The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-04-22
SUCCESS IN
n. D. SURE.

Bismarck, April 14.-That success or
failure, contentment or dissatisfaction
among farmers is question of live.
stock, seems to be the idea of John
Donnelly & Sons, of Grafton, as ex.
pressed in a letter to Commissioner of
Agriculture Flint. They say:
Farming is the biggest business in
the world. It is also one of the most
respectable and dignified. The farmer
VINO puts mentality and enthusiasm Ill
to his business receives the plaudits,
respect and admiration of all classes of
people and a good return on his in.
vestment.
AFTER "a years OF studying the agri-
cultural and livestock conditions in
North Dakota, l hold that it should be
the ambition of every farmer to make
the bost Of his opportunities.
these consist of naturally fertile
soil, good market and other favorable
conditions. My observations lead mo
to suggest that the farmers throughout
the state can bring about these i'm
provements in their business and ma
terially increase their profits by giving
more attention to few simple prin-
ciples, namely, rotation of crops, econ
omy of production, elimination of I'M
necessary waste and marketing of fin
ished products instead of the raw
materials.
"The silo is strong determining
factor in the bringing about of the
above suggestions.
1T is lamentable fact that under
present prevailing conditions the pro-
ducing value Of many farms has been
falling off and the fertility of the soil
in many cases seriously reduced, but
this fertility can be replaced There
are two ways of doing this, and both
should be put into practice at once.
They are rotation of crops and the
keeping of more livestock on the farm.
These two things will not only in
crease your profits and maintain the
fertility of your soil, but will also in
crease the value of your land.
MANY of our fields need rest from
continuing grain cropping. Manure and
growing legumes will put back into the
soil. those elements which continued
grain cropping has robbed from it.
in each and every farming commu-
nifty throughout the state you will find
some who complain of their condition,
and others who are satisfied They
can be put into two classes, the dis
contented or failures and the cheerful
or successful ones. The disconnected
ones are those who have never follow
ed any rotation and keep no class of
livestock. H.. a..
II have often noticed when live
stock is selling at high price and
feed is cheap they will go INFO live
stock, and when the market slumrs
and feed goes up they will sell their
livestock; the result is they lose and
get discouraged and say there is no
money in livestock. OF course, we have
to look out for a failure once in a
while, but the one who sticks is the
one who wins in the end. You will
find the ones who have failed are those
who have been raising grain on the
same land for number of years and
never haul load of manure onto their
land, but pile it in some back corner
to get it out of the way. The best way
to get it out of the way, and the most
profitable way, is to spread it on your
land. .'.. RI
"We have had people in our COM
mounity who became disconnected;
made failures here; went to the Can
adian northwest, started the same
thing over there and became discon-
tented and had failure inside Of five
years.
1--WE have in North Dakota the best
of soil and the climatic conditions are
very good, SO there are no reasons
why there shouldn't be more cheerful
ones than there are. There Is only
one way to farm in North Dakota and
that is to diversity, follow a rotation
Of crops land raise more livestock.
Choose whatever class Of livestock you
like best and use always the best sire
you can obtain for your breeding stock.
Do not cross one breed on another
with view Of improvement; just fol-
low one breed and stick to them.
zone Of the most important things
on the farm today is to keep the chill
dren on the farm and get them inter
ested. This can be done very easily.
Give the boys good horses and machin-
cry to work with and allow them to
have an interest in the livestock. This
will encourage them. Improve the
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