elbeet county tribune. PLAN TO IMPROVE HANDLING COLTS DURING HOT WEATHER NATION’S MILITARY POST DE LUXE OVERNORB ISLAND,” says one of its chroniclers, using the Indian name Pag- “G ganck, lies like an emerald gem pendent on the green chain of Long Island.” Certainly it never deserved such a pic- turesque description more than it does this spring. It suggests among other things a fit- ting place for future peace conferences. It is true that there are warlike touches —Fort Jay, the one time Fort Columbus, and v c»D II.; William,IT thelUC nuirs Castle 11(10111, sixDU acres onUU HIDthe A Promising Youngster. north shore where is situated the arsenal of the ordnance corps, the commissary buildings, battered v/WKfl (By J. M. BELL.) work, has little for else and gray as T2fO&2f. Try time than seasoned veterans, the green turf, to be patient with your colt, Mr. quietly handling his team and lmple- marked off here and there with huge cannon balls, Farmer. Remember that he is green t ment at one and the same time, but general atmosphere is —yes, as the so peaceful that if it green as the grass he eats This man will not get satis- were i much not for the skyline of minarets and towers, so peacefully when you turn him out t faction out of a day’s work through if he has seen a purplish smoke whenever you make to graze, and the harness no longer to worry with a green, restive colt, a turn, you chafes ¦ could not believe yourself near the nois- his soft young body. who, chafing at the unexpected misery iest city the in world. All farmers know that a four-year • of heavy work in hot weather, starts Governors Island is the headquarters of the de- colt will stand more than a three-year ¦ up a little too soon or not soon partment east. this plot of the On small of ground, old. Bone and muscle are ma- . enough, protests at having to walk in one of better which the staff described as being “two miles tured and generally of better size; a straight line at a slow gait, irwxovzpi&rroyGovsmw'j etc. F&UY3ran zsuuyd I therefore, he is better able to stand a i It is not possible that he will b&lk, day’s work. But when it comes to , kick or rear upon what might be con- that no green, unbroken colt should be , sldered a very slight provocation, or expected to do a full day's work in tho no provocation at all to a broken mid- team of well seasoned farm or road I die-aged farm horse. horses. In that section of Virginia known as Valley,” So many good colts been aged "The famous for its notably have heavy and made dull by thiS~Toollsh habit draft horses, and their rule is of letting them run absolutely unbrok- to break these big colts at two years en into the spring when they are three , old, never working them over half a day or four years old, and then catching at a time, and beginning tho pro- cess in them and putting them at hard, steady the late winter and early spring. work just as the busy season comes first work a wagon iir a on, when time is precious, when the Tho to steady team and with a quiet teamster, generally a white man who is used to the daily handling of horsec. The writer visited that section re- ' I ' cently and while the quest of a well- known horse breeder, saw four full- PARTY AT GOVgffOR’JIJIRYP blooded Percherons working to a ma- nure spreader, a nine-year-old mare There are six Lombardy pop- this was set aside by the assembly as being “Part under the saddle, a three-year-old stal- lars, remnant of the hun- of the Denizen of Majestle's at His Fort New lion in the off lead and a young mare dreds sent by XVI. At York for the and of His Louis Benefit Accommodation under headquarters, a large house Majestie’s and in the line. Governors Commanders Chief The average weight of these splen- with Georgian front and high for the Time Being.” After this it became known did was about 1,800 pounds ceilinged, roomy offices, the in familiar parlance as Island, horses Governors but not each, of the affairs of are man- all at once legal but the remarkable part the island in documents. business was these two young, aged. Here Lieutenant-Col- In its early history it examples that furnished of vigorous stallions were working quiet- onel Haan, In command dur- rapine and graft which put to shame the efforts A Vigorous, Well-Developed One-Year- ly with mwres. Their teamster had ing General Harry’s abserfte, of the present day. One of the early governors. Old Colt—A Good Example for the them under perfect control, but they receives the reporter and Lord Cornbury, cousin Anne, comes of Queen General Farmer to Raise. had been worked the same the gives some of informa- to us as “being universally prin- as the down detested," two-year-olds, Bnd larger in winter,” la transacted the principal tion herein. cipally questionable and had become used contained for his dealings in regard to crops need when flies are to by degrees. business for the military territory extending particularly among piece work, the farm labor He mentions, the active this of land which the people at large were rampant, along the coast to Texas and when neither the mas- Of course advice is cheap and farm- .