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tipped with gold , but that statement
cannot bo verified. These cows pro
duced one year (5,250 ( pounds of milk
each. It sold at fourteen cents a quart ,
the cream at seventy-five. Eggs at
Mountainside brought sixty cents a
dozen and butter seventy-live cents a
pound.
Since Mr. Havoineyer's death the farm
has been sold.
TIio Glories of EllurHlic.
Ex-Governor Levi P. Morton's farm ,
"Ellerslie , " at Rhinecliff , is one of the
most famous in the world.
The income from produce at El
lerslie farm is about $30,000 a year.
There is a profit on the sale of fine stock.
The barn on the estate is said to be the
largest and best equipped in the world.
It cost % million dollars.
It is lighted by electricity and each
cow is fastened by a chain to her stall.
In case of fire the first big barn at
Ellerslie was burned by a turn of a
crank at the entrance of the stable every
cow can bo freed.
It is conceded at Ellerslio that a cow
must have light. The Ellerslie barn is
lighted so that the finest print can be
read on a cloudy day. There are 1,200
cubic feet of air for each cow each
passenger in a New York Elevated train
has less than 100.
The cows are taken out two hours
every day unless it rains.
They are never nlone. Five attend
ants are about by day and one by night.
Over the stall of each cow is a printed
card , with her name , date of her birth
and her birthplace.
The prize cow at Ellerslie is imported
Buda. She was born blind. The
strange fact was not discovered for a
long time. In the yard she walks be
tween two cows. She gave 4,000 quarts
of milk last year , a record never ex
ceeded except by Bretone , now dead.
The farm shipped at one time GOO
quarts of milk a day , which retails at
twelve cents a quart , the cream sixty
cents.
Ellerslie farm has for years furnished
the Union League club with butter.
The poultry house is perfect. There
are Plymouth Rock chickens , White
Pekin ducks , turkeys and hundreds of
little chicks. There are fifteen incu
bators.
There is a brooder house , where baby
chickens are hatched and cared for.
There is a kitchen and a double cooker
with fire underneath for cooking the
chickens' food. The chickens are very
comfortable until they are sent to New
York , where Ellerslie "broilers" are
famed.
Governor Morton has a fad for gray
horses. Only gray horses are used on
this farm.
KoeUofoller us a Farmer.
The farm of Mr. J. B. Duke is at
Somerville , N. J. , on the Raritaii river.
It contains 425 acres and produces largo
quantities of hay , corn , oats , wheat and
ensilage roots.
Mr. Duke has about 200 head of
Guernseys , which have taken many
prizes. He is the owner of Lord Strau-
ford , the champion Giiernsey bull.
Mr. Duke has sent out dairy products
bringing from $25,00 to $30,000 a year.
He ships between 800 and cOO quarts of
milk daily and an average of 100 quarts
of cream. Most of his butter goes to
England.
Mr. Duke is about to establish a
magnificent poultry plant.
Mr. William Rockefeller raises at his
place in Tarrytown some of the finest
violets in that section. He ships between
400 and 500 bunches a day to New York.
The annual yield from his violets is said
to be about $25,000.
Mr. Rockefeller has fourteen green
houses , in length about 100 feet each.
There are hothouses on the Rockefeller
estate devoted entirely to the cultivation
of the finest hot-house grapes. One
variety is the Muscat Alexandria , which
is worth § 1.50 to $2 a pound.
At Hyde Park is the country place of
Archibald Rogers. Mr. Rogers raises
violets. There are times when these
violets sell at wholesale for $2.50 a
hundred. They yield annually about
$20,000.
Mr. J. F. S. Banks is another violet
grower. His greenhouses are at Now
Hamburg , N. Y. They yield an aver
age of $10,000 annually.
Mrs. William Douglas Sloaue has
some famous greenhouses at Lenox ,
Mass. She sends her surplus to the
charitable institutions of this city , prin
cipally the Sloaue Maternity Home and
Hospital.
Perry Belmont has a small but fine
place at Newport. His flowers bloom
the entire year. He makes a specialty
of American Beauties , but cultivates
violets and stephanotis. The sales from
Mr. Belmont's place amount to but a
few thousand dollars a year.
Mrs. Liiulcnbnrg's Vine Flowers.
Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg has an exten
sive greenhouse at Westbury , L. I. She
makes a specialty of begonias and
chrysanthemums. She averages on the
sales $10,000 a year.
At Tarrytown is the estate of F. O.
Matthiessen , the sugar millionaire. He
raises roses and sends his surplus to
charitable institutions.
John Jacob Astor has an immense
poultry plant and stock farm at Rhino-
beck. He sends his surplus to the
market.
Within a stone's throw of Mr. Aster's
place is the estate of William Dinsmoro ,
at Staatsburg. He has the finest variety
of Orotonas in the United States. They
cost thousands of dollars.
Mr. Dinsmoro at first grew flowers for
his own pleasure , but for some years has
sold many orchids and other flowers.
He made an aunuiil average of $15,000 ,
but has now abandoned the business.
Near Mr. Diusuaore's place is that of
Jacob H. Rupport. At one time he
made a specialty of flue poultry.
The San FranCisco -
THE HAN roil looo.
Cisco Call of
November 21 , 1899 , has a cartoon repre
senting democracy as a woman sotno-
what wrinkled with years and slightly
faded as to persoual charms in geuoral.
Nevertheless she is attempting a sinilo
and , with a bouquet in hand , marked
1900 , asking "where is the man ? "
THE CONSEKVATIVE answers that
California contains the man , a citizen
renowned for ability , integrity and his
eloquent pleadings for honest money ,
John P. Irish. If the democrats of Cali
fornia and the Pacific Coast will secure
his nomination- the presidency his
election will follow as surely as sunrise
follows the night.
fmong all the
VICE-PRKSIDENT
HOUAKT. eulogistic sum
maries of the busy
life of the late Garret A. Hobart THE
CONSERVATIVE finds none telling of his
prowess as a practical politician. But
that ho was a success in all that which
that term implies is well-known to those
who knew him most intimately.
In 1884 when the Elaine republicans
were paying expenses of the candida
ture of General Ben Butler , with the
hope of defeating Grover Cleveland
thereby , Mr. Hobart was the manager
of and treasurer for Butler's itinerary.
And when the general spoke in Omaha
that year and was asked to Lincoln , a
special train was secured for his trans
portation thereto and the cost thereof ,
oue hundred dollars , was paid by a draft
on Hobart , signed by Clinton Furbish.
Sometimes it
BOCTOU MILIEU.
seems that a hu
man beiug is the chief mark for every
species of misfortune. Something hap
pens that seems like a calamity and
while the man is quivering and bravely
tryiug to stand erect and be as he was
before , just as he believes himself to be
in a measure steady , another misfortune
overtakes him and while the smart is
still on , the sorrow fresh , there comes a
third catastrophe so hard to bear that it
makes the others seem like mere dreams
of suffering.
An old , trusted and respected citizen
of Omaha has passed through such an
experience this
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year. Early in
the spring the commuuity was startled
aud shocked by the news that Dr. George
L. Miller's large and costly homo was in
ashes. The money loss was great , but
in comparison a mere triflo. Relics were
destroyed which it had taken a lifetime
to gather and even if the owner had