The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-05-25

Some men stu plant By the moon
and swear BY the long range weather
prophets.
The tramping of the soil by stock Is
absolutely fatal to large share of our
forest and fruit trees
The good horse and the good boy are
| quite likely to both belong to tna good
man. They are one of his ear,l.sy re.
| wards.
| 1t is of small profit to work hard to
plant So worth of garden seeds and
then depend upon scythc to keep the
garden clean.
We SOW radishes every ten days
from early spring up to July and then
again in September for fall use. In
this way we always have them nice
and tender.
All living things have their uses, we
are told, but we know Of some dogs
and scme men whose unitarian rela-
ton to the world could be made prop
er subject for debate.
At the average prices for pasture and
feed COW must make at least 100
pounds Of butter in year to pay for
her keep and care. Unless she will
make more than this man is worse
off with her than without her.
We have been selling a lot Of pota-
toes this spring for $1.2O per bushel.
This is the most extravagant price for
murphies we have ever known. No
body can afford to eat them at this
price, and only their use for seed JUS
titles it.
The sproutd kernel of oats is ten
der thing, and it is probable that the
early sown crop Of the west, subjected
as it was to very severe freezing after
termination, is seriously injured.
Wheat and rye will stand what oats
will Lot.
There is much agricultural prosper
ity through the hop growing regions
Of the Pacific coast, crop Of 1900
pounds of hops to the acre, worth 25
cents pound, being one Of the causes
A gross return Of $500 per acre for a
field crop Is very big thing.
The actual cost Of growing. shipping
and delivering to the retail dealer in
the central west Of box of oranges
- 1929. From this 1t can be seen how
improbable the crop much have been
to the producer the present season.
The average price in New York city
has been $1.S3.
A hotb@ which only took couple Of
hours to make was by the middle Of
April furnishing US an abundance Of
nice Eadishes and lettuce, while there
were, besides, several hundred tomato
cabbage and pepper plants. caulifiower
and elephants, enough for our own
use and some for the neighboB. Worth
doing? Well. we should say 50.
Very high prices for any farm con-
modify one year will almost always be
followed by low prices for the same
product the next year, the average man
being fierce to buy high priced seed
and plant largely, thereby Cutting the
market. The best time to take up the
growing Of any special crop is when it
is selling below the cost Of production;
then the same man will not touch it.
The birds are not always wise \
few days since we noted a pair of spar
rows engaged in constructing nest in
crevice between the big rocks form
ing the abutment to a bridge crossing
a river. The first rise in the river will
inundate their nest and destroy it.
Theoretically these birds should have
known better. yet, after all, they were
III DlSSSi 1OClS tllttl VI uleu we
know
In a certain town where ample pro-
vision has been made for supplying
the horses with water from watering
troughs so serious has been the loss
Of horses from glanders, which disease
has been traced to the use Of these
public watering troughs, that the city
council has ordered their removal. 1t
is easy to see how one diseased animal
could do vast deal of harm in this
manner.
Not far from where the writer lives
forty men applied for vacancy in the
position of principal of the schools in
a town of 1000 people; there were
eighteen applications for the position
Of policeman in another town. while a
storekeeper who wanted a clerk and
bookkeeper had twenty-three applica-
tons. At the very same time there
We're scores Of farmers wanting to hire
men at good wages, and they could not