International Falls AbstractCo, TRADE-MARKS BURDICK, KSEMER & KING, Proprietor*. The Third Dimension of the Farm an Important Factor to Greater COPYRIGHTS Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance 11:1 Crops and Bigger Dividends. C«lkelioM| CMmjinf ad mhm Book containing owf 200 mediUi ft— ieal mors—nti scat upon 3-* J. E. BURDICK, Manager WM. N. ROACH, Jr. ISB farmers are beginning to taking care of increased horizontal or of the lower soils are released and ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Fab s. surface acreage are all right in their utilized. A reservoir for the storage of realize that a farm goes MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL way, but to go deeper into the farm, water is treated, and a good home for EXPERT X%XX farther than length and gilding Wukiaftoii, D. to Increase its fertility and productiveness MeGiK the roots is produced. Qood roots breadth. Depth is a vital by increasing Its depth, is a matter are essential to good plants. Men factor, and Incidentally this third dimension that the practice of vertical farming who look below the surface realize has a clearly identified influence accomplishes quickly and econom these facts. -They know also that a upon the producing value of the ically, and very often a single cartridge plant produces only in proportion to earth's surface. of explosive will convert several the extent of air, water *nd nourishment TO PROPERTY OWNERS:— Thus "vertical farming," a newer yards of otherwise useless subsoil Into given its roots. Thus is the newer method of agriculture. Is rapidly developing. O1 t'l half an acre of hew root feeding surface. method of vertical farming both We are in the business of selling real estate. Merely to scrape the bristles Thus, instead of spreading out logical and profitable. frum a hog's bide is not enough. and embracing more territory, vertical Si PAUL, A'.\'\ A Send or bring in descriptions of your farm This method of farming vertically Is Deeper cutting is essential In order to farming enables the farmer to really C'"'sTF C''r in itself easy, simple and labor saving. lands or city property. Price them conservatively. reach the bacon. And experience has concentrate and by intensive methods r'CA\ A half cartridge charge of farm powder that shown to simply plow or turn the conserves in both labor and expense. We advertise is localities where placed well down into the tight I top soil is very often only the scratching LOCATSO-IN MART OT USUI Ul DMTMCV At the same time the resulting Increase subsoil at Intervals of about a rod, btlk there are buyers looking for bargains. RATlSiIUomi witk (UuelMd sa* tt of the surface when comes to In crops emphasizes the profitable tamped properly and fired carefully ahoww b*th— bumper crops. features of the process. will do the work quickly and economically. LANGLAND-BENNETT REALTY CO. Oat person ?Sc, #1.00 awl M80 psr dsy Qften the productivity of a farm is Two porsoM la Mm* room. fOe utn. And there is a practical reason for Subsoil blasting, however, can Street Floor, litis Bldg. ROQM8 yrith private bilhi limited .by the tight clay or hard pan tOiUU— this. By breaking up the subsoil oxygen be done successfully only when the' 0n» pftMoo tl.50 tod underlying the top soil. Costly implements Is admitted into the ground, and subsoil is dry." 1 Two pwmt in umr room. fl.OD txtrs. p*Hal card colorti blntttt*. for tilling this upper soil and the pent up natural fertilizing elements Pew tools are required for the work. Stitrf lot WE AIM TO PLEASE ARTER'S ONVENIENCES 4 4 4 4 HOME, For the 4 4 SCHOOL, 4 or OFFICE. CtllW Spreader Tube AM UNPROFITABLE STUMP COVERED FIELD MONTHS AFTER #800 WORTH Of PE£ ACfcE. WAV Photolibrary Paste Blasting Ground For Tree Planting FAGTS about working day During the Last Twenty-five Years It Much has been written on how to Blasting for tree planting is best done Carter Has dnly Been Shortened an plant tree or trees, but if the experi­ a In the fall, because at this time of the Regulation Hour. ences of scores of famous orchardists year it is easier to catch the subsoil Bottle have any weight on the topic, theu the in dry condition. Blasting in the spring We are far better off than we were for spring planting, however, is.much practice of using dynamite preliminary Mucilage fifty or seventy years ago, the New to planting young trees has fully better than planting in dug holes, notwithstanding York Republic observes. At the beginning proved its merits. the fact that the subsoil of the century the wage earner Is apt to be wet or- damp. The writer has personally seen "specific labored from sun to sun, and later, examples of the value and'excellence If the holes are blasted In advance of when expensive machinery and artificial of tree planting with dynamite the time of setting the trees they are light were Introduced into the factories, on 1 private orchard in Delaware, the left without further attention until the working day was extended far into the night. In 1840 American cotton operatives