Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 2, 1899, Page 9

“I have wad gyn Hair ; hi 3 for a great-many years ; and it has been very satisfactory § to me in every way. I have recommended it to a great many of my friends and they have all been perfectly satisfied with it.” ts. A, Edwards, San Fran- eng Cal., Feb. 9, 1899. Talk About It That's dain ie way with our Hair Vigor. When per- sons usc it they are always so highly pleased with it that they tell their friends about it. If your hair is short, too thin, splits at the ends, is rough, or is falling out, our Hair Vigor will perfectly satisfy you. If your hair is just a little gray, or perfectly white, Ayer’s Hair Vigor will bring back to it all the dark, rich éélor it had years and years ago, $fjn%.* baller Write the Doctor 1? yon do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. He willtell you just the right thing to do, and will send you his book on the Hair and Scalp if you request it. Address, 1. J.C. Aven, Lowell, Mass. His Sad Plight. Phe blind old beggar sat on the lower a porch up town, his head bur- Great sobs shook his step of d im his arms, shoulders, rhe compassio oor man,” rte lady she said opped. ‘are you ir ght- rou- indeed." mpussionate ‘ady felt the tears Ss gre And what is i ‘One she asked. ants told me, not ten a 1, that the wa- es in my bi partment house had busted. Ah, madame, if you knew hard luck had pursued me all my life.’—Detroit Free Press, of my te how s in Mich rter of an old r yes; summe and summer.” and lree 1 winter Detroit girl who declares that she must gown e ry month is not rburdened with offers of ove ALONG THE LINE OF THE Maps and fall InformationN LAND CcoMM’R== = Box ~+Globe Bidg $ St Pa $3 & 3.50 SHOES Union fiz, Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. Indorsed by over i 1,000,000 wearers. The genuine have W.L. fg name and price Take = good. Your dealer B should keep them —if, BA not, we will send a pair Wig on receipt of price, State Kind of leather, sise, and width, plain or cap toe. Catalogue A fee, W. L, DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. S$WHEATS WHEAT will soll at $1.00 0r more per bushel be- fore May Ist, 1900. A postal card wili bring you our reasons for making this statement. also Booklet— “How to Sell a Crop and Still Have It.” mailed REE. Bank References. w. H. HAMMOND & CO., Brokers, Corn Exchange, Minneapolis, Mim DR. SETH ARNOLD’S has stood the test of 50 years and is still the Best Cough H Nemedy Soid. Cures when other remedies fail. Tastes KILLER hen Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper, good; children like it. Sold by all druggists—25 cents. 4 Soll Moisture. ‘The Kansas Experiment Station is i studying the effect of various modes of soil treatment upon soil moisture. That the well-known effect of a mulch can be approached by proper tillage of soil is a fact not as widely acted upon as good farming dictates. One of the station fields which contained in round number3 26 per cent of water in the first foot of soil, on July 7, 1898, had one portion plowed, another disk-har- rowed and a portion left untreated. The ensuing dry weather in the course of four weeks, notwithstanding several light rains, reduced the moisture of the untreated part to 15 per cent and. .aat of the disked land to 18 per cent, the plowed ground retaining 21 per cent. The last two were in excellent condi- ‘tlon for- seeding, while the first would plow up lumpy and unsatisfactory. The weight of an acre of the dry soil to the depth of one foot may be taken as 1,600 tons. Each per cent of water in soil to that depth represents about 16 tons of water per acre, or one-seventh of an inch, The water apparently lost. by the untreated soil was 176 tons per aere, equivalent to over one and a half inches of rain. This is about one half what the soi] would hold after a soak- ing rain. The real loss was much more than this, since as water escaped from the upper foot, other would be drawn up from below by capillary attraction. The Codling Moth. The Latin name of this insect is carpecapsa pomonella, We are sure that all our readers are interested in this insect, as it is of all others the most persistent in injuring our apples. The illustration on this page shows the moth and worm about life size, the only figure that is enlarged is that one marked “th,” which is the head of the larva, At “a” we see the apple Lur- row; at “b” the place where the worm entered the apple; at “d” the chrysalis or pupa; at “e” the larva or worm, at “f” the moth with wings closed; at “g” the moth with wings spread; at “h” head end of larva; at “i” the cocoon in which the larva changes to a chrysalis. The worm is so well known to every apple-eater that we need not describe him, more than to say that he is flesh-colored. As to remedies, a bulletin of the Col- orado station says: About one week after the blossoms have fallen, make a thorough application of Paris green or London purple in a coarse spray in the proportion of one pound to 160 gallons of water. At the end of one week repeat the treatment, using the poison a little weaker (one pound to 200 gallons of water), unless heavy rains have intervened to wash off the poison of the first application. The Kedzie arsenite of lime may be used in place of the above poisons if pre- ferred. In addition to one of the above mix- tures use the following: Put burlap bandages on the trunks about June 15 and remove them every seven days to kill the larvae and pupae under them till the last of August. Then leave them until winter or till early the next spring, when they should be again re- moved and.the worms beneath them killed. The prompt destruction of fallen fruit will kill some of the worms, but not a large proportion of them, probably 15 per cent. Keep screens on windows and doors of cel- lars and fruithouses where apples are stored, to prevent the moths that hatch in these places from flying to the or- chard. Scald in boiling water all boxes and barrels that have lately contained apples, pears or quinces, The Russian Thistle.