An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon
620 th WEEK.
GRANT’S PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1897
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1 he recent experiment« of the United
State» government to te^t the value of
a concrntraied army ration have quite
naturally proved a failure They were
instituted by the secretary of war with
a view to reducing the bulk and weight
of food without impairing its nuUitnc
function». Thia appeared to be necessi­
tated by the fact that the American
army is more in need of possible Im­
provements in this line, in view of the
heavy, tedious and lonfc transportation
of supplies across the plains and
through districts that are incapable of
affording the proper amount and qual­
ity of food in times of emergencies.
The German arm \. for example, when
moving in binall bodies always pur­
chases supplies on the march as want­
ed. The same is true of the French,
Russian, Austrian and other European
armies, but at the same time the sol­
diers usually have in their knapsacks
what is called an “emergency” ration,
generally sausage or preserved meat
of some kind The soldiers of the Jap­
anese army in the late w ar with China
carried an emergency ration of rice in
a little tin case strapped to the top of
their knapsacks.
The rrjxirta made by the differcut
military departments to which the
questions were referred are Interest’Tig
as bearing upon the value of food prod­
ucts generally and on the physiologi­
cal questions involved in the digestive
and nutritive process* r more particu­
larly.
Theoretically *|x*uking,
it
would appear that the problem had
been solved regarding the amount of
food necessary to sustain life and the
varieties of sustenance that gave in
minimum compass the greatest amount
of nourishment.
All the observers agree, however,
that the old-fashioned ration of bacon
and hard-tack in suitable bulk is the
most practical that has ever lx*en sug­
gested. The quantity uf food neces­
sary to keep a soldier in good condi­
tion is flx«xi at 22 ounce«. The latter
amount is increased for obvious rea­
sons to 26 ounces.
When the theories were put to a prac­
tical test the result was as might have
been anticipated.
Various concen­
trated food tablets were employed in
Colcrado, but more than half the n.cn
who were victims to the experiment
became candidates for hospital treat­
ment. The following extract from the
report speaks very significantly on
some very essential and striking facts:
“A company of the Seventh infantry,
at Fort Logan, near Denver, was de­
tailed and furnished with condensed
rations, consisting of coffee, soup,
bread and bacon. The coffee and soup
were in small tablets, which, when
placed iu boiling water, were ready for
consumption in two minutes. The
bread was in small, flat cakes, the
weight and hardness of u brick, but
when moistened swelled out like a
sponge. The bacon was compressed
anil only needed tx* lx* warmed in a fry­
ing-pan. The soldiers started out with
ten days’ rations, but the cainjiaign
wav brought to an abrupt end after
four days of 15-mile marches. The
food no’- only did not satisfy the hunger
or give strength, bui seemed to irritate
the stomach. After the first meal, two
of the enlisted men had to l»e ¡»lax-id
under the surgeon’s care. At the end
of the second day 30 of the 70 men in
the company were ill. andon the fourth
day the whole command went into
camp, and couriers were sent to town
for bard-tack and ordinary coffee and
bacon. Some of the soldiers were seri­
ously ill with a stomach complaint, and
were confined to the hospital for sev­
eral days.”
All this goes to show that not only
very much ia to lx» learned regardirg
lalxiratorv 'ceding, but that we are also
far from the proper appreciation of
nature’s complex requirements in fo^sl
taking. Thus far the human labora­
tory, with its multiple, interdependent,
and complementary methods, baa a
monopoly of it*» own in fixing the
proper standards for digestion, assim­
ilation and subsequent growth. There
is a natural law pervading t.he whole
that must not lx? violated by too radic al
attempts »♦ modification or improve­
ment.
The stomach must earn its living in
its own way, as by such purely physio­
logical effort in bringing each and nil
of its mechanical, vital ami chem < ai
functions into play, it ran best ma n-
tain its heulth. activity and usefulne««.
No prepared or concentrated food <rn
relieve it of any or all of Its activities
in that gradual conversion of a legiti­
mate quantity and quality of food that
constitutes a natural and perfect di­
gestion.
In such an asjx-ct a moderately full
stomach is something more than a feel­
ing. Its work must lx^ distributive
rather than restrictive.
It must lx?
healthfully distended with f<xxl bul* y
enough to occupy spare places; other­
wise, its most important function is
hampered, while for lack of mechani­
cal stimulus the intestines become
stagnated into almost helpless inactiv-
Ity.
