Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-01
Today's wheat O3.
Buy a war savings stamp.

DNy q WoA savings SIdIIlD.
Get a scythe end cut those weeds.
Have you pledged an acre of crop
for the Red Cross from every quarter
section that you have in the township?
The June-and July rains have done
much to revive and greatly improve
the appearance of tie lawns around
town.
The Northwestern Hotel at Milton
changed hands last week, the new ow.
ner of the property being S. Sun.
deem of Grand Forks.
Elsewhere will be found the first
installment,. of the list Of awards
made at the county fair of two weeks
ago. ,e The list only includes that of
the Horse Department. More space
will be given to this feature in our
next weeks issue.
y. .Janitor DeBerg at the court house
is engaged this week in breaking in
: new Lawn mower. with q gasoline
engine attachment, which. will enable
his being better able, to keep up with
the rapid growth Of the splendid catch
of. grass on the courthouse grounds.
Figures go to prove the statement
to be q fact that there was over
s, 1000 people in attendance at the
opening day of this years fair. The
adjoining counties~of Pembina, Tow
ner, Ramsey and Walsh, together
with many Canadians from across the
line in Manitoba furnished their
quota.
DR.. M cQueen made a trip through
Fremont township on Tuesday, where
he reports having quarantined three
homes. where the presence of cases
of diphtheria were found. In each
case, however, the condition of the
patient indicated every possibility of
recovery under usual treatment.
Much of the crop in this part of the
county with the first of August is
found to- be just. heading out. The
stand of the grain generally is better
than in many years, owing to the
June and July rains of this year dur.
ing the growing season. but indica.
,.tions do not point to an unusually early
harvest. ...
A new regulation that is now effec.
tive having been directed to the state
food commissioner by the national ad.
Illustrator regulates that hotels ant
restaurants must now serve red meats
OF. any kind whatsoever at only on,
meal of each day. and that, between
the hours of ten in the forenoon ant
:. two o'clock in the afternoon. There
is a heavy penalty for the violation o.
this new regulation.
- On August first a new regulation
affecting the shipment of dairy pro
ducts will go into effect. 1t provide
that all p%erishable produts, including
cream, etc, be shipped to the neares'
manufacturing plant. This is in order
TO save snlpplng space, waste ana Ia
Dor. The reasonableness of this regu
: lation should be readily seer and al
people who are patriotic will natural
ly aid in the carrying out of this new
war time regulation.
Wheat on summer. fallowed Lam
has demonstrated, this year as neve
before, what is to be gained by fol
lowing this plan of rotation in cult
walton of farm lands. Farmers tell u
that wheat on summer fallowed land
this year will in many cases yield {
crop that will average twenty-five
bushels to the acre, right along sid
of fields of spring blowing that will
do we'll to run from twelve to fftee1
bushels to the acre. The differenc,
can also be noted in that both til,
heads and the straw of the latter ar.
much shorter. 1t will certainly pa,
to summer fal]ow a good sized piece
of land each year. - r.