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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-26

the focks of the country? As sheep
are usually fed in Illinois, a bushel
Of corn will make about one and a
quarter pounds of wool. This wool
can be shipped to an Eastern mark
ct for one tenth to one-twentieth
the cost of shipping the corn re-
CURED to make it.. Even this d.
minished expense might be saved
after having transformed the corn
and grass and straw of the farm into
wool-by bringing the manufacto-
rles into the vicinity of the produc-
er, and letting them and the opera
tlves consume the other products of
the farm, thus saving the transporta-
ton OF the wool one way, and the
cloth back again. We do not mean
to say that all the surplus grain Of
the corn-growing states could be
probably fed to sheep. But if all
that might be proftably fed was so
employed the surplus would be so
diminished as to visibly lessen the
dep,and for transportation, which
annually crowds upon railroads
more freight than they can move
within q reasonable time, at Just
such prices as the managers may
choose to exact. This is a reform
that requires no legislation for in
auguration or support. It can be
begun and prosecuted upon half tn e
farms in the Mississippi Valley, up
on a scale circunscribed only by
the facilities and tastes of the in
dlviduals who may set themselves for
It's accomplishment. In view of the
interests involved, We bespeak for
the idea here advanced careful and
candid consideration.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-26
SHEEP-TRANsPORrArION

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND
MANUFAcroRlEs.-The National
Live Stock Journal suggests the
raising Of sheep in solving the
great transportation question. We
predict more immediate profit to
the farmers from the adoption of
this method than from some of the
canal schemes by which politicians
are striving to lift themselves into
notoriety, through making large prom
ises of lifting the burdens from the
shoulders of the poor people. The
hint given by the Journal of bring
ing the manufactures into the vi
cinity of the producer" should not
be overlooked. This is just the
point at which the farmers of this
section of the country propose to
commence the solution of the ques-
ton of high freights.
The facility with which the pro.
duct of the flock can be transported
is a strong argument in favor of a
more general sheep culture. May
it not be possible that the very
knotty politico-economic problem
OF how to market the crops Of the
Northwest without allowing the
common carriers" to consume, one.
half to three-fourths of theirvalue as
toll'upon transportation to the sea.
board IS yet to be, solved through
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-26
The Value of a Good Cow.

"On Sir Baldwin Leighton's estate
in Shropshire, England, pauperism is
almost est animated by means of the
cow, it being the rule rather than the
exception for laborer to have sums
varying from EGO to ESQ put by in the
savings bank, out of the proceeds of the
sale of butter. I have seen the books
with the sums entered to their credit
We have frequently called attention
ton to the great boon good cow is to
the poor man, and the large profits of a
good dairy.
4 friend Of ours, with three grade
short horned COWS, has realized no less
than ninety dollars from the product of
each cow, in single season, besides
the milk and butter used in the fam
lily. But the favorable results depend
upon one or two conditions, one or both
Of which we frequently see overlooked
or disregarded, to.wit:
First. That we have good COW
good in form-that a profitable DISPOSE.
ton may be made of the carcass
for beef, when the COW is no longer
wanted for the dairy, and liberal and
steady mixer. 1t is incomprehensible
that poor COWS should ever be used
when gold ones can be- obtained 1T SC
small an advance upon the common
price.
The second condition for success.
with the dairy COW is: that she hav'
the best and kindest treatment.-Na
ti01eaZ Stock Kaiser.
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P. of r.,

For the third time the Patrons Of
Indiana, now speaking through the Ex-
ecutive Committee, have declared that
they have favored and will favor no
particular political party, and that all
reports to the contrary are SANDERS.
Minnesota sets praisworthy exam
pie in the salary question. The Secre-
tary receives 5000, the Master and
members of the Executive Committee
81 day and expenses. The State
agent So. The members of the Exec
utive Committee have been reduced in
number to four. The State Grange
begins the year with some $4,000 in
the treasury ~. \. World.
lit 4 recent meeting of the Wiscon-
sin State Grange the Master at some
length detailed the reasons which had
led him to decline the Republican Con-
gressional nomination in the Fifth Dis
trict last fall. The position of Master
was such as to sometimes make him
seem available to political managers,
and, yielding to allurements of Office,
his success mi ght lead to internal po-
litical strife which would degrade his
Office and produce discord in the order,
leading TO its disintegration A con.
stitutional provision was recommended.
prohibiting the Master Of the State
Grange from accepting nomination to
any public political position during his
term cf Office. In conclusion the ques
ton of interest on capital, of the appor-
tionment of earnings between capital
and labor, was dwelt upon at some
length.
farmers INsTITUrE.-The Patrons
Of Delaware county, a., propose to
hold an "institute'' for the reading of
essays, and for discussion upon topics
intimately connected with the profes.
sion of farming The institute will
open at Mechanicsville, on Tuesday
evening the 10Th, and close Friday
evening the 22d. It will be open to
al.-Er.
We have had Teachers Institutes
without number for the purpose OF
advancing the cause Of education
by training teachers for their work,
and they have done untold good.
Why not then have Farmers Insti-
tutes for advancing the interests of
agriculture by better fitting the
farmers for their noble calling?
There certainly could be nothing
more useful, than meeting to COM
pare notes and experiences in this
way among farmers. A programme
should be previously prepared, part
les appointed to open the discus
sions, on the different topics or to
read essays. An appropriation for
the support of lecturer who is
practical experienced farmer and
learned in his calling to visit differ
ent portions of the State, and to
conduct these Institutes, we believe,
would be money as we'll spent as
money expended for course of lec-
lures on agriculture to be delivered
at the State University, or even to
pay the State Superintendent of
common schools.
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A gentleman, while walking in his
garden, caught his gardener asleep un-
der tree. He scolded him soundly
for his laziness, and ended by telling
him such sluggard was not
worthy to enjoy the light of the sun.
ut was that reason exactly" said the
gardener, "that I crept up into the
shade"
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1.-THE State Horticultural

