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STOCK IN ORCHARDS.
Low Headed Trees Pasturing With Slieop,
1.. V1 -' bwln-f ami f.hiukwns-- -
Following is a report in brief of a pa
per read at the eighteenth annual session
of the New Jersey Horticultural society
by Mr, Ira J. Blucknell. He said:
It may be thought that he who will al
low any kind of stock in the orchard is
not a practical fruitgrower. There are
more sides than one to most questions,
and the problem of growing good fruit
at the least cost is an interesting subject.
In this country of high winds and burn
ing sunshine low topped trees are a ne
cessity, or, more properly speaking, are
not so easily blown over by high winds
or scalded by the sun, and tho flat
headed borer seldom works where the
tree is shaded, very important points in
favor of low branched trees. Another
very strong argument for low trees is
the better facility of harvesting the fruit,
and as ordinarily grown, especially in
nnsprayed orchards, there will be many
windfalls, which can be marketed for
various uses, while in cultivated orchards,
as the term is usually applied, the fruit
is unmerchantable for any purpose until
washed, which costs about as much as
the fruit will sell for. Perhaps the
strongest argument against the plow in
the orchard is the washing of the land,
but the plow is little worse than the cul
tivator or harrow.
Peaches may bo grown perhaps not
cheaper by mulching, but just as good
as by cultivation, and this mulch mav be
either weeds, stones or dirt hauled round
them. The trees will grow just as well,
perhaps better. No one will advocate
putting a young orchard in grass. Sev
eral years of cultivation must intervene
before the trees get sufficient start to be
able to take care of themselves so far as
cultivation is concerned.
My object is to show that low headed
trees, with needful pruning and liberal
fertilizing, will grow good fruit, but
practically better fruit without the
plow and cultivator than with, and low
headed apple and pear trees will bear
considerably younger than trees trained j
high enough to admit of a team pausing
under the limbs. The best method is to
pasture sheep, swine and chickens in the
orchard after the trees are well estab
lished. Sheep are great feeders, and few weeds
can grow where they run. The oil from
the wool is probably a good remedy for
the apple tree borer, bheep and hogs will
not interfere with each other exeep: at
lambing time. A hog is the only good
plowman for the orchard that works for
nothing. The chicken is an untiring bug
catcher.
With the bearing varieties that are sal
able in the market, grown on low topped
trees, after being well established they
are seeded to grass and pastured wiUi
sheep and Bwine, and the more chicktns
in proportion the greater the profit, as th
chickens do better for the shade and a
hundred well fed fowls to the acre will
help make the orchard thrifty. Thechick
en and fruit combination is one of the best
j partnerships, beneficial to each, provided
you keep the chickens from roosting in
the trees. The hog combination has the
one drawback that sometimes the hogs
get to barking the trees, while, on the
other hand, I know no other way to make
good, healthy pork so cheap as in nn tip
ple or pear orchard of sweet fruit, and
the orchard in grass, or preferably clo
ver, the fruit to ripen successively from
July to December. No man that has hogs
to eat the fallen apples can afford to pick
np the apples for the cider mill or ki'.ll ot
10 cents per bushel. The hogs will pay a
better pri clear of expenws.
THE FARM TRUCK.
A rsetal Wagon Mada Out of Odds and
Euds at a Small Cost.
In the accompanying illustration is
shown a truck which the .iichigan
genins who made it says is one of the
hardiest implements on his farm. Tins
is what he tells about it in a letter to the
Ohio Farmer:
The picture shows the truck loaded
ready for the Beld. It is loaded with a and ci;limed precedence to this one. It
Bissell plow and Gale lever harrow. The couldn't bo settled, of course, struggle as
wheels were taken from an old mower. we nli(;ut mli dilli he fmany (an(j inju
The hind wheels are somewhat larger j diciously) trying to play birth and an
and heavier than the front ones. This is j tkmity, and I "seeing" hisconquerer and
better, as more than half the load and "-.ai-,,,,,," him with Adam, whose direct
strain rest on the rear wheels. Steel stub
axles are used and bolted on the lower
side of 4 by 4 white oak axles 4 feet 8
inches long. This is for the rear truck,
and the front axle is made 2 feet 9 inches
in length. The steel axles were made
from the main driving shafts of the old
mowers. Nothing cheaper or more dura
ble could be found for this purpose. We
have used the truck two years, and a re
cent examination shows almost no wear
in the boxes. The reach, connecting the
front and rear axle, is about 10J feet
long. It is made of well seasoned white
oak 4 by 4 inches in size. It projects
back of the rear axle three feet and is
bolted to it. The forward end of reach
rests on top of front axle. A hir.vy iron
band passes underneath, and the whole
is connected by a heavy kingbolt, held
in place by a key.
