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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
REDUCED GRAIN RATES.

The Omaha road has put into force
a new tariff on wheat, corn and flax.
The reductions range as high as six
cents per hundred, the western STA
tions getting the greatest reduction.
The rate to Chicago is cut more than
the one to Minneapolis. Mankato
comes in for some of the reduction.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
DAGOES AT WORK.

The places of the striking laborers
in the Chicago & Northwestern yards
have been filled with forty Italians,
whom the contractors brought to the
city yesterday The new men can
not understand UNITED States as
she is spoke" and the foremen have
interpreters to impart their orders
to them. They are medium sized,
swartty men and good workers.
Work all along the line is going
ahead in good shape.
Frank Mann, of Lake Washington
threshed his rye last week and the
yield reported is 423 bushels per acre
Madison Lake Mirror
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07

Julius Iker, of Good Thunder, was
before the court yesterday afternoon
on the charge of threatening the life
of John Delegge, neighbor. His
case was set for Aug. 9th, and he was
requested to give bond of 81, 200 to
keep the peace. Iker has been having
a good deal of trouble with the courts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-08-07
FOR FREE SILVER.
THIS Is THE REFRAIN SUNG AT
FRIDAYS CONVENTION.

The Blue Earth County Democrats
elect State and Congressional Dele
gates, and Endorse John Lind for
Governor and Gen. e. M. Pope for
Congressman-Some Speech rlak-
ing INDUCED In-Tke Convention
Proves to be a Free Silver Love
Feast.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
THE SCRAP book.
From Here md There.

Pruning Tomato Plants.-Very few real
ize the great benefit OF pruning and cut
ting back tomato plants. Ordinarily the
plants are left to grow as nature Wills
and too much of the plants strength is
spent in sending out needless blossoms
and in forming too much fruit. Pruning
and cutting back the plants sends the
strength into a smaller amount of the
fruit first set giving earlier maturity and
more perfect fruit Plan this year to
have lot of green tomatoes at the end
of the season. When frosts come If these
are placed in warm, dry cellar, they
Will continue to ripen, giving ripe fruit
well into the winter, thus greatly pro-
longing the season for this delicious fruit
Seeding down to grass in corn at the
last cultivating Is about as satisfactory
as any method especially If timely rains
give the seed a start. The tall corn pro-
tects the young grass from the hot Aug
ust and September sun. II the stalks
are cut up close to the ground and put
in stocks to cure, and carted off TO the
sile, a heavy roller run over the field in
winter will crush the butts and leave the
land in good shape for moving produce
next year, If level culture was practiced
Time to Make Fence Posts-Wood to be
used for making fence posts should be cut
during the months of August and Sep
tember after the trees have completed
the seasons growth. IL the work cannot
be done then, the next best time Is in au-
tumn or early winter. From personal OBJ
servation 1 have found that posts made
from wood cut in the spring, when the
sap is in full now. rotted badly In three
or four years. Posts Of exactly the Same
quality, cut in autumn and dried with the
bark on, lasted fifteen to twenty years
Dry the posts in the shade, with the bark
on. If the bark is removed and the sun
allowed to strike them, the posts will
become full of cracks, which permit the
penetration OF water and earth, causing
rapid decay. The best practice is to set
the posts in the ground before they are
dry, leaving the bark on. They will then
last much longer.-Lewis o. Follow, Min
nesota.
Turkey Hens as Mothers.-Turkeys are
very attentive mothers, and protect their
chickens well. 1 never had one taken by
vermin or birds of prey, which abound in
unity of n forest, although my turkeys
with their young ones. are free to run
where they like and go sometimes three
or four hundred yards from the house
If they know each other, several may be
allowed to run together without danger of
fighting. These goodies will accept any
change or addition of chickens, and brood
the newcomers as tenderly as their own I
often saw turkeys whose chicks had been
Joined to others, adopt large chickens
more than two months old, which had been
forsaken by the hen. Training turkeys
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
The Plymouth ROck-The Farmers
Fowl.

