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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26

starved to it more than growing pigs
ought to be. If given bran in milk they
will drink the latter and leave the bran
in the trough. If corn meal be mixed
with wheat bran the meal will be sifted
out and the bran left. This pigs can
not so well do if the feed be finer.
At a Farmers alliance meeting re-
Gently in Dickey county, Dak.. the tariff
was the chief topic of discussion. The
sentiment was nearly unanimous in
favor of Tightening the present tariff bur-
denS. Some also argued in favor of re-
ducing the amount of exemptions under
the territorial law, claiming that the ex-
emptlOn law operating toward money
much as the tariff does toward COM
modities, by keeping it out, makes it
scarce and as it logically follows, dear.
There are in America over 100000
farms, large and small. They cover
nearly 20,000,00O acres of improved
land, and their total value is something
like $4,000, 100000. These figures, of
course. are not very comprehensive.
They simply convey the idea of vast
ness of area and equal vastness of i'm
portance. The estimated value of the
yearly products of these farms is be-
tween 2,000,000,000 and $4,000, 100000.
GLOW much has your sheep paid you?"
the Iowa Homestead asked a farmer re-
Gently. Il paid $500 six years ago, for
100 head of inferior sheep. They have
yielded me $500 each year on an average,
and by grading up are now worth twice
as much per head as the original flock"
This, we think, about tells the story
when mutton sheep are kept in fiocks of
about 100 head and properly cared for
by good farmer.
In France they work the stations and
exempt the brood mares from all heavy
labor as much as possible, just the OPP
posite to what is practiced here.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Red Glover i'm Dakota.

1t is generally believed by farmers
that red clover will not do well in North
Dakota. One of them at Dawson, in
Kidder county, gives the Farm, Stock
and Home this experience: '.In the
spring of 1886 l sowed four acres with
four quarts of red clover seed to the
acre. Sowed with wheat, dragging the
ground once after sewing. The seed
came up firSt-rate, wheat and clover COW
cred the ground nicely. l afterwards
sowed fifty pounds of land plaster to
the acre. The clover did well until the
hot, dry weather in July and August,
which killed most all of it; but / was
anxious to see if what remained would
stand the winter, so left it. The next
spring think every spear came up, but
did not grow more than ten inches high.
1t blOOmed and went to seed, and [ never
saw clover fill better than that did. l
summer-fallowed the ground this last
summer, blowing the clover under.
Some neighbors told me my ground was
too new, it being the third crop, but
could not see that that made any differ
ence. l am anxious to raise clover up
here, for think it is the cheapest fer
tilizer we can get. and believe it can be
grown successfully"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Perfect Butter-How Made.

At a meeting of the New York State
Dairymen's association paper On ''Per-
feet Butter" by Prof. l.. 3. Arnold, was
read. Prof. Arnold said that among
the many samples of butter he had been
called to pass upon during the past
twenty-five years, not one was Judged
perfect, up to the exhibition of the Bay
State society last year. At that show
some graded as high as SO and 90, and
one only reached 100, or perfect. He
afterward learned that the butter from
the dairy which they rated perfect was
selling regularly in the market at 80
cents pound in Boston. At the dairy
exhibit in May last in New York, the
expert judges found three samples per-
feet. These, with one from Boston,
were all that he ever heard of. These
perfect buffers were all made the same
way. The cream was raised with in
tense refrigeration and the cream was
kept thus, until enough had accumulated
for churning, and was then ripened. The
cream was then churned; when properly
granulated. the buttermilk was drawn
from the butter; it was then sailed,
pressed into solid condition with the least
for market. Simple and plain as the
followed. He went into details by stat
ing that in refrigerating, while the
cream was raising, air was excluded
from it. This is necessary, because if
the cream is exposed to air which is
warmer, vapor condenSeS from the at
mosphere in the form of dew and set
ties on the cream, carrying with it i'm
purities from the air. The cream must
be kept in uniform temperature, and
all must be allowed to sour and ripen at
the same time. Ripening is an essen
tial point in making perfect butter.
Two changes occur during the ripening
process. The one most readily noticed
is the development of acidity, which
converts the sugar of milk into la cite
acid. which acid coagulates the albumen
of the milk into curd. The change ia
cilitates churning, but has no effect on
the flavor of butter, unless the acid be-
comes too strongly developed, when it
damages the butter. The oxygen of the
air oXidizes some of the fatty matter of
the milk, and in some way increases the
flavor, and this must be recognized in
making butter. Perfect butter can only
be made from perfect milk.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Western Fruits.

