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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Sell or Make Use OF All Products Of
the Farm,

Sell or Make Use OF All Products Of
the Farm.
Farmers waste more than any 9th
er class OF business men. Why is it?
Farmer G. is going to market with 40
pounds of butter today. Will he car
~ anything else? No, he can't both
er today. To be sure, there is more
pie-plant and asparagus than the
family can eat; it might bring 81. SO
to $500, but he doesn't care to fuss
for that. Then little later comes
Strawberries, but he can give away
what the family doesn't want if the
neighbors will pick them themselves.
AS for early peas there are hardly
enough to pay for fussing with them.
He might pick three pecks at As
cents, but they can spoil or the birds
carry them off. The grocer tells him
he will take all the sweet corn he will
bring and pay for what he sells while
he can take the remainder home to
feed the pigs. Here is dollar or two
extra and he can carry it as well as
not when he goes to market with but
ter and eggs; but it is a bother any
way. If he cannot spare more than
a couple of barrels of apples, or five
bushels of potatoes, or two dozen
cabbages, squashes, ETC., he does
not bother to find a market
for so small a quantity. and perhaps
he puts several dollars worth OF vege-
tables that he has no use for into the
cellar, or outdoor pit, simply because
he doesn't take the trouble to sell
them. Now, I fancy, says a writer
in the Cleaner, I hear some
man say: "The potatoes, ETC., are
worth something 20 feed live stock in
Winter" Does he feed them? Gener-
ally they remain in the cellar until
February or March, when he carries
out decayed cabbages, apples, etc.;
and the potatoes have shriveled until
he thinks he'll let them go until plant
ing time, for be may need most of
them. A merchant often spends more
time in selling SO to rs cents worth
OF his stock, than in selling a SIS dress
pattern. We say that is his businessl
It is q farmers business to try to sell
his stock instead of letting it waste.
A penny saved in farming is worth as
much as in any other business! In the
largest business establishments if a
book-keeper's accounts fall short a
few cents, he often spends hours of
valuable time trying to find out where
the error lies. Afarlner needs to calcu-
late as closely as any other business
man in order to be successful. Does
be do it?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Manurln4 Grass Lands.

The latter part of the fall and early
winter is one of the best seasons for
applying manure to grass lands. There
are perhaps two advantages in this
says writer in the Farm. Field and
Stockman; one is that during the win
ter the rain and melting snow will aid
materially to carry the soluble por-
tions into the soil in condition to be
used by the growing plants, and the
other is that the coarser or insoluble
portions that remain on the surface
will act as mulch and help material
ly to prevent injury by thawing and
freezing. It is often the case that both
the meadows and pastures are cropped
so close that the plants are injured
very seriously by the thawing and
freezing.
One Of the best plans of manuring is
by applying on the grass lands. Of
course where this is done regular
system of rotation should be followed
up. At the same time with good man
agement and proper manuring land
may be kept in grass for several years
without change.
With both meadows and pastures
by keeping the soilrich a better growth
can be secured, and this implies the
keeping of more stock aud the making
OF more manure.
If manure is applied early to grass,
it will: work down on the soil so that
it will not interfere with the growth of
the grass the next spring. However,
if applied in large Jumps some damage
may be done to the plants by smoth-
ering them; BY little care inspread.
ing, so that it will be scattered evenly
over the surface, this may be avoided.
OF course care must be taken not to
haul out when the soil is soft as con-
siderable damage will be done in this
way. But there will be plenty of OPP
portunity for hauling out manure
during the winter into the meadows
and pastures, when no injury will be
done by manuring and the soil be in
good condition to derive the benefit
from the application. The finer the
manure, and the more evenly it is
spread. the better will be the results
secured.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

And She Did.
The peculiar pertinacity of woman
hood is well indicated in q dialogue
something like this
''Well, don't care. think you
are very mean. All wanr-'
EYES," he broke in, ''all you want
now is the last word, same as you al
ways have, amt it,"
Eyes, and LII have it, too," spite.
fully.
"You WON'T"
"See if don't"
Cali right"
Call right it isl
"Have to mock every word say,
don't your"
Heavens, no! You never say any.
thing worth repeating"
..Why do you echo me, then?"
"I don't"
"You do"
81 DON'T"
'Shut up"
II WON'T"
"Ugh!"
Then we heard, rather softly, as
il talking to herself: II said I'd have
the last word, and I did. sUgh' don't
count, cause I don't believe it is a
word"
The Stork to the Turk
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Wheat Experiments,

