The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-09

"A progressive farmer at Hamberg
has shipped in a carload Of pure blood
Hereford cattle.
A philosopher in Stark county says
"watch the three D's-drinking water,
~dampness and drains''
The Cavalier Improvement club is
Systematically discussing potato
growing, alfalfa and stock raising.
The chautauqua committee of the
Mandan Commercial club has closed a
contract for the rental Of 100 tents for
the season next summer.
Civic Improvement and tho estab-
lishment of a free public library are
paramount subjects in the circles in
the Woman's club at Lisbon.
Six horses who sought shelter from
d storm in a deserted shack at Noon
an broke through the floor and when
found five were dead from s%uffoca-
ton.
O. A. Brown, of the Brown dairy.
has received word that his Sixty-day
oats won first prize at the North Da-
kota improved Seed Grain association
held Jan. 20-21 in Fargo.
Dean Wiley of Dickinson, who has
been doing special work at the state
university, has been placed in charge
Of the city desk in the office Of Tire
Dickinson Press and he Will also assist
in the bookkeeping.
M~andanites have learned from
Washington that the experiment sta
ton at Mandan will get an appropria-
ton of So, 900. The appropriation in
cludes the expenses for the year and
money sufficient to erect the buildings
which were started last year.
Farmers west Of the Missouri river
who have investments in dairy cattle
say that the meeting of the Holstein
Breeders association. at New Salem,
last week, is generally looked upon as
one ve"y practical and profitable to
any person interested in better dairy
ing methods.
Rev. r. II. NJ. Appleby. a~rchdeacon,
for Il number of years pastor of the
Pembina and ST. Vincent Episcopal
churches. is visiting in Pembina and
stopping with the Cavaliers. He now
lives at Tacoma where his son stephen
is connected with the banking bust
ness.
The witlldra wal of County Treasur-
er Larson's resignation was accepted
at the last meeting Of tho board of
county commissioners, Dunn county.
This action ONE after rec]onsidera-
ton of the facts that resulted in the
original resignation. Mr.. Larson will
now continue in his office until the end
Of his term.
The experiment of graduating quack
Cr-1 Co.'S ND $nyaI, 41ictln. 1-r %l,@
growth of hemp la been tried in
some sections and found to be a sue
cess after d three years trial. Not
only were the weeds e~radicated but
q yield of fibre, valued at Sis per
acre, was secured.
Many of the destructive fires on
farms this winter and the unusual
| large number of small fires entailins
much loss Of personal property, are at
tributed to the careless use of lanterns.
The practice Of having the lantern on
a stretched wire and a n Smoking
emblem, with strict enforcement of
these regulations will save thousands
Of dollars.
Dickinson Press: NJ. c. Mccartney,
proprietor Of n Peaceful Valley
| Stock farm at Midway, took two priz-
es at the North Dakota improved Seed
Growers association in Fargo last
month, one for alfalfa n one for en-
mer. The first prize is five pounds
of Grimm alfalfa seed from A. 3, Ly-
man of Excelsior, Mimi. the. man who
originally brought the valuable quail
ties Of Grimm seed to the attention Of
the public.
The people of Emerson, Dunn coun-
ty, had some excitement one day last
week when the presence Of a bob cat
was discovered in that community. 1t
was thought that the cat had been
around the farm Of James Bailey. He
was finally shot a short distance from
the Touring mill. The animal weighed
about twenty pounds and from the
numerous scars and scratches on his
body, it was quite evident that he was
an old timer.
Pembina Pioneer Express: The &C.
tive work of tearing down the COM
binatioL railroad and drive bridge over
the Red river at Emerson was begun
last week, and the driveway is now on
the ice below the bridge. This ancient
landmark "a erected in 1883 at a cost
of $3.50, 900 and was the heaviest bridge
any company could construct at that
time. The new bridge which is being
erected by the Canadian Northern is
Vi " - ~ Inv o"L cAACJ
and it will be much heavier. to accom-
modate the increasing trans.
The Pembina Express: The
M~ountaineer Is 18 years old-and for
gives and forgets for without a little
of the bitter, life would soon become
satiate with the sweet" Which is
queer logic. If the bitter is so soon
forgotten, what effect would it have
on the said sweetness anyway-and
eventually wouldn't one be satiated
just the same? But in spite OF said
"bitters' The Mountaineer goes right
On booming Walhalla and all it's peo-
ple-just as all Of us do and as all of
us ought to do,-whether We have to
take our bitters Or not.
The agricultural class of the Wash
burn high school, eighteen of them
with their teacher, Miss Terry,
visited the Schofield dairy farm
which covers 1,400 acres, $50 acres of
this is fenced off for the fifty-two
pigs, there are fifty cows, but only
twenty-nine are being MIXED, fifty
horses and over 100 chickens. The
visitors spent a profitable afternoon.
Mr.. Schofield plotted the visitors over
the farm and explained to them the
use of the silo. the sanitary COW barn,
the milk house, the new barn for the
pigs and the many uses that are made
Of a IL horsepower engine. Later
members of the class will be required
to write a description of the visit.
The Devils Lake World prominently
publishes the following warning.