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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
A Great Poultry Farm.

Farm and Household.
There is a poultry farm OF 5000
Plymouth Rocks at Lancaster, Mass.
Mr.. Hawkins, it's owner, calculates to
have about 5000 fowls every fall, and
carries over 2, 50olaying hens through
the winter. His farm contains 25
acres, and his poultry buildings occupy
an acre and a half. These comprise
six or seven sheds 200 feet in length.
Each size is divided into apartments
Of 12x2O feet, and about 25 hens are
kept in each division. Ayard is made
IN front OF each apartment. Mr.. H.
believes that if confined poultry have
their wants attended to they will do
as we'll as if allowed free range. He
bases the belief on several actual tests.
In Matching time he sets 200 hens in
one day, and puts 500 eggs in an in
cubator, which is due to hatch on
the same day, the chickens from which
will be distributed among zoe hens.
His sales of fowls and eggs for hatch
ing at fancy prices are large, about
80 per cent. being profit. He also has
standing order of for soto 9Odozens
OF eggs daily, for which he gets the big
gest market price. Mr.. Hawkins be-
gan at the age Of Fl with 100 hens,
and by careful management and econ.
omy his business has enlarged so that
at the age OF 20, he has a very hand
some income. The poultry manure is
quite an item; he sold last year 500
barrels at $3.50 per barrel.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
A Hail Storm to Brag Of.

1t is seriously asserted that during
storm in the western part OF Texas,
recently hailstones weighing from seven
TO 12 pounds fell in great numbers,
and the occurrence is held up as some
thing extraordinary. It ism t a mark
er, however, says the Philadelphia
Press, as compared with the rip-and-
tear storm which swept down the val
ley OF the peaceful Cussewago creek in
crawford county during the hot
summer OF 1S4S. An old inhabitant
who witnessed the storm remembers
that the hail came down so thick that
after the particles became pulverized
somewhat there was good sIeighingfor
three days; one conical-shaped hail.
stone fell through the roof OF black
smith shop and punched a three-inchi
hole through a case-hardened anvil;
another struck a twelve-foot bar Of
railroad iron squarely on the end and
split it in two as perfectly as if it
had been sawed; one large hailstone
was housed over and covered with
sawdust and furnished three families
with ice until the new crop came in the
next winter, besides providing enough
for the lemonade at two grangers'
picnics; the weather was so cold for
five days after the storm that wood
went up so cents core, and when the
cattle killed by the storm were dressed
their hides were found punched so full
OF holes that they were sold to a por-
Gus plaster foundry for a mere trifle;
the hail that fell INTO the Cussewago
caused gorge in that stream which
overfowed the whole valley, and the
water was SO cold that potatoes in
the ground were frozen hard enough to
use for billiard balls in the country
taverns; and the places where some OF
the hailstones struck the ground were
afterward used as post holes by farm
ers in building fences. If Texas ever
witnesses q storm OF the Cussewago
variety we shall be disposed to listen
to it, but it won't do to send up any
little penny commonplace about sew.
en-pound hailstones.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
Caste in England.

London Letter:-The Queen occupies
socially the highest position of any
human being. British society can be
likened to a pyramid with the sides
curying inwardly from the top to a
broad vase. The apex may represen Mt
the..Queen and the royal family. Be-
low this apex society is divided into
distinct strata. The nobility can be
considered a stratum below the royal
family, subdiyided into minor strata,
commencing with dukes, followed in
their order by marauises, earls,
viscounts, barons, and baronets. The
untitled people are divided into strata,
commencing with the landed gentry,
who are the connecting link between
the middle class and the nobility. The
middle and lower classes are divided
also into clearly defined strata. The
heavy bankers, manufacturers, and
merchants, scientists and professors
in universities make up one stratum;
the. next consists of the same class,
only less prominent; then follows the
stratum composed OF the shopkeepers,
small manufacturers, ETC., after which
come the bookkeepers, teachers, fore.
men, and superintendent; then the
skilled working class. after which come
the common laborers. Each stratum
toadies to the stratum above, and
turns up its nose at the stratum
below. The stratum consisting OF the
unskilled laborers have no stratum
to look down upon, unless it be the
beggars and paupers. Ofcourse the
base OF such a pyramid must be
very broad one tojustly represent the
overshadowing number which COM
poses the lowest stratum. At pres:
ent the royal family and the titled
nobility are apparently firm in their
privileged position, but that terribly
broad lower stratum may, in the
course OF time, upheave and topple
the aristocratic portion of the pyra-
mid over. A man who is engaged in
business, no matter how extensive it
is and how educated and gentlemanly
he may be, is considered as being Sin
the trade" which is a bar to his being
presented to the Queen, and, conse.
quently, to his admission into the ga.
cred circle Of the aristocracy.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
An English Watering Place.

