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Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03


dead 9 cad water. That's alright in theory.
4 yonsget it over three feet deep in
most soil # viii. not carry OF the heavy
rains. In very porous soil the tile
might be laid deeper. ..z...
In answersto a.questionz the speaker
said he didsnot think that. frost would
affect a hard burned tile. The man
who has but asfew miles. of tile to lay
will find it best to dig thezditch by
hand. b Three ches.to the 100. feet is
plenty of5grade.. The most Important
thing is to have sufficient outlet.
r.. CORN. COW AND SILO. -
Mr.. Litchard spoke on Cow, Corn
and Silo. In, 20 years in Minnesota
you will have 20 dairy COWS where you
nave one now. You will have 20 acres
OF clover where you have none now.
understand you are in the finest part
OF the state for clover raising. The clio.
yer seed we'll covered with manure is
ideal for corn. God made corn just for
ensilage. We are talking of the dairy
farm. Best way to build silo is to build
it strong, tight and deep. Lay your
foundation in cement. Make the bot
tom of the silo of cement. You pre-
serve peaches when they are just ripe.
We put ensilege in the silo just when
the corn is ripe, just as it begins to
glaze. The better the corn the better
ensilege. The best place for a silo is
outside the barn and handy for feed
ing. Begin to feed it the day after you
get it in then none of it will SPOIL IT,
surprises me to see SO many fields full
of corn out in this county. What is it
worth. The starch has turned to
woody matter. The COW might as
we'll eat corn stalks. Ensilege makes
the best butter and milk.
Only one man of the 300 present
held up his hands when the question
was asked as to how many had silos.
In answer to question the speaker
said not to build silos too lsrre. Co.
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flrsts year. Growth the second year
costs double that of the FIRST year
Babies are the only things that lit pays
to feed, and Minnesota is good state
to push push the enterprise. Push the good
work along.
CARE AND APPLICATION OF
FARM YARD MANURE. .
One Of most important things
for the farmer to consider is the ma
nure pile. In order to get good crops.
one of the essential things is supply
of. available plant food. The three
essential elements of this plant food
supply are Nitrogen. :Phosphoric
Acid and Potash. Ill.,
Farm yard manure contains these
three elements and is therefore called
general manure. OF these three ele-
ments Nitrogen is the most liable to
get away from us. We can hold the
other two because they are mineral
Nitrogen IS also the most valuable al
market prices for commercial fertili.
zers, as it is worth twice as much az
Phosphoric Acid ard about three times
as much as Potash.
In the application of farm yard ma.
nure to soils, we will sustain little OF
no loss of the two mineral manures
but Nitrogen may either 60 up in the
air or down in the soil, so that plants
may not benefit by it on our owr
farms at least. With these facts il
view in handling manure, we should
never let it heat or fire fang, nor hea'
to the point of even causing steam te
rise from it. We should never let i
be washed by the waters from GU,
buildings, and we should always lool
closely after the liquid manure, tc
have it absorbed by straw or othe
good absorbants as muck and get i
| into the soil.
One of the best ways to economic
IN time, and labor, and money, and a
the same time get the best all arount
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

J. ADAM BEDE tried to make an
elaborate speech in congress last week
and everybody treated the effort as a
joke and paid little attention to it. j.
Adam then struck his own gait and
commenced to cell jokes and everybody
took them in earnest and this part of
his speech was telegraphed in all direc-
tions. 1t is the old adage about the
shoemaker wisely sticking to his last.
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when ne comes two years old, and to-
DAY the market pays a fancy price for
such fat calves. Let him go then. Now
it should be understood that his sister
fed alongside of him will fatten and
sell for the same price, if treated as
here suggested. They must be sired by
beef bulls. 1t does not pay to use any
thing else, but it does not matter so
much what the dam is if the sire is of
good quality, low, blocky, beefy. This
is heresy perhaps, but true dual-purpose
COWS in Minnesota are so rare, that re-
course perhaps must be had to cross
breeding, at least to some degree. Half
a loaf is far better than no bread,
Heifer calves by beef sires from dairv
COWS, cannot be depended on as useful
in the dairy. Heifers grown and fat
tened as [ have outlined are almost
sure to be poor dairy animals and if
not meant for the block from the start.
a very different treatment should be
given.
Horns on baby be eefs are bad. Breed
them off or dehorn them when verv
young. Angus sires will take off the
horns and make quick maturing steers
10 dehorn the baby calf, lay him gently
down ON his side when about a week
old and wet the horn "bump" by satur.
atlng a place as large as quarter of a
dollar, then take common powdered
concentl ased lye, as much as two grains
OF corn, and spread it over the wet SPOT
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

