The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-04
DAIRYING IN
STATE MAKES
BIG PROGRESS
Grand Forks Convention of
Dairymen's Association
Hears Reports Given
DEVINE OPTIMISTIC
Says "New Day" in Agricul-
ture Is Here - Other
Speakers on Program

Grand Forks, \. D., Mar. 4-The
New Day in agriculture for North
Dakota does not lie ahead it is
here, declared Commissioner of I'M
migration j. NJ. Devine in an address
before the North Dakota Dairymen's
Association here today.
When North Dakota produced
only S11,000,00O worth of creamery
products in 1919 and S34 10000 worth
in 1928; when North Dakota pro
duced but 100000 bushels of corn
in 1919 and 10000 900 bushels OF
corn in 1923; when North Dakota had
but $4,000 acres of sweet clover in
1918 and 100000 acres in 1923; when
poultry production jumped from 3d.
100000 in 1918 to $l0,OOO,OOO in 1923
we know we are on the way to Il
bigger, better North Dakota said
Mr.. Devine. We know we are on
the sure, sane and safer way
Mr.. Devine declared the remedy
to bad farming conditions is less
wheat acreage, more and more diver
sifled farming, more corn, more for
age crops with something {, alive = the
place to consume. it.
In spite of the gloom and dis
enlargement of the present, it doesnt
help any to rock the boat said Mr..
Devine. North Dakota will weather
the storm as she has all other storms.
There is brighter, better and bigger
day just ahead. 1t is to be regretted
that SO much adverse and misleading
advertising has gone out from North
Dakota to beNspread broadcast in the
byways and business marts Of the
country. No doubt, it was unintcn-
tional but just the same misleading
and hurtful. 1t was not fair to the
state, to the farmers or to the people
in general. There is nothing fun
damentally wrong with North Dakota
in soil. climate, progress, or the
great heart of the people who live
in it. With 100000 milk cows now
in the state and that number in
creasing with equal rapidity and the
quality of that corn equal to the
best that Illinois or Iowa can pro.
duce, is in every way encouraging
and a sure practical sign that we are
on the way
Corn rests the land and destroys
weeds; grain produces weeds and
lessons fertility. Corn means sue
cessful diversification; it means less
wheat acreage but more bushels pro
duced to the acre.
When a certain acreage of sweet
clover or alfalfa is found on every
farm; when we have enthroned corn
as king and the dairy cow as queen;
when more white faces, short horns
and sheep dot our farm landscape;
when poultry has its place in the
economy of every farm, mortgages
will be lifted outstanding obliga-
tions paid and the farmer no longer
Il borrower but a depositor in the
banks of the state, in that day and
time, the North Dakota farmer can
self-poised, untrammeled and I'M
afraid. The problem that confronts
US therefore, is not solely for Wash
ington, d. c. or for the capital at
Bismarck to solve. 1t is largely our
own particular individual problem
both Of farm and city, and it must
be settled intelligently and success
fully by North Dakota brain and
North Dakota brain educated and liv-
ing on North Dakota SOIL
Can Compete With All
North Dakota cans compete sue
cessfully with any state in the Union
in butter production declared ]. r.
Dice, dairy specialist at the North
Dakota Agricultural college. in an ad-
dress delivered before the North
Dakota Dairymen's Association to-
day.
Few of US in this state realize
how cheaply and abundantly the
farmers of this state can produce
feed. the dairyman said and it is
not only feed but it is quality feed,
for with sweet clover and alfalfa, !
which we can easily grow here, the
farmer can raise his entire dairy
ration.
Il know absolutely that the dairy |,
cows will do well in all parts of the I
state. ! know that farmers can grow
feed for the dairy herd wherever
they can grow any kind of crop
Mr.. Dice said. The selling price of !
dairy. products has been relatively |
higher as compared to war prices, |
than the price of any other prod
ucts sold by the farmer for three