Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1898-06-17

but to be successful in dairylng there must
be quite bit of brain in the business, some
times, think, rather more brain than
COW. Just how this combination can be
made to the best advantage will leave to
some of the speakers that follow.
But In a general way lot me follow the
question little further. At one time in
answering this question in tho Affirmative
was asked to prove it by figures. One who
has not had the personal experience from
which he can shsw the different results
through term of years on the same farm,
when his fields are in wheat and when they
have been used as a dairy farm, cannot pre-
sent in actual figures the proof that there is
more profit in dairying and stock raising
tin in wheat, and, it is not necessarv-tss-
to make any such proof, the logic or-f-s'
should be sufficient to convince the d
skcptical. Whatever may be claimed as :.
wheat raising being the most profitable, We
cannot get around the fact that in 'every
community where dairying is the dominant
industry, we find the people prosperous, but
this is not the case III every locality where
wheat is the sole dependence.
In my own neighborhood l know of inen
who came here years ago as poor homestead
crs but have never raised bushel of wheat,
their sole dependence has been their butter,
live stock and poultry product, today they
are in easy circumstances, free from all
debt and the most independent of all our
settlers, their independence the result Of
the steady accumulation of small butfcoaa
stant weekly income from their COWS. sup
plemented by the sale every fall of fcwS
well fattened steers of their own raising. r.
asked one of these men why he did not raise
some wheat. "Too lnu III work and do not
| like to spoil my pastures by breaking them
up"
| Go into Wisconsin, Iowa. Minnesota, ask
I the farmers there how they saved thoir
mortgaged wheat farms, they will tel you, by
reducing their cultivated areas and repiac-
ing worn out plows, harvesters and broken
down horses with the milking COW. money
was lost on S. to $40 lands when in wheat,
money is made OH s25 and $50 lands when
used for lairying. These men have been
through the same mill in which you are now
being ground out, for years they went
through the same periods of changing reso-
lutions, necessities forced the time whom
resolutions became fixed and gradually but
surely came their redemption. AS surely
rs the years come and go this will be the ex-
perence of our people.
Generalizing as have on this subject is
IN oft told tale, it is only ringing the
changes on what has been said at every
meeting of the association and to be frank
with you, this repetition of ancient history
is becoming tircsome to me, but under the
present conditions of tho dairy industry in
our state what more can the president of the
Association say. Until greater interest is
| taken in the work all that can be presented
in IN annual address regarding the in
dustry is something in the way of general
propositions, all the Secretary can give in
an annual report is the story of effort tc ~
tercst the people and start the industry.
1t is now seven years since this associa-
tion came into cxstancc. 1t was born a
wcakllng, and the great wheat crop of that
year nearly smoothercd the puny infant but
it managed to survive and during the past
three years, under the fostering care of Sec.
kaufman has retained sufficient vitality to
to he able today to register vigorous kick
against the lack of support given it by the
farmers of our state.
trust you will give more than passing
thought to tho main object and needs of the
association and by substantial encourage
mcnt enable the officers you elect for the
next year to make it of special practical
value to the diary industry of the state.