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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

This question is asked by the Swine
Breeders Journal, and it proceeds to
discuss the matter. 1t says: "The
above question is often asked and then
answered by referring to some person
who has sold lot of heavy hogs at the
very highest market price. Just as
though it cost no more to raise 400 or
500 pound hog than it does to raise one
weighing 200, when at the same time it
is well-established fact that it costs
nearly if not quite double per pound,
to raise a hog weighing 500 than
it does to raise one that only
weighs 200 pounds. Now, it takes very
good feeding, ordinarily, to make ten
pounds of pork to the bushel of corn,
and very often requires good deal of
"houseslop" and grass mixed in to make
even that gain, and at that rate it takes
fifty bushels of corn to make 500 pounds
of pork. The corn at so cents per
bushel-the present market price
would be worth $25; 500 pounds of
pork at cents per pound would be
worth $50; here then you have S. for
your trouble and risk in the hog, house
Stops and grass thrown in, not an
extra profit for the labor and
risk incurred, say you? But, then, it
is q fact, well understood by care-
full feeders, that you can't make ten
pounds of pork per bushel if you feed
your hogs till they weigh 400 or 500
pounds, and I here venture the asser-
ton that in most instances where such
heavy hogs are marketed they have cost
more than they bring on the market.
Take the average farmer who carries
his pigs through the Winter as stockers,
runs them on grass the next summer
and then feeds them out in the Fall SO
as to weigh from 400 to 500 pounds or
even 300, and in q large majority. Of.
cases the corn and grass they eat is
worth more than the hogs would sell
for. especially SO whore hogs are
kept IN muddy pen and the
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
THE HOME CIRCLE and FARM.
Farnl Notes.

"New milk weighs" says the Boston
American Cultivator, "8pounds 8 ounces
per gallon; skinned milk, s pounds
ounces; cream, pounds ounces; but
termilk, pounds 81 ounces, and wat
er pounds ounces. Those who be-
lieve in testing milk by the lactometer,
or any specifc-gravity test, will OBJ
serve that gallons of skinned milk
and gallon of water will have the
same specific gravity as gallon of
! milk"
When it is decided to fatten farrow
COW, the sooner milking is discontinued
the sooner will she be ready for the
shambles, and the better will be the
quality of the beef. The best beef is
that quickest made, and the formation
of flesh and fat cannot go on rapidly
when the nutriment of the food goes in
to the milk-pail.
In Northern Dakota, recently, q
traction engine drew eight plows, turn
ing sod four inches thick as evenly
and we'll as could be done by horse
power, and at rate of over twenty five
acres day.
The American Agriculturist gives the
wise advice to farmers not to strike
matches for any purpose in the barn.
If the lantern goes out it is better to
+ feel ones way out than to run the risk
Of burning the barn down, with it's valu-
| able contents.
Mr.. Goffart, the inventor of the ensil-
age system at his farm in France, tried
ensilage twenty-one years before he
said much about it. It costs him 3.6
cents day to feed Il COW, and he estim-
ates the cost of ensilage at 80 cents per
ton
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
History ReWritteu.

An anecdote in Lippincott's Magazine
illustrates the proverbial pride Of
Frenchn an in their own country, and
their belief that most of the good
in the world has been done by their own
nation. The remark of the italian lady
is witty, but is far less characteristic:
One day Charlie came home from
school in a Estate of mind"
"What do you think Monsieur Agis,
one of the pions, told our class to- day %
he asked Indignantly. "He told them
that the United States would have been
an English colony to-day but for the
French and Lafayette, and that French
was the principal language of the coun-
try, being spoken both in Canada and
New Orleans. I rose in my seat to ask
if he had ever heard of George Wash
ington; to which he answered.
"'Oh yes, Washington was q brave
man; but it was the French who beat
the English f..
Whereupon Charles mamma told us
little anecdote Of her experience in
Ital1. =. 80 &c - % = e:s:&,.5 F. =.
"You Americans have SO much better
accent in speaking our Language than
the English have, " said An italian lady
to her one day. suppose it IS because
an Italian discovered you."
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
Feminine Fortunes.

