The Devils Lake world., 1922-09-20
DIVERSIFIED
FARMING URGED
BY Gov. NEST0S
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to develop, and you will succeed in
developing through the passing years.
"The success of the fair will also de-
pend largely upon how you succeed
in fostering a community spirit - a
spirit of friendship and sociability, so
that people will enjoy coming here for
reunions, for picnics, and to bring
with them the whole family. There
should be a sufficient number of
prizes for the attainments of the boys
and girls so they not only enjoy COM
ing to take part, but the folks will
plan with eagerness upon the time
they can come to the Ward County
Fair, and to bring with them the
Whole family and to join the neigh
bors in a fine and wholesome spirit
Of friendship. The fair must encour-
age this spirit, and you should make
it a point to employ no one on the
board of management as judges OF
any other capacity who would fail to
radiate this spirit Of friendship for
which we should make our fair to
stand.
''As l have stated before, the fair is
of little value, except insofar as it
convinces the farmers of our section
of the state that it is possible for
every one Of them to raise products
similar to those which are exhibited,
and that only when products of that
class are being raised can we possibly
hope to insure the economic future
of this section Of the state. Only
when we put our commonwealth on
this permanent basis of prosperity,
which will come from the program of
diversification that is indicated by
these exhibits have we really accom-
plisi,ed what should be the aim and
purpose Of this fair,
"We have done we'll as one-crop
state. There is no state in the I'm
ion that can raise wheat more success
fully and a better grade Of wheat
than we can here in the northwest,
but we know that our economic future
is not safe unless we can develop in
our state balanced program of pro-
duction - diversification which
means the successful raising in large
quantities of at least dozen different
ones of the products that are ex-
hibited here today.
II like to think of our state and es-
pecially of our social and economic
life as structure that we are erect
ing and maintaining. So far it has
been supported on one magnificent
plllar-that of small grain farming,
and when things are absolutely right
for the successful raising of small
grain, there is little cause for COM
Faint, but experience has taught US
that there are half dozen things that
may happen to this pillar of support
that will make it Of little or no value
for a whole year, and that frequent
destruction of this basis of our sup
port continually disturbs our economic
lie, and renders a true and steady
development impossible. How much
better would it not be if our economic
structure rested on six, eight or ten
substantial pillars consisting of each
one of these products that may sue
cessfully be raised and developed upon
our farms. Small grain, corn, dairy
cattle, beef cattle, hogs, sheep, poul-
try and garden truck may be men
toned as some Of these more sub
startial pillars in our states develop
ment.
The great and fundamental prob
lem is to create conditions in our state
that will mean the establishment and
maintenance of the best possible home
LIE with families of healthy, happy
and contented young people that like
the farm and take an interest in the
problems that the farmers are seeking
to solve.
"To create the ideal conditions on
the farm, every farmer in my opin-
ion ought to produce enough of cream,
eggs, poultry, hogs, sheep, corn pota-
toes and garden truck to furnish the
complete living of his family so that
whenever any favorable season made
grain farming profitable, that he could
add the results of that to his growing
fortune.
"The complaint is made that it takes
great deal of capital and community
cooperation to get started in some
lines of the diversification program
This may be true, but when we have
the assurance from the experience OF
many in our own state and from the
experience of those in other state
that certain success is sure to follow
the intelligent development in these
lines, we ought not to grow faint.
hearted, but be willing to seek thu
solution of these problems in the mos
satisfactory way. Even with diar,
cattle and hogs there are methods O,
achieving success gradually withou
too great an initial investment.
Personally, however, am convinced
that a couple of the most importan
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