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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-10-23

ROBERT NJ. BAsHFoRn
Justice Supreme Court,
Wisconsin.
CHARLES @. Nicely,
Bx-Judge Circuit Court.
49,. Illinois.
DAVID X. CoCHRANE.
ExJudge Municipal Oeuzk
Illinois,
q. L. SMITH,
Judge District Court,
Minnesota
GILBERT II. ROE,
Practining Attorney,
New York CITY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Comfort Stations For Towns.

Anything that tends to advance civil
lization and promote the welfare OF
mankind is beneficial to a town. Mil
waukee intends to do something in this
line, as its board of public works pro-
poses to establish municipal comfort
stations throughout the city.
81 am heartily in favor of these COM
fort stations said Mayor Becker.
I'm my travels through Europe 1 saw
a number of the stations in the large
cities. They are located in the busy
parts of the business districts as we'll
as along the boulevards. For a small
fee a person can go into one of these
stations, get towel and hot water and
refresh himself without having to go
to hotel to do it. People can also get
their clothes brushed and cleaned be-
fore filing business engagements. 1t Is
a good step toward municipal improve
ment"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
PLANTING Street Trees.

In laying out for street planting let
the first stakes be set at the street
crossings, says Park and Cemetery.
When the abutting streets also are to
be planted, place two stakes at each
corner about thirty feet from the point
Of intersection of the curb line on each
street Then space off the intervening
distance. setting the stakes equally dis
tant apart. but not less than siXty-five
feet as the shortest distance. Street
trees generally are planted too closely
together. Sometimes this is done with
the intention of cutting out alternate
ones, as the growth of the trees re-
quires. This, however, is seldom done,
and the trees grow up too thickly,
thereby overcrowding and injuring one
another, destroying all the individual
beauty of the trees and the symmet-
rical arrangement which an avenue Of
trees should have.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Work Along a Line You Fit.
Farm Irritation.

The station has demonstrated that
irrigation by use of a centrifugal pump
and traction engine is too costly an OPP
Grafton to be practical for the western
farmer; also that the area to be irri-
gated in that manner must necessarily
be too small to include general farm
crops, the work demanding undivided
attention just at the busy harvest sea-
son and when labor is most eXpen-
sive. However, for small fields of al
falfa, potatoes, fruit and garden, irri-
cation by the aid of pump or well,
with windmill or gasoline engine pow
er, can be conducted with very good
results. And it is reasonable to sup
pose that the pumping of water on to
the land in late winter, when the soil
is dry and opened by numerous cracks
and when labor is plentiful and CORE
spondingly cheap, will accomplish no
little benefit to subsequent summer
crops that could thrive on the stored
up moisture. The summer irrigating,
demanded when both time and labor
are most valuable, might be dispensed
with. In the primary tests of this
plan all crops responded favorably, al
falfa particularly so.-Kansas Expert
ment Station.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

up in trench and covered to depth
of two to six inches with sand or mel
low sell. This protected the top buds
from freezing and gave the butts the
benefit of the warmth of the sun in
the spring to stimulate root growth.
This spring the bundles should be
taken up and the cuttings set about
three inches apart, with only the top
most bud or buds above the surface of
the ground (see cuD. The soil is then
replaced and thoroughly packed. In
planting, the cuttings should be expos
ed to light and air as little as possible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
BEAUTIFY YOUR FACTORIES.
Valuable as an Advertising Feature
ard Beneficial 20 Employees.

Valuable as an Advertising Feature
ard Beneficial 70 Employees.
Scores of newspaper articles are writ
ten about Improvement of public
streets; magazines galore are published
in regard TO identifying homes and
grounds: prizes are offered to certain
classes OF PEOPLE as an incentive to-
ward gardening back yards; public
Fairgrounds are established and school
yards tastefully kept. We pass judg-
ment on all these things and call them
good, says the Los Angeles Times. In
this land of sunshine. where vegetation
grows with almost no cultivation and
where to beautify at least the exterior
and grounds of our manufactures
would require so little effort, this
should be done not only for the moral
and aesthetic influence on the employ
ees. but really as an advertising fea-
ture, always showing tourists that
even working shops can be made beau
tiful by nature in our California.
Not one but many travellers have re-
marked about the vine covered water
tain station near Los Angeles on the
Salt Lake railroad. The eye and mind
are rested at seeing bit of greenery
there. The electric power houses sta
toned at intervals all the way from
Pomona valley to several thousand feet
above in San Antonio canyon show
what can be done in simple landscape
gardening in waste places. Every wea-
~ climber coming around a bend in
the trail up there among the mountains
can assure you that the vision Of
blooming flowers, we'll kept lawn and
maybe fountain is welcome sight.
The writer has in mind two factO-
ries, one so pretty and refreshing that
the paSSerby thinks it must be pleas
ure to sit near the low open win
dows in summer and glance out occa-
sionally from the work of cutting
leather and hammering tacks, for it is
shoe factory in Holland, Mich, to
which refer, to a plot of fresh green
grass. That glance does not detract
from the work, but makes the fingers
more nimble and the mind more clear.
Must we of the golden west go back
east to find the beautiful in nature
combined with utility in supplying the
needs of our bodies? Can we have no
such ornamental practical factories Of
our own? Another, perhaps more pre-
tentious, is the home of the famous
lockwood pottery in Cincinnati. Do
you doubt that the influence Of these
beautiful surroundings on the artists
who decorate this ware works out
through their active fingers? Our
ground is as fertile, our workingmen
as appreciative, our own minds as aes-
thetic as any in the east. Let us look
to our factories, at least to the extent
of improving them by the addition Of a
few clinging vines to hide and soften
the glare of walls and the harsh, con-
ventional outlines Of the buildings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
IRISH CoBBLER.

