The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-02
MANKATO TRADE
DEALERS PRAISED
Business Men Livewires In
Better Sire Move
TOOK. ACTIVE PART
Charles r. COLLISION Tells the
Story In Minneapolis
Newspaper

among the business mon of Man
kato who are interested In promot-
ing public movements such as tbs
Pure Bred Sircs campaign now in
progress in Blue Earth county, and
the cause of good roads. is a picture
osque character in the retail cloth
ing business, John Nyquist. Although
he never lived on a fArm he breaches
a gospel of better livestock. better
roads and diversified dairy farming
every day in his place OF business,
writes Charles +. Collia.on, farm
editor Of The Minneapolis Tribune.
Early IL. the history of tho city,
before the automobile had converted
the farmer OF the utility ami neces-
sity fer good roads. Mr.. Nyouist es-
tablished good roads fund by set
ting aside l percent Itom his gross
sales. to be devoted 10 this cause.
When this amounted 10 a tidy sum,
he took it over to the courthouse and
induced the county commissioners 10
appropriate come road money 10 20
with IL. They built a stretch OF
grsyeied -cs.d leading toward the
twin cities, as an OBJECT LESSON o.
what might be Done, and mas been
done moro extensively silcc. lie is
d staunch champion of Commission
e. Charles, NJ. 8abcock in bis high
way constructors program for the
state.
Organized "G-aveIinc Bees"
He Organized "sraveiiny bees"
where the farmers. under his lead
ersnil Honld go out and improve
the roads. He also got them to drag
the roads 10 improve them after the
rairs.
Dairying is another one of his
hobbies. Recently, when friend of
his got married. he made the couple
a present of a high grade Holstein
heiter.
Il couldn't think of anything that
would be more useful and ornament
all he explained to me. "Not long
ago l gave another heifer calf to a
young girl as birthday present"
When the Pure Bred Sires move.
ment was proposed to Mr.. Nyquist.
as a vice president OF the First Ma
tional bank insisted that the bankers
lend the money to the purchasers at
a low rate of interest and on easy
terms. In the initial meeting fnaug-
uraung the campaign he volunteer
ed to lend 500 without interest for
year to purchase the first bull Of
Tered in the campaign. He was ap
pointed chairman of the commit
tee to boost for the building OF
Highway No. 5, which connects
Mankato with the Twin Cities.
Mankato business men tell inter
esting stories about his loyalty to
these two causes, One is that every
year the Elks club arranges an an
nual hunt, in which the members go
out cunning, not only for ducks and
rabbits, but also for crows, foxes and
wolves, natural enemies of the far
mer and his stock.
Mr.. Nyquist numbers among these
pests, however. the scrub sire and
declares an open season for such
bulls. With his gun all ready, he
walks right through the pasture
wherever he encounters one Of fLis
species, prepared to shoot him If he
attacks. If the bull is a pure bred
animal. however, he is very careful
to show the monarch the honors due
him, by walking around the pasture
at safe and respectful distance.
Is Real "Go-Getter."
c. w. Fisher, another clothing
merchant, is talked about in Man
kato as an ardent advocate of bet.
ter farming, and a better city also.
He is a real go -getter' I'M any
drive we put over for better sires.
better livestock, of better town de-
me. He is a member of the county
fair board and realizes that the
prosperity of the merchants of Man
kato is dependent on that OF the
dairy and livestock farmer.
Leo Landkamer, our furniture
dealer, is another. He buys good
cows himself and puts them out with
the farmers on partnership basis.
That certainly helps the farmer to
improve his stock"
The Blue Earth County Bankers
association. according to County
Agent l.. e. Mcmillan, has been do
ing another good work. too, in bring
ing in some tw enty carloads of good
grade cows during the past six
months, and distributing them. in
various parts of the county w. A
Streater, vice president of the Citi-
zens' National Bank, is the head OF
the organization, while w. M. Hulse,
the banker at Rapidan, has been
particularly active in this work, be-
fore it was taken UP by the associa-
ton.
'The principal difficulty" says
M. Mcmillan, IS to get enough good
grades of the right sort. This Pure
Bred Sires campaign will undoubted
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