Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 16, 1910, Page 6

WINNERS:IN THE DECLAMATORY Roy Blood and’ Mildred Prescott Selected as Representatives At Bemidji Contest. Much interest was shown in the High school preliminary declamatory contest which was held at the audi- torium Saturday evening for the pur- pose of selecting representatives for the final contest to be held at Bemidji Friday evening. There were 10 entries, 5 serious and an equal number of humerous selections. The judges were Principal George. Buck, of the Duluth Central school; Miss Alexander, of Coleraine high school; Supt. Herbert Blair, of the Hibbing schools. There were four prizes of- fered, a silver loving tup for the student getting the highest rating, a gold medal and two silver medals. The grand prize was won by Blood, he using for his subject, ‘The Chariot Race.” In the humerous ser- ies, 1st prize was accorded to Mil- dred Prescott. Her subject was “Mrs Caudiles’ Lecture on Shirt Buttons.” Mr. Blood and Miss Prescott will re- present Grand Rapids at the Bemidji contest. Second prize in the serious selections was won by Wm. Powers, he delivering the reply of “Spartacus to the Roman Envoys.” Second prize in the humerous contest was given Miriam Cordes on “Mrs. Casey on Long Tennis.” A feature during the evening was the chorus of girl’s voice: 60 in number, under-the direction of Miss Becker, teacher of music and drawing. The renditions of “Away to the Fields” and “Der Vogel’s Waltz were very pleasing and showed much careful direction on the part of Miss Becker. OPPORTUNITIES On the new Soo Line in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Isolated Lands in the Willow River Valley Now Brought into Close Touch With the Duluth and Twin City Markets. New Towns and Cheap Lands will be occupied Rapidly. The Land is Good. Settlers and Investors:- I have for sale something worth invest- ing. Itis 3000-acres of good land. Timber land, and all good farm ing land, in the Willow River val: ley, in northern Aitkin County, Minnesota. This tract is crossed by the new Soo railroad, now building from Thief River Falls to Duluth and Superior, thus placing this land, which has heretofore been isolated from railroads, within easy reach of cities with their great mar- kets, over a direct line of railway. PS Our land lies level and gently rolling. The soilis a rich loam, where the maple, oak and bass wood grow, and yields enormous } crops of everything you stick in ‘ the ground. Some of this landis ; cut over, but is mostly easy to clear and you can raise crops the ‘ first year; fine feed growing on p this land now; on meadow and upland, some with tame grass. Fuel and fencing for a lifetime. , And a new town is laid out close up to our lands. Fne lakes; also running streams cross the town- s h drain the country. There will be a movement to ] these good lands along this new railway, by home-seekers and in- vestors very soon, and when these good cheap lands of Northern ? Minnesota are taken up, the last good cheap lands of the famed American west will be gone for evr. We are facing the very Jast chance. Don’t you think you ought to hurry aud get some land? Will sell you 40 acres of this. land, or will sell you more, what- ever you want. And the terms of any good man will suit me. Give you what time you need to pay for it, with a small payment down to show you mean business. tae The price will be low, $10, $12, $15 to $20 per acre, owing to loca- tion etc., but it is all good land. The American farmer is coming : into his own. If you are looking for land, ‘for lands sake’’ get some close in and close up to the = door of big markets, that is, don’t if | xo away Off out into the realm of ‘ space, hundreds of miles from nowhere, thinking to succeed in the dim and misty future experi- , menting with nature. Life is too short for that. Select land where youare sure things always grow and crop failure is never known. | Everybody knows the cleared || ! timber lands of the older states are still proving the best ou earth. i You will succeed it you get that 1 We have them. Write to ‘SOWIN L, BUCK kind. Roy | |it “the most efficient machine” he Tn BY PROF, AEE Gives Glowing Account of the In- crease in Dairy Products for Last 25 Years. VALUED AT $43,000,000 ‘NOW However, He Thinks Wisconsin Farmers are Receiving Better | Returns and States Proper Se- lection Is Neglected. Prof. T. LL. Haecker, of the chair of animal husbandry and animal nutri- tion of the state agricultural school, recently delivered an epic of the dairy cow. While the history of dairy ing in Minnesota is fairly creditable, not all its pages are glowing as they should be according to Prof. Haecker. ‘ x Take this, for instance. From com- paratively