Ia very popular potato similar to or iden-
teal with Eureka Extra Early. 1t bears
larger sized tubers, is splendid cropper
and comes in about a fortnight ahead OF
the Early Rose and several days ahead
Of the Early Ohio. This variety is dis
placing many of the heretofore stand
ard early varieties.
shape or as smooth. The quality of
the potatoes grown in sandy or gravel
ly soils is better than that of those
grown in clay or clay loans.
During a four years test Irish Cob
bier was the most productive among
six early and extra early varieties.
Varieties which are comparatively
free of blight are American Wonder,
Enormous, Sir Walter Raleigh and On
Gle Sam, all late kinds. The Vermont
Cold Coin, very promising variety,
also appears to be especially blight re-
sistant.
Vermont Gold Coin is particularly
worthy of notice. 1t is very produc-
tive and in appearance somewhat like
Carman No. 1.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
MARKET LETTUCE.
standard Packages For Local and Gen.
eraI Shipping.

eraI Shipping.
In answer to inquiries as to the best
method of packing and shipping lettuce
for the New York and Boston markets
and growing lettuce for late fall trade
Country Gentleman says:
There are various packages used for
shipping lettuce to market, both to the
New York and Boston markets. The
standard package in the Boston local
market is the bushel box. which holds
about a dozen and a half heads of
large lettuce. For general shipping
trade. however, both in New York and
Boston. the barrel is more commonly
used. This holds more or less, accord
ing to the size of the lettuce heads
but commonly three dozen are consid-
cred a barrel. Formerly there was
used also what was called the long
box. which also held three dozen heads
About the only way to manage this
matter is to communicate with your
commission man or other dealer and
ask his advice. Then the best plan is
simply to adopt the package which he
finds most satisfactory to his custom
erS.
1t would be impossible to say now
whether you could grow the lettuce
successfully for the late fall trade or
not This could be determined only by
experience There is a fair chance OF
success. The question which is the
best variety would also have to be de-
termined somewhat by experience, but
probably May King or Black Seeded
Tennisball would come nearest to sup
plying the demand. At any rate, this
would be the case in the Boston mar
ket and probably also in New York.
In case you are shipping to western
markets you would find more satisfac
ton in growing Grand Rapids. but
this is not accepted in the eastern mar
ketS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

Ia prodigiously heavy cropper and some
times called the handSomest potato
grown tubers white, dry and foury. of
fine quality and uniform size
stems above ground and underground
stems or rhizomes, on which TIE tubers
are borne.
AS the underground or tuber bearing
stems bear no roots, they must depend
for their development on the root sys-
tenn of the plant and the leaves aud the
plant food which these bring to them.
1t will be seen, therefore, that it is i'm
portant to have a good root system and
a good leaf development in order to
have a good crop of tubers.
The potato appears to thrive best in a
moist, somewhat cloudy and temperate
climate. but provided there is sufi-
cient moisture in the soil and the grow
ing season is long enough it is not at
all fastidious in this respect. 1t is a
little more particular in the matter OF
soil, but large crops are grown in a
great variety of soils. The ideal soil
for potatoes appears to be rich, deep,
friable, warm sandy loan with good
natural drainage and well supplied
with decayed or decaying vegetable
matter. s~
The potato requires a large amount
of moisture to develop large crop, of
potatoes, and for this reason the soil
should be retentive Of moisture. Pota-
toes will not, however, succeed well in
cold soil where the water is stagnant
near the surface, and thorough drain
age is very essential to good crop.
Potatoes succeed admirably on new
land provided it is well drained and
not too stiff. as the soil is filled with
decayed vegetable matter and humus,
which help to make it loose. Such
soil retains moisture well and furnishes
nitrogen in a very available form.
They succeed well after sod also, as
the decaying sod gives somewhat the
same condition as new land
Clay and clay loans are not so suit
able to the potato crop as the warmer
sandy loans and gravelly soils, as they
are usually colder, and, as rule being
sitter, the tubers are not as even in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Town Booming Funds.

