Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 4

— ¥ } obtain g wivice given. PAGE FOUR. GRAND RAPIDS HERALO-REVIEW, Brand Rayits Wernia-tReview Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Second Ciass Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County THINKS THERE IS NO PLAGE LIKE IT In the Duluth Herald’s “I’ve got the first $1,000, what shall I do with it’ contest, Jens Landey of Grand Rapids states that he thinks | that there is no place like Itasca county. Mr. Landey says: “To the man with $1,000, a family and ambition, I say: Take the in- structions printed in ihis contest with a grain of salt. Don’t believe ll a map tells you. For instance: Don’t think that you can make a fortune by putting your money in an enterprise where the other fellow works it. If you wish to succeed financially put your money and your brains into the same thing. Put all your money and all your brain, with @ little added for good measure, into | the same undertaking. Make your money work for you and work your money besides. If you like farming and your wife doesn’t kick buy a farm of say eighty acres. Pay $500 down. Use the rest of your dough in improving your home. Now don't think you are “it” because you own a farm, and don’t think that all your troubles are over. Subscribe-for a couple of good farm papers, Read at least one-hundreth part of the As to location people differ. I think there is no place like Itasca county. For Itasca county has an unlimited market. The hun- | dreds of thousands of people living on the iron range are dependent up- on the farmers of Itasca and St. Louis counties for ‘their supply of daily bread. "Phen there is Duluth, the market center of Northern Min- | mesota and Canada. Also, it has a first class soil. The forest pro- tects you from the wintry winds, the terror of the prainies. And last, but not least, Itasca county is the most healthful and most beautiful district in America.” FTASCA COUNTY PUTATOES BIG CROP Supt. A. J. McGuire is quoted as saying that the potato crop in north- ern Minnesota is, in his estimation, second only to the dairying interests. The average yield at the farm was 250 bushels, while throughout the county it was 200 bushels. A number | of farmers report yields over 300 ‘bushels but of course they were exceptional. The farmers received an average of 50 cents a bushel for last fall’s yield, which means they received a ‘total of $50,000. It has been found at the state farm that the total cost per acre, seed, labor, machinery and rental of ground, is $25 per acre. In return the farmers have received $100 per acre, which means a clear profit of $75. The acreage the coming year will be nearly double that of last year.” PANAMA GANAL FORTIFICATIONS With the exception of one of the fortifications at the Atlantic termi- nus, the defensive works which are being constructed at the Panama Canal will be named in honor of soldiers conspicuous in the Civil war. - One of the Atlantic works will be - called Fort De Lesseps. The sea- -coast fort at the Pacific terminus will be known as Fort Grant, and its ‘batteries will bear names of division ‘commanders of the northern ermy. The seacoast forts of the Atlantic terminus will be known as Fort Sherman, Fort Randolph and Fort De Lesseps, and the batteries of Fort Sherman will be named after division commanders who served un- der General Sherman. The batteries of the other two forts will bear the names of artillery officers who dis-|@d night. The mail service is de cows and was built so htat a cow|an hour and both he and his wife tinguished themselves in the war— Scientific American. New York ‘weather prognos- are liable to including | It is to be hoped that those who voluntarily entered into a ‘batch of reformatory resolutions the first day of the new year will not become \ backsliders. Close your teeth over { your under lip, hang on to it under | the most trying occasions and you | will not slip off your exalted perch. There will be no dearth of candi- | dates for governor of the state of Minnesota this year, judging from | the number who have already signi- \fied their willingness to sacrifice | themselves upon | pective fame. | There never was a time in the | Northwest when labor of all kinds | was in such demand. No man need | go begging these days if he pos- |sesses even the ambition of a Guinea nigger. | The woods are full of aspirants for | gubernatorial honors or the salary | attached thereto. | It is said that there are less sui- | cides among miners than any other class of workmen. Well, they do not have to slay themselves as “catastrophies” linger about the mines and are liable to get into action at any moment, President Taft and Goy. are famous travelers. If one pound of wool will make a yard of cloth, what would be the weight of rabbit fur