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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

In 1850, 1905 900, O00 in 1875, and lao,
900, 900 in the year 1000. During the
last decade we gained about III per
cent in population. The gain in WELD
of cereals was only III per cent. STAR
walton, I assert, is looking us in the
face.
If It were to be accepted that Amer
leans would all starve TO death in the
good year OF Ii Lord 1000, there
would be widespread lamentation and
discomfort, but it is gratifying that few
believe that any such fate will befall
the people OF this land Of bonndless
wealth in soil and minerals. where
there are millions OF acres Of unculti-
waited lands and untold wealth in un-
discovered n ~nndeveloped mines.
Anyway, the statistics do not justify
the doleful tale Of inevitable starva-
tion, for the reports from the agricul-
tural department at washington show.
that farm products have more than
kept pace with the increase In popula-
ton. sixteen years ago the annual
crop wealth was $4,000, 00o, coo. as com
pared with $500, 1000 00 for the year
1912, the value OF the present rop
being more han double that Of sixteen
years ago.
No doubt the best interest Of the
whole country would be for a large
number Of the people who now are
struggling for a livelihood in the cities
to seek out homes in the country and
become producers instead of content
ing themselves with being
But the present condition is no so
alarming as to excite the fear that
all may starve to death if a rapid
change is not made, for the existing
facts and the probabilities Of the fu-
ture do not justify the prediction.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
FOR The COMING YEAR
Night School at ~" Closes Success
full Term-New Window Card
Courses for Next Term.

The educational department of the
local Y. M. C. A. has just issued a
neat window card entitled, The Lone
ly Way-The Association Way. This
splendid cut illustrates what the as
sociation is doing for the men and
boys of Fargo and community who
work, and still wish to improve their
education. Learn while you earn is
becoming the habit nowadays and il
is a splendid opportunity the night
school is giving for those who are
anxious to advance themselves.
About fifty men and boys have
been attending the classes during the
fall term and it is expected that many
more will enroll for the term which
opens Thursday Jan. 2, 1913. Dr.
rector Pixler announces that courses
will be given in salesmanship, public
speaking and debate, architectural
drawing, mechanical drawing, business
subjects, English for foreign speaking
men and other subjects to be an
nounced later.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
]. HILL SAYS FARM
YIELDS CAN BE DOUBLED
Result Of Years Tests on $50 Farms Explained by Railroad
Executive Who Has Now Demonstrated Possibility
Of Increasing Grain Yields 100 Per Cent


New York, Dec. 2S.-Figures which
are now coming in from tests conduct
ed on more than I5O farms
in the northwest, through the
encouragement OF James J.. Hill, al
ready show that the Christmas gift Of
the railroad head to the farmers Of the
country will be one of the most valu-
able they have ever received, taking
the form of a proven method for
doubling their grain yields. For many
years Mr.. Hill has been preaching bet
ter farming methods, but it was only a
year ago that his efforts finally took
the concrete form of the trials which
have made this remarkable gift a
reality, The results of these tests
which are now coming in demonstrate
that by following the methods adj
|vocated by Mr.. Hill 1t ~isspossibIe for
the farmers OF this country to double
their yields Of wheat, oats and barley,
and ven oyeSurpassz the greatly
superior Yields secured in Germany.
In undertaking these experiments
Mr.. Hill was Influenced by the figures
which show that, in spite Of our in+
creased population, the rural popula-
ton has been shrinking rapidly and
the yield per acre of corn, wheat. oats
and barley for the ten year period
following 1900 was less than it was
thirty years ago. In other words the
necessity for a remedy of this farm
decadence has become more and more
pressing and it is such a remedy that
Mr.. Hill has been working out.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

