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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
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New ORR Dec - TIVE f1rera1
eerv;ces ?: the :ais ex.Congress1a2
Roswell G. Horr were he.d at F:a:c
ield n. !! The services were at.
tended by the family and Number OF
che dead mans friends. The Rev D.
Robert Co.lyer of the Church Of the
Messiah read the funera. service. He
spoke few eulogistic words and de.
clared Mr. Horn had died in TIE service
Of his country. The burial viii! be al
Wellington, 0. ..-z...
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
Eight Anarchists &c ME.

* BAReELosA. Dec 2a22 Eight OF the
anarchists who recent, s. ha ID Their trla..
in this city fer thrc wing a bomt into
tie Corpus Christ: procession last June.
have beer sentenced &c death
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
Fata, Collierv Exn1osion,.

BUDAPEST. Dec ga colliery dis.
aster at Reshitza resulted from an ex.
plosion of fredamp. Forty persons
were killed and " are still missing.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
Inaugural 6a.:'s Place Fixed.

@ WASHINGTON, Dec. pa Tie McKin-s
ley inaugural ssa,,!!= VIZ be hetc the
court otSthe pension otEce where Presl.
dent Harrison. inaugural aii,,was
held. KS was decided ae. .s1se;.
tive committee IL charged c. tbs III:
nuguratlon ceremonies
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
MINOR ITEMS OF INTEREST

ESf &
The Boiling broke club, London, offers
o purse of $4,000 for. fight between
Corbett and Fitzsimm ons.
james M Glover, a brother Of ex-
Congressman John M.1Glover. aged SO
years, sEieided by shooting himself in
the head Desp ondeney over business
sreverses.
Ex. Secretary of State Jokn. w. Eos:
ter, who has been iii for some days
past. although still con fined to his bed,
la muck better, and his early conval-
escence.iss expected.
The body Of Alexander Hermann, the
magician. was laid at rest in q vault ii
Woodlawn cemetery Sunday, where il
will remain until the family decides
upon q permanent burial place.
In the presence.ef numerous prelates,
the best known members Of the Amer
lean colony Cardinal Satolli Sunday
took formal possession Of the titular
church OF Santa Maria Del Ara Coeli
which was assigned him BY the pope at
the last consistory
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
.FIVI WE'RE RBMATBD
An Entire Family Wiped Out
Of Existence IN New
York City.
The Servant Saves Her Life BY
Jumping Out Of the
Window.
Fire Was Caused by the Up.
setting Of Large Piano
lamp.

New YORK, Dec. 22.-The explosion
Of lamp on the second floor Of the 4.
story residence, 5l4 East Fifty. eighth
street, resulted in the loss of five lives
The dead are: Aaron Goldsmith, Is
years cid: Chlotilde Goldsmith. his
wife, So years old; Bertha Goldsmith,
10 years old; Harry Goldsmith, 8 years
old, and Frank Goldsmith, 6years old.
= The only other person in the house at
the time of the Ere was Mary Rosa,
aged 20, a domestic servant, who saved
her life by Jumping out of the window.
The family was together during the
evening, the only member of the house.
hold, Mr.. Hirsch. brother CT Mrs.
Goldsmith, having gone out shortly
after the evening meal According to
the
Story Told by the Servant,
she was On the third floor of the build.
ing in the act Of putting the two
youngest boys to bed when she heard
the cry of fire coming from the floor
below with calls to her to come down.
She ran out Of the bedroom and hur.
ried down the stairs and the little chill.
dren followed her. AS soon as she
looked into the front room on the Sec
ond floor she saw the whole front end
of the room a5.aze. Then she became
frightened and ran out into rear
room ard Jumped from an open win.
dow to the ground. The fire was
caused by the upsetting CT large
piano lamp.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
North Dakota's Ofaci

North Dakota's Ofacial Vote.
BISMARCK, Dec. % Ofdcial vote Of
North Dakota. Nc Kinley, q, 33s5 !;
Bryan. 0.636 Levering, S56.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-12-23
Passed the Urgent Deficiency Bill

WASHINGTON. Dec. %. ~ The urgent
deficiency bill was passed by the house
as it came from the committee practi.
ca.!y without debate
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
THE AMERICAN HOG.

