Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 5, 1916, Page 3

| | | .. FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1916 AUTOPUL Will absolutely pull out of the mire any car on itsown power. There is nothing to carry but two small drums around which rope or cable is wound, and two hollow iron stakes. The PILLSBURY AUTOPUL tached, when required, to each rear wheel hub flange by special projecting Locking Nuts. side, ed The drums are slo Nuts have been placed the back until the heads of Nuts come through the slots, and then turned the opposite direction from which the machine is to be pulled out. locks it securely without the aid of any tools, and no further fastening is need- ed. Detuch proce The rope (or cable) is small opening in each once around to relieve the s by simply small hook, then carried forward or back- ward from the under side to a stake, telephone pole, GEO. T. BAKER & CO. Distributors for Northern Minnesota Bemidji, Minn. h slot having an enlarged part; the large openings are brought opposite the bolts on which the Special Locking drum, wrapped PILLSBURY is at- started, and tted on one gradually out drums. The drum pushed the Locking ditions with This instance. eives a testim reserving the it will do. hooked into a getting stuek In ordering machine, num bolts, locatior hub caps. train from the and anchored tree, post or any stationary object; the motor is then the cable to be wound, which pulls the car that could be obtained with the motor alone on good ground, because of the lev- erage or reduction through the reels or PILLSBURY been thoroughly tried out under all con- roudsters, and found satisfactory in every Write or ask anyone who one who has seen it work ; they know what With a PILLSBURY AUTO- PUL equipment you are insured against the wheels slipping cause with eight times the power AUTOPUL has trucks, touring cars and onial letter, or in fact any- in mud, sand or snow. give the make and model of ber and size of hub flange 1 of nuts and diameter of Live Agents Wanted. KKK KKK KKK KKK *® MALCOLM * ¥ (By Special Correspondent.) * TR KKK R KRR KKK KKK Rev. E. O. Sabo neld Easter ser- vices here Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lerum and Mr. and Mrs. John Jokela had their babies bap- tized. Owing to the washouts in some of the crossings between here and Gryg- la the mail carrier has been unable to make his regular trips. Ole Sversvold, who broke his leg about a month, is improving as rap- idly as can be expected. Henry Johnson returned from Grygla Sunday where he has been do- ing mason work during the past week. Mrs. Fred Bjorge has been enjoy- ing a visit from two of her brothers of Red Lake Falls. Andy Erickson came home from the North where he has helped Alvin Miller put up his homestead cabin. Blake and Gessel are now ready to | commence ditching in the town of Hamre. Railroad reports sound quite prom- ising of late, so now everybody ex- pects to see a station going up on their land within the next few months. p You can get a big, fat pencil tab- let for a nickle at the Pioneer office. and an extra big, fat ink paper com- position book for a dime. All the “kids” will want one when they see ‘em. KKKKKKKK KKK KKK KKK Read the Pioneer want ads. KRKEKKK KK KKK KKK KKK e iven Hardware News BELTRAMI COUNTY'S PIONEER HARDWARE NEWS R. L. GIVEN, Editor N. E. GIVEN, Manager Vol. 1, No. 34 Bemidji, Minn., May 4 Published Weekly Potato Crop For 1916 Will - Be Most Profitable In Years Acreage in East Will Be Reduced on Account of Cost of Fertilizer; Peo- ple Eat Potatoes Regardless BZ: Product to Be Great. Listen to this, Mr. Farmer. The! cost of raising potatoes in the eastern states, particularly in Maine, which is the greatest potato raising state in the east, will be so high that it will drive these farmers to raising other crops. The price of commercial fer- tilizer, normally $30.00 a ton, is now $85.00. Last year it cost these grow- ers $6.00 an acre to spray; this year it will cost them $17.00 an acre for the same spraying, an increase in cost of $66.00 an acre. The finest potatoes are grown in Minnesota without the aid of com- mercial fertilizer, because the ground is new. And as we have to spray for bugs only the cost of spraying an acre should not be over $2.00 this year. of High Prices; Demand for As it will cost the eastern potato raiser about $102.00 against a cost of about $2.00 an acre, we think we have rather the advantage. People eat potatoes regardless of high prices, and with the prospect of decreased acreage in the east, the demand for good Minnesota potatoes should be great and will surely in- crease the price. Our advice is: toes. Hoover potato machinery will do the planting, spraying and harvest- ing quicker and easier. Hoover 2- horse one-man potato planters are guaranteed accurate. Price $69.40. In settlements where there is enough acreage to warrant, we will rent a planter at $1.00 an acre. Plant More Pota- Some Fence Bargains Our fencing is going out fast these days, and we have several lots of 32-inch and 47-inch American fence that we are selling at bargain prices. We also have a clean-out price on all sizes of Ellwood fénse. Among our fence buyers this week are Ole Husset, H. R. Gillette, G. A. Tuller, Gilmore farm, Ole Erickson, Theo. Peterson, W. G. Schroeder and the Catholic school farm at Red Lake. MANY BUY DISC HARROWS. John Deere Model B disc harrows with the third lever for levelling the dead furrows and knolls are the discs for use in this country. Among our disc