The platform is 7i feet long and 4 feet
2 inches wide. To support the platform
three 2 by 4 white oak pieces cross the
reach at about equal distances apart, as
shown in the picture. At the outside
and on top of these crosspieces two 2 by
4 bed pieces are bolted, with the narrow
edges up. Between these the floor of
platform is laid. From each end of the
two rear crosspieces heavy iron braces
( by 2 inches) extend to lower side of
axle. These are all strongly bolted to
gether with 4-mch bolts. Made in this
way the strain of the load rests equally
on the ends of the axle as well as on the
middle.
Another advantage in this truck is
that the forward wheels can turn around
to the reach in front of the platform.
This admits very 6hort turning. The
seat and spring came from an old reaper.
The tongue came from an old mowei
and is also used on the corn marker.
The front and rear crosspieces extend
each side enough to allow tenons to be
made for the "stakes," which are f by
A FARM TRUCK WAGON.
U by 18 inches. A clamp bolt passes
around each stake and through the side
piece. When not in use, they can be
dropped down flush with the top of side
pieces. In the picture the right side
board is taken off.
This is a "low down" truck, and one
man can load and unload a plow quicker
and easier than two can lift it. Under
neath the seat is a tool box for wrenches,
oil can, etc. At the rear end of the truck
is a large ring to attach a diBk harrow,
drill or roller in going to and fro from
the barn to the fields. As a test of its
strength we have Beveral times piled on
over a ton of stones and hauled nearly a
mile. In picking up stone we use no
side boards, and in unloading we can
walk all around the platform and reach
every stone. For hauling sand, gravel
or manure we use a double box, and a
hay rick for hay and straw. This truck
cost me about $4 for iron, lumber and
blacksmith work, and I mude the rest.
The liest Soil For Onions.
Several well known authorities ex
pressed themselves in The Rural New
Yorker as follows: T. H. Hoskins of Ver
mont said: "The best soil for onions is
a sandy loam thoroughly fertilized with
stable manure. The keeping quality of
onions is affected by the soil in which
they are grown." J. J. H. Gregory
of Massachusetts said: "Gravelly loam
makes bright colored, hard fleshed on
ions. Muck and too much clay grow
coarser onions. Those on mucky soil are
dark colored, soft and poor keepers. The
gravelly loam grows the fewest and
mucky soils the most scallious. Plow
loam rich in clay in the fall, the lighter
land in the spring." E. A. Sherman
said: "My experience as far as it goes
and the information 1 have gathered
from other sources lead me to believe
that a humus soil is preferable to any
other for the grown. of onions. Their
keeping quality and flavor are to a cer
tain degree affected by tho soil on which
they are grown. 1 think the soil does
not affect the tendency to form scallions.
The more successful onion growers pre
fer fall to spring plowing."
An Experiment In tJoru Culture.
The practice of cutting and putting in
shock the portion of the cornstalk above
the ear while quite green and in con
dition to make a better qnality of stover
than can be made by allowing the corn
to reach the best stage for shocking ib
common in many localities. The stover
made in this way, if care is taken in
curing, is of excellent quality. It is also
claimed by some that the. yield of corn is
increased by removing the tops. In or
der to test the merits of this practice the
tops were cut from some yellow Dent
corn growing on the grounds of the Iowa
station. The topped corn in this in
stance showed a decrease of 7.2 bushels
per acre as compared with tho same kind
of corn in an adjoining plot that was not
topped. This decrease at the prevailing
price for corn, it was decided, was of
more value than the fodder, leaving out
of account the labor of cutting, which is
about the same as shocking the whole of
the corn. Judging by this and a former
trial, topping is not regarded as a profit
able operation at the Iowa station.
The Hubbard squash is olio of the very
buHt fbr fail and winter market or home
use.
At an English lInner Party.
