The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-03-14
H0LSTEIN BREEDERS THREE
COUNTIES ORGANIZE
MARROW Al. THE HEAD.
Address Made BY E. 7. Winship,
Who Is Very Prominent
Cattle Raiser

OptbO uosSOs
OFFICERS OF TRI-coUNTY HoL.
= STEIN BREEDERS MEETING.
President. C. NARROW.
Vice President-Evan Williams.
Secretary M. r. Benedict.
Treasurer-W. C. Snow.
Board of Directors: Blue Earth
County-NsIs Grass, A. r. .Wendt-
land.
NicolIet county-H. J. Schultz, w.
z. Johnson.
lie, sueur county-Ben J. Picha,
Martin Schwarz.
Some men are farmers, real live
farmers and others are Simply real
estate owners" declared E. T. VIM
ship, president of the State ,Automo
bile, association, in an address at the
Tri County Holstein Breeders associa-
ton, Saturday afternoon. There has
never been a farmer in this vicinity
who has really faI1Aed $50 acres of
land. When you farm your land to
capacity or when you figure the in
come that would mean you begin to
realize the tremendous value of this
country"
THE average farmer today travels
along the lire of, the least resistance.
He is chiefly a real estate owner,
making his living of the farm until
the value snail increase enough to
|warrat selling"
Farming is partnership game
between the farmer and his wife AMI
as general thing the wife is about
ninety five percent of the partner
ship. Keep your wife satisfied. Get
the modern conveniences ON your
farm and provide for your home. The
day when a farmer ard his wife were
slaves to their work is past Give
your wife half share in the partner
ship and you'll never have cause to
regret it,"
Get your family interested in your
farm. Paint the buildings, paint the
house and get beautiful, thoroughbred
stock in which everyone takes just
pride. Farmers have competition as
well as others and they must increase
their efficiency. No farmer that has
studied stock and the net efficiency
can do else than start raising Hol-
stein cattle''
Growth of State Association.
Mr.. Winship explained the growth
of the state Holstein Breeders asso-
citation and the work it is doing. He
stated that every member OF the Hol-
stein association became member
of The State Livestock association and
thus this latter organization was able
to get appropriations from the state.
for fostering the introduction of bet
fer stock in the state. He told Of the
large amounts from this fund that
were to be distributed for fair prem q
iums this year. The speaker also
urged farmers to join COW testing
association as it meant a great deal
to them whether they were raisers
of blooded or grade cattle.
M. B. Luellwa Iof st. Paul spoke of
the opportunities afforded farmers in
pure bred stock business He said
that only the fittest in a herd should
be kept over and that as all things
in the line of farming were increasing
for greater efficiency it was the de-
mand of the day to raise pure bred
cattle. One of the points the-speaker
brought out was that every farmer
needed an office and should run on al
strictly business basis the same as al
merchant. He said in no line of en-
deavor, where so much was invested
in capital was there SO little effort to
develop means of saving and OF pro-
ducing increased efficiency.
You Have Got To GaIlop.
"You have got to gallop some to
keep up tofhe new records the Hol-
stems are setting everywhere" de-
clared Burton d. Scott, secretary of
the State Holstein Breeders associa-
ton, in his address. "The state can
become the greatest place in the
world for the raising of fine Holstein
world famous cattle that were raised
here"
Mr.. Scott urged the farmers to keep
track of their COWS, TO get into the
Holstein game as rapidly and as
soon as they had good cattle to ad |
vertise the fact far and wide. He
said that Minnesota should in time
be>> known as the greatest Holstein
state in theSworld. The speaker con-
graduated Blue Earth county on hav-
ing NJ. R. Benedict for a county
agent here.
, At the opening OF the meeting,
president MARROW spoke on the Hol-
stein records for the past year and
On an illustrated chart showed the
figures which pointed to the super
iority of Holstein cattle. He suggest
ed rs motto for the coming year
make the scrub bull hunt cover
Mr.. NARROW said poor sire would
tear down the best herd and that a
blooded sire was certain to build up
a herd of grade cattle. He stated
that some of the grade bulls farmers
kept year after year were disgrace
to good farming.
NJ. r. Benedict and John Nyquist
both addressed the meeting on the
matter of better cattle and the need
for fostering raising such stock in
this country. Mr. Nyquist stated he