Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-01-17
NOR FARMERS
FEWER H0BOES
and LESS WASTE
FARM SCHOOL PRESIDENT Ar.
# CUES FOR SMALLER FARMS
\ \ s55 IN NORTH DAKOTA 4
BEST INSURANCE AGAINST FEILURE.
MORE EXTENSIVE CULTIVATION
WOULD BRING GREATER
PROSPERITY GENERALLY 3558.5t

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WOULD BRING GREATER &.
PRO oslPERlTYss GENERALLY
FARGO ! Jan. 17.--In the annual ad-
dress Of the president, j. H. Worst
has sounded the keynote Of the four
|teenth annual convention of the Tri-
State Grain Growers convention.
president Worst's speech was deliver
led to 1000 people in the Grand theater
Wednesday, evening It was the eli
max Of a busy day. NJ 555 jses.5#5
More farmers and fewer hoboes,
Hess waste and more prosperity was
1.-The topic chosen by President Worst.
His speech was an appeal for smaller
farms, more farmers, more intensive
Ecultivation, greater use Of livestock
land less depend dence upon transient la.
lbor. III *#3 fs Fl b q sjs, {ss
He concluded with a glowing pic
Lture Of the opportunities awaiting the
|syoung man who knows n something
about farming and is willing to apply
his knowledge ito producing good
crops on a North Dakota farm. d :i: Il 4
&. "A general summary Of President
Worst's address follows: sss RI
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Minnesota need more farmers. With
a farmer on every quarter section or
half section practicing rotation Of the
crops, crop failure will be practically
eliminated :si5 u 5$s: 4
sBarnyard manure can be used to
Ireduce the effects Of drouth. When
|soil has been manured it holds more
moisture and when the soil is rich in
hun1us and lant. foe d. the scropsean get
];.along with less moisture.
he prosperity Of the town depends
upon the prosperity Of the country,
2|Commercial bodies should then pay
more attention to increasing country
population and less to bringing in.
creased numbers to town. ID Doubling
1.-The population in the country and in.
creasing the efficiency Of the farmers
will bring about q healthy and perma.
|nent growth Of the town. 81;
Good farming is the best insurance
jagainst crop failure. Farming is a
business. It requires a better bust.
ness head, a man Of broader vision, to
farm scienti cally than to practice in
any other profession.
Agriculture is not self-sustaining
Europe, in buying our grain, gets fer.
Utility. It also draws on Chill for pot.
assium nitrate and the South Seat Is
Hands for guano. North Dakota 4 in
selling wheat and fax contributes
more than any other state ito the
stream Of fertility passing across the
boundary. BY feeding the crop to live
stock most of the fertility is put back
Into the soil. s53t
Agriculture in the newer sections
lis carried on at the expense Of the fer
1 Utility IN the soil twenty y-bushel
I:crop Of wheat removes from the soil in
4 the straw. and grain, $50 worth o1
4 plant food per acre, or3 II 8 u cents pei
Ebushel. IN selling wheat and burning
straw. this is actually removed. This
years crop Of 5whe 50 900. 900 bush
|:els--ha removed from the soil $40;
4 ||iOOO,00 worth Of plant food.. In other
i state Of orths Dakota is
4 worth less as a crop factory bY seven
\ ty million dollars than before the past
4 season s crop Of wheat was grown. AND
4 t3to this all other grain sent out Of the
Estate and the sum will be much in
q creased.
has also been found Department
4 4 of Agricul lture that the cost Of pro
sEducing a. bushel Of wheat is s5sc.. Add
d 4 ing this to- the As n c,fI the commercial
ssI3Valne Of tile plan food removed in Il
Ehushel $of heatt and 8 straN the to
Il tai cost Of bus hel OF Il
9. To make Al prof the farmer
a a must receive more $than sS this Del
4 f:bushel d
4 S5:ssI7 he keeping Of ivestocis is a ne
q cessity Fertility via be- turned bacl
Il to the land y Dor needed SIS bet
4 ter distribut ed and The live stock busi
q mess is less subj ject to adverse climatic
sEconditions than grain raising The sill
u Twill greatly increase the number D
,;Icattle that can bes kept on 4 giyeI
n area Of land The silo is IN one sensi
q concentrated nea dow.
Ave GOOD COWS are kept and th,
money resolved from the butter fa