The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-01-16
Prof. Van B%enthuysen
Addressed Joint Meet
ing Last Night
INTEREST INTENSE
Prof. Hughes Arrives From
Anes and Pays Compli-
ment to State
From Wednesdays Daily

From Wednesdays Daily
"lhc quality OF the corn ON cxhi
bition at the show here. certainly sur
priscs me by its excellence, and
also compliment the farmers or ti,i.
section on the wonderful stand of ll,t
io12 corn crop AS evidenced by what
saw OF the fields while coming %,
the train yesterday PROF. Hughes
Of the Iowa State College.
a comparison OF present conditions
III a farming, domestic and social wa,
with twenty y2nrs ago and n plea t.
BRING the educational system OF tn,
state up To the standard reached il
all other, lines OF deyelopent, wa.
the keynote OF the address OF vel
come delivered by Mayor Hitchcock
before the joint meeting of the Corn
Growers and Stock Breeders, in SEES
sion at the court house last night,
The mayor called attention to the
attendance at the meetings and de-
clared that while ii Is fair, ii is not
as large rs the Importance and use
fuiness Of the meeting will warrant.
= W 6Cs Liitti iIl WHO tiH, tlIplU
the meetings and that the farmers
present. give more attention to bet
ter farming and urge the legislators
Of their county to boost for better
Legislation OF benefit to the farmer.
Mr.. Matt Ginsbach of Hartford re-
sponded to the Mayors address in a
very pleasing manner and mis- re-
marks We're witty and to the point.
He put everybody in a good humor
for the lenger program to follow.
Address of President IIian.
President j. NJ. Erion of Mitchell,
head OF the Live Stock and Poultry
Breeders ASSOCIATE n then gave an
address. He stated that few ctattle
were offered for sale at the present
show as there We're but. few cattle in
the country TO dispose of. 1t argues
Well for the country when he made
the statement TINT "AH; "a stock
breeder has to do nowadays, is TO
close his eyes, name a price and his
cattle are sold" He declared that
The reason this state has fallen off
as II cattle arising section is because
OF the lack OF range. He deplored
the fact that the homesteader, many
OF whom We're simply seeking cheap
lands for investments had driven the
great cattle ~raisers from the open
range and said that, "There is little
use for d man to try and make a liy-
Ing where the soil iHyhardly support
{; cow
He stated that 10 head of cattle
is about all that can be 'pasturea on
one quarter of grazing land. HThe
high prices OF hogs and cattle have
come to stay" said Mr.. Erion, for
the demand far exceeds the supply
That there has been a marked in
crease in tae quality of stock brought
to market since the organization oil
the breeders association ten years
ago, was declared to be q good sign,
by the sepaker and in closing he re-
marked that all farmers should de-
vote most attention to stock raising
Tor while grain growing robbed the
SOIL, STOCK farming enriched it.
PFof. Van Renthuyscn Talks.
pfof, y. ID. Van Bentluysen oil the
University here gave the address Of
the evening on the subject OF Farm
ING as a business" He cut his talk
rather short on aocount OF the late
ness OF the hour, but he hit the nail
on the head on several points. He
that thirty-fiye per cent of
the people Of the United States raised
the food and clothing for the other
siXty-flNe per cent. In speaking OF
business methods among the farm
ell had made an Investigation
and not one farmer with whom he
consulted, kept book accounts or
any real modern effort to keep
rack Of his business. He pointed
out that statistics stnow' that the ay- /,
erase farmer is making only 3 per ,
of the amount he has invested.
which he declared TO be far too little, :;
he recommended the cooperative G
as one remedy for this and that I
in other lines would j
surely work to he advantage of the f
lie declared that one of the v
greatest conservation efforts in which
farmer should engage himself is in j
ne conservation OF his credit. He j
stated that under present conditions, II
ne existing high rate of interest ate C
iWay the farmers profits. In closing t
lie declared that competition is good d
tut combination is BETTER
In the e...'ssion which followed
which ~Fas led by H. w. Smith
Sioux Falls. Mr.. Smith read an a
interesting paper in which he paid d
attention to the care of t,
rood soWs and among other things
aid that the exercise of the brood A
;ow Is rs necessary as her balanced
Parmlcy on Good Roads. IA
8. w. Parmley OF Ipswich, presi- s
enf OF the state good roads associa- p
ion, delivered an address at the
Meeting yesterday afternoon that will le
Ittract more than statewide atten- n
ION as it deals with convict labor UNI S
Ter contract as compared with results
Vhere prisoners are employed in out
loof work for the state. At this time
vhen public attention is directed to u
ne reformation of prisoners and the S
need OF good roads, the address
worthy of the consideration of all s
Interested in the welfare Of the state, c,
IT. Parmiey arraigned the existing
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