Everybody took a lady and proces
sioned down to the dininp; room, but
there the disputo begun. The Duke of
Shoreditch wanted to take precedence
and sit at the head of the table, holding
that he outranked a minister who repre
sented merely a nation and not a mon
arch, but I stood for my rights and re
fused to viold. In the gossip column I
rA ,,fl dukes not roval. and said so.
posterity I was, as shown by my name,
wliile lie was of a collateral branch, as
shown by his and by his recent Norman
origin; so we nil processioned back to
the drawing room ai'iiin and had a per
pendicular lunch plate of sardines and
a strawberry, and you group yourself
and stand up and eat it.
Here the religion of precedence is not
eo strenuous. The two persons of highest
rank chuck up a shilling: the one that
wins has first go t his strawberry and
the loser gets tho shilling. The next two
chuck up, then the next two. and so on.
After refreshment, tables were brought,
and we ull played cribbage, sixpence a
game. The English never play any
game for umusemeut. If they can't
make something or lose something
they don't care which they won't play.
Mark Twain in Century.
And lie Got It Cheap.
Here is an unecdoto that J. Seaver
Page tells of a "close cull" he had soon
after Russell Sago had his "close call:" "A
wild eyed man, with his hair somewhat
tumbled, entered our store, and walking
up to one of the salesmen held a can out
at arm's length and said, 'I want a quart
er vermilion, and I want it quick.' The
salesman eyed his visitor sharply and
then said nervously: 'Y-yes, sir. W-wait
a minnit and 1-1'U find it for you.' He
ran into my office and cried out excited
ly: 'Mr. Page, there's a man out there
with a can of dynamite, and he says he
wants a quurter of a million!' 'Well, go
tell him I'll be out in a moment,' said I.
The wild eyed Hum was still standing in
the center of the store holding out the
can when I came out. 'What is it yoti
want, my frieud't" said I very nervously.
"Tho man was beginning to get angry.
'A quart er vermilion,' he shouted, 'and
I want it pretty quick.' 'Will you take
a check?' 'No. What do I want with a
check? I tell you I want a quart er ver
milion.' 'Say that again, and saw it
slow,' I said. "A quart of vermilion,'
said the man. 'Ohl' 1 exclaimed, intense
ly relieved and wiping perspiration beads
from my brow. 'Hero, get tins man
quart of vermilion and don't charge biin
anything for it. New York World.
General Sherman's Individuality. ;
In one of Lawrence Hutton's articles
on deatlimaslts he speaks incidentally of
General Slierman s strong individuality,
which causes a certain sculptor to re
mark: "When I was busy with a bust of
General Sherman and saw him every
day, it was a curious fact that he made
positively no personal impression upon
my mind. I admired him and revered
him, but it was hard work to remember
that he himself was there I stood on
the corner watching his funeral with the
rest of the crowd. I was interested in
looking at the notables, and I sincerely
grieved for the great man's death. But
do you know at the moment the hearse
was drawn past me my attention was
completely absorbed by some idle inci
oant of the occasion. Only at the last
second did I think: 'There it is again. 1
cannot even rivet my attention upon
him while his dead body is passing by.' "
St. Louis Republic.
A llrlght Horse anil a Clever Dog.
Few telegraphers are better known in
New York than George Mudgett, of the
postal office, and there are fewer still
who have a better fund of Btories. He
tells of a certain horse who accompanies
a Scranton (Pa.) lineman on his trips.
This horse cun see a brOKen insulator
quicker than liis rider, and always stops
when one is reached. It is hardly neces
sary to add that the horse can telegraph
with his feet, but no one knows what
he "signs." The same lineman owns a
dog who can toll by the bell attached to
the district messenger register when a
certain firm rings a call, The dog at
once runs to the store, takes the message
in his mouth and delivers it safely at
the telegraph office. Georgo Mudgett
Bays he never invents yarns. New York
Advertiser.
Notes About Alligators.
There is nothing that a 'gator likes bet
ter than fresli pork, and he will toddle
three miles from water for a Florida
razorback. In cool weather ho buries
himself in mud and bocomes dormant
until it grows warm. Hunters still make
a living by killing him for liis hide and
teeth. The killing of alligators from the
decks of river steamers in Florida has
been stopped by law. Tourists became
very careless in their use cf firearms, and
would endanger the lives of passengers
in their hasto to get a Bhot before the
boat got by a plump saurian. Yet it i
remarkable that only ono person,
woman, whs ever wounded in th-e
reckless fusillades. New York Sun.
llniiiuii Kemalus In Texas
is reported that near Currizio
It
Springs, 'Tex., an oval topjied mound,
covered vi')i petrified human skulls,
has been discovered. The mound is cir
cular in form and about 100 foot high
and on one side is joined to ashort range
of hills of about the same height. On
the summit and for some distance down
the sloping side it iB covered with what
appear to be smooth, spherical bones,
which upon close examination prove to
oe, it is ti.iid, petrified human skulls dis
torted into Totcsque shapes.
