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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
Making the Little
Farm Pay
By 6. E. BOWSFiELD

The question Of marketing Is Of the
highest importance to the person own
ing a small tract of land. and in fact
no farmer can afford to ignore it. The
small farmer has to treat the subject
as vital and give it constant attention.
If located near a town it is feasible
for a farmer to have private customers
for much Of his produce. The large
hotels and restaurants buy immense
stocks of choice poultry and fine vege-
tables and fruits. Many private fami-
lies will buy direct from the farm If
they have opportunity to do SO. and
they pay literally for high grade com.
modities.
If we could have more small farm
ers to correspond to the financial
means OF land owners the immediate
effect would be intensive cultivation
and greater acreage production with
the widest possible diversity. Then an
improved market system would bring
a higher level of wholesale prices for
all products.
While these expectations are simple
and reasonable. they indicate a social
and economic revolution Of national
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
W9SITTEHEN
&@0GUPBOARD
BOILED CARROTS.

THESE homely yet wholesome veg
etables are correctly served with
boiled beef; also carrots are ex-
cellent for favoring soups, stews, etc..
and may even be adopted in the COM
position Of vegetable salads. Cut in
fancy shapes carrot is used to garnish
meats.
Young carrots should be washed and
brushed, but not scraped, before cook
ing. After boiling they should be rub
bed Off with a clean, coarse cloth. Old
er carrots must be scraped. In order
to learn whether the vegetables are
cooked try with a fork. If they feel
soft they are ready to serve Young
carrots are cooked about a half hour.
fully grown ones from an hour and a
half to two hours.
A Combination Dish.
Carrot Hotchpot.-Boil six carrots
with six onions until tender. Boil six
medium sized potatoes separately
Drain the water from both sets of veg
etables. Put them together and mash
well. Add Il teaspOonful Of salt, half a
t%easpOOnfui OF sugar. a quarter Of Il
t~easpOOnfu' of pepper. a half cupful
each of milk and butter. Beat well
and serve hot.
Carrots With Sauce.-Cut the tops of
medium sized smooth carrots so that
each carrot will stand upright with its
pointed end in the air. Boil the point
ed ends and use the others for flavor
ing for soups or stewS. When the boil.
ing carrot ends are tender take them
off the tire. stand them upright on a
deep plate and pour over them we'll
seasoned white or brown sauce. Serve
hot.
Carrot Balls.
Carrots In Stock.-Scrape the carrots
and shape them in balls with a vegeta-
BILE cutter. Then cook them in slightly
boiling water. When tender drain
them carefully. Put them into a sauce-
pan with a little stock and minced
parsley. Season with salt and pepper
and heat them. Serve hot.
Diced Carrots. Take one quart of
carrots chopped in small cubes. one
tablespoonful Of finely chopped onion.
n tablespoonful of butter, u table.
spoonful of -four and one teaspO0nful
Of salt and chopped parsley. Boil the
carrots until tender. Brown the onion
in the butter. add the -four and mix
we'll. Then add a cupful Of the water
in which the carrots were boiled. Mix
the carrots and Season to taste.
heat quickly and serve.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
Better FAnMIna NOTES
BOYS. CORN

We are pleased to announce
that the county commissioners
have authorized a boys Acre
Yield Corn contest. Any boy
under n years residing in
Bottineau county is eligible to
enter and may do 80 by send
ing his name to either of the
Better Farming men, w. E.
Weld of Lansford or A. =. Hen
derson, Bottineau.
Dent corn must be grown
and seed will be furnished free
to those who apply. Thirty
sever boys engaged in the con-
test last year. Let us have
twice that number this wear.
Prizes are liberal and will be
distributed as follows, in each
Of the five commissioner dis
trict: First price $40, 2nd ST. 80,
3rd S.. 90; grand county prize
for best acre of corn in the
county $25. The boys last year
helped materially to put Botti-
neau county on the map as a
corn growing county. Let's
keep it there. Any assistance
required will gladly be furn-
ished by either of the Better
Farming men.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16