Extracts from paper read by Geo. w.
Franklin at the late meeting OF the Iowa State
Breeders ASSOCIATE u at Des MOines.l
The American hog is divided into
two classes, bipeds and quadrupeds.
Both kinds are found on the farms cf
the West, and occasionally both are
found on the same farm. The biped
American hog is fond Of usurping two
seats in a passenger coach; the lad
ruped is content with standing room
for one in an ordinary stock yard. The
biped American hog is often very
potent factor in the management of
financial and political affairs; the four
footed kind is not much of politician,
and herein again he differs from the
sheep, which is pretty much always in
politics.
While the American hog is not al
ways free from disease, il is surprising
how many different kinds of diseases
ship load Of him consigned to Germany
can contract while in transit. The
American hog may be any one of sew
eral breeds or may be of no clearly de
fined one, and yet like the money Of
the country, he always goes, and for
the purpose of passing. it makes but
little difference what is tbs color {;
whether it be dead or living, or even
in point of fact, whether it really exists
at all or not, for on board Of trade he
can be sold as mess pork without hav
ing any actual existence. He is Wig
orous and omniverous feeder, not per
haEs as cultivated as might be, and
yet he will bear a great deal more cul
tivation than he often receives, and
there are often some men who could
profit by little better acquaintance
with him.
The ham and lard hog is giving way
to the bacon hog. The bacon hog is
f5en the result of accident, but skilI
and science are being devoted to his
production until we may in time make
him with the same certainty that we
make the lard hag. 1t is quite the
fashion to have breakfast bacon for
breakfast, and while this is the fashion,
the bacon hog must be produced TO
meet the demand. The changes which
fashion prescribes in the hog, as well
as in other meat animals, make 1t not
improbable that the pigs tail will in
time become as popular as breakfast
bacon, in which case there will be uni
versal regret felt that our American
hogs have but one tail. The pressure
for the bacon hog is becoming so
marked that some breeders are intro
duciDg the blood of the razor back"
from Florida, in order to secure the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
EXPLAINING IT.

Say, Name" said Maud, as ehe bit
off a tiny piece of chewing gum, I've
been improving my mind again."
'Go way You haven'Cp
Eyes, have l have been reading
all about the convention. It's per-
fectly fascinating, too"
'Can you understand it?'
"Most of it. 1 used to think a con-
vention was stupid, but it isn't bit.
It's just like a gymnasium, of riding
goat at an initiation, or something of
that kind, you know"
"How do they do9"
"Why, they bring out plank"
Eyes"
"And it's very wide; and the candi-
dates try to straddle it, and other peO-
pie try to keep them from doing 30;
and the side that wins gets the nOmi-
nation. don't know what it means,
but that's the way it's done, for saw
it in the paper. Wilmington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
EXPERIENCE WITH ALFALFA.

W. Hight, in an Indiana paper, gives
his experience with alfalfa as follows:
The first alfalfa l sowed was fifteen
years ago on limestone land IN a creek
bottom. I sowed only on the small
gravelly patches that W re so rocky
you could not plow them very well.
The water in the creek would all sink
in the gravel by the 10th of June. l
have sowed several patches since on
the same kind Of land. They ell did
well l soWed some on clay upland
and it did not do we'll. Bottom land
underlaid with water is the land for
alfalfa. The water under my land is
down eight to twelve feet, and the roots
run to the water. never soWed any
on good bottom land. Drouth has 20
eff CT on the growth. When timothy
will burn alfalfa will grow right along,
green as can be. Tnen is the time TO
lock at it. 1t would make an old cows
mouth water when timothy Wou d
parch her tongue.
Sow as soon in the spring as the
ground gets warm and dry. Get your
ground in as good fix as you can. l
SOW broadcast thirty pounds to the
acre, and when it comes up plOw any
spots where it did not come up we'll. If
weedy land NOW two or thre times the
frs year, and rake it off clean. The
second year il is all right and ahead Of
the wee6s. B It it don't get to its best
till three or four years. It has to have
time to send it's roots down to water. l
do not know how long it will live Ny
oldest is fifteen years old ind just as
good as it ever was. 1t never bloated
any of my stock. cut three times a
year, and get about one and one half
tons at each cutting. think it would
do well on sand land. Dairymen should
try it. Don't SOW any thing with alfalfa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
CLEAN CULTURE INDISPENS'
ABLE To SUCCESSFUL
STR RRY
GROWING.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
There are few if any plants to which
clean culture is as essential as it is to
the strawberry. It's peculiar nature,
habits and time of ripening make this
the case. 1t grows blooms and bears
it's fruit down on the ground just where
weeds and grass can choke and smother
it. 1t bears and ripens it's fruit just
when the warm weather of spring is
coaxiug weeds into such rampant
growth as to deprive the berry of sun
light, without which it cannot mature
and color.
Being about 80 per cent. water, the
strawberry of course needs an abund
ant and constant supply of moisture
and the yield can easily be leseened
one half or more by the presence of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
LIVE STOCK.
VALUABLE PURCHASE OF HIGH
CLASS JERSEYS.