Ii. is further stated that by removing
the loot dirt and sand from the orifice
of the face the unmistakable human
jountenance is revealed. Iiones of other
clashes are also said to be found tilers
and from all u; pearances tho who!
mound is formed of human skulls.-
P!t:i-irh:Iibiiv li'difVT, ,
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
MONGOLS OF KO-KO NOR.
Brigandage la the General Profession of
Ambitious Young Meu.
Our road first lay through the dis
trict inhabited by the agricultural
tribes on the frontier. Then we en
tered the country occupied by the
Mongols of the Ko-ko Nor, says a
writer in the National Review. The
pasture there was the richest I have
ever seen in any part 01 linnet; out
an idyllic pastoral life is by no means
practiced by the inhabitants, lirig
anduge is the general profession.
The young men spend their time either
in muking raids on travelers and on
encampments of their tribes, by which
means they mostly acquire their cher
ished horses, or in practicing the art
of warfare. I witnessed a military
tournament, at which some riders at
full gallop tired ouc after another at a
small given mark.
These Mongols are tall and fierce look
ing, though tliey proved amiable when
friendly. The men shave their heads,
lioth men and women dress in a gown
of sheepskin, girded round the waist,
high boots of felt and skin, bound be
low the knee with a leathern strap or
cotton garter, and long white felt
coats, which they wear over the sheep
skin when it raiiis. Their summer hat
is of white felt, in shape something
like the top hat worn by the old
Welch market women. The cap they
wear in winter is of white astrakhan,
shaped like a sugar loaf, with a red and
green cotton brim.
The women dress their hair in little
plaits, more than a hundred, caught
together at the ends with a wide band
Df colored cloth, which is embroidered
with gay silks and gold thread, and
studded with coral anil tornuoise.
diver coins and brass buttons, which
they get from Lhassa. The tents arc
round; the inner sides of trellis-work,
the ton of wooden ribs, giving an urn
brella shape, and the whole covered
witii white felt, with an aperture for
a small door of wood, and a hole in the
roof to let out the smoke.
TREACHEROUS SNOW,
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Dangers to Which the Chamois
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One of the perils which the chamois
hunter must face is that which lurks
in the snow. Mr. lluxton, in his Short
Stalks, tells the story of Ilerr S 's
adventure, which graphically illus
trates this danger. He was following
witli one companion, in the depth of
winter, the trail of a wounded cha
mois. The track led them across a
iteep couloir filled with deep, loose
snow, into which they plunged up to
their middles.
When half way across this the mass
parted just above them, and moved
downwards with ever-accelerating
speed, sometimes covering them deep
with a surging mass, and then again
tossing them into the air.
At last S felt himself suddenly
and violently arrested by some pro-
-triiditig substance, which afterwards
proved to be a broken stump of a tree.
After a time lie recovered conscious
ness, and succeeded in shaking him
ielf free. '
The first thought was for his friend,
of whom nothing was to be seen. Hut
as he gazed over the waste of snow be
saw at a distance a twig, which had
been pressed downwards, recover itself
and spring up.
Thinking it might be the sign of
some life he made his way to the spot,
and close by it found a boot protrud
ing from the surface. Scraping the
snow away as best he could with his
naked hands he at length uncovered
the body so far as tho face.
The man was apparently dead, and
his facte was almost black; but piesent
ly he eatnti to, and was little the worse,
while S himself, in turn, fainted
from the injuries he had received, and
was laid up for six weeks before he re
covered.
A LITTLE MISCELLANY.
Theiik is danger of a rabbit plague
in Kansas similar to that of Australia. 1
IIlood travels from the heart through
the arteries at the rate of a mile in
seven and one-third minutes twelve
feet hi one second.
Scot LA Nn is going to make a special
exhibit at the Chicago fair of a hundred
stalwart Highlanders in full national
costume. They will Vie picked for size
and strength, and not for good looks.
After the fair, or before its close if the
sensation of their appearance grows
weak, they will make a tour of this
country.
