The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-02-15
HINTS FOR the
DAKOTA FARMERS

PrOt. Hays, assistant secretary
"a agriculture advises the farmers
20 not send to Canada for their
seed wheat but to use home
grown wheat.
Don't neglect to use your fam.
ing mill. Detterlet 100 shriveled
grains escape and save a plump
grain than SOW all Of them and
get q sllriveled harvest.
Plaut some lnacaroni seed next
spring. Perhaps blue stem did
rs we'll last year, but last season
vas more favorable than usual.
The lnacaroni wheatis a dry wea-
Their wheat.
How many prairie homes could
be frightened by the planting OF
a few trees. The cost amounts
10 but little and Il few hours Of
time are all that are required to
plant the trees.
Again we say. don't mortgage
yonr farm. The money might
come handy. but unless you are
really a good farmer, andhave
excellent crops, you will find it
hard to pay that ten or twelve
per cent. Keep your boat near
the shore. There might como a
year when the crops will be slim.
Are YOU planning on putting
out a good garden next spring?
This is hecheapestfood thefar-
,ner can procure and should not
lie neglected. Yet we have seen
Ward county farmers buying
fresh onions and radishess in
Minot and many do not raise
enough potatoes for their own
use.
Alaska promises to do great
things as an agricultural coun-
try. There are thousands OF acres
OF fine land about Nome adapted
to the raising OF grain. When
Nome was first settled, eggs sold
at so cents apiece and one man
made 81 900 from COW one win
ter selling milk. In thespring he
sold the COW for beef for $500.
Remember that Minot has a
creamery which will be opened in
IL few weeks. The creamery will
ray YOU well forcream. The far
,ncrs last year found that they
received us much for their cream
rs though they had sold their
butter and did not have the
trouble OF making the butter.
Every North Dakota farmer
should have {, good flock OF chic
kens. It.costs but little to feed
them and the eggs are always
handy for the household. There
is good money in poultry.
Then how about thecows? DO
YOU make enough butterfor your
own use? Every farmer should
keep three or four good mich
cows.
Don't forget thatcattle, horses
and sheep allneedsalt to do well.
When a man tells you animals
do not need salt he shows. to say
the feast, great ignorance OF
;Inimal nutrition and no know
ridge Of physiological chemistry.
for digestion, salt is one Of the
most essential and it is the reg
tilator Of the blood's density. |
See that the stock are well sup
psied with salt, not at regular
intervals but keep it continually
before them and they will take it
as needed and in no greater
quantity than nature demands.
Get a large lump OF rock salt
az it is cheaper and better than
other FERNS.
AS usual many farmers will get
in a hurry in the spring and just
half put in their crop. They will
drive over tile field once or twice
with q disc, stir UP the weed seeds,
which have blowing over the field
for six months gilmore, SOW their
grain which cannot become pro-
perly covered, and then cuss the
country if they do notget twenty
bushels of flax to the acre. We
have not EARNED much, but have
been told BY our best farmers
that il one expects to get good
crops, he must pillow down good
and deep giving the soil a chance
to retain the moisture. The
weed seeds are thus turned under
and will not show up.
Mr.. M. j. Burgess OF Cogswell
n. Oak, who by the way man.
ages q very homelike hotel, gave
us a surprising record takenfrom
his garden. He planted eight
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