The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-29

Little Fork, Minnesota.-The
Clover Belt of Northern Minneso-
ia may not be the answer to the
wage slaves prayer but unless the
inhabitants of Edward Backus's
barony are stricken with mass
softening of the idea boxes or are
under the influence of some drug |
more potent than what made |
Omar Khayham the ideal OF the
amorous, down thru the misty cor
ridors of time, Koochining county
in the aforesaid bailiwick of Uncle
Ed. comes as near being Utopia
as any spot ever rhymed of by
poets and land agents outside OF
the Golden Glades of Florida.
Your correspondent seeking sur
cease from the burden and the
heat of the summer found himself
nv accident in Thief Rivera town
that took its name from light-fln-
eered and heavy-jowled gentry
who made their fortunes when a
strong arm and a chlorOfOrmed
conscience were more potent aids
to wealth than the knowledge &C
uuired in the class room of the
Goostep University. Today these
gentlemen are old and Rotariar
and their sons and daughters are
respectable fathers and mother:
and no questions asked or answer
ed. There is no form of life less
exhilarating than the reformed
criminal so your scribe left The.
River to its fate in search of thos'
hardy pioneers who are alleged t.
inhabit the Businesses and swamp
of the Rainey Lake district.
No Poet Is He
| never waste words on tn
beauties of nature. They are ev
erywhere. Neither will / recoun
my curses forcefully directed a
the innumerable insects that trie
vainly to impede the progress G
my speed boat and inject then
selves into the unprotected part
of my anatomy. AS you may su:
pect have something to say abou
clover-alsike clover, tariff eigl
cents a pound and flourishing onl
in northern Minnesota and a fe
other choice spots in the U. S. !
far enough from Little Fork fl
comfort and serious competition.
A few miles north'of Little Fol
/ bumped into a colony of alsil
growers, several of whom forme
ly lived in Sheridan county, amor
them Dan Olson, Bert TortensO
former county officials, and Art
ur Rueber, a former secretary
the Northeastern Montana Ban
ers Association. Arthur (Outlo
papers please copy) seems to ha
a penchant for non-political off
and, running true to form we fl
him secretary of the Alsike Glow
Growers Association of NOrthea:
ern Minnesota and held in hi
esteem by the producers thereof
Fed Him on Wild Berries
After showing US over his Gle
er fields wooded dells, streal
Astounding with sucker and pick
ell and woods Astounding with do
(and l might add treating US
the produce of his farm and
succulent berries of the und
brush), Mr.. Rueber spoke as
lows in his capacity of secret
of the Alsike Glover Growers :
ISOLATION of Northeastern Min
sofa
''The centre of production OF
sike clover, formerly Ohio and
diana is now Little Fork, the s
ond largest producing area
Minnesota. The soils in n
York, Ohio and Indiana where
sike clover has been produced
one hundred years having becc
depleted the producing area mo
westward and northward, to '
consin and Minnesota with the
ter state producing between I
fourth and one-fifth of the
for the United States.
'The average annual consu
ton of alsike clover seed in
United States is between tive
six and twenty-seven mi
pounds; the average annual
duction between nineteen
twenty millions. Importation
ing the past ten years varied
proximately four millions to ell
million pounds with an averag
between six and seven mill
Thru the activities of the "a