nothing a quarter of a cen- tury ago the dairy products of Min- nesota increased until they amount in value to $42,300,000 annually. To produce this wealth 1,125,000 cows, giving an average of 3,800 pounds of milk and 144 pounds of butter fat annually, are fed on the pasture lands and on the grains of our farms. The earn an annual income of more than $42,000,000. That seems enormous. Yet, when compared with the record of the Wisconsin cows, it is shown to. be far below what it shouid be. In Wisconsin there are about 1,300,- 000 cows. They produce for their owners $60,000,000 of wealth every year at the rate of 160 pounds of butter fat apiece annually. On the same basis the Minnesota herd of cattle should produce more than $50,- 000,000 worth of products. But they fall below their sisters by @n aver- age of 16 pounds) of butter fat yearly, which amounts to approximately $9 per head. The chief cause of the difference, as given by Professor Haecker is two fold: first, the failure on the part of the Minnesota dairy farmer to make a selection of cows especially adapt- ed for dairy work, as his Wisconsin brother has done, and secondly the neglect to reduce care for the dairy cow to its proper scientific basis in this state, As a resutl ‘Minnesota is losing from each cow 100 pounds of butter fat, which she would be able to give in addition to her present output if the breeding and feeding were given proper attention. The farmers in thi: manner take from the mouths of the consumers and rob themselves of the price of 10,000,000 pounds, net, of butter fat each year. To Professor Haecker the dairy cow is nothing less than a wonder- fully constructed machine. He calls knows of. He is a pioneer inj the work of reducing dairying from the old system of hit and miss and take what you can get to an exact sci- ence whereby every bit of ingo and outgo is to be accurately balanced. To him, perhaps more than to any man in the United States is due the advance that has been made toward tearing down the old fallacious ideas of the balanced ration. During a series of experiments ex- tending through nine years in time, with the resources of the state agri- cultural experiment station at his command and with the aid of Ex- Governor Howard and former Dean Henry of the Wisconsin Agricultural station, he thas worked out results which almost. completely overturns the German rules for feeding. Be fore his research, the idea that the amount of promise, the amount of carbohydrate and the amount of fat necessary to produce a pound of milk to your m Henry PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT Says That NothIng Said in Tak- ing Census Will Be Divulged. Whereas by the Act of Congress Decennial Census of the United States is to be taken, beginning or the fifteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and ten; and Whereas a correct enumeration of the population every ten years is re- quired by the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of de- termining the representation of the several States in the House of Repre- sentatives; and ‘Whereas it is of the utmost import- ance to the interess of all he people of theUnited States that this cen sus should be a complete and ac- curate report of the population and re sources of the country: Now, therefore, 1, WILLIAM HOW- ARD TAFT, President, of the United States of America, do hereby de- clare and make known that, under the act aforesaid, it is the duty of every person to answer all questions on the census schedules applying to him and the family to which he be- longs, and to the farm occupied by him or his family, and that any any adult refusing to do so is subject to penalty. The sole purpose of the census is to secure general statistical informa- tion regarding the poulation and re- sources of the country, and replies are required from individuals only in order to permit the compliation of such general statistics. The cen- sus has nothing to do with taxa- tion, with army or jury service, with the compulsion of school attendance, with the regulation of immigration, or with the enforcement of any na- tional, state ,or local law or ordi- nance, nor can any person be harmed at the same time pmaintaining the animal life of the caw, should be de- termined for the different members of any herd was scouted. But it is now an accomplished fact. His story of how he has wrought this end and the effect it is bound to have on the dairy imdustry in Min- nesota and elsewhere, when once the farmers are awakened to a full sense of its importance. In the light of Professor Haecker’s revela- tions dairying seems, not a drudgery as it has been regarded for so long, but the most wonderful and absorb- ing of sciences, worthy to challenge the