the sugar beet has enabled Germany
TO produce all her own sugar with a
$50,000,0 geo annual surplus for export.
Mr.. Hill is emphatic in his advocacy
OF the beet as a farm rejuyenator.
The beet sugar advocates he says,
"argue that sugar beet cultivation
raises the average Of all other crops
raised in the same district. The fielires
show this to be true. 1t is due to the
fact that it cannot be grown success
FULLY without deep blowing, frequent
narrowing, and a general resort to
more intensive cultivation. That wilI
insure large crops of anything where
the soil is not sterile. Whatever the
valuable and suggestive sugar beet
statistics may prove in other respects,
they establish conclusively, by such
comparisons as that between the
United States and Germany, the prac-
ticability Of doubling BY better
methods the ri yield of all our
principal farm products"
In fact, statistics gathered from
scores of farmers scattered through
the sugar beet states, who have plant
ed beets in rotation with other crops
one yea out Of four; show even more
remarkable results than Mr.. Hills
experiments. Their average yield per
A4NNNN 80. Dali ICY q
Bushels 43.1 1914 COS
These results were not from expert
ment stations or model fields, but COM
mercial farm run for pfofit. They
bear out the statement that the sugar
beet a do for the United States what
it has done for Europe. and that the
American farmer, by taking though,
can do better than his European
cousins at their own game. The sue
cess of the sugar beet in this country
both as a crop of great value in itself
and as a means of increasing the yield
OF other crops grown in rotation with
it has already been demonstrated.
Nearly 100000 toss OF beets were
harvested this year and unless adverse
legislation renders the industry unable
to continue in competition with the
lower wages and the bounties and
tariff protection uEd to stimulate it in
foreign countries it is believed that
its expansion will be rapid, since once
the farmer has seen his neighbor with
the aid of a very profitable sugar beet
crop doubling his yield Of grains he is
more and more rapidly making a
similar opportunity for himself. AT
present while American farm prog
ress has Jagged until 1t has fallen far
behind that of Europe. For this rea-
son which MI. Hill has been carrying
on have beeh of particular Importance
and their results as they are now COM
ing in are. looked upon as of the great
est significance tor the farmers Of the
country in their effort to improve this
condition.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
MAKE CIRCUMSTANCES SUIT.

Two towns Oklahoma worked them
selves into bad temper oyer the To-
cation of the county seat. They fol-
lowed the tradition of county seal
vars, worked politics for their pur-
poses, got the courts and the state
government involved, baited each 9TH
ar, insulted each other and when the
opportunity offered licked the wander
srs from the rival community.
The state corporation commission
took a hand in the struggle finally and
decided in favor Of one Of the towns.
Did the other attempt to knock out the
commission and all its acts on con-
stitutlonal grounds? Did it sit back
and bite it's nails and let its soul grow
bitter with disappointment and hate?
Not a bit OF ii.
AS soon as the decision went against
them, the residents OF the unlucky
town hired q train, lacked their houses
off the foundations and loaded them
IN fat cars, moving to the successful
clsimant's site bag and baggage.
There is a lesson in cheerfulness and
reEourcefulness in the action Of this
Oklahoma town. There Ii very little
that Is hnal in human affairs. Ii
things don't suit you, il the cards have
fallen against you you don't have to
spend the rest of your days in repin-
ing You don't have ID bear with your
lot as il 1t were q command from high
heaven. The chances are that you can
chsnge your lct--even ifht involves i
rendering the lot you had hoped would
b op the finest residence street and
come to have considerable value in the
realty market.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
eopULATIoN AND PRoDucTs.

Now and then the alarming state-
raent Is made that this country's popu-
iation ~ increasing in much larger
proportion than its farming products.
and therefore disaster must necessar-
nv result.
A man who has spent a considerable
time in Europe. who claims to have
made an investigation on his own ac-
count says Europe IL beating lis in
wheat, oats barley and potatoes, ana
thaf to his mind the facts are shame
fnl.
Looking into the future as relates to
this country. he makes this direftIl
prediction:
The population Of the United States
Alpubl&s every twenty-five years. Our
d q nos, 600 Americans, consequently
&ila be $4,000, 400 I'M 1925, $50, OCT, 600.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
AN AMERICAN ADVANTAGE.

