TIIE SCKANTON TIU35TJNE -WEDNESDAY MORNING, APJtIL 28, 1897.
11
the Rome Reading Orck
Copyright, 1S97, by JJ. T. Mcndc and rtobert Eustnco.
SYNOPSIS.
This Btory Is told 1y Mntiellno ltennlrk.
nn English Rovorness In the family of Dr.
Chanco ut St. Petersburg; Uuaslu. Clmnce
Is nit KiiKllnhtnati by lilrlli, but for many
years a naturalized Husslan. Ho has a
wife and two diiURhters, OIkh unci Mn
rousHa, tilxtrcii und llftcen yearn of hko.
Tho doctor Iiuh long since given up tho
practice of medicine to bury himself In
his two splendidly uqulpppil laboratories
In Hclentllice nsenrch. Tho lnrwest and
finest of these workshops Is known as the
Blue Laboratory. A peculiarity of tho
room Is u low glass ilomo rising from a
corner of tho floor. The girls tell the
governess that ono day they sneaked Into
the room and heard cries for help coming
from beneath tho dome. Jllss ltennlrk Is
a Glrton Kraduate. and much Interested In
science. Kor thin reason shn becomes of
Breat assistance to Dr. Chance In his ex
periments. The llrst time he takes her
Into the Htuu Laboratory lie Is called
from tho room. The Boverness rushes to
tho dome and pulls the cover off. llo
neath several thicknesses of class ap
pears tho horrlblo vision of a nhastly.
lean and hagguid faee. Just then the
doctor Is heard returning. The startled
Boverness pulls the cover back and re
sumes her work. She Is much frightened
but retains her composure.
TAUT 111.
"Dr. Chance." I said, when my most
important work wok over, "why have
jou that peculiar dome In the corner
of the lloor?"
"I warned you to nsk no questions,"
lie said, his back was slightly to me
as lie spoke. "There is nothing in this
r torn," he continued, "which Is out of
uso. If you become curious nnd spy
ing I shall need your services no long
er. '
"You must please yourself about
that," I replied, with spirit, "but it is
not an Kngllsh girl's habit to spy."
"I believe you are right," said Dr.
Chance, coming close and staring nt
me. "Well, on this occasion I small
have pleasure in gratifying your cur
iosity. That dome Is a part of an ap
paratus, by which I make a vncum.
Now you are doubtless as wise as you
were before."
'I am no wiser," I answered.
The doctor smiled in u sardonic
manner.
"I have finished my experiment," ho
said, "let us come uway."
1 ran straight up to my room nnd
shut and locked myself In. I could not
face the girls. I must not see them
again until 1 had so completely con
trolled my features that they would
not guesss their suspicions were con
firmed. I sat down and thought hard.
No danger should now deter me on tho
course which I had marked out for my
self. The miserable victim of Dr.
Chance's cruelty should be rescued,
even If my life" were the purchase.
Hut I knew well that my only chanc-.
of success was by putting the doctor
off his guard and showing the wari
ness and wisdom of the serpent. A3
subsequent events proved, however. I
little knew the man with whom 1 had
to deal.
Having planned matters carefully
In my own mind, I proceeded to act
upon them. That evening 1 dressed
for dinner In my best. I had observed
that Dr. Chance, cold-bloodedi auto
maton as he was in most things,
had nn eye for a pretty woman. His
wife was plain, his daughter. had not
yet attained to the charms of woman
hood, but I knew I wan handsome,
well-mude nnd stately. I took care of
my own dignity and at the same time
could afford to let men see how good
looklnlg I could be on certain occa
sions. I possessed an old black velvet
dress which had belonged to my grand
mother. The velvet waa superb, but
the make was old-fiu'hloned. ThU
very old-fashloncdness would doubt
less udd to Its charm In the eyes of the
doctor; he might, wh n he saw It, re
member some of the beauties In had
met when he was young. Accordingly
I put on the black velvet diess, pinned
a lace kerchief In artistic folds round
my throat, piled my hair high on my
forehead, and then darllngly powdered
It. I had black hair, black as Ink, a
clear complexion, a good deal of color
In my cheeks, and very dark eyes and
eye-brows. The effect of the powdered
ment, followed Immediately by a stare
of npproval.
