The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1925, Page 3

NORTH DAKOTA FARMS SYSTEM ‘ MUST BE REORGANIZED TO SAVE WHEAT, SAYS COULTER Declares That it Can Con-| tinue Most Profitable Crop | Only if the Actual Facts of , the Situation are Consid-! ered — Cannot Compete with Leading Wheat Grow- ing Countries, He Says Wargo, N. D., Jan, 20. Under present farming methods of this tion where wheat is the princip: crop year after year, North Dakota cannot compete with other leading what growing countries in yield per’ acre, declared Dr. John Lee Coulter, president of the North Da- Agricultural college, in s here.” or the last yield of wheat pe Dakota was only 10.36 bushels,” the president said. “The world average for this crop is more than 15. bush- and it should be remembered t the average of the other coun- tries excluding the United States is even higher than that, for our lower average yield reduces the average of the other countries when the world averages are considered. the acre for North age of 18 bushels per acre or better over a period of 10 or 15 years, Au tralia gets the same average on fal- low land, the Japanese Empire ha: an average of 18.2 bushels and Eur- ope verage of 18.5 bushels per ere. These old countries over a series of years secure better than 18 bushels per acre on 75 million es of wheat land. North Dakota's Id is lower than averages even in India where the most primitive methods are used. Other Yields “The other countries then are haying better yields than we are heX. That applies to the new lands the new countries us well as to better-farmed lands of the old- cr countries, Our average yield over a period of years has fallen so low that we can no longer’ hope to compete successfully in the world farket under present farming meth- ods. “It is not that North Dakota farm- ers cannot still produce these good yields,” the speaker explained, “be- cause during the past 15 years we have had yields of 13 bushels, 14 bushels and even as high as 18 bush- els. These good yields are still possible in exceptionally good years or on individual farms where well planned diversified farming is car- ried on. On some of these farms average yields of 18 bushels per acre over a period of 10 years are the evidence of what good farming sy: tems can do.” The fault, according to Dr. Coul- ter, lies in the fact that nearly two- thirds of the land actually in crop is devoted to wheat and oats, The remedy, he declares, is to reduce the nereage in wheat and to adopt a ro- tated system of farming which will provide for good yields of wheat. The better yield per acre plus a better price secured because of less acreage and consequently less ex- portable wheat to glut the world market, will bring -the farmers of the spring wheat area into an en- viable position as they will have in nfdition to wheat as a cash crop, ich forage crops as sweet clover, alfalfa and other legumes, corn, oats, nd other grains, and the livestock that must be included in every well planned system of farming. It is unnecessary, he showed, to go to the Japanese empire or the countries i Europe to find a system of farm- ing in which wheat may be grown in rotation with cultivated crops, pasture and ‘hay crops. Not New Land “Most of our state,” Dr. Coulter said, “is no longer in the new, rich, cheap, clean land period; much of the land in this state has now been farmed fifty years. Land values have gone beyond that in new coui tries. Weeds and plant diseases have crept in. High cost of labor and other items such as interest rates, taxes and transportation have found their place. And as a result} we have neither the high yield found ; an Better the in the newer countries nor the low{ production cost per bushel acre found there. “Also, North Dakota has not yet gotten over to the rotation of wheat in a system with cul crops, hay lands and pasture: as is found in the older countric the Japanese empire and Figures show that over period states such as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa have a yield of approximately 18,bushels per acre. These states cJntinue to produce from 8 to, 10 million acres of wheat, but they have or per settled down to a system of crop rotation, “The trouble has been only in the fyreat Spring Wheat Belt and the reat Plains area where. wrong methods have been pursued over op long a time. States like Ohio, In-! diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, which years ago abancon- ed wheat because the yield had fal an ad- ars the average | ada on new land gets an aver- | | Wing, who bought 4 ounces of it for | ess all, | come. j “In 1923, due to large four wheat had to be sold prices and world prices were feed | prices rather than food prices. Our! United States wheat surplus went Jon the world market. In other words, wheat was competing with corn and oats and barley as a feed crop for livestock. * | j “If we in the Spring Wheat Beit could have secured 18 bushe Sacre instead of 10 bushels dur years 1920-1921-1922 and 1 could still have maintained a pros- perous condition even