Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 2, 1914, Page 7

FREE GERMINATION AND PURITY TESTS University Farm Will Try Out Your Alfalfa Seed. ADULTERATION IS PRACTICED By W. L. OSWALD, University Farm, St. Paul. Alfalfa seed should be strong in vitality and free from the seeds of noxious - weeds. In order to insure the purity and germination of the seed it must be tested. In making a purity test the seed should be carefully examined to as- certain the percentage of pure seed, the percentage of dirt, chaff and shriveled seeds and the percentage of weed seeds. Besides these percent- ag the weed seeds should be identi- fied so as to find out whether or not such seeds as guack grass, Canada thistles, dodder and other noxious weeds are present in the sample. A purity test should be made in a seed laboratory where seed experts will identify the impurities in the sample and where accurate percentages can The seed laboratory at be obtained. Seeds of (a) alfalfa and (b) sweet clover. The eliptical form of the sweet clover seeds, which have the scar notch near one end, together with their uneven surfaces, serve to dis- tinguish them from the more nearly kndney-shaped and smoother alfalfa seeds. (Enlarged after Hillman). —_——————r—————— University Iarm, St. Paul, will make tests free of charge for anyone who sends a sample. Some weed seeds which are commonly found in alfalfa seed are those of dodder, Russian thistle, mustard, quack grass, gum weed, lamb’'s quarters, yellow and green foxtail, yellow trefoil and sweet clover. Adulteration with sweet clover seed is detected mainly by differences in shape and smoothness. The seed of sweet clover is rougher than that of alfalfa and is more uniform in shape, but it is only by careful study with a magnifying glass that one can dis- tinguish the difference. Sometimes alfalfa seed is adulterated with that of sweet clover and sometimes sweet clover seed is adulterated with that of alfalfa, depending on which hap- pens to be cheaper at the time. Alfalfa seed testing is only one of many subjects dealt with in Bulletin 49, on “Alfalfa Growing in Minneso- ta,” recently published by the Agri- cultural Extension Division, Univer- sity Farm, St. Paul. MINNESOTA WEEDS. New Bulletin Tells How to Recognize and Eradicate Them. Weeds and dairy cows, undesirable and very desirable farm inhabitants, are the subjects on which Minnesota farmers ask for station bulletins most frequently. Accordingly the Agricul- tural Experiment Station at Univer- sity Farm has just issued Bulletin 139, entitled “Minnesota Weeds, Series II." It describes twenty-four of the common weeds of the section and gives directions for their eradica- tion. It also includes drawings to aid in the recognition of the plants and the detection of the seeds in small grains and elsewhere. A similar bulletin dealing with twenty-four other common weeds, published more than a year ago, has been in great demand not only among farmers but also among schools that teach agriculture and botany. Pro- fessors Boss and Oswald, who write these bulletins, combine theory with practice by discussing the habits of growth of the different weeds in or- der that the directions for their erad- ication may be more readily under- stood and applied. Crab grass, witch grass, barnyard PRODUCTION OF HIGH' GRADE BUTTER URGED American Farmer Now Musf Meet anreign CGompetition. PRODUGT IS 'NOT UNIFORM Minnesota Dairy School, University Farm. St. Paul, June 1, 1914. To Buttermakers and Managers: Gentlemen: On October 3, 1913, the law reducing the tariff on import butter from 6 to 214 cents a pound went into effect. The result has been the influx of about seven million pounds of butter up to May 1 from varigus foreign countries. This, in turn, has caused a drop in the price of butter at home of from 5 to 8 cents a pound. 1 recently had the opportunity of sampling butter in Philadelphia and New York from Australia, New Zea- land, Argentina, Siberia and Den- mark. Of those samples tasted only the butter from Denmark could com- pete with our best Western make, but all the rest would rival the lower, grades produced in the country. On the sales floor in New York I tasted but- ter from Minnesota which was not as good as some of that from South America and Siberia. L One Trouble With Western Butter was found to be its lack of uniform- ity. Some creameries put out good butter most of the time, when, with- out notice or warning to the house receiving the. goods, they send on a poor lot. It may be sold on reputa- tion and a few days later returned. The butter house then has a quantity of poor butter