Prof. Georgenson's experiments with
wheat at the Kansas Experiment
Station have included 234 varieties.
He expects next year to be able to
select q few of the best for future COM
parison. The results of the expert
ments for the past two years are sum-
married as follows:
/. The experimental acre" yielded
31.3 bushels of Currell wheat; the aver
age OF twelve years, including two COM
plete failures, is 1881 bushels, and the
average Of the ten crops harvested is
1857 bushels.
2. No conclusion can as yet be
drawn from the rotation plats. So
far, the plats continuously in wheat,
with manure, have given the best re-
turns, the MANFRED plats being so rich
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

Marshley-Cheer up, old chap,
there's plenty Of good fish in the sea-.
Hardup (who has just been rejected
by Miss Croesus, the heiress, disconsol-
ately)-Yes, but not gold fish.
The Boy Knew His Business.
Somebody had given the funny
mans boy dog, and when the father
came home in the evening he was con-
siderably interested in the new acqui-
sition.
"Where did you get him?" he asked.
"a man down at the depot gave
him to me-"
"What do you call him?"
"Hen."
''That'sa queer name. Haven't you
got things mixed little? Why don't
you call him Rooster
"'Cause he's q setter"
"Oh," and the father went inside to
commune with himself.-DetrOit Free
Press.
Not Easily Satisfied.
A married gentleman is perusing q
letter from friend of his when he is
interrupted by his wife,
sDoes he say nothing about me?"
mo"
ssThe boor!"
"Stay, yes; in concluding, he sends
you his kind regards"
1.-THE hypocrite! / know he cannot
bear me!'-Le Dmeocrate.
A Slight misunderstanding.
Doctor: What! your dyspepsia no
better yet? Did you follow my advice
and drink hot water one hour before
breakfast?"
Patient: II tried, doctor, but /
couldn't keep it up for more than ten
minutes at q stretch!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
BRIGHT FLASHES OF WIT
LATE PRODUCTIONS or THE
HUMORlsTS.
A Dead Failure--From the Back
woods--Why He Wanted the
Money--That Unusual Noise
--He Wanted ReneWinR--A
Misunderstanding.

A Dead FailA1fo
The fellow with = III imp in his
wind pipe and al ~ his left
ear lost no ti1ns s. onnon shat
he wanted sor NJ l. llII
sCaa't Is zbeI1|D - l out
Of sxi1 - III wI63xll !, ], = exr lied
~ - - O. - saxelnl. - I'd
~, - A d5 xonst ~ more
nroI n q 4
- - sailsa obligingly and
10 book.
=, hts The state of your health?"
4 To felloW Nth the lump in his wind
|pipe sesmed deeply affected.
Bad, !" he replied in a lachrymose
.voics.
The clerk closed his book.
eve can't insure anyone in bad
health" he quietly observed.
"Hey!"
Cant insure you. Good-day."
Gradually the situation dawned
upon the man with the birthmark on
his left ear.
Cant insure me at all, eh?"
enc"
"All right. Now Iwant to make you
a proposition. I'll bet you even
don't die inside of a year."
The clerk looked startled and shook
his head.
'sWell, I'll bet even do die inside q
year"
mo; I don't want to bet."
"I'll giveyou any odds either way"
mo. Good-day."
Hope fled from the visage of thefel-
low with the big lump in his windpipe.
Detected and miserable he left the Of
fee.
IA failure in life, a failure in death, !"
he muttered.
No one remembered ever seeing him
afterward.-Detroit Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Cheap Corn Sheds.

Any farmer with limited means can
build cheap shed for storing corn in
the ear. Set posts in the ground
and brace with poles as shown
in the upper part OF the Illustration.
Roof with shingles, boards, clap
boards or anything most con-
venient, continuing the roof until
it reached the ground. This may
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
CHEAP CORN CRIB.

answer tor many corn growers, es-
pecially in the newer portions OF the
country. Those who have passed this
stage of economy need something bet
ter, and such a building Is shown in
the lower part of the illustration.
Set posts in stills and cross brace with
shingling lath called sheeting. This
needs no other bracing. Put in a
cement floor to keep. rats from boring
up through the ground. Finish nicely
and you have a very cheap building,
yet one which you will not be ashamed
OF. It will come in play for storing all
kinds of Implements when not in use
for corn-Farm and Home.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Useful Pointers.

