Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-12-06
FARM NOTES.

IOunO cOru SIalk6 Inc Oost and about the
only forage they bad during the past dry
season to carry stock through the sum-
mer. Little value has been placed on
the nutritive quality of the corn stalk, in
ordinary years, but II properly cured and
etored the corn stalk is fine forage. II
the stalk is left in the field 1t loses over
half OF it's feeding qualities. The corn
stalk is worth in value if properly util-
ICED, nearly as much as corn, and the
Iowa corn crop is estimated to be worth
In an average Year about 100000, 900.
The corn fodder crop is worth more than
the hay Of Iowa.
The dry season has set Iowa people
considering the problem of raising food
for stock. Several new foods have been
suggested and tried, which give promise
OF great success as dry weather crops.
Among them are COW peas; Japanese
bean plant called the SOFA, or Soy bean,
very prolific and nutritious, and growing
wonderfully under the most trying con-
| ditlons; and tnrnlps.
North Dakota soil can grow corn fod-
der, peas and turnips in any quantity in
the dryeSt of seasons. II Iowa farmers
| bring stock through long hot summer
on corn fodder, North Dakota farmers
can easily do the same. The corn crop
| in this state has been neglected too long
! already; as we'll as the other forage crops
| on which stock can be fattened to bring
! the highest prices in the market. The
day when it is profitable to sell grass
| fattened western cattle, in competition
with forage fattened beef. is nearly over
Tor the north western cattle raiser. The
difference in price OF poor "westerns'
| and choice eastern stock is already the
profit to the raiser. Small farmers iii
| this state ought to do what the small
farmer in the middle states Is doing,
turning Oft at least few head of choice
fat stock each year, instead OF selling
habitat beeves at a price that does not
pay for their raising.
Several hundred head of steers arc
being grain fed out at the Mandan stock
yards for market.
| Wheat in eastern Washington has been
selling for as low as y cents a bushel.
Twenty and 25 cents is considered good
price.
A. ". Burt, of Bartlett, is feeding two
carloads of sheep for the Chicago market
| II l-,, "a 1;ktlo e., l.;
'94 clip.
G. 7. Langley of Dickinson bought a
carload Of Minnesota cattle few days
ago. He may purchase one or two more
cars of cattle this fall.
The farmers of the ueighborhood of
Mt. Carmel, Cavalier county, mean busi-
ness regarding the cheese factory. Over
200 COWS have been pledged and build.
ing site selected.
F. G. Shelton of Mayvile believes that
the farmers of Traill county have done
exceptionally we'll this year. Aside from
the big crop year Of 81, in his opinion
the '94 crop is one of the best paying in
many years.
G. 5. Brown, Benson county farmer,
living few miles west of Minnewaukan,
has entered into hog raising. He has
the hog house divided into five pens,
each holding about 20 head. He also
has feed and water all under the same
roof.
Church's Ferry Sun: Hank" Ding
man delivered thirty-tive hogs to Erik
Lysne today, which brought him as
much money as 1000 bushels OF wheat at
the present price, He fattened them on
less than 500 bushels of otf-grade wheat.
During the early fall it did not appear
that many bnnches OF cattle would be
brought in late, says the Dickinson
Press, but a good many hundred cattle
have been purchased within the past
month by small owners. These cattle
have usually been bought in Minnesota
and Montana, the latter state atfording
the favorite stock.
! Inc VI Nd uCot bnA hCSo Nv W
show a state OF excellence in the home
product in meats Of all kinds that is
gratifying. At Henrichsen's this morn
ing lay two fat hogs that netted the
farmer $40. 70 make that from wheat
he would have to raise 100 bushels and
to do that would require hard work on
o},out ton acraa not to speak OF tie
heart aches and losses. Heretofore
butchers have imported most OF their
meats from Iowa and Minnesota.
T. w. Griffin IN Fargo Argus: did
we'll on the cattle l shipped to the Chi
cago market. took along carload OF
horses OF my own raising, principally
4-year-olds. Heavy craft horses we're
selling at $40 to $50. I knew it was NO