The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-25
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

iers buried in Olmstead county, num-
bering about thirty, are ready for
shipment. They were made in Keo-
kuk, Iowa.
The town of Pennington is nnder
The necessity of standing IL suit
brought by Il resident for IS 900 dam
ages, for injury caused by defective
sidewalk.
The inaugural trials of the Nation
al American Kennel Club, on pima.
ted grouse or prairie chickens. will
come off at Failmont, commencing
sept. 4th.
The Fargo Republican says that
Fuller K Johnson nave sold this sea.
son 500 harvcSterS and binders, 500
mowers, 500 hay rakes ald 300 wag-
onS.
The Minnesota delegates to the
convention of charities and correct
IONS, at Madison, have recommended
10 Gov. Hubbard the appointment of
State Board.
William Hartmann, of Winona. left
his bride two days after their mar
IMAGE ON the pretense of visiting st.
Paul, and has not been seen or heard
from since. A supposed case of de-
SertiOn.
Two tramps entered the house of
VIM. Anderson in Redwing, last Fri
day evening, and stole $l85 and a
new suit of clothes. He discovered
them in his wood shed and drew "A re.
volvrr, hut they went him one better
and was forced to leave.
A poor fellow. at present at Gale.
donia. left his wife in Chicago a few
months ago, for the purpose of look.
ing up work in the west. He is now
all broke up upon receipt of Il letter
from her that she has procured
divorce and asking him to pay half
the expense. which amount to $50.
He has gone further west.
John Kenna, living near Benson,
snffOcated in well on his farm last
week. a man went down after him
but when near the bottom insisted in
being drawn up. He tainted when
near the top and it was with difficulty
he was revived. Fire damp.
The recent sale of 10000 acres of
railroad land in Pipestone and Rock
counties, to an English syndicate,
has been effected. The price paid
was $3.50 per acre. 10000 acres in
Rock county have been purchased by
Il Davenport capitalist. and negotia-
tions are about closed for the sale of
$4,000 acres belonging to the same
railroad company to Danish purchas-
ers, for colonization purposes.
The St. Peter Tribune of last week,
says night blooming ccreus belong
ing to Mrs. G. II. Brown, bloomed last
Friday night. 1t commenced OPEN
ing about Z o'clock and by IL was in
full bloom. 1t was an unusually
large one, measuring around the out
side leaves "a inches. At II o clock
the leaves began to recede, and by
was fully closed, never to
open again. The blOssOming of this
flower is always of inter-
est and many visitors were present
to see this one display.
The match between Commodore
kittsOn's stallion Won A rnim, and the
Chicago stallion Monroe Chief, for
~, 500 side has been made. Col.
King. on hearing of it. offered $1,000
us added money for the race to be
trotted ut Minneapolis during the
fair. The offer has been accepted,
and IL sporting event of unparalleled in
tercst to this section will follow.
The Winona Republican, of the 18th
inst. under the head of, 1.-The Prog
ress of Agriculture says:
Despite what seemed TO be an I'M
propilioui season, the harvest
the country is an except
iunally abundant one. American fan
mers ought To he well satisfied at the
prospect. Agriculture is the found
alton of all prosperity and we may
therefore indulge the hope that the
outlook for the future, in I'LL branci. -
of business, is highly satisfactory.
The evolution of the plow has been
one of the most remarkable in the
history of the country. When the
present is cOntraStcd with the past,
the life of the agriculturist appears
particularly advantageous. No class
has been so much benefited by the
improvements of the last quarter OF
il century than those who cultivate
the soil. The work of the farmer
has been greatly lessened by labor
saving machinery; manufactured fer
tilizers and improved methods of cul
ture have added to the productive
ness of the soil; but the advance in
prices of farm prod ucts has heen
hest of all. A writer i'll the New
York Herald has recently cOmpileda
table of prices from 1916 to 1889, from
which we Gull few instructive items:
Wheat in 1915 sold from 2j to 40
cents Il bushels. now it brings from
81 to $1.40 bushel. Corn then
ranged from IL to 20 cents u bushel,
now it brings from 10 to 80 cents for
the same quantity. Oats were then
Is cents, now from 40 to SIS cents.
Eggs then sold for cents il dozen,
now they are taken quickly at from
10 to 25 cents. Butter per pound was
then from to ~ cents, now it ranges
from 20 to 35 cents. Cheese per
pound was then from to cents,
now it is from l3 to 10 cents per
pound. Hay per ton then sold from
So to IS, now from SO to $40. Sheep
per head then sold from so to IS cents
now they bring from $3.50 to $3.50.
Within the lifetime of middle-aged
men farmers sold their wheat at from
40 to so cents Il bushel, hauling it by
teams forty to sixty miles to market,
sometimes requiring an absence of
three days to sell single load. Now
they have markets almost at their
doors, and market an entire crop in
less time than it formerly required
to dispose of half a dozen loads
Nor is this half; every thing that the
farmer has to buy has been gradually
cleapened. The authority already
quoted gives few examples. rs fol-
lows:
In 1916 one bushel of corn would
buy one pound of nails. In 1882 one
b,sl!el of corn would buy Is pounds
of nails. In 1915 it took from twenty
to eighty dozens of eggs to buy one
bushel of salt. In 1882 one dozen of
eggs will do the same thing. In 1918
1t required sixty-fOur bushels of bar
ley to buy one yard of brOadclOth. In
1882 five bushels of harley would do
the business. In l8l6it required one
bushel of wheat to buy one yard of
calico. In 1882 one bushel of wheat
would buy thirty five yards of a bet
ter article. In 1916 pair of WOODEN
blankets cost as much as Il COW. In
1882 y COW would buy from six to
twenty PAIRS of blankets superior in
every way. In 1915 it required about
Zen pounds of cheese To buy one ward