Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-02-09
At Jamestown City Hall. Good
Attendance Present. Strong
Interest Manifested in
the Work.
Col. Wilkinson of Minnesota Delivers
Practical Address.

where, that a system of agriculture
can be Independent of outside aid,
and capable of keeping itself in good
condition, without assistance from
other localities. To restore fertility
of soil that has been lost, they have
to depend on fertilizers, and other
things which they do not produce
themselves.
Every bushel of grain that goes
from our farms carries-,so much fer
tility from the soil, and which to be
kept on the farm, must be returned
to the soil by only one available
means, and that is a full system of
all around farming.
Farmers must put back year aft
er year what is taken out because
they can't get it elsewhere. A per-
manent Independent system of farm
ing can be secured by keeping live
stock o nthe farm for one thing and
rotating crops for another. Dairying
pays better than any other single
branch of farming. A great many
think the dairy business is incidental.
A mistakeis made by man starting
into dairying if he has not the right
kind of cows, also if the food he
raises for them is not of the right
quality. Keeping cows simply as a
small and tag-end part of the farm
work, and dairying in slip shod
manner, is poor investment. The
milking of COWS must be made reg
ular part of the farm work and at
tended to regularly, not an hour a
head of the time, one day and two
hours later than the usual time, an
other day.
"Dairying on the farm must be
given it's proper position and made
as important as any other part of
the farm work. If properly attend
ed to it pays better than any other
branch of the farm work. 1t is hard,
say many farmers, to get milking
done; the hired man doesn't like to
milk cows, it is regarded as sort or
degrading and Objectionable work.
But this view of it has largely come
about by the farmers own acts in
sighting the work and making it
secondary to everything else. It Is
not made the regular and important
part of farm work like the other
branches. The impression has been
given to farm help that milking is
beneath the dignity of farmers and
of themselves"
Col. Wilkinson declared that it is
just as honorable as any farm work
and more money is made in the time
engaged in it than in any other
branch of farm work.
The speaker believed that every
one of the farm girls and boys should
know how to milk. The girls need
not be called upon to do it regularly,
but they should know how. He said
that one reason why boys and girls
left the farm was, that they were
often routed out early in the morn
ing before day to do the milking.
They were expected to do a hard
days work in the field, and after sup
per, and after dark, when tired, were
obliged to do the milking. It was
no wonder that many boys left the
farm for the city, and regarded farm
work and form life with aversion.
The milking Of cows should not be
done at time when civilized people
ought to be asleep.
The colonel told Of a visit to
dairy farm where boy.
son of the proprietor, showed him a.
round. He said the boy was interest
ed in every animal on the farm; that
be MIXED six cows himself, fed them
and took pride in them.
"Get your boys interested in the
work, get good cows and try the
teeding Of them for the best results.
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