1OiA 1dT JcE DdZaT.
And the chief reason for this Area
dian delightfulness seems to be the
absence OF worry about dress. No.
body wore anything finer than ging
ham or cambria frock on those celes,
tial mornings; a short frock innocent
OF trimmings, cheap shade hat, NO
gloves. A dukes daughter in-law APP.
peared in the same checked gingham
gown every morning for fortnight
the same Or its fellow 1t might have
cost So, and she looked in it the high.
born beauty that she was. Her ducal
mother.in-law had been heard tc
remark that only Americans and
cads would dress for a watering place
public.
After luncheon everybody walked o,
drove among the hills, and over the
high, breezy, far-st1etching downs
Easy shoes and plain clothes still pre-
vailed. If the morning dress were
changed at all, it was for a warmer
suit equally plain. 1t was only at
dinner-tlme, in the privacy OF their
own circle, that these sensible English
women put on fine clothes and orna
ments, nor always then. They had
come thither to rest, and they would
not vex their souls with thoughts oil
raiment. Besides the saving OF time
and trouble, the saving OF money was
considerable. People could go to
fashionable resort to economic, and
have the charms of nature and sourc,
es of health thrown in. They could
return home with frightened complex.
ions and new energies, and money in
their pockets for the next London
season.
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Prime Butter.
The American Rural Home.

The American Rural Home.
Speaking Of an instance where gilt
edge butter-rnaker found his product
falling below the standard, the Amer
lean Cultivator remarks:
"Prime butter should break or cut
like wax. The knife cuts smoothly
through the print or lump, leaving but
a slight dampness on the blade. Such
is the result Of a judicious ration Of
grain and early-cut hay The substi-
tuition Of over-ripe hay and straw in
the ration Of the COW at once changes
the character Of butter to clumbly
mass, lacking the waxy consist ncy OF
choice butter. Such butter when cut
by the knife rolls down both sides in
a crumbly condition. Itlacl1s the fla.
vor and character SO essential to the
makeup OF g;lt-edge butter, and sells
at a very ordinary price. Causes so
apparently Insignificant as the change
i'll feeding late-cut and over-ripe hay,
where previously the aromatic, succu-
lent, soft, early-cut grass formed the
principal part of the ration, reduces
the quality Of the product from gilt
edge to ordinary. The successful
dairyman watches and guards against
such changes in the cows ration"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
The Water In the Air.
From the Industrial World.

From the Industrial World.
Did it ever occur to the reader that
there is just as much water in the ai1
above him on clear, bright day as
on cloudy Or rainy one? Rain does
not come from somewhere else, or if it
Is waited over you by the wind from
somewhere else, the water that was
over you is simply waited on to some
other place. What is said above ex.
plains this. Water is absorbed in the
air above us at certain temperature,
and it becomes insensible. Cool that
air by wind draught Of cooler at.
mosphere, or by electrical or chemical
influence, and the moment the al,
becomes cooler it gives up some OF the
watery particles that were insensible
or invisible to the higher temperature.
These small particles thus given out
unite, and when enough Of them
coalesce, obstruct the light and show
as clouds. When enough OF them
unite to be too heavy to float in the
air, they begin to descend; pair after
pair of them come together until
rain drop is formed. One of these
minute rain drops is made up of mill.
ions OF infinitely small watery par.
ticles. Air passing over the cold tops
of mountains is cooled down so that
it gives up good deal ofthe concealed
watery vapor, and hence little rain
falls in the region along the ice side Of
such mountains. This is why so little
rain falls in Colorado and in other
places north andksouth of that State.
The prevailing winds blow from the
west, and the cool tops Of the Rocky
Mountains lower their temperature.
and thus take out the moisture that
would otherwise fall in rain.
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A Great Demand For Old Books.