on its hands and a good cnstomer lost. The value of constancy in high quality can hardly be overestimated. B Our Competitior: is now establish- ed. While the actual quantity of butter imported may never be great, the fact that New Zealand and Aus- tralia can put fresh grass butter on our winter market as cheaply as we can ship from Minnesota to either coast and the fact that Siberia has | tremendous pastures and cheap labor, and with Russia, Denmark and Sweden has, for years, been providing the best trade in Europe with good butter, makes of these foreign con- tributors standing competitors. EE The Oid Question again confronts namely, the production of high i butter, without material in- in cost of production. Many farmers are careless in handling their cream, and some buttermakers are not doing as well as they might. Cream grading has become a thread- bare topie, but it was never newer, more vital, than right now. There has never yet been devised a method whereby stale, rank cream could be made fresh and sound. The small creameries in this state have won- derful opportunities in being located near the producer, but this nearness is of no value unless the producer cares for his cream properly and de- livers often enough. The character ol cream and the butter made from it is determined by treatment and not by days or miles. The farm- ers who produce the butter fat are the ones who will be injured most by the poor quality of the butter made. The dealer gets his profit, the railroad its freight tolls, the mak- er his wages, the farmer what is left. The managers of the co-operative creameries of Minnesota should &is- cuss the matter with their patrons, frankly, that all may co-operate in furnishing to the buttermaker clean, sweet cream. The manager may then rightly insist that the butter- maker turn out high grade goods all the time. The conviction of the writer is that the allied dairy interests of Minne- sota should co-operate more actively than ever before to bring about econ- omy in production and efficiency in manufacture. Sincerely, R. M. WASHBURN, Assistant Professor Dairy Husbandry. SOW FODDER CORN. King of Forage Crops, Especially for Young Stock. Don’t forget that fodder corn is the king of forage crops and is especial- 1y valuable for the young stock when sown at the rate of about three pecks per acre. It can be sown with the ordinary grain drill if the feed cups grass, Darnel, Pennsylvania cmart- weed, wild buckwheat, night-flower- ing catchfly, cow cockle, purslane, false flax, black mustard, five-finger, wild rose, mallow, evening primrose, dodder, sticktight, blue vervain, cat- nip, buckthorn plantain, marsh elder, Mayweed, prickly lettuce and peren- nial sow thistles are the weeds dis- cussed in the new bulletin 139, while those included in 129 were quack grass, slender wheat grass, yellow foxtail, green foxtail, wild oats, curl- ed dock, sheep sorrel, smartweed, lamb’s quarters, pigweed, Russian thistle, corn cockle, white cockle, French weed, peppergrass, shepherd’s purse, wild mustard, yellow trefoil, sweet clover, kinghead, ragweed, bur- dock, Canada thistle and bull thistle. Both bulletins are available for dis- tribution to those who do not already have copies—J. O. Rankin, Univer sity Farm, St. Paul. Read the Pioneer want ads, are plugged or covered so as to sow rows three feet six inches apart. A corn planter may be used by ad- justing the dropping device so as to sow thickly. If once over the row does not put in enough seed, go twice in the same row and sow accordingly. The kernels should be from three to six inches apart in the row or proportionately thick if planted in hills with the planter. A yield of from three to five tons of field cured fodder or ten to fifte#n tons of green fodder will be produced per acre if sown as above stated. Seed for fod- der corn may be sown as late as June 15, or in case of scarcity of:pas- ture or hay it may be sown as late as July 10, provided theie is sufficient moisture in the soil to germinate the seed.