The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1914-08-24
North Dakota
Kernels

CouEdS sing.
The chicken slaughter will soon
commence.
The sooner" is having a hard time
Of it this year.
The Pembina county fair was un-
usually successful.
A number of improvements the noted
at Portland by The Republican.
The approach of fall is beginning to
be noticed from the snap in the air.
Carl Rhode of Osnabrook was
thrown against a plow lever and bad
ly hurt.
Christ Lunde and Albert Runde of
Fargo have leased the Hub restaurant
at Aneta.
The Lankin school is being renoVat-
ed and repaired preparatory to the
opening of school,
The Benson County Agricultural
school was dedicated at Maddox Aug
21, with fitting ceremonies.
G. Teien, editor of The Aneta Pan
Drama, who also sells land on the side.
is boosting the silo proposition.
One of the Tolley clergymen has
gone out into the country to help save
the crop, and is pitching bundles ana
doing harvest work.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Christ
Arntson of Maddox found can or
I've and ate some of it. He did not
get enough to do any serious INJURY.
Miss Flora Walsh and brother,
Stewart, spent several days N Graf
ton the latter part of last week, where
the latter was operated on for adnoids
in he nose.
At a special feeting of the board
of county commissioners of Logan
county. Andreas Baltzer, a brother Of
the deceased sheriff. was appointed TO
Ifu the vacancy existing in that ONCE
Fessenden Free Press: Sportsmen
are patiently waiting for Sept. I. TheN
are as anxious for the coming or that
date as is the small boy for Dec. 20
We think there will be very little Vlo-
Iation Of the game law this year, for
federal wardens 1t is pretty foohardy
for anyone to start shooting before the
open season.
Edward Rowley, a piano tuner of
Grafton, who has been making that
territory for the past few years. was
arrested in Grafton on a Crlmlnal
charge preferred by young woman.
A preliminary hearing was held be,
fore police Magistrate johnson ana
the accused was bound over 70 the ols-
| triCt court. Being unable to furnish a
| bond, he was lodged in the county jail.
Every farmer in the country near
| Drayton is busy threshing this week.
| The work will be nearly finished in ten
days if the weather is favorable. The
crop is turning out in fair shape and
| the averages will be better than the
past few years. Wheat Will averag ge
about IS bushels, barley p oats ~,
| and rye about IS bushels. The early
grain seems to yield better than the
| late and a few fields in this vicinity
averaged as high as 36 bushels per
acre of wheat.
| Mandan News: Does anyone doubt
the possibilities of growing corn in
North Dakota, when there is to be
found in Chas. F. Ellis real estate Of
flee an ear which contains 1896 kernels
There are sixteen rows of kernels each
containing ffty-six. The length of the
ear is fully twelve inches and around
the butt it measures slightly more than
nine inches. The ear was picked at
random from the field at the Parkir
Ipoultry ranch, southwest of this city
lit is of the White Dent variety and the
seed was secured from the Parkin
rancher over in Emmons county. The
seed tested SO per cent. 1t was plant
ed June 10 and the ear was picked Aug
l2O. Much of the corn TO be found IN
this particular field is already out OF
the way of frost. regardless of the fact
that it is an unusually large variety.