The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-04-21

specially is chickens and he usually
has a credia at the store for eggs.
Another neighbor is a great mixer
and he told me he sold five hundred
dollars worth of cream last year. So
you see some have partly succeeded,
SO when l say there are less than ten
percent | am really conservative.
There are a few that have made a
wonderful success and they started
without any capital either. That is
why | advocate that we can have
many MORE. | have two such neigh
bors who are brothers. They each
filed on 800 acres in the same section
about eight years ago..
What little start they got was from
working around for the neighbors.
They went back to their old home in
Minnesota and shipped out some an
cient farm machinery, about fifty
dollars worth, consisting of a pillow,
harrow and binder, as well as a wag-
on, also an old team apiece, and a
couple of cows and some chickens.
They borrowed a set Of harness and
put in just a little crop the first year
but with the greatest of care
Patient Effort Brings Results
Then, during the summer they
broke more and let it lay over and
titled it for the next year Their
cows, chickens and garden were their
only source of living. Each year as
they increased their farming opera
tions they used what crop they har-
vested in buying a % or two, a new
horse or perhaps some pigs. They
never bought anything they could
not pay cash for. Each year they adj
ded a little to their equipment, a
saddle, a new wagon-set of harness,
new barn, purebred bull, etc.
Now they have many things pack
ers, corn-planters, c~ultivators, corn
binder modern homes and s~ubstan-
tial barns and outbuildings. Their
large g~ranaries, full of wheat, are
built on conrete foundations. The
water for their purbred stock is
pumped by engines and their hog
pastures of alfalfa are fenced with
woven wire.
They can raise alfalfa and best of
all they both have cars for their
rr
wives and children to enjoy. Their
farms are unmortgaged and they
have money in the bank.
Those three dry years their wheat
went eight bushels to the acre, with
the exception of 1919 and the U. S.
government weather bureau says
there is not a probability that we
will have another year like it in the
course of forty years. People were
the country broke this fall
while one of these brothers just
completed a nice modern bungalow.
He also husked fifteen double wagon
boxes of corn to feed purebred Du-
roc hogs this winter. Just imagine
our whole country like their farms.
Why cannot we have many more like
hem? Luck, you will say. No, not
uck, but good hard labor and a little
COMMON sense.
Six Points of Dry-Farming
There is nothing mysterious about
heir system of farming but the same
Id one that our agricultural college
.dvocates. Let us define it, say in
his manner, like the famous IA
only let us have 6 points, each
epresenting in itself a project that
) specialized universally, but let it
e here now and forever understood
hat each one is vital to the other
nd virtually the well being and prac-
ical theory of their progress:
/. Good milk cows.
2. Chickens and hogs.
8. Practical garden.
4. Economy, perseverance and
s.. Equipment and short cuts.
6. Summer fallow or corn ground.
AS an article could be written on
ach point and it would require too
UGH space l will take the latter, No.
summer fallow and corn, and :
ain it in a simple way.
First, the very reason for summer
lllow is to conserve the moisture
to it's need, like putting :
oney in the bank for a rainy day, r.
lily here it is the other way around, E
lifting rain in the ground to get the {
oney. {