Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 28

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He did not call on his team to do any of his spring work. Mr. Guile claims that his white pine stumps were the largest and most stubborn in Itasca county. He has been on the land ten years and has been clearing at the rate of about ten acres a year. Still he is confident he has the best land in Itasca county. It is the clay marl, underlaid with clay at a depth of two and a half feet. The sub- soil will make a good quality of brick, it is that stiff. The surface soil is loamy, crumbles like sand and is as black as leaf mold. About an acre and a half is under close eul- tivation in onions. It was fertilized with manure hauled from town. It gave him last year 1,500 bushels of onions, which he sold for the Duluth market, the bulk of it at $1.50 a hundred delivered Corn yields ten to fifteen tons to the acre; grows ten to twelve feet high. —Morris 0’ Brien’s field one mile from Cohasset, 1911. on the car in Cohasset. A smaller lot that sold locally netted better than a dollar a bushel. Another patch was planted in sweet corn. He began marketing that in August and had it coming right along until the freeze in October. The first price was twenty-five cents a dozen in Hibbing, running down afterwards to fifteen, cents. You see he had a car of early potatoes in Hibbing in August and while he was handling that he peddled his sweet corn in daily shipments. First and last his corn gave him 8,000 dozen. The early potatoes fetched 90 cents a bushel, car lot price. That was before the drop in the price that comes when everybody is digging. Beyond is twelve acres that never has been plowed. He went through it with a sp~ing ‘ooth and seeded timothy and clover. The first cutting gave him about three tons to the acre. It »‘'ed up so he had hardly room for the stacks, Tle second cutting ran about a ton and a half more. And there was fall pasture besides. Mr. Guile regards 200 bushels of potatoes an acre as the smallest yield fhat ought to be con- sidered. From two acres last year he dug 626 bushels. He raises potatoes on a rather ‘arge scale, fifteen to twenty acres. He figures it pays him to clear his land at that rate even if the stumps are obstinate. The land wears well, he says, and is getting more productive every year. But eventually it ought to have live stock to maintain it and he ex- pects to give his attention hereafter more to that. But as long as hay is worth twelve or fifteen and sometimes twenty dollars a ton, there is profit in grass and clover whether one feeds it or sells it. From Section Man to Landlord. Neill Mullins promoted himself from working on the section to owning a farm near Grand Rapids. He had saved his earnings, on the rail- Clover is a magnificent field crop and a troublesome vweed in the gardens.—Five tons to the acre is is not unusual —Henry Kyssow’s farm near Deer River. road in summer, in the woods in winter, till he was in a position to make a good start. He began with 57 acres partly cleared and a team. He has increased his land holding in ten years to more than 200 acres. He has put up a comfortable home, a big red barn and other buildings worth easily $5,000. He has been elected to the county board and served in other positions of trust. For the last eight years he has raised from five to fifteen acres of potatoes which seldom run less than 300 bushels to the acre. He has sold them all the way up to a dollar a bushel and for the eight years his average price is close to seventy cents a bushel. He practices a system of rotation, with clover, oats and potatoes for the main crops and other roots and vegetables for diversity. He invested his labor plus his savings and made himself a highly profitable farm.