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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
TRANSPORTATION of Supplies

The contract for the transportation OF
supplies to government posts on the upper
Missouri hiss been closed with Edward
Comings of st. Paul, MINI. He will begin
operations as soon as the papers are execu.
the current month. His service will be be-
tween Yankton and Bismarck, distance OF
613 miles, for which he will be paid 52a
cents per 100 pounds each 100 miles trans
ported. To do the work Mr.. Comings has
secured the Eclipse, W. J. Behan, Gen. Ter
ry and Gen. Meade, and, from present indi-
cations, is of the opinion that he will have q
prosperous season of freight and passengers
For the route from Bismarck to Benton q
Mr.. Wright is said to be the lowest bidder,
yet been made.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
Personalities

An agent of the United States cattle COM
mission sent to West Virginia to inspect the
disease among the cattle west of the Allie
ghany mountains said to be pleuro-pneu-
monia, reports it to be tuberculous, and
doubt herever is e e1p ss as to the Sem ac
curacy of his conclusions.
Father Fleming, who made sensation
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12

A New York doctor says the best cure
he knows of for a cold is the old fashion,
ed sweat. Take ten grains of quinine,
hot mustard foot bath, and stiff glass
Of toddy-or, rather, I should say, hot
Rmonade. -. -.~1 IL.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
E. F. Lane, assistan. to the attorney

E.. F. Lane, assistan. to the attorney
general, has informed w. w. Pendergast
clerk to the superintendent of public in
struction, that school teacher could COL
lect her wages monthly, and not be COM
PEELED to wait until the end of the term; al
SO, that when the money was not paid upon
demand the teacher was entitled to interest
from the time the salary was due until
paid. When director refused to counter
sign an order, the treasurer is not author
lied to lay. but proceedings may be COM
.nenced against the director by mandamus,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12

Mr.. Human, the Interpreter of the
Sioux commission, has gone to the vari-
GUS agencies for the purpose of obtain
ing the signatures of three-tourths Of the
adult Indians in the bands. This task is
regarded as hopeless, but at the same
time it is attempted flor the purpose of
satisfying congress.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
Crimes and Criminals.


An attempt by DR.. g. II. Marshall Of
Pittsburg to blackmail the actress Mary
Anderson just came to light. Marshall
wrote two letters to Miss Anderson's step.
father, DR.. Griffin, in which he stated he
had letters of Miss Anderson's written to
certain parties, which, if published, would
create sensation, and offering to sell them
for 1900. The postal authorities are now
working up the case.
At Sioux City, George A. Edmunds, for
merly well-known merchant of Corrections
Vile, Iowa, who failed about three months
ago, shot and fatally wounded q grocer
named Hose, of Goss, Hose & Co., whom he
found at his home at IL o'clock last Satur-
day night, But little concerning the ARRAY
can be learned, as Edmunds refuses to talk.
Hose will probably die.
Charles G. Jackson, James Dever, and D.
P. Duncan have been indicted by the grand
Jury in San Francisco in connection with
the alleged frauds in the street department
under the late municipal government. The
allegations are forgery, perjury, obtaining
money under false pretenses by a system OF
false warrants and dummy system of pay
rolls. It is alleged that 500, 900 has been
stolen in this manner.
At the Chester, GILL; prison, four cnnvicts
attempted to escape. William Mccormick,
serving for violation of the postal laws,
was shot through the upper part of his left
leg. James Rogers in for the same offense,
was shot in the shoulder. Another was shot
and slightly wounded. All were speedily
captured and placed in the solitary. The
tumult lasted about ten minutes.
Mrs. Dick Gross, handsome widow,
who recently brought suit for damages
against the Buffalo Courier. Elmira Tele.
gram, Syracuse Herald, Erie Dispatch and
two or three other journals, that had &C.
cused her OF being professional blackmail-
er, is found to have been all that was charg-
ed. and has been arrested for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
In prize fight at Dubois, Pa, recently.
between Mike Mclaughlin and Martin
Linsky, miners, six rounds were fought. In
the last round both men cl1nched and fell,
Linsky breaking his neck in the fall, which
resulted in instantaneous.death. McLaugh-
lin gave himself up to the authorities. The
participants in the fight were not over eigh-
teen years of age.
Howard Underwood was hanged at Char
lesion, Mo. He made aspeech to the crowd
of eco ammo :ncing his intention to 20
straightway2 10 Jesus, and he showed no
signs of fear. Hekilled Bell Lucas. colored,
by shooting her and breaking her head to
pieces, more than year ago.
Elk United States Marshal N. A. Russell,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12

