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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 VOLUME XVI. NO 16. E ULM, BKOWK COUNTY, MIKK*/ 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- f5f^ tJ