The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-21
NORTHWEST FINDING ITSELF

Diversified farming is driving wheat growing
large scale its last stand in the Northwest Slowly
but persently tho line Is rctrcating TO the natural
barriers where this stand must take place-thc Rocky
mountains Corn alfalfa and daryin2 have changed the
entire aspect agriculture Iowa Minnesota the Da-
kotas North Dakota holds rank i'll the wheat states
production but dvcrsilication is creeping up OIL the
Grain. And while the change proceeds Montana
which showing the greatest gains In acreage III
wheat and capturing tho prizes at tho international
show at Chicago by the quality of tho protein product
grown that OF C. Edison Smith, at Corvalls-cven is
developing diversity its agriculture that when the
last stand is by wheat it probably will sec North
Dakota It's neghbor captivating jointly to the new
CT type OF agriculture.
The federal reserve bank at Minneapolis has drawn
attention to this striking change in report 1t states
that wheat is pushed westward feed grains. with hay
End corn tho taking tho lead in North
and South Dakota and in Minnesota. j. M. Dcvinc, |
Of tho immigration department here called
attention this in recent reports This is due
largely the development Of darying in Minnesota and
tho Dakotas In Minnesota this branch of agricultural
cctvi has attained settled development like the diver
cd basis Of agriculture from the Atlantic coast west
ward OF few years ago. when the wheat line of the
Northwest was the boundary between Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
On the coast the development also has been under
way and dairyng and poutrying are we'll established
louise country of Washington and the Eureka flats In
those states fruit growing has been the favorc form OF
dvcrsying with wheat sheep potatoes and poul-
irving taking important rank in the change. Those
states also have had large development in industry as
mining and numbering something in which Montana
,hercs
Wheat. except in exceptional years, has not been
paying we'll Cattle have paid better Also sheep and
vol These latter have proved to be fine seasonal cash
while often wheat has been grown at loss from
bookkeeping standpoint instead of being cash stand
by for the farmer.
In Montana livestock growing large scale still
persists and is likely to continue time Climate
cally that state still is under the Compulsion of sticking
to stock growing Time and again the cutting up OF It's
ranges has been bitterly bewaicd Sem-ard conditions
have not everywhere and always lent themselves to prof.
liable grain agriculture. but pasture and hay generally
possible and have been conducive to profitable stock
raising the last few years. following the big crash IN
cattle and sheep which brought on by the unusual
drouth Of 1919 The sunny character Of the state has
been stressed as vital element of stock raising having
tendency to fine and nutritious curing OF the native
grasses and eahfuess of the stock The solar rays
seem to have sentative and nvgorating influences on
the herds DR.. William J. Butler, Montana state veerin-
arian asserts in connection with the upland and noun
tain grazing.
Anyhow Montana has found in late years that there
dusry the state revived by the recent profit
able years In WOOL So Montana while 1t may continue
expand wheat will not be found devotng itself to
that branch Of farming to the neglect Of the diversified
branches which already made such Roadway there
Not ever engineering methods Of Tom Campbell can
keep wheat growing to the fore much longer.
Thu1 the wheat line will recedc westward and event.
uay curl up Instead of the vast stretches Of golden
grain waving the praes, the and more stab-
ved form nfa pricu will be a
and important status Cattle, corn. hogs sheep,
potatoes sugar beets. dairyng pouryespecally turkey
raisng-will enormously increase.
Statesmen have seemed unable to solve the farm
problem. except for themselves in political chcanery. In
the election however they failed to find the farmer
ready he had been In the past to be goldbrckcd
The farmer has been working his own problem and
has been able to achieve practical solutions Of his
own. He has found that persistence in -produc,
agriculture with price depressing surplus will always
cab for the nursing bottle and that the only to
away from this dependence political buncombe Is *
ise other things than those OF which there is too muct
grown already AS John Lee Coulter pointed to thu
W9yy and means committee Of the national house We
GENTLY tho nation Is importing Of things It colt
qee u hce srd thus cut down the vast wheat urplu
that 6spilttetes wheat farming.
Nh9t Mr. Coulter pTesched to the committee .
Wsshington the Northwest smerting from It's misfor
tunes q IN yeeSs back already proceeding to do
S diyHyyipg Thst 4 the reason. as the federal re
sevo yooet Shows Why Minuesota has reversed the lsl
acresCe dsyoted 70 wheat and In earlier psrio
~ ~ North With 100000 acres planted to wheat
she la year IA IT. territory With the same acreas
s. ~ q ecen south Dakota y taking the same cours.
1In9 cIc1e - Minnesota but lacking IN yield. Thl
~ ~ 1opn & sufffctsntly profitable TO 60 il "a
u111 onIn aareaee ana has increased this nve4fol,
s ~ h1iB - ~ ~ expanding similarly.
no ~ N6oot 1ne haS made It's Inst stand the en-
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