New Ulm review., 1901-08-28
NEW ULN. BROWN COUNTY, MINI, WEDNESDAY. AUG. .

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they could not at that time recommend
that harvester for use but that they were
in hopes to perfect the machine and ex-
pected so to do. They stated that they
had put much money into the enterprise,
and then asked me what I thought the
outlook would be for the sale of such
machine provided it could be made q
successful operating one. / could not
discuss The machine from the standpoint
of machinist, but when they put a
question like that to me I was ready to
answer it, and / expressed my absolute
faith as to the need for such machine
to be completed for the use of the farm
ers of the northwest where grass was the
uncertain factor but where corn was one
|of the grand reliable fodder crops. I
told them how difficult it was to secure
that crop from frost and destruction. I
stated positively with such machine
the stock interest of the great northwest
would be placed upon q far finer basis
than at the present time. went on at
some length on these lines, making state
ments which were the outgrowth of my
experience and observation and finally
wound up my testimony 10y stating that
I believed the time would come when
the farmers of southern Minnesota, at
least, and of northern Iowa, would as as.
suredly have corn harvester upon their
farms as they do now q grain binder.
The members of the Harvesting compa-
ny with whom T was talking were lit
tie surprised at the positiveness of my
statements. They know, however, to-
day how every statement has been veri-
fed. The great demand for that harves-
ter has even exceeded eur expectations.
Since that day when I saw the first i'm
perfect machine upon the worlds fair.
grounds, l have had the pleasure OF own
ing a perfected one on my own place,
and have had the great satisfaction of
knowing that when the corn was ready
for cutting and shocking that I had an
implement that could rely upon that
would place from eight to ten acres of
it in the bundle and these bundles in the
row ready for shocking, as surely as any
other work on the farm could be done.
By means of the corn harvester the stock
interests of the northwest assumed
very much more reliable condition in
our agriculture. One of our most inti-
mate friends, thorough-going farmer,
made the remark to me recently: "We
do not know yet the possibilities of our
farms when We consider them from the
standpoint of lands that produce corn as
a fodder plant" l heartily endorse that
statement. What we are dong row is
but weak attempt as to what we hall
do by means of this grand fodder plant
grown by the farmers who own the i1n-
plements that can save it within the
time that our climate permits.
have been observing for number of
years the trials which have been made
by our state experiment station as to
fodder plants, and barring the one plant
of rape, and also making exception of
Austrian bronze grass, we state that there
has been no new plant brought out by
all this experimenting that begins to
make favorable comparison with this
old standby of Indian corn. When the
Puritan Fathers took possession of the
land occupied by the North American
indians they also at that time obtained
the seed of Indian corn. The land to
him had the only value; the corn plant
was minor consideration. When we
now see the immense stock interests of
this great middle west founded so large
~ upon the growing of the corn plant
both for grain and fodder, we know bet
ter than they did the great value of this
plant that they obtained from the Amer
ican Indian.
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