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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
FRIDAY. MAY IA. 1885.
PROFITS OF THE cow.

Mr.. A. p. McKinstry, of Winnebago
City, one of the best known and best
posted creamery men in Minnesota,
writes to the NeaOs-P Press the following
letter:
At your request I furnish you the
statement ofaccount oftwo cows recent
ly sold. My reason for selling them
was, that for the dairy considered them
improbable. You will notice that it
took 25 pounds of No. rs milk and 30
pounds of No. 2's for one pound of but
ter; again, in high feeding for milk the
tendency was to lay on flesh. The milk
was weighed each time drawn, and the
cost of food consumed, found by actual
weight, computed at the market price,
l2c per day. No account has been made
for labor, but the price for butter 10 the
amount left after paying for tub, freight
and commission. The price for skim
milk, 20 cents per 100 pounds, is the
amount found to be worth to me to grow
calves ut &c per pound, live weight.
Both cows dropped heifer calves in Oc-
tober, and were forced dry to be ready
for market by May LIST. l think l can
replace them with cows that will show
hetter work at the pail
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14

The Yuma Sentinel tells of a natural
telephone in the wonderful Pacific coast
country. 1t says that train of cars il
plainly heard on the line of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railroad at the Needles for a
distance Of seventy-eight miles to a
place called Cottonwood Island. The
discharge of the. sunrise gun at Fort
Mohave can be plainly heard 100
miles. Sounds can be understood in
the narrows of the Grand Canon of the
Colorado for q distance of eighteen
miles. The whistle of Colorado
steamer can be heard from FL Dorado
Canon to Weaverville, the head of navi-
CATION, distance of sevcnty-cight
miles, and by tumbling rock over the
precipice at Lees Ferry you can plainly
hear the echo down the river at Wcav.
erville, distance of thirty-six miles
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
The Thoroughbred DAIRY Cow.

me fnorouRnDredD DAIRY cow
The question is often asked us, if the
thoroughbred cow is better for the dairy
than the grade. The answer is that the
thoroughbred animal is always the best.
If dash of thoroughbred blood can do
such wonders AZ we know it will do, it
must follow that when it is all thorough
bred blood, the results will be so much
the grander. But we do not wish to be
understood AZ saying that the thorough
bred will always give more or better
milk than the grade. That position can
not be sustained. Some of the largest
dairies i'm the United States have moth
ing but grades and they are preferred
by the owners. But there is one thing,
If there were nothing else, that would
recommend the thoroughbred, and that
is that she will reproduce herself. If we
have good cow, it is not pleasant to
think that her good qualities may end
when she is driven to the butchers.
We would like TO have her leave her
good qualities behind, and as u speaker
recently put it thoroughbred cow will
send her milk and butter tendencies
straight down through generations.
Such questions rs we have been an
swering here plainly indicate that there
is not much conception of the possibili-
ties of our improved breeds. The time
will come when there will be nothing
else but thoroughbreds, We who are
now living will not see it, but that is the
end. People will not breed and keep q
less profitable kind of stock when q
more profitable is right at their hands,
1t is by no means difficult to show that
thoroughbred stock is by all odds the
most profitable stock. Anyone who
chooses to investigate can readily con-
vince himself Of that important fact
But that does not mean that the owner
of herd of common cows shall sacri.
as practical replace them. UnquestiOn.
ably if better care was given to our com.
| mon stock there would not be so much
difference between it and thoroughbred
stock as now exists. 1t must be remem.
bered that our improved breeds arc
parity the product of good care. The
best breed in the world will degenerate
into as poor stock as was ever seen If il
is treated badly enough. Our thorough
| breds are well taken care of. They are
bred and reared and fed and cared fol
with view of bringing out of them
everything there Is i'm them. But oul
common stock Is largely left to care fol
itself. Just let the owner Of q common
COW decide to give it fully as good care
as thoroughbred Holstein or Jersey
receives, and he will soon see that he
has much better COW than he ever haC
any idea that he possessed.
| But the common cow cannot be made
to equal or anywhere near equal the
thoroughbred, taken as whole. W.
have several time referred to the grea
difference in price between northern
export cattle and southern export cattle
There is about fifty per cent difference
land the cause is found in the fact tina
Four thoroughbreds stamp their excel
hence upon many of our exports. Tha
holds good throughout all the branches
of live stock enterprises. Blood vii
tell every time Western Rural.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
.EDna hy the Pound.

