The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-05-02
FORMED All CLUB
WITH 8 MEMBERS
LEGION BOYS SPONSOR FOR
NATION OF A All CLUB HERE
MEETING HELD SATURDAY.
EIGHT SIGN UP FOR TURKEY
AND CHICKEN RAISING.

very enthusiastic meeting was held
at the Community Center Saturday
afternoon when the first All Club
for Ely was organized with Verna
Starkman, William Kaninen, Elmo
Ojala, William billiard, Jessie Cherne,
William Haapala. Ivor M. Kent and
Frank ProSSen as members. Others
have since signified their intention Of
joining and it is expected that by to-
morrow the list will be complete and
checked.
All were interested in. turkey raising
and turkeys will be ordered as per
the number desired and the number
each applicant can handle. Applic-
ations are quite exhaustive as to de-
tails and the place; acres of land;
variety Of grain raised; whether feed
is to be bought or raised; whether
there is poultry on the place; size of
poultry house; whether supplied with
brooder; how much money on hand
to pay for chicks or poults; will you
provide feed and properly grow the
birds as per instructions received
through the County Club Agent? The
cost of feed for raising a turkey Is
given at $1.50 per bird and thus menu
berS securing 10 poults would be OBJ
ligated in the amount of $500 for
cost besides the cost of the birds, a
good strain of bronze birds, at one day
old would be about 70 cents each.
All those signing applications, ex-
pressed the desire for assistance In
securing poults and the larger number
stated they had money enough to pay
for their birds and would obligate
themselves to the amount of the cost.
The Legion boys will take note of
those that are not able to pay out
right.
Harold Aase, county club agent was
present and told the gathering what
was being accomplished by the All
organizations in other places and what
might be done here. George w. Kelley,
agricultural editor of the Duluth Eve
ming Herald and News Tribune, said
that the papers are willing to lend all
assistance in the way of publicity for
the organization. o. E. Peahl, rep
resentative of the Purina Feed Com
pany, of which the Ely Finnish Stock
Company of this city is the local sales
agent, also made a talk
Mr.. Peahl spoke in particular of the
situation in the county and cited sew
eral instances of successful chicken
farming. He told of one place where
they had flock of 260 laying hens
and during the months of January
and February, the two worst months
of the year, averaged 200 eggs per day
at a cost of SITS per day for feed and
an actual cost of 10 1-3 cents per dozen
for eggs which were retailed at so
cents per dozen. Another place with
100 birds, 70 eggs gathered per day
during December, cost ii cents per
dozen. Another with $50 birds only
SO eggs were gathered per day during
January and December and sold at
At cents per dozen. The cost of feed
at this place was 10 cents per dozen
ALI of which sounded good.
The turkeys to be raised by the Club
will be raised on the Minnesota Plan.
perfected by Prof. Billings of the State
University Farm. This plan is now In
operation in almost all the states of
the Union and is the "key' in turkey
culture and has taken the chance out
of the game. Chickens and turkeys
cannot be successfully raised on the
same ground. Nice fresh ground upon
which no chickens have been grown
is the secret under the Billings con-
finement plan. Two or three hundred
birds can easily be raised on a quarter
acre of ground provided this quarter
acre is changed for clean one at
least once month. This can be done
by fencing quarter acre with wire
fencing and then have the same taken
down and moved once a month.
The All organization means much
to this section and chicken and tur-
key culture also means a whole lot.
Toby Somero raised $50 turkeys for
market last year under the Minnesota
plan with excellent success and profit.
Waino Melartin also raised large
number