The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-26

is. running the entire year. 1t is ex-
actly the same proposition as when
the factory in town runs continually,
or closes down five or six months in
the year.
Cream Can Oisplacing Elevators.
But let's get on with that trip. The
elevators at Eureka are very many
of them gone. Instead of the OK team,
or the cow and the horse-hitched to-,
gether, many Of these same people
now come to town in the automobile
Instead Of trying to- take their ell.
tire crop to town in two or three
weeks in the fall they are now mar
keting something every time they 20.
1t is can of cream at one time, {;
case of eggs at another, few hogs at
another, once in while some steers,
and so on No, not as much of it as
there should be, because there is
still oceans of grass going to waste.
But it is much better than it used to
be, and these people have made it so.
.. Not All the Farmers Fault.
AS we view situations of this kind
1t often occurs to US that possibly
we have been blaming the wrong
party all these years for the lack of
livestock in this: great northwest
country. We have all be blaming it
Oh the farmer. l wonder if it is not
fact that the interest rates have
been so high that many farmers hest
tated to go into livestock for that rea-
son? wonder if the bankers and
the merchants have not been partly
to blame for so much wheat growing
in this northwest country ). 81,
The writer we'll remembers when
the only question we were asked when
we went to borrow money was how
much wheat we were going to SOW,
or how much: we had in? The writer
We'll remembers when we all wanted
to get out Of the wheat business, but
the speaker who came to us. told us
that we had to have 10 or 20 cows
of some particular breed, then we
would have to have silo, then we
would have to have corn planter,
and cutter and blower, and all the
other incidentals that go with ideal
dairying before we could expect to
make a success of it. He was a
theoretical fellow. He generally had
professor attached to his name on the
bill Probably he was not profess
sor, but he just had the college side
Of the proposition. But we would
have to pay 10 per cent. interest on
all this amount of money in addition
to what we already owed; yes, and
sometimes it was II per cent, and in
the early days it was s per cent,
month. We went home from such
meetings more discouraged than
when we went. The fault has not all
been with the farmer by any means.
Neither is it all with him yet. In
many localities in The Dakota Farmer
Empire interest rates are still higher
than a farmer can afford to pay for
breeding stock. Possibly the man
who borrows for a short time can
either purchase steers ,or bunch OF
lambs and stand the rates, but; when
it comes to- buying a bunch of cows !
and making them pay for themselves
we are against an entirely different |
proposition. Then, too, the time for |
which the money can be procured is |
a question 10 De considered by every |
farmer who borrows.
At Linton, N. D.
x But we have loitered by the way
side on our trip. We reached Linton
shortly after noon. The people were
coming in for the meeting. The farm
ers were. listening for the train.
Among the group we met a number
Of old acquaintances who had moved
up into that new country Before we
had been in town long we were hailed
by. man on whose face Father Time
had left his tracks. He recognized
the writer but We did not recognize
him for moment. Then he told us
who he was, Ole Megard. We had
known him years ago in South Da-
kota. He had been little unfortun-
ate, or at least not quite as successful
as some of the others. He was now
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