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CALIFORNIA NAVEL ORANGES The quality never was better. Our price, 15c, 20c, 25c, and BOG dozen.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23

tanned from dairying are well
illustrated by an investigation
made at the New Salem cream
cry for 1903. No particular
breed of COWS is kept by the pa
irons Of this creamery, but Short
horn blood probably predomi-
mates. This creamery has been
in operation, since 1895, and the
patrons are !. wide awake, pro
gressive farmers, who have
realized the Importance Of care
full selection.
The investigation included
eighteen patrons, who were
milking 304 cows. The largest
yield Of milk from any herd per
cow was 1859 pounds and the
smallest 5000 pounds. with an
average Of all herds of 4167
pounds The average test was 4
per cent butter, thus making an
average yield of 1868 pounds
of butter fat, equivalent to 1914
46 pounds of butter from 304
cows ,..
The average cost of keeping
a COW was $12.73, "a sum less
than the value Of the pigs and
calves raised on skim milk, max
ing the returns from the cream
cry all clear profit.
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North Dakota
Farm Loan Mad

II
Grand Forks, N. D., June u,
1905. From present indications
North Dakota's crop Of wheat
and other small grains promises
to be one of the largest, if not
the largest ever raised. The
country never looked more beau
tiff ll--neyer more promising ~
And parad oxical as the state
ment may seem, the northeast
ern and northwestern portion Of
this rich agricultural state will
also reap the greatest crop Of
farm mortgages ever harvested
IN any country. The immediate
cause for this abnormal condi-
tion lies in the fact that this
portion Of North Dakota repre-
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23

sents a new country only recent
ly opened up for settlement and
| where good titles are only now
coming in through final proofs
made on homesteads on govern
! ment land. Money is needed fol,
, more S lbstantial improvements
and the experimental period is
over. Unusually handsome re
turns of bountiful crops have
made the new settlers contented
land ambitious. and the general
condition of tn ese new sections,
coupled with the active demand
for money on farm loans, is
really one of the healthy signs
of the times. 7.zz-
In this general prosperity is
happily reflected the farsighted-
ness of Mr.. James j. Hill, to
whose Great Northern railroad,
with its many feeders and
branches, is primarily due the
rapid settlement of these. new
sections with aclass of industri-
Gus and experienced farmers
who have come to stay.
Just at present a pleasant riv-
airy in railroad { obstruction pre-
walls in the northern part of
North Dakota, between the Great
Northern ana 500 road, which
above everything else makes for
permanency and more rapid de-
|velopment Of one Of the richest
agricultural sections of the
country. New branches are UNI
der way in every direction,
Opening up a new country and
there are more new paper towns
to be found in northern North
Dakota than were ever dreamt
iof in the earlier boom days in
the eighties. Yet withal, the
essential elements Of boom are
absent. 7 here is a splendid de-
mand for town lots in the newly
laid out towns, but their location
appears to be fully justified by
the advanced settlement Of their
tributary country, which condi-
ton was reversed in the earlier
tdays, and which naturally ended
Idisastrously. The new town
then had no country to support
them. KS. B .'' I. !.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23
North Dakota Farm
And Ranch Products

