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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Americau Mnuufacturers.

The details of our foreign commerce for
the eight months ending with February
are as remarkable and as gratifying as
those relating to the grand total for that
month. ~
In the twenty-eight days Of February
the importation Of manufacturers mate
rails amounted to So, 936,601. or nearly
a million dollars a day, and the exporta-
ton of manufactured goods amounted to
$34 ,226, 12S, or, in round terms, million
and a quarter dollars for every day in the
month. In the eight months ending with
February the expectation of manufac c.
lures averaged 81 100000 a day Gnclrd-
ing Sundays and holidays, while in the
corresponding months Of the preceding
year the average daily expectation of
manufactures was only 1851, 700. In the
corresponding months Of 1S96-o7 1t was
but 100000, and in the same months Of
1886 but 1898, 900.
The expectation OF manufactures dnr-
ing the eight months ending with Feb
ruary, 1900, are double those of the cor
responding months ending with Febru-
airy, 1896, while the importations of mnn-
ufacturers' materials in the eight months
ending with February, 1900, are % per
cent In excess of those of the correspond
ing eight months ending with February,
1896, and nearly double those of the eight
months ending with February, 1895.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
The Family Cow.

Families that keep only one COW
should have. only the best to be pro-
cured. More labor Is required to care
for a single COW, proportionately. than
for herd. The COW for the family
should give large flow of milk for at
least ten months I'm the year, and the
milk should contain not less than per
cent. of butter fat, as cream is one Of
the essentials. 1t is better to have a
cow that gives even richer milk, but
the majority Of family cows are select
ed without regard to merit in that re-
spect. 1t is difficult to raise the calves
in such cases, hence in purchasing a
family cow it will be profitable to pay
q high price for a superior animal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Fertilixiax for Corn d, =.

Crops Of corn have been reported ex-
ceeding 100 bushels Of shelled corn per
acre, II we remember correctly, but we
do not believe that any man can grow
corn profitably IL he tries to grow one
hundred bushels of ears to the acre,
unless he is unusually favored by the
season, and we doubt II he would sue
coed one year in ten. The strongest
and richest land on the farm is not
good corn land. Corn needs a warm
soil and a warm season, and while a
dry season lessons production because
there is not moisture enough, to perfect
the crop, a wet season does the same
thing because there is not enough heat
to make rapid growth. Heavy manur-
ing makes rank growth of leaf and
stalk, and that keeps the ground so
cool by shading 1t. that ears do not de-
velop, and possibly the dense foliage
also prevents pollen from the tassel
from reaching the silk as It falls We
think the man who wants 100 bushels
Of shelled corn can grow it on three
acres with less labor and fertilizer
than he can on one, and be more
sure Of it In an ordinary season, while
possibly a favorable season may in
crease his crop to $50 bushels ON the
three acres. but would not be apt to do
so on one acre. There are crops in
which the yield can be much Increased
by extra fertility and extra labor on a
small plot, but not the corn crop, I'M
less some new variety is found
Am erican Cultivator y...., -..4
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Democratic Changes.

II consistency is any sort of jewel,
after ALL it is little puzzling to account
for the antics of some Of the Democratic
newspapers at this time. Many of these
papers four years ago were the organs
of the gold Democrats. who frankly ad-
mitted that the great majoroity of their
cid associates in the Democratic ranks
had wandered away after the false gods
of cheap money and there was no health
in them.
Some of these papers went so far as to
accuse the free silver wing of their party
of dishonest intentions. Others went SO
far as to declare that their former COM
patriots had been seized with a wild hal
lucinatjon and were then roaming about
making free silver speeches from a kind
of madness against which they advised
the country to protect itself by voting for
Mr.. Mckinley and the gold standard.
What is so puzzling now is that these
same papers are beginning to appeal to
the public to put their trust in precisely
the same men who, according to their
own declarations, were sheer daft on the
money question foHr years ago. The only
difference in their mental attitude then
and now consists in their having put
by for the moment their cry against the
gold standard and. taken up that against
/. imperialism" and the trusts"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Foreign Ira de Gains.

