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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3545, 11 July 1905, Page 4

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Every Farmer Can Grow Hl# Own Supply oi SuKar. Should we pliint maple groves? There can hardly he two opinions on this subject. The beet sugar iml ustry is api lem, but the maple sugar end urd i ,v nor < . was si problem. It pays heifer t three-fourths of our f;irm work. At eight cents a pound maple sugar fin.;., ready market, while much of the better product sells at ten and twelve cents, ; Ire sirup is sold by producers direct:;, to consumers at one dollar a gallon — very rarely at less than 80 cents. Throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other states this direct sale to consumers takes up a large part of the product, excepting only two or three counties of northern New ' r ‘ is not fust now as a tna r- );■ i • '.d..at that the subject should bo cm. y considered. Every family is a a ’ consumer and a sugar buyer. ■mars can make the m ""r r ’ c” * t-i . -ar supply as can . u..',c ti'.eir own potatoc -. of six or seven will consume ■ to two barrels of sugar in a year. Granulatcd sugar will cost such a family from sls to S3O a year. A grove of c:) trees V"'!! r reduce from S""i to 2" pour. !'• of maple sugar. Thr tin; i .stand in the open, uct L loss where the sugar is • from trees in the forest. This is eqv nlent to at least half the family’s rquireinents for sugar. Cut Ihe s;;' of sirup will make an aggregate value per tree even higher. A grove of 50 trees standing in the open will occupy not more than a quarter of an neiv. Besides the sugar product, .'lie grove is advantageous for shade, also for nn enormous product of humus each fall, •lid for windbreaks and shelter, and as •n equalizer of temperature and moi; - ture. Maple trees should grow in a grove. They do not thrive well as street trees, where they are subject ts much abuse of the saw and exposure the trunk to hot sunshine. A gromight well be given place on every fern of 30 acres. Why shall there not be a general planting of maple groves during the spring of 1SD8?~N. Y. Tribune.

HANDY FARM APPLIANCE.

A That Serve* Every Pnrpomf of the Stone Boat. Several years ago the writer felt the need of something lighter and smaller than an ord! nary stone boat for conveying light at ticks around the fo rm. Th result of some study was The dev; iihown in the illustration, which th hired man says is “about the handies, thing on the farm.” It is, in fact, a sort of cross between a stone boat and » bob sled. The length over all is five feet, the width 2% feet. The runners ore of (hard maple, five feet long, ten inches wide, and two inches thick, the forward end rising 3*4 inches. The hardpiece is also of hard maple plank, SO Inches long, two inches thick and one foot wide. An oval hole three inches from the front edge affords a

means of attaching a chain for hauling. This piece is firmly fastened to the runners by six bolts —three at each ehu —of which the heads are countersunk in the lower sides of the runners. The floor is made of white ash boards, inch thick and :>U inches long, nailed crosswise, flush with the outer edge of the runners. This is surmounted on either side by a hickory rail two inches thick and three inches wide, extending the entire length, flush with the outside. These rails are secured in place by four inch lag screws. Made thus of selected materials, and firmly put together, it has been in use, summer and winter, for five years, and is still nearly as good as new, save for the natural wear on the runners. For conveying plows, cultivators, other implements, seeds, etc., haulingbarrels of spraying mixture, removing bowlders, and other light short hauls around the farm, it has become almost indispensable. On a small farm it serves about every purpose of tbe oldfashioned stone boat, and is of much lighter draught.—George A. Martin, in N. Y. Tribune.

How to Fight Black Rot. Black rot has been causing serious loss among the cabbage growers, and the department of agriculture has been investigating the disease, which, it is said, may be spread by the seed, manure and insects, especially slugs. Late-planted cabbage are less liable to damage than those planted early. The germ develops best in very hot weather, while coo) weather seems to check it. Dotation is advised os a means of prevention. The bulletin observes that the planting of other crops for a long series of years seems to be the only satisfactory way of getting rid of the disease when it has once become serious. Fields that have shown even a little of the disease should not be planted to cabbages or other cruciferous plants for several years.-—Agricultural Epitomist.

Not a Good Thing to Do. We do not approve of tying trees to stakes, though this is often recommended and often done. The bark is apt to be rubbed and injured in spite of watchfulness. Much better is it to reduce the siV> r" ( bead so the tree will stand v. 1.... .i Tor would we hill up around a tree to brace it, because often, when the ground is soft in the winter, the swaying of the treopens the earth about the stem, whir’ Is filled with water, and this, latefreezes and kills the bark and damages the tree.— Rural World.

