Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 9, 1902, Page 7

ij x et lastest Fruit Notes. From the most recent weekly re- borts issued by the Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau, we father tne following information con- cerning fruit prospects: » Georgia.— Peaches, apples. pears and plums continue to rot and these fruits are below normal in quality and que y. The dry weather has given & decided set back to the water melon crop. nh S.—The apple crop ranges from. very poor to very fine. In some localities the prospects have been im- Proved by the rain. Though in some places the peach prospects are fair, they are generally very poor. lowa—The average condition of fpples is 65, plums 50, grapes 65. Maryland and Delaware—<A further, thought slight, decrease in fruit pros- pects is noted throughout the section, due to continued falling and to a measureable Joss of good ‘fruit ‘by wind gusts. Some spraying iis ‘being Gore in the orchards of Washington coun... Early apples are mow ‘ripe, with pour to medium yields, ‘affording an ample supply for home use tin most localities, but mot many for market. Peaches continue to drop ‘freely, ‘ex- #pt ‘in ‘the southeast where ‘they are, holding fairly well and still promise moderately good yields. Some :apri- cots are mow ripe in Prince George’s county. Japan plums are ripening in Cecil, ‘and :are falling off freely in; Anne Arundel. Mithigan—Cherries are yielding only moderately and iin some cases poorly. Plums indicate a light crop, but apples, pears ani peaches com- tinue promising. Missouri—The apple crop continues to decline and little more than one- third of a crap for the state is now indicated. Pennsylvania—Apples and peaches are dropping in nearly all sections; cherries are good in some districts and in others a failure; and the con ditions are not such as to warrant expectations of the usual berry crop Higher temperatures are needed to promote growth and maturity. Wisconsin.—Strawberries, cherries, currants and other small fruits have ripened very rapidly and improved somewhat in quality during the past few days. The prospects for apples is generally discouraging although in some localities the crop will be fair. Cranberries are in good condition. Bitter Rot of the Apples. A word now should be said upon the common name. Very commonly the infected flesh of an apple is dis- tinctly bitter to the taste, but there is much variation in this. Sometimes the bitterness is very slight, in other eases almost equal to quinine. But such bitterness sometimes results also from other causes. Other fungi produce a similar taste in the affected fruit, though those usually attacking stored apples have no such effect. The musty flavor due to common molds is altogether different. If the word bit- ter is not always characteristic, the word rot is not especially appropriate. The affected tissues are never slushy- , soft. There is indeed no extra ac- cumulation or incorporation of water. The spot is hard and firm and at jJength becomes sunken somewhat ‘from the shrinkage of the drying pulp of the fruit. There is no odor, The apple seems to be converted into a semi-woody substance which is re- sistent of decay. It is in this condi- tion that the shriveled fruit remains for a year or more attached by its dead stem to the twig, or endures for a similar length of time upon the ground. If, however, the affected fruit is neither constantly bitter nor really rotten, still the name is as ap- propriate as any that can probably be found and is certainly better than that of “ripe rot” which thas been pro- posed.—Prof. T. J. Burrill. y Bitter rot of the apple is directly due to a vegetable parasite which, starting from a spore lodged upon the surface of the apple or in a puncture made by other inetrumentalities, grows in'the pulpy tissues of the fruit and in a few days bears another crop of spores, by means of which the ~-ocess may be indefinitely re- peaied. Big Berries. We heard recently of a shipment of strawberries where each berry was the size of an egg. This startg a chain of thoughts reaching from the little wild strawberry of our fields to the mammoth affair of a century hence. *we do not know the limits of the pos- sibilities as to the development of size. ‘During a few centuries we have seen both plants and animals enor- mously increased in size through ypreeding and selecting. Compare the little wild crab apple with the mam- moth Wolf River. And what is be- yond the Wolf River apple? Perhaps