The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-11
NORTH DAKOTES
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
ALL KINDS OF CEREALS ARE
SUCCESSFULLY GROWN IN
THIS STATE.

North Dakota Magazine: No state
in the union has a brighter agricul-
tural outlook than North Dakota.
This statement is made without res
ervation or fear Of successful contra
dictton and even arcurspry considera-
ton Of the facts upon which IL is
based will amply corroborate the as
sertion. .
One by one the erroneous cencep-
tions OF the fitness Of our soil and cli-
mate for the culture and maturing Of
those cereals and grasses which are
deemed essential to the full prosperity
OF the farmer have been disposed in
the most conclusive manner by album
dant yields Of the very grains and
grasses themselves whose successful
raising was, at one time, asserted to
be impossible. Thus corn, winter
wheat and rye, timothy, clover and
alfalfa, have OF recent years been
added permanently to the list of ag-
ricultural products which can be cul-
tivated with certainty and profit; and
with these additions to her already
rich agricultural repertoire North
Dakota can claim rank with the best
as far as diversity is concerned.
AS regards natural adaptability for
economical farming operations North
Dakota is without peer. Nature
seems to have had in mind the future
needs OF great nation when she per-
mitted the formation Of the vast fer
tile, treeless plains of the prairie
state. Here lie millions of acres need
ing but the magic touch of the pillow
and harrow to burst into luxuriant
crops The absence of trees, except
along the banks Of streams and in a
few billy sections, obviate all necessity
for the tremendous labor and cost in
volved in preparing land for the seed
in other states, and as II to compen-
safe for the loss Of firewood, which
at one time was held to be an insurp-
cradle drawback to complete settle
ment of the country. Nature has
come to the rescue by providing thou
sands Of square miles underlaid with
coal deposits sufficient to supply fuel
for all time to dense population, the
whole constituting conditions for
economy in farming and comfort in
living which have no known parallel
elsewhere.
Fronting by the experience OF her
sister state, Minnesota, North Dakota
has realized in time the only danger
which threatens her agricultural pros
poets. This danger has arisen from
the continuous cropping OF the land
to one cereal and, In the case of Min
nesota, has resulted in great loss, both
in yield and quality, to the spring
wheat industry. Signs have not been
wanting in North Dakota that SINH
lar catastrophe might be impending,
but happily the warming note has
been sounded, and farmers generally
are now Thoroughly aroused to the
necessity OF so rotating their crops
as. to- incure a continuous replenish-
ment OF those soil constituents which
are necessary to secure the most sat-
isfactory grain yields.
So, as chief of the spring wheat
states, with millions of acres yet un-
touched by the pillow, and secure in the
knowledge which agricultural science
has given the world and which prom
Uses perennial fertility to the soil,
North Dakota may well feel satisfied
with the outlook for the coming years
and face the future with supreme con-
fldence.