Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 14, 1898, Page 1

Grand Vout VI.—No., 36. ap ds Herald Review. Granp Rapips, Irasca County, Minn., Sarurpay May 14, 1898 Two Dotuars A YEAR Drugs Full line of Perfumes, Toilet Articles, 4 Stationary and : i Druggist’s Sundries. = Headquarters for Periodicals. P ee , ae f ee f Se z: | Shoe Department j ss v =e OUR SPRING GOODS. Re ae Ladies’Gent’s and Children’s Black and Tan Shoes ’ ss in the Latest Styles. : ge It You Want a Good School Shoe for the Children, Give Us a Call. & oe * f 3 All Sizes in Cruisers’ and Drivers’ Shoes—Prices Right. I ae Seeds White Russian Oats, Timothy, Buckwheat, ‘Barley, Clover, Millel, Red Top, Extra Seed Corn. Secure Your Wants Early. Se eA eae ete See a ITASCA MERCANTILE CO., Grand Rapid gs, inn. Dry Goods We extend a general invitation to the public to call and examine our stock of Dry Goods. Dress Goods A Full Assortment Ladies’ Wrappers of Ladies’ Waists Brocaded Silk Skirts A New Lot of Laces and Trimmings. ' We expect in a few days a Full Line of the Latest Styled Ladies’ Capes and Spring Coats—Call and see them, Clothing and Gents’ Furnishings We are Strictly “In It” on Clothing. MEN’S SUITS FROM $4.50 TO $15. FULL ASSOTMENT OF BOYS’ SUITS. Boys’ Cveralis -dust the thing for play. Spring Overcoats at a Bargain, If you are in need of anything in the Clothing line it will pay you not to forget us. Groceries Crescent Creamery Butter, Good Dairy Butter. Full Cream Cheese, Edam Cheese. A Full Line of Black, Japan and Moecho and dava Coffee ( Something Fin E. B. Teas, DRIED FRUITS—Peaches, Prunells, Apricots, SilverPrunes, Pears. CEREALS—Oatmeal, Quaker Oats, Crushed Wheat, Postem Cereals. BOTTLED GOODS—Catsup, Chili Sauce, Pickles, Sour and Sweet Olives, Worchester Sauce. California Canned Fruits, Hiawatha. Maple Syrup (1 and 2 qt, cans.) Fresh Assortment of Kennedy and Lulibridge Crackers, = & TTT TT Tie son0 Mebebeeeteeetr pete prrr eerie pry seennsnassanensssnesnesnesnssnssssessesnesnesnesnstsseesesseestsssszesss saasecueenereeeeeee Furniture Bed Room Suits, Book Cases, Couches, Lounges, Rockers, Willow Rockers, Dining Chairs, chen Chairs, Spring Carpets, Matting, Matresses, Etc. itittitiittiteetrtttt ttt tt ttt t coo ae ae Hardware Department FH rt IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR A REFRIGERATOR ss as We have them— Prices Right. = ice Cream Freezers. A munition. Pi Coal Oil (Qts. and 2-Qfs.) Cook Stoves at.a Bargain, HH If you want a First-class Cook Stove giver us a call—we cannot = fail to interest you. se Crockery This Department ts Complete. all descriptions—all When in want don't forget ns. We Will Treat You Right. kinds. ss LL LULALLAEALEDALL AAEM AA bbb hhh dbdhhbhbdkd hbk bbbdkdbdebbbiohhbdb kdb ddd kbd Edhar ee Te Re ae ae ee A A AE ee eae eae a ae ae ee Ee aE EE ae a a ee ae eae a EE ae ae ee EA ae a eee ee ae eae ae eH ae a ae a ae eae A a eR TR ER ae ae a aR ae a a A A Eel A Common Drag —ai> Who does not remember the old wocden “dreg. with either scien or skill in its make-up—just a plain franie. with holes bored in the cross pieces, into which were driven very blue iron “spikes.” } And with the horses bitch- ed to the corner it wobbled along like—well. vou re { member what. The mo- EO pete tae ep OEE I IO, —eree0rer || i .. | tion is indescribable, Times Have i | Changed Since | Than -- - N | And so have “drags”. The proper thing now is “OLD RELTI- ) ABLE” Spring-Tooth Harrow. . These ha s are the very latest ‘They are built on utiflc principles, so that the thing out. teeth don’t “track,” but just dwerge enough to cover and pulverize As you will need a new harrow this spring \ we would \ik+ to have you come and examine this one. We know you will like it, We are headquarters forall kinds of farming j the ground thoronghly. tuuls, hardware and sporting gouds. } i W. J. & H. D. POWERS. ed SVs SSeSSeocSesqeSessceSsesesesS A SURPRISE IN STORE _onu# LADIES OF GRAND RAPIDS Here "Tig, wearitist Ladies’ Tailor-Made Suits, To the Ladies of Grand Rapids: my store and examine a: magnificent line of Ladies’ Tailor-Made Suits and Skirts which have just been received. This is the first consignment of these suits brought to our village, and in every particular it is a most magnificent line. I cordially invite an in- spection of these goods.* Miss Atherton will be pleased to show these suits and Skirts. : Figured Armure Skirts \ a Bayadere Brilliantine Skirts : Fancy Figured Jacquard Skirts. Sold at Rock-Bottom Prices! Durable! Beautitul! mm Black and Tan Broadcloth Serges * Brilliantires 1:1: ) Plaids,P1 a_ Plaids,—also Linen Crash Suits. Tailor-Made! My Stock of Ladies’ and Gent’s Furnishings is Superb. Elegant! Cheap! You and each of you are hereby most cordially invited to call at | C. H. MARR, THE CLoTHIER yeoseses OUR EXPERIMENT FARM | Work of Northeastern Experimental Farm For the Past and Present. THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT A Brief Summary of the Results Al- ready Found From 1896-7—Some Returns For Itasca County Farmers to Peruse. When Prof. W. M. Hays was in Grand Rapids a few days ago the Herald-Review had a very interesting interview with that gentleman con- cerning the Northeastern farm and the new superintendent. In reply to inquiries he submitted the following: “You will have learned by this time that University “Farm