Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 3, 1906, Page 1

— Grand Uapids Vor, XIII.—No, 32 Herald-Neview. | —— i: - Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906. Two Do.tuars a YEAR. BARGAIN ANNUAL ALE! Ladies’ Furnishings. Gents’ Furnishings Underwear. Dress Goods. Flannellettes. Ladies: Skirts. Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats. Ladies’ Wrappers. Embroideries. Ribbons. Knit Goods. Remnants—all kinds. Laces. Shoes. Shawls. The above and ‘many other items are included in this sale, and we can assure you that there are to be found real and actual bargains in the entire list. store. It’s time, patience and valu- able fuel wasted for nothing. Good Heaters can be had at our hardware Prices on that kind commencing tremely low. keep warm. convinced. Wd & HD POWERS % An inspection will certainly convince you, ONE WEEK MORE. The Itasca Mercantile Company. % Don’t Monkey __.- With a Poor Heater. 1906 are ex- Don’t shiver; Do it by buying a new keater. Do it now, and buy one. See them and be The Palace Restaurant DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ ‘Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the markets don’t keep it. The Sunday Dinner Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays........ ay DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. GREVWSSISSSVESESVES: Pioneer Meat Market THOMAS FINNEGAN, Prop. Fresh and Salt Meats We Carry Only the Best that Can be Had. Our Special Brands of CANNED GOODS are the best offered to the public. Poultry. Game, Etc. THOS. FINNEGAN '"S4,A%8!"2:crottice t Butter. Eggs. Cheese.. LANDS. Farm, Timber and Meadow Lands in Itasca,’ Aitkin, Cass. Crow Wing, Lake, St. Louis, Cook and all northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota, with full list of lands aud descriptions of northern Minnesota. Prices—$ to #15 per acre, Easy terms. 6 per cent. Will exchange clear lands for mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands Send.in full descriptions of your pote erty. Will pay cash for Pine and Hard- wood timber lands. Want good retail agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bid’g, Minneapolis, Minn, EXPERIMENT FARM BULLETINS Balletin No. 51. MEADOW AND PASTURE. The one thing which, above all Others, that recommends Northern Minnesota as a farming section is its adaptability to growing feed for live+ stock, and especially clover. Clover grows naturally, as may be seen along the railroads and through the trails in the woods. Where the ground is broken clover eventually comes. When properly cultivated it produces from two to three tons per acre at a single cutting. One and One-half tons is not an uncommon yield for the second cutting. It makes permanent pasture when not fed duwn too close, as it re-seeds it- self. Clover, being a plant which builds up the soil fertility and as a feed for live stock one of the most.valuable, a country capable of growing it should need no other recommenda- tion. From fifteen to twenty acres of clover is grown on the Experiment farmevery year. It is most generally sown with oats, and while oats is con- sidered a pour nurse crop, no trouble whatever is experienced in getting a catch. The field system practiced is to cut two crops the first year, one crop the second year and pasture the second growth and plow up, using the fleld the following year for fodder- corn or potatoes. It is found to be most profitable to not use an upland meadow mure than two years. By rotating clover with the other farm crops much better results are ob- tained. ‘Timothy is also grown in connec- tion with cloyer for meadow. Clover and timothy have been found to be thé most reliable afd best adapted tame grasses for meadow for this sec- tion of the state. Bromus is beirg grown, and this past year alfalfa made a splendid showing; but, as yet, nothing definite can be said in regard to their usefulness for this section. On low ground alsike clover and red top have given the best results fof, permanent meadow. | Por summer pasture the cut-over lunds* give very good results, Ken- tucky blue grass and white clover very readily take hold in the pasture when the wild nature of the sod is at all subdued. The only means of realizing profit from the cuteover lands before they are gotten under cultivation is through pasturing. Steers come in from these pastures in the fall fit for the block, while the dairy cows bring in a nice little protit at each milking. Furthermore, the pasturing of this land tends to prepare it for cultiva- tion. ‘The sod is broken to a certain extent and much of its wild nature is removed. As a substitute to the wild pasture the tame meadow may be pastured to good advantage previous to break- ing up. A. J. MCGUIRE, Bulletin No. 52. FODDER-CORN. In the keeping of live stock, feed must be grown for winter use. While hay is most commonly used there is a much cheaper form of feed in the corn plant grown as fodder. Corn does not generally mature for grain