Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-02-09

has been through all the ages Of the
past and will continue in an intensi-
fed form through all the time to
come, the one absorbing indispens-
able industry, the corner stone upon
which all industries must stand or
fall. Its progress. it's success and its
development indicate the prosperity
of our country and underlie and sus-
tain all other enterprises. With the
failure of successful husbandry all
commercial enterprises will not only
be depressed but must fail. All the
comforts Of life depend upon success
full agriculture. Therefore farmers
you should realize the Importance of
your aosition. With your failure all
other enterprises must succumb. As
the most dense forest must fall be-
fore the woodman's ak, and as the
constant dripping of water makes
an impression on the hardest stone,
so with your unparalleled virgin oil
it must yield to system of contin-
uous cropping of any kind of crops
that does not require thorough and
persistent cultivation. Is it not a
stubborn fact that your broad acres
already refuse to yield as bountifully
as in the days of your bumper
bonanza crops? If it is true that
your lands are producing less than
formerly does it not reflect upon your
system of farming, and that you are
confronted with condition of things
that demand a radical change?
I am not Of those that believe
North Dakota is going to the bad.
On the contrary, I see bright future,
you are going to continue to be a
great Wheat producing country.
There is no reason why you should
not sustain indefinitely the >eputa-
tion you have jus ly earned of being
the bread basket of the world. But
as modern machinery and ideas pre-
vail in all our manufacturing and
industries, can we not
see old wavs and old ideas 60 glim-
mering into the dim past? It is i'm
perative that If the farmer is going
to lead the procession as nature in
tended he should, he must change
his tactics, we repeat that If modern
ideas and methods prevail in all our
industries that those that do not
avail themselves of new and advanced
methods must fall by the way.
Successful agriculture cannot be
brought about by physical labor
alone; the methods of the past will
not win out now. Old methods have
the fertility of your soil
to the danger line. you must adopt a
system that will restore lost fertil-
ity. You must seek knowledge
along the lines of the great laws
soil management, vegetable
and animal growth, the breeding
and feeding Of domestic animals.
Farmers must not longer be only toll
ers but students. Avail yourselves of
v our excellent agricultural school,
which is giving information that will
be of untold value to North Dakota
farmers. Their teaching is practical
because OF their being familiar with
your conditions. Appreciate and
profit by the untiring efforts Of Prof
Kaufman in developing your dairy
interest, remem bring that we cannot
hope for the best success as long as
you persist in milking ring streaked
and >peckled cows similar to those
Jacob herded nearly six thousand
ears ago. We do not advise dispos-
ing of your present herds but urge
you to secure pure prepotent sires of
the breed of your choice and in this
way build up your herds. Cut out
the non paying improbable cows and
what applies to dairy COWS, applies
tc the breeding Of all kinds of live
stock. The sire and more than half
the herd and none but the best,
should find their way into our herds,
if we hope to obtain the best results.
Farmers are slow to lay hold OF their
unsurpassed opportunities. Lands
AZ woll as men have their common
enemies, the very existence of many
parts of the northwest Is threatened
by all kinds of foil weeds chat were
not normal iD the virgin soil, the
responsibility of this condition that
is frought with thre; tening disaster
to your fair land that nature has SO
given you must be assumed.
One says it does no good to pound
us for our mistakes, but help US out
of our troubles. If ;ou have drag
nOis of the case. prescribe.
This is not easy, yet We know of no
other way to clean land and maintain
its fertility than a thorough system
Of rotating crops: plant one fourth,
one third is much better, Of your
land into crops that you can culti-
vate, conquer the weeds 10 this and
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