Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-14
2Finding the Facts

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hard and getting at the facts begal
to discover that all soils in ever!
part of the world that had like cult
walton had like results, regardless O.
tclimatic conditions. The cotton fields
of the south, the rice fields of Japan
the wheat fields of Russia or the great
northwest had experiences so much
alike that there must be a natura
cause back of all of it. 81
Then the biologist, the chemist, and
above all, the botanist were learning
Men like Bolley were finding strange
| things and he of all the others first
got right down to facts and discov
cred that the plants wer sick. That
disease had struck them the same as
smallpox struck the Mandan Indians
in 1887 and, less the pitiful remnant
of 1877, that great tribe was swept of
the earth and thousands of Othe1
tribes were transferred to the happy
hunting grounds.
After years of toll and suffering all
kinds of taunts and humiliations,
these men were listened to.
"There is a Balm in GiIead" and "my
People Shall Not Perish from
the Face Of the Earth
When the facts were known and
the remedies found, then began the
Campaign of education" and today
the gospel of a better farming" is
being carried to the people.
At first, the discoveries of the
scientific men made the picture dark
er, blacker than ever. There was
nothing but the prospect of reduced
yields and when the unbroken acres,
only a remnant of which is left, were
in cultivation, and they, too, were de-
creasing in productiveness, the ques-
ton of food for the people was a
serious one.
With new discoveries, there was
an indication that the picture might
not be so dark after all, and there
was a way to avert the impending
calamity.
The Great Work Of the Colleges and
Experiment Stations
The teachers of the colleges real
lied that something more had to be
done than furnishing mental culture
to their students and forming circles
of self-satisfied exclusives that were
well enough in their places, but not
giving the people the truths that were
due them, and as result these men,
hungering for the better development
of the people, laid aside their caps
and gowns and went into the fields
and toiled and learned a new lesson,
and now these men are loading their
equipments on a great train and are
going out to tell the people these great
truths and to show them the better
way, the better farming"
AS far as possible from day to day
the Tribune is going to tell the facts
as they are presented, and from this
time on will give, the reasons as ad-
vocated by the teachers on this train
and the methods whereby the desired
results may be obtained.
But in the meantime no one should
miss these teachings in person if
possible to reach the train as it
passes over the road and makes it's
stops.
The Work So Far Done
The train has travelled 843 miles
and make 10 stops. Has been visit
ed by thousands of people. There
have been over 500 lectures and talks
delivered. Excursions safield have
been made and hundreds of samples
gathered for future examinations and
men taught the facts in their own
fields and the crops there examined,
the owners being shown how to avoid
certain difficulties and to increase
their yield of grains and how to make
their 1ocks and herds more profitable
and their acres more valuable-not
to sell, but to live on and make hap
py homes.
The men alone, have not been the
only ones taught. Much needed les
sons to women have been encour-
aged and shown how to make, life
easier and the homes better, and
happier. The boys have been advised
10 that if they follow the teachings
they will become good farmers and
noble citizens and the girls have been
shown how to be true helpmates OF
such manhood.