The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-07-26

pcuIcu III tue July ID ISSUE VI
Farmstead, Stock 4 Home, farm
magazine published at Mime
apolIs, Mimi. 1t is reprinted in
the Tribune with the permission
of the publishers of Farmstead.
Stock & Home, and cuts for the
accompanying pictures were
furnished by them.)
80 IL is seldom safe to recommend
for one farming section the methods
Of another.
: Trouble with these natives il that
hey don't morc'n half farm" de.
clares the newcomer.
And he starts in to show how real
farming is done back in Illinois or
Indiana or Ohio. But local condi-
tor Of soil and climate. weeds. live
stoc diseases, marketing problems
and what not arise to confound his
logic and shake his self confidence.
Soon, if he is wise, he is seeking the
.,s"cc Of the old timers.
They have learned, by the expen-
sive scientific method known as trial
=. and error, the means that succeed
in the new country.
:. But when the earliest settlers Of
: community, having failed by new
i methods they thought adaptable.
:. .urn back to those which did we'll in
the old home--and succeed-the new
comer may proceed with confidence.
: He already knows how.
One Great Cereal Grain Field
= Western North Dakota is practical
" one great waving field Of cereal
grains. Far as the eye Gun reach.
..-:yn;le after mile stretch away. un-
dulating rectangles OF wheat and bar
In. ~A A
---nIilc apart stand the farmsteads. In
the majority Of cases, the house is
= mail and weatherbeaten. The barn
answers the same description. They
and the tractor and threshing
....sHsehine. harvester and haying tools
are unsheltered by tree or shrub.
There is nothing to interfere with
-EKs efficiency Of the windmill.
North Dakota soil and climate do
produce cereals OF good quality in
liberal quantities-when untimely
drought or invading weeds do not
prevent. Often they do prevent.
And when they do not, the grain
must compete with that Of other
and Argentina and Australia and
india there are thousands OF ambi-
tiors young men who hope by tear,
ing up great areas Of soil and plant
I. inf wheat or flax some lucky year
to clean up fortune and go back
4 home" But first they must pay
Their debts, contracted for land and
seed and machinery and labor. It
will tai, not one but two bumper
crops at good prices. And the sec
ond in succession only encourages
\. the gambler to make one more throw.
That's where he loses what he made
. the second good year. And that's
A why the house remains small and the
modern convenienccs are not added.
!. and the paint peels from the un-
:, shaded siding.
An Impatient People
= We are impatient. We must get
Y rich quick--in a single season. And
a when we fail. we want the govern-
- ment to intervene.
OF course, in every community
( there are exceptions. Miles away you
"A see the groves refreshing green, the
biz red barn and the silo. Fat beef
n cattle or matrOnly mixers, grunting
swine, sheep, turkeys and chickens
surround well-bult structures, and
the comforts Of the home reflect the
owners prosperity.
e. occasionally you find even q
& whole community that is exceptional.
Years before the 500 built its line
from Max to Sanish, through Ward,
and Paul and Peter HOLDEN, John and
\ Ole Lunden and John and Henry
Snippen left Pope county. Minnesota,
!; to seek free homesteads in North
Dakota. They found what they want
ed GO miles south of Minot, then the
nearest railroad point. They came
. back to Minnesota and told their
brothers and their sisters husbands
and the rest of the relatives about
Roseglen township on the edge Of
the Fort Berthold Indian reservation
. west Of the Coteau hills in Mclean
county.
They homesteaded about the whole
township. What others originally
proved up" mostly they have bought
since. They raised grain and hauled
it 60 or 20 miles to Minot and haul
ed home lumber and supplies. This
!. was in 1902. Later the railroad came
to Ryder, only Is or 20 miles away.
That was better, but still some Of
them continued to live in the sod
houses they first had built. They
: weren't getting ahead very fast rails
Alfalfa Thrives
: Then John Snippen or Ole Lunden
---or some Of the fe1lows-each gives
: the other the credit-one of them
! read about Grimm alfalfa and sweet
clover. He bought seed Of both.
. planted il without lime or inocula-
ton and it throvc nightly. The
soil was just what il liked. There
I was plenty Of lime in il. The rain
fall was sufficient to produce . good
. first crop Of hay. II it rained later.
: there was another crop OF hay.
VI not there was q crop Of seed.
!. These Norwegians, Swedes and Ger
mans from Minnesota knew . good
thing. They bought more Grimm
!. seed-an Of them--and planted il by
4O's and SOS and quarter sections.
! eat the hay and make use Of the
some another. But mostly. they
bought good ones. high grade or reg
istered stock.
Fred Olson, who went from
Stewart, MIMI, in 1906, il milking q
head Of registered Holsteins. He
: drives his automobile two miles ont
to pasture twice day to milk them.
He has solid section farm. build
ings in one corner, pastuee in tho
opposite one. His Durocs are kept
closer to the buildings. Olaf Hsn-
son likes GuernSeys better - milk.
efs. His milk check averages el36
"a month. He has Red Polls for
heef; and b sAies Dpfoes Tor breed.
ing purposes al over leup sta1os.
z Ev1sythiA8 10 pbgiGterei. He - 30
farm q $50 aeres. TIE writer MT
: him ct the Ryder stockysrds, ship
ping Q ear Of 1l-eent hogs 10 South
st. Paul. The Lunden brothers, four
sof them. agree perfectly o. he va3ue
Of alfalfa and sweet olo1Grs q fh9
planting of shelter belts and shrub-l