The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-28
HILL GIVES ADVICE
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You put some of your crop in too
iate. am almost persuaded that l
saw some flax today that hadn't
blcssomed and wa waiting for next
year.
made some figures this morning
IEat may be interesting. Men are
rying TO do too much. They have to
uepend too much on hobo labor, On
men that do not know how to DO
things right and wouldn't do them
tight if they could. | am taking the
case Of man on an eighty acre farm
as against one on a firm of 100 acres.
The man who farms eighty acres and
IAN take care O.. it. He can get his
crop in right; harvested early, stack
ed and his blowing done right. He
can get eight or ten tons Of barn
yard manure into each Of his land.
He won't let the manure leach out.
My eighty-acre man is going to spend
50. SO per acre each year above the
av rage cost of tillage in fertilizer
and extra work. He is to use the
best seed and work his farm thor
oughly. Under these conditions 25
bushels per acre should be a mod
crate crop. That is 1000 bushels or
at 80 cents, $l,S0O. Cost of cult
vation at $3.50 per acre $3.50. am
allowing him wages for self and
team. This gives profit 0. $1,120 or
S14 per acre.
Now take the man on 100 acres.
We will let him off with SIS worth OF
work p acre and give him the pres
ent average yield. This would mean
gross return Of $1,S72 or an aver
age per acre of $11. 30 His cost Of
cultivation is $3.50, leaving profit of
1912 as against 81, 12O for the man on
the eighty. The man on the large
farm had a profit of 1915 per acre
while the man on the small farm
is making his farm better and rich
er while the large one is robbing his
soil. | know it is hard to get people
to see this. Many of you got land
cheap and you had not learned to
appreciate its real value or to con-
serve it's strength. But you will come
to it. You will farm eighty acres
Of your 100 and use the balance for
summer fallow or pasture.
! have tried for many years to
help the farmers OF the Northwest
I believe live stock will do much for
them. 1t will do az much for you as
it has done for northern Iowa. Where
they used to raise wheat they are now
raising corn and live stock. You will
some time raise corn but don't rush
it too fast. Get acquainted with
corn. When you know how to raise
corn feed it on your place. We are
interested in your welfare. Now we
want to try an experiment. We have
tried several and failed for want of
cooperation. Twenty eight years
ago I commenced scattering hogs
and thoroughbred bulls in Minnesota
and North Dakota. My choice hogs
came in handy for pork and many
people sold the half blood heifers
and kept the scrubs themselves.
tried giving cash prizes in each con-
gressional district but out of over soc
entries only 80 could qualify under
the conditions which were that com
petitor must have 20 head of live
stock for breeding purposes.
Now we want to try to show you
what good farming will do, the work
to be done at our expense and you
get the profits. We want men who
will agree to farm five acres accord
ing to our plan, using the necessary
fertilizers and doing thorough work
We will pay 50 per acre for the work
and the farmer gets the crop. This
will likely be the last effort can
make to help you, as am getting t.
no an old man