The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-03-21

Citations. This keeps the tenants on
a farm for number of years or life,
and it is to his interest to keep. the
quality Of the land up. In this coun.
! try the renters move from place to
place, taking all from a farm that
they can get in one year and do
not try to keep up the productive.
ness of the land.
"The farmers i'm this country are
organizing but it is coming very
slowly. There must be an exchange
| class, but the jobber and travelling
statesmen may be eliminated. If this
is not done the business man is
going to the wall with the cata.
logue house on one side and the
organized farmers on the other. II
the business men do not change
their order of business, they will be
crowded out One man could do
the buying for an organization of
business men in a certain territory.
Thus the business men must com.
bine as well as the farmers"
The next speaker was Eugene Mil
| Ter of st. Charles. He spoke on
"The Commercial Club-What Is Re-
quired to Make 1t a Power" "The
principal thing required to make a
commercial club a power is to make
lit success" said Mr.. Miller, land
the way to make it success Is
to keep things moving; let each
one do what he has been allotted.
Cooperation is also an essential
thing to success. 1t is necessary
to have a leader, man who can
keep the members busy. The club
must keep working on some project
all the time, and the work of the
club must be kept before the peo-
pie"
John Monroe, superintendent of
schools at Faribault, spoke on Gag
ricultural Schools" "You must or.
ganize," he said, "to keep your
farmers from leaving and to get
men from Iowa and Illinois to come
here to take the places of those
who are leaving. You must also
advertise, and l believe in a little
negative advertising, that is, adver-
Using to some extent the bad points
OF other sections of the country to
which your own farmers are going.
AS long as the school system stays
as it is, and the aims are simply
to turn out professional men and
women, just so long will it fail to
meet the needs of the people. You
must not teach all the children the
same things; you must introduce
mr. I'm trsa oil int,
training of all kinds.
81 do not think consolidation is
the only solution. We forget that
a man can be educated without ever
seeing the inside of a textbook, and
the present long term tendency in
public schools is not satisfactory to
the farmer who is up against the
labor problem. Give us short
term school, put the little fellows
in the regular district schools and
tie several districts together in a
two-room school for the older ones.
This will give all chance to study
books as well as keeping up the
pursuit of their daily duties. It is
not because the directors of the pub
lie school systems intend to do
wrong, but because they do not
know how. Put a teacher in the
rural schools who can handle do
nestle science and art for the
girls and manual training and agri-
culture for the boys. Cut out the
Latin and substitute vocational train
ing. Cut out the discipline by max.
ing the school work so interesting
that it is not necessary. This all
can and has been DONE"
A. d. Wilson, superintendent of
the extension work of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, spoke on Com
munity Breeding"
"All that is necessary" said Mr..
Wilson, sis to be neighborly, friendly
and use little common horse sense.
By breeding up a herd of cattle
and selecting the best ones, the pro-
duction of butter fat has been raised
up to it's present standard in Min.
nesota, and it is great deal higher
than it was three years ago. What
we need in Minnesota is more corn
and more livestock. Iowa and ILL
nois have no better land than we
have, and we can do anything they
nave uOle anu 10 II llCtle better.
THE corn raising contests are
very helpful in increasing the rails
ing of corn here and | would like to
see the league take hold and help
these things along. Keep pure bred
stock in community One man
in neighborhood may like one
kind of cattle better than another,
but he must sacrifice his taste for
the money that can be gotten out of
the best kind of cattle for COM
munity. The farmers must organ
ize and all breed the same kind of
stock in a community, and this is
the only way to raise the standard
of certain breed
'The way to solve the problem of
farm products is to put
the product in such a condition that
1t is standard all over the com. |
munity and all may be sold for a
standard price. This will cut out
the large margin between the SELL |
ing price to the dealer and the !
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