—C. P. Bull, Associate in Farm Crops, University Farm, St. Paul. A want ad will sell it for you. arket Every farmer who has some- |through agriculturist B. F. Gile of |of ‘the Pioneer to accept only truth- thing to sell or who wants to buy{the high school. ! something is invited to send his de- published with out a penny of cost|parties. sires direct to the Pioneer office or[to the farmer. It will be the aim| Who Knows What Might Happen |Read what he hes to say. s Please report all advei:tlsem'ents that have served their purpose FOR SALE The same Wwill be|ful, reliable “ads” FOR SALE WANTED from responsible|what you've been looking. for. 7 You may find M m Just LIVE STOCK One pair 2% year old steers; two cows, two calves. I have one or two tons, possibly three tons of cabbage for sale. Is there a market there for same, or shipper? Please give me name, if any, and oblige. D. M. Edwards, Section 11-14-146-16, Town Moose Creek, Shevlin, Minn., Box 21. Four milk cows and three calves. Anton Anderson, R. F. D. No. 1, Be- midji, Minn. Phone 3601-16. Italian bees. Cal Rygg, Rout No. 1, Wilton, Minn. Phone 3658-12. One registered Holsteln bull, (3 1-2 years), W. G. Schroeder, Be- midji, Minn. One registered Holsteln bull, (5 years), $150, A. P. Ritchie, Bemidji Minn. One 3-4 Holstein bull (1 year). F. M. Pendergast, Bemidji, Minn. Three fresh cows, Maltby, Minn. Nick Nelson, One farm team to sell or trade for stock. Phone 3637-21. Be- midji, L. W. Aldrich. One S. C. Buff Leghorn male. R. R. No, 1, C. 1. Simpkins, Turtle River, Minn, Ducks for sale. 1, Bemidji. ALLIES GONTINUING TURNING MOVEMENT London, Oct. 1.—The war office is without details of fighting in France. It is stated the allies are continuing their turning movement against the Germans on their right and fighting of the most severe character contin- ues. The latest official report is that the French have occupied Peronne. This announcement, however, was originally made Sept. 24, when it was stated the French had carried that city by storm and it was then being used as headquarters for the opera- tions against St. Quentin. Because of this fact the suggestion is made that the latest report of the routing of the German right may be based on the development of the three days ending Saturday, when the Germans’ greatest effort was crushed in fighting that for severity eclipsed anything in the war to date. PROCEEDS GO FOR ARMS German Women Giving Up Their Gold Ornaments. Rome, Oct. 1.—The women of Ger- many, according to reports received here, are busily at work preparing woolen garments for the soldiers in the battle line. The clothing is made up according to measures, shapes and colors established by the government. The reports also state that a com- mittee of women has been formed for the purpose of inducing all the women of Germany to give up their gold orna- ments with the idea of transforming them into money with which to buy arms. Several million marks have thus been gathered up to this time. Each woman receives in exchange for her gold ornaments an iron ring in- scribed with the words, “I gave gold for this.” H. R. Carrick, R Railroads Given More Time. ‘Washington, Oct. 1.—The interstate commerce commission’s orders in the intermountain rate case, which were to have gone into effect today, will not apply until Nov. 15. This action was taken to give the railrloads more time to adjust their tariffs. Socialist Paper Suspressed. London, Oct. 1.—The Vorwaerts, a German Socialist paper, has been sup- pressed and its publication forbidden for good, .according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the 'Exchange Telegraph company. e PROCEBEDINGS CITY COUNCIL. CITY OF BEMIDJI, . MIKN., AUGUST 3, 1914— Council met in council room at city hall at 8 o'clock P. M. A quorum be- ing present meeting was called to order by Pres. Murphy. Roll Call. Upon roll call the following aldermen were declared present: Moberg, Lahr, Smart, Bailey, Bisiar, Foucault, Miller, Murphy. Absent; Ditty. Minutes. ? Minutes of the last regular meeting One grade Jersey heifer calf five weeks,” old, good markings. C. N. Shannon, Riverstead Ranch, Phone 3616-7. One light young team. A. P. Ritchie, Bemidji, Minn. 2 One Poland China sow, one year old in September, for sale or trade; for poultry or heifer calf. Mrs, E. 0. Whitney, Turtle River, Minn. R. No. 1, Box 68. c[o Victor Lester. MISCELLANEOUS For sale or trade for farm team. One Coltron continuous concrete mixer, also one hollow block ma- chine. . Address Box 66-A, R. F. D, Turtle River, Minn. One two geated buggy with light bobs for winter use. Frank Patterson, Phone 727-18. Wilton, Minn. One good sei double driving har- ness Just what you are looking for Elmer Oftedahl, Nary, Minn. FOR SALE—BIlacksmith Tom Brennan, Wilton, Minn. outfit. were read and approved. ills. after being audi- cond allowed: .$1,191.66 The following bills ted were on motion and s Pay rvoll, month August s engr. S, 1ggart, sweeping and prinkling contract Aug. .... Street g street labor .... 113.6% Warfield . Co., pumping and light tion Aug. .. 146.12 Warfield current li- brary 6.0¢ FFred Petrie, boarding paupers to date 79.41 Samaritan osp C a Westlund 20.00 16.00 o . 