An English engine driver was dis
missed for drunkenness. He pro-
tested that he had been drunk on his
W time and it was no business of
the railroad company what he did
when off duty. His union felt the
same way about it and the company
refusing to restore the bibbler, nearly
10000 Of them went on strike.
Striking over trivial things and I'M
reasonable is not uncommon in the
history of union labor in America. But
1T is pleasant to record-labor here
has not been known to throw down
its tools in defense of the right to
get drunk. The movement among the
employers to weed out the dissipated
has been more than matched by the
sympathetic attitude of the unions
toward those who daily with alco-
holics.
Some OF the trades which not many
years ago were notorious for the
drinking habits of their members are
now largely made up of teetotalers.
Time was when conventions of union
tabor were occasions for big DRINKS,
Bar rooms which look forward to prof
it from this source now are rewarded
only with disappointment.
The English workingman has some
times been held up as an example in
common sense that American work
men would do well to follow-on the
principle that something somewhere
else is bound to be better, probably.
This strike for the privilege of muddl-
sng ones head with liquor suggests a
geographical transfer of the example.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

This he explained, means rota-
ton of crops; thorough and repeated
cultivation; chemical soil analysis TO
discover in what elements of fertility
If any 1T is deficient, and supplying
them; the keeping Of livestock and the
liberal use Of harnyard manure; the
selection of only the best products for
termination before planting; then
always more and better cultivation.
In this way the yield may be made
sure and profitable beyond our past
experience in this country. The
statistics of comparative production
here and abroad give some measure OF
our neglected opportunity.
To put these principles into action
was the next step and MIR. Hill wisely
decided against a model farm" prof.
ect, p~erferring to show the farmers
on their w land. 81 ISL farmers In
Minnesota and North Dakota were
persuaded to set aside I'VE acres Of
their land which they were to work,
with their own farm labor; along the
scientific principles laid down by Mr..
Hill. The first returns have just been
received from these farm plots and
their average yield per acre is inter
esting, particularly as compared with
the average yield in the United States
and Germany.
The returns show that the average
yield secured on the farms on which
the tests have@Deen conducted were
approximately ais follows; wheat
81 bushels barley, ~ bushels
and oats. rs bushels as conn
whole country of 1BS bushels Of wheat,
| 24.3 bushels of barley and 1903 bushels
lcof oats. IN other words these tests
have demonstrated the practicabilitg
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

plaques OF the human race-tubercu-
losis.
The following stores and public
places in Fargo have the seals on sale.
*. w. G. IA.
A. l.. Moody's Dry Goods store.
Broadway Pharmacy.
deLendrecie's.
Herbstss.
Hagen-NeWton Co.
Christianson Drug Store.
Waldorf.
3. f.. Holmes &c Go.
X. NJ. Hagen Shoe store.
Olsen Furniture Co.
Fouk a. Porterfleld.
First National bank.
Merchants National bank.
Gardner hotel.
Commercial club.
Bergstrom a. Grove.
G. 3. Rogers.
Peterson & Goldsmith.
II. M Al.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
PETERSOA'S ADDRESS
Pastor Of the First Baptist Church
Spoke to the Mems Meeting
Yesterday at "Y."

There was a good attendance at the
Y. M. G. A. yesterday afternoon at the
mems meeting under the direction of
the Personal Workers league and the
address of the occasion was given by
Rev. A. e. Peterson of the First Bap-
list church who took for his subject
Making Hosannas. Delivering a well
arrange Christmas sermon which was
listened to most attenttvely. During
the service several vocal selections
were rendered.
Secretary Wolf, who usually pre-
sides at the meetings was away from
the city and delivered the afternoon
address at the Grand Forks ~associa-
ton, and today is attending a confer
ence of secretaries and assistant sec
retaries at the Forks, and one will
be held here some Monday after the
first of the year.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

DR.. VIM. sadler, author OF 1.-THE
Cause and Cure Of Colds" says that
common colds should be taken serious
ly, especially when they hang on"
FoIey's Honey and Tar Compound is a
reliable household medicine for coughs
and colds, equally effective for chill
dren and for grown persons. Take it
when you feel a cold coming on. 1t
will avert danger and serious results
and cure quickly. No harmful drugs.
Economy Drug Co.; Fargo Drug Co,
-Advt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
DON'T FORGET I
RED CROSS SEALS.

