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FARMING IN THIS SECTION.
Prof Shaw Describes Two Farms in
Brown and Nicollet Oounty.
In the "Minneapolis Journal of a recent
date Piof Shaw of the State Farm School
wrote two articles on the farm ofM,
Mullen this county and H. Doty of
Nicollet The articles are given here
with
Generally speaking, to be successful
those who till the soil must reside on the
lands which they farm. Wejfind some
exceptions, including the subject of this
paper. Mullen, of New Ulm, presi
dent of the Citizens bank of that place,
has for some years pa3t been running a
farm in Stark township, about 31 miles
from Sleepy Eye The soil is a black
loam- There aie 60 acre*, of timbeied
land, Mr. Mullen commenced opera
tions on his farm in 1881 That same fall
he stocked it with cattle and also put in
some ciops He has »iown mixed crops
all along since 1882 He commenced
growing coin in 1883, and has so in
creased the glowing ot that ciop that he
DOW cultivates 100 to 130 acies every
year He gets from it some instances
fully 80 bushels of eais pei acie
The cattle he has used on skim milk
The cie mi from the milk is made into
buttei The beef immalo aie turned off
at the ige of 3 to 4 years They are finished
on pastille Corn is fed to tnem fiom
Februuy onwaid until they are sold,
which is usually in tl month of July
A lot turned off last season aveiaged
about 1,500 pounds The best paying
product used at the present time is
pork Of this commodity Mi Mullen
his vjld during lectnt years, of his own
raising fiom two to five cais a yeai In
1893 he realized from 4£ to 7 cents per
pound hve weight at St Puil, and in
Janu try of the picbent vc sold a car
loal it $5 30 per hundred pounds live
weight
la 1893 he sowed lye to thp extent of
3i bushels It was winter iye Along
With tht ije he sowed clovei He sowed
it in the ivtumn. It tailed to In though
the wintei ITc gun so ved clover on
the ive in the spun^, using heavy seea
mg He siu cee lul in getting a splendid
citcli ot clo\u and it should be men
tioned that the seed was hanowed with
a hanow with slmting teeth From
the ive thus sown he leaped 80 bushels
machine me isurc 1 his expenence with
lye and clovei is ce^tiinly viluable
Not ot either of these crops is
sown in that section of the country No
doubt but this yield ot rye is to be re
guded as much beyond the^aveiage. but
if the letuin leaped in this instance by
Mr Mullen, and could depend on getting
a i*ch of clo\ei when sown on the rye,
tht lesults in the aggiegate to that sec
tion wculd soon run up fai in the thous
anrls
If the umers in those loca ltics where
it is tih.cn loi glinted tint clovei could
not be grown would adopt is nstpm
they could doubtless succc wheie in
times past thej had tailed Wheie there
is a large amount of land to till, it will
pio\e a to sow some lye, as this
can be leaped befoie the o'her ciops a»-e
upe It is favoi ible to the growth of
the clovei, since it admits of sowing the
lotto in the season, and on a sui
licefumei than that sown to spnno
giain Wheie clovei can bcgiown. corn
cau ilso be giown successfully, and
•\\heie these two can be grown, there
luxd not be a doubt as to the adaptibih
t\ of the section foi mixed farming.
Mr "Mullen has changed much of the
wild pi ime, so that it now giows tame
gi isses This he has accomplished bj
vowing these grasses in the eaily spnng
and hanowing before the frost has
melted further than two oi three inches
fiom tht suiface of the soil In this way
tne native pasture has been greatly lm
pioved and is also able to sustain moie
stock than it could otheiwise sustain
under the oi mei conditions
Mr Mullen has found that the greater
degiee of attention he gives to the grow
ing of live stock and moie particularly
gi owing pork, that the better relat
ively are the returns -which he reaps
His farm, and more especially dunng
recent years, has paid a good peicentage
on his investment
Several of the farmers of Nicollet
county have been giving attention to
mixed husbandry for many years Be
cause of this they are now in a prosper
ous condition dunng these times of de
pression. Their lands remain product
ive, and they aie getting revenues from
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time to time of a character which the
wheat-growing faimers do not receive.
