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1 to *1 &' h/f •&* 7/1 4 & t*v it mm THE WMD.OOIMTY MEHNDOir PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY C. F. TRUAX. PUBLISHER D. COLCORD, EDITOR ftnterwi line 18, 1902, as 2nd Class Matter, Podojjice, Minot, A\ I). Act of Congress of March o. 1870. u|Sg|g||l|E MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA. JAN. 11, 1912 U'lT O I A COMMENT MIXED HARMING PAYS The Independent is doing what it can to en courage diversified farming in North Dakota, for by that method, and that method only, we hope to see this state prosper- The indica tions for mixed farming were never so glow ing before. Next year will see new converts who will never backslide. A year ago, we asked Alfred Stredwick, a Logan farmer, whom we knew had been diversifying for years, to keep a correct record of the prod ucts which he sold from his farm, exclusive of grain. Mr. Stredwick handed us a slip of paper this week, showing that in the vear 1911, he sold $1792.65 worth of butter, eggs, chickens, pigs, cows, cream and garden truck. He didn't sell any grain, excepting ten bush els of seed flax. He has 500 bushels of oats, 300 bushels of wheat, 150 bushels of flax and about a hundred tons of millet hay on the farm yet. He did not sell any horses last year, but a number of fine colts were added to his bunch of blooded horses, he now having seven fine young horses ready for the mar ket. Mr. Stredwick markets very little grain. He prefers to feed it to his stock- His land is kept in the highest state of cultivation and he always has some ready n.oney. The following figures showing just what he sold last year, will prove good reading: One hundred hens laid $112.45 worth of eggs, sold at the following figures: The mort gage lifcer—eggs from 100 hens: 523 dozen at prices ranging from 15 to 35 cents, $112.45. 130 young chicks, $58.50. Pigs, $48.25. Butter and cream sold from seven cows, without grain: 401 lbs. at 25c, $100.25 394 lbs. at 30c. $118.20 *88 lbs. at 20c, $57 60 cream, $45.45. 19 head of fat cattle, hay and grass fed, at an average of $45.17 per head, $728.00. One milch cow at $60, two at $40, three at $50 and one at $55, total sales of steers and milch cows, $1142. Farmers often do not pay much attention to raising garden truck. While Mr. Stredwick does not pretend to giow a great deal for the market, he sold considerable at good prices as follows: 20 bu. seed potatoes, $20 28qts. beans, $1.75 cucumbers, 60c 10 bu- seed flax, $25 34 doz. ears corn on cob, $3.25 68 bu potatoes, $36.60 160 lbs. plums, $5.08 1 bu. tomatoes, $100 30qts. currants, $3.75 10 citrons, SI. 00 3 bu. carrots, $1.59 500 lbs. onions, $12 50. Total, $110.00. Farmer readers, if you are not diversifying, get the habit. Keep a record this year of what you sell and make an effort to grow something besides wheat and flax. At the end of the year, you will be surprised to learn what you have been able to do. Colonel Scarlett, President of the Minot Humane Society, is doing a noble work- The Colonel is fearless in the performance of his duties, for nothing daunts this sturdy Scot on doing what he knows is right. Woe be unto the driver who overpulls his horse or who drives an animal th it is not fit for service. The fellow who leaves his beast of burden stand unblanketed in the cold had better have a care. Even the dogs and cats of Minot find in the Colonel a friend. The poor of our city have learned that when in need, they do not ask Col. Scarlett in vain for assistance. He has distributed many tons of coal during the present cold winter among various homes of the city. Only last week he found a home where fuel was scarce and where the mother and daughter had taken to their beds to keep warm Many of the good people of Minot who are favored with the goods of this world, have contributed to the fund of the Humane Society. One man gave tickets good for five tons of coal. Another provisions and another a sum of money. There are few of us but who can spare a small sum. The Colonel will not ask you for money for the Society, biit if you can spare a little we know that it will be put to good use The Colonel is assisted in the noble work by his good wife who never wearies in the relief of those in distress. The Independent believes that President A. M. Thompson has selected the best concilia tory committee that it was iwssible to pick in Minot, but we do not believe that the com mittee will be able to do much in settling the Normal school site question. One of the south hill boosters who believes that "right is right" and that the Normal school should be located where the Board first determined, jsaid he Would fight for the site as long as he had a dollar left, even tho it might mean that the school should never be located here. There are others as determined as he is. We should get a District court decision at the earliest moment, and if the case must be car ried up to the Supreme court, no time should be lost. If the red tape business is cut out, the matter should be definitely settled within three or four months. If you think that a Cold wave has struck North Dakota, just pause a moment to pity those poor folks