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

of everything that comes from them.
Remember this. that the food fed to
cattle, either dairy or fat cattle, or 10
hogs that the manure is worth one
third of the value OF that food In every
case. Why? Because 1t will increase
the yield equal to one-third OF the
value, whether the market price Is up
or whether the market pric1 Is down.
The quantity is there, and 1t will turn
into money.
Now, your lands are still new, and
they have still the strong quality that
should make the, last, and they will
last If you Will 10 your duty, and as
l said before if you violate natures
laws, and you rob her soil of all It's
.e...lNy, she viii punish you In the
end with a scourge. Live stock, l
saw by the latest paper. read this
morning think, from st. Paul yester-
day, hogs selling at eight and one
fourths cents per po~nd Ia South st.
Paul. Where a man on the farm can
raise hogs and at eight months get
sixteen or seventeen dollar, a piece
for them i. IS right good crop.
Sixteen or seventeen dollars an acre
would be a good return fro a wheat
field, and every one OF you know who
have raised hogs, every one OF you
know that il wou... De q great deal
easier to raise one hog than to cul-
tivate an acre of wheat, and get It ia-
to the elevator, and in doing that you
are helping yourselves. Years ago
when was younger, and maybe mere
hopeful, l tried 10 furnish a founda-
ton that would start the people in
Minnesota and in North Dakota in the
way of raising Stock--not so profitable
for US to haul, we would not get so
many tons, we would not get SO large
a revenue, but if the land was to be
worn out, our Investment in railroad
in the country vas worthless.
In 1888 there was little rain as some
of you may know, from seed time to
the first day OF July, and the grain
was not that high. Still the grain
struggled to i've and rains came
and the fertility OF the soil gave
the country from half to two thirds
of a crop. Then / Thought of that
musician and the one string, and !
went to work to get cattle.
l bought a farm and thought l
would breed cattle and hogs and give
them ITO the farmers, but the process
was so slow that l sent a good judge
of cattle to England and l brought
out altogether about 500 thorough
bred bulls, and scattered them. !
gave them to the settlers. lit was not
4 railway enterprise. II was mine. /
do not own the railway. $4,000 leu-
pie, and over 5000 Of them woAsa
own the Great Northern. I am only q
trustee. have taken their money md
invested it in the country, behaving
that the investment was 4 good sae,
and 80 far my BELIEF has been JUST
Ned; and I am glad to meet you here
today and see your prosperity, for IN
your prosperity comes our prosperity.
II you are not prosperous, depend up
on It, we are poor with you. If you
cannot ahip, II you cannot raise stuA
out Of the soil you cannot stay In
this country, there is no other re-
sources here except soil and climate.
You have not any mines in the Or
binary acceptation Of the term but
l want to say to you, you have q rich
er gold mine than any other gold
mine hid in the richest part of the
mountains, or mining portions OF thia
country, because when the ore ia TAX
en- out of a mine it is the fnality,
there is nothing left but the hole In
the ground. When you take your crop
on the land, If you are true to your
own interests you can go on every
year taking a new crop and an in
creased crop. Nature will restore It,
nature will renew patiently every
thing you take from it, and you will
have a perennial mine, and when, al
l called your attention to it a few
minutes ago, when the agricultural
crop of this country reduced by less
than one-third Of active workers, tho
land amounts to more than all the
mines all the nations have ever pro.
duced. The crop Of one single year
amounts to eight billions OF dollarss,
eight thousand million-I want "a
drive 1t home to your minds, that you
have a mine Of gold, that you have :,
mine that with proper care will con-
anue to yield as it has continued to
yield in other places for centuries and
centuries. Tacitus told US that fifteen
or eighteen hundred years ago Ger
many was cultivated. Today, with
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