The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-03-18
GRAHAM LAKES.

Farmers complain Of sitting around
and eating up their pocket books.
Surely the winter doth consume the
summer when 4 man don't raise stock
or make butter or raise hen fruit or
larders.
Mr.. Doll, of Airlie, is still taking in
quite a good quantity of grain and SELL
ing a considerable of lumber.
Winkler e Jones are going slow and
sure.
1t is surprising to see how the people
of Graham Lakes thrive on johnny
cake. Nearly every man weighs $50
TBS. this winter. Who kno VS. but what
we will have new Massachusetts here
yet. We have heard of the land of
wooden nutmegs, but who ever heard
of the land of johnnycake before.
We often hear the remark, "Nobles
Co. is no stock country" We don't
claim it to lie first-class stock coun-
try, (although the largest stock sale
ever made in the world was made in
Minneapolis, that of VIM. King, of
Minneapolis.) Stock raising and grain
raising must be combined. We must
have something to do these long VIM
tiers. We must have stock to eat our
straw and corn fodder, thereby making
profit out of what would lie wasted
otherwise. Had the people of Mobiles
county stuck to raising stock Il little
closer and not tried to farm so much
land, to-day we would have been better
off. But inasmuch as we cannot recall
the past. let US try anew and plant
more corn and sow less wheat. Too
much expense attached to raising small
grain for profit,
An emigrant bound for Nebraska,
says, good-by friends and nei2hbors,
good by Minnesota hay business. good
by grasshoppers and bi,zards, high tax
es and big bonds. Greeting on the
other shore. Peach orchards and
blooming fields, I suppose. No hop
pers. No, no, no. Can't be.
S. Stone, of Fulda: paid $. Fox ten
dollars for a young larder the other
day, result of a well erected hog pen
and good corn. Fox is the hog-exe
man, having an eye single to raising
hogs, having already sold $4s worth,
beside packing 1926 lbs.
Every farmer may make the winter
pass off pleasantly by attending to
small things, such as keeping few
hens, TAXI 6 good care of them, there
by making it pay as we'll as bring in a
little re 'dy cash. Every farmer can
keep few COWS, which, at the present
prices of butter, will help to keep the
wolf off. Remember that riches are
made from the accumulation Of Titles.
Feeding sheep is 4 pleasant occupa-
ton and less laborious than taking care
Of cattle and brings a quicker return,
knowing that when the frlgid winter is
past, we may reap rich harvest for
our labor and expense of fodder, from
their woolly backs.
II. +. JackSOl1, 81. -. Smlth ana N.
H. Smith, committee to call meeting to
elect delegates tor the county conven-
ton.
A. E. Cunningham is happy. A ten
pound boy.
Is. +. Tanner las moved his house
lately purchased from Downs and ex-
poets soon to enjoy living in good
frame house. It don't look like very
hard times to see people going from sod
houses into good frame houses. The
people of Mobiles Go. are making i'm
provements in spite Of hard times ard
to-day are better off than they were
three years ago.
J. W. Benson, of Heron Lake, has
taken contract of three Thousand
acres of breaking in Pipestone Go.