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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
HOW TO GETMORE LAND WITHOUT
PAYING FOR IT.

The desire for land is universal. The
Yankee that wanted "all the land that
joined him. was true type of our great
land-grabbine conquering white race.
Now here is writer who tells us how
we may double the size Of our farm
without running in debt for a single ad-
ditional acre. Hear him:
1.-The man who owns piece of land
owns the air above it, with 1.-THE fertil-
izers. and all the gases that enter into
the composition OF plants which it con-
tains. The farmer need not look off
over his neighbors' possessions for more
land to cultivate until he has so cult
vated what he already possesses as to
utilize all the sources of fertility that be-
long to 1t. If he ants more land let
him extend his cultivation downwards
and he will get it. If he has been in the
habit of cultivating his soil but xinches
deep, let him extend that cultivation
twelve inches deep, and he will double
the quantity of soil in cultivation and
double the amount of produce raised. II
| he has been in the habit of leaving the
surface of his land but poorly pulverized d
when he has sown his seed upon it, let
him double the amount Of labor upon it.
and SO double its capacity fer absorbing
and appropriating the erial manures
that are held in the air above it, and he
will again add half to the quantity o
land in cultivation and increase the
amount of produce in the same pronor
ton.
Farmers seem to forget whatit take:
to constitute q farm They are SO il
the habit OF scraping over the surfacs
and using but two or three inches of soil
they have come to regard this as the ex
tent OF their possessions-as the measur,
of the land they own. Looked upon i,
this way, we do not wonder tha
farmers want more land, for indeed ;
thousand acres OF surface three inche
deep is but little land after all. But whe,
we add to this three inches in depth an
unlimited extent below, a thousan,
acres, and indeed hundred, or eve]
fifty acres, is great deal of land. Th
true way and the cheapest way for tn,
farmerl to get more land is to 90 deepe
and cultivate the surface better. W
hesitate not 10 say that very large ma
ljority of the farmers in California nigh
double their possessions and double thei
productions in this way. Asto the meT
chant, the doctor, and the lawyer. tn
less land they have 70 lie uncultivated o
10 be cultivated but poorly, tho better
will be for them and the country.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22

Thus, actual tests show that cotton
wood will make three-fourths of a cord;
that even the slow growing black maple
will make one>eighth of q cord, while
the ash leaved maple (hegunda) will
make five-eights of cord to the tree in
twenty-five years growth. The same
trees II grown in groves thickly, would
probably not make moro than halt the
quantities above named, which would in
time come nearer to the figures as given
above.
Avery simple and easy way to plant
and cultivate leither for windbreaks or
groves,i is to bring the ground into deep
tilth by blowing and narrowing, and then
plant the trees of two, three, or four
years growth in straight lines, and at q
distance Of about four feet. Cultivate
with an ordinary two>h0rse cultivator as
long as you can stride the rows, if the
trees be small enough when set, or with
double-shovel plow If larger. Continue
this until it is no longer easy to get be-
tween them with the horse.
All the willows will grow readily from
cuttings, SO will the cottonwoods, and
Lombardy poplar; but, do not plant
Lombardy poplar; it is neither good for
shade, timber or fuel. Walnut, either
white or black, does not transplant un-
less raised in the nursery, root pruned
and moved at two years old. 1t is better
that you raise them from roots yourself.
The same is true Of hickory and all the
oaks. They seldom succeed transplant-
ed ;never under ordinary circumstances
All the other trees named in the list,
transplant kindly, especially when
small.
Other trees that will be found valuable
for timber are white, green, blue, and
on moist soils. red ash.
Of deciduous coniferous trees. Euro.
pcan larch should not be omitted. When
it attains fair size-and I have seen it
grow to diameter Of twelve inches in
thirteen years-it is valuable for all pur>
poses except burning. This is said 10 be
almost impossible to do. Eastwood or
linden is also valuable. As shade tree
it's unexcelled.
II the plantation is strictly for timber
uses, many waste places unfit for Guilt
walton, such as the tops Of knolls, steep
hillsides, along ravines, etc. For soft
wooded trees, = willow, cottonwood,
ETC., the edges Of ponds are admirable !;
whitewood grows admirably on sandy
ridges sufficiently out Of water 20 they
are never wet. Hickory. black walnut,
butternnt, maple beach, and elms do
well on the prairie soil that il dry, and
the two latter On soils somewhat moist.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
JOHN SHERMAN.

