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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-13
k0m1bec County One Of the
Banner Counties of minnesota

gallons of cream are shipped out of
Mora, the county seat town, every day.
During the past, summer it was not un-
usual to see shipment Of 500 gallons
of cream in a day. This growth in
dairying has been altogether within the
past, year and the industry is as yet in
it? infancy. Prices during the past
a pound for butter fat. The price is
regulated by the price Of butter in New
York. Considering the cheap cost Of
rations for the dairy COW, northeastern
Minnesota is bound to be one day one of
the greatest dairy regions of the
United States. Cream is at present
shipped to either Minneapolis or Duluth,
less than one hundred miles away, but
creameriess will no doubt soon be estab-
to this valuable feature Of farming. A
dairying community invariably means
fertile farms and well-to-do farmers.
| Another feature of this country is
sheep raising. Glover and root crops
are the great essentials in cheap mutton
production. Sunshine, cool weather and
dry atmosphere, as are here found, are
| also requisites for health in sheep. In
northeastern countries and especially
northeastern Minnesota, these features
are invariably found!o1n view of high
liprices and increasing demand for NUT
7 ton as food sheep farms and ranches
offer lucrative chances for the farmer
There are many sheep" ranches and
farms in Kanabec county at the present
time, but this. industry, like dairying, is
as yet in it's infancy. .a..'. .-... nv
Dairy cattle, sheep, and the bacon
hog, will eventually be the chief stock
interests in northeastern Minnesota. and
for the cheap production Of this class of
stock, it is doubtful if any country can
surpass it. The cheap lands in Kanabec
county, therefore, offer the opportunity
of the day for the land seeker who
wishes to purchase any of these
branches Of livestock industry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-13
Epecial CORRESPONDENCE,

Special Correspondence. :.
Red Lake Falls, Mimi, April 12.-
This is the garden spot Of Minnesota
and is situated in the center of the
Red River valley at a point where the
prairie is dotted with numerous groves
Of native timber. 1t, contains over
100000 acres Of as rich agricultural
lands as can be found anywhere in the
United States. 1t is unusually we'll
adapted to diversified farming. The
soil is a deep, rich, black sandy loan
abundance Of pure water of the best
quality can be obtained at depths ran
cling from 20 to 60 feet, and many
flowing wells are obtained at these
depths. The water is entirely free from
alkai and is, as a rule, quite soft. The
surface is an upland, undulating prai-
poplar, elm, Eastwood, boxelder and
oak. The timber furnishes an mex
haustible supply of fuel, and there is
a sufficient amount of hardwood to
meet the requirements of the farmers
for many years to come.
AS Red Lake. county is near the pine
forests of northern, Minnesota, and as
Their care several large sawmills here
turning out millions of feet of lumber
annually, building material is from 25
to SO per cent cheaper here than in
Iowa, Illinois or southern Minnesota
cheap lumber and cheap fuel are two
important items in which every farmer
is vitality interested and should not be
overlooked when contemplating a
change Of location.
The principal streams in this county
are the Red Lake river, the Clearwater
river and the Lost river, three beauti
ful streams Astounding in pike, pickerel
bass, sturgeon and several other varie
ties of fish. In the timber along these
streams may yet be found moose, deer
and other large game. In the few lakes
In the county geese and ducks are founC
In great numbers. On the prairie anC
in the timber are found thousands OF
prairie chickens, cartridges and Other
varieties of grouse.
OF wild fruits an abundance of plums
high-bush cranberries, blueberries, rasp
berries, Strawberries and several varie
ties Of cherries are found. There are
also hazel nuts and filberts in large
quantities every fall.
Of tame fruits, large quantities Of
strawberries, blackberries, raspberries
currants and plums are grown. While
but little attention has been given t.
growing apples, several farmers have
had very good success in growing two
or three varieties of a very superior
quality and flavor. Garden truck of al
kinds grows abundantly and is of tn,
best quality. The average yield O.
farm produce is about as follows
Wheat, 20 bpshels an acre; oats, 60
barley, 35; fax, Is; speltz, 60; pota
toes, $50; and some fields of corn hav,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-13
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
Mora, Mimi, April 12.-Farmers who
are looking for cheap lands where they
can successfully pursue the rearing Of
advantages of Kanabec, Mile Laos and
Aitkin counties in this respect. There
are here some peculiar conditions that
make this country an ideal situation for
this business To successfully grow
livestock demands the best Of grasses,
good water, abundant grain and location
fol. market. Where cheap lard can be
obtained with these features, success is
assured to the experienced stockman.
Kanabec county, MINI. Here can be
grown the choicest grasses, clover, tim
othy, redtop, bluegrass, and in fact all
tame grasses, in the greatest profusion.
Glover, the greatest one feed for stock,
unless it might be alfalfa, and that can
be grown also, is at it's best in Kama
bee, Mile Laos and Aitkin counties,
Of The Land of Big Red Clover"
United States which produces as large
crops OF hay per acre as Kanabec and
some Of the adjoining counties. The
many lakes and streams of clear, pure
water are also an added blessing to the
stockgrower. The pasturing season in
these woodland pastures is if anything
longer than in the central states and
dry pastures in the fall are unknown.
Even the wild brush land furnishes ex-
cellent pasture. Found growing wild
are the wild grasses, redtop, bluestem
and bronze grasses. Added to these are
the wild vetches and beans of the le-
gume family, which analyze higher in
food value than any other known plant,
higher even than the clovers and al
falfa. Clover and timothy, if thrown
right in the brush, will grow and thrive
Send to M. E. Rutherford
maps deSCriptiv
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-13
1905 Showing Strong Demand Minnesota Farm Lands
The StOckmnn's PNYudise

