Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-02-10


matters suitable to crop that is as
gross feeder, as great q glutton, has
such an enormous appetite as has corn.
The man who puts small grain on sod
and corn on stubble has to learn the
first principles of'modern agriculture.
1t will not pay to put corn even on this
land unless it is we'll drained either
naturally or artifcially. Corn can not
be grown profitable except in we'll
aerated soil, and you can't get air in .
soil when it is filled with water. You
must first get the water out. This is
the first thing. It will not hurt to haul
out your manure on that land this
winter as you have opportunity.
Don't throw the manure out of the
stable. especially the horse manure.
and let it pile up there till spring and
waste every day that is warm enough
to start up fermentation. Get it on the
manure spreader. If yon don't have q
manure spreader, put it on the wagon
direct from the stalls, and then take it
out to the fields and spread it on your
corn ground. Don't fret about its
wasting when scattered on the field.
Some men tell US they can smell the
fertility quarter Of 9 mile off. So
they can when fermentation is going
on; but there can be no fermentation in
ordinary winter weather. It will dry
out, Of course, but it to ouly the water
that escapes after fermentation has
ceased, and the first rain will supply
that. Get it out on the pasture or
meadow. where ever you are going to
put corn, and thus get as much of the
value a. possible the first year. Stop
this needless waste that is going on In
the barn yards of the corn country of
the west.
The next thing you have to figure on
is the right kind of seed and the best
seed You can get Of the right kind.
You ask: Shall we grow yellow or
white2 It don't make q particle Of
difference which you grow; one is just
as good as the other. There is no
special feeding vslne in the color of the
corn If you have land that is inclined
to be rather dry and clayey, We would
prefer white. If you have rich, we'll
drained land, it won't make any differ.
ence. Don't get color crazy on the
corn question. White corn scenes to
have the ability to get plant food and
moisten where yellow corn can't, and
therefore we think it better for thin.
nish lands. We confess to preference
perhaps foolish. for yellow corn. but
our reasons teaches rs that it is all pre-.
judice and should be disregarded when
we are trying to grow q bumper corn
crop
You ask what breeds of corn you
shall plant? Don't go crazy on breeds
or pin your faith to Leaning, Reid's
Yellow Dent, Boone County White.
Legal Tender, Or any other we'll known
breed Get the variety of corn that
you know absolutely will mature in
your latitude, and then plant the bulk
of your corn crop with corn that has
actually matured in your latitude, and
if possible in your neighborhood.
Don't commit the objectionable folly
of sending off in any direction for seed
for your entire crop. When you do
that you are simply gambling with
almost a dead certainty that you will
be the loser in the gamble. If you
want we'll bred corn, send off and get
q peck or half bushel. or combine
with good, levil headed neighbor and
get a bushel take three years to ac-
climate the breed, but for the bulk of
your crop take corn of type that
natures iu your latitude and longitude
and then get the seed from some man
who has actually matured it just as
near home as possible,
There are many other things that we
have to say on this subject. but this is
all that we need to say now. We pro.
pose to do this year just as we have
always done. to go along with our read
ers through the crop growing season,