The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-16

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dotted with substantial farmsteads-
commodious and comfortable houses.
great barns. and towering silos. and
the hillsides show p%asturing herds Of
high types of dairy cattle. All evil
dences of the oldtime hardships are
gone. The people Of New Salem tell
the visitor of the successes of the va
rious old-timers. One man frequently
mentioned is John Held. John was a
tailor before going to New Salem.
and had as hard q struggle Is any In
the new venture. Yet he is now esti-
mated to be worth $4,000. and he
has brought up a family Of thirteen
children. One wonders what would
have been his status had he remained
at his workbench in Chicago.
Breeding 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
center a field that could be worked
with profit for the spread Of the gos-
pei Of better farming.
The outcome was the organization
of the North Dakota Holstein 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 standards and to be handled
under rules prescribed by the council
In charge Of the circuit. This council
consists of George NJ. Rommel. chief
of the division of animal husbandry in
the United SfnfnS dam tY nnt rs a Cs~;-
culture; W. b. Richards Of the North
Dakota experiment station, and John
Christianson, a member of the asso-
citation. The field man, the man in
touch with the circuits members. di-
recting their activities, is u. J, Dow
neN.
Results to Follow.
Results are already being shown by
the members, but it is too early yet to
attempt to measure these. The eff
fects, however, will be two-fold. In
the first place. the community will
profit directly in the increased pro-
d~uctiveness of it's dairy herds. In the
next. Il superior strain of dairy cattle.
adapted to the conditions Of the plains
country, will be developed and mar
keted, to the AIDED profit Of the circuit
members and the Improvement of
dairy stock throughout the state.
The German tailors. shoemakers
and tradesmen, who left Chicago in
the early eighties to become farmers
in western North Dakota, certainly
started something when they turned
to the COW for support in their lean
! Years.
Spreading interest in such Work as
has been done at New Salem. North
Dakota has several vigorously active
\ a VanPiaS An1nnO fhac0 oYn tho oori-
cultural college and high school at
Fargo. the better farming section Of
the rural service division in the col
lege, with its twenty-siX alert field
agents, and the state dairy commits
sioner, r. +. Flint.
An Efficient Dairy Commissioner.
The kind of work Mr.. Flint is doing
is seen i'll the manner in which he aid
ed the New Salem farmers in testing
their cows. Mr.. Flint regards assist
ancc to the farmers as one of the
main duties Of his department. He
likes to aid in solving the personal
problems of the farmers Of his state.
He is, therefore. n of the states
educators. Furthermore, he is a pro-
moter of the dairy industry. If he
finds q community with enough cows
to support q creamery to advantage,
he encourages its establishment. On
the other hand he is the foe of the
equipped, ready-to-operate creamery
promoter, Of the man who encourages
business men and farmers to estab-
lish a creamery before the vicinity lie
ready for one., Incidentally. too. he
enc6urages.ttfa 1MfildfnE:$of s1fSS, plans
dairy barns helps t select breeding
stock, instructs In the keeping Of
dairy records, and organizes contests
Y q III fN0ksf,rf4a nr& h. - .~4 - IA.
e He believes in the future of
dairying in North Dakota, but he fa-
vors a conservative rather than a
spectacular growth.
Growth is Certain.
With such a start, and under such
guidance the rapid growth of the
dairy business in North Dakota is in
evitable. Any, other prediction would
be an a%bsurdity.