as well as on the best cultivated fields.
1 cannot understand why people in
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana will rent land
and in two or three years pay out as
much money per acre cash rent as it
would require to buy farm in this
beautiful garden spot of Minnesota.
Nine-tenths Of the wealthy men in the
states above mentioned have made their
money IN buying land cheap at SO, $40
selling for at the present time and hold
ing it until the same would bring $50
to 800 per acre.. This same oppor-
tunity, and I will say the last one, is
right here. I am in position to sell you
q home at from 81 to $12 per acre on
ten years. time, and long before your
land is paid for, it will be worth from
$50 to $75 per acre. Within the last rs
years, all Of northern Wisconsin and
Minnesota has been homesteaded, all Of
both of the Dakotas, western Iowa,
what is now Oklahoma, Colorado, Mon
tana, Utah, Wisconsin, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Idaho and New Mexico and q
third as much more in Canada has all
BEEN taken up, now there is not one
foot of public domain open for home
stead, nowhere to get farm unless
buying it, and in the next ten years you
will see greater demand for farm land
than there has been in the last twenty
five years. What is to hinder the rich
est farming and agricultural land in the
United States between these great mar.
kets, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Duluth
and Superior, going from $75 to 500
per acre; think Of it, and don It lose the
golden opportunity, but come to Mora
Kanabec county, headquarters for land
buyers, and the county which has had
the largest per cent of gain in the
last ten years Of any in the state of
Minnesota. - -s,-,r2s
& Co., Mora, Mimi, for.
e of our. country.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

Messrs. Editors :-The attention
of your readers is directed to the
maps herewith showing the changes
in the cattle quarantine lines in
North Carolina to prevent the spread
of Texas or tick fever (distemper).
Those interested in the cattle indus
try and the removal of the most seri-
Gus obstacle to it's development, the
fever tick, will note with satisfac-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

mails with a fork six months in a
year..
How the SOuth's Great Opportunity Slips.
The South appears to be in the
grasp of the tobacco trust and cot
ton sharks. Still, its people go on
lmpoverishing their soils growing
these crops; still trying to keep up
fertility with phosphate rock and i'm
ported fertilizers to the exhaustion
OF their pocket-books. while a vast
market for food stufs, meats par
tlcularly, lies in the hollow of her
hand-unheededi
Argentina and Australasia sold us
about 225, 100000 pounds of wool in
ten tho
South lay face=dnwn acros the knees
of tha+sCs -Snuallins--eoF enc
2fcrfted blows of the trusts price
slipper. Think of Argentina, 10000
miles away at the south end of crea-
ton, selling us wool at seven cents,
and the South, with all the blessings
of a robust wool tariff, burning cot
ton to keep up the pricel IF that
isn't a spectacle for gods and men!
The South Doesn't Need to Feed Six
Months With q Fork.
With illimitable resources in the
best pasture on earth, vast stores of
cottonseed, inexhaustible possibilities
in corn, cowpeas, alfalfa, rape, rea-
nuts, cane and sorghum syrups, the
South should have millions of head
of muttons and beeves, thousands of
packing houses and fleets of ocean
liners bearing refrigerator meats to
other lands. If New Zealand can
ship loads of frozen rabbits to Eng
land, what ails your people? Must
they always hold a pound of cotton
so near their eyes they can't see a
dollar less than arms length awayg
These men who are organizing the
people to grow less cotton should at
the same time organize them to grow
more meat products.
The Cotton Pulled Over Our Eyes.
Perennial swine plague will make
pork growing on extensive scale diff
fcult I'm the South, but what is wrong
with mutton growing? IT'S a clean
er meat and healthy always. The
sheep isn't a scavenger. North Caro-
lima could we'll afford to grant a
bounty on every well-bred sheep i'm
ported for breeding into the State;
on every pound of wool grown and
every sheep exported from
the State in ten years.
To aid sheer breeders, English law
once compelled all her dead to be
buried in wooden shrouds--and see
what an immense commerce in wool
she built up and holds to this day.
But the South-oh. she has the cot
ton pulled over her eyes and sees
notl III.
Genessee Co., Mich.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