Last week a special train containing
Al head of registered Jerseys from
the Rockwell P1rk Stock Farm, owned
by Mr.. E. B. G. Hambley, of Rockwell,
N. O., arrived at the Biltmore Farms,
a part of the palatial estate of Mr.. G..
w. Vanderbilt, situated near Ashe-
vile, N @. This herd of Jerseys is be
coming one of the most important and
largest in America. It contains at
present some 13O head of animals,
selected for the foundation of high
class Jersey breeding establishment,
and for the production of fancy cream,
butter and milk, to satisfy the demands
OF the citizens and visitors of this noted
resort.
The farms, containing some 2 900
acres, together with the J 9rseys, dairy,
sheep, swine, market gardens and
poultry departments, are under the
skiIlful supervision of G F. Weston.
The Jersey barns and dairy will be
on a scale consistent with the enormity
of the other features of the estate.
This purchase of cattle con
sists Of % COWS, and 13 heifers,
royalty bred, and distinguished for
their persistent work at the churn and
pail, inc uding COWS with tests of
from IA to 49, pounds of butter per
week. and from 1000 to 5000 pounds
of milk per year. Representatives of
the most noted lines of breeding are in
cluded in this purchase.
The Rockwell Park herd of registered
Jerseys has been recognized for some
time as among the finest in the coun-
try, combining great individual merit,
large yields, uniformity of type, and
rich breeding; this condition induced
Mr.. Vanderbilt to draw largely from
this herd for the foundation animals oi
Biltmore.
There is no doubt that this section oi
America possesses many natural ad
vartages for the successful breeding
and development of the highest type o
Jerseys. This fact is demonstrated by
the many fiae and valuable herds tina
are now to be seen throughout tn
State
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
AGRICULTURE.

LIQUID manure is always used as a
top dressing. 1t is one of the most
valuable in the whole category Of man
ures, and prompt in It's action.
It is not only for corn that the recent
spell # hot weather has been beneficial.
Grapes need heat to make them push
forward rapidly. The merely moder-
ate temperatures that other fruits re
quire are of no benz fiJ to them There
probably never was a season t0O hot or
dry for the grape, Vine roots run
deeply, and we never saw the leaves
suffering from lack of moisture.
Cows at pasture are greatly helped
By feeding bran mash morning and
night when giving milk. Good as grass
IS it does not furnish the full proper
ton Of heterogeneous and mineral sub
stance that the COW requires to give the
largest quantity Of milk, and bran is a
better food for this than is grain or
grain meal. Cows that will not eat
corn meal when at pasture will eat and
relish bran mash made with water
heated to blood temperature.
There is always profit in breeding
pigs, providing the breeder is not too
greedy, and is willing to sell his stock
at reasonable rates. Live and let live
should always be the rule. Ia nothing
Is this more true than in the breeding
and sale of stock. 1t is very easy to
get a surplus of stock greater than can
be either kept or fattened with profit
As the pigs grow older it costs more to
produce a pound additional growth,
and what is worse, this extra weight is
not worth so much per pound as is that
of the smaller pig
Toe best way to manure the growing
corn Is by keeping the cultivator al
work among II as much as possible. Ii
the field has been manured over the
whole surface no extra manure can be
applied to much advantage in midsum
mer. OF course no bulky manure could
be drawn on the field. The most that
can be done is to apply little CONNER
cial nitrate where the corn was poorest
in order to bring it up to the average
It this is done and the cultivator il
used freely, it will mix the fertilizer
with the soil and add greatly to itE
efficiency.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07

weeds, voracious of moisture for the ir
own needs.
The fact that the wild strawberry at
tains some degree of excellence in a
wild and uncultivated state, has led
some people to question the necessity,
or even wisdom, of giving this fruit
too much culture. But observers of
nature know that the wild straw berry
plant is productive in proportion as it
chances to grow it spot free from
weeds and grass. When is lot is cast
amid grass and weeds, it makes only
slender spindling growth, and bears
sorry and few berries, or, often none
at all
It Is the highest economy to give the
crop which preCedes the strawberries
scrupulously clean culture, allowing no
grass or weed seed to infect the soil.
have fields which have had such close
attention in this respect that they are
almost free from these pests. Wnen
one does appear it Is killed before seed
Can be produced.
Just as a young cuckoo in q spar
rows nest appropriates all the food in
tended for the lawful occupants of the
nest and soon gets strong enough to de
stroy the young sparrows, so weeds
will appropriate the manure you in
tend for the strawberry till they get
strong enough to overpower your crop.
The richer the soil the harder, but
all the more necessary it is to give the
weeds and grass short thrift. This care
should extend not only through the
summer, but begin as early the follow
ing spring as weather will permit;
never forgetting that weed puny and
insignificant amid the cold of March
and April, may spring up into all the
vigor of Jonah's gourd when the sun
wez es warm On fields once cleared
of these, strawberries can be grown
with comparatively little hoe work.
Take the advice Of one who makes
the strawberry his life business and
gives this king of berries shallow cul
tivation frCqIent enough to keep the
above truceless enemies from ever get
ting foothold. An ounce of preven-
ton is worth not only a pound, but a
ton of cure.
n w PLA0KHALL
KittreIl, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
HORTICULTURE
TREES FOR PLANTING.