Total exports of American products
and manufactures in March, as shown by
the figures of the treasury bureau of sta
tistics, were $134,313,34S, against $104,-
559,6S9 in March of last year, 1854,
1S5 in March, 1896, and $66,516,571 in
March, 1898. Thus last months exports
were more than double those of March,
1893 and 20 per cent greater than those
those of any preceding March in our his
tory.
The total exports in the nine months
ending with March, 1900, were 81 ,053,-
$50, 675, against 947,919, 405 in the cor
responding months Of last year. $685.
905,32 in March, 1897, and $515, 49,
63o in the same month of 1856, having
thus doubled in fifteen years and increas-
ed SO per cent since 1903.
Exports of agricultural products are
about the same as last year, the notable
increase of more than 100 million dollars
in the nine months in question being large
ly in manufactures. 1t is apparent that
the total exports of the fiscal year 1900
will exceed those of any preceding year
in our history. Imports also show a mark
ed increase over last year, the principal
gain being in manufacturers materials,
while manufactured articles for use in the
mechanic arts also show an increase.
Thus the return to a protective system
is followed by enormous gains in our ex-
ports and by increased activity in our
manufacturing interests at home, and a
consequent increase Of employment and
wages. T 49,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Kan.as Farmers Salt Tbeir Land.

Two farmers living near lola, Kan,
nave received 4O,000-pound car OF
salt from Hutchinson, which they will
use on their farms, says the Abilene
Chronicle. Both have extensive farm
interests which they look after them
selves and they propose to SOW the salt
with oats, wheat and fax, on the the
ory~that land so treated Is given the
chemicals required by those grains and
In the belief that chinch bugs will shun
the fields. Some of their impractical
town friends have rather laundering
for the belief that wheat SO treated
will grow loaves of self-rising bread.
At any rate the test is one which will
be watched with interest and the farm
era may reap good returns from the
500 or more invested by these gentle
men In an experiment. ,.r.,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

The steady growth of prosperity under
the protective tariff and sound money is
illustrated by some facts just made pub
lie relative to the commerce on the great
lakes since 1870, and which were COM
piled by the treasury bureau of statistics.
The great articles entering into the
commerce on the lakes jareI wheat, flour,
and other grains, coal, iron and lumber.
The statements of the quantities of these
articles passing through the 500 canal
illustrate the growing utilization OF this
great water route for transportation OF
these articles SO readily transported in
bulk 49, 4
In 1871 the number of bushels Of wheat
passing through the canal was 1876, 7O5,
while in 1899 the number Of bushels was
5S, 397 1886, or more than forty times as
much as in 1871. Meantime the receipts
of wheat at Buffalo increased from a.
DOC, 900 bushels in 1872 to S3,OO0,OOO in
1898, while the total ereceipts Of grain of
all kinds Including wheat in the form
Of four received at Buffalo by lake in
creased from $4,000, 900 bushels in 1872
to 267O0O,OOO bushels in 1898. U RI
The expectation of wheat and heat
flour Increased from 39,000,OOO bushels
in 1872 to 232, 0O0, 900 bushels in 1890. the
increase in transportation by lake thus
being much greater proportionately than
the increase in exports from, the sea-
board Transportation of flour through
the 500 canal has increased with even
greater rapidity. growing from 136,411
barrels in 1872 to 7,114.147 barrels in
1893; while grain other than wheat in
creased from 445,774 bushels in 1872
to 10000 900 bushels in 1899. svas's'ra'''s
In metals and minerals the growth of
transportation on the lakes Is quite as
striking as in breadstuffs,s the quantity
of coal carried on the 500 canal having
increased from S0,S15 tons in 1872 to
3,940,SS7 tons in 1899. Coal from the
Pennsylvania and Ohio fields Is supplied
at low freight rates to the Lake Superior
region, where coal production is light and
fuel greatly in demand, as the vessels
which carry the iron ore, grain and -four
from the Lake Superior region carry coal
on their return trips at nominal freight
rates, AS consequence the coal passing
through the 500 canal has increased from
S0,S15 tons in 1872 to 3,940,SS7 tons in
1899.
The product Of the Lake Superior region
which is poured through the 500 canal in
increasing quantities every year is, after
grain and -four, which have been already
mentioned, chiefly iron ore, copper and
lumber. The iron ore shipments through
the canal increased from 3S3, 105 tons in
1872 to 1923, 240 tons in 1899; copper,
from Ii, 591 tons in 1872 to 100000 tons
in 1899, and lumber, from ], IA, 900 feet
in 1872 to 1,O8S0 57 900 feet in 1899. The
report from which these figures were OBJ
tanned indicates that they also include
the traffic through the Canadian canal,
lying just alongside st. Marys Falls
canal, which was opened to commerce
Sept. 9, 1895.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

