Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-30

export ~ an acre. Inelr average
wheat yield on lasd which you would
not cultivate in its original condition
Is 80 to IS bushels to the acre. Hol
land is "a, Great Britain or England II
80, and 100 years ago it was IA or Is
but they took the land and devoted
it to crops that it was best adapted
fto raise. They took up intelligent
farming.
Now We hear a little about dry
farming and l want to say to you that
If all the farming is to be dry farm.
ing it will be awfully dry for the fel-
low who is doing it. There is no sub
stitute for good farming and wet
farming or dry farming will fail II it
is not good and intelligent farming.
Now you have good land here repre-
scented that building that people
call semi-arid. l don't care what they
call it. There is what it raises. Now
try to raise 1t as you ought to. Keep
cattle, keep dairy animals. You can't
find a dairy community anywhere In
the northwest that has not grown
rich. In Meeker county, Minnesota, l
remember l sent the first bull.1 dis
tributed, q Shorthorn bull, and they
have q number of creamertes now,
excellent creameries. Year before
last they paid out $250,000 more for
milk and cream than they did for
wheat, and they had the milk and
cream reasonably certain where the
wheat was not always certain.
Now a man handling cattle and fur
nishing milk should take the skinned
milk back. I don't care whether it is
potatoes or turnips or carrots or even
cabbage or turnip tops or any kind
of grain, get a farmers kettle and
boil It. in your milk and feed It to
your pigs. Every cow that is worth
keeping as g. mich COW can raise
five pigs and if they come in the
month of April, by the first Of Decem.
Der they will weigh from 210 to 230
or 240 pounds and they will bring
you at present prices from $14 to SIC
apiece. Just tell me, North Dakota
farmers, which Is the easier and
cheaper to raise, seven or eight
old pig or seed, cultivate and
an acre Of land. It is very
easy money to raise hogs in this
country, and if you don't believe It
20 in there and see what there Is to
feed them on.
You can make North Dakota ten
times, twenty times as valuable as it
is. You can do anything you wish
to do. Now a great deal is said about
scientific farming and the science of
agriculture is necessary. But it is not
necessary that farmer should know
the Latin name of every plant which
grows in the field or out of them.
1t is not necessary that he should be
an agricultural chemist. You can hire
that done. Let them do it at the
agricultural college. Let them do for
you all that they can. They can ex-
pertinent and they can settle the
question as to what is best adapted
% this climate, in the nature Of new
seed. They can test the soil. You
can take little box of your soil in
hat you have any doubt about send
t to the agricultural college and they
IAN test it and tell you whether it
8 short of any necessary qualities.
Maybe it is sour. You can make that
est yourself. If it is acid, you take
| piece of blue plotting paper, put
t in the soil and cover it up. If it
urns pink, your land is sour and
wants some lime. But these ques-
ions your agricultural collage deter
nine for you. But let us take the
'est trained agricultural college pro.
essor that We can imagine and put
i'm on 100 acres along side of good
I've farmer, and what advantage has
e got The best he could do would
re to raise the best crop that that
oil would raise. He might have a
title advantage of the ordinary farm
r in judging the quality Of the soil,
ut not much.
Suppose the farmer wants to raise
orn, or wheat or oats or barley. and
e wants to test the seed. Let him
axe hundred average kernels of his
eed and put them in little box and
aoisten the soil and let him count
be number OF seeds that propagate
'ell, and the number that have nour-
shed and the number that don't grow
t all. He knows what percentage of
is seed is good. T he next thing he
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is seed bins. There is where most
+ the farmers fail. Many of them
re in a hurry. They have got some
sitting to do in the fall, and it rains,
nd they could not thresh, and there
re thousand and one reasons why
hei fall blowing was delayed. They
ould not pillow because the shocks
'ere on the ground. They could not
low and the shocks sat there until
hey began to sprOut and the value
t their grain was reduced two or
hree times.
I must say that the farmer has my
because of the difficulty Il
% has in getting good agricultural
clip to work with him on the farm.
is hard to get. He takes hobo
nd trys to find them on the freight
rains, hanging onto the rods or
limbing up on top of the cars, and
Q is afraid to take them into his
ouse for fear they will rob him.
agricultural labor is hard to get and
or that reason the farmer must give
Is attention to crops that take the
East labor. But let US 90 back to
he blowing. Now his horses run to
he straw stacks all winter and in
he spring they haven't had much
rain, and two or three weeks
49, l. L.