The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-06-14
REBUILDING OF
DAIRY CIRCUIT
FOLLOWS TRIP
Meeting Held Here Last Night
After New Salem Tour to
Discuss Local Plan
LEARN DAIRYING PAYS
New Salem Tour and Demon
stratiOn Declared Most
Successful Ever Held
LEARN DAIRYING PAYS

Reorganization and reDullolng OF
the Bureigh County Holstein Cir
cult was discussed here last night by
number of farmers and their wives
following their return from New Sa-
lem where they attended the third
annual tour and demonstration of
the success of that circuit.
The meeting was addressed by j.
A. Graham, chairman of the COM
mittee of the Association of Com
merce which arranged the New Salem
tour for Burleigh county farmers,
w. +. Reynolds, state dairy COM
missioner and Chas. F. COLLISION,
agricultural writer for the Minneap.
oils Tribune.
Mr.. Graham offered the coopera-
tfon of local citizens if the farm
desired to undertake the reor-
ganization work, which Mr.. Reynolds
strongly urged. Signatures of Sew
eral who signified their intention
of becoming members of the
circuit were given, and Mr.. Rey
nods said that completion of the
work would follow.
The Burleigh county contingent
returned from New Salem enthusias-
tic over the showing there and the
crowds which came to the little wes-
tern Morton county town. There
were farmers at New Salem from
practically every part of North Da-
kota, and the third tour of the cir
cult was the most successful yet
held.
South Dakota Men Here
A number of South Dakota farm,
ers and Wells county, North Dakota,
farmers stopped overnight in Bis
marck. The South Dakota farmers
were particularly anxious to see the
new Liberty Memorial bridge across
the Missouri river here. All had
heard a great deal about it. Many
also desired to visit the Great Plains
Experiment Station Of the United
States Department of Agriculture
south Of Mandan.
There were rs cars in the Bis
marck and Burleigh county contri-
button to the day in New Salem. The
number was even larger than had
been anticipated by the A. ofsC. COM
mittee composed Of j. A. Graham,
George Duemeland, John P. French,
F. A. Lahr and Joseph Kelley. The
farmers invited by local people to
join on the tour also were invited to
bring their wives, and the jaunt was
something Of. family affair. On
the return to Bismarck last night all
were met by many local citizens, and
the visitors found dinner prepared at
the Grand Pacific hotel for them.
The meeting in the Rialto theatre
to discuss the dairy circuit was ar
ranged by the committee and Mr.
Reynolds because some of the farm
eSs desired to take immediate steps
to reorganize the circuit. It included
showing of motion pictures.
Dairying Pays
Mr.. Collision, in his talk, used
maps to prove his contention that
dairying and diversified farming is
the Northwest's road to prosperity.
He said he was tired of hearing
gloomy things about agriculture in
the Northwest, and that he wished to
point out some of the bright spots
in the agricultural situation.
~ understand you have the high
est percentage of home ownership of
any state in the union," he said, re-
ferring to North Dakota.
Mr.. Collision displayed maps show
ing loans made by the War Finance
Corporation in the emergency de-
clared to exist in the last two years.
The figures on loan repayments
showed that the counties where
dairying was practiced extensively
were best able to repay.
The first county referred to was
Cargill county, southern Minnesota,
in the dairying district. No loan had
been made in that county. The coun-
ty, he said, had Is cooperative cream
cries and an enormous milk and but
ter production. The second county.
( Rice county, had no loans. The
county makes more than $1,5O0,OO0
worth of butter each year.
"There are no hard times there"
he said. "The banks are full of
money"
\ He next referred to the Red River
Valley counties of Minnesota. The
Red River, he said, had been called
the Nile of America, and was the
great wheat-raising section. The
record showed more loans made in
those counties and fewer paid up.
He said word for Minnesota's
cooperative system of creameries.
The beauty of it, he said, was that
so per cent of the value of the cream
went back to the farmers in money.
wisconsin" he said, "is the
greatest dairying state in the Union,
and there hasn't been bank failure
there in five years."
Where Payments Fail
He said that in the eastern part of
North Dakota where land is the high
est price the repayments on loans by
the War Finance Cooperation had
been poorest, because it was q wheat
raia ing section.
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