Somebody says that the wealth of
this country is rapidly accommodating in
the hands Of women. It is certainly a
fact that if Newport bears any relation
to the rest of the United States, this
semi-facetious statement is true. It is
almost monotonous when the roll IS
called in the morning at the Casino and
at the afternoon drive, for it is the
roll of wealth that is called, and
one is able to appreciate here to
certain extent, us foreigner
does, our worship of the national god.
Actually recalling the experiences Of
the season thus far, can not recollect
any other distine uishing trait having
been mentioned. The accumulation Of
riches among women here is certainly
in it's way impressive. There is Mrs.
Gammell, who enjoys, or at least we
will hope she does, the. national repu-
tation of being the richest married
woman in the country. The golden lalo
which surrounds Miss Catharine Wolfe
is also recognized in the length and
breadth of the land. These ladies'
between them represent at least
b30,O00,000. Mrs Paren Stevens GER
tainly stands for So 100000. Mrs. Will
liam Astor, by the death of her two
brothers, is herself the mistress of ST.
100000. Miss Florence Lyman has
the disposition Of 81 100000, and Miss
Ellen Mason and her sister divide
several millions between them. There
must also be reckoned the wealth Of Miss
Rachel Kennedy and of Miss Emily
Gibbes and her sister. I should have
mentioned, even before these, Mrs.
Gardiner Brewer, Of whom I can
tell you nothing new, and Mrs
Bruen, whose noble estate is on
Bellevue avenue. Here also must be
enumerated Mrs. Edward King. nor
forgotten the little maid Perkins at
Lawnfeld, and Mrs. Eleanor Harris
horne, her neighbor. In town again
are Mrs. Isaac Bell, Jr. and Mrs. Dun
can Pell, Mrs. Kernochan and Mrs. Adj
miral Baldwin, all Independently rich
of their husbands estates. Again are
Mrs. E. D. Morgan and Mrs. S. S. Whit
ing. These by no means exhaust the
list, but memory halts before the en-
barrassment of riches.-Newport Let
tor
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

In June last, in circus company
showing at Rock Rapids, was man
named Robinson, an old lover of the
wife of Herman Burnhantz, resident
of Rock Rapids. -Four days after the
circus left Burnhantz died. His wife
soon after went to Chicago, where she
met Robinson and they were married,
and the couple returned to Rock Rap
ids to live. About 400 citizens went to
their house, destroyed it and it's con-
tents, put a rope around Robins on s.
neck and would have hanged him had
he not prom Used to leave the state at
once, which he did.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

calm reflection induced him to fol-
low Sums shrewd example, and the re-
suit was that both gentlemen the
following Saturday carried with them
propitiatory offerings to be sacrificed on
the alter of congual affection.
On reaching Eastbourne they were
met by their wives in the carriage, and
Mr.. Battledore, at all events, felt by no
means grateful for this little attention.
However, he and Sam took their seats
opposite the ladies, trying their best to
look az if they had nothing on their
minds, and above all no guilty secret.
But before Mr.. Battledore had time to
recover his self-possession, his wife said ::
"Joseph, you remember my speaking
to you about letter I wrote to you last
week."
"Ye-yes," said Mr.. Battledore, win
cling at a nudge from Sam.
"Well, never sent it, after all On
ly this morning I discovered it among
the leaves Of my blotting book. I for.
got to post iE" !:
ut is of NO consequence of course, "
chimed in Mrs. Newell "only you will
be the loser, Sam, Mrs Battledore wrote
to her husband to buy you new cigar
case on my behalf, and to have your in
itials engraved upon it. Tomorrow,
you know, is your birthday"
Mr.. Battledore was by no means reas-
sured by these speeches. On the con-
trary, he realized that he was in a worse
fix than ever, since he would now be
called upon to explain what he meant
by saying he had received the letter. A
sort of sickly feeling came over him as
his wife said:
by the way, Joseph, you said you
had received the letter, and talked as
though you knew all about it."
"And you, Sam, said Mr.. Battledore
had mentioned the subject to you;
and I was vexed at the time, as of
course it was secret" interposed Mrs.
Newell.
"The fact u.s." said Sam, coming gal.
lantly to the rescue, for Mr.. Battledore
was at loss to find words, "as Joe
said to me afterwards, we have been at
cross purposes. We each had secret,
and we thought you had discovered
ours. Joe let out that blue was the
color he had chosen. When I tried to
find out how the land lay from my wife,
she nearly made me betray every
thing by asking questions. However,
I dare say neither of you guess what it
is"
"No, indeed!" cried both the ladies',
considerably mystifed by this incoherent
explanation, and on tiptoe of excite
ment.
"Well, here, Maria" he said, produc.
ing a bracelet, like conjurer. EN-
eralds, you see. Don't you remember
my saying it was sort of blush green
or something. Well, Joe's Offering, I
believe, has blue stones-turqoises."
Mr.. Battledore took the hint, and
handed to his wife the bracelet he had
bought as peace Offering, in wardly
marvelling at his old friends wonderful
tact and impudence, and beginning to
breathe quite freely again. In fact, it
was evident that Sans extempore dis.
course, followed up by the bracelets,
had satisfactorily explained what was
mysterious in their recent behavior,
and the secret of the unhallowed expe-
dition to Paris seems unlikely ever to be
revealed. Truth.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
q. N. ID.

