Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-22

in the world. In the test of some of
these students in judging stock beside
the best judges of the United States
and other countries, and they against
all the ability of these judges stood
third in their score in judging stock.
Have we not cause to feel proud of
this showing from our students and
our institution. 1t is a pleasure to
announce that over 600 students are
now attending the agricultural COL
lege today.
These boys who attended this show
not only saw the best stock in the
world, butt by it got the education
teaching them how we'll it pays to
raise stock, and the kind to raise.
and will tend, l hope, to teach them
that when properly managed, it is the
most independent life a man can lead,
besides being one on an average in
life the most pleasant and profitable.
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"This is a healthy state for raising
all kinds of stock. Sheep do we'll and
are profitable. We should not forget
poultry. There is in Fargo at pres
ent a famine in eggs. They are SELL
ing from 25 to 80 cents a dozen and
hard to get. Poultry is worth from
8 to 10 cents a pound. There is also
a scarcity in milk, cream and butter.
Butter brings from % to 80 cents,
milk, Z cents per quart and cream hard
to get at any price. Separated milk,
after separation worth 10 cents per
gallon, so l am advised by one who is
selling it,"
MAI. FLEMING FAVORS CORN.
Maj. R. E. Fleming, one of Cass
county's most extensive, as well as
most prosperous farmers in the course
of an address on corn growing and
silage, said:
I'm my experience in farming in
North Dakota for the past tWenty-one
years, l have always endeavored to
raise a little corn, and have constant
ly increased the acreage, as I could
find by experiment varieties of corn
that would ripen and produce a crop
each year. The past year I had 175
acres of corn, having determined thai
the cultivation of this cereal in my
opinion was the best means of clear
ing the land of foul weeds, and main
tanning it's fertility, and further that
the corn crop seems to be the best
and surest feed crop that we can raise.
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1--WE have been so welded to the
idea that we must give the whole of
attention to wheat farming that
it is difficult for any of us, although
realizing the fact that wheat is not
a profitable crop, to cut out a few acres
each year and devote that land to corn.
We have even laid waste one-fourth OF
our land each year to summer fallow
for wheat, when a very profitable crop
of corn could have been raised, at a
fraction more expense, and the land
left in much Better condition for thu
crop of wheat or flax the following
years. We must have grain to feed oul
stock, and corr is the best feed we
can raise for all the stock on the farm
and we can produce it at less ex-
pense than oats or barley, and i,
answers every purpose for which i,
is intended.
s. + 81 * *
81 measured an acre of Northwestern
Dent and husked it, and took from
that acre Jos baskets of EAR crn
weighing fifty pounds each basket
This year being very wet the corr
plant grew much longer and required
more time to mature, but wen so tht
Northwestern Dent which I planted
roatured in sixty-seven days."
! On the subject of silage Majol
| Fleming said:
I'VE began the filling of our silt
the past season September 13, and will
| the machine which we have it tool
5 us n and three-fourths days to GU
100 tons, and with a careful estimat,
the cost or expense for cutting tn,
| corn, hauling it to the silo, and run