The DeSmet leader., February 24, 1883, Image 4

About The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891

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filler skating rink
Millbank hat a public library of 400
volume*.
Parker is Agitating a $5,000 school
hoHA6. nr' ' 1f ?
Kingwbury county claims a popula
tion oif7,9ti& J ' ,■**•,
Brooking*i*rtrying to arrange for
a lionring mill.
The Merchant* hotel itl Chimlsu
lain is twitig enlarged. *
Miner county’s f*u>uliififXi January
Ist wan 5,975.
The Methodists of southern l>»ko
ta linvj thirty three eliurches. , # *v *
The Brookings. bfoom factory in
doing a flourishing fc«hae§a.
Ice in the Missouri river in 36indies
thick atSpriugtieid.
The sheriff - of Ouster comity re
reived $13,000 fur his service in 1872.
Miner county Into thirty organized
Sunday schools.
Huron is to huv2> a s6,<mm) M. E.
church.
Spenrtihh has over one hundred
scholars enrolled in her public
school*.
l>e Smoi. Kingsbury comity, offers
a good opening for a first-class jew
eler.
A child has boon born übar Sioux
Falls which has 12 toes and 12 lin
gers. j , {
Pembina * has bne of the finest
school buildings in Northern Dakota.
All the fifiMake* of Central Dsko
tn abound in fish.
Temperance meeting* are numer
ous all over the territory.
C FOLxkit tifthe Hatfllin county
Times/MTO&rried fo 6 J MT*h Swift, of
Castlewood. . ,
Titus Casts of Park**-/manufactur
ed over 8,000 gallous of amber cane
syrup tfcf past season*. > b •
The board of trade
have voted SB,OOO toward advertising
that city in the east.
Timber growers iu Northern Dako
ta have good success With the wil
lows.
The Turner county board of com
missioners refuse to grant any liquor,
license.
Elmira, N. Y., is expecting to send
a colony of 100 families to Dakota.
John H. Rowe, of Chamberlain,
raised fifty gallons of sorghum j>er
acre on sou.
The territorial uorrual school at
Springfield has an attendance of 30,
The ha loons at BismaMk are now
obliged to close at twelve o’clock
every night and to kety jj,i>*od on
Sunday.* „. ?
It ia claimed that a six foot vein of
good coal 1 has been found near the
Yo]low*Bankft in Deuel county.
E. W. Caldwell editor of the Daily
Brow, has been appointed postmaster
at Sioux Falls, vice Fleetwood.
Seventy live; famines from lied
Oak, lowrt, will settle iu Hand Co.
in the spring.
Canton’* glam 1 total improvements
for 1882 loots up to seventy-nine
thousand four hundred dollars.
Milwaukee, Miner county, claims
that it will have the biggest boom in
the business next spring.
Fifty thousand circulars descrip
tiveof Haha county hfcve been iussed
for distribution in the States.
Parties who havo investigated the
matter declare that there is plenty of
soft coal within thirty feet of the sur
face in fJntOu county.
Mitchell is to have a third weekly
paper to be called the Mitchell Mail
and to be issued at once by Messrs.
Stock well and Sfiertvin, two practical
newspaper men.
Messrs. McCarlv, Lamb and Phil
lips arejmecessfui contestants of the
seats held in the Territorial legisla
ture by Mefers. Donaldson. Hauser
and Schaefer.
''if* • . * • >
The prisoners of the Sioux Falls
penitentiary are now given an oppor
tunity to engage in worship. The
pastors of all the churches conduct
the services on Sunday afternoons.
The Pram & Dakotaian says there
is a decided disposition among the
members of the legislature to effect
a modification of the exemption law.
A company at Sioux Falls is organ
izing a scheme fora summer watering
place for the people of that city es
pecially, at Lake Okobofi. • .
Eight hundred stamps are kept
busy all the year in the Hills turning
out the golden wealth, while numer
ous smelters produce large quanti
ties of silver bullion * *
The Rapid City Journal is inform
ed that a numfetp of .gentlemen of
Rapid City anavicinity have organ
ized or are about to organize a com-
B&tiffsztfttßS
from there.