"What becomes of all the second
hand school books?" was asked of
Daniel Van Wrinkle, the New York vet.
eran dealer, by Mail and Express re-
porter.
That's what people are all the
time wondering" he replied. saThegen
eral public have the idea that they 60
where pins, needles, hairpins and such
things go to, that is, they disappear
somehow or other and no one knows
where to. You may be surprised to
learn it, but there is large and in
creasing trade done in secondhand
school books alone; so much so that
we have now a regular school book
exchange. You see, boards of school
trustees are all the time changing the
books their pupils study, unless not
allowed to do so by law, which is the
case in same states, and in former
times, when they made change they
either sold the discarded books for old
paper or burned them. But now
they are more economical. They
hunt up the school-book exchange,
and are allowed to trade their discard.
ed books for those they want, OF
course paying something for doing so.
Why, through agents, booksellers,
school trustees and others, we keep
track Of changes of this nature made
IN any important school throughout
the United States. I have q book
here, indexed, which gives the towns
in which certain pu lisher's geogra-
ply is used, to give you an illustra-
ton. AS soon as hear that q school
is going to substitute another geogra-
ply for that one, l make bargain
for the discarded ones, and, at onco
writing to the towns where it is still
in favor, probably will have the lot
sold before they reach here. It is the
same way with dealers in town.
When the public schools branch of
from q certain book, the dealer has
no further use for them, and 80 he is
glad enough to get rid Of his stock to
me, and | can dispose OF them where
they are in use. l have on file blanks
from all localities, on which are given
the names Of the school books in use
in the vicinity. OF course, l take the
books at a discount"
Chow much doyou get for second
hand school book?"
GAS rule, about halfprice. The de-
mand for the regular secondhand
ones is now particularly in the farm
ing districts and throughout the south.
Take farmers boy who has been to
school only afew months and has not
much spare money and he will eagerly
bya school book but little worn when
he can get it at half it's original price.
AS to the demand in the south, there
seems to be greater appreciation of
the advantages OF a more general ed
ucation, and my agents all report a
marked increase in the demand for
school books there. One of the popu-
lar ideas now in tie school book line
is for a reading speller-that is, a
speller that has intelligent and inter-
esting reading matter in connection
with each spelling exercise. 1t is based
on the principle that the child gets the
idea OF the word from its connection
with an expressed thought, and thus
remembers it better ~
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property and the exertions Of body
and mind which is required to get it.
Tomato .Marmalado

Weigh the fruit, and take as many
ounces Of sugar as there are pounds
of tomatoes. Put the sugar into
preserving pan, set it over a gentle
fire, and stir until the sugar melts
and acquires light brown color.
Add three or four onions, minced very
finely, and when these too are slightly
Drowned, put into the pan the toma-
toes, cut into pieces. Season pleasant
y with salt, pepper, powdered mace,
and grated nutmeg. Boil all gently
together till the fruit is reduced to
pulp; then strain the juice through
q sieve, and boil it again-this time
quickly-until a little put upon
plate will stiffen. Put the MARINA
lade into jars, and when cold, cover
IN the usual way. This forms a most
dainty relish spread upon slices OF
thin, well-buttered bread, and if nice
~ prepared, it will keep good for
long time. Country Gentleman.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
The Quality of Butter.