Walking down Broadway is very pleasant
when you feel well, and T-K-never felt bet
ter than when his friend asked him how he
got over that severe cough OF his so speedily
ssAh, my boy" said T =. &C: NJ D. did it!'
And his friend wondered what G. NJ D. meant
He knewit did not mean Good Many Doctors
for T-K-had tried q dozen in vain. 81 have
it." SAID he, just hitting the nail on the head
s'you mean DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis:
covery,' or Gold Medal Deserved as my FRIEND
J-S-always dubs it" Sold by druggists.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

It is given out on good authority that Deputy
Commissioner Clarke will be appointed com.
missioner of pensions to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Gen. Dudley. Mr.: Clarke
who halls from Rhode Island, has been deputy
commissioner for many years, and thoroughly
conversant with the bureau in all it's details.
1t is believed that his appointment will give
general satisfa action.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

All English statistician maintains
that the daily increase Of wealth in the
United States is upward of $25, 900, 900.
or about 1898 ,OOO, 900, a year, which is
one-thrd as much as the increase in
wealth of the whole of the rest of the
world: England, whose increase in
wealth is next to our own, makes only
. profit on all her business of 5000, 900,
600 year, or but little over third
of orr own. VI. ~. -. =. !. ty..s-
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

A frightful accident occurred near the
village of Elwood. A farmer named
Carl Whitmore attempted to drive
across the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST..
Paul railroad in front of a freight train,
but the horses baked and the 1ocomo-
tive struck and smashed the wagon,
killed his wife and two children instant
~, while Whitmore himself was proba-
bly, fatally hurt.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
Young Naul-Raad This .

TIE VoLTA1C BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich.
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO Vol:
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trial for thirty days, to men young or old
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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

We especially invite a trial by all those suffer
ers from Kidney and Liver complaints who have
failed to obtain relief from other remedies and
from doctors. Natures great remedy, Kidney
wort, has effected cures in many obstinate cases
1t acts at once on the Kidneys, Liver and bow
els cleansing the system of all poisonous humors
portant organs. Do not be discouraged but try
it.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

We accidently overheard the following
dialogue on the street yesterday:
Jones. Smith, why don't you stop that dis
gushing hawking and splitting?
Smith. How can L You know am mar
tyr to catarrh.
J. Do as I did. I had the disease in it's
worst form but I am well now.
s. What did you do for it?
]. used T.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It
:1red ME and II will cure you.
s lvo heard of it, and by Jove III try it .
stores in town.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

By direction of the president, Capt. Charles
B. Bayard, Ninety ight cavalry, was dismissed
from the army for conduct unbecoming an Of
fcer and gentleman. Leave of absence has
been granted Maj Charles G. Byrne, surgeon.
Second Lieut. William A. Skunk, Eight cavalry,
has been ordered to conduct recruits from New
Capt. Logan, Fourth class, United States acad-
envy, has been accepted by the secretary OF
war. Cadet Logan is the son of Senator Logan.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
Columbia River Cannery.

Mr.. George Home, one of the largest Gamers
of fish, on Columbia River, Oregon says thai
he suffered with rheumatism for seven years,
having spent six months at Arkansas Ho1
Springs, and at Paso Robes Springs, Cal.
Finally he tried st. Jacobs Oil, the great pain
cure, and in a short time all stiffness and sore
ness of the Joints disappeared
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

In a letter from Hon. Mrs. Perry, Castle Gray,
Limerick, Ireland, Browns Bronchial Troches
are thus referred to: 'sHaving brought your
Bronchial Torches with me when I came to
reside here, I found that after I had given them
away to those I considered required them, the
poor people will walk for miles to get a few "
For Coughs, Colds, and throat Diseases they
have no equal. Sold only in boxes.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
According to the ANIMAL renort Of tha com

According to the annual report of the com
missioner of pensions, the United States has
1922 756 pensioners, costing in the aggregate
$34, 456, 900 annually. Since 1861 the govern
ment has paid out for this purpose total Of
nearly $679, 100000. The commissioner rec.
ommends further legislation removing re-
strictions from thousands who are now prevent
ed from making claim
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

In Vermont drinking men use litho.
graphic. prescript ions~ for - cocktails.
They read as follows: "R.-Spirs Fru-
menti, 2 &. OK. Ext Angos. i. dr.
Syr. Simp. I e. o." They are put up
BY druggists, who charge from 20 to so
cents prescription. l. sssa i q .z>..s:5:7
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

WHITE BEAVER, (oR FRANK PowELL.) 1t is
said on good authority that White Beaver of La
Crosse, Wis, has successfully treated more
cases Of female complaints and diseases arising
from the secret vices of the young than any
other doctor in the northwest
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
Small Farms Profitable.
m the 0ranpa Comfy Farmer