"You remind mo of some one," he
said after n pause. "My doar,"urn
ing to his wife, "whom does Miss Hen
nick remind you of?"
Mrs. Chance favored mo with hor
round, curious, unsympathetic stare.
"Miss Hennlck is somewhat like the
picture of Marie Antoinette just be
fore she was guillotined," she said,
after a pause.
"True, there Is certainly a resom-
begnn, "If you really know whnt you
nsk, 1 could tell you that secret, Clod
knows 1 would tell It to you, If I
thought you could stand It,"
"1 can stand anything," I said,
steadying myself. "At the present mo
ment I nm all curiosity. I have no
fear. Is your secret such a fearful one?
Is It n terrible thing to photograph
Thought?"
"The ways and means by wWcli those
secrets have been wrung from nature
are fraught with terror," was the slaiv
reply, "but you have asked me, and
you shall know on a condition."
"What Is that?"
"That you wait until tomorrow even
ing." 1 was about to reply when a servant
camo softly up the room, bearing a
card on a slaver. He presented lt to
the doctor. Dr. Chance looked at me.
"Dr. Schopenhauer has called," hi)
said abruptly, "he wants to see me on
something Important. I shall be back
with ou In a few momentB."
He left me alone. I oould naarcfly
believe my senses I was by myself In
the lllue Laboratory such an un
looked for opportunity was Indeed
provldentlnl. 1 went straight, like an
ntrow shot from a bow, to the dome
Fhnped roof. 1 withdrew the covering
and bent over It, peering Into the utter
datkness below. Of course 1 could see
nothing, I rapped with my knuckles
on the glass; there was no sound, no
reply of any sort. Had the vlotlm
been removed Into a still further dun
geon? 1 did not despair. I knocked
again. This time my efforts, were re
warded by a faint, far-away, terrible
HOW TO GET RID
OF WILD GARLIC
Something of Interest to Every Dairy
man and Farmer.
ONE OF THE WORST PLAGUE WEEDS
Vnlunble Information Contained in n
Itcccut Circular Sent Out by tho
United States Department of AgrW
culturc--Of Kspcclnl Pertinency in
U'nyne, Wyoming mid Susqiicliniinn
Counties.
I TOOK T HE KEY.
"I BELIEVE YOU ARE niCHT,"
SAID Dlt. CHANCE.
hair Immediately removed, me from the
conventional girl of tho period and
pave me that old picture look which
men especially admire.
When I went Into tho salon, Olga
and Maroussa rushed to meet mo with
cries of rapture.
"How lienutlful you look, Madeline,"
l tney exciaunecr, "nut wny navo you
pressed so much?' ,
"I took h fancy to wear tills," I
said, "It belonged to my grandmother."
"Hut why have you powdered your
hair?"
"Hecauso It suits the dress."
"W)l, you certainly do look lovely.
I wonder What mamma will say!"
When Mrs. Chance appeared she
stared at mo In some astonishment,
but vouchsafed no remark. We all
went to dinner and saw Pr. Chance
raise his eyes and observe my pictur
esque dress with a glanc of puzle-
blance,"sald tho doctor, nodding Ills
head.
I drew my chair a little closer to
him and began to talk. I talked more
brilliantly than I had ever dor.es be
forehe listened to mo in surprise.
Soon I saw that I was pleasing him
I legan to draw lilm out. Ho told me
stones of his early youth, of a tlmo
when his fat, fJerman wife had not ap
peared on the horizon of his existence.
He even described his conquests In
those early days anil laughed merrily
over his own exploits. Our conversa
tion was In English and Mrs. Chance
evidently could not follow th.3 doc
tor's brilliant repartee and my some
what smart replies. She stared at me
In some astonishment, then, gently
sighing, she lay back In her dhalr and
began to dose. Tho girls talked to one
another; they evidently suspected
nothing.
"Shall wo go up to the salon?" said
Mrs. Chance, at last.