The Parker Era says; If one-half
the immigration oomes to southeast
enx Dakota that is promised by let
ters received by our real estate deal
er*, we wiJLhaye a greater boom ip
the spring thai any part of our Ter
ritory haslet bad. *
The tempers ripe people of turner
county held a meeting at Parker re
cently and resolved to sustain the
county oqfnmiptioners in ,their refus
al to grant higher Keense.
Rev. W. S. Person, general mis
aionary of thw Presbyterian Church
for southern Dakota, tells the Sioux
Falls Preaa that a /raktyterian
church will be established there a*
noon as a suitable pastor can lie *e-
The Sioux Valley News tells of a
peculiar well in that vicinity that is a
genuine curiosity- It ia twenty inch
bored well, one hundred feet deep
and the peculiarity about it is, that
whenever the wind blows from the
south two daytia suooeeeion. a strong j
* vi «...
with a
with a roaring sound like a cataract.
*« it is ono hundred miles from Col* I
unibin, Brown county, to Jamestown
via Jim river steamers. Between
Columbia find La Mour, a distance of
sixtv-frte miles’ the rivor is one hftn
dred and fifty feet wide at low water
and from four to ten feet deep. Two
steam tugs will tow barges loaded
with grain from Columbia and inter
mediate points to La Mour this sea
son* At L« Mour the grain will find
a railroad outlet.
Marion Sentinel (Turner county):
The Temperance League has raised
a large sum of money to light the
liquor license, and the salobnKeepers
have employed Bartlett Tripp, of
Yanktou, to plead their side and have
raised the necessary funds to metd
the League in conrt. This seems to
l>e the better wav to settle the matter
as this will be a t»**t case, ami whnt
ever way if is divided, there "it will
rest.
The artesian well bad, on \Wdms
day night reached a depth of 335 fi*«*t
the last foot being in a very hard
rock, and had consumed tlio entire
day in drilling it. The tubing, and
even the water that is ford'd out by
the action of the drill, are highly
charged with magnetism so much
so that a knife blade rubbed upon the
tubing or dipped into tin* water, in
stantly becomes a permanent magnet.
Will some of our local savants tell
the cause of this phenomenon.
Pkmh iuQtvti Star.
SHOULDItE ADMITTED.
4 »M at Ualuit«*i Claim* to Mali lumhl.
No State in the Union, when ad
mitted, had as large a population as
Dakota bus now, with the exception
of Maine and West Virginia, and they
had never boeu territories themselves
but iirior to admission had b«*‘n parts
of other State*.
Vermont, when admitted, had 85,
425 people; Kentucky hud ti 1 ,247 ;
Tennessee, 60,000; Ohio, 46,900; Louis
iana, 41,000; Indiana, 68,000; Ala
bama, 45,000; Illinois, 34,000; Mis
souri, 50,000; Arkansas, 33, (XM); Mich
igan, 71, (KX); Florida, 81,000; Texas.
I<X),000 ; lowa, 78,919 ; Wisconsin,
123,000; California, 92,807; Minueso
ta, £7,001) j, Oregon, 52,000; Kansas,
It/IJDOO;>Hevada, 40,000; and Colora
do. 97,000;;
It is o#ly necessary, under the
present apportionment act, that a
State should have at least a inipula
tion of 134,000.
Dakota stands at the door with 200,
000 people*—a greater population than
either of the three States of Color-
uiio people— a greater population than
either of the three States of Color
ado, Delaware and Oregon had at the
last census.
Thero were 490 post-offices in the
proposed State of Dakota on Dec. 1,
1882, of which forty-eight are money
order offices. JThe postal receipts for
ihe-year ending June 80, 1882, were
$l(>f,000. For the same period there
were two States that yielded a smaller
revanuo -Delaware with s96,tX*) and
Nevada $84,000.
Seven States have each a less num
ber of post offices than Dakota. The
State oi Delaware has hnt 115; Ne
vada but 123; Rhode Island, 116; Ore
fon, 871; Florida, 371; Connecticut,
SI, mml Hnrnpnliiri, t*>7.
Dakota, with 500 post offices to day
will havjooo a year hence.
,Only two States in the Union and
those two are lowa and Nebraska,
inclined to ‘‘stalwartism" themselves
can boll at of less persons, in pro
portion to population, who cannot
read or write, Dakota being given the
third place on this roll of honor, or
the reverse, by census bulletin No.
