The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-02-07
Animals to Be Shipped Here in Car
Lots and Redistributed to
Farmers at Cost.
THE MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED
Buyers Showed Keen Interest in
Live Stock Problem.-Some =.
Practical Talks Given.

Four hundred dollars of a revolv.
ing fund Of $1,000 was raised at the
Commercial club meeting last night
IN about ten minutes. The stock SUBJ
serfption list was headed with 800
each by T. J. Burke, president of the
Northern Grocery company. and A. G.
Wedge, Jr., vice-president of the
First National bank, The fund is to
be used for the purchase of live stock
in car lots,
Details of the management of tho
fund have not been fully worked out
but the matter is being left to tho
directors of te Commercial club. 1t
is believed that central committee
of business men and farmers will be
appointed to handle the money or
else a livestock association with
shares at $50 each will be incorpor-
ated. In either case, the school board
will be asked to allow A. e. Nelson
to- be one of the managers of the ven.
ture.
The revolving fund is to be used
for the purchase of livestock in large
lots that the farmers will be able to
BUY a few head at a time. A car.
Twill not be bought until a pasture
somewhere in the city has been fenced
In and until enough farmers have
ordered stock to assure the quick de-
livery of the animals after they are
laid down here. A buyer who knows
the animals will be sent out to make
the purchases.
The action on the revolving fund
came at the close of the evening ses-
sion OF the sheep meetings held here
yesterday. While the primary OBJ
ject of the meeting was to arrange for
the Importing of sheep, it was early
seen that cattle as we'll as sheep are
needed here. The first lot of stock
to be shipped in will probably be t wo
cars of sheep and a car of COWS and
heifers. All are to be females and the
stock will be bred up by the use of
pure bred males.
Many Farmers at Meetings
The session held at the High school
In the afternoon was one of the best
attended farmers meetings ever held
in Bemidji. The room was full and
scattered among the farmers were
many business men of this city who
are interested in farming and who
wished to learn more of the sheen
business. At the Commercial club
session in the evening, the rooms
were crowded and it was necessary
to press the billiard and pool tables
into use for seats. The evening meet
Ing was attended by many farmers
who stayed over. 80
A. E. Chamberlain, developments
agent of the Great Northern, was the
first speaker at. the AFTERNOON session.
Mr.. Chamberlain was formerly stock
raiser in South Dakota and told of
some of his experiences with beef
cattle. He and Thomas Keefe of
Bagley, D. Theriault of Akeley. and
Charles Carter, Of Hines, were the
men on the program who had had
practical experience with sheep. Each
was given close attention. At the
end of the meeting, the audience adj
journed to the Brinkman theatre to
see the picture of the 500 line stump
puller and the Dupont dynamite
slides: 81
& II. J. Maxfield, state immigration
commissioner, said that in 1911 Bel
trami county had 5,731 head Of cat
tie and about 1 400 sheep. He quot
ed statistics from a southern county
to show that the proportion Of live
stock to population there was much
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