The New Haven, (Conn } Union,
Greenbacker. goes for Hayes new secre-
tary of the treasury, in way that John
will despise. Itsays:
There is no bigger fraud in American
politics than John Sherman. He en-
tered congress poor man several years
ago and today he is rich. He has been
engaged in no other business than poll
tics, SO the people can draw their
own inferences. He has always
been conspicuous as champion Of mon
opoly. salary grabs, subsidies and rail-
road Jobs As chairman of the senate
finance committee he has acted solely
with view to advancing the interest
of the money power. 1t was he who
insisted upon discrediting the greenbacks
in advance by refusing to make them a
full legal tender. Old Thad. Stevens
said openly in the house that this was
done at the request of the gold gamblers
of Wall street. "A doleful sound said
Mr.. Stevens, "comes up from the cav
erns of the Wall street gamblers, and in
obedience to this wall the United States
is to be dishonored. Accept the amends
ment of Mr.. Sherman and we create two
kinds of money, one for the bondholders
and one for the people, and the latter
kind is to be worth considerably less
thsn the former. And the old COM
moner went down to his grave thor
oughlv satisfied that Sherman had been
corrupted by the horde of money gam,
blers who gathered at Washington at
the time and v no expended, it was SUBJ
ssquently reported, one million OF dol
lars in pushing their scheme through.
| In 1868, short time before the cleo
ton OF General Grant, Senator Sherman
said in speech delivered in Ohio, that
the holder of q fye-twenty bond
who should demand payment Of the prin-
cipal in coin, was Shylock. He de-
clared upon his knowledge as chairman
| of the Senate Finance Committee that
the letter and the sperit OF the law was
to nav those bonds in whatever was legal
tender at their maturity. Yet few
months after this he rushed through
Congress resolution declaring that all
the obligations Of the Government were
paw able in coin, and by this one act the
producing classes OF the country were
robbed OF over FIVE hundred millions ol
i dollars. But this even was not enough
Coin included gold and silver. and
az silver deprecated SONS afterwards,
an act was passed demonetizinx silver,
60 that only gold would pay the bond
i holderz and Sherman Was the leading
spirit in the oenspifacy. These two
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WHOLE NO. 141.
tlemen are not wanted here but ladies
are in demand.


are in demand.
California is fine State; some Sec
tions very fertile, while others are barr
rem some parts healthy while others are
sickly. and it is mistaken idea that one
can pick up gold without labor. There
is to my knowledge. thousands out of
employment in San Francisco alone, to
say nothing about the rest of the State,
and it is sad to see large families, as did,
without means or friends, and could not
get job at twenty-five cents cord saw
ing wood. The board OF emigration is
responsible for this. / admit that it is
worse than usual, for they have had no
rain tor near a year, and the farmeas and
stock raisers are looking blue. The cat
tie and sheep are dying off by the thou
sand for want of grass and water.
No man would live in the western
part of Oregon who had any desire for
good health. Chills and fever reign
supreme. Whole families down with it..
Eastern Oregon is moro healthy, and 4
great grazing section. Poor land, sage
brush, alkali, etc.
In the eastern part OF Washington
Territory. there is some fine farming
lands, but it costs all it is worth to get
the product out of the country, with plen-
ty OF fever and ague. The western part
Of the Territory has no farming land.
but the finest timber in the world. find
plenty seeking employment who cannot
| find it.
| will close this letter up saying to my
old friends and neighbors, be contented
with your lot, for there are many worse
places than cold Minnesota with her
grasshoppers.-Jackso,s Republican.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
SOME SOUND VIEWS.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce

The Chicago Journal OF Commerce
SAYS, under date of Feb. 2Sth:
The substitution of silver change for postal
currency has benefited only few spcculators
in silver. The general retail trade of the coun-
try :has bern fettered and retarded by the
change. Few if any thought of boarding postal
currency; but many lay by silver; and just in
proportion as they have done SO has the circu-
lating medium OF tie country been depleted.
The retail trade demanded an increase OfSmau
bills and fractional change. If the postal cur
rency must he called in and destroyed then
should there have been substituted not merely
the same amount of silver coin but at least %
per cent. additional in order to furnish the
same advantage for business enjoyed during
the postal currency period.
But the wholesale trade, and the manufac-
turing and agricultural interests of the nation
need very much larger amount of the circu-
lating medium. England with her business,
Ler banks and all her home institutions
crowded into space little larger than Illinois
has a floating currency-per capita-5O per
cent. greater than we have. Scattered as our
population and business are we need 100 per
cent more than her people do. This govern
ment will not discharge its duty toward the
people until this is the case; when the
people become truly enlightened oD this prob
lem they will demand it.
| We are not opposed to return to sfecie pay.
ments: but We are opposed to the destruction
of single greenback. We need all we have
and all the specie we can obtain in exchange
for bread, meat and our manufactured goods
besides. Interest on money must be reduced
until the producing classes shall realize a.
high rent G n the capital invested in thei
business as bankers and money lenders do OF
the amount of gold, silver and bank notes
which they lend. Our government will mo-
have done its duty till this state of things prac
tically exists. 1t may easily be brought abou
by making all our national circulating medi
Interchange with national bonds bearin!
1896 per cent. interest. Then our loanabl
funds will never be more or less than tn
trade, commerce and the manufacturing inter
ests OF the people demands
If these views were advanced by TIL
ANTI. .MoNoPoL1sr they would probabl,
be denounced as communistic an
utopian. But here we find them in on
of the leading commercial journals Q
the leading city OF the West.
The only wonder is that governmen
which proposes to represent the peopl
does not endorse and adopt them.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
HOW MINNESOTA COMPARES
WITH OTHER NEW COUN-

TRIES.
Our western people are restless, row
ing race. They do not readily take root.
It was said long ago:
1.-THE Yankees haven of eternal rest
Is found-a little farther west!''
Many have left Minnesota for other
lands, only to return at last perfectly
satisfied with 1.-THE land of sky tinted
waters"
Here is specimen:
Recently Frank A. Gale, former
enterprising citizen Of Winnebago City,
and who formerly visited jackson once
or twice, started for some stock raising
country, and alter travelling through all
the boasted paradisical localities, writes
back from WaIla Walla, Washington Ter
ritory to the Winnebago City Press, Civ,
ing his ideas very briefly of the different
States and Territories, and we copy, as
follows:
Colorado is healthy climate. but all
good lands are taken up. Sheep, the
principal stock raised, is over done, and
great range cannot be found without pay.
ing high price for it.
New Mexico is about the same as
Colorado. 1t is no place for laborers
Many are idle, and cannot find employ.
ment. The society is bad.
In Wyoming Territory the principal
business is mining. There is no farming
land to speak Of. and but little grazing
It is mountainous and rocky, and sage
brush and alkali are the chief products.
Can't raise white beans. Many ont o
employment.
Uta1, the Mormon Territory, is fin.
farming country The price Of land
I'ranges from 426 ts42OO per acre: Gen
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
FOREST CULTURE.

The time is drawing near when the
work of setting cut trees and cuttings
should commence: We find the follow
ing Interesting article in an Iowa ex-
change. 1t will bear careful reading:
"Mr. H. II. McAffee, of the Iowa
Agricultural College, and also now
Secretary of the American Forestry As.
sociation gives the following as results
obtained in twenty years, with the forest
trees named below:
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22

measures cost the people Of this coun-
try several hundred millions OF dollars
1t was John Sherman who drafted the
so-called resumption act of 1875. which
is nothing more than scheme to con-
tract the legal tender circulation, there
by strengthening the bank monopoly.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22

