The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-11-12
Durfee's majority,

Durfee's majority, 523 )
Mr.. Durfee's majority is large enough
certainly for all practical purposes.
The disaffection in Martin and Waton-
wan was uue to several causes, chief
among which, we judge, was the fact
that each wanted the Senator, and as
they expect soon to he separated from
the counties of this end and connected
with another district, they felt that
they had everything to gain and moth
ing to lose. Another cause was dissat-
isfaction with the nomination of Mr..
Durfee, not because they had anything
personally against him, but because
there was an impression abroad that
the nomination was wholly an affair Of
the office holders and Office seekers OF
the district. And this was, to great
extent, true. Any other man, unless
some we'll known man like Governor
Miller had been nominated would have
received the same treatment. The vote
was not Il protest against Durfee but
against the method of lis nomination.
That nomination, we have before said,
was just as fair as any nomination by Il
delegate convention ever is, and we,
with many others with whom Mr.. Dur
fee was not the first choice, supported
and voted for him. Bat there were
many men who wished to protest
against having the political machinery
run so exclusively by the politicians,
and their vote was that protest. They
SiionId have come forward ut the pri-
mary meetings and made themselves
1ell.
tFrom the st. Paul Pioneer Press.]s
TREE CULT UleE IN n OBLES COC.yTI-
REPORT OLA. +. MILLER, or WORTH
ANGT0N, TO THE HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY,",
Your letter asking information con-
eerning tree culture in MOBILES County,
is received. We have not lad time, III
this new country, to report results,
lind any facts 1 might furnish would
not, therefore, be OF much practical
value. l could give theories and opin-
ions innumeraDle from both practical
and Impractical men, but suppose you
do not want these. Here are the main
facts concerning tree culture i'll this
county: ...'
l. The. people are thoroughly alive to
the Importance of tree planting, and
there is scarcely 4 claim or Il farm upon
which there is not already from one to
ten acres started. "A great many tree
claims have been taken, and hundreds
Ct acres will be planted sext season.
?. Last year was a very poor year for
trees. The streets of WOrthington were
lined with soft NAPLES from two to five
years old, on Arbor Day, and most of
these lived and were doing we'll when
winter set in. i 1t is worthy Of note that
those which were Watered and mulched
have done best. Tens of thousands; of
white willow and cottonwood, cuttings
were set last spring, and I judge that
hundreds of acres were planted with
soft maple seed, but probably not one
seed or one cutting in a thousand came,
owing to the dry weather. l planted
about twenty acres with soft maple
seed, and about two: acres with cotton
!. wood and white willow cuttings, and
have nothing to show for it. The grass
hoppers cut off the few soft NAPLES
Which sprouted, and the cuttings dried
UP in the ground.
Il g. 1 made discovery with box elder
seed which is probably worth mention
ing! During the winter Of 1928 we
sold from the Colony Office, for other
parties, quite a quantity Of; box- elder
seed, which was planted throughout
the county. Very few Of tile seeds
sprOutetl,' and there was general COM
plant ut the apparent worthlessness of
the seed. IS Most of those who planted
llowettl!b the ground used, and pre-
II pared it; for other crops: My ground
was lett uninolested until the spring of
1874, when, what was my surprise to
find the little box-elders pushing
through the ground 10y hundreds, after
:. having lain over one season. 49,.
+ 1. There are several groves in this
4 county which: have been remarkably
successful. dOne Of, these WAS planted
by the railroad Company for q snow
:, break, about two miles west of town.
Some l $40 cottonwoods and European
]arclles were set in alternate. rows in
the summer OF 1873. Last fall took d
stroll through this grove, and found
f. manly Of the cotton woods from ten to
s. tiltesn feet high, asltl: the larcl,es doing
. Mdl)o Two years more will iifurnish9 4
J grove IT. this point ample enoughtto &C.
.ge0mmodate ri&Ny, picnic party wlliol,
., V0rthingt0n may send OUT ,.s23aE !.
,;d5 Esquire Brown, Of 6 rallan Lakes,
III tliis county, claims to have had ani.
form success in tree culture. He pre-;
u pareshis ground thoroughly. ;rhd is very
. e;ustall il, lis treatment. of cseedso and
cpttings., lie gathers cuttings i'm the
:, Till Of the year, tics them in bundles 81
: pcoliVe nteItt fize, and sets them on end
Z ilpOn the damp ground Of his cellar dur.
;aihg fhe Winter 4! and then plants g early
4 ,sCa1GiJ3 is tof i report Two or thres
2v1i,55 hence, and we shall be able to give
you some astonishing results, for: our
i;e0,,le ilre awake to the Importance OF