Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-06-11
TALKS TO THE POINT.
What a Farmer has to say
About Farming and
Other Things.
Urges Farmers not to Sell
Their Notes.-The Re-
suits If They do.

One of Stutsman county's old time
farmers, Mr.. John Ford of Atwlll, who
has pioneered 1t on the prairies for many
years and ls considered one of the best
farmers in this part OF the state, ex-
pressed himself to The Alert very en-
phatically last week on the subject Of
diversified farming and other matters in
which the intelligent farmer 10 inter-
ested. John Ford is no idle farmer or
mismanager. This year with the aid Of
his boy he Plowed and sowed $50 acres
of ground to wheat, barley, oats and
other crops, job that lazy or shiftless
man wouldn't do. He says:
II take four papers, two Of them agrl-
cultural and two newspapers, beside The
Alert. In all of the papers published
outside you see great deal about farm
ers dlversifying their crops. Lord!
it nearly chokes me to read what these
writer's say. Last year they advised US
to plant potatoes and look at the price
of them. Everything else the same way.
The more We diversity the less We seem
to get for what we do raise.
II was born and raised close to Berke-
ly Castle near the river Severn and have
been farmer all my life. came to
this country to improve my condition.
I have seven brothers and sisters still
living in old England. We had fifty
COWS and made cheese, raised hogs,
grain and general farm products, work.
ing every foot of land to the very best Of
our ability and, if do say it, our family
are good farmers. But rents, taxes and
tithes ate US up. My brothers write me
now that work as bard as they may,
diversity as much as they do, they can't
make new shilling for an old one.
"This country is going to the dogs
simply because the men at the helm will
not run the ship right. If our great and
grand republic is gong to be run in this
way say We farmers aud all others are
set of id fools and ought to be-
pincbed. Right is right and it will
never be changed. If We are going to
submit another four years to the same
conditions that have happened the last
we are goners. Either that or it will
educate US to know what is right and
what is wrong. That's my belief. They
can talk as much as they please but
these are facts.
"Wasn't Tillmans speech dandy? I
was wrapped up in that speech. 1t
made me feel glad, and l never slept
until had analyzed it. Am glad that
we have a man left IN this country who
is not afraid to tell the truth. said to
my wife: Wake up, old woman, and
hear good thing when you
have a chance That man is great.
I'll spend whole week and drive
a two horse team to work for that
man and will visit every precinct in
Stutsman county and it will not cost
hun red cent.
"We ought to be old enough not to be
dross. If we are dross, what kind of q
man is it? What will mans children
do? Will man pave the way to
poverty? If we haven't sense to prevent
being bought, God pity US.
Il believe this year, if never before,
that every farmer in Stntsmsn county
ought to go the polls and vote for candi-
dates. regardless Of who they are, and
for what be thinks is right. We cannot
afford to sell out to the men who use
our votes against US, any longer"