The Dickinson press., 1911-12-16

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of the family, stimulate economy and
the pay-as-you- go plan and.. furnish amin
come in winter when the coal bills and
taxes come. Plan to have live stock pay
running expenses and have the grain
crops for Improvements or to start or
swell bank account.
MIR. Flint said in part A year ago at
the Dickinson Dry Farming meeting l
gave up my time on the programme to
Professor Shaw. l did so because
thought you should know his methods
of conducting so-called dry farming"
and that they would be of greater value
than anything could say on dairying.
After twelve years of observation of
men. methods and conditions on the
Slope, through what we termed good
years and some termed bad ones, 1 am
thoroughly convinced that when it
comes to condition of "a feast or a
famine' or supplying our daily wants
daily. we can not put 700 much em-
phasis on live stock as productive
factor and especially on the dairy COW,
and swine. You will agree with me,
I believe, that it is better to encoura &c
a conservative citizen than gambler
a sure, though possibly slower method
than one that promises large things for
a term of years. but one that does not
always perform and in the end must
give way to the better method. To my
mind it is unfortunate that practically
every influence, not only within the
state, but those that have gone out dur
ing the past ten years have been favor
able to grain raising almost to the ex-
clusion of the desirability and practi-
bility of raising live stock.
The statement so often made, and
frequently verified, that lone crop pays
for the land" has led many to make i'm
practical investments and to follow ex-
risky methods. The policy
was wrong, wrong not only for the
Slope, but for the whole state. While
a few may have profited financially
through the plan. the accounts must be
settled and many must lose. and the
financial loss. will not be the only one.
Before we can have reliable aericul-
tural state we must have greater
number of live stock; before we can
have financially reliable citizens they
must keep relative number of live
stock; before we can claim a perma-
nentIy settled state our farmers must
have more live stock and these things
have an important bearing on the de.
velopment of a citizen as citizen.
Take the local situation as an ex-
ample. There was but little interest IN
dairying. noticeable at least, until we
began to hold meetings and talk dairy
ings and creamery with the farmers. A
company was organized and Immediate
ly farmers began looking for more
COWS. The creamery began operating
in June, 1908. During the first year of
operation the patrons received $40, 662
for the butterfat they delivered. How
many additional cows the patrons add
ed to their herds the first year am un-
able to say but was informed that
they built sixteen new barns which in
dicated much more than merely that
their COWS were to be sheltered. During
the second year the patrons received
S13. 27O or about Is per cent increase
and twelve more barns were erected.
During the fiscal year ending June
80. 1911, the patrons received SIP. GA,
making a total of $50. 546 Cor three
years.
A creamery has also been established
at Richardton, in the spring of 1910,
and for the first year paid patrons
81, 5O1.O9. Both of these creameries,
as has been the case with nearly all
creameries on the Slope have operated
continuously since they were opened.
The increase in the number of milch
COWS from 1908 to 1911 in Stark county
was IS per cent. r
From reports made to our office l find
that the fiscal year ending June 80, 1909.
there was made in the creameries Of the
West Slope 767, 59S pounds of butter,
and that the patrons received $263, 598.
36.
During the fiscal year ending Jure 80.
1910, S65. .023 pounds were made and
patrons received $277, 927.34. For the
year ending June 30. 1911, S67, 05s
pounds were made and patrons received
S242, 776.24.
No section has been harder hit. per-
haps the past two-years than New Salem
and yet the bankers there tell me tha
the monthly cash creamery accounts
have kept the bank deposits up in good
shape.
Last spring FIVE farmers at New Salem
decided to erect silos for the bette
handling of the corn raised for feed. The!
purchased their silos and shipped then
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