Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 6, 1905.
FARM NOTES.
Is is said that a coat of boiled linseed oil
and ground charcoal on any kind of post
will prevent it rotting. Any good paint
will nodoubt do just as well. The miner-
al paints are very cheap, and a coat of them
on the post before it is set in the ground
would at least double its life.
There is a right and wrong way to water
plants. When sprinkling small plots or veg-
etables use plenty of water and make the
ground wet. It should be done late in the
afternoon. Early the next morning rake
the surface of the ground, not more than
half an inch in depth. The loose earth will
prevent the water from evaporating.
The small farms should always be devos-
ed to those crops that are not grown exten-
sively. A farm of ten acres will not pay if
wheat and corn are grown upon is, but if
used for growing # ‘ait or garden vegetables
is will be large enough forall the work
that ean be given it. Everything depends
* upon the kind of crops grown.
Gardeners are frequently advised to grow
onions on the same location every season,
bus this can be done with success only
when the ground is well supplied with
manure. Onions are grass feeders, and can-
not be injured by heavy manuring, but
they muss be given good cultivation, and
grass and weeds kept down from the begin-
ning.
Potatoes which are dug in clear weather
and thoroughly dried in the sun will keep
in much better condition in the cellar than
those pus into bins without being sundried.
Some recommend spreading on the barn
floor after drying them in the sun. This
‘may improve their keeping qualities, and
they may be just as good for seed, but are
not generally considered equal for table
purposes to those pus into she ceilar when
taken from the field.
The increase in a fleck of sheep that has
a good range and is well taken care of is
very rapid, and by the use of improved
blood the flock can soon be made very val-
uable. A merino cross will add much to
their wool-bearing qualities, but will not
improve their size or mutton qualities.
There is a generally received opinion that
the merino cross is much better adapted to
being run in large flocks, but to secure the
greatest prods from a flook of sheep, farm-
ers will find that they must soon breed for
the carcass as well as for wool.
Those who planted early this year should
be convinced that nothing is gained by
planting the seed when the ground is cold.
Peas thas were put in fora second orop,
after the ground was warm, gave the first
crops on some plots, while the early plant-
ings did not produce pickings. Lima heans
will not germinate at all until the ground
is warm, while melons planted after danger
of frost have been retarded by cool nights.
Is is always hetter to wait until the ground
is fairly warm, as the plants will then get
a better start.
A difficulty with sandy soils is that its
porosity permits of the rapid evaporation of
moisture from the surface during periods of
drought, thejloss of such moisture at the
surface being replaced, through capillary
attraction, by that lower down in the soil.
It bas been demonstrated that on such soils
mulching in summer is highly advantage-
ous, and that the labor and expense of so
doing is more than balanced by the vigor
of growth in crops, productiveness and free-
dom from drought,as she covering not only
assists to retain the moistare, but by the
agency of shade and moisture partially en-
riches the soil by chemical action.
Grass and pastures are the foundation of
all good dairying, and every progressive
man engaged in this work bas most of the
farm under cultivation for grass nearly all
the time. A little corn, vegetables and
wheat, or oats, may also be annually rais-
ed, but the foundation of the farm’s success
is grass. The great aim of the dairyman is
to produce large orops of hay and fine pas-
ture land. He makes this his great study,
for if this can be obtained he is on the high
road to success. All of this grass is improv-
ing the soil year by year, and as the robber
crops raised are small, and come around
only occasionally, more is added to the soil
than is taken from is.
An excellent way to redmoe bones is to
grind them and then mix them with un-
bleached ashes, using a barrel, placing six
-inches of ashes, then six inches of bones,
(filling the spaces between the bopes with
ashes), and thus alternating until the bar-
rel is nearly fol}, when a mixture of one
part urine and four parts water should be
poured over the mass, so as to keep it con-
stantly moist, but not wet. ‘The bones
will soon become decomposed, and when
wauted for crops the barrel shonld be emp-
tied on the barn floor and the mixture of
bone and ashes well worked with a hoe.
This gives a fertilizer containing not only
potash and phosphorie acid,but also a small
proportion of nitrogen.
It is most profitable to make pork from
young pigs than from adults. A bushel of
corn will produce more pounds of increase
in weight when fed to a pig three months
old. The cost of producing a given weight
of pork increases with the age of the ani-
mal. Ifitis the desire to produce an in-
crease of oge ton of pork by feeding 100
swine, that increase will be more cheaply
obtained by feeding pigs under 6 months of
age than by feeding those which are a year
old, or older ones. The man who allows
his young pigs to have ascanty allowance
of food permits his opportunity for profit-
able feeding to slip by and is obliged to
produce his pork at an inoreased cost, by
feeding when the swine are older.
Farm News and Views.—The results of
seed testing depend largely upon the con-
ditions under which the tests are mude.
