The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-09
Northern Minnesota Development Association l .e4Ts1
Opens Sixth Annual Session In Bemidji; Biz
Fight Starts For Adoption OF Amendment No

bushels; rutabagas, 28.4 tons pei
acre, and timothy and clover hay 2.t
tons per acre in one cutting. Oul
dairy herd of fifty head produced
during the grazing season from one
hundred fifteen acres of stump land
pasture gross income of ovel
$2,500 from milk and butter alone
Our stump land pastures when prop
erly prepared are wonderfully pro
ductive and comparatively inexpen
sive.
Dairy Cow Important.
The Importance Of the dairy COW
In the agricultural development Of
Northern Minnesota cannot be over.
estimated. Our people little realize
her value, judging from conditions
that obtain. In St. Louis county
there is but one dairy COW for each
square mile of land area. Cook has
only three COWS for each township
Koochiching five for each township;
Lake ten. In Itasca we have less
than one cow for each section of land
This is also true of Beltrami. Is II
possible that we can afford to lei
these conditions continue to prevail
when we know that down in Mile
Lacs county the dairy cows in one
community brings in direct from
Wall Street in butterfat alone
through a single creamery 500 "a
day year out and year in. There
are possibilities for hundreds Of such
communities in Northern Minnesota
and it is high time that we arouse
ourselves by instituting strenuous
campaign in that direction. Brush
up our idle lands, provide ways and
means for the settler to get where
withal to open up his land and start
his herd.
Submit Resolutions.
+ In view of these conditions, the
committee on agriculture has sub.
mitted the following resolutions fol
your consideration and appruvsf::
IS II. Z: Resolved. that this tion 70
affirm the resolution passed at the
last meeting of the association rela.
tive to the manufacture of dynamite
by the state, the same as the state
does now manufacture binder twine
for the grain growers on their prairie
farms. This association, however
does not favor: the use of convict "a.
Dor for the manufacture of dyna.
mite, except such part of the manu-.
facture as is not hazardous to human
life. That part to be done by expert
hired labor. "
: 2. Resolved, that this associa.
tion recommends that law be pass
ed which provides that: taxes OF
lands shall not be increased by virtue
of land being put under cultivation
until at least twenty-five per cent
of each part or parcel of land, not tt
exceed forty acres, shall have beer
put under cultivation. This demant
we hold to be just for the following
reasons: ~
/. The clearing Of land by set
tier increases the value of adjoining
land owned by the state and by non
resident freeholders. .-.>- .. ...->.
9. Places Fine. l. 49, .-#
2. To increase the tax on account
of such improvements is virtually {
fine placed upon industry. .s.
3. The state legislature of 19i:
has already established precedent l,
passing a law pertaining to tret
planting in the prairie sections
whereby the state is to pay a bounty
of $3.50 per acre for six successive
years to any person who shall plant
one or more acres of forest trees o1
any kind other than black locust
when such paintings are properly
cared for. South Dakota provides {
county bounty for tree planting
Nebraska provides both in her con
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