Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 13, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DATLY PIONEEF fl'\stoficn\ VOLUME 5. NUMBER 226. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, M)NDAY EVENIN3, J\NUARY 13, 1908, WONDERFUL FARMING AT HARTLEY’S ISLAND FARM Farm in Middle of Moskeag Produced Big Crop of Finest Celery Ever Grown.---Practical Demonstration of Value of Swamp Land. Duluth News-Tribune: Nin e[ half tons of celery a day during the thousand dozen bunches of celery|summer season, as well as storing were marketed in Duluth this year‘enough to get the high prices of the as the product of four acres of mus- | winter_market. keg that was so swampy that it| It was beautiful celery to look at, would mire a saddle blanket last|delicious in flavor, crisp and juicy spring. |to crackle between the teeth in a That muskeg was about as fine a| manner to start the gastric juices sample of the abomination of desola-|of a dyspeptic, with never a sugges tion as one would wish to see a|tion of a fiber—and it brought more couple of years ago. It never did 'ia the Duluth market than was paid carry marketable big timber and for the best of the outside product. what wood was left on it when the! The story of that celery is striking man who raised the celery bought it/ but not unique. G.G. Hartley, who was not calculated to arouse the bought, cleared and drained the cupidity of the lumberman. It|land and raised the celery, was ex- would have been written down as|perimenting. That despised mus- practically worthless—condemned | keg was to him the very place to on its looks. The celery raiser was | try to grow celery, and to grow was not a professional gardener by|many other things. He putin cel- any means, but he had ideas of hisl'ery first as a business propositon be- own about the possibilities of that| cause he wanted to go the entire kind of soil and he had the courage | distange in trying out the land and of his convictions. territoy that Duluth is the immediate market for, there are hundreds of men who are demonstrating, with much larger gain to themselves, that things than Mr. Hartley has brought it to do in the matter of raising celery. i There are scores of instances that might be cited to show where men But the Hartley experiment was the course of his experiment, which Soclety: alhy MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH In the cut-over -lands within the MAY sET STATE FIBEME“ MEETING IN BEMIDJI, '09 the soil will do even more wonderful | Paul Bolan of Cloquet Has' Resigned as First Vice President of the There is a possibi]i(\y that Bemidji farming in a very small way have|may secure the annual ‘meeting of done approximately as well in pro-|the State Fireman’s Association ot ducing for the Duluth markets those | Minnesota, during 1909, providing garden products which, until very|the firemen of the city, the commer- lately, had to be brought from great | cial club and the city i council and distances and which command prices | citizens generally put their shoulders here equal to those paid in New |to the wheel and “boost” unitedly to York. that end. It is the custom 'of the State based on the assumption that the|Association of Firemen to elect vice very worst looking lands, boggy|presidents for some ’three years |swamps and sparsely timbered sec-|ahead, which secures the meeting of tions were good enough' for the|the association for .a town or city practical farmer if those lands were | the year that the elected vice presi- properly cleared and drained. In|dent becomes president. The first vice president for this has been carried on on a scale to do|year was Paul Bplgdf of Cloquet, away with the idea that there was |which gave the annm:! ‘meeting to any sort of local advantage in the | Cloquet for the year 1909. Bolan situation. Mr. Hartley has demon-| has recently resigned ‘his' position, strated that there are none of these | which throws the election of his suc- lands so barren of wood but they | cessor into the handsof the execu- may be made to pay for the clearing, |tive committee. This except in the absolute swamps or|will meet in the very -neat future burned lands, which yielded little |and go to Cloquet to lopk over the ground relative to holding | demonstrating the possibilities of | marketable wood. He bought the land and had a|gardening. good deal more like it—though who knew all about celery. And he | the application of personal energy to Mr. Hartley’s farm is located just The splendid results of the venture | beyond Floodwood on the Great much better to look at—in the same | in celery will have a tremendous edu- | Northern road, 50 odd miles from vicinity, 50 miles west of Duluth. | cational effect—it has had already. | Duluth. There are 600 acres in the He hired men and paid the highest| It has shown that there is immediate | tract which he is engaged in clear- market wages for the labor and he|profit in the application of practical | ing aud it lies along the right of way took off the wood down to the last|methods to the clearing and reclama- | of the railroad through a country stick available for pulp or box wood | tion of the soil that has hitherto been | that was so rough and boggy in —and that is drawing pretty fine. neglected in the country about|spots that there was absolutely no He sold the wood for enough money | Duluth, neglected because of the |settlement, except that which was to clear the land and to pay for it.