Variations of temperature may cause varia-
tions in the rapidity of the sprouting, and
it is probable that a constant temperature
will give quicker results than a variable
one. As the temperature lowers sprouting
as a rule becomes slower. Then the quan-
tity of water applied to seeds may deter-
mine hoth the rapidity and per cent. of
sprouting; and it has been shown that a
comparatively small amount of water gives
the largest results. Greater quantities of
water than are required for the best results
lessen the rapidity and per cent. of produc-
tion, either by causing the seeds to rot or
by retarding generation. In some experi-
ments it has been demonstrated that the
soaking of seeds in water before planting
does not appear to hasten sprouting, as has
generally been supposed, providing the
planting time is reckoned from the time
the seeds are put to soak. Neither is it ap-
parent that the soaking of seeds influences
the amount of sprouting.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN:
Shop Notes.—All sorts of supple cloths
are high in favor for every sort of use.
Wiry and sofy finish alike are good, vro-
vided they are supple, and provided they
have a fairly smooth surface.
Hairy cloths—zibelines and their kin—
are used very sparingly, and mostly for
separate coats then.
But broadcloth promises to be first and
foremost for the dressier sort of clothes.
Suits and separaie coats, evening coats and
cloaks, and the prettiest of both afternoon
and evening dresses—those with a little air
of dignity about them—are made of it.
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As a consequence of this interest in
broadoloth, new, beautiful shades of colors
have come ous, made still more beautiful
by the satin sheen of the finish. ™¥p
Of course, all broadcloth used isjthe sort
that was achieved a year or so ‘ago, robbed
of all its old-time stiffness, and made sup-
ple and light in weight.
Elbow sleeves are coming in for every-
thing but the more workaday styles of
dress.
Corded handkerchiefs have developed
from the quaint styles with ‘‘dimity bord-
ers’ to styles with cords crossing and re-
crossing at intervals over the whole hand-
kerohief.
Voiles are still high in favor, promising
0 become another of the staples we're so
dependent on. Both heavy and light
ot i and the inbetween as well, are
good. ;
§ Velveteen is struggling back, mostly in
blue, black and green. :
And velvets are strong—even to velvet
ribbon. For velvet usually comes in when
the plainer cloths are used. And silk is
strong when the rough materials are.
Checks haveu’t gone out, as almost
everybody prophesied they wonld; only
they’ve faded to ‘invisible ohecks,’’ and to
two-toned effects, with the shades so close
together that only in a strong light does
the check stand out definitely.
ning, especially those of gray. Both the
definite and indefinite herringbones—like
| the checks, only in the weave—are good.
Mohairs have taken a vigorous new lease
of life for shirt waist suits.
Covert cloth makes hosts of separate
jackets and coats, and whole suits as well.
There's a darker shade than the usual pale
tan we're most accustomed to which bids
fair to be wonderfully popular, and a
whole los more serviceable than the lighter
shade, which shows every spot.
Gray covert cloth is gaining ground
steadily. It’s a copy of English styles, that
clear st one gray being as staple in England
as the tan coverts have been here.
Evening coats promise no end of changes.
Everything about them, it is said, will be
different. Empire styles will probably be
most marked in them, and short sleeves
very much in evidence.
Broadcloth, as usual, will make a great
number of the evening coats; hut mohair—
white, of course—will, for the first sime
for years, come into service for that use.
In broadcloth, white most of all will be
used, but gray—that exquisite shade known
as “‘silver’’—will be ‘popular, and a - soft,
pale blue.
Chiffon and chiffon cloth will be made
up over white for blouses. Some of them
will be made in a lighter shade of the color
of the broadcloth suit they’re worn with.
As to colors, black is back and plum
oolor promises to be strong. Blue is staple
and is popular this year as well, carrying
out the prediotions made last spring and
summer. ;
Next to blue is green, especially in the
shades that depend upon olive tones. And
red will bave a hearing.
More separate coats will te about than
have been seen for many a season. They
won't take the place of suits, however, but
establish themselves as an extra.
The popularity of green isthe natural
sequel to the fad for brown, which has
ractically worn iteell out, although, in
aris, a warm chestnut hrown is taking
things mildly by storm. : ?
Among the most popular materials for
shirt waise suits are voiles, henriettas and
mohairs, both the plain and novelty cloths;
green and blue checks and plaids, and some
brown and black; and in the novelty cloths,
quiet effects.
There's to be plenty of two-tone effects—
that is, cloth of one shade trimmed with a
lighter or darker shade of the cloth of the
same color. :
Changeable effects in cloth are over “and
done with.
Every indication of the styles of the sea-
son’s materiale is that they will be quiet
in design, but brighter as to color.
Raincoats show the influence of Empire
styles, in stitohings and yokes that indi-
cate, rather than actually employ, the high
belt so marked in everything of the Em-
pire.
Some of the newest coats show a good
deal of fulness below the waist line. Some
are even pleated to get more fulness in.
