Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-01
B. g. Beede, Publisher
Dairyins Brings Other Profitable
Lines Of Farming

The experience Of every. dairy
community is that once dairying is
started, other lines Of farming quick
" suggest themselves which are cer'
tain, safe and profitable.
For misconceptions.
The business Of raising hogs fol
lows dairyinR naturally. Skinned
milk is the natural feed for hogs,
and the alfalfa and corn which the
daifyman raises are cleaned up in
such way that vast is eliminated.
It is not any particular extra ex-
pense for dairyman to raise hogs,
80 that their sales constitute source
Of profit easily earned.
1t is the same with poultry. The
dairyman can supply the market
with poultry and eggs cheaper than
any other farmer, and in 70 doing
he increases his own income in al
aafe and certain way.
About twenty years ago the COM
munity of Round Prairie, in Todd
County, Minnesota, was a typical
one.industry farm community.
Land could be bought for from els
to $50 per acre. A crop failure
meant annual ruin for the farmers,
and crop failures, always more or
less common, had come to be pref
ty near the rule.
In 1902 the farmers decided that
they had played the losers end long
enough, and, following just such
suggestions as we have been making
in this series OF articles, they organ
lied a cooperative creamery and
started to get their farms onto a
dairy basis. They had a hard time;
in fact, harder than we would have
!. around here. But they gradually
: improved their herds, cut out the
. grain except to raise feed, rotated
crops, grew lots Of corn, got alfalfa
and roy beans started, and today
they have prosperous farm com
munity. You will have to travel
along distance to find better.
Last May they celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of the found
ing Of that creamery 1t was big
event. From run down, one
crop community, Round Prairie has
farms wonderfully improved in
producing ability and selling around
500 and 1925 per acre. The
creamery. notwithstanding there
are three creameries within q Ave-
mile distance, and one of them one
Of the biggest in the state, pays out
,gnonthly 1900 and $4,000 cash for
cream. The farms produce so
many hogs and other livestock that
the farmers have organized a
cooperative livestock shipping
association which ships every week:
also, a potato shipping association,
while the savings of the farmers
mounted 90 that d bank was estab-
lished five years ago which today
has deposits Of SIS, 900, although
there is bank in another town on.
~ three miles away, and three large
banks in the county seat only five
miles distant.
Taking up dairying at Round
Prairie not only proved profitable
in itself. but it induced other kinds
Of farming which were also safe and
sure ey-makers. In the pro.
cess the farms were built up, the
community became prosperous, and
the farmer himself was made hap.
py.
The story is the same everywhere !
Dairying promotes profitable farm.
ing It builds up the land and
: makes . progressive and happy.
farm community. The time is ripe
to do in our community what the
farmers Of Round Prairie did and il
we get started. as We easily can. and
keep at it. as we certainly have the
4 I'rvve to do, we can make our pros
nerity Just as stable and suse rs the
iar,nrrs Of all these other commun-
iti,S have done. 81 Cont rihnfad