The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-11

Prof. Craig Reads an Exhaustive
Paper on Sheep, Good and Bad,
with Pointers How to Judge
Them-A. V. Fox, of Oregon,
Papers-Programm for Today.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
State Agricultural society opened yes
terday morning in the rooms of the
Commercial club, with an attendance
from fully sixty counties of the state.
The day was given up largely to the
reading of papers by well known
Northwestern experts on stock raising,
and today's session will consider agr1-
culture. The feature of the morning
session was an address of welcome by
Gov Lind, who spoke in practlcal
strain of the possibilities OF the farm
for nearly a half-hour.
At the morning session horse raising
was discussed. and the afternoon was
given up to cattle and sheep breeding.
During the evening the delegates from
the various county agricultural Socle-
ties and their friends gathered In the
hall of representatives at the capitol
and listened to a half-doZen papers on
subjects of general interest.
The following were among those pres
ent:
Coleman Anoka; E. A Gibbs GAINESVILLE; H.
Peter; J. A. Peterson, St Peter: W. l..
Chappell, Fergus Falls; ". B.: Crowley, St
James; Frank O'Meara. St. James; F.. B.
Lynch st Jame l Il f. baT William ge
St Anthony Park; j. E. Cooley, Duluth; j.
F jacobson. Lac qui Parle; H. c. Prescott,
Ra ssST Elbow Lake: s. B Scott, zumbrota;
Thomas McHugh, Zumbrota; William Dexey.
Zumbrota; P. H. Rahilly. Lake City; c.
F'95aSa aa AnG ssfdsa f Eadn f. 7R"h Stone.
Morris: A P. Hendrickson. st. Paul; E. W
Randall Hamline; Alexander FidGes, Jack
Dover; A. C. Wilcox. Hugo; J. T. Blair,
Utica; H. R. Denny, st. Paul; c. D. An,
drews. St. Paul; William F. Cross, Red
Wing: Chester R. Smith, st. Paul; H. W.
Fagiey. St. Paul; A S. Tallmadge, ST. Paul;
j. c. Seeley Minneapolis; +. d. Childs,
Crookston; Prof. Thomas Shaw, St. Anthony
Park; Luke Stonnard. Taylor's Falls; Prof
Snyder, st. Anthony Park; T.. A. Hoverstad,
Crookston; NJ. T. Grattan, Preston Mimi,
and many others
Aside from the discussion of subjects
of interest about the only business
transacted was the appointment OF
set of committees by President Cooper
at the opening of the afternoon session,
as follows:
Credentials. c. Mills, DR., J. G. Cqrryer,
NJ. N. Greene. A P. Hendrickson. Wyman
Elliott. c. l. GcodeA and E. D. Childs.
Reeolutions-H. F. Brown, NJ. \. Skinner,
A H. Bulls. w. J. Boynton, H. W. Stone
ard A. H. Bulls.
GOV. LIND SPEAKS.
The morning session opened with al
address of welcome by Gov. Lind who
said:
While it affords me great deal of pleas
ure to meet you this morning and to welcome
you to this hospitabe capital city or ours /
must express to you my regret that my time
has not permitted adequately to prepare
myself to do justice to this gathering and
your reasonable expectations under the CT
cumStances.
You represent in a greater degree than
any like number Of men gathered in this
state one of the greatest of the great inter
cts CT the state. l had occasion to say to
another body few days ago that, while
we can look with pride upon our mining,
numbering and manufacturing Interests, new
ertheless our greatest interest clusters about
the farmer. It IS the condition CT the farm r
the Minnesota farmer, that marks our prog
ress. I also said 1T is the barometer which
indicates the state of our prosperity" THIS
IN my judgment is absolutely true. If the
farmers are prosperous business along all
lines in our state is prosperous; if otherwise,
other business suffers accordingly.
Farming, as you realize, has perhaps I'M
dergone great changes in this wopderfu
century, or the world history as any OtfeI
vCcatisnI might say greater. The students
of sociology tell us that it Is only recent y
comparatively within only the last few gen.
erations; that humanity has learned to utilize
its intellect in directing Its own develop
ment. That in the past ages of our progress
along al lines political as well as indus "a
has been almost wholly instructive, which
is to say that such progress as the race has
made has been simply steps guided by the
instinct which providence implanted in us
to adjust ourselves from time to time to oul
environment and the conditions that face US
This has been true Ct our political develop
ment until the beginning of this century
This century illustrates practically all tha
society HIS ever been able to do knowingly
toward framing and directing government at.
fairs. II witnessed the first successful gov
eminent under a written constitution. The
same is true in a great degree in science
There had been before the beginning of thi:
century what l might call sporadic efforts a
knowing, but 1t Is only within the last few
generations that humanity has been able Il
seareh to practical results to make it useful
DEVELOPMENT IN INDUSTRY.
In industry the development had been, IN
til recently, practically instructive uncon
scious. The old Egyptian, when he found b,
wanted more food, simply scratched the Nile
mud with a stick and scattered a few seed.
Of wild rice, wild cats, or perhaps a few o
the fruit seeds common to that country. ant
when game became scarce they captured
some of the wild animals and domesticatsS
them, but that was practically all that wa.
done for centuries and centur- es of time L
there was improvement in the cereals tn,
grains it was simply the result of accident
The busy bee, crossed with different yarie
ties, fortified and produced better grades
So with the stock; If there was any improve
ment, it simply because focks firm DIR
erent and distinct regions came together ant
resulted In accidental crosses that gave bet
ter varieties. Today you utilize science. III,
truths of the science of life, of biolrgv an.
kindred sciences, have been invoked in he
half of the farmer. Now over here at on
station they deliberately go to work aud pro
duce different kinds OF wheat. not only new
grades, but different kinds. When you wan
domestic animal for a particular use yo,
deliberately go to work and produce it. Tha
is what science has done. 1t is nothing new,
In one sense 1T is not even discovery, bu