Among blouses, there’s an exquisite one
made of the palest of blue batiste, with a
tiny dragon harmlessly stretched out on
each side of the yoke. The work is Japa-
nege in ite finest and most delicate style.
Another blouse had tie-ends apparently
banging from the attached collar. But a
closer examination proves that they are
inget in the blouse, joined with the in-
evitable herring-boning.
A blouse, in the palest pink, had em-
broidery applied like a yoke of edging.
But yoke and blouse proper were all in the
same piece.
The new herringbone suitings are stun- |.
JAPS MUST WINTER IN SAKHALIN
Heavy Snow Prevents Their Leaving
Russian Territory.
Tokio, Oct. 2.—Snow is falling on
Sakhalin Island, and owing to the im-
passable condition of the roads the
Japanese troops still remaining at
Alexandrovsk cannot be withdrawn
overland into Japanese territory.
Strong gales are constantly prevail:
ing, making it next to an impossibility
to remove the troops on transports be
fore navigation completely closes,
which will be within a few weeks, and
preparations will be made to winter
the men there.
A fire that broke out in an army
storehouse at Hiroshima, and contin:
ued for more than three hours, de
stroyed 27 temporary buildings, to-
gether with their contents, consisting
principally of provisions and clothing.
There was no loss of life. In addition
to the 20 buildings containing clothes
and provisions, seven others filled
with fodder were destroyed. Although
the buildings were constructed of light
material, they contained an enormous
amount of stored goods, and the struc
tures being of inflammable nature the
flames were difficult to extinguish, de
spite the desperate efforts of the
troops. The fire was discovered at 1
o'clock and spread with great rapidity.
It was probably of incendiary origin.
The loss is variously estimated at
from $2,000.00 to $5,000,000.
STEAMER SUNK BY MINE
Was Probably One Used In Naval Bat
tles at Port Arthur.
Chefoo, Oct. 2.—The coasting steamer
Hsiesho, plying between Shanghai and
Tien Tsin, struck and was totally de
stroyed by a mine 90 miles south of
the Shantung promontory Saturday
morning. Fifteen persons on board
the vessel were drowned, including
among them Engineers Mauchan and
Muir. The foreign passengers and a
portion of the crew of the Hsiesha
were rescued by two passing steamers.
19 YEARS FOR BIGAMIST
Fred Carlton, Who Married Many
: Women, Sentenced.
New York, Oct. 3. — Frederick E.
Carlton, who was convicted of three
charges of bigamy and one of grand
larceny in Brooklyn, was sentenced tc
an aggregate term of 19 years in state
prison. On the first indictment, that
of marrying Mary Gorman while his
first wife was alive, sentence was sus:
pended. For marrying Mary J. Smith
while he had another wife living a
sentence of five years was imposed,
and for bigamy in marrying Lulu Ket:
tering, of Rochester, a sentence of four
years was given. On the charge of
grand larceny, in drugging and robbing
Henry Schaub, a machinist in the
United States navy, Carlton was sen
tenced to 10 years.
Judge Aspinwall was most bitter in
‘his denunciation of the prisoner's
crimes, and said he was convinced
that the prisoner attempted murder
when he tried to rob Schaub. Con:
‘tinuing, Judge Aspinall said:
“You are at heart a villain, a mur
derer, a swindler and a thief, and I am
sorry that I cannot send you to the
electric chair. Just remember that
your mother was a woman, but you
played with the love of women, and
when you were through with them you
turned them out into the world with
their shame upon them. You are one
of the most dangerous men in the
country.”
ADDICKS WINS FROM ALLEE
Has His Committee Named to Arrange
Harmony With Regulars.
Dover, Del, Oct. 3.—J. Edward Ad-
dicks, fighting for political life, was
able to effect a draw. After days of
missionary work the Union Republi-
can state committee of 18 members
was divided evenly between followers
of the gas man and of United States
Senator Allee. Both factions of the
Union Republican faction were intent
on fusion with the Regular Republi-
cans, and after a stormy meeting a
committee was appointed to make a
deal if possible. .
Addicks won out in opposing the
appointment of this committee by
Allee, the state chairman. His own
list—Layton, Allee, Addicks, Groves
and Marshall—was accepted. In so
far as he drew in his horns suffi-
ciently to serve on a committee with
Allee when he declared he never
would, the result is considered a com-
promise. Layton is considered an
Allee man and Groves an Addicks
man, with Marshall on the fence.
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The finest new crop New Orleans—a
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MARBOT WALNUTS.
These Nuts are clean and sound,
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Peaches 100., 120., 15¢. and 18c. per
pound. Apricots 150., 18c. and 20.
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Currants 10c. and 12. per pound.
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The foundation of our Mince Meat
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FOREIGN FRUITS.
We are now receiving some of the
finest California Naval Oranges and
Florida bright and sweet fruits. This
fruit is just now reaching its very fin-
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and at reasonable prices. Lovers of
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