An exchange asks: WHY is it that eggs
are not sold by the pound instead of by
the dozen? The present custom absurd
and ridiculous as it is, offers premium
on little hens and little eggs, and is a
fraud of the first water on the purchaser.
The eggs of the large breeds weigh near
ly two pounds to the dozen, and of the
small breeds but little over one. In the
name of the lordly Asiatic, whose deep,
rich crow awakes us every morning, we
protest. The eggs from his harem are
genuine, sixteen ounces to the pound.
oil --coi ".,d " god vi1O. worth one
hundred cents on the dollar; whilst the
eggs of the little non-sitters, that fly over
the highest fence and roost on the high
est tree-tops, are fraud and delusion.
You have to eat two for one and pay
twice for the proper amount of albumen.
Let us do away with this fiat egg bust
ness and buy and sell eggs by the pound.
Very pertinent and to the point. The
present generation are in this matter
"penny wise and pound foolish
Combined effort is all that is required
in this day of new innovations TO bring
this about. There would be as much
sense in selling nails by the dozen, as
eggs
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
A Zuni Maiden.

Wewha, the Zuni maiden Gan Indian
priestess), Of whose appearance among
the ladies receiving at Washington
''tea" last month mention has already
been made, receives visitors regularly
on Fridays with Mrs. Stevenson, whom
she accompanied to Washington and
whose guest she is, writes correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Times. She is
% years old, and much larger in form
than most of the women of her race.
She Is an industrious young woman,
and never wishes to be idle, and when
thus receiving busies herself in weaving
with the crude implements used by the
women of her tribe a broad belt as
wide and as strong as saddle-girth, Of
red and white wOrsted. She makes 1t
rapidly and evenly, and makes the pat
tern with perfect regularity as she goes
along, although she has no model be-
fore her, and never makes mistake in
counting her threads, however loud the
talking of other women may be around
her. She understands enough English
to know what they are saying. She
has lately learned to knit, but says she
will not do that after she goes home, rs
knitting is mans work in Zuni, and the
women there never knit.
Wewha has made some sharp COM
ments in private to her friend, Mrs.
Stevenson, as to the amount of talking
the Washington women do, and has
said it seemed to her that they did
nothing but talk. But she has been
much pleased and amused by what she
has seen when at fashionable gather
ings, has noticed the ladies' dresses.
and, after once being with Mrs. Steven
son when the latter was receiving, spoke
of the difference between her own dress
and that of her friend, and wished to
make herself look finer for the next re-
ception. She wanted to buy enough red
satin to make herself q skirt to receive
in. to replace that of white cotton goods
which she wears regularly with a
wOrsted waist and short skirt, but on
going to q store to buy the satin came
to the conclusion that it would require
''tOO much money!" her own words, to
buy it. SO refrained, though she had
slipped away from Mrs. Stevenson and
had gone shopping alone. One day
hearing a conversation, which no one
thought she understood, in English
about parasols selling very cheap then
ut certain store, she quietly slipped
away, went alone to the store, a dis
lance of about mile from where she
is visiting. and astOnished Mrs. Steven
son by returning an hour or two latel
holding big red satin parasol over hel
head. How she made the girls at thu
store understand what she wanted and
how they made her comprehend wha
was to be paid for it is mystery. Blu,
she did pay for it She was quit
shocked at meeting lady at dinne
with a low-neck dress, and afterwart
said that the Americans spoke of tn,
Zuni women wearing their dresses shor
and showing their legs nearly to tn
knees and having their arms bare, bu
she thought that was better than show
ing SO much of the neck. She said sh
liked to see little of the front of tn,
neck near the throat, but not SO mucl
as the lady she had met exposed. She wa
also shocked at seeing the short, thil
dresses of ballet-dancers at the theater.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
The Verdict Unanimous.

