Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-01
Freeman's Farmers and Business
Mems Cresco Meeting.

Great interest was taken in pub.
Tic meeting called by some of our en-.
terpriSing business men and success.
ful farmers of Cresco and the county
to hear discussed the subiectof better
care and feeding of the COWS and rails
ing of more and better calves. The
cold wave which struck this section
Tuesday night kept many farmers
away, nevertheless the Court House
at the appointed hour was filled with
our most enterprising farmers and
their wives which is encouraging to
to the business interests of our county,
that such large number should tie
present IN such cold diSagreeable
day. Many farmers who thought it
too cold to drive in wrote and re-
quested that their names be put on
The list for a trial of the celebrated
stock food manufactured expressly
for the increased flow Of milk and
raising calves.
Every farmer who attended the
meeting became interested and put
thelr names to the list pledged to help
push the enterprise along on the farm
er's cooperative plan. The Farmers
Alliance store was made agent for the
farmers and will look after the mat
ter from now on for them.
The meeting was addressed by G. Ell.
Freeman of Minneapolis, who has
spent twenty-three years in organiz-
ing farmers cooperative creameries
and whose remarks based upon so
many years experience with the COW
and the calf as mnrtgage lifters, and
If such meetings and the facts they
draw out and demonstrate, are held
throughout the state they will be the
means of producing incalculable good
to its material prosperity.
From papers before us we learn that
Mr.. Freeman in 1898 addressed the
people of Lection, Mo-, upon the sub
ject OF creameries and stock food, Civ
ing names and addresses where they
had been established by him and in
successful operation for a series of
years with great profit to the stock
holders. Letters addressed to the
references given induced the farmers
of Lection, Mo-, as we learn from the
Independent of that place and that
in August 1898, the farmers of that
place had established a cooperative
creamery which has been a grand sue
cess from that day to the present
time and been been a great pecunlary
advantage to its patrons and stock
holders.
1t is not only important that there
be creameries, but that there be COWS
as well, and as COWS are grown from
calves that they be cared for from
birth till matured And if the best
results are desired COWS must be made
to produce milk in large quantities.
of rich quality and for most of the
year, instead of only for few months,
This result comes from good care and
feed.
1t is within the recollection of all
who have lived in Howard county for
many years that lands which were
worth Sc to sS an acre 25 years ago are
now selling at from S45 to $50 an acre.
The cause of this increase in value
comes from the change from grain
growing for shipment, to the cream
cry, the COW, and to growing crops
for their feed. Nearly every farm is
now supplied with good farm house
and near it stands large and comfor-
table barn where the COWS are proper
ly sheltered and amply provided With
food.
What the dairying interest, the cow
and the creamery, has done for this
locality may be accomplished for ev-
cry locality with a productive soil and
a good climate.
Mr.. Freeman will resume the work
he has been doing in our locality in
other sections; and preceding his ar
rival will be represented by Mr. A. II.
Felkey, OF this city, who will not
abuse the confidence that may be re-
posed in him. We commend them to
the kindly consideration of the farm
ing public.
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RecoVeries from Grin.