303. The percentage of those who
cannot is 2.4 in Nebraska, 2.5 in lowa,
and 3.1 in Dakota.
In 1880 the people of Dakota wrote
29 letters for each inhabitant, the
people of lowa 22 letters a piece, and
the people of Ohio 23, the list con
tinning on down below Indiana, with
au average of but 18 letters Only
two State's, New York and Colorado,
IcciDakota in letter writing that year,
and it is doubtful whether they have
maintained their prestige since.
The high average intelligence of
the peoplo of Dakota is easily ex
plained. They who are the Dakota
mns of to day, have liecn largely
drawn from th*» progressive popula
tions of Wisconsin, lowa, lllinsi*.
Michigan, Ohio and Now York, their
number including, besides, a liberal
sprinkling from a dozen other States.
The percent, of foreign born popu
lation Dakota is less probably, than
in any other State in- Territory.
What foreigners have come to Dakota
huvalieen brought there principally
by the Northern Pacific railroad, and
upon the division of the Territory
but few of them will be iu Dakota at
all, having settled along the line of
that great thoroughfare, in Northern
Dakota.
A reasonable estimate places the
number of foreigners resident in Da
kota proper at less than 5 j>er cent
of the population,and the 95 per cent
American born is strongly tinctured
with the best blood we have in our
veins.
Y’our Y.inkee, au imigrant from
the pent-up Utica of his Puritau an
cestrv and associations, and an iin
migrant to the practical Utopia—in
the sense of an embodiment of the
fundamental principle of a community
of wealth, as applied to the real in
life and ojmortimty—which lie is apt,
if of the njfhft stamp himself, to con
ceive the wfchfc boundless west to bo,
furbishes tie stock which is vet to
producejth* higbfaft, manliest type of
American citizenship. They who are
building Dakota are mostly of eastern
parentage, If not birth, who lravo
eome west generally by s state or two
*nt a time, though many of them art'
from New Y’orlc and New Englaud
direct
A wry large proportion of the
present population of Jhikotu i* corn
posed of men, ahd men whose aver
A&ro oge is uader 30 years. It i* a
“xoung Man’s Uountry,*’ and the
stalwart voting men of the stalwart
State will need, and will have. *en*i
ble, stalwart hearted young woman
for wives and helpmates.
Dakota’s finances are in an ex
cellent condition. The total receipts
for the Dost two years were $313,000,
and disbursements f 170,000, leaving
a balance in the Territorial treasury
of $43,000.
The debt of the entire Territory is
only $90,000, in twenty-year C per
cent, bonds, issued tat pi
whenever sold) to pay f*r tlu avt * 1
Penitentiary and Ausain* AA, them
both located within the prop J* hCJ
State. There i* w> floating indeb 1
in'isH. With the exception of Ya 1 * 14 . 1 '
ton and Lawrence counties, the envj ,n !
debt. Territorial, village and tow> ari
ship, of the proposed State of Daki‘ rh ’
tn, is ie-v than S 4 per capita, which i. t]
less than the debt of any state of th*f l
Union, unless it be on** of the south ;
ern States, where to escape re eon :
structive evils or errors, ropudiution
has been tin* dernier resort. Includ
these two counties, Dakota s total
debt per capita amounts to less than
$lO.
1 Yankton county incurred its debt
by granting what seems to have been
unnecessary aid to a railroad com
pany and Lawreuc<» county was
thrown into debt by the unavoidable
ex|H'lise* incident to the influx of a
' largo mining population before the
i necessary revenue could be raided l>y
taxation.
| Both counties are abundantly able
to take care of their own indebtedness,
. and it is simply making a mountain
! out of a mole-hill to place the Yank
I ton county bond matter ns an obsta
: cle in the path of the Territory which
has ls*en < ligible for more than a
year | »it*>t t<> enter the l nion of
' States.
