The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-22
RIGHT OF DIR. CHARLES A. BEARD TO
PICK HEAD FOR NORTH DAKOTA STATE
COW BILL BEST
ACT OF SESSION,
ASSERTS WORST
Commissioner of Agriculture
Sees Prosperity in Wake
of Bossy

Mother Goose is being rewritten for
the children of North Dakota. Blushcs
would come to the face of the COW
who jumped over the moon were she
to see the prominence given her 1920
sister. ....
In North Dakota when new dairy
ing law goes into operation, it will be
not only this is the house that Jack
built,' but this is the COW that paid
for the. house that Jack built" Addcn-
da to the nursery lore of oldcn days
will run something as follows: This
is the prosperity that came to the
land that was rid of the weeds that
caused the drouth that prevented the
crops that depended on the COW that
PAID for the house that Jack built.
Under the new law passed early
this month at special session OF the
legislature, needy farmers in the
North Dakota will receive county aid
to engage in dairying. Five COWS
will be supplied TO each worthy appll-
cant, provided he agrees to raise five
acres of corn for each animal received
until payment On the cattle is COM
pleted. The masure went under the
head Of Senate Bill No. so.
Best, Says Worst.
Dr.. J. II. Worst, state commissioner
Of immigration, commented on the
bill today, as follows:
Il look upon Senate Bill No. 50 as
one Of the most far-sighted legislative
measures that has thus far been cn-
acted in the central west. There is
NO question but that livestock, and
esrcc ally dairy cows, will bring
prosperity where sometimes crops
have failed because Of drought.
"Thc cause of drought is waste OF
moisture rather than lack of prccipi-
tation. am convinced that nowhere
in the state of North Dakota is there
necessity for an income failure in
any year. The dairy cow is the pivot
around which all the forces that in
sure permanent income, whether the
grain crop proves a success or a fail
ure. and for the following reasons:
"a dairy herd makes it necessary
to raise annually cultivated CROP
such as corn, sun-floWers, potatoes
carrots and other root crops for en-
silage, forage, etc.
Need More Cultivation.
"The cultivated crop, which should
EN- brace about one-fourth of the farm,
not only destroys the weeds which
cause the drouth by stealing the mois-
ture which should 60 to the cultivated
crops, hut also preserves moisture, so
chat portion of the farm is almost
certain to produce a profitable crop
of wheat or other small grain the
following year.
".The livestock will furnish manure
which, properly cared for and applied,
will keep up the fertility Of the SOL
and lessen the amount of moisture re-
quired to insure a crop. For it ha'-
been scientifically demonstrated that
we'll fertilized soil only requires a
trife more than half as much mois-
ture to mature crop as soil that is
impoverished from constant cropping.
Will Destroy Weeds.
"Hence the Importance of Senate
ELL No. 80. 1t not only encourages
the dairy industry, but aids the farmer
to get a start in dairying. 1t means
the destruction Cf weeds. the main
tcnancc of soil fertility and insurcs a
regular income for the support of the
family. Moreover. a county can go
the limit in furnishing COWS for farm
ers, taking az lien on the COWS and
their increase for, before the date Of
payment arrives, the livestock will
treble or quadiuple in value.
"It will be seen that the state is
perfectly safeguarded. In the mean
time the cream should insure prompt
payment Of interest on their cost as
we'll as largely support the family. No
better security and no better road TO
prosperity could be DEVISED"