The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-02
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Called Maxnificent Effort

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1t Is q magnificent effort we art
witnessing In North Dakota, the asso.
citation declares. The farmer ha.
shown Initiative, enterprise and will.
ingness to adopt new methods anc
discard practices OF generation. The
local bank has been ready with credit
for livestock and the Agricultural
Credit Corporation has justified Pres
ident Coolidge's statement last August
that he regarded its organization and
operation as one of the great services
to the Northwest brought into being
during his administration.
The railroads, in initiating pro.
grams and cooperating with othe,
agencies, have written q new chapter
IN the history of service to common
wealth by larger business interests.
Business men within and without
the state have sustained the Greater
North Dakota association, largely be-
cause Of its farm development work
including its sire, silos, feed crops
hog and pure seed campaigns. The
daily and weekly press of North Da-
kota, as we'll as the papers of Mime
apolis, st. Paul and Duluth, the farm
magazines and financial publications,
all have made the great task more in
teresting and effective.
One publisher, F. E. Murphy, of
the Minneapolis Tribune, has given
the Greater North Dakota a revolving
fund to speed up its sire campaigns.
Business and professional men, en-
rolled as members Of this association.
have contributed their salesmanship.
The net result has been a chapter in
the states history that must go down
to posterity as mark in cooperative
effort to inspire generations of the
future.
Offering specific result. to be
measured In dollars and cents if de-
sired. the review notes that during
the past four years more than 5000
purebred sires-dairy and beef bulls,
boars and rams-have been placed on
North Dakota farms. It also reminds
that 100000 sheep have been sold to
farmers of the state during the past
five years, increasing the states sheep
population more than 100 per cent
during that period.
Citing q few barometric figures on
agricultural development in North
Dakota, the associations statement
points out that the sugar beet acreage
has increased to 5000 acres and prob
ably 10000 acres will be devoted to
beets IN 1929. Corn acreage has in
creased to a million acres while al
Ialfa and sweet clover acreagcs now
amount to 100000 acres.
New Methods Brighten Future
North Dakota farmers, the review
declares, are contributing their part to
the solution Of the farm problem by
applying themselves to that phase Of
It which Is within their province. They
are doing this by improved farming
including balanced. lower
cost and quality production, and by
experimenting in production and
cooperative efforts, The
other phase Of the problem, it points
out, must take the form Of a national
program to meet the sur
plus problem, adjustment OF the tariff
on agricultural products, inaugura-
ton OF federal land policy, ETC..
which rest with congress.
Assuming that remedial legislation
IN Washington in the interest of agri-
culture Is to become reality during
1919, a proper analysis Of the future
must take into consideration what
mas been and Is being accomplished
N North Dakota under the unsatis-
factory condition prevailing since
postwar deflation, the review con-
ciudes. A survey compels anyone to
recognize tremendous progress in
North Dakota but this is merely an
indication OF what will be recorded
n the future when q sound, federal
farm program becomes reality.