Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 18, 1912, Page 5

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A large number of the photographs are views in the Itasca park, scenes from the Lake of the Woods and|¢ haye found that the capillary at-|I let another contract for grubbing views of Lac St. Croix. The devasta- tion wrought by forest fires is strik- utilized. The collection is a hand- -some one and should be seen by ev- ery one interested in beautiful bits Es me -of scenery or the forests of the state. TELLS VALUE OF ~ LOGGED-OFF LANDS |M. N. Koll Writes Instructive Ar- ticle in Orange Judd Farmer on North Country Lands THEY WILL PRODUCE ABUNDANTLY No Snap or “Easy Money” But Sure Returns Here for Man Who Will Farm Under- standingly. The following resume of northern Minnesota's agricultural conditions and the possibilities of the logged-off and burned-over lands of the district by \M.\N. Kollof Cass Lake, one of the best-informed men of the state on matters pertaining to north coun- try lands. Mr. Koll has made exhaus- tive study of northern Minnesota soil and the results of his research have made him one of the most enthusi- astic boosters that the northern sec- tion has today. The article in question, which: ap- peared in a recent issue of the Orange Judd Northwest Farmstead, says: There are vast areas of burned-over and logged off lands in the American Northwest. Although the timber that once grew on these lands is of dif- ferent kinds, yet the same methods of clearing and breaking will answer in every case. If these lands were cleared, it would mean homes for many families on some of the best land that lies under the sun. In a great many instances it has been the poor man who settled this land and his funds and energy would not permit the clearing of many acres each year. Where funds are not lack-| ing, the work can be done more ef- ficiently and in a great deal less time. I have had considerable experience with the work and will give a general idea of what I have done and how I did it. One part of my farm is jack pine or lacustrine Soil. This soil has a very large per cent of fine clay in its composition. There is no gravelly subsoil beneath, and as far as I can discern, beginning three of four inches from tthe top it is the came depth of fifteen to twenty-five feet. traction is great in this soil, and in|by hand a small tract of this same|ston district, are plentiful. This fact growing crops the dust blanket must/ jack pine land. This was cut over|has, however, not made if possible for ingly shown in the photographs, a8/|be kept and has given very satisfac-|during the winter of 1908 and 1909.|the nimrods to return with numerous ‘well as views of how the national |tory results, even in very dry seas-|The land was broken the following| prizes. “Sooners” forests are replaced, administered and ons. It is a very rare thing to find|July three to four inches deep, and | vigilance of the from seed. Jack pine stumps rot eas- ily and rapidly under favorable condi- tions. In a few years they will not out if given a gocd chance. Norway and must be removed in some other way. In March, 1907, I had sixteen acres of jack pine and, occasionally, some small Norway pine trees cut off. They | | Were all rather small and were used } for making cordwood and lath bolts. The stumps were cut about twelve | to fourteen inches high. They wer? in diameter and ran all the way from) 160 to 320 stumps per acre, In June that year,I puttwomen,a team and a stump puller into the field to do| grubbig. They prepared this ground | for plowing at a cost of a trifle over | ‘$20 per acre. This was after the| brush and all timber had been remov-| ed. I seeded this land to medium red clover with rye for a nurse crop} in September. The rye made a splen-| did crop, but the clover was almcst a failure. I noted that all over the field where large stumps had stood the rye looked poorly, I laid this con- | dition to the fact that the large stumps pulled up a great deal of sub- soil. The breaking and harrowing did |not properly cover this. The sprouts | were easily discernible even in the | following year’s crop. Clover Paying Crop. During the winter of 1908, I had wood choppers remove some jack pine timber. This cost me $1 a cord with the brush pile ready, for burning. One tract of four and one-half acres I | broke without removing the stumps. This land was plowed about three or four inches deep, covering as much as possible the stumps cut clove to the ground. I harrowed this twits with the teeth of the harrow slanted well back to avoid catching the stumps. It was then seeded to med- ium red clover without a nurse crop in May of the following year. In 1910 two crops of clover were cut and an- other in 1911. In July, the same seas- on, two men with grub hoe and sweep cleared out the balance of the stumps in nine days. A few weeks later I plowed under the second crop of clever for this year’s potato field. Early last spring I plowed this field again, and harrowed several tinies be- fore planting. ' Last year I let a contract to-grub and clear, ready for the plow, twen- ty acres of cut-over jack pine. On this piece the stumps had been cut h’gr ane no work had peen done af- ter citting, which had been done three or four years before. This con- tract was le* for $15 per acre. Evi- dently this job was not a paying Proposition, for the contractor ask- ed $18 per acre for similar tracts after working this one. Quite recently and white pine do pot rot so readily | up to as much as fourteen inches | . The ground was harrow- [ed twice before and twice after put- ting in the-clover. The seeding was done with a seeder and a very good stand was obtained. From this I took two crops of clover in 1910 and two last year. The contract for this grub- bing was let for $8.00- Best Method Described. From my many experiences in clear- ing pine lands, I found one method which gives the best result. The stumps should be cut close to the ground and the land broken up and seeded to clover for several years. During this time the stumps begin