The diamonds worn by New York bar
tenders are said to be worth $3.50, O)O.
The Philadelphia News remarks that
the carbuncles worn on the noses of New
York bar patrons probably cost about
s. .CCO. 900.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
School Laws and Text Books.
The superintendent of public instruction b.
ssued the following circular:

issued the following circular:
First-The law requiring at least four months of
school to entitle district to the annual apporton-
ment will be in force after Sent. 1. 1888:
Secoud-Blanks for the county text-book agents
bonds have been issued. All other blanks will be
issued during the coming week. acquisitions
should be made promptly. District clerks may de-
post their books at depository and take receipt
from the agent upon form provided. This receipt
should be sent to the county treasurer. who will
place the amount to the credit Of the district and
charge the same to the agent.
Third-The added transportation charges have
been redis;l buted. so that the prices will be in
ives and tens to facilitate the making change, as
follows:
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12

Some gene rous man, who declined to
have his name mads public, has given
$4,000. for the erection of wing on the
Homeopathic Hospital in Boston.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
Casualties of the Week.

OStS1dHt1cS VI C1l0 :" ceA.
At Baltimore, boy threw lighted match
into a manhole sewer. An explosion FOL-
lowed which damaged the street and houses
probably $4,000. While removing the de-
bris, th9 bodies OF Charles A. Mccarthy and
Andrew Hentenach, children, were found in
the sewer They were playing in the street
at the time ofthe explosion.
AT Sioux City few days ago fire Quilted
Peavy & Stevens furniture store. Loss on
stock. $15, 600; insurance, $4,000. Loss on
building, $4,000; insured.
Parks brass fitting establishment andithe
Waterloo Yeast company's office, Toronto.
Insured.
The business PORTION of Rutland, Ind,
was burned on Thursday.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12
Kinds of Books Price, Kinds OF Books Price
Common School Practical Arithme-

Fourth-The bill requiring that children be at
leas. six years Of age to be enrolled in the public
schools did not pass, as has been supposed. 1t
passed the senate, but was not returned from the
house, and was never engrossed.
D. L. KIEHLE,
Superintendent Public instruction,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-12

A cigar may be the best in the world,
but sooner or later it meets it's match,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20
No. 6.

just what Is going to play the mischief with
nine-tenths Of the people who are going into
the poultry business at present. This poul-
try business is just like any other business
it must be thoroughly learned before it can
be managed su successfully. And it cannot be
learned in one season, neither can it be learn
ed wholly from books and papers; the
knowledge necessary to enable one to man
age large poultry farm prontably must be
acquired little at time by practical expe-
rience in the poultry yard. Poultry farm
ing on large scale will be profitable when
those who propose to engage in it are content
to begin in small way, and let the business
grow yearly until it is as large as a man
can manage. And the deluded mertals who
are rushing into the poultry business because
they imagine that caring for thousand hens
would be an easy way to earn ST, 900 or ST.
500 year, had better get that idea out of
their head pieces as soon as possible, / haye
made thousand dollars year from my
poultry, and | didn't have thousand stock
fowls. and was not in the business in big
way at all, but assure you that it was not
what one might call ''easy" work. There
is plenty Of downright hard work in caring
for any considerable number of fowls so as
to make them pay living profit.
All this may seem like wet blanket to
the enthusiastic chaps who propose to do
such big things in the way of raising pouI-
try and eggs tor market, but let me assure
them that don't mean it that way at all. |
only want to counsel the inexperienced ones
to go slow at first, and thereby avoid failure
and pecunary loss.-Cor. Prairie Farmer.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20
PLANTS FOR THE WINDOW GARDEN

