Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-02
Judge Francis Views.

of Bismarck, N. D., believes that an
equitable disposition has been made
of the wheat inspection question
in his state. The Judge was at
the Merchants yesterday, and with a
few friends engaged in a discussion of
Judge Caldwell's late decision, in which
he thought the eminent jurist had taken
a sensible and legal view. He believed
that the state officials would be as fully
justified in inspecting other supplies
shipped out of the state as they would
be in the inspection Of Dakota wheat.
In either case it would be an Interference
with interstate commerce..
"But we have something besides wheat
in North Dakota,' said the Judge. "We
have a wonderful crop of oats, an abund-
ance of hay, a good flax crop, and the
sheep industry is becoming one of the
leading branches of farming in the Mis-
souri, valley. I would also add that
North Dakota is safely a corr state. Our
crop is large and has ripened finely, the
damage from from frost having been con-
fined to the low districts. We are
in a hopeful condition. and I think that
our state will have more than one years
good crop"
Turning to the subject of politics, the
judge said that a peculiar characteristic
OF the North Dakota farmers was that
they w~ere:nearly all politicians. At pres
emit they were busy on their farms, but
when the time arrived would be heard
from. He expressed the opinion that
next year there would be as many poll
ticians to the square mile in that state
as in any other in the Union, and that
there would be candidates from almost
every county with the senatorial bee in
their bonnets. He said he had always
been a Blaine man in the east and west,
and he believed that there we're a great
many democrats in the country who
would vote for Blaine simply from a
desire to have an American president.
He regarded the secretary's reciprocity
idea as one of the great strokes of states
manship of this country. In referring to
the mooted question as to wether or not
prohibition was successful in North Da-
kota be said that he had observed that
where it was enforced it made at least
an outward observance of temperance,
but as to its preventing people from
drinking he hardly believed that it was
a success. In some places the law de-
creased the consumption of liquor, aud
ne had found that it was a great protec-
ton for the boys and young men.
Commissioner Helgeson, in the Grand
Forks Herald: Here are some items in
the way of crop statistics: H. J. Ran
dali, of Park River, Walsh county, on a
half section of land that he would have
gladly sold last spring for $4,000, has
raised 26O acres of wheat yielding 5000
bushels of No. l hard, which at eighty
cents a bushel will bring $6.4OO. From
thirty acres he has 1000 bushels of oats
and barley worth $500. And since har-
vesting his crops he has sold his half
section for $4,000. His crops and sale of
farm amounting to $l2,1OO, or after de-
Quoting all expenses for seed, labor,
threshing, marketing crop, etc., leave
MI. Randall three times the amount that
he would have sold for in the spring.
A gentleman at Pisek, Walsh county,
raised LOO bushels of No. l hard from
twenty-five acres.
A farmer near Park river offered q
quarter section for sale last spring for
$4,000 or $3.50 per acre. He has taken
from the land a crop of wheat worth 1928
per acre, or more than twice the price he
held his land at in the spring. There
are ever and ever so many cases in the
state where the crops raised are worth
more than the value placed in the land
last spring. In Cavalier county wheat
is yielding from twenty-five to thirty and
thirty-five bushels per acre. Help is
needed and il is impossible to get ma
chimes enough. Rsss
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