The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

How to Raise it...sonie Valuable
Suggestions.

A large number of our farmers will
raise fax this season. Since the
Pillsbufy q Hulburt Co. inserted
their fan seed advertisement in the
Inter Ocean, agent Shaw has been
hesieged with applications for seeds
on the .erfds proposed. Letters have
been received on the subject from
the Turtle mountain and Mouse river,
and farmers from all parts of the
county have called and given their
orders. We would not advise farm
ers to go into it too heavily. Sow
ten or twenty acres, but don't aput
your aiggs all in one basket" Wheat
will bring a good price this year.
a circular just issued gives ssme
valuable hints on flax culture. The
seeds being small it requires a fine
seed bed. Therefore prepare the
ground we'll before sowing, making
the surface fine and smooth. If on
new breaking, break deep and harrow
the sod well to give as much dirt as
possible, without upturning the sod.
One farmer says: aPut all your work
on the ground before sowing"
In regard to the amount to SOW per
acre, if old ground and you use the
Russian seed, from II to l6 quarts
per acre; on new breaking from 10 to
Il is enough. If you use the Ameri-
can seed you, need about a half more.
Most any Of the improved seeders
having a guage regulating the amount
to SOW will do. Set the teeth very
Light, and sotne think it better to leave
them off entirely and harrow over
once after sowing with a light harrow
or drag made Of brush or barbed
wire, as it needs but light covering.
When most Of the hollis and lever
parts of the stalks have turned yellow
and the seeds slightly brown it is
ready to harvest. At this stage it
win cut as easily as wheat. Be care
full not to cut before ripe. Unripe
seeds cannot be properly filed out and
must fall short in weight. Use q
smooth knife in your reaper with
sharp edge and quick motion. If the
self binder is used, bind light, many
prefer not to bind, as it saves expense
Of Irvine, and the machine throws il
off in 2 well compacted form. Some
use the self rake, and then gather w
the gavels set up and twist the tor
together, like buckweat. 1t has beer
known to stand thus through a rain
without material damage. But in
any case set up, rs it dries better, and
if rain comes it runs through and
soon dries out. But we advise stack
ing as soon as possible after cutting
as it usually dries ont in one day. Top
out with prairie hay. Most any Of
the vibrating machines with flax seed
attachments are good.
1t is the best preparation fora wheat
crop, insuring from three to six bush
els more per acre following fax'
than when in succession. The same
Is true of oats or barley, and thus
afford a good relief from the Zone
CROP sybterh. If the crop is properly
stacked and secured from rain the
straw and chaf are eagerly eaten by
stock, and worth as much as ordinary
hay.
While the above applies to the
American seed, sown in any Of our
western states territories, the large
Russian seed is especial adapted 70
the northwest, enabling the farmer
to SOW late, even after all other small
grain is sown, and harvest after all
other small grain is secured; requiring
only 10 to Is quarts of seed for an
acre, and often yielding from twelve
to eighteen bushels per acre On new
breaking, leaving the ground in much
better condition for wheat the next
spring than it otherwise would be. 1t
has been sown on new breaking in
westean Minnesota and Dakota as late
as July 10th and returned fifteen
bushels per acre.
Farmers who will SOW fax this year
should cut out these instructions and
paste them up where they may be con
suited at all times-DeuiB Lake In
ar Ocean.
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