sufficient to con- Struct a Stetson hat? Don’t go to sleep in church but remain awake and boost for Grand Rapids every day in the year. Down in the central Mississippi Valley states the people imagine they are freezing with the mercury lat 20 degrees below zero. Up in these parts we can “naise the pot” 33 degrees lower and not shiver half so much. Let those chilly-blooded people come to a region where the ozone is exhilerating if they would prolong their lives. (MANY THANKS FOR THE BOOST Eberhart been an agricultural city, bids fair to have a mining boom, for in the past few months numerous rich | strikes of iron ore have been made {in and about the city. We trust the people will not become so in- terested in their mining activities | that they will forget their agricul- tural development, for we need the produce that they raise in that lo- cality at this end of the range to , help reduce the h. c. 1—Mesaba } Ore. ‘DISTRICT MEETING OF | COMMERCIAL CLUBS A district meeting of the Federa- tion of Commercial Clubs of North- ern Minnesota has been called to convene at Bemidji on Thursday, Jan uary 25th, 1912. Grand Rapids should be fully represented by a corps of booming delegates, the greater the number the better. Great good has been accomplished during the past year by the progres- sive men of the northern portion of the state who have attended such gatherings. The original Bemidji meet, the Duluth meet and the St. Cloud meet have had results that are fraught of much good, and let this more local gathering add to the good work. Each and every man ; who is delegated to attend should not be tardy but be present when |the meeting is called to order and remain until its close. Be there with your fighting armor on and battle for the development of North- ern Minnesota to the last minute. The meeting is to last only one day, beginning in the forenoon and clos- ing the same evening. Many noted men of prominence from outside the district, who are adepts in certain lines of progression, are to be present, whose better knowledge of affairs appertaining to the general good of the Northwest vice, which, added to the experience give an impetus that will soon put our portion of the state on the sure road to unprecedented prosper- ity and ultimately lead our people to deserved success. This cold spell began business on | Saturday ‘December 31, 1911, and ‘here on January 11, 1912, it is still business at the old stand. From 10 to 38 below morning, noon moralized and all dunning letters de layed. A pig enroute for South St. Paul was frozen. to death at RaQ- 7 was there to learn what I could|matter quite thoroughly. They ex- dolph but the squeal was sent OM ong I asked why they didn’t water|pressed a preference for the Hack- the trouble of embalming.—Cannon the altar of pros-| Grand Rapids, which for years hz! will surely give most valuable ad- | CARLTON COUNTY FARMER'S VIEWS What a Practical Man Saw and Learned When He Visited Grand Rapids. DAIRVING AS A BIG MONEY MAKER | Any Industrious and Intelligent Far- mer Can Do What Supt. Mc- Guire Is Doing at the Ex- | perimental Farm. | The following is from the Cloquet Pine Knot: Last week we gave in brief an ac- count of the trip taken by several farmers and interested citizens to |Grand Rapids and Island, Minn. The trip was under the auspices of ing any detailed account of it, ‘thinking it would be of greater in- terest to our readers if we had some pressions of the trip, when they in- pected the creamery and state ex- perimental farm at Grand Rapids and the big Island farm at Island, Minn. John Prevost was one of the party and when asked for an interview he said. est I ever had and the treatment of the Cloquet crowd was the finest possible, both at Grand Rapids and Island. The one thing that srtuck a creamery is to a community and es pecially to its smal] farmers. We found that the creamery at Grand Rapiids was paying from 34 to 36 cents for butter fat, where milk is run through a seperator and the cream brought to the creamery. This gives a farmer a steady income and still does not take up all his time peddling milk in town. The farmer keeps the skim milk and feed it to pigs and calves and uses it all. If a farmer wants to sell all his milk without separating he can do so and the creamery pays him about 50 cents a pound for the butter fat in it. This creamery sells milk to the town people and for this purpose ‘buys the unseparated milk. They then run the milk through a ma- chine that purifies it and kis the germs—they call it “pasteurizing’— then bottle it and have a man who delivers it to customers. This ma- chine did not cost over $260, includ- ing the bottles used, and is a great benefit. “I found that farmers living near town, who used to peddle milk, now take it to the creamery and sell it and lets the