The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-09-19

good-in his barn-for use this fall
and winter.
Irvine and Economy.
MANKATo, Mimi, August Is, 1890.
EDITOR REGIsTER:-I see your pa
per mentions the advice give in
asking the state to offer five cents a
pound for binding Irvine that was IN
use this summer among the farmers.
The band cutter can save nearly
every string of Irvine. 1t is not a
novel idea. This is economy, and is
not matter of idle thought.
We use $2,OOO,OOO worth OF Irvine
in this state every year. Ii we can
save $500, OOOin one year twill save
100000 the next year in price. The
sellers of Irvine will claim that this is
an old lie. The state should encOur-
age the farmers to save this Irvine
and see that the legislature appro-
PIRATES enough to manufacture bind
ing Irvine out of our fax and hemp.
1t is practicable to produce Irvine in
this state. A gentleman at Heron
Lake has several hundred acres OF
Hemp growing to make Irvine for the
farmers. Our statesmen and editors
of public papers do not advocate
economy for the producers, but en-
courage protection for manufacture
ers. We must educate ourselves and
practice economy. Our teachers in
our schools fail to teach us economy.
l will say have been trained wrong
ly. An extravaganza table has nearly
destroyed the home Of farmers where
continued in. They save boxes and
waste iron, oil barrels, bones and
many other small items OF economy.
My dear sir, we, as producers, must
demand a reduction in the expenses
of our government, national and
state. l cannot but believe that
your sympathy is on our side. Think
of congress taking the tariff off o.
raw material and increasing the tar
if on the manufactured article. This
is aiding the Irvine trust. 1t is neg
Letting the farmers interests and pro-
tecting those of the rich. There must
be halt in this direction. There is a
cause for the alliance to defend, and
it is a misfortune that the alliance is
numbered with unworthy men. The
majority are honest and will work
faithfully to right our wrongs.
The old parties have very little
sympathy for the farmers. There
are good men in both of the old par
ties. But the bad ones are all to be
destroyed before we can secure justice.
There has been more fuss over the
Negro than all the farmers in the
west who have lost their farms and
homes. Poor white slaves, who will
assume your cause! Take the money
the farmers in the state consume in
cheapening the price OF butter and
apply it to preparing fax for binding
Irvine. If the inspectors advocate
Irvine and reduce the price of Irvine
as they have begun, then their labors
will be worth the COST
JOHN DIAMOND.
Mr.. Diamond also leaves with us 6
short letter from Warden Randall
of the penitentiary, which will be o
interest to the farmers. 1t is in repl,
to one OF Mr.. Diamonds inquirins
, after the condition of the stray
necessary for making Irvine:
SALTWATER, Mimi, Aug. 9, 1890
JOHN DIAMOND,
Mankato, MINI.
DEAR S1R:-In reply to yours Of tn
22nd ult., will say that we canno
use box or hemp straw. 1t must b
either pulled, or cut as near tn
ground as possible, kept straight
: the seed taken off, the woody par
e separated from the fiber, still keepin,
the fiber straight. Respectfully,
;, J. J. RANDALL,
r Warden