Importance, for it is entirely feasible
to reduce the retail price of nearly all
farm products and thus cut the cost OF
living without lessening the earnings
or profits of those who till the soil.
The saving will come through the elm
inatiOn of waste both on the farm and
in the city. which includes reform in
the miNdleman's method of marketing.
Every 10Y that is made along this
line tends to protect city families from
a further advance in the price of food.
In some lines Of trade the wasteful
expenditure involved in distributing
goods is a most serious factor in the
cost of living. This is especially true
Of the sale and distribution Of perish
able farm products. such as fruits. veg
etables. eggs and milk. The farmer
gets about one-third of what the uIti-
mate consumer has to pay for such
goods. and the balance is swallowed up
in costs Of distribution and in profits Of
the series of middlemen through whose
hands farm produce goes in it's journey
from the farm to the dinner table.
In many other cases. however. the
eos of selling and distributing goods
is relatively very small. and what is
needed today is some general improve
ment in the system of handling those
articles of every day consumption
which are now loaded down with I'M
necessary costs and profits.
There are many good things that re
c,,1A $nNvo M W. cnl1rnr nn6
shipping associations. 1t helps the
farmers to get next to the business.
for their manager is willing to give
them detailed reports Of what has been
done. 1t familiarizes them with grades
Of stock and the different prices that
are paid. 1t acts also us a stimulus to
better fitting for the markets, as 1t
shows what conditions on the same
class Of stock e in the market
prices. Farmers are able to tell by re-
ceipts when it is the best time to fit
certain classes Of stock for the market.
1t shows whether a 800 pound hog is
better for one season of the year than
another and whether the heavy beef
steer is suited for a certain season. We
have been told much about the differ
ence by shippers. but have always been
more or less skeptical. In many cases
where competitive buying and ship
ping were going IN we had good reason
to doubt. These associations also bring
the farmers together. and benefits of a
social nature are derived from them.
New ideas and fields of operation re-
suit from their meeting together.
Owners Of small farms which are To-
Gated right for town marketing will
find it best to have private customers
for everything, while those located far
Their out should aim to become associ-
ated with other farmers who have a
variety of products and who wish to
form some kind Of a cooperative asso-
citation. The extra prices secured by
these b~usinesslike methods Of market
ing farm products may NEAR the DIFF
ference between success and failure.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
No. 15-Stop, Look and Listen

Take up any honest
work, even if it brings you
no more than a dollar a day.
Then learn to live within
the dollar. '--John Sher-
man.
Among the various crooked
schemes against which the
government has recently issued
fraud orders'' preventing the
promoters using the United
States mails)are included those
involving plans to get peoples
money for
electric belts
chemical rings
work at home'
fortune-telling
anti-fat "medicines'
matrimonial chances.
stock promotion
Before ''biting' on any such
proposition, consider very care
fully and do not hesitate to
consult any officer of your bank
when in doubt about a propos-
ed investment.
The postal authorities and
the secret service department
have increased their vigilance
and widened the field of their
operations to cope with the IN
larged operations of the wolves
of the mails" In the past five
years federal officials have
prosecuted 1851 persons who
were charged with being con-
cerned in the filching of $751;
900, by get-rich-quick schemes
engineered through the mails,
from the pockets of credulous
people, upon whom the losses
fell heavily. 1t is the belief of
government officials that the
whole illicit harvest reaped by
rascally operators in the past
few years will reach two or
three million dollars. Unfort-
unately the majority of the
crooks have been able to evade
the penalties of the law.
But it is not only through
the Vaccinations of crooks that
people lose money. Sometimes
money needs to be protected
from the folly of it's owners
themselves. A man and his
wife, now we'll past sixty years
of age, m conducting a small
clearinghouse in a western
city and making a scanty liv-
ing by much hard work. This
mans curse has been specula-
ton, not exclusi of the
stock market or bucketshop
kind, but he has not used good
Judgment in the matter of var
ious schemes and enterprises
that he has gone into from
time to time. Once he was the
owner of a first class hotel
which was doing we'll. In
stead of considering the wis
dow of the proverb, The shoe
maker should stick to his last,,'
he sold his hotel and put the
money into something with
which he was not so familiar,
with the result that he lost it
all.
Just ordinary thrift and fore
sight would have given this
man a comfortable old age.
whereas the lack of it has con-
demned him, at a time when
slippered ease might, a n d
should, be enjoyed, to a long
fight between the increasing
cost of living, on the one hand,
and the complaints and de-
mands of cantankerous board
ers, on the other.
T Cs-- N~A~-@
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
Co.operation In Potatoes.

