Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-09-04
Gossip and Notes.

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Stack your grain.
Thursday, Sept. 4th-and no sign OF
frost yet.
The Milton schools opened Monday OF
this week-on legal holiday.
Gilmore now is able to claim q resident
nopulation of 400 people-not counting
<he +ransients who have arrived during
the fall to work in the harvest field.
Laugdon's BARRIERS are working full
time again. The eight o'clock closing
agreement, in effect during the summer
heinz abandoned the first OF the month.
Sixteen applicants wrote for certltica'
ties at the teachers examination OF last
week. With one exception all had pre-
viously been engaged in teaching Cava'
lier county schools.
Wales is to have a newspaper-the hrst
sssue of which is expected to appear this
week. EditorJohnson, OF the Osnabrock
Tndepeudent makes the venture and is
understood to have selected ''The Wales
Herald" AS the name OF his new protege.
The fact of Labor Day falling ON Mon
day this year, as well as it being the
opening day OF the chicken season, gave
the court house employees as well the
bank clerks and others aEgood chance to
yet out with their dogs and guns for
days shooting.
Both farmers and elevator men con-
coed that barley is the grain that will
prove the most profitable crop coming
onto the market this fall. The yield SO
far is averaging better that As bushels
an acre and at present selling at q price
of nearly fifty cents for the best grade.
Cavalier county lands are certainly
worth more than 500 per acre when they
will raise in single year crop OF bar
ley or flax worth from $15 to $lS per
acre. Eastern buyers are quick to realize
that our lands will soon be worth easily
double the value OF the crop they pro-
duce in a single season.
With upwards OF three hundred descrlp-
lions of school land listed for the sale to
be held in the middle OF November 1T is
anticipated thatsome fun and high prices
will be incident to the sale. The fact
that crops are good this fall and selling
prices up to the average, no snaps need
be looked for at this sale.
Friday, August 22nd, seems to have
been the date on which the first grain
was marketed at several points along
the line in this county. Barley was mar
keted here by FRANC Moran; Henry Nc
Lean is reported as having hauled into
Hannah the first load OF the same kind
OF grain on that date and on the same
day Wheat Buyer Perry OF Wales took
in two loads OF wheat. Since then there
has been q steady flow OF grain into all
the towns along the line and farmers are
iubilant over the harvest and prices
which the market finds for their product.
This year barley is king and supplants
the throne on which was exalted the flax
croy OF year ago.
A trip out in the country now viii
show. as at no other time OF year, who
are the good farmers. On one side OF tht
road there will be a fine field OF grain
while on the other the grain will be poo
and weedv, the result OF bad cultivation
While we have magnificent crop Thu
year. we believe fully third more nigh
have been raised on the same groun'
with good management. A good GRO
cannot be raised on poor seed bed
The ground must be thoroughly stlrre
and cultivated in order for it to produc
properly. The added expense to do thl
is only nominal for it tnkes nearly d
much time to pillow the ground and nc
any more a. en-, IL poorcrop than Il goo
one. Things don't ''just happen"
this country any more Than in any othe
The farmer, like ull other men, is the IN
,ker of his own destiny. II he farms we
and mixes brains with his work he WI
get good results.
Look over tho change OF matter
,Optician A. O. Wold's advertising spa'
this week.