THE PEOPLE'S ONE DOLLAR TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VISITOR.
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
C2rap Growing.
An Hungarian, who is starting a vine
yard at Chester, Conn., says that the
Americans make the ground too rich for
this fruit, and in the selection of his
virfeyard has taken land with a soil origi
nally "too poor to grow white beans."
This enterprise will be watched with
fome interest and the conclusion may be
found to be correct. We remember vis
iting a vineyard of wonderful produc
tiveness, of T. 13. Wakeman, at Green
Farm3 in the same State, and it was sit
uated upon a side hill of very light shady
soil, but it was a feast to look upon the
enormous clusters of fine fruit. The
thin soil may have been a partial secret
to the success. Germardotcn. Telegraph.
Grafting Fruits.
Next to the planting of new trees dur
ing the coming spring, preparation
bhould be made for giafting the natural
apple trees and other bearers of worthless
fruit to be found on almost every farm.
Some varieties of fruit, however, should
be budded, rather than grafted, and I
"ive the following schedule of modes of
propagation adapted to different trees
and fruit-bearing shrubs:
Apple and pear, budding and graft
ing. Cherry, mostly by budding, but suc
ceeds well by gralting if done very
early.
Peach and nectarine, by budding only,
at the North ; often succeeds by grafting
at the South.
Plum, by grafting, and also by bud
ding if the stocks are thrifty.
Apricot, mostly by budding, some
times by grafting.
Almond, by budding and sometimes
by grafting.
Chestnut, by early grafting.
Walnut, by early grafting and by an
nual budding.
Quince, by cutting and grafting.
Filbert, by suckers and layers. The
finer sorts may be grafted on the more
common, which reduces the size of the
bush and makes them more prolific.
Crape, by layers and cuttings, and, in
rare instances, grafting is advantageous
ly employed for new or rare sorts on old
or wild stocks, producing rapid growth
and early bearing.
Baspberry and blackberry, by suckers,
cuttings of" roots and layers.
Gooseberry and currant, by cuttings
and sometimes by layers.
To insure good grafting one must
have sharp tools and good wax. The
grafting wax purchased is not alway a
good article, and it is preferable to make
it, by heating and mixing equal parts of
rosin, tallow and yellow beeswax. A
coat of this wax, about one-twentieth of
an inch thick, spread over muslin, calico
or tough and flexible paper, makes an
excellent plaster for out-door grafting;
or, if spread half an inch on paper, is
well adapted to root grafting. In either
case the strips should be narrow, that they
may be easily wrapped around the graft
till it is well covered, when the rest may
be torn off. In making the plasters it is
essential that the ingredients of the wax
should be thoroughly stirred together
before it is spread. A kind of paper,
soft, thin and tough, is now much used by
dry goods shopkeepers for wrapping,
and may be purchased cheaply by the
ream. For out-door grafting, in cool
weather, a lantern or" chafing dish is
required to soften the plasters. A
cheaper kind of wax can be made of four
parts" of tallow, one part of yellow bees
wax, but it sticks to one's fingers and
cannot be rapidly used. Cultivator.
Farm anil Garden Notes.
As a protection for rose bushes all sea
weeds are good fertilizers.
Apple and peach trees should be
planted annually, to keep up a goodsup
ph of friit.
The best time to sort potatoes is when
picking them up, which should be done
very soon after digging.
Don't destroy the humble bees. They
are the agents by which the clover pollen
is carried from one biosson to another.
A cow in milk should never be driven
faster than a moderate walk. With a
full udder it hurts a cow to trot or run.
It is said that eggs from hens kept
without roosters, will keep at least twice
as long as those from hens running with
roosters.
Cows at pasture after the first severe
frost want something more than the
damaged grass. Grain will come in play
as well as in mid-winter.
Gives the cows only pure, clean water
to drink, and fence them away from stag
nant pools if you do not wish to be
bothered with bitter milk.
In England a very fine flavor is im
parted to the flesh of fattening turkeys
by feeding them, in confinement, with
cooked food in which chopped sweet
herbs, like parsley, have been mixed.
By k( wiping Canada thistles cut down
close to the ground they can be de
stroyed, but it will require two or three
years to become free of the pests. Not a
single plant should be allowed to grow.
