Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1875, Winnipeg, Manitoba City and provincial news. Remember remember. The St Andrew s society is to have a meeting in the City Hull on thursday evening next. The City Council is to have a special meeting this evening to consider Tho Market building question. In Sifton of Sil ton Ward co will remain in Manitoba this Winter. His family arrived hero to Day. The furniture and things Appertain ing to the Steamer Manitoba wore sold by Tho sheriff last evening. Another lot of Mon discharged from the works on Tho main Lino of the c or arrived in town to Day. The orangemen of Tho City Are to commemorate Guy Pawka Day by moans of a Soiree in Tho Lodge room this evening. Change of running time on the Northorn Pacific is Tho cause assigned for the non arrival of a Canadian mail for Somo Days past. It is proposed to hold another session of the City court of revision to make some very necessary corrections in the assessment. The City paid Over three thousand dollars in wages to men and teams employed upon permanent Street improve ments during the month of october. The Rumor that certain statesmen of this City intend starting a newspaper to to called the forehead s Avenger at stinking Biver lacks confirmation there is nothing particularly now re Garding the mayoralty of 70. The names mentioned in this connection Are messes Burrows Cornish Bordon Wright Ashdown Andrew Strang and a few others. None of those gentlemen have to believe signified an intention of running except perhaps or Cornish. Small Tho Fargo times says thai Hubbard last saturday Sot before Tho a p directors for dinner at Headquarters hotel nine baked potatoes which weighed Over Twenty six pounds. To was More than Tho directorial Cor porosity could getaway with but they did their level Best and pronounced them excellent. Tho Pota toes were furnished by j b Chapin. Smoking. The gentlemanly people who sit around Tho City Council Board and vote away Tho people s in such manner As they doom most of Pedi ont to secure a return in the shape of Tho people s votes had a terrible time on wednesday night deciding whether smoking was to be allowed or not in committee of Tho whole. Sometimes it was allowed and sometimes it was not depending upon Tho decision of Tho individual who for the time occupied Tho chair. It May be right to smoke in committee but it strikes us As being in excessively bad Tasio. It is said that Tho people will insist upon the smoking question being a Plank in the next Al germanic election platform. Band of Horn. The officers of this organization for Tho current Quarter were installed last night. They Woro c to John v to Elizabeth Fisher so Stewartt miss Keeling f Sec Thos Nixon Jim John do Minnie Laurie i a Mabel l Ririe son Fred Kon nov r ii a Effie Laurie l its Ella Ald p two Besant. Aft Tho in spallation Priori Woro distributed As follows goo i conduct 1st John Rossi ter 2nd, John Kennedy singing 1st, Annio Elliott 2nd, Ella Gera d bring ing in most now members 1st, Fred Besant 2nd Elfio Laurie. Tho superintendent for the present term is mrs p g Laurie Tho executive committee Thos Logan d d Aitkin and a g Washington. Police court. Georgina Logan a dark haired Damsel was charged with drunk. She said she had t Boon drunk but that she had Boon awful Tho magistrate evidently thought it amounted to Tho same thing for to gave her Tho usual drunk dose two dollars costs or five . Then to repeated to her the Woll known lines fifth of november when you fined two dollars for drunk and if you do it again to me it Ign latin Yon r.5 a Good moaner than a a steam Plov. From the Bini moral american. The plow is Ono of Tho possibilities of Tho future. Implements of this kind have Boon invented but none have Como into Gen eral use. Some have worked tolerably Well the Cost of running Thorn has destroyed their practical Utility. An engine sufficiently powerful to move the gang of plows consumes entirely too much Coal. A storm plow to to a Success must break up ground at a Cost of something loss than per acre. Or b s Benson proprietor of the Pipo on Monu ment Street n oar Holiday has Foj some time Devoto himself to the problem and he has just completed a plow which is expected to thoroughly pulverize in of Prairie soil at a Cost of 50 Ceuta. When put to the actual test the calculations May to found to to somewhat at fault but under favourable conditions Tho machine can certainly be operated at an expense of or 88 por Day and run Ning at Low Speed it will plough about an acre and n Quarter per hour. It must be understood that this machine is Only intended to to used on Prairie land where Thero Are neither rocks nor stones. Or Benson has discarded the nov optional idea of a plow with share and Moldboard for turning a Furrow and has substituted a revolving horizontal Shaft armed with a series of Sharp Blades that dig up Tho ground and thoroughly pulverize it. To Complete the work a Rake with Teol Teeth moves close behind this powerful Cutter and immediately above it is another horizontal Shaft armed with Stool spikes or Springs that pass Between the tooth of Tho Rako at every revolution. This is Tho whole of the blowing apparatus. Tho rest of Tho machinery does no thing but furnish motive Power. It consists of a Noat Little engine mounted on traction wheel Sand the necessary gearing for moving Tho wheels and Kooping Tho two shafts already mentioned in motion. The plow is ton feet wide and pulverizes a strip of equal Width As it moves Forward. It can to runner Tho rate of two Miles an hour but a Farmer would probably prefer Tho rate