THE PENALTY OF SUCCESS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3067, 12 January 1894, Page 6

THE PENALTY OF SUCCESS.

A writer in the 8t Louis Bepn^lic has been narrating his sdv^nturai in the Mning^ disi*io«i^ of Cherokee. This is one of his exT%ie»€es. He relates it at length. It takes hini a column for the relation : throughiaie district ot dranes FlaT he was introduced to 'itolian Jbe/'^he most wonderful shot in the district. Colonel Carver's and all Buffalo Bill's people were, nowhere compared with Italian Joey He niissed'nolii^he drew a bead on. At a hundred yards with a Colt's revolver he edged round a common cap-box with holes tbat might have been made by a machine, and finished the decorative work with a perforation in the "centr^. 5 Hawks on the wing, pennies, quarters, anything pitched up or Bailing in the Sue came down wiih neat penetratftms of Joe's rifle or revolver. A few months afterwards the reporter went Jbhat way again. On a tree outsits ihe settlement hung a skeleton, jhe vultures had picked it clean' and; the wind had bleached it. TJnlika the gibbeted Wrejch in * L'Homme^ JQui ftit'this and quiet in the sun. By its side upon tbe trunk of the tree that held it was written, ' He could shoot too d— — d well, and we hanged him,' ' f

- T^V following extract from ai English journal ibow^ bow profitable fowls may become to a villager who understands tbe> ina-and-outs of breeding and keeping poultry V-A balance, sheet just published shows that a Kentish Tillager realised nearly £1 a week throughout the year by poultry-keeping. He storted twelve months ago with a stock of forty birds, valued at £5 12s 6d, and the :^ n **b : --***'' He spW 337 chickens, 90 duckt, and 8.295 eggs, realiiine £65 Is* 2d, thus leaving himself witb 69 fowls and ducks. At the Kentucky Station, for flye years in succession, wherever potash •wm- one of the ingredients of the fertiliser used, whether on com, potatoes, or tobacco, there was an increased yield. Where phosphoric acid or oitrogen, or both, were used without potash, there was searcelr any increase in tbe yfcld qyer those plots receiving no fertiliaere. There was a profit in tbe use of fertilisers m every instance where potash was one of the^ ingredients; There, was a Joss by the use of commercial fertilisers, where potash was not on* of the ingredients, except in the tobacco experiments. Potash fertiliser, applied on maize fields, has thiftgi its effect for four seasons after the application. •Every description of letterpress printing is executed in fiwt-cla« gtyle at the office ofthis paper. Keep the money in the place by hariat your printing dons ne».-A*ir? ** ■