« Atlantic from Maine work of the post, tho branch of the Y. M. C. A. already beginning to for Its beauty and * cherish ter’s nor the colt’s tempers are at era get lots of it, matter of and west to the Mississippi, exclusive of conducted by Chaplain Edmund H. Smith, the utility. and in the the mid- their best. working states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and men colts and green horses in the western Michi- classes for enlisted and the drills supple- In 1710 the island served, in fact if not name, Imagine farmer starting gan. in a out to summer, time they have all—- mented now with tho more picturesque music as the first quarantine post of the province and heard It One mow hay with a green or half-broken fitting on harness, scraping battalion of the 29th infantry is now sta- drills or silent In year shiploads of re- the the col- manual. that same “Palatines,” colt hitched alongside of a mule or a lars at night, washing off the shoul- tioned at Governors Island under the command of The military student finds at present little to ligious refugees, were housed there, “the proper- Gen. Harry, who came from steady farm horse to a mowing ma- ders, and sparing the lash. Thomas H. there interest him. for the island is not fortified, being est place for their sickness and poverty,” said chine, double row cultivator, corn 1 have only to say this, I speak West Point last September, succeeding the late in no way a part of the scheme of fortifications, Queen Anne, who financed them parsimoniously. and Gen. Frederick IJent Grant. planter, plow or harrow! from experience: if the farmer does which embraces Sandy Hook and the mouth of One of these immigrants, Peter Zenger, was years ago congress the All implements need a steady, well not go easy with the three and four- Several appropriated sl,- the harbor. Fort Jay, for 100 years known as first citizen to vindicate publicly of 100,000 the freedom broken team and the same time a good year-olds at this season they for the reconstruction of Governors Island Fort Columbus, but originally named for John the press and personal liberty. will be and 103 acres have finally from driver, who in order to do his best old and sluggish before their time. J been reclaimed Jay, was during the Civil war heavy Nutten (Governors) was part bay. manned with Island made of the Further improvements were suggested, guns, although not even threatened. When Fort the city of New by Montgomery and in 1908 York the char- ex-Presicient Taft approved plans for Lafayette was too crowded with prisoners at that ter (1730) and an act of March 7, 1788, included a regimental but nothing Our experience with bind weeds is post, has been done period Castle William took charge of the over- It in the county. It was in 1755 it first ful- that ERADICATION that spring plowing and persistent use since then to carry them out. It was intended to flow at one a filled its destiny OF and time housed over thousand manifest as a military post. of the only serve make of the finest military post in prisoners. Among the cultivator to apread island the the noted prisoners who have From 1755 to 1773 there were several royal regi- the world. All the old buildings be razed, roots over greater areas. werq tQ been gonflned there was John Yates Heall, the ments of England living there. These were MORNING GLORIES Jay. Battery the The lowlands where the bind-wed Fort South and Castle William alone Confederate spy. Royal Americans, His Majesty’s Sixty-first Regi- flourishes are also suitable for alfalfa. remain. The first was to be the center of a Castle William was completed in 1811 and is ment of Foot under Lord Loudoun, and Ma- Cutting park a His Tops Does Little Good Wo find that between the cuttings of with castellated tower, its moat, draw- built on bed In one of departmental jesty’s Twenty-second Forty-fourth Regiments rock. and alfalfa the bind-weed has no opportu- bridge, fine old gateway and sallyport to reports it is described, as “a stone with Foot. of their and Plow Serves to Spread be unin- tower of Details life were found by the nity to seed, and in a few years terfered with. The barracks were to be of the fifty-two a 42 and 32 pounders maintained on two historian referred to in the private library of Col- plant can hardly latest model, with every appliance for the Roots. be found in an alfalfa comfort tiers under a bomb roof and a terrace intended onel Fitz-Clarence, Earl of Munster, who commit- fleid. and use to a full regiment of and house 1,200 to mount twenty-six 50-pound ted suicide (1842), English army rec- men. Magnificent parade columblads.” In and in the our farms we find four The bind-weed, when once establish- and athletic grounds, several reports is regiments are name On lowland other Castle William referred ords 1754-1842. These in ex- varieties of morning glories. ed in a field, is to stay or put libraries, piers for passengers and freight and to as an “example outgrown isting today, and The there of science.” the leader of the band who field morning glory