The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1922, Page 8

i PAGE EIGIT SLR AL AUIS, valuable. Clean, rich cream without loss of butterfat — that is what makes a dairy herd profitable — and a Primrose Dop in when you happen to be in town and let us explain to you more fully how the Primrose cream- saving feature works. New Salem Mercantile Co. New Salem, North. Dakota. Farm Machine Headquarters. We Boost The Dairy Business | By Selling Reliable Suits Raincoats Socks Underwear Shoes Shirts and Collars at Prices Away Down. Come in and See Us. Bismarck Mercantile Company Army & Navy Store. Why Dairying Pays Every man who is trying to get anywhere wants to have some- thing to say about the conditions under which he works. He wants to be able to use his brains and his energy to change those condi- tions to his own advantage. Did you ever stop to. think that the grain farmer has little or nothing to say about the conditions of farming which surround him? From the wet, cold ground in the spring to the drouth and heat of summer, the hail, the hot winds, the bugs and the frost, he is at the mercy of the seasons, the prey of the elements, the victim of chance, Sometimes he wins. More often hé loses. But he never is in con- trol of the conditions which surround him and his business. Success with him is a gamble and we have been finding out of late years that the gambler’s chance is a small one, The dairy farmer, however, as he gets his farm onto a dairy basis, lifts his business out of the realm of chance. He gradually comes to have the power to control, at least in some degree, the conditions which surround him and his business. He is better able to capitalize his ability, his knowledge, his industry, and to profit personally through their exercise. Success in dairying depends upon two things, both of which the farmer can control with much more certainty than he can control anything connected with the grain business, Those things are (1) grading:.up the herd for better production, and (2) raising feed. There is little of the element of chance or luck in grading up & herd. The farmer has it within his power to plan ahead and then to make his plans come true. It is a matter of study, intelligent effort and persistence. But note this:—If every ome of these were to be pre- sent in abundance they could not prevent a grain farmer losing every- thing in a hail storm, a drouth, a week of hot winds or a chinz bug raid. Raising feed has more of the element of chance than the work of grading up the herd, but the element of chance is much less than where all the eggs are in the grain farming basket, and gradually the farmer can almost completely control the production of the feeds his dairy cows will need. Corn. for silage is a’ reasonably certain crop when there has been intelligent seed selection for early matur- ity and when the cultivation has been adequate. Clover and alfalfa are crops éa which not much, chance is taken. They respond to pro- per effort. The combination. of corn, silage and alfalfa or clover make up the feed ration. The dairy farmer can grade up his cows and provide his season’s feed, and laugh at the seasons and elements because through study and planning and effort he can beat them. Hence the good business proposition of getting into dairying. Our community cannot get onto a dairy basis in a month or a year. It is something we have to grow into, but we can grow into it fast when once We start and the effort will pay nice dividends as we go along. There is no guess work about this. There are hundreds of dairy communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin and everyone can testify to the truth of the business certainty of the industry. Bvery such community started from just as small beginnings as are those with which our community will start, and every one of them started from an original condition of grain farming. These dairy communities know nothing about crop failures and care less. The farmers there have long since ceased to worry about them. They have mastered the’ conditions which surround their busi- ness and while the grain farmers are accumulating mortgages, the farmers of dairy communities are building up deposits in the banks. Let’s consider this matter ‘of getting the farming of our commun- ity on a basis where the farmer, instead of being at the mercy of the elements, can exercise some measure of control over them. Bismarck Bank a eo We Solicit Your Cream and ~ Poultry Shipments , Northern Produce Company Bismarck, North Dakota WE ARE DISTRIBUTORS ‘ —for— McCORMICK —and— DEERING Mowers, Hay Rakes, Binders, and « All Repairs. ' ; Primrose Cream Separators. CREAM CANS MILK CANS . MILK PAILS. » Milk Strainers of Every Kind. French & Welch, Bismarck “The Winchester Store.” ‘Oscar H. Will & Co. The Pioneer Seed House of the Missouri Slope. Headquarters for Seeds of all Forage and Feed Crops. BEST PRICES AND QUALITIES. Largest Feed Dealers on the Missouri Slope. Write us at Bismarck. Tung-Lok Silos Make Dairymen Money The experience of last winter when feed was scarce and expen- sive will happen again unless you are prepared. Put a TUNG-LOK SILO on your farm, it will pay for itself every year. Come in and let us tell you about the Tung-Lok. Wood makes the best silo, and Tung-Lok is the best wood silo. F. H. Carpenter Lumber Co. Tel