Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-04-26
gUR[|R THAN CROPS
"a Jamestown Corresp spondent Thinks
Farmers Pay Too Much Attention
IS to Grain Raising. sS s55 u
# Creameries Were Established and
Cows Bought 4 Failure Of Crops E.
4 Would Nj Bother. .s53 5Ss ". n.
Plant Corn, Raise Potatoes and Make
Butter and This Country Will H 34% :s
s* Surely Prosper, s n 5s3Ea

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Editor jamestown Alert: The ques-
/ tion is, shall we have a crop or not ?
On the crops depends our 5happeness.
This question is repeated every year.
We have q glorious climate, good soil,
industrious people and everything to
make people happy. There is no
climate OF country in the world per-
feet. There is always some draw
back. ;Sf ST Hence we must adapt our
selves to the conditions as we find
them. Last year was a bad one for
this state. The poorest land we have
is in the western part of the state and
very little land is adapted for Guilt !
walton, mostly on account Of the de-
ticiency of rain. Still the settlers
there are doing well and have money
for everything they need. = N.1:$'., 81 s.,
Many ask why this is so. The, rea-
son is easy They have adapted
themselves TO- the conditions that ex-
list. " Nearly every station has its
creamery. il The ,storekeepegs-: and
weather. farmers furnish new begin
:ners with COWS Of the best breed, sell
ing them outright at "a small profit
and take their pay in milk pro rata
monthly. The latest creamery sep
arates the milk ais It comes from the
cow The farmer takes the skim
milk back again and feeds it to young
stock and needs no milk house or
good cellar. The creamery butter
brings from ls to ~ cents the year
around. The result. is that when a
man has from t12. toS15f cows he will
have a weekly income Of from $40 to
$Sl :Sl2 cash alone from the cows. Be
sides that he can raise grain and
other products which will swell his
income. If he; don't go into the
Wholesale raising Of grain and has a
family of six or eight persons he will
need very little help and will have an
income sof from $500 to 81 200 a year.
FIIss is the small farmer that will make
this q success as he is the one able
to- give the soil something back for
what he takes out of it, This is inn
fpossib Bile for the large farmer. His
tory repeats itself. ii the western
states had big farms until the owners
became bankrupt We have q n,11n-
ber Of good farmers in our own coln-
ty who came from Wisco onsin and
MINI esota. Crops failed for many
years from various causes and they
had to move up here in5 order to make
a living The farmers who remained
have adopted since a new way. Of
farmi ng. They have found out that
the COW is the nainstay and the sup
porter OF the family. Now they have
cream cries, well l-bred cows. fat hogs,
plenty of chickens, raise all the fod-
der they can and less grain raising.
The result is they use less horses.
less machinery and have about the
same work the year around So If
they hire man they hire him By the
year ms tead of for a few months. s f$ !.
The eonseq equence is VI the farm n d ers M
have capable hired help, the store-
keepers sell for cash as the farmers
have cash 1T All times during the year
and are not depend ding On one thing.
wheat fails they have still some
thing else Besides they have good
bill dinga 3 family Oh. every 1GO acres
at least where lin 4 3 wheat country
yoli can hardly find On an average one
every two sections. So where one
family now lives ia North Dakota
there could live at least eigh do
net know any country better
adapted 10 sdai farlning than the
James river val ley, rich Ia water and
nutritious grass ss5s 5t
Now il ON. mer'cha ants and capital
lists undertake to open a creamery
which could be done with very little
capital as both the and south
side breWeries could be used FOR the
purpose and could be rented Tor 4
term of years all that would be
needed would be the machinea,y and
4 first class butter max ne capi-
talist who would frrnis sh the best bred
of milch cows nthe market and sell
the same at cost or alt u small profit
~ the farmer ana let them pay for
the saalie through revenue derived
from the sale 81 n Il she farmers
would then have money the year
around fhe 1,la iries would be dot