The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-10

for q vessel steaming q knots per hour
1t will be about 2.S cents per 100 miles
Now fast Atlantic liners. like. the Lucania
o or the ca IN pa equipped with ma;
knots. where with $500 horse power they
could make IA knots. That is to say, they
could make two-thirds. the speed with
one-rourth OF the power. 1t Is the last
Knot or two that costs the money. Then
! too, the measured capacity of one of these
f miabf Sa st q on cubic ht feet to tom
carry more than $500 tons to save their
lives, yet under this. bill it would earn a
bounty on an average of $1,000 day. If
! we want to help our export trade, why
| not pay the bounty
-. ON OUT GOING COMMODITIES
carried; certified out on customs certi-
| neates. and the tonnage being identified
Dy consular agents. We would thus pay
Tor , the new market created, but to pass
pay Dounties for fast liners making 20 to
II knots an hour amounts to, when they
are asking Tor bread, giving them stone.
carry 1t to Europe for nothing you mere
| ~ reduce its price that much. If this bill
passes as drawn. and may be made the
h the worst snare and deiusion ever offered
70 the American farmer, for the bulk Of
the bounty will be eaten up by from Is 10
! ~ atlantic greyhounds, and the next time
come up TO tell you to extend your mar
/ Kets, and hope to keep at you until you
! 90, you VIII say we've tried that and 1t
aidnt work? But you do not seem to
me 70 De helped under the present bill.
! The bonus Is baked on the measured ca
pacity OF the ship, at 40 cubic feet to the
ton with no guarantee that it will carry
your markets l want as much as you to
See our flag flying on every sea, to assist
the agricultural interests, but let the
! bonus provided for under the present bill
be put in form so it will not be frittered
away. The bills fate will be determined
m the next thirty days I'm not seeking a
ships; But some one will have to and it
will have to be done as a business in
vestment on such basis as will provide
a fair return for the capital invested. We
can do great deal in competition with
the rest Of the. world because Of our
great facilities for the use of our me
f S1maa lnteligence while others use
however, indifferently. We held the s,.-
prenacy of the sea before
III, IN the old packet DAYS the American
clipper was far preferable to the slow
going European vessel. The cheapest
steam navigation in the world today is on
our great lakes. When we tell the British
what our lake freights are they think
1t can not be done, but it is being done.
and 1t will be done for less.
IL We can open market In the Orient
ciic. coast wheat out of the European
market. and not only keep it from serving
to depress the market but it might be
possible at times, If we could arrange for
haul our cars back empty, to find a mar
ket there for large amount of our Mid
die West wheat. Every time you haul
a grain car back empty. you double the
mileage, and consequently the expense Of
transportation. But we have no ships
to carry this product to the Orient. yet
benefit could be. derived by American
| product than would come from the estab-
lfshment of such a trade. We have been
hauling bales OF cotton right through this
| city to Puget Sound. Every foot of space
| on our line of boats Is engaged to May l
next, yet In spite of the crowding the ex-
port of grain to the Orient last year was
261 600 tons, or about 100000 bushels. 1t
might just as well have been the entire
Pacific coast crop, if we had had the boats
to carry it. The farmer will net get any
beneht from a bill under which three
20 to q knots speed. What we want is to
take our products to a new market where
the people can not supply themselves as
/ well from any other market as they can
from here. You want to take this matter
up with your representatives in congress.
! l have taken it up with. the members
! from this state and the adjoining states,
but they want to hear from you Tell
| your representatives what you want them
| to do
Mr.. Hill then finished, as quoted at the
| head of this article.
hflly's motion to the committee on reso-
lutions, the society listened to an ad-
| dress by DR.. j. c. Curryer, on the breed
ing of horses, in which he urged that the
| farmers should stick to one breed Out
breeding was of no merit. To decide
| what kind of q horse was wanted In
particular locality, and then breed from
| the stock. which possessed the qualities
required was the secret of success The
thoroughbreds virtues he praised en-
/ Enthusiastically.
o. M Lord, of Minnesota City, read
paper on the "Plums of Minnesota
The annual session of the agricultur-
lists opened in the morning with an adj
| dress by Mayor Kiefer in the absence
| Of Gov. Lind, who was called to Fari.
bault by official business. He said the
| farmers had given the state reputa-
ton as n producer of agricultural pro-
ducts, breadstuffs, meats and butter. In
the city of Mainz, where he was born
the highest price was paid for Minnesota
| butter.
An invitation to the delegates from the
Commercial club was read by Secretary
e. W. Randall.
Prof Willet M. Hays, Of the state agri-
cultural school. gave a talk on plant
| breeding
P. H. Rahlly declared that he had i'm
| proved his own wheat marvelously by
| rotation of crops, using clover as fer
tilizer. By sowing wheat on clover sod,
he had raised thirty bushels to the acre
the first year and twenty-five the second.
He also declared that he had bought seed
wheat in Hennepin county that had pro-
duced twice as well as some he had got
from the agricultural school,
Prof Hays replied that Mr. Rahilly
should not conclude that his rotation of
crops was alone the cause Of his bounti.
full wheat yield.
The committee resolutions consists
of J. J. Furlong, A. Fl. Bulls, Charles
Kenning, T. HI. Hillary, Col. John II
Stevens, N. P. Clarke and T. c. Hodgson
The committee on credentials consists
Of J. j. Mills, T. L. Phillippy, w. F.
Cross, A. G. Wilcox, Wyman Elliott, W.