The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-02-02

the IacLS. Really however, Was ],
more intererted III some work which |.
Mr.. Bede talked absut his helping to [
do in Pine countys along suppose,
/ to be in fashion, I should say con-
sentative and State development
| lines. BY whatever name you call
| it, it struck me as being specially
good work and worthy of emulation. |
What Mr.. Bede is helping to do in |
Pine county is just this, and it is to
be noted it is an entirely new depar-
ture. They are going to get there a
county agricultural instructor. He is
not going to teach school that is not
in the ordinary sense. He is going to
spend his time going around among
the farmers. He is going to instruct
them at the home stead in modern
methods Of agriculture. How to sell
ect seed; how to prepare the ground
for it; how to plant or sow: how to
cultivate. He is not only going to
/ tell them how to do these things.
He is going to be with them and see
that they do them right. He is go-
ing to advise the farmer who wants
to buy mich COW how to select
one; how to feed her to get the Lest
results; how to care for the milk
and how to test it. He is going to
give advice about fattening hogs
and the care of horses, sheep and
poultry. And he's going to be on his
job all the time in Pine county,
lecturing. demonstrating and having
heart to heart talks with the farmer
at his freside. don't know how that
is going to strike the farmers: but it
seems to me that the right sort of
man who set himself honestly to do
that kind of work and knew how to
| do it, could do world of good and
earn his salary for the county many
times over if his instruction were
taken in the right spirit and made
the right use OF.
Exactly what was done at the con-
ference in the governors office the
other day no fellow seems able
exactly to find out. This much,
however, seems certain that imme-
diatly on the governors return from
Washington and before he had time
to get breath, a serried phalanx of
Republican executive officials, con-
sisting of the secretary Of State, the
State treasurer, the State auditor
and the members Of the railroad and
i warehouse commission, with sternly
fixed features and blood in their
eyes, made an onslaught on the exc
cutiye Office and, after a brief on
slaught, succeeding in occupying it.
Exactly what happened after that
no one who knows seems willing to
tell.
/ The attitude of the delegation was
said to be this: That by virtue Of
the representative positions they oc
cupied, they had a right to voice
in the administration Of public
affairs: that they had never been
thus consulted, that by reason of
the governors failure to seek in
/ formation and advice they were
ready to furnish him, he had fallen
into error and been led into indis-
cretions in act and in utterance
which had subjected the admins
tration to criticism; that in future
these errors and this criticism would
), be avoided if the governor take
counsel of his friends and the auth
orized Republican leaders as repre-
sented by the visiting delegation.
At the conclusion Of the confer
ence there was mutual expressions
of confidence and regard. 1t can
authoritatiyely be stated that there
was no open rupture. Nevertheless
from what has since emanated from
the executive Office; from the talk
INDUCED in Of a new Kitchen Cabi-
net this time self-appointed; from
what those in the governors conf
dence. after talking with him, have
, said of the visit and its purpose, the
impression has got out that the
governor is inclined to resent State
capitol dictation and to regard it as
, impertinence. Not that this is said
in 50 many words, but this is case