The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-06-01

total attendance OF these meetings.
was twelve hundred and fifty-four,,
or an, average attendance Of forty,
two. -Four new farmers clubs were
organized during the year, making
q total Of eighteen clubs In our ter
ritory. The special project this year
has been the Standardization Of pro-
ducts: Two clubs have bought reg
istered bulls and are using them on
a cooperative basis. Two Of the
clubs have built telephone lines this
year. Most Of the clubs have tele-
phone connections, as shown by the
fact that. the telephone directory Of
Bemidji has thesnames of.nearly four
hundred farmers in It. 81.
r. gave twenty-five talks i during
the year to rural school children ct
which there was q total attendance
OF four hundred and forty, or an av-
erage attendance of twenty-two. The
school, through the liberality of one
Of our local surgeons, has given thir-
ty pure bred eggs to each of twenty
five children in the rural districts
this spring.
3,A2 Farmers Attend. s.
The total number attending meet
ings of all kinds held the past year
is 3,442. The number of farms to
which personal visit has been made
is u.s. Five hundred first class, five
hundred and ten second class letters
and thirty postal cards have been
written. Assistance was given in
collecting the state fair exhibit and
arranging it at the state fair. Two
days We're spent in Judging. products
products at the county fair.
80 Much for Boys and Girls.
Through cooperation with the
county superintendent of schools, w.
B.. Stewart, great deal has been
done in interesting the boys and girls
of: the county in club work. Last
year we had $3.50 from: the county
fair fund to offer the children as
premiums So successful was the
work last year that we have secured
an increase Of 800 for this years
prizes. There are forty boys en-
rolled in the County and State Acre
yield Corn contest. We have a new
potato contest this year in which we
are %giving five potatoes to each pu-
pill who joins and are offering. liberal
prizes to the: ones who raise the most
potatoes from the five. There are
three hundred and fifty enrolled in
this contest. About three hundred
are enrolled in the Poultry, Bread
and Vegetable contests. Prof. T.. A.
Erickson says that it is the most
liberal one in the state.
The city children are encouraged
in poultry raising by the operation
Of three incubators at the high
school. About eight hundred pure
bred chicks were Matched this spring.
Some of. the pupils who started in
poultry raising last year are keeping
six months record of the eggs laid.
Last: month Alice Dyer and Claire
Vincent, two of the contestants, av-
eraged nearly twenty-four eggs per
hen: Their average for March n was
| -,-*2,: ~ :,.EH 80 49,. =
Early this spring sent out cir
cular letters to the farmers asking
what they. wished to buy or sell in
the stock line: The Weekly Pioneer
has. published each week free 81
charge the replies to these letters:
The results have been very crafty;
ing as it has enabled many farmers
to obtain local grown seed; and rex:
change good animals, and also en-
able those who had such to sell to
dispose of their entire stock. Last
fall arranged, for and shipped
three cooperative carloads Of cattle
to South st. Paul. $3.50. >~