an apple twice its size. The differ- ence between the full grown wild strawberry and the one the size of an egg is not so great as the difference petween the wild crab apple and the Wolf River. We may expect from » decade to decade to see increase jn the size of strawberries. This fruit is very susceptible to develop- yrent on account of the’ universality of its cultivation and its character as an annual. Tens of thousands of wers are to-day developing new erletics of this fruit, and it will be very queer if some of them do not Formation of Swamps. John Gifford, in a book on Practical Forestry says: Vast areas of fertile land consist almost exclusively of the detritus of the forest. Vegetable matter, in the form of humus, result ing from the decomposition of the litter on the forest floor, has formed in many places several feet in thick- ness. The acreage of swamp lands that have been formed in tnis way is immense. In addition to large patch- es of swamps here and there, there are many miles of swamp or river for- est along our southern rivers. The process ‘of ‘soil formation by the an- nual addition of vegetable matter may be seen to good advantage in the Dis- mal and Okeefeenokee swamp of the South. By digging through th> vege- table accumulation of the Dismal swamp for several feet, one reaches sand ‘containing shells. This indi- cates 'that the depression in which the swamp was formed was once an arm of ‘the sea. It began, no doubt, as a salt marsh; later a few trees that could endure such conditions found a foothold and now it is covered with a dense forest growth of many spe- cies. ‘Little ‘by little the forest de- tritus has increased in thickness un- til ithe swamp has reached an eleva- tion higher than the surrounding land. In fact, elevated swamps are common im many ‘parts of this country. A swamp is usually defined as a tract of land with or without trees, lower than the surrounding country, and so saturated with water as to be unfit for cultivation. The term “swamp” in the South usually refers to a wood- ed region that is higher than thé sur- rounding land, and, when cleared and drained forms excellent farm land. ‘How Plants Use Carbon. A ‘bulietin of the Virginia station says: During the hours of sunshine all growing plants which feed directly upon soil and air must have their as- similating chlorophyll-bearing cells continually in contact with a chang- ing volume of air, in order that the carbon, which makes up so large a part.of their dry weight, may be ob- .tained in sufficient quantity from the carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere. But the more recent analyses of air show that on the average it contains but one part of carbonic acid by weight in 2,000 parts. Now, how much air must a field of clover breath in order that it may produce two tons of hay per acre? Let us see. Boussingault found by analysis that 4,500 pounds of clover hay harvested from an acre of ground contained no less than 1,680 pounds of carbon, and as this was derived almost wholly from the carbonic acid in the air, it must have decomposed 6,160 pounds of carbonic acid in order to procure it. But as there is only one pound of carbonic acid in 2,000 of air, it follows that 12,320,000 pounds of air must have yielded up the whole of its carbonic acid gas in order to supply. the needed amount of carbon. Now. one cubic foot of air at a pressure oj 29,922 inches and at a temperature oj 62 degrees F. weighs .080728 pounds. and this being true, not less than 152,600,000 cubic feet of air must have been required to meet the demands oi this clover field for carbonic acid. This amount of air would cover the acre to a depth of 3,503 feet, having a.uniform normal density. ‘Drouth-Resistant Red Clover. ‘Very much is said about the failure of red clover, but it is worthy of note that some of the clover plants always eome through. Now it seems reason: able if the-seed of clover plants which are immune to tae freezes of winter and the drougths of summer were carefully selected for vigor and for the characteristics already noted that a :drougth-resistant clover could be obtained, and if the history of the ex periment station work is a safe cri terion, it can be accomplished at nc distant date. The farmer has depend: ed entirely on the seedsmen and toc little .on himself in these particulars. The ‘time has come when the closest attention must be given to the pro duction of seeds for home use. Ii would be clearly more profitable and much cheaper to