A "t ^yr-Tftr,^ *^V*^£ *r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS DICTATING A LETTER. A FORTY-ACRE FARM DAIRYING IS THE 10. IS SUFFICIENT MOST PROFITABLE S. E. THOMPSON Man .Who Complains of Stenographer's YOUk BEST BARGAINS Stupidity, Talks Like Hugh J. Hughes, editor of the In the first issue of the Northern SON -H This. Farm, Stock and Home, a Minneapolis Minnesota Booster, Supt. E. J. publication devoted to the ]V$cGuire gives a short concise Many a man who complains of summing up of the results of his interests of agriculture, is a firm the stupidity and lack of interesjt SPECIAL PRICES 'Have furnished me every month by Central believer in the agricultural future experience while engaged in the shown by his stenographers givgs of work at the state farm. He has this part of the state. Mr. iL Real Estate Dealers' Association lists of Best his dictation about like this: i£f embraced the principal findings Hughes is here attending the "Take a letter to Jones. I'll Bargains in Real Estate in Every State in the meeting of the Minnesota Live under the heads, "The System 4of The "400 Coffee" regular give you the address later. John Stock Breeders' association. Farming," "The Crops to Grow," price 40c, now 35c Union, including Minnesota and Koochiching Jones—Dear Sir: Reply to yoi^r and "Size of Farm." He says "In the course of time," said letter of the ioth, we think you County. If you have Anything to Sell List it Dill pickles, each lc Mr. Hughes, "this part of the in part: are mistaken about this order. ,As Aim of work: For the past ten state will be agriculturally more if: with me. It will be sent to Five Thousand Sour pickles, qt., 10c you said in your previous letter^—• years, the time I have been in prosperous and will produce more where in thunder is that letter & cities of the United States and Canada. Sweet pickles, qt.,. 20c charge of the experiment station per acre than the farms of the It's very funny nothing is ever at Grand Rapids, my chief aim —CALL AND SEE ME— southern part of Minnesota. The 5 Sauerkraut, per can..... 10c around when I want it. I can't has been to work out a system of small farm is the ideal method of go to the file every time I wantg? Regular 10c toilet paper. .5c P. S. PENDERGAST farming that would be most profitable farming this part of the state. letter. All right, I've got it—in and practical for the farmers "Let's get away from the idea Cheese cloth, per yard. _.. .5c your previous letter of the 5th, REAL ESTATE AGENT of the timbered section. that large farms are heeded, or, you said you wanted this ord^r The system of farming: We in fact are practical. A farm is -PHONE NO. 128— hurried at your cost. Therefore International Falls, Minnesota have found out that dairy farming worth no more than it can make. we shipped as you directed. for general conditions is, without One man can take care of about the order did not reach you, in any question, the most profitable twelve cows. Let this be the unit good condition—no scratch that and entirely practical for the majority of his labor. A farm of forty OS' out—If the goods reached you as ipiURIEl of farmers. Hog raising acres is the manufacturing plant you say—scratch that out—We Ffcr—rSVjr-jr/, IM (TL TOPCfS T? to a limited extent and poultry needed to produce for these animals. cannot be responsible for goods— raising can be carrjed on with If the man has more animals scratch that out. What did I say Jfr-iS-E.FIFTH ST dairying. Beef cattle and sheep and cannot produce enough M//VA/, ST. last?—Having shipped the goods can be kept to advantage under for them, he is either compelled tornu&t OPROSJTE CITY HALI as you directed, we don't feel responsible certain conditions, but the dairy MODERN EUROPEAN PLAN to neglect his live stock or ship for the condition in cow should be the foundation of LOCATED IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT food in, and that is not an economically which they reached you. Paragraph. A E S it a he at an IN THE BARN agriculture in the timbered section. wise plan. shower bath— In a case like this, it One person 75c, $1-00 and S1.50 per day "For instance, if a. man has 160 hardly seems as if you could expect Two persons in same room, 50c extra. The crops to grow: We have ROOMS with private baths and toilets— acres and has but forty under (long pause)—period. Read Easier to One person SI .50 and $2.00 per day Use found that oats, clover, fodder cultivation, he has 120 acres lying Two persons in same'room, $1.00 extra. over what you have there. Oh, Use •corn, potatoes and rutabages ^re to Cheaper idle and he is, moreover, keeping Send postal card lor colored blotters. Lord, I can't send any such a mess WE AIM TO PLEASE the most profitable field crops for perhaps one or two or three settlers as that. You don't seem to get general conditions. Any or all BABBITTSLYE dut of the community. He my ideas at all. Here, add this of the field crops common to Minnesota regards those 120 acres as an asset on to the last paragraph—We can be grown, but for the where as a matter of economical think you will see from this that form of forty acres or less under E. W. Kibbey C. E. Parry fact they are liabilities. He IN THE your position is unreasonable. the plow, the crops mentioned perhaps figures that he is holding You have our final decision and I will prove of the most advantage I E & A them for liis boys. But by carrying NEW SIFTER CAN we cannot alter it in any way. as the principal field crops. In the burden of these untilled JUSTwant—no I 1 Trusting that this is plain to you, certain locations and under certain I Architects and Engineers a» much acres and neglecting his tilled we are—Make two carbons of conditions farmers may specialize farm as a consequence, he is rearing you that and send one to the Philadelphia mot to advantage in vegetables and Plans, Specifications conditions that are in the end office and don't mess it up —comes out of the and Superivsion^ small fruits, but as yet the field going to send his sons from the any more tlian you can help."