Hence it is easy to see how the ex­
periment« failed and the victim« psid
the penalty of outraged physiological
laws. So far, at least, th< re is not suflj-
eient reason, because a man become* a
soldier that his stomach should lx*
puckered around a »lesiccated sovipt«l>-
let or that it should wrestle alone in
some dark < urner of an ai-commoflut-
mg fold with some soggy and glaz» d
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Latest
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t'OI’ItIKK OFHC’F
Offenders of high rank at the Rus­
sian court were pun is hex! in a singular
way by Peter the Great. It was the
duty of ©very body else at court to ron-
skier «nd treat the delinquent as a
fool. When Anne, the daughter of
Peter’» ekker brother. Ivan, earn»- to the
throne «he originated an even queerer
form of punr»bmei.t. She de< ree<l that
a certain prince should be< on»e a hen,
swd for this purpose ohe bad r .adr a
large l<«kr*. stuffed with str.w. and
hoik'wed into a nest, with a quant ty of
rgrw in ft. Th»« wn* placed in a eon»
•pictx/u« place in th* queen s palaee«
•nd there, under ps n of death, ttw un­
fortunate prince wa« - »bl ge«| to *ef da»
after day. imitating the rarkiing of th»
fowl hr was suppOM d tn represent.
BILIOUSNESS
IN SOUTHERN CANEBRAKES, j
Americana Should Eat Mure Green Y ege-
table« uud Saluda
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Authorities on diet believe that it
would be well for most of us who are
in health to «'at more grvrn vegetable»
with our meat and starchy fool* tiun.
we do at present, says the New York
Post. Indeed, some go so far as to be­
lieve that the nbeence from our lurnus
of plenty of green vegetables and salad>
aflounts for the biliousness of the
American people. The l>eat known of
such plants are let tuee, beet-tops, dan­
delion. kale and spinach, but Mr. Col­
ville, botanist of the United Stall's de­
partment of agriculture, finds that
there are many other palatable und
healthful plants that, though rarely
used, might ad«l a pleasant variety to
our list of available vigetnbles. One of
these, “w inter cress,” or Barbarea proe-
cox, which is cultivated from this city
southward and is sold in large ijuonti-
ties in the Washington markets, i-
planteil in late summer or early fall
ar.d needs very little cultivation. An­
other plant that belongs to the spinach
and beet family, though it is a com­
mon weed in fields and gardens in near­
ly every pai*t of the United States, is
“lamb’s quarters,” or Chenopodium al­
bum. It is in many places commonlx
know n either as pigweed or goosefoot,
but. it. is not the true pigweed. Tilt
plant has a pale-bluish green color, and
is used when six or eight inches high
is tender, juicy and pleasant to 1h<
taste. The teasing weed, the common
garden “puslev,” or “purslane,” when
boiled is also rrconi me tided us a most
palatable green vegetable and can easily
be had. In India, where it originated,
the plant ha.- been used for hundreds of
years. In Europe it is used both us a pot
herb and for snla Is.
SHE
LEARNS
ITS VALUE.
Young Girl’a Method of I> arovortng Iler
Engagement Klng'w Price.
Two young girls dress, d in stylish
tailor-made gowns enter« d a Suite
«treet jeweler’s shop. They asked to
sec diamond rings uud for u few mo­
ments pretended to be very much in­
terested in the gold circlets und theli
brilliants. All at once one of them
fished in her pocketbook and produced
a ring set with a moot beautiful emer­
ald.
“Could you duplicate a ring like
this?’’ she asked.
“Yea,** said the jeweler.
“For how much?’’ The girl hesitated
just the least bit tusking that question.
The jeweler glanced at a friend, winked
und smiled, lie told her the price and
then the girl asked:
“This is a rather valuable ring, isn’t
it?”
“Yes, quite valuable.”
“Well, I shall see mamma first, und
if 1 decide to have the ring duplicated
I will lot you know.”
“She’ll not be b«R k,” said the jeweler,
after the doer had closed. “llapps
creature! She really never intended
duplicating the ring, but rhe w«>
mortally anxious to find out bow muci
her fiance bad paid for it. For that wa:
her engagement ring, and you kndw
she had to l.now how much the trinket
was really worth. His depth of affec­
tion is largely measured by the vulue
of his engage mt nt ring.
Now she’:
happy. Did you notieg the Ixatifie ex­
pression when I told her my price .’
