The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-09-05
Beltrami Exhibit Good.

Beltrami Exhibit Good.
~ In the Northern Minnesota group,
sBeltrami and Crow Wing county
show up very we'll. Morrison also
has an interesting exhibit. Nicollet
,county's exhibit from Southern Min
nesota is full of interesting and edu-
5cational features.
Standing alone among counties is
the claim of Beltrami that it's potato
crop was not damaged by the hot
summer. Throughout the rest of the
state there is general complaint
that hot weather caused the plants to
go to top, and that the marketable
tuber showed up missing when the
spuds were dug.
But these energetic boosters for
Beltrami county-B. M. Gile, agrl-
culturist. and Harry Winters, of the
, firm of Reynolds & Winte ter-claim
Beltrami spuds will run 400 bushels
to the acre. George Miller of this
county has 35 acres that will run 25O
bushels to the acre, at least. But
that's not all Beltrami county pro-
duces. The production of alfalfa in
the county has increased 800 per cent
this year alone, Mr.. Gile says.
Mangel Exhibit.
"Now look at this exhibit OF man
gel,' said Gile enthusiastically.
. Mangel, be it known, is not connected
with the laundry business. It's a
product that looks like beet and
cattle take to it like kiddy to
circus He showed an exhibit of
mangel by August JarchoW. "NoW,
can you beat proposition like this
a county where land is purchased for
$50 an acre, and where man can
raise cattle and all their food, too?'
The correspondent admitted he could
not, and moved on.
Schools Get Attention.
Those schools in Koochiching coun-
ty are gaining a lot of merited pub
licity this week. There is an exhibit
from the rural and consolidated
schools, under the direction of George
Cochran of Little Fork. The schools
there are taking the consolidation
strong, he says, and it is working.
Cochran pointed with pride to his
exhibit, which showed nine first
prizes. Essays on cattle got first
and a second prize, while poultry
essays did as we'll. The county cop
ped off one first on a flour essay
and away up in a country more ia
nous for numbering. There were
three first prizes for sewing exhibits.
John Berg, International Falls,
and Joe Allard, Big Falls, were in
. charge of Koochiching county's ag-
Fricultural exhibit. Grasses, grains
and fruit showed that this county can
make itself famous for more things
l. f1o
state and producing the most print
paper in the state with all it's present
high prices.
Hospitality Strong.
Hospitality was the thing That
stood out strong in the NicOllet coun-
ty exhibit-but that was by far not
all that Henry Robel had to show.
Robel is one of the best boosters in
the state-for Nicollet county-but
he is truthfully conservative about
it. He has been in charge of the ex-
hibit of this county for many years.
He admits Mankato to be a regular
town, but recalls with pride that
North Mankato has the neutral ad-
vantage of being in his county.
Corn down in Nicollet county is
running about sixty bushels to the
acre, he says. Potatoes are of excel
lent quality but not as plentiful as
last year. Grains are doing we'll, but
apples is where Nicollet county scores
a touchdown. The ''wealthy'' apple,
he says, is being raised in the ma
:jority down there. These apples, ne
claims, are very we'll adapted to the
county. ~---'-
Building Material.
Building material forms a large
part Of the exhibit of this county,
which is in the heart of the district
that furnishes "a per cent of the
building material of the state, ex-
elusive of wood Sands and stone
from this productive section are
shown, Notable is the sand in an
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