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

on farms averaging rorty-three acres
Now. a man might say that wit
forty three acres he could not fin
anything to do IT would not occup
his time at all. but ii would. And hi
viii make more money of eighty acre,
well cared for than he will off 16
acres uncultivated.
IS to so 5usheI Yield
A crop Of twenty bushels to tn,
acre will give more profit than TIVE
acres of fifteen bushels to the acre
and there Is not any reason on tn,
4 face Of the earth why every acr,
that is put into wheat In this section
Of the country, should not yield from
rs to 80 bushels to the acre One
hundred and twenty Ave years ago the
land in Great Britain had been cult.
| waited to such an extent that people
were leaving 1t. The average yield
was about fourteen bushels which is
little higher than in this state. The
average in the United States is about
thirteen bushels. The people were
| leaving the land and landlords con-
sidered themselves land poor A royal
commission was appointed to take
Charge OF that matter and they took
1t up and considered 1t carefully. and
thoughtfully. The result was that AFT
err thorough investigation they adj
vised the farmers as to what crops
should be put on in the different dis
tricts, and on different kinds. They
went so far as to guarantees him a
better yield than he was getting under
his own management. They had an
other way to regulate that because
most Of their farmers were tenant
farmers, and in the lease they made
provision for SO many grain crops. so
much green crops and so much fer
tilizer. But 1t took tine-fftv wears
before they raised much better
yield, from fourteen to twenty five
bushels.
Land Does Not Wear Out
In Germany, with land that does not
compare with this, they get twenty
seven and twenty eight bushels to the
acre, and to say that the land wears
out, that would be a libel on the
Creator. That land in Germany, we
know, had been cultivated since Tao
titus wrote, and we know If the land
wore out that the race would have
been gone long ago. The land does
not wear out. The land will refuse to
go on yielding one particular grain
year after year. The farmer cannot
coax, or drive the land to WELD one
crop for generation any more than
ne can coax a bank to pay money on
his check unless he has deposited
money with the bank 1t is Just as i'm
possible to keep on taking one kind
OF grain out of the land for an in
definite term of years as it is to take
grain out of the elevator without nut
tang grain in. That is the reason
that the farmers must learn. The
thing he must learn is to fertilize his
land We can do that best by keep
ing livestock
Pretty Easy Money
There is no reason why every farm
er should not have 100 good pigs. and
II he has the hundred good pigs they
would bring him $1,000 to $4,000. It
is pretty easy money, my friends. II
ls pretty easy money, and it is lot
better than getting up on seed drill
when the period for fall blowing has
reen neglected and wait till spring,
and then get up on the seed drill and
try and drill into the stubble and think
ne is going to get crop. The sooner
the farmer gives up that idea, the bet
ter 1t will be for us all.
Now, livestock is a necessity to good
farming, and 1t is very profitabIe
This seems to be a period of COM
bination. The farmers can get TO-
gerher and get their creameries and
they are profitable. But when the
farmers neighborhood creameries be-
gin to be profitable, someone in the
town goes into the creamery bust |
ness and wants to try If he cannon
make good business Of it, and thus
AXE IL away from them. He wants
he cream hauled in from 200 or 400 |
niles and he gets the railroads to |
carry the cream for him, and by so
ioing, take 1t away from the fellows
IN the land.
Value of Live. Stock.
/ believe that every dollar spent for |
iced for livestock on the farm Is ac |
.ually worth in money on that farm |
rom one-third of the market value
If 1t is worth the value of the full |
amount he pays as manure. I do not
are whether the price for his feed is /
Ugh or low. The careful disposition
II that manure, not to leave 1t out
where IL will leach and the rains wash
I'll the good out of it. but put Ii on
he land, and if 1t is going to leach, let
leach right on the land itself, and
axe my word for it, 1t will increase |
he yield of the land, 1t will increase
he return fat least one-third and for
hat reason IT adds one third to he
'rop, and one-hird OF the value re-
'ardless of what the price may be.
You never will succeed in doing your
and justice unless you will fertilize
in some way. In Denmark 1t is
argely a dairy country, and they have
IN abundance of manure for fertiliza-
ion,. They get forty, forty three, for
y-five, forty seven bushels of wheat
0 the acre, and 1t is not a wheat
ountry but they have an abundance
f fertilizer TO put on the land.
Now without live stock it would be
ather hard for the people in North
Dakota to go and buy fertilizer and
ay SO, 81, IS or Sc an acre, they would
hink they were ruined il they did.
But In the old cultivated portions of
he south they are paying from Sc to $S
n acre, and have to, or they could
ot raise crop. The land has been
cultivated carelessly, so long that it
as to be changed, and It's fertility
rought back.
Stock as Fertilizers.
In England at their experimental
arms, they have kept an accurate ac-