Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1913, Page 1

SCHROEDER'S COWS MAKE GOOD PROFIT Average for Herd for 1912 was $40.67 Per Head, But Best Thirty Made $91.00 Each. NUMBER 6 GAVE 7,592 POUNDS Milk Record Shows It Cost $95 to Keep Her and That She Cleared $132.87 for the Year. OKE MISTAKE ©LOST $1,000 Broed Sows Were Allowed to Get Too Fat and Every Pig of First Litters Died. mittee for storage purposes. The Jreport showed that mnearly thirty! generous boxes of food were dis-f The Herd’s 1912 Record. Pounds of milk produced—194,- 462. Average per cow—4,523. Average per cow of best thirty—|,ssured that it any deserying person 6,200. Average income per cow—3$135.67. Cost of keep per cow—$95.00. Profit per cow per year—$40.67. Profit per cow per year from best|,q its immediate environs, and that thirty—$91.00. Record of best cow—7,592 pounds. Profit from best cow—$132.67. Two pounds of milk make one quart. W. G. Schroeder has just flnished compiling the record for the past year of his dairy herd on the “Al- falfa Farm,” in the town of Grant Valley. The record shows that the herd of forty-three cows has improv- ed a hundred per cent over the prev- ious year. By weeding out the poor milk producers this year, Mr. Schroe- der expects to raise his average pro- fit per cow in 1913 from $40.67 to over $100. His best thirty cows this year netted him each $91 in net pro- fit but the poor ones in the herd cut the average profit for the herd to $40.67. His best vow, No. 6, made him a profit of $132.76. These fig- ures are based on milk at six cents a quart. “It. pays to keep a record of the herd.” said Mr. Schroeder. “I have a record chart in my weighing room and the number of pounds given at »ach milking is credited to each cow. At the end of the year 1 know just what cows made money and which ones cost money for the privilege of milking them. By consulting the chart, 1 know which ones to get rid of. Furthermore, 1 know that I can build up my herd by selling off the calves of the poor milkers and adding heifers from the best milkers to the herd. “My herd was started with grade Hol n cows and a good bull. Now I have a thoroughbred registered liolstein bull and will put into my herd this year eight heifers over two years old and sixteen of one year and less, all being one-half or three quar- ters full blood Holsteins and daugh- ters of good milk producers. The sire comes from good milk producing atock. Feed According to Production. “I feed my cows at the rate of two- fifthe of a pound of bran for each pound of milk produced and tem pounds of hay a day in addition. ‘Whken a cow fails to produce 4,000 pounds of milk a year, 1 figure that she is costing me money to keep and I get rid of her as beef. Nine cows were eliminated from the herd this year via the beef route and they av- VOLUME 10. NUMBER 217. HE BEMIDJI D BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1913 3 COMMUNICATION The Associated Charities is meet- iug with deserved encouragement in the work recently undertaken. Do- nations of clothing and reading mat- ter are daily being proffered, and the necessity for a room somewhere in the business district. especially for the collection and distribution of these articlesi is being made appar- ent. A meeting of the board of directors of the association was held January 6 in the club room of the library, following being puesent: Mrs. Thos. McCann, president; T. 'J. Welsh, Mrs. R. F. Murphy, Rev, C. H. Flesher, Mrs. D. C. Smyth, T. J.| Burke and Mrs. A. E. Witting. Mrs. E. H. Smith, chairman of the relief committee, was also present. Mrs. Witting was elected secretary, and the first Friday of each month agreed upon for regular meeting of the directors. Mrs. Smyth gave a report on funds obtained and relief afforded and was given authority by the board to hire| a room to be used by the relief com- | triputed to needy families and indi- viduals in time for Christmas, and in all instances were gratefully accept- ed. So thorough an investigation was made in advance into conditions in the city that the directors feel was not reached at that time, it was hrough no fault of the relief com- mittee. It was agreed that relief work should not extend beyond the city all cases of distress reported from ! outside, if in Beltrami county, should be reported to the county commissioners. One branch of work which is bearing immediate fruit is that of the employment bureau,; whose notice appears in the Want- Ad columns of the Pioneer. Mrs. Welsh, secretary of the association, has met with ready response in her appeal for employment on the one hand and for help on the other, and the bureau bids fair to become the most helpful department of the asso- ciation. A full list of the various commit-! tees will be published as soon as completed by the president. —The Directors. ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE HOLDS UP INAUGURATION BY DEADLOCK 57 United Press. Springfield, Ill., Jan. 10.—The in- auguration of Gov.-elect Edward F. Dunne and other state officials, set for Monday, will probably be held up by the deadlock by both houses of the legislature over organization. Both houses adjourned Thursday without prospect of agreement. In the house sixteen ballots have been taken on the speaker without result, due to the number of Demo- cratic candidates and the factional, fight in the party. The balance of power is held Dy the Progressives, who so far have refused to make any deals. In the senate the same situation was true of the fight over committee plans. Organization in this body will be easily effected, however, if the! house comes out of its deadlock. The election of two United States senators may hang in the balance in fight going on now. Trades invol- ving these offices are hanging fire. | i - 1 WANTED A RACE OF SUPERMEN By United Press. Chicago Jan. 10.—Letters in the possession of Miss Alta Mew, sweet- uneart of Aev. August F. Schade, the minister who committed suicide in Cincinnati Tuesday, revealed today that tre clergyman had planned to found a race of supermen in the uto: ipia he was to start in Panama. De- tailed plans of the colony were dis- closed by the letters. Its sole object was to be the production of a super- AILY PIONEE : OF COURSE THERE'LL BE CANT YER UNDERSTAND, a[IF THED ZONES AINT Copyrigai., COMMISSIONERS ADJOURN| Will Not Meet Again Until March 4 —Appoint Ditch Committees and County Physician. DREW JURORS FOR NEXT TERM Adjourning Thursday after a ses- sion of three days, the board of coun- ty commissioners will not meet again until March 4. It was the first meet- ‘ing of the new board with William Lennon replacing Viggo Petersen and J. C. Thompson replacing Wil- {liam Fellows. The board appointed Henry Pfund supervisor of assessors and apopint- ed the following assessors at $3.50 per day: L. T| Otterstad, first dis- trict; John H. Hullen, second trict; Ole Miller, third district; Thor Hardelund, fourth district; J. J. Rustvold, fifth district. and B. A. Arneson, sixth. George Ostrander was re-appointed jan’tor of tke court house. Commissioners were appointed committees on the following ditches: Rako and Myhre, ditches 11 asd 12; Clementson and Lennon, 6, 7, and 13; Thompson and Lennon, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 14. Charles Schroeder was siven an appropriation of $500 with which to prepare a county exhibit at the 1913 state fair and $300 was appropriated for the county fair. Dr. E. H. Marcum was appointed dis- jcounty physician. The commissioners also drew a list of petit and grand jurors for the next term of court. MARY K. CUSHNER DEAD. . Mary Katherine, the twelve-year- old daughter of Mr. and J. N. Cush- ner, died yesterday morning and! the funeral will be held Saturday morn- ing at 10 a. m. The first service will be held at the house, 523 Sixth street, and from these the body will be taken to the Catholic church. The family arrived from St. Paul about one month ago and Mary had not yet started to school. eraged about $50 each when dressed, | 1T race and nobody was to be ad-' \PPROPRIATION RECOMMENDED, “As much of the milk produced is separated for cream, I keep hogs to tura the skim milk into pork at nine cents a pound. I have fifty-six hogs, of which twenty are brood sows and one a boar, on the farm at present and all are pure bred Poland China. The first litters usually come in April and May: One Mistake Cost $1,000. “lI made a: mistake with my hogs (Continued on Page 4) mitted without passing a mental and physical examination. SCHNEIDER BROTHERS BUILD. Schneider Brothers have added to their store a raised fenced-in plat- form where clothes will be kept. This new equipment will