Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-11-28
The green house is under tn o
of Theodore Sampson.

The dairy man is Marcus Solbe Q
He takes care Of forty-fve head
Holstein cattle of which twenty are
milk COWS. besides "a steers fed for
slaughtering to supply the meat for
the people on the farm. The slaugh'
ter house is 2Ox26 feet.
The past year, two hundred York.
shire hogs have been raised on the
farm.
Fifteen working horses are used on
the farm. There are also two driving
horses and two yearling colts.
The ice house is made of insulated
walls and contains five hundred tons
of ice when filled.
On the place is also an underground
root cellar and very up,to-date
blacksmith shop.
Large underground tunnels made OF
concrete have also been made con.
Meeting the different buildings on the
place. Sewerage and filter tanks are
being erected for the valuation of four
thousand dollars.
The place is we'll supplied with coal
which is expected to last until the
first Of April if no more supply is re-
ceived
The orchard consists of three acres
on which $50 trees are planted.
The silo is 16x44 feet and the puri-
flying tank is 100 feet in height.
The farm consists of five hundred
acres and State Farmer Theodore
Sampson Of Litchfield has had charge
Of it since May, 1913. $40 acres of the
farm are under cultivation and the re-
mainder consists of hay meadow and
pasture. During the past year, no
wheat was sown but one hundred
twenty-one acres of oats we're raised
which yielded $3.50 bushels; one hun
dred eleven acres Of barley yielded
4,O41 bushels; twenty-five acres of po-
tatoes yielded 1900 bushels Sixty
acres of corn and eighteen acres of
millet for hay were planted the past
year: also three acres of beans, ten
acres of garden and the lawns consist
of twenty-seven acres. Sixty bushels
of seed corn was picked on the farm,
which will be used for seed the com
ing year.
The regular employees on the farm
are twenty-four people.
Miss Healey, the matron, has charge
Of the canning department and has
done wonderful work in that line. 1t
is estimated that she has canned
enough goods to save about five hun
dred dollars for the state and no can.
ned goods need be bought for the
coming year whatsoever.
The following is report of what
she has canned: $40 quarts of straw
berries, 765 quarts Of string beans, $50
quarts of tomatoes, % dozen quarts OF
corn, $50 quarts of peas, IS gallons OF
rhubarb, 25 quarts of raspberries, 80
gallons Of dill pickles; 25 gallons c1
sweet pickles; 100 glasses of jelly.
Carl H. Beckstrom has charge of the
1nebriate Department.. He has sixteen
men in this department at the pres
ent, althO none are from this county
Miss Healy has charge of the Wom
ems department. She has five women
in charge at the present time.
There are fiftyseven insane patients
at the present time at this institution
They are all harmless insane. Four
teen are from Rochester and forty
three from st. Peter. There were six
ty patients there at the beginning, one
from Rochester was returned, one es
capped and one patrolled, both from St
Peter. One patient, formerly Of Lake
Elizabeth, is the only one from this
county.
The insane and inebriates have dit
ferent rooms consisting of library
reading, pool and other recreation
rooms. Ten more insane people from
Rochester are expected to arrive soon
DR.. G.. H. Freeman is the superin
tendent of this institution and Hildin{
Lund of Litchfield, the steward.
The writer was entertained for sun
per at the Farm.
State Farmer Theodore Sampson
Miss Healey, Mr.. Pardee, Hildin,
Lund and Carl Beckstrom have tn,
thanks of the writer for assisting hin
in securing this information and 70
hospitality.