down south. Word reaches us that the northerners who went to Texas California. Oklahoma and other southern states to escape the cold, are actually suffer 7JJ& -Ah if1'/ A 11"'I1 ing from the chilly blasts. The cold wave has been general over the United States and in the south where the houses are built on a cheap plan, with little provision for heating them, there is much suffering- We are glad to state that nothing but good caa come of the unusual cold weather in North Dakota. The frost has been driven deep into the ground, the germs have long ago been put to sleep and we merely burn a little more lig nite, enjoying one of the finest vinters in the history of the state. It is rumored that the Great Northern 11 endeavor to make the Gary Steel Works pay for the damage done in the wreck near Sha ron, N D., where six persons lost their lives, and where immense damage was done to Gt. Northern property A hollow rail caused th* wreck. Something evidently was wrong with the manner in which this rail was manufac tured. The Gary concern had a big contract and no doubt made as much money as pos sible out of it. Perhaps too little time was taken in moulding the steel for the rails. What's the difference? Human life is cheap and more rails are bein 4 manufactured daily. The Glenburn merchants sell now on a cash basis- Merchants of other towns are **apidly falling into line. They say that they can sell their goods cheaper for cash, the fellow who pays does not have to pay the bills on those who do not, and that if one has to pay cash for what he buys, he c»n usually scratch around and get it It's a fact that when one pays cash, he lives cheaper. If he has just so much to spend, he will be more economical. To the farmer who is diversifying, it will not mean much to place him on a cash paying basis. The plan that the Glenburn merchants have adopted, will force the farmers who are not diversifying, do so at an early date. The Can do Herald announces that it will take a neutral stand in the coming primary election, will accept announcements, etc-, at a stipulated price but candidates must not ex pect him to make his preferences known. The paper will remain a republican organ and will probably support the nominees of that party. If a paper can ever be of any use, it is prior to a primary election. A publisher who does not take off his coat and fight for the men he considers is best for the various offices, shows an abominable weakness that is akin to cow ardice. We admire a good fighter. If there was more push in the world there would be fewer hungr/, half clothed, home less children fewer broken down dissipated men and women less need of alms-houses, houses of correction and homes for the friend less. Push means a lift for yourself out of the slough of despondency and shiftlessness, out of trouble, real and fancied. Push never hurts anybody. The harder the push ihfe better if it is given in the right direction. Always push up hill—few pebble need a push downhill. To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered to keep a few fi iends, but these without capitulation,—above all, on the same srrim conditions, to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Here is a little problem for our readers to figure for themselves: The tariff commission in its report to Pres. Taft finds that the wool grower's profit on wool in a suit of clothes that retails for $23, is but 65 cents. The wholesaler's profit is $2.18 and the retailer's profit $5.90, making a total of $8.85. How can the farmer or wool grower manage to get what is coming to him and why this vast difference? Bro. Krick of the Berthold Tribune is high ly pleased with the record that Arne Amund son has made since he has been a member of the board of ccunty commissioners, and even thinks that Arne's colleague, Jens, has done brilliant work. There's a reason. The Trib une can afford to use its shovel. The official printing, you know. Pres. Taft says that nothing but death can keep him out of the presidential race. La Follette says he's in the fight to stay. Cum mings has bobbed up and will complicate matters. There's almost as many candidates for the job as there are aspirants for Con gress from Minot. Geo. Frogestine Smith will start a humane society at Plaza. It is said that his first at tention will be given to Bishop Cowell, pub lisher of the Progressive West. Smith will probably devote the rest of his time to being good to himself. "I called on the army, I called on the people and no one responded," laments General fteyes, who must feel as lonesome and dis couraged as an Old Guard politician in North Dakota. Why deny ourselves the blessings of fresh air when we in North Dakota are supplied with such a good article in such liberal amounts. Many of the papers of the state are pub lishing those illustrated write-ups by Ben Whitehead on "The Builders of the Common wealth." They are good. The Western Newspaper Union is evidently trying to kill all competition. It offers plate service for 50c a column. No wonder the people around Harvey are so grod. The Harviy Herald published si of Pastor Russell's seiiBrtfil lilt $£& MJMiV 1 Republican Candidate For Congress 1 Judge