Let it he perfectly understood by
the people and voters of this country
; that Yankton county is ablo and
willing to pay its ilebt of $200,000,
and that it is now arranging and ad
justment of that debt, on the basis of
dollar for dollar, in bonds bearing a
proper rate of interest, which is satis
factory to all really concerned, at
1 least, if not to certain members of
j congress, who would make Y’ankton
county a scape g'*at for the failure of
1 Dakota to secure admission. It be
hooves every Republican senator and
representative to bo on guar l in this
matter, and not to be deceived into
‘ falling into a pit, info which they
I have it in their power to down the
| Democracy that dares to keep Dakota
a State in all but name, yet, with
out that, lacking the sovereignty it
seeks longer out of the Union.
Webster’s Failing.
The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler en
deavors in the Evangelist, to remove
all doubt that Daniel Webster was
an intemperate drinker. He says it
might as well be denied that Hamil
ton was not killed in a duel as that
“the great orator of Bunker Hill was
painfully addicted, during the last
dozen years of his life, to ardent spir
its, and on public occasion* was visi
bly inebriated.” A Presbyterian eld
er has lately told Mr. Cuyler that ho
once saw Mr. Webster entirely help
less after a public dinner, and ho
himself remembers seeing him on
board a Sound steamer in a pitiable
condition. He bad drunk at the bar
of the lnmt until he was intoxicated.
Air. Cuyler H|**aks of him as “an ox
ample and a warning to young men
not to assassinate their brains with
the Ixjttle/’
Sever (ilve up.
If you are suffering with h»w and
depressed spirits, loss of appetite,
weak constituti >n. headache, or any
disease of a bilious nature, by all
means procure a bottle of Electric
Hitters. You will be surprised to see
the rapid improvement that will fol
low; you will be inspired with new
life;strength and activity will return;
pain and misery will cease, and
lieuceforth you will rejoice in the
praise of Electric Bifcers. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by Blount *V Hood.
Clickh*u'* Ariihu Salic.
The best salve in the world f<»r
cuts, bruises; sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sore*, tetter, chapped
hand*, chilblains, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles.
Is is guaranteed to give perb*et sat
infection, or money refunded Price
25 cents per box.
For safe by Blount A Hood. 22
Snatched from the brim*.
Air*. Helen Pharviz, No. 331 Day
ton St, Chicago, 111, is now in her
sixty-eighth year, and state* that she
has. an tiered, with consumption for
about ten years, was treated by nine
physicians, all of them pronouncing
her case hopeless. She had given up
all tuqws of ever recovering. Seven
bottles of l>r. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption completely cured
her. Doubting ones, please drop ber
u lxwtal and satisfy yourselves.*
Trial bottles free. Large size SI.OO.
Trade supplied by Blount A Hood,
Huron, l). T. p
V> ION A MAN’S OPINION.
1 rrr lluincs .mil lln%«- to Vtlirr Thmi.
The following letter is from Dr. J.
W. Smith, a physician of high stand
ing, to the Frauklin (N. Y.) Register,
as a means of conveying reliable in
formation to hi* old home friends,
concerning Dakota:
Editor Register: - As a Franklin
man I am deposed to say something
upon the subject named, believing it
one that deeply interests a large class
of people east as well as west. My
exi>erience and observation may help
Home to better understand the ques
tion.
It is nearly 26 years since I left my
native town, coming to northeastern
lowa, then quite uew, and 150 miles
from a railroad and 80 mile* west of
the Mississippi. That was some like
the early settlers in Delaware county,
who caiue KX) to 200 miles, often with
oxeu. through forests, over rough
roads. Within 25 miles there whs
government land, to the w«**t. ’The !
best land couM be Knight, in 1557,
for from $1.25 to $lO per acre. Im- :
proved land a little more. Now tin
improved land would bring from sls
to 830 per acre; improved farms con
siderable more, according to location,
condition, etc. In New Y'ork the
price of land is still higher. At these
rnti** what is the prospect for a hard
working. poor young man, ever to
own a farm* Very few will even
attempt it. They must in future be
oonteut to be employees or tenants.
Let all poor men and women, too.
remember that “Uncle Sam” still has
free homes of the beat quality for
farming, and easily accessible, that,
to be had simply by occupying
i! 'The nearest government land
wv in Michigan and Wisconsin,
not so desirable ns to be found
easily and cheaply reached in *
uesota, Dakota and Nebraska
ing the past year I have made
onal observation* in those places, j
liis time the tide of emigration
ost strongly toward Dakota, and
jood reason*.
