Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-05

ferent methods of farming have beer
considered. The divide has beer
crossed and with it the change ii
conditions have been studied.
Many Not Willing to Farm
Many people are not willing to be
lieve that this is an agricultural state
They have been ranching and mining
that the farmer cannot make good
in his work in the state at large and
that only where he can irrigate car
he live at all. To such man any
kind of an argument is useless. He
partially believes that he is correct
and that his interests are disturbed
by the settler.
The miner does not care one way
or the other. Then every kind of
farming has to be considered. The
grain farmer, the fruit grower, and
the mixed farming all come in for a
share of consideration. The state is
so large and the interests so diverse
that predictions now are useless and
settled conditions have not arrived.
But it is reasonable to suppose that
there is room and profitable posi-
bilities for hundreds of thousands of
people yet to come to the state. The
railroads and real estate dealers are
the first to need to get before the
people, that are seeking homes, the
facts. The railroad companies are
acting commercially in this matter.
is this true of the Northern
Pacific. That company is spending
thousands of dollars every year in
experiment work in conjunction with
the agricultural college and expert
ment station work. Then it is spend
ing other thousands in individual
work. The company has in it's en-
ploy the ablest men that can be
found to do this work.
Large Areas to Settle
The Northern Pacific has large
bodies of land that it wants settled
if these experiments prove that they
are worth settling. They are not Of
fering this land for sale now, and it
is claimed that nothing will be Of
fered until every quarter section is
carefully examined and the tests made
to see what will grow in the country.
Then the settler can go on to his
land pretty we'll assured just what
he can depend upon. After these ex-
aminations are made, the company is
going to sell this land to those only
who will occupy it so far as is posi-
BILE. 1t is also claimed that the specu-
lator and land man, except so far as
he helps to get settlers that will stay
on the land, is to be discouraged.
Many Hard Problems to Solve
There are many problems yet to
solve in this country. The dry farm.
er has much, in fact near all, to learn
about the best way to conserve his
moisture, to find crops suited to that
method of cultivation, and many other
facts. The man on the irrigated farm
must learn better methods of the use
of water; how to manager the alkali
and gumbo; when to turn on the wa.
ter and how much to use so as to get
the best results. These problems are
important ones, and to say that they
are fully solved is making a rash
statement. That they are being solv'
ed rapidly is correct, but there is yet
much to learn.
Blight In the Orchards
The most profitable crop in the
state, perhaps, is the apple-this
means per acre. In all of the great
valleys of the western part of the
state the fruit is considered the crop
Of value above all others and fruit
lands are selling for hundreds of dol.
lars per acre in many sections. But
blight has made it's appearance, and
from this time On care must be used
or great losses will be sustained.
There are irrigation and orchard com.
panies in the state whose holdings
amount up into the millions Of dollars
that must meet this issue squarely OF
suffer the loss Of their millions. The