The American Ru raj Home.
Speaking Of the deterioration OF
butter in August, at the New York
State Dairyman's Association, DR..
Crafts said:
sWe are often told that June and
July butter is prime when August but
ter fails; then it grows better in Sep
TENDER and SO on. Why is June and
July butter better than August butter?
Because the cows have gone out in
the fresh field and have had pure
grass in abundance. The flow of
milk is increased, and we readily
churn butter from it in about one
half the time in July that is required
IN the winter time or in other seasons.
This is because OF the June
grass. The last of July the feed
begins to fail. June grass has be-
come too ripe, and something else, not
as good, must take it's place. The
dairyman should have a crop OF win.
ter rye, and feed that, with his corn
meal, and carry it through the month
Of August. Cows fail in milk more in
the month of August than in any 9th
er part of the season. In the month
Of September the cattle are allowed to
sweep over the meadows and around
the corners Of the fences where the
moving machine did not reach. The
remedy is to feed corn meal during the
month OF August. It would cost a
trif1e over one cent per pound for feed
and extra trouble, but the butter yield
would be kept up. II the rye gets too
ripe before August, have crop OF
clover for the cattle When the rye
gets nicely started, cut it with a now.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
Farm and Household.
Agricultural Items.

We. have no faith in condition pow
ders, continental foods, egg foods and
the like. They are all in the same
boat with patent medicines. Farm
Journal
The cause Of the present unrest of
the laboring classes, and indeed of
communistic outbreaks is the en-
croachment ofcentralized capital upon
the producer.-Western Rural.
The total amount of wheat raised
last season in all the wheat-producing
countries of the world is estimated at
from 1927, 100000 to 1863, 2OO,-
600 bushels.
The Country Gentleman says: "In
all our experiments indipping shingles
In rather thin wash made from fresh
or sharp lime before laying, the result
has been quite favorable. The lime
hardens the shingles and causes them
to last much longer. For a few
months it is we'll to let the rainwater
run to waste, the lime rendering it
hard.
Mrs. Thomas, Of Philadelphia, re-
ported at meeting of bee keepers in
Trenton last month that she had OBJ
tanned an average of l5Olbs. of honey
from twenty colonies, or total crop
of3. OOOlbs. This was extracted honey
for which she received 25c. per pound,
netting her, therefore, $37. 5Oper hive.
She also cleared last year 81 900 from
her poultry yard, and runs twenty
acre farm besides.
The right temperature for churning
is from 60 degrees in summer to IS
degrees in the winter. In the motion
OF the churn the cream is subjected to
a strong current OF air, which changes
the temperature considerably, and
this is to be taken into account when
the weather is extremely cold or warm,
and allowance made for the effect of
the changing temperature.
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Miscellaneous Recipes,

Ammonia for the hair.-Put a des-
sert spoonful of ammonia in three
quarts OF warm water Wash the head
we'll with this; rinse very thoroughly
With clean and clear warm water II
rinsed in two or three waters. the hair
will be benefited by the ammonia,
otherwise 1T will be harsh and dry.
Salt Rheum.-L. c. B. writes: ri
have tested several remedies for salt
rheum, and find the following superior
to all others: With 100 parts OF
glycerine mix l of carbonic acid, or
enough to cause a sharp, singing sen
ton when applied to the hands.
To whiten the nails.-AIix together
two drachms OF diluted sulphuric acid,
one drachm of tincture OF myrrh, in
four ounces OF spring water; cleanse
the hands and then apply the wash.
10 soften the hands. cleanse them
and rub them well with oatmeal while
wet. Do not forget that there is a
fortune in pair OF well-developed,
well-trained hands.
Rose Bushes.-.sI have found the
following good wash for rose bushes
infested with insects: To one pint OF
water add two ounces of soap, COM
mon or whale oil soap; when it is
boiling hot stir in two quarts of kero-
sene and stir the mixture thoroughly.
1t will thicken on cooling and will not
be oily. Add one part of this to nine
of water and with the solution spray
the rose bushes thoroughly"
| have received more permanent
benefit from eating raisins for
constipation than from any
thing else. The directions as CIV
en- me are, Eat as many as you relish
or find that you need. l reject the
seeds and the skins also unless they
are very tender"
The best remedy, perhaps, against
the blistering OF the hands by saving,
or by handling any rough matter
whatever, is to light a tallow candle;
let the tallow drop into water Ito
purify it from salty; then mix the tai
low with little brandy, or any other
strong spirit, and rub it we'll into the
hands. Redness or burning Of the
hands is caused by defective circula-
ton: Protect them from cold as
much as possible
Ebony can be initiated on wood
BY first painting with q one per cent.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25
Obscure Men Happie.t in wedlock.

