The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-10-04
What is Wanted.


There can be no doubt in the minds
of our people that the 'sboom era''
has passed by, and that the farmers
of Dakota must carefully and closely
consider other resources for future
support than the exclusive produc-
tion of wheat, OF the selling of sur
plus land ut largely increased values.
We are no prophet but it does not
require much foresight to predict
that diversified farming, and the rais-
ing of stock, pigs and chickens are
the only sure roads to financial secur-
ity and an ultimate competence.
The stock interest is already grow.
ing around us, and the few fortunate
ones who have fat cattle to kill this
fall find no difficulty in selling to q
home market, and their less favored
neighbors who pay New York prices
in cash. with money secured by SELL
ing boasted 'sNo. IIard'' at 81 cents
a buslel, While others who brought
i'll dairy stock, complacently haul up
their grain to be converted into but
ter at better paying prices than are
secured in New York or Massachu.
setts, for the same grade.
Not one-half of the eggs used
among us in North Dakota are of
home production, and no one will for
years to come see al overplus of poul-
try, although the North Dakota farm
er us Il rule seldom feeds his birds
from the last of May until the snow
covers the stubble.
We have known this year of in
stances where Il single shoat fed OH
weeds, grass and the refuse of the
thresher and family will have real
ized +s335 in cash, equal in view of the
average wheat crop, to the whole pro-
duction of from three to seven acres
of No. | Hard. And better than all,
sold in a home market, with no ex-
horbitant tribute to railroad and ele-
NdlUl llpllol)OllSlS.
We are certain that pork raised OIL
pasturage with plenty of water, and
later feeding with plenty of vetches,
peas. corn. sorghum, millet, buck
wheat or even oats, will grow rapidly
in size, attain q fair degree of devel-
opment, and fatten rapidly when fed
through the fall and winter, with
boiled or (better) steamed oats. bar
ley and potatoes, with, of course, IL
liberal proportion of ruta bagas and
other roots. Such pork to the num-
ber of several hundred barrels with
the corresponding hams, shoulders,
spccd roll, sausages, lard, etc, would
sell ut an average of eight cents by
the carcass, and pay Il good per cent
age to the packer and seller for home
consumption alone next spring, and
the same is true of ;tny of our sister
counties.
Some eXperimentalists report good
results in the fuel line from an acre
OF two of the great Russian s,mtower
and small mill and press would un-
doubtediy express the oil, which in
France generally turns out an aver
age of 10 gallons to the acre Many
report good crops of corn, and most
of the failures are due to late planting.
The results attained in the eastern
states in the manufacture of straw
pulp into paper tubs, pals, tubing.
barrels, ornaments and even timbers,
promises us at least ut no distant day
the huge piles now given to the
flames, will soon be utilized to our
advantage. There is no doubt that
some time and money could be ex-
pended to advantage in making an
effort to develope this branch Of
manufacture in Dakota.
AT all events it is certain that we
must us a people, reach out to dcvel-
ope us many sources of profit as pos
sible, and lessen to an equal degree
Ottl uCptllVCllCc Oll plOtluCtlS,
especially for such matters as we GER
tainly can produce us cheaply and
readily as our neighbors.
We must also heed the lesson of
the past, and see that the real hope
of the future does not lie in specula-
tive booms on the plausible schemes
of acsual sojourners in our midst, but
in the building up of homes and
home farms, the development Of
home industries, and the furtherance
of the everyday interests and daily
needs of our people.-Grand Rapids
Notice to StOckmen.
Stock brands will be inserted in the
PRESS for one year for the small sum
of Sl2, exclusive of the cost of the