To reach the best markets our cattle
must go north of the quarantine line.
and must be slaughtered at once or
go back home. The buyers know this
and pay from Ac. to Ac. per pound
less for them than for cattle of the
same quality from north of the quar-
antine line.
The six counties which have been
released from all Federal quarantine
restrictions, because we have extar-
minated the fever ticks within their
borders, sell about $4,000 worth of
cattle annually. If the price of
these cattle was reduced only Ac. per
CONTINUED on Page Sd
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law" sections, but the small cost at
which the work has been done also
proves that it is easy, practicable and
profitable. Those who have given
such matters consideration know that
an embargo on a free exchange # the
products of any industry is the most
serious obstacle to it's development,
and it is safe to state that the pres
ent undeveloped condition of the
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

Figure 2 shows the line in force dur
ing 1905.
It will be noted that six entire
counties, Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke,
Catawba, Lincoln, CASTOR and parts
of two others, Surry and Mcdowell,
have been exempted from all Federal
quarantine restrictions during the
past three years. This is the result
of the campaign of tick extermina-
ton which has been carried on by
the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, and is, it appears to me,
a gratifying success. 1t not only
demonstrates the feasibility Of exter-
initiating the fever ticks in IL "stock
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

AbAs -. =
Dear Sir:-I find The Progressive
Farmer very interesting. So many
things are vastly different from our
methods. 1t seems as though you
are greatly favored. To-day Oarch
12th) the sun is shining on fieHs glis-
tening with snow. Here ga there
the earth breaks throughtand looks
appealingly upward to IT, sun. Not
two hundred feet awayare drifts all
of four feet deep. Eere are a few
bare spots in the Mds, but unner
is the seventv-s3enth day of contin-
uous, unbrc'en sleighlng. There
were a few<ays of sleighing previous
TO that. vt there was an interval of
bare grnd. For seventy-seven days
the sfowhas not been wholly melted
from m1house roof.
Do tHEalantcrS sell their cottcn
seed TOLL mills and buy back the,
fertilizer meal? Isn't this meal Of
more vale to feed farm animals HHan
for f~ert.izer2 Certainly witbTyouf
bermuda and crab grasses arr vast
store of ,ottonseed it doesfeh DIS
though y,u might ruin theAf CrISI
by growing beeves and mutt the
great city trade of our Esj1ern mar
kets. I'M
rrat in Feeding L,s.
extent bero ,f farmers SO to lso
acres of land feed snty 10 MY
lambs, where so situs1t TO pasture
the ewes, profitably. Hfe INDUSTRY Is
at a low ebb this sesH TO hullOer
fed, and the prf s afmeFS o II
this winter. Ytlm pc assured
The Tn;tod states nsumed 49,
100000 poups. of In 19oo;
three-eightI of it Il ign grown
say 9O.OOO.ons. WhaI bills the South
with its ide-spread lis and noun
tain Ia,ds clad in pi ennial grass
ideal Iome for sheep to go on max
inc cotton and tobacI "a, all hard work
and soil-suicide, VIII sheep are soil
,onservators, easilyN tended, and pay
aEge proht as muhttOn, quite q
endent of wool?
Our AdvantakeseS ef tssmSyest.
You are nearer New York than is
owa, and / just read in an Iowa
arm paper of One farmer who is
$1,000 shdep. a merle handful
o what he usually feeds. { The beef
rust Observation-Disclosures he sold
of his col ron. FATHER than
eed beeves and $50 as he has here
ofore done. Buk~o - see he is<at the
mercy of the beelf ana railroad trusts,
you people, AREA mere step to
he seaboard, aid thence to market,
Independent of the trusts.
If I were physically well I'd like
% try the SoIth. 1t does seem as
your blessings are infinite as
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

ton the increase in the free or un-
quarantined area of the State.
Figure 1 shows the Federal quar-
antine line as it was in 1902, while
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

Southern cattle industry is, to a very
great extent, the result of the raw
ages of the fever tick and the attend
ant Federal quarantine restrictions.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11
Weekly-sl a Year.
BUT HERE Is Fl BETTER STORY.

