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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
Mills, Not MINIS.

More truth cannot be crowded into an
ual number of words than is found in
is passage of Maj. McKinley's speech
reply to congratulatory address from
me of his old comrades in arms:
do not know what you think about It,
It / believe it is good deal better to open
n of America than to open up the mints of
e United States to the silver of the world.
This goes hard and straight to the
lot of the matter.
Times are not dull in Pittsburg because
ere is no mint coming silver or gold
bllars in that city, but because the
|eat iron works are not running on full
me. There was no mint at work in
buth Chicago when the rolling mills
ERE at work by night and by day, but
|ere was wage roll of 100000 a
lar. 1t was not because of the activity
the minis that Louisiana nearly dOu-
ed its sugar output. but because of the
|cKinley bounty. Ii was not because
II minis were more active in 1891 than
1893 that in the first year men were
liking because they could not earn
bre than So per day, and in the last
Ire hunting for work at 70 cents. and,
b the most part, not finding it. The
lnts were turning out as much money
l 1893 as in 1891. But the mills were
1t turning out so many yards of cloth
j tons of iron.
Start the mills and the minis will be-
,me aactivc. Return to protection, and
i Currency will settle itself.-Chicago
tier Ocean.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10

Uhlmitcd quantities free, without an UNI
dcrstanding with other nations, would
be an assault on the cause of bimetallism
and practical suicide for the finances of
the United States. In 1878 Gen. Walk
er said: "For us to throw ourselves
al$ne into the breach, simply because
we think silver ought not to have been
demonetized and ought now to be re-
stored, would be piece of Quixotism un-
worthy the sound practical sense of our
people. The remedy of the wrong must
|be sought in the concerted action of the
states, under an increasing con-
|viction of the impolicy of basing the
worlds trade on a single money meta" "
This is his opinion today.
As to the possibility of free coinage
without an immediate fall to silver
basis, and the strident claim that this
country is big enough to "legislate for it.
self" Gen. Walker points out two facts.
The stock of precious metals has SO
greatly increased in the world, and COM
munication and transportation are so
much more rapid than of old. that even
France found it impossible in 1873 to
continue free silver coinage. Since there
is vastly less money metal used IN the
United States than in France, the IN
Huence which this country can exert
Upon the money market of the world is
less than the influence of France. And
yet no one accuses Gen. Walker of be-
ing less a patriot or less proud of the
lfountry for which he fought than the
youngest orator of the far West. The
! difference is that he is n student and
han of senSe-SyracuSe Post.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
Free Silver and Wages.

correspondent attempts to explain
" wages would be increased under
q silver coinage by asserting that
AIDES unions, through strikes and
Ter means. would force the price of
,or to higher standard" This is
GER nonsense.
Experience has conclusively demon
ated that wages, under a debased sys-
n of currency, never increased in the
ne degree as the money cost of COM
|dities. If there was ever a condition
affairs which was favorable to such
increase it was during the Rebellion.
e were not only on cheap money
lis. but the ranks of labor had been
depleted to send men to the
Int to battle for the republic. Yet,
lat actually occurred? Judged by the
Echasing power of his wages the Ia
Fer in 1863 received only &c cents
Iere he had received n gold dollar in
10: in 1864 he received about 81 cents
i In 1865 little over GO cents.
Eut how do workingmen fancy the idea
being compelled to resort to STRIKES"
order that their wages may have the
he purchasing power that they do
w? 1t will occur to sensible toilers
HI if free silver coinage is going to
cipitate strikes, not really for higher
ges. but simply to keep the wages
1t already exist, it will be the part of
ldom to let well enough alone.-New
Fix Commercial Advertiser.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
The Money of the Constitution.

