Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-01-23
PRESIDENT ! J Wls1
AODRES .! : :! ASSN S
TELLS GRAIN Us.OWERs AT.
FARGO ABOUT AGRICULTURAL
CONDITIONS ABROAD.

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States Points That: will Appeal to
Farmers Who Believe in
Diversitication.
Fargo, Jan. 17.-In his address
before the Grain Growers convention
President Worst of the agricultural
college spoke on the subject Of more
farmers. fewer hobbs, less waste
and more prosperity. A summary
Of his remarks follow:
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Minnesota need more farmers. With
q farmer on every quarter section or
half section, practicing rotation of
crops, crop failure will be practical
" eliminated.
Barnyard manure can be used to
reduce the effects of drouth. When
soil has been manured 1t holds more
moisture and when the soil is rich
in humus and plant food the crop.
can get along with less moisture.
The prosperity of the town de-
ponds upon the prosperity of the
country. Commercial bodies should
then pay more attention to increas-
ing country population and less to
bringing increased numbers to town.
Doubling the population in the coun-
try and increasing the efficiency Of
the farmers will bring healthy
and permanent growth of the town.
Good farming is the best insur-
ance against crop failure. Farming
is a business. 1t requires better
business head, a man of broader Wis
ion. to farm scientifically than to
practice in any other profession. a
Agriculture is not self sustaining.
Europe, in buying our grain, gets
fertility. It also draws on Chilli for
potassium nitrate, and the South Sea
islands for guano. North Dakota
in selling wheat and fax, contrib
utes more than any other state to-
the stream of fertility passing across
the boundary. BY feeding the crop
to llaye stock. most sot2the fRrtihty iss
put back into the soil.
Agriculture in the newer sections
is carried on at the expense of the
fertility in the soil. A Aftwenty-bush-
el crop of wheat. removes from the
soil in the straw and grain $3.50
worth Of plant food per acre, or
1910 per bushel. In selling wheat
and burning straw this is actually
removed. This years crop of wheat
$50, 100000 bushels-has removed
from the soil $7O,0OO,000 worth of
plant food. In other words, the
state of North Dakota is worth less
as a crop factory by seventy million
dollars than before the past sea-
sons crop was grown. Add to this
all other grain sent out of the state
and the sum will be much increased.
iItE has also been found (depart-
ment of agriculture) that the cost
Of producing, bushel Of wheat is
58 cents. Adding this to the Ash
cents. the commercial value of the.
plant food removed in q. bushel Of
wheat and its straw, the total cost
OF q bushel of wheat is SLOAN. To
make a profit the farmer. must re-
ceiye more than this per .bushel.
The keeping of livestock is a ne
cessity. Fertility will 'be turned
back to the land, The labor need
ed is better distributed and the live
stock business IL less subject to adj
verse climatic conditions than grain
raising. The silo VIII greatly In
crease the number Of cattle that can
be kept on a given areasof land. The
silo is In one sense concentrated
meadow. y
II five good cows are kept and the
money received from the butterfat.
put into the bank, at the end of fifty
years this will. amount to one hum
dred thousand dollars, an amount
that It is possible for . man OF
ltWenty.one to accumulate by the
time he IL seventy.
s Fifty good hens we'll fed and car
ed for, and all the egg money placed
sat interest, will at the end of nifty
years be sum suflcient SO that the
interest on It will yield . living for
= family.
The voice Of william Rockefeller
has sunk to an inaudible whisper
ana hs can tell the congressional