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"T 5'-^ "•T.'-V-?-"/^. PAGE FOUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1919 THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS A DAIRY HERD ON EVERY FARM. NEW TANLAC PLANT wood and this is a wonderful yiled, which is seldom if ever grown in old By M. M. Abbott, Koochiching County Agent. grain growing districts. Oats grow IS NOW COMPLETE AND BORDER BUDGET well. Barley is easily grown and will The dairy cow has established her place in the front rank as take the place of corn in the ration GEO. P. WATSON, Editor an efficient machine for converting rough feeds into a valuable product for dairy cows and be used to fatten Magnificicent New Laboratory Has for human consumption. Stump land seeded to clover and pasture hogs. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Mattel Daily Capacity of 36,000 Bottles. with good dairy cattle will yield a profitable return while the A country is practically no goou SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR where only one kind of farming can co?t of clearing is decreasing and at the same time the soil is being What is said to be one of the be practised. Many different kinds improved. Moreover the return from dairy cattle is steady thruout largest pharmaceutical laboratories of farming may be practised in this Celebrate the Glorious at International Falls, in honor of the the year which particularly adapts this type of farming to Northern in the United States has been completed county. Dairying seems to be the returned soldiers from Koochiching county and the Rainy River at Dayton, Ohio, for the manufacture Minnesota conditions. A steady cash income is necessary in main source of income to the farmers of Tanlac, the well-known District. order that the settler may spend all his time on the farm getting now. They get returns all the it medicine, which according to recent year around and the products are in shape so that every acre will yield a return in some form. reports is -now having the largest In another column will be found a copy of the oration of Frank more easily marketed. Beef raising On account-'of the present price of dynamite, there probably will sale of any medicine of its kind O'Malley delivered at the recent commencement exercises, entitled is a method of income that is well not be as much land put under plow this year as there would be if the world. fitted ?o new land. There is already "The Possibilities of Koochiching County", which is both instructive dynamite were cheap. It seems more fitting this year to extend The :-erection of the new plant was some good beef stock in the county. and interesting, a copy of which should be mailed to prospective mad$pnecessary by the rapid growth,. the acreage of hay and pasture which can be done without the use Sheep are valuable because they aid settlers. of tpfjil businfes.$^as the older plant of a great deal of dynamite. With the increase of hay and pasture in clearing the land. They can pasture was: oundjto foe Wholly inadequate: on almost anything aiid they land which is possible this year, the number of cows kept can also to supply-th^/ ey-er-iScreasing" demand Twenty-five thousand dollars per mile for a hard surfaced ro.id eat course shoots apd keep back the be materially increased. The increased production of butterfat which-~ at the present:^t!ev^f se-ems to be a lot of money, but when their effect on land values, second growth on stumps while the which this will bring about will place the cooperative .creameries sale will amoupt tri^'more latter .are rotting. Meanwhile, they fartn 'efficiency and auto travel, reduction cost is taken into consideration in this county on a strong-footing providing all the cream produced million bottles--for\thej:pr!e.se&t year-- are producing a better quality of they are cheap, as compared with cost and inconveniences in the county is shipped to one of the creameries operating. The wool, for the cold, long winters make of a merely dirt road- By ,'^e erection of -this plant greatest need of the creameries in operation at International Falls the wool grow long which increases manufacturers./of Tanlac ^re giyi^.to its amount and quality. This is an and Northome is a larger run] The. overhead expenses are practically There is no question but that Marshall Fosh is already to administer the Jworld just one more actual fact that the wool is.materially fixed so that the greater the amount of butter manufactured, of theremarkable. growth, that good swift additional kick which should have been effected for the better by a cold the greater is the profit..-. sion of theif^ business^ arid^dl'.'-tlf^'y climate and many authorities have administered to the German armies, as "one for luck" immediately Moreover, since the creameries th&t have been organized are absolute, coftfideii&e' made the same statement. And there upon their accepting of the terms of the armistice, in case they do cooperative, the patrons get the benefit of any increase in profit, This ^announcement-" will r^b'e teard* is a number of sheep farmers in the not sign the peace terms next Monday. with lntetest^npt Toiuythe many ^n increase in the amount of "butter made at the creamery means county already. thou^a^^ "of Tanlacg^wts^^attered The county is well adapted to the aai increase in the price which all patrons of the creamery will receive Here's to Capt. John Alcock, Englishman, and Lieut. A. W. ftl^pughout^ every., stafji•' ^of ,tfee..y production of honey. After forest for