Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-15

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N Flanagan, Good Thunder;
r A Costello, Graceville.
L C Davis, Pennington.
A A Osborn, Earmington.
W T Smith, New York.
Scott jerks, Adams, Mass.
Fred Jennings, Blue Earth City.
+ c Carey, Blue Earth city.
l. D Curtis, Syracuse, NY.
kebbey, Mountain Lake.
P E Murphy, st Paul.
VIM B Straight, Owatonna.
N ] Leayitt, Waseca.
S Leslie, Waseca.
D D McCullan and son, Sibley, Ia.
VIM Warren, Sibley, Ia.
J s Anderson, Minneapolis.
B P Dav4y, Blue Earth City.
s C Ashley, Window.
c B Flagg, La Crosse.
j Sampson, Storm Lake, Iowa.
Geo M Laing, Window.
John Clark, Window.
J + Force, Huron Lake.
A W johnson, Window.
= E Terrence, Worthington.
DR. CHppinger, Worthington.
Geo Hoffman, Yankton, D T.
f Baessen, New Ulm.
H S Upton, Huron Lake.
A Blenlron, Huron Lake.
Frank l. Randall, New Ulm.
Chas L Krumm, Minneapolis.
&C Dennis, Minneapolis.
FIJI Dycknan, Sleepy Eye.
s Gault, St Paul.
H E Hoard, Montevideo.
Harley Smith, Montevidec.
d ' NettletOn, Montevideo.
Il " Purdy, Montevideo.
w A Graves, Yellow Medicine.
c G Spau!ding, Mapleton.
Geo E Case, KassOta.
J S II Homer, Redwood Falls.
VIM Tawby, n Y.
] Bass, Shakopee.
E p Schofeld, Newport.
Loren Cray, Lake Crystal.
DR. Everson, Minneapolis.
OPENED.
The convention was called to order
at 8, a. NJ, by its President, W. D. Hoard,
of Fort Atkinson, Wis; Col. r. P. Nc
Cheney, secretary, in the chair. Mr.. John
G. Noe then introduced Hon. j. B. Wake
field, of Blue Earth City, who, on behalf
of the people of Minnesota and the citizens,
welcomed the association to the state and
city, and in the following appropriate re-
marks rendered them the freedom and
of the city.
SPEECH OF GOV. WAKEFIELD.
Gentlemen of the Northwestern Dairymen's
Associat on: The committee on reception have
deputed to me the honor of rendering you an
earnest and cordial welcome to southwestern
Minnesota.
1 am proud of the opportunity thus afforded
me of rejecting not only the sentiments of the
citizens of Mankato--whOse honOred guests you
will be while you remain with us-but in no less
measure the hospitable wishes of the entire peO-
pie of this favored portion of our common
wealth.
Your visit has long been anticipated by us all
as the date of a new epoch in our agricultural
history and as the fortunate harbinger of better
things for our agricultural people.
Our pursuits in the past, as
you have doubtless been fully advised, have been
mainly in the direction of grain production.
From the earliest inception of our settlement
muscle with zeal deserving of a more fortu-
nate return in the futile endeaVor to
secure competence by the
of wheat. We have ex-
alted that golden cereal above all else, turning
70 it with reverant eyes in our days of darkness
Is the ancient IsraeIite turned to the calf of his
dOlatrous worship.
In defiance of innumerable failures from cll-
nate antagonisms in despite of many and often
repeated lessons that should long ago have taught
Us the wisdom that issues from careful and dill
gent engineering; shutting our eyes to the palpa
Dle and important facts that were daily and
hourly pressing themselves upon our attention,
and demanding investigation, we pushed right
on in the old vicious path, stubbornly and obstl-
nately refusing to be corrected, and continuing
to insist that great natural laws must give place
to our supposed necessities; that the latent but
dominant powers that are the ever present factors
in mans contest with the physical world must
perforce yield to our determined purpose, to our
resoute, insistent will.
The seasons have come and gene, bringing with
their accustomed regularity total or partial
failure of our crops, and yet we were strangely
unwilling to yield gracefully to the unavoidable
and to abandon the old route in which our only
harvest had been discouragement and loss. Ma
ture however, indulgent nature, that never for
sakes her worshiping vOtaries, sought by other
manifestations of her disapproval than that of
climate to divert the hand of labor into channels
that would terminate in success. On the vast
sterile wastes of the Northwest she warmed into
life an infinite brood OF active mission
powerless for evil
but aggregated as they were In
countless legiOns, they become more terrible to
us than an army with banners.
These agents of her providence, obeying the
OF an infexible law whose edicts were
born OF their own natural instincts, when the
proper period OF their Development had been
reached. rose into the air from the fructifying
sands that had been their cradle, and borne on
the swift currents that swept over their native
habitant, with resistless fury filed the earth
with the noise of their wings and darkened the
skv with their unnumbered hosts. When their
home had come they descended
upon our fair fields full of grain
for an unusual harvest and in few days had
swept them as bare as the floor of the thresher.
Gorging themselves with their victorious
spoils, they deposited in the soil they had de-
manded of its verdure the fatal germs of re-
newed vitality, whose mission was to be fulfilled
upon the doomed earth that should warm them
into being.
For five years their history with little varia-
ton repeated itself Reaping whatever es-
capped the storm and the blight they enforced
with unmistakable emphasis those severe but
necessary lessons that had failed to impress US
dnring the long years of our barren effort.
During the last few years there has
been here and there throughout this vast tract of
fertile PRAIRIE prolific OF nutritious grasses and
opulent in crystal lakes and living streams, a
voice as of one crying in the wilderness, saying
to our discouraged and disheartened farmers,
''be of good cheer for the day of our deliver
ance is about to dawn"
De Graft and Hopkins, Thompson, Meyers,
McKinst V, Farmer and Strong and Griggs and
many of like purpose and intelligence have
made haste to illustrate by successful experiment
the great truth that had been vainly seeking
for recognition at the hands of