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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-11-16, Page 7RAC !CAL FARMING. eV' A Hand Apple )'loiter, the Benson for pioking winter apples on, orchardists will and the ill, eted piolterof greeb service in reaching fruit on extended limbo. One man eau d under a true and pick nearly all the t 0910 the tree including the hardest to W u if r LC— t r at ck, er. 8 ll. 1 DR PXQItIN0 01101:rWIrscalli BRUISLNO, at, -.that on the ends of the branches, a frame is made of heavy wire, or light incl iron and a seek of heavy olethsewn le frame, leaving the slots et eaoh end lhatanappfe will ae free to enter the k. Then a.' you have to do is to push nil and the apple drops iu the mak. I c one with a fourteen foot and another th a six-foot handle. The wire from A is eight inches wide, from 0 to D ten hes. The Blots at 0 and 1) aro three inch - long and an inch wide. The handle or e may be of any, desired length. Packing 'Butter for Winter. While winter dairying is slowly inoreas. g it requires so much chill and careful �. anagement, and euoh a change in the mmon mathbde of the farm, that while et the ,noitprodxable part of dairvfarming, is not lilelv, for son's years yet, to be fliciently practised to :oily supply the mend for butter in the winter, Thue osummer dairyman may Mill. find it ofitable to pack the fall matte butter for inter sole. And indeed, bo may do this ith advantage as well as safe e, for when to beat qsalibv of butter is paaked.fn the at manner, it will improve during the aping from the fall until winter, and be ally more desirable than the ordinary inter made article. This is due to the of that by the slow ripening in the ackage during storage in a cool, clean lace, and in sweet air -tight packages, here is a slow internal change going on in he butter by which its finest flavor is de - eloped, and as with fruits, so the butter s greatly improved by what may truly re called in both --a proceee of ripening. two tillage are to be considered in this object, always, however, premising that he butter is of the best quality, as it asily may be when it is made from the weer, fresh fall grass, equal in, every re- peat to the fresh spring pasture. The Prat thing in the process ie the package; he second, the manner of peeking the utter, The best package for the purpose is a eve white oak pall, made of sound timber, ree of knote and blemishes, half an inch hick, well jointed, and perfectly seasoned. his pail bottle fifty pounds. White spruce s *the next best manorial, and is quite ae ree from any objectionable odor or taste iven to the butter. The pail is prepared by thnrouglt cleaning in pure water. It hould be soaked for at least twenty-four ours, then well scalded, and then filled with trine. This is done so that it may stay under the brine twenty-four hours aforethe butter is peeked. The pail being ready the butter is packed as soon as it has been finished at the second working, the day after it is churned. Itis salted in the usual manner, one ounce to the pound of butter, of the very purest and fineet ground salt. It is worked as dry as it0an be. The pail being emptied of the brine, is dusted all over the inside with the salt, and the salt, and the butter is put in only so touch ata time as will make a layer of four inches. This is compactly pressed down by a maple presser, made like a com- mon potato masher, so that all the moisture is pressed out and drained off. If in this moisture there is any cloud or shade of milk, the buster has not been made as well ae it should be, and will not come out in perfect condition. Not a shade of milk is to be permitted in the butter for this use, but any moisture that drains from it should bo as clear as the dew ou the moruinggrass. Shen the butter thus put in is lightly dust- ed with salt, and another layer is put in in the same manner, until the pail is &fled to a quarter of an -inch of the edge of the pail. If the butter i$ not sufficient for a full pail it is packed as far as it can be and covered with salt, and the pail is put away untilthe next churning, being kept covered with a Olean towel. Then the next churn.. ing to packed in the same manner until the pail fe filled as mentioned, when the butter is covered with a piece of good, heavy shirting cloth, well washed in boiling water and cheeped in brine, with the pail. It is cut half an inch larger than the outer edge of the pail. It is pressed down on the.butter to exclude all air, a little snit