Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-02-20

| ''ell''oS % farming and Their effects
upon agriculture at home. He had
visited Mr.. Hills f;,rm and said that
he had seen more careful feeding and
! less WASTE than on any OF her farm IN
America that he had visited. This
Austrian gentleman said lie would 80
home and report that the Austrian
farmer had nothing to fear from
competition with the American, farm
or, as the American farmer wasted
enough for the Austrian farmer to
live of.
| have sandy farm a few miles
north of st. Paul. When the vino!
blows | always expect to find some
OF my land in my neighbours field,
but have also the satisfaction OF
knowing that the quantity will be
made up from the land OF the neigh
Dor on the other side. Tins land
would soon be exhausted il / did not
return TO the land in the form uf
manure all that had been produced
upon it.
Abont eight years ago. appreciat-
ing t he advantage it would be to the
settlers in the Red River valley if
they conld get onto their land, which
VAS fiat and low, and commence
seeding a week or ten days earlier,
was Instrumental in calling :, con.
veniion at Crookston to consider the
matter OF drainage. EMPLOYED
Prot. Flanagan, /, hydraulic engi-
''eer, TO make a. survey OF the valley
and paid him forit You know how
this matter dragged along for years
without results. Finally by our pay
irg $25 600 the legislature appro-
prlated 100000 for this work. The
only condirion we made was thnto our
engineer should be IL member Of the
commission to see that the money is
lntrlIlgelltlr spent I am glad this
work has been commenced. Getting.
onto the land 5 to z days earlier i'm
the spring makes all the difference in
the world, and may either make or
mar Il crop.
The valley is filing up with good,
intelligent settlers. A class OF peo-
Pile who may come here in large mum
bers are the Polandrrs. They are
Industrious, and, mark my word.
they will prosper. The Hollanders
also are careful, prudent people, as
instanced 10y their settlement near
St. Cloud. ~
The low price of wheat has come to
remain. The day for 81 wheat las
gone. A field of wheat is ripeninc
every day in the year. We've got to
raise the wheat at a lower price to
meet the markets.
| Farmers should not rush thei,
wheat to market all at once in the
tall. 1t depresses prices Build yra.
nhries and market at your leisure
The farmers lost, last fall, from
to 8 cents II bushel by marketing So
! fast. Five cents a. bushel makes over
two million dollars, and surely it is
worth saving.
| referring to the matter of furnish.
ing cars, Mr.. Hill said that his cars
could move the entire wheat crop in
, eight round trips, but that on nc.
count of delays in inspection and un.
loading, the cars did not average {,
four hours run per day. Last fall
they had actually robbed other
points oil their share Of cars in order
to supply this locality.
In regard to rates. Mr.. Hill said
that when the road first carried
grain the rate was IS cents a hun.
dred to Duluth and 40 cents to Min
neapolis. Now the rate is Is cents a
hundred. When cars can be loaded
backward also, the rate can be ma
terially reduced, and this can be &C
complished by getting more settlers
in the roads territory as consumers
If there is to be better condition
| of things we need more people to
come here to help bear one another's
burdens. Cheap transportation has
made the whole world akin. We
Chamber for the universal brother
hood Of man. | was in New York
last December when the tailors haC
their big strike. learned that the
! strike was due to the fact that the
clothing merchants were having theil
goods cut in New York and sent tic
Japan to be made into suits. II
costs go cents to carry a suit O.
clothes to Japan and back, and tht
tailor's bill was SO small that it was
paid by the difference in the cost, q
the silk lining, buttons and trim
mings over there as compared with
American prices.