Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 1, 1919, Page 3

'!,'HURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1919, *li#**fiil**l&if& “* KELLIHEE §CHOOL NOTES. * AR K KKK KKK KKK ¥xx«x d ~Verne Strand enrolled in the : rimary grade last week. ' 5 Visitors sin: the second.and .third KKK KKK KR KKK XN * ECKLES. Y3 R KE K KR KKK KKK R Barney Giboney has recently pur- chased a new Ford car. Mr .and Mrs. O. W, Olson and fam- fly spent Sunday with the former’s sister and brother-in-law. Mrs. and Mr. George Brennan and family. Mr. Carl Blom was. soliciting for the Victory Liberty loan last week. The Misses Alice and Celia Bren- nan and brother. Burt, attended the reception at the West Wright home in ‘honor of their son, Melvin, who has récently returned from the army. Mr. Jack Kennedy is moving his family into tnis neighborhood. They are moving in the house where Guy An interesting Liberty loan meet- ing was héld at the Murray school Thursday’evening. Those present en- joyed the talks of the speakers from Blackduck, The town board mel at the Mm’rayv school Saturday evening in ‘the in- terésts of the Fifth Liberty loan. Misses Olga and Clara Stene visited a few days at their home. grade room last week were: Mes- dames Thompson, Nyquist, Johuson, Skrief, Lennon, sud Bmflfi? d . Gertrud i . _ Roy eanes'~ and - Gertrude |y - o Strand- wers ‘enrolled in the fourthj , W NO;T;;B;.« R : and fifthigrade room last week. 3 X }uheamls of ‘the class play en-|¥® ¥ XK X K X K X X K KK KK X & Mrs, E..P. Cronemiller was on the “Playidg ~ Fair” are —going| d,;:’tyh 1’.’,&"" It will be pro- ?lc}z list a!(ew days the past week, but s improving. : Fiad el rsfi;a%e::e::gnmx?lfl%n °sfp£§g . Arthur Brown has sold his forty to | Clarence Worth,' it' was ‘formerly a|jasater fomerly lived. 1o an appreceative audience of all part of the**Jim Brown" homestead. y 2 iy ithe “’W{h grades in the':lssembly Ross 'Arderson /loaded: a’icar Of | x & & ¥ * KRR K KR KKK Toom on Thursday. : Their talks werely, ; 5an014 goods and farm implements 'both interest!ng and profitable. the. last,of ihe -week, .and left for x PLEASANT VALLEY. * P MacLean, state lnspector.of | fannah, N, D, Monday... Mrs, An-{X X ¥ ¥ K&k Kk K x & ¥ * & derson, .and children are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coffin en- Mrs. Frank Anderson of Bemidji for|tertained Mr. E, R. Lee and family a few days, but ‘will join her husba.nd at dnner Easter Sunday. ~ Misses Christine . Stephani and the middle of the week. ‘Mr.<and Mrs, C. B. Amold. and | Bessie Cook spent a couple of days Mrs. Ora Whiting were in Bemidji}last iWfiek shopping and visiting in | Bemid, Friday. -Mrs. Whiting spent the day Mrs. Levi Foster and Mrs. Etta with relatives Mr. and Mrs, A. Skoogland were| Watson spent Thursday visiting with Bemidji visitors Monday. - Mrs. M. W. Knox at Glen Loch farm on Ten Mile lake, Mrs. Ed Letcher and daughtar have Mrs. Bert. Vogler and Miss :rrl;edhtromhl’llnel}slllnd. They mo- e A Lak ored through in their car. Knox entertat e Ten Mile Lake The threp gr:fllg;le: m Mr. 'and Mrs. B. Hagzen were guests | school pupils with a taffy.pull last ? 3 2 f Friday afternoon. | of: Mr. andMrs. H. L. Arndld 8undly Mrs. Jones entertained several of ‘| afternoon the Pleasant Valley ladies at her home Friday afternoon. Mr, and Mrs. M. W. Knox gave a party last S8atusday evening for sheir daughter, Bess,” who came home from Bemidji high school for Easter vacation, accompaniea by Miss Mil- dred Dickenson. Quite a large crowd was present and a most en- joyable time reported. Mrs. J. J. Pete spent several days in Bemidji the past week. Mrs. Etta Watson spent a couple of days in Bemidji the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dickens had a “{visit from their son, W. F. Dickens, who motored from White Earth one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Gardiner en- tertained Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Randall and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wordon Easter Sunday. Mrs. Etta Watson entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ira Cook and family Easter Sunday. Don’t forget, the Pleasant Valley Farmers' club meets at the R. R. Dickens home on the east shore of Boston lake Wednesday, May the seventh. All the members should try and be present as there will be plenty of strawberry shortcake served with the