Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-04-25

FARMERS should buy their seeds of Geo.
Jennings, Bismarck, if they wish to have
them fresh and reliable. He keeps the
Albert Landredth Company's seeds in.
bulk, which are celebrated all over the
United States. Also, Rlce's and Ferry's,
in packages. The old stand, corner of
Main and Fifth streets--sign of the Lone
Star Flag.
The Dakotas and Their Climate.
Prairie Farmer In North Dakota rains
have been propitious and wheat-seeding
Is gong forward nicely. In South Da-
kota the same condition exists as to
moisture. and 1t is believed that seed
enough will be Forthcoming to supply the
necessities of the people where drought
prevailed last year.
1t is no unusual thing IN the settlement
of new region of country to cry
drought" "Droughty Kansas was for
years the derisive exclamation against
this now great grain and stock feeding
State. Yet it's peope.kept on increasing.
Wheat, corn and other agricultural prod-
ucts, including vast herds of cuttls, grew
"No p'o'peieu' oA'' Aousls SLauuS IO.uay
as one of the important states of the
Great West Such will prabably be the
result in respect to the twin Dakotus.
Droughts will come and go, as they do
in every region of country but it is as
true tO-day as it was when spoken more
than u hundred years ago by then emil
nent farmer Of Great Britain. that
drought scares, but too much water ut
terly destroys the hopes of the farmer.
Aud those counties OF Dakota that were
dry last year will ,probubly this year give,
increasingly abundant crops.
Ii 1t were true that the Dakotas Were to
be constantly drought stricken it would
be a national calamity. 1t is those states
and Minnesota upon which we depend
for our No. hard wheat.
Some day tho Dakotas, North and
South, will enter largely into more di-
diversified farming The new settler
must raise wheat and 1axseed largely, and
other products that will bear transporta-
tion long distances. 1t Is upon these the
husbandman must depend for ready cash.
Then the farmers acquire focks and
herds, the agriculture becomes mere di-
versifed. and from this time the farmers
grow faster in wealth and general pros
perlty. 1t has always been 80 in the SET
tlement OF every new country.
Years ago 1t was stated that grasshOp.
pers were bound to eat Kansas farmers
continually out Of house and h0me.
Where are the grasshoppsrs Now? Cen
fined to restricted areas in the Far north,
to become less and less as the country
gets more and mere settled, and fer we'll
known natural causes.
That there has been suffering in the
Dakotas in certain districts goes without
saying Where, in this great republic, is
there locality in which. in exceptional
years, there is not diminutien Of crops
and consequent suffering7 Yet the coun-
try is prosperous. as whole, with the
exception that farmers, as class,
throughout the Union (save cstton-
growersl, are under the teeth Of Q vast
harrow.
We believe there is a great future for
the Dakotas. The Drawn and brain Of
its farmers are sturdy in respect to both.
We think they will be found able to .hoc
their own rev IN spite of land sharks, and
that class Of newspapers in the east which
fear the rising greatness of the tillers and
toilers of the great Mississippi Valley,
whose territory is fifteen hundred miles
long and fifteen hundred miles broad.
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