The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-01

fails am always anxious to keep the
COW i'm good condition, and to hold her
flow of milk, and to this end | supple.
ment her feed as l think she requires
il.
Mr.. Gurler stated he was satisfied
that milk should not be stirred while
the cream is rising. Itshould be allow
ed to remain at perfect rest.
The next paper was by Mr.. Hoard,
of Montivicdo, Minnesota, entitled
"Skim Milk Farming" He said: The
most successful farmers of the West are
those who come from the farms of the
East, and the examples they offer
should be taken advantage of by their
less experienced brethren here. They
are the men who do the 'cream" milk
farming. The circumstance of the poor
corn crop of the past year may even yet
be of value to an observing man, if
properly appreciated, just as has been
the ease with wheat, the expense and
uncertainty of raising and marketing,
which, in many localities at least, has
almost made il thing of the past. Our
products should be condensed in order
that Il greater value may be transported
at Il small cost The cost of transporta-
ton of butter from Southwestern Min
ncSota Ia Chicago, does not exceed two
per cent. while the wheat farmer paws
- To - per cent. for his transportation.
One third of the COWS in this country
are MIXED ut Il loss; another third with
out profit: and from the remaining one
third only are all the profits of dairying
derived. The average farmer must paw
more attention to details, whether re-
latin" 10 live stock or to crops. Shelter
his machinery, select carefully his seed,
and properly prepare his ground.
Mr.. {. +. Dexter of Chicago read his
paper on Organization for the Pro-
motion of Special Interests. After re-
ferring to the condition of primitive
man and his gradual struggle to high
or plane of existence, he showed how
individual interests began to arise. The
common veal of individual welfare as
promoted in direct proportion to the
free Interchange of the results of
thought and achievement among ma
tions and individuals of different pow
ers or working under different condi-
tons. We occasionally hear u man say
that his knowledge is part of his prop
crty, his experience, his working capt.
tai, and he cannot afford to give it to
the public, although perhaps the results
of his experimental work may not as
sumo patentable form. At the Ex-
position of Railway Appliances in Chi
cage there were multitude of applian-
ccs exhibited by men who cherish the
delusion that with no practical knowl-
edge of the tasks which they tried to
accomplish by some phenomenal brain
power or genius peculiar to themselves,
they could solve the problems and rem
edy the defects which had batfied the
efforts and detied the experience of
practical men for 80 years. That ex-
hibition opened the blind eyes of men,
and taught them that self-reliancc is not |
less effective when tempered by humil- !
ity and Il knowledge of the experience !
Of others. The association of men on |
terms of entire equality is the best pos
sible educational institution; they
operate rs a mental stimulant, bring
men together on terms of equality and
good fellowship, enlarge their sympa-
thies, and induce them to forget for
a time that their neighbor is sick
and they are not. or vice versa. The
social advantages and profitable slim
ulant arising from these Conventions
must not be- ignored. Men are apt
TO ask Is there any money in it?" The
securing of Il competency is a l.. :''h!"
but frequently costs more
han it is worth. OF what use is wealth
4 the owner represses his social in
'tincts, narrows his sympathies and
ives only for money producing enter
prises? Many man is a phenomenal
success as an acquisitive being, and a
failure as man. Any in
therefore, which brings
men together in large or small bodies,
or the promotion of proper objects,
axe them out of their little circle of
'eltish action, cultivates the spirit of
brotherhood and enlarges the man
Ioin the associations, therefore, and
'ome out to the conventions: the cost
will surely be repaid in the end.