have reliable seeds whose source and quality are known rather than to waste hundreds of dol lars din the purchase of worthless seeds as is now done—Andrew M Soule. Old Seed Corn. In 2 jetter to the Farmers’ Review J. S&S, Leavenworth county, Kansas, says: “Please say to those answering my inguiries about planting old seed corn that I feel grateful to them for their information and tronbie, } planted 80 acres of old seed corn (raised in 1900) which had been kepi in a good erib. I have a fair stand and it looks well. * * * The Farmers’ Review, however, believes it rather a dangerous practice. While here and there a man succeeds in get ting a good crop of corn from old seed, the more common experience is to get either a poor stand, an uneven stand or no stand at all. One cannot afford to take chances on the corn crop. If the seed proves bad it is the loss of very much more than the seed. The cost of plowing the land is lost and the subsequent planting and working. Added to this is the rent of the Jand and the profit tha’ might accrue from a good crop, > Where the climate is cold and vege. ae in ive Wi eompact bodies and fous hale 1 Feeding Farm Horses. 1 Prof. C. W. Burkett of the New Hampshire experiment station has been conducting some experiments in the feeding of horses. The investi- gation included the amount of water consumed, the cost of feeding and the method of feeding. The trials extend- ed over two years. The amount of water consumed was recorded in all the tests. Both the ration consumed and the amount of work performed influence the quantity of water drunk by workhorses, although the individ- uality of the horse has the most marked effect. In the present inves- tigation the quantity of water varied from 25,895 pounds to 32,997 pounds per year. Following are the princi- pal conclusions drawn by the author: Any food stuff or combination of foodstuffs furnishing the desirable nutriment at least cost should be con- sidered in preparing rations for horses. A mixture of bran and corn, half and half, is a good substitute for corn and oats for feeding work horses. Corn stover is a good substitute for timothy hay for winter feeding of horses because of its feeding value, the yield per acre, and commercial value. A change from a grain mixture, consisting partially of linseed-oil meal, slowly or abruptly, does not cause a decrease in weight in horses if a proper substitute ration is fed. The average cost per year for act- ual food supply per horse was $74.32. The average cost for feed per hour’s work done during two years was 3.4 cents. Feeding Stock in Idaho. From Farmers’ Review: The con- dition of ranges here is good this year. They consist of bunch grass, brance, and a short grass that comes in the spring and sometimes in the fall, if we have the rains to start it. All the ranges that lie next to the valleys are pretty well fed off for from ten to fif- teen miles north and northeast. From that on the range increases in good- ness for 100 miles or more. It is stocked with cattle, horses and sheep— more sheep than any other stock, which are owned in flocks of 3,000 to 20,000, divided up into bands con- venient for one man to care for and then a camp tender looks after the wants of the several bands. As a gen- eral thing stock are taken from the feed yards in March to the ranges and brought back in November or Decem- ber to the feed yards, where hay can be bought for $4 to $5 per ton in one- hundred-ton lots. Horses winter on the ranges without any feeding al- most every season, and so do cattle in some places. The horses consist of common range stock. Some good cat- tle are being brought and lots: of blooded sheep are being placed on the range. We have a good wool market and that, like our beef and mutton, is shipped either east or west, but our horses generally go east. The blood: ed stock are more tender than native animals and need more care, but they bring a better price.—Jason “Hallock Washington County, Idaho, Benefit of Grinding Grain. Twenty head of young grade calveg were purchased by the Kansas Experi- ment station during April and May, 1901. The feed of these calves was gradually changed to skim milk, with what grain they would eat, composed of a mixture of whole and ground Kaffir corn. On June 19, these calves were divided into two lots, as nearly equal as possible, the lot to receive ground Kaffir corn weighing 1,570 pounds, or 157 pounds per calf, and the one to receive whole Kaffir corn weighed 1,577 pounds, or 157.7 pounds per head. Each lot was fed all the skim milk, grain and hay the calves would eat without scouring. Ground Kaffir Corn Lot.