What wild talk is this of the "silver-
tes' " convention, sin favor of restoring
o the people of the United States the
money of the constitution
gold and silver-not one, but both !!
rhe constitution prescribes no such
money, nor any form of money what
yer.
But if it is gold and silver-not one,
tut both"-that they want, why are they
lot contented now? Both gold and silver
Ire in circulation now, on equal terms,
h larger quantities than ever before.
In the twenty-five years since the blood
|urdling "crime of 1873" was perpetrated
bore than fifty times as many silver dol
hrs have been coined as i'll the eighty
|ears preceding.
The simple fact is that the United
ltates has very much larger actual
|hpply of full legal-tended silver money
han any other country in the world,
Excepting India and China. and larger
bpply in proportion to it's popula ton
han any other, excepting France, Spain
Ind/Holland. 1t has more gold IN clrcu-
htion, actually. than any in the world,
Excepting only France, and more proper
lonately than any European country.
Ecepting Great Britain, France and
Germany. 1T also has more money OF
tl kinds in circulation. and all st par,
han most nations of the world.
/ Less talk and more reflection would
bnvince these would-be currency re-
abrmers that we already have what
hey talk of as "the time-honored money
II the constitution" in abundant supply
rbr every man who is willing honestly
d earn it-New York Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
Gen. walkers BimetaiI,sm

Francis A. Walker, president of tho
Boston Institute of Technology. may he
called the leader of the bimetallisfs of
the United States, so far as a man not in
politics can be called leader of n move
ment which has become political issue.
He has been an ardent advocate of inter-
national bimetallism for more than twen-
ty years. He speaks with authority on
all economic questions, but bimetajlism
may be called his hobby.
A new book, written without regard to
the present situation, but singularIy an
propriate, has just appeared, bearing
Gen. Walkers name on the title page.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
Curiosities of Our Money.

hw persons are aware that silver GER
mes are not legal tender, though re-
able for public dues. The fact was
ntly. it is stated, forced on the
ntion of the post0flice department by
.rson who refused TO accept the GER
htes in payment of money order.
: II seems, the government is Obliged
,eceiye silver certificates, but cannot
them out to any one unwilling to re,
( them. Should our silver friends be-
. able to legislate, they will doubtless
q the certificates legal tender, SO as
nrce the unwilling patriot to take the
rr representative of SO cents at 100
valuation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
Will Have to Work for IL.

After Mr.. Bryan shall become presi-
dent and free coinage shall be accom-
plished the people who were so eager to
stances will finally discover that they
are no better off than they were before
Not man of them will be able to got a
dollar, whether worth so cents or other
wise, except in the same way that
money has always been got lit must
be obtained in some sort of honest bust
ness or earned as wages. There is no
other way in which an honest penny can
be got.-New Orleans Picayune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
To Sound Money Democrats.

[ere is brief and simple catechism
sound money Democrats:
DO YOU want to beat Bryan?'
IF YOU want to beat Bryan, do you
Nv of any other way of doing it than
blecting Mckinley"
If YOU want to beat Bryan, and don't
Nv of any other way of doing it than
lelecting Mckinley, why don't you
/ your coat off and wade in and elect
Einley"
nsWers, " I;a;tod 60, eo',,5 reg ale
hocrHts who declare the currency the
mount issue and yet refuse to act
4 they believed what they said.-Bos-
7 Journal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10
What Mckinley Has Done,

