The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-10-06

ton, 46S; West Virginia, 4OS: and finally. |
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 $2s.55.
IN Illinois the average value is S34.O2;
IN fndona' Iowa $32S6; in New York, ss2 43; in
Missouri. $50 Y; in North Dakota. $3.50; |
IN Ohio, $30.22; in PENNSYLVANIA, $3o.ss:
u s3a So south tn Ra Dakota ss1 o4 in Wisconsin,
be seen from these figures that Minnc-
sofa holds the lowest rank as to average
value in the entire agricultural column.
And this fact is traceable, of course, di-
fectly to the lack of care that has been
exercised in breeding, reflected in the
average e value of Minnesota bulls. which
Is $50, as against such average values
or S44.T in South Dakota SAG 10 in North
Dakota. S44.29 in Missouri S3S in Illinois
and Indiana, etc.
The figures show that the Minnesota
farmer gets an average Of only 500 O5 per
year out of each cow
Now. want you to pay close attention
10 thls because it means everything to \
wishes you we'll
He cited the case Of w. A. Brooks OF
Freeborn, who cleared an average of $5S
per COW against the general average OF
~; and A; l.: Mopen of Bancroft. who
average OF 7f5 gallons of milk per COW
per year, or 50 gallons above the highest
general average In the United States.
complished in Minnesota
In the Wheat Counties.
N for hired labor the wheat counties OF
NORTHERN Minnesota show an expenditure
against only Is cents In the southern
counties In live stock the northern coun-
tles snow a valuation of only $7S.59 per
capita and 81. 40 an acre. as against saS11
per capita and 81 40 per acre in the south
frn Rad section: rindn The wheat growers Of the
value of S6.32 per capita, while the farm
ers IN the southern tier realized S27.s5
The total dairy products in the wheat
section were valued at soo4,9s7 or an
average of So0t for each inhabitant In
%orh eE he or dairy an of
| S1754 per capita. The wheat farmers
have have only 47795 cows. against 131, 100 in
produced only 3s4.4 gallons each per an
num- against 41O.6. In value each cow IN
the sbs on north 1T Yielded only sis.9s as against
He said they might wonder why he
| urged the raising of wheat when the rail-
foaa fraia, Wo9ld ~ get so much more tonnage in
repled that the railroad would get
tp tpelgnt san enc enough 81 any way, and he wanted
| they continued raising wheat without di-
| versifcation they would exhaust the soil
adnd nnn nave ma a only m small crops for the rail-
road depended the prosperity OF the
| people. N1io
Lower Fre1Sht Rates.
| want to call your attention to what
mas been done in twenty-five wears in tho
| way OF railroad rates on the Great North
ern erna railway. ta. | 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
nVe years ago-our average rate paid hv
ihe people who used the railroad for
nmaauIlng "a ud ton of freight 100 miles was
49, Ss For Eo oo1 the year ending June 80 last
y He 1ar
thlrd OF what it was twenty-five wears
| ago. 'eaiS
red'diia, 9durtng that time, if we had made no
| twenty-five years ago, we wou1d baUa
| collected S677 100000 more than we did
ne nollfn: liz 1Hlhk W OF 1t! The amount is ap-
than three times much as we did col.
tect. me average reduction for twenty
| f1ve years is S27.OO0, ,O0O-and that is fro,,
| the railroad and warehouse commission,s
report Ihese figures are correct
Inc year closing June 30 at the rate of
| twenty-five years ago would have give 10 70
Ss1,ooo.0o0 more than we collected.
During that time we have had our divi-
uehds,-we nave not gone without any;
we nave had our dividends regularly ana
| have tried to give you your dividends
| want you to prosper with us. I want
you to realize that your prosperity IS
ours, and If you are poor we will sI1ffer
with you. A "oAei
With your great distance from the ulti-
mate markets you would pay the highest
rates OF any people in the Union and
WhomeVer else it might suit whomever
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 any one urges that upon you. ask him
! the question how he will discriminate in
your favor. If there was not discrimina-
| ton in your favor these prairies would
| lose their population.
Railroad Taxes
Now take our own load We pay about !
| 100000 year in taxes. or about what
| we get for hauling 100000 bushels of
wheat. That is about what we pay 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
alone s upon Stat what lat is shipped from stations
| that passes through the state going to a
neighboring or distant state. every ton
that passes s1n throTgh ba gong to fosegn
! to form the sum upon which the per-
centage of taxation is based.
n he may Tah h have
| yond the rate that we charge. Now, you
| have, because every dollar of expense
that we are at comes out of your pocket
| tion of the railroad. If there is a loss,
wreck. personal injury. or if we get
| that they want to be a little generous
| because the railroad has to pay it, they
simply deceive themselves. You pay IT.
| We are only the medium through which
you pay It,
All we want is fair play. We want Just
the same measure OF justice and the same
measure of protection that you want for
your property. If we have to pay $1,000
or s5, 900 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 1t.
| Land Is Good.
| have seen the time when the company
| was glad to get $5 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 l sup
| pose that land here is worth $40 or $50,
at least will bring $40 or $40. but let me
summer fallow and fertilize your land
] you can get 4 per cent or 5 per cent on
500 an acre in clear profit from every
| acre you cultivate. If that is the case,
| your land is worth $10O an acre, and you
| won't have to live very long before you
will find people who are willing to pay
| - q, ~ hetfor land In <hn or%sro