.• jjjfc* rase Our Di t-i ••m,' than any other state in America. So penses of two hoys from each counStock CUM oTSix Explores far as I know it is. the only state in Breeder's Association pays exty 'i which state supervision of private to go to the State Fair each year. Seven Months in African Jungle colonization companies has succeeded Any boy between the ages of fourteen tJL 3$y, on a vcfcy large scale in putting these and eighteen (14-18) are eligible stump lands under* cultivation and to enter the above contest for making them successful homes, and the judging of dairy animals providing the fact that 95 per cent oi the settlers they have had not less than they get become permanent settlers sixtydays instruction under a regular and succeed is the best argument that agricultural instructor in a Tiigh their plans are fundamentally sound school recognized for special aid by and in the interest of, the public, the the State Department of Education. colonization company and the settler The above class is called Class A. himself. But in addition to this there is a socalled California^ through the solicitation class to include those who of Elwood Mead, now Professor of have not had special training as specified rural institutions of California University, in Class A. Thfr tyfo agriculture on his return from Australia departments in the county, Big •x in 1915, adopted the policy of putting Falls and International Falls, compete public funds behind its land settlement to select the two winners to the' mms plans. The legislature appropriated state fair. Edwin Nelson and Vernon $260,000 to the State Land Settlement Kinney made the* trip last year. ISSSft&tt Board, of which Elwood M4ad Those entered for judging this year was made chairman, and the Durham at International Falls are, Ted Toomey, project near Chico in "northern California Karl Grossman, Joe Kalar, Duke resulted, where 125 families are Wirt, Herbert Menzner, Maurice enjoying luxurious, rural hoirtes on the Ludwig, Earl Dupler, Leonard Romer, ground where two or three wheat, and Harold Kerry. W* farmers were formerly the only occupants. C. A. Anderson. Alice Hastings, 6-year-old girl of Illinois, has just returned from a Two years later the legislature appropriated year spent in the jungles of Kivu $1,000,000' and within the country* Belgian Congo, Africa. THE DULUTH POULTRY Her experiences, of being carried last few months the magazines of through jungles by natives, as ASSOCIATION the country contained reports of the1 shown above seeing lions and gorillas wonderful results of the first four slain, and visiting with pigmy is an association of Poultry breeders E tribes, vie with Alice in Wonderland units that have been placed under of Northern Minnesota. Its adventures. irrigation at Delhi in Merced County. aim is to promote better bred poultry. Her father, a Chicago lawyer, was If the lands suitable for agricultural a member of Carl E. Akeley's exploring development around International party. Her mother and two If you want better hatching other women also made the trip. Falls are to be settled, it is up to eggs, better baby chicks or standard Alice, though, only 5 years old at the landowners and the public generall bred stock to improve your the time, was taller than the chief of to appreciate the importance of a pigmy tribe visited. He thought flock, you can buy it right here her curls false.» She was the first this method of making it possible at home. white child the tribe had ever seen. for people with moderate means to A postal will bring a complete The insert shows Alice as she arrived acquire'farm homes and the owner in New York last week. list of its members. Address the of large tracts of land is confronted Secretary, with two propositions—either to take C. R. ATCHISON a sacrifice price for his land, very Route 3-Box 149, Duluth. much below anything that has heretofore ADVERTISING IN THE PRESS PAYS Land Settlement been, contemplated, or else to help in the organization of a colonization company, take a reasonable rate of interest and wait until such By Beasob, E. F. cessary by the additional distance and time as the settler caji dig the principal Manager, Department of Immigration greater hardships to undergo. out of the land. Unless the and Industry Northern In a recent conference with Director right kind of settler can succeed on Pacific Railway Company. A. P. Davis, of the United States the farm the landowner and the colonization Rjeclfemation. Sfervice, he expressed company are not entitled to to me the belief that the Federal succeed in selling the land. When About tv/o-thirds of our present Government,would very likely require their success follows and is based up* population live in cities and one-third some assurance of land settlement or on the settler's success they become on the land, which is just the* revelrse colonization to be undertaken or truly public benefactors and community ratio of two generations ago. backed by the states in some way builders. There is a very general opinion in before it would again venture the this country that we would1 be better expenditure of any large sum in the BOY'S AND GIRL'S CLUB WORK off commercially, socially and morally development of any large irrigation if we had "more people on the project. Mr. Davis has had a broader land occupying farm homes" that are Two hundred and fifty boy's and experience than any other man in self-supporting, not for the purpose girl's will be engaged in club work America with regard to the causes of this coming summer. The above includes of making a fortune and moving to these failures and he well knows that poultry, garden, potato and town to spend it, and not as a rich had it not been for the backing of •man's fad where m5ney has been dairy projects. the Government and the funds not Boy's and girl's between the ages made in the cities and a so-called drawing any interest that most of of ten and eighteen (10-18) are eligible farm home is used to get rid of it. the big government projects would, We have no quarrel with either of to the boy's and girl's clubs. The if they had been privately owned, these methods of using agricultural requirements for each of the four have followed in the wake of all the land, but they cannot be considered contests are briefly poultry contest, large private 'irrigation enterprises the ideal rural home environment, forty-five (45) eggs or twenty-five (25) and gone broke once or twice before where people live on the farm because baby chicks garden contest, one permanent settlers were brought to they love it and beautify it square rod potato contest, oneeighth the lands. because they always expect to live of an acre, and the dairy The fundamental principles of land there and get their living, wealth and contest, one grade calf. settlement are state supervision, happiness there-*-the