Thirteen cities and towns in the Pa
cific northwest are actively advertis-
ing their attractions and resources in
the expectation of increasing their
population and building up the agri-
cultural communities around them.
Spokane, Wash, spends from $4,000
to $4,000 year in publicity work.
Tacoma, in the same state, which
Haunted the famous slogan, "Watch
Tacoma grow" at the Lewis and
Clark exposition in 1905, spends $10,-
600 year in making the town grow.
Portland, Ore, uses $4,000 for sys-
tematic publicity and finds that it
pays. Winnipeg, in Manitoba, finds it
profitable to spend $4,000 annually in
advertising. Kansas City, Mo-, recent
ly inaugurated campaign of munich
pal. advertising. Hundreds OF smaller
towns and cities are doing likewise.
cit pays to advertise"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
A Seed Supply.

It is remarkable how rapidly a sup
ply of grain may be built up from a
single four or five pound sample. Take.
for example, four pound sample Of
oats. This with ordinary care will
usually produce on the average about
four bushels. This sown the next sea-
son on two acres of land will, at very
moderate estimate. give 100 and some
times upward of 200 bushels. Taking
the lower figure as the basis for this
calculation, the crop at the end of the
second year would be sufficient to SOW
fifty acres. which at the same moder-
ate computation would furnish $500
bushels as. available for seed orsssale
at the end Of the third year.-Dr. VIII
liam Saunders.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Horseradish For Home Use.

Horseradish may be grown very east
" for home use as follows: 1t requires
a soil similar to rhubarb. Procure the
rootlets from seed or from the branch
roots of any good horseradish cut into
lengths of three to six inches and
plant upright firmly in the soil with
the top of the cutting even with the
top of the ground. Cuttings the size
of a lead pencil are preferred. These
may be planted in a row or rows six
inches apart in row and far enough
apart to hoe or cultivate easily.-Farm'
ers' Garden.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
For Choice Turnips.

Turnips should be grown in drills,
like beets, for the early crop. The
young plants will stand light frosts.
Choose a rainy day for planting If
practicable. Cover the seed very light
~. Thin the young plants to five to
seven inches in the row. Sow every
two weeks if a constant supply is de-
sired, as turnips rapidly become hard
and woody in warm summer weather.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
up AGAINST II.

Feeding hogs economically with high
priced food is what every feeder OF
swine is up against this season. 1t
will not accomplish the desired result
to cut down their rations or feed just
enough to maintain existence. They
must be fed enough to make daily
gain or there will be no profit in your
winters work For the past ninety
days we have fed with success the fol-
lowing rations twice each day, mixing
the evening feed every morning and
the morning feed each evening, thus
letting it soak twelve to fourteen hours.
We prefer, to mix with hot water, but
if not convenient we use cold water.
Into a thirty-two gallon cask we put
six pounds old process oilmeal, ten
pounds of wheat middlings, twenty
pounds of cornmeal, three pounds of
salt. Mix thoroughly and fill cask full
Of water. This feeds forty head, aver
age weight 100 pounds. at cost of IA
cents per head per feed, or 212 cents
per head per day. Driving them over
the scales each week shows a daily
gain of eight to twenty ounces per pig
per day. At noon we feed about 200
pounds of refuse cabbage. Would feed
alfalfa at noon if we had it. Persons
having milk to mix with the above ra-
ton can make a more satisfactory gain.
Give swine dry beds, making them
comfortable in cold weather.-S. in Ma
tional Stockman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
OPPORTUNITY.
superintendent Address Before Boys
Farm Encampment.