people have so much teaching to do in winter that they nearly hibernate until spring. But, in fact, just after school closes is my busiest time, since the experiment work in the fields must be made ready. Lest you get the notion that we are ready to start in on a summer’s vaca- tion, I may say that we have an editor’s kind of a vacation—always at hard work. “Mr. Chapman, the new superinten- dent of the Itasca county farm, has told us on his: recent return visit that he is pleased with that bit of mother earth, which is destined to aid in mak- ing famous the name of Grand Rapids. This land is proving well adapted to its work, and I dure say that Mr.Chap- man will become much attached to it. His early impressions certainly are very favorable. Mr. Chapman has compiled some of the results of Mr. Pendergast’s work, which I shall sug- gest that he hand you. . He tells me that he finds the records left by Mr. Pendergast, and afterwards added to by Mr. R, W. Clark, in very good condition, “Doubtless your readers will care to know that Mr. Chapman is in the work because he has an abiding ilove for it. Attending a city high school in St. Paul, and a scientific course in the State University, did not wean him from his desire to become an agriculturist. I have seen some of the records he kept of his fruit and vegetable garden when a small boy with only his father’s city property asafarm, His vegetables and small fruits would make some of Grand Rapids’ city farmers envious. When the newness of his position wears off, and Mr. Chapman has learned the various soils and has gotten all his varieties to succeed he will be prouder in showing his nice products to the people of Itasca couty than when as a boy he showed his corn, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries and other delici- ous fruits to his neighbor’s boys—and to the boy’s sister. “Mr. Chapman’s grandfather, Gen. aA | Hermann Haupt, was one of the lead- ing men on the Northern Pacific Rail- way years ago and employed Mr. Frederick L. Chapman, tather of Supt. Chapman, to come next and take charge of the company’s coal supplies. Mr. Chapman, Sr., has for some years past been in the fuel business in St. Paul. Two uncles, Rev. C. Edgar Haupt and Rev. Alex J. D. Haupt, are young ministers and the good people wished the young man to be- come a physician. This profession seemed quite attractive, I am told, yet he felt the wisdom of following a strong bent in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Chapman has followed the same course ‘in agriculture that men have found necessary in other professions He started in with the lower rounds to learn substantially as he goes. “After completing the work of the University he turned about and had nearly completed this other course when the authorities deemed him made of the right kind of materials for a superintendent of the Northeast farm. During his connection with the agricultural Gepartment he learned rapidly and he 1s rapidly absorbing the essential factors for success at Grand Rapids. Most people are only now coming to reahze what a large number of factors—interesting factors —there are in this agricultural experi- menting and thaching. Several thou- sands of people annually journey across the state to visit University farms, and hundreds come from other states. Northeast farm 1s bound, under the management of Mr. Chapman, to be- come not only a most beautiful spot but a place of wonderful interest. I bespeak very pleasant relatives all around. We who have worked in ex- perimenting for years realize how long it requires to secure valuable, definite results. Some people try to get im- patient for large things at the begia- ning of an enterprise, but in affairs laid for permanent things affairs move steadily and even slowly.” Supermtendent. Chapman _ kindly prepared the following report of ex- periments already ascertained during the past two seasons: Supt. Pendergast’s record shows that the crop of barley in the field in 1897 yielded 25.3 bushels, and ‘thir- teen varieties in the variety tests aver- aged 27.3 bushels per acre. Champion of Vermont yielded 36.2 bushels, Odessa 33.0 and Mansburry, 32-3 bushel per acre. ‘Three plots of flax gave only 6.6 bushels per acre, but this 1s accounted for in the cold season and the water which stood near or on top of the soil at one part of the plots. Ten varieties of oats averaged 58.2 bushels of fine oats per acre, and some of these are very promishing acquisi- tions to this part of the state. One field of oats yielded 41.8 and another field gave 50.8 bushels per acre. The varieties which yielded best were Lin- coln 67.6 bushels, Ligowa 65°6, Early Gothland 63.4, White Russian 61.7 and Black Russian 60.4. Nine vanities of peas averaged 10.1 bushels per acre, and a small field produced 8.2 per acre. Best varieties were: Prussian Blue 13.5, Blackeyed Marrowfat 12, White Canada field 11, ‘Vetch and Serradella. \ crown 10.5 and Audubon 10,1 bushels per acre. Eight varieties of wheat, on fairly sandy land averaged 14 9 bushels per acre. This wheat 1s reported at Uni- versity farm to be of much finer qual- ity than was produced at either of the other experiment farms this season. While it is not thought that the farm- mers should enter upon raising wheat as a business in this district, yet this experiment with wheat has ‘its