The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-05
Chief Executive Was Eloquent
In His Reference 10
Minnesota
From Saturdays Daily.

Members of the Southern Mime.
sofa Better Development league and
the Blue Earth County Seed Grow.
ers' association and their guests fill
cd the big basement of the Centenary
Methodist church for the banquet
held there last evening. The rooms
were tastefully. adorned with flags
for the occasion. Secretary John ID.
Deets of the league, presented Rev.
w. II. Keesey. pastor of the church.
EhO delivered the invocation. There.
upon all partook of a magnificent
course luncheon.
Mr.. Deets was toastmaster of the
evening He said that among the
various agricultural crafts hat had
been mastered by those present at
the convention. he would now present
man who probably had mastered
the hay craft. He said this man
claimed tO come from the county
one of whose citizens had won the
bull tractor and the silo. He there
1pon presented Senator fIaycraGt of
FairmOnt
Senator IayCraft remarked that he
could speak but few minutes as he &
WIS obliged Ia catch the train /that
eft al $40 o'clock. He said he
would not hc there at all IL he had
not hccn delayed by the blocking of
train through an accident. keeping
nim from leaving MGnka'o when he
had intended to. However. he ,
ne remarked something ought To be
said for Martin county. There were
several prize winners present. Two
at them had distinguished themselves .
al this convention. Mr.. BlanChar.
who had taken the two biC prizes
WAS there. and so was the young
WAN 10y the name Of Adams. n prize
winner among the boys. /
Value of Land.
Speaking of the value OF land
around Fairriont. the speaker stated
that last November he had a lawsuit
in which his opponents had made
the claim that land around Fairmont
was worth $50 an acre. AS counsel
for the other side he did not attempt I
To deny this. On the contrary he
emphasized II. Ele also declared that /
after going through many of the far =
famed regions of the west he had 1
come tu the conclusion that there
was no place like Southern Mime.
suia
The senator told how the hog
cholera serum had been so high that :,
its price was absolutely prohibitive.
lie and Senator eastman had brought
hog cholera serum within the reach
of the farmers. They wanted to
make it absolutely free but the best
they could do was to bring the price
down to third of cent per cubic !,
Ccutimctcr.
Mr. Dects now presented Mr.. Rng.
"rs of the South 81. Paul Stock eX-
change MIR. Rogers declared that he
had no doubt i'm the world that the
lands of Southern Minnesota were the
cheapest for their actual value of any
farm lands in the United States.
The only reason that higher prices
were not obtained for them was that
higher prices were not asked. Ii
the farmers would let il be known
through the corn states just what
they were doing and what sort Of
land they had. there was no reason
why the land would not bring 5000 I.
to $50 an acre.
Should Raise Cattle.
Mr.. Rogers urged the farmers 10
keep on raising cattle. hogs and sheep
although the prices were not what .
they had been accustomed to get
lie said he believed beef cattle would
soon be higher. He admitted that +
a prominent Chicago buyer had stat
ed that hogs would soon be buying ,
there for five cents n pound. Still
he urged that farmers continue with ,
their hogs. cattle and sheep as these ,
things would make their lands Il !
great deal more valuable These
animals had doubled the value of |
lands in Iowa in the last few years. |
Mr.. Rogers closed with the prcdic- !,
ton that after few years the South !
81. Paul Live Stock market would 1
be the greatest i'm the world
Mr.. Deets dwelt at some length OH |
the fact that there we're many sue !,
Cessful men i'm Mankato. and such men |
were a great asset To any commu.
nifty. He said he had one to present
who Combed his hair so as to rep |
resent the cross SECTION of a modern !
highway, with a little alfalfa at the
edges. He presented Judge Lorin
Cray.
Should Invest at Home.
Judge Cray's address was an EN-. !,
pbatic protest against people invest. !
ing their money in lands away of I,
from home. lie spoke particularly
of Alabama, That was a beautiful
state. but 1t seemed that failure after
failure had been made by those who
attempted TO do things there i'm the
way of producing great and modern
farms, because II was impossible TO
secure the right kind OF labor. The
negroes would not work without some
one standing right over them. He
spoke of one farm owner who made
his negroes the dire threat, III you
lazy. dirty, shiftless niggers do not
get To- work and do some thing, ! am