The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-01-29

reached such great proportions, the
annual meetings of the State Agricul-
tural Society have become landmarks
in the history of the state. The one
held in Minneapolis last week was per-
haps 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:
There Is more intelligence, more pa
trlotlsm, more Of everything that goes
t to make good eiizensh on the
early days to the present. Many Of us US
ago. we called the late unpleasantness.'
the men left their plows in the burrows.
half way across the field, to follow the
sons were the. men who most distin-
Country life is better fitted to develop
better opportunity p if he will take ad-
upon! the fathers .and, mothers. if they
upon. the farm should not look forward
to, the, time when they can leave it.
snd soak ey Saw a AND a e aw
to look for a job. Better men and bet
~; women live in the country. The time
afford to lose sight Of the interests OF Of
the people who live on the land.
=. tSv thing that is Of value comes out
s~a-four sources from which everything
that is worth having comes.
had New we en hay ye,a not got the sea- we
where are they? They are so far gone
that ten. or fifteen years will wipe them
out entirely. The. trees that are. left
all counted: You have in Minnesota the
most valuable iron mines in the world
yon es do IS to &
with steam shovels and take it to other
parts of the country where they have coal
iron and steel: You cannot do it here as
full i iron will ever be successfully made
That leaves YOU the farm, from which
living; Your cities, your churches. your
your doctors, your merchants. your mil.
lers, everybody makes his living out Of
the men who cultivate the soil. and this
must go on in Minnesota for all time.
Now. what are you doing to help the
farmer: 70 help him means to help
yourself. The state has a most excel
attached to the state university 1t does
little more now than help to get ap-
preparations LOT the Other END.
'''There was a time-let me see-twenty
years last spring, in this state. and par
tlcularly in the northern part of it.. when
of a The gra 19eo stoo %e g the t
fields, barely living. In July some CO.
pious showers fell and they made little
more more than han half crop didn't know as
and had less experience. I thought I would
help the farmers. of the state, so that
thought | would Ahelp them To some pood
stock and cattle and hogs And in my
limo Innocence (laughter) thought that when
a sot and 9e dary
for myself and I brought out within two
bulls, Some thing. over 500 Of them were
a ada Ri %e5t in this state and less than
that the people of North Dakota derived
more benefit from less than zoo than the
did they do? Most of them sold them.
killed them in the fall-and they were
actually what they did with the pigs
that l brought from the old country. or
with the stock which was bred from this
stock and for which paid prices as high
as $500 for single animal.
Farmers MIsIed by Demaeoaues.
"They were misled A lot Of designing
about the wind that whistles. il they can
trying to reflect upon the great wheat
raising state OF Minnesota. trying to in
lure it's good namely bringing the best
Tree OF price to the people Of the state.
It was discouraging,. but kept it up and
s6fa 3et them na that they mgh in Mnne
stock from Minnesota to compete with our
friends from Illinois. fed stock ten
and f hsye Sst a d. the fodder it
! took In competition in Chicago with our
friends from Illinois, and Missouri and
d dGWa; and Nebraska and Kansas and In
Profits In Stock Raising.
Mr.. Fill proceeded TO say that one year
he he's, sent only single steer to the live
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 States Of per
eent ssnt Of ,; dressed to live weght
It in stock raising in Minnesota he re-
e o sna aS he tSe bought e
farm, ten miles from Minneapolis He
paid $4,000 for the steers. gave them
$3.50 per head. a profit o Of $500 S' p a
n PUBLIC Domain.
Nov, If can do this, any farmer in
the state s,3;; can do it. If he only viii: The
It is everybody's interest in the state to
see that he has fair opportunity.
There was a time when our popular
Sampaign song was Uncle Sam IS Rich
Enough to Give Us All a: Farm Today
We, we can an cultivate. Al Of the agricultural
cation is gone and the people are selling
their homes in the United States and
moving out into Northwestern Canada,
west Of Winnipeg, where they can buy
land at from Sc to SO an acre. More
people have gone there than many of our
men would like to acknowledge: They
have large area Of country. A couple
Of months ago. at Bismarck. I made a
statement IN regard to their country, and
take occasion to correct it. They have an
area north of US equal practically to that
Of the United States. Only a Compare
lively small portion Of that can be cult
waited with profit. They probably have an
area three times that of Minnesota, where
they can cultivate the land with profit,
and they laise good crops. North OF that
II Is too near the north pole.''