Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-27

annual meetings of the State Apricul-
tural Society have become landmarks
IN the history of the state. The one
neld In Minneapolis last week was per-
maps the most notable of ALL 1t was
addressed by many prominent men,
and an address by Mr.. j. j. Hill, presi-
dent of the Great Northern railroad,
was the special event of the meeting.
After an exchange of greetings with
his audience, he said:
.Ihere Is more intelligence, more pa
ttrlotism. more Of everything that goes
to make good citizenship. on the farms
IMAM anywhere else in the country (Ap-
PLAYS - has always been SO. from the
mere can remember what, a few years
ago. we called the late unpleasantness.
b me men me- lett their plows in the burrows.
flag Of their country, and the farmers
sons were the men who most distin-
aat man than in the city. It gives him
es@taxs e IT, Xno Want MN to take
are here. that their children in growing
upon 9s the farm should not look Forward
70 the time when they can leave it,
s wnen they they can have, their hair banged
a az Io sGaf Led down and come to the town
ter women live in the country. The time
afford to lose sight Of the interests "a Of
tne people who live on the land.
Every thing that is Of value comes out
or the farm. the forests, the mine and the
sea--four sources from which everything
that is worth having comes
Now. we have not got the sea. We
had some fine forests in Minnesota, but
that TO-; are they: They are so far gone
out entirely. The trees that are left
standing in your forests are practically
all ALL. counted: You have in Minnesota the
put you have no coal. you cannot make
iron. Al You can do is to dig iron ore
with steam shovels and take It to other
and coke and can make the metal into
iron and steel. You carnot do it here as
ful II iron Will ever be successfully made
in MINNESOTA.
That leaves you the farm. from which
living: Your cities, Your churches, your
schools. your universities. your lawyers,
your doctors: your merchants. your mil
the men who cultivate the soil, and this
must go on in Minnesota for all time.
,or1 HoW; what 5 are YOU doing to help the
yourself The State has ' a most - ex neip
lent experimental farm, or a department
TO tine no saf a %nShe sp 70 get d apes
preparations for the other end.
There was a time-let me see-twenty
ticularly in the northern part Of it. when
no rain fell from seed time until the 1st
6ed July bar1 The gIain stood green in the
pious showers fell and they made a little
more than half a crop. 1 didn't know as
mu a then as ! do now | was younger
Nelp the farmers Of the state. so that
they would not depend on one crop. I
thought l would help them to some good
Innocence Naughter) thought that when
they had the opportunity. they would take
eaesea herds Of If es got an Sav a
for myself. and brought out within two
years. mainly from the north of England
5us somefhing over go Of ehem Sere
d dds in this state: and less than
200 in SoTth nak 70 Now want to- say
more benefit from less than 200 than the
people of Minnesota did from $780, What
did they DO? Most Of them sold them.
killed them in the fall-and they were were
good winter pork! Naughter.) This is
actually. what they did with the pigs
with the stock which was bred from this
stock and for which paid prices as high
as $500 for single animal.
Farmers Misied by Demaeosues.
"They were misled. lot Of designing
demagogues -rank demagogues-whoc care
about. the wind that whistles. If they can
get his vote told the farmers that was
trying to reflect upon the great wheat
jure. its good namely bringing the best
stock that l could find and distributing, it
free OF price to the people Of the state
showed them that they might, in Mime
sofa: feed cattle successfully and send
friends from Illinois. I fed stock ten
miles from here, raised the fodder it ate
and have hat full of gold medals that
friends from illinois. and Missouri and
Iowa: and Nebraska, and Kansas, and In
Profits in Stock Raising.
Mr.. Hill proceeded to say that one year
he sent only. single steer to the live
stock show at Chicago because they had
pleuro- pneumonia down there. and he took
seven first prizes. He had taken the sweep
stakes against. all of the states when he
showed four or five animals He: said he
held for a Minnesota fed steer the high
est record in the United as States Of Per-
per cent killed in Chicago in competition
with all the states. AS illustrating prof
stea 55Ssf To sEe he 6ou hs
farm, ten miles from Minneapolis. He
1880 wo fdod aad so Ga1 the a
$500 per head, a profit Of $500 per
A Public Domain.
NOW, ii can do this, any farmer In
the state can do It, If he only will: The
time will come when he must do it. and
it is everybody's interest in the state to
see that he has t;1 fair oPPport uni
campaign song was uncle Sam Is Rich
Enough to Give Us All a Farm" Today
we can cultivate. All Of the agricultural
land that can be cultivated without irri-
ffep IS the nte9
moving out into Northwestern Canada,
west Of Winnings: where they can buy
mem woud IKE to no q TSey
have large area Of country. "A couple
statement in regard to their country, and
was to some extent misquoted, and I will
take occasion to to correct it. They have an
Of the United States. Only compare
lively small portion Of that can be cult
S Sasd S %te ah e haxS
they can cultivate. the land with profit.
and they raise good crops. North Of that
roads agreed to contribute $4,000 each for
Ave years to conduct campaign Of edu-
lecture and call upon men In public life
to urge them to- promote irrigation in
order to reclaim the PUBLIC domain which
the platform upon which they stood was:
II. That not another acre Of public
land shall ever hereafter De granted to
a. That the national government shall
bring water within the reach Of the set
tiers on public lands and settlers to pay
the cost In annual payments without in
g. That the timber and stone act.
the desert land act and the communication
clause OF the homestead act shall be re-
~. That the construction of the great
irrigation works shall proceed as rapidly
as the land is utilized for small farms