Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-05-21

Missouri Slope
i4Aabundan Of New Country Still Left
70 Make Choice rom il Found
ing i Home.
Has Diversified Interests, With Small
Grains, Grasses and Live Stock
the Profitable 4 rinity.
Sterling correspond dence to the ST.
Paul Dispatch: AS s travel over these
vast dlack earth plains Of eentraI
North Dakota 4 4 am more than even
impressed with the idea that there is4
no more out Vest s from the stand
point of the new settler looking for q
location in a country where there are.
no other inhabitants "a Such there
used Ito be, even as late as a half dozen
years ago, but that day is now past
forever in the United States. All
along the river vail leys Of Montana,
over the rolling plains Of North Da-
kota west OF the Missouri and here in
the center Of the state east Of the Mis-
souri, we find the settler occupying the
country engaged in that task of home
building and empir creating that has
brought our country to its present
magnificent position among the earthss
nations. But from the view point Of
the homeseeker who wants to locate
where land is cheap and good, and to
Wohm tne fact that the country is al
ready settled to a certain degree with
schools township organization and
churches Is a recomnnen ndati ion there
is still an abunda lance Of new country
to make choice from In founding a;
new home under more favorable con-
H8dltions than now obtain in Illinois;
Wisconsin Iowa and other densly set
! tied eastern states where an over
crowding OF popoulation and surplus
OF idle capital have crowded land UP TO;
price which puts II yond the means
of the average farmer, who is unable
to buy such land and pay for it from
what it will raise in less than an en-
tire lifetime.
And invariably as the settlement sof
a new country progresses It is found TO.
possess capacities and car abilities for,
"a variety Of product ions not suspected
by its first occtp ants. know of a
certain western state OF which a large
block covering several thousand;
square miles was popnlarIy y supposed
for a period Of twenty years after it's
settlement not to be; stadapte for the
raising of grain. A few years ago.
some ventures oIne farmer put ia a
crop of wheat and that part lar sec
/ 5tion has foa, three years past raised the
biggest Whear crops ii the state. But
these Dakota FARMERS have quite ac-
8curately solved the problem Of what
their country is best ada pied 10, and
that is the joint dlctio on az the
small grains, the grasses and live
stock well rounded Il trinity Of
S products which has never failed to
make the farming community that has
adopted it veal althy
AS my nnib -kneed, quick -actioned
team Of western bTonchoess Gerry me at
aten-mile gait over The prairies, am
CONT tinually impressed Wiith this
veasity lesson III Ining, carried
out with a thoroug Illness and to AN
extent that would carry elight I'd
the souls Of eli ss;lpts Gregg Of ouT, Min-
nesota farm mer S stitute and his corps
of hel pers who, for al dozen oh more
years past, have So prsistentIy
preached the gospel sof diversity ON the
farm This const hammering
away has had itss effect ii Mime
sota, where the All I. policy IL
giving away to al more rattii onal me hod.
farmers off part III yortll Da-
kota raised gIaii q and stock To-
getbler almost rom the first, and the
steady pr ogress % the country its
own proof oee the prea Of such d
farming system the most part
farms as yett are notyery near to-
gether but the ali on these wide
sprairies II 50 pure and clear. that am
never oglti OH sigh ht- off ii ffarnlstead.
on one Farm see greater part of
the pioWad land 81 ven over 70 wheat,
on anot taer fiax VII ibe Tie mai crop,
3 phiis stall anothe oa ts and barley
take the lead, esvery farm will
be found cattIe or sheep ana soa,,e-
times tie rearing of horses Hi be the
main depend deilce Each class of Iiva
stock has It's ch npions araon these
sotth OAK kota FAM ners, and each
~ claims that tile md ,of
stock ile has the most of iis the most
profitable to raIse. 81 q of
fact, under present rsndi Il ions and