The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-07-17
Is Student in the Sixth Grade at the
Government School at Ponemah
and Lives on Farm.
BOARD TO PAY ALL EXPENSES
Will Be Treated as Guest for One
Week and Railroad Fare, Board
and Lodging Furnished.

Alex EVeryWlnd, full-blOOded
Chippewa Indian, is the boy from
Beltrami county who will 60 to the
state fair in September as the guest
of the fair board. He is seventeen
years old, student in the sixth grade
at the Ponemah school and lives on a
farm in the Red Lake Indian reserva-
ton.
In competitor with all of the boys
in Beltrami county between the ages
of twelve and eighteen, Alex Every
winds essay on Our Home Farm"
was selected as being the best. The
judges were w. B. Stewart, county
superintendent of scohols, A. E. Ra-
ko, county commissioner, and A. G..
Wedge, Jr., vice-president of the
First National Bank of Bemidji.
All of the boys in this county.
within the age limit, were asked to
write essays on "Our Farm Home"
the boy with the best essay to attend
the state fair as the guest of the man.
agemen. Mr.. Everywind's expenses
will be paid by the board, and these
include railroad fare from the reser-
walton to st. Paul and return. After
returning from the fair he will have
an opportunity to win other prizes
by writing of what he saw at the
fair
The essay which follows is divided
into sections to answer the ques.
lions outlined. The essay was neat
ly written on stationery Of the In
dian service, department of the in
terror:
OUR HOME FARM.
A: My home is out in the coun-
try. The house is built of logs and
lumber.
The land has timber on it and this
should be cleared up, and the brush
and logs should be burned, the stumps
should be pulled out and the land
well plowed.
We have no fences, and just little
square piece of land, about an acre,
mas been cleared and plowed.
We have one barn, one wagon and
one sleigh, one team of horses and an
OK team, also few pieces of ma
chinery.
B: 1 desire to stay on the farm
because 1 think I could make a good
living there, and I like farming, be-
cause it is composed mostly of out
door work.
| I like to work in the fields getting
the soil ready for the crops, and then
| watch them grow and do all I can
to make good crops.
In hay-making time I like to work
| in the hay fields, cutting the grass
and raking it up for the stock or
hay NOV.
In harvest time the grain must be
cut and the bundles put up in little
shocks.
Then after few days the grain
can be stacked.
| The reason for stacking is that it
gives the grain a better color and
makes more solid kernels.
After the grain has been in the
stack and has gone through the sweat
it is ready to be threshed.
After the threshing comes the fall
blowing. 49,. III -
Then the winter months are easv
months on the farm, for there is but
little work to do and we can look
back to see how much money we have
made in the past year and plan our
work for the coming spring and sum-
mer, and after the holidays we can
begin to prepare for the spring work.
c.: More land should be cleared up
and larger fields made.
Fences should be built around tho
pastures and fields.
Such machinery as mowers, break
ing plows, discs, hayrakes, wagons,
buggies, and harrows, are needed, al
SO buildings, as barns, warehouses.
and machine sheds
More cattle, horses, hogs, and
chickens should be kept to help sup
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