Im-^i THE tVTERMATK3WAL FALLS PRESS PAGETHREg tributed to 7 farms. Minnesota No. mium itf favor of certified seed of $1.80 $ results of these records to the attention I has been carried on to some extent 2 rye has been secured for one farm. per cwt. or $6.48 on the gar. This is of all the farmers in their respective for a number of year's there were While the number of farms securing perhaps a larger margin than can be communities. The object of keeping more definite achievements the past these standard varieties is not large, usually expect,ed. It is also more these records js to show the factors year than ever before. we believe that ai they begin to grow than is'necessary to justify the Certification that must be taken into consideration Nine -clubs were organized which ested and so that meetings may be -Presented at Annual Farm Bureau a surplus of these standard varieties, of seed stock. The purchasers in the profitable management won standard club charters issued by held occasionally as needed. Meeting, April 8th. v.,,:.-** ,- thjese farms will become distributing were well pleased with these of a dairy herd in- this county. The the U. S. Department of Agriculture .- -The first county-Farm Bureau picnic centers and within a short time there potatoes. Potato specialists who inspected records kept so. far do not show a and the University of Minnesota. was held last year at Pelland. Over Thie past jyear has been one of more wilX be a large afcreage of standard the car pronounced them unusually large profit in dairying when labor One cl.ub won a National Seal of 200 people were in attendance which ^definite accomplishments and progress varieties of grain1 grown in the county. free from disease, and in'fact, involved is taken into consideration* Achievement. was very satisfactory considering this perhaps than any. previous year of The certification of grain grown-has said they were some of the best potatoes it does provide at market for^hay and Gladys Christie who won first place was the first year & couttty-wide Farm I^arm Bureau and county agejit work. also been encouraged. Six applications that had evtr come into that roughage* at good prices and in the in the county^ bread-baking contest, Bureau picnic has ever been attempted. This is true of the farm,home and for certification hive been reported. part of the state. Koochiching county case of high producing stock, there class A, won fifth place in the state junior club work. These cohered Minnesota has 'a real opportunity to supply the is ,a profit. Mr. Erickson's herd at in competition with "^winners from A Farm Bureau news publication The work of the past year may 184 barley, .Marquis wheat, Minnesota demand for Northern grown seed Rjmt averaged 319 pounds of butterfat other counties. has been issued once a month and is «lingofThere 3e put under the following heads: 295 oats, Minnesota 281 oats, Victory stock. will always be sale for ™cow, whereas the average cow in The Harrigan Garment Making sent to all Farm Bureau members as Tarm Bureau Development, Co-operation oats, Minneso^ No. 2 rye and Turkey ed exceptiona^quality. Koochcounty the county would produce probably team not only won first in fhe class well as to all county agents in the With Improvement organizations, Red wheat. can produce good quality about 150 pounds. B. county garment making contest, state.' This paper has been issued the Soils, Farm Crops, Live Stock, Economics, One farmer y^as assisted in securing of stock because in addition to the Eleven applications have been received but also won the championship of the jJast' year in cooperation witlj the Marketing, the Home, and some Giant Russian sunflower ^seed natural adaption of this district to the fpr tuberculin tests. As a result Northeast district and represented Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation, Boys' and Girls' Club Work. I will for a trial plot ot demonstrate the growing of potatoes, acreages in the of tests which have been made Northeastern Minnesota in the state the State Federation furnishing the call attention to only a part of, the adaptability of sunflowers to this Aunty are still small. This makes on her^s in the county, 17 reactors contest, finishing fourth. stock and 'the inside pages printed accomplishments under each of these county as a silage crop. This trial was it -possible for the growers to give have been discovered and slaughtered, John Ward of Rauch, county prize with state and national news, and the heads as being representative of the so satisfactory that this farmer, James the special attention required to produce so far. winnerJn the potato growing contest, county Farm Bureau using the outside type of the work that has been done. Ewald, Internationa! Falls, has purchased potatoes of exceptionally good Three farmers have been assisted had the highest yield per acre of any 1. Farm Bureau Development. pages for the exchange list aild local a silo and^ all necessary machinery type and free from disease. The high in registering pure bred animals. contestant in the state and was awarded news. Plans for a larger state ^aper Nearly one-third of the county for the growing and making yields which are secured in this-county VI- Farm Economeis. the state championship in the potato have bee ndiscussed but so f^r no agent's time during the past year has of sunflower silage. Mr. Ewald will tend to offset the factors which Of the work done in farm economcis growing contest. satisfactory arrangement has been been spent in