"You may, my dear, of course," was
the doctor's quick reply, "and the :act
Is the sooner you and the girls do so
the better, for Miss Hennlck has to get
through some work this evening for
me. Did I not tell you so, Miss Hen
nlck? AVI11 you have the goodness to
fi.liow me now to the cabinet. you
get through your work quickly, I shall
do something for you. I see by your
inannel' that you are devoured by cur
iosity. Yes, don't attempt to deny It.
I will gratify you. You shall nsk me
to tell you one of my secrets this even
ing. Whatever you ask I shall do my
bPl to comply with. The fact Is, I am
In the humo;- to be gracious."
"Miss Hennlck looks tired." raid Mrs.
Chance; "don't keep her downstairs
too long, Alexnnder. Come, girls."
The girls smiled and nodded to mo;
they followed their mother upstairs
and I went with the doctor to his cab
inet. The moment we were alone ho
turned nnd faced me.
"I repeat what 1 have just said," he
began, "you are full of curiosity. That
which ruined our mother Eve Is also
your bane. I see dellanco nnd a seiiso
of strong desire to wring my secrets
from mo In your eye this evening. Now
let mo ask you a question. What has
a young unformed creature llko you
to do with science?"
"I love science," I said, "I respect
her, her secrets iro precious. Hut
what can I do for you, Dr. Chance?"
"You speak In tho right spirit, Miss
Hennlck, Yes, I require your sevlces,
follow me at once to the Hluo Labora
tory." Ho tripped on In front, genlnl and
pleased. He opened the door In the
wall, turned on the electric light, nnd
we found ourselves In the ghastly
place with Its ghastly human secret.
I went and stood cloco to the dome
shaped root on the lloor. Dr. Chancj
crossed the room and began to examine
some microbes which he was carefully
studying. ?
"After all," ho said, "this experi
ment Is not In a suillclently advanced
stage to do anything further tonight.
I shall not require your help until tc
morrow. Now, then, what can I do for
you?"
"You can tell mo a secret," I an
swered suddonly.
"I p.romlsed to do so. What do you
want to know"'"
"Do you remember the lira: day I
helped yon 7"
"Well?"
"I wrote a papor for you on that
day, the subject was the 'Photography
of Thought.' You promised your Rug.
lhh public that In a month or six
weeks at furthest you wnull be nblvj
to pvsNo your words. The tluu Is past;
prove yvnr woids to mo now. Sow mo
how yon ihrt?ruh Thought."
Dr. '"Miauo scared at nn for . mo
ment, then he grinned from ear to ear.
Ills glittering teeth showed, then van
ishedhis cyee looked like sparks of
living fire.
"I wonder If you ore prepared," he
groan. 1 was desperate now, and In
spite of the risk I ran of being heard
by Dr. Chance, began to shout down
through the glass.
"If there Is anything within, speak,"
I cried.
A voice, faint and hollow, a long way
off, dim ns If these were its last and
dying utterances, answered me.
"I am an Englishman unjustly Im
prisoned," there was a long pause; the
next words came fainter, "put to tor
ture," another silence, then the voice
again, "In the shadow of death, help!
save!"
"You shall be released within twenty-four
hours," I answered back. My
next act was Indeed daring, and the
Inspiration of a moment. 1 ran to the
door, took out the key, nnd hurrying
to the bench where Dr. Chance's large
microscope stood, took ono of the
pieces of hard paraflln which he used
for regulating the temperature of his
stage, and taking a careful impression
of the key, returned It to Its place,
slipping the wax Impression in my
pocket. Having done this 1 wandered
about for a moment or two, trembling
violently and trying to resume my self
control. The doctor did not return; I
resolved to stay In ihe Hlue Labora
tory no longer. I turned off the elec
tric light, took the key out of the lock,
went up the long passage, and knocked
at the door of the other laboratory
It was quickly opened by the doctor.
1 gave him the key without glancing
at him, and hurried to my room.
How I spent thn.t dreadful night I
can never now recall. I had no per
sonal fear, but every nerve In my body,
each thought In my brain, waa centered
upon one passionate, feverish goal
I would rescue that tortured English
man even at the risk of my life. At
this time 1 could not determine clear
ly how to act, but before the morning
two steps became clear to me one was
to have a, duplicate key of the labora
tory made Immediately, the second,
to go and see the English consul. T
did not even know the name of the
consul, but I knew that he was bound
to protect English subjects. Dr.
