The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-16
ROUNDUP TO BRING
MANY F AR.MERS
Plans Arranged Will Make Next Sat-
urday's Institute One Of Most Sue
cessful Ever Held in Bemidji.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS COMING
Beltrami County Fast Forging to
Front as Potato Producing Com
munity-To Treble Acreage.

EICut DIS 1OIACO xIOuuC10S C0m.
munity-To Treble Acreage.
Next Saturday brings the first
farmers institute or roundup of
the year and arrangements are be-.
ing made to accommodate the largest
gathering ever assembled here for
previous affairs of the kind. Buzz.
ford M. Gle, high. school agricultur-
ist, under whose management the
institute will be given, has practic-
ally completed plans for the occasion
and promises program which will be
enjoyed and benefit to every farm
er and all others who are fortunate
enough to be present.
Forbes to Talk.
Among the speakers will be men of
prominence in their respective occu-
pations and much interest has al.
ready been aroused by the announce
ment that DR.. Charles A. Forbes,
member of the State Highway COM
mission, will talk Others on the
program will be DR.. Francis jaeger
and Mary Bull. A. P. Richie, pres
ident of the Better Farming club,
will talk, and Miss Edna Hill, prin-,
cipal of the Normal department IN
the Bemidji schools, and Miss Mar
garet Newton, music supervisor, are
also to take part.
Will Close Visit Series.
The roundup will close the
series of visits which have been made
by members of the Bemidji high
school faculty to the various farm
ing communities of the county.
Beltrami Potatoes Lead.
At the state fair during the past
two years Beltrami county potatoes
have won many prizes and the record
established has caused this section
to become recognized as one of the
worlds leading spud-producing oom-s
In speaking Of the won-A
derful record made by Minnesota this
year, the potato crop exceeding that
Of 1913 by about 1000, 900 bushels,
the acreage increasing about SO, e1osE
acres, Fred Sherman, immigration.
commissioner, said:
Value Not So Great.
"The value of last years po-
tato crop was $22,183,291.
or $7,103,665 more than this year.
While the production was greater
this year the reduction in total value
is accounted for by the prevailing
price as potatoes are worth about
20 cents bushel less this year than
last.
minnesota is fast becoming
leading potato state, and I predict
that her acreage will continue to in
crease every year for the reason that
almost our entire crop of potatoes is
grown in the northern section of
the state, which is just being devel-
oped. r o..
Western Counties Grow Potatoes.
For many years the counties of
Chisago, Isanti, Anoka, Sherburne
and Mile Laos were the principal po-
tato counties in the state. However,
in recent years many counties in
western Minnesota like Clay, Polk,
Otter Tail and Becker have been
raising a larger acreage of potatoes
every year; and now come the coun-
ties Of Pine, Kanabec, Aitkin, St.
Louis, Cass, 1tasca, Beltrami and va
rious other northern counties with q
increasing acreage every
year.
Northern Development Aids.
II believe that if development of
these northern counties continues as
fast as it has in the past five years
that Minnesota's potato acreage will
be doubled and trebled in 9 few
years. The best qualities and the
largest yields of potatoes are grown
in the cut-over timber coupties of
northern Minnesota.
Potatoes and Dairying.
Farmers who are starting in farm
ing in the northern counties of Min
nesota are turning their attention
almost exclusively to raising pota-
toes and dairying. Potatoes are
sure crop in northern Minnesota, and
while the prices are uncertain there
is always market for potatoes and
the prices as rule are good.