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Fenelon Falls Gazette, 9 Nov 1894, p. 6

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.ws-z‘éifirzt‘A-wmawm wan-1...: s, _ W A .4 p - :4. > nu;gw.m,..wm~.¢-w Juwnn'meu'VMr-hflo v j PRACTICAL “ARMING. A Hand Apple Picker. As the season for picking winter apples is now on, orchardists wiii find. the- ill- ustrated picker of great service in reaching the fruit on extended limbs. One man an stand under a tree and pick nearly all the fruit from the tree‘including the hardest to r iron I’XCKING FRUIT wrmour nnt‘lstxo. get atâ€"that on the ends of the branches. The frame is made of heavy wire, or light round iron and a sack of heavy cloth sewn to the frame, leaving the slots at each end so that an apple will be free to enter the sack. Then all you have to do is to push or pull and the apple drops in the sack. I have one with a fourteen foot and another with a six-foot handle. The wire fromA to B is eight inches wide, from C to D ten inches. The slots at C and D are three inch- es long and an inch wide. The handle or pole may be of any desired length. ._-â€".. Packing Butter for Winter. \Vhile winter dairying is slowly increas- ing it requires so much skill and careful minagement, and such a change in the common methods of the farm, that while it is the most profitable part of dairy farming, it is notlikely, for some years yet, to be sufficiently practised to fully supply the demand for butter in the winter. Thus the summer dairyman may still find it profitable to pack the fall made butter for winter sale. And indeed, he may do this with advantage as well as safety, for when the best quality of butter is packed in the best manner, it will improve during the keeping from the fall until winter, and be really more desirable than the ordinary winter made article. This is due to the fact that by the slow ripening in the package during storage in acool, clean place, and in sweet air-tight packages, there is a slow internal change going on in the butter by which its finest flavor is de. veloped, and as with fruits, so the butter is greatly improved by what may truly be called in bothâ€"a process of ripening. Two things are to be considered in this subject, always, however, premising that the butter is of the best quality, as it easily may be when it is made from the sweet, fresh fall grass, equal in every re- spect to the fresh spring pasture. The first thing in the process ,is the package; the second, the manner of packing the butter. The best package for the purpose is a new white oak pail. made of sound timber, free of knots ant. blemishes, half an inch thick, well jointed, and perfectly seasoned. This pail holds fiftyfpounds. White spruce is the next best material, and is quite as free from any objectionable odor or taste given to the butter. The pail is prepared by a thorough cleaning in pure water. It should be soaked for at least twenty-four hours, then well‘ scolded, and then filled with brine. This is done so that it may stay under the brine twenty-four hours before the butter is packed. The pail being ready the butter is packed as soon as it has been finished at the second working, the day after it is churned. It is salted in the usual manner, one ounce to the pound of butter, of the very purest and finest ground salt. It is worked as dry as it can be. The pail being emptied of the brine, is dusted all over the inside with the salt, and the salt, and the butter is put in only so much at a time as will make a layer of four inches. - This is compactly pressed down by a maple presser, made like a com- mon potato masher, so that all the moisture is pressed out and drained off. If in this moisture there is any cloud or shade of milk, the butter has not been made as ‘ well as it should be, and will not come out in perfect condition. Not a shade of milk is to be permitted in the butter for this use. but any moisture that drains from it should be as clear as the dew on the morning grass. Then the butter thus putin is lightly dust- ed with salt», and another layer is put in in the same manner, until the pail is- filled to a quarter of an inch of the edge of the 3“. p If the butter is not sufficient for a full paii it is packed as far as it can be and covered with salt, and the pail is put away until the next churning, being kept covered with a clean towel. Then the next churn- ing is packed in the same manner until the pail is filled as mentioned, when the butter is covered with a piece of good, heavy shitting cloth, well washed in boiling water and steeped in brine, with the pail. It is cut half an inch larger than the outer edge of the nail. It is pressed down on the butter to exclude all air, a little salt being sprinkled under it, and is then covered with dry salt to the edge of the pail. This salt is well pressed down and is covered with a sheet of parchment paper, on which is printed the name of the butter maker and the dairy, and any handsome device that may be used as a trade mark. This is in justice to the person who will take all this trouble to make a fine article of butter. The cover, treated astho pail has been, is then securely fastened down and the pail is stored. Dairy Granules. Parchment popershoiild always be soaked in a strong brine beforqusing to prevent moulding. Sec