Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1908, Page 1

" THE B J1 DAILY PIONEEIL VOLUME 6. NUMBER 197. - BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 5, 1008. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH MANY GOOD “POINTERS” AT FARMERS INSTITUTE A. J. McGuire and His Associates Gave Addresses Which Were Chock Full of Good, Wholesome Advice for Farmers on Cut-Over Lands. PROFESSOR A. J. McGUIRE, Superintendent of Northeast Expes riment Farm, Who Had Charge of Farmers’ Institute Here Yesterday. The Farmers’ Institute, was held in the City Hall yesterdayi brought out a good-sized crowd of farmers who came to the hall at an early hour and were prepared to! participate heartily in the meet'mg{ to the extent of listening to some; very good speeches containing bene- ficial advice as to how to live on a! northern Minnesota farm and con-| duct the same with profit. A. J. McGuire, superintendent of | the Northeast Expetiment Farm at| Grand Rapids; E. C. Brown of Elk| River; and T. B. McCleran of Wren-| shall, Carlton county, were the| speakers sent by the managers of wh!chi the State Farmers’ Institutes. And| subsequent events showed the gentlemen were just what was; wanted for instruction to the farmers of Beltrami county. All present were informed of the dinner which had been prepared to the farmers free of charge, and there was general satisfaction expressed at the thoughtfulness of the Bemidji | business men. Mr. McGuire was the first speaker, and he said, in part: “This morning I went around among the merchants and found out what the farmers could grow for which there would be the most demand and the best markets. I found that the demand for vege- tables was already quite well sup- plied by what farmers there are around Bemidji. As to the potato market, it is generally quite good, | although the farmers that now live around Bemidji can supply the local market. “With the increased population, which is beund to come, we have got to look to some different pro- duct. There is now being shipped this location. “We find that dairy. farmers, as a rule, are prosperous, regardless of their location, and that is due to the fact that the dairy cow is the most productive of all animals. “The common cow is capible of producing 5,000 pounds of milk a year, and 250 pounds of butter, with proper care and feed. The farmer, in his ordinary condition, may supply this. The well-bred dairy cow may produce as high as 8,000 pounds of milk during 2 year, a load that the best team in Beltrami county could not haul to market. ““This wonderful productiveness of the dairy cow is one reason why the dairy farmers are prosperous. Then, there is another reason: When we sell a ton of wheat, which today is worth in the neighborhood of $30, we sell $10 worth of soil fertility. In other words, if the fertility of the soil in a ton of wheat was to be bought in the form of fertilizer it would cost $10. When we sell one ton of butter, which today is worth $60 we sell less than 50 cents worth of soil fertility. In dairying less fertility of soil is removed than in any branch of agriculture. “Another reason why dairy farm- ers are prosperous—since this sec- tion of the state is especially adapted to dairying, and that without doubt dairying will be the industry of northeastern Minnesota. “We should keep and breed spec- ial dairy cows. It is not neces- sary for the farmers to go out and buy pure-bred cows, but to take his common cows, of the dairy type, that 1s, one with a deep body and spare, angular form. Cows of this type, regardless of breed, are very profitable dairy cows. Using these cows for foundation stock aud using the pure-bred sire, the cows of the country may be greatly improved, and after the second cross these grade cows for dairying purposes are practically as valuable as pure- into Bemidji, from outside territor-| bred animals. ies, large quantities of grain, oats, corn, etc., and also some hay, but I would not advise the farmers to aim to grow products of that kind to sell on the local market. Itis not profitable to sell such from small farms, but to grow what can be grown, feed it on the farm and sell it in the more advanced product of butter, meat and eggs. ““The one product for which there is an unlimited demand is butter. When the Bemidji markets are sup- plied, there is the Duluth and Iron Range markets, and the Twin cities, and maybe Chicago and New York. There is no possibility of a lack of markets for dairy products; and owing to the fact that dairying is the most profitable branch of farming, the farmers can be engaged in this; and the great demand for these pro- “There is no farming . community so poor but what they can afford to use the pure-bred sire. Ten farmers clubbing together by putting in $10 each, can buy a pure-bred sire. The heifers from the first cross \yill produce on an average of fifty pounds each per year more than their mothers. “This, in a single year, will pay many times over the cost of the pure bred sire.” E. C. Brown of Elk River took up the subject of rotation of crops and and the value of clover asa soil crop. Mr. Brown explained that crop- rotation consisted of changing the grain crop, the cultivated crop and grass crop, growing each crop only one year at a time on the same field. Whatever grain crop may be ducts shows that this is the indus- try, by all means, for the farmer in grown or whatever cultivated crop may be grown, clover should always ELK MEMORIAL SERVICES, Sunday, December 6—3 p. m, The annual memorial services for Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, B. P. 0. Elks, will be held in the City Hall, Bemidji, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, at 3 o’clock. Every member of Bemidji Lodge, all visiting Elks in the city at that time, and all members of the order in