New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-12-22

tu,ies, along a lineage more than Il; al,
because it boasts only Of good things
done and offers to the future unsullied
/ lines of-accestral blood, whose even
flow no alien drop has ever disturbed.
And best Of all, whatever success has
been attained, has come not through the
brutal law which destroys the weak to
make the strong stronger, but by that
later and mightier law, that checks
brute force and harnesses the strong to
the services Of the weak that proclaims
Kindness to all living creatures. No man
should become master Of the breeders
art who has not first given his better and
kindlier nature the mastery Of himself.
The next speaker was Col. Liggett, dean
of the Agricultural School. His address
was the same IS that which he delivered
on agricultural Education before the
National Congress of Farmers in St. Pau
some months ago. ~..@1..3s@
Col. Liggett was followed by Mrs.
Meredith, preceptress of the ladies de-
partment of the Agricultural School.
She thanked the Dairy Association for
their efforts in securing the ,school for
girls and outlined briefly the work that
is being done there. The mission of
woman, she said, is tc make homes, and
the object of educating girls from the
farm was to elevate the homes IN the
country improve them. The movement
of the young people from the farm to
the cities could never be checked until
this was done. 1t is folly to expect that
good homes can he kept 10y the foolish
daughters of foolish mothers; that work
must be left for the earnest daughters of
! earnest women. Tha, school which will
| do most to educate the student to human
ity is the best. The speaker referred to
the home on the farm as the ideal home.
There the child has not the opportunity
to see the revolving kinds of wickedness
seen in the city.
Hon. S. NJ. Owen was to be the prin-
cipal speaker of the evening but was un-
fortunately detained by the blizzard. In
his place, MIR. Lind was called upon.
He thanked the dairymen for the ben
etits the people of Brown county had de-
rived from their meeting here, and then
paid a touching tribute to Mrs. Mere
dith's eloquent plea for the boys and
girls on the farm. He would lave the
dairymen drop "cows" for a while and
pay some attention to the boys aid girls.
They were just as valuable and should
be re nembered with just as much inter-
est and enthusiasm. The constant drift
of young people, from the farm to the
ci-y, was d fact, he claimed, which should
be examined into, just as any other
problem on the farm. 1t should not
discourage us. He did not believe that
humanity is becoming any worse, any
more depraved, and contended that there
must be a legitimate reason COR this e.ni-
grafton. When we have learned this,
we will feel easier. We can then begin
to set about to remedy it.
The reason, he thought, was to lie
found in the multiplied production of
farm products as the result of tile intro
duction of machinery. Two or three
men today produce as much food as
twenty men not many years ago. 1t
means the production of more food pro-
ducts by less persons, and the same is
true in all progressive countries, the
world over. The ability to consume does
not keep pace with the production.
Thus it becomes practically necessary
for the boys ana girls to seek the cities
for the sake of employment. He be-
lieved that more would have to 90 vet,
but he didn't want HIS boy to 90 nor his
FRIENDS BOYS; let the other mans boys
go. ..'. ..... Z. ,..,-i.s
! How are you going to keep the boy
on the farm, he said. Employ your
cow-lore. Use the same amount of wis
dom that you do in dairyipg. Bring up
yo;ir boys SO that they won't be COM
Portable anywhere else than on the farm.
If you want to conquer horse, you must
make yourself useful, indisn ensable, to
that horse; make the horse have hob
by; so with the boy; let him have his
hobbies, and encourage him in them.
One of the easiest ways to exc out hap
piness in this world is to have a good,
big supply of hobbies. Not one hobby,
for that usually proves delusion, buta
good, big supply. It is the little, and
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