: iere are three ways of acquiring
"nmevit land; none can be bought ;
ft sight for money. Pre cmp
„ the most common method, and 1
u quarter section ’
nK *e*—of surveyed land for six
! a p t when proof of that fact.
{ land is in market, can be
tairt* a 01 be ob
oi $2( W in ß J ,or “ 1
l euu nfarm. Any family, sin :
; J? an ,j () woman 21 years of age !
1 end ofV l »s obtained fri*e at the [
occupation and im ;
pwl- Tlx* i»“-' '<f-;
: Out* 1 i'i‘P * ,iaJ ! ■ . . ~
; tl„. t" only .« obtiunulJe
wwl. twctioi*-"f O
1 <>f each f!4H t? n, V or H*' l ac-rw (..it
iiiß tli«b<- an- Ah jMirtH** oMnin
i until.- limit c<-,i'.ir.-d toiltvj up
„r Tmitorv, >" «'■««»‘ ,le
iiftnr. T.-u aci“f e '““f 1 ' !'
vhlih] with forJy n “ ,HI , l »
sen,ls planted so"™- f°S
I vnnrs not leshtl<, ,ll "f ndof 8
inn upon i>nch act? s , lll lP t' rr ' nv
i Cheap homes oa. 1 ' 1 '. ,l a< lt,s
--i readily*obtained Hoetalway.be
i Those hnvinjr some'.' sisttonsr
j for such purchase to p o
I free land, and the ,O.rthor for
est pioneer work is d6 ,n “? lJrt
! the land considerably "ft.-n
A large number of
ih'serted wives aud withr "! >in / >n ,’
| take preemption claims. t ,( ‘ ’]'■ ‘ M *
! boarti shnntv, occupy it nf ( ’ J
i . * 7 , 1 1. Kir less,
• m summer, and after si. ,
‘‘prove up,” a* it is called* >II . H
160 acres, to occupy, rent, o ''' 1
j sent to some a iceptnide man l '! 11 '
i future. The class doing this, 1
| ally of the higher and bettor
ed women. Frequently tlioj 1
“marketed” before the time iT ( ‘
but they have to delay marring 1 '
obtain the land.
It is not all of those who can 1
themselves by a free or cheap fa
that will remain upon the land.
chanies, teachers, professional am
business men, etc., will naturally seek
the neighboring thrifty village and
city as their talents are in demand.
A “proved up” or owned 160 acres,
obtainable in about six months, will
naturally sell for from $3 to $lO per
acre.
Health considerations are not to be
lost sight of. A season of Pioneer
life, or “roughing it” is often a great
advantage to health.
Water in Dakota is unusually good
I and readily obtainable. There is no
j better climate. It is prett> cold iu
! winter, but so drv that cold is not felt
1 as in damp localities.
| The soil is good, some stone in
places, and valuable for building.
The surface is variable, from level to
rolling, and bluffy or hilly, in some
places. Streams are not as common
a* in New York or lowa, and of tim
i»»*i iiieit* i*» *s*Miveiy any. c oai is
chiefly used as fuel. This is readily
obtained by rail as is wood from
Minnesota, each at. fair prices. Some
have burned hay. which is abundant,
and like it much.
Railroads are usually Imilt in ad
vaneo of settlement, so that goods
and supplies of all needed articles
arc readily obtainable, at fair prices.
«ame as in lowa.
Tin* most desirable land is first c e
leoted. This partly reward* the
early pioneer for his extra trials.
Who should emigiate to a new
and remote section ! The affirmative
has already been indicated; but as a
rule those past middle age. and are
comfortably situated in the older
States, had better remain where they
ore.
Dakota will soon be devided the
south part admitted us a State; and I
think from its location, soil, climate,
and the class of its present people
equal to lowa. Ido not say better,
that would l»e saying too much. The
man or woman who aims at inde
jiendence can realize it pretty certain
ly by seeking a free or cheap home in
Dakota. >l. \\. Smith.
Dakota Statistic*.
General Immigration Ageut Pow
ell of the Chicago, Milwaukee \ Sr.