—Of the passing of the Russian thistle Prof. Busey says: “In a recent journey of nearly a-thousand miles in Nebraska, includ- ing a broad belt of counties, from those touching the Missouri river on the east, to the Wyoming line on the west, I found. that.everywhere the Russian thistle is of relatively much’ less im- portance than formerly. It 1s a weed, no doubt, but one which flirds little op- portunity for troublesome growth on ordinary farms. On fallow ground it still grows large and assumes a spheri- cal form, but ordinarily it is low and slender. Many farmers and ranchmen esteem it highly as a fodder plant when fed early, and many cut it early and make it into nutritious hay. The day may yet come when the sheepgrowers of the plains will take pains to grow the Russian thistle as a feddar plant.” The principal materials used as stimulant fertilizers are lime, salt and plaster. The real object in liming soils is to correct some physical con- dition. If land is too heavy, a dose of about 40 bushels per acre cf slackeu lime will lighten it. If too light, a similar application tends to make it more compact. If sour, as a result of turning under green crops, or from other causes, the action of the air slacked lime will be to sweeten the soil. A dose of lime about once in every five or six years will be sufti- cient. Hogs should be kept in condition for market after they have attained the size desired. Before that time the fat- tening process may check growth. Muck soil that will grow a good crop of onions or potatoes will grow a good eres of celerv the same season. ‘cheese is a Holland Making Edam Cheese: Hoilanders have long‘been known as ‘careful cheese makers,,,and Edam specialty. The northern part of the little country is the seat of the Edam cheese industry and great cleanliness and care is, ex- ercised in the making. The cheese is made from fresh cow’s milk. As soon as curdled by the ‘rennet, the whey is drawn off and the curd kneaded and pressed into the ball-like molds until quite dry. The ball is then wrapped in a linen cloth and kept for’ ten days or two weeks until quite solid; when the cloth is removed and the cheese put into salt lye. It is next put into-a vessel and washed with- whey and scraped to remove the white crust of salt, It is next carried into a cool room and laid on shelves, where it is turned regularly. Ripening Edam cheese takes from two to three months, the round balls-assuming ‘their fine yellow or reddish color. Those cheeses intended for export to this country are often more highly colored by vegetable dyes. Among some of the commission men in Chicago it is believed that the poul- try crop of this year is about the same as that of the past year. There is believed to be considerable increase of turkeys, while chickens remain about the same. Ducks and geese are less in numbers. The cold and wet spring is given as the general cause of a not more abundant supply. The supply of turkeys is put at possibly 25 per cent more than last year. The cause for this is doubtless the good prices that have been realized for a few years past for good turkeys. There has been no kind of poultry that has brought the farmer more satisfactory returns. But this condition in former years was brought about by a short- age. Perhaps we may expect to see turkeys moderate in price this season when they really begin to come in. Chickens are not a large crop for the same reason, that is, the moderate prices that have prevailed for some time. The state of the market of past years was the incentive for the change in kind of fowls being prepared for market. The same is true of the shortage in ducks and geese. In fact we may expect to see these changes go on from year to year. The wise course among poultrymen would seem to be to change less and catch the high market oftener. Sheep Killed by Porcupine Grass. We are hearing many complaints of the loss of sheep by injuries from that very injurious grass known as porcu- pine grass, also called Stipa Spartee by botanists, says American Sheep Breed- er. It is found from Illinois and In- diana, and northwest into the Cana- dian territories. It is most noted for its feathery head made up of long awns which are twisted as a cork- screw, and covered with short plumy fibers, making it much like a feather. The sheep, feeding among this grass when the heads are about ripe, take up in their fleece many of these awns, which are easily loosened from the head. These awns entangled in the wool untwist in the wet or damp weather, or even in a dewy night, but in the warm dry days they twist again; in this manner they force the sharp points of the awns into the flesh and every exposure to alternate dampness and dryness forces the barbed awns deeper and deeper into the flesh, so that in time the sheep are absolutely transfixed by these sharp screws like needles. The result is that the sheep become affected in the same way as by serious disorders of the stomach and bowels, but of course no treatment suggested by this belief has any effect in relieving them. There have been so many instances of this kind the past month, and so many every year later in the season, that attention is called to this injurious grass,so that all con- cerned may take suitable precautions. It is difficult to suggest any practical means to get rid of this grass, as it is perennial, and plowing and cultivating of the land only will eradicate it. Doubtless the most satisfactory means will be to watch the sheep and gather from the fleece all the awns which have been taken up by the wool, or keep the flocks from pastures on which this grass erove Sheep Feed Short in England.—Ac- cording to the Mark Lane Express the sheep breeders on the English farms have raised but small supply of feed stuffs. The renters have made but lit- tle and their landlords are themselves too poor to give assistance to their _ tenants... Farm labor issso high as to absorb profits. The turnip crop, so’ im-, portant a sheep feed in that country, has been cut short by drouth, pastur- age-is poor, and in many cases water supply is defective. ~As a result the farmers, or many of them, will be un- able to properly winter their flocks, and the deficiency in feed.and water supply, the Express thinks will cause a heavy falling off in the lamb crop. Burning Up the Cow.—There must be a reasonable limit, however, in feeding fat-forming feed. very truly says a true dairy cow, fed on a ration rich in protein and light’ in carbohydrates, will continue to de- velop for years, both in ability to con- sume feed and to yield milk, and prop- ey andled does not reach her high- est yield until eight or ten years old, and is then good for from five to eight | more yesrs of. profitable work. A cow heavily fed on a ration of average composition, greatly deficient in pro- tein and high in carbohydrates, does \burn out and will not last long.—Dela- ware Dairyman. 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