Happy youth! They are pretty much
all alike.”
PATRON
SAINT OF
BARBERS.
Alexander the Great Started the Fanti I on
of Sliuvin».
The confessor of Francis
France refused him absolution
had completely removed hia beard. An
ancient German was by tribal custom
not allowed to cut off his 11 vwing Ix-ard
until lu* had killed his firs* man in
tie. About the year 200 B. the Roma•
Emiwror Scipio Africanus innu.’uratetl
the custom of shaving among the Ro
man nobles. Henry I. of England woi
a beard until a courageous pr«*acb •
leveled his eloquence at Ifni t » >u •
good purj>osi* that he su! mitted to b
shaved, l-’roin the t ime of Jul:ti> <’:<»
until the advent of William the (’< m -
(¡ueror the Britons wore mihtadn s, but
the clergy, after the conversion of tb*
islanders, we re forced to sha r by k.w
Oi. of the, early popes csta! . -b<d th
shaving of Roman Catholic pri*- ts t »
distinguish them from the patriot.« o'
Constantinople. The priests of the
Greek church still wear lieards. Peter
the Great of Russia laid a tax on beard*
an<1 delinquents v.ere forced to have
their farm shaved with a blunt razor
or to have the hairs pulled out with
pincers. So everybody shaved.
The
first shaving was done by order of Al­
exander the Great, who forced the
Greek warriors to cut off their beard:*,
as he found them awkward imped
men!« in the hand-to-hand content« c f
that time.
WHAT
A
BILLION
MEANS.
I),
<•< ntly «¡-¡»care 1 in an issue o an
«h p< ri<x!ical
What Is a bill
I L' h j ly i > vc ry simple. In F »pi­
billion is a n till ion times a mi II
This is <1U
(!,00i»,300t000,0(
quicker »till
written and
non need. But. no man in able
• • ;t
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vAill count 160 or
minute. But h l usauf jxi - m - HuDt V (
up ns big)> a* 200 n minute, h our
i.nir. At that rate you v«ou iil c
1 .‘.000 fln hour ; 2K9.O«JO a <’oy or
tjo.ooo in a ye ir. Ix-t ns t up
i' at Ad:im, at the beginning jt h
• » I ' • u un to< wnt. an<
ued to <k> sc ami wa* « oun
Hid tech a I bi ng Ixxn
would not yet have finished the
of .-num ng* »iilion! To cou nt fl
lion would r-«. uirr a ¡irrwm tn •
<«» a minute fn r a period of 9^»
»12 day*, ft hours ami 30 minute«». pr
l;
t g hr should couut coot iuuou
1 • • mi*- w r all ow the counter 12 h
<1-1.1; for rest. Hitiogai.d alrrpif »F rh
hr won 1.1 urr<l 19JXS years, 310
• if * MMl *'• n ilnntrs in whicl to
te theta*k*
Whore Spedino no fr ru All Lande
Are Expo rímente d With.
.□.a d qie Ufo In the South
Atlantic Statua
The canebrake« of Georgia and Flor­
ida are but little known, ux compared
with the augur plantation» of Louisiana
und Culm. but the muking of sugar and
molaswe» ha» long been a favored pur­
suit in Georgia e.ud it* fust Ixcomiug a
prominent feature iu Florida. The
trau.oent visitor to these stslrs.how-
e\<r, rarely sees the cane growiug or
witnesses the crude processes or sugar
manufacture here in vogue, for the vt a-
son that the vanebrakra are usually far
away from the bvnten paths of travel
ami accessible by devious and not *ilio*
get he r attractive byways.
Before the war almost every planter
in southern Georgia had hia cane patch
and mill whereby he made hia »upp’y
of low grade sugar and molasses for
home use or for sale and barter, ami it
was not infrequent that an excellent
article of ruin was produced from the
same source.
From t.he wreck of these great plan­
tations after the war the former
owners and the erstwhile slave« slowly
produced order from chaos. The fact
that the tilling of the cane as well as
the grinding and boiling of the juice
bad b»*en left entirely to the slaves whs
the cause which led to the now general
condition of the Georgia sugar indus­
try lx*iug largely in the hands of ne-
groc«. And u picturesque phase of our
national life is this pursuit ns followed
in the south Atlantic state«.
The muds of raising sugar cane in
Georgia differ« in many respects from
the practice of the Louisiana plantei«.
