The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-03-21

balance in favor of the cow of $6.!c,
with wheat yielding 10 bushels to the
acre and worth 20 cents per bushel.
Would rather have the produce OF 70
COWS than 100 acres of wheat, for there
would still be balance of $l30 in favor
of the COWS, and that without extra
care. / have never adopt
ed the plan of selecting good mixers,
but believe u good cow is worth keep
imp until she is twelve years old.
would recommend selling off poor cows
even at low prices, for it is more profit
able than to keep them. Some have
told us to 90 into stock at once, but this
means capital. If they can tell the
young farmer how to do this the pro-
blem is solved. Young farmers have
to depend on wheat to pay for their
farms, and cannot go into stock raising
without cash. Now, how do they get
their start i'm stock without clpda,Y,
This is practical question, and ! VII
answer in practical way: a friend
saws, he started from Illino'' Nebras-
ka with new wife, good /, A.. some
stock, and had his farm payed for and
house built. He put in his crops and
they promised well, but in the fall when
he balanced accounts he vas $3.50 i'll
debt. He had two cows AID purchased
another, borrowed mop.y at 90 per
cent. and bought some 'es. He went
OH this way for few years, and sold
out for SIS 800 and had 30 head of cattle
left. know one of thu most success
full farmers in Mapleton township com
menced with one cow, and is now rich.
What one man has DOR; others can do.
Don't be discouraged. Here MIR. Nc
Broom gave some figur.s, showing the
increase from two cows, and showed
that in ten years man v, uld have 200
head of cattle.
Questions.-Jos. sprag'is-Did that
prosperous farmer fence?,.
Mr.. McBroom-Yes.
Mr.. Brown announced other dis
patch, which read as fOllc@s:
GERMANY, MARC. { 15, 1884.
To Der Convention:
Keep q leettle longer der A)nvention
open, by chimney pOys sh,.~- SO quick
as my old woman gets done mime pritch-
es, shust so quick l koomed -'ght a way.
Mine worst wish is that y may ski
ven-sko-ven der bricksta|
Bismark, my old boy. LseKing for
you every minute. Have reserved a
seat for you next John c. Mise, ON
fuzzy side of q plank. Never mind
your breeches, come on without them,
not needed in this mild climate. Please
to send us over q few Gernians-we are
most out. c. q. SPAuLDING,
President of the Convention.
Shouts and roars of laughter.
Mn. /. w. Vance took the platform
next and gave a Jew "Randnm
Thoughts" Mr.. V. said that in null
titude of counsellors there is much wis
dom, and that it required cold men for
counsel and young men for war;" but
he thought the old men were counsel
ling wrongly. Our latitude requires II
variety of products and he believes in
cattle, hogs, wheat, oats, chickens:
turkeys, calves and geese, but would
advise young farmers to keep out OF
flax. 1t is just as easy to go to extremes
in cows and hogs, as in wheat or any
thing else. 1t takes a good tinancler to
make the balance count in our favor.
/ admit that we can make dairy farm
ing pay, 80 can wheat be made profit
able, but we must not produce more
than can be consumed. / think that il
we start cheese factories, We cannot
raise calves. With creameries we can,
but this can be oyerdone. Keep as
much stock as you can keep well. The
sheltered side of barbed wire fence is
a poor substitute for comfortable sta
BILE, and the storms will make you diff
ficulty in caring for stock. l aim to
have my cows drop the calves in Dec
ember, then in the spring the calves
are able to take care of themselves.
Mr.. Vance made many good points, but
ss we shall print the substance of the
original paper, we desire to abridge our
report here. He closed by saying that
his town, Danville, ranked first in the
county in the number of sheep and
babies. The former were very profit
able, the latter he knew nothing about.
Questions-Mr. Stowe-WOn't itpay
to mix flax with other feed?
Mr.. Vance, would rather let others
raise it and buy it.
Mr.. Doby-Is 1T not better to have
calves dropped earlier than December?
Mr.. Vance, do not favor an earlier
season, because cows might run dry be-
fore spring.
Mr.. ADMINISTRATION much ola dairy
do you run?
Mr.. McKinstry-Can you keep. the
COWS from going into the milk pail on
the feed you have estimated?
Mr.. Vance-Yes.
Father Conrad was next called upon
and made very practical and humor
informed by Mr.. Spauloing that there
were 20 names on the programme, but
when got here l found that there
were only 10 on and l was not on at all.
Well, was somewhat like the peacock
when he looked at his feet, my feathers
drooped some. Now the first thing l
shall say, is, to tell everybody not to
believe anybody, because we hear such
outrageous things. Mr.. Randall told
us in debate short time ago that if all
the people that had been killed in war
were buried at once, it would require
% feet deep on the whole surface of
the earth to hold their bodies.
We all know that every hui
man being in the world at present
could stand in Blue Earth county at the
same time. But l know Mr.. Randall
believed it, for he don't tell anything
that he don't believe. You have been
told to-day, that you can do what every
other man has done. Now / tell you
young men you cant do what others. do.
Some say that the Presidency is within
the reach of every young man, when we
have 5000, 900 people and only one of
them can be President. Some men
have got rich raising stock, but all they
made, we lost. If we all go into it we
cannot get rich. I've MIXED cows and
made butter longer than any OF you.
Have gone in debt and got out Of it
.yAin. When i left home down In
Missouri to get an education l rode
horse 100 miles, and when l got there
/ had no shoes, no money and no feed
for my horse. Now, what was to do,
20 without shoes, and let my horse
starve or 60 in debt? l went in debt
and got some shoes and few shocks OF
corn for my horse. The first year ]
rented a cow of the Prof and made
butter and kept boarders at IS cents
week. After awhile l found was get
ting too rich and cut the price down to
80 cents a week. I paid all the debts l
ever got into there, and / think it is
Necessary to 90 into debt some. All
kinds of stock has been mentioned here
to-day, but l believe that long feed
makes long horns and short feed makes
short horns. No farm is success
without woman on it, and baby too.
That is where Mr.. Vance missed it.
You want woman that can milk cows
too. These bargains before marrige,
that you won't do this and won't have
to do that, I don't believe in. You
want woman that will put her should
er to the wheel and help move the
thing along. We have been told that we
can 20 into the dairy business without
capital, but knew man several years
400 near Tiyoli. who bought 70 COWS
time he sold all his cows off for $13
piece and lost all he had. He started
without capital and came out without
capital. Ihave raised wheat longer
than any of you, too. sold seed wheat
to Mr.. Dolby 25 years ago, and he has not