Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-02-29

there was no meeting of the Stevens
County Agricultural Society. The
meeting intended for that time will
be held Saturday afternoon, March
10th, at 2 o'clock. Bear the date in
mind and be sure to attend.
A lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows was instituted in
Morris last evening. The lodge will
be known as Crystal Lodge. No. 1872,
and starts in life with large men,
bership and bright prospects for sue
cess. Members of the Benson and
Willmar. lodges were present and
assisted in the ceremonies.
This locality has again survived one
of the "worst storms of the season."
On Friday night a terrific wind began
blowing from the northwest and con-
tinued until Sunday night. For
forty-eight hours the air was filled
with snow, and business and travel,
both by team and rail, was necessarily
suspended. The thermometer ranged
from zero to twenty-five below. The
drifts formed in the railway cuts and
elsewhere were made up of the finest
snow dust and are very hard. There
were no trains from Thursday night
until yesterday afternoon.
The TRIBUNE wishes again to urge
| the farmers of Stevens county to plan
| to have more than one product to sell
next fall. Don't, if you care any
thing foryour own prosperity, put all
of your eggs in one basket Don't
rely on wheat, or any other one crop,
| or disaster may overtake your one
idea project and you will find your
| self in straitened circumstances at the
| seasons close. Plan TO have some
wheat, some oats, some barley, some
hay, some potatoes, some beans. some
onions, some stock, etc., to sell, and
If you fail in one thing, you will sue
1 ceed in the others and will make
your years work successful. Diver
| silly yo:.r crops as much as possible
the more the better-and now is the
| time to make your plans.
Last summer considerable was said
| of establishing flax mill here.
Doubtless all readers of the TRIBUNE
remember the momentary agitation
of the subject. The project advanced
| rapidly-then fell into state of
innocuous desuetude and has since
remained in 5statu quo. AS we under
stand it, there Will be flax mill built
here at any time when farmers will
agree to raise flax enough to keep
such a mill running. Ii q new indus
try can he started here for little
trouble, is it not worth while to make
the effort? Messrs. Johnson & Bick-
nell know more about the matter
than any. others here, as 1T was
through them the correspondence
with the parties who stand ready to
put in the mill was carried on, and
the TRIBUNE suggests that each far
mer, when in town, call on that firm,
learn the prices that will be paid for
fax, and leave with them a memo
randum of the number of acres he
will agree to raise. When the raising
of a sufficient number OF acres is
guaranteed, the rest can lie arranged
I'M short order.
1t is not in additional acreage that
the progressive farmer must look for
his gains, but in making less land
yield more substance. This means,
primarily, the bestowing of more
labor upon small areas; and to the
average farmer this seems synony-
nous with neglect of his larger acre.
age of grain. To harmonic these
apparently conflicting methods is the
task Of the intelligent farmer of to-
day. Tile two principal methods by
which the value of the product Of
limited portion of our acreage can be
increased, are: the growing of veget-
| able supplies for our home markets
/ throughout the season; and the grow
ing of field crops of vegetables for
shipment to city markets in the fall
and winter. The first of these is par
ticularly applicable to those farmers
who are located near medium-sized
towns-say OF from three thousand to
ten thousand population. Regular
market-gardeners usually locate near
the larger cities; and these smaller
towns are dependent for their supply
of spring and summer vegetables
upon the scant surplus of some farm
ers' gardens or upon shipments from
/ the cities. The second method noted
can be advantageonsly pursued by
such as are located near cities, az
their entire product can be there dis
: posed of TO q wholesale merchant; or
| by those remote from cities but near
railroads over which their crops can
be shipped in bulk to the city COM
mission dealer.-American Agricul-
turist for March.
/ Among others who took q lively in
terest in the article upon the beet
sugar industry, which appeared in the
TRIBUNE last week, is Rasmus Lar
son. Last Friday. he called and
showed US fine sample of the sugar
beet which lie raised last season. He
i says the beets thrive wonderfully
here, and that he viii raise more Of
s them next summer. They are valu.
able as food for stock as well as FOL
sugar. Mr.. Larson sent to the old
country for the seed he used. HI
! could not give the cost of machinery
; needed for the manufacture of bee
! sugar, nor the quantity Of beets i
1 would be necessary to raise in orde!