Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-07-18

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ton of Lars Fredriksen, the leading
cattle expert of the Danish kingdom,
who is at present in the United States
to study agricultural conditions Mr..
Fredrikksen is here as the special
representative of the United AgricuI-
tural societies of Jutland He visited
the farm boys encampment given in
Valley City, N. D., lately by the Farm
ing association in connection with the
Valley City Chautauqua and was much
impressed with the work that is being
done. The fact that 112 boys directly
off the farms are brought together
from several counties and given ten
day outing, in which there is mixed
liberal amount Of instruction, ap-
pealed to Mr.. Fredriksen as one OF. the
best ways of training the future farm
er. Upon his return to Denmark Mr..
Fredriksen says he will begin at once
efforts to organize similar encamp-
ment in various places in his own
country. In no nation has the idea
of agricultural education been carried
forward to the extent that it has in
America, stated Mr.. Fredriksen. North
Dakota and other Northwestern states
are today facing the same problem
which Denmark solved thirty years
ago, the visitor told the boys attend.
ing the camp. Denmark depended
upon one crop until the fertility of the
soil failed and the people were forced
to seek new ways of earning a living
on the farms. The dairy COW solved
the problem and today the little king
dom of Denmark supplies the United
Kingdom with butter and Germany
to large extent with beef Condi-
tions are far better for dairying in
the Northwestern states than in Den
mark, declared Mr. Fredriksen.
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A telegram from Copenhagen,
dated July 8, says: Short notices
during the past few weeks have told
that Iceland's legendary fire noun
tain still exists. The first signs
showed themselves at a. m, April
%, and it appears that this time
there has been great Hekla erup-
ton, something that has not hap
pened since 1845-46 and 1878. Ac-
cording to reports from Iceland sew
eral expeditions have departed for
the scene of the disturbance, which,
it appears, is not Hekla's central
peak, but a mountain ridge further
in the wilderness to the northeast.
The first to visit the place was an
innkeeper, Olofur Isleifsson, on April
1929. Since then others have reach
ed the place, some from Eyrarbakki,
some from Reykjavik, among them
scientists with instruments for OBJ.
servation. 1t is reported now that a
chasm more than three miles long
and more than 100 yards wide has
been made in direction from south
west to northeast, and that, in this
chasm, about thirty craters have been
formed, from which smoke and
flames constantly arise, at times as
cending to height of nearly three
quarters of a mile. Moreover, lava
from the chasm has made a broad
stone bed across the mountain river,
HeIiskoisi The lava has spread
over a large area and destroyed cul-
tivation, but no human lives have
been lost Since the first historical
outbreak in 1904 A. D., Hekla has had
eighteen great eruptions. Those Of
1894, 1341, 1885, 1897, 1898 and 1865
are spoken of as having been ex-
tremely disastrous. The lava out
break of 1873 happened in the will
derness northeast of Hekla, as this
one has done. 1t is with much curl
osity that news from Iceland is
awaited. Hekla is not particularly
high mountain, Oraofajokull being
Iceland's Hottest peak. The new
chasm's direction comedies with the
stretch of the volcanic ridges over
which Hekla is enthroned and also
with the direction of Hekla'S own
T f1ve-peaked crater line.