The Mankato free press., 1913-03-07

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paid by the audiences to the ad,
dresses. Never before have so many
men who are acquainted with crop
production and what the soil needs
TO produce wealth addressed meet
! ings in this city.
! Those who have attended the ses-
sions have gained great deal OF
valuable information that certainly
must lead to putting more progres.
sive ideas into practice on the farm.
Professor C. A. ZavitZ of Guelph,
| Ont, who was to speak this after.
noon on Home Grown Seeds" was
not present, neither was Theodore
SeXauer of Owatonna, present.
Professor C. r. Shumway gave his
talk on Corn Cultivation" which was
scheduled for tomorrow, and Mr.
Sexauer will speak tomorrow.
| Mr.. Ingersoll, president of the
| Polk County Good Seed association,
was called upon to talk in place Of
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President GlotfeIter Presided.
President Glotfelter presided over
the meeting. The resolutions com.
mittee made its report, which were
unanimously accepted.
f. c. Hillweg, representing the
Civic and Commerce association, was
| introduced and extended an invita-.
! tion to the convention to Minneapolis
! for 1914.
After the Cash.
c. E. Brown of Elk River was in.
troduced as man who could talk
intelligently when asleep on his sub.
ject, "The Big Four, Corn Glover,
/ Cows, Cash." This subject has
| four big thoughts. Some men farm
for pleasure, some for their health.
but it is the cash they are after.
The best farmer for community
is a man who keeps his soil fertile,
rather than the one who kills his
soil in two or three years.
(; Il want to add another asset to
the corn, clover and COWS. That is
hogs. We will use an eighty acre
farm for our work today The man
will keep twenty milch COWS. You
will have an income of $1,400 from
the cows. Then there will be eight
cen acres corn, eighteen acres grain,
eighteen acres clover and eighteen
acres of pasture. We will have silo
and nine acres OF that corn will fur
nish the silo, which will feed the
cattle for eight months. Using ordi.
nary methods a farmer will make
about $50 profit from his $4,000 in.
vestment.
81 say that a man who has that
much money invested should make
more money. The man who puts
some brains into his work should
make 5000 and his own wages from
the land.
''If that same man makes the most
of his crops he will increase this
income by his good farming to $2,.
900" Following his talk there was a
general discussion of silos, their con.
struction, size, care and so forth.
Professor Carl Thompson of the
! College of Agriculture talked on "Co.
operation" He said: "Of the 500
! creameries in Minnesota about 600
are cooperative. About sixty of these
were organized last year. The farm
ers are realizing how much better
are the cooperative companies than
| the stock-holding ones. Ii we are go
ing to community interest as we'll as
n lot of money together, we have
to get cooperative societies started
One OF the successes of the co-opera.
tive companies is the simplicity of it.
While men have seen that they have
profited from their efforts, they see
also that their prosperity is the re-
suit of their being banded together
in business in large numbers.
Uniformity in accounts and uni.
formity in standardization of organi.
! cation are the result of cooperative
companies.
Cooperative companies have proved
very successful to the cattle men
and to the potato men,
| 'Dassel is one of the towns where
| farmers cooperative work is doing
much for the farmers. They have an
egg-selling association and pay more
for the eggs which weigh over twen-
| ty-four ounces to the dozen. They
now get from two to five cents per
dozen more for their eggs which are
sent in labeled cartons.