INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. ALFALFA ON EVERY FARM IN THE HIGH AND GRADE SCHOOLS AWRENCE E. GILBERTSON COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES CORN BELT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Plastering, Chimney Buiiding and all kinds of (Continued from 5th Page) I Agricultural Extension Department Makes Mason work. Estimates cheerfully given. the last few weeks. We hope that this will keep none away during examination Preliminary Announcement. week. Prices Reasonable and all Work Guaranteed. One picture, a prize from the Journal Junior, was won by the High school this year. The prize essays were written by Elsie Todd, Carl Harrison Phone 198 Internationa! Falls, Minn. and Abraham Pelland. The picture is a very beautiful view of Stratford-on-Avon. I KNOW OF NOTHING WHICH WILL DO MORE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OR ADD MORE TO ITS WEALTH Two pictures have been won by the sixth grade, Lecie Dawson and Edna THAN A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ALFALFA.—GROUT. Oveson both of the A Class writing the winning stories. Examinations begin on Friday, May the twenty-third, and last till Thursday, May the twenty-ninth. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA larly Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, By J. E. BUCK. The class organizations are as follows: We have come to the dividing of the California and Utah—the great alfalfa HAS Senior Class: ways—we have reached a critical I states. We have reached the point point in the history of our agricultural President—Liela Wallace, where we know we can grow alfalfa LOCATION, POWER, RAW MATERIAL development Aside from the In the corn belt, and it is now up to Secretary—Mary Keyes 35,000,000 acres in the United States us to grow it Treasurer—Patricia Lynch. that can be reclaimed by irrigation, These combined guarantee a populous center of activity. •II. Junior Class: Where Alfalfa Is Grown. and the 74,000,000 acres of farm lands President—Minnie Mathison. that can be made available for cultivation The accompanying map shows where PRESENT OUTPUT OF MILLS: Secretary—Earl Pendergast. 'f by means of drainage, no very alfalfa is grown in the United States Treasurer—Lyman Mathison. large areas of virgin soil remain to News Print Paper 220 tons per day today. At the present time all the be brought under cultivation in our alfalfa grown in the United States is Ground Wood Pulp 200 tons per day III. Sophomore Class: country. In time, of course, these less than the area of the little state Sulphite Pulp 110 tons per day Chairman—Einar Stubee. barren lands will be made to yield of New Jersey. The total area under abundant harvests—but for the present Saw Mill 100,000,000 ft. annually alfalfa in this country is 4,707,136 IV. Freshman Class: we must look elsewhere to find a acres. Of this area Kansas alone has Preside^—Walter Pelland. permanent pay month A roll of over $75,000 per solution of the problem with which we 956,962 acres of alfalfa—or about onefifth Secretary—Carl Harrison. Consider these facts, and we feel sure you are confronted. If we are to keep of our entire alfalfa crop. on going forward it will be necessary Nebraska comes second with 685,282 Treasurer—Clifton Tohms. will agree with us that International Falls for us to secure larger yields from the acres Colorado third, with 508,892 ALL THE SENORS. is destined to become one of the most important fields that are already under cultivation. acres California fourth, with 484,134 manufacturing centers of the North That is to say, our problem is acres and Idaho fifth, with 308.892 not so much how to increase the population acres. West. The graduation exercises of the Oveson and Jeanette Ogaard. in rural communities as it is All of the corn belt states are lamentably 8. Twilight Song—Girls Chorus. Eighth grade students will be held to increase the producing caipacity of shy in the growing of alfalfa, tonight in the city hall, which is being 9. Wet Weather—Ray Palmer. the people already on the farm. as is shown by the following rank in Residence Lots trom $200 up Business Lots from $1200 up Id. Class Prophesy—Helen Sohlman. appropriately decorated with the which they come as producers of the Industrial Lots from $600 up Terms to Suit ali Average Yields. clss colors for the occasion. crop: The average yield of corn per acre The following pupils have succescessfully 11. "Graduation."—Nicholas Rauscher. Missouri, 17 Ohio, 19 Iowa, 20 Illinois C. B. KINNEY in the United States is only about 27 22 Wisconsin, 23 Indiana, 24 completed the course of bushels. Michigan, 29 Minnesota, 35. 