Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-02-04
Proceedings of the Board of Cum
ty Commissioners.

In session January Goth, 1881.
Board all present.
Meetings OF last meeting read and ap-
proved.
On motion the bond and contract of
Peter Aubertin for building the bridge
across the James river and completing
the same by March rs, 1881, was sp
proved
On motion the contractor was instructed
to saint the bridge light brown color.
On motion the Clerk was instruct ed to
return the publication of Commissioners
pr; cecdings Of Jan. ~, 1881, for correc
tiOn.
On motion The jamestown Alert was
made thu official paper for the quarter
ending April l, 1891.
The application Of School District No.
2, for taxes. as expressed by Hendricks.
District No. l.
On motion the Board adjourned unit!
Tuesday, Feb. l 1881.
GE RGE. ". VENNUM, Co. Clerk.
N. W. Land Journal, jamestown: Our
observations Of farming operations in
Northern Dakota lead US to the conclusion
that many flr.ners are trying to DO too
much, that is in attempting to manage
too many acres We are aware that there
is taciuation in wheat growing, aud the
temptation to T. t in rs many acres as pos
sible is Il! most irresistible, but is it sound
policy or good economy: If man under
takes, in any department Of business in
dustry, to do more than he eau do thor.
oughly and we'll. there will be loss instead
Of gain, and this rule applies to farming
with peculiar force Mother Earth IS n
very particular old body, and is sure to
notice any neglect, in way that is sure
to remind the care ess farmer of his error
If land is cropped year after year, yielding
its abundant harvests without return, the
grain sold, the straw burned, it will
gradually cease to reward the husband
man for his labor. If it is imper.tctly
cui ivated, badly broken, and worse back
se.., and the farmer takes no palEs to pull
csize it, preparing suitable seed bed,
because he has 50 much to do that he
don't have time to do it, he is sure to be
reminded of his, neglect when harvest
comes, but he sometimes don't understand
why his neighbor gets thirty bushels to
the acre, while he gets only fifteen or
twenty.
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cultivate 10 many acres as possible, with
out regard to lie manner Of cultivation.
The consequence is that many farmers
have more than they can do, are always
driven, and are unable to do their work
properly aud in season. We believe that
the average yield of wheat can be in creas-
ed from five to ten bushels per acre by a
careful, intelligent, and thorough system
of husbandarv. We believe that thirty
bushels raised on one acre is more profit
able t, the farmer than to raise forty busll-
els ON two acres. When the farmers OF
Dakota get down to business, learn that
they .don's want all the land adjoining
them, adopt a system OF thorough coltl-
vatiou on no more land than they can
work economically and successfully, they
will alse more and better wheat, and
make more money, than by trying to do
too much.
The North Pacific Express Company
have published a new schedule in which
express rates TO all points oa tue Northern
tactic have been greatly reduced. The
rate between this place and st. Paul has
been $3 IS for 100 pounds. 1t is now ss,
a reduction Of nearly one-faurth. This
change will be hailed with y by our
citizens. There is still great reduIti"n
on produce, including eggs. butter, cheese,
dressed game. fresh meats, etc. The
tariff having been reduced from $S to
ta.75.