The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-27


| am not afraid but what we viii, and
/ that they will learn tn take care 81
themselves: but my anxiety il how
they will he taught Will they wait
4 until an empty stomach and absolute
hunger drives them tn do right? or
will they take it up like intelligent
men with forethought and follow IA
line that will lead them to success.
Comparatively New.
+ The study Of modern scientific ag-
riculture Is IL comparatively new
study. Your agricultural college. and
that Of every other state. In in touch
with all the agricultural educational
institutions in the world. and every
thing that they have demonstrated
there is beyond question the common
property Of all
Modern scientific agriculture calls
for as high an order of intelligence
az any other science.
Nov. to go back to your 200, 000. 600
people and We 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 Il
half bushels Of wheat, but since the
high prices of meat, We find through
out the brcad-eating nations the uuan-
tity necessary for bread and seed per
capita per annum has increased. The
higher prices Of meat throw II greater
burden ON the bread and butter. Last
year we exported 6S000,000 bushels Of
wheat. ar $4,000 900 bushels more than
We had Ia spare. what was the CON
m naIw h
hors In Minnesota were selling their
man To keep on ploughing and
would not sell until spring. | got 81 y
for mine. They got. | hope. IA little
experience IT it has served them this
year they are not rushing their wheat
to market, although the Great Northern
railroad IL taking from 100000 To l.
900. 900 bushels IL day to market. and
some Of your men think they are
holding the grain, but the people who
are watching the source of supply un-
der the law OF supply and demand
when they sc. one road carrying L.
n00, 900 bushels "A day. are apt to con-
clude that there IL not going to be
any shortage and he can wait. Farm
ors want to be very careful while
they are marketing their crops leis-
Isety not to carry il SO far that come
fellow down in the southern hem
ispherc. il may be Australia. II may
be Argentine, viii raise IA crop that
he In planting about this time. and
have ii on the market alongside Of
him before they sell theirs.
Very Low Price.
In la07-i was looking those fig
urea up with care. and | went back
- years. In 1882 We had nearly o..
000. 900 people and we raised 50i.000 900
bushels of wheat and exported over
200. 100000 bushels nj wheat and got
Il very low price for 1t. In 1907, we
raised 63t.o 900 bushels of wheat.
During that - years our population
Increased ~ per cent and cur wheat
yield - par cent. ConVerging lines
meet in the angle of conveyance and
those lines meet perilously near. Each
year the country requires 11.o00.00O
bushels If wheat more than the pre-
ccding year In five years that In
=. 900. 900 bushels, know / was not
talking at random when said that
within 10 years We would become
changed our methods.
Now. you have in Montana an area
Of land susceptible Of good cultivation.
1t is not necessary that You should
have irrigation but where a man with
intelligent methods and industry can
make himself comfortable and sup
port his family In independence. you
have an area tyou may think | am
not pessimestic this time) equal to
that of the state Of Iowa that can he
cultivated. Now. there are $50 600
acres in four northwestern states
Montana. Idaho. Washington and ore
gon. and / think | ann safe in saying
that 90. 900, 60o acrc&-certainly over
Il. coo .a00-is to-day susceptible of good
cultivation, guod intelligent cultiva-
tinn. and will give results that will
surprise US
NON, If Montana can raise. ~ she
does. about twice the averag" yield
"f all the agricultural states In tn"
Union in wheat aud either grain. Nhy
il not Montana IL Ice ciaSScd as a
farming state" sut be careful Of
your farming. H. careful Ia get your
farmers started right. Pay little
attention t. the quality at your set
tiers. When ynu want people to COME
In and when you want IL boost for
Montana. or Tar ANY al the states Nest
nj here, do your boosting in ii proper
way -tin-horn' business"
The sessions ~ the congress ara
presided over by Governor Norris, wh"
assumed charge nj the deliberations
Immediately after Frank Z. Bowman.
Il Idaho Fails. had called II Ia order.
tther speeches were mad. 10y Mayor
II. J. Thompson IT Billings; ". A
St4,idgp. president If the Billings
Chamber If Commerce: Dir. John \,
Widtss,,. president Of the agricultural
eus3vgc Vi Utah
Afternoon Session.
Al tn" Afternoon session the report
II thc executive committee MAS of
frred hut consideration OF il was
postponed until tomorrow morning.
Tor which tuur it Was made 81 special
order.
Set speeches were delivered by II.
f. Chamberlain. superintendent "f the
Farmers Institutes. South Dakota,
ho spoke on Dry Farming. Good
FARMING"