being sprinkled under it, and is then covered with dry salt to the edge'of the pail. This salt is well pressed' down and is covered with a sheet of parchment paper, on whioh is printed the name of the butter maker and the dairy, and any handsome device that may be used as a trade mark. This is in justice to the person who will •take all this trouble to make a fine article of butter. The cover, treated as the pail had beau, is then aeuurely fastened down and the pall is stored., Dairy Granules, Parchment papershould always be soaked in a strong brine before using to prevent moulding. See to it that your stock do nob drink ice water, you oannob afford to have your cattle warm up such water with feed. Iir. E. M. Gatohel, who 14 an expert in the examination of cows for tuberculosis and in the test of milk, dons not condemn dehorning. He simply !yarns against using milk of cows having high fever from any cause. The Ontario Agricultural College, iu a bulletin on the caro of milk and cows,' bays : While in the stable, dews need ourrying aud brushing once, a day. If more. time is spent in brushing the COWS and loss, if necessary, in brushing horses, it will pay batter at present. That pasteurizing the cream lo gaining ground in _Denmark is best illustrated by the advertisements of dairy implement manufaoturse, A very neat. elevator is now sold for elevating the einem from the separ- ator to tate pasteurizing apparatus. Under no other system of farming arm fertility of the soil be so easily maintained and lnoreaeod ae with a dairy, Whether en a small scale or with a largo capital, it affords employment the year around, and yields a oouotant income of each, and, if skilfully conducted, brings a large profit, It requires the expenditure of more nervous energy to proclaim butter than milia Hence, a rich butter cow must, of necessity, bo a cow of more nerve power than one that fs a large milk maker but smaller butter maker, In other words, as milk rich in butter contains more poten. tie! energy than milk poor in butter, more energy is expended in making it. And this explains wlty the Jersey oew IS pe Inuoli more industrious. "1 can't supply half the demand of : my butter," said a farmer's wife who has built up a trade among private customers. She began in a email way by supplying to a few friende in a nearby city a choice article. These friends were so well pleased that they told other friends, and a regular and continuous demand has resulted at amil- form prion per pound,far beyond the ability to supply. It was a eimplo, inexpensive method of building up a trade. A COUNTRY OF SMALL FARMS. Farmers or Hull„nd and Belgium &import Families en two or three Acres, Farming in the low oountrios of Holland and Belgium is an interesting study, writes a correspondent, To know that a country no larger than four Ontario oountiee con- tains 0,000,000 of people who live chiefly by agriet/Rut° is interesting, Out to seethe little nooks and odd -shaped corners of land that puts for faring in Bal'ieui is to doubt one's own eyes. The smallest s arm lands of Continental Europe are those of Belgium. As one puttee into Holland the farms may be seen to increase in size until the Dutch province of Friesland is reached where. natbleraising is the ohief pursuit. There the flat grazing lands afford plenty of range for the horde of sleek black and white spot- ted buttermakers which are famous the world over, In 'Belgium the produce of every farm is varied. A, three -cornered piece of land containing about two acres and hemmed by ditches filled with water is the size and situation of a typical Belgium farm. As small as it is, it will contain a patch of wheat or rye, and another of barley; an. other fair portion of it grows potatoes. A row of cabbage grow all around on the sloping sides of the ditohee with a row of onions just inside leaving bare walking room between them and the grain. The rest of the tillable soil is planted with A CREAT VARIan' OF VEGETABLES, either for dubstantial food for the farmer's own table or a better priced product for other men's tablee. For shade, ornament and profit, a row of fruit trees, mostly pears, surround his house. There are no yards or stable lots because they are not headed and besides every inch of ground must produce. I have wondered bow these little spots of ground could be made to furnisn enough to food and clothe a farmer and his family of seven or eight children. I asked the farmer in Flanders how he could manage to support himself with two acres of ground. "I had the same crop last year," he said, "and I had barley and onions and cabbage to sell after selling my early vegetables. Then I had a few hogs, some chickens and eggs to send to market." 