The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-19

brought an income monthly and has
impressed herself more favorable than
ever upon those who have depended
upon her as a source of funds. While
her kind has not been increased this
year. she represents the only class OF
live stock aside from work stock which
has been maintained.
large amount OF grain that was
too poor to be worth harvesting and
threshing made excellent hay and con-
tanned so much grain that 1t was rich
reed Tor dairy cows or other live stock.
by allowing the cows or other farm
animals to manufacture it into live
stock products, the grower has no
threshing bill to pay, is out nothing
Tor Irvine, has very little harvest labor
aside from his own force, and has
| really transformed a worthless crop
into one which Is marketable.
/ The Swine Question.
Many are feeling now that grain
Is too expensive for them to plan upon
producing many pigs next season. BY
putting in rape, field peas or a sue
cotash crop Of millet, barley, peas and
rape, excellent pastures can be pro-
duced, which will largely carry the
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crop of barley is ready to finish them
| tor market. The man who confines
ms spring pigs in a pen and feeds
| them upon grain and water or kitchen
Stops cannot hope to make cheap pork;
| the pasture method is the only one
to follow, and really produces the best
grade of pork. A few also make the
mistake of not supplementing these
pastures with grain, and that error
Is a serious one as the most rapid
growth and the cheapest gain per day
Is made when the pigs are small and
running with the DAM
| / certainly hope that the farmers of
! North Dakota will keep up their herds
| or swine to the standard number at
least next season, and I believe that
one of the lessons to be drawn from
the season Of 1910 is that it is mis-
take to reduce the production of horses.
cattle, sheep and hogs on the farms
of North Dakota.
Inc population of this state as well
as that of the others has had a strong
lesson in the necessity of economy dur
ing the past year. Citizens of the state
nave been so successful in producing
gram crops during the past five years
ald the prices have been so good that
we nave grown too extravagant and
TO point where we were willing to
assume too large an amount of in
debtedness upon which to pay inter-
est The high price of all the COM
modlties that the citizenship of the
state have had to produce has not
peen as heavily felt by the farmer
who has received a higher price than
usual for his commodities as II has
by the residents of towns and cities.
Interest charges run along regular
ly through bad seasons as wen as good
nights, Sundays, holidays, in fact they
are constant and accumulate into
larger sums than an ordinary person
mas realized in figuring over the ac-
counts before hand. An adverse sea
son brings US to realization of the
amount OF our interest bearing notes
that are outstanding and tends to make
n~ more conservative about taking re-
sponsibilities of that sort for the fu-
ture. / believe that 1910 has taught
TINS lesson to the grain growers of
North Dakota in a very opportune
way.
High Living Standard.
The producers of this state have
set higher standard of living in al
most every way during the last five
or ten years, and / am the last who
viii decry the fact. The teIephona |
the carriage or automobile, the organ
or piano, the better suits of clothes /
the trips to a pleasure resort, state
Ialr, or elsewhere, which are not ne |
cessitles of life, are nice things and
should be enjoyed by those who can
AFFORD them. l am impressed with the
doctrine that mankind has but one life
to live and should enjoy and develon
1t to the greatest possible degree. /
am fearful, however, that MANY of us
have grown very optimistic and over
eNtravagant from having had good
crops and at least fair prices for sew
eral years in succession and have ada
ed many luxuries before our debts
were paid.
The railroad sage of the northwest
James D. Hill, has put out the very
ulte statement within year that the
people or the northwest were suffer-
ing from the cost of high living in
stead of the high cost of living.
the unparalleled crop of Indian corn
which has been produced in states
southeast of us has brought the worlds
crop of maize far above the world WELD
OF recent years. The November 1910
bureau of statistics report gives the
1910 corn crop as more than 6 per
cent higher than the ten year aver
age. They have also produced
bumper" crop of oats, which has
brought Americas yield of oats more
than per cent above the average.
This Is especially fortunate for the
northwest, as it has given us an on
portunity to buy the grain feed that
we will require at more reasonable
figure than we could otherwise have
done.
Our straw has cured without rain
generally throughout the state and is
The brightest and most palatable that ,
we have had in ten years past. BY {
buying some grain feed and learning
10 use bright straw for roughage. and
there is much to learn about feeding j
straw successfully. there is no reason
why the work stock and the cattle |
and sheep cannot come through the
winter in as good condition for work
and for growth as they have done in
average years
Right here let me suggest that YOU
AXE good care of your stock right
along during the next year and that
gou pick out the best ones. and give
hem little extra care Fit them mn
Ind take them to the county fair. state
air and to the Northwestern Live
stock and Grain show at South st.
Paul next fall
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