Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-31
in TIE LOCAL SWIM.
The Northern Pacific Proposes a
Scheme for the Benefit OF
Thrifty Farmers.
To Help the Mail Clerks-They Ask
Congress to Fix their Salaries
by Law.
Various Items Of Interest Picked Up
In and About the City of
Bismarck.
A Scheme for Farmers.

Diversified farming is becoming more
and more popular. The general freight
department of the Northern Pacific has
issued a circular to agents, which is to
be distributed among farmers and pub
lished in all country newspapers, on the
subject of raising hogs, and material for
raising a hog supply equal to local de-
mand, whereby millions of good dollars
mey be kept at home instead of being
spent in eastern territory.
The Northern Pacific has a scheme
whereby the farmers may club together
in making necessary purchases and
secure reduced prices and rates. This
is described in the circular, which fol-
lows:
The potato crop in the western states
fell far short of supplying the large de-
mands last year, causing a great advance
of price, in consequence of which thou
sands OF carloads were shipped in from
Montana, Idaho, Washington and other
Pacific states. The advanced price was
an inducement for the farmers to plant
a larger quantity than usual this year,
therefore it is very evident that there
Will be q large surplus of potatoes next
fall, and unless the farmers make ar.
rangements to meet it there will be un.
necessary waste and loss. We are IN
formed that p%arsnips, mangelwurzel,
beets and other vegetable roots will be
grown to a considerable extent this sea.
son, and that these roots and potatoes
boiled and mixed with screenings and
refuse grain (wheat, barley and oats), fed
to pigs will produce very satisfactory
results.
1t is our desire to avert the threatened
loss and turn it into gain, thus serving
the farmers in two ways. With this in
view we will undertake to induce several
reliable live stock dealers to 90 out on
our road and solicit orders for sows and
pigs at the lowest market price plus the
pro rata proportion of the carload freight
rates; orders to be taken from reliable
farmers for delivery to them Immediate.
~ after harvest. If farmers can club
together and order a carload of pigs tc
be delivered at one station a saving car
be made in the price and freight rate
Hogs are bound to command a good
price the coming year.
Farmers in northern Minnesota anc
North Dakota, Mr.. Moore y have
hitherto obtained their hog product!
from Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska ant
Iowa. In this way large shipments hav'
been distributed yearly through tn,
Twin Cities to the logging camps ane
mining districts in Northern Minnesot,
and to farmers in North Dakota. Mr.
Moore estimates the farmers alone ar,
impoverished to the extent of SIS, 10000 O
a year in this way.
Hoods Pills for the liver and bowel
act easily, yet promptly and effectively
To Help the Mail Clerks.
The postal clerks along this division
and throughout the whole country ar
Interested in a movement for a readiust
ment of their salaries by congress. Thi
movement is championed by ex-Edito
Patterson of the United States mail, i,
a pamphlet published in the interests 9