The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-17

Wnicn was traQed at the village STORES
for sugar, tea, calico n like things.
There was grass enough on the open
lands to feed more cows, and more
cows would mean more of he necessi-
ties that had to be obtained from the
merchants. Hence, these farmers got
more COWS just as fast as they could.
Thus dairying just grew out of necess-
ity,
Creamery Established.
The quality of the butter thus OBJ
tanned, however, was not of the high
est, n W, II. Mann, a business man
Of New Salem, sought to bring i'm
provement in this by setting up a small
creamery equipment in the cellar Of lis
home. This was not a success, but It
gave the farmers an idea-the cream
cry idea. This developed eleven years
after the colony had occupied the New
Salem country. New Salem's business
men became interested, and offered to
put up a building, equip it, and make
butter at a cost OF four cents g pound
to the farmers, on condition that the
latter would haul the stone needed for
the building and contract to bring all
of their milk to the creamery when 1t
was in operation. The creamer was
built and .prospered from the start. II
has been in operation summer and win
ter ever since. In addition, six or sew
en- other creameries have been erected
in surrounding c%enters, all offshoots of
the original community.
COw-Testing Begun.
hdruiy had the creamery been set
going before the began to de-
mand higher efficiency of their COWS.
They began to test them to see wheth-
er they were paying for their board.
F.. Flint, the assistant dairy commits
sioner, now dairy commissioner, of
North Dakota.
Prosperity the Outcome.
The rest of the story of the New
Salem colony is simply and easily told.
Last year from New Salem alone were
shipped about forty-five carloads of
golden butter, somewhat more thar
1880, 900 pounds. There are three
banks in New Salem These have on
deposit today more h $4,000 600, most
of 1t the money of farmers. The prairies
all around New Salem are dotted with
substantial farmsteads - c~ommodious
and comfortable houses, great barns,
show pasturing herds of high, types of
dairy cattle. All evidences of the old
time hardships are gone. The people
of New Salem tell the visitor Of the
One man frequently mentioned Is John
Held. John was a tailor before going
to New Salem. and had as hard a strug-
gle as any in the new, venture. Yet he
is now m to be worth SIS, 600,
and he has brought up a family Of
thirteen children. One wonders what
would have been his status had he re-
naind at his workbench in Chicago.
Breeuimg circuit organized.
The success of the New Salem group
before long began to attract attention.
Stories as to how they had pulled out
of their difficulties came into circula-
ton. These reached the ears of the
men of the agricultural college at
Fargo, who saw in the New Salem GEN.
ter a field that could be worked with
profit for the spread Of the gospel Of
better farming. c
The outcome was the organization of
the North Dakota HoIstein Cattle
Breeding circuit, with New Salem as
Its capital. Each member Of the cir
cult, among other things, is required
to purchase and breed at least five
cows and one bull of the Holstein type,
all of the animals being up to certain
rules prescribed by the council In
charge of the circuit. This council
consists of George M. Rommel, chief Of
the division of animal husbandry in
the United States department of agrI-
culture; w. b.. Richards of the North
Dakota experiment station, and John
Christianson, a membe of the associa-
ton. The field man. the man in touch
with the circuits members, directing
Results to Follow. *a.
Results are already being shown by
the members. but it is too early yet to
attempt to measure these. The effects.
however, will be twofold. In the first
~ in the Increased productiveness Of
its dairy herds. In the next, a super
Tor strain OF dairy cattle, adapted to
the conditions Of the plains country,
will be developed and marketed, to the
added profit of the circuit members and