The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-13

vast amount Of literature on bloodec
stock has been written and place.
within reach of all the farmers by the
extension department of the schools
Much favorable legislation has beer
passed, which is encouraging the
farmer in every way to broaden
These changes predict a growth OF
creamerics, mills, and packing plants
in order to handle the products.
The farmer is improving his home
He is making North Dakota less
desolate place by the erection Of splen,
did farm buildings and the planting
of trees and shrubbery. Few of us
may have realized that actual expert
ment has proved that there are forty
one varieties of trees which can be
grown in North Dakota,' including
even the Black Walnut, Canoe Birch,
and Red Cedar. Also there are thirty
eight varieties Of shrubs which are
suited to this soil and climate.
The raising of sheep has been
proved possible, and more than that
economical. The farmers are already
launching into this enterprise which
has SO recently been pronounced an
impossibility.
Thus we may trace the development
of agriculture in our state from the
raising of wheat alone to the many
sided industry which progressive
people have made it.
Is it preposterous to suppose that
other industries may be introduced
and may develop in the same way as
agriculture has developed? Rather.
is it not reasonable to conclude that
North Dakota will somcday have her
own factories for her own raw ma
terial?
We have vast deposits Of coal in
North Dakota from which factories
could draw their supply. We have
cay in the state suitable for the max =
ing Of brick and tile Thus all the es-
sentia!s Of acknowledgements
for the erection of factories, fuel for
the generation of power, and natural
products for the manufacture of fin
ished commodities are within our
borders, awaiting only favorable
time for North Dakota energy to
utilize them.
III educational matters North Dako
ia equals the best state in the union.
Nine states accept practically any eN
cuse for not attending school-North
Dakota accepts none. The seventeen
most stringent states require seven
years attendance at school. North
Dakota goes beyond even these. She
requires the child to attend until four
teen years of age, or until seventeen,
if he has not completed the eighth
grade.
Consolidated schools are replacing
the smaller and more numerous one
room country schools. They offer al
most as broad choice in subjects as
do those of the town. The high
schools of the state rank with the best
in the country. AS to our higher in
stitutions of learning, we find as
gratifying comparison.
All these are evidences Of our ma
terial advancement. In so young a
state what future may not the most
conservative imagination picture? But
what makes material advancement
possible? 1t is the spirit of the peo
pie.
The pioneers came here, combating
many difficulties droughts, poor
crops, bare and wind-swept prairies,
and Indians. These pioneers were of
the best Of the nation-sturdy, pro-
gressivc, freedom-lovirg, broad mind
ed men and women. Today we find
their successors of the same type.
With this spirit spreading to all who
come, we believe that North Dakota
is going on into the future to be one
Of the biggest, best, and most glor-
;ou5 states of these United States.
The praires- great, broad, bound
less-have inspired spirit, broad,
generous, vigorous. 1t is this spirit
which impresses strangers; it is this
spirit which has accomplished all 80
far, it is this spirit which, we trust, in
the future may be the guide of our
people.
North Dakota's own poet, James ".
+ Obey, strikes a sympathetic chord in
the heart Of every true North Dakotan
in his Letter Home" when he says:
But there's something in Dakota
makes you live and breathe and
feel;
Makes you bigger, broader, better;
makes you learn the worth Of toll;
Makes you free as are her prairies and
as noble as her soil;
Makes you kingly as man is; makes
you manly as king;
And there's something in the grandeur
Of her seasons sweep and swing
That casts off fretting letters of your
east and marks you blest
With the vigor Of the prairies, with
the freedom Of the West.
NM QUINN