OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1906.
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INgOllIBS ADDRESSED TO THE FARMER WILL BE ANSWERED
IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
COVERING STRAWBERRIES.
The advintnges of a winter mulch
for strawberries are being understood
better every year. On the subject the
"Farmers' Review" has this to say:
"In many parts of the north it pays
to cover the strawberries, and large
quantities of material are required if
the area to be covered is large, as Is
the case in some parts of Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin. Straw is
a good material for covering, and so
is marsh hay. It is very easy to do
the work of covering on a still day,
but difficult if the wind is blowing
hard.
The time to cover depends on the
time at which the ground freezes. If
the ground is not frozen at the time
of covering, some of the plants may
be killed by mildewing. The straw-
berry carries its foliage through the
winter intact, and it is this foliage
that begins the work of pumping up
moisture early in the spring. The old
leaves serve the purpose of giving the
strawberries an early start. Anything
therefore that destroys -the foliage
hurts the crop for the following sea-
son.
After the ground Is frozen hard
enough to permit a wagon to get onto
it, is the time to put on the covering.
Whatever kind of material is used, the
covering should be such as to keep
out the sunlight without keeping out
the air. To pack the covering so solid
that no air can get through will be to
kill the plants when the spring comes,
if not in the fall. For this reason
some strawberry growers prefer corn
stalks to anything else, as the corn-
stalks lie rather loosely."
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PleTse tell me what is the matter
with my apple trees. They gTow well
but I get no apples. One of my neigh-
bors Recommends driving a nail Into
the tree  to make it bear. My rose
bushes do not have flowers on them as
they should.
Ans.—Apple trees require feeding
just the same as any other crop. Ap-
ples require a great deal of potash.
Try fertilizers rich in potash, prune
moderately, ®ultivate early in the sea-
son and let the ground rest after the
apples are well formed. A hive of
bees in the orchard will often assist
materially in getting fruit when other
means fail. Nails were never intend-
ed to be driven Into fruit trees, they
are more valuable in other ways. It
is difficult to understand how such a
fad ever got started. Rose bushes
need a great deal of manure. Roses
are* great cropers when well treated.
Some rose bushes make too much
wood, while other kinds need very
little pruning.
LITTLE GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Life is a constant battle; let us
f'ght it manfully.—A. W. Gilman.
The watchword for the fruit-grower
Is "watch and spray."—Samuel H.
Derby.
To capable men, the door of oppor-
tunity always opens; they enter.—Pro-
fessor L. H. Bailey.
Eternal vigilance, judgment, perse-
verance and patience are the price
paid for success.—A. W. Gilman.
Words are like leaves; and where they
most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely
found.—Pope.
Nothing will take the various social
distempers, which the city and arti-
ficial life .breed, out of a 'nan like
farming, like direct and loving con-
tact with the soil. It draws out the
poison.—John Burroughs.
I press God's lamp close to my breast
—its splendors soon or late,
Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerga
one day.—Robert Browning.
Experience has strengthened rather
than weakened my faith in agricul-
ture. If beginning life again with my
present feelings, I should elect some
kind of farming and should not go out
of Oklahoma for it either.
Every addition to true knowledga
is an addition to human power.—Hor-
ace Mann.
CHAMPION APPLE PICKER.
William Vine, who lives in the town-
ship of Greece, near lying to Rochest-
er, N. Y., last month established a new
record for that section of the country
when in a day of nine hours he picked
sixty-three barrels of apples from
nine trees. Vine has always been
somewhat of a wonder in this line,
but until this year his record rested
at sixty barrels, which record he made
three years ago.
These records **ere made while
picking the trees clean as he went. He
was not allowed to jump from one
tree to another when the picking on
the first became scattering. Anyone
who ever picked apples with a bag
over his shoulder will appreciate
Vine's work. For the day's labor he
received $6.30, being paid at the rate
of 10 cents a barrel. He was picking
Baldwins.
Two days before the record achieve-
ment six trees were skinned in one
dny, yielding fifty barrels. Vine is one
of the profesional apple pickers who
go South in the winter to pick fruit in
Florida and the southern states. On
a heavy season the pay often runs as
high as 15 to 18 cents a barrel, and
then the dollars roll in easily.
