The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-09-03

Now, that is about what you can do
) By feeding the corn that we are rails
inS now to the best grade Of steers
Tat you raise from the best grade
heifers that you can buy, bred TO pure
bred sires Of the beef breed Of cattle
{, that suits you best.
Now, want to remind you at this
J time that you can't change mans
!, mind much after he is fifty. When a
i man gets white on top, he doesn't
change hiy1religion, politics or meth
DDS Of doing business a great deal.
| but you can change young fellow and
yet an idea into his head, and il we
don't get an idea into his head, he is
going 70 get in the same rut as the
old fellow did, and by and by he will
be going To Chicago to pick up a
street car rfiagnate's daughter. But
II you will take some bright boy in
each Observation-Disclosures know them
you see the boys when you go out in
the Acknowledged want to make Q
depositor Of that boy ten or twelve
years from now; now this fall il that
bow has any corn, or il his father has
any corn, you call him into your Of
Ace. talk to him confidentially along
the line Of live stock, lend him % TO
buy q seventy-five pound pig or mon
ey enough to buy several OF them II
Won please, and make him agree to
keep that pig in shady pen, feed
lin three times a day and keep clean
water continually in the trough; he
may feed him corn or he may feed
ground barley, but encourage him 70
give the pig the best care possible ana
70 keep track Of the amount OF feed
used, and take chances on getting
back your IS. The pig may get chol-
era-it may-but il you don't get
your money back, getting the idea in
that boys head will be valuable to
him, to you, and to your boy that fol-
lows you in the bank. You can keep
that boy on the farm if you get him to
successfully feed out a bunch Of pigs,
and when he has had added experience
a bunch of steers each year. Now,
let me tell you what will happen,
when he goes to feeding his steers
and feeding flax straw and other straw
and prairie hay for roughage. His
father will probably say: "He will get
the farm full of mustard from putting
that manure on the land. Well. if he
does. you can tell him he night better
have mustard on the farm than a
mortgage, and he will get the mort
gage of. (Applause).
You fellows are broad-minded and
you are not afraid to go down into
your pockets to help these boys. ]
know you are not, because you have
put up money, good money of yours,
toward this Better Farming Associa-
ton. Now, just establish little Bet
ter Farming Association of your own
IN your own locality, your own neigh
borhood, and see what it will develop
/ might stand and tell you fellows that
barley is worth eighty cents bushel
Z to feed the hogs. 1t might not be Il
you fed it. Now probably all the boys
won't have good luck but don't dis.
courage them. They are either going
to be the depositors in your bank OF
else they are going to Chicago after
the bankers daughter, and it is up to
you to encourage and assist them in
the feeding of live stock il you want
to hold them.
The three things the North Dakota
farmer hates the worst today are the
swill pail, the milk pail and the ma
nure fork. And that is what is the
matter with their bank accounts, and
It will be until they are. willing to hus.
tie along some other lines than wheat
raising. Keep the boys on the farm
and employ labor all through the year
know personally ! don't have as
much trouble with labor as Other
farmers do. Fellows talk to me about
the I. w. WIS or something like that
organizing farm labor and demanding
wages higher than the business will
afford. Now, if l can keep five or sia
men with me the year around, they
will be better men than as though they
floated in in the spring and fioateC
out in the fall. I have several mer
who have been with me from one tt
four years; they are satisfied and ! an
satisfied, and with six good men stay
ing through the year with me car
put pretty tough bunch in with then
in harvest and threshing time and gel
my work done in satisfactory man
ner and at reasonable price. Tha1
is another thing the stock business il
going to dot is going to employ la
Dor the year around, and when vol
get boy or young man who is goinf
to stay with you the year around, HI
is going to become nearly as one o.
the family. You get to think some
thing of him and he of you, and he will
do better for you than the class of la
Dor that the grain raiser is forced II
employ.
I remember fellow worked for m,
nine falls through harvest and thresh
ing. He was born and brought up il
Vincennes, Ind. He would work in har
vest and threshing and have probabl.
hundred or hundred and fifty dol
lars when threshing was done. Then h
would 60 to Iowa to harvest corn
stopping to blow his money at Mime
apolis as he was going along. H
would then husk corn in Iowa unit
he had ia stake. Then he would 60 4
st. Louis did blow that; then shii
from there to the Mississippi levees
work there until spring, then come bac
to Iowa to plant corn, stopping at 81
Louis on the way to spend the none
earned through the winter; then h
would usually harvest in Minnesot
and write me for job in my harves
here, and the first ten dollars he carr
ed he would usually send back to Mir
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