Home, Field and Forum (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1896 Page: 4 of 16
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' i woe of the >w>n IM
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of
yet II
i la tha HUM of It lo
iwhet M ioflaeoee Hi
joor ay
port of thla plaat.
Mm* ityln o( kitoa
i looked Ilk* bran
e aix
looted Ilk* the top of
aa nMlt olMN tho haadle; mom
hod tram ao, othore were perfectly dot;
oome were rod, othora bright blue, still
others covered with tor. I woodorod
whoro tho aatlvee got tho material to
uij oad rirlod style* of
1-drsaa, aad on laquiry found they
i of plotted bom boa la foot,
i of tho fOohloooblo Porta
do to Tu|eru|, boot
Batevia, whoro o Froaehmoa boa ee-
tehllahod o lorfo factory.
"Bat If you look oloooly ot the boat
of Btraago wagooa oad atlll atranger
baaketa whloh tho ooollea carry, you
flad bamboo everywhere. The abort,
otrolfht stick, ot eooh ead of whloh
haaga tho banket of gooda, be It flah or
ladlaa' dry gooda, la made of bam boa
Of ooaree tho baaketa are of
You may think you have aeea maay
forma of baaketa, but I oan aaaure you
five mlnutea here oa the road would
ooarlaoe you you were miatakea.
There are aquare flat baaketa, two feet
wide oad about three laobea high, la
.whloh livlag fold fishes are grown, or
rather cultivated, la the flooded rloe
Be Ida, from youag furalahed by the
Javaaaoa flah oommlmloa, are brought
to market. There are cubical eagea
filled with ohlokeaa, clucking aad
oqwoollag at a great rate. The chicken
lo tho prlaolpol meat-produoer of the
tropica, you know. I eat oold chicken
at breakfaat, oold oad hot chlokea la
eeveral lormo at dinner, aad ohlokoo
oolad, oold ehlekoa again, aad chlokea
otew lor sapper. Then there are the
dry gooda baaketa of the Ohlaeee. The
Cftlaamaa la a wealthy maa, aad oftea
dladalaa to aarry hie owa twin baaket,
tart maroheo oa la front, ahaklng a
little baby'a rattle, made of bamboo, of
of tho
drawero, aad
to alore thlage. Tho
ore all la palre, aad
alMali lf Mi <mijl^ atlok
glg^t-i two naollor loi
Too doa't
tor It will fol-
drloka,
by aa|
aad tltm
to roollae what a
hwhloh eeaaptlaateo a
tihe aoll vary gtaade. I
■ 1 thlak that aallgfcteaod
oa the ahool
of a ooollo. I oaat avoid the
_ ho !• plaflag hide aad eeok, no
ohlldroa do aador a oarpot la oleealag
ao It la hang out to boaVoa the
Tkaa the walla of tho hoaaoa are
of almllar mats faataoed to bam
oad kraoad by bamboo braoea
oo with atrlpa of bom boa
Tho raftero are made cf bamboo, the
Joloti of hem boo, the wladowa aad wla-
dow ollla, the doora aad door oaalaga,
aad "aprlaga"—In fact,
all hot tho ahlaglea, whloh ore palm
loavee. aad some of the
Mad lag braoao, or "hip raftere," whloh
are of rattaa—every th lag la of bom boo
Tea, I forgot, they out the gram oa the
lawaa here with a bamboo kalfe aad
a weep It op with o broom made from
the midrib of the ooooaaut leaf.
I have aot yet aeea all the uteaalla
of the ordlaary aatlve houae, but kaow
already that they make kalvea aad
forka of bamboo. Wlae, or rather lem-
onade flaaka, are of bamboo, aa well aa
the numerous boakota. Moat of their
mualoal Inatrumenta are either eatlrely
of bamboo or la part ooaatruoted of
thla aubataaoo—flutes, whlatlea, pipes,
atrlnged Inatrumenta, etc.
"Like ao maay of our lmpreesloaa of
nature gathered aolely from the tem-
perate regions, that of ooaatructloa la
oao-aided. The ehlld of o mother'a
auraery la taught to uae the building
blooka. Whoa he grows older be learaa
to drive aalla aad bore holea la to or
through aolld pleoea of wood. The
problema aet before a little half-naked
Javaaaaa boy are qnlte different, for
ho deala oaly with tablm, or at moot,
aeotloaa of tabea. He doeaa't waat to
kaow how to drive a nail or bore a hole,
for the kaowledge of the first he ooa
never uee to advantage, aad It la much
eaaler to ohop a hole la the tube oo
oppoeite aldea thaa It la to bore through
with a bit. If he waa'j to faatea a
rafter-plate to the ooraer post of hla
houae, Instead of drlvlag aalla or spikes
down through it Into the poet, he almply
polata the poet by slanting cute oa oppo-
site aldea, moklag thea a aotoh to re-
oelve hla tubular rafter plate; aad to
It, outa two holee oo oppoalte
of the poet about a foot lower
dowo, raaa a straight piece of bamboo
through, aad Uada the whole dowa
with rattaa. He aooda ao aaw, either,
for hla little kalfe la ample to split,
above, or haok la two, aad that eaaler
thaa aaw oaa dolt. Aa for a ohiael,
that lo wholly superfluous. A mortise
la a tube, oo oay oae will aaaily aee oa
a momeat'a thought, la almply two holaa
lato It oppoalte oaoh other.
