Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-02-23

he started right.
IL do not mean to say that Their,
would not be circumstances where /;
man should get small quantity o
some new variety that had beer
originated or introduced in som,
other part of the state. That viii
be in a small share, mean, Of his
crop should be produced from seed
that has been raised on his own farm
IF we had observed procautior
that every farmer ought to use
carry over some good seed for two
years some good seed that was
raised on your farm that you know
to be good we would not be ex-
perlencing the present difficulty.
The great mass of the farmers do
not practice that, but sell off the
grain they have and if there is any
left after seeding they dispose of it.
This is wrong. Whenever you have
produced first class crop on your
farm you should carry some over
until you have produced another
good crop. If you cannot carry
over more than five bushels that will
serve, but you should carry over
more then-from 10 to 100
bushels, depending upon the amount
you use.
"Then, about cleaning your grain.
| have seen grain sown in this state
that did not have more than five
bushels of good seed to one hundred
and it was worth while to clean out
the five bushels and discard the
ninety five. If you get grain of that
kind to raise on the same field and
there is some of it that is fairly
plump and the balance of it shrunk
it means that some of the plants
grown on that field are not able to
withstand the drouths, and it is the
strong plants that mature and the
weak plants are unableto come to
maturity. So get to work and clean
your seed grain yourself provided it
has good pedigree behind tiff it
has not done we'll in the past then
look for some seed somewhere else;
but when you look for seed some
where else look just as near home as
possible. Look to your next door
neighbor first, then to the next.
You don't want to ship in bushel
of seed grain into this country if
you have grain that is suitable. The
fact is you don't want to pay margin
to the railroad companies and the
elevator companies. 1t is no crime
to ship in grain, but we want to
encourage you to raise every bushel
of seed grain you use. This will be
to the interest of everybody con-
cerned. 1t is the interest to you,
as farmers, and it is to the interest
of the railroad companies and to the
elevator companies. If we did not
believe it we would not be up here
from the Brookings agricultural col
lege and experiment station, as we
would simply be playing into the
hands of the railroad and elevator
companies while in the employ of
the people of the United States and
the people of the State of South
Dakota.
$50 out and clean your grain. /
presume you know how to run
tanning mills, but | doubt whether
you have ever exerted all the brains
and INGENUITY toward getting the
best results, and l am not going to
tell you how to do it. Many of you
think it is simple business but /
tell you if there is anything that is
worth the time and careful attention
of the farmer it is the matter Of
cleaning your seed grain. You can
not afford to pay your man dollar
a day and tell him to clean four or
FIVE hundred bushels of grain. Ii is
only by paying attention to it your
self that the best results will be
obtained, and you will find that it
will tax your INGENUITY and patience
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