rotting amd are twice as easily re- moved. The examples I mentioned are taken from tracts where the tim- ber was very similar in size and quan- tity. The difference in cost in get- , ting the stumps out by ithe different methods is evident. This pad feature of grain not growing where the stumps were pulled is avoided when they are allowed to rot. My theory is this: When a pine board is locat- ed where it never gets wet, it will last indefinitely. Or, on the other hand, if it is under water ‘where it never dries of gets apy air, it will last. If the same board is placed where it will get wet often and al- ternately dries slowly, it will last but a few years. By plowing and har- rowing the loose soil about the stumps this condition is brought about. It al so gives a better chance to reach the dead roots and hasten decay. This last methed is to be recom- mended where money is not available to grub out the mew stumps. I have demnostrated to my own satisfac- tion that after two or three years the stumpscan be taken out at half the cost- In the meantime good clover | the soil porous and the soil will be ideal when the rooted stumps are removed. I put in clover for the first crop and leave it in clover for two | years. I then take out the stumps. This cut-over land will produce clov- er enough the first year from every acre to pay for removing by the methed already mentioned, Af- | ter the stumps have been removed, !f plow the second crop of clover under, and follow with a potato crop {the following spring. I raised 16 1-2 |bushels of wheat per acre, following | potatoes the driest season we have |had. Potatoes yield from 100 to 225 bushels per acre, In exceptional cases, the 225-bushel yield has been | |\doubled. At 49 cents a bushel, the jto $90. The markets are near at hand and that is quite an item in any country. I have seen land sold at a little} over $3 per acre since I came here | eight years ago. I saw the same land sell this last year at $1,500 for | eighty acres, forty of which were un- improved entirely. The price of land will undoubtedly increase as the country develops. The price of land | will undoubtedly imcrease as more live stock is brought into this country. Clover grows as a weed and this is bound to encourage the dairy busi- ness, finds her way, land prices are bound | to move upward. Subduing raw timber land is no easy task. It ismota job for the ten- derfoot. home builder is bound to win. With a limited amount of capital and lots of energy, one cam hew out a home in the logged-off section. The citi- }zenship of this section is of high | class. mains in the country. Every foot of our domain wes placed here for a purpose amd each year will see the pioneers pushing into the raw lands of the great American Northwest. HAS BEEN TOO WARM FOR GOOD HUNTING Weather propitious for rounding out a delayed corn crop and conditions pleasing to chicken hunters are not at all one and the same, as the hunt- ers of last week bore evidence. In fact the weather is a very import- ant factor when the contents of the game bag are counted, for neither hunters or dogs were able to per- form satisfactorily when the mercury flirted at the unseasonable record it made during the first days of the open season last week. have invaded the fields in the Crook- | Dinner For Dr. McCoy |dinner last Thursday evening, com- and wherever the dairy cow! The good, honest-minded | Kremer, who left Monday to resume It is only the thrifty, hand-| with games and music. working man that succeeds amd re-|- I would be true for there Did you ever hear of Mr. Nicholas Vachel Lindsey? I didn’t till the oth- er day I picked up the American |magaine and read that he had start- ed on a tramping trip and that he |}plams to copy each night of his journey and give the following lines | to the man who entertains him: “I come to you penniless and afoot to bring a message. Henceforth let the denomination to which you belong be called in your heart the “Church of Beauty” or the Church of the Op- en Sky.’ The thing most worth while is one’s Own hearth. Next to that, one’s community. We should make our own hearth and community the most democratic, the most beautiful and the holiest in the world. The children now growing up should find their scrap of talent and nurse it industriously. They should, if led by | the Spirit, wander over the whole na tion in search of the secret of demo- cratic beauty, with their hearts at thq same time deeply in tune with the | righteousness of God....... Then they of their own sort of workmen or} |craftmen about them and strive to make their community and hearth mog | beautiful and holy with their particu- lar act... They should labor in their} little circle expecting neither reward | nor money nor honors. They should | | they shall eat or wherewithal shall} | they shall eat or wherewithal they shall |be clothed. In their darkest hours, | they should be sustained by the vi-| |sion of a transcendently beautiful | democracy. Their incentive should be| |that joy in beauty which no adver-| | sity can take away and that joy in} }can end.” | | Maybe he’s a theorist and a dream- jer, but it seems to me that he has average price at harvest time, @0/|struck the keynote of happiness in acre of potatoes will bring from $40 | his simple little creed, and, believ- ing this, I’m passing it along to you. —The Looker-on Mrs. A. J. McGuire entertained at plimentary to Dr. Mary McCoy of Du- luth. A color plan of yellow and white was carried out with pretty effect in the table appointments. Covers Dr. Mary McCoy, Duluth; Mrs. E. F. Dugan, St. Paul, Mrs. C. T. Kennedy, Mrs. H. W. Stark, Miss May Stanley, Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. A. J. McGuire. Farewell for Miss Kremer Miss Pearl Gole entertained a par- ty of young ladies last Thursday eve- tning in honor of Miss Henrietta her studies at the state university. Autumn flowers and foliage were used with pretty effect in the decora- |tions and supper appointments, and |the evening was passed informally Begin Series of Dances The Neeme club will begin its win- ter