1 had not thought of live stook on the place but he showed me where he kept his hogs and chickens and eggs. In a back room under the came square riled roof with himself were six fine porkers. It was a Olean and comfortable plane for them, too, notwithstanding a score of chickens lived in the same room with them. I know he. did not have a horse. There was not room enough on the plane for one of m_v little bronohos, not to speak of the big Belgian draft horses whioh pull the enormously big trunks in Antwerp and Brussels. In one corner of this room, which was his stable, two good sized doge were chained to a kennel. They werecommon looking enough, bub as dear to him, no doubt, as my horses are to me. These were a couple of the famous Flemish trekhouden and served him as horses do farmers in Canada. THE DRAUGHT D00e of Belgium and South Holland ono may see on the highways and in the streets of every village and city. They seem to be a inongrel breed with all sorts of strains among them. They draw those heavy little two wheeled wagons loaded with everything, with milk, with vegetables, with lumber and some- times one may see two or three of these doge rattling along over the posed country roads with three or four persons in the cart behind them. They are cheaper then horses and I believe this Fleinish farmer when he said that with his two good doge he did not need a horse. Such dogs, ho said, would bring 00 franca in bhe Sunday morning dog market in Ant• weep, In Zealand, which forme that pore tion of Holland with ire low sandy soil, lying on both aides of the mouth of the river Schelde, dogs are not the only draught animals. There I have seen 3,1E01 AND MALL oew$ driven between the shafts of carte. Horses, however, are used more on the farms there than in Belgium. The farms are larger but the soil is not the best except for potatoes. As horsto aro used on but few Belgian farms, so are plows scarce articles there, What plows are used are primitive things, made of wood with an iron share for turn• ing the soil. The oultivator is of course unknown either in Belgium or Holland, Au; to other improved fanning implements, there is no place for them. The epode, the hoe and the reaping hook are their impplements, The farmers of Belgium and Holland work harder than the farmers do in our country booause of the lack of labor saving implements, They praotiee pinching econ- omy all the year round, and from tate little two -acre ferntere of Belgium to the cattle growers of Friesland all lay by a few Dents it not more to steadily increase the family savings, The hog eats fewer plants than any other herb'foedidg animal, THE WEEK' 'NEWS 04x.011.0, A night sohool for girls le to be establish= ed in London, Ont. AU Oils poet.ol&oe-employee of Viotoria, 13, 0., are on strike, Thomas Horne diad at Salem, Oat„ recently aged104 years, The cool dealers of London, Ont,, have put up the prise from $5,80 to P. Angus Macdonald, a ten.year convlot, escaped born Kingston penitentiary, Tho costa in the Bartley murdertrial al Brantford amount to over $5,000. The immediate canetruotlon of the . Hud. son's Bay railway is acid to be assured. MaoWharrell is reported to be quite happy in the stone shed at Kingston penitentiary. Lisutenanb.Governor Sohults,of Manitoba, is again eo ill as to be cosigned to his room. Tho Sultana gold mine at RSA Portage has been sold to an English syndioato for ,$200,000. The convention of the women's Christian Temperance Union next year will be held at Hamilton, Ont. _During last moath 1,000 head of North- West cattle were shipped to the British markets. • Tho Brockville Carriage Company have. received an order for vehioles to Ire shipped to Santiago, Chili. Canadian vessels caught 05,048 seals in Behring sea chis season. 