Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-08-10
GROW MORE HAY, FEED MORE
STOCK.

There are two classes of farmers who
need to learn that the foundation stone of
soil fertility is stable manure He that
uses commercial fertilizers almost exclus-
lively and he who is cropping a virgin soil
to death. The writer has no quarrel with
commercial fertilizers for they are used
extensively right here on our own FARMS.
but thirty years of working the soil has
taught US that the basis Of soil %fertiliz-
ing is the stable manure and thet we may
obtain this fertilizer in the cheapest way
by raising feed and giving 1t to the cattle.
Take the cotton states for example,: 1t is
only within comparative recent years that
farmers in that section have realized that
they were fast depicting their soils OF all
fertility because OF the lavish use of COM
mercial fertilizers coupled with the fact
tina cotton followed cotton making two
or more crops VIGOROUSLY hard on the soil.
The gradual Introduction of cows, the lay
| ing down OF meadows and the raising OF
food for the stock has changed matters
so thai the yield of cotton is greater per
acre and, in many cases, there Is surplus
hay to sell to advantage. The same state
of affairs obtains in a greater or lesser
degree in other sections and the general
farmer who has sufficient stock to furnish
him with the stable manure for his soil
except only the commercial fertilizer need
ed for special crops. IS on the road TO sue
cess provided he raises the most OF the
food consumed by the stock.
SAVING UNSTABLE VEGETABLES
Nearly all surplus susnnle vegetables
can he fed to the poultry and stock tc
advantage even though the stock is nav
ing the benefit of The range: they will en-
| JOY the variety. Those who grow white,
vegetables, such as potatoes. carrots. cab
bagcs and the like should use care to say,
/ thp ,ncaj hla ,nrtfnO for 1afa fu1l an,
winter feeding; hundreds OF bushels o
small potatoes are yearly fed to swim,
during the summer when they are havin,
all the green food they need. which ougli
to be saved for feeding later in the sea
son. If one has a rather cool but dr.,
cellar and plenty of sand that is dry it /
not hard to store those things away. ]
one has no SUCH storage place and ma
considerable stock it will pay to provid
a rough place in which to care. for them
Such things as cababges are easily care,
for in the open ground n It will not b
hard to care for p ,etoes and carrots an
other root crops T. they are stored wher
1t Is dry and cool after first wiping ava
any moisture that is on them. The write
has paid as high as twenty-five cents
bushel for potatoes too small to marke
and found them well worth the price fc
: winter feeding to both swine ana poultr,
! One cannot afford to overlook anythin
in the way Of feed which may be utilize
for coh weather feeding. nor can the
!. AFFORD to feed this sort Of stun during Ii
summer simply to get 1t out Of the way.
the Difference BETWEEN
PROFIT AND LOSS.
The writer has had considerable I 90,
Z in this department. concerning the plan I,
marketing crops. Of any kind. attractive
ly. The success Of this plan 10 no mo,
readily seen than in the marketing