How the determination If the Fever Tick is Doubling the Profits of Cattle
Raising in Western Counties-One Years Profits to Farmers Will Pay the
Cost of the Work.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11
THE sOUTH's GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY NEGLECTED.

A Michigan Correspondent Calls Attention to Our Advantages for Stock Raising
as Compared With Western Farmers Who Must Feed With a Fork Six
Months in the Year-Sol Suicide VS.. Soil Brildng-rhe Cotton Pulled Over
Our Ewes.
The Washington times., 1905-04-12

GUIDES Floral Designs Are Excellent.
They are specimens of the highest art
Of floral work. 1914 F ST.
The Washington times., 1905-04-12
SEARCHERS FAIL
TO FIND MONEY
Maltese Cross Envelopes
Elude Sharp Eyes.
CROWDS STILL ON THE HUNT
Three Good Things Awaiting Some
Lucky Times Reader = All
Easily Accessible.
CROWDS STILL ON THE HUNT

April showers of money-enough to
buy new Easter hat.
This Is what has fallen on the streets
of Washington, in places really easy,
yet apparently most difficult to discover.
On Brightwood road between Harvard
and Sheridan streets northwest, on f
street. Seventh and Thirteenth streets
northwest, and on H street, between
Fifth and North Capitol streets north
east, there are envelopes containing or
ders on The Times for snug sums of
money.
Since Monday hundreds of searcherS
have traversed these districts, each
hopeful that he or she would be the
lucky one. and end the search at least
in one OF the gold-sprinkled districts.
1T Is easy money, all right-if you
find it, said one of the searchers on
F street last evening. ''but the finding
certainly is hard The difficulty at
tending the search, however, seems only
to lend spice and interest to the game
for day after day the same crowds. with
possibly a score or more of new ar
rivals. may be seen searching the same
districts that have suddenly grown
popular street for three days has
been unusually crowded, on that section
between Seventh and Thirteenth streets.
The crowd of hunters on Brightwood
road Is almost as large
The search for the hidden money is
being participated in by people of all
colors. classes, and conditions of life.
Alexandrians Join Hunt.
Prominent among the searchers in the
various districts where the money is as
yet; undiscovered, are several residents
of Alexandria. There are several who
come up each morning, separate, and
search each of the districts, as they
think, thoroughly. That they are mis-
taken is demonstrated by the fact that
the money still lies undiscovered, await
visit. too, have noticed the crowds on
the streets. inquired as to the cause, and
after little sooff1ng, have themselves
Joined in the search.
August Champ, of $40 Spruce street.
lie Droit Park, found the fourth and
last OF the Maltese Cross envelopes hid
den in the vicinity of Peace Monument
yesterday. Being obliged to go to his
work, he did not present the order for
cashing until this morning. when 1t was
redeemed with crisp new $40 bill.
Champ is another of the searchers who
after weeks of fruitless searching, have
at last been lucky enough to locate one
Of the envelopes. He says he is a con-
slant reader of The Times and has
The Washington times., 1905-04-12
Romeo, Equine Fire Hero,
Is a Martyr to Duty
Breaks a Leg Going to Answer an Alarm
and Is Shot to Put Him Out of Misery
No. 8 Engine Company DisconsoIate.

