Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-14
NATURE PLANNED
STATE TO EXCEL
N AGRICULTURE
Col. w. P. futile Tells Why We
Should Appreciate Her
Great Resources
BEST AIR AND BEST
CROPS IN NATION
Easy to Bring Home the Bacon
in This Grand State Of
North Dakota.
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That's some word. When | was 2
school boy Rev. VIM. III. Milburn, for
many years chaplain to our natlona!
legislative body in Washington, told
me never to use a word of Two syl'
tables when a word Of n syllable
would express the same meaning
never to use a word Of three syllables
when a word of two would answer
and SO on up the scale. But here we
have a word Of five syllables and no
other one in our language seems to
express the same thing. It's just ap-
propriate right now to the time and
the occasion. 4
This word appreciation" consider
ed of itself, and by. itself, brings such
q multiplicity Of ideas to one, but the
first to me is that none of US is able
to appreciate the things we have and
are. But 4 take 1t that in our "Appre.
citation Week" we are only supposed
to take c%ognizance of our special tav.
ors in: North Dakota, where the purest
air that ever blows, watts itself across
our prairiess for uxstU breathe and i'm.
bibe health for all our days---in fact,
tits 50. pnreaand health.giving that it
seems little short o. q crime that any
person within our borders should ever
have tuberculosis. Our outdoor air
and deep breathing will render 1t i'm
possible for this Tread disease to graft
itself on any ones lungs. Our horses
never being cooped up In unventilated
rooms never get the heaves, and those
brought to the state with them re-
cover-Get the idea? And having got
It, breathe the air as nature gives 1t
to you and breethe it deep.
No More Billiards.
And while on the subject Of at
mosphere, / recall in the days
along fifty years ago reading in
the papers Of billiards out in
the Dakotas pretty nearly every
winter, where the farmers had to
stretch the clothes line from the
house to the barn in order to even find
the house again. Perhaps the news.
paper man Of that day may have en-.
larged somewhat upon the subject, but
right now let US appreciate that the
cultivation Of the soil and the march
Of agriculture west and northwest has
increased our rainfall-that u win
ters have moderated, and there has
not been a real blizzard here since
1903. Someone with the idea Of hav.
ing an idea, wrote a magazine article
some years gone by, claiming that the
last volcanic eruption on the Island Of
Martinique some dozen or so years
ago shifted the Japanese current in
the Pacific ocean farther north as &C.
counting for u milder bl%izzard-free
winters. In crossing the Pacific ocean
to and fro myself, / heard nothing of
any shifting of the Japanese current,
but whatever the cause for the milder
notwithstanding winters, we can-we
do-and the world should appreciate
the facts. Kansas vas once an arid
desert, but Observation-Disclosures az
r~iculture-has carried the rainfall to
her western. borders.
Good Water.
Good water is also ours and W do
not have far to 60 for it anywhere in
the whole state and we should Gel.
tainly appreciate that we are not in
condition Of the man in the arid one
that the traveller met on the highway
hauling water home. The traveller
asked him how far he had to haul the
water. Oh" he says, "about six
miles," well, why don't you dig q
WE'LL" the traveller asked. "Oh," the
farmer says, 'sit's just about the same
distance either way"
I believe the United States consti.
tuition starts out by vouchsafing her
citizens life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness" In addition North Da.
kota furnishes her people with the
best air, the best water and bread
made from the best wheat in the
world. What more do you want-that
you ought to have? Many things Of
course inimical to our modern and
advanced civilized tastes-and they
are yours for the getting, and all you
have to do to get them is to raise
them or raise what will sell and get
them.
Potatoes Unsurpassed.
We as a state grow potatoes that
cannot be surpassed as human food
anywhere. We are becoming, or have
become, a corn state, and following.
or with the corn, comes the hog-and
although Moses of old put up a ban
on hog meat, I notice the present
world wants its Hogs and Hominy,
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