Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-09-28

yields light the first year, but it
yields 3 or 4 heavy crops the
second year, and same the third
i year.
1T should be cut soon as first
ione.tenth of blossoms appear
gets woody if allowed to get in
/ full bloom. Let q few acres 60 to
#|seed instead Of second cutting
leach year. Raise bees to help
| fertilize. But many prefer to cut
lit all, for hay, and buy seed.
i Montana and Southwestern seed
/ isabout as good as Grim or Turk
estan.
/ To cure alfalfa Cut early in
morning soon as dew is off, then
after nicely wilted for a few hours,
windrow late in the day, then
bunch up into small shocks about
! 100 lbs each, and put an I'M
bleached muslin cap, feet square
over each shock; tie half q horse
shoe, or iron washer, or bunch Of
sand or gravel in each corner Of
cap to hold it on. Let it cure
and go through sweat for day
and half, or two days then open
and spread out the shocks few
hours, then haul at once to barn,
stack, or bale, sprinkling in a
little salt, 1t will be cured a nice:
green color, and leaves will not
shatter off.
Alfalfa is cured best on barn
floor in shade, or under muslin
caps kept from sun, dew and
rain.
Keep going over all growing
crops frequently, pulling out and
burning all mustard. Destroy all
wild oats, french weed, thistles,
burrs, brush, wild rose, wild sun
| flower, quack grass, and all foul
| tuff, etc, as soon as it appears
rom time to time.
| Farm out to straight lines, no
gagged edges.
| Keep roads and lines moved
out close to ground.
| Keep all stones picked up in
piles-dynamiting large ones.
Plow 2 or 3 burrows in same line
through middle Of pot holes and
wet Places throw dirt outwards
both ways, to make permanent
drain. Plow up pot holes and
wet places 2 or 3 times in dryest
part of each summer and fall I'M
til they disappear sun and wind
help to evaporate, warm and dry
them up. Allow no weeds OF
| grass to grow in them. Seed no
crop in them until they become
: dry, warm and loamy. Add horse
manure. Put tile drains under
} wettest places.
y No fax, no sbuckwheat mo rye
y except for cover crop), no wild
hay, no unbroken land.
II Bring all land under rotation
: Pastures to be re ated also even
:. apple orchards not to be succeed
} cd by apple orchards upon the
same plosa.
1 The manure habit should be in
the mind and make up Of every
farmer,-the habit of wetching
out every day to save every par
ticle of manure and utilize it to
:, the best advantage
4 Never listen to the man who is
afraid that manure will make too
much straw, he is either lazy
man, or ignorant. Thirty loads
or over per acre, spread by hand
might make to) much straw, but
10 to 20 loads per acre spread on
evenly by manure spreader,
would help the crops, and benefit
the land. Twenty loads per acre
is equal to one load Tor about each
- feet squire.
Manure should be hauled out
every day, and spread upon the
) ;lnnd with a manure spreader,
imaay do his, but never store it,
.ihor keep il ia reserve anywhere
auout. tue farm, Tie U. S. AAgs ~:
cultural Department, and all the
best state experiment stations
4 agree that there is no way SO good
to treat manure as to spread ii
upon the lan:l as soon as it is
: made.
. Liquid manure is saved b