NOTES ON FIRESIDE GARDENING.
Each year should add something to
the wisdom of the gardener. To suc-
ceed, the planting must be the out-
come of continued thought.
In the leisure of the winter days,
the various bulletins and reports from
the many organizations should be as
tools to the ambitious gardener. The
mere facts they contain are not so
valuable as the suggestions and en-
thusiasms for which they are respon-
sible, as no sensible person can read
these pamphlets by practical men with
out wishing to emulate their success-
es or avoid their failures.
The year's gardening should be map-
ped out and planned by the winter
fiieside. Formulas for insecticides
and fungicides should be familiarized,
and the material for their compound-
ing should be procured. Apparatus
for applying them should be studied,
made or purchased. Markets and mar-
A BOLD STEP.
To overcome the well-grounded and reasonable objections of the
tnore intelligent to the use of 'ret, medicinal compounds, Dr. R. V.
Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., some time ago, decided to make a bold de-
parture from the usual course pursued by the makers of put-up medi-
cines for domestic use, and so has published broadcast and openly to the
whole world, a full and complete list of all the ingredients entering
into the composition of his widely celebrated medicines. Thus he has
taken his numerous patrons and patients into his full confidence. Thus
too he has absolutely and completely removed his medicines from among
secret nostrums of doubtful merits, and made them Remedies of Known
Composition.
They are now in a class all by themselves—being absolutely
and in every sense Non-secret.
By this bold step Dr. Pierce has showu that his formulas are of such
excellence that he is not afraid to subject them to the fullest scrutiny.
CARE AND PLANTING OF BULBS.
In taking up bulbs and tubers for
next year's flowers, the soil should be
carefully shaken from them, and cured
for two or three days in the sun and
air. They are then to be stored in a
frost-proof place for winter keeping.
Tubers and bulbs of cannas, dahlias,
lilies, caladiums, and the like kf/jp
well in boxes of dry sand and a mod-
erately cool place.
For winter blooming plant jonquil,
tulip, narcissus and hyacinth bulbs in
pots, boxes, or baskets. Use good,
rich garden loam.
Set the bulbs about two inches be-
low the surface, give a thorough soak-
ing with water and place in a dark,
cool place till a good root system de-
velops.
This will require about six weeks,
when they can be brought out to air
and light, and rapid growth will take
place. Planted now, the narcissi
should be in bloom by the middle of
winter, and the others should follow
in a few weeks. For later blooming
any of them can be held in the dark
till a few weeks before blossoming is
desired. When brought to the light
and warmer air they should be given
plenty of water.
All of these bulbs are of the easiest
culture, and the growth is rapid.
Chinese lilies and all of the narcissus
family can be grown in water, held
ir. place by pebbles or bits of crock-
ery..
So many false formulas and malicious
statements concerning his medicines
had been published through the con-
nivance of jealous competitors and dis-
gruntled doctors, that Dr. Pierce deter-
mined to completely disarm his assail-
ants by a full and frank statement of
their exact composition, verifying the
same under oath as complete and cor-
rect. This he has done and to the
complete discomfiture of those who had
assailed his good name as well as the
well-earned reputation of his world-
famed medicines.
Not only does the wrapper of every
bottle of br. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, the famous medicine for
weak stomach, torpid liver or bilious-
ness and all catarrhal diseases wherever
located, have printed upon it, in plain
English, a full and complete list of all
the ingredients composing it, but a
small book has been compiled from
numerous standard medical works, of
all the different schools of practice,
containing very numerous extracts from
the writings of leading practitioners
of medicine, endorsing in the strongest
possible terms, each and every ingred-
ient contained in Dr. Pierce's medi-
cines. One of these little books will be
mailed free to any one sending address
on postal card or by letter, to Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., and requesting
the same. From this booklet it will be
learned that Dr. Pierce's medicines con-
tain no alcohol, narcotics, mineral
agents or other poisonous or injurious
agents and that they are made from
native, medicinal roots of great value;
also that some of the most valuable in-
gredients contained in Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription for weak, nervous,
over-worked, "run-down," nervous and
debilitated women, were employed, long
years ago by the Indians for similar
ailments affecting their squaws. In
fact, one of the most valuable medic-
inal plants entering into the composi-
tion of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion was known to the Indians as
"Squaw-Weed." Our knowledge of the
uses of not a few of our most valuable
native, medicinal plants was gained
from the Indians.
