Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 7

f , times out of ten is caused by Uric Acid in the blood which the Kidaeys fail to remove, and which corrodes the heart until it becomes unable to perform its functions. Health Officers in many cities very properly refuse to accept “ Heart Fail- ure,” as a cause of death. It is fre- quently a sign of ignorance in the physician, or may be.given to cover up the real cause. Soi Que, A Medicine with 20 Years of + + Success behind it - . will remove the poisonous Uric Acid by putting the Kidneys in a healthy condition so that they will naturally eliminate it. 0 0000000000000000000000000000Se eo oDeoooosoooSeoooeeoooeoOeS: The Burlington Route Going Into Agricultural Pursuits. Will Conduct Experimental Farms, Notice of Sale of Village Bonds. The Burlington route has arranged to con- duct next year some seven model farms on its line at MeCook, Alma, Oberlin, Curtis, Holdredge, Hastings and Broken Bow in Nebr At each point arrange- been made with a resident far- ence to his fitness work, to ta e lington farm. The farms will be supplied with the special machinery manufactured for the purpose of preventing in a large degree the evaporation of moisture from the soil according to the ‘Campbell Method.” ‘The conservation of soil moisture Is one of the most important problems presented to the farmer. Hardly a season passes in which some important crop is not largely reduced in yield because of lack of sufficient moisture to bring it to maturity. All other conditions may have been favorable for a full crop, but the result was failure on ac- count of a deficient supply of moisture. The lack of moisture, as a rule, is not the result of insufficient rainfall, but that it has been allowed to escape largely by evaporation. With proper preparation of the soil and methcds of tillage, a bountiful crop is as- s when hot winds and critical periods of the owing season an a failure of crops od according to ordinary metho i ance of proper prepa’ of thorough culture to con- is so great that, if its value ed, we would experience rom drouths. Far better jency of rainfall, if ation is given, than ndant rain with Uttle cul- are some hints on how to ap- mpbell Method:” ight-inch plowing is best done a sixteen or ¢ en-inch sulky plow. even plowing is important. Be sure ve the Measure it; don’t 8 at it, close to the plow as with the surface packer. Make it k all your land the same possible your rule to ps day it is plowed. The soil mulch or dust blanket, is best obtained by the use of a spring-tooth har- row or cultivator, with points of teeth not perpendicular or slant- but s at, with the points directed rd and downward, so as te cut under oil. and flax must be drilled and ‘he drills of such crops should eighteen to twenty-two inches apart. Tools cre in the market for doing yuch work. The Burlingtcn route will have a man on the road during its growing season next year to visit the various stations at leas once a week and see that the plans are be- ing carried out and make reports as to the progress. Samples of the soil will be for- warded every day from each of the sta- tions to the State University of Nebraska, and tests made to determine. the per cent A feature will also be keeping t before the farmers, and at the 1 of the experiment a complete ive report will be published. be from The Burlington route is ever alert in the interest of the agricultural classes, for it, with characteristic foresight, redlizes that our success may be, it must have its starting point with the farmer. A Quality of Frankness. “There’s one thing I like about the Camel,” observed the Tiger te the Lion, at feeding time. What is that?” asked the king of beasts. “He alw: YS comes out flat-footed.” Straight As an Arrow ‘Tne Indian’s skill with his bow has ever geen a matter of wonder. His keen eye and derfect nerve are the results of years of perfect dhysical training. The Indian depending en- jirely on nature for medicine in cases of sick- agss, took that greatest of all combinations of coots, herbs, barks and gums and made what W known as KicKaroo Inpran Sagwa, which in every instance, went as straight as an arrow to the seat Of disease and by puri- tying the blood and invigorating the stomach sind liver promoted perfect health. This medicine of nature’s own construction, jan be bought to-day atall druggists. It con- pins no poisoncus ingredients and to its use ‘aousands owe 2 return to health. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some Up-to-date Hints About Cultiva- tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof —Hortiéniture, Viticulture and Flori- culture. URING the long dry spell in sum- mer the wagon tires become loose and cause many a break-down and re- pair Dill, besides the setting of the tires, writes Clar- ence J. Norton in Kansas Farmer. Blacksmiths charge 50 cents per wheel, or $2 per wagon, for setting tires, and every one knows that after the dry spell is over and the wood in the wheels becomes soaked up with moisture instead of air, they (the wheels) must of necessity swell, or vio~ late a law of nature, As they cannot swell any larger in circumference on account of the tire, they turn out—or dish, as we call it—and thereby great- ly weaken the wheel. A wheel with too much dish is very easily broken down, and can never be depended upon until it is entirely re- built, so it will be seen that to set tires is only equal to ruining the wheel. A new wagon does not