The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-07-21
1925 BURLEIGH FARMERS
VISIT NEW SALEM FARMS
ASGUESTS OF ROTARY CLUB
Buy Purebreds to Mix With
Their Cattle and Increase
Profits
MAKE TRIP BY AUTO
All Come Back Boosting For
Bigger and Better Herds
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More than 100 farmers were guests
of the Bismarck Rotary club, under
whose auspices more than forty cars
crowded with enthusiastic "cow boost
ers" left the Tribune corner at Z A. M.
Wednesday morning, made the round
of the famous New Salem Holstein
breeders circuit-a cooperative effort
of seventeen farmers who have proven
that the pure bred stock Is a paying
venture.
The Bismarck caravan caught up
with the Mandan tour under the direc-
tion Of the Commercial club OF that
city at New Salem. Mounted on an
International truck was prize Hol-
stein cow from Pleasant Grove farm,
the first stop Of the trip, This cow is
q member Of the original herd that
started the New Salem group of Hoi-
stein breeders on the road to prosper
ity.
1t was an inspiring sight as the
more than 100 cars bedecked with all
kinds of banners entered New Salem
Over the COW on the truck was great
banner bearing these words:
welcome to Our City"
Cows Are Pictured.
Many of the enterprising merchants
had painted life size pictures of Hol-
stein cows upon their windows and one
artist had labeled his production "the
mortgage litter"
Mandan boosters had band, serv-
ice car and a RED Cross car man.
ned by physicians.
The Bismarck boosters under the di-
rection of Burt Finney, president Of
the Bismarck Rotary, assisted by Jack
Whitney, Hal Dobler, H. P. Goddard,
j. l.. Bell and other ROtarians had a
uartet and each car had an appr0pri-
ate slogan prepared by the Town
Criers. One Of them was: New Sa-
lem-You Tell En-"
What Was Learned.
The Burleigh county farmers re-
sponded readily to be guests Of the
Bismarck Rotary club and it was a
profitable day spent on a demonstra-
tion of what can be done with good
dairy stock in a country that has for
many years given up the idea Of the
one crop-one pay day for the contin-
nous revenue producing cattle. "
Out Of the seventeen breeders who
have registered herds under the direc-
ton Of the agricultural college, only
one has a mortgage on his place.
Every farm Is prosperous, we'll kept
and a paying venture every month in
the year.
Most of them have electric plants,
electric mixers, pit silos and every
convenience to cut down the overhead
cost Of preparation. They are enthusi-
astic boosters for the Holstein variety
and would not 60 back to the old days
of simply raising wheat and flax for
any price.
One of the monuments Of the farmer
who was too proud to put his hands
under cow" was pointed out to the
members of the party. There Is mere
ly an old abandoned grove and weary
stretch Of dilapidation. This told elo-
quently of the failure of the man who
wouldn't put his hands under a cow"
Tour Well Organized.
The tour was well organized from
every standpoint. Max Morgan, county
agent of Morton, had worked up the
iunket to demonstrate the value Of
dairy farms. He turned the leadership
over to Prof. Shepperd of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college who did so
much in getting the circuit started. A
number of supervisors and professors
from the A. C. were on the tour and
gave valuable assistance in explaining
to the farmers the merits of the vari-
GUS animals. Programs were placed
in their hands giving in detail the rec
ords Of the animals at the various sta
tions and showing the net profit to the
farmer from each animal,
At Presidents Farm.
The first stop was at Pleasant Grove
farm, on the edge of New Salem
John Christensen, the owner, was
spoken of as the patriarch of the cir
cult. He came to that section in 1882
when the Indians rOamed the prairie
In giving his experience to crowd ol
500 or more that gathered in grove
about his farm, he said that he haC
tried the single crop plan and for sew
eral years struggled with debt ant
unfavorable conditions, until few go
together and decided to promote tht
breeding of registered Holstein-Fres
ian cattle.
He told how under the single crol
plan it took him several years to pa,
off mortgage of $500 and then figures
were given to show the profits eacI
year from his fine herd of Holstein
The facts sunk deep into the man!
farmers who had just come from thei
sun-burned fields and were eager II
hear what could be done to assure
constant and reasonably sure revenu
producer.
What Burleigh Can Do.
Burleigh county, it was urged, b.
the boosters from this section, ca
build up the same kind of circul
The topography Of this county Is muc
the same as that around New Salel
and lends itself better to cattle rail-
ing and milk producing than to rail
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