Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-14

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ton, unnecessary waste, and market
ing Of finished products instead of
raw materials.
''The silo is a strong determining
factor in the bringing about Of the
above suggestions. e
1T is a 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
increase your profits and maintain the
fertility of your soil, but will also in.
crease the value of your land.
Fields Need Rest.
Many Of our fields need Arrest from
continued grain cropping. Manure
and growing legumes will put back in
to the soil those elements which con.
tinual cropping of grain has robbed
from it.
In each and every farming co1nmun.
ity throughout the state you will find
some who complain of their condi.
tons, and others who are satisfied.
They can be. put into two classes, the
discontinued or failures and the
cheerful or successful ones. The dis
c~,ontented one are those who have
never followed any rotation and keep
no class of livestock.
| have often noticed when livestock
is selling at a high price and feed Is
cheap they will go into livestock, and
when the market slumps and feed
goes up they will sell their livestock,
the result is they lose and get dis
courag,ed and say there is no money
in livestock. OF course w have to
look for a failure in both livestock
and grain once in a while, but the one
Sho sticks is the one who wins in the
end. You will find the ones who have
failed are those who have been rails
ing grain on the same land for a num-
Der Of years and v haul a 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 1t out Of
the way, and the most profitable WY
is to spread it on your land.
We had people in our community
who became disoontented; made fail.
ures here; went to the Canadian
Northwest, started the same thing
over and became discontinued and
lad failure inside of five years.
Soil and Climate,
: We have in North Dakota the best
of soil and the climatic conditions are
very good, so there are no ason
why there shouldn't be more cheer
full ones than there are. There is
only one way to farm in North Da-
kota and that is to diversity, follow
a rotation of crops and raise more
livestock. Choose whatever class Of
livestock you like best and always
use the best sire you a obtain for
your breeding stock. Do not cross
one breed on another with a vief Of
Improvement, just follow up one
breed and stick to them.
One 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 ma.
chinery to work with, and allow them
to have an interest in the livestock.
This will encourage them. Improve
the farm home by Installing all the
modern conveniences ycu ran. II You
get all the family interested you sure
lv will be a cheerful one and II the
disconnected ones would apply the
above suggestions they surely will be.
come cheerful"