The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
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FARMERS
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not collect at the bottom as would De
the case with cement floor.
During discussion of the market
ing of grain, it was stated that Pres
ident Hill estimates the cost of ship
ping the dirt in an average crop in
the northwest is $4,000 annually,
and the farmers lose not only this
but the grain which comprises this
dirt. One farmer stated that the dock
age on dirty grain at the terminals
was not only enough to cover the bad
grain, but also made large enough to
cover the cost of freight on the dirt
also.
One of the spiciest talks of the in
stitue was made by Prof. Hoverstad
on the destruction of weeds. His plan
found by careful experiments was to
harrow the ground thoroughly each
spring after the weeds begin to show,
and then seeding the land to barley
and millet which so choked out the
weeds that two or three years would
entirely destroy the weeds, but the
stubble must be plowed under so soon
as the grain is cut
While waiting for the appearance
of Governor Sarles, Professor Hover
stad gave one of his delightful ramb-
ling talks. touching on some point
here and there that interested some
one, and in response to request for
a proper crop rotation gave splen-
did idea of what is meant by this term
at the present time. He divided all
crops into three classes grains,
grasses and the cultivated crops.
Following one of the plants of any
same class with another of the same,
is not rotation. All the plants of the
class require the same plant food and
is just as injurious to the soil as the
other. Not SO with changing from one
class to another. These either by a
restoration to the soil or by changing
its character provides for different
crop. But crop rotation must go hand
in hand with crop incomes. Only SO
much of the grasses and cultivated
classes should be grown as can be
sold. and the rotation must be grad
ually introduced. A few head of cat
tie will require the planting of
grasses, and the feeding over winter
will require some of the cultivated
crops, and so the rotation has its in
c6ptlOu III StOcK raising.
Governor Snrles Speaks.
In introducing Governor Sarles,
President Lander of the Commercial
club stated that quarter of cen
fury ago before the coming of the
railroad, Wisconsin boy with pluck
and ambition landed at Hillsboro and
at once assumed the proportions of a
business man. and while it might be
true. that the boy walked part of
the way on his immigration trip, he
had stayed and had witnessed the
wonderful development of the state,
and was now, as ne always had been,
one of its most progressive citizens,
ever alive to its prosperity and proud
of its greatness. And that he had
grown in other ways as we'll He had
developed as politician and a states
man and today stands at the front of
the strong state executives of the
country.
The governor denied the soft inn
parchment that he had walked into
the state, but admitted that had he not
found a team at Casselton he would
have been compelled to walk to Hills
boro. as there was no railroad. After
few facetious remarks, he said in
part:
All business in this country de-
pends upon the farmers. The wealth
of states depends upon the agricul-
ture, the mines, the commerce or the
manufactures. Not having the three
of these developed to any great ex-
tent and, the business depends almost
entirely Apon the producers No
other state SO far as l can see is SO
entirely dependent upon one source.
Our sister state of Minnesota has vast
forests of timber from which she has
largely drawn, and the Father Of
Waters, navigable from ST. Paul, has
afforded the opportunity for COM
merce since long before the railroad
came. But while nature has not given
us SO much of the variety she has been
abundantly generous in giving US
agricultural richness. No other state
Is so rich in the natural elements of
the soil. 1t has been proven that the
soil of North Dakota contains enough
insoluable elements to produce $50
crops. These elements are made solu-
able by means of cultivation and
moisture.
Agriculture is the greatest wealth
producer in the world. All the gold
discovered in the world since the land
ing of Columbus, does not equal in
wealth the agricultural and allied
products of two years.
But we have an undeveloped wealth
in our minerals, Our Ignite secured
the, best record of any, in the United
States at st. Louis, and / just, read
report to the effect that it can be
shipped to Philadelphia for gas MAX
ing purposes with profit Our clays
have been converted into the finest
pottery products. Our bricks are the
best in the country and when we
wanted to build our new court house
at Hillsboro we took a home product
because it was the best of all the
samples that, had been submitted to
our commissioners.
We have 45,00O,O00 acres in farms
and we grow more wheat than any
other state, and in barley we are only
surpassed by Minnesota and Califor-