The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-25
Has One Cow Which Has Yielded 317
Pounds Butterfat During Period
of 166 Days.
HAD TO REMOVE JACK PINE
This Accomplished Land Was Made
Tillable and Now Fine Crops
Are Flourishing. --z>

AS it's leading article, the current
issue of "The Farmer" the oldest
farm publication in Minnesota, de-
scribes the famous dairy farm of
Wellington Schroeder, four miles
west Of Bemidji The article is il
Illustrated with photographs. Not on
ly does the story TEEN with facts
about Northern Minnesota but is en-
trancing because the commercial vic
tory it unfolds. =.
This is the farm which was today
visited by visitors here to attend the
Good Roads meeting tonight.
The farmers interesting article
says in part:
''1n the undeveloped regions of
Northern Minnesota, there is much
that is promising for future agri-
cultural prosperity; but probably
nothing augurs so we'll for the rapid
and profitable development of the
country as the splendid farms which
are opaning. up here and there all
over the u there only
a year or two ago nothing was to be
seen but stumps and masses of I'M
derbrush. OF course, settlement has
progressed with the acquisition Of a
multitude of homesteads and small
farms which are gradually and surely
being cleared and transformed into
prosperous, happy homes, and these
are truly the foundation stones on
which all future development must
stand; but the actual possibilities of
Northern Minnesota are at present
best shown on some of the larger
farms where a little ready money
has fastened development and made
Immediately apparent the boundless
wealth of the soil. Not alone are
these better farms valuable in them
selves, but they serve a larger and
broader purpose in demonstrating to
smaller neighboring land owners
what may be done with cut-over
land, and in this way they stimulate
and encourage the rapid development
of the whole country.
As to Leading Farmers"
"In covering the partially settled
districts of the northern part of the
state, and stopping at different
points, very often there is one man
to be found who is pointed out as
the Heading farmer" and is lauded
as the agricultural promoter of his
community. In southern Minnesota
and Wisconsin or in Iowa, such a dis
tinction would not occasion great in
terest, as in these localities good
farmers are to be found everywhere;
something and is is worthy of COM
ment, because there leading farm
ers' are as yet few and far between.
And SO, when one visits Bemidji and
evinces any curiosity regarding the
status of farms and farmers in the
surrounding country, he is immedi-
ately told of w. G. Schroeder's dairy
farm and is sent Fastening out to
view it, Whether he be a "scientific
agriculturist' or plain, practical
farmer, or just disinterested travel
er with an eye for the farm, he soon
becomes convinced on arrival that
the visit was we'll worth the time, for
w. G. Schroeder is, indeed, the "lead-
ing farmer of the Bemidji district
and, what is more, his farm gives
evidence of the fact
Where Schroeder Shines.
s:There are more elaborate, bigger
and more profitable farms than Mr.
Schroeder's in Minnesota, but there
are few which show as much pro-
gress in as short time or on which
better farming is conducted in pro-
portion to natural facilities. Mr.
Schroeder's farm is situated in the
woods and, with twenty acres clear
ed, was purchased only little over
a year ago; but today he has To
acres cleared and in crop, with pre-
parations made to clear 20 acres
more this fall; fine large dairy barn.
silo and milkhouse with comfortable
houses for workers; profitable
dairy herd Of fifty head; thirteen