Better community cooperation in
growing potatoes Of one or two varie.
ties and then careful grading would
mean thousands Of dollars to some Sec
lions Of the country and the establish
ment Of a steady market for their prod.
uct. Now IL a good time to consider
potato seed in farmers club meetings.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16

LETTERS TO BURN.

Never burn kind letters. It is
20 pleasant to read them over when
the ink is brown. the paper yellow
with age and the hands that traced
the friendly words are folded over
the hearts that prompted them
Burn only the harsh on-s and il
burning forgive and forge. them.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
GIRLS r CONTEST

We are glad to announce that
the girls will also be given a
chance to help along in the
good work by entering a con-
test for the best five-pound jar
of butter to be exhibited in the
fall. The time of this contest
will be announced later; so the
girls can be praCtiCing all sum-
mer. Any Bottineau county
girl under n years of age is
eligible to compete and will be
given necessary instruction and
particulars.
Prizes awarded in each of the
five commissioner districts:
First, So. 100, 2nd $500 and 3rd
100. Grand prize for the
best jar of tive-pound of butter
in the county, $1,000.
Write your Better Farming
man for entry blanks and parti.
Culars.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16

- 0NooI Asrl.
''She IN dearer to me than ever"
"Keeping up with the price d sugar.
ehr-Houaton Post
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-04-16
ENVY.

Envy is about the most silly and
useless Of all the vices. The envi-
Gus person is the most miserable Of
all human beings, He nourishes
wpers which sting and devour him,
i the enemy Of all and inAicts NOR
tai wounds on charity. ourases NJ
tu1e. which produces only tha,
which Is good. and grace. which
cannot act IN concert or ally itsef
with any evil.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
Bic MAY DAY CELEBRATION AND EXHIBIT
RACE FOR QUEEN Of MAY DAY INTERESTING

AS a means Of stimulating pupils
and Of affording the parents and
others an evidence Of the progress
made in our schools as to work ac-
compliShed in the school room,
Prof. J. F. Peters and faculty are
planning and preparing an exhibit
of work of the school children for
Friday, May Il. Besides the exhi-
bition of school work the annual
May Day Festival of our schools
will be celebrated on that day. The
children are getting ready to play
their parts in the events of that
dav and all arrangements are being
made to make it the most enjoy
able day for both parents and child
rem, There will be drills, competi-
tive athletics, games, running,
jumping, relay races and so on
participated in by the boys and
girls of our schools. Every minute
of the day will be given over to
wholesome enjoyment. There will
be polk dances and May Pole exer.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
CLASSICAL CONCERT WAS
RARE TREAT FRIDAY N|GIl

The concert given at the Mas.
City lheater on Friday evenins
under the auspices of the Chan;
made Music Club was attended |, J.
fair sized crowd. Seldom has l., =
ter music been rendered in Bs.
lusa than by Miss Anita Gonzal.,
and Mrs Laura Stevenson Soans
Miss Gonzalez proved to b, !,
pianist Of rare ability while Mn
Laura Stevenson Spang demon.
strated that she is one of the IL,
sopranos in the South, Both n.
ladies are connected with the Musa
School Of the Sophie Newconh
College at New Orleans and to 81,
that the lovers Of classical music i,
Bogalusa were given a rare treat 4
hardly doing justice to the mus.
Gains.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
RIM

