The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-24

see some OF the vegetables grown and
exhibited at our fairs: and still, car
load after carload is shipped in and
sold at a profit to the producer after
paying freight rates and commissions.
Let us join hands, awaken out Of this
| stupor, and proceed to bring about the
degree OF prosperity we are entitled
toe
His Rotation.
After crop OF corn, usually SOW
clover and timothy with wheat as a
nurse crop, sowing the wheat a little
thinner than when there Is no grass
seed used. The following crop ia used
TOT nay but would also be very profita-
bic for seed The following season
the land should be pastured, then
broken up and seeded to weat or corn;
and the yield compared with that on
other ground equally as good will be
absolute proof OF the value of rotation.
Ex-Governor r. Y. Sarles said he
broke UP pasture that had been
used for twelve or fourteen years.
and sowed IL to spring wheat, har-
vesting 251z bushels per acre. On an
other piece that had been seeded to
clover the previous year, which he had
expected to use for pasture, but find.
ing the termination of clover was not
as good as he had expected, he pIowed
the piece, after ne had the balance of
his spring work done, and sowed A. TO
wheat for experiment, threshing 35M
bushels per acre off the clover ground.
This demonstrates that clover puts
back the nitrogen SO essential for
wheat production.
Since beginning the rotation and
stock raising, have been afflicted
with almost every i'll the farm is heir
to, viz: Fire, hog cholera, tuberculosis
and drouth, and such experience has
sometimes almost discouraged me with
farming. i believe however, / have
mastered the situation to such an ex-
tent as to now be on the highway to
a. dividend paying proposition. hire
everything done, and keep strict ac-
count of every branch Of the business,
and each kind of live stock has shown
a profit, even disregarding manuriaI
values which entitle diversified farm
ing to a further credit, while the
farming operations and grain end
show strong loss; however, on ths
whole, the farm has, even this year,
paid a small dividend I doubt IL
a single exclusive grain farmer in my
county can show any margin on the
right side Of the ledger after paying
for every hours work at reasonable |
wages, as / have TO do, and il | can
make profit farming as I do, there |
Is no reason why any practical farmer |
with family of boys and girls to |
assist in the labor, cannot get rich in |
the Red river valley with reasonably |
good management.
Too Many Foreign Owners.
In my Judgment there is too much |
land in North Dakota held by specu- |
lators and renters, and one of the chief |
objects of all who are interested i'm |
our welfare should be to see that a |
family is living on every quarter or |
half section. 1t is true some are able |
to profitably handle a larger amount |
but as a rule, half section is enough |
for one man to bring to it's highest |
point in production. Under such a con-
dition our social and education adj |
vantages in rural districts would be
much improved. 1t would be the MAX |
ing Of a real home on the farm, in |
stead of simply place to earn liveli- |
hood, and be forced to go elsewhere
for pleasure and to spend the surplus. |
/ long to see the neighborly condi-
tons among our farmers which ex-
listed years ago when the school teach
err boarded at the different homes in
the district, butchering time a neigh
borhood feature, and the barn raising a
time of general neighborly assistance
and jollification. 1 do not wish you
to think that / believe the present sys-
tenn OF contracting for building is not
better than the fashioned way of
assisting each other, but the point I
wish to make is that the neighborly
conditions OF the farmers were better
then than now. Everything at this
day and age seems to be on the "get
rich quick" plan, regardless Of our
duty to ourselves, our neighbors and
our land The rising generation would
be content with home life on the farm
4 they had plenty of stock to care for.
Ind occupy their minds, and neighbors
1t reasonable distance with whom
hey could mingle. say friends, stick
70 the farm; talk farm; think farm, ]
md dream farm. Make companions ]
'fyour boys and girls. When you give (
he boy colt, don't have It "bub's
,olt and dads horse" or the girls
;alf and mothers cow" but see to il ]
hat the proceeds go to the child's {
account, and assist them In making 6
! profitable investment. In this man {
Ter believe you will increase their I
interest to such an extent as to make (
armers and farmers wives out of at |
east 80 per cent more of the rising
I'm farming communities. I
)ur young people are more rugged,
fgorous, industrious and intelligent 4
han those Of almost any other local.
Y, and inasmuch as we are purely an 8
.gricultlIral state, and in view of the 8
act that nearly all our great men have c
raanated from the farm, I know or no r
eason why condition cannot be 4
'rought about through the proper eff v
orts of our people, to make North {
Dakota one of the foremost states In 4
he union--not only BY greater produce 8
ion from the soil, bat by the produc- j
ion Of great men and women, engi-
eering matters OF Importance in this, d
he greatest republic on earth Our {
oys may not be LincoIns Jeffersons, I
iarfields or Roosevelts, nor all OF our 1
iris, Harriet Beecher Stoves, Flor r
nee Nightingales or Frances e. Will +
ards, but all may become capable OF p
eing valuable men and woman in Z
ut climate soil and great public in I \
titutions, to develop a class of citi- ii
enship far in advance of the average, d
nd believe perseverance on the part q
those who commenced the rotation o
ampaign, and proper assistance from 9
ur citizens Is sure to bring about
UGH q result Nature and the rnu- | !,