From the Orange County Farmer:
The owner of fifty acres of good
ground who thoroughly understands his
| business is better situated than his
neighbor who owns two hundred acres
and farms according to the old theories.
The small farmer has less investment,
pays less taxes, and cultivateY more
carefully than the large farmer. In
France and Germany the farms are
generally very small, often not fourth
but they are worked so carefully that
while steadily increasing in fertility they
still produce great deal more per acre
than our own. The owner of many
acres is apt to neglect the poorer por-
tons of ground, and, thus manuring,
rotating and cultivating are reduced to
a system that produces the best possible
| results.
An example of German gardening
will illustrate the point. Within three
miles of Port Jervis lives a German
family consisting of six or seven per-
sons. For years they have lived on
strip of sandy land less than two acres
in size, part of which is covered by the
dwelling, a barn and outhouses. The
woman of the family, an able-bodied
and intelligent person: who had learn
cd her work in Baden, cultivated this
piece of ground, and for series of
years supplied her table with vegeta-
bles and sold from $500 to $500 worth
OF vegetables annually. Every inch of
room was occupied. From earl y spring
to late autumn crop after crop Of let
tuce, beets, spinach, cabbage, pota-
toes, corn, beans, mangold wurzels,
asparagus, onions, endive, egg
plants, peppers, satisfy, caulifowers
and other plants appeared. Every bit
of waste material fit for the purpose
was thrown on the compost heap or
turned into liquid manure, and the nat
urally sterile peice of ground was made
to pay for itself over and over again.
The fences we're built in trellis form to
support grape vines, and not square
inch of ground escaped the pay
ment of tribute exacted by the indefati-
gable woman who titled it. Her meth
DDS are those in steady use in Germany,
| where overcrowded population has rem
dered necessary the thoroughest work
ing of the soil. Her plants for setting
are the first in the market, and she
is the last in the autumn to offer fresh
vegetables for the table. To such
a farmer fifty acres Of good land would
be fortune. It's such tillage as this
that makes it possible for French, Ger
man, English and Italian holders of
twenty acre or thirty-acre farms to
earn living, while American holders
of farms, of equally good land, ranging
from 100 to 500 acres, work about as
hard and are forever under mortgage
on the very verge of bankruptcy. The
future will certainly witness a great
revolution in American farming, and
one of the features calculated to bring
about better state of affairs will be
the division of land into smaller farms
and the consequent improvement in
agricultural methods.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

Dr. J. W. Hamilton of Mcmillan, Wis, says
Ihave sold Warmers White Wine Tar Syrup fol-
years. 1t is the best cough medicine in the
world and has no equal for asthma.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

Tho gray and bad no more shall grieve,
The signs of coming age,
For Carboline can both retrievs
And fullest griefs assuage.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

Ladies, attention! In the Diamond Dyes more
coloring is given than in any known dyes, and
they give faster and more brilliant colors.
1Oc- at all druggists. Everybody praises them.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

PURE COD LIVER OH made from selected vers,
| on the sea-shore, by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co.,
New York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet.
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all
Others. Physicians have decided it superior to
any of the other oils in market.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

Frank Chanfrau bequeathed his house and
three farms at Long Branch to his wife, Mrs.
Henrietta Chanfrau
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
For Sale bv all Medicine Dealers.

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.
An Invaluable Remedy.-None except those
who have suffered all the horrors of Dyspepsia,
can fully appreciate the value and efficacy of
Perry Davis Pain Killer, sovereign remedy
for this distressing disease in all it's forms il
used internally and externally, test it's virtues
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

The defeat of Richelieu Robinson and Con-
grsssman Finerty leaves ireland without a sin
gle representative in the lower house.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
A Special Invitation

William Johnson of West Virginia has eloped
with his pretty foster mother, who is the wife
of Lewis C. Cole, wealthy farmer
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

The advertisements Of furnished houses to
let in = Washington paper indicate that the low
est price a desirable house can be procured
for is $75 month; the highest is 1878
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

Diphtheria is increasing to an arlarming ex-
tentin Montreal, and typhoid prevails also.
Doctors attribute both epidemics to defective
city DRAINAGE
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

A Perfect Remedy for all abrasions Of the skin
and all diseases of the feet Of Horses and CATTLE Inva
liable to stocmen. Coles Veterinary Carboljsalve. In
Cole & Co., Props, Black River Falls, Wisconsin
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

DR.. Dewey Drake, who died at Arlington, S.
c., aged seventy-two years, was one Of the
most noted duel1sts of the South, and had
killed four of his adversaries.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20

The hot-water cure has become craze. A
New York druggist claims that he has 5,OO(
disciples now swallowing tumberfulls before
breakfast
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-20
The q est in the World,

The governor general has refused to inter-
fere in the case of Mrs. Boutel, the Murray (Ont
murderess, who will be hanged the Goth.