north of the southern boundary of Itasca county, but in growiug for fod- derits yield is as great as anywhere in the state. In 1904 the fodder-corn crop on the Experiment farm gave from six to eight tons of cured feed per acre. It was cut shortly after the tasseling stage, shocked up and allowed to cure in the tield. It was sown in drills so thickly that no ears were formed. The drills were three feet apart, al- lowing cuJtivation. The texture of the stalk was fine, and in feeding there was no more waste than with hay. It was fed during the winter, beginning October 1. lts feeding value is equal to that of timothy hay, but has the advantage over hay in that from three to four times as much can be proeuced per acre. The past year, 1905, the yield of the fodder-corn crop was greatly lessened by excessive water in the soil and the cold season. Parts of the field were curate estimate of the yield could not be made. f Instead of curing the crop in the field as formerly, it was putin a silo, which was built last summer for this purpose. This has the advantage of keeping the feed in its succulent form, can be stored away in a smaller space and is always handy for feed- ing. The silo is twenty-four feet high, seventeen feet in diameter, and has a capacity of one hundred tons. fill@a with this green fodder-corn it drowned out entirely, so that an ac- | { wil feed twenty-five cows from the first of October till the first of May, in connection with a small amount of hay, which is well to feed with it to get the best results. Owing to the expense of the silo it is not recommended, unless a farmer is making a specialty of dairying and keeping ten or more cows. Fodder-corn, however, should al- ways be grown. Not only the cattle but sheep and horses do very well dering the winter on this feed. Any ordinary corn will do for seed, although the seed houses carry spe- cial fudder-corn varieties. It should be planted between May 20 and June 1, although in many sea- sons it may be planted later. It should be cut before frost. The objection to keeping stock in this section of the state is based upon the expense of winter feeding, but by growing fodder-corn and roots, which will be taken up in a later chapter, the expense need not be great; and when the feeding is prop- erly done and the stock rightly cared for a splendid profit may be realized, as will be shown when the work of the Experiment station dairy herd is taken up, A. J. McGuire. SURVEY OF SWAMP LANDS Advices from Crookston state that George A. Ralph and party of engi- neers left last evening for points in Clearwater county, where they will take up the work of the state survey of swamp lands where it was left off some time ago for lack of funds. He stated that with any kind of fair weather and good luck the survey would be cumpleted by June. He took with him five engineers and as many helpers and stated that he would add to the force in the near future if his present plans carried out. There still remain to be surveyed parts of Clearwater, Beltrami, Itasca aud St. Louis counties, The work will be started in the west end and it is expected that the work in St. Louis county will be taken up last. Can’t See It That Way. The question. of the. division of the state of Minnesota has been given considerable of an airing by the brethren of the state press: recently. It would appear that for divers aad sundry reasons the southern half of the state is not at all anxious to be tid cf the northern half. At least this is une way the Minneapolis Jour- nal puts it: “What a calamity it would be to southern Minnesota and the twin cities to divide the state, Of course we would have the same trade rela- tions as before, unless the federal constitution were amended so as to keep the wheat of the Red river val- ley away from our Minneapolis mills, as everybody is so anxious to do. But if we divide the state we would have to maintain that fine state capitol all by ourselves, spend all that great school fund and lay out our road and bridge fund on southern Minuvesota roads. We would also have to worry along without Halvor Steenerson, J. Adam Bede, A. D. Stephens, A. L. Cole, P. H. McGarry, Elmer Adams, Lee Willcuts, George R. Laybourne and P. Ellard Dowling. Worst of all, we would lose our undivided half in- terest in the drainage lobby at Wash- ington, and in A. G. Bernard, its prophet. “No, there’s no use talking, we simply won’t stand for secession.” Another Petition Circulated. During the fore part of the week a second petition asking that the ques- tion of county division be put before the people of Itasca at the next gen- eral election was circulated by the people of Ripple. They want the new county to be called Forest. The pe- tition circulated by the people of In- ternational Fa'ls asks that the new county be called Koochiching. ‘Lhe two petitions also yary in regard to the line of division. The Ripple petition includes the territory north of the line running between town- ships 62 and 