What did he do? Consider sugar boun-
ties, for one thing. If the law had been
allowed to remain as he drew it Nebras-
ka by this time would have teemed with
beet-sugar manufactures, every one a
help to the farmers, and the soil OF
Nebraska is better for sugar beets than
that of Germany-only needs a good
start to establish an enormous and in
valuable industry. The Mckinley duty
on barley caused the raising of millions
of bushels additional to the average of
former crops, and this reduced sensibly
the excess of wheat production. This is
an example of what we mean by the di-
versfed industry that the protective sys-
fem Dromotes We want more of it, and
that is McI<inleyism.
WHY are wheat and butter down? AS
to wheat: The use of agricultural ma
chinery and the improvement in trans
portation has cheapened labor and ex-
tended available territory. Argentina is
a prodigious wheat field. The soil is
admirable, the rivers are deep, the plains
give full sweep to the machinery, the rail-
roads have nothing else to do than car
nv the wheat to market and the steamers
carry the grain to Liverpool in huge car
goes. Sailing vessels whose sails are
pulled about by steam, saving hands,
cheaper the cost of putting down Ar
gentina wheat in Liverpool, Egypt, India,
Canada, Russia, compete WIFI us III Iue
wheat market of Western Europe. The
world is sort of country neighborhood.
What is the matter with butter? Let
the price of butter go up in New York
TO % or 80 cents pound-a living can
be made producing butter at those fig
ures-what happens? cable message
goes TO Australia and there are ship
ments of thousands of tons of excellent
hutter at once. And it can be placed
in New York and proftably sold at IL
cents n pound 1t cannot be produced
in New York at those figures. This il
lustration is not imaginary. The trans
actions supposed have occurred recently.
What is the remedy? We can answer
confidently that the coinage of more
silver dollars will not be q help. We
ought to raise our own barley, our own
hons, our own eggs. chickens. onions
and potatoes, to make our own sugar
and our own tinplate, so as to give the
advantage of our own markets, the most
valuable in the world or that ever were
in il, TO our own people. The produc-
tion of articles we have Just named
would turn over to American working
men 100. 600. 900 of gold dollars annually,
and then custom would improve the
volue of the farms. There is no patent
nostrum about this. Our records are
full of the proof furnished by orr own
nxperience The best thing the farm
or can do is to try McKinleyism.
Nurat Halstead.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-10

Maj. McKinley's talks to the old VET
Grams who call upon him are models of
short, patriotic speeches, as have been
all his short speeches since his nomi-
nation for President. There are few
people criticising Mckinley as a one-idea
man in this campaign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

If there is one subject beyond ali
others that has been definitely settled
by investigation, it is that gains in
livestock are most economically made
early in the life Of the animal, and that
the cost per pound for making them in
creases with, increased age The uni
versity of the rule and it's Importance
in connection with the question Of
economical production, has given rise
to a demand for early maturity, the
earlier the better, in all livestock
grown for the purpose of making
meats. While the fact of increased
cost per pound of gain with advancing
age is we'll established, it can not be
too often insisted upon until all come
rot merely to know it, but to make it
their practical guide in the everyday
affairs of livestock growing, for in
this instance, as we'll as in many
others, there is too often an inteIlec-
tua1 acceptance of a principle as mat
ter Of theory, coupled with total Or
partial disregard for it in practice.
The Vermont experiment station has
recently re-demonstrated this relation
Of cost of gain to the age at which it
is made, in a series Of experiments with
pigs. Under like conditions as to cost
Of food, those weighing f1fty-fve pounds
requfTe5 2.65 cents worth Of food 70
make a pound Of gain; those weighing
100 pounds consumed BAT cents worth
for each pound of gain; those weighing
156 pounds consumed 423 cents worth
of food for a pound Of gain, and those
weighing go pounds required ass cents
worth of food for each pound Of gain
made. There is nothing new about
these facts, for they are in harmony
with long series Of past investiga-
tons, all tending to establish the same
point.
We have so often urged the impor-
tance Of early maturity that we some
times feel as if we were imposing upon
our readers to recur to it, but we e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

aliZe that it is necessary TO dwell on
some points often in order to get those
who are at the rear of the procession to
CLOSE up" For many years there has
been feeling in favor of young ami
mails for the market, and the early ms
turing ones have the advantage over
those that mature more slowly Some
breeds will furnish much ripper mutton
at a tender age than others. The wool
sheep may be ripper for wool very early
in life, while mutton from it is green
Much depends upon the breed, and the
feed has something to do with carly
maturity. Sheep are ruminant ami
mails and there is very little waste in
what they eat. Their digestive organs
are easily oyertaxed, and when once
impaired they recover with difficulty.
and hence the necessity of getting them
to market at an early date. A sheep
a year old is called lamb by feeders,
and at this age its assimilative powers
are at their best. The lamb that can
be made to weigh 100 or $50 pounds at
twelve to fourteen months Of age will
be profitable and it is breeds that can
do this that are sought by breeders and
feeders. Some Of them will not even
ask whether it has a fleece at all Or
not, but 10 fears need be entertained o.
such sheep having a fleece. Feed and
care must not be spared in order to
produce one of these animals, even If
they be bred from one of the early ma
turing breeds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

