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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
THE FARMERS COLUMN,
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR RU-
RAJ READERS.
Farmers Investments--Supp
ing the Pea Weevil--A Curiosity
in Gardening--Dest the
Wee!S w.
Farmers Investments.

Some farmers-in fact, agreat many
farmers-are out OF debt and have
surplus cash to invest, and the ques-
tionfo them to consider is where and
in what can they make the safest and
most profitable Investment. This
question the American Cultivator an
swers by advising them to invest in,
not in buying more land, but improv'
the acres they already possess. They
should but their surplus into their
business, as the wise merchant or
manufacturer does. The Cultivator
says:
"When g. thoroughbred or high
grade COW will make 500 worth of
butter in a year, and a scrub COW only
$40 worth, while it cost but little
more to feed one than the other,
money invested in improved breeds of
COWS, or in a pure male from which to
raise up a herd of grades, will pay
better returns to the dairymen than
can be obtained from bank stock or
railroad shares or Western farm mort
cages.
When a small extra investment in
better seeds and more liberal manur-
ing will increase the labor of cultiva-
ton, or when extra cultivation will
increase in the money return four
times as great as the expenditure;
when better tools will save their cost
in one seasons labor, while with care
they will do good work for five or ten
years, then is the time when the
farmer can make money by spending
money.
When the expenditure OF $25 of $35
per acre for tile drains will enable q
field that now yields less than $40
worth Of poor grass g. season to pro-
for the growth OF any crop that will
yield profitable returns it is economy
to spend money, and so it is when a
similar sum or a smaller one will SO
renovate an old pasture which now
only feeds about one COW upon six
acres, so that it will give more feed
and better for six times that num-
Der.
''In short, every farmer should see for
himself the manner in which he could
improve his land, his buildings, ami
mails, tools or methods OF working, SO
that a dollar invested will be placed
at a better rate Of interest than any
one else will pay him for it. Ii he
doubles the producing capacity of his
land, it is better than it would be to
double the number OF acres, and if he
spends his money judiciously, and
uses good Judgment in managing his
business afterward he has not lost his
money, but has changed an idle dollar
that only earned five cents in a. year
for lively one that will earn twenty five
cents And when he has made such i'm
provements that his business is up to
it's full capacity, or to the measure OF
his capacity as a manager, then he
may indulge in the luxuries OF life and
may deliver over his surplus profits
to the bankers and the spectators,
to take care Of or to lose for him as
he may choose
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Keeping Ducks.

There is an advantage in keeping
ducks that very little has been said
about. They require less room than
any other fowl Give them clean
quarters and plenty OF food and clean
water to drink and they will do we'll.
Twenty to thirty ducks can be kept
and raised to good size for the table
on a piece of ground large enough for
a pen of chickens. They will live and
thrive on coarser food than any other
fowls, and require less attention.
They are also less liable to disease,
The improved varieties require only a
vessel Of drinking water. If theyoung
are kept dry until feathered there is
little to fear.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02

calculated to distribute them than
otherwise. They are frequently pulled
and thrown in the road, to be tram
pied under foot, but this will not pre-
vent the washing Of seed to adjacent
low lands, and there aid in their dis
tribution. If it is a Unable offense to
grow wild carrot, it should be made a.
more serious offense to distribute
them in the manner spoken of.
Farmers ought to think better OF their
neighbors than to be willing aids in the
dissemination of such pests. 1t
is no uncommon thing to find the
common sour dock thrown into the
roads, at this season OF the year,
when the seed is ripe and ready for
transportation by the first shower.
just a few days since observed a.
neighbor had thrown docks in the
road on hill above, and in close pro-
xlmlty to his nearest neighbor, and
thunder showers must distribute the
seeds to lands below. This is not
right; it is not observing the golden
rule. Care should be taken to gather
and burn the seed if permitted to get
ripe at all. The better plan is to
cut in the spring when beginning to
start the seed stalk. If left later press
OF other matters usually permits their
ripening. Sour dock is one of the
most persistent weeds in our meadows,
and at time OF cutting grass they
should all be carefully picked out by
hand and burned, to avoid their dis
tributing in the manure. Can't the
farmers of Ohio be induced in some
manner to be more careful in weed
destruction? Doubtless there are
plenty Of men now engaged in trying
by political methods to relieve farm
ers Of their burdens; but friends, a.
good hoe or cythe used on weeds at
the proper time will pay in good looks,
if nothing else. Farmers don't let the
weeds go to seed.-Hiram Cope in
Ohio Farmer.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Doing Better.