Do o forget to invest in a few
Christmas seals to put on your Christ
mas packages. The will add to the
"Christmassy'' air of your gift. What
is of far mor importance, they will
help In fighting one or the worst
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
/ j xxxvl, NO. 81.

The Fargo Forum and Republican is
published every evening except sunday
avenue and Fifth street north, Fargo,
N, d.
Shbncription-The Fargo Forum and
Daily Republican. by carrier, l5c per
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which they nave paid, printed opposite
their on h address slips.
Address all communications to The
Forum Publishing Co, Fargo, N. ID.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
THE SURE SIGN

.AEL
1t isn't the none shes spending, it
isn't the plans she has made,
II isn't the wonderful windows with
all OF their trinkets arrayed;
1t isn't the weather that tells me, for
so far we've had not a wave
Suggestive that Christmas Is coming
the boy has begun to behave.
I've noticed them busy crocheting.
I've read while they busily sewed
Without realizing that Christmas Is
hiking along Ger the road:
And ! might still be plodding I'M
thinking that now Is the time /
should save.
But I've tumbIed at last to the sea-
sin-the boy has begun to be-
have.
Why Christmas is almost upon us-
last night he said thank youas to
me.
His hands were as white as his
mothers; his hair was BE- straight
as could be.
And he went up to bed without
~gruHnbling, the artfal and roglligls
young knavef
Its time to be tlinKing or Christmas-
the boy has begun to behave.
-Elgar A. Guest in Detroit Free
Press
The EskiTnos 0f ALASKA. seem to be
acquiring all the diseases OF cfviliza-
ton exeept the hookworfn. THE lat
far ah5arFw ~ the n1fw~oes
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

National weekly Bella--Oh, dear,
the diamond In my engagement ping
mas got d flaW ia
George Take ii notiee, darIsngs
Love should be blind. YOU know.
Bella Yes, but one need not be
jStone blind.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

No marks of violence were found
on the body OF Agnes Williams, found
near Devils Lake frozen to death and
an Investigation failed to reveal how
the girl came to perish.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Mrs. Woods, charged with practice
ing medicine at Kenmare without j
license, was discharged, The case of
her husband. charged with the same
offense, is still IN:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
Rheumatism

Is a Constitutional Disease.
1t manifests itself iii local aches and
pains.-infatned joints and stiif mus
cles-but it cannot be cured by local
applications.
It requires constitutional treatment,
and the best is d course OF the great
blood purifying and tonic medicine
Hood ! Sarsaparilia
which corrects the acid condition oE
the blood and builds up the system.
Get ii today in usual LIQUID form or
~chDcolated tablets called @aFSAGAhSs
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Copies of a ~rearrauged military map
OF theeUnited States have been receiv-
ed In the state. North Dakota, South
Iowa constitute the thirteenth division.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23
North Dakota
Kernels