No woman will love a man better
for being renowned or prominent.
Though he be the first among men,she
will be prouder, not fonder, as is often
the case, she will not even be proud.
But give her love, appreciation, kind.
ness, and there is no sacrifice she
would not make for his content and
comfort. The man who loves her we'll
is her hero and king. No less a hero
to her, though he is not to any other;
no less a king, though his only king
dom is her heart and home. It Is a
mans own fault that he is unhappy
with his wife, nine cases out of ten. It
Is a very exceptional woman who will
not do all she can to an attentive hus.
band, and very exceptional one who
will not be very disagreeable if she
finds herself willfully neglected. Ala
bama Baptist.
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.Astatistical expert calculates thati

Astatistical expert calculates that.
LOCO, 900 babies started together ir
the race Of life 10000 would drop
out in the first year, $4,000 in the
second, and $4,000 in the third year
At the end Of forty-five years about
half of them would be still in the race
Sixty years would see 10000 gray
heads still at it. At the end OF eighty
years there would be $4,000 remain
ing on the track; fifteen years later
the number would be reduced to 223,
and the winner would quit the track
forever at the age OF one hundred
and eight.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25

solution Of sulphate Of copper. When
perfectly dry the wood is painted over
with : liquid consisting Of equal
weights OF aniline hydrochloride and
spirits of wine. The blue vitriol acts
on the aniline and forrls nigrosin, a
black which can not be affected by ac-
ids or alkalies. A lustre can be added
by coating with simple copal varnish.
Nettle Rash.-A writer I'M Baby
hood recommends for this troublesome
affection Of the skin compound Tai
cum,0 which is simply soapstone
ground to an impalpable powder and
mixed with a small amount of carbol-
ic acid. It allays the irration and
often cures it. As a sanitary skin
powder it is unsurpassed. Probably
any druggist could supply it. Twenty
drops of aromatic spirits OF ammonia
IN a little sugar and water will prompt
~ relieve the patient. Repeat the
dose in an hour if necessary. For q
baby six months old fifteen drops is a
dose. Nettle rash IS sometimes caus-
ed by indigestion, and sometimes by
Weeos eaten Dy the COWS whose milk
the patient has used.
Modern Light gives the following rec
lpe to housewives as a saving of labor
and wear and tear in washing clothes:
"Place ten gallons OF water in a wash
boiler with one pound OF hard yellow
soap sliced in small Or thin pieces.
When the soap is dissolved and the
water is at the boiling point, add three
tablespoonful Of Kerosene oil; allow
the compound to boil ten minutes,
when the lightweight clothing may be
subjected to the process Of bleaching
or steaming. Remove and immerse
the larger and heavier articles of cloth
ing five or ten minutes longer, rinsing
in clear water first, and the common
bluing."
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MINI ESOTA STATE NEWS.
First Minnesota District Convention

The Convention OF Delegates to nomi-
nate member OF Congress for the First
District OF Minnesota was in session three
days at kasson, and on the. 126th ballot
) ohm A. Lovely ofAlbert Lea was nomi-
mated, the ballot standing Lovely A; White
-; Mullen l. The chairman announced
the following as the central committee OF
the district:
George Arnold, Dodge; H. D. Eckhold,
Olmsted; ohm II. Mullen, Wabasha; j. A.
Iawney, Winona; James O'Brien, Hous-
ton; A. u. Gray, Fillmore; H. O.. Busford,
Mower; Christer Burmese, Freeborn; James
Dement,, Steel.
John A. Lovely was born in Burlington,
VT, November, 1914, and is in his forty.
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second year. His IA
ther was a prominent
merchant there, but
died when the boy was
fourteen years old. As
a teacher in the public
schools OF Vermont he
first laid the founda-
ton OF his subsequent
career in Minnesota.
When the war broke
out he was a student
in the New Hampton,