The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-02-07
LUNDIN ADDRESSES
CHANGERS MEETING.
Report OF Pomona Master at Mid'Wi In
ter Meeting At Keweensw Bay
Last Saturday.


Pomona Master Hokan Lundin said:
Another leaf in the history of the
Grange of Baraga County has just been
turned.
While we have not made or accom-
plished all that we would want, still
there are some features of last years
work which is bound to have its effect
uson the improvement of our farming
operations, rs well as the development
of the farming industry and country
life in Baraga county.
OUR COUNTY FAIR.
The potato, corn and clover contest
carried out under the auspices of Sew
ari Pomona has done all that we ex-
pected of it. We distributed sixty
bushels of Sir Walter Raleigh potatoes
so if the product from those have all
been properly saved and stored for seed
purposes, Baraga county should have a
considerable acreage of that standard
of potatoes and so get in line with the
move that is going on in many counties
in Michigan as well as northern Wis
consin and Minnesota-a move for a
standard and uniform grade of pota-
toes, for which there is a great de-
mand, only it needs some organized
body to carry out the marketing prob
lem.
The quototion today is: Is Baraga
county going to be at the front or in
the rear? Are we going to grasp the
opportunity that nature has so richly
endowed US with when il comes to sup
plying the growing demand of that
great staple food. Are we ready to
appreciate the fact that while in the
corn belt corn is king of crops, and in
California leading with its citrus fruit,
80 is Baraga county situated in that
stretch Of territory comprising the Up
per Peninsula, Northern Wisconsin and
Northern Minnesota, which is destined
to be as famous for its potatoes as
parts of the State of Maine are today.
There is no doubt but what it will be
the most important field crop for our
farmers.
While some of our neighboring coun-
ties have their county agriculturist as
leaders for organized effort toward
standardizing the potato crop and solv-
ing the market problem, shall we sit
down idle or shall we take hold of one
of the greatest moves toward the bet.
terment of the farming industry in
Baraga county, Let us do it with a
vim and push that will shsw ress..-:.
No friend of the farmer or Of the
farming industry will oppose it. No
friend of prosperous future for the
farmer will have any objection to offer.
No citizen of Baraga county who takes
pride in seeing US at the front, who
takes pride in seeing our county placed
among those who are alive and able to
see the opportunities that are here,
would oppose move that would do the
work some of our county agriculturists
are doing for raising the standard of
our potato crop. So victory for the
cause should be easy.
COUNTRY LIFE.
There is no question which is OF
greater Importance to the farmer Of
today and the future than the social
part of country life or the life on the
farm. 1t has such far-reaching effect
upou the development of our farms and
our farmers and, most of all, the grow
ing-up generation. What we need is
some sort of leadership among the
younger generation.
1t is not my desire, even il had the
authority, to outline any policy for the
Grange to act upon, but just let me
submit few thoughts for your consid-
GRAFTON at your Oranges.
believe we should have an elective
course of agriculture at our high
schools in Baraga county which would
give the student as many points of
credit as some other subjects that are
Of less practical value to the student
who, after finishing the high school
course, goes out to teach in our coun-
try schools. Consequently. we would
be more apt to get the class Of teach
ers who are in sympathy with country
life. 1t would be their life work, so to
say, specializing just for that purpose,
making the teacher great factor in
our social life on the farm.
These and many other questions In
connection we should take up in ear
nest during the lecture hour Of our
Oranges.
POMONA FINANCES.
A full report Of the financial standing
Of Seward Pomona will be given by eur