Chanco was himself a naturalized rtus
slan, but the Imprisoned man waB an
Englishman I would appeal to my
own country for his release.
TO HE CONTINUED.
Tho most Injurious weed at the pres
ent time In the middle Atlantlo states
Is wild garlic. From Pennsylvania to
South Carolina and Tennessee, It is
known to townspeople as disfiguring
lawns, to farmers nnd millers as a
pest In wheat, and to dairymen and
their customerc as ruining dairy pro
ducts when eaten by cows In the tas
tunes. In different parts of tho region
where It grows In this country It Is
called "wild garlic" and "wild onion,"
and less frequently "Held garlic" and
"crow garlic."
Wild garllo Is not native In this
country, but wns Introduced at an ear
ly date from the old world. The ear
liest writings distinguishing It from
other species, mention It ns growing in
fields and vineyards In Germany and
France. One of the earliest authentic
records of Its presence In America Is
contained in I'ursh's American Flora,
published In 1S14, In which It Is said to
be "In old fields; common." Between
1814 and 1S23. several authors, writing
on the plants of this country, st.Ue that
this species was abundnnt and trouble
some from New York to Virginia,
DESCRIPTION.
Wild garlle Is a perennial plant, pro
pagating almost exclusively by means
of secondary underground bulbs and
aerial bulblets. The form which Is
most abundant In America rarely pro
duces seeds. In lawns and pastures
where the tops are not allowed to de
velop, wild garlic reproduces Itself by
the small secondary bulbs or "cloves"
developing at the base of the old bulb.
These may be found In clusters at a
depth of from three to ten Indies be
low the surface of the ground. Soon
after tho fall rains they send up tufts
of blue-green shoots. Those shoots re
main green, apparently little Injured
by the cold or winter. The bulbs,
which In autumn are but little larger
than grains of wheat, grow during the
winter to the size of common ueas or
larger, and In spring new bulbs are
formed at their bases.
In grain Holds, meadows and places
whero tho tops ore- undisturbed, wild
garlic propagates by aerial bulblets,
like the "sets" of cultivated onions,
as well as by the underground second
ary bulbs. The llower-bearlng stem,
put forth In May or early June, Is from
ten to thirty Inches tall. The llowers,
varying from. greenlsh-whlte to reddish-purple,
are about one-sixteenth of
an lncho long In simple umbels. The
seeds, when present, are black, flat,
triangular, sniveled, and about one
sixteenth of an Inch In length. The
Howerc are usually followed by the
aerial bulblets, forty to one bundrea
and twenty growing on each plant.
Meanwhile, secondary bulbs, have been
growing beneath the bulb In the
ground, and thus the multiplication
of the species Is abundantly provided
for.
OTHEH SPECIES.
There are about fifty native SDeclea
of onion In the United States, and
some of these are frequently mistaken
for wild garlic. They all have the
same disagreeable odor, but this 1b usu
ally less strong than In wild garlic.
Tho most common of them grow on
low, wet land, and die out when tho
land Is cultivated, while the wild gar
lic thrives well on high land or In
dry soli, and often increases under or
dinary cultivation. All ot the other
species east of the Hocky mountains
may be distinguished from wild Garlic
by hnvlng the leaves flat or channeled
on one side Instead of round, or tho
llowers more than one-sixth of at) Inch
long, or the flower cluster bent over to
one side Instead of erect, or the coats
of the bulb fibrous instead of membraneous.
to a depth of about three feet and all of
the garlic bulbs found were picked out
and destroyed. The land was greatly
Improved by the process, and tho quan
tity of Wild garlic was much reduced,
but enough of the bulbs escaped to re
seed the land within a few years. On a
very small area trenching may be
practicable, but It would be easier nnd
more thorough to dig out each tuft of
plnntn separately In the fall and burn
the bulbs together with the earth sur
rounding them.
Hand pulling has been tried. This Is
most effective Just nt the flowering
time, since most of the young second
ary bulbs will then cling to the base of
the old bulb. Some of them are likely
to be left, however, even In soft, culti
vated land. Moreover, tho stalks arc
somewhat hidden by other vegetation
nt thin time.