— new sifting top. Yo? for this is limited. farm. Truth. CHICKEN HOUSES _Size of the farm: The necessity Office in Court House add a lot or water, an $ "You have rich soil here. You Telephone No. 181 of clearing the land compels raising of cattle and the increase have all the roughage for stock tlrj strongest cleanse small fields but we have found in the population of the country. raising. It is not necessary to known is ready for International Falls. Minn. that in dairy farming, with the Beef raising here would prove exceedingly have large farms in this section right system of cropping, a farmer It is liquid muse profitable. of Minnesota. If forty acres will can succeed and make a splendid "This section of the state, from Wherever there show a profit, then the fortyacre income with only twenty-one what I have sefcn of it, has a great farm is the ideal farm for dirt, wherever gerr acres or less under the plow. For agricultural future and is abotit this section of the state. In some breed, wherever the a man with little capital and not the ideal district for stock raising" states, where the production per BIRTHDAY AND WEDDING much help in his family, who is is an offensive odor acre is very low, I would want PRESENTS to begin a farm in the timbered for house, barn, ai a 200-acre farm to make a living. STOCK SHOW TO BE section, forty acres of good land Here the conditions are different where—there is We have an endless assortment nr is sufficient, and it is generally the small farm is the great solution of appropriate gifts, SPRAYING V, ing that can equv BIGGEST EVER HELD a misfortune for such a man to of the agricultural future. representing the newest and FRUIT TREES^^^^jT^S purchase over eighty acres of unimproved in effectiveness. "Farmers coming from worse finest products of the Jewelers' land in that the purchase Art. conditions to the farming conditions —ijiMiIkltrrg Highest in Strength of the land takes the capital Wedding rings, beautiful of this section of the state But Not in Price diamonds, Sparkling jewels, which is required to prepare are going to solve the agricultural In Ms Worll Wlltn Mi( Watches, Unique silverware, and improve the land for profitable 10c problem. That is one of the reasons Sterling Novelties, Rich cut production. lo Mamsola Sta:« Fair. why the Finns are making Glass, Clocks, Etc. excellent farmers. Some of the You Use Less—It Lasts Loni SOME WRINKLES OF farmers from Iowa and Illinois NELSON'S Write for booklet showing many uooa Valuable presents for tha labels.' There is every indication that the are not finding the farming here Jewelry Store Write for catalog. RAM'S HORN BROWN livestock show at the Minnesota International Falls, Minn. so much to their liking, B. T. BABBITT IN WE STY State Fair, Sept. 7-12, will be the The future is going to bring largest one ever held in the Northwest, P. O. Bex 177Q New rh Philosopher Delivers Himself of a Few you more farms and more farm even exceeding in size and aggregate Gems of Thought and Humor En 1 An Interesting Automobile Offer. value the one of last year. ers in proportion to the area of gendered by the Nation's SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRE! Over onq^ million dollars' worth of this section of the state than are Write to the American Motor Natal Day. pure-bred stock from all parts, of the to- be found in- southern section League, 511 Palace Building, Minneapolis, world will be assembled. Beginning1 Minn., and learn how to cut HAT the country will be after of Mnnesota. In the end this will on Monday, the opening day, a score down the expense of running the auto awhile will depend upon what be a more prosperous of judges of international, reputation to nearly half. All standard tires and we are teaching the children accessories can 'be had at prices which community. There are a few will begin judging in the Livestock now. the garage and dealer has to pay.. Pavilion, the Swine Barn, and the sections oi the state nof adapted Sixty cent oil costs you 20c. Discount Sheep Barn. In the evening of each to farming*. These will be taken The nation that forgets its past will on broken parts is from 25 to 60 per day a gigantic livestock parade of cent. The saving on a single tire is never have much of a future. care of in the evolution 01 business. horses and cattle from the leading $4 to $15. Tops, side curtains, windshields, Because of the keen interest studs and herds at the Fair will be bumpers, horns, lamps, spark The Puritan came to this country held at the evening Horse Show in and rare intelligence displayed plugs, speedometers, carburetors, at more than a hundred years ahead of the Hippodrome. 