Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 3, 1912, Page 5

Or does the spring season find you with furniture that is beginning to have of milk containing fat equivalent to! end will be most effectively served ‘gq thousand bushels of uniform high made by the experiment faim, “I/and harrow on fall-plowed land, to|members, it can command the atten- was here for five years,” said Mr./ pulverize the surface and thus break | tion of large potato buying firms, know of nowhere that'I would ex- change for now, in preference to the soil when rightly farmed, and the market for farm products.” These hints of Mr. McGuire’s are Just hints as to the possibilities of which promotes the but, as a protective mulch, it con- Reclamation Service, declares in a recent article—it is really upon the adequacy of the water supply, rather than upon the quality of the land. Sisler, “before I got down to farming, the continuity of contact among the|and get a market. where if each | Nobody thought it was a farming soil-particles. country. I have farmed in different capiillary ascent and evaporation of states) before coming here, but I/moisturea A finely-divided surface |not only affords a good seed bed, farmer or each club stced aione | with a few hundred bushels. it could not get a market other than the local one. Again in the buying of a product like dynamite—if the clubs Northeastern Minnesota, from the serves the water supply. And as|can put in a jeint order for a car-| standpoint of the productiveness of Dr. McGee, the hydrographer of the jload of dynamite, which they easily ean if they will, they can secure much better prices than they other- wise could. The asscciation has not failed. ing them. A crop thus handled cam fesult in but one way: a pountiful harvest. Yields up te 40 busiels per acre were gotten in this county in 1911, and I feel sure that with proper, care the yicld may be ma- terially increased. | Our Annual Fice Loss} | Fire losses in the United States and Canada in 1910 were $234-406-500. Fire losses and the cost of fire Prevention in the United States | amount annually to $450,000,000, or | more than the total American produc- that shabby, depressing look? It’s wrong to deprive yourself of the comforts of a well-furnished home. It’s an injustice to yourself and every member of your fam- ily. If you will look at the prices we are making you will be surprised to learn how cheaply you can obtain the needed We quote a few of the prices we are making, and everything in the store is in proportion to these figures and every piece guaranteed as advertised. articles. Brass Beds, best quality brass, smoothly finish- ed. high grade lacquer. This bed is 53 inches high, full two-inch pillars and five-eighth inch tubing. We challenge comparison and price Steel Chilless Bed. We are willing that you should judge our ability to provide high grade val- ues at unequalled low prices by this bed. High grade, chilless steel, with two-inch continuous posts, seven-eights filling tubes and one and one-sixteenth inch bottom rods, at only Massive continuous two-inch post bed, made of J. best smooth steel tubing, with highest grade enamel finish. A bed that will last a lifetime. fore sold at such a low price. ny | Kremer’s Furniture Store gq” °—_ Grand Rapids, Minn. Northern Minnesota in crop growing | that success in agriculture depends. and dairying. A splendid creamery is He shows that we have in America creameries are springing up in var-| billions of people; but the water sup- fous quarters and making good rec-| Ply is sufficient only for one billion; western Dent corn are being matur-'limit of population which can be: ed on the experiment farm, and fod-| supported on our continental domain der corn yields from five to eight; Spring-plowed—since it is not to tons per acre of cured fodder and have; so largely as fall-plowed, the from ten to fifteen tons per acre of| benefit of winter’s saturations and ensilage. A ninety-six-year-old gard-| freezings and thawing—should be ener may be quoted, who broke uP/even more thoroughly worked. As a half acre piece of hay field which |the furrow-slice is otherwise likely he planted about May 20. On August! to dry and harden in the sun and corn for dinner. Mr. McGuire esti-| harrowed as soon as done. If, after county the past year was about 100,- | fairly good seed-bed, two or three 000 bushels. was raised on 500 acres, which mearg will assuredly give you a better one, an average of 200 bushels per acre. | with fewer weeds to steal away fer- of such extent as to contribute large- of a larger crop. If discing can be ly to the manufacturing industries of preceded by sub-surface packing, for the county. A compilation of these |the purpose of firming the lower.part uses about 5,000 cords annually of; The depth of plowing should be va- spruce, which is manufactured into} ried from. year to year, to avoid the paper. Cohasset has a large pail| formation of a hard, compact layer and hoop factory that uscs about 3,- of