to it that your stock do not drink ice water, you cannot afford to have your cattle warm up such water with food. Dr. E. M. Gotchol, who is an expert in the examination of cows for tuberculosis and in the test of milk, does not condemn dchorning. He simply warns against using milk of cows having high fever from any cause. The Ontario Agricultural College, in a bulletin on the care of milk and cows, says : While in the stable, cows need currying and brushing once a day. If more time is spent in brushing the cows and less, if necessary. in brushing horses, it will pay better at present. That pasteuriziug the cream is gaining ground in Denmark is best illustrated by the advertisements of dairy implement manufactures. A very neat elevator is now sold for elevating the cream from the separ- ator to the pasteurizing apparatus. Under no other system of farming can fertility of the soil be so easily maintained and increased as with a dairy. “’hether on a small scale or with a large capital, it affords employment the year around, and yields a constant income of cash, and, if skilfully conducted, brings a large profit. It requires the expenditure of more nervous energy to produce butter than milk. Hence, a rich butter cow must, of necessity, be a cow of more nerve power than one that is a large milk maker but smaller butter maker. In other words, as milk rich in butter contains more poten- tial energy than milk poor in butter’, more energy is expended in making it. And this explains why the Jersey cow is so much more industrious. “I can’t supply half the demand of my butter,” said a farmer’s wife who has built up a trade among private customers. She began in a small way by supplying to a few friends in a nearby city a choice article. These friends were so. well pleased that they told other friends, and a regular and continuous demand has resulted at a. uni- form price per pound,far beyond the ability to supply. It was a simple, inexpensive method of building up a trade. _______._.._.__â€"â€"- BRANDED THE BABY’S THIGH. The Device Recon-ted to by an Accommo- dating Physician otSan Francisco. A few nights ago a girl baby wasbrought to the receiving hospital at San Francisco by a messenger, who said he had been in- structed to bring it there by Dr. E. M. Griffith, who keeps a lying-in hospital on McAllister Street. \Vhen Matron Hunter of the receiving hospital disrobed the infant for the purpose of washing it she found a mark on its thigh. Inquiries were at once instituted and it Was learned from Dr. Griffith that the mother was a rich young woman whose name he refused to give. He I thought that possibly the mother might have some interest in the child, and seemed to think it possible that she and the father might marry. For the purpose of making it possible to identify the child beyond any doubt he had branded it. After making this statement the doctor added in a mat- ter of course tone that “he always branded babies, those kind of babies,so that mothers can identify them.” He denied using a hot iron for this purpose, but the surgeon THE mme ox 'rmt nanv’s TlIlGll. at the receiving hospital declares that there can be no doubt the. brand on this child was made in that way. The burn is about an inch square and the mark will be visible as long as the child lives. Dr. Griffith talked with great caution and refused to give any hint as to the parents. Man’s Three Parts. \Vhen a little boy Sheridan Le Faun wrote the following essay on the life of man : “ A man’s life naturally divides it- self into three partsâ€"the first, when he is planning and contriving all kinds of vil- lainy and rascality ; that is the period of youth and innocence. In the second he is found putting in practice all the villainy and rascality he has contrived ; that is the flower of manhood and prime of life. The third and last period is that when he is making his soul and preparing for another world ; that is the period of dotage.” Betting on the Rain. At Calcutta and Bombay, when a rain- cloud crosses the sky, there is a rush for a rain gambling establishment, and large amounts of money are deposited in wagers. The bets are made as to whether or not the rainfall will exceed a certain fixed quantity. The natives show frantic excite- ment, and indulge in wild gesticulations and anxious speech from the time the aim cloud appears until the result is known. Most of the gambling is done by men who form a class by themselves. â€".â€"- Largest Plow in the World. The largest plow in the world, perhaps, iaownod by Richard Gird, of Son Bernard- ino County, California. "- This immense sod turner stands eighteen foot high and weighs 36,000 pounds. it runs by steam, is pro- vided with twelve 12-inch plow shares,and is capable of plowing fifty acres of land per do . It consumes rom one tonne and a h f tons of coal per day, and usually travel: at the rate of four miles an hour. ECONOMIC NOTES. l News From Everywhere on Economic and Social Questions. SINGLE TAX CANDIDATES. Since the month of J one there have been nominated for public offices in the United iStates, upwards of 50 candidates who are advocates of Single Tax. The leaders i amongst this number are the Hon. Tom L. Johnson, Hon. Judge McGuire, Hon. Jerry Simpson and Governor Nugent. LOCAL or'riox AGITATIOS. In all the States of the union at