Most housewives try to raise too MANY
klnds OF house plants. -Four or five good
strong plants OF geraniums, which viii make
a compact show in the window. are usually
preferable to single plant of each of a half
dozen different varieties. ssVariety IS the
spice OF life" however. and. to a certain ex-
Ceht, lt Is true OF the window garden.
Enough variety can usually be obtained
from six or eight different planls is an ordi-
nary window. For winter bleomng, the
following eight plants will be found desira-
BILE: One rose geranium, one heliotrope.
three Chinese primroses, one sweet alvssum,
one calla, two AZalea Indica. one English
or German ivy. one rose, either Agrippiaa
red or Hermosa pink. The Chinese primu-
las are especially desirable for winter. as
they will thrive with less light than most
planrs The roses ueed nuch light. and.
unless it can be given them, their place had
better be filled oy premulas or other plants.
Bouyhrdias, if well grown, are usually fa
Vortes, and, as thsy endure the dryness of
living rooms, one plant might be substitut-
ed for rose in the above list. 1t has been
our experience, however, that housewives
do not generally have the best of success
with bouVardias. Fuchsias are desirable for
spring blooming, but, as usually managed.
they are not a success Azaea lndica is a
fine window garden species, and under ocd-
nary treatment will give mass of bloom
during the entire months of March and
pril.-Amefican C4ltiyator.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20

The financial importance to wheat, not
only to grain dealers and OH boards Of trade.
but on the stock exchange as well, is very
evident, and the Shrewd financier Of the la,-
ter guild watches the prospects # the grew
ing crops with an interest equal to that of
those Immediately concerned and with a
far wider knowledge of its import. The
reasons are readily seen in the light of facts
Ihe wheat OF this couAtry, roughly estimat-
ed at 100000, 600 bushels, is about one fourth
OF that OF the world. In the handling, then.
OF the wheat of the world, five cents per
bushel would give the sum OF 800, 900 900.
Ihe average cos OF transportation from
Chicago to New York is IA cents, range
OF shipment which is but a small fraction OF
the routes of a vast amount of these wheats.
VI the home consumption, much OF that re-
quired tor seed is imported while there is
that does not require more or less transpor-
tation. The consumption of wheat in bread
is constantly increasing. and is a tair index
of civilization. The poor rye, barley and
potato eaters of Europe, and the celored
race of the south, az they improve, demand
wheaton bread; and cereful statisticians
claim that five bushels per capita is only
reasonable estimate of our home cOnsnmp-
tion of wheat. When one thinks of the vast
capital involved in creating agricultural and
milling machinery, in the elevators and
gram handling facilities that this crop re-
qnires, the mind is baffied with the figures.
But that which is now Immediately repre-
sented on the stock exchanges are the rail
roads and shipping interests. Thousands of
miles of railway to the best wheat produc-
ing regions of the West and Northwest, and
through the endless acreage possible to this
product in India, have been the result of
the requirements Of this traffic The same
impulse that has been felt on the continent
is moving on to cid Asia. and stirring uD
China that most ancient and immobie of
kingdoms. The islands of The sea and the
new continent OF Australia, have felt the
same great wave OF influence, while the
present national conflict over another Suez
canal it would be a matter of little surprise
should the demands of this traffic place the
ships themselves, laden with wheat, upon
the rails and transfer them from the Indian
to the Mediterranean sea. To the interests
of this city this traffic is of the utmost i'm
portance, and seems to be duly appreciated.
1t is stated in this connection by the New
York Daiy StockhoLdsr, that Chicago is
yearly afording better market than New
York, as the prices of all the grains are
comparatively higher ia the former than in
the latter city. The estimate tor 1880 shows
l.3 cents in favor of Chicago
Elevator and Grain Trade
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20

establishment. the breaking OF country
bank, or even a succession OF such financial
rever$es. only produces a. ripple upon the
sea of trade, which subsidies in a briet time
are not as high AS a year ago, but farmers
have more of everything to sell, and are in
better shape generally. The only drawback
lies in the fact that a political campaign is
upon us, TO last fer six weeks or more, and
this always interferes with the business OF
the country to a greater or less extent For
tunately there is no question of currency in
volved in the coming election, and no seri-
Gus disturbance in business will occur, what
ever may be the result.-Ohio Farmer.
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Ne VonseholA.
GOOD BREAD.

