The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-23
SHOULD RAISE BROOM CORN
AN ILLINOIS MANS OPINION
ABOUT THE MATTER

He Says the Farmers OF Minnesota
Could Raise a Few Acres with
PrOfit-Broom Factories CouId
Be Supplied by Home Material
just as Well as Not-TaIks With
Hotel Guests.
Minnesota raises millions Of palm
trees every year." said A. s. Wheeler.
of Decatur, ILL.,, yesterday at the Mer-
chants hotel. But they are not the
kind which flourish in tropical climes.
The corn plant, as raised in Mime
sofa, Is first cousin to the palm tree,
and earns for your farmers barrels of
money every year, but as yet the Min
nesota people have not come to Who'll
ly realize the full utility of the corn
plant.
From the little inquiry which have
made while on my trips to Minnesota,
have learned that scarcely any broom
corn Is raised in this state. In Illinois
nearly every farmer has a few acres
OF this very profitable product on his
farm, supplying not only the Illinois
broom factories, but the greater portion
of the annual product is shipped to
other states to be used in the manu-
facture Of brooms. There is no reason
why Minnesota could not raise great
quantities Of this branch of the corn
family every year, as the climate is
we'll adapted to the ordinary Indian
corn, and there is little difference in
the culture of the broom corn.
Il have known land growing this
product to yield $500 per acre, and a
number Of my farmer friends have
paid off their mortgages through this
crop. If there are any farm mort
cages in Minnesota, I would suggest
that the farmers try raising broom
corn. St. Paul has half dozen -four
ishing broom factories, but they are al
most wholly dependent upon the i'm
ported material to keep their estab-
lishments going"
J. E. Abandon, of Rio Janeiro, was
among the guests at the Ryan hotel
yesterday. He left his South Ameri-
can home just after the war broke out.
Brazil is greatly interested in the out
come of the Hispano-American war.
Authentic war news is very late in
reaching us down there, and, when we
do get It, it is generally so colored up
by the Spaniards that no rAiance can
be put in it. A recent issue of Rio
Janeiro paper contained a sentence
1lhG IIllS ne OpdulSh meet u u1SCN
along the coast of North America and
took the seaport city of Cincinnati
That Is only sample of the fake war
news which is daily circulated In our
city. The white people are strongly
opposed to Spain and her cause, and
there can be no doubt but what Brazil
would assist the United States in
material way. should her offices be re- e.,
quired. / do not think the war will
continue to exceed three months.
Mary Ellen Lease, of Populist fame,
was guest at the Ryan hotel yester-
day. To reporter she said: II ann
lot talking politics of late, as I know
little of the political situation In the
West. I have heard that Mr.. Lind has
again been nominated for governor,
whick->I ann very glad to know. Mr..
Lind proved himself an efficient states
man while In congress and certai1ly de-
serves to be elected.
II am now on my way to Red Wing,
where I will stay for few days visit
ing some friends
J.P. Baker, president of the First Ma
stional Bank Of Bismarck, was among
the out of town people who sojourned
at the Merchants hotel yesterday. Mr..
Baker says the farmers are looking for
ward to big crop, and the bankers
have lots of money on hand. Since the
war started all agitation looking to the
removal Of the military post at Bis
nnarck has ceased.
Col. Cap Uline, of Devils Lake, N.
D., said yesterday: "The grain ge
Of the Dakotas will be exceptionally
large this year. When wheat was way
up in the air this spring all7the farm
ers. on a great number of them,
rushed to SOW their ground into wheat
thinking that the high price would con-
tinue. Instead the market has been
going steadily downward, upon the re-
ports of fine weather, large acreage
and necessarily large crops. How
ever, the farmers believe that they will
get in the vicinity of SOC for their pro-
duct laid own in the Northwest"
G. C. Elliott, Of Duluth, was at the
Windsor yesterday. He said: 1.-THE
government is doing considerable work
towards widening the canal, but as all
government jobs are slow work, that
will necessarily take some time to
complete. Business in Duluth has
been fairly good this season and bust
ness men have no complaint coming.
OF course there has not been a repeti-
ton Of the real estate boom Of nine or
ten years ago, yet all lines of business
have been stimulated this spring, and
think If anything the war has helped
things little.
"There is a strcng probability that the
smelling works ait West Superior may
be reopened by Mr.. Rockefeller. And it
is also looked. upon as probable that q
smelling plant may be built at Two
Harbors. If this year does not see an
opening up of that Industry next year
will, and it can be safely said that Du-
luth will have before many years one Of