The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-11-14

R.I|N|GETON'S PRIDE.
It is the Rich and Productive Farming
Country About Her and the ~
b. Progressive Farmer.
In the Heart of Great Potato Belt
a Big Increase in the Volume
of Potato Receipts.

of Potato Receipts.
In these busy days of fall trade when
the bus bandman is marketing his farm
produce and getting good prices for
the same. at good market it is graft
flying to know that Princeton mer-
chants are reaping we'll merited
share of the trade from section of
country that embraces a rich farming
territory that is populated by thrifty
and industrious class of farmers.
Princeton is, favorably located from a
trade standpoint and. draws trade from
wide section of country. Besides the
trade. from the immediate vicinity
Princeton has good trade with farm
ers IN the western portion of Isanti
county, the eastern part of Benton and
from the northeastern portion of Sher-
burne county. The section that it
trades with is about as we'll balanced
an agricultural area as one would wish
for. Besides being famed for its great
crops OF potatoes that have made this
section famous and which have aided
so largely in building up Princeton, it
raises great crops of hay and feeds and
fattens live stock in great numbers.
1t also raises immense crops of vegeta-
bles and all kinds of grain and has
shown that it is we'll adapted to fruit
culture. Another farm crop for which
it is well adapted and which it raises
so successfully is corn that ranks right
up with the product OF Iowa and
Illinois,
| There are few towns that are better
favored than Princeton and the UNION
is proud to say that there are few
towns that can show set of more pro-
gressive business men who are awake
to the necessities and demands of the
trade that is enriching the town.
Farmers come here to trade because
they can find everything they want at
reasonable prices and they market
their crops here because they know
Prine euon to be a good steady. market
I where prices hold their own year in
and year out better than q good many
markets throughout the, country.
Princeton has kept pace with the
growth of the country around her and
because Of her many social and school
advantages has attracted good class
of farmers to the tributary country.
The king of all farm products is the
potato that has put hundreds of farm
ers IN a prosperous condition and the
fact that Princeton is in the heart of
this rich potato belt has made it one
of the biggest potato markets in the
country. Notwithstanding the con-
struction Of the railroad through Isanti
county two years or more ago Prince
ton has steadily gained in the volume
Of business and the receipts of potatoes
at this market have increased nearly
| fifty per cent in the past two years.
A section of country to the north and
| west which heretofore did not raise
any potatoes and in which small grain
and hay was raised principally, now
has proved very rich potato country
Two years or more ago the farmers
were induced to try raising potatoes
and several car loads of seed potatoes
were sent to the farmers in Greenbush,
Milo, Blue Hill, Bogus Brook and San
tiago, and the result has been that
farmers have found the raising of po-
tatoes very renumerative, especially so
this year. Messrs Rines & Co., were
largely instrumental in getting the
farmers in that section of country to
try potatoes and their efforts have
proved successful.
To the east and south Princeton en-
joys a good potato trade, Wvanett,
Dalbo and Spencer Brook being great
potato raising sections, the bulk of<the
crop being marketed in Princeton.
One thing that has contributed
largely to the Increased volume of
business on the potato market is the
heavy influx of new, settlers who have
been locating around Princeton in such
large numbers in the last two years.
With its potato belt, its abundance
of fine meadow lands, its corn and grain
fields, creameries. and an abundance of
pure water and timber what more does
a country want to make it happy and
prosperous.
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