Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-07-03
RAISING CORN AND FEED STUFF
Success of Farmers Who Have Raised
Corn and Feed Stuff in
N. D.

IN other parts Of the state is attract
ing attention and items like the fol-
lowing are appearing in the papers:
The Bismarck Tribune says
Capt. /. 2. Baker is having his field
or alfalfa on the bottoms in the vest
ern edg ge of the city cut and cured for
hay. \ careful estimate would place
the yield at about two tons per acre.
With continuation OF present CON
dltiOnS OF moisture the field will cut
another crop before the coming of
autumn frOStS, with the chances in
favor OF an increase in yield.
More attention has been given to
the growing Of corn in the southern
counties Of the James valley than in
the northern part of the state. The
Oakes Republican in Dickey county
has two column account Of the in
crease of corn raising there. Speak
ing Of the gradual recourse of the.
farmers to stock and mixed farming
the republican says:
People were tirSt attracted to this
section from the advertising Of that
great wheat growing region, the Red
River valley. For the most part they
came here with an exclusive wheat
raising idea, that wealth could be
gained quickly by raising wheat for
market. All the money brought here,
and all that borrowed from the loan
companies was invested in teams and
machinery for wheat raising, and for
The first fifteen years that industry was
followed almost to the exclusion Of all
other farming operations. A corn
1elc was almost unknown here. Few
only, comparatively, succeeded in
making wheat a complete success but
every farmer was prepared for the in
duStry with teams and machinery,
ald horses, sheep cattle, hogs, dairy
lag and corn fields were reluctantly
taken up. To most Of the farmers II
was new work. But in almost every
Instance it has been a success. There
are hundreds Of farmers in Dickey
county today who. five or six yerrs
ago were ready to abandon farming
wheat raiSing-aS failure. They
gradually took up corn raising and
mixed farming and are now well fixed.
out OF debt with comfortable homes
surrounded with corn fields and pros
porous farms as the result of proper
farming.
Thus has DiclSey county passed
through the crucial test, abandoned
the one crop uonanza wheat growing
i1ea, and our farmers have got down
to the tirm and stable business of
mixed farming and the dairy.
\ number Of instances are given as
follows:
Mr.. Samuel Glover Of Glover. who
farms perhaps the largest tract OF
land Of any man in the county, says he
considers corn the most profitable
crop that can be raised in this sec
tlon. Last year Mr.. Glover did not
sell his corn but fed it to his stock.
He made careful estimate of the
yield and concludes that he had forty
two bushels to the acre. This season
1902, Mr.. Glover has planted 1000
acres Of corn, 500 Of which is for the
corn itself and 400 is for corn fodder.
Mr.. Glover says he is raising better
corn every year, as the corn becomes
more acclimated to this section.
Ed. Bond lives three miles from
Cakes on land that is inclined to be
somewhat sandy. He is raising about
100 acres Of corn every year. and finds
it the most profitable main crop he
can grow. Mr.. Bond says that he is
almost absolutely sure of thirty BUSH
els to the acre of good corn, and that
is worth more to him than a crop of
wheat. Mr.. Bend selects his seed
every year, yicking out the best corn
in the field and finds that the quality
of his crop is increasing every year.
These facts and the low prices of
the lands in this state are making the
steady sales Of farm property at in
creaSlng prices an every day occur
rance. New ranches are being To-
Gated by Stockmen from other western
states. The Bismarck Tribune notices.
one such locations:
Ziba Clifford of Mitchell. la, has
purchased 500 acres of land in the
vicinity Of Driscoll, where he and his
son have recently taken homesteads.
They will both locate here in the
spring and improve and stock their
farms. This is Mr.. Gifford's second
visit and he is well pleased with the
country as farming and stock pro-
ducing region.
Mr. N1nrbn rhntnrroY,],nr