The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-07

Dad delivers an address he produces some
acts of startling significance which are
Torth considering and rejecting upon. He
spoke at a fair at Willmar, Kandlyoi.lI
county. few days ago and as usual f flS
remarks We're pregnant with 1000 80, aoe
thought. A large portion of his address,
was devoted to showing the farmers ~.
Minnesota and the Northwest how I nue..
more profitable they could make lnelr
labor and investment. He drew larSely
upon the late United States census report
20 show how much larger per acre earn
ingS are in other states tnan III N1Ilil ~
sofa asserting that the other states ulI
not have any more if as many natural
advantages as Minnesota. The cohlrdsI
With the neighboring state OF iowa SUI
;tantiated his argument with great IoIce.
owa was actually forced to apanuQil
wheat raising and go into live stock win
he result that she was according 20
enSns report pr9duSS 81 thirty years
go the great reliance of Iowa farmers
as raising grade of wheat known do
mber Iowa and now only the older Peoo
lie remember that there ever was SuCn d
hing as Amber Iowa.
If the farmers of Minnesota realized the
anne per acre in dollars and cents as the
armerS of Iowa. it would make a OIL
erence every year of over $75,OOO00O; ana
hat is too much money to pass IDLY ny
nd too large an amount not to be consio-
red and to make an effort to redeem 1t:
Acre for acre. Minnesota farm lands
Ire capable of producing as much OF
more wealth than the farm lands IN any
other division of the country; yet , aGr9
EXCEPTIONS, producing less, less IN Volunle'
less in value.
Agricultural states like Illinois, dndi-
ana Iowa. Michigan. New YORK. ONO,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are produc.
ing from $j.S3 to $500 on each acre or
their farm lands under cultivation. MIN
neSOta is producing only S4.SI
Yet in walking from the hall where We
had our lunch Mr.. Eddy, whom many OF
you know told me that on farm out
here Of about 500 acres he got an averase
of SO an acre, and he got it from his
cattle. I know when he told me he got
it from his cattle. he told the truth, be-
cause in no other way under the sun
could he get $40 per acre profit.
Minnesota Shy.
The agricultural workers of states like
Kansas. Nebraska. New York, Illinois,
North Dakota. Iowa, South Dakota, Mon
tana. Wyoming, Washington and oregon,
are producing yearly from S636 10 S;n91
workers, whether it is tho man who owns
the farm or the man who pays wages.
The agricultural workers OF Minnesota
are producing only $500
Illinois harvests a crop of grain and
hay worth $3.50, 100000. with an eXpendi-
ture of 50, 700, 900 for labor and the use OF
S21, 600. 600 worth Of machinery. The 9TH
er states in the agricultural column do
approximately as we'll; some better. Min
neSota expends $13,2O0,O00 for hired labor,
and uses machinery worth $50, 100000 to
harvest a hay and grain crop worth only
Labor in the United States averages
IT per cent Of the value of the crop.
In Minnesota it is 1913 per cent. or almost
90 per cent more.
Minnesota Cattle.
The average value per head of cattle
in Minnesota is only $19.37; the average
for the United States is SPLIT, and the
states ranges from S27 to $24.05. Bulls
in Minnesota have an average value of
only $2S25. In the United States the aV-
erage value of bulls is $34.49 and in the
leading agricultural states the value runs
from $47.32 in Iowa to $3S.25 in Illinois.
For each agricultural worker within
her, borders Iowa is marketing i've s st5s5
and meat products to the value of S32S.
as against an average of only SSl in Min
neSOta. In the other states the figures
run from two and one-half times to four
times as high as MinnesotaS, acre for
acre and man for man.
The value of live stock for each acre
of farm land is $3.50 in Minnesota. In
Iowa it is $S.O6, and from this figure it
runs down to 4.S5 in the other important
agricultural states
With most exceptional advantages for
sheep raising, Minnesota has only 594, 900
sheep as against Michigan's 100000
In producing values the average in Min
nesOta is 2.O5 per acre. In the other
important agricultural states it averages
about $50 In the dairy states, like New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
with which Minnesota has come to pit
herself, the value of production averages
over $50 per COW;
In Minnesota the average yearly pro-
ductiOn of milk for each cow is 403 gal
Ions; in Michigan it is $40 gallons: in
the United States it is 424 gallons; this
general average including the product of
all the loW-grade and non-dairying states.
The dairy farms of Minnesota produced
only 1928 per acre. In the United States
the average production on dairy farms
was $3.50, or . per cent greater. In the
important agricultural states the produc-
your own neighbor, Mr.. Eddy, makes $40
an acre here and every man who will do
the same as he does can make the same
revenue.
Hay and Forage.
In hay and forage Minnesota is pro-
ducing at the rate of $4.62 per acre on
3,157 $50 acres of her farm area devoted
to these crops. The average in the
United States is $7.S5, or almost twice as
great as Minnesota. The total value
of her hay and forage crop is $14, 5S5. PSI.
Illinois, on practically the same area,
raises a crop worth over $25,OOO,000, and
Ohio also on practically the same area,
raises a crop worth S20. O0O,O 600. Michigan
harvests a crop worth $21 100000, or
$1,000, 600 greater than Minnesota, on an
acreage less by threC-quarters of q mill
lion. The strength of these figures lies
in the fact that, with equal cultivation,
Minnesota has demonstrated her capacity
to produce more value per acre in hay
and forage than almost any other state
He told of his own Minnesota stock
farm and how year after year he sent
cattle to the Chicago fat stock show and
won a hatful of gold medals. One steer
from his farm competed with 20 head of
cattle at Chicago and took seven prizes,
including the sweepstakes.
Illinois, he said, took first rank as a
wheat state in 1880. In 1900 she had
dropped to fourteenth place. Ohio held
third place in 1880, producing 10 per cent
of the wheat of the country, while now
she produces only 7.6 per cent of wheat
She has so thoroughly diversified her
crops that she ranks well up in every
class. AS a result she produces $500 to
the acre, as against $4.S7 for Minnesota:
The net value of products per acre was
So SO in Wisconsin for 1900, or about 20
per cent above Minnesota.
wisconsin farmers reduced their wheat
average from 100000 in 1880 to $50, 900
hers from $780, 900 to 6,500OOO. Wiscon-
sin fell from ninth place in the wheat
row, with ga per cent of the whole crop,
to twenty-eighth place, with only IA per
cent. By intelligent diversification she
now manages to extract $1041 from
every acre of improved land she farms,
as against Only $685. of improved land in
Minnesota.
OF the farms in Minnesota 1873 per cent
range in area from 200 to 500 acres.
Throughout the United States the aver
age expended for hired labor on farms of
this area is $l66 per farm in Minnesota
it is $40 per farm, or 44.5 per cent
greater.
Minnesota ranks only twentv-second
among the states in the average produc-
finn Of milk per cow with a record of 4O2