The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-31

FARGO FORUM AND DAHL
North Dakota
/ Kernels
Twenty five years ago wheat sold
for 80 cents at Bottineau.
After sunset Nov. 1 no more prairie
chickens can be shot until ext fall.
The threshing of the big crops in
the vicinity of Tioga, Williams coun
ty, is about finished.
The telephone system at Drake is
now owned by Leonard jacobson, son
Of the former proprietor.
r. Hayward, state high school in
spector, highly commends the public
school system at LaMoure.
~ SdLA4o &A SoA1AttklSSASllC II SS a
begun to blossom with candidates.
j. B. Rieder Of McHenry county Is a
candidate.
In the vicinity of Shields there were
a number of good potato crops which
were successfully taken care of before
the cold snap last week.
Women workers in the churches
over the state are holding all day
sessions preparing sewing, ETC., for
the soon-to-come Christmas sales.
Practically all Of the threshing was
done in the Sheyenne valley and
wheat, flax n corn Is being mar
keted.
The Chronicle printed two finely
executed pictures Of the prize-win-
ming booth and exhibits which repre-
sented LaMoure county at the Bis
marck exposition.
The State School of Forestry an
nounces that it will have 1000, 900
trees for distribution in 1916. Trees
will be given free to those who apply
for them, subject to school rules. =
Chas. Simpson of Westhope reports
a good yield of potatoes this year. He
Ll1i L"SuLy -SSNSl dCESS III that yield
ed him 5000 bushels. At the price
they / selling this year, he says it
beats wheat.
There is a postof1ce ruling which
imposes a fine of $500 or a years i'm
prisonment on anyone who takes mail
from the %postofice not belonging to
him and fails to return it Immediate
ly. This applies to newspapers as we'll
as letters.
w. r. Van Schaick of Shields, Nor
ton county, recently received q deep
tilling pillow which he Is trying out on
his farm. He is blowing the ground
eighteen inches deep, using five
horses. He a about an acre
and a half in a day.
A farmer. c. w. Doss, at Bantry,
made $340 from eight COWS during
the summer months and their only
fed was pasture grass. He received
eight calves, SIS each or $40; receiv-
ed for butterfat $40, and for home
made butter sold SO. total $34o.
The New Rockford Commercial club
has taken the matter OF securing
homes for the mail clerks of the
Great Northern who have been trans
ferred to this point in hand, and
through their efforts all of the forty
three mail clerks will be able to find
homes for the winter.
LaMoure County Chronicle: One
Of the most striking things about all
the exhibits at Bismarck was the
amount Of corn and alfalfa shown in
the various booths. Diversified farm
ing seems to have swept over all
parts Of the state like In epidemic.
Let the epidemic rage On.
The first annual corn show and
county fair at New Rockford will be
held in this city Nov. - and 13. It is
expected that the display will be of
great interest, az the corn crop in
Eddy county was exceptionally good
this season. and the farmers are TAX
ing great interest in the matter. Much
Of the corn matured and next year
will see many acres in corn in this
section.
c. A. Ulland of Mayville threshed
out about ten bushels of alfalfa seed
this fall from a fourteen-acre patch
Of alfalfa on his farm south of town.
The ten bushels were threshed from
eight of the fourteen acres. Ten acres
Of the fourteen were first seeded to
alfalfa six years 6 Inc the remain
IILS LOuL dCL6S WSAS put Ia last year.
Mr.. Ulland expects to use the seed to
put in 100 acres of alfalfa next spring.
The seed is worth about $11 per
bushel.
There is considerable discussion
among the farmers Of North Dakota
now as to the wisdom or foolishness
Of owning traction engines for plow-
ing. The general consensus of opinion
seems to be that the proposition is all
right where the machine can be work
ed all the time and by men familiar
with them and sufficiently expert to
handle them skillfully. Several cases
have been reported where farmers
have lost heavily otherwise.
According to The Devils Lake Jour-
nal. at least so per cent of the 1913
crop has been marketed, and that
grain selling during the month of No.
vember, ordinarily the banner month.
will be very light in the lake region,
Is the opinion expressed by John Lol-
lis, a we'll known elevator man of
Warwick, who was in the city on
business this morning. The most SER
ious detriment encountered by the
farmer this fall, was the dockage,
which took a wide margin from the
profits.
VIM. Woolsey. state hotel inspector,
was in town last week and looked
! over the numerous hotels in MayvilIe.
The hotel inspector, like bank and
postof11ce inspectors, comes without
warning and pokes around in every
department Of the subject Of his in
spection. He looks into the ice boxes.