I i-3ftt•?•_•? TV-1 -j£ t-*- 4 5"^r^ 1 ^.f i, ti v* 1 *1 ?"iV4.n*s^r*' I .M .'•••. -. .*.. A ,. -.#•••.•• INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO found a useful place on the farms, THE KICK-OFF "WILL THEY DO IT! DARE THEY DO ITr since they help to keep down brush and use advantageously fields and cut-over land which would otherwise be unprofitable. In Burnett county the members of the sheep club had unusual Success, getting 100 per cent of lambs of fine quality during the season. Orphan lambs in Carbon county, Utah, were taken care of last year by boys and girls who could not afford to start flocks by purchasing Sheep. Those *vho could get milk or dried milk were given the lambs, and 19 boys and girls, altogether, took charge of 158 lambs. Only 9 of these were lost during the entire season. Cow's milk was found to be the most satisfactory for use on grazing fields. One boy kept 15 lambs at his home, m»k^ all of which did well. The same problem was met in a different fashion at Padillas, Bernalillo county, N. Mex., where live club members secured from two to five orphan lambs each and raised them with a goal? for a mother. AVTOC/\$} The outlook for an increase in the Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, where the Arnjament Conference.js number of farm flocks generally rogWGWT (S2I PUB.Al)TOCasret S£t*V. Oft Will this be a new "Liberty Hall", for all the peoples ot ll.c being held. throughout the United States is promising. carth-=-iiberty jn universal world peacc? Adult farmers and farm boys and girls are finding the breeding of posed, it is stated, would average ultimately RED CROSS MEDICAL Office Department at a time when it purebred sheep a profitable line of SHEEP RAISING IS for the forest area of the SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA. breeders have concentrated on the had a record for losses by highway production, fitting In well with farm BEING ENCOURAGED United States an annual expenditure Rambouillet and Cgrow enough stock robbery. He took hold of the problem activities already established. Extension of one-tenth of a cent an acre for of this breed to supply largely the demand Supplies valued at more than $1,750,000 in a very vigorous manner,with a determination workers generally should feel investigative work. A Flock of Sheep Can Be Maintained in southern Utah for purebred will have been sent into Soviet to put an end to the almost encouraged in advocating the adding "Forest experiment stations are On Many Farms In Addition to animals. An: outgrowth of this work Russia by the American Red Cross continuous and successful holdups of flocks of sheep to live stock on needed," the report adds, "to make is the Rambouillet sheep show, which Other Stock. and distributed by the American Relief of postal eployes not only on farms where conditions are reasonably land productive which otherwise is annually the big teature of the commission before the end of the trains but on mail wagons in cities. favorable to wool and mutton would not be used. This function has county fair in Iron county and at year. These supplies, furnishing relief He offered a reward for the capture production. Recognizing the adabtabjlity of particular significance when we are which the competition among sheep to tens of thousands of suffering of a mail robber dead or alive and sheep to a wide range of territory, adding, from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 breeders is exceedingly keen The persons have been drawn from the EXPERIMENT STATIONS also armed the railway mail clerks extension workers of the United acres each year to the 81,000,000 acres county agent in this county cooperates European and American Red Cross with rifles and revolvers. But* this NEEDED TO PREVENT States Department of Agriculture and already wholly waste, but capable of actively with breeders in selecting stocks. TIMBER SHORTAGE proved not effective, apparently for the State agricultural colleges have large production, and when we have and improving the management of Medical supplies form an important the reason that men not trained in steadily encouraged the maintenance 245,000,000 acres for the most part the breeding stock. part of these relief materials. Immediate Steps Should Be Taken If the use of arms cannot be quickly of a flock of sheep^n addition to other producing much less than their capacity In a number of states county agents Malaria and Typhus are prevalent in We Are To Avoid Dependence On taught to make effective use of them. live stock on the farm in sections in both quantity and quality. have urged successfully an increase the most severe forms and in the To be "quick on the draw" is an absolute Foreign Markets, Report Says. where farm flocks can be profitably "No time should be lost in learning in the numbers of farm flocks kept. famine and disease stricken provinces essential in a hand-to-hand combat handled. The