The Record. (Noble, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1902 Page: 5 of 12
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURISTS.
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Borne Cp-to-lluta Hints About Culti-
vation of the Soil and Yields
^ Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and
MorUulture.
The Rambo Apple.
D. F. Thompson, Stephenson Co.,
III.:—The tree is too soft
Sylvester Johnson, Marlon Co., Ind.:
—Very, very, VERY good.
W. T. Weir, Henderson Co., 111.: —
Fine quality, tree very tender here.
^ R. B. Stinson, Union Co., 111.:—A
good eating apple but does not thrive
here.
John Tilson, Johnson Co., Ind.: —
< ood for all purposes and it bears well
for me.
H. F. Harrison, Clay Co., 111.:—1
would not plant it because it scabs too
badly.
Geo. J. Kellogg & Sons, Rock Co.,
Wis.:—Not grown here. It is not
hardy.
0. W. Barnard, Kankakee Co., 111.: —
A splendid early winter apple, very
few better.
L. R. Bryant, Bureau Co., 111.:—One
of the good old sorts that is not grown
much now.
J. Burton, Lawrence Co., Ind.:—It
was good formerly but seems to be out
of date.
L. F. Dintelman, St. Clair Co., 111.: —
Going out of date, but Is a fine apple
for butter making.
J. Y. Demaru, Johnson Co., Ind.: —
Of course I think well of the Rambo
apple, but I don't like the tree.
J. H. Karnes, Buchanan Co., Mo.: —
An old time variety and one of my
favorite fall apples; profitable with ; e.
C. G. Winn, Pike Co., 111.:—One or
two trees for family use are all right,
^ but it is a poor variety commerciaYiy.
J. Troop, Tippecanoe Co., Ind.: —
This is not planted so largely as it
' was, other varieties having supersed-
ed it.
T. J. Burrill, Champaign Co., 111.: —
) Still an excellent fall variety. Here it
is rether tender. The fruit needs thin-
ning.
F. L. Williams, Perry Co., 111.: —
There is nothing like the Rambo for
flavor, but it rots too badly to be prof-
itable.
Alpha Nursery Co., Henry Co., 111.:
-j-A fine apple but no one want- them
any more. We do not think them hardy
enough for this latitude.
Geo. M. De Land, Lee Co., 111.:—I
' have fruited this but have dropped it
from my young orchard as it is too
tender for our climate.
W. H. Ragan, Putnam Co., Ind.: —
An old amateur variety, quality of the
best, tree tender but well worthy of a
place in any family orchard.
L. Redden, Pulaski Co., 111.:—An old
friend almost obsolete now. I have
never grown them here. The quality
is quite good, season early winter.
J. Friend, Henry Co., 111.:—Good.
Daniel Sharp, Clayton Co., 111.: —
Good in its season. The trees need
^ low heading to prevent sun scalding
and should lean well to the southwest.
Chas. Hirschinger, Sauk Co., Wis.: —
I have lost all my treeB of this variety.
I first planted Rambo in 1849, but they
were all dead long ago. It is a grand
apple.
Benjamin Buckman, Sangamon Co..
111.:—I have several old trees, root-
grafted. They are tall, upright, have
\ong branches, and bear heavily—oc-
casionally. The fruit is a nice little
apple of good quality, and generally
well appreciated for dessert, apple but-
ter and the like. But it is too small
for market. There are better varieties
for fall.
Fruit on the Farm.
From Farmers' Review: Farmers
"families should be provided with an
ample supply of home-grown fruit
every day in the year; and this will
add to the health, happiness and com-
fort oT farm life. With a little thought-
ful ears In planting, cultivating and
by canning the surplus, this could easi
ly be accomplished without interfering
with other farm duties. A good orch-
ard on a farm not only provides fruit
for home use, but adds materially to
the market value of the property. We
are not now laboring under the disad-
vantages that confronted the early set-
tlers; for now varieties of fruit that
do succeed in our locality are known.
Of these we should plant largely,
and when a farmer does not know
what varieties are best to plant on his
farm he should get advice from a
friend who has had experience, as
much depends on planting the right
kinds of fruit. Few farmers can af-
ford to convert their farms into horti-
cultural experiment stations. We
should buy trees of reliable men, and
not patronize strangers just because
they are good talkers and hypnotists,
for they know they will never see us
again and frequently sell worthless
stock. Never plant young trees near
old oner, as the old trees have a pre-
emption claim on the subsoil. Give
them thorough cultivation and they
will succeed.
