The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-03
MAKE N. D. FARM
YIELD GREATER
NORTH DAKOTA GRAIN GROW.
Frs LEARN LESSONS FROM RE.
CENT ADVERSE CONDITION.
ALL FARMERS ARE INTEREST
ED IN THE NEWER WAY.

Minneapolis Journal: North Dakota
will be farmed this year as it never
was farmed before, with old and
wasteful methods discarded. A. d.
Gaines, who has been raising crops in
that state for twenty-e eight years, and
Is now in Minneapolis, believes that
benefits too great for calculation are
going to follow the opening of an era
Of better work
Practically every farmer In North
Dakota, by personal contact with some
teaching influence or by indirection,
has had the idea brought to him and
then hammered upon with repetition
and reiteration, that the crop losses Of
last year that cut down the grain
yield of the state so materially, were
due not to bad weather alone. but
largely to poor tillage.
Learn Better Ways.
Farmers who had to scale down ex-
penditures and postpone Improvement
work because their crop promise ran
down the scale as the season drew to
close, have heard of other farmers who
got good yields and profited by the
high prices that ruled. They have ask
ed the agricultural schools, the farm
ers' institutes, and of themselves how
1t was that even on farms where the
general outturn was poor, patches of
land yielded beautifully.
They have been told that kindnass
to the land brings kindness from tha
land, that seed selection, crop rotation
and other things are important. but
that tillage Is the golden word This
year they are out for tillage ana ara
going to become real tillers OF thu aoil
in all that the words mean.
All Farmers interested.
I never saw anything like the in
terest in good farming that is being
shown this spring in North Dakota .
Mr.. Gaines said, and he added that In
MS judgment 1t is the biggest and most
important thing that has deyeloned 4,
the northwest since the land was first
broken by the pillow. For ten years Mr.
Gaines was identified with teaching
work in Minnesota, and was in an
state high school at Alexandria in al
dition to having taught in the STATE
agricultural college at st. Anthony
park
attended the meetings OF farmers
&C DICKINSON, where dry farming ives
the feature, and besides ASSISTING -
organizing the New Salem and wash
burn farmer clubs. I was present a.
many other meetings of farmers d,,r
Ing /. the winter in North Dasxots
everywhere the good farming idea was
talked and everywhere the farmer
seemed to be awakening to the fact
hat, to large extent, the ona.tio,,
d good or bad crops Is in his own
hands.
Years Show ResuIts.
We need not expect that tba Ell,
benefits Of this will be seen thia sac
ian," continued Mr.. Gaines. sTt tslaa
.Wo or three years for the dry farm
ng TO show what 1t can do. PART az
ne plan is the carrying over from ONE
'ear TO another of the moisture in fla
'round, the elimination of weeds whites
axe up much Of the moisture FOR tha,,
sroWth, and other things that make -
ne good farming. One season aftas.
ne farmers take this up in n,,,,,h..s...
vii bring results that viii he I,,ra-
ant, but two or three seasons ~ e,,c.,
gorh continued, will do wonders
mat - why ! say that the taking ~
MS year by North Dakota farnaay. -
ne better tillage plxn. ID one ~ az
nost important things. agric,,Itura1
nat ever happened in the nortb4.,as.,::
ne Iarlners Of North Dakota, Mr.
'a.nes SAID, are opposed to reciprocitv
hu nave 80 declared at meetings hela
throughout the state. A'SAu