The art of making good bread is one that
every woman should be proud to possess.
The progress which has been made during
the last twenty-five years has been very
great, but there is yet room for still further
Improvement, for even now the rule is that
| the daily bread of the masses is not up to
that quality which is best adapted to the
promotion Of health. That the constant
eating of poor bread causes dyspepsia is
fact too well known to require any further
evidence to prove it, and that dyspepsia is a
great cause OF irritability is also well
known fact; therefore, in a household
where poor bread is the rule, unless the
members OF IT have an unusually good dis
position, unpleasant controversies will be
likely to occur.
Were we to give advice to a young house
keeper, we should say make yourself mas
ter OF the art OF bread making, and thus not
only promote the health of the members of
the household, but also aid in preventing
unpleasant words caused by disordered
stomach.
Our mothers had not tile material to make
good bread that we have; the yeast that
they used was not as well adapted to the
making OF good bread as that which is now
to be had in the grocery stores of the cities
and large towns; or which any woman can
now learn TO make herself from potatoes.
The test of good bread is not i'm its light
ness, or its color, but in the condition it is
in while being masticated. If If sticks to-
gether while being chewed it is not good
bread, whatever may be its other conditions,
but j! ii readily divides and crumbles in the
mouth it is an indication of good bread be-
cause it readily absorbs the saliva which is
so important to assist digestion.
There is quite as much art in baking bread
as in preparing it tor the oven, for to have
it good it should not only be put in the oven
when risen just enough, but should be put
IN an oven of just the right temperature :
shoald the oven be too hot or too cold the
bread will not be as good. To bake it well
1t must be carefully watched, and if one side
OF the oven bakes faster than the other, as is
frequently the case, turned as often as is
necessary to have it bake even. 1t requires
experience to know just when TO take a loa
OF bread frsm the oven to have it fully
baked; and yet not done too much Some
persons believe that bread is very much i'm
proved If when taken from the oven it be at
once cover ed with linen cloth, and kept
covered until d.-Massathusetts PIou0h-
man.
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GOOD TIMES.

Ii ever this country enjoyed good times''
il is now. True, occasona, failures occur
IN the business world but they are the result
OF improper management or the attempt to
do business without capital We shall al
ways have such men in business, and fail
ures will always transpire accordingly. The
health OF trade should not be guaged bv
them. Good times, however, means good
crops, money in circulation sufficient for all
demands, food of all kinds for man and
beast abundant, labor generally employed,
fair prices for all staple articles, currency
worth one hundred cents on the dollar, and
no initiation of values or undue excitement
in any line Of trade. 10 not all these con-
ditions exist now? The firm basis on which
the business of this vast country is based, is
shown in the fact thata heavy failure in
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20
TO MEASURE HAY.

