Morris tribune., 1922-07-21
GLOVER BOOSTS DAIRY
cow AND COOPERATION
Offers Solution of Farmers Problem
at Farm School Dinner
Wednesday

The complimentary dinner given
the visitors at the farm school on
Wednesday noon turned into boost
er meeting for the dairy cow. A. J.
Glover of HOard's Dairyman was the
A hundred or more prominent
farmers and business and profession
al men Of West Central Minnesota at
tended the dinner. Dean w. C. Cof-
fey opened the program and stated
that in his years service as the head
of the Department Of Agriculture of
the University, he has been impress
sed with the extent of the organiza-
tion which had been developed, sta
ted further that it existed and de-
served to exist only as it helped solve
the problems of better agriculture
in this state and that better agricult-
ure will make for better citizenship.
He then called upon Superintend-
ent Miller to preside, and Superin-
tendent Miller introduced Mayor J.
H. Devenney, who extended the well
come to the visitors, and assured the
board of regents of the fullest CO.
operation in the furthering of the
interests of the school.
SENATOR LEE SPEAKS
Senator liver J. Lee of Pope coun-
ty was introduced, and said that he
desired to present to the considera-
tion of the experts present the ques-
tion of the increase of tenantry, and
the multiplication in number and
amount of the farm mortgages. Not
increased production, but how to
create better marketing conditions is
the real problem, according to Sena-
tor Lee, and he would solve it by
the building of terminal elevators
for which the farmers could not
raise the money but the state could.
he said, has a state ware
house for cotton, and the city of Sc
attic has a ten-million dollar cold
storage warehouse for fish.
A. ]. Glover, editor of Hoard's
Dairyman, was introduced, and came
bacRs He said he was glad to be
back in. Stevens county. Twenty
five years ago he started the coopera-
tive creamery. and cheese factory at
Hancock, and 27 years ago he worked
in the creamery at Appleton. Things
have changed and there has been de-
velopment, said he, but you have
not solved the agricultural problem.
1 hear the same statements heard
thirty years ago, and I see the same
crops, and the same lands, but pro-
ducing less now. You will not
solve the problem until you do make
a change. Things used to be bad in
southern Wisconsin, and thirty-three
years ago my father left Southern
Minnesota because things were bad
there to go to South Dakota to mine
the rich soil of that state.
DAIRY cow VALUABLE
Then the dairy cow came to Wis
consin and she has lifted the mort
gages-not all mortgages to be sure,
because mortgages may mean money
borrowed for improvements. And
because of the dairy cow no state
in the union passed thru this pre-
sent period of depression so easily as
Wisconsin Why, down at Fort At
kinson, we called a meeting to form
federal loan association, but the
plan was dropped. No man there
paid more than six per cent for
money borrowed and most of them
paid only five per cent. At the bot
tom of that situation is the dairy
cow.
This will probably always be a
great raising section, but the dairy
cow must come too. Raise alfalfa.
One crop of alfalfa will yield as much
digestible nutriment as a crop of
oats and you can get two crops of
alfalfa in year. But you must
have cows to eat the alfalfa. The
cow furnishes steady employment,
while the grain farmer has little to
do in the winter months, and no
man can expect to get ahead on
seven or eight months employment
in the year. The COW brings a
steady cash income, furnishes steady
employment and builds the right sy-
stem of agriculture.
COOPERATION NEEDED
Directly answering Senator Lees
question he, too, wanted men to own
their own farms, but he believed in
cooperative marketing instead of
state-owned marketing facilities, be-
ing afraid Of the latter because of
it's ineficiency. In Wisconsin there
are 5000 cooperative cheese factories
5000 cooperative creameries, so con-
dersories and numberless milk plants.
The cows bring in over two hundred
millions of dollars. If the farmer
owns the marketing facilities, we get
the reaction from the selling end,
and when the farmer produces an
inferior product which does not COM
mand the price, he learns that he
need not look outside his own COW
barn for the reason. AS result, we
are now selling twice as much Wis