INTERNATIONAL FALLS PKESL THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS THE STATE-WIDE DRAINAGE PLAN. OUR FARM Conducted by A N O E E The area of Minnesota is fifty-one million acres, of which MARK M. ABBOTT DEPARTMENT nineteen million acres are counted as plow land. If a complete Agriculturist Publishers of the Official County Proceedings state system of drainage and flood control were in operation, the area of safe and productive plow land in Minnesota could be TRUCK. GARDENING especially well. Five hundred *»tered at the Port Office at international Valla Minn aa Second-claw Matter doubled. By this means, and without any betterment in methods quarts were raised last year,and of agriculture, Minnesota could produce two dollars where it now Eleven hundred and eighty thed sold for twenty-five cents a INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY produces one. dollars worth of vegetables and quart. There is a great demand QEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager The highest estimate made for perfecting this state water control small fruit from two acres of for this kind of fruit which is not system is much less than fifty-one million dollars, or one dollar land is the result of a year's being met. per acre of the state's area. I work by Herman Koeneke, his Sixteen currant bushes yielded Much ditching has already been done in the state, but practically wife and one man hired for four seventy-three quarts of fruit on The booze joints in this city were running high-cock-a-lorum all under local plans and with little or no attempt at co-ordination. months. worth twenty cents a quart. election day and everything went democratic. This work has been carried on under laws which permit Compass cherries and plums This income was possible, according Garden of the Surprise and Forest of some drainage relief, but which effectually block any adequate to Mr. Koeneke, because This city and county will never get anywhere with their better with varieties are also grown flood control, since ditches may be constructed but not dams or of his location in town so that government wishes until they wake up and work for their principles profit. Wealthy apples and raspberries he could make quick and fre- dikes. Drainage ditch development under present laws involves as hard and as self-sacrificingly as the other fellows work are grown successfully 1 qjuent deliveries, thus getting much cross-purpose work, the nullification of improvement because a but are not as profitable from the vegetables to the consumer for theirs. of lack of outlet, and the final filling of river beds with silt, the commercial standpoint as in the best possible condition, causing increasing valley damage in seasons of high water. These other fruits and vegetables. They growing early varieties which The Miner-Keyes fight in this city shows either that the whis troubles have tlready developed to a serious degree. Apparently and may be grown for home use command the highest prices, and key gang in this city has lost its control or that they want their nothing but a state-wide plan of flood control can save the valleys for sale if space is not limited. intensive use of the ground thru faithful servant, Keyes, to continue as mayor of this city for an of the Red and Minnesota rivers from ever increasing flood is Winterkilling of apple trees companion cropping. troubles. other term. avoided by wrapping the trunks Orders were taken over the Red Lake is a natural reservoir whose waters, with comparitively with burlap. telephone and delivery made immediately, The closeness of the national and state elections made the little labor, can be discharged either into the Rainy, the Red Mr. Koeneke makes it a practise so that it was not managers wonder if it would not be good policy to pay a little to apply barnyard manure or the Minnesota. A state system of drainage and flood control necessary for the housewife to more attention to the smaller and more remote voting precincts in the spring just before plowing. would use this reservoir to check floods over the south watershed lose time in going to market. to The decaying manure helps It's the little fellows who seem to be much needed these days. of the Rainy river, to hold back floods that periodically spoil the This insured freshness, and since 1 warm the soil and makes a large valley floor of the Red, and to turn the surplus waters down the vegetables are purchased in amount of plant food available. small quantities, daily delivery The fact that Representative H. L. Miner carried all the country Minnesota to scour the channel of that stream to its old navigable By plowing just before planting makes the sale of greater bulk precincts shows that the rural voters did not swallow the buncombe depth. as the ground is left as loose during a season possible. about Keys being anxious for an investigation into county affairs Hundreds of townships of government and state land in Northtern in possible. The field is plowed Because of the importance of but as many said, he evidently climbed on the wagon for political Minnesota, now inaccessible to settlers, can be made accessible sloping ridges so that the surface getting vegetables to consumers and productive by such a system. In fact, nothing but a big, purposes. water may flow off quickly after fresh and Irequently, the best comprehensive system can unlock this unproductive soil. The reclamation a rain. truck gardening, location is within A very interesting article appears in the agricultural department drainage and flood committee of the All-Minnesota Development A good spray pump with necessary one and one half miles of the of this issue, by Prof. Abbott, which shows the large amount association is now preparing to lay before the next fungicides and insecticides market. At twice this distance of money that is being made in this city by intensive gardening legislature a state-wide plan for this reclamation work and a is kept on hand to combat Mr. Koeneke considers land only insects and disease at the first combined with the good business ability of Herman Koeneke and method for financing it. half so valuable for gardening, Jas. McDevitt. What these men are doing others may do under appearance. Mr. Koeneke has Five miles of transportation on WHAT IS A HEALTH OFFICER? found that it is easier