The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-05-19
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Editor Wood Among the Corn
Crackers,
Dt*courcrs ON Newspaper Enterprise North
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Tobacco Culture Steady Boys
Domestic Girls, SC. SC,

Somebody sent me two or three copies
of the LEADEz lately, and 1 want to tell
you that they come like friends in
times of sore distress. If anybody should
get IN idea that the LEADER is not full OF
news and a first class representative of
North Dakota enterprise, l wish to give
hln my assurance for what it may be
worth. that the idea is entirely wrong
OF course the Louisville Courier journal
is tho grand climax of journalism for this
region. 1t il the generally taken state
paper and is a good paper too. From
general news standpoint, however, it does
not in my mind rate anywhere with the
big dailies of the Twin cities. Those
papers have a broad comprehensiveness
OF news that is not found in the Courier.
journal, and I believe any western man
Will notice the difference at once
1t is not mere prejudice, it is the plain
truth. You see q small amount of north.
western news in the Courier-Journa).but in
the Minneapolis and St.Paul papers there
ls news from every section,and much more
OF 1T thar is found in Courier Journal
The latter devote columns of space al
most daily advertising its premiums to
subscribers, its guessing contents, etc. It
liz always an 8 page page p while
the Journal, or Globe or Tribune. which
we see are often IL or l6 and up to 40
pages. If the little papers used as much
space to boom themselves as does this
Courier Journal each day they would have
to print a third more paper.
Towns the size of Nashburn here ana
even four or five times as large do not
support newspapers. In Greensboro, a CITY
ut $4,000, there are two dailies, and seven
column sheets. They are we'll p~atronized
by advertisers. They do not display the
energy aud enterprise OF papers out west.
II Fargo papers are away ahead of
them in all points. l do not know as to
Its financial return tho 1 expect the latter
papers make as much money clear.
This is a delightful day after a RAIN last
evening. Everything is in full leaf and
some corr is up, the most of it is not vet
planted. Tobacco plants are coming I'M
finely, and will o o he ready to set out,
Tobacco has been low for a year or two,
1t sells from SIS to Sc per 100 lbs, for
leaf. This is a little less than half what
it brought in 1876. But yet it seems to
pay fairly we'll. One grower, whose farm
adjoins the one from where I am writing
told me tho other day that he and his two
sons raised II 900 'a;t year. They had in
'cant nine acres, that is a good yield every
yeas. They sold for $3.50 per hundred.
around, so they got nearly $500 of nine
acres of ground. That is farming for
you. 1t does not take machinery to raise
tobacco. Ny friend Dawson raised from
half an acre last year $50 pounds-a big
crop and sold for Sc per hundred, His
crops average about 1000 lbs per acre.
Three to four acres is considered a "task"
with the o and other crops. People
do not run over two or three hun.
dred acres of land every year in this
country. They do not like working we'll
enough. But they make farming paw
Yet they consider the farmers who raise
in Dakota as bonanza farmers. and
think they must make a pile of money
When mention hauling grain 20 to GO
miles TO market they wildly catch their
breath and declare they don't want to en-
lgrate. Still l have gotten several young
men quite interested in the big prairies.
tho once in a while they will shiver at the
prospect of cold weather. When l speak
Of the mercury at 12O in the shade in
July they seem to it marvels a country of
great contradictions-or that I am an as
tonishing liar. I have not shown them
the corn. Joe Edgerly gave me last
winter, as IN honory member of the 1S
a. They never believe it was a truthful
character.
The people here are always interested
in hearing of the northwest. A guest
gets the best of treatment, aad they want
you to stay always. The Kentucky home
is almost invariably a haven of rest TO,
the weary travellers return. Thore is no
other kind of a home just like it. have
seen a good many kinds, but each has its
" aspects peculiar to the country and
Its people. They have moro time in the
south than we have. Everything is set.
tied down, and changes are few. People
came to stay about IS years ago. They
are going to stay-most of thsm-so the,
fix up and prepare for quiet. The young
ok grow up and marry near by, settles
down about home, until the whole neigh.
borhood is related In some way, and ha,
relatives all over the county and state
The girls are handsome, bright and do
nestle, and the boys generally homo Low
ng and content, and settle down to stead,
work in good season.
You do no see SO mauy simple ma,
patching on the farm as You do out west
One reason Is that there are more GIRL,
here, and the girls are not SO anxious e
to live in towns. They cling to the coun
try and I must say I admire their tast,
for the country here !. obo.a e...