As made up by improved and exact
processes, and with the use of specially
designed chemical apparatus, the "Fa-
vorite Prescription" is a most efficient
remedy for regulating all the womanly
functions, correcting displacements, as
prolapsus, anteversion and retroversion,
overcoming painful periods, toning up
the nerves and bringing about a perfect
6tate of health.
The exact proportion of the several in-
gredients used in these medicines, as
well as the working formula and pecul-
iar processes, apparatus and appliances
employed in their manufacture, are
withheld from publicity that Dr. Pierce's
proprietary rights may not be infringed
and trespassed upon by unprincipled
imitators and those who may be pirati-
cally inclined.
Dr. John Fyfe, of Saugatuck, Conn.,
Editor of the Department of Therapeu-
tics in The Electric Review says of
Unicorn root (Helonias Dioica) one of
the chief ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription: "A remedy which
invariably acts as a uterine invigorator
and always favors a condition which
makes for normal activity of the entire
reproductive system, cannot fail to be
of great usefulness and of the utmost
importance to the general practitioner
of medicine."
"Helonias more fully answers the
above purposes than any other drug
with which I am acquainted. In the
treatment of diseases peculiar to women
it is seldom that a case is seen which
does not present some indication for
this remedial agent."
"The following are among the lead-
ing indications tor Helonias: Pain or
aching in the back, with leucorrhea;
atonic (weak) conditions of the repro-
ductive organs of women, mental de-
pression and irritability, associated with
chronic diseases of the reproductive
organs of women, constant sensation of
heat in the region of the kidneys: menor-
rhagia, ("flooding") due to a weakened
condition of the reproductive system;
amenorrhea, arrising from or accompa-
nying an abnormal condition of the
digestive organs and an anemic (thin
blood) habit; dragging sensations in the
extreme lower part of the abdomen."
If more or less of the above symptoms
are present, no invalid women can do bet-
ter than take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pro-
scription, which is rich in all the medicinal
properties of Unicorn root or Helonias.
MEN AND WOMEN
should have a medical book handy. They
should know about anatomy and phvsi-
ology. They should have a book that
treats of the sexological relations of the
sexes as well as how and when to advise
son and daughter. Has unequaled en-
dorsement of the press, ministry, legal and
medical professions. A standard work is
the People's Common Senso Medicftl
Adviser, by R. V. Pierce. M. D. Send 31
one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound
book, or 21 stamps for the paper-covered
volume. Address Doctor R. V. Pierce.
Buffalo, N. Y.
keting should be carefully considered,
and the whole business gone over,
from various points of view.
The garden should begin in intel-
lectual preparation, and end in intel-
lectual review. The farmer who would
succeed must, like the merchant and
business man in town, make a steady
business of his business, and keep it
continually in his mind, always reach-
ing a little higher.
He should discus the business before
him with his family—the boys and
girls should be taken into the council,
as well as his wife. He should talk
of the farm as "ours," not "mine."
THE ^FOUR-LEAF CLOVER.
A little maid in a gingham gown
Went hunting the meadows over;
Tilt the birds o'ere tired, jind the sun
went down,
She sought for a four-leaf clover!
Foi* four-leaf clovers bring luck, they
say;
And patchworkf "stint" and dlshe3
Were tiresome duties of every day;
She wanted some fairy wishes!
With fishes unwashed and "stint" un-
done,
She tramped back home In tho
No four-leaf clover, no never a one
Was there to be had for her roam-
ing!
A little maid in a gingham gown
Had washed all the dinner dishes:
Had finished her "stint" ere the sun
wont down,
Undreaming of fairy wishes.
When just at her feet as she raced in
play
The blosoming meadows over,
Sho found what the other had sought
all day.
She found, yes, a four-leaf clover!
—Mary Clarke Huntington.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
A whole lot of you fellows intended
to plant a patch of spinach this fall
to have the stuff ready for early
greens next spring. Have you for-
gotten about It?