Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-12-24

| last ride to the Little Big Horn and
/ where the rainfall is scant. So they
turned to the dairy COW, and found
her true foster mother.
They pastured her on the grass
! that had sustained the antelope, and
| buffalo, the range steer and the wild
horse for centuries and she brought
/ them peace and plenty.
| The three banks in New, Salem
have nearly $1,00O,00O ON deposit
| and their cash reserves are twice the
/ legal requirements. Emmons county,
butterfat and her loans are II paid
to IL unpaid.
| Wheat Counties are Slow Pay.
j Towner county, on. the. Canadian
border has about the smallest but
4 terfat sales in the state, only $22, 900.
| Her war finance loans stand 10 UNI
paid to only three paid up. Rolette,
her western neighbor, about the same
size, sold, about 100000 worth, and
paid up 13 of her loans. Only four
are unpaid.
| Now notice the great wheat coun-
ties. Cavalier county, without an
acre of waste land, one great waving
wheat field in summer time, has 40
loans outstanding and only two paid
up. .s
Pembina, in the heart of the, upper
valley itself, has Is unpaid, three
| paid up. Walsh has seven unpaid, on
| ly one paid. Ramsey, around Devils
Lake has Is unpaid, three paid; Eddy
| eight unpaid, two paid; Walsh, seven
! unpaid, one paid; Nelson, Is unpaid
five paid; Grand Forks 10 unpaid, Is
paid; Griggs, - unpaid, seven paid;
Benson. "a unpaid, eight paid; Fos-
ter, Fl unpaid, three paid.
Cass county, around Fargo, boasts
she is the greatest spring wheat grow
| ing area of the world. She has %
loans unpaid to seven paid up. Rich
land has 81 unpaid, only nine paid UP.
Stutsman stands % unpaid, to II
paid; Barnes, "a unpaid to IL paid.
The bankers and business men
here, however, are all awake to the
possibilities of making a dairying and
livestock country of these fertile re-
gions. These lands embrace some of
the richest soils in all North America.
| 1t has simply been too easy to grow
wheat; and tie farmer has naturally
following the lines of least resistance
and continued this easy plan of farm
| ing.
Wheat Yields are Declining.
But he cannot continue to do this.
The average wheat yield for these
valley counties, along this Nile of
| America" has been only IL bushels
to the acre for the past ten years.
Farther west it was only II, and still
| westward, only 10 bushels. McIn-
| tosh and Logan counties produced
only 81; and the slope counties, only
! 7S bushels. The average for the
state is only about II bushels.
Yet Canada, with cheaper lands
| and living conditions, is raising Is
to 35 bushels. Iowa on cultivated
| and MANFRED corn lands produces
| 1872 bushels; and we cannot set up
| any tariff wall against Iowa wheat,
| to protect the northwestern wheat
| grower. The corn belt livestock farm
err would be the greatest beneficiary
, of any fixed high price for wheat, be-
cause he can get high yields.
What good will So or So or. even
S. wheat do the farmer in North Da-
kota when he cannot raise the wheat
device whatsoever will not raise
| rather it will decrease them the next
10 years by encouraging still more
| wheat growing. The only things that
will raise these yields are cultivation,
fertilization and PRECIPITATION. These
mean diversified farming.
Promoting Northwestern Prosperity.
1 M
| question. How can we boost for
| prosperity"
Won't you agree with me that it is
to be found in the slogan that The
Minneapolis Tribune has nailed to its
mast-head: ..".
Livestock of some kind, if not sew
eral kinds, on every northwestern
farm; with a purebred sire at the
head of every flock or herd
This is broad enough to include,
not only the dairy COW, but the beef
steer, the pig, the sheep and even the
chicken-one of the best profit-mak-
ers ON the farm.
Fastest Growing Dairy Land.
Here is another bright spot. Do
you know that we are living right in
the heart and center of the fastest
growing dairy land in America? Look
| up the figures and you will find that
Wisconsin has gained more dairy
cows, or 743,495, in the Is years fol-
lowing the 1909 census, than any 9TH
err state. This put her ahead of
New York as first in gain, first in
dairy cows (2,217,O00) and first in
| total production.
| Minnesota is second in gain, or
| 588,612 cows; this put her ahead of
Iowa. Now she has more dairy cows
| 1,674 ,000), than New York 1,62S,-
OoO).
It may surprise you to know that
the third state in gain, or 273,S27
| cows, is North Dakota, and Michigan
is fourth, 219,937 cows gained.
The highest percentage of gain in
the whole United States is in Mon
tana, $50 per cent She has more
| than doubled her dairy cows. So we
| have here. stretching from Sault Ste.
| Marie to the rockies, the greatest
dairy realm of all North America,
and, l believe of the world-the
| cream pitcher of America
Doesn't it look now, in the midst of
| all this gloom we hear from the Cal