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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

the winter months 1t is not the place
for stock to shelter behind barbed wire
fences and depend upon a rustic for a
living. The man who tries to raise
live stock that way in North Dakota
will and ought to go "broke," and also
should be sent to the "pen" for cruelty
to dumb animals.
The conditions nov governing the
/. G., n smaller number per CAPITA than
for the last twenty years, nearly 1O,-
GO,0GO head. about 20 per cent less
than six years ago. all this great de.
crease in the face of a rapidly-increas-
Ing consuming popultion at home. a
steady and largrly-incrcasing export
demand, with NJ important competition
from any other countries, are all fact
OrS that give an assurance of
:tivc prices for many years to come,
and there is no agricultural state in the
Union that, under these conditions. Of
frrS as many inducements to stOcklncn
as does North Dakota. with its healthy
climate, abundance of mcat-prOdncing
grasses. cheap land and chcapncSs with
which winter feed can be raised.
Prices of land vary. Quality. proN-
unity to towns and railroad stations.
ainoun OF improvements. etc, are Ill
taciOrS that determine price. In the
Red River valley proper they range
from SO to $50 per acre; outside the
valley. from s. to SIS. These lands
are sold on easy terms of payment.
Many Of them can be bought on the
c~rop-payment plan, |. e., from onr-third
TO onc-half the crop will be taken as
partial payments until the full price
has been paid. In some favorable years
the share Of the crop has paid for the
land in one and two years. On mcdi-
um-priced lands II can feel Il reason
able assurance Of making his lan;l
clear in four years. The government
lands open for entry are mostly in the
Central and Western part of the state,
and can be taken under the homestead
law.
The main and branch lines of the
Northern Pacific. the Great Northern.
the $500" the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul and the Northwestern rail-
reads. now well GOVERN" the state. af-
ford eaSily-acccSSihle outlets to trrmin-
al markets. and at all stations are
found elevators for the handling Of
grain and facilities for loading live
stock MS well as local markets for the
by-prodncts of the farm.
The space allotted to this article pre-
vents only general reference to the
dairy interests of the state; but l can
say that the experience Of those en-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12
A LITTLE ADVICE.
Prospective HomeseekeFs ana
Present Settlers Will Do
Well to Heed.

When the number Of new settlers 10
eating In North Dakota Is annually
running into thousands, it does not
seem inopportune that we offer a little
advice, not alone to prospective home
seekers, but to present settlers as well
The people who emigrate to, and set
tie in any new country, are, for the
greater part, men Of limited means,
who seek new homes to better their
final cial conditions.
While the soil is uneXcelled In fertll-
ity and productiveness, and we can
safely claim that no country offers
greater opportunities to new settlers,
it still requires good judgment and we'll
directed industry to achieve even a
competence. Too many settlers mag
inc that, because the land is free or
cheap, that all they need to do is to get
possession Of 100 acres and then sit
down and "take it easy" No sadder
mistake could be made. We frankly
say to progressive settlers that unless
you are willing to endure even the
slight Inconvenience and hardships
to all new countries, and be-
side all else, willing to deserve sue
cess by earning it, you should not en-
igrate to North Dakota or anywhere
else.
After living in North Dakota for fif-
teen years and carefully watching its
development, we can say that the man
who is Industrious and has even or
binary business ability. will succeed If
he is content to settle down on 1GO
acres Of land. live within his means,
engage in mixed farming and devote
his energies to the development Of his
home. A farmer ought to consider
debt" as one of the serious dangers in
his new home. We will tell you Of q
class Of farmers whom we have never
seen fail in North Dakota-the first i'm
portant point is to locate right. Then
establish such a home as can be paid
for, and commence to gradually devel-
op the home. BE content to live in an
humble house, even a sod one, as 1t
can be made very comfortable, happy
in the thought that it is yours; raise a
garden, and any sensible farmer knows
that "a good garden is half any farm
el's living;' IN early to raise
a few horses, cattle, sheep and hogs;
let the housewife have a good poultry
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