to kill the similar circumstances. It will require several such farms to supply heavy roads so greatly reduces few stem mother plant lice than the local demand. the profit that it is nearly prohibitive. it is to kill the millions that develop Where there has been little attention paid to matters of health within a few days to suck in certain towns and villages there is much confusion as to what The editor of this paper certainly appreciates the goodly number Growing early maturing varieties the sap from plants if they are constitutes a health officer. A clearing up of of votes cast for him at the recent election, believing that is essential, since it is the unmolested. these confused ideas may help the various town first vegetables on the market they were cast in favor of the fight for better government which James McDevitt, six miles officials to conform more fully with the requirements that bring fancy prices and lie has persistently continued, rather than as personal boquets. It south of town, follows another hence give the greatest profit. of the state laws. is especially gratifying to realize that thirty-one votes were cast, system of market gardening. The For instance, the first cucumbers Under the laws of Minnesota a health officer •even, in the First ward of this city, as a token of their regard for distance from town makes it on the market here bring ten is an appointive person. That is, he does not run the betterment of conditions. necessary to market only twice cents each, and then they gradually for office and secure the position by the direct a week, using the entire day fall in price to five cents vote of the people. His appointment rests with each time. Thus comparitively Many favorable comments were heard last week upon the action each, then three for ten cents, some other body of officers who are elective and less vegetables are sold green of the school board for making arrangements for the children and finally one dollar and fifty and more are stored in the foil hold office, by vote of the people. to see that wonderful historical moving picture film entitled, cents per bushel.. Cucumbers fir for winter sale. Thus a county health officer is appointed by ""The Birth of a Nation." The seeing of this educative production •wlanerton. dill and sour pickles sell for fourty-five X. 9. Three acres were devoted to the county board of commissioners. A city health not only taught the history of that important era in our national and sixty cents per peck vegetables this year, one-half officer is appointed by the city council. A town health officer is appointed life, but also gave inspiration to the necessity for unusual courage respectively. Cabbage sells for acre being in onions, one-half by the town board. four cents a pound early in the •and activity during unusual periods of lawlessness. While a nominal acre in carrots, and the remainder Whichever body appoints this officer it is an annual appointment, season and two cents in the fall. charge of twenty-five cents was made to school children to in radishes, tomatoes, cabbages, Cauliflower drops from twentyfive usually made at the first business meeting of the year and see this exhibition it was the express wish of Proprietor F. V. parsnips, beets, cucumbers, or thirty cents to fifjeen holding during that year. This is a point of much importance to Peterson that all the children see it, and if any could not afford bagas. sweet corn and ruta cents. the town boards particularly. It is not according to the law to let to go they were admitted free of charge, as on other similar occasions, No difficulty has been experienced "To be successful," says Mr. this matter go until some time of danger from some contagious which offer was much appreciated. in growing these vegetables. Koeneke, "a gardener must adjust disease. This involves delay. The office should never be vacant, In fact Mr. McDevitt is the amount and variety ot THE OWNER OF THE SOIL but filled at each returning year by such boards. he adding to the list each year as vegetables to the local demand, 1 The health officer must be a physician. Here a good deal of gets more land under cultivation. raising as many quick-growing confusion exists. Some townships have appointed health officers The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels that, by the as crops as possible. Onions and He has found that pests, such maggots, law of the land in which he lives, he is the rightful and exclusive who are not physicians. The error of this will be seen when the radish, cabbage or onion radishes command the best price by can be largely controlled duties of the office are known. How can any one other than a physician and occupy the ground for the owner of the laud which he tills, feels more strongly than any destroying all rubbish from the tell the nature of any disease, especially of dangerous in­|least time." White globe onions other the character of a man as the lord of an inanimate world. garden in the fall. and French breakfast radishes fectious diseases? Who knows the technical laws of handling different Of this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the hand have been found to thrive best The average prices obtained diseases of varying severity? Who understands the principles of God and upheld by his power, is rolling through the heavens, and meet with general favor. for these vegetables are as follows: of protecting the community from these diseases? Certainly a part is his—his from the center to the sky! It is the space on The radishes and onions are 6 25c Onions, doz. for which the generations before moved in its round of duties, and he none so well as the physician. The law requires this officer to be followed by cabbage and cauliflower 1 green or $2.00 per bushel dry a doctor. :feels himself connected by a visible link with those who follow and cauliflower started in carrots, i]/2 dozen for 25c radishes, There is, however, a provision for a board of health in every him, and to whom he is to transmit a home. a hot bed. They rank next in 6 bunches for 25c tomatoes, township, city or village, to co-operate with the medical health Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers. prolificness to the radishes and $i.s5 per bushel cabbages, They have gone to their reward: but he can trace their footsteps officer. These