Prominent among these farmers the
name of J. H. Doty, of Courtland, may
be mentioned. He came from Tompkins
county, in the state of New York, and
settled in Nicollet county in 1857. He
has now 650 acres of farming land in one
block. Some of it is light in character,
and this should be born in mind when
estimating the results reeched by Mr.
Doty.
He has been engaged in mixed farm
ing for 15 years. During all this time
he has been raising grain and stock) but
has raised the gram chiefly with a view
to feeding it to the stock. He has both
raibtd and bought steers for feeding, has
found that those which he raises give
him far the best results, that is to say, in
the best quality of beef. The grain
raised for food includes oats and barley,
and to some extent rye. The calves have
been raised on their dams, while they
have more than paid the cost of rearing.
Mr. Doty is of the opinion that more
money would have been realized had he
been in a position to have reared them
on skim milk. Foi several years past
fiom 20 to 60 steers have been fattened
on this farm every year. They have
been maiketed in Chicago ana brought
fiom 3 to 4^- cents per pound live we^ht
Mi Doty has found out [that a good
spnnkhng of puie bloods has added 1
cent per pound live weight on an aver
age to the steeis which he has fed.
Mr. Doty has also given much atten
tion during lecent years to growing pork
He feeds fiom 200 to 250 porkers every
year Since the eia of high prices he has
got moie money fiom growing pork
He consideis it ^afcr, notwithstanding,
to keep on growing beef along with the
pork He is him in the conviction that
endunng succass fai ming is obtained
by cailying a line of live stock produc
tion thi orgh the ebb tide as well as over
the spung tide The chances are, in his
judgement that poik will come down,
while beef is moie likely to rise than to
fall
But Mr Doty's experience in growing
tame hay is in a °tnse unique He has
glownfiom 1^ to 2 tons of native hay
pei yrai on the same land for 12 years
in succession The hay is made up of
timothy and clover, and it giows on
light bluff land, sandy in texture, and in
some places giavelly ami even stony
When this land was first seeded it grew a
ciop of oats Of timothy seed six quarts
of seed were used pei acie and four quart
8
of clover seed This was a very heavy
seeding of timothv, more than would be
necessary on good strong land. Mr.
Doty ha« not pastured this land since it
was «own to glass He has 60 acress of
it and gets not lesstnan 100 tons of good
hay fiom it every year The clover has
failed a little in some spots only and
hei the land is gravelly. In the other
paits of the field, the clovei is as good
as the first
Mr. Dot) has undoubb dly hit upon a
great lead foi Minnesota conditu ns in
his mode of gi owing tame hay In doing
so he has hit upon an easy mode of sus
taining feitility in land The clovei
which grows fiom year to year brings
mtrogeli fiom the air to feed the timothy
As the field is pastured after it is mowed
sufhcient elover grows up and ripens to
leseed the held every yeai
With the wise managemeat of Mr
Doty it is almost superfluous to add that
he has made a good thing financially of
his fanning The feitility of the sur
loundingcountiy is greater than it was
long years ago His returns are constant,
and thought they fluctuate with the fluc
tuations in prices, the balance is invari
ably on the right side at the end of the
veai
The "Wheather.
Following is the report foi the month of
March, 1894 Monthly mean temperature,
36,7 degrees, Mean maximum tempera
tuie 45 3 degrees, Mean minimum tem
peratuie28 degrees, Highest tempeia
ture, 76 degrees, date 17th,Lowest tem
perature, 0 degiees, date 26th,lHonthly
range of temperature, 17 3 degrees,Great
est daily range of temperate, 38, date 29,
Least daily range of temperature, 2 de
giees, date 22, Total precipitation, 0.5
date 20th and 4th, Pi evading direction
of wind, Northwest, Number of clear
days 5, Number of partly cloudy days,
19, Number of cloudy days, 8, Number
of days having 01 of an inch or more of
precipitation, S, Dates frost, 2, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 11, 12, 2i, 24, 25, 26, 27,29, 29,30.