Why cannot we grow fruit in the
West as we used to? asks correspond
ent of the Western Rural. That is a
question that many are asking, but few
are answering. Still some reasons can
be given. We need varieties suited to
the climate. Our old varieties of
orchard fruit are not. That is clear.
Then when we introduced our fruit trees
here we left all or nearly all their
natural enemies, diseases and in
SectS, behind. Not having these
to deplete, weaken and defoliate
them, they had vigor to withstand our
rigorous climate. Then we had no
apple worms, very few apple tree
bOrers, no plum curculios, no canker
worms, no apple-leaf crumplers, and
comparatively few other insects and
blights injurious to their foliage. Very
few diseases of the fruit both on the
inside and outWardly, such as scabs,
rots. cracking, etc.; no peach rot, no
then many of the diseases and insects
that are now so luxurious to the foliage,
the leaves, the lungs of the tree, that
are now so prevalent and injurious.
fruit tree thirty or forty years
ago in the West it had little
to fear or contend against except the
rigorous climate. The absence of nearly
all other enemies to it's vitality left it
with good vigor to withstand that. How
is it now? Let us do the best we can
with our fruit trees, they pass into the
winter in a weak condition, with as
little chance of coming out strong,
healthy and vigorous in the spring as
would skim-milk-fed lousy calf
turned into field of dry corn-stalks to
winter, of coming out in the spring fit
for good veal or nearly so.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Minneapolis, March 90.
A Suggestion to the Commission.

To the Editor of the Globe.
Dear Sir; AS the representative of
the architectural profession in the
Northwest in the newspaper line, l
deem it my duty to bring to the notice
of the public the fact. the foundation of
which may only be ''hearsay;" but the
voting of the commissioners as to who
shall have the first prize in the cOmpe-
titiOn for the new court house and city
hall seems to give color to the rumor
that the first prize, and with it the posi-
ton of architect for the new court
house, is very likely to pass to some one
outside of the Twin Cities.
There are evidently strong influences
at work to belittle the architectural pro-
fession of this city and st. Paul to the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of foreign architect,
on the ground that there is no one of
sufficient experience in either of the
cities to build court house and city
hall. Of course the commissioners have
had the opinion of one of the first
architects of the country, but he may
have his hobby and whims, ETC., which
might bias his judgment. Now the
architects of this city and st. Paul have
expended more thought and money on
this competition than they can afford to
lose or see pass out of their city without
a struggle. The facts are: This court
house job is to be voted away by ma
jority of nine commissioners, when
there has never been full attendance
at any one of the examination meetings,
and if "hearsay" tells the truth, the
first five architects, according to the
vote of the commission, were not the
first five recommended by Mr.. Boying-
ton. Now, would like to make the
following proposition to the board of
court house commissioners: That they
allow three absolutely disinterested for
eign architects to examine the plans and
specifications of each of the competing
architects and name the first five who
come the nearest to meeting the re-
quirements laid down for the competi-
ton.
If the commissioners will allow this I
will guarantee that the expenses of
these architects will be paid by the
architects of both cities. In fact, there
will never be any satisfaction given to
architects of the Twin Cities as to the
righteousness of the judgment of this
board of commissioners until some such
thing as this is done. Very respect
fully, F. l.. STRAW,
Editor Northwestern Architect.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
About Wintering Cattle.

LaMotte Miles-My experience of five
years in Dakota, much of the time in
charge of cattle ranches, has familiar
lied me pretty thoroughly with the eff
fects of the winters here upon live
stock. Cattle maintain themselves on
the oranges" until the grass is covered
by snow, usually in the fore part of De.
cember. They are then kept ON hay
until the snow passes away, which IS
generally in March, when they are again
turned out upon the ranges. The dry
fall weather ''cures" the grass so that
it affords late and early pasturage and
materially Shortens the time during
which they revuire hay. Cattle in sta
BILE seldom suffer from ''blizzards'' or
cold weather. Losses occur only from
exposure without shelter. Cattle that
are not in stable will wander or drift
away in a severe storm, and some of
them will perish in consequence from
long exposure. The losses from this
cause were greater in the storm of Jan.
IL than in any other that has been
experienced in Dakota. / have known
but one other blizzard that could COM
pare with it in severity, yet all live
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26

minds that they will do anything In
their power to do to encourage and in
vite the capital necessary for the
scheme; and well they may, for the
vicinity of Deer Park is peculiarly
adapted for mixed farming and eSpe
cially
STOCK RAISING AND DAIRYING,
and no better place could be found for
an establishment of that kind; in fact,
it is a wonder that creamery has
not been established here long ago.
The country being well settled and pop
ulated with an industrious class of peo-
pie, with good roads in all directions.
That creameries and cheese factories
will be established in this vicinity in
the near future is something beyond
doubt, and when the farmers have once
awakened up to it. they will not cease
before the matter is pushed to success,
the same as some years ago when they
took the matter of wheat market into
their own hands and succeeded. A
large building, well suited for the insti-
tuition, is offered free of rent for the
first year and for small annual rent
afterwards. Here is a firSt-claSs chance
for small capitalist to invest, with the
SureSt prospect for success, as the high
est markets of the timber and mineral
regions on Lake Superior, as well as st.
Paul and Minneapolis, are within from
two to four hours transportation, with
easy shipping facilities of two railroads.
Bonus and subscriptions are talked of
and an enthusiasm is kept up, so that
before many months we expect to see
the curns revOlve at rapid rate.
OBSERVER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
stock that were sheltered were safe and
comfortable,
Not Calves Enough.