series of dances with a hop next Friday evening in village hall. As planned, the Neemes will entertain, twice a month, giving their dances every second Friday evening. Entertain Dinner Club The members of the Dinner club were the guests off Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Doran at the monthly meeting of Gem Attractions This Week Specialties for the coming week at the Gem theatre will include “Heav- en Avenges” for tonight and Thurs- day evening, while “Conscience”, a Vitagraph specialty, and “Pickwick’s Predicament”, Edison, are other fea- |tures of tonight’s ‘bill. For Friday a special agricultural film is being shown, together with “When She Was About 16.” For Saturday and Sunday, the 2Ist and 22nd, “The Church Across the Way,” Vitagraph, “The Workman’s Lesson,” Edison, and “Fate’s Awful Jest,” Vitagraph, will be the offerings that will round Chickens, according to those who/|out an excellent bill. Install Wireless System Among the other appliances with which the Grand Rapids high school MY CREED I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I- would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe—the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up—and laugh—and love—and lift. —Harold Arnold Walters. Social Happenings are those that trust me; the club last Saturday evening, hon- oring Dr. and rMs. Schmidt, who are leaving this week for a visit in the southern part of the state. Sweet peas were used with pretty effect in the table appointments and covers were laid for sixteen, Miss Patricia Connell assisting the hostess. Presdnt were: Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Philip Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A- L. Thwing, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Whittemore, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. MeGuire, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beck- er and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Doran. With Mrs. McGowan The ladies of the Altar society of the Catholic church will be entertain- ed at the church Thursday afternoon by Mrs. E. J. McGowan, With Miss Kremer The young ladies of the A. B. C. club were the guests of Miss Hen- rietta Kremer last Wednesday eve- ming. The early hours of the eve- ning were devoted to needlework, fol- | crops can be grown. The clover roots| should come pack to their hearth and lowed by a dainty’ service of re have been going down and will make |community and make a little circle | freshments. Present were: Miss Lelah Aikin, Miss Mae Benton, Miss Katherine 3urke, Miss Rosemary Logan, Miss Marie Aikin, Miss Beulah Claus, Miss Maybelle O'Connell, Miss Pearl Gole and Miss Henrietta Kremer. the stumps | t#ke no thought for the morrow what ‘Gummerson-Vipond A pretty home wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Al- Ten Vipond Tuesday, September 17, when their daughter, Miss Grayce ‘Vipond, became the bride of Mr. Thomas Charles Gummerson of Stev- enson, The ceremony took place at high | the love of God which no crucifixion | 200n, the Rev. Leo Burrows reading the impressive ring service of the Presbyterian churh. The bride was charming in a gown ;of white, hand-embroidered. and car~ ried a bouquet of white asters. The rooms were decorated in autumn flow- ers, green and yellow being used with delightful effect, which the ceremony took place under a floral arch, cen- tered by a wedding bell of sweet peas. After the wedding ceremony a four- course luncheon was served, only the immediate relatives of the contract- ing parties being present. Mr. and Mrs. Gummerson left on |were laid for seven, present being: |the afternoon train for Duluth and following a short wedding trip, will be at home to their friends in Stev- enson after October 10. Honor Dr. and Mrs. Schmidt Dr. and Mrs. G. F. Schmidt were the guests of honor at a reception ten dered them at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gilbert Tuesday eve- ning, by the members of the adult and young people’s classes of the Methodist Sunday school. About 60 were in attendance and the evening was passed informally. On behalf of the Sunday school, the Rev. J. J. Parish preesnted Dr. and Mrs- Schmidt with six solid sil- ver spoons, voicing the regret of the members on the loss of their super- intendent. Dr. Schmidt responded, expressing the pleasure that his work as sup- erintendent of the Sunday school had given him during his residence here. A service of refreshments conclud- ed the evening’s pleasure, Mrs. Gil- bers being assisted in serving by the young ladies of the Sunday school. world. The establishment of wire- less stations is becoming more fre- quent as their practicability becomes more clearly demonstrated, and the installation of a system here would be another instance of the way northern Minnesota is keeping step in the march of scientific progress. Virginians Are Coming. Virginia Virginiam: Grand Rapids will hold a county fair on the 19, 20 amt 21 instant, and it promises to be a big event. Grand Rapids is in the heart of a splendid farming dis- trict and there are dozens of fine farms within a radius of a few miles of the place. Virginians who are in- terested in Northern Minnesota farm- ing should make it a point to attend, ‘as there will be many sights well who escaped the|may pe equipped in the near future is| Worth seeing at the fair. Let's get game wardens, have| a set of wireless instruments, so that|Up a party and all go together. The jack pine sail that is stony. There |seeded to medium red clover in Sep-| frightened the birds during the pre-| the students may become acquainted |Grand Rapidsites will appreciate the are pine stumps of all kinds on this tember, without a murse crop. Here| hunting season and have made it im-/ with this latest weapon of the scien-|courtesy and many will doubtless part of my farm. They do not sprout|again the stumps were cut low possible to get within gun range of/|tific world for defying space and es-|Come over and help make our Farm- many coveys, tablishing communication round the ss ers’ Day a big success.