The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-08

county, and he is building I'D one q
the finest dairy herds in the western
part OF Minnesota.
Mr.. Schroeder made profit las
| year OF more than $4,000 on a farm
that was raw prairie seven years ago
He has a house that would be an or
nament TO the best residence street ii
and city. He has fine potato ware
house, an immense barn and a sill,
that looms up like the Washington
monument. 1t Is not hard matter t
convince him or his neighbors tina
book farming" pays.
p. G. Enestvedt, '02, who, with $500
started to farm for himself five years
ago, has an accumulated profit of SIP
500 to show for his efforts He went
into debt $11,50o for farm near Sa-
cred Heart. He has kept up his In.
terest, paid $1,000 year for four years
on the principal, has spent 81. 900 on
buildings, has acquired thoroughbred
swine, cattle and horses valued at S.
600, and his 240-acre farm has in
creased in value $40 an acre.
Science on Farm Pays.
As an example of how science on the
farm pays, he got 1850 bushels of
wheat from a sixty nine-acre field. A
ninety-acre field separated from his bv
a wire fence yielded little bit more
than 1900 bushels. There was a differ
ence of approximately ten bushels an
acre in favor of intensive methods. or
at present prices $3.50 for Mr.. Enest-
vedt's field. But he sells his wheat
for seed, getting Is cents over the mar
ket price, making a difference of nearly
$500 obtained as dividend on modern
methods. The same degree of success
Is attained by him in his dairying and
other operations. He is particularly
successful with corn. He won first
prize for Minnesota at the international
show in Chicago three years ago, and
last year sold 100 bushels of his best
corn for seed at $3.50 a bushel.
John A. Lundberg of Belle PLANE,
who was at the school one year before
Mr.. Enestvedt, has demonstrated the
difference between old and new meth
DDS on the old home place. He bought
1t seven years ago, going into debt
$4,000 on the $4,000 purchase price. He
has paid off more than half the debt,
and has stock and other equipment
that make the place worth more than
100000, a margin OF about $4,000 to
him for seven years work.
The first thing he did was to build
a silo and to buy q thoroughbred bull.
He has increased the revenue per COW
in his dairy herd from $50 to a little
less than $65. The increase last year,
all profit, was approximate
ly $500 on eighteen cows, for which
credit science. He has built up the
yield of wheat from fourteen bushels
to twenty three this year, profit of
$3.50 on a forty-acre field.
Affects Dairy interests.
The CARLSBAD brothers. '0S and 10, by
scientific feeding and the weighing and
testing Of the feed and milk in their
dairy, were able to eliminate the UNI
profitable COWS and increase in one
year the net profit per COW from $4S.52
to s53.27, a profit of approximately
1000 on ten COWS and it was obtained
through intelligent effort and without
expense. They have interested their
around Dassel and have or
ganized testing association with a
membership Of ten dairymen, who pro-
pose to profit by modern methods
They also have organized an egg SELL
ing association by means of which
they and their neighbors shipped to St.
Paul and Minneapolis during the first
nine months of this year 23,133 dozen
of guaranteed fresh eggs packed in
cartons. These sold for cash and at
an average Of 4 cents above the mar
ket price, yielding a profit of $1,000 to
the farmers that never would have
been received under the old system of
handling eggs.
Theodore Sampson, OF, and George
5. Taylor, '06, in addition to making
good for themselves, have organized a
live stock shipping association by
which the farmers near Litchfield are
enabled to save about 90 cents per
nundredweight in getting their stock
to South st. Paul.
Charles Nelson. So, besides acquir-
ing a $1,000 farm, has organized and is
one of the managers Of a very success
'ul cooperative store and creamery.
From Loss to Profit.
e. T. Stennes of Halsted found that
n 1906 he was operating a 280-acre
'arm at loss Of 1868, after allowing
,or interest on the investment, depre-
,iation, labor and living. Scientific
changed that to a profit OF
l1,247.61 in 1908 and to $1,9z2.39 last
year. and that was after allowing in
-erest on the value Of his farm at the
rate Of $12.6oO
Hale brothers, '99, who started with
he home place OF 500 acres near Stew
lrtville, now have 1000 acres, with a
BARN that covers an acre and an eighth.
They sell nothing but live stock, with
he exception OF a few hundred BUSH
is Of seed corn each year. Their farm,
With It's seventy five Percheron horses.
300 Duroc Jersey and Poland China
,igs, It's Durham cattle. 500 Oxford
iheep and the 5000 to 5000 sheep they
eed each year. is worth close to $780,
100. 1t is a fine object lesson to those
Who have not appreciated the adyari-
age Of science as applied to stock
The success attained by those who
AVE been mentioned Is typical. AL
most without exception those who have
rome out from the farm school to APP
,ly their methods have made good.
The result has been to attract atten-
ion and interest that has all but
Iwamped those In charge Of the state
school at st. Paul and the auxiliary
recently established at
and Morris. Those who
lave tried II have proved that t'book
arming' does pay and pay we'll. The
PRACTICAL agriculturailsr on all Sides
ire awakening to the fact. That awak- |
ming Yf1aana al r7ayv d mi haitian ave- Ta,s
and probably viii go
ong way toward solving the urban
problem OF the high cost Of living.