The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-21


school agricultural department, went
over the ground very thoroughly.
The committee is enthusiastic over
the project and feels that first
class farming expert would be of
great value to the farming interests
Of the county. 1t was decided to take
up the matter with representative
farmers of the county Immediately
and get their views on the matter.
To this end Professor Shumway was
requested to call Il meeting OF the
officers of the recently organized
Blue Earth County Pure Seed ass0ci-
alton to be held in the Commercial
club rooms in the city hall at two
O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
viii. Invite Representatives.
Edgar Weaver requested that rep.
Iresentatives from the commercial or
CARNATIONS throughout the county be
| invited to the meeting at this time
TO go over the matter thoroughly.
The financing OF such a project win
be discussed particularly, and tho
! advisability of such proceeding will
be gone over In case those who
attend the meeting Saturday favor
the plan, steps will be taken to have
the matter brought up at the Pure
Seed meeting the latter part of this
month when the Minnesota Field and
Crop Breeders and the Minnesota
Corn Growers associations meet here
:; The Total Expense.
1t is thought by the committee that
the total expense of having first
class agricultural expert for his en-.
/ tire time winter and, summer, and
an automobile for his transportation,
together with an office in Mankato
where he could be seen one day a
week, would be from $4,000 to $4,000
"a year. Funds for one-half of this
expenditure are already in sight.
ffhe secretary OF the Commercial club
| was asked to correspond with the
| Blue Earth county delegates in the
legislature, urging them to support
I a measure increasing the amount OF
! state aid for this purpose, also TO
support measure permitting county
, boards to appropriate $1,000 or more
towards this work. He was also ask.
F.; ed to take up the matter with the
international Harvester company and
task for their cooperation.
I Good Results Are Certain.
The good which would result from
! having an agricultural expert in the
| county has been shown in these col.
nmns and needs no argument. Mr.
! Shumway said that. in some states
the farmers carry on The work
! through their clubs and through the
[ II fx,t1 al "a n
care for the expense of having such
a man. This matter is so important
that it is hoped that every officer OF
4 the Blue Earth County Pure Seed
/ association and of the Commercial
clubs in the villages OF the county
will be present at the Saturday
meeting. .'+.
Minnesota will witness the opera
+ ton of motor driven coaches for
+ suburban traffic on the Milwaukee
! road commencing next summer, il
was announced, if an experiment that
is to be started in Milwaukee by AS
sistant General superintendent p. C.
! Eldridge proves a success, for such
service is to go into operation be
! IWeeIl' vi llWduket anu WdUKcSIla, 4
! summer resort and town of some size
twenty miles west, in territory where
many commuters live, and Mime
apolis is the second city slated for
such service if it is found to work
! satisfactorily.
Mr.. Eldridge's plan contemplates
the operation of motor driven cars
i in country within a ffty-mile radius
of Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas
! City and other centerS where subur,
| ban traffic is heavy.
+ It's application to Minneapolis will
probably mean, as starter that
| motor cars will replace the present
! regular passenger train service be.
tween Hutchinson, sixty-three miles
from Minneapolis, and Glencoe, fifty
miles from Minneapolis, and possibly
will also operate between Hopkins
tand Minneapolis.
The plan for the erection of a pas
senger station at Nicollet avenue and
! Twenty-ninth street, which the COM
pany has had in mind for several
years will probably be, fastened i;
the new operation is found satisfae.
| tory.