The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-01
WHEN MINES ARE ALL EMPTY
HOLES N. D. Land WILL BE VALUABLE.
SAYS j. j. HILL in WAHPETON TALK
Grand Old Man Of the Northwest Gave North Dakota Farmers
Some Sound, Wholesome Advice Intense Cultivation
VIII Surely Bring Rise in Value Of Farm Lands

opportunity TO do justice to that land
Now we all know how disappoint-
ing 1t has been the past summer
want of rain of the average amount
necessary for the land has reduced
the income Of the farmer, / know, to
4 q very great extent. Some OF the
fields were not worth cutting. But
where a man cultivated his land. as
ne ought to do, he has from so to rs
| per cent OF crop. Right here in
| your own neighborhood, a farmer rails
Ing flax, / heard today, got a good
crop, and he has reason to be happy
over 1t. He got off that section of
land more than he could make in any
business, banking included. Now.
whether you work behind the counter
in the merchants store, or in the bank
or are professional man, or what
| ever your calling may be, whether you
are working for wages or working for
yourself, everybody has a great and
abiding interest in seeing justice done
to the soil. If 1t lis not the suffering
is not limited to the man who Is on
the land, but the suffering would come
to everybody. The country produces
that much less, and has that much
less to spend. Most farmers, when
they came here had a hard struggle
and know that during 81 years of
frontier life know the pioneer has
never been overpaid. He never got any
more than he earned. When a man
goes to the front and takes his wife
and children, If they have them, and
makes his home, carves it out of the
raw prairie, or out from the corner
of the wood, they earn all they could
get don't let us find fault with them
or their children If they prosper.
But the time has come when we are
to do better work, and If we will only
rise to our opportunities, If the farm
ers will only rise to their opportuni-
ties, that are offered them, every AGRA
OF this land will be worth 500 or
more, to the man who owns 1t, and
would be disappointed, If in ten years
from now-well, go back ten wears.
and what was 1t worth then? The
advance in price from now on, If the
land is properly cared for will be
greater than for the past ten years.
There Is not an acre of it that would
not be worth $3.50. / venture to say
that every acre would be worth 80 or
that supposition. 1t Is worth TODAY
II the farmer will do his duty by it
800 and they can make 1t worth $3.50.
No Better Land in U. S.
There is no better body of land in |
the United States than this right here
In the valley. We want moisture. but
we want 1t when we can get it. Some |
times in the spring melting snow and |
Ice lies all on the surface in little |
pools; instead of opening up the pools
for the water to get out, some farm |
ers will take drill and drill grain |
into five or six inches of water over
an entire field. Now, If they expect |
to get crop, they may get one. but |
not the kind Of crop they want.
They are going to get crop of weeds. |
This land is rich and will grow some
thing, and If you do not watch II. II |
will grow a crop of weeds. With son
three or five inches deep, land without
proper care, would soon become ex-
hausted.
Urges Intense Cultivation.
How deep are you blowing? How
much OF the land is cultivated? Two
or three inches from the surface.
probably. Put man on a suIky plow.
and he wants to save his horses, and
Will not stick the pillow down into the
ground, If he did that, he would have
to stop his horses every sixty feet
and let them get their wind. Every
three or four years this land ought to
De ploWed eight or ten inches deep.
and ought to be thoroughly cultivated
because cultivation Is the one and on
~ means Of securing a good return.
What Denmark Has Done
In Europe, 1 might take Denmark.
because there is no better illustration
that of Denmark, a small country with
about twice the area of Massachu-
sets, and Denmark today is the. best
rarmed country in Europe. The orr
ginal land was very poor A series
OF sandy plains and boys. Some of il
Is SO low and Doggy that they cannot
Grain 1t now. They do cultivate about
of the area And Dem
mark with farms averaging forty
three acres, supports a nation of what
tood they want and they shin for
export dairy products, bacon, ham.
eggs and poultry to the amount of
S9O'0O0,OO0. The average income out
side of their own living and outside
Of the support of the people in the
cities and the people other than those
the land, outsire of enough
to take care of them and the farm
er's own family, they export an aver
age of SO per acre.
Now the gross receipts OF the farm
lands in North Dakota will not aver
age So an acre, but the Danish farmer
mas that to sell to other nations.
One-half of the population are de-
positors in savings banks with an
average Of 1854 per capita. And that