resembles the cult- up a Btrenuous fight, and no half-way rows of commodious dwellings for the officers In the museum on tho is fa- played at garden Island Sheridan’s tho party of the Army Relief tivated kind, and unlike the bind-weed, methods will accomplish anything in 'Vere included in the plans. mous Winchester, who master society is a bore his in lineal descendant of one of the gows only so the only the way of getting rid of this pest. Following this a firm of architects presented an forty-seven from the seed, Rattles. officers. remedy is to prevent the seeding. When plowing or cultivating through even more elaborate design. This latest plan has place regular army chapel, Trinity In of a Cor- In 1766 the first fortification was built, in 1778 The field bind-weed Is a morning small spots of morning glory, it pays been approved by several prominent men and poration provided Chapel a “Strong was has the of St. Cornelius Castle” erected. General Putnam glory with small flowers and vine-like to clean the plow or cultivator *of all representative societies. the for use of the writing at time Centurion the post. It is a this to the president of congress stems that entwine closely about any- roots to prevent the spreading of the To the casual glance at present every house on charming granite, built speaks a very important post.” Gothic structure of near of it “as Wash- thing they reach. growth of new plants. Governors Island would bo bettered by aNew York The numerous roots send out plants The use of the disk harrows and paint. Hut complaints are rarely heard, notwith- Vickar, taught who ethics at Columbia college Gazette referred to the thousand Continental men from every eye. These roots being disk cultivators will help to prevent standing the dictum that an army officer who during the week on Sunday preached there; and in the stationed Lord Stirling considered it “bet- spread by the plow or cultivator, form the spread of this pest doesn't complain has something the matter with chapel he built and presented to the guarded any island him- ter than other post.” The brothers new plants, a short time the him. This military station is one of the postes self. Garlanding the are upright stayed until until in chancel several Howe there the evacuation of New corn field is completely luxe; get and one to posts connected a heavy covered. de It is hard to there has with chain and a bronze York. They start so early in the spring pry an incumbent away. So when the authori- explains they are cannons the CHECK ROW CORN tablet that used in the After battle of Long Island and the British that before the corn is largo enougn ties at Washington spell "economy’ out loud the several battles of war. victory, August 1776, "Liberty” the Mexican Over the 27. the boys came to cultivate the rows are so hidden officers at the post are obediently silent. choir, a double row battle hang. back under cover of the ESSENTIAL of tattered flags dnrkness and right under that they must be cleaned out with a PLANTER General Harry’s house, an old-time dwelling, is a mere One is cobweb and the light from the the noses of the victorious enemy secured muni- hoe before cultivation is begun. a three-minute walk from the landing, and direc- stained glass window a fringe of shows blood- tions and food. Another variety called hedge bind- tions to reach it are given by a trio of guard's threads splash If Seed Is Substantially red and a of blue where stars Tradition says that Governor Clinton loaned weed, pea vine, morning glory has sunning themselves under a large placard bear- were once woven. This once is the last flag pulled the island for a race course (1784-5). large funnel-shaped flowers and a Size Machine Will Drop Same ing the Inscription lx>iter.” this down in Cuba. peculiar a ferry was "Do Not With Another of interest is In 1794 established which took pas- more vine than the other va- * military in you cross one slender Number Qf obedience mind, the under which Major Reilly died and sengers at threepence a head. The one in ÜBe of Kernels. resplendent which rieties. the sward with another Bign saying was carried from Tien Tsin in the Boxer uprising now averages 30,000 passengers a month. Grass,” step some In the central states we find still (By WALTER LEUTZ.) "Keep Off the up cracked in China. That year congress appropriated $3,727.62 for B. steps through tender another of the prolific pests. This is all farms which blades of grass are Chaplain Smith is about to publish a on the island’s defenses. 