The small farmer everywhere is gen
orally doing better, says an exchange:
than the large farmer. That this is
true may easily be proven by inquir-
ing into the relative prosperity of the
4O-acre farmer and the 1OO-acre
in your own neighborhood. Which is
burdened with the least debt in pro-
portion to the real value of his land?
Which is procuring the best profit up
on his capital and the largest money
yield per acre, and which gets the
most satisfaction out of the business
Of agriculture? One trouble is that
we have been too grasping in regard
to the land, and have acquired more
than we could handle to the best ad-
vantage.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
SURPRISING the Pea WeeVil.

This is notso difficult a. task as to
get rid Of some other insect enemies,
and it should be the aim Of every one
whose peas are found to be more or
less "buggy'' to undertake the work
OF suppression without delay.
BY breaking open the pods of peas
which show little yellow specks on the
outside-the eggs or egg-shells Of the
grubs-you will find the grubs crawl
ing over the peas, or minute holes
where they have punctured the peas
and entered. They are very small and
yellow in color, with dark heads. If
they have been several days in the
peas they can be located by dark
green blotches on the surface.
The insect doing the injury, accord
ing to Prof. Gillette, is the little beetle,
or weevil, so often found in peas at
planting time. The only remedy is
prevention. One m; n raising "buggy
peas year after year will stock the
neighborhood with this pest. The on
~ preventive is to stop importing or
keeping over, for any purpose what
ever, ''buggy peas" unless they are
kept in closed receptacles and the
weeyils destroyed.
One Of the best methods of Destroy
ing the beetle is to keep all infested
peas over one year in perfectly tight
bins, boxes or sacks, when all weevils
that hatch, being unable to escape,
will die. Another method is to put
the peas in a tight bin and pour over
them carbon bisulphide and keep the
bin air tight for several days. The
fumes will kill every weevil and not
injure thepeas.
The ease with which these pests
may be gotten rid of makes it next
door to a criminal offense to continue
to grow ''buggy' peas. The Professor
vigorously remarks that any one
who will knowingly raise such infested
peas and allow the insects to escape
to pollute so valuable an article of
food raised by all his neighbors, after
he knows how to prevent it, ought to
be liable to prosecution for willfully
perpetrating a public nuisance.
Destroy the Weeds.
For the benefit OF my fellow farmers
| wish to write a short chapter on
weeds and the methods of destruction
as practiced by some. It is a contin-
ual fight in old settled communities
to avoid being overrun by them.
There is some wild carrot creeping
into this country, and proper steps
for its suppression are not being
taken. I believe there is a Lar making
it an offensive subject to fine, to
permit carrot to grow on ones prem
ises. So far as known to the writer,
most men try to destroy them, but
the method Of destruction is better
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Farm Life,

Farm Life,
The one great disadvantage OF farm
life is isolation. The farmer ought to
mix freely With his fellow men, and
know what is going on not only in his
neighborhood, but in the world at
large. In no way is lagrange and al
lance OF more benefit than in bringing
men together for a free exchange of
thought. In these associations they
may become acquainted with one an
other and SO act together for the pro.
motion Of the general welfare. The
farmer who stays at home all the
time is apt to grow narrow III his
ideas and methods, and to remain a
little behind the age in which we live.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
Room Wanted.

