The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-05-24
HOW TO FLANK THEM

HOW TO FLANK THEM
~. S. Consul at Winnepeg, J. W.
Taylor, in hisletter to Gov. Pillsbury
pn The CHRISTOPHER, thus suggests a
plan tor flan king the common enemy:
] WIZ .not outfank the destructive
hosts blythe earliest, possible plant.
ing, if the danger is from the flights Of
full-gr0wn insects: and by the latest
possible planting in the alternate years,
soil? = -.
The first problem for our. considera-
ton may be thus Iest:lted: Cannot the
cereal crops be pushed to maturity-at
leastaplaced: out.ofaa dallger-=before. the
fall of the winged locust, say by the Goth
OF Julyy Fortunately. fall-plowing is
the universal practice of Minnesota far
gain>of ten days or two weeks;
and / am satisfied that if in late March
or early :April-the instant that the
winters frost recedes two inches from
the surtace--ManitOba,. wheat, barley,
oats. peas and Indian corn were plant
ed, t'oo eceeks more IN rapidly Of gr0,cth
and maturity soo,tld be gained. preii-
cate. this opinion ON the well-known
physical fact, that the Manitoba season
is two weeks later than that'of South
ern Minnesota, with a corresponding
intensity Of reproductive energy-quite
similar to the contrast between Min
nesota celebrity of growth and the slow
er processes observed in, Illinois: and
Missouri; and as a significant illustra-
ton, lwonld mention that low Varie-
ty OF Indian corn, called Mandan on
the Upper Missouri river, and Squaw
corn inNorthern Minnesota, when sent
from Winnepeg to St. Louis, matured
Two weeks earlier than the earliest va
riety known in that market, although
the seed THUS reproduced in st. Louis
was found on planting to be as slow of
us it's congeners. have
no doubt that all other natural pro-
ducts of Manitoba possess this quick
habit of growth in more southern local
tiles, at least for one season; and if So.
our problem is solved. We can turn
the right flank of the enemy.
How as to the left wing? Suppose Il
district heavily seeded with locust eggs.
l expect them to llatch-at all events,
or proportion sufficient to
the evil-and it is in all re-
spects desirable that fierce war 1T every
stage should be waged against them;
but i'll due course of nature the pariod
of their migration will come. In this
climate and latitude (Minnesota) it may
be protracted to July Is. Suppose,
when the hour of deliverance strikes,
the Minnesota farmers have their fields
ready, and their granaries supplied with
Manitoba peas, buckwheat, corn, bar
ley, oats, and even wheat; and this late
planting is cOnsummate hy July 20.
May we not reasonably expect that
Of the product would be a.
vailable for man, while any residue
would he food for animals?
TIE TRIUMPH OF ART IN RAILROAD
11eAVEL.
Year by year we note the footsteps
of progress III many directions. In no
direction is progress more palpabl than
in the facilities offered the railroad
traveller of the present day. Looking
back but few years, we can see the
toillng snail-like advance made day by
day by migrants wagon, rs it was
slowly but surely drawn toward SUM-
down by the patient OK, or the slowly
moving farm horse; then came the old
fashioned stage coach; following close
ly, we had the canal packet; then the
steamer on the lakes and rivers:
then the locomotive engine and the
stage like car. Now! the palatial coach
and more than palatial drawing room
and sleeping car. Yet, not satisfied
with these, that marvel OF mammoth
western corporations, the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway, as we stated
some weeks ago, has develOped hotel
cars that will, for elegance, usefulness
and real comfort, eclipse everything of
the kind that has been hitherto placed
in service OH any road. Some of our
geaders seem to have some doubts a.
bout the merits Of hotel cars, or their
over the so-called dining
Car that IS run for 4 few miles on some
roads. u am not so sure about that -
said one of our friends. as he had finish
ell reading our first article about these
hotel coaches that are to be run on the
Omaha and California line of the Chi
cago Il North Western Railway, II am
not SO sure would care to take inv din
ner III any Car, no matter how much
like Il palace, while it is running at the
rate of forty miles an hour" It is 4
saying, that the faster you run the
safer" Why, last June it will be re-
membered, that this road hauled from
Chicago to Council Bluffs, in less than
ten hours, the now celebrated
- jarrett and Palmer Train.'
On that train was a hotel car, not as
large, with less wheels under it, poorer
springs, and i'll no way us strong and
easy for riding III us these new cars are
to he, and yet, Mr.. Jarrett said ''while
on the Chicago 4 North Western line,
running at al average rate Of fifty miles
an hour, we took our breakfast lis COM
fortably us we would at Delmonico' $,
in New York;
1t is well known that the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway is built over
the most favorable line as to grades
that could he found between Chicago
and the Missouri River, with but few
curves; its track is mostly of heavy steel
rail, gravel ballasted, with wide roal-
way, giving it permanence and solidity
it is as smooth as a floor; all its cars
strong, with plenty of wheels under
them, and with springs so adjusted that
the usual bouncing" and oscillation
is reduced to the minimum. We Obsery-
ed last week that III an ordinary car
the side motion and rising and falling
Of the Car. was less than half an inch,
and sometimes scarcely preceptible.
We believe that it will he found that Il
person will sit in these hotel cars and
eat or ao''ite as comfortably as he could
ut his desk or table at home; this ne
choose to ca1 the triumph Of art ~ rail-
u0y trduel.
We learn that this new line of hotel
cars is being pushed to completion us
fast rs the full force of workman in the
Pullman shops can do it. We shall lie
certain to see them in a few weeks
Cedar Rapids Republican, Feb. 1877.