should be appointed also, to complete the board. onions. I 15c per head parsnips, $1.00 per The general duties of the health officer are very far reaching. over the scenes of their daily labors. The ropf which shelters him Eleven hills of cucumbers 3 25c bushel beets, bunches for His powers include those of the police, having the power of entry was reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some interetsing planted June 22 this year on cucumbers, 50c per dozen sweet one square rod of rich land yielded into any home between sunrise and sunset, to investigate any conditions domestic tradition is connected with every inclosure. The favorite (corn, 25c per dozen ears ruta a return of $11.70. bagas, 90c per bushel. fruit tree was planted by his father's hand. He sported in boyhood that are suspicious of dangerous disease. He has a supervisory Peep o' day and golden bantam oversight of all schools in his township, city or village can exclude beside the brook which still winds through the meadow. Mr. McDevitt's wife and four sweet corn find a ready sale at Through the field lies the path to the village school of earlier days. children from school for certain conditions set forth in the children assisted in preparing twenty-five cents per dozen ears. the vegetables for market and health laws and regulations of the state. He has the power of He still hears from the windaw the voice of the Sabbath-bell, Three quarters of an acre was Mr. McDevitt cared for the marketing time is come, he shall be laid by his children. quarantine where necessary, and his power is always supported devoted to potatoes. An early end. One man was employed by the courts in the execution of his duty. These are the feelings of the owners of soil. Words cannot maturing variety brings the best to assist with the work paint them—gold cannot buy them: they flow out of the deepest Just now the matter of the care of cases of tuberculosis is price. The Early Ohio is favored of cultivation but other crops engaging the attention of health authorities all over the country. fountains of the heart they are he very life-spring of fresh, healthy, because the tubers grow in a were cared for and three acres and generous national character.—Edward Everett. We know that most cases are due to contact with those who already cluster and no time is wasted in of land cleared in addition. have it. Therefore, where a case is suspected the health officer digging. Mr. Koeneke has raised The returns from garden products 350 bushels per acre but considers may examine the party and secure their isolation in a county sanitarium. "PROHIBITION AND POVERTY" $600.00, alone approximate 400 bushels possible by This county jias one at Lake Julia near Bemidji. which supplies a cash income until improving the condition of the The expense maintaining a health officer, using every of and of land has been cleared to raise The judge of Portland, Ore., reports that there has land. municipal means for the suppression of dangerous diseases, is provided for feed for dairy cattle and make been a decrease of more than 50 per cent in cases of all kinds in! One-eighth of an acre was devoted by our state laws. A health officer's salary and expenses for performing them a profitable means of obtaining his court since the abolition of the open saloon in Oregon. "There to strawberries, which do the duties of his office are just as necessary as the expense ready cash. is less thieving," he says, "in the city, a remarkable decrease in for the general upkeep city or township. Our citizens should of the number of arrests of fallen women, and the number of arrests A LOCAL STORY WRITER realize this and be more ready to make such expenditures than any most skeptical by the skill displayed for violation of traffic ordinances is far below that of a year ago." OF SOME NOTE others. in the style of his writings. For the first five months of the year there were 1,308 arrests for Health is more important than any one other thing. Several stories of the new drunkenness, as against 4,903 for the same period last year, a decrease It might be interesting for series have already been completed of 3,595- The commissioner of public utilities reports an increase CREAMERY MEETING Rainy Riverites to know that a and are ready for publication. GAME SEIZURE of 116 water services since January 1, showing that many series of stories, graphically depicting The Minneapolis Evening local conditions, is being more families are occupying homes, and that Portland's population The local creamery will be organized Last Saturday Robert Williams, Journal has already hailed him prepared by one of our townsmen. is not decreasing under the new dispensation. But the most significant at a public meeting to as the "Rainy River Chronicler," who has a restaurant in the be held in the agricultural room The writer of these stories and there is no doubt but that figures are those of the banks. Up to May 1 there had been Brennan building at Ranier, was shows a deep knowledge of the of the high school on Wednesday, he comes well above expectations. arrested by Deputy Game Warden an increase of $7,856,709 in bank deposits in Portland alone, and river and lakes as well as of the 15, at 2 p. m. The meeting Nov. V. P. Marsh for having in in the entire state the increase was not quite $13,000,000. From people who live on their borders. is open to all interested persons, his possession a quantity of venison January 1 to June 1 the bank clearances of Portland were $10,000,000 The* editor of this paper has With surprising cleverness he in and out of town. Nothing ahead of the same period in 1915. Building permits had doubled contrary to law. recently had the privilege of examining weaves enough fiction into his will do more than a creamery during the same period. Merchants report business as better and His case was heard before one of these stories and for the development of this region. work to satisfy the most romantic, collections are greatly improved. The poor farm was the only sufferer, Justice Ora Hazen at Ranier and has pronounced it an excellent and still, with unusual insight Plan to be present and give its business has fallen off most lamentably.—Collier's Weekly. into human nature, he holds the the project a fine start. he was fined $50 and costs. piece of literature Vs.