Prof. c. A, Mathews, Misses En-
ma Williams and Agnes Wood at
tended the State Teachers Convent
ion at Baton Rouge last Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
J. B. Murray and il. Waller spent
the week end with homefolks.
A small crowd of children and
grownups enjoyed a picnic and fish
fry on Sheridan lake last Thursday.
Mr.. Enoch Talley is having an
artesian well drilled on his lots in Rio
Mrs. Davidson Richardson, OF
Tallisheek, has been the guest of
relatives this week.
The School is planning for an
everybody birthday party Friday
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
SUMMER FURNITURE FOR
ALL IN b0GALU5A NOW

G. N. Rogers, the hustlins furni-
ture dealer, has been busy the past
few days receiving shipments of
summer furniture and his store has
resembled metropolitan place of
business for the past few days.
! am going to give the people of
Bo5ahlsa an opportunity of pur-
chasing all their furniture needs
right here in Bosaiusa. You will
see that my stock now includes
about all that anyone could desire
in summer furniture and buying in
such quantities as | do permits me
to give the lowest possible price.
There has been too much buying of
furniture outside of Bogalusa to
suit me and all loyal Bogalusians.
We have good furnitures here and
ii the people knew that they can
buy just as good, stylish, depend
able furniture in Bosalusa from
home merchants cannot see why
they will buy outside of their home
town. We sell on easy payments
and think the other store does
likewise and people who buy out
side of Boga!usa do not save a
dollar. They. either get inferior
merchandise or the freight makes
the difference. If we do not carry
in stock what they desire we will
order it especially for our custo-
mers. | propose to show the PEG.
pie who buy outside Of Washington
Parish that they are making a
mistake and | am going to use
space and spend money to show
them
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
Entertains Young Folks

Mrs. 0. c. Moffett delightfully."- en-.
tertained a large number of young
folks at her coy home on Mississippi
Ave Friday evening. Music and
games were the principal pastimes
and the young folks enjoyed the
evening until a late hour.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06

cises.
A queen Of May is being chosen
now for this occasion; the three
candidates for the honor of being
crowned queen on that day, have
been selected by the school. They
are Ethel Overstreet, Sonora
Yeaser and Marcella Marlborough.
A keen interest is displayed by Our
pupils in this contest; voting is
quite lively; friends of the candi-
dates realize that they must pat
forth special efforts in order to
bring their favorites to the top of
the list. Votes cost one cent each
and the proceeds srom the contest
will be used to purchase for the
lucky girl souvenir that will al
ways remind her of her day of
honor. The count will close.
Tuesday night, May Is, and it is to
the interest of the candidates to
get in as many votes as possible
that she may come in at the head
of the list.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
Genuine Clean Sweep.

Brock and Co., report of their
Clean Sweep sale great success. 1T
pays to tell the the truth in your
advertisements because people have
confidence in your ads and respond.
That's the way we do it and in view
Of the splendid values we're are CIV
ing our sale, which continues until
Saturday night has been winner.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06

from three to five, every body is
invited, and asked to bring his age
in pennies.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06
Tax Payers Notice.

The Per Capita tax is now due
and payable This tax is for the
Improvement of the streets of the
city and those who desire to see
good streets can assist materially by
paying their taxes now After June
l your tax becomes delinquent
J H Willoughby,
City Fax Collector
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-05-06

Excellent plain and fancy sew
lneat reasonable prices. Phone 1856
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21