The pigs that are to be used as
Christmas roasters should 'come" in
q comfortable place and be pushed
till wanted for market. Runts are not
profitable as roasters any more than
for anything else.
It is said that the binder Irvine to
the value OF SIP, 100000 was made
and sold in the United States last
year. Cheap twine-making machines
have done much to supersede the use
of wire in binding grain.
Would it not pay a farmer who has
more straw than he knows "what to
do with" and who lives near a livery
stable or other institution where
horses are kept, to furnish straw for
bedding in exchange for all the manure
made. We know men who believes it
does.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Why He Wanted the Money!.


"Why, no." said Mr.. Peck, the groc-
r., in surprised tone, in reply to
Benny Bloobumper's request, II
haven't any work l can give you just
now. How is it you are asking some
thing to do? A we'll dressed boy like
you doesn't often askfor an odd job"
"Oh, sir" replied Benny, Hyou but
knew how anxious I am to earn a
quarter you would surely give me
few errands to perform"
"You can't be hungry, can your"
ooh, no, sir. Ihave had my usual
number of meals so far to-day"
"Do you want to give it to poor
widow, or to blind man?"
''No, sir. do not now recall. any
such unfortunates."
"Do you want to put it in the mis-
sionary box?"
"No, sir, my parents provide me
with money for that purpose"
"You want to 60 to the minstrel
show, perhaps?"
You have not yet guessed my need
of the money, sir"
t'Then what in the world do you
want it for?"
ooh, sir" replied the distressed boy,
"my mother said she would cut my
hair after supper to- night, and I am
extremely anxious to let the barber
perform the work before that time"
"My poor boy" replied the grocer,
deeply moved, ''come right in. I'll
give you g. quarters worth of errands
to run"
Which he did.-William Henry Sivi-
ter, in Harper's.
He Wanted Renewing.
cit is very kind of you, Mr.. Jelly, to
ask me to be you wife, but it can
never be-"
It was a fair young woman who
spoke.
The man whose doom she had thus
sealed had the appearance of a wreck.
She was the two-dozenth woman
who had crushed his hopes, and it be.
gan to have effect on him.
He rose from his knees trembling.
She was sorry for him-as women
are under such circumstances-but
she had done the best she could.
In few brief moments he recovered
his speech.
His lips quavered, but he was bound
to say something.
"What shall / do?" he moaned.
The girl shook her head.
"Pve asked two dozen women to
marry me-" DO went on, Gin the last
ten years and every one has sat down
on me. Even you have" he sighed,
"and now what shall I do? I am
completely worn out"
Her face was all ablaze and her ewes
snapped.
Then she became cold and cruel.
"You would better have yourself
upholstered" she replied in a steady
voice, and swept out of the room.
That Unusual Noise.
A.-What is the matter with you
this morning?
B.-I didn't sleep well last night,
There was an unusual noise in my
room.
ibid it wake you up?"
Yes; any unusual noise wakes me
up"
"Well, you see my wife never scolds
during the day but stores up all he1
resentment, like stored electricity"
HBut you were speaking OF an I'M
usual noise during the night"
"Just SO. I'm coming to that. You
see I'm go used to her scolding that it
acts OH me like an opiate. AS long as
J she jaws | sleep like top"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

All! how I used to envy you your
lot; every one so solictious for your
welfare and appetite; three meals a
day and all that sort of thing. All,
me! considering all things, and espec-
tally that tomorrow is Thanksgiving
Day, l would rather be stork.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25

"Well, she began jawing and ten
asleep as usual, and / would have
slept all right il it had not been for the
unusual noise?''
ssWhat unusual noise"
sShe quit talking"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
MATTERS TO INTEREST THE
FARMER.

Manurlng Grass Lands--Whsat Ex-
--Cheap Corn Sheds--Sell or
Make Use Of all the Pro-
ducts Of the Farm,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
". ". erwin
Makes the Fur Fly Down East in Manner to
Warn Plutocracy Of Judgment to Come.
The Place for Ty1ants is Across the Bosom Of
the Prince Of Hell"
The HOMESTEAD

