The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-08-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

- s',~''@~~=>'' ROCHES: ROOST:''' &: a's'7a52:s
Mr.. e. y. .Slayton, Of the st. Paul &
Sioux City lard office, returned yester-
day from the southwest, full of admira-
ton for Roche's Roost, which he visit
ed Tuesday, and for the enterprise and
taste of its proprietor. Roche's R0Ost
is farm or estate of l 800 acres, situa.
ted on Round Lake, in Jackson county,
nine miles east Of Worthington, and is
the property of Mr.. O. II. Roche, a
wealthy member of the Chicago board
Of trade. Round Lake is one of the
most beautiful of the many lakes en-
braced in the st. Paul s. Sioux City
land grant, with clean shores and clear,
deep water, containing an abundance
of fish, and about II by II miles in sur
face. Mr.. Roche entered upon his land
last spring and broke 40 acres, on
which he has now standing good crop
of sod corn. His design is to make of
the place sum ner home and stock
farm. In pursuance of this design he
has erected the best barn in that coun-
try, calculated to hold in its lofts 24O
tons of hay, which amount is now being
hoisted in with labor-saving machinery.
At one end of the barn is Il tie-up for
cattle, and at the other stalls and boxes
for horses. The finish of the barn is
perfect, even to screens at doors and
windows for keeping out flies. n large
and well-appointed house, intended to
accommodate the superintendent and
laborers on the farm the year round. as
we'll as Mr.. Roche and his friends dur
ing their summer visits. The dwelling
will contain all the requisites for com.
fort, and something of the tastes Of the
proprietor may be judged from the fact
that the reading room is being especial
ly built for the exhibition on it's walls
and in It's inches of ornithological spec
linens and trophies of hunting. A fur
Their evidence of his tastes is in the fact
that he has already established at R0-
che's Roost, under proper care, a fine
kennel Of hunting dogs. But summer
comfort and autumn sport are only in
cidental to Mr.. Roche's main plans. He
has placed on the farm 25 head of grade
heifers and Il thoroughbred short.horn
bull; also five Norman mares, intending
to have more, and Norman stallion;
and he has bought from Chas. DeGraff's
Lake Elysian farm five hundred Colts
void sheep. He is also undertaking to
buy 1900 to 5000 sheep to let out o.
shares among farmers of the vicinity
His land is to he brought under cult
Walton and into pasturage as rapidly as
possible and two adjoining sections
owned by another Chicago gentleman.
may he united with it. He is also beau
tifying and improving the place with
plantations Of young trees and will, the
coming winter, try the plan of trans
planting forest trees with the frozen
ground attached to their roots. In
short. Roche's BOOST is intended to he
a model farm and summer home-Min-
neapolis Tribune.
We may add to this sketch from the
Tribune that the erection of the build
ings and the management of the farm
are under Superintendent A. McDou-
gall, while the carpenter work Of the
buildings has been in charge of W. II.
Bigelow, formerly of Minneapolis.
whose headquarters are now at Window.
Mr.. Bigelow is associated with his bro
Their, L. T.. Bigelow, and the two con-
stitnte firm of architects and builders
who are making superior reputation
in this part of the State. T.. L. Bige-
low is the builder of Smiths large store
at Fuld;,.
Rohrer's boy furnished last weeks
Journal two four.line stanzas of dogger-
FL. This effort so exhausted and pros
trated the youth that he took the cars,
as the Journal announces, for White
Bear Lake to be gone three weeks. Two
stanzas and three weeks! -Four stanZas
would take six weeks rest and recupe-
ration. We hope lie will return restor-
ed and not venture too much upon poe
try during the hot weather. No effort
of the human brain requires such con-
centrated and sheer power as the pro-
duction of real poetry. If doggerel so
eXhausts him, a verse of real poetry
would leave nothing of him but a few
old clothes. Go slow, Bub, go slow!