Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-09-07

JAMES
high price for the land to sell out.
I want to ask them to pause while
and think if they are not Taking the
house from over their children's
heads. When will they have another
home like it? When will they have
another home with surroundings
where they can go and dig out of the
soil, good, full, nice living? They
rob their children of their heritage
when they sell that home. Keep the
boys on the farm, encourage your state
agricultural college, learn to do better
farming, more extensive farming,
more intensive farming. The yield
per acre in the valley is about five
dollars and go cents, in the whole
state it is a little less, about $3.50 of
the cultivated land. In the state of
Minnesota it is S4.67. In the state of
Iowa lit is $3.50. Now, there isn't
anything in Iowa-any thing that they
can raise in Iowa that you can't raise
with the one exception Of corn. A
friend of mine in Connecticut, who
has given the greatest care to the
growth and development Of corn for
the short season. has succeeded to an
extent that he gets his corn to ripen
in nine weeks, sixty-three days. l got
some of the seed and I planted ten
acres. I was out to my place Sunday
evening, ten miles from St. Paul, and
my corn is ripe, thoroughly glazed and
past any possible danger Of frost. 1
am too ousy to raise corn, but like
to nave a farm and I want to dol
want to do my share, and every bushel
of that corn is at the disposal of any
body for seed who wants to secure an
early crop in North Dakota. My
friend in Connecticut harvested So
bushels last year. That is nearly so
per cent more than the average of the
state of Iowa, and I take Iowa as a
wonderful agricultural state. Now,
if you can raise corn you have the
advantage of any state in the union.
You cal raise wheat that will bring
more per bushel and you can raise
more bushels to the acre If you don't
try to cultivate too many acres the
same year.
When your product Of your farm is
SO plentiful, if your surplus is too
large, what are you going to do with
it? You must find a new market.
There are new markets to be had.
Can you find them? Can you find
them in South America, where we
are spending hundred million dol
lars to build canal to bring that
trade to us, and we haven't any ships
to carry it? We are going to build it
for somebody else's ships and hope
that we will have ships some day. 4
NOTHING AGAINST CANAL. :
Now haven't a word against the
canal, because the people along the
north states have had hard time
and they haven't had money proper
tionate, and they think it will do
them good. They think the canal is
going to be of great assistance to
them, but let us look us 90 back
and take a map of the world and take
the country south of the equator and
what share of the population of the
world do they contain? Less than 6
per cent, less than per cent Of the
population of the world, and is that
the place we are going to find mar
ketp Are those the people we are
going to feed? Let us go somewhere
where the people are old, thick and
plenty, I have tried-maybe you call
me crank, but have tried to make
market, and year ago last winter
we carried your grain from Minnea-
polls and from North Dakota to Aus.
tralia; your grain or your -four to
Hong Kong and Yokohama.
The state Of North Dakota couldn't
raise more than enough to bake
ten biscuits per capita for the
inhabitants OF China, now ten biscuits
would be short for a years supply, and
/ don It know il you could raise enough
grain to make two biscuits per capita
That is a market that seems to me to
be unlimited. And this morning We
learned that Russia and Japan had
made peace. .s l:.ss3
A FRIEND OF JAPAN.
I I am glad they have agreed. But ]
want TO say this. The agricultural
people Of the United States find IL
Russia their greatest competitor
Russia raises what we raise. Theyex
port what we export. We export first
wheat, oil and cotton. They
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