'Thio is said to be the largest catch on record. The title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire is inherited by Mr. Henri Mercier, eldest son of the late ex,Premier of Quobeo. The North-West is having its first cold snap of this season. At Prince Albert there were 20 degrees of frost. Gerson, Purcer et Co, will at once rebuild at Brockville the platting mill and factory recently destroyed by fire. Mr. John Mitchell, of Dorchester town- ship, Middlesex, Ont., celebrated his 101st birthday the other day. He was born in Scotland. The Canadian Co-operative Common wealth settlement, on the northern end of Vancouver island, has been destroyed by a landslide. At Brockville the other day George Brewster, a married .man, pleaded guilty of Indecent assault, and was sentenced to eight months in the Central prison at hard labor, and to receive 40 lashes. Jacob Bouchard a mail carrier for the Saguenay steamers, fell off the pier atBaie St. Paul, Quebec, on Wednesday night,aud wag drowned. Mr. W. E, Hiecott has resigned the leadership of the band of the Seventh Fusiliers, in London, a position whioh he had held for many years. It is reported from Halifax that the war. ship Tourmaline has been ordered to St. John's Nfld., to maintain order between the political faotiens. Messrs. Wilson and Henderson, ofBrant- ford, lately patented a bioyele chain rivet. They have sold the patent in the United States for $I7,000. Moline ec Wilson, Toronto cattle dealers are, according to a Winnipeg despatch, making large shipments of North-West live stock to France. The first break iu the trolley wires that now overhang all the main streets of T route clammed at Wellingtor and Yonge streets on Tuesday night. No one was in- jured. Neal, the MacLeoi, N. W. T., Customs Collector, who stole $7,000 and, fled to England, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary at Stoney Moun- tsin. A lady of London, Ont., who wished her name euppreaeed,gave $0100 on Wednes- day to Commandant Booth, of the Sal- vation Army, in aid of the Workingman's Castle. Arthur Tarumage, a fitter in the Grand Trunk shops at Belllevillle, while out shoot. ing on 'Lhursday, lostthnmb and was out in the faue by the bursting of his gun at the breech, Miss Nina Ph i itips,agred nate of the train- ing school of the Ringston General hospital bas been appointed superintendent of nurses in the General hospital at Low- ell, Mass, Mr. E. J. Barbeau, director and gen- eral manager of the •redit Fonoier, has left Montreal for France to complete the arrangements for the new Province of Quebec loan. Mr. Joseph Jones, ooroner of Montreal, died on Saturday, at the advanced age of eighty-six. The deceased was probably the oldest coroner in the Dominion, having, been in office for more than fifty-seven years. Messrs. McConnell and Russell, of the Geological Survey, have returned from the Western Kootenay district of British Columbia. They report the country very rich in both gold and silver. Postmaster J. H. Doi/nage, of Lacombe, N.W.T., swallowed poison the other day because the post -office inspector happened along and found him short in hie accounts It is tbought he will die. As a result of a oonfereneo held in To. routo, bebwoen lumbermen and officials of the Grand Trunk railway, the contemplated increase in rates for lumber will not bake place until spring, and then only atter another conference shall have been held. Five canal boats loaded with lumber broke loose at rho mouth of the Nicole, river, Quebec, in Wednesay night's gale. Two are aground opposite Three Rivers, and the other three are supposed to have sunk. Lumber 14 strewn all over the river. H.M.S. Champion and the flagship Royal Arthur, of the Pacific squadron, left Van- couver on Friday for Callao, whore itis rumored the British Consulate had been attacked by tevolutioniete, and that mem, bore of the Consul's tamily had been mur. dered. The will of exIBromier Mercier, which was read in the presence of the family .oh Saturday, practically bequeaths nothing, as the insurance of 822,000 was already made out in favour of Madame Mercier and her children. Tho insurance, with some lots in Labelle township and the family furniture are stated to constitute all that the deceased left, lodge Duces, MontreaPa Police Msggis. trate, created a Mbit in the Montreal Follce Court on Saturday by strongly denouncing from the bench the Ontario magistrates, whom he charged with having blocked and hampered the wheels of -justice. He said that some of the Ontario magistrates had Clone all in their power to stop rho course of the law, Ito administered by the Mon tree, authorities, The letter•oarriet'e and clerks ill the Post. Office Department at Vlotoria, 13,0„ otruok work on Tburaday, because it grant of $10 additional per month, on aocouut of the extra oast of living in the West, WAS WW1 drawn, On the 'Melo of the 'Board .p1 Trade of Vanpotiyai^, the strikers went bank to work, declaring the strike oil for a month on the understanding thatthe Hoard ailowapo of `Trade would