dinnsr. Or is it pie Boones Anderson, ‘pleasant.yisit all forenoon on Thurs- day. He spoke appreciatively of the .zepd work done. in; school, . Mr..Mac- ‘Lean and Principal T. S, Thompson ‘autoed out to the Saum school in the aflmoon ;geries ;of notable events in the ucational history of Kelliher will ‘be “the graduation exercsés of the Kelliher “public. sclicol “during” May and.June;-This-is-the first-year that Kelliher graduates;a:class from high’ R el SRR Justly proudiof| LOVIS, * AR TER SR R R B tute the ' commencenient exercises: . Miss Haxen Salstrand, who has lass:play, -entitled ‘Play-| saiti g 4 ing Fair P been vuihng her parents, returned 15 p. m. June first baccalaureate txe!, then, - The tollowlnx events will eomm- to woxk finmpn and a friend are vidtinx Ai ouis. The town d was out investigat- > ling the road Fflday Mfiu Mmut ‘Arnold and Annottn Nh an Fn?g atithe home of A. O. Y- ‘A ,plrtyw! young folks went .to 4 B e, dance At Pennington Saturday. ii y 5 { > ; g Margaret _Arnold, who has 2 , 5 gt been teaching the Moose Lake school, HORNET. returned to her home at Crookston. FREKEREKEKK KKK KKK M Magnes- Lonewentoutto work Misses Ruth and Elsie Jennings Saturday. spént Easter in Bemidji. Mr. Satter of Blackduck drove out ‘Mrg. O. P. Stene has been working to his farm-at Louis Saturday. at Mr. Linquists in Langor, for a few |, 0. 8. Neuman visited at the home eeks. ‘of Johnnie Arnt Sunday. tVilrork has been done on the roads| Mrs. AL 0! Anderson - visited her ately. son at:Funkley Tuesday. Mrs. Paul Pelland of International| The regular meeting of the farmers ‘Falls has been visiting her folks at club will = meet . Saturday at the Long Siding. Kitchie school house. 7 SMOKING TOBACCO ‘WHEN I go fishin’ I want fzsh that bite, and tobacco Vb “Bite” in tobacco comes either from poor leaf or wrong “ripening.” We-use for VELVET only the finest Kentucky Burley. But we don’t stop there. We put millions of pounds of this tobacco away every year, in wooden hogsheads, for Nature to patiently ripen and mellow, Therc are quicker ways, but they leave some teeth in. The VELVET way makes the friendlier kind of to- bacco. You can always go to 1t for comfort with- out a “come-back.”’ Get chummy with VELVET today. Roll a VELVET ] Cigarette ' VELVET’S natuare-aged mildness and smoothness make it just right for cigarettes, - N tive Paae THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER nggxe of our club members are so fond of There was a dance given at the Boston lake school house on Satur- day evening, April the twenty.sixth. Quite a number of young folks from Nebish attended. Rev. Courier, the wnnnllut held services Saturday evening and Sun- day at the Watson school house, Rev. Courrier and family were en- tertained at the J. J. Pete home and at the homes of A. A. Randall and Ira Cook, during the week-end trip from ' Bemidji Mrs. E. R. Lee 'had ten' guests at ‘dinner Friday, the occasion being to witness the stump pulling demon- stration by E. R, Lee and Charlie Coffin, A good stump puller in this section certainly does great work An acre of fairly stumpy ground is about what can be cleaned up with the.puller in a day. dmond F’oster chlled on Miss Mildred Dicksnson at the Knox home Easter Sunday, taking Miss Dicken- SOUTH BELTRAMI COUNTY FARM BUREAU SERVICE BULLETIN " Office: VOL. 1. trami County. A. W. AAMODT, County Agent. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, So. Belt. Co. Farm Bureau Ass'n Pure Seed Potato Special Treat and Breed Your Potatoes WHY TREAT? Seed potatoes should be treated to prevent the losses now occuring from the three diseases known as scab, black Scurf (Rhizoctonia) and blackleg These diseases are found on the potato tuber and if they are not killed' before planting more or less damage will occur by the reduction of the stand and the production of an inferior seed or table potato. Before treating, the grower. should secure good seed i stock, of high grade, true to name, free from varietal mixture and as true to type as is possible to ob- tain. When using well ‘selected and treated seed, the grower can in- sure hlmself a much Iarger yield than when using untreated and un- selected seed. He must however follow up his selection and treat- ing with up-to-date potato growing methods giving thorough cultiva. tion, rotation, rogueing out diseas- ed and undesirable plants during the growing season, and