A renter need not go without fruit,
even if his landlord is too penurious
to buy treej}, for he can plant grapes
and berries that will bear the next
season. Raspberry and blackberry
bushes should be replanted every three
or four years. Put the pulverizer on
the old bushes and then plow them un-
der. A small patch of strawberries
should be planted every spring, and it
cao be depended on for two crops of
fruit Melons should be grown with
them the first year. Few farmers' fam-
ilies have a full supply of home-grown
fruit; but there are no reasons why
they should be deprived of these deli-
cious comforts of life.—Geo. B. Smith,
Will County, Illinois.
Timothy and Clover Mixed.
Iu Kansas timothy is usually sown
with clover since the former helps to
hold the latter in an upright position.
The presance of the timothy also less-
ens the danger from bloating when cat-
tle are pastured upon the mixture,
which makes a more evenly balanced
ration than either alone. The usual
practice is to sow the timothy in the
fall, often with wheat, by a special at-
tachment to the drill, and the follow-
ing spring sow the clover broadcast.
Others sow the timothy early in the
spring, and afterwards, about the 1st
of April, the clover. Still others ad-
vocate sowing the clover in the spring
and the timothy in the following fSt-11.
The amount of seed of the mixture per
acre should be six to eight quarts of
timothy and eight to ten pounds of
clover. One correspondent recom-
mends about a gallon of the mixture
per acre, of which one-third is tim-
othy. If sown alone,"there should be
usod about eight to sixteen quarts per
acre. It is best to cut for hay when
the flowers are falling. It does not
seem to be used alone or with other
grasses for permanent pastures to any
extent in Kansas. Our correspondents
having timothy and clover mixed do
not mention any injury to the timothy
from grazing. Mr. Shinn of Jewell
county, states that he has a field of
timothy four years old which is in
good condition. This shows the pos-
sibility of utilizing this grass farther
west than is generally supposed.—
Bulletin 102 Kansas Experiment Sta-
tion.
ttmt Tubercle* of Alfalfa.
The question of root tubercles on
leguminous plants is one that has com-
bined with it several other questions
One of the most important of thesi
questions is whether or not plants ea>
draw food from the depths of the soil
It lias generally been held by inves-
tigators that the deep rooting legumei
draw their food largely from far below
the surface layers of soil. More recent-
ly a good many thinkers on these sub-
jects have expressed the belief that
the lower roots do nothing but take up
water and that the food supplies are
drawn from the surface soil. Some
experiments with alfalfa last year in
Italy seem to militate against this
idea. 'I he result of these experiments
showed that the alfalfa roots were
abundantly provided with root tu-
bercles the first year of cultivation.
\ ery few were found on the roots of
two-year-old plants, aud none at all
on three-year-old plants. The experi-
menters infer that the plant makes
use of atmospheric nitrogen only dur-
ing its first year's growth, or until
the roots have obtained sufficient
length to obtain the necessary ni-
trogenous food materials from the
deeper soil.
Sewage Fariiu In Europe.
The municipality of Vienna has un-
der consideration a project for the dis-
posal and utilization of the sewage of
the city which at present is discharged
into the Danube. In England so-called
sewage farms are now quite common
in connection with the smaller cities,
and the plan has been adopted by both
Berlin and Paris, but to all of the sys-
tems in use there is more or less objec-
tion, and even with the best of them
there is much room for improvement.
The scheme under consideration in
Vienna consists in the application of
a method developed by Herr Noebel of
Posen, by which the liquid part of the
sewage will be utilized for the doubl«
purpose of irrigation and enrichmen'
It is intended to convey the sewage 'a
pipes to an extensive plain of poor land
which suffers from lack of water, due
to inadequate rainfall, over which it is
not to be carried in trenches, but the
sui face of the land is to be irrigated
by sprinkling the sewage water over
it. It is said that by this plan the land
will not be over-saturated, as it fre-
quently is on the sewage farms at Ber-
lin and Paris. The system is stated to
have been already in use at Posen with
satisfactory results.
Recent investigations tend to show
that the nitrates in the earth of cav-
erns are not derived from the excre-
ment of bats, as popularly supposed, but
have their origin in the nitrification
if organ'c matter in the surface soil
through the agency of bacteria, and the
subsequent leaching of the nitrates so
formed downward into caverns, where
they slowly accumulate with other
salts as the water escapes by evapora-
tion.
The Cow and Her Milk,
Pi of. Clinton D. Smith, after five
years' investigation of the milk ques-
tion, publishes the following conclu-
sions: "1. A cow yields as rich milk
as a heifer as she will as a mature
cow. 2. The milk is as rich in the first
month of the period of lactation as it
will be later, except perhaps during the
last few weeks of the milk flow, when
the cow is rapidly drying off. 3. There
is little difference in seasons as to the
quality of the milk. While the cows are
at pasture the milk is neither richer
nor poorer, on the average, than the
milk yielded when the cows were on
winter feed. 4. The milk of a fair-
sized dairy herd varies little in compo-
sition from day to day, and radical
variations in this respect should be
viewed with suspicion."
