New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-01
GOOD MEETING AT TRACY

| GOOD MEETING AT TRACY
Community spirit was dominant at
the opening banquet Of the Midsummer
meeting OF the Southern Minnesota Bet
ter Development League held in the High
School Auditorium in Tracy last week
Monday evening. More than 100 plates
had been sold by the committee, and
about that many sat at the banquet
board, and enjoyed the sumptuous
spread. Practically all Of Tracy's bust
ness men attended.
Attorney A. R. English as POSTMASTER
introduced the speakers of the evening.
Attorney A. M. Emerson of Lamberton
brought forth loud applause when he an
nounced that Redwood County would
next month begin construction on the
''Black and Yellow Trail as Lyon Coun-
ty is doing this week. Mr.. L. E. Potter
of Springfield added fuel to the flames of
enthusiasm when he announced that his
county, Brown, is going to push the work
on the trail also. J. E. Neal, county
agent of Redwood county, next spoke and
called attention to the possibilities of
Southern Minnesota with her soil, her
seed and her men. D. H. Evans, Tracy S
orator and leading businessman, empha-
sized the above points made by Mr.. Neal,
but he would place the man first as the
most important factor. He says that
we have the soil and with the right kind
of men all else will come. The work of
the league he holds is to arouse the minds
of men to the possibilities within them
selves and to quicken people to greater
activity for betternent.
W. P. Kirkwood, country life editor
Of the Minneapolis Journal spoke next
and illustrated the results of different
methods of farming by a comparison OF
two farms which he had seen the past
year, one in Maine and the other in Illi-
nois. The former was within easy reach
of the city market OF Boston, where pro-
duce from the farm could be delivered
to the consumer in Boston in a few hours,
but by a no=crop system of farming the
land which before was good had been
made Of little value, the farm of 80 acres
being offered for sale for $500. The
second farm was in Illinois where inn
proved methods of farming prevail. The
land had increased in productivity under
this system and produced last year $4,000
for the farmer. The size Of this farm
was about 100 acres and was valued at
$500 per acre. Mr.. Kirkwood sees in
the Leagues work another expression OF
the country life movement. The farms
of the East are abandoned, he says,
because the younger generation are going
to the cities where they are attracted by
the factories This gravitation cityward
leaves the farms without enuf workers.
The movement to counterfeit this
tendency and make country life more at
tractive is, he thinks, one of the big
! things of this century. Rev. James Par
son of Minneapolis, a representative
of the Society of the Friendless, said that
the greatest asset of the farm and country
is the boys and girls. Hevbelieved that
the city attraction for them could be over
come if we took the trouble to show them
the real life Of the city. They should see
the life and the real home surroundings
of the thousands of workers and then
they would go home with higher notion
of the farm.
John D. Deets, secretary OF the league
closed the program for the evening with
passionate appeal for closer co-opera-
ton of the country and the town. He
pointed out the interdependence of one
upon the other and compared the many
factors making up the community and
working in it to a thousand kettles.
When each kettle works independent of
all the others nothing comes of the energy
developed, but when the water of all
these kettles is placed under fire in large
boiler the result is power which is doing
the work of the world.
The Tuesday morning session was
opened at eleven o'clock. H. F. Setter
vice president of the development league
called the meeting to order and intro
duced the speakers. A. McKerrow of
the Bureau of Animal Husbandry of the
State University delivered an address
on the dairy COW as an asset in Minnesota.
He expressed his belief that there is a
great future in this section of the country
for the beef industry, and urged every
one to secure only the best type Of beef
cattle for the good of the industry.
i After Mr.. McKerrow's address an
adjournment was taken to witness the
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