Dates thunc erstorms, March 4th.
f*
Andrew J. Eckstein,
Station, New Ulm. Voluntary Observer
HE WAS A STAR BOARDER.
But He is Now Boarding in the Jail at
Hew Ulm.
This week*s Redwood Reveille has the
following: A Btranger arrived at the
Commercial two week's ago to-day, and
registered as J. W. Simons of Minneapo
lis. He claimed to be a caterer, and
looking foi a 30b. After a stay of ten
days, Landlord VanWinkle grew some
what suspicious and on Wednesday en
deavored to get a settlement for his
board bill. Simons stated that he had
no money but said he could send to Matt
MeCarty,atGraniteFalls, who was a friend
of his, and would send him the* necessary
cash. Wednesday evening when Mr.Van
Winkle was very busy, Simmons went to
BainesBros.' livery and asked the Charges
for driving him to Morton. He pretend
ed surprise when informed that it
would cost him $1.50, stating that $3.00
was little enough to pay for the trip.
The bargain was made and Fred Barnes
drove his passenger to Morton, but up
on reaching theie said passenger started
into the hotel without offering pay for
the livery, and when reminded of the fact
only stated that he would return to Red
wjod to-morrow and settle the matter.
Fred at once leahzed that he was
"souped" and also suspicioned that he
had jumped his board bill, so upon his
retuin here notified Mr. Van Winkle of
the proceedings A warrant was at once
issued and Deputy Sheriff Barnes again
diove to Morton returning Thursday
morning with his passenger of the even
ing before. A hearing before Judge
French resulted in a sentence of fifteen
days in the Brown County jail, whither
the gentleman was taken Friday morn
ing.
This is only aiiOthel Case1 wheie the
need of a county jail is plainly illustrated.
Redwood County must pay for the board
and care of the prisoners while in the
New Ulm jail as well as the costs of
transpoitatiou We must have a jail.
Bill Nye on Hotel Bolls.
Guests at remote American hotels, con*
ducted oil the Youre-a-paym' plan, have
no doubt noticed, after a few weeks at
the bouse, a heavy feeling in the pit of
the stomadj. At first this is mistaken
for mental gloom, but this is an errone
ous diagnosis It is gastric gloom It
is induced by the great hand-to hand
conflict between the bomb-proof biscuit
of the hotel aud eternal justice.
Eternal justice comes out on top, per
haps, but she is in poor shape to tackle
the next one. These wads of gun-cotton,
plaster pans and alum are met with at
the hotel where the crape is nevei taken
off the door. Death and baking powder
biscuits are synonymous teims. The old
fashioned poet used to picture death in
the act of mowing down his millions
with a scythe and awrappy-jawed snath,
but now the bard could not be more vig
orous in his language than to say.
Death shied a hotel biscuit at him,
And be slept'
These macadamized lolls are made now
with a flap on the top, I notice similar
to the flap on an old feshioned pocket
book. The hunting-ca«e biscuitis found
to be supenoi to the old style, which
could opened with a nail The pies
ent hotel 10II—that is, the one we have
in o..r midst—is made of condemned
flour that has been retased the Indi
an reseivations and turned over to the
war depaitment This flour, with amal
gam filling and fire-proof works, makes
a 10II that will resist the action of acids
or the grand juiy.
One hotel man in a western state
showed me three sets of false teeth that
he had caught with the same biscuit in
six weeks while the legislature was in
session, He said that one man came out
of the dining room with a case knife
one hand and his mouth in the other
He seemed excited and tried to talk, but
could not make himself understood. He
paid his bill and went away. Pretty soon
a waiter brought in one of those lay fig
ures used on the bill of fare as rolls, and
in it they found a set of almost new
teeth.
4 notel man's life is not wholly desti
tute of joy and sunlight, after all, Ho•
tel rolls, when properly fired, make
fine appearance as an ornamental corner
on an iron fence. They have wonderfuly
powers of endurance also. People who
have died suddenly from eating the hotel
roll have, in several instances, been cre
mated. When the ashes were carefully
examined the roll was found to be
in1-
ii
TUfl
1 do not say that the right of way
through perdition is not paved with good
intentions, but I believe that many of
leading citizens will be disappoint
when they get there to find the hotel
on all tiie piincipal streets, placidly
esisting the wear and tear oi centuries,
wefl as the disastrous effects of the
not, malarious climate.
ed
roll
low.