12. Song—Class. study required for graduation from Our average yield of wheat is only With the unquestioned advantages Sales Manager 13. Presentation of Diplomas—Gusta the grades and for admission to the 13.7 bushels per acre—and the average of alfalfa, we should be growing more high school department: S. Houg. yield of nearly everything we of this great legume crop. International Falls, Minnesota Gladys Burton, Gertrude Duprey, grow on the farm is exceedingly low, Advantages of Alfalfa. compared with the yields in other Addie Easterly, Cecil Emerson, THE BACCALAUREATE SERMON. countries. As to the advantage of growing alfalfa Ralph Emerson Harry Emlaw, Mae The annual baccalaureate sermon It is high time we were waking up in the corn belt, Prof. P. G. Gorman, Rollit Gren, Dewey LaPage, for the graduating class of the local and doing something. Holden says: Jeanette Ogaard, Nora Olson, Effie high school was preached Sunday "It produces a large yield per acre, Oveson, Ray Palmer, Roy Palmer, Better Farm Management Needed. night by F. J. Bryan, pastor of the more than double that of clover. One hundred years ago the Mohawk Nicholas Rauscher, Olga Skinvik, First M. E. church. The services "It is rich in protein, having almost valley in New York was the wonder of Helen Sohlman, Genevieve Young, as high a feeding value as bran. were held in the city hall and were KOOCHICHING COUNTY Europe, was the wonder of the world "It is the most enriching crop for Miss Gusta S. Houg, teacher. largely attended. for its fertility, and thousands of carloads the ground which we have. The following program will be Rev. Bryan preached a very practical of cattle, hogs and farm crops "When a good stand is once secured given. sermon, offering words of congratulation were shipped out of that valley until A N S it will generally last four to six years PROGRAM. and advice. He decried its fertility has been exhausted. The in the humid regions and much longer 1. Sunflower Drill—Class. settlers then moved westward into the the present-day tendencies of carelessness in the west. Miami and Scioto valleys of Ohio, and 2. Class Song— "It can be fed aB hay to all kinds of in matters of virtue, morality did the same thing over again. Following animals, and has no superior as a hog 3. The Blue anil The Gray—Han and religion. He spoke of the the exhaustion of these rich pasture." Emlaw. future and what it might contain for Valleys, thp magnificent broad prairies Builds Up Agriculture. ADMITTEDLY the most fertile in the northern part of the 4. 4b Knee Deep in June—Peter the student finishing their high of Illinois and Iowa were brought under "No one more literally abets the state, in fact, cannot be surpassed anywhere, is just about to Langland. school work, and offered much practical cultivation, and the same process growth of two blades of grass where realize a change in value. There will be more land bought 5. Swing Song—Class. advice for the work to come. is now being repeated. Even in the one grew before than he who effectively Red River Valley of the North, where this year by settlers, than the combined lands sold since the urges the cultivation of alfalfa 6. Class History—Nora Olson and Rev. W. Hewton Ward, rector of county was formed. Good Roads the missing link between Dewey LaPage. the Episcopal church assisted with the farm and the market are to be built and the wise ones living 7. Violin and Piano Duet—Effie the services. in International Falls and vicinity will miss it if they do not at once take the advantage to buy before spring, while the oue GUY FATHERS Northern Minnesota Development association. price is low and the terms are easy. Business men of International Falls should pick up some snaps which now can be had in Koochiching township within a few miles of the city. "Persons buying tickets must obtain HAVE GOOD MEETING The following are the names of several shrewd men known to receipt and certificate from their you who have recently purchased farm lands close to town local agents and immediately upon arrival at Hinckley turn same over (Cont nue.i fiom lit pa^e). Franz Jevne W. H. Gemmell R. F. C. litis to Secretary Mackenzie. R. C. Fraser Geo. A. Snyder C. B. Montgomery Julius Mountain, street labor. 15.00 "Return tickets will be sold at one G. A. Oveson R. H. Bennett Dr. R. H. Monahan cent per mile. M. McCoey, street l^bor .... 12.50 Fred Day Ross Bros. Dr. McKenzie M. & 0. Power Co., water services "Issued by the Northern Minnesota Frank Keyes Frank Green W. V. Kane $496.60 Development association. International Stock Food Co., "W. R. Mackenzie, THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY. LET US SHOW YOU. supplies 3.00 Secretary." Green Hardware Co., supplies. 9.10 Walter S. Booth & Son, supplies NSW JERSEY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. 1.00 THE ENGER-NORD REALTY CO. Land transfers for the week endir.g C. M. Ardis, services fire department WEST EAST May 17th, 1913 as listed by The 21.00 Koochiching County Abstract Company, R. C. Goins, moving sidewalk. 137.48 Map showing where alfalfa Is grown in United States today. Note the comparative Internatonal Falls, Minn. Office E. W. Kibbey, engineering .. 57.52 areas grown east and west of the Mississippi river. The total with Register of Deeds. is area grown about equal to the area of New Jersey. On motion the Council adjourned. A. D. Kleinman, single to C. Attest: fifty bushels of wheat to the acre was upon those who are strangers to it, M. Compton, lots 21, 22, 23, R. C. Fraser, R. F. C. litis, not unusual, today not more than fifteen and no one is more truly working for 24, 25, blk. 18, First Div. bushels is grown. City Clerk. Vice-President. the benefit of agriculture, the basis ol South International Falls.. 