That's the way contraction and re-
sumption work. Are they not noble
fruits with which to astonish and delight
free, selt>governing people? Think of
it! Nearly two million dollars OF bank
ruptcies in one city, Chicago, in ono
month.
But then we were inflated heretofore ::
we are now getting back to healthy
condition. On this principle man WELL
fed and well clothed is inflated. Look
at his stomach! While poor devil who
has had nothing to eat for twenty-iour
hours, and who is lowering on the bor-
ders of typhoid fever, is in the natural
and normal and healthy condition Of man.
If he dies his condition is more normal
still. If all Chicago goes into bankrupt
cy, then on this theory Chicago would
be in the natural condition OF great
American city.
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the price of glass so high as to make it
a luxury which only the rich can enjoy ?
Well; some day the people will get
mad all over, and they will enact that
the respectable gentlemen who get up
such combinations to plunder the whole
people, are bigger criminals than the
Younger brothers, who simply proposed
to crack bank or two.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
LIFE INSURANCE.
he Chicago Times eays:

The Chicago Times Gays:
Events in the field OF life insurance
during the past few months have been
such as to alarm policy>holders gener-
ally, and to produce an almost universal
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-22
CONTRACTION.

The following figures, showing the in
solyencies for the month OF February, are
furnished by The Commercial Agency:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHING.

THE REV. MR.. CoURTNEYs PLAIN TALK con.
cERNING SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND
THEIR DUTIES.
ST. AIMS Episcopal Church, Eighteenth street, near
Fifth avenue, well filed last evening with FASH
ionabe congregation, who had assembled to listen 10
Rev. Frederick Courtney discourse 10 tho Sunday
School Association belonging to this denomination.
After the singing OF several hymns and reading Of
passages from Scripture Rev. Mr. Courtney delivered
discourse, during which he said parents, general
thing unable TO give their children that religious
training which they received in tho Sunday
school In matters affecting this life educa-
tion was essentially necessary. How much more
important II In connection with the life to come
In the ordinary schools not the general ideas of
education that should a!ono be engratted upon the
minds OF the pupils, but an infusion o moral pabulum
by which spiritual life would be fostered and nOurshed
Probably any oil his hearers VINO had undertaken 10
study foreign language found the great benefit OF
benk III class with Others Thus was In the sunday
school. Such combination created useful sympathy.
The very fact Of being engaged IN sunday school evoked
a sympathy between teachers, children ana parents
The work was peculiarly blessed In this par
make many sacrifices IN order 70 Instruct
them in the important truths OF religion.
Speaking Of Sunday scnool teachers he said he wished
to God that all teachers had proper aptudcs for their
work. great many OF them knew moro about sick
nursing than they did OF the aptitude for school teach
Ing. great prerequisite Tor proper discharge Of tho
teachers duty was actual knowledge. Many persons
undertook 10 teach Sunday school who did know
the first principles oil Christs doctrines themselves.
They did not know exactly what was meant by repent
ancc baptism, resurrection, laying OF hands, etcr-
nal Judgment and on. They should not alono DO
familiar with the meaning OF these things in the abb
strnc but also 10 their effects. The lecturer
cludod interesting discourse by pointing out the
rewards which followed faithful discharge Of this
duty OF school teaching.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-10
MODERN SPIRITUALlSM.

Dr. George B. Samson yesterday lecturcd before the
Baptist Minister'S Conference sModern Spiritual
ISM Tho lecture was interesting that the Confer.
ence requested Doctor TO give course OF Monday
lectures on general subject The Doctor asked,
What the facts OF modern Sprituasm?" and class
flied them under four heads-irst, those that can be
explained physical grounds second those that can
be explained by magnetism third, those when the i'm
agnation IS set at work, and fourth, those where
special agent Tho Doctor next applied magnet
ism and electricity to tho nervous force and gave
various illustrations Of the power OF animal magnet
ism over serpents, cobras, tigers and other animals
reptiles And in confederation DR.. Reid, who pre-
sided related experience OF Brother Vinton, u
returned Indian missionary, who told him u lew
evenings ago that he (Vinton) had seventy SER
penis IN his bed At one time, which he had
charmed simply by nervous magnetism, and
that he could have done what he pleased
with them DR.. Samson, continuing, showed how the
several facts OF modern Spirtualism are accounted tor
under one or other Of The four heads named, and
chiefly under the second He quoted from the written
testimony Of mesmerIss, cairvoyants, &C., IN proof
that when they in shs clairvoyant state their
whom they operated and they could not tell
single simple fact beyond that which
was the other mind at the time lie ctcd
example OF this where stranger was manipulated
by mcsmerist who knew the Doctor and the mesmcr-
i?ed such questions the mesmerizer knew
but not able 10 tell Dr. Samsons middle name Tor
the simple that the operator himself did not
10 Egypt and India, where II originated and showed
the Importance OF the statement in the Biblo that
Moses learned In all tho wisdom Of the Egyptians
and was mighty In word aud deed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-10
GENERAL NEWTON ON HE'LL GATE.

