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Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1888-01-15
AT THE FRONT.
Largest Plano and Organ House
Oh the Coast.


When you move to Los Angeles and the
GLORIOUS climate of California" leave your
old piano behind. Call on us and we will
sell you Steinway, Steck Hartman or
Vose for cash or on easy terms at Eastern
prices. Call and see the new designs in
HARDMAN cases: listen to its solid, exquisite
tone, and you will agree with us that the
HARDMAN is getting there" If you wish
cabinet organ REMEMBER we keep none but
the best.
SHEET MUSIC.
We nave had SO many calls for sheet mu-
sic, music books and all kinds of music
goods that we have been forced to lay in
fresh stock of the latest sheet music and
everything else in that line. We can now
sell you anything from a Jews-harp to
grand piano. Or If you want to start brass
band we can furnish the instruments. The
sheet music department is under the special
supervision of Chas. H. Gabriel, the eminent
composer, who has the reputation of being
the best posted man in his department on
the coast
TUNING AND REPAIRING.
Special attention paid to this department..
G. W. HERsEE, formerly of st. Paul, than
whom there is no better, head tuner.
JOHN w. GARDNER,
210 and PIP South Spring street,
Los Angeles, Cal.
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MISCELLA n EUUS.
SINH Ranch Land & Water Co.

SINH Ranch Land & Water Co.. 95 9914
L. A. and Santa Monica Lana
and Water Co. 80 50
Los Angeles City Water W'ks. 75
California Cooperative ColOny200 225
Barton Land and Water Co go. SO
Lankershim Ranch, Land and
Water Company ............. 80 80
st. Vincent Hotel Co ......... $500
Temple Street Cable BY Co &c.. so 5S15
Semi-Tropic Land and Water
Company o.. ................. 60
Hesperia Land and Water Co.. 200
Azusa Land and Water Co.. 200
Crystal Springs Land 4, Water
Company Observation-Disclosures. Go
Sespe Land and Water Co.. 200
Giant Powder Company .... co GO
Lake Elsinorc Valley Improve
ment Co Observation-Disclosures. III,
Atlantic Dynamite Company. 3S
Fairview Land and Water Co. so
l.. A. Electric Light Co. ..... ESQ
Ventura Water and Improve
ment Company ............. so
San Fernando Valley Improve
ment Company co.. ......... 10
Southern California Insurance
Company 49,. ....... ........ 100
Rasdale Cemetery stock ... 80 so
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SUMMARY.
r of transfers above 800
of consideration. !

Number of transfers above $1,000 each, Al.
Total amount of consideration, $19S, 76l.
Number of transfers under $1,000, As.
Total amount of consideration, SIS $50.
Transfers for nominal consideration, 81.
Aggregate of days transfers, $217 ,342.
lNOTE.-Transfers of which the considera-
ton is less than $1,000 are not published in
the above liStl.
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ERS. 81 LYNCH.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
THE FARM DEPARTMENT.

The GLOBE is sensible of the fact that
the great majority of the readers of
the Weekly are engaged in agricultural
pursuits and are entitled to special rec
OgnltiOn. Their interests and welfare
come within the purview of journal
that claims to interest and benefit all
classes. The methods and phases of
agriculture in the great new Northwest
differ essentially from those of the older
sections of the country, and no pains
will be spared in the columns of the
GLOBE devoted to their interests to fur
nish pointers that will be pertinent,
useful and helpful to readers in their
calling. 1t is hoped they will feel that
it is department the value of which
will in a measure depend upon their CO.
operation, and be free at all times to
contribute to it their views and expert
enceS. The processes and methods of
farming in this new part OF the country
are yet largely eXperimental-the rut
worn methods of old countries will not
answer. The climate and soil are eX-
ceptiOnal, and new lessons in tillage
must be learned by those who would
reap success. Hence peculiar value at
tacheS to the experience of those who
have made study Of the appliances
and requirements needful to secure the
best results. Articles from those who
have followed any of the varied lines of
production in the Northwest and gath
cred suggestions that are beneficial to
others. will receive a cordial welcome in
these columns.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
Local Horse Notes.