developing the farm try various combinations of crops for make for a high production cost so the outstanding achievement is undoubtedly Five girls and four boys were worked out. ^bureau organization. The county silage this year such as corn,- soy that the growers here can compete the« organization of the awarded free trips to the state fair Owing to improvement in the roads agent does not solicit farm bureau beans and sunflowers. Those interested with the larger growers in other parts Northern Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance- last fall. One of these boys is here which now make auto travel possible /members but arrangements have been in the feeding of dairy cattle will of the state. As yet disease is not Company. However, since today and will tell you how he won and the increasing number of cars made for a representative of the watch this demonstration very closely. prevalent in this county. By careful the secretary of this organization, Mr. his trip. Maurice Ludwig, International owned by farmers, it is recommended Farm Bureau to do this work and assistance Samples of alsike^ clover seed exhibited attention on the jart of growers at Kohlhase, is here today, I will leave *A Falls. that the date 'of the annual meeting has been given him in arranging ^t the Minnesota Crop show this time trouble from this source the report of the progress of this be changed to a time when people can One of the handicaps in Boys' and meetings, transportation, etc. won the first., five prizes in compete can be held at a minimum. This organization for him to present later. Girls' club work haS been the lack get to the meeting by auto. The time One hundred and twelve members tion with a number of other samples. county is already recognized as a VI I. Marketing. for the meeting is a matter for you of local leadership during the summer .were secured during the year since This show hap resulted in the Crop source of high class Irish Cobbler The largest direct saving made for months. to discuss at this time. the county-wide drive was p«t on in Improvement Association referring seed. It is for the growers themselves the farmers by the Farm Bureau has II. Co-operation With Improvement !March, 1921. It is recommended that each Farm many inquirers for clover seed to this tq^see that only first class stock been in the co-operative purchase of However, less emphasis has been Bureau unit support the boys and Organizations. county. As a result more buyers have is sent out from this county, so that explosives. Three carloads of dynamite placed on securing new members than The county ag^nt has co-operated girls in their club york and select been bidding on clover seed in this this reputation will continue to grow were ordered co-operatively and •on organizing members into local some person in the community to act with the Koochiching County Fair, county than vtfould otherwise have and there will be an ever increasing distributed in co-operation with loca tunits. This work was begun in May as a local leader. the Northern* Minnesota District Fair been the case. demand for I$ochiching county seed. business men1 at cost in 1920.. This Projects which are especially recommended last year1 with the assistance of Mr. and the Koochiching County Poultry Perhaps the most important work I have placed special emphasis on the last season two corloads of dynamite this year are Bread-making, Horlamus, representing the Minnesota Association in arranging- suitable premium that has been done by the Farm work witjfi potatoes because I Relieve were disrtibuted on the same basis Garment-making, hardening, Potato-growing, Farm Bureau Federation who lists and securing judges for Bureau is the improvement which it it is important. For the reasons that a,nd in addition two carloads of picric Poultry Raising and spent approximately two months in these exhibits. Boys' and Girls' Club has brought about in the potato crop I have already mentioned the potato acid have been secured from the Government Calf, Raising. departments have been added to all the county. of the county. The Farm Bureau ever crop is bound to be the leading cash and distributed. T«he total In order that the members might three exhibits on recommendation of since* it was organized hats been interested crop in this county. X. Miscellaneous. saving on this explosive the past year -organize into local units and be represented the county agent. in improving the potato crop, V. Live Stock. is at least $12,000 over the prevailing As additional items of possible interest, at county-wide meetings such The Farm Bureau is co-operating particularly in limiting the number of The. Farm Bureau has been particularly price of dynaniite sold in small lots. I might mention 129 days have as we have here todayr it was found with the Forest Service in their program varieties grown and standardizing the interested in the improvement In addition to this saving, there has been spent in the office and 149 days neccessary that the the articles of Incorporation "of forest fire prevention. As a of the live stock through the introduction varieties particularly adapted to our been a .ten percent increase in the in the field. There have been 383 result of the discussion of the Forest of the county farm bureau soil and climate. Special attention of pure bred sires. The cleared acreage of the county owing pqfsonal calls at the Farm Bureau be amended. This was accomplished Service at the last annual meeting, a has been given to the distribution of