The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-23
THE BEMIDJI PUBLICITY
MEETING WAS EXCELLENT
The Small Crowd that Was Present Was Treated Some
Exceptionally Fine Addresses Covering Very
Wide Range of Subjects.

nlnreen cents per pound. lie be-
lieved that if the business men would
get together dynamite could be sold
for fourteen cents, making a great
saving to the farmers.
Mr.. Mcclure spoke of clover as
being the most valuable of all the
plants on the farm as it takes the
element of fertility from the air and
places it in the soil, thereby renewing
the soil instead of making it 90 back
ward.
Farmers should grow root and
stem crops and use it for feed on
their farms.
The speaker told of his experiment
on raising crops of eighty acres at
the Experimental Farm. He had
taken eighty acres after Mr.. Chap
man had farmed four years and had
reported that the sandy soil could
not be farmed successfully. Chap
man had told the truth.-Sandy soil
could not be farmed successfully
without manuring. Mr.. Mcclure
had taken the same land and on an
acre, which Chapman could not
secure a bushel of potatoes, he
(McGuire) had MANFRED the land,
securing 200 bushels of potatoes to
an acre and also eleven tons of
fodder per acre. -Four acres which
he had planted to wheat had furn-
ished him feed for chichens. For
every dollars worth of wheat fed to
the chickens they had returned to
him two dollars.
Mr.. Mcclure told Of the deversi-
fed crops he had raised on this
farm; that he used for feed and that
he also sold his potatoes. -
Mr.. Mcclure spoke of dairying
and the profitable results therefrom
and how it could be easily followed.
Farmers who kept dairy cows, he
noticed, were the most prosperous
and farmers should teach their boys
and girls how many pounds of milk
a COW gives a year instead of too
much of the other kind of learning
so that they would know more about
farming.
Mr.. Mcclure depressed from his
usual talk on farming and took a
shot at the dispensers of refresh
ments." The speaker asserted that
the liquor traffic and the influence
surrounding it was making tramps
of visiting foreigners who would
make good farmers. He could not
feel that he could make any progress
as long as the saloons were tolerated.
He was not talking from morality
but from basis of dollars and cents.
Mr.. Mcclure asserted that last
years court expenses in Itasca county
cost the county $4,000; and Bel
trami county had beaten that some.
He wished everybody was giving
Beltrami county credit for prosecut-
ing the criminals, but these crimes
were due to the liquor traffic, princi-
pa]ly, and the people should get to
the bottom of the cause of these
crimes.
Mr.. Mcclure became quite fore
ible and advised the farmers to get
into politics.
George H. WEIGH, commissioner
of the State Board of Immiaration,
was the next speaker.
Mr.. WEIGH said that this was the
age of progress and that the old
method of living was dispensed with
and things were done in different
way than they were in the old days.
Mr.. WEIGH commended the mingl-
ing of the business men of Bemid il
with the farmers of this vicinity and
predicted it as good omen for the
future. He had been raised on a
farm and knew what farming was.
He deplored the fact that many
young men from the farm were going
to the city, away from walk in life
which is the most independent in
existance to life of uncertainty,
where congested conditions were
such that to advance was herculean
task. He deplored the tendency OF
the city folks to refer to the farmers
as Rubes." The farmer is the
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