which softens and | makes the stock pliable. The skins are | then colored. A skin is first slicked out | smooth on a lead covered table and giyen a wash of potassium bichromate and soda, the solution preparing the skin so that it | will take the coloring ingredients. The ; gloves are colored in black, drab and tan, | iron sulphate being used to produce black, | zine sulphate for drab, and sulphate of | alum for tan color. The coloring ingredients are poured on | the skins with a cup and rubbed in with a | brush. The skins are then dried and steaked again, and then polished over a flannel covered wheel. The raw skins cost from $7 to $9 per dozen.—Seientific Amer- lean. Not Many of Them. | Dr. Abernethy, the famous Scotch sur- | geon, was a man of a few words, but he once met his match—in a woman. She | called at his office in Edinburgh one day and showed a hand, badly inflamed and | swolle#t, when the following dialogue, opened by the doctor, took place : ! i Bum? i Bruise. Poultice. The next day the woman called and the dialogue was as follows : Better ? Worse. More poultice. i Two days later the woman made another i call, and this conversation occurred : Better ? Well. Fee? Nothing, exclaimed the doctor.—Most sensible woman [ ever met ! again | is better to cut away diseased portions of | the trees, and use the solutions on those | parts not attacked in order to destroy any spores remaining. . EARLY GREEN FOOD. For cows the broadcasting of oats and | peas, to be mowed as wanted, and fed to the cows in the barnyard, will provide an ex- i cellent substitute for pasture grass, such food being assisted by hay, and grain. It will permit of resting the pasture land. Later in the season Hungarian grass may be sown on the same land. Asit is a quick- growing crop, providing a cutting evary four or five weeks, and of sufficient growth for hay, it will more readily provide green food that is wanted daily, and it will con- tinue to produce green food until it goes to seed or is overtaken by frost. This mode of | feeding is styled “soiling,” and applies to | the practice of growing green food and car- rying it to the stock instead of turning the stock on the green food. It also gives a large amount of food, as a new crop comes up on the space just cut, thus keeping up a continual supply, while the manure saved in the barnyard is an additional item. vr £ ——The government has gone into the seed business with a vengeance under the law recently passed against the protest of | the secretary of agriculture, who declared the distribution of seeds by congressmen was of no advantage, but congressmen were | not to be deprived of their perquisite, so 10,125,000. packets of vegetable seeds, pro- | vided by a Philadelphia firm, and 1,000,000 | packets of flower seeds from a St. Paul | | firm will be distributed through the mails. | The cost of the seeds will be $75,000, and | they will go through the mails free. i ——In his Arbor day proclamation Gov- ernor Hastings designated two Fridays of the present month, the 10th and the 24th, for the observance of the day. The desire to plant is instinctive, even with children, at this season of the year particularly, It | only needs concert of action to make the | common inpulse an important tributary to | the enrichment and improvement of the | | State ; and thus it shdnld become in in- creasing measure with each recurring | ! Arbor day. } | builders. sea of Japan. | days. Girdling the Globe. If Mr. Phineas Fogg was permitted to visit the glimpses of the moon he would soon find himself in a fair way of making the trip around the globe in 40 days instead of the 80 days that determined his hig wag- er. The vivid imagination of Jules Verne will be ecliped by the actual achievements of Russian capital, engineers and railroad It will all come from the com- pletion of the Siberian railway, which will connect the European system of railroads with the Pacific ocean at Vladivostock. This is expected ina few years, probably by the dawn of the new century, if not be- fore. This railway enterprise is the grandest in the history of railway building, eclipsing American energy and daring in Pacific rail- way construction. It is mainly a govern- ment enterprise, the Russian administra- tion subsidizing the company engaged in the work. The line has been recently open- ed to Tomsk, a city of Siberia, that with other Siberian towns and cities is begining to feel the impulse of a new life and as- tounding progress. Central Asia is com- mencing the growth that came to some parts of the west with the construction of the great trunk lines west of the Mississippi. Prospectors and immigrants are pushing their way eastward from Russia and Cen- tral and Western Europe very much as the Americans followed or preceded the Pacific roads through what was once set - down in the maps as ‘‘the great American desert.’ In Melville's story of the rescue of the sur- vivors of the Jeannette he tells how he met a driving Pittshurger at Ninji-Novgorod, who was introducing stern-wheel steam- boats on the Volga, patterned after the boats on the Ohio and Monongahela. The great point with Russia, in its recent diplomacy with China, and resistance to the greater aggrandizement of Japan, has been to secure a port on the Pacific, in the Chinese province south of Siberia, for an ocean terminus of its great railway. This, it is believed, has been virtually accom- plished. The completion of the Siberia road will materially shorten the time for a trip around the world. Twenty years ago it was done in 80 days. Now the time has been reduced to 62, and with the comple- tion of the railway it can be accomplished in 40 days. The railway journey from London to Moscow is now made in three and a half and four days. From Moscow to Tomsk it is made in eight days, even at the moderate rate of speed af the Siberian rail- way. It will be possible to go from Lon- don to Tomsk in nine days when the rail- way is well equipped, and when the road is pushed through to the Pacific, the time from London to Vladivostock will he about 20 days. Two days more will take the globe trotter to Yokohama by steamer, across the Then 20 days to the east- ward will accemplish the journey through the United States and across the Atlantic to England. This will make the time around the globe 42 or 43 days, or about the time now occupied in a journey, from London to Yokohama. Swift steamers on the Pacific and high railroad speed on the Siberian line, like that of our Pacific roads, will still further reduce the time to 40 All of which is possible within the next five or ten years. Verily, the world Moves. Waren Your WIFE '—Not lest she do some great wrong, but that you prevent her suffering many of them. Watch her that she suffers not from the many insidious dis- eases which afflict women, dragging them down and enfeebling them till life becomes | a burden, and from which too few are al- together exempt. By getting her a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, the great female restorative tonic and nervine, you will furnish her the means to alleviate and speedily cure “Female Weakness,” dis- placements, dragging pains, ulceration, weak back and general debility, and the wan, jaded look will give place to the ruddy glow of health before its influence. Dr. Pierce guarantees a” cure, or money is re- turned. —————— ees California’s output of wheat last year | was one-sixteenth of the entire crop of the | United States. Her orange crop will he immense this year ; so that there will be three distinct returns of golden wealth to the country from the State where the griz- zly bear and the yellow poppy are alter- nates as frontispieces for its magazines. ete —*Is that De Fitz coming here again Esther 2? “Yes, papa, and I hope you'll he nice to him, for he’s a real swell.”’ “All right, but if he stays as late as he did last night he’ll be a howling swell.” A Surprising Effect. Little Jane aged 6, was a terror for ask- ing questions. A neighbor died and Jane wanted to go in and see the remains. She solemnly agreed to ask no questions. When she came home her mother said, “Did you keep your promise 2” ‘You. “Did you say anything 2° “I only just said that I should not sup- pose that just losing the judges soul out of him would have such a change in his looks.”’ ; . Business Notice. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she eried for Castoria, When she became a Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, New Advertisements. JKIPNEY TROUBLE CURED. The importance of knowing just what to do when one is afflicted with kidney disease or trouh- les of a urinary nature, is best answered by the following letter which was recently published in the Poughkeepsie, N. Y., News Press : MiLrertoN, Duchess Co, N.Y. “Dr. David Kennedy, Dear Sir :—For more than eighteen months I was so badly afflicted with kid- ney trouble I could scarcely walk a quarter of a mile without almost fainting. 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Use not more than two-thirds as much Cottolene as you would butter and be sure that You do not overheat it hefore dropping in the eggs. This is always essential in coooking with Cottolene., Genuine Cottolene is sold everywhere in tins with trade marks—