Woodland Co-operative Bull Association to the larger use of explosive because office. Fifteen articles have been through a mail vote =which was authorized better understanding of the Forest has been organized in the Silverdale Irish Cobbler seed potatoes. Three of the lower cost of the same. written for county papers oand 70 articles Law has been gotten on the part of by a special act of the legislature. or four years ago, Irish Cobbler potatoes neighborhood and two pure bred VIII. The Home. for the Farm Bureau News. This is the first meeting to be the settlers and the Forest Service has were grown to some extent in Guernsey sires secured. Assistance The women of the Farm Bureau 3,229 personal letters have been written held under the new plan# and the become more familiar with the conditions has been given in locating four other the vicinity of Mizpalt and Dentaybow have been active in the past year. But and 12,313 circular letters. 246 in this county. Provision has large! number of communities represented but little in any other place in the pure bred dairy sires. since this work has been conducted almost farm visits have been made and 159 here today indicates the success been made for the appointment of additional Farmers have been encouraged to county. Now there is scarcely a community entirely by women themselves field interviews. 158 meetings have fire wardens in large townships of this arrangement. This gives keep record on their dairy herds and in the county "which is not with the assistance of specialists from been held at which there was an attendance and the unorganized territory. •each community in the county an opportunity growing some Irish Cobbler potatoes the amount of milk produced. Meetings the State Extension Department, we of €,£48. This makes the application of the Permit to bring its suggestions to have been held at Nortbome#and and' in many of them the Irish Cobbler will leave the report of the Women's I wish to say that it has been a Ih'wattention of all other communities System more feasible. A. much Ray with the assistance oft Wm. L. is the principal variety grown. work for them to give later. pleasure for me to work with the people and at the same time each of the directors more satisfactory relation now exists Cavert, farm management demonstrator, Other leading varieties are the Green IX. Boys' and Girls' Club Work. in this county and I appreciate, between the settlers of the county and may take back to his community University fcirm, to bring the Mountain and the Burbank Russett. While Boys' and.Girls' Club Work the oc-operation which you have given. the Forest Service. the combined report or action The improvement which has been of all the communities in the county. l. Farmers' Institutes were held this brought about has been accomplished We had some twenty farmers' clubs year at Littlefork and Mizpah. While through demonstrating the importance in this county at the time the organization two institutes were held this yearwRereas of seed treatment'with corrosive sublimate, of local units of the Farm it hasJ^een customary to hold the selection of good s^ed and Bureau was begun. It seemed advisable a week of Institutes in previous years, growing seed plots which have been Graduation Gifts From Sher to avoid so far as possible the organization the attendance at the Institutes this carefully rogued to control disease. of local farm bureau units year was larger th^n ever before and Eight demonstrations were given last in these communities since the purpose a genuine interest was taken in-all the year in the1 treatment of potatoes with of the two organizations is so discussions. Mr. Brown of Elk River corrosive, sublimate. As a result of Bros. Are Gifts That Last similar and unnecessary duplication andM r. Bower of Hudson, Wis., were Farm Bureau work, 150 farmers treated is not desirable. Consequently an opportunity the speakers at the Institutes this their seed in 1921. Twelve demonstration was given each club to become year. plots were conducted. The a local unit of the Farm Bureau farmers have also been encouraged to You are all familiar with the results by a slight amendment of its articles grow certified seed potatoes because of the county exhibit at the Minnesota of incorporation. This did not make of the growing demand for Northern State Fair last fall. The exhibit it necessary for all the farmers club won second place and scored only grown seed stock. Ten applications members to become members of the for certification were received last 11 points lower than the winning exhibit. Farm Bureau. Sixteen organizations year. Five passed final inspection It was one of the outstanding Watch Cuff Links which were already in existence have and were granted certificates. Two exhibits at the fair. This exhibit was taken the necessary action to become growers were given the XXX grade FOR made possible by the Farm Bureau. Ring Tie Pin local units of the Farm Bureau. In on certified Irish Cobbler seed. The No exhibit, had been made for several addition 17 local Farm- Bureau units years owing to insufficient funds to improvement in the potato crop is Fob Pocket Case have been formed making a total of finance it. This situation was explained also reflected in the scores awarded HIN 33 local units in the Farm Bureau at to the Farmers' clubs and exhibits from this county at the State Chain Fountain Pen the present time. There are only Potatp shows. The first exhibit was rarm Bureau units of the county and two farmers' club organizations