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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10
MARKET REPORT.

Barley, A Oats 80, Flax 1.2s
Rev. Karr was at home for a couple of
days last week.
The county auditor has issued about
300 hunting permits.
Hancock's wheat is reported as going
35 bushels to the acre.
Miss LaMoure of Winnipeg is the
guest of Miss Hulda Anderson.
The county commissioners we're in
session for short time on Tuesday.
Mrs. +. G.. Warner and Miss Olive
were arrivals in the city Tuesday even
ing.
Warmers wheat on the Fort farm went
about twenty bushels on most of the
place.
Solemn strike the funeral notes, that
call to school the little goats.-since
Monday. ....
Mr.. Hugh Mckay and Miss Lulu Nc
Kay of Winnipeg were guests at the
Baskin home this week.
The regular meeting of the city coun-
Gil on Tuesday evening was adjourned
until next Monday evening.
Roy Chisholm leaves Sunday morning
for Carlton College where he will study
this year. Mrs Chisholm will accom-
pany him.
Editor Lee, wife and daughter, came
down frou. Walhalla, via Liveryman
Smiths auto last Tuesday and spent a
few hours in the city.
Mankato Commercial College, Manka-
to, Mimi, has issued new book on "How
to become an expert stenographer." 1t is
yours for the asking. Send for it today.
Mrs. Full and her daughter Winnie
left this week tor the Twin Cities. Mrs.
Full will buy goods and place Miss Vim
ME in the Pillsbury Academy before she
returns.
Miss Sarah Johnson, sister of Mrs
Swain Thorwaldson of Mountain, has
been visiting friends in the city this
week. Miss johnson returned in July
from visit to Iceland
Miss Lucille Switzer arrived home last
week after very pleasant visit in the
northwest. She leaves Friday for
Grand Forks where she will teach IN the
Belmont school.
7. R. Shaw who is sporting man il
he is anything. declares that Uncle Sam
is now to win in the race of nations be.
cause he has the pole. any old horse
will see the advantage.
Mr.andMrs. Isaiah Jonson formerly oil
Emerson were in the city this week as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Felson
They were on their way home at Carmar
from Seattle and other western points.
Ship your grain to the John Miller Co
They have competent grain men at bott
Minneapolis and Duluth, and are espe
cially equipped to handle consignment
in carload lots direct from farmers, Make
them trial shipment Satisfaction j.
5 guaranteed.
County Superintendent Mrs. Burle!
u is sending out notices Of the state schoo
H superintendent which amounts to S26'
n per capita and totals sl2,032.80 for til,
. whole county. This all proceeds from tn
interest and income fund except 1925
which comes from fines. Our schoo
lands mo thus already bringing in q fin
& income.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

81 Men do less than they ought unless
they DO all that they can. Carlyle
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

County Superintendent Mrs. Burley
is sending out notices of the state school
superintendent which amounts to $3.50
per capita and totals s12yO82s0 for the
whole county. This all proceeds from the
interest and income fund except 1926
which comes from fines. Our school
lands me thus already bringing in q fine
income.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Miss Sarah johnson, sister of Mr.:
Swain Thorwaldson of Mountain, ha
been visiting friends in the city thi
week. Miss johnson returned in Jul,
from visit to Iceland.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Miss Lucille Swtzer arrived home last
week after very pleasant visit in the
northwest. She leaves Friday for
Grand Forks where she will teach IN the
Belmont school.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Editor Lee, wife and daughter, came
down frou. Walhalla, via Liveryman
Smiths auto last Tuesday and spent a
few hours in the city.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Mrs. Full and her daughter Winnie
left this week tor the Twin Cities. Mrs.
Full will buy goods and place Miss Vim
ME in the Pillsbury Academy before she
returns.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Mankato Commercial College, Manka-
to, Mimi, has issued new book on "How
to become an expert stenographer." 1t is
yours for the asking. Send for it today.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Mr.andMrs. Isaiah Jonson formerly oil
Emerson were in the city this week as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Felson
They were on their way home at Carmar
from Seattle and other western points.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