Paul road has recently compiled for
line hv the passenger department
some interesting statistics relative to
the population, acreage under culti
vation, amount of grain raised, etc.,
of the twenty three counties adjacent
to the lines of the St. Paul road in
Dakota. The counties are Aurora,
Don Homme, Brown, Brule, Buffalo
Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Day,
Douglass, Grant, Hanson, Hutch in
son. Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Spink.
Miner. Minnehaha. Moody, Turner,
Union, Yankton. These statistics
show that in the counties named,
there were, during the last season
810,0*85 acres under cultivation from
which was raised 7.100,010 bushels of
wheat, an average yield of 28] hush
els to the acre. Hanson County leads
all the others on average yield, its
average being 81 \ bushels to the acre.
Of oats there was raised a total imm
her of 8,057,520 bushels, an average
yield of 50] bushels per acre. Min
nehahn county leads in outs, its aver
age yield per aero being 05 bushels.
The average yield of rye per acre was
18] bushels; of barley. 88 4 bushels;
of tlax. 15] bushels. Spink county
lends in rye, its average yield being
45 bushels per acre. It also leads in
barley, 44 bushels per ucr. being the
average yield. In tlax, Aurora
and Hutchinson counties lead, their
average yield Wing 18 bushels per
acre each. The statistics show
further that on Jan. 1, 18 s *l the popu
lation of these twenty three counties
was 87,386, and by ()oct. 1, 18*2 it
bad increased to 81,2tM>. Of ihe en
tir«* population. titt.o4s were from tic*
different States of the Union and 17,
845 were from Canada nud Uutope. -
Pi nicer Cmj.
Bccsy of (’atholie Nation*.
I admit that Catholic nations are
decaying. The sixteenth century
was an age of protest. The seven •
teenth century was one of doubt.
■ ■■■ -vr 1,1 "" "" ’ p
The eighteenth century whs one of
denial; and in the nineteenth century
God is #sti‘<iciiW‘d. »*s, thoM* nu
tions nre denying: and they deserve
to decay I urn a true Catholic, i
would die this moment for my relig
ion, for u religion that is not worth
dying for is not worth living up to.
But still I say these nations deserve
to decay. I have traveled through :
Europe, ami I saw more true religion •
in Queenstown in six weeks than 1
saw on the continent in as many
months. When Catholic nations fall ;
they fall far.- Father Kt/au.
Death of a Hero.
Charles T. Yumunt., who was killed |
on the Pennsylvania railroad the
other evening, was the hero of one of
the most gallant episodes of the war. 1
He boro the colors of his regiment at
Ball’s Bluff, anti when, during a des- I
iterate charge, his colonel wns shot, j
he bore him from the field, and then j
returned, amid a hail of bullets, to 1
rescue the ling. Five times was it '
Captured by the rebels, and regained i
by N ansaut in a hand-to-hand strug i
glo. At last he broke away with the j
llag and readied the river. His one- j
mies were at his very heels, lmt he '
plunged into the water, dived to the
bottom, placed the flag there under a !
stone, and then swam to the other
shore and escaped. Afterward he re
visited the s|H>t, and succeeded in
finding and restoring to the regiment
the tlag lie had so nobly defended.
Hew (iotihl Hoes Ills Work.
Oliver Ames asked *lav Gould a few
! days agd how* with such apparently
frail health lie could manage su-fb a
world of business as his vast posses
sions represent. Mr. Gould faintly
! smiled and replied; “Is it difficult
! for you to manufacture shovels ! I)o
you worry about each shovel .and
ouch man’s work
“Oil, no,” said Mr. Ames: “I have
j got that so {organized that the Jnisi
ess runs itself. It doesn’t give me
any trouble.
“Exactly,” said Mr. Gould. “It
1 gives me no more trouble to handle
i my business than it does you to han
1 die yours. I have organized the
whole machinery so that I got results
before me every day of what is being
i! done and the whole thing is very
r simple when it comes into my hands.”
if
The Montreal Ice-Palace.