gagged in it, both in butter and cheese
factories and in family dairics has
been eminently satisfactory, our rich
native grasses. SO rich in their beet
producing qualities, are equally so in
made. North Dakota butter is already
acquiring the same reputation for SUI
pelior quality that has been gained by
the excellent quality Of w. spring
wheat.
For more detailed information as to
the special advantages and opportuni-
ties offered by different localities in
the state to intending settlers, l usual
" refer my correspondents to Hon. II.
u. Thomas, Commissioner Of the De-
partment Of Agriculture and Labor,
Bismarck.
Further than this, l will only say
after years Of observation in other
states and years of residence and eX.
pericnce in this, l know Of no agricul.
tural state in the Union that offers as
many opportunities for success in life
to the farmer, the mechanic, to the In.
borer or to the capitalist as can be
found in North Dakota.
In this article / am not trying tC
boom any particular thing. nor is II
written in the interest Of any particu.
lar locality. but simply stating things
as | know them and as an answer tC
the general run of questions in letters
to lie from people who have the com
ing to North Dakota in prospect.
J. B. POWER,
Proprietor Helendale Stock Farm
Power, n. D.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

maintained In profitable condition by
a judicious alteration Of crops. AS
many of the crops necessary to this
alienation are too bulky to be sent to
far-away markets with profit, and are
not In demand at home, it becomes
necessary to create a demand for them.
The advantages Of the dairy COW for
such purposes are SO many and so ap-
parent that no argument Is needed to
enforce the conclusion. The consump-
ton Of by-products in the hairy is the
quickest way to realize on them, and
the returns are by far greater than by
other ordinary means.
The dairy also provides for the prof.
liable employment of labor during tho
whole year, and will, to a large ex-
tent, when once adopted, do away
with the present migratory practices
Of farm laborers, which is fast de-
grading them into shiftless, unpatriot-
ic and homeless tramps. The dairy
also provides for a regular, certain and
remunerative income whereby the
risks Of crop failures r lessened and
their real dangers almost avoided.
The dairy requires for it's successful
operation the most exact regularity,
and in hat respect alone is Of the
very greatest benefit to the farmer
II his entire household, in the train
ing Of himself and family in orderly,
systematic and business-like methods.
1t also offers to the qualities of skill
and cleanliness their due and proper
reward, and in the encouragement it
gives in this respect alone, it does
more toward the upbuilding of hon
esty and cleanliness in all the affairs
of life than any other calling of the
farmer.
The skill necessary to build up q
dairy of fine COWS and to maintain
them in profitable condition and to
convert their products into butter and
cheese is not difficult to acquire, and
when once acquired the person thus
skilled ranks almost as q scientist.
In n long experience I have also known
none to seriously deny these PROPOSE.
tons, and yet few Of the farmers prac.
tice them.
Why will we not adopt a system OF
farming that Is admittedly better fol
our farms and better for ourselves?
The reason Is no doubt found in the
quicker but less certain returns, the
attractions of the improved machines
almost human in their operations, and
In the glamour Of the bonanza farm,
er and the western ambition to at.
tempt great undertakings to the neg
lect of lesser but more useful and 70
munerative pursuits.
]. II. BOsARD.
Grand Forks. N. u.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

had much more to contend against
They had no markets; they found In
most cases that the land was drst to b
cleared Of dense forests, much Of e
later must be ditched and tiled, and
yet, under these adverse conditions
they became rich. How7 They went
slow, paid 90 they went, avoided debt
under any and all circumstances, in
other words, lived within their means.
and the development Of the country
made them rich.
Let U new settlers learn Of them.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