Those who pack eggs in salt must re
member that it is necessary to pack the
eggs as soon after they are laid as possi
ble. They should be put into the salt as
soon after they come from the nest as
possible.
Every farmer's wife knows that apple
wcaqnshes make a very strong lye. This
is alk'-'Se of most fruit trees, and espe
cially tL VMt have been very produc
tive, "tl'-- TH.en Tnxt nees potash to
enable it tdv ant tue roots take UP
san flnj ). ''is mineral wherever it
is avaUaK- UX Se of this never leaves
V I 111 IHC VMI1V
Some of the farmers in New Jersey
think that tomato skins make an excel
lent fertilizer for wheat, and several of
them claim to have used it for that grain
for several years, with marked success.
After taking 15 to 20 tons of tomatoes
from the acre the vines are turned un
der and great crops of wheat are not un
frequently gathered the following July
from a tomcto field of the past year.
The small fruits ripen in hot weather,
when drying them by old-fashioned
methods is very difficult. The evapo
rator, says the Cultivator, does its best
work in these, and its use has created a
popular demand for the evaporated pro
duct "which as yet has never been fully
supplied. The black and red raspberries
are especially valuable, and the demand
for evaporation will long keep the price
during the picking season at a paying
rate.
In caring for roses it is not so much
protection from the cold as from sudden
changes that is desirable, as all roses will
stand a fall of temperature some degrees
below the fieezing point if not in grow
ing condition. Wait until the cold has
killed the foilage on the rose bushes and
checked the growth, and then cut away
the withering buds and tender shoots,
which, being full of soft wood and sap,
tend to produce decay during warm win
ters or early spring.
Live Mastodons in Alaska.
For several years scientists have been
greatly interested in stories that have
come from Alaska tending to shake their
faith in the belief that the mastodon is
an extinct animal. The latest contribu
tion on this subject the importance of
which, from a zoological point of view
cannot be overestimated is furnished by
the Free J'resir published at Juneau,
Alaska. The editor of that paper says:
In conversation with D. II. Summers,
formerly of Denver, Col., who came out
this fall with a party of miners from Forty
Mile Creek, we learned thac the existence
of living mastodons were not the mere
fabrications of northern furriers, but
that the Stick Indians had positively
told him that such animals had been seen
by them. One of the Indians said that
while hunting one day in that unknown
section'he came across an immense track
sunk to a depth of several inches in
moss. It much resembled an ele
phant's track, but was larger round
than a barrel. The Indian followed up
this curious track, which, to all appear-nnr-p
wns verv fresh, tracking from one
, , -. , - .
j immense stride to another, a distance of
some miles, when he came in lull view
of his game. The hunter gave one look,
then turned and lied. These Indians,
n n. rule, are the bravest hunters. With
1 no other weapon than their snear they
will attack ana kill a grizziy, out xne
immense proportions of this new style of
game both startled and tilled the hunter,
brave as he was, with great fear.
lie described it as being larger than
Post Trader Harper's store, with great
shining yellowish tusks and mouth large
enouah to swallow him at a single gulp.
He said the animal was doubtless similar
to those which furnished the immense
bones scattered over that section. If
such animals are now in existence, and
Mr. Summers has no reason to doubt the
veracity of the Indian, as other Indians,
and also Mr. Harper, confirmed it, they
inhabit a section very high in altitude,
but very rarely visited by human beings.
We also have no reason to doubt the
Indian tale, for at no very distant period
Yukeon country was inhabited by these
animals, as hundreds of their massive
skeletons, strewn along the creeks, are
silent but truthful witnesses. On Forty
Mile Creek bones can be found project
ing partly from the sand, and among the
driftwood of the stream on the creek be
low this these skeletons are also quite
numerous.
Settling an Old Score.
An old citizen, a gentleman of high
social and official standing in St. Joseph,
tells a story of the famous Missouri
Governor, Bob Stewart, which, true to
the letter, proves that fact is stranger
than fiction.
"I was coming up the Missouri River
when I was a boy, said the ex-Governor,"
flnrl T was working mv wav on a steam
boat. At a point where we had to wood
up I didn't carry as big a ioaa as some
of the roustabouts, nor move with that
agilitv that the others did, for I was not
strong and had been tenderly raised.
