The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-27
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Connecticut and Massachusetts IS great
cr. Now, We need not bo afraid that
we cannot take care of these people,
and ] am not afraid but what we will,
and that they will learn 10 take care
Of Themselves: but my anxiety is, how
they will be taught Will they wait
until an empty stomach and absolute
hunger drives them TO do right? Or
will they take it up like intelligent
men and now follow a line that will
lead them to success?
Entering New Fields.
1.-The study of modern scientific agri.
culture is comparatively new study.
Your agricultural college and that of
every other state. Is in touch with all
the agricultural educational institutions
in the world. and everything that they
have demonstrated there is beyond
question tho common property of all.
81 Modern scientific agriculture calls
for as high an order Of intelligence
as any other science.
- Now. to go back to your 100000
Of people-wo are going TO see how
we are going TO take care OF them.
| With us in this country the average
| consumption per capita Is six and q
| half bushels of wheat, but since the
! high prices of meat. we find throughout
| he bread eating nations the 'quantity
| per annum has increased, The higher
prices of meat throw n greater burden
| on the bread and butter. Last year
we exported 6S,00O,0O0 bushels of
wheat, or 3S,000,0 600 bushels more than
we had to spare. What was the con
sequence? When my farmer neighbors
| in Minnesota were selling their wheat
at 50 and 80 cents a bushel, ] told
my man TO keep on ploughing and
would not sell until spring. | got Sl.25
for mine They got, | hope. little
experience. If it has served them this
year they are not rushing their wheat
20 market, although the Great Northern
railway is taking from 500, 900 to l.
100000 bushels day to market, and
some of your men think they are hold
ing the grain, bat the peopla who arc
watching the source of supply under
the law of supply and demand, when
they sec ono road carrying 100000
bushels a day. arc apt TO conclude that
there is not going to be amy shortage,
and he can wait.
Caution to Farmers.
Farmers want TO be very careful
while they are marketing their crops
| lcisuTelY, not to carry IL so far that
some fellow down in the southern hemi-
sphere, it may, be Australia, Il may be
Argentine, viii raise Il crop that he is
planting about this time, and have it
on the market alongside of him before
they sell theirs.
sin 1907 was looking those fig
ures up with care, and ] went back
twenty-five years! In 1882, we had
nearly 52,000,000 people, and VIC raised
50I,o00,000 bushels Of wheat and ex,
| ported over 200.000O00 bushels and
| got very low price for it.
In 1907 VIC raised 34.00o,0oO bushels
of wheat During that twenty five
wears our population increased Ga per
cent and our wheat yield % per cent.
Ceuvcrging lines meet IN the angle of
conveyance. and those lines meet per
ilously near.
Great Wheat Requirements.
Each year the country requires l5,
100000 bushels of wheat more than the
preceding year. In five years that is
- .0OQ. 900 bushels | know ] was not
within ten years we would become n
uoncXporting country unless we changed
our methods.
'sNow, YOU have in Montana an area
of land susceptible of good culfiya-
tion. IL is not necessary that. you
should have irrigation, but whore 4
man with intelligent methods aud in
dustry can make himself comfortable
and support his family in independence,
you have an area (you may think l. am
not pnsSimistic this time) equal TO that
of the state Of Iowa that can be cul
tivatcd.
Now, there are 2S0,000000 of acres
In four Northwestern statcs-Montana,
Idaho, Washington aud Oregon. and
| think 1 am safe in saying that 90
100000 acres-certainly over $4,000, 900
lis today susceptible of good cultiva-
tiUn, good intelligent cultivation. and
viii give results that will surprise us.
Warning to Farmers
Now, if Montana can raise as she
does about twice the average Weld
of all the agricultural states in the
union in wheat and other grain. why
is not Moutana TO he classed as farm
ing state! But be careful of your
farming. Be careful to get your farm
crs started right. Pay a little attention
10 the quality of your settlers When
YOU want people 10 come in and when
YOU want to boost for Montana. or for
any of the states west of here. do your
boosting in proper way-no amount OF
tin horn business. .
The sessions of the congress arc pre-"
sided over by Governor Norris, who as
sumed charge of the deliberations immc-
diately after Frank G. Bowman, of Ida
no Falls, had called it 10 order. Other
speeches wore made by Mayor II. j.
| Thompson of Billings; w. a Solving.
president of the Billings chamber OF
commerce; Or. John A. Widtsoe, presi-
dent of the Agricultural college of Utah
Al the afternoon session The report
! Of the executive committee was offered.
| hut confederation of II was postponed
until tomorrow morning for which lime
! il was made a special order
! Other Addresses.
! Set speeches were delivered Dy I'll e.
| Chamberlain, superintendent Of the
| farmers institute, South Dakota. who
! spoke on ''Dry Farming, Good Farm.
ing
]. IL Shepperd. dean and vice director
OF the Agricultural college of North Da-
lsota. told of the progress of the dry
| farming movement IN his state.
President Howard Elliott, of the
Northern Pacific, in a brief address
voiced objections TO the present name
: and then. dwelt upon the progress that
has been made in The northwest by the
| movement
United States Senator Moses Clapp
lof Minnesota, in a6 address told OF