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


The average value of dairy cows in the
United States, which includes all the
poor stock of Texas and the South, is
dairy cows of Minnesota is only $3.50.
In Illinois the average value is $34.O2;
in Iowa, $32.56; in New York S32.43; in
Missouri, $3o72; in North dakota $3.50;
in Ohio, $3O.22; in Pennsylvania, $30.SS;
in South Dakota, $31.04 in wisconsin:
be seen from these figures that Mime
sofa holds the lowest rank as to average
value in the entire agricultural column.
And this fact is traceable, of course. di-
rectly to the lack of care that has been
exercised in breeding, as reflected in the
average value of Minnesota bulls, which
is $28 %, as against such average values
Dakota. $44.2 % i'll Missouri, $3S in Illinois
and Indiana, etc.
The figures show that the Minnesota
farmer gets an average of only so. 05 per
year out of each COW.
Now. 1 want you to pay close attention
to this because it means everything to
you and it means everything to me. who
wishes you we'll.
He cited the case of W. A. Brooks of
Freedom, who cleared an average of $5S
per COW against the general average OF
So. and A. L. Monen of Bancroft, who
had herd of Shorthorns producing an
average OF 765 gallons of milk per cow
per year, or 50 gallons above the highest
general average In the United States.
These results showed what could be &C
cOmpliShed in Minnesota
In the Wheat Counties.
For hired labor the wheat counties of
Northern Minnesota show an expenditure
of $1.14 for each acne of improved land
against only rs cents in the southern
counties. In live stock the northern coun-
ties show. a valuation of only $3.50 per
capita and 81 an acre, as against sos. II
per capita and $40 per acre in the south
ern section. The wheat growers of the
Red river valley sold live stock to the
value of $500 per capita. while the farm
ers In the southern tier realized $27.85
per capita.
The total dairy products in the wheat
average of 1904 for each inhabitant In
the southern tier the dairy products
were were worth S2915o69;, or an average of
have only 47.795 cows. against 131 100 in
the southern tier The northern COWS
produced only 1914 gallons each per an
the north yielded only 1883, as against
$22.22 in the south
He said they might wonder why he
urged the raising of wheat when the rail-
road would get so much more tonnage in
freight II wheat was raised. To this he
replied that the railroad would get
freight enough any way. and he wanted
to see the farmers prosper. Besides if
they continued raising wheat without di-
versifcation they would exhaust the soil
and have only small crops for the rail-
road. depended on the prosperity of the
people.
Lower Freight Rates.
[ want to call your attention to what
mas been done in twenty-five years in the
way of railroad rates on the Great North
efn railway. | want to show you that
greater reductions have been made in the
average rate on the Great Northern than
nave ever been made on any railroad in
the United States. In 1SS1-Or twenty
i've years ago-our average rate, paid by
VTyhn he
hauling ton of freight 100 miles was
S2.SS. For the year ending June 20 last
it was 20 cents and 2 mills, less than one
ago.
During that time, if we had made no
reduction, If we had collected the rate of
tW1e9nty-1Ve eo- years ago, we Would have
collected $677 100000 more than we did
collect. Think of it! The amount is an
palIlng We would have collected more
tha tn three times as much as we did col
Iect. Ihe average reduction for TWENTY
five years is $4,000, 000,-and that is from
the railroad and warehouse commissions
report. These figures are correct
The year closing June 30 at the rate of
twenty-five years ago would have give rs
SSl,O00,COO more than we collected
during that time we have had our diyi-
oenqs'-We nave not gone without any;
we have had our dividends regularly and
| nave tried to give you your dividends
L want you to prosper with u.s. I want
you to realize that your prosperity /,
18th you.
With your great distance from the u1ti-
mate markets you would pay the highest
who's S any ese pG # in the Union and
else it might benefit, it will never benefit
the people of the West or the Northwest
You would be bearing the burdens of
older and more populous states and Won
would be crushed into the earth. When
any one urges that upon you, ask him
the question how he will discriminate in
your favor. If there was not discrimina-
tlOn IN your favor these prarieS would
lose their population
Railroad Taxes
Now take our own load We paw about
100000 a year in taxes. or about what
we get for hauling 100000 bushels of
wheat. That is about what we pav in
taxes. Ours is not all profit. remember
After we have paid our men. after we
have maintained the road then the next
charge is the tax. But that tax is not
in the State of Minnesota. Every ton
that passes through the state going to a
neighboring or distant state. every ton
that passes through going to a foreign
country, swells the earnings and helps
to form the sum upon which the per-
centage of taxation is based.
Possibly you may feel that YOU have
no interest in the raih Dads business be-
yond the rate that we charge. Now. Won
have, because every dollar of expense
that we are at comes out of your pocket
A.
ton of the railroad. If there is a loss
a wreck, a personal injury, or if we gef
! before a jury and those on the jury feel
that they want to be a little generous
because the railroad has to pay it. thew
simply deceive themselves. You paw II
We are only the medium through which
you pay it,
All we want is fair play. We want lust
the same measure of justice and the same
measure of protection that you want for
YOUR property. If we have to pay 81 ,O00
or $4,000 or $4,000 more than we ought
to. it is simply charged up to EXPENSE
we have no other account to charge it to:
T. is part of the cost of running the rail-
road, and you pay it.
Land Is Good.
I have seen the time when the company
was glad to get So an acre for the land
Well, they hadn't any business holding
land to speculate upon it, at even that
price; as long as anybody wanted it, bet
ter let them open up farm But I sup
/ pose that land. here is worth $40 or $50.
at least will bring $40 or 500, but let me
say to you that if you will get stock and
summer fallow and fertiize your land
you can get 4 per cent or per cent on
500 an acre in clear profit from every
acre you cultivate. If that is the case,
your land is worth 500 an acre, and you
won't have to live very long before you
will find people who are willing TO pay
you 500 an acre.
There is no better land in the entire
West or in the Union for diversified
farming than Minnesota. You can raise
every animal that is raised with a profit
in any state in the Union. You can make
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