The Daily Oklahoman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER
AND HOUSEWIFE
Treatment of the Farm Hone at Work—
Experiment with Mixed UrxwM-Ad-vantage
of the Small Farm— Plant reach
Tree
The Farm Homo at Work
After a season of comparative Idle
oess during the winter the farm
horse should be brought gradually
Into full work In the spring Do not
put the horses at a ha d day's plow
Ing at first but rather let them do
lighter work for the first few days
Their shoulders will need watching
to see that the collars fit well that
they do not galL Loose collars are
the most frejuent cause of sore
shoulders Sponge the shoulders
night and morning with a strong de
coctlon of whlto oak bark until they
get hardened Many farmers think
It too much trouble to remove the
collar at noon but 1 think It would
well repay the trouble In added com-
fort to the horse It Is like taking
off your hat when you come In at
noon tired and heated by your work
Itemovlng the collars at noon while
the horses aro eating gives the shoul-
ders - chance to become cool Wheh
a gall does come bathe It at least
three times a day with cold water
If possible let the animal rest until
the place Is healed but by all means
try to arrange by winding cloth
around the collar to relieve the pleas-
ure upon that spot Do not burry
the team too much but let it take
Its own natural pace and It will not
need to rest so often and will leave
the field fresher than If hurried along
with the whip
In marking out ground for corn or
potatoes If one horse is u-ed It Is not
so easy to drive In a straight line as
when two horses were used If a
6lngle horse Is used it will go
stralghter and better If It is allowed
to go slowly A horse that s Jerked
and yelled at become nervous and
does not know what it Is about and
cannot do half so well as when he
is unexcited Give a horse a loose
rein when he is at work lie cannot
use his full strength if his head Is
drawn up with a tight check reio
Perhaps it Is rot best for all kinds of
work that there be no check rein
at all for a horse will bo reach-
ing down to the ground when
standing still but It should certainly
allow the horse to get bis head down
to a level with the rest of his body
Some horses naturally carry their
heads high even when at work but
roost of them do not need to get their
heads down to throw all their weight
ihto the collar to move a heavy load
Mixed Grew
The experiments made at the Wis-
consin Experiment Station on mixed
grasses are reported as follows: For
the purpose of testing the advantages
of using mixed grasses for hay and
pasture four acres were devoted to
experiments The mixed seed sown
were timothy orchard ita ian irye
perennial rye tall oak ied rye Ken-
tucky blue with the clovers These
grass seeds were In nearly equal
quantity except that timothy and
orchard grass predominated the
whole twenty-nine pounds to the
acre They were sown early In May
on spring plow ng and fine harrow
ing a part of the land to these alone
and a part with a light seeding of
barley Tbs seeds germinated and
grew well The advantage of seed-
ing to grass 6eed alone was very dis-
tinctly exhibited this part of the
field grew rapidly while that with
the barley grew spindling and pale
The latter did well after the barley
was cut although the difference was
vey visible to the end of the season
ho heavy was the growth when seeded
alone that over three tons of hay
were taken the same season from two
and one-third acres No hay was cut
from the barley seded part
After the mowing One pasture was
furnished for several weeks in
autumn estimated as worth t2 an
acre for cattle at 2:c per week
When the barley was sown tne pas
ture was worth half this amount
The hay was wo th 110 an acre or 98
per ton As far as the trial goes It
furnishes st ong evidence In mixed
seeding and in sow ng alone with-
out the shade of grain crops barley
telng regarded us one of the best to
seed with The soil was black loam
to-dressed with yard roa cur
The Xmall Farm
We have already been shown the
carefully kept books of a farmer who
owns and tills a little place of only
fifty acres Not having much land
to look alter you see he has time to
keep his accounts Some men who
have large farms have no tlmo for
such foolish things but this man
says the time spent on bis books pays
better than if put upon working so
much more land because he 6ays It
enables him to tell all the time what
crops and what fields and wbat
stock pay him but perhaps that is
onlv a theory You see these book
farmers are very orten theoretical —
but about his fifty acres His ac-
counts begin with an Inventory of the
land and everything on it at the be-
ginning of the year At the close of
the year was another Inventory and
In each every item was set down at
Its actual vaiuo There was an In-
crease of stock machinery and sup-
plies amounting to about 9100 The