If we could see the sad effects of the
in its ghastly career along the ali
entary canal, evading the cuspids, bi
cuspids and molars, insulting the sub
mixillary, sub-lingual and parntid-sali
vary glands^ wiping its overshoes on the
timid little epiglottis, toboganning down
the oesophagus and landing with a dull
and sickening thud against the walls of
the true stomach, we would hesitate
about tampering with it.
we could lay aside our work for an
hour or two and pass into the presence
of old Mr. Gastric, what would we see?
A man about medium height, with a sin
ister expression, a little soured by over
work and anxiety- He has just reduced
to a pulp a small wad of cake made by a
biide, and, entirely exhausted, he sinks
down near the storm door at tht foot of
the via oesophagus for rest, This is Old
Man Gastric, the man who never flinched
when pie and pantaloon buttons have
been bestowed upon him. But now, why
does he quail? Why does he shudder?
He is not paid extra foi shuddering!
roll
Hist'
It is the stealthy footfall of the baking
powder biscuit, with murder and alum
in ITS breast. With a snarl of rage, and
a low, malicious gurgle that makes every
little gastric follicle curl up and try
sneak away into the duodenum, he slaps
old SJr. Gastnc across the face and eyes
and the touinament begins
These stars represent *he appearance
of the firmament as viewed by Mr. Gas
tric. Two houis have passed. Down in
one Corner of his laboratoiy, with the
death,damp gathering on his brow, lies
the old man, who has met everything at
picnic 01 lunch counteis that the bioad
empire of Hasiidoni could furnish, and
yet never lowered his- arms. They are
folded, calmly now across his breast and
thewif.ry hands of the brave digester
All is quiet save the
Then all is still
are forever at lest
low njoau of the liver.
again.)
Neai the pyloric orifice stands the pride
of the! Metropolitan Biscuit Foundry.
He smiles ironically as tie sits down on
a cotton flannel cake to get his breath.
This rbll is the bane of out modern civ
ilization. It is carrying thousands down
1 to the disagreeable realms of death. It
is attractive appearance and when it
beauts' upon us with its* siren smile we
are apt to yield. But let up beware.
No man should put a hotel biscuit in his
mouth to steel away his brain. If I had
a soli who wanted to become a hotel man
and eat these death balls, I would say to
him, "(Buy a hotel if you wish, Henry
(provided his name happened to be Hen
ry) and run it and make money, but
have a home that you can go to foi your
meals. Do not eat your own biscuits."
I saw a negio a week ago, in a Chicago
museum, eating lamp chimneys and glass
paper weights. His health seemed pret
ty fair, and I asked him how he preserved
his longevity He said he did it by draw
ing the line at baking powder rolls
Bill N\e Boston Globe.
New Ulm, California.
The above is the heading to an article
which,thc Review received from San
Francisco on Sunday. The articfe is as
follows I daie say that he, who for the
first time lets his ee rest on the above
significanf line, starts with the thought
of a writer's carelessness or in wonder
at the birth of a town in the far west,
whose name is the same as that of the
beautiful Minnesota city, the history of
which has been so remarkable. But to
dispel uncertainly let me explain at the
ve-y start that the California settlement
or congregation existed, but is no more
that for a few fleet houis in the domain
of the metropolis of the Pacific, there
actually was built and disbanded a colo
ny so characteristic ot its western moth
er, that to name it would at once sug
gest its parent name, in short, former
citizens of New Ulm, all yet remembered
a by its present inhabitants, assembled to
gether under a friendly roof and cele
brated their meeting in a style which on
ly pure and unsej|ish4f,riendshipiwill al
low. ss£-
About the middle of March the writer
had the pleasure of meeting at his place
of business two ladies, who had left New
Ulm some years ago and found a new
WEDNESDAY, APBEL ll\ 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 846
he was teaching "How well Mr.Boesch
and bis wife look," and how many do
zen of different but similar exclamations
kept floating about it is impossible to
remember. There were first the hostess,
Mrs, Bardenhagen, then Miss Enrly Fay,
who still cherishes her sister's compani
onship and home, Mr. Geo. Fay, their
brother, ••the same old George," as the
boys say, Mr. and Mrs. Werner Boeseh,
who, while on their honeymoon, staid
here long enough to make us all like
them, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Schell and
daughters, Mrs. Emily Struckmann of
Oakland, Mrs. Criss, nee Struckmann,
Miss Mollie Struckmann, Mrs. Kunigun
de Peller and daughters, Mrs. Barbara
Ohme, Miss Emma and Herman Peller.