The breeders of tie state of Mime
sofa are beginning to work up good
deal OF feeling in regard to their re-
spective stock. The breeders asSoci-
alton has not been in existence long
enough to enable them to compete as
fully and as vigorously as they will
hereafter. They are rapidly approach
ing point where they will come into
sharper competition. When their young
stock increases in number and is older
the owners will all have more blood in
their eyes. Then there will be music in
the air. The strife is beginning to eX-
hlbit itself even now. Anyone that
talks with them cannot fail to see the
Indications.
Last Wednesday afternoon something
over 200 people gathered OH the ice at
Mortified to witness a friendly trot be-
tween Joseph ROach'S fOur-year-Old
stallion BrightwOod, by Commodore
Kittson's Blackwood, Jr, and Ed WAYS
Brown PAGER, five years old, by Brutus
Clay. Owing to some miSunderStand-
ing in regard to the number of heats to
be trOtted. the race was not completed,
only two heats having been trotted.
They will try it again.
W. l.. McGrath, who is getting some
very nice stock from his stallion Thes-
Gus, is enthusiastic over some of his
youngsters, especially Tipperary. You
just watt he says, It'll the next meet
ing at Hamline. and I'll show you some
trOtterS that will cause you and all the
rest to open your eyes. cpl show you
that we can raise trotters in Minnesota"
Dan WoOdmansee says that if people
have mares that they cannot get in fOal
they should send them out here to Min
neSOta. Mr.. Bonner owned Astoria for
many years, during ali of which time
she was barren. During the last few
years, since Commodore KittsOn bought
her, she has been in st. Paul and has
produced three fine fOalS. 1t Is the Min
nesota ozone that does the business.
At the meeting of the Twin City Driv-
ing and Jockey club a resolution was
adopted declaring that no further steps
would be taken in regard to having
running meeting at Hamline. Thus the
meeting is officially declared off.
Astoria, the sister of the renowned
Dexter, now owned by Commodore Kilt
son, on the 22d inst. foaled a bay horse
colt by Revenue. Mr.. Woodmansee says
the colt is remarkably fine looking and
lively animal.
The Twin City Driving and Jockey
club held a meeting Saturday at the
MeICHdlllS anu ItdIIdHScu Iuc GrOUllDS
and pacing races for the summer meet
ing. These purses will run from 1000
to $4,000.
Waikiki Wilkes, by Jersey Wilkes, a
yearling, owned by W. r. Merriam, was
timed quarter in Is seconds last fall
when hardly well broke to lead.
George W.Sherwood has large num-
Der of Memory fOalS that are exceed
ingly promising.
l.. E. Reed has very fine 10 king colt
by WOodford Wilkes out of Welcome,
by Swigert.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27

live another, especially when It is
against his interests. Now, IL there are
any silk dresses growing "that have
to pay for'' l believe in my own mother
and sisters getting them. also believe
in our own hired help getting good
wages, especially when our money is
paying for 1t, and not some foreign
workman in Chicago. Not that | have
anything against Chicago. But think
the workmen of Chicago or any other
city are as able to stand on their own
feet and compete with the world as the
farmer. But the trouble with the
farmer is, when he is plOdding around
his barnyard from s III the morning till
10 at night, feeding and taking
care of his stock, the millionaire he
in his club-roOm cOncOcting schemes to
force the farmer to pay higher prices
for his goods and to compel the farmer
to take less for his grain, etc, etc. And
when the Farmland is milking the
COWS at p. m. the mechanics
in the large cities are drink
ing their lager beer. The ones that
drink the beer get from So to 500 per
month, while the man that does the
drndgework around the farm gets SIS.
The cause of this great difference is
the farmer votes to protect the manu-
facturer, while he himself completes
with the whole world. If the farmers
would stick together and compel the
manufacturer to stand on the same basis
that they are compelled to stand on
they could have their club-rOom, their
carriages, and their wives and daugh-
tiers could have their silks. Having
things so one-sided is all nonsense. The
farmer has as much right to make his
living and lay up money working nine
OF ten hours per day as the manufact-
urer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
DON'T PROTECT THE FARMER
How Many Farmers Play Into the
Hands of the MOnopolists and
Themselves Suffer.