bI1GH1-l ne OCdCc HORTICULTURAL
Society, on the second day of their
meeting in St. Paul, last week, had
"a very interesting discussion on the
subject Of blight, which has been
so destructive to the fruit trees in
the State for the past two years.
The majority of the pomologists &C
knowledged that they knew nothing
of the cause.
Mr. Jewell, of Lake City, one of the
Oldest nurserymen in the State said he
had had great deal Of experience on
the subject Of blight, but he protested
to know very little about it. In fact
the more experience he had, the less he
knew about it. The Transcendent va.
rietics were very subject to blight, and
for his part he would not allow them to
grow near other better varieties.
lie thought that the only way was
to discard those kinds in which the
blight originated. He had tried cutting
of the tops Of the trees. That retarded
it somewhat Trees trimmed in the
spring Of the year will blight worse.
If trimming begin when the blight be.
gins, it would check it, but the labor is
too great. The cause of horticulture
is not injured by the people under stand
ing the difficulties that beset it.
Mr., Truman Smith did not pretend
to know the cause Of blight. His ex-
perience was that trees in protected
localities we're more liable to blight
than those in exposed situations. Elcc-
tricity, he thought, had something to
do with it. Immediately after thun-
der shower, followed by hot sun, blight
generally prevailed.
Gideon had Transcendcnt bearing
trees in positions exposed to the sun
that did not blight. Blight follows af-
ter showers followed by warm sun.
He believes the cause is the same as
that of cholera. Both came originally
from Asia. Crabs were an Asiatic
tree. He had tried the process OF
pruning. Too much pruning did more
harm than good.
Col. Stevens said W. NJ. Harrison
was the best horticulturalist in Mime.
sofa, and he was of the opinion the in.
sect originated the blight. 1t came
around every Is or 20 years in Illinois.
He believed himself it was ali insect OF
parasite.
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PRESERVE Our FORESTS. Last
year we had occasion to speak of
the rapid disappearance Of the for
ests in Minnesota and Wisconsin;
we now add the following interest
ing remarks on this important sub
ject from one of the leading papers
in the country. We ought certainly
to take a careful view Of this sub
ject, and not destroy or waste that
which will be Of so much import
ance in the future. We are too
much inclined to live in a manner
that would seem to indicate our ex-
peCtations to be that the whole hu
man race would be extinct at the
end of few years. There is no
planning, and no thought for the flu
ture. The result will be that in a
comparatively few years the nation
will awake from its dreams like a
youthful spendthrift, to find the
fountains of supply to not only its
pleasures but to its necessities forever
dried up and its wonderful! resourc
es exhausted. This reckIessness
has It's illustration, rot only in the
manner IN which the wealth of the
soil Is wasted and destroyed by
striving to get all there is in it out
with the least possible expense and
by making the least possible return,
but more strlklngly in the reckless
destruction Of our forests.
The New York Times says that the
reckless destruction Of our forests
Is fast bringing to us a condition in
which there will be occasion for real
alarm. In the whole United States,
1t says, there is left but one really
great tract Of timber. 1t lies at the
far extreme Of our country, and
consists Of about one half Of Wash
lngton Territory and a third of Or
egon. California has, perhaps, 5oo,-
900 acres Of forest now, Of which
fully one half has been cut away
within the last two or three wears.
Here in New York, we have no con-
siderable forest left, except in the
Adlrondac region. Railroads have
been the means of leveiing at least
10000 acres of trees annually for
ties, Of which they use 100000
annually. Fences are also enor-
nous consumers of trees. The out
rageous waste OF timber caused by
the Telling Of forests and burning of
trees to bring the land under cult
walton, goes on still at fearful rate.
From 1860 to 1870, no less than
twelve million acres of forest was
thus wantonly destroyed. For fuel,
also, vast tracts are levelled Of their
trees. [ took 10000 acres Of forest
to supply Chicago with fuel in one
year, 1871. Our annual decrease of
forests from all these causes is not
far from 100000 acres. Yet we
plant only 10000 acres of new for
est a year. The necessity for a
Commission Of Forestry, and the
need of efficient laws in all the
States for the preservation Of our
forests, need, the editor thinks, no
further argument than these facts.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-26

