-1" INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS could stop/ The garden is the vegetables and fruit for family plain.: far out distances localities in crackers. Dozens of screaching Some acres produce as much as .use, have our own hogs for meat, 'Well, you have to work BIG FAMILY ON 10 ACRES which sheep grazing is an important whistle bags were perpetually .^500 a year and others fail below, our own butter and eggs, and pretty hard to do that, they will 0" 1 industry, in its ability to kept agoing even till over Sunday m.e $253 maik. But on an aver-j have to do! very little running to say to me. Work frightens them provide feed on limited acreage, MUtouri Man Sold His IGO-Acre in spite of the hopeless groans of age I made about $250 an acre a the grocery store. The habit of right away. I have traveled a that there is no comparison at all. Farm and Abandoned General the grown ups. Base ball was year. visiting the grocery store and the good many years through life Farming for Berries, Fruit and main thing on the program for "Being near a good market and butcher shop every few days will and have observed those who Gardening. B1RCHDALE SLIVERS the afternoon. This time we had knowing when to market to best: keep any farmer broke. Everyadvantage work and those who do not. something to jump for, as the are two things neces- I thing he buys in the grocery store Work alone will not make a success How many acres of laiid would News has been received of the Canadian team of Barwick came sary to successful farming 01*'was produced on the farm. He for a man if he doesift use be required to support a family of arrival of a new baby girl at the down to play against Birchdale. small tracts. In addition to the can even produce his own fish his head and apply his work eleven, educate rune children and It must be admitted that Barwick home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hanson berries I have vegetabi winch if he will prepare for it. If the where it will produce the best returns. give them a fairly good start of Manitou, on July 3rd. We licked us" badly in our debut, As soon as I market in season. farmer would get in the habit of No man will make a success When each is married? Some extend our heartiest congratulations. but don't think we are making a the berries are off their crops go supplying the grocery store inThe on a farm if he is afraid of Would answer about a section, feeble attempt at self defense in land is never idle and stead of the grocery store providing work. He has to use his brains, Others would say one-half section Mr. W. Webb and daughter, when we inform you that Barr neither am I. I keep a team of him, he would make a fortune. too." and one-quarter section would be Miss Selma, went to Baudette wick's team consisted of trained good horses, enough cows to supply Mr. Poland owns his own land, & low estimate for some. men while our's was only a bunch last week. The latter staying for my family and hogs for my "Right there has been the has a comfortable two-story Can that be done on ten acres? a little visit. of school boys. Birchdale did own meat. means of supporting and educating house, a shady lawn and native Impossible, some will say. The Mrs. Beulah P. McCusker, a well and will do better in the future, "I began farming on the ten our nine children on ten acres shrubbery and flowers to jnake question was asked of a Jackson Birchdale bride, spent a few days as is evident from the fact it attractive. acres when all my children were| of land. We took advantage of county farmer who owns more among friends here. She has that a good deal of base ball of school age. I kept them in every part of the season. There than two hundred acres of land practicing is carried on now. returned to her home in Bovey, school every month of the year. was no waste and no leaks we SHEEP SOURCE OF PROFIT Minn. and farms it. On the evening of the fourth I didn't send them to college, but biggest producer on the farm and "You couldn't suppport eleven Gladly we welcome Miss Ethel after playing various games, etc., we had a good country school and the least attention is paid to it. Calves less eleven people, on ten Sheep are a source of profit in Broeffles return from Minneapolis, Mr. Pronk, (an engineer who has they got the full benefit of it. "I have had the advantage of acres of ground," was the answer. more ways than one in northern where she has been attending been fixing the surveyor's boats) Several of them are married and twenty years' general farming G. W. Pollard, who owns ten Minnesota. For land clearing High school. entertained us an hour or so with I now have to hire a man most and twelve years on ten acres. acres of land jon Sewall avenue, they are only excelled by goats, fire works. A Baudetter visited Birchdale of the year* to help me with the I know the game of both. I would Southwest of Independence, supported which also thrive in that fertile last week in his own launch. A place. I gave each of them a few not want to go back to the big a fomily of eleven, fed a region. A flock of twenty-five girl tried to snap his picture while ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATE hunderd dollars when they were farm, but if I ever do, I shall pay team of horses, three milch cows, sheep are more than equal to the he was flying past, but her camera married to start life in their own attention to