A large party ofyoung people met at
the hospitable home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
F. A. Feldman on Tuesday evening and
spent very enjoyable time in dancing
and games. The occasion was in honor
of Mrs. Feldman's niece, Miss Engesser,
of st. Peter, MINI.
The chicken hunters were out in full
force on Tuesday, and so far as we have
heard they each and all at least got
enough for dinner and nobody complain
ing of their luck. As the law only
allows ten birds each there were chick
ems left for another days shooting.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

The regular meeting of the city coun-
Gil on Tuesday evening was adjourned
until next Monday evening.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Roy Chisholm leaves Sunday morning
for Carlton College where he will study
this year. Mrs Chisholm will accom-.
pany him.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

T. R. Shaw who is sporting man if
he is anything. declares that Uncle Sam
is now to win in the race of nations be-
cause he has the pole. ANY old horse
will see the advantage.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Ship your grain to the John Miller Co.
They have competent grain men at both
Minneapolis and Duluth, and are espe-
cially equipped to handle conslgnments
in carload lots direct from farmers, Make
them q trial shipment Satisfaction is
guaranteed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-09-10

Mr.. Hugh Mckay and Miss Lulu Nc
Kay of Winnipeg were guests at the
Baskin home this week.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

year for each COW, s7,S75,OoO per
annurn
Il have touched upon but two items
in the list Of losses which total in
round numbers and upon a conserva-
tive basis, fifty million dollars a
year. No vther country in the world
could shoulder this enormous burden
of loss and sh- 'nkage but the South.
But this is n u The innumerable
opportunities by the South 10
investors who TO engage in
farming and stock 1g. are barred
because of the prese, e. these ticks.
NO man wants to ems n farming
unless he can have ST. IT, No man
will buy land where the, ticks.
Hence the sales are pra> r. V all
above the quarantine line On s. free
country. Now, don't misund. stand
me when I say, no man will buy land
where there are ticks, for they will,
but it is a native and not an outsider.
| mean, no man looking for an invest
N ent who knows of the advantages Of
fered to stockraisers, in your fine eli
mate where you have q green forage
crop the year round splendid run
ming water and cheap feed with plenty
Of nearby markets, will think of buy
ing a farm infested with ticks. That S
" hat I mean.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

The handicap that is placed on the
Southern cattle raiser as a result of
ticks Will average not less than $50
per head allowing an individual
weight of 600 pounds for all classes
Of animals, SO that on the 7O5,O0O
Southern cattle, including beef and
dairy animals marketed yearly un-
der these conditions, will sum up
to total of $1,057.5OO Carrying this
estimate further it will be found that
this decreased value reacts and fixes
the value of all cattle that remain in
the quarantined district thereby re-
ducing the assets Of the cattle indus
try in the South by this same ratio
per head for the four and q half mil
lion cattle east of the Mississippi river,
and the eleven million cattle west OF
the Mississippi, or altogether the
enormous shrinkage in value of s25,-
25o,000 directly chargeable TO the cat
tie tick in the South.
s|The shrinkage IN milk production
Of cattle harbOring many ticks Will
average one quart per day and the loss
occasioned thereby at three cents a
quart for the SIS, 900 ticky dairy cat
tie out of more than 100000 dairy
cattle below the quarantine line, would
amount to $26.250 per day. or. count
ing three hundred milking days in a
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
THE FARM CENSUS SCOPE
THE CENSUS OF AGRECJITURE
MAJ. Ill. A. LONDON IVERE,D
REGARDED AS GREATEST
IMPORTANCE.

