Morris tribune., 1908-11-14
TITS GOOD TO LIVE in MINNESOTA.

good little better than their neighbors
Nothing is more satisfying to the average
mortal than the consciousness that no one in
little better around the corner. Citizens of
Minnesota can swell with pride of this sort
multitude of subjects, and people in other parts
of the country are just beginning to realize
what perfect paradise there is here. Mime
sofa raises only little cotton, and oranges are
scarce, but of those things which should be
raised here and for which the state is fitted few
commonwealth surpass Minnesota Compari-
sons with neighboring states only rebound to
the advantage of this state, and those acquaint-
ed with the various portions of Minnesota say
that all the good tidings have mot yet been told.
Nearly every state has one large central
fair, called the state fair. Minnesota has one
But no other state has such an attendance
the one at Hanline. Statisticians must bring
in national expositions or leave the country to
find adequate comparisons. Minnesota also
raises race horses, the fame of Kentucky not
withstanding but there has been betting at
the principal horse races of this state for years.
while New York nearly cried itself sick when
form of gam bling. Minnesota is counted as an
agricultural state, but also does little mining,
which little is so much that most of the steel
mills of the country would stop if Minnesota
dropped off the map. But the state is not
sponsible for the presence of mountains of iron,
nor are the citizens responsible for the fertility
of the SOIL but presuming that the soil is not
better than in other parts of the Mississippi
valley the farmers of this state take the blue
ribbon average value Of crops
This state raised 1O1 bushels of potatoes to
the acre in 1907. Its nearest competitor was
North Dakota with 80 bushels Illinois raised
only 81 bushels, but because of the proximity to
the larger market Illinois farmers got $62 for
their 81 bushels as against $41 for Minnesotas s.
The development of the state and the ncom-
ing of additional people will soon raise the
value of the product. But prices being as they
are, the average value of the yield of each acre
in Minnesota, considering cereals, hay and
potatoes, was $12.27 last year and the average
value of this cultivated land was $37. In
Illinois each acre on the same basis raised
1850 worth of crops, but the land was valued
at $152 acre. In other words, farmer com
ing from Illinois to Minnesota could invest the
value of his older farm in Minnesota land and
from the same capital in land secure a crop
nearly four times as valuable But, in com
parison with Iowa, Minnesota actually leads
that great agricultural state in the average
value acre for the crops considered. The
Iowa cereal, hay and potato crop worth
S118O acre last year as opposed to 1927 in
this state, and land in Iowa worth $40 as
opposed to $37 an acre in Minnesota This
means that the average Iowa farmer could sell
his farm and invest in cultivated land in this
state and get more than twice as large return
on the money.
This state makes so much butter that the
farmers are getting money SO fast that no Wall
street panic affects Minnesota, and the butter
is SO good that1he state will soon have to build
a building to hold the numerous banners cap
tured in national butter contests. Perhaps the
presence of the dairy herds help in making the
hay yield of the state larger per acre than in
any height boring state. When corn is consid-
cred Iowa is the state thought of, yet an acre of
corn in Iowa was worth only $12.69 last year
and $3.50 in Minnesota. Iowa also raised 24.2
Bushels of oats to the acre, but Minnesota had
24.5 buehels.
There are only twenty-five people to the
square mile in this state and five times that
nu mber will be welcomed and well taken care
Of No advertising manager ever had better
to boost than has the state immi-