yard; then, with butter and eggs, poul-
try and vegetables, the farmers living
is provided for; and the stock and
grain raised and sold can be used to
improve the home. Again we say,
III thing. Do not imagine that you
must 60 into debt for a self-binder as
soon as your first forty acres is to be
harvested; it is far better to exchange
work with some neighbor and let him
cut your grain; and, above all, do not
purchase high-priced machinery until
you have provided a shelter Of some
kind In which to store them when not
In use.
Another class of our settlers, full Of
energy and ambition, view with aston
ishment the grand opportunities sur
rounding them, and are at once car
ried away with the desire to become
rich, and SO they make the greatest
mistake Of their lives. Having little
means, they must run in debt for
teams, machinery and seed to put in 4
big crop. II they are successful in OBJ
taining large yields and fair prices, the
years end finds them but little, II any,
better off than in the beginning. Why7
Because they have neglected every
thing else. Go into their garden. It II
a mass Of weeds and not vegetables.
Look at their poultry yard; the house.
wife has nearly worked herself to
death cooking and caring for hired
help, and had no time to care for poul-
try; 60 to the barnyards, and no young
cattle, horses, lambs or pigs are seen
growing into money; but when there is
extra help and extra provision needed,
the farmer hurries off to town to buy
butter and meat that his own farm
yard should supply; go out and look
at his costly machinery his large farm
Ing operations have made necessary
for him to buy ION TICK" and contem-
plate his machine shed; the broad prai-
ries are the sides of his shed, and the
sky or clouds its roof. This picture is
not overdrawn. Would you call any
man q thrifty farmer who would pay
$13O FOR q binder, use it a couple Of
weeks and then let 1t stand the bal
ance Of the entire year exposed to the
elements? 70 It any wonder that such
farmers fail7 They are certain to do
80 If they should have a poor crop.
Let US tell you how to become rich In
North Dakota. Take a lesson from the
pioneer farmers Of Ohio, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois and other central states.
Everyone knows that these old-timerv
were the "rich old farmers" Of their
respective states. How did they b.
come rich3 They were al poor or poor.
er than those now settling here. They
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12
STOCK RAISING.
This Industry Finds Unparalleled
Advantages In North
Dakota.

If the motto Health Is wealth" 10
applicable to the human race, 1t 10
equally SO applied to stock. After nine
teen years experience in raising stock
in this state l believe I can safely say
that in no state or territory Of the
United States Is stock freer from dig
ease than here in North Dakota. I
have absolutely seen no contagious dis
ease of any kind whatever among cat.
tie during that time; and when l say
that, all things considered, we can pro-
duce a yearling steer cheaper here on
the average than he can be produced
in any other place in the United States.
I have only to refer to winters like the
one just past, when at least 25 per
cent Of the stock on open ranges from
Montana to Texas perish, while in
North Dakota l have vet to hear of the
first head of stock perishing from ex.
poSure.
Now, as to the cost of production:
I will figure that IN the basis Of 100
head, taking the cost of 100 COWS at $35
per head, making $500; cost of shed
ample to shelter 100 head, 500.
Interest on $500, at 8 per cent. $3.50
Interest and depreciation on
building, at 20 per cent........ 20
Cost of herding, from April LIST to
Dec. LIST GO
Cost of hay in stack. at 40 cents
per ton g tons Of hay per head,
or AZ tons for COW and calf, or
$50 tons hay at 40 cents per ton) $50
Cost of man and board for four
winter months to care for above
amount Of stock, at $50 per
. month 100
Total cost Of 100 head of year
lings Observation-Disclosures. sG4o
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

poAV
To raise q steer the second year, you
leave of the item Of interest on cost Of
cow, $3.50, and n and a half tons Of
hay, at 40 cents per ton, making in all,
$40; deduct this amount from $780,
leaving s., the cost Of caring for a steer
the second year, and making q two.
year-old steer cost $9.4O.
I would say In explanation Of the
cost Of hay, that for several years I
have kept an itemized account Of cut
ting and stacking the same, allowing
three dollars per day for each man or
boy and team, and that forty cents per
ton has been rather over than under
the cost A. the items of cost Of all
else, except hay and shelter, is about
the same here as on the open range, I
will allow the reader to form his own
conclusions which place to risk here.
conclusions which place to risk. I am
satisfied to take my chances here.
While I put the amount Of hay per
head at three tons, I have seldom
found 1t necessary to feed that amount;
but with that amount Of hay on
hand In the fall, a stockman can feel
safe that HE stock are not going to
suffer under any circumstances. This
winter I do not think stock are going
to consume an average Of two tons per
head.
do not pretend to say that stock can
be raised ~ cheaply in the agricultural
portions Of North Dakota as I have
here figured, but lying between the
James river and the Missouri river IL
an extensive tract Of billy, rough.
rugged country, termed the Coteaux do
Missouri, extending through the state
from north to south, which is entirely
unit for agricultural purposes, but
where stock can be raised in innumer.
able quantities.
What I i have said Of cattle is equally
applicable to sheep, except that ten
tons of hay Is ample for 100 head of
sheep.
AS to the assertion that our winters
In North Dakota are too long to feed
stock, I will say that I have raised
stock both in Ohio and Iowa, and find
that u feeding season does not v
age as long here as in those stateaL
Any further information that I can
give any n looking for a location for
a stock ranch will be cheerfully fur
nished.
J. A. ATKINSON, Farmer,
Sykeston, N. D.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12
FenceR

