Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-01-27
AGRICUI IURAL NOTES
By Q. Neraal,

BY o.
Oslo held a farmers institute on
Saturday, last week. A great deal of
interest was shown in the growing Of
corn and alfalfa and how to organize
a cooperative shippers association.
Oslo is very much in need Of a farm
ers' club and [ trust that in the very
near future you will have one. Shall
be glad to help you organize a farm
ers club and farmers cooperative
shippers association. The one organ
lied here at Warren last year, known
as the Warren Farmers Cooperative
Shippers Association, has been hav-
ing splendid success and like organic
2tions in other parts of the state are
reporting advances and a great i'm
provement over the old-fashioned,
WORKOUT system Of having a host Of
cattle buyers trying to CLEAN living
from the buying and shipping Of
stock from a community where one
man can do the work and with much
more satisfaction to all concerned.
So I can not urge this advance too
strongly and I am very anxious to see
our farmers take advantage of the
cooperative way Of doing business.
I am also looking for an organization
of this kind to soon spring up in AL
varado.
Remember the meeting for this
coming Saturday, January 80. A. R.
Knutson, county agent Of Polk coun-
ty, has promised to be with US that
day and I know that he has some
thing good in store for you and that
it will be worth your while. Every
farmer interested in live stock should
be there at that meeting. Meet in the
high school building, Warren, Mimi,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. We
should be represented at Crookston,
February Is, 1915, at the live stock
improvement meeting and we can
best do SO by being organized. Let
us be up and doing. Come and boost.
How much is a silo worth to a far
nler having live stock? Those who
have silos estimate it to be equal in
value to forty acres of land. Are they
right? I am of the opinion that they
are.
A litter Of pigs from some of our
standard breeds like the Duroc, York
shire, 0. I. c., and Chester White, if
taken good care Of during the spring
and summer months, will net you $40
after paying all the expenses. What
is the initial cost? It is between $40
and $50. Compare this with the in
vestnent in one acre of land and the
crop that you receive from it. If YOU
doubt my figures, let me know and |
shall be glad to refer you to farmers
who can give you all of the details.
". H. Grange, a farmer four miles
east of Warren, made $67 net from
litter of Duroc pigs last year and
there are many others in this neigh
borhood, if accounts were kept, that
could show equal gains.
Shipping tags will be sent to all of
the boys in the One Acre Corn Club
that sent in their ten ears to the
county fair last year, so that they
may send another ten ears, grown on
their acre, to the Farm Crops Show,
Crookston. The prizes offered are
very good. The first prize is free
fare to the state fair next year and
there are many other prizes worth
while competing for. You can send
your ten ears to T. A. Erickson, Agri-
cultural school, Crookston, or you can
send it to O. Neraal, Warren, MINI.
By having this tag, that will be sent
to you, attached to your package, it
will cost you nothing for postage. Be
sure to do this now. I would advise
you to send it as soon as you receive
the tags.