The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-02-11
ANOTHER FARMER
GIVES OPINION
Editor World:

EDITOR world:
Dear Sir:-I have heard it mention
ed that the commercial clubs and the
bankers and the railroads are to take
up the question, "Shall Ramsey county
employ farmer adviser?" My ans
wer to the above question is "No."
Pay an adviser 5000. 90 per month to
demonstrate Lis wits in showing US
farmers how to grow two blades Of
grass where enc formerly grew, and
how to grow Is or 80 and possibly IS
bushels of wheat to the acre? If
these gentlemen think that we farm
ers, who have been tilling the soil all
our lives, do not know hov. to select
our seed wheat or corn anil prepare
the ground, they are badly mistaken.
Just let us have the moisture to raise
a crop and we will produce the stuff.
The American farmer is to blame for
everything as usual. They have fast
ened the guilt of high meat prices up
on him because he doesn't raise all
his calves, and let's so many hogs die
of cholera, and even now they indict
him for, the high price of eygs be-
cause he conducts his chicken business
as an insignificant side line. Wise are
the fellows who do their farming in
books in the colleges. Behold, says
the scientific adviser of farmers, the
skillful poultry raiser averages from
lo5 to 200 eggs per year per hen,
while the average farmer averages
hardly 100. True, but the skillful
poultry raiser makes poultry raising
his business and cannot be classed as
an average farmer. Suppose all these
American farmers could raise 40 bu.
fwheat per acre every year from
now on and other grains in proper
tion, and if the cholera did not kill the
thousands of hogs every year, what
would become of this country? There
would be an overproduction Of every.
thing and we would sell our stuff fol
little or nothing, and our land would
go back to SIS an acre where it is now
worth $40 and $50 an acre. All o1
these so-called advisers probably have
never followed plow or a cultivato1
IN their lives, and then want to come
out here among us farmers and tel
US how to perform our duties. Their,
are too many of this kind of fellow.
running around with $1,000 to 81 ,OO(
education, too nice to work and max,
an honest living. Do these professor.
think that we have time to fus,
around 200 or ESQ acres of wheat lik,
they do at the experiment farm with :
few acres? The only time we eve:
hear anything from these xprimen
stations that are tended by these bool
learned professors, is when the mois
ture conditions were just right an,
they raised large crop. How mucl
wheat and other grains did the farm
at Fargo produce per acre this yea
as the weather conditions were 1T
tie unfavorable Does any reader o
this paper know? They had plent,
of moisture last winter and spring, i
it had been distributed through tn
summer it would have been enough t
raise a record crop. I had out 19
acres of wheat and tended to it nv
self and I could have picked out fiv
acres of the best part of the field tina
, would have run Is to 80 bushels to tn
! acre, but on an average I took o1
! about Is 1-2 bushels per acre and
! did not have advice from a professo
i either. We can all raise crop if W
> get the moisture when needed, but t
: raise a crop when it does not rain fo
30 days during June or July and tn