INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. MORE HIGHWAY TROUBLES. W. E. LAWRENCE RAISING ALFALFA IN ILLINOIS Opinion of Attorney General Questions MINNESOTA The Rexall Store Legality of Bonding as Proposed in Koochiching County. Minneapolis, May 19.—The great INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. Hennepin county arterial road improvement Charles E. Yanney of McLean county, hogs and 25 pigs bought at that time. plan involving expenditure CANDY KITCHEN It is estimated that the 83 hogs which on the George S. Hanna Place, has G.F. Swinnerton, IH.D..C.M. of $352,000 of roads and fiftytwo weighed 75 or 80 pounds in the spring some remarkable results with alfalfa. miles of roadway, agreed upon made a gain of 75 pounds per head. He got a good stand on six acres by Physician and Surgeon The ones sold in August averaged Tuesday in conference between the breaking the ground the last of July, 182 pounds and those kept till later Will be Opened disking it three times, harrowing and Syes Examined and Glasses Fitted county commissioners and the highway 225. Counting only 80 hogs and nothing cross-harrowing two or three times, committoe of the Minneapolis Office over Ruettell's Department Store for the pigs, they returned, after dragging twice, sowing 20 pounds per SATURDAY, MAY 31 International Fall?. Minn. Civic and Commerce association and paying for the 250 bushels of corn acre of seed broadcast, harrowing now awaiting approval of the state I it In and rolling the ground. This fed, $420.00 to the credit of the alfalfa Or. Jenner Perry Chance highway commission, may be declared was in 1906. The alfalfa grew about alone the hay was worth $273.00 four inches high that fall and was not total $693.00, or $115.50 per acre. illegal and the entire work held up cut. In 1907, it yielded about two This alfalfa was not injured by this indefinitely. The underlying bond PHYSICIAN and SURGEON tons per acre, but in addition 150 pigs extra hard treatment but some parts plan provides that $264,000 of bonds Everything Neat, Clean and of it were frozen out last winter, and in 1908, the big returns began. Ofllce over litis Drug Store. Phone 15 to be issued shall be paid in ten annual this spring the field was disked and Three cutting of hay returned 2% Up-to-Date. Night calls at Hotel Koochiching installments. The state is to tons per acre, but in addition 150. pigs cross-disked and the thin spots reseeded, IMTKRNATIONAL. FALLS, MINNESOTA pay off $176,000 of this bond issue securing a fair stand. While were pastured on this alfalfa from the time of the first cutting until December. many doubt that alfalfa is suited to as the plan stands. That the county Ice Cream Sodas and Sundaes ONLY The pigs were bought when Illinois, not having examined the evi- cannot issue bonds, with the payment DR. O. C. HEIEIE 10 Cents Each of principal based upon future E N I S receipts of state money, is the question raised today that may block the Office over International State Bank most important road improvement North Side of 3rd Street. IHTEBNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. plan that ever was worked out in territory immediately contiguous to Opposite International Candy Kitchen Minneapolis. As the money that the Or. H. H. Ihrig state is to contribute to the retirement NICK DEMAS, Prop. each year of one-tenth of the DENTIST bond issue, is to come from the onemill 'Office over Holler's Confectionery road tax, repeal of the Elwell INTERNATIONAL FALLS law in any future session of the state legislature would invalidate the bonds it is feared, and it is believed that DR. H. S. ROSENHOLTZ the county cannot legally make an DENTIST issue so based. County's Authority in Question. qmri» and residence over litis Drug Store Richard Wiggin, attorney for the INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA. county commissioners, today sent to Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith the following questions: PHINNEY & CAMPBELL Has the county commission author Lawyer ity to contribute from the road fund money to pay one-fourth of the cost BAKI that would ordinarily be assessed Over International Sfcate Bank 8econd Cutting of Alfalfa. against the property? HXTK&N ATION AL FALLS, MINNESOTA dence, and many more hesitate to If the highway commission approves POWDER they weighed 45, 50 and 60 pounds, start this new delicate crop, Mr. Yans«?y and when they were weighed in the the plan for the pending bond F. J. PART I N and hundreds of others are getting middle of December they averaged issue, which is to be paid one-tenth 125 pounds. Counting a gain of 75 splendid results from it. Lawyer annually, would the repeal of the Absolutely Pure pounds per head and altowing $100.00 one-mill-tax affect it? for about 200 bushels of corn fed Coburn on Alfalfa. Office over International State Bank Would the repeal of the Elwell to the hogs, and figuring the pork at "The cultivation and feeding of alfalfa IXTBBN ATION AL FALLS, MINNESOTA 5 cents per pound, these hogs returned law of 1911 affect the annual contribution mark the highest development Economizes Buffer, ROUP, $462.00 the hay was worth by the state for ten years of of modern agriculture. Alfalfa is one $195.00, total $657.00 from six acres of nature's choicest gifts to man it its proportion of the sum needed to Eggs makes the food more GEO. S. LANG LAND or $109.00 per acre. Contrary to the is the preserver and the conserver of retire the bond issue? results in many other cases this pasturing the homestead. It does not fail from appetizing and wholesome Recent Opinion Closely Related. Lawyer did not hurt the alfalfa and old age. It loves the sunshine, con Attorney General Smith said today was repeated without harm the next verting the sunbeams into gold coin year. that he could not consistently discuss in the pockets of the thrifty husbandman. The only Baking Powder made 'Office over International State Bank his decision in advance. "Quite re In 1909, this piece of alfalfa yielded It is the greatest mortgage-lifter from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA 3% tons per acre in three cuttings yet discovered." cently the state highway commission and pastured 83 hogs from the time asked me for an opinion that close the alfalfa was four Inches high in Alfalfa is most valuable in the Corn ly relates to the matter." he said. Mr Koochiching Camp No. 7602 the spring until August 14, when 66 Belt, because the Corn Belt has an Smith produced his letter to the state head were sold, and from then till