The winter carnival has begun in j
Sntreal. The ice palace, which has
• received the linishing stroke, ;
'be one of the most unique fen
tT of the many novel sights. It j
• >os a site in Dominion square, j
111 very heart of the city, on a i
1 Ruling eminence, and will be j
'L llo .fring point for the pastimes:
f,,r . r *yeek. This building is ex •
pected oivo interesting problems '
i -earing strength of blocks,
i 10,1 ,a heir compressibility under j
H { r,,n f fsuro. The extent of the
struct in e ;i j KlUt t , no hundred feet
„„,r. liftoon fort I'licl)
wav aiul \.. high at each
' i U I? ! A< * nection between the
laticr being a q s twenty live feet
I high. loin t .,, u j v . r () f t) u . build
mg has risen r - oVOr onH him
• i'ul.r' thirty-two feet
h [l ui , u ‘,. ril ‘ 1 -k* or ice used in
I biulumg \v.i nul m th<> st Lnw
i n»ncc and are as %ar ft!H cry-to l. In
.size they £ or ty inches in
; length, twenty me,- u breadth, and
I from fourteen to .jjjy inches in
j depth. I hey welVq et | on pad)
j other by means of , irrit . ks W ater
being thrown unon „ m from the
city mains, which insLj
under the luiluence 0f.,, i m .7
| ix raturo. leaving «.*<„"
| ontly as strong and dn M(> , w lllur .
bio. It is oven more lx t ;r n i
j the latter under the y >ril
i liancy of the noonday sun
I'AK.Yf NOTES.
One hundred pounds of l)i vrni ju.
lias as much nutritive value a twon
ty pounds of corn for pigs. it i
is much hotter adapted to the ;
of small pigs.
Almost any good soil will pru ict , :
potatoes abundantly, but the , h t
adapted is a rich sandy loam. o. H
rich clay loam, with a good sprin M '
of sand in it.
A successful man with poullr
says that fowls need hay as a substi
tute for green grass, and adds thui
they will eat large quantities of il
every day in winter when it is placin'
before them.
Poultry which is to be kept in colt
weather should be thoroughly deans
ed, then wiped dry with a doth ami
have flour rubbed all over the innei
part; then it should be hung in a cool
dry place.
A new way of blanching celery h
to use a five inch drain tile a foot oi
so long, over each plant, draw ing it
up as the plant grow's so that the
leaves are always just out of the top,
thus excluding wet and insects, and,
it is said, securing bundles well
blanched, sound and tender.
Prof. Beal recconnneuds to pack
celery and other vegetables in damp
moss f<*r keeping through the winter.
It is said that vegetables thus packed
will not only keep a long time but re
tain their flavor and quality so well
that they can hardly Ik* distinguished
from fresh ones.
The owner of a farm of one acre in
the State of New York reports that
his cow gives him 000 pounds of but
ter every year, but it is by good feed
ing and attention that she does so;
and while he claims that the protit
from her is large, he admits that his
Cow would bean expense if she were
an inferior animal.
There i»* n< > ndvantnj.♦» to he «h rived
b\ attempting to economise in the ra
tions of the stock at this season. Al
though tin* working animals may b**
idle at times, yet there is a demand
on the system for animal heat, and it
must come from the feed. If not
provided with all they need, they w ill
Im* in poor condition for spring work.
To prepare but ter-till** for use,
scald with clear water; put three or
four munis of salt iu the tub, then
till full with boiling water, putting
the cover on tight, shaking once in a
while to stir up ttie salt, and let it set j
a few days until wanted for use. I
Burn a little brhnstoue in the tub ,
after the brine is out. Fill the tub ,
within three-fourths of an inch of the
top. Keep strong brine on the top of j
the butter all the time.
An experienced farmer recommends
that outs be soabsl sutliciently to
swell them before feeding to stock.
Ground oats are in proper condition
at all times, but matters are not par
tial to grinding oats, and ninny farm
ers feed them unground. When
soaked the husk is partly torn away,
and facility of digestion increased, i
Poultry w ill carefully pick the sonked
grains from the dry w hen allowed a
preference in the matter.
An experienced dairyman says:
Cows iihuuHv become addicted to
kicking when heifers, by being milk
ed by abusive mil kero. I have never
i seen an old cow become a kicker un
leas abused. Instead of cows being
j aw rse to being milked when giving
large quantities, I have ever found it
i the reverse. When pasturage i* good
' and cows come home at night with
1 their udders distended with milk,
S they seem grateful to have it re
1 moved.