butterfat. Centralizing plants do not attempt to compete Union and throughout' Canada,* btrt" fires, and in cleared over tracts, Brown, American, who received Monday from Lord Northcliffe, with well established cooperative creameries because they cannot the millions who have used it beneficially there grow a great number of 'fireWeeds the $50,000 prize he offered in 1913 for the first non-stop trip across afford to pay as much for the cream. A centralizing plant must as well. that is one of the best hohev the Atlantic by aeroplane. The successful flight being made last pay a profit to the owner, while a cooperative creamery pays the or nectar producing plants in America: The new building' occupies 60,000 Saturday, June 14 in sixteen hours and twelve minutes. profit to the patron. The cooperative creameries in this county are They are common here. We square feet of floor space. It is six stories in height, practically fireproof already in a position to compete with outside buyers of cream. If get two flows of honey here, whereas throughout, and is of striking It is reported^ that opposition is already manifesting itself in the southern part of the state all the cream produced in the county is shipped to the creameries architectural design. It also has they get only one. We get the reg'ujar among the ndn-pajtj?£n leaguers to the hard surfaced road amendment. established in the county, the sooner these creameries will be: able: flow when the clover is in bloom private railway facilities. It seems as {bought these fellows are afraid such better to pay a price much in excess of what these outside firms can offers and the second later on from 'the This beautiful new structure now* condition of things will 'oocSe about by the building ofTetter roads Those who are looking ahead to safeguard and promote their'own firi^-weed and aster. Mir. Do*bbs, of stands in striking contrast beside the that the farmers will be so happy and sonttnted that they will not best interests and encourage a rapi£ and permanent development 'Indus, gives "his entire time to the older building where Tanlac was first able to keep theta under their banner of discontent. of the county will not hamper the growth of local institutions by honey production. He got 10,000 made. pounds, of it last year. Mr. Heer^ shipping their cream to outside buyers. Visitors to the laboratories aie mance got more honey per hive than strongly iimpressed with theextremely The transcontinental motor truck parade with three officers While an increase in the-hay-and pasture land will greatly reduce any other man in the state. modern character^.of the equipment. and four hundred men from New York to California which the U. dairy the cost of producing1 products, the growing of other There are some marketing facilities Everything is. provided and S. government is staging for next month will be a good ad for the feed is not being neglected^ Since many raised sufficient wheat last in the county. There are already splendidly arranged to promote systemaatic good roads movement and no state can appreciate it more than year to supply tEem with flour forj the coming year, the available three creameries. International and rapid production. 'The the state of California whose lands have risen in value from $50 to Falls, Loman and North ome. They acreage for grain crops has been used almost entirely to grow feed very latest machinery and devices can be reached from almost anj $75 per acre since the hard surfaced road was constructed from one known .to .invention and pharmaceur for livestock. Oats continues to, be the predominating grain but point in the county. Whole milk tical science aje here.used. end of the state to the other. barley has met with more favor this year than in the past. Considerable apd cream is sold ai International The interior throughout is finished barley has been planted ofr land that was cleared too late Falls, which is a good market for ni spotless white,- and all of the large According to a letter recently received from C. Andrews, to sow to oats. Barley is well adapted to conditions in this county milk and vegetables, and one will always force of employees wear white uniforms, Secretary of the State Forestry Board the is still 808,000 acres ot and is a substitute for corn almost pound for pound. Recent experiments get top-prices. The .lumber which they are. required to camps have long bought ail the farm'erss'excess unsold state land in this county.- What a difference it woultf make at Wisconsin and California show that barley is a splendid change daily. The main: offices, on, of "potatoes and beef." feed both for dairy cattle, beef .^attjle and hogs. to the taxes here if all this land was paying its just share of taxes the first* floor are all finished- in Ine last consideration which is Carara marble and mahogany. instead of it being held and rising in value at the expense of homesteaders The lack of corn silage is not a serious handicap to dairying by no means an unimportant one is and other farmers who are adding value to the states holdings The entire process of manufacture where such an enormous yield of" roots can be obtained as is possible roads. The co.unty has long been is conducted, under absolutely sanitary by every tree grubbed, every acre broken and every piece of this county. Nearly everyone already has the necessary equipment in backward in this respect, but is beginning conditions. Even the bottles road opened and improved. for storing roots which means that no additional expense is to build