In North Dakota the farmer y not
required to fence against stock. Il =
not allowed to run at large in thu wen
settled districts, and only the pastures
are fenced. Thus considerable expense
- saved the new conner. for he 10 nee
required to enclose his feldD. BY eueh
an arrangement tho great expense e
fencing, 40 well % the necessity thar.
for, y dispensed with.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12

When pigs get large enough to eat
(three weeks old there is nothing bet
ter than a thin oatmeal mush. fed
warm four or five times a day. The
pigs like it, especially if a little brown
srIgar o. molasses is added, and when
1t con- time to wean them they do not
miss the SOW.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
A LITTLE Foxy.

If you want to learn whether the
da-'" papers are really opposed to
trusts, as they loudly proclaim, wait
until the subject Of abolishipg them
cores up in the proper quarter. They
will still declare themselves opposed
to trusts, AID alc0 opposed to any leg
Station on the subject unless they are
permitted to designate its tenor. Give
them this permission and they will
suggest means they know to be i'm
practicable. This does not apply to all
dailies, but the most Of them, and it is
not necessary to name those to which
it does apply-the people know them.
Tue fact is, the dailies to which we re.
fer are not opposed to trusts and mo
nopolies at all. Trusts and monopolies
are able to command all the newspaper
support they iced and to designate the
manner in which it shall be exercised.
There is bus one David these giants
fear, and that is the people. If they
a fool tte people through the daily
papers aAittle longer, they may be able
to defy them a little later. If the
party in power is pledged to maintain
a protective tariff, we will be taught
that the only way to destroy trusts is
to abolish the tariff, If a low tariff
party is in power, then the only way
to reach trusts is by Federal legisla-
ton, if the Attorney General favors
trusts, or by state Legislation, if the
higher Federal courts favor them. The
dailies in question r in favor of wip,
ing trusts from the face of the earth,
provided it is attempted in a way that
is sure to fail. The dailies that consis
tentIy oppoe3 trusts ere all the more
conspicuous because they are few
Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
DO YOUR PART.

Il, with all other industries and
trades forming combines and organ
izipg for purpc-e9 defensive and often
rive with greater rapidity than hes
ever before been FnoWn-it, with these
things before them, and farmers end
labo1ars cannot zee the nee; sity for
joining together for mutual tsnedt
and prot ction, then surely the condi-
ton of agriculture ia hopele,% :.
What, dear reader, do your brother
farmers think of this matters Can
you not get more of them to join your
Sub Alliancel Or if your Sub. is dor
mant can you not get enough together
to reorganize it, This matter should
be attended to at once. Next month
the County Aui.7ces meet their last
meeting before the State Alliance Be
sure to have your sub in good working
order this month end report progress
at the county meeting. It is not a
great tPak You do not take world
upon your shoulders. But let each
realize his duty and do his part in his
immediate neighborhood, among his
aCquaintar cas and associates, and all
will be well. Personal work is the great
nee / of the Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
AN LEGISLATION.

