The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-10-23
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MAINE PlA1a1s, Oct. Goth. 10,

MAINE PaA1aln, OCT. Goth, 1873.
: EDlroA JouRNAL.-The Maine Prairie
Changers have now got into good working
order and are quietly dong good deal Of
good. They have several committees, for
different objects, Of our most earnest, wide
swsks men and women that IRE working
zealously for the good Of the Grange. New
members are coming in pretty fast. They
have their meetings on the first and third
Tuesday evenings Of each month.
just now everybody that can handle .
pitohfork 10 required to help around tho
various
9HlsSH1xo xAsH1xss,
some eight or ten Of which are In full blast,
d6sting up about one hundred and twenty
men sad Smelling out ssms grain daily.
All ofths msohinss are doing we'll, but
some ore doing better. Nicholas and Peter
Krier have . new Case machine, and sre
doing the most and best threshing Of any
machine men around here that I know Of.
They thrsshsd. in . little over two days, for
Mr.. Brougb, Of St. Augusta, 1900 bushels
81 wheat, 700 bushel. Of oats and 40 bush
els Of barley; In one day they thrsshed
for 6. Il. Atwood 6l2 bushels Of oats and
so6 bushels wheat; and tho next day, Oct.
10th. they threshed 625 bushels Of wheat
IN six and ons-half hours running time. II
any ono can best that let us hear from
HIM.
GOOD YIELD OF SCOTCH rIYs.
E. H. Atwood had eight acres of new
breaking sown with Scotch Fife wheat, tho
seed being carefully screened by hand,
that yielded. two hundred and seventy
bushels Of No. wheat, msohine measure.
or nearly thirty-four bushels per acre.
His wheat crop averaged % bushels right
through, Including ten acres Of spring
plowipg that did not average over 10 bush
els per acre.. i.
.- sPlY.
Uncle Daniel spsu1ding is showing the
farmers how to plow. The old gentleman
seldom hires help, but does tho NEST Of his
work alone. He gets up in the morning,
feed his pigs, chickens, calves, horses. &c.,
does up oil the chores. and then, bitches
three good horses abreast to his 16.inch
sulky iplov, mounts into tho seat,; starts of
At . good pace, and plows his three sere,
In time to do his chores before night.
|"Ta ':' PoLITIoAI MATHIS.
+ Our Commissioner District 10 bound t.
be represented in the County Board. Thor.
are three candidates running in tho Die
triot, two ofthem from this town. If al
three get elected It is propossd to form ,
new County out Of our District and le'
them run It. Iehink that Mr.. E. ". Dixie
the present State Treasurer, will poll ,
heavy vote IN this town, When q mai
faithfully and honestly performs his dut,
in once W would rather trust him than .,
unknown and unt1isd one. We viii do tn,
same with Mr.. NJ. z: Noel, for County Sur
veyor, who has 70. faithfully discharged
.his DUTY heretofore, and 10 20 we'll know,
BY everybody in the County. He know
everybody and every section stake in tn
county 80 we'll that We want him to b
County Surveyor again.
GOOD suGaEsTIoN. -
We wish that tho Secretaries Of oil til
Oranges in Stearns and adjoining oountie
would have their names and post Office ad
dress published in the st. Cloud JOURNAL
Tho Trustees of School District No. 2
have just painted their new school house
can't describe the color-it ID neither
brindle nor yellow.
| T. 0. spaulding il happy, and I'll th
young men are trying to get on the goo
side Of him, because this time, it's girl.
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