Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 23

TWELVE SUPPLEMENT TO GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. Where a Man Invests His Labor and Wins a Farm confident from his experience that the poultry business will pay just as well on a larger scale. Experiment Farm Proofs. Itasca county conditions are nearly all found on the Northeast Experiment farm,. established by the state at Grand Rapids in 1896. It was supposed to be jackpine sand. Part of it is. But there is also clay loam, a heavier clay coming to the surface, a bed of fine silt, a patch of muskeag underlaid with clay, a stretch of tamarack and some natural meadow. Crop experiments have been followed that a farmer can’t take time for, but the methods adopted are those that any farmer can carry out. That makes the farm immensely Northeast Exper imental Farm scene, Grand Rapids yaluable to the county. Display of vegetables grown near Grand Rapids Poultry is another profitable branch of agri- The farm has been since 1902 in charge of culture. Every well balanced farm has its barn- A. J, MeGuire, who has developed and proved a brood sow that came from the state farm;-a field yard flock and those who have made poultry a systenr of crop rotation that is generally followed, of oats or potatoes, the seed from McGuire; a specialty have found it good business. Sunflowers has bred up a herd of Guernsey characteristics likely heifer from the experiment farm and so on. grow bigger than in Kansas; oats, barley, rye and from scrub cows, has standardized the potato crop The state farm has proved what can be done buckwheat yield well. It is easy to get plenty of of the county and has made the influence of the in Itasca county and the five tons of hay to the green stuff. As for the fowls themselves, they experiment farm felt in a hundred ways. acre, the 200 bushel yield of potatoes and the cow thrive in this climate and give eggs of superior In every part of the county one will see a that pays $46 a year above the cost of her feed size and flavor. Minnesota eggs are coming to command a premium as Minnesota butter does. A. L. Roecker, who started with fourteen Buff Orpington pullets and one cockerel two years ago, and is increasing his flock to five hundred fowls, says there was but one day during the last winter —and it was unusually severe—that they failed to get eggs. The first year their hens averaged 99 eggs each in seven months. H. D. Wright at Cohasset has a model chicken farm and is devoting his attention to Rhode Island Reds with good results. are to be found everywhere in Itasca county. Small Farming Very Profitable. C. W. Haigh of Goodland, who has been keep- ing store, trading in ties, has devided that he is going to give more attention to farming after this. Of 120 acres he has about eight under cultivation. From two and a half acres he raised 650 bushels of potatoes that brought him $450. Less than an acre was planted to onions, carrots, beets and ruta- bagas. Besides what the family used, he made Ed. Jeffers, who has been breeding Buff Or- sales of $350 from the garden. It included a pingtons and Black Langhams in a small way for quarter acre in onions from which were sold $100 two years at Cohasset, got out lumber this spring Poultry raising is a profitable business on smal] of bunch onions and 150 bushels of dry onions in for a plant on his farm three miles up the river, acreage.—H. D. Wright's chicken ranch. Cohasset the fall. Sostactestestectestestestestestectesteat oats Paatectestectqetents Sesteats 0.0 0.9, an 0.9.9. .*. 0.002 8 89 60908018. Oe 8 9, 9 OO. 0 0 8. 8. 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