Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-20

to get the money when you want It
that counts. l will guarantee the
North Dakota banker lends money on
straight notes to customers that the
Canadian banks would turn down
ninety-fve per cent, and he prospers.
You don't very often hear of a bank
going under when conducted on le-
ultimate lines.
BUY GOOD FARM.
No country can be a success in a
right way when some business, be-
cause they have the power, prey on
the weaker ones. Canada has had
the advantage so far Of fairly cheap
land, but that day is practically over
and / am satisfied that any good far
mer can make more money by buying
a good farm In a we'll settled COM
munity than by going into the wilder
ness far: from transportation and
markets; and If a farmer will look
at things in a right way markets and
transportation are one of the first
things to consider, when settling
down in new home, more than that.
everybody knows that the corn belt
has been moving north every year
now for many years but it has it's linn
it and I think that North Dakota is
about the limit. I was at the fair at
Williston the other day and saw the
display Of corn. alfalfa, fruits, vege-
tables and practically everything
grown in the temperate zone. I had
come from California not very long
before where with water you can
grow everything, but say, the display
was a credit to any country. ! don't
think they could beat it anywhere,
even where land is worth from $500
to 5000 per acre. T. consider that
North Dakota, if the farmer will turn
his attention from exclusive grain
growing to alfalfa and some corn, can
make money from hogs than
from any other method of farming.
Hogs and Alfalfa.
In California they raise hogs on
nearly straight alfalfa. Many of them
go for fresh pork weighing about one
hundred fifty to one hundred seventy
five pounds, that hardly tasted grain.
OF course these are not packing
house hogs, but with what corr and
other grain the farmer raises he can
buy his land at about one-fifth the
price of land in the Q + belt which
will even up amy advantage they may
have in the matter of season and eli
mate. The farmers of North Dako.
ia do not realize what advantage they
have got and 1t won't be long before
a good farm will be worth one hum
fdred dollars per acre because it will
pay dividends on that value if farmed
under proper methods. and govern
ment land is getting scarce.
Many Disappointed.
But to return to our subject OF
Canada; many Americans invested in
land years ago in southeastern Can
ada. Much of the Ind they bought
was land that was more or less stony.
They bought it fairly cheap but have
found very little ssaleffor it and after
payingStaxes and counting interest on
their, money for ten to fifteen years
they will never come out even and
practically all of them would be glad.
to sell ifYthey- could get theirmoney
out Of IL. Another thing 1 noticed in
one of the oldest settled parts was
the amount Of young men from TWEEN
ty-fve to thirty. mostly reared in the
place where they live, who are still
on the farm at home. Many Of those
young fellows would like to get mar
ried but they have no home to take
a bride to. only the home farm. Some
men are able to give their son a
quarter or half section Of land when
they marry but they are the excep-
ton, not the rule.
Grain Prices.
l don't think it speaks very we'll
for a country where land was one day