The Bonneville Dam chronicle., May 16, 1935, Image 2

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IIO W K W I I K !>\M 4 »«IU »\K I K
live
Anybody who wants am 9* a |y w Itb a dr*»«;« • „ •«,
at the center of the l»l»n«l.
• («et»*!*# wav of
have 'em. Y*»u couldn't pay *«e •"
It«- told u« how the Island came
were at « rulli g )>«>
live anywhere «tot. I • »*» « • 'd 1°
to be settled by Its present Inhats
waren I Ih rfr
Hants. "When coal burners came In, the lake I'd ml*» It -*
" If It's rye |nu *«t>t
* *
Hack at the b o M the llu ttlef»
It left some people stranded here.
got It Hut l«a k ~* br •
got
out
their
r
a
r
-fo
u
f
year*
old
My father was one of them
lie
lie turned alsl %( it
«Ith»u t a aerateb-and ran o» down
came
to
this
country
from
the
Old
with
t«>ng stritte* U r
L
o
r
d
B y
R u s s e l l
t'ountry on a willing boat. It took to the boat I rod# up fr«*ot with U e saw th# rye and
him six weeks. He »hipped as a sail ■ Intuir He told m# lb«t all the mm graphs th # p f»»*♦“* «N-* r
They
or on the lake*. In tbe winter he Ma age had left the island
e «no­ work < sre'utly an«| f..ti
llied at Buffalo. He got married | g«» Into the « “ *•« *«•••»'>
thing
I »sed to think that was I le » « p r e s s e d h|ma«-2f
to my mother there.
. and gra'llted at ft># » ,
“ All the big lake boats burned what I'd da But. being »ton# like Mutilera with S'«Wie r
wood then. They would put In here be I a , my father sort of need» me hand cr<•**«■• and at 11.
at this Island f<*r wood or when bere. I did go once, «»n# winter I I o f their r»c*ifi| « • t,, ,
wrut to Chicago and tried to learn
fhere was a big blow. It »a s live-
■Oiueth
ug In an automobile school I in their big Imui row
Her here then. I have seen thirty,
! breeding plat
U e ir
niayt* forty, wood-burner* and But my »tornarli went back «»o me
I fell tie-re kittr ! right.*" said l»r»>rg* l l v
schooner*, all lit up at night, n >wo I couldn t ral
some
tber*
In
the
cttjf Iba* I «Jo I ihm on things began t
by the Rolnt. And we had big lum
I ||e w rWt «H» Î
her camps here then, sawing wood bere.
"Home other* here «ti
”Tbl* seed busto**« has made «
for the boat» to burn.
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nai
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a > » V*-t • .
“ My father thought raayt>e lum
big difference It used to be when
er
law
I«
an
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berlng like this would pay bln» It came fall atul th# work was over
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more than being ■ sailor, lie quit you dido t bave anything to d<> but
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the lake* and made a big enough hunt. But now w ell t>e busy rigid
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space here to build a cabin on
up to Christmas, nearly, picking out » ' - e £ f » » the ' i
seed bra*» In I he slate
1V h #
There where the barn is now I was the perk of seed we show at ‘ "hi
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born there In 1*173.
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“ But then all the boat., began to
“ I l”* a lot of work. We run ten
, t„
burn coal. They didn't come any bushel* of our best over our screen b l» and I r r . -il.g It ;
it t »
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more to our Island. We had to clear and (hen take b r u lé » and go over
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se ‘
r
f>y| ||
more land and farm H so a* to eat
It grain by grain lather pick» M
We cleared those twenty acre*, tbe sise, and I watch tbe color
It * the woods and (Isett have »
|{ cresi» I »
two of us. before he died. I must hard on the eyew T » o or three Op. with fideo
hair been about (xmte'a age them
money
lo
charter
a b>ti vy
hours of it at ■ Um* is ail y«u want
"W e were just going along any But when the cup cornea la. you re s e lf"
way at general farming when Pro
glad you did It. Vow feet like you
Hack at the cottage •» <|
fesaor Cox come» In wtth IhU rye
amount to something.
ti»* rolda of a yacht tatth
It*» been a good thing for u*. We
"I don t know. Me gu< a bette» gun* t » e f the kitchen
got an order for seed the other day business her# now than I guess w* ' frame *»f » sewing fe-a«
from South Africa. We get >m from
could get anywhere else Itut w ere er ote»! displaying
California all the time.
too far off from srb«« i tod like hote-t in the parinr a m s.j
“ Ioule and I are going to Cbl
I that. |f I was ever to get married typewriter, the only M r «
cago and see our rye win tin» 1»*
lie ases If to t i
and. you know have children. I'd land
cember. Tbl# year we are going
llkr for them to be sl>a to get to seed order* and su oc.
even if we have to go over two-
a high school
god I don t belie«# « a regular business g< #.
weeks ahead of time to the train.