REPRESENTATIVE Gaines of Tennes-
see says that single paper money bill
recently returned to the treasury for re-
demption contained 232 kinds of mic
robes which had been feeding upon the
mucous membrane of those who had
carried it. Never mind. Our subscrib-
ers need not hesitate to bring in their
paper money just the same OH subscrip-
ton. We will take all risks from al
legged microbes.
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ment silos are excellent. Any corn
that grows here will be good for en-
Siege. It's cheaper to build above
ground. If corn is too dry wet it
down. The best white pine is the best
material. Many stone silos on the
market are good but it's better to build
one yourself. Use 2xS's and inch
boards. Cut ensilege half inch or less
in length.
SELECTING THE DAIRY COW.
Some rules hold good in selecting
COW. care not what the breed may
be, and we will not enter into the
questions of breeds farther than to
say all breeds of dairy cattle, like all
nationalities Of people, have in them
good qualities and some bad ones.
In selecting good dairy COW will
start with the head. Her head should
indicate quality-broad between the
eyes. The eye full and snappy. Her
mouth should be large and jaws strong
and the nostrils large, so that she
may consume and mastlcate large
amount of food. The large nostrils
indicate a large lung capacity, which
is highly essential to Il good mixer.
Her skin will Indicate much as to her
quality OF milk. 1t should be soft, not
too thin nor too thick, but rich in Sc
cretions, and velvety to the hand.
Her organation should be open with
ribs fiat and we'll apart. The longer
she is between the hips the better.
Her thigh thin and incurved, giving
ample room for the udder, which
should run up we'll in front and back,
the teats being CT good size and uni
formly placed.
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oTHER RDl q lIIil rs

St. Peter Hera Rss ~ @ Several
candidates for XkERe State
Editorial Associati tifodn, But jtHdging from
reports, Ed. Paradis will be it. And
it would serve him right if he was
elected. He should have been elected
long ago. : i3>% *st3>
Dodge Centre Star: Although it is
somewhat early, yet we see that w. "a.
Nolan OF Mower county has been re-
ceiving some favorable mention for
speaker of the next legislature. He
stood high in the estimation Of the
last session and was practically thei1r
leader. %r& ~ 4
Minneapolis Journal: The death
sentence of the Nelson boys has been
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

man who has steadily stayed in the
business, and there will be profit in the
future. The future is certain to see
relatively higher prices than have OBJ
tanned in the past. Population has in.
creased nightly, but production of
beef cattle is in much less ratio. When
cattle are low, one may begin to pro
duce beef with surer expectation of
profits than were he to begin when
prices are high kaa.,s
There are on Minnesota farms many
COWS. These cows are of many sorts
and conditions, most of them are MIXED
for their cream, and the calves raised
on the farms. Let us see under what
conditions the greatest profits can be
had from these calves. SKINNED milk
must be their source of subsistence,
and to procure good calves with skim
med milk it must be separated with
the hand separator right on the farm
and fed to the cattle as soon as possible.
There has been taken from the milk
only the butter fat. 1t should be fed
warm to the calves and each one should
have its portion fed separately, so that
no robbing OF the weak by the, strong
and no gorging nor starvation should
take place. The better way is to pro-
vide small stations in which the calves
will be locked at feeding time. A long
row of these stations may be locked or
unlocked by one movement of a lever.
One should use great care in feeding
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

PRESIDENT Harper announced Wed
nesday that the University of Chicago
had outgrown it's UNCONVENTIONAL
character and should not be regarded
as a Baptist institution. Evidently
Harper thinks himself the whole in
stitution. We have antidea, that the
trustees will have some etbiRg to say
about this. ails-s5 Harper Elsr ~ ashenest in
remaining as presid dent under the cir.
cumstanceS
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

"A big reduction in the Brazilian
duty on American flour has been Sc
cured and it is hoped that our exports
to Brazil will be vastly increased. It
has always seemed to us that the
South American market was the most
advantageous for us to develop and yet
it has received the least attention.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