need the tires set, simply because the woodwork is full of moisture and oil when the tire is set and the paint prevents all evaporation of the moisture and oil, hence. of course, the tires remain tight. Now, it will occur to many that if we keep this paint from coming off, the wood will not shrink and the tires will remain tight. This is strictly true, but how can we do it? Some will say, “Paint the wagdn wheel often.” Very well, this is a good plan; but how many of us do it? When a new wagon is about one year old the paint has got rubbed off and the tires can be seen to be slightly loose—that is, a well-defined crack can be seen where the iron and wood touch each other. Now, could this tire be shrunk about one-sixteenth of an inch it would be perfectly tight and go through the summer all right. But we can not get a smith to do so delicate a job. He must shrink them nearly an inch and put them on quite hot and “tighten up the wheel.” In either of these cases the wheel will swell out of shape, more or less, after wet weather comes on. Now, as the tires be- come loose because the oii and mois- ture evaporate out of the wood, why not remedy the evil by, supplying the oil and moisture? We all know that if we should submerge the wheels in a pond of water they would soak up perfectly tight and as good as new, but will soon dry out.and be as bad as ever. This could not happen if the wheels were thoroughly painted before they dried out, so it will be seen that to swell the wood with water and then prevent it escaping by painting the wheel takes the place of setting tires and avoids after dishing of wheel. By the same rule, if a wheel with a freshly-set tire be well painted the wood can not ab- sorb moisture, and of course can not swell and dish out of shape. But there is a better way than all this. It is to run the felloes in hot oil. There are iron and zine troughs made for this purpose. The zine or galvanized iron are the cheapest, and, to my notion, the best. Take a good-sized sheet of zinc, sheet-iron or corrugated iron, say two feet by four feet, and cut a slot in the middle to sink the oil trough through, having the trough drop nearly but not quite through. Nail this metal to the edges of two six-inch damp boards and stretch the boards on the ground and pin them solid with old harrow teeth. Build a fire of old shingles under the oil trough, that is about half full of paint oil, then set up two posts with spikes driven in them to hang the wheels on, 1 used a tumbling rod to a horse-power, but a crowbar or post auger will do as well. Mark the top of the hub, and just as soon as the oil comes to a boil, turn the wheel until the next spoke is down in the oil. In bout a minute the oil will boil again, and you must turn the wheel again. Serve the wheel this way three times, and the hot oil will drive out all the air in the pores of the wood and take pos- session of the pores itself. As soon as the wheel is turned a little, the oil on the felloe will be constantly seen to bubble, which is the air coming out of the pores to give place to the oil. Should the wheel in any one place be allowed to boil fifteen minutes, the wood will be ruined and will break off short just like cast-iron will, so you see there is ‘too much of a good thing” in running a wheel in hot oil, A small Piece of shingle must be added to the fire at every spoke of the wheel, 1 have an old cast-iron cookstove bottom that has a low place in the center, and by putting the oil in this depression and setting the stove bottom upon its legs and building a fire under it, a good job can be done. It takes about half a gallon of oil to start with, and a half gallon more will be enough for one farm wagon, a buggy and cart and per- haps a pair of hay rake wheels. There are two don’ts, and they are: Don’t boil the wood over half a minute, and don’t attempt to do the job in the hay barn. Take a good, pleasant, dry day, and do the job well, and the oil will only cost you 20 cents for the half gal- lon used. The rim of the wheels will absorb so much oil that a real hot day will expand it so as to have it start out some. To make a perfect job, paint the wheels well after oiliug them. How- ever, without painting the job will last a year, and if repeated yearly the tires will never become loose and hence need never be reset by shrinking. It will take as long to go to the shop and wait for the resetting of the tires as it will to oil three wagons. and the bill for re- setting will be $2 per wagon, while the oil would only cost 20 cents. Insect Enemies of the Grape. ‘ THE GRAPEVINE FIDIA. During midsummer the leaves of grapes are frequently riddled with ir- regular holes by the attacks of a little beefle which, when disturbed, falls to the ground with its legs folded up against its body, feigning death, or “playing ‘possum.” The beetle is about a quarter of an inch long, rather robust and of a brown color, somewhat whitened by a dense covering of yél- lowish-white hairs. In the nature and amount of the injury it does at this stage, it resembles the rose-chafer, for which it is sometimes mistaken. Fol- lowing the injury to the foliage, the vines may be expected, if the beetles have been abundant, to present a sickly appearance, with checking of growth and ultimate death, due to the feeding on the roots of the larvae; for, as in the case of the phylloxera, the root injury is much more serious than the injury to the foliage. Vines sometimes die after having developed half their leaves, or’ may survive until the fruit is nearly mature, The insect occurs very generally in the Mississippi Valley states, from Dakota to Texas, and more rarely east of the Alleghanies and southward to Florida. The beetle has caused serious damage to foliage, no- tably in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio, having been recognized over thirty years ago in the first mentioned state as one of the worst enemies of the grape. The work of the larvae has been recognized only recently by Mr. Web- ster and others in northern Ohio, but it may be looked for wherever the beetle occurs. ‘ ek ei ee es Life History.