selecting the best hills or tubers during the digging season. The ten demonstration plots as conducted in the county last year (1918) have shown that the most satisfactory results are obtained where the dormant seed potato was soaked 1% hours in the corrosive sublimate solution. The grower has the choice of the two disinfectants, formaldehyde and corrosive subli- mafe (commercial). The corros- ive sublimate, however, has shown to be the most effective because of its effect on the black scurf. The treatment will increase the yield from five to fifty bushels to the acre and will help to supply the de- mand for good, healthy, northern grown seed stock as well as assur- mi more bushels to the acre and igher price per bushel. Some objection has been made that the treatment is inconvenient be injurious to sprouted his can be overcome if the grower will .treat two weeks or more before planting or when the tubers are still dormant. If the grower has the facilities, he can geat any time during February to ay. CAUTIONS AND PRECAU- TIONS Corrosive sublimate is a poison. It is colorless, tasteless and odor- less and is sold in either a crystal or powder form. Keep all live stock away from the treating equipment and the so- lution. It does not injure the hands so that the solution can be handled but not taken internally. 1t corrodes metals and therefore it must be put into wooden, gran- ite; stone or cement containers. The barrels, tubs, or other uten- sils may be easily cleaned out by rinsing after the treatment is com- pleted. . Bury the solution and the waste potato pieces in a pit as soon as the treating and cutting is com- pleted. Dry the potatoes after treating or pldnt at once. Use clean containers, such as sacks, baskets, bins, etc., to put the potatoes into after treating to avoid contamination after they are treated or cut. ter. on Thursday, fourth, April Phone 638-W Court House, Bemidji, Minn. MAY 1, 1919 Bins and equipment can be dis- infected by scrubbing out with a solution of one pint of formalde- hyde to ten gallons of water. Do not leave the potatoes in the solution too long. Injury to eyes may result. When treating enough potatoes for only a few acres, ask the drug- gist to put the corrosive sublimate into two ounce cartons or pack- ages. It will aid you in making up the solution. TREATING OF SEED POTATOES The following method for treat- ing_seed potatoes with Corrosive sublimate (commercial) is recom- mended for use in South Beltrami County where the growers are })lantmg from two to twenty acres. f the acreage is larger than twen- ty, it would be advisable to secure a large tank that will hold a large amount of potatoes at one time. By the following method and only one barrel, a person can treat from 25 to 30 bushels with the one solution. If four or five barrels were used, one man could treat 103 to 1650 bushels of potatoes in a day. It wfll require 6 ounces of cor- rosive sublimate for each barrel used and this will treat six batches of potatoes. A b52-gallon barrel will hold from 4% to 4% bushels of potatoes so that with the six batches one can treat about 27 bushels, enough for planting 2% to 2% acres of potatoes. A Equipment: To be arranged in a convenient manner. 1. A platform from two to three feet high. 2. A B2-gallon barrel with -a hole bored near the bottom and fitted with a pine plug. Set barrel upon the platform. 3. A half-barrel or tub which will hold at least 30 gallons of liquid. Mark the height of the 30 gallons of solution so0 as to elimin- até measuring when making the other solutmm 4. A Wooden pail to dip the hquld from the tub. . Six ounces of corrosive subli- ma B. Making of the Solution. Pour two gallons of hot water into the tub and add four ounces of the eortosive sublimate. Stir thoroughly until the corrosive sub- limate has all dissolved, then add enough cold water to make a total of 30 gallons of solution. Treating. a. Fill the barrel with screened potatoes, as dirty potatoes waste and weaken the solution. b. Add enough of the solution from the tub to cover the potatoes. It will require about 23 gallons of the solution to cover the potatoes. About one gallon will be lost with each batch treated. c. The tubers should soak in this solution for 1% hours. Then, pull the plug and let the solution drain into the tub. d. The potatoes should be re- moved from the barrel and spread out to dry. A good method would be to have a low wagon next to the platform so that the potatoes could be dumped into the wagon box and then spread out. e. Six batches can be treated in this way after which the solution should not be used any more. These six batches can be run thru in just about a day and there will be just about enough potatoes to plant 2% to 2% acres. If one desires to treat only enough potatoes for one acre, the son for a ride over to visit Mr. Fos- ters parents, Mr. and Mrs, Levi Fos- | midif Sunday and attenaed tue serv. 