v.* 5 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS HOWS HQS FOR HAIR LIFTING age for 1913. On this basis the situation THE WELL KNOWN STICK looks, something like this: 1913:•- Farm income Buying power 1920: Farm income Buying power E9F Since the current year, thus far, certainly has been no more favorable to ""H. the farmer than was 1920, we may gain from the plight of these Indiana farmers a fairly good idea of the plight of the American farmer at large. It should be borne in mind in this connection that the above comparisons I are drawn on the basis of wholesale prices, that the farmer customarily buys at retail and sells at wholesale, and that retail prices are still relatively very much higher than wholesale prices. It is also important to note that, though wholesale prices have fallen since 1920, the prices of farm products have fallen much farther than those of other commodities. Stepping off a limited passenger uain going 60 miles an hour With these facts in view, it is clear sounds like suicide, but railroad scientists are experimenting so that people can be transferred from swift trains to local trains. A trolley track that we have not shown the condition jruns parallel with the main line. The trolley car, operated with powerful of these Indiana farmers in the motors, speeds up as the limited approaches, and when both are worst possible aspect. Some farmers under the same rate of momentum, a trap connection is let down from COPVRIGMT 1911 PUft-AUTOCASTtn SEPV. CO the platform of the trolley car to the platform of the train car and the have doubtless done better in the passengers pass over. The trap is then raised, the motorman slows past year and half than have these down to a stop at the next station and the transferred passengers alight. men many, especially in the south, We print the above picture, by special arrangements, from the coming WHAT CAN MAKE LIFE Knowing this, he will realize that the nesota, especially those engaged in certainly have not done so well. On issue of Popular Science Monthly. ON FARMS MORE PROFITABLE active farming. the whole, I think we may say that steady flow of profit necessary to the AND PLEASURABLE? Even those who have been attending successful prosecution of his business the above is a representative statement Farmers' and Homemakers' week THE GOAL OF THE of a representative situation. and the happiness of his family will waste, a sort of Death Valley- among short course each year for the last The answer to the above question depend on the way in which he FUTURE FARMER Is it possible to glean any comfort seven years, and there are many, can his landmarks. Having been through is difficult to find. Perhaps if those gauges his production with reference find something new this year. from such a situation? IS BETTER LIVING such experiences before, we may confidently who are studying the question on the No expense except for traveling and to demand, and on the efficiency with From the strictly economic standpoint farms and those who are studying it count on coming through, as board. which it takes very close study of the he grows and markets his at the colleges, schools and experiment we always have in the past, but we No fees charged to members for Government Agricultural Head Gives stations unite their forces something products, rather than on his skill or price curves, and perhaps a bias toward any of the class work, entertainments, are living in a fool's paradise if by Hope for Better Future for American can be done toward finding the luck in handling real estate. optimism, to detect signs of improvement, lectures or demonstrations. that token we hope to come out at answer. Farmer.—Declares Farms Must Slump Brings Good Help to answer this one big question but it begins to look as the same place1 we went in. We might This joining Of efforts is what is Be Placed on Scientific Production by coming to Farmers' and From this viewpoint, at least, the though the farm price curve has done during the Farmers' and HomeMakers' as well admit once for all that the Home-Makers' Week short course. Basis for Results. agricultural slump is not an unmixed Week short course which is dipped as low as it is going on this "good old times" of American agriculture, After you find the answer for yourself, held this year at University Farm, swing. evil, since its tendency is to shake take it to others. the free and easy times of St. Paul, from Monday noon, January out of the running the type of farmer By H. C. TAYLOR More Optimistic cheap land, continually advancing in 2, to SatuHay noon, January 7, whose influence has tended to keep 1922. Chief of the Bureau of Markets, U. S. price, .are gone forever. There is another Do'nt of view, Have you tried the Press want ads down the prices of farm products and For several years the men and however, from which the outlook is yet? They bring results because they Dept. of Agriculture. The change of base was inevitable. lower the standard of living on the women of Minnesota