The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-11
WILSON WEARS LOCKS
And TALKS CROPS
Nations Chief Aqriculturlst Sits
Up Without His Nightle and
Says Some Things

James Wilson, secretary of agricul-
ture, who is making a trip to the
Northwest, spent yesterday at the state
agricultural college, at st. Anthony
Park, and last evening registered at the
Ryan hotel
Secretary Wilson, having spent a
day, which his boss at Washington
might dominate as strenuous, retired
early to conform to habit he acquired
while a tiller of the soil. At 9 o'clock
he was wrapped in the winding sheets
of a soft bed in the Ryan, if not in the
arms of Morpheus.
1t was in this condition that news
paper man found him, and newspaper
etiquette prevents imparting to the
public that the agrarian member of
Roosevelt's cabinet dispenses with the
conventional .nightshirt and that his
hose-through which belligerent toes
had poked- several holes of correspond
ing dimensions-werec carefully deposit
ed on the handicapped center table
of the parlor bedroom in one of st.
PauPs SWEETEST hostelries.
Crop conditions in the Northwest
could not we'll be improved upon" said
y
country / covered in my trip from
Washington to st. Paul they are in
Variably flattering in their prospects of
yields in the autumn. Hay is heavy,
spring grains are looking very healthy
and there is good color to the growth.
Corn, of courses is yet q matter for the
future to unfold, as it is not sufficiently
developed to give any definite idea of
what the result will be. The area
planted to small grains is large. 1
have not the exact figures in my pos
session, but it is probable that there is
an increased acreage over last year,
for new areas are constantly being
added to the tillabIe lands Of the
Northwest. a'
No Returns Yet From Dry Lands
"No, there are no returns as yet
from the dry lands which vast schemes
of irrigation propose to reclaim and
make productive areas, The plans un-
der way by the national government
for the reclamation of the arid lands
of the mountain states contemplate the
addition to agricultural and grazing
lands of vast expanses~ of now worth
less lands, but do not anticipate any
results from this character of land for
year or two at the earliest. The res
erVoirS must first be built and the
great bitches constructed.
Prices for the product of this years
crops? The prospect for fair prices
is excellent. The domestic demand for
all kinds of foodstuffs manufactured
from grain promises TO be good and the
foreign demand, it is believed, will be
better than for some years. The war
in the far East means that the combat
ants and those intimately associated
with them must obtain their food sup
ply from foreign countries, and one
has only to think Of the vast sums that
both Russia and Japan are borrowing
to realize what the demand means
upon us for supplies. They do not
take these great sums out of the Unit
ed States when they borrow here, but
Spend the proceeds of their loans for
supplies. In means and breadstuffs
they must come to us for their sup
plies, for We are the greatest producers
in the world. When food is sought, we
sell it to them.'
Secretary Wilson spent yesterday at
the state school, the guest of Dean
Liggett and other members of the fac
ulty. Asked as to the work being done
| by Minnesota in the line of expert
mental agriculture, he said
States School at the Fore
'"The Minnesota school is in the very
| forefront of this work in the schools
and colleges of the country 1t is d
| pioneer in the movement, and the ma
! tional department of agriculture is al
| ways glad of it's cooperation in the
| work of experimentation and in the
| development of new ideas in agricuI-
| ture. The Minnesota school is doing
| an excellent work: a fine work along
| the line of meat production and of
! dairy production. Prof. Hacker has
! shown the rest of the country remark
| able results in feeding cows for dairy
| purposes, and others in the school have
| demonstrated the solidity of their
| ideas in feeding cattle for beef pur-
| poses.
! 1.-The school ranks high in almost
| every department of it's curriculum
| Prof. w, M. Hays is doing fine work
| in cooperation with the national bu-
reau of agriculture in creating and de-
veloping new varieties of wheat oats,
! barley, rye and corn. His results are
/ attained by cross breeding and SeIec-
| ton and are truly wonderful Our de-
partment is glad to assist in this work
! wherever possible, but the Minnesota
| school needs little help or advice from
| any source. 1t is in a class by it.
| SELF
| Secretary Wilson was at Madison,
| Wis, where a degree was conferred
| upon him by the University of Wis
| consin on Wednesday. He leaves to-
| day for his home in Tama county,
| Iowa, where he was a farmer before
being called to President McKinIey's
| cabinet eight years ago, and where
he said, last night he expected to be
a farmer when he concludes his serv-
| ices with the national government.
| II have been farmer all my life.
| and expect to be farmer at the end,'
| said the grizzled old veteran from the
| prairies of Iowa. 81 am the only farm
| er in the presidents cabinet, but the
| gentlemen of the cabinet treat me with
| as much consideration as though, like
they, was a polished professional
| man.
DANCING HALL RUMOR
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