MooRHEAD, Mimi, Special, Aug. 31.-The
Moorhead state normal school Will begin
its ,all term on Tuesday. Some trouble is
anticipated in securing boarding places for
the students line 9 hn 20 occupied last
Chased by a Norwegian society and will be
opened on Nov. as Concordia college
This leaves the normal school without any
home for its pupils. The citizens will have
to open their doors and take the scholars in
this year. Probably at the next meeting Of
the legislature bill will be introduced APP
home Such an institution is a positive
necessity to school of this kind.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
A Curiosity in Gardening,

Here is a. little scientific curiosity
from the Gardeners Chronicle:
"The roots Of plants are termed
within the substance OF the plant, and
make their way out from the center
to the circumference, not only, if at
all, by pressure exerted during the
growth, but by secreting a digestive
ferment which softens and dissolves
the tissues and allows the emergence
OF the root.
"Now the roots Of the couch conf ne
into contact with the potato exercise
a similar property, and are thus en-
abled to penetrate the tuber.
'"There is no theory, but has re-
Gently been demonstrated by a French
experimenter.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02

Custom grinding solicited. VIII
grind wheat for ! Gone eighty or ex-
change "a TBS. flour, TBS. shorts and 3
lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour
and feed sold at low rates and delivered
a New Ulm free of expense.
FRANK & BENTZ1N.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
An Old NeWtoWn Post Rider,

An interesting relic in the collection of exTown Clerk c. H. Peck is pamphlet manuscript showing the accounts of Jacob Judd, post rider from Danbury. The post rider preceded the railroad and even the stage coach, carrying the limit ed mails of century ago on horseback, delivering papers to subscribers along his route, as well as light articles of mer- chandiZe. Post Rider Judd's Newtown accounts are dated from 1798 to 1901 and were put in the hands of Judge Samuel c. Blackman, our first judge of probate, whose home occupied the site of the Grand Central hotel, for collection. The title page shows that this post rider de- livered papers and Monitors to the care of Caleb Baldwin, 'junr." The Bald wins, father and son, were long New towns town clerk and Charles F. Beardsley occupies their old home, once prominent tavern in the town. The Monitor was apparently magazine, as one charge is 4s, Cd, for binding it.. Judd's route must have been between Danbury and New Haven, as Col Caleb Baldwin is charged 7-6 apiece for New Haven and Danbury papers one year. Newspapers were not paid in advance then and the subscription price was often traded out. Ezekiel Fairchild is credited with 6s for making a pair of "breaches'' and all Michael Parks's bill was wiped out by a dinner and s'horsebate." Judge Blackman wrote against Ziba Harris's &C., count that Judd had nine shillings' worth of combs of him that were never paid for. Jared Brace was credited with 9s. Cd for mending whip. Job Dickerson was sued, but was immediately taken sick and died bankrupt. Other custo- mers of the post rider were Rev Bur honce,' rector of Trinity; Capt Solomon Glover, the Universalist preacher who lived where L. B. Lake does Dr Oliver Bancroft, whose home stood near the David Johnson place; Josiah Blackman Julius Camp; Abijah Hubbell; Gideon "Botchford ;'' Ezekiel Fairchild, who is charged with balance due on tamerons and large sugar box; Beach Fairman ; CapI LutHef haTTiS, LlDd f1aTrlS, cAdTS- ed with 1.-two pounds red led;'' James Stilson; Isaac Wheeler; Elihu Ruggles Matthew Curtis; Zalmon Booth; Hull Booth; Charles "Burrise ;n Josiah ssBor- ough;'' Capt Moses ssShepherd;" Dl Perry; James Thomas; Daniel Colburn Fitch Kimberley; Jabez ''Ginnings;' ; Simeon Glover; John 'Hubble," who was charged shilling for postage or two hats; "Asel' Booth; Phelps, by Sanford s mill; Jared Matthews, charged a shilling for l-2 pound pearl ash; Isaac Wells, two shillings for two ounces o1 onion seed; Ebenezer Beers; Benjamin Curtis, 3d; Niram Hard; .sZacchery' Clark; Benjamin Curtis; Jesse Sharp Thomas Sanford; Thomas Bennett James Masters; Webb Tomlinson Steph en Crofut; Patten Murray; Hill Fair child. No doubt an intimate acquaint ance with the men bearing these names would throw much light on the Newtowl of that day.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

It is too popular belief that measles is a very mild and safe disease which it is the fate of all children to acquire, and hence it is of little importance to try to avoid it. The truth is that although the percentage of deaths ascribed directly to measles is not large, yet it is consider able, but the mortality is not the true measure of it's power for evil. It has long been recognized by observant phys icians that measles in many subjects de- velops predisposing conditions favorable to the germination of the seeds of more fatal disorders State Board of Health.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