Congress has provided for the col
lection Of detailed information regard
ing the three principal productive in
dustries of the United States in ad-
dition to the census of popula ton.
The census of agriculture, Of all the
subjects covered by the census law,
is generally regarded as of the great
est importance to the country.
Agriculture is the great unorganized
industry with respect to book records
of it's operations. Upward of 1000,
900 farmers are conducting farm op-
eraticns on SEPARATE farms at the
present time Their products are mar
keted at all seasons of the wear, un-
der all sorts of local conditions, and
at widely varying range Of prices
New lands, new crops, new methods,
new processes are constantly modify
ing conditions in every branch Of
husbandry, and the net results Of
farm operations are affected thereby
10 an unknown extent.
SO vast is the industry and so in
tangible are many of the elements or
conditions affecting the result Of farm
operations that the crop and other
estimates made by the United States
Department of Agriculture, and which
exert such a tremendous influence on
market conditions, would quickly lose
their significance and become pracu-
cally valueless if they were not reg
ularly revised in the light of the act
lal census returns.
The farm census is taken primarily
for the benefit of the farmer, and
spOn the accuracy of tne information
given the enumeratOr by the farmer
aext April depends to large extent
he value of the statistical work to
pc carried on in the farmers behalf
turing the next five years,
,ot only by the Federal and State de-
sartments Of agriculture but by stu
ients Of agricultural conditions in all
sarts of the world.
BY preparing an accurate account
# his farm operations during the year
ending December 81, 1909, and by
making an inventory on April 10,
$40, of all his farm possessions, the
armers of the country can render the
census Bureau and the public at large
n inestimable service. a constantly
Increasing number of farmers are
keeping accurate records of their daily
receipts and expenses and Of the ex-
act quantities of all classes Of products
grown or raised on the farms. Where
ever such records are kept the census
enumeratOrS are able to obtain hlShly
accurate reports without taking more
than q few minutes of the farmers
ume and without troubling hlm 10
make difficult estimates.
In order tha, the grcat majority
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
School Farm Tobacco

lent chairman of the Wake County
BOARD OF Education. the Hon. t. j.
Sears, assistant cashier of the Mer-
chants and Farmers Bank, should
draw this check for Miss Sauls.
The tobacco was Of high grade,
some Of it selling for 70 cents per
pound. Miss Sauls and the members
Of the Woman's Betterment Associa-
ton who accompanied her to the sale
were very grateful to the Planters
Warehouse, which refunded the ware
house charges.
in Wake county some Of which will
make three heavy bales on two acres
The labor and fertilizer in most cases
being give1. the proceeds are clear
and will be used to supplement the
funds of the schools operating them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
BALES OF COTTON LIGHTER THE FARMERS CONGRESS
SECRETARY HESTER ISSUES \
STATEMENT OF WEIGHTS
DURING SEPTEMBER.

New Orleans, Oct 11.-Secretary
Hester has just issued a statement Of
weights of 1,034.680 bales Of cotton
handled at outports and across the
Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers,
overland to American manufacturers
outside of the cotton belt during the
month of September, showing an av-
erage per bale Of 51S.65 against 525.40
pounds for the same period last year.
The detailed averages are:
Texas ports529.55 against 542.46
last year; Louisiana ports 505.86
against 521.73 last year; Alabama
ports 5O8O6 against 531.56 last Year;
Georgia ports 517.60 against 516.15
last year; South Carolina ports 495
against 49O last year: North Carolina
ports SIS agains. 51O.33 last year;
Virginia sos against $40 last year;
Tennessee SHOP against 530.37 last
wear.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

This is my last stop in tour of
about5, 900 miles and my observa-
ton is, that no other section Of this
country, offers more genuine money
making inducements to hardheaded
business men; thrifty, wide-awake and
up-to-date hustlers, than this great
Southland. Opportunities in market
gardening, dairying, specialized farm
ing, fine stock breeding, and last but
by no means least, poultry raising.
all Chese lines have a wide field of
opportunity. But none Of these can
be engaged in extensively until YOU
have rid the ticks from the land The
best and cheapest fertilizer is the COW
One COW a year on a fenced pasture
Is worth S23 to the land. Don't you
See how tbs whole train of oppor-
tunities is being held up on account
of the presence Of cattle ticks Now
add to this the actual loss being
shouldered and YOU get some estimate
of what the ticks are costing your
people. Don't get the idea that the
farmer is bearing all of this great
burden. Every man in this towE is
bearing his portion in the increased
price of living, loss in volume of bus
mess and other influences that sap
and drain him in small but certain
WavS''
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
Half Million For Tick Eradication

