The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-24
Formations of Local Bodies
For Cooperative Effort Is
Urged BY Governor
WOULD JOIN FORCES
Tells Implement Dealers
Farmers and Business Men
Should go Hand in Hand


throughout North Dakota to carry
out a program of community better
ment was urged by Governor K. A. .
Ncstos in an address here at the
state Implement dealers convention
today. The Governors speech IN ,
part follows:
There ought to be organized IN |
every community IA local development !!
association where the business men /,
and the farmers together would plan ,
and carry out a program OF commu''-
ity betterment that would promise
the greatest amount of good to the
community. as such, and therefore
indirectly to the individuals within
such community. Such a local de-
velopment association, | believe. could
accomplish great many splendid
things and at the present time
would suggest three lines of ell
deavor to which these development
associations might well direct tncii :.
efforts.
"knowing that there is to be found
in each community Il great deal OF
vacant land and a number of farms
where the man who has persisted
in wheat raising alone finds that he
is unable to continue, or that mas
been trying to farm too much land.
and that these lands now abandon
| ed or about to be abandoned, can be
| purchased at Il very reasonable rate,
and that there ought to be Oh each
one of these quarters or half sec
tions good progressive farmers-the
| development association ought to Ge.
all of these lands listed for sale at
the lowest possible price and also
listed for rent upon the best posi-
BILE terms and then let the Develop
mcnt association, as such,-not to
increase the profit of the real estate
man or the banker, by the sale Of
this land,-but purely for the sake
of building the community and in
crcasing its prosperity by securing
more good farmcrs-use every means
within their power to induce men
who are thoroughly experienced in
diversified farming farmers
sons, or renters from MINES ota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana
Ohio, or Michigan--to come in here
to see what wonderful opportunities
lare offered to those who can bring
with them some good milch cows, a
registered size, registered hogs and
chickens, and enough money to keer
the family for at least one year; of
fering these people an opportunity tt
secure lands at from one-t third t.
one-half Of their reasonable value
and an opportunity for any hard
working, frugal farmer to establish
) a home and to earn a fair fortune il
) less than a decade This immigra
ton work can be done by cooperatio,
of the state immigration department
the immigration departments of TIL
railroads, or by letters from thos
who live in your community t
farmers with whom they may be &C
/, quainted in the central portion o
the United States from which we az
k most likely to receive our settlers. /
. Spread DiversificatiOn
8 In the second place, there ough
a to be a consistent and continuou
/, effort to increase and speed the pro
: gram of diversification and to kee
h 1T we'll balanced SO as to save tn
e community from swinging from whes
f production solely on one side, to tn
V production of some other sing
$ product on the other side. | person
j.. ally believe that this developmel
n association ought to keep an accurat
tab on the progress of every farm
er in that community, securing no
promises for progress along the linz
|, of broader and more intelligal
g diversification for this year and S
n curing at the end of the year repor
as to the experience and outcome
l. the experiments and changes so mad
IS If such program were to be kept
d for from two to five years, it wou
X result in wonderful advancement f
r. every community that would establi!
70 such system. 1t would mean
% greater variety and higher grade
- products. 1t would mean the ELI
q nation of hens and cows that fail
to prove paying producers. 1t won
mean the cleaning up of the land wi
: greater crops and less of docka
J. and would result in improved co
l. ditions all along the line
Is Encourage Cooperative Marketir
M Finally, this development assoc
lie ton ought to encourage the farmt
d. to participate in those organizatio
IS for voluntary cooperation in selli
is the farm products which eXperien
g. has proven of value in this Il
"A ether states and in other countri
ty Not merely encourage these farme
G. in joining these organizations, l.
e. bring them to a realization tt
in cooperation alone is not suffice
to save, the day, and that those W
belong to the cooperative assoc
f. tions must become as we'll inform
-, and must take as keen an inter,
y. in the business Of their organizati
rn as any business partner today v
Il and must take in the particu
business in which his firm is {
-. gagged. BY associating with you
'. newspaper men, the bankers, I
y" storekecpers, the lumbermen, ha
~. ware men, and other business NJ
&c OF your community in the creati
VI of a. development association for Z
no purpose of carrying out some ST
en- program as have here outlined, j
ey' of this implement dealers asso
TX, alton shall have rendered to "
~ community and to the state Of No
MS Dakota a service of the very high
sx- character and greatcst,,v value.
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