Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-28


calf, three sows, six pigs, and in the
hen coops are 20 grown chickens and
so chicks. Mr.. Than buys some
ground feed, but the rest he raises OH
his farm. He rotates his crops every
seven years as follows: l, oats; 2,
roots for the cattle; 8, grass to be cut
and used green, beets and potatoes:
4, roots for the cattle; 5, mixed grain;
s, clover and other grasses; Z, meadow
Mr.. Than uses his ground every year,
and he depends upon destroying the
weeds when he raises root crops OF
the latter he is in the habit of getting
about 90 tons to the acre, which, when
fed to the stock, goes twice as far as
any grain that could De raised on the
same ground. Mr.. Thams account
book for the year 1905 shows the fol-
lowing items Df receipts: For milk at
the cooperative dairy. s406: hogs and
pigs. S1S3.43: eggs and chickens. $l09:
seeds. $3.50; garden products, S29.S5:
total. $1417L. Mr. Than paid out $500
for feed and fertilizers. and this was
by far his heaviest item OF expenses.
The cabinet proposes that Crown
Prince Christian be granted an ap-
panage of $4,000, and that the needle
money Of Crown Princess Alexandrine
be put at s3,024. 1t is further proposed
not to change the civil list Of the king,
| which is $4,000.
An enthusiastic believer in the future
greatness of Sweden writes: We have
iilablc soil which can feed a popula-
| ton lhany times as large as the pres
cnt; we have forests which may, by
| means Of rational care, give up an
! immense and incxaaustible income:
we have waterfalls representing mil
| hons Of horsepower; we have peat Dogs
which 1T some future day will fur
nlsh all The fuel that we need; we have
| some of the most Important iron
! ranges i'll tile world and we have an
abundancc Of copper and zine We
! nave lnrNEluuStible deposits of granite
| and other stones that may be profitably
Quarried and dressed. We are rich in
| the most splendid raw materials for
| making cement. crOckcry and glass
We can supply all Europe for centuries
with the best peat litter. We have
| hundreds OF miles OF sea coast with
excellent harbors and profitable fish
! cries; we have large navigaDlc lakes
and rivers; We have canals which
! traverse our country, and railway
system which connects all larger cities
Of our extensive country
| Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden recently
made call Oh the Sultan of Turkey.
| The Markaryd commune has sub
scrbed $4,000 to the capitol stock of
the proposed Markaryd and Landeryd
railway.
| Mr.. Grip, former amta ssador from
Sweden and Norway to Washington
who is Il Norwegian has been made
full-tledsed Swedish citizen.
! At the Karlskrona naval station,
! where $500 men are Stationed only
! l5 men were dismissed from service
on account of sickness last year, while
at the Stockholm naval station - men
out OF total of 1.4O0 were dismissed
! FOR the same reason This difference
was so striking that the authorities
made an inquiry into the matter It
was found that several causes con-
splred to make the showing so exceed
ingly poor for the Stockholm station.
The young men that are mustered in
at this station come from the poorer
| city classes, and very many of them
! nave grown up under less favorable
| sanitary conditions than the country
boys; after entering service they are
often so weak that the severe military
training is too much for them; finally,
! their habits OF life are such that they
| are apt to undermine what strength
! they may have.
King Oscar left Stockholm for Ger
| many Feb. 81.
| T.. II. Kantola, Of Kotpilombolo, OBJ
tanned valuable Christmas present
| in novel way. On Christmas day a
she moose, accompanied by her fawn
came running along the road towards
his stable. Just in front of the stable
the mother jumped the fence and dis
appeared in the woods. But the fawn.
which was some distance behind it's
! mother ran straight into the stable
yard. where it was closed up by Mr..
kantola. The animal soon became re-
! fnarkably tame. But as moose are
protected by law Mr. kantola did not
dare to kill the fawn, and he wrote
to the King, offering it for sale By
and by he received the answer that
the faWn was needed at the Skansen
pleasure grounds in Stockholm. and
that he would receive $50 for it. This
Is the way Mr.. L. II. Kantola got his
Christmas present.
The crown princess Of Sweden left
Munchen or her way to Rome, where
she is going 10 stop for some time
granophone agent in Stockholm
offered to give $2,700 TO the Sofie Home
if King Oscar would speak his recent
speech from the throne to the riksdas
into gramoohone to be furnished
by the agent The agent was badly
snubbed by the King, and the King
| at the same time gave $2,700 to the
Soie Home out Of his. own pocket.
The Verdardi temperance associa-
ton has celebrated its decennial
jubilee. It's membership is about
1000
During the past ten years many of
the larger eslAtee OF Hka!le have been
parcelled out into small farms and
sold. Parcels Of land ranging from
ten TO fifty acres fetch high price
hence the passing OF the Swedish
latifundia is quite natural. The COM
mon people as we'll as the business
men are pleased with the change, for
lit means more people bigger crops
and more trade.
Malmo can boast of 900 dogs.
Two men in Golhenblrg have inc
vented now stopper for mineral
water bottles. and their invention has
been patented in Ill countries.
1t is said that London may consume