That which Abraham Lincoln's adver-
 saries in lawsuit feared most of all was
 his apparent disregard of custom or pro-
 fessional propriety in managing a case
 before jury. He brushed aside all rules
 and very often resorted to some strange
 and strategic performance which invar-
 iably broke his opponent down or exer- cised some peculiar influence over the jury. Hence the other side in case
 were in constant fear of one of his dra- matic strokes, or trembled lest he should ''ring in' some ingeniously planned in- terruption not on the program. In case where Judge Logan, always earnest and grave, opposed him, Lincoln created no little merriment by his reference to Lo- gan's style of dress. He carried the sur- prise in store for the latter till he reached his turn before the jury. Addressing them, he said: 'Gentlemen, you must be careful and not permit yourselves to be overcome by the eloquence of counsel for the defense. Judge Logan, I know, is an effective lawyer. I have met him too of- ten to doubt that; but shrewd and care ful though he be, still he is sometimes wrong. Since this trial has begun, 1 have discovered that, with all his caution and fastidlOusness, he hasn't knowledge enough to put his shirt on right" Lo- gan turned red as crimson, but, sure enough, Lincoln was correct, for the for mer had donned new shirt and, by mis- take, had drawn it over his head with the pleated bosom behind. The general laugh that followed destroyed the effect of Lo- gan's eloquence over the jury, the very point at which Lincoln aimed. His pe- culiarties were more marked in the law office and court room than anywhere else. In the face of adverse fortune and the lack of early training and by force of his indOmitable will and self confidence, he gained great ascendency among the lawyers of Illinois, Herndon's life Of Lincoln.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
Boys Make Men.

When you see a ragged urchin
 Standing wistful in the street. With torn hat and ragged trousers, Dirty face and bare, red feet Pass not by that child unheeding; Smile upon him. Mark me, when
 He's grown old, he'll not forget if; For, remember, boys make men. Have you never seen a agrandsire,
 With his eyes aglow with joy, Bring to mind some act of Kindness, Something said to him, a boy? Or relate some slight or cOldness, With brow all clouded, when
 He recalled some heart too thoughtless To remember boys make men. Let us try to add some pleasure
 To the life ot every boy; Show each child a tender interest In its sorrows and it's joy. Call your boys home by its brightness; They avoid the household, when
 It is cheerless with unkindness; For, remember, boys make men,
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
Singular and Collective Nouns.

Would reply to "Teacher'' that the phrase, 'the board of education,' is sin gular; the plural is boards of educa- tion. Also that collective noun may be both singular and plural without change of form or termination; but the singular or plural collectivity of such nouns in use is ascertained from the context. This much for premises. The phrase, 1.-The board of education," as originally used by ''Teacher," does not convey the idea of plurality and the reference to it in the context by the word "they' is an error, pure and simple, which '"Teacher" can neither palliate nor defend. The word ''board'' is singular in itself as a collect i've noun and the context only emphasizes it's regular collectivity. The quotation from the author cited, "The board of health published their proceedings" cer- tainly illustrates the grammatical rule laid down by the author, but it is not a case in point. Why? The same authority states in his larger work that a singular collective noun may be so individualized as to become of plural signification. Here the words "their proceedings" con- vey this idea of several plurality; and are understood to refer not only to the doings of the board as body, but also to the various acts done in dual capaci- ties, as members of the board and as in- dividuals to whom certain duties were assigned and performed as individual members or officers of that board, all of which acts are properly referred to as sstheir proceedings" But to express a wish, no matter how prayerful, that the board of education would give ''their'' decision as a board in favor of "Teach- er's'' petition is not an analogous case it is wrong in more ways than one! That little series of practical English gram so much, the Knox-Heath, gives two lit tie sentences which clearly illustrate what~I mean: 1.-The jury rendered it's verdict. here sjury" is singular col lective noun. 1.-The jury were divided in their opinions as to the degree of guilt 7 here the same singular collective noun .siury, has been individualized into plur- al collectiyity; and both are correctly used. Will ssTeacher" pardon me if { observe in conclusion that if she CD had spent one quarter of the time in looking into the merits of this teachable series, summarily condemned, which she ? ap- { pears to have spent in picking it to pieces she (?) would have avoided just the pit falls of speech into which she CD seem
 ingly was most prone to fall.-[ Another Teacher, March 30. 1891,
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
A Rich Brown