Miss Eva Manderfeld and Dr. Emil
Weschcke.
lo say that the meeting was as happy
as extraordinary is evident and nothing
was left undone the amiable hostess
and hei sister to secure comfort and joy
for all present. And to meet friends not
seen for years, to talk of old times, the
dear old place "back east," brought a
shy tear to more than one eye. Those
more advanced in years could note the
resamblance the younger members of the
party bore to their parents, the com
panions of their youth, and for a while
thej were canied back to the old days
of the Indian outbreak, to the grasshop
per times and to other interesting and
eventful periods in the town's histoiy.
They recalled the day of the old doctor's
mairiage, of the time when Mrs. S, left
for the sunny west, in short there was
no period of their history or the histoiy
of New Ulm that was not gone over and
dwelt upon.
To crown all, Miss Emily Fay, at a re
cent visit east, had secured a group of
views of New Ulm and you ought to
have seen the interest they excited "Why
there's Turner Hall," where the Misses
Fay had in jollier days so often and fav
orably appeared as Thespians, and where
in fact, much that was good and benp
ficial for the town had emanated. "And
here is the old New Ulm Post building
on Centre Street and there is Broadway,"
etc. Not once did the conversation lag
and before an hour was over, a feeling of
kinship was established which will in
the future, whenever the participants of
that joyous occasion meet again, cause
their handshaking to be a most eager
one. Matron Peller, in spite of advanc
ing years and health not as robust as it
might be, looked at the familiar faces
about her and remarked that it was in
deed a fortunate thing for herself that
she had come ov^r from Oakland on a
night ferry, for, homesick as she was af
ter the place where her hildren were
born and where her friends still lived*
the feast of that evening brought to her
a ray of sunshine that will pervade her
life for many days to come.
Not to forget the inner man, the host
ess had set a bounteous table for all, and
German appetites paid homage to Ger,
as regards amity and union.
home here, Mrs. Bardenhagen, nee The
resa Fay, and Miss Emilj Fay, her sis-'
ter. A cordial invitation to meet at
their residence a number of old friends
was accepted, and on Friday evening the
spacious parlor on Dolores Street was
crowded with as good-natured a compa- D. White. John T.Morgan,James L.Pugh„'
ny as it will hardly be my lot to meet for they are villains and traitors to the
again. "Why we used to go to school Democratic party, in the opinion of Col.
together "Do you remember oldL.when Charles U. Foote and Lieut. P. J. Smal"^
The Wail of the Lost.
man viands. Do you know what that blundering stupidity and cowardice of
means? There were no sour, shrunken the Democratic congress and the utter
faces around that board, I assure you, no helplessness of a platitudinous Democra
dyspepsia or colic, and hearty laughter tic president may have caused a great
and jest passed with tne courses and just many Democrats to stay at home on elec/
as often too. All were young in hear* lion day, but it was a yearning for free
ade that Caused hundreds of thousands
of others to vote squarely for a return
and none latlghted heartier and felt bet
ter at the mirth around him than Mr.
Bardenhagen, whe spared enough of his to the policy of protection.
time to look in and greet his wife's
friends and guests.