w. b. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind.
testifies: 81 can recommend EleCtri
Bitters as the very best remedy. Ever,
bottle sold has given relief in every
case. One man took six bottles, and wal
cured of Rheumatism of 10 years stand
ing" Abraham Hare, druggist, Bell
vile, Ohio, affirms: "The best selling
medicine l have ever handled i'm my q
years experience, is Electric Bitters. u
Thousands of others have added their
testimony, 80 that the verdict is unanim-
GUS that Electric Bitters do cure all dis
eases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood.
Only half dollar q bottle at ]. r. Jones
drug store.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14

j. NJ Fncher, of Newton Factory,
Ga. has baby girl two years old that
knows the alphabet perfectly.
Senator Ransom is called the dandy
of the senate. being remarkably neat in
his dress. He is a 'cufl-shootey"-al-
ways pulling down his cuffs so that at
least three inches of them may be seen
below his cOat-sleeves.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14

The benefits of progressive. wide
awake farmers debating clubs is shown
by the town of Fairfield, N. Y, which
stands at the head in the census reports
in the production of farm crops per
acre or per capita, and this is attributed
to the influence Of q debating club for
mutual Improvement. number of years
ago, in which nearly every farm in
town was represented.
II we were keeping but one mature
bull at time, we would keep horse
power for him to exercise in, and would
make him do all tho woOd-sawing, and
as much other work on the farm as
possible. Then we would never tie
bull in dark stall by himself, but
would have him in sight OF and with
the herd. Treat a bull ike barbarian
or wild animal. and he will very likely
develop into one.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
First ins. April 60; last ins, May n
NOTICE To CREDITORS.

SNTATE OF MINNESOTA County of Blue
- Earth-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate OF wenZe
KreutZer, deceased.
Notice is hereby given Ia all persons having
claims and demands against the estate oi
wenzel KreutZer, late of the county of Blue
Earth, deceased. that the Judge of thu
Probate Court of said county will hear, eX
anime and adjust claims and demands against
said estate, at his office in the city OF Man
kato in said county, on the nth day o
July, and on the eth day of October lsS6
AT two o'clock in the afternoon on each Of sait
DAYS, and that six INonths from the date here
of have been limited and allowed by said Pro
bate Court for creditors Ia present theil
claims.
Dated April &c, lssG.
ANTON DEGLMAN,
Administrator of the estate of WenZel kreutZ
cP deceased,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
First insertion May: last ms. May 81.
PROBATE NOTICE.

STATR OF MINNESOTA, County Of Blue
- Earth.-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Mason VI.
Woodbury., deceased.
The State of Minnesota and the said Probate
Court to all persons interested in the estate of
Mason VI. Woodbury., deceased. Greeting:
Whereas, Maria Il. Woodbury., Of the county
of Blue Earth, State of Minnesota, has filed her
petition al the Probate Court of the county oil
Blue Earth for letters of administration l.
ceased. - - rod a -
Therefore you and each of you are cited and
required to appear at the office of the Judge OF
Probate in the city of Mankato in said county
on the Sth day of June, lSsG, at ten o'clock in
che forenoon of that day and show cause WHY
letters of administration upon said estate
should not issue To the said John G.. Graham
as prayed for in said petition.
In testimony whereof / have hereuntO set
my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate
Court this 9th day of May, a. ID. 1856.
G. w. MEAD,
lsEAL.l Judge of Probate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14

Professor Arnold says skinned milk
10 hard to digest
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
Destroy the Weeds.

