New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-03

day. We have an excellent lnStltu-
ton in our state agricultural college,
out how much attention does it receive
from the people of this state?
'sHow many people living in the
cities take an active part in what is
being done n the agricultural school?
"How large is the number of young
men and women who go there and who
are to head the farms that are to pro-
duce the wealth that is to support the
cities and the country.
81 worked hard for twenty five years
trying to advance the agricultural in
terests Of the Northwest, and in the
early days when [ had more enthusi-
asm and less knowledge, I spent a
good deal of money, trying to get
them to raise cattle. I spent of my
own money over $3.50, 200 to get them
to raise cattle and hogs and give them
good start. They killed the hogs in
many cases and made Christmas pork
of them. They sold the cattle because
they could get for good grade ami
NAL a year old SIS more than they could
for the scrub, and they sold the good
grade and kept the scrub.
"The foundation OF every mans
business in the Northwest goes back
primarily to the cultivation of the
land, and it rests nowhere else, and it
never will rest anywhere else, because
we have no other resources. Our for
ests are practically gone, our mines
will be exhausted within the active
lifetime of the men who are now active.
81 want to impress upon every man
the necessity, for himself, for the indi-
vidual, and for those who come after,
his boys and his girls, if they are to
make living in this state or in the
Northwest, it will be because that liv-
ing comes out Of the ground.
''The president appointed commits
sion a few months ago to ascertain
the condition of farm life in this coun-
try. think there were four or FIVE men
members of the commission, and they
were to make an examination and re-
port in sixty days. They spent an
afternoon at the agricultural farm
to find out what was best to do in
Minnesota.
1--WE might as we'll listen to the first
robin that comes in the spring and sits
on the bough of the tree and whistles;
it would have given us just as much
knowledge.
"a few years ago Denmark was a
poor country; the people were poor; a
quarter Of the people of Denmark lived
in one city. A woman developed a
system of dairying. She did more for
the kingdom of Denmark than all the
rulers of Denmark had done in the
last thousand years. Denmark is a
small country. They have 100000
people living on $4,000 square miles,
about one-ffth of the area ofthis state,
and of that 10000 square miles 5000
cannot be cultivated, it cannot be
drained, so they cultivate about 49,
900 square miles.
"They say, Well, let US have manu-
factories. There are few things we
can successfully manufacture, and to
do that you must have a supply OF
raw material, and that supply must be
furnished at the price that will enable
you to compete with other locations.
You must have a supply of labor
available at all times to carry on the
work, at the prices or wages that will
enable manufacturer to compete with
other localities, and then you must
have market for your manufactured
goods.
"We have a limited market for
manufactured goods; we have not any
great supply Of labor. We can make
clothing, we can make boots and
shoes, but there are not many articles
we can manufacture, off the farm, in
Minnesota. Take New England; New
England has sent men out from her
farms and her homes and her schools,
who have made their influence felt in
every channel; in learning, in the arts
and sciences, in commerce, and in
everything in this country, but today
how is it with New England? Their
forests are gone, they have no mines,
and the fertility of their soil is ex-
hausted.
s'Today, as an Intelligent New Eng
lander said to me the other day, their
principal products are college gradu-
ates and edged tools. Their cotton
manufactures have gone to the South
because an employe in cotton facto-
I ny can live cheaper in the South than
he can in New England. To begin
with, he has not to buy as warn
clothes for himself or his children or