buyers this week are: K. K. Melland, Pinewood; Father Thomas Borgeding, Red Lake; Dr. Gilmore and Gunder Odde. Take ONE MAN DOES WORK OF SEVEN You fellows who are planting gar- dens can accomplish lots more and get more pleasure out of the garden if you use a Planet, Jr., garden plant- er and cultivator. One man and one of these machines ; can do as much in one day as seven men can do the old way in the same time, Get one of our Planet, Jr.,, cata- logues.. These fellows are wise to the benefits of having garden tools and bought this week: Nels Bye, Solway; P. J. Trodal, Wilton; L. W. Packhard, W. Gray, Clark Pole & Tie Co. Take a look at our Thermos lunch kits. The Thermos bottle permits a good hot drink of coffee for dinner and the arrangement of the pail per- mits lots of food. Better get one. You will feet a look at this disc harrow yourself. PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP. If You Own 2 Cows Buy A Separator So Advises a Well Known Farmer Who Has Facts to Prove His Statement. Amund Swenson of Rosby bought a De Laval cream separator here this spring. He told us this week that he would have saved $400.00 if he had bought one four years ago. In advising a neighbor to buy a De Laval separator, he said: “No farm- er with two cows can afford to be without a De Laval when he can buy it on the terms offered by the Given Hardware Co.” This is the experience of a De Laval user and you should profit by it. You may have a De Laval cream separator set up in your home on approval at any time, and pay for it on the easy terms referred to by Mr. Swenson, Let's Go Fishing “Say, ma, can I go fishing “Yes, sonny boy, but be careful.” “‘Say, ma, there’s no use trying to catch fish without one of those joint- ed steel poles up in.Given’s window. John had one of them all fitted out at the Given store and he caught more fish Monday than all the rest of us kids put together.” The above conversation we find tells about as much as we could tell in a whole page. Come; see our win- dow, and if what you need to fish with isn’t there, just ask the man. BOYS. Take a look at the nifty getup of the bicycles that John Koors and Phil Denu are riding. They look fine. Come in and let us show you these wheels. We store stoves for the summer. Just telephone 57 and our men and team will call for your stove, which we store and return in the fall for better. Price for awhile longer, $2.50. $5.00. paint is better than anything else injget painters who -will do the work the paint line. The covering capacity is greater right. Our paint buyers this week include Everybody is doing it, especially{ang the paint is all paint material.|H. W. Lawler, J. C. Taylor, Ralph the paint up part. And everybody |See us about your painting job. We|Grover, W. J. Tisdell, Geo. Knott, knows that Minnesota Linseed Oil |know you want the best and we can|Fred Petra, M. Rygg. Making the Little Farm Pay By C. C. BOWSFIELD - A Minnesota reader asks for specific information as to the successful raising and profitable marketing of geese. It may be claimed with the utmost confi- dence that no domestic fowl will grow into money faster than the goose. To a limited extent also it is true that these fowls can be made to pay in any part of the country and belong in the ordinary farm program, big and little. Geese sell commonly in the retail markets at a range of 18 to 22 cents a pound, minus the feathers, which are worth 25 to 50 cents. As a goose ten months old should weigh fifteen pounds, there ought to be a gross price of $2.50 to $8. Then, allowing 50 cents for feed and care, there is a profit of $2 or up- ward on each bird. The market is never so overstocked with geese as to prevent farmers ob- taining these prices. The parcel post enables those living a considerable dis- tance from town to market their poul- ‘try direct to consumers at full retail prices. It is always possible for per- sons handling poultry on a large scale to supply a regular line of trade. They A PAIR OF TOULOUSE GEESE. may arrange with hotels and restau- rants, boarding houses, clubs or private families to take a given quantity of apy line of produce. Many successful rais- ers of ducks, geese, chickens and tur- keys have their private customers and obtain top notch prices. So long as the market stands on its present high level no farmer can claim that he cannot sell a well fattened goose for $2.50. The plain truth is that all winter long every city and most of the villages consume these meat fowls at prices ranging upward of 18 cents a pound. Where a farmer ships in a haphazard way to dealers whose only object is to pay the lowest and receive the highest prices possible there is no certainty of profitable returns. Neither i8 there a chance for fair profits where geese do not have a reasonable amount of clean range. They are birds which require pasturage just as much as cat-J tle do. It is-ene of the strong: points in favor of goose raising that they grow their fifteen pounds or more of excellent flesh on a grass diet, the cheapest food used by any domestic creature. Where geese, ducks and turkeys are raised without suitable range their worth in market will little more than equalize the cost of the grain or mill- stuff which they consume, but in my estimate of profits it is assumed that the feeding will be along natural lines, with only a small proportion of the market value of the fowls taken up in the consumption of expensive feeds. Geese require an extremely small per- centage of grain products. Geese are the hardiest