satisfaction of Poultry, garden, and potatoes have whether the njoney is advanced by giving their families an ideal environment been the chief projects especially in Every Member of The the state or by private colonization in which to grow up and this community during the last few companies. The state supervision is learn the lessons of work, thrift and years. However, we must not lose necessary to protect the settler independence, track of the fact that some real good against the mistakes and avarice of One of the best known statisticians work has been done in other projects miscellaneous ^|eal estate promoters of this country has figured out that the as well, such as pigs and bees. Family Needs This and the prestige of that state supervision one-third of our population living on From the above contests two have is a great asset to any promoter the farms buys -two-thirds of all the been chosen each year to go to the who is engaged in a legitimate manufactured products of the country. State Fair, having all their expenses proposition. Having t^e quality of paid. Last year Maurice Ludwig entered the land and the sufficiency of the It is generally conceded that our in the garden contest, was the Typewriter water (if it is irrigated) certified to total exports of manufactured goods one chosen to make this trip. He by a competent state official, after amount to only 5 per cent to 7 per has been so enthused pver his work due and careful consideration and examination, cent of the total production and that that he has determined now to make is a service to which every 93 to 95 per cent are sold in this state champion. From last summers newcomer is entitled. The land country. project Carlton Romer entered in the prices should be reasonable, the rates Hence from a home market standpoint poultry contest won first and will of interest fair and the terms of payment every manufacturer and city make the trip to the State Fair in should be either spread over dweller is financially interested in September. —the children most of all, and the younger they are, the more need they it. a period of not less than 20 or 30 seeing more people living on farms The poultry project has proven one years, with the option, of course, of and getting fair prices for farm products. of the best so far, perhaps due to the Why? Because the typewriter is recognized as the greatest teacher of children paying sooner if the settler is able Any system that bears down fact that the poultry shows give the to do so, or those easy terms shou|d the price of farm products below a boy's and girl's an opportunity to be fixed for the first 10-year period, known to modern educators. It turns reading, writing and spelling lessons from a task reasonably profitable price to the producer see their birds judged in competition. with an .agreement by the colonization is killing the goose that lays Not only this, the poultry association company to either extend its the golden egg and on the other hand, into a, pleasure. It is a delight Ito the child to use the typewriter and he learns without ef­ has received two silver cups, financial support to the end of the 30year idle city workers cannot buy farm one from Burton's Department store period or assist the settler to products. and the other fronj O. M. Carr and fort. get a federal farm loan, or an amortization The sooner we get' these matters Co. which are hotly contested for mortgage, all being contingent in better balance, where several million among, the boy's and girl's. Furthermore, on the settler's residence upon the idle city workers are building the prizes offered by the poultry The REMINGTON PORTABLE TYPEWRITER is so light that even a child can car­ land and the making of certain improvements homes for themseilves in the country associations and school board to materially increase 'its and thus keeping another several million have spurred many on so that they ry it easily, so small that it may be kept in desk drawer or bookcase so small that it can value. Some organization, whether city workers on their jobs at fair have learned much of the fine art of of a private or public nature, should prices where they can consume the poultry raising. It is not uncommon be prepared to assist financially and be used anywhere—even on your lap. It is true Remington in quality—with every feature farm products, the sooner we will be to have the boys and girls talk of disqualifications educationally the industrious, frugal, on a sound business basis as a nation. such as stubs, sprigs, and thrifty agriculturist who is anxious common to the larger machines, including the Standard Keyboard and the automatic rib­ 1 white in ear-lobe, etc. to expand the best years of his The cheap lands in the north and The dairy project will be started life in developing a "farm home and •west have attracted settlers because for the first time this summer.. Because bon reverse. who doesn't happen to have sufficient of the pioneer's profit which was of the possibilities of dairying ready capital to buy such an improved thought to be in sight, just the same in Koochiching County it was place. The man who is, financially as people went to California in '49 thought best to get this project started PRICE, COMPLETE WITH CASE, $• able to buy sUch an improved place and the early '50's to dig gold and on a small scale this year. To can loan his money out at interest there get rich quickly and for the give the above a fair trial it was and loaf if he wishes. He doesn't same rason that they went to Aaska thought best also to limit the locality have to work. The big problem before during the gold excitement and faced so that the boys and girls in the the country at the present time the rigors of arctic winters. For the project could get their animals to is to revolutionize the practice oftrying same reason people went West, taking some one point for exhibition and to, get settlers into the ^unsettled chahces with Indians and wild beasts judging in the fall of the year. portions of this country by methods in order to reap the pioneer's profit The enthusiasm for dairying among that are nothing more nor less than by getting cheap ,lands that would the boys and girls has not been without ~'»t International Falls, Minnesota mere land selling methods instead of some day make them wealthy. To encourage some foundation for this year helpful colonization methods. the settlement of far away will mark the third time that our :x Oregon, "Th Oregon Donaton Act" Wisconsin is making greater strides county has entered into a live stock i® jsSsl •&.«. •??_. or 640-acre homestead was passed, the in the settlement 5f her cut-over lands judging contest. This contest under msM tjmsg it--• additional inducement being made ner by adopting these' advanced nojiops the, auspices, of the Minnesota Live 1 V, J-??.','-' --fiV