and improve. There made expressly to contain Tanlac necessary to provide for the storage of a succulent crop which is are several roads to be put through are washed and" sterilized electrically this summer. The county is well When the country goes "dry" it should do so to the rich mai so necessary for satisfactory results in feeding dairy cattle. The increase by the ultra violet ray process. They cut by railroads. The M., D. & W. as well as to the poor man. This idea of letting the rich man fill in acreage of rutabagas, mangels, and stock carrots is commendable. are then filled by automatic machinery the M. & I. and the Canadian No his cellar with wines and whiskeys for the rest of his natural life and the finished product is therefore them going through different parts never touched by human hands. because he has money enough with which to "lay in a supply" of The increased production of grain, hay and roots makes heavier of it. Although the county has been When Tanlac was introduced into the most injurious kinds of booze, while the poor man can not even winter feeding possible- It is quite generally understood now that held back by poor roads, as soon as Canada history repeated itself, and have his beer, simply because he cannot afford to purchase an advanced we have some good roads we will the production of a cow can be greatly increased by having her the demand which had been created improve and develop twice as fast. supply is radically wrong and grossly unjust. When she's freshen in the fall rather than in the spring. When fed well after in the United States was quickly dry make her dry, to rich, and poor, saint and sinner. freshening in the fall, a good flow of milk will be obTaned during duplicated in the Domion Provinces. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS the winter and then when turned on pasture in the spring, she will As a result, it was recently found Even a big man like Samuel Gompers sometimes makes serious necessary to establish another Tanlac increase her flow and continue milking for a longe time than she Laboratory at Windsor, Canada Two Public School Buildings mistakes and the one made last Saturday when he headed a "no beer would if handled in any other way. Office of the Board of Education, which is on a somewhat smaller no work" demonstration on the steps of the capitol at Washington With the possibility of raising practically all the feed that is Independent School District No. 1., scale than the plant at Dayton, but reminds one of the day he vouched for the innocence of the McNamaras necessary for feeding dairy cattle and with markets already established, Unorganized Territory, Koochiching is no less modernly equipped. even to the extent of having his picture taken between County, Minnesota. Office at Court so that a steady cash income is assurel, the dairy industry These new facilities give a daily them only a day or two before they confessed their guilt to one of House, International Falls, Minnesota. capacity of 36,000 bottles, but as Tanlac should develop very rapidly. the greatest series of outrages in the nation's history. We believe is rapidly being introduced into Proposals will be received at the Gompers believed they were innocent but their confession proved foreign countries it's probably or.iy United States. This is because we AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES above office by the Board of Education a. question of a few years before his mistake, and if he really believes beer and light wines should are up north and have longer summer OF KOOCHICHING COUNTY of the Independent School District even large facilities will become necessary. be continued why does he in this same speech say, "you can no more By Frank O'Malley days that give the plants more No. 1 of Unorganized Territory, time to grow and mature in a short regulate a beer saloon or a roadhouse than a polecat in a Maryland Koochiching county is one that Koochiching County, Minnesota, up While the manufacturers are necessarily is new and undeveloped but yet conditions season. Second, we have an abundance morass or a Georgia forest." until the hour of ten (10) o'clock A. working for capacity production, are such that when they are of rainfall at the right time of M., June 20th, 1919 for the erection it is a fundamental rule of the year. developed will make it a good county. and completion of two public school The following extract from the report of the Congressional Tanlac Laboratories that the quality It is just as someone said, "the The kind of soil and the fertility buildings including all labor and materials. committee on investigation of the activities of brewers speading of the medicine shall never be county is all possibilities," meaning, of it is a factor in making a good sacrificed to secure quantity output. German and Bolshevik propoganda is not likely to aid the "no beer of course, that practically everything farming country. The soil of Koochiching Bids inust be in accordance with Uniform quality is guaranteed by no work" element in their overbearing demands that the laws dry is yet to be developed. But there are county is mostly a limy clay, the plans and specifications prepared a series of careful inspections by expert some things that must be considered be rescinded even through certain prominent democratic politicians mixed with fine sand and peat. While by E. F. Broomhall, Architect, 710 chemists, from the time the roots in proving the value of land for through a heavy cold soil, it is an art catering