The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-08-08
AROUND THE STATE


There has been bad blood between
County Treasurer Kositzky of Bur.
leigh county and E. g. Patterson,
chairman of the board OF county
commissioners. The men met in the
hall of the court house the other
day and the treasurer knocked Pat
terson down and picked him, before
a bystander interviewed.
Bishop Coweu of Balfour was mis-
taken for Kernal Brewer at the MI
not press meeting and now Brewer
may start some kind Of an action
against the Bishop. ~
Ed Richter wrote couple Of col.
umns Of poetry about the Minot
press meeting which appeared in the
Larimore Pioneer. Ed will not take
the trouble to have it copyrighted.
Alex Wright Of Cakes attended the
National press meeting at Madison.
The death of Senator Washburn is
regretted over the state and espe-
cially at Wilton where the Washburn
mines are located The Senator old
a great deal in developing the lig.
mite coal fields Of the state.
Some threshing has been done in
stutsman county.
Minot has great future before her
if the transcontinental railroads build
INTO it as has been talked of for some
time. Her progressive citizens are
after everything that will tend to
build up the city, and they are conf
dent that Minot will be the biggest
commercial center of the state. No
one doubts but that she is city Of
great possibilitiesl.-T News.
Tribune.
Fencing, on many farms, affords
an excellent investment. There are
on every farm number Of acres.
usually a large part of the tillable
area of the farm, that from harvest
time until seeding time the following
year are, practically speaking, un-
productive. In many cases these
fields are allowed to produce weeds
during the fall, which cannot but
give trouble later. II this land were
tened, either permanently or with q
temporary fence, much pasture might
&c obtained from these fields. At the
university farm, as many as 40 days
IF pasture for thousand pound anil
NAL have been secured per acre from
rape and rye seed-in oat stubble af-
ter the oat crop was harvested. Such
a crop is almost clear gain. There
Ire in Minnesota probably $4,000, 900
acres Of land that are unproductive
from the latter part of July or first
OF August until it freezes up in the
fall. A very large proportion of this
land might be made, by fencing and
Inc use OF live stock, to produce from
30 cents to several dollars per acre.
Making use Of this one factor alone
may go a good ways towards paying
interest on one hundred dollar an
acre land. -Ex.
About the only people in town who
haven't asked us to roast the mail
order people ace the dentists. Not
many people are getting their teeth
filled by mail, although a farmer ad-
mltted a few days ago that he had
MS teeth cut once by mail order
house.
1t is worth ones time to take a
trip thru the country at this season,
~ the year and especially this year.
We have already had more than the
average amount Of raia, and the
fields and pastures look 80 fresh ana
green. Some Of the fields CT grain
are turning to brown AID Others arc
in the various stages of development.
We do not remember when grain
ever grew more rank and some Of it
is in danger of lodging. In fact some
Of the farmers report their oats
lodging badly.
John Lunseth, superintendent pf