which made in 1917. Although a gre&t deal each Vas asked to contribute $25.00 have not become units and one of Brushes Gold Pencil toward a fund to finance a county exhibit. of pains was taken to secure the best these expecjs to take this matter up potatoes that could be gotten in the Eighteen organizations responded, in the near future. As soon as. units Razor^ contributing a total of $400, county, this exhibit was so poor that Knife have been established in these two The county agent went before the the judges did not even give it a communities the county will be fully score. This was due probably to the county commissioners and when action organized on the basis of its present of the Farmery' Clubs was explained mixture of varieties in the exhibit membership. to them, they agreed to appropriate aivl to disease on the tubers, ^n exhibit What is a word of praise but a reward for a thing well V?^ Each unit is entitled to a representative an amount equal to what the the following year, gave a score at the annual or other countywide done But a word spoken today may be forgotten tomorrow although it was still low. There has clubs raised. In this way sufficient meetings when it has ten Farm in the stress of toil. Happily, there are many ways of funds were secured to finance the been an increase in the score of Bureau members in good standing. A county exhibit/ Of ,the funds received Koochiching county's exhibit each praising noble efforts in a more lasting way. few units need to secure a few more from the Farmers' Clubs, $291.22 has year until last year the exhibit consisting The boy and girl graduate presented with a well-chosen members to secure representation in been spent in connection with the of 10 samples of Irish Cobbler these meetings. New units will not gift will have it through all the years to: remind them that a preparation of the exhibit. A balance potatoes and 2 samples of Burbank need to be organized until the membership of $188.88 is still on deposit in the Russetts scored 87 and placed third. sincere effort in accomplishment always pays its reward. A is considerably increased.'New bank. This was only 5 points below the winning gift from Sher Bros, will express to the gradaute your units may be added from time to III. Soils. county's exhibit. While Koochiching highest esteem and good wishes. time if necessary. Early in December a campaign was county is rather new so far as The executive committee has already put on in this^ county to encourage potato growing is concerned it ranked All prices are reasonable on gifts that last. recommended that each unit more land clearing. Speakers were fifth last year 4in the production of amend its constitution so as to provide ./ VA furnished by the land clearing department certified Irish Cobbler potatoes and two votes per family instead of and the Minnesota Forest Service has tl^e highest yield per acre ?f any one as the original constitution called as well as the county Farm Bureau. county in the state. Only 5 out of Ring Beads for. This will give both a man atad This campaign included meetings 50 growers producing certified Irish his wife the right to vote. Membership FOR in 21 communities in the county Cobbler seed were given the XXX Wrist Watch Bags in the far^n bureau is family member§hip. This marked the opening 6f a Brushing grade. Two of these weije in Koochiching If any of the units have not already and Seeding campaign to close county. The Irish Cobbler Necklace Pennant made this amendment, it is May 1, 1922. Liberal prizes have been seed stock grown in Koochiching reocmmended that it be done at an arranged for the winners in this contest. county is recognized as being'as good HER Gold Pin Sets Toilet Set early date. A stumping contest has also as any grown in MinnesQta. We .have A number of the units hold regular been arranged to continue during the had inquiries fori Koochiching county's -meetings once a month. A few have summer months and closing November Irish Cobbler seed from 'Indiana, Bracelet Manicure Set attempted more frequent meetings but 1st 1922. Idaho, Michigan and from -a number found this unsatisfactory and finally IV. Farm Crops. of[ counties in the state. The first carload Ear Rings Brushes Adopted the plan of holding one meeting One of the chief activities of the of certified Irish Cobbler potatoes a month. It is impossible in Some Farm Bureau in the improvement of .has just recently been sold through communities for regular meetings to small grains has been the distribution '/.,}• the Farm Bureau to the Hancock be held. It is advisable, hoSvever, that of standard varieties. For instance, County Farmers' association of Greenfield) & even in these communities where regtilar Minhardi, Turkey Red, Marquis, Prelude Indiana. This car of potatoes) meetings are not held that a unit and Mindum wheat have been was grown by Francis White of Littlefork. -^IlV •••, 3 organization be maintained so that distributed to 11 farms in the county. If The potatoes were sold for FURNITURE Two Sf ores JEWELRY -'V'there. will be some regularly elected Minnesota 281 oats, Victory oats and $1.50 a 'bushel, f. o. b. Littlefork, or Phone 350 Phoiio 25t C?Person community with whom in the Minnesota 295 oats have been distributed $2.50 per cwt. Table stock potatoes Ve can correspond in regard to fnatM%eri to 25 farms. Minnesota 105 and were selling at Littlefork at tre same in which the community, is inter­ Minnesota 184 barley have been dis­ time at 70c per cwt. This makes a pre­ 1 ifl