im- portance. Nothing could more clearly show that all crops may be raised in their greatest perfection in the wooded district. The present season we are planting one or two varietnes of wheat part of it on clay land, and we may have some choice seed of wheat as well as of oats for sale another year. Two of the best wheats yielded near- ly 20 bushels per acre. Bolton’s Blue Stem, which has yielded exceedingly well at University farm, yielded here 19.4 bushels, being the highest yielder among those varieties considered the best at the University. A milling test was recently made of this variety and others at that place, and it proved to be superior quality. Eighteen varieties of potatoes aver- aged 181.7 bushels per acre. The larger yielders were Burbank 227 bushels per acre. Early Ohiv 223, Good News 220, White Elephant 222 Maggie Murphy 214, New Queen 211, Carmen No. 3, 198. Late Deleware 210, American Wonder gave 239 bushels per acre. The seed of this variety and of Good News 220 bushels had been grown at the Univer- sity farm in 1896. ‘The others have been grown here for two seasons. There were 28 varieties of corn grown Jast year, the seed of which was obtained from all over the north- ern part of the continent, it was not expected that many of these would ripen, and no attempt was made to isolate them for purposes of saving seed. It is intended to so test the different varieties to determine which is the most promising for this region, and then obtain a fresh stock of seed from the original source. Of the varieties grown last year, three ripen- ed. Two were varieties of Squaw corn, and one of Flint. ‘Three more were well along in the dough. As yet none of the varieties brought in from a distance have. proved better than those grown in this region. Small spots were planted to test a few grasses and forage plants as to their suitability. Spurry made an excellent coe as did also the Sand Vetch, Spring These are all members of the order Legummosae and have the power of accumulating nitrogen in their roots and enriching the soil. Mr. Lawrence Hickey of Manvel, N.D., who attended the funeral of his brother, Patrick, which took place im this village yesterday, desires to tender his sincere thanks to the kind friends whose generous aid and sym- pathy made lighter his sad missson to Grand Rapids. He will ever hold the memory of these good ~_— in highest esteem. Glasses of Arbor Day In The Woods Arbor day, designed by a prairie statesman fora pratie people, tends to cultivate -a love of trees and tree planting; ‘but people who live in the woods are not apt to appreciate tree planting. © They have at first plenty of shade trees without planting them, Settlers in the woods become rather oppressed by the confinement ‘and the uniformity of the continuous forest and long for, “openings” and ‘-clear- ings.”- ‘Che boy brought up in the woods is inclined to cut rather than to pjJant. This natural inclination of the woods boy is all right if it be used rightly. Paradoxical as it may seem, the inchnation to cut can be made to save the woods. The wood cutter should save the wood that he may have wood to cut. The lumberman should keep a forest growing to make his vusiness perpetual. Let Arbor day in the wopded Te3i0He be devoted especially to directing the woods boy’s inclinations into the right, the econ- omic, the useful, the patriotic channel, that the resources and advantages of the wooded regions may be perpet- uated. Here is a chance for our. boys to do something for their country. a chance for something like heroism, too, for advocates of forestry and fire protection are now laughed at and called cranks, as the first advocates of radical improvements usually are. Our immense forest resources, upon which so many now depend fora living, are being rapidly destroyed. The people who have been earning their hving by iogging and sawing must move away or learn new trades. Lumbering towns are. prosperous a few years, then decline, The land once growing valuable timber becomes waste and non-producing Show the boys that if they want to be wood cut- ters and loggers and lumbermen they must stop the forest fires: - If the boys want to fight, let them fight fire as they should every public enemy: Just how the proper spirit-may best be kept up niust vary with circumstances, but always and especially should the inclination to start fires be checked, and the dread of fires be cultivated. Knowledge of the trees, too, is 1m- portant; their names, their habits, the conditions under which ‘they grow best, and their’ uses’ are studies that can be carried on any day and every where in the woods. The ‘more known of the woods, too, as a mass the better; their effectiveness in pro- tecting against wind; their action in equalizing waterflow;, their improve- ment of the soil; their rate of giowth and rate of timber making; the effect of fires; the restocking of burned lands; these and many more data can be stored up at odd moments by the boy in the woods, and will prove very useful.—Duluth Herald. Tne Episcopal Guild will meet on ‘Thursday next at the home of Mrs, W. C. Tyndall. Ed. McCabe, one of the earliest residents of Grand Rapids, and well known in Aitkin and Itasca counties, was adjudged insane in probate court on Saturday last and was taken to the asylum at Fergus Falls by Sheriff. Toole on Tuesday,