There are about one hundred recognized
varieties of domestic poultry, and out of
that number there are probably twelve
or fifteen varieties that are especially
adapted to the farmer, such as the Ply
mouth Rock Leghorn, Wyandotte and
Langshan. OF course, breeders of other
varieties Of fowls claim that their breed
is as profitable to the farmer as any of
the above named breeds, but experiments
have proven that the cOchins, brahmas
and other heavy-feathered breeds are
not as well suited to the farmer as the
Mediterranean fowls. The Leghorn is the
greatest laying fowl yet produced, and
is great favorite among all kinds of
poultry raisers. but owing to the non
sitting habit Of the Leghorns, they are
not what we consider an ideal fowl for
the farmer. as it is equally advantageous
for the farmer to raise chickens as eggs,
and, furthermore, we have observed that
all of the non-sitting varieties of fowls
do most of their laying in spring and
summer, when eggs sell at and 10 cents
per dozen.
The most profitable fowl for the farmer
is a fowl that is not only noted, especially
for its good laying qualities, but also for
it's good incubating qualities There are
a half dozen or more breeds that COM
btilt bOll bOOu ldy lilS anu oVNliiis QuaAl-
ties. Our American breed, the Plymouth
Rock, is considered by the majority OF
poultry raisers to be the best all-purpose
fowl. They are great layers, splendid
sitters and make excellent mothers. They
have been bred for quite a long while
and are to-day the most popular breed
of fowls that we have.
While the Leghorn may excel the Ply
mouth Rock in the number of eggs pro
duced in a year, the latter breed is the
best winter layer, which makes its egg
product equal to the Leghorns in value
besides raising several broods of chickens
during spring and summer. The Ply
mouth Rock is also a fine table fowl
Weighing four and five pounds when only
a few months old and possessing bright
yellow legs. There are several varieties
of Plymouth Rocks, but the barred and
white varieties are the most popular. The
Plymouth Rock cannot be improved by
crossing, as it is a well-nigh perfect
breed for both the fancy and market poul-
try raiser. A. b. c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
Grating the Orange.

An orange grower of Tangerine in re-
ply to request for information about
grating the orange, sent this reply to
the Florida Fruit Grower:
The orange is one of the easiest trees
to graft and any of the numerous meth
DDS of grating can be successfully used.
The same principles are involved in all,
however much the mechanical devices
may vary. The scions should be of per-
fectly dormant, well ripened wood, that
of the last years growth being prefera-
BILE If the stock is dormant or nearly
so, all the better, though some measure
of success with the citrus may be ex-
pected after the stock has begun to grow.
The scion and stock must be Joined so
the inner bark or cambium of the two
shall join at some point, and the more
points the better. By some means enough
pressure must be had to press those points
together quite firmly The union must
then be protected from drying by apply
ing wax, clay, moist soil or any other sub
stance that will prevent drying of the cut
surface Any method of grating that
will fulfill these simple requirements will
be successful.
In grating very small stocks one-half
inch or less I use a side cut. then tie
tightly by wrapping Irvine or mating sew
eral times tightly around and tie securely,
then wax alright or cover to top of the
scion with moist soil well packed down.
Stocks p to IL inches are readily graft
ed by the old fashioned cleft graft
Very large stocks are more readily
worked by cutting off smooth and insert
ing the scion between the bar and wood
The scion is sloped off to a point with
slope three-quarters to one and a quarter
inches long lowing to the size Of the
scion), all on one side, and inserted the
whole length Of the cut, with the cut side
next to the wood.
1t viii be noticed that all citrus stumps
are not round, but irregular. If the scion
is inserted at a convex place, the bark is
apt TO split, but II inserted in a fiat or
convex place, this danger is avoided.
Grating can be done under the ground,
or at any convenient hight. but if frosted
trees are grated be sure and go down to
nerfectlv sound wood
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
Intelligent Fnrming.

