The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-02-23

all offers to leave the school where he
has served since 1902. His appoint
ment as dean was made Nov. 6. That
he Is q poet, as we'll as a scholar, q
scientist and popular professor, Is
not as generally known. The follow
ing is his best known poem:
THE WISE FARMER.
There was man in our town
And he was wondrous wise;
He knew that if he wanted crops
He'd have to fertilize.
It's nitrogen that makes things green,
Said this man Of active brain,
And potash makes the good, strong stx9W,
And phosphate pumps the grain.
But it's clearly wrong to waste plant fooA
On a wet and soggy field;
I'll surely have to put In drains
IF I'd increase the yield.
And after have drained the lana
must plow it deep all over,
And even then I'll not succeed
Unless it will grow clover.
Now, acid soils will not produce
A clover sod that's prime,
SO II have a sour soil
TIL have to put on lime.
And after doing all these thingA
To make success more sure,
I'll try my best to keep
From wasting the manure.
So I'll drain and lime and cultivate
With all that that implies,
And when I've done that thoroughly
I'll manure and fertilize.
Jersey Wakefield has been the leader
among early cabbages for more than
fifty years, writes R. L. Watts in the
Country Gentleman. All the early gar
deners praised it, and most of our gar
deners today claim it is superior to all
other early varieties. It is very early,
medium in size, pointed and solid. The
heads are valuable for salad purposes
Charleston Wakefield attains mar
ketable size from few days to week
later than Jersey Wakefield. It is lar
ger in size and requires slightly more
space in the row. If the market does
not demand extreme earliness, the
Charleston type will be found more
profitable than the Jersey Wakefield,
especially if the crop is sold by the
crate or barrel.
Copenhagen Market is a compara-
lively new variety that is attracting
much attention among commercial
growers. It comes a few days later
than Jersey Wakefield, but it possesses
merits that, in the minds of some gar
deners, more than overbalance this dis
advantage. The heads average at least
third larger than Jersey Wakefield
The spread Of the outside leaves is less,
so that closer planting may be prac-
ticed. The heads are roundish instead
Of pointed and they are very solid
when properly matured. They also
carry better in transportation than the
Wakefield types.
A strong point in favor Of Copen-
hagen Market is its uniformity In time
Of heading, which permits the ground
to be cleared of the cabbage early in
the season and another crop started.
A very successful trucker In western
Pennsylvania, who grows about 10000
early cabbages annually, now plants
no other variety.
Early Summer is well known va
r1ety. It npens with Charleston Wake
held or perhaps few days later. The
heads are fat and fairly solid.
Succession, midsummer variety, is
regarded by many as the best bred
in America. It usually runs
uniform In type. The
heads are large and solid at maturity.
Seed sown the list of February should
produce ripe cabbage in any part Of
the north before the list of August.
Whatever the variety selected, the
utmost care should be exercised In buy
ing seed, for there is marked variation
(n the strains Of different varieties.