of domestic fowls, and as they grow and thrive on cheap for- age, picking up in the flelds and around the creeks and ponds a large part of their living, the proportion of loss 18 lighter than with other birds. In view of these incontrovertible facts it is & growing wonder that more farmers do not raise geese, and then it 18 equally a wonder that they do not more generally establish parcel post shipping direct to town familles that would be glad to buy their sup- plies fresh from the couutry. Too many farmers are still committed to old fashioned methods of ralsing big crops and neglecting the smaller side lines. All over the west there are thrifty villages and cities which make good markets for poultry. In Minne- sota, as in other well settled states, the parcel post can be used to good advantage in shipping supplies of all kinds to the large cities within a rea- sonable distance. Uhtil producers over- stock these markets, they are not liv- ing up to their best opportunities in money making. As to the best types of geese, ducks, turkeys and chickens for a farmer to handle, I just wish to emphasize my belief that all the common or standard breeds are good. For purely meat production it is wise to select the larger types, as they keep just as eas- ily as the others and bring a larger price in market. Farmers who have not heretofore made much of thelr poultry, but who desire to eStablish this industry as a prominent feature, should correspond with hotel and restaurant keepers, or with private families in town and endeavor to se- cure definite orders for such poultry as they wish to raise. To Kill Slugs and Snails. When slugs and snails are trouble- some in the garden, dusting the soil with slaked lime will check their at tacks. In cellars salt cin be used ef- fectively, but salt is likely to damage plants when used in the garden. KKK KRR KKK KREKKKD * 'WILTON - % % (By Special Correspondent) ¥ KKK RKKRKKKKRKKK The dance given by the Scandina- vian orchestra in the M. W. A. hall Saturday night was a bgi success. A very large crowd attended and an ex- cellent time is reported. Another big dance will be given for the bemefit of a mnew Catholic church on Saturday night, May 6. Everybody welcome. There must be a reason why we are selling lots of . this popular roofing cement. There is. The best reason is that it is without question the best roofing material now in use, and that all who have used it swear by it. It is an asbestes fibre roofing, strictly fire proof and absolqtely water proof. It is great stuff to. use -for patching and is sold ready to put on. You Gan Buy It in 1Pound Lots orin Barrels. Twenty-five Pounds Will Cover Tightly 100 Square Feet, Let us have your order, if it’s only a trial. ST. CLOUD OIL COMPANY Phone 91 Near Great Northern Depot. Bemidji, Minn. The Ladies Aid society held a meet- ing at the P. J. Frodahl home last Thursday. On account of the snow and wet weather on Sunday the baseball team was obliged to give up the game plan- ned with the Solway team at the lat- ter place. The game will be played next Sunday if the weather permits. Mr. and Mrs. Jule Achenbach at- tended the dance Saturday night and visited Sunday with Mrs. Achen- bach’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Brennon. . Arthur Rogers spent Sunday after- noon at the Geo. Maness home. KEEHKK KK KKK KKK * SMITHPORT * ¥ (By Special Correspondent.) EHEKK KKK KKK KKK KKK Albert Smith has completed a bridge across the Big Deer river on his farm. Stephen Novack left for the west last week. His family is still here. Mr. Novack is one of our most pro- gressive settlers. Mrs. Petrowske is cooking on the Kohler Contracting company’s dredge. Smithport postoffice has been ad- vanced to a money order office. KRR KR KX KKK KRR K x SAUM CONSOLIDATED * * SCHOOL * ¥ (By Special Correspondent) ¥ KK KRR R KKK © Supt. W. B. Stewart and Axel Pet- erson visited at the school Wednes- day. Edward Olson left for Chicago Mon- day. We are sorry to see him go. There was no school Thursday and Friday on account of several wash- outs after the last rain. Horseback riding seems to be quite a sport around here in the evenings, ‘Take advantage of a want ad. KEK X KKK K KKK KKK KKK * ECKLES * (By Special Correspondent) +* IR RS R R RS SR SR S 8 84 A number of young folks of this town went to the dance last Satur- day night at Wilton. There will be a dance given at Wil- ton in the old Woodman hall next Sat- urday night for the benefit of the Catholic church. A quilt will be raf- fled. The Farmers club met at Brennan’s Wednesday, May 3. * Tom HOW TO ANSWER BLIND ADS. All ads signed with numbers, or initials, care Ploneer must be an- swered by letter addressed to the number given in the ad. Pioneer em- vloyes are not permitted to tell who any advertiser is. Mail or send your answer to Ploneer No. , or Initial , and we forward it to the ad- vertiser. wearing them. perfectly. 0% Bemidji, - A MAY SALE DAINTY WASH FROCKS From an economical point of view—from a stand- point of style and with due respect to fit and quality tHE ELECTRIC sranp HOUSE DRESSES are the most practical frocks you can buy for Summer wear. Their tiny cost places them within the reach of all and be- cause they are so cleverly styled, so perfect in fit and so delightfully comfortable, all women will find keen pleasure in Soil them as often as you will, mere home laundering restores their freshness. bn sale here in endless styles and sizes to fit ALL Wash Skirts, green, blue and black stripe price $2.00 women Minnesota