The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08

the convicts at the penitentiary and
while they are out on the road. Con-
victs who have merited h confidence
OF the warden and have earned good
time should work on the roads, and
there shoul be a d~fIminution OF their
sentence for faithful service, as that
and / have been informed that where
this has been tried out in Colorado,
that 1t is not necessary to employ
guards to watch the men while they
are working on the roads, a certain
number of them being under the fore
man during the day. and at night
there is a guard OF two trusty con-
victs, and IL is said that the coflvfcts
in the three or FOUR years that this
system has been tried BUT.
One of the main points in a good
road is to maintain 1T after 1T is built,
and II a part Of the road money were
for the roads, dragging n rolling
them, it would be found that this will
go q long way toward solving the road
problem In North Dakota.
rae Farmers.
The basis OF wealth In North Dakota
Is agriculture, ana North Dakota is
more purely an agricultural state than
any other state IN the union. The
larger part Of the burden of taxation
falls upon thef farmer. and it should be
our highest duty to endeavor TO enact
laws that may be helpful and beneficial
to him. The congress of the United
States has already passed a bill known
as the Lever Demonstration bill, and 1T
lis now pending In the senate, it's pur-
lions the government Of the United
States shall give to the states that
cooperate with 1t a certain amount OF
money for the purpose OF carrying
demonstration work direct to the
farmers that they may be shown how
to grow better crops and to advance in
a material way. This work has been
taken up to some extent by individuals
and corporations Interested in our
state, and without doubt. even though
Ift has been in operation but q few
months, has lone an immense amount
Of good. a law should be passed au~
work and to help push 1t along. IL we
can teach our farmers to raise one
bushel more Of wheat to the acre 1T
would mean In this state 100000
bushels more OF wheat annually, and
that would pay the cost and expense
many times over.
We need farmers institutes. They
are largely held In the winter when
farmers and business men have time
which annot be more profitabIy spent
han In attending those 1netftutss, and
/ am in favor OF the state giving every
possible aid 20 farmers Institute work.
There are many creamerieE In North
Dakota, blu a very large part Of them
are not running largely on account
of the shortage OF green feed for the.
cows. We should build silos. The
government has put ono or two expert
si1o men into the state for the past two
years. North Dakota should. in co-op-
Grafton with our dairy commissioner,
employ for two or three months OF the
year. at least, a dozen silo experts to
teach the farmers how TO build silos,
and IL this is done. within q short time,
there Will be stlos all yer the state.
which will develop our dairy interests
and vvfII thus anabfa our farmers ia d.
versify their crops and get Into stock
raising and butter making,
FLAX and Wheat Straw.
A year ago congress appropriated
money for making experiments with
flax straw for paper making. These