|tangible richness in more obivious |incident to the lumbering operations, He dug ditches and drained the mus-| form—lumber and minerals. Mr. |until within a few years. It cost the keg and he put manure on those|Hartley has done only what any|railroad a great deal of money to four acres and planted celery a|practical farmer with limited means|maintain its right of way through the | month later than it should have|can do in a small way and at an swamp. and men looking for lands been planted, according to the men | expense reduced to-the minimum by | would have nothing to do with it. It first commended jtself to Mr. shipped as much as two and one-|the actual manual labor involved.|Hartley as a hunting ground. He 3901, Clothing House Closing Out Entire Winter Stock in 10 Days THE GIGANTIC REDUCTION SALE Is crowding our store daily. It’s a great deal like “cutting a melon”---this sale of good-things-to-wear; your “slice” is wait- ing for you; don’t know how long it will keep; the crowds are here every day. Suits and Overcoats Have been cut so deep that you save from $5 to $10 from their former prices on any garment purchased. We must reduce our Copyright 1907 Tigarme great stocks it’s a business proposition that you-can' readily see. our entire sjock. Clothing You All Know About. Kuppenheimer’s, America’s Greatest Wholesale Tailors, Suits and Overcoats on Sale. The Celebrated Florsheim Shoes on Sale. Our Great Stock of Fur- nishings on Sale. ' - We are forced to sacrifice to handle the matter for the Bemidji department. state association consists of E. M. John A. Boylhart, Rochester. lodge and was wont to resort there site was so conspicuously ‘dry, as compared with the surrounding country, that it was designated as an island and the place is known as Island Farm. It is, about two years since the work -of converting the swamp intoa farm was.begun and when the work of this winter in clearing is finished there will be about 600 acres freed/ of the covering: of tamarack, spruce, balsam, birch and other small gtowth which had been disregarded by ‘the lumberman. From the farmstead on the island, fine' sweeps of méadow and garder. lands - stretch -~ away. fields stand out level and ready for the crop maker. Here and there little bunches of ‘small timber have been left to which cattle resort in the summer. Down through the swamp tall poles with fluttering flags indicate the line of a great state ditch which will be put through in the spring to carry the surplus water from the lands recently purchased by other parties for improvement. The “island” proper is the site of ‘a comfortable farm home. Here Mr. Hartley has established a model farmstead with all the in- cidentals indicated as economical by the experience of the best farmers, and the owner himself did not have to depend altogether on the experi- ence of others for he has been farm- ing on a more or less large scale for 35 years. With a knowledge based upon experience, the buildings were all laid down on paper first, for in this country it is well to do nothing haphazard. The farmers must make Ditches drain the swamp -and the |l behoof of his stock in winter and a the best of the sunshine for thel| knowledge of which way the winds will blow from, generally helps in laying down buildings in such fashion as to get away from _the force of the winds. So the build- ings on Island Farm are grouped in such a way as to take advantage of the sun and to escape the force of the winds. There is a great barn in which four-score head of graded stock is housed. The cattle looked slick and clean in their quarters the other day and they are rarely allowed to run out, exceptin ex- ceptional weather. There are yards for the sturdy young stock, but outdoors is no place for milch cows at this time of year. In a roomy vard there is a thoroughbred Jersey bull, his 1,200 pounds of weight well spread and carrying in him- self the promise of an improve- ment in the grade of the stock of the farm for the future—though there are no scrubs on the place now. Just outside the barn there is a pump house which drives a fine water supply into tanks under the roof of the barn, and _under this same roomy roof there is a storage for 9,000 bushels of grain. There is a place for the feed mill and the grain is brought down automati- cally and fed in proper proportions asto weight. Itis not even neces- sary to take the cattle out of the stalls for watering, for the water is annual meeting there next year. Be-|Piped into the mangers. The cattle midji firemen believe they can get|are bedded with the peat taken the meeting for this city, and will|from the bog and dried, and make every endeavor to have a mem- | €xcellent and cleanly bedding it ber' of the local fire department|makes. In a word, the barn is mod- elected first vice president, to suc-|€rn, but the‘re is no waste and no ceed Bolan of Cloquet. A com.|frills—peat Costs nothing but the mittee consisting of J. J. Doran and | Cutting, and straw is a valuable E. H. Cornwall has been appointed asset. Under the roof of the barn there - is a machinery shed big enough The executive committee of the|to house everything on the place. Off from one side of the barn there Twiford of Owatonna, chairman;|is the dark storehouse for roots and Earl Geil, Bemidji; G.3W Cottrell, | celery. Here the natural tempera- Luverne; J.