Men who were arrested Mr. Ago
of Sioux City, W. Erwin ST. Paul. the defense
the following extracts from the addresses the Mr.
Argo said: -
armed force assault
the state @e
have deputy shsris they smissaris ios ".
county and shown the
Rssss iSPsi 5 s
nc 1--WE 9y were es ~ee on the banks A 49,
sna It dS,ss sras ' sBs sfis s's - Z
s ssss s TIC a,sss ia ss
nothing !, |. -, about $50
s!!a5sss ITO
ns as e. a
S Sssso so ss a
along G 1et
i T. witness that the
ADDRESSED
dou there Ta guilty
1d e &: equally ss
liable ] as @
9s r % ss rs Fl
this @ sns
Mr. Irwin made his regular plea 1t powerful and
press will be
ing the for the fair
SS @ shore s1f
evidence that
es, commonwealth said they must infer.
nfr? when logic could not speak All the
there invaders there There evidence
that hired watcmn not the slightest
THEY HAD
the
had been invaded by armed foreign
Why he did not the
damnab that Prick would not tell before the
the Was the battle at was 1t
the
delegated another the right to pe INVASION
said ns the right of the Pnkerton to be there
should shot them should shot
the should have followed them Their hearth
should them at
possible boundary should have
shot them
the ohe But not with that
the illegal armed there
There abs there
legally The people there
RIOT"
said the detecesby that
of will do Gods his
his brow Those detectives indicted and
stretching their neks The ftsho from the boatamed
what? Strikers? No. Men, children God in heaven
you those defend themselves? Mol Hasten
the and dynamite should be used those who
argued show much of unworthy of belief
conclusion he sad Ieave client hands, and the
higher hands of the Almighty"
adjourned morning.
Thomas M Marshall the
Clarence Burh the Judge Kennedys charge
will let the the early the and verdict be
expected confidently believed that verdict
will be one OF acqutta
Remember
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-25
Succulent Hog Food.

The secret Of healthy swine is plenty
OF good succulent food. They cannot
be kept healthy without it. Neither
can pigs be made grow rapidly to ma
turity without it. A writer says with
truth that the natural food for hogs
in the wild state is grass, the mast of
the forest, roots and bulbs OF plants.
The necessity for food of this char
acter is well recognized by nature i'll
providing the hog with a rooter for
the purpose of obtaining it. Even
after generations of domestication,
with ample sustenance to satisfy all
demands, this proclivity or desire to-
root, independent of necessity, re-
mains as a prominent characteristic.
Farmers who have practiced from
this pointer, and during the Winter
months have at stated intervals, at
least twice week, given one feed
of potatoes beets, artichokes or tur-
nips, have found that the hogs not
only relish them but derive great
benefit therefrom. They are conduc-
i've to a perfect condition of the sys-
tenn, stimulating the action of the
various organs in the performance OF
their functions. They aid in diges7
ton and assimilation of the more
solid food. Brood sows as we'll
as their young are especially ben
Gifted by a liberal supply of root diet
while pregnant. Indeed it is almost
compulsory to insure strong. healthy
pigs, and a natural farrow.-Ex.
change.
Seasonable Poultry Hints.
A writer in the Orange Judd Farmer
says: Do not neglect to take care OF
the poultry droppings and apply to
the crops. 1t is actually worth as
much as the phosphates sold in the
markets at $35 per ton, without doubt,
and no farmer or gardener can af-
ford to let it be wasted. The manure
from a flock Of hens will pay for their
care. By applying it to the corn hills
at planting time, it forces a rapid and
luxuriant growth. Provide something
for the fowls to scratch and work in
during the winter season. Two OF my
farmer friends have secured aquantity
of dry road dust for their hens to
dust themselves in. Coal ashes are
excellent. Lay in some cabbage he's
for the use of your poultry. They !,
appreciate the green food and the
basket will perhaps cont ain more egg
A bell-bred flock of hens are an orns
ment to any farm and a source OF
profit as we'll.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-23
THE MARKETS.

