The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-25
SUCCESS in NORTH DAKOTA
How a North Dakota Farmer Made
Good-Story Of the Fertile Prai.
RE Of the FiickertaiI State.

Eight or nine years ago, VIM.
Sayers, an Ohio farmer arrived in
Minot with five hundred dollars.
This he had saved by dint of hard
work and strict economy after sew
eral years labor in the east, and
came west to make his stake. He I
spent a year in the Great Northern
shops in Minot, after filing on a
quarter section Of land near Des
Laos. He believed in the future of
-Minot and invested six hundred
dollars in a house and two lots in
the same block that the Minot high
school buildings are located.
He actually invested only $3.50 in
the property arranging to pay off
the balance in monthly installments,
which he did. The rent for the
property paid the interest and the
debt. He since sold the property
for $4,000, making $4,000 clear on the
deal. He moved to his farm six
years ago, and bought since that
time three extra quarters of land
adjoining his own, and now has a
$40 acres farm, improved with $4,000
worth of fine farm buildings. Mr..
Sayers first lived in shack ten
by twelve feet in size, and farmed
the land with three horses. He
later built larger house.. using the
shack for kitchen. Since then he
has built a fine farm home, has a
barn that holds sixty tons of hay,
and many head Of stock. He is
now farming 600 acres of LAM and
last year tnreshed ten thousand
bushels of grain and the year be-
Hore eleven thousand Farming is
no longer an experiment with him.
He runs three five horse teams,
driving one of them himself. HE
hires girl to assist in the house
work the year around and takes
life as easy as the average North
Dakota farmer. The Independent
man asked him if he was. not afraid
that the soil would in time play
out Mr.. Sayers said that he sad
considered this WELL and he be-
lieved that he had solved the prob.
lem. He stated that he was going
to rest one quarter each year, or
rather give it a change, by putting
in large field of corn. This would
destroy the noxious weeds, AMI
besides the corn would bring him
good returns in the extra feed that
it would give him.
The average farmer has too little
hay and other feed anyway, and by
growing a good field of corn each
year, one will find that it will come
in mighty handy. In the east the
farmers use patent fertilizer for
the worn out land, but he thinks
that this is necessary in North Da-
kota The fertilizers cost from dollar
and a half to three dollars an acre,
and is good for only one crop, that
is the kind of fertilizer that he lad
reference to. The fertilizer is made
of ground stone and acids and real.
ly makes the one crop grow we'll,
but afterwards the soil becomes
hard and baked and will not cru1n
BILE even under the pressure Of the
heavy roller.
Mri Savers thinks North Dako-
ia is the place for MIN to farm.
He has considered the Canadian
proposition, 'Dut can see no advan-
tage for him to go there. The
yield, If tho it should be greater,
and there is question about this,
would make the farmers accept
from eight to ten cents less a bush
Ell for the grain and pay good
deal more for the farm machinery.
& WANTED-Eirl for general house