Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 6, 1907, Page 1

Grand Uapids Hervald-NReview. Voi. XIV.—No, 41 Granp Raprps, Irasca County, MINN., SaturDAY,, APRIL 6, 1907. Two Dollars a Year. aA . Nothing that is not Good. Everything that is Good. , NEW > : Seven | S| {tasca Mercantile Co.| &< GING- The Store of Quality Coats Thread HAMS Grand Rapids, - Minn. for 25c NEW MUSLIN UNDERWEAR Direct from the factory a grand collection of snowy white undermuslins every garment made by $ an expert, working under the most sanitary conditions. Drawers Made from best grade of cambric and nainsook. Made plain and fancy, trimmed in various pretty ways. <A pair $1.75, $1.69, $1.19, 29, 60c down to 2 muslin, broi Be, Snowy White Pe Yo wear with your white dr deep knee flounces and trimmed with fine embroidery visable at $5.00 $6.50 and AAA ADABAADADADADADADADADAS Dainty Corset Covers Fifty different styles to select from in. the finest est style laces and Made from fine quality nainsook trimmed with lat- sleeves, made full and long length. Prices $3.50 $3.00 $1.98 $1.69 $1.25 down to 69c. Chemises extra quality cambric, trimmed with dainty laces and insertions, in six different styles, prices 98¢ $1.29 up to $2.00. Fine Nainsook Gowns embroideries short and long Method of Feeding and Caring for the Experiment Station Dairy Herd Bulletin No? 62. ‘The amount of grain each cow is fedis governed by the quantity of miik she gives. Twoefifths the num- ber of pounds of grain daily the cow gives pounds of milk, has been found about right. Two pounds of grain for every five pounds of milk. A cow giving 20 pounds of milk daily gets 8 pounds of grain, one giving 30 pounds of milk 12 pounds of grain anda cow giving vuly 10 pounds of milk daily gets only 4 pounds of grain. Some cows are capable of giving more wilk than others owing to the period of lactation, the individuality of the cow, etc., and the feed should be accordingly, ~ otherwise one cow will be Jed too much and another not enough. To make this determination it is necessary to weigh the milk and grain often enough tu be able at least to make ar approximate estimate. A spring bafance can be bought for muslins, nainsook, c trimmed, panneled in em- cambric and handsomely dered and lace in- sertions, prices 25c, 39c, clusters of tions, fifty different styles to pick from, priced so low you can well afford to have several with out spending a great amount of money. Prices range from 39¢ 69c 98¢ $1.69 $1.98 *$2.00 $2.50 $2.98 $3.75 and up. Satteen SKirts of best quality of satteen with wide double flounce and several rows of ruffles. Prices 89¢ $1.00 $1.25 up to $2.75. Silk Petticoats in black and colors made from guaranteed taffeta, light in weight but ser- 98c, $1.69c up to $2. tticoats SilK and | ess made with | tucks, | | and lace inser- i | | material come in Satteen, up to $10.00. Hy Art skirts are made from best quality of and highest workmanship. They Hetherbloom skirts are light weight servic- able and has the go" and rustle of real silk. 0. $2.75 and $3. Satteen Petticoats , Hetherbloom and Silk. The Need of State Drainage. ‘The new state drainage bill in treating with large bodies of state lands, authorizes the state commiss- ion to proceed without reference to the courts and on iis own authority, giving, bowever, the right of appeal to any aggrieved private owners. This will greatly simplify the pro- ceedings in those cases where the state is the principal or almost sole party at interest. It is this section of the bill which isof most importance to Northern Minnesota, where the large state holdings are found. ‘'lhese lands are not only almost valueless in their present condition, but they greatly decrease the value of the higher lands that are included witbin their area or adjoin them. St. Louis county aflords a good example of what the law will accom- which, if undrained, are worth noth- ing except as frog farms; yet drainage will at once make them the most valuable acreage in Minnesota. This drainage, however, cannut be undertaken by private owners, and could not be if every acreof it was in private hands, as the work is too extensive, requires too large an aggregate expenditure and when done must beso planned as to meet the needs of so vast an area. It is essentially an undertakikg for the state, which can also force the railroads to join with it, or at least to pay its portion, which the individ. ual cannot do. It will, moreover, make the state’s holdings which now will not sell-at the minimum of five dollars per acre, worth in many 10- stances ten or even twenty times that amount. Indeed, there can be no doubt that the increase in value of the landsin this county alone wiil ‘more than repay the entire appropri~ plish and of its necessity, though it is notsingular in the conditions found within its boundatlés. Here the state still oWbs several hundred thousand acres and the Duluth & Iron Range railroad about 600,000 acres, Much of this land is bog. The few settlers who have bought Jan‘ds are surrounded or bordered by bogs. They cannot get roads because of the great expense in building through land of the kind that encircles them. They are so few alsoin number that they cannot afford schools for their children, aud the townships have to forego separate organizations for local government. Yet this bog latid when drained is of the very richest character. It fs exactly the same in quality as is the smaller acreage near this city that has been ditched and so made avail- able by private owners, and some of which is now rented for as high as $150 an acre and yields ten to flifteen times that value in