Fair Managers in 1893 her name has be-
come well known all over the country.
Last year she took up summer residence
at Newport and her villa was the most
popular at this famous resort. She 10
generally credited with having made the
match between her niece, Miss Julia Dent
Grant, and Count Cantacuzene, the rich
young Russian nobleman, and it was at
her Newport mansion that the brilliant
wedding took place.
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Julian ID. Fairchild is one Of the few
men of Brooklyn who have had the pleas
ure of declining a $25, 900 year salary,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

chapter. And II can Be used to WHIT
wash the cellar. the podltzy house. the
stable ana other bulldings. II car ~
used to advantage In applying disin-
fectants for preventing the spread Of
contagious diseases, etc. p9naifus
\ A word or two a. to the cost OF spray
ing Say you have four or i've acres
OF orchard, It will take about ave bar
rels OF mixture for each spraying.
Twenty pounds bluestone, at 2 cents
per pound, $40; Paris green, 80 cents;
lime, 10 cents; total sos for material.
A man. and boy with a horse will do 1t
in one day; say 81 for wages, and you
have the cost OF each spraying, $4.05.
If sprayed four times, total cost. $l6.2O
One good crop Of clean, marketable
fruit WIN give big profit on the invest
ment.--Farmers' Advocate.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

ytderal tPooDs arrived. Ihaee vsrs IN
Quent. lSnpn that (ha oon5on Or1pk
u]1ners we're golng to rotuy4 70 sick The
tewn aud business was suspended. The
witness said he talked With the members
q both factions and had been told By
Nike Flynn, the committeemapf q the
unions that II was their Intention. had he
not escaped, to blow up Mr.. Burbidge
with the mill. - 81 nny
The reporter was sure that the prison
ers had not been subjscfed ~ ihhuman,
ity or caused needless suffering after
their arrest. He had paftaken of their
food and had camped within short dis
lance OF the so-aslled 'bull pen" and was
satisfied that IL there was any COMPARE
son as TO the Fations and quarters of the
imprisoned miners and the troops it GER
tainly was Ia favor of the former. OF
his own knowledge no prisoner had been
denied the counsel Of a minister or priest
and he had been personally informed by
Father Becker that Devine, the prisoner
who committed suicide, had made no re-
quest for spiritual comfort. $50
Every abatement made by the witness
tended 60 emphasize the necessity for
maintaining Federal troops in the Occur
d'Alene district and to hold the miners
union directly responsible for the lawless-
ness which prevailed last April.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Nursing Bottle for Calves.

A nursing bottle may be used as a
feeder for the calf by which its wean-
ing will take place at much earlier
date than by the old method, and by
this device the calf absorbs the thin
blue substitute fed to it in way so
entirely natural thatit remains in ignor-
ance of the deception being practiced
upon it. A bracket or supporting device
for the milk receptacle is first provided,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
New National Banks.

Since Dec. / Controller Dawes has re-
ceived 400 applications for authority to
organize national banks under the new
financial laws, most Of them being for
banks of 5000, the minimum capital.
Frequently two applications have been
received from the same town. With the
exception of ten or twelve, each will have
a capital of $4,000.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

and to this frame a horizontal bar is
attached, carrying at it's extremity a
rubber nipple of ample proportions.
Connected with the nipple is a flexible
tube extending into the liquid in the
pail. Inside the nipple there is rub
Der tubular reinforcement, having
cross-slits in it, which acts as valve.
With this device the calf may be fed
liquid nourishment, receiving 1t slow
ly and by natural sucking.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
An International Trust.

