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*JUra YEAB: NUMBEB 21AROUND THE STATE.A lady game-warden up in the -northern part of the state did good *vork in collecting “sooners.Wheat on the Great Northern experiment - farm near Monango went better than thirty-three bushels to the acre.A deer-slayer who tried to sneak in his work while the wardens were busy looking after illegal chicken-shooter? was nabbed at Bottineau.C. C. Wolf, of Raleigh, Morton county, who planted twenty-five varieties of corn this spring to decide which are the best, reports that fifteen have already matured, and he will guarantee that seed from any of them will germinate. He thinks some of the others will mature.Hecla Journal: IJno Korpua of Ludden was in town to-day, ard while here made our office a pleasant call. He informed us that his thrashing-rig, in charge of Hogan Mitchell and Chas. Anderson,thrashed 5,200 bushels of grain in thirteen hours last Tuesday on the farm of Jake Burro. This i9 a record for this part of the country.Commissioner of Agriculture W. C. Gilbreath,who just at the present time is occupied with the arrangement for the holding of the Third Annual North Dakota Industrial Exposition, has moved part of his force to the Exposition Building, down-town at Bismarck, and is busy making the final arrangements for the big show. The premium lists have been nearly all sent out and there is a mass of correspondence to attend to. Mr. Gilbreath has established himself on the second floor of the building. Miss Clara Stevens, who is assistant secretary of the Exposition, also has her desk on the second floor^md R.H.Thistlethwaite, who is the official statistician of the■how, has his rooms in the old offices on the third floor, and G. F. McPherson. who will assist with the publicity end of the game, will also be located on the third floor.Ing. Isaacson had a peculiar accident with his thrashing - rig near Fairdale. A horse switched its tail into the bait on the cylinder shaft and the belt carried it into the pulley, bending the shaft and breaking the casting and putting the machine out of commission.That apples can be successfully raised in North Dkaota is being demonstrated by G. W. Getts. at Grand Forks, who has just finished gathering six bushels of the fruit from six trees which he has grown in the yard of his residence. The apples are of good size and quality, the largest being twelve inches in circumference, while the average size of the crop is eleven inches.Mandan Pioneer: Manager C. C.Mr # ii i • •«« « %bypatomlt;paSOIwlofedwlfaisinianel.voth“BFifncuervari!lie
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Emmons County record
Linton, North Dakota, US
Thu, Sep 18, 1913
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