*
j The massing of a large number of
| any kind of warm blooded animals in
restricted places for a length of time
* is detrimental t<> their health and
i productivness. The same rule bolds
good in regard to poultry, and we
! might even assert that fowls, from
j the nature of their droppings, air
cells, feathers, and the habit of bust
ling and roosting close to one another
are more susceptahle to the ills that
; follow close cooping than other do*
j mestic animals.
j • Early chickens are very desirable,
but difficult to raise. To overcome j
this a coop for keeping them warm
mav be made as follows: The coop j
1 is three feet high and four feet wide,
with a common hot bed sash as the
fr<-lit. placed slanting. The nest is;
j made in one corner and the coop can
I be placed in a sunny part of the poul- j
; try house or yard. On the warmest
I days the sasli can be raised and ou
tlie coldest weather a blanket placed
i over it will add to the comfort of the
j young fowl. Winter chickens need
attention, and when ready for the
market, will bring high prices as
early spring c-hiekens.
Many a valuable horse is subject to
unnecessary pain if not permanent
injury, at tiiis season of the year, by
the thoughtless placing of a cold iron
in his mouth. If anyone donuts that
this is painful to the horse, let him
satisfy himself by laying a frosty
piece of iron across his own tongue
some sharp morning. It D n very
easy matter to keen the bridle in the
house where it will keep warm when
not in use. We have seen horses, the
skin of whose tongue and lips was
as effectually burned by a frosty bit
as they w ould have been by a red hot
one. and all the while the owners
were wondering why the animals re
fused to eat and fell oil in tlesh.
It has not been a long time since
an average bullock weighed but 100
p< unds, net, but breeder* would dis
eard such animals at the present day.
Half a century ago the sheep did not
ivach more than sixty pounds average
weight, and huge yields of milk and
butter 'were not, common Fight
minutes was fair time for a running
four mile race, and the narrow-l>od
1 ied hog was seen on every farm. It
is due to the improvement of stock
that all has been changed, a ml, at
there is no limit in the matter, even
farmer should endeavor to further in
crease the value and efficiency of al
classes of stock.
Ashes are valuable as a fertilizer
! and should be stored in a secure plan
as they accumulate in the winter. T<
» throw*them out on the snow’ or enrtl
iis both wasteful and untidy. Th
I feet of passing children and olde
persons will track the scattered ashes ,
into the house, and increase the labor ,
of the housewife. A barrel in a fence
corner is better than nothing, but an 1
nail pit of brick or stone is the safest •
and cheapest. Disastrous tires often 1
originate from a careless handling of j
ashes. A smoke house: that is an ash
pit with a room above, for holding
meat while being smoked, is a con*
venient, if not essential, out building
oil every well-regulated farm--Amer
ican Ayriculturixt.
Many hogs are kept comparatively |
poor by the high dilution of their
t food. They take in so much water
t 'hat there is no room for a good sup
-1 'v of nutriment. Hence the reason
tit those farmers who feed undilut
i sour inilk to their hogs have so
iu*h liner animals than those who
i them slop. The hog has no
! rooi for much water and if food
T H E
Pioneer Store!
OKI OS. HOOKS, aml STATIONARY.
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U You CAu l Uckle ‘‘ Rouoh oji Rati " with a straw. I
ValentineS
Mutt! l “■&&SS“ , " r * : KHft
which contains much is ft d to him it
makes him big-bellied but poor. Hogs
as well as all otln r animals should ne
allowed all the water they will drink
but it should not be mixed with their
food iu excessive quantity. The hog
should not be obliged to take more
water than he wants in order to ns
siinilate the food he requires
A dairvmau should study the jm*cu
liai ities of each cow. Some cows will
appropriate all the extra food they
can digest to the secrMion of iniik.
Such cows should be especially well
provided for- their generosity should
be reciprocated. These are the cows
that pay for feeding. They pay back
the principal with a large percentage
of interest on all the extra foixl given
them. They are the only good cows
that will pay for the extra feeding
in fact, they ar.* only good c >ws that
will pay for feeding at all. And a
dairyman may rest assured that a
cow that will net respond to liberal
feeding by an equal increase of milk
is not worth keeping, and instead of
adding to his income, rims him in
debt, every year.
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