This is the Fable of The Perfect
Peach, the Kindly Judge and the Prison
What Amt.
The peach had an abundance of
names. Her most frequent Monicker
was Agnes Bumgart. But she wrote
it Anna Smith. Her principal occupa-
ton was society and penmanship. Her
chirography was thing of beauty and
a Joy Forever. She practiced it on
checks of various amounts.
1t was on the Fateful day of May Z
that the Peach inscribed her flowing
signature to a check calling for forty
''iron boys" 1t was a mere cover
sight" on her part that she had no
bank account to make it good. But
the law spelled it forgery, and she
was cast into Donjon Keep of the local
HoOsegow.
In the presence of Judge Maxheld,
the Peach was seized with an attack of
Honesty and said, II done it The
kindly Judge took pity on her youth
and beauty and consigned her to the
State prison at Waupun for one year.
Casting about for a suitable abode
for the Peach, the kindly judge discov-
cred in the revised statutes of Wiscon-
sin, provision for ''The Wisconsin In
dustrial Home for Women" enacted
by the Legislature of 1918. Summon
ing the Peach before him, the kindly.
Judge, with a severe smile, committed
her sentence to that institution. In
company with former Sheriff Whipple,
the Peach journeyed in luxurious gas
chariot to Milwaukee, where the insti-
tuition was supposed to exist. The
party was doomed to disappointment.
Although they were aided by the 1914
city directory and the best fly cops the
municipality could afford, they could
find no trace of the elusive prison.
Vending their way back to this place,
they received the belated information
that the site of the prison had been
transferred to Fond du Lac, but that it
still consisted of blue prints and ex-
pectations.
Moral: Be sure you are right and
then verify it.-Madison Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21

THE cost of instruction of the aver
age resident student of the University
of Wisconsin to the taxpayers OF the
state during the last fiscal year was
S149. This is shown in figures COM
piled by the university and just pub
iished by the state board of public
affairs in it's report of the university
survey. This cost includes all usual
overhead expenses charged in state in
situations, all charges for heat, light,
water, janitor service and repairs, and
depreciation on buildings. The total
cost of educating the average student
during the last year was $211.65. The
difference of S62. go came from federal
grants, incidental fees, tuition fees,
gifts, interest on investments and sim
liar sources not contributed by the tax
payer. These amounts were deter
mined by an analysis of the entire
financial receipts and disbursements of
the university.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21

THE lawmakers have gone crazy on
the enactment of ''anti' laws. Anti
tipping, anti-treating, anti this and
anti-that, all of which interfere with
the personal rights of the individual
who cannot give guaranty for favor
or treat friend if one feels so dis
posed. 1t is time to cut out all such
asinine legislation and enact laws that
will give the people of the state more
liberty than they have had during the
past fifteen years-with an army of in
spectors travelling to and fro in the
state at a great expense to the tax
payers to pry into ones private bust
ness affairs. WATERFOWL Leader.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21
A NUMBER of important changes with

A NUMBER of important changes with
reference to the state tax commission
are contemplated in joint legislative
investigating committee bill, abollshlng
the present tax commission, which is
to be introduced at an early date. In
place of the present tax commission,
the bill provides for one tax commits
sioner, who will receive $4,000 a year.
In addition, however, the governor and
the state treasurer will act in an eX-
officio advisory capacity so that the new
body will consist of three members. A
change with reference to the present
income tax law is contemplated in the
provision which allows counties to
elect their own income tax assessors.
Other changes are: The work of col
lecting the inheritance tax, now done
by the tax commission, will be placed
in charge of the attorney general,
where it was before. At present the
valuation of public utility and railroad
corporations is made by joint staff
from the railroad commission and the
tax commission. This function is to be
given over to the railroad commission,
which will collect the necessary data
and make reports to the tax commits
sion whenever desired. A. the present
time there are about thirty engineers
or the stats of the two commissions
and it is declared that much duplication
of work exists. 1t also repeats that
clause of the present law that allows
the tax commission on it's own volition
to order municipal audits and install
municipal accounting systems. 1t is
understood that the present commits
sion Is not IN favor of this clause and
has utilized the right only twice.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-21
A Few Strong Facts.

Edison has revolutionized the talking
machine business in just one year. He
has done away with the bother of
changing needles. He uses diamond
guaranteed for life. He has overcome
the hollow barrel tone and produces
real music All records play on the
Edison. Every voice of the world that
has been recorded can now be heard on
the Edison and only as the Edison re-
produces, "perfect." Edison plays loud
or soft with no change of needles or
closing of doors. Applying chamber
of the Edison Disc is of moulded brass
like all the best grade of musical in
struments Edison says ''hear it. The
people have decided in its favor.