Prof. Kaufman, deputy COM
missioner of agriculture writes
the Minneapolis Journal as
follows:
For the last few years all eyes
have been turned to the great
northwest as the wonderful re-
sourcessof this region have grad
ually become known in the mid
die and eastern states, anu pro-
badly no state in the galaxy Of
commonwealth embraced in this
vast territory has made greater
progress or offers better oppor-
mites to the home seeker than
North Dakota. 37# +.
Twenty years ago the immense
possibilities of the Red River
valley for wheat growing first
began to attract attention and
draw settlers to the northern
part of Dakota territory. At
that time or even after two
states had been carved from this
territory, it was little dreamed
that. beyond the limits of the
famous valley there was a vast
region Of fertile agricultural
lands capable of producing crops
year after year without failure.
| Within the last few years it has
become evident to the thought
full man that ere long the public
land of the United States avail
able for farms will soon be taken
| up. Also, lands, in the middle
states were becoming so high
priced that, to the renter or
young man just starting in
farming it seemed folly for him
to ever hope to call a ia, m in
these parts his own. : A few
daring ones pushed on beyond
the limits Of the valley and
found the land yielded bcuntiful
crops, and in a few years they
owned large well-kept farms.
Others followed gradually and
today North Dakota is the Mecca
toward which hundreds and
thousands of farmers are rushing
to obtain some of this cheap
land. r. I'll &C.,.
It is true that land values are
gradually increasing, and yet,
according to the income that can
be obtained one year with anoth-.
er, land in North Dakota is
cheap. Thousands of acres of
rich fertile land can be bought
from So to SIS an acre.
Government land can still be
obtained convenient to marke!
and the school and institutional
lands can be purchased at fair
prices and on reasonable terms.
In many places in the western
part of the state, one can file on
a homestead and purchase a
quarter adjoining thus obtaining
two quarters for the price of one
In making the above state
ments as to the fertility of North
Dakota soil, it is realized there
must be some evidence present.
ed as to what the state has been
doing the past few years.
Grain growing is first and
foremost in the agriculture Of
the state and nearly one-half of
the cultivated area is sown to
wheat. North Dakota stands
second in the production of.
spring wheat and was exceeded
by only one of the winter wheat
states three times in the last
four years. The average per
capita production Of wheat for
the last four years has been
1867 bushels having an average
E. rly -eh ~, . - q 4sgl
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23

The principal extensions Of the
Great Northern railroad contem-
plate a branch road from Y ork
in Benson county, to Dunseith,
in Rolette county about forty
two miles also a branch road
from owner. in McHenry
county, thence into Bottineau
county, crossing the 500 road at
Russell to a new town named
Max Bass, about forty-fye miles
and final " another branch ex-
tending the present Westhope
branch fifteen miles further to-
IIAntler, in Bottineau county,,
within few miles Of the Cana.
dian frontier. The new com
struction work of the 500 rail
road contemplates a line from
Ken1nare, N. d. in Ward county,
to Thief River Falls, in Mime
sofa. crossing Ward, Bottineau,
Rolette, ToWner. Cavalier, and
Pembina counties, in this state.
The road opens up a very rich
country, including the we'll.
known Mouse river loop country,
Active work is being done on
this road from both sides, and
the road is expected to be open
ed for traffic this fall.
When the Well-informed rail-
roads are eagerly tappinga new
country, the investor may well
take time to investigate such
sections with profit to himself.
The entire section is a rich agri-
cultural district and the princi-
pal securities emanating there n
from will Of necessity be farm
loans. 81 4. !i#s
Anticipating coming events, it
can be stated without the fear Of
successful contradiction that
northern North Dakota, and par
|ticularly that section comprising
the newer country, has gone
farm loan mad. g5
The butcher, the baker, the
candl estick maker are to have
enaged in the farm loan bust
ness, and the magic words,
Money to loan, : are with You
wherever you may go. An avail
anche Of new Z bank" has
sWooped down upon this section
which bodies no good for the flu I
Sture. Almost any little hamlet
Of 200 to 800 inhabitants enj oys
the luxury of two or more Of
these Establishments, witch in
great measure must rely upon
their farm loan output for dlvi.
dends.
Northern North Dakota en-
joys the advantage of being cut
|up into small holdings, most
farmers being contented with
100 acres, which they have ac-%
quired cheaply or taken up I'M
der the liberal government land
laws.
The immigration, into these
newer sections has been pheno-
minal Of late years, thanks to
the untiring and Well-directed \
efforts Of the railroads and the
result has beento settle northern
North Dakota with a class of in
telligent, thrifty farmers, most
~ Germans and Scandinavians,
whose inherent integrity and
honesty makes for prompt pay
ment Of principal and interest
whenever a mortgage obligation
is entered into.
!. The rapid growth Of the many
bright little towns along the
newer branches Of railroad is
one OF the wonders of the age,
and still more SO becomes on
close examination of the tribu-
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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23
arm value Of sos. 55..for the same