In the luttcr state the heavy and wet
soil often makes necessary the emp’oy-
ment of three and four mule« to each
plow in breaking the «oil for th» first
planting of the cane, and much valua­
ble ground is wanted, for between the
rows a deep furrow or ditch must I k *
mnde for drainage.
In planting,
pieces of sugar cane containing two or
•*cye»” or joint« are placed in the
more fl
ground, When fall cotnrs and the
grain is cut the roots throw out new
Cotta««
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have at hand an active, harmlesa and per­
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sage that «ver was
delivered to msnkind has
been given to them through
the newspapers. It ia given
again in this article,
It is the information that
9& per cent, of all cases of con­
sumption can be completely
and permanently cured.
There is no doubt about iL
The statement Is not made
rrcklesaly, but after the ci-
nerienct of thousands has made it an In-
iisputablr het. Consumption ia not a dis­
ease of the lungs. It is a disease of the
blood, which in weak lunged people man­
ifests itself by the formation of tubercles
in the Itingi.iiid the wasting away of lung
tissue. The cure for consumption is simple.
It | MMd«t« in the administration of a medi-
cine that will assist the lungs in throwing
off tuberculous matter, and that will cleanse
the system so that thia refuse matter will lx*
replaced by strong, healthy tissues. That
sounds like a very simple operation, and
I ret consumption baffled the combined med
cal skill of the whole world for hundreds
of years. Consumption was considered in­
curable until the advent of Dr. Pierce’«
Golden Medical Discovery
This great
remedy is the most wondernil blood purifier
and strengtliener that the world has ever
known
It is the result of years of study
and r«périment, by a scientific physician
and has be«n tested in every way by him
for over yr years.
It has an unbroken
record of success. It cures a great variety
of diseases, because almost all diseases
have their origin and support in impurity
and weakness of the blood. As long as a
man’s blood is rich and pure hr is in no
«langer from diseases
The blorxl is the
medium through which food is carried from
the digestive system to al! of the tissues of
the body. If it carries impure things, or
an insufficient quantity of good things,
trouble will ensue There is nothing about
that so very hard to understand It is per
frctly plain and natural and rational Th<-
*• Golden Medical Discovery "uuta the di­
gestive system in perfect orcler, purifies
•nd enriches the blood and so put« th«
whole body into perfect tun«.
Th» <i r«e»1y « rorodii*.
that a young
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manners
Cottage quilt« are now gay weaving»
nt a low price, which resembles tin
home made effort« ofourgrai dmolhrra
These spreads ore especially Hold for
M’iniii'.i r health* ute, and the rcons oi
young* women, Older one» pi« f r th-?
embroidered w hi to v arlety. With any of
the*.* coverings *vre used square v bite
linen “ahiuna.” They have hemstUclu <1
two-inch bonier«. The beet er* hand*
embroidered in w hile, on<l haw cent- i
monograms or «ingle 1«-t-t< is of whit.?
from three to five inches in length. No
>ther sort of ••»ham” 1« on pair for use
with any of the spreads described. In
'eneral, the distinguish* ng feature« of
thia season’« shams I n the narrow hem;
of the spreads, the flowered designs
rather than the figured. One look» in
vain for thal little checkerboard variety
;i on which in childhood, with oyster
cracker», we used to play games with
imaginary <»p|M>neiits. when we were
too ill to get up. St. Ixmis itepublic.
• ranches of suckers, which are known
as ratoons, and these form the b<gin-
id ng of the next crop, ami ao on year by
year until the vitality of the stock 1«
exhausted. In Louisiana cane mutt lx*
renewed every three or four yeais,
while in Georgia anil Florida one pimit-
ng will last for sewn or nine years
In Louisiana the cane rarely tiKsek,
while it does so regularly along the At
hinHr coast. The yield in tlw creole
late is ubout 1,000 pounds per aere, but
near Savannah the planters get 1,50
to 2,(>00 pounds per acre, equid to
* arrvN of sirup. A g<x>d cant* w ill yield
over a galhxi of juice and 1IM h ,:pht
varies from 0 to 12 feet. It is usual t<
phiqt corn between tlic rows of cane,
and a« the former is taken in long be­
fore November, when the emir is ready
to cut, the two make good compm ioi
crops.
