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

rect. 10 give Cuom 10 bushels, our
present rate Of consumption, for
bread and seed. per annum, would
take thirteen hundred million BUSH
els, or practically twice what we rails
ed last year. Are you afraid that
whea: is going to be cheaper? Are you
afraid that the high pri-ss for grain
has not come to stay? tell you, you
will see wheat sell for $1.25 before it
will sell for 80 cents. l do not ex-
pect to ever see it sell for 80 cents.
want q word with some OF the
farmers who are here. There are a
good many who did net come because
they were busy. Some are busy
threshing. II were in their pl; eI
would be busy doing my fall blowing,
and l would stack the grain and let it
stand until had more sine. It Is
Of the first importance that they
should do their fall lowing and get
the land 20 that whom the snc " falls
on it, 1t will not blow away. that when
It melts it will go into the ground.
That Ia Of value to every farmer. All
over the world there are agricultur-
al colleges and in this country -
agricultural colleges all in commune
cation with each other are seeking to
do the best they can 10 secure results
through scientific knowledge, thru
application of natures laws as to
how plant life sustains itself, what
are the best fertilizers, how to adopt
seed to soil and how to adapt soil to
seed and the selection of seed.
Yesterday l was at the state fair in
Helena and want to tell you I saw
and handled oats going from sc to so
pounds per bushel. Now, when you
can gel bushel of oats that weighs
4S pounds, by measured bushel you
have got bushel and a half. That
is the kind of seed you want and that
is the kind of oats you want to raise
here in North Dakota.
All these experiments can better be
done and are being done by agricul-
tural colleges of the country. You
have an excellent one in this stlte, but
If it is not doing everything that it
ought to do it is your fault, because
every man in the state of North Da-
kota who wishes the state well would
be only too glad to hold up your
hands and strengthen them, to see
that the agricultural college does the
best work and in the best interests of
all the farmers in the state OF North
Dakota, because it is for the interest
of every man, woman and child that
it should be so.
I believe that your agricultural COL
lege at Fargo is doing excellent work,
and il they have not a strong enough
staff, 90 to the legislature and in
crease the appropriation. Give them
staff. II you undertook to make
those experiments yourselves, life
would be too short. The agricultural
colleges Of the world, keeping in
touch and in correspondence with
each other, whenever any problem
has been demonstrated to an extent
that it is known to be positive and
permanent demonstration all the rest
know 1t. They all correspond, and
they all get the benefit. Now, you
take the twenty best farmers In Ward
county and commence when you are
twenty-one years old and wind up
when you are eighty-one, and that will
be sixty years devoted to that char
acter Of work and tell you they will
do more In the colleges Of the world
with their cooperation and their
Laboratories and their means and
their breadth Of training, they will do
more actual work in one month than
you could do in your natural lives.
Rely on them and strengthen them
and enable them to do the work. That
is what you want to do. They ought
to be able to select for you the best
breeds of hogs the best breeds OF
sheep, II you want to keep sheep
and used to think when we built
the road and crossed Gassman Coulee,
thought from there over to Williston
would always be q sheep pasture.
uaughter.)
l had the best reason on earth to
change my mind today. l saw the
most beautiful wheat fields and We
were not out of sight OF wheat fields
anywhere between Williston and MI
not, and many wheat fields had shocks
that showed just as strong and hest
thy growth as any field have seen
this year. I have changed my mind
and am quite ready to say that it
will not be necessary in order to oc-
|cupy this land west of the coulee to
put sheep on it. There are men and