The Greeley tribune., 1907-03-14

beet culture has cut into the dairy
business somewhat of late. These
ueople are great workers. The one
story residence of W. NJ. Oster, for
instance, and it is neat looking
home. was put up by two boys 10
and II wears old respectively.
Mr.. Worsfold, quoted before. made
an experiment with a ton OF beets in
silo in his yard. (He used them for
stock feed and for poultry.) The
beets came out in perfect shape,
white and sound, and his opinion
was that the shrinkage was nothing.
The two mines over to the east,
the Farmers coal mine and that OF
Bedlien s. Anderson. furnish the
people of this section with coal at
$3.50 per ton. 1t Is dirty to handle
and use but proves quite satisfactory
nevertheless.
Chicken fancying seems to be
rather pastime of the Union Pacinc
employees along this division. The
agent at Carr, they say, makes
healthy fad OF poultry raising and
now Operator Whitney of LaSalle
has caught the fever. He recently
invested in pen of the handsome
Buff Orpington variety and will
spend his spare moments this season
in promoting their welfare. By the
way, one male bird of this breed ar
rived from England few days ago
for the Cass poultry ranch, represent
ing a value of thirty English pounds
or five times as many American dol
lars.
o. ]. Reed and John Reed, re-
Gently from Missouri, will farm tine
Chestnut ranch to the east in the
Draw, five and three quarter miles
from LaSalle. These families are
just from Missouri this spring.
The Frank Humphrey lawn is be-
ing enclosed by new woven wire
fence. This improvement, though
it may be considered minor one, is
simply in the course of keeping
things up habit that adds to the
value of place materially, and does
much to give character to a neigh
borhood
F. B. Fashbaugh has fine bunch
of seven hundred sheep that will be
ready for market next month. The
ranch has one industry that it is en-
deavoring to rid itself of, and that is
honey culture. Some bees have es-
tablished themselves under the
house at the kitchen door and efforts
to dislodge them thus far have been
futile. Mrs Fashbaugh thinks the
little busy bee' all right in its
place, but its place, in her opinion,
is not in such intimate relations
with the family.
Over to the north of the Chestnut
ranch is a tract of school land which
was entered eight years ago by Mr..
Mclaughlin. 1t has been trans
formed into productive ranch and
has comfortable buildings, a soft
water we'll and other Improvements
added by the original settlers. Mr..
Mclaughlin was not spared to enjoy
the consummation of his labors on
the tract but his widow makes her
residence there with the farm work
in charge of SHRED Chestnut. The
latter, by the way, was absent at
Evans the day the correspondent
called, on the little matter Of bring
ing a wife home to share his home
comforts. The lady in question was
Miss Elizabeth Quinn of Denver
j. W. Banta of Greeley has Just
entered upon the Southland ranch,
northeast of LaSalle, to see by care
full farming what the two hundred
acres or more will yield this year.
A new set of buildings has lately
been built on this place and the
present tenants are starting out with
industry and ambition that will
doubtless yield them good returns for
their labors. One of the first things
undertaken on this place was Kidding
the fields and fence corners of last
years weeds, praiseworthy under
taking.
Chas. Girvan of this nelghborhood
Is a resident of twelve years. stand
ing and has witnessed a great growth
in the immediate neighborhood in
that time. What was an open
stretch of country with a road at
any place you desired to make it is
now ranch country more or less i'm
proved and roads laid out on the
square and Of longer distance be-
cause Of fences everywhere. The
teachers in charge of the Beebe Draw
building make their home at the
Girvan ranch. Miss Zelma Hansen
is principal and Miss Bessie Patter-
son is second teacher.
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