1.00 all prosperity, than he who proclaims Food Supply and Population. Walter Alexander et al to its excellence as the foremost forage." To make it possible for the people —Ex-Governor Hoard. James McAndrews lots 1, of the United States to raise, clothe 4, 5, 6, sec. 32-155-25 500.00 and feed future generations, we must Grow Alfalfa. Louis Schafer single to aJmes change our system of agriculture. We It Wins An acre of alfalfa yields 5,280 Mc Andrews S% SW^4, sec. cannot depend upon Uncle Sam for pounds of digestible matter red clover, 25-15527 210.00 any more land, and the only method 3,200 pounds and corn, 2,800 by which we can keep the United Ole Risness and wife to W. pounds. States on the map is to make two H. Eddy, lot 22, blk. 3, In every dollar's worth of alfalfa blades of grass grow where only one there are thirteen pounds of protein— Ericsburg 25.00 its way by service grew before. in every dollar's worth of corn there Jennie Molda, to Alfred C. During the last decade the population are only eight pounds of protein. The Heritage, SE& NW%, sec. of the United States increased 25 great value of alfalfa as feed stuff is L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter 27-69-22 200.00 per cent During the same period the therefore apparent. Geo. W. Loman and wife to production of beef in the United Alfalfa enriches the soil—grain Impoverishes States fell off 28 per cent John W. Thomas, et al, lots the soil. (Ball Bearing—Long Wearing) A few years ago it cost the laboring There remains little more to be said. 13, 14, blk. 2, Loman 1.00 man $52.05 for his yearly supply of In buying a typewriter you want.a satisfactory answer to three questions: Every farmer who reads this should H. N. Kibbey, single to Frank meat—today the same number of begin immediately to make preparar What will it do for me Frye, lot 3, NW& SW%, pounds of meat cost $85.05, an increase tions for putting in a piece of alfalfa, Grand Opera House, Friday, May 30 How well will it do it? sec. 25-68-25 227.50 of $33.00. even though it be only one acre. II How long will it do it? In view of this what shall we do? Ernest Neveau, et ux to Alfred you can grow an acre next year you A careful analysis shows that we LOW RATES TO HINCKLEY. Neveau, lot 12, blk. 87, can grow ten acres the following year By answering these queries with the needs of the typewriter owner and need more fertile fields, or rather The general sentiment throughout —and then twenty, forty, and even International Falls 250.00 user in mind, the L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Company has attained fields with greater fertility. one hundred If your farm Is big the counties belonging to the Northern American Suburbs Company the front rank in the typewriter field. We need larger and better herds. enough to make so large a field practicable. Minnesota Development Association to W. J. Guenther, lots 13, We need better roads. Some people think that typewriter is a typewriter indicates that the Hinckley meeting 14, 15, blk. 5, third east side We need larger bank accounts. and that is all there is to it. Machines may look alike Ten acres of alfalfa on every farm We need better homes. which will be held in that city but there is a lot of difference in efficiency. add to International Falls.. 1100.00 In the United States would give us in We need better Citizenship. the first part of June will be a record Joseph M. Allard and wife to round numbers 64,000,000 acres of alfalfa. The new Model Five is built not only for straight How can all this be doneT correspondence but for tabulating, billing, and in fact breaker. The city is making big Before the next decade has gone Ellen Brady, SE% SE%, for every service needed in the average business. Perhaps no one thing will do more into history we would be growing preparations for the convention and sec. 29-66-26 1.00 to secure these things than growing Its ball bearings at all points where friction developes 100,000,000 acres of alfalfa In the United delegates are being chosen by the Annie Irvwin and husband to alfalfa. through action, permit close adjustment and insure States. If we do this we will be correct and accurate typewriting. various "county associations daily. If that is true, why haven't we been B. F. & I. F. Ry, 15.6 acres infinitely better off than we are today growing alfalfa? We would like the opportunity to tell you W. R. Mackenzie, secretary of the in SE% SE% & SE% SW& —our fields will be vastly more fertile more about it. Because we thought it was impossible. association has issued a bulletin from sec. 4-70-24 4470.00 and our crop yields will be bigger and Write for free book of our new Model Five. the Minneapolis office regarding better—crnr herds will be larger and Mike Gibbert, single to Frances We Can Qrow Alfalfa. the quality of butter fat will be greatly L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER CO. cheap rates which is as follows: Merchandise Brokerage increased—we will have happier "The Northern Pacific Railway and Co, S% N%, sec. 11-151-27. 1.00 Many fanners tn the com belt do A. Head Office for Domestic and Foreign Business: SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. homes—and we will be better citizens. Great Northern Railway will issue not believe that they can grow Branches in all Principal Cities Roy E. Swanson, single to F. They are under the impression that It Minneapolis Branch, *420 Second Ave. S. tickets June 2nd to 6th inclusive, H. Heinen, lots 3, 4, blk. 9, requires peculiar climatic conditions, Eleven pounds of alfalfa Is worth as Minneapolis, Minn 6 91 good for returning up to and including First Division of South International and a peculiar type of sell, such as is much In feeding value as ten potrnfs June 10, to the convention of the Falls 400.00 found In the western states, partlcu- of bran, and It costs bat half as nraoh.