farm value Of s9S. 55..f for the same
period. 5&3
North Dakota soil and climate
arc well adapted to the growth
Ito haxseed and many instances
can be cited where farmers
have more. than paid for their
land with one crop of fax. The
past four years the United States
has produced 103, 985, 600 bushels
of fiaxseed of which 1895, 900
or So per cent were grown in
North Dakota. The average per
capita production for the same
period amounts to 37.l bushels
having an average farm value Of
$3.50 {,
n According to the last federal
census North Dakota ranks
second in the per capita produc-
Etion Of oats; Iowa alone having
a higher rank. For thespast -four
years the average yield per acre
has been 1873 bushels for the
United States. .
Since 1901 the average Of bar
ley has increased from PSI, 900 to
623, 900 acres. The average WELD
for the same period is 1919 bu-
shells compared with an average
for the United States Of 27.l
bushels. "A
: The four crops above mention
ed cover so per cent of the Guilt
waited area Of the state and the
reports of the bureau Of statis-
tics United States department of
agriculture, show that the aver
age value per capita for 1901,
1902, 1908, and 1904. of these
four grains was $169.75
! North Dakota is usually con-
sidered too far north for corn
growing, but many farmers have
found that by properly selecting
their seed, corn can he grown
Iproftably in nearly every part
of the state. It not only pays to
grow corn for the grain and
fodder, but the thorough cult
walton the soil receives in grow
ling crop of corn, puts the land
in such good condition for
wheat or flax that the yield is
increased from one quarter to
one third over land soWn contin-
uously to wheat. Actual, anal
yses show higher per cent of
protein, and consequently a
more nutritious fodder, in the
corn fodder grown in North Da-
kota, than that grown in the so
called corn states. Spring rye
and buck wheat grow well and
speltz, or emmer, is a grain
rapidly increasir G in favor in
sections outside OF the Red River
valley. The acreage of grass
crops is rapidly increasing III all
parts of the state. timothy and
/ bromus inermus being the favor.
lite. 81.
/ North Dakota claims some
prominence as a stockraising-
state, Notwithstanding it's repu
tation has largely been made
growing wheat and fax. Ac-
cording to the United States de-
partment of agriculture, there
was, on January /, 1905, on
farms and ranches in North Da-
Iko, a 391, 705 horses, 1872 ,O37 cat
tie, 702,583 sheep and 1l9, $50
swine, having a total value Of
| A5, $50, CAB.
For each man. woman and
child in the state there is pract:-
cally one horse, two head of cat
tie, two sheep and one-half IF a
hog.
Stock raising is not confined
to the Missouri river country by
any means. Excellent we'll bred
/ herds of cattle and pure bred
horses are found in large num-
bers on the large wheat farms
Of the Red River valley.
! But a few years ago it was an
easy matter to name the pure
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predominated in him. The swing of
his nature took him from extreme
languor to devouring energy; and, as
| knew well, he was never so truly
formidable as when, for days on end,
he had been lounging in his armchair
amid his improYisationS and his black
letter editions. Then it was that the
lust of the chase would suddenly come
upon him, and that his brilliant rea-
sOning power would rise to the level
of intuition, until those who were UNI
acquainted with his methods would
look askance at him as on a man
whose knowledge was not that of 9TH
err mortals. When | sa him that af-
ternoOn so enrapped in the music at
st. James's Hall / felt that an evil
time might be coming upon those
whom he had set himself to hunt
down.
you want to go home. no doubt,
DOCTOR" he remarked, as we emerged.
Yes, it would be as WELL.
"And l have some business to do
which will take some hours. This
business at Coburg Square is serious"
''Why serious
"A considerable crime is in con-
temptation. | have every reason to
believe that we shall be in time to
stop it, But today being Saturday
rather complicates matters. 1 shall
want your help tonight"
at what timer"
Ten will be early enough"
Il shall be at Baker Street at ten"
Very well. And, l say, doctor,
there may be some little danger, so
kindly put your army revolver in your
pocket" He waved his hand. turned
on his heel, and disappeared in an
instant among the crowd.
| trust that / am not more dense
than my neighbors but | was always
oppressed with q sense of my own
stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock
Holmes Here l had heard what he
had heard, l had seen what he had
evident that he saw clearly not only
what had happened but what was
about to happen, while to me the whole
business was still confused and gro
tesque. AS | drove home to my house
in Kensington / thought over it all,
from the extraordinary story of the
red-headed COPPER of the "Encyclo-
paedia" down to the visit to Saxe-CO-
burg Square. and tho ominous words
with which he had parted from me.
What was this nocturnal expedition,
and why should / go armed? Where
do? / had the hint from Holmes that
were we going, and what were we to
this smooth-faced pawnbrOker's as
sistant was a formidable mana man
who might play a deep game. / tried
to puzzle it out, but gave it up in des-
pair, and set the matter aside until
night should bring an explanation
1t was quarter past nine when
started from home and made my way
across the Park and so through OK
ford Street to Baker Street. Two ham
SONS were standing at the door and
as / entered the passage, / heard the
sound of voices from above. On en-
tering his room / found Holmes in
animated conversation with two men
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EW YORK-AMERICAN.