subsoil, such es will attend con- 000,000 feet of hardwood annually, be tinual plowing at a uniform depth. sides a sawmill and several large, Heavy soils should be plowed deeper ‘cedar yards. Deer River has a large| than light ones. In most Minnesota ‘sawmill which manufactures all kinds soils, seven inches is considered of lumber, employing about 150 men | “deep.” the year around. .Warba has 4 ‘large brickyard that employs about titiesr of cord'wood. It also has ‘large hardwocd plant that makes a specalty of manufacturing hardwood coring and finishing lumber. Bovey | THEIR ACTIVITIES engaged in mining. Besides the Producers’ Co-operative Association above, Keewatin, Bigfork and Calu- met are among the principal towns of | Makes Some Important Changes In Rules Recently. |the county. The hardwood lands are described | ag possessed of a dark top soil, um-) Phe Producers’ Co-operative as- derlain with marl. Marl, which is! sociation amended their activities at jused in older countries as a fertilizer! the recent meeting in Duluth and will to build up worn out lands, is coM-| continue the asscciation with the fol- ling into use more and more iN} jowing changes: America and! is now brought in the; pe association will not do a market for fertilizing purposes: commission business, but will act as But the man who is interested| an agent to find the best market for ‘should visit this country, if he has} the qifferent clubs for what they had not seen it, and he will be surprised} to gej] and for such products (dyna- jhow far short of deserved praise the} mite, etc.,) as they could buy to ad- | most enthusiastic writer on Northern vantage in co-operation. | { Never be- Minnesota attractions has fallen.| The name was changed from the | Even the climate, so long considered | proqucers’ Co-operative Market As a barrier, has yielded its blessings sccjation of Duluth to the Producers’ | (which have been acknowledged) up-| Cooperative Market Association of on former Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, | ortheastern Minnesota. jIllinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and | Indiana men, who are perhaps comi 8 pnrpose whatsoever, but expenses ‘into this region more rapidly than|ji]] pe held to the amount of funds from otner states, although immigra-| supplied by the different clubs. | tion is coming from all quarters and) 4 membership fee of $1.00 per members to join the association, and |pay an additional dollar for each {member belonging to the local club. SOIL TILLAGE A charge of $1.00 is but @ small | amount for this privilege of co-opera- Grand Rapids Minnesota Civil Engineering ITASCA ENGINEERING CO. J. A. Brown - - - Manager Phone 168 Surveying Estimating Construction Superintending Drafting ° tion, and any one whose Dusiness Agricultural College Man Cites Best) Would not be benefitted to» that | amount should not join. Methods For Northern | Other minor changes were made in Minnesota. {the by-laws. The following officers were elected: President, L, H- Bug- HE HAS GOOD WORD FOR ITASCA COUNTY (Continued from page 3) ae -| Ina large portion of Minnesota, tid he runs his farm from a scientific latter part of March or the early pait 4- B. Hostetter, Duluth; treasurer, standpoint, having a definite system’ of April witnesses the beginning of | LUdvis Mospaek Askov; secretary> of crop rotation. He grows three ‘those operations in soil-tillage which|4- J- McGuire, Grand Rapids. Dir- main crops, clover potatoes, oats and are so largely to determine the qual- ectors: L. Christenson, Sandstone; these in regular rotation, growing ity and amount of the crops grown. B. A. Beck, Cromwell; F. S. Kal-| the same crop only one year on the Gooq tillage must provide a home| ers, Bagley; A. T. Reid, Deer River, same field. “I grew fourteen hun- gor good seed, in a soil well-pulveriz- on seven acres of land.” said Mr.’ weeds, if, later on, the greatest re-|N- 1 laters hotel A Mullina, “and sold them for $1. @ ward is to came to the tien Sandstone; Louk. Laseert; Holyoke: bushel. I have grown from 5 to 15 The study of so-called “dry farm- conducted at Grand Rapids and | enough cultivable land to support two) ed a great deal. It was léd into a} ords. Minnesota No. 23 and North-|so the latter figure is set as the| | While it did not accomplish as much tion of gold, silver, copper and petro- as was expected of it, it accomplish-|leum in a year. The cost of fires éach year is one larger scope of business than it} half the cost of all the new buildings should have unertaken on the start, | erected in a year. but it is now reorganized to be-; The annua] per capita fire waste gin work at the bottom, by building in the United States is $2.51, in Eu- 9 he had ripe tomatoes and sweet |air, each day’s plowing should pe! He states this total|discings, with alternate harrowings,| There are hardwood lands in Itasca tility, and with a practical certainty | 75 to 100 men and burns large quan-| PRODUGERS AMEND | a strength and co-operation