The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-11-06
MINNESOTA EDITOR
SAYS NORTHWEST
DISPELS CL0O NJ
GETS PEOPLE NOWHERE TO
DWELL UPON THE PASSING
DIFFICULTIES OF FARMER
"Cow-Sow-Hen" System of Farming
bringing Big Revival and District
Has No Really Big Trouble; Mon
tana Leads in Dairy Increase.

ANA Leads in Dairy Increase.
In an address bristIing with re-
vealing facts and figures of the
dairy business in the northwest,
Charles II. COLLISION, agricultural
editor of the Minneapolis Tribune.
told Great Falls business men, at
a recent luncheon meeting, that
gloom is being chased from the
northwest and hat in its place an
era of contentment is coming De-
cause n farmers are entering the
"cOw-sow-hen" system of farming.
Mr.. Collision delivered his famous
"golden butter and golden dollars
address and fully traced for the real
estate and land dealers the progress
of diversified farming in Wisconsin.
Minnesota and North Dakota. The
address is m which Mr.. Collision is
delivering throughout the northwest
as a part of the Minneapolis papers
program Of boosting diversified farm
ing and bringing about a close rela-
tion between the business men of the
city and the farmers.
Cites Activities.
IdCA WGGh MI. OOIllSSOH " WTlJ6S
two pages of farm news for his paper
and is particularly interested in
featuring community efforts which
boost farming so that those commun-
titles in the northwest which have not
yet seen the possibilities of the Cow
sow-hen" farming will start to
work for it. Mr.. COLLISION is in Mon
tana at the present time gathering
material for one of his articles.
"Nearly every speaker on agricul-
ture, whom the newspapers have re-
ported lately, has felt it necessary to
tell us how many millions of our
farmers are deserving their farms
and how many of them are going to
die Of want and starvation unless
well, usually unless the speaker or
his candidate is elected something or
other" Mr.. COLLISION declared.
Nov all this gloom is getting
very tiresome. There are many who
believe it is not getting us anywhere,
to dwell upon our difficulties. Some
of us are old enough to have had
many troubles-but the most Of them
never happened. Some of us have
lived long enough to have seen the
American farmer rise from some
situation than the present
one"
Many Bright Spots.
In the midst of all the gloom
spreading about the northwest, trav-
cling through the territory and in
vestigating will reveal many bright
spots, says Mr.. COLLISION. Included
these he cited figures to show that
in North Dakota in sections
where d~airying has gained a foot
lold are now in a position to take
,are of their obligations. In all the
northwest states, dairying has TAX
n tremendous strides, but of these
dontana's per centage of gain is the
lighest-15O per cent. Wisconsin is
irst, Minnesota second, and North
Dakota third.
Here is another bright spot"
ontinued the speaker. do you
now that you are living near the
cart and center of the fastest grow
ng dairy land in America. Look up
he figures and you will find that
Wisconsin has gained more dairy
ows in the Is years following the
.919 census than any other state.
his put her ahead of New York as
irst in gain, first in dairy COWS, and
lrst in total production.
Montana Gain The Highest.
Minnesota is second in gain, or
98,612 COWS. This put her ahead
Iowa. Now in 1924 she has more
airy COWS than New York. 1t may
1rprise you to know that the third
tate in gain is Minnesota and the
0urth Michigan.
''The highest per cetage of gain
l the whole United States is in Mon
where it has been $50 per cent. |
he has more than doubled her dairy
0ws.
$50 we have here stretching from
aulte st. Marie to the Rockies, the |
reatest dairy realm of North Am
'ica, and I believe of the world
lie cream pitcher of America
Doesn't it look now, in the midst
all this gloom we hear from Cal
nifty James as if we in the north !
est were all dressed up and knew I
here we were going, and were al I
lady ON our way?" I