Daily globe., 1882-09-30
THE REDWOOD FAIR.
A Fine Exhibition and Valuable Address
by Col. II. p. McGIincy.

A Fine Exhibition and Valuable Address
by Col. r.. p. McGlincy.
Special Telegram to the Globe
REDWOOD FALLS, Sept. 81. The ninth
annual fair of the Redwood Agricultural
society was held here to-day.
The weather was all that could be de-
sired, and the farmers attended in great
| numbers. The show of stock was unusual
ly fine, and convinced the strangers pres
ent that Redwood county would soon take
the lead in this direction. There was quite
| large display of vegetables, grain and
fancy articles, and the officers of the
| society feel highly encouraged at their sue
| cess. The dairy farmers were on hand
with their butter, some of which was pro-
nounced of excellent quality. Mr.. King
of this county, took the second premium
| at the state fair, for butter, and of course
feels quite elated at his success against so
many competitors. There are strsng prob
| abilities that Redwood county will make
| strong effort to secure a creamery and
| manufacture butter on large scale.
COL. M'GLINCy's ADDRESS.
The most interesting feature of the fair
| was the address deli4tred by Col. R. P.
MeGlincy, of Elgin, ILL.,, who spoke more
especially on Minnesota as dairy and
stock state. The colonel has spent some
| six weeks in the state travelling over the
southern and southwestern portions of the
same, with a view of giving information
| to our citizens as to what might be done
in the dairy business. The farmers of
Redwood are very much interested in this
industry, and were greatly enlightened by
COL McGlincy, who apparently travels
with his eyes open. He referred to the
climate, soil, water, excellent crops, and
ability of the land to sustain stock, and
citing as an example of what might be
done, the efforts of Charles A. DeGraff of
GAINESVILLE, and n P Clark, of ST. Cloud
Mr.. McGlincy gave facts and figures in
| abundance to show that it would
be quite easy for the farmers
| of Redwood to engage in the business, and
he assured them that it was decidedly
| more profitable than grain raising besides
it was bettering the condition of the land
all the time, while such was not the case
with grain farming. He gave them a
number of instances, notably about Roches-
ter, where dairymen were clearing $50 per
year per head on their COWS, with no fear
of failure. as is the case with grain farm
ing. Even in Big Stone county he met
dairymen who we're clearing from $50 to
| $40 per COW. He thoroughly enthused the
farmers of this county, and the creamery
business here will in year be the leading
industry with them, and, in a comparative
ly short time, the colonel thinks, this por-
| tion of the state will surpass eastern Iowa
in this business, as it has more natural ad-
vantages than that state.
Col McGlincy has done good work in
the state the present summer and fall, and
the GLOBE believes that it would pay the
farmers of southwestern Minnesota to hold
farmers institutes and have Mr.. McGlincy
attend them and instruct the people in this
new mode .of farming. He can be ad-
dressed at Elgin, Ill., and no doubt can be
engaged either to attend such institutes or
| county fairs, as the farmers may desire.
His remarks were listened to with the
greatest attention, and at the close he was
closely questioned as to the business, and
answered all interrogatories satisfactorily.
our Population.
The study of the drifts of population
IN our country is an interesting one.
Nhe center of population is moving
westward at the rate of about fifty miles
every ten years. In the census of 1870
1t was little east of Cincinnati. The
census OF 1880 shows it in Kentucky.
about eight miles southwest of Cincin-
natl. 1t has moved on nearly the same
parallel. In the next decade it will
| probably move slightly north, for as the
barrier of the Great Lakes is lassed an
immense territory opens to the north
west III which population is pressing as
a tremendous rate. Should the present
rate OF immigration continue, the center
OF population will cross the Mississippi
river about the mouth Of the Missouri,
In sixty or seventy years. It is thought
by some statisticians that it will never
reach the great river because there are
not adapted for the support of large
population. This is true, but it is to be
remembered that the sterility of the
Rocky mountain region is balanced by
the greater number of parallels that are
included in our western domain. At
Denver, indeed, we reach mountains that
break away indefinitely toward the west.
But even these mountains, with the val
leys between, may yet sustain large
population: while both north and south
the mountains open into fertile valleys
and plains that reach almost without in
terruption to the Pacific. The travel of
emigration henceforth, parting in what
are now the Middle States, will divide
and move in two columns, the one north
west and the other southwest, and each
of these can march on until they reach
the ocean. To the northern division the
great Northwest will open prairies and
valleys of great fertility along the Red
river, the Yellowstone and the Colum-
bia, even to Puget Sound, with climate
for the most part temperate and fruitful.
To the southern division of this army of
occupation the Southwest will open al
most boundless plains to the gulf, and
across the lower spurs of our mountain
ranges to the marvellous climate and
productive soil of Southern California