Five
years
later
It
was
plain
that
M ARO O N ED
very many other people SI cocoa said hi* father * i l »* y
the Hutzlers and the other island The first year we ah«vwed I weal
cakes* f.ucky you 4M' t < sem i
ken*
; I mean to stay
by myself. The take got kicking. I
OSEN rre Is Michigan's great ers were not only capable of main
A I
“ I tell him**—Louis lowered hi#
had to wait nu.e days over on tbe
crop flnd. The first seed was talning but of breeding and improv
1er
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vole# a Utile and gestured wiih hi» i
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sent over from Russia In ing Rosen. So the crop association mainland before ! could get bark." head backwards toward hl» father ! other fello
takes t*»e * m Tgl
We were making o»r way up tbe
1900 by Joseph A. Rosen, a passed a ruling that all Rosen there­
T ■«* hour* a d*y ’s
dune
sidewise, through thickets — “ maybe we ought to go w«er and ;
Russian who had been taking work after must be no more than two gen
>«
for
housekeeping
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farm
on
th#
mainland
Hut
you
|
under Frank A. Spragg. prou-ssor of erations removed from bead se stunned and windbeaten. Suddenly
: ,« ff I
heard him lie »ay* he couldn't t|*#
me came out upon tbe open summit.
lected Island Rosen rye.
plant breeding at Michigan State.
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"Not the least interesting result "Now. look *** he said. The whole anywhere el»#, And as long as
The seed that be sent Professor
All
them
j
o
e
s
op
i
p
l
he stay* hen, |*11 stay; that part'» ■
Spragg was 2.000 kernels of an un­ of the whole venture.** said the pro­ shining Island with Its white en
If « l i I sennoth cider
sure "
I
circling
beache*.
and
the
eodiew»
Jiv­
fessor
who
told
me
all
this,
“
is
the
known rye raised around Riga. Rus­
We paid our tati and unloaded * * * * * 1* »•<** t —
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sia. The kernels were long plump readiness with which these island­ ing blue of (.ake Michigan, was at
George
Hutzler
came
oui
of
the
cot
*hle
and
easy
to
get
*
ag
sTl
our
feet.
ers—
none
of
them,
I
suppose,
men
and bluish-green in color.
There
pbot'*gra;
*
er
*
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VI
f
Eve«
Said
George
Hutzler:
"1
guess '«hgir. and approached
He was a
were just enough to plant a plat the of much education. have learned the
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sinewy G r fh a i of about ttf
technique of seed farming. So. at there’s plenty other goo«J place* io i
size of a horse blanket
eyes.
Sprag multiplied It for two years. least. I hear. But I have never been,
‘ Prorg# lla t a le r said “ t * i s t i
It proved to fill long beads right myself, to the Island. I should like
and a crochet book
Write our
MANY
USES
FOR
to
go
there
and
see
what
these
is­
backwoodsman
a H this
out to the end. and to have a won­
«-rochet departme&r inclosing ¥• cent«
landers
have
done
with
their
seed
!
up
and
#■-owing
off.
t
1 * u ft
derful short stiff straw. He put
CROCHET SCARF for the complet« (tarlate. No 7“ 7. or
breeding.
And
you.
I
take
It.
would
1 ou fellows come ba<• k sc-tsw t »
out some seed to farmers in 1911.
send 10 rents if you want the It*
I
when
tber«'# hunting s*d «tty •
In the next eight years the seed like to see what seed breeding has
By GJLANDMOTHf* CLAS It
struct ion a.-teet with diagram only.
spread to nearly a million acres in done to tbe islanders. Suppose we
Address Home Grafi Go.—Dwpc R , r t k -
^ / hot
Michigan. It commonly doubled the go.**
— Nineteenth and Kt I>*uls Avenue j
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yield anc quality of native ryes. In
From Lansing, the seat of tbe
St Ix>uis. Mo.
another pitcher of that r*
*
C ' C» M
some counties it replaced wheat as Michigan State University, we drove
When
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Meine
mor#
rakes,
and
riling for any Informât loo ! mm
a regular winter crop. But then something over 250 .nlles north­
lncl<«»e a stamped addressee) envelope * rr-'>eo^* " 9 rt*R
this new variety began to mix bad­ west, straight up across the cut-over
for retdv
•
Their cup st«»od all of tws |
ly, and it couldn't stand mixing. The country, first on concrete, then on
high from base !o brim T h M
moment that foreign pollen intrud­ gravel, then on sand-tracks winding
srrtp!P*n declared tbe h- '-er •• *1
ed, the variety began to lose all its arbitrarily three ways at once
M ore T h a n M ara B e a u ty
winner of awewffStake* |o l * P**l
characteristics; it “ went to piece»" around tree stumps and conquering
F o u n d h i tfc# D ia m o n d
r° * •*» ***•
fast.
armies of sand pine. "This is the
r r Mied at the It.'e-
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In 1917, when the state crop lm heart of the Raul Bunyan country,
aid
tirato
show,
n
i
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o
p
*v1*J
Not nil diamond* ar# amid *»
provement association took bold of said the professor, and recounted
name
I»
on
tl»e
bark**
**?»
jewels.
Fully on# half of tbmm
the situation, its inspectors found legends.