Zone of the most difficult problems
the United States Department of
Agriculture is engaged in, is the erad-
ication of the Texas fever cattle tick
from the Southern States" said James
Z. Downing, expert in stock investiga-
tions of the United States Department
of Agriculture, who is in the city.
AT the present time, there are $50
men giving their entire time to the
work and the last two sessions or
Congress have appropriated q quarter
of a million dollars each for the work
of the department. With the funds
contributed by the States the total
amount of money now available
reaches something like four hundred
thousand dollars. Although 10000
square miles of territory have been re-
deemed since the work was started
three years ago, this is but a drop
in the bucket as compared with the
twelve States in whole or part, yet
to be redeemed.
The economical aspect Of the tick
problem is unquestOnably of the
greatest practical interest to every
man who lives in the South, since the
fundamental Importance of all other
questions which surround it depend
upon the actual money value involved.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

The greatest evidence Of the wis
dom OF the schOol-farm movement,
organized in Wake county three years
ago was seen in the Planters Ware
house at Apex yesterday when Miss
Betty Sauis, president OF the Wo-
mans Betterment Association, sold
to the highest bidder the crop of
1,556 pounds OF tobacco raised on the
two-acre school farm at school No. 2,
Panther Branch township. A more
beautiful picture was never seen than
when few hours later Miss Sauls,
always pretty, became more beautiful
as her countenance lit up at the sight
of the check Of $309.30, the proceeds
of the sale Of her tobacco.
It was very fitting that the excel
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM is AN
NOUNCED.
Governors Of -Four States Will Address
Farmers National Congrcss-Prom-
inent North CarOlin:ans Among the
Speakers-Co Congress November 3-9.

The 29th annual session Of the
Farmers National Congress Will open
Wednesday forenoon, Nov. 8, in Pull
len Memorial hall, at the A. and NJ.
College. Invocation will be offered
by Right Rev. Joseph Blount Ches-
hire, Bishop of North Carolina. Ad
dresses Of welcome will be delivered
on behalf of the State and the city
by the Governor, and the president
of the Chamber of Commerce, DR..
Hubert A. Royster, dean of the Medi
cal College OF the University of North
Carolina.
There will be responses by Hon.
Joshua Strange, vice-president Of the
congress, and others.
A program Of great value is al
ready assured. Many able and dis
tinguished speakers have consented
to address the congress, and others
have signiied their intention Of being
present
-Four governors will honor the con-
gress with their presence-Hon. w.
". Kitchin Of North Carolina, Hon.
Claude Swanson of Virginia, Governor
Patterson OF Tennessee, and Gov
ernor Sanders Of Louisiana. All Of
these gentlemen have given more
than the ordinary amount Of thought
to problems Of importance to the
producing classes-problems which it
Continued on Page Fifteen.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
A Few GOOD Suggestions.

Dirty water troughs breed filth and
disease very quickly these hot days.
Keep them clean by pinch of cop
peras now and then.
It's downright cruelty to put young
calves into a bare lot or pasture with
ont shade or running water, 10 llSht
flies
Get busy with the wobbly colt and
teach him that YOU are his friend and
master It will be easy.
The lambs are three or four months
old now and they should be eating
some grain along with the pasture
grass.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19
FOR PRIZE CORN GROWING
Connection in Wake is 4 Sur
pri: ing One
The Corn Show Will Take place In
Raleigh During the Meeting Of tho
National Farmers Congress No
VeInber 3 to s.

