Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-31
FARM INDUSTRY
IN THE STATE
IS DISCUSSED
Continued from page l,

turnover and-still another
grain crop which will have a turn
. M a year in approximately
nine months. The careful manager Of
the farm factory will see to It a his
factory plan IS SO made that these
turn-overs provide him with ample
current expense and overhead. and an
income distributed through the year.
The North Dakota farm factory will
not be profitable on a single crop
with the turnover once a yea Farm
values in this state are too low-so
low that successful farmers in other
etates do mo- believe that our lands
lvestment required.
> What tremendous things could be
AGONY lished In the biggest little city
IN the west II. every efficient and sue
c~essful. business man in Fargo were as
active as the twenty or thirty men
who are carrying its burdens and
achieving results shared by all alike.
North Dakota has never a a boom
but North Dakota farm property must
come into It's own. Our broad acres
and fertile. prairies are destined to
make long and rapid strides in the
production OF sfoods S+'The hext ten
years will see North Dakota land
values doubled. We have the only
land in America that will produce,
oyer a decade, rs per cent Of its pres
cnt value per annum, or. pay for it,
eelf. In. fol. average years,
s"Our cities, towns and villages re-
feet the prosperity of the farm. The
farm aids to the commercial achieve
ment Of tho city. The relations of the
city to the farm is not n of coop
GRAFTON. They are identical. The farm
factories around your city are identi-
cal to the business, social and civic
life%as r the factories in and about
Chicago are identical with it's very
e~xistence. We we'll know relations
must be held in common with the.
farm n h farm has no ambition,
program or purpose In which the city
sdoes not join. Your. farm factories,
whether in Fargo or Buffalo are the
farms who buy and sell and transact
all their other business in your viii
lagos and cities. Your factory wants
you5to be a prosperous city. you city
wants you to be a prosperous factory.
- business Factors.
Modern business Is made up Of
three great primary factors--capital,
manufacture and thu production Of
raw material. In othe.' words modern
1ifetis dependent upon tho proper co..
relation OF money, mAu.. .e .,,.
the farm. When either of these es-
sential factors is absent. improperly
SOyOA uAAI0STu w S3lIGdII ASSCU LIlS GCO-
homie, social and political life of the
nation suffers.
The outstanding purpose of COM
N sFcial ORGANIZATIONS is to provide
Watehmen for the overs who shall
protect these three agencies of mod
ern 11ife from improper assault, dis
t~rifnination or inequitable co-ordina-
ton"
From this point in his address Mr..
KANSNfAn want m t4 AAf~;1 kh4 lnfjac
of the commercial club secretary in
being alert, conservative and con
structive in preserving the balance
~between the three essential factors
and: then into the intimate details Of
the. work of the secretary himself,
the place of the commercial organiza-
ton, its ideal OF service, the changing
eonditions Of the present hour and
then returned to his original theme
near the n OF his address with a
quotation from Henry Wallace, sec
Rotary of a%gricuIture: III
Il think it is wise for the business
mon Of the American city 70 recog-
nise that the roots Of city business
spread out into agricultural land. On
the other hand. it is well for farmers
e ION the land to realize that their con
made largely through the city: The
function Of farming, on the one hand,
to2fender a public service in terms OF
products. is matched on the other
hand by the function of city business
tosEfve public service in tepms of
manufacture M exchange. When the
service Of the farm community or OF
the city community is self centered,
thAfpubl1c suffers. When these two
types Of public service, however. are
performed as functions of>society with
fnN cooperation On both sides, the
, pubic gains"