produce. It is unexcelled for celery and uther vege- tables requiring especially rich svil. There are thousands and thousands ation,—News Tribune, Traveling Art Gallery. The Free Traveling Art Gallery | from the State Federation of Woman’s Clubs will be on exhibition in the club room at the public library the follow- ing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- day from three to six in the after- boons and from seven to nine even- ings. The collection consists of over one hundred photodgraphs of Early and Renaissance, Italian painters. The local Woman’s Club have been fortunate in securing this collection and hope that the town people will show their appreciation by viewing the pictures themselves and bringing their friends. Notice to Parents. Beginners not under six years” of age wil be received in the kindergar- den of the Central School on Monday morning, April 8th. This beginners’ class will not be started unless a sufficignt number of pupils enter to of acres of this same soil in this county which can now be bought at from five to ten dollars an acre, and make It worth while. The class will be put ona half day session.—By crder of the Board of Education. At the Head of the Lakes. Lumber jacks are commencirg to come out of the woods and logging will soon be over for the season. Along the line of the Great Northern from Grand Rapids toa short distance west of Bemidji there have been all of ten theusand men employed this winter, This does not include such men as are employed in the territory tributary to the Minnesota & Inter- national road at Brainerd and Bemid- jiand north to the Canadian bound- ary. When the spring exodus from the camps is well under way the railroads of this section will be kept busy handling lumber jacks, and extra equipment for this rush will be pro- vided for that purpose. While the logging season bas not been all that it might have been, the amount of timber put in will be very large. There bas been a constant increase in the past few years in the amount lof cedar timber put in which has partly made upfor the loss in the amount of pine cut. Wiih the end of the season, less than three weeks away, there is a final rush on at the camps. The glare of the sun in the day time makes the ice roads sloppy, and as a result some of the loggers are hauling at night. As the sun goes down the roads freeze up, with the result thatehauling is as good at night as it has been the colder weath- er during the day time. Cheap Lots Third Division of Grand Rapids W. B. Holman has 55 lots to sell cheap; price $30 apiece, half cash and ‘half in one year. W. B. Holman Phone 64. Office at Residence 50 cents that willdo the weighing, and the record will help to make your work more interesting and more profitable. The great stumbling block in farm- ing is the lack of system and business methods. In connection with the grain from 10 to 15 pounds of hay was fed daily and from 16 to 22 pounds of ensilage. The silo is not advisable for a farm- er keeping less than 10 cows, but roots way be grown onevery farm which willtake the place of ensilage. In 1904 roots were fed and during Octo- berand November of 1906 with fully as profitable results as in feeding. ensilage. Roots are especially recom- mended for the average farm. They yield from 4 to 8 hundred bushels per acre, and are the cheapest and most effective milk producing feed that can be grown. In making a dairy herd profitable the feedis only half. The system followed, the care and regularity of the work and the comfort of the cows is equal, 1f not greater, in importance. The method of dairying and the system of work onthe Experiment Farm is as follows: The cows are had to freshen in Sep- tember and milked till the next July when they are given their resting period. Each cow is milked teo months of the year. The milk isseparated with a hand separator and the cream made into butter and sold in the local market. The skim milkis fd tothe calves and pigs. Only the heifer calves are raised, the male calves vealed, During the winter the cows are never left out of dours during the day for more than an hour. Feed is too expensive for cows to have to use it to keep their bodies warm, and furth- ermoreacow suffering with thecold is not making milk profitable. The feeding, milking and all the work in conrection with the dairy herd is done at the same time eyery day, and under a definite system. Regularity and system custs nothing, 5,500 pounds of milk each. The 13 cows gave 71,500 pounds. From this was removed 3,672 pounds of butter leaving 67,828 pounds of skim milk or over 33 tons. Skim milkisa by-product of the farm and the farmer no less than the manufacturer shovld use all by- products to the best possible advant- age. Pigs make the most prefltable use of skim milk. With crover pasture Railroad Discourtesies—An East ern Writer Talks in Re- gard to Railroads. A new theory as to the cause of the apparently violent and determined antagonism of the people to the rail- roads is found in the declaration of an Eastern writer thata large pro- portion of that antagonism bas been aroased by the gross lack of consider= and skim milk from 50 to 100 per cent profit can be realized from pigs. In the past year 28 pigs were raised on the Experiment Farm from 3 sows. They were tarrowed April Ist. From May Ist to September Ist their feed was 3kim milk and clover paste ure with but a small quantity of shorts. September Ist they were divided into two lots, 12 of the least desirable for breeding purposes were put on a fattening ration. They were fed barley, peas, shorts, and boiled roots and had access to clover