in its local clubs. GREAT FUTURE IN POTATO RAISING | | Greatest Tuber Raising Sec- tion Of States. | Northern Minnesota is destined to| | be the greatest dairy and potato r: | ing section of the United States, says |a St. Louis county farmer in the! |section, the next five years would| see every forty-acre tract support-| ing a happy and contented family. This section is especially adapted |to the raising of potatoes. Enormois | yields are obtained on any’ of our} ‘soils but, personally, I prefer the | {clay loam soil, just rolling enough | for good drainage. On any soil a | rotation of crops should be practiced. | | I would cover my ground.well.with | gocd manure (which the dairy end }of the business supplies), plow dee | |and plant to corn. The next year} |sow to oats, with a good seeding of | medium red clover. The oats act.as; |a nurse crop to the clover. | The next year cut a crop of hay,| }and if a good year, you will get a| |crop of seed later. Late in the fall| |plow deep and leave rough. Some} jadvocate harrowing in the fall. 1| }do mot, for I find the frost acts on} \it better and the land works up in |far better shape in the spring if left rough in the fall. In the spring, as scon as frost is jout, work the ground thoroughly. I | prefer a disc harrow for this work |Then harrow well with a common | harrow, at intervals of 10 days, till| |the last of April or first of May, | when the ground should be in No. 1} | shape for potatoes. | The seed should be free from | scab. If such is not obtainable, then |treat with formaldehyde I prefer cutting by hand, but where the acre age is large this may not be prac- |iticable. I cut my seed just before and plant one piece to the hill. On | pig acreage you will have to use | the large potato machinery and plant} accordingly. I prefer rows three | Plant deep to eliminate hilling. Tle up-to-date grower does little if any hilling. It does in a wet season,.but in a dry season the hill is too.much exposed to the sun. After planting, harrow thercughly once a week un- |til potatoes begin to set, when the| crop should be in prime condition to lay by.. | In the meantime look out for po- tato bugs. As soon as the slugs ap- pee, Wrenshall, Minn,; vice-president pear go over the patch with Paris green, and if your section of the country is troubled with blight, com- bine Bordeau mixture with your.Paris green. Generally, two applications of Paris green are sufficient, al- * though it depends on the s@son to A. Solem, Normanna; C. P. Craig,| ome extent. dred bushels of potatoes one ye®r eq and enriched and freed from|DUluth; W. Holmes, Wrenshall; John As to variety, I prefer the Early Ohio for early planting and the Rural New Yorker or Carman for It was voted to levy an assessment} igte The Burbank is also a popular acres of potatoes for eight Years ing,” as well as of irrigation pro-|° fifty cents per member of each | potato on the market. and the average price has been close cesses, has during recent years local club for @ fund for the begin- to 70 cents per bushel.” | brought about considerable modifica- Vegetables and small fruits have tions of the ideas formerly dominant|80ciation. All’ clubs A movement is on foot here this ning of the future work of the S| .5,ing to get all the farmers to plant are requested| in, same variety, as it is a well- been grown with marked success 0D jn relation to the to raise an dmount in proportion t0|,,own fact that a community that purposes of tillage! the experiment farm. Truck €@rden- Whiie no less importance is attached | their membership and forward it t| raises one kind of potatoes can.com- ing offers a paying opportunity in 10-'to the breaking up of soil and re-|t2e treasurer, Mr. Ludvig Mosbaek, | mand better prices for their product cations tributary to the Mining qucing it to such “tilth” as shall | 4S*°V> Minn. towns. Over ten thousand carloads facijitate the absorption of _ plant- than one that has a mixed lot to Send a list of the names of the oter Great care should be exercis- of vegetables are shipped annually! food by the growing cro; farmers contributing to this fund to! 44 in the selection of seed- It must p, and while to Duluth, Superior and the iron the destruction of weeds remains one| the secretary, A. J. MeGuire, Grand|contorm in shape to the type of Do- ranges These could better be of the important objects of tillage, | R@pids. Minn- grown in Northern Minnesota, m@king mdre emphasis is today placed upon tato planted, must be of medium.size The Producers’ Co-operative Mar-| ang must be free from defect. Seed them of higher quality and cheaper such a treatment of the land as shall|Ket association hes a needed W0rk) thus selected will never run out. I the consumer. | best conserve the supply of moisture, to do. This season potatoes 4re| refer to sort my potatoes on the A. 