The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-02-09

given at Palermo the business men
gave 81 prizes for farm produce and
you should have seen the display.
Let's charge = mere sum Of money fol
the admission to maintain the fair.
The directors are nearly Ill farmers.
You will ind the county fair . good
thing. The small tax allowed BY law
Is . small item. II you are paying
$25 to 81 taxes on your farm, tie fair
tax would cost you not to exceed ten
or twelve cents . year. 4inot will
have to help pay that TAI TOO"
He spoke of tho rest room that Nj
not has provided and the drinking
fountain that was installed In this
city. These are but a few of the
things that Minot has done or will
do for the farmers.
The speaker then gave the farmers
a talk about the farm home and
some hints of bringing up his boys
and girls so they will like farm life.
The speaker told OF the Wisconsin
farmers selling to North Dakota thou
sands Of dollars worth of butter, year
ly, made on $3.50 an acre land, the
cows being fed SIS a ton hay. Think
of it! North Dakota can Just as well
make it's own butter.
Speaking of the farmers social life
he said: IF you had some place to
meet each week you would not be 80
grouchy. Get together and debate
some hot subjects.
Eighteen bills have been introduced
in the legislature, dealing directly
with farm life, and the bettering OF
the conditions Of the farmers. This
Is the greatest time in the history OF
the state for the farmer.
Meet us business men half way
and we will meet you two thirds OF the
way. Tell us what you want us to
do. and we will do it."
Prof. Babcock, who Is connected
with the State school of Mines, and
who has charge Of the experiment
station at Hebron, \. D. gave what
was considered one Of the most i'm
portant addresses ever delivered IL
Minot The professors lecture was
full of facts about Ignite coal and it,
future. Minot lies at the very gate
way of some Of the largest coal fields
in the United States, and the fact the
gas is now being made successfully
from Ignite, and for commercial use
too, made this subject all the more
interesting to our citizens.
The Professor spoke of diversified
farming, and said that diversified in
dustries ought to 60 along with it
When there were but few people in
the state, there was little us for in
dustries Of any kind, but now that the
state is filing up very rapidly, there
is no reason why our raw producta
cannot be converted into the manu-
featured product just as well as to do
pend on the eastern manufacturing
centers. In fact there is no reason
in the wor d why North Dakota can
not take its place in the very neal
future with the best of the manufact-
| uring states of the east. We raise
| the cereals right here, and can manu-
facture rolled oats, -four, and like
products. We raise the fax, and
| ought to have linen mills, etc. We
| raise the potatoes and ought to have
starch factories. Cracker factories
and numerous other industries will
come sooner later. Packing
houses ought to be located in the
state. There is no limit to the num-
Der or kinds of industries that ought
to be fostered here.
North Dakota has the very best clay
in the United States for the manu-
facture of dishes and AL kinds Of poi
terry goods. The Professor had on OK
hfbition some very beautiful vases
made from North Dakota clay, some
being made right at the University
He shovel a small sample Of brick
50 hard that it would scratch glass,
manufactured from North Dakota raw
material.
All you need to insure successful
factories are plenty of power and
employees. Our Ignite coal fields will
furnish power for thousands Of years
to come.
Western North Dakota will furnish
Train tilling for the eastern end Of
the state. The development of our