While legislators in some Of the
states are still wrestling with the ques-
tion of trusts end how 10 suppress them
by law, the trust makers go merrily
on with their work, and will continue
TO do so, Legislatures end courts to the
contrary not withstanding Over in
M, chigan the Legislature is considering
what is known as the Hammond anu
trust law, and it is predicted tt a. it
will be passed. On it's face it appears
to be a strong measure, calculated to
put a stop to the formation Of trusts.
But when it comes to be tested in the
courts, and the matters proven which
first must be established before the
trust can be shown, under that law.
to be illegal, it will fail and must fail
in Michigan as everywhere elce.
Here is a remark of the correspond
e1t at Lensing with reference to this
proposed bill which is most significant.
Referring to the fact that the bill Is
more than likely to become a law, he
continues, ''And the executive officers
of the state are in a mood to enforce it
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13

to the letter." We may sa'aln
that where the interests of Iasn.V 0Oa
porations in the courts denonS' ca
the mood" of the prosecuting 90 upN
nothing ever will be doneScou"1
tions know better how II ,pOte
moods" than anything Or Anu uaaa
else on Garth. '"O9
The real truth is, the truo+
natural development of world > ''
tions. 1t is the expression of oro oSOQ
we now now witness it, and if noS u
ted to go on just as it hes started
will either ruin it's votaries or mi, wy
plain people. But in so far a. it To- 'R
the world the better way, it il wla
and the interposition Of legislatio" l
the sort proposed will not aft ~ o.
particle. So long as the legislot''
give away the peoples heritaoo =
create thereby gigantic macbips. "a y
special privileges which turn and v
the people, SO long will vast CONN.,
tions of capital continue to form ~
der to crush out all others. First "
stroy special privilege and ell forrs " 4
private monoE 0ly, then we shall b..,
no more OF the evils of the Il. ~
farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
PRIDE.

National pride and State pride are
often referred to, and truly they de-
serve commentator, but greater than
either State or National pride should
be neighborhood pride-a form OF
patriotism which we fear is very much
neglected. Every nejghborhc ID should
have good roads, good schools and an
educated yeomanry-the things which
Dr.. Hartzog in his addrecJ at u Ag
ricUlturaI and Mechanical College last
week pronounced the three greatest
needs of the South. The humblest citi-
zen laboring to secure theCe things is
II his sphere doing a work al noble as
any that ever absorbed the interests Of
statesmen or heroes. A neighbor-
hood where the young have first class
educational advantages, where the
older read and study the Questions Of
the day, and where al have the ad-
vantegc3 Of 6, ID reads will never go
backward.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
THE THINKERS.
PERSONAL PURITY AN INTEG-
RITY,

Pompey the Great was a conspicuous
example of stern morality and STURDY
integrity in an ege Of the Utmost prohl
gecy and dishonesty. When Rome
was the synonym for license, when heI
armies were so depraved that lust and
avarice had we'll nigh destroyed all
noble sentiments, he kept himself free
from the concentrating Gins Of his day.
In speaking of his campaign against
Mithridates, in which he restored the
empires prestige, copquering all oppo'
sItion end planting the Romen colors
from the Black Sea to the Euphrates,
from Cyprus t. Egypt, Froude tells
US: In the midst of opportunities
such as had / 3fsllC1 no commander
since AL xander, he outraged no wo
mans honor, and he kept his hands
free from the accursed thing. When
he returned to Rome. he returned as he
went, person ally poor, but he filled the
public treasure to overfowipg."
Such an example. standing out in
Eold relief from a background so dark,
is En- inspiration for ell time. It EN-
phasizes the moral grandeur that lies
in the soul of mPn when the p~as3ions
are governed, end the highest impulces
erd noblest conceptions of he soul are
elthroaed on the seat of reason. Puri
ty OF character and strict integrity are
among the great foundation principles
upon which true character rest1.
Without them, no matter how tran.
econdent the genius, how splendid the
intellectual faculties, how great the
heart, the character is dwarfed. 1t is
the duty of each parent to carry this
truth home to the heart Of his child.
Give him a noble example in your own
life, end emphesize it further by call
ing his attention to the luminous illus
trations which stud the heaven Of his
tory with eternal glory,-the lives Of
these who have been great enough to
pass from birth - death with pure,
unsul'ied hearts, radiant with loving
concern for others, end so essentially
brave that they feared nothing but
doing wrong.
We must educate the soul as well as
the brain aud body, and, as moral
training has been 10 sadly neglected,
the greater stress should now be placed
upon 1.-THE Coming Age