Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-16
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That is a fine job of grading
which the city authorities has
been doing on North Hunter
street. The drainage ditch has
been bridged and the hill cut
down to make a decent street
through the old garbage dump
ground. This work makes the
Hunter street crossing available
for traffic and ought to relieve the
congestion nearly always existing
at the Blanche street crossing.
That bunch of bad men which
was arrested here is slowly but
surely disintegratipg. Two of
them, it will be remembered.
were sent to Medora to await in
Jail the action Of the District
court. One of them evidently
thought the Jail down there too
lonesome a place and went away,
from there. For that. he could
scarcely be blamed. But the one
who was incarcerated in the
strong Beach bastile had no cause
for complaint, but he went away
too, one evening about milking
time, and he has not come back
yet. We sincerely hope that the
third member of the gang will
conclude to stay in Medora and
give that ancient village some
excuse for being county seat.
Owen Flynn, wife and five
children were the guests of the j.
j. Bartleys from Thursday eve
ming until Monday morning. The
Flynns came from Mandan and
for the past eighteen years have
been intimate friends and neigh
bors of the Bartleys. MIR. Flynn
and Mr.. BARLEY were brother
engineers on the Northern Pacific
in the old halcyon days, but both
have long since reformed and are
making comfortable livings with
out endangering their lives every
minute they are working. The
Flynns were on their way to Three
Forks, Montana, where they will
reside in the future.
The burning of straw in whole
sale way in all of the states of
the northwest and also in the
western provinces of Canada, has
characterized all the years of the
past since these areas were
settled, says the Wahpeton Globe
Gazette. While it seems little
short of a crime to dispose Of
straw thus any year, the present
season it would be suicidal.
Every pound Of straw that can be
made available will be wanted
the coming winter to carry live
stock through the winter. Even
the old stacks that have escaped
the torch will be pressed into
service either as food or litter.
While the great shortage in
fodder is to be deplored, one les
son will be learned from it. The
farmers will be led to see the
food value Of straw as probably
they have never seen before in
those states in which there is a
shortage in feed at the present
time. While it is true, the
value of wheat and rye straw do not
rank high in furnishing food, it
will sustain life and that may
mean much when live stock must
make a choice between such fod-
ders and no fodder at all. When
they can be fed in connection
with grain they may be made to
serve a very important end, as
under such conditions they may be
used as a substitute for hay.
If those who have to carry live
stock through the winter could
run the straw through a cutting
box and mix it with just little
meal, enough to give the animals
an appetite for it, they would be
surprised at the amount of food
that could be obtained from the
straw. They would also be sur
prised at the number of animals
that could be wintered on a rela-
lively limited amount Of feed.
This of course. means labor. but
it is labor that will be wisely
expended, and it may be added.