The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-14
Great Flax Crop.

Great Flax Crop.
eff one-tenth of the land were de-
voted to thex growing of fax and the
| yield were ten bushels per acre the fax /
! crop would amount to 1,345.00O bush /
| els If one-tenth of the land were also |
| devoted to the growing of barley, put |
| ting the yield at thirty bushels per
| acre, which would be high enough for
! land not summer fallOwed, the produc
ton would be 4,O35,OOO bushels. II
one tenth of the land were devoted to
the growing Of oats at forty bushels
per acre the yield would be 5,3S0,000
bushels
'"This, Professor Shaw added,
would still leave one-ffth of the land
for other kinds of production, such as
alfalfa. vegetables and pasturage The
estimated possible production then
would stand as follows for each year
after the first year:
| Fodder corn ................. S40625 tons
Wheat NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S,4o6, $50 bushels
FLAX NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1y340,UUo DQSneiS
| Barley NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4,O35ooo bushels
Oats Observation-Disclosures. 5.3S0O00 bushels
This" he said in conclusion. would
of production"
Poor Los progress as a farmer has
been forwarded by a man who not only
is q great believer in the future of the
northwest, but who also thinks the one
time savage can be made a really use
full member of civilization instead Of
being herded in reservations on a foot
ing of mere tolerance. This promoter
Of Indian advancement is Louis ".
Hill, son Of James j. Hill. founder of
the Great Northern railway. He him
self is chairman OF that roads board of
directors. Young Hill, with Mrs. Hill
and their four children, passes much
> of his time in the big outdoors. He has
made many visits to the Fort Peck
reservation and has studied closely the
, possibilities of the Sioux and Mandans.
? To Instruct Indians.
The result of his observation was q
conviction that it would pay in a so
: Geological sense to have the Indians in.
structed in the agricultural methods
i of the whites He obtained permits.
sion from the department Of the in
terror to send a delegation Of redskins
to the land show in New York a year
ago, The Indians were SO much i'm
: pressed by the evidences of advanced
agriculture they saw In New York that
L on their return to the high plains OF
Montana they voluntarily became in
- structors of their brethren in scientific
. farming. with the logical outcome that
: the reservation yielded bumper croT
= last autumn.
u The figures are rather surprising.'
said Hill to the writer in St Paul re
. Gently, for they show that since these
L Indians returned from New York twice
- as much acreage has been cultivated OF
- the Fort Peck reservation as was plant
'0 ed last year. 1t simply goes to show
that almost anybody will improve hi:
" condition If he gets u helping hand IL
~ the right direction"
- That comment was made when I+oui
= Hill and his interviewer had returne,
L from the first county fair ever held b,
Indians. at Poplar, which is about a
prosperous a little town as can b.
-, found in the country. A big agricul
u. tural exhibit had demonstrated wha
~ Lo could do as a farmer, and at tn
- same time a great gathering of chief
>. and braves and sQuaws and pappoose
- had shown what a tribal reunion meant
~ More than 1900 Sioux, Mandans an
49, Blackfeet were camped in a circle
~ mile In diameter. For FIVE days the
-, entertained visitors with pony race,
- war dances, medicine making and otf
A. er features of life in the open an
~ then switched to a football game b,
tween the Mandans and a team {
=, Blackfeet from Glacier National parl
~ The palefaces came away with increa
, :, ed esteem for a race that could gro
- in a generation from the savagery
- the tepee to the civilization Of the frol
tier farmhouse.