The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-01
Of beautiful Hardanger w.,rlk, en-
broidery, besides the burnt wood

m. H. Johnson, mOcej-makinS
Foxholm farmer, brot a variety OF
nearly everything to the Festival.
His exhibit consisted of ruta5agas.
potatoes, turnips, flax, beets. butter
and bread. Il raised an ac.u of gar
Gen every year besides haze four
acres of potatoes. have not dug my
potatoes yet, but they will 80 more
than hundred bushels to the acre"
Six Of the rutabages placed in large
box completely filled it, and their
total weight must have been thirty
or forty pounds.
John H. Cloid raised some extra
fine spuds right in the city Of Minot,
which were taken to Scofeld's I'm
plement house for display. They
appeared to be as fine a lot Of pota-
toes as We're brot to the festival,
uniform in size, and of the white va
riety
John Clouse, the old time farmer
up the Mouse river, came in with
something of nearly everything in the
garden line. His pop corn is as flne
as any we have ever seen grtA In
the east. It is of the Rice variety
and the seed was procured in Min
nesota last year. The ears are as
large and fully matured Mr.. Clouse
raised but bushel OF it this year,
but will grow a large field another
season, having demonstrated that this
country is in the pop corn belt. He
also exhibited some nice dent corn,
having grown but an acre Of it for
an experiment. Some of the ears are
foot long, and the corn yielded as
we'll as that usually grown in the
east. Nearly every wise farmer
grows little corn. Mr.. Clouse's po-
tatoes were especially ,13 Of them
weighing over 20 pounds. The tur-
nips, ten of which weighed 80 pounds,
are sweet and juicy and just right
for table use He also brot rutaba-
gas and bread made from the famous
Occident -four.
Little Mac, editor of the Stanley
Sun, lay down his quill long enough
ito HE himself down to Unrighteous
Minot and srend the two days at the
Festival. Little Mac expressed him
self as being highly pleased with the
way that the visitors were entertain
ed and doubts if there was ever as
fine a lot of products gathered with,
in the confines Of Queenly Ward.
N. A. Kennedy exhibited an eigh-
ten months old Hereford cow with a
four days old calf at her side The
sire of the calf is c. A. Grows thor
oughbred Shorthorn bull, Bapton
Marshall No. 277423 one of the best
animals in the country.
Robert Waldref OF Hecker brot in
nice exhibit of sheep, consisting OF
thoroughbred Shropshire ram and
two we'll blooded ewes. Mr.. Wadrei
has Q sheep at his farm, but ow-
ing to shortage Of pasture will
sell about a hundred of them. Il
have raised sheep for the last twenty
years and find them money makers.
Average eve will about pay 1e> Der
cent on her selling value in the year,
figuring offspring and wool. An
, average eve is worth $3.50"
With more than two votes to >ae
to her credit. Miss Kitten Norrea-
berg won in the contest for Queen Of
the Harvest Festival, the contest
closing Friday night at 10 O'Clock.
A large crowd OF interested spectators
gathered at the Commercial club
rooms where the count was mada,
and there were some exciting mp-
ments towards the last.
Miss Hazel Moon, the second In
the contest, has been presented 45e
suit offered by the Keavin's Depart
ment store, while the others next
| in the contest, Misses Clotilde Do
Lano and Lila Woodberry Have be0
presented scholarship in the Minot