sale t from the farm during the year
had been 9000 In excess of the pur-
chases for supplies and the payment
for labor Lies Ides this there was
every evidence that the family had
lived well had enjoyed all seasonable
comforts and had not been over-
worked The total of sales bad been
made up from all the products of a
general farm as the owner was not
a specialty farmer This Is in the
nature of an object lesson for iqen
who have large farms and who are
overwoked In the effort to cultivate
all ther land properly and who In the
end find themselves poorly paid for
their pains The little farm Is the
more satisfactory — Philadelphia In-
quirer Bt I’m of Stabl Manor
Fclcnce points out deficiencies In
stable manure and in some cases
positively bad results have come from
its use on crops like potatoes and
fruli9 subject to attacks of fungus
diseases For fruit especially ap-
plications of concentrated mineral
manures in large amounts have
proven to be paying Investments
Stable manure is generally poor In
potash and phosphato and Its decay
In the soil promotes the late growth
of wood and leaf that la not desir-
able But there are other uses of
stable manure where it never falls to
help One of these Is for corn If
applied early enough so that some
part of it Is mixed with the soil
rains before the land is plowed An
other and perhaps the best use of
stable manure Is as top drcsslr g for
young clover If appl ed before the
seed is sown or directly afterwards
It seldom fails to give a good catch
and by makiig a largo clover growth
it enrches the land for the next
plowing more than a like amount of
manure can do applied In any other
way
Crowing Melon FroHlauly
Sandy warm land is In Northern
States necessary for profitable melon
growing A few may be grown for
borne use on heavy land well fertl'-
lzed but they will not be so early nor
so profitable U9 on lighter soil In-
stead of using a great quantity of
coarse manure In the hli) a much
smaller amount of well-rotted stable
manure will do better service and it
is better spread over the whole sur-
face that put In with the seed For
hill manuring there is nothing better
than a mixture of nitrate of soda with
an equal weight of phosphate This
will not make the hill dry up In mid-
summer as manure either tine or
coarse In the h li will surely da
flint Home iarh Tree
We believe that peaches can lie
grown In all localities where they
used to flourish when the country
was new It is found that they are
not Injured during severe winters
when their wo d and buds are well
ripened and tbit deends more on
having plenty of potash in the soil
than on anything else Beaches need
a great amount of potash Even
peach wood is rich in this mineral
and the fruit and seeds aie still more
sa I'lant peach treesand give them
as much potash as they had when
the forest taajl been newly cleared
off and there will be a return of the
old-time "luck” In growing this
fruit — Exchange
Crlmnn Clover In tiew Jrnwjr
The Rural New Vorker reports
that crimson clover sown August 28
In New Jersey lived through the
winter in good condition though the
thermometer was at one time six de-
grees below zera This hardiness of
crimson clover will adapt it to many
local it'es where it had iieen supposed
Impossible to grow it It It will en-
dure a cold six degrees below zera it
ought to be safe to grow almost any-
where In Bennsylvanla Southern
New England and Western New
York
Oiltl and End
Loaf sugar should be used always
for tea
Am rugs when shaken should be
handled by the middle not by the
ends
Coi’x mkalIs an excellent cosmetio
for the face It br'ghtens up the
skin and cleanses the pores
Nevek enter a sLk room in a state
of perspiration as the moment you
become cool your pores absorb
Do not approach contagious dis-
ease with an empty stomach nor s t
between tho sick and the fire be
cause the beat attra ts the vapor
Preventives are preferable to pill or
powder
One can test a cake's baking by
drawing it to the edge of the oven
and 1 steningfor the faint sputter-
ing sound which will continuo until
it Is ready to taka out This is a
better trial than the broom splinter
thrust Into the dough
To clean hair brushes quickly and
easily take adesertspoonfulof harts-
horn to a quail of cold water in a
wash basin Dip in tho hair of the
brushes and rub them together un
til clean Then rinse well with cold
water rub dry with a towel and
stand upright at an op’n window
The man who steals bases need not
be light lingered
IT WAS HIS HOBBY
Th Maj Who Notice Sign Thrift Aro Dli
rcgarJed by the rublic
Did you ever take notice of the
little attention paid to signs such a9
"Keep off the glass” etc asked a
downtown broker of another down-
town broker
‘No never did
'Well you take a look around and
you'll find that no more than one
sign in a hundred Is observed to the
letter”
"How about that sign which says
‘Beware of the bull-dog?’"