the vicinity of Bemidji are earnestly requested to attend and participate in these services. The Elks will meet at Masonic Hall at 2:30 p. m.,and march in a body.to the City Hall, prior to the services. Brother C. W. Stanton, of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, will deliver the memorial address. GEORGE A. M IRKHAM Bora Nov. o, 1885 Died Aug. 23, 1908 (Charter Member Bemidji Lodie) EEE PATRICK A. WALSH Born Sert. 19, 1855 Died Nov. 4, 1908 “The faults of our brothers we write upon the sands, Thier virtues upon the tablets of love and memory.” PROGRAM Hymn—"Ten Thousand Times Ten Thou- B8R, ooy conioiisinnaiatiaisiean wenen Dykes High School Glee Club. Miss Hanson, Director. Miss Gladys Stanton, Accompanist, Opening Prayer............. Rev. J. H. Deniston, 1 “The Prayer of the Virgin’ Miss Hanson, Director. Miss Gladys Stanton, Accompanist. Violin Solo—Leila Stanton. Memorial Address. - Hon. C, W. Stanton, 105 Vocal Solo—"'Come to the Land of Rest” FE TSR L) ++.Greeley ss Hanson. Mrs. A. A. Warfield, Accompanist, Benediction. Preperations have been com- pleted for the Elks’ Memorial ser- vices which will be held in the city opera house tomorrow after- noon at 3 o’clock, and indications point to the services being the most impressive in character ever held in this part of the state. The first Sunday in December E. H. JERRARD, Exalted Ruler. L 6 JUDGE C. W. . STANTON, Of Bemidji, 1052, Who Will Deliver the Memorial Address. 1s observed by all the lodges of Elks as Memorial day, when services are held commemorating the memory of brothers who have gone beyond, and it is imperative that every Elk should attend these | services, The' memorial committee, (E. H, Jerrard, W, S. Lycan, A. G Rutledge and A. A, Andrews) has| prepared an excellent program, the musical program of which will be especially good. The members of the local lodge and all visiting Elks who will be in the city over Sunday will meet at the hall, in the Masonic Block, and from there will march in body to the city hall, where the services will begin promptly at 3 o’clock. The public generally is urged to attend these services, which will all be of a public nature, and the ladies of Bemidji are especially invited. Hon, C. W. Stanton, judge of the Fifteenth Judicial , district, who is a member of Bemidji Lodge, No. 1052, B. P. O. E,, will deliver the address. e ———————————————————————————— e —————————————————————— enter the rotation before grain on each field once every three years. Farmers, often, in seeding clover, leave it for several years, not realiz- ing that clover is but a two-year plant, and that most of it generally dies out after the second year. It could be made to live longer, and it sometimes does, when the conditions are favorable. It would not be advisable to leave the field in clover more than two years, as, by break- ing the field over and putting it into potatoes, the increased yield from the potatoes will more than fully pay for the re-seeding of the field. Then, the yield of hay is always greater from the second year’s crop. That is a fact where each one has been planted. Clover is the only plant you may use on the field that would fertilize the soil. It is equivalant to an application of manure, in its fertile value. This is one of the principal reasons why it should be rotated. Mr. T. B. McCleran of Wrenshall, Carlton county, took up the subject of clearing land. He advocated the use of dynamite alone, stating that from his experi- ence he had found that it would not pay to use the stump-puller, but to use sufficient dynamite to blow the stump completly out of the ground. He reallzed that farmers often tried dynamite and were dissapointed in its results, claiming that they could not remove the stump completly by the use or the dynamite—the dyna- mite would only split the stump leaving the roots in the ground. Mr. McCleran claimed that this was due to the fact that dynamite was not used in the proper way. To get best results from dynamite it should be placed deep in the ground. When it was placed only directly under the stump the force of the dynamite would spread the stump, leaving the branch rootsstill in the ground. When it was placed deep in the ground, the depth being the distance of the diameter of the stump in the ground below the base | of the stump the dynamite then pro-| duces the force more readily, get- ting at the large branch roots and lifting them out of the ground, breaking the stump apart. He advocated the use of the der-| rick that would enable the stump to be piled onto the field, as in that| way they can be pulled up more completely, and by piling them first and burning them afterwards. Mr. McCleran stated that a good way to handle the stumps, for the farmer who felt that he could not afford the derrick for piling, would be to take a strip of land, through the field, say, a rod wide, for piling the stumps on, or rather not piling, but hauling them on this ground without taking any extra time to pile them. In this section of the state the farmers, as a rule, have a great deal more land than they work and the speaker felt that to utilize part of it as a place to pile the stumps would be making good use of it. Later the stumps could be piled and burned, when this land would be needed to use. At this juncture an adjournment was taken for the noon hour, and all were urged to be back at 1:30 sharp. W. R. Mackenzie, as chairman of the committee from the Commercial Club, distributed 112 free tickets for dinner, aud the farmers adjourned to the Klein building, where they par- took of a fine meal, expressing satisfaction with the splendid service given by the ladies of St. Phillip’s church, who had charge of the dinner. At the beginning of the afternoon session slips were passed among the farmers on which they wrote out any question they