press for payment of the o, CREAT B1tlTAIN. Eugene Qudin, the celebrated baritone singer, died lo London, Eng„ the other morning; Mr. John Walter, chief proprietor of the London Times, 15 dead, He wee eevenby. six years of age, Titers was an improved feeling in the London stook market laet week, The Money market remained es before. Finance Minister Foster will leave Eng- land for Canada by the Campania, of the Cunard line, on Saturday. The tenders for the two million and a half 'Meeting Canadian loan amounted to more than eleven million pounds. The London Tinies annonnoea the death of the Right Hen, Sir Patrick Joseph Keenan at i#lasnevin, Ireland, Typewriters in the British War Office receive only from $3.30 ton per week, and an agitation for higher wages is in progress The Sootland Yard authorities say they have information that the phyeioal force party aro planning an immediate gam, paigo. Last week 120,000 barrels of apples reaobed England from Amerioa. Canadian apples were much in evidence dence and brought good prime. The steamer Tonnes- etruok Crow Rook, near Milford eleven, on Tuesday night. Twenty-one men, including the captain and officers, were drowned, The Marquis of Lansdowne, formerly Governor•Qeueral of Canada, and more recently Viceroy of India, has boen created a Knight of the Order of the Garter. Mr. Timothy Healy is said to have out loose from Messrs. McCarthy and Dillon, and he will carry wibh him at the outset as many men as the Paroellites reckon in their ranks. James Mulin, the Montreal man charged with embezzlement, was before the Bow street Police Court, in London, on Friday. He was discharged on a technical objection but was immediately re -arrested. The London Financial Times eays that the September statement of the Canadian Pacific railway is disappointing. The in - armee in the expenditure, as compared with the previous month, is by no means a favorable sign. Municipal elections were held throughout England on Thursday. The returns. from 148 boroughs show that the Conservatives secured SO seats, the Unionists S, the Min• isterialiets 28, Labor le, Independents 0, and Socialists 3, At a conference of tee Scottish Conserva- tive Asaociation,held in Edinburgh the other night Lord Salisbury made a vigorous de- fence of the House of Lord's contendin g that s emend Climber was a constitutional necessity, and if the Lord's were at present overwhelmingly Conservative, it was the result of Mr. Gladstone's radical and dan- gerous lagialation. UNITED STATES, Two thousand hogs have died of cholera in the vicinity of Champagne, Ill. William McTaggart; in notorious opium smuggler, has been captured in Detriot. Thursday, November 29, has been pro- olaimed Thanksgiving day in the United States. The Commercial Life Insurance Com- pany, of New York, has been placed in the bands of a receiver. The directors of the Pennsylvania rail- road have declared a eemi•annual dividend of 2 1.2 per cent. cash. Gallus Miller, chief olerk of the Joliet prison, who introduced the Bertillon sys- tem into the United States, committed suicide on Thursday. The strike of the Fall River, Mass., weavers, whioh terminated on Wednesday, resulted in a loss of wages to the operatives amounting to about one million'and a half of dollars. A missionary to Japan, who is at present in Chicago on his way to England, seee nothing to prevent the Japanese continuing their operations against the Chinese dur. ing the winter. There was a layer of snow three inches deep over the eutire upper peninsula of Michigan on Saturday. The thermometer stood at 10 degrees below freezing point. Broken in Health That Tired Feeling, Constipatior, and Pain in the Back Appetite and Health Restored by Hood's Sarsaparilla. ltir. Chas. Bteete St, Catherine's, Ont. "C. L hood ea Co„ Lowell, Mass.: ",Por anumber ol years I Have been troubled With a general tired feeling, shortness of breath, pain in the bank, and constipation. I could gat only little met atnlght on account of the pain and had no appetite whatever. T was that tired lhmyy�limbs that I gave mit before half the day was dineota r a great number of medicines g any permanent relief front any 9 S arI11a 10Od 5 P Cures Source until, upon recommendation of a Mime. I purchased a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla, tvlilolt made me feel better at once. flume con- tinued its use, having taken throe bottles, and I Feel Like a New Man. 3 have a good appetite, feel as strong as ever I' did, and enjoy perfect rest at night. I have much pleasure in recommending Flood's Sarsa- Serving Co ISf Catherrine s,tQitta With fade Pro Hood's Pills aro prompt anti dOtalent, yet easy lu action, Sole be all druggists, ole. u, F rt'I P �P IR tit �� ?f �fl F'IRD t WOUP " .ane....FURAOES.