The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-01-19

Farmers. keep . record Of tho sale Of your vard.
Gus products this yea. and you will bei surprised
providing you are diversfying-and nearly all Of
you surely doing this by this time. You wiz
be surprised at the cash receipts for your eggs
viding you have few dozen good chickens. II
you have several cows. it will you wonder,
when you add UP the columns OF receipts, year
\ence for your cream. milk ana butter, to say moth
Ing Of the veal caves that you will probably sell.
If YOU have twenty thirty hogs. you will do much
to help break up the breakfast bacon trust Per-
hsps you can sell a colt or two or few hundred
bushels Of potatoes next fal II take the trouble
to plant nice pa CHI, and take good care OF them.
You Will b. able to sell few dozen CT, ckens and
turkeys next fall too. OF course you are going to
raise some grain, too Keep q record anyway and
the independent will be glad to publish it later on
We want to encourage this kind of farming. We
want to hear from subscribers along this line,
and in order to induce you to write, offer the
one sending in the best report everything consider
edone of the $500, thirty-one piece dinner sets,
which we advertised recently, and to the second
best, of the beautiful piece berry sets.
Well select impartial judges to decide the
matter. Now get busy and tell US what you have
done If the results satisfactory, Will offer
a much larger premium next year.
You may write on this subject: What l have
accomplished with "Diversifed Farming" Make the
article as long please as short you think
best. We will print them ALL Tell 10 how you have
succeeded. Perhaps you can get some one else to
thinking. We want actual figures II you produce
them. If not, give accurate an estimate -
you can. This is food for great deal Of thought
Now 1t right down this evening, and write this
little story. which will prove to be very interesting
to all Of our readers. W. know. Do this whether
you hope to gain any premium or not.
The Minot Normal School appropriation bill ought
to have fairly clear sailing, and it 10 an almost
assured fact that the bill which will pass, will carry
with it recommendation for an appropriation Of
q least 100000 While more money could be used,
this amount would be ample for the purchase Of .
site and the building Of girls dormitory together
with the other necessary structures for the instu
ton. There is no good reason why the bill should
not pass and very little opposition has been mani
tested at his time, if indeed there has been any.
While Economy" will be the watch word of the
members of the present legislative assembly, these
are about all the buildings that needed at the
present time by any of the state institutions The
Mayville Normal school has room and to spare VAL
ley City Normal can get along for several years. The
is
that are needed for some time to come, and the
state university is supplied as well. The Indust-
rial school at Glendale and the School of Science at
Wafpeton are all amply supplied with good build
ngs The school of Forestry at Bottneau has plenty
OF room for more students. The legislators ali
to realize the urgent need Of a Normal school for
Northwestern North Dakota, which for the past
quarter of century has been helping to maintain
all Of state educational institutions but which
never before has asked for the expenditure OF one
cent 1t is only Just that the Mnot Normal school
should receive liberal appropriation.
When the republican platform published
directly after the memorable debate upon it at Bis.
marck, in September last the press of the state
was a unit in the opinion that it was mastery
presentation of party principles and Of the uptodate
remedial legislation, both National and State. 10
day, the members of the present legislature, ire
spective OF factions accept it the chart that
shall guide them in the general legislation of this
session. We note that both the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House made special
reference to it and urged that it's pledges be kept
and its promises fulfilled. The editor OF the Inde
pendent happens to know that the author of that
platform was j. NJ. Devine of this city, and for
the reason that he gave US the original copy with
corrections and erasures, for publication. Mr.. de-
vine is to be congratulated upon the far reaching
character Of his work and here's hoping that the
legislature will make good the platform pledges to
the people of the state, as will also delegation
to Congress to the Nation at large
The Independent is surprised to learn Of so many
farmers who will plant large fields of corn next
year. We have taken the pains to ask nearly every
farmer with whom we have talked, recently, what
he was going to do about the corn proposition next
year. The answers have all been very favorable,