We desire to thus early i'm the season
call the attention of farmers to the ne
cessity of destroying the weeds before
they ripen seeds next Summer. We are
now making preparations to do our work
on the farm. We are preparing, as q
part of that work, to fight weeds, and
about as large an item of expense as we
ever had, Is made by the necessity of
this fight, Can we do anything to lessen
this expense? Perhaps We shall con-
clpde that we can, if some of us will
pause to consider the fact that last year
the road next our premises was lined
with weeds which we permitted to 20 to
seed. These seed have now been scat
tered over the farm, and not only over
our farm but our neighbours farm. To
lessen the expense OF fighting weeds,
therefore, we shall see to it this year that
the weeds along the roads are moved
down at the proper time. The time to
kill the average weed is to cut il Just
about the time it is beginning to mature
it's seed. But to accomplish much in this
direction everybody must destroy the
weeds on his own premises. 1t is exas-
perating in the extreme to have ones
farm covered with weeds through the
negligence of q neighbOr. Friends, let
us be neIghborly in this matter, and if
We have not interest enough i'm ourselves
to cut down the weeds, let us see that it
is duty we owe the man who lives next
door to us; and we shall see il if we will
consider the NATTER Western Rural.
The dairyman that sells milk only is
the one most interested in the COW that
gives large flow of milk; but to the but
termaker the quality is of the greatest
he wants the cow that will
produce the most pounds of butter on a
given ration, apd for the least expendi-
ture of labor. He cannot afford to waste
grown animal in the hope of prospective
beef; nor can he waste time and labor in
drawing twenty-four pounds ofmilk from
q cow to make one pound of butter when
Twelve to fourteen pounds will not only
do it, but do IT better,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
WHY BE vyIrsoUa rHrs
KING OF EkcYcIO pEnlAe

my .f she you rs have all thu volnnss IA. Draaus
Issued P.e IN yy Gh'ary IN this Beautiful sk Cas- RsE
hs, secretary and Dictionary Holder combined L. - -,
Sfsn aoEv, and the price of volume each mont6 thrsf nm
tl tse Books and Casa paid f.rI ~ ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

II Tenny
W Morse. filling Tivoii bridge {"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
II H e
CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE
e ST. PAUL.

&C 81. FAUIx
RAILWAY COMPANY
Owns and operates 5000 miles OF thor
| Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota.
1t - the Short Ltste and Rest Route
BetsCeest att principal points fsa
the NOrthscest aud Far Vest.
For maps, time tables, rates of passage and
freight. etc, apply to the nearest station agent
Of the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL
RAILWAY, or to any Railroad Agent any
X. MILLER, A. v. H. CARPENTER,
Gen'l Manager. Cent Pass. and Ticket Ag't
]. F. TUCKER, GEO. HI. HEAFFORD.
Asst Gen'l Manager. Asst GenI Pass. Ag't
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN,.
tH-For notices in reference to Special Ex-
cursions, changes OF time, and other items OF
interest In connection with the Chicago, MIL
waukee & st. Paul Railway, please refer to the
local columns Of this paper.
POINTERS on BRICK
Willard & Polchow.
FARMERS READI
Contractors get our prices.
Builders and all call and see our brick before
buying.
Best foundation Brick.
Best building Brick.
Rest Red Veneer Brick.
Best Red Chimney Brick.
Best Brick for Cisterns.
Best Brick for Wells,
Best all purpose Brick made In Minnesota, |
Manufactured at our yards In Mahkato.
sc WILLARD & POLCHOw.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14
COUNTY BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

