Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-03-10

the season and less work will be
required to keep the crop clean.
! Do not plant corn or milletwhen
the ground is SO cold that they
will not sprout and grow read
lily. The first Of June is as early
as it is safe to plant them in
most seasons.
Large seeds may be planted
deeper than small ones. There
is less food stored inthe small
seeds and a young plant has to
depend upon the soil and air
sooner for a food supply. It is
folly to plant flax seed as deep
as you would corn or wheat. AL
flax seed does not contain plant
food enough to build a flax stem
more than 81 to 4 inches long.
No food outside Of the seed can
be used until the plant has it's
leaves in the sunlight. 1t must
also sabe remembered that the
stems from the smaller seeds are
very weak and cannot push their
way through a heavy covering
of earth from a sheer lack, Of
lifting force. If the soil is dry
near the surface, the seed should
be put in deeper. No seed will
grow unless it is in contact with
moisture. The better the ground
is prepared the shallower the
seed may be planted; and the
shallower the seed is put IN if
we'll covered and supplied with
moisture the better it will start.
Wheat should be seeded at
depth Of 8 inches in the ordinary
field. Flax will do best in we'll
prepared soils if not seeded
deeper than one inch, but; it
must be put in deep enough to
come in contact with moist
ground. Flax seed should never
be planted deeper than 3 to 81
inches.
Macaroni or durum wheat
should be seeded heavier than
fife or blue stem as the berries
are enough larger to require a
greater volume to contain the
same number and it does not
stool as heavily as common
wheat. Six and a half to seven
pecks Of macaroni wheat and five
pecks Of fife and blue stem are
about the right amounts, on
average soil. A half bushel Of
flax seed per acre usually proves
satisfactory. The experiment
station has had good results
from seeding oats at the rate Of
two and a half bushels. and bar
ley at the rate of two bushels
per. acre. Millet seed Of the
spike head varieties is common
ly sown at the rate Of two pecks
and the broom corn sorts at the
rate of three pecks per acre.
Do not seed wheat after wheat
for several years in succession,
but rotate your crops instead.
Corn, millet and grass form
good preparatory crops for small
grain. j. H. Shepherd, and O.
O. Churchill,
Agricultural College, Fargo,
N. d. +r
WE WILL TRIUMPH SURE NEXT TIM E.
By MP. Right,
The folliwing poem was written by gentle
man of Churchs Ferry who requests the pub
publication of the same.-Editor.]
In the Ocean" I would appear.
For I'm an old Ramsey Pioneer,
And my glad spirit is afire
To sing q song with tuneful Tyre.
Not for victory can sing. II
But as a bard instruction bring, 34Ss33 #
For experience has given light; sII.
To speak of it deem it right. 4, #;t
I grant the seers of Ferry won,
For they are bright as golden sun
That at the dawn sends forth its glow,
To scatter darkness high and low. 5
A mine within each soul saw. q n
And by the minds deep subtle law 5E$Eh
They brought their gems for all to view,
Il With rays serene sent fulgent through.
Therefore it was distinctly plain
The laurel crown they sure would gain,
Though prompt were we to do our part
3 With ideas clear and peerless art.
But We there learned their secret rules
How to work with keen sharp wit-tools
& And truths as from Demosthenes, IKE
To SO present as all to please. ~
We rest our case: we know we've grace
To bring all wisdom to the race, NJ
And mastery to wise control 8 ~ Is
Il Thefacnlties Of brain and soul. II
And when we find that gladstone time. vi d
Our quest STRONG wi! be sublime,