Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-08
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there and everywhere chimed in
with a resounding note of protest.
The result is a state of sentiment,
almost wholly mechanical. which is
belonging the issue and making it
appear that even the communities
to be most benefited by the bill are
up in arms against it.
The transportation trust. backed
by big business. is a mighty power !;
when it has an ally in the city
press it is almost omnipotent. Sem
ator eastman is making fight
which has seldom been paralleled in
the strength and ingenuity Of the
opposition.
Public opinion is also being mis-
directed in connection with reap
portionment. The dailies are at
tempting to arouse the entire state
by false analysis of the present
status of that issue in the legisla-
ture. There has not yet been a
vote in either House or Senate
which could be construed as test
on reapportionment. The Hackney
Congdon resolution which was voted
down in the Senate, and passed the
House, arbitrarily fixed the maxi
mum number Of representatives for
both branches. Several senators
voted against it because they pre-
ferred, for various reasons. to wait
until the bill itself was presented.
Yet they have been paraded before
the whole state as enemies Of a
fair reapportionment bill.
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While am suggesting general
legislative conditions. there is an.
other unknown influence that should
be consideed. Bribery by big spe.
cial interests has been gradually
disappearing. Aside from financial
assistance in the conduct of cam.
paigns in certain cases, Legislators
have practically no connection with
the exchequer of any organization.
But as other sources of revenue
have grown less. Legislative side
lines" have been developed. The
selfish, personal element has ap.
peared more and more. Log rol.
ling and pretty graft has become q
greater menace to good legislation.
But more deplorable and disgusting
than all else are the ''hold up
schemes that have been consummated
in the past or are in process of in.
cubation.
The present legislature is vel
worth watching. 1t is the most
important and interesting in the
history of the state.
! Cows Make Good.
The following fine record of {
herd Of Jersey cows will be of in.
terest to farmers:
George S. Taylor. one of the pro.
gressive young farmers of this
county, whose farm is two miles
west of this city. has a herd OF
Jersey cows of which he can be
justly proud. By request. he fur.
nished the following record of them,
which he has kept during the past
year:
From Dec. /. 1908 to Dec. /,
1909. the herd averaged 247 pounds
of butter per COW.
From Dec. II. 1909 to Dec. l,
1901. the herd averaged 268 pounds
of butter per COW.
Average of nine cows 169 pounds
of butter per year, on practically
the same feed. due. in my estima-
tion. to better care, which was a
direct result of keeping records.
During the year 1910 the herd
furnished to the creamery 57.053
pounds Of milk. which brot in
$685. 2, or an average of $78.82 for
twelve cows. Besides this the
house was supplied with milk and
$500 pounds of milk was fed to
calves.
For month of December 1910
MIXED eleven cows. which gave
8720 pounds of milk; 1913 pounds
were fed to the calves and used in
the house and 1927 pounds sent to
the creamery. which brot S135.24.
Best three cows averaged 49, lbs.
of butter fat or ST. each. ="
The above is a prize showing and
the News Ledger would like to
hear from some of the other hust.
ling dairymen in this community
]-Litchfeld News Ledger.
Two men frozen to death while
on their way home; a man muir.
dered by a drunken boy at a dance
a contested will case in which the
brothers and sisters of a Young
man, the son of one Of the honorec
pioneers. are to prove that he drank
so much whisky that he was incom
petent to make a will. is the NOV
ing picture which Stearns county
the wettest county in the state
presents for the past month. W.
don't know how much the picture