OTATE Or MINNESOTA,
DCounty of Goodhue-ss-Pro-
bate Court.
In the matter Of the estate of Ralph
Wilcox, laie Of said County of Goodhue,
deceased.
On reading and fling the petition of
Mrs. Sarah Wilcox Of said County, rep
resenting among other things that
Ralph Wilcox, late of said County,
on the Odd day of October, A. D. 1874,
at said County, died interstate, and be-
ing resident Of this County at the
time Of his death, leaving goods, chat
tells and estate within this County, and
that the petitioner is the mother and
next of kin Of said deceased, and pray
ing that administration of the estate of
said deceased may be granted unto Noah
H. Smith, of said County. Il is ordered
that said petition be heard before the
Judge of this Court, on Friday, the 5th
day Of February, A. D., 1875, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at
the office Of the Judge Of Probate, in
the city of Red Wing in said County.
Ordered further that notice thereof
be given to the heirs OF said deceased.
and to all persons interested, by pub
fishing a copy of this order for three
successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing in the GRANGE ADVANCE, a
weekly newspaper printed and pub
lished at Red Wing in said County.
Dated and signed this 18th day of
January, A. D., 1875.
n. 0. WERNER,
Judge Of Probate.
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CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County
LOT Goodhue, District Court, First Ju-
dicial District. Charles Reichenbach,
Plaintiff, against Louise Sherrer De-
PENDANT.
The State or Minnesota to the above
named Defendants:
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the complaint in this
action which has been filed and is now
on file in the Office Of the Clerk of said
Court, at the Court House in the CITY
of Red Wing, in said County and to
serve copy of your answer to the said
complaint on the subscriber, at his Office
in the City of Red Wing aforesaid,
within twenty days after the service of
this summons upon you, exclusive of the
day OF such service, and if you fail to
answer the said complain within the
time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this ac-
ton will take jud gement against you
for the sum of one hundred dollars, with
interest thereon at the rate of seven per
cent. per annum from and after the 26th
day of September, A. D. 1870, together
with the costs and disbursements Of this
action.
Dated, December 10th, A. D. 1874.
F. W. HOYT,
Plaintiffs Attorney, Red Wing, MINI.
Twill
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1t is rumored that Carl Schurz
will retire from political life to en-
gage in literary works. He pro-
poses to prepare a political history
Of the United States. His character,
learning, and familiarity with the
politics of Europe, as we'll as the
rrelation of adopted citizen which
; he sustains to this country, all COM
bine to make a work of this kind
from his hand very valuable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
New Work Fashions,

C~OCKS-FEATHER PUCI1ES Of dark green
ish hues are greatly in favor for trimming
black silk costumes. They are especially
liked with suits completed by a wrap of
the same, as they trim outside garments
vely handsomely. These outside wraps
Of silk are very thickly wadded, to give
the effect of fur Innings. A new de-
sign, more lately introduced than sacques,
makes these garments with D0lman backs
and sacque fronts, the sleeves beginning
at the elbow in Dolman fashion.
Among the richest black wool costumes
are those Of acknowledgement cloth of the
heavy quality of drap d'ete, yet not
twilled. This is made into stylish
basques, with deep aprons that nave
square backs, and trimmed with wide
black braid in which are silver threads.
Folds Of silk and of braid pass down the
back Of the basque and form a loop,
through which the sash of the Over-skirt
is passed.
There is a tasteful new collar that stands
up around the neck, and also lies down in
the Byron shape, giving q pretty finish to
the necks of dresses. 1t is made by
merely extending the top of a Byron collar
to form a band half an inch wide.
Perforated chamOis vests lined with
flannel and worn under wrappings add
greatly to the comfort of the wearer in
cold weather, and the perforations do
away with the EMBELLISHMENTS once at
tributed to them. They are made in
basque shape, with sleeves, and cost $3.50;
without sleeves they are $500. Drawers
and u~ndershirts, designed to be worn over
flannel, the better to exclude the air, are
made of the same material, and cost from
$500 to Sc. 00.-H0rper's Bazar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

