INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS. SMALL FARM YIELDS $7,144. ELECTRIC POWER AT FARM. Grand Kapids, March 1.—More than Grand Rapids Independent: Supt. International Falls Abstract Co. $7,uoo taken out of a 110 acre farm Closing Out Sale I McGuire of the North Central Experiment in a single year, is the record made farm has just completed the BURDICK, KREMER & KING Proprietors A. j. McGuire, superintendent of by installation of a three horse power tne state experiment station here, according electric motor at the state farm to be ABSTRACTS. REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE to tne report of last year's Next to Greenyard's Clothing Store si used in pumping water, turning the work issued today. The report shows cream separator, grinding feed and Collections, Conveancing and Loans an unusually large yield from all doing other chores. The current is crops, and again Dears out the great furnished from the Grand Rapids J. BURDICK, Manager E. fertility of Itasca county land. Potatoes electric light plant, and is transferred MINNESOTA INTERNATIONAL fALLS, show a yield of nearly 400 to the farm over the line of wires Cut Glass, China ware, Dishes, bushels to the acre, clover five tons, erected the past fall by the farmer? and other crops correspondingly of the Laprairie district. Electric heavy. lights will also be installed soon. Most Crockery and Hotel Supplies of the Laprairie farmers have aready A dairy herd of 57 cattle, 17 of A. Setterlund & Co. which were heifers, which milked installed lights in their homes and To be sold at less than cost prices barns, and they are found to be a less than half the year, show gross great convenience and comfort. returns averaging nearly $100 each. The average cost of maintaining cattle at the farm is $46 a year, thus General Contractors BORDER WANTS COURT TERMS. 9 indicating net profits of more than £enuctji., iviaicii 6.—Attorneys ox Sale Now On! Big Bargains! Don't Miss It! 100 per cent on every animal in the tfauueue and spooner have united in herd. Mrs. Peter Langis, Prop. uacKing a wmcb will be presented International Falls, Dili Minnesota A summary of the report follows: 10 tne legislature Dy D. O'Neill The work of the experiment station calling for tne trying of cases in district during 1912 consisted of the court in eitner Baudette or growing of field crops common to the opooner with juries drawn from the timbered section of northern Minnesota NITRO CLUB country north of the fted lakes at the the breeding and raising of option of the presiding judge. dairy stock, hogs and poultry the Now The bill is offered as an amendment value of stable manure and fertilizers ^Steel Lined to the present law which provides the testing of the different varieties that terms of. court shall be SHDTSHELLS of grains, grasses, corn, potatoes, held in Baudette and that cases may forage crops and' fruit trees be tried there when both attorneys the clearing of land and the testing in the case are willing to have it of the value of muskeg swamp land. transferred from the county seat. The The chief field crops grown were amendment provides that in all civil oats, wheat, barley, potatoes, fodder, The P^min&rton Cubi cases where the defendant lives nearer corn and clover. The oats yielded ^making their baff. Baudette than Bemidji, the case 6G bushels per acre, the wheat 22 shall be tried in Baudtte unless the Mr. Farmer: You know it pays to plant good M*4. bushels, the barley 26, potatoes How to get the BEST—how to accurately separata the goa4 defendant waives place of trial. (early) 230 bushels, potatoes (late\ from the bad—that's the problem. I can solve it for you with aiy C. R. Middleton, S. M. Koefod and 394 bushels per acre, fodder corn, 15 I?R\CCTAM CLEANBK AUTOMATIC 1 GRAIN GRAIN GRADER George E. Erickson, the three attorneys rUM 1 WIN LCOMBINATIONJ tons (green weight) per acre, clover of Baudette and Spooner, who I want you to see this great machine at work—to appreciate Ita hay, 5 tons (two cuttings) per acre. wonderful automatic feed—its nine-seivc zinc wheat gang that cleans 1 are here for this term of court, agree These were the largest yields that and separates and absolutely takes out ALL WILD OATS FIRST TIME THROUGH its strong, simple construction—ita that it costs so much to bring witnesses ^Cut down the have been obtained on the experiment superiority ovsr all other fanning mills. A FOSSTON mill is an lead investment that shows big profits. and attorneys to Bemidji that farm, but are the result of a normal —Cut down the Ask the FOSSTON DEALER in your town. If no one handles the FOSSTON. many cases are never brought to trial then write me direct. Handsome catalogue FREE. increase from year to year, due to the guesswork FOSSTON MANUFACTURING CO. as the amount involved is less than increase number of dairy stock kept N. Soranaen, President 473 Merrlam Park, St. Paul, Minn. S. the expense. They further state that Shoot the speed shells and or the farm. the round trip from Bemidji to Baudette watch your field and trap aver­ Forty cows and 17 heifers were cannot' be made for less than age milked. The average production of $13, that figure allowing nothing for The steel lining gives the speed—grips the powder charge with the 40 cows was 562 pounds of milk time nor entertainment. just that compression needed to put all the drive of the explosion and 24 pounds of butter fat. The O E behind your load. time, most of them coming in in LA ZENDA And with Expert Factory Loading, you're sure of the same September and October. The total A FATAL BLUNDER. speed—a uniform spread of pattern in each and every shell. sales from the dairy in '12 were |5,677.09, Scientific American: By remitting Shoot Arrow and Nitro Club steel lined Expert Factory Loaded Shells for of which $4,720.58 was for Domestic speed plus pattern in any make of shotgun. the tolls to coastwise ships that pass milk and cream. The total sales Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. through the Panama canal, Congress LA TRINCA from the experiment farm in 1912 299 Broadway 12 New York City has dealt a death blow to American (310 acres under cultivation) were deep-sea shipping. Everyone who $7,144.47. has studied the problem of the decadence Havana of our merchant marine, understands DUNN'S BILL PASSED BY HOUSE. that it is due to certain AT ALL DEALERS Northern Minnesota Hospital economic conditions over which we St. Paul, Feb. 28.