The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1900-02-08
VOLUME XIV. NO. >.
grapes, black berries and tender rasp.

grapes, black berries and tender rasp-.
berries
Small fruit can be profitably grown
in nearly every county in Mime
sofa under protection Of eyergreens
and other trees. Plums of the Inn
proved native varieties are easily
grown everywhere, yielding a good
profit and most excellent fruit in
abundance Mr.. Bush has a plum
orchard of an acre which produced so
bushels of choice fruit the third year
after planting; fruits that will sell
readily in large cities for from 81 to So
a bushel.
- "A VEGETABLE GARDEN III
is most important part of the farm
for the ladies who best understand its
value. A system of rotation is used by
which the work of tending the garden
is reduced to its lowest minimum Sc
curing best results. This cannot be
explained here but is very practical
and worthy of imitation. Annual
number IL tells all about it. If you
did not secure this book send IL cents
in stamps to pay postage to 6uperin-
tend O. c. Gregg, Lynd, MINI: Every
department of this book was edited by
practical farmers who know their bust
ness, and it may be worth many dol
lars to you in saving time and money
and securing better results.
FLAX AND WHEAT GROW TOGETHER.
Mr.. Bush says this crop has been
grown in southern Minnesota for
several years very successfully and
proftably. The original purpose in
mixing these grains was to keep the
chinch bugs out of the wheat fields,
which proved to be a very reliable pro-
lection. In addition to this wheat
growers demonstrated it to be very
valuable in supporting the wheat straw
on ground where wheat is disposed to
lodge or break down. Severe wind
storms do not damage either crop as
badly when mixed. Again, the quality
of both is improved by being grown to-
gether, a general principle which ap-
plies to all small grains, especially
true when conditions favor blight, rust
or amy other disease, either4ia the
grain or straw. He advises trying it
in a small way to convince yourselves
of its value. Flax does not take as
much plant food from the soil as wheat,
but must have its supply in less than
fifty days of its growth, hence the i'm
| portance Of thorough preparation of
the soil before sowing the crop.
Again, the roots and straw of the flax
crop appear to ''poison" the land for a
succeeding crop Of fax. These will
not decay nor this condition disappear
from the soil for about five years. All
other crops, especially oats and barley,
do we'll after flax, therefore do not SOW
flax on any field, regardless of it's rich
condition or price. until a lapse of FIVE
years. To- secure best results. estab-
fish five year rotation of crops in
which wheat: oats. corn. barley and
clover, the later for pasture and hay
should succeed each other in the order
named. Glover makes an ideal field
for pasture and hay should succeed
each other in the order named
Clover makes an ideal field for flax and
wheat, as the clover plant gathers and
deposits in the soil large quantities of
| nitrogen, an expensive element of
fertility, needed and readily available
for a crop of wheat and flax The
present high price of flax makes this
crop valuable one to the farmer, in
any wheat growing section. Wheat
and flax should be- grown as early as
the soil can be worked, using either
broadcast seeder or drill. If the lat
ter is used it is better to cross seed
with the fax after the wheat is sown.
He said two parts of wheat to one of
flax is about the proportion generally
used, sowing four or five pecks to the
acre, which will produce crop testing
about 40 per cent fax. If sown early
the grains will ripen together Allow
both wheat and flax to become fully
ripe before harvesting. AS the crop is
self supporting, no wheat heads will
fall to the ground, neither will there
be much loss of the flax under the pro-
lection of the wheat.
+ Harvest with binder; handle the
same as wheat, then the mixed crop
will thresh out cleaner than either
would alone. In southeast Minnesota
this crop is marketed mixed as it
comes from the machine. the farmers
tickets for the per cent. due for each
grain as determined by the flax test.l
The crop is easily separated by run
ming through any, flax cleaning ma
chine. On this account the grain
dealers are willing to separate the
mi yt,lre hecal1Se it helms to 5rraI7a0 ,,,,