keenest, minds of the state. Millinery Opening. i Mrs. M. Brooks wishes to announce to the ladies of Grand Rapids and vicinity that she will hold her an- nual Easter opening and display of spring and summer mililnery on Monday and Tuesday, March 21 and COHASSET, MINNESOTA 22. The ladies are cordially invit- im any way by furnishing the informa- tion required. There need be no fear that any disclosure will be made re- garding any individual person or his affairs. For the due protection of the rights’ and interests of the per- sons furnishing information every employee of the Census Bureau is! nesota, and, prohibited, under heavy penalty, from disclosing any information .which may thus come to his knowledge. I therefore earnestly urge upon all persons to answer promptly, complete ly, and accurately: all ingtiries ad- ressed to them by the ehumerators or other employees of the Census Bu- reau, and thereby to contribute their share toward making this great and necessary public undertaking a suc- cess. = In witness whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and caused the, ernment be urged to reclaim the mil-' commend the establishment of more/| seal 6f the United States to be af- fixed.\ - . approved July .2,.1909, the Thirteenth} HENRY HUGHES & COMPANY The Store for Your Everyday Needs CRAND RAPIDS, ° Mr. Cook of the celebrated Cook Garment Co. willbe here all day Thursday. March (7th witha complete line of ladies suits, Coats and Skirts Don’t miss this opportunity of having a suit, coat or skirt made easurement. Hughes & Co. The Popular Store Grand Rapids, Minnesota ten, and of the Independence of of funds can be made for the the United States of America the straightening and deepening of the one hundred and thirty-fourth. rivers aud channels which are the WM. H. TAFT. natural outlets of our drainage pro- By the President: | jects and to generally assist in this P. C. NKOX, | most important work. Secretary of State. We urge that all matters pending |in the several departments at Wash- f eat S ington relating to our Indian Res- Spring Millinery Opening. Aesocell be itamediacey considered, I will hold my Easter millinery thereby aiding us in our work of opening on Tuesday and Wednesday, development and improvement of March 22 and 23 and invite the | northera Minnesota. ladies to call and imspect the line} Resolved that the Association which will be on display at my {hereby heartily endorse the cam- parlors. I will show all the latest | Paign of the Minnesota Federation of | designs and shades and have a very | Commercial Clubs for a State Ap- complete iine from which to select. | Propriation of $100,000.00 per year for | state advertising under the direction | of its immigration department. Resolved, that this Convention Notice to the Public. |heartily endorse the conservation The firm doing business under the} movément and pledges the support name of J. O. Johnson & Co., the| of Itasca County. meat and provision dealers, has been Resolved, that the Board of Man- dissolved by mutual consent and | agement of the Minnesota State Fair |hereafter the business will be con-| P@ requested to allow nO advertise- ? | ment of lands except Minnesota lands ducted, by the undersigned. All Outi on the printed matter issued by the standing accounts are due and payabl | state Fair Management; and that the to the undersigned. space on the back of all tags or tick- J. O. JOHNSON. ets attached to exhibits be offered to the State Immigration Depart- ment, free of charge, for the pur- ITAS (A (COUNTY pose of advertising Minnesota’s agri- cultural resources. | Believing that one of the import- ant factors of the agricultural devel- LINES UP SOLID 2. of our state is he proper ‘education of our farm boys and girls Continued from age one. for farm life, and believing also that 3. There having been a lack of the policy of the state should be moneys from time to time im the to offer as much elementary educa- funds from which loans are made tion as possible to the farm boys by the State Board of Investment, ‘and girls in their home schools; that Be it resolved, that it is the wish funy appreciating the magnificent and will of this Association that Min- yrpan, graded and high schools which nesota, through its Board of Invest- have been built up in the state of ment, dispose of, at the earliest pos-' Minnesota under the direction and sible opportunity, enough of the bond | guidance of the High School Board of other states held by this state, ang py the liberal appropriations necessary to ‘secure and loan to our! granted by the State Legislature, and own people the money essential to! realizing that the proper education of State development, and especially for|our rural children is of as much