33% to 50 per cent below retail prices. by your agricultural commitee the mule and did all the kicking until No matter what car you have, we will Horse Show. Gigantic the mule arrived. of the Duluth Coinmerci.il supply you. We issue the most complete As a result of an increase of $3,000 automobile supply catalogue ever club, and men like L. B. Arnold, in the awards for horses, the very published. Only standard goods, at Without the dreamers of yesterday settlers are being sent to sections prices almost unbelievable. Write today, cream of the stables of America will the world would not have been as wide of Northeastern Minnesota that for full information and prices. be exhibited in both light and draft awake as it is today. are not fitted for farming. That classes. There will be a large number of both native and imported we is one of the reasons why the If there is a day in the year when horses shown. Among them will be work of the Commercial club and have a God-given right to tfwell up some of the blue ribbon winners at and brag on ourselves it is the Fourth jjuurut some of your leading men can- of July the leading shows here and abroad not possibly be computed in dollars last yean A special effort will be made The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel The man who is not proud that ha and cents. to encourage local breeders to show. is an American when he hears the 200 MODERN ROOMS Last year the Dairy Cattle Show S. R. Smitb, professor of animal Located in Heart of Business District rockets sizz and sees the pinwheels was one of the largest held in the husbandry of the Minnesota State $1.°° SINGLE RATE $1.°® go is a disgrace to his sex. New World. There is such, interest EUROPLAN BATE FOB TWO PERSONS $1.60 Agricultural college, stated that In dairy stock in the Northwest that PRIVATE BATH AND TOILET EXTRA Without castles in the air there Northeastern Minnesota wag not an unusually large exhibit will be COMPLETE SAFETY AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS would never have been any palaces only ideally fitted for the raising made this year.- Local breeders will AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION on the ground. carry away much of the prize money. of dairy cattle and the carrying (INSURANCE RECORDS SHOW NO Livks The Beef Cattle Show will include EVER LOST IN A SPRINKLEO BUILDING.) on of dairying industry, but that Let us not forget the Puritan moth* EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD RUNNING many animals certain to win highest WATER, STEAM HEAT. OAS AND ELECTRIC also it was well suited to the raising era. They not only endured all that honors at the Chicago International LIGHTS, AND TELEPHONE SERVICE. the Pilgrim fathers endured, but also of sheep, and beef cattle. Livestock Exposition. There will be SEVEN STORY ANNEX IN CONNECTION. endured, the Pilgrim fathers. a Fat Stock Show as usual. "The grass grows*: here so plentyfully that you can turn the OVER 65 YEARS A Large Futurity. is The Greatest State Fair on Record! Such What we would put into the life 'of EXPERIENCE Due largely to the arrangement for cattle and sheep out among the the nation we must first put into th6 the International Reputation of the Minnesota State a $600 Poland-China Futurity Show mind of the child. stumps and rocks," said Professor Fair and Exposition. In a like way the Machinery Exhibit for Minnesota classes, the Swine Smithi "Stumps and rocks is the largest one staged anywhere. Over Seventy Show will be the best ever held in Every boy should be taught that he will not interefere in the least the Northwest, unless something unforeseen Acres at the coming Fair will be covered completely by must sign his own declaration of independence, with the grazing of the cattle. It is happens. The Minnesota mechanical devices of every type and. description, all intended and fight his own revolutionary State Fair is to guarantee $150, while I-: war. my. idea that .instead of trying to to decrease labor expense on farm and in factory. TRADEMARKS DESIGNS the American Poland-China Breeders' Gigantic Mogul Engines will compete with each other in remove all of the stumps from the COPVKIOHTS Ac. Association is to give the balance. Anyonfl lending sketch and description may contests of various sorts. Machinery Hill should be the !.^at cut-over lands, that the cattle and qnlokly aacertain our opinion free whether an The Sheep Show, has always been Mecca of we did unto our neighbor what hei the Northwest. Invention la probably patentable. Communion. #8—andy. did tloiiaatrlctlyconBdentlal. HANDBOOK on Patents sheep be turned onto the land and wanted to do unto a large one. Minnesota farmers are sent (tea Oldest agency for aeenrtnajwtenta. tot the slumps be allowed to rot. paying-more attention to sheep than Patents taken tnroash Mann Co. receive iftcial notice, without charge, in tna LET'S GO! A ever before, 1 and those, in charge be­ "There is a great profit in the Scientific Jfmtricatt. lieve that this interest will result in I Make the Press office your raising of beef1cattle right now. MINNESOTA STATE FAIR AND EXPOSITION an unusually large Show. The leading A handsomely Illustrated mekly. Jjuveat dr. headquarters in case that you ealatlon of any acienUOe Journal. Terms. $3 a is, a scarcity There of heef products importers will exhibit the pick of year foar months, 9L Bold by aU newsdealers. Hamline, Sept 7-12. need anything in the line of job and the price is high. This their flocks. Generous premiums are l«SKSSS!9ft« printing. to offered Mlanenota is caused by tiie decrease in the 1 fetSsS'f?'2*4'.af-"' Jfl 5 cdDt 41 -,'S