—The life history as worked out by Mr. Webster is, briefly, as follows: The yellowish eggs in large batches are thrust in cracks of the bark of the old wood, usually well above ground, as many as 700 having been counted on a single vine. Very rarely are they placed in cracks of the soil about the base of the vine, but so loose- ly are they attached to the bark that they not infrequently fall to the ground. The larvae, on hatching, fal! clumsily to the ground, and quickly dis- appear in cracks in the soil, chiefly near or just at the base of the vine. They feed at first on the fibrous roots near the pcint of entrance, but soon reach the large roots, and completely denude them of bark, gradually extend- ing outward through the soil toa distance of at least three feet, and downward to at least a depth of one foot. Most of them reach full growth by the middle of August, attaining a length of nearly half an inch, and con- struct little cavities or earthen cells in the soil, in which they hibernate untii June of the following year, when they change to pupae. The beetles emerge about two weeks after pupation, and begin to feed from the upper surface of the leaves. With thin-leaved grapes they eat the entire substance of the leaf, but with thick-leaved varieties the downy lower surface is left, giving the foliage a ragged, skeletonized look. They feed on any cultivated grape, also on the wild grapes, which have prob- ably been their food from time imme- morial. Most of the adults disappear by the first of August, a few scattering individuals remaining until the first of September. eee Remedies and Preventives.—It is evi- dent that if the beetle can be promptly exterminated the injury to the foliage will be limited, and the subsequent much greater damage by larvae to the roots avoided. The first effort should therefore be to effect the killing of the beetles, which may be done by the use of an arsenical spray, with lime, ap- plying it at the customary strength of one pound to 150 gallons of water. The feeding of the beetles on the upper sur- face of the leaves makes t1em especial- ly easy to.control by this means. If this be deferred unti] it is unsafe to apply an arsenical spray to vines, the beetles may be collected and destroyed in the manner hereafter recommended for the rose-chafer. The larvae may be destroyed about the roots by injec- tions of bisulphide of carbon, made in the way already described for the phylloxera. A safer remedy and a very effective one if applied before the end of June, or before the larvae have scat- tered, is to wet the soil about the vines with a solution of kerosene emul- sion. The| emulsion should be diluted nine times, and a gallon or two of the mixture poured in a basin excavated about the base of the vine, washing it down to greater depths an hour after- wards with a copious watering. Cultivation.—In the minds of many the sole object of cultivation is to de- stroy or keep down noxious growths which interfere with the growth of a crop. Now while this isan important tunction of cultivation, it is by no means the only one. The intelligent cultivator has three objects in view in working the soil to promote the growth of his crops. The first is to supply the growing plants with food; second, to conserve for the use of that crop as much moisture as is practicable; third, the destruction of weeds.—Ex, Poor and Rich Soil.—It seems para- doxical that a soil may have been ex- hausted as to crop-producing power and yet be rich in plant-food—the ele- ments necessary to plant-growth. The solution is this, that in every soil the larger portions of plant-food therein are inert, unavailable so far ag being taken up by plant roots is-concerned, They are locked up, so to speak, by Dame Nature. She only allows to be released for our use an annual quota which is greater or less according to conditions. Farming in America is an honorable calling, because our farmers are fairly well educated and command the re- spect of mankind. There are countries where the farmer is a despised menial, because he is a boor in every sense of the word. We must elevate agricul- | ture by educating the farmers’ sons ! and daughters. | MEASUREMENT OF TIME. The Invention of @ Rude Clock in 1378. At a very early period in the world’s ry we find the rude people measur- Ing the longer periods of the flight of ime by making observations on the eavenly bodies, says the St. Louis public. These longer periods refer- ‘ed to were the division of time into years and months. The first calcula- tion was made by observing the mo- tion of the sun among the constella- tions and the second or shorter period ‘as reckoned and divided into months, his period being calculated according to the various phases of the moon. Even long before the time when years and months were first calculated primi- tive