The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-14

"Along with the dairy cow, the ma
tural development is the raising of
hogs so as to use the skim milk and
the cleaning up of the fields of corn,
alfalfa and soy beans. Some of you
may think that this is not state for
hog raising but if you have had any
such notion you are badly mistaken.
About fifteen years ago man, we
will call him 3D." moved into the
County of Mercer from Kansas with
poor health and absolutely broke. A
brother-in-law said to him, "You are
not SO crazy as to think you can make
living up here on quarter section
of land" But "B" replied that he
had confidence that if he diversified
and stayed away from the elevator
that he would be able to make it go.
He has held to his, purpose and in all
of these years he has not sold any
grain. Two years ago his brother-in-
law was broke and came to "B" to
find out what he could do to get rid
of his half section of land and stock
he had upon it as he said he wanted
to go back to Kansas and rent a piece
of land. "B" said, II will give you
100000 in cash for your half sec
tion of land and all of. your stock
and if you are willing to do that, we
will go right up to the bank now and
have the papers. drawn" This was
done and "B" became the owner of
all of his brother-in-law's property
and the brother r-in-law went back to
Kansas. Last winter ''B" shipped IS
head of Jersey-Duroc hogs to South
St. Paul and these hogs, only S 1-2
months old, averaged 20S lbs. apiece,
and Swift's buyer said that they were
as fine looking drove of hogs as he
had ever seen brought to market
from any place in the country.
"Most of you are already familiar
with the splendid record made by our
state in the last National Dairy Show
in the Twin Cities in October, 1921,
when the management looked around
for stellar attractions for the various
exhibits of dairy cattle. With the
dairy show located in the heart Of
Minnesota, with Illinois, Iowa and
South Dakota closer at hand, yet they
came to New Salem, N. OAK, for their
Holstein exhibit, to Pembina County,
North Dakota, for their Jersey exhi-
bit, ana when the American Guernsey
Club brought a splendid exhibit from
another state, progressive Cass
County farmer purchased that herd,
50 at the close of the fair, each one
of those stellar attractions were
North Dakota property. Not only
that, but a two year old Jersey helfer
with a record of $40 pounds of but
terfat for the year was brought from
it's North Dakota owner by an Ohio
breeder for 100000 and added to
his already large and splendid herd.
North Dakota has reason to be proud
Of this record, and when in addition
to that we remember that last De-
cember, out of ten thousand Jersey
cows officially tested in the United
States, North Dakota cow produced
the largest amount of butterfat dur
ing that month, and Jersey COW
this year will either have the worlds
record, or will at least be one OF the
three highest. At least 5000 North
Dakota farmers attended the dairy
show at St. Paul last year, and SIM
cerely hope that 5000 of the farmers
of this state who are interested IN
dairy development will attend this
year. The National Dairy Show is
again held at the Twin Cities from
October seventh to the fourteenth.
"We might go on giving these H.
Illustrative stories of success in mixed
farming if it were necessary to DO
so, but l am confident that all Of you
are convinced that it can be done in