The diamond drill., 1921-01-15
STUMPERS START
OUT FEBRUARY 7
SEEN TO CLEAR $500 ACRES OF
FARM LAND IN IRON COUNTY
TO MAKE THOROUGH CANVASS
Meetings win Be Held In Every
Township And School House
In The County

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The campaign TO stump $500 acres
OF farm land in Iron county will be-
gin on Monday, February Z, 1921.
The plan OF campaign is 10 enroll
every farmer in the county in an as
sociation TO be known as the Iron
County Land Clearing Association" "
The requirement for admission TO
this association is that each member
enrolling therein pledge himself TO
stump four acres OF land on his farm
during the year 1921.
In return for this pledge the county
agricultural department will pledge
its word to furnish dynamite at cost,
assistance in the way OF experts TO
handle explosives and information
as TO methods and OF machinery to
every member wishing any one or all
OF these.
Buttons will be secured and fur
nished 10 the members showing their
membership in this association; lee
lures on stumping methods and other
forms OF instruction will be given
the farmers. the plan being TO work
up just as much enthusiasm as pos
sible over this stumping program.
Meetings VIII Be Held
The membership campaign will
start with a public meeting TO be
held at Iron River in the evening.
Public speakers will be on hand,
music will be supplied and a gener-
al roundup OF the farmers OF Iron
River township will be had that af-
ternoon and evening. On the day
following there will be meetings at
Beechwood. Iron Lake and other
small school houses in the township.
On Tuesday evening there will be
a similar meeting In the village hall
at Stambaugh in which the same
plan OF campaign will be followed
and on Wednesday there will be
meetings in the school houses in the
outlaying sections.
On Wednesday evening the atten-
tion OF those having the campaign in
hand will be turned to Bates town
ship where rousing meeting Will
be held on Wednesday night with
follow up meetings in different parts
OF the township the day following
East Side Campaign Follows
Thursday evening February 10. the
canvassers will be at Crystal Falls
for a general roundup meeting SINH
lar to that held in Iron River. On
Friday the several schools will be Wis
tied and on Friday night the party
will be at the Porter school at Alpha
for session with the farmers OF
that township.
The weeks work will end with a
rousing meeting on Saturday night az
Amasa where the program may be
varied somewhat, depending upon
how things work out.
Monsfeld township will be visit.
cd during the week following and
meeting held az the two school
houses in the township Mansfield IL
rapidly coming to the front as an ag-
ricultural township and II is expect
ed that there will be a lot OF land
cleared In that township the coming
year.
Schools VIII BE Linked Up
In the mean time there will he
plan OF education and publicity car.
ried on throsgh the district schools
OF the county In an effort 20 link NJ
the work with the schools. Ditera.
ture will be distributed telling o. ~
proposed land clearing campaign an6
blanks sent out for the children TO
have filled out by their parents.
The work OF organizing this land /
clearing campaign is under Tie Tor
County Agricultural Commissi ~. AZ
ter the association Is perfected the
association will handle It's own bust
ness through its own officers who /
will be practical farmers interested
in getting their lands cleared az
quickly as possible.
II Is quite probable that some ~
the outlaying communities will not
be reached within the week which Il
Is proposed 10 devote 10 this land
work. Those places viii he
visited later on. In fact IL Is the In
tention OF those having the work In
hand not 10 pass by single farmer ]
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