introduction of pure methods to keep fully productive the Johnson county, Neb., where the will result during the winter months 'America must take measures to with a desparado, and that sort bred stock and the establishing of 137,000,000 acres of virgin stands number of farmers keeping sheep in widespread and severe epidemics. meet a critical timber situation which of quickhess is a result of long practice. breeding flocks has been an important which we still have left. We have was more than doubled in 1920, is a Present plans contemplate, according is yearly becoming more critical, the Whatever may be the explanation, feature of extension work in Connecticut the opportunity to utilize a total of notable example. Although the condition to Henry Beewaukes, director of Forest Service, United States Department the new plan did not stop the and Pennsylvania in the east, 463,000,000 acres of forest land in the of the wool market was discouraging, distribution of Red Cross supplies in of Agriculture, reports in a robberies, and in fact, one of brobably and in Utah, Washington, and New production of wealth, for the support one group of 16 farmers Russia, organization of clinics at food review of conditions existing in the unprecedented proportions took Mexico in the west. of a large timber-growing industry in this county shipped a total of 5000 distribution centers: drugs and medical forests and the wood-consuming industries. place lately. Mr. Hays has now secured In Pennsylvania purebred ram clubs comparable to farming, and for the pounds of wool) to the state wool pool. supplies furnished to existing The ax has cut to the heart the cooperation of the War and have been organized and are operating maintenance of other large industries" In Jasper county, Mo., a sheep*breeders' hospitals establishment of preventative of eastern American forests, and immediate Navy departments and will place successfully. These clubs consist association was organized thru and curative measures for disease steps should be taken to armed marines in, charge of transfers of three units of farm flocks WAR DEPARTMENT the activity of the county agent to encourage grow timber if this country is to in relief areas and of bath and of valuable mail. This is a move each. A ram is purchased for each TO HELP HAYS sheep growing, to pool the disinfeting units, installed and con-X* avoid dependence on foreign supplies in the right direction. A few dead unit. He is used in each unit two wool crop, and to fight the wolf menace. trolled by American personnel and with drastic limitations in amount and mail robbers will be an effective lesson Manifestly, one of the mottos of years and then transferred from one This organization took steps to operated by Russians. the excessive prices which such a situation to all others who are disposed to unit to another until he has been Postmaster General' Hays is "if at encourage the introduction of purebred would impose. get a living by stealing from the public used in all three units in the club. The first you don't succeed, try, try agin" stock, and held a cooperative ram For results use our want ads. We have already cut or burned over instead of working for it. county agent in McKean county aided Mr. Hays took charge of the Post sale, at which all the grade rams five-sixths of our original timber area in organizing three ram club's during owned by members of the association of 822,000,000 acres," says the report. 1920, proiding pine good rams^ of were Sold and replaced by purebreds. "Three-fourths of our total utilization Shropshire breeding for the flocks of Boys' and girls' club members have and pract:cally all the high-grade members of these clubs. All of these been encouraged to form sheep clubs material-is still from virgin stands. rams are grandsons of Minton's 51, and grow sheep, with marked®success. We can not indefinitely use' or destroy one of the greatest show rams at the Local banks^ have helped to finance 26,000,000,000 cubic feet a year International in the past few years. these clubs, accepting the notes of and grow only 6,000,000,000. We ssalf Rape pasture is being used to fatten SFI club members and letting them run soon have to groW"&. much larger paVt lambs. These clubs w:ll also procure from 2 to 3 years in order to enable of the 20,000,000,000 foot difference. purebred Shropshire ewes, so the club members to establish small Forest experiment stations are needed that each' member will eventually flocks and sell wool and surplus to find out and demonstrate how have a purebred flofck. MR. FARMER lambs before settling their indebtedness. to grow this enormous volume?'