Tomorrow night General Newton will give very
interesting lecture the work done at He'll Gate and
the improvements to be made In the East River The
lecture win be delivered at Cooper Union and the pro-
10 be for the benefit Of the Central Dspen-
sary at No 934 Eighth avenue II Will BIO the only
public lecture that General Newton has given and
probably tho only one he Will give this subject
so interesting 10 New Workers. The lecture will DO
illustrated by numerous experiments, among which
will be that OF firing miniature blast representing the
recent work at Hallctt's Point
The General will first show the necessity OF the i'm
provemens projected and the progress OF the work up
10 this time. The great plan OF connecting Har.
lem River with tho East River Will be dwell ON ut
length. II is proposed 10 mako this connection ny
deepening the river and removing tho reef at 10th
cut will then be made extending from John
sons foundry to the Hudson River, $50 eet In width
and eighteen feet deep at mean low water
This viii ba particularly beneficial for vessels
coming down tho Hudson and entering the
Sound Tho double current thus occasioncd viii also
be OF great advantage IN keeping the passage clear
and sweeping all the garbage that may cohccs out 20
The sea The origin OF this double current II VIII be
explained lies the tact that the tidcs oil the Hudson
and tho tides Of the Sound both have different
is, the time between the moons
transit and h .eh water differs ut each point
Perhaps the greatest benefit to b" derived from Tho
evenings lecture will be gained from the practical ex
perimcnts thai TO be performed cOlored draw
Ing showing the plan Of tho rock excavations at Hal
lelts Point win bo exhibited and also drawing show
ing the workings OF the steam drilling scow IN remov-
ing tho submarine distractions In New York Harbor.
The method OF tho simultaneous firing Of the blast VIII
be Illustrated by miniature explosion. Although
1000 mines were directly fired by electrical apparatus
at He'll Gate there 500 mines not connected with
any electric battery. These latter were hired by the
conclusion. !; is proposed 10 show the manner IN
which this done. Thus the lecture Will be inter-
estEg only property owners, but to practical
miners, electricians and scientific men generally
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-10
JAMES HOWIE'S DEATH.

An inquest was held over the body OF James Rowic
by Coroner simms, at the Brooklyn Morguc, yester-
day. Deceased. it will be remembered was found in
foot OF Gold street Sunday morning
and upon searching tho clothing $4,000 In United
States bonds watch and SAL in grecnbacks dis
covered. The only witness examined William
Stevens, Of No 22o Mulberry street, New York, who
testified that he had known HOWE Tor sixty years
he last him three or four days before his death
Howe then told witness that he attended gong 10
Brooklyn on sunday; deceased was in the habit OF
going on sprecs when he would keep under the iuiu-
cncc oil liquor for several days, when last he saw
Howie, however, he was sober; wtLcss knew
deceased have wife and child living
In England; his is teaching school in that
try and deceased had frequently spoken OF gong home
to his family The jury found that deceased came
his death by drowning. The remains we're placed in
u handsome coffin and inferred In Evergreen
Cemetery, East New York, tho afternoon. Several
friends OF the deceased attended the funeral. rho
money will be held by the Coroner pending receipt
OF the application therefor from Mrs. HOWE. Should
the widow fail TO claim the property It vii be handed
over TO the Public Administrator OF Kings County.