The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-05-26

NIFTY one cents. In that county which
is so rich in purebreds there are
yet only fifteen percent of sires that
are registered stock. ~
Club Leader On Program ..
E. ]. Cooper of Chicago, mem
Der of the extension department OF
the national Holstein organizations
and a specialist in club work spoke
briefly on his subject and asked that
the state association take a posi-
ton squarely behind the club work
in the belief that such a stand Is
sure to keep the boys and girls on
the farms and will surely interest
them in dairy cattle. Within the
last two months, Mr.. Cooper has
visited twelve states inaugurating
club work and will continue over
the same route for the rest of the
year helping along the clubs that he
mas already founded. He stated that
there are twenty five states fairs in
this country that are to have ex-
hibits with their expositSons this
fall
President E. T. Winship next in
troduced one OF his fellow towns
men, Thomas e. Eastman who Tor
twenty years has been associated
with the dairy industry. Mr.. each
man recalled some twenty years ago
when an acquaintance of his pur-
chased a purebred sire and the
boots and derision that such a move
called forth from his neighbors who
thought the extra expense of such
an animal money thrown away. He
said that these same neighbors lived
to see the time when they had to
admit they were wrong and then
he gave some astonishing figures. OF
all the mortgages that have been
lifted on Steele county farms in the
last few years. three fourths OF
these have been lifted through the
medium of the dairy COW. He stated
that many have followed the lead OF
President Winship in raising pure
bred stock and have found it a way
to success. He stated that with the
discrimination that the farmer has
suffered in the last few years, had
it not been for the dairy COW, that
part of the nations's business would
not have been able to stand the
storm of the yeas Of depression.
Mr.. eastman urged raising OF al
falfa, clover and root Plants for
feeding to cattle. He said that it is
an annual case where a breeder can
afford to purchase all his feed and
said that for the average man it is
be raised on the same farm as are
the dairy cattle.
Business Manager Speaks
P. o. Holland, business manager
of st. Olaf college at Mortified, had
some new thought TO offer. He lik
ened the state of Minnesota to a
powerful or with plenty of gas
whose clutch is slipping. He said
that the remedy lies in the dairy
cow and that as soon as that part
part of the machinery is generally
supplied the machine will work
more smoothly and will accelerate
its speed considerably. He had a
numerous manner of presenting his
appeal and made a popular hit with
his hearers.
| J. C. NARROW of Mankato was in
trodIced but in view of the fact that
time was pressing and that there
were some fifty cars waiting out
side the theatre he only announced
the evening program and gave di-
| rections for the auto tour which
had been arranged for all visitors.
The caravan led around the show
places of the city and then to the
Mankato Holstein farms.
Large Evening Crowd
| In spite of unfavorable weather
conditions which prevailed last ev-.
ening there was packed house in
the Orpheum theatre when the cur
tain rolled up for the fun and frolic
portion of the first days program OF
! the Holstein meeting. There was
bill and it was good time for ev
cry visitor to Mankato's big gather
ing.
| DR.. c. H. Eckles, chief of the
GARY division at the University OF
Minnesota farm, was the principal
speaker of the evening and his mes
sage was one of the few serious
| fe.ture of the entire card.
The speaker began with an his
ttorical sketch of the growth and
development Of the dairy cow and
cited proofs to show that at the
time of the great migration from
Asia to Europe thousands of years
ago, there were domestic dairy cat
tie carried along as some of the
. family possessions. He said that
of the dairy cattle in Minnesota
are purebreds and that in a list OF
6S, 900 sires in the state of Mime
sofa there are but 1900 purebreds.
He said that it is not probable that
there will ever be a state where all
dairy cattle are purebred and that
such a condition does not even now
exist in the Isle of Jersey nor in
Holland, historic homes of fine
dairy stock, but he does believe,
he said. that the time will come
when there will be almost a solid
fronsof purebred sires in the state OF
Minnesota. He reiterated the state
ments made by many previous
speakers ON the subject, that the
material wealth of the state de-
ponds largely upon the dairy In
dustry and that there can be no
great profits made with scrub
stock;
Band Opens Festivities.
Professor Hugo Frey with his
Twentieth Century band opened the
program last night with a concert
and the band was called upon for
long list of encores.
j. c. NARROW, official announcer
for the. evening took time to explain
to the visitors the method used in
engendering interest in better
dairying in Blue Earth county
through the local unit.
He explained that at this time
there are six local Holstein units
organized in this county and that
it is through the small neighbor-
hood meetings that much of the ap
parent interest in this county has
| been brought about. He explained
that the idea was not original in
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