The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-03
MANY ATTEND
FARM MEETING
AT FLASHER
Newcomer. Campbell and Col
lissOn Are Speakers at Sew.
eral Slope Towns

X. c. Newcomer, Morton count,
agent; l.. A. Campbell, immigra.
ton agent of the Northern Pacific
railway, and Charles +. Collision
agricultural editor Of the Mime.
apolis Tribune, were the speakers
at Flasher Wednesday in a big get.
together meeting of Flasher bust
ness men and farmers. They
packd the hall to listen to mes
sages of optimism and good cheer
for agriculture and a hopeful out.
look for better times.
Morton county is already on
her way along the cow-path ia
prosperity declared Mr.. Coils
son. "She learned her. lesson long
ago that wheat raising does not
pay continuous profits, and has de-
velopcd larger butterfat produc-
ton than any other county in
North Dakota.
"As. result her banks have been
open on every business day and
have been in sound condition. New
Salem and Flasher both have pros
porous dairy herds and breeding
circuits, where flourishes the kind
of farming that we want to see
adopted all over the state.
This Region Sets Pace
ut remained for this region,
with it's deficient moisture and
many other difficulties to over
come, to- set the pace for the rest
Of the northwest in developing her
dairying. Your pioneers here
abandoned exclusive wheat raising
30 years ago, after eight years of
single crop failure, and turned to
the dairy cow as the foster mother
of the human race.
1--WE have had few frozen credits
or hard times, either in Minnesota
or North Dakota, wherever she has
been made the mainstay of agri-
culture. We can only commend
you to do more Of it and have more
of you doing it.
Mr.. Campbell, who has had much
experience in dry land farming in
Montana, outlined ways for saw
ing time and production costs IN
regionsrwhere the rainfall is scant
Basic Principles
"The basic principles now &C
cepted include" he said, first, re-
serves Of feed, seed, moisture and
canned goods to tide over the
short crop wears; second, other
sources of income besides wheat
to provide a family living anc
make us independent Of the one
crop; third, livestock on untitled
land to utilize the nutritious
grasses; fourth, the keeping OF
production costs down."
Both speakers pleaded for 9
heartier cooperation with the work
of the county agent en- the part O!
the bA1 Ness men and farmers
without'Nhich, they said, his wori
is hampered and ineffective. AL
falfa and sweet clover raising
corn as balance wheel in the croI
rotation and feeding system, live
stock and sheep to fertilize the de-
pleted wheat sick soils, and furnish
all-year-around labor and income
were urged as essential element:
of good farming.
A. r. kroh, agricultural econo
mist of the Tribune Staff, with
Charles Eastgate, county agent o.
Dickinson, were also given rous
ing reception in Richardton. The!
discussed better farming ant
dairying, tenancy and livestock
raising. Thy are booked by B. f
Groom of the Greater North Da
kota association, who is arranging
vail the meetings, for Hebron
Thursday, Glen Ullin Friday ant
New Salem Saturday. Mr.. Coils
sons schedule includes Hettinge
Thursday, Reeder Friday an
Bowman Saturday.