Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-02

do you raise flowers. too"' The
Herald visitor asked.
Yes: l raise a lot OF flowers, n l
love III, N. al. Last summer l made
$50 of my asters alone. sOnceI sold
SIS worth at one clip. They We're
beauties in q number of different col
ors. There was good profit in those
for I used only about an ounce OF
;seed. have forty or fifty different
varieties OF IRIS. and about 500 Eladio-
i5. I sell them all as cut flowers.
Il am very fond of my roses and
ave great success in raising them.
My rambler roses are in several differ
ent colors. but the deep ericsson one
is the most popular. l have sold as
much as Sc worth of these a. one clip.
These are very double, and seem al
most too perfect to be real. +
My ramblers grow over fifteen
feet high AMI I train then, over an
archway in thu garden. ! have til.
red aid pink over n arch ana. The
yellow and white over the other. l
had a violet blue ra-bler, it was odl
looking. Inc quite pretty. but it died
n l don't think I Wl.lso-der another.
! ] my roses with straw. and
find they stand the winter best that
way. One ear ] vas advised to cover
them with ear. II, but 1 will never" do
that again. as it made Asonle OF them
mold. and some of them died as a re-
suit.
!; 81 always buy the best seed. l can
: get in flowers. 1t pays because th2
blooms sell so much letter. I.shave
some very fine peonies, AZ in all AM
cn.y three alike. take the flowers
to town or Saturdays for my regular
customers. Afew peonle come out to
the farm 10 buy them.
Supports Self So.
r. YES, that is the way make oul
living. sell vegetables, flowers, dress.
ed chickens and eggs. J have drive,
my Wagon to town and delivered tc
:: private customers there for the pas
twelve years. l have 1875 regular Gus.
toners now and they make q very
nice trade for NC. I always suppl,
them with tho best l have. ] never
take vegetables to town the seconi
time. If they don't all sell the frs
time the two pigs and the COW &c
what is left. My stuff on sale is al
ways fresh. L
we raise u own stock, and have
our own meat. All We have to buy /!
-four. fuel and clothing. We raise; /:
good deal of u own fruit as we'll a!
p uii :" u A"Sk Odt w oAi
ned 440 quarts of fruit and vegc.a
bles for our winters use, and tllirt.
gallons of dills. We pick a good dea
Of wild fruit in the woods. We hav,
about SOC raspberry bushes. and
! have enough everbearing strawberrie
for a whole acre. We had strawber
ries right up to the ~freezeup this fall
in fact there are ripe ones out thcr,
under the snow now.
"Of course we have not a great dea
of room, just eleven and three-quar
ters acres altogether. We put in fou
acres to potatoes. We sell them a
new potatoes, and they are wort
while that way. We Keep two horse
to work the land, and that with tn
! delivering keeps them pretty busy
II used to raise geese and ducks
but they went of down the river ar,
mixed with other nocks. Turkey
roamed off and got mixed with tn
: neighbors' turkeys. So ] have stop
ped trying to raise them too. Now
have a few fuil-blooded Belgian Bel
gian hares that I got for the boys t
play with. OF course 1 don't cxpec
them TO be worth much from n com
mercia1 standpoint"
) 1t was really an Inspiration to tai
with Mrs. Hokanson She is support
: ing herself and eight children or elev
! en- acres. and doing a good job of
too. Il was a lesson in intensive cult
walton: She isn't nearly as much EOr
: ried as some men who are trying, t
support a family of four or eleve
hundred acres.