The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-03

stop the outflow of farmers, the
country must be developed. 1--WE must
develop things thoroughly, but sym.
metrically,' declared Mr.. Detts, land
the league aims to produce the nee
essary boosting along three lines, bet
ter farming, good roads and more in.
dustries. We are very much inter
ested, as You gentlemen are, in Sc
curing county agricultural experts or
agents, and 1 think that as we are
both working toward the same end,
it would be we'll to cooperate. In
fact We must cooperate in order to
produce results. Without co-epera.
ton, every plan of any consequence
would fail. have seen one ant
struggle vainly with a cabbage
worm, but when eight of them
tackled it, they dragged the, worm
into a hole. This development is
primarily a matter of education, and
the county experts are the men to
do this work. We must also stir up
enthusiasm and do lot of boosting,
and in order to accomplish this, the
league is going to run an automo-
bile tour through the southern part
of the state next month, and some
of the very best authorities in the
United States on agriculture and
good roads will be taken along to
address the meetings in various
towns. The tour will take week,
an1 T fhof af hn
bankers should be appointed to &C.
company the takers On this trip, and
add their influence in paving the
way toward a better southern Min.
nesota."
Committee Is Appointed.
Three of the local bankers present,
w. D. Willard, cashier of the First
National hank, Emil Schoyen,1 cashier
of the Mankato State hank, and
George w. Sueden, vice president of
the National Citizens hank, were ap-
pointed a committee to select a COM
mittee of bankers to take this
boosting" trip with the farming ex-
perts .-. 81
There was some discussion as to
how the funds for county experts
were handled and disburseG, and Mr.
Wilson explained that county bu-
reau was usually organized in each
county for this purpose, and for
raising additional money to the coun.
ty appropriation. o. J. Clark, cash
Ter of the Blue Earth State bank,
ibat he hnd
raised about 500 for the county ex-
pert for Faribault county, and when
asked how this was done, one banker
suggested that the banks take the
money usually expended for calendars
and use it to pay the experts eX-
penses. . ..,.
J. G.. Caldwell, cashier of the First
National bank of Lakefield, was not
so much in favor of having the
banks appropriate additional money
for this purpose, although his idea
could not be construed in any way
to Indicate that he was not inclined
to be liberal He suggested that the
farmers be induced to put in a few dol
lars, for he said that, ''if they put
a dollar into it, they are like any
it that they get their moneys
worth" '@%
Mr.: Gold read paper which
stated that certain banks had re-
solved to furnish money to farmers
who wished to invest in cattle, and
he asked hat similar resolution be
passed by the meeting. This was
not done because it was not thought
necessary, for the banks here have
always been willing to loan money
for purposes of this kind, and will
certainly continue to do so.
Agreed With MIR. Caldwell.
r. c. Dalton, the new county ey-
pert for Faribault county, was called
upon to make few remarks, and
he agreed with Mr.. Caldwell that
if the farmers were induced to spend
their money to promote better farm.
ing, they would be great deal
more liable to make the best of the
instruction given them. for they
would want to get dollar in re-
turn for every dollar spent. He said
that in his business, he encountered
great deal of opposition. "There
are still some Knockers said he,
but we have to put up with these.
There are others whom we have to
convince that revering the antiquat-
ed methods of their forefathers will
not make them rich, and then there
are just born pessimists. But we
overcome all this resistance by the
results of the experiments we per-
form, and criticism is not the worst
thing that can happen to us. Water
offers the greatest resistance to a
ship crossing the ocean, but what
would become OF the ship if it were
not for the watera Thus the great
est resistance sometimes is of the
greatest assistance"
Method in North Dakota.
Mr. Wilson stated that one meth |
cd used in North Dakota was con.
Quoting an experiment station on
each farm. The expert goes about !
and plats off certain portions of each
mans farm for different crops. The
farmer cultivates these plats accord
ing to the directions of the expert, |
and runs the rest of his farm to
suit himself Last year, the differ
ence between the profits from the
little t)lafs and the urofitS from the |