VARIOUS MATTERS.

The total value of the produce of the forest exported from Canada last year was $20,1)54,689. If the Nicaragua canal is finished Melborne will be 1,330 miles neart i to New York than to Liverpool by ailsea route. The worst banking crisis of the las' century was in 1830, when the Ikuik of England was saved from failurby Mu* Hank of France. * Taxing the population of nai> a 100, that of the Xjnited Kingdom ss 128, of Germany, 172; of the United States, 234, and of Russia 406. A -- -oat of salt-water service satisfaction. Salt watir exUr- ' ’ "re much «*•••• : j, e amount of ttvsh. The heaviest precious stone is the zircon, which is 4% times heavier than an equal quantity of water. The P-W-’ •- the opal, only twice as p r . Hoon .-cut «• . • ns v " »• “ e jjq. , iO 1 /., in He:- ■■■" ll a ..... . mature of 102 de 1 zero. cl.- „Te of Montar.r ,lU * 8 tli hteenth of * l,r the g.... ...nent granted • st{lt<f Iwo sections in each town.-i for the benefit of the public schools and an aggregate of OKS,OOO acres for th? various state institutions. It if n peculiar fact that, although American roads are infinitely more wcarmr upon motor vehicles than are Fit roll highways, the automobile builders of France make their machines much heavier and stancher than are the majority of self-propelled vehicles of American manufacture.

FOREIGNERS OF NOTE.

Onlv ....« tc...... .miser than . ' * . rne lived !. - - I'-r -'-tre. IV (o’ - all his- wopm.. ...rr.,’’ by i. ~iu;ng at mU 11 o'clock. and of ten being still at ids task at breii’diid lirne. It is r-.'>‘ —me rally known ♦at Richary Li ■ oue, the poet and novelist. is one of the most eminent oculists ' • and has, at various time:- ' many royal personages. ' yi *. ' h v!.‘ sp. is : >• . .he auto Rocker T. Washington stance, A. Ynmada, a represen tat ->f ‘he Japan Cotton Trading Comp,.i;y, limited, of 0? aka, is on the Pacific- coast to select the best port from which to export carton and other American prodi*™ Japan. After attending to this ho will spend three years in an c ■. . five examination of American mi- ,ls, especially in rotation to the cotton industry.

RUMORS FROM ABROAD.

FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

WOMEN AT WORK.

It is reported that • group of French-Swiss capitalists has formed a syndicate to construct several railways in South Kussia. The Russian minister of railways has prepared a timetable showing that when the Trans-Siberian railway is finished the journey around the world can be made in-33 days. Since the Louisiana and Texas farmers learned to raise rice by irrigation they have invested $5,000,000 in 1.580 m r !i - of canals, capable of f- ding 300.000 acres, and spent $1.70:' I 'o in luiild'nc’ 30 modern rice mills. I 'ader the new system the rice lands pay a net profit of sls an acre. There ore now in Italy 3,179 kilometers of street tramways worked by mechanical power, 263 kilometers of these by electricity, and the remainder by steam power. They are owned by C 4 companies and private concerns. The town of Milan owns only s'/j kilometers, while the two largest companies control 261 and 205 kilometers respectively.

Paint purse ne’er won fair lady.— Life. » Our adversity should often be spelled perversity.—Barn’s Horn. Do not mistake excitement for amusement nor idleness for calm.— Good Cheer, , Dyspepsia, with all its terrors, ean’t keep a man from eating, but it can make him wiah he hadn't, good and hard.—Puck. The love a loyal nan feels ia always poorly expressed—only the cold in love make fin* speeches about H.— Town Topics. A Pan-American sight recently was a Japanese in American clothing riding in a jinrikaha drawn by an American garbed «• » Japanese.—Bur . Express. A man gets mad if any man looks at his daughter of 16, and if she has reached 26 without any man looking at her, he begin* to look at her critically himself. —Atchison Globe.

In St. Petersburg women pay only ono-balf of what men do lor a ride in a cab. In the factories of Baden, Germany, 28.26 per cent, of the workers are, women and girls over 16, Few women consider that they .carry some 40 or 50 miles of hair ..on their head; the fair-haired nmy have to dress 70 miles of threads' of gold every morning. ’ Women were in*st permitted to become employes in government <■ • in 1882, when Secretary of the Treasury Sal. on P. Chase appointed women clerks. . —.