Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-04-12
GOOD ADVICE

CASS COUNTY FARMER GIVES
SOME SOUND ADVICE TO HIS
FELLOWS.
NJ, r. Van de Bogart In Tower City
Topics: There is perhaps no line Of
mixed farming that OFFERS more re-
munerative inducements than the dairy
and its attendant advantages in the
stocking OF a farm with cattle and
hogs. It is generally conceded that
in all localities or regions where corn
is successfully grown, dairying can
be probably carried on; sthe raising
! of hogs can be carried on with added
profit. \
In some locations creameries are run
during the cooler weather only, be-
ginning with October and continuing
through or into June.
While North Dakota is still q grain
growing state, and while better crops
may be realized from careful
tillage, the advent of more live stock
will insure a safer and more regular
income from the farm.
One great advantage in winter dairy
ing is, that. it will furnish you winter
employment, where you may credit
yourself with good wages in caring for
stock. Your dairy work will not SO
conflict with your more extensive grain
growing. Butter will sell for a few
more cents per pound than in sum
mer. Calves could be fed on sweet
skinned milk through winter and in
early spring when they would be able
to subsist on coarse foods. A few
dozen young pigs could take the sweet
skinned milk, the natural food for
/ them, which with added succulent fod-
der corn and mill stuff, will carry them
on until they could be finished on field
corn for market. There is no longer
a doubt as to North Dakota's capa-5
bilities as a corn producer, for with all
the unfavorable conditions Of last
year, many fields produced profitable
crops. The writer threshed and stored
for summer feed $50 bushels. The
farmer who is cropping to wheat or flax
or both each year, must realize that
he is at the mercy of hail storms,
which annually devastate and lay in
ruins many promising fields Of grain,
and the extensive drouth periods some
as far spreading as that of the summer
of 1900, which checked the growth of
grain and ~propagated weed growth.
And last spring we were brought again
to realize that the season of the year
before might be repeated, during the
thirty-seven rainless days which gave
weeds supremacy over fax and other
grain on old land; and in many in
stances, caused the general thresher,
though reluctant to do So. to thresh
the crops on halves in ONE cases. Had
it not been for the extreme high price
of fax during the past two falls, thous-
ands of acres would have been
threshed. The expression has been
common during the above period of
time, that fax has saved for our state.
1t has to a large extent with a favored
price. And FAX on new breaking has
doomed the western and northwestern
parts Of this state. and is the one
staple that has led the great tide OF
bonafde settlers from our sister states.
1t is an elementary fact known to
every one. that flax cannot be raised
on land every rear, that on breaking
1T has proven the most practical crop.
It would be wise to start out this spring
to mix up farming. To those who dc
not think favorably of the creamery
enterprise though it has gained wider
. popularity during the past decade than
+ any other branch of husbandry, take
up the raising of more beef cattle
more horses, start in and maintain q
good flock OF sheep, and when there
should chance TO be a failure. or partial
! failure in crops, you will have the sat
!, isfaction OF looking over the fence into
4 your pasture and say, there is from
$500 to $1,000 in cash or its equivalent
s to pay pressing bills and carry M
! family in comfort through the winter
! The Van Duzen-HarTington live STOCK
I dealers contemplate shipping several
carloads of young cattle to this vicin.
iy to sell ITO farmers. An excellent
opportunity to stock up and embark
, in an industry that will eventually
carry you 70 a profitable dairy
beef landing or both. May I sngges
another improvement, that shouls
have a place on every farm and that ii
4 a few acres of hedges, willow on tn,
east, north and west Of your yart
and buildings; IL possible set eigh
! feet / rows east and west, four fee
the other. This will serve in a few
lg years as a most effective wind breal
: for yard and buildings, besides viii
attract many OF the eastern WOODLAND