The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-10-06

worm considering ana rejecting upon. ne
county, few days ago and as usual his
remarks We're pregnant with food FOR
thought. A large portion of his address
Minnesota and the Northwest how much
more profitable they could make their
labor and investment: He drew largely
upon the late United States census report
20 snow how much larger per acre earn
ings are in other states than in Minne-
sofa asserting that the other states did
advantages as Minnesota. The contrast
with the neighboring state of Iowa sub
Stimulated his argument with great force.
the result that she was according to
agans q $50 per
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
thing as Amber Iowa.
If the farmers of Minnesota realized the
same per acre in dollars and cents as the
ference every year Of over S75,000OOO; and
that is too much money to pass idly by
and too large an amount not to be consid-
Acre for acre. Minnesota farm lands
are capable of producing as much or
more wealth than the farm lands in any
for acre. they are, with inconsequential
exceptions, producing less, less in volume.
less in value.
Agrieultural states like Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa. Michigan. New York. Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are produc-
ing from S5.ss. to $500 on each acre of
nesota is producing only $4.S7.
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 average
of $40 an acre. and he got it from his
cattle {: tile, ! know when he told I'D, me he got
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,
tana, Wyoming. Washington and oregon,
each: Now, / speak Of the agricultural
The agricultural workers of Minnesota
are producing only S625.
hay worth sl55, ooo. 600, with an expendi-
ture of SO, 100000 for labor and the of
S21. 100000 worth of machinery. The 9TH
approximately as well; some better. Min
nesota expends $13,2oO,Ooo for hired labor.
and uses machinery worth S22,Goo,0oo to
$119. oOO. 900.
Labor in the United States averages
% per cent OF. the value of the crop.
90 per cent more.
Minnesota Cattle.
The average. value per head of cattle
in Minnesota is only Sl9.37; the average
for the United States is SPLIT, and the
States ranges mgr 'f from %2 ST to s hns
in Minnesota have an average value of
only s2s25 In the Unit ed States the
from 1912 in Iowa to $as.15 in Illinois.
!, For each agricultural worker. within
and meat products to the value of $:2S.
as against an average of only $S1 in Min
nesota. In the other states the figures
times as high as Minnesota's. 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 $500 and from this figure IT
runs down to S4.s5 in the other important
agricultural states.
sheep raising. Minnesota has only $4,000
In produs s5Y ~ values the average in Min
important agricultural states it averages
about $50. In the dairy states, like New
W YGu5 w heT and d. Pennsylvania
herself, the value of production averages
over $50 per COW.
aua In 9 on @k t fas easb yearly
Ions; IN Michigan it is $40 gallons: in
the United States it is 424 gallons; this
gH,n era ayerge ineYding the product of
The dairy farms of Minnesota produced
only 500 per acre In the United States
the ssyer n production duo on dairy farms
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 and Forage.
In hay. and forage Minnesota is pro-
d1ein sao at the rate be OF 62 per acre on
to these crops. The average in the
United States is S7.s5. or almost twice as
great as Minnesota. The total value
Illinois. on practically the same area,
Ohio. also on practically the same area,
S7.OOO,OOO greater than Minnesota. on an
acreage less by threc-qunrters of n mil
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 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 we'll up In every
class. AS result she produces IS 30 to
the acre. as against S4.S7 for Minnesota.
The net value of products per acre was
$3.50 in Wisconsin for 1900, or about 90
per cent above Minnesota.
Wisconsin farmers reduced their wheat
average from 100000 in 1880 to 55O,OOO
acres in 1900. while Minnesota increased
hers from 100000 to 8,5OO,OOO Wiscon
gin fell from ninth place in the wheat
row, with "a per cent of the Whole crop.
to twenty-eighth place, with only IA per
cent. By intelligent Investigation She
now manages to extract $1O.41 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 zoo to 500 acres.
Throughout the United States the aver
age expended for hired labor on farms of
this area is $166 per farm: in Minnesota
1t is s240 per farm. or 44.5 per cent
greater.
Minnesota ranks only twenty-second
among the states in the average produce
ton of milk per cow, with a record Of 4O3
gallons per annum.
The states ahead of her are: Califor-
mia, 500 gallons; Connecticut. 545: Dis