most interested are backed up with a big subscription Henceforth, instead of an agriculture definitely encouraging. If we more in better homes and better farming farm. To the progressive farmer, turn for the time from the cold, sta- list. have gathered by hundreds at this Editor's -H. C. Taylor, chief conducted loosely, with one eye on Note.of who certainly has been hard hit by Farmers' and Home-Makers' short of Markets for the nt in land value, we must viewpoint, and consider the the Bureau dstical the increme the slump, this may seem poor consolation course and engaged in a week of situation from that of human life on United States Department of Agriculture, have a tight and rational agriculture, now, but as the situation develops study, discussion,, demonstrations, is both a scientific and "oldfashioned" based upon sound agronomy and ani- the farm in its re,ation to what we entertainments, banquets, and personal farmer. While his years it seems likely that the advantage mal husbandry, and a knowledge of!cal1 s- find that the situ- economic visits with those from elsewhere of specialization and intensive study will swing more and more in the state. the cost of production and of market at,on hoIds Prom'se strangely in con- have given him a wide background on to his side. The farmer who is fitted There are seven different programs which to base theory and practice, he conditions. Henceforth we must con- ""happy condi­ trast t0 the resent You Ship Us Your If to cope with the new situation is the for the men and six for the women tions. It may sound paradoxical to has also undertaken the task of understanding HIDES-FURS duct our farming operations so that farmer who is able to adjust himself going on at the same time throughout the actual conditions which say that the economic crisis through they will yield profits on a farming the week. Each person takes his Write Us FIRST For promptly to the new conditions, and confront the American farmer. He is which we are now passing promises Established U6| Special Information basis, rather than as a side line in a or her choice for each hour of each recognized as one of the men who will and who sees that, in the long run, the SEAL DIRECT with tin LARGEST OLDEST the long run to make for better day attending one continuous program light the way for the American agriculturist speculative deal in real estate. .. HOUSE IN THE WEST. cause of agriculture and rural life in farm homes and a higher standard of or going from one program to HIGHEST PRICES and IMMEDIATE CASH to a future of greater production RETURNS. This be'ng the situation, what of general is served by maintaining or another according to his or her interest and ever reducing overhead. living on the farm, but there is an Write for price list, tags and full information in the particular topics. There raising the standard of living on the the outlook? aspect in which our present loss are more exercises on the program for farm, rather than by using all surplus Worst is Past seems to foreshadow decided gain in D.Bergman $ (b. The American farmer is now passing this one week than any one person profit to bid up the price of land that respect. could attend in two months of continuous From the purely economic side the through a barren and inhospitable when there are more bidders than work and all of them of interest We are all familiar with the farmer, outlook is dark enough, though there the profits of the soil will justify. to men and women of Min­ of that type so common in the past, is reason to believe that the worst is After all,, better living is the true whose only idea of effic eticv is to O W E S now past. The consuming public goal of the farming business. There seems to have no conception of the '~°k the soil to the limit, and whose Plants and Seeds is no more biting commentary on our plight in which the farmer has been only 'dea of a way to use profits is Hunters With a reputation. modern life than that cynical aphorism left by the slump in farm prices. All to invest them in more land, and Supplied to "the Great Northwest to which it has given currency— that the consumer knows is that re- t^ more land. Strangely enough, Extra values in Emblems and "business is business". That business tail prices have not conie down to course, which would seem to Sprays for Funerals. tllis should become "its own synonym," as anywhere near the pre-war level, and 'ea(i least to financial" prosepritv. at DULUTH FLORAL CO, WHY NOT PRESERVE some one has put it, is a shameful he may assume that the farmer is serves to defeat its own end. The Duluth, Minn. thing, and the farmer who thinks of still getting high prices, when, as a continual effort to invest farm profmatter THAT FINE DEER OR the farming business as having no of fact, he is getting smaller 'ts in more land tends to bid up the MOOSE HEAD YOU SEC­ object beyond mere financial success price of land beyond the level justified net returns for his products than he is in a fair way to miss the best of by