HOW Many Farmers Play Into the
Hands of the Monopolists and
Themselves Suffer.
A clear-headed farmer in an article in
the Chicago Times takes this sensible
view:
Il am not in the habit of talking
about our neighbors, but our nearest
one is such queer fellow l can't re-
frain from telling you about him. When
he hires hand he declares up and
down by the almanac that he can't pay
over S1S per month. And then the hired
hand must put in sixteen hours per day.
The same goes to the polls and votes for
high tariff and high wageS-vOteS one
way and works another. He goes into
town and beats our merchant down on
his prices until he has:no profit and
often sells him goods at loss in order
to get rid of him to wait on a more prof
liable customer. This same man brags
up our home industries and
Them He wanted to advertise some
fine stock, and went to the editor
of our local paper and wanted the editor
tOStrike off some posters, which the prin-
ter did very nicely and charged him 81.
He kicked like steer in the corn about
paying the dollar, but goes to the polls
regularly and votes for protecting our
home industries. His wife wanted
new dress, and the best one she had was
two years old. He grumbled terribly
about getting it. Now, she is home
industry that think he should support,
for she makes butter and sells enough
to supply the table with groceries. Isn't
it queer that man will vote to give the
millionaire manufacturer protection
sufficient to enable him to dress his
wife up in silk and satin and at the
same time kick about getting his own
wife-who works hard for him-a new
dress every two years? Now, this man
has paid enough in the last year to pro-
tect the millionaire manufacturer-in
his infancy-to get two new silk dresses
for his wife and suit of HclOthes for
himself. He would also have had
enough left to have enabled him to pay
his hired hand S25 per month instead of
S1S, and work ten hours per day instead
of sixteen.
1t seems strange that man has no
more sense than to vote one way and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
miscellaneous.

Ed Corrigan has sent the old hero
Freeland to Memphis and will work him
in harness, to which he is already
broken, and when he has become thor
Oughly familiar with all the outs and
ms of harneSS-life Mrs. COrrigan will
use him for her own driving. He is
horse of very kind disposition, and
highly priced by Mr.. and Mrs. Corrigan.
Robert Steel, Philadelphia, has sold to
Messrs. s. A. Browne & Co., Kala
mazoo, Mich, the bay mare Solo, 1859,
by StrathmOre, dam Abbess, by Albion,
and the bay filly VOlusia, by Nutwood,
dam Augusta, by RySdyk's Belf0under.
A Kentucky exchange says it is re-
ported that an offer of $4,000 has been
made and refused for the great filly
Susie S., record 300 at three years old,
by Hylas, dam by Byron; second dam
by imp. Sharpcatcher, etc.
w. j. Gordon, of Cleveland, is in Door
health and may sell all his horses at
public auction. Should his health i'm
prove he will be represented on the
turf this year by ClingstOne, Mambrino,
Sparkle and Guy.
Banker is now at the farm of the
MeSsrs. Barclay, at Newton, Long
Island, and his fee is 500, which is
moderate, taking into consideration the
fact that he is the sire of Bermuda and
other fast ones.
W. E. Refs & Co., of New Castle, Pa,
have purchased of b. j. Treacy, Lexing-
ton, KY, the four year-old stallion
Prince Alfred 1862, by Almont, dam by
Cuyler; second dam, Hyacinth, by Vol
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
THE GROUND MUST BE FED.
Fertilizers Needed to Repair the
Waste of Successive Crops.