= lei ry FOR AL1, SIZES U' EII.DiWC I $ e; apcicUorom 1� 000 i I to $0,04 pubic TOO, ' 1iYf3L014S 5I'131iL l;t8i)I,fiT012" e OYPORD WOOD PCRNACP WQO FURNACE 11RAYY ORATE, especially adapted for wood bnrntng Wavy Steel Plate Fireliox Dome and Radiator, wlaloh boat gnlokor and aro moro durable RADIATOR of Modern Construe tion and Great Beating Power LARCIR ASI1 PIT COED. 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The latest discovery in the seionti• do world is that nerve centres located in or near the base of the brain con- trol all the organs of the body, and when these nerve centres are deranged the organs which they supply with nerve fluid, or nerve force, are also deranged: When it 15 remembered that a serious injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis of the body below the injured point, because the nerve force is prevented by the injury from reaching the para- lyzed portion, it will be understood how the derangement of the nerve centres will cause the derangement of the various organs which they supply with nerve force; that is, when a nerve centre is deranged or in any way diseased it is impossible for it to supply the same quantity of nerve force as when in a` healthful condi- tion; hence the organs which depend upon it for nerve force suffer, and are unable to properly perform their work, and as a result disease makes its appearance. At least two-thirds of our chronic diseases cud ailments are due to the Imperfect action of the nerve centres at the baso of the brain, and not from a derangement primarily originating in the organ heel!. The great mis- take of physicians in treating these diseases is that they treat the organs incredulous. A. RE:ARRAN Wholesale and Retail Agent for Brussels and not the nerve centres, which are the cause of the trouble. The wonderful cures wrought by the Great South American Nervine Tonic aro due alone to the fact that this remedy is based upon the fore- going principle. It cures by rebuild- ing and strengthening the nerve centres, and thereby increasing the supply of nerve force or nervous energy. This remedy has been found of infinite value for the cure of Nervous- ness, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Paroxysms, Sleeplessness, Forgetful- ness, Mental Despondency, Nervous- ness of Females, Hot Flashes, Sick Headache, Heart Disease. The first bottle will convince anyone that a cure is certain. South American Nervine is with- out doubt the greatest remedy ever discovered for the euro of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and all Chronic Stomach Troubles, because it acts through the nerves. It gives relief in one day, and absolutely effects a permanent cure in every instance. Do not allow your prejudices, or the preju- dices of others, to lleep you from using this health -giving remedy. It is based on the result of years of scientific research and study. ;t; single bottle will convince the most GETTING EVEN WITH A JOKER. When Andy flo1T flet Married His elan Victims l'ald. nin, 04 With Interest. A Cleveland despatch says :—Duriug a long bachelorhood Andy J. Goff, who is tkirtyfive years old, has perpetrated num- berless practical jokes upon his Mende who liavepeeceded him in the nutrimental rola. *ion. When he got married last night they "gob oven" with him, While the ceremony was in progress ono of the conspirators stole the bridegroom's travelling suit and bid it in the barn, end Gori had to borrow an ulster from his new brother-•in,law to wear to the train over his dress suit. On arriving at the train he found his sleeping. tier section decorated with white ribbon and white roses. The trip to the depot HAS made on the street oar, another con - .e .teator having with hie wife palmed them selves on the carriage driver as the bride and bridegroom and driven to the depot. The same gentleman possessed himself of eatchele, hand bags, umbrellas aid the like le the carriage and had them hidden, A third conspirator followed Goff's luggage irons bio home to the depot during the day, Uptight a ticket to Olmstead Falls for forty scute, anii on it checked the luggage to that village, where it ie mealy stored in the home of a friend. Chicago has 398 labor organization a; w • n aggregate membership of 200,000.