Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-10-05

worth considering and rejecting upon. He
spoke at fair at Willmar kandiyohi
:emarks We're pregnant with food for
| thought. A large portion of his address
was devoted to showing the farmers OF
more profitable they could make their
labor and investment. He drew largely
lpon the late United States census report
lngs are in other states than in Mime
sofa asserting that the other states did
not have any more If as many nan natural
with the neighboring state of Iowa sub
stantiated his argument with great force
Iowa was actually forced to abandon
wheat raising and go into live stock with
census report producing $500 per acre
against Minnesota's S4.G7. Thirty cars
| ago the great reliance of Iowa farmers
was raising grade of wheat known as
Amber Iowa and now only the older peo-
pie remember that there ever was such a
| thing as Amber Iowa.
| If the farmers of Minnesota realized the
same per acre in dollars and cents as the
farmers of Iowa. it would make diff
| ference every year of over $4,000. 600; and
| that is too much money to pass idly by
and too large an amount not to be constd-
| cred and to make an effort to redeem it.
| Acre for acre, Minnesota farm lands
are capable of producing as much or
more wealth than the farm lands in any
| other division of the country; yet acre
| for acre, they are with inconsequential
exceptions, producing less, less in volume.
| less in value.
Agricultural states like Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa. Michigan. New York. Ohio,
Pen1Syyana % and Wisconsin y Sc are produo
| their farm lands under cultivation. Min
nesota is producing only $4s7
| Yet in walking from the hall whore we
| had our lunch, Mr.. Eddy, whom many of
| you know, told me that on farm out
| here OF about 800 acres he got an average
| of $40 an acre, and he got it from his
~ Fla -i,.yN hn {.1l In,
| 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
Forth Dakota Iowa, South Dakota, Mon
| ta.na, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon,
are producing yearly from SR56 to %l.0i;i
each. Now, 1 speak of the agricultural
workers, whether it is the man who owns
the farm or the man who pays wages.
| The agricultural workers of Minnesota
are producing only 1929.
| hay worth $155,00O,OOO, with an cxpendi-
| ture of 50, 100000 Tor labor and the use of
| 21OnO,00O worth of machinery. The 9th
err states in the agricultural column do
| approximately as We'll; some better Min
| nesota expends $l3,200O00 for hired labor.
| and uses machinery worth SO. 100000 to
harvest q hay and grain crop worth only
| 19.OOO,O 600.
| Labor in the United States averages
! II per cent of the value of the crop.
| In Minnesota it is 1913 per cent, or almost
| 80 per cent more
Minnesota Cattle.
The average value per head of cattle
in Minnesota is only S19.37: the average
for the United States is SPLIT, and the
average for the important agricultural
| in Minnesota have an average value of
only $2S.25. In the United States the av-
erage value of bulls is $34 40, and in the
1aoI dino CT
| from $47.32 in Iowa to $3S,25 in Illinois.
For each agricultural worker within
her borders Iowa is marketing live stock
and meat products to the value of S32S.
| as against an average of only SS1 in Min
nesota. In the other states The figures
run from two igs and one,haf times to four
The value of live stock for each acre
OF farm land ID is is $3.50 in Minnesota Iii
| runs down to S4S5 in the other important
agricultural states.
With most exceptional advantages for
sheep as against Michgans 2, 100000.
In producing values the average in Min
nesota is S22o3 per acre. In the other
about $50. In the dairy states, like New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
with which Minnesota has come to pit
over $50 per COW.
In Minnesota the average yearly pro-
duction of milk for each COW is 400 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.
only 1925 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-
ton per acre ran as high as $1O.34. And
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 md Forage.
In hay and forage Minnesota is pro-
ducing at the rate of $4.62 per acre on
1857 $50 acres of her farm area devoted
to these crops. The average in the
great as Minnesota. The total value
Of her hay and forage crop is $14 $50 PSI.
| Illinois, on practically the same area,
i raises q crop "e:th eyer SO DOC. 600 and
| raises crop worth $20,O00.0OO. Michigan
| harvests a crop worth $2l,00O,OOO, or
! $7,0O0,000 greater than Minnesota, on an
acreage less by threc-quarters of n mil
| 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
| in the Union.
He told of his own Minnesota stock
farm and how ", year after year he sent
| won hatful CT gold medals. One steer
| from his farm competed with 70 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 76 per cent of wheat
| She has so thoroughly diversified her
| crops that she ranks well up III every
| class. AS a result she produces $500 to
| the acre. as against S4.S7 for Minnesota,
The net value of products per acre was
| So 80 in Wisconsin for 1900, or about 2(
4 per cent above Minnesota.
| Wisconsin farmers reduced their wheat
| average from 100000 in 1880 to 55o,OOf
| acres in 1900 while Minnesota Increased
| hers from 100000 to 6,50O,OOO. Wiscon-
| sin fell from ninth place in the swhea,
| row, with "a per cent of the whole crop
| to twenty-eighth place, with only IA PEI
| cent. By intelligent diversif1cation She
| now manages to extract $1041 from
every acre of improved land she farms
as against oEly $685. Of improved land in
| Minnesota.
| OF the farms in Minnesota 1873 per cent
! range in area from 200 to $50 acres
| Throughout the United States the aver.
age expended for hired labor on farms OF
| this area is sl66 per iarm: in Minnesota
| 1t is s24O per farm. or 40 per cent
| greater.
| Minnesota ranks only twenty-second
| among the states in the average produc.
| ton of milk per COW. with a record of 40:
| gallons per annum.
! The states ahead of her are: Califor-
MIA, 500 gallons; Connecticut: 545; Dis
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