4 holdup plot At Minot vas frus.
The 500 is after coal thieves j
Uncle sam is after professions
locaters.
The shop early slogan was not with.
The sherifrs are after the tax de.
linquents.
There was ! whist tournament Al
G%ascoyne.
The holidays have begun-for the
school kids.
The woodmen at Adams have or
ganized a band.
Governor Burke may take to the
lecture platform.
There are los coal mines In opera
ton in North Dakota.
Still time to get in on The Forum
Good Fellow movement.
The Darcy Commercial put out a
creditable special edition.
The second rural route out Of
Jamestown will begin March /.
c. A. Anderson of Columbus had an
arm shattered when his shotgun
burst.
It is reported that there has recently
been a marked increase at Sunday
school.
The Forum would make a very ac-
ceptable Christmas gift to many of
your friends.
The Grace City journal. q. E.. Mitch
ell editor. is the newest exchange on
The Forums table.
Curator Fish has received some very
valuable old pictures Of Fort Berthold,
taken in pioneer days.
Eight b~lindpiggers were sent up
from Mandan at a c~lip-looks like the
palmy days We're gone.
Some North Dakota schools are con-
sidering starting school at $3.50 dur
ing he period of short days.
Labor unions Of the state will make
a fight for many changes in the state
laws at h coming session.
George Smokey fell off an elevator
at Fairdale, a distance OF thirty-eigh
feet, got up and resumed work.
Devils Lake has had ga big build
ing boom the past year and many large
new buildings are nearing completion.
The stork brought 75s new citizens
to North Dakota during November
while the grim reaper was carrying off
229.
r. A. Nestos and Dorr H. Carroll,
Minot attorneys and prominent poll
ticians have formed a new partner
ship.
The Lankin Reporter a y that owing
to certain recent political happenings,
Santa Claus will use a donkey this
year. !,
The Midland Continental will prob
ably be extended soon and in a short
time will extend from Winnipeg to the
Gulf.
The appointment Of Colonel Scarlet
Oh mfHOt DIS STATE humane Om1cer mas
been received with almost universal
favor.
a terrific explosion partially wreck
ed the Hotel Fredeen al Ryder and
the proprietor. Mr.. Fredeen was badly
injured.
The editors Of The Beach Advance,
The Slope County News and The Bow
man citizen have a three cornered
scrap on.
Tied" Nelson, formerly OF Flaxton
and a brother of Berthe Nelson of that
place, q gained fame as a comic
~cartoonist.
The Tagus Mirror is hoping that a
report Of the removal of the "dinky''
between Minot and Williston win
prove rue
There a number of clues to the iden-
tity of the man drowned al DesLacs
but he has not been positively identi-
fed as vet.
Paul Paulson, a popular and well
known railroad man OF Jamestown,
died in a hospital at Brainerd. after
an operation.
T,,dra prr~ aaosan1 49,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Z JAS. Ellis of New Salem put d stitch
of dynamite in the oven to thaw out
there was no hurt but the kitchen
Of the house was reduced to kindiing
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

There are $50 telephone ex
changes, 28y604 subscribers and til,
total assessed valuation Of teIepflon
property Is $i,o85,567, in North pa
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Labor unions of the state will make
a fight for many changes in the state
laws at the coming session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Some North Dakota schools are con
sidering starting school at $3.50 dur
ing the period of short days.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Eight blindpiggers were sent up
from 3Mandan at a clip-looks like the
palmy days were gon
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The Elks big SNOWFALL party and
eeremonial session at Devils Lake was
one of the most successful affairs of
the kind yer held in the state.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Curator Fish has received some very
valuable old pictures of Fort Berthold,
taken in pioneer days.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The Devils Lake World credited an
editorial to The Chicago RECORD
Herald at hi end. and to the Crane
Forks Herald TO the other.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

George Smokey fell off an elevator
at Fairdale, a distance OF thirty eight
feet, got up and resumed work.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The Fargo Searclllfght takes the So
ciety girls OF the east to task because
they are going to-. show their teeth
when they smile hereafter. The Search
light would have EN- baking biscuits
instead Of showing their seetn.p
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Jack Eberling was lying i'll in the
Hotel Fredeen ait Ryder when the
building was wrecked by an explosion,
He thought for a minute that he had
passed over and had taken the wrong
route.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The Grace City Journal, g. e. Mitch
ell editor. Isl the newest exchange on
The Forums table.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Devils Lake has had "a big build
ing boom the past year and many large
new buildings are nearing completion,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The Forum would make a very ac-
ceptable Christmas gift to many of
your friends.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

The stork brought 75S new citizens
to North Dakota during November
while the grim reaper was carrying off
229.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

ThefGrand Forks and Fargo X. M
C. AS are working in harmony and
get good results from exchange OF
IDEAS and speakers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

1t is reported that there has recently
been a marked increase at Sunday
school.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-23

Judge Burr decided that the rail-
roads would have to remove certain
bridges in the famous Mouse river
drainage case.