The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-04-25
Each Cow In His Barns Raised Five
Pigs From the Skinned
Milk,
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Man to Take Charge of Eight or Ten
Plots Next Year and Cultivate
Scientifically.

James J. Hill, speaking in the Ar
mory last night, made the following
speech after the usual Introductory
remarks:
This evening, I was very glad to
find that your chairman proposed to
take me out and show me the coun-
try, show me some of the farms. Now,
l know something as to what Bemidji
amounts to as a railway station. We
keep close tab on such things and
know that Bemidji has good stand
ing in the Great Northern Office.
The greatest source of all that is
Of value in the world is the farm.
The farm, the forests, the mine, and
and the sea are the sources from
which everything of value in the
world and in all the countries of the
world is derived.
I'VE have, with our future growth
and development, to look to the Gull
tivatiOn of the soil and all the ma
tions of the world that have taken
care of their soil, all the nations of
the world that have been intelligent
and have given proper regard to the
preservation of the fertility of the
soil, have continued to be nations and
those nations that have neglected to,
have passed away from the map of
the world. They have lost their
places among the nations of the
world
Plow a Great Invention.
"The first great step in human
civilization was the invention of the
plow, a forked stick used to stir up
the soil. Now the invention or the
use of that forked stick intended to
plOw the land was of more conse-
quence to the world and to human
ity than anything that has ever been
done in the world before or after,
much more than the steam engine or
thing else we have in all the list of
our various useful devices. 1t made
mankind a producer Prior to that
he lived by the chase. The agricul-
ture of the world has been the foun-
dation of its prosperity from the be-
ginning and it will so continue until
the end. 1t is said that, God made
the country and man made the
towns Now, no town can continue
to live unless it has country be-
hind it to support it.
Il was rejoiced this afternoon to
see that you have an excellent good
soil. There are some things you can
raise better than others. I might
say there are places in Minnesota
where I would rather, if I had to, cul-
tivate a farm and raise wheat. I
would rather take some locations
than here, but there are other crops
You can raise better here than you
can elsewhere.
Il saw, this afternoon, out here,
the farm of one of your merchants,
Mr.. Schroeder, and he isn't wasting
anything in riotous living or fancy
farming, but he has an excellent
start and he has useful, practical,
sound enterprise out there that in
four or five years, if his life is spared,
you watch it and see if he doesn't
have model farm. I know he is
alright. He isn't depending on rails
ing great deal of grain This coun-
try is going to be great dairy coun-
try, and dairy country can make
more money than a grain country.
Has Helped Twenty-Five Years.
at will be Twenty-Five years ago
this fall since tried to start in and
help the farmers of Minnesota 20
stop doing the Paganini act He
could make excellent music on one
string. In 1888, there was no rain
from seed time until the second or
third of July when the rain came.
1t was late, but it came in time to
save them from an entire crop fail
ure. I have found that out west in
what they used to call the Big Woods,
Litchfield, the county seat of Meek
er. county, that all were trying grain
farming thought that would make
real effort to get them to take UP
mixed farming, and started in te
give them cattle and hogs. dis.