abundance of starch and is short in highway commission. It reads as fol frost it pastured the remaining 17 protein. M. W. A. meets first and third Tuesdays lows: each month. Fall attendance of State Highway Commission: Gen requested, visiting neighbor welcome. tlemen—You submit the following in quiries: "If a county should do Three Leaders M. B. A. more work on state roads in accordance with the plats and regulations International Lodge No. 2303 meets In speaking of his experience in the knowledge of alfalfa, and encourage of the state highway commission than in Kane's Hall every second and growing of alfalfa, the Hon. A. P. its cultivation and use by the farmers is required to consume the state's al fourth Tuesday in each month. Grout of Winchester, 111., one of the of Illinois. To be instrumental in lotment, due that county for this Visiting members welcome. Golden Grain Belt Beers largest alfalfa growers in the state, bringing into general use a plant year, can such work be applied on A. A. LEE, SECRETARY. has this to say: which will add untold wealth, not only "My success at first in growing alfalfa to the farm, but to every other interest, next year's allotment?" was not startling, but on the will be far more creditable and Your inquiry is answered in the Harpers Whiskey contrary I met with many discouragements. more deserving of honor than that H. STUBEE I negative. Section 14 of statute 33. Had it not been for the doddies, usually accorded for any public service." laws of 1911, contemplates that when (sheep and hogs) that seemed so A it the county work is completed, a cash Rock Spring Water fond of it, and thrived so well on the Joe Wing Believes In Alfalfa. warrant shall be issued by the state small quantities I was able to furnish Joseph E. Wing of Ohio, who has and Superintendent of Construction. them, it is doubtful if I would have 160 acres of alfalfa, and who is one auditor, for one-half of the cost of Office over litis Drug Store kept up the struggle. A knowledge of the best known authorities on this the improvement, but not exceeding UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, LOCAL AGENTS INTERNATIONAL FALLS. MINNESOTA of its wonderful feeding value gained crop in the United States, says: the amount allotted to the county, by experience was the incentive that "Alfalfa is a perennial enduring on We cannot discern from this language urged me on. well drained soil from five to fifty International Falls, Minnesota. MRS. JANET W. DADE that the legislature intended that the The time has come in my experience, years with one sowing. It may be and I believe in the experience cut from three to five times a year, county could anticipate its future Music Teacher as of every alfalfa grower, when Just and will yield in the region of the allotments or that more than one warrant could be issued by the state INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA) auditor for the improvement. The road plan as it stands contem plates the appropriation at once of 0. E. OKERSTROM A New Style 3,000 out of the roads and bridges General Contractor! *w I fund to defray the one-fourth cost that the property owners would or M. Empress Building, Room 2. dinarily be called upon to pay. The Hobart Cable legality of this is in doubt, Mr. Wiggin INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. said. The remaining cost, $264,000, is to be financed by a bond CHARLES. K. SHAND Player Piano I issue. "But the big question is whether ARCHITECT Hennepin county can issue bonds, the At a price any one can pay Plans and specifications for all buildings. final retirement of which is based Correspondence solicited. part, upon expectation of future re ceipts of money, for that purpose Player Recitals Daily VIRGINIA, MINN. from the state," he said. "I am clined to think there is grave doubt about it, but have put it up to the Open Evenings flapp's Undertaking Parlors attorney general." BMBALMERS & FUNERAL DIRECTORS. EXCURSION HERE SUNDAY. Our Come in and get Acquainted personal attention given to all cases. Bemidji Pioneer'. Officials of the Wc also have the agency for Beef Cattle on Alfalfa Field. gravestones and monuments. 'Phone Minnesota and International railway certain and favorable results are expected 234. corn belt from three to six tons of [have promised to make the one cent MARVIN'S from seeding to alfalfa as hay per acre. The composition of alfalfa INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA and a third rate to International Falls from any other crop. hay is such that it has almost "It is not so much the soil, the climate the same nutritive value as wheat Sunday if one hundred people will or the location, as In knowing bran, and may be substituted for *J. E. OKERSTROM take the trip. This is the first train how. That fact has been clearly demonstrated. wheat bran In the feed ration with Architect that will run on Sunday on this run good results. As a feed for all ewelry & Music Store "In my Judgment, alfalfa is the most classes of live stock it is unexceled. and as the ball team and many fans valuable farm crop that can be grown Every animal upon the farm loves alfalfa 'Empress Building Boom No. 2 expect to go there should be little in Illinois, and yet comparatively little and thrives upon it As a pasture W. F. Marvin, Proprietor INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA] is known about it in the state. I plant for hogs it has no equal in trouble in securing the names of 100 know of nothing that will do more the amount which animals will gain to take the trip. About eight hours Representing the— for the development of the state or from an acre of it, as much as 600 GET lay-over will be made at International add more to its wealth than a pounds of pork per acre being frequently James A. Terry Piano Co., Inc. N A I S thorough knowledge and understanding have reported where hogs Falls which will allow the party to of alfalfa. grazed it. It is also the best horse see tbe big paper mills and witness "I do not know of any greater or pasture, known, and it sometimes is To do your 3rd Street, International Falls, Minn. more valuable service that the few the game and many other interesting useid as a pasture for sheep and successful alfalfa growers, who have due cows, although one must observe Painting, Papering & Decorating {features that International Falls has learned the lesson, can render their with these anb care in pasturing it to offer. International Falls, Minnesota1 state to a than spread far and wide mala, since they may bloat"