or even black. It will not soil the pillow. case nor a pocket Handkerchief, and Is ai- ways agreeable. All the dirty, gummy hair preparations should be displaced at once by Ayers Hair Vigor. and thousands who go around with heads looking like the fretful porcupine' should hurry to the nearest drug store and purchase a bottle of the Vigor."- The Sunny South, Atlanta, Ga.
 Ayers Hair Vigor is excellent for the hair. It stimulates the growth, cures bald ness, restores the natural color, cleanses the scalp, prevents dandruff, and is good dress ing We know that Ayers Hair Vigor differs from most hair tonics and similar prepara- tions, it being perfectly harmless."-From Houseksepiasg, by Eliza R. Parker. -
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
WHEN ' 1'HEHAIR

Shows signs of falling, begin at once tho use of Ayers Hair Vigor. This preparation strengthens the scalp, promotes the growth of new hair, restores the natural color to gray and faded halr, and renders 1t soft, pliant, and glossy.
 We have no hesitation in pronouncing Ayers Hair Vigor unequaled for dressing the hair, and we do this after long expert" ence in it's use. This preparation preserves the hair, cures dandruff and all diseases Of the scalp, makes rough and brittle hair soft and pliant. and prevents badness. While 1t is not a dye, those who have used the Vigor say 1t will stimulate the roots and color glands of faded, gray, light, and red hair, chanpinp the color to
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

If the additions to membership gauge the spiritual temperature of churches, the period since January l has been a marked one throughout the country. In this time we have recorded 2569 more ac- sessions on confession of faith than dur ing the same time last year and 1lS5, one weeks additions in March, is largely in excess of any previous record for sin gle week. -TCongregationalist.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

As cow-catchers clear the pathway, so do good examples; they clear the road for after-cOmers. Our business is with this life. No man ever did, no man ever will return from the other world. That world belongs to the Infinite; we have nothing to do with it. Let us not speculate, but work. Young people are continually slipping through the trap doors of life. We should be like the clay in the hands of the potter and come un- der the moulding hand of the Eternal.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
VOLUME XIV.
The Little People.

A dreary place would be this earth Were there no little people in it, The song of lite would lose it's m1rth Were there no children to begin it; No little forms, like buds, to grow And make the admiring heart surrender; i; No little hands on breast and brow To keep the thrilling love chords tender. The sterner souls would grow more stern, Unfeeling nature more inhuman And man to stoic coldness turn And woman would be less than woman. Life's song, indeed, would lose it's charm Were there no babies to begin it; A doleful place this world would be Were there no little people in it.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
FOR SALE 1

A great clearing out sale of all the stock of Pigs, Shoats and everything in the shape of Swine at the town farm, Bridgeport, Ct.
 We are obliged to close up our Pig gery as soon as possible and we offer you full line of this stock, both i'm ported and domestic, at prices that will insure quick sales. The stock must go at once.
 Apply to MICHAEL LOGAN, supt at the Aims houSe
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

One of the most eminent of New Eng land divines, himself son of a Puritan clergyman, told me that, when boy, he heard the deacons at his fathers house discussing the merits of their respective ministers. After many had spoken, one old elder said: "Wa'al, our minister gives so much attention to hisfarm and orchard that we get pretty poor sermons, but he is mighty movin' in prayer in caterpillar and canker-worm time. "- [Depew.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

He left load of anthracite In front Of a poor widows door, When the deep snow. frozen and white, Wrapped street and square, mountain and moor.
 That was his deed.
 He did it we'll
 "What was his creed?"
 l cannot tell.
 -[ Burlington Hawkeye.
The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01

The strength of a government rests upon the strength of it's homes. Every home is a foundation stone upon which ual homes throughout the country fall to ruin by forgetfulness, the government will surely follow.