'l ices held at'the Watson school house. Gordon Gardner drove out to con- bish visited the Boston- lake school{sult Dr.- Nefl at Puposky last Satur- as Gordon had a very sore Mr. and Mrs. Hamline from Ne- the twenty-{day, throat. WE PAY the highest market price for rags metals, scrap iron. on allout of town shipments for 100 pounds and over. pri¢es paid for hides. 'GOLDBERG’S HIDE & FUR CO. rubbers and We also pay freight Highest 112 3d Street Telephone 74. ‘NO. 6 This Farm Bureau Service Bulletin will be issued: as often as there is sufficient material to warrant its publication. It will be mailed to each Farm Bureau Member, to the secretaries of the various Farmers' clubs, to'the newspapers of the county, to all-the Farm Bureau offices in the state and wherevet is may be of service to the farmers of South® Bel- same directions as above should be followed except that the propor- tions should be cut in half. D. Renewing of Solution. The solution decreases in strength with use so that it will be necessary to add two more ounces of the corrosive sublimate. This can be done while the third bntch is soaking. Pour two gallons of hot water into the pail, add two ounces of corrosive sublimate and stir until dissolved. Pour this solution into the tub. It will mix with the solu- tion that drains from the third batch so that the 4th, 5th, and 6th batches will be renewed. E. Cutting the Seed. Further selection should be made by rejecting all potatoes which show any ring discolor- ations or dry rot when cutting. The potatoes ought not to be cut before treating unless they are to be planted the same day. POTATO SEED PLOT The “Potato seed plot” is the foundation and breeding plot that the grower wants in order to keep the strains up to their maximum production and to eliminate the diseases as far as possible. The seed plot is tq receive special care and should be large enough to sup- ply the general field of the next year. For example; if a grower has ten acres of field potatoes each year, he should have a one acre seed plot. From this one acre seed plot, he will select the best 156 bushels of seed for the next years seed plot. The balance of the potatoes g’om the seed plot will be used in planting the general field. The potatoes from the general field will not be used for seed but will be sold either as table potatoes or cer- tified seed. The following steps are recom- mended for use in South Beltrami County and should be followed as closely as possible during the vari- ous seasons. A. Spring Management. 1. Seléct (for a one acre plot, 15 bu.) potatoes of good uniform size, true to type and as free from dnsema a3 possible. Cut off from % to 1 inch of the stem end of every potato and throw away. Also discard all Eotatoes showing brown ‘streaks or rown ring discoloration, saving only the potatoes of clear color. The cutting off of the stem end re- moves the fusarium wilt and other diseases which may be present. 8. Treat in corrosive sublimate as soon as possible after the stem ends have been cut off. Follow the direction for treating n? given in the preceding article. If only one acre is to be planted, use only half proportions. B. Summer Management. 1. Rogue out all diseased plants or place stakes so as to mark the best plants for hill selection. 2. Rogue out all mixtures. C. Fall Management. 1. If. possible, dig with a fork and select the very best hills which are true to type and free from digease. 2. If mass selection must be practiced, be careful and select tlt)e best type possible for the vari- ef 3 3 About 15 bushels should be saved for the one acre plot of the next year. D. Winter Management. 1. Store in crates and under the best conditions possible, Remem- ber this is your best seed stock for the next year and the years to come so give it all the attention possible. ' PAGE THREE Rev. Soper motored out trom. Be-