Kansas society made an interesting
innovation in anniversary celebrations
at Hutchinson recently by celebrating
a diamond wedding, from which the
bridegroom was absent because of un
untimely death. The bride was still
alive, however, and capable cf enjoying
a good thing, so the anniversary was
duly and bocnmlmrlv celebrated.
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NEW YORK'S POSTAL SERVICE.
Interesting Facts About the Growth of ths
Delivery System.
The fair of the postoffice employees was
an incentive to resuscitate and revivify
every postal article obtainable that was
quaint, ancient, and antique, even to an
exhibit of a picture of the building used
for the first postothce. In connection
with this might have been mentioned the
fact that it was in 1028, nine years after
,he construction of the first fort at the
iouthera end of Manhattan Island, that
the first postoffice saw its beginning.
Previous to this, masters of vessels
bringing letters from domestio and for
ign ports brought them on shore and
left them at a eoffee house, where the
merchants, the burghere and the loung
ers met to discuss the topics of the day.
Here the letters were deposited in a
rack, where they might be obtained by
the persons to whom they were ad
dressed. In 1000, when New Amsterdam con
sisted of straggling groups of one story
houses with peaked roofs and gable end
fronting the street, and when the city
extended no farther north than Wall
street, there was the town winding near
the Battery, and the government house
stood in Water street, near Whitehall.
It was in this year that the letter carrier
first appeared the lounger who carried
the mail to the merchant or burgher. It
was not until 1092, however, that the
first city postoffice was established, near
Bowling green, the postmaster being
Richard Nichel.
In 1710 the British postmaster general
established the general postoffice In thi
city and ordered that all mails coming
by vessels should be sent there. A year
later post routes between New York and
Boston and New York and Albany were
established, and the mails were carried
on horseback twice a month. In 1740 a
similar route was established between
New York and Philadelphia.
In 1753 Benjamin Franklin was ap
pointed postmaster general of the col
onies. Alexander Colden soon ' after
ward succeeded Richard Nichel as post
master of the city, which office he held
until the beginning of the Revolution,
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wuen.uie poBUimye wae auuiuuieu yy. wm t.
Britink officials and remained closed fof
seven years.
William Bedlow, after whom Bedlow'i
Island was named, was the first post
master appointed after the war, and In
1780 he was succeeded by Sebastian Bar
num, at which time the postal revenne
was SJ2.789, and the city directory con
tained 020 names only. New York Trib
une. '
Hound to Bay Something.
Among other anecdotes of university
life Dean Hole tells of an occasion when
there was some doubt as to the locality
of a city mentioned In a Greek text, and
the lecturer addressed a youth who had
just come up from the famous Shrews
bury school,"Now, Mr. Bentley, you are
a pupil of our great geographer, Dr. But
ler, the Atlas of our age, who carries the
world not on his shoulders, but in hi)
head, and you can probably enlighten u
as to the position of this ancient town."
"I believe, sir," was the prompt reply,
"tlmt modem travelers are of the opin
ion that the city ought to be placed about
ten miles to the southeast of the spot
it now occupies on our map."
After receiving respectful thanks for
his information, tho informer told Deaa
Hole as they left the lecture room that
ho had never hoard of tho venerable city
before, but that for tho honor of Shrews
bury and the reputation of Dr. Butler
he felt himself bound to say something.
Mr. licment's Cabinet of Minerals.
The largost and richest private cabinet
of minerals in America is said to be that
of Mr. Clarence L. Boment, of Philadel
phia. His collection fills nearly a whots
floor of his large house, which is lighted
with special reference to seeing his treas
nres to advantage, and none of the pub
lic museums have specimens of a size,
beauty and perfection to surpass thou
that he has been patiently gathering for
the past twenty years or more. The,
leading dealers in this country have
standing orders to send him the best of
what comes to them, and they willingly
do so, for ho is prompt and liberal in nil
payments, being a gentleman not only ol
of enthusiasm, but of ample fortune.
What he does not take is sent to the
British museum as the second best buy
er. While it is difficult to set a price on
a scientific collection, it is said by those
who should know that Mr. Bement't
cabinet is worth Rt least $123,000. New
York Sun.
Common Ifypoerlsy.
Miss Willard says that few forms ot
hypocrisy are more common on the lipa
of women than this, "I would on no ac
count have my name in the newspaper."
If a woman has accomplished something
helpful to humanity it is just as desira
ble to have it known as if a man had ac
compli. hi d the same.
Honors, World's Fair.
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