| does not even take the trouble tC
| teach her daughter how to pick ou
| tender meat manage a servant OF
! clean UP a room.
Teach Her Sewing.
Every girl should be taught how to
sew.
A woman may or may not have
need for the knowledge she imbibes
in school of the differential calculus
but she is dead sure to need clothes,
and If she knows how to make them
with her own hands she is mistress
of the situation. no matter what hap
pens.
If she marries ari oh man. she is
lifted to cope with the arbitrary and
exorbitant dressmaker, and if she
marries poor man she need never
be pitied by her richer sister for her
own skill will supply her lack of mon
ey.
The only independent woman in the
world is the one who knows how to
make her own gowns. The balance
of us are slaves who grovel and crawl
before modistes who nut us off, and
lie to us. and cheat us, but to whom
we are bound to defer because of our
ignorance.
1t is one of the most shameful facts
in the world that the homes in this
country are full of Idle, restless. dis
satisfied women, who complain that
they have nothing to do, while at the
same time their poor. hard worked
fathers and husbands are tOiling over
time to pay these same women's dress
making bills.
There is nothing about construct
ing a frock or a shirt waist that q
girl of average intelligence can't
learn. and no woman has a right to
consider herself well-educated unless
she knows how to sew.
Business Pointers.
The first year out of school is also
the psychological moment in which
her father ought to teach his daugh-
ter something about business. and at
least common commercial uses.
The average woman doesn't know
how to send a telegram without maxi
ing it a thousand words long, or else
leaving out the sense of it,
She doesn't know which lis the
business end of a check, nor how to
get money in or out of bank, and
she has no conception of the i'm
portance of signing her name to pa
per-
1t would do every girl in the world
good to take at least an elementary
course in practical bookkeeping in
her fathers office. and to spend some
time in close contact with the actual
grind of business and see how money
is made
She would have more respect for a
dollar, and be less willing to throw
it away on foolishness. if she saw
with her own eyes the toll and labor
and strain and anxiety that it took
to get It,
Girls arc not taught single thing
about business, yet they live in
world where their very cultivation de-
ponds upon their knowing something
about it. and when you look at the
matter fairly it is pretty shabby
treatment that a Young woman should
be started out in life with neither the
feminine accomplishment nor the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-10
HOW TO CURE THE DISCONNECTED GIRL.
DIx-NEw AMERICAN.

