INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS .« VALUE OF STOMP Gross profit' per acre per month to the calves, pigs and poultry, and illustrates" the income from such on stump latid pasture (less SMI Border Wholesale Heat & Grocery given a value of 35 cents per hun-j stump land pastures^^^' «r LAND FASflJRE dred weight. Skim milk has this val-f Production of 55- head of dairy concentrate supplementary A6% cows on stump land pasture for four ue for young live stock when mill feeds) ....... 4.63 1 Company feeds sell at an average of $35 peri months and 17 days in 1915: The pasture used contains an area ton. 1 79 Pasture acreage, acres of Returns of One Hundrtd Per Cent of 113 acres, as follows: Seventynine The gross value of the dairy products stump land, brushed and seeded A. YERNBERG, Manager .Can Be Had From Working Up acres of stump land, brushed received from the herd from pasture acreage, 19 acres of timber, and seeded nineteen acres of timbber, Stump Lands. May 16th to Oct. 3, a period of four Wholesale and Retail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed- mostly jack pine pasture acreage, mostly jackpine, and fifteen months and seventeen days, amounted 15 acres of muskeg," worthless for acres peat bog. The stump land area to $2,243.29. During this period SHEEP AND COWS PAY pasture. Total acreage,' 113 acres. has been gradually developed into the herd was fed $609.50 worth of ON SEEDED STUMP LAND Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger Average number of head pastured pasture during a period of some fifteen mill feeds. The cost, of labor for 55.4 cows average number of head years. barn man and milkers, amounted to Giro U. a Trial and You Will Stay Willi Us Almost every farmer in this section milking, 49.8 cows. As the timber was removed the $477.85, giving a net profit from the of the state has considerable Our Prices Are Always Right aid Our Stock Always Fresh Production from May 16 to October brush was cut and burned, and grass pasture of $1,155.94. Since the peat brush land that is paying no returns. 8 (four months and 17 days)* seed was seeded among the stumps, bog was worthless as pasture, being With a small investment per acre in 21,509.0 Milk, 134,650.1 pounds cream, should, therefore, be observed covered with leather leaf and labor and grass seed these areas can litis Block, Third Street, International Falls, Mian. pounds skim milk (i. e. milk that part of the pasture is rather moss, and the jackpine timber contained be made into profitable pastures. A less cream),-134,650.1 pounds. Cream, old pasture, and a portion of it is very little grass, it is clear large portion of such land can be 21,509.0 pounds contained 6,697.5 new that is, seeded within the last that the herd produced the dairy brushed and disced or harrowed, pounds of butter fat. two or three years. This area is products from the grass grown on and seeded to grass at a cost of from Value of dairy products: fenced into two divisions in order approximately 80 acres of stump $5 to $15 per acre, which, means to enable better management by alternately Butterfat, 6,597.5 land in grass. It also shows that the when properly stocked with cattle giving each division short JOHN HGISH herd produced, during the four and lbs. at 28c $1,847.30 or sheep, will, in a period of five or intervals of rest during the summer. a half months, $40.49 per cow, and six years, develope into stump land Skim milk, 113,141.1 The average number of head pastured her net profit above cost of feed lbs. at 35c 359.99 pasture that will carry one cow to Watchmaker and Jeweler on this area in 1915 was 55.4. and labor was $20.87. The net profit $2,243.29 every two acres during the grazing The'average number of head milking per acre for the period was $10.25 Cost of mill food ..$ 609.50 season, from the middle of May until was 49.8 cows. The herd was let on over all including the, timber and Cost of labor 477.85 the middle of October or later. the pasture the 16th of May and the muskeg areas. However, the 1,087.35 Pastures newly brushed seeded and grazed on the area until October 3, credit should be given to the area likely carry more than will not one Agent for Singer Sewing when the stump land pasture was in grass, which would make a net Net $1,155.94 in some cow to five acres, and cases supplemented by second crop clover profit of $14.63 per acre, during a Gross production per cow, four acre. less—or one sheep per Machine' Company and on arable land. During this time the period of four months and seventeen months and seventeen days..$40.49 The results at the North Central herd produced 134,650.1 pounds of days, or a net profit of $4.53 per Net above cost of concentrates Woodstock Typewriter. experiment station indicate that milk, out of which 21,509.0 pounds acre per month and labor 20.87 sheep are preferable to cattle in of cream were separated, leaving It is evide'nt, therefore, that our Net profit per acre, including develpping stump land pasture, and 113,141.1 pounds of skim milk. The unproductive brushed lands should timber and muskeg 10.23 21,509 pounds of cream contained Net profit per acre on stump be developed -into pastures. It indi for this reason we recommend that 6,597.5 pounds of butterfat, which cates also that after a few years land pasture 14.63 the newly seeded pasture grazed to Also dealer in Gross profit per acre per month was sold to the Itasca Co-operative such stump land, when grazed* by and the older pasture to cattle. creamery at Grand Rapids at ^an dairy cows, will produce a net pro- including timber and muskeg Below we print a table summarizing Wear-U-Well Shoes average price of 28 cents ped pound. (less concentrate supplementary the data taken at the North The most of the skim milk was fed continued on Page Eight). feeds) 3.17 Central experiment station, which We Loan Money This Bank loans money. That's the way we make our living. But we don?t loan money foolishly nor for improvident purposes. 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