Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-01
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farm, encourage your state agricultural col.
lege, learn to do better farming, more in.
tensive farming. The yield per acre in the
valley is about $780, in the whole state
it is little less, about $3.50 of the cultivated
land. In the state of Minnesota tits 81 .67.
In the state of Iowa it is $500. Now, there
isn't anything in Iowa-anything that they
can raise in Iowa that you can't raise, with
the one exception of corn. Il saw as hand.
some fields right here within a mile of where
we are standings handsome fields OF corn
as ! ever looked at, but we are not sure
that the corn crop win ripen in this climate.
A friend of mine in Connecticut, VIII, 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. I,
got some of the seed and II splanted ten
acres. was out to my place Sunday even
ing, ten miles from St. Paul and my corn is
ripe, thoroughly glazed and past any pos.
sibe danger of frost. am too .,usy to
raise corn, but like to have a fam, and
| want to dol want to do my sha-e, AMI
every bushel of that corn is at the disposal
OF anybody for seed who wants to secure
an early corn corp in North Dakota. Ny
friend in Connecticut harvested SIS bushels
last year. That is nearly SO per cent more
than the average Of the state of Iowa, and
take Iowa as a wonderful agricultural state
Now, 1t you can raise corn you have the
advantage of any state in the union. You
can 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.
Do Less and Do 1t Well.
What you want today is to do less and
do It well, do it more thoroughly A maj,
off 80 acres thoroughly cultivated, or wheat
field Thoroughly cultivated will get more
money than off 100 acres cultivate as we often:
see. In riding over parts of our line I al.
ways make it point to 60 al night. It
breaks my heart to ride through an agricul-
tural country and see shocks of wheat, in
place of having the beautiful, golden, yellow:
color that wheat should have, black with
weeds Now there are portions of the road
where the prevailing color was black, but I:
am glad to say that they are beginning
maybe the old people have turned it over to
their children and the children have learned
something-to do better, and am taking
fresh hope. I want to see better farming
because II in the state Of Minnesota, and I
have lived forty-nine years in the state, if
they got the same annual return per acre Of
cultivated land that they got in Iowa the state
OF Minnesota would have had so millions a
year more money, and it is too much to
waste Don't let people tell you that you
can cultivate farm through an act of the
legislature. You can't. There is nothing IN
the world but the mans own brains and his
hand to the pillow that will give him the re-
turns. ! said little while ago that in the
sage brush east of the Columbia river which
expected was to be our show place as a
desert, we are raising So bushels to the acre
there in the first crops They summer fall.
low every other year, but at the end Of
three Or four years they find then they can
take two crops. There is more moisture to
hold it. There is more moisture in the land
and they can take two crops in succession
So that out of three years they get two
crops That is, they get two crops Of So
bushels, or 20 bushels in three years An
average of 90 or 23 would make you proud.
Now suppose that we did cultivate all this
land and double the yield. What would you
do with it? 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 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 dollars to
build a canal to bring that trade to us, and
we haven't any ships to carry ii? We are
going to build it for somebody else's ships
and hope shat we will have ships some day
Nothing Against Canal.
Now haven't said a word against the
canal, because the people along the north
states have had a hard time and they haven't
had money proportionate, and they think ii
will do them good. They think the canal
is going to be of great assistance TO them,
map Of the world and take the country south
of the equator and what share Of the popu-
lation of the world do they contain? Less
than 8 per cent, less than s per cent of
the population Of the world, and sthat is the
place we are going to find markets? Are
those the people We are going to feed7 Let
US go somewhere where the people are old.
thick and plenty. have tried-maybe you'll
call me crank, but I have tried to make a
market, and a year ago last winter we car.
-ried your grain from Minneapolis and from
North Dakota TO Australia; your grain or
your -four to Hong Kong and Yokohama.
And il anybody told me fifteen years ago
that grain would go from the Red river val.
ley to the Orient Il would have thought the
man was at least calling for q guardian, OF
else he thought i was. Now what you have
got to find is new markets II your como.
modities that You raise are going to bring
high prices you must have somebody to buy
them. use them and destroy them and put
them out Of sight; somebody who wants 10
buy them. somebody who wants to pay your
price and willing to pay for them. and the |
greater the demand the higher the price will
be. 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 sup.
ply. and 1 don't know II You could raise