Consul General Guenther writes from
Frankfort, March 8, 1900:
According to the Cologne Gazette, a
draft Of bylaws for an international
plate glass trust has been unanimously
agreed to by the German plate glass man
ufacturers. AS it has already been APP
proved by the plate glass manufacturers
of France aud Belgium, the international
trust can be considered a fact" Is the
American protective tariff responsible for
this European trust?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
au,ar;can sh;ns wantod

Congress cannot do a more necessary,
nor more patriotic. act than to provide
at the present session for the, upbuilding
of our merchant marine in the foreign
trade. The attempt to make partisan
question out Of the shipping question,
which is a wholly national matter, is
bound to fail. The entire American peo-
pie are a unit in favor Of an American
merchant marine, just as quickly as Con-
gress can provide us with it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Southern steel Goes North.

Last week train of twenty-one cars,
containing 462 tons of steel billets, was
shipped from the Alabama Steel and Ship
building Co.'S works at Ensley to the
American Steel and Wire Co.'S works at
Worcester, Mass, to be used in the man
ufacture of wire. The steel is the pro-
duct of Alabama red ore, and was made
by the open hearth process. 1t can be
made cheaper and sold at a lower price
than the Northern product
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
NIcK;uIev Prosner;tv.

q In 1896 the hardware business was in
deplorable condition-which continued
until early in 1895 during which year the
business was in a fairly satisfactory con-
dition. The year 1899, however, am
happy to state, has been universally de-
clared to have been, without exception,
the most profitable year enjoyed by the
present generation of hardware merchants
and menufacturers.--T. James Fernley,
secretary-treasurer the National Hard
ware Association of the United States.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

j. ID. FAIRCHILD. S20,UUU year. he
has declined. Mr.. Fairchild was presi-
dent of the e. Frank Coe Company Of
Manhattan when, in May, 1893, he was
elected president = of the Kings County
Trust Company, 70 succeed Joseph q.
Hendrix. Mr.. Fairchild's salary then
vas fixed at $4,000. 1t has since been
raised to $4,000.
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Sir Alfred Miner, governor of Cape
Colony and the Queens high commission
er for South Africa, has occupied these
two positions for only three years, yet
he has endowed them-prominent as they
have always been-with an Importance
which they have never had before. The
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

AN accurate statement of the results
Of the State Agricultural College herd
in Minnesota shows that the average
feed cost per cow last year was 5.4
cents per pound Of butter and the aver
age price realized by patrons from
sales of butter was ~ cents per pound.
The average price obtained by patrons
of the creamery was nearly 20 cents
per pound. There are over 700 cream
cries In Minnesota and over 500 Of
them are operated and owned by farm
ers as cooperative creameries. In
Meeker County there are fourteen
creameries, and the amount realized
la-t year by patrons was $3.50, 200; In
Steele County, with eighteen cream
cries, the sum was over 5000, 1000, while
in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, the
enormous sum of $1,750,OO0 was real
lied by patrons of creameries in that
county alone. s.ra
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

A good spray pump Is useful artl-
Gle in many ways about the farm. II
can be used to spray the potatoes. Ii
is used to apply kerosene emulsion to
destroy the suctorial insects, such as
the aphides, or plant lice, on plums,
cherries and young apple trees, and or
which propose to treat - . future
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

n6yptIan cotton crop. The.s !. q. nd0]
!, llck Arm n 0Eyr< that CA 400 ~ e.
tire output q t6st county. ana u "a
son Tor wishing to do this Il because Ilv-
erpool has for some years been losing it,
hold Oh IT, cotton market Of the world.
They csnielways exert . greater bear"
influence upon the Liverpool market than
an other. and they fear that Liverpoors
loss OF prestioe mems permanently high
or prices for'tbe Apericaa cotton grower
which viii. of coufse, AFFECT the English
manulo cfnrsrs,. A|Glasgow paper says:
@''If the Hgyptian crop can be controlled
to the extent OF the requirements Of the
powerful combination named, we see no
reason why the English users Of Ameri-
can cotton, who 'sre already combined in
the several associations of employers,
should not unite, and, by agencies In the
cotton States. secure all their require
.lments ut the beginning of the season,
when prices are lowest and qualities are
best. Why should vast buying agency,
backed by the combination Of the spin
ners, and controlling the market with
large financial resources, not be institute
edY' NE fif
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
stone Drains.