Wake county is going to show the
State what can be done in the way
of corn growing this year, and it
seems quite reasonable to say that
the heaviest crops of this important
staple ever produced i'll North Carolina
Will be the prize winners Of the con-
test. which is now on.
Mr.. James Fl. Pou. the Virginia.
Carolina Chemical Company and the
Caraleigh Phosphate Company have
offered prizes in cash and fertilizers
worth $500 for the best yields on one
acre The competition is surpris-
Wake but in other counties, and great
the growing corn.
Some Of the growers will make a
display during the State Fair, and it
is the desire Of the givers Of the
prizes that there shall be a show of
corn by all the competitors during the
meeting Of the Farmers National
Congress here, November 3S. The
display will be made in the State Mu-
scum in a hall which is being espe-
cially arranged for the show of agri-
cultural products, fruits, grapes, etc,
SO it can be seen by farmers and Wis
itors from all parts Of the United
States, as they will be here in great
numbers.
At that time it is the desire that the
corn judging shall take place and the
awards of prizes be made by the COM
mittee which is composed OF Com
missioner Of Agriculture w. A. Gra-
ham, Agricultural Demonstrators I. b.
Parker and Secretary Olds, of the
Raleigh Chamber Of Commerce. In
many cases photographs OF the grow
ing crops have been made. Governor
Kitchin and other prominent men
have been to see some Of the Won
derful crops
The reports on the corn, covering
the mode Of planting, kind Of corn
used, fertilizer, plows, together with
dates of planting, maturity and har-
yesting, are coming in, special blanks
having been furnished growers on
which these reports are made. Any
member of the committee can give
additional information, if desired It
is very important that everything
should be ready by the time the Farm
ers' National Congress meets.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

April, an outline of the schedule has
been prepared, a cOny Of which may
be obtained by every farmer from the
Department OF Labor, Bureau OF the
Census Washington.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

Of farmers who do not ordinarily
keep book records of their farm op
erations may be given an opportunity
to familiarize themselves with the
scope Of the census to be taken next
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

The Progressive Farmer looks for
fifteen cent cotton-even IL not high
er-before the end Of the year. and
adds: "All our readers must act on
their own judgments, but IN our opin-
ion every farmer ought to hold 1T
least q portion OF his crop .0r thc
higher price that seems certain to
come"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-07
THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

We have long been of the opinion
that the reason the prohibitionists
have q separate political party and
the distillers and brewers have no
political party of their own, but Try
to influence the party Of their own,
but try to influence the party in pow
er, is because they are wiser than the
prohibitionists. Office seekers of the
old political parties cater to the liquor
vote because it is in the parties they
represent and might defeat them.
They know the prohibitionists will
not vote for them anyhow, and there
fore they do not cater to them either
before or after election. That is
where the prohibitionists as a party
put themselves out Of line with the
existing powers, and whatever pro-
gress is made in the line of their eff
forts is mace in otner parties and in
dependent of their work.
Eugene w. Chain, the prohibition
ist candidate for president in 1908,
says that his party will be one of the
great organizations in the campaign
of 1912, and that it will carry the
country in 1915. Twelve months ago
he was saying that he would poll be-
tween 200, 900 and 100000 votes in
the election a few weeks ahead of
him, and the country was inclined to
believe him. Prohibition as policy
had been making such large conquests
in the proceeding two or three years
that republicans as we'll as demo
crars looked for heavy vote for that
party.
But things turned out differently.
Mr.. Chain received only 241 900 votes
or less than quarter of the smallest
number which he had claimed, and
which his enemies had conceded. His
poll was less than Swallows in 1904.
1t was less than that of Fisk in 1888.
The prohibition vote had made no
gain in 20 years. It fell off instea d !.
for Fisk had 5000 more supporters
than Chain. For this and other rea-
sons Mr.. Chains boasts of the ire
mendous things that his party will
do in 1912 and 1916 will not brighten
either the republicans or the demo-
Gratis.