St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-20

agricultural department of the univer-
sity is doing some good. 1t is diSsem-
mating knowledge. 1t is learning men
that there is a better way. In 1851
will have to indulge-because 1 know no
other way to tell it than to tell it as
it was.
In 1888 we had a dry spring. After
the seed was put into the ground there
was absolutely no rainfall until after
the Fourth of July. 1t was most anx-
ious time for everybody. | was busily
engaged at that time in building rail-
roads in the Red River valley. | re-
member going on west of Grand Forks
to what is now Larimore, and seeing a
field OF oats that was planted. The
oats were sown after the 4th day of
July, and 1t matured good crop. At
that time the wheat planted was not
to exceed four to six inches high. 1t
preserved it's color. The frost that was
in the gro,Nud melted slowly, and fed it
with little moisture, but not enough
NOT enough 10 make the pant grow TO
maturity. We had then three or four
days, or a week of unusually heavy
rain and saved the crop.
THAT year the farmers got about two
thirds or three-fourths of their usual
crop. | thought then that if | was
supported, that we would undertake to
help them to do something else besides
putting all their eggs into one basket
besides cultivating Cne crop | under
took to distribute cattle and hogs
among them. l kept it up for several
years. l bought farm out here few
miles, where some of my st. Paul
neighborS know the land is not part1c-
ularly fertile. When the wind blows,
L always expect that some of the land
will be found in my neighbor's field.
| also have the satisfaction of knowing
that the quantity will be made up from
the fellow beyond. But l undertook to
raise cattle there Now, we have
country we knoW-I have shown you,
that has gone from 100000 bushels on
our own land to 65,000,CO0 bushels OF
wheat in sixteen years. We know what
we can raise in wheat We know what
we can raise in oats and barley ana
other small grains. But the people say
we cannot raise cattle and hogs, for
the winters are too long. The winters
are long, but 1 have raised cattle and
hogs every year. | have raised the
material on that farm with which to
feed them, sent them to Chicago to the
fat stock shows and have never fail
ed, never failed to take more than my
share of the first prizes from the states
of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri,
Kentucky, Illsnois, Indiana, Ohio and
Wisconsin. l remember on one occac
sion 1 sent one single steer there, and
showed it against 700, and took seven
first prizes. Great applause). And he
was born and bred and raised and fed
in Minnesota. And it is perfectly pos
sible, perfectly possible to raise bet
ter animal than they ever saw. L
never was beaten when 1 sought car
caSS prize.
81 remember a few years ago, when
there was an exhibition in New Orleans
I was down at Albemarle Sound trying
to get a little salt air, trying to get
week off, and 1 got message from
breeder in Missouri to know what L
would take for a yoke of oxen, three
years old or past, yoke OF piaeR aea
oxen. I told him 1 would take $loO.
He said that if I would deliver them
on the car at the station that he would
take them. And he took them to New
Orleans, and he exhibited them as lat
stock from Missouri at the New Or-
leans exhibition, and he took every
prize that he competed for. (Great ap-
plause0 - -
"Now, I will say to you that I am
not very good farmer. have got TO
hire all my work done. l can go out
once in a while and see 1t, and l take
great pleasure in going out and seeing
things grow and seeing the work done.
[ never sold a fat steer for less than
six cents a pound at the butchers.
The, butcher always desired to buy
them, and told me they made more
money in cutting up my steers than
anything else they bought, because OF
the quality Now, 1 mention this with
the hope that you will bear in MIND
and impress upon the farmers that they
can, II tney Will, RAISE DelleI DSol, So
more money for it; better pork, and
get more money for it, than any state
south and west. of us. If our neigh
bors-now these remarks apply particu-
larly to both the Dakotas and Mime,
sota-and if our Montana farmers and
our Washington or Idaho and oregon
farmers, if they will try and look the
ground over intelligently, they would
find that they could not afford to raise
stock and put them on stock car to
be wheeled 2,5O0 miles, 1000 miles, or
1,5OO miles to Chicago-remember that
that stock car has to go West empty
loaded with their stock. to be taken to
Chicago and be slaughtered, or to Hi
nois and fed. and then, when slaugh-
/ tered packed in the refrigerator car
and sent back to feed thair own i7rdsds pes
must be paid for carrying it. But I as
sure you that, for one, / would H';1 rather hdof
never haul a pound Of it if they would
only feed their own stock and keep
the money in their own state, and
have it for themselves. For, depend
upon it, we would have great deal
more prosperity in the end. (Great
aDDlauSe)