The accompanying cut shows an ex-
cellent way of making n drain where
there is plenty of stone available. AA
are two fiat stones placed as shown,
one upright and the other sloping; the
rest Of the drain, B, is filed in with
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

candidate for the
presidency of the
National Suffrage
Association a T { e r
the abdication of
Susan B. Anthony.
When Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait sue
ceeded to that office
Mrs. Blake's friends
openly threatened a
second organiza-
ton, holding that
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
A Shipping Alternatives.

The alternative Of building up our ship
ping through the payment Of subsidies
such as other nations pay their ships, or
permitting foreign ships to draw $780,
100000 a year out of the United States
in payment for our ocean freight charges,
is one that few patriots will hesitate to
favor,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

says the New York
Herald. Mr.. Fair
child was offered
the presidency of
the Brooklyn Trust
Company a few
days ago and was
told that If he &C
cepted the salary
would be made
GOE 900 IL
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

Over $4,000 people went through yel-
lowstone Park this season, breaking the
record by 1900.
Among Colorado's relics of Cliff Dwell
crs is one building that sheltered proba-
bly, 5000 people. BOSS.
IS Chattanooga's school superintendent
has decided that henceforth boys shau
not smoke In school.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
The Personal Grievance Man.

A gentleman who, was relieved Of the
cares Of office holding by President Nc
Kinley is engaged in organizing Ger
man American revolt" The personal
grievance conducted revolution never gets
far from the starting point.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

small stones, and on top Is laid some
brush. A correspondent says he has
put in drains for the last sixty years
according to this method, and has
found them to work well, better than
the square stone drains.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

. When President Mckinley selected
Mrs. Potter Palmer to act as representa-
tive Of American women at the Paris ex-
position he conferred an honor upon the
woman who IL generally conceded to be
best fitted for it. Mrs. Palmer Is an ideal
type Of the American woman. She 10
handsome, graceful, tactful--a born lead.
er. For years her word has been law In
Chicago society and since acting as pres
ident cf the Woman's Board Of Worlds
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

The Democratic national committee is
calling on the party workers to instruct
the delegates o:vote for Mr.. Bryan. The
man with the unhampered mind will not
be very much in evidence at Kansas City
in July. ff
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Wages Advance, Dividends Decline.

The York cotton mills of Yorkville, y.
c., have announced that they would on
next pay day chip 3 per cent from the
annual dividend, and add it to the wages
of operatives. The wages of some of the
employees had recently been increased 80
per cent. These were not included in
the recent increase.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

she by reason OF MRS. l.. BLAKE.
long service and zeal in the cause was
logically entitled to that honor. The new
body Of suA,ragists will call themselves
the National Legislative Association, and
its aim will be to carry on the yearly
campaign at the capitals, national and
State, which, In Mrs. Blake's belief, 10
the sole hope of the suffrage cause.
49,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

can girl who is a
member of the Lee
gion Of Honor. She
saved a train load
of passengers on
the Panhandle d.
vision of the Penn
sylvania road dur
ing the Worlds
Fair. The bridge
spanning a ravine
was on FIRE. Jen-
ME took off her red
petticoat, waved II
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Amer;cau sh;pnjnv.

The Democratic leaders deny that they
are opposed to the encouragement Of
American shipping, bur their denials cam
not offset the opinions created by their
votes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
Whx They Prosner.

During the last half century British
steamships have received in subsidies for
carrying British mails $250000, 900. Con-
sequently British steamships are more
numerous than those of all other nations
combined. 90. -gf
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26

The names Of Bryan and Pettigrew are
revered by the followers of Aguinaldo.
Perhaps this may suggest combination
for the Kansas City convention.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-26
To Corner Cotton.

I Not content with controlling trade in
their own country, the latest effort OF, a
supply Of the world. This Is the task
undertaken by an English combine, head.
ell by Goats Limited Of Paisley, and
the British Fine Spinners' Co.
This trust made Its first deal By secur-
ING control of, one-seventh Of the entire