Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 15

aaa FOUR SUPPLEMENT TO GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. Cows and Clover Thrive in These Fair Meadows Above all this is the dairyman’s country. Grass comes in everywhere, grass and clover. Three to five tons to the acre are the usual har- vest in two cuttings. Fodder corn grows ten or twelve feet high and yields ten to fifteen tons to the acre of suc- culent and nutritious feed. In silos it insures a supply of the best fodder on earth, Corn may be ripened also, but it is hardly necessary when the stalks are so rich in food values. Rutabagas, mangels and other roots, return a thousand bushels to the acre and upward, balane- ing up the ration with the hay and the corn. There is abundance of pure water every- where. The climate is invigorating for cattle as well as for people and the cows give a steadier flow of milk where they are not vexed by the changes that afflict many sections. Furthermore there are six full months of Grand Rapids creamery, first in Itasca County.—Opened August 1911, made 100 pounds of butter a day through the winter besides supplying pasteurized milk and cream to the Grand Rapids trade.—Not enough butter ‘yet to supply local demand.—The plant is thoroughly modcra, costing $5,000.—It has been self sustaining from the start. green pasture for the cattle of Itasca county. The grass springs up as soon as the snow is gone. It keeps green through midsummer and remains good pasturage till the snow covers it in December or the last of November. The herd at the experiment farm, built up from common cows without any fancy stock, gave a gross yield last year of $77.90 per head in butter, while the cost of the feed was $31.24 per head, a net return from each cow of $46.60 each above the cost of feed. Assuming that the skim milk and the calves were worth the labor of keep- ing them, that gives a profit of $46 per cow. And that is the record of the common cow, a record that is equaled by individual farmers. Dairying: is the ambition of nearly every first class farmer and the local creamery is the am- bition of every farming community. Grand Rapids is first to establish a creamery and that is now distributing among the farmers their creamery checks twice a month. Deer River and Cohasset are shipping their surplus cream to Grand Rapids, giving the dairymen an outlet until such time as they have enough cows locally to sustain a creamery. Thus co-operation plays an impor- tant part in developing farm profits. Raising chickens and hogs goes along with the dairy farm. The skim milk is worth as much for feeding as it was before the cream was taken off. The farmer who has as many cows as he can tend, can look after a few hogs and a small flock of chickens at the same time, and double his profits. With skim milk, clover, wild peas and all sorts of roots, hogs can be finished in good form. As for chickens, a little patch of barley or buckwheat or oats will round out their feed to perfection. Dairying gives the best returns per acre of any form of farming, and maintains the fertility of the soil at the same time at the highest pitch without commercial fertilizers. The combination of cows and clover, the bacon hog and the flock of chickens, with potatoes and cabbage for a com- mercial crop, is the sure way to farm prosperity of the highest type. the combination for which Itasca county is peculiarly fitted. And those who are practicing this combination of dairying with farming in Itasca county are proving successful. | i _ K3 BA % wes 3, 2 t, % $ 3 $ z 2 E % } a & # @ + é } MMM MELEE LEE EIIIISISISSS $ z % 8 x % ¢ & é Be g ¢ $ Ks & > ae 4 $ £ ks z and zs $ < z % : % ¢ & x ~ 2, 3 3, y 3. it & : Educational Pictures Only : : : : rod 7 P. ke or $ + = % Bs r & ¢ a % 9 k3 bi 3, 3, t *Ulean Amusement [Or all: : : 5 : % baie 4 & 3 Es x 2S r 4 3, & - . - 14 2 & & b 3 iy zx z e 4 ‘ Be > i & a t 2 3 3, 4 %, 3, id * 9 o $ 4 ? 5 . ¢ : * t + WE CHANGE EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY and SATUR- } % $ BS $ 53 oe & AND iM Vs 3, 3 2. *< bg g DAY—Doors Open 6:30—Two Shows, 7:30 and 8:30 : 3 $ % y %. 2 z x > % 3 z 5 4 *y y Xd > 4 y t SUMMER MONTHS % ¢ ¢ : z oy ¢ ¢ % - $ y ¥ Y y R4 y % We Change Friday and Saturday—Running Three Nights, Friday, Satur- + + ¢ $ ‘ x : 3 $ : % day and Sunday—Doors Open 7:00—Two Shows, 8:00 and 9:00 ¢ $ Grand Rapid Mi £ ¥ + ae $ ¥ 4 ran apids 7 innesota = ¢ ~ % = 4 5 ‘*' = SEE HERALD-REVIEW FOR SYNOPSIS OF PICTURES WEEKLY ? : : : al “oO = 5 4 SEE z & & Bs % & & 3 . + ; = 3 & + : P 3 & > 4 > € BS & & 6 s > & 4 & i i ¢ oe & $ y yd gy & , é - y ‘sy & = % + 3 * *~ $ $ ? Loatestectostostoatostocton sosteetoafoetoctoateeten + % Proprietors and Managers % .¢ ¥ $ % $ ¢ £ * §S~ Tell us what you want to see = + ; oe af* eae tebe teeta a eeeeeeeeeeetetetetetetetetetetetee Bed setetedinectetectetepcecteteteeneteteteteninteteter aetetetetebtnetetetetnnnlecetetntcetetetntntetet ] }