The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-11-07
FARMER MCCORMACK.
The Treasurer of Kane Co., Ill.,,
Makes Several Points.


Grove, ILL.,, county treasurer of Kane
county, was in Redwood Falls on
Thursday and Friday of last week.
Mr.. Mccormack is the owner of con-
siderable wild land in Redwood coun-
tv, and his visit was in the nature of
an inspection of the growth of the
county.
He was in The GAZETTE Office Friday
morning and in the course OF pleas
ant conversation made some interest
ing remarks. Mr.. Mccormack, it is
we'll to state, is practical farmer OF
Kane county, a stock farmer, and
while he was elected to his present
Office by over 5000 majority last fall,
his pulse still beats for life on the
magnificent farm of which he is owner
"You have great country here" he
said. "A great farming country, l
mean. As was driving out to my
tract yesterday I passed q wagons
loaded with wheat being pulled into
Redwood Falls. Later, when at
Herman Myers place, where l stopped
for dinner, I saw monstrous mangle
wurzel beets larger than any had seen
before. They were being chopped up
for feed. l also saw a good many
fields of good corn, while l passed
some that seemed to have lacked the
proper nursing during the proper
season. [ could not refrain from
wondering why farmers here do not
jump into stock raising as rapidly as
they can-why they do not give up
wheat raising as an only means OF
livelihood. Those magnificent beets
l saw must yield nearly 1900 bushels
per acre. What I have seen of the
corn shows that you can raise good
crop of that cereal. You should have
an unlimited quantity of bran, shorts
and middlings from the wheat you
raise. Chopped beets, corn meal,
bran, shorts and middlings make the
finest fattening feed in the world, and
your farmers should use them right
here instead of allowing it to be shipped
down to our country where we put it
through the process.
"Your best farmers of to-day know,
what we farmers in Illinois have
learned long ago, that in order to
make money, we must work II months
in year. They know, by experience,
that six months work on a wheat
farm, will not allow six months of
leisure during the winter. When
farmer can lay aside his summer gain
and make his winters work pay his
running expenses then he will COM
mence to lay aside bank account
and the quicker this is done the bet
ter"
''Is Elgin and Kane county the but
ter region it used to be some Is or 20
years ago?"was asked.
mo, for the reason that all our milk
supply and the supply south of us is
taken to Chicago. We have two or
three creameries and they are doing
fairly we'll, but Chicago pays about as
much for milk as the creameries do
and consequently the creameries find
a strong competition in the Chicago
markets. That vast city swallows
and digests all Of the produce in our
country and is constantly reaching
out for more. To-day it reaches out
for Northwestern and southern butter
and stock and the mouths of two mil
lion people in Cock county are open
ing for more. The railroads form the
arteries through which this demand is
met and to-day Redwood finds a
market in Chicago for it's produce"
Mr.. Mccormack paid THE GAZETTE
handsome compliment during the
course of his conversation:
II take in the neighborhood OF fifty
weekly papers," he said, "but the
greatest pleasure I have is when l
open The GAZETTE and spread it be-
fore the other boys in the court house
and people who come in, and say to
them: Here is paper that is pa
per and it is published out in the west
where you fellows think they don't
know anything about running q news
paper The GAZETTE is q crack local
paper, apparently giving all of the
news, regardless of any one, and
edited right up in tart and crisp
style just the style to make it in
tensolv interesting. Success to such