CHICAGo-WuEAr-No. . spring, soc
CoRN-No. 9, 475c
oArs-No.2, S2S,ossc.; No.2 white, s4c.
No. 3 white 33@33!c.
RYE-So. .. Soc
BARLEY-No. 26Oc.
MINNEAPOLIS-W l hard,
soc; No. Northern. 7S3c; No. 9 Northern,
674c.
cons-No 3, 4os to 4lc; No. 3 yellow, Al
10 4Sc.
oArs-No. 2whAe, 3otosOlc; No. white
3Oc.
RyE-No. Q. 73c
B,HLEY-No. 3, "a to i6c
HAyIChoice upland quoted at sl2to
color, s9!oslo.5o timothy sl2,o13.5O
ST. PAUl-WlE.r-S ! hard, 74to SOC;
No. Northern. To;o73c; No. Northern,
IS to 7Gc
coHS-So 8. 42to44c; No. 8 yellow, 1ls
10 ll!c.
oArs-No. ., 81 to &c: No. white, 80
TO SIC; No 3 b 10 81.
BARLEY AND kYE-No. 8 barley, 40
to 1Qc; No. rye - to DC: malt. 6Oto75c
GROUND FEED AND Mr:l.sruFF>-No
.lI.5o@lS; No. =. siSMlS5U; No 3.
$3.50 toS 10: low grade, Sl5 to- IL. 30; corn
meal, bo!ted, SO To "A. do unbolted sl7. 90
toSl6; bran, bulk, SOTO 1880
MlLWAUkEE-W urAr-No. . spring,
sc; No. Northern, S3c.
CoEN-No, 3, litoi54c.
OATS-No. :. white. 33!to3ic. No 3, do
324lo3ic.
BAnLEY-No. > she: sample. 81 to SIC
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-23
STRUNG THEM Up.
Report of a Murder, Followed
by a Lynching, Near
Seattle, Wash.
The Foreman Of a Camp of Rail-
road Laborers Killed by
Four Italians.

SEATTLE, Wash June IA report OF the
brutal murder Of the foreman at Sn III
Bros camp, on the line OF the Monte
Christie railroad, by four Italians,
followed by tho lynching of the
murdercrs, was brought here this
evening. John Hanson, a white man, who
has lived at Sedro for some time and has
been in the employ of Smith Bros, rail-
road contractors, was given posi-
ton as foreman over gang Of
Italian laborers on grade of the
Montcch'isto railroad. The statement as
given the Post-IntelliIenccr correspondent
was that Nelson was attacked by Italians,
and during the fight an iron bar was
used and driven through his head. killing
him, instantly. While men at the
camp numbering about sixty, be-
came so enraged over :he brut-
al murder that they seized the
Italians and in the presence of $50 of their
countrymen, hanged them to tree. No
further particulars have been received as
there are no wires to the scene
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-23
ONE HUNDRED GRADUATES
Commencement Exercises at Iowa's Uni.
versity at an End.

CommencementE Exercises at Iowa's Uni.
versity ut an End.
Iowa CRY, Iowa. Special. June 17.-Out-
going trains tonight bear over hundred
young men and women bearing diplomas
and bouquets and hundreds OF visitors who
have attended the commencement exer-
cises OF the state university just closed. To-
day was given over to the graduation OF the
collegiate department, from which there
were fifty graduates The speeches of the
graduates were OF merit. The regents con-
ierred the degree OF doctor of laws upon
Prof Eugene Wallbaugh, who leaves this
university for Harvard. Gov Boics ar
rived to-day. A communication from
Washington ordering the insurance Of the
military stores in the sum of s., 600 was re-
ceivcd. The old observatory under tho
statutes must be used Cor the purposes OF
the past and it cannot be fixed up and sold
rs residence. Leave OF absence was
granted to Pro essors Calvin Weld and Nut
ting, executive committee of the Bahama
biological expedition. Mr.. Frank Russell
will be the university's representative in
the three years tour in the Hudson Bay
company possessi ms, and it was decided
that the university pay part OF the expenses
incurred. DR.. Farnsworth's resignation was
accepted and he was made professor
emeritus. Mrs. Ridgway, assistant librarian,
was reappointcd Tor the ensuing year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-23
MANY STARTLING REPORTS.
a Number of Lives Lost in the Vicinity
of Albert Lea


ALBERT LEA. Mimi. 81 ecial. June H.
The most destructive storm that ever visited
Freeborn county swept down upon the
northwest corner yesterday afternoon. 1t
came from the west and was OF such force
as TO destroy everything in its course. Re
ports come in slowly, as the damage re-
ported is all from the ia rminy districts,
thus far. Andrew Hanson, aged twenty
two, who took shelter in barn that was
blown down near Hartand, was killed.
Mrs. Mike lvcrson and three children and
child OF ]. S;cen. in Freeborn town
ship, are reported dead. while scores
are more or less injured but it is lmpos-
sib!e to get names. In the Western part OF
Freeborn town>h p the storm was OF great
fury, many dwellings. barns, grunarics and
outhouses having beer blown TO splinters.
Much damage was done TO the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railway The loss TO growing
crops will be tremendous. Reports from
Wells, in Faribault county, say that fully
Fl ty are killed and severely injured. but
this may be changed by later reports The
storm is described by an eye witness as a
cloud OF midnight backness going in an
easterly direction. Later reports will no
doubt swell the death list.