In these days of the much discussed
agricultural science we must not forget
that there is an economic side to all
agricultural operations that needs to be
carefully considered, says a thoughtful
writer in the Southern Journal. Just as
it seems rather absurd for a cotton plant
er to produce a large crop of cotton, eX-
pecting to sell it at to ) cents per pound,
and at the same time buy Nebraska corn
at 35 and 40 cents per bushel, IN like
manner it is unwise for any intelligent
farmer to buy anything away from his
farm that he can produce thereon with
reasonable economy. The production at
home of all, or as many as possible
of the supplies that are needed for home
consumption on the farm becomes an
insurance against disaster that cannot
be got in any other way. With an ample
amount of food supplies for the family,
employees and live stock. there comes de-
gree of independence that is impossible
with the farmer who has TO buy his meat
and bread and stock supplies.
When once the southern farmer makes
a sure thing of producing at home prac-
tically all the supplies needed, there will
then come to him the knowledge OF
the ease of producing an excess of these
supplies which are generally in good
and which will ordinarily command good
prices. Enormous quantities of butter
come from the northern states into the
south, when the very reverse should be
the case. We have grass in abundance,
grass in excess, so our cotton and sugar
planters say, and yet we bring down but
ter from western creameries, the product
of western cows, from pastures that can
not compare with such as are possible
with us.
Lard is another commodity that is
brought into the south very largely from
the western states. 1t is so extremely
easy to have a superabundance of this
commodity that it really seems curious
that we should accept from Chicago lard
compounds made up of cotton seed oil,
soap stock water and other even less de-
sirable elements. For half a century one
of the leading features of the great steam
boats coming down the Mississippi river
has been the immense quantity Of poultry
that were brought to New Orleans for dis
tribution to consumers. There is no.
where on earth where poultry can be rails
ed with greater success, or with greater
economy than on the gulf coast, and why
we should buy a single chicken or turkey
from northern ATTITUDES is impossible of
explanation, except by saying that our
people are Indifferent to such small econ
omies.
We might go on and extend this list,
but the point that we desire to make is
that when our farmers and planters shall
produce at home all of these things that
they want, they will quickly begin to pro-
duce a surplus that they will want to sell,
and they will build up market for them
selves in these products and will add
largely TO the wealth of our country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24

produce an egg. out west. where grain is
cheaper, their cost would hardly exceed
half a cent.
In one hundred parts OF the white Of an
egg, about eighty-four per cent. is water;
twelve and a half per cent. albumen; one
per cent mineral sugar, etc.
A Light Brahma hens egg will weigh
from two and a quarter to two and a half
ounces, or about one pound and twelve
ounces per dozen.
In mating ducks. about seven are allowed
drake in the beginning Of the season.
more as the weather grows warmer until
dozen are reached.
Poultry manure contains 2.43 per cent. Of
phosphoric acid; 2.26 per cent potash; and
325 per cent. nitrogen, as ammonia and
organic matter.
In one hundred parts of the yelk, fifty
two per cent. is water forty-fve per cent
is oil and fat, and one per cent. each Of
albuminoids, coloring and mineral matter.
Compared with well-rooted barn ma
nure, there are $3.50 pounds OF phosphoric
acid in hen manure, TO six in barn yard
manure; forty-one pounds of potash to
ten in barn yard manure; and siNty-sev-
en- pounds Of nitrogen to eleven in barn
yard manure. The analysis is based on
ton each of hen and barn yard manures.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24

and Bridegroom Will act as godfather
and godmother 90 wee Grandjean, who
Is TO be baptized.
But the chief festivities will be at the
brides home The elite Of Woodclim arc
hidden 10 the reception. There will be
"A collation. on the lawn and champagne
punch for every one. The natives ex-
pect fireworks in the evening. but this
the happy pair deny.
II the legacy comes true the tiny Grand
jean Will have "a splendid dot" on her
wedding day. gift of the bride and pros
pective mulionaircss. Tn grateful token
the baby IS to be chistened Byzantine"
She viii witness the wedding.
While the bridegroom talked OF all
their amazing alans the bride stayed
locked in her closet Woodclif's UNI
paved streets and stretches OF woods are
to be built up Ike Paris. Orpha asylums,
homes for the aged. a big library. tho
regeneration of the silk mill and other
glorics such as only Edward Bellamy
dreams of are I'm prospect.
say" said the station agent. II guess
it's true. The old lady's had money from
somewhere. Before, she couldn't furnish
her house. Now she's got a fence and a
coat Of panther house, I mean-and
they say she's going to get married.
Who'd although it"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
The Value of selling