WE do not care a rap about what
talkative congressman think of the po-
litical issues in the Panama republic
affairs. If they will ratify the treaty
and commence digging the canal all
their past mistakes and tiresome de-
lays will bG forgiven.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

The political bosses in congress have
decreed that Oklahoma shall not be
admitted singly as state. The people
at large urgently demand that this
worthy and thriving territory should
be admitted as state. Who will win
out?
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

IT is stated that the members of the
Kansas City grand jury, investigating
municipal boodling, were themselves
bribed to report favorably to the &C.
cused We are nearing the limit.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

MAYOR Ames of Minneapolis gets
clear from the penalty of his first trial
but this is far from saying that he is
restored to the confidence Of the public
who believes that he was criminally
guilty of connection with the Minnea-
polls grating outrages.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

results, is to haul it fresh from the
stables to thelpiece of land to which it
is to be applied, and spread it as you
go. To those who can afford a ma
nure spreader, it is an excellent ma
chine.
When hauling out to the field
spread it as you 60. Where it is to
be supplied for a hoed crop, it may be
scattered say this winter on meadow
land to be used for pasture this sum-
mer. Then plow the meadow in the
fall and prepare for the corn crop in
the spring.
The way sto get the most benefit
from manure as a fertilizer, is to keep
it as near the surface of the ground as
possible.
Farm yard manure is great benefit
to the soil in a mechanical way.
It adds humus or decayed vegetable
| matter to the soil which adds to the
| water an plant food, holding power of
the soil. 1t helps on the work of un-
locking the lazy plant food. It ties
light soils together and loosens heav
soils. Then let us have more manure
to grow more crops to feed more
stock, to make more money.
Mr.. Raynor asked how many be-
| lieved that manure spread fresh on
the ground did not lose any of it's fer
tilizing qualities. A great many hands
were raised. A member differed and
thought that there would be loss.
Mr.. Raynor told of an experiment at
the Ontario experiment station where
the chemist made an investigation ar d
found that the loss was only of water.
The qualities of the manure were not
lost. Many questions were asked that
showed how interesting the lecturer
had made his subject. .. ~, -. e.
T TILE AND DRAINAGE s.s
: Mr.. Agee took up the subject Of tile
draining. If there is anything that
/ Fjustifies man going into debt it is for
undertaking where the land needs
tit. Too many putin too small . main
for the outlet Start your system
right. Here is rule to get an idea Of
what yop need: Multiply the diameter
of thetile by itself and divide the pros
ductby three which win give you asni ID
approx oximate .1idea gof the Snumbsr of'
acres you, can drain with that tile. The
greater the tau the greater tho nuns
ber of acres that can be; drained. Do
itirlght. Get a surveyor to give YOU
the grades. It's better to have your
Iaterals to connect alright angels for
then youget 2 better joint. Use round
tile. Get good tile. The tilesmaker
does not burn them hard enough. Get
your tile laid on . perfect grade and
they viii not tin with silt. Books say
place tile deep. Roots won't live in
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

THE house of representatives very
wisely voted down the proposition for
the second payment of mileage to the
senators and representatives of this
congress. The special session closed
one day and the regular session opened
the next so there was no travel and
therefore to pay for mileage again
would he simple graft.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

IT is possible that the feeling Of
Columbia may be appeased by money
consideration for the loss of the Pana-
ma strip. The officials of the new
Panama republic really seem willing to
be fair and broad minded in the amic-
able settlement of their disagreement
with Columbian carpetbagger officials.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

TIE milwaukee grand jury has re-
turned fifty indictments for grating
against aldermen, eX-aldermen, super
vis0rs, state senator and some private
citizens. There are plenty of other
places where similar grating could be
discovered if 20 )ked after.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

INTERESTING and instructive spell
ing tests are being made in the Mime
apolis schools. They would be pro-
titable in any school.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03
Aus tin Steam Laundry,

Patronize home institution ms and
have your laundry work done at q ;he
Austin Steam Laundry in the highest
style of the art. No chemicals used.
Laundry delivered free Of charge.
Give us a trial. >1z!
: I. M. BURNHAM, Proprietor.
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03

TAMMANY wants to divide the state
of New York into two independent
commOnwealths. The up-s tat"
counties will probably refuse to relax
their grip On New York city and It's
fat revenues
Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03
Entered as second-ciass mail matter at
the postoffice, Austin, MINI.

