The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-07-21
lilo and Alfalfa
Hold Attention
for Entire Day
redwood County Men Visit Silos
and Alfalfa Fields Through
out County
TWENTY-FIVE MAKE START
Dine at Redwood Falls and En-.
joy Auto Trip Through
Ramsey Park

The first Silo and Alfalfa Tour
Of Redwood County was made
Yesterday when a party of farm
erS and business men motored
to several of the county's best
farms where either the silo or
alfalfa or both are being spec
ialized.
Star from Morgan
A party of twenty-five left
Morgan early in the morning 60
ing first to the Geo. Greene farm
north of Morgan where they
viewed a fine solid cement silo.
Visit Croker
The second stop was made at
the F. E. Croker farm, fam
Gus for race tracks and alfalfa,
the latter greatly interesting
the tourists.
Go to Gilfillan
The next stop was made at
the C. O. Gilfllan farm where
more alfalfa of the latest and
most approved model was shown,
the acreage here being compare
lively large for this crop in Red
wood County.
II Stop at Jones'
THE next stop was made at the
J. Frank Jones farm east of Red
wood Falls, where the tourists
were met by several business
men of Redwood Falls. Here
the guests were shown the ce-
ment blocks ready for the con-
struction of silo and were
shown how this silo could be
erected with a minimum of la
Dor.
Visit Cobleigh
From the Jones farm the par
ty went to the farm of N. w.
Cobleigh, which is admitted to
be one of the best equipped and
best farmed homesteads in Red
wood County. Here the COM
pany inspected a hollow tile silo
and saw another promising field
of alfalfa.
See Ramsey Park
From the Cobleigh farm the
party returned to Redwood Falls
for dinner and a trip through
! Ramsey Park where, as a side
issue, they saw some well-built
roads. After the return from
the park ride a picture was TAX
en- of the group.
Visit Gold Farm
The next visit was made at
the Gold farm southwest of Red
wood Falls, where another tile
silo was shown and visit made
to an alfalfa field. The famous
Gold Holstein herd was also to
be seen here and greatly adj
mired. ,t-2e4A
Davis Farm Next
The next visit was made at
the George S. Davis farm near
Seaforth, where the first wood
stave silo was seen.
From there the party went to-
ward Wabasso visiting the Nels
Christensen farm where anoth.
er stave silo was seen and some
it's field of alfalfa exhibited.
w.. Nearer Wabasso the S. A
5 Witwer farm was visited with
I. it's field of alfalfa which showed
Just what Minnesota can produce
even in an off year, and the visit
to the farm of J. L. Torrens,
where a large sila was the OBJ
iect of interest. This was the
last farm visited by the tourists
and marked he close of a mem
orable days trip.
Tour Educational
This tour, which was suggest
ed and directed by County Agent
j. E. Neal, and the Redwood
I County Agricultural Bureau,
was meant to be largely educa-
tional and proved so in it's re-
suits. To many of the men the
fields of Redwood-grown alfalfa
were revelation and the silos a
excellent object lesson of what
was to be done with this crop
as the acreage increased. The
trim proved quite as interesting
and instructive to business men
as to farmers.
!. The men who started out
rom Morgan included Messrs.
Meal, Finley, Tiffany, Conner,
Whitmore, Croker, Huling, c.
Fl. Predecessor, Fenske, Johnson,
T. Predecessor, Welter Seifert,
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