The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-03-13
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to Chicago, with six car loads Of stock
and that they found ready sale for the
cattle at good prices. In recent con-
versations with other farmers, we found
that the impression is deep-seated that
our people must turn their attention to
stock more largely before they can be
prosperous.
Minnesota already ranks first as a
wheat State and will i'll time take the
lead rs Il stock growing State. just as
Minnesota wheat and -four rank first in
the market because Of its superior quail
ity, so Minnesota beef and pork rank
first in the Chicago and other markets
for the same reason. This superior
quality is due to the uniform healthful-
ness Of the animals. DR.. Westtall, of
Rochester, says through the Pioneer
Press, that there is very little healthy
meat produced south of 43 or IS north
latitude, while north Of that line cattle
and hogs are healthy. 1t is a rare thing
to find either beef cattle or hogs south
of IS that have not diseased livers,
which Injuries the quality of the meat.
Moreover, hog cholera has never brOk-
ell out north OF IS. Geo. Bailey,
butcher Of Rochester, who has been in
the business in Ohio, Central Indiana,
Chicago and Milwaukee, says: "While
never butchered u bee: or a. hog either
III Ohio, Indiana Or Illinois, that had
not a diseased liver, have never found
in twenty-five years butchering, a beet
or hog that was bred and raised in
Minnesota that had not 4 healthy liv-
| er."
But all this, we suppose, will be ad-
mitted without question. Tho main
fact to establish is that stock can be
raised in this State so AS to make the
business pay as we'll AS it does in ILL
nois, Iowa, and other States south of
us. On this point the Austin Register
says:
A farmer of Of many years experience
| in Illinois and Minnesota, says that
with properly stacked straw, plenty of
water, and good shelter. nothing more
and nothing less, cattle can be deliver
ed at the pasture bars in better shape,
and with less percentage of cost than
is possible in central Illinois with the
method now III vogue, which involves
considerable hay and corn, but no shell
ter. He recommends that wheat straw
be cut as green as the berry will stand,
and then stacked over and around a
substantially built frame work, large
enough to accommodate the entire
| stock.
One point in favor Of stock raising,
and not the least important point eth
er, is that those farmers who grow cat
tie and hogs are, in a measure, able to
overcome the difficulty of exorbitant
freight rates in transportation. The
stock can be readily driven and at lit
tie expense TO points on competing
lines, and farmers can thus bring homs
roads to terms.
Beecher, in his remarks OH the Chi
nese question, said there was only one
Chinaman in the United States to every
five hundred white men. That gives
us the advantage. There is enough
of us to lick him. We always thought
there was no need of alarm. You see
FIVE hundred of us could set upon one
John Chinaman and completely sur
round him, and then with clubs, stones,
picks, ETC., we ought to be able TO han
die him without pistols or the anti-Chi-
nese bill. IT'S cowardly and mean to
be asking Congress to legislate him
when we can. FIVE hundred OF us to one
of him, clean him out by main strength
and awkwa,dness. OF course, lie is /.
terrible monster, and goes around with
pig-tail and other dreadful contri-
vances for dtmolishing lis enemies, but
five hundred OF us ought to be enough
to manage one of him. His methods
of warfare, to be sure, are not civilized
for he rushes on his enemy with gongs.
horse fidlles, frigltful pictures and
other uncanny and diabolical NUM-.
tons, and frightens timju eople so tt at
their legs get away with them, but not.
wlthstanding all this we ought to b.
able to manage this dreadful dragon ir
human shape, seeing that we are five
hundred to one.
THE a UsTIN COAL.
. Mr.. Davis, who is prospecting fo,
coal near Austin, writes to tile l.:
, Crosse Chronicle:
; 1--WE are down forty feet in the sec
ond drill hole and tie prospects look
, we'll for coal SO far. The state geolo
gst of Minnesota came to look at on,
J prospects ut Ot:anto station, and II
| gave me much pleasure to take him
!, around and show him all the outcrop
pings of coal. dug him some coal o,l
of the rider vein in his presence anC
, took it to the blacksmith shop so he
could see it burn and see us weld iro,
7 with it. don't know how he will re
port on our Otranto district for finding
+ coal in paying quantities, but this
have to say, coal is coal the world 4
) round and black soil will not weld iron
and little do care about geological re
ports anyway because we intend drill
ing down rs long us we are in Goa
, measures. The true theory is. Will,
, you are in coal measures to drill dowr
, to coal or China.''
DR. D. UNGER AHEAD
tChicago Tribune, Feb. 1871
Some weeks ago morning contem
; p0rary published series of resolution,
= which, it was asserted, would he adopt
, ed against DR.. D'Unger's cinchon:
treatment of drunkenness by the Home
D Opathic physicians of Chicago. No sucl