"Then, too, oar Idea of the oonsisV
aaoy of bulldlag material ia baaed apon
oar amiwalataaoo with wooda of aorth-
ara ollmatea. The bulldlag material
of the Javaama la aa oloetlo oa hlokory,
but aplita eaaler thaa plae, aad la aa
toagh oo tho flbree of hemp almaat
Take a largo leteraode, aad yoa have a
rigid beam or traaa. Split It lateeeo-
tteea, aad yoa have a atael oprlag; split
It agala, aad yoa hove a oord atr eager
tho atroagaot Madlag twlae. Oar
wooda ore of like
throughout, ezooptta^Jflm aop
filled with elllae, aad
amooth almaat oo glaaa. Kalvea
of thlo part oat admirably] la Coot, aar-
af bamboo I
a tree rlvallag
aay village. He looked about him oad
* that he was lathe as Idol of a big
bamboo thicket. The oaa aot oad loft
him la deopalr. Hla ooolleo, however,
sored him, aoylag they woald aooo
make him oomfortable. Bat hla
ilohae were oil goaa, he deolarod.
Th'a aaaouaoemeat did aot dlaooMart
them, however, tor while two of them
aet to work to build him o houae of bom*
boo, roofiog It with their leovoa, the
other out two dry pleoea from the aome
thloket, out o few flae ahavlaga from
the oae, aad rubbiag the two pieoea
rapidly agalaat each other, aooa had a
ssofburalag ahavlaga, aad la a abort
time a crackling lire. From the baaoa
of two large ateau he soon made two
kettles, whloh he filled with water aad
haag over the lire oa bamboo oraaea.
All waa aow ready but the evealag meal.
To hla aaton lab meat, he aaw the oook
select from the rapidly growlag shoots
one-half meter la tweaty-fonr hours)
of the bambooa a ear by, the jooloot oad
teadereet, aad outtlag it lato aaoreela,
throw it loto the kettlee, la whloh by
this time the water waa boiling. Be-
fore eight had really aet in, the trav-
eler waa lying oomfortebly oa hla bam-
boo oouch, after haviag partaken of a
frugal repeat of boiled bamboo aa de-
lioloua aa aay aaparagua grown ia Mary-
1, aad pro too ted from the dowa-
pouriag rain by a perfect roof of bam-
boo aad from the wind by the aame be-
aeflooat plant. Whea oae reoollecta
that all these useful properties are
poessaasd by a plaat whloh haa sever
beea found bloomlag la Java, one oaa*
not but bci aetoniahed."
rr
The Pmpagatlm of Plants for ths
aad Oardsa.
By Wm. Baxter, manager of (reenhou— .
Kansas State Agricultural college, re*
before Manhattan Horticultural Society.
Artificial or vegetative intent of
propogatloo are reeortod to by oulti-
vatora la order to reproduoo aad mul-
tiply exiatlag cultivated forma of
aaefal or oraameotal vegetation in the
ahorteat pomlble time, while In the
ooao of oroea breeding or hybrldlslag
provision is made for the origination
of new forms or varieties laataoil of
merely reproducing the parent plaat.
There are maay oaaaa la whloh aeed
will aot reproduoo the pereat plaat,
even if one ia ever ao oorofnl to pre-
vent fertlllaatloa; oad thaa rooooroo
£3
moot bo had aithar lo
or dlvietoaa by whloh
total
them throw oati
tlago aoatly Joiaad tool
by whloh they rooolve
the roota alraadj
lag order; hat It la well
grofte are froqaaatly
worked oa other vorloly aeai
It ia aot ao reliable aa oattiago
PBOPAQATIOM BT LAI
Thia aimple method of
la goaorolly adopted la tha aaoo of low-
growlag or alpador plaata, whlah eoa-
aot readily be growa by oaMlNPi
dlvlaloaa or aaada. The opoaptfaa ti
very olmplo. A braaoh or atom of a
plaat la tekea aad boat dowa lathe
ground oad oovorod with aoll; oad II la
boat to put a flat it oaa oa lop of 11m
aoll to preveat the wlad from Mowtag
It off or drying It up. Tha top of tho
twig or braaoh la boot up aad allowed
to grow. Ia plaata that are hard lo
root It ia well to oat o all! oa the aadar
aide of the twig, hold lag tha lop la
your left hand aad oattlag toward yoa.
The outtlag of the braaoh oaaaaa Iha
aap of the plaat to ezada aad tom a
spongy mass whloh we aoll oallae, aad
from thla oallae the roole ore almoot
euro to atari.
There ia another mode almllar lo
layorlog, whloh lo
propagollog la tho air. Tho
whtah It lo dealrod to root lo oal la a
baaohof
It. am
k eat off with
plaat roota oad polled.
PBOPAOATKHf BT OIYiaiOM.
Thla la tho aoaloet aad
ally adopted aaothod by whloh
growlag or eproodlog
horbaceoue plaata are
Balbe, aa aaowdropa,
other grogarloaa klnda, are «|m multi-
plied in tha aoaao way. Baoh oeparete
bulb ia a dlatlact ladlvidual plaat, al-
though the word malttplled, as aaod,
ia acarooly applloable, elaoo ao I
etal maltlpUootloa of plaata hm
plaoe. Tho aama aambor of
eziotod la the olOmp hoiero the;
divided. Oaly by eo dlvldl^
they develop thaamelvae more rot
Nearly all plaala whloh term Iter*
eproodlog olompo or wmmtm of root
atelka may bo dfetdod, either bfdlr
Plant Trees and Orchards in 1896.
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Soule, J. S. Home, Field and Forum (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1896, newspaper, October 1, 1896; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102573/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.