When the cano is ready to cut begins
e happy season of tlw iwgrts'H. 'Flu
nnc’.ent cane mill Is tinkered up ur<l
leaned for yet another period of u«r-
uhicsH, barrels are coppered, fuñieres
l iokvd nfter and the boiling kettles
•mired und polished. Th«' single mule
on the place is attached to th«' lonp
isvveep of the mill and begins the mo­
notonous tramp around the circle worn
deep by mniiy curlier generations of
mules nt the same task.
The enne is fed to the vertical rollers
nt a spi ed equal to the pace of the mo­
tive power and as the mule is uauullyof
venerable nge and the negro i« rather
languid in his movem«*nts, the etfe t is
very similar to tlx- ancient saw cco-
« I ruing the mills of the gods. How -
< \ r. the juice quickly n akes it« rp-
¡vnrance in the funnel beneath the
r<dls, and it is led to a barrel, the mouth
of which is covered with <-oar>4' cloth,
acting a»- u sieve. The color of the sap
is gr it, foamy ash, anil by no mear. : in­
viting. but it i* eagerly drank by the
plantation bands, und in conacquenee
a close wutch 1« kept upon tlic preciou«
liquid by the owner.
From the mill the juice is taken to
th«* Isiiling kettles or pan« «nd after
many hot ling« a ml skimmings over
fires fe<| by the refuse cane or “trash”
the ¡-up Is reduced to a thick, sticky,
semi -fluid ma*«, which is ludled into
WHERE NOAH GOT HIS PITCH.
hogsheads an<l set away to cool. The
Natural Spring Which Enal>l«*«t Him to liquid |N>rtlons of the sap drip into re­
Make th»- Ark Water Tight.
ceiver« and form the molasses mo dear
An English explorer has recently to negr« • h ’ heurts. The solid residue is
reached Hit, in Syria, the locality in
ugar, none too ch an and none too at­
which Noah dwelt. I!» tc he found a tractive for others, but all sufficient for
mnarkable group of bitume.n springs, the .intives. A general holiday and cel­
says the New York Journal.
ebraron usually follows the clone of
From these spring*, he says, It is
• igar making, and in the degrre that
prolsible that Noah obtained his supply the tern out has Isx-n satisfactory, the
of mat* rial to “pitch it w ithin ami witlu fun swells or ebbs.
out.” In a basin, undoubtedly of vol­
The clirwing or sucking of grfen
canic origin, a xpring of warm water < nno i« a universal habit in the sugiu*
btibbh-s up, and with the water comes bell, and the juicy stalks tnke the place
the bitumen or pitch, in a p
of sweetmeats In many u humille cal -
of the consistency of rathe
in, w hile forming a dainty by no rn< an*
ty; and the Arabs gather i
despised in higher circle«. - N. Y. Ke*
«•raping it off the surface <
corder.
with their bare hand* and
into panniers earrie<J by p
DAYS WERE ONCE SHORT.
th.-
donkeys, who the
;e the
roeky sides of the
iarda.
material off to the
nserl fc
I x>a t s
it
IS. aftei
in
The Kuglish club manner is gradually
IxxxHuiiig adopted by the New York,
Boaton and Washington young club­
men,
along
with
English-built
clothes. The new departure, in de­
portment,
eujs
the \\ashiugt >n
Fust, is quiet, natibral, frai.k and » in
pic a grvat improvement c-n the 1 ud-
iivkm v h»ch marked the dviuea; or of
clubmen 4J years ago. Our y< u. g fcl-
Inva have gone in for I'ngl ah way»,
have not only iq propriated Brit­
ish fashion in clot I m »«, but have de-
v< lo|x«d athletic ami inaniy sporting
tastes, while “tulfbing" i« in- re the
ciiNtoin. When, theu, with the bath, the
ride to hound«, pkuity of outdoor exer­
cise, hunting, «hooting ex|M-dition«, and
the sensible clothes of eveiyduy wear,
the race of young fellows s a decided
improvement on the hard-drinking,
dueling, Hccurity-going grandfather*
who loathed athletics and games of all
sorts, exce pt j»oker, and nought excite­
ment in an occaaionid fox Lunt ami w ere
not happy until they had burn aut on
‘the field of honor” several time» ami
“bagged” their man.