3.50 Austin-Western Machy. Co., 1,000 1bs, fibre for sweeper.. 60.00 Pioneer Pub. Co,, official print- 15 265 oalisls oioTors v o a0k ssetEn, ol * 60.10 i Eldredge. & house ‘patients Mch. April, 1914 . Northwestern Tel services Warfield Annette, care pest 1913 to Pioneer and staty. e ses L. P. Eckstrum, storm construction per cont. A. E. Webster, flowers acct. W. A. Gould, deceased M. Flint, inspection paving construction ........ Goodman & Loitved, 1st. esti- mate paving Nymore road ex- tension . Application; Application of J. B. Young for renewal of liquor license was granted on an aye and nay vote, all aldermen present vot- ing “aye.” Applications of A. F. Anderson and C. 8. Dailey for male employment office license were granted on motion and sec- ond. Application of Gus Brown for cigarette license was granted. Bonds. Liquor license bond of J. B. Young with the I'idelity and Deposit Co. as surety was approved. Employment office license bonds of A. F. Anderson with Edward Anderson and W. G. Schroeder as surety, and employ- ment office license bond of C. S. Dailey with Geo. W. Rhea and E. F. Stevens as surety, was approved. Reports. 7 Report of city engineer accepting the storm sewer construction on_ Beltrami Ave. under contract by L. P. Eckstrum, was read and ordered filed. Report of city engineer on cost of fill on swamp road leading west from city was read and ordered filed. Report of city engineer estimating the cost of drainage of the Nymore road near the Crookston Lbr. Co. stables, at $96.80, was read, and on motion and second the street commissioner was in- structed to do this work. 8. The following bids were now opened and read: Road job. No. 1, beihming at the center of Sec. 2, Township 146, R._33, running north to city limits: J. R. Miller—Clearing and grubbing, $200.00: turnpiking, 5c¢ per lineal foot; side ditching (700 cu. yards) 27c per cu. vard: installing culverts, $10.00; grading, (3730 cu. yards) 35c per cu. yard. Goodman & Loitved—Clearing and grubbing, $230.00; turnpiking, 5c per lineal foot; side ditching (700 cu. yards) 27c per cu. yard; installing culverts, $5.00; grading, etc., (3730 cu. yards) 25¢ per cu. yard. On motion duly made and seconded the bid of Goodman & Loitved was de- clared accepted, bond to be furnished in_sum of $500.00. ¥ Road job No. 3, beginning at the quarter corner between Sec. 2 and 11, running east one and one-half miles. J. R. Miller—Clearing and grubbing, $45.00 per acre; turnpiking, $150.00 per mile; installing culverts, $6.00. Ralph R. Ripley—Clearing and grub- bing, $48.00 per acre; turnpiking, $3.10 per 100 feet; installing culverts, $5.00. On motion duly made and seconded the bid of J. R. Miller was declared ac- cepted. & For completing ditch on road at the end of Fourth Street, ‘the bid of L. N. Brandborg, as follows: For ditching, 24c per cu. yard; for off-take ditch, $12.00 per 100 feet, and for metal cul- verts $5.00 each, was read and on mo- tion and second declared accepted. Resolution. Resolution designated as No. 61, ap- propriating the sum of Ten Dollars for the purchase of a wreath account of W. A. Gould, former alderman at large, de- ceased, was introduced by Alderman Bailey, duly seconded by Alderman Mil- ler, was read and declared carried on an aye and nay vote, all aldermen pres- ent voting “ave.” 3 eouns. It was moved and seconded that the salary of paving inspector be declared at $3.00 per day, instead of $2.50 per d.a)l; as set by previous motion. Car- ried. No further business appearing it was moved we adjourn. Adjourned. Approved, JOHN MOBERG, Attest: Vice-Pres. GEO. STEIN, City Clerk. 1td 102 LIVESTOCK and POULTRY ‘Twenty head of sheep, two due- rock, Jersey Gilts. Fred Hall Nebish, Two sows of the Poland China breed. Ed. Nystrom, Blackduck, Minn., Town of Langor, Sec. 33. ‘To buy 25 White Leghorn pullets, single comb, when about half grown. G. H. Smith, Kelliher, Minn. Freese, Phone 3626-6. soon. Address, A. A. Crum, Be- midji, Minn. = Seven miles south of Bemidji. To buy two good fresh cows. F. M. Two cows fresh or coming fresh Two cows: fresh or eomlig fresh soon. Address J. H. Sheets. Bemidji Minn, '6 miles south of ‘Bemidji. A Four sheep, John C. Vogler, Nebish Minn. (D6) LIST YOUR WANTS HE Cut out this Coupon and mail it to The Pioneer - FOR SALE 'WANTED FARMER’S SEED COUPON Cut out and Send to B. F. Gile High School Agriculturist, Bemidji Minn, ....Postoffice ........ ....Section Name .... Town .......... I would like to buy the followingseeds and stock: cnsinsiesesosioss s s BUSCOT: oio'eico'ossiosssssloiesieiors e . ..Bu. 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