The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-10-29
FROM MILO TO MORRIS.
Trip Across Country and Peep at
Fields-Spring Lawn Farm.

"A Trip Across Country and a Peep at
Fields-spring Lawn Farm.
Spring Lawn F arm, Morris, Stevens
County, Minn.-Editor of u ion
Any person who is travelling from one
part of the country to, another is apt
to see many things that will interest
him, and perhaps some of the readers
of the I'm ion will be interested in
what is being done outside of Mile
Laos county in the agricultural line,
as noted in a trip through the country
from Milo to this place recently.
Mrs. S. and myself started from
F'oreston on the nineteenth of the pres
ent month and stopped in Foley the
first night. Nothing of great interest
came to our notice. Wheat in Benton
county is a low grade, corn and pota-
toes about the same as in Mile Laos
county, although we heard of one man
who raised about 200 bushels to the
acre from several acres. We left
Foley on the twentieth and arrived at
Spring Lawn farm about sunset of the
same day. We were surprised at the
large amount of unthrashed grain.
[ think that not more than One-third
of the grain has been thrashed in and
around this section of country, but
when we saw a thrashing engine putting
hard and trying to pull itself through
the mud and six horses working hard
to move q separator we did not won
der at the large amount of unthrashed
grain. In several places between Will
mar and Morris we saw them cutting
fax and stacking grain. Wheat in
this vicinity is yielding about twelve
or fifteen buhels to the acre, oats
average about forty bushels. Farm
ers are greatly disappointed as they
had expected a large yield and good
quality, but the hard rains damaged
wheat to that extent that it is lowered
one grade. No. is a rarity. There
are many large fields of corn but it is
soft and will be fed to stock without
husking. There are few fields that
are an exception to the above state
ment.
Spring Lawn farm is situated seven
miles southwest from Morris and con-
tains $40 arces. It is owned by Prof.
W. M. Hays of the Minnesota college
of agriculture and E. w. Randall, Sec
rotary of the State agricultural soci-
ETY.. The farm is in charge of J. Won
Kleck. There have been 400 acres I'M
der cultivation this season, and sew
enty acres of this is corn and corn
fodder. AS might be expected the farm
is worked on scientific principles to a
large extent, but it is necessary for the
foreman to use some common sense
with the owners science. Rotation is
the method employed as far as prac-
tical and all the No. l grain that is
not used for seed on the farm is sold
for seed. The cattle on the farm at
the present time are an amalgamation
of breeds, but the owners intend in the
near future to stock the farm with the
ShOrthOrn breed of CATTLE The farm
is a model one in every respect.
The country about here is very flat
and I can look from the window where
I am writing and see sections lines by
ridges between farms as far as the eye
can see. 1t is almost a treeless prairie
and there are a few cottonwood groves
about farm buildings to break the mo-
notony and one cannot but notice
quite contrast between this section
and Mile Laos county. The weather
is very pleasant and Mrs. S. and my
self are enjoying ourselves among
old friends, but there have been many
changes since we left Stevens county.
Many Of the old settlers have gone to
the other states and Canada and their
places have been taken by strangers.
S. B. Smith,
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