creamery do the peddl- ing. The farmer goes home and puts in his time improving and clearing his farm and taking better care of his stock and they find this the best way to handle the milk. If a man lives close to town he can sell his milk every day and if he lives too far to make the trip every day he uses the separator and brings in the cream every two or three days. “The state farm was a big sur- prise to me. thing run in a high-toned, kid glove fashion but when I looked it over I found that everyhting they did there was in such shape that any farmer could do the same if he Knew how. The trouble is that most wf us farmers go at it by guess pretty much and up there they find out why one way is better htan an- other. But it ain’t fancy farming, ‘its “just using horse sense. 1 be lieve that if we had a man like A. J. McGuire, who is running that farm, this paper and we refrained from mak of the farmers give their personal im-| ““The trip was one of the fin-| me most forcibly was the benefit thet I expested to see every- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY .24, 1912 i 1 "Gay tad then “weighed thetr ani} Then they took the same cows and let them drink whenever they wanted te and each cow gave four pounds more of milk a day. Four pounds means two quarts and on six cows it meant twelve quarts a day. it made me blink when I began to fig- ure that into the money it meant in a year. Just try to figure out what us fellows are losing that water but once a day. Another thing was the | Ventilating and I saw that a lite care in this direction meant cleaner barns and healthier cows. “I don’t recollect just the exact figures, but Mr. McGuire said that ‘money he got from the milk cows averaged $75 a head for the year, and that his cows averaged 43 weeks milking each year. That's a system that’s worth finding out about. “Well, sir, this and a lot more I saw and heard got me to thinking pretty hard, but then I was only get- ting one side of the case. I couldn't get away from the showing that was made by the better care of the cows jand I saw that any man could run !his farm pretty much as the state farm is run, but I figured I would like to talk to some small farmer and) |see what he thought of the creameny end of the business. Well, I found one. A man who had a piece of land and four cows. He said that before the creamery started he made a living with the cows—just a living and that’s all—and he didnt seem to get ahead in any way. Now he says he has an income of $40 or more cash every month, and plenty of time for other work. He's clear- ing up more lard and will be in shape to raise a bigger crop next !summer. That's what counts —he's getting ahead, but he couldn't till the creamery was started. “The potato warehouse at the Rap- ids interested me and it would be a fine thing for us farmers if we had one in Cloquet. “This dairy business looked the best to me, though, and when I saw the fine cattle at the Hartley farm at Island and saw the figures of their| profits, I made up my mind that I was not only going to have more cows, but better ones, and I have arranged for the purchase of a young Guernsey bull from Mr. Smith, who is superintendent of this farm. “You can say for me that the yel- dow of the butter ain’t all the yellow there is in the cow and creamery business. There will be some yel- low of gold in it too, if we can only go at it right, and that’s what I'll try to do. I learned more about farming in that two day’s trip than I ever did in any other two days in my life and I wish all my farmer neighbors would go up and see these things for htemselves. It'll pay them big.” | A bill has deen introduced in the Massachusetts legislature, which, if it shall become a law, will require that those elected as members of the legislative body shali attend a training school for one year after their election before they take their seats in that body of law- makers. Furthermore, each member will be required to live one month in the slum district of Boston; five days and nights in each of the pris- ons of the state; two nights in the street wayfarers lodge, and other minor stunts. The judges are to spend ten days and nights in prison. The idea is to educate them to pass more humane laws regarding crimin- als. It will probably be many a day ere Minnesota legislators will indulge in similar experiments—but still it might have been a great benefit to a large number of our legislators if they had been possessed of some manner of schooling before they en- tered the halls of the capitol about @ year ago. THE IMMIGRATION here in Carlton county, in a | WORK BEING DONE years every ‘man on a piece of land would be a good deal better farmer and a good deal better off. “Take the care of the milk cows ‘for instance. Most of us fellows go (Continued from page