The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-07-07
How Others See us.


EDITOR PIONEER: You will please al
low me to say in your valuable paper that
it gave me great pleasure to renew &C
quaintances in Bottineau County, also to
travel round and size up the crops and
view the future prospect of that locality.
l was favorably impressed in many re-
spects, although the outlook for an abund-
ant harvest was not as promising as many
would wish. was pleased to find that
the man who made farming a specially,
who devoted his time to his calling, not
engaging in public or other work foreign
to his farm, but devoting his time, his tai
ent and his money to his farm, was stand
pre-eminently!ahead of his fellow farmers.
l find that earning money in town or away
from home, and then ~squand7ring it at
home. is one way to spend money for
that which is not bread and labor for that
which satisfeth not" 1t is a very easy
matter in that county to locate the man
who stays right with his business, as HE is
the man who is prospecting. l believe there
is a good living there for all who wish to
make a study of what they see is best to
go into. I was also favorably impressed
with the fellow feeling the majority had
for each other. In this particular it is
ahead of any community I have ever been
privileged to visit. I was sorry indeed
not to be able to attend divine service in
the town of Bottineau. but l was able to
attend at Peabody and there / found levi
IDENTIFY more living, growing, working
Christians than 1 ever met in any other
place, that is, in proportion to the popu-
lation. 1 was also impressed with the
scarcity of the bach" The young men
of that county seem to recognize the fact
that 1.-The home" is a man and woman add
ed to a house, and that they two should
be one even if thai one be the husband.
I was more than pleased to learn that so
many of the fair sex went TO the polls at
the recent school election and there cast
their ballot for the man of their choice.
I there and then could read that at some
time not far distant, in North Dakota. the
blessed time would come when husband
and wife would be one and that one would
be husband and wife" found many
prolific sources of evil existing there which
reminded me of the fact that the for
hidden fruit" was of the tree of know
ledge of both good and evil, and that while
good would grow, evil was likely to grow
also and if possible exceed the good.
After spending nine days there we set
our faces homeward. leaving Friday after
noon. AS we journeyed homeward we
found the recent rains had improved the
crops wonderfully-the crop in Manitoba
being later than in Bottineau-and pre-
sented a more favorable outlook than in
Bottineau. AS we thought of home,
thought of the favorable prospects of an
abundant harvest. and thought of the ad-
vantages of stock markets, etc., we were
impressed with the idea that we are living
in 'the better land" As we reached
home Saturday evening. June goth. we
found everything we'll. Lots of rain had
fallen and crops had grown nicely. espec.
tally the garden. Out of 1000 cabbage
plants we have set cut. 900 or 400 plants
now measure from ten inches to over two
feet across the leaves. and nearly all other
vegetables in proportion. Having about
three quarters of an acre in garden. it
presented a better appearance than any
we saw while on our journey or over
there. l think that this branch. especial.
ly, pays the Manitoba farmer.
I will here close wishing that some OF
your careless readers may pay US a visit
and learn a little more about how to farm.
I say careless because they are in the
most urgent need of it. But I will be
glad to entertain any person who helped
to make my" visit n upon which my
memory shall love to dwell. Yours truly.
#.H ~ s..:s~ JNo. BRANDER,
Nesbis.; Manitoba, July aud. *.1
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