Cultivation with hoed crops has been
tried, but this alone Is Ineffective,
since the garlic mnkes its principal
growth In the fall and early In tho
spring. To destroy wild garlic by
plowing and cultivation, the land
should be plowed late In the fall, the
depth of the furrow varying1 In differ
ent soils, so as to lenve as many bulbs
as possible near tho surface to be ex
posed to alternate freezing and thaw
ing. Any surviving shoots should bo
destroyed by early spring cultivation,
and after thorough fitting, oats or bar
ley may be sown or corn planted. Oats
or barley nro better than a hoed crop
unless the latter can be well cultivated
until midsummer. This process re
peated for two successive years will
destory nearly all the garlic, nnd the
remaining plants may be more econom
ically destroyed by othe methods.
LIME AND SALT.
of the cows, are among the best ways
of nvoldlng the Injurious effects of wild
garlic upon dairy products, without
entirely destroying the plants. Hut
these are only makeshifts. Complete
eradication of tho garlic plants Is tho
only satisfactory method.
Sat the theaters, j
Frederick Warde wll bring his great
revival of Shakespeare's "King Lear,"
of which so much has been written nnd
said In prnlse to the Frothlnghain this
evening. The New Orleans Tlmcs
Dcmociat says: "As a scenic produc
tion, Mr, Warde's "King Iear" Is ar
tistic and adequate everywhere, and
perhaps no stronger commendation
could be given to any scenic production
of n really great play. The stage pic
tures are all artistic nnd us realistic
as could be compassed within the some-
whut proscrlbid limits of stnge presen
tation, while on the other hand they
are not of that stupendous class which
distract the attention of the audience
from the purely dramatic features of
the production. Several scenes pre
sented last night were beautiful us
works of art, In which the perspective
effects were little short of marvelous,
while the grout storm scene was nt
once sublime and realistic." Thursday
afternoon Mr. Wnule will present
Shakespeare's comedy, "Tho Merchant
of Venice," and Thursday night the
historic tragedy, "King Hlchnid 111."
THE
Lit n in rn
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124-126 Wyoming Avi
For Today,
Wednesday,
April 28th,
Special
Bargain in;
A liberal application of lime In pas
tures nnd meadows will Improve the
growth of grasses and clovers.and thus
nld In crowding out garlic. This will
be found especially effective In soils
deficient In lime, as- Is tho case through
out a large proportion of the garlic-Infested
area.
Hogs confined on garlic patches In
sandy laud will root out the bulbs and
destroy them, and In some instances
good results have been obtained by
plowing the land and turning them on.
Sheep pastured In garlic-Infested
fields late in autumn and early In
spring will thin out the plants by pre
venting the developments, of leaves. In
some cases It may bo necessary to salt
tho garlic occasionally to induce the
sheep to get a taste to overcome their
natural dislike for It.
After wild garlic has been thinned
out by any of the above methods, or
where the plants are still confined to
Isolated patches, complete eradication
can bo most economically effected by
the application of carbolic acid. A sin
gle drop of strong carbolic on n leaf or
shoot will kill the shoot and the bulb
from which It grows. Half a teaspoon
ful applied so as to Btrlke most of the
shoots In a bunch as they grow In pas
tures and lawns will kill the entire
bunch. The cheaper quality of com
merclal carbolic acid, retailing at 30 to
40 cents per gallon, Is effective for this
purpose. This should be used with lit
tle or no dilution. It Is easily applied
with a common machine oil can or a
garden watering pot with a small rose
or nozzle. To complete the eradica
tion by this method the ground should
be carefully looked over during each of
the two succeeding years. This may
best be done In winter or early spring,
when the plants are not hidden by
other vegetation. Stock, being kept up
at this season, Is not likely to be pois
oned, and doors and windows being
closed, the offensive odor of the acid
will be kept out of houses. Experi
ments have proved that carbolic acid
will kill wild garlic even when the
ground Is frozen. While this process
certainly requires time, It takes no
longer to apply carbolic acid to a gar
lic plant than to put Paris green on a
potato plant, and It requires much less
time than would be necessary to dig out
the plants or chop them off with a hoe
or spade, a practice that has often been
tried with lndefferent results. Crude
sulphuric acid, such as Is used In east
ern Pennsylvania for destroying Can
ada thistles, will kill garlic, but this
acid Is exceedingly corioslve, and there
fore can not be handled ns easily and
as safely as carbolic acid. A water so
lution of sodium arsenlte or of arsenic
and salsoda will kill wild garlic, but It
would be less repulsive to stock than
carbolic acid and more likely to result
In cases of poisoning.