upon which or Benson has based Lua calculations namely one Milo por hour. At this rate it will plow from ten to fifteen acres per Day. The ground will need no harrowing or stirring after the machine has passed Over it. Every body that has Hud any experience in breaking up Tho Prairie Sod knows that it is a most difficult matter to got rid of Tho matted grass roots that predicate Tho ground to the depth of two or three inches. The Pioneer Farmer cuts through this fibrous stratum with his powerful Prairie plow then leaves Tho sods to rot under Tho action of the elements for a year or two before to begins to pull them to pieces with the Harrow this machine will thoroughly pulverize Tho Sod at Tho first blowing. By detaching Tho plow ing apparatus Tho engine to used for hauling a reaper or Mower for run Ning a threshing machine or Corn Crusher or other farm work to which steam Power can to applied. This novel machine is to to sent to Buena Vista county Iowa to be used on a farm owned by or Benson s sons. No doubt it will create a great Sconsa Tion among Tho grangers when it begins to grind up Tho Sod of their Virgin Prairie and prepare the ground for seeding at Cost of fifty cents por acre. Western Farmers have for a Long time Boon perplexed to know How to got a Bushel of what transported to Tho Seaboard at a charge for freight sufficiently Low to Olavo a margin for profit for themselves. Perhaps an in genious Baltimore machinist has solved Tho problem for Thorn by furnishing them with a storm plow that will greatly reduce the Cost of production. Parcel sent him but did not of them he had been eating them Ripe a most remarkable Point was mentioned by the. Professor Viz that he found armorial plants to left the mountains proceeding North Easterly to saw no More but found kinds indicating warmer and drier climate until he turned at Athabasca Lake to Como South eastward to the this will not be wondered at however when it is known As professor Macoun Hoard there that at fort Laird in lat. 60. Tho climate was considered bettor and wheat was easily raised. Respect ing other resources he stated that Petroleum Crystal Salt and Gypsum were seen by him in Largo quantities. This opportune display of Tho products of our far Northern tributary Tho peace Eiveri has excited a very general inter est in Tho Community and it was suggested that prof Macoun should to asked to deliver a descriptive address on Tho subject which to would gladly have done if his time and other engage ments would permit but promised if to returned and he expected to next season to do so. This magnificent country which prof. Macoun estimates to contain Ono Hundred millions of acres whore wheat reaches its highest Perfec Tion apparently merits greater Atten Tion than has hitherto Beconi Given to any portion of our w inter Stock. More about peace liver. A number of loading gentlemen of Tho City who have a Lively interest in the new North West were invited to inspect Somo samples of wheat and Bat icy Gath ered from Fields and gardens on the peace to say that they were interested is too mild an exo Russion they enthusiastic and wonder struck by Tho simple evidences of such wondrous samples of Grain from a coun try hither to considered too far North for Hunting purposes oven. The wheat shown was gathered it fort Chippe Waymion Luke Athabasca in latitude and is undoubtedly Tho finest Sam ple Ever seen hero it will weigh about 68 pounds to Tho Bushel. Some of the same shown in the oar displayed five Grams to the Cluster and seventeen clusters to Tho car. As two is Bho aver ago of grains to Tho Cluster in Tho East Ern states and three grains in Northern Minnesota and Manitoba Tho Superior Ity of Tho peace hirer country for Grain is average there being five and prof Macoun hns noticed six grains to Tho Cluster. This goes to substantiate Blodgett s theory that Ali grains Rof Toh perfection at Tho Northern limits of its growth. Tho Barley shown was also magnificent or. Gouin a Good authority said it was the Best to Over naw. Regarding its growth prof. Macoun saw where it had grown thirty Eara to a single Root Twenty of which Woro fully Ripe. To had counted ii Hun dred grains of wheat to the head and found Many numbering eighty. Tho what shown was sown on the 22nd of May at fort chippewas an and to fou Iid it in Tho sheaf on Tho 22nd of August. Planting is usual from the 1st to the 16th May. Lie did not see any Indian Corn but to met a Man named Shaw mentioned also by who had raised Ripe Corn for three years consecutively. Prof. Macoun remarked most timely that it should to rom Emboli de that this cultivation from which Hiob it ovations Scio Road was Only Ca Arial desultory and carried on by half Breeds extent of whose ignorance May to judged by an incident Tho prof mentioned in a Garden Patch to was pointed out some cucumbers and offered Ono Ripo to oat he asked what what it was to see if to was aware what he had and Tho half Breed said to did not know but had got the seeds in a Winter Stock. . Bannatyne wholesale retail jul and provision merchant has on hand a full took of Green apples i pork tongues Bacon dried beef Ham lard Pemmican to dried Buffalo meat Falquit Oats teas Young Hyson. Japan Orun powder Congo Souchon and mixed teas in half chests and fatties. Sugars dry crushed granulated Coffeo and Brown sugars. Tobacco Myrtle Navy Gold Block Long Virginia Solace and Black 10 a etc., etc., cigars and Che roots. And Java Garcon and Fresl ground. Rice split peas Oatmeal raisins and figs dried apples peaches prunes canned fruits Chollotte s compressed vegetables Foi soup biscuits ;