to. this element the extract is as follows: "They Alworth Building, Duluth Minnesota. herbs, and barks are receivied in farming. We will consider Koochiching exceedingly fertile one. It could not Copies of plans and specifications have furnished large sums secretly to control newspapers and periodicals, their rough state from all parts of county under the following requirements but be fertile arid support such rani: may be obtained from the School have undertaken and frequently controlled primaries, elections the globe until their medicinal properties and see how "well ic growths of forests and produce the Board or from the Architect by a deposit and political organizations have contributed enormous sums have been extracted by the measures up. yields that it does. of twenty dollars ($20.00) which most approved processes. The finished to political funds in violation of federal laws and the laws of several The healthfulness and kind of a The yields and kinds of "stuff that will be returned on the date of letting, medicine is then bottled, labelled, climate have a lot to do with the states have exacted pledges from candidates attempted and partly can be grown in themselves tell how if a bona fide bid is filed and and shipped out to the tens of possibilities of a county. Not much our county is adapted to farming. succeeded in subsidizing the public press boycotted unfriendly the plans and specifications returned. thousands of druggists throughout need be said on the healthfulness of Potatoes and root crops seem to do Copies of the plans and specifications manufacturing and mercantile concerns with the purpose of using the United States and Canada, to our climate for it at least can be said especially well in this county. Yields will be on file at the Builders it for their own political purposes contributed large sums to the supply a demand never before equalled that it is not unhealthy. And besides of 250 bushels of potatoes is averaged Exchange jt Minneapolis, at the German-American alliance, many of whose members were disloyal." for this or any other medicine. keeping people healthy the long cold while even five and six hundred bushels office of the Board and the Architect's The executive^ sales ofiffces are located winters and cool summers tend to per acre are raised. Besides office and at the Duluth, Exchange. in Atlanta, Georgia, and occupy make the people vigorous :and active. In the last six weeks prices for Liberty bonds on theltfew York that land is new and the potatoes almost an entire floor of the The same effect is produced in are free from disease. Root crops Bids must be accompanied by a cer-* stcr 1 exchange have advanced about 200 points, that is about $2 on Fourth National Bank building of the plants and animals, making a do well and are valuable for feeding tified check in the sum of five per a hundred dollar bond. Instances there have been recently in which that city. demand for Northern grown seed to dairy stock in place of silage. cent (5 o/o) of the amount of the bid, purchases by small investors exceeded the sales- The reason for .Tanlac is sold in Internationat and breeding stock. A premium is Clover and hay crops are easily made payable to the treasurer the this healthful condition of the Liberty bond market is that most of Falls by S. N. Rubin and in Little.fork paid always for northern grown seed brought to high tonnage per acre same will be forfeited to the said by M. Dimon. the original purchasers who have felt unable to keep the bonds have and none in the United States is for this is called the land where clover school district if the bidder fails to disposed of them and that others have a greater confidence in them in: better position to grow it than we is a weed. Two three foot £qter into contract and furnish a SUMMER SCHOOL FOR are. A number of farmers even noyr' stands of clover can be cq* each year satisfactory Surety Company Bond as an investment. Not only is the small investor holding tenaciously PUPILS IN GRADES realize this and are getting their yielding three and four tons to the ih! full amount of the contract within to the bonds he bought during the several drives, but he is^ seed certified, which also demands a acre. Other kinds of hay can be seven (7) days after b^ing notified of picking upiiere and there such bonds as he may learn can be bought. premium. Then 'there are two distinct grown as well as an abundance of the acceptance of his bid. The summer school will open on Hie tendency toward a par value may not be as brisk as investors favors of climate that help to wild hay cut each year.' Small grains The right is reserved to. accept any Monday June 16, 1919 and will continue would like, but the investor need have no fear but that the bond will explain the quick growths, and" wonderful will be an important crop when the bid or parts of bids or to reject any for six weeks. yields that I will later show country is more opened up for all arrive there in good time. The fact that the Victory bonds are already or all bids. Grades two to six, inclusive, will be you are obtained in the county. First, the grains mature well and yield By order of the Board of Education. selling at a slight premium also should have a good effect upcn taught. Those wishing to attend fill we have more sunlight in the growing wonderfully. Mr^SDalgren got '0 the valye of {he,earlier issues. please notify Mr. Edw. Kaneen, 406 season that anywhere else in the bushels an acre of wheat at Wild- G. A. Olson, June 12-19 Clerk. 8th Ave. at once 10-ir