In thousands of well-to-do house
holds the question of the hour is what
~ 90 with the daughter who grad
uated from school last June, and who
is restless and disconnected because she
has nothing to fill in her time and alb
sorb her energies
There seems to be no niche for her
this girl who is equally removed
from the Fashionable butterfly and the
grub of the counter and the type
writer.
Her father has not money enough
to launch her in society that spells
itself with a big S. and that is an ar
duous profession of itself. and he has
too much money for her to need to
earn her own livelihood. Wherefore,
the girl falls between the two stools
of the perpetual gGyety of the society
girl on the one hand. and the absorb
ing interest in an occupation of the
working girl on the other hand. into
the slough of boredom
The DISCIPLINE of the schoolroom
is still upon her. She is accustomed
to doing definite things at definite
times. and so she finds the pointleSS
days that have no special duty, nor
tasks, nor amusements in them pref
ty trying. and she makes them trying
for her family.
girl breaks herself of the habit of in
dustry and acquires the saving fem
mime habit of laziness, that she does
rash things. She becomes stage
struck, or has a mission to raise the
poor, or marries a drunkard to re-
lorm him. just to have something to
do. and an object in life.
Teach Her Cooking.
| have often wondered WHY parents
who are confronted with this prob
lem of a girl who is miserable be-
cause she is idle do not settle it by
the simple expedient of giving her a
few lessons in the things that she
really needs to know.
She has been fairly well-taught in
books. Why not teach her some of
the practical affairs that will be of
use to her to the longest days she
lives?
If her father and mother would do
their duty by her a girls first year
out of school could not only be made
mighty interesting to her, but it could
be made TO almost assure her hap
pinCSS and prosperity i'm the world.
Why should not the mother teach
the girl who is pining for something
TO do how to keep house? Every
woman knows that the best and hap
piest thing that can be done to 4 girl
is to marry some good man and have
home of her own. and every mother
hopes for this fate for her daughter,
but she does nothing to prepare her
for the career to which she aspires.
1t ought % be considered as dis
graceful ignorance in a young wo-
man not to know how to cook as not
to know bow to read. The happiness.
the health and the prosperity of
family denend upon the woman who
is at the head of it, knowing how to
purchase the right kind of supplies
for the table. have them properly pre-
pared, and generally knowing how
to administer the affairs of the house
economically.
Yet the woman who has had tc
learn how to do this through bitter
experience and mistakes and failures
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masculine knowledge which ought to
be given her.
1t is time that mothers and fathers
wake up to a sense of their duty to
their daughters, and then we should
hear no more of the disconnected girl
with nothing to do.
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Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes.

Continued from Page Two.)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-04-20
IN CHURCH CIRCLES.

a special lenten service will be held
tonight in the Danish NJ. +. church at
1:45. Tomorrow evening Il service
will be held at the same hour.
Holy communion will be admins
tered at St. Stephens Danish Luther
an church, by the Rev. j. }. Chrls-
tiansen. this evening at 1:45 O'Clock.
The primary and beginners classes
of the Simpson NJ. f. church met this
afternoon at 1870 at the Sunday school
rooms to practice the music for the
Faster exercises to he held Sunday
afternoon.
There will be no communion at
Grace Lutheran Evangelical church
tonight, but preparation for the Eas-
fer communion will be made Friday
evening. ''The Second Cross on Cal
vary will be the subject of this even
ing's address.
Holy Cross Episcopal church, at
Washington and tombstone streets.
will have three hours devotional ser
vice from l2s.until , O'Clock tomorrow.
Good Friday.
The one hundred and eighty-eighth
annual parish meeting of st. Peters
church win be held Tuesday night.
April -, at $ o'clock in the church.
The Sodality Of st. Mary's church
will hold a rehearsal tonight for the
GROWING which takes place the even
ing of May 81.
The household goods of the Rev.
DR.. S~nodgrass arrived in the Metho-
dist parsonage yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Jackson and family are at the
home of Mrs. George W. Parisen,
their household furniture having gone
yesterday morning. The family eX-
poets to leave for Bloomfield today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-04-20
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
RECOMMENDED HERE.
Continued from rage /.

value of human thought expressed by
human labor. The value of raw
material, whether of the vegetable,
mineral or animal kingdom is in
creased enormously by skilled labor,
This labor ought to be in the first
process of training in the schools
right now, since in this way only are
we going to be able to sustain our
selves in the tremendous industrial
competition that the future is bound
to develop. Right here, too, can be
found protection for the evil against
which many people are senselessly
raising their voices, foreign labor.
We need have no fear of that kind OF
labor: but it is high time that We
tremble over the skilled labor in
foreign lands.
We should have skilled artisans in
our land capable of competing with
the skill of foreign countries in all
industrial pursuits. Surely we have
the or products, and it is our
fault if we do not train our youth to
appreciate the value of these
and to respect the manual d%eXterity
that will increase that value. Let US,
then, while training the intellect, also
train the'.hand to obey the will, and
the mind to appreciate and create
what is beautiful and what is useful.
Let us cultivate the creative faculty
of our boys and girls by having in
dustrial work interviewer with the in
tellectual, and W. shall have not only
Weather but u happier and more con-
tended citizenship in our land.