Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-08

badly will continue to be, for many
years, primarily a wheat growing Sec
tion. However, it is possible to raise
practically as many acres and certain
ly more bushels Of grain than is now
raised, by bringing the land under
some system of rotation by which the
weeds can be held in check and the
fertility more nearly maintained
than is being done at present. To
accomplish this the following seven
year rotation is suggested for quar-
ter section farm: The farm is diyid-
ed into seven equal sized fields which
are about % 16O rods or % acres in
size. See figure I. The fields are
divided in this way to admit of easy
working. The rotation is as follows:
1st year corn, second year whe at and
sown to grass, third year grass, fourth
year grass or grain, fifth, sixth and
seventh years grain. The succession
of crops on the different fields will be
seasily seen on the plat. None Of the
land is now seeded to grass so field G
which should be in grass in 1906 and
grass or grain in 1907. will be in gl>~lr
both years. After the 1906 crop one
or two fields will be in grass e.sc.
year, one field in corn and four Or
five fields in grain. 1t will be seen
that this gives about as many acres
of grain each year as the old method
of growing grain only and summe'
following once in five years. The
manure produced on this $50 acres is
to be applied evenly to the field to
grow corn each year if possible,
otherwise apply to pasture land. The
corn is to be we'll cultivated and the
ground disced the following spring
for wheat and grass seed. The ma
4nure added and the firm condition of
1.-The ground due to not blowing the
corn stubble leaves the soil in the
best possible condition for getting a
catch of grass.
Some farmers may think that p
acres on a 100 acre farm is too much
to devote to corn, as grain it is not
very sure and where the amount of
live stock kept is not sufficient to
make use of SO much fodder. Such
might be the case were the corn crop
is grown simply for the value of the
crop raised. But that proportion Of
a farm might we'll be given up to
corn each year for the benefit it will
be to the soil, even though there
were absolutely no use for the crop.
If corn were not grown summer fall
lowing would probably beresorted to
and growing crop of corn costs but
about $500 per acre more than sum-
mer following. See table below:
Flowing $1.OO
Cost of Narrowing three times 80
growing Seed so
Corn Planting f.. .25
Cultiyating four times 200
s4.o5
Cost of summer following (plow-
ing twice) 200
Extra cost of corn per acre S2.O5
According to the reports of farm
ers the yield of the succeeding crop
will be enough above the yield on fall
low to pay the extra two dollars in
growing the corn. This gives the q
acres of corn, whatever it's value, fol
nothing. It will be advisable to SOW
as much corn thickly for fodder as
can be used for roughage. Some Of
the early varieties of flint corn vii
undoubtedly ripen most years in the
valley. The rest of the % acres might
be planted to flint corn for ears. Many
of the flint varieties of corn give very
good yields. The chief objection tx
growing flint corn is the difficulty o.
+ harvesting and husking. This car
easily be overcome in the valley by
putting cheap fence around the