desired to ask. These were taken up and answered by the different speakers, a half hour of the afternoon session being devoted to this work. Mr. McGuire then continued his discussion of dairying, explaining how the farmers could have one cow produce 250 pounds of butter a year. i As a matter of fact one common cow will produce only 150 pounds of butter per 'year, owing to it being improperly fed, improperly housed and cared for. It is not necessary to have expen- pensive barns. The essential fea- tures of a good dairy. barn may be provided in the common barns as well as in the expensive structures COMMISSIONER OF STATE PARK DECIDES TO RESIGN R. A. Arnold, Who Has Had Charge of Itasca Park During the Past Two Years, Claims Conditions Are Anything But Agreeable, The Duluth News-Tribune of yes- terday morning contains the an- nouncement that R. A. Aronld, for- merly of Park Rapids, has tendered his resignation as commissioner in The writer had occasion, as a game warden for the State of Minnesota, to visit the State Park and call on Mr. Arnold, spending one night and a day there. At charge of the Itasca State Park.|that time one of the members of the The telegram is as follows: “St. Paul, Dec. 3.—R. A. Arnold, park commissioner, stationed at the so-called forestry school had dis- charged a firearm within the confines of the park, in utter disregard for Itasca State park, today filed his!that provision of the state game resignation with Gov. Johnson, to take effect March 31. Friction with | the forestry commission, which has| charge of the park, is hinted at, and | the further statement made that if Arnold had not resigoed he would bave been forced out. “Mr.Arnold, in his letter, says that his resignation was prompted | by the failure of the commission in charge to make the needed repairs to the park lodge so as to make it; habitable and also to give him the| support necessary in caring for such | a valuable property as the state! park. , *“Up to two years ago Itasca State | park was under the care and control ; of the governor, the attorney general | and state auditor, but by the terms| of an innocent-looking bill slipped | through the last legislature, the management was transferred to the forestrv commission. The scheme was to vse the park as a school for students in forestry connected with the state agricultural college, they, while learning, to act as aids in the care and improvement of the park. The suporession and control of forest fires was also a part of their duties. “Arnold was an appointee of Gov. Johnson, but from all accounts, the forestry. board did not take kindly to him and he was given to understand that his retirement] would be appreciated. Gov. John-| son did not say today that he would‘, accept Arnold’s resignation, and it was said that he might order an; investigation of the management of the park. “Between twenty and twenty-five | students are housed 1n a big tent located in the park and there fed and taught forestry. Some months | ago the students and the state| game and fish commission clashed, it being allege 1 that the students were violating the game laws.” laws which forbids that very act. The “‘student” was arrested by Game Warden Wageman, and was brought before a local justice of the peace and fined. Certain members of the forestry board who were at the lodge at the time threatened dire vengance upon the warden, who had simply been doing his duty, and complaint was made to the State Game and Fish commission. Just what was done in the matter is not known; but it is known that the settlers who reside jin close proximity to the park, and who are not allowed to hunt within a half mile of the park, are greatly incensed with the liberty which was exhibited by the “students” in doing about as they pleased with regard to the discharge of firearms in the park At that time, the members of the board (at least two of them) stated that Mr. Arnold was not quite what they desired in the matter of a “second-fiddler” to their whims when they were at the park; and the writer is not at all surprised that they have made conditions so un- satisfactory for him that he has been forced to resign. Mr. Arnold has had years of experience in the woods, and prob- ably understands the care of the park better (or just as well) as any And from what we could see, he was attend- member of the board. ing to his duties in an admirable manner. His resignation is no sur- prise to us. Will Have Outing Here. A telephone message to the Pio- neer from C. J. Pryor, who has been attending the meeting of the Great Northern Editorial association at Wadena, states that the editors decided to hold ‘their annual outing |at Bemidji and that they would be here for one entire week during the month of June. Mr. Pryor was elected vice-presi- dent of the association and he states that the editors accepted the invita- tion of the Commercial Club and { Mayor Pogue unanimously. A full account of the prooceed- ings of the meeting will be given in Mouday’s Pioneer. i Cass Lake Masons Elect Officers. Cass Lake, Dec. 5.—(Special to Pioneer.)—At a meeting of the Cass Lake Masonic lodge held here last night the following officers were elected: Worshipful Master, E. J. Lundrigan; Senior Deacon. P. M. Larson; Junior Deacon, E. D. Boyce; Secretary, Chas. Graham; Treasurer, J. T. Gardner. Our Invitatio Once each week we pay for this space for the priv- ilege only of inviting you once to again to become a depositor of our bsnk. The person who reads about us fifty- two times a year ought to know us at least fifty two times better than il he had read of us but once. * he knows us the more likely he is to like us and our business methods. Your account, large or small, is urgently solicited and respectfully invited. The First National Bank of (Continuéd on last page.) ’ The better Bemidj 1]