The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-06-25

We then took the trolley back to
Waukesha and were transferred to Fl.
Atkinson over the c. & N. w. Ry.
Wednesday morning we visited the
James Mfg. Co.'s plant at FIT. Akin
son, and were also taken to their DEM
onstration plant. This concern man.
ufactures sanitary barn equipment and
look at their catalogue is a revela-
ton to many farmers who do not know
what is being done along the lines Of
sanitary barn equipment. Any one
interested can get copy by simply
writing them. Mr.. James is only 30
years old, and seven years ago was
farmer. He now has control of plant
covering large territory, employing
$50 men in the factory, 58 in the Of
flee, and % statesmen, and will do
business of 100000 this year.
We also visited the plant Of Hoard's
Dairyman, saw the paper being print
ed, folded, stapled, trimmed and mail
ed. They print about $4,000 copies
each month, using a carload of paper
every two weeks for the paper, or one
half car per issue. This is the oldst
and best dairy paper in the northwest,
having been started by Gov. Hoard
several years ago.
The Creamery Package Co. of Chi
cago also has plant at Fl. Atkinson,
which was visited by the party. This
concern has four plants, one at Lake
Mills, Wis, one at DeKalb, ILL.,, one at
Arlington Heights and the one visited.
The Fl. Atkinson plant employs about
375 men, and they make all kinds of
creamery and milk and cream station
machinery.
We were then taken in autos to see
the Edgewater Stock Farm, controlled
! by the James Mfg. Co. Here we saw
the first milking machine which we
ran across on the trip Sharples, run
by compressed air. The barn is fit
ted up with all modern equipped man.
ufactured by the James people, and
they make speciality Of Guernsey cat
tie. The cattle, instead of being
washed, are cleaned with a suction or
vacuum cleaner. It takes about IL
horse power to run the outfit.
From this farm we went to the farm
of Ex-Governor Hoard. The Hoard
herd is the result of twenty years
careful breeding and selection under
the direct supervision of Governor
Hoard, the father of Wisconsin dairy
ing, and the results were evident, even
to the inexperienced eyes of the North
Dakota boys. They seemed to be sur
rounded with an atmosphere of latent
power, not noticeable in most of the
other herds. The governor refuses to
allow his cattle to be forced for rec
ords, believing that every cow should
produce calf every year, and a good,
strong, healthy calf, with plenty Of
constitution. While his cows are prac-
tically all in the advanced registry,
still none of them have been qualified
by forced feeding. Every individual
has been raised on the place. The herd
averages over 5000 lbs. of milk per
year per animal, and over 400 lbs. but
) ter fat. The farm consists of 243
acres, and the herd consists of about
i 70 head, of which so are cows. At
!. the request of number of the men,
bers of the party Gov. Hoard, altho
quite feeble and suffering from a Sc
} we're attack of bronchitis, gave a lit
!, tie talk to the boys on subsoiling and
; alfalfa.
i Gov Hoard said, in part:
l have very bad throat and cannot
7 say but a few words, but ] am very
: glad to see you. This farm is an evo-
} luton. l bought it sixteen years ago
My foreman was the last tenant on it
: It had been in the hands of tenants for
| rs or 80 years. 1t was badly run
I down. The soil is clay loan, very
. deep. l instituted another system Of
: farming. My foreman says today
5 that there is not a field on the farm
that won't produce three to four times
;, what it would when he had it.
That field of corn right there was
plowed last fall, twelve inches deep