The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-09-03
''STOCK RAISING AND
farm ACCOUNTING
ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE
THE NORTH DAKOTA BANK
Frs ASSOCIATION AT WILLIS
TON BY FRANK SANFORD, OF
FAIRyIEW STOCK FARM, ROC
Frs, N. d.
Courtesy Observation-Disclosures
Bank

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Mr.. CHAIRMAN: You need not
be surprised if !, farmer, am some,
What embarrassed in talking to . crowd
AZ gentlemen like you. l shall not
attempt any flights Of oratory, or any, :;
thing Of the kind, but just simply tell
Won what l have learned in the feed
No and breeding Of cattle, something
about horses, and possibly . little
something about hogs, in twenty
wears. And If that is any benefit to
You, then you are most welcome 10 "
You gentlemen are thoughtful men,
and for the last year or two beheve
your association is the one class Q!
business men that has taken the leao
in helping turn this state from one J. ,
crop idea into line OF dlversineo
farming. If you as bankers nave
had more to do with it, suppose II Is
because you are in closer touch WIN
the financial condition OF the state.
You know better, as 9 class OF men,
whether the raising of wheat IS pay
ing or whether it is not paying, than
do the merchants or the farmers them
selves.
I,believe there are number Of rea-
aons WIN we must change our meth
DDS Of farming here and ! am gong
t. recite some Of; the reasons before
atari TO talk much about cattle. The
first reason, / believe, is the amount q
weeds that have gotten into our lands!
especially in the eastern portion OF
the state. do not know as you have
any weeds out here in the west, but IN
the old wheat section Of the country
men tell me they have their wheat
docked as high as thirty per cent in
TIA elevator for wild oats and other
foul seeds. That is one reason; An
other reason, and 2 very important
one, is the price we shall have TO &C
cept for grain in the future. TO Illus !.
trate will have to quote somewhat
from my own personal experience. !
came here in the spring OF 1857 from ON
southern Michigan. At that time nm
wheat was dollar bushel in south
ern Michigan, and if anyone at that
time had told the farmers there that
wheat would ever be less than a dol
lar q bushel, they would have Thought
he had wheels in his head. came here,
As / told you, in 1882, worked half
section Of land that year, hauled the
wheat to the elevator at Valley City,
and cot ninety cents a bushel, and IN
\ 1883 repeated the operation, that ls
cot ninety cents bushel from the
fhreshing machine in. the fall In 1884
we hauled our wheat to the elevator
and got forty eight cents busnel.
Now. when we got forty-eight cents 2
hushel. it set US thinking. That was
the wear that Cleveland was elected,
and bunch Of the Republican boys
said. sWhy, it is because the Demo
Gratis have got in power, and another
bunch Of fellows said the reason was
because there wasn't money enough
n circulation. Now, it took number
II veaaIrsS: grin fact, don't think, with
Jne exception, till 1891 that wheat got
Above sfifty-eight cents in the local
narket' m The fall. Now, the reason !
1ttributed that to was this fact. When
Ne came out here in 1882 and before
We came out here, we read in the east
ern newspapers Of the great wheat
fields that were being opened up m
Minnesota, North and South Dakota.
Red Wing, Minnesota, at that time,
claimed the honor Of being the big
eegt primary wheat market in the
world. Now it pretty near broke them
Z the fact that they were We came
ont here and developed rapidly Tor
Ithat time, between the years Of 1879
and 1884, and BY 1884 we had got 2
Wof1d' visible supply Of wheat which