Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — The House for the Next Ton Years [ARTICLE]

The House for the Next Ton Years

Chicago Tribune, The following table shows in parallel columns the number of Representatives allowed each State under the present and new apportionment: Pres't Newi Pres’t NeW Btates. basis. b<uis Stites, basis, basis] Alaban a. 8 9 Mis 0uri....... 18 - 1 Is Arkansas...... 5 6 Montana 1 1 iCalifor ua .... 6 7 Nebraska 8 , Colorado 1 2 Nevada 1 1 Connecticut. 4 4 N nam'sb're 2 1 N 1 J New Jersey... 7 i rt. Dakota 2 1 <ew >ork... 84 8i Delaware 1 3 N. Carolina.. 9 t Florida 2 '» Jhio 21 21 Oeo'gia 10 11 Oreg n 1 1 Idaho 1 1 Peu'sylvania 28 80 Illinois 20 27 ih'de Island 2 | Indiana ........ 13 1, o. Carolina.. 7 I<.wa 11 1 .'ennessee 10 10 Kansas 7 8 lexas....! 11 18 Kentucky.... 11 11 Vermont —-SLouislana.... 6 6 Virginia. .10 10 Maine 4 4 Vashing on . 1 i Maryland 6 < V VI ginia.. 4 4 MaMach’setts 12 1 Visco sin...; 9 10 Michigan 11 12 -Vyoming..... 1 1 Mfnne- ta.... 5 7 - Mississippi... 7 7 332 8M At the next election the number of presidential electors will be: ‘ _ By districts By States 8S Total 444 Necessary to a choice 229 At last election tbe whole number was Nt'cessary to a choice .......... 201 Six new States since then have been admitted, adding twelve electors to the college on account of their senatorial repre entation, and eight new electors for their House members; and the House has added twenty three other new members to its roll, making a total increase in the Electoral College of forty-three.

The more fully that a farmer can combine the business of a manufacturer with the woric of growing crops from the soil, the more certainly will he be able to retain within his own hands the ultimate profit that acrues between the raw products and the finished product as it reaches the hand ot the consumer. This, of course, de.mands the use of capital to an extent not always within the reach ot the farmer, but it is almost always within reach of an association or combination of farmers. We have before pointed out in these columns how the business features of buying, selling and manufacturing maybe'combined wlttTagrK" culture, and we are glad to see that such journals as the American Agriculturist are now urging farmers to this course. By the application ofsuch aids a market may be controlled' or an outlet made that would not otherwise have been available. As an indication of what one man can do by being a business man as well as a farmer, we cite the case of a dairyman in central New York. His milk not bringing satisfactory prices when shipped to the factory, he decided to buijd a small creamery and work up his milk into the most satisfactory products ati home. With an outlav of only SI,OOOI a building was erected and equipped; which was sufficient for the working up the milk produced on a farm of 900 acres, carrying 115 cows. Winter d drying is mainly practiced, and when the entire amount of ore.tm is used for that purpose about 600 pounds of but ter a week are made and shipped. The average price obtained last year was 25 cents. Whenever the cream can be shipped and sold for a price which, would equal 25 cents a pound for butter, that is done, and the expense of butter making saved. Having the whole matter in his own hands, he i» able to vafy the product in whatever manner may be best at the time. The enterprise has proved very successful) from a financial standpoint, and it is cited as one of the methods by which farmers may be able to save for them-s-lves, legitimately, a better share of} the profits the whole of which are directly or indirectly the result of the labor of the tiller of the soil. Sam Jones announces that he is “still in the ring*’ in spite of the fracas 1 in which he was engaged in a Texas* town the other day. It is to be hoped! that Sam’s religion is of a higher order than his taste. The use of vulgar) slang disgraces the cause to which! this erratic person professes to be de-! voted and lowers it in the minds of] the very ones whom it is most desira-4 ble to reach. In all ages the simple have been moved in religious matters by dignity surrounding the church. Make it as simple as you please and no hnr ™ is 'One, but vulgarity is ruinous to its work. 1