-W.- Helsper, Melrose; [ture is just right for_storage. The temperature - has been raised by - digging into the earth and allowing found an elevated bit of land in the |the natural warmth of the ground to midst of the swamp that offered a|come up through a grating. The site for a hunting lodge and there, |idea is ingenious and establishes a in the wilderness, he built him a|condition that is just right. There is a hog house with plenty for the pursuit of game. Gaining|of yarding for the prospective pork- an intimate knowledge of the country | ers to sun themselves; a chicken through years of tramping over it, | house; a stable for the horses—and the fact forced itself upon him that| here there is a fine pedigreéd Per- this rough country would lend itself| cheron stallion; a hot house in which readily to drainage—a state of affairs|the celery and other plants are quite common even in the roughest|brought to a proper state for trans- part of this section. He weat de-|planting; there is an ice house and liberately to work to acquire the|cold storage for meats and foods. lands surrounding the site of his|The quarters for the work people hunting lodge and he has developed |flank the residence on one side and it very rapidly. The hunting lodge|out beyond there is a little school WON THE SA Forks.---Visiting Team The “Big Bemidg” basketball team turned the tables on the strong independent team from Grand Forks, N. D., Saturday even- {ing, when the visitors went down to defeat, by a score of 11 to 7, the locals showing an entire rever- sal of form from Friday evening, when the Grand Forks quint won a game, defeating the locals by a score of 18 to 15.. The game: Saturday evening was characterized by very rapid work on the part of the players of both teams, the “Big Bemidg” bunch simply smothering the best players of the opposing team. ) Especialy was this true in the playing of (’Keefe, the crack for- ward of the Grand Forks team, who was responsible for the majority of the scores obtained by Grand Forks jon Friday evening. Professor Bid- dinger,who played opposite O’Keefe, covered the latter very closely; in fact, O’Keefe did not geta single chance to shoot the ball for the basket, and was never very danger- ous, due to Biddinger’s whirlwind playing. In fact, the little professor was on top of O’Keefe and had him “surrounded” before he could get his bearings. Josesh Markham, forward for the locals, was the bright star of both teams. Markham outplayed every man on the opposing team. He was sure on his feet, accurare in his passing and threw two baskets from the field"that were really phenominal. “Joe” scored 9 of the 11 points secured by Bemidji, making five field baskets and throwing one bas- ket from 2 foul. Brown (center and captain of the Bemidji team) also did phenominal playing, Saturday evening. The opposing center (Oliver) was an exceedingly tall man,standing 6 feet, 5 inches, being = a half = head taller than Brown. The Bemidji {“Auke’—an BIG BEMIDG QUINT EASILY TURDAY GAME Redeemed Themselves for Loss of Friday’s Game to Grand Was Outplayed at all Stages of the Game. captain rushed Oliver off his feet, several times. keeping him from scoring but once, the score being a accidental push during 2 mix-up under the goal sending the ball into the basket. Heffron, at forward, played against a very strong guard but easily outplayed his opponent, being especially gcod in passing the ball out of danger. Peterson, at guard, was consider- ably bothered in caring for his man (Holmes) who isa very rapid player, being especially quick on his feet. Peterson was inclined to be unsteady on his feet, but altogether held Holmes fairly well. Roy Lindsey Yefereed the game, and A. L. Cunningham officiated as umpire. The crowd was inclined to “roast” Lindsay on what they thought were decisions favoring the visiting team, but from an impartial standpoint, Lindsay was fair aed impartial in his rulings, the strong aggressive playing of the local team resulting in many penalties for fouls. The two games played between the “Big Bemidg” and the Grand Forks team indicates that Bemidji has one of the very fastest basket- ball squads in the entire northwest. The team lost Friday evening’s game mostly through over-confidence, and listlessness during the latter part of contest. Another factor was the absence of Collins, one of the very strongest plajers on the squad. With the entire first team intact, it is doubtful if the Grand Forks team can, at any time, defeat the locals, even for one game. Two teams picked from the players on the high school girls’squad played an interesting game, between the halves of the big game. The girls showed considerable im- prox}ement over the _'previons even- ing, and their playing was generally much better. —_— house—for the farm people are numerous on this big place and the owner while trying to make two blades of grass grow where none grew before is keeping well in mind the necessity for replenishing the earth and people with families are regarded as most desirable. It is such a farm house as might be lnoked for in the richest and best developed section of, say ‘Illinois. 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