—For the 112 days under experiment, these ten calves consumed 14,748 pounds of skim milk, 1,394 pounds of ground Kaffir corn, 2,381 pounds of prairie hay, 125 pounds orchard grass hay, and 6,222 pounds alfalfa hay. The to- tal gain of the lot during the experi- ‘ment was 1,580 pounds, or 1.41 pounds daily per calf. With skim milk at 15 cents per hundred weight, grain at 50 cents per hundred weight (plus 3 cents per bushel or 6 cents per hundred weight for grinding), and hay at $4 per ton, the feed cost of raising these calves amounts to $47.37, or $4.73 per head. The cost per hundred pounds of gain is as follows: Skim milk, $1.40; grain, $0.49; roughness, $1.10; total $2.99. The German Army Horse. Prof. W. A. Henry: The German army horse often travels over 40 miles in a day, one-third of the distance be- ing in a walk, trot and gallop respec- tively. This work means an expendi- ture of energy amounting to not less than 23,748,000 foot-pounds, or a feed requirement of 14.77 pounds of digest- ible matter, including the food of sup- port. The horses are fed on an aver- age a ration consisting of only 5.5 pounds of hay, 11 pounds of oats and some cut straw. This ration contains only about 88 pounds of digestible components, and “it is therefore not hard to understand why the horses lose heavily in weight during the ma- neuvers, and that, when these are over, a large number of animals have to be disposed of, as not adapted for use in St ‘ Says: «It Will Build Up a Depleted System Rapidly.” Hon. W. F. Aldrich, Congressman from Alabama, writes from Washing- ton, D. C. «This is to certify that Peruna, man- ufactured by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, O., has been used in my family with success, It is a fine tonic and will build up a depleted system rapidly. I can recommend it to those who need a safe vegetable remedy for debility.”’---W. F. Aldrich, H. S. Emory, Vice Chancellor and Master of Arms, K. P.’s, of Omaha, Neb., writes from 213 North Sixteenth street, the following words of praise for Peruna asatonic, He says: Catarrh of Stomach, ‘It is with pleasure I recommend Pe- runa as a tonic of unusual merit. A large number of prominent members of the different Orders with which I have been connected have been cured by the use of Peruna of cases of catarrh of the stomach and head; also in kidney com- plaint and weakness of the pelvic or- ans. “It tones up the system, aids diges- tion, induces sleep, and is well worthy the confidence of sufferers of the above complaints.”—H. S. Emory. Nervous Debility, Everyone who is in the least degree subject to nervousness, sleeplessness, prostration, mental fatigue or nervous debility in any form, finds the hot weather of June, July and August very hard to bear, if not y Bs ES CONGRESSMAN ALDRICH ENDORSES THE TONIC, PERUNA. end Peerr AA Be th tn th Mth tn dh ta te ttn Be te te ttn te tne tn ta te | ! ! iis iL The only safe course to take isto keep the blood pure, digestion good, and sleep regular. No remedy equals, in all re- spects, Peruna for these purposes. If the system is run down and weakened by catarrh, Peruna renovates and re- juvenates the nexves and brain. A book on the catarrhal diseases of summer will be mailed to any address, upon request, by the Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. The above téstimonials are only two of 50,000 letters received touching the merits of Peruna as a catarrhal tonic, No more useful remedy to tone up the system has ever been devised by the medical profession. Side Light on the Same. 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His cries attracted the attention of a man on the bank, who picked up 4 sledge hammer and threw it to the drowning man, who increased the ve- hemence of his shouts. ‘Then the man on the bank threw a crowbar to the other and said: “I could break into a bank or tear down an alibi with those tools. Strange if you persist in drowning after my ef- forts to save you.” Moral—As the man in the water was a fool who rocked the boat, it served him mighty right.—Judge. Physicians Puzzled. St. Aubert, Mo., Aug. 4th—Mr. E. R. Langendorfer of this place suffered very severely with a peculiar case of Kidney Trouble, which completely baf- fled the skill of the local physicians, and, instead of getting any better, he was actually getting worse. 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