"Oh that’s the one In the hundred
and that is only obeyed long enough
for some one to buy a revolver or a
quarter pound of dog meat and a few
ounces of ‘Rough on Rats’ Did you
ever see the notices on the backs of
some of the benches in Independence
Square which read: Thls bench is
reserved for women and children?’ ”
"No: can'tsay thit I ever did
What 19 peculiar about it?"
"Nothing peculiar atout the sign
but 1 never saw any of those benches
not occupied by one or more men ex-
cept twice One of those times it
was raining hard and the other was
at half-past two in the morning
Then there Is the 6lgn In the rail-
road car which says: 'Passengers
will please keep ol the platrorm un-
til the train comes to a full stop'
Did you ever sec a train pull into a
terminal station without every plat-
form being crowded?”'
"Yes once"
"How did that happen? Were the
people all dead?”
"No but there was only one man
In the car besides myself and he was
asleep I was nursing a broken leg
But there Is one sign that you'll
never see disobeyed and that is the
one which Is put behind a riffe
range"
"I saw that disobeyed once but
the man is dead now Speaking of
rifle ranges shooting etc did you
ever see a sign which read: ‘No
shooting on this place under penalty
of the law’ which did not look like a
porous plaster from having been
riddled wth shot?”
"No never did”
‘Spitting positively prohibited on
the floor of this car’ is another 6ign
always disobeyed and there are al-
ways finger marks In wet paint by the
side of the warning sign”
By this time the second broker was
beginning to look weary as be real-
ized that he has struck his friend's
bobby
"Then there's that roor worn-out
sign "Keep off the grass” with
paths running over the turf directly
beside it and the sign ‘Post no bills'
which Is changed by the small boy to
‘Rost no pills’ and — ”
But the friend bad fled ’
"That’s too bad” said be with the
hobby "I did want to mention ! co t t ues "has always humbled the
that sign which 6ays: ‘Rrck agents
keep out”— Philadelphia Irish American
The (and of Hain
Till quite recently nothing wa9
known ot either Iloliah or the Land
of Ham but the Tell Arnarna let-
ters mention both these regions
Letters addressed to Amenophis III
about 1480 B G by subject chiefsof
the Southern Lebanon and of Bashan
occurr in this correspondence which
describe the great Hltllte invasion of
Damascus about that time Aidu-
gnina the Bittite King of Kadcsh
on the Orontes (now K tries south of
Eme-a) advan ed along the Baalbek
Plains and attacked the land of
Hobah and reached Damascus by the
great pass’’ of the River Abana on
the north He subsquently invaded
the land of Am and took various
cities In Bashan near
Karnaim
From these notices it app ars that
IIo' ah was the region north of Da-
mascus and the Land of Am or Ham
was Northern I ashan The line of
the ancient raid of Cbelorlaomer
thus becomes quit’ dear He prob-
ably crossed the Euphrates at Car-
chemish and advanced along th ‘same
route which the Assyrians followed
much later when Invading Edom
The mountain chains were all avoided
and the road followed was that of
the famous pilgrim route from Da-
mascus to Aka uli on tho Red yea
but the furthest point reach d by the
Elamites was nea l’etra and the re-
turn march led up the Jordan Valley
and perhaps across Hermon to Ilobah
in the southern part of the Itahibek
Plains All the districts named oc-
cur thqrefore in geographical se-
quence — Major G R bonder in the
b'cottisb Review
A Urate I’ronehiimn
Few Frenchmen distingu’shed
themselves more in thi Franco-German
war than Roch Donella who
has just died ns keeper of the light-
house of Iionifaclo on the Corsican
coast M Donzella who was a Coi-
e can ly birth— whenc his Italian-
Bounding name — enjoyed tho confl-
dence of Garni etta who employed
him on some dangerous and delicate
missions In the dais of the govern-
ment of national defense Gambetta
was desirous of conveying instruc-
tions to Marshal Bazalne during
the investment of Metz and it was
to I)ondla that he intrusted the
task The courageous emissary
started out for the scene of war and
One dark n!g)t he swam across the
Moselle under a heavy r from the
German outposts: It Is said that ll
was only by swl tniiglhe tftTater
part of the way u dor water and re-
appearing alxive the water now and
the i Just la g enough to take breath
that he escaped the hail of bullets
Havlt g delivered his diar&tchcs Bon-
ze la retur el by th? same way as he
we t and with the same success It
war in recognitloi of bis services
that Garni etta after the war got him
the ost of mhtrious' keeper which
he retal ed u it 1 his death
Cold Ilolling Water