The Minnesota experiment station
has just marketed a lot of Shropshire
grade lambs, a number of which had
a top Cotswold cross, which show some
rather remarkable results from a feed
ing period of seventy-seYen days. The
hundred lambs in the experiment were
divided into five lots Of twenty each
Lot 1 was fed corn, oats ana oil cake
in the proportion OF 6, 3 and 1 respec-
lively, by weight, and without limit as
to quantity. Lot 2 received the same
ration but was only fed what the lambs
would eat up clean from the feed
boxes. Lot received oats, barley and
oil cake il the proportion Of 6, 3 and /,
likewise limited in quantity Lot 4 re-
ceived a similar grain food except that
the oil cake was considerably increased
as the season advanced, and lot re-
ceived oats and oil cake in the proper
ton of 9 to l at first, and 8 to 2 later on.
receiving only what they would eat up
clean. The hay was chiefly native and
not very good, but for a part Of the
time some second growth clover was
market value in the state. Grain was
fed whole, and the lambs were fed I'M
der cover, but had access to yards at
will, the yards being kept nicely
bedded. The total average gains per
month per sheep was 1874 pounds for
Lot /, 1915 pounds for lot 2, ITO
pounds for lot 8, 1886 pounds for lot
4, and ITO for lot 5. When marketed
the lambs averaged 120 pounds, and
sold for S4.65 per hundred. The graft
flying feature about the gains, however,
was the cost at which they were made.
Those Of lot 1 were made at 2.99 cents
per pound; lot 2 at cents; lot 8, 2.96
cents; lot 4, 2.91 cents; lot 5, 2.92 cents
It will be seen that these lambs were
fed at a marked profit, and if the
reader will carefully examine the ra-
items and condition, he will obtain from
them valuable suggestion as to how it
was done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

"a little farm we'll titled" is much
preferable to broader acres only
scratched over. There was much sense
in the reply of the farmer who was
asked to what use he could put a 100
acre farm, to which he answered, Sell
half of it." For grazing in a large way
on cheap lands, such a limitation upon
the size of the farm would of course
not apply, but for actual farming Of
the remunerative kind, farms are more
likely to be too large than too small
Taking the United States, over, the
average size of farms is 1877 acres. They
are the smallest in the eastern states
those of Rhode Island being IS acres
of Connecticut and New Jersey sc, of
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania 81, Of
New York 81, CT Maine 100, Of New
Hampshire 119 and of Vermont 1875. In
the north central division, beginning
with Ohio and running back to the Da-
kotas, the average is 1873 acres. Michi-
gan farms are the smallest, being Sc
acres. Ohio comes next with 50, In
diana 1903, Wisconsin 115, Illinois 127,
Missouri 1919, Iowa 151, Minnesota 100,
Kansas 1871, Nebraska 100, South Da-
kota 227 and North Dakota g77, The
whole average Of this rich belt Of
twelve states reaches perilously near
the point where the best use to be
made of the farm, according to the
views of the farmer already quoted, is
to sell half of it, .-l~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28
SPOKANE'S FLOUR EXPORTS.
Trade Increasing Rapidly and Promis-
ing to Assume Large Proportions.

