St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-25

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creature, for without her the whole system
of creation would be almost failure.
Other domestic animals, as compared with
her, cut but slight figure. Her product
was upon the tables of the wealthieSt and
she nOurished the poor and lowly.
YOUTH AND OLD AGE
alike fed on her bounty. She did more
than supply fOod-she lifted the mortgages
from the farm and tossed the note, lying in
the bank against the farmer, upon her
crumpled horn, while she clothed his fam
lily and supplied his table with comforts
and luXurieS from the store. But the cow
does still more for us. She recuperates
our wasted farms, wheat-ridden and de-
pleted as they are. In Southern Mime
sofa land had been depleted from So to SIS per
acre by wheat-raising. 1t was easy enough
to show that dairying was the most desirable
kind of farming. First, no lands increase
in value like dairy lands. Experience in
England and America both proved that no
lands were inexhaustible, and dairying and
stock raising returned more to the soil than
anything else. Acre for acre they give a
larger yield in dollars and cents. Then, it
cost less in money and drudgery to run a
dairy than it did wheat farm. Inferior
soil could be used for pasture. Itcosts only
One-twentieth as much for transportation to
market as the wheat or corn product, and
they were easily
TURNED INTO CASH.
Dairy farms were seldom mortgaged and
they did not have to look for 2. foreign war
to give them market. Nor does profit
able dairying depend actively upon the sea-
SONS; and finally dairying works not
only the regeneration Of the soil, but ele-
Yates society. Mixed farming has always
shown the best results. Stock raising and
dairying had been advanced very much in
Minnesota. AS he had often said, we pos
seSSed all the nature elements necessary to
successful Gairying-sOil, rich grasses,
abundant water and suitable climate-all
that was necessary to insure success
was good COWS and good treatment We
have many good COWS, thanks to the num-
ber of breeders, and if our COWS were we'll
fed and kindly treated they would repay us.
A cow was machine, but she required
delicate treatment. If turned out to shiver
in the rude blasts of our rigorous winters
and allowed to get her suStenance from a
straw pile, she would give small amount
of whitish liquid, skinned by the fingers OF
the wind, but that was not milk. What
ever went in at the mouth of the cow came
out at the pail.
DON'T KEEP POOR Mixers.
Fatten aud sell them as fast as possible. He
believed that a eral-purpOse cow was de-
sirable. While all breeds had their good
points the Short Horns, for crossing with
our common stock, were invaluable, and he
thought better than other kinds for that
hoI chnxUD that q GRADE
Short Horn steer in the market would bring
as much as six Texas native ones. Gen.
Baker then touched upon the vile COM
pounds sold as butter, which he said were a
robbery upon the cow, and,if our law, as it
stood at present, was not what it should
be, and was unconstitutional, then the
100, OOO,O sovereign people of Minnesota
ought to amend their constitution so as to
give the cow chance. The success Min
nesota has made in dairying ought to stim-
ulate those engaged in the industry to re-
newed exertions. The speaker was warmly
applauded.
Mr.. j. G. Lombard following with his
speciality, Its, Are ye Sleeping, Maggie" !"
sung in his very best style, after which Mr..
Hoard was called out ana opened his fund
of stories, which always point a moral, and
by special request sang ''Finnegan's
Wake" after which the session closed.
Gov Hubbard was obliged to return to ST.
Paul this evening. The following telegram
was read before Gen. Bakers address, and
was received with cheers:
ST. PAUL, June PR. G. Judson: Mes
sage received. Nothing but imperative ne
cessity prevents my being with you at Moor
head. Please say to the association that this
work has my full and hearty sympathy, and
may the seed planted by them this year re-
suit in a bountiful harvest in the future.
Our Northern farmers have the God-given
heritage of the best soil in the world and it
only needs intelligent work on their part to
insure to themselves the greatest measure of
success. Yours, ]. ]. HILL.