pasture till October 15th. They were killed Nov- ember Ist and sold on the local mar- ket. Their average dressed weight was 135 pounds, They sold for 8$ cents a pound, bringing $11.47 apiece. ation and the almust insulting impo- liteness of the railroad men theme selves. Itis declared thatitis now Roosevelt, not a concerted movement looking to government ownership, not blind, unreasoning hatred but long pent-up anger bevause officials, from village station agent up, have nes glected tu treat patrons with indiff. erence or disdain. A great curporation migbt ignore the people and they would bear it philosophically and even joke about it, but whea petty officials attemps to walk roughshod over the public’s feelings, there is bound to be resent- ment and this is almost invariably laid upin batred not of the officals jbut of the corporationitself. Station and ticket agents, conductors, train~ The cost of feed including the skim | mep generally aud other employes, milk and pasture, and the cost of/ when asked a civil question for infor- keeping the brood sows thru the year} mation have undoubtedly either dis- added to this was $6.37 apiece, leaving | gained to give any answer whatsoever but itis that orthe absence of it that very often determine success or failure. The dairy work is begun at 5:15 in the morniag and at 4 in the evening, winter and summer. The cows are fed but twice aday, morning and evening, and watered once a day. With the exception of watering the cows the daily work is finisbed at 7 in the morning, leaving till4 in the afternoon for other work. The dairy work is always finished at 6in the evening, as dairying becomes burden- some whea it is added to a full day’s work at something else. Make the dairy work the most important for whenitis made so, itis the most profitable. The Experiment Farm dairy herd is made up of cows no better than the ayerage farm cow. The system of feeding and caring. for them is thoroly practical, is based upon con- ditions of the average farm, and the profit’ realized is possible for every farmer. ve Keep the number of cows you can grow feed for. Know that there isa difference in common cows. One cow produces 350 pounds of butter yearly, another only 150, and both on thesame teed. Keeparecord with your herd so as to determine this. Again let it be said that nortbern Minnesota is destined to bea great dairy section. Puta little faith in this, a little study and system in your work and yon wil} win. A. J. McGUIRE, RAISING BACON PIGS "Bulletin No, 63. 'The dairy cows on the Experiment Farm during the past year averaged a net profit of $5.10 apiece, or a profit of over 80 per cent. Pigs may be raised profitably in this section of the state in connect+ on with dairying. Clover pasture’ greatly reduces the cost of feed, and stimulates a greater growth aod vigor in the pigs than is possible to secure in confinement. The pigs should be had to come in early spring and disposed of in Nov- ember, At7 months they can be made to weight between 180 and 200 pounds. Only breeding stock should be kept thru the winter. A bacon breed should be kept in preference toa lard breed for the Treason that in the absence of corn a | first class lard hog cannot be produc- ed. while the feed that produces the | choicest bacon can be g own in abun-| bance—barley, peas, clover, roots, etc. { The large Nnproved “Yorkshire are} kept on the Experiment Farm. They are much more prolific than the lard breeds and take better to pasture. | In Canada this breed predominates and the bacon pork exported from that country is noted for its hgh quantity. | Northern Minnesota may lead in| the production of bacon pork if it | will, as first class bacon cannot be produced in the cornfeeding districts. In selecting a breed of hogs this; question is worthy of careful consid- eration. It will be to the advantage ofall if the same breedis raised thruout this section of the state. A. J. McGUIRE or have treated the inquirer with the utmost boorishness and this bas al< ways resulted in hard feelings. In the case, also, those sending orree ceiving freight, how few menor tirms have received the slighest courtesies, unless it isknown that they -bave in- fluence with the magnates or own stock inthe road! And what utter dis- regard has been paid tothe vast ma- jority of the complaints by the bigher officials! The lower ones know this and their course has naturally been in imitation of their superiors. "This evil has grown steadily for years and with it hasgrown the wealth of the insulted and disregarded people until it finally reached the eruptive stage. It the railroads had adopted, years ago, the recent pelicy of Viee Presi- deat Brown of the New York Central !and President Winchell of the Rock Island of sending out ‘‘spotters” to watch for and report on insolence by employes and of seyerely punishing offenders, it is, the theorist holds, beyond doubt that the determine autagonism and bitter demands for reprisal in the shape of 2-cent fareg and jower frieght rates would never have been provoked. Thus the roads themselves would have saved mil- lions and kept the people their friends.— Duluth Evening Herald A Card of Thanks. I wish to thank most heartil many friends who so Kincly a: me and who expressed their syn pathy |during my late bereavement, and ta the members of the Redmen, Samar- itans and Forester lodge’s who assist- ed at the burial of my husband, [ give my heart felt thanks, Mrs. Ben Jobnson. AINT is something that intimately affects us all; to our houses and other buildings it is what clothing is to our bodies. 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