W UStc Ol StlCceSSISc SfOpS.
Every crop exhausts some special ele-
ment of the soil, and, unless this con-
Stituent is replenished, the land will in
time become unpl objective. In the
richer prairie regions the first settlers
have invariably concluded that it was
not desirable to feed the soil with fertil-
iZers. This was the case in Central
Illinois. They raised large crops with
out it, and continued to raise them dur
ing succession of years. The land
was very rich In vegetable and mineral
matter. The elements of fertility had
been accommodating for years. In the
West a turf had been formed that was
several inches thick. By its decay food
for several crops of corn was furnished.
The thick sod was several years in de-
caying, SO that all the plant food it
contained was not available at one time.
But the time came at length when this
land would no longer produce large
crops of corn. The reason was obvious.
Every portion of the soil had been Occu-
pied by hills of corn. whose roots had
drawn the elements of fertility from it.
The exhaustion of the material needed
for plant growth was slower Than when
the surface was occupied by small
grains like wheat and rye, because these
plants are distributed over the whole of
it and their roots penetrate every pOr-
ton of the soil. They are not as gross
feeders as corn plants are, but there are
many more of them and they are more
dainty in their appetite. Corn, like red
clover. is a Scavenger. 1t will devOu
almost everything found within reach f
its roots. Its appetite is keen and it re-
QuireS much to satisfy it. 1t does not
leave much in the soil for plants having
shorter roots to SubSiSt upon. One who
looks upon a fine field of corn after it
has attained its full growth can see how
much material has been taken from the
soil. After making due allowance for
material obtained from the air, it is OBJ
viouS that tons Of plant food have been
secured from the earth.
Both scientific and practical farmers
are now convinced that green manure,
spread over the entire surface of the
ground and covered with plOw, harrow
or cultivatOr, is of more value in pro-
ducing a crop of corn than the same
quantity fermented and applied in any
other way. If applied green it has been
subjected to no losses from washing or
evaporation. 1t will soon decompose
when mixed with the soil and subjected
to working with tools employed in cul-
tivating the corn crop. If its effects
are not as apparent as those of old man
ure during the first part of the season
they are more apparent in midsummer
when there is deficiency of rain. The
manure is in condition to be apprO-
priated to the corn plants at the time
when they are most in need of food. Its
ammonia becomes volatile as soon as
the temperature of the soil is raised by
the heat of the sun, and is Immediately
taken up by the roots of the corn. This
manure attracts moisture and retains it
till the soil with which it is mixed be-
comes dry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
FARM LIFE IN ITALY.
Owners and Tenants Have a Hard
Time and Poor Living.

An Italian woman give S sad account
of the state of farming in the northern
portions OF her country. Almost all the
farmers are tenants. They furnish the
team and implements, while the land
lords make repairs and pay the taxes.
In crops are equally divided. AS a
rule both classes have hard time. In
regard to the food and drink of the Ia
bOrerS she writes: 1.-THE light. pure
wine, which before the vine disease cost
next to nothing, and acted as correct
i've to all defects of diet, has been sue
ceeded by wine which is more headv
and less wholesome. and of which the
price places it out of the reach of the
peasant as a daily beverage. On a
feast-day he may drink glass or two
at the OSteria; but, being unaccustomed
to it, it does him more harm than good,
and violent quarrelS are the cOnse-
qutnce. The Italian navy is still
pr0dlglOuS worker; nearly all the
greatest engineering featS of modern
times are the work OF his hand. But
then, it must be remembered that he
eats and drinks better than the peasant.
Inc rural poor can not afford cOf-
fee, which is heavily taxed; their
drink is water, and not always pure
water, ana tnelf staple 1000 Is maize
flour. either prepared as polenta or made
into very indigeStible kind of bread.
The former is the usual and less objec-
tonable way of eating it. Maize ma
lures so late that in wet seasons it does
not harden naturally; most of the rich
proprietOrs have introduced stoves for
drying the grain: but the peasants are
careless and leave it out in the rain till
it becomes moldy. Polenta forms the
unfailing morning meal; for dinner
there is sometimes mineStra or soup
made of rice OF of the coarser Italian
pastes, with cabbage or turnips and
little lard. On fast days linseed oil is
substituted for the lard. Sausages. gem
orally OF homemade kind, and raw
vegetables, with or without oil and vim
egar, are added when they can be got,
and eggs, cheese and dried fish are lux
uries. On dairy farms the peasants get
little milk or buttermilk. and meZZa-
JuOll who keep a cow reserve Il small
portion Of the milk for the children.
Those who keep chickens eat one now
and then. but butchers meat is hardly
ever bought except for marriage or
for sick person. If horse has to be
shot the peasants are very glad to eat
the flesh, and some are said to also eat
that of animals who die of disease.
HedgehOgS, frogs and Snals are 'eS-
teemed as great delicacieS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
Bell Boy.