Sixteen to one Is the motto of the
Dnzzlcr this season sixteen minutes
of hilarious eiioyment to every one ot
wit. Sixteen minutes of fun and laugh
ter to ono rest, In which to get ready
for tho next sixteen. All the old chest
nuts have been cleaned out, and an en
tirely new lot of fun, music, singing,
and dancing put In their places. The
company Is a strong one, every mem
ber playing a part and also doing n
taking specially. The comedians are
clever wits and agile dancers, while
the girls are attractive of fa"e and
form, exceptionally good singers and
graceful dancers. As new ns the new
est nnd as bright as the brightest, the
Dazzler wil be well worth seeing at
the Academy ot Music next week
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and spe
cial Saturday matinee.
The American Lilliputians, as the
"Hogan's Alley Kinds," at 10, 20 and 30
cents admission, should ceitalnly pack
Davis' theater the last three, days of
this week. There are twenty of these
clever little people and they have Just
concluded an eight weeks engagement
ut Proctor's Pleasure Palace, New
York. We have had juvenile operu
companies, but a Juvenile farce com
edy Is a new one on us. However, the
eight weeks' success of the Lilliputians
at Proctor's Pleasure Palace Is a guar
antee of their Intrinsic merit. We can
not conceive "HoBan'B Alley" being
characterized by any but precocious
juveniles.
25 clozeti""adies' "Onyx"
Fast Black Hose, full regular
made, doublcTsoles and higli
spliced lieeTfCr""' Every pair
warranted or, .money refund
ed. Regulan-'.pricc 25c, to
day's price
12J4c a pair
ai-in
White Goods
We shall close out today
about 1,000 remnants of Dress
Ginghams in lengths of from
4 to 12 yards at
4c per yard
This is the regular 10c.
grade and at the price quoted
the lot ought not to last
longer than 110011.
AT
We shall also place 011 sale
200 yards of Striped India
Linen, the regular 7c grade at
4c per yard.
11.
DAMAGE CAUSED.
unu'Aiii: or iiohax,
Do
It Is n l)r ns Which Is Liable to
.More. I in rm Than (Jood.
Borax has become such a familiar
household article, and enters Into the
composition of so muny things In or
dinary use, that it Is Interesting to
note some experiments of a French
physician, Dr. Ch. Fere, who has made
exhaustive Investigation Into the qaull
ties of this much-used substance. The
British Medical Journal says that
"there are a considerable number qf
persons peculiarly susceptlblo to borax.
In them loss of appetite was succeeded
by burning pain In the pit of tho stom
ach, dryness of the mouth, nnd eventu
ally by nausea and vomiting. Borax
nlso produces a remarkable dryness of
tho skin, which is found to favor, If
not to cause, various skin diseases, es
pecially eczema. Tho hair also be
comes dry and may fall out, causlntr
complete baldness. The most danger
ous result of the use of borax, how
ever, Is Its power of producing kidney
disease, or of converting1 a slight dis
order of the kidneys Into a fatal mal
ady." In view of tho fnct that borax as an
Ingredient in hair washes Is exten
sively used, this warning does not
come amiss, It is not Impossible that,
as many of the shampoo mixtures con
tain borax, this may account for bald
ness In men who habitually indulge In
shampooing at the barber's. If eczema
Is tho result of a regular use of borax,
the question arises whether borax soap
Is not a innunco to health, and an ar
ticle that should bo restricted In Its
employment,
The flesh of animals which have eat
en wild garlic for some tlmo In tho
pasture Is tainted with gnrlle llavor
and rendered unmarketable, unless the
animals nre fee on a diet free from It
for several days before slaughtering.