Romeo Is no more. Joy has departed
from No. G engine house. District of Co
lumbia Fire Department.
Death has claimed the handsome bay
fire horse. The Reaper gathered him in
last night about II o'clock.
AT the time Romeo was charging to a
IRE. AS he died when on duty he will
ever be remembered as a hero In the
service.
The alarm to which Romeo and the
other horse attached 10 the hose car
riage Of No. 6 engine company were re-
spending was a local" sent in for a
fire at Fifteenth street and Madison
place northwest This is a residential
section of the city and the drivers urged
the horses to top speed.
On X street, between Seventh and
Eighth streets northwest. the tip of
the shoe on Romeo's left hind foot
caught In the asphalt. He was thrown
The Washington times., 1905-04-12

hunted every week since the beginning
of the Black Arrow. He had almost
made up his mind the money was not
for him.
1.-THE envelope was in such a conspic-
uous place l cannot understand why it
was not found sooner. The envelope was
lying. in plain sight of all. apparently
carelessly dropped on the grass by the
side of a wall in the Capitol grounds.
walked over it no less than three times
before l noticed it. and when | finally
picked it up l thought it must be one OF
the fakes which are snrinkled over the
city so plentifully when l was hunting
the Black Arrow"
r. w. Bowman. of 243 K street north
east, is receiving the congratulations OF
his friends since his good fortune be-
came generally known. Every one liv-
ing in the same neighborhood as Mr.
Bowman. has made 1t his duty to con-
graduate the lucky man. and Bowman's
smile is Of the won't come off,
variety. Is
The Washington times., 1905-04-12

/ to the ground. All his 1900 pounds was
thrown upon the leg. and when attempts
were made to get him UP, he stoca on
three legs.
He tried to lower the left hind ;eg,
rolled to the ground and lay still. Ex-
animation disclosed the fact that the
leg was fractured
The horse was unhitcbed. A member
of the company returned TO the engine
house. where he telephoned to z equine
hospital.
1t was ascertained by telephone that
the fire was not large and No. 6 re-
turned to quarters.
Romeo was placed IN large ambu-
| lance and taken TO the hospital Efforts
were made to set the fractured member
and everything done to save the life Of
the valuable horse.
Recovery was finally despaired of.
Rorneos suffering was ended by q bullet
sent into his head from -2S-callber re-
Volyer. .~g
The Washington times., 1905-04-12
BLOW At LEGALITY
Of FRAUD ORDERS
District Judge Enjoins Post
office Department.
MUST DELIVER MAIL MATTER
Case to Be Appealed-Would Seriously
Cripple Power to Stop Lotteries
and Other Unlawful Schemes.
MUST DELIVER MAIL MATTER

Judge Charles F. Amidon, United
States district judge for the Kansas
City, Mo, district, has rendered a de-
siscant Attorney General for the Post
Office Department great deal Of trou-
bic.
In fact. II the decision is sustained In
the higher courts. the effective work
of Assistant Attorney General Goodwin
against lotteries and fraudulent con-
Germs will be greatly curtailed
About two weeks ago a fraud order
was issued against tho Haddock Dis
tilling Company and Becker Brothers &
Co., of Kansas City, Mo-, for doing a
fraudulent whisky business through the
mails. They advertised whisky ten
years old, and other liquors of tempt
ing age, and as a matter of fact the
Postoffice inspectors discovered they had
no distillery 1t all, but filed orders
from other houses.
Postof1ce Department Enjoined.
A fraud order was directed against
both concerns, which are operated by
the same man, directing the postmaster
at Kansas City to withhold their mall
matter The case was brought before
Judge Anidon in the shape of prayer
for an Injunction against the postmaster,
commanding that he deliver the mail
addressed to the two establishments.
The injunction was granted, but an ap-
peal will be taken to the United States
The Washington times., 1905-04-12
MASTER MECHANIC GETS
GIFTS FROM WORKMEN

W. s. Murrian, master mechanic at
Alexandria, for the Southern railway
was presented with handsome dressing
case and umbrella as token of esteem
on his departure for Spencer. n. c.,
where he is appointed to take charge OF
the Southern's new shops there.
Mr.. Murrian has been two years here
as master mechanic, and it is with re-
gret we bid him good-by.
The Washington times., 1905-04-12

orders are issued. Perhaps a dozen
whisky advertising concerns have been
put out of business in the last six
months by a fraud order sireilar to the
one issued against the two firms in
question.
II the injunction of Judge Anidon is
allowed to stand, 1t is safe TO say that
the work Of the Assistant Attorney Cen
erals Office, which has done remarkable
work against fraudulent enterprises In
the last two years. will be greatly
andicapped, and many such ccrcerns
as the Haddock Company can take
shelter behind the decision Of a United
States court. -
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0fe6R6r
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1Dledtc.tn'e
hu\hDS YOU Up
PROOF
GAINED 7 POUNDS.

nOOT
Z
GAINED POUNDS.
Gained pounds by taking
Father Johns Medicine.
A. Duvalski 1913 Manor St,
Pittsburg. Pa