The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-30

orltles IN England put the value, the
fertilizing value of the manure of q
single COW 1T from twenty-one > to
twenty-ahr dollars yea" and the
horse two or three dollars higher.
Now, there is money in feeding live
stock. The day OF cheap wheat has
gone never to return in this country
And let me tell you why.
Our natural increase In population
is about one million, three hundred
and fifty thousand-or a million and
four hundred thousand per annum.
Since 1902 there has been no year
that the increase from immigration
has been less than three quarters Of
a million.
In some years it has been over Il
million. So that our average increase
in population Is about two and a
quarter million a year. Consider that
we use at least six and one-half BUSH
els per capita for bread and seed,
and you have an increased demand
for about fifteen million bushels every
year over the previous year. Now.
If we 60 back to 1888, this country
produced five hundred and four mill
lion bushels of wheat.
twenty-five years later 1T produced
six hundred and thirty-four million
huohals ~ urI,aot ord A,,rinO That
twenty-five years new states and now
fields were opened up that produced
| over, and brought under the pillow that
produced over two hundred million
bushels, not withstandiT 6 the whole
increase was only one hundred and
thirty million bushels, or about TWEEN
ty-five per cent. In the meantime the
mouths that had to be fed in this
county increased from over siXty-four
per cent. Converging lines must NEE.
in h. angle of their c"Ivergan -, anu
sixty-four and twenty-five bring them
together all too soon for our expecta-
tons, or what we would like to be-
lieve
We have about thirty people to the
square mile ir the United Statess, and
| we can carry comfortably one hun
dred and fifty people to the square
mile, but we cannot do it with care
less cultivation. We cannot do it
unless we do better cultivation, more
thorough, and unless We bring the
average yield up, which We can do
just as they have done in other coun-
tries, We can bring it up to twenty
eight, or to thirty eight bushels per
| acre.
People say the land wears out. If
that was true, that the land would
wear out, what would become Of the
human race? We nvui all have
been wiped OF the face of the earth
long ago but nature, the good, old,
kindly mother earth will always pro-
wide food and raiment co. ihs children
her bosom has borne. But we must
observe carefully her mandates her
laws. She carries in one hand our
daily bread, and hands it out to US,
and the other hand hold a scourge
with which she chastises us when we
violate her laws.
We must see to it that in place of
neglect and carelessness that we
| work in harmony with nature, and IL
we do not know the best methods, let
US learn them. You have plenty Of
opportunity. The whole world Is
taking up that subject. Years ago the
doctrine was preached that the num-
Der Of people coming on to the earth
would destroy the means of support,
bu: 1T that time little or nothing was
known of the science of modern agri-
culture.
In Japan on nineteen thousand
square miles, might ssay less than
a quarter of that of North Dakota
they carry a population Of forty-eight
million, over half the population of
the United States.
We have three million square miles
outside Of Alaska, and carry more
than half our population on nineteen
thousand. Denmark, an agricultural
country-maybe some of you know
more about it than I do, but I am
going to tell you that Denmark thru
her dairying has made a marvellous
record. They were very poor. The
country was poor. In 1888 they built
or established the first agricultural
college in Europe. They cultivated
twelve square miles and they comfor-
sally sustained population of over
two million six hundred Thousand,
OF nearly one hundred and seventy
five to the square mile. That nation
reports to Great Britain forty-eight
million dollars worth Of dairy pro-
ducts, and twenty-five million dollarss
If hams and bacon and their avara 90