warehouse for export for the year ending
June 30, 1874, 4,O6O,1O6 gallons, while only
ISL ,413 gallons were thus removed during the
last fiscal year.
The quantity OF tobacco removed for ex-
portation in bond without paying the taxes,
9,179,315 pounds, a decrease of 1921, Gil
rounds.
The Commissioner says the force of rev.
enue agents is inadequate and recommends
the passage of a law authorizing fifteen
more. He thinks further consolidation of
collection districts can be made without af-
fecting the revenue, and that the system of
gauging wholesale liquor-dealers' packages
by United States Gaugers can be dispensed
with and a simple system of checks by stamps
substituted, which will prevent overissue.
He recommends making the violation of
the law relating to friction matches a crimi-
nal ~ofense, punishable by fine and imprison-
ment. He also desires that internal revenue
agents be empowered to demand and obtain
the inspection Of books and papers of distill-
ers, rectiiers, brewers, wholesale liquor
dealers and manufacturers Of tobacco, snuIf
and cigars.
The Commissioner estimates the collections
OF the present fiscal year from all sources of
internal revenue at 1922, 0O0, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25

on his farm, the second n having
$500 900 in it. This she intended to dig
herself and get away with while the ex-
element over the 800, 900 lasted. But
he had acted so honestly and so confiding-
Iy she would now make this liberal offer:
If he would raise 50, 900 more she would
let him have the second gold deposit.
She didn't want to see the money, but
he had better get it at nee and have it
ready, for as soon as she had raised the
500. 900 she would then receive from him
the 50, 900, first showing him the other
gold, and would then Immediately leave
so that she would not be harassed by Gu
rious people who would surely swarm
around her if she remained, Mr.. Lock
raised this money also, borrowing at
Galveston from his daughter, his sister,
and getting friends to lift deposits from
bank and with merchants and loaning to
him. This So, 900 he has yet. Of course
she did this as a part of her confidence
game. The above statements are all true
and there are other details not necessary
W u1SItIO4I. ' oAC hOt dGlhO1 1LCO w
Mr.. Lock to say so, but we are sure he
would give at least half of the money to
any person who would recover it, and he
would pay very largely forthe Englishman
and squaw without the money. Mr.. Lock
is a quiet, Woodworking, honest farmer.
He don't read the papers largely and don't
know the ways Of the world. He has
worked hard all his life and has one of the
best farms in the county, one mile from
our Courthouse. He has a large brick
house on the farm and other correspond
ing Improvements. He lost his wife about
six months ago and has since been in very
i'll health himself. He has but two chill
dren, both married daughters, Il resid-
ing in Kansas, the other in this city. The
family has not q bIemish. Mr.. Lock
ssgns his name bya mark but is thorough
ly acquainted with the art of making
money out of farming. He is so good a
man that the whole community will SYM
pathize with him.-Kob0mo Ind.) Trjb-
one, Nor. -.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
Cellar Wintering of Bees.

THE problem of wintering bees success
fully has been a difficult one to solve, and
tor several years 1t has puzzled the brains
OF all the best apiarians of the country.
Opinions and theories as to the Il of
losses, and the means of prevention, were
plenty enough and seemingly plausible.
out when put into practice they would not
invariably work as expected. Bees would
die when surrounded by the most favora-
bic conditions, apparently, and bees would
prosper and com out all right in the
spring under what appeared to be ex-
tremely unfavorable conditions. The oles-
ton is not settled yet, but a majority of
bee, keepers, after trying all methods, have
decided that cellar wIntering is the best.
But all does not depend upon the place of
wintering. Much depends upon the con-
ditiOn Of colonies at the menceme of
winter. They must be popuIous-fuIl of
young bees-Which condition can always
be secured by commencing in time. They
must have honey enough to winter on
not less than twenty pounds to the hive.
The honey must be pure and sweet. III
has soured in the cells, as it frequently
does, substitute sweet honey, or white
sugar sirnp. There must be empty space
in the central combs for the bees to cluster
in. This can be secured by removing a
frame and putting the rest farther apart.
Winter passages through the combs are a
great convenience for the bees, as ii saves
them from travelling up over the frames
Before putting into winter quarters lay
small sticks or top of the frames, and on
these lay a piece of carpet or quilt. This
will make a passage for the bees over the
frames, under the quilt. The quilt will
preserve the heat, but allow the moisture
to pass off. Having all these conditions
filled, wait for a fine day in November,
when the bees fly freely, and then put
them in the cellar. Put them where they
are to stay, contract the entrances, keep
the cellar perfectly dark, and on no &C
count disturb the bees till spring. If the
cellar is dry, dark, quiet and properly
ventilated, you have done all you can, and
must wait for the result.-An Old Bee
Keeper, liz Ohio Farmer.