one) all come over to 100k at the exhibits in the course of a week. “Another man who called stated of our local, earnest workers, Will aown to the creck, chop a hole in|that he is in the market for a tract |the ice and then drive the cows down| or tracts anywhere from 40 acres to once a day, and every cow that’s mot so froze up by being taken out of a warm barn into the celd wind that she won’t drink, has to get down on her knees and say the |Lord’s prayer before she can get a sup. ““Now up there in the barn I saw ‘in the bottom of the mangers a wa- jter trough running along for all the could raise a lid and get a drink whenever she wanted it. Of course, three times a day, but 1000 acres of cutover land in North- ern Minnesota. His name is being sent all the subscribers. “Another young man came in with his wife and stated that he had saved up $3000, and is preparing to pur, chase a tract of 160 acres of cutover land, possibly a little larger, which and sheep farm. He staid for half showed by the intelligence of their inquiries that they have studied the he intends to develop into a stock|| | The- | Pioneer Store | | | Just Received Sample Line of - Ladies Dresses and Skirts Something Low Very Nobby Price A Few Ladies’ Furs and Coats Left Going at Half Price Jo hn Beckfelt| GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA subscriber in Cages county. The moral of this is that all Northern Minnesota land men should get busy and send in subscriptions to A. G. Wedge of Bemidji, treasurer of the commission in order that they may have people sent to them as they inquire. Another young man from Rice county came in. Said he had farmed for several years and was interested in Mille Lacs county. Intended to investigate and buy there if suited.|, Mr. Mackenzie referred him to a Minneapolis man who had subscribed to the fund, and also wrote the par- ties in Mille Lacs county who had subscribed to the fund, giving them the man’s address. “A middle aged man from North Dakota who has sold his farm told Mr. Mackenzie that he wants a Red River Valey farm and will be in again in the course of a month to talk over the matter. In the mean- time Mr. Mackenzie sent his name to all the subscribers in the Red River Valley, so they can get busy writing the man. “Nearly fifty people called at the exhibit rooms Monday. I have men- tioned only a few of those I saw in order to give Northern Minnesota people an idea of how the work is progressing. I hope that all banks, land men, and farmers who have land to sell will send in subscriptions to the treasurer, A. G. Wedge, Be midji, Minn., in order that they may be entitled to the lists of names that Secretary Mackenzie will send ‘out. I wish Northern Minnesota papers would copy the above, or at least give a digest of it in order to help insure the permanency of the exhibit. It will do great work. “One feature of the exhibit room is the number of people whc come in @nd pick up from the table the news- papers from the counties they ara interested in, to look over. It is to be regretted that only 39 of the 188 papers in Northern Minnesota are sending their papers for the table. {All should send them to W. R. Mac- kenzie, Secy., 39 Third Street South, Minneapolis, Minn. They should ali get busy and boost all the time. People outside of your usual terri- tory will sell your papers if you send ;them to Mack. “I called on our old friend H. J. Maxfield, the new state immigration commissioner to ses how the new position looks to him. I found him looking over the newspaper clippings on file in the office which criticized the work of the department. Looks as if “Max” has the right hunch. He is making a short cut by profiting by the “other fellow’s” mistakes in- stead of having to wait to profit by his own. He wiil, in my opinion, make a record in immigration work, to which Minnesota will be able %o point with pride.” AUCTION SALE AT COHASSET— on Saturday, Jan. 27, at 10 o’clock A. M., the undersiigned will selt at Public auctiion, in Cohasset, Minne- Sota, a large and miscellaneous lot of personal property, consirting of 3 head of horses, 5 wagons and trucks, 10 logging sileighs, 3 tote sleighs, 2 camp outfits, 7 heating land cooking stoves, 1 snow plow, 1 rut cutter and snow plow, black- \smith outfit, camp blankets, eveners, neckyokes, boom and log. chains, canthooks, peaveys, axes, skidding outfits and other articles of per- |sonal property too numerous to men- |tion, Sale begins at 10 o'clock \sharp on the above named date, and articles will be sold in quantities to | suit buyers. A MODERN HOTEL THE RIVERSIDE J. F. McCORMICK, Propr. Newly Furnished Rooms, Large, Well Ventilated, Heated and Lighted. ACCOMMODATIONS BY DAY OR WEEK RATES REASONABLE Second Street and Leland Avenue, Grand Rapids. SCANDIA AMERICAN BANK. sonatton