Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-10
SNOrthw e st Farming
aNer~s and. Notes = Compiled BY ts Grand Forks Herald
COWS BRING COMFORT

milk to the. calves and the hogs. We
have five Chester White hogs. We
plan to raise hogs in larger numbers,
they pay, well in conjunction with a
dairy" +c1
What gave you the idea of moving
out in the country?" the Herald
visitor asked. 49, -.:R. d"
Country Is Best.
II guess I had more ambition than
that little house in town could hold"
Mrs. Gran replied. "I had come to be-
lieve that a farmers life is independ-
ent. l could AVE worked at things
in town, but you have no opportunity
there to work out ideas Of your own.
oh! tho country Is the only place to
live. Its the finest place in the world
to raise Children X
I'VE have a boy and a girl and we
want to make this place so attractive
and interesting to them that they will
want. to stay here. I have great plans
for this place. 1t would be desolato
to have just the farm land and: build
ings, SO MI. Gran Is planting trees,
and all sorts of small fruits. We have
a tennis court laid but for the chill
dren. Mr.. Gran has planted 1890
trees, willows for. a snow trap, and
then inside boxelders and ash. He
has had good luck with them all and
1T surely pays to cultivate them.
There is n row rear the corn field
and every time the men came in with
the c%ultivator they %straddled this
row. It Is now six or eight inches
ahead OF all the others.
Mr.. Gran has put in about two
miles of fencing this year too. This
we expect h cows to pay for.
The Cows Pay.
THE COWS are going to. be kept
pretty. busy as there will be a lot for
them to pay0for. We are building a
new barn. The silo is already com
pleted. It has a capacity of lis. tons,
five acre piece will go into it. The
new barn will be all modern. It &C
commodities % stanchions, will have
a steel bull pen, a good sized calf
pen and a maternity pen. 1t will be
fully equipped with steel fixtures, and
will have a good cement floor. 1
figure the cost will be in the neigh
borhood, of $4,000. We have a Delco
plant and a windmill. OF course, the
way. There will be a. water system.
and good drainage. We expect to use
a milking machine. The milk house
will be a convenient part Of the barn.
Electricity runs all the machinery.
W built our house in 1919. We
lived in a cook car while the house
was being built and boarded the car
penters. We could have built the
barn first as many people do, but
we decided to. nave a comfortable
place to live as soon as we could. Be-
sides we knew what we wanted in A.
house and we were not sure what we
wanted in the line of a barn. We
have had time to plan it all out care
fully since.
Poultry Also.
II raise chickens and turkeys for
market. This year I have about 80
pure bred big bronze turkeys. / sell
them at a premium. They average
about ten pounds and bring about 40
cents a pound. I dress them and get
them all ready for the oven. 1t IS. a
lot Of work. but they bring so much
better price that way. that 1 think
its worth it. Besides I like to do it.
W had a big garden this year and
I canned over 200 quarts of vegetables
besides all my fruit and ~jellies. The
work IS not hard because all the
equipment I have to work with saves