Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-04
,DAIRYING.

"Dairying and Its Relations to Agri
culture In Semiarid Sections" is the
caption of an able article in the 1912
year book of the United State De
partment of Agriculture written by A,
X. Riser, in charge OF the western
section.
The article is accompanied with
views of forage crops grown for live
stock and a full page cut of John
Christainsen's New Salem, N. D., farm.
The former to show that food for live
stock may be grown successfully and
the latter as evidence of permanency
of location Of the diversified farm.
ing) farmers, his aggressiveness and
successfully progressive results for
the dairy division.
Under the %sub-heading, advantages
OF the Dairy Herd" he says: %'
Compared with the precarious re-
turns form wheat farming the dairy
herd yields an income every day in
the year.. The season is frequently
too dry to mature q grain crop, but
seldom is it so dry that crops of for
age cannot be grown. Katir, milo,
sorghum and corn, while originally
in troduced for their grain, are rea.
sonably certain as forage crops and
can be depended upon practically re-
gardless of the season. In favorable
years they will mature grain and the
surplus can be marketed for cash or
better, 1t can be stored for feed in
less favorable years. The dry land
farmer istaking up dairying because
the income is reliable. 1t enables
him to make plans and to carry them
through. Bills a be met and his
credit is established.
Several years ago when there was a
succession of crop failures a large
mercantile company doing business in
eastern Colorado refused further cred
it to its patrons, but made an excep
ton in favor Of the settler who was
milking cows. Dairying Is now we'll
established throughout this firms ter.
ritory, and recently they issued a
notice that after a certain date all
their business would be on cash basis.
This is a hopeful sign. The standard
Of living is rising, and citizenship is
improving. These things are possible
because of the steady, dependable in
come from the sale of cream"
TN North Dakota, where grain
crops failed two years ago, the state
legislature passed a bill enabling the
counties to bond themselves for the
price Of the seed necessary to put in
another vrop. While this was going
on generally over the state a dairy
community in the western part was
lOaning money to its less fortunate
neighborsr~was building silos and
barns, and buying automobiles.
It is assumed that primarily the
farmer is a home builder and that
he is on the farm because he believes
that through it he can secure an in
come which will best give him the
comforts of life and his just share OF
the luxuries.. Wherever the dry-land
farmer has made dairying the prin-
cipal feature of his business and the
COW a component part of his farm
operations he seems fully able to have
achieved this aim.
One of the major factors contribut-
ing toward reliability Of income is the
ready market for the product. The
price offered is not always encourag-
ing, but it will doubtless improve as
dairying develops. In twon where
the receipts are considerable there
are usually several cream buying
agencies, sometimes as many as four.
The common practice is to secure a
local merchnt to act as buyer, who
will receive, weigh, sample and test
the cream. and sometimes he issues
payment in cash for each delivery.
Districts remote from q railroad have
their agencies as well as the towns
along the line.
Many Of the older dairy communi.
ties have their local creamery or
cheese factory. When these are 10.
Gated advantageously. they have a
good trade with the mountain towns
In sweet cream and milk. especially
during the simmer months. In a
great many cases, though, the local
creamery is closed or is being used as
. receiving station by some foreign
creamery.
Another cause for the popularity OF
dairying Is the efficiency Of the dairy