Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-02
Bou1lt ty for Timber Culture.

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tention.-National Stockman.
Bounty for Timber Culture.
The Ter Fitory of Dakota has made
very liberal provision for the encour-
agentent df timber culture.
Chapter one hundrea and forty-iive
Of The session laws Of 1886 provides
that any person planting one acre or
more of Irairie land, within five years
after the passage Of this act, with any
kind of tees except black locust or
cottonwop ID, and successfully growing
and cultiFating for three years, shall
be entitltd to receive for ten years
thereafter, an annual bounty Of two
dollars pr each acre Sc planted and
cuntiyatd, to be paid out of the Ter
ritoral tieasury, but such bounty shall
not be pkid any longer than such trees
are maintained and kept in growing
condition.
The cpde further provides that any
one-fourth part of any quarter section
Of prai ie land, the same being a legal
subdivision, on which five acres Of
timbershall be planted by. either sow
ing tht seed or by setting trees or cut
J tihgs, and. the same to be kept in grow
& ! orStel ys cultivation anu not to be
more than twelve feet apart each way
together with all improvements there
On not to exceed in value $1,000, and
for q period of ten years from and af-
ter the planting Of said timber, and
any change of ownership Of said land
shall in no way effect the the exemp-
tion from taxation as herein provided.
10 secure the benefit of this exemp-
tion. the applicant shall file an aflida-
Wit with the assessor thas he has in
every way complied with the require
ments of the law, wheraupon the as
SCISSOR shall therein state in effect the
following words, to-wit: Exempt
from taxation by virtue OF tree cul-
tu7e," and shall describe the particu-
lar tract or tracts of land so exempt
North Dakota Farmer.
Send no ignorant or unskilled man
into the orchard to trim trees. Go
along AMI stay with him.
The Farmers Alliance in Dakota is
effectlng. q thorough organization in
most of the larger counties, and ex-
tending very rapidly.
Only four farmers in one hundred
fail, while in other business ninety-six
out Of every hundred fail, and often
make money by doing so.
when farmers have to sell butter at
or 8 cents pound, merchants will
soon get poor, for the farmers cannot
pay out more money than he gets,
a good garden is one Of the best
/ friends that farmer has. Cultivate it
well, and 1t will never fail to win your
admiration A good garden is the farm
ers confectionery store.
Have yo5, ever noticed the manner
in which the successful market poul'
terer prepars his fowls for the market
Don't you know that chickens and
turkeys, plump and clean, well picked
and the skin unbroken, will bring
sixteen or eighteen cents per pound
much more readily than those which
;sre thin, poorly picked, and the skin
broken and bruised, will bring a sh1l
ling.
Farmers Agitate YOUR intrests IN the
Alliance. Let those who want to stay
outside do so. but all who can york
sogether. Unite and labor in cooper
ehion for the common benefit and like
I'll intelligent organizations money car
hs saved end made by co-opegstor
astion by the Alliance. We must have
cir own warehouses and tiou:cLing
nssn as soon IS we can build chem, anc
we can build one warehouse 81 least IL
.Jerauld COUNT, this. fall Come to fhe
! Alliance and aae about its