The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-09-18


the Nile every year. Joseph went to
Egypt for corn. From the earliest
records that history gives, Egypt
has been land of remarkable yields;
and today the land thus fertilized by
overflow is yielding remarkable crops.
"Denmark has an area of less than
one-tifth that of Minnesota. and
population of about 2,5O0,O00. Only
80 per cent of her area is productive.
Yet that little country is called
the model farm of Europe Last
year Denmark exported 1000, 900 of
provisions and eggs. The average of
all the farms in that country is 43
acres, and 1873, 900 of the farms are
less than 1914 acres. ireland for
merly produced the best butter of any
country in the world. Cork, in the
south of Ireland, supplied the English
navy with butter, because it was
the only butter that would stand
voyage around the world, keep sweet
and retain it's flavor. But Denmark
outstripped Ireland and supplanted
her in the English markets. For
several years the exports of Danish
butter to England averaged S5O,OOO,-
900 per year. Under the able guild
ance of Sir Horace Plunkett, the
Irish commissioner OF agriculture.
cooperative creameries were estab-
lished all over Ireland and improved
methods of dairying were adopted,
and now that country is regaining
it's lost butter trade. But the
Danes will never lack a market for
their butter. The Dane is farmer
and is proud of it, England and
Ireland and Germany are studying
his methods today. No people
could initiate them with more profit
than our own.
II do not wish to talk over your
heads. I have been urging the es-
sentials of better farming upon our
whole people at every opportunity
for more than thirty years, and still
bad methods, soil exhaustion, skim
ming the cream of the land by single
cropping, are the rule instead of the
exception. The once matchless fields
of the Northwest are deteriorating.
The average wheat yield has fallen,
on some of our best land from
twenty-five or more bushels to about
twelve. The average yield in Mime
sofa is about thirteen bushels.
1.-THE theories of improved agricul-
tu1e and its value are borne out by
the actual practical results attained
by the Great Northern company on
the demonstration plots it has main
tanned during the last two years for
the instruction of farmers and the
agricultural advancement of the
Northwest. There are several of
these demonstration plots in this
vicinity. The proof of the pudding
is in the eating. The average yields
per acre for 1912 from the Great
Northern plots in Minnesota were
as follows: Wheat, 30.31: barley,
44.7O: oats, 1920.
Livery man with grain of intelli-
gence would get more ideas and facts
and insight into methods and the
reason for them in year by living
as neighbor to a we'll run model
farm, conducted by an expert in
agriculture, than he would in a life
time from reading books or listening
to stump speeches.
~ am getting we'll along in years
my seventy fifth birthday occurs
next week-but I would urge you to
farm with your heads as we'll as with
your handsome politicians farm
with their mouths. See that the
children of the farm go where they
will not be taught to despise the soil
or long for future freed from it's
labors, but will learn the fact, now
being fully understood, that the
right kind of farming offers scope for
the keenest intelligence, occupation
for the most active brain and on
portunity and reward for the highest
ambition.''
Marked attention was paid Mr..
Hill by the immense crowd. esti-
mated at 5000 people, and his re-
marks were we'll received
. Hon. John J. .Furlong, PRESIDENT
of the State Agricultural society.
followed Mr.. Hill with a few we'll
chosen remarks. He urged his
listeners to heed Mr.. Hills pood
advice and not put all their eggs in
one basket; to raise live stock-hoqs
especial]y-as we'll as potatoes: in
short he preached the doctrine Of
diversified farming. Mr.. Furlong
regretted that Mile Laos county was
not represented in the county agri-
cultural exhibits at the state fair,
and he hoped the county would be
on hand next year with one of it's old.
time. premium takinr ovhib;+e