Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 11, 1920, Page 2

High Schools Clash in Basket "‘Game and Locals Win, v 7" Score 58 to 0 L MONTANA RANCHER IS ‘ CLEARWATER BOOSTER i People You Know Special to Pioneer. Bagley, March 10.—The local high _schiool basketball team met the Black- duck quintette last Friday in a game which resulted 'in’ a decisive victory for our boys. The score being 58 to 0. With the fast playing of the local boys . the Blackdyck, team was un- able to' make a‘ ntn;}g point. jd e iding by Kalb aud | ~m%‘;°r?}:,"ifi also the Martines bas- ket shooting, iwho:caged the ball seemingly at will. The téam has had a great shaking up since it met defeat by the Fosston team early in the sea- .son. 3% iid The previous Friday the local bays deteated Erskine to the tune of 42 to'16. ‘They will clash with the fast Bem{djf ‘team ' Wednesday and it is boynd to' be = fast and interesting Montans Bancher Arrives. Paul Harmen, formerly a rancher near Willeston, Mont., arrived here last week with a carload of cattle and horses and machinery. He has bought a farm two miles northwest of Bagley and will engage in the farming indus- try. He likes the country here and expects to hring another carload of stock to Clearwater county in a short while. E Store Being Enlarged. The carpenters have begun working . on the Bagley Mercantile Store and will not cease until they have re- ‘modeled it completely. A new office is to be erected on the first floor and a large addition built . to the store. ‘This will give much more room, and will résult in an up .to date department store. . Mrs. Aaron Halseth left for Fosston Monday, where she and her husband will make their future home. A party in her honor was given at the home of Mrs. Ole Olson last week. Mrs. Halseth has a large ¢ircle of friends and they all regret to see her leave. * Personal Mention. Miss Judith Malmoe of Gonvick, enroute to Crookston, visited with friends here Saturday and Sunday. Misses Wetzel and Patrick, mem- bers of the High school faculty, visit- ed in Bemidji Saturday. ? Miss Acquira Kolb left for Minne- apolis Saturday for a few days visit with her sister, Ruth, -who attends the University at that place. Mrs. Mabel Dennis. arrived here Monday from Bemidji, being called there by the death of his father: ¢ Cecil Daniels left for Minneapolis 1ast week, where he will visit for a few days wiih friends and relatives. ! Several of the young :people of Shevlin came here Friday to attend the basketball game and dance. Among them were Migses Dorothy and Ethel Noyés. Myrtle Gordin, Ce- . cil Holten, Mabel Rank and Miss Ramstad. 5 Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels visited with friends in Shevlin on Monday. J. R. Daieh of Ebro was a business - caller in our city on Monday. Miss Anna Olson arrived from Gon- vick Soturdav, where she teaches in a rural school. She will enjoy a va- eation »t her home here. 'Her school being -closed indefinitely on account ‘of sickness. Marion Johnson. who teaches in a rnral school near Bagley, left Satur- day for Thief River Falls, where she ‘visited friends and relatives. U R AR X XXX ERY * TURTLE RIVER * b R % % Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wentworth and son, Phil, were Sunday visitors at the 0. W. Olsen home. Mr. .and Mrs. Jense. Nielson and daughter, Mattie, were Sunday even- ing visitors at the Gust Swedberg home. . The many friends of Charles Long, hospital with influenza, will be pleas- . ed to hear that he is able to be out again. Lloyd Swedberg was a Sunday vis- itor at the Davis home. y Miss Jennie Lawrence spent Sun- day with the Misses Alice and Inez Butler. "A. P. Reeve was a Sunday caller at the H. King home. M .. ‘Garnet Hines, who was visiting.her sister, Mrs. Byren Wentworth reécent- ly left for Washington. +f Jassamine Long visited at the Dahl home Sunday. g ‘Willlam Malterud is ‘visiting his mother, Mrs. Peter Malterud. % Floyd Swedberg, who has been as- hoine. Mr. and Mrs. G. ' W. Crandall was'a ‘Monday caller at the Gust §wedberg homte. - * sisting his brother, Axél, has returned; H VAN Sell at a Very Geod ‘Figure for (Prepared by the United States Depars- ment of Agriculture.) Clover seed s high priced and scarce, and good samples will' com- “mand prices that many farmers will $e loath to pay. The United States @epartment of agriculture, however, Wmuoflln‘ot as large an acre- age as possible. The best information shtainable shows that the foreign mar- ot is ‘quite as bare of clover seed as % ‘our ‘ewn. "The French and Ttallan supplies are. sold out, and there ap- pears to be no surplus in Germsny or 1a Russia. This means that clover seed will be high for at least two years to come if met more, and thase farmers who. seeded last spring‘or who seed in 1920 will have a chancé to sell their adlover seed crop at a good figure. This 1s & time to look ahead, and for Amerl- can farmers to get the benefit of the high prices, before Europe has been able te get back to normsal production and the prices fall, Watch Quality of Seed. In view of the high price of clover seed, it is especially important that farmers -pay careful attention to the quality of seed they buy, The relatfon between the purity and germination of a sample of clover seed‘and its val- ue to the farmer has been so fre- quently discussed that it is not neces- sary to enter into details. A farmer, paying a low price for a poor lot of geed, may really be paying more for the good seed that will grow than he would have in a sample of higher price. The only way to decide this is 'to secure samples and quotations from reliable firms, and have the seed an- alyzed by the state seed laboratory or by the seed laboratory of the United States department of agriculture. The attentlon of farmers is also call- ed French and Italian seed has been and 1s being imported Into this country and #hat the experiments so far conducted by the department of agriculture in- dicate that this seed will produce a plant more subject to disease and less hardy under American conditlons than plants from our own seed. In gections where there is no disease and if the winter is moderate a suc- |} cessful stand of clover may be secured with imported - seed, but the chances against success ‘are ‘always greater than when using American seed. Farm- ers are urged, therefore, to insist upon a’ statement showing where the seed offered them ‘was harvested. It Is also a time to consider with more than usual care the means neces- sary for getting the most out of the seed sown. It will not pay to throw sxpensive seed in poorly prepared ground as was so often done when clover was cheap. The seed bed should be well prepared. The best way is not to sow the seed in early spring on the wheat, but to harrow it in on the whent or to seed with a spring grain fn a well prepared seed bed. Seeding dlone without a companion or nurse grain crop will often be better, but not always. If seeding must be done on rather worn soll, 1t is better to seed alone especially if the field Is not very weedy, If a ‘special seed bed is pre- pared it should be well compacted. A freshly plowed and harrowed fleld is too open for the best results. The soll must be compacted or the seed bed will dry out before the young plants get their roots down far enough. Be Sure Whether Lime Is Neeged.' Another matter of the utmost im- portance is to consider whether or not the fleld it-is proposed to seed needs Nime. Unless the farmer is' sure, he should send a sample of the soll to his state station and inquire, Not far from 75 per cent of the arable land eabt of the Mississippi and north of the south- ern boundary of Tennessee needs lime to bring a good crop of clover. This fact can not be too strongly em- phasized. If the soil is “sour” do not waste ' expensive red clover seed on it—let some one else have it. But land need not remain soar. A ton or two of finely-ground limestone per acre will, In the average case, put the soil into condition to grow clover. It is not necessary to put on enough to com- pletely satisfy the llme requirement. The Pennsylvania station has shown that a-lime requirenient of 500 pounds per acre or less d@ld no great harm, but when more i8 needed it must be supplied if clover is to do well, Soll |'with a lime requirement of 1,000 pounds or more pes acre will usually not make a paying crop of red clover. If the wheat ground needs lime the clover should ‘he seeded with a spring arvesting Red Clover for Sesd—Presant Indications Are That Clover FOR AMERICAN FARMERS TO REAP BENEFIT OF HIGH PRICES FOR CLOVER the Next Twe Years, Perhaps Longer. plowed greund. If this can not be done the limesténe may be put on the wheat ; and harrowed in with the seed, though it is not_so effective when applied in this way as when spread on plowed ground and harrowed in. Farmers 1o0k- | ing ahead for severdl vears should con- : sider liming the corn field next spring, I especially if this is to be followed by wheat with clover on the wheat in 1921, Corn responds to liming- more | than small: grains: do and: limestone | put on in this way will prepare the ground well for a subsequent clover crop, Used in this way the full amount necessary to satisfy the lime require- ment ghould be used, as some wiil be lost -in drainage water and:some will §} be removed by the corn crop. A coat- ing of manure will help clover, and on some solls phosphates are essential. Potash Is Scarce. In some cases, too, potssh gives good | results, but potash it still scarce and itd use will not be warranted unless the farmer knows that it is needed. A word of warning must, however, be added in the discussion of lime. Lime is not a fertilizer, and if used persistent]ly without -adding organic matter in the shape of manure or crop residues will eventually leave the sofil the poorer. When clover is grown the nitrogen will largely take care .of ft- self, but phosphorus and.sometimes potash will have to be added as soils need them. And most of all’'will they need organic matter. g - Good clover crops He at the founda- tion of agriculture in the northeastern quarter of the United ‘States.“On many farms good olover crops can not be produced without lime, but lime alone will not permanently help the situa-’ tion. A proper system ef rotation with clover as_a regular element in a three very especially to the fact that or four year rotation must be adopted for the permanent upbuilding of the land, and then whatever else the land needs fn the way of lime or fertiliser must be added thereto. JOIN “BETTER SIRES” DRIVE Federal and State Forces Orolfiized in 40 States—Many of Them Now in Full Swing. ' Soe S 1In.40 states the “Better Sires—Better Stock” campalgn of federal and state agricultural forces is now fully organ- ized. and in ‘many of them it is in fall swing. Of the few not yet enrolled several have made plans for joining the movement, which promises numer- ous benefits to the live stock interests of the country. Each of the enrolled states has filed with the bureau of ani- mal industry, Upited States depart- ment of agriculture, the name and ad- dress of an officlal djrectly in charge of the work.’ This list will be furnished any inquirer on application. The states enrolled In the crusade on January 1 were as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, ‘Colorado, Connec- ticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Lou- isiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachu- setts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Penn- sylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro- lina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, | West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. CULTURE OF FRUITS FAVORED Supply of Valuable Food Furnished at Relatively ‘Small Cost—Best for Health. A more general culture for fruits ia gardens and home orchards would con- tribute substantially to the health and pleasure of the average family besides furhishing a supply of valuable food products at a relatively small outlay of money, says the United States de- partment of agriculture. | PRODUCTION HAS INCREASED Improved Methods and More Efficient Facilities Are Needed for Han- dling Products. Production during the last dscade has increased greatly, and as a nat- ural ' consequence improved methods and facilities for handling the inereass have become necessary, says the Unit- ed States department of agriculture Keeping pace with increased produc- tion has come the demand of consum- ers 'for more elaborate and efficlent grain with lime harrowed in on the | service. : - e———— S (] & % >‘ > n Py pi & . ¢ s " b 1 NNOUNCIN(S N _ . OUR NEW SPRING S . 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