roads, drainage and schools. importance to the welfare of the Whereas, during the last few years, state, as the education of its ur- drainage projects of enormous mag-'ban children, and further recogniz- nitude have been prosecuted whereby |ing that the present system of rural vast areas of wet and low lands gchools offers to the rural children have been reclaimed and transformed equcational advantages greatly infer- imto some of the richest and most ior to those now offered to our vil- fertile farm lands in the state of Min-} lages and cities. \ Be it resolved, that the State of Whereas, there are two million | Minnesota should, preceding along acres yet remaining unsettled for similar lines to those by which it lack of drainage and the same are has built up its excellent school sys- | susceptible of drainage. tem of urban graded and high schools | Therefore, be it resolved that we/puild up a system of rural, town- /are heartily in accord with the drain-! ship, graded and high schools which |age movement commenced by the/shall fully meet the needs of our ‘different counties, the State Drainage | rural population and shall insure to {Commission and the United States|them in their home schools as much | Government, and we recommend that instruction in elementary agriculture, | all northern Minnesota counties do all manual training and home econo- ‘in their power to further the cause! mies as it is possib'e to give. jot drainage; that the Federal Gov-; Be it further resolved, that we re- .Wons of acres held by them in trust| schools im the state of the type of ‘for the Chippewa Indians, amd the Crookston School of Agriculture ‘MINNESOTA the near future, Be it further resolved, that the movement for the establishment of agricultural departments in urban high schools be restricted to tose high schools so situated that the rural schools surrounding the village or city can secure better results through co-operation with the vil- jage or city high schooi than through independent organization. Further be it recolved, that we recommend to the State Legislature the establishment of a Rural High School Board whose duties it shall be to foster and direct the build- ing up of an efficient system of rural schools. Whereas, Northern Minnesota is 2 region of fruitful soil, splendid water- ‘ways and waterpowers, boundies: wealth producing resources and healthful climate, and is the verita- ble parlor of nature’s palace, and Whereas, the said State of Minne- sota is possessed of large and exten sive areas of lands secured wider special grants from the Federal Goy- ernment, and said lands as now hand- led constitute a continuing parrier against the early settlement and development of Northern Minnesota by landlocking the settlers in this region, making the building of road= impossible, and hence retarding the agricultural developiient of North- ern Minnesota, Therefore be it resolved, that it is the demand of Itasca County that speedy adequate relief be afforded by the next Legislature ooking to the correction of these evils. That laws be passed imposing a tax on all state lands not used exclusively for public purposes to the end that these vast areas of State lands in Northern Minnesota may pay their just proportion of the tax necessary for the building of the roads, schools and public buildings. That state lands, suitable for agriculture, when sold or offered for sale, be sold in their virgin state with the timber by contract or in fee simple to the end that the settlers building a home ,on these tracts may have some |means of support from the timber | while developing these farms. That 'the state lands in order to be hand- ‘led rightly and intelligently be |Classified and appraised after a ‘thorough examination. That the pres- ent method of dealing with actuad settlers in matters of contest with homesteaders whose entries con- flict with State Swamp selecttons be dtscouraged by appropriate Legis- ,lative enactment. That an amend-- ment to the Constitution of the state be submitted to the people amend- ing article Eight thereof so as te permit the enactment of a better and |More business-like method of dispos ‘ing of State lands, having in view {the proper protection of the per- ‘manent school fund of the State. After various matters of interest” to the county at large had been die Done at the city bf Washington this further that the next State Legisla- and further believing that such a‘cussed, the meeting adjourned ur- fifteenth day of March, A. D.jture submit a constitutional amend-' system of rural, graded and high | til some future date, which at thas~ - One thousand nine hundred and; ment to the end that appropriation schools can and will be establised in| time has not been settled on.