The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04

each one of them yielding money revenue
AS this statement has often been questioned
we list them:
Grains: Wheat, oats, corn, barley, rye flax
spell.
Vegetables: Potatoes, rutabagas, sugar
beets, onions, cabbage, beans, celery.
Fruits: Apples, strawberries, raspberries,
currants.
Stock: Horses, cattle, beef, dairy products,
sheep, mutton, wool, swine.
Poultry: Market fowls, eggs.
Miscellaneous: Hay, tobacco, honey, clover
seed, timothy seed, alfalfa seed.
All these products were produced on one
farm and at profit and the possibilities of
diversifcation were by no means exhausted
By this method a continuous revenue was Sc
cured. Not single day in the year but this
farm produced something that could be
turned into ready money. Every time this
farmer went to town, when he came away
some one in the town owed him something,
instead of his owing somebody in town for
farm supplies. There are 100000 farms, oc-
cupied and unoccupied in the state where
this performance could be duplicated.
Minnesota has been aptly termed, The land
of continuous agricultural income.
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Farming operations are carried on in Min
nesota under natural conditions. The farm
er is not compelled to reduce his profits by
paying high water rent to some soulless cor
poraton for moisture to promote growth;
neither need he stake his labor, time and cash
on the uncertain results of dry farming. The
Lord supplies the moisture to grow the crops
and there has never been draught failure
since the first pioneer settler moved into the
state. Crops are as certain as the seasons.
Minnesota offers unparalleled market facil-
tiles to her settlers. In the south central
portions of the state are the cities of st. Paul
and Minneapolis, great railroad centers, with
through trunk lines radiating into every part
of the country. The huge packing plants To-
Gated in South St. Paul, clamorous for meat
supplies To the north Duluth with it's
mighty steel plant, employing thousands of
workmen, and backed by the great non-food-
producing, but immense food-consuming pop
ulation of the iron ranges all reaching out
for the food products of Minnesota farms,
constituting competitive market, which as
sures the husbandman the top market price
for his products of every conceivable kind,
and a market that will constantly grow bet
ter as the years pass by.
1t is also a we'll established fact if man
desires to engage in concentrated farming
hand and hoe agriculture can do it right
here in Minnesota and secure as large fl
nancial returns, have better climate to
work in, and on land costing about one-tenth
as much as it does in good excessively early
market region and he need not putter around
in muddy irrigation bitches in order to Sc
cure these results either.
In educational matters Minnesota stands
pre-eminent among the states especially in
the educational opportunities afforded rural
residents Consolidated schools are rapidly
becoming general, whereby all the advant-
ages of city school are brought to the farm
er's door. Our University ranks with the
leading universities of the country. The
State Agricultural College, experimental
farms and branch agricultural schools fur
nish training in scientific agriculture to all
who may desire the same. Six Normal
Schools in which tuition is free supply an am
pie force of trained and competent teachers.
There are large number of sectarian and in
dependent colleges and academies and oppor-
tunities for any and all kinds of educational
training are plentiful and within the reach
of all.
The state has the largest school fund of any
in the Union, except Texas, and makes the
largest per capita pupil distribution of any
state This fund, as a result of royalties
from state-owned iron mines is expected to
reach the stupendous sum of $2O0,00O,OOO
before many years elapse. Minnesota's school
system is the pride of the state and the glory
&c