Boiling water is not always very
hot water This is the way It hap-
pens When water boils ordinarily it
Is because great beat ban separated
the tiny particles of the water forc-
ing upward and outward In lively
bubbles the air which is contained in
them This Is done in spite of the
downward pressure of the atmos-
phere After the water has become
hotenough to boil it can get no hot-
ter because the air escapes as fast as
it is sufficiently heated to do sa
There are places on the earth
where the pressure of the atmos-
phere upon the water is so slight
that it requires but little heat to
push apart the part cles and set free
tne air bubbles which are confined In
the water so it begins to boil before
It becomes very hot It ought hard-
ly to be called cold water perhaps
but It is certainly far from being as
hot as ordinary boil ng water This
state of things is founl on all high
mountain tops as the atmosphere
grows weaker and Its pressure less
as one ascen Is
A gentleman traveling at a great
elevation in the Andes Mountains
put some potatoes in a Dot of water
over a hot lire The water began to
boll almost immediately but the po-
tatoes did not cook All the after
noon and all night the water bul
bled and boiled but still the pota-
toes were not cooked The boiling
water was not hot enough
Cray ana the Laur jmteahlp
Gray the poet was offered the post
of poet laureate o l the death of Col-
ley Ciblxr 1 1 1757 lut refused lt:or
the co itemptuoui reaso a set forth
In a letter to bis fr’e d Mason The
letter is reproduced 1 1 a reent num-
ber of tho Ediii: urgh a d read: "If
a y great man wouli say to me ‘I
will make you rat-catcher to his Ma-
jesty with a salary of £200 a year
and two 1 utts of the lest Malaga
and though it has 1 ee i usualto catch a
mou-e 0‘ two tor form's sake 1 1 pu
lie o ce a year yet to you sir we
shall i ot st u d upoi these thl :gs’ I
ca it ot say I houl I jump at it
But I do i ot prete d to blame ay
aiyo e else that has not the same sen-
sations For my (art I woull rather
be a trumpet major or pin-maker to
the palace The office Itself” he
professor hitherto (even 1 1 an age
whea kings were somebody) if he
were a poor writer by making him
more conspicuous or if ho wre a
good o e by sett! g him rt w r w th
the little fry of his owi profession
for there are poets little enough to
e ivy even a po t laureate” The post
was su sequent!? accepted ly Wil-
liam Whitehead a i ow entirely for-
gotten versi Her whom Macaul y calls
"tho most accomplished tuft-hunter
of his time”
A HiNKUMted (Juall
Talk a’ out jour expression on the
fac s of ui Im ilssiid i hear Is reach-
i: g for lh3 tobacco jar I s w a qua 1
one that exhibit 'd disgust oi its
countenance sunmistakublyasa m m
could I was out In the woods skeich-
1 g when I hetrd a quail give Its
whistle of i h tile go 1 returned the
Ashteroth j note and soo i got an ai swer Th n
j I g ive the bird’s flocking sign-1 I
kept up my wh’stling giviig first
o ic s’gnal aid then th oh r aid
getting repll s evry now and then
whic’i c imo i e irerand i carer
I kept on with my sketching and
In fact didn’t pay much atteitioi
to the bird I was sitting ngal st a
rail fence Suddenly th? quail which
had lx cn following mv signals flew
on the fe ce just a little wiy from
me 1 looked at It acd the expres-
sion on its lace was too funny for any-
thing It had leencxpectlrg a good
rattling tight and Inste d of fli dl g
an enemy bad come upon me 1 was
certain from its look of disgust that
It uttered mentally a string of quail
protanity If it met ar other quail
within an hour 1 m ss my guess if
if ther wasn’t a A r e battle
Migration or Colorado Deer
Deer in their a nual m’gratlons
have been leaving the mountains of
Western Colorado by thousands dur-
ing tho last few weeks traveling
westward to the alleys of Utah
where the weather is milder and the
food abundant They will spend the
winter returning to tbclr mountain
haunts after the snow begins to melt
in the spring Hunters do not often
see the animals on the move as most
of their traveling is dond at night
but narrow do -p’y worn fresh trails
discovered In tho morning tell the
story of the migration The animals
go In small herds keeping well up on
the slopes ot the mountains that
trend westerly descending into the
valleys only when noccsssary In order
to keep their course and always
climbing high up from the valley
upon the next westerly '’mfpan —
JNow York Sun ' v
NOW RICH ONCE HE WAS POOR
Har j Irving' Rmlnliwrnc of Ian Actor
Who H'll la Need of L'nderelothlng
The place says the New York
Tribune was a coy house in a quiet
6treet off the Strand London the
time was Saturday the hour mid-
night A company of professional