the small things and a dozen hogs for twelve labor of one man in clearing out was'nt loaded. The visitor was Monday evening was the occasion way. which I neglected and which the years, gave the nine children good the brush, killing off the sapling Mr. Jack McCarl. of a pleasant gathering at I would not return to general balance of the general farmers Country school education and growth and trampling rotted logs A meeting was held in the the local hall where the Odd Fellows farming. Intensive farming, if'neglect. I wouU have a general gave them a little money to start into the soil. Unmarketable hay church Thursday night to practice and Rebekahs held their installation you want to call it that, is the garden and berries, and if anything their matrimonial ventures, all on and stump pastures are turned singing. program. The hall was most profitable and the least was neglected it would be ten acres. They lived well and into mutton and fine quality wool. short visit in Baudette. very beautifully decorated with worry and the easiest, so far as the corn and the ether crops—not didn't mortgage their home, They will find their feed in the Mr. Jonas Nelson is making a ferns and daisies. Three links work with hands and feet are the garden and berries and the Cither. wild vetches and natural grasses A young girl in Birchdale is formed an arch in the center of Mr. Polland was reared on a concerned. In my farming experience orchard. I would can my own of northern Minnesota, returning very elated over the gift of a the room. Combined with the I have found that a man vegetablies of all kinds, my own farm and has farmed all his life. a profit of from to per new camera nearly as big as herself. 65 100 niYTTftrr^ He installation services was a musical owned 160 acres of land thirteen must use his head as well as his fruit, have my fresh milk and butter cent annually with a minimum attention. Look out if you see her in abundance and my own progam, as follows: years ago, worked and arms and legs. It's the little Sheep are rapidly increasing coming. She may get a snapshot hams and bacon^ things that pay, too. trampled all over it several times in number in this section of you "against your will." Solo Mrs. H. Bl^ke. It is a whole lot better than year, followed the old methods "The general farmer looks only and should be found on every A A party of surveyors are doing Accompanied by Mrs, Amery to planting and cultivating and any grocery store turns out, too, Of general farming and made a farm. They do not require a some very accurate business. Johnson. bare- when even the simplest methods living. gathering the crops. He is so warm range, for of all animals Wednesday nigljt, July 8th, Solo Mrs. G. N. Millard. There isn't anything complicated busy at that he thinks he hasn't are followed. There is the living they are the most amply protected the "Farmers Club" met at the Accompanied by Mrs. J. Rauch. right there, and the profit. This and unusual in Mr. Polland's time to do anything else. He against the cold but they do school house. Some of the entertaining neglects the small things and .isn't advice. I am hot trying to Solo Mrs. C. E. Nightingale. methods. The work is lighter require a dry range and for this features of the evening than general farming. He has wastes a lot of his crop. He pays advise anybody. I am simply reason their pastures must be was a comical "coon courtship," Accompanied by Miss Effie teling what I am doing, what I four acres of blackberries, four no attention to feeding, except to well drained. Any sheep that can given by Mr. Fred Ball as the Oveson. acres of strawberries, one acre dump corn and hay into the have done for years, and what I live through the blizzards of the "Bashful Bean" and Mr. Clarence Mr. Luther Hanson gave two Of raspberries, and cherries, apples trough, and the hogs, cows,' know any man with common western prairies or in the far Waterfall and Miss Elizabeth piano solos and Rev. C. H. Blake and plums scattered about chickens, garden and the leaks sense and a desire to get along in western deserts, will do twice as Howard. gave an address on Odd Fellowship—its take care of themselves. |the world can do. Over the place. Close attention well in Northern Minnesota The grand old fourth proved to ideals. Refreshments to details and the little things "Of cour§fe we produce our' "The trouble with a lot of peofruit, where shelter and pure water are be a hot and lively day. The brought success to him. berries and vegetables here pie is they are afraid of work, were served at 11 o'clock and the ample. In the matter of the extent kiddies had plenty of stuff to "I made every acre average me on the place for family use and Some of them will ask me how I of range required for a given 'make noise with, mainly squealing good-nights were spoken at midnight. $250 a year," Mr. Polland said. for market. We can our do so well on ten acres. I ex- number of sheep, this section so baloons instead of harmful fire- .own Sc COMPANY ri THE STORE OF QUALITY of the most pleasant features of our AND The White Grocery business is the surety of selling 100% satisfaction merchandise. Daily reminders of this come from the corset department, It has long Gordon and Sletson Hais been our policy to stock Packard and Hanson only dependable articles Shoes from housesof repute and prestige. 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