—The house Wednesday have no control. It costs so much afternoon, by a vote of 90 to more to build American ships and so International rails, Minnesota 13, passed the R. C. Dunn good roads much more to run them, that successful bill, a codification of all the present competition with foreign ships Three Leaders road laws, but amended so as not to in the deep-sea carrying trade is out be contrary to the Elwell law. All of the question. That is a fact which afternoon was spent in adopting and no one disputes, Also, it cannot be rejecting amendments. With the expectation Ifl. disputed that if we are to regain our S£ of a few outside of those W& Golden Grain Belt Beers former position as a leading maritime offered by the author of the bill, all t* j.1"^ nation* some form of government assistance S»T were voted down. It was estimated is necessary. Call it what we that at least twenty amendments Harpers Whiskey will, whether subsidy, subvention, were defeated. About twelve of preferential duties or what-not, it is more or less consequence were appended not denied and cannot be denied that to the bill. The majority in the Rock Spring Water Federal aid must be forthcoming, at house practically assures the bill's least in the early stages of the upbuilding passage in the senate. 1 Ti 1 lVwn 1 mm nw "1 giJrTiaT of our merchant marine. The Dunn bill makes three radical Unfortunately and thanks to the UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, LOCAL AGENTS B. H. MONAHAN, M. D. ELIZABETH MONAHAN. M. D. changes in present road laws. They persistent misrepresentations of the are: MABY C. GHOSTLBY, M. D. stump orator and the yellow journal, International Falls, Minnesota. First—Increases of the state road Office over International State Bank. there is a country-wide, though tax from one-fourth of a mill to one unwarranted, distrust of any proposed mill. The result will be a fund of at \legislation which involves the least $1,350,000 available each year principle of government aid. The for road improvement. idea has been widely disseminated and Second—Abolition of the system of represents nothing more nor less than "working out" road tuxes. Cash for the transfer of funds from the public ASK THE MAN WHO OWN? taxes is demanded. treasury to the private purse of individuals Third—Increase from $150,000 to and corporations. ONE $200,000 for use annually by good It Wins Now the fatuity of this matter of roads commission. remission of canal tolls lies in this, The bill originally drafted had provided that to remit these tolls to the already for a state referendum on bond prosperous and highly protected issues. wy- coastwise shipping companies, is Among those who failed to obtain its way by service tr do exactly what the yellow press passage for their proposed amendments, has said would be done in every measure were Representatives Steen, that contemplated government as C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Knapp and Ferrier of Winona county, si stance to shipping. To remit thfe Kimpel, Olien, Burrows and Child. tolls will be to make a free gift of The amendments to the Dunn bill (Ball Bearing—Long Wearing) $1.20 a ton to shipping companies which were adopted make provisions In buying a typewriter you want a satisfactory answer to three questions: which are already flourishing sunder as follows. That no part of the bill the protection of a rigid monopoly. What will it do for me? be construed as. contrary to the Elwell So then, the first attempt of congress How well will it do it? law that superintendents of highways to give assistance to shipping How long will it do it in counties having such officers will be a glaring example of that may supervise the road building in By answering ttiese queries with the needs of the typewriter owner and very abuse of the .excellent princi his district that railings shall be user in mind, the L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Company has attained pie of federal aid, of whi A the country, provided for bridges on either side of the front rank in the typewriter field. thanks to misrepresentation, is the road that approaches to culverts Some people think that a is a typewriter typewriter so greatly afraid. With this prepos must be in proportion of five feet in and that is ail there is to it. Machines may look alike but there is a lot of difference in efficiency. each 100 that funds-in excess of onehalf terous act before their eyes, it is The new Model Five is built not only for straight of 1 per cent available for county certain that the people of the United correspondence but for tabulating, billing, and in fact roads in one year shall revert after for every service needed in the average business. States will become more firmly settled two years to the state road and Its ball bearings at all points where friction developes than ever in their unfortunate prejudice bridge fund. through action, permit close adjustment and insure correct and accurate typewriting. against any attempt however PacKard, Straube, Hobart M. Cable, Hammond, Representative Dunn declares the We would like the opportunity to tell you commendable, on the part of the gov bill will put Minnesota in the lead of more about it. Bond and Lyon & h|ealy Pianos. good roads states within five years. ernment, to assist in the reconstruction Write for free book of our new Model Five. of our merchant marine. Not TERRY & GILIUSON L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER CO. Get your horseshoed and your only has congress given asistance SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. Head Office for Domestic and Foreign Business: A. sleigh repaired and your general machine where it is not needed, but it has killec. Branches in all Principal Cities r' ./. repair work done at the International Duluth, Superior and International Falls Minneapolis Branch, 420 Second Ave. S. for a long time to come any hope machine company's shop near Minneapolis* Minn of assistance being given where it is In the Marvin Music store the wholesale meat and Grocery Co F.A. Niles, Manager.—Adv. needed.