The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-07


Saint Paul, Mimi, June G.
Bound for Texas is the slo-
gan of several hundred farm families
that have rendezvoused in Saint Paul
during the past sixty days for the pill
grimage to far-off Texas, and the
number and quality of the farmers
who have been interested in the far
off lands of that state is beginning to
arouse considerable comment and ac-
tiyity among Minnesotans who have
been brought face to face during the
past year with the fact that although
Minnesota has gained heavily in pop
ulation by incomers from other states,
it has also lost heavily to states hav-
ing wide areas of fertile farm lands
The Texas movement has several
peculiar characteristics which differ
entiate it from movements during the
past several years to other sections
of the continent. Texas does not lie
in the natural path of immigration
from the Northwestern states. In eli
mate it is somewhat similar to Mime
sofa, but in many other important
characteristics it is quite different.
/ There was no interest in Texas in the
farm districts of Minnesota until
eighteen months ago, when land firms,
many Of them located in Saint Paul,
became interested in Texas and be-
gan to promote the movement of able
Minnesota farmers to that state
The Texas movement is therefore
the direct result of advertising, and
the success of the advertising is best
illustrated in the fact that single
train leaving Saint Paul within six
weeks carried 100 families out of
Minnesota to become settlers on the
new lands in Texas. This is a fair
example of Minnesota's contribution
to the development of that state and
could be duplicated-perhaps not
frequently in such marked fashion
in many other instances
Texas has successfully appealed to
the older portions of Minnesota.
which began to become important
agriculturally as early as the years
Immediately preceding the Civil War
In these districts lands have become
very valuable The farm commune
ties have filled up until the soil is
generally titled Families have in
creased and the grown sons and mar
ried daughters have found it impossi-
bic to secure adequate farming tracts
adjacent to the family home and have
been forced to consider locations else
where. With such situation the
appeals of other states having large
areas of wild land, have fallen upon
receptive minds and instances have
multiplied themselves where father
and sons and married daughters have
decided to move in toto to districts
where the old folks and the young
folks can secure adjacent farms and
start new. The sale of the valuable
Minnesota farm lands, this being
true principally in the older districts
of Minnesota, has netted very COM
Portable sums, entirely sufficient for
the purchase of large areas elsewhere, T
with a surplus left over in the bank
Good Glass of MinnesOtans.
Minnesota's contributions to Texas
will prove of the utmost value to that
state. The men who have gathered
in Saint Paul for their journeys to
new nOnSS are SApSIIeuC6Qs udIQ- g.
headed practical farmers who know
the business of agriculture and how to
make money at it. Their farm impIe-
ments and household goods have gone {
by freight and constitute an admir-
able and wholly adequate equipment
for their new work. Minnesota has
taught these men how to raise cereal
crops to advantage, and has given
them exceedingly valuable practical
experience in stock raising of hogs
for profit, and as well has taught them
how to develop and successfully main
tain the dairy industry The section
from which the bulk of the south
western movement has come is one
which has led the entire United
States in the development of cooper
alive creameries, successfully carry
ing them through the early stages of
their existence, when many causes
were conspiring to sap the confidnce
of the farmers in the practicability of
the plan. There is no creamery in
dustry in the world except that of
Denmark which turns out a better pro- /
duct than that produced in this par
ticular section of Minnesota, or which
is turning back into the pockets of
the farmers greater net profits. These
farmers know the detail of the success
full organization and operation OF
such projects.