St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-18
FARMERS TALK
About Matters Strictly Practical
and Appropriate to the Season.

About Matters strictly Practfcai
and Appropriate to the Season.
The following extracts from the re-
port of the Luverne News of the talk of
farmers at recent institute in Rock
county, contains interesting suggestions
for farmers in this state and section:
Mr.. Raymond said that his experience
had shown that it was an excellent plan
to SOW clover and wheat together, using
from four. to eight quarts of clover to
the acre, less for seed and more for
pasture. Mr.. Campbell, in replying to
question, stated that winter wheat
ought to be dragged after the ground is
dry to break up the stalks. Mr.. Stanton
said he got forty bushels of oats from
a piece of ground which he narrowed
both ways when the oats were four or
five inches high, while he only got
twenty-three where he did not harrow.
He believed it good thing, especially
in dry season. His advice was never
to use pillow when disc would do the
If it is dry, it is all the better. Mr..
length on the subject of potato
culture, at which he has had marked
success. He followed the example of
the Pennsylvania Dutch, he said. In
the first place he said he took great care
of the seed, picking out the best pota-
toes in the fall, packing them in bar
rels in cool cellar with plenty of air.
Then clean the land as early
as possible. Let the sun shine
on it and the weeds get a good start.
Then pillow four-inch furrow; cut the
potatoes two eyes to the piece; plant
two pieces to the mill, in every third
furroW. two feet apart. Then cover
them with four-inch furrow and har-
three or four days pillow again and har-
row crossways. Crush the plants
down. Roll them if possible, and lie
the horses walk right on the plants
The bugs will let them alone, and
good crop is almost certain. Another
point is to alternate the potatoes on
high and low lands from year to year,
as they quickly run out if kept on one
kind of soil. Mr. Stanton answered
number of questions, aud the sub
ject as presented by him was of
great interest. He got 26O bushels
from a measured half acre in 1883
and 225 last fall. E. L. Grout brought
up the question of how to raise cheap
fodder, in view of cheese factory hav-
ing been started in Beaver Creek. Mr.
Shoemaker told them how Mir. Sanford
had raised corn fodder in Pipestone
county and also how he had seen it done
| in Iowa, where the stalks are put through
acutter and cut up fine. Mr.. Raymond
| told of his experience in connection
| with a cheese factory in Michigan,
where they tried similar plan. G. E.
| Older said that his experience showed
that cattle would eat corn in preference
to hay even if it was blackened. Will
Preston put in six acres of
corn which he planted in double
rows. He cut it with reaper
shocked 1t up. and after the
| ground frOZe, stacked it, and 1t lasted
him till March. T. P. Circuit said in his
recent trip East he visited dairy farms
in Wisconsin and New York. In the
latter state they drilled in their corn,
| shocked it in medium-siZed shocks, and
when ready to use it. cut it up fine,
stalk, ear, leaves and every
thing. w: W. Bell, of Valley
Springs stock farm, who was present,
was invited to speak. He said he had
very good success with corn, but after
all it called for an expenditure of too
much money and labor to handle it.
| He thought that millet was altogether
preferable as fodder. 1t is easy
to cut, dries qEickly, and is light
to handle. The leaves are better
than hay, and the seed better
than corn. In fact he thought it the
| perfect fodder for all kinds of farm ami
mails. His remarks were received with