.of 'Through the assistances given by Representatives of these banks wood." the sheep specialist at the State agricultural have shown enough personal interest Eventually ten such stat'ons, dach college nine ram clubs were in the work and have cooperated with with a technical staff of from 6 $o organized in Pennsylvania during 1920. extension workers in giving club 12 men, are needed, the service states $3,000 worth of purebred sheep were members encouragement and advice. —five in the east, three in the Rocky selected and purchased by farmers ake county, Minn., the cashier of in the state :n th connection. Sup­ Mountains, and two on the Pajeilic •'""e lrcal state, bank made a personal coast. At the present time there are plementing the organization of these *T«it dunng tne year to- every boy two stations in. the east and one in associations and the introduction of and girl to whom money had been new stock, 35 shearing, docking and the west, the others, through lack of loaned, for the purchase "f sheep. dipping demonstrations were held, attended(by funds, being reduced to a one-man basis. Where* the proposed stations over 700 people. Wisconsin boys and girls have are needed is summarized as follows: Utah has made notable progress "n shown unusual adaptability to sheep In the southern pine belt, where making the farm flock a factor of importance raising. They have used native sheep WHAT KIND OF A DAIRY HERD HAVE YOU NOW? in its liestock r-rodMction. In in preference to western as being four-fifths of the original 650,000,000,000 Iron county, where practically all the better suited to local conditions. The feet have been cut since 1870, WHAT KIND WOULD YOU HAVE, IF- YOU HAD chiefly since 1890, and where the rams are now purebred, the sheep sheep kept by these members have crest of production already has passed USED ONLY GOOD REGISTERED SIRES? and with it is going world leadership MIRACLE PICTURE OF 1921—HARDING in the naval-stores industry. That NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY, AS THEY ARE VERY leadership, it is stated, is passing to SENT BY WIRELESS! CHEAP. the artificially established maritime forests of France. In the lake states, where a supposedly CO-OPERATE AMONG YOURSELVES AND WE min­ wenty inexhaustible supply has disappeared utes morn after this WILL CO-OPERATE WITH YOU. during precipitately within the past I.**:*.. Hardin President twenty years and where utterly inadequate at WE WILL LOAN MONEY TO ANY ASSOCIATION, steps to reforest are being Annapolis, th.e accompanying made. picture OR GROUP OF FARMERS FOR ONE YEAR, WITHOUT In the northeast, where timber was ready for a public in problems of New England and northern INTEREST, TO BUY REGISTERED BULLS. Paris, over 3.000 and eastern New York press for miles away! solution, with the government doing It is not a perfect COME Itf AND TALK IT OVER OR WRITE US AND picture, but no research work of that kind whatever. I I S E GET A BOOKLET "CO-OPERATIVE BULL ASSOCIATIONS." I S S E N In the Alleghenies, where forest BY WIRELESS and after the first problems of Pennsylvania, southern has been sent, as and western New York, Ohio, Maryland, an experiment, New Jersey and1 Delaware are there is nothing also receiving no investigative attention left to do but to perfect the process. from the Federal government, although FIRST NATIONAL BANK, International Falls, Minn: production has fallen spectacularly Incidentally, this and a tremendous acreage is is the first time FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Littlefork, Minn. barren of trees at this time. that the picture here shown has In the Appalachian mountain forest been printed in FIRST STATE BANK, Big Falls, Minn. region, chief source of the hardwood an American supply,! where production has decreased newspaper Popular nearly 60 per cent in 9 years. Science RAY STATE BANK, Ray, Minn. Monthly obtained ,In the arious Rocky mountain it from Paris, and ranges, where 3 stations would cover, this newspaper respectively, central and northern prints it herewith simultaneously with that magazine* special arrangement. Idaho, eastern Washington and western The pioneer in photography by wireless is Edouard Belin^ a Montana and Arizona, New Mexico, "Frenchman, and it was his radio apparatus that sent the accompanying and southern Utah. Artificial reforestation picture from Annapolis, Maryland, to Paris, France, a few_weeks ago. probably Will be necessary He has been experimenting for years with machines for sending photon graphs by telegraph, and he has' sent numbers of them over tne wires there 'to place timber on 5,000,000 and by cable. Finally, this vear. he invented an apparatus to. send them acres of waste lands. by wireless. He brought his* machine to America, and when he leanedthat On the Pacific coast—two stations President Harding was to make a speech to the naval cadets at —where over half of the present remaining he connected it with the big wireless station there. Annapolis, timber supply is located. The result was that a paper in Palis had a phptograph of the President speaking BEFORE he had concluded his address 3000 mries away.- I^The total cost of the stations pro- &.J&!