The mate became enraged at my slaw
movements on the gangplank, and he
gave me a kick and sent me ashore, and
confiscated my buffalo robe as payment
for my passage to that point. I never
saw that mate again until I had been in
augurated Governor of this State.
''One, day wandering through the
wards and districts of the penitentiary,
I saw that mate working at a forge. He
had been sent there for killing, in a
passion, a man under his command. I
knew him instantly, and I directed the
warden to send the man to the Guberna
torial mansion in the garb of a gentle
man. When the man arrived I took him
into my private office and asked him if
he recognized me. "Do you remember
one time, at such and such place, of
kicking a boy and sending him ashore
who had been working in your gang?"
"The man said : 'No, I don't remember
it; but it is very likely that I did it.'
4 'Well,' says I, 4 1 am that boy, and
here is your pardon. I always thought
I would get even with you.'
"The tears came to the old man's eyes,
and he said: 'Well, Governor, to be a
mate in those days a man had to be a
dog.'
44 'You played well your part, I said.
'Now leave here and don't let me see you
again.'
'As he made his exit I gave him an
able-bodied kick, and little Bob Stewart
had got even with that big steamboat
mate.
"Sounds like a romance, don't it?
Yes. But every word is true, I need
barely say, sir." SC. Joseph (Mo.) Gasetts.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Dark blue cashmere garments for rjirls
are braided with scarlet or pale blue
braids.
Velvet appears to be a favorite mate
rial for the waistcoat, collar and cuffs to
wool dresses.
Black and white French lace scarfs are
revived for the strings and trimmings of
velvet bonnets.
Shot moire ribbons, silks and velvets,
plushes and wool and silk novelties are a
feature in fabrics.
Fancy woolens, combined with plain
twilled wools, are conspicuous among
French importations.
Tailor-made basques are invariably
pointed in front, and much trimmed
with fine fancy braids.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza
king, allows horself one hundred and
four new gowns a year.
The ex Empress Eugenie uses an um
brella which cost $2,000. The handle is
a mass of splendid gems.
The competition among dressmakers
nowadays seems to be which can devise
the worst looking sleeve.
The tendency to make the bodice of
one stuff while the skirt and its draperies
are of another grows in favor.
The newest bonnets have long crowns,
and many have long pointed poke fronts
filled in with a slight face trimming.
The amount of braiding on frocks,
wraps and garments of all kinds is enor
mous, and the braid designs this season
are very fine.
Wax flowers were first introduced into
England by the mother of Mary Beatrice,
wife of James II., as a present to her
royal daughter.
There is in England a society con
ducted by ladies for the promoting of
long service among servants. Valuable
prizes are given.
Even feathers are made in two-tone ef
fects to match the changeable or shot
ribbons and stuffs brought out for dress
and milinery purposes.
Bustles are no longer worn by people
who can afford to pay skilful dress
maker. Bouffant effects are now obtained
by springs or reeds set in the dress itself.
Miss Grace, an English cricket player,
recently stayed at the wicket a whole af
ternoon and scored 217 runs against the
good bowling of four men.
The EmDress of China has composed
six hundred stanzas of poetry within the
past year, and they are said by Chinese
critics to be richer than the songs of
Persia.
Mrs. Langtry says she began to prac
tice fencing several ears ago because she
found it the best substitute for the exer
cise she had been accustomed to in hei
long walks.
Jackets made of the same material as
the dress must be tight-fitting, those
suitable for wear with any dress may be
loose-fitting in front, but must set snugly
to the back.
Mrs. John W. Mackay is having a
cloak made from the breasts of birds of
paradise. These cost thirty shillings
each, and about five hundred birds will
be necessary.
The women of New York have been
granted more patents than their sisters
in any other State. The women of Mass
achusetts, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin
rank next in order.
Camel's hair shawls are coming into
fashion again for the reason that the
manutacture has practically become a
lost art, and they are getting to be exceed
ingly hard to obtain.
The Greek styles of coiffure do not be
come popular. The fact is they require
more hair than most "modern women of
these degenerate days" either have nat
urally or feel like buying at present high
prices.
A new idea in jewerly is that of set
ting single stones of all sorts and sizes
in a plain crown setting, so arranged
that they can be sewn on bands of velvet
in such combinations as may suit the
owner's fancy, and thus utilized either aa
bracelets or "dog-collar" necklaces.
In Finland, according to Bayard TayJ
lor, the women resent as an insult a sa
lute upon the lips. A Finnish matron,
hearing of our English custom of kiss
ing, declared that did her husband at
tempt such a liberty she would treat him
with such a box on the ears that he
should not readily forget.
Both black and white lace is used as
strings and as trimmings on the winter
bonnets The milliners, as usual, think
French lace quite choice enough for this
purpose; but one may use something
better if "one has it. Since that Alen
con bonnet of Queen Victoria appeared,
anything seems allowable.
A Parisian wig maker is selling switches
so mounted that they may be worn as a
long rippling wave that would make a
mermaid envious. These are to be used
when one is walking up and down the
beach to dry one's hair next summer,
which, having been covered with oilskin,
is not wet, and is combed in with her
false tresses.
A Novel Mnsical Device.
The latest musical device is a con
necting wheel and belt for hitching one
of the cheap reed organs that play tunes
bv means of punctured sheets of paper
to the fly wheel of a sewing machine, so
that poor seamstresses who used to have
no music but the thump, thump of the
pedal can now make shirts and trousers
to the melody of "Hold the Fort." The
old juvenile poem must now be altered
to She shall have music whenever she
sews. yew Yorlc Sun.
An Otsego (Mich.) man was saved from
a horrible death by a roo-ter's crow re
centlv. He was lost in the woods and
about being done for, when the cock
crew, showing him the way back to
civilization.
The "Mellow Softness."
He was a dudish poet, and he often cut a
swell.
And b thought his conversation charmed
each gay and giddy telle:
So he said to one, one autumn, when the
leaves were flying 'round,
"Don't you. see a mellow softness spreading
over all the ground P
But the "best laid schemes of mice and men
will often gang a glee,'1
He tripped his foot upon a stone, then to the
earth fell he.
She said: -I quite aeree with you. your say
ing is mot sound.
So I see a mellow softness spreading over all
the ground."'
Goodairs Sun.
Of the seventeen President ot the
United States eleven were graduates; of
twenty Vice-Presidents, ten; of twenty
aine Secretaries of State, nineteen; of
forty-one Associate Justices of the United
States Supreme Court, thirty.
In Germany the hids of the catfish
rather.
tanned to form tough and supple
The Colt and the Pear.
A gentleman who keep a two-year-old
colt in a lot where there is fruit has leer
particular of late to have all the fruit that
fell during the night gathered before the
colt tva turned out in the morning,
thinking the fellow would get all that
his system required if lie ate what fell
during the day. Yesterday aftcrmxtu
one of the family heard a pear tree tattle,
and, slipping to the window to see if the
tree was being molested, she saw the coll
rubbing against it. Directly a pair wa
startrd and the colt at once rnsde for it.
Then he repeated the rubbing operation
till another fell, w hich he secured and ate.
He had been seen nibbing aguiust the
tree before, but his movemcats were not
watched. But his owner has no doubt
that he has secured his share of the fruit,
and didn't take up windfalls either.
Uartf'urd Courant.
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Price 30 Tents,
Will do more f u Curing
CATARRH
Than In any
other way.
Apply Balm into each nostril.
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A revelation in housekeeping. A boon to 'wo
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OTABOUlMf The most inexperienced
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Morphine Habit Cured In lO
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school teachers, milliners, j-e-am-trcjo.hou?
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A PARTY question: "What time do think
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A disease of ho delicate a nature a
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He is the happiest who renders the greatest
number happy.
Skk and bilious headache Hired by Dr.
Pierce's "Pellets.
To whom you betray jour secret you givr
your liberty.
"I want to thank you." writes a onng man
to li. F. Johnson A- t ., Richmond, a., "lor
placing me in a position by hich I am enabled
to make money faster titan 1 ccr did U-fore."
This is but a sample extract of the man hun
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THE use of a good soap fs certainly calculated to preserve the skin
in health, to maintain its complexion and tone, and to prevent
its falling into wrinkles. Ivory Soap is an article of the most care
ful manufacture, and the most agreeable and refreshing of balms
for the skin.
A WORD OF WARNING.
Tliere are many white soaps, each represented to be "Just as good as the
Ivory';" they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remark
able qualities of the genuine. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it-
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