The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-06-30
NUMBER 1.
Industrial BraYities.

DandeliOns have become the fashion
able greens in all parts of tho country.
They are being cultivated by market
gardeners in the vicinity of all the east
ern cities, and are served up in the lead
ing hotels and restaurants.
The attention of capitalists is being
directed to the mineral resources of that
portion of Manitoba between Lake SUI
perior and Winnipeg. 1t is stated by
practical miners that gold exists in pay
ing quantities if the veins are properly
worked. laundering will also be pay
ing industry in that part of the prov
ince.
German observations show that the
annual yield of milk rises gradually
from the birth of the first calf till the
fifth, reaches its maximum after the
sixth. sinks gradually until the tenth
calf, when il is about the same as at the
first calving, and, after the thirteenth or
fourteenth calf, is only one-fourth or
one-lifth of the maximum yield.
The historic big elm, in West SPRING
field, Mass, one of the largest trees Of
that region, has been cut down. Its
trunk was twenty-seven feet in circum-
itiVhIO ott ITO paw.
Dow, who planted it, has been dead
forty-five years. He was prominent
farmer, and used to boast that on his
2lst birthday, in l776, he dug up the
tree in the Agawam river meadow and
bore it on his shoulders to the spot
which it has ornamented for the last LOG
years.
A rich find of gold is reported from
Victoria. Two prOspectors in Gipp's
Land came upon reef lately within a
foot of the surface, which in few days
yielded from 3 OF. to 10 or. per ton. In
one day 40 or. of pure gold was secured.
Ii is also said that some wonderful
stone, Il ton Of which will give not less
Than Is cwt. Of pure gold, has been dis
covered. We may expect to hear soon
of this prospect" being formed into a
limited liability concern.
During the last seven months 100, 900
tons of wheat was sent from the Punjab
to the London market-96, 900 tons COM
ing by way of Kurrachee, 5000 tons by
way of Calcutta, and 900 via Rajput-
ana To Bombay. The railway rate was
about one half-penny per ton per mile.
1t is reported that there are schemes on
foot for converting the waste but natur-
ally rich lands of the Punjab Doabs into
wheat fields; and there is no doubt that
great enterprise will be started in this
direction sooner or later.
At q late sitting of the Canadian par
Lament, Sir John Macdonald stated that
the reports as to the number of coloni-
cation companies applying for land
were gross eXaggeratiOnS. There were
not hundred of these companies, much
less five hundred, rs had been stated in
some quarters. TO some companies
grants have been made. Two coloniza-
ton companies had applied for about
seven million acres of land. BY grant
ing this land the companies We're anx-
iOus to make profit by selling the
lands, and the government secured
most energetic mode of settling the
country.
The New Jersey Horticultural Socie-
ty discussed ut a late meeting ut Vine
land, the subject of raising asparagus,
and the members are beginning to un-
derstand the importance of enough room
between the plants. Among the differ
ent distances recommended was one
foot by four, which is too near; three by
four, which is much better; and four by
six feet, which is best for all extensive
culture, if plenty of manure can be APP
piled. Shallow planting gave small
shoots, and '.there was more in the feed
than in the breed" One plantation of
three acres realized 81, 800 in single
season ut wholesale prices.