return from the land, and got in 1913, and in dollars that will URED THIS SEASON? O. G. SNYDER ft' life. buy only about half as much per dol- thus to increase the cost of producer Registered Optometrist There is a great class of forwardlooking BRING YOUR WORK TO as would his 1913 dollars. tion by increasing the charge for the and Optician farmers in this country \)vho use of land. At the same time the effort Take a concrete example. The U. John Erickson, Expert Taxidermist Broken Lenses Duplicated know better than that. We may rest to justify the investment tends S. Department of Agriculture has At Gledhill's Jewelry Store assured that these men, in working to increase production, irrespective of made an annual analysis of the business Fort Frances RANIER, MINNESOTA out the vexing problems that the agricultural market demands. Thus we have a of 100 representative farms in I '"'•Hp slump has spawned, will not about which the farmer central Indiana for the past eight be so foolish as to forget that the chases the will-o'-the-wisp of profit, years. In 1913 the average net income JOHN H. BROWN question of the financial future of only to find that his effort has increased of these farms, the return for both Attorney at Law American farming is inextricably connected the price of land and lowered labor and capital, was $1,503. In 1920 Office over O. M. Carr & Co. with the question of better the price of the products of the land. the net income was only $1,269- However, International Falls. Minnesota living in the farm home and the farm The day of this kind of farming is this falling off does not measure community.,. about over. The farmer of the new the actual decline the-fanner's A E day knows that such tactics are those income, for in 1920 wholesale prices Lawyer of the doif chasing his tail: that in of commodities other than farm products International State Bank Bldg. effect they serve to put him in com- averaged more than two-and-a- 98 PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES International Falls, Minnesota half times as high" as The" correspond- himself* petition with and that the ».• •.• *.« A ing prices in 1913. That is, it took at! Pe"°dically to agricultural de lead pression. He knows that farming is Among the valuable gifts recently Account N O E N I N N E S O A least $2,59 of this 1920 income to buy a fundamental industry, that the la- received are a collection of books what a dollar would have bought "n O S I A upon religious subjects from Mrs. 1913. Consequents, with a total borer 18 WOrthy of his hire and that Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and Kaneen and several volumes from smaller by over $200, and a dollar !?1e ,s enter,ng UDOn an era which Surgeon in Charge Mr. Curt Williams, including among shrunk to forty cents, the average sound SOUnd a ronom and business Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 1920 income of the group of farms in »ract'ces must prevail over the hapquestion others the much discussed Glass of Office Int'l State $ank Building would buy not more than soil-exploita­ Fashion by the Gentleman with the hazard methods of the tion era of American agriculture. Duster, the delightful English novel, one third as much as would the aver- International Falls, Minnesota If Winter Comes, by A. S. M. Hutchinson, This is ..the time of year when the new which is receiving so many favorable reviews in the magazine styles are eagerly discussed. BUT LOTS FOP SAVS book notes, and George Bernard FELLOWS NCXLE QGttS Shaw's Back to Methuselah. These THEM ARE NO GOOD! 2£g? Thrifty buying makes easy thrifty saving. MQ&WOLTE additions are very much appreciated. The librarian paid visits during the A savings account is always stylish and its past week to the Lake Park and Ranier schools, thus completing the trips satisfaction is lasting. to all the outlying schools for the first half of the year. These visits This bank has hundreds of happy depositors, have resulted in a better knowledge F. Paries of the library needs of the individual and we invite you to decide, as they did, schools and consequent better book service to them. New collections to make regular deposits in an interest-bearing for all these schools will be account. made up during the holidays and*' sent out as soon as the schools open You will find that REGULAR saving makes I Brr THEY WtSH again. I Alh/T SO BAD IHADA NICKEL. your "rainy day" fund grow amazingly. FRUIT TRIAL FARMS 'Teach your dollars to have more cents." While attending the state horticultural 1 society meeting, the county agent made tentative arrangements with the university horticultural department OOP S* QGMS to cooperate with two or three persons in Koochiching county first National Bank 3( in trying out varieties of fruit adapted to our extreme climate. This work would enable people in the county to know what varieties of fruit they can International Falls Minnesota safely plant and thus avoid the expense of buyincr nursery stock not adapted to the county.