Our scientific photog­
which
are
mined ar# not quite good
~tbr"
only 5 per cent of the Rosen up for rapher. Jolting around In the back­
enough,
but
there
la
a
market
for
***eev"
said
l>»Ule. #’ *iW *
seeds fit to certify. And much of seat amopg his apparatus, grunted
them
Just
the
same,
a
*
the
hardest
*
*G*r*rge
*
|^uj«
||ui*!4 r.
the 95 per cent that didn't pass was somberly.
Not for him was the
stone on earth the diamond is et
Manitou Island, Mich* Tbfe« >**»
being shipped all over the country to charm of the Bunyan saga or the
ceedlngly
useful
for
a
great
many
0,,t
° f th# (*ast five If « *
*
disappoint people.
high arched windswept beauty of
Industrial
|>urt>oaea
again
this
fall
It*«
o-
-+t
The roads grew worse
Joseph Cox was head o. the farm that day.
Ibi you smoke a pjt# of
„
“ If you d»»n*t mind,” *»M
crops department in the college of and worse, and the way was long,
pr«.f.
>»- r. 'a half gl®»» * • ta*
fountain
pen?
The
vulcanite
of
r*e
agriculture at the time. He set out yet It was for some reason one of
pi
I#
stem
or
the
pen
has
to
i»e
p-d
I
tlm#.**
to find some place where It would those days that yon remember long
»«bed. and n.e pun M s to m - qn | "W e don’t
M lf c »**^ •
be possible to grow absolutely pure afterwards with a sense of peace.
Ished
off
with
a
pattern
of
utti«
ih!»
Isi.ind
"
»sld
thè
• ’* f H*1
Rosen, the farms there to act as par­
We
came
that
evening
to
line».
iMariionda
are
used
to
per
I**'
1
«Il
i-m
op
!>•
>
flit
ent farm year after year, to the seed Sleeping Bear point, the third tip
form
the»«
Job«,
opr
farms on the mainland.
of Michigan's lower peninsula, and
'I hey «re also employed In the
Ten miles out In Lake Michigan. ofT camped there for the night A boat
After a »Iti!. I lit *«14 *T- |
making of spectacle« and eyefta**#a, otightn t !« .»»«• wi !..
Sleeping Bear point, he found an Is­ leaves that harbor for South Manl-
t
Here 1» a very practical acarf that und In the manufacture of small en­
land of woodsmen—a self-contained tou island three times a week,
Nand
iiHMtntnln.**
*"Tl-al
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and self-sustaining agricultural so­ weather permitting. Natives of the # easy to make and costs so little, gine parts for motor enra. And the agre*-«! faltter
I |o«l a
ciety, or very nearly so. The par­ point told tis that It sure was an t's made with the large filet arlich. filament wires o f oqr elerirte globe» ( hlcago tip ther* once. li» Ì^|
leys that preceded action were long end of nowhere, this Island we were s very lacy and can he used as s are drnwn through line plat»*« *ef s I( mm | and |«H»ke<| f«*r tweoty ■
decorative cover on many articles In with diamond dust.
and Involved, hut one family, the headed for.
utea Ile rotildn't say a w ’rd."
the home. When using a number f>
But though diamond» are h ard -
Hutzlers, at last announced faith In
Next morning the 30-foot mall steel crochet hook and number 1"
We g«»t lo onr feet » ' 1
far harder than any other atone—
science and took the lead. The next launch Lenor put Into Sleeping
i.; a »:•«( • „■ f
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cotton, the acarf will measure about they are fragile, too. They are In
year—after they had harvested Bear cove, and we crossed to South
tali h ir^ »nt 1 <1 -i «•
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twenty bushels to the acre as com Manitou. Landing, we went to a 2 by 34 Inchea when finished. Buffet dined to be brittle, and the slightest
lidie
away.
V
ie
benché*
■'"0|
t,|
set
and
chair
set
to
match
thin
acarf
fail may Injure them. Another of
pared with nine and eleven bushels life-saving station ma jned by a
were shown a few weeks ago.
£ • '
• ' 1 1 [
their peculiarities |„ jp ,, tn«7 Br#. trilli eer» r '. r
of the native rye— they Invited the dozen coast guardsmen with the
ver.
fb
e
bum »truck d»wn fhr^W
This
package.
No.
7H7,
contalna
phoupbor#ac#nL
After they have
tlx other farmers Into a compact to record of four big wrecks marked
drown anybody who raised any rye up on their boathouse walls. One sufficient cream color Mountain Craft been #xpoa<*d to brilliant light they them «U h s|ilotchea of g
1 * tritìi." . 1 | r,-c I ' 'r ‘I
but Rosen on the island’s seven of the coast guardsmen consented to crochet cotton to complete the acarf. give back th# rays they have rr> 1
also
Instructions,
black
and
white
c e nji | , ,
righi Ufi
la
terms.
drive us hack to the Hutzler place diagram for easy counting of meshes celved and become self luminous In
•iimmrr lime."
(he dork.
WNU Berviee
men of earth
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