The Mankato free press., 1912-06-28

heard much OF cooperation in the
marketing of farm products and es-
pecially cream and butter. AS an
association you can do much to en-
courage and protect this plan. You
do not realize the amount of money
that is daily being left in the COM
munity because of the cooperative
creamery When | tell you that the
price paid for butierfat in Oklahoma
Ion the 26th day of May was 10 cents
and in the state of Minnesota 26
cents, you can Judge something of
the difference of the two systems,
centralizer in the former and CO.
operative in the latter.
! Duty Of Business Men.
81 want to as a farmer say to the
business men here assembled that
there is duty that they owe to
themselves and to the farmers of
the state and am in hopes that
they will see the matter as | do.
have been in business in the city
and | am conversant with city
methods | have heard the patron
ize home industry proposition
threshed out to frazzle, as it were,
from the city mans viewpoint. but
just now | am living in the coun-
try and have been for the past
twelve years and can see the other
side of this proposition. You may
shout until you are black in the
face on this proposition from the
local press and it will be of no
avail. The cure of this is in CO.
operation. Not Just the kind of CO.
operation that is being preached in
| the press, but another kind. We
want cooperation between the
merchant and the farmer and it is
the greatest hope that this associa-
tion will bring this about. But how,
| is the question? 1t is easy. There
must be new kind of society. or
rather revival of the old kind of
society that used to exist when we
were boys. When all were starting
anew, all had the same capital and
all were mutually interested in each
others welfare Today it is differ
ent. How many merchants ever go
out to call on their fellow farmers?
Too few. Now the farmer lives
alone and is Independent. Few farm
| ers neighbor with each other, much
less with the country merchant. If
you want to cooperate with the
farmer go where he is. Attend his
creamery picnics and roll your au-
tomobile into his yard on a Sun
day afternoon He loves company
and always enjoys to have you come
In and count his children and chick
ems and to admire his cattle and
crops. Do this a few times and
show an interest in his work and
the proposition of cooperation be-
tween city man and farmer will be
solved"
Mr. Schilling closed is paper by
reference to the teaching of agri
culture in the schools, and suggest
ed that teachers who have had act
ual experience on the farm should
be engaged to instruct the students.
From the Editors Viewpoint.
Herman Roe, editor of The North
field News, spoke from the view
point of a newspaper man, and he
gained by work of the league, be-
cause an increase in population
meant an increase in the circulation
of newspapers. New manufacture
ing enterprises mean business for
the printer. The press shares in
every activity of the league.
There are other ways in which
the press may derive benefit from
the successful operations of the
league. 1t will be part of the
leagues business as ] take it, to
gather information and to accumu-
late data and statistics bearing up
on the resources of this section @
the state. 1t will investigate it's
needs and suggest ways of increas-
ing its prosperity. 1t will make
study of the Industrial situation and
familiariZe itself with the best meth
DDS of improving our highways. 1t
promises to give special attention to
agricultural needs, to advocate in
tensified farming and dairying and
to urge the more general adoption
of industrial education and manual
training in our public schools. If, as
/ think it should, it establishes a
bureau of publicity, it will be in
position to furnish newspapers valu-
able data on these and kindred sub
jects for editorial use which the av-
erage editor has neither the time
nor the leisure to accumulate for
hiAioCh. anu lh'lS ShdulS hlul W
make his paper more instructive,
more valuable and more popular
Matter of Cooperation.
"This brings me to another phase
of my subject as | have interpreted
it, namely, the. advantage it would
be to the league to secure the Co
operation of the. press. Perhaps the
league is not alone in being in a
position to confer benefits Rather
let us ask, could it not best confer
them by securing the cooperation
of the press? Is not that indeed es-
sential? In what way can it hope
to secure SO large an audience as
through the columns of the country
papers?
Now | do not intend to read the
league lecture on the power of
the press or the influence it exerts,
although I think that people gen.
orally are too much inclined to
make light of both. But I wish to
point out that in the thirty-one coun-
ties embraced in this league there
is probably no business man who
does not take one or more country
papers. and scarcely family to
which the country weekly is not a
more Or less welcome visitor. In
this district which has an approx
mate population of half a million
of people, there are some 100 news
papers with circulation of about
100000. So that it is safe to as
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