the present time, there is going on a strong agitation for local option in matters of taxa- tion, i. e., giving to each municipality the power as they may wish,to reduce or abolish taxation on buildings and improvements, stocks of merchandise, machinery, person- alty and income, and to raise their taxes wholly or in part from land values. Every State Legislature will shortly be petitioned for the passing of such a law. On several previous occasions similar bills have been introduced in California, and New York State but did not become law, though de- feated by very few votes. During the last session of the Ontario House, Mr. Joe Tait, M.P.P., introduced one of a similar char- acter, but it was lost on division. To show the growing interest in this question near- ly 100 muncipal councils passed resolutions and petitioned the Legislature last session in favor of local option. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS. The recent parliamentry elections in this colony resulted in the. return of ‘28 members of the Labor Party, the first plank in their platform being the taxation of land values as the chief source of public revenues. LONDON THE LESS. Duringthe coming winter a big campaign is to be started in the direction of remod- eling the present method of taxing enter- prise and industry. While it has been the policy of the assessors in the past to give every encouragement to new industries in the way of land grantsand exemption from taxation for a period oflyears, the older established businesses have been forced to contribute yearly a fine in the shape of taxes upon everything they had and pro- duced. These strange proceedings will be looked into and if possible a fairer and more equitable plan adopted. The surplus of revenue in New Zealand in the year ending with the March quarter was $1,000,000. All the Australian colonies showed deficits. \Vhy? Because New Zealand is moving in the direction of the single-tax, while its money system is fully as bad as theirsâ€"and oursâ€"San Francisco Star. Mr. Holinsworth,of Edgbaston,has recent ly presented to the corporation of Birming- ham a freehold, which ten years ago was reckoned to be worth nearly £5,000. In his letter conveying the property to its new owners, he says that he is especially averse to private propertyinland,and that heis glad to take this opportunity (one of the leases expired at Christmas last) of placing the property at the absolute disposal of the council, with the hope that the step may tend to augment the municipal property and ultimately be of some material benefit to the common weal. The total receipts of the federal, state, county, city and the township government. of the United States, for the year 1890 amounted to $982,300,315 ; or nearly a thousand millions,of which the larger part, $569,252,634 was collected by the estate and local governments. From the taxation on real estate was derived $329,742,000, nearly‘ one-third of the total amount, while the tariff duties produced over $100,000,000 less than this amount. In round figures the cost to the American people of federal, state and local government amounts to the magnificent total of about a billion a year. â€"l’niladelphia Record. The New York papers have an extended obituaryofa woman wholias just died in that city, a d who pastured her cow and raised chickens on land worth $1,000,000 an acre, located on Fourteenth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. As showing how New York has grown during the married life of this woman, it is narrated that on her mar ringe she went to live with her husband on this property, which was then in the su- burbs of the city. It enjoyed the felicity of being situated on a cow-path, which is now Broadway, and this woman used to pick field daisies on what is now the site of Tif- fany's jewelry store. Her home was a quaint old farm house, and as she grew older she saw a great city growing up all around her but she still planted her honeysuckles and fed her chickens there, notwithstanding the enormous value to which her acres ap- preciated. ._..._____.__ Trees Need Sleep. In the larger cities, where shade trees are few and scattering, electric lights seem to have no visible effect upon their foliage. l In the towns and villages, however, many of which have their electric light systems, the effect is very noticeable, the leaves appearing- as though they had been sub- jected to the blighting breath of a har- mattan. The question was recently dis- cussed at a meeting of the eastern abori culturists,the conclusion being that trees, need darkness in order that they may sleep and that being continually kept awake and active they have been worn out, and made prematurely old by the action of light. That this is probably the correct solution of the mystery of the drooping leaves may be judged from the fact that similar trees in the neighborhood of those affected (though not exposed to the illumination) still retain their color and seem bright and strong. A Good Reason. Mr. ('0: -â€"John, why do you call that pretty typewriter of yours Mary Ann. You told me her name was Mabel. Mr. F: 1- â€"\\'ell, you see I have a bad habit of speaking in my sleep, and my Jwife’s name is Mary Ann. In Europe the average length of human life is greatest in Sweden and Norway and got, g