Tho milk of cows eating wild garlic
In the pasture has the strong, un
wholesome llavor of garlic, and any
food containing the garllc-llavored
milk Is unpalatable. Cream rising from
tho milk has tho flavor apparently In
tensified and butter made from tho
cream Is worthless. The skimmed
milk, clabber, and smearcase, or cot
tage cheese, are also spoiled. Garllc
llavored milk can not be used for mak
ing standard cheese In fact, there Is
no way of disposing of It except feed
ing It to stock and Helling It to the
few people who do not object to the
flavor,
The period of growth of wild garllo
coincides almost exactly with that of
rye and winter wheat, and the bulblets
are mature at the time these cralns are
harvested. As a large proportion of
the bulblets are of about the same size
and weight as wheat grains It Is Impos
sible to separate them cither by sieves
or fans unless kept until winter, when
the bulblets freeze nnd dry up. Garlle
bulblets ground with wheat Impart to
the flour their strong flavor, which ren
ders unpalatable bread, cake, pastry,
and everything made with the Hour.
The effect on rye Hour Is practically
the same. Ityo and wheat needed for
seeding purposes should be carefully
kept free from garlic bulblets.
When garllo bulblets are ground with
wheat or rye they not only spoil the
Hour, but they cause a further In
jury by forming a varnlsh-llke coating
on tho rollers. This Interferes with the
grinding and makes It necessary to
shut down the mill until the gum Is
washed off, a process taking from ten
to twenty-minutes for each pair of
rollers. It Is even worse on the buhr
stones than on tho steel rollers, as it
gums the burs, Imparts Its flavor to
all tho flour, and prevents good grind
ing until It Is removed Dy dressing tho
burp.
The disfigurement of lawns is of less
Importance than the damages already
mentioned, but the presence of the gar
llo is an offense to the eye of anyono
who takes pride In an even greenswnrd,
and to tho nostrils of anyono who de
lights In the odor of new-mown grass.
METHODS OF ERADICATION,
1 Many methods for eradicating wild
garlic have been tried, most of them
falljng thus far of complete success,
but many of them effective In reducing
tho quantity of the weed, A piece of
land nearly an acre In extent at Ger
mautown. Pa., waa trenched bv hand
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Many efforts have been made to
avoid the tainting of dairy products by
wild garlic or to remove or disguise
the odor. In some localities small
pieces of saltpeter are placed In the
pall during milking. Whllo saltpeter
does not produce any Immediate harm
ful effects when thus diluted und taken
In small quantities, its continued use
Is very likely to result In Injury.
Simple aeration by pouring the milk
'from pall to pall while It Is still warm
from the cow Improves It to some ex
tent, and In large dairies different
styles of aerating machines are used
with good results. 'Pasteurizing milk
in open vessels at a temperature of
about IBS degrees F. will remove the
garlic llavor to a considerable extent,
but experiments have shown that
when heat alone Is used It Is neces
sary to boll the milk for some time to
get rid of the odor. Experiments con
ducted In a Virginia creamery teem to
prove that a process, combining aera
tion and pasteurization is the most
sucessful. This treatment has tho ad
vantage of using no chemicals, and the
operations is simple. Another method,
recently described In a prominent
dairy paper, consists in washing the
cream with double Its bulk of water, In
which a little saltpeter has been dis
solved, raising the temperature suffi
ciently to pasteurize the cream, and
then immediately passing It through a
centrifugal separator. Iiy this process
the cream loses much of Its weed flavor,
but as It has been pasteurized It must
have a ferment or "starter" add to It
to Insure proper ripening.
It Is difficult to remove all of the gar
lic llavor from milk, and dairymen gen
erally afgree that to have milk entirely
free from It the cows must bo kept
away from where tho weed is abund
ant. Not only this, but the stables and
dairy room where milk Is to stand
must bekept free from garlic odor,
which like many other odors, Is readly
absorbed by milk. If cows, pasturing
where there Js considerable garlic, aro
shifted to another field where there Is
none nnd where good water Is obtain
able, at least three hours before milk
ing time, so that they come to the milk-
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