Mo3t men want to do better, but
they are seldom able to dweido where
t' begin.
Exporting Finnish ISutter.
The French consul at Helsingfors re-
ports that in order to encourage the
export of Finnish butter, and to assist
the dairy industry of the country to
compete successfully against foreign
competition on the British markets, es-
pecially that of Denmark, Sweden, and
Siberia, the senate of Finland has re-
solved to grant a considerable subsidy
to the Finnish Steamship company
"Finska Augfartyg* Aktiebolaget."
This company is to maintain a regular
steamer service between Finland and
Great Britain for a term of five years,
commencing from November 1 of the
current year, for which the company is
to receive a money grant of 60,000 Fin-
nish marks (about $11,850) and a year-
ly subsidy of 120,000 Finnish marks
(about $23,700).—The Dairy.
STOCK NGS DECORATED.
Parisian Artist Devote* Hi* Talents to
Designs on Hosiery.
A Parisian "decorator of ladies'
stockings" has so far forgotten profes-
sional discretion as to tell tales out
of his studio. The artist designs hos-
iery chiefly for fair, fastidious and ex-
travagant beauties of the "world which
amuses itself." These ladies will only
wear stockings the patterns of which
are uniqup, and they retain the copy-
right of the designs.
It is even more indiscreet of the ar-
tist to reveal that for one of his cus-
tomers he has made delicate hose em-
broidered with a Cupid climbing up the
lace insertions, and for another a pair
on which was exquisitely worked a
serpent having two pearls for its eyes.
Other "art stockings are decorated
with perfect imitations of flowers em-
broidered tn colors, lilies of tne val-
ley, violets and lilac being favorite
blooms.
Most of the ladies select a particular
flower, which they order to be worked
on all their hosiery. It appears, how-
ever, that, generally speaking, the
sto< king embroidered in colors is con-
sidered a trifle loud. Ladies of severer
taste prefer black lace, but jeweled
ornaments in the latter are regarded as
quite permissible. The artist in ques-
tion charges any prices, from £24 up-
ward. lor a pair of hose.
Ilow a Pirate Was Iteformed.
The Tacon theater in Havana, one of
the largest and most famous in the
western hemisphere, was built by an
old reprobate, Marti, who was a no-
torious pirate in his day and obtained
immunity for himself by betraying his
comrades into the hands of the Span-
ish authorities. One dark and rainy
night Marti slipped by the sentry
guarding the palace in Havana and en-
tered the apartment of the captain-
general, who was writing at a table.
When the governor-general raised his
eyes and saw the cloaked figure before
him he reaches for thee bell. "Stop,
your excellency!" cried the stranger.
I am here on a desperate enterprise.
1 have come to deliver into your hands
every pirate on the Cuban coast upon
one condition, a pardon for myself."
^oil shall have it," was the answer,
"but who are you?" "I am Marti, and
1 rely upon the promise you have given
nie. Preparatory to this interview
Marti had appointed a rendezvous for
the different bands, to which he con-
ducted the Spanish force, and every
pirate was captured and garroted. As
for Marti, he was not only pardoned,
but was given a monopoly of the sale
of fish in Havana which made him a
rich and thus eminently respectable
citizen, who ended his days iu tha
odor of sanctity.
Throwing the Slipper.
The fashion of throwing a white sat-
in slipper after the bridal pair as they
depart for their new home after the
wedding ceremony is over is supposed
to have originated among the peasants
of southern France.
There the bride is conducted to her
new home by her friends, while her
husband is made to halt a couple of
hundred yards from the house. Sup-
posing there is a rejected suitor, he
now arms himself with an old sabot
and flings it with his best aim at the
bridegroom as he runs full speed to-
ward the house. With the throwing
of the old shoe all bad feeling which
may have hitherto been felt are put
away.
English Court Out of Mourning.
The English court has gone out of
mourning for Queen Victoria. The
royal household has likewise, for the
first time in forty years, gone out of
mourning for the late prince consort.
From the time of the latter's death
until the anniversary of Queen Vic-
toria's demise last month, the do-
mestics and gentlemen of the royal
household have never been seen with-
out a black mourning band around
their left arm, aad black, too, was
the Invariable dress of the ladies in
attendance on the lite sovereign.
These emblems of woe have now die-
appeared.
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Everton, H. G. The Record. (Noble, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1902, newspaper, March 20, 1902; Noble, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106217/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.