Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-04-10
S|LoS ANO THEIR
ADVANTAGES
SUCCESS WITH ENSILAGE IN
STOCK FEEDING.
Experience of Several Stutsman
County Farmers With
Silos.

SAOSs
The Better Farming meeting held
Friday afternoon continued till af-
ter 4 O'Clock. In closing his re-
closing his remarks made at the
meeting, Gov. Hanna said:
The better farming movement has
struck the south as we'll as the
north. In southern states the bolr
weevil ruined certain sections for
cotton growing. The planters fore.
ed to diversity are now in better f.
nancial condition and their soil rich
er than ever before. In North Da-
kota during the poor seasons Of
1910 and 1911, farmers with CATTLE.
horses and hogs to sell came through
with the balance on the right side
of the ledger. Diversification is the
salvation of the farmers and also
the business men of this state. The
governor advocated closer co-opera-
tion and organization by the farm
ers, as the fruit growers in Califor-
MIA and Washington have done, to
save the expense of the middlemen's
profits.
Good roads is another big prob
lem of the day, and in discussing
which the governor repeated state
ments made at the recent county
commissioners county convention at
jamestown, advocating an amend
ment to the state constitution by
which a million dollars of road
bonds could be issued. In five years
he repeated, with an auto license of
$5,$1OO,O0O annually would accrue
to the fund. Licenses now return
ed in small driblets to so counties,
are practically wasted. One million
dollars spent systematically would
build long lasting trunk roads. The
state school fund Of $1,00O.000
could be used to purchase the bonds.
Forty thousand of the 100000 an
nual license fees would pay the in,
terest of the bonds, and the, balance:
or 100000, in 13 to 16 years would
retire the bonds without costing the,
farmers a penny. The governor re-
turned to the necessity of keeping
down taxes. for he said the farmer
with his quarter or half section of
land, a mortgage and family, has;
big proposition to meet. 1t is the
duty of every individual and office
holder to assist in this.
Gov. Hanna was not favorable to
assessing property at it's full valua-
ton for he found that where tried
the tax rate had not gone down pro-
portionately as the valuation was
raised. Hold the valuation down,
he said. otherwise the debt limit will
be increased, with tendency to ex-
. travagance. School economy he
urged. North Dakotans are big
spenders. They travel, and have
ability to get out of debt rapidly.
silos and Their Advantages.
A discussion of silos was held, fol-
lowing the address Of the governor.
NJ. d. williams gave some informa-
ton derived from experience at the
state hospital.
Thos. Pendray stated that last
Ifall he had put up stave silo, but
was unable to finish it. with the top.
A good deal of the ensilage was
frozen, but is still eaten by the
stock. 1t takes less of the ensilage
than dry fodder. He mixed the
feed with straw, and for mich COWS
he added some hay. Horses will eat
the silage freely, too much SO II al
lowed.
The question was raised whether
II was advisable for farmer to bor-
row money at 10 per cent to build
silo, and it was thought by some
that it was just as good PROPOSE
ton. II not better, to borrow money
to build silo as to buy farm ma
chinery, and most farmers borrow
money to buy machinery.
! Morris Beck was called upon for
an experience in feeding bunch OF
cattle and hogs. He said he was
not a farmer, and did not pretend to
know much about the business OF
farming, but he was satisfied from
his experience that any man who
raised cattle and hogs would never