The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14
THE ENv|lLA FARM
:. H. Whites Magnificent
Stock Breeding Farm at
Cogswell, N. D.

One of the greatest breeding estab-
lishments in the west if not in Amer
lea is the Envilla stock farm, one and
one-half miles south of Cogswell on
the C. NJ. St. P. R. R. one and one
half miles from the 500 and G.. N.
r. R. and six miles from the N. P.
giving the farm as good shipping
facilities as the west affords. This
farm consists of 500 acres of as choice
land as Dakota can show anywhere,
fenced and crossed fenced with
woven wire on cedar posts seven
inches at the small end. The build
ings are of the best consisting of
large roomy cattle barns and sheds.
Horse barns, boat sheds, hog houses,
poultry houses and sheds with COM
Portable house for the help. These
buildings are located forty rods from
the north line and thirty-five rods
from the west line of the farm with
fine grove of trees north and west.
The farm is we'll watered with an
artesian we'll and is stocked today as
follows: Two hundred head register
ed Angus cattle, $50 head Shetland
ponies, 20 head registered Norman
horses, 300 head registered hogs, 200
head Angora goats, 5000 head of pure
bred poultry, ducks, geese, turkeys
and pet stock of all varieties. Here
you can find anything you may wish
in the stock and poultry line. 1t
seems almost impossible but if you
attended the state fairs of 1866 and
the Red river valley exposition in
1906 you will have a faint idea of
what the farm keeps and breeds. The
exhibit won all the premiums at the
above named fairs in their different
lines of stock and poultry and this
in the face of the strongest COMPETE
ton with the best herds and flocks
the west contains.
This farm is divided into several
pastures where the cattle, horses and
goats Craze during the summer
months on the best of tame grasses.
Nine lots consisting of seventy acres
are set aside for the hogs, where
three are sowed to barley as early in
the spring as the ground will allow;
three sowed to peas with very little
barley or wheat to hold the peas up
off the ground and three are planted
to corn with rape sowed the last
time cultivated. The first three lots
are for green feed for the hogs until
July Is when the hogs are turned into
the peas, and cattle in the three lots
where hogs were for few days fol-
lowed by the ponies, then by the
goats. These lots are then plowed up
and sowed to wheat for green feed
in the fall. The hogs will not touch
the wheat or barley in the peas and
it falls to the ground and self sowes
itself, making good, green fall feed.
The hogs are put in the corn about
Sept. 1, and run there till snow comes
or till they clean it up. Cattle, horses
and goats follow in rotation in each
lot. The fall green feed is the finest
balance ration that can be fed to hogs
when on full feed and brood sows will
do we'll on it with nothing else. All
the stock on the farm seem to shoot
ahead when turned into these lots, as
they furnish variety that can not
be had in any other way. These lots
are located entirely around the build
ings with access to running water
where the poultry have free range
during the whole year, except when
eggs are reserved for setting, then the
different varieties are allotted to their
respective quarters so as to be KEEP.
pure.
Corn is the chief crop, it being cut,
stacked and fed in the bundle. never
an ear being husked or SNAPPED. This
corn is fed during the winter months
and the hogs run after the cattle;
also the ducks and geese whereby not
a grain is lost. No wheat or flax is
raised, only feed grain such as barley,
oats and spiltz and with this eight
quarts of timothy seed is sowed to the
acre, giving full pasture equal to
as many acres of prairie grass. Rape
is always sowed with the last cult
walton of corn and this helps out the
fall pasture question wonderfully.
Every acre that is cultivated is man
ured every third year, and corned
every other year. The tame pastures
are cultivated every five years, so in
this way the rotation of crops keep
the land in the very best of condition.
This farm ships stock and poultry
from ocean to ocean and from Hud-
son Bay to the gulf with the best Of
satisfaction. 1t was established in
1882 when what is now Sargent
county contained nothing but a waste
of prairie and buffalo bones. 1t was
located and homesteaded by its pres
ent owner and proprietor and from
2othing has in twenty-five years been
developed into its present state and
represents an investment OF 100000.
Can any other county or state boast
of such advancement?
We don't care for sleighing; it re-
minds us too much of sitting with our
feet in ice water, and jingling sleigh
bells.