men composed of some of the law-
yers (doctors newspaper men amt
actors whose names are famous on
both sides of the Atlantic was scat-
tered in groups about the rooms
smoking and chatting after the Satur
day night supper which had become
a standard institution with them In
a sheltered corner over by the fire-
place sat a small knot of men every
pne of whom had reached the top or
it least the front (rank of bis pro-
fession The talk drifting in a
smooth desultory half-sleepy way
from phase to phase had gradually
assumed a retrospective hue From
one to another tho story bad passed
— each telling the tale' ot an empty
stomach or an empty pocket or a
hopeless tramp of thirty or so In thin
shoes along a snow-bound road in
search of employment
Henry Irving thoughtfully smok-
ing with an air of deep attention
had not spoken an 1 did not speak un-
til the others having exhau ted their
stock turned to him He had experi-
sneed harder luck than any of them
ind they knew it He looked up at
them for a moment and then after a
pause said:
"Tho recollections uppermost la
my mind just now while you boys
have been Hiking about tramping
and winter roads and all that is of
a certain Christmas dinner at which
I was present I wonder whether
any of you remember a poor fo low
long since dead— Joe Hobins — wbo
played small parts In London and
outside It and wbo made the one big
mistake of bis life when he entered
the profession Joe had been In the
men’s underwear business and was
doing well when au amateur per-
formance for a charitable object was
organized and bo was cast for the
part of the clown in a burlesque of
Guy Fawkes’ Joe belonged to one
of the bohemian clubs and on the
night of the show his friends among
the actors and journalists attended
In a body to give him a ‘send-off’
He played the part capitally and the
mischiet might have ended there but
some one compared him to Grimaldi
II is fate was scaled He sold his stock
went on the stage and a fe v months
later I amc upon him playing gen-
eral utility on a Email salary in a
small theater In Manchester One
relic of bis happy days still remain d
to him He had retained shirts col-
lars and underwear sufficient to last
him for a generation
"But if Joe lacked ability as an
actor be bad a heart of gold Hu
would lend or give bis last shilling to
a fr end and piece bv piece bis stock
of underwear had dimin'sbed until
only a rew shirts and underclothes re-
mained to him
The Christmas of that year— the
year In which we played together —
was perhaps the bitterest I ever
knew Joe bad a part in the panto-
mime ’When the men with whom
be dressed took oft their street
clothes he saw with a pang at bis
kind heart how poorly some of them
were dad One poor fellow without
an overcoat shivered and shook with
every breath of the wind that whis-
tled through the cracked door and
as be dressed there was disclosed a
suit of the llghte-t summer gauc
underwear which hq was wearing in
the depth of that dreadful winter
Boor as Joe was he was deteriu'nod
to keep up his annual custom of giv-
ing his comrades a Christmas dinner
Perhaps all that remained of bis
stock of underclothing went to the
pawnbroker but that is neither here
nor there Joe raised the money
somehow and on the Christmas da?
was ready to meet his guests
"Among the crowd that filed into
tho room was his friend with the
gauze underclothing Joe beckoned
him into an adjoining bedroom and
pointing to a chair silently walked
out On that chair bung a suit of
underwear It was of a comfortable
scarlet color it was of si k and wool
It was thick and warm and it clung
around the actor as If it had been
built for him As the shirt fell over
his head there was suffused through
his frame a gentle delicious glow that
thrilled every fibre ot hU body Ills
heart swelled aim st to bursting He
seemed to be walking on nlr llesaw
all things through a mist of tears
The faces around him the voices in
his ears the familiar ob ecti in his
sight the very snow falling gently
outside the windows seemed as the
shadows ot a dream with but ouo
reality — the suit of underwear"
"His feelings seem to have entered
your heart "said one of the listeners
‘They might well do so" replied
Mi: Irving "for I was that poo
actor"
Taxed
Roumanla Is perhaps the highest
taxed country in the world Every
bottle of foreign wlno has to pay a
shilling duty There Is a tax even on
one's door-plate there Is a tax which
doctors must pay yea ly for the prlv
liege of exercising their profession
The only time a girl doesn’t object
to bundles Is when they contain new
clothes and she is going on the cuis
visiting:
tir-i I In is- I
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