be. used exclussively for the youngsters and will make purchasing much easier for the customer and the clerks will have better advan- tage to display their wares. T. J. Burke today reecived a tele- gram from Washington which stated: that the committee on Indian affairs had recommended the appropriation of $2,600 for a survey of Red Lake and the harbor at Redby with a bor across the lake 'should be built. The matter will now go to the com- mittee on appropriations.. This: ac- tion is being taken as a result of the action of the Bemidji Commercial club and Congressman Steenerson. ON TH| KK KKK KK KKK KKK KKK * POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS * * The announcement of John % % L. Brown as a candidate for judge of the municipal court is published today elsewhere in the Pioneer. Mr. Brown is the second candidate to make pub- lic announcement of his candi- dacy. i 3 * Friends of L. G. Pendergast % are out with his nominating pe- % tition. Mr. Pendergast was jus--¥ tice of the peace in Bemidji be- fore the. municipal court was organized and claims to have tried 3,000 cases in the three years he was judge. C. C. Crippen stated to the Pioneer this morning that he was not sure that he would be a candidate for alderman of the fourth ward but that he thought he probably would be. * KKK KKK KK KKK KKK KKK * k k k Kk | 222228223323 222222 *ok ok ok kk kkKk KHKKS KKK KKK KK XK KK he COURT HOUSE NEWS. * KEK KKK KKK KKK KKK K { On January 7, a marriage license was issued to Herman Everson who will wed Miss Julia Meyer, formerly of Bemidji. Halvdin Berg of Baudette, has ob- tained a marriage license to wed Miss Jessie May Johnstome. At the last meeting of the county commissioners, the court house was examined and it was decided to let a contract at the next meeting to put the court house in repair. The court house has never been overhaul- ed since it was built and is beginning to look shabby. The wooden fixtures | both inside and out will be repainted and all necessary repairs will be made. Bids for the sale of the barn on the court house grounds will be opened at the next meeting. - The barn will be moved from the grounds as soon as possible, Many of the residents in' that portion of the city objected: to' this barn as it was con- sidered an eyesore and a nuisance. The commissioners decided to put the room in: the northeast corner of the basement in good repair and hereafter will: use it as a jury room. The necessity: of another jury room had.- been: brought up before the board some time ago but no action was taken:. When more than one jury was out they were forced to occupy the sherift’s office. After the basement rvom Is ready action will be taken to make two rooms on the third floor for jury rooms. W-..B. Stewart, county superinten- | dent of schools will leave this after- noon for Grygla where he will visit|’ the schools in that vicinity for the next ten.days. for small hoys}vfsw toward finding if a deep har-|JOHNSON’S TRIAL IS POSTPONED By United Fress. : Chicago, Jan. 10.—Jack Johnson’s trial on the charge of A smuggling jewels into this country, was indefin- {itely. postponed by Federal Judge Car- penter on Thursday. i ARGUMENTS | RECKO™ RIGHT = WHEN 1 ORANGES TO BE SCARCE Frost Damages California Crop Belt and Citrus Fruit Will Be High in Price, APPLES MAY BE SUBSTITUTED Minneapolis, Jan. 10.—Minneso- tans with a fondness for oranges jmay have to content themselves this winter with apples, declare fruit |dealers, because of the report of ex- tended damages to California orch- ards by frosts. The predicted shortage in oranges finds Minneapolis fruit houses with approximately 900 carloads of apples on their hands, according to one man. These apples have been accum- ulating because of the dealers’ in- ability to sell them. Orange prices had been so low that the apple mar- ket suffered. The frosts, if they were as bad as reported, will practi- cally eliminate oranges from the i Minneapolis market for the next two ! months. “We are receiving telegrams regu- California,” said A. N. Bearman of |the Bearman Fruit company. “The latest one came from one of the iargest lemon shippers in the citrus fruit belt. It stated that practically the entire lemon producing territory, stretching from Los Angeles to San Diego, had been frosted and the fruit ruined. ' +“Some lemons are raised in North- ern California, but that crop is all in. We prebably will have to depend on Sicily for our lemons until California recovers from this shock. The frost simply means larger importations of lemons. There is no place where we can get oranges for several months. The Florida crop is in and the Mexi- can oranges are not due until Sept. “Several carloads of oranges that were shipped before the frosts came are on tneir way to Minneapolis. I should say there are enough oranges here to last Minneapolis fruit dealers for about 2 week. At the end of that time, if the situation is as bad as re- ported, we’ll be ‘up a tree.’ It was expected that from 55,000 to 60,000 cars of oranges would be gathered in the crop which is reported blighted. “Orange prices may have gone up a few cents in Minneapolis since the frost reports reached here. Our com- pany has not advanced the price. California producers have withdrawn all quotations. and will make none until they have determined the exact extent of the damage.” HARRIS HAS PNEUMONIA. . Register of Deeds J. O. Harris is seriously ill with a severe attack of ipneumonia. ’ larly apprising us of the situation in‘ ~|ADJOURNS UNTIL MONDAY EVENING House of chnnéntntiveu Votes s. Two-Day Rest After a Five Hour Discussion of the Rules. RINES’ SUPPORT STANDS FIRM On First Test Vote, the Organization Won Out 103 to 15, the Dunns Leading the Opposition. MANY NEW BILLS INTRODUCER One For Mothers’ Pensions, Wori- men’s Compensation Act, and Two for Reapporfionment Filed. The Legislature Thursday. The house rules, as reported by the rules committee, were adopted except for two minor charges, one of whick allows 'a majority of the house at alt times the power to recall a bill from cmmittee. In The Senate. Important legislation introduced in the senate Thursday provides for & publie utilities commission to govern: service corporations, district sana~ toria for the better care of tubereu- losis patients, and a law to prevemt white slave traffic within the state. I In The House. In the first effort-by insurgents tex overthrow the support of Speaker Rines, the organizaéion won out by a vote of 103 to 15. The test vote was made following a discussion over the rules, and was led by H. H. and R. {C. Dunn.’ The Democrats voted al- most solidly with the Rines men. By United Press. St. Paul, Jan 10.—The Minnesota house of representatives adjourned: Thursday afternoon wuntil eight o’clock Monday evening after spend- ing almost five hours in continuous session discussing the house rules. The rules were adopted with but slight changes. The first bill was introduced by Rep. W. H. Campbell, Minneapolis,, which provides for permission for- Minneapolis to issue $150,000 bonds. for repairing bridges. Campbell also introduced a moth- ers’ pension bill, which provides that each county pay $10 a month to support children of indigent mothers: A Dbill by H. H. Dunn eliminates the teaching of foreign languages in High schools and will, if adopted, change the entrance requirements in the University of Minnesota. A workman’s compensation act !was introduced by Rep. Ernest Lun» deen, Minneapolis, fixing the amount of damages which may be received at $5,000, and also providing for Ipayment of fifty per cent of salary for eight years to permanently ip- jured workmen, Two reapportionment bills were introduced, one of which provides that the next legislature be composed of sixty-one senators and 126 repre- sentatives. P. H. McGarry, Walker, introduced a bi]l for an appropriation of $150,~ 000 for a new tuberculosis sanitar- ium at Walker. A legislative reference library, to be located at the capitol, is provided in a bill introduced by Rep. Ernest Lundeen. The bill carries an appro- priation of $10,000. The library is to be put in operation July 31, 1913. Three bills affecting the conduect. of stock brokers, known as the “blue 8.y law, were introduced during tue afternoon. = Rep. H. P. Bjorge, Lake Park, in- troduced a bill calling for the initia- tive and referendum to be adopted at the next genmeral election. W. H. Campbell, Minneapolis, introduced a. similar measure, as did Rep. C. M. Bendizen, Redwood. Street railway companies must maintain flagmen at all railroad crossings, or be subject to a penalty of of $10 a day by the terms of a bill (Continued on iast pege).