will quote an experiment made by Prof
Henry and reported in the third annual re-
port. that shows in a very good way the
great advantage to be gained by summer
soiling over pastures. This experiment
commenced June Is. and was continued
until Oct. 10, 1885. 122 days i'm all. During
this period the yield OF three cows from
one acre of pasture was LIB pounds Of
milk which made eighty-two pounds Of
butter. and the yield of three cows from
one acre of soiling crops was i.7S2 pounds
of milk and 1856 pounds OF butter Similar
comparisons were made at the Iowa,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Con
necticut stations. At the Pennsylvania sta
ton it was found by experiments Of two
years that 'in round numbers we can pro
duce from three to iVe times as much di-
gestible food per acre by means of the
soling crops as we can by the average
pasture" At the Connecticut (Storrs) sta
ton 4 cows were maintained from June to
Nov. l, on little less than two and one
half acres of soiling crops with the addi-
tion of a very light grain and straw feed.
So We find this system has been tried by
the experiment stations with very good
results. By a judicious selection of soiling
crops not only a much larger number of
cows can be kept on a given area Of land.
but the land also may be brought into a
higher state of fertility. The eguminous
crops, such as clover, COW peas, vetch, al
falfa, etc, are especially valuable for soil
ing crops, owing to their habit of taking
up nitrogen from the air and storing it in
the soil.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24

TO force them 10 sit does not take away
their laying qualities when they are prom
erly managed. Therefore. allow them 10
lay their batch OF eggs after they have
brooded and raised your early chickens.
Ihey VIII ask 10 sit Immediately after
tpey nave finished laying; YOU may let
tnem, and have no fear Of overwOrkfng
Work FOR Wide Tires.-Our friends should
not forget 20 speak a word now and then
Tor The wide tire IL IS difficult to have
permanent roads without it. We TOO fire.
quently see where some man with mar
row tired wagon has driven onto a lawn
and defaced H. Unfor unately. the one
that does the damage Is seldom the own
er OF the lawn. The narrow tire damages
the dirt road. while the wide tire i'm
proves u by packing down the dirt instead
OF cutting into It. Who has not been on
country road just after the mud had dried
out and found the ruts so deep and the
clods so numerous and hard that il was
with the greatest didiculty that one could
drive over IL at all II the wide tire makes
a rut at all IL Is so broad and smooth that
II makes an easy track FOR driving. and
leaves less bubbles
Manuring the Grape Vine-As n rule on
land that is rich enough to bring a fair
crop OF corn no stable manure or other
nitrogenous fertilizer Will be needed for
the grape. The whole effect OF nitro
genous manure is TO produce rampant
growth Of leaves and wood. often liable
TO mildew from its excess of sap and
deficiency OF mineral fertilizer The chief
requirement for producing fine grapes is
a plentiful supply OF potash, and II in the
form of wood ashes IL will be all the
better. as that viii also supply some
phosphate Thes vine dressers OF France
carefully save all the grape prunings and
leaves each year. burning them and ap-
mINInp hot TO h.. ..aHsa
all the new growth each year is thus
returned In its mineral constituents, the
vines do not much exhause the stock of
potash in the soil When phosphate IS
needed apply bones broken up into con-
Venent size to be buried anywhere with
In six feet OF the vine. The grape roots
viii Irvine around these pieces of bone
and Will take out the phosphate and lime
they contain until the piece is entirely
eaten.
Southern Cabbage for the North. -
The Boston Cultvator SAYS: "Un-
ill within a few years past any
farmer or gardener who had not a field
of cabbages. or perhaps two fields, ons
early and the late would have been
thought neglectful of one Of his best crops.
But lately the southern states have sup
piled our markets with early cabbages in
such quantities and at such prices as to
effectually drive out the native grown
product, as they nearly have done by
beans, peas and some other crops. untii
our gardeners declare almost as much In
earnest as in jest, that they wish the
south had been allowed to secede. ana
thus the north had the power to put a
protective or a prohibltory tariff on ali
products grown south of Mason and Dix
on's line But as the consumers are moro
numerous than the producers, il ia doub.-
tul II they could succeed in enacting such
a tariff
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24
POULTRY WISDOM.
Much Information in a Small Conn
pass.


