The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-02-03

| aeuTy AuUcTsOI VI Dl6u6tCAS uA0 OOs
Brown. of Painted Woods, were anon
Fridays arrivals in Waahburn.
Oscar Gus avason returne from Bis
marck, Friday ~u..e Az down loa'
Uf pork to sell. He reports times terri
able dull dow" thcrc
The following from Lne Grafton RecOr.
should be read and we'll considered by til
farming communities about each of tn
towns in the state. There is no doubt bu
that all of the towns do more or less i'm
porting of necessities in the way of veg
etable, meats, butter, egg and other pro
duce, from the east, WI ny xfticsasI
could be furnished for home consumption
by home producers as we'll as not. The
Record ssys:
''1t has been suggested to the Record
that there are more ways than one to the
hitching post of success for the farmers
in this valley-not only for the
farmers but for the business men
of Grafton. Diversified farming has
been sung about and talked until it is get
ting to be an old subject, worn little
thin at the scat and bags at tho knees, but
it is good stuff nevertheless. We ali know
that in the world, but it cost money to
raise wheat here, and although Red River
valley No. hard wheat is said to be lit
tie bit the finest, it doesn't look as if any
were breaking their necks to get it, when
less than SO cents a bushel is offered for
it. But there are other things besides
wheat that can be dug up around here
and in big quantities too, if farmers only
thought 80. Some of them do think So
and are making quite snug little sum
on the side, as it were. Side lines pay;
they are mostly all profit. Right here in
Grafton during the year just closed there
were shipped in $44 worth of vegetables.
Most of these were early vegetables raised
by hot air--of which we are little shy of
here, and we haven't any excuse to offer
for that-for it is fact that onions don't
tassel out or lettioe doesn't come to head
here in April-scarcely. Eggs: Two hun
dred and twenty dollars worth of eggs
were shipped to Grafton last year from
Minnesota, and some of them had seen
better dsys; every mothers son of them
could have been produced her" as we'll as
in Minnesota, and they would have been
~, a I~ntAor noD1;%jon IN n.k -hnr hraok.
fast was ready. If the hens of North
Daknts cannot lay eggs AZ fast. rs Ai.na,
sofa hens they arc not getting the prolsr
kind Of encouragement and encourage
mont u what makes hens lay. Eggs should
be shipped out, not in. Do people est
cheese in Grafton !? Well, someone got
away with 1890 pounds last year. We
don't know who it was it probably took
a syndicate to get away with it, but it
went Inside the city limits. too; il un-
took several tons more to sup
ply the county. People in Grafton take
their bread with butter on it; 3,4OO pounds
of butter came to Grafton by freight and
express during the year 1898; enough but
ter to spread over both sides of 16O acres
of North Dakota summer-fallow. Most
of 1t came from the creameries and dai--
les of Minnesota. We ought to have
number of things in Grafton, but a cream
cry aud cheese factory should be among
the first. A cooperative institution or
private enterprise; it makes little differ
ence as long as it is properly managed,
aud would stimulate the neighboring
farmers to keep. q few COWS. We have in
mind and viii mention later q number of
other itlms that are being shipped here
and good prices paid besides for freight
for there is no Jones to pay it-vhich
ooulo be procured here, and = oonsidera-
bio profit to the farmers-and beat the
chattls mortgage route for getting grocer
les.