The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-02-11
Treats on Dairying and Stock
Raising for Northeast
ern Minnesota.
Grand Rapids, MINI.

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explain the advantages Of winter
dairying or show how we can
make winter dairying as profit
able here as in The southern part
of the state. We cannot buy feed
and make dairying pay, but we
can raise it and this is what we
must do. Let me emphasize again
tht the only way we can sell our
hay and grain is in the form of a
finished product. The COWS on
the experiment farm this winter
are paying $15 per ton for the
hay they are fed. In other words
the butter we sell from the cows
would pay for the hay at the rate
of SIS per ton after paying for
the grain they get at the market
price.
The point is this: sell your hay
and grain to you cows, not to the
man in town. If you care for
your cows rightly they will pay
you more in butter for the feed
they consume than any market.
The skim milk will grow hogs
at a good profit and the manure
will keep up the fertility of the
farm so that each year a better
crop may be raised than the last.
Rememb Der this one point if no
other. If you continue to sell all
your hay and grain on the mar
ket each year you will soon have
none to sell. Farmers who have
followed this system for the past
twenty years even in the Red
river valley where the soil is the
richest in the country have most.
ly failed and are now turning tc
dairying and stock raising.
Don't let US spend twenty
years of our lives in trying what
other farmers have failed to
make profitable under more fay-
orable conditions. Go out to the
barn and look at that poor old
half starved shiyering COW that
you have there and recognize
| your salvation. Go on cutting
cord wood during the day and
get your farm cleaned up but
give the old COW a little more care
and attention morning and even
ing and in the course Of a few
wears when the cOrdWOOd and
lum Der are gone you will have a
herd Of cows that will make your
farm a means of support.
In past bulletins I have simp
| ly given results of the work
carried on at the Northeast Ex-
pertinent Station. I shall now
take up an outline of system
of farming for this section of
the state. This system will not
be theoretical, it will not be
new. but system in practice
almost everywhere, where farm
ers are successful and prosper
Gus, and which the work of the
Expirement Station shows to
be practical for northeastern
Minnesota.
When we sell such products
as hay, grain, etc, we sell the
fertility Of the soil, and unless
this is returned in some form
the soil will in time cease to
produce The truth Of this may
be seen i'll many Of the eastern
states where thousands Of farms
lie deserted, completely Worn
out through an unWise system
of farming.
1t is a we'll known fact that |
wherever live stock are kept in
considerable number the farm
.ers are we'll to do. In England,
Denmark and such countries
where the raising Of live stock
and dairying are foremost in
farming the soil IS even more
fertile than it was hundred
years ago. The reason for this !,
is that the hay and grain grown
on the farm is fed to the farm
animals and sold in the form Of
butter, meat. eggs, etc, while
the fertility which it contains is.
largely returned to the soil in
the form Of manure. Consider I