The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-01-18
AN OLD TIMER
ENTERS PROTEST
Objects to Appropriation for
Purpose of Instilling
Better Farming.
Advocates Help, However, to
Assist IN Building Silos and
Paying for Them.
EllendaIe. N. D.. Jan. 2. 1912.

Glendale, N. D.. Jan. 2, 1912.
To the Editor of The Oakes Times: l
noticed in the last issue of The Times,
December 28th, an article headed with
large print:
Oakes Starts Good Thing for
County. Meeting of Citizens Last
Night Made Move for Better Farming
Methods. Strong Petition to be Pre-
sented to County Board Asking in APP
preparation, which is as follows:
Asplendid prop, ,sition for the farmers
was initiated in this county last night
when meeting of the business men
of Oakes at the Commercial Club rooms
took up the matter of securing for
Dickey county share of the $3.50, 900
recently subscribed by leading business
men of the twin cities. This amount
is offered on condition that the counties
taking it up raise an equal amount to
be distributed over three years, or
$50, 600 per year. Only eight counties
can take up the proposition on the
start, but the matter can be extended
as funds warrant.
The plan is to ask the county COM
missioners for an appropriation here
say 5000. Then the twin city associa.
tion will donate like amount, which
will be used towards the .superintend-
ent's salary and the other expenses
There would be six or eight demonstra-
tion farms in the county, and every
thing would be done that could be done
with such an appropriation to instiu
20 IL ofD fho
1t is something that would prove of in
more bushels of grain per acre would
vestment. Mr.. Mccartney is an en-
thusiast on the matter. He has at
tended several meetings of the associ-
alton, being one of it's directors, and is
very desirous of getting part of the ap-
preparation before other counties take
it up.
Now, Mr.. Editor, by reading thi'
article must sit down and take notice
and have come to the calculation
that will strongly protest against this
scheme. We all know there are lots
of people in this world who are anxious
to get something, no matter whether
they are rich or poor. And it is pity
to think that our fair state should be
considered by our sister states to be so
poverty stricken that the large busi-
ness houses in the twin cities should
deem it necessary to join charity
association and donate $3.50, 900 for the
benefit of the poor, poverty-stricken
farmers of North Dakota. l think this
proposed scheme is of too great inn
portance to pass without due consider
aticn. Every intelligent citizen can
not deny that the experimental stations
throughout the state have done an i'm
mense lot of good to the farmers. But
now let's stop and consider the advis-
ability of establishing six or eight of
those little one-horse sub-stations in
each county all over the state, their
cost and maintenance and compare
same with the real benefit that we can
reasonably expect to receive from
same.
Take the $3.50, 900 donated from the
twin cities and like amount from the
state which will make the neat little
sum of 100000. In my opinion it
would be fine scheme for those. fav-
ored ones who will be chosen to super
intend the little one-horse concerns.
They will be drawing their good fat
salary and we would see them day after
day riding around in their fine automo-
biles and tell the old dummies of
farmers how to run their plows and
how to turn around with a six-horse
harrow in the corners of a 160-acre field.
We have we'll equipped state expert
mental station in LaMoure county
located about fifteen miles north Of
Glendale and I don't think there are
half dozen farmers in Dickey county
that knows more about the success or
failure from the experiments of that
station as if there never had been any,
or do you suppose that the farmers
field adjoining this station under the
same weather conditions are any better
than any other part of the county
and if not where is the benefit to the
farmers or anybody else, for the capi-
tai invested in that section?
Now let US go back to the years of
19O6-7-8-9, in the years of favorable
weather conditions all over the state.
In the year of 1906 worked my farm
myself and 25 acres of the Big Four
oats I raised 2O7O bushels of oats by
machine measure and weighed 70 pounds
to the bushel, so bushels of barley and
21 bushels of wheat per acre and in
cluding the next three years about the
time all kinds of grain was about
matured, every person whether stranger
orcitizen Of our state travelling through
the country could not help but admire
the beautiful grain as far as his eye
could reach to the right or to the left,
and in the green pastures would be
seen fine lot of well bred cattle lying
down and in greatest content chew
ing their cud. On every hand were
signs Of great wealth and prosperity