worked 14 hours per A in day, and as late as 1352 13 hours, while today the average working day in the mills is under ten hours. The hours of labor of farm laborers, except in harvest —-.and Photolibrary -^rr times, seem to have diminished, st ng and in a considerable number of occupations, Paste in notably in the building trades, Bottles an eight hour day has been introduced. In othqj^ occupations, affecting the achine it®llsSfe a health of the workers or in which women and children are largely employed, a shorter working day has been secured by legislation. But this eight cslumn capacity progress, though considerable, is not 'J CLUE WW nearly so great as is generally supposed. PENCIL The ten hour day still prevails THE BLAST THOROUGHLY CRACK8 THE SOIL, BUT U8UALLY in most Industries, while the 11 LEAVES A CAVITY OR POTHOLE AT THE BOTTOM—THIS MU8T and 12 hour day is far from being ex* 0 FILLED. tlnct. During the ten years from 1891 to 1901, the average working day fell difference in growth between the undynamited tree planting time, unless it is desir only a quarter of an hour. In the last $ 8 8 0 tree and the tree planted able to add some manure or fertilizer 25 years, less than one hour has been in blasted ground being so unmistakably to be diffused through the soil. This taken from the hours of daily labor. in favor of the latter that no adequate Is an excellent practice, especially in F. O. B. wood, 111. comparison could be made. May poor soil. If the earth Is sour, sticky Lead Pencil industry. Furthermore, there are so many sane clay a few pounds of lime scattered in Carter The" English lead pencil industry, and logical reasons for this method of the hole will materially assist, in flocculating Sold on one year's Handy Glue Pencil which is receiving a notable impetus tree planting that even the most skeptical the clay and keeping it permanently through the war, dates back to the granulated and sweet could not fail to be convinced. early, half of the eighteenth century, Obviously when a tree .has to use a credit or 3 per cent Immediately after the blast the soft when plumbago—which hitherto had large part of its energies in forcing its blasted ground should be dug out down jerved mainly for the manufacture of roots through the hard soil it cannot I to the location of the charge, where shot and crucibles—was first used for discount for cash. be "expected to make the same a hole will usually be found about writing purposes. All the llack lead rapid growth and come into such I the size of a bushel basket This ased in pencil making then came from 3eathwaite, which enjoys the double It!!!! distinction of being the rainiest village SUBSOIL MAIL COUPON- TODATT in the British isles, and of being the only place in the world where pure plumbago may be found. This CARTER'S FEE mine yielded a huge fortune to the LET BROKEN Bankes family, who owned it, the out* 5UBSOJL American Can Company put in 1813 amounting to 31 tons of J^to1011 Ka pure plumbago, which realized $525,000. Chicago, 111Please Twenty years later foreign send booklet descrip- „-v:i Carter s) graphite began to take the place of plumbago In pencil making and in tive of American Adding acid. Photolibrary Paste for the Office CRACKED 1850 the Seathwaite mine was closed •Listing Machine. down. J* Press |i|i Birds ,Invade Helgoland. Helgoland is now experiencing an Name immense aerial invasion. In early StationeryStore autumn the island is one of the rest THE ROOT* ARE FIRMLY EMBEDDED IN RICH T0P80IL, SURROUNDED places of the birds migrating from BY MELLOW, WELL DRAINED 8UBSOIL.. Address the North, and night after night they Tr* Clipped from come in countless armies. In times early bearing as a tree would that had must be filled to prevent settling of the INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS had the ground In which It was planted tree after planting. The roots should be of peace the islanders turn the Invasion thoroughly prepared by dynamiting beforehand. placed in a natural position in good top to profit, stirring abroad all mm •srj^ soil, covered with more top soil and night with lanterns and nets, trapping Aak for the No free should be: planted over hard-' treaded down firm. The hole can -then the weak and weary birds that snatch fiREEHUPELED be filled to a little above the surface pan or impacted subsoil without first a few minutes' rest. One observer HICKORY with subsoil* records resorting to blasting, so that the soil having known 15,000 larks BRAND may be made open and porous. Such The fact that nearly all commercial alone trapped in a single night, of RUBBER fdQTWEAR blasting not only creates channels, increases orchardists use this method proves which number a lighthouseman caught SUBSCRIBE FOB THE PRES8 absorption of soil moisture and 800 a wire net fiha that It pays in reduced first year loss, by fixing outside Tnr Oular CuS«pfly Im neat lantern. .. permits deeper rooting, but it also induces earlier fruiting ant] larger and better better growth and larger yields., yields#