'M. Sissler is a dairy farmer, hinder evaporation, and keep ‘the|S¢arce, and any potatoes anywhere) ground, picking up the marketable with potatoes as a side issue. From watery gifts of the skies” in the soil | Wil! sell, but in a season when p0ta | ono first and the small ones for the seven cows last year he sold $900 until they shall have been fully utiliz toes are plentiful, it will be worth of cream. One of his cows, 2 eq in crop-production. difficult matter to sell. If the as- ®\ stock last, thus saving the expense of hauling the small ones to market;in after school and memorize the graded Giiernsey, gave 10,000 pounds [t is established that this latter |S°ciation can report several hundred/anq the time and expense of screen-| multiplication table.” rope, 33c. Cause: The latter has better construction, less carelessness, increased responsibility. If buildings in the United States were as fire proof as in Europe, the annual cost of fire losses and protec- tion would be only $90,000,000. Fires in the United States cost over $500 a minute. The way to get lower insurance mates that the potato yield in Itasca this, one disking will give you a| Northern Minnesota Destined To Be| rates is to have fewer fires. New York city spends $10,000,000,- 000 a year for fire extinguishers and $15,000 a year for fire prevention, The 90,000,000 people in the United States use more matches.than the 900,00@000 in the rest of the more or less civilized world. Of 3,875 known causes of fire in industries cites the fact|of the furrow-slice and uniting it/ Northwestern Agriculturalist. If the | Chicago last year, 1,089 were due to that the : paper mill at ' th se subsoil, an additional MeAN$| neople who are secking new homes|the careless use of matches. Near Grand (Rapids burns large is provided for the retention of mOis-| ould stop to investigate the oppor- ly ten thousand matches are scratch- om tbrig Soap pee ete Lege? ont oe Ueerence agaist Weer tunities, and possibilities of this ed every second of the day in this quantities of cordwood for fuel and | fect of droughts. Bae country, every one a possible fire. The report of the Fire Marshal for Nebraska for 1910 shows that of 834 known causes of fires in that state, 106 were due to matches. of which 55 were caused by children playing with matches, many of them resulting in serious injuries. Defective flues are responsible for 13 per cent of all the fires. The fire waste of the United.States in the past ten years exceeds the amount of gold held in the United Kingdom, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Spain, It is equivalent to Wiping out the entire corn crop once every ten years, and exceeds the annual Yalue of wheat, hay, rye and oats. It is twice the annual value of te cotton ‘crop. And most of this waste is easily preventable and due to carelessness in one form or another. Fifteen hundred people are killed and 5,000 are injured annually as a result of fire. The proportion of insurance capital to insurance liabilities is very much on the decrease. In the past forty years the liabilities have almost doubled, while only $6,000,000 more capital was invested in the business in 1910 than in 1870- Between 12880 and the close of 1908, 912 fire insurance companies re- tired from business in the United States, Rates of interest would necessarily be greatly increased and the purchas- ing power of money greatly reduced Were not fire insurance the element No money will be borrowed for ary ysing. I cut two eyes to the piece|it is today in credit. This applies not only to the individual, but to the community and to the country at large. The fire losses in the United capita will be charged with @ mini-|¢cet apart and 20 inches in the row. | States would pay the total interest- }mum of of $5.00 per club. In other|gome advecate rowing both ways; I|be@ring debt of the country in four words, a club must have at least five) nave had no experience in so doing. | Ye4rs. They would build the Panama Ca- nal in less than two years. They exceed the total cost of the {army and navy of the United States |for the year. } They were greater than the an- nual expenditure for pensions or | the annual cost of the United States | postal service. in the United States were placed close together on both sides of @ street, they would make an avenue of desolation reaching from Chicago to New York city. At each thou- sand feet would be a building from which a severly injured person had been rescued, and every three quar ‘ters of a mile there would be the blackened ruins of a house in which some one had ben burned to death, “A teacher instructed her class in the principles of punctuation by writ- ing sentences on the blackboard and asking members of the class where to place the mark. She wrote this sentence: “Mary Ann walked across the street to display her pretty ankle.’ “ ‘Now: where shall I place the punctuation marks?’ she asked the first boy. “Vd put a comma after walked’ the first boy replied- “ ‘Ta put a comma after street,’ said the next one. “7d make a dash after Mary Ann,’ replied the third. “Whereupon he was made to stay If all the buildings burned last year ; ; ———