j. G. Poor, an old and successful
farmer. expresses it as his opinion that
farmers do not raise calves enough in
this country, at least there are enough
thoroughbred bulls so that any farmer
can easily get a high grade calf from his
best cows, which will, very likely, come
in at two years old and give as much
milk as its mother did at mature age.
Beginning with only one cow, in few
years farmer may have his barn full
of COWS that will do him credit and
which will bring him good prices when
he sells them. A man can better afford
to pay 500 for cow that is worth it
than to pay $50 each for two ordinary
COWS.
1t is we'll to keep record of the
amount of milk given by each cow, as in
many herds there are cows which do not
pay the cost of their keeping, and are
kept at the expense of the others. TAX
ing out the poor ones and reducing
herd of sixteen to ten of the best, would
be satisfactory and profitable. 1t is but
little trouble to weigh every milking on
dial spring balance, hung up in barn,
and set the amount down on card pre-
pared for that purpose.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Keep Only Good Cows.

1t is not good economy to keep cow
which does not make first-class butter
and good quantity of it, says a CORE
spondent of the New England Farmer.
1t costs nearly as much to keep cow
which will make but six pounds of but
ter week while she gives milk and will
go dry two months before calving again,
and prove farrow two years in five at
that, as it does one which will make her
eight to ten pounds of butter in week
and bother her owner to dry her off be-
fore her period of CESSATION is closed
and give her owner a calf promptly
every year. But little argument need
be used to prove which of the two sorts
of cows will be the most profitable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Ensilage for Beef Cattle.

The Farmers Review learns that en-
silage-fed beef is ono of the latest nov
elites in the London meat markets.
Recently company of English agricul-
turiStS were entertained to luncheon on
beef from a 22-months' steer which had
been reared from birth on milk, silage,
and linseed cake, and the epicureS
unanimously testified to the excellent
quality of the meat. The feast was pro-
vided by the manufacturers of an en-
Silage press, whose object was to de-
monstrate that cattle can be fattened
entirely on silage and cake, without the
addition of any other kind of food, and
also to prove that the cost of the Silage
diet, compared with the value of the
beef produced, was less than
an ordinary ration of roots and
hay. The carcass weight of
the animal was 660 pounds,
which sold for S9S75. The cost of food
consumed, consisting of As gallons of
new milk, l24 gallons of skim milk, -
tons of enSilage, and S96 pounds of lin
seed cake, together with original cost of
calf and labor charges, amounted to
Slab, leaving balance of 1872 in the
animals favor. The beast thrived we'll
on the silage, and the experiment was
considered decided success as illus
trative of the feeding value of ensiiage.
In this country ensilage has by practice
been proved profitable as food for
dairy cattle, but as yetw have had ew
experiments made on the use of ensil-
age for fattening purposes. 1t seems
to be equal to roots, il not superior
to them. in diet for fattening ani-
mails. The en5ilage used in the
feeding Of the English steer was doubt
less made of grasses, clover, green oats
and like material pat intC the silo with
out any previous curing; yet this ensil-
age was very successfully used for fat
tcning purposes. LII this country the
latest idea Oh cnSilagc making, which is
TO cut up the almost matured Southern
corn with an ear OF two OH each stalk,
gives feeding material which would
certainly be much superior to the En-
glish watery stuff that contains far less
solid substance. Our ''new process
ensilage should more than take the place
Of roots in diet for feeding animals,
and at the same time furnish the amount
of succulence necessary in prime beef
production.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
THE PULSE OF MINNEAPOLIS.
Raked over the Goals.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
There is so much discussion and adj
verse comment, especially upon one of
the court house commissioners, by some
of the labor leaders that it is a wonder
that the public, and especially the
chronic kicking taxpayers, have not
taken hand in the matter previous to
this. 1t is fact that can not be gain
said that certain home architect land
by all reports he has presented merit
OriOuS set of plans has by tacit infer
ence, provided his plans were selected,
agreed to turn the entire superintend-
ence of construction over to the stone
cutters union for services rendered in
the line of wirepulling and bulldozing
in his favor. The writer's information
in this matter comes from stonecutter
and the plan of campaign and all deals
were entered into before they elected
their delegate to the late convention of
StonecutterS.
The facts as revealed run thus: A
certain Stonecutter Though from all re-
ports, he is beyond the average in his
trade now employed in this city by the
United States government, will be the
general superintendent; another stone
cutter, who is now working for the city
across the river, is to be the general
foreman and walking delegate, and
under him are to be another half dozen
shop foremen, already selected, so that
by the addition of another foreman or
two there would not be enough stone
cutters in this city to dress the stone of
the court house for the next twenty-five
years.
1t has come to pretty pass if every
unfortunate carpenter, stOnemaSOn or
bricklayer must present himself to one
of those favored wirepullers before he
can get job and have cut on him with
mallet and chisel the shibboleth, o. K.
To sane man it would appear doubt
full that any respectable architect, such
as the one referred to, would for mo-
ment tolerate such men and measures
Os the writer is informed exist, and
claim openly that they are the men
that will fight him through. When
such are the facts he might well cry
out, "Save me from my friends"
The writer's understanding of it is
that Mr.. Erickson fought for and main
tanned originally to confine competition
for the plans of the court house to the
architects of this city, and that the very
members Of the commission who are
now trying to place all the odium ON
him for not voting for their man were
the very men who, after tacit under
standing, kicked the traces and voted
to throw the plans open to public COM
petition. TO any fair-minded man it
would appear clear that Mr.. Erickson
is perfectly consistent in his course
that is, that after outside architects are
invited, and after they have spent their
time and money, they should expect
honorable treatment at the hands of the
commissioners and public, and espe-
cially so if their plans have that distin-
gushing feature-superiority in de-
sign and construction to all others.
MECHANIC.
N;ppaonol;c Marob 90
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REBELLION RECORDS.
The Investigation of the Alleged
Tampering With Them,