On Friday last S. A. Brown & Co., of
Kalamazoo, sold the celebrated three
year-old stallion Bell Boy to Seaman &
jefferson. of Lexington. KY, for $751;
coo cash and service for ten mares dur
ing the season of 1855 and 1889. S. A.
Brown IL Co. bought Bell Boy one
year ago from Senator Leland Stan
ford'S PalO Alto farm stables in Cali
fornia for 5000. His great feat in low
ering the two-year-old record to $685.
least season brought him at once to the
front as the most promising young
horse in the country, and he won dur
ing the season $500 for his owners
He is 10y ElectiOneer and full brother
TO the great Kinda Rose. In January,
1887, he was bought by S. A Brown. of
Kalamazoo, Mich, and was sent on
from California, where he wintered, in
April. In July. 1887, as a two-year-old,
trOtted mile in Ionia, Mich, in $751;,
and again in August he repeated the
mile in 2:271a. In October he won the
special stakes for tWo-year-olds in Lex
ington. KY. and the Usage stakes for
two-year-0ldS in st. Louis tue same
month. Last year he travelled over
5000 miles by rail and was campaigned
from May to the middle of October, and
was as sound and clean as when foaled.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
A FARMERS TRUST.
Combination Needed to Protect
Their Interests and Get Their

Combination Needed to Protect
Their Interests and Get Their
Rights.
Western Rural
Congress shows disposition to throt-
tie the trusts. The difficulty, however,
is that all such measures are slow of
fruition, and that before a remedy is
applied the combinations will pocket
millions of dollars that belong to the
people. But congress is to be applauded
for every step it takes in this direction.
The ingenuity of Legislators, courts and
private citizens ought to be taxed to
clrcumvent these polite robbers. One
OF the Chicago dailieS last week took I'D
the suggestion Of the Rural that the
farmers might form trust. 1t is
argued that they could do it and make
it OF considerable efficiency. The Rural
believes in the combination of farmers
for self-prOtectiOn. 1t believes that if
they were thoroughly organized they
might organize practical trust which
would fully protect them, and perhaps
teach lesson to the vast army of mid
dlemen who are forming trusts that
they would never forget. Some journal
has recently said that farmers trust
was an impossibility because of the I'M
certainty OF production and the pressure
OF debts. A farmers, trust is i'm
possible just as long as farmers
keep out Of organization and persist
III fighting the battle alone. Pro-
duction has nothing at all to do
with the matter. 1t would not be prac-
tical to say that there should be a de-
crease of production, for then in case of
misfortune we might not have ANYTHING.
But it would be practical to say. if we
were all combined, hold every bushel of
Wheat or corn, and every meat-produc-
ing creature for a week. Debts might
trouble some OF us a little, but they
could be arranged after while, and the
purpose of combination is to get our
rights, and getting our rights we shall
get more money with which to paw our
debts. 1t is easily within the possible
ties for the farmers of this country to
get everything they ask in one years
time II they would only organize. In
deed, if they were only organized they
need not organize trust at all. Simply
threatening to do so would bring the
evils that Cypress them down as quickly
as the coon agreed to come down the
tree when the man was going to shoot.
We do not believe in trusts for the Dur
pose of oppression. We would no sooner
favor the farmers trust to fleece the
public than we would other trusts to
fleece farmers. We believe in honesty
and fair dealing. But when everything
is combined against the farmer he has
the right and it is his duty to protect
himself. even to the extent of fighting
fire with fire. He has rights and they
ought to be protected, and all he asks is
for what belongs to him. He wants no
body's pOcketbOok but his own, but he
wants that and will have it some time.