with world prices on the basis of feed price: Lut with ovr yields of 10.3 bushel in the Spring Wheat Belt we could , not hope to exist on the world mai ket “We a number of sources of in- acreages, | at world | for mercy, but there shown. We pled for al relief, but found that con- | sumers of bread want cheap bread and consumers are in the majority and they were unwilling to remedy a faulty. farm program by a more | faulty economic or political program. i We pled for justice and we were told that we were getting justice, that the fault was in our bad farming | system. | pled 1 Surplus of 1923 | | “But in 1924, because of the tre-| \mendous surplus in 1923 and the ag- | jcompanying feed prices for wheat ithe farmers of the world, but e pecially those of the United States, | cut their acreage in 1924 by about 7! million acres. North Dakota helped | in this. | “The reduction in acreage alone | reduced the total world crop about 111 million bushels compared to | 1923. Furthermore, in 1924 the yield | was about 6 bushels per acre under | a long peripd average, whereas in| 1923 the yield was .6 bushel over x | long period average; th reduction in yield of 1.2 bushels compar 1924 with 1923 causing a furthe duction of 254 million bushels jthere was the poor rye crop in F {ope and the poor corn crop in th United States and the poor potato {crop in much of Europe; all of these | calling for more wheat for human | food. | “Of course the result was the in- crease in price which we ail so much appreciate. For North Dakota we were doubly grateful, because not only were we in position to take ad- vantage of the improved price but fortunately 1924 was one of our good crop years with 50 percent above the average crop over a 15- year period. “Shall North Dakota benefit from this world experience of 1923 and 1924 or shall we in the Spring Whe: Area go into the new year 19: praying for a low yield for the world at large combined with a high yield | for North Dakota? Surely any thinking men will realize that this, is too much to be hoped for more than one year out of many. There i can be but one conclusion—that is to change our farming system as rapidly as possible. Can Save Wheat “I am not arguing for the farmers Jof North Dakota to abandon the pro- duction of wheat. Wheat can be saved, in fact it must be saved as Jone of our greatest and most prof. itable crops—if not the greatest in our whole farming system. “But in order to save wheat al number of things must be done. Not only must we reorganize ous farm- ing system so that wheat and other small grain crops shall fit in with} cultivated crops, with hay land and pastures, but also must improve our wheat farming—better seed, better varieties, better methods must be used, and finally we must continue to work out a better system of mar- | keting our wheat and other prod-| ucts.” NEW WHEAT I TO BEYTRIED IN McLEAN CO. Washburn, N. D., Jan, 20.—Henry Wiese, one of the prominent farm ers of the Conkling neighborhood, | ‘states that he has been trying out) some new kind of wheat, which he believes to be the best yet. The wheat is called the Burbank wheat jand is claimed to have advantages jover other kinds. Some of these ad- ivantages are that it will mature two weeks earlier than other wheat and that it has a higher test of gluten. | Mr. Weise got his seed from his brothe! aw, Mr. Edgerton at Mr, Edgerton the first year, | planted it in his garden, threshed it | by hand and had the seed for the |; next year. Mr. Wiese has beem! planting small patches for the past couple of years apd‘this year he had seven acres, which brought him four acre than other ;, test jn gluten was 13.25 percent which is above the average. He told of one farmer in the state who rajsed 40 bushels to the acre whieh tested !5 percent gluten. Mr. Wiese intends to plant a large acreage of the “new wheat spting. “McCulloch has received some |, ce | but this |] Elsie Sukkan, 27, j land. And to keep a ing her her arrest on ; plaint was filec in peace. loved to play love set” goin, August Sukka of bigamy. PARTNER! tennis with Joseph Kleis of cieve- | ig she married him—without dive an, also of Clevéland. Kleis A Detroit judge, where ti: told Ilsie to pick one of her two husbands and dope She chose Sukkan, her first love. derwood some Splendid poultry held the last two the February have APs in bee nd com. | and better. +| i show Kidder County Woman Irherits About $ $300,900 D, dan. 20. Ellsworth from a grand De kre e in Ken-} had died j o will had | found in all ob, she would be on n heirs to whose favor who had age of 18 week her states that at she, will her Dick recieved uncle that the ate would be, she should been bilit will been killed Th Vinji, doubt inhe settle on the} gram from he ment of the es 20th inst, and that while her mothers peop! wealthy she had not looked f sugh windfall. The dead was a brot of her and was never married. He idj to have left an estate of $14,000,000. | | | | Bankers To Fight Charges' aid | knew . Minneapolis, Jan. 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