WASHINGTON, March PA sub-com-
mittee of the house military committee
to-day began the investigation of alleged
insertion in the rebellion records of I'M
official matter, as set out in the GrOs-
venor resolution. Lieut.. Col. Fl. M.
Lazelle, in charge of the publication,
was the first witness. Mr.. CutcheOn
called his attention to the appendix of
volume 20, part 2, series /, of the Re-
belllon Records, giving what purpOrtS
to be list of the members of the
Anderson cavalry, of Pennsylvania, who
went to the front and engaged in the
battle of MurfreeSbOrOugh. The wit
ness said that Oct. 1, last, the senior
clerk of his Office came to him and said
that Chief Clerk Tweedale, of the war
department, desired to have the names
of the members of the organization of
which he was member Incorporated in
the records, and that he would request
the governor of Pennsylvania to furnish
the list. If the governor did no furnish
it. he would get the information him
self. Oct co. list of the names was
received from the adjutant general,
which, the certificate stated, had been
made from the official report to Gen.
ROSecranS, and had been carefully COM
pared with the official reports of the Of
flee and
FOUND TO BE CORRECT.
Such certificates had always been re-
garded as sufficient basis for publica-
ton, and other rolls of honor and tables
had been included in the publication on
like certificates. A part of the indorse-
ment stated that the list had been copied
from the Philadelphia Inquirer of Feb.
16, 1868, but that excited no comment
because it was known that many news
papers had published strictly correct re-
ports during the war. Witness did not
examine the text of the volume care
fully; that was the duty of the senior
clerk; but he did ascertain that
the body of the volume would
not furnish sufficient data for the
preparation of the list. Respecting the
apparent discrepancy between the list
contained in the body of the report and
that contained in the appendix. the wit
ports to show the lack of agreement be-
tween them as to the actual number of
members of the Anderson cavalry who
went to the front. With this informa-
ton in hand, he said that not only
did the appendix list appear to be
correct, but its correctness was
also verified by careful COM
parison with the body of the volume.
After the newspaper statements had
appeared, witness represented to Mr..
TWeedale the Importance of having the
papers examined, and he agreed to have
it done, but he had not heard from him
since then. Mr.. Cutcheon, with the
witness, began comparison between
the lists as published in the newspaper
and the muster rolls, with the result
that two names of persons set down as
in the battle could not be found on the
muster rolls. Adjourned till Wednes-
day next.
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their work that they did under the old
regime. The railway postal service is
entirely in the hands of Republican Of
ficials, and eight-tenths of the clerks in
the railway mail service are Republi-
cans, and cases are known where some
of these people have deliberately con-
spired against the efficiency of the serv-
ice: also in all of the larger postoffices
of the country the clerks are mostly all
Republicans, as is the case also with the
carriers. Look at our own postoffice
here at home, and every clerk or super
intendent holding any position of re-
sponsibility is a Republican, except one;
and out of fifty odd carriers there are
not over five Democrats. 1t is a well
known and appreciated fact that what
few Democrats there are in the service
are considered by their associates and
their superior officers to be the best
clerks in the service. DEMOCRAT.
Minneapolis, March "a,