Then at last departure came. The grip
given in farewell was an earnest one,and
long will that day be remembered.When
any community is governed by such laws
and costumes as will make its citizens,
after years of absence, during which im
portant changes have been wrought in
their habits and conditions, greet each
other as one of the same family writh love
for the old home, we have every reason
to respect that community as an honor
able one, its laws as wholesome, its lead
ers as men of trust and virtue. So in
deed was New Ulm when the participants
at that sociable left it, and let us hope
that the Uew Ulm of to-dayis the same
ws
For Croup, Whooping Cough and Cold
of children, Cubeb Cough Core is inval
uable. For sale by druggist* in 25 and
50 cent bottles. SpldbjAndrew J.JBcfc
Carry the news to David B. Hill, Ed
ward Murphy Jr., Calvin S. Brice, John 1
R. M'Pherson. James Smith, Jr., Arthur 4%3f
P. Gorman, Charles H. Gibscn, Johnson 1&
N. Camden, Donelson Caffrey, Edward
ley. But break the tidings gently, for
they are sensitive creatures and the shocK
might kill them. In the name of the
Democratic Association of Minnesota,
Messrs. Foote and Smalley have hurled
a eolumn and a half of rebuke at the de
fenseless heads of the Democratic sena
tors above enumerated, holding them per
sonally responsible for the admitted
death and dissolution of the Democratic
party. As a jeremiad and a tirade com
bined, the essay is worth reading, but as
an explanation of the disruption, disgust
and decay of the Democracy,it is a trifle
faulty. And it is clearly unfair in at
tributing the woes of the party to the
senators named, even admitting that said
ways are the fruits of the Democracy's
failure to carry out its platform promises
of free trade. The Wilson bill, as it
came from the house, was highly protec
tive. As Col. Foote says:
••Our first disappointment was in the
departure from the declared policy of
the party in the undue and needless mea
sure of protection granted by the house
bill."
Then why not brand a few members of
the house as traitors and Benedict Arn
olds/ Can it be possible that there is a
bid for pie in this attack upon Clevc
lands enemies in the senate? Nay, nay,
let us believe that it was an oversight on
Col. Foote's part, or that the intelligent
compositor accidentally omitted his list
of house traitors.
Summed up in a few words, the Foote
manifesto charges Democratic defeat and
demoralization to the failure of the De
mocratic congress to pass a free trade or
low tariff bill. Unfortunately for CdL
Foote's theory,the Republican tidal wave
began when there was reason to believe
that the Democracy would fulfill its
threat. Ohio, after having escaped go
ing Democratic by abate plurality of
1,000 in the presidential election, and
even then giving Cleveland one elector
went Republicon by over 80,000 lastfall
and the issue was prote tion—and Mc
Kmleyism at that—versus free trade4
Pennsylvania's Republican plurality of
135,000 was rolled up on the same issue
and its subsequent majority of 187,000
for Galusha A Grow, Republican nomi
nee for congress was another emphatic
protection utterance—emphatic because
of the enormous gam lepresented by the
figures. The same may be said of the
state of Massachusetts, which had been
electing a Democrat to the gubernatorial
chair tor a long time. In every election
since the people placed the Democracy
in power the Republicans have made the
square issue of protection, often against
the frantic efforts of the Democracy to
make local issues predominate, and in
every one—state, county,city and village
all over the North, the story has been
the same— overwhelming Republican
victories or enormous Republican gains.
Bosh! Col. Foote. The people are not
voting protection because they want a
tariff for revenue only, or free trade.The
For two reasons at least this jeremiad"
of Col. Foote's will be pleasant reading
for Republicans. It is an advance con
fession of inevitable defeat in the state
and congressional elections and it com
mits the Democratic party of Minnesota
—if the DemocraticAssociation can com-
mit the party to anything—to a free 1
trade platform in the coming campaign. ^1
The Republicans of Minnesota will wel- *j$
come the issue for it is the one upon *g%
which their magnificent victories of the
last five months have all been won. As
true next November, and in November,
1896, as it is now, will be CoL Foote's
mournful plaint that "after winning the
most complete victory any party ever
won, while yet in full possession of the
powers then given us we present Hie ap
pearance of a defeated party, while our
opponents, routed in that battle, wear all
the airs of victory."—Minneapolis Tri-
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