A new feature in the -four industry
has developed recently in Spokane's
trade with Guatemala. The -four is
now packed in 10 pound sacks, and.
thus packed, is admitted free Of duty
TO the ports of that country MiIlers
in Spokane have pushed their in .erests
in Chill and Guatemala until the vol
ume of business transacted is now
quite important. This trade is increas-
ing rapidly and will soon assume large
proportions. Ships are loaded with
-four and lumber at the various Puget
Sound ports and return with cargoes
Of coffee, cocoa, etc.
SO important has the export trade be-
come that, beginning with April, six
teen steamships VIII ply between the
sound and the Orient-a trade that has
hitherto been carried oil by six
steamers. There are indications that
-four is rapidly sUpplanting rice as a
staple article Of food in both China and
Japan, and this, in addition to the
newly developed territory Of Guatemala
and Chile creates & demand for WASH
ipgton -four that can only be met by a
very considerable increase Of the pres
ent milling capacity. In 1895 Spokana's
three mills produced 568, 900 barrels of
-four, nearly all Of which was exported
Perhaps the most valuable feature
of this industry lies in the fact that It
gives practical encouragement 10
Washington, Oregon and Idaho wheat
growers, the mills having use for
nearly all the wheat that can be pro
duced in those States. With a con
stantly increasing home and export
demand for -four and the milling
capacity which is certain to keep pace
with such demand, the mills of WASH
ingtOn are destined to exercise 81 very
important part in developing the grain
resources OF the fair northwest.
That the trade is rapidly increasing
may be seen from the fact that only
few months ago he pioneer shipment
of fifty barrels was made, and now
one firm in Salvador stands ready to
take 300 barrels by each steamer.
The flour shipment alone by each
steamer aggregates 5000 to 5000 bar
rels. The -four is shipped in gunny-
sacks containing three-fourths of q
barrel, and the sacks come back filled
with coffee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

Geo. Fl. HOadley, breeder of Poland
Chinas and Short-horns, at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, writes: Il have noted
many inquiries during the past year in
regard to crimson clover, some of them
in your columns. l wanted to seed
down fifty acres last fall, but did not
wish to SOW timothy alone, ami as I
had seen crimson clover very highly
recommended, yielded to the temptation
to try it. It was sown the last days OF
August on stubble and the ground well
covered with the disc and then har-
rowed. The ground was very dry, but
we had rain enough soon after sowing
to start the seed in good shape, but
subsequent dry weather killed about
one-half of the clover plants and much
Of the timothy. What survived the
drouth till later rains came to its
rescue did nicely and went into the
winter in good shape. There is not at
this time, however, a live plant Of the
clover TO be found on the entire fifty
acres. Whether the extreme dry con-
dition of the ground through the win
ter rendered it's death a necessity, or
whether the powers that ya, and
seemed determined to be in our climate,
are alone responsible for it's demise, I
am not able to say, 1t would seem as
though plants on the lower ground
would have survived had it been
adapted to our soil and climate. From
this experience I am inclined TO think
that your advice favoring it's trial
merely in an experimental way is
timely and to the point" Mr.. Hoad-
ley's experience last season CORE
spends with our own so far as the SOW
ing made by us at about the same time
is concerned. Other sowings made at
different times during the season were
even less successful. We will this year
try a small plat with early spring SOW
ing. How it comes out will be reported
later
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

There is a great deal of difference N
the length Of time different Kinds o.
seeds will retain their vitality. Beans,
cucumbers, muskmeloDs, rUtab3Sa, 90
mato and tuTnip seeds decrease in Vi
tally very slowly from year to year,
while those like parsnips or celery are
practically worthless after TWO years.
Inc stories about wheat found within
the wrappings of Egyptian mummies
and terminating after centuries are
very pretty tales for the use of lecturers
who wish to impress their audiences
with the wonderful mystery of the vital
principle, but they very probably have
no foundation in fact. A table pre-
pared by the office Of experiment sta
tons shows that the average percent
age of termination from twenty kinds
OF seeds, mostly garden vegetables,
from maturity until ten years Of age,
vas "A per cent. for the freshly ma
tured seed, falling to 1876 per cent. at
ten years, A correspondent Of the
Massachusetts Plowman tells in a re
cent issue OF that paper a somewhat
remarkable story about an experience
Of his own with the seeds Of rha citron
melon. In 1855 a sea captain, plying
between Boston and the Mediterranean
ports, had served at one of the foreign
ports where he touched citron melon
of unusually fine flavor. He saved the
seeds and on the return gave them to
the correspondent who tells the story
The latter papered them, endorsed on
the paper their date and history, and
put them away. They did not turn up
again till last year, forty years after,
when he planted them in competition
with a like number of citron melon
seeds just purchased. Both kinds
came up with equal promptness, made
good growth, bore equally we'll, and so
far as the test showed, there had been
no deterioration whatever during 1orty
years. 1t sounds a little improbable,
and is not what would be expected
and yet one can not say that it is not a
correct statement Of fact.