Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-09-25
Expert Testimony Oh the Future
of North Dakota. Some
Sound Sense.
The Republican Committee
Arrange for Further Joint
Debates on the Tariff.
One Wedding and Two Recep-
tiOnS-Gifts GalOre-The LO-
cal Round Up.
Ideas of q HaWkeye.

serious DlunQerS ana tilaL Iuo seCouu
Eden of enlightened experience is better
than the first one Of ignorant innocence
or guilt. Dakota's remaining farmers are
mostly those who came here in good
faith and are going to stay and wait for
a new immigration Of real farmers to take
the place of the ''straw" farmers who
came here to get rich suddenly and then
90 east to enjoy Their gain. 1t is very
true that agriculture, in the broad sense
will be the leading interest Of Dakota.
It is also true that the early pioneers to
this state, like in all new settlements
have had hard beginnings and may have
more of it for some years. But 1t must
be remembered that in no latitude under
the heavens is there perfection IN cll-
matte or physical conditions. The towns
and cities, and monled and railroad en-
terprlses will depend entirely for their
permanent success and values upon the
agricultural settlements, and therefore
these should show liberal spirit toward
! all permanent and industrious farmer
elements in money matters and transpor-
tation.
1t seems impossible that the rich soil
and nourishing natural grasses should
leave Dakota long without fuller settle
ments in the near future. The most
likely thing is that the next years Will be
better crop years, but every wise man
must make natures seeming adversltles
a source Of better things. Men must
make the prcvidences that nature lacks.
It took a human holocaust to free our
slaves. The years of natural adversltles
ought to put Dakota farmers ahead in a
new adjustment Of profitable products
that would not have been thought Of but
for wheat failures. All crops are COM
paratively poor in Iowa this year, yet the
farners are realizing more for them than
after previous years abundant corn and
other crops.
Among the great industries of the far
urer here evidently will be that of sheep.
The United States produce only about
two-thirds the raw wool used. The older
! states with smaller farms do rather de-
! crease than increase in sheep husbandry.
We find that in the new lands where feed
| is abundant and cheap is where sheep are
| profitable. In regions where the flock
does not have to be crowded. We find
that Texas, Australia, South America,
| Montana and the newer regions have
more sheep and are more successful than
| Il - pv,< r% oil
90 in sheep. Don't make sheep craze,
and happily men of capital are at hand
regard, and farmers can get them on the
shares. A man who has never cared for
sheep should not at first risk a great
many, but should be willing to be a
scholar and at once post himself how to
take care of them.
lam informed, whether true or not I
know not from experience, that you can
pasture here your general stock in the
fall till about December and can begin
about the middle of April. If this be so
your winter feeding of the general pas
turing of stock is month and half
less than in Iowa. And I am assured
farther that in sheep we can beat the
above record.
When babe is born it is the most
ignorant and helpless object among all
mammals. When new country IS
opened people are in a great hurry to get
rich, while they are the most ignorant of
the adap1ibllities of the SURROUNDINGS
The northern boundary line of Oklaho
ma was teamlng with thousands of wait
ing emigrants to 60 into that Eden, but
now they are crying for bread. In the
sweat of our faces will We have to eat
bread in every and especially in new
countries. We all remember how much
help "bleeding Kansas" had to have and
the end is not yet.
Dakota is on the eve of her second
and better attempt to make her perma-
nent settlements and improvements in
buildings The men of means Want to
forbear crowding the creditors. Let the
farmer who has mortsaged his few crops
or stock have a chance to keep and III
crease the little flock" till il becomes,
il not to a thousand, at least to a paving
herd. The farmers need cheap lumber
as HQcls increase to make winter pr0tec-
ton.
If had space [ would ike to name
the many good things that Dakota has
that we have not. We forget our blcss
I jngs and in one discouragoment only re-
member the evil. which We find every
where. And there Is another thing that
might help your farmers and that is, il
they would rest on Sundays ailtIe more.
Thore is still a mighty old superstition
! believed IN that the Almighty made this
world and made arrangements to rock us
TO sleep every twenty-four hours a4d
then throws in a holiday once a week.
| and | have been impressed that God still