Already a wail logins to go up in so­
ciety as to where the men are to come
from who can be counted up^n toinaure
the buds a gcxxl time. The voung fel­
lows who have been fucetiously dubbed
“the gixigraphy class” by some club
wag are not quite old -enough to don
the toga varilis, and yet too big to wear
knickerbockers. The society of mam-
ma**, in a quandary, seriously think of
makingnn appeal to Secretaries Herbert
anil Iuiiiioiit to And someth ng in the
way of duty here for the »lane ngyoting
army and navy men and thus relieve the
pressure.
s
Thouiandi of Planta Kalard Every Year
for LMatriLuthu Throughout the
Stated — BcicutUic Rrnvarch
iu Agriculture.
Back of the b;g brick seed barn of
the department of agriculture is a very
funny kind of garden, which has ju»t
begun to sprout.
It covers about half
an acre, w hich is divided up into ever
so many little rvtan,rular patches. Of
the latter there arc four htuulred and
fifty in all. which ar© sown with as
many different binds of grasses.
The
seeds for most of these have been ob­
tained front foreign countries, through
United Stales consuls, who have re­
sponded to a circular sent out by the de­
partment of state requesting them to
«end samples. In fiv t. says the Wash­
ington Star, they come front all over
the wcq*ld, and the purpose of the
garden descri¡»?d is to make a fairly
•omprehensive exhibit of the grasses of
all lands.
Included among the four hundred
and fifty specii * nr© various kind» of
forage plants. The idea of this novel
exhibit is original with i’rof. Scribner,
the agrostology t recently engaged by
the <iepariiui nt of agriculture. When
nil of the plants are fully developed,
along towards the autumn, the garden
w ill be very pretty to look upon. There
will even be bamboos, which belong to
the family of gru .es. Adjoining th©
garden is L. U. Howard s in.st ct rear­
ing establishment, iu which bugs of
multitudinous varieties are bred render
glass. The lutt» r gentleman jocularly
threatened to let out his bugs to browse
upon Prof. Scribner’s grasses, not to
mention the plants of different kinds
which Prof. \\ih ? is ¿..It;. ating in the
immediate vicinity.
Prof. Wiley bus an outfit of a very
peculiar sort. It consists of a shed
with a glass roof out from under which
run a series of parallel railway track«
for a distance of ubout sixty or seventy
feet. On the rails are miniature flut
cars, which curry huge curt hen pot«
and wooden tubs. In each tub is a
growing plant. There are a number of
specimens of each kind of plaut—po­
tato, pea or what nut each growing in
a different kind of »oil. The purix>sein
view is to find out just how much avail­
able f<xxl is contained in vurious soils.
The soils employed have previously
been analyzed. The quantity of plant
food in a soil may not determine its
usefulness for producing crops, in­
asmuch as it may not be in such shape
as to be easily absorbed.
Feeding plants is like fetsding babies;
the diet bus got to be nut mer«4y nu­
tritious, but easily digestible. Having
ascertained by analysis just ho v much
plant focal is contained in each kind of
soil, Prof. Wiley wants to know how
much uf it ia assimilated in the process
of vegetable growth. The soils experi­
mented with «re from all parts of the
United btalcs, and the information ob­
tained is expected to be of much use to
farmers.
The days of farming by
guesswork have nearly passed by, and
agriculture is a scientific pursuit. The
rails and cars enable Prof. Wiley to
run his plants under shelter when it
rains. Rain water contains nitrogen,
w hich, being added* in undetermined I
quantities, would interfere with the'
accuracy of his experiments.
Only
distilled water is furnished to the
plants.
The department of agriculture raises
every year on its farm many thousands
of plant« for distribution through mem­
bers of congress and to applicants gen­
erally. This season it will take eighty-
five thousand cuttings of giajx? vines,
comprising twenty-five varieties. Of
course, the grape vines were grown out
of doors.
Twenty-two varieties of
olives will bo grown under glass for the
same purpose, tu be distribu ted in the
south. Oí these ten thousand w ill be
produced some varieties being best for
oil and others most suitable for pickles.
Out of doors will be grown thirty va­
rieties of hgs. from which, perhaps,
fifteen hundred cuttings will be taken.
To the list will be added one hundred
thousand strawberry plants of forty;
varieties; also five thousand camphor
plants raised from seed, and pineapples,
guavas, oranges and lemons. Olives
and tigs are distributed only south of <
North Carolina, camphor plants south!
of Havannah, and pint apples in south-!
eastern Florula, due regard being had ’
for the climatic conditions suitable for
the raising of these products.
improving
KugUah Coatuma Getting a Utroag Foot-
boM la Kaatara C'ttiaa.
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