Board met May 4th, 1856, at 8 a. m.
Present, Commissioners Gainor, Dia-
mond, Klein, Martinson and Piper.
On motion ordered that, with the con.
sent Of the county attorney, Messrs. d.
Buck and K. P. freeman be retained as
counsel to assist the county attorney in
defending suit brought to prevent the
building of courthouse.
Commissioner G. H. Piper objected to
the above motion.
On motion Commissioners G. H. Piper
and 0. Martinson were added to the
building committee.
Report of the viewers appointed to act
on the petition of E. A. Cooper, for a
public ditch in the town of Vernon, re.
commencing that the ditch be not con.
structed, was received. On motion the
report was accepted,
Petition of ]. Wagon and others for a
public ditch in the towns Of Mankato
and Lime was laid over to next meeting
Bids for building two stone abutments
L = ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-05-14

From recent experiments by DIR. Par
sons on the disinfection of clothes and
bedding by heat, the conclusion is
reached that the germs of the ordinary
infectious diseases cannot withstand an
exposure of an hour to dry heat of 220
degrees Fahrenheit or an exposure of
five minutes to boiling water or steam
of PIP degrees.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-31
MISS HATTIE PAUL
Wishes 1t Understood that She
Wrote the Davis Letter.

The SciD'itdT OF yesterday afternoon
published card signed by Miss Hat
tie Paul, business manager of the pa
per, whose substance is contained in
the following extracts, for which the
APPEAL, generous always where wo-
man is concerned, cheerfully gives
space:
Miss Paul says: do not desire to figure
in newspapers as card writer, or indeed to
be before the public in any way, but in sim
pie justice to Acknowledgment Turner, ]
desire to state in regard to- the letter pub
urday morning, that the Attorney General
know nothing whatever Of the letter, never
dictated it, nor indeed, did he ever see its
contents, until q brother of Davis, living
In this city, and who seemed to he
at the Office of the Scimitdr last Monday af-
t,rnoon, and showed IL TO him. II.
Y, Davis, as agent of the Scimitdr on the
Memphis, Selma and Brunswick railroad,
collected $50 OF its money and appropriated
one connected with the office. was
vexed with Davis for his conduct and had
been greatly bothered by the receipt
Of cOnplainios letters from ,subsc,ib-
Selma and Brunswick railroad. and in a
moment ofindignation / wrote the letter
published to him, and underneath my anger
endeavored to gave him from a public expose
and sister. / had heard the general state
that IL he could set the proper facts
bearing on the case, that he was
going to try and have him Indicted
for embezElement,. Of which he was guilty.
. So far as Mr.. Davis is concerned, he
acted in a way that, TO honest people, looks
dishonest, but II is In justice to Attorney
General Turner that i sign my name to this
statement in order to conclusively prove
that he was in complete ignorance Of the
letter which ! wrote to Davis as business
manager OF the Scimitdr, and that he en-
tirely disappIoved Of 1t.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-31
THE EMMETT BANK CASE.
The Fisher Interest Not Satisfied
with Deputy waIsh's Report.

Considerable tilk wal caused yes-
terday by the publication in the AP-
PEAL of Deputy Walsh's report in the
Fisher-Loague suit, or, as it is gener-
ally known, the Emmett bank case.
The suit has been running since 1872,
and has been contested inch by inch
by the litigants, as Mrs. Fisher, widow
of the late Tom Fisher, is determined
to vindicate the correctness OF the
books OF her late husband. One of
the attorneys representing the Fisher
interests was met by an APPEAL re.
porter yesterday, and in answer to the
question as to what he thought OF the
report, said: "The report published in
your paper was that made by Mr..
Walsh, one of the deputies in the
office Of the clerk and master, to which
except 'ons are being now prepared by
the solicitors representing the Fisher
interest. There is great difference in
the conclusions reached by Mr.. Walsh
and those reached and reported by Mr..
E. B. McHenry, an experienced Off
Ger, after mature deliberation and in
vestieation, who found a large bal ance
in Mr.. Fishers favor. Counsel for
Mr.. Fisher have no doubt but that In
this, as in all previous hearings before
the chancellor, the referees and the
Supreme Court, the final decree will
be in their favor"