Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
Little Journeys Here and There
By J. A. WYE
BY J. a. WYE

has furnace heat and sewer. Water
connections with bath and toilet in
side will be provided eventually.
Mrs. Grove is the farmer directing
the affairs of the farm, and with the
assistance of her IL year old boy
does the milking and farm work as
well as attending to her household
duties. They have 20 acres in tame
hay; in oats; 10 in millet, and 10
in beans.
Mrs. Grove is the bean woman of
Pine county. She not only knows how
to raise them but she knows how to
market them. She has had but the
advantages of common school edu-
cation but she has college education
in her work. Last year she had ten
| acres of kidney beans, raised 1891
bushels and sold them at wholesale
at cents pound. They will have
plenty of hay this year. When con-
ditions looked bad, she plowed up
the timothy sod and sowed it to mil
let and medium red clover. 1t was
profitable move-eyidence of wis
dom in farm management
Mrs. Grove is a dairy woman. She
makes her cream into butter and
finds it very profitable, for she has
developed a market for the home
made product at As cents a pound
| during the summer and creamery
prices in winter. To test the COM
parative difference between selling
cream and manufacturing it into but
ter she took 10 gallons of cream to
market, and then took five gallons
and churned it. selling the butter.
For the five gallons she received
just one dollar less than for the ten.
Farming is combination of grow
ing crops and animals, and marketing
them. Mrs. Grove understands both
and practices them with marked skill.
On July 10, 1925, their home was
struck by lightning and burned. The
new home with it's modern improve
ments takes it's place. They have no
debts excepting slight balance on
| their land contract due the state on
long time basis. They would have
no difficulty in paying this anytime,
it they so desired. They milk seven
cows.
Elder Bostrom of Ogema township,
] has just moved into his new eight
room house, 24x28, two stories high
with cement basement under the en-
tire building. The home is made al
most entirely of native lumber cut
on the home place by Mr.. Bostrom
and the boys. Even the window
frames and the siding are from ma
tive lumber.
He has 100 acres of land with 60
under cultivation. He has 10 acres
into golden wax beans which he has
already sold to parties in Michigan
at $5.75 hundred. He has a bean
| thresher and does all the work with
himself and family. He cut 25 tons
OF timothy and clover off Is acres
Z, and on one acre of alfalfa the first
| crop produced one ton this season.
He milks eight cows and sells his
| cream at Danbury, receiving 80 cents
| pound.
E. w. Swanson of Ogema township,
| five miles west of Danbury, is build
ing new frame house, 24x3O, story
and half high, containing eight
rooms, plastered throughout. 1t will
| have cement basement 24x16. 1t
will cost $4,000 and be mostly of
| native lumber.
James Lynch, two and one-half
miles west of Sturgeon Lake, is build
| ing a new home 24x3O, five rooms
| and full basement.
81 think we ought to buoy for our
selves in our course, as we buoy a
harbor. Off this shoal, a black buoy
floats, and says to those who sail
| by, as plainly as if it spoke in all
languages, Keep to the right here;
and over against it floats another,
and says, Keep to the left here
Now, in life's ocean, wherever we
know the quicksands are, wherever
| we have once been stranded, let us
| sink the buoy and anchor our mem
DRY and keep to the right or the left,
as the shoal may be."-Beecher.