Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-10-05
How THE FARMERS
CAN MAKE MONEY
j. J. Hill Proves by Census Reports That Farmers
Must Diversity Their Interests and Raise Live
Stock to Compete With Earnings in the Older
States.


OF the farms in Minnesota 1873 per cent
range in area from 2oO 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
ii is S24O per farm, or 44.5 per cent
greater.
Minnesota ranks only twenty-second
among the states in the average produc.
ton of milk per COW. with record OF 40s
The states ahead of her are: califor-
mia, 500 gallons; Connecticut: 54o: Dis
trict of Columbia, $50; Illinois. 40; In.
Maryland. 43o; Massachusetts, 512; Mich
igan, 549; New HAMPSHIRE. $780, New Jer-
sSey, 494 New York 315; Ohio, 52e:
| Tennessee. AS: Vermont. 526; Washing
| ton 46s; West Virginia, 4os: and finally.
Wisconsin. 473.
United States, which includes all the
| poor stock of Texas and the South. is
| S2a.6s, while, the average value Of the
dairy cows of Minnesota is only $2S.5o.
in Iowa, s32.56; in New York, $s2.4s; in
Indiana; s ST. in Michigan. $ao.s5;; IN
| in Ohio. $3O.22; in Pennsylvania. $3O.sa
IN South Dakota. $31.O4: in Wisconsin.
5000; in Washington. s3S.O1, etc 1t will
be seen from these figures that Minnie
sota. holds the lowest rank as to average
| value in the entire agricultural column.
And this fact is .traceable.~ of course. di-
|
exercised in breeding, as reflected in the
average . value Of Minnesota bulls. which
of ia as sagth naS Sofh sxsrage Nort
| Dakota. S4429 III Missouri, $3S in Illinois
| and Indiana. etc.
The figures show that The Minnesota
| farmer gets an average OF only $22.OJ per
| year out OF each COW.
III he cited the case of w. A. Brooks OF
per oor who cleared are an average Of ss
and he1d Il of who
Average ner age OF 7S9 gallons Of milk per COW
general average In the United States
These results showed what could be ac-
| cOmpllShed in Minnesota.
In the Wheat Counties,
For hired labor the wheat counties of
Northern Minnesota show an expenditure
OF $1;lt for each acre Of improved land.
| against only 70 cents in the southern
| counties, In live stock the northern coun-
les ,. show g. valuation of only $7s.59 per
per capita and 50 40 per acre in the south
ern section. The wheat growers Of the
H RHd river ~ se valley sold live stock to the
ers in the southern tier realized $27.S
| per capita.
The total dairy products in the wheat
average of 500 for each inhabitant. In
the southern tier the dairy products
M9rs q worth n.r $ s2 RI or an average Of
have only, 47,79o cows. against 131, 100 in
the, southern tier The northern cows
p9oueea nnty sd4 gallons each per an
the north yielded only 1888 as against
$22.22 in the south.
urged the raising of wheat when the rail-
road would get so much more tonnage in
r rrei,ghdt if wheat was raised; TO this ne
f frtghf en 1nnt the railroad would get
TO see the farmers prosper. Besides il
they continued raising wheat without d.
and have only small crops for the rail-
road depended on the prosperity '' Of the the
people.
Lower Freight Rates. II
want to call your attention to what
mas been done in twenty-five years in the
way or railroad rates on the Great North
ern railway | want to show you that
greater reductions have been made in the
average rate on the Great Northern than
he eyfe been sta made on any railroad in
I'VE years ago-our average rate. paid by
the TN, people who used the railroad for
sS ia 81 ar ton On Of freight 100 miles was
~ was ~ cents and mills, less than one
third of what it was twenty-five years
ago
During that time, if we had made no
reduction. If we had collected the rate of
Twenty-Five years ago, we would have
coieet TSn % 20 more NOR than we did
palling. We would have collected more
| than three times much as We did col
lect. The average reduction for twenty
five years is $27. 600, OOO-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 us
$751; ,OOO.OOO more than We collected.
During that time We have had our divi-
dends,-we have not gone without nnv
We have had our dividends regularly. and
l have tried to give YOU your dividends
WIN your great distance from the ultf-
q" aex y peop you'd Pay the highest
whomever else it might suit, whomever
else else 1T might e benefit. it will never benefit
You would be bearing the burdens OF
older and more popuous states and YOU
would be crushed into the earth.
Railroad Taxes
| Now take our own load We nav abo,t
! SG'0,WO year in taxes. or about what
we get for hauling 12.000.nOO' bushels Of
wheat That is about what we pay in
After we have paid our men, after we
have maintained the road. then the next
alone upon what is shipped from stations
in the State of Minnesota Every ton
that passes through the state going to
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
in proportion as you use the tranSporta-
ton of the railroad. If there is a loss
a wreck a personal injury. or il we get
before a jury and those on the jury feel
that they want to be little generous
because the railroad has to pay it, they
simply deceive themselves. You paw If
We are only the medium through which
you pay 1T.
All we want is fair play, We want lust
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