The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-11
State Dairy and Food Commits
sioner Winkjer Gives
Advice.
MISS BESSIE ROWE ALSO SPEAKS
The High School Girls Chorus Please
Smith Says Raise
Potatoes.

The good attendance and live in
terest manifested last week at the
series of meetings conducted in this
part Of the state by the Farmers In
stitute gives strong evidence of the
TACT that a new movement is taking
place among the farmers of North
ern Minnesota, which if it continues
to grow, will make this part of the
state one Of the foremost farming Sec
lions of the country.
The meetings which were held un-
der the auspices of the High School
and managed by Prof. W. P. DYER,
principal, and Otto Bergh, teacher of
agriculture, were the first of the
kind to be held by the Institute. Flu
ture meetings were talked of for Jan
uary and March, and it is expected
that several eminent speakers will
be heard at that time.
H. G. Larson of Berner. a member
of the Farmers Institute, was the
first speaker Saturday morning. .. He
gave an interesting talk founded on
his own hard earned experience in
farming and dairying. He was with
out experience when he entered up
on agricultural pursuits, and was
placed at every disadvantage. There
were no mills in the vicinity and
scarcely any facilities for farming.
Mr.. Larsen's address was instructive
and interesting, and the history of
his life presents a striking example
of what courage, determination, and
stick-to-it-iveness will accomplish.
He said:
THE time is here now for more
and better farmers. Northern Min
nesota is in its virginity yet is NOV
ing rapidly on to development. 1t
used to be said that it took two gen.
eratlons to make a good country
whereas nowadays it takes but one"
He concluded his talk by answering
general questions regarding his meth
DDS.
State Dairy and Food Commission
er, Winkjer, of st. Paul, then gave
some valuable advice derived from
his observations and inspection of
dairying throughout the state. He
spoke of the advancement which had
been made in the right direction by
farmers in the vicinity of Duluth,
the use they had made of timothy
and clover as a fertilizer He de-
clared dairying to be one of the most
profitable branches of farming and
pointed to the fact that it more than
any other conserved the fertility of
the soil. He traced the development
of dairying for the last thirty years
and compared the old methods and
correspondingly low prices of dairy
products with the methods and the
prices of the present day. In the
afternoon Mr.. Winkjer spoke of the
several methods of conducting the
creameries, viz: the home, the fac
tory and the local methods. He ad-
vocated the latter, principally upon
the ground of cooperation. He dis
couraged the shipping of cream to
factories on account of factory mon
opoly and control.
Miss Bessie n Rowe, Instructor
in home economics at Crookston, gave
an interesting talk on How to Keep
a Woman Cheerful Miss Rowe
spoke of the woman of the home
stead as the homemaker and the man
as the home builder. She declared
that the woman in order to fulfill
her part in adorning the home and
making it what it should be must be
provided with the facilities for do
ing her work and that she must have
pleasant and healthful environment
She devoted large part of her time
to hygienic conditions in the home
and in the school house. She dwelt
upon the fact that the male members
of the household spend their work
ing hours almost altogether in the
open air, while the women are of
necessity indoors the greater part Of
the time. Her illustrations on home
helpfulness drawn from the oriental
nations were interesting and showed
the great amount of study she had
given her subject. In the afternoon
Miss Rowe gave demonstration lee
ture on Salad and Salad Dressings"