New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-08
when the duties 81 the farm are least

when the duties Of the farm are least
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For the benefit Of the farmers raising
small grain, the state has established a
system of grain inspection, and provided
laws for the regulation and control of ter
minal and interior elevators; and a board
of railroad and warehouse commissioners
has been established and exists for the
purpose of supervising and regulating the
elevator and wal ehouse service and the
grading and inspection of grain. This
same board has also supervision and con-
troll over our railroads, and acts as arbi-
TRAITOR or umpire between them and the
producer patronizing the roads, as to all
controversies touching transporting rates
or modes of service.
!. Neither is the dairy farmer ignored or
neglected. A dairy department. has been
established and is in successful operation,
especially designed to protect the farmer
against the evils of adulterated milk,
cheese, butter and lard And for the pur-
pose of instructing him in the science of
cheese and butter making, dairy school
has been established and is in successful
operation at St. Anthony Park, where our
farmers can learn to become skilled and
approved cheese and butter makers That
trust which the federal government en-
tailed upon our state in giving it liberal
land grant for the purpose of drain ming
wet and overfowed lands, has finally been
assumed by our state, and it is now en-
gagged, under liberal appropriations grant
ed by the legislature of 1898, in draining
for the benefit of the farmers of the Red
river valley some of the wet and over
flowed lands of that section, by opening
and restoring several of the clogged or
closed water courses existing in the valley,
and when the system of drainage so in
augurated has been completed, it will
render the northwestern part of our state
q land of fertile farms second to no other
portion.
From this brief glance over the field of
federal and state legislation it is apparent
that since 1860 there has been no incon-
siderable amount of special legislative re-
lief and assistance given to the farmers
and the agricultural interests of the coun-
try. No other class or interest can point
to any more or as much friendly special
legislation, and it has all been inspired
under the auspices and direction of the
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facts how can honest men claim that the
farmer has been oppressed or neglected
through want of friendly legislation?
Benefits of Protection
Our protective tariff legislation, while
greatly extending and enlarging the field
OF our manufacturing operations, and
greatly increasing the demand for labor
and palpably maintaining good wages for
the same, has also been of great advan-
tage to our farmers. The large industrial
army fostered and maintained under our
tariff laws, has been the great consumer
OF our farm products and has furnished us
our great home market, which has alb
sorbed more than 80 per cent of all our
farm products. This home market has
not only been by far our greatest mar
ket, but it has also been our steadiest,
most remunerauive market. The farmer
has always Jared much better in the home
market than in the foreign market. Most
of our agricultural products are sold and
consumed at home, and is to those, q
fairly good price is generally maintained.
We have a considerable surplus of
wheat, cotton and corn to export AS to
corn, owing to our peculiar soil and
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sort of natural monopoly, and therefore
are not wholly at the mercy of the foreign
market as to price; but in respect to
wheat and cotton the export price of our
surplus fixes and controls in the main the
price of the home market. AS to products
consumed entirely in our home market
quence, except with ourselves, but as to
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India and the Argentine
Republic. The latter is especially fast
becoming our most formidable COMPETE
tor: While we export large surplus of
wheat and flour, our products of oats,
barley, flax, hay, potatoes, cattle, hogs,
sheep, cheese. butter and eggs is mainly
consumed at home and the price is fixed
by the home market. This price is much
than the price of wheat, which is fixed by
the export price of our surplus.
The total value of our wheat and -four
export in 1893 was $169, 029 ,317, while the
value of all other cereals and breadstuffs;
of all beef, pork. mutton and dairy prod
ucts and of all eggs and hay exported, was
in the aggregate only S139 600, 900, leaving
an excess of s3O,OOO,OOO in favor of flour
and wheat over all of these other products
combined.
I have taken the pains to ascertain and
compile in tabulated form the price at St.
Paul and Minneapolis of some of the lead
ing products of our farms for the IL
months of the year 1893, with the average
price for the entire year, and for the first
seven months of 1894, with the average
price for these months. And this is the
result:
g.. 1893. 1894.
Wueh. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~ IL
VdtS. ~ 81
Barley ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80 43
COtdCOeS ~ 0S
Flax. ...........l o. rs
Eggs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II IL
Flu Creamery Cheese. .......... II IL
Extra Creamery Butter. 70 10
Fancy Creamery Butter. . q II