We are asked how to ascertain by meas
urement the quantity of hay i'll ricks after
being stacked and settled sixty days. 70
measure hay with any reasonable chance OF
arriving within twenty per cent. of the ac-
tual quantity, the ricks must be built square
ly from the ground to the shoulder and then
tapered off evenly to the top, then the body
of the stack can be measured right Measure
the length, breadth and height to the shout
der, and multiply the number of feet together
and then divide by the number of cubic feet
agreed on as making ton. This will give
the bulk of the stack pretty nearly correct,
but the stack from the shoulder to the ton
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mas ye' TO ne measured, and this measure
ment depends entirely on the pitch, If it is
well built like The roof of house, at half
p'tcll, then the measurement from the shoul-
DER to the top is as easy AS the body OF tie
stack, and all that is necessary is to multiply
the length by the breadth. and by halt its
height, and divide by the number Of cubic
lee1 estlmate9 for each ton but this is sell
dom done because the exact angle of the
top of rick is seldom ascertained and gen
orally there is good deal of guess work
about it. The best way is to include the
whole stack at once; measure the length.
multiply it by the breadth and by the height
IL would be If built flat on top with the same
nay that is in the rick, and then divide by
the cubic feet estimated in the ton. then on
tive measurements (the length and treadth)
and one nearly so (rhe height AS nearly cor
rect weight can be ascertaiued as can be ar
rived at by any measurement.
Seven feet each way (7x7A7) makes 343
feet, which is generally allowed to make a
ton OF settlea hay. Seven and half feet
Q3x'3X73) each way makes 42l $40 cubic
feet, which is generally allowed as a ton tor
hay stacked only few days. So If you take
rick 40 feet long, Is broad aud Is feet high.
(guess work from shoulder) by multiplying
'hese figures together you arrive at 10. 500
cuhlc teet. which if divided by 243 gives as
the answer 81 tons and l67 over. or nearly
half ton; this being on the basis OF 7 feet
each way Tor ton OF settled hay, which is
the only basis we would accept
mat this is not scientific, we are well
aware, and ot the scientific measurements
Tor Weis hing hay we have no use, because
exact measurement would require that
cube of hay be cut from the stack. and
weighed, as the basis for the whole stack,
and this is too fine an operation fer our
blood, and is as difficult to dc as to Welph
the stack entire, and we have no use either.
tor circular stacks, for experience has taught
US that all the measurements made on them
lead to arguments and quarrels, and some
"ae gets swtndied in the end .-Tsuas Lire
Stock Stock Journal
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-12-20
CHICKEN CHAT.

"The chicken business is just booming .
writes prominent poultry breeder, and
Judging from the letters that receive from
people who are anxious to try their hands
a getting rich out of the hen business. and
from the chicken items that pick up here
and there, | should say that he states the
case pretty fairly. Poultry houses, many of
them large and expensive. are going up all
over the country; breeders of thoroughbred
fowls find ready sale for all their surplus
stock; pullets OF any breed, or of no breed
at all, are in great demand at prices much
above market rates; dealers in poultry sup
plies wear cheerful faces incubator manu-
facturers are rushing things in order TO meet
the icreasing demand for hatchine machines.
and taken altogether, everything indicates
That lots OF people are going headlong into
poultry farming on large scale.
Ot course, all these beginners have great
expectations some of them have made
considerably more than dollar per head
profit from a small flock of fowls. and they
expect to do the same with large flock.
ners in every serse OF the word Practically
they know nething about the management
of poultry; they have read of nusnerous in
stances where market poultry raSers in a
small way have made from one to three dol
lars per head profit on every adult fowl
kept. and they see no reason why they
should not go and do likewise with a
flock OF 1000 hens. They frankly admit
that their knowledge of poultry raising is
chiefly theoretical, bnt then "anybody who
it is easy enough"
Oh, yes. it is easy enough to manage
poultry-after you know how, and even
persons who have had no experience with
poultry, can take small number of fowls,
and by reading up and studying their habits
and wants as they go along, manage to
make them pay fairly well. But the kind
of common sense that would enable an inex-
perienced poultry raiser to manage 200
hens 80 as to make them pay profit OF ST.
900 year is extremely rare-so rare that
during all the years of my poultry pilgrim
age have never seen any ef it.
Lots Of people have tried the thousand
hen business-there is certain fascination
about it that the victim of the hen fever cam
not resist. but not one of them ever made it
profitable enough to keep at it mere than
one or two years. Still it does not follow
that poultry farming on large scale cannot
be made to pay | believe it can. If a man
can make S25 a year from % hens, there is
really no good reason why he cannot make
81 900 year from 1000 hens, and when he
fails to succeed with larger number, the
fault is with the man and not with the fowls.
In every case of failure that have noted
could readily point out the cause, and in the
majority of instances it was simnlv laek 81
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The simple plan OF storing eggs In dry
ashes has been used for some time by cer-
respondent OF the Live Stock Journal with
very satisfactory results. Though rather
fastidious about their quality, he reports
having enjoyed those thus kept during a
period OF mere than tour months, and, in
one instance. a whole year, The only pre-
cautions seem to be (besdes, of course,
sound eggs to begin with) to see that the
ashes are quite dry, and to see that the eggs
do not touch one another"