homfnl, least in Italy and Austria. A COUNTRY OF SMALL FARMS. Farmers of Holland and Belgium Support Families on two or three Acres. Farming in the low countries of Holland and Belgium is an interesting sindyywrites a correspondent. To know that a country no larger than four Ontario counties con- tains 6,000,000 of people who live chiefly by agriculture is interesting, but to see the little nooks and odd-shaped corners of land that pass for farms in Belgium is to doubt one’s own eyes. The smallest farm lands of Continental Europe are those of Belgium. As one passes into Holland the farms may be seen to increase in size until the Dutch province of Frieslnnd .is reached where cattle raising is the chief pursuit. There the flat grazing lands afford plenty of range for the herds of sleek black and white spot- ted buttermakers which are famous the world over. In Belgium the produce of every farm is varied. A three-cornered piece of land containing about two acres and hemmed by ditches filled with water is the size and situation of a typical Belgium form. As small as it is, it will contain a patch of wheat or rye, and another of barley; an- other fair portion of it grows potatoes. A row of cabbage grow all around on the sloping sides of the ditches with a row of onions just inside leaving bare walking room between them and the grain. The rest of the tilla‘nle soil is planted with A GREAT VARIETY OF VEGETABLES, either for substantial foodfor the farmer’s own table or a better priced product for other men’s tables. For shade, ornament and profit, a row of fruit trees, mostly pears, surround his house. There are no yards or stable lots because they “are not needed and besides every inch of ground must produce. I have wondered how these little spots of ground could be made to furnish enough to feed and cloths a farmer and his family of seven or eight children. I asked the farmer in Elanders how he could manage to supporthimself with two acres of ground. “I had the same crop last year,” he said, “and I had barley and onions and cabbage to sell after selluu.r my early vegetables. Then I had a few hogsfsoinc chickens and eggs to send to market.” 1 had not thought of live stock on the place but he showed me where he kept his hogs and chickens and eggs. In a back room under the same square tiled roof with himself were six fine porkers. It was a clean and comfortable place for them, too, notwithstanding a score of chickens lived in the same room with them. I know he did not have a horse. There was not room enough on the place for one of my little bronchos, not to speak of the big Belgian draft horses which pull the enormously big trucks in Antwerp and Brussels. In one corner of this room, which was his stable, two good sized dogs were chained to a kennel. They werccommon looking enough, but as dear to him, no doubt, as my horses are to me. ‘ These were a couple of the famous Flemish trekhonden and served him as horses do farmers in Canada. THE DRAUGHT DOGS of Belgium and South Holland one may see on the highways and in the streets of every Village and city. They seem to be a mongrel breed with all sorts of strains among them. They draw those heavy little two wheeled wagons loaded with everything, with milk, with vegetables, with lumber and some- ltimes one may see two or three of these dogs rattling along over the paved country roads with three or four persons in the cart behind them. They are cheaper than horses and I believe this Flemish farmer when he said that with his two good dogs he did not need a horse. Such dogs, he said, would bring 60 francs in the Sunday morning dog market in Ant- werp. In Zealand, which forms that por- tion of Holland with its low sandy soil, lying on both sides of the mouth of the river Schelde, dogs are not the only draught animals. There I have seen SHEEP AND SMALL COWS driven between the shafts of carts. Horses, however, are used more on the farms there than in Belgium. The farms are larger but the soil is not the best except for potatoes. As horses are used on but few Belgian farms, so are plows scarce articles there. What plows are used are primitive things, made of wood with an iron share for turn- ing the soil. The cultivator is of course unknown either in Belgium or Holland. As to other improvad farming implements, there is no place for them. The spade, the hoe and the reaping book are their implements. The farmers of Belgium and Holland work harder than the farmers do in our country because of the lack oflabor saving implements. They practise pinching econ- omy all the year round, and from the little two-acre farmers of Belgium to the cattle growers of Fricsland all lay by a few cents if not more to steadily increase the family savings. â€"â€"+â€"â€" Found at Last. Inventorâ€"“ I’ve hit a money-making thing at last. The preachers will go crazy over it, and it will sell like hot cakes. It’s a church contribution box." Friendâ€"“ What- good is that '2" Inventorâ€"" it’s a triumph. The coins fall through slots of different sizes, and all dollars, halves, quarters, and dimes, land on velvet; but the nickels, and pennies, drop on to a Chinese gong.” Breaking a Drought. Strangerâ€"" Did you have any droughts here this summer 2" Farmer Meadowâ€"“ Yes, sir ; we had one that lasted six weeks. would have been ruined it it hadn’t been for Deacon Smart." " \Vhat did he do 2" “ He advertised for summer boarders and It rained every day after they came.” Everything, , Poets’ Cor 3f Them Flowers. Take ?