BRYAN pleads for an honest plat
form. 1t will have to be far superior
to the dishonest IL to heresy.
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FARMER I: s i fIUf 1 J.
An Interesting and Profitable Session
j Held In This City. Large Attend.
ance and Practical Discussions.

The State Farmers Institute heldin
the courtroom last Friday and Saturr-.
day was largely attended and great
interest was shown. There was no at
tempt at oratory on the part Of the
speakers but plain, practical talks were
given on subjects of vital interestto
the farmers and many questions drew
out much additional information. Hon.
Alva Agee of Ohio had charge. The
principal speakers 1were T.G. Raynor
of Ontario, Alva Agee of Ohio, A.:'W.
Litchard of New York, "A. J. Phillips
of Wisconsin, and J. E. Wing of Ohio.
We give below abstracts of several of
the addresses given. -.
BABY BEEF IN MINNESOTA,
BY JOS. E. WING, OF OHIO. z.
Prices of fat cattle have always gone
down, down, until beef men have been
in despair, but as often as beef has gone
down it surely has risen again. There
has been profit in producing beef to the
The National tribune., 1904-06-30
RECITALS AND "REMINISCENCES.
Stories Emneny Worth Telling Of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle.

the Cumberland, but, instead. after two
or three DAYS delay. sent Gen. Mcpherson
with 10000 men through the Gap (Snake
Creek, and that as he was not strong
enough to fight Gen. Johnston's army he
only hastened the falling back of the Con-
federate army from Rocky Face Ridge.
when Johnston found that the Union army
was getting too near his line of retreat
Do any of the men who were there know
whether such an offer was made by
Thomas and declined by Sherman?
Again. is it certain that if the Army of
the Cumberland had been sent on any such
errand. they would have been able to de-
feat the rebel army themselves?
There must be many men still living who
can give a good account of this proposed
move.
Col Piatt says that if the offer of
Thomas had been accepted, in all prob
ability there would have been no Atlanta
Campaign. for the Confederate Army
would have been beaten right there at Dal-
ton by Thomas as it was afterward at
Nashville.
l have not read Piatt's book before. and
he makes some rather strong statements as
to the conduct of officers in the West IN
'63 and '64
We have learned through The National
Tribune what regiment it was that raised
the first flag on Lookout Mountain at the
time of the battle. and what part of the
army captured those four guns at Resaca !;
also, what battery it was that killed Polk.
Now let us find out, if we can. why Gen.
Sherman would not let Gen. Thomas make
the move he wanted to at Rocky Face
Ridge in May. 1S64-F. PHILLIPS, No.
TO Holton Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
The National tribune., 1904-06-30

Later was sent to Chapin's farm in front
of Richmond. April 3. 1865, entered Rich
mOnd and did provost duty, including Louis
lana Hospital, there being about 10 rebels
therein. Also did duty on q canal boat.
guarding the ,company's books and papers.
In July the regiment was sent to South
western Virginia, Christiansburg being our
headquarters, doing provost duty. In De-
cember went to City Point to be mustered
out Dec. p. 1865.
Daring my service l was promoted Cor
poral and to Sergeant. l declined further
promotion, and was complimented several
times. l WAS complimented by Gen. Badly
Smith for my sharpshOOting with the rebels
in the trenches at Cold uarbor; also. by
Gen. Curtiss. one of the heroes of Fort
Fisher, n. c., for services when in charge
of the provost guard at headquarters at
Christiansburg also by the officers Of the
regiment.
Within four feet of me seven men were
mascot, the dog Birney. was shot by the
enemy. My clothes were made sieve !;
my bayonet sheath was struck: my musket
was shattered: but l was not wounded. l
had several close calls. The first was at
Drewry's Bluff. when the rebel had his
bayOnet too near my back, ordering me to
surrender. AT the Mine explosion, July 30,
in front of Petersburg, while in line, n
rebel shell struck and exploded about a rod
i'm front of me, covering me with dirt and
killing and wounding several on the right
Of my company. At broadway Landing,
through carelessneSs of comrades shell
was exploded within rod of several of us
who were on top of tons of shells that had
been picked up on battlefields in front of
Petersburg.-JOHN J. BROWN, Sergeant,
Co. ID, 11th Conn.,, Riverhead, n. Y.
The National tribune., 1904-06-30
DEATH CP ADJ'T WYNKOOP.
4 Gallant Young ofiicer who Glcried in Dy-
ing for HIS Country.


EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: 1t is now
nearly 40 years since the closing scenes OF
the great war between the States, and we,
who took active part in that great struggle.
read with interest the many little histories
of the different campaigns, at different
points, and by different armies. l was
member of that grand Army of the POto-
mac, but l became deeply interested in a
series of papers published in The National
Tribune for some months entitled Morgan
and His Men," written by George Dallas
Mosgroye. One special reason OF my inter-
est in his writings was that L knew that
much of the time they were fighting or
manuvering against the gallant 9TH Ia
Cav, which was commanded by Col. George
Cav, which was commanded by the late
Col. Geo. Z. Wynkoop, father-in-law of
mine. In the same regiment were also my
two brothers-in-law. Lieut.. Nicholas Wyn-
koop and Lieut.. j. HI. B. Warheld, as well
as number Of my friends and neighbors;
and l was anxious to see if the writer
would mention anything about any one in
that regiment whom / knew. In the issue
of Nov. >, in an account of battle near
Gallatin, Tenn. he says: I'VE charged
the enemy. and they broke. and retreated; !;
and in that battle. among the killed was,
Adj't WynkOOp tsOn of the Colonel of that
pame), who was killed while trying to rally
his men. His body was removed to the side
of the road, and lay there as We passed.
with a coat thrown over his face, as if he
were unwilling to look upon the rout of his
comrades"
When Adj't Wynkoop was young man,
he was brave and fearless. and full of pa
triotism: and in conversation with a friend
made the remark: What a glorious death
to die on the field of battle for your cOun-
try! Would to God such death were
mine!" In a few short years his prayer
was answered.
One of his surviving sisters, Mrs. ]. III.
B. Warfeld. of Philadelphia, who spent
considerable time with her husband at the
front, gives me the following additional
The National tribune., 1904-06-30
Was It q Premonition2

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: was
born in st. Lawrence County. N. Y. Nov.
II, 1917. In the Fall of '63 enlisted in
20. 9, lO6ta n. T., which was then at
Brandy Station, Va. Shortly after join
ing the company l was taken down with
measles. and went to the regimental hos
pital. Upon recovery ,was given quar-
ters with Serg't Oscar 6. Sheldon, and
we were bunkmates. almost continually
till the close OF the war. In our mess at
that time was one Thomas Hesiegrave.
from Lisbon, n. Y, noble, whole-souled
and brave Scotchman, about % years old.
IL is his memory that causes me to write
this letter. Our corps the Third, was
broken mp and our brigade was consoli-
dated with the Sixth, in Sedgwick's Corps.
We broke camp Oh the morning of May
4, 'G4, and marched to meet the foe. We
crossed the Rapidan tlat night and biv-
ouackei on the south bank, and Thomas
last night under the same blanket At
dawn the bugles reused us, and We hastily
fell in and marched to the front. We
were held in reserve all day, being hur-
ried here and there, ready for any emcr-
gency. About 4 p. m. the firing in our
front nearly ceased. and Thomas said:
Fred, let us eat little: We may not get
another chance soon." We sat down ON
rock and proceeded with our meal which
consisted of cold-drawn coffee and hard
tack. During this meal noticed that he
was not as talkative as usual. hardly
speaking at all. AT last he said: Fred.
if am to be shot want to be killed in
stantly. | don't want to know what
hurts me-" Soon we heard the order for
attention, and separated, each taking cur
place ip the line. We were moved to the
left at a double-quick, coming in view Of
the enemy, when we halted and 'front.'
faced. Musketry was incessant then in
our front. and hundreds of wounded were
coming back. We heard the report of a
cannon to our right-obique, and a G-inch
cannon ball passed through our line, kill
ing Thomas Heslegrave instantly.
1t was such a marked premOnition that
have often thought would write abont
TT. e. BULLS, Co. G, 1O6th N. Y,
Palo Alto. Cal