The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-09-12
A. E. Nelson is in Charge and Prom
ises Plenty of Entertainment for
the Visitors.
HAD A BIG CROP THIS YEAR
Will Harvest Enough From Ten
Acres to Support a Fair Sized
Family.

! Governor Eberhart will be one of
the speakers who will address the
Farmers who attend the farmers pic
mic to be held in Bemidji Saturday,
lSeptember 2S The governor was
reached by long distance phone yes
terday and said that he would plan to
spend that day in Bemidii and would
be pleased to have dinner with the
farmers.
The picnic is being planned by A.
| E. Nelson, the new instructor in ag-
riculture in the Bemidji schools, and
| will be held at the school farm. En-
tertainment is to be provided by hav-
ing several speakers, a basket lunch
at noon and the customary picnic
athletic events. Mr.. Nelson is busy
today talking with the farmers who
are attending the county fair.
Money has been provided by the
board of adAeation-feF the erection
of a platform and small grandstand
so that those who attend the picnic
will be able to sit down while they
are listening to the speeches and
watching the races. Some of the
races will be pulled Off between the
garden plots and a drag will be put
on to make the going easy. The
high school quartet will sing.
Few of the farmers near Bemidji
have ever called at the school farm
although many we're doing so today.
The farm comprises ten acres and
lies directly north of the fair
grounds. 1t is divided into half acre
plots and these plots are sown to
certain crops which are arranged in
regular series of rotation. One cor
ner has been reserved for the gar
| den plots of the school children and
another for the farm buildings.
The land is said to be poorer than
the average in this vicinity yet the
farm has raised uniformly better
| crops than the average farmer. Mr..
Nelson says that this is due to the
fact that the seed at the school farm
was carefully tested and selected so
that only the best was used. More
care was exercised in preparing the
seed bed than the average farmer US
ually uses. The results clearly show
that it pays to use headwork as well
as physical labor for the ten acre
farm has raised enough to keep a
good sized family, with the usual
stock animals, for one year.
/ Ono of the experiments being tried
| at the school farm is to see whether
shavings or manure is best for fer
1 tilizer. Eighteen foot strips have
been covered with each kind and a
4 third strip left bare. This year, the
crop from the strips covered with
shavings or manure are far ahead OF
those on the land unfertilized. The
question to be decided is-which fer
tilizer is the better. Only appllca-
ton for a period of years will tell
but the school is working out the
= problem.
Mr.. Nelson is hoping that the
amount of stock carried on the farm
can be increased soon as he say:
there is more profit in putting TIT
crops into stock than in selling. Plans
have already been made for putting
in larger chicken yards. The manu-
| al training department of the higl
school is to make the buildings ant
each set of fowls will be given
long runway. 1t is proposed to keel
several breeds and find out which
ones are best suited to local condi
lions. Eggs from the pens will b.
given farmers at cost with the un
Outstanding that they do not ALLOW
the chickens to become crossed will
other strains.
On farmers day, Mr.. Nelson pro
poses to show the visitors over tn
school farm and explain detail tn
work being done and that proposed