‘ {fuller ‘nt‘s sick and laid up on th s o All shaky and 'ntcd and pore-â€" Jcs gill so knoekc out he can t handle hissclf, \ \\ uh a stiff up or lip any more: shot him up all i one in‘the gloom of a room As dark as the tomb and us grim. And then take and .send him some r0505 in bloom. And you can have fun out 0‘ him ! You‘ve kctchcd hiui ‘forc nowâ€"when his liver was sound And ins appetite notched like a sa\vâ€"~ A-inockiu’ you. maybe. for roiuancin‘ round \\ ith a big posy bunch in yer paw: But you ketch him, say. when his health is away And he's flat on his burl: in distress, And then on can trot out your little bokuy And not 0 insulted. I guctuzi You see. it's like this what his weakness isâ€" Thom flowers mukcs him think of the days Of his innocent youth. and that mother o'his And the roses that she used to misc: So here. all alone-with the ruins you send. Bein' sick and all trimny and faint- My eyes isâ€"iny cycs isâ€"niy oycs isâ€"old friendâ€" Is aslcakin‘â€"I‘m blamed of they ain‘t. â€"Jumcs Whitconib llilcy. Autumn and Old Age. Now from the silent autumn woods The dry. sweet odors start. Like memories of a useful life From out an aged heart. The little stream upon the hill Comes trickling soft and low. As though ndown a Vi rinklcd chock, . \thrc tour-drops seldom flow. The rainbow-flowers of early spring, Prismod through April's tours, Make way for purple and the gold Emitting later years. 0 God make known Thy ways to me In this, my summer prim c. That i may gain the golden peace 0! nature's autumn time. Charity. If half the sweetness of each perfect rose- worc poured into the souls of men. And half the fragrance of its every leaf \Verp breathed into the chilled hearts, t ionâ€" ‘Vhat harmony! -â€"tliis weary world of cure,_ \Vliicl} now seems void and fraught With 7 pain. Would instant change into sweet. unison, And happiness would be the gum. Each solu'l. long buried, ’ncath the thoughts of so r. . “'0 uld rise to shed its lustrous glow, And other souls the falling sparks would on tch. Then peaceâ€"instead of turbid woc. But half the perfume of such perfect rose. Shed o'er each soul. would make life bright; A paradise this sud old world would be. And dreamed-of heav’u would be in sight- The Lovers. Thcy sat upon the cliil‘ that led my way :. 1 saw them from afar, as hand in hand. In still content. with not a word to say. _ _ Thcly wattclicd the blue sea and the smiling an . I neared the place where they had set them down ; - She rose. and gently brushed the spnnglcd. grass. ' \Vith the soft touch of her light summer gown; \Vhy could she not have stayed and let me pass 2 Sweet heart of maidenhood, that could not hear To have at stranger look upou its bliss ? The youth went with hernbut he did not cure If all the world bchcld his happiness. H The Panama Canal. The government inspectors sent to take a view of the present condition of that for- lorn ditch, the Panama. Canal, have report- ed that the wharves are falling into the water and acres of machinery are rusting to dissolution. Nearly one thousand miles of steel track with locomotives and thous- ands of dump cars are half hidden in the tropical growth. Seventy-six great steam shovels stand side bysido in the excava- tion buried in luxuriant vegetation, so that only the gaunt arms stand above the ground. While two hundred locomotives have been housed it is estimated that nine- tenths of the millions squandered on this prodigious enterprise is going to waste- Much of the excavated land has been washed back into its original bed and the great scir on the face of tho isthmus is rapidly fading from view. \Vhen one re- flects that this great reservoir of ruin rcâ€" presents largely the hard-earned savings of poor farmersand working men,this Panama affair makes a chapter in human aliairs that one may well wish blotted out of the pages of history. It’s true that an attempt has just been made to revive this smoulder- ing enterprise, but if the Colon Press is to be crEditcd this latest effort is not likely to lead to any practical results. Unless ii great syndicate can be organizul for the enter- priseâ€"which is most unlikelyâ€"or unless the French government itself undertakes the gigantic task of completing the canal the costly dream of De Lesseps will, in all probability, never be realized. If the Mar- tians have the same genius for constructing powerful telescopes that they are credited with in the matter of canals, their senti- ments as they gaze on the wreckage at Panama can hardly be flattering to the denizens of this planet. Assisting Nature. De Sm »i-â€"-“Do you know, Miss Band, that I seldom touch wine! Itâ€"ahâ€"itâ€"oh â€"â€"alwa}:u woman to make a fool of me.” Miss llond â€""Well, l’vo often heard papa say that it generally anist nature.” Anxious to Participate. Small Sonâ€"“Some of the boys is starting a little bank, just for fun. The shares is to be ten cents each.” . Fatherâ€"“Would you like to be one of the oharchclden?" Small Sonâ€""0h, no: but I'd like. to be, one of the borrowers." . was I... ‘...â€"â€"-mv2r . w “v; 2.. .sp. 2%“, l l

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