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

Huhiay ~ UuT farmers nave beer
Z drifting UP in the Canadian north
west. Some Of them have done wen
and some OF them have come back
Many have told me that they would
like to have their old places they sold
back again, and the year or two OF
time they spent would be charged IN
, experience" They are good deal
IKE the boy whose father told him I'd
keep away from the business end OF
the mule. But the boy was careless
and the mule got a crack at him and
nit him In the face. When things were
all right he was quite a handsome boy
and he knew 1t, and when he was get
ting better he asked his father IL the
Kick OF the mule was going to mark his
face, or going to interfere with his
good looks. And his father said: "You
VIII never be quite so handsome, my
boy but you will know more"
What the A. c. Does.
And what should interest you men
a little more, is what can be done with
YOUR own land. Your agricultural COL
leges throughout the country can do
a great deal to help you, bur they can
| not cultivate your land for Won SIM
pose this: Suppose that man il
| good farmer, and every farm here is
| a good farm, and IL it is well cared for,
there Is little difference In the land.
But suppose the man has a good farm,
and let us take the best farm In the
county, and put the best educated agri-
cultural teacher on it,. and what can he
do?
Now, will tell you. That he can
not do any more with that land than is
possible for good farmer to do. He
knows what to do. He knows how to
test seeds; how to analyze soil. He
knows the chemical constituents OF all
the plant life and growth, and what
1t requires for is best nourishment.
But let us see, when he comes what
more can he do than to select good
seed and knowing that seed is going
to grow. The next thing he is going
to do is to properly cultivate his soil
and prepare his seed bed, and a man
highly educated, an agricultural teach
er the best on the face of the earth,
can do no more. But the farmer If he
does not know how to select good seed
can apply to the Agricultural college
and they can tell him where and how
to get it. He cannot expect to take
oats that will weigh rs pounds to
the bushel and seed them and get
thirty-two to thirty-five pounds to the
bushel. Last year north of the Milk
river valley, twenty miles north of the
Great Northern railway, an expert
mental station of Ave acres was start
ed and the company furnished the seed
and furnished winter oats that would
weigh forty -eight pounds to the bush
Ell. They asked the farmer to cult
vate that land as Professor Shaw
would direct him, and the governor
would pay him $1,000 and agree to
furnish seed, give him the crop, and
paid him to do justice to himself in
cultivating the land as it ought to be
cultivated.
Some promise, and fail to do as
they promise, but that man did exactly
as he was instructed and it was not |
the locality alone and it was not land |
in quality like this but he got 102 |
bushels per acre, and this could be |
done again. He narrowed that land |
four times before he put the seed in,
and twice afterwards. 1t was cult |
waited, and cultivated, and that is the |
one necessity for the land and good /
crops. / know 1t is hard for farmer
to cultivate his land to that extent.
1t is hard for him to get the necessary
help. Farm labor is scarce and high, |
and l am sorry to have to say that most |
OF the boys do not want to stay on
the farm. They are afraid they may
have to work over time, but are will
ing to be paid for overtime.
Old fashioned Milking.
Hoy ore you going to carry on
diaries and creameries If there is no
body to milk the cows? Now don't /
know of any successful machine for
milking cows outside of the old fash 4
toned way-there is no way. They /
have pumps that will milk six cows
at time they say, but / should be II
sorry for the cows, and the man who II
owned them; think they will have II
to come back to first principles Do II
the boys want to milk, or do the girls II
want to farm. am sorry to say that II
most of the girls don't and what kind
of farmers wives do they expect to II
make. If they want to vote and they II
want woman suffrage / am willing
that they should vote-I don't want
them to suffer too much. have milk H
ed sixteen cows before breakfast. / H
did not leave any of them unmilked
either. The man has to do his share II
and the woman can help him. / don't
know any word in the English lam
guage that says so much for a woman
as to say that she has been a good
helpmate. That means a good deal
And because woman lis not always a
good heIpmate there are more homes
broken up-more people separated and
more lives made dismal disappoint-
ment, than from any other single
source. There is no doubt about it,
and there can be no doubt about it.
We have all got to do our share, and
we have all got to do our duty.
Farming is Changed.
Farming, undoubtedly is changed
and the changes made will be perma-
nent. The old fashioned hand plow has
probably gone to the rear not to come
back: but you cannot do a good Job
Of blowing with a gang pillow, four
teen inches wide, trying to turn an
inch furrow The work will
not be well done and unless you can
put the pillow down in good soil like
this, you are not going to cultivate
the land as 1t ought to be cultivated
don't know but that two or three
farmers could club together and get
cne of these traction engines. TIL
think they cost about $500, and will
plow ten acres a day, IL desired. 1T is
4 good deal Of a lazy mans Job. Some
times when am tired play solitaire.
You could put table on one of these