Sbe J-™ 1 I'111 Nehtmian Davis A ivt. Builders of tHe Commonwealth COL B. G. WHITEHEAD. From "Curbstone fctlsmarck Tribune: and Corridor,' "The think that,' in above all others] just now," said John Warren at the Grand Pacific.: "1b this democrat-', ic national com mlttee a 1 fight. I want to see how Colonel: Whitehead comes out. He has been]! fighting for other! fellows in thlS' state for year* and I want to se« what he can do for himself. The papers all seemj to be boosting, but 1 want to see If he Is as good a! knanager for himself as he is for otb-j "I remember the first Burke flUfr-i Ifn," said Mr. Warren. "It was aj ot one. Whitehead wa* the flrstj to put any glngfcr In the cam-j algn. He waa the editor of the] rand Forks Press during that cat lgn, and the single handed he put up was a dandy. him comtt into the AnUertj t'clock otel from the preMa olllee At ottei in the morning and get felerk to call him on the phone naif past five. The Press waa the pemocratlc dally In the state. "And then he went opt to Wllllstoaj and started bli paper. it #as thej Brat Democratic newspaper west of) Cando. The Republicans boycotted! tilm. They didn't want a Democratic paper. But he Jumped into the fight! jpnd tbe first thing he began to doj •was to boost for John Bruegger. He imply worked overtime in spreading' Bruegger name over the land* kcape. And he did it in a convincing way, too. A lot of fellows at Willis-1 Ion him for it, but he kept right, trashated boosting Bruegger, and when there) a vacancy for the United States: senator's job that man Whitehead got jBruegger's name before the people so jwell that th public thought it might be Bruegger. I was here when White ead got here. Bruegger had sent him. hey said that Whitehead didn't pleep until the fight was over. He {stayed till the last. And I'll tell you {right now that I believe that Brueg jger will make just as hard a fight for [Whitehead. He couldn't very well do anything else. Whitehead Is a fight* jlng Democrat, and If he is elected nap onal committeeman he will count* STATE'S ATTORNEY SAYS "KEEP,UP THE STOCK State's Attorney Nash says tbat In his opinion owners of stock are com polled to keep them up the year round or else stand the damage as the result of letting them ran at largo. The farmers endeavored to settle the matter definitely some years ago when J. W. Fabrfek, who was then county auditor, arranged the ballot so that they voted to "abol ish tbe herd law." This Is reality meant vcfry little, yet the vbters no douit Intended to vote against let ting the stock run at large and the supreme court would most likely con* struo the proposition tn this manner if it should ever be brought before tbat body. Senator La Follette has a waj of campaigning that is sure to make him solid with the common people. While speaking to it large crowd at Day ton, o., he shouted: "Say, my collar is too tight, can I take it off?" The multitude assured him that he could and tbe senator did. Your Batik Account We pay 4% on Savings and also Invite Checking Accounts Savings Deposit Bank W f* /j.V IfiOi'ft^ YOU $ $ I $ Wn HwwWl«ft Consideration 1 J\ 113 Reishus St. -inriiihiiii'iiriim may be able to satisfy the wants of to-day, but suddenly developed wants that you may feel in the future may arise at such times Jf when you are laboring uhder great mental strain or excitement. Sueh conditions should remind you that there is one place where purity, accuracy, dispatch and neat ness enter into every prescription and drug that is sold. This is the service you get at our store. The success of our business has been due to our efficiency. If this service is considered worth so much by others, why isn't it worth something to you? Bear this in mind when there are special wants that arise. Let your dependence rest on us. Phone us your needs, Public Drug Co. Legitimate Druggists Gilden Rule Builliag Minet, N. Oak. WINCHESTER RIFLE tod PISTOL CARTRIDGES j- On account of being manufac Ml turers of firearms as well, the Winchester company are pecu- l\ liarly able to know the best Ty requirements for ammunition. ILV This partially answers the question often asked: "Why do Winchester cartridges excel The rest of the answer Is contained in their large, modern plant and their ex tensive knowledge of the firearms and ammunition business. Winchester Cartridges are made for all makes of rifles and pistols and always give entire satisfaction. FOR SALE BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE. FISH! FISH! FISH! We have just received a car of fresh, frozen fish, caught this winter, of the following kind and at the following prices Pickerel, 100 lb lots, 5o per pound Pike, 100 lb. lots, per pound Tulikes (small white fish) 100 pound lots, 5%c per pound Mullets, 100 lb. lots, 8%c per pound We guarantee our fish to be strictly fresh. We don't handle storage fish. Al! mail orders must be accompanied by cash deposit Special pricfe on all rirders of 500 pounds and over. Minot Hide Sfc Fur Co. 310 E. 1st. St. Phone 680 Bed MINOT, N. D. HAY LAWRENCE PRODUCE CO. Phone 100 jh C"' Mlooti N. D. ftaal Itsteti Ldah* fend Pari* Ihiur irifci ,t'', -fvi- J- r: Li 11111 gfrfrfiTi 11 'in 1»' 1 fjfoiii (f I