pass.
The gosse lays a score or two of eggs
in year.
No brooding-pen should contain over
fifty chiks.
Broilers shrink about a half-pound
each when dressed.
The shell of an egg contains about fifty
grains of salt of lime.
Forty dressed ducklings are packed in
a barrel for shipment.
From thirty-fve to forty ducks and
brakes are allowed in pen.
The duck averages ten dozen eggs in
about seven months laying.
Build the house ten by ten feet for ten
fowls and the yard ten times larger.
Ducklings are marketed at five pounds
weight, which they attain in ten weeks.
Ten dozen eggs a year is the average
estimate given as the production OF the
hen.
About four dozen eggs are given as an
average for the annual output of the tur-
key.
Duck feathers sell at forty cents per
pound; goose feathers bring double the
amount.
Thirteen eggs are considered a setting.
though many breeders are now giving tif-
teen.
Between forty and fifty degrees IS the
proper temperature to keep eggs for
Matching during winter
Eggs intended for Matching should not
be kept over four weeks. They must be
turned every day or two.
1T will require seven pounds of SKINNED
milk to equal one pound of lean beef for
fiesh-forming qualities.
One dollar per head is the aver
age cost of keeping a fowl year, and the
lie fai r If
fits
The eggs of the white leghorn, Black
Minorca and Houdan are of about the same
as those of the Light Brahma.
In an egg of one thousand grains, six
hundred belong to the white, three hun
bred to the yolk, and one hundred to the
shell.
For good results in egg production, the
hen house during the winter should not be
allowed to become colder than forty de-
grees.
Tt costs one cent each, in the east, to
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24

amount necessary by measursnent. 4
hen that Is laying viii consume more food
than one that IS not. Her food must be
OF a different nature than that given to
fowls to fatten. Thousands Of farmers all
over the country ara giving their hens
nothing but corn. and then writing 10
known why the eggs are not forthcoming
and what 10 do for cholera" OF the lat
ter complaint we will refer In another ar
ticle. Corn is no egg food; its nature is
TO fatten A hen TO be In good laying CON
dition must not be overfat. We have no
faith in the theory that the hen must
be in poor condition TO be good layer.
on the other hand we mant her tn a good
state for forced egg production 4 poor
hen is not a healthy one. neither is one
that is too fat Go between the two
Those experts who have made market Gull
ture a specially agree that about one
quart of soft food In the morning. "a pint
OF grain at noon scattered among a lot
of litter, and a quart of grain at night
is about the proper amount TO keep twelve
hens in a good laying condition. OF course.
the food must be of such a nature as will
give bone, muscle and the elements for the
production of eggs. Meat rightly fed is
important. but it should not be given more
than three times a week Green cut bone
is a grand article of diet for laying stock
and can be fed as a noon meal alone. twice
a week. About one ounce for each hen is
the proper allowance. Some breeds con-
sumo more feed than others, and so do
individual fowls in a breed so that the ap-
petites of all must be more or less watched.
Tho evils of overfat are many-apoplexy.
falling dead from the roost, dying on the
nest. egg bound, disease of the ovaries
dOublefyolkad eggs sho6t-sheSed eggs
etc, all owe their origin 10 hen that
has been too well fed Study this ques-
ton OF food and the art OF feeding, thor
oughly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24


Numerals will play queer pranks even ie
they cannot be made TO tell untruths. The
number nine is the most obstinate and
self-willed number there is. All through
the multiplication table the product of
nine comes to nine. Multiply nine by any
figure you like and the sum Of the dlgits
OF the resulting number will always add
up to nine; twice nine is eighteen and one
and eight are nine: four times nine are
thirty-siX and three and six are nine; so
II goes up to eleven times nine. with the
result ninety-nine. This Is gotten over by
adding the two mines, getting eighteen.
and adding one and eight The rule *
never broken; for example, nine times 800
is SO5l; add these digits together and they
make nine.
other queer examples or the same kind
OF persistence are shown. II you take
any row OF figures and reverse them, put
ting the reversed row under the original
and substracting the final result of ad-
ding up the digits OF the answer will al
ways be nine-for example: