The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 9, 1905, Page 12

Increasing Wealth in the West. CHICKENS AS GARDENERS. USI SRST feted tacit im the /CA® Be Taughe wo Put weeds ané/8 NO OTHER WAGONS APPROACH = Hn > upon Eastern money - = with which to move “I see as how a scientific perfesser . THE AMERICAN GRAPE 4-45 ae INDUSTRY. “iA GLY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. by grape is the poor man’s 30,900,000, Ohi ird with 14,000,000 € ! ¥ , », and Kansas, chigan, Pennsylvania, souri, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia and lowa with 5,000,000 or less each. California alone had a quarter of a million acres in vineyards with an annual production of 30,000,000 gallons of wine. The investment represented in that State alone is estimated at $85,- y with other inte more fruit in less time and | 000,000. labor and atten than any- ma ng that was ever planted.” Wine Tank as Big as a House. All of which is ch ng in truth] The writer once climbed to the top anless the phylloxera or the downy /of a single cask at Fresno, California, lew or the aphis or the dry rot be-| which contained 96,000 gallons of port come appurtenances to vine, or the/wine. There are hundreds of casks ch us or all boys of the neigh-/ throughout the State with a capacity borhood steal all the grapes just @S/of 50,000 gallons each. The annual they are getting ripe. raisin production of California amounts Chickens, however, should be kept in| to about 90,000,000 pounds, while about pens, and if every small boy's ther 000,000 pounds of these raisin pes hada ape vine wh furn od ] re shipped East every year as table the fruit his fam could consum Apes, there would be r ntive to pillage St year the Chautauqua district in the ner ’s vi York pre ed 600,000 gallons of As for nildew and the vented g e juice Other ailments to i i ed grape @ figures give some idea of our AY dom One Vine Largest an the World, SantaLarbara California, vines are heir, horticultural investiga: | grape industry, which, while it is only tions have shown that they can be com} about 50 years old, is small as com- Datted wth coniparative ease spray-' pared to that of the world whose an- ing, and rot not only preve 1 but nual production is over 4,000,000,000 the vi stimulated to even greater! gations of wine. t mal production, . Other produc a matter of fact ins—an enorm of the grape are rais- 1 in itself— the grape in- dustry in the United States when con- brandy, vinegar, grape syrup, a very 6 1 both as a large commercial superior article, and various pictles, p sition and as one where each man | jellies and preserves, lias his own vine, if not fig tree, is one The grape fur! 1e$s also important of a erent deal of importance and of by-products, Feed and fertilizer are Great iuterest, produced from the pomace, also acetic acid, The seeds ar trated from the and fed to k the same as Ground up, they are used as a substitute for cofiee. A hich grade oil similar to olive oil is also produced from the seeds, which, among other thiegs, make superior soap. They also yield tannin, Mr. Husnann estimates that if all the wastes of the grape crop were utilized extra returns would ine fully 10 per cent., v ent grape production to abcut $15,000,000, i earning of laha and this with our viticultural indust 4 yet iu its infancy. Count Their Age by Centuries, Alihouch the preduct of its fruit is accountable for much that is unseemly and frivolous, the vine is itselfan ob- ject of great age and dignity. It is not known how old the grape will ow in America, since we have not b here long enough to make the test, even had a vine been planted with the landing of Columbus. Pliny mentions an Old Vorld grape, vine 600 years of age. Some entire vineyards in Italy held good for 300 years and others in Bur- gundy produced for 400 years and more. onsen: Feeding Oleo to the Na vy. Considerable of a sensation has de- veloped over the furnishing to !.cazue Island navy yard, Philadelphia, of put- ter which analysis has provea to be simply oleomargarine colored with coal tar dye. Samples were taken fron government receiving ship L several battle ships and cru from the hospitals of the navy agents of the Pennsylvania Dairy Food Commission, Dr, Warren, t State Commissioner, declared them io be specimens of coal tar oleo and after considerable controversy, at tue in- stance of President Rooseve.i, they were finally submitted to Dr. Wiley, the chief chemist of the Department of Ag- riculture, who in a full report has sus- tained Dr. Warren’s findings. Secre- tary Wilson has referred the report to the President, who has, it is stated, KEUKA, NEW YORK. called the attention of the Department These were cultivated vines. Doubt-|of Justice to the matter. Several ar- less native vines grow to much great-|rests have already been made, er ages. In speaking, however, of the substi- The viticulturist of the Department |tution of oleomargarine for butter in of Agriculture, George C. Husmann,| the market, Dr. Wiley said that at pres- States that he has never seen a vine/ent the amount of oleomargarine sold among the endless number of natives|jn this country whether fraudulently abounding in our forests that -has-die+tae~putter-or when marked as oleo is from the effects of age. Some old grape |quite small. The government has ren- vines grow to immense size, There is| dered the making and sale of the stuff a wild grape vine on the shores of Mo-| unprofitable by levying 10 cents a bile Bay under which Andrew Jackson | pound on all that is artificially colored, twice pitched his tent in his cam-|and half a cent on the uncolored. paig) inst I which Bs against the Beminoies, se Foreigners Refuse Colored Butters. besea circumference of over six feet, wiih a supposed age of about 100 years.| “Coal tar dyes,” said Dr. Wiley, “are The Size of a Great Trees The largest known grape vias in the wortd was planted ix California in 7842. It has made a phenomenal Srowth. Bencath Emnete -o06 a cover rn culture is now trying to educate the eh “gg Fg one hens popular taste in favor of uncolored but- sun's Apo pcos vend: the dr ter, and we are making some headway. - ol pagh its: pemmer et veneer feet, |OVer in Europe one never encounters While the wine inalamtry-iecby:tar the eae butter in any of the hotels or it class markets. The people there most important feature of geape grow- ing. ancenots quantities of ~table| ave learned to distrust it. We are a} are raised and by means of im-|©°Ming to this in the United States. To. proved transportation facilities sent to —y first-class hotels and fancy gro- all parts of the country. The Con-|°eries will not buy butter that bas a cords, the Delawares and the Niagaras| igh color. Our epicures and those come from the North, the Scuppernongs | that live well are also fighting shy of from the South and the Flame Tokays it, and as a result the dairymen are be- and other sugary raisin grapes from ginning to realize that the bottle of the Pacific coast. coal tar dye is no longer a necessary The last census reported 12 States | @djunct to a successful dairy. having in bearing over 2,000,000 vines each, California being first with 90,-/ John Adams was the author of the 900,000 vines, New York second with’ motto, “J Pluribus Unum,” PACKING CONCORD GRAPES, LAKE means wholesome, and dairymen are permitted under the law to use such coloring matter to impart to their but- ter a rich yellow color. To render this unnecessary, the Department of Agri- not fatally harmful, though by nc record-breaking crop would nish sufficient funds. predicted the West of the Mississippi Valley and of the Missouri Valley as SCUPPERNONG WINERY, NORTH CAROLINA, move tho crops that are grown in the remoter regions of the Southwest or the distant Northwest. No expert can estimate accurately the gains that will come this year to the farmers, the sugplus that will be left for them after paying expenses, which represents their profit Some of the most experienced experts have ventured to estimate that the farmers of the United States this year as a whole will find themselves to the good by not less than $300,000,000, and possibly $100,- 000,000, These are the gains as well as those which the great transportation companies expect to receive for carry- ing the agricultural products from the harvest fields to the market to which Mr. Vanderlip referred in his address to the National Bankers’ Assoviation at Washington. The United States as a whole ought to be richer by reason of the year’s industry, t manufacturing ard tr: an amount considerab! thousand millio! a GASOLINE POWER ENGINES, _and ! Power — Have Come Into General Use on Many Prosperous Farms and Homes, Inexpensive, reliable power on the farm’ and around the home is becom- ing moro and more desirable these days when unskilled labor is so high and hard to procure. Gasoline engines, which when started practically take care of themselves, are rapidly sup planting steam engines and horse pow- er, the operation of which requires con- stant attention, The difference in the cost of operating and the advantage o! Starting at a moment’s no vanced the popular gines where compare is required in contras power devi A few ago we heard but little about ga: ne engines for use on the farms, while to-day we find many of | the m on up-to-date ms and ‘small | bu ess plants. This growing inter- st has been brought about largely Ae. A GRAPE BY-PRODUCT FACTORY. been made by manufacturers during *|Jute years in simplifying the working parts of the engines so that the aver- age Man can operate them with the |ease of an expert. As a matter of fact, a bright boy can handle a modern gas- Joline engine with but little teaching, Take the farmer who has never seen a gasoline engine and let him start and stop one a few times and study some jof the principles of operating it }and in a few days he will become as familiar with its workings as he would with a team of horses or a tread-mill. The general usefulness of a machine of this sort on a farm is apparent. There is ensilage to cut, wood to saw, feed to grind, corn to shell, water to pump, in fact a multitude of things that can be done with a gasoline en- gine at small expense. have hired man to the tourist. strained the capacity of the New York financial centers to the utmost to fur- So greatly, how- ever, has the wealta of the West in- jereased and so large are the surplus reserves of the farmers that even with crops so stupendous as to amaze Eu- rope, New York financiers have been hardly inconvenienced by the demands $ for funds. In a not distant future it is| Last time well will be found exclusively Jending | track for or advancing money with which to/ pass: Constitutes Great Saving in Horse | +;/@ wagon full o’ seed rough the improvements that have I si|Wy I see that feller” Wy that ain't nothin.’ I knows an old feller Th St g back ycre in th’ Valley what beats e ron that ali to flinders. Began ais chickens when he was a boy. I seen some bantams he had no biggern’ fleas an’ game birds what c’d step over a six-foot fence. But tat ain't nothin’, I was down ‘t his place he} had a hunderd-acre farm ‘bout ten | thousand chickens, an’ was raisin’ early northern markets. Powerful big chickens they was, an’ he had ‘em trained so's they'd work his farm for him. y- wasn't a weed nur a blade o° ass in that whole farm ‘cep'n in the pastures. An’ bugs? wy they cudn’t a tater bug, nur a cut worm, hur even a cabl > lea get a foot inside o’ that farm afore a chicken had ‘im. An’ that wasn't all. Them chickens ¢'d see at night. Guess he must a’ crossed ‘em with owls. Anyways, he never worried none "bout early frost. If ‘twas cold in the spring them chickens 1s out all night coverin’ up tomatoes an’ bes an’ ev'ythin’ tender, Jest squa over the plints with their wings spread out an’ set there till sun up He had tomatoes three weeks ahead o’ any- | body else. An’ that wasn’t all, When he plinted his beets en turnips en 3 he sowed ‘em powerful thick jan’ as soon as they'd get up ‘bout right them chickens come along an thin ’em out jest t. Fine eatin’ for ’em, too, An’ ‘tween times they was going up VY down the rews all a long seratehin’ up the dirt an’ keepin’ ev'ythin’ cultivated jest par- fect. Wy that feller never had a hoe in ‘his han’ » year end to an- AMERICAN CROWN other, An’ : whiz! Them hens was the stiddiest layers I ever see. But they didn't use no nests. 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