Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-09
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TIME ANuiHll ATlNG STEEL
There were two "bygde spelemen"
and folk dances and games were
|indulged in. About fifty couples took
part and everyone was happy Even
the writer was invited by several
pretty girls to take part. Mr.. An
derson and myself were invited by
the committe to take coffee with the
"riksdagsman'. The best thing a.
bout this festival was that there was
no drunkenness nor disharmony. Is
was under the auspices Of society
called "Hemdahr, shooting club.
The farmers are busy with their clo-
yer as that is the principal crop here.
Everybody is delivering milk to the
creameries and cheese factories.
They even make cheese from the
milk that they get from the cheese,
which product is shipped to Germany
where they make buttons from it.
At Bronas, where we stopped, the
clover is loaded on the wagons or
hay racks with sings and when the
lhay comes to the barn horse pulls
up the whole load into the hay loft in
in one lift with a kind Of horse pow
Ter. The farmers here also raise a lot
of rye and oats and pigs and chick
ems. They cut the hay mostly with
mowers and use horse rakes. They
have big barns both Of logs and
lnmber with brick pan roofs. They
have fine horses mostly Belgian
breed. These are always kept fat
and nice. They also keep a lot of
4 bees. Have not seen anyone using
!, oxen. The fields are much cut up
with bitches in Vesterg0tland as the
ground will be sour otherwise. The
lpractice Of laying thing has begun
here. Some farmers use grain bind
ers. The houses are built mostly Of
lumber and logs and covered with
brick pans instead of shingle. In
the house may be found a "kackle-
Iugn" In them are burned wood.
| Here are the peat boys from which
peat is used for fuel. They also use
peat for spreading under the cattle
in the barns, which absorbs all the
wet manure and makes a good fer
tilizer. +... &C.,.
i On Sunday, the 10th of July, our
host, L. P. Anderson, and family,
Mr.. Swan Anderson and myself, a
party Of nine people, drove IA miles
Ito "Kinnekulle" where We had pic
mic on the green with dinner and sup
per and then q lunch on the way 60
ing home, at II p. m. We came
home at IL: 80 a. m. Kinnekulle is
the highest spot in Vesterg0tland.
There was an upgrade of six miles
that we could drive and then we had
Ito. foot to the summit. A high tower
is built on the summit. Here we went
up and could look around over the
neighborhood. Here was the finest
scenery have ever seen. You could
look out over Lake Venern and the
islands and see the steamboats,. Over
the tops Of forests Of pine and
|spruce we could see over the "Vest-
gotta slatten"; Here were lot Of
farms with fine orchards. There
are lot of fruit trees Of apples and
cherries. The cherries are commence
ing to get ripe. On the stones on the
hill are cut out the dates when kings
and queens have visited this place.
At the brow Of the hill are springs
which run thru the farms below.
Here may be found a lot Of runes on
the stones. We stayed at Fogelum
one week. This is the place where
Mr.. Anderson's father and sister live
and we found the old gentleman very
spry, although over so years old. On
July 18th I started for Smaland af-
ter taking goodbye Of my partner
and the good people Of Bronas.
Came to Hvetlanda to my uncle, S.
NJ. Lagerquist, and his daughter,
This place is more billy and stony
than in Vesterg6tland. There is
much big spruce and pine timber.
Here nobody knew me as I was only
two years old when my parents left,
IS years ago. My uncle, Mr.. La
gerquist is 80 years old, but is still
able to walk around and lives on
farm with his daughter. Have seen
the places Of uncles Jonas and Gus
tat, places where their families have
been. I also saw the place where my
grandmother and mother were born.
| picked bouquet of flowers to send
home to my mother in Willmar. The
people here are busy with the hay
and have commenced cutting their
rye with scythe as here are only
small fields. There is so much stone
that in some places they have built
stone fences 10 feet wide and still
there is lots Of stone in the fields.
This morning was awakened by the.
discharge Of guns and found that it