Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-06-24
Special
Draws Big Crowd
Golden Valley Farmers Appreciate
Efforts in Their Behalf and Turn
Out En- Masse---Fine Speeches

Unt tn maSSe---Flne SpeeCheS
On Friday evening the Northern
Pacific "Better Farming special
pulled into Beach where it was
met by one of the largest and most
enthusiastic audiences of the whole
trip, making a fitting close for
the tour Of the N. P. Better
Farming" special. Most of the
towns had made it a regular holt
day, and Beach closed up the cir
cult in fitting fashion, so that
Beach will be long remembered by
the members Of the train, by the
officials of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, and the newspaper men
who were along with the train.
Everybody was impressed with
the fine crops and the general ap-
pearances Of prosperity that pre-
vailed throughout this section. So
many people were assembled that
they could not get into the train
so open air meetings were held as
we'll as a meeting in the hall.
In the hall Supt. Hoverstad opened
the meeting with a few remarks on
grain growing and the the fact
that it should continue to be the
great industry of North Dakota,
but that to make it such it would
be necessary to rotate crops, which
would bring about conditions that
would increase the grain yield
when a crop of grain was grown.
Senator Greeley spoke as fol-
lows: North Dakota is sending
out the grandest men and women
of any state in the Union; that
it has. as far as he can see, fewer
drawbacks than any place he has
been. He has been all over Alaska,
all through the United States and
the Dominion of Canada, so that
his words carry authority, and has
proved it by living in the Da.
kotas. His one great theme is
"Get Farm" In fact he went
so far as to say that no girl should
marry a minister or a doctor or a
lawyer, unless he had piece OF
land. Agriculture is the most
lasting of the industries. He
spoke of Wisconsin where he wa.
raised and that they used to make
; fun of him for being a farmer
Everything was then lumber
The rivers were covered with log
and beside the stream stood the
) saw mill that hummed through tn,
summer and in the winter tn,
woodlands axe resounded through
2 the forest. Now the forest i
gone. The mill is closed up ant
e moved away. and the river carrie
2 no logs on its bosom, but the farm
: err is yet there and is only be
y ginning the grand work that he ha
n to do. Parts of Minnesota hav,
q gone through the same process
i other parts where iron mines ar
e located and where they are de
J. voting their attention largely t
!. iron, yet a few farms are spring
IS ing up and these will widen out
t and the farmers will possess tn
"a land when the iron mines will
n have passed into history. Mort
N Dakota is fortunate in not havin
II these things to attract the after
4 ton Of its people. hut they ca
AZ give their whole attention TO farm
l. ing, the one permanent in lustry
re He advised not to get discouraged
not to give up, but keep in 20
ie session Of a piece of land. not
rs large farm necessarily, as tt
re small farm can be made to produ,
e. as much profit as the larger o,
IN by working it more CAREFUL
Mr.. Greeley S great theme is frs
or last and all the time, "Get Lal
and Live On 1t.
Prof. D. E. Willard, develo
i ment agent Of the Northern Paci
r. Railroad, formerly geoglogist
ey the North Dakota Agricultur
n College. in response to a reque
Sc for talk, stated that the Mort
is ern Pacific Railroad in sending o
d. this train hoped it would be
ne means of bringing about bett
or farming and that the railroa
Mt were only anxious that the farme
X should take advantage Of this Q
Il portunity. They had thought tn
hit the Agricultural College shou
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