Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-14

head. an increase Of III per cent
over January l, l9la,.
North Dakota now has more than
1900 silos in use Of Its farms.
North Dakota railways snow
greater net earnings per mile IMAM
those in any neighhoring state.
North Dakota shipped more than
320, 900 hogs to South St. Paul IN
1914. in addition to largo shipments
to Chicago, Sioux City and s1oux
Falls.
North Dakota has had no killing
frost earlier than September ~. on
an average, for twenty years.
North Dakota has but thirty-six
per cent of mortgaged farms, as com
pared with 46 per cent in Minnesota;
81 per cent in Iowa; 46 per cent IN
Missouri; 80 per cent IN South "a.
kota; 80 per cent In Nebraska; "a
per cent in Kansas; 81 per GEM III
Wisconsin, and 48 per cent IN Michi-
gan.
North Dakota grows one-third OF
the spring wheat produced in Amer
lea.
North Dakota planted 100000 acres
of corr in 1915.
North Dakota beef cattle top the
market at Chicago, South st. Paul
and elsewhere.
Climate Ideal.
North Dakota climatic and soil
conditions are particularly favorable
to agriculture. The mean tempera-
ture for the year is 400, as compar-
ed with a mean of 1874 at Moor
head, MINI. Extremes are unusual.
Starting with a mean Of 42.6 In
April, the temperature rises gradu-
ally to the high mark OF 7O.2 In
July, when the grain is ripening.
There is then a gradual descent to
AL in October. it. e.. So
There is an average Of eighteen
inches of rainfall in the vicinity OF
Bismarck. .altho during. the last two
years the total precipitation has
reached nineteen and twenty inches.
Weather Expert Speaks
THE distribution of precipitation
during the year is especially favor
able to agriculture" says Prof. Or
ris W. Roberts, director of the U. S.
Weather bureau Of North Dakota,
"'as nearly two-thirds of this annual
amount comes during the five CROP
growing months Of April, May, June,
July and August. The soil is gener-
ally of such nature that with proper
handling evaporation can be reduc-
ed to a minimum. The advance of
spring is very rapid, one it COM
mences. Vegetation during the five
growing months makes rapid prog
ress under the ample rains and
FIFTEEN HOURS OF SUNLIGHT.
Damaging winds are rare. The snow
fall for the state is light"
While the climate of North Dako-
ia is that of the north temperate
zone, with winters such az occur in
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
such are the atmospheric conditions
that the cold is not penetrating. The
best evidence of the healthfulness Of
North Dakota, winters is found in
the fact that cattle and live stock
generally thrive most on the winter
RANCE. Cattle, Whenever. opportunity
offered, viii leave the hay and 9TH
,er feed lie in the stable: in order to
crop the short, %succulent, sun-cured
grass Of the prairies.
Automobiles are in use practically
every month in the year. Roads are
at. their best after the late fall
freeze. There is little snow, and the
hard, frostIbound highways are like
q concrete pavement. Everyone
spends as much Of the winter as pos
slble outdoors. 1t is a season when
the red blooded revel in natures
most invigorating embrace; when
the senses are alert; the body re-
'sponsive to the zest impaired by the
crystal-clear, crisp air.