Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-15
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NORTH DAKOTA is GETTING
ON SOUND FINANCIAL BASIS

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fall blowing has been done in Cass /,
county. and the acreage to be planted
this year will be UP to normal. There
will, however, be some. decrease IN
the wheat acreage. This Will be
largely. taken up by Increased planting
Of potatoes. the. interest in which has
been greatly augmented through the
efforts OF the farm bureau.
Merchants especially in Fargo. are
very generally putting their business
"a cash basis. which will in the long
run he a material help to all.
Taken all in all the situation, as
FAR as Cass county is concerned. Is
very satisfactory so far as can be
Judged at the present time, according
Mr.. Irish.
Satisfactory in Sargent.
Forinan, N. D., March 15.-Condi-
tons in Sargent county are very sat
isfactory. according to ]. p. Gunder-'
son, cashier of the First National
Bank of Forman.
The recent advance in the price OF
farm products has materially helped
conditions, especially the advance i'll
the price of hogs said Mr.. Gunder-
son. with a very few exceptions U
farmers have all necessary seed for
this season and the few requiring seed
will have no difficulty in securing as
sistancc from local banks.
Local merchants have no Difficult
ty meeting their obligations; in fact.
Lam advised that the merchants are
carrying less on their books than they
have beer for some time past. This is
due no doubt to the fact h a Sargent
county farmers sell enough produce in
the form of cream, butter n egg to
meet all current household require
ments, and to some extent to the fact
that the farmers are buying only what
is necessary.
TT believe our crop acreage will be
equivalent to, that of last year, with
acreage Of wheat and a corresponding
increase in the corn acreage"
Richland in Good Shapc.
Wahpeton, N. D.. March 15.--rhe
community in the immediate vicinity
of Wahpeton Is in pretty good shape
in comparison with many other places.
and the farmers will farm practically
as large an acreage as they did last
year.
1t is not believed that there are
many. if any, cases where the, farmer
has not or cannot get seed to seed his
land. The farmers are. Of course, dis
couraged and dissatisfied on account
Of high taxes and low prices for their
products, but none of them are reduc-
ing the price of their land and at
tempting to get away from it. They
realize that things cannot stay whore
they arc and there are better times
ahead. ~ ,
Business among the merchants is
not good, but 1t is as good as raj be
was obtained in this community last
year. Some of the merchants report
that their sales are running ahead
of last year and up to those Of 1920,
improvement in Ransom
Lisbon. N. D. March 15.-Condi7
tons in Ransom county are improving
to a material extent, according to- r
S. Adams. president of the First Ma.
tional Bank of Lisbon.
During the last month considerable
money which has been. held by the
| farmers has come to the surface and
has been used in the paying OF taxes
buying OF clothing, food, etc." said
Mr.. Adams. r.
I'VE think the acreage of grain ir
this county will be, about the same as
last year. but that the acreage Of
wheat will be decreased, while the
acreage of feed grains, corn. swee,
clover and potatoes will be increased
There will be more cows milkec
and more cream sold than ever before
in this county. The farmers seem tc
! be optimistic and very few seem to be
| at all discouraged.
we don't anticipate any difficulty
in getting all the seed grain necessary
here. There may be a few who will
have~to have help but we think a large
majority Of the farmers have saved
their seed from last year. On the
whole we see nothing d~iscouraging in
the situation here for: while none,
is close, the urgent needs of"all viii
| he taken arc of hv the hanEO