The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-07
LAWS ALONE.
| WON'T SOLVE
| .D.PR0BLEMS
New Method of Farming Is to
be the Making of Great
State, Says Devine
CITES TWO EXAMPLES
Wisconsin and Minnesota
Counties Went Through
Same Process as N. ID.


lation, are needed in North Dakota.
Commissioner of immigration ]. M.
Devine declared here this afternoon
before the lumbermen of this section
of the state, meeting to form divi-
sion of the Northwestern Lumber
mems Association.
& North Dakota as an agricultural
!. state will never come 10 the period
oIsolid, lasting prosperity until the
day and time when the cow, corn, nog,
sheep, poultry and eggs have a pro-
per and rightful place in the daily
activities on every farm within the
borders of our state" said Mr.. De-
vine. "Wheat raising rs single
track proposition has failed in North
Dakota, as it had previously failed
in every middlewestern state to the
Ohio river, boundary. Wheat raising
will always be large factor in the
agricultural production of our state,
but with diversified farming there
will be much less acreage, cleaner,
better quality and more bushels ito
the ACRE, commanding better price.
% Law Won't DO 1t
claws have been enacted and 9TH
ers may be, both at Bismarck and
Washington, D. c., yet in the final
analysis such laws will act only as
a temporary eXpedient. They will
remedy no real existing evil, right
no real existing wrong. They en-
Col
couraged farmer continues to plot his
weary way, looking for the legalized
haven Of prosperity and contentment.
There is remedy and that remedy
is the milk COW, corn, hogs, silos,
silage, sheep, butter and eggs-put
some of them or all of them at work
on the farm and they will not fail
the farmer in his hour of need since
they never have.
These things are practically an
all-year producing proposition and
especially the COW. Wheat is four
months guess, the COW deaI sure.
Wheat is mortgage producer, the
cow mortgage litter. A mortgage
works industriously all the time, so
does the cow. The North Dakota
farm can produce as good COW, and
that cow will produce as much but
ter-fat as any like cow in New York,
Wisconsin or Minnesota, and we do
it with as little overhead expense"
North Dakota, Mr.. Devine said,
can produce as good hog and round
it up for the market in as short time
with our own corn as can Illinois OF
Iowas No section in the country can
excel North Dakota as poultry
state.
Barron county, Wisconsin, last
year with population of thirty-five
thousand people sold $7,2O0,O0O worth
of cream, butter and cheese. Forty
ty stricken country" said Mr.. Devine.
He also said Mcleod county, Mimi
esota, sold $2,7OO,O00 worth of dairy
products in 1922. Thirty-five years
ago the county was wheat produc-
ing county, but by reason of drought,
cinch bugs, grasshoppers farms were
being abandoned.
What Two Counties DID
"What Barron county and Mcleod
county can do, we can and should
do" he said. There is nothing fun
damcntally wrong with our state, in
soil, climate or the great heart of the
people who live in it. Indeed, there
is every reason to be thankful that
we are North Dakotans and live in a
state that has made such rapid
strides in all those things which go
to make UP a great and progressive
commonwealth"
Eighteen of twenN-nine million
acres of land in North Dakota is un-
der cultivation, Mr.. Devine said.
State Institutions and other facili-
aties are sufficient for population of
100000 people.ea -
''The- tax is high and burdensome
since there is but 100000 people to
pay the BILL" he said. ut is evident
we need more people, more additional
taxpayers. The millions of our I'M
cultivated acres should have homes
on them. and families of good class
living in them. Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa and Wisconsin have such class
of renting farmers, paying from $40
to SIS an acre. These farmers can
and should by intelligent, earnest eff
fort on the part Of the state, find
homes and farms within our borders
that they may call their own and on
the best and cheapest land in the
world"
Genuine cooperation between-farm-
ers and business men in solving our
agricultural problems was urged.