1796 the were On where the fields are of springing book In works the wild sweet-potato or man-of-the- and turning a corner face the parade Governors Island, for with the exception of a dignified as forts, and about date Knox re- sufficient size the check row corn y ground this carth vine. Its roots resemble in shape planter on which many of the houses, including monograph or two and some scientific articles on ports “On Governors Island, one bastloned square, is almost a necessity. If the the cultivated sweet potato, but are General Harry’s, front. Like the majority, his is technical subjects, the place practically commanding two seed is substantially of the same size has been low batteries quite finished.” much longer and penetrate far below a two-story-and-a-half structure has an addi- by The to be Between 1806 more SIIO,OOO and shape the machine will drop pre- and overlooked chroniclers. book is 1794 and than was tho plowing depthß. tional wing or two to distinguish it. illustrated with several rare prints and engrav- expended on the works. cisely the same number of kernels to Cutting the topß does little good, and the hill. The architecture of these old houses is that of ings besides more modern work, and In 1798 the faculty and students If on the other hand, the the contains of Columbia cutting the roots only multiplies the grain from the late colonial period. The color is a saffron, data that have never been printed in this coun- repeating their patriotic work In Harlem, Ups and butts of the a tint, collie, number of vines, as all pieces of roots ears dulled to brownish the trimmings white try and represent years of the most untiring re- camf down to Governors Island pickaxes is included the number of kernel* and the green. with grow the same as the edible sweet po- in hill will vary blinds The latticed porch and bal- search on the part of tho author. and shovels to help erect one the considerable. breastworks when tato. ustrades recall the gingerbread work of the Situated near what Is considered today one of the French war scares fears The distance between the hills and aroused local and The plow only serves as a means of plants Dutch housewives preparing some special form of of the most valuable pieces of real estate prop- inspired the call for harbor defense. In 1880 It the number of to the hill will ornamented spreading transplanting the pieces vary moi*e or less cakes. erty In thq world. Governors Island was pur- was ceded by the State of New to and according to the va- Along York the of roots grow new* plants. riety that is planted Colonel's Row. as one of the residential chased (1637) by that shrewd States, In the military which Cov- and the climate old barater. Wouter United and 1821 Federal or injecting sulphuric streets 1b called, the names are printed In black Van Twiller, director general of New Nether- headquarters were transferred there. ering with salt of the locality in which the field is on ripe acid into roots are aB as letters the of the veranda steps. Prize lands, for some axe heads, a string of beads and the effective being planted. young 1 any remedy for the weed, which, babies and puppies freckle the parade a few nails from two Indians whose names, OCCUPATION. for- Under ordinary conditions I believe ground. profusion tunately, is not so as the oth- planting kernels There is no of flowers, but Cakapetejon and Pehlwas, would indicate a great- common in four to the hill here and there are pansy er varieties of the morning glory. and planting the beds kept trimly within er mentality than they seem to have possessed. “I haven't anything to do,” complained Cholly. hills about three frames. A great Hogs are very the roots, inches apart wooden snowball bush blooms Across Buttermilk channel, to origin, naming gets of just twirling his fond of foet six both ways. As riotously the “A fellah tired cane, are a great help in clearing up in front of General Barry’s door and the and history of which Chaplain Smith devotes two don’t you know.” and f. general fule -nothing is gained by perfume of honeysuckle is In chapters badly ground. Plowing planting the spring the air. Most of of his book, Sara, the first Christian “Of course," Algy. “Why you infested dur- field until the cold the gardening assented don’t ing July and August prevents rains k attention is devoted to the lawns child to be born in the Dutch colony, daughter of get a dog to lead, old chap?” the are over. None but good seed and park, general growing again in the same possesses a and the effect is that of clean- Jorls Janson de Rapalye, was taken In a tub at a plants from that strong germinaUng and discipline. season, and will make much less power be planted. liness. order very early age of her career and THE OF them should furnished the WORST IT. plentiful year. The Dutch name for the island was Nutting, only thrilling narrative of the place for some next Nottlng, Nutten or Nut. It was so called, Lambs also like the vineß wonder- Increases Purchasing ob- time. “So you went out motoring with that ill-tem- Power. viously, for the splendid trees, several years a Jaggers. fully well, and few will be left in the intelligence in buying dairy in- orchards of nut For it furnished convenient pered Did his temper explode?” feeds * but with the exception of the landing place for fall If they are turned on before the creases tho purchasing power of chestnuts—horse, the settlers’ cattle, and the first “Yes. but I wouldn’t have minded if hii the not adibta —there Is no trace at present of them. building was erected (1698) by Van Twiller, and tires hadn't, too ” bind weeds go to seed. dollar