superintendent Address Before Boys
Farm Encampment.
BY H. G. RUSSELL, Kansas.
America is but another name for op-
portunity. France has eight persons to
our one per square mile; europe has
nearly four to our one. The United
States has IL per cent better land than
Europe. Haven't you better opportu-
mites than the boys of France and Eu-
rope? Our danger is that of becoming
extravaganza. of failing to learn the les
sous of systematic saving and certain
economy SO necessary for the Euro
pean boy to learn and practice.
Opportunity Always Knocking.
1t is said that opportunity knocks
once at the door of every man and
that the one who waS out knocks ever
afterWard. The first part of the state
ment is not true unless you make the
once read "all the time.'' Opportu-
nifty is with you all the time. Great
corporations are constantly looking for
men of brains and character, men who
can do something that is needed in the
worlds work. Learn to do something
that is useful and do it we'll and your
fortune is made if you will keep at it.
Today Is Doors Day.
This is an age Of doing Be able to
deliver the goods and you will be
wanted. The test is doing. Learn how
to think and you will soon know what
to think A man is of little value until
he can take care of himself. Learn to
take care of yourself and help others
to the same high standard
An honorable calling is any calling
that makes a man stronger for the
worlds work, anything that needs to
be done for the advancement of our
civilization. Do not all try to get into
professions. Do not let your parents
kill themselves trying to make and
save for you. Make and save for your
selves.
Near the Top.
Every one can work at wages that
will enable him to live and save some
thing, but the greater demand is near
the top The builder of a railroad
showed me three vacant chairs in his
office and told me he would pay $1,000
per year to persons who could fill them
and do the work. They had been va
cant for three months. He also said
that he had advertised for common
laborers and got train load.
l watched with great interest the
building of a church in little city.
The workmen who excavated the earth
received $1.5O per day. The stonema-
sons who followed received 81 per day,
the brickmasons Sc, the man who did
the frescoing SIS per day and the ar
chitect $25 per day. The man who put
on the finishing touches Of beauty and
the man who carried that building in
his head before a stroke was made to-
ward its erection received the highest
prices for their services.
Work Along a Line You Fit.
The man who will find a cure for
hog cholera will do the world more
good than the man who can repeat
Homer in the original. The man who
can destroy the chinch bug is worth
more than the man who can exhume
Troy or uncover a Pompeii. Direct
your talents along lines that you fit
and add something to the sum total of
human knowledge. Give more than
you receive. 1t won't hurt you, but
will help instead.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Taboo on DandeIions and Chickens

The Denver city council is working
upon an ordinance providing a fine of
SO for every dandelion allowed to
bloom within the city limits. The city
council of Florence. Colo, has passed
an ordinance imposing a similar fine
on the owner for each chicken allowed
to run at large.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Reward For Ten Words.

Business men of Emporia, Kan,,. are
offering reward of 500 to the Kan
sas editor who will write the best ten
words about Emporia. The winning
words viii be used as a city slogan Of
publicity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Good Narieties.

In horticultural tests Of varieties at
the New Jersey station the best yield
ers thus far are the Palmetto aspara-
gus, Eldorado and Erie blackberries,
Red Dutch and Victoria currants and.
Downing and Houghton gooseberries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
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Garden
POPULAR POTATOES.
Conditions That Develop a Big Crop Of
Fine Tubers.
BY w. T. MACOUN

Before beginning to grow potatoes it
is important to know something about
the potato plant and its habits in order
that it may be cultivated intelligently.
When a potato plant is growing four
distinct and important forms of vegeta-
ton are developed in addition to flow
ers and fruit. These are roots. foliage,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
Hardwood CUTTINGS.

Hardwood cuttings made last fall or
early winter were tied in bundles, with
butts all one way, buried bottom end
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

WELL! WE'LL WE'LL! 1t beats all. What
w beats all? Why the Red Trunk Cigar ATT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

When a man discovers that he can
read his gas meter he begins to think
that he has a pretty fair education
after all.-C Columbia IS. CO State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

DOR SALE-Good bay work horse. in good
condition: weight about 1l00 Zeigler's
Livery, Lancaster. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

DOR SALE-GoOd work mare. Inquire of
IL 32tf HARLEY GARNER, BeetoWn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

YARNS FOR SALE-I have two good farms
situated in Grant county, that 1 will sell
on reasonable terms.
stiff JOS. II. BENNETT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

MONEY to loan on real estate secur ty in
1u sums to suit borrowers.
4-4Osw s. 81. TAYLOR.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

DOR SALE:-Six room house and two lots
situated in 4th ward, city of Lancaster.
Apply to j. @. WELSH.
5Ctf Bloomington, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

FOR SALE-The 40 acres of Northwest
quarter of Section IS, Town 6, Range
West, lying north of C. q N. w. Railway Co.,
and situated adjoining the village of Mont
fort, Grant county, Wis Call or address
Stf JOS. Book Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

EARM FOR SALE-On easy terms; 24O
acres, three miles from Lancaster 125
acres, under CIVILIZATIONS; balance good
room house and outbuildings Address all
inquiries TO Lock Boz 3, Lancaster, Wis
33-tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02
WANT COLUMN

NCRN FOR SALE-1OOO bushels. quality
" Call or address HARRY PAULEY. Burton,
Wis. 35-43p
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

DARN FORSALE--121 acres, situated i've
miles west of Lancaster. Easy terms
HARRY f BARNETT,
103tt Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

THE HERALD can place your order for
L ali kinds of engraving-cards. wedding
stationery, announcements, etc. Save your
money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-02

DOR SALEOR RENT Residence property.
Good S-room house, in first class condi-
Inqnire of w. j. BRENNAN. agent Lancaster,
Wis. 35tf