Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-07-24

spite of crude and wasteful methods
from the soil has come a great inau.
of wealth, which IN turn brought pro
gress and prosperity.
And yet the change that has como
since North Dakota was nothing bu
an empty, lonely, rreeless plain, pop
ulated only By buffaloes and Indians
will be small and insignificant, wher
compared with the change from to
day and the North Dakota of thirty
five or forty years hence. Could !
resident Of the state be TRANSPORTS,
to the North Dakota Of 1850, without
Witnessing the gradual change thai
viii be wrought by the thirty-seye7
intervening years, he would consider
the change miraculous.
North Dakota has suffered, is SUI.
fering and will continue to suffer from
the man who is anxious to get rich
quick, The man who sees q chance
ot grabbing a fortune in u few years
and then pulling his stakes has in,
tested North Dakota and is still here
but merely as a passing shadow
over the great prajries, which hold
within their far reaches wealth un-
countable, prosperity without limit. of
| which this little minded grabber does
not dream.
There has come TO North Dakota
another type of mau-the man who
sees a vision. This nan sees down
the coming years d great change be-
Ing wrought over the face of the
prairies. He sees not merely far
reaching fields OF biIlowing grain,
reaching in a golden flood from hori-
2on TO horizon. but he ftches a
glimpse of the true North Dakota OF
the future-a veritable paradise.
"He sees a land of trees, of we'll kept
neatly clipped hedgerows, bordering
splendid modern highways; a land of
magnificent country homes. equipped
with every modern convenience, sur
rounded by beautiful lawns. He sees
a land Of growing and prosperous
cities, connected with interurban
lines, with every home ia the state
in direct touch with every other home
by telephone. He sees that the little.
lonely, one-room country school is
gone and in its stead he sees we'll
built, thoroughly equipped, ~consolidat-
ed schools, each surrounded by fields
and groves, part Of the school equip
ment. He sees in short the North
Dakota of the future, the homeland of
a prosperous, happy people.
This picture is not overdrawn. Al.
ready the transformation is beng
wrought. The whole state is catching
the vision and learning how TO make
it a reality. For years the POSSIBLE
tiles of North Dakota have been real
lied by men who have been studying
and planning and working to bring
the vision to pass. And as the years
unfold the wisdom of their idea is be-
ing more and nor impressed upon
the farmers of the state.
what is their idea? Simply in
tensive and timely cultivation. 1t Is
merely the application of business like
Ideas to the farming proposition.
Brought down to the last analysis IN
~tensive cultivation, is the solution to
almost every farm problem in North
Dakota.
AS a result Of this idea. silos are
springing up on every hand, the great
bonanza farms are being cut up into
smaller farms. Corn is being success
fully raised. Hogs + being raises
to eat the corn. The whole system
Of farming is being changed TO put aht
idea into practice. For 1T has beef
proven that with intensive ~cnltivatio.
corn can be matured in this state
tlIt has been proved that she Is a grea
dairymstate. 1t has been proved tina
d trees with the right kind OF cultiya
tion at the right time will live an
J thrive anywhere within the border
OF the state.
] sThe agencies for spreading ca
t idea are being rapidly multiplied. TIL
/ iboss and girls are catching II throug
s LIKE corn contests, the potato co
tests, the hcg raising and other so
tests. For years the agricultural g.
/. iege and other agencies have bee
doing i mighty work to spread th
Ii gospel The great meeting held 9
Is nually On Fargo and known as g
a Trisstate Gfain Growers conyenti'
ii has been ashig faster In bringing nor
the values 81 the idea And perha
ii The greatest single factor IN hringi
IL asout the reality Of the movement
si And AS the 4 PASS the spre
of the saea sill gather iripetls, q
ILL., ii because this that the ssa
menf can ha made without &
Il rontradsntipn that North Eaasof
ns continued prosnerity h as sure &
te certain asthe aaipg of the season
sor Mrs. II Northrop and ana AZ
asy, arc Visiting relatives andafriel
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