63, west of the fifth prin- cipal meridian, thence west on nearly the same line for a distance of about three townships, and thence south to the county line. ‘The International Falls petition fixes the desired line between town- ships 150 and 151 westof the fifth principal meridian. Postoffice Robbed. The poostutfice at International Falls was broken into one night last week by unkuown parties and robbed of postage stamps and cash to the amount of $25. The burglars en- tered by the back door and broke contents other than the cash and staipps over the floor. The perpe- trators have not as yet been appre- hended. | MINNESOTA LEADS REST OF WORLD Minnesota and the Mesaba range loom up conspicuously in the world’s production of iron ore, relates an article in the Mesaba Ore. John Birkinbine, a member of the geo- logical survey, devotes a chapter to the Lake Superior region in his forth- coming annual report on the mineral resources of the United States, which will show that the output of iron in the United States during the past year was greater than the reported maximum combined production of the German empire and Great Brit- aio, the two countries that rank next to the United States in point of pro- duction. The figures will show also that neither Great Britain nor Gere many has in any year furnished as tnuch iron ore as was taken from the mines of Minnesota in 1905, a state that prior to 1884 had never produced a pound of ore. To emphasize the magnitude of development which has taken place in the iron ore resources of Minnesota it is only necessary to State that the Mesaba range alone, which first produced ore in 1892, con- tributed to the world’s supply in 1905 as much, if not more, iron ore as did the German empire. Over seventy per cent of the iron ore produced in the United States in 1905 came from the Lake Superior region, which 1s the world’s principal source of supply for this mineral. The shipments of iron ore from that region in 1895 ex- ceeded 34,000,000 tons. The subject. of the prices of iron ore deserves at— tention. For a number of years the prices of Lake Superior ores was fixed by the Lake Superior Ore association.. This organization was dissolved. in 1904, but the average price of. old range Bessemer ore is known to have: been about $3.25 at lower lake ports and the average value at the mines: of all iron ores was $1.56 a ton.for all. of the United States. In 1905 the: price of old range Bessemer oe-ad+- vanced 50 cents a ton. During: the: latter part of the year, and in.con- tracts made for 1906, there was as further stiffening in prices. open the cash drawer, scattering the | John Burns Discharges a Lord. Mirabili dietu! ~~~ 5 ‘The Eart of Suffolk—he who mare- ried Daisy Leiter of Chicago—has» been fired out of his job by John. Burns. That Bobbie Burns might have: lived to see the day when a belted: earl was bounced by a broth of a boy; with no tail to his name! Burns is the new president of the: local government board and the bold: and brainy apostle of democracy de- clares that he has no more respect for the hereditarv lord who is lazy than he has for any other loafer. Lord Suffolk, it seems, has several years been a member of the local board of guardians in Malmsbury, where he bas his country seat. But he has not worked at the business of guardian fora minute. A member of the British peerage, sir, has the right to do as he pleases and take life easy if he so minds. And so the noble earl has shirked. It has never occurred to him that he should bother himself about the quan- tity or the quality of paupers’ feed. He has left such common matters to the common members of the board. To be sure there wae a rule that any member who shonld be absent from the meetings for six months should be dropped, but Suffolk was not dropped, although he had absented himself for six years. The feelings of the aristocracy must not be burt. But when John Burns was elected president of the board about the first thing he did was to drop the Ear! of Suffolk—and drop him hard, The dull thud was heard through- out the kingdom. Of course the cry has been raised that John Burns is a vulgar dema- gogue who has gone out of his way to snub bis betters, But the fact remains and it strikes the imagination of the world— A common laboring man who lives Ina cohtane in East London has dis- charged a lord of England.—St. Paul News. Harmony at the Capitol. The yarn about friction between Governor Johnson and Frank A. Day has started the rounds again. There has never been any evidence of trouble in the governor’s executive family, and the governor himself has a good deal of amusement ‘ont of the'stories of his troubles with Day. It is not always so funny for the private secre- tis DUST aS Biers are some who hay hiny for failures te hears spread the story for the purpose of breaking down Day’s influence in the party. The relations between the two are extremely cordial now, as they have alw: — Journal, aye Decnr- Minneapolis Sun Ses ah