The Saint Paul globe., 1902-10-30

is a good farmer. got him up here in
the valley. He is Mr.. McKusick, brother
of the large farms across the river We
bought forty-lve steers, took them out
to the farm and put them in the pas,
ture; carried them through to fall, and
stall-feeding, but we fed them in an open
enclosure where there was a grove OF
trees to break the wind. We charged
everything they. ate at the market price,
which we could have sold it for. The
steers cost us O. little less than $50, but
for our purpose we will call it $40, and
we fed them $40 worth of food, including
eher g 6er ths n pastdrs psng s ha hea beng a
price that we had to pay. sold them
for s76 apiece, and 1 get, after selling
my hay and my corn, everything on the
place, got the full market price and I
got $37 a head more. Now. you can do 1t
every one of you, and I tell you it is
worth your time to try. 1t is not in the
farm, working four months or four and
half months. can make as good a living
for himself and his family, or that he viii
be as happy zap oyer it as # & he worked ed; a
If he fed some cattle; if his time was
employed six or seven months more; to
have some nice cattle growing upon the
farm and see their kindly look 1t is a
NAL thrive. | keep my own dairy. We
milk from $50 to Its cows, and can
always get the top price for butter, and
no occasion to look for customers-they
always come. l have separators, sepa-
rate the cream, and with the milk. adding
to it some oats, or shorts, or cracked rye,
have-we boil it, and on the milk of each
cow we raise six pigs. This year l will
sell a thousand pigs. 1 got drawn into
the pig business somehow, as did into
daughter.) 1 started in to raise pigs,
SO 1 might send them up here to SOW the
seed, and help you along. Later found
it was very RrotaDle onslness xa,, Man ana
ed to raise pigs or not This IS really
the way. I got to raising pigs: and this
year think every load of eighteen pigs
that have sold has brought me over
$400. That is not bad on sandy farm
over in Anoka county where, If the wind
should blow from the, south. half OF - the
soil covering any crop l put in would blow
over into the other county.
Would Like to Help.
"We have a lot of settlers north of
Thief river, plucky people, different than
what they were when wheat was dollar
a bushel. They canot haul their. wheat
as far as they used to These people pE 7 must nus
but they are far away from any market
Settlers have gone in there waiting for
a railroad. Some of them were discour-
in building roads, and we have to build
two lines on the west side of the river
next year. People have gone in there and
an ahy are would Re apy T taPe hod a wS yoa
people and help develop your country,
if we can, but If you do not want us to,
we cannot do it without your help, as
sure you. We will have to let the job
remain. We cannot do it alone. We have
got to have your cooperation and you
have got to have ours. Together we are
will not make a great deal of progress.
The question of extending up north from
Thief river we want to take up this com com
ing year. If we can carry. 1t UP there
trade, get them behind you In developing
in the way that it ought to be. we will
have done something satisfactory and we
will have helped the general situation,
YOU YOU neiuogus to Bear this this in mind
NOW, we are making our dividends
and might sit down and say we are hap
py. We might go on and let the country
grow, and, as fast as it grows and it
earns more money, we will take off the
rate and stand still. But that is not the
gone out to the West. You will remember
here in the valley when we could not
run a full passenger train day north OF
Crookston We might run it, but it would
me say to you that when we did run it
part of the time some other locality had
to pay for it, There was not enough col
lected out of the business to pay the cost
I am glad to say it not only sustalns
itself but makes nice profit, and [ wish
every man in the valley was doing as we'll.
We started for the Pacific coast You
have sometimes seen the statement, and
I have. that we were using the income
from the Red river valley to support
line out in a barren country, that con-
tributed no business. 1t may. be news to
you, but it is a fact, eless-take
the Milk river valley and the Missouri
valley from Williston. or, from Minot to
the head of the Milk river, and the num-
Der of tons of freight carried one mile for
each mile of road compared with yours
is eight times as many. You are not con-
tributing anything to them. They ship
every day as you do. They are contrib-
uting to you. and have been for years, and
these are facts; they cannot be gain
said. That is just why we went there
We thought that was a good, rich country
and we would make a general system,
that every part of it would contribute, one
part help the other and by increasing
our traffic we have reached point where
west of the Mississippi river and north
of Mexico, between Mexico and Manitoba,
and we have for years.
Rates Not Too High.
''Some years ago 1 was called up be-
fore the state commissioner. They wanted
said rates were not too high. We'll, they
said, they thought they were too high
Now, you must compare them with
what would you like to compare them
with? A few months before the commits
sioners Of the state of Iowa had made a
schedule of rates and ordered them into
effect The railroad company, or their
shareholders of somebody, asked the
United States court to enjoin the COM
missioners for putting these rates in ef-
feet. It was going to destroy the rail,
roads; 1t was going to force them to haul
they demonstrated to the court that this
was true. I asked the commission if that
schedule which had been put into effect
factory to them. They had not seen it;
they were not familiar with it. By re-
ferring to the schedule they found it
would raise our rates about 10 per cent.
with the rates from La Crosse to Mil
waukee, an old, settled country-buffalo
were on our plains. when that country
was settled. They thought that ought to
per cent lower from Breckenridge to the
Twin Cities, the same distance than from
La Crosse to Milwaukee. We are glad
to make a rate as low as we can; we have
adopted from the beginning a different
plan from most of the railroads. Take
the Union Pacific; their rate is higher
than ours; their grain rate is much high
er, but in. a grain country. like this I
want to show that we make the rate
on grain relatively lower than we do on
other things. #, for instance, a or man IAN
pounds, or 60 tons, and we take cents
a hundred off the rate on his wheat. that
is 81 ton. or $50. I will undertake to
show you that it is more to his advan-
tage than if we carried his merchandise
for nothing. because if he goes to the
store an average of once. a week for a
year, and brings away from the store
each week fifty pounds of merchandise
(now his salt is carried at a special rate,
also other articles; if he gets fifty pounds
in week, he must have a pretty big
pocketbook; most of them do not get
that much. Suppose it costs him an aver
age of SO cents a hundred, that is. $40
a ton, SO pounds for 50 weeks would be
1900 pounds, which at so cents hundred
would be s13. If we carried this merchan-
disc for nothing we give him S13. If we
give him 81 ton on his wheat we give