Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-17
DONT'S FOR

The Great Northern immigration de-
partment, at the head of which is Max
Bass, a former well known Dakotan.
issues a poster calling the attention of
settlers in North Dakota to the neces-
sity for Investigation of products and
) Intelligent farming. There are some
good pointers in the poster, and it is
the intention of the department to
place one of them in the hands of every
settler possible ito reach. Some of the
suggestions are as follow:
"A dry, hot wind may prevail and at
just the critical time destroy the crop
that you have insured against hail.
Some other disaster may attend your
farming operations against which you
had or could get no insurance. Far
better is the plan to have a variety of
crops growing on your farm. If the
dry spell catches your wheat, then you
have flax Or other grains coming on
earlier or later, which have escaped
and you have something to depend on.
Better still is it to have a few sheep,
COWS, hogs or horses, that depend for
their growth on the never failing
grasses of these fertile prairies.
Neither drouth or hail will stop their
growth of the resulting sure profit to
the owner. Better than any kind Of
Insurance is mixed farming with a rea-
sonable number of young stock on your
farm.
Let us tell you how to get rich:
Start with the resolution to show only
such grain crops as you can plant in
season with the ground properly pre-
pared. Plant a variety of such grains
as are usually grown with success. In
stead of investing in a lot of high
priced machinery. buy a few COWS,
sheep and hogs. Next plant a good
garden, and in this we do moi mean
only such vegetables as YOU use on
your table. but all kinds of root crops
that will be valuable as a winter feed
for your stock. Do not ask your wife
to give all her time to cooking and
Shaving for a lot of hired men or the
farm. Do your own farm work and
let the wife raise a fine lot of poultry.
North Dakota is noted for it's wheat,
lax and other grains as well as for
stock. Are you aware that this state
is still more noted for the possibilities
in gardening and poultry raising.
Adopt the foregoing and you are i'm
mune against crop failures and poor
prices.
Under the heading GA Few Don'ts''
the poster says:
Don't fail to get a few good cows at
once. g
Don't neglect to make a good garden.
Let your aim be to make it the best
garden in your township.
Don't half prepare your soil or pre-
pare it out of season and then expect
a good crop. Nine times out of ten
you will meet with disappointment.
Don't buy that expensive self-binder
when YOU might change work with a
neighbor and secure the use of his ma
chine to cut your grain. Buy a few
cows or sheep instead.
Don't ask your wife to work from
sunrise to sunset caring for a lot of
hired men. Do only as much farm
work as you can do yourself, and en-
courage your wife to- have the best
poultry yard in the county.
Don't neglect the garden. If you
observe the foregoing you will easily
find the leisure to have such a garden
as only this fertile soil and the perfect
climatic conditions of North Dakota
a produce. Do not overlook this
and you will be Independent.
Let us sum up the foregoing advice.
Farm only as much as you can farm