The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01

/ oI wheat grow SO fast as III dtd III
this country during the past thirty
or forty years? Because ii could lie
grown here more cheaply than anv-
where else. . Gould be grown hare
Tor less money--rlew rich soil. ana
convenient agricultural implements for
cultivation of the soil. we could rroa.
grain In the west and ship ii east for
less money than the farmer IN tha
east could raise it for.
When ! was boy, Rochester. NJ y
Waa called the flour city, and the Cen
essee valley was the great wheat
country. Today they don't raise
their own bread The grass crop ID
worth more and the dairy product
puts them In position where they can
puy their grain and make better
money by raising and keeping good
GARY cattle. Now, in the Mohawk
valley there Is some Land ais rich as
anv p the world. and it has been cu1.
tivated for generations by intelligent
ana good farmers, until within the Iast
thirty or fifty years.
Land that forty or fifty wears ago
was worth readily and sold for 500 an
acre, with good buildings, Won can
set and buy at SIS. Dozens of fine
farms In Dayton, N. Y. have been sold
az Tess tnan the improvements costs.
What One Man Did.
I have in mind one case. A man
owned two or three farms. and he
knew how to take care of and look
arter them, and the best farm in
the county was for sale, and he
nousht 1t at slips an acre. He has
three children, two bays and one
girl The boys went to college. hut
they forgot to go back to the farm,
The girl got married, and moved away.
and the old man had to rent thesa
farms. and when he died. the children
had an agent to look after the renting
OF the farms, and the best farm in th,s
county, after holding and renting for
ABOUT $40 year, the SON told me,
aIter the old mans death, they had
kept II as long as they could, and 1t
was getting to be worth less and less,
and they sold it for $25 an acre, and
glad to get the money because they
had rented 1t, and the renter took the
last dollar he could get, and paid moth
ing back.
Now don't let this valuable fertile
land drift back into that condition. |
There is no reason why it should, ex-
cept that you are not able to cult |
yate 1t. And il you are not able to |
cultivate it, don't try-sell it, and let
somebody else do it.
Farm Always Valuable.
will not detain you longer. / am
afraid that If l should take up all
the time, good many of YOU would
think I am inclined to scold / don't I
want to scold. / have said so much /
and spoken so often on the subject |
that 1t begins to get stale with me.
am beginning to be an old man. At
the same time / know when all the i
mines are empty holes in the ground, /
= good farm well titled will be a per- i
ennial mine, and 1t will yield more +
wealth. Our agricultural crop, taken /
out of this mine, annually yields more
money than all the gold and silver /
and copper mines have yielded from
he commencement OF time. to the /
present hour. The changes that have
and are occurring at this
ime, make 1t necessary - absolutely =
necessary, that we should take stock
If where We stand-alI of us. Things
ire not going to be as easy as they
nave been in the past There are no
more new countries to open up, as this
vas. forty years ago.
Thirty-one years ago, / remember
'rossing here In the spring with a
'arty of engineers, to run the line
ID towards Casselton, and there were
'ardly any settlers here. knew the
country before that, / knew II hafo~a
he government land was surveyed. /
seeing it partly covered
Win little mounds. about equally dis