man must have noted the days and the nights, calculating them by the alternate light and darkness, which depended on the rising and setting of the sun. Here we have three divisions of time—the year, the month and the day—but how long men lived without more accurate divisiots, such as hours, minutes and seconds, rio one can tell. After ages had elapsed some genius fig- ured out the sundial—the first attempt at dividing the day. Later on we find some thoughtful horologist figuring on a machine which would leak out a given quantity of fine sand in a certain length of time, as indicated by the sun- dial. This machine, when finally com- pleted, was one which allowed the run- ning of a given quantity of sand from one compartment to another in one hour and on that account it was called an hourglass. But these expedients were all unsatisfactory, as was also the method adopted by King Alfred of measuring time by the burning of a candle. The dissatisfaction finally re- sulted in the invention of a rude clock —this in 1378. This original clock was made by one De Wyck for Charles V. @ France and was set in the tower of the king’s palace. Since that time the progress along the line of time measuring machines has only been in the way of improvement. Mountain Climbing by Rail. The several mountain railways al- ceady laid in Switzerland seem to have whetted the appetite of electrical en- gineers for greater achievements. The latest scheme is a railway to the top of the Jungfrau Peak. The enterprise is one of the most stupendous of the age, for the cap of the Jungfrau, is 14,000 feet above the sea level. Fancy riding to such a height in a train. To be able to do so on the surface of the mountain would be marvelous enough, but most of the route will be through a tunnel cut through the center of the mountain. The asthetic side of the enterprise has been well considered by the company which will build the road, and the Swiss. Government, which has approv- ed of the scheme. The old moutain- climber might be tempted to declaim against a project which would rob Al- pine-climbing of its perils, and ter- rors, but he will be silenced when he is told that the Alpine Club has ap- proved of the road. ¥ Something of the vastness of the enterprise will be realized when it is pointed out that the difference in level between the lower and upper terminal will be 7,000 feet, and that this al- titude or rise will be accomplished within a distance of seven and a half miles. No such grade has ever been attained before, and so step does it finally become that the passengers will be compelled at the last moment to alight from the cars and accomplis! the remaining 330 feet in an elevator. There are forty mountain roads in Switzerland, and the Jack rail is used on all. It will be used on the Jungfrau road.Its construction is such that the car cannot slip backward should th propelling power give out. Prepared to Learn. “Ladies and gentlemen,” said the candidate, “I’m no _ speech-maker.” “That’s all right,” yelled an enthusiast, encouragingly. “Tell us about the things we don’t know!”—Philadelphia North American. SCRAPS. Two great English engineering jirms, the Armstrongs and the Whit- worths, are about to amalgamate, Maude—Miriam is trying to keep her engagement a secret. Martha—How do you know? She told me so.—Yonk- ers Statesman. A man residing ten miles from To- peka, Kan., lives in a house made en- tirely of baled hay, except the roof, which is canvas. There lies in the port of Darien, Ga., 29,000,000 feet of timber and 22,000,000 feet of sawn lumber, most of which will be shipped to foreign ports. “Uncle Simon, what is a phenome- non?” “A phenomenon is a man who gets so rich that he won’t accept a pass on a railroad.”—Chicago Record. Author (invited to a very poor din- ner, to himself)—A miserable dinner! I'll have to take care that I don’t let anything witty slip out.—Fliegende Blatter. Last year the Salvation Army in Lon- don provided 3,221,917 meals, and 1,- 339,246 lodgings for poor persons. It received in pay $190,090 and in contri- butions $91,175. . The directors of one of the largest 4 and most prosperous banks in Louis- ville chose for president last week a man who had begun life as a news- boy and who had made $250,000 in legi- timate business. Tuffold Knutt—You're always talk- in’ about hard luck. If you had a mil- lion. dollars you wouldn’t know what to do with it. Mosely Wraggs—Yes, I would. I’d be a a thunderin’ sight more select about the company I keep than I am now!—Chicago Tribune. Patents Issucd. canbe 2 Fair, List of patents issued last week to Highest Honors—W< 's Nerthwestern inventors: Gold Midwi Fair. 2 Walter P.Butler, Minneapolis, Minn., Medal, winter i typewriter attachment; Marion E. and E. C. Claik, Minneapolis, Minn., tele- phore transmitter; R. L. Ettenger and G. Rupley, Duluth, Minn., hoisting de- vice; Joshua Evered, Duluth, Minn., steam log turner; Charley A. Kulberg, Hawick, Minn., motor-driven harvest- er; James Ratledge, Fairmount, Minn., suspend trestle; Delbert J. Reynolds, Winnebago City, Minn., acetlyne gas generator; Adolph Roesch, Winnebago City, Minn., weed cutter and cultivat- or; Hans Stromso, Holt, Minn., mow- ing machine; Duluth Imperial Milt Company, Duluth, Minn., (trademark) wheat flour. T. D. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, 910, Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minn., and Washington, D. CG. 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