New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-04-11
time to time of character which the

Prominent among these farmers the
name Of J. H. Doty, of Courtland, may
be mentioned. He came from Tompkins
county, in the state of New York, and
settled in Nicollet county in 1857. He
has now $50 acres of farming land in one
block. Some of it is light in character,
and this should be born in mind when
estimating the results reeched by Mr..
Doty. .- p. .... -.
He has been engaged in mixed farm
ing for Is years.. During all this time
he has been raising grain and stock, but
has raised the grain chiefly with view
to feeding it to the stock. He has both
raised and bought steers for feeding, has
found that those which he raises give
him far the best results; that is to say, in
the best quality of beef. The grain
raised for food includes oats and barley,
and to some extent rye. The calves have
been raised on their dams, while they
have more than paid the cost of rearing.
Mr.. Doty is of the opinion that more
money would have been realized had he
been IN position to have reared them
on skim milk. For several years past
from 20 to 60 steers have been fattened
on this farm every year. They have
been marketed in Chicago and brought
from to II cents per pound live weight.
Mr.. Doty has found out that good
sprinkling of pure bloods has added 1
cent per pound live weight or an aver
age to the steers which he has fed.
Mr.. Doty has also given much atten-
ton during recent years to growing pork.
He feeds from 200 to $50 porkers every
year. Since the era Of high prices he has
got more money from growing pork
he considers it safer, Notwithstanding,
to keep on growing beef along with the
pork He is firm in the conviction that
enduring sdcesss in farming is obtained
by carrying line of live stock produc-
ton through the ebb tide as well as over
the spring tide. The chances are, in his
judgement, that pork will come down,
while beef is more likely to rise than to
fall.
But Mr.. Doty's experience in growing
tame hay is in a sense unique. He has
grown from Il to tons of native hay
per year on the same land for 10 years
in succession. The hay is made up of
timothy and clover, and it grows on
light bluff land, sandy in texture, and in
some places gravelly and even stony.
When this land was first seeded it grew a
crop of oats. Of timothy seed six quarts
of seed were used per acre and four quarts
Of clover seed. This was very heavy
seeding of timothy, more than would be
necessary on good strong land. Mr..
Doty has not pastured this land since it
was sown to grass. He has 60 acress of
it and gets not less than 100 tons of good
hay from it every year. The clover has
failed little in some spots only and
where the land is gravelly. In the other
parts of the field, the clover is as good
as the first.
Mr.. Doty has undoubtedly hit upon a
great lead for Minnesota conditi>. ms in
his mode of growing tame hay. In doing
so he has hit upon an easy mode of sus-
tanning fertility in land. The clover
which grows from year to year brings
nitrogen from the air to feed the timothy
AS the field is pastured after it is moved
sufficient clover grows up and ripens to
reseed the field every year.
With the wise management of Mr..
Doty it is almost superfuous to add that
he has made good thing financially of
his farming. The fertility of the sur
rounding country is greater than it was
long years ago. His returns are constant,
and thought they fluctuate with the fuc-
tuations in prices, the balance is invari-
ably On the right side at the end of the
year.
The Wheather.
Following is the report for the month of
March, 1894 Monthly mean temperature,
36,7 degrees; Mean maximum tempera-
ture 453 degrees: Mean minimum +e,