The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-02-26
SAINT PAUL LETTER.

When it is remembered that TO-
600 head Of cattle find their way
from the northwest into Iowa and
Illinois every year to be fed and sold
at a profit in Chicago. and that
about $4,000 worth of dead car
casses are shipped into Minnesota
alone, it is evident that the north
west is losing large sum Of money
annually to the cattle feeders Of
illinois and Iowa. Attention is be-
ing directed to this condition Of
things IN Saint Paul and the ques-
ton IS being asked, how can the
intelligent farmer work his land,
and what system of cropping can he
adopt in order to keep it in high
state of fertility so that he can raise
enough grain to fatten the cattle
which are raised in the northwest,
and so put into his pockets the
profits which are finding their way
into the pockets of the southern
cattle feeders. That this desirable
condition of things can be brought
about has been demonstrated by the
Agricultural College of Minnesota.
If only the rank and file of farmers
can be prevailed upon to adopt the
most modern methods not only
would they become richer but the
northwest would add about 6,000,-
900 year to its income.
Jim Hill, the railroad magnate of
Saint Paul. believes that there will
be decrease in railroad earnings
this coming summer, but he is of
opinion that this decrease will not
affect the conditions in the north
west. From all parts of the coun-
try reports are coming in that in
dustrial conditions are improving,
and it is certain that in the north
west the farmers will plant as much
wheat this year as ever. The Great
Northern railway reports a large
increase in its gross earnings for
January. The comparison is made
with the corresponding month Of
last year, when the road was severe
ly handicapped by the severity OF
the weather.
1t is an old scientific idea that nc
one dies natural death. Were il
not for various means of slow pois.
oning for which science has not yet
found an antidote, men could go or
living forever. DR.. Louis B. Wilson
Of Rochester, who delivered a lee.
ture before large audience at
Saint Paul advanced the theory that
life was considerably shortened, in
the human being, on account of the
presence in the human body of 9
superfous amount of stomach and
intestines. If only these could be
dispensed with, the lecturer urged
l
human life might be definitely pro.
longed. In support of this theory
the lecturer ascribed the blame to
the improvements in modern meth
DDS of cooking food which, he says,
has done away with the necessity
for the grinding apparatus in the
lower regions of the stomach. Be
ing out of employment, as it were,
this part of the human body carries
on a crusade agrinst the health of
the whole system, generates cancers
and other diseases and is responsibly
for many Of the germs which short
en- human life. The appendix and
the gall bladder have long been de-
clared useless by eminent physi-
clans, but it is a question how many
people will seek to prolong their
lives by submitting to the operation
Of having about six feet of their
intestines cut out.
Furs are not likely to depreciate
in value, and skunk has always beer
more or less popular. The state
ment that a skunk farm has beer
established in some locality has al.
ways been received. with derision or
account Of the odium with which q
skunk is held when alive. But there
is quite difference between skunk