Generally all things considered two
year. old trees are best for planting, and
this applies to nearly, or quite all kinds
Of fruit trees, especially. Select those
with straight stems. smooth, hoolthy'
looking tops, with plenty of small
f1brous roots. Be sure that they have
entirely shed their leaves.
Trees on which the leaves remain
after the first frosts set in and stick to
the branches in the spring may be
safely regarded as unhealthy.
In taking up 1t is quite an item to
secure all of the roots possible, and not
to bruise or irjure in any way.
The roots are of more Importance
than the top, as with plenty of good
healthy roots a strong vigorous top can
readily be grown. But in all cases the
tops must be cut back in proportion t.
the roots.
All Of the bruised or injured roots
should be cut eff with long sloping
cut Then the tops can be cut back il
the top all crossing and crooked limb:
should be cut out.
The best tree i5 a straight stem with
the limbs branching eff at regular in
tervals. Cut back so as to secure a low
spreading head. With fruit trees, al
least, it Is of no possible advantage tc
have them tail. A tall tree gives more
purchase to the wind and the fruit il
more easily blown off and harder tc
harvest, while a low spreading head
protects the stem from the sun, shades
the ground more thoroughly, SO that
the tree suffers less from drouth.
IU is important to use care in the
selection Of the trees, as when set out
and properly cared for they will re
main long time and when the work
and trouble necessary until they come
into bearing is considered, it is worth
taking considerable trouble to secure
good trees. n. J. SHEPHERD.
EIdop, No.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07

1t takes lots of genuine grit to be a
farmer, says the R1ral World. Legis,
latures and trusts combine to rob him
and he finds many classes of his fellow
men fourishing at his expense. He
sees his real estate shrink and his taxes
increase. He very often has to market
his choicest products below cost, de
prive himself and his family Of social
advantages, work 16 hours day, and
all through it is obliged to be man Of
grit. For genuine manliness of this
kind the American farmer stands with
out q peer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
POULTRY YARD
RICH COLORED EGGS.

1t is q we'll known fact in the feeding
of dairy stock that foods poor in fats
or oils cause COWS to give milk the
cream of which is especially light in
color, and will produce very light col
ored or white butter. 1t is also a mat
ter of common knowledge among dairy
men that the light colored foods will
increase tho color of butter, as when
carrots are used.
The same principle would probably
hold true with regard to the feeding Of
fowls Too much bran, oats, and es-
pecially buckwheat, would have a ten
dency to produce eggs with very light
colored yolks. CJnfinement without
much variety of food is also known to
cause hens to lay eggs with very light
yOlks, and when such fowls are given
their freedom, plenty Of green food and
variety of grain food, the color Of the
yolks will change in a few days SO as
to be quite noticeable. Some varieties
Of fowls naturally lay eggs with lighter
colored yolks than others. Dark col
ored eggs are esteemed for their richer
quality more than white shelled eggs,
and frequently bring a higher price in
the market, so that all the difference N
the color of the yolk may not be due to
the single item of food or confinement.
Feeders are agreed that Leghorns
and other Mediterranean breeds will
bear feeding with much more corn than
the Asiatic aud American breeds, and
a richer diet, consisting Of considerable
corn, with plenty of green food and
range would, no doubt, give eggs from
the Mediterranean breeds richer yolks
than if confined and fed diet lacking
in corn and green food. Ample variety
in the food and plenty of range would
probably prove an antidote for the
white yolks.-American Agriculturlst
A pound Of poultry can be produced
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
KittreIl, N. @.

The agricultural returns for Great
Britain during 1895 show that the cul-
tivated area is 80. SIS 900 acres. The
shrinkage of lands under the plow in
creased during the past year by the
weather. There were $40 acres less of
wheat grown and $1,000 acres less of
rye, beans and peas, but the barley in
creased 72,OOO acres, and the increase
of the oats acreage was also larger.
The actual loss in the arabic area dur
ing the last two decades, which cover
the period of depression, amounts to
2,137, 600 acres. The reduction in wheat
alone is ], 900, 900 acres.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07

The Nebraska Farmer we'll says:
Community of eff Jrt might succeed in
keeping the chinch bug pest so thor
oughly within bounds the present year
as to materially reduce the chances of
a similar recurrence Of the trouble in
so violent form another year. 1t is
worth working for. Awaken your
neighbors to an appreciation of the
situation, and be ready to do something
effec:ual toward mitigating the evil.