Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-04-04
aovernor Boies Does Not Tell the
Truth About Iowa's Indus
trial Condition.
The President Of the Agricultural
Association Denies the Asser-
+iops Made by the Executive.
The Corn Growing States Mani
fest a Degree of Prosperity
Hitherto Unknown.

Mr. Albert Head. presidentof the Iowa
.,.-icnltural society, has written TO the
TLirago Inter Ocean letter, In which he
t,tas Governor Boies, of his own state,
sarsralv TO task for his assertion at the
Nsw York Reform club dinner that
Iva farmers are in dire distre', and
i5at they actually have been growing corn
at a loss.
Mr. Head says
land now notwithstanding the fnan.
cial depression of 1873 and theGheayy drain
ofjnterest from the state, almost every acre
If land today i under high state OF cuI-
tivatiou or producing abundant pasture.
Neat and comfortable school houses have
6aqn bniided on every fourth section, and
magnificent building and colleges IN our
towns ana cities. Expensive churches OF
haautiful architectural design adorn every
village, town and city
"0nr state is checkered by railroads,
with beautiful towns and cities all along
the iron way. Handsome homes VITA
commodious barns, convenient odtbulld-
mos and well-flled graIneries, adorn the
weIl-tillod farm where twenty five years
ago the virgin soil was untouched by the
hand of civilized man. Creamerles,
cheese and other factories have been
established all over tne state. Imported
horses cattle and hogs Of the best breeds
have been brought into the state, and are
rapidly replacing common stock on the
farms Millions have been expended IN
theseindus and invested in the improv-
ament of our stock. while millions ON mill
lions have been spent in making highways,
thing. building schoolhouses, churches
hospitals. court houses and other pubic
buiIdiuys, while the cost of the improve
ments on the farm cannot be computed:
"NearIv all this vast amount Of money IN
vested and expended, has been produced
by the farmers Of Iowa during the last
quarter Of a century.
Iowa is one of the states specially singh
ed out by "reformers' as furnishing an
examine of the poverty stricken agrlcul-
tural population. Yet Mr.. Head shows
that she produces enormously of corn and
other Grains. live stock and dairy products
and disposed of the whole yield at good
prices. The other corn states Missouri,
illinois and lndiana-are no less prosper.
Gus. With nearly 3,5OO0OO acres OF
tilllble land, its price has steadily ad-
vanced during the last five years. lie says
that the farmers nave DeeH IeuuNlHS luOiL
debts, improving their farms and stock,
sending their children to college, buying
buggles and carriages, and enjoying more
Injuries than in former years, while they
have been better able to pay better wages
to hands, which is proof as strong as holy
Writ that corn has not been produced at
loss during the pastf FIVE years, and that
with an equal amount of money invested,
no industry yields a larger or surer profit
than farming
So far as admitting the truth of Cover
nor B0es's statement that Iowa farmers
are growing their corn at a loss, the pres
ident of the agricultural society is 'hrm-
" of the opinion that during the past
twenty-five years corn has been raised at
profit, over and above all expenses of
cultivation. of more that 81 an acre to the
average Iowa farmer; and if fed to stock
and the increased value of land consider
ed, it would at least amount to s. per
acre pei, annum, and he believes that
the people of the great corn belt are 1.-THE
most prosperous people on the face of the
earth
What, asks the New York Sun, say
the free-trader and the farmers alliance
men Of Iowa to Mr.. Head 8 assertions