The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-04-23

eo:n8 btfors the 81 nth Dnkote Dairymen'a
associhtlgr, Bookings, Feb. 15. 1858.
Il shall Try to tell son something
Ghout how we feed our cows down in
Freedom county. And right here |
want to say that | do not agree with
Mr.. Armstrong. who today advocated
the idea OF payingn no attention to the.
corn crop. l cannot carry on farming
successfully without corn crop AMI,
! in my opinion, no one can afford to do
without it who has largo number of
dairy cows to feed.
Il understand the conditions under
which you arc laboring here in this
state, hut these conditions will change
and the time will come when Bookings
county farms will be cultivated just as
we'll as they are being cultivated in.
Freeborn county. About the same
climatic conditions obtain here il
South Dakota as in n4our state OF Ninne-
sofa, and when you farmers farm less
land and farm better, then you will
| ltindsDo difficulty in raising corn for
feed. Tie corn crop needs attention and
careful cultivation,
with me-, in the first place after
11tsowtng tmhll grain l always put In
corn for the cows. begin to think
about it early in the fall. and / select
sons old ground that has been well
rcultiyatpa. -IplOw tlIsIn the fall and
in5the spring take tha Old fashioned
disk harrow aud harrow it tho way tho
burrows run, then cross harrow until
/ the ground ID as mellow os garien
patch. ThenI leave it until after my
other corn Is planted, in fact as late as
possible. put it off as long rs can
/ s"d then take my planter and drill my
corn in rows running north and south,
30 that tbesu can get in between the
rows. In this state 1 understand it is
better to have the rows run east and
west in order that The south winds YOU
ethere Dlay not have full sweep. and
thus dry out the ground between the
rows.
after planting | begin to harrow,
and keep at it until the corn comes up.
In raising any corn crop early cultiva-
ton is Necessary, 70 successfully
raise corn you must keep the field free
OF weeds and you cannot give it to much
attention. There was time when
used to get my corn in the ground and
then go off and legveif. Sad experience
has learned me different and I now
cultivate thoroughly. | do most OF it
before the corn gets out nr the ground,
although | continue to cultivate after it
comes up. And until it is three or four
inches high cultivate with the harrow,
aftarwsrd use the cuitivator, going
4 over the field as manv times as | have
4 time to do s0 Twice or three times
d over the field with cultiyator will do
after the corn has reached tl,is height,
4 ii you have practieed carly and
j thorough cultivation.
4 Il let the corn grow until The harvest,
4 then ! take a corn harvester and cnt ii
down, letting it leon the ground about
4 24 hours before shocking. Itllsn shock
itup, taking care to make the shocks
large-as large as small stacks; they
4 not only stand up better, but the fodder
keeps green longer. leave tl7 corn
Z right in the field and haul it ia as
desire to use it for feed. sometimes
have linear the pasture, as find in
!. running a dairy farm ia order to keep
up a good flow OF milk, I must have
other feed whenihe pasture drys up. and
4 feed this corn fodder regularly every
day, AMI | usually have enough Of that
] corn on hand to last until grass comes
4 again IN the spring. l have no diff
Guilty in growing as much as I need
upon ten acres.
4 Now. what kind Of corn do grow?
4 [ tried sweet corn to start with, and as
long as fed it green it seemed to ,fn-
swer the purpose and liked it, tut
found that Whsn it came to harvest and
stack it more or less OF the ears would
mould and spoil in the shock. making it
unfit for feeding purposes. tried a
number OF varieties and finally got
bnck to field corn Of the flint variety.
and according to my motion it is the
best have had anything to do with.
Il do another thing in feeding my
cows, Ibuy bran. and a g,ol dea, OF It.
5 Lind 1T pays. also grow a field OF
oatsfor my cows. cut them almost
green, and when cured stack them up
. and feed bundle Of oats, or nearly so,
per day to eacll COW and | find that
with this feed it takes about one ton Of
8 good hay apieceto last them from fall
to spring. l
y FORMERLY cut up these oats with a
cutting machine in order to feed them
!. in the best possible condition. The COWS
eat them we'll, but 1 was not satisfied. l
believe 1t was economy to feed in this
way and continued tho plan for two
years, because everybody was advising
. that sort ofthing. There came a year,
however, when was obliged TO CON.
!. mence feeding before I could get the
: machinery set mp, and was therefor
obliged to feed whole. To nv surprise
) the cows ground it up better then the
machine and it did not cost mo the
. extry time and labor to cut it up fol
! them.
Nov this is something of the Wy
we feed our cows. ] would not think
OF running dairy down in our countr,
:, without feed in tlna way. IL fed tht
: , way my friend Armstrong suggested !
:. . would be ontof feed before spring ant
: compelled to bily. Since I adopted th'
:, = plan OF a corn AMI oats crop l have
! plenty Of feed fur my cows and cal
: grow other crops Besides,
Mrs. A. Tween, residing at 72D Henr,
ST., Alton, I'll. suffered with sciati
rheumatism for oyar eight mnntbs. Sh