The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-11
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and the balance will show his net
worth. If he will do this every year,
even though he may not keep any set
OF books during the year, he can at
least once a year tell where he stands
financially and whether he is really
tried this and l know it to be true,
and |, would recommend to the farm
ers that they try it.
At this time, with the growing of
corn, there is a strong inducement for
farmers to get into the raising of cat
tie. I think there are two ways of
going into cattle and stock raising.
One is to borrow money and go in on
a pretty broad scale. To the average
farmer l would not recommend this,
put L would suggest hat instead of
getting heavily into debt for cattle at
present prices, that he go into cattle
IN a small way and then grow into
the business. There is a vast differ
ence between going into the cattle bus
mess and growing into it, and it is. a
good deal safer for the farmer to grow
INTO the stock raising business, rather
than to go into.
The ands in and around Casselton
are among the very best in North Da-
kota and, in fact, there is little land
anywhere in the world that is better
imam the lands through this section of
our state. Land sells through here for
$oo TO $75 per acre and when we. who
nave lived here in Cass county for
many years, think Of those prices they
seem high to us and yet really there
is no cheaper land anywhere in the
United States than the lands in Cass
county and throughout North Dakota.
| want to advise the farmers to hold on
IN I Ion@ % = -
southern Minnesota who told me he
pought land there shortly after the
close Of the war, He has: held the
land through all the years. Some
three or four years 6 he told me he
had three children and that he in
tended to leave to each of them an
equal part of the land that he bought
almost ntty years ago.. He said. "Mr.
mamma, should you make inquiries, the
people perhaps might tell you that, /
Inn a rich man; that I have money in
pank stocks, some in railroads and
other investments Of a similar char
acter, but I want to tell you that banks
sometimes fail and railroads some
times go into the hands of a receiver,
put the land will be here always and
IN leaving my land to my children I
shall request that they never sell it
and that they. only mortgage it should
1t become absolutely necessary, for as
long as they keep the land, it will
support them and their children and
their children's children after them,
| want to give the same advice to the
farmers here today. Hold on to your
n The land that seems high to-
day will, in five or. ten years, seem
exceedingly cheap, and" there is no bet
ter heritage that you can pass to your
children than the land you now own.
l want to see cooperation among
the farmers, for, I believe that by CO.
operation the farmers can advance
much faster n they a otherwise.
This is true in the building Of silos
Should you build. one of concrete con-,
struetion, there is no reason why the
same forms that are used for-one silo
cannot be used for a dozen silos on "a.
dozen different farms in the same
n~e1ghborhood n this same thought
of cooperation will follow all along
he line If men will only work togeth-
er. o.. ', &C.,. ... .. 80 ... h.. .. 80 x
We need better roads in the state.
and a strong movement should be n,it
forward toward the building of GER
tain highways through every county
Of a good substantial and LASTING.
~naracter Inc every road built can be
made easily accessible by feeders or.
ROADS running to it and every i'm
provement of that kind tends to help
and to build up the value of our farms.
Today We have rural mail service at
practically every farmers home in
Cass county or in the state. 1t is also
true that practically every farmers
home is reached by the telephone. I
believe that the time is at hand or
very close when, just as the telephone
Is. distributed by a network Of wires
III over III county and state, just so
there will be established in centers like
Casselton big light n power plants
which will not only generate the light
and power that may be necessary for
the city Of Casselton, but that the
light and power will be sent out for
miles around throughout the country
and according to an article which I
read in one of the papers. Il think it
was The Scientific American) recent
ly, it seems likely that some process
may be found by which the poles that
now carry our telephone wires will
at the same time carry the wires for
light and power as well. Everything
of this kind is of ~incalculable benefit
to the farmers; makes life on the
farm that much better and that much
more pleasant and profitable. There
is no safer place in h world in which
to raise our boys n girls than on the
farm and after all, while we are
proud Of our cattle, of our horses, Of
our grain, of our corn, that which we
raise which is best, all things con-
sidered, are the good boys and girls
who make for good citizenship and the
best citizenship in any nation and
that citizenship which has always
ben the bulwark and the safeguard
of every nation. have been the good
men and good I'M upon and from
the farms and in the small rural COM
munities.
Fargoans Attending.
Following were the Fargo business.
men who attended the show. All were
very much pleased with the exhibits:
John s. Watson.
fR. H. Remington.
Smith Stimmel.
A ~. O'Shea.
Mr.. n Mrs. w. i. Hunt.
G. G. Baernstein
r. Glasgow.
j.. w. Riley
Henry Legler.
]. Bergstrom.
III. F. Emery.
". r.. Lowell.
Frank Scott.
Ed Andersen.
A. FL. Leimbac1er.
Supt. Thomas Lowe of n. p.
IT. T.. Johnson.
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