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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1915
Page
6
The piece argues farming worldwide faces inherent disadvantages from scale, credit, and market power. It details the need for cooperative action, credit access, and price realization, insisting the farmer must emancipate from tied trade by organization, thrift, and self-reliance to escape trader bondage and improve outcomes.
A Hoard's Dairyman excerpt warns that the refrain I can't afford it breeds in farmers a belief in better things and methods while keeping them in wasteful traditions. It argues the mental block prevents progress toward improved livestock, soil care, and farming efficiency.
Kalamazoo county farm agent Jason Woodman cites two neighboring farmers to illustrate a contrast between learning and adaptation versus stagnation. A frugal young worker on 40 acres saved and prospered, while a neighbor on 160 acres stuck to old methods, depleted soil fertility, and earned less overall.
The most successful North Dakota farm likely spans 240 to 640 acres. Small grains and grasses yield modest gains, about 25 percent above local averages. Half income from grain at the elevator, half from animals or animal products. Key products include wheat, oats, barley, flax, cream, beef, and pork, with options for horses, wool, sheep, poultry, and seeds depending on location. Two to four major products expected, and area, yield, returns per animal, and diversification drive success.
Secretary of Agriculture urges methods to ease meat shortages in the United States. He cites eradicating cattle ticks, expanding beef production in southern ranges, better use of public grazing lands, and increasing attention to pigs and poultry while noting corn prices and soil fertility as key factors impacting meat costs. The piece emphasizes government range management and farm improvements as immediate steps.
Professor Doneghus of agronomy answers a question on whether small grains may be borrowed more than twice. He advises first barrow after roots are established and a crusted crust forms after heavy rains. A second barrow can occur when the grain stands six inches tall.
Chairman Good Roads Committee urges faster road building and better highways to unlock markets and prosperity. He argues roads cost less than bad ones, condemns mud holes, and praises highway expansion as civilization’s backbone for future generations.
An essay warning that women in the fields form the hidden labor crisis, comparing their bondage to slavery and urging reform. It laments low wages, long hours, and industrial greed, calling on Congress, statesmen, and the press to aid field workers and protect women.
A plea on women workers in farming from the census era argues that women and children bear the burden of poverty and hunger. It asks if national civilization should value home crown over field labor and calls for wage readjustment and policy change led by the Farmers' Union to protect mothers and daughters from relentless farm toil.
A fragmented exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal shows a speaker claiming Ui will rock the boat while a companion cautions against action. The dialogue mentions an unloaded pistol hid in jeans and hints at a tense interior scene.
A line from Ben Jonson on courtesy and nature noting that rivers winds and meat are not owed thanks but exist by necessity while humans rely on horses and trees for aid without awareness. The fragment reflects a Renaissance view of human obligation to natural aid.
Rev H H Rottmann, International Secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, will give a series of free illustrated lectures at the Congregational church. He arrives February 3 and will conduct talks for youths and all attendees, with sessions lasting into evenings and afternoons.
Washington, D.C. Feb. 2. The census bureau reports that sixty two percent of North Dakota farmers hire labor for year by year. Labor expenditure in the state is about 40,000. Across the continental United States yearly labor spending exceeds 651,000,000 with 46 percent of farmers employing hired hands. Approximately 8,000,000 farmers in the country hire labor.
B C Rorbes, Hearst financial editor, groups under Agriculture several forecasts for 1915. He cites crop rotation value, a 50 percent rise in Winter wheat acreage in the South, extending corn yields, a projected farm credit system, immigration boosting rural labor, total farm products near 10 billion dollars in 1914, high food prices enriching farmers, investment in labor saving machinery and better cattle, and advances in agricultural science reducing crop failure risk.
A compact rundown lists events from 1861 including Texas secession and Confederate organization, plus milestone dates such as Horace Greeley's birth in 1811 or 1812, Roger Williams landing, Massachusetts ratifying the Constitution, and Georgia settlement in 1733. The sequence also notes Ground Hog Day and Charles Dickens’ birth.
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