Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1898-02-18
OUR FARM EXCHANGES.

The sowing of wheat and flax to.
gether is said to be good to rid
field of weeds and will return good
crop.
We have read OF Maud on sum-
mer day, who raked, barefooted, the
new-mown hay; we have read of the
of the maid in the early morn, who
minded the COW with the crumpled
horn; and we've read the lays that
the poets sing of the rustling corn
and the flowers of spring; but of all
the lays of tongue or pen there's
naught like the lays of Dakota's hen.
Long, long before Maud raked her
hay, the Dakota hen has begun to
lay; and e'er the milkmaid stirs q
peg, the hen is up and has dropped
her egg. The corn must rustic, the
flowers must spring, if they hold
their own with the barnyavd ring. If
Maud is needing hat or gown, she
doesn't hustle her hay to town; but
goes to the store and obtains her
suit with basketful OF fresh hen
fruit; if the milkmaid's beau makes
a Sunday call, she doesn't feed him
on milk at all, but works up eggs in
a custard pie and stuffs him full of
chicken fry. And when the old man
wants "horn," does he take the
druggist load of corn? Not muchl
He simply robs a nest, and to town
he goes-you know the rest. He lin.
gers there and he talks, perchance,
of true reform and correct finance;
while his poor wife stays at home
and scowls, but is saved from want
by those self same fowls; for while
the husband fingers there, she watch
es the cackling hen with care, and
gathers eggs. and eggs she'll hide,
| It'll she gets enough to stem the tide.
Then hail, all hail to Dakota's hen,
the grandest blessing of all to men!
Throw up your hats and make Rome
howl-'-for the preserving barnyard
fowl! Corn may be king but tits
plainly seen, that the Dakota hen is
Dakota's Queen.-Dakota Farmer.
Prof. Sheppard of the North OAK
ota experimental station has the fol-
lowing to say of the new grass,
Bromus Inermus, also called Aus
trian bronze grass or Hungarian
bronze. "This grass is native to the
interior of Russia, region very SIM
liar to portions of the Dakotas. 1t
seems to have been cultivated there
for many ears, and is very common
ly grown there today. 1t starts
growth very early in the spring and
is very little injured by frost, staying
green until late in the fall. 1t stands
drouth exceptionally we'll, SO much
SO, that Mr., Gluyas, who lives in
Williams county, North Dakota, has
nick-named it "King of the Desert"
He has 100 acres of it growing, the
most of which is in excellent condi-
ton. 1t forms compact sod and
makes hay about equal to timothy.
1t makes a strong growth of leaves
and forms an excellent pasture. es-
pecially when it gets thickened up
after standing three or four years,
An old sod of this grass is much like
sod of blue grass for density and
leafiness. The grass is not unlike
blue grass in the form of the stalk
and head, except that it is about
three times as coarse.
Austrian bronze grass is seeded at
the rate Of 20 pounds per acre, and
should be covered an inch to an inch
and half deep. 1t is best seeded in
a grain drill, and if the seed is free
from chat and strawy material this
method is easily followed, but if it is
not we'll cleaned it may be necessary
to harrow it in the best way that is
possible to do, which is an uncertain
way of covering it. When the seed
is narrowed, in some of it is covered
deep, some shallow and some not
covered at all.
Prof. Bedford says that d
thresh the seed in an ordinary tt
ing machine, but do not let the
straw run through theser:sfab
hold the heads of the sheavcs
cylinder until tho seed is bese..
and then cast the sheaf aside.
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